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My name is Jitendra & I’m 34-year-old, a resident of Raibareli, UP. I am working as a manager in a finance company at Raibareli. From 2014, I was suffering from pain in the hip joint and had difficulty in walking, was unable to climb steps and sleep on side. For my pain, I consulted with many doctors in Raibareli but couldn’t get any relief from pain. Then, I went to Lucknow hospital for consultation for this issue, where I took treatment for about one month. My pain was controlled after taking medicine but when I stopped taking it, I started having the same issue. It had affected my daily routine as every day I used to wake up with intense pain which has made my life miserable. It had affected my professional life as well as I was not able to do my outdoor work.
From one of my Friend, I came to know about Dr. A. S. Prasad, as his mother also got operated by Dr Prasad for knee and results were really very good. When I consulted Dr. Prasad for the first time, he advised some medicine for one month. My pain was controlled, but only when I took the medicine. The condition of my bone was really poor. Than Dr. Prasad advised me for THR as due to lack of blood supply, my bones were getting weak.
As my pain was affecting my personal & professional life, I took the decision to get my hip replaced. My first surgery was done in 2015 and after a year we have planned for my second one. For this surgery, I got admitted to Apollo Spectra Kanpur on 31 October 2017 and got operated on 1st November. With the help of the experienced team of Dr. Prasad and excellent medical care by the staff of this hospital, my THR was successfully accomplished. After my surgery, with the help of specialized physiotherapy & exercise, I am able to do my all routine work normally. There is no pain in walking, I can easily climb steps without any help. My office is also on the second floor. Before surgery, it was very difficult to go on the second floor but now I’m confident and can easily reach to my workplace. Now, I am also able to do my outdoor office work. Now my life is on normal track as now I don’t have to compromise with any physical activity. I got this problem at a very early age. I was worried about my future and how I will take care of my family & responsibilities, but I’m thankful to Dr. A. S. Prasad for his counselling & expert advice, which helped me to take this decision.
I’m thankful to the entire team of Dr. A. S. Prasad & all staff of Apollo Spectra Hospital, Kanpur for helping me. All the counselling & health education has also helped me to practice a good and healthy lifestyle. Now I understand & respect the importance of the healthy body. Thank you.


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Antibiotic stewardship programs designed to preserve drug efficacy and stem the tide of multidrug-resistant bacteria are being emphasized in hospitals, nursing homes, and other care delivery points across the continuum. However, dental offices are slipping under the radar in many areas. Dentists prescribe a surprising amount of antibiotics, and this can lead to adverse patient consequences in the community.
Minnesota investigators recently underscored this finding in San Diego at the annual IDWeek meeting. They found that many otherwise unexplained Clostridium difficile infections in the community were in patients who had a recent dental visit. The Minnesota Department of Health tracked community-associated C. diff infections — meaning those in patients who did not have an overnight stay in a hospital or nursing home — in five counties in the state, the investigators reported. During a six-year period, they found that 15% of people with C. diff had taken antibiotics prescribed for dental procedures.
The investigators found 2,176 presumptive community-acquired C. diff cases in reviewing records from 2009 to 2015.1 Of those, 1,626 (75%) were interviewed. Overall, 926 (57%) were prescribed antibiotics and 136 (15%) were for dental procedures.
“[Overall], 46 (34%) had no mention of antibiotics in their medical chart, illustrating the disconnect between dental and medical facilities,” said Stacy Holzbauer, DVM, MPH, lead author of the study and career epidemiology field officer for the CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health.
“The primary reasons for receiving these antibiotics were either to treat an oral infection or prophylaxis for oral surgery,” she said.
Speaking at an IDWeek press conference, Holzbauer emphasized that dentists should be educated about the adverse effects of antibiotic prescriptions, including selecting out drug-resistant bacterial strains and killing off commensal gut bacteria that keep C. diff at bay. Dentists write some 25 million prescriptions for antibiotics annually, she added.
While it may be appropriate to prescribe antibiotics for infections like an abscessed tooth, many drugs are being prescribed as prophylaxis prior to dental work under guidelines that have been revised. For example, the American Dental Association no longer recommends that dental patients with prosthetic joints take antibiotics prophylactically before a dental procedure. The risk-benefit equation has shifted, and it is now considered that spurring a C. diff infection by prescribing antibiotics is a potentially greater harm than the unlikely event of getting a prosthetic joint infection through routine dental care.
“In many cases, the best treatment for an oral infection may not actually include an antibiotic at all,” Holzbauer said.
Communication and education are needed, she said, urging patients to tell their primary care physicians if they have been prescribed an antibiotic related to dental care.
“We found that 15% of our community-associated C. diff cases had taken antibiotics for dental reasons prior to the infection,” she said. “Dentists need to be included in antibiotic stewardship programs. They are often overlooked and it is absolutely critical that they are included to improve prescribing.”
- Bye M, Whitten T, Holzbauer S, et al. Antibiotic Prescribing for Dental Procedures in Community-Associated Clostridium difficile cases, Minnesota, 2009-2015. Abstract 78. IDWeek Oct. 4-8. San Diego, CA.

