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You can always trust Bahujan Samaj Party and its supremo Mayawati to dazzle you with their unconventional politicking. And dazzled they have. While other parties are busy finalising rudimentary things, Bahujan Samaj Party looks all set to gain a head start over the others. While the initial surveys have put the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of all the other parties in the polls, it is expected that the polls will not merely be a showdown between Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party.
Mayawati has used identity politics to her benefit like none other and this has propelled her to the post of Chief Minister as many as four times. However, it appears that the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party is using development as the poll plank this time around. She has publicly announced that she will no more construct statues and memorials and rather would focus on development alone.
The development plank is the fad from the times when a certain section of youth was not attracted by caste- or religion-based politics. Basic amenities and infrastructural developments are something that is now favoured by every section of the society and these issues cannot be put on the back-burner anymore. Apart from the surveys, political pundits in the state to are placing Bahujan Samaj Party ahead in the race, and expect it to emerge as the single largest party if not the outright winner to form the government. There are two major reasons behind this prediction. Firstly, the voters of Uttar Pradesh have traditionally juggled between the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party; ergo, with SP down, this time it seems to be the Bahujan Samaj Party's turn. Secondly, apart from Bahujan Samaj Party, no other party can claim to be Samajwadi Party's counterweight.
Sensing the victory, Mayawati has already started electioneering. She has finalised candidates for all 403 seats that will go for polls in Uttar Pradesh. While the names have not been announced publicly, the information about the selected candidate has been passed on to grassroots workers in every district in order for them to work in a coordinated way. It might happen that she'll change some of the names in the run-up to the polls, but more or less, that names released now are expected to remain the same.
We'll Form The Government On Our Own
Dr. Bali Ram, Senior Leader BSP
Where do you see BSP in the next assembly polls?
We'll form the government on our own in 2017. People of Uttar Pradesh are fed up with the deteriorating law and order situation and they have started to look back fondly to the reign of Behen Mayawati. As a citizen of this state, I can say that the state needs the BSP government. All the developmental works initiated by the Mayawati government have been left in a limbo by the present dispensation. The SP government has actually pushed the state backward with its stark inefficiency and misgovernance. The eyes of the entire state are set on Mayawati.
What will be your strategy to win this election?
Development is our core agenda. We want multifaceted development of Uttar Pradesh. The projects that are stalled will be restarted. The issue of unemployment will be tackled. We'll create more opportunities for the youth. But our priority will be to improve the deteriorating law and order situation. As you would have seen in the last tenure as well, none of the police officers could afford to ignore their duty during our government.
Will there be anything new in the distribution of tickets?
We have given the final touches to the list. Behen Mayawati is closely scrutinizing the list now. In accordance with the social equation, the party will distribute seats among all the communities. BSP believes in "Sarvajan Hitay, Sarvjan Sukhay," and we aspire to follow it this time too.
What will be on priority: development or physical representation of identity politics?
Our leader has already promised that no new statues or memorials will be constructed. Development is our core agenda.
How confident are you about winning the elections?
People are fed up with SP and they want BSP to come. We'll form the government with absolute majority. BJP and Congress are not even remotely in the contest.
Like in the past, the list has numerous Brahmins, Muslims and lower OBC candidates apart from a majority of Dalits. Mayawati has realised by now that forming the government only on the basis of Dalit votes might not be enough, and that she needs to stitch some sort of social alliances. She has seen the consequences during the 2002 assembly elections as well as during the 2014 general elections. After 2002, she might have been in and out of the government several times, yet, there has not been any marked improvement or reduction in her vote percentage. In the last general elections, the party failed to win even a single seat, but her vote percentage was 4.9 percent, which was the third highest in the country after Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. In Uttar Pradesh alone, the Bharatiya Janata Party polled 42.6 percent of the votes and won 71 seats, whereas Samajwadi Party won five seats with 22.5 percent votes. Bahujan Samaj Party, which failed to open its account, still had close to 20 percent votes. Even in the 2012 assembly Elections when the party lost the state, she had polled over 25 percent of the popular vote.
The Dalit population in Uttar Pradesh according to the last Census was close to 20.5 percent. While Bharatiya Janata Party managed to win all the 17 reserved constituencies in the 2014 polls, Bahujan Samaj Party's poll percentage did not dip below 20 percent. This indicates that her core voters remain united behind her.
One has to also remember that the Bahujan Samaj Party did spring back in the 2015 District Panchayat elections. Cadres who were crestfallen after two consecutive losses suddenly felt energised. Bahujan Samaj Party-supported candidates won massively in most of the districts. The worst humiliation was reserved for Prime Minister Modi, whose adopted village, Jaipura, elected a Bahujan Samaj Party-supported candidate. BSP also managed to win Agra, Azamgarh, Hatras, Saharanpur and Aligarh among others. This has really boosted the confidence of the party workers. This is also indicative that even if the party manages to wean away a fraction of votes from other communities apart from Dalits, it will be in a position to win the election.
At several places in Uttar Pradesh, it will be the Bharatiya Janata Party that will challenge Bahujan Samaj Party, apart from Samajwadi Party. Bharatiya Janata Party has thrown its entire weight in Uttar Pradesh this time. Since Modi himself is an MP from Benaras, it will be his personal prestige that will be on the line. Also, since Janta Dal (United), Rashtriya Lok Dal and Peace Party have planned to fight the election together, they might create a dent in Muslim votes as well. The BSP strategy behind finalising the candidates well in advance is that the party does not want factionalism to appear at the last moment. The candidates will also have ample time to prepare for the elections. In the second phase of the strategy, Mayawati has constituted committees at the district level, which will directly canvas for votes. It has also been decided that Mayawati will start the election campaign well in advance. She's a one-woman show any which way. It is a well-known fact that BSP gets its core votes in the name of its leaders and not in the name of any particular candidate; except of course the votes from other communities, which do depend on the choice of the candidate.
Mayawati has already started her election campaign on the 14th of April, the birthday of Babasaheb Ambedkar. In her very first speech, she promised that she will build no more memorials or statues. She had spent crores in her last tenure to build several such statues of Babasaheb, Kanshiram and herself, both in Noida as well as in Lucknow. This drew lots of criticism and she had to face people's angst. This did not reflect well on her vote share in the 2012 polls.
She wants to alter this image understandably. In her speech, she maintained that the reason behind such memorials and statues was to offer tribute to these personalities. And that task apparently has been completed. In defence of her own statue, she maintained that she was only fulfilling Kanshiram's wishes which he had laid out both verbally and in written documents. She again stressed that the days of statutes are over and that she will focus on eradicating corruption and improving law and order now.
People across party lines admit in private that Mayawati's tenures in the past have seen marked improvement in the law and order situation. She was very particular about this issue and was known to conduct surprise visits to police stations. She rarely thought twice before suspending any police officer or jawan who was found lax in his duty. This used to keep police on their toes. The situation started to deteriorate since the day of the advent of the Akhilesh government.
In a recently done pre-poll survey by a channel, Bahujan Samaj Party was shown as the single largest party with 185 seats. Bharatiya Janata Party had 120 seats while the incumbent Samajwadi Party had just 80 seats. In terms of the most popular Chief Ministerial face, Mayawati with 31 percent barely beat Akhilesh Yadav who was the first choice of 30 percent voters. BJP's Rajnath Singh polled a paltry 18 percent in comparison. BSP seats were shown to be from across the state. To its credit, BSP also appears to be winning the perception war as voters seem to believe that the Samajwadi Party-led governments are more corrupt generally than the Bahujan Samaj Party-led governments.
However, this is not to say that the game is over. There are still over seven months to the polls and many new issues might crop up in the days leading to it. Inflation, load shedding, lack of drinking water, unemployment etc will also figure as popular issues. And who convinces the voters of taking care of these will have an upper hand on the day of the poll.


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102.5 WBOC's Corey Phoebus is in the Kirby and Holloway Kitchen making no-bake peanut butter oat bars.
And they're pretty versatile. They can be vegan, or not. He found the recipe on the website "Serving Realness." You can try it out for yourself below!
No-Bake Peanut Butter Oat Bars
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter (unsalted)
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup rolled oats (gluten-free if needed)
- 1/4 cup vegan chocolate chips
- Start by whisking the peanut butter and the maple syrup together in a saucepan over medium heat
- Once fragrant and thickened (less than 5 minutes), remove from heat and pour over the rolled oats
- Mix until nice and uniform
- Spread into a lined baking dish (I used 8×6) and press down firmly
- Finish by sprinkling on the chocolate chips, and press them lightly into the bars
- Chill in the fridge/freezer for 30 minutes to set
- Remove from dish, cut, and serve!


