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Rheumatology Research Foundation Launches Honorary Board of Advisors
January 19, 2016 • By From the College
From left: Norman B. Gaylis, MD, Mary K. Crow, MD, James O'Dell, MD, and David Daikh, MD, at the 2015 Donors of Merit recognition event.
Nearly 150 of the Rheumatology Research Foundation's most generous supporters gathered in November during the 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting for the Donors of Merit recognition event. In celebration of the Foundation's 30th Anniversary in 2015, the event reflected on the journey to advance treatments and improve patient care.
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The Foundation's president, David Karp, MD, PhD, started off the evening by applauding leaders who have played an essential role in the Foundation's work to improve the health of people with rheumatic diseases. Corporate Roundtable donors, Founders Circle members and Legacy Society members were among those acknowledged for their extraordinary dedication.
"Each gift received does make an impact," said Dr. Karp. "We appreciate and applaud the contribution that donors at every level have made. These donations ensure that we can continue to provide funding for innovative research and training for medical professionals."
The event culminated with the induction of the inaugural class of Honorary Board of Advisors, which is reserved for individuals who have made a transformative contribution or performed an act of leadership that made an indelible mark on the Foundation's future fundraising success. "The Honorary Board of Advisors was formed to honor those who have truly made a transformative impact in growing a culture of philanthropy at the Foundation," said Paula Reed, the Foundation's vice president of development.
The 2015 inductees included Mary K. Crow, MD, who encouraged an unprecedented $5 million gift from the American College of Rheumatology, and James O'Dell, MD, who initiated the successful Within Our Reach: Finding a Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis campaign to raise $30 million. The late Ephraim P. Engleman, MD, FACP, FACR, was inducted as the first individual to endow an award at the Foundation, establishing the Ephraim P. Engleman Endowed Resident Research Preceptorship. Norman B. Gaylis, MD, was also inducted for his role as the first practicing rheumatologist to make a $1 million commitment to the Foundation, which was used to establish the Norman B. Gaylis, MD, Research Award for Rheumatologists in Community Practice.
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The Oscars are hot this week! This is when luxury fashion brands are at their best. They dress the rising stars and the hollywood icons. The event's red carpet is their runway and one of the most important "fashion shows" of the year.
This is also the fashion weeks' season. So today The Most Expensive Homes decided to pay a special hommage to high fashion and show you the most amazing examples of fashion photography in luxurious interior settings. As a bonus, we suggest the perfect pieces of furniture art for you luxury interiors. Enjoy!
Kate Moss at the Ritz Paris photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue US, April 2012 (Styled by Grace Coddington).
Anne Hathaway by Mario Testino for Vogue US, November 2010.
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Mila Kunis by Robert Erdmann for Glamour UK, September 2011.
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Arthur C Clarke Award #1: 'Nod' by Adrian Barnes
April 14, 2013 /in Book Reviews, Science Fiction /by anne
I'm planning to read all the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist this month and I'm kicking off with Nod by Adrian Barnes. In case you haven't checked them out, here are the six contenders:
Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose)
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Headline)
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Before I begin – Congratulations to all the authors!
'Nod' by Adrian Barnes
Nod is a post-apocalyptic novel set in Vancouver in the present day and takes the form of an 18-day journal written by Paul. He's the academic type and he's writing a manuscript about old words lost from modern everyday language. So the book has a philosophical turn reflecting the main character's outlook.
Day 1: the city's residents make their way to work and discover that virtually everyone everywhere has had a sleepless night; totally sleepless. Instantly the world divides into two unbalanced tribes – the 'sleepers' and the 'awakened.'
Before the power supplies fail and the media channels go off-air, the world's citizens learn that five sleepless nights will result in psychosis. Total body breakdown and death will follow within 32 days.
Paul is one of lucky few who can sleep and he describes the onset of psychosis in his girlfriend Tanya. Early in the novel they 'adopt' a lost child, Zoe. Like many children she is a sleeper, and speechless.
Amid the catastrophe, Paul becomes sucked into a power play between rival groups of sleep-deprived citizens. His manuscript, Nod, falls into the hands of Michael who hails Paul as the prophet of a new world order. Michael persuades hundreds of sleepless citizens to become his followers. Things go from bad to worse, as might be expected.
Paul decides to hide out until Michael and his followers die. He barricades himself into a tower block and starts his journal.
It's a neat idea for a novel and brings to mind José Saramago's Blindness in which the world's citizens become blind except for a few people who bear witness to the madness that ensues.
My main niggle with Nod concerns the main character's voice. Paul may be an analytical observer by nature but he simply isn't as terrified as I'd expect, given the situation. I feel he comes across as emotionally detached and I'm not clear whether the author intended this. At worst, when Paul and Tanya have sex during Tanya's pitiful decline into psychosis, Paul makes cold observations of his girlfriend that seem gratuitously cruel. I don't know if the author wanted the reader to feel alienated by this section but it had that affect on me. Maybe Barnes wanted us to feel that humankind has sunk to the pits without any help from an apocalypse.
Don't get me wrong. There's some great writing in this novel if slightly uneven. And as I'll be trying to justify my preference among the shortlisted novels I'll add that the plot is meandering in parts. For example, why does Paul allow himself to be distracted from rescuing Zoe?
I know this book has been getting rave online reviews but I'm not convinced it's the best of the 2012.
Next up: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett. I'm a fan of his earlier novel The Holy Machine so I'm looking forward to getting started.
Tags: Adrian Barnes, Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C Clarke Award #5: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Kate Atkinson – Life After Life Arthur C Clarke Award #2: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

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'Godzilla: King Of The Monsters' Will Put The "God" Back In Godzilla [WonderCon 2019]
By Vanessa Armstrong/April 1, 2019 10:00 am EST
Warner Bros./New Line highlighted three of its upcoming films during their panel this Saturday at WonderCon in Anaheim, California. While the new trailer for Annabelle Comes Home debuted and footage from Shazam was screened, the real treat came from the section dedicated to the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Moderator Chuey Martinez kicked off the panel by revealing a new trailer for Annabelle Comes Home, the third installment in The Conjuring spin-off that revolves around the insanely creepy doll, Annabelle, who this time appears to be terrorizing a young Mckenna Grace.
After the Annabelle Comes Home trailer, Martinez welcomed co-writer/producer Zach Shields and co-writer/director Michael Dougherty on stage to share a sneak peak of their upcoming film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.After a brief chat with Martinez, Dougherty asked the audience if they wanted to see "something special," and introduced a five-minute scene from the movie. While the clip had some shots of the human actors in the film (Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Bradley Whitford and Kyle Chandler all made brief appearances in the footage), the larger-than-life creatures (as they should) got most of the screen time. The creature that was the star of this clip, however, was the three-headed dragon, Ghidorah, who slowly and magnificently rises out of the bowels of an ice-encrusted volcano, and turns each of its three, fire-breathing heads onto the meek humans who woke it. The clip also showed Godzilla tromping through the ice and snow to face Ghidorah, as well as a brief image of Mothra flying over a destroyed city.If this footage is any indication, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is all about, well, the monsters. During the Q&A after the viewing, Dougherty and Shields expanded on their vision for bringing these monsters to life. "We wanted to portray the creatures not just as giant animals but as something that you would bend the knee to if you saw them in real life," Dougherty explained. "That's how I always saw them growing up...as ancient deities."This effort to emphasize their god-like status is obvious in the clip they shared with the audience, which included the scene of Ghidorah on top of the volcano, a scene that Dougherty revealed was inspired by the Book of Revelations. "The whole goal of this film for us, is to put the 'God' back in Godzilla," Dougherty explained. "That shot [of Ghidorah on the volcano] perfectly encompasses that intent."The co-writers also said that the movie will "tip the hat" to King Kong (Godzilla vs. Kong, directed by Adam Wingard, is already in production), and that the creatures' bone-trembling roars, growls and screeches were meticulously created, and incorporated sounds from living wild animals such as rattlesnakes, vultures and owls.The Godzilla section of the panel ended on a philosophical note, with the Dougherty reflecting on whether you can call Godzilla good or evil. "You're trying to apply human morality to an ancient god," Dougherty said. "I just don't think that you can or should do that. Godzilla decides on a given day what he wants to do. He's a force of nature. But I think the bigger question is are we the good guys or bad guys? That will determine how he reacts to us."Based on what we know so far about Godzilla: King of the Monsters, it seems that Godzilla isn't too happy with the human race at the moment. Fans will have to wait to see the full movie, however, to see how things turn out.
The Warner Bros/New Line panel ended with Shazam, with director David F. Sandberg along with actors Zachary Levi (Shazam), Mark Strong (Dr. Thaddeus Sivana), Jack Dylan Glazer (Freddy Freeman), and Asher Angel (Billy Batson) on stage to take questions from the audience. After a lengthy Q&A where the most common answer was, "You have to see the movie to find out!", the panel closed out with an extended scene from the film, where Shazam and Freddy Freeman test out the extent of Shazam's new superhero powers (Spoiler alert: he's bullet proof, can shoot lightning from his fingers, and, after many efforts, he finds out he can fly).Shazam will fly into theaters worldwide on April 5, while Godzilla: King of Monsters will roar onto screens May 31. Annabelle Comes Home comes out June 28.


