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The Pixies are one of the bands that I can put on shuffle and listen to for a morning, or even all day. I don't think there's a single track that makes me stop and mutter oh, not now.
I have picked this particular set of songs today because they are three of my favorites. Here Comes Your Man was the #1 most played song in my iTunes for several years, until it got (accidentally) dethroned by a Vienna Teng song, and on a Pixies-only playlist, Allison and Dig for Fire are right behind it at two and three, respectively.
The first video is the "official" video, from 1990. The music holds up; the visuals are endearingly dated. Especially the part where they're playing in an empty stadium. Some of you may not remember but that was a time when there were a lot of videos made in empty stadiums.
The second one is a live video shot during their 2011 tour, which I picked over the "official" video because the official video is weirdly terrible and not in an entertaining way.
If you'd like to hear more, there are free live downloads – including one from Coachella 2011! – and much more in the blog posts on their website.
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NEW DELHI: Real estate consultant SILA group has entered into the property development business and is constructing a luxury housing project near Mumbai with an investment of about Rs 70 crore, a top company official said.
The Mumbai-based firm commenced operations in 2010 as an integrated facility management company, but later ventured into project and construction management as well as real estate advisory and consulting services.
"We see an unique opportunity in getting into real estate development business. With new realty law RERA and the GST, there is level playing field for new players," SILA group founder and MD Sahil Vora said.
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\subsection{Implementation on Facebook Public Pages}
With the anchor node as the center of each state, we adopt the breadth-first search (BFS) to calculate the distance from each anchor node.
First, we define the state distance vector (SDV) to represent the hop distances, for each specific page, to the anchor pages.
The following equation shows SDV for each page:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
 SDV(Page) = [\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \\
 [IHOP(Page, S_{i}), \qquad \qquad\\
 OHOP(Page, S_{i})]: \qquad \quad\\
 i \in {1, ..., N_{anchored\_pages}}]
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $IHOP(Page, S_{i})$ denotes the hop distance between the page and the seed $S_{i}$, using the inward edges as connection for BFS; $OHOP(Page, S_{i})$ denotes the hop distance between the page and the seed $S_{i}$, using the outward edges as connection for BFS.
In addition, we define the minimum hop distance $MHOP$ as the minimum of all hop distances of a page:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
 MHOP = Min(Min(IHOP), Min(OHOP))
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $IHOP$ is the set of $IHOP(Page, S_{i})$ and $OHOP$ is the set of $OHOP(Page, S_{i})$.

From our observation, in some cases, an anchor page can
connect with those pages far beyond where it resides within a small hop distance.
This probability is not high; however, this kind of connection noise would highly reduce the prediction accuracy.
To address this problem, we take the neighborhood location probability into consideration as the auxiliary features. The state neighborhood probability (SNP) presents the location information of the adjacent pages of a specific page.
The definition of SNP is shown below:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
 SNP(Page) = [\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \\
 [INP(Page, R_{i}), \qquad \qquad\\
 ONP(Page, R_{i})]: \qquad \quad\\
 i \in {1, ..., N_{region}}]\qquad \quad
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $INP(Page, R_{i})$ denotes the inward neighborhood location probability between this page and the adjacent pages belonging to the region $R_{i}$; $ONP(Page, R_{i})$ denotes the outward neighborhood location probability between the page and the adjacent pages belonging to the region $R_{i}$.
The equations are as the following:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
 INP(Page, R_{i}) = \dfrac{IE(Page, R_{i})}{\sum_{i}^{}IE(Page, R_{i})}\\
 ONP(Page, R_{i}) = \dfrac{OE(Page, R_{i})}{\sum_{i}^{}OE(Page, R_{i})}\\
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $IE(Page, R_{i})$ is the number of the inward edges between this page and the adjacent pages belonging to the region $R_{i}$; $OE(Page, R_{i})$ is the number of the outward edges between this page and the adjacent pages belonging to the region $R_{i}$.

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{png/statewise_global.png}
    \caption{Comparison of state-wise global page percentage}
	\label{fig:global_page_state_wise}
\end{figure}

\subsection{State-wise Globalness Detection}
\label{state_wise_experiment}
To investigate the global nodes in the state-wise perspective, we select Facebook pages in the threes states of the Midwest region: Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA).

\subsubsection{Making hypothesis} For IL globalness detection, we define global pages (OT) in IL as those pages labeled as IL, but behave as those pages which reside in non-IL states (e.g. IN and IA in this experiment setting) and have state-wise global tendency -- which means a balanced relationship with all three states (IL, IN, and IA).

\subsubsection{Deciding anchor nodes} As described in \Cref{anchor_node_selection}, we pick the three anchor nodes in IL, IN, and IA.

\subsubsection{Selecting biased data} We choose the pages labeled as IL and $\#MHOP <= N_{local\_threshold} = 1$ as the local node training samples; we pick the pages labeled as others (i.e. IN and IA) and $\#MHOP >= N_{global\_threshold} = 3$ as the global node training samples.

\subsubsection{Detecting global nodes by classification} The trained classifier is deployed to recognize the global pages in IL. There are two categories in this classifier: IL and
"others (OT)" representing the global pages.

The same globalness detection flow is applied accordingly to detect global nodes in both IN and IA.
\Cref{fig:global_page_state_wise} compares the global page percentage in the three states (IL, IN, and IA).
31.56\% of the pages in IL are global pages, which are at least 20\% more than the counterparts in IN and IA.
This result suggests that IL has much more pages which actively interact with other pages among the three core states in the Midwest \cite{midwest_states_poll} -- which supports the fact that IL, home of Chicago, is the center of the Midwest region.

\begin{figure
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{png/global_page_distro.png}

	\caption{Global page distribution by state}
	\label{fig:global_page_dist}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{png/gb_ratio.png}

	\caption{Global page ratio w.r.t population density by state}
	\label{fig:gb_ratio}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Country-wise Globalness Detection}
\label{country_wise_experiment}
In this section, we explore the possibility of applying our methodology onto globalness detection in the country-wise aspects.
As an example, the US global pages are distinguished in the following steps, as shown in \Cref{fig:global_page_flow}.