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While you would notice a large selection of varied music on my CD racks (and piles and stacks) as of late, the guitar / bass / drums trios have been finding their way onto my car’s CD player. (If you recall from previous posts, the driver’s seat is the spot where I do most of my listening.)
One of my most vivid music memories is seeing the Cream perform live on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour many years ago. I recall returning home far into the evening from some Sunday family soujourn. My mother took my little sister up stairs for her bath (yes, before showers were the norm) and I turned the television on at the request of my father. Now, I did know that the Cream would be on the Smothers Brothers show, but I also knew my father would probably not want to watch them, especially after a long, involved day of driving and visiting relatives. As this was before remotes, he asked me to switch through the stations until some police drama appeared (The FBI?). Of course, I began to quietly panic as my hopes of hearing Sunshine of Your Love live started to dwindle. But I had one last hope: my father’s fatigue would work in my favor. As Efram Zimbalist pursued the next criminal bent on bringing down the USA, I cautiously watched as my father’s eyelids fluttered, his head rolled just a little to one side, his eyes closed and his chin clamped down on his chest. I remember counting silently to 10 then leaning forward and changing the station. He didn’t stir.
Of course, I turned the volume down as I watched Tom Smothers make a brief introductory statement that ended with “The Cream”. Bath water was running upstairs so I knew my mother would be busy scrubbing away at my sister and I had lucked out. The opening notes with guitar and bass came out of the speaker and I saw three shaggy hippies standing in the now-classic power trio configuration (drums in the center). It sounded different – rawer, more energized. It was live! I stayed close to the back-and-white screen, keeping the sound at a level only audible to me. The song progressed and it sounded so much better than the radio version – then the guitar solo. A long impassioned, energized solo that had a different sound here. Only the fuzzy bass guitar and explosive drums were behind – no overdubs, no enhancements. I don’t remember moving until the applause came in, at which time my father made some sort of throaty noise and I quickly clicked back to Efram Zimbalist walking up some sort of official-looking steps. My father resumed his nearly-silent sleep and I felt victorious. I quietly made my way into the kitchen and stood silently, re-playing the performance in my mind.
The next day in school (fifth grade, I think) I was one of only three people that actually saw The Cream. Other kids weren’t allowed to watch ‘hippie junk’, ‘horrible trash’ or ‘loud noise’ and had the channel switched or were told to leave the room (mom and dad watched?). The thing is, one of my friends from that time reminded me years later, after hearing my trio perform, that he remembered my excited fascination when I related seeing the Cream way back when. ‘Now I know why you always have a trio,’ he told me.
He may just be right.
In the meantime, here are some of the trios I’ve been checking out lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4ExKQ5XZI Rez Abassi’s trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSMgOyn5HGU Eric Johnson’s group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iINA9sjORCI Allan Holdsworth’s best trio (in my (not so) humble opinion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JECJ8AZznk Peter Bernstein’s trio (sorry it’s not a live video — but it’s really superb)
It’s not just about the musicianship — it’s the interplay, the musical conversation, that catches my attention. It’s what I prefer to do with my group too.
Until next time…..

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Using Gene Editing to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Amy Wagers (2008 New Innovator), George Church (2013 Transformative Researcher), and Feng Zhang (2012 Pioneer; 2010 & 2015 Transformative Researcher) published back-to-back Science papers on using the CRISPR-Cas9 system to edit the genome of a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and improving muscle function. Their work was featured in The New York Times and Science News .
The Need to Study Pathogen Growth In Vivo
Dianne Newman, a 2012 Transformative Researcher, measured the in vivo growth rate of Staphylococcus aureus in the sputum of pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis and discovered the bacteria is extremely heterogeneous with a generation time two orders of magnitude slower than when grown in the laboratory.
Wake-Up Call to Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Sanjay Jain, a 2009 New Innovator and 2014 Transformative Researcher, successfully treated a child with extensively drug-resistant TB in the United States. Treatment, though successful, was difficult even with vast resources available and serves as "a wake-up call to the realities of TB."
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According to unverified internet reports, since her split with Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson has been blowing through Hollywood like a sex tornado. The most recent rumor is she’s been banging 50-year-old Sean Penn.
It all started when she was staying at the Chateau Marmont while filming We Bought a Zoo with Matt Damon. An insider claims, “Their first hook-up was in Scarlett’ Bungalow.” Off topic, but a bungalow sounds like an awesome thing to have. It’d be so much easier to invite chicks to my bungalow instead of “that apartment with the eviction notice taped to the door.”
The source goes on to say that Scarlett gave Sean a raging boner by telling him she was “planning to visit Haiti with Oxfam.” She heard rumors that Sean was living there in a tent and wanted his advice. Naturally, she didn’t go but “Scarlett’s smitten with him.”
Reps for Scarlett says “There is no truth to this at all,” and I’m inclined to believe them. Mostly because Sean Penn seems like a dick. His tent in Haiti is probably better than a room at the Four Seasons. I won’t have my imaginary girlfriend dating a guy like that.