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It looks like Dudefest.com's Marvel Week is coming to a close. For those of you who wanted Marvel Week to be over just so you could read the WINTER SOLDIER review (I'm talking about you, mom), here it is. For the rest of you, here are the rest of the Marvel reviews from Marvel Week. Ignore SPIDER-MAN 1: SPIDER-MAN though, because that was just teen drama foreplay.
To see WINTER SOLDIER, I went to my first midnight showing since SPIDER-MAN 3: World of Darkness, so naturally I was expecting too many villains to keep track of (or care about), and a weird emo dance scene in the middle. It turns out that neither of those things plagued THE WINTER SOLDER. The movie didn't ruin a legendary villain by casting an actor best known as a whiny teenage boy to play him. Note that I'm referring to Venom in SPIDER-MAN 3, not Anakin Skywalker in STAR WARS II: CLONE ATTACK (more on that next month).
It turns out, actually, that coming into the movie, I knew absolutely nothing about the movie's villain, the Winter Soldier, from the comics, and was confused by previous trailers I'd seen for the movie because I didn't see who I thought was the Winter Soldier, Captain America, fighting wolves in the snow (preferably with Liam Neeson). (Editor's Note: Joe, are you f#$%ing serious? How the f#$% do you not know who the Winter Soldier is?)
Well first off, foul-mouthed
nerd editor, I don't know who the Winter Soldier is because no one knows who the Winter Soldier is. It's amazing how far a person can get in life without knowing who a semi-recent villain who fights a comic book hero created to capitalize on the patriotic sentiments of the 1940s is. I know people who have been able to put themselves through college without even knowing that. Surprising, right?
Secondly, I don't read comic books. Yeah. That's right. I don't. Do you want to know why? Because I'd rather watch a bunch of dudes in tight suits fighting each other than look at pictures of dudes in tight suits fighting each other. I also don't do nerd stuff like reading comic books because I'm too busy doing cool stuff like programming and playing Magic: The Gathering.
I hope I've addressed your concerns and we can move on to the actual contents of movie, because WINTER SOLDIER is pretty fantastic. There's so much to like about this movie. LACK OF SPOILER ALERT.
- Chris Evans just gets better as Captain America, and Captain America just gets better with his shield.
- We get a nice close-up ass shot of Scar-Jo in the first five or so minutes of the movie.
- Nick Fury gets a chance to be a badass.
- We finally get a black superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Falcon), and he's baller as hell. Hopefully he replaces all occurrences of Hawkeye in future MCU films.
- The Winter Soldier is possibly the best non-Loki villain in the MCU so far. I expect that he'll return. (HE BETTER)
- It has the typically solid Marvel Studios sense of humor, and keeps it light.
- There's no love interest for the Cap in it, although he and Scar-Jo share an awkward escalator kiss. (We all know how those are).
- There are a number of twists in the film, and while none of them are exactly revolutionary, they're at least surprising and engaging if you're an idiot like me.
What I think makes this film stand out among the Marvel Studio films is the fact that it's more of a political thriller than a superhero movie. It's less "feel-good-rah-rah-American-underdog" than it's predecessor, sure, but it more than makes up for that with its S.H.I.E.L.D.-centric plot, addition of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and extra action in lieu of backstory. See it dudes.


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God Can Use Our Spirit-Controlled Desires to Direct Us
"It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13 NIV).
When we want God's direction for our lives, we should get our desires out of the way so that we can honestly say, "God, I'm willing to go either way — whatever you want is what I want."
Then we say, "God, help me to know what you want by giving me a desire one way or the other." Some people don't want to do that, because they think if they desire something, then God must be against it. That's not true. God can use our Spirit-controlled desires to direct us. Psalm 37:4 says, "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart" (NIV). If you're really trying to do what's right in God's eyes, then your desires are going to be in line.
How do you know when you have the right desires? "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously . . . and it will be given to you" (James 1:5 NIV). You say, "Lord, give me the right kind of desire to do the right thing."
When you're facing a difficult decision, first, you confess your sins and get right with God. Then you commit the decision to the Lord and keep praying until you "get in neutral" about it. The third step is to ask God to reveal his will by giving you a desire: "Lord, give me the desire to do the right thing." Remember: "It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13 NIV).
How do you know if the desire is from God? One good test is time. You can tell if a desire is from God by sitting on it for a while and praying, "God, if this desire is from you, make it stronger. If this desire is not from you, please take it away." It's a legitimate request — just ask God to do that for you!
Talk It Over
- What are some desires you have that you believe are from God? What makes you think that is true?
- What does it mean to "get in neutral" about a decision you have to make?
- When you've had to make a decision, have you ever given it time to see if the desire got stronger or went away? What happened?
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I think it is! I, too, took a Pharmacy technician course in high school and I wouldn't be in this program to become a pharmacist in 6 years if I hadn't. Plus, it would be so much easier for you to become a technician or pharmacist because you have already been exposed to the material, I know it's helping me.
The amount of time to become a pharmacist technician isn't terrible either, and you can always change careers if you are not happy with your decision in the long run.


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October 25, 2003
Eagles fall to UMSL
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The University of Southern Indiana women's soccer team lost a 1-0 heart-breaker to the University of Missouri-St. Louis Saturday afternoon at Strassweg Field in Evansville, Indiana. The Screaming Eagles fall to 6-9-1 overall and 3-7-0 in the GLVC while the Riverwomen move to 12-5-1 overall and 6-3-1 in the conference.
USI needed to beat UMSL in order to keep its conference tournament hopes alive. With a win USI would have been in the tournament for the first time since the 2000 season.
The Riverwomen scored the lone goal of the match when junior midfielder Katie Huelsing netted her own corner kick at the five minute mark in the first half.
Freshman goalkeeper Casey Hrvatin (Evansville, Indiana) had a game-high 10 saves for the Eagles while sophomore forward Brooklyn Wilke (Evansville, Indiana) led the team with three shots, one which was on goal.
Coupled with Bellarmine University's loss to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the Eagles will miss out on their third consecutive GLVC Tournament bid.
Due to the USI-McKendree College match, scheduled for Wednesday, October 29, being cancelled, the Eagles season comes to a close with the loss.
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North Mason coalition works to dissuade youth from marijuana
The marijuana of today isn't the same marijuana of the '70s and '80s.
That's what North Mason High School teacher and former youth counselor Joni Cagwin wishes parents and students understood about marijuana use today.
"When people voted to legalize marijuana, I don't think they realized the difference," Cagwin said. "We're talking about oils now with 70 percent THC, compared to the 10 percent you'd find in a joint. With it so strong, I see a lot of kids go from zero to 100 in a short amount of time."
Cagwin is part of a new group of North Mason School District administrators, Mason County officials and community members working to make sure students don't become addicted to marijuana and other substances.
The North Mason Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition meets at 5:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month in room 116 at North Mason High School, and while the group is largely adult-driven now, it plans to involve more students as the year continues.
"In my overall career, I see that kids now are more open about marijuana use because they don't think it's a big deal," Cagwin said. "Most of my kids think drinking is worse. They think cigarettes and alcohol are worse than marijuana. We have a lot of work to do."
Cagwin works closely with co-coordinator Ben Johnson of Mason County Public Health, who has seen success with a similar prevention coalition in Shelton.
For the past four years, Mason County has received funding from the state Department of Health and the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative, which supports substance abuse prevention efforts across the state.
While the county receives around $110,000 for programs in Shelton — parenting classes and Shelton High School's Students Against Destructive Decisions club among them — that funding is earmarked for Shelton School District only, Johnson said.
"The goal would be to get funding like that up here in the north end," he said. "Our other goal is to get peer education training for youth in North Mason. We would like something like the SADD club up here. This will be the first year we'll try to recruit students."
The Squaxin Island Tribe has already provided $2,000 toward the North Mason efforts, and the county has another $500 from the Youth Marijuana Prevention and Education Program, a program from Olympic Educational Service District No. 114 housed at Kitsap Public Health.
Members of the coalition include substance abuse treatment counselors, representatives from the Mason County Sheriff's Office and other agencies, all of whom contribute ideas toward keeping substances away from minors, like providing lock boxes for prescription and recreational drugs.
Up until this school year, Cagwin worked as the school district's drug and alcohol counselor for three years, so she's seen how students' attitudes have shifted in regards to marijuana.
"With the legalization of marijuana and the fact that Belfair soon had numerous outlets to buy recreational marijuana, it gave the kids the perception that this was a healthy thing to do," she said. "What scares me is the strength of the marijuana today and the lack of awareness about it."
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive component of marijuana, and research indicates that rats exposed to THC during adolescence show notable problems with specific learning and memory tasks later in life, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Studies in rats also show that adolescent exposure to THC can alter the brain's reward system, increasing the likelihood that an animal will self-administer other drugs, like heroin, when given an opportunity, also from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Yet, more than one-third of Mason County 10th-grade students surveyed in the 2016 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey said there was little to no risk in using marijuana regularly, and 53 percent of high school seniors reported the same thing.
The same survey showed that statewide 10th-grade students who use marijuana more often report lower grades than those who don't.
Other risks include lower school attendance and grade-point averages, as well as increased risk for respiratory health issues, suicide and mental health disorders, Johnson added.
"There is an extreme risk for developing a mental health disorder," Cagwin said. "Research shows that marijuana use can trigger kids who have underlying mental health issues who may not have been triggered otherwise."
A student-led program should have more success than programs initiated by adults, because students will listen to their peers, Cagwin added. They can also save schools money and give students valuable leadership skills.
"Programs like DARE used to come in, but the sheriff's office doesn't have money and teachers have a full curriculum," she said. "There's more impact when you see your peers involved. It'll also be a place where if people are struggling, they can find resources to help them."


