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Long-running Peruvian mining conflicts intensified between October and December, with protesters forcing an indefinite suspension of operations at the Las Bambas copper mine in the Apurímac region...
ANDEAN COUNTRIES
At Colombia's tightly packed pavilion at the United Nations COP26 climate talks in Glasgow on 1 November, President Iván Duque presented the country's long-term plan to neutralise its carbon emissions...
In late October, Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso suspended the progressive reductions in fuel subsidies which have been taking place monthly since July 2020, bowing to pressure from unions, the agricultural sector and, most importantly, the indigenous movement Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie)...
BOLIVIA | Industrialising lithium extraction...
BRAZIL & SOUTHERN CONE
In its first year, the contactless Pix payments system launched by Brazil's central bank (BCB) has enjoyed explosive growth and is having a major impact on the Brazilian economy...
Brazil's long delayed 5G mobile spectrum auction took place on 4 and 5 November, and 5G mobile services could be available in some cities by July next year...
Speaking at the beginning of December, Economy Minister Azucena Arbeleche was upbeat about economic performance in 2021 and the outlook for 2022...
In late October officials at Paraguay's finance ministry said GDP growth was likely to come in higher than expected in 2021, at 4.5%...
As the international lithium boom continues, more companies, including Russian and Chinese players, are seeking to invest in northern Argentina...
BRAZIL | Government revises employment figures...
In November El Salvador hosted a series of bitcoin events, building on its adoption of the cryptocurrency as legal tender in September, a move which has sparked protests at home and alarm among international observers...
The new president of Honduras, who takes office in January 2022, is poised to take over a country facing massive economic challenges...
Trinidad & Tobago's finance minister, Colm Imbert, has sought to justify the country's policies despite the 23 November downgrade by international credit ratings agency Moody's from Ba1 to Ba2...
COSTA RICA | Gov't hails fiscal progress but cites room for improvement...
MEXICO & USMCA
On 12 November, Mexico's national social security institute (IMSS) reported that there were 172,668 new formal jobs created in Mexico during October...
On 9 November, Mexico's national statistics institute (Inegi) published a report that measures the growth of the middle-class in Mexico over the last decade...
A report published on 17 November by the World Bank (WB) and the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) highlights that growth in remittance flows in 2021 has been exceptionally strong in Latin America and Caribbean...
On 19 November, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attended the IX Summit of North American Leaders alongside his US President Joe Biden and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
MEXICO | New IMF credit line approved...
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Learn how to maximize resources while designing robust sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) programs that fuel productivity, innovation and profits within your organization, especially during the COVID era of shrinking resources and budgets. Upon completion of the program, you will come away with tangible tools to drive growth, enhance reputation, reduce risks and cut costs looking through a sustainable enterprise lens.
Unlike most executive-level programs of its kind, SEED combines the leadership expertise of faculty from the highly-ranked Villanova School of Business with the technical knowledge of professors in Villanova's first-of-its-kind Sustainable Engineering program. You will learn from those who see the ESG landscape from all vantage points, providing you with a holistic and strategic advantage to thrive in today's global environment.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
This program will benefit executives in significant leadership roles who are looking to enhance awareness and understanding of sustainability issues, and their impact on the organization. Directors, senior managers, and vice presidents with 5-10 years of work experience will come away from each course with insights to develop sustainable strategies.
Mid-level professionals in technical and sustainability-focused roles who wish to strengthen their business acumen around this topic with the goal of creating value for their organization, will benefit from this program. Each course is designed to provide you with tangible takeaways and leadership skills to communicate with purpose in a rapidly changing environment.
Mid-level sustainability professionals and those in leadership positions including:
KEY PROGRAM TAKEAWAYS
Bring real-world experiences into the course and learn to apply sustainable solutions to address business challenges. With participants across various sectors, the SEED program is designed to be interactive with built-in networking opportunities to connect with peers.
Strengthen Business Strategy
The SEED program prepares you to ramp up your organization's ESG programs accordingly. Students who complete the certificate will begin to develop a management action plan template to take back to their organization.
Develop a Sustainable Lens
Gain a competitive advantage by viewing four key business drivers through a sustainable lens: drive growth, enhance brand, cut costs and reduce risks
Consider Dollars and "Sense"
Discover how to design sustainability programs that drive innovation, stakeholder loyalty, profitability and resilience. Learn to maximize resources to ensure funding for sustainability projects.
COURSES AND DESCRIPTIONS
Consisting of a five mini-courses, this online program offers the flexibility to complete the entire series and earn a certificate or take courses individually depending on your professional development goals.
This program is non-credit, pass/fail. Upon successful completion of all five mini-courses, participants will receive a Certificate in Sustainable Value Creation and 3.75 CEUs (each individual course is equal to 0.75 CEUs).
Understanding Sustainability & Making its Business Case
Examine sustainability in light of current megatrends, value drivers and their business impacts. Gain insight into ESG strategy development and learn how to strengthen the business case for implementing sustainable practices to create value for your organization.
Tackling Sustainability Frameworks with a Systems Mindset
Gain an understanding of systems thinking tools to tackle key sustainability issues and examine frameworks like circular economy and STEEP analysis. We will examine the interconnections between sustainability and business and how to overcome typical blunders with the proven interventions to create opportunities.
Designing Resilient Value Chains
Learn to design supply chain management and sourcing systems that utilize circular value chain principles to reduce footprint, improve resource utilization and accelerate a circular economy. Discover best practices for creating resilient value chains and how to apply them to your business to create sustainable value.
Developing ESG Metrics and Reporting & Influencing the Investor
Gain a better understanding of assessing all ESG factors - environmental, social and governance - to map opportunities and risks, and to track performance using various reporting frameworks that are most widely implemented. Learn common approaches to management and communication of key strategic ESG indicators and how the investor community views are formed on company performance.
Leaders as Drivers for Sustainability Engagement & Enterprise Transformation
Understand the key drivers for leading engagement with sustainability to transform your enterprise. Discover tangible tools and takeaways to engage your stakeholders, influence sustainable change, and create shared value. Topics include materiality and its integration into strategic change management, persuasive communications and messaging and the importance of employee engagement.
Each mini-course in the five-part series meets three times over a period of two weeks for two and a half hours per session. Sessions are held on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 PM EST. Participants will invest approximately 1-3 hours per week outside of class sessions on pre-readings and active reflections.
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$4495 per package (10% Discount)
Interested in developing a custom program for your organization, contact Program Director, Victoria Minerva, for more information. Check out an article on our latest custom program with Boeing.
Price per course is $999. Attendees who wish to register for the entire series in advance will receive a package rate of $4495 (a savings of $500 over registering for each individual course) and earn a certificate in Sustainable Value Creation. Each session is held from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST.
Spring 2023 Series
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Registration Deadline: 2/1
Session Dates: 3/8, 3/15, 3/22
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"I came into the program without a lot of background on sustainability, so it has been very helpful for me in providing some groundwork and baseline knowledge of these important topics." - Brian Bentrim, VP, Process Innovation at PennEngineering
"I love the structure of the class and especially the breakout sessions. All of the students have really fantastic ideas and they are jumping in and sharing them. The discussions are very dynamic and it has been a great experience." - Donna Switzer, Principal at Beyond Compliance LLC of Greater Philadelphia
"A valuable aspect of this program is interacting with peer companies. Despite the differences in our products and services, we have similar business challenges and opportunities when it comes to sustainability." - Mike Brawley, President & CEO at Kingsbury, Inc.
Karl Schmidt, MS – Faculty Lead
Expertise: Resilient Value Chain & Strategic Reporting
Schmidt develops and teaches graduate sustainability courses for the College of Engineering and Villanova School of Business' MBA Program. He also serves as the director of the RISE Forum, which helps to advance member companies' sustainability efforts through applied research and graduate student team projects. Prior to joining Villanova, Schmidt spent 28 years as an executive in environmental affairs, process excellence and global supply chain management at Johnson & Johnson..
Kathleen Iacocca, PhD
Expertise: Supply Chain & Business Analytics
Dr. Iacocca is an Associate Professor of Management and Operations at the Villanova School of Business with her PhD in supply chain management. She has taught courses such as Introduction to Business Analytics, Advanced Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management and Management Science. Her research includes applications of these topics in the healthcare industry and optimization across the supply chain. Dr. Iacocca's work has been featured in many notable business publications including the International Journal of Production Research and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
William Lorenz, MBA
Expertise: Sustainability Business & Leadership
Lorenz has more than 45 years of experience in the field of sustainable engineering. Currently he serves as the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Masters Program as well as a Professor of Practice. He previously worked for the Sun Oil Company, first in the refineries and then at the corporate level. During his tenure, he established new air, water, hazardous waste and audit programs that coincided with the development and implementation of the nation's first sets of federal legislation. In 1984, Lorenz cofounded Environmental Resources Management and established the company's management consulting practice.
Therese DeVries Narzikul, '04 MBA, MSN, CRNP
Expertise: Systems Thinking & Transformational Leadership
Narzikul is a Professor of Practice in Systems Thinking in the Executive MBA program at the School of Business. She is also CEO of APN Strategies, a healthcare consulting and executive coaching company, where she helps clients use complexity to their advantage. She has more than 20 years as a strategic leader in both the payer and provider sectors of healthcare systems as well as in the non-profit, social enterprise space. In the governmental sector, Narzikul has worked to design new approaches that expose interdependencies with a commitment to improving outcomes.
Graham Sinclair, '04 MBA
Expertise: ESG Investing & Sustainable Finance
Sinclair [@esgarchitect] is senior responsible investment strategist at Parametric. Previously he ran an ESG advisory boutique designing sustainable investment theses at the intersection of investment, strategy and sustainability. Client engagements in the global institutional investment ecosystem included AIG Global Investors Group, the UN Environment Programme for the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Gates Foundation, International Finance Corporation, Istanbul Stock Exchange, the China Africa Development Fund, and The John Templeton Foundation. Sinclair has professional certifications in investment and sustainability, teaches at Harvard Extension School and hosts the ESG and Coffee podcast.
Dave Stangis, MBA, MS
Expertise: Corporate Responsibility Strategy & ESG Leadership
Stangis most recently served as Chief Sustainability Officer and VP Corporate Responsibility/Public Affairs at Campbell Soup Company. He currently advises leading companies on ESG, technology and reputation and resiliency strategies. Over the course of 20 years, Stangis led two very different Fortune 500 corporations—Intel and Campbell—from a standing start to clear and consistent world-class leadership in ESG, sustainability and social responsibility.
CONTACT PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Victoria Minerva, '13 MSSE, '17 MBA
Director, Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development (SEED) program
Passionate about making an impact in the field of sustainability , Minerva is excited to manage the SEED program which will help experienced professionals create value in their organizations by designing and incorporating sustainability practices into their business environments.
For more information or questions, please contact: victoria.minerva@villanova.edu
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Q: Swift: how to center elements horizontally in vertical stackview I have stackview with four elements that need to be centered horizontally:
let stackView = UIStackView()
stackView.axis = UILayoutConstraintAxis.vertical
stackView.distribution  = UIStackViewDistribution.equalSpacing
stackView.alignment = UIStackViewAlignment.center
stackView.spacing = 5.0
stackView.addArrangedSubview(browseButton)
stackView.addArrangedSubview(orLabel)
stackView.addArrangedSubview(createButton)
stackView.addArrangedSubview(imageView)
let imageViewCenterXConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: imageView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
stackView.addConstraint(imageViewCenterXConstraint)
stackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

let stackViewCenterXConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: wantMorePage!, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
let stackViewCenterYConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerY, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: wantMorePage!, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerY, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
wantMorePage?.backgroundColor = UIColor.gray

wantMorePage!.addSubview(stackView)

wantMorePage!.addConstraint(stackViewCenterXConstraint)
wantMorePage!.addConstraint(stackViewCenterYConstraint)

self.scrollView.addSubview(wantMorePage!)

I added constraints and set alignment to center, but elements are still not centered (screenshot). What should I do to center them?

A: Replace:
wantMorePage!.addConstraint(stackViewCenterXConstraint)
wantMorePage!.addConstraint(stackViewCenterYConstraint)

With:
stackViewCenterXConstraint.isActive = true
stackViewCenterYConstraint.isActive = true

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiview/1622523-addconstraint
Also you need to add the subView before you can add constraints to it
Move this above isActive calls:
self.scrollView.addSubview(wantMorePage!)

Like so:
wantMorePage!.addSubview(stackView)
self.scrollView.addSubview(wantMorePage!)

let imageViewCenterXConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: imageView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
imageViewCenterXConstraint.isActive = true

let stackViewCenterXConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: wantMorePage!, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)
let stackViewCenterYConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: stackView, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerY, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.equal, toItem: wantMorePage!, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.centerY, multiplier: 1, constant: 0)

stackViewCenterXConstraint.isActive = true
stackViewCenterYConstraint.isActive = true

A: Found what the issue was - the width of the view was incorrect, in my code wantMorePage was bigger than needed, I made it the same size as its superview and it fixed the issue.

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CITEM, the LGUs, and PJ envision a new era for the Philippines' traditional crafts with an audacious and promising product design and development program that works directly with the country's artisans and craft manufacturers in each participating region.
The Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) is collaborating with the local government units (LGUs) of Albay, Cagayan, Davao, and Laguna, and international lifestyle designer and co-founder of the Fashion and Design Council of the Philippines, PJ Arañador, in recreating the crafts showcase, The Artisans Village, for the Manila FAME April 2016 Boutique Edition.
CITEM brings back PJ who is one of the pioneering design and merchandise consultants for Manila FAME and CITEM-organized participations in fairs across Australia, Europe, and North America. As product development specialist of The Artisans Village, PJ is setting the path for the highly anticipated crafts landscape, visualizing a display of sustainable "storied crafts" that echo the interior design, tourism retail merchandise, and fashion forecast for 2016-2017. PJ is working with a team of designers including Imelda Datul, a seasoned design and product development professional, and rising talent Rachelle Dagñalan.
With PJ's creative guidance and the local artisans' heritage skills, The Artisans Village will highlight the natural charm of cultural crafts created with the modern feel of brilliant and spunky color palette, prints, and patterns.
PJ writes this friendly and fruity shade of orange on top of the list. Essential for the new year, Spring Papaya lends woven crafts and fashion items a contemporary allure. A luscious and exotic color, it combines well with white accents and indigenous materials like abaca and piña to create a neat contrast.
Then PJ and the creative team play with the brightness of Spring Papaya by mixing it with a powerful Cobalt Blue, creating a dreamy aura. Applied in Philippine crafts, this color combination introduces an imaginative spin on the earthy/neutral tones of natural fibers, reminding one of bright galaxies and mystical dreams.
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For more information on Manila FAME, log on to http://www.manilafame.com.
Look forward indeed to fresh take on local materials, colors and patterns. See you at the Manila FAME this April.