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Abstract. Vertical-axis wind turbines are considered a proper solution for today's energy needs. To make it affordable for domestic usage, this requires a reduction in the turbine cost, blade weight, and an increase in blade life. The challenge in VAWT blade design is fatigue and blade life prediction, besides surviving centrifugal force and repeated load pattern effects. The paper focuses on the blade structure modelling and optimization to assess the design for integrity, fatigue, life, sustainability, and cost. The presented model can examine varied materials, including new biodegradable materials, while reducing computation time and resources. The structure analysis is based on classical lamination theory (CLT) and polynomial failure theory (Tsai-Hill and Tsai-Wu). Fatigue analysis and blade life are based on damage evaluation using Miner’s rule for loading steps, evaluated stresses and strains, and loading cases. The approximation model simplifies the dynamic and fatigue analysis procedures to make the model integrable with the optimization method. The beam element method is used to approximate the fundamental frequencies of blade structure. The genetic algorithm is the optimization method used for single objective function, non-linear constrained, mixed integer problem. Decision variables vary according to the scope of optimization which includes the five main composite structure parameters: lamina thickness, orientation, volume fraction, and material selection for resin and fiber. However, in the case of pre-defined laminae materials, only the thickness, orientation, and selection index are used. The commercial finite element software ANSYS is used to validate results.
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A throw back to the 90s. Who didn't spend far too long making that perfect mix tape when we should have been doing homework??
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As the onslaught of Internet-accessible technology continues, managing IT environments grows even more complicated. Sometimes, though, necessary protection can still be achieved by applying a simple strategy.
“If it doesn’t need Internet access, then isolate it from the Internet,” LOGICnow Security Lead Ian Trump says.
You, as the IT pro, likely see the point Trump makes. But can you say the same for the decision-makers in your company? The interconnectivity of web-enabled devices – better known as the Internet of Things or “IoT” – offers many exciting possibilities for businesses of all sizes. It also has the potential to pose security problems, as Trump knows only too well.
In his travels, Trump assessed the IT security of a non-profit business that sought an automatic teller machine (ATM) for its lobby. The vendor’s machine needed Internet access for something as harmless as alerting headquarters when cash was low.
“The vendor thought the ATM could just be plugged in to the network and it would be good to go,” Trump says.
Except the ATM ran Windows XP. See the problem?
A network-connected machine running an unsupported operating system is a cybercriminal’s dream. And a loss of cash, while bad, wouldn’t be the worst of it.
“The network might have been compromised so malware could take PIN and credit card information, building up a large amount of data and sending it to parts unknown,” Trump explains.
That nightmare scenario, according to Trump, was avoided by isolating the machine on its own segment of the network. In doing so, the vendor gained the ability to communicate with the ATM without exposing it to the Internet at large.
But here’s the moral: Changes in an IT environment will introduce new areas of attack. IT managers and administrators need to make certain they understand this critical issue. Adding new devices to a network where existing assets reside has possible repercussions.
Trump’s IoT rule of thumb is this: If a machine or device plugs into the wall for power, there’s a good chance it has an IP address. IT pros, therefore, need to educate themselves and the workforce they protect on how IoT technology can be integrated – securely.
According to Trump, creating a lab where the IT staff can test devices before authorizing them for actual use is a smart move. This approach offers an opportunity to gauge how the configuration of IoT technology will affect operations.
Of course, Trump acknowledges that some businesses don’t have the budget to create a lab, in which case he suggests IT pros do the following:
It is now imperative that every business weigh the perceived benefits against the potential risks. Nobody wants to be responsible for the technology that leads to a data breach.
“Businesses have to make an assessment,” Trump says. “If they’re not equipped to do it, they may have to look at the device and say we can’t accept the risk.”
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Heck a Cansat would probably have more computing power
Not to derail the train of vintage rocket pinups, but is there a way to title the thread so as to prevent unpleasant visits from IT/HR after a session of lunchtime forum browsing?
Not that that's happened yet, but I'm trying to look out for the future :/
A 1995 Motorola proto-flip-phone would have more computing power than the hardware shown in the photos.
Since we're talking about the Black Brant II, has anyone ever seen a color photo of the beastie? Every photo out there seems to be in glorious black and white.