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Does your website stink? Then it's about time to start looking for a new web designer. If you have no idea whether your website stinks or not, then this article is for you.
1. How Does Your Website Look On Mobile Devices?
Can your website fit comfortably – and beautifully – on any mobile device screen? Or does the content, graphics, and overall layout look crowded and unclear? If you're website isn't optimized for mobile devices like cell phones, and pad devices, then you can count on losing out on a lot of potential business. If your site isn't mobile friendly… Then your website stinks!
2. Is Contact Info Such As Forms, Phone Number And Address Easy To Find?
You can have the most engaging, innovative content any business could ask for. However, if there's no way for your visitors to easily locate a way to contact you, you can count on losing out on tons of business, not to mention the amount of money you are losing from consumers bouncing in and out of your website. Contact forms, phone numbers, and an address for your business should be at the forefront of your website, so that customers can contact you immediately. If your contact info is hard to find… Then your website stinks!
3. Is Content Easy To Understand, Are Their Photos, Is It Too Much Content Or Not Enough?
There's no need to channel your best Ernest Hemingway when creating content for your website. Internet audiences want something straightforward, digestible, and above all else engaging. Moreover, images are a great way to break up content and further engages visitors. You need to have content and photos placed appropriately or people viewing your site will get discouraged. If your site looks like a jumbled mess, with bad photos… Then your website stinks!
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4. Does Your Site Have A Call To Action
If you want your visitors to be part of your business, you need to invite them. A call to action encourages business and is also a great way to reiterate contact information and location. If your site doesn't have call to action anywhere on your website… Then your website stinks!
5. Does Your Site Have A Portfolio Or Testimonials?
You're talking a big game, but can you back it up? You need to have a portfolio of proven expertise up on your website, along with testimonials that show your business is the best. If you don't have a portfolio or testimonials on your website… Then your website stinks!
6. Is Your Site Social Friendly?
You ARE on the big social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn), aren't you? Reach a broader audience by engaging in social media, and make sure those accounts are easily accessible from your site. If you site has no way for customer to fine you socially… Then your website stinks!
7. Is Your Site Search Engine Friendly?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is crucial in getting your website noticed. Websites built in flash or has no meta tags, such as keywords, title and description will have a hard time getting across to the search engines what the website is about. If your site is totally flash or has no meta data… Then your website stinks!
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Solar Energy: Make It Work For You
Solar power can always help any building run more efficiently.It's a known fact that our energy doubles every 10 years.This should help you realize that solar energy costs. Read on to learn about solar energy. The density of your solar panels will determine how efficient they are. Panels that are more dense perform better, but they can generate more power.Compare the density of different panels before you decide which to buy. Your solar energy system will keep functioning as long as you maintain proper care of it. You might want a professional to do this, but doing it yourself will save money. If you want to use partial solar power, think about smaller applications. There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. The first way is to use window mountable solar panels that you can use to charge your portable electronic devices. The other way is to buy camping tools like lanterns and cooking equipment when you camp. Every tiny thing you switch to solar will shave a bit from your utilit


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Awww! She looks so proud of them!
She is very proud! It was her decision to finally have her ears pierced and she was braver than we thought she would be. She can't wait to begin changing them out in a few more weeks! She looks so much older with her little pierced ears!
She looks like she handled the situation very well.
Tiffany-she really did! I think it helped that she wanted to get them pierced. I wasn't sure what to expect from our drama queen, but she did great. She's growing up so fast!
Ear piercing day was a big deal for each of my girls, too. She is adorable! Thanks for stopping by my blog today!
Awww. So cute.
what an exciting day for your girl!!


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Boulder of the Week: Pride's Proud Prow
Instructor Tina Pride represents EVO's pride in a rainbow route sign of solidarity with Orlando. We believe in love, not hate, and climbing for all. #4Orlando #happypridemonth
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Remember the Magic Box? The one that automatically smooths your ABS prints? It's almost ready for shipping.
The Magic Box is an enclosed chamber in which you place prints made from ABS plastic. The Magic Box then carefully exposes the prints to a calculated amount of acetone vapor, which softens the exposed surfaces of the ABS to create a brilliantly smooth object. You'll lose a small amount of detail in the process, but it is usually worth doing so.
This device was launched as a Kickstarter project about a year ago, and it was warmly received with over USD$100,000 in pledges. The money appears to be well-spent as the product is evidently ready to ship. According to Victor Yu of Taiwan-based Sky-Tech:
Magic box is almost ready to production, below is testing video your ref. Pre-orders are scheduled to ship by ending of April, any new order requires 45 days for order delivery lead time.
And here is that video showing the machine in operation.
Acetone is not the easiest substance to work with, so having a machine deal with it is a good idea. One thing we noticed during the video was that there's quite a bit of noise to operate it, likely coming from an external water jet.
The device looks terrific as does the easy-to-use control panel shown here. If you'd like one, they're available for USD$900 now, quite a jump over their Kickstarter price of USD$399.
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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Friday, questioning why comedian Samantha Bee hasn't been fired by TBS for calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c***" during a monologue earlier this week Full Frontal with Samantha Bee show.
Trump seemed to suggest it was a "total double standard" that Bee hadn't been fired when Roseanne Barr's show was cancelled by ABC following her racist tweet. Barr posted a tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett, a former President Barack Obama adviser, to an ape. "A total double standard but that's O.K., we are Winning, and will be doing so for a long time to come!" Trump tweeted.
While Trump has not directly addressed Roseanne's cancellation, he did criticize Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger shortly after ABC axed the show.
"Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that 'ABC does not tolerate comments like those' made by Roseanne Barr," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn't get the call?"
On Thursday, Bee apologized to the First Daughter after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called her profane comment "vile and vicious."
"I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it," Bee wrote on Twitter.
Shortly after Bee's apology, TBS issued a statement accepting that it had been a mistake to air the comedian's words. "Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it," the statement read.
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Front 242 - G D V T songtekst
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I need to know You always walk away Though I'd like to stay The place we'd meet A distant street And now I walk alone in vain Wondering if you're still the same I haven't found G.V.D.T yet I only spoke with him on the phone I haven't found G.V.D.T yet I even don't remember why I've got to meet him I haven't found G.V.D.T yet It's an affair I will never forgat What's wrong? Corners I turn Pictures I burn I look over my shoulder To the man who grows older So will I find? This search is blind As I who cannot see As you can run free


