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How does a gathering of British Regency authors all together in a box set come about? Well, we're all members of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which meets several times a year. We've known each other for years, and enjoyed reading each other's books.
It's fun to share, and we thought it would be of interest to our respective readers to try other authors writing in the same genre. What better way than by putting together a collection of our own favourite stories? Dukes, lords, gentlemen and spirited ladies. Adventures, improbable matches and witty repartee. What more could a Regency afficionado desire?
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A Gallant Defender by Fenella J Miller, in which the resourceful Eliza Fox joins forces with Mr Fletcher Reed to save her family from villainous Lord Wydale.
The Silverton Scandal by Amanda Grange, a rip-roaring adventure with spirited heroine, blackmailer and a lord masquerading as a highwayman.
At the Duke's Discretion by Wendy Soliman. Surely there can be no future for Amos, who is a duke's heir, and Cristobel, a nobody with a criminal past?
Dance for a Diamond by Melinda Hammond, award-winning romance: autocratic Sir Laurence Oakford crosses swords with dance academy owner Miss Antonia Venn.
Fated Folly by Elizabeth Bailey, the sweet and poignant tale of the ogre and the minx in a marriage of convenience.
About the Authors
Fenella J Miller was born in the Isle of Man. Her father was a Yorkshire man and her mother the daughter of a Rajah. She writes Regency romantic adventures, Jane Austen variations and WW2 historical novels. She lives in a pretty, riverside village in Essex with her husband.
Amanda Grange is the bestselling author of 25 Regency novels including her series of Jane Austen retellings which look at events from the heroes' point of view (Mr Darcy's Diary, etc.)
Wendy Soliman is a British author, now dividing her time between Andorra and Florida. She adores everything to do with the Regency and spends her days dreaming up inventive new ways to get her heroes and heroines into all sorts of trouble!
Melinda Hammond is an award-winning author with more than twenty historical romantic novels published. She was born in England, in the West Country, but now lives in an old farmhouse on the Yorkshire Pennines.
Elizabeth Bailey writes Regency and Georgian historical romance, Georgian mysteries and contemporary fiction with a supernatural edge. She lives in Sussex and spends far too much time reading novels on her kindle instead of writing them!

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Microsoft officially launched its two Windows Phone 8 handsets, the HTC Windows Phone 8X and Nokia Lumia 920, at a press event today in San Francisco, alongside a handful of other models with releases peppering the next few weeks across three of the US's major cell networks.
The Lumia 920 has a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 4.5-inch 1280x768 display, and 32GB of storage. The phone has a PureView-branded 8.7-megapixel camera with good low-light performance, a 2000mAh battery that gets 9 hours of talk time and can charge wirelessly, and a polycarbonate body that comes in six colors with either a glossy or matte finish.
The HTC 8X also has a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor as well as 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Its screen measures 4.3 inches at 1280x720 resolution, and an 8-megapixel camera with an f2.0 aperture is embedded on its back, with a 2.1 megapixel camera on the front. The 8X's battery is 1800mAh, but HTC has yet to provide real-life usage estimates.
Microsoft also trotted out the Samsung Ativ S at its Windows Phone 8 launch event. The Ativ S includes a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, either 16 or 32GB of internal storage, a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, a 2,300mAh battery, and an NFC chip. A different version of the Ativ, named the "Ativ Odyssey", is due out by December on Verizon.
AT&T is the exclusive carrier for the Lumia 920 and 820 in the US, while the 16GB 8X is set to debut on AT&T and Verizon by Thanksgiving for $199, as is the Lumia 822 on Verizon for $99. T-Mobile will have a Nokia Lumia variant dubbed the Lumia 810 for $99 and the 16GB HTC 8X for $149 by November 14. Microsoft stated that AT&T will get the Lumia 820, 920, and HTC 8X in November, but did not set a concrete date within the month. All of these models will be sold through Microsoft's retail stores.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 presentation just ended, but you can scroll back through the entire liveblog for information from our intrepid reporters on the ground. We're also expecting to have hands-on info soon.


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If you buy a subsidized Nexus One with T-Mobile and you cancel your contract after the 14-day trial, it'll cost you between $50 and $200. Sounds pretty standard, but Google will charge you an additional "equipment recovery fee."
Google has the right to charge you up to $350 if you cancel before the 4 month mark, which is essentially their way of thwarting any plans you may have to sell a former contract phone for profit.
But here's the catch: Google's fees plus T-Mobiles fees can add up to $550—which is $20 more than the Nexus One costs in the first place. Ugh, this math/cancellation is a bit confusing, but basically, Google will charge you whatever you didn't pay for a Nexus One due to subsidies. In other words, you'd owe Google $350 if you bought a Nexus One for $180 through T-Mobile—which brings the cost of your Nexus One up to $530 (what it runs unlocked).
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Saint Nicetas the Confessor was born in Bithynian Caesarea (northwest Asia Minor) of a pious family. His mother died eight days after his birth, and his father Philaretos became a monk. The child remained in the care of his grandmother, who raised him in a true Christian spirit. From his youth St Nicetas attended church and was a disciple of the hermit Stephanos. With his blessing, St Nicetas set off to the Mydicia monastery, where St Nicephorus (March 13) was the igumen.
After seven years of virtuous life at the monastery, famed for its strict monastic rule, St Nicetas was ordained presbyter. St Nicephorus, knowing the holy life of the young monk, entrusted to him the guidance of the monastery when he himself became ill.
Not wanting power, St Nicetas devoted himself to the enlightenment and welfare of the monastery. He guided the brethren by his own example. Soon the fame of the lofty life of its inhabitants of the monastery attracted many seeking salvation. After several years, the number of monks had increased to one hundred.
When St Nicephorus departed to the Lord in his old age, the brethren unanimously chose St Nicetas as igumen.
The Lord granted St Nicetas the gift of wonderworking. Through his prayer a deaf-mute child received the gift of speech; two demon-possessed women were healed; he restored reason to one who had lost his mind, and many of the sick were healed of their infirmities.