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Wearing a Vikram Phadnis gharara, Gauahar took in the designer’s show held in Mumbai last night. Statement earrings and a coral lip color finished out her look.
She wears the outfit well; Ms. Khan looked striking. That said, and again as has been the case all night, the length of her pants surely needed altering?
Gauahar Khan At Vikram Phadnis 25th Anniversary Show
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She’s looking lovely!
Her makeup is ALWAYS off – why oh why??
Ghosts are out !! Why do they white wash to witchy levels ?
Disastrous dress with an uff so cakey make up! She always does her makeup too much.
I think the problem with her makeup is that she applies too much translucent powder I believe .. She should advice her makeup artist to tap a touch of moisturizer to give a healthy radiant look and not too powdery.. She needs to advise her makeup artist -pretty chick though
She should be sent the comments of HHC. She is always white ghost. Her styling is off,she is bful woman but none of apperances have been showing beauty in her. She needs a makeup artist ( knows how make up looks under light), stylist to dress her up, atleast check the length of outfit.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
► LIVE from the Seattle Times — Coronavirus daily news update, May 12 — The most recent count of COVID-19 cases in Washington totals 17,122 infections (up 231 from yesterday) and 945 deaths (up 14), according to the state Department of Health.
Dia 6 de huelga en Allan Bros. pic.twitter.com/jpEf4cACrE
— Familias Unidas (@FUJWashington) May 12, 2020
BREAKING — It hasn’t been reported by Yakima’s mainstream media yet, but wildcat strikes are breaking out at multiple fruit warehouses in the Yakima Valley. Inspired by the ongoing 6-day strike at Allan Brothers, workers walked out of the Yakima’s Roche Fruit warehouse on Monday and the Jack Frost Fruit warehouse this morning. They want more safety protections and hazard pay. More tomorrow at The Stand. Until then, follow developments on the Facebook page of the WSLC’s Dulce Gutiérrez and Familias Unidas por la Justicia’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Workers are rising up in Central Washington! Here’s why…
From KAPP — Over 20% of employees at Twin City Foods in Ellensburg test positive for COVID-19 — The Kittitas County Incident Management Team is reporting 34 new COVID-19 cases associated with Twin City Foods Inc.
► From Business Insider — At least 4,500 Tyson workers have caught COVID-19, with 18 deaths — Meatpacking workers are saying their employers failed to keep them safe. And despite new safety policies, meat-industry giants including Tyson still do not provide full paid sick leave. Progressive organizers have argued that the lack of paid sick leave makes certain groups even more vulnerable, especially during the coronavirus pandemic… As the number of COVID-19 cases has skyrocketed, some politicians and meat-industry insiders have blamed workers. More than half of frontline workers in the meat-processing industry are immigrants. People of color also make up the majority of the meatpacking workforce: 44% of meatpackers are Latino and 25% are black.
The Stand (April 23) — The Union Difference: A tale of two plants — Teamsters at the Lamb Weston potato plant in Pasco have workplace safety and respect on the job. Nonunion workers at the Tyson beef plant down the road have Washington’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot. And they’re still open for business.
► From the Seattle Times — UW Medicine faces $500 million shortfall because of coronavirus pandemic; staff cuts and furloughs coming — UW Medicine, which has played a significant role in responding to the coronavirus pandemic on a local and national scale, is now in deep financial trouble due to that very pandemic… Cost-saving measures will have to happen, wrote UW Medicine CEO Dr. Paul Ramsey. That includes voluntary and required furloughs, a reduction in full-time employees, limiting recruitment, postponing capital projects not considered “mission critical,” reducing discretionary expenses and slashing salaries for senior leadership.
► From Reuters — Boeing sees zero orders again in April, MAX cancellations mount — Boeing recorded zero orders for the second time this year in April and customers canceled another 108 orders for its grounded 737 MAX plane compounding its worst start to a year since 1962. The company said on Tuesday it delivered just six planes last month, bringing the total to 56 for the first four months of 2020, down 67% from a year earlier, as it battles the biggest crisis in its history.
► MUST-READ in the Seattle Times — We must prioritize workers’ rights to successfully reopen the economy (by Rep. Adam Smith) — Over the last 50 years or so in the United States, we have seen a significant decline in the percentage of the workforce represented by unions and the most dramatic concentration of wealth in the hands of the few in our nation’s history. Too many companies have decided that executives, board members and shareholders deserve outlandish compensation, but the average workers are just costs on a balance sheet that need to be paid as little as possible. The outbreak of COVID-19 has shined an even brighter light on this inequality and the struggle working people must go through to get the pay and benefits they deserve, to be adequately protected in the workplace, and to have their voices heard by their employers. This pandemic has created more public-policy challenges than most of us could have imagined, but this is one of the most important — workers’ rights. I strongly urge all public policy makers and, more importantly, all employers to step up to this challenge and make sure workers’ voices are heard, that they are protected in the workplace, and that they receive the pay and benefits they deserve.
► From the Yakima H-R — Coalition calls on Washington state for $100 million for undocumented individuals — Hundreds of organizations (including the WSLC) statewide have banded together to ask the state for a $100 million fund for undocumented individuals during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 250,000 undocumented individuals reside in Washington. Many are working in industries considered essential, but they lack access to paid sick leave or health insurance and don’t qualify for federal stimulus relief, said OneAmerica’s executive director, Rich Stolz.
The Stand (April 27) — Inslee urged to create relief fund for undocumented workers
► From Crosscut — Judge demands WA psychiatric hospital reopen despite COVID-19 — Western State Hospital has mostly stopped accepting jail transfers, leaving inmates with mental illness in limbo.
► From the (Everett) Herald — Extend protections for domestic violence victims (editorial) — A decision by two of the state Legislature’s leading Republicans poses a threat not just to victims of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault but, as well, to the state’s law enforcement officers. Sen. Mark Schoesler (R-Ritzville) and Rep. JT Wilcox (R-Yelm) — respectively, the Senate and House minority leaders — on Saturday declined to join their majority leader counterparts in extending one of several statutory waivers and suspensions that were adopted as part of Inslee’s state of emergency orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
► From the Seattle Times — Despite Gov. Inslee’s order – and complaints from the public – construction projects kept swinging hammers during coronavirus lockdown — Despite hundreds of complaints from citizens about suspected violations, the state took no enforcement actions against residential construction firms that violated the order. Complaints to the state, as well as interviews with construction workers, businesses and government officials, show that, without enforcement, saws buzzed, hammers slammed and paychecks were cashed.
► From KING 5 — Washington restaurants reopening in Phase 2 must follow these rules — Inslee’s office published Monday a set of instructions that restaurant owners, employees and customers must follow in order for dine-in places to reopen.
► From KNKX — After brief moment of unity, Washington Republicans crank up criticism of Inslee — In recent weeks, legislative Republicans have been fiercely critical of Inslee for not moving more aggressively to reopen the economy. They’ve criticized him on social media, joined protests at the Capitol and even filed a lawsuit challenging his emergency powers.
► From NBC News — Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities — Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News. The data in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with Trump’s declaration Monday that “all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly.”
► From the NY Times — Fauci plans to use hearing to warn of ‘needless suffering and death’ — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a central figure in the government’s response to the coronavirus, plans to deliver a stark warning to the Senate on Tuesday: Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up prematurely.
► From the NY Times — GOP split over state aid that could mostly go to Democratic strongholds — With many states and cities experiencing devastating fiscal crises amid the pandemic, Democrats in Congress have joined governors and mayors in pressing for a huge infusion of money for troubled states, cities and towns. Without more support, the Western governors warned, states would have to make “impossible decisions” such as whether to fund public health care programs or lay off teachers, police officers, emergency medical workers and firefighters. Republicans are divided over whether to help at all and how much aid to provide, as well as what conditions to place on the money. Much of the dispute — unfolding just months before the November elections — is being driven by the political bent of the states that stand to benefit or lose.
EDITOR’S NOTE — That’s right. Because an election is coming up, Republicans want “blue states” to suffer economic catastrophe and lay off teachers, police officers, EMTs and firefighters, even if some “red states” also suffer the same outcome. They want avoidable suffering — including economic hardship and, yes, the deaths of Americans — over politics. That’s simply evil. Washington Republicans, do you support this position? No “bailout” for your own constituents?
► From the NY Times — Momentous choices for Supreme Court as it hears Trump financial records cases — It seems that every 23 years, or about once in a generation, the Supreme Court considers whether presidents must abide by the rules that govern other citizens. In 1974, it unanimously required President Nixon to turn over tapes of conversations in the Oval Office. Twenty-three years later, in 1997, it unanimously required President Clinton to respond to a sexual harassment suit. On Tuesday, almost exactly 23 years after the ruling in the Clinton case, the court will confront an equally significant showdown, this one over Trump’s efforts to block demands from two House committees and New York prosecutors for his tax returns and other financial information.
► From the NY Times — Supreme Court takes on employment bias at religious schools — Jeffrey L. Fisher, a lawyer for two teachers who sued their Catholic schools for job discrimination, said the schools’ position was very broad. “The schools’ argument would strip more than 300,000 lay teachers in religious schools across the country of basic employment-law protections,” he said.
► From HuffPost — 2,000 former Justice officials demand William Barr resign over Michael Flynn case — The striking response by attorneys who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations was triggered by Barr’s move last week to drop federal charges against ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn had already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his secret talks with former Russian ambassador and reputed spymaster Sergey Kislyak after Trump won office.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Remember that Barr was confirmed to the Attorney General’s office by Senate Republicans in a partisan vote after Democrats raised concerns about Barr’s objections to the Mueller probe. The Republican Party is actively complicit with putting the crooks in positions in power in Washington, D.C.
► In today’s Washington Post — Trump administration is still garnishing the wages of 54,000 student loan borrowers — The paychecks of about 54,000 people are still being shorted to repay past-due student loans, despite a federal moratorium that has been in place for six weeks.
The Stand (May 11) — DeVos’s new Title IX rules benefit sexual harassers, UAW says
► From the NY Times — How to create a pandemic depression (by Paul Krugman) — Trump’s search for an easy way out, his lack of patience for the hard work of containing a pandemic, may be precisely what turns a severe but temporary slump into a full-blown depression.
► From the AFL-CIO — In Memoriam: Union members lost to COVID-19 — As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the United States, our sisters, brothers and friends in the labor movement are among the first casualties. It is important for us to work together during this crisis to prevent further deaths. It is important to thank those who are doing the work to keep us safe and fed. It is important to remember those who we lost because of the coronavirus.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Check this list to make sure local that fallen union brothers, sisters and siblings are honored. If you aware of additional union members who should be included on this list, please fill out this form and they will be added to this page.
► From the AP — Tesla’s Musk defies lockdown order, restarts California factory — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is restarting the company’s California factory in defiance of local government efforts to contain the coronavirus. In a tweet Monday, Musk practically dared authorities to arrest him, writing that he would be on the assembly line and if anyone is taken into custody, it should be him.
► From the NY Times — Tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos — Nearly 500 tribal casinos remain shut down during the pandemic, causing job losses to spike. The economic damage is spreading quickly, wreaking havoc on fragile tribal finances.
► From Crosscut — The collective power of the pandemic’s essential workers ( Alex Gallo-Brown) — One of the greatest tricks our society’s ownership class ever played on the rest of us was to persuade workers of their own essential powerlessness. They said business owners mattered most, philanthropists deserved the most fulsome praise, and the propertied deserved to hold the seats of power. They said unions were inefficient, direct action was uncivil, populist political candidates were unrealistic, and collective action didn’t work. And we, by and large, believed them. For decades now, capitalists have been almost unilaterally in charge… Workers need to recognize the power they already have — a power that comes primarily from their ability to collectively withhold their labor. Will the pandemic teach them to wield it?
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The possible end to federal wind energy tax credits would not jeopardize the development of a proposed multi-million-dollar wind farm in Logan County, an official with the energy company said Thursday.
Stan Komperda, project manager of the proposed Sugar Creek Wind 1 farm, said the fate of Production Tax Credit (PTC), a bargaining chip in ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations, will not have much of an impact locally.
The provision, which provides an income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour for the production of electricity from utility-scale turbines, is set to expire at the end of the year.
The subject is lodged among the raging fiscal cliff negotiations. The Republican side wants to allow the credit to expire as part of a massive spending cut plan.
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However, Komperda says it wouldn’t be that big of a deal as far as Logan County is concerned.
It’s power demand that would help guide Logan County into becoming the wind energy capital of Illinois.
“It certainly helps,” Komperda said. “Every little bit helps. But even if there’s a PTC, if there’s no power demand, what’s good is it going to do?”
He added that as coal plants throughout the Midwest go offline, purchase agreements with utilities will be the driving force of success.
“If the economy comes roaring back and we see improvements in the unemployment rate, then you’re going to see power use go up dramatically as businesses ramp up production,” Komperda said. “This presents a significant quantity of power that’s out there on the grid. That’s going to need to get made up with wind, and with gas.”
Komperda indicated that having an available source for affordable limestone is more important to the project than the PTC.
That issue is currently raging within the county board as a proposed limestone quarry near Broadwell has attracted zoning objectors fearing air, noise and traffic issues.
The county board is likely to rule on that Tuesday.
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“We still love Logan County, we still love Sugar Creek,” he said. “We’re getting our ducks in a row to get everything moving there.”
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I am playing in a world that I started before the [Game Update] - 291461 came out.
when I'm indoors (caves, ruins, shops, etc) if I drop something it just disappears.
also Idk if this is related but clouds like the ones on the outside of the map (see picture) just spawn randomly.
now I'm stuck in that room because I can't weigh the plates with anything.
Edit: I tried making a new world the bug didn't happen there.
it started happening after the update 1-go indoors 2-drop something

