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Last year, I had author Peter Robb visit one of my Masters writing classes as a guest lecturer. As is usually the case with our guest lecturers, Robb was extremely generous with his knowledge and experience. One thing he shared, which has stuck with me over the last few months is the idea that, “Nothing is ever wasted”.
The implications of this idea are so liberating and empowering! The beginnings of stories that never went anywhere, those feeble attempts as intelligent writing, those personal essays written on the back of lecture handouts, those honest scratchings in private journals: they can still live – but maybe just another day. As writers, artists, creatives we, much like Dr Frankenstein, can dissect or hack into these dead things and find serviceable, perfectly suitable pieces, thoughts, ideas, beginnings, endings to other works.
This knowledge has allowed me to relax into my own work. For example, in my current novel WIP, I am getting the sneaky feeling that a major part of my narrative needs to be put to rest. I haven’t fully accepted it yet, but as I write I feel more and more at peace with the idea of it, because: Nothing is ever wasted.
Maybe the thing you’re working on isn’t fully formed in your imagination,
Maybe you’re not ready,
Maybe you need more research,
Maybe you need better technique,
Maybe you’re trying too hard,
Maybe it’s just a rubbish idea…
What ever it is, it may be time to “kill your darlings”, as William Faulkner suggested. But we can be brave in doing this, because: Nothing is ever wasted.
Perhaps in five years or ten years or twenty years, you’ll find that piece and breathe life into it again. Maybe you’ll forget all but a remnant, the true heart of the idea which will give it new life in a much better work. What ever the case, killing the stale, tired, hard-work stuff you’re working on can free you to focus on what is working. And let’s not be modest and just admit, that what is working is pretty bloody brilliant. (Go on, you know how good you are.)
So be free good friends. There’s too much good work in you to be stuck working on something that is better off buried for now.


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Delek US Holdings Inc. (DK) Trading 4.4% Higher
Delek US Holdings Inc. (NYSE:DK) traded up 4.4% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as $13.02 and last traded at $12.91, with a volume of 532,869 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $12.36.
A number of equities research analysts recently commented on the company. Credit Suisse Group AG reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $17.00 target price on shares of Delek US Holdings in a research report on Thursday. Vetr upgraded Delek US Holdings from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $14.25 target price on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, July 13th. Barclays PLC downgraded Delek US Holdings from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $20.00 to $15.00 in a research report on Wednesday, July 13th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Delek US Holdings from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Monday, July 11th. Finally, Scotiabank downgraded Delek US Holdings from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $22.00 to $15.00 in a research report on Monday, July 11th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating, six have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Delek US Holdings has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $23.52.
The stock has a 50-day moving average of $13.06 and a 200 day moving average of $15.19. The stock has a market cap of $789.22 million and a P/E ratio of 125.20.
Delek US Holdings (NYSE:DK) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 5th. The company reported ($0.86) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.53) by $0.33. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted ($0.28) EPS. The company earned $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.08 billion. The company’s revenue was down 3.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities analysts expect that Delek US Holdings Inc. will post ($1.71) EPS for the current year.
A number of hedge funds and institutional investors have added to or reduced their stakes in DK. Strs Ohio raised its position in Delek US Holdings by 15.5% in the fourth quarter. Strs Ohio now owns 43,300 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,065,000 after buying an additional 5,800 shares during the period. California State Teachers Retirement System raised its position in Delek US Holdings by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 106,264 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,614,000 after buying an additional 1,700 shares during the period. Swiss National Bank raised its position in Delek US Holdings by 1.4% in the fourth quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 71,100 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,749,000 after buying an additional 1,000 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP acquired a new position in Delek US Holdings during the fourth quarter worth $3,593,000. Finally, Rhumbline Advisers raised its position in Delek US Holdings by 3.9% in the fourth quarter. Rhumbline Advisers now owns 70,798 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,742,000 after buying an additional 2,675 shares during the period.
Delek US Holdings, Inc is an integrated energy business focused on petroleum refining, the transportation, storage and wholesale of crude oil, intermediate and refined products and convenience store retailing. The Company operates through three segments: Refining, Logistics and Retail. Its Refining Segment operates independent refineries in Tyler, Texas, and El Dorado, Arkansas with a combined design crude distillation capacity of approximately 155,000 barrels per day (bpd).
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Valentine’s Day is behind us but I think it’s important to continue thinking about romance and the kind of impact these kinds of stories have on readers. It’s one of the reasons I created this blog and continue to return to romance series. Reading romance books and manga were majorly important to me when I was growing up. I started reading them back in middle school, or about 12 to 13 years old. I’ve never really thought about the significance of starting around that time until this article from Vulture pointed it out: the kinds of books you read in school are mostly stories of boys and men with the occasional dead girl so, in essence, romance books become a way to see girls and female characters in prominent roles. They’re thrilling, a way to experience and read about sex, something that is usually frowned upon in academia and some social circles. The US in particular isn’t very good about including comprehensive sex education in their schools, so for many girls, this is their first and sometimes only major way to learn about sex and sexual relationships.
The romance genre has gotten a bad rap over the years, considered “popular” literature or just not literature at all. Why? It could be because its an industry dominated by women who are writing predominantly for women. It could be the sometimes silly, “bodice-ripper” covers showing half naked women and men on full display. It could also be the escapist nature of romance fiction in general which tends to make people point at it and say, “there’s nothing good or intelligent you can get out of a story like that. It’s all just trash for bored housewives.” Which is completely and utterly wrong. Dismissing a whole genre in and of itself is wrong, and I’m here to tell you there are quite a few important life lessons you can learn from romance. Continue reading
The Secret Loves of Geeks is a follow-up to the previous anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, which I admittedly need to read as well. I’ve been seeing this one pop up on my Twitter feed for the last couple weeks as its release date came and went. Ultimately, the cover, with its multitude of meme-themed cats and the big-name contributors really convinced me to pick this one up as I was browsing through a comic store. Anthologies have always been a draw for me, as they give me a way to discover new artists while reading a diverse collection of stories. So far I’ve reviewed two anthologies focusing on romance and sex, and I’m glad to be able to add this one to the list as it definitely doesn’t disappoint in its content.
If the name hasn’t given it away, this anthology features prose stories and comics from a diverse cast of creators, artists, writers of geek culture about their most heartbreaking or uplifting tales of love, sex, and dating. It includes contributions from such professionals as: Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), Hope Larson (Batgirl), Chris Roberson (iZombie), and Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked + The Divine). The anthology is edited by Hope Nicholson and is currently published by Dark Horse. Continue reading
Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid has to be one of the few yuri animes I actually like. It manages to combine great animation and enjoyable characters in such a way that you almost feel like you’re not watching a typical yuri show. The anime was originally part of the Spring 2017 simulcast season on Crunchyroll and ran for 13 episodes. Just recently, they released the 14th episode, a Valentine’s Day special OVA that brings us back to the world of cute dragons and ridiculously lovable characters. Compared to the previous episodes, this special may seem a little empty as it focuses on more mundane aspects of the character’s lives rather than the fantastical. However, I think the episode holds a lot of great, small character moments, and, while the episode doesn’t have the regular crazy dragon moments, it makes up for it in the quieter exploration of relationships.
If you haven’t watched Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid yet I highly suggest you do (and also read my review of the full series here). The basic story centers around an office worker named Kobayashi who opens her front door one day to find a large dragon staring back at her. The dragon transforms into a cute maid girl and introduces herself as Tohru. Apparently, the night before Kobayashi stumbled into the forest while drunk and found Tohru, and subsequently offered her a place to stay. Kobayashi now finds herself with a maid that happens to be a dragon who also happens to be madly in love with her. The recent OVA gives a look at their first Valentine’s day together and a hot spring trip with friends. Continue reading
For the past couple years the isekai genre — stories about being trapped or transported to video-game worlds — has been dominating the anime, manga, and light novel marketplace. Into the middle of this boom enters Recovery of an MMO Junkie, a show that similarly takes a look at people and their interactions in a virtual world. However, MMO Junkie’s appeal in this genre is its divorce from the concept of trapping its characters in its world. Rather it focuses on examining the multi-layered relationship between our online and offline lives. Recovery of an MMO Junkie revolves around Moriko and her progression of healing through the MMO Fruits de Mer. Gaming, and MMO’s in particular, offer a unique way to both interact with other people and explore different identities and characters in a relatively safe environment. Over the course of the anime, we see Moriko explore the world of this game through the avatar Hayashi, make friends, and gain the confidence again to create meaningful offline relationships. These unique characteristics of MMOs helped Moriko reach a level of growth that she may not have been able to reach any other way. Continue reading
Brothers Conflict was something I watched a long time ago when the sub was still streaming on Funimation. I’ve always meant to review this one, and this interim period while the most recent shows are finishing up gave me a chance to sit back down again and watch it all the way through. This second watch-through, however, has made me realize just how uninteresting this anime is overall. It has it’s good moments, don’t get me wrong, and I think fans of reverse-harems and the otome genre might appreciate it, but I feel like I don’t get that much enjoyment anymore out of series that don’t try and do anything different with their concept.
The series was originally a novel which got turned into a manga, 4-koma comic, and then Playstation otome games before finally becoming an anime in 2013. The story follows the life of highschool student Ema Hinata who finds out that her father will soon be getting married to another woman and she will soon have 13 new brothers. In order to not be a bother to her newlywed parents, Ema decides to live together with her new extended family. As Ema tries to make a place for herself in this new family, her brothers are also having a hard time accepting her as just a sister. Continue reading
Dirty Diamonds is one of those anthologies I look for every time I go to a convention like MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo) mainly because I know there will be something in there I will like. Also because I definitely think women and queer comic voices don’t get the amount of attention they deserve. The anthology itself goes back to 2011 when it was started by the two editors, Kelly Phillips and Claire Folkman. Each volume is funded through Kickstarter and takes submissions from anyone who identifies as female. This volume’s specific theme is sex, and it manages to present a lot of different semi-autobiographical stories about sex itself, our relation to it, and the social pressures surrounding it. I wanted to take a moment to look at some of the stories and issues presented in Sex as well as highlight some of my favorites. Continue reading

