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Marian cries as she reunites with Stuart at the hospital. Scott looks on and then tells his dad he loves him. He leaves them alone, as Stuart calls Marian his Queen of Hearts and kisses her.
At the mansion, Adam is elated that Stuart is alive. Brooke says, "And now, so are you." Adam thinks the empty house is more depressing than the hospital. He wants to leave, but Brooke has a surprise for him: She bought the house back. She says, "Welcome home." Scott shows up and puts up Stuart's painting. Colby is there as well and says they need to throw a party since Adam, Brooke and Stuart are back. Adam calls Winifred who's thrilled to see Mr. Chandler. He tells her to unpack the boxes and pop the champagne. They're having a party!
At the station, Cara and Angie plead David's case to Jesse. Cara tells him second chances are important, especially after David brought loved ones back. Jesse isn't going for it, but Liza shows up and relays that Stuart called his friend the judge to get David out on bail. David shares a nice moment with Angie, who sings his praises about bringing Stuart back. Jesse joins in to give a stunned David credit.
At the house Opal and Erica discover Jack's clothes and toothbrush are gone. Opal pleads with Erica to realize Pine Valley is her home and Hollywood can wait. Kit comes to the door wondering if Erica is ready to make movie magic. Opal makes a last ditch appeal to Erica to not lose Jack over this. She tells Erica that the Chandlers are having a party because Stuart is alive. Jack will be there. Erica runs up the stairs to change because she knows Jack won't be able to resist her.
Jack saddles up to the bar at Krystal's. He tells Krystal he and Erica are finally over.
Jamie sees JR at the airport. JR thinks he's back because he thinks Babe is alive. JR coldly declares Babe is dead. JR says he's leaving town, but he will be back. Jamie is glad Babe isn't there to see him like this. It would break her heart. Dixie and Tad catch up with JR and tell him Stuart is alive. JR thinks they are lying or it's one of David's head games. He won't fall for it. JR is ugly with Dixie, blaming her for screwing him up, not Adam. He tells Dixie to stay out of his life, but Dixie doesn't want to lose him. He says she already has and walks away. Dixie cries, as Tad promises her that JR will be back. Tad gets a message about the Chandler party. He thinks they need to remember they still have a lot to celebrate. Later, JR decides not to take his flight, saying, "I've got a party to crash."
Everyone gathers at the Chandler mansion. Even Jamie returns because he's worried about JR. Angie notices that Randi is glowing. She admits to her husband, Jesse, and Angie that she might be pregnant. Meanwhile, Zach and Griffin attempt niceties as Kendall intervenes to say she's glad David is out of their lives. David shows up looking for Adam. JR lurks in the secret tunnel, as Erica and Opal show up and see Jack talking to Krystal. JR pulls out his gun as Adam and the room toast to Pine Valley. Erica asks to talk to Jack alone, as David finds Adam. David is snarky, as Adam doesn't know how to thank him. David says cash is always a good start. Adam wonders what he's up to, but gives him money anyway. Bianca and Marissa show up after getting a text message. They think it was from Scott, but he denies it.
Dixie finds David upstairs. She demands to know who his other patient is. David says she wouldn't believe him even if he told her.
In another room, Erica tells Jack she's arranged for him to come to L.A. with her. She says they can have every single night together. Jack wants family and marriage. He doesn't want to sit alone while she chases her dreams. She thinks they share their dreams because they love each other. She is committed to him and no one else. He knows she doesn't want to get married. Erica admits it. She doesn't want to rush into a marriage just to make him feel better. He wishes her luck of the rest of her life without him. He leaves the room as Erica chases him.
Meanwhile, Tad gives a toast and says it's all about neighbors, family and friends. He's found all of them in Pine Valley. It's been his home. The best years of his life. No matter what, family and "all my children" are always with him. Adam wants to add something to the festivities and proposes to Brooke. She happily says yes. Erica runs after Jack through the crowd. She begs him not to go because she needs him. Frankly, Jack doesn't give a damn what she needs and walks away. JR points his gun at the crowd, as Erica runs after Jack. A gunshot goes of.
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A really cool software for my workshop, should not be complex, I would not think.
Basically, I make tangram puzzle pieces. Wooden ones for kids and grownups alike to play with. But there has to be an easier way to figure out the piece sizes.
What I would like to do is be able to input ONE number and all the pieces' side lengths are automatically calculated. So, I can make a tangram any size I want without having to take time to figure out the size of every single piece. If, say, I wanted to make the large square with a base of 10 inches, the program could figure all the lengths.
Here's the breakdown on size relationships, but the image shows it pretty well:
There are seven pieces to the puzzle, arranged in the image as shown to make a square: 5 triangles, 1 square and 1 parallelogram. The triangles are all isosceles, with 2 small ones, 1 middle size, and 2 large ones.
As you can see, the large triangles' hypotenuse is equal to one side of the whole square. The middle triangle's legs are 1/2 the length of the square. The small triangles' hypotenuse is 1/2 the length of the square. The small square's side is equal to 1/2 the middle triangle's hypotenuse, or the whole length of the small triangles' leg. The parallelogram's long side is equal to 1/2 the whole square's side, while the short side is equal to 1/2 of the hypotenuse of the middle triangle.
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver September 20, 2013 - 11:18am
The contrast in reactions to the Pope's recent comments on sexuality and abortion is interesting. On the left -- especially the secular left -- there is this feeling that Francis is the second coming of John XXIII: a pope that non-Catholics can feel good about. On the right, however, there seems to be widespread quiescence. I have not observed a kind of freak-out that some have expected from Catholic conservatives.
How can we explain this aymmetry? I think one thing we are seeing here are the fruits of the Pope's experience during the Argentine dirty war. This is a man who managed, somehow, to come through an extremely polarized situation with the respect of many on both the right and the left, including several prominent liberation theologians. This strikes me as only possible for someone who is a true master at quietly building consensus.
