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The classics and beyond - Couple portraits
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To make your images really stand out, sometimes you need to break the rules. Learn how to create a silhouette using window light as a backlight and fill in with flash. Create a mix of different color temperatures by combining available light with flash. Use entrances and doorways to take advantage of natural diffused light. When shooting outdoors in sunlight or shade, consider the direction of light and how it falls on your subject. Learn how to control light using flash and light modifiers to achieve beautiful exposure on faces. And see how to create a soft, pleasing 'Bokeh' effect.
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Shoot with window light in creative ways (silhouette & back lighting)
- Mix different color temperatures by combining available light with flash
Photograph with flash to freeze movement
- Use entrances and doorways to take advantage of natural diffused light
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- Lighting skill level: Basic
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17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, December 9, 1912: Get in the Spanish Needles and had to pick them off of my clothes.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Spanish Needles are so annoying—
I have often gotten Spanish Needles on my clothes, but when I read this diary entry I couldn't picture what the plants looked like . I never seem to notice the pesky plant until after tiny barbs are embedded in my cloths.
I googled Spanish Needle and discovered that it is part of the Astor family. There are several different closely related plants that are called Spanish Needle. Some have yellow flowers. . others have white flowers.
Grandma probably was just distracted and bumped against the Spanish Needle plants, but there's a slim possibility that she was trying to gather Spanish Needle leaves (Are the leaves still on the plants in December?) to make tea and got the needles on her clothes.
For the past week or so, Grandma's been sick with a bad cold and sore throat—and Spanish Needles are an old-fashioned remedy.
Its leaves are chewed for sore throat or boiled to make a tea that is said to help with upper-respiratory infections.


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Military, Products
By Staff Writer | May 15, 2014
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Airbus Group has delivered the 300th UH-72A Lakota helicopter to the U.S. Army. The Lakota is manufactured at the company's Airbus Helicopters facility in Columbus, Miss., where Col. Thomas Todd, Army Project Manager for Utility Aircraft, accepted the delivery.
Since the UH-72A contract was awarded in 2006, the company has delivered the Lakota in seven different configurations for missions including training, border security, search and rescue, medical evacuation, disaster response, VIP transport and range support. Five aircraft are also in service with the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, which trains Navy, Marine Corps and Army test pilots.
UH-72A Lakota. Photo by Diane Bond
The 300th Army Lakota will serve with the Missouri National Guard. The aircraft was delivered in the Security and Support (S&S) Battalion configuration, which expands the UH-72A's capabilities for missions ranging from disaster response to border security operations.
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This app is pretty simple and interesting. You just need to write down a message and put into the bottle and threw it into the sea. Thus, someone in a country will pick up your bottle and write back to you. Even more interesting is that you can send not only text messages but also photos, hand-drawn images as well as mystery bottles with gorgeous effects. Each time wandering by the sea, you may have a chance to pick up a drift bottle from somewhere, which may be the beginning of a friendship and love. This application will always bring you surprise and expectation.
How to use:
1. Write down your wishes, blessings, dating letters or something else.
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2. Throw the bottle into the sea, following with the pleasant notification tone.
3. You will randomly pick up others' drift bottles. Then, you can reply or make friends with him or her.
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4. Worry about the language barriers? Just tap on the translating button and the translation in your native language will appear. Surely, you can choose to receive your own country's bottles.
5. Sending some special bottles will cost your quantity of seashells. Pay attention to the seagulls flying over the sky which will bring you surprise and good luck.
6. Let's do it.
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Nich Tremper
Nich is a senior at Washington College. He is double majoring in Economics and International Studies. He is also involved in many extracurricular activities. He is the Financial Controller of the SGA, a resident assistant, and the president of Kappa Sigma. He is part of several academic and leadership honor societies including: Omicron Delta Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Order of Omega, and Cater Society of Junior Fellows. He has been working for the GIS for the last three years and works primarily with curriculum development and long-distance learning. However, he has also been trained and work with some crime mapping.


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- Tous > Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Information and Publications
- Tous > Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy
- Tous > Medicine Access and Rational Use > Rational Use
- Mots-clés > drug quality assurance
- Mots-clés > generic drug policies
- Mots-clés > harmonization of medicines regulation
- Mots-clés > health care financing system
- Mots-clés > national medicines policy - development
- Mots-clés > non-tariff barriers
- Mots-clés > packaging requirements
- Mots-clés > rational prescribing
- Mots-clés > rational use of antibiotics
- Mots-clés > rational use of medicines (RUM) / rational medicine use (RMU)
Essential Drugs Monitor No. 009 (1990)
(1990; 20 pages) [French] [Spanish]
(1990; 20 pages) [French] [Spanish]
The ninth issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor examines issues of integration in the essential drugs sector and what the upcoming decade will hold for nations regarding public health. As the new millennium approaches, many nations are implementing of national drug policies and modernizing. All three of the feature articles in this issue deal with the creation and implementation of national legislation. The first article recaps the discussion at the International Study Conference on Community Financing in Primary Health Care held in Freetown, Sierra Leone from 27 to 30 September 1989. The primary concerns addressed in Freetown were the Bamako Initiative and other financial issues, equity in primary health care, community participation, and the rational use of drugs. The article summarizes the discussion at the conference and includes a detailed outline of the guiding principles drafted at the conference for the implementation of Bamako-type projects. The second provides a critical look at the Filipino Generics Act of 1988. The article outlines the aims of the Generics Act and describes the Philippine's commitment to full implementation of the Act and creation of a national drug policy. The third feature article in the Monitor summarizes two top level meetings of the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) in Nairobi, Kenya from 27 to 29 October. Discussion at the meetings focused on five main areas: procurement, tariff and non-tariff barriers, the role of donor agencies, quality and regulatory control, and production and technology transfer. The major conclusion drawn from the meetings was the need for rationalized and harmonized PTA drug policies and a self-generating and competitive PTA pharmaceutical industrial complex. This issue of the Monitor also features several articles relating to improving the rational use of medicines. Such articles include a study on the creation of low-cost packaging with understandable drug information for essential drugs and the creation of a scoring system for the selection of essential drugs. Other notable articles include a feature on a process for helping family doctors in Northern Ireland self-regulate their prescription practices, a survey of morbidity patterns and drug requirements at the primary health care level in Sri Lanka, and the continued development of a national drug policy in Tanzania. The Newsdesk section includes a feature on the development of the International Network for Rational Use of Drugs and many short articles relating to rational use and quality control. The Published Lately section includes new publications on prescription and rational use. A letter to the editor regarding consumer responses to Australia's new national policy is also included in this edition.