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Austal to build two more US Navy ships
AUSTRALIAN defence industry manufacturer Austal will build two more warships for the United States Navy.
Austal will build two additional Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships for the US Navy, following through on eight ships already delivered.
The vessels, which were designed at Austal’s Centre for Excellence in Maritime Design in Henderson, Western Australia, will be the 16th and 17th ships in the class for the US Navy.
“This is an outstanding success and comes after Austal won the contract to build 21 Guardian Class Pacific Patrol Boats in WA,” Minister for Defence, Christopher Pyne said.
“The patrol boats will be delivered to Pacific nations as part of our Pacific Maritime Security Program.”
Acknowledging Austal’s success, Minister Ciobo said he hoped to see even more Australian companies achieving export success.
“Through the Defence Export Strategy we want to become a top 10 defence exporter and I encourage other Australian companies to get in touch with the Defence Export Office to find out what support is available to them,” said Minister for Defence Industry, Steven Ciobo.
The contract award follows an announcement by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in July 2018 that it would purchase two Austal Cape Class Patrol Boats.
Austal has also delivered Cape Class Patrol Boats to the Australian Border Force and Royal Australian Navy.
Mr Ciobo said all defence exports “continued to be subjected to Australia’s rigorous export control regulations’.

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8. EVENTS: Film Festivals on Each Coast
There's just something in the air at an LGBT film festival that makes you feel smart and comfortable. All of it just feels right — seeing new, interesting films about LGBT life with like-minded people. One of New York's big film festivals, NewFest, kicks off September 6, just as Long Beach's Qfilms celebrates its 20th anniversary the same day. Filmlinc.com/films/series/2013-newfest (NewFest) and QFilmsLongBeach.com.
Above: A still from the film Free Fall, on the program at NewFest.
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CMS to Build Pipeline
Published: March 31, 1999
DEARBORN, Mich., March 30— The CMS Energy Corporation, which owns a Michigan gas and electric utility, said today that it would build a $190 million pipeline to transport gas removed from coal in Wyoming and Montana. The pipeline will run from coal fields near Sheridan, Wyo., north into Montana, then southeast to Gillette, Wyo., where the gas will be transferred to interstate pipelines. Service will begin in November.


The "God Particle" and Colossians
And now for a little particle physics.
This week scientists excitedly announced they had found evidence of the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle which they believed would explain some of the universe’s secrets.
Since I’m not up on my sub-atomic physics, I’ll let Professor Stefan Soldner-Rembold, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, England, explain.
“Scientists believe that in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, particles zipped around the universe at the speed of light with no mass, and no inertia. It was only through their interaction with the “Higgs field” that they acquired mass and were capable of forming the universe.”(http://bostinno.com/2012/07/06/what-is-god-particle-higgs-boson-definition)
In other words, it is the Higgs field which explains why things have mass — how matter comes to be. It is why your light bulb has mass and light doesn’t. It is a huge step in understanding the universe.
So why is it called the “God particle”? That’s actually a bit of an accident, but ultimately this discovery does not “replace” God. It doesn’t disprove that God created the universe. If the Higgs boson causes matter to form, where did the Higgs boson come from?
It makes me think of Colossians 1:17, which says of Jesus, “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”


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Paul Okoye aka Rudeboy is out with the video to his recently released record titled Somebody Baby which is a love tune released in the month of love.
The captivating video stars Jim Iyke and would certainly get you glued to your screens.
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Leaf variegation is widespread in different genera of Araceae (Croat, 1994). Variegated leaves are characteristic of many species of Angiosperms, in particular among understorey herbs in tropical and temperate forests (Givnish 1990). The partial loss of photosynthetically active surface in variegated leaves affects absorption and utilization of light and, therefore, net photosynthesis, and as a consequence growth and reproduction (Soltau et al., 2009). The existence and relative success of variegated leaf colour forms within Caladium steudneriifolium populations, therefore, implies that there have to be particular selective pressures that support variegation despite the energetic handicap compared to plain leaves (Smith 1986).
In the case of Caladium steudneriifolium, the colour patterns are predicted to act as classical Batesian mimicry. Soltau et al. observed that the whitish areas of variegated leaves strongly resemble the leaf damages caused by the larvae of mining moths. This suggested that the colour patterns of the variegated leaves mimic these damages to escape oviposition by adult female moths. Among other chemical, tactile or visual cues, insects can visually detect and assess previous infestation during the process of host plant selection (Lev-Yadun and Inbar, 2002). Soltau’s study showed that in the presence of herbivores, leaf variegation can be of high selective advantage despite the loss of photosynthetically active leaf area compared to plain leaves (2009). As such, these plants provide a strong basis for the study of coevolution between plants and herbivores, and the mechanisms underlying predator-avoidance adaptations.
Croat T 1994, “Taxonomic status of neotropical Aracea,” Aroideana, vol. 17, pp. 33–60.
Givnish TJ 1990, “Leaf mottling: relation to growth form and leaf phenology and possible role as camouflage,” Functional Ecology, vol. 4, pp. 463–474.
Lev-Yadun S and Inbar M 2002, “Defensive ant, aphid and caterpillar mimicry in plants,” Biologial Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 77,pp. 393–398.
Smith AP 1986, “Ecology of a leaf color polymorphism in a tropical forest species: habitat segregation and herbivory,” Oecologia, vol. 69, pp. 283–287.
Soltau U, Dotterl S, and Liede-Schumann S 2009, “Leaf variegation in Caladium steudneriifolium (Araceae): a case of mimicry?” Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 23, pp. 503-512.

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Taking to Instagram, Riddhima showered her brother with numerous love as she shared an adorable selfie on the event of Raksha Bandhan and wrote, “Happy Rakhi love you ❤” This sunkissed image of the brother-sister duo is bound to seize your consideration as they increase the sibling objectives bar to the following stage.
Well, that not it as Riddhima began the day by sharing a collage of images with all her brothers on Instagram tales. Apart from Ranbir, the post additionally options Armaan and Aadar Jain, Nikhil Nanda and others.
The 39-year-old entrepreneur has been fairly lively on social media and has been sharing photos with her mom and daughter Samaira. A number of days again, Riddhima had even hosted a small birthday bash for her mom Neetu Kapoor which was attended by Karan Johar, Agastya Nanda and different shut pals.
On the opposite hand, Ranbir was not too long ago snapped at a studio in Mumbai whereas his girlfriend Alia Bhatt has clicked outdoors a dubbing studio. The duo are all set to return collectively in Ayan Mukerji’s fantasy movie ‘Brahmastra’.


