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During my last two articles I shared with you a recent experience surrounding a client trying to use a stock image as the basis for their brand marks or logos.It seems the topic hit a little too close to home for several readers.I received multiple emails from people who shared their personal stories about stock photos, stock illustration/images and the problems experienced due to their unintentional illegal use.Here's one of those stories, told in the first person by a Summit Daily reader. (To protect his identity, I've removed all references to his name as well as his business name.)In 1999, as the Internet blossomed, I commissioned a graphic artist to design some graphics for my newly created website for my consulting practice. She incorporated into the design a graphic that, as best she and I know, she obtained from a CD she purchased. As best we knew, the purchasers of the CD had the right to use the graphics on the CD. The graphic in question could not have been worth more than 50 cents at the time, had it been purchased via a download from a graphics sales website. In 2010, 11 years later, my company was sued for copyright infringement by a company I now believe is in the business of "shaking down" small businesses for copyright infringement. They showed that they had obtained a copyright for the graphic in question just a few months after we adopted it, and we couldn't prove that we had obtained it via legitimate means prior to their acquisition date. This company wanted thousands of dollars in damages (several multiples of the net worth of the company) and the removal of the graphic from my website. Satisfying this monetary demand or handling the necessary attorney fees had I attempted to challenge them via normal procedures would have bankrupted the company. There are actually multiple websites created by attorneys about this specific company, which basically preys on small companies that use their copyrighted graphics but don't have documents to prove they have the right to do so. The websites are by attorneys offering their services to defend the accused. Fortunately, my wife is an attorney, and after many, many hours of "pro bono" investigating and (on my part) sleepless nights, we were able to settle with this company for a smaller amount. Not everyone is sued for such a small amount.Not everyone has an attorney for a significant other.And not everyone is able to settle for smaller amounts.Be mindful of the work your graphic designer completes for you. Especially when working with freelancers or smaller companies, do not take it for granted they understand copyright law or legal usage of stock images. Whether you're hiring designer to create a new logo for you or design a brochure, product packaging, or PowerPoint presentation, make sure you're clear on whether the final artwork is 100 percent original or if it contains stock art. If it contains stock art, make sure you're 100 percent clear on the rights you, as the purchaser, have when it comes to using that art. You don't want to become another one of the horrific, too-common horror stories out there. Erin Pheil is the owner of timeforcake creative media – the Web Design & Strategy company voted #1 in Best of Summit. Visit the timeforcake website at http://www.timeforcake.com or email Erin at email@example.com.
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Dust plays a major role in several aspects of the Earth System. Dust transport delivers many of the nutrients to biota both on land and in ocean. Atmospheric dust can also impair human and electronic vision. In extreme dust storms, the airborne dust affects adversely to human activities such as transportation and human health.
Still, a full quantitative source-receptor relationship for transcontinental transport of dust is not in hand. Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) had been formed in the WMO-AREP (Atmospheric Research and Environment Program). The establishment of the SDS-WAS project is a response to interest of more than 40 WMO members to improve capabilities for more reliable sand and dust storm forecasts.
There are two different SDS Centers within the WMO. One of them is located in Spain and the other is in China. The Spain Center is responsible for Europe, North Africa and Middle East (http://sds-was.aemet.es).
The 8-particles Dust REgional Atmospheric Model (BSC-DREAM8b) have been operated in the Turkish State Meteorological Service by using ECMWF initial and boundary data. BSC-DREAM8b is an integrated modeling system designed to describe accurate dust cycle in the atmosphere. The system is in operational use providing 72 hours forecasts for the Mediterranean region covering Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. The results are available on the internet.
The 2nd Training Course on WMO SDS-WAS (satellite and ground observation and modelling of atmospheric dust) was held in Antalya, Turkey, 21-25 November 2011. The course had been organized and funded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), EUMETSAT and the Turkish Meteorological Service (TSMS) with the collaboration of the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).


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1.From the Trident dumpster and saved for more than a year despite its surprising weight when stacked together and was eventually very excited when I managed to use almost half of it and was left feeling vindicated in hauling it almost 1200 miles because I initially felt sort of silly about it.
2.Half of which was given to me for free by the owner of Trident in a surprising act of kindness and goodwill and the other half of which had to be purchased from Altec on a misguided trip to Boston after I realized that I didn't have enough to finish.
3.Which was being used as a makeshift dry erase board I salvaged while demolishing the labyrinthine and ramshackle "office" left in Michael's new studio by the alcoholic contractor Frank who's name Michael liked to invoke as "The Frank Special" when something looked shoddily made.
4.Salvaged from the VDOT warehouse liquidation.
5.Bought from Conwell with great relief because they so rarely have anything I'm looking for.
6.Of too many types to mention and left over from previous work, the tiniest scraps of which I had been saving for years and so I was super excited when I found out that I could use almost every single piece and not have to bring them with me everywhere anymore.
7.Borrowed from Julia with her permission under the pretence that I would replace it afterward, but which I have yet to do.
8.Retrieved after hours from the Trident Plastics dumpster after the good-old-boy owner told me I could hit it up because he "thought I was alright" but not to tell anyone else and also then had to buy a few extra cuts of half inch off of him because they almost never throw out the half inch stuff for some reason.
9.Traded as part of a package deal with James in exchange for a violin obtained from a Craigslist trade with a sweet music student for drum hardware I had saved from high school.
10.Admittedly bought from Lowe's.