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Book Bits For Saturday: 5.7.2011
● From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery
By Padma Desai
Summary via publisher, Columbia University Press
Using the same presentation and detail that has earned her such wide-ranging acclaim for her previous books, Padma Desai explains in a course-friendly way the complexities of economic policy and financial reform. She merges a compelling narrative with scholarly research to teach and to engage the reader. Paul Krugman described Desai's 2003 volume, Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment: From Asia to Argentina , as the "best book yet on financial crises." Her most recent work on Russian reform was a "pick of 2006" by the Financial Times. Desai begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary policy, tax practices, subprime mortgage scandals, and lax regulation that contributed to crisis. She discusses the Treasury-Fed rescue deals that saved several financial institutions and the involvement of Congress in passing restorative policies.
● Out of the Box and onto Wall Street: Unorthodox Insights on Investments and the Economy
By Mark Grant
Summary via publisher, Wiley
Part memoir, part investment strategy guide, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street presents a revolutionary, alternative look at the world of finance. Revealing the essential rules for preserving capital and making long-term profits, the book provides timely observations on the current and future state of the world economy and investment markets, which are sure to be of interest to anyone considering alternative and time proven ways of making money.
● The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
By Charles Fishman
Review via NPR
In The Big Thirst, Fishman examines different areas of the world already grappling with water shortages. He profiles parts of Delhi, India, where people line up twice a day with buckets for clean water, and Las Vegas — which, despite having all forms of water entertainment for visitors, is currently dealing with one of the biggest water shortages in the nation… In the next 30 years, Fishman predicts, private companies will develop the technology to make water utility plants more efficient. But, he cautions, it's important to make sure water remains a public resource. "You don't want to let companies end up in control of the resource itself," he says. "We need to be careful not to cede those rights … while we also take advantage of the innovations. That's a question of making sure that we understand the economics and policies on a community-by-community basis. There's nothing wrong with companies innovating [solutions for] water as long as the water remains a public resource. And that's really important."
● Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor's Guide to Investing and Managing Client Assets
By Harold Evensky, Stephen M. Horan, Thomas Robinson, and Roger Ibbotson
For over a decade, The New Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor's Guide to Managing and Investing Client Assets has provided financial planners with detailed, step-by-step guidance on developing an optimal asset allocation policy for their clients. And, it did so without resorting to simplistic model portfolios, such as lifecycle models or black box solutions. Today, while The New Wealth Management still provides a thorough background on investment theories, and includes many ready to use client presentations and questionnaires, the guide is newly updated to meet twenty-first century investment challenges.
● The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market
By Simon Constable and Robert E. Wright
Summary via publisher, Harper Collins
The Wall Street Journal Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators that Really Matter is a must-have guide for investors. Dow Jones columnist Simon Constable and respected financial historian Robert E. Wright offer valuable tips and insight to help investors forecast and exploit sea changes in the global macroeconomic climate. Unlike other investment handbooks, Constable and Wright's guide explores the not widely known economic indicators that the smartest investors watch closely in order to beat the stock market—from "Big Macs" to "Zombie Banks." Not only valuable and informative, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators that Really Matter is also wonderfully irreverent and endlessly entertaining, making it the most fun to read investors' guide on the market.
● Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by James P. Hawley, Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams
Summary via publisher, University of Pennsylvania Press
Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performance of large, supposedly sophisticated institutional investors in this crisis has gone for the most part unexamined. Shareholding organizations, such as pension funds and mutual funds, hold considerable sway over the financial industry from Wall Street to the City of London. Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis exposes the misdeeds and lapses of these institutional investors leading up to the recent economic meltdown. In this collection of original essays, edited by pioneers in the field of fiduciary capitalism, top legal and financial practitioners and researchers discuss detrimental actions and inaction of institutional investors. Corporate Governance Failures reveals how these organizations exposed themselves and their clientele to extremely complex financial instruments, such as credit default swaps, through investments in hedge and private equity funds as well as more traditional equity investments in large financial institutions. The book's contributors critique fund executives for tolerating the "pursuit of alpha" culture that led managers to pursue risky financial strategies in hopes of outperforming the market. The volume also points out how and why institutional investors failed to effectively monitor such volatile investments, ignoring relatively well-established corporate governance principles and best practices.
● The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
By F. A. Hayek (edited by Ronald Hamowy)
Review via The New York Times Book Review
In an age when many on the right are worried that the Obama administration's reform of health care is leading us toward socialism, Hayek's warnings from the mid-20th century about society's slide toward despotism, and his principled defense of a minimal state, have found strong political resonance. The new edition of "The Constitution of Liberty," which was first published in 1960, differs from the original primarily insofar as the extensive endnotes in the original edition have now been placed at the bottom of the page and heavily annotated by the editor, Ronald Hamowy…Hayek's skepticism about the effects of "big government" are rooted in an epistemological observation summarized in a 1945 article called "The Uses of Knowledge in Society." There he argued that most of the knowledge in a modern economy was local in nature, and hence unavailable to central planners. The brilliance of a market economy was that it allocated resources through the decentralized decisions of a myriad of buyers and sellers who interacted on the basis of their own particular knowledge. The market was a form of "spontaneous order," which was far superior to planned societies based on the hubris of Cartesian rationalism.
By James Picerno | May 7, 2011 at 05:44 am EDT
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Successful Implant Integration
David L. Hoexter, DMD May 4, 20227 Mins read3k Views
Implants are already recognized as essential to enhancing a patient's quality of life. To ensure successful integration of the oral implant in the patient's edentulous area, implants are now being developed in all different sizes, shapes, and widths, with various grooved surfaces and designs. This facilitates prosthetic restoration and the return of function. However, to achieve successful implant integration, aesthetic enhancement must be considered as an added possibility, along with phonetic improvement, when needed.
The practitioner's goal is for a patient to be able to enjoy improved mastication as well as to speak with confidence. The patient is not only able to avoid a denture, which would hinder speaking and masticatory functions, but after successful oral implant integration, the patient also has a more youthful appearance and the potential for a new outlook on life.
The success of oral implants depends on the acceptance of the implant and its integration with the bone. Certain considerations of the implant surgical site must first be made. Key questions include whether the bone of the implant surgical site can be optimized to ensure predictable integration and whether there is enough bone to support an implant. Another important question is whether there is enough bone to support and ensure predictable integration. Extractions are a major concern today.
After extraction, will there be enough bone to support the endosseous implant and its prosthetic restoration? Currently, it is generally accepted and advised to extract sooner rather than later as there is more bone available to support an implant. By waiting too long to extract, you risk ending up with less than the desired amount of bone. The more bone that is available, the more the implant surface contacts bone and, with all of today's designs, the more predictable the osseous integration and success are.
This article emphasizes the preservation of the osseous walls of the extraction site during surgical extraction. There are now new proper surgical instruments with which the practitioner can, without strain or unnecessary physiologic positions, access and luxate in mesial and distal directions and remove the roots while preserving both the buccal and lingual walls of the osseous socket. This enables the retention of the existing blood supply, which will guide and aid the osseous regeneration of the future ideal osseous implant site.
In the history of dental extractions, removing the debilitated tooth out of the oral cavity as rapidly and as painlessly as possible has always been paramount. Based on the concept that the buccal bone is usually the thinnest zone of bone that retains the tooth and that it provides the least resistance, it is common practice after anesthesia to luxate in a bucco-lingual movement. Anatomically, the buccal plate of bone is usually much thinner than the palatal or lingual osseous plates.
However, this article will show that this method will not meet with optimal success. The easier extraction toward the buccal will actually result in the loss of more buccal bone. This is because healing depends on the available blood supply, primarily from the osseous walls of the extraction site. The constant pressure from the buccal-lingual luxation leads to ischemia in the remaining thin plate of buccal bone. The ischemia leads to further resorption and, therefore, the loss of buccal bone.
Upon healing, the area will have a depression in the buccal plate and occlusal resorption.
Problems resulting from the healed buccal depression include a buccal void, leading to poor oral hygiene, food retention, and an unaesthetic appearance. Another possible problematic result is the incorrect placement of the implant. The implant needs to be placed in adequate osseous support to succeed.
Since the implant must be placed where bone is, the implant placement will be lingual to the original tooth being replaced. This may result in a situation requiring a prosthesis that is similar to a buccal cantilever—ie, a prosthesis that is overextended buccally to ensure correct occlusion—but this would put undue stress on the implant. During extraction, our goal should be to preserve as much bone as possible by averting bone loss, especially of the buccal osseous plate.
Mesial-distal Hoexter Luxators have been developed for use during extractions for the specific purpose of preserving as much bone as possible and have been utilized for many years. The Hoexter Luxators, distributed by Hu-Friedy, (Figure 1), are designed to be used expressly in a mesial-distal motion to avoid any buccal pressure. The design of the instruments ensures that the practitioner maintains the correct angle of mesial or distal pressure on the root to be extracted with strain-free access and visibility, thus ensuring a successful and predictable result.
Figure 1. The Hoexter Luxator series of instru- ments is designed to facilitate the removal of roots by mesial-distal movement, allowing the preservation of buccal and lingual osseous walls during an extraction while also allowing the practitioner to visualize the operating area in comfort and ease. The instruments are available in incised edges of 3 or 5 mm for various sized teeth and comfortable angulations.
The Hoexter Luxator technique relies on the concept that it is easier to extract a single-root tooth than a multi-rooted one. After applying local anesthesia, the practitioner should remove the posterior tooth's crown horizontally at its CEJ, thereby exposing the individual roots. At this time, the Hoexter Luxator should be placed in the desired location (Figure 2) and moved with slight pressure in a mesial-distal direction. The root will become quite mobile and is easily removed.
Figure 2. (a) The Hoexter Luxator in the septal area of the mandibular molar. The force is being directed toward the mesial. (b) The Hoexter Luxator placed at the distal of the mandibular molar with the force directed in a mesial direction. (c) The Hoexter Luxator placed at the mesial of the mandibular molar. The force is being directed in a distal direction. With the constant mesial-distal pressure, the root is easily made mobile and removed, thus preserving the buccal and lingual osseous walls.
There should be no pressure exerted on the buccal plate of bone during the technique. The resultant void will have its osseous walls intact. This can and will induce osseous regeneration and result in the desired healthy osseous support for the soon-to-be-inserted implant. This regenerated bone will include the buccal wall as well as the mesial, distal, and lingual and probably some interseptal bone. All the remaining osseous walls may be productive in guiding the positive regeneration of bone.
By using this technique and the Hoexter Luxator instruments, you will avoid the unhygienic buccal void; the unaesthetic, dark appearance of the buccal depression; and the resorptive depression of the buccal bone. You will also avoid the placement of an implant too lingually, which may cause future occlusal trauma. By successfully completing these steps with the Hoexter Luxator instruments, you will help to avoid bad oral hygiene and to overcome aesthetic and restorative challenges, thereby avoiding future occlusal trauma.
Figures 3 to 8 demonstrate how a practitioner can remove roots while preserving both the buccal and lingual walls of the osseous socket.
Figure 3. Tooth No. 31 (LR second molar) with the temporary crown off, showing caries and broken tooth structure.
Figure 4. Tooth No. 30 with its temporary crown now off, exposing extensive caries, poor remaining tooth structure, and poor prognosis for both teeth Nos. 30 and 31.
Figure 5. Tooth No. 30 crown portion divided into 2 halves.
Figure 6. All 4 root sockets and even the osseous septum of tooth No. 30 were preserved by luxating mesial-distally.
Figure 7. All 4 of the roots were easily luxated out.
Figure 8. Blood clots seen in the No. 30 and 31 sockets.
After the extraction, I recommend the utilization of guided bone regeneration (GBR). After the removal of the individual roots with the mesial-distal luxation described, leaving the intact osseous walls where the removed roots were, I strongly advise you to use an osseous regenerative bone graft material (Figures 9 and 10) to fill the described void. Following the bone graft, I place a covering of an absorbable barrier. It is sutured, covering the void-filled osseous graft as a GBR technique.
Figure 9. Osseous graft material was inserted into the sockets of both Nos. 30 and 31.
Figure 10. An absorbable membrane was placed over the grafts, such as in a GBR technique, before suturing.
After the correct time for healing (Figure 11), bone regeneration will result in a supported endosseous implant being placed in its correct position (Figures 12 and 13).
Figure 11. The lower right healed area at 3 months postoperatively.
Figure 12. Exposed regenerated bone area 3 months later. Note the full ridge of bone regenerated buccal-lingually as well as mesial-distally.
Figure 13. Implants inserted at bone level in the No. 30 and 31 positions.
The practitioner at the proper time will then be able to provide the optimal prosthetic replacement—a physiological one—in occlusal harmony: one that is physiologically shaped for the best function as well as aesthetically pleasing and easy to maintain.
The required period of time is allowed for the bone to mature and allowing osseous integration with the implant (Figures 14 and 15).
Figure 14. Implant healing abutments in place.
Figure 15. The keratinized area of the mucogingival flap was sutured at the correct level.
Changing the temporary healing abutment to a permanent abutment is sequential. This author prefers the utilization of a custom-made abutment, followed by an aesthetically pleasing, occlusally and physiologically functioning prosthesis (Figures 16 and 17). The surrounding keratinized gingival tissue will allow the patient to maintain his or her oral hygiene with more ease, thus allowing predictability of maintaining this desired result.
Figure 16. Buccal view of the completed, restored prosthesis with healthy keratinized tissue.
Figure 17. Lingual view of the restored prosthesis with healthy keratinized tissue.
Dr. Hoexter received his DMD degree from Tufts University in Boston. He is director of the International Academy for Dental Facial Aesthetics and a Diplomate of Implantology in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists and the American Society of Osseointegration. He is a Diplomate of Dental Aesthetics from the American Board of Aesthetic Dentistry. He has been awarded 13 Fellowships and practiced in New York City, limited to periodontics, implantology, and cosmetic periodontal surgery.
He is also a clinical professor in the periodontal and implant department at Temple University in Philadelphia. He was previously a clinical professor in periodontics at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hoexter lectures throughout the world and has been published extensively both nationally and internationally. He can be reached at drdavidlh@gmail.com.
Disclosure: Dr. Hoexter has a financial arrangement with Hu-Friedy, the manufacturer and distributor of Hoexter Luxators.
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Top Anticipated February Releases!
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Starflight #1
Life in the outer realm is a lawless, look dirty, approved hard existence, recipe and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.
When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe…
Release Date: February 2nd, 2016
My Thoughts: I've already read it. Already love it. Melissa Landers rocks at these science fiction romances, seriously she's quickly becoming a favorite. This had a nice Firefly feel to it and I loved every minute of it.
Red Queen #2
Mare Barrow's blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.
The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.
Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.
But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.
Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
Release Date: February 9th, 2016
My Thoughts: It took me ages to sit down and read Red Queen but it absolutely blew my mind once I did. I literally canNOT wait until this novel comes out.
Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
The Reckoners #3
When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy.
David knew Prof's secret, and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny. He's disappeared into those murky shadows of menace Epics are infamous for the world over, and everyone knows there's no turning back…
But everyone is wrong. Redemption is possible for Epics—Megan proved it. They're not lost. Not completely. And David is just about crazy enough to face down the most powerful High Epic of all to get his friend back. Or die trying.
Release Date: February 16th, 2016
My Thoughts: I really really need to read Firefight before I read this one. Obviously. I've had Firefight in my TBR pile since the day it came out. I fail.
When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years — a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.
But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity—only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart?
As time unravels and her enemies close in, Zahra finds herself suspended between danger and desire in this dazzling retelling of Aladdin from acclaimed author Jessica Khoury.
Release Date: February 23rd, 2016
My Thoughts: Ever since Jessica announced she was writing this book, I've been so so so ready for it. I'm dying. I tried so hard to get my hands on an ARC to no avail. Sad. But I can't wait to get my hands on it. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Titans by Victoria Scott
Ever since the Titans first appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan's world has revolved around the mechanical horses. She and her best friend have spent countless hours watching them and their jockeys practice on the track. It's not just the thrill of the race. It's the engineering of the horses and the way they're programmed to seem so lifelike. The Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she'll ever touch.
She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines to ride, and the working class friends and neighbors of Astrid's who wager on them.
But when Astrid's offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this year's derby, well, she decides to risk it all. Because for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, it's more than a chance at fame or money. Betting on herself is the only way she can see to hang on to everyone in the world she cares about.
My Thoughts: I'm about halfway through and absolutely loving it. Victoria Scott is such a great writer and I really want a Titan.
The Power by Jennifer L Armentrout
Titan #2
With any great change, there is always strife, and the Covenant University has become the frontline between pure-bloods who want the Breed Order reinstated and the half-bloods who want the right to control their own destinies.
Fate has other plans.
The violence is escalating and war between the races seems inevitable, and it couldn't come at a worse time. Hyperion may be out of commission, but Josie and Seth know they have only earned a reprieve. Seth must get Josie fully prepared, which means controlling her newfound abilities, and they need to find the other demigods before the Titans do.