It seems to me that the move he is making -- saying that the Church has become too preoccupied with abortion and gay marriage and contraception without saying that those teachings are in any need of revision -- is quite literally the only thing he could do without angering one or the other side of the debates on those issues.
On the left, we are so worn down from the battles of the past 30 years, so tired of being told day in and day out that we cannot in good conscience support progressive politicians, so tired of seeing Catholic politicians denied communion for supporting abortion rights while Catholic politicians who support gutting food stamps get a pass, that the promise of a new conversation is like the lifting of an enormous burden. And the Pope's statement that the Church has developed an unhealthy obssession with these issues sounds like an affirmation of many of the things we have been saying for years. Sure, many of us would like to see a change in doctrine, but not being constantly cudgeled with existing doctrine is a great start, and probably the best we can hope for.
On the right, they are no doubt taking solace from the fact that, even as the Pope has criticized the hierarchy's uneven sense of priorities, he has reiterated his support for the substantive teachings underlying them. And since Catholics on the right are more focused on authoritative doctrine to begin with, this failure to change teachings is more significant to them than it is to Catholics on the left.
My assessment might be premature. As I said last week in my post on Catholics and Evangelicals together, sometimes, the Catholic right seems far more interested in forging conservative political alliances than in doctrinal orthodoxy (at least on doctrine not related to sexuality). So a right-wring freakout may still be in the cards, especially if the Pope continues on his present course. We'll have to wait and see. For now, however, the new tone he is striking is politically astute in its ability to win over the left without losing the right.
Saying that the Pope's move has been canny is not the same as saying it is insincere. Notwithstanding my early (and ultimately, I think, unfounded) concerns about his actions during the Argentine dirty war, I have become increasingly impressed by the new Pope's genuine sense of humility and holiness. There's a humanity in him that reminds me of the best parish priests I have ever known. (Sadly, few of them are still priests, but that is a topic for another post.) If the Pope is a man who is interested in revolutionizing the Church, I see few signs of it. Instead, he seems to me to be someone who above all else wants to bridge divisions, both within the Church and between Catholics and others. As we've seen with our current president, the search for consensus is not a strategy for radical change. But, under the circumstances, I think it's the best we could have hoped for. I for one am grateful for the change.
I don't think conservative Catholics will give up on their crusade to convince Catholic progressives that their position is not tenable and that issues like abortion and gay marriage trump all others. But if, in the future, they don't have the apparent backing of the hierarchy, their arguments will be far easier to disregard.
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The fact that anybody can still take seriously words like left/right and progressive/conservatine is an unending source of wonder to me. The Pope is moving on a completely different coordinate axis: witnessing the novelty of Christ to the world. Anybody who puts his/her faith in "progressive politicians" or "changing doctrines" has thoroughly, dramatically, disastrously missed the point.
Onviously, my previous comment holds if one replaces "progressive" by "conservative"
Your comment almost proves my point perfectly. Anyway, do you think those categories have no substantive meaning at all? Do you think the different reactions I'm describing do not in fact exist or, if they do, that some other more useful category explains them?
"Nobody should try to use the words of the pope to minimize the urgent need to preach and teach about abortion," said the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, who said he spoke Thursday about the "priority of the abortion issue" at a Vatican conference.
Today, Pope Francis addressed a gathering of Catholic gynecologists. He told them that, as a matter of "reason and science", that life in all its "phases" is always "sacred." He called abortion a product of a "widespread mentality of profit." He said that every aborted child is "unjustly condemned" and has the "face of the Lord." These remarks are reported NCR and also by RSN -
On the right, however, there seems to be widespread quiescence.
There is great pain expressed in the reader comments (currently 275 of them) to Fr. Z's two posts in which he tries to convince his readers that Francis hasn't said anything new:
Thanks John, Frank, and Gerelyn for these links. John -- it will be interesting to see how those reactions evolve. There seems to be a concerted effort by conservative thought-leaders to put a happy face on this. My guess is that rank and file conservative Catholics are reacting more to the elation on the left in the secular media than to the words themselves. That is, they may be very open to being convinced otherwise. Only time will tell, I think. It's unusual for me to feel hopeful about anything relating to the Church, but I do think this new tone has the potential to soften some of these divisions. We'll see.
Francis is basically relating the gospel:
We can all agree for justice for all.
The Rorate Coeli blog has closed comments, which had exploded since they started covering the pontificate of Francis as he appears to them: an opponent to traditionalism. Because the comments are now closed, we can't tell what people would have said about this most recent interview. But the reaction to earlier statements -- such as Francis speaking against "triumphalism" -- was very, uh, pronounced, and the editors there assured us that they have been working round the clock to weed out the crazies. So I would say a conservative / traditionalist reaction is well underway.
Quite a few conservative commenters are trying to spin this as "nothing new" of course, which is damage control plus a little denial. The sad part for anyone who has watched these debates over time is that Pope Francis speaks out of the thought world of the Second Vatican Council, which so many have tried to stamp out in recent years that we've practically forgotten what it sounds like!
"There is great pain expressed in the reader comments (currently 275 of them) to Fr. Z's two posts in which he tries to convince his readers that Francis hasn't said anything new:"
Is not Fr. Z. realizing now that he is on the wrong side of the future Church? Is he not aware that his previous posts over the years have provoked and affirmed the people whose comments are now epressing suchpain?
"The sad part for anyone who has watched these debates over time is that Pope Francis speaks out of the thought world of the Second Vatican Council, which so many have tried to stamp out in recent years that we've practically forgotten what it sounds like!
Interesting that Pope Francis is the only pope since Vatican II who did not participate in it.
