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There is a riveting moment in “Lady Boss,” an insightful documentary about the life of novelist Jackie Collins, in which we see Collins preparing her face for the camera. She brushes her bangs a bit with her finger as if to give herself something positive to do, but there is turmoil going on behind her eyes; it looks like she is struggling to hold down enormous pain and insecurity, and this struggle is intensely active, for there was nothing passive about Collins.
Once the camera is ready for her, Collins has arranged her face into the semi-snarly made-up armor that she presented in her glamorous public life, which always included large hair, shoulder pads and a liking for leopard-print fabric. Collins was English, but her books were very successful in America because she subscribed religiously to the American urge for self-reinvention.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her movie star sister, Joan, who is interviewed for this documentary. “It’s like a marriage,” Joan says of her relationship with her little sister. “Everything doesn’t go perfectly wonderfully all the time.” Joan was already successful in films in the 1950s, whereas Jackie was made to feel like an also-ran in spite of what Joan calls her “fantastic figure.” Photographed as a teenager, Jackie looks very different from her later image, with big beseeching eyes, and in her early 20s, she had some plastic surgery to bring herself more in line with what she wanted to be visually. “I love my new nose,” she wrote in her diary.
Jackie’s diary is used as valuable source material in “Lady Boss,” and it reveals a much darker story than might at first seem apparent when looking at the surface of her life and the persona she created. When Joan speaks of their father, Joseph, in her interviews for this documentary, she calls him remote and strict but emphasizes his charm. In Jackie’s diary, however, Joseph is depicted as a tyrant who could be very cruel to his wife, Elsa, at one point telling her, “I am king!” When Elsa became ill with cancer, Joseph did not allow it to be spoken of.
Joseph told Jackie that she wasn’t beautiful or slim enough, and Joan herself could be critical of her sister: “I look awful — Joan told me so,” reads one of Jackie’s diary entries. Her first marriage to a man named Wallace Austin proved disastrous due to his drug addiction and mental health problems, and Jackie had to find the nerve to leave him even though he was always threatening suicide if she did. When an interviewer asks Jackie about Austin’s suicide, her face is riven with pain before she wills herself into saying that she does not feel guilt over it; everything with her was an act of will.
Her second husband, Oscar Lerman, adored Jackie and pushed her to finish the book that would become her first bestseller, “The World Is Full of Married Men.” Joan eventually starred in two movies based on books by Jackie, “The Stud” and “The Bitch,” which made them into “the Gish sisters of soft porn” according to columnist Libby Gelman-Waxner. Joan’s career enjoyed a resurgence on TV on “Dynasty” while Jackie had one of her biggest successes with “Hollywood Wives,” and so the sisters were on nearly equal footing in the mid-1980s, but Jackie did look askance privately when Joan invaded her territory and tried to write some hedonistic novels of her own.
Jackie’s beloved husband Oscar died in 1992, and there was a third major coupling with a playboy named Frank Calcagnini, who was not liked by any of her friends and family; in a rare moment of solidarity, Joan tries to describe why her sister got involved with the angry and controlling Calcagnini and finally concludes, “Women put up with a lot.” It must be said that Joan doesn’t come off particularly well in this documentary some of the time, but she acted as a spur for Jackie, and sometimes that can be a productive thing.
In the last years of her life, Jackie told friends she was through with serious relationships but would take lovers if they expected nothing of her. She tried her best to live up to the sex-positive heroines of her books, and we see her stoically endure being relentlessly attacked by self-righteous audience members on a 1990s talk show; on another program, romance novelist Barbara Cartland, made-up like Baby Jane Hudson, calls Jackie’s novels “evil,” and Jackie just laughs in response.
Jackie stayed true to her image to the very end, keeping quiet about her own battle with cancer for several years before doing a final book tour where only her iron will kept her together. “Lady Boss” offers the story of a woman with a lot going against her who struck a blow against the sexual double standard and struck a blow for women seeking pleasure for its own sake. Her fight to achieve that goal often makes for a compelling story in its own right.
“Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story” will air on CNN June 27 following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.


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“Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer”, the new video from Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH, can be seen below. The first performance clip BEHEMOTH was helmed by the band’s longtime video collaborators, Grupa 13, who previously worked with AMON AMARTH and ENSIFERUM.
BEHEMOTH will hit the road in April 2015 for 15 shows in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and in Czech Republic.
Commented BEHEMOTH singer/guitarist Adam “Nergal” Darski: “We are already eagerly awaiting our second coming to European shores in spring 2015! We are teaming up for this run with some of the most exciting extreme metal acts — Swiss BÖLZER and Polish THAW — a must-see jewels that you can not miss out! A two-week trek will cover territories we haven’t explored with the first leg of the tour. Expect the best! We’ve never been in a better shape and we’re gonna prove that once again!”
BEHEMOTH released a limited-edition, hand-numbered 12-inch EP called “Xiadz” in November. The EP was made avaialble in three vinyl colors.
“Xiadz” is strictly limited to 500 vinyl copies worldwide and was not made available on CD. Black vinyl, black-gold splatter, and gold vinyl gatefold, 180-gram editions containing the previously unreleased tracks “Xiadz” and “Towards The Dying Sun We March”, as well as a re-recorded version of “Moonspell Rites” were made available to order at this location.
BEHEMOTH‘s latest album, “The Satanist”, sold around 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 34 on The Billboard 200 chart.
The band’s ninth full-length studio CD, 2009’s “Evangelion”, opened with around 8,500 units to land at No. 56.
“The Satanist” was released on February 3 in the U.K., February 4 in North America and Poland, February 5 in Japan, and February 7 in the rest of the world.

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About Northern Tablelands Local Land Services
Northern Tablelands Local Land Services work with land managers and the community to improve primary production within healthy landscapes.
They help people make better decisions about the land they manage and assist rural and regional communities to be profitable and sustainable into the future.
Northern Tablelands LLS connects people with groups, information, support and funding to improve agricultural productivity and better manage natural resources.
Local people, local services
Northern Tablelands LLS is one statewide organisation offering integrated services, delivered regionally and tailored for each community, industry and landscape. They work to develop:
- resilient, self-reliant and prepared local communities
- biosecure, profitable, productive and sustainable primary industries
- healthy, diverse and connected natural environments
The Northern Tablelands is a distinctive highland area of New South Wales with undulating hills, valleys, plateaus and mountains straddling the top of the Great Dividing Range. With an average elevation exceeding 1000 metres above sea level, the Northern Tablelands has a temperate climate with mild summers and cold winters with frosty mornings and occasional snowfalls. The major towns of Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Inverell, Guyra, Armidale, Uralla and Walcha all support productive rural communities predominantly producing beef, sheep and wool. Significant smaller industries include forestry, apples and stone fruit, potatoes, glasshouse tomatoes, dairy farms, alpacas and cool climate wineries.
The Northern Tablelands landscape is located either side of the watershed that runs along the top of the Great Dividing Range. Streams on the western side are the headwaters of the Murray-Darling Basin, while streams on the eastern side of the watershed flow down to the New South Wales North Coast.
The city of Armidale, located on the eastern side of the watershed, is a major centre for the Northern Tablelands. It provides a regional airport, medical services and educational facilities including the University of New England. The Northern Tablelands landscape is characterised by a mosaic of grazing lands and patches of remnant woodland, many of which support national and state significant threatened fauna and flora species and ecological communities.
The western boundary of the Northern Tablelands Local Land services region extends to between Warialda and Delungra at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level. The western side of the Northern Tablelands Local Land services region lays claim to diverse geology, soils and variable terrain which support a broad range of vegetation communities as well as a mix of livestock grazing and cropping enterprises including cereals, legumes and oil seeds.
The Northern Tablelands Local Land Services region is an Aboriginal landscape, and the Local land Services places a high value on Aboriginal involvement in landscape management. There are eight Aboriginal nations – Ngarabal, Dainggatti, Anaiwan, Kamilaroi, Banbai, Gumbainggir, Bigambul and Nganyaywana - incorporating various language dialects, which fall within the Northern Tablelands Local Land Services.
The Aboriginal Reference Advisory Group (ARAG) has been instrumental in progressing initiatives to advance Aboriginal people's involvement in landscape health. The ARAG comprises Aboriginal community members who represent their Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALCs)
The Northern Tablelands Local Land Services recognises that Aboriginal people are respected members of the community and through their traditional ecological knowledge can contribute to maintaining and improving the natural environmental assets within the region.


