Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is to construct more roads in order to solve the constant traffic jam problem in the city. The executive director Jennifer Musisi says as long as funds are available roads and drainages will be constructed on time.
KCCA is working hard to beat the deadline of the World Bank funded road projects, which is June next year.
The executive director has toured some of the roads that were constructed and those still under construction by KCCA. Musisi says they are to construct more roads to solve the constant traffic jam in the city. Musisi says, ”When access roads are constructed, then few vehicles will use the main roads hence reducing traffic jam.”
She says the biggest challenge is the lack of funds to construct roads on time. Right now KCCA is trying to complete the World Bank funded roads project. “The first phase was completed but it took a while due to the process, now we have started the second phase and hope it will be done by June next year”.
But they still face the compensation problem, which slows down their work. “That is a very big problem because you can’t take someone’s land without paying them, however in some areas like the Kulambiro stretch residents are willing to offer land and expand the road.”
Musisi has however warned all contractor who do shoddy work that they will forfeit working for the authority.
Musisi insists, “We have tried to assess the contractors and get the best. But anyone who does shoddy work, rest assured they will not get another KCCA contract.”
The roads toured today were funded by the government of Uganda and over shillings 29bn have been spent. These include, Nakivubo channel Road, Semugooma road, Namirembe road Kisenyi road,Mutebi and Mengo hill road plus Archer road.


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Justin Brazeau scored twice on Saturday and added another goal on Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Providence Bruins)
Okay, it wasn’t a perfect week for the Providence Bruins, but they’ll take two wins in three games all season long.
The P-Bruins started the week with a 5-2 win at Bridgeport on Wednesday. They traveled to Bridgeport again on Saturday for their eighth straight road game and won, 6-3. Back home on Sunday for their first game at the Amica Mutual Pavilion since Dec. 16, Providence lost to the Utica Comets, 2-1.
“It’s tough. They come in (having played) three in three and at the end of the day we had opportunities to get it done and we fell short,” said coach Ryan Mougenel. “There’s lessons in it, for sure. I haven’t really liked our Sundays at all here. It’s something to address and get better at.”
Here’s the good, bad and ugly.
— As of Sunday night, Providence was in second place in the Atlantic Division – two points behind Hershey — and tied for second in the AHL with 47 points. They’ve lost only seven of 34 games in regulation time.
— Providence went 5-2-1 in its eight straight road games from Dec. 17 to Jan. 7.
— A pair of quick strikes left the P-Bruins in good shape in Bridgeport. They scored two goals in 13 seconds (Oskar Steen and Jakub Lauko) on Wednesday and twice in 30 seconds (Joona Koppanen and Vinni Lettieri) on Saturday.
— Justin Brazeau is on a hot streak with 3-4-7 in his last five games. He had two goals and was plus-4 on Saturday night and added another goal on Sunday afternoon.
— Joona Koppanen had a goal and an assist in each of the games in Bridgeport.
— Vinni Lettieri scored the game-winner and added an assist on Saturday. With 12-16-28 in 33 games he continues to lead the team in goals and points.
— Jakub Lauko has a goal and three assists in the last three games. He is plus-10 so far after finishing last season at minus-28.
— Oskar Steen is playing some of his best hockey of the season with 3-4-7 in his last five games.
— Joey Abate had a strong game on Wednesday with a goal and five shots. He’s tied for second in the league with six fighting majors.
— Mike Reilly scored the longest goal of the season on Saturday, hitting the empty net from 198 feet near the end of the game. Brandan Bussi earned his first assist of the year.
— After drawing 8,562 fans on Sunday, the P-Bruins are fourth in the AHL with an average crowd of 7,027.
— Utica scored on its second shot of the game on Sunday.
— Going into Sunday’s game, Providence was allowing an average of 33.97 shots per game, second-most in the AHL.
— Starting on Saturday, P-Bruins play five straight games against Hartford.
— The power play remains a problem. After going 0 for 5 on Sunday, the PP is 30th in the AHL at 14.5 percent.
— Injured: Eduards Tralmaks, J.D. Greenway, Matt Filipe

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text: Bad luck for the creators of Avengers: Endgame. The end of the film you can already find online. A video with images circulating since Tuesday on social media. The people who for months hard on the film have worked, there are the heart of in. Producer Disney was, however, extremely careful. The leaked scene takes a whopping five minutes. It comes to images which secretly with a smartphone is made in a movie theater, probably during a testscreening.

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Dubai: A Pakistani man will be executed for repeatedly slitting a prostitute’s neck and stealing her cash and mobile phones.
The 29-year-old murderer A.K. lost his petition on Monday before the Dubai Cassation Court that confirmed the capital punishment against him.
Dubai’s highest court rejected his plea to have his capital punishment cancelled or reduced to imprisonment.
Senior Chief Prosecutor Yousuf Foulaz, Head of Deira Prosecution, had asked for the implementation of the death sentence against A.K.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the defendant committed a cold-blooded murder when he slit the Uzbek prostitute’s neck three times and stole her Dh200 and two mobiles.
Citing self-defence, A.K. pleaded not guilty before the courts of First Instance, Appeal and Cassation.
The capital punishment was unanimously approved by three judges from the Court of First Instance’, three from the Appeal Court and five from the Cassation Court.
The defendant was sentenced to death despite the fact that he provided the court with a written waiver that he obtained from the victim’s parents.
The capital punishment will be carried out immediately after being approved by the ruler.
A.K.’s court-appointed lawyer said before the primary court that the defendant did not have the strength to kill the Uzbek woman who was bigger than him.
“A.K. is short and skinny. He is as weak as a bird and it would have been impossible for such an ‘innocent bird’ to have killed such an oversized woman,” his lawyer said in court.
His lawyer said the defendant did not have any intention to steal or kill the victim. “She was a sex worker. My client went to her flat and he didn’t even have sex with her. She stole his Dh6,000… the money which he was accused of stealing belonged to him,” argued the advocate.
Records said A.K. killed the woman, S.H., after a financial dispute. He purchased a medium-sized knife and attacked S.H. from behind when he was in her flat.
When questioned by prosecutors, A.K. claimed: “She deserved to die because she made me drunk and robbed me.”
The woman’s Afghan husband asked his friend to check on her because her mobile was switched off. The friend found her body in her flat.
Monday’s judgement is irrevocable.

