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Warriors coach Steve Kerr says Kevin Durant 'at least a couple weeks away'
Golden State is hoping to get Durant back before the end of the regular season
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr told reporters Saturday that star forward Kevin Durant is still “at least a couple weeks away” from returning to the lineup. It wasn’t an official update -- -- but it implies that Durant could be back for the final few games of the regular season. After Durant suffered a Grade 2 MCL sprain and a bone bruise in his left knee on Feb. 28, .
“Well, I mean, [re-integrating Durant] is something we’ll consult the training staff on,” Kerr said, via the San Jose Mercury News’ Anthony Slater. “I imagine we’ll ease him back by playing him shorter minutes to start so he can build up his rhythm and his conditioning, but that obviously has a domino effect on the entire rotation. When we get to that point, we’ll figure it out. It’s not something I’m giving a lot of thought to right now because he’s still at least a couple weeks away.”
If Durant comes back in exactly two weeks, then he could play April 8 against the New Orleans Pelicans, April 10 against the Utah Jazz and April 12 against the Los Angeles Lakers. Kerr said “at least” two weeks, though, and it’s too early to say when he’ll be able to fully participate in practice.
Naturally, the Warriors would like Durant to be able to come back in a regular-season game rather than during a playoff series. It continues to sound like they think that will be possible.
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Qantas has announced it will launch nonstop flights from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to New York and London by 2022.
The Australian airline is seeking the manufacture of new planes capable of making the intercontinental journey from the east coast capitals without a stopover, with a window to launching the new flights by 2022 at the latest.
“It’s huge, it’s fantastic news. East coast services – Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne – direct to London and New York is a huge step forward in connecting us to the world,” Qantas Chief of Technical Support Captain Alex Passerini told TODAY.
“It’ll save four hours (on the trip) to London.”
Qantas’ existing long-range aircraft, such as the Airbus A350 or the under-development Boeing 777X, are not capable of covering the distance from either departure points.
According to Qantas estimates, the new flights would take 20 hours and 20 minutes from Sydney to London and 18 hours and seven minutes from Sydney to New York.
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YANA has provided financial help to Melissa Helme and her seven-year-old daughter, Autumn, for a few years. This year, Autumn is giving back, by riding in the Comox Bike Co. YANA Ride. Photo by Andrea Postal.
There’s still time to register a team or sponsor a rider
By Andrea Postal – Special to The Record
With the 2020 Comox Bike Co YANA Ride taking on a whole new look in a socially-distanced fashion, the new format is proving to be a big win for the organization, riders, and business community.
Registration and pledge dollars are coming in strong for a fundraiser that typically brings in enough funds to cover over half the annual accommodation costs required for Comox Valley families travelling outside of the community for medical care of children and pregnant moms. Riders are excited about the prize incentives being offered this year, which are also a direct give back to the Valley’s local business community hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Autumn Helme and her mother Melissa (pictured) have been YANA clients and avid supporters for a few years now. Autumn and her mother make weekly trips down island for a therapy Autumn requires, and the financial assistance YANA provides has been invaluable.
“We both love YANA so much,” says mother, Melissa Helme. “Whether it’s a big emergency, or just a day trip out of town for a medical appointment, it all matters, and YANA helps relieve the financial burden of the trip. I also love the win-win-win approach to the YANA Ride this year. Everyone likes a chance to win something, and it’s such a great motivation to get more donations. Local businesses have really suffered in the last few months, and it’s so great to be supporting these businesses, and helping them bounce back and thrive.”
You may have spotted Autumn and Melissa at the finish line at previous year’s YANA rides, ringing bells and handing out medals or water bottles, but this year looks different. With group gathering restrictions in place, there will be no volunteer crew, rider send-off, or post-ride celebration party in the park for the 600 riders, countless volunteers, and community members that attend this sold-out event each year. This year’s YANA Ride is a flexible and socially distanced event where riders can register by donation and choose the when, where, and what they’ll ride, anytime between August 1st-15th. This new format has allowed for some of the newest riders to join and ride at their pace and comfort, like Autumn who has signed up as a first-time rider this year.
Autumn, or “Team Razzle Dazzle”, has committed to riding for 7 hours during the two-week window, one hour for each year. She only started riding her bike a few months ago, but can’t wait to use her newfound skill to support an organization that has supported her. She’s also excited about some of the great prizes up for grabs, and is hoping that ice cream from a local shop might be in her prize-winning future. And if ice cream and YANA support wasn’t enough, an anonymous donor has stepped up to match Autumn’s pledges up to $1,000 for YANA.
Local business partnerships are at the core of these fundraising events, and play an essential role through sponsorship and prize donation.
“We don’t have the hard costs of a physical event, of course, this year, so we made the choice to direct some of those sponsorship funds right back into the local economy,” said YANA executive director Kelly Barnie. “By using some of our sponsor dollars to purchase gift cards from these businesses, we’re getting behind those that have always found a way to be there for us, and we’re rewarding riders for setting and reaching some pretty awesome fundraising goals at the same time.”
Whether you’re a road cyclist, a mountain biker, or you enjoy a slow cruise around town, this year’s ride is for you and it isn’t too late to register yourself or a team. To sign up, donate to a rider, or get more info on this years’ event, visit
Originally published by Comox Valley Record – July 21, 2020
81-year-old grandpa Pradeep training for his YANA ride on team “Not Fast, Just Furious” all the way from the UK
The 2020 Comox Bike Company YANA Ride begins in less than two weeks.
The completely re-imagined event offers something for everyone regardless of age, ability or riding style. Participants can ride what they like for the event. As long as it has wheels and is person-powered, it’s perfect.
From road cyclists, mountain bikers and casual family riders to those who may prefer a more relaxed pace on their stationary bike while enjoying a TV show – this year’s ride is truly inclusive.