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By Dave Parker
It's time for Seattle to Play Bigger! As a startup community, we've had a chip on our shoulder for years. We're not the valley. VCs would say we need better founders, founders would say we need better (and more) VCs. Both were right. Founders are flogged for thinking too small. But investors don't want to fund big ideas! Would you join me in making some changes to help level up the community as a whole? How do we bring individuals and groups together to do bigger things?
I'm starting with two things, first a community-driven Founder Development program, 6 Month Startup. Second, I've signed on to the WTIA Board to Chair the Startup Club Programs. Founders start their journey at the point of inspiration – it's about them as individuals and the skills they need to test their ideas. Later in the process, there are service providers and organizations to help companies – I'm looking to focus our efforts on the middle – the Founder development stage. You're likely early as a company, but you still need to think like an investor if you hope to get funded.
6 Month Startup
Last year I kicked off the first cohort of a new program called "6 Month Startup" Each month the founder(s) has a different set of deliverables designed to take them from ideation to revenue. The constraint is time. Deliverables include projects like:
- Research
- Customer Development
- Awkward Co-Founder Discussions
- How to Make Money (Revenue Models)
- Customer Personas
- Go to Market Planning (Marketing & Sales)
- Pitch Prep
Beginning in month two, Founders show up to the session with deliverables to show mentors to review their work. If the founder doesn't do the work (reviewed by their table-mates at the start of the session) they don't get to talk to the mentors, but they do get to listen and learn. If they don't do the work two months in a row, they are asked to rethink their idea. Though they don't have to leave, they no longer get to present to mentors. The culmination is the final pitch night where they have collected actual customer data, have a go-to-market plan, etc.
If you think about the Seattle startup ecosystem (all ecosystems for that matter), there's a continuum of programming starting with inspiration and maturing to company building. The goal of the program is what I call "Founder Development" which fits in between the great inspirational events (Startup Weekend, Startup Grind, FoundersLive, etc.) and company building efforts for later stage companies like Techstars. But it's focused on the founder before they are a company.
The goal of the program is to develop better founders – the ones who aren't going back for an MBA. They may represent the average age startup founder (41) or they may not be a middle-aged white dude (we know who we are). It's a long game, but worthwhile. The program is designed as a monthly Meetup, no applications, inexpensive ($20 Student ticket/$35 Founder ticket, including dinner).
The results of Cohort I were better than anticipated:
- We started at ~70 founders for the first 3-4 months – then bad ideas started to die off. We finished the Cohort at ~40 and 16 pitches the final night
- 40% women and nearly 20% People of Color – we're working hard on outreach
- Killing bad ideas quickly was an intended result – not because I told them to, but because they had to do customer development and do interviews, and then the math
- One team raised $500k+ and didn't have a co-founder in month one!
- There were a lot of other learning and changes to the curriculum as well
What's next? Cohort II is starting May 9 and we'll keep it going on the second Wednesday evening of each month, from 6:30-9PM in downtown Seattle.
How can you help? Thanks for asking!
- Know any early stage teams that need to prove their idea? Send them to the overview page above, Meetup page or the Eventbrite page. Typically, they are excited about their idea but haven't talked to enough target customers
- Do you tweet? Here's a Click to Tweet for the next session
- Want to be a mentor? We take up to 8 per session – send me an email for the promo code/hidden ticket
- We're launching 6 Month Startup – Kitsap in June and have a number of other cities we're kicking off in the coming months! Know a city that could use "6 Month Startup?"
Oh, and yes, this has provided the opportunity to finish the book "6 Month Startup – Ideation to Revenue." I hope to have the first copy out in June.
WTIA Startup Programs
I joined the Board of the Washinton Technology Industry Association to Chair the new Startup Club Programs. The goal of the programs is to continue to "Level Up" our Startup Community in Seattle. Historically, the WTIA served larger technology companies with benefit programs (Insurance, 401K, etc.) as well as lobbying on the industry's behalf in Olympia. I've known Michael Schutzler for 20 years and Nick Ellingson for a couple of years as his roles have changed in the organization. Nick's now the Startup Ambassador.
Our goal for Startup Programs is all about Amplification, Connections, and Services.
- Amplification! We want to let people know what's going on in Seattle and amplify the great resources that exist for Startups. Know a great event? We'd like to help you promote it to the community. There are a lot of calendars already in the market, we'd just like to help you distinguish great events, with great value (not just price).
- Increasing our audience – there are a lot of great events that are small because they lack marketing reach.
- Connections – let's face it, every first-time founder is replicating the connections and work of nearly every other founder that has come before them in Seattle. We can help them make those connections faster.
- To that end – we're launching a new event – inside Seattle funding – it's a one day workshop designed for early-stage founders. Yes, we're bringing together the Angel groups, Seed and A stage investors into a single day or programming to help founders understand stages and types of companies we are looking for
- Building Cohorts of Founders – a secondary benefit of this program is that we want to leverage building groups of founders. Founding a startup can be an isolating experience that takes 7-13 years (congrats to Docusign on the pending IPO) and creating cohorts allows founders to connect with like-minded peers.
- Investor and service provider introductions
- Services – like many of the other services WTIA provides bigger firms, they are looking to modify those programs to make them more valuable to early-stage tech firms, like, product discounts and HR Services
You can JOIN the program here.
It's the start, not the end. How can we help you play bigger and help Seattle become an even better place for startups? Let me know how I can help!


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Man held in US tourists Costa Rica death
A body found near a Costa Rica Airbnb has reportedly been identified as the remains of a US tourist who went missing last week.
Carla Stefaniak disappeared on 28 November during a trip to celebrate her 36th birthday.
Walter Espinoza, head of Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department, was quoted by AP news agency as saying the Florida woman had died of head trauma.
He said a security guard at the property had been arrested.
The suspect, 32-year-old Bismarck Espinosa Martinez, had been in the room next door to Ms Stefaniak, and made conflicting statements to police, said officials.
Investigators earlier said the body was found buried in a mountainous area barely 200ft (60 metres) from Ms Stefaniak's Airbnb accommodation.
Tracker dogs had discovered the remains partially buried in plastic bags, NBC News quoted investigating agency spokeswoman Marisel Rodríguez Solís as saying.
Investigators told a press conference that what appears to be blood was discovered inside the property in the San Antonio de Escazu neighbourhood.
Ms Stefaniak, from the Miami area, travelled to Costa Rica with her sister-in-law, April Burton, on 22 November.
Ms Burton flew back on 27 November. Ms Stefaniak had planned to fly back to the US the following day but never arrived for her flight.
On the eve of her departure, she texted Ms Burton to say it was raining hard and there was a power cut at the property.
"It's pretty sketchy here," Ms Stefaniak had written in the message.
Guards at the apartment complex had claimed the missing woman left early in an Uber to catch her flight.
Ms Stefaniak's loved ones went to Costa Rica to look for her.
On Tuesday, a family friend said they had waited all day outside the morgue to identify the body, only to be turned away by officials who maintained investigators needed more time.
Bugra Demirel told the BBC: "It's a horrible wait, and every single minute that Costa Rican officials are not showing the body is just a tremendous amount of pain on the family."


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(Open Source Dem, aka J. R. Behrman, infrequent poster here, former SD-13 committee chair, former presiding judge of the Harris County EVBB, former chair of the Texas Democratic Party's Progressive Populist Caucus -- among other honoraria -- posted this to his Facebook page after sending it to me. I offered him my deepest condolences on the loss of his wife last week.)
I oppose the nomination of Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont.
That is a surprise to some who fancy me a "left-wing" member of the Democratic Party. After all, I supported George McGovern back in the day. I supported Howard Dean there for a while. Moreover, I did not just support Barack Obama in 2008, I fought the pro-Clinton state party establishment tooth and nail through the highly contested primary and convention process.
No, Belinda and I are so conservative we come around from the other side to a sort of traditional liberalism.
Moreover, I have grave reservations about Secretary Clinton and her "permanent campaign" entourage, not least their reprise of the "inevitable" campaign. It is not doing her any good now, and it will be a burden for her when she challenges whoever or, dare I say, whatever the GOP comes up with.
So why my change now?
First, it will take not a "village" but an entire national party to defeat the GOP at all echelons of government today in 50 gerrymandered states and dozens of rotten Congressional Districts.
Sanders is an independent and has kept his distance from the Democratic Party -- unlike, say, Howard Dean. Our nominee must first take the reins of the Democratic Party.
Second, Hillary Clinton has been an altogether loyal and constructive contributor to the administration of President Obama.
Sure, Sanders' socialism is somewhat attractive to me, as far as it goes. Labels do not scare me. But, President Obama is not a socialist (or a Muslim). He has pretty much exhausted the limits of what can be done in just one of the nine echelons of our dysfunctional government and politics. These accomplishments do not deserve Sanders' conceited dismissal.
No, his socialism is almost a museum piece and does not even begin to provide a robust intellectual foundation for future governments. As Paul Glastris at Washington Monthly says, Sanders is "intellectually consistent but not intellectually honest."
Even venerable socialist governments and even the formidable Green parties in Europe or charismatic leaders like Yanis Varoufakis are struggling to dump obsolete or delusional intellectual frameworksto govern their own parties, and to fix a broken socialist international.
Finally, Bernie Sanders is simply a novelty. Sure, he is charming and attractive to political junkies who are disillusioned with and critical of our party and government.
(Yes, that could be said of me.)
But I stand with those like Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, who expect to see more actual progress from a Clinton administration than a Sanders crusade.
In any event, here is what I would like to do:
Build a strong party
Sanders would need and Clinton will need a new kind of political party to actually govern. This is where the most radical of new ideas can flourish, because a political party is "lightweight" -- a good thing in engineering -- even "flimsy". It is easily transformed almost overnight. No negotiations or "deals" with the crazy-right are necessary or even possible.
Not a lousy claque
A political party is not, actually, an extension of government, though you would not know that here in one-party Texas with its kludge of cornpone state and county parties. No, my party should be a check on government and an instrument of the people. In our case, that is a party rooted in republican principle and built on democratic aspirations.
Make it work
This means that the Sanders and Clinton supporters will have to have a voice in party affairs, will have to cultivate party loyalty, and will have to stop political exit on the left that is manifest as despair and apathy. Otherwise, right-wing extremism will just keep growing and poisoning everything.
Right here, right now!
There is actually no better place to start that transformation than Harris and eight surrounding counties in Texas. It will take strategy, planning, and finance. That is where I hope to play a role.
But not for a while.
The wheels are off my life right now, following Belinda's death. I will sign in at the desultory Senate District Convention, but not attend the silly state convention.
After the national election, it will be time to consider robust reconstruction of the post-Reconstruction Texas Democratic Party. It is now just an antique facility for bi-partisan concession-tending that is no longer viable at any echelon of government or politics.
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Hi All,
+1. Omega2+ was running great for about a month. Then I powered it off and plugged in the relay expansion after having just the OLED expansion installed. After that it wouldn't power up. I plugged everything in correctly in the same way that the expansions had worked previously. For whatever reason this time it freaked.
In the past I had both the OLED and the relay expansions working independently or plugged in together.
I tried the Omega2+ in the breadboard and it wouldn't power up there either.
I let it rest for a day and tried it again tonight. This time it booted all the way up but now it gets very hot. The OLED still works and I'm able to push messages to it from IFTTT but the Omega2+ gets so hot I'm afraid to leave it plugged in.
Side note, the red component of the RGB LED on the expansion dock doesn't seem to light up as strongly as before. Also when I reassembled and fired it up again, instead of the RGB LED being red it was almost white, for a few seconds, then went to very dim red. Then off when boot was complete, like normal.
I've started a ticket and I'll let you know what we come up with.


