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"A little bit wild, a little bit of trouble with the strike zone, but being able to get through five – he's still a work in progress," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
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JT Riddle hit a three-run homer and Lewis Brinson, who had three hits, also homered in a pivotal six-run third inning.
Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto returned to the lineup after missing four games with a hand injury. Realmuto went 1 of 4 with an RBI and also picked off a runner at second base.
New York's Corey Oswalt (0-1) started in place of Jacob deGrom, who was scratched hours before the game to deal with a family matter. The Mets expect deGrom to start Saturday afternoon.
Oswalt looked nothing like deGrom, whose 1.69 ERA is the best in the majors. Oswalt allowed six hits and six runs in just 2 2/3 innings. All six of the runs Oswalt allowed came in the third inning.
Brinson led off the third with his 10th home run of the season. Realmuto and Starlin Castro followed with run-scoring singles before Riddle's three-run blast to right field gave the Marlins a 6-0 lead.
Devin Mesoraco had an RBI double for the Mets, who have lost nine of 10.
"We weren't really in this game tonight," Callaway said.
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Mets: LHP Jason Vargas (calf) is expected to rejoin the rotation next week. … OF Yoenis Cespedes (hip) remained in Port St. Lucie, Florida, rather than joining the team for this series. Cespedes will continue to receive treatment and physical therapy.
Marlins: LHP Caleb Smith (lat) will have season-ending surgery. Smith finishes his rookie season with a 5-6 record and 4.19 ERA with 88 strikeouts.
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom (5-3, 1.69 ERA) is expected to return to the team and start the second game of the series.
Marlins: RHP Pablo Lopez is slated to make his MLB debut.
Pitcher Wade LeBlanc is guaranteed $2.75 million under a new contract with the Seattle Mariners covering 2019, a deal with three options that would be worth $31.3 million over four years if he pitches 180 innings or more each season.
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He would have been eligible for salary arbitration next winter and for free agency after the 2020 World Series.
LeBlanc is 4-0 with a 3.19 ERA in 12 starts and five relief appearances this season, leaving his career record at 34-35 in 10 big league seasons. He is with his eight big league organization, signing with Seattle late in spring training following his release by the New York Yankees.
LeBlanc has a $650,000 base salary this year and a provision for $25,000 bonuses for 10 and 20 starts. He also earned $96,000 in termination pay with the Yankees.


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Report 24 October 2018
RASOIYAS (mid-day meal workers) held a 5-day strike and a 2-day Mahadharna in Patna under the banner of the Bihar State School Rasoiya Sangh (AICCTU) for 23 demands, including: government employee status for Rasoiyas; equal pay for equal work; Rs 18000 honorarium; stop handing over mid-day meal scheme to NGOs; Rasoiyas must get benefits of Ashok Chaudhury Committee recommendations; stop calling Rasoiyas part-time workers; timely and regular payment of honorarium and honorarium for all 12 months of the year. The strike started on 5 October and ended with the announcement that a protest would be held in front of the Parliament on 19 November 2018.
About 2,000 Rasoiyas participated in the Mahadharna. The Mahadharna was addressed by Mahasangh (Gope group) State President Rambali Prasad, AICCTU State Secretary Ranvijay Kumar, AICCTU leader and ASHA Sangh President Shashi Yadav, Jitendra Prasad, Kamlesh Kumar, and Rasoiya leaders Damyanti Sinha, Leela Verma, Sohila Gupta, Poonam Kumari, Sudha Rani Singh, Meena Devi, Chinta Devi, Madhurani Sinha, Asha Devi, and Saroj Chaube. School Rasoiyas (mid-day meal workers) have been carrying on a long struggle for increase in honorarium, government employee status, and Rs 18,000 monthly wages till they are declared government employees. In 2015, after a long struggle, a high level committee was formed in Bihar. The committee was to submit a report to the government on the situation of all contract and honorarium workers.
The committee was to have submitted its report in 3 months' time but it was submitted after 4 years on 7 August and it was made public at the Republic Day function on 15 August. It is astounding that there is not a single mention of school rasoiyas in this entire 316-page report, whereas something or the other has been said about all other honorarium workers such as ASHA, Mamta, Anganvadi, Taleemi Markaj, Tola Sewak, Kasturba Gandhi school workers etc.
The State government has not only cheated school rasoiyas but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also betrayed them. ASHA incentive has been doubled and Anganvadi workers' honorarium has been increased by 1 ½ times, but there is a deafening silence on rasoiyas. The government's intention towards the mid-day meal scheme (of which the rasoiyas are the backbone) is easy to understand. Nitish Kumar has said at the meeting of the Niti Ayog that the mid-day meal scheme is lowering the quality of education; Central Minister Upendra Kushwaha says that money should be given instead of meals. The truth is that the enrolment of children in schools has increased and the drop-out rate has decreased due to this scheme.
The government has already handed over the mid-day meal scheme to private voluntary organisations in Banka, Katihar, Vaishali, Nalanda, Gaya, Shivhar, Jamui, Beguserai, Bhagalpur, Aurangabad, Rohtas and Kaimur municipality areas. At places where meals are being supplied by NGOs, rasoiyas are being paid a meagre Rs 600. When the School Rasoiya Sangh tried to register a complaint with the general administration department, they refused to entertain it, saying they would accept it only if it came through the education department. An application has been submitted to the education department and to the Director of the mid-day meal scheme.
The effigy of Prime Minister Modi was burnt on 15-16 September to protest against this betrayal of the rasoiyas. Effigy burning programs were organised in Eastern Champaran, Siwan, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Munger, Jamui and Patna.
Instead of considering the Rasoiyas' demands, the government issued a circular with directives that mid-day meals should not be obstructed. This, in fact, had the opposite effect, and in many districts teachers' organisations announced their support; in districts like Bhagalpur, Arwal and Bhojpur they mobilised the Rasoiyas for the Patna mahadharna.
Prior to the dharna in Patna, a rally was organized from Gardanibagh led by AIPWA leader Comrade Saroj Chaubey. The dharna was addressed by AIPWA General Secretary Meena Tiwari, Shashi Yadav, Rambali Prasad, RN Thakur, Ranvijay Kumar, Sohila Gupta, Sona Devi, Poonam Devi, Madhuri Gupta, Leela Verma, Damyanti Sinha, Savitri Devi, Dinesh Prasad Kushwaha, Kunti Devi, Jaykaran Mahto, Sudarshan Yadav, Sunita Devi, Shanichari Devi, Pappu Yadav, Basudev Roy, Rakhi Mehta, Bachu Prasad Singh, Sudha Rani Singh, Meena Devi, Kamlesh Kumar, Jitendra Kumar and others.
Rally at Kolkata
The All Bengal Sangrami Mid-day-meal Workers' Union held a protest rally and demonstration at Sealdah station, Kolkata where hundreds of mid day meal workers assembled to protest against their deplorable conditions on 26 September, 2018.
The decision of organising a demonstration of mid day meal workers at state level was taken a month ago and leaflets, posters were published. As the campaign picked up, wide enthusiasm was witnessed among the mid day meal workers and in some new pockets they spontaneously came forward, enrolled their membership, formed new units, disseminated the propaganda and a new initiative was witnessed in many places.
Though the sudden call of BJP's bandh on 26th (in an attempt to communalise the issue of police firing on students) initially created some confusion but AICCTU leadership was firm to hold the demonstration on that day, come what may. As the propaganda gathered steam, the TMC people also started to foil this initiative in a number of places and after the bandh call by BJP, the administration issued directives to ensure the presence of all MDM workers in the schools. However, despite all these odds and disruptions, MDM workers assembled enthusiastically, foiling the bandh call by BJP and the demonstration generated new fighting spirit among the MDM workers.
The main demands were Rs. 18,000 minimum wages, to implement the recommendations of 42nd national labour commission, recognition of mid day meal workers as workers, to provide social security, PF-ESI, bonus during festivals, and other demands. AICCTU and AIPWA leaders addressed the meeting and it was resolved that the leadership of the union shall meet the education minister on October 1, and submit the charter of demands. The meeting was presided over by Com. Mina Pal, President of the union.
Jharkhand Rasoiyas Fight for Rights
Jharkhand mid-day meal workers (Rasoiyas) are struggling against the Raghubar-led BJP government for their 15-point charter of demands: reinstate all sacked Rasoiyas and Sanyojikas; give Class IV government employee status to Rasoiyas-Sanyojikas as in Tamil Nadu; Rs 18000 minimum wage per month for all Rasoiyas-Sanyojikas as declared by the Central government; re-open the 350 schools that have earlier been closed down; revoke the Jharkhand government's decision to close down 10,000 schools and immediately re-open the 10,000 schools (out of a total of 42,000) closed down by the government; speedy payment of 8 months' arrears due to Rasoiyas; Rs 5 lakh free life insurance; guarantee that school teachers will not be made to do any work other than teaching work. From 25 September 2018 the Rasoiyas have been holding an indefinite 'Dera Dalo Ghera Dalo' agitation in front of the Governor of Jharkhand.
The Jharkhand government has made up its mind to implement a scheme to hand over the mid-day meal government scheme to private companies. According to this scheme, a single private company will prepare mid-day meals at a single centre for 1 lakh children. It is believed that as it will take a long time to prepare 1 lakh meals at a single centre, the quality of the food will be affected. So, in order to preserve the quality, chemicals will be added to the food. This will have a dangerous effect on the physical as well as mental health of the children.
An indefinite dharna at the Raj Bhavan began on 25 September. An average of 150-200 Rasoiyas-Sanyojikas attended the dharna daily. But the Rasoiyas' anger escalated as the Raj Bhavan paid no heed to their agitation. Another cause for the anger was also that this agitation has been going on serially for the last 3 years but the Raghubar government has paid no heed. Finally, as per the decision of the Rasoiya Sangh, 5000-7000 Rasoiyas (and some Sanyojikas) marched from marched from the Morahabadi Maidan in Ranchi to the Chief Minister's house to stage a gherao. The police had placed barricades on the road and tried to stop the rally near the barricade. The protesters and the police exchanged words. But the Rasoiyas did not stop, and moved forward breaking the barricade. Almost at a run, the protesters reached the Ram Dayal Munda Park near the Guest House, when the police let loose a brutal lathi charge on them.
Male police hit the women Rasoiyas with lathis and chased them, beating them all the while. Even with small infants in their arms, the women bravely opposed the beatings of the police. They held firm to their protest and lay prone on the ground, jamming the crossroads in front of the Guest House. The road remained blocked for 4 hours. Sadar SDO Garima Singh was present at the venue but the protesters were not pacified by her. At around 2 pm CO Dhananjay Singh came, and went along with Rasoiya Sangh President and 7 other members of the delegation to the Chief Minister's house for talks. But the talks were a failure. The leaders of the Rasoiya Sangh insisted on talks directly with the Chief Minister himself, and 12 October was fixed as the date for talks with the CM.
Dozens of Rasoiyas were injured in the lathi charge, of whom 2 were seriously injured and admitted in hospital. The Sangh declared that from 10 October onwards Rasoiyas and mid-day meal workers would be on an indefinite strike in protest against the brutal lathi charge on peacefully protesting Rasoiyas. About 2 lakh Rasoiyas would be on strike until their demands are not met, and mid-day meals would not be prepared in schools. This declaration was implemented from 10 October and the Rasoiyas went on a state-wide strike. Despite this, the Chief Minister did not give them time for talks, and on 13 October 9000-10,000 Rasoiyas jammed the main crossroads of Ranchi city for more than 3 hours.
The sate-wide strike by the Rasoiyas is still continuing. Para teachers' organisations and government school teachers' organisations have assured full support to the strike. This entire agitation was conducted by the Jharkhand State School Rasoiya Sanyojika Sangh led by President Ajit Prajjapati, General Secretary Premnath Vishwakarma, and Treasurer Anita Devi.