But the gods are sensing a greater threat.
Only one thing is more dangerous than a bunch of starved Titans, and that's an out-of-control Apollyon. The aether in Josie is drawing Seth in deeper, and when lust mixes with love and gives way to power, he knows being close to her is not only dangerous to her, but to everyone around them, but letting her go requires a level of selflessness that just isn't Seth's style.
The paths taken in the past are becoming the roads of the future.
Just as chaos breaks out, familiar faces from the past return, complicating the already strained bond between Josie and Seth, and when the danger from the Titans erupts with devastating consequences, the dark allure of power calls to Seth again, but this time Josie might not be able to pull him back.
And when the struggle between power and love becomes the deadliest battleground, there may be no salvation.
My Thoughts: I mean, its Seth. For some reason, that guy just doesn't get out of your head…
What books are you looking forward to in February?! Did I forget some! Leave them in the comments!
Book Review: Salt and Stone (ARC) by Victoria Scott
This review is based on an advanced reader's copy of the novel obtained through snail mail at the permission of Scholastic Press. This is in no way had an effect on the integrity of my review. Please note that published novel will differ from this ARC.
Young Adult, buy information pills Dystopian/Science Fiction
Part of a Series?:
2nd Novel of the Fire and Flood Series
February 24th, more about 2015
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In Fire & Flood, this site Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't quit–she has to win the race, save Cody, and then fight to make sure the race stops before it can claim any more lives. In the next legs of the race, across the ocean and over mountains, Tella will face frostbite, sharks, avalanche, and twisted new rules in the race.
But what if the danger is deeper than that? How do you know who to trust when everyone's keeping secrets? What do you do when the person you'd relied on most suddenly isn't there for support? How do you weigh one life against another?
The race is coming to an end, and Tella is running out of time, resources, and strength. At the start of the race there were one hundred twenty-two Contenders. As Tella and her remaining friends start the final part of the race, just forty-one are left–and only one can win.
Please be advised that while there will be no spoilers for Salt and Stone, there will be spoilers for Fire and Flood. You can read my review for that book here.
When I first read Fire and Flood, I was blown away by it. I had heard some comparisons to other books, in particular, The Hunger Games. And while I can see those comparisons, Victoria's story and characters stand on their own and I became a staunch supporter of her right away. I'm proud to say I'm part of the V Mafia and I'm eagerly counting down the days (not many of them left) until this book releases and all of you can enjoy it. Fire and Flood was absolutely fantastic and I wasn't quite sure where the rest of the story was going to take us so when I managed to get my hands on Salt and Stone, I was ready for an adventure of a novel and I was granted just exactly that.
What really gets me about this book, besides the fact that it COMPLETELY TORE OUT MY HEART AND MADE ME SOB INTO MY PILLOW (ahem, ahem), is that she's not afraid to take it just one more step further, one more step further, one step further. Its incredible. The basis of this series is this: how far are you willing to go in order to save someone you love? How far are you willing to take it? Are you willing to kill? Are you willing to let others be killed? Are you willing to maybe die yourself? Its incredible. Every single person taking part in this…"game" of sorts has volunteered. They weren't forced. Every action taken, its a choice they made, and its crazy. Some of those choices didn't feel like choices because they want this cure and they want to win the game and they want all of that, and it feels like they have no choice, and this is getting a little tangent-y but it all boils down to…every single person in this game makes the choices they feel necessary to get them where they need to go.
Which is why this book is so good. Fire and Flood was brutal but when compared to this novel, its child's play. Tella and the rest of her gang are faced with worse obstacles than they were before, including each other. They are pit against each other over and over again, struggling with the feelings that they have each other, whether its friendship or just plain straight out love, which is something that's hard to feel when you're all battling for the same thing, something that you can't all win. But its also the struggle for Tella and Guy at the same time. Victoria creates such real characters and even when they're in this completely incredible world…they still feel real to us. You don't know if you would do any different if it was yours.
The best part of this book is the end. I can't go into too much detail because spoilers and all that. But she pushes it to the limit at the end, that last sort of thing she makes the contestants go through just…oh my god, it kills me. It breaks my heart. I literally was clutching the pages, wanting to scream at her, how could you do this? It was really pushing the limits. She really takes it to the very tip…really, how much are you really willing to sacrifice in order to get what you want? Its incredible. And the ending just makes me want the next book. The book is brutal and harsh and incredible but I just love it. And I can't wait for more.
Tuesday Top Ten – Most Anticipated Winter Releases!
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Welcome to the new year everyone! Its a brand new beginning and all of that sort of thing. But the best part of the new year is this: NEW STUFF. All that stuff that was "next year" is now THIS year. And that includes books.
Now its time to talk about the top ten books that I'm getting excited for this winter! Check them out, troche and let me know what books YOU'RE excited about!
10. The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
The third installment of the series, price and I've been waiting for it for so long. I feel like I've been waiting for so so so long for this book that I absolutely need to reread the first two books to remember what the hell is supposed to be going on in the third book.
9. Dead to Me by Mary McCoy
I am so excited for this debut novel…I think its my most anticipated debut novel of the year. I absolutely adore Mary, she's a librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library and has always been a dear friend and supporter of me and this blog, and I can't wait for her book. Its set in the 1940s, amidst the glitz and glamour of the film age and it sounds deliciously thrilling. I can't WAIT.
Release Date: March 3rd, 2015
8. The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
I am so so excited for this new novel by Emery Lord. I had NO idea who she was until she was on a panel with…I think Stephanie Perkins at the Festival of Books and I just loved everything about her. Plus she was so cute and I don't know haha, I wanted to read her book. I absolutely LOVED Open Road Summer. She has a fresh teen voice and a total knack for addicting romance and I can't wait for this one. Max sounds amazing.
Release Date: March 31st, 2015
7. I Was Here by Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman is a QUEEN of contemporary YA lit. She blows my mind with everything that she writes, especially Just One Day/Just One Year (which were optioned for film!!). I'm VERY excited for a brand new release from her, especially since the synopsis makes it sound like another emotional roller coaster. Oh Gayle.
Release Date: January 27th, 2015
6. Salt and Stone by Victoria Scott
This one would be much lower on the list but I'm spoiled as hell and I already read it and know how absolutely amazing it is. But now that I know its great, I'm dying to get that book with that beautiful cover in my hands, and for everyone else who loves the first one, you're going to love the second one even more. Its a truly heartbreaking.
Releases: February 24th, 2015
5. Fairest by Marissa Meyer
I know! A novella on the list. For those that don't know me, I'm usually not a massive fan of novellas, and find most of them are unnecessary. But…but…I think Fairest is going to be spectacular. One, because Marissa Meyer is a fantastic writer. Two, Levana is SUCH a mystery and maybe some of this will shed a little light, and maybe it'll open up new possibilities for Winter. Either way, I'm excited for it.
4. Invaded by Melissa Landers
This is another winter release that I've already read. And one that I totally absolutely love. But I think I'm really excited about this because I KNOW how good it is and I get to meet her this year! Plus, if I can have more Aelyx and Cara in my life, I'm totally okay with that! And maybe if we all show love to Invaded and buy it, we WILL get more!
Release Date: February 3rd, 2015
3. The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith
I mean. Duh. I want my hands on this book so badly. I've been trying to get my hands on an ARC of this thing for MONTHS and have not been able to do that. I am dying for this book. Every single thing about this book sounds amazing and Andrew is an incredible author. When I interviewed him last year and he described the book as "It's about a ship that gets stuck in ice, a fifteen-year-old kid, a schizophrenic who thinks he can speak to Joseph Stalin, a summer camp for kids who are addicted to technology, the de-extinction of a species of crow, and there's a bigfoot in there, too. You know…the typical stuff." Come on. I'm sold.
Release Date: March 10th, 2015
2. Unchanged by Jessica Brody
I'M DYING TO READ THIS BOOK. I need to know what happens next. Unforgotten left on such a crazy, heartbreaking, emotional note and I'm dying to see what happens next for Sera and Zen and Kaelen. It hurts just to even think about it because of allllll the crap that went down in the second book and I need this book in my hands. You hear me, Jessica? Give me the book and no one gets hurt ;)
1. The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead
Yes. Please. More Adrian Ivashkov. Oh and of course Sydney too. But definitely Adrian. And after that ending in Silver Shadows, I basically wanted to scream, get in a car and drive up to Richelle's house and demand that she tell me everything that was going to happen next. Luckily, I'm a patient girl (ha!) and its nearly upon us to find out the ending to this fantastic series! AND I'm finally going to meet Richelle! AGH
What are some the books that you're looking forward to releasing in January, February and March? Make sure to share them in the comments!
Tuesday Top Ten: Authors New to Me in 2014
Hello my lovelies! How are you all doing on this fine Tuesday? I hope fantastic. I hope you're all watching fantastic shows and movies and reading fantastic books and just being all around nerdy and fantastic. Did I ever tell you how much I absolutely love the word "fantastic"? Well, seek I do.
But anyway…I had been trying to think of topics for a Tuesday Top Ten because I've been SO incredibly bad at doing them, and I was checking my emails and saw that this week's post for The Broke and Bookish was the one I'm doing and I thought, hey that's kind of fun!
So here we are, my top ten authors that are new to me, and a couple of honorable mentions as well because it was SO hard to narrow it down!
All debut novelists who rocked my world this year. The Jewel and Love Letters to the Dead all absolutely blew my mind and are books that I definitely won't be forgetting any time soon.
10. Tonya Kuper
I met Tonya at ALA in Las Vegas this past summer, and she made an impression on me. I didn't know what her book was about, I didn't even really know anything about HER. All I knew was that she was really nice, she was published by Entangled and that she was massively enthusiastic about her book. I went home, followed her on Instagram, became her friend on Facebook, and helped promote the hell out of her debut novel, Anomaly. I love her book and absolutely ADORE her so I'm glad she is a new author to me this year.
9. Cora Carmack
Cora Carmack came on my radar because she was friends with Jennifer Armentrout, who I adore to bits and pieces. The first novel I read of hers didn't massively impress me, which I think was Losing It, back in the beginning of this year. However, when she started talking about her new series, which boiled down to football, hot guys, romance and sexiness, I knew I couldn't resist and I immediately bought All Lined Up when it came out. Not long after, All Broke Down, released and I'm officially in love.
8. Lauren Miller
I first met Lauren when she made an appearance at my fave event, Ontario Teen Book Fest. I was already about halfway through the ARC of her new book, Free to Fall. She was so FUNNY and I had a ton of fun talking to her and so I immediately went home and finished this book, and then read her first novel, Parallel. I love both of these books, so fresh, so new, I love the romance, and I adore Lauren. I'm also glad they're both standalone so that I didn't get sucked into the never ending abyss of series!
7. Jenny Han
I had never read Jenny Han before. Ever. For some reason, her series just never ever appealed to me. I'm not sure why, but I know I went to the bookstore numerous times, and held her books in my hands and then ultimately decided not to get them. She did a signing in May with Morgan Matson and you had to buy one of their books in order to do the signing. I already had all of Morgan's books (obviously) so I bought this one. Jenny read from it and it was funny and SHE was funny and I went home THAT night and read it in a few hours. This book is fresh and hilarious and beautiful and I'm already DYING for the sequel.
6. Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
I had seen this book circling around the interwebs for a while, I think instagram or some such like that and finally I decided, hey, what the hell, I'm going to buy. Even though I had heard good things, I was still wary. I think the cover is totally beautiful BUT I also think its a little cheesy too haha. Its possible for it to be both right? Right. Anyway, what I found was a fantastically written science fiction novel that also held an incredible romance as well. I BLEW through this book and was amazing at every moment. This book is incredible and brilliant and I'm counting down the days until the sequel comes out.
5. Sara Raasch
I literally read this book about a week and a half ago but that's how much of an impression it made on me. I'm not really sure how it got on my radar but it did and it sounded really awesome and I liked the title and the cover and her name is Sara without the H which is brilliant and yeah. I was on a book buying ban, technically, but I decided, meh, what the hell, and ended up buying it anyway because I wanted to read it so bad and I am so glad that I did. Its a fantastic fantasy novel that I legitimately canNOT get out of my head and I hope there are more (please be more) because Sara's writing was just so fluid and descriptive and real and beautiful that I need more of it in my life.
4. Melissa Landers
This was another book that seemed to be floating around my radar on IG and that sort of thing. She was signing ARCs of the sequel, Invaded, at ALA and somehow, miraculously, I got my hands on it. We joked that I got mine early, before Sasha (because I think that's who I had heard it from) and I kind of felt bad! I had a signed copy of the ARC and I hadn't even read the first book! So I went to the book store, bought this one and read in a few hours. This book is INCREDIBLE. I swear by it. I keep telling people about it. Its beautiful. I love that its an incredible romance but it also has a great science fiction background with it. I love aliens and there just aren't enough alien books out there, not ones like this.
3. Victoria Scott
I only found Victoria because of Jessica Brody and I seriously thank her SO much for that. She did a live vlog thing with Victoria because their books were releasing the same day and I won a trivia part of it and got some signed swag from Victoria. So when Fire and Flood released, I immediately bought it and I LOVE it. A lot of people compare it to The Hunger Games, which I *kinda* see but I honestly think its unique and fresh and I love the main character, Tella, so much and I LOVE Pandoras (read the book). I recently won a copy of the sequel and LOVED that as well, and I also read the first of her Dante Walker series and I'm just madly in love with Victoria. I'm glad to be part of her V Mafia now!
2. Kiera Cass
It took me AGES to read this and I can't believe that it did. I think it was the cover. Scratch that, I know it was the cover and I just didn't know what it was going to be about really but there wasn't much desire to read it. That is, until someone gifted it to me. I had heard it described as The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games, and its totally that, in an amazing way. The entire trilogy was totally brilliant and I'm anxiously awaiting The Heir. I'm SO glad I finally buckled down and read it and I'm so glad that I totally have the entire series signed now too! Kiera is always a totally LOVELY human being that I adore to pieces so I'm glad I finally read this book.
1. Catherine Linka
This is the debut novel of a local author friend of mine. I had heard about it through Alethea, who runs Read Now Sleep Later and managed to get my hands on an early copy, because I was going to be meeting her at Ontario Teen Book Fest. This book completely BLEW my mind and I am seriously anxiously awaiting the sequel. I'm going to convince her to get one to me ;) The reason she's number one is because I'm so inspired by her. She had a struggle to get it published, she had to change things, and work out kinks but the book has done SO well and won awards and she's SUCH a great friend and inspiration. She's constantly giving me tips and words of encouragement and I just adore her. Her book is fabulous and I can't wait for the sequel.
What are some new authors YOU'VE read this year? Share in the comments!
Book Review: The Collector by Victoria Scott
New Adult, buy information pills Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance
The first in the Dante Walker trilogy
Dante Walker is flippin' awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell's best—a soul collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag.
Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante's an equal-opportunity collector and doesn't want it any other way. But he'll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment:
Collect Charlie Cooper's soul within ten days.
Dante doesn't know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that's a permanent ticket out of hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he's come to collect, he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover emotions deeply buried.
I've been wanting to read this book for quite some time now. I absolutely ADORE Victoria's Fire and Flood. I just recently finished the sequel to that, Salt and Stone, and I just love her. She's super sweet and her books are great and I've been wanting to read The Collector for awhile now. So when it went on sale for Nook for only 99 cents, I was SO there.
I nearly finished it in one night except I had to go to work fairly early the next day so that was a total failure but I immediately finished the next moment that I was able to. I LOVE this book. I love that its told in the point of view of Dante because you alternately want to punch him in the face and throw him down on the bed and make out with him? I mean, a bright red Escalade? Who does that?! But then he'll do something incredibly sweet for Charlie, like carry her out of the woods and it KILLS my heart. He's addicting as a character, and he has a natural character progression. Nothing about his transformation through out the novel seems forced or wrong. You watch as Dante changes and its beautiful. Its my favorite part of the book.
But I also just love Charlie as well. She's SUCH a great person, which would kind of drive me crazy but it doesn't because everything she does seems so genuine and real. As soon as you meet her for the first time in her room, dorky and fantastic, I knew I was already madly in love with her. She's not your typical heroine. Most heroines are always beautiful, even if they don't know they're beautiful. They think they're ugly or average but of course, they're extraordinary. But that's not Charlie. She's straight up not classically beautiful at all. She has frizzy hair, a limp, crooked teeth, freckles, the whole nine yards. And I know it can sound kind of stereotypical and all that but Charlie really wins everyone over with her beautiful personality. She's so beautiful on the inside that she brings in her best friend and, eventually, Dante, because she's such an incredibly beautiful person. Obviously that's a huge part to the general plot of the story but I loved that about this book. Its good to see a character that is so genuinely good on the inside that Dante slowly falls for her, not immediately. I really really enjoyed the freshness of that.
What really got me about this story was that its something I haven't really read before. Dante is a collector the devil, basically. Its his job to go around, marking people for their sins and collecting them for the devil's collection in hell. He's sexy and kind of addicting but he's a bad person. He's working for a bad guy and yet you kind of can't help but be on his side, no matter what he's doing. Dante is kind of an anti-hero who eventually becomes a hero and its not really something we see a lot in books, not written this well, with this kind of story line. I read a LOT so sometimes I need a really good, fresh story to keep me addicted and satisfied and this book definitely did that. After reading this (now I need to read the next two), and reading the first two books of the Fire and Flood series, I'm completely sold on Victoria Scott as a writer. She's fantastic, she's great at world building and her characters are unique and fresh and relatable. I can't wait to see more. I'm hoping to get The Liberator soon!
November Book Wrap Up!
Books Pledged to Read in 2014:
Am I On Track:
No.21 books behind
Books Read So Far:
Total Books For October:
2 (OMG)
Snow Like Ashes
I can't believe it. Two books. In ONE month. I swear, viagra approved I'm a better book reader and blogger than this. I resolve that I WILL get better in December!
How was your month? Share in the comments!