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Huge scope to store water underground
There is potential to store large volumes of Australia’s precious fresh water underground, to offset climate change, avoid evaporation losses and meet national water needs into the future, leading water scientists say.
Following a major national scientific workshop in Canberra, researchers in the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) say that managed aquifer recharge - the injection or infiltration of excess surface water into underground aquifers - could help secure the nation’s water supplies for an uncertain future.
With bigger droughts and floods forecast under climate change, along with rapidly rising demand from growing cities and industries, managing water wisely will be central to the nation’s future prosperity and sustainability, says Professor Tony Jakeman of NCGRT and the Australian National University.
A workshop of leading groundwater experts convened by NCGRT identified 12 different sources of water in regional Australia that could be successfully ‘parked’ underground for use in time of need, he said. These include supplementary irrigation water, surplus runoff into dams and water brought to the surface by coal seam gas extraction and other mining activities.
“There are many benefits from storing water underground,” Prof Jakeman says. “These include recharging depleted aquifers, enlarging storages without building more dams, reducing evaporative losses, reconnecting surface and groundwaters, watering the Australian landscape from underground and creating strategic reserves in critical foodgrowing or urban areas.”
“Australia already stores the equivalent of 1800 Olympic-size swimming pools of water underground in the Burdekin region of Queensland every year and brings it up again for use in agriculture and horticulture,” explains doctoral researcher Andrew Ross. “But in Orange County California, they store around 300 gigalitres (GL) a year - enough for the household use of 2.3 million people.”
The combined proven storage capacity of aquifers below Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne is 200 GL - capable of meeting the needs of 2.5 million residents - and potentially as much as 430 GL, Ross adds.
According to Ross, Australia currently loses around 4200 GL a year in evaporation from surface storages across the Murray-Darling Basin - sufficient water to supply Sydney and Melbourne for four and a half years.
“On the face of it, managed aquifer recharge looks tremendously promising, but we need a more detailed understanding of our aquifers, likely environmental impacts and, of course, we need effective rules and rights for injecting and recovering water on a large scale,” Prof Jakeman says.
The workshop has identified four potential projects in regional Australia where the concept of underground storage can be tested more thoroughly - on the Condamine in Queensland, the Namoi in NSW and two rivers in northern Victoria.
In sandy areas, water injection can be simple and low cost - as easy as an artificial sump or soak that allows surplus floodwater to linger and percolate into the underlying aquifer. On clay soils or rock it may require the use of a solar pump or windmill to inject the water down a well. It may also be important to filter or cleanse water before injection.
“At any event, water injection looks to be a whole lot more affordable than desalinating seawater, which is often proposed as a solution to our urban water shortages,” says Ross.
The researchers add, “The scale of large floods suggests that some of this water can be used to recharge aquifers without affecting the important ecological role of floods in our river systems.
“Such events may be more frequent under climate change and it makes national sense to turn a problem into an opportunity.”
“The recent 10-year drought is equally a reminder how critically scarce Australia’s water can become in dry times and of the importance of investigating every opportunity to better manage the resources we have by ‘parking’ surplus water in wet years where it can be easily retrieved,” says Prof Jakeman.
Another important reason for storing more water below ground is to protect the Australian native landscape: this can help keep Australian rivers and wetlands filled and ensure water is always accessible to the deep-rooted eucalypts and acacias that are key to our native landscapes.
One of the largest untapped sources of water in Australia is the northern wet, covering the top one third of the continent. The wish to preserve wild rivers combined with high evaporation rates make major dam building in the north unlikely - but scope may exist to store some of the runoff underground.
“Underground storage is likely to be socially more acceptable than building new dams in Australia - but it must nevertheless be carried out with care, and with a detailed understanding of the impact on other water bodies, both surface and subsurface, on natural ecosystems and communities,” says Prof Jakeman.
Social research by Professor Allan Curtis’s NCGRT team at Charles Sturt University and others indicates that, according to Ross, “so far, Australians are generally positive about the idea of aquifer recharge”.
The scientists add that if Australia manages to solve its own water scarcity problems by understanding aquifer recharge, it will position itself as a world leader and major exporter of solutions in a world facing a growing water crisis.
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Hayward, California is a helpful and reasonable base goal for anybody needing to handily investigate each other spot inside the San Francisco Bay Area. Directly behind the city, guests can get a magnificent scene at Hayward Hills that catches Oakland, Silicon Valley, Fremont, and San Francisco across the board single important view. The city is loaded with gardens, parks, eateries, specialty lagers, and theater. You can do the best things in Hayward with your family members with spirit airlines reservations and enjoy the in-flight services and amenities.
Hayward Japanese Gardens
Directly in Hayward’s tumultuous midtown is this asylum where you can pause for a moment to reflect. The Japanese Garden was the Bay Area’s first to be structured by exacting conventional rules. Regular for this style of the nursery the beds with 70 distinctive tree and plant species have been fastidious would, in general, take after scaled-down scenes and on a visit, you’ll go through structures, traverse a koi lake took care of by a cascade and see a Japanese teahouse. The detail is noteworthy – even the wood grain of nursery’s structures has been deliberately scored to give the impression of incredible age.
Garin Regional Park
The Garin Regional Park, alongside the Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park, offers more than twenty miles of climbing and horseback riding trails that permit guests to investigate the in excess of 4,790 sections of land the parks incorporate. Open on Saturdays and Sundays between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend, the Garin Barn Visitor Center shows curios from the zone’s cultivating and farming history. It additionally incorporates a hardware store and a metal forger shop. Visitors can likewise investigate the antique homestead apparatus assortment only outside of the outbuilding lodging the Visitor Center.
Hayward is somewhat less in vogue than some neighboring networks, yet more than stands its ground for culinary alternatives. In case you’re making the rounds close Watkins Street on Monday’s attempt Off The Grid, where the best food trucks leave up and tout their delightful admission. On the boulevards, you’ll see exactly what a blend Hayward is, a quality reflected by the selection of cafés. The Mexican taquerias are especially acceptable, yet you can likewise fold into Korean grill, Vietnamese, Japanese or great American burger joint food. One of the Bay Area’s most seasoned brewpubs, Buffalo Bills, is likewise directly here in Hayward.
Sulfur Creek Nature Center
The Sulfur Creek Nature Center in Hayward, California is a middle for untamed life recovery and untamed life training. The strategic this nature and untamed life place is to cultivate a sentiment of duty to the world’s government assistance by bringing creatures and individuals closer together through their natural life instruction and recovery. The Sulfur Creek Nature Center’s untamed life training programs let guests get a very close glance at an assortment of creatures that are local to the encompassing zone. Notwithstanding instruction and recovery, the middle offers uncommon projects, birthday celebrations, and volunteer open doors among different exercises and occasions.
Hayward Regional Shoreline
You’ve seen the slopes, presently it’s an ideal opportunity to investigate the shore. This stretch of the East Bay is a salt swamp environment supporting bountiful birdlife. Get some optics from the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center for your walk and check whether you can see any semblance of twofold peaked cormorants and since quite a while ago charged curlews. For quite a while Hayward’s shore cultivated for sail however during the 80s it was reestablished as a wetland to take untamed life back to this piece of the East Bay. The San Francisco Bay Trail runs directly through the recreation center, so in the event that you feel like a more extended walk adventure for a couple of miles along this 345-mile way bending around 66% of the Bay.
Hayward Area Historical Society
The Hayward Area Historical Society endeavors to advance a comprehension among guests and people in general by and large of the chances and difficulties, just as the mutual history, of things to come through the assortment, protection, and translation of the East Bay people group’s differing legacy. Guests can go along with one of the integral visits offered by the City of Hayward, which incorporates visiting the city’s honor winning wall painting workmanship program in downtown Hayward. These visits are accessible from May until October, assuming it doesn’t rain. The Hayward Area Historical Society is likewise home to a History Gallery, a Children’s Gallery, and unique displays.
Mural Arts Program of Hayward
For a long time, Hayward had somewhat of a spray painting issue. So in 2008, the city chose to beat the taggers unexpectedly: They picked all the dividers and columns that would for the most part fall prey to vandalism and welcomed craftsmen to paint their own eye-getting wall paintings on them. The cash the city would some way or another have spent composition over and expelling spray painting they occupied into commissions. So on a stroll around the midtown, you’ll see some propelled fine art on the sides of structures and in any case void spaces.
Don Castro Regional Recreation Area
The Don Castro Regional Recreation Area includes marginally more than one hundred sections of land on the fringe between the Castro Valley and Hayward. This urban desert garden includes an unmistakable, blue-watered swim tidal pond that is the most loved of neighborhood inhabitants. Climbers can investigate an astounding small scale wild zone along the San Lorenzo Creek Reservoir’s shore and fishing is permitted consistently. The swim tidal pond includes a broad shallow territory especially for kids that are reserved. Guests can get to the Chabot to Garin trail and the Bay Area Ridge Trail in the Don Castro Regional Recreation Area too.
San Leandro is the following network up from Hayward and goes right back to 1872 – really noteworthy for a Californian city. The people group developed around the clam beds on the bayfront, which at their stature made up the biggest shellfish fishery in the Americas. In the twentieth Century the waters turned out to be too contaminated to even think about sustaining sound clams and the business blurred away. The site of the shellfish beds is secured today as a California Historical Landmark. Likewise, notable is Casa Peralta, a mid-twentieth-century house structured in the provincial style and kept up by the city as a gallery. It’s an attractive gesture to California’s Latin legacy.
Douglas Morrison Theater
The Douglas Morrison Theater plans to include and edify the two guests and local people of the Hayward people group through the live performance center experience it gives. The venue offers entertainers with a possibility for social investment and creative articulation. The Douglas Morrison Theater puts on a period of musicals and plays each year starting in September. Throughout the late spring season, youth matured seven to fifteen can participate in theater camps enduring half a month. The performance center likewise offers classes for adolescents and grown-ups covering a variety of theater disciplines. The performance center program initially began as the Community Players during the 1960s.
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THE NAILED DOWN SERIES
The Nailed Down Series from Chelle Bliss and Eden Butler follows four men, from very different pasts as they deal with life, death,
and all the drama in between. These are four interconnected standalones.
*Stripped Down spins off the Carelli Family Saga.
SANTA BABY BY CHELLE BLISS AND EDEN BUTLER
All she wanted was a quiet Christmas with her baby.
She wasn’t expecting to get stuck in a snowstorm in a strange town with a gorgeous stranger and his family.
…But sometimes getting lost takes us exactly where we’re supposed to be.