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Towards Automated Defect Analysis Using Execution Traces of Scenario-Based Models
Modern software systems are so complex that at times engineers find it difficult to understand why a system behaves as it does under certain conditions, and, in particular, which conditions trigger specific behavior. This adds a significant burden to tasks like debugging or maintenance. Scenario-based specifications can mitigate some of the problems engineers face thanks to the scenarios’ intuitiveness, executability and amenability to formal methods such as verification and synthesis. However, as a specification grows it becomes increasingly difficult to fully comprehend the interplay of all scenarios, thus again making it difficult to understand the final system’s behavior. Therefore we propose a (semi-)automatic trace analysis method. It incorporates automatic techniques for identifying interesting traces, or subsequences within traces, from large sets of long execution traces. Developers are interested in knowing whether certain specification properties hold: if a property holds, what are possible executions which are evidence of this? If a property does not hold, what are examples that violate it? Scenario-based specifications are well-suited to generating meaningful execution traces due to being based on events which are meaningful in the domain of the system under design. A key observation we made was that interesting properties of a trace are often encoded in just one or very few scenarios. These concise scenarios, describing desired or forbidden behavior, are often already part of the specification or should be added to it as they encode implicitly made assumptions.
This paper incorporates and substantially extends the material of the paper published in MODELSWARD 2018 “Towards Systematic and Automatic Handling of Execution Traces Associated with Scenario-based Models” .
KeywordsSoftware engineering System engineering Scenario-based programming Behavioral programming Abstraction Debugging Program repair Execution trace Event log
This work has been funded in part by grants from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), from the Minerva foundation, and from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
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Girls & Beasts
GAY BEAST is a psychedelic prog-wave noise trio from Minnesota. Pure Skin Graft style, i.e. the label that gave you Flying Luttenbachers, Ruins and Aids Wolf. Solid spasmo prog, with female drumming and faggot keyboards and vocals. Think Lightning Bolt during a romantic evening of enduring man love.
U.S. GIRLS is Meghan Remy’s solo-fi machine. Tapes and vocals is all she needs for her distorted grrrrl power pop. This is her second Euro tour to celebrate her new release on the Siltbreeze imprint.
Macaw, cockatoo, green-cheecked amazon, pigeon, garage rock, vocal harmonies, pop music…


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Welcome to The Rock
Welcome to The Rock, British style at the tip of Spain, if you are looking Britishness then you will find it in Gibraltar, from the moment you arrive in Gibraltar international airport you in a British Overseas Territory, which holds British values from the past, red phone boxes, fish and chips and much more. You can now either take a taxi or take the bus to the market place (service number 5) Gibraltar is a monolithic peninsula, its limestone base thrives unique vegetation and many species of migrating birds, Gibraltar is only fourteen miles from Africa so the climate is very mild. If you go the Douglas Lookout on the top the upper rock you can take great photos of the rock and Africa in one direction and Spain in the other direction.
The town itself is on the western side of the rock with many of the buildings outside of the town wall being built on reclaimed land; Gibraltar’s heritage goes back to the Moors who controlled the Mediterranean and Spain until 1492.
Go down to the Ocean Village and you can sit in one of the many restaurants or cafes and watch the British Airways land on the runway, which crosses the main road out of Gibraltar to the Spanish border.
I have visited Gibraltar twice and I love the rock, a little piece of England on the Mediterranean, great location, nice people and wonderful restaurants, and the Ocean Village marina is full of all type of fish, no Dolphins, they are out to sea, but you can take a trip on the many boats offering Dolphin watching.
old town is only a short walk away where you will find the busy Casemates Square, with its Restaurants and its English style Pubs and fish and chips. The Star Bar (Gibraltar’s oldest legal drinking establishment) dates back several hundred years is in Parliament Lane.
Main Street is Gibraltar’s main commercial and shopping district. It runs north-south through the old town which is pedestrianised and lined with buildings displaying a blend of Genoese, Portuguese, Andalusian, Moorish, and British Regency styles.
Shops along this pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare sell pretty much everything, including cosmetics, perfumery, jewellery, designer glasses, tobacco and spirits, high end linens, and electronics. Marks & Spencer, Holland and Barrett, Next, F&F, Pandora, Dorothy Perkins, and Boux Avenue are to name but a few of the big-name brands.
Irish Town name dates back to the early 19th century when Gibraltar was split into differing quarters and is one of the oldest streets in Gibraltar. It runs from Main Street, just south of Casemates Square to John Mackintosh Square, parallel to the heavily fortified Line Wall. Today it is a pedestrian precinct with bars, restaurants and coffee shops.
The Convent (Gibraltar)
The Convent has been the official residence of the Governor of Gibraltar since 1728. It was originally a convent of Franciscan friars, hence its name, and was built in 1531, and heavily rebuilt during the 18th and 19th centuries. The official Changing of the Guard takes place a few times a year on anniversaries and special occasions.
The Southport Gates are three city gates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. They are located in the Charles V Wall, one of the 16th century fortifications of Gibraltar. The gates are clustered together, with the South Bastion to the west, and the Trafalgar Cemetery to the east
Trafalgar Cemetery is key landmark in Gibraltar’s military history, it commemorates the famous Anglo-French/Spanish Battle of Trafalgar fought off Cape Trafalgar in 1805. Although there are only two casualties of the Battle buried in the Cemetery, a ceremony to commemorate Lord Nelson’s victory is held every year.
In Red Sands road you will find the Gibraltar Cable Car is an aerial tramway in Gibraltar. The base station of the cable car is located near the southern end of Main Street, next to Alameda Gardens
The Gibraltar Botanic Gardens or La Alameda Gardens are a botanical garden in Gibraltar, spanning around 6 hectares. The Rock Hotel lies above the park
Alameda Wildlife Park
The Alameda Wildlife Park first came to existence in 1994. Local Customs authorities confiscated a collection of parrots, land tortoises and monkeys from illegal traders who were passing through Gibraltar. The animals were handed over to G.O.N.H.S., (Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society).
Nestled in the beautiful Alameda Botanic Gardens, the AWCP is home to a collection of both exotic and native species. The AWCP is the only Wildlife Park in Gibraltar.
Alameda Wildlife Park looks after exotic animals confiscated by Gibraltar customs, unwanted exotic pets and animals such as the Cotton-topped tamarin, on loan from international Zoos, to raise awareness of important endangered species through conservation education.
The Europa Point Lighthouse stands proudly at the very tip of Gibraltar. Its great beam lights the way for mariners sailing through the often turbulent Straits of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean collide. Stand on the very tip of Europa Point and appreciate the incredible views and the iconic red and white striped lighthouse.
Views of North Africa can be seen across the Strait of Gibraltar including Ceuta and the Rif Mountains of Morocco; as well as the Bay of Gibraltar and the Spanish towns along its shores. It is accessed from the old town by Europa Road
Bruges – Medieval Centre
The medieval centre of Bruges is remarkably well preserved and is a UNESCO world heritage site. Many of the medieval buildings in the ancient squares is a very popular tourist destination, so you need to plan your visit to avoid the tourists. Bruges is a heavyweight sightseeing destination, you can walk along a canal and explore the city, eat mussels and frits, and wash them down with the town’s own beer, brewed by Bourgogne des Flandres, and which is really nice.
The medieval town of Bruges is very popular with tourists thanks to its picturesque cobbled streets and historic buildings and the encircling canal and inside the city walls, many of the ancient buildings in the Basilica of the Holy BloodBruges are still privately owned so you may have to request entrance into the building, the Bruges almshouses which are whitewashed and can be seen in the townscape of Bruges, mostly clustered around a small courtyard. These were the precursors of public housing and were established in the 14th century by wealthy townspeople
Begin your sightseeing of Bruges around the central Grote Markt (Grand Place), which is surrounded by a series of gabled guildhalls and is also home to the iconic tower, which goes by the name of Belfry of Bruges (Belfort) and dates back to the 13th century. The other main public square in Bruges is the Burg, and this is where tourists will find the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Hard to miss is the city’s Sint Salvator Cathedral and also the beautiful Gothic-style Stadhuis (Town Hall), which is Belgium’s most historic and arguable most attractive town hall, is adorned with statues of various counts and countess from Flander
The city’s famous medieval diamond industry, the Diamond Museum (Diamantmuseum) offers daily diamond polishing demonstrations and boasts many valuable diamond exhibits. The Gruuthusemuseum is also worth investigating and contains a number of beautiful silk tapestries and Belgian antiquities, while for art lovers in Bruges, the Memling Museum is the place to visit and works by Germany’s celebrated artist Hans Memling enjoy an attractive setting, is housed within a former hospital chapel.
The city’s waterways on a canal boat ride. take ride on the open-air boat and get ready to see the city from the water, giving you amazing views of landmarks that you simply can’t get from anywhere else.
To find a canal boat tour, go to one of four quays in the city, Huidenvettersplein, Nieuwstraat, Wollestraat, or Rozenhoedkaai Quay. Each boat holds around 20 people, with tours lasting half an hour. The tours leave regularly but there are often long queues, so arrive early in the morning or later in the evening to avoid a wait.
The St. Janshuis Mill is one of the medieval flour mills in Bruges that has survived in its original location till today. It has been declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The St. Janshuis Mill or St. John’s Mill gets its name because it once supplied flour to the St. John’s Hospital. It is located on the banks of a tranquil canal on the ramparts of the original city fortress. There was a mill at the site from 1297 which was destroyed by a storm in 1744. The present building is the result of a reconstruction in 1770. It belonged to a family of millers until 1914 when it was purchased by the city of Bruges. The mill was neglected for 50 years and started functioning again in 1964.
Brugges Windmills have been carefully renovated and preserved and continue to make flour in the traditional way. In summer, when the wind is high, visitors can see the sails spinning at full speed just like it did in the middle ages. It is open for public view and visitors can learn the workings of a traditional flour mill from the millers. A steep staircase takes visitors to the museum located inside the St. Janshuis Mill.