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|Google’s Digital Buildings
What it Means for Haystack and Brick Implementations
When Ken Sinclair shared introduction language to the Google Digital Buildings Project on LinkedIn, people across the smart buildings industry started talking and fast. To recap, Google's Digital Buildings project is " an open-source, Apache-licensed effort to create a uniform schema and toolset for representing structured information about buildings and building-installed equipment."
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When Ken Sinclair shared
introduction language to the Google Digital Buildings Project on LinkedIn, people
across the smart buildings industry started talking and fast. To recap,
Google's Digital Buildings project is " an open-source, Apache-licensed
effort to create a uniform schema and toolset for representing structured
information about buildings and building-installed equipment."
What really got our industry thought
leaders going was the last line in the description - "Digital Buildings
work has been inspired by Project Haystack and Brick Schema and maintains
cross-compatibility and/or convergence as a long-term objective." One
commenter put it simply: "Wow. Could this really lead to a convergence of Haystack
and Brick?" And that, perhaps, is the million-dollar question. Before I put
in my two cents, it's worth diving a bit deeper into the Digital Buildings
The ontology itself is being used by Google
to manage buildings across the globe because of an urgent need to operate its
very large, very heterogenous portfolio in a scalable way, as stated in the
readme file on the GitHub site. The goals are for the model to be
"semantically-expressive," or deeply meaningful, but abstract enough
to be applied across their vast swath of buildings that contain many multitudes
of equipment configured and provided by innumerable engineers, design teams and
contractors. The model must also be written in an easy-to-use configuration
language and complete with validation tools so that different teams of people
can contribute as they apply it across the world.
Google says the Digital Buildings team has
considered the following:
Machine readability and
Although the long-term objective of
cross-compatibility with Project Haystack (Haystack) and Brick Schema (Brick)
is clear, the market (not just Google) is looking for something that will bring
the overarching goals of a unified buildings ontology to a fast reality. The
open-sourced nature of Digital Buildings means anyone can contribute and anyone
can use the model and apply it to their own buildings. The same is true for
Haystack and Brick. At first glance, the similarities between the three may
seem to end there. For example, many people who use Brick or are seriously
considering Digital Buildings do not realize Haystack 4 made significant
progress in the area of entities and relationships in the last 18 months.
I have heard the comment many times that
Haystack is a good naming standard, but it is much more than that now. Project
Haystack released Haystack 4 for public review at the end of 2019. With that,
Haystack upgraded many aspects that were considered lacking in Haystack 3 that
kept it from being considered a true ontology - for example, Haystack 4 has introduced
a more complete ability to define relationships amongst, within and between
entities. Also new in Haystack 4 is the introduction of spaces and devices as
It is not clear how many Haystack community
members and integrators have implemented these concepts, or who is working
toward updating their Haystack 3 implementations to Haystack 4. As far as
cross-compatibility goes, Haystack 4 is the only version that will have a
chance of aligning with Digital Buildings and Brick, so any convergence between
the three needs to start there.
Brick Schema does a pretty good job in the
areas of HVAC and electrical systems when it comes to defining classes and
relationships. It is also clear that the people managing Brick Schema are aware
of the need to include other operational systems in the building, though the
spread is limited at the moment. What is more difficult to ascertain is how
widely Brick is being used in buildings around the world. There is no doubt it
is being used and should be included when aligning the standards.
On a more anecdotal note, I have seen Brick
referred to in many specifications as a building data model standard, but it is
listed as an option alongside Haystack. Which one is the contractor or
integrator supposed to use? These two models are slightly different which will
lead to problems down the road if the systems within the project don’t follow a
It is important to keep in mind the reason
we're all here under this big ontology tent in the first place. Building data
needs to be modeled in such a way that it is portable and consistent across
multiple buildings regardless of the design engineer, system vendor or installing
contractor. Once this is done, the products and solutions upstream will improve
to be utilized across a broad spectrum of projects. The data we have been
trying to unlock for years will actually be opened up and it will be well
defined, related, and available. This will remove the ever-growing development
of black-box solutions that hold data hostage.
Haystack, Brick and now Digital Buildings
are getting us closer to a uniform tagging standard that master systems
integrators are using every day to normalize data for buildings around the
world. But the lack of a consistent strategy for modeling relationships leaves space
for each integrator to define this crucial element in a slightly different way,
meaning we still don't have a buildings standard that is uniformly applied.
Meanwhile, the need for this is only
increasing at the project level. Word is out that connected buildings are the
way to go for building owners and operators who want to find operational efficiencies
with open systems and a usable data model. That's the foundation from which we
can all build successful implementations.
When I read "cross-compatibility"
and "convergence" I see the opportunity to align the three standards in
a toolset to make them each more robust and usable in and of themselves. One of
the biggest problems with ontologies as they exist for buildings today is the
lack of direction on how they are applied.
If you have ever attempted to use the data
in an enterprise or combine multiple sources of data with shared relationships,
you have encountered this application problem. When we get out of a single
building and into a portfolio level analysis, we often find that the data
modeling structure is too vague, or the meta-data is incomplete. Something as
low as 20% variance between implementations makes a significant difference when
data sharing needs to take place at a centralized server, for example.
Another common problem is selecting a
platform to perform analytics on the data. Wouldn’t it be nice to load the data
into two or three cloud platforms with the knowledge that the source data does
not need to be manipulated in order to be useful in each platform? Another
outcome could be for end users to share knowledge and algorithms knowing that
the source data is modeled in a consistent way.
Can data-rich systems be integrated with
the models available today? At the moment, we have three reasonably good
choices that allow us to solve complex problems in buildings. And this appears
to leave us all with some big choices – migrate to Haystack 4, use Brick or use
We all know that the industry itself is fractured
by design to allow many players to participate in the organization, creation
and management of the sources-of-truth for individual data types. Given this,
there is a strong need for simple direction on applying these standards that
can be used by every contractor in the data value chain.
Now that we’ve laid out the problem, I hope you’ll check back here in Automated Buildings next month for our attempt at a solution.
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The Hancock Corridor between Milledge Avenue and Broad Street is vulnerable to development again after the Athens-Clarke County Commission, lacking a quorum, allowed a demolition moratorium to expire last week.
The commission passed the moratorium last year in response to concerns about rumors that the owners of The Varsity were planning a massive development on the block where the fast-food restaurant sits. An extension would have bought more time for ACC to hire an outside consultant to come in, meet with residents and devise a plan—a proposal that’s up for a vote June 5.
“This neighborhood faces imminent threat,” Commissioner Melissa Link said at the May 15 agenda-setting meeting. “When the demolition [moratorium] expires tomorrow, the bulldozers will roll right in.”
Only seven commissioners attended the meeting—Harry Sims resigned in March, Jared Bailey was attending an out-of-town conference, and Mike Hamby was ill. But by the time the agenda-setting meeting ended and a special called meeting to extend the moratorium started, Commissioner Sharyn Dickerson had left to attend her child’s graduation. The remaining six commissioners had no choice but to reschedule the vote for June 5 and adjourn.
The commission declared the moratorium to create time to develop a plan to tweak the neighborhood’s zoning to protect it from out-of-scale development. (Although it’s a single-family neighborhood, much of it is zoned commercial or multifamily.) But little progress has been made. Several people who live in or just outside the moratorium zone offered to lead a neighborhood planning effort, but that never happened, according to Link. Then, she got the UGA College of Environment and Design involved, but they later pulled out without giving any official explanation, she said, although she heard that it was because the project was too politically controversial.
Noting that Mayor Nancy Denson refused to put the extension on the agenda, forcing her to gather signatures from five other commissioners to put it up for a vote, Link said she sees a conspiracy. “This has all been carefully orchestrated,” Link said. “I feel like the fix is in for this neighborhood, and it has been from the beginning.”
However, Jennifer Lewis, interim director of the UGA Center for Community Design and Preservation, said that former director Pratt Cassity had been working with Link, but he retired in February, and CED Dean Daniel Nadenicek wrote to Link expressing interest in working on “community projects of all types.” Hamby blamed Link for the snafu—she could have gotten county planning staff involved sooner or scheduled the moratorium extension vote for an earlier meeting, he said. Link, though, said she couldn’t get a sixth commissioner to force the extension onto the agenda until the day before the meeting.
Meanwhile, residents remain concerned about how speculators are changing their neighborhood from primarily African-American long-term homeowners to student rentals. “Our people are being forced out of their homes because they’re being offered what appears to be a good price for their property, but it’s not being explained to them what they’re gaining and what they’re losing,” Rita Cornelius told commissioners.
And an extension of a demolition moratorium on parts of Milledge Circle and Castilla Avenue—which, for some reason, expires three weeks later than the Hancock moratorium despite being passed at the same time—is on the June 5 agenda and appears to set to pass, with a vote on a historic district coming potentially as soon as July.
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MONDAY, APRIL 15
Room: Montreal 6-7
Roger Haston, Chief of Analytics, PetSmart Charities of Canada
Animal welfare is changing rapidly, as the types and complexity of the problems we now face have less to do with sheltering and more to do with people, pets and the communities that they live in. Many of the metrics and constructs that we have used in the past no longer reflect the work that is being done. Further, animal welfare has struggled to engage and incentivize governmental agencies to spend money on animal-related issues. This is in part due to a narrative that is narrow in perspective and lacking more holistic aspects of community development.
The concept of social capital was developed by Robert Putman in 1969 to understand how to improve and strengthen democracy in Italy. Since then, the field has been expanded into economics, community development and many social issues. In this talk we will re-examine animal welfare through a social capital perspective to understand how this framework might allow a more robust pathway and understanding for the future of animal welfare and how to create a broader community model around pets and people.
- An understanding of the social capital model.
- A broader understanding of how social capital can be utilized in animal welfare.
- Key pathways for utilizing social capital to improve the lives of people and pets.
Dr. Roger Haston received a PhD in geophysics from the University of California Santa Barbara and an MBA in finance from Rice University. After working for Amoco and Arco in Houston, Dr. Haston moved to Colorado in 1998 where he started and grew a successful business in geophysical data processing. He had a strong desire to give back to the community and became involved with the Humane Society of Boulder Valley as a volunteer, Board member and Board chair. He also worked with both for profit and non-profit organizations on strategy and leadership development, with a strong focus on creating mission-driven organizations. His passion for helping animals continued to grow and, in 2012, he committed himself full time to animal welfare and took over as Executive Director at the Animal Assistance Foundation where he has merged his passion for science, business and people to help the animals of Colorado and beyond. He has recently joined PetSmart Charities as the Chief of Analytics. He also serves on the boards of National Council on Pet Population and Shelter Animals Count.