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Baer’s winter garden is a great way to use our home’s warm soil for winter. The plants that grow in the fall, winter, and summer are all really warm. There are a few plants that are in the fall that I like to work with, but I do not like to do them all.
One of the things that I love about winter is that my plants turn into giants. I like to use them as containers because they’re so easy to move and it’s a great way to get to know your plants and get them used to your home.
I love using plant containers. I just love all the different shapes, sizes, colors, and materials. I would have no idea where to put my plants if I didn’t have a plan and a little bit of research.
I have a huge container garden, and I like to use it for all sorts of things. I would love it if I had a plan that I could just fill in the gaps and start with. But that’s not the case, so I end up filling in the gaps myself.
The main problem here is that most of the time the gardening is going back into its old mode. I don’t know why, but I don’t have an exact solution for that. Maybe I should just go back into that mode, and use it and think about the process. I’m sure I can figure out something I’ll be able to work out.
I think the only thing that is currently keeping me out of the garden is that I have three of my plants that are going to be planted outside of the house, so I have to wait until after they die. So I will have to wait until after they die to start using the garden.
I am not sure when my plants will be ready to be planted outside, and I need to start saving up for that. I will likely end up planting my plants in the vegetable garden, then using the garden to grow them more.
I think I’m going to save the garden for later, although I haven’t gotten around to doing it. I’ll see what I can do with it.
The garden has had a lot of time to grow things and still be able to grow them, so I have to keep my plants in the garden. I have a couple of plants I will plant in the garden. The last one I have is a pair of potted vine, a small vine I am planting with a good size vine. It has been a hard time to grow anything of the type the others have.
I think it’s a very cool idea. The idea of growing things in a garden is pretty new to me. I’m not sure I’d have the space or inclination to keep a huge garden in the house, but I think that one can be a very useful addition to the landscape of a house. I’m not sure I’ll be doing a lot of gardening at home, but I could probably plant a bunch of things here.