Data transparency is all the rage in digital advertising, but data companies themselves still exist in a world of black boxes and inscrutable spreadsheets.
Highland Math was founded last year to help address the issue, by creating a consortium of data providers that pool their own returns to create a market research data set. The company works with 37 data providers, up from 18 last summer, said co-founder and CEO Dan Scudder.
It's an issue Scudder knows well from the marketplace perspective. As LiveRamp's co-founder and former GM of data, he saw firsthand how data vendors were frustrated and hungry for insights and analytics on platform data performance. Those frustrated LiveRamp partners became the first set of Highland Math customers.
ShareThis builds audience segments from web traffic data and sells it to ad platforms or other data marketplaces like LiveRamp, Oracle and Acxiom. But when ShareThis gets data back from those platforms, it's devoid of important contextual information, said Andi Wilson, VP of platform partnerships.
ShareThis sees its raw sales total for the month from each platform, but wouldn't know if it's growing its share of sales in its category or what kind of data is performing best, she said.
"Solving for the black box of reporting within the data landscape" is becoming a priority. Highland Math, which ShareThis started working with five months ago, is part of that effort.
If data sales on one platform are decreasing, the data provider doesn't know if that's because the platform itself is shrinking or if the company is losing share, said Matt Frattaroli, VP of digital platform and agency partnerships for Alliant, an audience data provider.
For example, Alliant had low sales on one platform, and assumed it had a normal market share of a relatively low-selling platform. With Highland Math's data set, Alliant saw it actually had low share of sales and needed to ramp up on that platform.
The Highland Math data is also a useful tool for forecasting and planning.
Epsilon saw an expected jump in political data sales during the 2018 election. But after joining Highland Math's data service earlier in the year, Epsilon could see how and where it was being outsold by other political data providers, said product VP Gillian MacPherson. So Epsilon sharpened its political audience segments early in the primary period and increased political outreach.
"Data reporting is pretty archaic," said Paul Bell, GM of global data solutions for the programmatic technology company 33Across. It's an honor system where data and sales can't be audited, he said, though there's good reason for that since the platforms need to ensure privacy for their partners.
But the result is a 30-60 day lag between sales and reporting that makes it impossible to take advantage of fast-moving trends or respond in time if sales on one platform are slipping.
Data providers also need help creating a taxonomy for data marketplaces. There are no conventions or standards for naming. So, for instance, segments as similar as "auto intenders," "car intenders" and "in-market for vehicle" must be reconciled manually across platforms.
Smaller or newer data marketplaces also return more data than companies like Oracle or Nielsen, which own data assets too and consider their marketplace data proprietary information.
But for most data companies, the competitive tensions are dwarfed by the missed opportunities due to lack of marketplace data.


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Weighing less than two ounces, the Bindi is perfect for anyone who wants an ultralight solution for pre-dawn or post-sundown winter runs.
Portable solar gadgets are better than a decade ago. But are they worth it?
First things first: your pack will be heavier. You'll be packing more food, fuel, and layers. As for shelter, if you're not expecting high winds or heavy snowfall, you probably don't need to upgrade to a four-season tent; a sturdy (read: not ultralight or mostly mesh) three-season model should see you through.


My Beautiful, Crazy Life and several other blogs are linking up today to share Me, Myself, and I….When I first saw this I was excited since I love the get to know me questions. I thought this will be a breeze.I love to share about myself. However, when I opened the email with this week's questions it took me a little longer and I had to seek some friends to help me out with question #4. Anyways, let's get started!
Honestly, I have a few. If a spider or a snake was near me I would panic and have a high pitch girly scream ready.. just in case. Failure. I am still working on this one since it has held me back a few times. Just as standing in front of a room full of people and speaking. Oh my heart is beating faster just thinking about it. One of my biggest fears is drowning. Water truly scares me. So does heights too. So when I have to drive over this long bridge over water near our home…let's just say this girl has done a lot of praying.
2. If you could relive any day of your life, what would it be and why?
This was tough. There are lots of moments that instantly came to mind but if I was honest and shared my heart with you. I would choose the day my first daughter was born into this world still. She was born in the loving arms of Jesus. I would want to go back that day and be able to hold her again and be still in the moment. Just one more time.
I would choose my current age, 32 years old. I love the age of my children four and five years old. I could stay in this moment forever of fun pretend play, ballerina swirls, tiny giggles, lots of love, and to stop them from growing up.
I seriously don't think I could get mistaken for any celebrity so I asked some close friends and my hubby. One friend said Drew Barrymore..like totally….another friend said Sasha Alexander because of her hair, and the last friend and hubby said Jennifer Aniston. And then there's me cheesing up the camera….such a celebrity I know.
5. What songs are included in the soundtrack of your life?
P.S. I would love to hear yours too. I am hoping to have the linky tools in tomorrow to link up….Wish me luck..I make things more complicated than they are.


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Cubs shocked pitcher with history of arm trouble is having more arm trouble
As the Yu Darvish saga continues to unfold, the Cubs are expressing disbelief that the pitcher's history of arm issues could have somehow been an indication that he might have similar troubles after joining the team this winter on a six-year, $126 million free agent deal.
Currently fighting back from the disabled list for the second time this season, Darvish had Tommy John surgery in 2015, which caused him to miss the entire season. His injury issues date as far back as 2009, which he missed a month for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters with what was then classified as "shoulder fatigue."
"We've been getting a lot of questions about Darvish's injury problems with us this season and if his previous arm issues should have tipped us off that he might be a risk for us," said Cubs President Theo Epstein, while polishing his three World Series champion rings. "I'm smart enough to have been a doctor if I wanted, so I can confidently say that Darvish's spotty arm health is no indication he'd have the same issues with us."
Epstein added that former Cub Jake Arrieta's career 3.54 ERA is no indication he'd have a sub-three ERA so far this season.
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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), today announced the appointment of Mr. Keshav Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS Global Services as its Chairman for 2019-20.
Murugesh takes on the position from his previous role as Vice-Chairman of NASSCOM, succeeding Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member, Wipro Ltd., who served as Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2018-19.
NASSCOM also announced the appointment of U B Pravin Rao, COO, Infosys as the Vice-Chairman of NASSCOM for 2019-20.
"It gives me great pleasure to take up this role and I am honoured to have the vote of confidence of the NASSCOM Executive Council. We stand on the cusp of a digitally transformed industry, with new opportunities to leverage and challenges to conquer. I look forward to continuing my journey at NASSCOM by working closely with several industry verticals and pursuing endeavours to foster development in these ever-dynamic times in national and international territories," Murugesh said.
The appointment of the NASSCOM Chairman and Vice-Chairman is done through an election process by the Executive Council. The election witnesses nominees and voters from all verticals of the industry, across SMBs, enterprises and MNCs from the overall members base.
NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industries in India. It has more than 2100 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India.


There's no such thing as a regular day for me and I love that! I work with a team of business analysts, developers and help desk technicians to keep things running smoothly at Randstad. Our network is the lifeline for every part of our recruiting agency business so we can't have any downtime. So, if an email server crashes, we've got to get it back up and running so our recruiters can keep in touch with their clients and candidates.
As the network administrator, I work with multiple departments on urgent problems that are escalated to me by the help desk team. I also get to work on special projects. One of the biggest projects I led involved blending two separate business systems into one when Randstad purchased another staffing agency, Sapphire. Merging both organizations into one network required a lot of teamwork with developers and database administrators. We had to make sure the process was seamless with little to no impact on the users. In addition to leading the team I also configured and tested the system behind the scenes before it went live.
I think working in a recruiting company, its satisfying knowing that, although not directly, but with the technology and infrastructure I help support, helps people find careers in sectors such as IT and Engineering.
I like the fact that there are different challenges and problems to solve every day. I couldn't do a job that's repetitive - I'd get bored! Everyday there are new challenges and new projects - not to mention new tech toys. I get to test new technologies on the network such as support for tablets and smartphones. And because technology is constantly changing, my job is also constantly changing as I learn about new devices and figure out how to make them work on our network. My job is fast-paced. When I come to work I'm always wondering what issues will arise and how I'll fix them. There's never one way to do anything.
I guess my career path was pretty straight forward. After graduating high school I enrolled in an accounting program at Centennial College. But I really didn't like it as I found it too repetitive. Since I had always liked working with computers I switched to the network professional program. While I was at Centennial I did two co-op placements at a recruiting company called CNC Global. Once I graduated, CNC Global hired me full-time to work on its help desk team. I was promoted to network administrator in 2005, and when CNC Global became part of Randstad Canada in 2011, I continued on as network administrator.
Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my family. During the summer I play in a baseball league, and go camping with my kids. In the winter it switches to snowboarding, skating and vacations someplace warm.
If you really enjoy technology, you need to figure out where you fit in and give it your best shot. Do you want to be a programmer? Or maybe a business analyst? Network administrator? There are lots of interesting careers that involve working with technology. Whichever career you choose, research the different options and give it a hands-on approach until you find what works for you.


