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Update on Cases
The Ohio Department of Health’s latest report shows the state now has eclipsed the 20,000 mark in total cases. The 560 newly reported cases bring Ohio’s total to 20,474. There have now been 1,056 deaths from the coronavirus in the Buckeye State.
3,809 Ohioans have been hospitalized from COVID-19; 1,090 have been admitted into the intensive care unit. Ohio has tested over 154,000 people for COVID-19. The Buckeye State has a positive test rate of around 13.2%.
We asked for the creation of a 21-day trend chart instead of only 5 days. I always look at hospitalizations – the trend line there isn’t as good as we would want, but it is going down. pic.twitter.com/ud15kpnXgl
— Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) May 4, 2020
As we approach the Responsible Restart Ohio opening for retail on May 12, Governor DeWine reminded all Ohioans that retail can right now do curbside or by appointment service.
“This won’t work for all businesses,” DeWine said. “But if it works for your retail company you can do this today.”
Other Opening Dates Coming Soon
Governor DeWine says the state’s restaurant group has been working very hard, and are nearly finished with their plan.
“Within the next several days we’ll be rolling out the protocol for reopening restaurants,” said DeWine. “We’ll also be able to announce a reopening date.”
The Governor mentioned on Friday that other groups have been formed to help design a reopening plan for the businesses that have yet to do so.
Message to Protesters
Governor DeWine took some time this afternoon to address some of the protesters in Ohio. DeWine explained that he is a big advocate of the first amendment but says there should be certain boundaries as to where and who the demonstrations involve.
“I respect the First Amendment,” said DeWine. “I am fair game. But, it is not fair game to be disrespectful or obnoxious to the news media. To treat them with disrespect and to not practice social distancing with them, I find that very sad.”
DeWine then spoke on the protests that took place this weekend in the neighborhood of Dr. Amy Acton with the Ohio Department of Health. The Governor once again told protesters that if they have an issue with anyone, it should be him.
“I’m the elected official who ran for office,” said DeWine. “I’m the one who makes policy decisions. Members of my cabinet work hard, but I set the policy. When you don’t like the policy, again, you can demonstrate against me, that’s fair game. But to bother the family of Dr. Acton, that’s not fair game. It’s not right. It’s not necessary. The buck stops here. I’m the responsible person.”
Update on Testing
Last week, Governor DeWine announced that over the next month Ohio is expanding its testing capacity. The Governor says expanded testing will give Ohio a better ability to learn who is sick and determine how to respond. With more tests, the state will continue to emphasize the testing of those who are:
- severely ill
- moderately ill with underlying medical conditions
- critical to keeping us safe or caring for the ill
“It’s important to remember, that testing is only one response to this virus,” said DeWine. “It allows us to quickly identify individuals infected with COVID19, promptly isolate them, and determine who they’ve been in close contact with to minimize the spread.”
While the testing capacity is increasing, DeWine says it is still limited. Because of this, the Ohio Department of Health has issued new testing guidance, which can be viewed below.
“Eventually, we’ll be able to test those with mild symptoms, even asymptomatic people will eventually be tested,” said DeWine. “But we’re not at the point where we have that testing capacity yet.”
BMV Locations to Open Soon
Lt. Governor Jon Husted spoke this afternoon, providing an update on when Ohioans can expect their local BMV offices to reopen.
“It will happen later in May, but we don’t have a set date yet,” said Husted. “We are working on a plan for social distancing and for implementing other safety measures.”
Husted says the reason for the late-May opening is so Ohio can expand the Ohio BMV get in line online program to all deputy registrar locations that do not already have this service.
“This will help us avoid large crowds and allow an orderly process,” said Husted.


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The Byzantine style of art. The Romanesque style. Marble mosaic work. Examples of flowing foliage. Ornamental forms of ancient Persepolis. Ornamentation of the Middle Ages.
Marginal paintings. Paintings in St. Sophia. Mosaics from Palermo. Enameled border. Paintings at Constantinople.
Emperor Nicéphore Phocas (963-969). Basileus Byzantin en Grand Costume Imperial.
Byzantium and Abyssinia. Patriarchal type. The Maronites and the Byzantine Orthodox churches. The Abyssinian Cross. Emperor of the Eastern Empire and Princes of the Imperial Family. The Tiara and the Crown.
Frankish-Byzantine. Vestments of the Byzantine emperors and empresses of the Eastern Roman Empire. Portraits of emperors. Splendor and house costumes. The Heraklian Dynasty. The dynasty of the Isaurians.
Byzantine. Greek, Latin clergy. Ascetics and monks. The blessing of the Greeks and the Latins. The Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and the officers of his retinue. The Roman Consul. The patrician. Secular and ecclesiastical instruments.
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CROSS FROM MOUNT ATHOS. BEFORE the Christian era, Mount Athos was celebrated for the length of its shadow (ingenti tellurem proximus umbra vestit. Stat.), which was said to reach as… Read More
Ruler of the Frankish kingdom. Clovis first king of the Franks. Founder of the Merovingian dynasty. The Puppet Kings, Charles Martel.
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text: The members of Black Sabbitch play the songs of Black Sabbath and play ‘em with aplomb. They shread ‘em, in fact, and are not only talented — nailing every note of the legendary group's familiar repertoire — but are captivating to an almost distracting level. They emanated the effortless cool of rock ‘n’ roll, but with about 10 extra ounces of sexy confidence that may even cause the female metalheads in attendance at Black Sabbitch’s gig this weekend at the Marquee this weekend to pick up a bass and start their own heavy metal tribute band with their girlfriends. For fans of Sabbath — and women who rock hard — this is not one to miss. Ironkill, Monaghans Dixon, Painting Fences, and Voidless will open.


Download KiDi -Spiritual ft Kuami Eugene & Patoranking, the latest song from Ghana.
Ghanaian high-life singer Dennis Nana Dwamena, better known as KiDi, has unleashed a new banger dubbed “Spiritual”.
The Lynx entertainment singed act featured Kuami Eugene and Patoranking with a superb beat from the camp of Kidi and Richie Mensah.
Spiritual ft Patoranking and Kuami Eugene if finally out after the long wait.
As always, the Lynx Entertainment camp is known for bringing out great music and this one is definitely one.
This is his first song after signing a huge deal with American based music publishing firms, Empire and Made In East New York.
Download Spiritual by KiDi ft Kuami Eugene and Patoranking right here on this platform.


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Don't slam Indian media, says Oz senator
An Australian senator on Thursday slammed Victorian Premier John Brumby for criticising the Indian media over race attacks in the country, saying "No, it's not wise, frankly".india Updated: Feb 04, 2010 15:13 IST
An Australian senator on Thursday slammed Victorian Premier John Brumby for criticising the Indian media over race attacks in the country, saying "No, it's not wise, frankly".
Senator Steve Fielding said in Canberra: "We do have a problem in Victoria of Indians being attacked and it needs to be addressed. Having a crack at the Indian media, I don't think, is helpful at all.
"No it's not wise, frankly," the Australian news agency AAP quoted Fielding as saying.
The string of attacks on Indians has strained relations between Canberra and New Delhi. One Indian, Nitin Garg, was fatally stabbed Jan 2 in Melbourne while walking to the restaurant where he worked.
Brumby Wednesday criticised the Indian media and a section of officials and said there had to be "some balance to the reporting" after it emerged that an Indian man who claimed to have been set alight by assailants in Melbourne had in fact accidentally burnt himself.
He also referred to the death of Ranjodh Singh whose body was found on the side of a road in New South Wales Dec 29.
"I think the point needs to be made that the people who have been charged with that murder are both Indians.
"So I hope that there is some balance to the debate, some balance to the reporting in India and certainly to date that balance hasn't been there."

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Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on March 5, 2013! Here’s a description of the release:
From Walt Disney Animation Studios, ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ takes viewers on a hilarious journey. For decades, Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) has played the bad guy in his popular video game. In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart. As he explores exciting new worlds, he teams up withsome unlikely new friends including feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman).
Bonus Features Include:
Bit by Bit: Creating the Worlds of “Wreck-It Ralph” – Fans of the film will get a look at five new worlds created for “Wreck-It Ralph.” The short takes viewers into Game Central Station with the artists who brought Sugar Rush, Hero’s Duty and Fix It Felix Jr. to life.
Alternate & Deleted Scenes – Four separate scenes are highlighted with an introduction and optional audio commentary from director Rich Moore.
Video Game Commercials – Viewers can check out the commercials created for the video games featured in the film – Fix It Felix Jr., Sugar Rush, Hero’s Duty and Fix It Felix Hammer.
“Paperman” – This animated short film played in theaters before “Wreck It Ralph.” It tells the story of a young man in an office who sees the girl of his dreams in a skyscraper window across the street. But how can he get her attention?
DisneyIntermission: The Gamer’s Guide to “Wreck-It-Ralph” – When the film is paused, host Chris Hardwick appears on screen to guide viewers through a series of 10 video segments offering an inside look at the many video game references, Disney references and other hidden surprises featured in the film.
Let us know if you plan on adding “Wreck-It Ralph” to your home movie collection!