Cooking a tasty meal is very satisfying, but it’s often the resulting mess and food stains that take ages to clean that put a lot of us off.
With today’s busy lifestyle we don’t always have time to spare for cleaning, but for a stress-free cleanup of stains around the home and on your clothes, try these quick and easy tips.
Some items to have handy
• White vinegar • Baking soda • Cornstarch • Salt • Club soda • Dish detergent • Laundry detergent • Hydrogen peroxide • Acetone based nail polish remover • Stain removal gel • Prewash stain remover
1. Red Wine
Red wine stains are tough to remove. For shirts and other linens, soak up the excess wine by dabbing gently with a clean cloth. Next, put the stained fabric over a bowl, making sure the stained area is pulled tight across the bowl. Cover the stain with salt, and slowly pour boiling water over the whole stain. Immediately the fabric is cool enough to handle, wash it on the hottest setting your washing machine has.
2. Tomato Sauce
Tomato sauce often ends up everywhere but where it’s supposed to go! Tomato stains are some of the hardest ones to get rid of, especially on pale fabrics. Scrape away any solid remains of the sauce and blot the wet sauce with a cloth. Soak the stain in cold water for five minutes and then scrub with a spare toothbrush and laundry detergent. Wash the garment in hot water, then air dry.
If tomato sauce gets on your carpet (heaven forbid!) combine dish detergent with water. Using a towel, start at the outer edges of the stain and then soak with the solution, moving towards the middle. Dab the remains with water and then blot dry.
3. Pizza Grease
As soon as you can after the stain occurs, use a generous amount of baking soda or cornstarch to cover the stain and absorb it.
Leave the powder on for two or three minutes, then remove. Put a small drop of dish soap on the stain and dab gently with a wet paper towel.
Berries are great, but their stains are not. White vinegar to the rescue! If berries stain your clothes, turn the garment inside out and carefully pour boiling water over the stain, much the same as for red wine.
Once the garment has dried for a few hours, soak the stain in vinegar, rinse and allow to dry.
We’ve all spilled coffee down our shirts at one time or another. To treat stained cloth, use club soda to soak the stained area, then blot with a rag until the stain has gone.
If you’ve dropped coffee on your carpet, blot with a cloth or paper towel, then pour a little beer on top and blot lightly again. Rinse with clean water and blot to get rid of any remaining beer.
6. Peanut Butter
If the stain is on your clothes, remove the excess and treat it with a prewash stain remover and wash the garment on the hottest setting your machine has.
If it’s gone on your carpet, you need something like acetone (nail polish remover) to deal with it. Use an eyedropper and apply a tiny bit to a hidden area of your carpet. This is a test to make sure it won’t damage your carpet, and if it’s ok, then sponge the stain with a cloth dipped in the acetone. Blot until most of the peanut butter is absorbed. Rinse with water and pat dry.
Get ketchup off clothes and furniture by scraping the stain with a butter knife. Soak the stain in cold water and coat it in liquid laundry detergent, then use a sponge to apply hydrogen peroxide to the area. The stain should disappear like magic!
8. Salad Dressing
The oil-based composition of salad dressings is the reason that the stains are so hard to shift. Put a stain remover gel on the stained cloth, then rinse the treated area with hot water and rub liquid detergent into the stain. Leave the fabric for around 5 minutes, then run the garment on your machine’s hottest setting.
Try to remove remaining pieces of chocolate with a spoon, but don’t scrape at it as you’ll make the stain worse. Use cold water to rinse the stain, then rub liquid laundry detergent or liquid dish soap into the area. Leave the fabric for a couple of minutes, then soak in cold water for up to 15 minutes. Help things along by rubbing the stain with your fingers every five minutes, then rinse until the stain has gone.
Taking off a stain made by butter is relatively simple. Use liquid dish soap to clean the stain and rinse it well. Use a dab of stain remover and wash the garment in hot water. Make sure the stain is gone before you dry it, as butter can set in a permanent stain this way!


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It's not cutting them out, it's assembling them!! I watched the MFT video and they recommended holding the end of the flower with tweezers and winding it....yikes. Hard! You have to get the right tension.
Then, I watched another video that just wound it around a paintbrush handle. That wasn't too bad, but it ended up a lot smaller than I would have liked. I just have to figure out how to adjust the flower without it unravelling in my fingers!!

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Last July, an electric transit bus in Connecticut burst into flames while parked at a depot. A month later, an electric scooter sparked a fire inside a New York City apartment that killed a 5-year-old girl and 36-year-old woman. And last month, a fire believed to be caused by the batteries in an electric scooter engulfed a multifamily home in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Lithium-ion batteries have become a ubiquitous feature in new forms of transportation and common household products. They're also found in residential solar energy systems.
But when those batteries fail or overheat, they release flammable, toxic gasses that can spark a fast-spreading fire that is extremely difficult to extinguish.
“The source of the gasses that are creating the flames is confined within a cell battery that will not allow water in,” said Ofodike Ezekoye, a fire scientist and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. “When firefighters are responding to these types of incidents, it takes a lot longer to be able to control the fire because it requires so much more water.”
With the number of fires caused by lithium batteries soaring across the U.S., firefighters and other experts say the training needed to fight them effectively is lagging in many places. Firefighters and city officials are also imploring the manufacturers to redesign the batteries so that, when they fail, the resulting fires can be put down more easily.
“What we’re seeing is these new technologies, as important as they are, they make it out into the field before we know all the possible consequences that could come from them,” said Steve Kerber, the executive director of the nonprofit UL Fire Safety Research Institute. “It isn’t until failures start to happen that the fire service understands what the consequences are. That’s where we need to start playing catch-up.”
Kerber said his team has run tests on lithium-ion batteries in which it took only 15 seconds from the first sign of smoke to the windows being blown out in a house. In a traditional fire, it typically takes about three minutes for a room to be engulfed, he said.
“With such explosion hazards, it’s incredibly important that we get firefighters to understand how to operate safely,” Kerber said.
Hunter Clare and Justin Lopez, who work for the fire department in Peoria, Arizona, have firsthand experience of the hazards.
In April 2019, the two fire captains responded to a call at a facility that was housing thousands of lithium-ion batteries used to store energy for a power grid. The batteries are critical components in such facilities that store solar energy.
Clare and Lopez arrived along with other first responders to find a white cloud of vapor seeping out of the building and drifting across the desert.
“It was staying about 3 to 4 feet off the ground, and it was kind of swaying like sea water,” Clare said.
The firefighters suspected that it was some kind of chemical cocktail. They secured the area and used special devices to test the air, which showed dangerous levels of hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.
Then they waited until the vapors stopped flowing out of the building and the levels of flammable gas dropped. Nearly two hours passed before the firefighters made their way to the front door of the facility. When they opened it, a large cloud escaped the building. Before they could retreat to safety, the space ignited, setting off a powerful explosion.
Lopez landed 30 feet away, according to a report by the Fire Safety Research Institute. Clare was thrown about 70 feet, his body in flames.
“Don’t remember the explosion. Don’t remember anything from there,” Clare said.
Both men suffered severe injuries, including brain trauma.
Lopez had a collapsed lung, broken ribs, a broken leg, separated shoulder, laceration of the liver and multiple thermal and chemical burns, according to the report.
Clare suffered an eye injury, spine damage, broken ribs, broken ankles, a broken scapula, internal bleeding and thermal and chemical burns.
But they know they’re lucky to be alive.
“It could have been worse,” Lopez said.
“If you got there, and you were in the middle of nowhere and didn’t have the training that you needed, you might rush in,” Clare said.
The rise of electric scooters in cities has led to a massive spike in battery fires.
Lithium-ion batteries sparked more than 200 fires in New York City last year alone, killing six people and injuring nearly 150. That’s double the amount of battery fires in 2021, according to the New York City Fire Department.
So far this year, electric bike batteries have been identified as the cause of three fires in New York.
The most recent blaze broke out inside a building in the Inwood section of Manhattan on Feb. 5. Three people were hospitalized in critical condition, officials said. Last week, an e-bike battery sparked a fire at a day care center in Queens that injured nearly 20 children.
Keith Badler, senior technical trainer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said he’s particularly concerned about the threat of a battery fire in a bridge or a tunnel. He noted that it often takes a massive amount of water to extinguish the chemical-fueled blazes.
“We don’t have the luxury of just letting it burn out in the open, or in a tunnel or even in a bridge,” Badler said.
An industry trade group, PRBA — the Portable Rechargeable Battery Association — said it is “collaborating with emergency response governmental agencies and industry organizations to increase awareness about the risks posed by lithium ion batteries during handling, storage, and in transportation.”
“We welcome the opportunity to work with all interested parties on lithium ion battery outreach and education to prevent lithium ion battery incidents, increase consumer safety, and develop a consistent message on the correct lithium ion battery emergency response and safety procedures,” the group added.
Some fire departments in Arizona and elsewhere have added a new tool to fight these kinds of fires: a chemical additive specially designed to absorb heat and put down certain kinds of blazes.
The product, known as F-500 Encapsulator Agent, has shown in early tests to be effective at putting out the stubborn fires created by lithium-ion batteries.
“We’re absorbing the heat as opposed to trying to dissipate the heat through steam,” said Ron Lowrey, a former fire chief in Pennsylvania who now works for one company that produces the product, Hazard Control Technologies. “It’s a much better medium for cooling.”