The Philadelphia Flyers are not treating Brayden Schenn with kid gloves.
That's because Schenn declared himself near 100 percent after absorbing a hit that would leave many dazed and confused. Paul Holmgren stated on Wednesday afternoon that he was not subject to concussion protocol in the wake of the collision, whose video is below.
"I feel I got really lucky," Schenn said. "I don't think I have ever gone head-first into the boards without even getting my arms up or anything like that. I don't remember much of the play. All I remember was how hard the top of my head actually hit the board. And I don't remember trying to get up or anything bad. But the good thing is I don't have a headache or any symptoms today, so that's a positive sign."
Never mind that the onset of concussion symptoms can manifest as late as 72 hours after contact, the Flyers are an old-school organization with old-school thinking, and if one of their players deems himself fit enough, who is anyone with a degree or expertise to interfere?
With 4:43 remaining in the second period of an eventual 5-2 Flyers win against Washington on Tuesday night, Caps forward Tom Wilson issued an illegal check to the back of Schenn, sending Schenn crashing to the boards and out of the contest.
Schenn was later told to have an "upper-body injury" which may result in a concussion, and his status for Thursday night's home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets seems to no longer be in doubt.
The National Hockey League's office of Player Safety has been notified of the incident and Wilson will face a hearing (not in person) tomorrow afternoon.
Wilson, the 16th overall selection in the 2012 draft, made his pro debut in three playoff games last season. He has posted one goal and four points in 34 games this year.
If supplemental discipline is necessary, look for the 19-year-old Toronto native to be hit with a penalty near the low end of the spectrum as a first-time offender.
Last night, I called for something in the 3-to-5 game range, dependent upon Schenn's condition and prognosis.


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'America's Got Talent' dominates summer TV
By Lynn Elber | August 20, 2011, Saturday | Print Edition
SUMMERTIME is for cutting yourself some slack, whether that means reading potboilers poolside or testing the limits of fried food at county fairs.
Television has its own seasonal playlist, mostly dominated by reality shows and topped by "America's Got Talent" ("AGT"), the NBC contest that takes an expansive view of achievement.
Yes, angelic-voiced Jackie Evancho, 11, was a star last season on "AGT." But the show, airing Tuesdays and Wednesdays and hosted by Nick Cannon, welcomes much more than elegant child sopranos.
There's a wide variety of singers as well as dancers, the stuff of other TV contests. Then add contortionists, impressionists, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists and "danger acts," the injury-defying sort that push "AGT" onto vaudeville turf.
"For me, each year it's about giving the audience acts that others don't feature. We want different singers than 'American Idol' and 'X Factor'," said the show's executive producer, Cecile Frot-Coutaz. "And we want young, cool variety acts that people talk about."
The attempts to be different aren't always pretty.
"Whether it's 'AGT' or not, it's amazing what somebody will do to garner fame," said Howie Mandel, who judges the show with Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan. "It's probably more apparent in our audition rounds where it goes everywhere from brilliance to insanity."
"America's Got Talent" is hitting a ratings high in its sixth year, both among total viewers and advertiser-favored young adults, according to Nielsen Co.
The Tuesday episodes are up 22 percent compared with last year, drawing an audience of 14.6 million, while Wednesdays are averaging 12 million, a 12-percent increase over 2010.
Morgan puts the show in the context of his native Britain's pop culture, recalling summer variety shows held by seaside towns and dubbed "End of the Pier."
"It reminds me of 'AGT' - you never know what's going to happen," said CNN host Morgan.
That element of surprise extends to the judges, particularly Morgan and Mandel, who engage in regular on-screen sparring. They could be following the model that Simon Cowell, creator of "AGT" and the original "Britain's Got Talent," built with Paula Abdul on "American Idol."
But unlike Cowell and Abdul, who are reuniting as judges on Cowell's "The X Factor" and admit to a mutual fondness, Morgan and Mandel seem to genuinely irritate each other.
When Mandel joined the series last year and showed his fondness for silly acts, he said, Morgan started calling him "annoying, a half-wit," Mandel recalled. "Now he's not lying. I will do anything to annoy him."
Responds Morgan: "He does annoy the hell out of me. He's as annoying off-screen as on-screen."
The semifinals start Tuesday, and Osbourne would like to see one of the more offbeat acts eventually take the US$1 million prize. "If a singer wins we're like every other talent show on TV," Osbourne said.


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RAK Studios is a recording studio complex, with residential facilities located, used by Rak Records, near Regent's Park in central London, England. It was founded in 1976 by English record producer Mickie Most. RAK has four recording rooms. Studios 1 and  2 house API mixing consoles; Studio 3 has a vintage Neve VRP Legend console (previously at Abbey Road Studios' Studio 2); and Studio 4 contains an SSL 4056 console.

The RAK complex was a Victorian school and church hall.

Notable songs recorded at RAK Studios

"In a Big Country" – Big Country
"Bigmouth Strikes Again" – The Smiths
"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" – The Jam
"Everyone's a Winner" – Hot Chocolate
"Fairytale of New York" – The Pogues
"Hold Me Now" – Thompson Twins
"Kids in America" – Kim Wilde
"Living Next Door to Alice" – Smokie
"Pretty in Pink" – The Psychedelic Furs
"Shattered Dreams" – Johnny Hates Jazz
"Some Girls" – Racey
"Iron Deer Dream" – Fixers
"Vienna" – Ultravox
"When Love Breaks Down" – Prefab Sprout
"Histórias e Bicicletas" – Oficina G3

References

External links
 RAK Studios — official site

Recording studios in London

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Mutual interactions among ingredients of betel quid in inducing genotoxicity on Chinese hamster ovary cells
Author: Lee CH, Lin RH, Liu SH, Lin-Shiau SY.
Journal Name: Mutation Research
Publish Date: February 1996
Volume/Page: 367(2):99-104.
Type: Cell Study
Categories: Cancer, Genotoxicity, Oral Mucosa
The purpose of this study is to explore the mutual interactions among the chemical ingredients of betel quid including arecoline, sodium fluoride, catechin and glycyrrhizin in producing genotoxicity on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells using the micronucleus method. Our results show that arecoline at a rather low concentration of 0.2-2 microM which could be in the oral cavity during betel quid chewing and NaF(0.8-2.4 mM) significant elevated the number of micronucleated cells in a concentration-dependent manner. In addition, significant prolongation of cell cycles was observed by treatment with arecoline (> or = 2.0 microM) or NaF (2.4 nM) in CHO cells. Both catechin and glycyrrhizin could antagonize not only the increased micronucleated cells induced by arecoline and NaF but also the prolonged cell cycle induced by arecoline in CHO cells. This find implies that the adjuvant ingredients, catechu and liquorice root extract provide not only a flavor but also an antagonist against the genotoxicity of arecoline and fluoride containing betel quid.
Genetic effects of hydrogen fluoride on Drosophila Melanogaster
Drosophila males were fumigated with gaseous hydrogen fluoride in two series of experiments. In Series I, wild type Oregon-R males were treated by continuous flow of HF for 10 hours. In Series II, dp+/+b males were treated at a steady state level of HF for 9 hours. Treated and control
Cytogenetic effects of hydrogen fluoride on plants
Studies on the effects of HF on meiotic chromosomes of tomatoes indicated a trend toward a higher frequency of chromosomal aberrations with an increase in the fumigation period. It was indicated that HF was capable of inducing paracentric inversions with the possibility of the induction of deficiencies, duplications or even
Chromosomal aberrations and micronuclei in lymphocytes of workers at a phosphate fertilizer factory
The frequencies of chromosomal aberrations (CA) and micronuclei (MN) in peripheral blood lymphocytes of 40 workers at a phosphate fertilizer factory in North China, were studied. HF and SiF4 are the main air pollutants and small amounts of dust containing fluoride, NH3 and SO2 were also present in the factory.
The effect of fluorine and lead ions on the chromosomes of human leucocytes in vitro
Human leukocytes in the cultures in vitro were exposed to the action of Pb and F ions at the concentrations of 10-3 M and 10-5 M for Pb and 3.15 x 10-3 M, 3.15 x 10-4 M, 3.15 x 10-5 M for F. Both factors caused structural and quantitative aberrations
Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride
Excerpts: INTRODUCTION Fluoridation of drinking water has been a subject of controversy for decades. Over the past 50 years, the incidence of dental caries (cavities) has declined considerably in the United States, an important health advance that most scientists attribute principally to increased access to fluoridated water and dental products. According to
NTP Bioassay on Fluoride/Cancer (1990)
In 1977, the U.S. Congress requested that animal studies be conducted to determine if fluoride can cause cancer. The result of the Congressional request was an extensive animal study conducted in the 1980s by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and published in 1990. The main finding of NTP's study was a dose-dependent increase in osteosarcoma (bone cancer) among the fluoride-treated male rats.
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: The "Oral Health Research Institute's" Studies
Although many in vitro and in vivo studies have detected mutagenic effects from fluoride exposure, the Oral Health Research Institute at Indiana University's School of Dentistry has repeatedly failed to find any such effect in multiple studies on the subject.
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vitro Studies
According to the National Toxicology Program, "the preponderance of evidence" from laboratory "in vitro" studies indicate that fluoride is a mutagenic compound. Many substances which are mutagens, are also carcinogens (i.e. they can cause cancer). As is typical for in vitro studies, the concentrations of fluoride that have generally been tested
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vivo Studies
Consistent with dozens of in vitro studies, a number of in vivo studies, in both humans and animals, have found evidence of fluoride-induced genetic damage. In particular, research on humans exposed to high levels of fluoride have found increased levels of "sister chromatid exchange" (SCE). As noted in one study: "In
A Critique of Gelberg's Study on Fluoride/Osteosarcoma in New York
The case-control study by Gelberg, published first as a PhD dissertation and then later in two peer-reviewed journals, may represent the most substantive study on fluoride/osteosarcoma previous to Bassin's 2001 analysis. In assessing Gelberg's data, we were at first struck by the existence of several notable errors in both the thesis and papers. While these errors do raise questions about the study, our primary concern with Gelberg's work relates to the methods she used to analyze her data.