During these years under the emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820), the Iconoclast heresy resurfaced and oppression increased. Orthodox bishops were deposed and banished. At Constantinople a council of heretics was convened in 815, at which they deposed the holy Patriarch Nicephorus (806-815), and in his place they chose the heretical layman Theodotus. They also installed heretics in place of exiled and imprisoned Orthodox bishops.
The emperor summoned all the heads of the monasteries and tried to bring them over to the Iconoclast heresy. Among those summoned was St Nicetas, who stood firmly for the Orthodox confession. Following his example, all the igumens remained faithful to the veneration of holy icons. Therefore, they threw him into prison. St Nicetas bravely underwent all the tribulations and encouraged firmness of spirit in the other prisoners.
Then the emperor and the false patriarch Theodotus attempted to trick those who remained faithful to Orthodox teaching. They promised that the emperor would give them their freedom and permit the veneration of the icons on one condition: that they take Communion from the pseudo-patriarch Theodotus.
For a long time the saint had doubts about entering into communion with a heretic, but other prisoners begged him to go along with them. Acceding to their entreaties, St Nicetas went into the church, where icons were put out to deceive the confessors, and he accepted Communion.
But when he returned to his monastery and saw that the persecution against icons was continuing, he then repented of his deed, returned to Constantinople and fearlessly denounced the Iconoclast heresy. He ignored all the emperor's threats.
St Nicetas was again locked up in prison for six years until the death of the emperor Leo the Armenian. Enduring hunger and travail, St Nicetas worked miracles by the power of his prayers: through his prayer the Phrygian ruler released two captives without ransom; three shipwrecked men for whom St Nicetas prayed, were thrown up on shore by the waves.
St Nicetas reposed in the Lord in 824. The saint's body was buried at the monastery with reverence. Later, his relics became a source of healing for those coming to venerate the holy confessor.


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I've been undecided about the use of the term 'femicide' to describe the list of names of the UK women killed through suspected1 male violence. The term is useful because it takes the concept of fatal male violence against women beyond domestic violence and that's important, many people's understanding of the concept of fatal male violence against women stops and ends at women killed through domestic violence. However, that the term 'femicide' in itself fails to name the male as the agent is problematic. An early definition of femicide as "the killing of females by males because they are females"2 dealt with this, though there is a convincing argument for the inclusion of women killed by women because of the influence of patriarchal values.
In 2012, the participants of the Vienna Symposium on Femicide agreed the following:
Femicide is the killing of women and girls because of their gender, which can take the form of, inter alia: 1) the murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence; 2) the torture and misogynist slaying of women 3) killing of women and girls in the name of " honour"; 4) targeted killing of women and girls in the context of armed conflict; 5) dowry-related killings of women; 6) killing of women and girls because of their sexual orientation and gender identity; 7) the killing of aboriginal and indigenous women and girls because of their gender; 8) female infanticide and gender-based sex selection foeticide; 9) genital mutilation related femicide; 10) accusations of witchcraft and 11) other femicides connected with gangs, organized crime, drug dealers, human trafficking, and the proliferation of small arms.
As a list of some of the forms that femicide can take, this is helpful and aids the understanding of femicide as something much wider than domestic violence. The use of the term 'inter alia' meaning 'among other things' indicates that even they were not convinced that this included everything. They're right, it certainly doesn't include everything. The definition fascinates me. It is 123 words long. 123 words and the words man, men or male do not appear once. The full declaration is over 800 words long. It mentions men and boys once, in reference to 'sensitising education programmes'. The argument that femicide can also include the killings of women by women because of the influence of patriarchal values is not so convincing that it warrants the absence of the identification of men as perpetrators in a declaration to take action to end femicide that spans over 800 words. The vast majority of women who are killed, are killed by men, whilst it is also true that the vast majority of killers of men are also men, this cannot warrant the failure to name men as the killers of women. One of the significant achievements of feminism is getting male violence against women into the mainstream and onto the policy agenda. One of the threats against this achievement is that those with power take the concepts and under the auspices of dealing with the problem shake some of the most basic elements of feminist understanding right out of them. The exclusion of male violence from the declaration on femicide is inexcusable. Inexcusable because failing to name the agent will not help us to end, or even reduce, fatal male violence against women. Could failing to name men as the agents of femicide be a patriarchal political act?
I've written about the murders of 18 year-old Samantha Sykes and 17 year-old Kimberley Frank in other pieces. It was their murders by Ahmad Otak that convinced me that a list of women killed by men through domestic violence, simply was not enough. Otak wasn't the boyfriend of either of them, but of Elisa Frank, Kimberley's sister. The murders of Samantha and Kimberley don't fit the definition of domestic violence, but they're absolutely about a man trying to exert power, control and coercion in his relationship, reports of their murders have stated that he was attempting to show Elisa that he would allow no-one to stand in the way of them being together. The murders of Kimberley and Samantha were every bit about male violence against women, control and coercion through the display of the power to kill. I doubt anyone would try to say that the murders of Samantha and Kimberley weren't femicide.
I've been challenged about the inclusion of older women killed in the process of robberies and muggings in my work naming the women killed through male violence. In 2012, six older women, aged between 75 and 88 were killed by much younger men, aged between 15 and 43 as they were robbed or mugged:
Irene Lawless, 68 who was raped, beaten and strangled by 26 year old Darren Martin. Pornography depicting rape and featuring older women was found on his home computer.
Margaret Biddolph, 78 and Annie Leyland, 88 were strangled and robbed by Andrew Flood, 43, who knew them through his job as a taxi driver. He'd also robbed a third woman elderly woman and threatened to kill her cat. He was clearly targeting women.
