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It remains to be seen what will come of the peace negotiations, and there are real issues President Maduro has to address aside from the recent social unrest. However, with deepening split between those who see Capriles as a sellout and those who view the hardcore wing as anti-democratic extremists, it will be difficult for the opposition to present itself as a coherent alternative to the well-established Chavista system. As the saying goes, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't."
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Mike LaSusa with a good analysis of Venezuela today
One thing that strikes this reader about the information provided in the English language about Venezuela to the world is the role reversal of traditional media sources and blogs; for most other subjects the mainstream provides the measured voice and (reasonably, with editorial slant showing) factual reporting while blogs steam off on their tangents and stomp their feet on soapboxes. With Venezuela it's the other way around and if you want to read reasonable viewpoints that examine facts and opinions of both sides, you're far better off avoiding the agenda-ridden high traffic shows.
In this post, Mike LaSusa puts together a measured view of how Venezuela looks today, as the worst of the protest violence recedes. Here's how he wraps things up, but you'd do well to read it all because it's far more nuanced than a single paragraph can show:
The WSJ scoops on Barrick $ABX (ABX), Newmont $NEM (NEM) and failed merger talks: Thoughts arising
We're going to have all sorts of repercussions and bouncing of news this weekend from this WSJ report on the apparent failed merger talks between ABX and NEM. As long as the intel is sound it's a nice scoop for the WSJ team for sure ( @GillianTan @macdonaldajm @DanaMattioli ) and as a house like WSJ is unlikely to have run the story without decent reason we can be fairly confident of its veracity too (have to trust people at some point, right?). It also fits right in with ABX's specific situation, as it's well known that just about everything they have is up for sale at the right price. Therefore, NEM could feasibly swoop in and pick up the whole lot at a nominal discount (while of course both sides carefully explain to the world that it's a 50/50 merger of equals. Right). However there are caveats that come with the news and here's a handful by way of IKN-type reaction:
1) There's scant detail offered, apart from the fact that talks broke down. Shout 'duh' if you like, but it also means the journos weren't given massive inside track material.
2) The news means that the talks broke down, i.e. the main takeaway here is that there isn't going to be a merger. Duh again, but Occam's Razor beats derived speculation so don't expect some massive stoking on Monday's markets for gold majors just because of this.
3) This isn't the first time ABX and NEM have talked seriously about a deal, but just like before it's seen as a very difficult fit. Both companies have baggage, noisy balance sheets, uncertain growth profiles. What's more there'd be internal opposition from both sides about any deal (middle management, upper management, even high level execs sweating on the phrase "cost synergies" and how it relates to "pink slips"). That and a dozen other reasons why this mooted merger has failed before and apparently failed again. It's not one we should ever hold our collective breaths on.
Finally, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a larger game being played here. I mean, just for one example, it's understood down Chile way that ABX wants to JV with Chinese capitals (Citic) on Pascua Lama and there'd be nothing better to chivvy a hesitant partner into signing on the dotted line than a nicely sourced (and easily deniable) story about the big catch almost getting away. But hey, that's just my squirmy brain being squirmy, right Mr Munk?
PS: And another thing; Good Friday? This news leaked at the start of a long weekend (and WSJ can't afford to sit on it for fear of being out-scooped)? Hmmmm....
PS: And another thing; Good Friday? This news leaked at the start of a long weekend (and WSJ can't afford to sit on it for fear of being out-scooped)? Hmmmm....
Not a clue where Reuters is getting Peru mining report ideas from
(Reuters) - Gold production in Peru, the world's sixth biggest exporter of the precious metal, will likely either plateau or dip slightly this year compared with 2013, mining companies, analysts and the government said.Gold output will fall by at least 4 percent in 2014 to between 4.4 million and 4.6 million ounces, according to company and analyst estimates.But the government hopes continues here
And you only have to wait a mere six days from the IKN post to that yearned-for moment when we get approval from Reuters, too. Oh how we are anointed.
The Kitco gold forecast debate rages on
Rages, I say! Rrrawwrr
After the original post which pointed out the useless calls made by Kitco's gold price experts, then this from mickeyman, then this, then this, then other things, Mickeyman over at World complex goes further in his "yeah but it's not even any good as a contrary indicator call Otto, sorry" opinion in this post (as usual, great graphs to back up his call). so I left this underneath in his comments section...
Leaving aside the Time Lord thing, I've already noted in a couple of places (admittedly intuitively) that the contrary indication is more obvious on the "strong signal" weeks, i.e. when any option gets more than 50% of the term-used-loosely-expert opinion. In other words, the more vehement the term-used-loosely-expert opinions, the more likely it is to be wrong. Isn't that the archetypical definition of contrary indicator?
...because I do think there's still a decent chance of a contrary (i.e. potential money making trade) indicator buried here. Anyway, go read his latest if you're suitably greedy or numbernerdy (guilty both charges, m'lud)
The Ubinas volcano in Peru is entering into an eruption phase
Here's a pretty cool video...
...that was shown on Peru news TV last night of one of the explosions at the Ubinas volcano in the Southern region of Moquegua yesterday. This morning the alert level has been raised further and 4,000 people (plus many thousands of head of livestock) are being evacuated.
However, overall Ubinas isn't a volcano that the world should fret about unless you live very close to it, within let's say 20km or so (and what's more, it's a sparsely populated area). Ubinas is one of the most active volcanoes in the Andean chain at the moment and belches out pretty regularly, but in this cycle at least (100+ years, which is like a human yesterday in geological timespans) hasn't gone in for a catastrophic full blown eruption. Ash and health issues for locals, yes. More activity and regional nuisance, yes. Mount St Helens II, very unlikely indeed.
Good Friday Art (repeat)
FWIW, repeated from this April 2011 post and this one in 2012. Christ of St. John of the Cross, Salvador Dali, 1951. People love it, people hate it, but it's one of the few paintings around that are truly breathtaking when witnessed. Even its haters agree on that.
click to enlarge (gets very big)
Further comments from the man himself, Dali.
"In the first place, in 1950, I had a 'cosmic dream' in which I saw this image in colour and which in my dream represented the 'nucleus of the atom.' This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I considered it 'the very unity of the universe,' the Christ!"
And this weekend...
...is a long one. And part of it will be spent by your humble scribe updating the call on Dalradian Resources (DNA.to), one of the rare winners we've called this year (bot the thing at 65c), after its pretty interesting NR earlier this week. So that will keep me out of mischief, as will laying the egg hunt for the kids.
BREAKING: Excellent, bullish news for the price of gold next week
Considering the record of these charlatans and how they're an obvious contrary indicator, the news just out from Kitco that its band of self-appointed experts on the gold price has turned collectively bearish on the price of gold next week is good news indeed for those of us looking for higher gold prices.
A big thank you to the Monkeys with Dartboards. To Da Moon, Alice.
UPDATE: Mickeyman's take on the excellent bullish news for gold is here. He's not so enamoured and sees a better take, but then again Time Lords always make good traders.
UPDATE: Mickeyman's take on the excellent bullish news for gold is here. He's not so enamoured and sees a better take, but then again Time Lords always make good traders.
Selling bullion in the main gold ETF(GLD)
GLD is the reference point of the bullion ETFs. Here are a couple of charts of its bullion holdings. This from 2013 onwards...
...shows the nasty liquidation of bullion we all know about (in hindsight) and the flattening out of the drop in 2014. But this year has been interesting one so far, because once January was out the way there was the start of a rebound beginning to show. However the last few days have seen that trend fall off, as this 2014 to date chart explains:
NB: Please note the cut-down Y-axes in both charts, done for
illustrative purposes, not to fool you in true Fox News Style
Yesterday GLD holdings dipped back under 800 tonnes Au for the first time since February 21st. So now you know. All data from here
How's that 2014 uranium bull charge make tonsamoney thing going?
Oh, that well?
That's the Globex uranium contract chart. From here
I'm running this Silvercrest $SVLC (SVLC) (SVL.to) post again, because...
...of three things:
1) Reader RK noticed a silly mistake of mine; I wrote "...it turns out to be a 10k to 12 k per month gold producer." instead of "...it turns out to be a 10k to 12 k per quarter gold producer.", which dilutes the whole message of the post.
2) I'm feeling really anal this morning.
3) I like the post, so RK gives me an excuse to run it again.
So here it is again, all fixed.
Silvercrest $SVLC (SVL.to) (SVLC) 1q14 production numbers
Also sucked. NR here:
SVL is a funny fish, as that chart above shows. The way it keeps the fact that the lion's share of its "silver" production come from gold ounces equivalent, for one thing. Because if you turned things around, ignored the silver word in its corporate title and ran its numbers on a more logical gold equivalent basis...