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Get a free ebook on 50 Tea Recipes from 1890 to 1920. Compliments of our friends at teadog.com, the ebook is available in PDF or for your Kindle, Nook or other ereader. The ebook, “Your Great Grandmother Made Better Tea: 50 Ice Tea, Tea Punch, Tea Dessert Recipes from 1890 to 1920″. In the book, you can learn about tea recipes that have been lost over time with a compilation of 50 tea recipes from 1890 to 1920.
Make interesting drinks, punch and desserts. Update for our modern world, all ingredients found in the recipes can be obtained at your local supermarket. You can get the tea ebook totally free, its well worth it.

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Americans are feeling less alienated than they have in twenty years, but the vast majority of citizens still feel that Washington officials are out of touch with real Americans, says research from Harris Interactive. In addition, levels of alienation vary according to demographics: Hispanics feel more alienated than African-Americans and Whites, and people with more education feel less alienated than those with less education.
Overall, however, trends in feelings of alienation are modest, with small changes in sentiment when compared to last year’s poll. When asked if they agreed with the statement that “The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer,” just over two-thirds of adults concurred (68 percent) compared with roughly the same number as last year (66 percent). Half of American adults state that those who run the country “don’t really care what happens to you,” (50 percent this year, versus 53 percent last year). While this year fewer adults agree with the statement that “most people in power try to take advantage of people like you,” (53 percent in 2010 versus 57 percent in 2009) this sentiment still resonates with more than half of Americans. These numbers are similar to the number of those who agree that “what you think doesn’t count much anymore” (52 percent this year, compared with 56 percent last year). Finally just over a third of Americans feel “left out of things going on around them,” (37 percent in 2010 versus 35 percent in 2009).
What role does a sense of alienation play in our society’s political happenings?
“One’s alienation relates to how connected citizens feel to others—among their peers and within the broader society,” explains Robert Alexander, PhD, associate professor of political science at Ohio Northern University. “The less connected one feels, the greater their alienation. As the argument goes, if you feel like nobody in power is listening to you, it wouldn’t make sense for you to vote.”
Sean Foreman, PhD, assistant professor of political science at FL-based Barry University, says that the findings reflect many Americans’ identification with the President.
“When people feel good personally about their leaders they feel a closer connection to the government,” he explains. “This is evident in the decrease in alienation over the two years with Obama as President. His campaign engendered a lot of goodwill and hopefulness for the future.”
While time will tell as to whether Obama’s goals for the country will be achieved, just his presence in the White House is significant to many Americans.
“Whether or not his administration is able to deliver on specific promises, many people still feel good about his historic presidency and the promise it portrays for living up to American ideals,” Foreman notes.
Despite many feeling a connection with the President, the majority of Americans—70 percent—feel that Washington officials are “out of touch” with the rest of the country, reflecting a similar sentiment as last year (72 percent).
Race is a Factor
Findings indicate that race plays a role in levels of alienation among Americans. Hispanics, for instance, tend to feel more alienated than African-Americans and Whites, with this group rating an index of 55 compared to 49 and 52, respectively.
“Minorities have traditionally lagged behind whites when it comes to voter participation. The same seems to be true among feelings of alienation,” Alexander says. “The recent decrease in alienation among African-Americans is most likely a reflection on election of America’s first African-American President.”
While African-Americans may feel more connected, Hispanics have suffered a greater sense of alienation.
“Hispanics may have higher feelings of alienation because of the national debate over immigration policy that has heated up over the last five years,” Foreman explains. “Many feel that they are being targeted by the government. Also, because of language barriers Hispanics sometimes feel isolated and outside of the mainstream and thus more alienated from the system.”
Also noting the Arizona legislation and national rhetoric on illegal immigration, which has primarily focused on Hispanics, Alexander adds, “In this light, it is not surprising that feelings of alienation would rise.”
This group simply does not see itself represented enough in politics, he contends. “Because there are few Hispanic national political leaders it can lead to feeling unattached and disconnected from the system,” Foreman adds.
More Education = Less Alienation
Notably, educational attainment is also a factor in alienation. Less educated individuals rate a higher alienation index, with those holding a high school diploma rating an index of 56. Those with a post-graduate education rate 43, and those with a college degree rate 44 on the index.
Educated Americans may feel more empowered by their knowledge and understanding of policies and the system, and more capable of effecting change, Foreman notes.
“People who are more educated feel more connected because they have a good grasp of issues and a better understanding of the system,” he says. “If you know who to contact or where to go with your concerns then you will feel more comfortable about government and leaders.”
Alexander agrees that education facilitates citizens’ perception that they have a strong political voice. “Education has always gone hand-in-hand with one’s social connectedness,” he explains. “With greater education, citizens are able to observe the multiple ways they affect others and are affected by others. They also learn civic skills that enable them to more fully participate in the political process.”
Surprisingly, the economy seems to have an unexpected effect on feelings of alienation. As the economy has spiraled downward, overall levels of alienation have also diminished, while levels remained higher during the economic boom of the 1990s.
“It is odd to see that in times of relative economic prosperity and peace like the 1990s the level of alienation was quite high,” Foreman states. “It indicates that people may feel less of a connection to government when they are not looking to it for help or support with their quality of life.”
Other issues also affect Americans’ alienation levels—particularly terrorism, war, civil rights and political scandals—and while some findings are expected, others are surprising.
“Levels of alienation were also quite low in 2001 and in the following three years when feelings of national pride were at their highest in recent memory,” Foreman notes. “This sense of patriotism allowed people to feel closer to the government.”
“Strangely, alienation was the lowest in the late 1960s when there was a large cultural clash over civil rights and the American involvement in Vietnam,” he says. “Predictably, it shot up after the Watergate affair in the early 70s, and steadily rose over the next two decades as we saw several government scandals and an increasing disparity in wealth in society.”
In 2010, modern technology may improve Americans’ confidence in their ability have their voices heard, Foreman concludes.
“In general people may feel less alienated because they have more information and access to government than ever before,” he explains. “The Internet empowers people to solve their own problems. It allows people to have greater control over their destiny and ultimately to create a closer connection to society.”
Alexander offers a different perspective, citing the lagging economy and concerns about terrorism.
“As the ‘war on terror’ moves into its ninth year and the economy continues to slumber along, many Americans feel that more problems, rather than answers are coming from Washington, DC,” he says.
Also, Alexander adds, the Eighties are back.
“In many ways, the mood of the country is very much like the mood that brought Ronald Reagan to office in 1980,” he concludes. “Obama drew comparisons to Reagan during the 2008 campaign, but it has yet to be determined whether he is to be cast as Reagan or Jimmy Carter.”

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Year End News Wrap-up
Happy Holidays from YIKES! Studio!
I want to wish everyone a very warm and happy holiday season. At this time I want to thank everyone for being so supportive of my work and choosing gifts for your friends and family from YIKES! Studio. I am truly humbled by the thought that you have chosen to spend your hard earned and precious dollars with me and have found treasures and "perfect" gifts from amongst my offerings. That I have been able to connect with so many people through my art makes me feel very blessed. I hope to be able to continue to offer some really spectacular pieces and expand into all sorts of areas creatively in the coming year.
Ornaments at the Center for Maine Craft-Gardener
Red Dragon Ornament and The Ice Princess Ornament
I have some really neat ornaments at the Center for Maine Craft in Gardener Maine. They are polymer clay and Swarovski crystal with some fun wire and bead work. Each ornament comes with a little card explaining what it is. These where so fun to make and each is one-of-a-kind. They are so different from the usual Christmas ornament! Stop by while traveling I95 and check them and all the other beautiful works out.
Over the winter I hope to complete my wholesale catalog and get my work out into new areas across the country.
Soon the YIKES! web site will have a bit of an overhaul and update. Hopefully it will be working a bit better as there have been a few issues with images not loading the the contact page not always working.
My Etsy site is offering 20% off for the month of Dec. Enter coupon code YS2010. I have posted some new items on the site and will continue to do so through the winter. Look for more specials through out the new year.
Best wishes for the New Year and hope to see you at a show!
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A young boy riding a big bay horse whom John Grady and Rawlins encounter when they’re about to cross the border to Mexico. He claims he’s sixteen but looks more like thirteen, and the other boys doubt that Blevins is his real name—it’s also the name of a well-known religious radio host in Texas. Blevins has run away several times, presumably rebelling against a malevolent stepfather. He’s even more naïve than John Grady, and seems very young: he’s afraid of lightning, and is stubborn enough to risk everything just to get a stolen pistol back. Blevins is portrayed as sometimes ridiculous but entirely harmless, and his downfall is shocking to the others, portraying the extent to which evil will blot out whatever it can, however innocuous its victims.
Jimmy Blevins Quotes in All the Pretty Horses
The All the Pretty Horses quotes below are all either spoken by Jimmy Blevins or refer to Jimmy Blevins. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Vintage edition of All the Pretty Horses published in 1993.).
Part 3 Quotes
John Grady watched the small ragged figure vanish limping among the trees with his keepers. There seemed insufficient substance to him to be the object of men’s wrath. There seemed nothing about him sufficient to fuel any enterprise at all.
Jimmy Blevins Character Timeline in All the Pretty Horses
The timeline below shows where the character Jimmy Blevins appears in All the Pretty Horses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...through the silent streets until they reach the mud house, but the horse isn’t there. Blevins dismounts and climbs through the house’s window. He doesn’t come back. Dogs start to bark... (full context)
...they wouldn’t necessarily recognize the three riders. The two of them are more noticeable, though Blevins is most of all. A good-looking horse is like a good-looking woman, Rawlins says—more trouble... (full context)