Delia Hughes was 85 when she was killed by 25 year-old Jamie Boult. He struck her repeatedly about the head with a hammer, a hammer he was carrying specifically because he intended to kill. When Boult was sentenced, Delia's daughter, Beryl said
"I've never seen a dead body before. Seeing my mum her head battered, covered in blood, black and blue with bruises, sitting in a pool of blood, blood splattered on the walls, this is a sight that will stay with me for the rest of my life."
The murder of Delia Hughes was not simply a robbery gone wrong.
Similarly, Jean Farrar, 77, was kicked and stamped on by Daniel Barnett, 20, until she was her virtually unrecognisable. Her son Jamie was absolutely right when he said 2Daniel Barnett did not need to enter my mother's house that night. He chose to. Upon finding my mum at home, he easily could have left. Instead he chose to beat her and throw her against the wall. And when she screamed in pain, he chose to kick her, stamp on her, and jump on her head until she was unable to scream any more."
Whatever the rights and wrongs of Jamie Boult and Daniel Barnett's choices to carry out robberies, that these choices also included choices to inflict fatal violence was not inevitable.
Paula Castle was 85 when she was knocked to the ground when she was mugged by Jiervon Bartlett and Nayed Hoque who were both 15. They may not have intended to kill her, but they also mugged another woman the next day. They were clearly targeting women.
I've been told that the killing of elderly women as part of a robbery or mugging is "not femicide". I disagree. These women were killed because they were women. And if their killings are not femicide, then it is because the term femicide is being misused
Epistemology questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired. The acquisition and identification of what constitutes knowledge does not escape structural inequalities of sex, class and race. Dr Maddy Coy of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University calls for the recognition of practice-based evidence, for example from specialist women's organisations, to be considered as expertise as worthy as that of academics. It's 'participant observation' when it's produced by an academic, it's 'anecdotal' when it comes from a women's services provider. Does the objectification of women and the valuing of us on our merits based on the patriarchal fuckability test mean that it is the murders of elderly women that are those most likely to be excluded from the term femicide? Women talk about the mixed blessing of becoming invisible as we grow older, is that what has happened with the term femicide? Has sex inequality, particularly in patriarchally infected academia and state bureaucracies, depoliticised them term 'femicide' to the point that male violence has been erased from the concept? Until the hierarchies of knowledge are eradicated, then the role of anything considered knowledge in upholding structural inequality, is open to question.
How easy is it to escape socially constructed gender? How many of us, if our values were assessed and measured, would be found not to be influenced – at all – by sexism and sexist stereotypes? Do we know that the population of men who kill women are not more sexist and misogynistic than a control group? When misogyny and sexism are so pervasive, are all but inescapable, can a man killing a women ever not be a sexist act? A fatal enactment of patriarchy?
If an 800 word declaration on femicide is the best that policy makers and 'experts' can come up with and yet it does not mention the words 'male violence' , if it does not name men as the agents and beneficiaries of fatal male violence against women, it is time for feminists to take back the term and make sure that the definition is ours.
1 I have to say 'suspected' until a trial has been held or an inquest in the case of a man who has also killed himself.
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Voice of 'Dora' slaps Nickelodeon with lawsuit
Caitlin Sanchez, a 14-year-old from Fairview, New Jersey who voiced "Dora the Explorer" on the Nickelodeon show starting in 2007, has filed a complaint in New York County Supreme Court alleging that the network hasn't properly compensated her for her work.
According to a statement issued by the lawyers representing Sanchez and her parents, the suit claims that Nickelodeon "took advantage of a hard-working teenage girl" and "charges that Caitlin and her parents were pressured into signing an unconscionable contract with convoluted, vague and undefined terms that allowed producers of the Nickelodeon hit to exploit her."
The complaint, which was filed Wednesday night, claims that Sanchez is "due millions in promised compensation for merchandising, re-runs, promotional work and recordings."
The complaint also states that Sanchez and her parents weren't given time to seek the advice of a lawyer and were "pressured to sign within a half-hour of first seeing" the contract.
In a statement to CNN, Nickelodeon responds to the suit saying, "The claims being made are baseless. Unfortunately, Caitlin's voice changed and she was no longer able to portray the Dora character, as happened with the actress who originated the role."
The statement continued, "Caitlin's contract was extensively negotiated through her agent and in compliance with her union. She was well-compensated for her work and for personal appearances. We have enjoyed working with Caitlin on Dora the Explorer these past three years, and we did in fact offer her a contract for other work with us."
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[Note from later in 2009: This pattern is now available in hard copy from The Purple Purl, in Toronto.]
Brace yourselves, because this is pretty much as geek-tastic as my knitting gets. BSG knitters in the house? This is for us.
This pattern is something I've had on the brain since about, oh, last spring or so. I was pondering the Season 3 finale of Battlestar Galactica, and Starbuck and Apollo, and the emblematic maelstrom and the Eye of Jupiter, and so of course the most logical response in my head was, "hey let's put that into a really complicated sock and then write it into a pattern." Several months and three attempts later, and after a few different variations and lots and lots of poring over stitch dictionaries, this is what it turned into:
I present to you, Viper Pilots (Ravelry store link). Visually, it combines all the elements I wanted to achieve – the swirled, dynamic twists that represent exactly those same maelstroms that Starbuck and Apollo fly through practically on a daily basis, and the chevron, arrow-like cables that bear more than a passing resemblance to the Vipers they fly. It's sort of violent and beautiful at the same time.
And now the pattern is out in the world (which fills me with simultaneous excitement and just a little bit of terror…but I feel this way about pretty much everything I've ever designed ever, so I'm hoping that's normal), and is currently available as a sale download on Ravelry. (See that linkie above). I'm charging $5.00 which seemed pretty reasonable to me, so I hope it seems reasonable to knitters, too. (There are charts! And instructions! And everything!)