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07 Jun, 2019
Today, Batswana join teachers as they celebrate National Teachers Day. This year, the host - the South East Region - will hold the celebration at the University of Botswana Sports Arena, under the theme A Key Transformational Agent. Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) Publicity Secretary Edwin Maitshoko said this day presents an opportunity to celebrate, reflect and thank teachers for the important role they play in the continuous effort of building Botswana. Vice President Slumber Tsogwane, who will be officiating at this year's event, is expected to speak to issues that remain stumbling blocks to the work teachers do. Teachers have in the past complained about deteriorating conditions of service that include student-teacher ratio, lack of resources (classrooms and teaching material), professional stagnation, among others. Maitshoko told Gabz Fm News that despite these challenges, teachers in Botswana still do their best to produce good results.
07 Jun, 2019
Botswana's High Court will on Tuesday 11th June deliver judgement in a case in which the constitutionality of the provisions that criminalise same-sex sexual acts between consenting persons was challenged. In a statement, human rights advocacy group, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), said it had submitted factual evidence that sought to demonstrate that continued criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts perpetuated stigma, intolerance, homophobia and violence against members of the LGBT community. During the heads of arguments on the 14th March 2019, LEGABIBO advanced submissions before the full bench of the High Court on the practical effect and social impact that sections 164 (a) and 164 (c) and section 167 of the Penal Code have on the daily lives and experiences of LGBT persons. These provisions criminalize same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults in Botswana and imposes a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment. LEGABIBO highlighted the criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct limits LGBT persons' ability to access basic social services, increases their chances to discrimination, and infringes on their basic human dignity. The rights group is represented by Tshiamo Rantao and supported by the Southern African Litigation Center.
07 Jun, 2019
Botswana, Angola and Namibia this week held a trans-boundary cooperation meeting in Maun to review their existing knowledge and cooperation on conservation and management of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin and the Okavango Delta World Heritage property. Effective trans-boundary cooperation among the three countries on management of the shared Cubango-Okavango River basin is said to be critical for the conservation of the Okavango Delta heritage property in Botswana. According to a statement, the meeting was also meant to assess the opportunity and obstacles for strengthening the conservation of the shared water resource and moving forward with the trans boundary nomination of the Okavango Delta. The three countries have denied reports that Angola could be doing massive construction along the Cubango-Okavango river basin which was allegedly blocking water from flowing down into the Okavango Delta. Fears were that if the reports were true, the actions would possibly result in the drying of the Okavango Delta something which could negatively impact Botswana's tourism. The Okavango Delta is a major contributor to Botswana's tourism.
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Just days after the Sunday Standard newspaper received a 5 million Pula lawsuit from South African business and mining magnate Patrice Motsepe, former Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS) Director General Issac Kgosi has slapped the publication and its Editor, Outsa Mokone with a P4 million lawsuit. Kgosi has, through his lawyer Thabiso Tafila of Thabiso Tafila Attorneys, filed for defamation at the High Court of Botswana. According to court papers, Kgosi is not suing the paper for just one story but a series of articles that he says defamed him. In his filing, Kgosi says that he has suffered severe reputational damage as the articles were calculated to expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule him by suggesting that he was corrupt, not fit for the office he held, criminal and that he used his influence or position to enrich himself and those close to him unlawfully. As a result Kgosi demanded the publication pay him 4 million Pula, and interest at a rate of 10 percent per year from date of judgement to date of payment. Just like Motsepe, he demands that the cost for the lawsuit be paid by the newspaper. This week, Motsepe's attorneys submitted that Sunday Standard's story exposed his reputation to damage that can only be compensated by a payout of 5 million Pula, and within five days from date of the court order, publish an apology on the front-page for seven calendar days as well as on its website.
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Dr. Mike Walden
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
I like looking back. I love to read and talk about history. I initially wanted to become a history teacher before being smitten by economics. While my wife might take a crime novel to the beach, I'll carry a history book.
One of the cherished memories from my youth is talking to my paternal grandmother about her life. She actually was raised in the city – where her mother did washing for other families – but moved to a farm when she married my grandfather. There she did it all, raising four children (one being my father), baking bread, canning vegetables, washing clothes by hand and using every conceivable part of the hogs my grandfather raised. She worked from dawn to dark. If she was lucky, she went to the nearest town once a month for shopping. Life was tough.
This was in the 1920s and 1930s. Recently I discovered a wonderful book discussing life in those years, called Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David Kyvig. Kyvig recounts the everyday life of people, what they ate, how they washed their clothes, how they kept warm, where they worked – in short, the unglamorous, common routines that consume most of people's days. It's a history about how people lived, not the history of business and public leaders, elections and international events that most books comprise. It's the history of a time that may have been more interesting and transformative than what we're living in today.
Consider how cleaning clothes occurred then compared to now. My wife and I have a fabulous washer and dryer. We pop clothes into the washer, set the controls indicating the type of clothes and the cleaning method, push a button and then walk away. About a half hour later a pleasant melody plays indicating the washing is done. We remove the clothes from the washer, toss them into the adjoining dryer, push another button and again walk away. Thirty minutes later the clothes are dry. Some then need ironing (I actually do my own ironing), but most can be folded and put away. Washing and drying one load of clothes takes about an hour with minimal effort on our part.
Now think about how my grandmother washed her family's clothes in the 1920s. She had no washer or dryer; in fact, on the farm there was no electricity! She'd first have to haul pails of water to a stove and heat them. Then she'd carry the warm water to a large trough or bucket, fill it, and scrub the clothes by hand. Drying the clothes was the natural way: outside in good weather or inside by the fire.
Life wasn't a picnic for my grandfather either. He was responsible for making sure his family didn't starve! Each year my wife and I plant a small vegetable garden. But if the garden doesn't do well, or if the squirrels eat everything, we don't go hungry. In fact, we can buy excellent fresh vegetables from the Farmer's Market or from most supermarkets.
Not so for my grandfather. His family ate what he planted and raised. Plowing was done the old-fashioned way – behind a mule – and this was some of the most exhausting, back-breaking work anyone could imagine. The major protein sources were the hogs raised on the farm. The family ate sausage for breakfast, ham for lunch and pork for dinner. My father – who as the oldest son was given the beginning task of "processing" the hogs using a World War I revolver – told me how excited he was to see beef as part of the menu when he entered the U.S. Navy during World War II.
But big changes did come to the American family in the 1920s and 30s. Perhaps the most significant was electricity, which began in the cities and then spread to the rural areas. Household appliances, like mixers, refrigerators (replacing "ice boxes") and washers were quickly developed and sold to eager families. Although my grandmother gradually lost her memory later in life, she always remembered her first washing machine. Electricity was also used to illuminate homes, allowing families to replace dirty, dimly lit kerosene lamps.
Four other innovations were life-transforming. In 1920, only a third of households owned an automobile; by 1930 80 percent did. The scope and range of personal contacts and possibilities now exploded. The tractor made farming less physically demanding and much more productive. The work of children on the farm declined, and so did the birthrate. With farm output up, fewer farms were needed, so many farm families moved to the city. The nation changed from being rural to being urban. Finally, the development and spread of the telephone and radio lowered the cost and increased the speed of communication and gave families an in-home source of news and entertainment.
I was born in 1951, and most of my current students were born after 1990. I and they have certainly seen our lives altered by new inventions and innovations, especially in information technology and communications. But some say that, while these changes have been significant, their impacts have not been as transforming on daily lives as those brought about by electricity, the automobile and tractor, the telephone and the radio in the 20s and 30s. It's popular to say we live in a fast-paced, highly connected, ever-shifting world. But a strong case can be made for that world actually occurring 90 years ago. You decide!
Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and North Carolina Cooperative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal finance, economic outlook and public policy. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences communications unit provides his You Decide column every two weeks.
Previous columns are available at http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/tag/you-decide
Related audio files are at http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/category/economic-perspective


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I asked a question recently where I wanted to know whether it was physically meaningful to talk about the arrow of time in other universes.
Although many people apparently have an intuitive notion of what is meant by "physically meaningful", the only real context I have found is in terms of "physically meaningful observables" where in a quantum mechanical context we talk about the possible eigenvalues associated with eigenstates of an operator:
$H |\psi\rangle = \lambda|\psi\rangle$
The observables being possible outcomes of experiments or other operations on the state vector. So in the context of the arrow of time, where there are claims of the possibility of a vector time, one would like to think of some possible operation that would produce set of possible values for that time. So the first question one might ask is, "what operation can I perform to observe the vector values of the arrow of time?"
It would seem that there is some difference between defining such an operation and the possibility of it actually being executable. So one might think of a thing being physically meaningful if one can define a set of executable operations (executabality being determined by some set of constraints).
However, I suspect there is a better definition, or a better way to conceptualize what is meant by "physically meaningful", and I would like to read what those are.