...it turns out to be a 10k to 12 k per quarter gold producer. That gets a $250m market cap (!!). Just goes to show, style beats substance every time.
What a weird and wonderful sector this is! You have small gold producers like SVL pretending to be silver producers because it makes them look better than they are. Meanwhile, you have small silver producers like Gold Resource Corp (GORO) shamming the world into believing they're a gold company in order to maintain their own preferred line of bullshit. And then people wonder why the markets don't take these companies seriously.
UPDATE: @jameskwantes contributes with this:
UPDATE: @jameskwantes contributes with this:
Re: Silvercrest, Sandstorm gets 20% of life of mine gold production at Santa Elena for $350/oz. Changes equation Au vs AgThis is true. I was kind of keeping it all to the production rather than revenue side, but it's a wholly valid point because in the end it's not about production but about money made. So he's right, of course. It's now up to you to decide whether SVLC having a stream that takes blue sky away from a chunk of its gross revs makes it more or less attractive.
Sheer coincidence, of course
The OSC will not investigate.
Because the OSC never does. Because they're total fuckwits and allow Canada to run one of the dirtiest markets in the world right under their noses.
And hey, why not laugh it off as a small isolated case? Oh how funny you all are.
This Osisko (OSK.to) thing is getting good
Yamana Gold and Agnico Eagle Announce a Friendly Acquisition Agreement With Osisko Mining Corporation
C$8.15 per share offer provides superior shareholder value
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 16, 2014) - YAMANA GOLD INC. (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY) ("Yamana"), Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM)(TSX:AEM) ("Agnico Eagle") and Osisko Mining Corporation (TSX:OSK)(FRANKFURT:EWX) ("Osisko") are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement ("the Agreement") pursuant to which Yamana and Agnico Eagle will jointly acquire 100% of Osisko's issued and outstanding common shares for a total consideration of approximately C$3.9 billion or C$8.15 per share. The total offer consists of approximately C$1.0 billion in cash, approximately C$2.33 billion in Yamana and Agnico Eagle shares, and shares of a new company ("Spinco") with an implied value of approximately C$575 million.
The offer represents approximately an 11% premium to the implied value of the current Goldcorp Inc. ("Goldcorp") hostile bid. Yamana, Agnico Eagle and Osisko will host a joint conference call today at 10:00 a.m. EDT to discuss the transaction.
Whole thing is here. Well, I thought GG would snag its prize after the last sweetener, which proves how much I know about this charade. Cannot be bad for sector consolidation strategies, however (and I have those, as I reckon there are more deals in the pipeline).
Good luck, Chuck.
Chart of the day is...
...the gold/silver ratio since 2011:
Silverbugs, eh?
Anyway, here's the plan. Because our girls go to a school run by penguins (get thee to a nunnery) they get five days off for Easter, starting today, which means I'm going to take them out and buy ice-cream and stuff this morning once the markets have opened and things look settled. Therefore, assuming Mr. Putin or some fat finger in New York doesn't cramp my style, posting will be light today. Pip pip.
Goldcorp's (GG) $GG community relations in Mexico faring...maybe not optimally
After 15 days of its Los Filos mine in Guerrero State being closed due to locals' blocking the roads and protesting, here's what they said to the company today:
We ratify our total negative that you carry out any operations of any type inside of our territory, until you decide to continue negotiating or you close your business.
So...maybe they have a problem. To this point, GG estimates that it's lot 14,000 oz of gold production. And by the way, you can read the full missive sent to GG by the ejido holders right here and a decent English language translation here (ty to A. Reader for the headsup on those link).
Mickeyman: "You may have what it takes to be a Kitco gold expert"
We know that Mickeyman over at The World Complex is a whizzo when it comes to stats and numbercrunching, so it's a happy thing that he's picked up on this IKN post and data regarding the monkeys with dartboards that Kitco uses to "predict" forward gold prices and has added plenty more flavour to the mix.
Go see his script and especially his charts, right here. Here's how his post starts, in order to whet thine lips:
I know you've always dreamed of it. But you are probably asking yourself . . how could I ever develop the wisdom and insight to be a Kitco gold expert? It must take years . . . no, decades . . . of intense study to develop the necessary mental acuity.
Anyway, Otto at the IKN blog claims that the Kitco gold experts are as useful as monkeys with darts. I say they are less useful. Let's investigate, using the table of data helpfully posted at the above link.
Whole thing here, recommended reading.
What it's like being robbed at gunpoint in Guatemala
H/T @CentAmPolMike
Two US tourists were happily motorcycling along in Guatemala when they were assaulted by one guy with a gun and another with a machete. As the rider had his helmetcam on and wants to warn the world about this spot, he uploaded what went on to Youtube two days ago:
Here's the blurb he published with the video:
Robbed at gunpoint on the road between San Pedro La Laguna and Santiago Atitlan. Footage caught on head-cam of my girlfriend and I being robbed on my motorcycle as we headed back to San Pedro La Laguna from Antigua. April 10, 2014. The guy ahead of us ran out of the bushes and pointed a gun at us, the guy to the right had a machete.
We have uploaded this video clip to serve as a warning to other travelers about taking this road. Robberies happen in Guatemala and this particular spot is apparently notorious... However, we don't want to in any way put people off from visiting San Pedro La Laguna or Guatemala in general as it's a beautiful place with generally warm and kind inhabitants. We have felt safe for the majority of our trip.
The sound is cut part way through at the request of my girlfriend who was understandably distressed.
Cochilco drops its copper price forecast for 2014
Well that didn't take long. Just four months into the year and Chile's metal beancounter brigade at Cochilco has decided that its U$3.15/lb forecast for copper in 2014 is too rich, so this morning they've dropped it to U$3.05/lb.
For 2015, they're still going with U$3.00/lb.
More monkeys with dartboards on display
Silvercrest $SVLC (SVL.to) (SVLC) 1q14 production numbers
Also sucked. NR here:
SVL is a funny fish, as that chart above shows. The way it keeps the fact that the lion's share of its "silver" production come from gold ounces equivalent, for one thing. Because if you turned things around, ignored the silver word in its corporate title and ran its numbers on a more logical gold equivalent basis...
...it turns out to be a 10k to 12 k per quarter gold producer. That gets a $250m market cap (!!). Just goes to show, style beats substance every time.
What a weird and wonderful sector this is! You have small gold producers like SVL pretending to be silver producers because it makes them look better than they are. Meanwhile, you have small silver producers like Gold Resource Corp (GORO) shamming the world into believing they're a gold company in order to maintain their own preferred line of bullshit. And then people wonder why the markets don't take these companies seriously.
The Argonaut (AR.to) hypnosis set to continue
Do these guys have porn photos of brokerages bosses with sheep or something? How can a serially underperforming gold producer with sketchy "growth" (term used loosely) assets like the marginal Magino and a San Antonio that continues to go nowhere (oh look, they're "appealing the appeal" now) and the production profile of a gold miner with 1/3 of its market cap (no joke, 120k per year is Timmins Gold's rate...check the valuations side by side) get continued brokerage love and affection otherwise?
AR has "failed plan" written all over it, but that continued underperformance is studiously ignored by the Canadian brokerage cubicle whores, most probably on directives from the corner offices. It's getting to the point where you have to ask why.
Chart of the day is...
....gold since last Friday , and it comes with an air of inevitability:
With 63.6% of the Kitco gold experts (aka worse than monkeys with dartboards) calling gold higher this week, it was bound to happen; gold dumped overnight.
must be that blood moon or something
GATA writes to Putin
Dear Mr Putin,
Can you please start killing people? We want more money.
Yours, GATA
How Fortuna Silver's (FSM) (FVI.to) 1q14 production numbers for silver (and gold) stack up against previous quarters
They stack up like this:
So now you know. Data from here
UPDATE: Oh, you want the gold numbers too? Ok, here you go:
That 1q14 gold production total is an AgEq of about 530,000 oz silver, if you assume the current gold/silver ratio of 1:65.
Chart of the day is...
...the US Dollar (USD):
Though more seriously, anyone looking at any price chart today needs to have the USD action in the corner of at least one eye.
Calling bullshit on the gold experts at Kitco
The Emperors with no clothes in question are long past being called out on their random stupidity. Here's the latest from our Kitco Gold Survey monitor and it shows, just like it did at the end of 2013, that the people who Kitco call experts and ask their opinion on the direction of the gold market...
What you see in the chart below is a tracker of the last 31 weeks of the gold survey results and predictions. It works in the following way:
1) On the left, the date of each survey
2) Next the number of participants surveyed (part)
3) Next the number of responses received
4) And then, how many of those responses were bullish, bearish or neutral according to Kitco.