\subsubsection{Making hypothesis} We define global pages (OT) in the US as those pages labeled as states in the US, but behave as those pages which are outside the US and have global propensity.

\subsubsection{Deciding anchor nodes} As described in \Cref{anchor_node_selection}, we choose all 51 anchor nodes for the 50 states in the US.

\subsubsection{Selecting biased data} We choose the pages labeled as US and $\#MHOP <= N_{local\_threshold} = 2$ as the local node training samples; we pick the pages labeled as others (non-US) and $\#MHOP >= N_{global\_threshold} = 5$ as the global node training samples.
Both local threshold $N_{local\_threshold}$ and global threshold $N_{global\_threshold}$ could be adjusted to make the biased selection more polarized.

\subsubsection{Detecting global nodes by classification} The trained classifier is deployed to identify the global pages in US. There are 51 categories in this classifier: fifty US states and "others (OT)" representing the global pages.

\Cref{fig:global_page_dist} presents the global page distribution by state.
The proportion of global pages in all states is 1.16\% on average.
Not surprisingly, NY has the highest global page ratio (4.72\%).
This result is consistent with NY's image as a global 'melting pot.'
CA is the other state whose global page ratio is higher than 2\%, which shows its global diversity.
From demographics' point of view, we rank states by the ratio of $(\#Global \enspace pages) \, / \, (Population \enspace density)$ \cite{demographic_stats}.
As \Cref{fig:gb_ratio} shows, AS ranks the 1st (59.2), which manifests its endeavor in travel promotion, and the followings are the most populous states: CA, NY, and TX.

\subsection{Evaluation}
In both cases in the above experiments, we've applied three different ML models: Naive Bayes \cite{zhang2004optimality},
Adaboost \cite{hastie2009multi}, and
Random Forests \cite{breiman2001random}.
The Random Forests model gets the best performance. Hence we only presents the results based on this model in this paper.

In \Cref{state_wise_experiment}, it's a simplified classification problem, and our classifiers get 100\% precision and recall rates when recognizing local pages in IL, IN, and IA.
There are 50 state categories to identify in \Cref{country_wise_experiment}, which is a much more realistic and complex experiment. Our classifier gets \textbf{89\%} precision and \textbf{88\%} recall rate. The detailed prediction results by state are provided in \cite{lin2018geo}.

Next, we evaluate the accuracy of globalness detection for our approach. To that end, we performed a simple experiment: We randomly sampled
15 pages from each state. Then one of the authors manually verified whether these 15 pages can be really classified as global page by human judgment. We found that 100\% of these pages can be classified as global pages, which have connections with pages in multiple other states and behave like pages outside the US.

It is important to highlight that our methodology was not designed to capture all of the global pages. In addition, the parameter settings of the thresholds give flexibility to trade-off between precision and recall for globalness detection. Our approach aimed at building a high precision prediction platform for both local and global nodes.

In sum, there are primarily two kinds of global pages: the commercial pages which intend to connect multiple regions for promotion purposes, and the immigrant communities which are closely linked with exotic contents.
For instance, the page shown in \Cref{fig:global_page_demo_inter-state} is Tabasco's fan page; \Cref{fig:global_page_demo_international}
(page ID = 1627668764132931) is identified as a global page -- located in NY, but highly related to the Middle East culture.

\begin{figure}
	\centering

	\includegraphics[width=.8\columnwidth]{png/page_tabasco_in_la.png}

    \caption{Demonstration of a global page located in LA}
	\label{fig:global_page_demo_inter-state}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
	\centering

	\includegraphics[width=.8\columnwidth]{png/page_middle_east_in_ny.png}

    \caption{Demonstration of a global page located in NY}
	\label{fig:global_page_demo_international}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Stability}
In \Cref{country_wise_experiment}, our experimental results are based on the anchor nodes of the subsidiary pages from "OnlyInYourState.com." However, from our assumption, the anchor nodes are not unique as long as they are local enough to provide accurate distance measurement in BFS process. Then what's the stability of our globalness detection results?

From our observation, state university pages are also a possible source set of anchor nodes since local students tend to attend the state universities in their residence states. Therefore, to make a fair comparison, we pick one state university page for Northern California, one state university page for Southern California, and one state university page for the other states.
Our classifier gets 88\% precision and 88\% recall rate. These comparable results suggest that the anchor set of state university pages is also a valid anchor set.

From the perspective of platform stability, we compare the global pages distinguished from the two sets of anchor nodes. In sum, there are around 60\% global pages overlapped between these two sets. This high repetition rate proves the stability of our globalness detection platform with distinct anchor sets.

\subsection{Facebook Public Page Graph}
Formally, we model the Facebook public pages
as a page-like graph $G=(V,E)$ wherein V is a set of pages and E is a set of directed edges presenting "Like" relationship which would be seen by the community participants.

The page host has the privilege to disclose the
geographic location of the page. We crawled
38,831,367 pages in total.
Among these pages, 15,115,963 (38.93\%) pages have specific location information.
There are 2,430,873 pages proclaimed as in the United States (US) and 12,685,090 non-US pages.
We took the pages with declared location information of country and city as ground truth data.
Then we map the city to the corresponding state where it resides. Few pages are excluded because their city names exist in multiple states, which can result in ambiguous city-to-state mapping. There are 29,849 cities in total in the US.

\subsection{Anchor Node Selection}
\label{anchor_node_selection}
Seed selection is an important technique in graph analysis and also exploited in combating fake contents (e.g. web spam and review manipulation) \cite{kaghazgaran2018combating, gyongyi2004combating}.

