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Expressing "deep regret" that the Commission on the Status of Women had failed to adopt the agreed conclusions that traditionally mark the conclusion of its annual sessions, the head of UN-Women today urged delegations to move past that setback and press ahead with efforts to ensure that rural women — the focus of the current session - would be fully empowered to reach their potential.
A UN body of independent experts today urged the Government of Morocco to further consolidate and advance the country's decade-long achievements on equality and women's human rights by establishing without delay the Authority for Parity in accordance with international standards.
Twenty years ago today Algeria's military-backed government stopped the country's electoral process, preventing the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) from coming to power and dismantling the Algerian republic – something it had openly promised to do. In context, this was the better of the two bad alternatives available at that moment – interrupting a flawed parliamentary election rather than allowing the reins of power to be taken by fascists who openly proclaimed their opposition to democracy.
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is gravely concerned by the tremendous losses of life and livelihoods and ongoing humanitarian crisis triggered by the worst floods in Pakistan's history.We stand in solidarity with all the women, men and children of Pakistan during this difficult time. In particular, we send a message of solidarity to the women of Pakistan, who for many years have contributed to upholding the struggle for peace and democracy throughout the country, and who continue to struggle for survival in the face of this unprecedented crisis
غابت قضايا الشرق الاوسط عن صفحات الصحف البريطانية السبت، باستثناء مصير الايرانية سكينة محمدي اشتياني المحكومة عليها بالرجم حتى الموت. فتحت عنوان حملة لانقاذ ام محكوم عليها بالموت رجما تحدثت صحيفة الجارديان عن الام الايرانية اشتياني التي اطلق ابناؤها حملة دولية لانقاذها من الموت بعد ادانتها من قبل محكمة ايرانية باقامة علاقة غير شرعية خارج الزواج.
Girls Association Advocacy for Rights (GAAR), Report on Gender Development in Somalia. Somalia is a small country with population of ten million and has lacked a powerful functioning government since 1991 when the military regime of Siad Bare was overthrown. For two decades the country has suffered from lawlessness and misery. As the first victims of conflict, women and young girls have born endemic rape and brutality at the hands of armed militia groups.
This Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa handbook brings together the available expertise and data based on the growing body of knowledge worldwide to help us understand why gender based violence takes place and its profound and far reaching consequences on women, families and societies.
The seventh WTO Ministerial Conference turned out to be a missed opportunity in addressing the serious challenges facing women and men in the global economy. It turned out a missed opportunity to promote a new model of multilateral trading system that addresses livelihood, employment, decent working conditions, food security, climate change and gender inequalities.
A Small Dream is a documentary film produced and directed by WLUML networker, Gulnar Tabassum. It tells the story of a young girl (Humaira Bachal) from the Moach Goth squatter settlement, Karachi, Pakistan. The only girl in her community to go to school, Humaira decided to teach children from her community, at home, the lessons she herself learnt in class.
In addition to the work of multi-national institutions, the theory is that national gender machinery can play an important role in the struggle to protect and promote women's rights. Catherine Albertyn argues that national machinery for the advancement of women "… consists of structures, mechanisms, and strategies for achieving equality for women as participants, decision makers and beneficiaries in the political, social, economic and cultural spheres of life."


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Date Night: Brooklyn Label, Happy Hour and Bar Snacks in Greenpoint
Spots for every kind of date.
Like a dress that can take you from day to evening, Brooklyn Label seamlessly handles the transition from coffee bar to bar and restaurant. As darkness falls, the flicker of candles replaces the glow of Apple products. Regulars sit at the great big bar of this Greenpoint cafe and gradually switch from latte to pint.
As part of Happy Hour, weeknights from 5 to 7, Brooklyn Label offers a whole chicken or pork porterhouse (a "huge plate of pork" was our server's initial description), two sides, and a bottle of wine or a growler of Narragansett beer for $35. Certain cocktails are $7, selected drafts are $3, snacks are $5, fries or salad are $2. Based on our experience, not enough people are taking advantage of these deals. You should go.
It's tempting to pop the fried chickpeas ($3) with your fingers as a snack, but we quickly discovered the benefits of using the spoon. Doing so allowed us to eat more of these meaty marbles at a time. Daintily fried, they were covered in rosemary and cayenne, giving them a light kick.
Obviously there's only one way to eat Texas-style wings ($5 during Happy Hour, $10), and so we did, covering our hands with the glaze. The portion was huge, the wings not at all skimpy. Elements of brown sugar, ketchup, cider vinegar, and chipotle turned the sauce sugary and fruity. The ample wipes your server brings will help.
Though it was cooked fine, the hanger steak ($16) lacked seasoning. No salt on the meat, no pepper on the roasted potatoes, no delight in the caramelized onions. Even the liberally applied chimichurri lacked teeth. The dish rankled in part because our other food hadn't suffered this fate. Luckily we had a side of sweet potato fries ($5) to console ourselves with.
"Here's your nut love," our server said as he brought out our second entree. Or at least that's what we heard. And the vegan nut loaf ($11) did show love, nestled among its chopped cashews, walnuts, hazelnuts, oats, and mushrooms. Onion chutney acted as the sweetener and the glue. What could have been a sop to vegetarians is instead a crunchy, tangy mix that we couldn't get enough of.
Brooklyn Label has an appealing, low-key vibe. Our flannel-clad server provided several tables with recommendations for other bars in Greenpoint, as if he forgot that he worked in a pretty good one. Landon Pigg fell in love there, and maybe you could too, as long as you stay away from the steak. With an inviting, wood-filled space fit for lazy days and romantic nights, Brooklyn Label is best for: a flexible date.
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COLUMN: Torture: Is it OK?
Does torture work?
It is a Bush-era debate that has found Obama-era relevance because of a new movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," in which torture works well.