11.Given to me enthusiastically by David for use in a ridiculous but well-paying freelance set-design job for "Shadow Play" which I ultimately did not use in the job and did not give back to him because he kept the halogen lamp from VDOT I let him borrow.
12.Snagged by Macon for me from out of a dumpster at her miserable job because she thought the color looked like something I could use.
13.Initially lent to me by Arthur when I first moved into the old studio, but which I kept after I moved out because I got much more use out of it than he would and plus he's an inveterate packrat and wouldn't miss it
14.Bought from the Compleat Sculptor because you just can't find anything like it anywhere else in the world.
15.Bought from Lowe's after seeing how amazing it was when using it to paint one of Michael's sculptures.
16.Given to me as a birthday present by my roommate Tim because I had talked ad nauseum about how amazing fossils were that summer and regularly tried to get him to go on a fossil-hunting trip with me, which he rebuffed.
17.Acquired through illicit means and directed to by Alex while driving around Brooklyn with him and listening to Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" and feeling slightly giddy about the insignificant act of petty theft but ultimately worried that it actually may have been a felony because it involved municipal property.
18.Bought at Conwell and applied by a tagger found for me by Sophie, who was a high schooler named Agipato who was reluctantly allowed by the high school bureaucracy to participate but only if I stressed that it was art and not graffiti because he had just been busted for vandalism a few days earlier and they didn't want me to encourage him.
19.Shamefully purchased from Wal-mart after hearing that they are the only ones who had developed it in a wide array of colors, even though it's some generic brand called "duck" tape rather than duct tape, but then told others that I found it instead.
20.Bought from Marine Supply, which I was surprised to find that they carried it and not the hippy head shop across the street, which apparently only sells headscarves and pornography.
21.Taken from the Fine Art Work Center laundry room, which I felt okay about because it did not have anyone's name on it and I used it for my laundry already so I felt there was little difference in taking it again for sculpture, and anyways it might be there for free use.
22.Bought for me in a small village in Mexico by Calvin and Monica visited from an elderly woman who just cranked them out and tossed them into a huge pile heaped behind her and then they gave one to me as a gift when I visited New York for Pulse and I felt guilty that I was using it in a piece and not for food-preparation so I emailed Calvin to tell him so that everything was above board.
23.From James' guitar-making days, traded in part of a larger package deal with him for an as yet undelivered wooden Buddha, tuxedo, or tuba, none of which I seem to be able to find.
24.Snuck out of Matt's collection that he salvaged from VDOT because he got there first but I felt like he would have gladly given me if he had been around.
25.Scraps from almost every piece I'd made in the last three years, the tiniest bits of which I meticulously saved in boxes for years, a habit I knew was not the most spatially-economical idea, and whose use I finally decided to force in order to rid myself of the burden of having to move with them again.
26.Pulled from the burned floorboards of the arson house, hammered straight, oiled, and saved in a rinsed sour cream container.
27.The whole of which I had been using for every single white plastic mix for the last year and a half in order to see how large I could get the stalactites to grow from underneath until eventually it became non-functional.
28.From a disassembled stretcher that Jason was going to throw out, but then thought I could use.
29.Gathered from where it spilled out the open hoppers cars at the train tracks down by the James after I got the idea from Matt and his coal castle.
30.Which had been part of a whole chainsaw I ordered from eBay from a strange lady named Tina in Wisconsin whose screen name is dutchgirl777 and restores and sells them and then much later I realized it was the exact same model as the one in Michael's sculpture that I helped fabricate and I worried that I may have unconsciously been copying him but then also felt that I had been researching the history of logging myself and hoped that I had come to it on my own or had maybe generated an appreciation for it through working on it with him but ultimately felt that I was fooling myself and I had to be more careful of that sort of thing in the future.


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Location: City of Evil, Canada
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:30 am
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Just makes me want this set more. And saddens me that I won't be able to get it till next year.
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Location: Netherlands
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:27 am
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Andi wrote:
I completed mine yesterday.
It's such a sweet set!
So many great little details, which you couldn't see from the pictures around.
Well, we told you you wouldn't regret buying this set... Well worth every penny.
Andi wrote:
I have a lot of parts left - parts like 1x1 black tiles, 1x1 white round plates, small bricks and plates in black and grey, a brown 2x2 dish...
But there were 2 2x2 light grey plates missing.
Hmmm... that's too bad, about the missing parts. Are you sure you didn't misplace them? The brown dish (2x2 or 3x3?) sounds like it belongs on the Dianoga, it's the only place I can think of that demands a brown dish...
Andi wrote:
And I already included some mods.
The door and the detention area. (how can the detention area be without a roof?)
Additionally I started tiling the floors.
Great mods! I was thinking exactly the same about the detention block, it needs more roof! And the amount of space needed to build just the one cell is slightly disappointing: another cell would have been nice... Right now there is a lot of dead space there.
By the way, did you change some of the orange 'lights' to red 'lights' above the trash compactor door on purpose? Because I'd say they are all supposed to be orange...
Andi wrote:
What I wonder: Why did they include a black piece for the white Assassin Droid? If not making the piece in white, wouldn't have fit IG-88's silver one better?
It's Lego policy to use parts sparingly if possible: and the piece you refer to isn't available in white yet, I believe... It wouldn't be very cost effective to create this part, just to use once in a set.
Andi wrote:
Now looking for a nice Display space
My biggest issue with this set as well:-)
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:03 am
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Hello, well I finally finished the death star and I thought time to add my to cents, as it was quite a challenge.