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Street Style: Flower Power
Meggie Sullivan isn’t afraid to mix prints. She’s a freelance writer/photographer who contributes to New Brahmin (among other publications), a hostess at Catalyst in Kendall Square, and a fixture on the local style scene. It’s easy to see why: She effortlessly blends vintage finds and florals with basics — and a killer pair of sneaks, to boot.
What are you wearing?
I’m wearing a Gap Body maxi dress, an H&M sheer blouse, a bomber jacket from a Goodwill in Georgia, and high tops from Vans.
What’s your favorite place to shop in Boston?
For design and fashion inspiration, I like Reside, Oona’s, Rescue, and Uncle Pete’s.
What’s your take on Boston style?
Boston style tends to be a bit colorblind and disheveled. There’s a sophisticated Cambridge look that I adore, but overall I’m rarely thought-provoked by other people’s choices. When a double take does occur in response to interesting style, it’s like seeing an endangered species, a peacock on the streets. I love those.
What are you reading these days?
Right now, I just picked up a book I’ve already read called “Once a Runner” by John L. Parker. After having knee surgery, I’m needing some motivation. I’m also hoping to crack open a reiki healing manual that’s sitting next to my bed.


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But it’s so expensive! How would you recommend making this recipe into chewy yumtastic bars? This sounds so good! I can’t wait for it to cool!! Bake at 325°F for 20 minutes. Oh this sounds so yummy! Weekday mornings are chaotic so we keep it quick & simple. This granola is amazing! Cascadian Farm Chewy Granola Bar Organic non-GMO Chocolate Chip 10, 1.2 oz Bars 4.7 out of 5 stars 426. I completely agree with you about PB at breakfasts. xo. I love to incorporate peanut butter into my breakfasts, and this is such a brilliant way of doing so! Plus this healthier granola has tons of crunchy clusters and no butter, oil, or sugar! Making for second time right now! Janet. Take a picture and share it on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #minimalistbaker. Thank you for this keeper! Thanks so much for sharing! I like to add peanuts and chia seeds to my batch, and that’s the beauty of the recipe, you can mix and match and add and swap. Love the simplicity! ;D. Yumm–I LOVE having a little chocolate with breakfast ;) starts the day off right. Thank you for the recipe!! Guess I will have to make it again! I’d like to use almond butter. I didn´t use chocolate chips and it turned out well anyway :) A little crisp on the outside – soft, tender & crumbly in the inside. I used honey instead of maple syrup as well. With cocoa and dark chocolate chips this granola has all the chocolate.
Next time, would you mind leaving a rating with your review? This is pretty much a baked version of my fried granola of summer camp days that I just finished drafting a post for! With seven different entrée stations, they typically offered plenty of delicious options—everything from traditional burgers and pizza to more exotic ethnic meals of Mexican tacos and Asian rice bowls! I really appreciate your interest in my recipe Ashley! I love that it was super easy to make also! No more buying those $8-$10 overpriced granola bags at the store! Thanks for the tip! I love adding chocolate chips to my granola! IT’S THE BEST. Line a large baking tray or two small ones with parchment paper. Even better than store bought ones. 13 offers from $11.71. Thanks for this quick, easy, and most importantly delicious recipe…. You can also add whatever nuts you want or have on hand. Do you have any suggestion on how to make it stay crisp for as long as possible? Lasts about two weeks for one person and I use it as a base for overnight oats, with almond milk, with yoghurt and fresh fruit or sometimes on its own ?. I think you need it – it helps it brown and crisp up. It browned a little too much on the edges when I moved it to the lower rack, so I guess it must be kept in the middle rack to avoid burning or over browning. Perfectly crisp peanut buttery oats sprinkled with dairy-free chocolate chips.
On our second trip, we each grabbed a bowl and filled it with yogurt (yes, the DC kept their yogurt right next to the ranch and bleu cheese salad dressings… which looked rather confusing at first!). I have some coming up soon, actually! If so, should I just remember to keep an eye on it? Wow!! I normally have homemade granola with lots of nuts but just found out I can’t tolerate them whole – only as nut butters and flours. 270 g oats GET MORE VEGAN RECIPES SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX – SUBSCRIBE HERE . Can’t wait to eat my breakfast tomorrow :), I made this and burned the edges when I took it out to stir it. Bake for 12 mins at 170 degrees in my electric fan then another 5 mins with all the extras so they don’t burn but toast slightly and the fruit plumps up. This granola is awesome! I LOVE all of your recipes! I bet it would also be good with raisins instead of chocolate chips. Thank you! . I love cooking oatbran with dark chocolate soy milk and then adding a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter at the end. Or 3 1/2 cups? It was my birthday, too! This one looked the best to me. Thanks Fair warning though: it’ll make all your friends jealous of your breakfast eats. I think I prefer it with maple syrup but both are delicious! ♡ Healthy 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Granola
When it’s time to add the chocolate chips, I always add the same amount of dried cherries or cranberries (whichever I happen to have) and Reese’s peanut butter chips – to give it an extra peanut butter taste! I’ll be knocking up a batch this weekend! I made this on Saturday and it is YUMMY! I couldn’t be bothered washing a small pot, so I microwaved the maple syrup, touch of honey, olive oil and crunchy peanut butter in my trusty ol’ large Pyrex measuring cup in the microwave for 40 seconds and it worked just as well. Remove from oven, toss gently to release heat and let cool completely on the pan. (Note: this helps add an extra crispiness to the final product and sweetens it up a bit more. Aw, such a sweet idea! Hello Amy – was wondering if you could use a whole egg instead of just the whites? I make 4 batches about once a week and you better believe it goes fast. Your granola recipes are by far my fav! The granola is full of crunchy clusters, and that combination of chocolate and peanut butter is absolutely irresistible. Grateful for all your testing – you guys are the Best! A healthier dessert 85 g honey Simple and quick… SOLD!
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Passing a sign about Amendment 2,
"That's ridiculous to hang that sign."
"They're trying to influence people Mary. I'm glad they can't influence you."
"No way. I'm gay and I'm staying gay."
I didn't know how to respond. I really wanted to laugh at the absurdity of it all. I was also aware, however, that this might be a monumental turning point in our family history, and I wanted to remain respectful to my daughter. I didn't laugh.
I replied, "Do you know what gay means?"
"Sure. It's when you like boys."
"Well, really it's when a boy likes another boy."
"No mom. Boys like boys. That's called gay. Girls like boys, that's called gay too. Anyone who likes a girl is a lesbian."
Still maintaining my composure, I let her continue.
"If a girl likes another girl, that's a lesbian. When a boy likes a girl, he's a lesbian too."
"Well, really sweetie," I replied, "when a boy likes a boy or a girl likes a girl, that's called homosexual. When a boy likes a girl or when a girl likes a boy, that's called heterosexual. The words you're using are slang. So, the slang word for a girl liking a boy is called straight."
"I know that Mom. That's why I'm a straight gay."
Please vote today.
For the future of my spunky, straight-gay daughter, vote today!