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The Military Administration in France (German: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France. This so-called zone occupée was renamed zone nord (north zone) in November 1942, when the previously unoccupied zone in the south known as zone libre (free zone) was also occupied and renamed zone sud (south zone).
German (pink) and Italian (green) occupation zones of France: the zone occupée, the zone libre, the zone interdite, the Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France, and annexed Alsace-Lorraine.
Its role in France was partly governed by the conditions set by the Second Armistice at Compiègne after the blitzkrieg success of the Wehrmacht leading to the Fall of France; at the time both French and Germans thought the occupation would be temporary and last only until Britain came to terms, which was believed to be imminent. For instance, France agreed that its soldiers would remain prisoners of war until the cessation of all hostilities.
Replacing the French Third Republic that had dissolved during France's defeat was the French State (État français), with its sovereignty and authority limited to the free zone. As Paris was located in the occupied zone, its government was seated in the spa town of Vichy in Auvergne, and therefore it was more commonly known as Vichy France.
Hitler touring the WWI battlefields of Arras with Heitz, a fellow veteran, May 1940.
While the Vichy government was nominally in charge of all of France, the military administration in the occupied zone was a de facto Nazi dictatorship. Its rule was extended to the free zone when it was invaded by Germany and Italy during Case Anton on 11 November 1942 in response to Operation Torch, the Allied landings in French North Africa on 8 November 1942. The Vichy government remained in existence, even though its authority was now severely curtailed.
The military administration in France ended with the Liberation of France after the Normandy and Provence landings. It formally existed from May 1940 to December 1944, though most of its territory had been liberated by the Allies by the end of summer 1944.
Wehrmacht soldiers marching along the parade route at Champs-Élysées, Paris, led by Obermusikmeister from the unit Musikkorps. The divisional Reichsadler (Schellenbaumflagge) of 30. Infanterie-Division can be seen in the background, on top of the Schellenbaum (Jingling Johnnie).
The streets in París lined with Swastika banner.
German road signs, located at major Paris intersections such as the Place de l'Opéra, guided drivers to military headquarters and Wehrmacht support units
Happy German soldiers visited the Versailles Palace in 1940, shortly after the fall of France and the German-French ceasefire of 22 June 1940.
Wehrmacht soldiers marching along the parade route at Champs-Élysées, Paris, led by Obermusikmeister from the unit Musikkorps. The divisional Reichsadler (Schellenbaumflagge) of 30. Infanterie-Division can be seen in background, on top of the Schellenbaum (Jingling Johnnie).
Wehrmacht inspection in Paris, France, in 1941.
Rationing tickets for the French population, July 1944.
German road signs in occupied Paris. The Feldgendarmerie was responsible for military traffic.
German control post on the Demarcation Line.
German soldiers march by the Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, June 1940.
German soldiers and captured communists, July 1944.
Heer in Paris.
German soldiers march near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 14 June 1940.
Pétain meeting Hitler in October 1940.
Paris under the Occupation. German soldiers on the Trocadero esplanade admiring the Eiffel tower.
Germans in Paris, 1940.
Luftwaffe ground-crew ("black men") positioning a Bf 109 G-6 "Kanonenvogel" equipped with the Rüstsatz VI underwing gondola cannon kit. Note the slats on the leading edge of the port wing. JG 2, France, late 1943.
The crew of a minesweeper, France, 1941.
German troops in Paris.
Wilhelm Bittrich in a rare white summer uniform of the Waffen-SS, on his left SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Harzer , near Ypres in the summer of 1943.
Four Bf 109 of JG 51 in France 1940.
A Sd.Kfz. 251 of the 7th Panzer in southern France, November 1942.
The crew of a Panzer IV watch a burning French warship, probably the cruiser Colbert.
Bf 109 of JG 51 in France, August 1940.
German officers in a Schwimmwagen in France in 1944.
Schwimmwagen from the December 1944 issue of the Intelligence Bulletin.
French Resistance members being searched for in a group of prisoners, July 1944.
Rape and torture of a French Civilian who had a relationship with a German soldier by members of the French Resistance.
Occupation Zones
Alsace-Lorraine, which had been annexed after the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 by the German Empire and returned to France after the First World War, was re-annexed by the Third Reich thus subjecting their male population to German military conscription. The departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais were attached to the military administration in Belgium and Northern France, which was also responsible for civilian affairs in the 20-kilometre (12 mi) wide zone interdite along the Atlantic coast. Another forbidden zone were areas in north-eastern France, corresponding to Lorraine and roughly about half each of Franche-Comté, Champagne and Picardie. War refugees were prohibited from returning to their homes, and it was intended for German settlers and annexation in the coming Nazi New Order (Neue Ordnung).
The occupied zone (German: Besetztes Gebiet) consisted of the rest of northern and western France, including the two forbidden zones.
The southern part of France, except for the western half of Aquitaine along the Atlantic coast, became the zone libre (free zone), where the Vichy regime remained sovereign as an independent state, though under heavy German influence due to the restrictions of the Armistice (including a heavy tribute) and economical dependency on Germany. It constituted a land area of 246,618 square kilometers, approximately 45 percent of France, and included approximately 33 percent of the total French labor force. The demarcation line between the free zone and the occupied zone was a de facto border, necessitating special authorization and a laissez-passer from the German authorities to cross.
These restrictions remained in place after Vichy was occupied and the zone renamed zone sud (south zone), and also placed under military administration in November 1942.
The Italian occupation zone consisted of small areas along the Alps border, and a 50-kilometre (31 mi) demilitarised zone along the same. It was expanded to all territory on the left bank of the Rhône river after its invasion together with Germany of Vichy France on 11 November 1942, except for areas around Lyon and Marseille, which were added to Germany's zone sud, and Corsica.
The Italian occupation zone was also occupied by Germany and added to the zone sud after Italy's surrender in September 1943, except for Corsica, which was liberated by the landings of Free French forces and local Italian troops that had switched sides to the Allies.
Occupation Forces
The Wehrmacht maintained a varying number of divisions in France. 100,000 Germans were in the whole of the German-zone in France in December 1941. When the bulk of the Wehrmacht was fighting on the eastern front, German units were rotated to France to rest and refit. The number of troops increased when the threat of Allied invasion began looming large, with the Dieppe raid marking its real beginning. The actions of British Commandos against German troops brought Hitler to condemn them as irregular warfare. In his Commando Order he denied them lawful combatant status, and ordered them to be handed over to the SS security service when captured and liable to be summarily executed. As the war went on, garrisoning the Atlantic Wall and suppressing the resistance became heavier and heavier duties.
Some notable units and formations stationed in France during the occupation:
1940: Luftflotte 2, Luftflotte 3 operated from airfields in northern France during the Battle of Britain. Luftflotte 3 stayed there to defend against the allied strategic bombings until it had to retreat in 1944.
1941: Battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The battleship Bismarck was sunk while trying to reach French Atlantic harbors after its commissioning.
1942: 2. SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 4. SS Police Regiment.
1943: At the height of the battle of the Atlantic, between 60 and over a 100 German U-boats were stationed in submarine pens in French Atlantic ports such as La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Saint-Nazaire, Brest, and Lorient.
1944: 157th Gebirds (Reserve) Division, Panzer Lehr, XIXth Army, 716th Static Infantry Division, 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
After Germany and France agreed on an armistice following the defeats of May and June, Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, and General Charles Huntzinger, representatives of the Third Reich and of the French government of Marshal Philippe Pétain respectively, signed it on 22 June 1940 at the Rethondes clearing in Compiègne Forest. As it was done at the same place and in the same railroad carriage where the armistice ending the First World War when Germany surrendered, it is known as the Second Compiègne armistice.
France was roughly divided into an occupied northern zone and an unoccupied southern zone, according to the armistice convention "in order to protect the interests of the German Reich". The French colonial empire remained under the authority of Marshall Pétain's Vichy regime. French sovereignty was to be exercised over the whole of French territory, including the occupied zone, Alsace, and Moselle, but the third article of the armistice stipulated that French authorities in the occupied zone would have to obey the military administration and that Germany would exercise rights of an occupying power within it:
In the occupied region of France, the German Reich exercises all of the rights of an occupying power. The French government undertakes to facilitate in every way possible the implementation of these rights and to provide the assistance of the French administrative services to that end. The French government will immediately direct all officials and administrators of the occupied territory to comply with the regulations of and to collaborate fully with the German military authorities.
The military administration was responsible for civil affairs in occupied France. It was divided into Kommandanturen (singular Kommandantur), in decreasing hierarchical order Oberfeldkommandanturen, Feldkommandanturen, Kreiskommandanturen, and Ortskommandanturen. German naval affairs in France were coordinated through a central office known as the Höheres Kommando der Marinedienststellen in Groß-Paris (Supreme Command for Naval Services in the Greater Paris Area) who in turn answered to a senior commander for all of France known as the Admiral Frankreich. After Case Anton, the Admiral Frankreich naval command was broken apart into smaller offices which answered directly to the operational command of Navy Group West.
In order to suppress partisans and resistance fighters, the military administration cooperated closely with the Gestapo, the Sicherheitsdienst, the intelligence service of the SS, and the Sicherheitspolizei, its security police. It also had at its disposal the support of the French authorities and police forces, who had to cooperate per the conditions set in the armistice, to round up Jews, anti-fascists, and other dissidents, and vanish them into Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog). It also had the help of collaborationists auxiliaries like the Milice, the Franc-Gardes, and the Legionary Order Service. The two main collaborationist political parties were the French Popular Party (PPF) and the National Popular Rally (RNP), each with 20,000 to 30,000 members.
The Milice participated with Lyon Gestapo head Klaus Barbie in seizing members of the resistance and minorities including Jews for shipment to detention centers, such as the Drancy deportation camp, en route to Auschwitz, and other German concentration camps, including Dachau and Buchenwald.
Some Frenchmen also volunteered directly in German forces to fight for Germany and/or against Bolsheviks, such as the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism. Volunteers from this and other outfits later constituted the cadre of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French).
Stanley Hoffmann in 1974, and after him, other historians such as Robert Paxton and Jean-Pierre Azéma have used the term collaborationnistes to refer to fascists and Nazi sympathizers who, for ideological reasons, wished a reinforced collaboration with Hitler's Germany, in contrast to "collaborators", people who merely cooperated out of self-interest. Examples of these are PPF leader Jacques Doriot, writer Robert Brasillach or Marcel Déat. A principal motivation and ideological foundation among collaborationnistes was anti-communism.
Anti-Partisan Actions
The "Appeal of 18 June" by de Gaulle's Free France government in exile in London had little immediate effect, and few joined its French Forces of the Interior beyond those that had already gone into exile to join the Free French. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the French communist party, hitherto under orders from the Comintern to remain passive against the German occupiers, began to mount actions against them. De Gaulle sent Jean Moulin back to France as his formal link to the irregulars throughout the occupied country to coordinate the eight major Résistance groups into one organization. Moulin got their agreement to form the National Council of the Resistance (Conseil National de la Résistance).
Moulin was eventually captured, and died under brutal torture by the Gestapo, possibly by Klaus Barbie himself. The resistance intensified after it became clear the tide of war had shifted after the Reich's defeat at Stalingrad in early 1943 and, by 1944, large remote areas were out of the German military's control and free zones for the maquisards, so-called after the maquis shrubland that provided ideal terrain for guerrilla warfare.