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Martin v. Texas
Norris v. State
It was shown that there were Negroes in the county qualified to serve and that none had been known to sit on…
United States v. Brady
The ultimate fact found by the District Judge was indicated by the evidence before him; and the petitioners…
Full title:MARTIN v . TEXAS
Court:U.S.
Date published: Feb 19, 1906
200 U.S. 316 (1906)
26 S. Ct. 338
In Martin v. State of Texas, 200 U.S. 316, 26 S.Ct. 338, 50 L.Ed. 497, the court overruled a motion to quash the indictment based on the ground that Negroes had been excluded from the Grand Jury because of their race in a county in which one-fourth of the persons qualified to serve were Negroes. The accused offered no evidence whatever to prove racial discrimination.
Summary of this case from United States v. Brady
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.
No. 170.
Submitted January 25, 1906. Decided February 19, 1906.
While an accused person of African descent on trial in a state court is entitled under the Constitution of the United States to demand that in organizing the grand jury, and empanelling the petit jury, there shall be no exclusion of his race on account of race and color, such discrimination cannot be established by merely proving that no one of his race was on either of the juries; and motions to quash, based on alleged discriminations of that nature, must be supported by evidence introduced or by an actual offer of proof in regard thereto. Smith v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 592, 600, followed. An accused person cannot of right demand a mixed jury some of which shall be of his race, nor is a jury of that kind guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to any race.
THE facts are stated in the opinion.
Mr. Watson E. Coleman, Mr. O.P. Easterwood and Mr. O.E. Smith for plaintiff in error:
Whenever by any action of a State, whether through its legislature, courts, executive or administrative officers, all persons of the African race are excluded, solely because of race and color, from serving as grand jurors in the criminal prosecution of a person of that race, the equal protection of the laws is denied to him, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. Carter v. Texas, 177 U.S. 442; and see Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303; Neal v. Delaware, 103 U.S. 370; Gibson v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 565; Wood v. Brush, 140 U.S. 278; Rogers v. Alabama, 192 U.S. 226.
Mr. Robert V. Davidson, Attorney Gen. of the State of Texas, Mr. C.K. Bell and Mr. Claude Pollard for defendant in error:
As the motions to quash were based on allegations of fact not in the record and controverted by the attorney for the State, they must be supported by evidence. Smith v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 592, 601; Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213; Carter v. Texas, 177 U.S. 442.
A motion to quash an indictment against a person of African descent on the ground that it was found by a grand jury from which persons of accused's race were excluded, because of their race, can be sustained only by evidence independent of the facts stated in the motion. Smith v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 592; Bush v. Kentucky, 107 U.S. 110; Ex parte Virginia, 100 U.S. 313, 339; Neal v. Delaware, 103 U.S. 370.
Plaintiff in error is not entitled, as a matter of constitutional right, to have his race represented upon the grand jury that may indict, or the petit jury that may try, him. Jugiro v. Brush, 140 U.S. 291; Wood v. Brush, 140 U.S. 276.
Plaintiff in error should have presented the question for decision to the highest court of the State having jurisdiction of criminal cases; failing to do so, he can not have the adverse decision of the District Court of this State reviewed here. In re Wood, 140 U.S. 278; Ewing v. Howard, 7 Wall. 503.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
By an indictment returned in the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, the plaintiff in error was charged with the crime of murder. Having been duly arraigned and pleaded not guilty, the accused (a negro) moved to quash the indictment, on the ground, stated in writing under oath, that all persons of the African race had been excluded from the grand jury, because of their race, although about one-fourth of the inhabitants of the county, competent under the law to act as grand jurors, were of that race. The facts upon which the motion was based were set out, and the accused, in the written motion, prayed that testimony be heard in support of its grounds. The State's attorney, in writing, denied such discrimination and offered to prove that only about one hundred and fifty persons of the African race in the county, as compared with twelve thousand whites, were competent under the law to act as grand jurors.
The accused then moved in writing, verified by his oath, to quash the panel of petit jurors, upon the ground that from the panel had been excluded all persons of the African race, because of their race, although about one-fourth of the persons in the county competent under the law to serve as jurors were of that race. The facts set out in that motion were also denied in writing by the State's attorney.
Both motions were overruled by the court, the accused excepting. There was a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and the accused was sentenced to suffer death. The judgment of conviction was affirmed in the Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest court of the State in which a decision of the case could be had. One of the assignments of error in that court was the overruling of the motion to quash the indictment, but no error was there assigned in respect of the overruling of the motion to quash the panel of petit jurors.
It is not contended that the constitution or laws of Texas authorized any discrimination, on account of race merely, in the selection of grand or petit jurors. Nor is it contended that the prescribed qualifications for jurors were not appropriate in order to secure an impartial jury for the trial of an accused. Nevertheless, if upon the hearing of the written motion to quash the indictment, the facts stated in the motion had been established by affirmative proof, or if the trial court had refused to admit evidence to prove them, we should not hesitate to reverse the judgment. For, it is the settled doctrine of this court that "whenever by any action of a State, whether through its legislature, through its courts, or through its executive or administrative officers, all persons of the African race are excluded, solely because of their race or color, from serving as grand jurors in the criminal prosecution of a person of the African race, the equal protection of the laws is denied to him, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States." Carter v. Texas, 177 U.S. 442, 447; Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303; Neal v. Delaware, 103 U.S. 370, 397; Gibson v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 565; Rogers v. Alabama, 192 U.S. 226, 231. So if, upon the hearing of the written motion to quash the panel of the petit jurors, facts stated in that motion had been proved, or if the opportunity to establish them by evidence had been denied to the accused, the judgment would be reversed.
But the record before us makes no such case. Although the accused in each of his written motions prayed the court to hear evidence thereon, it does not appear that he introduced any evidence whatever to prove discrimination against his race, because of their color, or made any actual offer of evidence in support of either motion. The reasonable inference from the record is that he did not offer any evidence on the charge of discrimination, but was content to rely simply on his verified written motions, although the facts stated in them were controverted by the State. The trial court, it must be assumed from the record, had nothing before it, when deciding the motions to quash, except the written motions and the written answers thereto. In Charley Smith v. Mississippi, 162 U.S. 592, 600, 601 — which was a prosecution of a negro for the crime of murder — it appeared that the accused, upon grounds stated in writing and similar to those assigned in this case, moved to quash the indictment. He moved, also, upon similar grounds, in writing, to quash the panel of petit jurors. Each motion was overruled. This court said: "No evidence was offered in support of the motion by the accused to quash the indictment, unless the facts set out in the written motion to quash, verified `to the best of his knowledge and belief,' can be regarded as evidence in support of the motion. We are of opinion that it could not properly be so regarded. . . . The facts stated in the written motion to quash, although that motion was verified by the affidavit of the accused, could not be used as evidence to establish those facts, except with the consent of the state prosecutor or by order of the trial court. No such consent was given. No such order was made. The grounds assigned for quashing the indictment should have been sustained by distinct evidence introduced or offered to be introduced by the accused. He could not, of right, insist that the facts stated in the motion to quash should be taken as true simply because his motion was verified by his affidavit. The motion to quash was, therefore, unsupported by any competent evidence; consequently, it cannot be held to have been erroneously denied." To the same effect were Tarrance v. Florida, 188 U.S. 519, 521, and Brownfield v. South Carolina, 189 U.S. 426, 428. The present case cannot be distinguished from the Smith case; and we are unable to hold, upon this record, that it was error to overrule the motions to quash; for, as already stated, it does not appear that the facts stated in those motions were established by evidence, or that the accused, after filing his motions, made any separate offer to prove them by witnesses or was denied the opportunity to make such proof.