In knitting this pattern I chose Dream in Color Smooshy, in the aptly-named 'Nightwatch' colourway, but one of the reasons I liked the DiC option is that there are so many different colourways in the blue-black area; Dusky Aurora, Black Parade, Midnight Derby…I'd love to know what it looks like in all sorts of shades. I also like Smooshy for its fantastic yardage – cables eat yarn for breakfast and I wanted a skein that would get me through a pair of socks in my Size 11 feet without trouble, and I'm pleased to say this fits the bill. Any substitution would be fine for something with a bit of 'squish' to it, in a moderate fingering weight.
The biggest challenge with this pattern would be adjusting for size, given that it is hard to simply alter stitch repeats. I have written this pattern for one size which will comfortably fit feet 8.5-10 ins or so in circumference, at an anticipated stockinette gauge of 32 sts over 4 inches. I used 2.75mm needles, which is the size I would use if I were knitting a plain pair of 64-sts stockinette socks. Up-sizing or down-sizing would be easiest with a change in needle size, depending on your anticipated gauge, but also by altering the # of purl sts between the repeats – each individual stitch pattern is separated by 2 purl sts, so changing that # could change the overall circumference of the leg or foot.
In executing this design I am more than just a little bit grateful to my test-knitters. Rebecca took the first hit got it first, and helped me go through several key edits before passing it off to Abbie, who went a little cross-eyed somehow completed the entire first sock in less than a week, and Jacquie had a look-see to see if my suggestions for Magic Loop knitters made any sense at all (she says they do). They have thus reassured me that this pattern is capable of being executed by people possessing a brain other than my own, and have even expressed some enjoyment of doing so;
Jacquie called them "boss", Rebecca said they were "hard but stunning" (I'll go ahead and wait while you think about that in the context of Starbuck and Apollo…), and Abbie ranked the pattern as "A++ Would Knit Again Just As Soon As I Drink This Scotch Right Here", so that pretty much sums up everything I was going for in the first place. And when you put them on…well. Nothing has made me feel quite this badass as a knitter in quite a while.
I hope you'll enjoy, and thanks for reading as I babble about this crazy process of what happens when we do strange things like watch TV shows and knit patterns inspired by them. And now, I'm off to enjoy a glass of wine.
Happy knitting!
Update Mar-28-08
Many people have been expressing interest in this pattern, and for that, dear knitters, I thank you from the bottom of my sock yarn stash. Thank you, so very very much.
I have received a few questions/queries and in case you are wondering, I will offer a few comments:
Is there a way to buy the pattern without using Paypal?
At the moment, no. I will happily start to investigate this as a future addition/upgrade, but for the moment the Ravelry/Paypal combination is the best option for me to be able to distribute to a wide variety of knitters, who may be using a variety of currencies.
[ETA May-4-09] If you're really not interested/able to do the Paypal thing, send me an email (address below) if you would like to do a postal exchange of cash or cheque. Once i receive payment I will send you an electronic copy of the pattern.
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After you make the purchase, you will be sent an email with a download link for the pattern PDF. This link expires a short while after you first use it, so please ensure you save the file to your own computer.
Also, check your Ravelry pattern library. A copy is saved to your pattern library once you complete the purchase.
If all of these options have still not worked out, please contact me (email@example.com), and we will work it out. Have no fear!


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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) A former Miss America who helped rally the nation during World War II by selling millions of dollars" worth of war bonds has died. Venus Ramey was 92.
A funeral home in Science Hill, Kentucky, says the 1944 Miss America died Saturday.
Ramey was the first redhead to win the Miss America title and the first to be photographed in color.
After winning the crown, she embarked on a vaudeville tour and sold $5 million in war bonds. Her image graced the side of a B-17 that made 68 raids over Germany and other Nazi-occupied nations.
She found renewed fame late in life when she shot out the tires of would-be thieves at her Kentucky farm.


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Gao Shengwen, director of Yumen Municipal Development and Reform Committee, said that constructing such a wind farm, the first of its kind in the country, is to accelerate the pace of constructing the 12.7GW Jiuquan new energy base.
It will also accelerate the promotion of Chinese-manufactured wind turbines on the market. The 500MW wind farm, which is awaiting final approval, will have a total investment of CHY5billion.
Gao said that the planned wind farm will install 2MW, 2.5MW, 3MW and 5MW turbines. The majority of these will be 2.5MW and 3MW.
Jiuquan City, based in the Hexi Corridor of Gansu, is the region approved by the central government to host 10GW-level wind farms.
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More Brothers in Arms? Yes, please. On the iPhone? Beg pardon?
Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes looks to bring the fast-paced play of a World War II shooters to the iPhone, a device that is not only analog stick free, but button free. The only way to do this is to break out of the routine and invent a new control system. Never before has a game's worth so hinged on a single control dynamic.
The Controls: While the game's virtual analog sticks can take some getting used to, in the end they work. It also helps that there are three completely different types of controls for this iPhone shooter. The way I played had me scooting my thumb around on the small radar circle, which acted as a virtual thumbstick, on the bottom left of the screen to move, and dragging the screen to aim. ( You can even pinch the screen to enter a sniping mode) On screen icons were used for throwing grenades, actions and firing. Coupling these adequate controls with a fairly robust auto-aim system resulted in controls that mostly stayed out of the way of the fun.
The Tanks: The best part of the game were those levels in which you trudged around a map in a slow moving tank, blowing up buildings, sending people flying and exploding other armored vehicles. It works so well because the slower movements associated with touch aiming fits the slower movements of a tank perfectly.
The Jeep: The jeep's controls in the game are simply broken. To steer you need to move around a tiny steering wheel and then you use your other finger to touch either a gas or brake pedal. How a developer responsible for so many other neat control ideas could so thoroughly botch this one is beyond me.
Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes isn't a traditional shooter, not even one built for a portable. But through 13 levels of sniping, machine gunning and tanking, I came to realize that something reminiscent of a third-person shooter may be OK as well. The thing is, this is a game I'm not going to spend hours and hours on. It's meant to be something you pick up and play for a bit and then put down. And while the controls can be a bit awkward at first, the developers did a resounding job of creating maybe not a shooter, but something fun.