The film, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, is being sold as a fact-based accounting of the 10-year manhunt that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. In it, torture -- water-boarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions, hitting and humiliation the U.S. government once antiseptically dubbed "enhanced interrogation" -- is depicted as integral to CIA's finding him.
That depiction has alarmed many. Acting CIA Director Michael Morell issued a statement to agency employees in which he says the film gives the impression these brutal methods "were the key to finding bin Laden. That impression is false."
Actors Martin Sheen and Ed Asner asked members of the Motion Picture Academy not vote for the film.
But torture has its defenders. Bush-era Attorney General Michael Mukasey penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2011 defending the techniques because, he said, they produced results. In a recent column, George F. Will went so far as to quote Jack Nicholson's famous "You can't handle the truth!" speech from "A Few Good Men" about the moral choices the nation's defenders must make. Will, who dubbed torture "hard but morally defensible," failed to mention that Nicholson's character ends up arrested and disgraced.
Does torture work?
That's the wrong question. What matters is whether torture is right.
Consider: Drunk drivers kill almost 10,000 people a year. That's three Sept. 11s and then some. If you wanted to stop that carnage, it would be simple. Make drunk driving a capital crime with instant punishment. Blood alcohol levels allow for scientific certainty of guilt, so there'd be no need of a long trial. We could execute the miscreants within a day.
It would end the problem.
But we won't do it for one simple reason.
It would be wrong, inconsonant with the kind of people we are.
That is the same reason torture should unsettle the American conscience and debating its efficacy misses the point. We are a nation where human rights are enshrined in law, a nation that routinely lectures other nations on the need to close their gulags, free their dissidents and treat human beings as human beings.
We cannot be that nation and yet also this other nation that tortures and then defends torture because it works. If that were the only important metric, what other things might we do?
In America, even drunk drivers, even child rapists and murderers, have rights and, though those rights are sometimes inconvenient, even incompatible with justice, we honor them anyway because we realize the nation's moral authority derives precisely from the willingness of the state to curb its own power -- even when it has reason to do otherwise, even when doing otherwise might "work."
This is an obeisance power makes to human freedom. On the day it no longer does, it is not just terrorists who will be in trouble.
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Since we've all had some time to absorb the arrival of the new iPhone I don't mind it that much. I'm sure the maps will improve, and I think it's still a stylish handset. Apple says they want to keep it ergonomic for one hand use. I think they just want to sell some more iPads..
Anyway. I went to Akiba more often than normal lately. I was close to getting the original Galaxy Note. Secondhand, they are pretty reasonable and I'd be happy to have one. The Note II was going to be released soon, so I thought I should hold off at least till it came out.
Last Wednesday I found out there were some grey imports in Akiba so I made my way back. Most of them are around 70,000 yen. Quite pricey but still cheaper than an Sim Free iPhone 5.
One of the smaller shops had just got one in and he was nice enough to let me try it. My first impression was that it looked smaller than the first one, even though it was taller (About 3mm thinner). It had the same feel, but this felt more like a phone than a tablet. It was the only one I saw that day and it was raining heavily. The phone was white, but after seeing the original Note in black I thought I should wait a bit longer.
I found a white ROM online store that was bringing a shipment in, so I sent them an email and they were getting a Titanium Grey one to me. Yesterday I went to pick it up, and when he took it out of the box I was speechless. It's the feeling I'd hope for with the iPhone, even BEFORE he switched it on.
So I've been Jimmy-fying to my liking. Although I initially thought it was quite iPhone-like, it still takes some getting used to. I was VERY surprised to find it didn't come with any built-in Japanese. For that I installed Google Japanese Input which works fine for my needs.
Another BIG stumbling block is configuring the phone for S!Mail (MMS email). I set up an APN (Settings > More Settings > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names). I initially thought it was blocked but I found out if you hit the menu button (left of the home button), you can add a New APN easily. I added a new APN using the information from here.
The stock messaging app wasn't working nicely with it, so I thought I'd try the Softbank mail app in the Play store. SMS went through fine, but emails were not going through. I experimented with Handcent, which also didn't work.
I can find a lot of the same kind of applications as iPhone but I might miss the more music related apps which for guitar I think is a bit lacking at the moment.
For Mac file transfers you should download the Android File Transfer application. It works great. Much better than the iTunes-like Kies application. I downloaded to get a software update.
I was looking forward to an exciting multitasking split screen update which allows two apps on screen at once.
The Hong Kong phone's update only updated Arabic as an input language (Japanese, please!?). I was quite disappointed so I manually updated it to a UK stock ROM with Odin. (I tried using a Mac equivalent Heimdall, but it was much more difficult. Odin works in VM Fusion).
The split screen is really great. You can virtually fit two iPhone 4S screen in each app space. Amazing. If I was Apple I'd be scared and sue too. With things like this Apple really needs to step up their game.
Is the phone is too big? I don't think so. I managed to fit it in a microfibre sunglasses bag (Just, but it's possible). Domoco is likely to bring it officially in Japan as the SC-02E sometime, but in the meantime cases are impossible to find in Tokyo. I bought a cheap one from Hong Kong off eBay, so in the meantime I'll be babying it. I bought an iPad screen protector and cut it into shape with some boxcutters. I hate putting them on. It took a long time.
This new phone took up a large part of my day. Everything had to be checked carefully to make it all work. Unfortunately I couldn't get to the park today, but I think it was worth it.
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I was reading Logicomix (a fictionalised account of logic from Frege to Gödel through Russell's eyes) and there was mention about two different versions of types developed by Russell and Whitehead for Principia Mathematica, unramified (first) and ramified. I don't expect that there is too much relation to the modern type theory (or is there?), but I'm curious to know what the difference is between them. In particular, it is stated that unramified types were not sufficient. How so?