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Is your life what you want it to be? How’s work?
Is love satisfying you?
Are you fulfilling your long-term ambitions?
Are your finances comfortable?
Are you happy?
If you answered “no” to any one of these questions, chances are, your thinking is not aligned with what you want. To achieve any goal, you must first think the best way to get there.
Animator: Toni Rebic, M.A., Psychologist
To solve a problem, Einstein said you must first change the mindset that created it. So, between where you are and where you’d like to be are the mental limitations that are preventing you from getting there. These are the negatives that come in the form of: “I can’t”, “I don’t know how”, “It’s too hard”, “How could I?”, “What would they say?”, “It’s just not meant to be?”, “It just can’t happen”, “That would be selfish”, “I don’t stand a chance”, “I don’t deserve it”, and all the other mental limitations that block your dreams fulfillment.
In this workshop, you are going to:
- Dig deep into your mind to find out: What are the negative beliefs and mental blockages that are getting in your way?
- What are your true thoughts about relationships, work, passion, people, and things?
Then we’re going to:
- Tackle limiting beliefs… break them down and render them powerless so that they no longer control you!
- Build new solid helpful beliefs that will get you moving forward, and towards fulfillment.
A new mindset changes the way you see the world and reflects back to you a new life.
Interactive course this is not a talk Seminar!
It promises to deliver a practical, no nonsense approach to learning how to manage your emotions by changing your mindset.
Homework assignments will be given in between course-sessions.

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Valve CEO says that because of remote work, the company’s productivity is only 50-75% of what it could have been.
Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Corporation. Image credit: 1 NEWS
Last Sunday, game journalist Geoff Keighley hosted the Game Awards Zoom, an online meeting with select fans. Among the guests of the event was the Valve CEO Gabe Newell. Most of the conversation is subject to nondisclosure restrictions, but some information was made available through other people’s reports. In particular, the Valve News Network channel shared Newell’s words about the depressed productivity that Valve is experiencing due to the ongoing pandemic.
According to the video report, Newell is even thinking about relocating Vavle to New Zealand, where he himself has been living for over six months. New Zealand is famously considered one of the safest countries where the chances of contracting COVID-19 are close to zero.
However, as Newell told to NEWS 1 today, he is not planning to move devs to New Zealand. Nor is he going to meet with the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to discuss the opportunity.
Valve does not currently have plans to open an office in New Zealand, which isn’t to say that it would be a bad idea. It’s just not something we are working on.
As for Newell himself, he is applying for New Zealand residency.
Elsewhere in the interview, Newell did indicate that Half-Life: Alyx had revived the company’s interest in the franchise, but he specifically refused to say whether Valve is working on HL3. Newell said that he would not want to get fans’ hopes up as the company needs freedom to cancel projects deemed unviable without frustrating everybody.


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Over one million Americans have received the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a media statement from CDC Director Robert R. Redfield.
Redfield stated: “With cases of COVID-19 continuing to surge nationwide, this achievement comes at a critical time and will help to protect those on the frontlines — our healthcare providers treating COVID-19 patients — as well as our most vulnerable: elder individuals living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.”
In the coming weeks, the government plans to distribute 20 million first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine. On Monday, vaccination in nursing homes began in 12 states and will continue with 13 more states next week. However, shots aren’t expected to be widely available to the general public until later in 2021.


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As we gathered last week with families for the Hunter’s Hope Symposium, I marveled, as I do every year, at the immediate connection felt among the parents. There were sixteen new families attending this year and yet our hearts were instantaneously knit together. In many ways the pain of leukodystrophy had joined us in community before we even met…because brokenness binds.
The manner by which heartache, weakness, and struggle create a foundation for depth of love, respect, and community is astounding. We gather, not out of our successes and accomplishments, but out of our shared brokenness over our children.
Yet, the beauty of the experience is not in cultivating our sorrow, but rather a rich celebration of life, hope, and love that emerges out of our shared pain. Our hearts are nourished by common understanding and solidarity, but it leads to genuine joy.
I may only have one week each year where I have the privilege of sharing life with this community, but my heart is deeply bound to them with a love that is only possible through the unity of pain.


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We all like getting a present or something that hasn't cost us anything apart from a little of our own time. Well, seed from your own vegetable plot is free and it's not as difficult as you might think to collect and propagate.
Before you rush headlong into it, however, there are a few rules to obey if you want to get the best results. First, and most importantly, you must save seed only from plants that are disease and virus-free. The rule of thumb is to be very wary of any with streaky yellow foliage or that look less healthy than they should, and leave well alone.
Another rule to follow if you want consistency is to save seed only from straight varieties - in other words, not from any hybrids. Their seed would be fine but it would also contain a mixture of all the variable crosses that made up the hybrid. As with flowers, vegetables are either annuals or biennials. Annuals are sown and the seed harvested in the same year.
These include peas, french, runner and broad beans and lettuce. Onions, leeks and beetroot are biennials - these are sown in year one and the seed gathered in year two. They are the trickier of the two because they will need frost protection and are always in the way when it's time to prepare the ground for the following season.
Novices should start with the simplest of the annuals - the legumes (or podded plants) such as peas and beans. These need to be left on the plant as long as possible before harvesting but must be removed before the heavy autumn rains spoil them.
Ideally, the peas should also be picked before they are attacked by mildew, which some varieties such as 'Show Perfection' are prone to from now on. The mildew manifests itself as a white blanket over the foliage and pods. It will usually leave brown pitted marks that can actually burn through and damage the peas as well.
The pods are in perfect condition for harvesting when they have turned pale white. They can now be laid out to dry on an airy greenhouse bench or conservatory. As can broad beans, which should be picked when they have turned nearly black, and the pale brown pods of French and runner beans.
In the past, because of persistent wet weather, I have had to resort to lifting a couple of plants by the roots to hang them upside down in the greenhouse to dry out. Don't open the pods until they are nice and crisp in your hand; the seed should be a fully mature colour. If you select beans that appear to be full and the pods are semi-wrinkled, the contents will often be immature. The beans will be a pale pink colour and the peas will be soft. When they later dry out they will be much smaller than they should have been and more vulnerable to rotting prior to germination.
The great thing about saving your own seed is that you can actually improve your selection with a little bit of thought. The late Brython Stenner from Glamorgan, South Wales, was a keen showman for many years. Even though he was only an amateur, he quickly won a name for himself with the quality of his 'Enorma' runner beans. Brython had been re-selecting this bean for many years using different-coloured wool tied on to the best plants. No pods would be removed for eating from these.
His thinking was that you should not pick the longest and the fullest pods along the row when saving seed; you should select the strongest, healthiest-looking, lush plants. Because of one amateur's dedication, the 'Stenner Strain' is the only bean that consistently wins on the show benches today. And not only does his selection of beans look good, they taste good too.
I much prefer to harvest carrots, beetroot, onions and leeks from the ground before winter, selecting only the best before replanting later on. Onions and leeks are planted during the new year in 9in or 10in pots using a good-quality compost such as Levington M3. They need to be kept in a warm greenhouse to generate a new strong root-system before going outside. However, to get good-quality seed, the heads need to be brought inside to harvest; a polytunnel is perfect for this job.
If you have a gardener next door who has the same vegetables seeding at the same time, make sure that you put a paper bag over your seed heads when in full flower to prevent cross-pollination by the bees. Harvest the seeds only when they are visibly black within the case.
Not all the seeds you harvest will be viable. One simple to way to check this is to float the seed on top of some water in a jar. The very best and plumpest seed will gradually fall to the bottom, while the husk and empty seed shells will float on top. The latter can then be sieved off and the good ones dried on tissue paper in a warm room.
Carrots and beetroot can also be potted up in 4-litre rose pots and over-wintered. In the spring they can be kept outside until flowering time. Once they are in bloom they must be brought under cover again to prevent rain from spoiling the seed.
One word of caution: if you intend to harvest seed from long and short carrots as well as from globe and long beet, they need to be kept separate under another cover as they can very easily cross pollinate. The seed, once harvested, must be kept dry and cool in a glass or plastic sealed container. Some silica gel sachets placed inside the container will help to maintain their freshness and viability.
If you really want to find out how fresh your harvested seed is, you will need to check what percentage of them germinate. Count out, say, 100 seed, broadcast sow them in a greenhouse on top of a small pot, and count how many of them sprout. You will be quite amazed how high a percentage your home-saved seed will achieve. For the professional seed companies there is a minimum germination standard. For instance, carrots have to germinate above 65 per cent, beetroot 70 per cent; French beans 75 per cent, peas 80 per cent; broad beans 80 per cent; onion 70 per cent and leeks 75 per cent.
Enjoy harvesting your own seed and who knows, you could become a name among plantsmen.