That question appears in every book I've ever read about investing. I've read a bunch since I first became interested in the market and how I could use my existing assets to grow wealthier.
And that question makes a lot of sense. People in different stages of life set priorities based on their own goals.
We talk a lot about major investing trends in the Digest because they present the chance to build an astronomical amount of wealth by getting in early and buying before the main street retail investor and institutional investors drive the price higher.
But being a growth stock investor can make you question yourself.
Volatility and short-term corrections are common characteristics when investing in new business trends.
It's a cycle that repeats and repeats.
That's because hype about emerging trends can drive stock prices higher, and investor fear can make the price fall quickly as well, until the trend takes hold in the mainstream and the stocks take off.
But news that confirms your research and understanding can help steel your resolve.
When the more mainstream outlets confirm what you already knew, and confirm the direction a massive trend is going, it's easier to endure the ups and downs.
The broader market has been extremely volatile lately, and marijuana stocks have been no exception, but the news confirming this massive investment trend just keeps coming.
It's unstoppable, and the evidence continues to pile up.
In Wednesday's Digest, Jeff told you about Canopy Growth Corp. receiving a license from New York State to process and produce hemp.
The move was hailed by Sen. Chuck Schumer as a potential windfall for the state.
"This investment could create hundreds of good paying jobs in the region, help a new industry take root, and serve as a magnet for more companies and industry-related enterprise to locate to the region," said Schumer.
The news only accelerated as the week went on. The mid-term elections saw several states approve marijuana legalization, and the election of several officials who support legalization.
Now that they have all taken office, their efforts have kicked into gear.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced this week that he is ready to take the first steps toward legalization in his first state budget proposal.
California's Bureau of Cannabis Control endorsed a new rule to allow home marijuana deliveries statewide, even to communities that have banned commercial marijuana sales.
Oregon's two US Senators sent a letter to the FDA asking them to update their rules on CBD to permit interstate sales of food products. Hemp farmers in their state have pushed for the changes now that the Farm Bill has been signed and hemp production is legal in the US.
Florida appears ready to approve legalization of the medical marijuana flower that would allow licensed dispensaries to start to selling the product.
Arizona's Department of Health services reported that Arizonans smoke, ate or consumed nearly 60 tons of medical marijuana in 2018 – a 41% increase over 2017.
It's tough to believe that there are still skeptics about this trend. At this point, the only question is how do you want to take advantage?
Matt McCall, editor of Investment Opportunities, follows huge, business-shifting trends like no one else. He's often called the original marijuana bull because he has been so committed to and excited about this investment opportunity for so long.
You've probably already heard of a lot of big marijuana players, such as Canopy Growth Corp, or Aurora.
But many of the future billion-dollar leaders in marijuana — the massively successful private companies that are fueling this surging market — are now taking their companies public on the stock market.
Oftentimes, it's just pennies a share, or maybe a few dollars. Matt identifies these companies as part of his Investment Opportunities service.
On Dec. 4, Matt made a specific call for one of these companies – Elixinol Global Limited (ELLXF). I'll let him explain why sees so much potential here….
It is based in Australia, but most of its sales come in through its Elixinol USA division, which is in Colorado. The U.S. division makes and distributes supplements and skincare products around the world, from capsules to topical balms to dog treats.
Most cannabis-related stocks have above-average sales growth. Only a few are also value investments when compared to other growth sectors. Elixinol is unique in that it is attractive based on both growth and value.
Revenue is expected to jump 125% this year to $27.7 million. Last quarter's sales surged 160% over the prior year and an impressive 27% from the prior quarter.
Estimates for next year include 38% sales growth to $38.3 million, and revenue should continue growing to $53.3 million in 2020, another strong 39.2% increase. Also important, the company remains profitable along the way.
The day after Matt made the call, the stock surged 5%. Since Matt's buy call on Dec. 4, the stock is up 30%.
This coming Wednesday, Matt is going to release his next pick for what may be the next 1,000-bagger. A stock that could become the next Canopy Growth Corp, or Tilray stock.
To find out how you can hear all about Matt's pick, and future picks in this exploding industry, click here.
Yesterday, at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford announced that it is planning an electric version of the Ford F-150.
I am originally from Texas and when I was growing up if you didn't own a Ford F-150, you sure did want one.
And it looks like not a lot has changed. In case you didn't know, the F-150 is the best-selling vehicle in America, and has been for the last four years.
As I wrote above, news that confirms the viability of an important investing trends can cheer any growth investor. Ford committing to an electric version of its most popular vehicle, one that makes up a third of its sales, is just that kind of news.
Our friend Matt has been following this trend as well. As electric vehicles become more mainstream, the need for longer and stronger battery life becomes critically important.
Here is what Matt wrote from the Consumer Electronic Show last week about the importance of this trend.
If there's one thing I have learned from this year's show, it's that the gadgets of the future will require longer battery life. Not only will the next generation of batteries need to go further on a single charge, their overall lifespan will need to increase dramatically as well.
Good thing solid state batteries are slated to be the next big battery breakthrough.
The greatest development with these new batteries is that they use solid electrolytes instead of liquid ones. This alone will improve nearly every aspect of today's battery technology.
Because of their composition, solid state batteries are smaller, lighter, and can store a lot more energy than what is currently available. They have less impact on the environment. And the icing on the cake? They are much less likely to catch fire or explode.
The big names in the electronics and auto industries have invested in solid state battery technology for years. Everyone from Toyota Motor (TM) to Volkswagen (VWAGY) to Hitachi (HTHIY) and even Dyson – yes, the company known for its vacuum cleaners.
According to MarketsandMarkets, the solid state battery industry is expected to reach $1.1 billion by 2020. That would result in a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 72% between 2015 and 2020.
Inkwood Research expects the global solid state battery market to grow with a CAGR of 67% between 2018 and 2026.
And research firm Arthur D. Little sees the entire battery market growing to be worth $90 billion by 2025, up from $60 billion in 2015.
Don't expect this technology to be in the headlines for a few years still. But there is no question that now is the time to position your portfolio for what could be the biggest energy breakthrough in decades.
Investors don't get these massive growth opportunities too often. If you missed the Internet investments in the 1990s, or the bitcoin explosion earlier this decade, you have another chance to score once-in-a-lifetime profits.
Matt is following one stock with innovative battery technology that the International Business Times calls a "Tesla Killer." Click here to watch Matt's informative presentation about the technology behind that stock.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2019/01/marijuana-and-electric-car-trends-build-momentum/.