The most important anti-partisan action was the Battle of Vercors. The most popular one is the Oradour-sur-Glane retribution. Other notable punishments committed were the Tulle retribution, the Le Paradis retribution, the Maillé retribution, and the Ascq retribution. Large maquis where significant military operations were conducted included the maquis du Vercors, the maquis du Limousin, the Maquis des Glières, the maquis du Mont Mouchet, and the maquis de Saint-Marcel. Major round-up operations included the battle of Marseille and the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.
Although the majority of the French population did not take part in active resistance, many resisted passively through acts such as listening to the banned BBC's Radio Londres or giving collateral or material aid to Resistance members. Others assisted in the escape of downed US or British airmen who eventually found their way back to Britain, often through Spain.
By the eve of the liberation, numerous factions of nationalists, anarchists, communists, socialists, and others, counting between 100,000 and up to 400,000 combatants, were actively fighting the occupation forces. Supported by the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services that air-dropped weapons and supplies, as well as infiltrating agents like Nancy Wake who provided tactical advice and specialist skills like radio operation and demolition, they systematically sabotaged railway lines, destroyed bridges, cut German supply lines, and provided general intelligence to the allied forces. German anti-partisan operations claimed around 13,000-16,000 French victims, including 4,000 to 5,000 innocent civilians.
At the end of the war, some 580,000 French had died (40,000 of these by the western Allied forces during the bombardments of the first 48 hours of operation Overlord). Military deaths were 92,000 in 1939-40. Some 58,000 were killed in action from 1940 to 1945 fighting in the Free French forces. Some 40,000 malgré-nous (against our will), citizens of re-annexed Alsace-Lorraine drafted into the Wehrmacht, became casualties. Civilian casualties amounted to around 150,000 (60,000 by aerial bombing, 60,000 in the resistance, and 30,000 by German occupation forces). Prisoners of war and deportee totals were around 1.9 million. Of this, around 240,000 died in captivity. An estimated 40,000 were prisoners of war, 100,000 racial deportees, 60,000 political prisoners and 40,000 died as slave laborers.
The census for 1 April 1941 show 25,071,255 inhabitants in the occupied zone (with 14.2m in the unoccupied zone). This does not include the 1,600,000 prisoners of war, nor the 60,000 French workers in Germany or the departments of Alsace-Lorraine.
The life of the French during the German occupation was marked, from the beginning, by endemic shortages. They are explained by several factors:
One of the conditions of the armistice was to pay the costs of the 300,000-strong occupying German army, which amounted to 20 million Reichsmark per day. The artificial exchange rate of the German currency against the French franc was consequently established as 1 RM to 20 FF. This allowed German requisitions and purchases to be made into a form of organized plunder and resulted in endemic food shortages and malnutrition, particularly among children, the elderly, and the more vulnerable sections of French society such as the working urban class of the cities.
The disorganization of transport, except for the railway system which relied on French domestic coal supplies.
The cutting off of international trade and the Allied blockade, restricting imports into the country.
The extreme shortage of petrol and diesel fuel. France had no indigenous oil production and all imports had stopped.
Labor shortages, particularly in the countryside, due to a large number of French prisoners of war held in Germany, and the Service du travail obligatoire.
Ersatz or makeshift substitutes took the place of many products that were in short supply; wood gas generators on trucks and automobiles burned charcoal or wood pellets as a substitute to gasoline, and wooden soles for shoes were used instead of leather. Soap was rare and made in some households from fats and caustic soda. Coffee was replaced by toasted barley mixed with chicory, and sugar with saccharin.
The Germans seized about 80 percent of the French food production, which caused severe disruption to the household economy of the French people. French farm production fell in half because of lack of fuel, fertilizer, and workers; even so, the Germans seized half the meat, 20 percent of the produce, and 80 percent of the Champagne. Supply problems quickly affected French stores which lacked most items.
Faced with these difficulties in everyday life, the government answered by rationing, and creating food charts and tickets which were to be exchanged for bread, meat, butter and cooking oil. The rationing system was stringent but badly mismanaged, leading to
malnourishment, black markets, and hostility to state management of the food supply. The official ration provided starvation level diets of 1,300 or fewer calories a day, supplemented by home gardens and, especially, black market purchases.
Hunger prevailed, especially affecting youth in urban areas. The queues lengthened in front of shops. In the absence of meat and other foods including potatoes, people ate unusual vegetables, such as Swedish turnip and Jerusalem artichoke. Food shortages were most acute in the large cities. In the more remote country villages, however, clandestine slaughtering, vegetable gardens and the availability of milk products permitted better survival.
Some people benefited from the black market, where food was sold without tickets at very high prices. Farmers diverted especially meat to the black market, which meant that much less for the open market. Counterfeit food tickets were also in circulation. Direct buying from farmers in the countryside and barter against cigarettes were also frequent practices during this period. These activities were strictly forbidden, however, and thus carried out at the risk of confiscation and fines.
During the day, numerous regulations, censorship and propaganda made the occupation increasingly unbearable. At night, inhabitants had to abide a curfew and it was forbidden to go out during the night without an Ausweis. They had to close their shutters or windows and turn off any light, to prevent Allied aircraft using city lights for navigation. The experience of the Occupation was a deeply psychologically disorienting one for the French as what was once familiar and safe suddenly become strange and threatening. Many Parisians could not get over the shock experienced when they first saw the huge swastika flags draped over the Hôtel de Ville and flying on top of the Eiffel Tower. The British historian Ian Ousby wrote:
Even today, when people who are not French or did not live through the Occupation look at photos of German soldiers marching down the Champs Élysées or of Gothic-lettered German signposts outside the great landmarks of Paris, they can still feel a slight shock of disbelief. The scenes look not just unreal, but almost deliberately surreal, as if the unexpected conjunction of German and French, French and German, was the result of a Dada prank and not the sober record of history. This shock is merely a distant echo of what the French underwent in 1940: seeing a familiar landscape transformed by the addition of the unfamiliar, living among everyday sights suddenly made bizarre, no longer feeling at home in places they had known all their lives.
Ousby wrote that by the end of summer of 1940: "And so the alien presence, increasingly hated and feared in private, could seem so permanent that, in the public places where daily life went on, it was taken for granted". At the same time France was also marked by disappearances as buildings were renamed, books banned, art was stolen to be taken to Germany and as time went on, people started to vanish.
With nearly 75,000 inhabitants killed and 550,000 tons of bombs dropped, France was, after Germany, the second most severely bomb-devastated country on the Western Front of World War II. Allied bombings were particularly intense before and during Operation Overlord in 1944.
The Allies' Transportation Plan aiming at the systematic destruction of French railway marshalling yards and railway bridges, in 1944, also took a heavy toll on civilian lives. For example, the 26 May 1944 bombing hit railway targets in and around five cities in south-eastern France, causing over 2,500 civilian deaths.
Crossing the ligne de démarcation between the north zone and the south zone also required an Ausweis, which was difficult to acquire. People could write only to their family members, and this was only permissible using a pre-filled card where the sender checked off the appropriate words (e.g. in good health, wounded, dead, prisoner). The occupied zone was on German time, which was one hour ahead of the unoccupied zone. Other policies implemented in the occupied zone but not in the free zone were a curfew from 10 p.m to 5 a.m, a ban on American films, the suppression of displaying the French flag, singing the Marseillaise, and the banning of Vichy paramilitary organizations, and the Veterans' Legion.
Schoolchildren were made to sing "Maréchal, nous voilà !" (Marshall, here we are!). The portrait of Marshal Philippe Pétain adorned the walls of classrooms, thus creating a personality cult. Propaganda was present in education to train the young people with the ideas of the new Vichy regime. However, there was no resumption in ideology as in other occupied countries, for example in Poland, where the teaching elite was liquidated. Teachers were not imprisoned and the programs were not modified overall. In the private Catholic sector, many school directors hid Jewish children and provided education for them until the Liberation.
German soldiers talking with French women by the Moulin Rouge in June 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Paris.
Nightlife in Paris
One month after the occupation, the bi-monthly soldiers' magazine Der Deutsche Wegleiter für Paris (The German Guide to Paris) was first published by the Paris Kommandantur and became a success. Further guides, such as the Guide aryien, counted e.g. the Moulin Rouge among the must-see locations in Paris. Famous clubs such as the Folies-Belleville or Bobino were also among the sought-after venues. A wide array of German units were rotated to France to rest and refit; the Germans used the motto "Jeder einmal in Paris" (everyone once in Paris) and provided recreational visits to the city for their troops. Various famous artists, such as Yves Montand, or later Les Compagnons de la chanson, started their careers during the occupation. Edith Piaf lived above L'Étoile de Kléber, a famous bordello on the Rue Lauriston, which was near to the Carlingue headquarters and often frequented by German troops. The curfew in Paris was not upheld as strictly as in other cities.
The Django Reinhardt song "Nuages", performed by Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the Salle Pleyel, gained notoriety among both French and German fans. Reinhardt was even invited to play for the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. The use and abuse of Paris in the visitations of German forces during the Second World War led to a backlash; the intensive prostitution during the occupation made way for the Loi de Marthe Richard in 1946, which closed the bordellos and reduced raunchy stage shows to mere dancing events.
Labor Service
During the German occupation, a forced labor policy, called Service du Travail Obligatoire (Obligatory work service, STO), consisted of the requisition and transfer of hundreds of thousands of French workers to Germany against their will, for the German war effort. In addition to work camps for factories, agriculture, and railroads, forced labor was used for V-1 launch sites and other military facilities targeted by the Allies in Operation Crossbow. Beginning in 1942, many refused to be drafted to factories and farms in Germany by the STO, going underground to avoid imprisonment and subsequent deportation to Germany. For the most part, those work dodgers (réfractaires) became maquisards.
The Liberation of France was the result of the Allied operations Overlord and Dragoon in the summer of 1944. Most of France was liberated by September 1944. Some of the heavily fortified French Atlantic coast submarine bases remained stay-behind fortresses until the German capitulation in May 1945. The Free French exile government declared the re-establishment of a provisional French Republic, ensuring continuity with the defunct Third Republic. It set about raising new troops to participate in the advance to the Rhine and the invasion of Germany, using the French Forces of the Interior as military cadres and manpower pools of experienced fighters to allow a very large and rapid expansion of the French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération). Thanks to Lend-Lease, it was well equipped and well supplied despite the economic disruption brought by the occupation, and it grew from 500,000 men in the summer of 1944 to more than 1.3 million by V-E day, making it the fourth largest Allied army in Europe.
The French 2nd Armored Division, the tip of the spear of the Free French forces that had participated in the Normandy Campaign and had liberated Paris on 25 August 1944, went on to liberate Strasbourg on 23 November 1944, thus fulfilling the Oath of Kufra made by General Leclerc almost four years earlier. The unit under his command, barely above company-size when it had captured the Italian fort, had grown into a full-strength armored division.
The spearhead of the Free French First Army, that had landed in Provence on 15 August 1944, was the I Corps. Its leading unit, the French 1st Armored Division, was the first Western Allied unit to reach the Rhône on 25 August 1944, the Rhine on 19 November 1944, and the Danube on 21 April 1945. On 22 April 1945, it captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles, including Marshal Pétain, were hosted by the Germans in one of the ancestral castles of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Collaborators were put on trial in legal purges, and a number were executed for high treason, among them Pierre Laval, Vichy's prime minister in 1942-44. Marshal Pétain, Chief of the French State and Verdun hero, was also condemned to death on 14 August 1945, but his sentence was commuted to life three days later. Thousands of collaborators were summarily executed by local Resistance forces in so-called "savage purges".