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In addition to the SUV product range, the Audi e-tron GT, which is listed as a performance-oriented option, can be preferred over the package.
Audi’s electric car attack in Turkey draws attention with the performance-oriented e-tron GT, apart from SUV models. The e-tron GT, which stands out as a serious alternative to the Porsche Taycan, can be preferred over two different options in Turkey. Along with the package that we can describe as an entry-level standard, the performance-oriented RS version is on the list at a higher point. The starting price of the product range was shared as 3,862,361 TL.
Audi e-tron GT price list
The figures shared by the official sources of the brand in the focus of November are as follows;
e-tron GT quattro – 3.862.361 TL
RS e-tron GT quattro – 5.486.985 TL
The e-tron GT stands out as a four-door coupe that reinterprets the classic gran turismo idea. Combining two powerful electric motors with a four-wheel drive, the model offers a range of 448-487 km with its high-voltage battery with a net energy content of 84 kWh. The model, which comes with 350kW power in the standard package, accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in 4.1 seconds.
The RS version of the e-tron GT stands out with its 440 kW power and range of 451-471 km. In the RS version, the maximum speed figures of 3.1 seconds 0-100 and 255 km / h are also in the foreground. Let’s not forget that the 0-100 value can recover up to 2.5 seconds with the “over-boost” feature offered. You can find the details about the e-tron GT, the most aerodynamic car in Audi history, from our news.


Reddit, the popular online platform known for its vibrant communities and passionate user base, has made headlines with its much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO). Pricing its stock at the top of its target range, Reddit’s IPO is the most significant social media debut since Pinterest, marking a pivotal moment for the company and the tech industry at large.
- Reddit aimed to raise up to $748 million through its stock offering, with shares priced between $31 and $34, ultimately hitting the top of this range.
- The company set its valuation at about $6.4 billion, a significant figure though lower than its $10 billion valuation in 2021.
- A total of 22 million shares were offered, with Reddit expecting to net about $450.9 million from the IPO.
- Reddit also reserved 1.76 million shares specifically for its users (“Redditors”), allowing them to participate directly in the IPO.
- The IPO is a major event for Reddit, which reported 73.1 million daily active unique visitors in Q4 and a net loss of $91 million on revenue of $804 million in 2023.
- Reddit’s largest shareholder is Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., highlighting the company’s journey from a startup to a major player in the digital space.
- Concerns among Reddit’s user base about the potential impact of the IPO on the platform’s community-driven nature were noted, though the company aims to maintain its user-focused ethos.
Founded in 2005, Reddit has grown into a platform that hosts over 100,000 forums (subreddits) on a myriad of subjects. Its IPO comes after years of speculation and amidst a challenging market for tech IPOs. Despite the volatility, Reddit’s offering has been among the most anticipated, signaling investor confidence in the platform’s unique position within the social media landscape.
The decision to price the stock at the top of its target range reflects strong market demand and investor enthusiasm for Reddit’s unique combination of community-driven content and potential for growth. This IPO not only provides Reddit with crucial capital for expansion but also sets a precedent for valuations and market expectations for social media and tech companies looking to go public in the near future.
Reddit’s Unique Appeal
Reddit stands out from mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. It’s organized into thousands of “subreddits,” which are essentially forums dedicated to specific interests, ranging from news and politics to hobbies and niche topics. This structure allows for the creation of tightly-knit communities with their own distinct cultures and rules of engagement.
The platform is also known for its emphasis on anonymity, with users often interacting under pseudonyms. This can lead to frank discussions that might not take place on more identity-centric platforms.
Investor Outlook and Challenges
Reddit’s IPO has been met with enthusiasm from investors who see potential in the platform’s large, engaged user base and unique community-driven structure. The company has seen impressive revenue growth in recent years, largely driven by advertising.
However, Reddit faces challenges like other social media platforms. It must balance content moderation with free expression – issues that are especially complex given Reddit’s emphasis on anonymity and the sheer number of communities it hosts. The company will also need to address the fact that it has yet to achieve consistent profitability, a factor investors will scrutinize.
The Future of Reddit
Reddit’s successful IPO opens a new chapter for the company. With the influx of capital, it will have more resources to invest in product development, content moderation, and potentially expanding into new areas. Nevertheless, Reddit will need to demonstrate a clear path to sustainable profits to ensure long-term investor support.
Moreover, the offering of shares directly to Reddit’s users is a noteworthy approach, underscoring the company’s commitment to its community. By allowing users to buy shares at the offering price, Reddit is fostering a deeper sense of ownership and involvement among its user base, a move that could help stabilize the stock in its early trading days despite concerns over increased market volatility.
As Reddit transitions from a private to a public company, it faces the challenge of balancing growth and monetization with preserving the unique culture that has made it a beloved platform for millions. How Reddit navigates this transition will be closely watched by investors, users, and the tech industry at large.


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IZA DP No. 13874: The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102612
We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a difference-in-differences design to individual-level data on the population of births and fetal deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health.


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text: One of the reasons I'm not telling people that I have started to write a novel is so that I can show off once I'm finished. People who have completed a novel, what are some of the reactions you received when you revealed what you'd been doing alone in your room the past month? Were you proud announcing your work, or did you continue to keep it under wraps? Example Reaction: Charlie: I wrote a musical. It's pretty damn good, OK? I wanna put it on. Mac: Right, what's your angle? Charlie: I don't have one. Dee: Yeah, whose—whose face are we shoving this musical in? Charlie: You don't shove a musical in someone's face. What are you talking about? Mac: Right, but who versus? Who are we doing it versus?

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Unmanned aircraft, or drones, made headlines last spring when South Korean investigators found three small robotic planes equipped with digital cameras that had flown undetected across the border from North Korea and then crashed. South Korean officials were quick to point out that the sky-blue aircraft were unarmed and no bigger than a child's remote control airplane -- and highly unsophisticated compared with civilian drones that fly every day over the U.S. and Europe, or the armed ones that roam the skies of the Middle East. In September, the wreckage of another unmanned aircraft, believed to be North Korean, was found in a different location in South Korea.
It was a chilling reminder that the unmanned revolution, or as some call it, the drone arms race, is coming to Asia, including Japan. Worldwide spending on drones is expected to double by 2023, and Japan's Defense Ministry is considering domestic production of four to eight unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, for surveillance and information gathering, to be deployed around fiscal 2020, according to a recent report by The Nikkei.


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Sick/happy - Hell Is for Heroes
I tried to drown in your flame
somehow i let the fire escape
and i can only blame myself
a rubber soul is hard to sell
you pull me in and push me out
you tie me up and tie me down
you give me space, i?m locked in chains
i want your fire, i need your faith
you always knew just what to say
never misspoke a single word
i pleaded guilty once again
so hand me down...
my sentence now
i am condemned
the victim and the criminal
i?m on knees in silent prayer
for one last touch..
when every second lasts a thousand years
and every shot glass holds a million tears
and every race ends in a brand new day
there?s no soul left but you can take some heart!