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Two Men, Two Kingdoms
As we look around the cultural landscape today, we see a wide variety of spiritual practices that do not please God. Satan uses these practices to blind people to the truth and hold them in darkness. We must confront these ...Read More
Joy in Samaria
It has been said that Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week. This should not be, for Christ is building His church from every nation, tribe, and tongue. Ask your church leaders what you can do to ...Read More
Paul at Corinth
In the holy war conquest of Canaan, enemy cities were burned as whole burnt offerings, almost certainly by God's altar fire. In Acts 2, tongues of fire fell on God's new altar-people, who then take holy war to the world ...Read More
Opposition at Thessalonica
The Jews opposed the early Christians for the same reason that Rome opposed the Reformers, and compromised liberals oppose uncompromising evangelicals today. The greatest enemies of the true church are always found within the church. Pray for strength in the ...Read More
Paul's Ministry at Philippi
Paul never asked the civil magistrate to sponsor the Gospel. Following Jesus' advice, the disciples avoided conflict with the "powers that be." When calling on the magistrate was pointedly useful to the Gospel, however, the apostles did so. Here Paul ...Read More
A Crisis in Antioch
Myron Augsburger's book Caring Enough to Confront proves that confronting, when done biblically, is a virtuous act. When confronting Peter, Paul had the greater good of the church in mind. Accept the responsibility to care and confront, and to take ...Read More
The Preparation of Paul
How likely is it that the acknowledged leaders of the church today could come to such unanimous theological agreement? It was no less difficult then, yet it was achieved. What would it require for such accord in our generation? Pray ...Read More
The Judgment of Heretics
Paul presupposes in verse 8 that the difference between the two gospels is something obvious that "ordinary" believers should be able to detect. The Protestant Reformers stood with Paul when they judged the traditions of Rome. We are to cling ...Read More
The Greeting of the Gospel
Paul did not hesitate to expose heresy which observed the Gospel. Do you follow that example? Do not allow your legitimate desire for unity to squelch your understanding of the need to protect the purity of the Gospel. Be supportive ...Read More
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Christian scholars continue to debate the topic of today's lesson. While such an exercise might be valuable, we must be careful to insure that the issue of the book's original audience does not obscure its meaning to us, its current ...Read More


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Notables such as Keith Jardine, Paul Buentello, Dean Lister, Jeff Curran and Eliot Marshall have been booked for November's "Nemesis Fighting: MMA Global Invasion" event.
Fans can attend the unique event as part of a four-day all-inclusive vacation package at the Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
The vacation takes place Nov. 11-14, and the event is set for Nov. 13.
Jardine (15-9-1), a cast member on "The Ultimate Fighter 2" who recently concluded a long UFC run, meets one-time Strikeforce fighter Francisco "Kiko" France (6-1) in the main event, and Buentello, a former Strikeforce heavyweight title challenger and UFC veteran, meets "TUF 2" cast member Kerry Schall (23-11) in the co-headliner.
Once at the resort, fans get an all-inclusive package, which includes the MMA event and all pre-show festivities, including a golf tournament, fighter meet-and-greet, weigh-ins, VIP party and concert.
However, fans can also purchase tickets just to the Nov. 13 event, which takes place at the Fillmore Ballroom in the resort's convention center. They range from $40 to $400.
The full fight card includes:
- Francisco France (6-1) vs. Keith Jardine (15-9-1)
- Paul Buentello (28-13) vs. Kerry Schall (23-11)
- Chris Davis (9-2) vs. Eliot Marshall (9-2)
- Jeff Curran (31-13-1) vs. Travis Marx (15-2)
- Marcus Hicks (9-3) vs. Terry Martin (20-8)
- John Dodson (9-5) vs. John Moraga (6-0)
- Dean Lister (11-7) vs. Kyle Seals (6-2)
For more on the event or to book a trip, go to www.nemesisfighting.com.
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With Live Wallpapers for iPhone you can finally bring your screen to life.
Enjoy a totally new way to customize your screen: from beautiful abstract animations to nature, fire, space and a lot more!
We add new live wallpapers every week, so there's always something new to enjoy!
Here's how:
- Make sure your device is not in Low Power mode
- Select a wallpaper and tap Save
- Set the animated image as a Lock Screen wallpaper
- Press the screen to animate it
Bring your screen to life in just a few taps!
NOTE: With Live Wallpapers you can enjoy great animations on your lock screen. Make sure to have one of the following compatible devices:
iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 5S/SE, iPhone 7/8/7S/8S/7 Plus/8 Plus, iPhone X/XR/XS/XS Plus and newer models.
If you have an iPhone that was produced before these devices were on sale, you can enjoy still images on your screen.
The app contains the following subscription options:
- Weekly for $3.99 with a 3-day free trial period
- Free trial subscription is automatically renewed unless cancelled 24 hours before the renewal
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
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WASHINGTON, DC, August 16 , 2004—The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the West Philadelphia Landscape Project as the recipient of its 2004 Community Service Award, which will be presented during the ASLA Annual Meeting, October 29-November 2, in Salt Lake City.
The West Philadelphia Landscape Project has employed the knowledge, skills, technology, and methods of landscape architecture to redesign and rebuild the landscape of an inner-city neighborhood. Since 1987, numerous landscape architects and others, led by Anne Whiston Spirn, ASLA, have provided pro bono landscape architecture services to an under-served community as part of a larger action research project that integrates practice, research, education, and service. Making service integral to teaching and linking it to a larger research agenda has made it possible to sustain the project for 17 years, during which long-term partnerships have formed. For example, partnerships with a local school, a neighborhood coalition, and a community garden have spawned new projects within and among those groups and with city agencies. The program has been cited as a model of academically based community service by diverse institutions in Philadelphia, the United States, and abroad.