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Filed by Ecuadorian Indians and farmers who claim to have suffered illnesses and ecological damage to their land caused by oil contamination, the lawsuit alleges that from 1964 to 1990, Texaco deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic oil production process waste into unlined pits in the rainforest rather than injecting it underground.
In a series of revelations from recorded conversations released Tuesday by a lawyer and investigator hired by the plaintiffs, longtime Chevron contractor Diego Borja threatened to reveal that damaging evidence was "cooked" by Chevron unless he received enough money for turning over secret videotapes to Chevron executives in June 2009.
Diego Borja (Photo courtesy Amazon Defense Coalition)
At one point on the tapes, Borja laughed and said, "Crime does pay."
In late August 2009, Chevron released videos it claimed exposed a corruption scandal implicating the judge conducting the trial in the case of Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco currently underway against the company in Lago Agrio, Ecuador.
But representatives of the plaintiffs call the corruption scandal "contrived" and say it has "steadily unraveled with revelations about the secret videotaping of the judge, and the relationship between Chevron and the two men who made the videos - one a convicted felon and drug trafficker, the other a long-time Chevron employee directly involved with the company's legal defense."
Borja's disclosures are found in a report released today by California lawyer and investigator Grant Fine. The report covers more than six hours of audiotapes and 25 pages of online chats that were given to the plaintiffs by Santiago Escobar, a childhood friend of Borja's who made the recordings.
Escobar, an Ecuadoran now living in Canada who said he has known Borja since they were teenagers, said he decided to give the tapes to the plaintiffs because, "If I keep quiet about immoral acts, then I become part of the immoral acts."
In one of the taped conversations with Escobar, Borja said Chevron had "cooked" the evidence and, if the U.S. judge who sent the case to Ecuador in the first place ever knew, he would "close [Chevron] down."
Oil contaminates the Ecuadoran rainforest. (Photo courtesy Amazon Defense Coalition)
Borja said Chevron hired him to create four companies so his work for the oil company would appear "independent." He suggested that the companies were connected to a laboratory to test contamination samples. Borja said the laboratory was not independent, but rather "belonged" to Chevron.
The investigative report also revealed that Borja's wife, Sara Portilla, worked for Chevron for four years and represented Severn Trent Labs, a U.S. laboratory that Chevron described as an "independent" lab to test its contamination samples. Test America, Inc. purchased STL in 2007.
Court documents obtained by Fine cite Borja and Portilla as representatives of Severn Trent Labs. They both signed chain of custody documents with the Lago Agrio court that showed how the samples moved from the contamination sites at issue to the testing lab.
Borja, who Chevron has cast as a Good Samaritan, also said that Chevron is paying $6,000 a month in rent for his home with swimming pool next to a golf course in a gated community near Chevron's headquarters in San Ramon, California.
Borja said that Chevron is paying him the U.S. equivalent of the salary he made in Ecuador and is also paying for a lease on an SUV and for personal security.
On the audiotapes, Borja said he has enough evidence to ensure a victory by the Amazon communities if Chevron failed to pay him what he was promised. Before turning over the videotapes to Chevron, Borja said he made sure Chevron "completely understood" he wanted payment for them.
He also said he had incriminating evidence against the oil company stored on his iPhone and in an undisclosed location in Ecuador that he could use as leverage if Chevron betrayed him. Specifically, Borja said he has a notarized document that contains a version of events that would help the plaintiffs and that Portilla, his wife, is aware of the information.
Ecuadoran men examine a pit contaminated with oil. (Photo courtesy Amazon Defense Coalition)
Representatives of the Amazon communities reacted with shock to the audiotapes. "They prove at a minimum that Diego Borja is a real con man," said Luis Yanza, president of the Amazon Defense Coalition, which represents the plaintiffs. Yanza initially received the tapes from Escobar.
Yanza called on Chevron to investigate and disclose the information that Borja has stored on his iPhone and in Ecuador. He called on authorities in Ecuador and the United States to examine the Borja tapes and include them in their investigation of the videotaping scandal implicating the judge.
For its part, Chevron claimed Monday that lawyers for the plaintiffs "submitted fraudulent reports" to the Ecuadorian court claiming dangerous contamination was found at Amazon oil well sites.
The original technical expert for the plaintiffs told the court in sworn testimony last week that reports associated with inspections of the Sacha 94 and Shushufindi 48 well sites were submitted in his name without his knowledge or consent.
Charles Calmbacher, PhD, a U.S. biologist and industrial hygienist who was the first expert appointed on behalf of the plaintiffs in the litigation said he had never concluded the sites posed a risk to human health or the environment and that his opinions were known to the plaintiffs' legal and technical teams in Ecuador.
"Nevertheless," Chevron said in a statement, "the plaintiffs' lawyers submitted reports contradictory to Dr. Calmbacher's conclusions, fraudulently using his signature months after he ceased his participation in the case."
"Their own expert has testified that two of the plaintiffs' earliest reports are fraudulent, confirming that the trial in Ecuador has been tainted from the outset," said Hewitt Pate, Chevron vice president and general counsel.
"Chevron will petition the Lago Agrio court to strike the plaintiffs' false Sacha 94 and Shushufindi 48 reports and call on authorities to investigate the misconduct," said Pate.
In his March 29 deposition ordered by a U.S. federal court, Dr. Calmbacher said he sent signed signature pages and initialized blank pages to the plaintiffs' legal team by overnight courier in late 2004 for the submission of reports he thought would contain his true findings.
Dr. Calmbacher also testified that the plaintiffs' lawyers never informed him that the Lago Agrio court had ordered him to answer questions on the reports after they were submitted under his signature in 2005.
Representatives for the plaintiffs expressed surprise at Calmbacher's statements and said there had been no attempt to falsify reports.
Karen Hinton, spokeswoman for the Amazon Defense Coalition told the "San Francisco Chronicle," newspaper on Monday that Calmbacher had been working closely with the plaintiffs' legal team and would have seen any reports submitted with his name.
"While we take Dr. Charles Calmbacher's statements about the reports seriously, we believe his recollection almost six years after the fact is inaccurate," she said.
Chevron claims that the lawsuit is baseless and tainted by scores of irregularities and fraud. The company last September filed a demand for arbitration with the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague asserting that Ecuador's handling of the Lago Agrio litigation amounts to a breach of the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty.
Lago Agrio court appointee Richard Cabrera submitted a $27 billion damage assessment against Chevron, which the company now says also is tainted because it is based in part on "fabricated findings" in fraudulent reports submitted under Dr. Calmbacher's signature.
The Amazon Defense Coalition argues that the Chevron-Texaco case strengthens the sovereignty of the Ecuadorian state in that the plaintiffs seek to impose national law above powerful foreign interests that ignore it.
The Coalition says in a statement on its website, "Supporting the Chevron case is to defend Ecuador's right as a state, and demonstrates that the effective exercise of constitutional rights, such as the right to an uncontaminated environment, cannot be blocked by contract, law, or any act of government, as any government act is subject to legal principles."
Click here to read the report on the Borja recordings released by lawyer Grant Fine.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2010. All rights reserved.


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Ever since I read my friend Sarah's recent post about cherry pies, I've been itching to make one. I love to bake, and it's been a while, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Is there nothing better in the summer than fresh, from-scratch cherry pie? I think not! And here's my recipe, which would be perfect for any of your Fourth of July celebrations, or just as a special treat anytime.
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks of butter, cut into pieces and cold
1/4 cup ice water, plus a few tablespoons more, if needed
Combine flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse a few times to mix them together. Add the pieces of cold butter and pulse the machine until the butter is incorporated; the mixture will look like coarse crumbs. While the machine is running, slowly add the ice water through the feed tube of the processor. Process only just until the dough starts to come together. Be careful not to overmix and do not let the dough get too wet or sticky. To test to see if the dough is ready, remove the lid of the processor and squeeze a bit of the dough. If it's too crumbly, add a bit more ice water, one tablespoon at a time, while the machine is running.
Turn out dough on a clean surface, and divide into two equal parts. Press into round discs and cover in plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least one hour or up to overnight.
(If you don't have a food processor, or prefer to do this step by hand, you can incorporate the butter into the flour and salt using a pastry cutter or a couple of forks. Then just slowly add the water and mix with a large wooden spoon just the dough starts to come together.)
7 cups tart cherries (I used frozen--see tip after recipe)
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice (about half of a lemon)
Pinch of salt
1 Tabelspoon of milk or heavy cream
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll out one piece of pie dough until it's big enough to fit complete in your pie plate and up to the edges of the dish. Place carefully in the pie plate and refrigerate while you make the filling.
Add cherries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice and salt into a medium sized bowl. Mix until well combined and set aside. Roll out the other piece of pie dough until it's large enough to fit over the pie plate. Remove chilled pie crust and plate from the refrigerator and pour prepared filling into the dish. Carefully place top crust over the cherry mixture, trim off any excess dough, and pinch edges together. Prick the top of the crust with a fork to allow steam to escape, and brush the entire surface of the crust with milk or heavy cream.
Place the pie on a cookie sheet and bake until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling, 40 to 5o minutes. If the edges of the crust start to get too brown while cooking, cover them with a bit of aluminum foil to keep them from burning. Transfer pie to a wire wrack and allow to cool. Serve either warm, at room temperature, or cold and enjoy!
Tip--if you choose to use frozen cherries, which is much easier in my opinion than pitting a bunch of fruit, defrost completely and drain well before adding the rest of the ingredients to the filling mixture.