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Obesity surgery isn’t ever a one-man job. Bariatric surgery for obesity is the very best solution to the issue of obesity. Obesity surgery is done in a variety of procedures and techniques. It is crucial to remember that obesity surgery alone really isn’t the only part within this weight-loss journey. Obesity surgery in India isn’t a totally new technique.
Surgery is simply a TOOL to help you lose the pounds, you must also create a life-long commitment to changing your diet plan and general way of life. At the conclusion of this stage, with the assistance of a bariatric surgeon, you will learn whether you qualify for surgery. It is regarded as a high risk surgery and is generally only utilized in extreme circumstances. The ideal treatment for it’s none besides anorectal surgery. The minimal cost Lasik surgery has many benefits and pitfalls.
A surgeon will carry out a specific sort of surgery on you depending upon your physique, requirements and lots of other medical and wellness factors. He should discuss the finding with you and recommend a plan for the type of treatment suits your kid best. During this operation, he will make a small pouch out of the stomach, discarding the rest. If your bariatric surgeon recommends bariatric surgery, he or she is going to prepare a letter to receive preauthorization from your insurance provider. Bariatric surgeons recommend that patients also incorporate some type of physical fitness in their lifestyles as soon as they’ve healed from the process.
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As an effect of the surgery, the patients eliminate weight only because they wind up with asmallera stomachs due to the operation. Some patients have other health factors that complicate the usage of this form of health procedure. The patient doesn’t eliminate weight immediately. Patients should resist the need to grab extra bites. As stated previously, patients who have sustained fractures from osteoporosis are at a heightened risk for additional fractures because of the loss of bone strength brought on by osteoporosis.
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Obesity is extremely dangerous and deadly. It increases with advancing age for both sexes in the United States. It is one of the common dietary crises faced by a majority of Americans. It can be a big problem. In todayas world, it is a huge issue with many Americans and people all around the world. Treating obesity isn’t a mean feat.
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If you have to have surgery, your physician will examine the ideal type of operation for you, based on the size and position of your cancer, and whether or not it has spread. It is crucial that you are conscious of the different kinds of surgeries available so you can make the best decision for which type is best for you. The very first point to note here is it isn’t a cosmetic surgery. A weight reduction surgery changes somebody’s lifestyle in many of means. If you are searching for weight loss surgery, California, you’re at the ideal location. It is among the four most used bariatric procedures and it has turned out to be both safe and effective for people who want to accomplish a lengthy term weight loss. Obesity surgical procedure works via supporting to lessen the amount of energy which are available to your entire body.
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The surgery must only be carried out by means of an expert. It would appear entirely unethical to do the surgery on an individual similar to this since the expectations related to the surgery are unrealistic and unattainable. Undergoing surgery is merely a very first step. Gastric bypass surgery has an emotional, along with a physiological, influence on the person. The gastric bypass surgery is done on those who have morbid obesity. It is possible to even think about the gastric bypass surgery to eradicate obesity. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is just one of the lesser known yet most productive kinds of bariatric surgery available for severely overweight folks.
Bariatric surgery is in amazing demand. He is not for everyone. He is an operation that is performed in order to help such individuals lose weight.
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SPRINGDALE -- An on-duty air traffic controller was arrested Thursday morning after police said he was intoxicated in the Springdale Municipal Airport tower, according to a police arrest report Thursday.
Longtime controller Philip "P.J." Maschek, 50, of 3031 Pagosa St. was arrested in connection with public intoxication, a misdemeanor offense. Police don't expect to add other charges, said Lt. Scott Lewis, police spokesman.
Maschek was in charge of the airport's towers for about two hours Thursday morning. The tower typically opens at 6 a.m. Another controller arrived and took over duties by 8:05 a.m., said Wyman Morgan, city administrative and financial services director who also oversees airport business.
No one was injured, but the controller position, which communicates with airplanes taking off and landing, is "highly sensitive," Morgan said..
A city employee found Maschek unconscious on the tower floor about 7:45 a.m. Thursday, Morgan said. A pilot who wanted to take off couldn't get the tower to respond, Morgan said. The employee found Maschek "passed out in his chair with his shirt off," according to the police report.
Morgan said he called police, and the airport handled the situation quickly.
Maschek failed field sobriety tests, according to the police report. He showed signs of intoxication, including slurring his speech, swaying on his feet, struggling to follow directions and balancing, according to the report. Police worried Maschek was too intoxicated to climb down a steep ladder to leave the tower and didn't immediately handcuff him, according to the report.
The controller argued with police over the term "public" when police explained he was arrested in connection with public intoxication, the report shows. Maschek was wearing a black robe and house shoes when he was arrested, according to the report.
Maschek refused a breath test, according to the report. Police didn't take a blood sample, Lewis said. No information was available in the police report to show a level of intoxication. He denied intoxication, the report shows.
This is the first time Morgan remembered any problems with Maschek, but Maschek isn't a city employee, he said. Maschek works for Robinson Aviation, the contracting company that operates the tower for the city, Morgan said.
Robinson provides air traffic control and engineering services to governments and industry through contracts, according to its website. The business employs more than 500 air traffic control specialists, engineers, technicians and analysts, according to its website.
The company is approved through the Federal Aviation Administration, Morgan said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesmen didn't respond to a list of questions, but spokesman Tony Molinaro sent one comment via email Thursday evening.
"The FAA will work with (Robinson), the controller's employer, to investigate the incident," Molinaro said.
Maschek told police he has worked with the city for 20 years. Morgan said Maschek was a qualified operator who made a mistake "we couldn't tolerate."
"The tower operator has control and responsibility of the safety of the planes landing and taking off at the airport," Morgan said. "It's a very safety-oriented position."
The company that employs Maschek plans an investigation but has no further comment, said Charlie Taylor, vice president of air traffic services.
Maschek was at the Springdale jail Thursday. Police were requesting his bond be set at $350.
NW News on 07/17/2015

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RSS Marketing - Is it just hype? or the next best channel?
At my workplace on the intranet, there was a poll yesterday asking whether they use RSS. Various options were given, like 'Love the conveniece of RSS', ' planning to use' etc etc and final one was 'What is rss?'. To my surprise, 71% of people voted for the big question, 'What is RSS?' and only about 4% said they love the convenience of RSS. There were around 700 votes total over a period of 2 days, and the % of 'what is rss?' always almost stood around that 70% mark throughout the poll.
Baffled by this low percentage of users in a IT company where people spend most of their time on the computers, I searchedÂ for RSS stats in google to find out the figures among common users. I could not see any recent stats in year 2006. But I found some interesting stats at Rss Diary post 'A challenge to the RSS Industry: RSS stats unacceptable':
Let's simply take a look at some of the more recent stats released by various research companies and others, pertaining to the adoption and use of RSS.
- 87% of influencers use RSS (Nooked)
- Only 3% of Internet users use RSS (Jupiter Research)
- 11% of blog readers use RSS (Nielsen/NetRatings)
- Only 2% of all Americans online use RSS (Forrester Research)
- 9% of Americans have a good idea of what RSS is (PEW)
- 12% of all Americans online use a variety of RSS readers (Jupiter Research)
- 5% of Americans online use RSS (PEW)
It seems that no one can really agree on how many people are really using RSS, knowingly or unknowingly.
And there is a link to Yahoo RSS White paper 'RSS - Crossing into the mainstream' published in Oct, 2005 says that only 4% of users knowingly use RSS feeds. However there are about 28% people use RSS without even knowing that they are using RSS.
Despite this surprisingly low percentage of RSS-aware users, many companies are planning to invest lots of money on RSS as their prime marketing channel. Another blog post on Rss Diary points to a supplement released by AdAge, Ad Age Interactive Marketing & Media Fact Pack 2006 [PDF], points out that
RSS is currently used or is planned to be used within the next 12 months by 63% of consumer product marketers, 65% media and communications marketers, 37% retail marketers, 37% financial services marketers and 38% equipment and tech marketers.
Looking at such a low percentage of users that know about RSS and use RSS, and such a high percentage of firms planning to invest in RSS for marketing, I am wondering whether RSS is a hype or really the next best channel to market their respective products. Looking at the figures, I have no clue.