It's great to be home from the road. Our almost-five-week Summer Tour went well- wonderful to see friends and familiar faces up north in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. The Cincy Blues Festival was a high point for us, sharing the Arches Piano Stage with Ann Rabson, Henry Butler, Ricky Nye, Rudy Blue Shoes, Big Joe Duskin, Todd Hepburn, Craig Brenner, Bob Seeley, Mr. B., Henry Gray and others. The Atwood Yacht Club said they had the best crowd ever. We were totally surprised when Barry Mellitz, our fan from Connecticut, walked into our show at the Parkersburg Moose Lodge in West Virginia. Check out our GALLERY page for new tour photos.
We are heartbroken by the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, the birthplace of jazz and blues. We will be a part of a Benefit Concert at the Ringside Cafe in St. Pete on Tuesday, September 13th. Many of Tampa Bay's best musicians will also be performing at this benefit.
Regrettably, after a successful public reading on May 16th, the theatrical production on the life of Diamond Teeth Mary has been halted due to the dissolving of the Live Arts Peninsula, who had planned to produce the play. However, New York playwright Levy Lee Simon and many of us here are hopeful that his play will be produced by another venue.
Also, we continue to work on material for our next CD. Two of our brand new songs, "Etta Kitt" and "Taxi Driving Woman", were well-received on the tour.
We were shocked and saddened when we got the news on the road that our friend Lovey Rochester passed away August 19th. We will surely miss her enthusiastic spirit at the gigs, and our deepest sympathy goes out to her twin sister Dovey and family.
Florida DOES get cold in the winter, especially when you're playing outside gigs & the temp is below 40! Our fans were truly loyal as they bundled up & braved the chill for some blues! April & May have been unusually cool too, which is great- windows open & no A/C yet. Spring has found us playing a number of beach gigs, such at the KATIKI (Sunset Beach) every Sunday and SUNSET BAR & GRILL (St. Pete Beach) on many Saturdays. Great sunsets!
The DIAMOND TEETH MARY play is progressing nicely, and the New York playwright LEVY LEE SIMON is in town this weekend for a first public reading of the play. The reading is scheduled for Monday, May 16th, and we'll be providing the music behind the singers. As the play takes form for the stage, it's an exciting trip down "memory lane" for Liz and me after twelve years of performing with Mary. The play is scheduled for opening in either the fall or winter.
We're also excited about a new CD release from ANDRA FAYE, one of the members of SAFFIRE: THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN. Andra has recorded one of Liz's songs, "TAKE IT SLOW," on this new release, which is the first time one of Liz's songs has been recorded by a national artist. For more information or to order this CD, check out ANDRA FAYE'S website on our LINKS page (www.andrafaye.com).
Liz & I will be traveling to Tallahassee on Saturday, July 2nd to perform at the FLORIDA BLUES CELEBRATION for the Florida Museum of History. Other blues notables who will be playing at the festival include SARASOTA SLIM and blues harpist T.C. CARR. This promises to be a memorable event.
Well, our supply of motel soap is dwindling, so it must be time to tour again. The Summer tour will begin the last week of July and will run through August 25th. Our DATES page lists the gigs booked so far, but check it for updates to see when we'll be in your area. Come on out to a show or two- we'd love to see ya!
As always, much thanks to those of you who come out to the shows and buy CDs- you keep us going and inspired!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Another year is coming to a close, but this Autumn has been an exciting one for us. Liz & I flew to Ohio the week of Halloween to play for her niece's wedding in Lebanon, Ohio. So good to see all the relatives, and Alicia's & Elijah's wedding was great; our good friend and blues photographer, LES GRUSECK, took the photos, and we had a chance to visit Les, his wife Lilia, and their daughter Maya in Florence, Kentucky for a few days. On Monday, November 1st, Liz & I performed for Blues In The Schools in Cincinnati; thanks to TODD HEPBURN and The Cincy Blues Society for putting this together. We then split a gig with Cincy piano master RICKY NYE at Chez Nora in Covington, Kentucky on November 3rd before returning home to Florida.
Thanksgiving found us flying to Belgium where we performed at the BRUSSELS BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT on November 27th. Liz & I shared the bill with RENAUD PATIGNY (Belgium's "King of Boogie Woogie"), CHRISTOPH ROIS (Vienna, Austria), and CAROLINE DAHL (San Francisco) at Theatre St. Michel, a gorgeous old theatre with two Yamaha grand pianos onstage. The enthusiastic audience of 1,300+ received us well, and we also did a couple songs with Brussels blues harpist GENEVIEVE DARTEVELLE. You can view photos from the festival on our PHOTOS page. Many thanks to Renaud Patigny for having us perform!
Liz and I had a chance to sightsee in downtown Brussels (at the Grand Place) on Sunday and sample the fine waffles, chocolate, beer, and other Belgian cuisine before leaving on Monday. Brussels is an absolutely beautiful city, and we truly hated to leave.
Our sympathies go to fellow musician TOMMY McCOY on the sudden loss of his girlfriend, BRENDA. We also mourn the loss of 2 dear fan/friends: MORGAN CUMMINGS of Crystal River and just got word that singer/songwriter MIKE LOREN passed last night. It's hard to lose friends our age & we'll miss seeing them in the audience. Life is short and as Morgan said, "Keep the faith and seek the light." We so appreciate every one of you & hope to see you often in 2005. Happy New Year!
As I write this on Sunday, September 5th, we're hunkered down at home in St. Pete riding out Hurricane Frances, the largest hurricane diameter-wise in recorded history. So far, there's been lots of wind and rain, but no major property damage in our area. This was quite a stormy homecoming after our five-week Summer Tour, but we're really glad to be home!
Our 2004 tour took us to shows in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Tennessee. This was our tenth year at the Cincy Blues Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio), and the rainy weather cleared in time for our 6 PM performance. Liz & I truly enjoyed seeing so many of our friends and fans there, and we had a great time staying with our good friends Les & Lilia Gruseck and their daughter Maya. While at Gruseck's, we had the chance to get together with our pal Roy Book Binder, his wife Nancy and her sister Maureen; we also had a cookout there with our friends Dave Warford, Mary Ann Kindell, and Dilip Tripithy, courtesy of the Grusecks. Check out the new Cincy 2004 pics on our GALLERY page.
Liz and I did two shows at the Canal House Tavern in Tuscarawas, Ohio- our first time there. It turns out the owner is Liz's second cousin, so it was a reunion of sorts.
One of the joys of touring is playing in familiar towns where we reunite with old friends and fans. Liz and I had a nice time at our Slippery Noodle show in Indianapolis, where we saw friends Stephanie Griffin, Jim & Kate Kirk, and Jack Bailey, who graciously put us up for the night in his beautiful home (Thanks, Jack).
Also, we had a great two nights at the Marietta Brewing Company in Marietta, Ohio (our old stomping grounds) and at Court Grill (Pomeroy, Ohio), where we reunited with many friends from Southeastern Ohio & Parkersburg, West Virginia. Further, we did two shows at Wild Bill's New American Grill in Lebanon, Ohio, where we stayed with Liz's sister Mary and her family.
Liz & I played at Brackins Blues Bar in Maryville, Tennessee for the first time on August 27th (this is a fine blues club with a nice stage & house PA). The Maryville Daily Times did a story on us prior to the gig. We then headed south to Chattanooga, Tennessee for our gig at The Tropicana Room (where we saw our good friend, Dr. Russell Linneman- the "blues doctor") before heading home.
On Friday, Just before Hurricane Frances hit, Liz & I played our homecoming gig at Dave's Aqualounge to a great crowd of familiar faces. Among the new songs that we're now doing is "Straight At Me", a new tune by our friend Terry Gregory (music by Liz). This new song was well-received on our tour, and people are finding it quite danceable. Liz also has a new original entitled "Last Song"; both of these songs will be on our next album. Further, we've introduced our new logo-embroidered blues berets, which come in four colors and are available at our shows.
Among our other upcoming Florida gigs, Liz & I will be performing at the Jazz-Up Dunnellon Festival on September 25th, The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel/Casino (Tampa) on September 13th, and at Classic Wax in Sarasota on September 17th. Please check our DATES page for details. Also, we'll be going to Brussels, Belgium in late November to play at the Brussels Boogie-Woogie Festival.
That's all for now- Hope to see you at a show soon and thanks to all who made our tour wonderful!
Happy New Year, Everybody! Hope the holidays treated you well. 2003, the Year Of The Blues, turned out to be a great year for us, particularly with the release of LIVE FROM ST. PETE. Thanks to all who have purchased this and our other albums.
December was a busy month for us. In early December, we performed in Indianapolis at the annual meeting of the Wabash Valley Power Company, followed by a trip to the Slippery Noodle in Indy, where we played at their Wednesday night Jam Session. It was a wonderful three days, but we were glad to get back to sunny Florida.
John Hammond, one of America's great acoustic blues artists, showed up at our Caspy's gig on December 18th following his concert in Gulfport and sat in with Liz on a few songs- quite a treat! We actually hadn't seen John since we opened for him in 1989 in Marietta, Ohio (see photo in our GALLERY)- great to see John and Marla again.
Thanks to all who joined us New Year's Eve at the Peninsula Inn in Gulfport. Sax player Mike Delaney performed with us, and it was a good place to ring in the New Year.
We attended our good friend Roy Book Binder's Birthday Bash in Gulfport in January, where most of the Tampa Bay's blues luminaries were in attendance, including Norwegian guitar legend Vidar Busk. Check out Roy's website (on our LINKS page) when you get a chance- he could be playing in your area soon.
If you're in the Tampa Bay area, please stop in at a show and say hello. Our DATES schedule is kept current daily.