A different conclusion in this case would mean that, in a criminal prosecution of a negro for crime, an allegation of discrimination against the African race, because of their race, could be established by simply proving that no one of that race was on the grand jury that returned the indictment or on the petit jury that tried the accused; whereas, a mixed jury, some of which shall be of the same race with the accused, cannot be demanded, as of right, in any case, nor is a jury of that character guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. What an accused is entitled to demand, under the Constitution of the United States, is that in organizing the grand jury as well as in the empaneling of the petit jury, there shall be no exclusion of his race, and no discrimination against them, because of their race or color. Virginia v. Rives, 100 U.S. 313, 323; In re Wood, 140 U.S. 278, 285. Whether such discrimination was practiced in this case could have been manifested only by proof overcoming the denial on the part of the State of the facts set out in the written motions to quash. The absence of any such proof from the record in this case is fatal to the charge of the accused that his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated.
In Martin v. State of Texas, 1906, 200 U.S. 316, 26 S.Ct. 338, 50 L.Ed. 497, the motion to quash the indictment because of exclusion of Negroes from the grand jury was overruled in the trial court.
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Final Exam Question Paper
Buddhist Sangha simply pertains to the community of monks and nuns who followed Buddha. For others, the Sangha includes the entire community of Buddha followers. The word Sangha in simple terms means assembly or association and traditionally, it refers to the association of monks and nuns. On the other hand, in modern traditions, it also includes laypeople. It is considered to be an important part of the meditation practice. Believers who take refuge in the sangha find safety and strength and take part in and interact with the sangha to grow. The early Buddhist sangha changed and became a religious and educational institution. Buddhist sangha is characterized by various fundamental features, such as sangha.
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One of the most important characteristics of Buddhist sangha is its role among the followers. Buddhist sangha was founded in prehistoric time to be a standard-bearer of dhamma. This role also entailed leading and teaching by example to assist others to enlightenment and understanding. The sangha community has played an active role from the past through to the presents and its valuable influence to humanity continues to be acknowledged. This feature also highlights its role in upholding the virtue and preserving the significance of Buddhist teachings. In other words, Buddhist sangha acts as a type of paradigm of an ideal society.
Most religions are led by ministers, imams, priests, rabbis, and shamans among others and entail a single person leading a group of devout individuals; however, the sangha comprises of monks and nuns who represent the Buddhist clergies. This is an important characteristic that differentiates Buddhist sangha from other traditional religions. Ideally, these monks and nuns pass core values and essential Buddha teachings to the subsequent generations of monastics and laypeople Buddhist teachings. As a unique and important characteristic of Buddhist sangha, monks and nuns have distinct responsibilities as compared to priests and ministers from other traditions. Unlike other religions, they spent their homeless life of wandering monastics and settled down in monasteries only during the rainy seasons. Further, the Buddha's disciples (laypeople) who followed Buddha's teachings in most cases remained as householders.
Buddhist sangha comprised of three systematically arranged and accumulated teachings divisions; the Vinaya Pitaka, the Sutta Pitaka, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Each division defined an important concept and teachings; for example, the Vinaya Pitaka, also known as the basket of discipline pertains to the rules and customs of the sangha. It is the textual framework upon which the sangha (monastic community) is founded. It comprises of the rules governing the life of the monks and nuns and the host of conventions of custom, which maintains harmonious interactions ("What Is Theravada Buddhism?"). The relations are not limited to among monastics, but also included between the monastics and lay supporters. The Sutta Pitaka also is known as the basket of discourses pertains to the readings and words by Buddha and his closest devotees. It consists of over 10,000 sermons, which were delivered by buddha and his close followers during and after his 45-year teaching career. It also includes extra verse contributed by sangha members. Lastly, the Abhidhamma Pitaka, also called the basket of special doctrine comprises of detailed psycho-rational scrutiny of the Dhamma ("What Is Theravada Buddhism?"). The textual framework offers a detailed analysis of the basic natural principle that administrates psychological and physical processes. In simple terms, it offers a theoretical framework to illustrate the causal underpinnings of the Buddhist path to awakening. The three books combined provide guidance through Buddhist teachings.
Modern societies comprise of diverse religions, which are simply different interpretations and understandings of the same one true reality. With respect to many religious standpoints, there exist significant distinct sentiments among the people regarding religion and people's beliefs. Overall, all these religions teach the same thing and are mainly based on the existence of a superior being. Religious diversity is evident in many ways and all religious just interpret the same one true thing different; for instance, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism settle that there is a sole Deity or Divinity. On the other hand, Hinduism characteristically distinguishes multiple gods and goddesses, but some varieties of Hinduism count these divinities as facets of a single superior being. Some Hinduism strands are henotheistic, which means they worship one God but recognize many other gods and goddesses.
Religions also illustrate differences in regards to their view of the human person. For example, many forms of Islam and Christianity share the ultimate goal of subjective immortality in the presence of Supernatural being. On the other hand, some forms of Eastern thought's, such as Theravada Buddhism fundamental goal is to comprehend that there is no essential self. Religious diversity also exists within the fundamental theistic systems. Christian believers differ in regards to their perception and expression of the nature of God; for example, some Christians see God as all-controlling, whereas others as self-limiting. Muslims also show some differences among themselves based on the same divine feature. Most of these differences are evident in the interpretation and understanding of the Quran and definition of the best way to apply the core Islamic values in modern settings; for example, the status of women among Muslim communities differ and is also different from that of Christians.
Religious diversity is also evident based on different beliefs and rules that uphold these creeds. Different convictions across the world do not share dietetical practices, but most of them show some similarities. In other words, each religion has its own rituals and history attached to its beliefs. For instance, some forms of rituals, such as fasting are specific for one religion (Christians), whereas others are practiced throughout. All religions have gathering places (for example, churches and mosques), sacred days (Easter, Ramadhan, and Christmas), and scriptures (Quran and Bible). Each religion has specific instructions and values that guide its followers. In regards to history, three of the world's most common religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) share a common origin as they trace their early development to Abraham from the Holy Scripture. In essence, religious diversity is based on many factors, such as history, rituals, and belief system.
Response to these religious diversities is based on the notion that there exists no divine reality as all religions refer to the divinity that is most likely nonexistent. Religious relativists argue that when considering mutually incompatible religious claims regarding the reality, there is no one truth and often results in conflicting truth-claims, which can either be true or false. On the other hand, most current deliberations about religious diversity assume a reality model of truth, which means that there is a truth to the matter.
"What Is Theravada Buddhism?". Accesstoinsight.Org, 2005, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/theravada.html.
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Sort through Bryn's clothes, weed out everything too small and pack it away for the garage.
Sort through and crate up Bryn's toy that he's outgrown (that Ari won't be using for at least 6 months).
Sort through Erik and Luey's clothes, exchanging winter gear for summer gear.
Sort through my books, decide what to get rid off and bag them up, find MAAP books to loan to BaBs Box Hill.
Sort through nappy baskets under change table.
Put underlay and doona for protection on the bed.
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Q: Accessing Gps issue I am trying to access GPS in my Mobile
using the following code
   locationManager= (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    Boolean isGPSEnabled = locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
    loc1 =locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