The recent spectacle on display in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings is an unfortunate distraction from the substantive task of determining Kavanaugh's judicial suitability for the Supreme Court. In other words, would he be a fair judge? We should look to Kavanaugh's judicial record on a number of issues to determine the answer.
On the environment, Kavanaugh repeatedly sides with industry and against regulatory authority. Kavanaugh's preference to side with industry is made clear in his judicial opinions on cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He sided with industry 89% of the time for less clean air and water and 95% of the time against species protections.
A striking example of his apparent bias is the contrast between his opinions on White Stallion Energy Center v. EPA and EME Homer City Generation v. EPA. In the White Stallion case, Kavanaugh believed that costs must be considered when considering them would lead to less stringent standards; but in EME Homer, he said costs cannot be considered when considering them would lead to more stringent standards.
If Kavanaugh were to be confirmed, his pro-industry bias would shift the balance of the court away from environmental protection. Based on his record of judicial opinions, he would likely uphold recent weakening of environmental regulations, such Trump administration intentions to replace the Clean Power Plan and dismantle the Clean Water Rule.
More relevant than questions about what Kavanaugh did or didn't do 36 years ago in high school are questions about his judicial temperament from the American Bar Association during his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals and apparent pro-industry bias in his recent judicial decisions. These questions are the ones that actually matter in Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Who will ask them?