In \Cref{operational_flow_globalness}, the second step of the operational flow is to decide anchor nodes representative of their own categories. These anchor nodes have to be as local as possible such that the distances to these nodes can afford the authentic tendency towards locality.

In our dataset, we select all subsidiary pages of "OnlyInYourState.com" as the anchor nodes. For example, "Only\_In\_Delaware" is part of "OnlyInYourState.com" and mostly connects the local communities in Delaware.
In addition, since California is much larger than the other states in the perspectives of population and economy, "OnlyInYourState.com" splits California into Northern and Southern regions.
As a result, both
"Only\_In\_Northern\_California" and "Only\_In\_Southern\_California" are used as anchor
nodes. Furthermore, since "Only\_In\_Idaho" had been registered, OnlyInYourState.com named its Idaho counterpart as "Idaho\_Only" instead. In sum, we have 51 anchor nodes in total for this dataset.

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\subsection{Characterizing Concept of Globalness}
\begin{itemize}
    \item Globalness is a \textit{property of the relationship of this node with not only the category it belongs to, but also with other categories.} This follows the intuition that comparing to the local nodes, the global nodes are not inclined towards a few categories.
    \item Globalness \textit{is not an absolute concept and is defined with respect to a given context:} the nodes of a graph and a given set of (two or more) parties. For instance, a Facebook page could be global from Midwest's point of view, but could be local from the perspective of the United States (US).
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Operational Definition of Globalness}
From our observation, the global nodes in OSNs are those nodes which have connections with multiple categories (classes or regions) and do not lean toward a specific category.
For instance, given all the Facebook pages located within the US, some of them have characteristics which are similar to the pages in the other countries.
We propose an operational definition of this concept by the following formula:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
Global\_node := \{ p \space | p \space \in C_{i}{} \space \land
 ( \sum_{j \in C}^{} \delta_{pj} ) >= N_{global\_threshold} \} \\
\end{split}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\delta_{pj} =
    \begin{cases}
      1, & \Delta_{pj} \leq \min_{k \in C} (\Delta_{pk}) + \epsilon \\
      0, & \text{otherwise}
    \end{cases}
\end{split}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\Delta_{pk} = \sum_{c \in C \space \land \space c \neq k}^{} \omega_{c}|| D_{pc} ||
\end{split}
\end{equation}

where $p$ is the global node which originates from the class $C_{i}{}$; $\Delta_{pk}$ is the weighted error when node $p$ is classified as the class $C_{k}{}$ and $D_{pc}{}$ is the error distance to a specific class.
In short, abstractly global nodes are those nodes which could be classified as anyone of the multiple classes within a small error distance.
\Cref{fig:global_page_flow} demonstrates an example flow to detect global pages in the US.

\subsection{Operational Flow of Globalness Detection}
\label{operational_flow_globalness}
In order to find the global nodes in OSNs, we devise a four-stage operational flow of globalness detection.
\subsubsection{Making hypothesis} Define globalness relationship between two affiliations. Specifically, there are mainly two groups: A and non-A (others).
Note that while this definition can be intuitively extended to relationship among more than two affiliations, for the sake of simplicity, we only consider relationship between two affiliations in this work.

\subsubsection{Deciding anchor nodes} For each class, pick one anchor node which can exemplify its own class -- namely, choose the representative "local" nodes at this stage.

\subsubsection{Selecting biased data} In the training process, we reinforce the distinction between local nodes and global nodes by polarizing the selection of training samples. For the local nodes, we choose the nodes with local tendency in class A; for the global nodes, we pick the nodes with global propensity in class non-A.

\subsubsection{Detecting global nodes by classification} At this stage, we train the model by the biased data. We identify these global nodes by the trained classifier. The global nodes are the nodes which are identified as belonging to the class "others (OT)" by the classifier -- which means that these nodes do not belong to their original class, and thus are so-called \textit{global nodes} by our operational definition.

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.8\columnwidth]{png/global_page_flow.png}
	\caption{Global page detection flow for the US pages}
	\label{fig:global_page_flow}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Node Analysis in Online Social Network}
In OSN, users, pages, and posts/comments are nodes comprising a multi-layer composite social network graph. Most research papers analyze the nodes in a single layer, with another layer as a supplement.
Firstly, Ugander \emph{et al.} analyzed the Facebook user graph from network structure properties \cite{ugander2011anatomy}.
Second, Hong \emph{et al.}
focused on the analysis of the Facebook public page graph with the data-driven methodology \cite{hong2018profiling}.
Last but not least, the political polarity of posts/comments in OSN (e.g. Twitter) is also a popular topic many researchers have been working on \cite{zafar2016message, lu2015biaswatch, wong2016quantifying, speriosu2011twitter, maynard2011automatic}.

\subsection{Location Information}
The ground truth location information plays a key role in model building and evaluation of geo-location prediction. There are two methodologies to acquire this information: direct collection and indirect extraction.

First, direct collection relies on the OSN platform to
fetch data. With a non-required text field, guided in the case of Facebook and freeform in the case of Twitter, both services provide users with the option to proclaim their locations. This field can facilitate the generation of location labels from country, state, to city level.
According to Hecht's report, 34\% of users provide invalid geographic information in this location field on Twitter \cite{hecht2011tweets}. Another more accurate way is to adopt the coordinate location instead of the named location \cite{cheng2010you}.

Second, indirect extraction uses crowdsourcing to tag the data. Huang \emph{et al.} adopted a composite approach with
the language detection tools, an R library, as well as the Yahoo! and Twitter API to make the crowdsourcing job easier for people to label data \cite{huang2014inferring}.

Since the majority of public pages are commercial in nature, and as such are managed by page hosts who have a desire to make these pages thriving, they tend to use more accurate location data in order to ensure more viable commercial traffic \cite{hong2018profiling}. As users have no such intrinsic motivation to provide accurate location data, this means the quality of location attribute data is much higher for pages than for users. For this reason we used direct collection to obtain location data on Facebook.