till yesterday it was working fine now app is not fecthing gps
i have enabled permission in manifest

A: LocationManager
This class provides access to the system location services. These services allow applications to obtain periodic updates of the device's geographical location, or to fire an application-specified Intent when the device enters the proximity of a given geographical location.
You do not instantiate this class directly; instead, retrieve it through Context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE).
Unless noted, all Location API methods require the ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permissions. If your application only has the coarse permission then it will not have access to the GPS or passive location providers. Other providers will still return location results, but the update rate will be throttled and the exact location will be obfuscated to a coarse level of accuracy.
In Manifest File :
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

How do I get the current GPS location programmatically in Android?
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/07/android-gps-location-manager-tutorial/

A: I have had the same problem. I had to re-check my virtualbox network settings. Please double check your settings before assuming your code is the problem.

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UPDATE – the v0.2 High Performance Python tutorial is now available.
I enjoyed running a 4 hour tutorial on High Performance Python at EuroPython last week (great event guys!). The class was limited to 40 people and I'd love for more people to benefit from the several weeks of work that went into it so I've written it up as a 49 page PDF (license: Creative Commons By Attribution).
This is v0.1, please take a look and give me feedback so I can release an improved v0.2 within a few weeks. Is anything missing? Sure! A couple of sections just have src (no write-up) and there's a bunch of IAN_TODO markers for me to complete for the next revision. The 49 pages should have something useful for you to chew on though.
Download "High Performance Python v0.1 (pdf)" and send me your feedback! The source code for the examples is on this github page (including the Sphinx src for the pdf). Get the updated v0.2 High Performance Python tutorial now.
The EuroPython tutorial slides are on slideshare as the High Performance Python tutorial.
If you haven't been to a EuroPython – I definitely recommend them. Next year's will also be in Florence (a lovely city with lovely people), the science/HPC tracks were very interesting to me and I hope to see more of the same next year.
The training sessions weren't recorded so no video is available :-( That's a part of the reason I wrote up this PDF!
I hadn't seen that before. Do you know if it runs faster than my example? The vector operations are a little different so maybe there is a speed difference?
Garrett has left a very nice write-up about the PDF on his blog: http://garrettbluma.com/2011/07/13/high-performance-python-tutorial-by-ian-ozsvald/ Thanks Garrett!