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'The Monuments Men' pulls an A-team cast
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When a leading Hollywood actor decides to make a movie, casting usually becomes as easy as dialing some of your closest A-list buddies.
At least that's the way it worked for George Clooney on the new World War II drama, "The Monuments Men," opening Friday.
"Well, they are friends so that part is easy," Clooney said in a recent joint interview with the cast. "But you know the truth is, they wouldn't do it if they didn't like the screenplay. ... I mean I flew to Australia for one day to hand Cate (Blanchett) the script."
The beginning of the film has an "Ocean's 11" feel to it when Clooney's character starts to assemble an A-team of old friends. But this time, they're the good guys.
"The Monuments Men" -- also starring Blanchett, Matt Damon, John Goodman and Bill Murray, to name a few -- is based on the true story of an Allied platoon whose mission was to rescue artworks from the Nazis. The film is adapted from Robert Edsel's book, "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History."
Blanchett admitted she was unfamiliar with the works of the Monuments Men until she received the hand-delivered script from Clooney, who also directed and was co-writer.
"I knew that work had gone missing and that the Nazis had collected art and stolen art and destroyed art," said Blanchett.
Bill Murray was happy to finally work on a big film again. "Yeah, I got teased for a while (by George Clooney). He told me the whole story and then he would say, 'Can you please pass the salad?' Then like nine months later through a friend, he said, 'Ask Bill if he wants to be in the job.'"
Murray wasn't the only one who was pranked by Clooney. His father, Nick Clooney, received the final and biggest prank of all.
"Well I screened the movie for him in Italy," said George Clooney. "My father plays me at the end of the film and walks off into this beautiful church with this beautiful light and it goes to black and normally that would be like the first credit that comes up and instead I put, 'In Loving Memory of Nick Clooney.' He said, 'What the hell are you doing?' I said, 'Well, you know, it's a long time before the movie comes out so you never know.' I didn't leave it in the film but he thought it was very funny and he is going to get me back."
The movie originally had a planned release date of Dec. 18 but was pushed to early 2014 and right out of Hollywood's prestigious awards season. This year was especially crowded with an abundance of viable Oscar contenders. So was there too much competition?
"We just didn't finish it," Clooney explained. "We had a lot of work to do. It's a bigger film. You know, we started shooting this movie in March of last year, so we were going to have to flip it around in nine months, which is really moving for a film that size, and we just didn't make it."
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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a legal settlement with W.R. Recycling of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, resolving alleged violations of federal hazardous waste law. W.R. Recycling is the owner and operator of an auto crushing and scrap recycling business. As part of the settlement announced today, W.R. Recycling will make a range of site improvements to control runoff and invest $133,000 in a project to purchase and install equipment that will ensure the clean extraction, removal and storage of harmful liquids from all the vehicles it handles. These upgrades will benefit the environment and the community and are not legally required to bring the company into compliance. In addition, W.R. Recycling will come into compliance with all federal laws and pay a $29,000 penalty.
"Recycling old cars has many benefits, but the process must be done in a way that does not cause pollution," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "This agreement will modernize the car recycling operation in Cabo Rojo, ensuring that the facility is complying with all environmental laws.
Under the settlement's terms, W.R. Recycling will construct a sealed concrete pad, with a drainage collection system and an oil water separator, on which all vehicles it handles will be processed, crushed, and stored prior to shipping of the crushed cars for metal recovery. A roof will be built over the vehicle crushing area to shield the fluids collection and crushing processes from rainwater. The company will also purchase and use specialized recovery equipment to ensure the clean extraction, removal and storage of transmission and engine oil, gasoline and diesel fuel, coolant, and refrigerants. This recovery equipment will ensure that all vehicle fluids are collected and segregated for reuse or recycling. The facility improvements and new equipment will help prevent the release of hazardous wastes into the environment during W.R. Recycling's operations.
Among the equipment purchased by W.R. Recycling is a mobile automotive fluid recovery unit that will enable the company to process scrap vehicles not only at its Cabo Rojo base but also at other locations in Puerto Rico where there are no other scrap operators. In areas that lack scrap processors, cars are often abandoned and the fluids and hazardous components are left, resulting in the potential for leaks and releases into the environment. Vehicle fluids and potentially hazardous car parts such as mercury switches, lead wheel weights, batteries, and airbag cartridges should be reused or recycled.
On three occasions from 2009 to 2012, the EPA inspected W.R. Recycling's facility to determine its compliance with federal hazardous waste regulations. As a result of these inspections, the EPA issued a legal complaint to the company. Among the violations cited in the complaint were the company's failure to make hazardous waste determinations for the fluids and discarded materials it generates, its failure to minimize the releases of hazardous materials, the disposal of hazardous waste without a permit, the improper disposal of used oil, and the failure to label used oil storage containers.
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By William H. Willimon, Special Contributor…
General Conference in Tampa made history as the most expensive ($1,500 per minute!), least productive, most fatuous assemblage in the history of Methodism. Sunday evening's "A Celebration of Ministry" fiasco was a metaphor for our nearly two weeks at church expense: four hours of belabored supplication by the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, five Ethnic National Plans, Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century, United Methodist Men, Girl Scouts, Africa University and a number of other agencies I can't remember.
A subtheme of that long night: even though we can't cite specific fruit, please don't force us to change or to expend less on ourselves.
Even after suffering this abuse, General Conference succumbed to the agencies' pleadings. In a post-GC blog, Mike Slaughter (who with Adam Hamilton eloquently—and futilely—warned GC that we must change or face certain death) told the truth: "Our denominational systems continue to resist change by protecting archaic structures. From our seminaries to boards and agencies, institutional preservation was a strong resistant influence throughout GC. Entrenched organizational bureaucracies resist accountability. . . ."
By Sunday night's end most of the exhausted delegates had fled the hall. In a letter the next day to the Commission on General Conference, Bishop Hope Morgan Ward (who had languished in the wings with dozens of missionaries and deaconesses awaiting commissioning) complained that there was "no coordination of the overall event … it was disjointed, repetitious, and random."
To be fair Bishop Ward, the Commission on General Conference, in its inability (once again) to plan an affordable, manageable, productive General Conference shows no worse dysfunction than any number of our general agencies. Besides, your criticisms imply that Sunday night was a CGC failure.
My organizational guru Ron Heifetz speaks of the "myth of the broken system." Dr. Heifetz argues that all systems are "healthy" in that systems produce what those who profit from the system desire. Though the CGC can't produce a complicated, large scale, two week convention, the CGC produces a General Conference that protects those in positions of power in our church.
Don't blame bishops
Some labor under the delusion that bishops actually play a role in planning and directing General Conference, in overseeing programs of the church, in guiding the direction of our connection. Truth is, bishops not only have no voice and no vote at General Conference, we have no role in producing General Conference—and it shows.
Amid worship that wandered off into dizzying theological deviations, the forbidding challenge of so many languages (the few representatives from vanishing German Methodism got translations of the Daily Christian Advocate at $60k per delegate, even though they all speak better English than I), and the impossibility of thoughtful, honest debate among a nearly 1,000-member committee of the whole in eight or nine languages, one thing united General Conference 2012: distrust of leadership by bishops.
Though we bishops spent four years—guided by some of the church's best management minds—devising our Call to Action, the chaotic General Administration committee threw out the CTA's agency restructuring plan.
The bishops' accomplishments? The Methodist Federation for Social Action received new life, the Board of Church and Society went home unscathed by reform, and Good News and an unlikely clutch of agitation groups united against the bishops. A group from the Southeastern Jurisdiction, ridiculing the CTA as a power play by bishops, devised Plan B to thwart the bishops' insidious oversight. Plan B, attempting something unknown in the history of our connection—church by committee—got nowhere.
A group then hastily concocted Plan UMC, a flaccid compromise that limited episcopal participation. An episcophobic GC passed Plan UMC. The Judicial Council killed it the next day. Like it or not, our constitution gives bishops the duty of oversight.
Delegates headed home (travel cost, almost $2 million), some embarrassed at having produced little in response to the loss of three million United Methodists in the U.S. since 1970, but serene that they had resisted all attempts to modify the size, cost and duration of General Conference and had protected the church's bureaucracy. Welcome to church by committee.
Freedom to focus
Meeting with despondent young clergy at General Conference, I begged them to exercise spiritual discipline, to take their eyes off GC and focus upon the Holy Spirit's primary arena, the congregations where they will preach next Sunday. I counseled Adam and Mike to go home and expand the networks being equipped by Church of the Resurrection and Ginghamsburg Church—our sole hope for Holy Spirit orchestrated church-wide renewal. No thoughtful restructuring, no accountability for growth and discipleship will come out of GC. Ever.
Cheer up, depressed bishops! Having been resoundingly rebuffed by General Conference, bishops are now free to focus upon their annual conferences and those local churches and productive clergy who are responsive to episcopal encouragement for risk-taking, visionary leadership.
While General Conference dithered, the Council of Bishops drastically reorganized, streamlined and economized our work, realigning ourselves to lead vital congregations. Effective bishops are not awaiting General Conference permission to lead the UMC into a more vital future. Now that General Conference has snubbed the bishops' attempt to renew and to lead the general church's moribund mechanisms, perhaps we can recommit to the historic practices of the episcopacy—preaching, teaching and guarding the faith.
And the next time one of you has the temerity to whine about waste at General Conference, the loss of a couple of generations of young Christians, the ineffectiveness of a general church agency, or the infidelity of Methodism in retreat I will say, "I share your concern. It's a shame you weren't in Tampa."
The good news is that the mission of Jesus Christ will not be defeated. With or without us, he shall get the church he demands.
Bishop Willimon leads the North Alabama Conference. He is the author of the recently released Bishop: The Art of Questioning Authority by an Authority in Question (Abingdon Press).