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Sieg Illch (“Sieg” was short for Siegmond) was also a director of the Equal Rights Benefit Association of Albany, a life insurance and reserve fund. 130 South Pearl Street would be just south of Madison in the Pastures.
The destruction of Albany’s structural heritage is not a new
topic. William Kent, in addressing the changes that had overcome Albany in the
early decades of the 19th century, lamented the march of modernity.
In 1854, he was complaining:
“The architecture of Holland and ancient Albany was not that
of Virtuvius [sic] or Palladio; but I hope you all regret with me that the sweep of
modern improvement has unnecessarily abolished every vestige of those queer,
but interesting buildings, which marked an epoch in our history, and the
predominance of national characteristics, now submerged, for ever in the
mingling of the people, forming new America. I suppose there is scarcely a
person in this assembly who remembers, as I do, the old Dutch Church at the
foot of State-street. I cannot help regretting this curious structure, although
I admit, that no modern architect could erect so ugly a building, and although
its removal has created, perhaps, the noblest street in an American city. But
why was the old Vanderheyden Palace, with its quaint gables, and elaborate, if
fantastic, ornaments, allowed to disappear? And where were the archaeologists
of Albany, when innovators tore down the harmless old building at Lydius’s
Corner, constructed of bricks rought years and years ago from Holland?
“It is, I know full well, useless to resist or lament change
and innovation. Yet an old inhabitant returning after years of absence, to
Albany, sighs for the departed beauties of its environs. Where is the Patroon’s
Creek, once umbrageous with shade, and intricate with sylvan labyrinth? It is
turned into a conduit! Where is the beautiful cascade, which we, rather
ambitiously, styled the Falls of Tivoli? It has become a water-tank. Where are
the sanded beach and the willowy banks of the river? They have become a
rail-road depot and a canal basin. What has become of the Cataract of the Cohoes,
so secluded, so solitary, so awe-inspiring, where, as Thomas Moore sings,
‘From rise of morn ’till set of sun,
He saw the mighty Mohawk run”?
It is metamorphosed to a woolen factory.'”
Kent’s lost Albany was, in fact, lost to the Albany that
many are now trying to preserve, hoping to have learned from the past, but
faced with the same utter disregard for our own heritage.
“All those things are doubtless useful, necessary perhaps,
certainly utilitarian and money-making, but it is a relief to the old Albanian
to gaze on the bolder features of your landscape, and at least recognize landmarks,
which defy the puny encroachments of man. He is sincerely grateful, that you
cannot shut out the Green Mountains; that you cannot level the Helderberghs;
that you cannot essentially alter the majestic sweep of your matchless river;
and that no engineer can dig down the everlasting Catskills.”
So who was William Kent? He was born in Albany in 1892, graduated from Union College and studied law and practised in New York City. He was
appointed justice of the Supreme Court of New York by Governor Seward
and served until 1846, when he resigned to accept the Royall
professorship of law in Harvard college. He resigned in 1847 owing to his father’s ill health, and
returned to New York City. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and a member of the council of the University of the City of
New York. He died at Fishkill Landing, N.Y., Jan. 14, 1861.
On a February evening in 1854, a gentleman by the name of
William Kent stood before the Young Men’s Association of Albany and delivered
his recollections of Albany, which he had left 30 years before, and to which he
returned, in his estimation, a stranger.
As he described it, “Albany, in the first decade of the present [that
is, the 19th] century, was a quiet and quaint little town, which, in
the intervals of the sittings of the legislature, when an unwonted bustle was
introduced among us, Washington irving would have loved to describe . . .
“It was then an isolated town. Schenectady lay a day’s
journey distant, over the sandhills. Greenbush, a little hamlet, was visited
with difficulty, and rarely visited at all; while Bath, our nearest neighbor, was
a mystery to us all, and remains to me a mystery still.” So bashing of what would
become the city of Rensselaer is nothing new. “We knew that a road led through
it to Sand Lake, which we heard of as one hears of Lake Tchad or Lake Baikal,
in Africa and Asia, and I confess my notions of its locality are scarcely more
precise now. “
At the age of seven or eight, he went on an excursion to
Bath, “determined to see, close at hand, the storehouse and buildings, which I
had gazed at so often from the right bank of the river; and I well remember
finding, when I reached the centre of that commercial emporium, as I have too
often since found in life, that distance had lent the enchantment. “
Back to Albany, where the “dominant characteristics of
architecture, manners, and even language, were those of Holland. Emigrants had
indeed come among us; and the Yankees, of course, were not absent. I myself came
from that nomadic and interloping race . . . But the high places in our city
were conceded to, and incontestably held by the Dutch. They were the lauded
aristocracy. Their villas overhung our hilltops.” Speaking of the descendant of
the Patroon, van Rensselaer, Kent said, “He was the last survivor of expiring
feudality; and never did its representative better entitle himself to affection
and respect by an unassuming deportment, unobtrusive charity, the discreet
exercise of the influence of his station, and all the virtues of domestic life.”
We’ll have more from Mr. Kent tomorrow.
I don’t know much about 4 Hisgen Brothers, other than there were at least four of them, and they manufactured axle grease right here in Albany. This ad from 1898 represents that their axle grease was the best in the world for wagons, buggies, and all kinds of journals. That usage of journal (“the part of a rotating shaft, axle, roll, or spindle that turns in a bearing”) has fallen by the wayside.
Eliot’s “Biographical History of Massachusetts” says that when Thomas L. Hisgen, born in Petersburg, Indiana, was 16, “the family removed to Albany, New York, where four of the boys took places in clothing stores, while their father, who was something of a chemist, invented and manufactured an excellent axle grease.”
Thomas L. Hisgen became president of the business, and also tried to become president of the United States (with a stab at the Massachusetts governorship along the way). He fought Standard Oil, which tried to take over Hisgen Brothers (with an offer of $600,000), or put them out of business, or both, and his platform in 1907 in Massachusetts and in 1908 as an independence candidate for the presidency both involved excoriating the power of Standard Oil and the Rockefellers in deciding elections. Hisgen Brothers had expanded beyond simple grease into the oil business, and had decamped to Springfield, Massachusetts.
A Hisgen family website says the factory was located at 443 South Pearl Street. Who’s Who from 1915 had this to say about Thomas Louis Hisgen: He began the manufacture of axle grease in 1889 with his father and brothers, and erected a “complete, modern factory, now said to be the largest of the kind in the world; refusing an offer to sell out to the Standard Oil Co., a fight which still continues, was precipitated, resulting in the HIsgen Brothers going also into the kerosene oil business as competitors of the Standard Oil Co. in N.E. and central N.Y.” Somewhere along the way, the company moved its headquarters to Springfield, Massachusetts. Who’s Who notes that he ran for state auditor of Massachusetts in 1906, for governor of that state in 1907, and for President (on the National Independent Party line) in 1908. He then became president of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, a vigorous anti-Standard Oil association.
We dedicate a building which has been carried to an admirable and complete fruition, without scandal, and within the first appropriation that was provided for it.” These words were uttered by Dr. A.S. Draper, New York State Commissioner of Education in his dedicatory address at the time of the dedication of the new State Education Building at Albany, October 16th. The Empire State has won new honor for itself in this accomplishment. Distinguished men gathered to celebrate the event and to take part in the ceremonies presided over by the Hon. Whitelaw Reid.
It is a magnificent building. Magnificent in architectural design and construction. Magnificent in the kind and quality of its material. Magnificent, too, in its symbolism, for there on the hill at Albany in pleasant juxtaposition to the State House is the realized ideal of a great and enlightened commonwealth – a gorgeous temple of learning erected by the people in token of their devotion to the cause of popular education. Supremely magnificent is the history of its erection and the record of its financial management. The Commissioner had good reason for his pride, and it is to be devoutly hoped that the auspicious dedication may be a prophecy of an uninterrupted history of honor an dusefulness, to the everlasting glory of the great State whose capital city is thus signalized.
Chancellor Whitelaw Reid, at the State Education Building’s dedication ceremonies in 1912, said,
“We are proud that the great structure comes to us absolutely free. There is no debt on it. They issued no bonds for it and anticipated no income. The people of New York have equipped their Board of Regents and Department of Education with these new and greatly enlarged facilities for conducting the business with which they have charged us, close on the heels of our misfortune; and they paid for it as they went along, out of the current revenues of the State. They paid for it completely. For once the cost of a public building of the first class has been kept within the estimates and within the appropriations. This is said to be an era of big prices, and especially the expense of building is said to be far higher than formerly, but this building has cost barely one-fifth of the one opposite. In round numbers, our Education Building has cost the State five millions of dollars, as against the twenty-five millions for the State Capitol.”
The “misfortune” he referred to was the loss of the State Library in the State Capitol fire the year before. He went on to assess the relative importance of education to the state, as measured by spending:
“I have already acknowledged the munificent support we have lately received from the State in our special emergency. But I wonder how generally it is realized by our citizens or even by this audience that the people of this State regularly spend more, and more freely, for their schools than for any other object; three times as much, in fact, as for all other branches of government combined – legislative, judicial, penal, reformatory, charitable, curative, agricultural, defensive, and all the rest. In round numbers the State appropriates eight and one-half millions for its schools – a million more than for any other object … The amounts raised for the same purpose by special local taxation in every school district in the State, swell that sum till the grand total rises to the magnificent figure of seventy-seven millions. If the Empire State is called to deal imperially with any subject coming under its care, it certainly should be with the training of the rising generation.”
If you were an academic, from pretty much anywhere, Albany was apparently the place to be one hundred years ago as the State Education Building was dedicated. Across the three days, there were six formal sessions, a major reception, open house at the Governor’s Mansion, attended by representatives from 120 higher education institutions throughout the country, and 10 from abroad. There was an academic procession filled with caps and gowns (appropriate, given that modern academic dress was invented right here in Albany). In fact, the invitation booklet noted that “The academic cap and gown will be welcomed at any time.” Rentals were available.
The domestic institutions represented included Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and every college you’ve heard of in New York, as well as far-flung institutions like the University of Texas, the University of Missouri, University of New Mexico. There was also the intriguingly named Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York. From abroad, Oxford, Edinburgh, the University of Cuzco and the Syrian Protestant College saw fit to send representatives to this grand ribbon-cutting.
In sending out the invitations, the Department sent an interesting caution: “The auditorium space will doubtless be inadequate for dedication week. That proper reservations may be made, kindly indicate in your acceptance the particular exercises which you will attend.”
The State Education Building, an indispensable and unforgettable part of the Albany streetscape, one of the most distinctive pieces of classical architecture in the country and purportedly the longest Corinthian colonnade, was dedicated precisely one hundred years ago. In the century that has passed, the State Museum that once drew throngs of schoolchildren into the building to lick a salt pillar and marvel at the Cohoes mastodon has moved a few blocks to the south, and the palatial home to the state’s education bureaucracy is largely off limits to the public. But we can and still do appreciate its incredible beauty from outside.
State Education Building (Photo credit: carljohnson)
One hundred years ago, the opening of the State Education Building was a Very Big Deal Indeed. The dedication exercises covered three days, October 15, 16 and 17, 1912. Delegates from educational institutions all over the country, all over the world, came to the ceremonies. There was a dedicatory procession with a very clear pecking order. In addition to perhaps 200 colleges and libraries, there were city and village superintendents, members of local boards of education, district superintendents, and high school principals.
The Chancellor of the University of the State of New York was then Whitelaw Reid, who was elected by the Board of Regents in 1906. Whitelaw Reid was an editor and owner of the New York Tribune, a friend of Horace Greeley, a leader of Liberal Republicans who had such a career that his position as the Chancellor of the state education system isn’t mentioned in Wikipedia and barely touched in his two-volume biography. His biographer seemed to find that his time as Ambassador to France, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, vice presidential nominee (with Benjamin Harrison), and time on the peace commission after the Spanish-American War were of more importance. (When he died, news of his passing was sent to President Taft by King George.) But in fact he had important influence on the education system, being a firm advocate of separating politics from education.
Was there speechifying at this dedication ceremony? Oh my god was there. The transcripts run over 200 pages just of speeches. The congratulatory letters seem perfunctory in comparison. At the end of three days, the venerable Chancellor Reid was still holding forth with breathless prose like “The Board of Regents would feel very meanly of itself and would deserve to be thought meanly of if in this hour of its triumph it did not gratefully welcome to this platform those former officials of the State who have been of service in the earlier struggles that today reach their culmination, and if it did not hold in grateful memory those of them …” Sorry, drifted off while copying it. You get the gist.
Tomorrow: Who was there.
From 1898, an advertisement for John Harrigan’s Sons (whose names, it would appear were Harvey, Daniel and Joseph), undertakers. This lovely building was at the corner of Chapel and Canal streets; Canal is now known as Sheridan Avenue. I can’t tell which corner this was on, but the only surviving building from that era on that corner is the one housing a lobbying firm on the southeast corner. According to Amasa Parker’s “Landmarks of Albany County,” John Harrigan came to Albany from County Limerick in Ireland in 1847, and started this business in 1852. He was county coroner for two terms beginning in 1862. He was originally at 22 Canal Street, then at 21, where he built this building in 1890. “The building comprises seven lots and has a large stable in the rear. The firm has the finest assortment of burial cases always on hand.” What a shame that this lovely building didn’t survive.
Among the delights and pleasures of the worldwide web, Google Books, and public domain is the ability to discover, dissect, and disseminate tomes from yesteryear that were otherwise moldering in the locked “local history” room of the public library, available only to those willing to submit to the suspicions of the collections librarian and able to copy it all out in longhand. Thank you, computer age, for making it easier to connect to the past.
One of those discoveries has been “The Tourist’s Guide Through the Empire State,” edited and published by a Mrs. S.S. Colt in Albany in 1871, and, in the manner of the time, bearing even more title: “Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson River and New York Central Route, describing all routes of travel, and places of popular interest and resort along the Hudson River, Lake George, Lake Champlain, the Adirondacks, Saratoga, Niagara Falls, etc. etc.” No small feat, but Mrs. Colt is quite up to it. There is way too much about Albany (or, as she titles it, The Capital City) to post in one stroke; there will be more. Enjoy this for openers. (All emphasis is, I assure, original to Mrs. Colt.)
The oldest city in the United States, excepting St. Augustine, is Albany. As such, it claims the reverence, not only of every true-hearted Dutch-man, but of every member of the universal Yankee nation, which has no geographical limit this side of Saturn’s rings. Until within a few years, Albany was, in every sense of the word, an old-fashioned town. The Present is still linked with the Past more inseparably here than in any other city in the State. To write of Albany, and disregard that conservative element which once admitted outsiders to a position in “good society,” under this protest –“Take, take the Yankees in,
And end this fuss,
Or be assured, my Lords,
They’ll take in us!“
would be to present but a dry narrative of dates and directory of Public Buildings.
A live description of Albany will not represent it as wholly “a live town,” according to the general American acceptation of that phrase in this present year of 1871.
And yet, with much conservatism, there is also stability and rectitude and the best representatives of the old Dutch aristocracy of long ago, are the most genial and high-toned – in all senses of the word, are among the best Men of To-Day.
A friendship formed in Albany, is a friendship for life.
A business is more slowly established here than in many places which boast of “more enterprise,” but it is for this very reason more surely established. A house reared here is less liable than elsewhere to be swept away by the tides of progress, unless indeed it is built upon North Pearl, where the rush of business is entirely changing the character of this old and stately street. The first glimpse of Albany reminds the European traveler of some of the cities of the old world. Its spires and domes indeed
In morning’s light.”
The Delavan House and the Capitol seem to be the two head-centers of the city. The former is under the control of Mr. Charles Leland and is very well managed. The latter, it is sometimes hinted, is under the control of the highest bidder, and is not always well managed for the public good.
Leaving the Delavan House for a stroll over the city we will follow Broadway to State Street.
Broadway was first known as Handelaer, and subsequently as Market street. State street was originally Yonkers. At the intersection of Broadway and State street stood the old Dutch Church which was torn down in 1806.
The Delavan House was not only one of the city’s premiere hotels (in a day when hotels were as much civic meeting places as they were lodgings), it had been founded in 1845 as a temperance house by Edward Delavan, whose prohibitionist sentiments were not entirely out of tune with the times, as New York State briefly enacted prohibition in 1855, part of the Know Nothing movement’s anti-immigrant sentiments. (The law was struck down early in 1856, having had very little effect.) By the time Charles Leland managed the Delavan, politicians meeting there were well able to procure a drink. Or two. Very well-known among travelers, the Delavan was Albany’s landmark hotel until it burned spectacularly on December 30, 1894 (click here for the New York Times account of the fire). The location would soon after be used for the construction of Albany’s new Union Station.
The Old Dutch Church at the corner of Broadway and State streets had been the location of a church since 1656. It was succeeded on that northwest corner by a building called the Marble Column Building, and later the Albany Museum, according to Don Rittner’s “Images of America: Albany.” That building presented a rounded front to the street, as does its 1904 successor, the First Trust Company building, now used by the SUNY Research Foundation.
This article previously appeared at My Non-Urban Life.