Mind you, Lego could have made it a lot easier if they had of included numbers on the bags and checked all the pieces as I had 5 important ones missing.
Lucky I had these as extra pieces in other sets otherwise I'd have been really pissed.
Not that I'm complaining about the model, it's a great one! Maybe if Lego had paid a bit more attention to detail in regards to the tractor beam and detention centre it would have scored a 10 but as it stands I give it an 7.
It took 3 days (afternoons) to build and a day to sort (I blame Lego for that one?) It does everything that it claims to do and all the working parts do what they're supposed to without much effort.
The only problem was with the radar dish, as joining it was tricky using the small dish, I instead used a smaller round plate as it worked better.
Overall, excellent model, but Lego needs to rethink leaving the numbers of the bags, also include an extra set of stickers, it helps.
regards Marty
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:37 pm
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The Master on 11/09/08 wrote:
The toy shop in town has ordered one for display and (according to their order script) it's due to arrive tomorrow. I'll be glad to see it once it's finally built. The shopkeeper is going to have is sat on a rotating turn-table. He himself is a Lego SW fan but only collects OT sets.
Well, I was finally able to see it today (nearly a month on).
The shopkeeper built it with a friend in a total time of 5 hours 11 minutes and put it into a display cabinet within half an hour for customers to view. It really does look great.
You lot really need to see a Death Star playset rotating. It's cooler than the new R2 head design!
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Also, as others have mentioned, in the instructions the colors were once again sometimes hard to distinguish. Black and dark bley, red and clear red, clear red and clear orange, silver and clear white were the main culprits...
For the most part, I didn't have difficulty. Black and dark bley look different enough that I didn't have any issues, and it's always easy to tell trans from non trans, since you can 'see through' them on the instructions.
Trans red and trans orange, on the other hand... I'm still not terribly sure I have them all right.
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:24 am
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Finally finished the set last night/moring around 1 AM. It took just about 3 days and nights and my 7 year old boy is in heaven! He's been playing with it since he got home from school and never seen him so exited about a Lego set. I did have couple of pieces missing but had extra to make up for it. I did end up with quiet a few leftover parts also. All in all, I think it's well worth it.
We are moving soon, in 5 weeks, so I have to convince my wife to keep it the way it is and not break it down. Wish me luck!
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:51 pm
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Think we'll ever see this set under $400? I think I'm going to buy it for my 2 boys for next Christmas. Did it originally cost $500?
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:36 pm
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Think we'll ever see this set under $400? I think I'm going to buy it for my 2 boys for next Christmas. Did it originally cost $500?
It's always been $399. With the $30 off recently, it was $369 and that's as low as I've seen it.
I ordered one then and it's on backorder, but given all the comments, I expect it to be worth it. One of the reviews I read said the sweet spot for this set really ought to be $250 or so, but that they can kind of get away with $400 because of all the minifigs. I don't know if that's the case, but it seems reasonable enough.
The trouble is, the minifigs will probably keep it popular enough to prevent huge markdowns for some time, if ever. It's more likely we'll see markdowns on minifig-less sets like most of the UCS ones. The falcon has been as much as $150 off, so I guess there's hope.
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:58 pm
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The wife surprised me...and the kids, with this for X-mas. What a build. I'm glad I read all the reviews, etc. on this. Never really sorted much prior to this, since Lego used to be better about numbering bags, etc. But thanks to this forum, I diligently sorted the bricks and made the build, which was awesome, that much more fun. The kids love this set. I can't wait to take it apart and do it again.
Wife already threatening to drop it off the table so she gets her money worth.
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I just started the build after picking this up before Christmas in a sale (£188 ... bargain!). It's taken me the best part of 3 hours to do the sorting. And the manual ... what a piece of work! Beautiful.
But, if there was ever a set that demanded numbered bags ... this is it!!!
Wish me luck on the build ... it's gonna take a while!
I used to post here as "Big Pete" but my account got screwed ...
My Current Lego Collection (thanks Brickset!)
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The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford, Deep Vellum
Reviewed by Nozomi Saito, Senior Executive Assistant
Juan Rulfo's prominence within the canon of Mexican and Latin American authors has been undeniable for some time. Regarded by Valeria Luiselli as one of the writers who gave her a deeper understanding of the literary tradition in Mexico and the Spanish language, and depicted by Elena Poniatowska as a figure deeply rooted in Mexican culture, it is clear that modern Mexican and Latin American literature would not be what they are without Rulfo. Indeed, Rulfo often has been credited as the figure to whom the Latin American boom of the 1960s and '70s is indebted, and Gabriel García Márquez has said that it was because of Rulfo's works that the former was able to continue writing and ultimately produce One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Yet for all the recognition that Rulfo's works have so rightly earned, there has been a persistent misconception that he only published two works of fiction, The Plain in Flames (El Llano in llamas, 1953) and Pedro Páramo (Pedro Páramo, 1955). The Golden Cockerel (El gallo de oro, c. 1956) for too long remained excluded from Rulfo's oeuvre, even being miscategorized as a text originally intended for the cinematic screen. To reclaim and secure its position in Rulfo's canon, Douglas J. Weatherford has brought forth The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings, which provides deep insight into the work, ruminations, and personal life of the legendary writer.