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Martski necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 8 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
We have recently started a website in the Netherlands which focuses on women. The website brings the latest news concerning these 5 subjects: fashion – lifestyle – gadgets – food&drinks - design. In the future the website will also offer new products to their members and there will be space for ads.
With our website we focus on women within the age of 20 – 34 years old. Women who are still studying or women who are busy working on their career. Modern women who don't want to miss anything when it comes to fashion, but who also have other interests like lifestyle, gadgets, food&drinks and design.
The website has to have a tough and modern feel to it. Although the target group is women, we don't want a girly pink website. Tough, modern and sophisticated women.
-On the homepage it's important to include: Ad space containing a leaderboard (728x90 px) and a rectangle (300x250 px).
-A login field with a following register page (name – age – study etc)
- Space for links to social Networks like Facebook, Twitter, Hyves (dutch) and YouTube
-Space for notifications concerning giveaways or contests..
-Most read / Most popular (5 topics)
-Space for a poll
Below every article we want to give our members the opportunity to react, retweet, to link to other articles etc.
Things that we want to keep is the hebb logo and the barcode.
The attached 5 images give an impression of the look and feel we want to set. You can use these images or use others
Check it out at http://www.Hebb.nl or see the attached file.
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V Formation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 115 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
V-Formation *OR* V Formation
When birds fly in a 'V' formation, they dramatically increase their efficiency, and consequently, their flight range. Communication and visibility are improved and the efforts of the entire group are enhanced by the updraft from front fliers. A 'V-Formation' is about optimized collaboration and shared leadership.
V-Formation is a Bay Area investment firm dedicated to optimizing innovation through strategic capital deployment (putting money to work, without wasting it). At V-Formation, we believe that companies with a clear sense of purpose inspire employees and engage customers.
We believe that combining these values-driven teams with data-driven strategies leads to sustainable, long-term profitability. We unite socially-minded investing with a focus on non-profit and academic-sector solutions, creating exceptional returns—without sacrificing the integrity of our partners, or their missions.
We seek partnerships with inspired innovators—companies and entrepreneurs who are working to make the world a healthier place to live: healthcare, environment and education. Like birds in a V-Formation, together we fly further.
V-Formation: Innovation through Investing.
We are looking primarily for a logo that will be the consistent icon to describe our brand. Our amazing logo will be the nose on our face to the world. Business cards, letter head, website, t-shirts, coasters... you get the idea.
What we want to express in the logo: Leader: Exciting, Innovative, Sophisticated
...and a little edgy.
We operate somewhat in the old-school world of investing--suits and board rooms. But that's not all. We are also working with leading Universities, entrepreneurs, and non-profit buffs: bold professors, mad scientists, glamorous urbanites, work-a-holics and talented nerds. We aim to attract them all.
The design should evoke the image of birds in a V Formation. As for text, we thought of using 'V Formation' (with no hyphen) but wondered if it would appear as a Roman Numeral. So, we are open to using V-Formation as well. Will be curious to see what your design mind does with that decision...
You may choose to incorporate the slogan: "Innovation through Investing". That is up to creative discretion, too! Hopefully that will be something that we can add or take away depending on the use.
The design should carefully use color: we intend to "own" a color or color associated with our brand. (Our organic-industrial office has a bold primary blue and light yellow, so that's been in my mind, but we are wide open wrt color.)
We are based in San Francisco and we LOVE our city. We don't expect incorporating SF, but wouldn't be closed to it.
This design means a lot to us, so thank you for your time and your talents.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Thoughts on Genealogy Research Sites
Many years ago, alas, to many years ago, we had little access to the internet. We had access to books, films, readers, digests, maps, each others research, libraries and archives, county libraries and on up the line to Federal data.
AHHH the internet happened, Was this a good thing maybe, was it a bad thing maybe. There was a distant cousin I met in a early chat room on Golden Gate Forum who was my first (BINGO) for a connection on a family line. He is long gone now but we shared many words on genealogy and the changes he had seen and I would be seeing. George F. cousined with this man also. He had much insight and knowledge. Because I had fifteen boxes of genealogy regarding different lines of family I had worked over the past 25 years, I was saying I could never get it all put on line. Bless him, he said a few lines at a time and hopefully they would be empty before I was gone. Well, I have since 1995 added five boxes to various files, Alas those systems are not up any more. I am not giving them away until I get the data off them. I have also added two boxes to the system of documents, pictures and data that need retained in hard copy. I have two websites and Geni.com and recently added data to Ancestry.com on husbands side.
Many other things in genealogy happened also. Had I known the sourcing would have changed I could have had hand written documents of my Grandparents for my files. I do have a few letters but not like what today's sourcing wants. So as I added the files I refound the sources sometimes found more distant kin and made many new acquaintances. So it was not a matter of data entry it was a matter of almost redoing the entire system.
I loved the interaction of the GOLDEN GATE FORUM and the care and work ethics that were put out by the chat hosts and
attendees. I can not say how many people I served or helped me but it was in the thousand's and that is no lie.
Today, I hear from at least 25 of them on steady basis and probably over a 100 on as need to know or question arises by someone. That forum has been gone over ten years so I think that is a good track record. I went on to work for Joe
and his people and was helpful in creating the first online Genealogy Conference ever held that we could find.
We covered the month of October and had many awesome Genealogists from everywhere attend and give their talks
When that system retired. I was already teaching this topic at our local library twice a month, which I have done for 8 years.
I served on my local genealogy society as: Secretary, President, Vice President, etc. I also served on boards on other local societies. I am still serving now. I also helped with the newspaper at the local society level and when on the Golden Gate Forum put out the Mid Atlantic Messenger for all those who wanted it.
Recently having gone to the Conference in Burbank I learned many new and I thought exciting things that genealogists are going to be looking at and maybe changing how we do some of our things again. I know I started using Geni.com after the Burbank Conference two years ago. I think it helps us to link to our near or distant relative with out creating as much replication that happens via just email.
This time I learned about Blogging but not as a chat tool but as a genealogical tool. I find it fits into the Online Conference theme I have done before and some of those that are blogging big time now were asked to be our speakers back then so long ago. Maybe it is what brought some of this to the front today. PodCasts are obviously the wave of the future also.
I bought my recorder but that is as far as I have mastered that one so far. I had others but wanted what was recommended by one of the best.
Now the blogging agenda, we have many hundred sites of bloggers with good and interesting data, but now I wonder if all these sites that are coming up are not messing us up. Yes, that is what I said.
I love the USGENWEB.ORG system and program, would it not have been better to have taken this new concept to them and maybe making it modern and kept it within those regions bounds. I see many usgenweb.org sites that are old and haggered looking in dire need of direction. I see some that are up and modern and putting some of the interaction with in their program.
Even the Rootsweb based program could use some of this concept I think.
My biggest concern when I first learned of the new area for posting was, how many can we handle, how many do we want, are we spreading ourselves to thin and missing the data we are looking for because we are not utilizing the sources and resources we have? I was wondering if the gentleman that sounded so excited about his site had thought of stepping up to help the state source sites with his concept instead of a general? Can one imagine how great it would be to go to the state source site,
and do the maneuvers we can do on Facebook and Genealogy-Wise ( if it holds) or let alone many others places that tend to be cropping up.
Am I really out in left field with these thoughts, I do not think so I am hoping some of my old Forum friends and family and acquaintances will respond if they had even thought of this or feel overwhelmed by the amount of data that is filtering to us,
for use as genealogists.
Please do not misunderstand me I love the Blogs, the sites and the data but are we spreading our selves so far apart we are missing many connections?
I try not to post a lot unless I think it's something that is viable for many because I do not want to muddy others waters that have great information and good knowledge to share. I also find the time I spend doing to much blogging cuts into my research time, which is cut into (LOL) by Family which should come first :>).
Maybe reaching 50 years of marriage has muddled my thinking but I am sure curious if the little words I hear, here and there are really more real than not and we do not want to damage our researching we always want to make it a better place.
I am really hoping to hear from many of you regarding this matter. I do not think I would have decided to ask except after this last situation I sure had to rethink about where we are going and what are we doing?
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The Internet is neither good nor bad. It is another tool for genealogists to use to identify their ancestors.ReplyDelete
Family histories in print are the same. Would you cite one as your source? Maybe. But if the sources were listed, you should consider it as a LEAD to the sources you need.
I find the Internet a rapid way of accessing LEADS to sources I need for my ancestors. It is also a good way to network and learn more ways to research and analyse data.
Happy Dae·
Dae I gather I missed the explanation, I was not rumbling about Internet but the fact we are scattering so many ways and maybe we could help each other more if we pooled our resources better. As I told Randy so much out there and it's hard to accomplish our work and research and read all the blogs etc. We must remember to make the data search engine findable also whether it a query or a post. With the spread of data we definitely need to keep that in mind. Thanks so much for the feedback,ReplyDelete
I agree with your thought about the GenWeb project, many sites are current and the volunteers are on top of keeping it fresh, though other sites are stale and even there coordinators do not get back to queries. I can only imagine what that site could be like if we could use it like the Facebook or GenealogyWise. Everything in one spot would be terrific!ReplyDelete
Hi Susi ~ReplyDelete
I can understand what you mean about being spread so thin, but I have to say that having a blog has connected me with 2 relatives that I'm not sure I would have found if I hadn't put my blog out there. What I have out there probably doesn't have much in the way of information for others - but it does come up in search engines and 2 people have found me that way.
Also, I love the immediacy of it all - I put a "tweet" out there that I need help with Maryland genealogy and get a wonderful response that leads me to what I need.
I often feel overwhelmed by it all - but wouldn't have it any other way. :-)
Susi, it's great to read another genealogy blog. Each blog means something different to its author. I am of the opinion there can never be too many, so long as they're original and current.ReplyDelete
My genealogy blog is part diary, part research log, part coffee chat with other bloggers. I don't think it would fit into any category. It's not all facts, though I do talk about my family lines. I have been contacted my many new cousins this way and I would not change anything I've done blog-wise at all.
I also use my blog to network and meet new friends. That's how I already knew so many people at the Jamboree, though we had never met. I had met them already through my blog.
Keep making your points. I love the dialog. That's the beauty of a blog. :)
Susi, with each new tool, there is always a fear that we will be overwhelmed by information. No doubt people felt that way when Gutenberg invented the press. Back in the 60s, I recall people being worried about an "information explosion", that we would all drown in information. That was long before there was a World Wide Web.ReplyDelete
You and I will never read all the books that ever were, or the magazines, or the newspapers, or the journals, or the web pages. Not even the ones just about genealogy. Not even the ones just about our own ancestors.
The solution is not to discourage people from creating new blogs. The solution is to create better finding tools that can search what's out there.
I just wanted to say: Welcome to the Geneablogging Community!ReplyDelete
Personally, I love the internet. I think it all depends on how you use it.
Welcome to the blogosphere! Not to worry. The drips will drop out, the useful will be encouraged. Yes, duplication is a hassle, but so what? It's the constant digging that's important, and providing fertle fields for interest to expand.ReplyDelete
Hi Susi,ReplyDelete
Yes, sometimes I feel as if I need to be "defragged" because there is so much out there and it is making me feel rather scattered. I just try a few things. I can't do them all as I don't have the time. So I utilize certain ones at certain times depending on what I'm researching. But I do see what you are saying...with each new thing it seems to be fragmenting things up. New things are hard to learn to incorporate because humans are such creatures of habit.
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Editor's note: CNN contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- Quick quiz:
Name every big-league baseball team.
No fair looking it up online, or checking a newspaper sports page.
Just name them all.
Take your time. We'll wait.
Are you back?
If you could do it, congratulations -- you may belong in the Hall of Fame. I've followed baseball since I was a kid, and I couldn't come up with all the teams when I tried just now.
I don't feel so bad about it, because I asked two baseball fanatics -- guys who really know the game -- if they could rattle off all the teams, and they had their doubts.
"I probably couldn't do it," said Rob Fleder, formerly executive editor of both Sports Illustrated and The National Sports Daily, and editor of "Damn Yankees," an anthology of original essays about the New York Yankees by celebrated writers, to be published next month. "I'm supposed to know this, but I'd probably miss one or two."
Fleder said that if you were to go up to people on the street and ask them to name all the Major League teams, "I'd guess that only 5% or 10% could do it -- most likely closer to 5%."
Author David Krell, who is at work on "Blue Magic: The Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, and the Battle for Baseball's Soul," agreed with Fleder: "Less than 10% of people would be able to do it. Maybe a lot less. I know that I'd end up leaving some teams out."
The reason for this little exercise is that Major League Baseball has just announced that its playoffs will be expanded by two teams, so that 10 teams will now go into post-season play. There are currently 30 big-league teams: 16 in the National League and 14 in the American League.
It's that 30-team number that makes verbally zipping through a list of them so daunting. You just blank out. (When, after Krell and Fleder had predicted that they'd be unable to name all the teams I asked them to attempt it, Krell maxed out at 29 teams and Fleder hit 26 before, 18 minutes into trying, he said he'd toss in the towel. I made it to 29, but I allowed myself longer than 18 minutes. Maybe you did better. If so, Krell, Fleder and I salute you.)
From the first years of the 20th century straight through to the early 1960s, baseball had perfect symmetry: eight teams in the National League, eight teams in the American. Any kid and most adults could quickly list them. It was easy to determine if the town where you lived was big-league: If there was one of those 16 teams in town, then it was. If not, then it wasn't.
There was only one playoff series: the World Series. Under baseball's new system, the equivalent of the entire old National League and 25% of the old American League would make it to the playoffs.
All of this is very good for the baseball business and the television sports business. But just as when any professional sports league expands there are worries about a dilution of the talent pool, so, too, when the playoffs keep expanding, there is a danger of the dilution of memories. When you try to spread big moments out too thin, they don't seem quite as big anymore.
And, as Krell pointed out, for all the benefits and basic fairness that came with free agency, "when players switch teams so much, it's tough for the fans to get a chance to root for a solid group of players for six or eight straight years." The memories keep heading out of town.
How visceral and enduring is the meaning of all this? I still treasure as one of the most dizzyingly wondrous days of my life a single summer afternoon in 1983 when I got to spend time talking with Joe DiMaggio, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, Roger Maris, Ernie Banks, Bobby Thomson and Stan Musial.
The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the All-Star Game; a special old-timers' game had been arranged. I was working for ABC's "Nightline" in those Ted Koppel years, and I was assigned to do the story. It was like a parade of Topps baseball cards come to life -- the good cards, the prized ones, the cards you hoped against hope would be included in the wax-paper pack you bought at the drugstore, along with that brittle, pink, always slightly stale slab of gum.
(My favorite moment of the afternoon? Easy -- Snider telling me he had gone to a car wash, and, surprised at how inexpensive it was, asking the attendant if the price wasn't usually higher: "And the fellow said, 'Yes, sir, but we give a discount to senior citizens.' " Second favorite moment? The organist at Chicago's old Comiskey Park playing "When I'm 64" as I was talking on the field with Reese, and Reese saying: "Do they have one called 'When I'm 65'?" He was about to have a birthday.)
Baseball clearly did the right thing fiscally by growing past the original eight-team leagues and establishing outposts in far-flung parts of the country. Per-team home attendance is much higher now than it was in, say, the early 1950s. And adding two more teams to the playoffs will make the cash registers ring.
Yet there was something kind of swell about the years when, of course, you could rapidly name every team -- when you knew them as well as you knew the names of the streets in your own neighborhood.
But, as Fleder told me, the act of remembering has itself become largely unnecessary: "We don't have to remember things, so we don't. The answer to any question is: 'Give me five seconds on the Internet.' "
So if you couldn't name those 30 teams, it may not matter. Sincere good luck to baseball with its expanded playoffs. And Reggie Jackson probably doesn't have to worry that some post-season hero will someday supplant him as Mr. October.
At this rate, the new guy will be Mr. November.
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About Tom Gerou
With over 130 publications, Tom is known for the wide variety of his output. His work ranges from the unique library of five-finger arrangements with accompaniments to the very successful Essential Dictionary of Music Notation and Essential Dictionary of Orchestration. His arrangements in the Movie Heroes for Students series and Play Praise series have become staples in piano teachers' libraries. He is also one of the primary arrangers in the popular 27 books for the Alfred's Basic Piano Library Top Hits, Greatest Hits, and Patriotic Solos series. Most recently he has introduced the Piece by Piece series of original piano works for students, offering his unique use of harmonies and color.
As Alfred's Vice President of Production and Director of Keyboard Operations, Tom has the opportunity to combine his design and illustration talents with his experience as a composer and pianist. His outgoing personality also allows him to excel as a popular Alfred clinician, offering special insights into Alfred's latest publications.
After studying music in his native North Dakota, Tom graduated with honors from the University of Southern California, where he received a music degree in composition. He continued his education as a Charles Ditson Scholar at Yale University, receiving his masters of music degree in composition. The recipient of two consecutive Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for best original theatrical music, Tom has also been awarded an ASCAP composition prize, two consecutive Rena Greenwald Awards, and a Jimmy McHugh Composition Prize. His recording experience includes a highly successful recording of original piano music entitled Dance Preludes for use in ballet instruction. For many years, he has worked extensively in the dance and theater fields, both as a pianist and composer.