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Hydrogen peroxide is one of those items that just chills in our cabinet and it feels like the bottle lasts years. Many of us don’t realize how useful that little bottle of peroxide is. I’ve learned a few ways over the years how to use up that bottle and make it earn its keep in my cabinet. Below are 8 tips for using hydrogen peroxide as more than just a cabinet space filler.
- Clean and disinfect small wounds – Yep, this is probably what most of us are familiar with. When I was younger, my mom would always whip a bottle of peroxide out first thing and pour it over whatever boo boo I ended up getting. Yes, it burned like the dickens but it did the trick.
- Naturally whitens nails – Stop paying an expensive amount of money to keep your nails looking perfectly white. Just pour some peroxide in a bowl and soak your fingernails for a bit and it will do the trick.
- Prevent ear infections – I had a friend that always got a mixture of vinegar and peroxide put in her ears before and sometimes after swimming because she was always so susceptible to ear infections. If you mix half peroxide and half vinegar together and put 3-4 drops in each ear before swimming, ear infections are nonexistent.
- Clear up blemishes – Yes, your cheap little bottle of peroxide can clear up any acne problems you may be having. Simply use it like you would a face wash and it will do the trick!
- Get rid of bad breath – Having issues with bad breath even after brushing your teeth? This is often caused by bacteria in the mouth. No worries, swish with some hydrogen peroxide and voila, your bad breath is no longer. It is not advised that you swallow the peroxide though.
- Detoxify – If you want to get a great full body detoxification, trying pour hydrogen peroxide into your bath water. Again, it’s not advised that you ingest any of this as you are in the bath. The peroxide should pull the bad junk out of your body during your relaxing bath.
- Fight a cold or sinus infection – Some people mix equal parts water and peroxide and use it as a nasal spray in order to fight colds and sinus infections. If you do this, we suggest consulting your doctor first and definitely making sure you blow your nose shortly after to expel most of the peroxide.
- Deodorant – Yep, you heard right, you can use hydrogen peroxide as a deodorant. Sometimes deodorants can clog pores and actually make sweating or the smell worse.
Hydrogen peroxide is a great natural way to ward off any bad smells without clogging your pores and making matters worse. Plus, it’s much cheaper.
There are so many more uses for hydrogen peroxide but these were the few we loved the most. It has a wide variety of uses and is a great option for a more natural approach if one is desired.