YANA (You Are Not Alone) has been helping Comox Valley families for almost 35 years. The charity provides accommodation and funding when a family needs to travel for medical reasons for a child or a pregnant mom. The $80,000 goal the volunteer committee has set for this annual fundraiser would cover over half the accommodation costs provided in a year.
Watch for riders on the roads, trails, tracks and living rooms near you from Aug. 1-15.
For more information or to register visit https://www.yanacomoxvalley.com/yana-event/ride
Originally published by Comox Valley Record – July 15, 2020
RBC Dominion Securities and their investment advisors Brendan Somers, Lara Austin, Don Somers, Brian Balfe, Sean Martin, and Blake Simpson have stepped up in a huge way in support of the 2020 Comox Bike Co. YANA Ride. They are matching all donations from July 15-25, up to a maximum of $5000.00.
RBC Dominion Securities and their investment advisors Brendan Somers, Lara Austin, Don Somers, Brian Balfe, Sean Martin, and Blake Simpson have stepped up in a huge way in support of the 2020 Comox Bike Co. YANA Ride, and they’re hoping the community will too.
Their goal is to help raise $10,000 in 10 days by matching donations to YANA Ride participants dollar for dollar, up to $5,000.00.
Don Somers explains that they like to make sure the community is looked after. “Especially this year, with COVID 19, there’s a lot of people who are struggling. We’re seeing a lot of incidents where people do need help, and an organization like YANA is just really rising up to the moment here.”
“We’re hoping people will pull out those wallets, and start making some of those donations,” added Brendan.
From July 15-25, every dollar donated to the YANA Ride will be doubled. There’s never been a better time to show your support for YANA!
YANA (You Are Not Alone) is a community organization offering help to Comox Valley families who need to travel for medical services for their children.
To register to ride, or make a donation that will be matched by RBC Dominion Securities, go to https://www.yanacomoxvalley.com/yana-event/ride
Originally published by Comox Valley Record – July 7, 2020
Registration for annual fundraiser ongoing
Excitement over this year’s Comox Bike Co. YANA Ride continues to build.
For the 2020 event riders can choose to ride anywhere they like, for any distance they like. In addition to the stalwart YANA supporters from the Comox Valley, riders this year have registered from as far afield as Calgary, Ottawa and England and will be riding on terrain ranging from roads to trails and tracks. The reimagined ride allows support for YANA by anyone from anywhere!
YANA (You Are Not Alone) is a community organization offering help to Comox Valley families who need to travel for medical services for their children. The Comox Bike Co. YANA ride is a major annual fundraiser for the Comox Valley organization.
The 2020 ride will take place Aug. 1-15.
For more information or to register visit https://www.yanacomoxvalley.com/yana-event/ride/.
Originally published by Comox Valley Record –June 24, 2020
Registration for the reinvented 2020 Comox Bike Company YANA Ride is now open.
Instead of the charity’s signature summer event that brings hundreds of riders and volunteers together, the eighth annual ride has been transformed into a fully flexible, ‘chart your own course’ ride format observing social distancing guidelines.
From expert cyclists to biking beginners, the 15-day event encourages riders of all ages and abilities to hop on their bikes and fundraise for YANA families. The fully flexible ride means participants choose when they ride anytime between Aug. 1-15, whether it is one day or multiple days. They also choose where they ride. From roads or trails to living rooms and tracks, 1 km or 1,000 km, the choices are unlimited. Participants even choose what they want to ride. From road bikes and mountain bikes to gravel bikes, e-bikes and trikes. If it has wheels and pedals, it is perfect for this ride.
“The news of not being able to hold our traditional event that raised $80,000 last year hit pretty hard,” said YANA board president Kelly Rusk. “It’s been really inspiring to see our volunteer organizers pivot the ride format so quickly, and to see how people are jumping right on board. The flexibility we’ve had to use this year has actually really opened things up. We have mountain bikers planning to ride the trails, a family in Ontario registered, and we’ve even heard about an 80-year-old grandpa in England who’s planning to ride his stationary bike for his grandsons’ team. It’s all pretty incredible!”
YANA supported over 600 medical trips last year and provided $322,876 in funding and accommodation support. In 2019, funds raised from the ride covered more than half the accommodation costs for children and pregnant mothers needing to travel out of our community for medical reasons.
“We are so thankful for the support our riders, sponsors and donors are showing for our families,” said YANA executive director Kelly Barnie. “So many families are facing financial challenges now that they never have before. The last thing we want any family worrying about is whether they can afford to get their child the medical care they need. Our fundraising events and donations allow us to promise the community that we’ll be there for them no matter what. Every kilometre cycled and every dollar raised makes sure we can keep that promise.”
All registered riders who are raising funds for YANA will be rewarded with prizes. Every single rider bringing in donations will receive a prize or gift card donated by or purchased at a local business using sponsorship funds.
The top 300 fundraising riders will receive an original design 2020 T-shirt thanks to Comox Bike Company YANA Ride sponsor, Dr. Andreas Conradi.
The ride will run from Aug. 1-15. Registrations are now open.
To sign up, sponsor a rider or get more information about the Comox Bike Company YANA Ride, visit https://raceroster.com/events/2020/31723/comox-bike-company-yana-ride
The 2020 Comox Bike Company Ride is a fully flexible, socially distanced event.
Registration is entirely by donation.
Whether you are in the position to give a little or to give a lot- Bikes will keep us together….even when we’re apart.
Show your love for biking and for the YANA families in our community, and join the team! Every dollar donated is used to provide support for families needing to travel for medical treatment for a child or pregnant mother.
Flex your ride!
- Ride WHEN you like- Any time between August 1-15, 2020.
- Early morning, late in the day, ride one day, or ride many days….the choice is yours!
- Ride WHERE you like- Choose your own personal route distance, location, and pace.
- 1km or 1000kms; road, trail, track, or living room; speed of light or a snail’s pace…the choice is yours!
- Ride WHAT you like- If it has wheels and is powered by YOU, it’s perfect for this ride.