5) We then have those numbers crunched into percentages, with a highlight for the dominant call of that week
6) Then comes the acid test. You see the price of the gold bullion ETF (GLD) on the date of the survey. That's then compared with the close of the following week and the "result %" (also colour coded) shows which way gold went during the week (nb: if it moved less than 0.5% in either direction, it's called neutral).
Finally, we have the "survey accurate?" column, which gives us the verdict on the experts scores. Also note here that many of the results are coloured in yellow; that's when the collective prediction was a strong one and had at least 50% of participants in agreement on one of the three options:
And the results:
- Over the last 31 weeks, the survey has been accurate on the price of gold just 13 times.
- On the 21 "strong signal" (i.e 50% or more) weeks, the survey has been accurate on the price of gold just 8 times.
Or put another way, this is monkey with dartboard predictive accuracy. Or it's "my seven year old daughter could make a living at this" accuracy. Or put yet another way, here's a heartfelt message to the self-styled experts of Kitco's gold survey:
The IKN Weekly, out now
Well blow me down, things I had absolutely no idea about before searching for a 257 picture. Turns out that Alprazolam (aka Xanax) is "...the most prescribed and the most misused benzodiazepine on the U.S. retail market." Kinda makes you wonder just how many people you meet along the way, outside and in the general public throng, are drugged up to their eyeballs on this poison. Anyway, IKN257 has just been sent to subscribers. I think it's a pretty good edition this week, even if I do say so myself.
Labels: otto, the IKN weekly
U$5.85Bn: Las Bambas changes hands
Today Glencore Xstrata and China's Minmetals have nailed down their deal. The massive Las Bambas copper project in Peru is sold for U$5.85Bn (and all this time I was guessing $5.5Bn...how silly of me) and the whole charade is over. Details here in Spanish, or wait a while and you can read all you'll ever want to read on it in English tomorrow.
Biiwii Gary's letter today was excellent
Notes From The Rabbit Hole (NFTRH) is his weekly subscription letter, which you can read about (and get a few example copies) on the blog's links. It's always a good read but this weekend's, NFTRH286, was particularly sharp and excellent. You should subscribe to it, too.
And no, I'm not on commission or anything of the sort. I just want to get you reading smart, intelligent and independent market commentary and you'll find some of that for free on his blog, but his paid-for work is 10 times better. He charges U$29/month for the letter and that's stupidly cheap for the amount of quality it contains, so give it a spin for a month and find out yourself.
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Since the Middle Ages, the citizens of Madrid have been known as "gatos" ("cats"), but today this nickname is more accurate than ever: truly, this is a city that never sleeps. But the cliché, often used in other parts of the world, rings specially true in this city.
A little bit of history
Nightlife in Madrid's has several origins. The climate is one of this tradition's great motivators: winters are relatively mild and summers are sizzling hot. This heat is one of the reasons for the famous mid-afternoon siesta tradition which helps one to regain energy by the end of the day. Many people in Madrid end up doing many of their activities at night, because the heat prevented them of doing them during the day!
On the other hand, the Spanish capital discovered modern nightlife during the 1980's: the end of Franco's dictatorship, the country's newly found openness to new ideas and trends, and the European integration helped to turn Madrid into an active and cosmopolitan city, a magnet for artists, movie makers, musicians and bohemians. Entertainment and drinking establishments sprouted like mushrooms. This was the beginning of the famous Movida.

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Whatever you do, do not follow this link to Matticus' latest post: 20 Questions with Fimlys. You really, really, really don't want to read it. I mean it. Don't go! (Are you still here? Why didn't you go?.. GO… You know you want to..) DON'T DO IT!..
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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Top Prospect List: #18 Pedro Viola, LHP
Pedro Viola is something of a mystery man, but he continues the impressive flow of young, potential impact talent coming from the Reds' Dominican Republic baseball academy. Three of the top 20 prospects in the Reds system were signed as free agents out of the Dominican Republic and two of them have established themselves as impact prospects. While Viola hasn't reached the level of Johnny Cueto and Juan Francisco, his debut was very impressive and he's most definitely on the rise.
Viola stands 6'1" tall, weighs 185 pounds, bats left, throws left, and is 24 years old. In 2007, the Reds used him exclusively out of the bullpen and he seems unlikely to ever be put into the rotation.
Viola arrived in the U.S. in 2007 and immediately made his presence known. The Reds started Viola out low-A Dayton, which proved to be no great challenge for Viola. At Dayton, Viola worked in 43.1 innings posting a 1.87 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 3.5 BB/9, and 10.2 K/9. In addition, he had a GB/FB ratio of 0.93. However, he had a bit of good fortune and wasn't quite as good as his ERA indicates, as his Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) was 3.21 and he had a .260 BABIP. After 3 months, that level of performance was enough to get him promoted to high-A.
At Sarasota, Viola continued to impress. He logged 20.0 innings posting a 0.90 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 3.2 BB/9, and 12.6 K/9. His performance at high-A was supported by his peripherals, as his FIP was 1.58 and his BABIP was .311, which means that his performance was for real. He was then promoted again, this time up to AA Chattanooga.
Despite it being his second promotion in his first season of American pro-ball, Viola didn't slow down at all. At Chattanooga, Viola posted a 0.95 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 2.8 BB/9, and 8.1 K/9. His peripherals at Chattanooga don't quite support such an impressive performance, as evidenced by his 3.88 FIP and .204 BABIP.
Overall, Viola posted a combined 1.42 ERA in 82.1 innings with a 3.3 BB/9 and a 10.3 K/9. It's hard to believe that such an unheralded prospect could have so much success so quickly. However, perhaps it shouldn't be unexpected, as Viola is 24 and has spent time pitching in the Dominican Leagues.
In 2006, Viola posted a 2.04 ERA in 61.2 innings as a starting pitcher in the Dominican Summer League. Viola's age and experience makes him more polished than most players signed out of the Dominican Republic, which makes him more like the Japanese players who come over to the U.S. His experience and maturity allowed him to climb the ladder much more quickly, but it'll be interesting to see how he fares against AAA competition.
Viola is likely to start out 2008 back at Chattanooga, but he could move quickly to Triple-A. In fact, if he pitches in 2008 like he did in 2007, then he could even see time at the MLB level. Major League teams are consistently in search of quality lefties, so Viola should get every opportunity to work out of the bullpen in the near future.
Once again, the Reds international scouting effort is making a impact on the future of the organization. The Reds signed Viola and Cueto out of the Dominican Republic and both pitchers seem to have the polish and baseball acumen to go with their stuff. Each could end up playing a role for the Reds at the MLB level.
Viola needs to repeat his 2007 performance in 2008 to establish himself as more than a one year wonder, but if he can do that then he'll be in Cincinnati sooner rather than later.
If Viola and Roenicke continue their rapid ascent up the ladder, then they may make the Reds regret their decision to hand out such a massive contract to Francisco Cordero. They could both be in the mix well before the 4 year contract with Cordero expires.
2 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2008 at 5:43 AM
Hi Lark,ReplyDelete
I was wondering whether you post in any other forums beside this one and the ESPN handle you mentioned. I enjoy the enquirer blog and if you aren't already posting there I hope you might join us. It is always great to have someone with such a wealth of knowledge to join in our discussions. If you already do post there, would you mind telling me your ID? Thanks!
Hey Anon,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the kind words!!
I'm actually registered on three different message boards (Redzone under 11BarryLarkin11 [rarely], ESPN Reds Board under Lark11 [rarely], and the Redlegs Message Board as Lark11[all the time]), but haven't gotten around to the Enquirer forum. Maybe I'll check it out, since it sounds like you think it's worthwhile. I enjoy blogging, but I also love a good back and forth discussion.
I used to live on the ESPN Reds message board and a lot of my posts were so long that I decided to start this blog. Not long after, the ESPN board deteriorated to the point where we started our own message board for ESPN converts. I'm sure you've probably been on it, as I linked to the top of this blog, but here's the URL in case you missed it:
Of course, you are cordially invited to join up or just drop by from time to time. We've got a nice community building up on that board and a lot of good discussion. Anyway, I'm always on the prowl for good baseball conversation, so I'll have to check out the Enquirer board. Thanks for the tip!!


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The Bangladesh checklist is based on the Oriental Bird Club list for the Oriental region. An appropriate subset of this list is used, based largely on the distribution and status data provided by Avibase and Birds of South Asia1. Note that this list is not official and may have some errors (although hopefully less than other published lists for this location!). If you notice any omissions or errors then please let us know.
1 Rasmussen, P.C. & Anderton, J.C. 2005. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Vols 1 and 2. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.