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Today's Headlines
- Grover Norquist Gives His Blessing to a Carbon Tax — With Conditions (National Journal)
- … He's Not Alone: A Growing Chorus Says Now Is the Time For a Carbon Tax (Bacon's Rebellion)
- Inhofe Not Returning to Leadership Role on EPW Committee (Trans. Issues Daily)
- Can We Talk About a Gas Tax Increase Yet? (National Journal)
- Honey, I'll Drive: More Women Than Men Have Licenses (AP)
- Could the U.S. Achieve Dutch Mode-Share Rates If We Had More Bicycle Infrastructure? (IHT)
- Alameda Transit Vote Still Just a Wee Bit Short of Victory (Mercury)
- Matt Yglesias: Lifting Height Limits Would Bring a Windfall to DC (Slate)
- New Services Facilitate Public Transportation For Travelers (USA Today)


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Kelly Damphousse, a sociology professor at the University of Oklahoma and associate dean for the OU College of Arts and Sciences, said it's well known that Oklahoma locks up more women than any other state. But he said there are no good statistics on why that is.
"The sense is, the majority of women incarcerated are there for nonviolent offenses with a lot of them being drug infractions," he said.
With that incarceration rate in mind, particularly the incarceration rate of parents, Rep. Kris Steele, R-Shawnee, authored House Bill 2998, which has cleared two committees unanimously.
Steele said this legislation would reduce funds needed to incarcerate and could be cost-cutting from a human resource standpoint.
"Statistically in Oklahoma, 70 percent of children of incarcerated parents wind up becoming incarcerated at some point in their life, (turning) it into an intergenerational situation," Steele said.
Steele said he performed interim studies on the subject and looked at the audit from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The results made him want to see what the state was doing to change incarceration rates.
"The results of the audit showed that we incarcerate more women, nonviolent offenders, for things no other state incarcerates for," Steele said.
The bill, if passed, would establish a pilot rehabilitative program for nonviolent female offenders rather than going straight to prison. The pilot program would partner with the George Kaiser Family Foundation in Tulsa, which has already established a program in the Tulsa area.
Mimi Tarrasch, director of Women in Recovery, which was launched with a grant from the Kaiser Foundation, said the intensive outpatient program would be modeled after the Tulsa program already established.
Making this program different from others is the intensity of it. While there are other rehabilitative programs in the state, she said very few have a yearlong expectation. She said the participants go through multiple phases to ensure an opportunity to have a smart and purposeful transition back into society.
Women in Recovery partners with community providers for services such as psychiatry, parenting skills, substance abuse, HIV testing, nutrition education, health and wellness, as well as dental services and transitional housing. Along with offering individual and trauma therapy, the program strives for family reunification for the women and their children.
"(The program) will let them become good parents that they want to be; they may have not been given the skill sets to do that, and so it is highly prioritized," Tarrasch said.
The program is for nonviolent female offenders ineligible for any other alternative- to-incarceration program, meaning they would most likely go to prison, she said.
Damphousse said the key to success for such a program is to find individuals who truly are low risk, both to society and to themselves.
"Many times, with maybe fewer alternatives, a judge has to make the decision of incarcerating the individual with the only other option being probations," he said.
From the financial standpoint, Steele said the Kaiser Foundation will give $500,000 if the state will match it to produce a million-dollar project. He said if just 50 nonviolent female offenders are diverted from incarceration, the program will pay for itself, and any additional women diverted from prison would be cost saving to the state.
"We are at 99 percent capacity of our state incarceration institutions," Steele said. "It merits a discussion, a thought process from the Legislature, to figure out what is a better way "¦ without jeopardizing public safety.
"It is important that we, as a state, find a better way of dealing with these nonviolent offenders," he said. "We can be smart on crime and be tough on crime at the same time."
If passed, the pilot program would run for three years before a final decision is made. "LeighAnne Manwarren


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"The issue with the eating-the-brains stuff was trying to get a PG-13 rating and not feel like we were kind of sacrificing the gore, because gore is such a key part of the genre," director Jonathan Levine said at a screening of his zombie movie Warm Bodies on Friday evening. "So basically we filmed, like, the most disgusting, R-rated brain-eating scene ever, and then I continually cut it back so that we could achieve the rating," he was telling VF Daily, when he suddenly went silent, and his eyes grew wide. Howard Stern had arrived. "Holy shit, that's Howard Stern!" Levine said. "Holy shit! Holy fucking shit! You kidding me? Oh my God. Oh. My. God. Sorry. I'm, like, totally… I gotta …" he stammered.
We suggested that Levine, who has directed Ben Kingsley in The Wackness, and Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anjelica Huston in 50/50, go over and say hello. "No. I can't say hi," he said. "I can't say hi. Oh my God. I'm like … I'm like … I'm, like, getting woozy. Wow, man," he said.
For the record, Levine did eventually greet Stern later in the evening.
To perfect the zombies' movements, Levine had Nicholas Hoult, who plays the central zombie of the story, work with a Cirque du Soleil choreographer. "We wanted to give our zombies a little bit of a different gait, and a little bit of a different kind of feeling and walk," Levine said.
Hoult, who gained fame early in life for playing the boy in About a Boy, took the zombie-movement training seriously. "I spent a fair bit of time doing it; like, I would do it in the gym, training," Hoult said. "People would walk in and see me practicing my zombie run, and they'd be, like, 'Wow, this guy's knackered; he needs to stop,'" he added, laughing. The brains he eats in the movie belonged to Dave Franco, but a stunt double stood in during that scene. "'Cause Dave's such a wimp, he couldn't handle me ripping his cranium to pieces," Hoult said.
Hoult said he enjoyed going off-set while still in full zombie makeup. "I like doing that. I did it with the Beast makeup as well [from X-Men: First Class]. I went across a golf course, giving golf tips in full makeup."
Speaking of, in addition to Beast and a lovesick zombie, Hoult has acted as a mythical warrior in Clash of the Titansand a fairy-tale giant killer in Jack the Giant Slayer. Is Hoult being typecast as magical beings? "I guess so," he laughed. "They're good characters. They're interesting; they're flawed and have human problems, I guess. I like 'em."
Teresa Palmer, who plays a human fending off the zombies, had to learn to shoot guns for the role. "It's challenging when you're thinking about how to act, but you have to hit points because there are stunt people flying at you, and you have to shoot them," she said at the Cinema Society– and Artistry-hosted after-party at Hotel on Rivington. "You've got to make sure you've got that right. It could be dangerous."
Analeigh Tipton, who also learned to handle guns for her role, said that her character was originally supposed to be addicted to The Love Boat, a quirk that fit her personality. "So I went out and got all the Love Boats, and every night before filming I'd watch, and I got addicted to the show, because it's fantastic," Tipton told us. "And as completely kitschy as it is, every episode was fresh and new. And I thought it was pretty cool that I would sit there and practice my handgun cleaning, which I could do by the end of the shoot. And I could actually clean it without looking, and put it back together, and pop out a bullet and catch it in my hand. I was such a bad-ass."
Tipton, who starred in Crazy, Stupid Loveand was a contestant on America's Next Top Model, had no trouble immersing herself in this story, about human-zombie understanding. "I'm actually good friends with several zombies," she said. "I mean, I'm pretty sure that this is all funded by zombies, and it's kind of preparing the world for an apocalypse," she added. "But it's also saying, in a message, like, don't be freaked out. [Zombies] have an inside."