- Road bike, mountain bike, gravel bike, e-bike, trike, unicycle….the choice is yours!
SAFETY FIRST– Ride Safely observing current social distancing guidelines and all rules of the road/trails.
To our YANA Families and Community Supporters,
Our YANA services will continue during the COVID-19 pandemic but we are continuing to do our part in slowing the spread and in keeping our clients and staff safe.
Effective June 1, 2020, we will be open for necessary drop-in visits during our normal Tuesday and Thursday 10:00am – 2:00pm office hours.
We ensure a sanitized environment in the office and will continue to take the appropriate precautions to minimize risks associated with the virus. ALL visitors will be required to answer health check questions before entering, wash hands or sanitize upon arrival, and maintain 6ft/2m social distance at all times.
If you are experiencing cough, shortness of breath, fever or any other COVID-19 type symptoms please do NOT visit the office.
To access client care services remotely or to connect with us about community fundraising or donations outside office hours, please call us at 250-871-0343 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Thank you for your continued support and understanding, and for your help in the coordinated effort stay safe as we start to cautiously reopen services in our community. 💗
Our YANA services will continue amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and we are doing our part to slow the spread.
Effective immediately, we will open our office in Tin Town by appointment only until further notice.
Most of our support for YANA families can be provided via phone and email. In the event you do need to access our services at the office, we ensure a sanitized environment and will take the appropriate precautions to minimize risks associated with the virus.
To access client care services:
Send an email to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org. Please include your full name, your child’s full name, your phone number and a description of the need for medical travel you are experiencing.
Call the office line at 250-871-0343 and leave a confidential voicemail including your full name, your child’s full name, your phone number and your email address. The voicemail messages are delivered immediately to our client care team via email. We will return your call ASAP (typically within the hour) Mon-Fri 9:00 am-5:00 pm.
Our office, mailbox and dropbox are being checked regularly. If you have a donation to drop off, please call or email 250-871-0343 or email@example.com to let us know. Thank you so much for your generosity!
We appreciate your support and understanding, and your help in the coordinated effort to flatten the curve.
Our YANA Board and staff are sending love and good health to everyone in our amazing community during this challenging time 💗
Our YANA services will continue as normal amidst the COVID-19 pandemic but we are doing our part to slow the spread. Extra measures are being taken to clean and sanitize the apartments in Vancouver as families depart.
Much of our support for YANA families can be provided via phone and email. In the event you do need to access our services at the office, we ensure a sanitized environment and will take the appropriate precautions to minimize risks associated with the virus.
Anyone who displays symptoms, has been in contact with someone who displays symptoms or who has recently travelled internationally should first phone us if our services are required.
We appreciate your support and understanding.
Office hours: Tuesdays / Thursdays from 10am – 2pm
For more info on COVID19: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19
On every great team, each player puts their hand in for the cheer, and voices rise together to shout their rally cry. Each person in the circle knows if they play their role selflessly, with passion and determination, the result will be a source of huge pride for everyone involved.
And so it is with the 2020 YANA Big Love Benefit! Thank you to every sponsor, donor, attendee, volunteer and supporter who put their hands in and created this year’s record-breaking magical event. This was a big BIG win for YANA families in our community!
Thank you Ali Roddam Photography for capturing the electricity of the night, Jabin Postal Films for allowing everyone to see exactly what the Big Love surrounding YANA means to our community, and Karen at McKinnon Photography for sharing the touching story of one of the beautiful YANA families we all come together to support.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of oil-rich Gabon says he hopes a meeting with President Barack Obama will encourage the U.S. leader to keep the spotlight on Africa and launch the partnerships with African countries that he promised in 2009 to promote prosperity on the continent.
Ali Bongo, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council, said Gabon wants "these partnerships to begin and flourish."
Bongo told AP before heading to Washington to meet Obama at the White House late Thursday that he also supports the president's call "for strong and sustainable democratic governments in Africa."
The son of Gabon's late dictator won a contested presidential election in 2009 that was deemed flawed, even fraudulent, by many observers and triggered widespread violence.


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PANAJI: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to review the parking plan at Goa International Airport
and is even exploring the possibility of removing the five minute limit for private vehicles, entering the airport area.
AAI has appointed a consultant to calculate the revenue generated for levying a fee on vehicles spending more than five minutes free time at the terminal arrival and departure ramp. “The policy is being reviewed and a new parking policy is under consideration,” airport director Bhupesh C H Negi said. The airport director said that AAI had received a lot of criticism about the five-minute limit on private vehicles.
“One of the reasons for vehicles exceeding the time is haphazard parking by taxis and other vehicles. Once the haphazard parking in the exit lane has been streamlined, the situation will be better,” Negi said.
AAI has asked the consultant to study the current parking situation, the revenue collected for seven days and then submit a report. AAI wants to find out the total monthly revenue generated through the existing car parking management service along with a break-up of the revenue from commercial vehicles and private vehicles separately.
“In case, charging of fees for above five minutes free time between entry and exit points is to be removed, the loss of revenue to AAI has to be calculated,” said an AAI official, explaining the authority’s stand to ask the consultant to calculate the yearly revenue and the loss that will be incurred due to a change in the parking policy.
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The leaked files appear to reveal details of a CIA 'global covert hacking program'
The White House has refused to comment on Wikileaks files - which appear to show how British and American spies could break into household smart devices.
Wikileaks released 8,761 documents yesterday, which it described as the "largest ever publication" of confidential CIA documents.
Wikileaks said the documents - dubbed 'Year Zero' - "introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of 'zero day' weaponized exploits against a wide range of US and European company products [including] Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones".
The organisation highlighted a claim that intelligence agencies can target individual smartphones to intercept message traffic before software encryption is applied.
A CIA spokesman said the intelligence agency would not "comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents".
However, experts - including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden - say they appear to be authentic.