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On Monday President Obama nominated Tom Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, as labor secretary in his first second-term nomination of a Latino Cabinet member. If confirmed, Perez — whom the president calls a consensus builder whose story "reminds us of this country's promise" — will play a key role in the administration's efforts to raise the minimum wage and reform immigration laws. Here's what else we learned about Perez today:
* He's a Harvard-educated civil rights lawyer.
* He's the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic.
* He helped pay for his college education by working as a garbage collector and in a warehouse.
* He's the first attorney in his family.
* He made remarks at today's event in Spanish and English.
* He could face scrutiny from Republicans (Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama called Perez "the wrong man for this job" and criticized him for being too aggressive helping undocumented immigrants find work as part of an advocacy group called Casa de Maryland, Reuters reports).
* But Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, head of the Judiciary Committee, called Perez a "fierce defender of workers' rights" who is "uniquely suited" for the job and should be confirmed.
* He coaches basketball and baseball, and according to President Obama's remarks today, "He doesn't claim to be a great coach, but he brings passion to it."
* President Obama says Perez has "fought to open pathways into the workforce for everyone willing to contribute, including people with disabilities, LGBT Americans and immigrants" and "helped settle some of the largest cases ever on behalf of families targeted by unfair mortgage lending."
* As secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, he helped implement the country's first statewide living-wage law.
* And he has the Rev. Al Sharpton's seal of approval: "Mr. Perez has proven himself to be a committed public servant who has done credible work around unemployment and employment discrimination among African Americans. He is a champion for issues impacting hardworking, middle-class families and blacks and Latinos," the civil rights leader and MSNBC host said in a release today.
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Billionaire Elon Musk's Mom Is An Incredibly Glamorous Working Model
You know about Elon Musk's two companies: electric car-maker Tesla and rocket-launcher SpaceX.
But do you know about his mom?
She's Maye Musk, and she explains a lot about her son.
She's been a model since the 1960s, and she's still doing big national campaigns. She's also a working dietitian.
Maye is as tech-savvy as you would expect Elon Musk's mom to be. She's on YouTube. She has a Smugmug portfolio of her modeling work. She is on Twitter.
In fact, we only discovered her because she "faved" a tweet.
Yesterday we wrote about how, growing up, Elon escaped bullying from other kids through computers and business. Rocco Pendola of TheStreet.com tweeted out the story, appending, "How you like me now!!?" Maye faved it.
On Twitter, Maye is an unabashed Tesla and SpaceX fangirl.
She'll tweet stuff like this:
Beautiful video. RT to winter-driving naysayers "@TeslaMotors: Model S in sub-zero temperatures of Norway: http://t.co/ktmKnaMqt1"— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) December 19, 2013
Maye also has a YouTube channel under the username Ourma7. There, she's got clips from her modeling work, like this commercial for JC Penney.
She's the woman with the silver hair:
Here's Maye on NBC's Today show:
Maye's been a working model since the 1960s. She has a Smugmug page showing off all her work since then. (She also lists her representation, in case you'd like to book her.)
Maye also has multiple dietician degrees, and continues to work in the field. Here she is on CBS talking about good food to buy for Valentine's Day:
Back in 2012, Tom Junod profiled Elon Musk for Esquire magazine.
In the story, Maye says that she has two brilliant children — and Elon, a genius.
"I can't explain Elon," she says.
Funny thing is, getting to know Maye a little helps explain a lot about Elon.
Lots of entrepreneurs have big, audacious ideas — but few are as talented at showing them off as Musk is.
Remember how this past summer he had the media transfixed with his "hyperloop" idea? Ever seen his presentation on how fast Tesla can swap out Model S batteries?
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As the summer continues to play out, and the US Women won the World Cup, AGAIN, I think it timely to introduce you to one of my very favorite painters of all time, Frida Kahlo. Why now? Nu? Like RBG, Frida is my hero. Born on July 6, she would have been 112 today.
That is slightly older than me.
Frida was a brave and mighty girl who grew to be a revered painter and overall bad@ss Mexican woman. I just know that if she were alive today, she would have given that gonif (thief) mrt, a well-pointed barb or two for his deplorable and despicable treatment of Mexicans, and all immigrants everywhere.
I'm trying very hard to stay focused and not go off on this topic when concentration camps are surpassing summer camps and conditions are horrific.
Frida's childhood inhabited the chaos of a dictatorship
sounds familiar during the Mexican Revolution. Such timing taught her to be outspoken about her views and values sounds familiar. By her early 20's, she was a proud member of the Mexican Communist Party I am a proud, card-carrying member of the ACLU. She was never afraid to use her voice to speak out for her heritage, and her country sounds familiar.
At the age of 6, Frida battled polio. From then on, she was plagued with health issues. As a teen, she was severely injured in a bus/trolley accident. Her legs, already weakened from polio, were gravely damaged as a metal handrail crushed her pelvis, fracturing her spine, legs, and feet.
After the accident, she was left bedridden and wearing a medical corset around her torso. She began to paint to beat boredom. Her mom, she had a special easel made so Frida could paint while lying on her back. Such a mitzvah! (good deed). She did many self-portraits, and later asked famed Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, a K'nocker (big shot), to critique her work. In time, they married and their stormy relationship, and fiery moods and tempers filled many a canvas for Frida.
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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can do. Aoyb mir kenen nisht ton vos mir veln, mir muzn veln mos mir kenen.
Never farfaln (hopeless, lost), Frida always brought her own personality, chronic pain, relationships with men and women, miscarriages, medical procedures, and deepest feelings into her paintings. She also managed to add female strength, grit, and empowerment. Her work always spoke about indigenous culture, nature, gender, class, identity, and race in Mexican society. She painted her view of the world around her, her reality, for all to see. This is why she vehemently opposed being labeled as a 'surrealist.'
Frida is revered for her naive, folky style, bright, bold colors, her love of Mexican culture and many portrayals of the female experience from a feminist perspective. She is a hero to many more than just me. She is an inspiration for many artists, people with chronic pain and disabilities, the LGBT world, and women everywhere.