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BREAKING News From The NATIONAL GUARD
Guatemalan Minor Rescued During Joint National Guard / Border Patrol Flight
TUCSON, Ariz. –A 17-year-old Guatemalan male was rescued by a joint Arizona National Guard and U.S. Border Patrol flight crew Monday when he was found alone and in distress in the desert near Sells.
The UH-60 Blackhawk flight crew responded to a 911 emergency call for help while conducting a partnered border security mission.
The youth entered the U.S. illegally before succumbing to the effects of Arizona's harsh desert environment. A Border Patrol medical technician administered intravenous fluids to the unaccompanied minor who suffered from severe heat exhaustion and dehydration.
The young man was treated and his health ensured before being transported to Border Patrol's Tucson Station for processing for illegal entry into the United States. The swift actions and dedicated service of both National Guard personnel and U.S. Border Patrol agents are credited with saving his life.
This incident highlights the dangers faced by migrants. Children in particular are extremely vulnerable, not only to exploitation, but also to environmental conditions such as extreme heat and cold.
The partnered operations conducted by the Arizona National Guard and U.S. Border Patrol are a long standing, successful set of missions, separate from Operation Guardian Support. Utilizing National Guard aircraft and personnel to conduct border security flights along the United States' international southwest border strengthens national security.
U.S. Border Patrol agents combat smuggling organizations attempting to illegally transport people and contraband through the nation's borders. Citizens can help U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling 1-866-999-8727 toll-free to report suspicious activity. Callers can remain anonymous.
A video of the rescue can be accessed via DVIDS at: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/614356/joint-air-patrol .
~CBP~
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
SOURCE- U.S. Customs and Border Protection