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CALGARY, July 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:BEI.UN) (the "Trust") announced today the results of matters voted on at its annual and special meeting of unitholders held on May 14, 2015 (the "Meeting"), which included the election of all the trustee nominees listed in the Trust's management information circular dated March 31, 2015. The voting results for each of the matters considered at the Meeting are presented below.
The total number of common shares represented by unitholders present in person or by proxy at the meeting was 39,800,362, representing 83.72% of the Trust's outstanding trust units.
Boardwalk REIT strives to be Canada's friendliest landlord and currently owns and operates more than 220 communities with over 34,000 residential units totalling over 29 million net rentable square feet. Boardwalk's principal objectives are to provide its Residents with the best quality communities and superior customer service, while providing Unitholders with sustainable monthly cash distributions, and increase the value of its trust units through selective acquisitions, dispositions, development, and effective management of its residential multi-family communities. Boardwalk REIT is vertically integrated and is Canada's leading owner/operator of multi-family communities with 1,500 Associates bringing Residents home to properties located in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec.
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Sanchez Ramirez. The senator and national leader of the People's Force, Félix Bautista, assured that the sending of police and military troops to the streets will not reduce the high crime rates that affect the nation, since, in his opinion, it is necessary to go to the root of the problem by improving people's quality of life.
During a day of swearing-in in this province, the congressman for San Juan de la Maguana maintained that the most effective way to reduce crime is to create more jobs, reduce inflationary levels in the family basket and poverty, establish policies aimed at motivate young people to get involved in short-term technical careers that allow them to be part of the labor market.
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Bautista said that in the face of the general crisis affecting the nation, Dominicans see in Leonel Fernández the leader with the capacity and conditions to lead the country down the right path.
"Only Leonel can establish policies aimed at reducing the high cost of living, the disaster in school dropouts, effectively combating crime levels, bringing life back to the countryside that looks dying and abandoned, increasing investment in agricultural production," said.
The swearing-in of political leadership bodies took place this weekend in the municipalities of Cotui, Villa La Mata, Fantino and Cevicos, as well as the political leadership of nine municipal districts.
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China always adheres to peaceful development
By He Yin (People's Daily) 09:08, October 30, 2020
The great War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea defied the invasion and expansion of imperialism and safeguarded the security of New China; it also safeguarded the peaceful life of the Chinese people, stabilized the situation in the Korean Peninsula and upheld peace in Asia and the world, said Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting marking the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea on October 23.
He profoundly revealed the war's nature of resisting aggression and rebelling against power, systematically clarified the historical significance of the great victory of the war for maintaining peace and stability in China and the world, and fully demonstrated China's image as an upholder of justice and peace.
An important part of the spirit forged in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea is the internationalism that strives for the cause of peace and justice for humanity.
An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' entering the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea to fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea was held in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution on Oct. 25. The photo shows veterans who participated in the war communicate with each other. (People's Daily Online/ Zhang Wujun)
Seventy years ago, the brave CPV army held high the banner of safeguarding peace and fighting aggression, and entered the Korean front to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, a just move of an army for justice. They not only safeguarded the security of their own country, but exhibited the firm determination of the Chinese people to maintain world peace.
The great victory of the war has profoundly shaped the strategic pattern of Asia and even the world after the end of World War II, greatly inspired nations and peoples under oppression across the world to pursue the just cause of national independence and liberation, as well as promoted world peace and progress of all mankind.
The Chinese nation is a peace-loving nation and the Chinese people pursue peace in their nature.
During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, many Chinese people voiced their passion and support for peace. Some said "The Chinese people enthusiastically love peace, but in order to defend peace, they are never afraid of standing up against invasions"; some said "China is a peace-loving nation, but it's not afraid of invaders as it will be fighting for the long-lasting peace of the world".
When imperialists and aggressors forcibly involved the Chinese nation in a war, many Chinese people made huge sacrifices to safeguard peace.
They shed blood and fiercely fought in the Battle of Triangle Hill, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, among other battles, and were so courageous as to confront the formidable rivals and sacrifice themselves. Not hunger, cold, or death could frighten them off.
It is the firm belief in maintaining peace that has forged courage, integrity and dedication in the genes of the Chinese people, and encouraged numerous CPVs to gallantly march across the Yalu River and resist U.S. aggression, and write a heroic epic that impressed the world.
Xi once pointed out that the most profound pursuit of a nation has its origin in the national character formed through generations.
The War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea has shown the Chinese nation's pursuit of peace, a national character deeply rooted in the historical tradition and cultural genes of the Chinese civilization.
Through its long history, the Chinese civilization has cultivated the political concept of "Foster friendship with neighbors," concluded that "A war-like state, however big it may be, will eventually perish," and been characterized by qualities mirrored in such sayings as "Peace is of paramount importance," "Seek harmony without uniformity," "Replace weapons of war with gifts of jade and silk," "Achieve universal peace," and "Pursue harmony and connectivity."
Even China had suffered aggression, humiliation, and plunder by foreign powers for more than a century in its modern history, the Chinese people never ceased striving for peace and justice.
Since the foundation of the New China, the country has consistently adhered to an independent foreign policy of peace. From proposing the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to writing "following the path of peaceful development" into the Constitution and the Party Constitution, it has shown the world its confidence in thinking and readiness to practice it.
For the Chinese people, peace and stability are as essential as what sunshine and air are to life.
They are well aware that without peace, neither China nor the world will be able to develop smoothly; and that without development, there will never be lasting peace.
China is committed to pursuing peaceful development, and it has never provoked a war or conflict, or occupied an inch of others' land.
The country has solemnly declared to the world that it will never seek hegemony, expansion, or spheres of influence.
China believes that no matter how powerful a country or army is, if it goes against the global trend towards development to bully others, tries to reverse the historical trend, or pursues aggression and expansion, it will definitely end up destroying itself.
By holding a grand meeting to commemorate the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, China has made clear to the world its fierce determination to maintain world peace and justice and follow the historical trend of peace and development.
It has become evident to all that China upholds the common value of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom shared by all mankind, and follows the path of peaceful, open, cooperative and common development based on the vision of global governance featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.
It is the general trend of the times for people of all countries to work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind. In this way, humankind will surely usher in a bright future of peace and development.
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El Che Uinic u Hombre de los bosques es una criatura fantástica que forma parte de la mitología maya. El Mayab posee una amplia mitología dentro de la que ocupan un lugar importante ciertos personajes que, si bien no corresponden a lo divino, poseen características o poderes considerados sobrenaturales que los separan de lo cotidiano o normal. Dentro de ese espacio se encuentran los gigantes y uno de los más conocidos es el llamado Hombre de los bosques.