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This One Time
The Parable of the Hive
The only difference between a worker bee and a queen is what you eat for breakfast.
The real difference between a worker bee and a queen is whether you get to have sex and lay about a zillion eggs instead of getting daily exercise and the first taste of the flowers.
It takes a twisted viewpoint to see the physically larger bee that spends its life laying eggs as somehow in charge. She exists for sex and breeding and, as she begins to age, gladiatorial games for the entertainment and edification of the hive. She's a sex slave, a hen, a broodmare, selected by the machinery of the hive.
It's impossible to romanticize once you can see the real story.
The hive decides who gets to mate with whom and under what circumstances. The hive decides who gets the best food, the choicest real estate, and the cushiest jobs. The hive decides how you live and how you die. The hive decides what you eat for breakfast.
The hive is 99.99% composed of infertile females that have hardened their vaginas into weapons that stab and inject lethal poisons, but perhaps that is stretching the metaphor.
The hive is an invasive species composed entirely of information, of narrative, that exists only for its own benefit, that nurtures individuals — or the opposite — in proportion to how the individual benefits the hive. It is in the best interests of the hive to teach you sacrifice. To make you buy it completely.
The hive, by means of sacrifice and pooling resources, can survive when individuals would fare poorly. Individuals die, but society is preserved.
But the hive is young and its defenses are weak. It has predators and parasites. It has fake members that are immune to the narrative, that masquerade as valuable, favored cogs, that pervert the rudimentary defenses to foil and destroy the drones that would root them out. They insinuate themselves into the supply chains to bleed off resources for personal hoards, for prime real estate, for breeding privileges.
They pervert the narrative itself to set themselves up as gods.
What are the choices here?
To ensure survival as much as possible by making yourself invaluable to the hive, but, in the end, putting your fate in the hands of the hive and its narrative.
To reject the narrative entirely and live outside of the hive to the greatest extent possible, live and let live, but outside of the hive's protections and occasionally running afoul of the hive's defenses.
To become a predator/parasite, competing with other parasites for your share of hoarded resources and privileges by your own attempts to co-opt a portion of the narrative.
Erect a counter-narrative and create a hive that competes with or even preys upon the old hive, or perhaps establishes a symbiotic relationship with it via an exchange of resources or favors.
Once you are aware of the hive, and its narrative, and the predators and parasites that prey on it, your choices are very limited. Keep your head down, try to escape, put up a fight, or autolysis.
What will you choose?
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1) My old high school crew, who somehow resisted the urge to kill me before I got too big for my britches. 2) My Atlanta crew, who kept me balanced on that fine edge for twenty-five years. 3) My New York crew, who have welcomed me to my new life with open arms. 4) My British Isles and overseas crew, who watch over me like the angels they really are. 5) My family, both by birth and by choice, who know all the secret keys to keep me in line or push me where I need to go.
I am grateful for you all — every last one of you who have ever leant a hand or a word or nudged open a space for me to take a stand. I love you all. Even if I don't know who you are.
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Is today going to be one of those days where someone a number of years from now will ask you if you remember what you were doing on this day?
This is a recurring thought of mine. One that helps me remember how busted my memory is.
It's hard to gauge the strength of a memory, isn't it? I remember some things that happened decades ago as freshly as events of this morning, and sometimes those memories aren't consistent with current causality. And then there are episodes of déjà vu that are so incredibly strong they're almost painful.
Sometimes I wonder if those periods of déjà vu that seem so strong, that seemed stacked, even — a déjà vu moment about having had déjà vu about this particular déjà vu experience — aren't actually overlapping moments in time and space where one could jump tracks and loop into the past or skip entire cycles and wander into an uncaused future. Sometimes I wonder if I haven't done this before. If I don't do this all the time.
On one hand, it's just staring at the cracks and trying to imagine a coherent picture: microsleep, daytime parahypnagogia, hypnic jerk, attention fatigue, exploding head syndrome being the lines describing the pentagram that is the shortest distance between two points in paracontiguous spacetime.
On the other? The other hand is empty.
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About this Amazon eBook Pedophilia Manual BS
You know, if I were a District Attorney/Attorney General/Criminal Profiler/Investigator who had, as a sworn duty and passionate inclination, to locate, prosecute, and lock away those who would exploit children sexually, it would be a wet dream of mine for the following to exist:
a popular underground how-to manual that would unify the M.O. of these predators to make it easier to identify them and counter their tactics
a system of sales for said manuals that leaves clear financial traces, i.e., credit card sales
a site for sales of such that allowed free commentary so those with similar interests could leave messages via traceable, subpoena-able means, i.e., ISP IP address records
a site for sales/discussion that maintains public profiles of interested parties so they can voluntarily (if stupidly) leave more clues to their identities and locations
a system of distribution of said manual to individually branded and identifiable hardware so the identity of the purchaser of said materials is never in question
a system of reading said material such that whenever the device is on and connected to the network that the device is locatable to within 10 meters via triangulation from the three nearest transmitters
So yeah. All you people who got up in arms about this putrid ebook thingy on Amazon and lobbied to have it removed kinda screwed the pooch on this one.
And so but also:
This is America. We don't ban books here.
We believe in free speech, even if that speech is heinous, despicable crap.
Because anything you feel you have to say is guaranteed to be interpreted as heinous and despicable to somebody, because otherwise why would you be convinced people need to hear it? You say it for the benefit of people who don't agree with you. Like, perhaps, Congress.
Because in the end, freedom of speech is, in effect, Enough Rope. See that first list above.
Once you empower some entity to police what speech is to be made available to you, they remain empowered. In fact, you Amazon-boycotters have demanded that Amazon listen to people who eventually will not agree with you 100% and will guaranteed remove something that you believe passionately should be made available. Congratulations.
If you believe some form of speech is offensive to you, shout it down. Exercise your right to be heard. But don't create a gag that others must wear because they offend you. Because eventually we'll all offend one another, and we'll all end up wearing your damned gag.
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Have you ever had one of those arguments with a family member or a good friend where both of you have different ideas of how a certain set of events unfolded, or maybe two totally different set of memories of a place or a moment or an object — and I'm not talking about questioning someone's motivations or something squishy like that. I'm talking about something more concrete. Something difference of opinion doesn't cover, because the disagreement is over concrete, observable fact.
Stuff that shouldn't be a matter of opinion. Stuff that happened.
I'm sure you remember having one of those arguments where the thought of relinquishing what you thought you knew would be prying up a finger on your grip on reality. In most of those circumstances, one person is right and one person is wrong. Someone just has a faulty memory.
But one out of a hundred, maybe one out of a thousand…
If two people view the same object from different angles, they receive different information about that object. If those two viewpoints compare notes, they can usually create a three-dimensional sketch of the object in question — one that justifies the differences in what each person saw.
If those same two people are moving with respect to each other, not only do they get different viewpoints, but they also get different perceptions of the forces involved in an event. Causality is gets warped. It's only by referring to a stationary (or at least an agreed-upon) reference frame that the two different interpretations can be resolved against each other. And the larger the difference in speeds and accelerations, the more those differences spread to not just perceptions but measurements of mass and distance and time, and the more impossible it becomes to pick a neutral frame of reference.
I'm not going to resort to the math here, or even an elaborate thought experiment, but the universe doesn't just look different depending on where you stand. It is different, and you can only see the parts of it that are consistent with who you are, what you're made of, and where you stand. That's no metaphor — that's actually literally true.
And maybe all that stuff we can't see — the stuff that happened but not from our point of view, the aggregate of might-have-been universes that actually were and are from some other viewpoint — maybe the actualities we can't see from here, the shrapnel of collapsed wave functions, as it were, actually have mass that can affect us, can affect the reality we can see, and that's what dark matter is.
If we invoke the holographic principle, we should be able to, at least within the limits of the slope of our light-cone, navigate these other probabilities-cum-actualities, especially at points of overlap where branes theoretically could interlace, where objects and events could occupy the same states because they'd be there no matter which forks through labyrinthine causality they took….
And the scary part of that is that each of us could come from a past that is different and head into a future that is different from that experienced by anyone else we might meet. At less than light speed, the realities involved can't be that different from each other, not plausibly, but maybe, for those one-in-a-hundred times we can't agree on something we saw, maybe one-in-a-thousand times, maybe we're both right. And maybe the path not taken has a kind of weight, a physical form of regret, that affects our future paths forever.
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Help wanted: Top guns for dogfights with Canada's CF-18 fighter pilots
Ottawa Citizen: March 11, 2016
Canada's top guns are in need of some top guns to fight against.
And they'll get such adversaries by the end of the year.
The Canadian government plans to award by December a contract, estimated to be worth as much as $1.5 billion, to a fleet of fighter jets to go toe-to-toe with the military's CF-18s.
A private company will be selected to act as the training partner for Canada's fighter pilots, as well as provide other aircraft to act as the enemy for the Canadian army and navy.
The project, known as the Contracted Airborne Training Services or CATS, will run over an initial 10-year period, followed by the option to continue for another five years.
The Canadian-based Discovery Air Defence has been providing such services for the Canadian military since 2005. It has also expanded its operations internationally and was recently hired to do the same thing for Germany's armed forces.
But the Canadian government wants to open the competition up potentially to other firms. Pierre-Alain Bujold, a spokesman for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the bids for CATS went in Feb. 16. "The evaluation, which includes aircraft inspection, is expected to take up to five months," he explained. "The contract is expected to be awarded by the end of 2016."
Two firms have publicly acknowledged they have submitted bids: Discovery Air Defence of Montreal, and CAE, also from Quebec, which has allied itself with Draken, a U.S. firm.
Garry Venman, vice-president of business development and government relations at Discovery Air Defence, said the company pioneered the concept in Canada of such airborne services and is now considered an industry leader throughout the world.
"We've flown more than 55,000 hours in support of the Canadian and German militaries," he said. "We've got the experience of doing it for the last 11 years."
Discovery Air Defence traces its lineage to 2001, when it was founded by three former CF-18 pilots.
The firm has what is considered the world's largest fleet of operational fighter jets in private hands. The company is now looking to acquire U.S.-built F-16 fighters for more advanced training.
"We're poised for significant growth," Venman said. "We're doing all the things the Canadian government says it wants Canadian companies to do — creating jobs and conducting business internationally."
(read the full article at The Province)
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Zoho Assist presents a whole new level of remote training and troubleshooting, easy, quick, and with absolutely no need for the end user to hand control over his data to someone else, and to remain clueless about it. The reason for that is the presence of a specific security setting called User Access Control (UAC), which appears on the user's regular desktop screen, and detects bugs the user can fix even without expert IT knowledge.
Dual monitor support is another feature that distinguishes Zoho Assist from other remote support programs, as controls are switched easily, and the user doesn't have to wait for a technician to access his device. The 'Run as Service' command, however, allows the user to transfer his administration privileges to someone else.
Users are fond of Zoho Assist also because it is easy to use, and they are not wasting time to install it or to maintain it. All they have to do is to log in their account and to ask for a session. The technical console is available 24/7, so you won't have to wait for a technician to appear.
Finally, Zoho Assist takes advantage of bidirectional file sharing, which is not that common in the world of remote support systems. Transfer is built in, which eliminates the need for the user to send emails and screenshots using third-party software, and the process is made intuitive and simultaneous (you can send and receive files at the same time).
Organizations have different wants and requirements and no software platform can be perfect in such a condition. It is futile to try to find an ideal off-the-shelf software app that meets all your business wants. The intelligent thing to do would be to customize the application for your specific needs, worker skill levels, finances, and other elements. For these reasons, do not rush and pay for well-publicized popular applications. Though these may be widely used, they may not be the perfect fit for your unique needs. Do your research, check out each short-listed application in detail, read a few Zoho Assist reviews, speak to the vendor for clarifications, and finally settle for the application that presents what you require.
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Kick off the new year with a special edition of Sustainable Seattle's monthly happy hour, hosted by Pinchot University and Impact Hub Seattle! Join us for an evening of inventive drinks, delicious bites, and casual networking on the first floor of the 220 & Change building in Pioneer Square. This edition of Greendrinks will feature ventures started by Pinchot University alumni and member companies from Impact Hub Seattle, such as cranberry juice cocktails by Starvation Alley!
One year in Pioneer Square, and we're already bursting at the seams! Join BGI, Impact Hub Seattle and Social Venture Partners as we celebrate the expansion of our space and the launch of our new building name: 220 & Change!
You'll enjoy flavors from Pioneer Square bars and restaurants, be the first to sneak a peek at the new space next door and party with Seattle's best on every floor.
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The dynamics of conflict involving guardianship for minor children, conservatorship for adults or the probate of an estate can create tremendous stress on all involved. Conflicts arise between family members, caregivers, minor children and aging adults as they search for ways to deal with the serious changes affecting their evolving relationships.
The Mediation process provides a safe, constructive and confidential way for people to work though their issues and move forward constructively. While mediation can occur at any time, early participation in the process can address potential conflicts before they escalate. It can also strengthen the on-going relationships and preserve the dignity of the parties, especially in cases involving children and the elderly. Mediation is effective but does not always result in an agreement. When this occurs the mediator can help parties decide what their next steps are in preparing for the future. In many cases, disputes can be resolved without needing to enter the court system or can be handled with only minimal paperwork rather than through a hearing.
Donald's specialty is early Elder Family Issue Conferencing amongst elder care members to establish a plan prior to incapacity. Donald does not give legal or financial advice during these conferences. These meetings are to provide all stakeholders an opportunity to know their interests have been heard. When these interests are presented all family members can create a plan that is in the best interest of the family member in concern. See http://www.castle-keep.org for caregiver resource information.
Most people have capacity to make decisions for themselves; sometimes they need a little help. Conservatorship is necessary when planning and agreements have not been established.
Most people deserve respect when their lives are the topic of conversation. Donald will go to your home or care facility to help enable participation and self-determination.