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Updated Denon Electronics has dipped its toes into the Blu-ray hardware market, unveiling its first player for the next generation format. However, the manufacturer is still sitting on the fence in the ongoing High Definition Wars.
The DVD-3800BDCI operates on the BD-ROM Profile 1 version 1.1, which becomes mandatory for all players introduced from November and is also known as the Final Standard Profile. The successor to 1.0, version 1.1 adds in a secondary video decoder for picture-in-picture and interactive audio and commentary capability, in addition to other advancements.
The DVD-3800BDCI doesn't mean Denon will only produce Blu-ray players
The player also uses a 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta video processing chipset, which offers a host of processing advancements including noise reduction and detail enhancement over Hollywood Quality Video. The chip also delivers 1080p HD resolution when connected up to a display via an HDMI cable.
Joe Stinziano at Denon has already be quick to point out that the player doesn't signal an allegiance to Blu-ray, stating simply that the manufacturer's "future plans do not preclude the introduction of high-definition products in other formats".
Unfortunately, the player is so far only scheduled to be released in the US this autumn, where it will retail for around $2,000 (£1,000/€1,230).
Denon has announced that a European model will be available in black or silver this November, but a price is still yet to come.


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D-99 Education Foundation enhances student opportunities
Eric Olson
Serving as president of the District 99 Education Foundation for the past three years, I have had the pleasure of partnering with the people of District 99, which represents North and South high schools in Downers Grove.
I've witnessed first-hand the passion that our educators have for teaching, and their desire to give students a challenging, quality classroom environment.
To equip teachers with the innovative tools they need, the foundation provides learning grants.
We receive numerous grant requests from teachers each year, and our committee reviews and carefully considers each one before deciding the final award recipients. We always are blown away by the creativity and thoughtfulness of each proposal, and are proud to support those project we believe will make a difference to students.
This year, the foundation awarded more than $16,000 in grants to support our educational entrepreneurs.
The science department at North High will incorporate the use of robotics in the physics curriculum, addressing a fundamental component of the state's mew science standards.
The fine arts department at South High School is set to receive iPads and Apple TVs to enhance music education.
Special services departments will receive a garden walkway, funding for the start-up of a Special Olympics basketball team and a therapeutic trip to Iron Oaks Adventure Center.
In addition to grants, the foundation also provides scholarships. On behalf of an anonymous donor, North High 2013 graduate Sarah Brzezinski will receive a $5,000 scholarship to study science in college.
The quality of our schools and the vitality of our community are intertwined.
Whether you're a community member, parent or alumni, we're all connected to our schools and have a vested interest in their continued success.
If you'd like to learn more about the foundation, please visit our tents at the homecoming football games in the fall: the North High game is Friday, Sept. 27 and the South High game is Friday, Oct. 18.
In addition to providing a warm, dry spot, the tent also will be a place to socialize and connect with others who care about our students. I hope you will join me at one (or both) of the homecoming tents!
Eric Olson is a Downers Grove resident, South High graduate and principal and architect at ARCON, an architectural and construction firm in Lombard. He currently serves as the president of the District 99 Education Foundation.
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[Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University] analyzed data from a federally sponsored survey of 15,000 high-schoolers who were interviewed in 1994 and again in 1996 and 2002. One question asked interviewers to rate the physical appearance of the student on a five-point scale ranging from "very attractive" to "very unattractive."Physical attractiveness is subjective, however. A person's inner life projects through his face and posture, so we may rate a depressed or angry or confused person as unattractive. It may be only that a person's mental condition leads to both criminal behavior and physical unattractiveness. A person with the sort of disordered mind that leads him down a criminal path might also do a poor job of grooming and weight control, another reason why it would not be the ugliness that causes the crime, but an antecedent factor that causes both the ugliness and the crime. In particular, drug and alcohol abuse affect a person's looks and connect to criminal behavior.
These economists found that the long-term consequences of being young and ugly were small but consistent. Cute guys were uniformly less likely than averages would indicate to have committed seven crimes including burglary and selling drugs, while the unhandsome were consistently more likely to have broken the law.
Very attractive high school girls were less likely to commit six of the seven crimes, while those rated unattractive were more likely to have done six of seven, controlling for personal and family characteristics known to be associated with criminal behavior.
Mocan and Tekin aren't sure why criminals tend to be ugly. Other studies have shown that unattractive men and women are less likely to be hired, and that they earn less money, than the better-looking. Such inferior circumstances may steer some to crime, Mocan and Tekin suggest. They also report that more attractive students have better grades and more polished social skills, which means they graduate with a greater chance of staying out of trouble.
On the other side of this coin, those students with good grades and a nice social life might look attractive not because they were born that way, but because they are happy about their success.
There is also an economic factor. It may be that students who are better off find it easier to stay off the criminal path and also easier to improve their physical appearance with good haircuts, nice clothes, acne treatments, and nose jobs.


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Being a minority in a majority hostile middle east – Arab racism & Islamic bigotry against Israel
Let's face it, had Israel be just another Arab, Muslim country, non of the so called 'Arab Israeli conflict' would have existed at all.
Had it been really [mainly] about "land" (or/and about a flag), the Arabs would have agreed to the UN's partition plan/offer in 1948.
But No! The Arab racists and Islamic bigots wouldn't have it just as long as there's also a Jewish state.
What "territories" did the Arabs "fight" about in the 1920's massacres on the Jews?
Can anyone point for me the exact "territory", the Islamic Republic of Iran's "case" in "dispute" is all about?
Had it been about Arab world being "preoccupied" with the Arab "Palestinians", the Arabs wouldn't have oppressed, persecuted, massacred them (in Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, S. Arabia, Iraq, etc.).
Had the Arab world been real brothers to the Arabs that call themselves "Palestinians" (since the 1960's), they wouldn't have prevented any chance by humane heroic Israel to improve their status, but No! The Arab anti-Israel racists always preferred using them and their misery against the "Zionist enemy", it also ss a devious diversion for their population being constant victims of the horror of all Arab oppressive dictatorships.
Just a side note, Can anyone answer me this, How come it was rather the Arab filthy oil rich countries that were behind Europe's pledge of billions of dollars to the "Palestinians" in Dec. 2007?
Why can't the Arab Muslim majority accept the Israeli minority in its midst just as the Israeli democracy accepts its 20% Arab minority? [even though it is the only refuge for persecuted Jews while Arabs have so much land]?
It is clear, it was always the case that the Arab Muslims' initiated "conflict" with the non Arab, non Muslim minority, is nothing but Arab racism & Islamofascism, as long as the Arab Muslims does not erase its hatred drive in their children via satanic cartoons, hype anti Israel propaganda in every "report", glorification of "Palestinian" mass murderers as "martyrs", no gesture [release of 'Palestinian' terrorists or land give away], on top of so many gestures by Israel the gem, will erase the "conflict", the bigotry is entirely on the Arab Muslims bloody (with the conflict's victims' blood o both sides) hands.


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Morena Escardo is half the team of Peru Delights. She studied Philosophy in England, and Literature in Spain, worked as a magazine and book editor, and had a catering business for 3 years in Lima. Together with her mother, a professional chef and cookbook writer, they decided to share the food of their country with the world, because they believed people were missing out on this wonderful, extremely varied cooking heritage. Peruvian food is considered to be the next big thing in the culinary world.
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'Nikita' Final Season Format Revealed, Two-Hour Movie Wrap-Up?
Though fans of The CW spy thriller 'Nikita' were dismayed to learn that the network ultimately decided to bring the series to a close, hope was again raised that 'Nikita' would be granted an additional six hours to wrap up its story. Rumors flew at Comic-Con 2013 that the six remaining episodes would take the form of three feature-length movies, though now CW president Mark Pedowitz has stepped up to clarify the format of the final season.
According to Pedowitz's words from the ongoing Television Critics Association press tour, "The game plan for 'Nikita' is not for three 'two-hour movies.' It is individual episodes." To the rumor's credit, however, Pedowitz lightly clarified what series star Maggie Q had originally claimed by saying, "We may end up doing a two-hour finale after we wrap the first four episodes."
As for when the episodes will ultimately air, Pedowitz didn't have an exact date to offer, but did narrow the field in saying that the network aims for a mid-to-late November release, running into December, so as to "continue original programming in the fourth quarter and to give it the appropriate sendoff."
Well, what say you, 'Nikita' fans? Will six episodes be enough to wrap up the 'Nikita' storyline, even if some of the episodes are tied together as two-hour stories? How would you like to see the spy thriller come to a close?