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Sci & Engng Publication Output and the Research &Publication Environment in the US: NSF Reports
Within the last two weeks the US National Science Foundation (NSF) published not one but two studies on (a) the attitudes of scientists and engineers to the changing world of publication, and (b) the relative global productibity of US science & engineering as measured by journal publication.
These are not dense 500 page reports, but short, readable (10-15 min.). I think iMechanica readers will find them relevant and interesting:
- The Changing Research and Publication Environment in American Research Universities
- Changing U.S. Output of Scientific Articles: 1988–2003
The first is descriptive - no figures, graphs or tables. It is based on interviews with scientists & administrators at "nine universities in the upper tier of the American academic research universe".
The second report is far more quantitative - it deals with the big picture of US
science & engineering productivity as measured in journal
publications, and has 21 figures with tables etc.
Some quotes from the Executive Summary of the first report (Changing Research and Publication Environment):
Motivation: (emphasis added)
"The study was prompted by evidence that the growth in the number of U.S. articles, which had continued for more than two decades, began to slow in the 1990s even though research and development funds, research personnel, and similar research inputs continued to grow. At the same time, comparable evidence indicated that growth in article counts from leading research-producing countries in Europe and Asia continued unabated."
Peer review remains dominant:
"Findings showed that peer-reviewed articles remain the major vehicle by which research findings are validated and scientists obtain credit for their contributions. Despite the rise of new forms of research output associated with advances in information technology, such as databases, software programs, and contributions to electronic archives, and new ways to disseminate findings electronically, there was little evidence to suggest that the validity of article and citation counts as output indicators was diminishing. According to those interviewed, data on article counts are unlikely to mask or distort real changes in scholarly output, except, possibly, in computer sciences. If U.S. researchers figure less prominently in the journal literature, the reason does not appear to be because they are reporting their findings in ways that bypass the journals."
The US is not metric:
"The U.S. researchers interviewed for this study perceive their universities and funding agencies as less attuned to quantitative measures of output and impact than their institutional counterparts in other countries. As a result, U.S. researchers may be less concerned with producing scholarly output in ways that score well on these measures."
From the Executive Summary of the second report (Output of Scientific Articles: 1988–2003):
"In an unexpected development in the early 1990s, the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S.-based authors in the world's major peer-reviewed journals plateaued. This was a change from a rise in the number of publications over at least the two preceding decades. ... It occurred despite continued increases in resource inputs, such as funds and personnel, that support research and development (R&D). ...
In other developed countries—a group of 15 members of the European Union (the EU-15) and Japan—the absolute number of articles continued to grow throughout most of the 1992–2003 period. During the mid- to late 1990s, the number of articles published by EU scientists surpassed those published by their U.S. counterparts. .....
The unprecedented plateau in the number of U.S. S&E articles should not be confused with a decades-long and familiar decline in the U.S. share of the world's S&E articles."
The report is replete with graphs and tables. If you are in a hurry, just go straight to the 21 figures.
Here are two to give you an idea
Fig. 5 : Decline in U.S. world share of S&E article output, by field: 1992–2003.
Fig. 21 : This shows the average number of authors/paper has increased by 50% in 15 years.
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A single wayward sneeze from a rush-hour commuter can end up giving up to 150 fellow passengers a cold in just five minutes, researchers have found.
Unless they are contained in a tissue or handkerchief, the germs spread so quickly that within seconds they are being passed on via handrails on escalators or seats on trains, said their study.
The researchers surveyed 1,300 workers about their health and found almost all commuters suffered at least one cold last winter.
The results were analysed by cold and flu expert Dr Roger Henderson, who looked at the daily commute of the sneeze itself.
A single sneeze expels 100,000 droplets into the air at a speed of 90 mph. Individual droplets get transferred to handles, rails and other areas constantly held or touched.
Up to 10 per cent of all commuters will come into contact with an area infected by that one sneeze, Dr Henderson calculated.
In the busiest areas, such as escalators at stations, this amounts to around 150 people during rush hour, he said.
The research found that in contrast, only 58 per cent of those who work from home regularly caught a cold last winter.
Regular commuters are well aware of the symptoms of others even though they are not always sympathetic, the researchers added.
They found 20 per cent are annoyed by fellow travellers sneezing without using a tissue and 33 per cent are angered by those who cough without covering their mouths.
Men are more likely to be at fault - one in three do not carry a tissue compared with 81 per cent of women.
Relentless sniffing gets on the nerves of 12 per cent of travellers, although throat-clearing is only an issue for three per cent.
But most will either walk away or grin and bear it. Only eight per cent will actually say anything to an annoying sneezer or cougher sitting next to them.
Perhaps they realise they are just as guilty as two thirds (67 per cent) admit to travelling in to work even when they are feeling ill.
Hanna Nowak, of Lemsip Max All In One, which conducted the study, said yesterday: 'We can't totally avoid germs but we can do a lot to stop them spreading, especially when you're on a crowded commuter train.
'Think of others before you sneeze without a tissue, otherwise in just five minutes you may have infected other commuters and won't be the only one feeling poorly.'
The company is offering cold and flue advice which includes stocking up on tissues and not leaving old newspapers behind.
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Day 63 - How to Deal with Fear
What is fear?
I thought I knew fear.
I thought it was the feeling that creeps over you in the dark, as you lie with your eyes screwed shut because you're suddenly horribly sure that a white shape will coalesce in the corner and drift towards you.
I thought it was that lurch as your stomach sinks swiftly into your boots when you realise that you forgot to do your homework, and a detention is heading your way.
I thought fear was the tension in the back of your neck, as you walk in the dark in a deserted car park.
Fear is the horror of imagined events, the anticipation of the things you most dread. It's an inbuilt mechanism to protect us from ourselves; it stops (most of) us taking unreasonable risks; it prolongs our chances of survival in an unpredictable world.
Just as we start to realise that monsters aren't real, that thunder doesn't harm you, and dreams are just dreams… just as we start to break free of our fear… we have children of our own. And that's when we REALLY find out what fear is.
I mentioned in a previous blog how I began to suffer from PTSD which manifested itself by flashing before my eyes graphic, horrendous images of catastrophes involving my children. I realised the true, crushing extent of the myriad awful possibilities out there in a way I never had before. I suddenly understood why some parents are unable to let go of their children, to give them the independence they need, to release them into the wild to fend for themselves.
And yet, now that my children are approaching adolescence, I can see that stifling them would also be a catastrophe – and a REAL one of my own making; not a megrim or a waking nightmare.
The worst thing about fear is its cunning ability to cause the worst to happen. It preys on your insecurities and changes your behaviour. For example, if you were terrified that your child could be run over whilst crossing the road on their journey to school, you might decide that you'd rather walk them to school yourself. You might believe that your presence there somehow mitigates any possible disaster. You might believe you are the talisman, the extraordinary parent, casting a force shield over your precious child, sending Fate scurrying back into the cracks between worlds.
Of course, you've fallen into the very trap that Fear set out for you at the beginning. You've protected your child to the extent that they DON'T KNOW HOW to cross the road safely themselves. And it's this very lack of experience and knowledge that may, one day, cause them to suffer the disaster you've been trying so hard to avoid.
I once knew a girl who always looked sad. She was sad because her parents wouldn't let her do ANYTHING. She wasn't allowed out with friends – in fact, she hardly had any friends. Her parents had decided that friends were too unpredictable. She explained that her parents had eloped when they were 16, and had caused a huge rift in their respective families. They were so scared she would do the same that they wrapped her up in cotton wool, locked her in the house (literally), fed her hypochondria and neuroses, and made her very ill and unhappy.
The last thing I heard, before I fell out of touch with her, was that her situation had become so intolerable that, aged 17, she ran away with an older man, got married, and became estranged from her parents.
Too, too inevitable.
I remember being constantly assailed by fear when my boy started school. He'd always been a little awkward socially, and didn't seem to encourage other people to interact with him. We knew he was warm, caring, sensitive, kind and funny, but we could see that he didn't always come across that way. He didn't connect with the life-saving, friendship-making, time-filling football culture like the other boys (and some girls), hence the trepidation every time I dropped him at school. I'd walk away wishing I could stay and help him with his new life.
Surprisingly perhaps, things went well. He enjoyed school. He made friends – friends who possibly had to make a little more effort than he made in return (!) but good friends, none-the-less. All my fears seemed to be totally unfounded, and I began to relax.
Then, about 3 months in, he came home under a burdensome raincloud, worry etched into his face, and pain in his eyes. Instantly, I felt my heart pounding and sweat breaking out at my hairline.
He wouldn't tell me at first what was wrong. I had to physically restrain myself from badgering him about it. I told him that all problems became small problems when they were shared, and I'd be ready to listen whenever he was ready to talk.
Eventually he confessed (I'm even using the word 'confessed' as if he'd done something SHAMEFUL) that he had been verbally abused and pushed and laughed at by a boy in his class. The boy, notorious for his uncontrolled behaviour, his blistering vocabulary of swear words, and his violent family history, had been causing problems for other children too; but as my son told me about his day, his little face so despondent, I could feel heat rising in my face and ears.
Pure, primitive mother-rage.
I had never felt rage like it – not on my own account. That any child could be heartless and crass enough to hurt MY BOY – a boy who had never said or done a hurtful thing in his LIFE!! And what about the parents, huh?? Sitting on their asses, I bet, rather than teaching their child any values or compassion! Wasn't this the rot that was attacking the very spine of society??
I knew, academically, that I was reacting, and that I couldn't make any decisions about what to do until I had calmed down enough to respond instead. When I was no longer angry, I realised that focusing on the offending BOY was a waste of time. There was nothing at all I could do about him – he was not my responsibility. He was also only 5 years old – I couldn't jump to conclusions about him and his family based on his behaviour. I felt loath to go into school to complain about the situation. It wasn't bullying – yet. It wasn't sustained and ongoing, and a reprimand from the teacher might exacerbate the boy's frustration, and really focus his anger towards my son.
I did the only thing I felt would help.
I enrolled my son in a course of karate lessons.
I decided that taking part in a physical activity (which wasn't outside, where he wouldn't get dirty or wet, wearing a clean white uniform) would boost his confidence, and change the way he moved and presented himself. I hoped it might empower him to know he could look after himself. I thought he would probably appreciate the discipline and the pleasing sequence of moves, AND as a half-Japanese boy, he'd be able to master the technical terms quickly, and might even relate to the principles of karate.
I realised it was more of a long-term solution, but it made us both feel so much better, knowing that we were doing something practical to help deal with what life might throw at him.
It worked too. My son started to look more assured and confident. The other boy lost interest in tormenting him. Things went back to normal.
I suppose I'm trying to say that 'fear' is only conceptual. It is only a feeling based on a number of bad things that COULD happen. I find that the only way of dealing effectively with fear is to disarm it with pragmatic action. Do something to strengthen your position. Do something to make the fear smaller. Channel nervous energy and deflect the anxiety. This way, we broaden our horizons and create positivity where there was none. We don't deny ourselves experiences or lock ourselves away, and we don't allow fear to break faith with our beliefs or principles.
Bold words.
Next to tackle: my fear of flying…
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I've lived in the UK since I was 3 years old, but my passport is Japanese. Living, working, bringing up a family...and trying to make sense of the particular cards I've been dealt.
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Amateur star Davis back in the winner's circle
They were regarded as the whiz kids of Australian golf – ripping and tearing their way through the amateur ranks, winning everything they set their sights on.
Now 17-year-old hotshot Ryan Ruffels is cutting his teeth on the US Tour. And where was his "partner in crime" in so many of our amateur wins?
Cameron Davis (Credit: Anthony Powter)
Well 20-year-old Cameron Davis has been cooling his heels on the sidelines while recovering from a serious wrist injury which included surgery.
Davis bobbed up at his old home course at Roseville in Sydney's north last Saturday for their monthly medal…at the same time as Ruffels was doing battle with Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and co. at Pebble Beach in the US.
And while Ruffels wowed the likes of Jason Day with his opening round of 67, no less impressive was Davis' effort to win the Roseville monthly medal off his club handicap of plus 3.
Davis shot 59 off the stick to capture their monthly medal with a nett 62 on a course that was set up as tough as local super Mark O'Sullivan could make it.
Davis' front nine was fairly pedestrian with three birdies and two bogeys.
But when he came to the longer and tougher back nine Davis ignited with four birdies and an eagle at the 18th to finish with a score of seven-under 59…and his umpteenth monthly medal.
"It feels great to be back," said Davis. "I've been looking forward to a return for a while now."
"I've had plenty of time to think about things and this was the perfect way to get back into it."
Davis severely injured his wrist while playing the Mona Vale medal in October last year.
The injury meant he missed out on starts in the all of the big events of the Australian summer and destroyed any chance he had of defending his Australian Amateur crown.
Still the likeable young man has been hard at work getting his game back into shape after a five-month layoff.
His surgeon, Dr Greg Hoy gave him the go ahead to begin practicing over a month ago, confident that the operation was a success and he had recovered well.
"I spent a month just hitting six-irons at first," said Davis.
"I hit my first driver about three weeks ago, and I've been practicing every day since."
With his wrist mended, Davis is looking forward to a big 2016.
He plans to play more golf this year than ever. Next up is the prestigious Riversdale Cup followed by the Interstate Series. After that it's likely he'll head overseas.
So Ruffels and co had better watch their backs – Davis is back!