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Steffen Bruendel. Volksgemeinschaft oder Volksstaat: Die "Ideen von 1914" und die Neuordnung Deutschlands im Ersten Weltkrieg. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. 403 S. EUR 49.80 (gebunden), ISBN 978-3-05-003745-5.
Reviewed by Eric Kurlander (Department of History, Stetson University)
Published on H-German (March, 2005)
Germany's First Historikerstreit
In the last decade the "Ideas of 1914" have made a comeback. From Jürgen and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg's Der Aufruf "An der Kulturwelt" and Wolfgang Mommsen's Kultur und Krieg to Jeffrey Verhey's The Spirit of 1914 and Kurt Flasch's Die geistige Mobilmachung, German historians on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to unpack Max Weber's pregnant assertion that, "'Geistreiche' Personen haben sich zusammengetan und die 'Ideen von 1914' erfunden, aber niemand weiß, welches der Inhalt dieser 'Ideen' war." Steffan Bruendel's recent monograph is one of the best in this new wave of intellectual history. The author's main contention is that, far from endorsing political reaction ("proto-fascism") or Kehrite imperialism, the "Ideas of 1914" initially reflected a shared academic interest in domestic reform and an "inklusive Volksgemeinschaft." Only in the devastating wake of Verdun did there emerge in 1916 two equally "revolutionary" but increasingly opposed conceptions of German domestic politics, the "exklusive Volksgemeinschaft" and the "inklusive Volksstaat." "Alle drei Ordnungsideen," however, "implizierten institutionelle Änderungen der Bismarckschen Reichsverfassung, wobei sich die Ideen unter dem Einfluß veränderter außen- und innenpolitischer Kontextbedingungen wandelten" (p. 299). Thus the wartime adherents of the "Ideas of 1914" helped to undermine the legitimacy of the Imperial constitution while setting the stage for the political polarization of the Weimar Republic.
Bruendel conceives his study as a social history informed by cultural history in which debates about the domestic political reordering of Germany during World War I can be viewed as a conflict between rival ideas of order in the process of nation-building (pp. 22-24). Accomplishing this task means evaluating the invention(s) of tradition as well as the "Inklusions- und Exklusionskriterien" by which German academics shaped their "imagined communities" (p. 25). Because the communication process is so central to his study, the author chooses to rely on published works that represent the "öffentlichen Engagements der Gelehrten" and not their private correspondence (p. 15). Indeed, one wonders at times whether the author's findings might have been more nuanced if supported by personal papers or party minutes. But this "communicative" approach is useful in gauging the resonance of academic views within the political public sphere. Bruendel has also read his sources carefully, which helps to compensate for a dearth of archival material.
The first two chapters illustrate the reality of the Augusterlebnis so often dismissed by historians as contemporary propaganda. The famous pamphlet "An die Kulturwelt" as well as the "Erklärung der Hochschullehrer des Deutschen Reiches," both published in October 1914, reflect an uncommon solidarity regarding the defensive posture and moral superiority of Germany's engagement in the First World War. Far from undermining academic confidence in the war effort, Allied accusations of German barbarity and war guilt buttressed a widespread conviction that the war represented a "clash of civilizations" between "Händler und Helden (Sombart)"; between the plutocratic British on the one hand and the German Friedensheer on the other. The war effort against the French, meanwhile, represented the "Antwort des Volkes der Dichter und Denker auf die erschütternde Demütigung der deutschen Nation durch Napoleon Bonaparte" (Walther Schücking) (p. 72). The materialist West received the lion's share of vitriol. But the despotic Russian East also served as a convenient Feindbild against which German academics might define their "inklusive Volksgemeinschaft."
Another primary leitmotif is the way in which politically engaged academics, a number of whom were historians, refashioned German history to fit their political present. Efforts to produce a "usable past" nevertheless threatened the precarious solidarity established during the first months of the war. While there was little dissent regarding the meaning of the Battle of Leipzig (1813) or the Franco-Prussian War (1870), fault lines did emerge over the representation of "Die deutsche Erhebung von 1914." For many Vaterlandsgelehrte the "Ideas of 1914" represented a perfect counterpoise to the French Revolution and Napoleon. Conversely, many supporters of the Volksstaat considered "the ideas of 1789" equally if not more important than those of 1914. Already by July 1915, the moderate Delbrück circle--including such luminaries as Einstein, Brentano, Schmoller, Tönnies, and the Weber brothers--had begun to dissociate itself from the more rabidly annexationist group assembling around Delbrück's professional colleague, the historian Dietrich Schäfer.
But we should not mistake Delbrück or Weber for pacifists. Virtually all interested parties expected some kind of territorial revision in Germany's favor as a logical outcome of the war. For moderates as well as annexationists, Germany's geographic and economic integrity depended on friendly neighbors. Whether this compliance resulted through informal sovereignty or outright annexation was initially less important than the overwhelming desire for security. In the domestic sphere, the vast majority of intellectuals--from liberals like Sombart, Meinecke, Tönnies, and Simmel to conservatives like Harnack, Plenge, and Seeberg--also favored some form of inclusive Volksgemeinschaft that privileged the ideas of 1914 (Deutsche Freiheit, Kameradschaft, Nationaler Sozialismus, Geschlossener Handelsstaat, Führerstaat) over the ideas of 1789 (Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit, Welthandel, Beamtenstaat). Here Bruendel counters the work of Klaus Schwabe, who draws a clear distinction between those who favored either Herrschaft or Befreiung (p. 95), in effect returning to Fritz Fischer's assertion that imperialist designs pervaded the entire Bürgertum, liberal as well as conservative.
Indeed, the author devotes considerable space in Chapter 2 to Friedrich Naumann's widely acclaimed Mitteleuropa, first published in 1915, which sought to unite the aggressive war aims of the annexationist right with the more moderate political and economic prerequisites of the liberal center-left. But as the costs and casualties of the war mounted, the concept of "informale Herrschaft" in Central and Eastern Europe favored by the Delbrück circle proved increasingly incompatible with the unbridled power politics of the völkisch corporatist "Seeberg-Schäfer-Gruppe" (p. 101). By 1916, this "polarization" among intellectuals (p. 144) had begun to divide the "inklusive Volksgemeinschaft" of 1914 into two camps: a minority who endorsed an "inklusive Volksstaat" and an increasingly bellicose majority who demanded an "exklusive Volksgemeinschaft." Bruendel is not the first to mark a significant historical break between the first and second half of the war. But most of the evidence he presents in this second half of the book suggests a time lag between the growing military and economic pressures of 1916 and their intellectual ramifications. The real polarization between volksstaatlich and völkisch corporatist worldviews seems to begin with the American declaration of war and culminate in the Reichstag Peace Resolution of July 1917. Thereafter events moved quickly. Schäfer founded the rabidly nationalist Vaterlandspartei in August. Delbrück countered with the Volksbund für Freiheit und Vaterland in December. For the first time in three years the battle lines were clearly drawn.
Or were they? Even after the formal break between Volksbund and Vaterlandspartei, many "constitutionalists" continued to share the völkisch assumptions of nationalist-minded intellectuals. Some in Delbrück's circle may have opposed the outright annexation of Belgium or Poland. But both groups ardently defended "Germany's political and cultural singularity" against western criticisms (p. 188). The vast majority of Volksbundgelehrte also demanded territorial securities and guarantees, including an "informal Empire" in central Europe and direct annexations in Europe, Africa, and Asia (p. 238). Liberals such as Hjalmar Schacht, Siegfried Heckscher, and Gustav Stresemann endorsed both the annexation of Belgium and the democratization of imperial institutions. Conservatives critical of annexations--Siegfried von Kardorff and Eugen Schiffer, to take two prominent examples--generally opposed domestic reforms until very late in the war. More confusing still, some Volksbundler refused to annex Eastern Poland or Wallonia, not because they possessed a more cosmopolitan Weltanschauung than the Vaterlandsgelehrte, but because they were more self-consciously völkisch than their conservative opponents. After all a true völkisch nationalist--whether corporatist or constitutionalist in political terms--had little interest in adding millions of non-ethnic Germans to an already uncomfortably pluralist German Empire. In short, support for parliamentarization did not always coincide with foreign policy Moderation. (The reverse was also true.)
That is not to say that Bruendel's association of Volksbundler with Verständigungsfrieden and Vaterlandsgruppe with Machtfrieden lacks merit. This interpretation seems particularly germane after the summer of 1917, when the prospects of peace with victory had receded and many annexationists joined the moderate parliamentary majority. But there is much to suggest that the war acted as a catalyst for a debate between völkisch (volksgemeinschaftlich) and universalist (volkstaatlich) conceptions of national identity that already existed within the bourgeois ranks before 1914. As Geoff Eley has argued, the Wilhelmine right had coalesced into a populist, "modern" conservatism already by 1913. As for the bourgeois center-left, Kevin Repp has recently illustrated how völkisch-corporatist elements even helped to reinforce feminism and social reform within fin-de-siécle German liberalism. The debate between völkisch and universalist reformers goes a long way, in any case, towards explaining why so many "left" liberals embraced annexationist positions until very late in the war, while some prominent "conservatives" abandoned their own increasingly völkisch colleagues for the democratic left.
Despite these minor lacunae, Volksgemeinschaft oder Volksstaat remains an exceedingly original work. The sixth chapter especially, "Zukunftbild: Das Volksstaatskonzept und konkurrierende Volksgemeinschaftsmodelle," provides a penetrating analysis of the competing political conceptions circulating among the Volksbundler and their völkisch corporatist opponents. Here Bruendel reminds us that the initial idea of an "inklusive Volksgemeinschaft" remained popular among some Volksbundler (Heuß, Tönnies, Simmel) as well as Vaterlandsgelehrte (Plenge, Sering, Kjellen) in 1917-18 (pp. 258-259). If the author occasionally underestimates the persistence of traditional agrarian and monarchist tendencies within wartime conservatism, he shows rather conclusively that few members of either group wished to preserve the status quo ante. At the same time, Bruendel never denies the radicalizing potential of wartime nationalism or anti-Semitism. Indeed, among the supporters of the exklusive Volksgemeinschaft, "the seed of elimination lay already in thoughts of exclusion" (p. 305). Thus the "ideas of 1914" did just as much to make the concepts of revolution and socialism acceptable across the political spectrum as they did to foment National Socialism two decades hence. In restoring a much-needed sense of contingency to this epochal moment in German intellectual history, Bruendel's work is a welcome addition to the field.
. During the quarter century following Klaus Schwabe's Wissenschaft und Kriegsmoral (Göttingen: Musterschmidt-Verlag, 1969), there were few notable intellectual histories of the First World War.
. Bruendel, Volksgemeinschaft, p. 11. See also Jürgen and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Der Aufruf "An die Kulturwelt!" (Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1996); Wolfgang Mommsen, ed., Kultur und Krieg (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1996); Jeffrey Verhey's The Spirit of 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); and, less well-received, Kurt Flasch, Die geistige Mobilmachung (Berlin: A. Fest, 2000).
. See Fritz Fischer, Griff nach der Weltmacht: Das Kriegszielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschlands (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1962).
. Geoff Eley, Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change After Bismarck (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).
. Kevin Repp, Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
. Eric Kurlander, "Nationalism, Ethnic Preoccupation and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Silesian Case Study, 1898-1933," The Historian 65:1 (2002): pp. 95-121; as well as idem, "The Rise of Völkisch Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Comparison of Schleswig-Holstein and Silesian Political Cultures, 1912-1924," European Review of History 9, no. 1 (2002): pp. 23-36.
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text: Tim McGraw has come to some sort of settlement with the audience member he allegedly slapped at one of his concerts last month. The incident took place after Jesslyn Taylor apparently angered McGraw by grabbing and ripping his jeans. Taylor's lawyer tells TMZ the case was "mutually resolved the old-fashioned way ... with a simple conversation." Though he didn't say whether that conversation also included a transfer of money, TMZ seems to think it did, noting "that's how personal injury lawyers make money." Taylor also reportedly wanted McGraw to apologize.