The CIA reports show the USG developing vulnerabilities in US products, then intentionally keeping the holes open. Reckless beyond words.— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 7, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked about the claims at a media conference.
He responded: "I'm not going to comment on that. Obviously that's something that has not been fully evaluated. If it was, I would not comment from here on that."
Meanwhile, Open Whisper Systems - the group behind the encryption software used by the Signal and WhatsApp messaging apps - said the leaks appear to show its software is working.
"The CIA/Wikileaks story today is about getting malware onto phones, none of the exploits are in Signal or break Signal Protocol encryption," the group explained in a series of Twitter posts.
"The story isn't about Signal or WhatsApp, but to the extent that it is, we see it as confirmation that what we're doing is working. Ubiquitous [end-to-end] encryption is pushing intelligence agencies from undetectable mass surveillance to expensive, high-risk, targeted attacks," it added.


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I sat down on the edge, let my legs dangle over nothing, felt my feet be kissed by something that was definitely not wind. There, where all time was waiting and all sound was silence, I heard many voices coming from within me. They clamored for attention, talking over and through each other. They were voices from my life, people I had known, performers, or strangers I had met.
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Dana Stopher: Council should admit it made a mistake
September 11, 2017
OMG City Council. You're considering appealing the apartment building decision?
No one can question the need for more affordable housing in Steamboat Springs. One could question the location, size, density and setbacks. These are in the code that the city adopted and are supposed to follow.
The argument that this would tell the community that there will be no variances is absurd. Having been on the planning commission for a number of years – I can attest that everyone thinks they deserve and will receive variances. I can also say that just about every applicant for these variances believes that "undue hardship" is applicable to their variance.
As to elected officials making a decision and sticking to it — well, everyone makes mistakes. Perhaps this is a time when our elected officials can admit to making one.
If you believe that the people of Steamboat Springs want bigger and denser buildings in town — change the code. That way everyone can play by the same rules.
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Pittsfield Fourth of July Parade Coming 'Back With a Bang!'
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city's historic Fourth of July Parade will return on Monday for the first time since 2019.
Themed "Back With a Bang," the procession will have 164 units.
"We have an arrangement of community groups, floats, fire departments, musical units, veterans organizations," parade Committee President Peter Marchetti said. "And, of course, the balloons."
For this year, the planners want to thank the community for its ongoing support with a grand celebration.
Parade hallmark Miss Cookie Crumple will make an appearance along with the Great Kensington String Band, also known as the Mummers, from Philadelphia. The popular band is known for bright and colorful costumes, big hats, and a strutting style of march.
There will be five helium balloons, three of them being hot air and two cold air balloons on floats.
Barrington Stage Company's retiring Artistic Director Julianne Boyd is this year's grand marshal for the event.
The parade will kick off at 10 a.m. rain or shine at the intersection of South Street and East/West Housatonic Street. It will head north up South Street in the southbound lane, continue up North Street to Wahconah Street, and end at Wahconah Park.
This year's event is being preceded on Sunday by a car show from 10 to 2 on McKay Street and a Mummers concert at 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Parade Committee.
Also new this year is a laser light show to replace the Wahconah Park fireworks on the holiday.
From the late 1970s to 2020, residents of Pittsfield — and beyond — lined North Street on Independence Day to enjoy floats, marching bands, large balloons, and other parade hallmarks.
Marchetti estimated that it usually draws 25,000 to 30,000 people.
The event fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. With the promise of vaccinations, planners were hopeful that the parade would happen for 2021 but, in May, Mayor Linda Tyer determined that it couldn't be safely held because of the virus.
The parade was threatened by insufficient fundraising about four years ago but in 2019, the committee put out a call for funds and had a great fundraising year that helped it get back into a solid financial position.
The parade dates back to the early 1800s and, in 1947, the Pittsfield Permanent Fireman's Association took it over and ran it until 1976.
In 1978, a group of volunteers held their first parade with seed money from the city and grew to be the committee that runs the event today, meeting most months year round.
It was announced that the parade would return early this year.
The event can cost anywhere from $70,000 to $100,000 to put on and relies solely on donations. This year, the fundraising goal is set at $85,000 and about $70,000 has been raised so far.
Donations can be made through the parade's revamped website, by mail, or through the parade's "bucket brigade" that collects donations in person.
Before the parade, there was a whole weekend of events.
For those who cannot attend in person, Pittsfield Community Television will be live video streaming it and Pittsfield Community Radio WTBR 89.7 FM will have a live radio stream.
Marchetti said the community is excited that the parade is returning.


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The Connection Between the Lawyer Presidents is More Curious than Medvedev Seems to Have Realized
When they first met, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev played up the common legal background he shares with U.S. President Barack Obama. And despite question marks over the veracity of Medvedev’s claim to have studied a “legal reference work” authored by Obama, the influence of the Russian president’s legal schooling is palpable, in his public statements, policies, and above all his appointments. But is his habit of hiring like-minded colleagues really a bid to consolidate the rule of law, or just good old-fashioned nepotism?
Relations between U.S. and Russian presidents are full of paradoxes. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, each new Russian president has been paired with a new U.S. president – Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, and now Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. The previous two presidential pairs featured an unlikely personal bond, which nevertheless failed to prevent tensions escalating between the countries.
Obama, after his first meetings with Medvedev, seemed to deliberately avoid any sentimentality, emphasizing that he wants a relationship based on shared national interests, not personalities. In fact, Medvedev’s response to Obama was more personal than vice versa, inspired by his and Obama’s common background as legal scholars.
Following the two presidents’ first meeting at the G20 summit in London in March, Medvedev commented that “we have read the same books.” Following a bilateral meeting at the G8 summit in L’Aquila on July 10, the footnote swapping seemed to have gone one step further: Medvedev said he had previously studied a “legal reference work” co-authored by Obama. “This is curious to say the least,” Medvedev remarked.