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Daniel A. Warshawsky joined New York Law School in Fall 2010 after 15 years at the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD), New York City's second oldest provider of appellate representation to indigent people convicted of felonies. As the Deputy Attorney-in-Charge of OAD, Professor Warshawsky helped structure and run the office and its training program, while representing hundreds of clients on appeal in serious felony cases, including homicide cases. Professor Warshawsky has appeared before courts at all levels of the state court system, and has appeared before New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, numerous times. Professor Warshawsky trained and supervised scores of staff attorneys, volunteer associates from many of New York City's largest firms, and students from New York University Law School, in all aspects of criminal practice and appellate advocacy. Prior to joining OAD, Professor Warshawsky was an Assistant Deputy Public Defender in New Jersey at both the trial and appellate levels. Among his proudest achievements was the reversal of a capital conviction that he won in the New Jersey Supreme Court for a client who had been on New Jersey's death row. Professor Warshawsky was also a graduate fellow and Staff Attorney at Georgetown University's Institute for Public Representation.


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Popitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
Popitz, a parish village southwest of Auspitz in Moravia, in which the Hutterites had a Bruderhof on the lands of the barons of Lomnice in 1537. In the great persecution of 1570 the Brethren had to flee and concealed themselves in holes and caves, the lochy. The Polau Mountains, especially Mount Maydenberg (Mayberg) near Popitz, offered possibilities for hiding. The Hutterite Chronicle records that especially around the Mayberg they had in many places pits and holes concealed in clumps of bushes, in which they with their children lived for a time, also "in the clefts of the rocks in the valley and in the high rocks of the Mayberg, the same at other places in the country, wherever they could." At Popitz the authorities were about to smoke them out of the caves, but were prevented. In their former Bruderhof the householder Gabriel Aichhorn died in 1551. But they did not really begin to live there again until 1573. In 1599 the deacon Thomas Pruckner died in the Popitz Bruderhof. The Thurn cavalry did much damage in 1600. Popitz is not named among the Bruderhofs abandoned in 1622.
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 383.
Wolkan, Rudolf. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder. Macleod, AB, and Vienna, 1923.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943: 242.
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Dedic, Paul. "Popitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 15 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Popitz_(Jihomoravsk%C3%BD_kraj,_Czech_Republic)&oldid=146041.
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Dedic, Paul. (1959). Popitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Popitz_(Jihomoravsk%C3%BD_kraj,_Czech_Republic)&oldid=146041.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As the nation debates the use of drones to hunt terrorism suspects abroad, Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation that would regulate how drones could be used here.
The Oregon Legislature will consider three drone-related bills this session. One of them goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a criminal warrant before using drones for surveillance of private property, in all but emergency circumstances. State or local government bodies would be required to register with the state Department of Aviation to fly an unmanned aircraft in Oregon's skies.
The legislation is intended to ensure citizens' privacy.
"We think drones coming to Oregon raises significant privacy issues that can't be addressed under current law," said Becky Straus, a lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, which supports the bill.
But opponents of the legislation say it would discourage development of a new economic sector that could help Oregon — the manufacture of drones.
"That's a heartache we have with the committee bill," said Roger Lee, director of Economic Development for Central Oregon, a nonprofit group that is pushing to allow drone testing in the region. "It would add another layer of regulation on top of federal regulations."
Under current law, anyone can own a drone if they have a license from the Federal Aviation Administration. But extremely tight federal regulations and an extensive application process make it very difficult for the average person to obtain a flying permit. Bills regulating the use of drones are popping up around the country because Congress wants to streamline this application process and make it easier for public bodies to use domestic drones.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Oregon is one of more than 30 states considering regulatory action on domestic drones amid concerns that they will be used to spy on Americans. In March, Virginia approved a two-year moratorium on unmanned aircraft to allow time for study. California and Georgia are considering legislation intended to boost the unmanned aerial vehicle industry.
Last week in Washington state, a bill that would have regulated the use and purchases of drones by state agencies and local municipalities died without getting a vote. The bipartisan bill was supported by civil liberties groups and privacy advocates but had a powerful opponent: the Boeing Co., which argued it would have blunted job growth in the burgeoning drone manufacturing industry.
President Barack Obama last year signed a budget bill requiring the FAA to expand the use of unmanned aircrafts into American airspace by 2015, and to develop regulations for testing and licensing commercial drones.
Among its provisions, the Oregon bill up for a hearing Wednesday would impose penalties on private citizens who use drones to eavesdrop, wiretap, stalk or trespass. It also makes killing game with a drone a crime.
Sen. Floyd Prozanksi, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the bill is intended to prevent the "misuse of drones" by citizens and law enforcement. The Eugene Democrat said more amendments will be introduced, and one would protect hobbyists who fly model aircraft from unnecessary penalties.
Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles, has introduced a measure that would require law enforcement agencies to erase all data collected by a drone within 30 days if no criminal activity was recorded.
"I just want to make sure that people's rights are held intact when law enforcement agencies use drones," he said. "But I'm not trying to restrict the use of drones."
He said the ACLU, law enforcement agencies and industry representatives provided input for his bill. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate by Chip Shields, a Democrat from Portland.
A variety of agencies are interested in putting drones to use in Oregon.
Oregon State University has applied for a drone license to spot forest fires and study environmental changes.
Clackamas County Sheriff's Sgt. Adam Phillips said his department applied with the FAA for a small-capacity drone license.
Small drones are cheaper than helicopters and can fly places that would be dangerous to send an officer, Phillips said. He said the Sheriff's Office could use unmanned aircraft to help with search and rescue missions or to fight wildfires. Phillips said the department so far has no plans to integrate the aircraft if the FAA approves the application, and lacks the budget to acquire them.
The FAA will select diverse areas across the country for drone testing, and Oregon is tossing its hat in the ring with a multistate proposal that includes a possible partnership with Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.
Nationwide, the topic of drones has been rife with controversy.
The Seattle Police Department was one of the first agencies in the country to adopt a drone program. The department planned to use two small drones to survey crime and crash scenes and for search and rescue operations. But citizens and privacy advocates protested, and the police department decided to abandon the program.
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Learning Index >> Calligraphy: an education in letter form
Calligraphy exists as an art form within all the world's writing systems. In this module we are principally concerned with calligraphy using the Roman alphabet. The English word calligraphy is derived from the ancient Greek and means beautiful writing. Beauty implies the existence of an appealing visual relationship between letters and their various parts, i.e. letter shapes that are proportionally related. Writing implies that the marks made bear a direct relationship to letters and to the movements of a hand in forming them.
The American calligrapher Edward Catich offers a further distinction. Calligraphy he says, is like writing because the letters are made directly, without going back and with the minimum number of separate movements. He contrasts this with Letter making and lettering which includes letters built up from many small repeated movements. Sketched, drawn, engraved, filled-in and carved letters fall into this later group.
Perhaps there is a sliding scale with fluent and directly made letters down one end and carefully built up letters at the other; any particular lettering style results from a making process that falls somewhere between these two poles? Most of the letters you will see in this module would be placed at the calligraphy end of the scale. This is the skill I want to direct your attention towards.
Look at these images. Which do you think fall into the category of calligraphy and which into the category lettering?


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Here are a number of potty training tips directly to from ClubMom members.
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By Go-To Mom Amy Blanchard , Wilton, NH
A mom with spina bifida contends with potty training her daughter. Read her struggle and THEN her success tips for potty training!!
Potty 101
A favorite doll sometimes does the trick when you're potty training
I found a good bit of advice from a book on the Internet. It said that a good way to show your children how to use the potty is to have them teach one of their favorite baby dolls or stuffed animals.
Together, we went to the store and I bought a baby doll who makes pee-pee. Then, I had my daughter show her how to take her baby to the potty. My daughter is still having accidents, but this had worked better than any other method I had tried until then.
Determined to Say Goodbye to Diapers
chair, a book, and even a dance spelled potty-training success for this toddler
I would take off her pants and put the potty chair by the TV. She would watch her movie and sit on the potty. We would also sit her on the potty and read the potty book. When she did go potty we made a big deal about it. We did the Potty Dance and laughed and had a great time. Diapers were history.
Stars, Bubbles, and Potty Training
Giving little ones the incentive they need to get going
Then it hit me that when we were washing dishes together, he really loved making the bubbles. The next time he went, I put a little bit of dishwashing liquid in his potty. He got really really excited by the bubbles. I told him to remember to hit the star- and it worked!
It's Potty Time
Release your creative side during training time
I've been able to get my little girl to use the potty more by making a potty tree. This idea has really helped me out a lot. Each time after she asks to go potty, we put a little sticker on her tree. She doesn't get a sticker for accidents. It's great because she really enjoys putting a sticker on the tree.