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While this probably won't come as a surprise to those who have followed this project, the 2011 Slagacon exclusive Vector Zeta has now been officially cancelled. The Powermaster style upgrade for Classics Optimus Prime was plagued with production issues, and now a lack of communication from the manufacturer has lead to the set's cancellation. Refunds for the remaining pre-orders will be issued.
We are sad to report that the Vector Zeta toys are not going to be produced. We have not heard from the manufacturer in an extended period of time which leads us to believe that he is not going to follow through with his commitment to this project. With that being said, we are going to issue refunds to the remain people who have orders for these sets.
Chad Williams is currently selling off his entire collection of TF's in order to make these refunds happen. It is not going to be a fast process but everyone will be paid back in full. We hope to have this completed sooner than later but it could take as long as till Slagacon 2012 in October.
We are deeply sorry for all the issues that you as fans have weathered in order to see these projects completed. We also apologize for the length of time it will take for some of you to get you refunds. Chad feels personally responsible and want to insure you, he is doind everything he can to get these refunds to you as fast as possible.
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"Perhaps if you had remained still," says George, the distracted artist, to the woman he loves, currently on the way out the door for good, having settled for a lesser man. "Perhaps," she says, sadly, knowingly, "if you would look up from your pad."
There are 15 words in that exchange by two characters created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, 15 words that distill every fragile, failing relationship in the world better than any other 15 words that you can recall from a work of musical theater. Before one launches into order, design, tension, composition, balance, light, any aesthetic whatnot, really, it's worth observing that such deeply wise crystallizations are why "Sunday in the Park With George" is that rare work, for all its formative eccentricities, that can bring about the kind of intense reaction in an audience that Gary Griffin's formidable production brought about at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Wednesday night, very much as if this 29-year-old musical were opening for the first time.
No other musical points out more succinctly the perils of not living in the moment; no piece better conveys not just the struggles of creativity but the doubts and humiliations; no show has such a profound understanding of what it's like to live around someone with the toxic mix of workaholism and self-doubt. Yes, this is nominally a musical about a painting ("A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte") that improbably belongs to Chicago, but it's really about how we all so desperately want to make our mark on the world but rarely know how to live in it, and we certainly never know how to leave.
This time last year, Griffin knocked "Follies" halfway into Lake Michigan. Griffin's "Sunday in the Park" is not quite such a bravura moment — this is a very different kind of piece — but this is another world-class production, a deeply wrought piece of Chicago theater populated by the finest singers and further confirmation of Griffin's chops as a distinguished Sondheim interpreter. His production of "Pacific Overtures" at this theater, years ago, made his national career, but I was struck Wednesday by how much Griffin's Sondheim work has matured. He now does not need distinctive concepts to make his mark; he just innately knows how to give these works breath.
The respect Griffin now enjoys in the Sondheim arena means he can attract formidable talent to Chicago, especially for manageable engagements. This "Sunday" is beholden to a formidable performance from Carmen Cusack, whose superb work dominates. Some Dot/Maries manage the coquettish sexuality of Dot, who is bored a lot, but flounder when it comes to asserting the moral authority of Marie, the unstinting older woman in Act 2. Cusack has, remarkably, mastered both. It's a dazzling performance that gets better and better, but its zenith comes during the song "Children and Art" which I've never seen more movingly performed, and I include the otherwise excellent 2008 Broadway revival, which similarly used digitized environments, as does Griffin's show. In essence, Griffin, videographer Mike Tutaj and set designer Kevin Depinet all decided to create an Act 1 dominated by the Seurat painting — an overtly expressionistic take, if you will. I had some early issues that the lack of any feeling of the actual La Grand Jatte locale, but that dissipates, especially since the look of Act 2, with its wonky contemporary art, makes more visual sense to me here than ever before.
For all that, this still is a musical that lives and dies on little analog details. Fans of the piece will known that the first act is set in Seurat's France, while the second takes place 100 years later in a modern museum — in this production, aptly and explicitly, the Art Institute of Chicago — where Seurat's great-grandson, a performance artist and another George, shows up to do a show. His ex-wife, Elaine, is along. The two, we're told, are cordial. But as played by Heidi Kettenring, that seemingly gentle ex has a core of steel. When Jason Danieley's George unwisely goes in for a kiss, her reaction stops him, and us, cold. This moment lasts about two seconds: rarely will you have seen a more potent picture of the hell of trying to do anything of import with an ex-lover. That moment is Danieley's best in Act 2, where he flounders a little in the early scenes before pulling it together once the character arrives back in France. Unusually for actors playing this role, Danieley actually is more comfortable and vulnerable as the historic George, which is a more deeply realized characterization than the Act 2 model, which he has yet to fully figure out. While one watches him finish the hat, as it were, you can enjoy his beautiful singing, all of which strives for the deepest connections.
Danieley's tense little exchange with Kettenring typifies Griffin's most notable achievement here — the extension of the richly observed human details in the writing into the staging of a piece that he has managed to make feel as fresh and latent as the autumnal atmosphere. The great questions of the work float down beautifully: How do you know what's necessary? How do you work and love? How do you get yourself to a Sunday afternoon of no regrets and no panicked ambitions, where you can truly feel the breath of the air?
When: Through Nov. 4
Where: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.
Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Tickets: $48-$78; 312-595-5600 and chicagoshakes.com


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By DAVID GREEN
You're enjoying a chance to sleep in on a weekend morning, but there it goes, pulling you out of slumber.
You're walking downtown when the blast begins and the volume is almost painful.
It's Morenci's fire siren, and many people wonder why it even blows these days since fire department members all carry pagers.
There are two reasons the siren continues to sound, said Morenci's fire chief Chad Schisler.
It's true that pagers alert firefighters, but it's also true that pagers don't always operate as they should.