The issue is actually even more curious than Medvedev seems to have realized: Obama, as a legal scholar, published nothing, except one research note to the Harvard Law Review as a graduate. Medvedev’s own publication record is far more impressive than Obama’s – having co-authored a standard work on Russia’s civil code in the 1990s.
What publication was Medvedev referring to, then? It could be that he meant the Harvard Law Review. Obama famously edited the prestigious periodical between 1980 and 1990 as its first black editor. These were also the years when Medvedev was completing his doctorate in St. Petersburg.
However, according to a number of sources, it is extremely unlikely that the journal was available at St. Petersburg State University until the late 1990s. Also it is unclear why Harvard Law Review could have been interesting for a Russian legal scholar at that time.
More likely is that Medvedev confused Obama’s editorial position at Harvard Law Review with his later teaching post at University of Chicago. University of Chicago law school publishes the famous journal “Law and Economics.” “Law and Economics” is the flagship journal of the neo-institutional economic school that analyses an economy according to its legal institutional framework, and as such is a key journal in Medvedev’s field of commercial law. Obama’s faculty friend and now top economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, was lead editor of the journal in the 1990s.
Neo-institutional economics became mainstream in Russia in the second half of the 1990s, as it became clear that macroeconomic stabilization and privatization did not work if an economy lacked efficient laws and institutions. As a result, government economic reforms started to focus on the legal sphere. This shift was embodied by the appointment of legal scholar German Gref as a long-serving economy minister between 2000 and 2007. Gref studied and taught alongside Medvedev in the St. Petersburg law faculty in the early 1990s.
Medvedev must have studied this school of thought – and may (wrongly) think Obama edited its foremost journal when he taught at the University of Chicago. In fact Obama taught constitutional law, and was concerned with issues of race and citizens’ rights quite distant from Medvedev’s scholarly interests.
Civiliki: Network or norms?
Whatever the truth, Medvedev’s response to Obama demonstrates how strong his identity as a civil law scholar remains, despite years of working in the Kremlin and government. This is an identity he shares with other top officials and friends, nicknamed the civiliki, to distinguish them from Vladimir Putin’s ex-KGB network of siloviki.
This identity was underscored last week by a visit to his alma mater, St. Petersburg University’s law faculty, posted on his video blog on the Kremlin website, where Medvedev reminisces about his years studying and teaching there. Ilya Nikiforov, an associate lecturer at the civil law department, pointed out that “Medvedev even contributed a chapter for a civil law textbook, co-authored by members of St. Petersburg Law School, after having become president last year.”
Medvedev’s background in law does not just serve him intellectually, but as a source of personnel appointments. Besides Gref, who now heads Russia’s largest bank, the state-owned Sberbank, the new Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov also studied and taught alongside Medvedev in Petersburg in the 1990s, where he lectured on Roman and civil law.
From among Medvedev’s undergraduate classmates (class of 87), Konstantin Chuichenko heads the Central Control Directorate in the presidential administration, Nikolai Vinnichenko is presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District, Artur Parfenchikov heads the State Bailiffs Service, Nikolai Gutsan is deputy prosecutor general, and Valeriya Adamova chairs the Moscow Arbitration Court. About a dozen other colleagues and classmates are scattered through the top echelons of the state as well as Gazprom.
Most civil among the civiliki, and the closest to Medvedev, is his longtime friend, former classmate, faculty colleague and textbook co-author, Anton Ivanov. Ivanov was catapulted to head Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court, the country’s court of final instance in commercial disputes, also with prerogatives in norm setting, in 2005.
Like Medvedev, Ivanov has retained close ties to academia, as scientific director of the law faculty of Moscow’s prestigious Higher School of Economics. According to deputy dean of the faculty, Natalia Rostovtseva, Ivanov’s position is not a formality. “He plays an active role in the life of the faculty,” said Rostovtseva. “He teaches the second year course on the civil code, and examines. Moreover, he insists that students get practical experience by attending sessions of the Supreme Arbitration Court and completing internships there.” Ivanov himself complains that he now only has time for three or four publications per year.
Ivanov is notable for having taken a principled position against siloviki policy in the state sector of the economy. In June he called for a moratorium on the creation of state corporations such as giant defense sector and engineering holding Russian Technologies, headed by leading silovik Sergei Chemezov, a personal friend of Vladimir Putin’s. Ivanov argued that Russia’s civil code does not envisage any such hybrid form of private and state property, and demanded “common norms for all legal entities.”
Likewise, Medvedev’s rhetoric against “legal nihilism” and his calls to strengthen the rule of law obviously draw on his roots in jurisprudence.
On the other hand, the civiliki network might turn into a “jobs for the boys” club, ensuring the loyalty to Medvedev of what are meant to be independent institutions. On July 7, for instance, a former St. Petersburg law faculty member, Sergei Mavrin, was proposed by Medvedev as deputy chairman of the constitutional court. Prior to this, new legal amendments empowered the president to propose candidates, whereas previously judges had voted on new members. Mavrin is now widely tipped to head the constitutional court when current head Valery Zorkin steps down in 2012.
So the crucial test for Medvedev’s presidency could be whether his declared interest in strengthening legal norms is actually implemented, or whether his academic background will simply serve him as a source of cadres, equivalent to Vladimir Putin’s siloviki network.
Similarly in U.S.-Russian relations, a reset will only work if Obama’s and Medvedev’s shared legal background helps them move ahead with strengthening the rule of law in the international sphere. If their legal interest is simply used as a basis to build a personal relationship, the history of the previous two presidential pairs, where personal friendship failed to prevent escalation of Russian-U.S. tension, may be doomed to repeat itself.
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Avalanche warning for higher parts of J&K
Srinagar: With most parts of Jammu and Kashmir experiencing fresh spell of snowfall, authorities on Monday issued a high and medium-danger avalanche warning for higher parts of the state asking people living there to avoid venturing into steep slopes during the next 24 hours.