Quotes from Frida Kahlo:
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida, she died way too young. She was only 47. Such tsuris (troubles, grief), always. She was found dead by her nurse at 6 am on July 13, 1954. It is said that she died from a pulmonary embolism. Gutinue (OMG), just imagine what more she could have accomplished if she were other-abled! She never once kvetched (complained) or let her illness, chronic pain, or disabilities stop her from living her life to the fullest.
Frida, her glass was always half-full. She lived every day with strength, dignity, and pride. May we all be so lucky. May I follow her bad@ss lead.
A bie gezunt. Go in good health.


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Beyoncé was indirectly the cause of a couple being stuck on a Ferris wheel in New York, it has been reported.
The singer was shooting her new music video at Coney Island's amusement park when she decided to film part of it on the Wonder Wheel.
Along with photographer Terry Richardson, Beyoncé spent 30 minutes on the stationary ride while applying make-up.
However, unbeknownst to the star or theme park staff, a couple were reportedly still on the ride high above, reports Splash News.
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The couple were visibly shaken after finally being let off the ride, while the woman was seen in tears.
s soon as they were let out of their pod, the couple proceeded to quickly leave the park.
Beyoncé was said to be unaware of the incident, and soon tried out several rides, including Cyclone, the wooden rollercoaster, the Spook-a-Rama ghost train and the Eldorado bumper cars.
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D. and I went out to one of our favorite restaurants tonight, and after we ordered, he whipped out his paperback copy of the Cosmo Kama Sutra!
We decided on Diamond in the Buff and On-the-Edge. Then we proceeded to speed through dinner and go right home. Hmm, perhaps this could be a new weight-loss plan: replace dessert with sex!
We went to my place and while D. showered, I stripped down and got in bed. I've found that for guys, pulling back the sheets and seeing that their girl is unexpectedly naked is better than Christmas.
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D. and I almost entirely skipped the foreplay. When I've been thinking about sex for a while (i.e., over appetizers and a main course) and the anticipation has been building, I don't need as much preplay.
I got on top and teased D. by hovering over him with just the tip inside me. I slid down then pulled back maybe 10 times before fully lowering myself over him. Seriously, you girls have to try this. It'll drive him crazy…in a good way.
Then I started to gently move my hips in a diamond shape, as the book instructs. At first it felt a little strange not to be thrusting, and to be honest, I wasn't getting much clitoral or G-spot stimulation. Later D. said it felt really great, but then suggested it would be a good movement to remember when he's going to finish too quickly. Which means he thought it wasn't that good.
Since neither of us was really digging the Diamond, we switched to On-the-Edge, which allowed us to stay in the same position, just with three pillows stacked behind his back. In true female fashion, I have an obscene number of pillows on my bed. Usually D. makes fun of them but when we were using them as sex props, he didn't mind!
We forgot the part about D. having his legs dangle off the bed. But it didn't seem to matter. The clitoral stimulation was freaking unbelievable and I climaxed first. D. came after me, grabbing my butt to pull me closer to him.
Do you have any tweaks to Girl on Top to make it extra hot? Also, how do you engage in "pre-bedroom" foreplay? Talking about sex with your guy? Texting each other? Just thinking about the sex you're going to have?


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If you ever find yourself wanting to take your relationship with white people to the next level, one of the best places to meet a potential partner is at any 80s night event in your local city.
White people cannot get enough of 80s music, partially out of nostalgia, and partially since it was the last time that pop music wasn't infused with hip-hop or R n' B stylings. Artists like Joy Division, New Order and Elvis Costello were all pretty well respected and had solid runs at the charts. Also, less respected artists like Wham, Rick Astley and Cameo are still easy for white people to dance to.
If you are in a social situation and wish to turn into one more condusive for romance, you should always ask "does anyone know a club with a good 80s night?" at which point the entire group of white people are likely to invite you to an event.


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I like iOS 5 -- a lot. It has several strong improvements over the already-good iOS 4, such as notifications, improved AJAX support in the Safari mobile browser, and wireless syncing (both via Wi-Fi and through iCloud, which I believe will quickly make anywhere, anytime access an assumption iOS users impose on everything); thus, iOS extends its lead over Google's Android and other mobile OSes. But it's by no means perfect.
Given that Apple keeps iOS updated regularly, here are what it should be working on for one of the next versions. Some of these are old requests -- odd omissions that seem less and less supportable, considering the other capabilities in iOS 5 and in the new iCloud service.
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1. A "return to app" gesture. iOS 5 brings Mac OS X Lion-like multitasking gestures for navigating among apps without needing to use the Home button. For example, a four-finger sideways swipe moves you to the next or previous app that's running (depending on the swipe direction), and a four-finger swipe up exposes the multitasking dock that shows apps in operation and has controls over iTunes, AirPlay, and rotation lock or mute (whichever one is not set for control by the side switch). Then there's the four-finger pinch gesture to open the home screen. But there's no easy way to return to the app you were running before you opened the home screen. When the home screen is visible, the four-finger swipes simply scroll the home screens. How about designating the four-finger expand move as the "return to app" gesture?
2. Support for group creation and editing in contacts. One of the main uses of a mobile device in the field is communicating, which includes managing the information on the people at the other end of the line. It's very odd that iOS 5 still doesn't let you create and edit groups in the Contacts app, and it still won't let you send an email to everyone in a group by entering that group name in the To field; instead, you have to select each person in the group separately. iOS 5 imports groups from Exchange, Outlook, and Mac OS X's Address Book. You can edit every other attribute of your contacts and even link cards (such as for spouses who have different last names) -- so why not groups? iOS 5 finally introduced album creation to the Photos app, so I don't see why it won't do essentially the same thing for contacts.