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Security and the well-being of the Anambra people and society was at the forefront of Charles Soludo’s mind during his swearing-in ceremony on Thursday. RipplesNigeria reports.
Soludo was sworn in as the fifth governor of Anambra State in a modest event that took place at the Government House, Awka, the state’s capital.
According to RipplesNigeria, the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, who took over from Willie Obiano, took the oath of office together with his deputy, Onyeka Ibezim.
In his speech enumerating how to ensure rapid development drive within the state and the region, Soludo explained the importance of security in order to drive investments.
According to him, this can only be achieved by ensuring all stakeholders are on board regarding the agenda while questioning the motives of secessionist agitations such as the Indigenous People of Biafra and its military arm, the Eastern Security Network.
IPOB, a secessionist group pushing for the creation of an independent State of Biafra, has been accused of being responsible for the deadly attacks in the South-east and South-South.
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the group, has been in the custody of Nigeria’s secret police, DSS. He is facing trial for treason.
In order to unravel the rationale for its repeated attacks, Soludo said, “It is time to interrogate the purpose of IPOB and ESN. The politicians using it as a means must come out in order for a consensus regarding our future. The conspiracy of silence by stakeholders must stop. I challenge the group denying the killings to come out and work with my administration in order to ensure peace and security in the state.
“We need Nigeria and Nigeria needs us with our numbers and resources in the Disapora; we don’t need to leave and we will take the various agitations to the Federal Government in order to resolve the disagreement with justice. I am convinced peace will return to the state.”
Soludo also appealed for peace, while reiterating the need for dialogue despite the anger of the Joint Body of South-East Council of Traditional Rulers and Representatives of Igbo Archbishops and Bishops who expressed displeasure over the handling of insecurity in the South-East.
According to them in a March 7 communique, the presidency failed to seek dialogue as a means to end insecurity in the region.
They also faulted governors from the region for refusing to honour calls for dialogue.
“I appeal to the joint council of traditional rulers, the South-East Governors and the Presidency to look at the suggestions in the March 7 tripartite discussions regarding IPOB/ESN. This is necessary for peace,” Soludo said.

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Mar 19, 2013, 12:13 AM EDT
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Jackson State head coach Tevester Anderson will retire, the university announced last Monday.
The 76-year-old coach spent the past 10 seasons as head coach of the Tigers after five seasons at the helm of Murray State, where he made two trips to the NCAA Tournament. Anderson guided Jackson State to the Big Dance in 2006-07 after claiming the SWAC Tournament title with a 21-14 overall record.
Anderson, who has been around the game long enough to have played at Arkansas-Pine Bluff when it was Arkansas AM&N, also went to the NIT with the Tigers in 2009-10, when the team captured the SWAC regular season title.
He was 149-17o in his decade at Jackson State and 241-204 overall as a collegiate head coach.
The record at Jackson State may not look impressive, but when you consider that teams in conferences like the SWAC play most of their regular season games against power conference teams for the purpose of their athletic budget, finishing with a record like Anderson’s at Jackson State is impressive. He took both teams he coached to the NCAA Tournament, which is definitely an accomplishment. He finished with a losing conference record just once in his career, with a 5-13 mark at Jackson State in 2011-12.
The Tigers finished this season 11-18 and fell to Prairie View A&M in the SWAC Tournament this season. A press conference will be held March 25 to formerly announce Anderson’s retirement.
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In the rhythm of the Pain of the World
a song dedicated to a girl from Yemen
who died of starvation
- Mother I am hungry,
I am hungry momma.
- Sleep now my beloved, close your eyes and see,
from Jannah your father shall return to thee.
Through remnants and ruins
and dunes of blood
seas full of dead bodies
and starving sharks
walked towards the sun in the skies
barefoot, faint and hungry
girl with teary eyes.
I am hungry momma…
Hungry mothers tears are trying to hide
from the eyes of their children
seeing mountains of bones of those who died
Body covered In abaya, crucified
trembling in the eye of the child
Even heavens cried the bloody tears
yet from brazen World
not a word was heard
- Daddy will not come back,
Instead to him I shall go.
I am not afraid to go on my own,
but mother, I am too late, I know,
Look at my bones, look at me,
my skin they cannot carry.
the Yemen train
ravaged the desert to deserted plain
dug out a living wound
a troop of pupils in a single day
to the voiceless pit forever put to lay
Wails are deafening,
fallen on their wedding died groom and bride
chilling cries on Pluto echoing
Clouds blushed in pink,
Angels all perished in a blink
Momma I am waiting for you,
smiling and hungry no more,
Come, daddy is waiting for thee
by the Jannah door.
Emerald green garden is growing,
fig tree is in bloom,
The river of milk and honey is flowing.
Ljubica Yentl Tinska
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The main driver of review latest Jersey’s large house taxes is an untenable school funding components. Under The present procedure, Jersey City and Hoboken millionaires generally spend significantly less in house taxes on a $800,000 home than what a hardworking household in Freehold is compelled to pay for with a $three hundred,000 home. Nonetheless, Center course people within a town like Freehold acquire a lot less state help for every scholar while Neptune, an Abbott district, builds new aquatic centers and millionaires in Jersey City get free pre-K.

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WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross posted his latest blog at JRsBarBQ.com looking at Sunday's WWE Survivor Series and the rumor regarding Sting.
On Sting rumored for Survivor Series:
“My Twitter timeline lit up Friday night with the conveniently, timed info/rumor that Sting would make a ‘surprise’ appearance at Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series. I have no idea it that’s true or not and I’d have preferred if the info, true or not, would not have leaked out. I’m not a major fan of the “Jardine’s” aka spoilers. I’m a Sting fan from back in the day and believe that if his first and perhaps only match in WWE is at WrestleMania 31. The man has earned a WrestleMania Moment without question.”
On the Survivor Series main event result:
“If forced to make a prediction, I’d go with Team Cena winning the Survivor Series main event Sunday in St. Louis which provides WWE the opportunity to truly set the reset button and create some new scenarios that are due with the build to WM31 beginning to commence. If so, Im curious to see how HHH and Steph are repositioned as WWE needs star power and they provide that more than many of the talents.”


James Levine will conclude his residency at the 1990 Ravinia Festival this weekend with three symphonic and choral programs.
Levine, the festival`s music director, will lead a performance of Beethoven`s choral masterwork, ``Missa Solemnis,`` at 8:30 p.m. Friday. An all-star quartet of vocal soloists-Andrea Gruber, Tatiana Troyanos, Gary Lakes and John Cheek-will join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
One of the most popular of Ravinia soloists, pianist Andre Watts, will return to the Highland Park pleasure dome to perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with Levine and the CSO at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The rest of the program will hold modern American works by Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter.
The third and final Levine concert, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, will hold nearly a dozen light-classical favorites, from Dukas` ``The Sorcerer`s Apprentice``
and Mussorgsky`s ``A Night on Bald Mountain,`` to Sibelius` ``Finlandia`` and Sousa`s ``Stars and Stripes Forever.`` Also worth your attention are the three Young Artist Preview concerts at 6:30 p.m. in Bennett Hall before each CSO concert.
Ravinia will host two noteworthy recitals next week. Cellist Heinrich Schiff performs at 8 p.m. Monday, with pianist Shura Cherkassky playing his
(mostly) Romantic specialties at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Both recitals will be in the Murray Theatre.
George Cleve is guest conductor for the weekend Grant Park Symphony concerts at the Petrillo Music Shell. Claude Frank and Lillian Kallir
(replacing pianist Walter Klien) will perform Mozart`s Two-Piano Concerto at 8 p.m. Friday on a program holding works by Ibert, Debussy and Tchaikovsky. An all-Mozart program featuring the Grant Park Symphony Chorus in the seldom- heard cantata ``Davidde Penitente`` takes place at 8 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday. Grant Park events are free.