La criatura
Las leyendas o referencias recogidas por diversos investigadores, lo describen como un hombre de gran altura, carente de huesos y coyunturas, situación que le dificulta ponerse de pie en caso de caer al suelo, por lo cual cuando duerme debe hacerlo recargado en el tronco de algún gran árbol.

Otro rasgo característico de esta colosal criatura es que tiene los pies invertidos, esto es, los dedos están orientados hacia la espalda y los talones, hacia el frente. Lo anterior -refiere el imaginario popular- le ocasiona problemas para caminar por lo cual utiliza un bastón hecho de un grueso tronco.

La alimentación del Che Uinic está constituida por carne humana. Dice la leyenda que para salvarse de él, es menester, arrancar un par de ramas, bailar con ellas, realizar malabares y, si es posible, cantar. Lo anterior ocasiona que el gigante se ría tan fuerte, que cae al suelo y no se puede levantar; entonces, la persona puede retirarse del sitio.

Véase también
 Uay chivo
 Alux

Referencias y bibliografía
 Baqueiro López, Oswaldo (1983). Magia, mitos y supersticiones entre los mayas. Yucatán, México: Maldonado Editores, Col. Voces de Yucatán.
 Briton, Daniel (1937). El folklore de Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatán, México: Impresora Oriente.
 Peniche Barrera, Roldán (1992). El libro de los fantasmas mayas. Yucatán, México: Maldonado editores, Biblioteca básica del Mayab.
 Trejo Silva, Marcia (2009). Fantasmario mexicano. México: Trillas. ISBN 978-607-17-0069-8
 Trejo Silva, Marcia (2008). Monstruos mexicanos. México: Diana. ISBN 978-968-13-4387-3

Leyendas de Yucatán
Vocablos en lengua maya
Criaturas de la mitología maya

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La Torre Troyana o Torre dell'orologio, è uno dei simboli architettonici della città di Asti. Situata accanto al Palazzo Ducale o del Governatore, prospiciente su piazza Medici, nel Rione San Secondo, è inserita fra le strutture che compongono il mosaico dei "Castelli Aperti" del Basso Piemonte.

Nell'Ottocento la campana della torre segnava le ore e la ritirata per la notte. Era anche il segnale dell'apertura delle scuole. In tempi più remoti, segnalava la chiusura delle botteghe e le punizioni che venivano comminate sulla pubblica piazza.

L'architettura
Alta 44 metri, è una torre alta a base quadrata di 5,90 metri per lato, a canna chiusa e liscia, terminante con tre fasce delimitate da cornici in pietra, su ogni lato delle quali si aprono ampie bifore.

Termina con una merlatura "ghibellina" a coda di rondine e sopra di essa un pinnacolo sporgente in metallo a copertura dell'orologio ancora funzionante.

La costruzione

La fondazione della parte basale avvenne tra la fine del XII secolo e gli inizi del successivo, secondo le tipologie costruttive tipiche del periodo; non sappiamo chi fossero gli antichi proprietari, con ogni probabilità esponenti dell'antico patriziato consolare sempre più scalzato dal nuovo ceto dirigente cittadino, che fondava le proprie ricchezze sul commercio internazionale, sul cambio e sul prestito. Fu nella prima metà del Duecento che la famiglia Troya, ricca stirpe di banchieri, rilevò la torre ancora incompleta: verso il 1250 avviò la realizzazione dei tre piani di bifore, e in un periodo di poco successivo (tra il 1260 ed il 1280) la completò con il fastoso coronamento merlato "a sporgere".

L'Incisa afferma che nel 1420 gli Asinari, che ne erano diventati i proprietari, ne fecero dono al Comune di Asti, con l'obbligo di installarvi l'orologio.
In realtà è certo che nella seconda metà del XIV secolo la torre e la pertinente dei Troya furono inglobati nel nuovo grande palazzo in cui i duchi d'Orleans, nuovi signori della Città,  stabilirono la sede dei Governatori di Asti e del suo Stato. Nel 1422 Filippo Maria Visconti, in qualità di reggente della Contea di Asti, trasferì la residenza dei Governatori nel castello nuovo della cittadella, ed assegnò al Comune l'uso del palazzo, in cui furono subito trasferite la sede del Consiglio di Credenza e degli uffici amministrativi. La torre Troyana divenne da allora torre civica: vi fu installato l'orologio già esistente nella precedente torre comunale di piazza San Secondo (poi crollata nel 1680), e nel 1470 per proteggerne i meccanismi dalle intemperie, vennero chiuse le bifore e coperta la cima con l'attuale tetto a spiovente e con la guglia adibita a cella campanaria. L'uso pubblico della torre rimase anche dopo che la sede comunale fu nuovamente trasferita; nel 1560 Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, conte di Asti, la donava definitivamente alla Città, che ne rimase ininterrotta proprietaria.  Nel 1905, la torre subì il primo restauro, con la riapertura delle bifore ed il consolidamento murario.

La campana
Anche se la presenza di una campana nella torre risale agli inizi del XV secolo, l'attuale campana del XVI secolo, è tra le più antiche del Piemonte e la più antica tra quelle che svolgono ancora l'attività di scandire le ore della giornata.