3. Customized email signatures per account. As smartphones and tablets are increasingly used for both work and personal purposes, having a single email signature for all accounts handled in iOS's Mail app makes no sense. You should be able to set a separate signature per account, just as you can in Apple's Mail client in Mac OS X -- or in Outlook in Windows and Mac OS X.


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While it may not carry with it the same level of warm-fuzzies as America, motherhood and apple pie, it's pretty hard to argue that discipline isn't something just about universally celebrated as a good thing to pursue. The ability to stick with something you commit to, even when things get hard, inconvenient or lonely, is one of those generally accepted positives. And I think it does deserve that kind of placement in the pantheon of virtues (which now makes me think I need a blog post about a pantheon of virtues).
What's funny about discipline is how easy it is to get completely wrong. I say this from very personal experience and I've seen it on more than a few occasions in others.
"Hey Kev, you remarkably handsome and dapper son-of-a-gun, how does some get discipline wrong? And how can YOU, of all people, get it wrong?" is what you must be thinking. I can feel it. That exact quote of amazement. I'm good at this stuff.
Glad you (well maybe I) asked.
This is how: when discipline morphs into self-bashing and, at least for me, that transition occurs a little too seamlessly at times.
Not having great focus during a lifting session could be "Not great tonight, but tomorrow get back at it. Maybe get up early to see what you can do." vs. "What the f**k was that? You aren't going to get better mailing it in like that? Seriously, stop screwing around and acting like a jackass. Do better."
Trying to lose weight and caving in with an oversized dinner when out with friends could be "Well, not ideal… but that's just one meal. Get back to the plan tomorrow." vs. "Great going, champ. All this progress totally blown. Typical. This is why you aren't doing any better and this is why you keep screwing these things up."
These aren't the exact things I am saying to myself (well, maybe the lifting part), but I think it's representative of how we can shoot for tough-minded discipline and miss the mark by going with "I am going to utterly kick the bejeezus out of myself to fix things."
Discipline is great and necessitates a toughness towards yourself in order to fully express itself. You will be forgoing ease and comfort in the pursuit of true discipline. You will have struggles and moments of doubt as you push through. You need to persist.
But when you inevitably stumble…because we all stumble… you need to tune in to how you react to that. Tough mixed with positive is doable and you probably need to catch yourself to make it happen. God knows I do. Because discipline at the expense of your self-worth is a trade-off without much long term merit.
Self-kindness isn't weakness, my friends. It may be the best strength you have.


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Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia
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A recent report in BMC Biology indicates that modern humans first arrived in southern East Asia 60,000 years ago and settled the rest of East Asia from there. This early date and migration route has significant implications for our understanding of the origins of present-day human populations.
Studies of human origins have witnessed a radical transition from studies based on morphological comparisons to a reliance on molecular genetics. One of the first molecular comparisons estimated human divergence from the African apes at a now generally accepted timescale of 5 million years ago, when most paleontologists then placed it between 15 and 30 million years ago. Later, measurement of genetic diversity revealed the relatively recent origin in Africa of modern humans, who then spread over the entire globe (see [1] and citations therein). Much current research in anthropology centers on understanding the timing and migration routes of modern humans. An analysis of Y-chromosome genetic diversity published by Shi et al. [2] in BMC Biology has now clarified migration routes and times of settlement for East Asia, with wide-ranging implications.
Previously, it seemed equally possible that the modern humans who settled East Asia came either from Southeast Asia or, alternatively, migrated southward from northern Asia. Researchers have long noted a significant genetic difference between northern and southern East Asian populations that could be interpreted to support either scenario – or some mix of the two. Both archaeological and genetic evidence for settlement times were also ambiguous [2, 3]. Timings for southern East Asia ranged from an earliest date of 30,000 years ago to 50,000 years ago at the latest, while dates for the settlement of Siberia ranged from 40,000 to 45,000 years ago, or even earlier. However, the new data from Shi et al. [2] suggest that our species reached southern East Asia 60,000 years ago, twice as long ago as most previous estimates, and then spread rapidly northward.
The amount of genetic diversity in present-day populations is a useful variable for inferring geographic origins and migration routes. Africa was pinpointed as the homeland of Homo sapiens because of the higher genetic diversity among Africans compared with populations elsewhere in the world, while the last geographic regions to be settled, South America and the Pacific Islands, show the lowest genetic diversity. Greater variation has been noted among Africans not only in their genes but in variables such as craniometrics, dental traits and even skin color [4, 5].
The original 'out of Africa' hypothesis of modern human origins and subsequent pattern of global migration was based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evidence, which revealed a series of population bottlenecks and a progressive loss of diversity moving away from East Africa. mtDNA, because it is located outside of the cell nucleus, is inherited only through the female line. In contrast, the Y chromosome is passed only from father to son, and so can be similarly used to follow the male line. Both mtDNA and most Y-chromosomal DNA are non-recombinant and analysis of their inheritance is therefore more straightforward than for other parts of the genome, which are mostly scrambled samples of DNA from both parents. Human populations on the branches of the mtDNA or Y-chromosome 'tree' can be distinguished by sets of accumulated mutational differences – or haplotypes – in stretches of DNA. Because these mutations accumulate at a fairly regular rate over time, they can be used as a 'clock' to estimate the time of human population splits.
Reconstruction of human origins and migration now mainly relies on the Y chromosome because it is much larger than the mitochondrial genome, consisting of tens of millions of nucleotides compared to the 16,000 of human mtDNA. Thousands of differences can be found in Y-chromosomal DNA from different human populations. The different Y-chromosome haplotypes function as signatures for different human lineages and are often highly associated with different geographic regions, making them extremely useful for tracing human origins and migration.
Out of Africa and into Asia
Shi et al. [2] thoroughly tested settlement hypotheses by collecting the largest East Asian sample to date, more than 5,000 males from 73 populations. Many new samples came from underrepresented south and southwestern China and they also incorporated data from many published reports.