Also, may we expect now that those who have been castigated during the papacy of JPII and BVI will find a place in the Church as Congar, Murray, et al did at Vatican II?
Loved Fr. Z's link to Benedict (as usual) in referencing the Council of the Media and the Council of the Fathers. His minimization is that the media has taken this interview and spun a narrative.
Of course, it is a media conspiracy....and yet:
- why, Fr. Z himself is part of the council of the media (since he appears to know little about the council of the fathers)
- this interview was organized and done by the combined efforts of the worldwide Jesuit publications - in their own way, they are part of the media. duh??
So, just like the abuse scandal - we are back to reducing everything to the big bad media - yep, kill the messengers.
Would also suggest that Benedict's talk in which he referenced these two *labels* was a farewell statement...his decision to retire speaks more emphatically then this farewell address. His retirement resonated with most catholics; his farewell address - forgotten as it fades into the mists of history; buried some day deep in the Vatican Library.
If my phone rings and it's Pope Francis calling, I'll suggest he order the American bishops to quit giving financial support to the Catholic League.
It's about time William Donohue got a real job; being a professional victim doesn't count, even though he's certainly arranged for it to pay well.
Cardianl Dolan has a very short statement saying the pope's interview is all good. Perhaps conservative leaders like him simply know what side their bread is buttered on?
What are the things that conservatives are in denial about?
"Quite a few conservative commenters are trying to spin this as "nothing new" of course, which is damage control plus a little denial. The sad part for anyone who has watched these debates over time is that Pope Francis speaks out of the thought world of the Second Vatican Council, which so many have tried to stamp out in recent years that we've practically forgotten what it sounds like!'
Indeed. Francis, who rarely speaks in absolutes, also says that Vatican II is "absolutely irreversible". Pooer trads. They actually have my sympathy. This must be very, very difficult for them.
Helen --
I"ll believe that the whole Church has changed when people like Fr.Reese, S.J., Jason Berry, and Sr. Johnson are actually honored by Rome. Until then, I'll have my reservations.
"Pope Francis speaks out of the thought world of the Second Vatican Counci... .l"
Interesting that he is the only pope since Vatican II who did not attend the council.
Maybe some of the people who have been so marginalized and criticized by these last two papacies will be vindicated as were Congar, Murray, et al at Vatican II.
[ANOTHER BOMBSHELL: TOTALLY TANGENTIAL -- FOR YOU POLITICAL JUNKIES: Bill Clinton just said on CNN that he has "no idea" whether or not Hillary will run for president. He looked sincere and very sad. I wonder if she's well. Hmmmmmmmmm.]
@Ann Olivier Well, there's Gutierrez -- that's a nice start.
Like any pope, this one is greatly constrained by all the pronouncements of his predecessors. Fallible people can acknowledge that their ancestors were wrong about things like slavery or a male-only franchise. They can change their beliefs and their teachings as time and experience bring new understandings. Popes like Francis must find ways to carry forward most of what has gone before while recommending to the Church a new tone, a new emphasis, and to some extent a new practice.
Teachings that have not been declared "too" formally, or that are now seen to be entirely beyond the pale, can be explicitly repudiated. The "Jews killed Christ" libel, for example. Others may simply be allowed to fall into semi-silence. Pubescent Johnny probably hears less often than he would have sixty years ago about the pains of eternal fire that await him for casting an interested eye upon Tiffany. If asked today, even many Catholics might say that limbo is a dance. And I hope that I will never read another news story that says the ban on contraception is a "core teaching of the Church," as if the Incarnation and the Resurrection were afterthoughts.
So this gentle nudging of the Church by Francis will have its effect even if no doctrines change. But it will be gradual as well as reversible, and no one should expect to be entirely happy.
I get an anti-Pharisee sense from the interview: believing the right things and obeying a list of rules aren't good enough if you are hurting others.
One aspect of so-called Catholic conservativism is that it tends to be, as an article of faith, quite loyal to the pope, so I believe that factor comes into play in assessing conservative reaction to the pope.
It is not an article of faith for Catholic conservativism that Vatican II was a bad thing; I expect that most Catholic conservatives think it's a good thing. (Indeed another article of faith for conservatives is that their hermeneutic of Vatican II is superior to liberals' :-)). It's difficult to think of anything that Francis has said or done that takes the church outside the borders of Vatican II. So I think that conservative commentaries along the lines of "nothing much to see here, move along" are substantially correct.
Lastly, I agree with Carlo that this pope is taking us in entirely new trajectories in which the old conservative/liberal dichotomies may be less relevant (which is not to say that new dichotomies won't spring up! :-))
@ Crystal Watson: Agreed. I had the thought that Dolan being a good politician keeping his finger in the air must have detected a decided shift in the winds coming-off the Tiber River these days.
It will be fun to watch all these hierarch politicians twist themselves into a pretzel trying to realign themselves for this papacy. Here in the Bay area we have heard nary a peep out of anti-gay-and-anti-same-sex-marriage-all-the-time archbishop Salvatore Cordileone - I guess he's still figuring out some way to somehow still be a gay man's judge in a Jesuit papacy?
Do you think that Dolan hasn't received any phone calls from Francesco lately? Maybe, Dolan is worried, as in the words from the musical Camelot: "I wonder what the king is doing tonight?"
Jim P. --
Fr. James Martin over at American thinks that there is indeed something new in the interview and it's very, very important:
" "We should not even think, therefore, that 'thinking with the church' means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church."
"Here is something new, as far as I know. While the phrase "thinking with the church" may be unfamiliar to some observers, it is well known by Jesuits and Catholic scholars. In his classic text The Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, lays out his famous "Rules for Thinking [or Feeling] with the Church," an invitation for a person to incorporate himself or herself deeply into the life of the church and align himself in the most profound way with the church's teaching.