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Not 139 points this time, but Lawrence vs. Sayville a thrill nonetheless
GalleriesClass III LIC: Lawrence 21, Sayville 20 History of the Class III Long Island Championship 300-yard rushers in Long Island history
Minutes after defeating Plainedge in the Nassau III final, Lawrence running back Tyler Fredericks set his sights on his next goal.
"This feels good," he said, "but in my mind, I'm always thinking Sayville, Sayville, Sayville. Since last year, Sayville, Sayville. They're next."
After Sayville beat Lawrence last year in a record-breaking game in which the teams totaled 139 points, the...


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Flint, How Do You Feel About Fake Butts?
There are a growing number of people selecting to go the fake butt route. Whether it is ladies getting injections or the men who love them, fake butts are here. Flint, how do you feel about fake butts?
Getting the butt injections could be fatal or cause serious heath problems. Even with the potential harm, women are still signing up for the fake butt sorority. Granted, women have the right to do whatever they want to do with their body. Ladies, I simply want to know, if you could afford it, would get a fake rump?
I think I am in the minority of men when it comes down to the fake rumps. I am not a fan of my significant other having a false backside. I would imagine most men would not have a problem with their woman having plastic surgery to enhance her buttocks. Fellas, are you okay with your significant other having a fake booty?


Ontario reports 574 COVID-19 cases, four deaths on Friday as province reopens
Ontario is reporting 574 COVID-19 cases and four deaths from the virus today.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there were 109 cases reported in Toronto, 84 in Peel Region, 79 in Waterloo and 51 in the Porcupine Health Unit.
The data is based on 28,949 tests.
The province said 489 people were hospitalized with the virus on Friday, including 440 people in intensive care and 292 on ventilators.
The province is reporting 199,951 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday, for a total of more than 10.8 million.
The latest figures come as the province enters the first stage of its economic reopening plan today.
New COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have dropped in recent weeks, allowing the province to loosen some pandemic restrictions.
Outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people and patio dining of up to four people per table are among the activities now permitted.
Non-essential stores can also reopen, with capacity limits, and outdoor fitness classes are allowed.
More restrictions will loosen after 21 days if pandemic indicators continue to improve and more people get vaccinated.
One region in northern Ontario, the Porcupine health unit, will hold off on easing restrictions for now as infections there soar.
Meanwhile, the province announced Thursday it is accelerating second doses of COVID-19 vaccines for people in Delta variant hot spots, with bookings set to open up next week.
Residents in seven designated areas who had their first dose on or before May 9 will be able to book an appointment for an earlier second shot starting Monday.
The province is also encouraging unvaccinated residents in those areas — Toronto, Peel, Halton, Porcupine, Waterloo, York and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph — to get immunized.
However, the government said it won’t shorten the dose interval for those who received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a first dose. Health Minister Christine Elliott said Ontario will stick to the 12-week interval based on the available scientific and medical evidence.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2021.


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Review: The Dead Ringer by M. C. Beaton
By John ValeriOctober 2, 2018
The Dead Ringer by M. C. Beaton is the 29th book in the bestselling Agatha Raisin series.
M. C. Beaton fans the world over will rejoice at these words: She’s back! Whether in regard to the author herself or her beleaguered protagonist Agatha Raisin, it’s always cause for celebration. Beaton—dubbed the “Queen of Crime” by The Globe and Mail—is the New York Times– and USA Today-bestselling author of the aforementioned series (which is also a hit show on Acorn TV and public television) as well as the Hamish Macbeth saga and four Edwardian novels. A native of Scotland, she now splits her time between the English Cotswolds and Paris.
Beaton’s newest, The Dead Ringer, is the 29th full-length entry in the venerable Agatha Raisin canon. As the story opens, readers find the residents of the remote English village of Thirk Magna in a frenzy of preparatory activity over the impending visit of Reverend Peter Salver-Hinkley, bishop of Mircester. These include identical twin sisters Mavis and Millicent Dupin, who lead the team of bell-ringers at St. Ethelred church. But when the handsome-and-he-knows-it reverend arrives (accompanied by Dean Donald Whitby), romantic rivalries escalate and shenanigans ensue—and the bodies start mounting. Fortunately, Agatha is on the case. Unfortunately, she’s also a suspect.
Though known for her sleuthing prowess (she oversees a detective agency), Agatha finds herself in a bit of a malaise. First, there’s the distraction of her own flirtation with Reverend Peter—though she quickly grows suspicious as to his motives and permanently outstretched hand. Then, there’s the unexpected promise of deeper, all-consuming love when a new-to-town reporter becomes her lede-ing man. That, too, becomes a dead end (literally), and Agatha decides to check out of her life and into a hotel, leaving the investigating to her trusted partners in crime. But soon, her pride kicks in, necessitating a return to the nuisance and nosiness that friends and foils alike have come to expect. Answers prove elusive, however, forcing Agatha to take extreme action. It’s a decision that puts her on a collision course with a killer who won’t hesitate to strike again.
The plot itself is absurdly amusing, and it’s underscored by humor and pathos in equal measure. Still, its greatest impact is as a catalyst for character development. While the sordid saga—with its multiple murders and myriad other misdeeds—lends itself to some pointed social commentary, it’s Agatha’s interactions with (and intimate ruminations over) her sometimes lover Charles and her ex-husband James that ground the story and allow the trio to remain somewhat sympathetic despite their self-destructive tendencies. These are the relationships that sustain a series when storylines become a bit muddled with peripheral players and discordant drama.
M. C. Beaton is known for entertainment of the eccentric kind, and her newest certainly delivers on that expectation. Agatha Raisin is as feisty and foul-mouthed as ever but with a touch of maturation and melancholy thrown in to balance her out. Overall, The Dead Ringer is a fun-if-fleeting way to pass the time, and it should strike a welcome chord among the author’s loyal audience.