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In her long poem, The Soul’s Travelling, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is by the sea as well, though not at Broadstairswhere we were yesterday. In a previous stanza she described a hollow where she could hear, but not see, the ocean ebbing and flowing across the beach. Broadstairs is a bit more open than that, but in the next bay after the pier I used to snatch a few minutes of silence in a hollow at the foot of the cliff. The curlews and other sea birds were calling right through winter, but the silence was still all around.
Except that sound, the place is full Of silences, which when you cull By any word, it thrills you so That presently you let them grow To meditation's fullest length Across your soul with a soul's strength: And as they touch your soul, they borrow Both of its grandeur and its sorrow, That deathly odour which the clay Leaves on its deathlessness alwày.
from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II.
Another beach for silence in the sounds of the sea is Aberdaron in West Wales – follow the tag to read more posts about it. The church is at the top of the beach and the sea’s singing accentuates the message embroidered on this seat runner. You don’t need external silence to be still; the Lord is on your side wherever you are, you vessel of clay, holding his treasure! (2 Corinthians 4:7)

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The Japanese are the population of the world who live the longest in the world and for good reason. The Japanese eat large amounts of seaweed and it is not only when they are having sushi. There are many different types of seaweed depending on whether it is to be used for soups, cold dishes, hot dishes, a starter or a salad. The different types of seaweed produced to be consumed are very healthy. Seaweed us ...Read more ›
"In Japan your education never ends. In 2012 I was introduced to a nigiri hand technique that takes 20 years to master I think that is fascinating" - Zoë Escher
In Denmark Zoë is a recognized sushi chef.
January 2019: Zoë was the judge for the daily newspaper Politiken in connection with testing food for their readers.
2016: Zoë held the official opening speech and opened the fair Formland Spring 2016 in Messecenter Herning in Denmark. At the opening of the fair there were 49 people from the press, 20 VIP and 271 exhibitors.
2015: Zoë has made sushi and Japanese dishes as private dining at home of US ambassador in Denmark Rufus Gifford.
2013: Rated as Denmark's sushi expert no. 1 by gourmet supermarket chain Irma. Zoë was also guest judget at Masterchef Denmark season 3. Zoë has made sushi and Japanese dishes as staff food to the 3 star Michelin restaurant Geranium. Zoë is known from Danish magazines and TV such as Copenhagen Food, ALT for Damerne, Berlingske, Femina, IN, Mad & Bolig, TV3 and the consumer council magazine “THINK”.
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A new research study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives states that about one-third of ADD cases among American children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth, or to lead exposure after birth.
Even some of the government’s “acceptable” levels of lead appear to increase a child’s risk. (Source: NY Times)
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By Elias Savada.
Playing like a broad comedy, Cruella offers a stereotypical look at many of the characters who parade in and out during the film’s extensive running time.”
Two well-coiffed cats are let out of their retro style, high fashion bags in a new live-action origin spectacle from Disney, and the spirited yet harried Emmas (Stone and Thompson) duke it out for top dog honors in this over-extended update based on Dodie Smith’s 1956 children’s book The One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It may be a pretty sight (277 costumes! 130 dressed sets!) for folks aching to get back into their local multiplex (or pay $29.99 on top of a Disney+ subscription — you can also wait until August 27th, when it will be available on the streaming service at no additional cost), but the experience might feel just as petty as it is pretty.
During this convoluted, overwrought tête-à-tête of a film, two high-energy villains don exquisite gowns, wear outlandish makeup and hair selections, and create wildly vogueish-in-their-own-mind accoutrements, as a mentor and her protégé take turns grabbing for the queen bitch prize. The winners actually will be the presumed sequel Cruella 2 and costume designer Jenny Beavan, a shoo-in for year-end awards consideration.
While the plot for Cruella isn’t a total wardrobe malfunction, it does seem like major alterations should have and could have been made to the film’s hefty 2¼-hour bulk. If you’re thinking of making this a family outing — especially for those of you who are parents with pre-teens (and who might think this is another Disney family pleaser) — note that the film is rated PG-13 (some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). It’s way darker and more diabolical than the G-rated animated classic 101 Dalmatians (1961) and the 1996 live-action remake with Glenn Close, although the latter had a few lightly disturbing scenes.
Observing the power dynamics of the fashion industry is nothing new to the movie world, and 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada‘s immediately popped into my head here. Cruella ups the stakes, as if the writers were watching Joker and Maleficent while brainstorming the script. At the top of the fashion chain is high maintenance and thoroughly ruthless Baroness Von Hellman (Thompson) forever berating her entire staff. Fine by me, as there are quite a few stuffed shirts on her payroll, although her valet (Mark Strong) seems more level-headed, even if he appearance is somewhat menacing. Into the Baroness’s lion den will walk Estella (Stone), first to be eaten alive before morphing into a rebellious, wild cub named Cruella.
In advance of the adult portion of the film — Dana Fox and Tony McNamara penned the screenplay from a story by Aline Brosh McKenna and Kelly Marcel & Steve Zizzis — it begins with 1964 preamble narrated by Stone, where the 12-year-old Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland), a headstrong child proudly wearing her unique half jet-black, half snow-white hair as a badge of defiant honor, is cast adrift in London after the death of her mother-by-proxy (Emily Beecham). There she quickly aligns with sympathetic petty thieves Horace and Jasper, and 15 minutes in, all are ten years older and wiser. Well, older at least. Thick as thieves, they pick pockets and steal, all in seemingly good fun, with Paul Walter Hauser and Joel Fry picking up the comedy slack as the rest of this friendly triumvirate.
When the men finagle Estella a truly introductory level position at the acclaimed Liberty of London – House of Baroness, the young woman assumes her rise in the design world is assured, but the next half hour is just one stumble after another at the hand of one nasty taskmistress. There also a heist sub-plot in here that is played strictly for yukes.
Director Craig Gillespie seems to be repurposing moments from I, Tonya, his 2017 comedy-drama featuring Margot Robbie as the overly competitive ice skater Tonya Harding. At least his new film is quite a methodical approach to its theme. Cinematographer Nicholas Karakatsanis does a lovely job of capturing the well-designed film, his camera ever moving, with some sequences flowing with swooping tracking shots (particularly when Estella enters her new place of employment for the first time). And the music supervisor had fun picking dozens of memorable 1970s tunes for the jukebox soundtrack. So, at least, you can hum along.
Playing like a broad comedy, Cruella offers a stereotypical look at many of the characters who parade in and out during the film’s extensive running time. The reimagined, color-blind, LBGTQ-friendly tale offers a schizophrenic approach to Cruella’s inspired antics at fulfilling her designer dreams, but the comic book attitude just wants you to admire the scenery and laugh at the slapstick. I can do without the escalating histrionics, but Disney apparently sees it as a dark and edgy plunge in a different direction. Can an R-rated sequel be next?
Elias Savada is a movie copyright researcher, critic, craft beer geek, and avid genealogist based in Bethesda, Maryland. He helps program the Spooky Movie International Movie Film Festival, and previously reviewed for Film Threat and Nitrate Online. He is an executive producer of the horror film German Angst and the documentary Nuts! He co-authored, with David J. Skal, Dark Carnival: the Secret World of Tod Browning (a revised edition will be published by Centipede Press).