"We continue to use the siren as a backup to our pager system," Schisler said. "The paging system is continuing to be improved through the funds that all telephone users pay on their monthly phone bills."
When the siren is activated at the dispatch system in Adrian, a tone also triggers the pagers.
Schisler said there are no plans to discontinue use of the siren. Even if the paging system were to become more dependable, the siren serves in another way that he finds valuable.
"The other advantage is that it makes citizens aware that we are responding to an emergency and they start looking for emergency vehicles going to and from the station."
All right, so the siren is going to stay, but does it have to be so loud?
Schisler said before the existing siren was purchased, there was a discussion about buying two sirens—one for each end of town. Because that would have doubled the price, the decision was made to go with a single siren that can be heard at the edges of the community.
Schisler said where he lives on the west side of town, it's not loud at all and a lower volume could easily be missed.
So if the volume is going to stay loud, couldn't it at least blow for a shorter duration? This would minimize the disruption to people in downtown businesses making telephone calls and it would shorten the blow to pedestrians.
One 360° rotation takes one minute, Schisler said, so the cycle is set on two minutes for two rotations. Sometimes it's cut short if a firefighter is at the station and turns it off early.
OK, so if it's going to blow loud and it's going to blow long, couldn't it at least be used only for the fire department?
We no longer have volunteer rescue squad members rushing to the fire hall, so a warning to look for vehicles isn't needed. Besides, there's often quite a delay between the siren and the appearance of the ambulance, so it doesn't really serve as a warning to look out for the ambulance. It's equipped with lights and a siren anyway.
It's not that simple, Schisler said. The fire department and the ambulance service both use the same paging system, so it's not a matter of using it for one but not the other.
The ambulance service could use its own radio channel, but once again it's going to cost a lot more money.
Due to his work schedule, Schisler sleeps during the day and he, too, would be pleased not to be awakened for rescue calls. A large majority of Morenci's sirens are for the ambulance.
All right, you win—or, perhaps, the ambulance wins, but one more question. What about those occasional night time sirens? That's not supposed to happen except for the severe weather siren blast.
"The fire siren is operational from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., approximately," Schisler said. "The unit is on a timer and through power interruptions the timer will occasionally be off until the technician re-programs the unit."
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From Able but Unwilling, to Willing but Unable
No U.S. president has ever devoted as much of a U.N.G.A. speech to Venezuela as Donald Trump just did. But does he have the chops to lead the international response to Maduro?
If I'd told you a year ago that a U.S. president would stand up in front of those famous green marble tiles in New York to give a speech that would mention Iraq once, Afghanistan once, Syria four times and Venezuela eight times, you probably wouldn't have believed me.
But that's exactly what happened this morning as Donald Trump, against all odds, put fighting the Venezuelan dictatorship at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
We have also imposed tough, calibrated sanctions on the socialist Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has brought a once thriving nation to the brink of total collapse.
The socialist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro has inflicted terrible pain and suffering on the good people of that country. This corrupt regime destroyed a prosperous nation by imposing a failed ideology that has produced poverty and misery everywhere it has been tried. To make matters worse, Maduro has defied his own people, stealing power from their elected representatives to preserve his disastrous rule.
The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch.
As a responsible neighbor and friend, we and all others have a goal. That goal is to help them regain their freedom, recover their country, and restore their democracy. I would like to thank leaders in this room for condemning the regime and providing vital support to the Venezuelan people.
The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable. We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.
We are fortunate to have incredibly strong and healthy trade relationships with many of the Latin American countries gathered here today. Our economic bond forms a critical foundation for advancing peace and prosperity for all of our people and all of our neighbors.
I ask every country represented here today to be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis. We call for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela. (Applause.)
The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. (Applause.) From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. Those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems.
The speech was a marked departure from the Obama Administration's line. Under Obama, countering the Venezuelan government wasn't even an explicit policy goal of U.S. foreign policy. Obama's team took one look at the hemisphere and decided they had two basic goals there: normalization with Cuba and peace in Colombia. If those are your goals, it's clear you're not going to poke your finger into Chávez and later Maduro's eyes: those guys were well positioned to wreck both initiatives. And so, not so much by design but by process of elimination, the Obama policy towards Venezuela amounted to "just don't mess with it."
It's a peculiar and maddening situation to be in.
That was enraging. An administration with all the diplomatic chops, all the credibility, all the room for maneuver in the world, decided it just couldn't be bothered to try to forestall Venezuela's authoritarian slide.
Now, that formula's been reversed: the new administration is eager to to take the fight to Maduro, but can it? Operating an interagency process that just doesn't work, struggling to ensure the State Department and the White House speak with a single voice, badly under-staffed, short of experienced hands and dealing with a region where being seen as too close to Donald Trump can be politically suicidal, the U.S. now has all of the willingness Obama didn't bring to the Venezuela file, but very little of the ability.
It's a peculiar and maddening situation to be in.
Even as the president lectures the world on the need to put pressure on Venezuela, international talks likely to stabilize the Maduro regime go on unimpeded in the Dominican Republic. A more skillfully run administration would've found it relatively easy to quash a negotiation that doesn't really gel with the rest of its approach. But weirdly the State Department seems to favor the Dominican track, because Foggy Bottom is running its own private Venezuela policy, much softer than the White House's, through an Obama-era holdover that's seems to have the rookie Secretary of State's total confidence.
Obama might have been able to lead the international fight against chavismo, but he sure wasn't willing. Trump —to his credit— isn't just willing, he seems downright eager…but how can a guy who can't even get his own National Security Council and his State Department to sing from the same policy hymn sheet hope to lead the hemisphere on something like this?
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1. Take sheet of paper, fold in half lengthwise
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3. Open the paper flat again, take a corner and fold it inward at 45 degree to create a little triangle in one of the out edges. Repeat for adjacent corner.