Solamente la campana della chiesa di San Giorgio di Chieri (ora però musealizzata) è più antica, risalendo al 1452-1455.

Gli ordinati Comunali astesi del 1531 citano la fusione della nuova campana con riparazione dell'orologio. In un polittico di Gandolfino da Roreto del 1518, ora conservato nella collezione della Cassa di Risparmio di Genova, è raffigurato il patrono della città di Asti san Secondo che tradizionalmente sorregge nella mano sinistra la città.

Tra gli edifici è facilmente riconoscibile la torre Troyana con tettuccio e pinnacolo come è nella sua forma attuale a conferma dell'avvenuta copertura della campana e dell'orologio.

La campana ha una base di 120 cm di diametro ed un'altezza di 120 cm. Pesa circa 14 quintali ed ha l'intonazione in nota di MI.

Reca un'iscrizione in gotico fiorito in senso antiorario nel primo registro superiore:

Nel terzo registro superiore sono raffigurati l'arcangelo Michele, la Madonna con il Bambino, una Crocefissione con Madonna e San Giovanni e lo stemma della città con la scritta AST; infine l'immagine della Pietà di Cristo che si erge dal sepolcro.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Storia di Asti
 Casane astigiane
 Famiglia Troya

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Torre Troyana su www.castelliaperti.it

Troyana Torre
Torri ad orologio


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2014 Film4 Frightfest Line-up Revealed
Jon Dickinson
Marking its fifteenth year, Frightfest has provided a keen opportunity for film fans and filmmakers to come together to watch some of the best titles from the horror and fantasy genre. The festival itself has evolved a community spirit and has seen an increase in the number of people who come from all across the country to queue and buy their tickets in person. Often these individuals queue up overnight earning it the nickname "The Sleepy Queue". Even though there were some difficulties experienced shortly after tickets went on sale those attending the sleepy queue were given the opportunity to watch Director Matty Beckerman's found footage film Alien Abduction as a thank you for their dedication.
The festival is just eight weeks away and we can hardly contain our excitement for what will be shown during the five days. However, this year has seen some major changes to how the festival operates. After Empire Cinema changed what was their biggest screen to make room for their IMAX and IMPACT screens, the festival organisers decided to move to VUE Cinemas, Leicester square to accommodate the number of festival goers. So instead of having one big screen to show the main screens there are now three main screens in which all the main films will play. These screens are sponsored by Arrow films, Film4 and The Horror Channel. Many attendees feared that this will affect the 'community' atmosphere of the festival but we believe that there is no need to be concerned as the three screens will make the festival feel much more intimate.
The event will open with a screening of Adam Wingard's The Guest and will close with William Eubank's sci-fi thriller The Signal. Nine countries will be featured and twenty five features will be shown on the main screen, eighteen of which are UK premieres that include Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Babadook, and the 'action-packed horror/comedy' Zombeavers.
In addition to the main screen films there will be two additional 'discovery' screens where an additional thirty-seven films will be shown including Wolf Creek 2, Eduardo Sanchez's big foot horror Exists, White Settlers, The Drownsman and Wolfcop. Showing alongside the Discovery films will be the Film4 Frightfest Short Film Showcase which takes place over two slots on Saturday and Monday.
As if that wasn't enough the discovery screens will also feature special events held exclusively for festival attendees. The Duke Mitchell Film Club has been called 'The Best Film Club in London' by Time Out and this year the film club will be taking over the Discovery screen on Saturday night to show Director James Ward's Coherence which will be followed by a party. As for Sunday and serving as a treat for those who love to see old classics on the big screen, the festival organisers will be screening such films that include A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nekromantic and The Shining.
With a rumoured 150 guests attending the festival there's no doubt that this year is going to be just as successful as previous years. Will the change of location change the overall 'community' of the festival? We're not sure but you can be assured that we will be there so whilst we wait to find out who exactly is going to be attending the festival we've put together this list of five films that will be shown on the main screen line-up that we are most excited about watching.
Opening the festival is The Guest. Former Downtown Abbey actor Dan Stevens stars as a soldier arriving on the door step of a griving family whose son was killed in action. Shotly after his arrival a number of people are killed and the youngest siblings of the family suspect that their guest is not all he seems. Knowing first hand how inventive Wingard can get with his films we can't wait to see what he serves us with his homage to 1980s action/slasher flicks.
Splatter king Eli Roth tries his hand with the savage Italian cannibal genre after a six-year absence from the genre. Telling the story of a group of NYC college students who seek to stop the destruction of an endagered tribe only to find themselves drugged and captured by the very people they were seeking to save. The tables are quickly turned and the team find themselves at the hands of a ravenous tribe of cannibals. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy and Sky Farreira, The Green Inferno promises to be a bleak and throught provoking horror.