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The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), a leading not-for-profit automotive industry trade association, today announced that Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL), an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization, will provide AIAG Gap Assessment Services to automotive parts and accessories manufacturers in China to facilitate North American market access for these suppliers. Under the collaborative agreement, UL will perform gap analysis as well as training in problem solving and heat treatment process control. The AIAG Gap Assessment Services is a new program that will assist AIAG members, including General Motors Corp., DaimlerChrysler Corp. and Ford Motor Co., in resolving issues with sourcing automotive parts and accessories in China. The program also helps potential suppliers identify gaps in meeting the Detroit automakers’ sourcing requirements. The agreement leverages AIAG’s technical and management expertise and UL’s professional service capability in evaluating products, components, materials and systems to help automotive parts suppliers in China export their higher quality products more quickly. Dr. Chen Yilong, general director of Asia-Pacific Affairs & chief representative in China, AIAG, said, “Asia, particularly China, represents a key economic growth sector for the automotive parts sourcing industry. Some suppliers have found it challenging to export their products to North America because of the gap in meeting stringent sourcing requirements, where efficient and cost-effective manufacturing and delivery are more crucial than ever. Those suppliers that can demonstrate compliance will make a footprint in the global automotive industry.” A gap assessment (or gap analysis) is a business evaluation tool enabling a company to compare its actual performance with its potential performance. This provides the company with insight into areas that offer opportunity for improvement. The gap assessment process involves determining, documenting and analyzing the variance between business requirements and current capabilities.


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Essay by C. Morgan Grefe, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Coming to the New World
On February 5, 1631, at no more than 28 years of age, Roger Williams arrived on the coast of Massachusetts aboard the ship Lyon. He arrived in this harsh new world with only his wife, his library, and his education, with no job waiting for him. He was not a man of means, so here in the Massachusetts Bay Colony he had to find work. Luckily, a local minister in Boston was returning to England. The leaders of the Boston church voted unanimously to hire Williams as their “teacher,” a position that alongside the minister would allow him to help set the spiritual path for the colony. But Williams, even without money, declined their offer. He stated that he did not believe they were separate enough from England or the English church. It did not take long for the colonists to see Williams as a rebel and a threat. It is here that that new world got the first taste of Williams’s deeply held belief in the separation of church and state.
Not long after, Williams left Boston, the richest city in Massachusetts for the poorest, Salem. Though these two towns are only 20 miles apart, in the 1630s one needed a boat to travel between the two. Williams was more sympathetic to the people of Salem, who took a much stricter approach to worship. When John Endicott in Salem offered Williams a post as teacher in their church without consulting Boston, the leaders in Boston expressed their displeasure. Salem bowed to Boston’s will and this left Roger Williams and his wife with little choice other than to leave for another colony: Plymouth Bay.
While Williams was in Plymouth, he did not seek to be a minister or teacher in their church, but he did preach as a member of the church. He mended relationships with the powerful men of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and formed strong friendships with many of them. In contrast to how Williams is often portrayed, while he was opinionated and passionate, he was also well liked and regarded as kind, even sweet.
While there, Williams supplemented his income by farming and trading with Native communities. Always good at learning languages, Williams soon started to study the Algonquin-based languages spoken by the Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck men and women in the community. He thought that learning their language and culture would be morally, culturally and even physically good for the new colonists. Like many people who came to the New World, they intended to share their faith with Native Americans. Although Williams intended to do so, he would not until he could converse with them fluently in their own language. This skill proved to be very useful, if not life saving.
Williams was happy with his life in Plymouth, but he was becoming increasingly vocal in this criticism of the English government. Even though the Puritans sought to separate from the English Church, they were still English citizens and Williams words often bordered on treason. After years of reprimands and warnings, the courts in Plymouth and Massachusetts banished Williams from the Massachusetts and Plymouth Bay colonies in the winter of 1636 for voicing what they deemed, “New and Dangerous Opinions.”
Williams first sought refuge on the banks of the Pawtucket River in what is now East Providence, but soon learned this land was still part of Plymouth Bay. But, thanks to his friendships with the many Native peoples of the region, Williams was offered land on which to settle on the edge the river, near a spring, on what would become the main street of Town of Providence. And, once he settled there, men and women came from the other colonies to join him, some of their own free will and others banished for their beliefs. What brought these individuals to the lands that would become Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was not a shared belief in one way of living, but rather a shared respect for an individual to believe what he she so chose, and to do so without fear of imprisonment, death, or banishment.
Forming a Colony of Many Voices
In the fall of 1636 Roger Williams drafted a “civil compact.” It was adopted at a town meeting in the tiny settlement of Providence on August 20, 1637 and states that the government would have authority only over “civil things,” therefore allowing for religious freedom and liberty of conscience. Following Providence’s example, Portsmouth and Newport wrote their own town agreements and formed civil governments in 1638 and 1639.
It is important to remember that as important as Roger Williams was and continues to be, he was not the only colonial “founder” of Rhode Island. The land around Providence was soon settled by other like-minded men and women from the Massachusetts and Plymouth Bay Colonies–some of whom chose to leave and others who were banished. In the first decade of the colony, Williams was joined by people such as Anne and William Hutchinson and William Coddington, who all founded Portsmouth in 1638, Samuel Gorton who settled Warwick, Richard Smith who, with Williams, colonized Wickford, and William Harris and the Arnolds who settled Pawtuxet.
In 1643 Williams published his first book, A Key into the Language of America: A help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America called New England. This the first dictionary of the Native people of this region, but it was almost a textbook, as well. In the book Williams explains the how the Native peoples live, eat, and worship, among other things. It served as an invaluable resource to travelers, settlers and traders into the twentieth century, as there was nothing that could compare to its comprehensive nature for more than 200 years.
Roger Williams continued to write about his beliefs, as well. His most famous book was published in 1644: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. This book presented the public with the true meaning of religious freedom for Williams, and the need for the church to be protected from the government’s authority—and the protection of individuals from a state-imposed religion. The separation of church and state, a founding belief of the United States, was part of a wider conversation in England that had been raging since the time of Williams’ birth in 1603. But what made Williams different was that he was not an oppressed person any more. While he was threatened with deportation or hanging for preaching his beliefs in Massachusetts, now he was in a position of power in this new colony.
The English Parliament ordered all copies of The Bloudy Tenent burned, but Williams continued to argue and fight for the creation of a colony in which the liberty of thought and freedom of expression was a founding ideal.1John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, (New York:Viking Press, 2012) 446.
. By the 1650s the area’s diverse colonial communities came together to affirm and formalize a shared commitment to religious freedom and democracy. A delegation was sent to London to obtain a charter to ensure their rights.
In fact, at the time Williams was publishing his book he was in England securing a “patent” for Rhode Island (in this case a patent would be an official statement by the English government that Williams had the right to establish the colony). In 1643, he succeeded. Williams was actively seeking and crafting a community based on his beliefs, and in this land he was settling, he was free to do so. The British Parliament would issue a second patent in 1647 that united Providence, Portsmouth, Newport and Warwick.
In 1651, William Coddington obtained a commission to form a government for Aquidneck and Connanicut Islands. This document effectively nullified the 1643 Parliamentary Patent and made Coddington governor for life. This outraged many residents and there was a popular movement to have this commission revoked or replaced. Roger Williams and Newport’s John Clarke and William Dyer traveled to England to do just this. The commission was revoked in 1653, and Dyer and Williams returned to Rhode Island. John Clarke, however, remained.
In spite of many local disputes, residents of Rhode Island had become increasingly determined to obtain an official charter from England that would unite them and protect their way of life: religious freedom, separation of church and state, and a form of self-governing democracy. Concerns about preserving their freedoms were joined by the very real threats that were posed by neighboring settlements in Massachusetts and Connecticut. These colonies saw the potential to annex Rhode Island’s, while at the same time putting a stop to what was perceived as a dangerous set of ideas about religious freedom.
It took nearly twenty years and expert help of real diplomat, Dr. John Clarke of Newport, to turn Williams’s philosophy into a legal document that could shape the whole colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; the Royal Charter of 1663
According to one of the most renowned historians of the twentieth century, Dr. Edmund Morgan, Roger Williams wanted to make sure that Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became a place in which people from any background, religion, or nationality could make their own way. It did not mean, that their faith, or lack thereof, would be celebrated, nor that they would be free from the scorn of the deeply religious men like Williams. Williams expected people to disagree, and disagreement and discourse was a necessary part of this New World democracy that Williams was making. In civil matters individuals were on equal ground, something that many modern Americans take for granted, but which was a very different model of government from other Puritan colonies and other countries at that time.2Edmund S. Morgan, Roger Williams: The Church and the State (New York: W. W. Norton & Company) 2006, 137.
In brief, Rhode Island was a place where anyone could ply a trade, be it as a cooper, merchant or minister, and do business with anyone else of different creed or color. Such was not the case in our neighboring colonies, in which trading with non-Christians was often seen as a sin in the eyes of God and often illegal in the eyes of man. Rhode Island, therefore, was always a safe place where anyone could do business. It attracted men and women who had ideas and skills, but who may also have had unpopular customs or beliefs, and allowed them to flourish. This ideal did create diversity, and supported freedom, but it did not prevent injustice. While soul liberty did not keep Rhode Islanders from enslaving African and Native Americans, and did not afford women the same rights as men, the ideas of religious freedom and civic democracy persisted.
Additionally, the fact that the colony did not require its citizens to pay religious taxes meant that individuals kept more of the money they made and could reinvest that in their business interests.
The choices some Rhode Islanders made in this environment of financial freedom lead to fast and ever-increasing wealth for the small colony, but it was not without great human costs. By the late 18th century, little Rhode Island led the colonies as the biggest player in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The idea of religious tolerance and soul liberty were often easier stated than lived. But, nevertheless, the new colony continually attracted people of diverse opinions and lifestyles. King Philip’s War, which involved Indian tribes and colonists, raged throughout all of New England in the mid-1670s. Rhode Island tried to remain neutral in this fight, as did the Narragansett, but soon, Rhode Island found itself engulfed in war and flames. Colonial officials took Natives captive and men were sold into slavery. Selling war captives was not uncommon, but this decision was still a sharp contrast to the original intentions of the colonists. Quakers and Jews were among those who found Rhode Island a haven of religious freedom.3William G. McLoughlin, Rhode Island: A History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company) 1986, 46.
Both groups, who were persecuted minorities elsewhere, became influential and affluent communities in early Rhode Island, but their paths were not easy, even in Rhode Island. While the Quakers were simply the butt of jokes and often publicly called to debate their beliefs, even the most prominent Jewish residents were denied full citizenship and the right to vote while RI was a colony.
This would not be a surprise to Roger Williams, though, because if there was one thing he knew and believed, it was that humans were utterly imperfect and no matter how good a plan was, if left up to man or women to enact, it was likely to be flawed.
Treason: The crime of betraying one’s country
Affirm: State as fact
Nullify: Make of no use, or value; invalidate
Revoke: Put an end to the validity or operation of something
Annex: To add as an extra
“Ply a trade”: To do one’s particular kind of work
Why wasn’t Roger Williams well-received in Boston and Salem?
What beliefs united all people settling in Rhode Island, even if they had different religious ideas?
Why did Rhode Island feel threatened by the neighboring colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut?
How do you think African Americans and Native Americans felt being discriminated against by Rhode Islanders who claimed to embrace tolerance? Why do you think this happened?
Do you think the founding ideals of Rhode Island like tolerance and diversity still exist here today? Why or why not?
- 1John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, (New York:Viking Press, 2012) 446.
- 2Edmund S. Morgan, Roger Williams: The Church and the State (New York: W. W. Norton & Company) 2006, 137.
- 3William G. McLoughlin, Rhode Island: A History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company) 1986, 46.