The result is a text that is refreshing and diverse. The titular story follows the rise and fall of Dionisio Pinzón, an impoverished man whose crippled arm prevents him from farm labor, the only viable work in the town, and whose destiny changes when someone gives him a golden cockerel that has been badly beaten, having comprised the losing side of a cockfight. While the majority of the story follows Pinzón's migration in pursuit of wealth, his path eventually intersects with that of the singer Bernarda Cutiño, familiarly called La Caponera, whose own migratory wanderings lead them from one town to the next, to various cockfights throughout Mexico.


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DVD format is the most successful consumer AV media format ever. In six
short years, this magical disc has become the world's standard for
video and audio playback in an affordable, feature-laden and convenient
package. But DVD and all of its associated formats, like DVD-Audio and
Dual Disc, could soon have one foot on a banana peel and the other one
in the grave.
The reason is that DVD, while a powerful format and currently the king
of the AV world, cannot (easily) reproduce a movie in HDTV. With DTVs
selling at 850,000 sets per month according to a CEA study from April
2004, the demand for high quality content in HDTV from early adopters
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year or two.
The good news is that converting modern feature films to HDTV is a relatively easy process. This is unlike creating live HDTV content, which can be very costly due to current camera and production costs of HDTV. Most movies are archived on D5 digital video tape which can easily be downconverted to an HDTV format like 1080i, 720p or (my personal favorite with the largest file size) 1080p. Unlike records, most movies made after about 1990 have a 5.1 soundtrack and need nothing more than a little "sweetening" to get the film's 5.1 soundtrack mixed and mastered for smaller speaker systems in most consumers' home theaters.
But not all is perfect in the world of HDTV capable discs. While Blu-Ray demos have blown away even the staunchest of critics at recent trade and consumer shows, it has still yet to be seen if the 25 gigabyte storage capacity is large enough for a full feature film without providing two discs; thus, it recreates the awkward disc swap from the old days of Laserdisc. All sorts of companies are working on codex that squeezes a full HDTV film onto these new, larger discs and certainly one company will succeed in the next few months.
High performance audio fans should become excited at the idea of a large capacity disc for what it can provide for the performance of audio playback. The idea of having an entire artist's catalog of records mixed at new standards for resolution (above 24 bit 192 kHz) is possible. So, the idea of having a solid number of albums from one artist on one disc paired with vast amounts of live tour video footage, interviews, cover songs, b-sides and all sorts of other added values that we haven't even thought of yet could quickly become reality. Critics might suggest that one can't hear the advantages of 24 bit 192 kHz or higher audio, but they are wrong. The more data you can dedicate to the reproduction of music the more "analogous" your records will be to the master. One of the biggest problems the Compact Disc has is that its reduced storage size means reduced resolution as compared to DVD-Audio, DVD-Video and SACD formats. Now there is another format that has the potential to both consolidate high resolution audio and video into one format (meaning one player) as well as giving music enthusiasts even better audio than they could get from the best formats available today.
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Many gem crystals of spodumene, tourmaline and beryl have been extracted during the past few years from the pegmatite fields in eastern Afghanistan. In the region of Nuristan, the pegmatites appear to occur over a considerable area. In certain of these localities specimens of quite exceptional color and perfection have been found, easily rivaling those discovered in the other great worldwide deposits.
Until recently, Afghanistan was principally renowned in the world of the mineralogists and gemologists for the famous deposits of lapis lazuli in the Badakhshan (a province in the northeastern part of the country, separated structurally from Nuristan by the Pandjshir fault) and also, in lesser measure, for the rubies in the Jegdalek marble near Sorobi. More recently, emeralds from Pandjshir valley and the pegmatitic minerals of Nuristan have appeared on the market (the exploitation of these was made possible by Russian Geologists who found the deposit in 1970).
However, in actuality the gems of Nuristan were discovered long ago, because during the archeological diggings done in the ruins of the ancient Greek town of Ay-Khanoum (Badakhshan), situated at the confluence of the Amou-Daria and Koktcha Rivers, some treasures were exhumed which contained, in addition to many fragments of lapis-lazuli, perfect crystals and gems of beryl which must have come from the high valleys of nearby Nuristan.
Even though Nuristan is geologically one distinct structural unit, essentially crystalline and limited on the south by the Quaternary basin of Jalalabad, it is administratively divided into two provinces: Laghman to the west, and Kunar to the east, bordering the Pakistani province of Chitral. The pegmatites of Kunar supply splendid crystals, especially of beryl, as in the celebrated deposit of Gur-Salak, and also of tourmaline and kunzite in the Kantiwa field. However, the best pieces seem to have been found in Laghman, and that is why in the main part of this article we limit ourselves to that province.
|Figure 1. Alingar Canyon near Nuristan, Afghanistan
The three deposits that we were allowed to visit (Nilaw, Mawi, and Kurgal) are situated not far from the most important river in Laghman, the Alingar, which rises in the far north of the province and joins the Kaboul [Kabul] River in the south a few kilometers from Mehtar Lam.
The rock types are quite varied but always metamorphic or intrusive. They are mostly gneisses (complex migmatites), mica schists, quartzites and marble (which undoubtedly correspond to the original lithostratigraphic formations later metamorphosed), with diverse intrusions of granites (with biotite, amphibole or two micas) and of more mafic rocks such as diorite and gabbro. The metamorphism, which is imposed on an old sedimentary series, is weak in places; cross-bedding and graded bedding are still visible and the contact between the weakly metamorphosed series and the migmatites is relatively sharp.