The D-M174 lineage was already known from previous studies, and, even if thought to be up to 50,000 years old, the prevalent hypothesis viewed it just as one of the various lineages moving northward with the predominant O-M175 lineage around 25,000 to 30,000 years ago. Recently, it was found that D-M174 has a high frequency in Andamanese (considered the earliest settlers of Southeast Asia). Shi et al. [2] then cogently argued that the disjunct distribution of lineage D-M174 today found primarily in the Andaman Islands, Tibet and Japan indicated that it is the oldest lineage in East Asia. Its sporadic presence in other populations, they concluded, was due to recent gene flow that previously went unappreciated.
A more detailed subtyping within the D-M174 lineage also allowed Shi et al. to identify the deep, hidden structure of various male lineages. Dates in excess of 60,000 years were needed to account for the differences and distributions of these subtypes. This date is older than those previously reported based on both Y-chromosomal DNA and mtDNA. It seems an inescapable conclusion that the lineage is indeed ancient, southern in origin and preceded others found in contemporary East Asian populations. Recent archaeological evidence of Tibetan settlement between 30,000 to 40,000 years ago also supported this conclusion.
This genetic signature of early migration has been masked in much of East Asia by a later, overriding migration due to the population explosion in Neolithic times of the Han ethnic group, which is characterized by a different Y-chromosome lineage. Today, both D-M174 and the Han Y-chromosome lineages are found in Tibet and Japan, showing that both these populations are the result of two distinct migrations. Shi et al. [2] also find from their new data that previous impressions that northern Asian genetic diversity is greater than southern diversity are probably incorrect and due to incomplete sampling, thus removing one important motive for proposing a northern Asian origin.
The authors also estimate the age of the unique Japanese haplotype D2-M57 as 37,000 years, which suggests that this first wave of migration brought people to Japan before the date of the earliest archeological evidence at 30,000 years ago. Tibetan settlement apparently predates that of Japan. The origin of the Tibetan D-M174 sublineage is older (52,000 years ago) and the Tibetan population also has a higher genetic diversity, indicative of earlier settlement.
Implications for the global pattern of human migration
Pushing back the date of migration into East Asia to 60,000 years ago has wide implications for global scenarios of human dispersion. It makes it necessary to opt for the earliest possible dates for the initial migration out of Africa and for settlement in the Indian subcontinent. Estimates of the time of origin of modern humans in Africa fall between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago (Figure 1), as supported by paleontological finds in Ethiopia [4]. Most dates for the coastal migration out of Africa range from 50,000 to 77,000 years ago, but these now seem to be too late. There is paleontological evidence for modern humans in the Middle East around 92,000 years ago [4] and, if populations were as small as predicted, then we should seriously consider an even earlier out-of-Africa date, perhaps even before 100,000 years ago. Better sampling of African populations maybe needed to answer the question of whether there was more than one migration and route out of Africa. However, the limited worldwide genetic variability among present-day humans has led many researchers to exclude such a possibility and suggests that only a handful of people were involved, perhaps as few as a total of 600 founding females [6].
The migration route to East Asia must pass through the Indian subcontinent. Genetic diversity in present-day India is second only to that in Africa and implies settlement soon after humans left Africa. Dispersal across Eurasia from Africa to India was often previously estimated to have occurred between 45,000 and 59,000 years ago, but a recent proposal of 66,000 to 70,000 years ago [7] would be more congruent with the estimate of Shi et al. Genetic markers and an early date for East Asian settlement also support the hypothesis that independent migrations populated East Asia and Australia, as current estimates for human settlement in Australia and New Guinea are around 55,000 years ago. The estimate by Shi et al. [2] of human settlement in Northeast Asia earlier than 30,000 years ago could also have implications for the time of entry of humans into North America; this is currently put at 16,000 years ago [3], but could be an underestimate.
Cautionary tales and future directions
We should caution, however, that dates inferred from present-day genetic diversity can vary greatly, as a result of unknown differences, in variables such as population size, rates of genetic drift, gene flow, and the presence of selection. For example, Y chromosome and mtDNA reconstructions of human origins can differ, in part because Y chromosomes reflect the activities of males whereas mtDNA reflects those of females. It is often the case that dates from mtDNA are up to twice as old as those for the Y chromosome. The widespread practice of polygyny means that the number of males contributing to the next generation is always smaller than that of females [8]. Migration patterns of men and women may also differ due to patterns of marriage exchange and post-marital residence. In brief, it is clear that cultural differences can strongly affect levels of genetic diversity and a correct interpretation of human diversity requires that the biases introduced by migration and admixture patterns must be disentangled from the effects of selection, drift and demography on the human genome.
The work of Shi et al. [2] also indicates that human founder populations were small and isolated, and that the initial migration signal may be difficult to detect, especially when it is hidden beneath layers of subsequent migrations. In part this problem can be resolved by sampling peripheral, more isolated populations. Analysis of ancient DNA can also cut through the layers of time and is an important test of conclusions based on DNA from living populations. Ancient DNA served as an important test of the out-of-Africa theory, which predicted that modern humans replaced regional archaic hominids. Indeed, analysis of mtDNA extracted from Neanderthal specimens and from early modern human remains strongly suggests that Neanderthals did not contribute to our genome [9].
Although accurate characterization of geographic ancestry is possible using a small number of markers, a detailed understanding of human diversity will require more extensive sampling. Together, mtDNA and the Y chromosome constitute only a small fraction of the human genome and we must take more of the genome into consideration for a full understanding of human evolution. A more complete survey of populations and sophisticated statistical analysis of thousands of additional markers is needed [10]. The results will not be trivial and will permit a better understanding of human adaptation, susceptibility to diseases, and even success in pharmacological therapy [6]. High-throughput genotyping and massively parallel sequencing technologies hold great promise that we will soon achieve much more than the tracking of human global migration and settlement. The golden age of human evolutionary genetics is just beginning to dawn.
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Stanyon, R., Sazzini, M. & Luiselli, D. Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia. J Biol 8, 18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/jbiol115
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