There are 16 tourist attractions found in Cardiff. The major types of tourist attractions listed here are campgrounds and museums. Then there is also nature attractions listed in Cardiff. You may find a list of all categories of Cardiff attractions on this page. Click on a category to find all attractions of Cardiff of that type.
The port city of Cardiff is the youngest capital in Europe, having been declared as the official capital of Wales back in 1956. The city is located where the Severn Estuary meets the Rivers Taff and Rhymmey. Because of its huge role as the centre of culture and economy in the country, it has also become the most popular base for exploring the southern part of Wales.
Cardiff offers a wide variety of entertainment options. Among its most popular tourist attractions include the Cardiff Castle, Cardiff Bay, St. Fagan's National History Museum, Caerphilly Castle, National Museum of Cardiff, Millennium Stadium, Wales Millennium Centre, Llandaff Cathedral, Bute Park, Cardiff International White Water, The Red Castle Castell Coch and the Taff Trail, among many others. The city is also the best place to try out unique experiences such as checking out interactive exhibits at the Doctor Who Experience and eating out in prison at The Clink.
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Allison Jackson has been the Executive Director of the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) since 2016, where she works to promote strategic collaboration between life sciences researchers across Scotland, to ensure the sectors ongoing global competitiveness. In addition to managing Glasgow Polyomics - a facility at The University of Glasgow, she also holds a researcher development role there, where she manages schemes for early career researchers, diversity and inclusion, public engagement and new research. Allison also has extensive research experience in infection biology, particularly parasitology.