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A brief overview of the Christian worldview ministry, Anchorsaway. This is a good clip to show at the beginning of the the students’ Christian worldview experience so they can get a better sense of what Anchorsaway is about.
This 14 minute informational video is helpful for explaining the purpose and mission of Anchorsaway to anyone who may be interested in learning more.
Scene: This is a Christian worldview clip. It is a true account of how a coach’s belief changed a student, a team and a school.
Teaching Lesson: When a coach sees through the Christian worldview, he provides an opportunity for an autistic manager to not only experience love and support from his coach, parents and students but also an amazing love-gift from God.
Scene: This is a Christian worldview clip. After being bombed by Allied troops, Ernest makes the choice to help the injured enemy soldiers.
Teaching Points: The Christian Worldview means that we see enemies as human beings who are also deeply loved by God. We are called to love and serve even if the world sees them as the enemy.
The true story of Sara Sumpolec leaving witchcraft and becoming a follower of Christ. A great example of seeing the beauty that comes from embracing others with the love of Christ, no matter who they are!
The Christian worldview untangles us from the world, because the Christian worldview is the way Jesus sees the world. Now is the time for us to change the way we think, the way we see the world, and the way we respond to it. Living with a Christian worldview means living with God as your foundation for how you think, speak, write and interact with others.
Lesson 1 audio taught by Nancy FitzgeraldListen Here
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Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and Karl Marx's 1844 Manuscripts are founding documents of the discourse of Marxist humanism. This essay scrutinizes Lukács's definition of the human from a queer perspective which, I argue, is consistent with the Manuscripts in terms of its definition of the human. While for queer politics a contextualized emphasis on the social and political legitimacy of the body's sexual objectification is basic, Lukács uncritically recapitulates Kantian morality, which represents sexual objectification as inherently dehumanizing. Property ownership, moreover, is a basic aspect of Kantian morality: because humans are supposed to own objects, they cannot also be objects. What a queer perspective is then especially well equipped to reveal, I argue, is that Lukács, while developing a powerful epistemological critique of Kant, ultimately allows Kant's moral naturalization of property ownership to stand.
Performing History: Remembering Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots through Tayo Aluko’s Call Mr. Robeson07/18/2016
In 1949 Paul Robeson (with support from Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie, Howard Fast, and others) attempted to and then successfully held a civil and workers’ rights concert in Peekskill, New York. Marring these performances, however, were protests that turned progressively violent. These violent protests have come to be known as the Peekskill Riots and serve as a major milestone in the nation’s history surrounding protest, music, politics, and Paul Robeson. This paper reflects on this relationship, particularly how it is being remembered today. Through field research, including participant observation, interviews, landscape analysis, and primary and secondary archival research, I demonstrate how British-Nigerian writer, singer, actor, activist, and architect Tayo Aluko “performs history” through his musical Call Mr. Robeson. This includes how Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots are remembered through performance and how the continued performances place the identity and history of Peekskill in a state of becoming. This is also a case study more broadly for how social movements are influenced, fueled, and remembered through performance.


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07 Jun POOL DAY IN MARRAKECH
The Red City is heating up and summer has arrived in Marrakech. The long days are sunny and warm with temperatures around 30-40 degrees in June, July and August. But even the hottest days are comfortable here thanks to the clever design of the Moroccan Riads where the architecture helps keeping the courtyards nice and cool regardless of the high temperatures outside. There are also newly renovated roofs covering most of the alleys of the Marrakech Medina providing shade when exploring and shopping in the souks.
Here at 72 Riad Living we offer a plunge pool on our roof terrace where you can cool down with a nice drink after all the adventures in the city. If you are looking for a bigger pool, we list our favourite places to get wet in this blog post. Come swim with us!
Les Jardins de la Koutoubia
If you want a large pool close to 72 Riad Living you should go here. It is also close to the big square and you get access to the swimming pool, a sun bed and towel for 200 MAD.
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Beldi Country Club
A beautiful and family friendly pool set in a lush garden. Pool access is included if you have lunch here. Rose gardens, olive groves and several pools, including one especially for children. Access swimming pool, sun bed, towel: 370 MAD per person.
Es Saadi Palace
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Four Seasons Marrakech Resort
This hotel has a huge pool and is for adults only. Get a day pass with access to pool and the à la carte lunch for 800 MAD.
Palais Namaskar is a stunning property with many pools, water features and lush gardens. A Pool Day Pass is an invitation to spend a day reclining, cooling and dipping in delightful refreshing surroundings. A two-course lunch is also included for 600 MAD (from Monday to Saturday).
A very stylish 80 metre pool available for non-residents if you buy a day-pass that also includes lunch and the possibility to visit the amazing stables with several beautiful Arabian horses. You can relax in the deck chairs or sun beds while taking advantage of the exceptional climate of Marrakech.
If you are looking for a pool that comes with a party and some Ibiza vibes, Nikki Beach is where you should go. Expect DJ:s, expensive champagne and a good time. An oasis of luxury with a relaxed and glamorous atmosphere. You get access to the swimming pool, a sun bed and towel for 350 MAD.
Please remember that all these places require reservations to secure your pool day!
Have fun in the sun!!