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Q: Generating a complete graph in metric space Please help with the simplest  way to generate a complete random weighted undirected graph given size N, so that weights form a metric space (obey triangle inequality). I know there is networkx library but not sure how to do this.

A: Although @SvenMarnach is correct, I thought I would mention that it is pretty easy to initialize a graph from a distance matrix in networkx:
import numpy as np
import networkx as nx

V = 100 # number of nodes
D = 2 # dimensionality

positions = np.random.rand(V, D)
differences = positions[:, None, :] - positions[None, :, :]
distances = np.sqrt(np.sum(differences**2, axis=-1)) # euclidean

# create a weighted, directed graph in networkx
graph = nx.from_numpy_matrix(distances, create_using=nx.DiGraph())

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Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
By Jonelle Harvey2019-06-28T14:30:00+01:00
Gustav Khun
2019 | 296pp | £20
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
I tend to avoid magic. The cynic in me says that every trick can be explained somehow, and so the illusions aren't really all that magical for me. I'm far more likely to be wowed by science, or so I thought. In his book Experiencing the Impossible, Gustav Kuhn – who is both an academic and a magician – lets us into the magic circle.
The purpose of this book is not to explain away the wonder of magic tricks – don't expect to learn the secrets of how popular stage illusions are performed. Instead, Kuhn sets out to examine the science behind why magic 'works'. He begins by exploring the different definitions of what magic is, whether we experience it differently to one another and how our belief systems support or undermine it. Taking a very matter-of-fact approach, the author doesn't misdirect or shroud how magic is created, or (more importantly it seems) how magic is perceived by the audience. I enjoyed reading his personal experiences with a particular trick, whether it was one he mastered during his school days, or something that later failed to land with his own children.
While much of the science behind magic has been understood only relatively recently, magicians have been exploiting it for a lot longer. Areas covered include our perception of reality, which a magician exploits whilst performing; how our eyes deceive us; illusions and how they work; and the many ways to elicit mind control. Even Michael Faraday, the godfather of modern scientific thought, carried out ground-breaking studies on people's consciousness during séances. Faraday concluded that the key to the apparent magic observed during the classic table turning phenomenon was simply down to the participants' involuntary movements. Here at last my own beliefs in science, rather than taking away from the magic, increased my appreciation of it in a way I had never experienced before.
Research suggests that even when the audience knows how a magic trick works, it still has the power to amaze and intrigue, much like this book did for me. I recommend it to the curious.
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THE ARCTIC. From Samuel Hearne's 1795 travel account to Dean
Koontz's 1995 best-seller Icebound, the Arctic regions have provided a stark,
yet fertile, setting for various literary genres: fiction, travel accounts, essays,
and occasional verse. Geographically defined, the Arctic covers the Arctic
Ocean and lands within Arctic waters to latitude 66 N. Norsemen explored
the region as early as the ninth century, and the quest for the Northwest
Passage* to China lured both British and Dutch explorers to the Arctic
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning in the nineteenth
century, Arctic expeditions shifted from the commercial to the scientific,
and published accounts of the explorations began to appear.18 THE ARCTIC
Of the literary genres, the travel account is most prevalent, beginning with
Samuel Hearne's A Journal from Prince of Wale's Fort, in Hudson's Bay to
the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 (1795). Several
American imprints appeared after the turn of the century, many of which
were published by the Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, including scientific accounts by Michael Healy (1887 and 1889), Adolphus
W. Greely (1888), Admiral Charles H. Davis (1876), Calvin L. Hooper
(1884), John Murdoch (1892), Joseph E. Nourse (1879), Orray T. Sherman (1885), and Winfield Scott Schley (1884). As with most of these travel
logs, the primary purpose was to report scientific discoveries on expeditions
financed by the federal government.
Likewise, there were also numerous commercially published travel accounts. The lost expedition of Sir John Franklin of 1845 was the subject of
several books that documented the search for signs of Franklin's ship and
crew, including books by Elisha Kent Kane (1856), William Godfrey (1857),
William H. Gilder (1881), and Adolphus Washington Greely (1885). More
recent books on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition include Frozen in Time
(1987) by physical anthropologist Owen Beattie and journalist John Geiger,
who conclude lead poisoning was the cause for the demise of the men. In
Unraveling the Franklin Testimony (1991), David Woodman disputes the
Beattie/Geiger thesis using Inuit testimony. Scott Cookman's Ice Blink
(2000) faults naval stores as a source for botulism, which killed many of the
crew.
Other Arctic travel accounts include those of Alexander W. Habersham
(1857), Isaac Israel Hayes (1861), Charles Francis Hall (1865), and George
W. Melville (1885). Two of the more interesting books on Arctic exploration are William Wellman's book on airships over the region (1911) and
Matthew Alexander Henson's A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912).
Henson was a member of the Robert E. Peary expeditions from 1886 to
1909. Peary himself wrote four books and countless articles on his travels,
and the Peary expedition generated several additional books. A more recent
title is When the Whalers Were Up North (1989) by Montreal freelance writer
Dorothy Eber, who relates the whaling experience from the Inuit view.
Common to the vast majority of these publications is their description of
harsh conditions: the difficulties of seasonal navigation, the stark landscape
and environment of the Arctic, and the personal sacrifices and heroic efforts
of the hardy explorers.
Arctic fiction is limited in quantity, yet the setting makes for some unique
literary contributions. The earliest is a brief fictional account of the Franklin
expedition entitled The Extraordinary and All-Absorbing Journal of William
N. Seldon: One of a Party of Three Men Who Belonged to the Exploring Expedition of Sir John Franklin, and Who Left the Ship Terror, Frozen Up in
Ice, in the Arctic Ocean, on the 10th Day of June, 1850 (1851). The aforementioned expeditions provide the background for Call of the Arctic (1960)THE ARCTIC 19
by Robert Stedman, about a young Harvard man who joined the Hall expedition (1860–1873). More recently, William T. Vollmann's* The Rifles
(1994) is set during Franklin's last expedition (1845–1848), where a 1980s
traveler to the Arctic imagines he is Franklin. Richard Woodman's Arctic
Treachery (1987) is also historical fiction; Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of
Strangers: A Novel (1994) is yet another fictional account of the Franklin
expedition. James Houston's* The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic (1997)
is an action-filled historical novel of the 1870s by a prolific Canadian* author
who lived among Arctic Inuits from 1948 until 1962.
The majority of Arctic fiction fits into several categories: social relations,
exploration and settlement, adventure and intrigue, and coming-of-age stories. Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights (1946) is science fiction later published as The Golden Compass (1996). A few novels focusing on the relations
between Eskimos and whites were published during the 1970s. First among
these was Alan Fry's Come a Long Journey: A Novel (1971), followed by
Harold Horwood's White Eskimo: a Novel of Labrador (1972). Finn
Schultz-Lorentzen's Arctic (1976) deals with an Eskimo–white clash, while
Where the Mountain Falls (1977) by David Keenleyside focuses on a less
hostile relationship.
Fictional stories of hardship and adversity and coming-of-age offer another view of the Arctic. Published in 1885, Thomas W. Knox's The Voyage
of the Vivian to the North Pole and Beyond is a tale of two youths on a voyage
on the open polar sea. Adolph P. Lerner's The Moose Call (1938) is a story
of love and adventure involving a trapper, and C. W. Nicol's The White
Shaman: A Novel (1979) tells of a young white man who learns to survive
in the North. The Iceberg Hermit (1974) by Arthur Roth is another tale of
Arctic survival. Perhaps the best-known author of Arctic fiction is Britain's
E. M. Forster, whose posthumous Arctic Summer and Other Fiction was
published in 1980, ten years after his death. Begun in 1911 and not completed until 1951, Arctic Summer is the fictional account of a young man's
experiences in the Arctic after the turn of the century. The Doomed Ship, or
The Wreck of the Arctic Regions (1864), by dime novelist "Harry Hazel"
[Justin Jones*], is an exciting tale of adventure and romance. Peter
Freuchen's Sea Tyrant (1943) is the tale of an Arctic whaling ship.
Certainly, the most popular fictional theme is adventure or intrigue. Two
of Alistair MacLean's works are set in the Arctic: Ice Station Zebra (1963)
is the story of an American nuclear submarine crew's efforts to rescue a
British scientific team, and Bear Island (1971) is about a movie production
crew on a journey to the northern Arctic. In The Devil's Lighter; A Novel
(1973), John Ballem utilizes the theme of exploitation of Arctic natural
resources; he followed that success with The Moon Pool (1978), about oil
drilling in the Beaufort Sea. Basil Jackson's Rage under the Arctic (1974)
is about the world's first submarine oil tanker to suffer an oil spill. Richard
Rohman wrote still another novel of intrigue, Ultimatum (1973), about Americans and Canadians clashing over access to northern oil resources; the
book was reissued the following year as Exxoneration. Roger Hurst's Status
ISQ (1979) is a thriller about a submarine trapped under the Arctic cap.
Icebound (1995), by popular novelist Dean Koontz, is about attempts to
utilize Arctic resources to relieve agricultural droughts in North America.
Andrea Barrett combines fact and fiction in The Voyage of the Narwhal*
(1998), in which a scholar-naturalist joins an expedition on a search for an
open polar sea. Finally, Peter Nichols' Voyage to the North Star (1999), a
fog-bound and tempest-tossed maritime adventure, is technically authentic
even as it tackles the large themes of morality and justice.
Stories from the Canadian North (1980) is a collection of short stories by
some of Canada's most renowned writers, including Farley Mowat,* Houston, and Rudy Wiebe. Another selection of short stories is Stories from the
Pacific & Arctic Canada (1974), as is Mowat's The Snow Walker (1975).
Poetry collections with an Arctic theme include Cheryl Morse's Loonlark:
Orca Anthology of Poems and Prose (1983), a collection of thirty-four poems,
and Arctic Heart: A Poem Cycle (1992) by Gretel Ehrlich. Thomas York's
The Musk Ox Passion (1978) is a satirical novel about attempts to civilize
the North.
The two most prominent authors of children's books about the Arctic are
Houston and Mowat, and the list also includes such names as Bonnie
Turner, Nick Burns, Anna Rokeby-Thomas, Bessie Marchant, Violet Irwin,
and Charles S. Strong. Houston, who has won numerous book awards for
his children's works, is also an accomplished illustrator, sculptor, and film
producer. His juvenile* fiction includes Frozen Fire (1977), Long Claws
(1981), Black Diamonds (1982), Ice Swords (1985), The Falcon Bow (1986),
and Drifting Snow (1992). Mowat's Arctic books include Lost in the Barrens
(1956). The aforementioned Beattie wrote Buried in Ice (1992), a young
readers' book on the Franklin Expedition.
FURTHER READING: Berton, Pierre. The Arctic Grail. New York: Viking, 1988;
Caswell, John Edwards. Arctic Frontiers: United States Explorations in the Far North.
Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1956; Moss, John. Enduring Dreams: An Exploration
of the Arctic Landscape. Concord, Ontario: Anansi, 1994.