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It has been about two months that I have been back in the U.S. If things work out I will be back in China by February. I have all the necessary trepidations collected and percolating in my brain preparing for all the appropriate anxieties of “what ifs” and the “I don’t knows”. I feel quite prepared in that capacity. Some people, my friends who know me well, may wonder why I’m returning to China when I had expressed such a deep hatred for the place. The public, like my youtube channel and this blog space or even my Facebook, didn’t know I had such a hatred for the place, but I’m laying it all-out-on the line here people; I hated it. I think it is difficult to be truly honest about your feelings on social media and in a public forum because there is/can be so much backlash to everything you write. Honestly, I think it is okay to hate a place. The important part is to understand why you hate it and then to figure out if it is a fair reason to hate it, and if it is really something about yourself and your preconceived ideas that make you hate it, and again, is that a fair assessment. You know the: “It’s not the place it’s you,” effect. ETC…
I didn’t feel the need to express my true feelings to the great big world because it was too early. It took me a full year away from China to appreciate China, but while I was there it was difficult. It was difficult because I had culture shock. Part of the shock had to do with the experience of being, to sound cliche, the stranger in a strange land or to be more succinct, “the other”. It was difficult because I wasn’t used to being the only one that looked like me. I grew up in a white town with white people. America is a society that caters to white people even though America doesn’t want to admit it, it’s true. White people are everywhere; in the movies; in the magazines; on the news; everywhere. It’s so white when you’re white you don’t even know what it feels like to not belong even when you’re a misfit and you don’t belong- that is if you live in a white society. I also spent 13 years in Portland, Oregon, and Portland during the time I was there was voted one of the whitest cities in the United States. My point is, is that when you are the majority you don’t notice it even when you feel lonely and out of place, and yes, even when you feel cheated and misrepresented. You might think you don’t get any of the benefits of the majority because you are on the bottom of the heap of the majority, but you still pass as the majority and that passing is bigger than you think. Bascially, you don’t have to think about being white you just are a person (that by the way is part of what people mean by privilege: you are a person not a person with a skin color other than white). I had never thought of myself in the sense of “otherness.” Often I had felt like I didn’t always connect or fit-in with white America or even the American Dream because of what I felt internally (sometimes based on my experiences as a woman and as being raised poor and on welfare), but that is not the same as being “the other”. Then I moved to a place where I was the minority. Then I knew. No, to know is too strong a verb, you don’t know, I became sensitive to it; to skin color, to color and to race.
I’m not going to get into the conversation of racism in China versus racism in America or express some kind of kindred “I understand discrimination” because woes me I was a poor lonely white woman in China. Being white in China is exponentially different from being black (or latino, or native American…) in America, for one thing, a black person in America is an American (which I think some people have seemed to have gotten confused) while a white person in China is an American too (even when you are not) but you are also 100% not Chinese and nor will you ever be Chinese. The experience of white male versus the white female are different too and I’m not writing here to expose the great secret of the white man’s success with Chinese women, as well as there are many different nationalities and races of people who live in China and experience their own kind of foreigner experience. My point is to express the feeling of being a minority when you come from a world where you were the majority (even if not in actual numbers, but in power of a social system) and what that felt like to me and how it contributed to my experience of culture shock. My heightened sense of sensitivity and growing awareness and openness to listening to the words of American people of color (and new immigrants) is just a positive (I think positive) by-product of my experience, but it can never compare to what it feels like to grow up feeling like “the other” in a country that is supposed to be your home. When I use the word minority as applied to me in China I mean a minority by the definition of small in numbers: As in smaller less seen, and therefore standing out; not invisible; and a bit like a zoo animal. In my ignorance I had thought I would like the attention. As if I’d be like a movie star. But, I didn’t like the attention, and the attention wasn’t like being a movie star it was more like being a freak. Now, I’m just writing about the negative culture shock moments to build toward the positive ending in this post so hold your possible anger and go along with it…
The stares, Jim! The stares!
It was disconcerting. At first I tried to smile at people who stared hard at me, and occasionally someone would smile back, but most often a smile would only make the stare harder. I, of course, didn’t and couldn’t know what people were really thinking, but to me it was that I did not belong there. Not that people were going to push me out, but just that I was not a part of the community, and I could not blend in. I was noticeable everywhere I went. Some people wanted to take my picture, some people just wanted to stare at me, and children pointed and screamed. They didn’t scream in terror, I mean they screamed in delight, It was like: “MOMMY! LOOK AT THE CLOWN, MOMMY!” And, that was what got to me. Of course it was charming when a large group of school girls walked by and yelled out in english, “I love you!” But it wasn’t charming when a group of men would circle me and examined me like I was something to purchase, and yes that happened too. I will hands down admit I was not good at handling the attention, but I am also grateful because for the first time it made me feel, really feel (minus the violence) what it is to be a minority, and to be looked at for your skin, your eyes, your hair. Even though people thought I was beautiful or exotic it still made me uncomfortable because I was being examined. I have a rather extreme example of what I mean by examined: Once, I had to pee in a public restroom at the train station, and this bathroom was like a trough. It was open stalls where you would squat over this narrow little trench with the piss and shit running like two little rivers as if you were a giant straddling the land and defecating into the canyon below. I felt uncomfortable, not only because I sucked at the squat and because all this human feces was so close to me, but because there were no stalls, and I knew, I just knew someone was going to try to look at my vagina as I peed. How did I know this? because I had already been examined in a public shower before, not by everyone of course, but it only takes one person feeling completely fine examining you to make you feel awkward; but I had to pee. Most women walked by not caring, but then it happened. She saw me squatting, and she slowed down and tried to take a peek, but my attempt to gracelessly hide myself while simultaneously not pee on my feet or slip into the river of stench did register to her that she was violating my privacy, and dropped her head and quickly walked away, but the very fact that she would have felt okay trying to do it in the first place is what I mean about being examined.
At the school where I taught, huge groups of new potential students were touring the classrooms. There were hundreds of students. It was near the end of my year in China and I had already been accustomed to people being excited or surprised to see my skin and my hair, and my very American looking face. As I saw the large group of students walking towards the windows of my classroom where I was teaching, I could see some of the eyes of the kids light up as they saw me, and I knew it would be a matter of minutes till the cameras came out. I moved down off the podium as I was talking and into the thick of my class, as I did so the cameras began flashing. Many of the visiting students had pressed themselves up against the window to get a good shot. My own students, who looked at me like I was old news, and had had plenty of exposure to foreigners, gasped at the disruption, and a couple of the girls screamed in that very teenaged annoyed way, “Oh MY GOD!” And, some Chinese expletives were yelled as well. A few of them ran to the windows to lower the blinds.
“It’s like they think we’re animals in a zoo!” One of my students yelled.
I loved my students, even the students that would frustrate me. I wish I could have given them more. One day some of my students were telling me that if I went to a certain historical place, on a public holiday, I would be mobbed by the crowed because I was a foreigner, and a lot of villagers go there, and they may never have seen a white person or any foreigner before. So I said, “I’ll wear a hat and cover my hair”. My student shook her head, no. “I’ll wear a hat and sunglasses to cover my eyes”. My student shook her head, no. “I’ll wear a hat, and glasses, and a scarf around my face, and I’ll wear long sleeves and gloves to cover my skin”. “No,” my student said, “You’ll never be able to hide that nose.” (For those of you who don’t know Chinese people think foreigners have big noses. Some do.) It was difficult to be the only one who looked like me, but then there was the language too. Not only couldn’t I blend in because of my physical appearance, I also couldn’t communicate. I was surrounded by millions (literally millions) of people, and I was isolated. This was hard for me. This was just the beginning of the culture shock, then there was the actual culture- so different yet sometimes eerily familiar to my own; and then the pollution which was like the apocalypse (no joke); and the construction; and the population; and how education is conducted; and business is run; and the the shitty hierarchy of the work place for Chinese people; and so many nuanced things. And then, there was my mother’s death.
I sometimes think if my mom had not died, suddenly while I was in China, that I may have gotten past the culture shock phase, but because she did die, I was thrown into a despair that I couldn’t grasp, and with no close friends to turn to, friends who knew my relationship with my mother, and I felt lost. I felt an isolation I had never experienced before, an isolation that changed me, permanently. There were other things too: stress at school, and friendship loneliness, and just basic life stresses. When I was about to leave China I couldn’t get away fast enough. I thought to myself I fucking hate this country and I’ll never return, but I was lying to myself. I just didn’t know it.
It took me almost a full year away from China to finally appreciate it, and that appreciation first came through food and e-mails from a friend. I missed Chinese food. You can’t get Chinese food anywhere in the world other than China. That food you’re eating that you think is Chinese is nothing; it’s crap. Go to China, eat the food, you’ll find the food gods. It’s that good. Sure there’s crazy stuff like bird heads and tongues and testicles and yes some places still eat dogs and cats, and you’ll probably eat a rat thinking it’s chicken, but you don’t have to eat those things (if you know what you’re eating), there is so much to choose from so many amazing noodles, and spices, and broths, and vegetables…food ecstasy. The spices! Oh, the spices! Then there were my friends. The Chinese friends I had made who missed me and sent me e-mails hoping to not lose touch, and hoping that I would return to visit them again one day. And my foreign friends that stayed or returned and still sent messages and shared stories “of crazy life in China”. In all that isolation and loneliness and cultural shock I had made friends. Foreigner friends and Chinese friends. Good friends. I missed my students (who I will most likely never see again). Then there was Xi’an.
I lived in Zhengzhou. I can say, still, today as I write this, I didn’t like Zhengzhou. It wasn’t my kind of city, and the pollution was too much, and the construction was too much, and it wasn’t culturally interesting to me. I think maybe you have to be Chinese to appreciate the city, or maybe not, I don’t know why foreigners like it there, you’d have to ask them, it wasn’t the right place for me. If I had only spent my time in Zhengzhou which is where I spent most of my time, I may not have ever wanted to return to China, but I went to Kaifeng, Luoyang, and to Xi’an. All those places were just as polluted as Zhengzhou (don’t underestimate this pollution. It’s bad the world should care) but the beauty of the other cities and their cultural heritage helped me to overlook the pollution (to an extent). They were filled with history and were so exciting for me to visit. Then there was Xi’an. I had wanted to go to Xi’an since I was a little girl. Xi’an was one of my “before I die” places. I loved the city, and it was my last impression of China. China that is so huge and vast that I merely stuck my toe in the ocean of it. This last impression reminded me that I had wanted to visit China for a long time and there was so much to see and experience.
I am returning to China. This time to Beijing, and this time for the job not just China. My strongest interest is in the job. I’m not going to try to conquer China, to go back and say: “Yes! This time I made it!” I’m going because there is an opportunity for me, and also because there is so much more to see in China than Zhengzhou. I will be on the coast. In a new province. In the city of the last Dynasty. And, I’ve been to China, and I have a better idea of what to expect. It may be more difficult. I don’t know, but I’m not blinded by magazine articles and illusions of ‘What is China.” I find a humor now in the things that caused me stress. Not that I’m into people examining me peeing, but I also know that is not an everyday occurrence, and I’m mentally prepared unlike I was before. Plus, being able to tell a story about someone trying to watch you pee because you know they’re wondering if a white woman’s pee or vagina is the same as their own can be a pretty funny story to tell— afterwards, long afterwards. Beijing will be more crowded, and more polluted, but I won’t be arriving this time like a wide eyed idiot with the innocent thinking, “oh, it’ll be like I’m a movie star.” That was just a stupid thing to think. There are just somethings you can not know without experiencing them. I’ve experienced China once in one small part. This time I hope to do better. To feel better. To leave thinking, “Oh, I could visit again.”
This is probably not the right place to contact you, but I just wanted you to know how sorry I was to hear about your mom. I hope that me writing to you in here doesn’t creep you out but I thought that I should at least offer my sympathy and a virtual hug from a distance if I could. Have a good time with your travels, explore and keep experiencing you are a wonderful person.
I’m not sure if this get’s back to you, but I just want to thank you for the note. Your condolences and long distance virtual hug are greatly appreciated. Thank you. I hope you’re doing well.