The pegmatites, those of Nilaw and Mawi especially, occur as veins of highly variable size, from 10 cm to 40 meters in thickness and from a few meters to a few kilometers in length, in what has been called the plutonic intrusion of Nilaw (Fuchs et al., 1974), which is composed of rocks ranging from diontes to gabbros, and which shows conspicuously in the broader migmatitic complex. The intrusion is rich in layers of marble with calcium silicates.
|Figure 2. Locality of the map area shown in Figure 3.
The vein network of pegmatites is more dense toward the southern end of the intrusion, especially at the points where it touches tourmaline-two-micas granite which is localized to the southeast. This granite seems to be the source of the pegmatite veins injected into the dioritic intrusion, since toward the west, in contact with the biotiteamphibole granite, the vein cluster is thinner and more sparse, and is replaced by breaks of the alpine cleft type containing adularia, chlorite, epidote and axinite.
The pegmatite veins in the Nilaw intrusion have a very characteristic, stratiform shape which may be described as "watch glass," horizontal in the center of the pluton and plunging slightly at the edges. This "ring dike" aspect can be explained as the sinking of segments around the edges of the roof of the subjacent reservoir. The products coming from the two-mica granite could then be injected into the empty spaces thus created. But it is possible to imagine other causes (form of the isotherms, reduction of volume of the diorite on cooling lateral compression, etc.).
In a more general way, the tectonic directions of the metamorphic rocks are consistently NNE-SSW, and the series of intrusions follows that orientation even though indiscriminately cutting all of the enclosing metamorphic formations. According to Fuchs et al. ( 1974) the geologic history of that region should be as follows:
A Paleozoic sedimentary series, deposited on a basement of migmatites, was subjected to metamorphism and then to intrusion by various rock types (diorites, gabbros, and finally biotite-amphibole granites) leading to the remobilization of the migmatites. Fuchs et al. (1974) supposed that the intrusions appeared during the alpine cycle (the diorites may be of lower Cretaceous age and some of the granites of Oligocene age). The pegmatites in the pluton of Nilaw appeared later.
|Figure 3. Location of towns and deposits in the Laghman-Kunar area.
Even today the deposits of Laghman are difficult to reach due to the considerable distances that must be covered on foot. Neither mules nor horses can be obtained, which considerably limits the number of points accessible to a visitor.
At present, the end of the jeepable road is situated very far below the interesting sites. In 1977, this road, which leaves the Kabul–Jalalabad route, goes straight northward to Mehtar Lam and ends several kilometers beyond the village of Nuristan (70 km after the fork) just at the point where a small, recently constructed bridge (Gandalabouk) crosses the Alingar River. Then a full day on foot is needed to traverse the 25 km of narrow gorges which separate that bridge from the nearest houses (5 houses, one belongs to the subgovernor) one hour away from the village of Dahaneh-Pyar, at the junction of the Kolum and Alingar rivers. Yet another full day is necessary to reach the deposit of Nilaw – 15 km of bad rocky trail.
|Figure 4. Geologic map of the Nilaw area.
|Figure 5. Kunzite spodumene, 20 cm tall, from Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
The stratiform pegmatite vein can be easily seen even from far away, forming white bands that show clearly in the abundant vegetation of the little narrow valley of Nilaw. In several places the pegmatites have been exploited with the use of dynamite.
Afghan law prohibits anyone from exploiting deposits of any kind whatever, excepting the employees of the Ministry of Mines, who work periodically on the most interesting zones. That prohibition even applies to the local village inhabitants; but this does not stop the smugglers who come, from Kabul and elsewhere, well prepared to make a fortune by selling the products of their work in the markets, especially in Kabul, Peshawar, Gilgit and even Tucson. The beryllium and lithium pegmatites of central Laghman are now prospected only for gems, and not for industrial elements such as Be, Li, Nb-Ta or Cs. In the Kunar field, beryllium is the only industrial element being exploited.
The extent of the pegmatite veins of the zone called Kolum (Nilaw-Mawi) seems to be associated with the nature of the enclosure. In the Proterozoic formations they rarely reach 100 m in length and do not exceed 10 m in width, while in the gabbro-dioritic intrusions they can be followed for several kilometers (up to 7 km for some veins) and certain local enlargements have a thickness of 50 m.
According to Rossovskij et al. ( 1974) it is possible to define several types of pegmatitic veins from their mineralogic composition:
|Figure 6. Green spodumene crystal 60 cm tall. This is probably the finest crystal yet recovered. It is twinned and doubly terminated. From Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
- Oligoclase-microcline with black tourmaline and beryl.
- Albitized microcline with more frequent black tourmaline and beryl.
- Albitized microcline with black tourmaline, beryl and concentrations of lepidolite, multicolored tourmaline, spodumene, and pollucite.
- Albite with segregations of lepidolite and spodumene.
- Lepidolite, spodumene and albite.
Three types of veins (2, 3 and 5) are found in the Nilaw field. The central part of the third type of vein shows lepidolite, blue cleavelandite, multicolored tourmaline, kunzite (lilac-colored spodumene), white-pink spodumene, beryl and pollucite. Microlite, manganotantalite, columbite-tantalite and cassiterite are present there and also in type 5. Fuchs et al. (1974) advance the figure of 1,000 tons of reserve of beryl in the veins where it is exploitable in segregations. The average contents of Li, Cs, Rb and Sn are also appreciable (Rossovskij et al., 1974; Chmyriov et al.. 1975).