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Australia's Paperless CensusTuesday, April 21st, 2009
The Australian government has invested a significant amount of money in creating a do-it-yourself, web-based eCensus, that will save not only the environment, but millions of taxpayer dollars as well.
This makes us wonder, why isn't America a technological leader when it comes to implementing new census technology? Is it because lawmakers like to see taxpayer money redistributed within their districts to Census Bureau field workers? Is it because lobbying efforts from private firms like Lockheed Martin that have won contracts to work with the Census Bureau?
Here are some highlights from the article about Australia's superior headcounting technology:
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has virtualized its server infrastructure to form its own private cloud with the potential to host the 2016 eCensus thus avoiding a $9 million outsourcing contract.
In 2006, the ABS introduced the option of either completing the Census on the traditional paper form or electronically via the Web-based eCensus, which provides the potential for improved data collection and faster processing of the results.
The ABS chose IBM to develop and support its eCensus program because of "IBM's expertise in Web-based solutions and scalable infrastructure", but that is changing with the advent of virtualization technology which has provided the opportunity to host the application in house, according to the ABS director of servers, operating systems and storage, Tony Marion
According to the ABS, eCensus information is encrypted at all times while in the system and even IBM does not have the keys required to decrypt the data, but running it in-house would reduce the perception of secure information being managed by a third-party.