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The idea of signing a pre-nuptial agreement before marriage may seem pessimistic but this is not the intent of this agreement. Apart from the high rate of divorce in the UK, prenuptial agreements are a rational way of starting out marriage with a shared sense of candour and uprightness.
A pre-nuptial agreement is often known as a “prenup’’ and it is a contract that is entered into between two parties before their marriage together. The prenup records the ownership of assets and particulars of what is the fate of the assets in the event the marriage breaks down. Before a prenup is signed, it must be ensured that it is fair to both parties putting into consideration the financial background of both parties to the prenup agreement.
Pre-nuptial agreements are not made for just wealthy individuals who are looking to protect their assets from a less wealthy spouse.
When entering a Pre-nuptial agreement, there are a number of requirements that must be complied with in order for the court to uphold the deal. These requirements are;
- Both parties must warrant that they understand the terms of the prenup agreement and intend to be bound by them.
- The terms of the agreement have to be reasonably fair.
- The prenup agreement should be signed at least 21 days before the marriage.
- Both parties must disclose their assets and property and annexe to the agreement in a schedule.
- The parties must enter into the agreement freely and not under coercion or duress as this will render it void.
- Each party must obtain autonomous legal advice on the terms of the agreement.
Importance of Pre-Nuptial Agreement
The integral aspect of entering into a prenup agreement includes but is not limited to the following;
- It helps to save both parties money over spending money on litigation over the division of the matrimonial finances
- The prenup agreement enables each party to make it clear to the other party that a particular property belongs to him or she alone and will not be distributed in any future divorce.
- In the event of a divorce, having a prenup allows room for less argument about finances, resulting in an amicable settlement between both parties.
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The Turnpike Troubadors – Diamonds and Gasoline
Today I mentioned The Turnpike Troubadours in my post on Terence Martin, so here is what I wrote about the band a couple of weeks ago at Me, Myself, Music and Mysteries
So today when my downloads on emusic refreshed I downloaded the sophomore album Diamonds and Gasoline from The Turnpike Troubadours. The Turnpike Troubadors take their name from the bumpy toll roads in their native state of Oklahoma. I had listened to clips from the album the other night and the band sounded pretty good and after listening to the full songs I’d say they sound damn good! From their website:
the band’s musical style, which walks the line between Woody Guthrie and Waylon Jennings. “Bossier City,” the band’s debut album, is testament to the small towns in which they were raised. It combines Folk, Country, Cajun, and Bluegrass with stories of longing, humor, tragedy, and general life in rural America.
“Diamonds & Gasoline” was produced by veteran producer and songwriter Mike McClure. McClure has worked with his own band as well as his old band The Great Divide and Cross Canadian Ragweed (albums by all three reside in my collection. The legendary Joe Hardy (ZZ-Top, Steve Earle) mixed and mastered the album.
The band is composed of:
Evan Felker – Lead Vocals, Acoustic
R.C. Edwards – Bass, Backing Vocals
Kyle Nix – Fiddle, Backing Vocals
Ryan Engleman – Lead Guitar
Giovanni Carnuccio – Drums, Backing Vocals
The first single from the album “Every Girl” is currently number 19 on the Texas Music Chart and is one of the standout tracks. “Diamonds and Gasoline” is also another good track. But once again all of the tracks are good in their own way! I can tell that this album will be around for a while and will probably by the soundtrack for a run this week.
So it wasn’t the soundtrack for a run but several of the songs have come up over the last couple of weeks and like I said I like the album more each time I hear the songs. Other than “Every Girl” and “Diamonds and Gasoline” other songs I really like are “7 and 7”, “1968”, “Down on Washington”. “The Whole Damn Town” ah hell here I go again, the whole damn album is good!!
Here are the Troubadors with “Every Girl” from a show in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 30, 2010


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Objective: To generate a mouse model of reactive arthritis (ReA), an aseptic synovitis that develops in joints distant from the primary bacterial infection site, to examine roles for Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that recognize bacterial components involved in the development of this arthritis, and to identify the cytokine(s) relevant to this arthritis.
Methods: Mice were treated with cell wall extract from Escherichia coli (ECW) gram-negative bacterium by injection into the footpads. Seven days later, the mice were challenged with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a TLR-4 ligand, which was injected into the knee joint cavity. To investigate the cytokine(s) involved in this arthritis, mice deficient in various arthritogenic cytokines, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-12, IL-18, interferon-gamma, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), were sequentially treated with ECW and LPS.
Results: ECW-primed mice manifested acute severe arthritis after intraarticular challenge with ECW or LPS, while unprimed mice exhibited modest changes after these challenges. Mutant mice lacking functional TLR-4 or myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88), an adaptor molecule of TLR-4 signaling, were resistant to this arthritis. Although both TNFalpha and IL-6 were equally expressed in the joint after LPS challenge, Il6(-/-) mice, but not Tnf(-/-) mice, were resistant to ECW/LPS-induced arthritis.
Conclusion: Our present results clearly indicate the importance of priming with ECW and the requirement of TLR-4/MyD88-mediated IL-6, but not TNFalpha, for the development of ECW/LPS-induced arthritis. LPS-induced IL-6, in the absence of TNFalpha, mediates LPS-induced arthritis. These results suggest that IL-6 is a rational target for therapeutic regimens for inflammatory arthritis, including ReA and rheumatoid arthritis.

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WASHINGTON — The deepening housing crisis will cut economic growth by more than 25 percent in 143 U.S. metropolitan areas next year and by more than a third in 65 metro communities, according to a new forecast for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The new report prepared for the mayors by financial forecaster Global Insight warns of cascading problems caused by falling home prices, an expected 1.4 million foreclosures and the pending reset of millions of adjustable-rate mortgages. The mayors are to release the report Tuesday.
"The foreclosure crisis will have profound economic effects in 2008," the report warns. It's to be unveiled as mayors from across the nation begin meeting in Detroit to discuss the growing problems arising from the national housing slowdown.
While the thrust of the report's findings already was known, the mayors put a fresh statistical face on them by detailing the metropolitan areas that are expected to see their gross metropolitan products slip the most as housing problems deepen.
The cities with the biggest-percentage losses are Myrtle Beach, S.C., the California cities of Merced, Madera and Napa, and Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla. In total dollar terms, New York, Los Angeles and metropolitan Dallas are expected to see the largest lost growth.
A number of metro areas aren't projected to lose growth because of the crisis; they tend to be areas that didn't experience the housing boom, including Akron, Ohio, Baton Rouge, La., and Charleston, W.Va.
Mayors hope that their report will put additional pressure on lenders to rework problem loans and head off massive foreclosures, which would further delay recovery in the housing sector.
"The report demonstrates that it's very important for the investors who own these loans to step up to the plate and work out modifications where it makes sense. If they don't, the economic impact is only going to get worse," said David Gatton, a senior adviser at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "Every time you have a foreclosed property, it drags down the value of properties around it."
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called on lenders to seek an industrywide approach to problem loans. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair, who regulates many national banks, more recently has called on lenders to freeze low teaser rates on adjustable-rate mortgages before they adjust to much higher rates.
"Our chairman had been frustrated with the pace . . . but it's starting to get legs," FDIC spokesman David Barr said, pointing to recent lender promises in California and elsewhere that they'll redo loans. "It's starting to take root, but the pace had been slow, at least initially."
Industry estimates point to only 1 percent or fewer of problem loans being restructured right now.
Weak market demand and the large inventory of homes for sale nationally would have reduced home values by $676 billion next year, but rising foreclosures and difficulties in reworking mortgages that are scheduled to reset to higher interest rates are expected to drive prices down even more and result in another $519 billion in lost home value, the report says.
The mayors expect a 7 percent drop nationwide in home prices for next year, with some parts of California experiencing declines as high as 16 percent.
The slowdown in housing will hurt local tax collection, the report says.
"In most states the growth of sales tax receipts will be significantly slowed by declines in construction-related purchases, by declines in the new furniture and fixtures spending usually coincident with home purchases, by the dearth of spending finance by home equity lines of credit and by the pullback in general consumption by households who feel, and are made, less wealthy by declines in homeowner equity," says the report, titled "The Mortgage Crisis: Economic and Fiscal Implications for Metro Areas."
Translation: Your state and local governments probably will be forced to choose between raising taxes to maintain services or cutting services to balance their budgets.
How the housing crisis affects particular metro areas:
The complete mayors' report: http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2007/11/26/16/Hall-USCMmortgagereportfinal.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf


A FARMING couple from South Cheshire have been banned from keeping horses for the rest of their lives.
Stable managers Marshall and Susan Foster, both 59, of Whitchurch Road, Sound, appeared at Chester Crown Court on Thursday in a bid to get their lifetime bans overturned.
South Cheshire Magistrates found the couple guilty of two charges of causing unnecessary suffering to two horses, one of which had to be destroyed, in April 2005.
But the appeal was rejected by The Recorder of Chester, Judge Elgan Edwards , who upheld the magistrates' ruling and warned the couple they face jail if they ever own horses again.
The case was brought by the RSPCA after inspectors found horses living in poor conditions with hazardous barbed wire, loose metal and corrugated sheeting.
One had collapsed and had to be destroyed. The other, found in an emaciated condition, was taken into care by the RSPCA and has since recovered.
Its inspector Amanda Lovett says the authority is delighted the Fosters will not be able to harm animals again. She added: 'The Fosters made their living out of buying and selling horses yet caused horrendous suffering by their wilful neglect of these poor animals.'
The Fosters have previous convictions for similar offences dating back to 2004.


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Prepayment penaltyPrepayment penalty
Lenders can impose a penalty on a borrower who pays a loan off before its expected end date.
The total value of the accumulated assets owned by an individual, household, community, or country.
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A clause found in contract agreements that provides for a penalty in the event of default.
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British and Irish government securities. Blue Chip.
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Trousdale: Learning To Lead
July 9, 2020
By PAIGE WILLETT
CPN Public Information Office
In March 2019, Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Trae Trousdale became the first Native American to hold the position of Oklahoma City University Student Government Association president in the school's history.
"It was a great honor to find...