Pfizer: Trial suggests COVID-19 vaccine effective against South African variant
Pfizer and BioNTech said on Thursday that a recent trial suggests that protection from the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine lasts at least six months, and may also be effective against the coronavirus variant first found in South Africa.
The companies in a press release said data from a 12,000 person trial in South Africa, where the B.1.351 strain is prevalent, found that their vaccine was 100 percent effective at preventing cases of the disease.
The variant has raised concerns across the world, as it has proved to be resistant to some of the protections generated by therapeutics and vaccines.
The trial also found that safety and efficacy of the vaccine hold up over time. There were no serious safety concerns observed in trial participants six months after being immunized, and overall effectiveness was more than 91 percent against disease with any symptoms for six months, the companies said.


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With the historic non-confidence motion scheduled for a vote tomorrow in the House of Parliament, hesitant first-time homebuyers may be prompted to get off the fence and buy.
That’s because if Canada heads into an election this political uncertainty could put downward pressure on the Canadian dollar. Despite a steady economic forecast for the country, this pressure could quell any movement from the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates in April (when the BoC is scheduled to meet next).
Economists such as Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at CIBC World Markets are already amending their forecasts. Shenfeld now predicts a rate hike could come in July, instead of May, which was his initial projection.
What does that mean for the homebuyer?
You probably won’t see a decline in housing prices or a further reduction in inventory (houses put up for sale) during the spring selling season — when resale and new home sales are particularly robust. And this means you won’t be able to capitalize on a housing price dip — which has been widely predicted throughout Canada — at least, not yet.
Instead, consider the potential election as a signal that first-time homebuyers will continue to have access to historically low interest rates, making it easier for you o get into the market.


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In East Ramapo trial, trying to untangle race and policy in school board elections
Testimony from two witnesses Thursday at the trial over the East Ramapo Central School District spoke to a key question at the center of the case: Are elections won and lost over questions of race, or of policy?
Outside of a courtroom, it is often hard to separate the two things. For example, consider the opposition to the stop-and-frisk policy in New York: data suggest it was not effective at lowering crime, and the policy was also found to violate the civil rights of racial minorities.
And yet at the legal level, sometimes race and policy have to get teased apart. That’s what is happening in the East Ramapo trial right now.
The case turns on the voting system of the district, in suburban Rockland County, N.Y. Private school students — almost entirely Orthodox students who attend private yeshivas — outnumber public school students — over 90% black and Latino — by about 30,000 to 9,000. The board is majority Orthodox, too, and has been under fire for over a decade after it dramatically cut teaching positions and extracurricular programs while expanding state-mandated busing for the rapidly growing yeshiva population.
The Orthodox community has been successful in electing people to the board who support their favored policies — such as not raising property taxes — in large part because of the district’s at-large voting system. It allows residents from the entire district to vote for each seat on the board. The effect, local residents say, has been to give candidates favored by private school parents a near-monopoly on board seats since 2008, and leave racial minority communities without a voice.
So the NAACP, along with several residents, is suing the board, saying the system amounts to illegal vote dilution of racial minorities. And because they’re bringing the case under the Voting Rights Act, they need to prove that the voting system is broken not because of policy disagreements, but because of race: that racial minority-preferred candidates always lose contested elections, while candidates preferred by white voters always win.
“The evidence will show that the white community has unchecked power, and the minority community has no power,” Corey Calabrese, a lawyer for the NAACP, argued in opening statements on Monday.
By their own analysis, they have an extremely strong case: Their voting rights expert, Dr. Matthew Barreto, showed through a dozen different kinds of analyses that races are won and lost along racial lines.
But the district’s lawyers have a very different take. And testimony on Thursday showed that it’s not simply race that’s affecting the votes of black and Latino voters, but policies whose effects differ sharply depending on what race you are.
David Butler, lead attorney for the district, said in his opening argument that voters in East Ramapo’s school board elections make their decisions on the basis of policy questions, like managing the budget, and that in East Ramapo “the divisions are demonstrably not racial.”
That would appear to be true, according to election data. Over the past decade, candidates of color have received support across racial groups. Minority candidates have even won contested elections more often than white candidates.
But according to the NAACP, voting patterns and other evidence show that these candidates are essentially “tokens” supported by the board and the political organizers in the Orthodox world that campaign on their behalf. Even so, data analyzed by Barreto shows that even candidates broadly seen as supporting the interests private school community have received some black and Latino support, while candidates supported by advocates of the public school have received a portion of their votes from white voters.
Clara Kollm, a lawyer for the district, asked Olivia Castor, a former East Ramapo public school student and activist, if she had voted for Bernard Charles, a black board member the NAACP also identified as preferred by white voters. Castor said she had not.
So had she voted against him because of policy differences? Yes, Castor said.
To try and explain her position, Castor testified that the issues of race and policy are intertwined—or “intersectional,” as she called it—in the district.
“You’re taught that you’re in this post-racial era, but you’re in these schools that are all black and Latino,” but they’re run by people who don’t seem to care about issues that pertain to those students, Castor said. For instance, she testified that when she made a presentation to the board, as a high school senior in March 2013, none of the people on the board — including racial minority board members — were paying attention to her. They were texting or talking with one another, she said.
“It’s the policy part, but it’s also the racial element,” she said.
Even candidates from the self-described public school community feel that when they have lost elections, it has not been directly about their race — even if they are running to give a voice to a black and Latino community.
When Chevon Dos Reis, who is black and Latina, ran for the school board in 2017, she took policy positions on the state of the district. Testifying Thursday, she said that she wanted to raise taxes to help balance the budget, and maintain universal busing in the district.
She lost the race to Joel Freilich — who the NAACP has identified as the white-preferred candidate — 4,500 votes to Freilich’s 9,500 votes.
So, Kollm asked, did Dos Reis think she lost because she was Latina?
“I believe I lost the race because I wasn’t willing to represent only the private school community’s students,” she said.