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Pope Francis, as a former Jesuit novice director and provincial, knows the Spiritual Exercises very, very well. In our interview, the pope gives the expression, "thinking with the church" a new interpretation, and frankly one that I had never before heard. The church, says the Pope, is the "totality of God's people," pastors and people together, not just the hierarchy. So thinking with the church, he says, is not simply thinking with the hierarchy. In this we hear echoes of the Second Vatican Council's emphasis on the church not as a top-down organization, but something broader: in a beautiful phrase, the church is the "People of God." "
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In our interview, the pope gives the expression, "thinking with the church" a new interpretation, and frankly one that I had never before heard. The church, says the Pope, is the "totality of God's people," pastors and people together, not just the hierarchy. So thinking with the church, he says, is not simply thinking with the hierarchy.
Ann - that is one of the things that made me rejoice to read. And it's not mere Commonweal subscriber chauvinism on my part (as I also subscribe to America :-)) to note that Fr. Komonchak has been known to make a similar point in these precincts.
Ann Olivier quotes Fr. James Martin, SJ "We should not even think, therefore, that 'thinking with the church' means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church."
That is a major change for a Jesuit. In his Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius writes:
"Thirteenth Rule: To be right in everything, we should always hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it...."
One Marc Farre of Piedmont, NY, sent this honest observation to the New York Times: "It looks as if the Catholic Church has stumbled accidentally on its own Gorbachev. I am relishing the image of the heartburn he must be giving the conservative wing that elected him."
Ah, the schadenfreude.
Seems like we've seen this picture before, the classic culture war face-off between anti-abortion Catholics, they of the 'obsession,' and anti-anti-abortion Catholics, those who find anti-abortion advocacy more troubling than abortion.
Can't really begrudge anti-anti-abortion Catholics some gloating yesterday. If not on 'our' team, at least Francisco seemed to be dissing 'them.' But the delight may have been short-lived, as witness today's address to gynaecologists.
Anti-abortion Catholics and anti-anti-abortion Catholics have more than a little in common. There is, first of all, the penchant for collapsing contraception, abortion and gay marriage into a single grand project. Then there is the decided lack of enthusiasm for a seamless garment that urges protection of life from womb to tomb. And, of course, there is the mutual loathing.
I suspect, in the long run, Francisco will disappoint both tribes. From Bernardin's mouth to Bergoglio's ears, perhaps?
Mike McG. --
What the so-called "anti-abortion Catholics" (the ones who never stop yelling about it) don't realize is that most of the rest of us think that the "anti-abortion Catholics" grossly over-simplify the issues and mistakenly think that if you don't constantly yell about it you aren't really against it. They are so busy yelling that they don't take the time to look at all the facts and unfairly call the rest of us "pro-abortion". They have a lot to learn.
But we've been over those reason many times before.
Mike McG. --
What the so-called "anti-abortion Catholics" (the ones who never stop yelling about it) don't realize is that most of the rest of us think that the "anti-abortion Catholics" grossly over-simplify the issues and mistakenly think that if you don't constantly yell about it you aren't really against it. They are so busy yelling that they don't take the time to look at all the facts and unfairly call the rest of us "pro-abortion". They have a lot to learn.
But we've been over those reason many times before.
The pope is against abortion - it's no surprise that he said what he did to the doctors - but he's also against the anti-abortion obsession that has gripped so many. What's weird is how conservative Catholics made abortion, birth control, and marriage equality the litmus test for being a good Christian.
Eduardo: I am really impressed to read that you pursued your concerns about Fr. Bergoglio's actions during Argentina's dirty war to the points where you are now willing to say publicly that you now think your concerns were ultimately unfounded.
I remember your concerns, and I am impressed to read your new conclusion.
Now, Pope Francis appears to me to be trying to temper the zealotry of certain Roman Catholics who kind of specialize in reminding the world about the church's teachings regarding legalized abortion in the first trimester, the use of artificial contraception, and same-sex marriage.
In other words, Pope Francis is trying to use reason with Roman Catholic religious zealots to try to persuade them to temper their zealotry a wee bit.
Of course it remains to be seen how far he will get with his effort to temper their zealotry a wee bit.
Thus far, he has not threatened to use sanctions against them. Good for him.
So, thus far, he does not appear to be using fear to motivate them. Good for him.
Instead, he appears to be trying to use persuasion.
Good for him.
Let's hope that he follows up on this effort.
In the meantime, he does have a full plate of stuff to deal with involving the Vatican and especially the so-called Vatican bank.
"Pubescent Johnny probably hears less often than he would have sixty years ago about the pains of eternal fire that await him for casting an interested eye upon Tiffany."
Ah, but if he casts that interested eye on Timothy .....
Ann said: "They are so busy yelling that they don't take the time to look at all the facts and unfairly call the rest of us "pro-abortion". They have a lot to learn."
Obviously they hadn't been paying attention to the one who they held in such high esteem:
"[F]acts, as history teaches, carry greater weight than pure doctrine." Joseph Ratzinger, HIGHLIGHTS OF VATICAN II, Paulist Press/Deus Books, 1966, p. 17.
Or, to put it another way …..
"You can believe in facts or you can believe in doctrines: you must choose. There never was a doctrine strong enough to shift a single fact. When facts get lost, it's because someone wanted to lose the fact. And where does it get lost? In some doctrine: some set of words." Christopher Rushlau 9/13/2013 http://americamagazine.org/issue/murray%E2%80%99s-mistake
Here is an interesting example of what Professoer Peñalver calls an "effort by a conservative thought-leaders to put a happy face on this":
After watching this, I'm re-thinking whether it is proper to refer to Donahue as a thought-leader.
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.