Was clearing all the marigolds to let my poor bluebells flower and found this plant with a pretty little flower. Any one know what it is. Think its a bit spindly due to the marigolds.
I think this is some sort of native plant. Seen it growing a lot bigger in other places. Any clues?


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George Osborne has joined forces with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates in the fight against malaria by pledging £3 billion to tackle the killer disease.
The Chancellor and the Microsoft founder have set out hopes to wipe out the tropical infection within decades during a visit to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to see pioneering research.
Some £500 million a year will be allocated from Britain's international development budget over the next five years and the Gates Foundation will spend £140 million a year on research into the disease.
The disease is mainly spread by mosquitoes and is believed to kill one child a minute. Today’s pledge is part of a mission to support the World Health Organisation’s goal of reducing malaria deaths by 90 per cent by 2030.
Writing in The Times, the pair insisted that "problems such as hunger and disease aren't insoluble".
They wrote: "We are optimistic that in our lifetimes we can eradicate malaria and other deadly tropical diseases, and confront emerging threats, making the world a safer place for all."
"In the world's poorest places, malaria is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. It costs Africa, where poverty is already high, billions of pounds each year in lost productivity, and it accounts for up to 40% of public health expenditure in high burden countries," they added.
"The world has cut the number of malaria deaths in half in the past 15 years. We are confident that this is a war we can win.
"With its world-class universities, pharmaceutical companies and strong support at the national level, the UK leads innovation to improve the health and well-being of millions."
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Texas Tops Army, 3-1
May 29, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas -- The No. 5 Texas Longhorns held the Army Black Knights to one run on four hits and opened NCAA Regional action with a 3-1 win at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Friday night.
Texas starter Cole Green (5-2) scattered four hits and three walks over 7.0 innings to allow just one run while striking out six. Austin Wood pitched 2.0 hitless innings to close out the game for his 15th save of the season. He moved into a third-place tie with Huston Street on UT's single-season save list. The duo now trails only J. Brent Cox (2005) and Charlie Thames (2000) who both logged 19 saves.
Green was also forced into batting duties on the day when Brandon Belt was forced out of the game after being hit by pitch in the first inning. The Longhorns lost the designated hitter option when Preston Clark had to move from the DH spot to take Belt's spot at first base. Green had two plate appearances, going 1-for-1 with a sacrifice bunt.
Texas (42-13-1) drew first blood in the home half of the third inning. Travis Tucker drew a walk to start the inning and moved to second on Green's sacrifice bunt. The Longhorns would have had runners on the corners on Michael Torres' single to leftfield, but Tucker was waved home where he was gunned down by Army leftfielder Ben Koenigsfeld. Torres moved to second on the play at the plate and stole third base, setting up an RBI single to centerfield by Cameron Rupp.
The Longhorns tacked on another run in the fourth. Clark hit a single to centerfield and Kevin Keyes walked to start the inning. Tant Shepherd pushed the runners into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt and Connor Rowe plated Clark with a sacrifice squeeze bunt for the 2-0 lead.
The Texas lead ballooned to 3-0 in the sixth. Clark hit a leadoff double to the gap in right centerfield and scored on Keyes' single up the middle.
Army (34-20) broke the scoring seal in the top of the seventh. Kevin McKague singled up the middle to start the inning and Koenigsfeld singled down the leftfield line to put runners at the corners. J.P. Polchinski plated McKague with a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 3-1.
Wood closed out the game striking out three of the seven batters he faced, allowing just a walk in his two frames.
Clark led Texas at the plate, going 2-for-4 with two runs.
Koenigsfeld paced Army, going 2-for-4.
Matt Fouch (7-4) was saddled with the loss for the Black Knights. He yielded three runs on seven hits and four walks while striking out one over 7.0 innings.
Texas returns to action on Saturday night with a 6 p.m. game against Boston College. Army plays Texas State in an elimination game at Noon on Saturday.


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MOUNT VERNON — For the second year in a row, 100 percent of the seniors in the health technologies lab at Knox County Career Center have passed the National Health Science Education Examination. The exam, given nationwide to all seniors in health technology or allied health programs, measures the students’ mastery of basic skills and knowledge that workers in all aspects of the healthcare field need to know and is based on National Healthcare Foundation standards.
“It was an intense test,” said McKinze Norton.
“It was like an overview of everything,” added Kirby Brandenburg.
“It was nerve-wracking,” declared Nikkiey McDonald. “We had to remember everything we learned in the past two years.”
The scope of the examination includes academic foundations such as human physiology, diseases and disorders and medical math. It covers technical skills such as vital signs, CPR and first aid . Medical terminology, healthcare delivery systems and infection control are other topics included in the test, as are employability skills, ethics and legal responsibilities.
“I’m very proud of the seniors,” said instructor Pat Lombardo. “They really worked hard. What makes this 100 percent [pass rate] so incredible is that the test also required critical thinking and problem solving skills in all area of medicine. It’s not all just simply ‘what bone is the longest bone in the human body?’ It also dealt with areas — like managing meetings — that we discuss in class but don’t focus on so much because we are so involved with the skills.
“Some of the things you really can’t study for, things like conflict resolution: You don’t get along with an STNA on your unit. How do you solve this? Another thing was military time: If the doctor ordered a prescription to be given at 2200 hours, what time, nonmilitary time, would you give this medication? We talk about it in class, but we focus more on hands-on. That’s what makes this 100 percent so incredible.”
Lombardo said the average pass rate in the state of Ohio is 60 percent to 62 percent.

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Flash Photography Tips and Tricks: Starburst Effect (Full Tutorial)
In the past, we’ve shown you flash photography tips and tricks using various modifiers to create different effects such as faking golden hour and creating spotlights. In today’s tutorial, we’re teaching you how to create a starburst effect with a bare bulb off-camera flash and a high aperture. This is an excerpt from one of our best-selling courses, Lighting 3, that covers everything you need to know about on-location lighting solutions.
Flash Photography Tips and Tricks: Starburst Effect (Video)
Download the exercise files here and edit along with Pye after the shooting portion of this tutorial! Before diving into the actual tutorial, let’s cover the gear we are using to make this shot.
Flash Gear Used in This Tutorial
- 3-4 200w/s strobes or higher: we used 4 x AD200s for this tutorial, however since making it there have been so many new additions to the market so pick your poison.
- Lighting Stands: It’s going to be easiest to have your lights on stands, we love the Manfrotto Nano Stands
- Lighting Modifier for main light: for this tutorial we used the MagBox as our key light to light our subject with 2 AD200’s attached to a MagRing. Once again, any softbox will work as long as you pinpoint the light onto the subject rather than letting it spill on the ground.
Every tutorial in Lighting 3 follows the C.A.M.P framework we developed to help you create a standout image, every time, no matter the circumstances. In a previous YouTube tutorial, we discussed how we arrived at this composition in the rundown gas station. Let’s dive into how we lit this image and the settings we used to arrive at the final shot.
Flash Photography Tips and Tricks: High Aperture Starburst Effect
The term “flare” is used to describe any light source directly entering the lens. There are two factors that are contributing to creating this starburst effect with our off-camera flashes. While this effect can occur with natural light (such as the sun or LED lights in the background of images) using off-camera flashes that you can control is a much easier way to achieve this effect. In our previous tutorial, we showed how to achieve the starburst effect with the sun and in this tutorial, we will be covering how to replicate that effect using off-camera flashes.
1. Adjust Aperture to f/7-f/14
Closing down our aperture is what is going to enable the light flare, which originally would have been more of a blooming effect, to resemble the starburst shape. You’ll see the image on the left is from this tutorial where our aperture was set to f/14 while the image on the right, (which is actually a high powered strobe mimicking golden hour) has an aperture of f/2.8). By adjusting your aperture to anywhere between f/7-14 you’ll be able to get this effect. Anywhere above that might result in diffraction, an optical effect that limits the total resolution of your photography.
2. Check to See How Many Blades of Aperture Your Lens Has
The number of blades of aperture that your lens has is what will lend a unique look to this starburst effect. Each lens will have a different starburst pattern that it will render depending on the blade count. For this image, we are using the Canon 28-70mm f/2 RF lens which has 9 rounded aperture blades.
3. Hide Light Stands
While this step isn’t necessary for creating the effect, it’s a great option for creating a less distracting lighting setup. I conveniently had two gas pumps to hide my light stands behind, so it worked out in this scenario, but if you don’t have an object you can use to hide your light stands you can always composite them out.
If you want to see more tutorials from this course be sure to check out Lighting 3 on slrloungeworkshops.com or purchase all four of our flash courses as part of our Flash Photography Training System. All of our lighting courses, as well as comprehensive Lightroom, posing, and business tutorials are available as part of our Premium membership. If you’re looking to build confidence in your flash photography work, make sure you post your images in our free Lighting & OCF Facebook group – this is a great resource to learn from peers and see the latest trends in portrait photography lighting.