"On the basis of information from SASE, Jammu and Kashmir State Disaster Management Authority has issued High Danger avalanche warning for hilly areas of Tangmarg and Khilanmarg in Gulmarg sector and higher reaches of north Kashmir`s Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora districts and Kargil in frontier region of Ladakh," an official spokesman said.
He said a medium danger warning has also been issued for higher reaches of Banihal, Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region, Pulwama and Kulgam in south and Budgam and Ganderbal districts in central Kashmir.
"People living in these snowbound areas have been requested to take precautions and not to venture on steep slopes. The warning is valid for the next 24 hours," the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, weather office has predicted moderate to rather heavy rain or snow at most places over the state during the next 24 hours.
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Blu-ray Release: The Wind Rises, Princess Mononoke and Kiki’s Delivery Service
Last week, Disney released Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated The Wind Rises on Blu-ray, along with new editions of the classic Studio Ghibli films Princess Mononoke (1997) and Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), providing a good overview of the recently retired filmmaker’s legendary career.
The Wind Rises: Although his nearsighted vision kept him from being a pilot, Jirô Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) always dreamed of designing flying machines, and the engineer was responsible for creating the fighter planes that Japan used during WWII. His life was also marked by chance encounters with the young Nahoko (Emily Blunt), leading to a love affair marked by tragedy.
Although the script unfortunately has a few problems, this doesn’t take away from the true reason to see the biopic, which lies in the hand drawn animation. The visuals are beautiful throughout every scene, and The Wind Rises is a good movie from a great filmmaker, nicely capping off his storied career. You can read my full review right here.
The Blu-ray includes a featurette on the voice actors behind the English dub, as well as the entire film in storyboards, a lengthy press conference with Hayao Miyazaki, and the original Japanese trailers.
The Wind Rises is 127 minutes and rated PG.
Princess Mononoke: When Ashitaka (Billy Crudup), travels to the western forests seeking a cure for his deadly curse, the young warrior becomes involved in a deadly battle between Lady Eboshi (Minnie Driver), who is leading a clan of humans into war against the animal gods, led by the fearless young Princess Mononoke (Yuriko Ishida) who was literally raised by wolves.
With an exciting and strikingly mature story that has a deep focus on the bond between people and nature, brought to life through brilliantly drawn animation Princess Mononoke is a classic epic that remains one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most revered and widely acclaimed films, and is among the best that Studio Ghibli has to offer.
The Blu-ray includes the original Japanese storyboards and trailers, as well as a couple of featurettes.
Princess Mononoke is 134 minutes and rated PG.
Kiki’s Delivery Service: Following tradition to become a witch, Kiki (Minami Takayama) is a young teenager who sets out on her own for the first time with her talking cat Jiji (Rei Sakuma), finding herself in a European city where she starts a courier service to support herself and prove her independence.
An early classic from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, the nicely animated Kiki’s Delivery Service is a charming and entertaining coming of age fantasy adventure, with unique characters that still hold up after 25 years.
The Blu-ray includes an introduction by John Lasseter, the original Japanese storyboards and trailers, and numerous featurettes on the production.
Kiki’s Delivery Service is 103 minutes and rated G.


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I am thrilled to extend a warm welcome to each and every one of you to the 64th National Council on Health (NCH) Meeting, scheduled from November 13th to 17th. This NCH represents a significant milestone in our shared commitment to advancing healthcare and improving the well-being of our communities. Over the course of these five days, we will come together to exchange ideas, share expertise, and chart a course for a healthier, more equitable future.
Our digital platform has been designed to enhance your experience, providing easy access to valuable resources, networking opportunities, and the latest information on our agenda. We are confident that this technological innovation will enrich your participation.
Here, you will find a wealth of information about the event's schedule, speakers, workshops, and special sessions. You can also connect with fellow participants, engage in discussions, and stay up to date with the latest announcements. We encourage you to explore all the features and take full advantage of this platform to tailor your experience to your needs.
We look forward to the knowledge-sharing, networking, and transformative discussions that will unfold in the coming days. Warm regards,
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The Nigeria National Council on Health (NCH) is a high-level governance body responsible for the formulation, coordination, and implementation of health policies and programs in Nigeria. It is a vital institution in Nigeria's healthcare landscape. It serves as a platform for collaboration and decision-making among stakeholders in the healthcare sector, bringing together key players from the federal and state levels of government, as well as development partners, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.
NCH is chaired by the Honourable Minister of Health and includes the Commissioners of Health from each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The council meets regularly to discuss and address critical health issues, review progress, and make decisions that influence the direction of healthcare in the country.
The NCH has several core functions:
The NCH is advised by the Technical Committee, which comprises various stakeholders from both governmental and non-governmental sectors. The Technical Committee, chaired by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, consists of directors, legal advisors, and representatives from state health departments, the armed forces, prisons medical services, parastatals, health regulatory agencies, teaching and specialist hospitals, registered health professional associations, traditional medicine practitioners, and private healthcare providers.
This NCH is the 64th Meeting and is holding in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.


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One aspect of homebrewing beer that some people don’t enjoy is that their bottled beer can sometimes be cloudy and have sediment at the bottom. In fact, many people wonder if you should filter your homebrew beer before you bottle it to get rid of those issues and make clearer beer. Since commercial beer is usually crystal clear, many people expect the beer they make to look the same way.
So, should you filter your homebrew? Almost all commercial beers are filtered after fermentation and force-carbonated during the bottling or canning process. Homebrew beer, however, requires there to be active yeast inside the beer during the bottling process to create proper carbonation during conditioning. Filtering homebrew could thus lead to flat bottled beer.
Let’s see why filtering your homebrew could actually cause a big problem with your batch of beer, some possible reasons why you might want clearer beer in the first place, and some quick tips on how to clear your beer up without filtering.
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Can you filter homebrew beer before bottling?
If you are here looking for someone to tell you that it’s cool to filter your homebrew before you bottle it then you will be disappointed with this article.