The workings that we visited cut the pegmatites only in a place where the thickness of the vein is about 15 m. The zonation of this body is asymmetrical; fine grained in the lower levels, and in higher levels an assemblage of large size crystals, where quartz, microcline and spodumene dominate. The crystals of spodumene embedded in the rock are rosy and opaque, in immense sheafs with rather diffuse outlines. Crystal-lined cavities are mostly localized toward the top of the vein; those that we could examine are about 50 cm across and contain essentially large crystals of quartz and microcline. It is certain that they also contained crystals of kunzite as we saw elsewhere. Muscovite, black tourmaline and beryl are found in the matrix, as are also some phosphates of iron, manganese and lithium. At the top, limited to a layer 20 cm in thickness, the pegmatite is full of blades of columbite-tantalite. We have also noticed that the pegmatites at Nilaw, as at Mawi and Korgal, are invariably associated with amphibolites.
|Figure 7. Kunzite crystal, twinned, 15 cm tall, from Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
East of Nilaw, not far from the Kolum River, is the famous deposit of Mawi where very large crystals of spodumene (green, blue, pink, yellow and colorless), beryl (morganite and aquamarine) and tricolored tourmaline were discovered. The path from Nilaw to Mawi is relatively easy and can be covered in a half-day walk. It is necessary to cross the Koh-e-Sagoli range (altitude about 3,000 m), then descend again through the short valley of Mawi until the dumps that mark the zones of exploitation appear. It is difficult to judge the thickness of the Mawi pegmatites, but it is surely considerable. (According to Rossovskij, et al. [1976], the principal vein is about 40 m thick and runs for 1,200 m.) The following paragenesis can be recognized:
- Aggregates of quartz and muscovite of about 10 cm thickness first formed at the borders of the veins, in contact with the wall rocks, some with blue-green beryl crystals of large size.
- Biotite and microcline with quartz, aquamarine, and black tourmaline formed next. This association is only observable in the eastern part of the deposit.
- A discontinuous zone of giant crystals of quartz and microcline then formed. The beryl crystals are found only in the apophyses of the principal vein.
- Then a "zone" of quartz and spodumene formed, which actually comprises local segregations with a thickness of several meters, also containing crystals of columbite-tantalite. The spodumene crystals of this "zone" are of great size (up to 2 m long)
|Figure 8. Spodumene crystal, twinned and showing re-entrant angle, from Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
Paragenetic stages 5 through 7 proposed by Rossovskij et al. consist of the associations albite-muscovite-quartz in various proportions, in places sugary, with concentrations of lepidolite, multicolored tourmaline and spodumene. The latter mineral seems the most sought after at Mawi. In July of 1973, 420 kg of spodumene were extracted there, and 176 kg in October-November of the same year. These figures lead one to suppose that the reserves are important. Estimates of reserves of beryl immediately exploitable at Mawi lead to a total in the vicinity of 50 tons. Tantalite and pollucite seem too dispersed to be of economic value.
On visiting several dumps, we were able to observe great plates of rock, covered with crystals of quartz, microcline and albite (cleavelandite), on which had been fixed the crystals of spodumene of which only the bases remain, individual crystals having been detached from their support by the gem hunters. However, spodumene lining cavities seemed rare and the production consists largely of isolated, free crystals that are extracted from pockets in altered pegmatite. The same appears to be true for beryl. We also found several specimens covered with little crystals of tricolored tourmaline and even colorless tourmaline (achroite). It is, however, illusory to imagine gathering beautiful crystals if one has only a geologist's hammer. Other minerals also caught our attention, notably some pretty spessartine garnets embedded in the pegmatite and also two enormous balls of botryoidal muscovite with a maximum diameter of 30 cm but, sadly, untransportable.
|Figure 9. Elbaite tourmaline crystal 4 cm tall from Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
The deposit of Korgal is famous for its extraordinary, absolutely transparent green tourmaline, so sought after by the gems hunters. The mine is situated in a little valley on the other side of the Alingar River. From Dahaneh-Pyar, two ways of access are possible. The longer (a one and one-half day hike) consists of going back down the Alingar to the bridge, crossing the river at that point and searching for the path which takes off upstream in the direction of Dahaneh-Pyar. The second way is more dangerous but takes only a half day: at Oloswali, cross the Alingar River over the small bridge at the exit of the village, then go down the river along the slope to Korgal. Unhappily, this path is very often cut by rock cliffs that have to be jumped over, not without some acrobatics.
|Figure 10. Elbaite tourmaline crystal 6 cm tall from Korgal, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
The deposit consists of several veins of pegmatite embedded in crystalline schists and garnet-sillimanite-biotite gneiss, all Proterozoic. The thickness of the veins is from I to 50 m, over a length of several hundred meters. Four typical mineral associations have been observed by Rossovskij et al.:
- Microcline-muscovite-black tourmaline granitic pegmatite, with sporadic manganotantalite and pollucite.
- Oligoclase-microcline-blacktourmaline-muscovite-beryl.
- Oligoclase-microcline-black tourmaline-muscovite with segregations of lepidolite and multicolored tourmaline.
- Albitized pegmatite with microcline.
The pegmatite contains an abundance of gem crystals of tourmaline (green and sometimes pink), in places forming magnificent sheaves on muscovite. Spodumene and beryl seem less common. At Korgal, as in the other deposits, the phosphates triplite, purpurite and heterosite are rare, although eosphorite has been found. Clear, gemmy bastnaesite crystals, that we have heard about must come from the emerald mines of Pandjshir valley where some contact hydrothermal processes have affected the carbonate formation.
|Figure 11. Elbaite tourmaline crystal 6 cm long from Korgal, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
The minerals that we have observed are very typical of pegmatites rich in Be and Li: quartz, microcline, albite, lithium-tourmalines, pink and blue beryl, spodumene, muscovite, lepidolite, triplite, heterosite, purpurite, manganotantalite, columbite-tantalite, cassiterite, spessartine, violet apatite and pollucite. Under present conditions, it is only the gem minerals (tourmaline, spodumene and beryl) that make these deposits interesting.