Be creative with the tree and draw any kind you like. I drew a Christmas tree because it was that time of the year. Just let your imagination flow. It worked for us!
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One intensive weekend has a young child using the toilet
By ClubMom Member Naomi, Arlington, TX
Our daughter started going to the potty when she was eighteen months. We potty trained her in just three days. Here's how we did it:
My husband decided to take a three-day weekend to stay at home and help me potty-train. Over those three days, we took her to the potty every 30 minutes. On the fourth day, when daddy went back to work, she was completely potty-trained.
One night, we had to take her to the ER, and she went to the potty a couple of times. The nurses asked how old she was and when we told them, they were amazed that she was so young and going to the potty. They said they didn't get their children to go until age two or older.
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By ClubMom Member Mary Jo, Farmington, MI
I have found that potty training can be somewhat tricky depending on the child. Here are some tips.
1. Find out if your child is ready to begin potty training. Does she not want to stay in her wet diaper, or does she make mention of the fact that she wants her dollies to go to the bathroom? Does she ask you if she can go on the potty herself?
2. You may want to start by reading her a book about going to the potty so she can have a little understanding of what to expect.
3. Buy her a potty for herself. Watch for signs of her needing to go to potty. Encourage her to use her potty when she feels the need to go. Then reward her for her attempts, whether fully successful or not.
4. Get her potty training panties, and when she has shown that she is able to control herself somewhat, encourage her to use the potty and try to allow her to wear the potty training panties longer each time.
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One of Hollywood's more reserved couples finally tied the knot.
Spanish actors Penelope Cruz, 36, and Javier Bardem, 41, were married in an intimate ceremony at a friend's home in the Bahamas in early July, according to People.
The couple has been together since 2007, but have labored to keep their romance low profile. They were rumored to be engaged last year, but would not comment about their status.
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I am migrating to a new laptop and, as usual, this is a bit more work than I expected…
One issue I could not resolve to my satisfaction was the migration of my RSS-archives in Akregator (especially since I plan to switch to a different feed reader). Hence, I just collect in this post the posts and articles I planned to read or wanted to keep for some reason:
From nuit-blanche we have:
- Sunday Morning Insight: QTT format and the TT-Toolbox -implementation-
- L1 Homotopy: A MATLAB Toolbox for Homotopy Algorithms in L1 Norm Minimization Problems -implementation –
- Error Forgetting of Bregman Iteration (demo)
Form the blog of Clément Mouhot I have
- Many-particle systems and kinetic theory (short course)
- Final published version of "Kac's program in kinetic theory"
And there are some articles:
- From the Journal on Mathematical Imaging and Vision: Modelling Convex Shape Priors and Matching Based on the Gromov-Wasserstein Distance
- From Numerische Mathematik: Approximation of sparse controls in semilinear equations by piecewise linear functions
- From Mathematical Programming: Randomized first order algorithms with applications to -minimization
- From the SIAM Journal on Imaging Science: A Total Variation–Based JPEG Decompression Model
- From the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing: Efficient Algorithm for Nonconvex Minimization and Its Application to PM Regularization
And some preprints from the arxiv:
- On a macroscopic limit of a kinetic model of alignment
- Convergence rates in -regularization if the sparsity assumption fails
- A glimpse into the differential topology and geometry of optimal transport. (arXiv:1207.1867v2 [math.OC] UPDATED)
And finally there is a review on a book I planned to buy: A Mathematician Comes of Age by Steven G. Krantz.
Moreover, there is a list of posts which I marked with "Important":
- A class of quasi-variational inequalities for adaptive image denoising and decomposition
- What is "exact recovery"?
- Prox-regularity of rank constraint sets and implications for algorithms.
- Hodge Theory on Metric Spaces
- Regularizers for structured sparsity
- Robust Sparse Analysis Regularization.
- Identification of the coefficients in the linear Boltzmann equation by a finite number of boundary measurements.
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I finished reading Sharyn McCrumb's novel King's Mountain night before last, and I've got to say that I'm pretty impressed at how much Overmountain Men lore she managed to pack into it. The gang's all there, even fairly obscure characters like Enoch Gilmer. McCrumb is obviously passionate about the subject, and she's done her homework.
The book's not totally free of historical slip-ups. McCrumb indicates that Ferguson's posting to the Carolinas was essentially a banishment to a backwater of the war, but the South had become the seat of Britain's major offensive efforts by the time Ferguson arrived with Clinton's Charleston expedition. At one point she says in passing that Light-Horse Harry Lee was an Overmountain Man, which is an error I don't think I've seen anywhere else. Finally, her characterization of James Williams as a first-rate scoundrel traces back to questionable statements found in Col. William Hill's 1815 memoir. Hill's account is like Super Glue—it's handy to have around, but you've got to be extremely careful when using it. It's the work of an old veteran nursing a grudge, and some of his charges against Williams just don't hold up in light of other sources. (For a detailed discussion of the whole Williams/Hill kerfuffle, I recommend William T. Graves's new book. I'm not as inclined to exonerate Williams as fully as Graves does, but he makes an excellent case for taking Hill's memoir with a generous dose of salt.)
When it comes to matters open to novelistic license, my only complaint is that McCrumb's Ferguson is a pretty humorless, embittered guy. Although Ferguson endured repeated disappointments during his military career, his letters also indicate an endearing charm and wit, and they don't really come across in the novel.
These caveats aside, I enjoyed the book and I hope it sparks widespread interest in the battle. If you like the Southern Campaign and early Tennessee history as much as I do, you'll get a kick out of it. McCrumb employs John Sevier and Virginia Sal as dual narrators, and as much as I'm drawn to Sevier as a historical figure, I found the Virginia Sal chapters the most compelling. We know so little about Ferguson's purported lover and the other women who followed the armies that they're among the voiceless participants in the Revolution; McCrumb effectively lends them a voice of their own. Reading the story in fictional form as told by the people who lived it reminds you that they didn't have our benefit of knowing how things would turn out, and they endured the pivotal autumn of 1780 with all the hopes and fears of flesh-and-blood human beings.
It's worth noting that the novel is a distinctly Appalachian story, written by an author who specializes in the region. This is an interesting modern example of Appalachians claiming King's Mountain as their own American Revolutionary moment, a process that began with regional historians and antiquarians of the nineteenth century. If you're interested in how this regionalized memory of the battle emerged, you might enjoy my article on that subject in the Fall 2009 issue of Tennessee Historical Quarterly.


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Farlow Herbarium
The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae.
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Browse University of Toronto illustrator Robert Muma's moss paintings and sketches.
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Photocatalytic Degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol in Irradiated Aqueous ZnO Suspension
This paper focuses on the destruction of aqueous 2,4-dichorophenol in ZnO suspension irradiated by low wattage UV
light at 299 K. The operating variables studied include initial 2,4-dichlorophenol concentration, photocatalyst doses and
pH. At 1.5 g l-1 feed concentration of ZnO and 50 mg l-1 initial 2,4-dichlorophenol level, a complete degradation was
achieved in 180 min. The decomposition kinetics with respect to 2,4-dichlorophenol approximates pseudo zero-order
with rate constant peaking at 0.38 mg l-1 min-1. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas
chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detected benzoquinone, 2-chlorohydroquinone, 4-chlorophenol,
3,5-dichlorocatechol, hydroquinone, 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde and phenol during the ZnO-assisted photodegradation of
2,4-dichlorophenol among which some pathway products are disclosed for the first time. The reaction mechanism
accounting for the degradation pathway intermediates is proposed. Inorganic anion additives such as S2O8
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2- manifested inhibition against 2,4-dichlorophenol removal.
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These apparently sold out fast, and the price is no longer listed, but a little bird told me they were going for $25. A really great idea, for when you're done prototyping and ready to launch your mint-tin project out of a cannon, into high orbit, to the bottom of a lake, whatever. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
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Mellon, Andrew William
Andrew William Mellon, 1855–1937, American financier, industrialist, and public official, b. Pittsburgh. He studied at the Western Univ. of Pennsylvania (now the Univ. of Pittsburgh), but he left college to organize a lumber business with his brother, Richard B. Mellon. Soon they joined interests with their father, Thomas Mellon, a successful Pittsburgh banker and lawyer, who had helped Henry C. Frick to expand his holdings in the coke industry. When Thomas Mellon retired (1886), the sons took over the banking firm of Thomas Mellon and Sons. In 1889, Andrew Mellon led in establishing the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh—later to become one of the larger financial institutions in the United States and merge with the Mellon National Bank (and ultimately become Mellon Financial Corporation)—and the Union Savings Bank was created as a subsidiary firm. Meanwhile Andrew Mellon expanded his holdings in key American industries and secured large interests in the Gulf Oil Company, the American Locomotive Company, the Pittsburgh Coal Company, and in hydroelectric, bridge-building, public-utility, steel, insurance, and traction companies. He also played an important role in originating the huge Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa).