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Although the past few days have been cold, it likely won’t be enough for Middle Georgia’s peach crop.
Feb. 15 is the traditional cutoff date for chill hours, which are the hours that temperatures fall below 45 degrees while peach trees are dormant.
Ideally, growers like to have about 1,000 hours. But based on weather forecasts, this season’s chill hour tally is looking to be about 750 hours or a little less. That will be enough for some varieties, but not others. It could have been worse had it not been for the past week being consistently cold.
Jeff Cook, county agent for Peach and Taylor counties, said measuring the impact of low chill hours is not an exact science. But based on what he is seeing, his best guess is that the overall crop value could be reduced 25 percent this year.

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STEVEN MVULA, Lusaka
ZAMBIA National Farmers Union (ZNFU) president Jervis Zimba says it is necessary for the farmers’ body to always alert Government about the country’s food security.
Mr Zimba was responding to Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) president Andrew Chintala, who has accused ZNFU of alarming the nation by saying there is a likelihood of hunger this year.
He said in an interview yesterday that ZNFU is not hallucinating but merely giving a timely warning to Government.
“ZNFU is a responsible institution and it will be very irresponsible for us not to warn Government that Zambia is headed for a food crisis.
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Snow Forecast Ski Resorts
Weekends this time of year usually mean skiing for those who enjoy it. Frankly I don’t like to pay money to fall down but that’s me. That said here are the snowfall forecast maps for the northeast over the next 10 days. It appears that the European model
There appears to be a pretty substantial lake effect snow event setting up next week that extends into the northern Areas of New York. Ski areas in New England should pick up a few inches with the highest amounts in Northern Maine. This is the European model snowfall forecast map through next Saturday. There appears to be no major storms on the horizon in the next week or so. Some of the southern areas in the Catskills might get some snow this coming week as an arctic front approaches on Tuesday. Most of the heavier snow will fall north of interstate 90 in New York and New England
Snow Forecast Ski Resorts West
In the west they have more snow then they know what to do with. up to 5 feet on the ground in many mountain areas. More snows are forecast over the next 10 days though amounts will vary from place to place. Lots of tropical moisture is moving into Southern California which is feeding snow amounts in southern areas of the west more so than the north.
The weekend forecast in the east looks wet for the most part with low pressure tracking to the west of the coastal cities. Warm air and rain will be moving up into Southern New England on Sunday but this is just for a short time as much colder air comes in Sunday night and stays for all of next week. You can check snow forecasts from National Weather Service offices in the northeast along with the latest actual daily snowfall at the link below.
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"It won't be too long that the population of Texas … achieves Canada's population" of about 38 million, Kutschinski said.
Texas is home to two of North America's 10 largest metropolitan areas — Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston — as well as some of its fastest-growing big cities.
According to the Census Bureau, San Antonio's population grew by 221,092 people to more than 1.54 million between April 2010 and July 2019, the third-largest increase among U.S. cities. Austin, the state's capital, grew by 177,079 residents to nearly 979,000 during that same period, making it the nation's fifth-fastest-growing city. Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth also experienced top-10 growth.
Steele's new Texas stores are in Lockhart and Gonzales, small cities between Austin and San Antonio.
"Texas is one of the fastest-growing states in the U.S.," Day said in December.
"And the San Antonio and Austin corridor is growing at an even faster rate."
Farid Ahmad, CEO of Dealer Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions, said Texas was among the states most appealing to Canadian dealers eying expansion south of the border, in addition to Florida, New York, Colorado and California.
"The climate is much more agreeable" in such states, Ahmad said. Dealers "can combine [an acquisition] with vacation homes," he said, "and typically there's very high volume in the large markets."
Steele CEO Rob Steele "has had a home in the area of Austin for several years," Day said.
For Kutschinski, similarities between Texas and Alberta, as well as the state's low tax rates, drew Foundation Automotive.
"I like the Houston area in particular because it really mirrors Calgary in a sense. Good, wholesome, hardworking people."
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The NFL will reportedly move the Pro Bowl from Orlando to Honolulu.
The NFL will move the Pro Bowl from Orlando to Honolulu, Bloomberg reports.
Pro Football Talk reports the league office says no official decision has been made on the move.
The annual all-star game has taken place in Hawaii every year except for 2010 (Miami) and 2015 (Glendale, Ariz.) dating back to 1979. Orlando’s bid won over Honolulu, Houston (the host of the 2017 Super Bowl) and Sydney, Australia.
The game will take place at the Citrus Bowl, which recently received a massive renovation and is reportedly hoping to host NFL games going forward. The Pro Bowl’s contract with the Hawaii tourism authority expires at the end of May.
The Pro Bowl has suffered in recent years from a lack of attendance and star players opting out of the game.


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Duck Season Review
Duck Season – Not your usual trip down memory lane!
As a kid I loved the old Duck Hunt game on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), you could shoot ducks with a real gun! (ok so it was not a real gun and they were not real ducks but to younger me they were. Don’t burst younger me’s bubble) so when I heard there was a VR version I was keen to try it. What I played was not how I remember the game, it contained a lot more game-play and is of some of the highest standards in VR games I have seen of late. This game is fun, bizarre and just a little dark, yep, ticks a lot of the boxes for me!
The premise of the game is simple, your mother has rented you Duck Season for one day and you set about to enjoy it. However, without giving too much away, there is something suspicious about the game. I have the clear impression the Kid should call the Winchesters in!
There are two main environments you will play this game in;
- The Living room, this serves as the story area, in between levels area and also a sandbox. The game world is very well created. As the game progresses; it becomes littered with VHS tapes (more on those in a moment) game cartridges and toys.
- Inside the game, unlike the kid in the “real world” armed with a toy light gun, here you get a real pump action shotgun. If you look behind yourself, you can see the kid staring in at you with the TV studio around you. It’s a cool effect. The dog is there and looking very much like a guy in a dog suit. The fact that when the level loads up, you kind of catch him having a quiet smoke coupled with the way he exaggerates moves is done well. He suits the game to a tea.
Between each level you get shown a video on the TV from the 80s, well more a spoof of a video from the 80s. I place high value on humour, and these developers have it in spades. Watching a very serious looking scientist spawn a bathtub, attach thrusters to it and go for a ride (in an homage to Garry’s Mod) just had me chuckling my head off. Multiple VHS tapes that spawn between the levels can be placed into the video player and watched for a funny video. Other NES games spawn to between levels and all of which can be played on your virtual NES , a rather unexpected bonus.
Duck Season’s cutscenes are also a thing of beauty, you find yourself in a theatre and they are done with wooden cutouts lowered down from the ceiling along with audio. I have never seen this style done and have to admit it was very enjoyable to watch! I look forward to watching the other six endings (there are seven in total).
The game is intuitive. Duck Season does a good job of showing you how everything works. There were bits that could have done with explaining better. Parts where you are expected to do something and the game will not progress until you do. Yeah, that is deliberately vague since I do not want to spoil things, let us say at one point something would not end until I looked behind me *wink* *wink*.
Duck Season comes with more than the core game. You are getting a multi-ended story and a collection of mini games and videos. Taking that into account and the high production level I would say it is very much worth its price.
- Wonderfully created environments.
- Great sense of humour with the short videos.
- A cutscene method I have yet to see anywhere else and is just perfect for VR.
- Multiple endings.
- As a bonus there are extra cartridges, you can play on the in-game system, unlocking as you pass through the levels.
- very satisfying shotgun physics.
- Easy is too easy (we need something between medium and easy for the later levels).
- Medium gets very hard at the later levels.
- Can get repetitive if you just play the Duck Season levels.