Since most new homebrewers are going to be using bottles for their first batches, they will be relying on the yeast inside their beer to naturally carbonate the bottles.
This works because a small amount of priming sugar is added to the beer just before it is bottled and the little bit of yeast still swimming around after fermentation is enough to convert this sugar into enough CO2 to make give it some fizz.
Filtering homebrew beer before you bottle it is likely to remove all or most of the yeast still alive inside your beer before it goes into the bottle. In the best case (some yeast makes it through) you will have to condition your beer in the bottle much longer than normal. In the worst case (too much of the yeast is gone) you will not be able to bottle condition because there won’t be enough yeast to convert the priming sugar to carbonation.
Psst! Struggling with flat beer? I have created a resource all about why your homebrew might be flat and what to do about it!
With that being said, there are probably some experienced brewers that routinely filter their beer in some way to help clear it up before bottling. In that case, they have likely experimented with filtering techniques and are probably only using something that will get rid of the big, sludgy stuff in the beer anyway.
Are there any situations that you should risk filtering your beer?
There are lots of reasons that you might want to filter your homebrew:
- Clearer, less hazy looking beer
- Less yeast in the taste profile
- Avoiding sediment at the bottom of the bottle
- Some styles of beer require more clarity
- You want to compete with your beer and clarity is a scoring factor
- Your friends or family don’t want to drink your homebrew because it looks like ‘homebrew’
Yes, these are all real reasons that someone might want to filter their beer, but most of them probably aren’t worth the risk of ruining the batch by getting rid of all of the good yeasties inside the bottle. Filtering means that you will have to force-carbonate your beer somehow before you drink it. If you are bottling the beer, it is almost impossible to do this safely or easily.
At the end of the day, homebrewing beer is never going to be exactly like commercial beer that you would find in the store because it’s just different.
Commercial brewers have to maintain an incredibly high production rate and that often includes filtering their beer and force-carbonating it so that they can reduce the amount of time it takes from start to finish on each batch. The longer the beer sits in the brewery, the fewer dollars that brewery is making.
With homebrew, most people agree that part of the fun is to see the raw, natural process that beer undergoes from start to finish.
Sure, there might be a little yeast or proteins floating around that give it a hazy appearance, but if you wanted a crystal clear beer then you could have just picked one up at the store!
If for whatever reason you feel that you simply must filter, then you will likely need to look into kegging your beer instead of bottling it. That’s because kegging will allow you to force carbonate your beer without the need for the yeast to convert priming sugar to CO2.
Of course, kegging is a whole different world compared to bottling your beer, so we’ll have to leave that for another day.
If you don’t want to (or can’t afford) kegging right now, read on to the next section to get some quick tips to help make your beer clearer that won’t break the bank or cause you a headache on brew day!
How to get clearer homebrew beer
So. Let’s talk about what we can do on brew day and bottling day to get our beer a little clearer without sacrificing our yeast in the name of clarity!
Tip #1 – Poor your beer better
This might sound silly, but it could be a game-changer for you.
Maybe you are used to simply grabbing a commercial beer, prying off the top, and pouring it quickly into a glass before you drink it. Maybe you always drank out of the bottle before and have NEVER poured a beer out of a glass!
To avoid stirring up the yeast and other sediments at the bottom of your bottled homebrew, you will need to pour more slowly and leave just a little bit of beer at the bottom of the bottle. Once you get used to it, you’ll be surprised just how much stuff you can keep out of your beer just by pouring correctly.
Tip #2 – Avoid disturbing the trub while moving beer from fermenter to bottling bucket
Most brewers will rack their beer from the fermenter into a bottling bucket so they can leave the yeast cake behind and make the bottling process easier.
While you are racking, keep the tube about an inch or so under the top of the beer and slowly move it down as the level of the beer gets lower. This will help prevent the trub at the bottom of the fermenter from getting sucked up into the tubing and find its way into the bottling bucket. Just be careful not to let it get so high that it sucks air into the tube – oxidation is bad!
Tip #3 – Use a high-flocculation yeast
Every strain of yeast is a little bit different and one of those differences comes from its level of flocculation. Flocculation is just a fancy word that describes how much the yeast will clump together and settle out of the wort during fermentation.
To get the clearest beer, choose a medium or high-flocculation yeast.
Just be mindful that some styles of beer actually require a low-flocculation yeast to achieve the correct look or flavor profile!
Tip #4 – Check your recipe
Some beer-making ingredients are more prone to causing cloudiness in the finished product.
For a chance at the clearest beer, avoid using high-protein malts as well as adjuncts like unmalted barley, wheat, or flaked grains in your recipes.
Tip #5 – Make sure your brew process is on point
I am not going to go too far with this tip because it could fill up a whole book, but basically, you want to make sure that your temperatures are on point at each stage of the brewing process. Briefly, you’ll want to pay special attention to these temps:
- Mash – Usually this will be between 148-158 °F
- Sparge – Typically between 168-170 °F
- Hot break – A rolling boil for at least 60 minutes while brewing to ensure a sufficient hot break
- Cold break – Drop your wort below 70 °F as quickly as possible to get suspended particles to fall out.
Tip #6 – Wait longer
This sounds like a dull tip but it’s super important.
We all know that homebrewing is a hobby that requires lots of patience and clarity in your beer is no exception to this rule.
Be sure that you are giving your beer plenty of time to ferment and you could even consider a secondary fermentation if you want to go through the extra steps. The longer you give the yeast a chance to do their work, the more will eventually clump up and fall out of the liquid to settle at the bottom.
Also, be sure that you are giving your beer at least a few weeks to condition in the bottle.
Since you are essentially reactivating fermentation (at a much smaller scale) when you bottle with priming sugar, be prepared to wait for that process to finish and give your beer a more mature flavor and look!
Tip #7 – Add finings to the fermenter or bottles
Assuming that you have implemented all of the other tips, you could also look at adding some common ingredients called ‘fining agents’ to your beer.