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3x Curettage Because The Fetus Does Not Develop Is There A Virus Toxo?
I am a woman imur 34 I was pregnant 2 normal and 3 backward did not develop 3x also curettage and now I am pregnant 1 month during my last curettage my blood test results igg anti-toxo (elfa) 13.00 and igg cmv (elfa) 36 whether my pregnancy will be bothered by that doct I was traumatized because I have curetted 3x because the fetus is not developing what should I do doct will my pregnancy be problematic … please inform me doct whether this pregnancy should be resolved or I leave because of the virus above
Hello Dephy, thank you for asking at HealthReplies.com.
Anti-Toxoplasma and CMV IgG examination basically only shows whether you have experienced toxoplasmic parasitic infection and CMV virus or not. If positive, this indicates that you have had an infection from both of them in the past, but it cannot be determined whether you are currently experiencing an active infection or not. So you need another investigation to determine whether you have an infection that is active or not good for Toxoplasmosis and also the CMV virus infection.
Looking at your pregnancy history, it is strongly recommended that you immediately check your pregnancy to the obstetrician to determine whether you need another examination or not, and how is your fetus's condition, whether you have a disability or not. Subsequent treatment all depends on the results of your examination and also how the condition of your fetus. If it is possible to be maintained by your obstetrician, you will definitely recommend it. It is not recommended to abort a pregnancy without clear consideration and without the advice of a doctor.
It is also highly recommended for you to continue to take precautions so as not to be re-infected by both the parasitic toxoplasma, the CMV virus and infections from bacteria / viruses / other parasites which are also dangerous for pregnancy.
I hope this helps.


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Rural Nevada groups get $300,000 to promote tourism
CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) on Wednesday approved $301,575 in grants to promote tourism to the state’s rural areas. Funding goes to marketing projects that will result in overnight stays — and local tax revenue — for those communities.
“Tourism is vital to rural Nevada,” Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall, NCOT chairwoman, said. “The Rural Marketing Grants program helps drive visitation to our rural areas. Tourism not only boosts jobs, but sales and lodging taxes that go right back to the community to pay for roads, schools, and other municipal services.”
The Rural Marketing Grants program is administered by the Nevada Division of Tourism (Travel Nevada). This recent distribution is the second for fiscal year 2020, which began July 1, 2019 and runs through June 30, 2020.
Among the funded projects:
- The Goldwell Open Air Museum, an outdoor sculpture park near Beatty, was awarded $3,000 to promote “Albert Szukalski’s America,” a play about the Belgian artist who created some of the Goldwell sculptures. The play coincides with a 50-year retrospective exhibit of Szukalski’s work in Belgium.
- A $4,000 grant was given to the White Pine County Tourism and Recreation Board to publicize a new train-and-bike experience in the city of Ely. Based on the successful Race the Rails event, visitors can ride the Nevada Northern Railway — with their bikes in tow — to the end of the line, and then bike back to the train station.
- Cowboy Country, an organization that promotes tourism along the Interstate 80 corridor, got two $15,000 grants to continue its successful “In Your Backyard” television ad campaign in Salt Lake City and Reno, respectively.
- A $7,500 grant was awarded to Indian Territory, which promotes the state’s Native American and cultural sites, to upgrade its website.
- Reno-Tahoe Territory, a regional tourism group, received a $12,000 grant to develop online content and an email campaign promoting the area.
Funding for the Rural Marketing Grants program does not come from the state’s general fund. Travel Nevada receives three-eighths of 1% of room tax revenue as its operations budget. A portion of those funds is used to offer the Rural Marketing Grants Program. Grant recipients must provide a 50-50 match in funds or volunteer hours unless a waiver is approved. The grants are distributed in the form of reimbursements to the recipients after the projects are completed and labor and funding details are documented.
For a full list of grant recipients, click here.
The Nevada Division of Tourism is a division of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. More commonly known as Travel Nevada, the Nevada Division of Tourism is responsible for promoting and marketing Nevada as a travel destination to domestic and international travelers. Operating within a performance-based budget structure, Travel Nevada is funded solely by a percentage of lodging tax paid by overnight guests throughout the state. For more, visit TravelNevada.biz.

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With the uncertainty around Fortnite's Save the World, Epic Games is still updating the cooperative game mode, as seen in its first Homebase Status Report of 2021.
The update contained a reminder of the upcoming conclusion of both the Winterfest Season and the Powerhouse Pack on January 24th at 7 PM EST/5:30 AM IST. It also outlined a new questline, a new character, and a new item.
Fortnite's Winterfest Season and Powerhouse Pack
The first item to note was the upcoming conclusion of both Fortnite Save the World's Winterfest Season and the Powerhouse Pack availability. Any unfinished objectives from either of those need to be completed by January 24th at 7 pm EST.
#1 - New Questline: Red Willow
A new questline, Red Willow's Eve, is introduced that involves Ray and concocting some potion. Completion of this will reward players with a new Outlander named Red Willow, with the following perks:
- Standard Perk: Holiday Surprise
- At the end of Phase Shift, trigger an explosion, dealing 20 base energy damage in a .75 tile radius.
- Commander Perk: Holiday Surprise+
- At the end of Phase Shift, trigger an explosion, dealing 20 base energy damage in a .75 tile radius. Additionally, Phase Shift has a 60% chance to conjure a Phantasm.
#2 - New Weapon: Snowball Launcher
Back from the Fortnite vault, the Snowball Launcher is already available in the in-game store. It is a Legendary grenade launcher that uses rockets for ammo. It does 128 damage with a magazine capacity of six and a three-second reload time.
The Snowball Launcher has six perks:
- Water Element
- +30% Impact
- +68% Crit Damage
- +50% Reload Speed
- +30% Damage to stunned, staggered, and knocked down targets
- Damage dealt snares target by 30% for six seconds
It is a fun weapon in Fortnite that gets better with Snare but is still outclassed by a Bazooka or Hydro-Launcher in terms of explosives.

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Federal government drops appeal, recognizes freedom of expression for charities
February 1, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OTTAWA – The Government of Canada has abandoned its appeal of the ruling in Canada Without Poverty’s landmark case on freedom of expression for charitable organizations.
In July 2018, Justice Ed Morgan of the Ontario Superior Court declared the restrictions in the Income Tax Act on non-partisan political activities of charities to be in violation of the right to freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“Letting Justice Morgan’s decision stand is a huge victory for democracy in Canada,” said CWP’s Executive Director, Leilani Farha.
“The government has done the right thing twice, first by making the legislative changes recommended by its appointed panel, and now by withdrawing the appeal. Equally important to those legislative changes is the recognition of the fundamental constitutional right of people living in poverty and other charities to participate in public policy dialogue.”
“CWP has always been led by a Board of Directors who have lived experience of poverty,” said Board President Laura Cattari.
“For decades, CWP has been the conduit for our participation in public dialogue and democracy—and this decision affirmed that. Freeing the voice of lived experience isn’t optional, it’s a right.”
“This decision puts Canada in the lead among common-law countries and will have a positive effect not only in our country, but worldwide. It resonates very deeply for our members by affirming their right of dignity and their equal right to participate in democratic processes. Judge Ed Morgan understood how fundamental this is for people living in poverty,” added Ms. Farha.
CWP is grateful to Bruce Porter, Executive Director of the Social Rights Advocacy Centre for his leadership on the case, the legal team at McCarthy Tetrault for their pro bono representation, and the Test Case Funding Committee at Legal Aid Ontario for their support.
About Canada Without Poverty
Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, and charitable organization dedicated to ending poverty in Canada. The organization was created in 1971 as an outcome of the Poor People’s Conference, a national gathering of low-income individuals, under the name National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO). For nearly 50 years, CWP has been championing the rights of individuals experiencing poverty and marginalization through research, awareness-building campaigns, public policy development, and educational programming. See more on the Charter challenge at: www.cwp-csp.ca/income-tax-act-charter-challenge/
For more information or interview requests, please contact:
Canada Without Poverty – Communications Coordinator
Phone: 613-293-2446 | Email: ac.psc-pwc@arual

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[Gorlin-Goltz Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment Options].
Acta Med Port 2017 May 31;30(5):418-421. Epub 2017 May 31.
Serviço de Dermatologia e Venereologia. Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra. Coimbra. Portugal. Departamento de Dermatologia. Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra. Portugal.
The Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary condition, with complete penetrance and variable expressivity. Characterized by the appearance of multiple basaliomas, and often the development of keratocyst, it can also express itself by the presence of palmar/plantar depressions, calcification of brain sickle, and skeletal birth defects, although less frequently. This article presents two cases involving direct relatives, referred after the identification of several basaliomas and jaw cysts. After establishing the diagnosis, given the identification of three major criteria, the treatment consisted in the excision of the lesions followed, in one case, with vismodegib treatment resulting in complete remission. Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is therefore a multidisciplinary challenge, whose variable morbidity and high risk of recurrence make treatment and surveillance critical. However, new molecular targeted therapies have brought a new hope in treating these patients.
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