Tourmaline is the most remarkable mineral. It is present in an astonishing variety of forms and colors. Great pink crystals with flat terminations with many striations, sprinkled with lepidolite, very much resembling those from Pala, California, have probably been extracted in the region of Korgal. At the home of a merchant in Kabul we noticed one section of such a crystal that was 30 cm in diameter. The small, tricolored crystals (pink base, green center, colorless top) seem more characteristic of Mawi. The yellow-brown tourmaline crystals seen in the bazaar in Kabul are of unknown provenance (probably Kantiwa field) as well as the crystals of deep blue color. The crystals of green, and especially the most valued shades of blue, green and emerald green, come from Korgal. Multicolored crystals grade smoothly from one color to the next. The terminations of the little crystals are in sharp pyramids due to the predominance of the faces {0221} which are progressively supplanted in the course of mineral growth, by the faces {1011}by elimination of the forms which have a greater rate of growth. The large crystals, which can reach 2 by 15 cm and perfectly transparent, are terminated by the low-angle pyramid {1011}.
|Figure 12. Elbaite tourmaline crystal 6 cm wide from Mawi, Laghman, Afghanistan (collection of the Sorbonne). Photo by Nelly Bariand.
|Figure 13. Elbaite tourmaline, 21 by 15 cm, from Laghman, Afghanistan (Herb Obodda collection). Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
|Figure 14. Top view of crystal shown in Figure 13. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
Beryl is especially abundant in the Kunar area, but the gem varieties, aquamarine and morganite, are found mainly in the Laghman district, where they occur with the basal pinacoid characteristically well developed. Loose crystals and crystals on matrix have been recovered. The tint varies from pink to brownish pink. Gem aquamarine crystals of a beautiful, intense blue have shown up, but it is possible that this discovery was made at Gur-Salak in Kunar.
|Figure 15. Morganite beryl crystal 6 cm across on matrix with tourmaline, quartz and albite, from near Nuristan, Afghanistan (Herb Obodda collection). Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
Spodumene from Laghman has also acquired a just fame. This region has produced some gem crystals of astonishing size (up to a meter long). The diversity of colors, purples, pinks and greens, is almost indescribable. One even finds bicolored crystals, though a true hiddenite has not yet been reported. The shape is, in general, classic: elongated clinoprisms flattened parallel to the striated {100} face. However, certain of these prisms are limited laterally by {010}on one side, and by the face {110} (parallel to cleavage) on the other side, in such a way that it appears to be a crystal broken along the plane of cleavage. This is an error and it is easy to check by observing the corrosion figures on the {110} face which can also be a crystal face. Several individuals reveal a roughly square section, in consequence of the equal development of the {010} and {100} forms. We have also brought back a crystal, remarkable by the abundance of lateral faces, which clearly shows the twin on {100}, having a characteristic re-entrant angle between the two individuals that we have never before seen.
Unlike the large spodumene crystals from pegmatites in California and in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Laghman spodumene crystals have remarkably flat and well-developed faces and relatively sharp, rather than rounded, edges.
The other interesting peculiarity of Laghman spodumene is its occurrence in cavities or pockets of crystals, for example one superb specimen that we could only admire: a large crystal of microcline (20 kg) on which a 15-cm crystal of transparent pink spodumene was attached. We also found parallel groups of crystals composed of two or three individuals. Crystals of spodumene with attached crystals of tourmaline are also known.
Just as for tourmaline, the spodumene is used in jewelry and sold at a price per carat. However, gem spodumene is less valued than tourmaline because it sometimes fades in the light and has a tendency to cleave easily while being cut.
EDITOR'S NOTE [from 1978]
The government of Afghanistan was overthrown in April. 1978, by a leftist revolutionary group, casting some doubt on the future accessibility of Afghan minerals to foreigners. Although the new government is clearly more radical than its predecessor, American State Department officials familiar with the area say it is far from certain that Afghanistan will become a Soviet satellite. The new government party was reportedly not accepted as a communist party by Moscow. Accounts of the April 27 upheaval obtained by U.S. officials indicate the Soviet Union had no part in preparing or executing the coup. The assessment in Washington is that the new government will lean more toward the Soviets than the previous regime; however, Afghanistan has historically had close relations with its Russian neighbor while nevertheless placing a high value on its own independence. Officials of the coup have spoken of a "positive neutrality" in foreign affairs, with relations to other countries determined by the extent of their political and economic support. The officials said that Afghanistan will not accept aid with strings from any nation. Moscow immediately recognized the new government and has offered about $16 million in civil aid. The United States has also recognized the new regime and offered to continue economic aid which has been about $20 million annually in the past. Most of the 60 advisors from the United States in Afghanistan at the time of the coup are expected to remain, and West Germans have been asked to stay on as police advisors (Oberdorfer, 1978). There is, therefore, reason for cautious optimism that exports of mineral specimens and gems might be able to continue.
We wish to thank Allen Bassett for providing the English translation of this article.