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Bohra diaspora responds to anti-FGM campaign
The campaign by Dawoodi Bohra women against the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), sometimes called female circumcision, has brought no response from the community’s powerful clergy.
The silence of their religious establishment in India contrasts with reactions from associations representing the community’s diaspora. Groups representing Dawoodi Bohras in the United Kingdom and Australia have recently asked members to avoid the custom.
“In Mumbai, there has been a lot of discussion on the subject, but there has been no open expression of support for the campaign,” said Saifuddin Insaf, a member of the reformist Dawoodi Bohra community.
Why has the campaign received support from Dawoodi Bohra associations in the west while their leaders in India, where most of them live, have ignored it?
One reason, according to members of the community, is that many western countries have laws prohibiting the practice; India has no such ban. “While the practice (of FGM) can be tried, at the most, as a case of child abuse in India, other countries have clear cut laws because the custom is widespared among African migrants,” said Asghar Vasanwala, a California resident and an anti-FGM campaigner. Apart from two acts that prohibit the practice, the UK has a new law that makes it an offence to take children out of the country for the procedure. In Australia, the practice is a criminal act and there are reports that a Bohra was prosecuted in November by a New South Wales court.
On February 13, Dawoodi Bohras who met in Northolt, a town north of London, issued an appeal asking the local community to avoid the custom, as their religion and prophet requires them to obey the law of the land. On February 9, an association in Sydney passed a resolution that informed parents that they are violating Australian law if they subjected their children to the practice. In India, newspapers, television channels and social media have discussed the issue, but there has been no debate in the Dawoodi Bohra community. “The newspapers that the community reads in India will not discuss the issue fearing a backlash. It is only beacuse of Internet that people are talking about it,” said Vasanwla.
Ifran Engineer, director of the Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Mumbai, and a Dawoodi Bohra, said that the lack of debate on the issue was because FGM has been a secretive practice. “There are clinics in localities where Bohras live, or a midwife or a trained person, who would do it secretly. Even male members of the family would not know about it. Elderly women would tell mothers of six and seven-year-old girls that it needs be done. Even I did not know about the practice till a few years ago,” said Engineer.
Bohra men are surprised that many of them are unaware that the practice is widespread. “It is a patriarchal practice to prevent what they think is sexual deviency among women,” said Engineer. “But often women become agents and carriers of the practice.”
Engineer added that the custom is enforced by the clergy. “Even in cases of inter-community marriages, priests refuse to solemnise weddings if the couple does not produce a certificate which says that the bride has undergone the procedure.”
Can an Indian law help curb the practice? “The custom causes a lot of trauma; apart from the physical damage, there are psychological problems,” said Vasanwala, who recalled a conversation with Bhagvanji Rayani, who has filed PIL on issues like corruption in the education sector, unauthorised shrines and illegal hoardings. “But there was concern that going to the courts could delay the campaign.”
“There is a case for a PIL (against FGM) and I would like to do it, provided I get the community’s support,” said Raiyani.
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- The Central Railway introduced 10 AC local trains between CSMT and Kalyan railway stations on the slow railway line corridor. They are operated from Monday to Saturday.
- This comes four weeks after a study found that air pollution levels on the outskirts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) along the Kharghar-Panvel-Taloja belt are above safe limits.


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Simple Vegetarian Collard Greens
- 1 bunch of collard greens
- 2 cups veggie broth
- 1 medium red onion
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 dried red hot chilis (*NOTE: if you like stuff spicy, add some more to taste)
- 1 teaspoon of salt (*ONLY if your veggie broth doesn’t have salt already)
You’ll need a really large skillet or a wok with a lid.
Clean the collards and then slice out the stems (see 1st photo below). When done, chop up the stems to 1/2″ pieces. Set aside. Take the collards and stack about 10 leaves at a time. Get your chef’s knife ready and roll the leaves like rolling paper. Now, slice them in 1/4″ pieces (see 2nd photo below). You can also give them another chop down the middle. Set aside. Dice up the red onion (tip: remember, don’t breath through your nose if you don’t want cry your eyes out chopping onions). Set aside.
Get your frying pan or wok out, pour in the 2 cups of veggie broth, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon of salt (if your broth doesn’t already have salt in it) and bring this up to a rolling boil. Throw in the collard stems and your onions. Since the stems are dense, you want to give them a head start. Crush up your red chilis and throw those in. Leave this cooking for about 6 minutes (see 3rd photo below).
Now, throw in the sliced up collard greens and stir well (see 4th photo below). Bring the heat down to medium low and put the lid on. You’ll want to leave these cook (stirring now and then) for 15-20 minutes. At 15 minutes, check a collard piece. It should be tender and not taste bitter at all. When you achieve that, you’re done! Remove from heat. You can strain them, or serve with a bit of the veggie broth, up to you.
Makes 4 servings. Will keep in the fridge for a few days.
Fun fact: Collard greens are just “headless” cabbage.
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