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Two speakers, one from County Council and one representing FOTAS, invoked Gandhi's quote about a people's moral progress to mark the significance of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new county shelter last Sunday.
It was Gandhi's belief that how a nation treats its animals reflects its moral progress; it was the speakers' contention that, with our new county shelter, our Aiken County community's moral progress has taken a great leap forward.
So last Sunday's groundbreaking was a huge celebration of a major milestone.
In 2005, more than 6,000 animals came into our county shelter, and almost all of them died there. The facility was the county government's response to a 1990 problem: 100 animals per month, not thinking that eventually they would have to contend with more than 100 animals per week.
In fulfilling competing responsibilities to public welfare, no time or attention allowed animal welfare to be considered. No provisions were made for adequate ventilation, waste management or disease containment. No future was considered for the animals or the facility that housed them.
Until 2009, the unclaimed animals that could not be crowded into our current shelter still lived their five days in roofless open pens in the dirt. While the building's air and trenches spread disease inside, the ground held the diseases outside.
It wasn't that members of County Council weren't aware that something needed to be done. Kathy Rawls knew. But the moral outrage can't come from our elected officials; it must come from their citizens. It was that moral outrage that gave birth to Friends of the Animal Shelter, known as FOTAS.
FOTAS began in spring of 2009 with a benefit breakfast that raised $2,700. That summer a concrete pad was roofed over for the dogs in the overflow pens. A year later, C.A.T.S. (Cats at the Shelter) opened as our county's new indoor/outdoor adoptable cat colony.
As the FOTAS family grew in numbers, we championed the renewal of the county's 1-cent sales tax, helping secure $1 million toward an adequate county shelter.
FOTAS paid for the county to hear from a nationally recognized shelter expert to determine the scope and best direction for the project. In 2011, FOTAS committed $100,000 of private funds for the architectural and engineering plans for a new county animal shelter, then ultimately paid $125,000.
On March 3, ceremonious shovels went into the ground at May Royal and Wire Road, as members of County Council lined up with FOTAS officers, our architect Cary Perkins and our chief Bobby Arthurs to celebrate the achievement.
Thanks to Assistant County Administrator Andy Merriman and an amazing public-private partnership, this project will be fiscally responsible and no-frills; adequate to meet both public and animal needs; and, highly attractive to community involvement. Happy, healthy animals are more adoptable.
FOTAS now needs help raising $400,000 to furnish the new shelter. We will insure its future with SNAP, our targeted spay/neuter program, working with the SPCA. Please contribute anything you can.
Be proud, Aiken County. Progress, even moral progress, is evident.
FOTAS volunteers work with the Aiken County Animal Shelter, 411 Wire Road. For more information, email email@example.com or visit www.fotasaiken.org.
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A 54-year-old Hillsville woman has passed away after a two-vehicle collision Thursday on Airport Road.
According to the Virginia State Police, Martha Newman Wade passed away the following day after being transported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
According to State Police reports, the accident occurred at 5:20 p.m. on Airport Road, one-tenth of a mile south of Route 956 (Training Center Road). Wade was driving a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee when she crossed the centerline and struck a 1989 Ford Taurus driven by Harold Lee May, 61, of Woodlawn, causing Wade's vehicle to overturn. Investigating Trooper J.R. Alderman wrote in his report that Wade was not wearing a seat belt.
Wade was transported to Twin County Regional Hospital in Galax before being transported to Winston-Salem. May was not transported. Alderman listed damages as $6,000 to Wade's vehicle and $2,000 to May's vehicle. The Virginia State Police said no charges would be filed.


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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Oct. 25-27, 2013. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the "Crime" tab.
Ashley Ferguson — open container, driving under the influence
Jose Cordova Lezaro — criminal domestic violence two counts, assault and battery third degree, criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, malicious injury to real property $1,000 or less
Donald Whittaker — driving under the influence
James Pope — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication, disorderly conduct commitment
Gil Duff — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Steve Conder III — criminal domestic violence second offense two counts
Elvis Davenport — failure to pay child support, use of vehicle without permission for temporary purpose only unconnected to other crime
Justin Tyler — drugs prohibited acts (A) simple possession of marijuana, receiving stolen goods $1,000 or less
Isaiah Russell — receiving stolen goods $1,000 or less
Jaquan Adams — failure to comply
Jonathon Ussery — failure to pay child support
Dominic Miller — failure to comply
Nichole Johnson — South Carolina Department of Corrections hold for maxout date, beginner's permit violation
Frank Heath Sr. — failure to pay child support
Donald Smith — criminal domestic violence first offense
Kenneth Treadaway — unlawful carrying of a pistol, assault and battery third degree
Linda Cochran — criminal domestic violence commitment
John Dieckmann — contempt
Charlena Parks — driving under suspension
Sean Kilpatrick — shoplifting $1,000 or less
Tarrence Moore — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Willie Morris Jr. — shoplifting $1,000 or less second offense, use of a vehicle without permission
Byron Clayton — driving under the influence
Darrell McKelvin — false information to police/fire, driving under suspension, malicious injury to animals or property $1,000 or less, family court failure to appear two counts, assault and battery third degree, trespassing after notice bench warrant, possession of less than 1 gram of methamphetamine or cocaine base first offense, failure to comply bench warrant, driving under suspension bench warrant
Candace Foster — simple possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia
Tonya Anderson — crimes against federal finance institution
Eliza Acosta — driving under the influence
James VanBuren — driving under the influence
Stephane Boudreau — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication, malicious injury to animals or property $1,000 or less
Michael Pace — criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature
Christian Biering — simple possession of marijuana
Ashley Howell — driving under the influence second offense
Carl Abney — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication, open container of beer or wine
Donald Wood — simple larceny $1,000 or less
Brenda Carter — shoplifting $1,000 or less
Shaunda Jones — shoplifting less than $2,000 first offense
Thumper Battle — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Michael Mitchell — resisting arrest, shoplifting value $2,000 or less
Ivan Alberto Tenorio Cabrera — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication, assault and battery third degree, no driver's license, hold per Immigration Customs Enforcement
Margert Washington — drug paraphernalia, hold for North Charleston Police Department, possession of stolen auto more than $1,000 but less than $5,000
John Allen — driving under the influence
Troy Pearson — violation of an order of protection
Brandon Flippo — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Brittany Pate — disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Kirk Johnson — no driver's license
Tanika Gomillion — shoplifting $1,000 or less
Justin Finch — malicious injury to animals or property $1,000 to $5,000, disorderly conduct
Tony Woods — shoplifting $1,000 or less, driving under the influence less than .10 second offense
Jamie Curtis — shoplifting $1,000 or less
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Pretty cool. Would be a little more useful if it had the capability of adding some sort of breakout cable to do a 12-lead ECG.