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Amon Amarth / Goatwhore / Skeletonwitch
Friday, May 1, 2009
Club Firestone
Orlando, FL
***Live Review & All Photos By Kyle Moore, The Metal Magnus
Due to an academic commitment, I was about 30 minutes late to the show, and thus missed the set of hitherto unknown opening act, The Absence. My main objective was to witness Swedish vikings Amon Amarth pillage the dickens out of the sad excuse for a city known as Orlando, Florida. Sadly, the venue was barely adequate for a lineup of such might. Club Firestone is Orlando's smaller concert venue that feels better designed to accommodate a DJ and packs of tripping ravers, rather than a proper metal gig. The actual stage is utterly tiny! Loading anything more than a basic lightshow is probably not feasible, and band members already crowded by amps and drum risers have very little room to move. On the upside, the venue sounds pretty good for a club its size, and good audio quality should be any concert-goers utmost concern.
I came to this show completely ignorant of both Skeletonwitch and Goatwhore, so I was very curious to see if these two bands could impress a curmudgeonly old goat like myself. Skeletonwitch is a five-piece thrash/black metal band from Ohio with a couple albums under their belt, and their set focused mostly on their newest release, BEYOND THE PERMAFROST. Whenever I judge a band on their live set, I always look to a strong performance from their frontman to set the tone and energy level of the show – fortunately, vocalist Chance Garnette was more than up to the task. The man was a ceaseless windmill of manic energy, racing about the tragically tiny stage to incite his audience. I think I should also credit him for inventing a new style of headbanging – I'll call it the "axechop" – in which Mr. Garnette drove his head and torso in a linear fashion down towards his monitors, instead of the usual restrained arc. While I can't imagine that many audience members were familiar with Skeletonwitch, that didn't stop a pretty strong pit from forming thanks to the solid stream of grinding blackish riffs coming from guitarists Nate Garnette and Scott Hendrick. Overall, I'd give their show a strong thumbs up and would happily see them again.
I've heard the name "Goatwhore" bandied about a few times in the underground metal community, and a name like that really sticks out in the crowd. Despite this, I had not heard a single song of theirs until this concert. Overall, they played a really tight, zippy set of solid, dynamic blackened death metal with some mild technical elements. Vocalist Louis Benjamin Falgoust II (love the name!) did a pretty good job keeping the crowd happy and moshing, encouraging us to play a game of "Satanic musical chairs" during their final number. Like Skeletonwitch, they played a 40 minute set before yielding the stage to the band I've been drooling to see for some time: the inimitable Amon Amarth.
Until recently, Amon Amarth was one of those bands that had simply passed me by. A very casual listen of FATE OF NORNS some years ago failed to grab my attention, and so I hastily wrote them off. But once their new album, TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD, landed in my CD player a few months ago, I was instantly hooked. Somehow, these Swedish titans managed to make brutal, uncompromising death metal that was simultaneously catchy and accessible.
Once they got on stage, it was pretty clear why these guys singlehandedly own the genre of Viking metal – they're HUGE. Frontman Johann Hegg is at least two heads taller than any of the Americans who took the stage before him, probably 50 pounds thicker, and has a huge Viking beard to top it off. Not to mention the massive drinking horn attached to his leg. So the band that sings of long-dead gods and ancient battles actually look like the Vikings they honor.
After an interminably long sound check, Amon Amarth finally rolled onto the stage with aplomb and extreme fury. Thankfully, they had a decent light show set up, so I was actually able to see the band in colors besides soggy blue and darkroom red. They launched off with the anthemic title track from TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD and I was amazed at how many people were screaming along with the song's obscenely catchy chorus – Amon Amarth has the closest thing to a Viking metal Top 40 hit with that song.
Playing four tracks from TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD, it's clear that Amon Amarth wanted to push their excellent new material as much as possible. But they did not disappoint older fans, either. Performing material as far back as 1998's ONCE SENT FROM THE GOLDEN HALL, they also drew heavily from their two most recent albums WITH ODEN ON OUR SIDE and FATE OF NORNS.
From a performance perspective, Amon Amarth's front four poured out staggering amounts of energy without any letting up (though drummer Fredrik Andersson was unlit and virtually invisible.) I've heard of their synchronized windmilling before, but it was pretty impressive to see them pull it off live. Guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg played with a vicious intensity I rarely see in a live show, though Mr. Söderberg 's technique definitely showed its limitations while trying to imitate Roope Latvala's shredding solo on "Twilight of the Thunder God." Johann Hegg alternated his chilling roar with a huge grin and some relaxed banter with the crowd in between songs. He got a little cross with the monitoring engineer when his mic started repeatedly feeding back during "Victorious March," turning his cheerful gaze into a murderous stare directed offstage, but after an instrumental break and a change of mic he returned to his previously cheerful demeanor. And, yes, they toasted the rabid crowd with a quick "skaal" from the infamous drinking horns.
Overall, Amon Amarth gave a top-notch, primally-satisfying performance that left me wanting more. It's a shame they were confined to such a pitifully small stage with minimal props – I can only imagine how spectacular their live show could be with more stage room and a budget for some pyrotechnics.