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ABAP systems form the backbone of the daily business of a large number of medium-sized and larger companies. Their main characteristic is therefore longevity: ABAP systems must be adapted to changing and evolving economic and legal requirements over years, even decades. Sharp and unstoppable declining productivity when expanding such business-critical ABAP systems is a no-go.
The Challenge
Such a situation is frustrating for all stakeholders and not economically viable. All alarm bells must go off for management and customers. Unreliability and dragged out delivery with massive quality defects are a recipe for increasing conflicts and chaos.
"Software is eating the world!", Marc Andreessen
Every company today is a software company in that its existence is fundamentally dependent on software. Car manufacturers are almost proverbial producers of computers on wheels, which are moved less by fuel and more by millions of lines of code. The same applies to medium-sized companies in mechanical engineering, trading companies or pharmaceutical corporations. If software is not in the product, then it at least permeates the processes of the company.
And if software can be said to eat up the world, then it is SAP with ABAP that has managed to become the carrier of the genetic code of countless companies.
How ABAP can be used to adapt SAP to the challenges of the future is therefore essential for every SAP-oriented company. SAP is critical to the system, ABAP is the key to SAP. The fact that every ABAP application is designed to be future-proof is an absolute prerequisite for the survival of the company in a VUCA world.
It is not to be expected that ABAP systems will be future-proof "just like that" solely because developers are driven by a more or less strong will to do so. Good will alone achieves hardly anything – or even the opposite. Rather, it requires a concerted, systematic effort from the very first day of development in various respects including:
- A systematic development process
Sustainability is a requirement for software like functionality or performance. It only is created when intention and ability consistently come together.
Paradoxically though, intention and ability to be future-proof are still weak in ABAP development. Customers and management place so much emphasis on short-term productivity with regard to functional and non-functional requirements that long-term productivity is repeatedly lost sight of – and once you realize this, it is almost too late for a change of course and culture.
The principles and practices relevant to sustainability are hardly part of the training of ABAP developers and are not made up for in day-to-day business. This is contrary to the necessity companies are increasingly feeling: the ability to change from strategy to operation is the sine qua non for survival in the marketplace. Of course, this requires more than adaptable ABAP code – but without adaptable ABAP code, all other ideas of change in SAP-based companies are nothing.
The path to increasing the adaptability of ABAP systems can therefore not be taken a day too soon. The development team and ABAP system reflect this through
Getting ABAP teams on the road to systematically produce clean code is the motivation behind Clean ABAP. While for other programming platforms the train to sustainability in development has been in full swing for a long time, in the ABAP world it is still largely in the station. We want to change that! The ABAP/SAP platform deserves to be served with specific training on the subject of clean code in accordance with its importance. Because without an ABAP-focused presentation and ABAP-specific support, ABAP developers cannot be expected to quickly adopt the necessary quality-oriented culture.
Clean ABAP therefore offers its trainings exclusively in the form of complementary courses with two trainers: Damir Majer is a proven ABAP expert and Ralf Westphal is a pioneer of the Clean Code movement in Germany since 2009.
As a trainer team we are offering
- highly individual support even with a larger number of attendees for intensive learning,
- two perspectives on training content for different types of learners,
- deep competence in technology vs. method,
- a broader "target" for questions, and
- diverse didactic as well as methodical approaches for lasting attention.
All our trainings are very practical/pragmatic, hands-on, done in a relaxed atmosphere and are designed to facilitate the encounter of even very different groups/roles. Java and JavaScript developers in the ABAP environment are just as welcome as the core target group of ABAP developers.
All trainings are scheduled for a duration of 4 days in order to be able to present and discuss concepts in a stress-free way, but above all to practice methods and practices in depth. Each training concludes with a "masterpiece", i.e. a more extensive task that the participants solve and present on their own "according to the rules of the art".