Monitor your heart with the iPhone 4 ECG case [video]
The iPhonECG by Lifetone Technology is a case that turns your iPhone 4 into a fully functional ECG (Electrocardiography) device that can be used to monitor your heart. It works via interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by skin electrodes.
The case is a simple enough snap on type plastic case with two electrodes on the rear. The patient can hold the case in their hands, touching the electrodes, or hold it against their chest to capture the performance of the heart.
The information is displayed on the screen of the iPhone 4 with a dedicated app, again developed by Lifetone. It also has another app that works with the case. The second app is a personal heart rate monitor, to aid with relaxation; it is aimed more at the consumer than the professional market.
Both apps and the case will be announced at CES (Consumer Electronics Show), which begins in Las Vegas next week.
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I think, if this device is kept horizontally on left side of chest, it will provide a clue to the diagnosis of anterior wall ST elevation MI(heart attack) or ischemia and when placed obliquely , left end lower than the right sensor, on the left side of the chest, it might reveal inferior wall heart attack or Ischemia. This information in useful for the treating cardiologist or Emergency room staff to activate the treatment plan. There is need to use this device trial in such patients with proved diagnosis to confirm this hypothesis. Dr. Rajeev Lochan, Dubai


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The rules packet does not provide any specific rules about flanking. However the rule does say that the DM has lots of leeway in deciding when to give advantage or disadvantage in combat. Should it be understood that flanking always gives advantage, or is the DM supposed to only give advantage when there is "clever flanking"? What is the best way to handle "flanking" in D&D 5e?
Being a playtester DM I've spent some time to make a list of all the things that grant advantage and disadvantage within the current ruleset.
The following things grant advantage to an attack roll:
Unless you apply DM fiat, flanking does not give advantage.
† Flanking doesn't count as "helping" in D&D Next. Helping is a specific action. It used to exist in previous editions (3.x) and it gave +2 to the attack roll, provided the aiding character was adjacent to both the aided one and its target. The distinction here is that helping is an action and therefore it uses up your turn. Flanking in 3.x is a passive thing that requires no action itself, just good positioning, so both flanking characters get to attack (if they have any action left, that is) and both get the flanking bonus.
In the current 5E playtest, there is no flanking. In fact, there are few rules for combat at all, and definitely no rules for grid-based combat and positioning. As stated elsewhere, the playtest doesn't represent the final ruleset, so positioning rules may be added later on, but for now, granting advantage is merely a judgement call.
Personally, I would say that it depends a lot on the situation. A normal humanoid creature being ganged up on by two assailants might be at a disadvantage, whereas as large creature, or exceptionally skilled opponent, might not have that same problem. Grant advantage on a case by case basis, and come up with a set of criteria that suit you and your gaming group.
There's an optional rule for Flanking in the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide.
The gist of it is that indeed, flanking does give advantage to each of the flankers.
For details, see the p.251 in the book.
I don't believe the intent is that flanking always grants advantage, but of course all the rules aren't out yet. It seems like it's hearkening back to 1e-2e where backstab required actual stealth or other sneakniess and the rogue wasn't a DPS machine. There's nothing to indicate you can get advantage simply by flanking (it would be way too powerful for random positioning to get you 2d20 take highest IMO). It says nothing anywhere about flanking conveying Advantage so assuming it does is quite unsupported by the rules.


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Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center; Queens, New York
The 2012 edition of the NJCAA Women's Tennis Tournament officially began indoors, after nearly a four-hour weather delay, with 11 full teams along with two partial teams, at the sparkling Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center in Queens. With two rounds of doubles play and the entire first round of all the singles' draw in the book, Broome Community College (Binghamton, NY) leads with 15 points. Ocean CC (Toms River, NJ) sits in second place with 12 points, while Suffolk CCC (Selden, NY) and Gloucester CC (Sewell, NJ) are tied for third with 10 points each.
Kingsborough's (Brooklyn, NY) Kate Mospanova, the Region XV champion, earned the top seed in the first flight division and following an opening round bye will face Hudson Valley's (Troy, NY) Emily Qua in Thursday's quarterfinal. Qua was a split set winner over Mercer's (Trenton, NJ) Ewa Szyskzo (2-6, 6-4, 6-4).
All doubles flights have reached the semi-final round, with eight different schools still alive.
Action continues at 9:00am EDT on Thursday with second round singles play. For detailed score sheets please see the link attached.
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This is an important feature for those of us that are oncall at night for our jobs. It's very important that we get phone calls but I don't want to hear the ding of spam, texts, and my friends' Facebook updates.
OS X Mountain Lion gets Notification Center do-not-disturb -- Can we have that for iOS 6?