Twilight of The Thunder God
Free Will Sacrifice
Varyags of Miklagaard
For The Stab Wounds In Our Backs
Runes To My Memory
Guardians of Asgaard
Fate of Norns
Bleed For Ancient Gods
Under The Northern Star
Death In Fire
Victorious March
Cry of The Blackbirds
The Pursuit of Vikings
***Thanks to Vince at Metal Blade Records for the press pass.
AMON AMARTH—Official Site
GOATWHORE—Official Site
SKELETONWITCH—Official Site


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Cathy, 29, and her husband have been married 10 years and truly want to be parents. When the Kansas couple wasn't able to conceive naturally, they sought medical help.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
Six years ago, we started trying to have a baby. Nothing happened. My OB-GYN reassured me and said for us to try on our own for a year. We took my temperature daily or used an ovulation predictor while waiting. My OB-GYN did some preliminary checks on my husband and myself. Everything was fine. He recommended we see a specialist. When we did, we got a little freaked out by what was involved and decided to hold off on treatment.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
About three years ago, we started going through testing again with our current reproductive endocrinologist. I had an hysterosalpingography (HSG) and a laparoscopy. He could not find any reason why we could not conceive.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
I've never been so scared, asking myself if my body would ever work like it's supposed to. I wanted a child. I'm very religious, so dealing with why God hadn't blessed us was difficult. I questioned and dealt with "Why is this happening to me?" and "What have we done not to be blessed?" But knowing there was an end—whether it would be a pregnancy through treatment or a miracle or adoption—helped. Also, I saw people who adopted and loved their child as much as my mother loved me. That helped me realize adoption would be OK. One way or the other, I knew we would be parents. I finally came to a place where I could rest in that fact.
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For three months after the laparoscopy, I had intrauterine inseminations (IUIs), sometimes called artificial inseminations. They were not successful. I knew the next step was in vitro fertilization (IVF). I took fertility drugs and underwent an egg retrieval procedure. My husband's sperm count was high, so we did traditional IVF, putting my 12 eggs and his sperm together to fertilize. The next day, the doctor called, saying none of my eggs had fertilized. It was a huge blow.
They tried a rescue intracytoplasmic sperm insertion (ICSI). In this procedure, single sperms are inserted into individual eggs. Seven fertilized. We had an embryo to transfer, but the pregnancy test was negative. That was hard. Not only couldn't we get pregnant naturally, it was like our bodies were fighting each other. But at least we had an answer about why conception wasn't happening naturally. We tried again, this time doing the ICSI immediately. There was good fertilization and transfer. Then I found out I was pregnant with twins. We're very excited and feel blessed.
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Dealing with our families is harder. At every family reunion, we were asked when we were going to have children. We didn't want to get into an infertility discussion. That was our personal business. We made the choice not to go to family reunions, because we couldn't deal with it.
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Mayor Chris Beutler today announced the ridership on StarTran's fixed route buses was up 20 percent in the first four months of this fiscal year compared to the same period two years ago. Ridership totals for September through December of each year were:
"Economic conditions and the price of gas could be factors in this increase of nearly 128,000 riders," said Mayor Beutler. "But we also have to credit StarTran for its system improvements, special promotions and focus on customer service."
StarTran Transit Manager Larry Worth said recent improvements include the addition of bike racks to all buses; new downtown bus shelters with digital signs for arrival times; and "get on board" web access to track buses live online. He said school booster service is meeting the needs of many students. The Big Red Express service for UNL home football games and the special event shuttles also continue to be popular.
Worth said full-price fares have remained fairly consistent since 2008, and the pass program for low-income riders continues to increase, with a record high usage of 2,900. Special fare promotions have included the summer StarPass for youth, 20-ride tickets for $20 and a holiday sale of 31-day passes for $20.
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Dec 6, 2012 2:07 PM PT
In one day this week, Apple's stock dropped by almost 7 percent -- its biggest single-day loss in four years, and a highly unusual development for this rock-star device maker that not too long ago launched the new iPhone 5.
The decline moves Apple closer to the so-called death cross -- the point at which a security's long-term moving average is breaking above its short-term moving average or support level.
Or, to put in visual terms, the point at which a stock's long- and short-term trend lines start to head down.
This is not Apple's first death cross -- the company has experienced five since 2000. However, Apple stock has become a staple in many investors' portfolios in recent years, and the company has become a downright luminary of the tech industry.
If it does hit a death cross, how bad would the psychological impact be? More to point for the legions of Apple investors, what would it suggest about the company's long-term prospects?
Short-Term Issues
It's important to note that there are short-term issues that might have caused the drop, said Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners.
"First, there was speculation that Apple would declare a special dividend this year vis a vis the fiscal cliff," he told MacNewsWorld. "Second, Nokia secured a deal with China Mobile for its Lumia 920 as a high-end alternative to Android. China is a huge growth market for smartphones that seems to be at least one step removed for Apple at the moment."
Long-Term Advantages
That said, Apple has too much going for it for investors to be concerned about the company's long-term prospects, Scherer said. On a fundamental level, the world is morphing into a mobile-oriented communications environment -- and Apple is a towering presence in that world.
"This year, the iPhone will generate about 52 percent of Apple's revenue," Scherer noted. "While competition has slowed down the exponential growth of the years 2008 to 2011 somewhat, the company will continue to grow its world market share for years to come."
Vagaries of the Market
Investors should consider the tunnel vision the market seems to have developed about Apple, said David Cadden, a professor of management at Quinnipiac University.
"Objectively, all outward signs appear to be positive for Apple. However, some investors appear to be looking only at negative clues. They focus on the decline of Apple's market share of the tablet market, not its increase in tablet sales," he told MacNewsWorld. "They point to Apple's failure to secure an exclusive agreement with a Chinese telephone company or have a concern about the sales growth rate of the IPhone 5."
It's also possible that investors just might be taking profits before the end of the year.
"After all, Apple's stock is higher -- significantly -- than at the beginning of the year, although significantly below its high of the year," Cadden pointed out.
"Apple has hit the 'death T' several times since 2000," he added, "and one should expect it to recover and prosper."
Competition Looms
Still, there is a case to be made about Apple's growing vulnerability to its competition.
Apple is at an inflection point. Competition is heating up in both the tablet and smartphone markets.
The patent fight with Samsung isn't helping, noted N. Venkat Venkatraman, a business professor at Boston University.