Tommy Wirkola is back at Frightfest with the sequel to his 2009 hit Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead. Following the events of the first film, sole survivor Martin finds himself waking up in a hospital to find out that his arm has been replaced with the arm belonging to the Zombie SS officer that was responsible for his friends' death. So when the same dead army advances towards the small town of Tarvick Martin uses his power to resurrects the leader's most hated Russian adversaries to spark a new war that promises to be even more bloody than the first. We loved the humour of the original and judging by its trailer it would appear that this movie will be just as good.
If it's in a word or it's in a look, you can't get rid of The Babadook… Jennifer Kent's sundance acclaimed debut is promised to have you frozen in fear. The Babadook tells the story of a conflicted mother and disturbed son as they manifest a malevolent entity threatening to consume them both. Echoing elements from such haunting favourites as The Conjuring and The Grudge, The Babadook appears to be perfect for the Frightfest audience and if the trailer is anything to go by it will certainly send shivers down everyone's spine.
Following the current trend of zom-rom-coms that was made popular after Shaun of the Dead, Director Jeff Baena's Life After Beth stars Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHann, John C. Reilly and Anna Kendrick. After the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Zack (DeHann) discovers that she has mysteriously come back to life giving him the prime opportunity to express his undying love for her. However, something about Beth as she's a zombie with an insatiable love for human flesh. The trailer had us in stitches and we're confident the rest of the film will be just as good.
Film4 Frightfest will take place at VUE West End, Leicester Square, London between 21st and 25th August 2014. There are plenty of other films that will be played over the course of the festival so if you want more information on what will be shown why not swing by the official website here.
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The yesterday's day was fairly active for the pair. During the day, the pair declined slightly before the performance with respect to the Fed interest rate. The beginning of trading pointed at the level of 1.1069, and the pair gradually decreased to the level of 1.1030. After the release of data from the US the pair jumped up a little, and then continued downward movement.
Based on the results of the Fed meeting, the probability of an interest rate hike in September is quite high. The phrase << … we expect the consolidation of positive news >> suggests direct inference.
Although the euroarea shows positive results about the health of the economy, the euro does not have enough strength to hold a tough competitiveness on the part of the dollar.
News from Europe about the level of unemployment in Germany, as well as the level of consumer confidence in the eurozone will be released today, noon. The consumer price index will be released in Germany in the afternoon, and data from the United States about the price index for personal consumption expenditures, initial jobless claims, the index of prices of domestic acquisitions, as well as annual data on GDP will be received.
News is really a lot for a good trade. Experts predict a fall in GDP in the second quarter, however, the annual data, which will be released later, will be able to change the situation easily.
For the last trading day of the pair GBP / USD was able to reach the level of 1.5689, however, it was impossible to fortify its position for long. In addition, after the news of the US with respect to the interest rate decrease slightly accelerated, allowed the pair to trade slightly lower than the beginning of the trading day.
Based on the price charts, the pair GBP / USD have the opportunity to continue growth in the short term, but cold forecasts of the Bank of England about interest rate significantly limit the price range.
Today, there are minor news index of house prices in the UK, and the news from the US regarding the personal consumption expenditures, the index of domestic acquisitions come in the afternoon, and the main news of the day – annual data on GDP.
The price range for the pair GBP / USD remains the same 1.5350 – 1.5800.
Over the past day, the dollar / yen rose slightly, however, was able to verify the support level 123.30. Leaving a mark 123.50, at the end of the last trading day the pair is fixed at 124,00.
At the moment the pair is gaining in the price successfully, and probably in the near future may be on a mark of 124.40. However, we should not overestimate the dollar and forget about the significant support level 123.00.
At a meeting of the US Federal Reserve, was made a lot of good news on the dollar, but it was not the most objective assessment of the US economy. US dollar should be securely its status so it can be regarded as stable.
AUD / USD goes to firmly around 0.7286 to 0.7345 level within a day. Just after the release of data on the US Federal Reserve meeting, the price jumped up slightly, and then returned to his former position and gave the pair a good impetus for further decline.
This week is not particularly rich in news from Australia, like New Zealand, so all the attention of traders focused on data from the US.
For the second day gold is trading in a fairly narrow range, and the reason for it – the US Federal Reserve meeting. Due to expectations of the slightest hint of the members of the committee the interest rate increase, many moved their assets in more volatile currencies. Moreover, the situation with respect to the Asian market to settle, and that was the calmness of the price movement.
Despite the tempestuous expectations of the news outlet on interest rates, gold has changed insignificantly in price, adding a couple of points and ending trading at around 1095.