Apple updated their OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview 8 distribution yesterday and with it came a new feature for Notification center -- do not disturb. It looks like a great feature and something that would be very much welcome not only in OS X, but in iOS 6 as well. 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman describes it thusly:
The feature is a toggle accessible at the top of Notification Center that allows users to block incoming alerts and banners. The feature is very important for those who look to focus entirely on the content they are currently working on and do not want to be bothered by new emails, iMessages, calendar alerts, or other types of alerts.
I'd love this for shooting app and accessory videos alone, as nothing ruins a good shot like a spam email or silly tweet showing up right in the middle of a hero shot. For general use, the ability to kill notifications when going into important meetings, when you really need a good night's sleep, or even if you just want to game or watch video without interuption would be fantastic.
Of course, the real solution would be to have location and time based profiles, where "home" could be set up differently from "work", for example, or "day" could have different settings than "night". Third party apps like Tweetbot have allowed time-based notification suppression on their own for a while, but globally that's something only the platform owner, Apple, can address.
Source: 9to5Mac
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I completely agree. I would totally pay extra for this. That is the one thing I really miss about my Palm Pre (aside from VZW's legal and free tethering for the Pres). There was this app that provided such system inputs and could be used by triggers based on time, calendar entries, wifi network, GPS location, which programs are open, etc. Loved it!
iOS 6 DEFINITELY needs this. I give work presentations using my iPad on a projector screen. During a Keynote presentation, I was embarrassed when "Words With Friends" notifications were popping up during my presentation. I'm really not sure why notifications would show up during a presentation (Keynote should block this). However, now I go into airplane mode whenever giving a presentation. Pretty annoying.
For iOS, turning on Do Not Disturb could drop down three fields:
Type All>
Time Always>
Location Everywhere>
Then, to refine, tapping each brings of a panel in the style of the reminders app. That way you can assign a range of hours or just exclude push notifications, for example. Hope to see this one.
Coming from Blackberry this was a big disappointment. Blackberries have a preloaded "phone only" profile in addition to silent, vibrate and all notifications on. Also, you can create custom profiles; I had one for running where only calls and text messages would get through.
If this is added to iOS 6 a lot of users will quickly get in the habit of switching to a phone only mode right before they go to bed. Getting a Words With Friends Notification at 1 am is irritating.
I have an iPhone 4S and it already feels like DND is implemented. I never remember to check my notification area. I'm more reminded about pending items through the badges above the app.
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|THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 | 3pm
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Dr. Eugene M. Avrutin, UIUC
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On April 22, 1823, in a small Russian border town by the name of Velizh, a three-year-old boy finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home, and several days later, a neighbor found his body at the very edge of town, punctured in numerous places. Now erased from historical memory, the Velizh Affair (1823-1835) was the longest ritual murder case in the modern world, and most likely in all of world history. The case unfolded in a town like any other town in the Russian Empire where people's lives were intimately connected, where rivalries and confrontations were part of day-to-day existence, and where the blood libel was part of a well-established belief system.
Eugene M. Avrutin is Associate Professor of modern European Jewish history and the Tobor family scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010). Together with Harriet Murav (Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Illinois) and Petersburg Judaica (a Jewish Studies institute affiliated with the European University in St. Petersburg), he edited Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expeditions (2009), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the visual arts category. Most recently, he edited with Robert H. Greene (Professor of Russian history at the University of Montana) a critical edition of the memoirs of the educator and feminist Anna Vygodskaia (2012). Supported by a Charles Ryskamp fellowship from the ACLS, Avrutin is currently working on a microhistory of a sensational ritual murder trial that took place in Velizh in the second quarter of the nineteenth century (1823-1835).
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I taught school in a remote village in Africa. There were tonnes of banned books in that dictatorship country. I smuggled in the Color Purple and Uncle Toms Cabin from off of that list. I discussed with my fellow teachers American racism history, and the 'N' word, because they were completely facinated by American blacks like Mohammed Ali, and Micheal Jordan, Michael Jackson ect.
A word that was not in their vocab, became something much more relevant...and now they could understand the Rap music that was also being smuggled in, as that word has so much air time. There will never be offence of that word there, because that is not a word with historical meaning.
Where there is history...the words have meaning.
But what do I know, I'm a silly American Mazungu.
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You may notice your IQ slipping a few notches,.. suddenly you are spelling things like you are from Falls River Massachussets... then things won't be such a bother and what did you mean by that? could you repeat that slowwly?
Then your foarehead will seem to grow out a bit at a 45 angle and your ears will get smaller, spit and urine will come out copiously, like you need a drain plug.... and you will enjoy picking your nose like it is a competative sport..... you will of course forsake Chess and Brazilian Jiu for bowling and more bowling with nice bowling shoes and more bowling.
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Dreaming in Color by Leni Schwendinger consists of programmed lighting projected onto and through nine large-scale metal mesh scrims that frame the promenade between Phelps Center and McCaw Hall. Using a computer-controlled system, the five programmed light sequences cycle through slowly changing color to reflect various moods.
With Dreaming in Color, Schwendinger builds upon Color Field painting and color theory explorations, which emerged among painters in the 1950s, and expands on the concept with the aid of new materials and technology. Each translucent color field is created through the angled mesh of each scrim which affects the way the light is reflected and projected to the viewer. From afar, each scrim is a bright wash of color, but as the viewer walks toward and eventually beneath each scrim, the color slowly vanishes from sight. The intensity of color is also affected by how many scrims are seen by the viewer from his or her position - a greater number of scrims increase the intensity of color. The result of all of the different elements in Dreaming in Color, is an interactive piece that constantly changes with the passage of time and visitors' numerous vantage points.


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MELBOURNE, Australia Flat on her back, her sore right ankle raised and her hands covering her face, Serena Williams tried to block out thoughts that her bid for a third straight Grand Slam title might be ruined.