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xclntDesign is proud to be an active member of our community and always strives to give back to those organizations and causes that better our communities. We are all friends and family, and an active community helps everyone! Below are links to some of the charities, causes and organizations that we proudly sponsor. Please take the time to learn more about these great organizations!
The Carpenter's House for Children
Their faces are bright. Their spirits are high. Their stories are compelling.
The Carpenter's House for Children provides a safe refuge for children who come from orphanages in third-world countries, many of whom have experienced dismal poverty, near starvation or suffer from life-threatening medical conditions that cannot be adequately treated in their countries of origin.
Adopting these children into their home and their hearts; the Manfredis provide a foundation of values and responsibility and a lifetime of love and support to the children of The Carpenter's House. Although raising up to 18 children under one roof presents challenges, the Manfredis consider themselves blessed to be able to help make a difference.
Leesburg Lightning
The Leesburg Lightning is a member of the Florida Collegiate Summer League (Florida League), a wood bat baseball league with six teams in Central Florida. Founded in 2003, the Florida League provides a valuable opportunity for college players to play wood bat baseball against top-level competition with the goal of preparing them for a career in professional baseball.
The Florida League is one of ten leagues affiliated with the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball (NACSB), an alliance of college summer wood bat leagues which operates under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) legislation. It is funded in part by Major League Baseball and is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation that is primarily dependent on donations from individuals, businesses, and foundations in each team's community.


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Introducing AutoBox - On the fly dependency injection and caching container.
Just when we have dependencies for a controller, we need to wrap around our heads to write a bootstrapper that will dynamically inject dependencies for a controller in runtime and once we we want to do data caching like a particular method in accounts repository need to get cached for a certain number of time and it should invalidate when someone calls update, things get complex and may be we get around this with some attribute based solution.
Therefore, I introduce to you AutoBox. It is a on the fly dependency injection and caching container. It dynamically injects dependencies based on convention. Also, let you cache repository calls to memcached (the most popular cross-platform caching system) which is originally implemented by LiveJournal and used by high volume site like Youtube.
Now getting started with AutoBox is simple. Lets consider that you have a ProductController and the constructor looks something like:
- public ProductController(IProductRepository repository)
- {
- this.repository = repository;
- }
ProductRepository is implemented in MyCoolWebSite.Repository folder where IProductRepository is under MyCoolWebSite.Repository.Abstraction (Not a required). In the global.ascx you first need to add the following line:
- Container.Init();
Here to mention that AutoBox will do the mapping on demand thus making it lazy.
Next you need to override the GetControllerInstance from DefaultControllerFactory. Since AutoBox is implemented using CommonServiceLocator, therefore you can directly include ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance that will return the target controller with dependencies properly injected.
- public class CustomControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
- {
- protected override IController GetControllerInstance(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)
- {
- return ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance(controllerType) as IController;
- }
- }
Finally, at the end of global.ascx.cs you need to write the following line; so that all the controller get instance requests go through AutoBox:
- ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(new CustomControllerFactory());
Hit F5 and and you are ready to roll with dependencies.
Now, moving forward there is a method in IProuductRepository lets say IProductReposiroty.GetAllProducts(). You just dont want to hit database all the time, unless invalidated. Therefore, you can further specify (you can also combine that with your bootstrapper that registers routes and mappings using AutoMapper):
- Container.Setup<ProductRepository>(x => x.GetAllProducts()).Caches(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
This tells AutoBox to cache the result of the call (using memcached) that will automatically invalidate after a minute. However you can explicitly specify the method that will invalidate it.
- Container.Setup<ProductRepository>(x=> x.Create(Arg.Varies<Product>()).Invalidates(x => x.GetAllProducts());
You will notice here that I have used Arg.Varies{T}. Its similar to VaryByParams in output cache where it tells the tool to invalidate based on the variable argument value. Finally to make Memcached working you will need to have the following block in web.config (will be added automatically when installed from NuGet [Yes its NuGet]).
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
- <configuration>
- <configSections>
- <section name="autoBox" type="AutoBox.AutoBoxSection, AutoBox" />
- </configSections>
- <autoBox cacheStore="localhost" cacheProvider="MemcachedProvider" />
- </configuration>
Here you will notice that by default its pointing to localhost and MemcachedProvider. However it can be an external IP pointing to Amazon ElastiCache (released a few weeks ago).Here to note that memcached is a caching mechanism and therefore the tool is agnostic of any underlying cloud service that you may use.
To test caching locally, you can use the CouchBase's Membase server (Not limited to), it gives you a nice web based GUI to monitor the cache usage, configure memory and clusters.
You can download it from this link:
You can get more information on this project, download source and contribute at the following URL:
As mentioned above, it is also possible to use the tool with a hand-rolled bootstrapper that uses IOC container (Ex. Ninject) and AutoMapper and can save you some lines in binding the controller dependencies and if you want to use high-performance caching mechanism like memcached and don't want to pull your hair off on how to invalidate a repository call when saved a part of it then this tool can give you a boost.
Hope that helps


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a. PROGRAM MAIN OBJECTIVES
- to stimulate community development and transformation, by offering the youth in the target area access to vital information and other basic educational activities that will raise their awareness about urgent development issues; and strengthen their participation and decision-making within the society on matters affecting their own lives.
b. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Establishment of centers to help the target youth groups, public and community-based organizations access affordable information technology services.
- To Provide training facilities, and assist establish youth forums, to enable them meet regularly, discuss, exchange and share ideas, learn about themselves and others.
- To Understand their own problems, and identify their needs in relation to their existing social, political, cultural and religious structures, and take actions to direct and control their own future destiny.
- To Discourage the youth from becoming members of armed militias, and organizations, with negative ideologies, by providing them with skills for alternative source of income generation including as; computer skills, entrepreneurship skills, enhancement of English language ability, management skills for youth organizations, leadership skills and learning of non-violent ways of living and resolving conflicts, through training, and appropriate reading materials.
- To Encourage and assist the youth for equal opportunities to express their views, fully participate in development activities, and grow up with good human behaviors that can suit modern societies, on their own terms, through establishment of youth debate clubs, production of youth newsletter, magazines, entertainment facilities, and become updated by accessing appropriate information.
- To enhance the target youths' knowledge and literacy levels by providing access to educational information and appropriate reading materials through well equipped library services, reading clubs and audio-cassette listening forums etc.
- To enhance the academic English language performance of students at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions through access to reading materials, participation of inter-school debate clubs and reading clubs.
- To Strengthen and enhance the capacities and performance of community- based youth organizations through accessibility to modern development books and materials, and training programs.


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With the arrival of the beautiful season, the company BURANCO invites you to discover the first guided and told Wine-Trekking route through an app realized in the 5 Lands. A walk that will not leave you indifferent, between landscapes, vineyards, history to finish – why not? – with a good glass of wine and a good dish.
Imagine walking along one of the most spectacular hilly slopes of the 5 Terre vineyard, with a 360-degree panorama of the surrounding hills up to the sea, imagine that the route is always accessible, marked with markers, imagine that it begins and ends inside the same winery that owns the vineyards you are walking through.
Finally, imagine that, through your smartphone, you can listen, in real time
the walk, a story that guides you step by step to discover the territory, grapes, olive trees, lemon groves, places and panoramas that fill your eyes.
Now stop imagining, because all this exists and is the path that the company BURANCO has recently inaugurated. Indeed, digitized and made available to all, in collaboration with IZI Travel, the app of digital audio guides used by museums and public places to make the narration of the places visited always accessible.
The project, which takes the name of 5 Terre wine & food Buranco Trekking, is the first example in the 5 Terre of enotrekking guided and told digitally.
It is an easy route in 6 stages marked by signs that draw a ring walk that starts and arrives at the entrance of the Tenuta Buranco, home of the winery of the same name, in monterosso al Mare, the "capital" of the 5 Terre.
The Grape's Road starts from the square next to the estate, at the end of the walk, you can visit the winery for a taste or for purchases or even book a tasting of the products. The route winds through the vineyards and olive groves that surround the estate, along the way you will find wood vines, vermentino and arbarola, native vines, but also syrah and cabernet sauvignon, international vines.
Five good reasons to walk Grape's Road. The Grape's Road is a unique wine-trekking route:
The route of Wine Trekking is guided and includes a visit to the winery, the reservation is compulsory, to be made in tenita or through the number +39 3494348046 or +39 3791237983, for the nature of the route we recommend the use of hiking shoes or similar.
The route does not present any difficulty of execution, but we recommend however the maximum caution, in particular if accompanied by children.
On the way there are benches for rest and contemplation of the landscape. The stages of the itinerary are marked by a special sign with insights, illustrations and advice for a better experience. In addition to specific information you will find a series of icons that invite you from time to time to observe closely, taste, wander your gaze: let yourself be guided.
The itinerary crosses the heart of an estate where man respectfully collects the fruits of nature: help us to preserve its beauty by avoiding to throw on the ground paper, cigarette butts and other waste.
Our food and wine offer and accommodation plans to play.
The activities of Wine trekking, the walk through the vineyards, bringing with you a picnic basket, you can choose between different types of gourmet sandwiches also for vegetarians and vegans, along with a bottle of wine of your choice.Prices vary from € 60 per couple up to € 90 for a basket family size for 4 people.


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Disc stud earrings in 10k gold
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