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A private group has purchased the land beneath a large Latin cross in San Diego, a move that could spell the end of a decades-long legal battle.
The Mt. Soledad Memorial Association announced in July that it purchased a half-acre plot of land under the Mt. Soledad Cross from the U.S. Department of Defense for $1.4 million.
The symbol was erected in 1952 after municipal officials authorized the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association to build a 43-foot cross on top of the hill. The towering cross was dedicated in a Christian service on Easter Sunday in 1954 as a “gleaming white symbol of Christianity,” and it was used as a site for Easter services for the next 40 years.
Litigation over the cross began about 25 years ago. Despite the symbol’s clear history, its defenders argued that it was really a war memorial. To buttress this claim, some 3,000 plaques honoring veterans were added.
Critics, including Americans United, pointed out that memorializing veterans was never the original goal of the cross and designating the large cross as a war memorial was little more than an attempt to justify the presence of a towering Christian symbol on public land.
As litigation over the cross went on, several gambits were used to save it. The federal government acquired the land underneath the structure in 2006, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ruled in 2011 that the religious display violates separation of church and state, and in 2013 a federal trial judge ordered that the cross be removed from government land.
The sale of the land will probably spell the end of the legal tussle. James McElroy, a San Diego attorney who filed the original case in 1989 on behalf of two Vietnam veterans, said he and the American Civil Liberties Union plan to review the details of the land sale. He added that there may not be much left to do in terms of litigation.
“We may be getting near the end simply for legal and pragmatic reasons,” McElroy told the Los Angeles Times.
Americans United filed an amicus brief in 2014 in the case, Trunk v. City of San Diego. In its brief, AU disputed claims by the U.S. government that the Latin cross is a generic symbol of military sacrifice.


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A92. Four Views of Kealakekua Bay
(Front) A92. Peter and Donna Thomas. Four Views of Kealakekua Bay. Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1998.
72 x 46 mm (2 7/8”x 1 ¾”), scroll 56 cm (22"), 75 copies.
Binding: Scroll; case-bound in patterned paper, handmade by Peter Thomas, over boards. Illustration on label on cover. The scroll is wound onto a dowel set in a handmade koa wood rack. The other end of the scroll is attached to a brass rod that acts as a handle for unwinding the scroll. Inside cover paper grey. Paper: Duplex sheet; cream, handmade by Peter Thomas, with a Hawaiian tapa design stenciled in the pulp on reverse. Printing: Letterpress. Some text printed from polymer plates. Typography: Hand set Canterbury and Centaur; digital, typeface unknown. Illustration: One linocut done by Donna Thomas. Notes: Cover paper same as text paper. Koa trees are native to Hawaii. Miniature Book Society Distinguished Book Award, 1999.
“This is our homage to Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mt. Fuji. Many readers will remember the old song, ‘I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii...’ Those lyrics are printed across the bottom of the scroll. Two additional texts are printed at the center of the scroll; on the left is a description of ‘Karakakooa Bay,’ as it was called by Captain James Cook in 1779 and on the right, Mark Twains' impression of the bay as he saw it in 1866. The scroll is also printed with a panoramic view of the bay, which Donna cut in linoleum while in Hawaii. The illustrations portray boats in the harbor, a sandy beach, the grass shack, and coconut trees. They were printed using a split fountain so that the lower portion, depicting the sea and beach, is printed in deep blue ink, while the trees and the outline of distant mountains in the upper portion are green. These are the ‘Four Views’ referred to in the title: one is pictorial and three are literary."
(Rear Right) A93. Queen Liliuokalani. Aloha Oe. Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1998.
70 x 38 mm (2¾” x 1½”), 16-page accordion, 50 copies.
Binding: Case-bound fold out accordion; full-bound in printed cloth over boards. End panel of accordion not attached to a board. Title and illustration on label on cover. Pages are cut in the shape of a hula dancer. Paper: Cranes 100% cotton. Printing: Digital. Typography: Reproduction of text handwritten by Donna Thomas. Illustration: Reproductions of sixteen watercolor paintings by Donna Thomas. Notes: Text and illustrations reproduced from a shaped one-of-a-kind book made by Donna Thomas [B155]. Notes: Miniature Book Society Distinguished Book of the Year, 1999.
“With Peter’s interest in all things ukulele, I became interested in hula dancing. This book takes one of the most iconic of Hawaiian songs and pairs it with the iconic dancers. The song is 'hapa haole' which means it has both Hawaiian and English words mixed together, and so my text is in both Hawaiian and English. The cloth used to bind this book came from a vintage Hawaiian wedding dress. I trimmed off the long train and was still able to wear the dress to ukulele events for years after.” – Donna Thomas
(Rear Left) A95. Dante Allegheri. Paradise. Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas 1999.
70 x 51 mm (2 ¾” x 2”), 10 pages, 42 copies.
Binding: Flap book; case-bound in printed paper over boards. Pages are attached to five rotating wooden dowels and set in a frame made of painted wood and paper over boards. Frame attached to inside spine of binding. Printed end sheets over boards attached at front and back inside covers. Paper: Cream, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Hand set, typefaces unknown. Illustration: Two multi-color linocuts by Donna Thomas over boards on inside covers. Notes: Made for the occasion of Donna’s 42nd birthday. Cover paper is printed with the word “Paradise” in multiple colors and fonts.
"This was the second edition book we made using the flap book structure. The concept is that the words on the flaps would act like the titled divider in an index card box, each representing a different idea of paradise. It is left up to the reader to imagine what items would be placed behind the dividers. When rotated, the back of each flap reveals part of a quote by Dante about paradise. As this was a birthday surprise book, I could not ask Donna to make new illustrations, so both of the cuts were repurposed from previous projects. I used two different images on the panels mounted inside of the covers. Some copies have a mountain scene, (Donna’s paradise), others a tropical scene (Peter’s paradise)."


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Attached are the weekly production meeting minutes for Wild Party meeting-minutes-5
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meeting-minutes-1As Deputy Stage Manager it is my job to do the minutes of all meetings we have as a production team so I will be uploading the weekly production meetings and any directorial meetings we have in the process
As part of our Creative Futures Module today we looked at previous shows done by the college in order for us to evaluate ourselves on Set, Lighting and Sound elements of the performance we then went on to looking at performances of “The Wild Party” so that we could grasp what kind of set would do the, show justice the set itself is very stylised and we also looked at a video on the 1920s in order to see the issues of the time we would all have to go away and research the different aspects of the 1920s and look at stylised theatre, to give the set that feel. We was also told that the Director wants some of the audience within the performance so we discussed different ideas about set and the Set Designer discussed what her ideas were for having audience on the stage and the positioning of the band, which could potentially be on decking to bring levels to the performance.


If there’s any designer you can count on to create and stir controversies, it should be Karl Lagerfeld. This time around though, he’s not calling out a celebrity for being fat. Instead, the issue has more to do with his latest campaign star Ondria Hardin, an up-and-comer who was controversially thrust in the limelight for walking at Marc Jacobs’ fall runway show at just 14 years old.
Lagerfeld doesn’t seem too concerned about this issue though since he hired and photographed the now-15-year-old model for Chanel’s spring 2013 campaign. In fact, he even complimented Hardin’s beauty. “She doesn’t look 15. She looks 18 or 19,” said Lagerfeld. While Lagerfeld is playing it cool, we’re anticipating the issue to blow up as soon as spring ads start breaking in magazines—Vogue in particular.
While the Council of Fashion Designers of America has been the runway watchdog, Vogue pledged through their Heath Initiative program that they will also ban models under 16 from appearing in their magazines. With that rule in place, does that mean we won’t be seeing any Chanel spring 2013 ad on Vogue?
Although the 5’8″ beauty, who will share Chanel’s campaign duties with veteran Stella Tenant, looks older than her age, that still doesn’t make her eligible—so to speak—to appear on Vogue publications. Now, we wonder if Vogue will stick to their rules or if they’ll play up the grey areas and get technical just to keep one important advertiser happy. No matter how this ends up, it’s clear now that some designers are just too cool for rules.
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I have made Ham and Onion pie before. I used some leftover Ham, ground it with the meat grinder attachment on the KA mixer, and used it that way. The ground Ham also makes a good sandwich too. IMO
Nice pie. I haven't tried to make that style of pizza crust yet. Ordered one from a pizza place but by the time I got it home in the box it was pretty soft. Not sure what its really suppose to be like.
I was just experimenting with the sliced deli meat I got. It appears that all a honey baked ham or brown sugar ham is just orange juice, honey, and brown sugar being basted on the ham as it cooks or dries out. Some call for mustard which doesn't sound good on a pizza. So, I took some brown sugar and some Sunny d smooth orange juice I had and made some basting "juice." Basically just put enough OJ in to solidify the brown sugar. Then dipped some new meat in the bowl of basting "juice" and then put it back on the pizza. (I removed the old meat and olives). Then basted it a little more on top after the ham was installed. Then recooked it again at a lower temp. Still eatable as it was the 3rd reheat.
I didn't use honey because I didn't have any. Tried honey once in the sauce and it was too sweet. Anyway, I like the effect of this and will try it again next time.