The ladies of the Alpha Alpha Kappa Zeta Chapter along with members of Rho Xi Zeta Chapter participated in the B.L.U.E. Awards (Better Life Understanding Everyone) on April 29, 2017. The event was held to shed light on autism. Autism affect 1 in 68 children and is 4.5 time more common in boys. It occurs in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
At the event, children were honored for their scholastic achievements artistic talents despite their diagnosis. Sorors cheered on award recipients and encouraged their parents. Tawanda Black of KISS 104.1 served as mistress of ceremony.


This week's lesson is all about selection tools and masks. You'll learn how to cut out parts of an image as well as hide parts of an image that you don't want to see. We'll be following the tutorial at bit.ly/lesson7tutorial and doing a group activity in class!
Using the selection and masking tools from last week's lesson, create a surrealist photo by combining multiple images. The sea creatures in the wine bottle tutorial we did in class is a good example of manipulating the size and color of elements to create a surreal scene.


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Polish involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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A Polish Army soldier patrol leader debriefs his team after completing an afternoon patrol around the perimeter of Camp Babylon, Iraq.
On March 17, 2003, then Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski announced that Poland would send about 2,000 troops to the Persian Gulf to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Polish soldiers had been present in the region since July 2002 and combat was first confirmed on March 24. These formed the fourth of the larger military contributions to the forces arrayed against Iraq (with the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia).
1 Forces committed
2 Operations by Polish Forces
3 International relations
Forces committed[edit]
The original Polish contingent contained:
70 soldiers from the JW Grom SOF unit, already deployed to the region, before March 2003. These were joined by another 56 men, just before the invasion.
The logistic support ship ORP Kontradmirał Xawery Czernicki which served as a base for special operations, included 50+ crew as well as the navy SOF unit JW Formoza.
74 chemical-contamination personnel from 4 Brodnicki Pułk Chemiczny (4. Chemical Warfare Regiment from Brodnica).
Another 53 men strong chemical-contamination contingent was ready to be sent to Turkey, but because of the quick victory it was stopped one day before departure.
In April 2005, Poland had 2,500 troops deployed in Iraq, and was also commanding a number of other coalition troops within the Polish-led Multinational Division Central-South.
Operations by Polish Forces[edit]
See also: Polish zone in Iraq
GROM commandos in Umm Qasr, 28 March 2003.
Polish commandos took part in security operations on Iraqi Oil Platforms. Fearing a repeat of the destruction of Iraqi oil wells in the Gulf War by Saddam Hussein, this operation aimed to prevent similar acts that would have led to pollution of the region and loss of infrastructure.[1]
Polish special forces performed the operation of securing the port of Umm Qasr.
International relations[edit]
In 2003, controversy erupted between Poland and France when Polish forces found French Roland surface-to-air missiles that the international press reported that Polish officers claimed had been manufactured in 2003. France pointed out that the latest Roland missiles were manufactured in the early 1990s and thus the manufacturing date was necessarily an error (it turned out it was probably the expiry date that was indicated), and affirmed that it had never sold weapons to Iraq in violation of the embargo. Investigations by the Polish authorities came to the conclusion that the persons responsible for the scandal were low level commanders; Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne, the Polish Army's intelligence service, had not verified their claims before they were leaked to the press.[citation needed]
The Foreign Minister of Poland, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, stated in July 2003, "We have never hidden our desire for Polish oil companies to finally have access to sources of commodities"[2] and was criticized for that by many fellow politicians and Polish popular opinion.
Iraq–Poland relations
Governmental positions on the Iraq War prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Polish Army
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^ "Poland seeks Iraq oil stake". BBC News. 2003-07-03. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
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Additional troops to leave for Iraq on the 21st
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[NEW YORK] US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear pact threatens new business for several big companies, including Boeing, Airbus and General Electric.
Aerospace companies had been perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the Iran nuclear accord, which recognised the need for Iran to modernise its airplane fleet.
Boeing in December 2016 announced a landmark agreement to sell Iran Air 80 aircraft valued at US$16.6 billion. It also announced a contract in April 2017 to sell Iran Aseman Airlines 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for US$3 billion, with purchase rights for another 30 aircraft.


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Fulham are on course to score 123 league goals surpassing Man City 01/02 history
Another industrious shift from Azpi last night
Arsenal: Mikel Arteta hits back at critics after postponing derby with Tottenham
Rangnick: Pogba can show his talent, even if it is just to get a new contract elsewhere
Ralf Rangnick 'positively surprised' by Man Utd's pressing ability in Crystal Palace win
Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick has confessed that he was not expecting his players to press Crystal Palace so well en route to a 1-0 victory on Sunday.
Known as the founder of the heavy-metal football that Jurgen Klopp has popularised at Liverpool, Rangnick had just a few days with United before Sunday's game and made a point of tempering expectations while his squad get to grips with his methods.
It's safe to say he wasn't expecting an immediate impact, but United pressed harder against Palace than they have since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement. They recovered the ball in the final third no fewer than 12 times - no boss had managed that at Old Trafford since the Scot's departure.
"To be honest, I was positively surprised by the physical state, intensity and performance of the players," Rangnick told Sky Sports.
"Not only did we play in the late kick-off on Thursday, but we also had two days fewer than Crystal Palace to recover. I didn't expect us to play at that level after only one-and-a-half training days together with them.
"It's always easier to build on things when you're successful. I want the players to believe in this kind of football. We continue in this direction, produce further clean sheets, and get better at creating chances ourselves. There is still space for improvement but today was more important for me to see how they played against the ball."
Rangnick set his side up in a 4-2-2-2 formation, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford leading the press up top, and he explained his setup after the game.
"For me it seemed logical to not make many changes after the win against Arsenal," he said (via the club's official website). "The question was how do we get possession of the ball?
"We had enough space with Jadon [Sancho] and Bruno [Fernandes] in those number ten positions for our fullbacks to play forwards and ask for the ball on the wings. That was the reason I decided to play a 4-2-2-2.
"The most demanding positions in that formation are the tens and I think Bruno and Jadon did well in those positions. Defensively they both did well.
"Obviously it was about keeping them away from our goal, keeping them consistently under pressure and chasing balls and winning balls. We decided to go for a slightly different formation but only slightly different.
"We played with two strikers, Marcus and Cristiano up front with Jadon and Bruno on the 10 position and for the rest of the team it was the same position as usual. I just thought it might be better to have control in the centre of the pitch with Cristiano having a partner up front and I think it worked out well."
This article was originally published on 90min as Ralf Rangnick 'positively surprised' by Man Utd's pressing ability in Crystal Palace win.
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Koléa () is a city in Tipaza Province, northern Algeria, located approximately  southwest of Algiers. Its population in 2010 was 46,685.

History
Kolea was founded in 1550 by Hayreddin Barbarossa. In 1838, Lamoricère moved there with his regiment of Zouaves and built four forts: at Fouka, Tombourouf, Ben Azzouz, and Mokta-Khera.

References

External links
 Tageo.com entry

Communes of Tipaza Province
Tipaza Province


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