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Family Christmas for Ibiza-fall dad
A YOUNG dad who was left paralysed after an accident in Ibiza is set to spend his first Christmas at home with his family.
HOME for Christmas: Adam Wood with his son Brandon.
This time last year Adam Wood was confined to a hospital bed miles away from his home in Lime Road, Haslingden.
But this week he was preparing to enjoy a real family festive celebration – and his first chance to watch young son Brandon open his presents.
The former bricklayer has come a long way since the accident in July 2005 which has left him needing a wheelchair.
He was just six hours into a week-long holiday in the party capital when he slipped in a water fountain, breaking two vertabrae, which left him paralysed from the chest down. His friends and family rallied together to raise £18,000 to pay for him to come home.
The 22-year-old spent six weeks in hospital abroad before stays in hospitals in Chorley, Blackburn and Preston and a specialist spinal unit in Southport.
He returned home in June last year and has been enjoying spending time with two-year-old Brandon and parents Jeanette and Kenneth.
Adam said: 'It was awful last Christmas. I couldn't get out of bed and the food was terrible.
'This year I'm looking forward to getting to watch Brandon open his presents. The first year he didn't know what was going on and last year I wasn't here, but this time he knows what he wants.
'I've been out shopping for him but I might buy him a few more things yet; we'll have the whole family here on Christmas Day, my two sisters and brother and their children, so it'll be a bit hectic, but we'll have a better time this year.'
Since coming home, Adam, who has been unable to return to work, has been getting used to life after his accident; Rossendale Hospice has allowed him to visit regularly to use their shower facilities, and he has not let his wheelchair stop him.
He has been making regular trips out with friends and is happy spending time with energetic Brandon.
'I'm probably even more immature now than I was before,' he joked.
'Things take a lot longer and are harder than before, and I don't go out if it rains, but it's just a pair of legs.'
Jeanette added: 'Brandon keeps trying to play football with him and he keeps telling his daddy to kick the ball; then he makes him get hold of his leg and move it.
'It's been a worrying time because we've never encountered anything like this before, but we're looking forward to Christmas now.'
In the new year, the family are hoping to finalise their plans to extend their home to provide an upstairs bathroom and lift for Adam, who is currently sleeping downstairs.
They have already received a council grant and are waiting for a further cash boost from social services, with work expected to take place during 2008.
Adam thanked the fund-raisers and supporters whose donations made his return home possible.
Rossendale Hospice


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It's weird because we didn't get that many downloads on this one & it's clearly one of the better episodes.
Can it still be downloaded?
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The Department's staff includes the Professors (18 Full professors, 22 Associate professors), confirmed Assistant Professors (25) and Assistant Professors with time contract (3) who have opted for the affiliation to the Department in compliance with the current legislation and the rules reported in the Statute and in the General Guideline of the University.
The Department's staff also includes the technical and administrative staff (11 and 7, respectively) and librarians (4), who have been assigned to the managing structure supporting the Department's activities, contract professors, the research assistants with a grant awarded by the Department (79), the research fellows with a grant approved by the Department, the PhD students enrolled in the PhD courses of the Department (51), emeritus professors, as well as external collaborators hired for research activities.
The following entities are official bodies of the Department: the Head of the Department, the Vice Head of the Department, the Department Council, the Executive Committee, and the Service Centre Manager.
The Department has a Quality Assurance Committee that, in the articulated context of the departmental system, on the one hand guarantees the quality of the courses and the teaching facilities, focusing on the students. On the other hand, it guarantees the organization of the services that are internally provided, but also exploited by external entities, focusing on all the users of the Department: teachers, technical and administrative staff, companies, and students.


But if there's ever a time for farmers to think more "proactively" it's now, against the backdrop of courtroom lawsuits and environmental riptides.
I hope you read the article in last week's Farm and Dairy ("Farmers safe from lawsuits if they help with research"). The EPA amnesty program of sorts shelters livestock producers from Clean Air Act violations and lawsuits if they agree and pay to participate in a research program. The goal is get hard data on onfarm emissions before regulators step in and pluck figures from the air.
Worthy effort? Yes. Cheap? No.
Will independent farmers participate? Doubtful. Should they? Probably.
Current air quality research is cloudy when it comes to agriculture. And air quality regulations could impact your farm as strongly as water quality regulations.
More food for thought: The City of Waco is suing 14 dairies in the Bosque River Water Basin for allegedly polluting the city's primary source of drinking water, Lake Waco.
According to the Stephenville (Texas) Empire-Tribune, the city alleges the dairies have failed to properly handle liquid and solid waste and names phosphorus as the single pollutant contributing to the river's pollution.
This situation has been building for more than three years. In fact, a Texas A&M ag economist calls the North Bosque "one of the most studied watershed in the country." It's also one of the most regulated.
The situation spilled into the halls of city councils, the state natural resources' department, then flooded the halls of the state legislature.
It's a complicated situation, muddied by politics and emotion on both sides.
To its credit, the area's Texas Association of Dairymen offers a manure management certification program to its members. The Agricultural Producers Certification Option covers Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan development and implementation, and a third party audit of the implemented manure management plan on an annual basis to maintain certification.
No one should be surprised at the latest litigation; there have been other suits in the region. But producers nationwide should be served notice: Clean up your house.
Manure manager certification programs in both Ohio and Pennsylvania are a good start, no matter what size your operation.
Q. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?