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We enjoy strong relationships with interior designers – and, as well as direct commissions from private clients, many of our commissions come from an interior designer who is already working with the client.
The work of leading interior designers is fascinating and they know they can trust us to create exactly what is required. They also know that bespoke furniture makes a massive difference to the personality, impact and individuality of interiors.
“I like to use bespoke furniture in my schemes because it means I can make the new interiors in keeping with the property,” says Stacey Sibley, Co-founder of Beau Sala and formerly Creative Director at Alexander James Interiors. “It’s great to be sympathetic towards to the character and style of the house. Bespoke furniture also means you have the ability to utilise the space properly. This is particularly true of wardrobes and storage, as they are usually a main concern of our clients.”
Trying to source off-the-shelf furniture for a client brief is often impossible and, as well as allowing much greater flexibility, creating bespoke options brings unique character to the finished rooms.
“I like to make every project individual, with furniture tailor-made to suit the client’s brief,” says Diana Celella, Managing Director of The Drawing Room Interiors. “Budget allowing, we always recommend designing unique, totally bespoke pieces of furniture.”
I also asked Davina Merola, MD & Creative Director at Space Alchemy, what she looks for in bespoke furniture design. “When we’re introducing any company to work with us on a client’s project we look into them closely to ensure they can produce the quality we’re looking for at the price that suits the budget. We also prefer to work with well-established companies that are well run and reliable as it makes everyone’s life easier and ensures smooth running during the project.”
Diana agrees: “Interior designers want to work with companies who produce beautiful furniture, on deadline and on budget. We have an eye for detail and expect the furniture to reflect this.”
A single piece of bespoke furniture can affect the end result of any overall brief, so the designer is putting their reputation on the line when they partner up with a furniture maker. “Client satisfaction is what I always strive for and the bespoke elements of a scheme can make all the difference,” adds Stacey.
I was also interested in trends that Stacey has observed in the interiors world, which I’ve noticed in work that has been commissioned from us. “There’s a growing need to accommodate audio visual or office equipment (such as printers) in bespoke cabinetry,” she says. “More and more clients want home cinemas, or a home workspace that looks welcoming rather than utilitarian – now more than ever, in the pandemic crisis.”
Most of us have certainly spent a lot more time at home in 2020 than we would have done normally, so why not make it as appealing a place as possible – unique, bespoke, for you and your family.


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The Missus and I had the chance to have a rare date night last night. We decided to dine at the brand new Issara (pronounced it-SAH-rah), located around 17th and Pine Lake Road. Here's a first look.
Issara is a sister restaurant to Downtown's hugely popular Blue Orchid. The two restaurants share many characteristics but, taking a cue from its name (which means "freedom" in Thai), Issara exists in part to expand beyond traditional fare. The restaurant hasn't yet had its grand opening, so its present menu is temporary and incomplete. I'm eager to see how it evolves over time.
The interior is wide open with nary a divider in sight. The floor is carpeted, while the exposed ceiling is softened by hanging panels and decorative bulbs. Tasteful artwork hangs on the walls, including a black-on-white piece hanging over our booth that I particularly enjoyed (but I foolishly forgot to photograph).
The tables and chairs are a beautiful wood. Though they are heavy and sturdy, I worry about the durability of their finish; I noted the back of the booth next to us had already been scratched to hell by somebody's belt. Each table is topped with water glasses, black napkins, heavy silverware, and a small vase of fresh flowers.
As I noted above, the menu is not yet complete. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of choices. Absent are Blue Orchid's extensive selection of curries and stir fries, but in their place are excellent options like stuffed calamari, yakisoba, and a couple fine duck dishes. Also notable are the prices. Relative to Blue Orchid prices are a fair bit higher, extending well into the 20s in a few cases. That's not absurd for a fine dining establishment, but it may catch off guard folks who are used to Blue Orchid's less expensive fare.
The Missus went with a grilled seafood salad ($12.95). The salad was served with not one but three different dressings. Each was extremely tasty, but a warning: the green dressing (top left in the photo) is very spicy and not for the faint of heart. The veggies were fresh and most of the seafood was excellent, but The Missus noted that the calamari was on the chewy side.
Meanwhile I went with the basil duck ($18.95). It featured a half duck topped with basil, onion, garlic, ginger, jalapeno and a fantastic medium-spicy sauce. It was served with white rice on the side. I have very little experience with duck so I don't have much to compare to, but for me the dish was love at first bite. The meat was moist and flavorful. The skin was just a bit crispy (though softened of course by the sauce). The smell was intoxicating. My stomach encouraged me to stop eating just over halfway through, but my tastebuds demanded I finish. So I did, of course.
There's no doubt Issara will be a success. Blue Orchid's coat tails will boost its early days, and it will gradually form its own identity. The Issara experience isn't perfect just yet -- for example the hosts and servers, though well trained, still have a few rough edges -- but that won't stop Lincolnites from arriving in droves.