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BRIEF-Petrobras says it will delay opening Comperj refinery
March 21 (Reuters) - Petrobras CEO says:
* company reorganization will be discussed and approved at a March 30 board meeting
* could review Brazil fuel prices after non-competitive prices cut demand
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Broncos defeat Timberwolves
January 23, 2020
The LRS Broncos defeated Tekoa/Rosalia in league matches at Ritzville Tuesday night. The Bronco boys booked a 64-41 win with a strong finish in the second half. Spencer Gehring led the Broncos with 17 points.
Garrett Naught hit a game high 18 to lead the T-wolves, and Carson McDonald hit seven.
The Bronco girls posted a 67-19 win over the Timberwolves with Dakota Killian hitting 12. Elise Wilkins led TR with seven points.
In the Saturday league round, the TR teams sustained losses at Reardan. The boys teams battled in the first half with Reardan booking a 36-34 edge. They came out after the break and added eight points to the gap on the way to a 70-56 win.
Garrett Naught rolled up 30 points for the Timberwolves, and Anthony Gehring finished with 10.
Reardan girls posted a 42-21 win Saturday. Kamryn Hendrickx led TR scorers with seven points, and Wilkins finished with six.
The league-leading Liberty teams are booked to play at Tekoa Friday.

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You know their songs...now get to know the artists!
- Word on the Way
- But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. “My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
- — Job 23:10-11


The proposal to make a statue, on the basis of a picture in Budhbhusan, a book written by Sambhaji himself, was presented by Member of Legislative Council Anil Bhosale years ago. The plan was approved by the district administration in August 2014 and the City Improvement Committee of PMC approved the proposal in June 2015.
The PMC’s move comes three years after the development plan for the area was finalised. Municipal Commissioner Saurabh Rao has sought permission from the PMC’s city improvement committee to change the land categorisation.
As per the special provision, permission of the commissioner or chief executive officer of the authority would not be neccessary to construct structures for operational purpose of the Metro rail service.
PSCDCL has promised to ensure a revenue of Rs 70 crore for the PMC and Rs 20 crore for the PMPML from the advertising permissions, while the PMC has said it could generate more than Rs 100 crore from it.
While the civic body claims that it has 2,200 km of roads and one lakh street lights in its areas, RAMS, an initiative by the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (PSCDCL), puts the total length of roads at 1,400 km
In a government resolution, the state General Administration Department said it has assessed that folk art and street plays are more effective to disseminate information about government schemes than traditional print and electronic media.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) administration has spent the Rs 18.4 crore allotted in the civic budget, to bear 50 per cent of the medical expenditure of the urban poor, within the first seven months of the financial year.
In 2016, the Pune Municipal Corporation was ranked 11th among the 100 cleanest cities in India under the Swachh Survey. The civic body slipped to the 13th place in 2017 and again jumped to the 10th position in 2018.
The campaign will also point out the “failures” of the BJP-led governments in the Centre and state. A booklet prepared by the Congress will also compare the “achievements of the Congress when it was in power and failures of the BJP government”.
The transport body, which often faces criticism over its ageing vehicles and breakdown of buses, has decided to add a total of 400 buses to its fleet, to improve services for lakhs of commuters in Pune.