Mellon resigned (1921) as president of the Mellon National Bank to become U.S. secretary of the treasury and held that cabinet post until 1932 under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. As secretary, Mellon worked for a downward revision of income taxes and surtaxes, and in spite of drastic tax curtailments, he reduced the national debt from $24,298,000,000 in 1920 to $16,185,000,000 in 1930. He later served (1932–33) as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His income-tax return for the year of 1931 was the subject of a federal investigation in 1935, but he was exonerated in Dec., 1937, four months after he died. He gave $10 million for the founding (1913) of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh (since 1967 Carnegie Mellon Univ.); in 1937 he donated his art collection to the public, with funds for the erection of a building in Washington in which to house it (see National Gallery of Art). He wrote Taxation: The People's Business (1924).
See biography by D. Cannadine (2006); F. D. Denton, The Mellons of Pittsburgh (1948).


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The mampam website has been running for 25 years and aims to provide full details of projects at no charge. All out of print books and multimedia guides are provided here and full image archives are being developed for each project. This will complete the website's mission.
April 2012. Savannah Monitor Lizards now available as ebook
December 2009. The Mampam Conservation Award for Cruelty to Reptiles, the Mampam
Conservation Award for Mishandling and Abusing Reptiles and the Mampam
Conservation Award for Disgraceful and Shameful Behaviour in Front of
Impressionable Youth all go to Doctor Brady Barr of National
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contributions in all these categories. Doctor Bardy Barr is invited to
pick up his award, and hear his congratulatory speech, at a mutually
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Savannah Monitor book. The price of this book will increase to $20 on 1st December 2009.
1st September 2009 For sale: large collection of animal trapping equipment; camera traps, mist nets; sherman traps and more, email for list.
10th March 2008. A new range of sleeveless shirts available now!
22nd February 2008. The Polillo Project Report - Wildlife and Conservation in the Polillo Islands is now online
15th February 2008. The Polillo Butaan Project 2007 report is now online
1st November 2007. The Bats of Madagascar - A field and echolocation guide is now online
25th October 2007. Disclaimer re. Mario Lutz, herpaworld and the paradise reptile zoo
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Butaan are so shy they frequently remain in a tree for more
than a week after being frightened. A large male we
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released by scientists, and resume normal activity very quickly. But we think
that butaan, especially older individuals, may permanently alter their activity
areas after such an encounter. Because the animals are so shy, and highly
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Wholesale prices moved up slightly last month, held back by cheaper energy and food costs. The modest increase signals that inflation is largely in check.
The producer price index, which tracks price changes before they reach the consumer, rose 0.1 percent, the Labor Department said Thursday. Wholesale prices fell by the same amount in December. In the past 12 months, they have increased 4.1 percent, the smallest rise in a year.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called "core" prices increased 0.4 percent, the most in six months.
Economists said most of the increases were likely temporary and unlikely to continue driving the core higher.
Wholesale gas prices rose, but were offset by steep drops in home heating oil, natural gas, and electricity, which fell by the most in more than seven years.
Pharmaceutical costs drove much of the increase in the core. Household appliance prices rose by the most in three decades.
Jeremy Lawson, senior economist at BNP Paribas, said the increase in the core isn't broad-based and was likely temporary.
The increase in appliance prices likely reflects the end of holiday season discounts, he said.
Modest increases in wholesale inflation reduce the pressure on manufacturers and retailers to raise prices for consumers. That helps keep consumer prices in check. It also helps manufacturers maintain their profit margins.
Low inflation makes it easier for the Federal Reserve to keep the short-term interest rate it controls at a record-low level of nearly zero. If there were signs that inflation was increasing rapidly, the Fed would likely raise rates.
The central bank is forecasting that consumer price inflation will remain in check this year. It expects that the inflation gauge it follows will increase by about 1.6 percent in 2012. That's below the Fed's target for inflation of 2 percent.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that target, the first ever for the central bank, last month.
A small amount of inflation can be good for the economy. It encourages businesses and consumers to spend and invest money sooner rather than later, before inflation erodes its value.
Lower price growth also leaves more money in consumers' pockets, boosting their buying power. That would support more economic growth. The jump in gas and food prices early last year limited the ability of consumers to buy other goods, slowing the economy.
Some economists worry that rising gas prices could act in a similar way again, dragging on growth. If turmoil worsened in the Middle East, for example, that could push oil and gas prices much higher.
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Tyler stops Cane and Lily as they're leaving Jabot to meet Chelsea. He says Jack wants to meet with him and Lily. Cane tells Lily to go ahead; he'll go meet Chelsea and try to stall the meeting until she can get there. Lily and Tyler get trapped in the elevator. He begins to panic. She asks if he's claustrophobic. He says it's like that, but comes when something's wrong. Lily tries to calm him. Tyler shakily opens up about being in a bad situation when he was a kid. He talks about being scared and staying hidden - he got through it by playing make-believe. Lily tells him they're in a starship. They make up names for themselves. He says she's saving his life. Soon, they're out.
Intergalactic Fantasizing.
Lily helps Tyler, Fen is accused, and Cane meets with Chelsea.
At the Club, Leslie and Neil discuss Jabot. Neil's fine with everything, but thinks Leslie's distracted. She says he's paranoid, but Neil says he's noticed a shift in her behavior. Leslie reassures him he's not the cause. She talks about people reinventing themselves to get away from the past. Leslie says her mother died when she was young and her father was abusive. Neil's there for her when she wants to say more. She makes an excuse and says goodnight, and then returns to tease him about giving up so easily. They go upstairs and make love. After, Leslie seems distant.
Cane arrives at the Restless Style building to find Chelsea crying. He's kind and says they'll chalk it up to tears of excitement. Cane loves her designs so much he has a hard time believing they're hers. She's offended. Cane apologizes - he meant they look professional and asks how she learned to draw like that. She explains she's self-taught. Cane says he wants to make her dreams come true. Chelsea watches him as he leaves Lily a message. Anita appears. Chelsea fills her in. Anita grins as Chelsea and Cane finish up. Once alone, Chelsea tells Anita she's still married, and so is he. Anita sees nothing wrong with a revenge roll in the hay - she needs to find another man.
Summer finds Fen at Crimson Lights. She heard he was the one who pushed Jamie off the roof. He scoffs at her thinking he could do that and says she's messed up everything. They argue about whether he was in love with her. He insists he did, but she used him. Summer admits she was selfish, but she's grown up. She asks again if he pushed Jamie. Fen won't waste his time responding.
At Michael's place, he and Paul ask Jamie about what happened on the roof. Lauren wants Jamie to tell them Fen had nothing to do with it. Michael prompts her to be calm. Jamie is about to talk when Fen slams in. "Tell them I didn't push you." Jamie leaves with Paul. Lauren and Michael tell Fen they know he was on the roof. Michael demands the truth. Fen tells him to go to hell.
At Crimson Lights, Paul and Jamie discuss Fen. Paul wants to understand. Jamie says the bullying never stops - on his phone, in his face. Paul wants to be a friend. Summer appears. Paul leaves them alone. Summer asks Jamie if Fen pushed him. He says Fen is completely responsible - and so is she. Summer tells Jamie she bullied him because of Ronan breaking up her family. Summer says she didn't use him to make Fen jealous - he's warped. Lauren appears. Summer goes. Lauren tells Jamie to stop lying or this will blow up in his face. Jamie tells her to open her eyes about Fen. Paul intervenes. Lauren wonders if Fen could have done it. Paul reassures her. After, Summer tells Paul she wishes she could take it all back.
At home, Michael tells Fen they have to get to he bottom of this. Fen feels he's impossible to talk to. "You chose Jamie over me! I will never forgive you for that!" Michael reassures him of his love. Fen says Jamie is trying to hurt him. Later, Jamie comes by to tell Michael he's going back to foster care. When Michael take a call, Fen corners Jamie to 'have it out'. Michael returns to find them fighting. Jamie says Fen is a monster and he wants to press charges. Lauren has arrived and tells Jamie to stop lying!
At the Club bar, Chelsea orders wine and then runs into Cane on her way out. Lily and Tyler arrive and tell Cane about the elevator. Tyler tells Cane he's lucky and thanks Lily for the intergalactic fantasizing. After, Lily tells Cane she wishes she was stuck in an elevator with him. They kiss.
Genoa City Spoilers for Next Week on The Young and the Restless:
Adam tells Sharon he has a lot of work to do. She asks if he thinks that will help him forget about Chelsea.