Here are the most common ones to use:
- Irish moss/Whirlfloc – A special kind of seaweed that is added during the hot break at the last 15 minutes of the boil for best results.
- Chillguard – a silica-based gel that you can add to the fermenter about 5 days before racking into the bottling bucket.
- Gelatin – The same common gelatin that you can find in the grocery store can actually make your beer clearer! Mix 1 tsp into a cup of hot (not boiling) water and mix into the fermenter about 5 days before racking.
- Isinglass – Normally used by commercial brewers, this is collagen sourced from fish bladders that you can find sold in ‘instant packs’ to add to your fermenter. Same instructions as most things, add 1 tsp to hot water and mix into your fermenter about 5 days before racking.

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Sony NAB 2020 announcement event has been moved to April 30th, 10AM EDT. The original livestream was to occur this upcoming Monday, April 20th.
The company has not disclosed an official reason as to the move. However, given that Canon are about to make their NAB announcements on Monday 20th, we can all make our own conclusions. Of course, Sony may have other reasons to do so.
Regardless, Sony’ NAB Show online event is now happening on April 30th.
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Sony FX6 and New Cine Zooms?
According to some rumour sites, Sony is likely to announce a new full-frame camcorder and two or three new cine zoom lenses.
The Sony FX6 is rumoured to be the full-frame updated version of the Sony FS5. The camera is (presumably) to sit below the Sony FX9 and feature a 4K Long-GOP codec internal recording in a more compact form factor. That is compared to the Sony FX9.
Some of you may recall the full-frame Sony 16-35mm T3.1 G Cine zoom with AF support. Sony announced the lens at IBC 2019 last September, and it looks like we may see at least a couple of new complimentary zoom lenses in the range announced on April 30th.
NAB 2020 Express Digital Event Starts April 2020 – Read more here.
Sony has not yet officially revealed the pricing and availability of the 16-35mm T3.1 G lens. However, it is very likely they may confirm pricing and availability at the NAB 2020 livestream event. As well as, announced the two other lenses (already teased, see image below).
You can also head over to Sony’s NAB event page here.


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Walker, Florence / Phil Walker (Recorded By) – “Sounds From The Archipelago Vol. 1” – [Shiok! Records]
Son of the German Diplomat to Moscow at the outbreak of the first World War, Walter Spies was a primativist painter who drifted eastward into Bali in the 1920s. He brought Balinese culture to the west and had a great influence on modern Balinese art and music.
In the 30s Spies and the Indonesian dancer Wayan Limbak adopted ketchak, a Balinese trance ritual, into a drama and dance intended for performance before Western tourist audiences. The syncopated Ketchak chant can be heard in Satyricon, Akira, and Blood Simple.
This is an example of what James Clifford describes as the “modern art-culture system” in which, “the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making ‘art,’ which was once embedded in the culture as a whole, into a separate entity.”
The Ketchak chant can be heard on Side A, Band 6.
This record is an uncredited reissue of 1961’s music of Indonesia produced by Henry Cowell and released on Smithsonian Folkways. The Shiok! label is based in Singapore.
Regardless, these recordings are great quality and very compelling, gamelan and wood flute. Indonesian lutes, vocal and violin. A ceremonial tone pervades throughout.
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This Shivastalam is located 8 km to the east of Kodavasal.
It is at a distance of 14 km from Tiruvarur. Tirupperuvelur is the Shivastalam in the vicinity.
Talaiyaalankaadu is regarded as the 93rd in the series of Tevara
Stalams in the Chola Region south of the river Kaveri.
Shiva is said to have danced upon the body of Muyalakan, sent at him by the sages of
Dharukavanam ( Nartanapuri). Kapila Muni worshipped Shiva here to receive the Chintamani
gem. He is said to have walked on his head to reach here (hence
This south facing temple has
subsidiary shrines to Ganesha, Vishwanathar, Bhairavar and others. The
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Allotment holders are being warned to prepare for up to a week of unusually late frosts which threaten to kill off spring blooms, fruit in flower and emerging plants such as potatoes.
It could spell an end to what horticulturalists had been hailing as a vintage spring after the effects of the winter “big freeze” caused many plants to burst into flower simultaneously.
Experts also warned allotment enthusiasts to delay planting out tomatoes and other delicate fruit and vegetables, which would normally be safe to plant out in May, this year.
With overnight temperatures set to fall as low as 26F (-3C) in some parts of Scotland over the next few days, even milder areas in the south are being warned to prepare for over overnight lows close to freezing.
Daytime temperatures will also be unseasonably cold, with highs of between 50F (10C) and 59F (15C) expected, and the wintry conditions could last into next week, the Met Office warned.
Alan Power head gardener at the National Trust’s Stourhead gardens in Wiltshire said that it was the latest warning of widespread frost in recent memory.
“It is a worry,” he said. “Usually you can relax once April has gone out, a lot of people will have prepared pots and hanging baskets, you just don't expect to have to protect them.”
With spring arriving up to four weeks later than usual this year because of the cold winter, visitors to the gardens have been treated to the rare sight of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons all in flower at once.
But he warned: “It will definitely shorten it, mother nature is going to steal back again the four weeks we had stolen from her.”
Andy Bodenham, a Met Office forecaster, said: “We are going to see temperatures down to just a few degrees above freezing in many areas, and certainly cold enough to warrant protecting delicate plants.”
Allotment holders should seriously consider protecting emerging potato stems, if large then a fleece covering would be useful, but if it is possible to heap more soil over the stems and foliage then that is a simpler protection.

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Man, I was reading the post-MTV World Stage Malaysia 2014 press release and I sure have missed out on much this year. Oh well, I’ve always encouraged people to study hard and prioritize studies over concerts so… yeah. While I can’t tell you exactly how much fun this year’s edition was, after the MTV World Stage Malaysia 2013 experience, I have no doubt that it was … Continue reading MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2014 Post Mortem
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