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James H Schulz
schulz@brandeis.edu
Heller-Brown Building, None
Yale University, Ph.D.
Miami University, B.A.
Economics of aging -- social security, pensions, retirement policies and older worker employment issues.
I have recently published (with Robert H. Binstock) a book entitled: "Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America (Praeger, 2006). I am currently working on an article for the "Handbook of Social Gerontology." In general, my primary research focus is on the policy implications of declining fertility rates and the actual and projected absolute population decline in nations all over the world.
Citation from the Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for achievements in the fields of economics and gerontology (2000)
Testimonial Award from the Secretary-General of the United Nations for "international aging research and other activities related to the International Year of Older Persons" (1999)
Clark Tibbitts Award, for significant contributions in the advancement of gerontology as a field of study (1998)
Fulbright Award to the United Kingdom 1998-99, University of Kent (1998)
Award for "Outstanding Contributions in Gerontology" presented by University of Massachusetts, Boston (1987)
The Downing Fellow in Social Economics, University of Melbourne (1985)
Robert W. Kleemeier Award for outstanding research in aging (1983)
Chairperson, Study Group on the Economics of Aging, 1982-1987 (1982)
President, Gerontological Society of America, 1981-1982 (1981)
Fulbright Award to Iran (1968)
Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, 1961-65 (1961)
Associate for Gerontology in Higher Education (1901)
Founding Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance (1901)
Gerontological Society of America Fellow (1901)
Phi Beta Kappa (1901)
Schulz,James H. The Economics of Aging, 7 editions since 1974. 2001.
Schulz,James H (Co-author). Older Women and Private Pensions in the United States. 2000.
Schulz,James H. Older Women and Private Pensions in Australia. 2000.
Schulz,James H. Older Women and Private Pensions in the United Kingdom. 2000.
Schulz,James H. Saving, Growth, and Social Security: Fighting Our Children over Shares of the Future Economic Pie?. 1998.
Schulz,James H. (Co-editor) Social Security in the 21st Century. 1997.
Schulz,James H. Ageing in Asia: The Growing Need for Social Protection. 1997.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) The Economic Status of Divorced Older Women. 1993.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Economics of Population Aging: The "Greying" of Australia, Japan, and the United States. 1991.
Schulz,James H. The World Aging Situation, 1991. 1991.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) When "Life-Time Employment" Ends: Older Worker Programs in Japan. 1989.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Private Expenditures Related to the Support of Younger and Older Persons not in the Labor Force. 1988.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) The Role of the Asset Test in Program Eligibility and Participation: The Case of SSI. 1988.
Schulz,James H. (Co-editor) Aging China: Family, Economic, and Government Policies in Transition. 1987.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) State, Local, and Teachers Pensions: Coping with Inflation over the 1975-1982 Period. 1984.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Pension Integration: Concepts. 1983.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Private Pension Benefits in the 1970s -- A Study of Retirement and Survivor Benefit Levels in 1974 and 1979. 1982.
Schulz,James H. (Co-editor) International Perspectives on Aging: Population and Policy Challenges. 1982.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Providing Adequate Retirement Income. 1974.
Schulz,James H. Retirement, Background monograph for the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. 1971.
Schulz,James H. (Co-author) Economics of Aging: Toward a Full Share in Abundance. 1969.
Schulz,James H. Private Pensions -- Their Effect on the Economics of Aging. 1969.
Schulz,James H. The Economic Status of the Aged in 1980. 1968.


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#include <functional>

class TcpConnection
: public std::enable_shared_from_this<TcpConnection>
{
public:
    typedef std::shared_ptr<TcpConnection> pointer;

    static pointer create(asio::io_service& io_service)
    {
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    void start()
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                std::bind(&TcpServer::handle_accept, this, new_connection,
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I've had this account for 8 years now, but in these 8 years, I've only used it like half the time. And that weren't even much.
April 6, 2007, 5:35 a.m.
April 3, 2007, 5:21 a.m.
April 2, 2007, 5:12 p.m.
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My name is Taka - at least on here :D I've been a huge fan of The Lion King, since watching it in the cinema, back in '94, at the age of 3. Or 4. Who counts, haha.
The movie inspired me to start drawing - and what nice drawings at that time. I remember drawing Mufasa with a club in his paws, chasing Simba. Yes. Every child psycologist would've banned the movie, haha.


This species is accepted, and its native range is Ethiopia to E. Tropical Africa.
Terrestrial herb with tuberous root.
Stem much branched at the base, sparsely dichotomously branched in its upper part, up to several m. long, climbing by means of the coiling petioles and pedicels.
Petioles of about the same length as the leaf-blades; leaf-blades triangular to pentagonal, 2.5–7.5 cm. long, 1.5–6.5 cm. wide, cordate, acute, obtusely crenate to sharply dentate.
Calyx-lobes 2–3.6 cm. long, 0.5–1 cm. wide, acute, entire, erect, entirely fused in bud forming a cup-like cover, in open flowers usually fused for a few mm. from the base.
Corolla 4–7.5 cm. long, funnel-shaped to almost cylindrical, orange-red with darker venation, often lighter inside.
Stamens with broad shield-like filament-bases; anthers 9–15 mm. long.
Fruit almost spherical, yellow or reddish.
Seeds ovate to elliptic, 1.5–2.1 mm. long, 1.0–1.3 mm. wide, dark brown with pitted surface.
Shady places in upland wooded grassland, forest clearings, along streams, sometimes on old termite hills; 1350–2300 m.
A.D.Q. Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Flowers p. 509, 510 (fig.) (1974).
Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 1053 (1965).
Hedb. (et al.) in Sv. Bot. Tidskr. 55: 52, t. 3, fig. 5, 8 (1961).
A.J. Jex-Blake, Some Wild Flowers of Kenya p. 85, excl. fig. 63 (1948).
Engl. in A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 1: 145, fig. 116 (1910).


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La Congregazione di Nostra Signora della Carità (in francese Congrégation Notre-Dame de la Charité) è un istituto religioso femminile di diritto pontificio.

Storia
La congregazione fu fondata da Marguerite Morin e Marie du Boscq, entrambe convertite al cattolicesimo dal protestantesimo. Marguerite Morin aveva lavorato nel "rifugio" istituito a Caen da Giovanni Eudes e aveva trascorso un periodo nell'abbazia di Valognes, poi si era unita a Marie du Boscq per dirigere l'ospedale dei poveri di Caen: ritiratesi a Bayeux, il 25 giugno 1652 vi fondarono una comunità per l'educazione delle fanciulle abbandonate sotto la regola di sant'Agostino.

La comunità ottenne lettere patenti reali nel 1653 e l'approvazione di papa Alessandro VII nel 1661.

Presso la comunità nel 1829 si formò alla vita religiosa Henriette Le Forestier d'Osseville, fondatrice della Congregazione di Nostra Signora della Fedeltà. Su richiesta dei Missionari di Francia, nel 1831 le religiose iniziarono anche l'attività dei ritiri.

Attività e diffusione
Le suore si dedicano all'educazione cristiana di orfane e fanciulle.

La sede generalizia è a Bayeux.

Alla fine del 2015 l'istituto contava 3 religiose e una sola casa.

Note

Bibliografia
 Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 2017, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2017. ISBN 978-88-209-9975-9.
 Guerrino Pelliccia e Giancarlo Rocca (curr.), Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione (DIP), 10 voll., Edizioni paoline, Milano 1974-2003.

Nostra Signora, Congregazione, Carità

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Discussion in 'iPad General Discussions' started by Checkpoint, Jun 4, 2010.
How long is the iPad in Shenzhen CN for? Just wondering because that's where my iPad is currently in according to tracking... I'm so excited!
It will leave within the next day or so pending no delays and be bound for Anchorage, Alaska to clear US customs (if destined for the USA).
Alright thanks for the fast response.
No problem! You're probably looking at 48-72 more hours until you get it. Let us know when you do!
Don't forget the Hong Kong stopover.
Mine skipped Alaska and went into Memphis.
Once it starts travelling- It comes a quickly.
I have to agree with it coming quickly once its on its way. I knew when my shipped and figured it would come the following Tuesday. What an amazing surprise it was then it arrived on Friday, ahead of what I had guessed and in time for the weekend, it was perfect!


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