Victoria tells Nick something's missing. He asks what. She says, "Avery. Where is she?"
In The Underground back room, Dylan/Mac comes face-to-face with Avery.
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Crested Tern
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I love watching birds flying over the sea!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the visit.
Lovely image!ReplyDelete
Nice composition, subtle reflection, the movement of bird and water - a wonderful capture!
I recommend everyone enlarge it.
Beautiful bird in flight!ReplyDelete
I love to see them too.ReplyDelete
Magnificent shot. It would make a great postcard.
Good capture!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean about trying to get the perfect shot! This one is lovely!ReplyDelete
It's beautifully captured for me, hehehe...Hope to see more of them here in your blog. Thanks for the visit mick.ReplyDelete
I think you caught him well! Happy Watery Wednesday!ReplyDelete
I blog here.ReplyDelete
Me, too!I can't get any good close up photo. You did well with this.
Amazing shot and a beautiful bird!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 1:22 AM
No need for an excuse. This is a wonderful photo!ReplyDelete
I love- that you love to take these shots of the Terns as well...beautiful!ReplyDelete
Thanks for comin' by my horsey place!
It is a beautiful photo and makes me miss the ocean. I want to go back to see the Common Terns! I noticed your Mistletoebird posted from a few days ago is a bit like our Gray Catbird (different bill and shape, but grey feathers with a bright red patch under the tail...very cute).ReplyDelete
What a wonderful wingspan, and the water is so clear as it only is in Q'land where you can see the fish swimming in the waves.ReplyDelete
Excellent capture!ReplyDelete
I love watching the Common and Least Terns here on the coast of Maine.
Everything abut this photo is magnificent! The colours of the water are gorgeous and the bird is elegant.ReplyDelete


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If this Raptor team was playing well this would be an easy 3 out of 4. However this team is in a free fall losing 5 straight. A lot of Raptors fans are trying to remember a worse point for this franchise that they can recall? I am not sure it was worse but the season this is starting to remind me of is the one that saw hope reach record levels. Vince Carter had re-signed and so had Antonio Davis, Alvin Williams and JYD. Not to mention the cherry on top Hakeem "The Dream" had signed to close out his career in Toronto. Glen Grunwald was thought to be a genius and was widely regarded as having one of the best off seasons of any G.M in the league. I even remember David Stern himself saying what a wonderful job had been done here in Toronto. The Raptors were declared to be pre-season contenders in the Eastern Conference.
Now we all know how that turned out. The Dream was a bust. The Raptors over paid for Davis and the two Williams. Vince Carter would get injured and start the path to going from hero to zero in Toronto. The Raptors were declared for dead. It would take an amazing late season push with Vince Carter injured for this team to sneak in the playoffs. As the 7th seed they would push the Pistons to the (at the time) 5 games series limit in the first round. However the damage that had been done in that off-season would be long lasting.
For all the beating that Bryan Colangelo is taking let's at least give him credit, for the fact that he is not invested in anyone long term beyond Jose Calderon at this point. He has given the Raptors a chance to be players in 2010. The question becomes home much of that is he willing to give away to save this team from a short term disaster. I don't know this for a fact and I highly doubt Bryan Colangelo would admit this in any way. However my thought was always that he made the Jermaine O'Neal trade to be in the 2010 game. He may have truly thought that Jermaine could help this team and keep them in the playoffs. But he would have to count on finding a lot of talent at a discount rate. That part of the plan has not worked out. Moon, Adams Solomon and a second round guy with upside and raw talent in Nathan Jawai. Still the bottom line goal was to create cap room in 2010. If the Raptors could just manage to make the playoffs and perhaps win a round things would be on course for Colangelo. He could have fired Sam Mitchell if the team did not have playoff success this year and brought in a coach for 2009 to get the team prepared for 2010. It all seems very logical and it had a chance of working.
The things he was not counting on was that Jose Calderon would not play to a level that he would expect. He really could not hold on to T.J Ford and let Calderon walk or do a sign and trade that would not bring back the value people would want. Ford was to high of an injury risk to make him the winner of the point guard battle. I think if that was not the case that the Ford and Calderon choice would have been a much tougher one to make.
The other thing he was not counting on is his star player being at odds with the fan base and frustrated. I never thought I would be reading people seriously talking about trading Chris Bosh at this point in the season. But that is what I am seeing and hearing. It really makes no sense to trade Bosh now. He will come out of this and be the guy fans chanted M.V.P for again. Besides even though 2010 seems like it is only weeks away it isn't. The short term out look for the Raptors is not good. But the long term outlook can be fine. The only thing that might screw that up is if all of this hostility between Bosh and the fans and media grows. The comparisons to Damon, T-Mac and Vince are not fair. Bosh has done nothing to convince me he has not been committed to working hard and making things work in Toronto. He is no doubt going through a tough time at the moment. But I think he has the character to come out of it on the other side a better player and person for it. The only question is will people give him reason to walk away in 2010. Bosh said that fans are important and play a role. If that is true I think they can at least play a minor to major role in where Bosh ends up in 2010. Unless you can find me some proof that Bosh is behind the rumours that see him going to places like New York in 2010, I am not going to blame him for them. Bosh has said a lot of things lately but the one that sticks out the most for me is when he said that if fans are upset how do you think he feels? This is a kid that when Vince Carter was here laughing and joking after a loss. Chris Bosh was in tears because he wanted to win that much. Remember that the next time you want to talk trash about CB4. He cares and I never question that.
Last Night With Spurs
I think no one expected the Raptors to win that game and they did not. They did show a lot of effort and fight despite a humiliating loss the night before. But the Spurs exposed the Raptors perimeter defense in a major way. Tony Parker did much of the same to Jose Calderon. The one thing that I took away from that basketball game was about a former Raptor. Matt Bonner really has come a long way in his time with the Spurs. In the starting line-up and making key baskets. I am very happy for Matt Bonner. I still can not get use to the fact he has an NBA Championship ring. It seems wrong in some ways that he does and great players like a Barkley or Ewing do not. But that is not Matt Bonner's fault. He is becoming a pretty quality player in the NBA. I hope he gets to become a pretty quality player for Team Canada as well. Matt still comes back to Toronto and has a home. He married a girl from Toronto this past summer. I will always enjoy Matt Bonner he may never be an all-star or a huge talent in this league but he is a good person. However after last night I venture to say he is becoming a better player than a lot of people would have thought in his time in Toronto.
There was also Roger Mason Jr. He on the other hand I just can not stand. He always seems to get up for the Raptors and seems to be fired up about it. I seriously don't understand what the Raptors did to him? I mean players come and players go. What did we do Roger Mason Jr? I mean if we were wrong I am willing to admit it. But it is hard to say sorry for something that you do not know what it is. Although I am not married and I am sure many married men can explain to me how you can be sorry for something and not know what it was. Anyway whatever it is Roger Mason Jr. has been a Raptor Killer no matter the uniform he is rocking.
Christmas Is Coming Thank God
The best news of all is just one more game prior to the Christmas break. I think players and everyone connected to this team will be happy for that (even bloggers). So it is the Clippers on Monday on the TSN that we all can get. What a concept a game on T.V that everyone can watch. I may be forced to get NBA League Pass to watch my home team. How crazy is that. I think I will send a copy of the bill to Rogers, TSN and the Raptors. They can all pitch in and pay it for me. I expect that would take a month just for them to agree on who should pay and how much. They could do that or they could ignore my request for payment just like they have ignored the fans left out in the cold by this mess. Anyway that is not very Christmas spirit like. I hope despite all the Raptors troubles people are enjoying this holiday season. I had spoke with one reader who had been at a Christmas Party and missed the Oklahoma City game. We both typed in the same word...Lucky. Raptors could use some luck or anything that equals a W and not an L. Please Santa Just one early gift I have been really good this year. The Clippers have no fans anyway we need a win more.
Correction: Seems I was mistaken. The game is on TSN2. I was watching TSN this morning and they had done a promo for the game saying it was on TSN. That was the reason for the mistake. I should have realized being Monday they have the contract for Monday Night Football. I guess we are all allowed a turnover ever now and then. Sorry for that. Santa is going to have to bring me league pass that is all there is to it.


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what server files it is based upon?
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If you make bot for Rigid silkroad-R i buy it. I think it is the new silkroad-R files ! Thanks..
RIGID is running a SROR(Ephesus) files
DoaD, which version works for rigid online? the mBot (private SRO - vSRO 110) seems to not work for rigid?
mbot's two versions only support those servers that are based either on the vsro110 files or the black rogue files.
if the rigid server does not use either of these serverfiles mbot will most likely not work on it.
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