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Update to this story: Crystal found unharmed
LA SELVA BEACH – A 300-pound quartz crystal worth several thousand dollars was stolen from a farm on Zils Road.
Workers at Crystal Bay Farm at 40 Zils Road last saw the crystal Saturday night and noticed it missing Monday morning, said Santa Cruz County sheriff"s Lt. Bob Payne. It was next to an unattended fruit and vegetable stand where customers leave money to pay for items. It was about 2 feet tall and 11 inches wide.
The crystal was not visible from the road, said Crystal Bay Farm co-owner Lori Fiorovick. It was given to the farm about five years ago and was the farm"s mascot, Fiorovick said.
It would have taken more than one person to move, she added.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff"s Office asks anyone with information to call the investigations division at 831-454-2311 or the anonymous tipline at 831-454-5995.


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What's the connection between foreclosures and homelessness?
It's a question that puzzles housing experts - where do families go when they face foreclosure? Do they become homeless?
Apparently, this is surprisingly difficult to answer. According to the Metrotrends blog writer Mary Cunningham, almost a quarter of families that entered homeless shelters in 2010 came directly from a home they owned or rented. But there's very little data on why these families had to leave their homes. And shelters are often the last stop on the "residential instability road." As Cunningham writes:
Families facing foreclosure may move into a rental unit or double up with friends or family first. If these situations become unsustainable for whatever reason, the next stop may be the shelter ... The answer is that a few families may be trickling into homeless shelters, but probably not immediately after foreclosure, and not on a wide scale.
Here's a chart the illustrates where families lived before they entered a shelter according to HUD:
What can be done to relieve some housing instability? The Urban Institute has some good recommendations here.
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The skull of an executed Chippenham felon is up at auction next week, with a guide price of £2,000 to £3,000.
The skull dates from the early 19th century, when John Parker, 36, born in the parish of Langley, was hanged for a burglary in Bristol.
The skull is being sold with a photocopied newspaper cutting detailing the execution, but there is no visible newspaper title or date.
It says Mr Parker, along with 30-year-old Thomas Rodway, was hanged on the top of the lodge at "Glocester Gaol", for the burglary of a Mrs Grey's house at Clifton.
It reads: "Although obdurate at first, they at last became more sensible of their awful situation and died with due penitence."
The piece has been privately owned by a natural history collector for 30 years.
It will be up for sale at Summer Place Auctions in Billingshurst in West Sussex on Tuesday, when it will form part of the Garden, Design and Natural History auction.
Auctioneer James Rylands said: "I think he has just run out of space and his wife isn't hugely keen on it.
"It is a fascinating piece of social history, that in those days, you did something like that and you'd be sent to the colonies or strung up."
An auction estimate was tricky, he said, as it was the first of its kind the firm had seen, but one person had expressed serious interest in the skull.
"It is one of the more wacky items we have had," he said.
"I suspect it will appeal a lot to a very few people, rather than a little to a lot of people.."
The 12ins skull is inscribed with "John Parker hanged for robbing Henbury Church and De Boudrie's school".
It has been partially cut away to serve as an anatomical specimen and comes encased in an antique glass dome. An Egyptian mummified head is also for sale.
For details, call (01403) 331331 or see www.summersplaceauctions.com


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Technology Integration Matrix | Arizona K12 Center - 195 views
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Through regular classroom observation and targeted professional development activities, it is our hope that over time teachers will be able to effectively monitor their progress through a continuum of technology integration levels
tab_ras on 10 Mar 11The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.


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Grant_BSM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
WagerTrax is the flagship product of Bet Smart Media. Bet Smart Media Inc. is a funded start-up online company that provides wager tracking and analysis tools that will revolutionize the online sports wagering industry for individual bettors.
We're three founders based in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada who have been working on internet projects since '99. We're Internet technologists at heart who've happened to get into a little sports wagering fun!
We aim to be as indispensable to individual online sports bettors as Yahoo! Finance is to individual equity investors. We're also working on innovative crowd-sourcing technologies to connect fans located at actual sporting events to online sports wagering markets, in real-time. We want WagerTrax.com to be a top destination website in the online sports wagering space.
We love long walks on the beach, Internet technology, and working with designers who love what they do. Hope to connect with you soon!
Our online sports wagering tools are aimed at individuals who range from novice to advanced sports bettors at the "amateur level". By this
characterization, the users are high-functioning in their understanding of wagering fundamentals, the underlying mathematics, and of course are hardcore sports fans. The "amateur" reference alludes to the fact that they do not wager on sports as their sole source of income.
After doing research and multiple surveys, we've found that online sports bettors are 68% male. The same study showed the average age of these bettors to be in their "mid 30s". 61% of bettors hold at least a college degree. 41% of U.S. bettors earn more than $75,000 per year.
We are looking to tap into this target audience specifically, and position ourselves as a sophisticated, yet approachable service. We want to be seen as being at the forefront of online sports wagering content, social media, crowd sourcing, and analytics technologies.
The application will provide users with upcoming sports event information (win loss records, rosters, injuries), real time sports news, an aggregation of sports event odds across 50-100 sports books (online "bookies"), the ability to track betting behavior, the ability to run reports and analysis both on the user's behavior and past sports team performance. It will be the first time all these features come together in one app.
The WagerTrax logo will be the main product identity for WagerTrax and feature prominently within the web application and on WagerTrax.com.
The WagerTrax logo should not feature any sports specifically as we will support different sports and leagues at different times in the product lifecycle. That said, we are interested in exploring sporting-related themes.
Color palettes have not yet been established for the brand, and we'd ideally like the winning logo to be used to set the palette for the page template. Thus, please consider using colors that can be extended into and would be suitable for the overall theme of a web application user interface.
The logo should really stand out when viewed beside our competitors and other complimentary services in the space. Some competition and other services include: Donbest.com, Covers.com, Sportsinsights.com, Statfox.com, SBRForum.com.
A number of our competitors and complimentary services rely on lowbrow imagery and banners featuring female models, etc. - we are consciously positioning WagerTrax first and foremost as an analytics application and are taking "clean" approach to our application. We'd like the prominent "tone" of the logo to be technology and analytics focused and obviously sports related.
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Greg Abare waited three years to become Lunenburg High's starting quarterback, but he didn't spend his time carrying a clipboard or a bucket of water.
While he patiently waited his turn behind center, Abare carried his weight for the Blue Knights, starting as a receiver, defensive back and defensive end the last two seasons.
"I started working as the backup quarterback as a freshman, but I always had other jobs on the field, too," said Abare, a senior captain. "Running our offense (the triple option), I think having all that time to absorb it at practice has paid off."
Lunenburg (2-2) has won two straight and faces a tough test against Quabbin Regional (3-1) this weekend. Abare, meanwhile, has settled into the starting role nicely. He has rushed for five touchdowns and more than 400 yards, including 140 and a score in last weekend's win over Ayer-Shirley.
"Greg's been all over the place for us and waiting his turn to play quarterback," coach Steve Boone said. "He's an athlete and has such a great understanding of the game that we've always been confident in putting him anywhere on the field. This year, as a senior and a captain, he's been that coach on the field for our younger players."
Like many kids who grow up playing football, Abare dreamed about being the starting quarterback as a senior since he began playing, but being QB at Lunenburg hardly involves deep throws and trick plays.
"I'm the quarterback in title, but I'm pretty much just another running back," Abare said with a laugh. "In the triple option, I have to play like a running back, but lead and make split-second decisions like a quarterback. Plus, I get popped on almost every play, whether I have the ball or not."
Abare isn't one to talk much about individual goals, but has a strong desire to lead the Blue Knights to the playoffs.
"When I was in junior high, I got to see my brother's teams in the playoffs and they had some dominant teams back then," said Abare, who is also on the basketball and track teams. "If I could leave anything behind as a legacy to this team, it would be great if it was getting back to the playoffs and getting Lunenburg football headed in the right direction for the future."
It remains to be seen whether Abare will follow in older brother Thomas Abare's footsteps and play in the postseason, but there's little doubt he'll follow a similar postgraduation path.
Thomas currently plays football at Colby.
Abare is a member of the National Honor Society and volunteers with Lunenburg's Best Buddy chapter. He's interested in a career in engineering and playing football in college, with Tufts and WPI among the schools on his list.
"Our team, in general, has come a long way already this season," Abare said. "We've got a pretty tough schedule but we're hoping that makes us better as the season goes along."
Now deep at quarterback
Nipmuc Regional coach Phil Schiloski might be faced soon with one of those "good problems to have." The Warriors (2-2) have won two straight behind quarterback John Jango, who stepped in when starter Eric Natterstad went down with an injury.
Jango threw for five TDs and more than 300 yards in Nipmuc's win over Hudson last weekend, making great use of a big and athletic receiving corps led by Derek Moore and Danny Dias. The Warriors should have both QBs as they make their playoff push, beginning with a home game this weekend vs. St. Bernard's (0-3).
Rams, Indians clash
There are a host of blockbuster games around Central Mass. this weekend, and two Division 4 teams will be involved in one of them. No. 6 Northbridge (4-0) will visit No. 9 Grafton (3-1) at 4:30 p.m. Friday in a possible playoff preview.
The Rams, long known for an explosive offense, are averaging 40 points per game this season. The Indians, meanwhile, have one of the area's best defenses and have allowed just 14 points all season.
You can bet Grafton, which has pitched three shutouts, will be spending the week in practice doing what it does best.
"I think the way we practice definitely gives us a huge advantage," senior defensive back/quarterback Doug Oevermann said. "The coaches work us extremely hard every day and we hit all week. By the time the game comes up, we're flying and ready to hit almost out of force of habit."
For what it's worth, Grafton beat Northbridge, 35-21, last season.