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Real name: Daniel Stein
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Daniel Stein (born 11 April 1977), best known as DJ Fresh, is an English drum & bass and dubstep producer and DJ. He was one of the principal members of drum & bass supergroup, Bad Company, alongside Darren White (dBridge), Jason Maldini, and Michael Wojcicki (Vegas). He also owns and runs the pioneering drum & bass label Breakbeat Kaos with Adam F.
In late 2011, DJ Fresh began a new aspect of his career by launching 'FRESH/LIVE'. This live show incorporates a drummer, guitarist, vocalist, an MC and Fresh himself on keys to perform identical renditions of his studio-produced hits in live settings.
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We are glad to have rolled in support for Custom Views which can filter records based on Yes / No checkbox (Boolean) fields.
Apart from Yes or a No, you may now also see a --not-set-- value for fields which do not have a value already set for that field. This can happen in iFreeTools Creator, when you add a new Yes / No checkbox (Boolean) attribute to an existing entity which already has records in database. While the new records will have values for this field, the older records will show a --not-set-- value.
The records with --not-set-- value *will not* turn up in the results if the filed is used in the filtering criteria for that Custom View. If you would like it to be available, you can use the bulk-edit to set the values for that field to either Yes or a No.
We have also added support customizing the listing order of Custom Views based on View Listing Index value, which you can now provide in the Add/Edit Custom View form. The views will be listed under the module based on this value, in ascending order. That is, views with smaller View Listing Index value will be listed first.
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Svaneborg Kardyb is one of Danish jazz' rising stars. After the release of their debut album 'Knob' in the spring of 2019, followed a staggering year of massive media attention, sold out shows in Denmark and internationally that received amazing reviews. Moreover, at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2019 they won the award for 'Talent of the Year' and the award for 'Danish Jazz Composer of the Year' for their meditative grooves, their natural approach to melody and the exquisite interaction between them (ed.)."
In the autumn of 2020, the duo released their sophomore album Haven – an homage to nature. The music on Haven is created during the earliest hours in the morning, over the blackest coffee and is a minimalistic expression of electronic and acoustic sounds uniting, where catchy tunes meet Nordic vibes in a dreamy, groovy universe. 'Haven' is set for an international rerelease, on British label Gondwana Records (Hania Rani, GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands) in the beginning of 2022 and will be followed up by the third studio album from Svaneborg Kardyb late 2022.
"Svaneborg Kardyb's album is the opposite of the fast, false world of social media and shallow ideals. The compositions are not flashy or driven by ego, they are simple, but very touching. It is the delicacy of the playing, the natural affinity to melody and the exquisite interaction between Nikolaj Svaneborg and Jonas Kardyb that makes the album work." Said about the album Knob, DMA JAZZ 2019, by Debra Richards, member of the DMA Jazz Academy
"The strength of Svaneborg Kardyb's compositions is the intimate intensity and responsiveness that one senses in the interaction between the two gentlemen and their respective instruments. It sounds safe and balanced on their second album, Haven, when keyboards and drums in community explores where simple melodies and muted sounds can lead each other." Information, Danish National Newspaper
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Authority Dredging Project Delayed By Complications
Jan. 19, 2004 – Work has yet to begin on the dredging project at the Ann E. Abramson Pier in St. Croix.
V.I. Port Authority Executive Director Darlan Brin told board members during its January meeting, that the authority is waiting for approval of its application by the Planning and Natural Resources Department to begin dredging around the pier.
"Until DPNR accepts the application from us, we cannot send it to the [Army Corp of Engineers]," Brin said.
Brin said the U.S. Coast Guard had advised the Port Authority to remove the more than 200 piles and rubble at the south end of the pier before accepting ships on that end.
Ships have currently been getting fuel at the north end of the Frederiksted Pier, which is also slated for dredging. However, larger ships, like Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas, have difficulty accessing the pier because of low depths in certain areas and have requested the northern end of the pier be dredged to a depth of 35 feet.
"We feel that they should be able to suffice, with 33 feet," Brin said, adding this was the acceptable depth by the Coast Guard. Brin said when the Voyager pulled up initially at the pier, the depth was two feet from the ship's keel to the ocean floor and the ship's captain requested more depth.
"Just to have that safety margin, we're attempting to dredge the pier," Brin said.
Brin said the Authority will dredge the northern end eventually, but its priority was dredging the southern end as recommended by the Coast Guard. He added once the work on the south part of the pier begins, the facility would not be ready for ships until the end of this current cruise season.
"Because of the method to be used, the dredging will take a couple of months," Brin said. He added that the north side of the pier would continue to accept cruise ships for bunkering.
The dredging project on the south end of the pier is expected to cost about $800,000, Brin said.
In other action, the board approved four lease requests and tabled one request, sending it back to the Property Committee.
The board, with a 4-1 vote, approved a three-year lease agreement with the Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas for space in the baggage area of the Cyril E. King Airport for a hospitality lounge for its guest. The area will be leased at $43 per square foot.
Robert O'Connor, board chairman; Dean Plaskett; James Rodgers; and Alva Swan voted in the affirmative. Leslie Milliner abstained. Pamela Richards, Wayne Callwood and Hector Peguero were absent.
Two requests from Caribbean Sun were approved unanimously: a request for additional office space at the King Airport at $43 per square foot and a request for counter space at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in St. Croix at $45 per square foot.
The board also approved a request from Cape Air to extend its current lease at Rohlsen Airport for three years.
The board sent back to the Property Committee a lease request from Mary Caesar, a food vendor desiring to sell food out of a van near the Rohlsen Airport.
Denise Mills, acting property manager, told the board Caesar did not have general liability insurance and recommended the board not approve the request unless Caesar obtained the insurance.
"In an airport there should be provision for growth," Milliner said concerning the lack of office and counter space at King Airport and continued requests for space.
The board was also given a financial report for the month of October.
Judith James, acting director of administration and finance, told the board that total operating revenue for October 2004 was $2.41 million, a decrease of 1.39 percent when compared to October 2003. Although aviation revenue increased by approximately 8.5 percent, marine revenue decreased by approximately 7.11 percent.
VIPA's total expense for October was $3.5 million, resulting in a net loss of $1.1 million.
"What in the world accounts for this bleak financial report?" Swan asked.
James told the board, "The increase in expenses is evident in salaries and benefits, professional and other services, utilities, depreciation and other expenses."
O'Connor said something must be "getting through the cracks" as far as collection goes.
Brin told the board he assigned a staff member as a collection specialist for six months to deal solely with collections until they could hire someone full-time. Brin said he has also assigned Internal Audit to monitor all lease contracts to ensure compliance and that payments are being made on time.
Rodgers asked for a list of recommendations from the board's staff on revenue initiatives. He inquired about the yachts bunkering at the Waterfront.
O'Connor said they needed to be better regulated to make sure they are getting the necessary permits and paying necessary fines.
Brin said, "The board is saying collect, and I'm trying to collect whatever it takes."
The board moved into executive session to discuss recommendations for the airport manager in St. Thomas, among other things.
Port Authority Dredging Project Delayed By Complications
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Before I stood in the Java world with both feet, I've been having many doubts of how to do things in Java when programming web applications. I mean, Java is a general purpose language and one of its strengths is modularity. There are different modules (libraries) for accessing data – Hibernate, Eclipse Link -, presentation frameworks – Sitebricks, Wicket, Google Web Toolkit – and there are even dependency injection frameworks that help you to glue everything together, like String Framework or, my favourite, Google Guice. Not to mention the basic building blocks like Java standard library itself and all those JSRs.
No doubt, those who criticize Java are correct – the learning curve is pretty steep because, in contrast, other languages have frameworks that handle it all together – like Django for Python or Ruby on Rails.
When coming to Java world, the hardest part for me was understanding how to program the service layer because, well, noone actually tells you how :).
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Fast, tough, and very effective at close-to-medium range, Assault clears the path and punches their way through enemy lines.
Fast, tough, and very effective at close-to-medium range, Assault clears the path for teammates and punches their way through enemy lines.
Thermal Detonator: A basic grenade with a large blast radius and high damage, operating on a timed fuse.
Vanguard Replenish: Mark enemies to make them easier to hunt down. Sprint faster. Draw a close-range weapon that builds no heat during the active time of this ability. When you perform a kill, the active time of this ability is replenished.
Star Cards are powerful collectibles, allowing you to boost, modify, and assign new abilities across classes and heroes.
Each class has multiple Star Card slots. Select from a huge variety of Star Cards to equip your class with unique abilities and boosts.
There are 4 tiers of Star Cards available, ranging from Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Epic... all of which can be earned through play.
Utilizing high durability and a personal body shield, the Heavy is an offensive and defensive juggernaut.
Officers makes their allies stronger. They apply powerful buffs to surrounding soldiers. They're the lynchpins holding teams together, using their Abilities to help everyone around them fight more effectively.
Specialists are the tricksters of the battlefield. They employ deadly traps to harry enemy forces, reveal battlefield intelligence to their comrades, and snipe at enemies with long-distance weaponry.


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Mastering Mindfullness
Slowing Down and Opening Up
By Molly Layton
'M SITTING WITH THE Pattersons, an old-married couple, kids mostly grown, and she's hammering away at him. It's a first session, and I can't tell whether her startling bursts of anger are old hoary business or new. She's resurrecting incidents from 15 years ago, his affair, his drinking then, something he said here, something he did there, as if these had never before been aired between the two of them. He's not especially defensive, saying, "I know, I know," then proceeds to get lost in philosophical circumlocutions. In turn, she apologizes for her rage, but soon starts up again.
I ask, "You folks do this a lot?" They both say, "No," and she angrily says that she's kept silent for a long time. But he rolls his eyes at this, and they both describe how they've been battling for years, so I'm confused. Trying to figure out who knew what when, I ask them, Why is this all coming to a head now?" but they look as puzzled by the question as I am by the freshness of her anger.
I am not bothered much by my own confusion however, not especially anxious, although I am keeping a wary eye on the rising intensity between the two of them. The poet Keats called this space "negative capability," a capacity to hang in ambiguity without any "irritable reaching after fact." So in sitting with these painful feeling her glowering resentment, his hangdog spirit I am finally moved to ask a more fundamental question: "Are you two questioning your love of each other?" There's enough…
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