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I don't believe I'm suggesting it, but given your luck this winter, maybe you out to get a shot? I'm actually old enough that I had several of the latest nasty flu bugs in some form as a kid, so I'm mostly immune to them.
Aye, this is a very abnormal winter for me. I usually avoid all of these illnesses and stay relatively healthy year round. Not sure what changed.
In truth, the shot is normally somewhat on the semi-useless side for reasons I won't get into here, but mainly because the "experts" have to guess a couple of years in advance which particular "family" of influenza will be around. It also doesn't seem to stick around as well as if you actually get sick. The reason why the 2009 outbreak was a "young person" flu was because it was related to viruses that went around in the 50s and 60s, so if you were alive then and caught it, your body had antibodies that were similar enough to hold the line until your body could fine tune it.
Not as well as I'd have hoped. I definitely won't finish in the 61 days, there simply as been too many conflicts. All I can do is try my best to get done as much as I can. Because of this, I'm considering changing the format of the page a little bit from a daily log to a periodic update log. Its rather tedious to include the details of what I painted that day, and since I'm painting many like models, it'll likely end up repeated several times over before its through.


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South African government vows fresh move to address energy crisis
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FILE PHOTO: Men walk past electricity pylons as they return from work in Orlando, Soweto township, South Africa March 18, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
The South African government on Thursday vowed to take "swift and decisive action" to address the prevailing crisis of energy supply
South Africa has to urgently address the negative impact that power outages are having on the daily lives of the people and the economy, Deputy President David Mabuza said as he convened the inaugural meeting of the Eskom Task Team, formerly known as the Eskom War Room, in Cape Town. The meeting came as electricity utility Eskom resumed a new round of rolling power blackouts earlier in the day. The Eskom Task Team, chaired by Mabuza, was established by President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide political oversight and address the Eskom power generation crisis as well as look at effective implementation mechanisms of the National Emergency Response Plan. The team brings together various strategic role players with the aim of developing a comprehensive approach and coordination of efforts to ensure that the power utility is supported in its implementation of a turnaround plan.
The government views the process of ensuring security of energy supply as one of the critical prerequisites for investment, development and sustained economic growth, Mabuza said. The roadmap presented by Eskom gives an indication that there is now a focused approach to how South Africa responds to this crisis in a much more concrete manner, according to Mabuza.
The Eskom Task Team includes the Ministers of Public Enterprises, Mineral Resources and Energy, Finance, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, State Security, Police, the Presidency and representatives of Eskom. To further strengthen the work of the task, a technical team has been established to provide strategic technical support and expert input to the process. "All relevant stakeholders must work together with speed and be focused on resolving this crisis," said Mabuza.
South Africa has suffered from power insufficiency for years, particularly in recent months when load shedding has become more common. State-run Eskom, which provides more than 95 percent of electricity consumed in South Africa, said on Thursday that there is a possibility of increased load shedding over the next 18 months as it is conducting critical maintenance to restore the ageing plant to good health. The utility says it implements load shedding as a last resort to prevent the collapse of the national grid.
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A short update to advise that everything is on course for the Knockburn cyclocross this Saturday.
The course is more fun & cyclocross specific than 2 years ago, and the recent conditions will ensure a good mix of slippery surfaces & mud, in addition to several sandy sections, hurdles and short climbs & descents. We also have hot food catering on-site to ensure you keep warm, regardless of what the weather decides to do. If you are travelling up with kids & staying over for the Ballater event the next day, then you should know that Banchory has an excellent bonfire night & fireworks display.
That was an excellent event held by Deeside Thistle. Everyone who rode it agreed it was a great course, hopefully it makes it onto the rota for next years SCX!
Totally awesome event promotion by Deeside Thistle, best event I have ever rode in, wish you guys all the very best for more cross events...thank you to the marshals and the facility owner...cross is rocking in 2011 yay.
I have to agree, this was the best run event of the season so far. The course was great, facilities were top-notch and the race was brutal. Just what CX should be.


Collaborating towards an Impossible Future.
After a recent audited coaching session (a third party listens in on the conversation with permission from all parties to give feedback) the auditor asked me what I thought was my signature presence as a coach. I responded that I thought it was my active listen skills, which allowed me to "listen" for what was being both said and unsaid; allowing me to be "present" for the client. The International Coach Federation (ICF) describes the competency of Active Listening as, "[The] Ability to focus on what the client is saying and is not saying, to understand the meaning of what is said in the context of the client's desires, and support client self-expression." My reasoning for this answer to the auditor's question was that Active Listening is something, historically, that I have forced myself to be aware of. It does not come naturally to me. According to my Social Style (Tracom), I have an Expressive behaviour style. This means that I act fast and am highly emotional. My tendency is to move to action quickly, often without getting all the facts and to react negatively when critiqued. I was once told by a former boss that my problem was a mindset of "Ready, Shoot, Aim". Being aware of this tendency, I have worked hard to slow down, temper or check my emotional state and force myself to be an active listener (listening to understand).
However, my auditor stated that during our audited coaching call, he observed a coach who created a trusting and intimate environment for the coachee. ICF defines this competency as "[The] Ability to create a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust." The auditor went on to state that he observed a relationship between myself and the coachee that had the strong evidence of a deep level of trust, that there was an honest relationship, that I was demonstrating integrity, confidentiality, respect and support as expressed in the ICF competencies. I was demonstrating what Neale, Spencer-Arnell and Wilson in their book Emotional Intelligence Coaching (2011) stated; "[that] behaving in a trustworthy way is essential for a coach".
As I reflected on this I realized that I had listed Active Listening because my focus had been on that – that was my greatest concern and therefore, it was where my mind had been. This thinking was reinforced when I went back to the Excelerator Essentials Program handbook used in my training, and went to the section on Personal Goals for the Program, page (1.12) where I had written as my first goal, "Become a better listener by being more present, being less distracted by my own thoughts". As I read this I realized that, although there is still room for growth in this area, I had moved forward enough that it was no longer my primary focus for learning and that this learning had added to what has become my signature presence as a coach, my ability to establish trust and intimacy with the client.
The auditor went on to comment that my demonstration of this "presence" was adding to one of the other ICF competencies, that of Coaching Presence. This resonated with me since that competency speaks to the ability to spontaneously and consciously create a relationship with a client. I have received similar feedback from a previous auditor as well as from other clients. As Neale, Spencer-Arnell and Wilson stated, it is not just important to be highly aware of your client but you have to also be highly self-aware, that a coach needs to be "…present, tuned into self and others".
This exercise forced me to examine the qualities that I bring to a coaching relationship, and as I review the ICF Core Competencies I see that I am moving into a place where these are becoming part of who I am. I am creating an overall "presence" that is enabling me to get the best out of people. As one of my clients stated; "[John's] approach forces you to really think about a situation and guides you to find a solution to your problems… It has greatly improved my personal and professional life". As I continue to think about this it seems to me that having a signature presence of projecting trust and intimacy with a client opens the doors to deep conversations that then lead to significant, in-depth results, rather than merely superficial ones. It dawns on me that one of the reasons that I have developed this presence is because I have become an active listener, that I do listen without an agenda, that I am able to "hear" what a client is stating by tone as well as words, and if in person, by their body language. I understand that my training in Social Styles has not only helped me to understand myself but also to recognize how others want to be understood and that the CEC program has given me the tools to dig even deeper.
If coaching is a collaborative partnership between a client and their coach to uncover the impossible future (Hargrove), and trust is the bedrock of that collaboration (Kouzes & Posner), then a "slogan" for this posting is Collaborating Towards an Impossible Future.


Full moon Red Ecstatic Dance!
This full moon includes a powerful lunar eclipse in the early hours of Saturday morning, remember your dreams, dress in red and bring it all to the dance.
The winter months bring internal journeying and sometimes an outward expression gives release and clarity. The full moon has always been an exceptional time to do this and so we take it to the dance floor. To celebrate and dance in community we ask you to dress in red, this unites us on the floor and brings a wash of colour to inspire and propel our motion to greater heights.
We always come to dance our dance, this dance takes its place in the greater dance of the group and the group dynamic has a dance that trickles through into our community. There is power in the group meditation, join us, move with us, support us as we support you.
Dance the dance only can dance.


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