"Apple will deliver on performance, but the growth prospects are unclear," he told MacNewsWorld. "To me, Apple and Microsoft are trading at the same P/E ratio -- around 13."
Amazon's ratio is 3000, he noted.
"Apple is not in trouble if you focus on predictable performance and steady dividends just as Microsoft delivered over the last decade," Venkatraman said. "What Apple needs to deliver to the market is a strong indication that the innovation engine that created breakthrough products is very much humming and healthy."


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Kyiv conference marks 15th anniversary of the NATO-Ukraine Charter on a Distinctive Partnership
A conference was held in Kyiv on 9 July to mark the 15th anniversary of the signing in 1997 of the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership, which provided the formal basis for NATO-Ukraine relations. Discussions focused first on the birth of NATO-Ukraine relations, moved on to the current state of the Distinctive Partnership, and concluded with an exchange of views on the future of NATO-Ukraine relations.
The conference was jointly organized by the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine (NIDC), the NATO Liaison Office, the NATO Contact Point Embassy in Ukraine, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Parliamentary Committee for European Integration and representatives of civil society in Ukraine.
Participants included current and former high-level Ukrainian government and NATO officials, representatives of Ukrainian government bodies and agencies, prominent public figures, parliamentarians, think-tankers, representatives of non-governmental organizations from across Ukraine, and the media. A number of key speakers addressed the conference via video link.
Former NATO Secretary General, Dr Javier Solana, who was at the helm of NATO when the NATO-Ukraine Charter was signed, shared his recollections from that time. "Things are very different from those days, fifteen years ago, economies are very different… But I think that, in any case, the relationship between NATO and your country should be maintained, and not only maintained but, if possible, deepened," he said.
Addressing the conference from NATO Headquarters, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Ambassador Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović noted: "Our relationship with Ukraine, has, since its inception been a rewarding and fruitful one. As we look to the future together, let us keep the founding pillar of our relations, the NATO-Ukraine Charter on a Distinctive Partnership and the values enshrined therein, as its guiding principle."
"Ukraine has every right to be proud of its partnership with NATO as, in many cases, our relationship has become a model for other NATO partners to follow in their relations with NATO," said Ambassador Ihor Dolhov, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO, also speaking via live link from Brussels.
Progress and challenges
The Distinctive Partnership has brought mutual benefits. Ukraine has been a much-valued contributor to NATO-led operations over the years and bilateral cooperation has also benefited Ukraine in several ways. "NATO's ongoing commitment to Ukraine's independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty has supported Ukraine in developing its own foreign and security policies as well as facilitated Ukraine's internal reform process, particularly in the defence and security sectors," said Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine Natalia Nemyliwska.
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, Ambassador Hüseyin Diriöz, emphasized some of the tangible results of cooperation. "In over fifteen years of our cooperation: more than 4,000 Ukrainian peacekeepers have participated in NATO-led operations; over 2,500 Ukrainian security sector officials have been trained; more than 5,000 former servicemen prepared for civilian life; and more than 15,000 tonnes of dangerous excess munitions disposed of," he said.
Support for reform continues to be one of the top priorities of cooperation. Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, underlined the importance of implementation of the Annual National Programme (ANP): "The ANP offers Ukraine a blueprint for reform and modernization. It helps Ukraine to reach the highest possible standards in all areas of government."
Much has been achieved over the past 15 years, including in the area of public information. However, civil society representatives emphasized that there is still much work ahead as Ukrainian society and public opinion is still permeated with myths and outdated perceptions of NATO.


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NEW YORK -- Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison, who is looking to revive the company's fortunes, was given a pay package worth $7.4 million for her first year on the job.
The world's biggest soup maker gave Morrison a salary $950,000, stock awards worth $5.1 million and non-equity incentive pay of $1.2 million in fiscal 2012, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
The balance of Morrison's pay package came from items such as contributions to retirement plans and premiums for disability benefits.
The pay package is less than the $10.2 million Campbell Soup Co. gave former CEO Douglas Conant in fiscal 2011.
Morrison, who was previously Campbell's chief operating officer and headed its North American soups, sauces and beverages operations, has vowed to stabilize Campbell's struggling soup business.
In the year ahead the Camden, N.J.-based company plans to launch dozens of new products to court younger consumers. These include soups in flavors such as Coconut Curry and Golden Lentil, in plastic pouches rather than the steel cans that have long defined the company.
Morrison faces an uphill battle, with consumption of canned soup down 13 percent over the past decade, according to Euromonitor International. Last month, the Camden, N.J.-based company said it would be closing two plants and cutting more than 700 jobs.
The problem is that fresh soup has become widely available at supermarkets and other eateries. Smaller competitors are another issue, with Campbell's share of the canned soup market down to about 53 percent, from 67 percent a decade earlier.
Campbell also makes V8 juices and Pepperidge Farm baked goods. But with the packaged food industry growing slowly in developed markets, Morrison is also positioning Campbell to move into the fast-growing market for "fresh packaged" foods with the purchase of premium juice maker Bolthouse Farms this summer.
Last month Campbell said it expected the majority of its sales growth in the year ahead to come from its recent acquisition. As for its new soups and sauces, Morrison said the company would have to wait until after the fiscal first quarter to see how they'd fare.
The Associated Press formula calculates an executive's total compensation during the last fiscal year by adding salary, bonuses, perks, above-market interest the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year.
The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits. That makes the AP total slightly different in most cases from the total reported by companies to the SEC.
The value that a company assigned to an executive's stock and option awards was the present value of what the company expected the awards to be worth to the executive over time. The number is just an estimate and what an executive ultimately receives will depend on the performance of the company's stock.
Most stock compensation programs require an executive to wait a specified amount of time to receive shares or exercise options.


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