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Season 3 of Westworld doesn’t have an official release date, but in a first-look trailer it’s revealed the series will return next year — and, there’s a new player in town. Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul will star in the next installation of the show, as he navigates his way through a world that he says feels like is “rotting to pieces.”
“I think if I’m going to get on with my life I’m going to have to find something, someone… real,” he says in the final moments of the trailer, as none other than Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) shows up. Watch up top.
Following the highly anticipated Game of Thrones finale, Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke have shared their reactions to the ending. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, they said there was a lot of tears.
“I cried,” Clarke said of initially reading the script. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’… I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming.”
Harington had an emotional reaction too.
“I looked at Emilia and there was a moment of me realizing, ‘No, no…,’ he said of the moment they sat across from one another reading the script.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who plays Bran Stark in Game of Thrones, tells Entertainment Weekly he thought his ascension to the throne was a joke at first. He mentions that he really wanted a death scene with “an exploding head or something,” but ultimately thought it was a “fitting conclusion.”
“Not everyone will be happy,” he said. “It’s so difficult to finish a series as popular as this without pissing some people off. I don’t think anybody will think it’s predictable and that’s as much as you can hope for. People are going to be angry. There’s going to be a lot of broken hearts. It’s ‘bittersweet,’ exactly as [saga author] George R.R. Martin intended. It’s a fitting conclusion to this epic saga.”
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Land excluded from the green belt and reserved to meet possible long-term housing development needs in Surrey Heath Borough Council's Local Plan is indicated by the purple shaded area.
The site which we are proposing for our new residential development is reserved within Surrey Heath Borough Council’s Local Plan to meet possible long-term housing development needs and is excluded from the green belt.
National planning policy requires Local Planning Authorities to identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites equivalent to provide five years’ worth of housing against their housing requirements. However, the Council’s most recent assessment confirms that Surrey Heath Borough Council can presently only demonstrate a 2.8-year supply of deliverable housing land.
In such circumstances relevant policies for the supply of housing are not to be considered up to date and a presumption in favour of sustainable development is to apply. The proposed site comprises an appropriate location to meet a pressing need for residential accommodation, in a location excluded from the green belt for possible housing development purposes (as shown on the map pictured right)
Before we start designing a new scheme, we complete an assessment of the site and the surrounding area as they are at the moment. We record those features we will need to take into account in our design. All of the relevant considerations, whether they fix the way our scheme will have to be designed or give us a real opportunity to make the most of a particular feature, are shown below.
The site is within a suitable walking and cycling distance of the local facilities in West End, which include local shops, a post office, a primary school and a medical practice. Buses are available from Guildford Road, some 500m from the proposed site access. The bus stops on Guildford Road are served by a number of frequent and regular bus routes, including to Woking, Lightwater, Guildford and Camberley. Brookwood and Woking stations are approximately 5km and 7.5km from the site respectively.Both stations are accessible by bus and provide rail links to a wide range of destinations including London, Basingstoke, Southampton and Portsmouth.
Access to the development for vehicles is proposed from Beldam Bridge Road using a simple T-junction access as shown on the plan pictured below. The location has been selected in order to minimise the impact on trees along the site frontage and the design has been agreed in principle with Surrey County Council. An additional pedestrian access is proposed further north and closer to the existing residential area.
Our proposed access plan for the residential development.
Car parking provision for the proposed homes will be in line with Surrey County Council’s guidance, as follows:
- 1.5 or more spaces per 1 and 2-bedroom property
- 2 or more spaces per 3, 4 and 5-bedroom property
- Visitor parking to be provided where appropriate
We have used the industry standard TRICS trip generation database to estimate vehicle movements to and from the proposed development. A development of around 85 houses is expected to generate some 50 two-way vehicle trips during the peak hours of 8am to 9am, and again between 5pm and 6pm on weekdays. This is equivalent to less than one additional vehicle per minute in the peak hours. A Transport Statement is being prepared to evaluate the impact of the development on the local transport network and will be submitted with the outline planning application. The scope of the study is being agreed with Surrey County Council in its role as Local Highway Authority. We are aware that the A322 Guildford Road is very busy at peak times and our work will consider the impact of the development on the A322/Fellow Green/Kerria Way junction in detail.
The proposed development lies in an area of low flood risk, classified as Flood Zone 1, outside the 1-in-1,000-year annual flood event (rivers and sea). Other potential flood risk mechanisms, such as from overland flow, groundwater and sewers, are also of a low risk.
The proposed development will incorporate sustainable drainage measures (SuDS) to ensure that surface water run-off rates from the development are no higher than current greenfield levels. This will also assist in maintaining water quality.
Sustainable drainage measures will include porous paving in some areas to collect, store and control outflows during storm events. This outflow will then be directed via a drainage swale or underground pipes to a new attenuation pond (see below), and then via a further swale to the existing local watercourse.
The attenuation pond will take the form of a wet pond or a grassed hollow located within the open space to the east of the residential site, and will be designed to enhance the biodiversity and landscape character of this area. The pond and swales will improve water quality by trapping or allowing contaminants to settle out and break down naturally before the water reaches the local watercourse.
Foul drainage will discharge to the existing Thames Water public network via a new pumping station at the east of the site and rising main. Some upgrading of the existing network is likely to be required and Taylor Wimpey is currently in consultation with the water company on the detailed requirements.
Trees are present throughout the residential development site. At the boundaries these are predominantly a mix of species that naturally occur in the area, such as oak, ash and birch. Within the site there is a wide and eclectic selection of trees given the site’s former use as a tree nursery.
An assessment of the trees on the site has been carried out. It finds that the significant trees, worthy of retention, are to be found at the boundaries with some beyond being of special importance given their age. Whilst there is a good mix of species within the site many of the trees are compromised due to the close spacing in which they have grown. That spacing was ideal for nursery production but upon abandonment the trees have grown on to become spindly and prone to failure.
The assessment considers that the site can be developed to retain and enhance the amenity of the significant trees. Trees will be retained and incorporated within the proposed site layout for their contribution to green infrastructure and the support of biodiversity.
Existing trees will be complemented with further new tree planting to enhance the setting of the dwellings and to ensure a sustainable tree population for the enjoyment of future generations.
The proposed development site does not lie within or immediately adjacent to any statutory or non-statutory designated wildlife site and no direct impacts to such sites are anticipated as a result of the development proposals. However, the site is located within a 5km radius of the Thames Basin Heaths (TBH) Special Protection Area (SPA) and an area of publicly accessible recreation space – formally known as Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) – is being proposed to mitigate any indirect impacts on this area.
An Ecological Appraisal of the site has been undertaken. Habitats at the site comprise remnants of the former tree nursery site, with formally shaded ground become colonised with grass, tall ruderal and herb species since tree cover has been reduced. Proposed SANG land to the east of the proposed development area comprises denser nursery tree stands interspersed with more open grassland areas.
Detailed survey work for reptiles, great crested newts and bats has been completed to inform an assessment of potential impacts to such species from proposed development of the site. Reptiles and great crested newts were not found to be present and are not considered to represent a constraint to development. Bat activity was dominated by common pipistrelle bats, which have been observed foraging across the site. Bat foraging and commuting opportunities will be retained within the proposed SANG area and the proposed development by retaining boundary trees and hedgerows and incorporating native tree and shrub planting into landscape proposals.
The above plan shows how our proposed development aims to respond to the characteristics of the site and its surroundings.


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Everyone looks forward to receiving compensation after working hard. However, due to rising expenses, many people see their compensation vanish within a few days. Struggling with your finances is difficult, but there are ways that you can receive help. Thanks to the age of technology, there are multiple financial apps currently available to help manage your finances and get things under control.
Mint allows you to manage your monthly expenses, bank accounts, and credit cards under one joint account. You can view your net worth at any time. Mint calculates your spending each month, so you can keep track of your budget. It also provides different charts to help manage your finances without any issues. Mint will also send you notifications when you have upcoming payments.
Penny will interact with you and answer any questions you may have about your finances. It helps you keep track of your finances by showing you information about your daily spending and what bill payments are soon due. Penny also includes different financial charts and graphs to help you get a clear understanding of your financial situation.
BillGuard helps users understand their spending habits, while also protecting their financial information from fraudulent activity. This app can sync with your bank accounts, which allows you to see your overall balance, with a breakdown of every transaction. BillGuard also checks with you to make sure you made those transactions and not an impostor. If something is wrong, the transaction will be flagged until you speak with your bank or the merchant. BillGuard also includes analytics, such as spending per category, which gives you an enhanced look at your finances.
Expensify is available on your phone, as well as the internet. The user interface is easy and divided into multiple sections; SmartScan, Track Time, Track Distance, and Add Expense. Track Time allows you to keep a tab on your daily earnings. The popular SmartScan option allows you to take pictures and electronically save receipts. You can also add your credit or debit card to Expensify and track your balances from there.
You Need A Budget
You Need A Budget (YNAB) emphasizes being flexible. You’ll be tasked with assigning your money to a specific category, such as food, gas, and utilities. With YNAB’s structure, you’ll be able to easily recognize patterns in your spending and see which areas need to be improved.


A unique bird, a unique island, and unique customs that bind them all.
On Oct 04, 2012, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) rejected a proposal to create a missile-firing testing system on Tillanchong island, a narrow strip of island in Nicobar.
Tillanchong is an unfamiliar name for many. Uninhabited except for a police post, the Navy chose this Nicobar island for erecting a missile range for shooting dummy missiles. Tillanchong is a long, narrow ridge of land, prone to erosion. Holding the largest surviving populations of the endemic Nicobar Megapode (Megapodius nicobariensis), it is also a protected sanctuary and an Important Bird Area (Islam and Rahmani, 2004). The decision was pending with the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), where the NBWL was informed by the Navy that such a project necessitated distance from people and an undulating landscape.
Dr. Asad Rahmani of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), along with the local Andaman and Nicobar forest department, conducted a site inspection report for the NBWL on the possible impacts of this project. His report gave a firm no to the project on two grounds. Firstly, the Tillanchong IBA holds the most stable population of the Nicobar Megapode, found nowhere else in the world except the Nicobars. Secondly, the Tillanchong island is sacred for the Nicobarese people.
But faced with charges that it was ‘obstructionist’, the NBWL gave in-principle approval for one-time firing of missiles on the island, in the 25th meeting of the NBWL.
Apalled by this decision, the Nicobarese people of Nancowry, Kamorta, Trinket, Katchal, Terassa, Bompoka and Chowra islands wrote to the MoEF asking for a repeal of the decision. The island is uninhabited for a reason — the Nicobarese believe that their ancestor’s spirits reside on the island. This land, considered sacred by them, has more Nicobar Megapodes than in many other places. This is because of the religious taboos against hunting. Clearly, in the case of the Tillanchong, it is the strong link between cultural diversity and ecological diversity which has nurtured the Nicobar Megapode, and the other species on the island.
The Nicobarese visit Tillanchong only in one season annually with a local priest, to pray, to feel, and to revere the island. It is, what geographer’s call a sense of ‘place’ — a rootedness to a spot, bound through custom, which elevates a ‘space’ to a place.
The MoEF’s decision to reject the proposal is recognition not just of the right of the Nicobar Megapode to continue building its unique nests of leaf matter on Tillanchong, but also of the Nicobarese to continue being the true conservationists of Tillanchong.
References– Islam, MZ, and Rahmani, AR (2004), ‘Important Bird Areas in India- Priority sites for Conservation’, Indian Bird Conservation Network: Bombay Natural History Society and BirdLife International.


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