Vsett Scooter Review
Vsett scooters came along and have taken the electric scooter market by storm with some highly unprecedented decisions. Vsett Scooter Review. For instance the scooters, even though GoTrax has had a difficult time equipping their scooters with suspension, the cheapest of the Vsett scooters comes with a dual spring suspension system.
However, while Minimotors doesn’t get its scooters IP certified All Vsett models are IP54-certified, making them highly durable as all-year-round scooters. Let’s not forget that each Vsett scooter is equipped fitted with an NFC Immobiliser for the keycard, which indicates how serious the company is about its work when it comes to intelligent scooter design.
Vsett Intelligent Technology Co is just a few years old in the electric scooter world, but they are a force that scooting enthusiasts must keep an eye on. They are known for making nearly perfect performance electric scooters at varied prices. The scooters are cut above other models across a range of specifications, e.g. range as well as speed, ride safety, comfort, ride quality along with overall performance. Vsett Scooter Review.
The scooters will constantly be compared to models by other brands. Still, the market for Vsett is quite internal, with each release leaving the market surprised than the last.
What is on Every VSETT Electric Scooter
- Charge ports are on the deck’s top
- LG Batteries
- NFC card reader to unlock scooter
- Turn signals
- Updated QS-S4 throttle to prevent magnet failure
- Adjustable suspension
- Rear foot rest
- Rating of water resistance for IP44
The Vsett 9+ is one of these marvels. The exquisite craftsmanship is described to the point of perfection. Whether you’re impressed by the curvature design of handlebars or the light weight of this dual-motorized scooter, there’s plenty that will tickle your fancy. This 9+ model is quick and can travel long distances- excellent qualities for anyone looking to purchase a commuter scooter. Vsett Scooter Review.
The scooter does not weigh tons as do other dual-motor and dual suspension battery capacity performance scooters. Additionally, it is equipped with Vsett’s exclusive triple stem locking mechanism, making this scooter portable enough to be carried on public transport or in the trunk of your vehicle.
VSETT 9 E-Scooter Specs and Features
The VSETT 9 is their slightly larger single motor scooter compared to VSETT 8. VSETT 8. It has adjustable suspension as well as handles that can be collapsed. Vsett Scooter Review. It comes with a bigger deck and also has the upgraded clamp that is similar to the clamps you find on the Rion scooters.
When I first saw the clamp that was on VSETT 9 and Rion in person, I really prefer the clamps for the VSETT 9, 9+ and 10+ more. I think the Rion clamp is sturdy, but it only had the Velcro strap to secure it. The clamp used on VSETT scooters was equally robust as the Rion however, it was equipped with two extra safety features.
It’s available in a teal and black color that I’m sure my wife will like because she loves all things teal. It also locks it when folded. The hook used to lock it into place when folded can also double as a bag hook when the scooter is unfolded.
VSETT 9+ E-Scooter Specs and Features
The VSETT 9+ is very similar to the 9 however it comes with dual motors instead of just one motor. It’s available in the same color as the 9. When I first started looking at the VSETT line, I was thinking I was going to be most impressed with the 10+, however the 9+ is what impressed me the most.
The VSETT 9+ is a dual 650 watt motor scooter, so I didn’t think much about it when reviewing the specs sheet. However, once I had the chance to test ride the 9+ I was completely blown away by how fast and zippy the scooter is. I thought the 10+ would be the first to speed off, leaving the 9+ in the dust however, it was capable of keeping up.
I typically prefer super-powered scooters but I could definitely see me taking the 9+ for a regular driver. It was quick and light. (lightweight to me but to some it might weigh 62 pounds.) I learned how to bunny hop on the 9+ and was able to get a ton of air even on flat ground.
VSETT 8 E-Scooter Specs and Features
VSETT 8 VSETT 8 is an entry-level, affordable scooter in the VSETT line. It’s a single motor commuter made to go up to 25 mph and get about 25 miles of real usage range. It comes with an adjustable rear shock as well as a the rear tire is solid to avoid flats.
The VSETT 8 offers an adjustable handlebar height, collapsible handlebars as well as a locking folding mechanism. REV Rides will be carrying two battery variants of this 8 initially. The two models will have the 15.6 amp-hour version with Chinese batteries and the other version will comprise the one with 21 amps that uses LG batteries. Vsett Scooter Review.
With its electric brakes, rear drum brake and a solid rear tire, it should help to keep maintenance down. It has front and rear swing arm suspension that can be an improvement to the small spring suspension included in the ZERO 8
VSETT 8+ E-Scooter Specs and Features
VSETT 8+ VSETT 8+ is pretty almost identical with it’s predecessor, the VSETT 8 but it has two motors in addition to two solid tires. It’s designed to climb bigger hills as well as have a greater top speed, and does not have flats like the VSETT 8.
VSETT 10+ E-Scooter Specs and Features
The VSETT 10+ is a twin 1400 w motor beast. It is available in black and yellow. black and is said to be a step above it’s predecessor, the ZERO 10X. There are some who refer to it looking like the Bumblebee Transformer. Vsett Scooter Review.
The VSETT 10+ has hydraulic Nutt brakes which I prefer over the Zoom brakes. It offers 10 inch tires that measure 3 inches wide. It has a sturdy clamp that resembles similar to the clamp on the RION scooters.
There is a sport mode button that can only activate for 2 minutes before taking a 10 minute break. There have been complaints about this feature, however I find it to be an good option to protect the controller from damages from overheating.
I love it that VSETT 10+ folds in itself once folded because the ZERO 10X does not making it difficult to move. The hook that is used to keep the scooter together can also be used to hook into a hook to hang a bag or your helmet when running into a store.
It is equipped with an IP44 waterproof resistance rating. Although the scooter is equipped with water-resistant ratings, no distributor will warrant damages caused by water. This deck, 10+ is bigger than the 10X, so it is expected to be very big.
I saw a ton of videos and photos promoting VSETT 10+. VSETT 10+, which comes with EXA Form 290 shocks. After riding the final prototype, I found they don’t have the EXA Form 290 shock. I was hoping that they’d come with one of the EXA Form 290 shocks since they’re more comfortable.
The good news is that the shocks are of a standard size so that it is simple to purchase and install a replacement.
VSETT 11+ E-Scooter Specs and Features
Whenever I see the VSETT 11+ I immediately imagine Captain America. A few people have expressed their displeasure with the colors on the VSETT 11+, but I love the design. I can imagine dressing up in an Captain America costume and riding the bike around for Halloween.
Okay, you’ve had enough about costumes, you probably were looking for specs. It’s the VSETT 11+ is the flagship scooter to the VSETT line. It comes with a huge headlight that looks as if it came off of motorcyle.
The VSETT 11+ boasts dual 1500 watt motors but still an 60V battery. I would like to had come up with the 72V battery however I’m betting they’ll launch a 72V version in the near future. It does offer dual stems , which can be very helpful to ensure stability.
The 11+ has 11 inch tires that are 4 inches wide. It has an sport mode similar to the 10+ which only lasts 2 minutes and shuts off for 10 minutes. It’s the largest scooter in the VSETT line.
I would like to see the 11+ came with the same clamp that we are using for the 9+ and the 10+. Instead, we are seeing the same type of clamp used in the zero 11X. I’m not sure why they didn’t use the new clamp, but I would love to see it in future renditions. Vsett Scooter Review.


Track: Performance and Scalability
A Scalable Application Placement Controller for Enterprise Data Centers
- Chunqiang Tang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
- Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)
- Michael Spreitzer (IBM Research)
- Giovanni Pacifici (IBM Research)
Given a set of machines and a set ofWeb applications with dynamically changing demands, an application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each application and where to put them, while observing all kinds of resource constraints. This problem is NP hard. In this paper, we propose an online algorithm that uses heuristics to efficiently solve this problem. It allows multiple applications to share a single machine, and strives to maximize the total satisfied application demand, to minimize the number of application starts and stops, and to balance the load across machines. It can produce within 30 seconds high-quality solutions for hard placement problems with thousands of machines and thousands of applications. This scalability is crucial for dynamic resource provisioning in large-scale enterprise data centers. Our algorithm significantly and consistently outperforms the existing state-of-the-art algorithm under a wide variety of workloads.


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Rosmah Mansor's appeal against her conviction, 10-year jail sentence and RM970 million fine in her RM1.25 billion corruption case on a solar hybrid project for rural schools in Sarawak is set for case management on Oct 5.
When contacted, her lawyer Akberdin Abdul Kader confirmed the case management date.
The case management will be held before a Court of Appeal deputy registrar.
On Sept 1, Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan found Rosmah, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, guilty of three charges of corruption and sentenced her to 10 years in jail for each of the charges with all three prison terms to run concurrently.
He also fined her RM970 million which, should she fail to pay, will see her liable to a total of 30 years in jail.
Rosmah was accused of one count of soliciting RM187.5 million and two counts of receiving bribes totalling RM6.5 million from Jepak Holdings former managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin.
The High Court however granted her a stay of execution for the imprisonment term and fine pending her appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Rosmah filed an appeal against her conviction and sentence on Sept 2. In her notice of appeal, she said she was not satisfied with the overall decision of the High Court judge.
She is also appealing against the High Court's decision to turn down her application to disqualify Zaini from hearing and deciding on her case.
In his judgment, Zaini held that Rosmah's defence was mere denial, that the RM6.5 million was indeed for her, and that she received the money at her residences in Jalan Langgak Duta and Seri Perdana.


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Macbeth - the graphic novel original text [electronic resource].
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- Publisher: Northampton : Classical Comics, 2008.
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The entire Shakespeare play brought to life in full colour. "All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter." Fate? Destiny? Or one man's obsession with power? Macbeth is probably the most dramatic of Shakespeare's tragedies. Set in 1040, this spectacular treatment of one of the greatest works of the Bard will give you a brand new and totally fulfilling view of the sheer genius of his story telling. Witchcraft, superstition, murder - it's all here! Featuring stunning artwork, and full of action, atmosphere and intrigue from start to finish; this new graphic novel, The Bard's wonderful tragedy will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
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