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Morning Five: 04.25.12 EditionPosted by rtmsf on April 25th, 2012
- Baylor's Quincy Miller had a pretty good freshman season, but not good enough for him to believe he was ready for the NBA Draft after a single year in Waco. At least that was his decision two weeks ago, just prior to the NCAA's draft entry deadline on April 10. Proving that such a deadline is in fact the complete and utter joke that nearly everyone already thinks, Miller on Tuesday reversed his decision prior to the NBA's (the real) deadline this coming Sunday. He will become the tenth 1-and-done player who declared this offseason likely to be selected in the first round in June. The good news, of course, is that Scott Drew will now have additional time to prepare for life after Miller — somewhere down on Tobacco Road, an ACC coach or two must be very pleased about this development.
- Speaking of the NBA Draft and dovetailing with the incessant discussion of transfer players last week, FIU's Dominique Ferguson also announced on Tuesday that he will head to the NBA in the wake of head coach Isiah Thomas' firing at the school. According to Ferguson, who averaged 8/6 in his two seasons at the school, he preferred to stay in a basketball uniform in Miami but FIU refused to release him to any other institution. He felt this left him no choice other than to enter the professional ranks. We'd like to see a bit more evidence before completely buying his story here, but the power that schools hold over players in this manner is really just shy of unconscionable.
- Another ridiculous segue, but far be it from us to question someone's veracity, especially someone as consistently open and transparent as new South Carolina head coach Frank Martin. In an AP report on Tuesday about how the fiery coach is handling Columbia in his first month on the job, he claims that there was no rift with the AD or other administrators leading to his departure from Kansas State. In the money quote, Martin said, "I'm just telling you, (Gamecocks AD) Eric Hyman put his arms around me and it was hard for me not to feel the passion that he had for building the men's basketball program. I've never been through this before." Mmmmkay.
- Indiana had quite the renaissance in the 2011-12 season, finally breaking through from one of its lowest periods in history to knock off several Top 5 teams in Bloomington and ride the momentum all the way to the Sweet Sixteen. Head coach Tom Crean intimated on Tuesday that IU may be bringing back one of its brightest stars to channel its glorious past with its highly anticipated future — former IU NPOY Calbert Cheaney may join Crean's coaching staff as an associate after spending last season as its Director of Basketball Operations. This would be a nice promotion for the likable Cheaney, who could surely impart considerable wisdom on how to play with expectations given that the Hoosiers should be in everybody's Top 5 themselves next year.
- Finally, the Cincinnati Reds welcomed national championship head coach John Calipari to its baseball game against the Giants Tuesday night, giving the loquacious coach a #1 jersey (pictured here) and displaying the Kentucky title trophy on the premises, but the gesture by the team based on the northern banks of the Ohio River (facing the Bluegrass State) was not without its detractors. Redleg Nation comprises a large geographic area that also includes the fan bases of Indiana, Louisville, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Xavier, Dayton, and several other Division I programs in addition to Kentucky, so some fans of those programs went on talk radio threatening to cancel their tickets with the baseball club. For what it's worth, Calipari tossed a nice ball over to the catcher at home plate, as you can see below.


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Maine Charter School Commission to hear 5 applications this week
HARPSWELL, Maine (AP) � The Maine Charter School Commission is scheduled to hear the application for a new charter school in Harpswell.
Harpswell Coastal Academy plans to open in September as a grade 6-12 school, but with an initial enrollment of 40 to 80 students in grades 6 and 9.
It is one of five charter school applications the commission will review Tuesday.
The school's catchment area includes students residing within School Administrative District 75, Brunswick and Regional School Units 1 and 5, according to the 468-page application.
Joe Grady, chairman of the Harpswell Coastal Academy Board of Directors, tells The Times Record (http://bit.ly/Sfs2qX ) that they have a strong application.
Charter schools are funded with state dollars but operate independently of local school boards.
Information from: The Times Record, http://www.timesrecord.com


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I think Franklin Pierce's obsession with annexing Cuba is a fun topic and could be a good topic for the classroom as Communist Cuba and its relationship with the US is well explored, but not always the earlier relationships. So here is some information on Piece's idea of annexation:
Far less successful was Pierce's pet cause—the annexation of Cuba. For years, southerners had coveted the great island as a place to expand their slavery-driven agricultural economy. Failed filibustering expeditions during the Taylor and Fillmore presidencies were evidence of the South's attempts to obtain this slaveholding Caribbean possession of Spain.
Southern interests in Cuba were understandable. After all, that nation allowed slavery and was developing a plantation form of agriculture, and would continue to do so until two decades after the Civil War.
During Pierce's administration, many Americans reasoned that if Cuba were to be purchased from Spain, they would in effect have another slave state. The wrong man was charged with the delicate task of negotiating with Spain's poor but proud king. Pierre Soulé, an overbearing southerner, had been named
Pierce's minister to Spain, with instructions to go as high as $130 million, but Soulé had little patience for the slow ways of the Spanish court. The more he tried to bully Spain into selling Cuba, the more that nation resisted the idea. Soulé even rewrote the treaty to include threats of American military action if Spain did not comply, which only stiffened Spanish resolve. Soulé met with James Buchanan, Pierce's ambassador to England and future President of the United States, and John Mason, the minister to France. Together, they drafted the Ostend Manifesto, a document that set the justifications for American possession. The Manifesto also warned that if Cuba refused America's proposal, "internal peace" in the United States might be threatened by continued Spanish control, since slaves might revolt on the island, threatening the institution of slavery in the U.S. Under such circumstances, America might be required to take control of Cuba. After the document was published, Pierce's secretary of state, William Marcy, was forced to repudiate the Manifesto because of the diplomatic uproar in Europe and in the north that ensued.
If you'd like a primary source, chekc out this statement from Pierce telling citizens not to invade Cuba on their own! He also issued proclamations not to invade Nicaragua and Mexico as well!
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