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Conclusions: The Landscape of Digital Liberties and the Future
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In this Chapter are drawn conclusions concerning: (i) the critical relationship between the use of technologies and the actions of political and social activism, and (ii) how technologies are closely related to the protection of human rights. Leaving aside all local situations addressed in the previous Chapters, the Author draws some basic guidelines that address the issues of the use of technology as a tool for rebellion, the relationship between the activities of dissidents and the digital world of hacking, the relationship between Internet and law (and between law and freedom), to identify some useful interpretative guidelines to develop future research. The first Section of the Chapter deals with human rights protection in the digital era; the second Section analyses information and communication technologies thought as “antibodies” against repression and censorship; the last part deals with digital dissidence and its relationship with the hacking tradition.
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- Benkler, Yochai. 2012. Hacks of Valor. Why anonymous is not a threat to national security. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137382/yochai-benkler/hacks-of-valor. Accessed 16 June 2012.
- Joyce, Mary. 2009. An introduction to digital activism. http://www.slideshare.net/MaryCJoyce/introduction-to-digital-activism. Accessed 23 Nov 2011.
- Pattaro, Enrico, and Giovanni Sartor. 2002. Norms, laws and the internet. http://www.ieid.org/congreso/ponencias/sartorpattaro.pdf. Accessed 14 Nov 2011.
- Sartor, Giovanni. 2010. Human rights and the future of the information society. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1707724. Accessed 3 Sep 2012.


Most Americans (69%) know the Holocaust took place roughly between 1930 and 1950.
Poll: What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some, not much
by: Yonat Shimron Jan. 22, 2020 (RNS) — A new poll suggests Americans know about the Holocaust, the genocidal campaign against European Jews, but they’re fuzzy on the details. MostRead More
That’s the finding in the latest Pew Research poll, which found that 63% of Americans say churches and other houses of worship should stay out of politics...
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But most agree that President Donald Trump’s personal conduct is an issue.
American faith groups agree: Trump should act more presidential
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Americans no longer hold clergy in such high regard, according to a recent poll, and even regular churchgoers are seeking counsel elsewhere.
New poll shows growing view that clergy are irrelevant
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"[T]hey rank human trafficking, poverty and the refugee crisis as more urgent problems than the persecution of Christians."
Poll measures US Catholics’ perceptions of the global persecution of Christians
NEW YORK — According to a new poll, 46 percent of US Catholics say the global persecution of Christians is “very severe”—an increase of more than 16 percent compared to aRead More
A LifeWay Research study of Protestant senior pastors found 51 percent approve of how President Trump has handled the job...
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Beach house with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and golf nearby in Le Grau-du-Roi, the South of France
From £497 per week
House to rent in Le Grau-du-Roi, the South of France
This 3 bedroom house is located in Le Grau-du-Roi and sleeps 6 people. It has air conditioning. The house is within walking distance of a beach.
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end-of-terrace house, 6 people, 4 room/s, 3 bedroom/s, 1 bathroom/s, approx. 50 m², 2 floor/s, year of construction 1979, renovated 2017.
- Holiday village, dead-end street
- Parking near the house approx
- 50 m
- Access to the house via footpath approx
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- Terrace 17 m² (sun-blind, protected from wind, view-protected), furnishing provided, gas barbecue.
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- Non-smoking house
- Furnishing: holiday standard, friendly, bright, tiled floor, linoleum floor
- Equipment: TV; DVD; washing machine, iron/ironing board; air conditioning (in the living room); electric heating
- Room layout:
Living room(ground floor): furniture suite, exit to terrace
- From the living room stairs to upper levels
- Dining area: in the kitchen
- Kitchenette: open to the living room
- Kitchen/ cooking equipment - 2 ceramic hobs, oven, microwave oven, dish-washer, combination fridge-freezer, coffee machine, capsule coffee machine, water boiler, toaster
- Bedroom 1(floor 1): queen-size bed
- Bedroom 2(floor 1): queen-size bed
- Bedroom 3(floor 1, small room): bunk bed
- Additional information: direct access to sanitary no 1
- Sanitary 1(floor 1, access from one bedroom only): shower
- Sanitary 2(floor 1): WC
- Important information: maximum occupancy - 4 adults and 2 child(ren)
- Local service charges Electricity according to consumption approx
- € 0,18/kWh
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- Linen/towels Linen/towels must be brought along
- Bed linen available on loan, € 8 per person/change (on order)
- Deposit € 200 (in cash)
- Pet 1 pet allowed, € 20 per week (please advise prior to arrival; additional pets on request only)
The agent describes this house as an ideal holiday rental for the summer holidays. It is also good value for money. This house is located in Le Grau-du-Roi. The nearest airport is only 27km away. It is set in a very convenient location, just 500 metres away from a beach and only 1km away from the city center.
The house is well equipped: it has air conditioning, a dishwasher and a washing machine.
The house is suitable for activity holidays during the summer.
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Shrewsbury fireworks spectacular postponed for second time over flooding fears
A fireworks display in Shrewsbury has been postponed for a second time after another flood warning was issued.
The display, which takes place at the West Mid Showground, is a regular fixture in the county calendar and one of the most popular seasonal events
It was originally due to take place on November 2 and was postponed until this Saturday when heavy rain left the ground waterlogged.
However organisers have now been forced to reschedule for a second time.
It will now take place on December 7, with a festive twist.
Ian Bebbington, chief executive officer of the Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society, said: "We are truly sorry to announce that due to the further risk of flooding and safety concerns relating to waterlogged areas of the showground, we have been forced to postpone the bonfire and fireworks event which was due to take place this Saturday.
"However, we are arranging a special one-off Christmas Firecracker event on December 7 for which all fireworks tickets will remain valid. This event will feature the same double fireworks displays, funfair and entertainment but with an extra festive twist."
Anyone who would rather a refund on advance tickets should email email@example.com
Mr Bebbington added: "Please bear with us because if we have a large volume of refund requests, it will take some time for us to work through them as each refund is done individually by our small office team, but we guarantee everyone who requests a refund will get one even if we do not individually reply to your email request. Otherwise, we hope to welcome you on December 7."


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Third Day formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell, guitarist Mark Lee and former member Billy Wilkins. The band’s name is a reference to the biblical accounts of Jesus’ rising from the dead on the third day following his crucifixion. The band was inducted in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2009. They have sold over 7 million albums and had 28 number one radio hits.
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November 15 and 16, 2013
Once a year , the association “Anvers to Abbess” in Montmartre organizes the third weekend of November days of Open artist studios which facilitates meetings with painters , sculptors, potters, embroiderers , photographers and artists of 9th and 18th arrondissements of Paris .
All artists are part of the association ” Antwerp to Abbesses “, whose objective is to promote art and encourage meetings between artists and the public.
This year, over 115 artists open the doors of their 71 shops , offering a wide panorama of artistic creation of the district . Since the workshops of the hills to the beautiful Montmartre New Athens (9th district) , the Open Ateliers d’ Anvers to Abbesses are a unique opportunity to combine art and visit the original site.
This 18th edition will be held on 15, 16 and 17 November 2013 .
Home Point: 33 Avenue Trudaine – Paris 9th .
Come visit my studio will be open on Saturday 16 and Sunday, November 17th from 11h to 20h
My workshops during the open of the month June 2013: Open workshops Goutte d’Or


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- Film And TV
- 18 Jan 23
A public memorial will take place on January 22nd on the lawn at Elvis' Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. The singer died suddenly on January 12th following a cardiac arrest.
Lisa Marie Presley’s cause of death is still pending ‘more investigation’, after the Los Angeles County Coroner deferred his judgement following the first autopsy.
A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office told CNN that, “Presley was examined on Jan. 14, and the cause of death was deferred. Deferred means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has not been determined, and the medical examiner is requesting more investigation into the death, including additional studies. Once the tests/studies come back, the doctor evaluates the case again and makes the cause of death determination.”
The music world is still reeling from the sudden passing of the only child of legendary Elvis Presley, last Thursday January 12th, aged 54. She was rushed to a local hospital following a cardiac arrest she suffered in her Calabasas home in California. Several hours following the announcement of her hospitalisation, the singer's mother, Priscilla Presley, confirmed the passing of her daughter.
My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She is now receiving the best care. Please keep her and our family in your prayers. We feel the prayers from around the world, and ask for privacy during this time.
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— Priscilla Presley (@Cilla_Presley) January 12, 2023
“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla told People magazine. “She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known,” Presley added. “We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment.”
It was only days prior that the mother-daughter duo attended the Golden Globe awards with Austin Butler who portrayed Elvis in the biopic about the musician. He was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.
Presley had previously spoken about her health struggles, particularly in relation to sobriety, and her addiction to opioids. “I was recovering after the  birth of my daughters, Vivienne and Finley, when a doctor prescribed me opioids for pain. It only took a short-term prescription of opioids in the hospital for me to feel the need to keep taking them,” she wrote in The United States of Opioids.
It was recently confirmed that a public memorial will take place on January 22nd on the lawn at Elvis' Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. It was also announced that Presley’s final resting place will be beside her son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020. Graceland’s Meditation Garden is also the resting place of Elvis Presley, as well as his parents, Vernon and Gladys, and grandmother Minnie Mae.
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