After a dominating run the last six months, Williams was a big favorite to win the Australian Open. Suddenly, though, there seemed a way for her to be gone in the first round.
I almost panicked, and I thought, I cant do that, she said. I just have to really remain calm and think things through.
The stats showed this was nothing more than a stroll a 6-0, 6-0 wipeout in 54 minutes of No. 110-ranked Edina Gallovits-Hall at Melbourne Park on Tuesday. Williams conceded only six points in the second set.
She expects to at least start her second-round match Thursday against Spains Garbine Muguruza, who beat Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 4-6, 6-1, 14-12 the final set lasted more than two hours.
Oh, Ill be out there, Williams said. I mean, unless something fatal happens to me, theres no way Im not going to be competing. Im alive. My hearts beating. Ill be fine.
If results go according to rankings, Williams will meet Azarenka in the semifinals. The top-ranked female had a 6-1, 6-4 win over Monica Niculescu.
She progressed along with former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, who beat Sabine Lisicki 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, and American teenager Sloane Stephens, who beat Simona Halep of Romania 6-1, 6-1.
In a battle of two major winners, 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova defeated 2010 French Open titlist Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Murray, playing his first match at a major since winning the U.S. Open and breaking a 76-year drought for British men at Grand Slam tournaments, defeated Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
No. 2 Roger Federer beat Benoit Paire of France 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 in his first competitive match of the season. Other men progressing included 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, 2008 finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic will continue his push for a third consecutive Australian title when he meets American Ryan Harrison on Wednesday night. Venus Williams plays Alize Cornet of France for a spot in the third round, where she could meet French Open champion Maria Sharapova.
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Welcome to our Documentation Centre
In this section you will find useful training and study materials on current issues about indigenous communities. All included documents are published subject to their respective authors' rights. All documents and materials created by Almáciga are under a Creative Commons license.
Ya está disponible la publicación electrónica "Experiencias organizativas hacia la gobernanza indígena de las áreas protegidas", que recoge estudios de caso elaborados por tres expertos latinoamericanos: Raúl Díaz, de Argentina, Mirta Pereira, de Paraguay y Nancy Bravo de Colombia.
Adjuntamos la tercera nota informativa sobre la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo Sostenible Río + 20.
Adjuntamos una carta del FIIB a la Primera Ministra de Tailandia en protesta por el desalojo forzoso de indígenas karen del Parque Nacional de Kaeng Krachan de Tailandia.
En el marco de las discusiones sobre el informe que está ultimando el Mecanismo de Expertos sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (MEDPI) sobre el tema de "participación de los pueblos indígenas en la toma de decisiones", las organizaciones IWGIA, Centro para el Desarrollo de los Derechos de las Minorías, Kenia (CEMIRIDE), Minority Rights Group International (MRG) y Consejo para el Bienestar Endorois (Endorois Welfare Council) presentaron la declaración que les adjuntamos.
Almáciga, with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation ("Fundación Biodiversidad") has compiled and systematized reference, informative and working materials on the issue of indigenous peoples and protected areas. These materials have been included in a CDRom for its distribution in different multilateral forums and workshops. Documents can be accessed in Spanish onlyThe CD was designed as a tool for those indigenous communities and organizations in Latin America, and support organizations, wishing to go in depth into the issue of protected areas in connection with indigenous peoples' rights. The materials are aimed at improving full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the decision-taking process on the protected areas regime, particularly regarding the negotiations about such protected areas being developed in the national, regional (Latin America) and international (CBD and discussions within the IUCN) levels.
The CDRom has several folders, structured in three groups: reference materials, informative materials and working materials.
The first folder contains reference materials on the processes relating to protected areas and indigenous peoples' rights that are being developed in the multilateral and regional level, particularly in the region of Latin America. Special focus has been placed on two essential multilateral processes: negotiations held in the frame of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The second, "informative materials" folder, contains case studies prepared by indigenous organizations, support organizations and other relevant bodies, along with publications on the issue.
Lastly, the third folder contains working materials in Power Point format, that can be used by indigenous organizations in training workshops on protected areas and indigenous peoples' rights.
In this site you may find some of the documents and the complete list of materials included in the CD. Those people or organizations with an interest in any specific publication or material can request it from Almáciga through the contact form available in this web page. We will be happy to get in touch with you.
The traditional concept of conservation, which turns biodiversity and human activity into mutually excluding concepts, has had devastating effects for those communities who have historically lived in territories where protected areas have been established: forced movements, loss of traditional means of survival, accelerated poverty processes and loss of identity. Currently, there are more than 100,000 protected areas worldwide, most of them established on ancestral indigenous territories, rich in biodiversity. Related documentation can be accessed through the links listed at the bottom of this article.


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A worm-like object approximately 11 mm in length was recovered from a PEG site (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) of a 68-year-old patient and submitted to the state health department for identification.
Welcome to DPDx, a Web site developed and maintained by CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM). DPDx uses the Internet to strengthen diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both in the United States and abroad. This interactive and rapid exchange of information, allied with already available diagnostic reference resources, will enhance our capacity to address the global problem of parasitic diseases.
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- A Reference and Training function, in which all users can browse through concise reviews of parasites and parasitic diseases, including an image library and a review of recommended procedures for collecting, shipping, processing, and examining biologic specimens. Most of the material is free of copyright and users are welcome to store and copy material in the public domain (please, kindly cite the source). Copyrighted material includes the life cycle images of Blastocystis and Pneumocystis, and electron micrograph images of Gnathostoma; if users are interested in publishing these items, they must obtain permission from the original copyright holder.
- A Diagnostic Assistance function, in which laboratory and other health professionals can ask questions and/or send digital images of specimens for expedited review and consultation with DPDx staff. This assistance is free of charge.
Potential DPDx applications include:
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