FUCHS, G., MATURA, A., and SCHERMAN, O. (1974) Verbericht über geologische und Lagerstättenkundliche Untersuchungen in Nurestan, Afghanistan. Verhanglungen Geologische Bundesaust., (Osterreich), no. 1, 9–23.
OBERDORFER, D. (1978) Activity in Afghanistan stirs concem. The Washington Post, May 29, 1978, p. A12.
ROSSOVSKIJ, L. N. CHMYREV, V. M., and SALAKH, A. S. (1976) Aphanitic dikes with spodumene among lithium pegmatites; conditions of formation. Doklady Akademia Nauk SSSR, 226, no. 6, 1418–1421.
About the author. Dr. Pierre Bariand was curator of the mineral collection at the Sorbonne from 1956–1998. He is now retired. Since 1959, he has made significant contributions to the field, especially with new minerals he discovered from Iran where, for many years, he served as mineralogical expert and advisor. Dr. Bariand's wife, Nelly, is a remarkable photographer and film-maker.


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Game #44: Jays at O's pregame
Toronto (19-24) at Baltimore (20-24)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Camden Yards
Today's lineups:
Alex Rios, RF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Matt Stairs, LF
Frank Thomas, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Royce Clayton, SS
Jason Phillips, C
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Brian Roberts, 2B
Nick Markakis, RF
Miguel Tejada, SS
Ramon Hernandez, C
Aubrey Huff, DH
Melvin Mora, 3B
Kevin Millar, 1B
Jay Gibbons, LF
Jay Payton, CF
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NOTES: RHP Roy Halladay threw his second bullpen session in the last three days on Tuesday and is on pace to come off the DL before the end of the month. When Halladay was told he'd be out for 4-6 weeks, he said he set a personal goal of three weeks. So far, so good. He's scheduled for a simulated game on Friday. … Toronto manager John Gibbons hinted that Halladay will either take over the rotation spot occupied by RHP Tomo Ohka or RHP Jesse Litsch. If Halladay moves into Ohka's spot, he could potentially start for the Jays on May 31 vs. the White Sox. … On Monday, C Gregg Zaun (broken right thumb) visited with the hand specialist who performed his surgery. The checkup went well and Zaun was cleared to start throwing and to start swinging a bat. He took about 50 cuts in a soft-toss session and he feels he could probably take live BP within the next week. He hoped to get in a Minor League rehab game within the next two weeks.
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Great news on the Halladay front and it'll be good to see if Zaun can come back sooner then later also.
I thought Burnett today pitched well, with the exception of the 4th. Frank Thomas continues to struggle, i can recall him being ahead of the count in a couple of at-bats and had no hits to show for it. I hope he snaps out of this soon, because Glaus wont be hitting over .300 for the season (Rios and Troy have been the only consistant bats lately).
It seems to me that the reason Rios and Glaus are the only ones hitting well is because they are the only hitters who are not being constantly shifted up and down the lineup. Even Frank Thomas has been moved from time to time. I'm not a great fan of the whole lefty vs righty stuff, I think its more important that the hitters can get into a groove hitting in the same spot day after day. I think it will just give them one less thing to worry about, as trivial as it is.


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Rosie L. Stanfield, a registered nurse who later became the first African-American director of nursing at Spring Grove Hospital Center, died Saturday of ovarian cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The longtime Randallstown resident was 66.
The daughter of a long-distance truck driver and a homemaker, Rosie Louise Walker — who went by the name Rose — was born one of 10 children in Olney. The family later moved to Catonsville, where she attended Baltimore County public schools.
She was forced to drop out of high school in the 10th grade because she was expecting her first child, family members said.
In 1967, she began working as a nursing aide at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville, and while raising her four children and working, she earned her General Educational Development certificate.
She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 in nursing from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and three years later, a master's degree in nursing administration.
In 1985, she was named director of nursing at Spring Grove, becoming the first African-American to hold that post.
While working at Spring Grove, she continued her education and earned a doctorate in education in 1993 from Morgan State University. For this accomplishment, she received a letter of congratulations from President Bill Clinton and was honored with a "Gold 13 Salute" from WJZ-TV.
"I worked with her for many years, and she was astonishingly energetic, bright, creative and wonderful in every sense of the word," said Dr. David S. Helsel, a psychiatrist who is CEO of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup and previously headed Spring Grove.
"She had a wonderful sense of humor and an infectious laugh that could light up a room. She was honest and faithful, and most of all, unafraid," he said. "She was well-loved by the patients and staff, and her life was so inspirational."
"Throughout her time at Spring Grove, she nurtured the talents of all her employees and brought out the best in them by telling her story and setting a good example to follow," said a daughter, Trina Lumpkins Pugh, who lives in Severn and is a manager at the National Security Agency. "She was always firm but fair."
Dr. Stanfield also set an example for her children by placing a high value on education.
"She always encouraged us and made sure we got an education. She used to say, 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes I did, and if you get in trouble, you can rise above it.' And she certainly turned her life around," said Ms. Pugh.
"And she stayed on top of us. It was all about working hard, and she treated the people at Spring Grove the same way," said Ms. Pugh, who recalled that the moment she and her siblings arrived home from school, the first priority was completing homework.
Dr. Stanfield garnered numerous awards during her career, including being named Outstanding Nurse Executive by the mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland. In 1995, she was voted Nurse Executive of the Year.
She retired in 1998.
Dr. Stanfield also served for two decades in the Army Reserves, starting in 1984, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
"Her children teased her about wearing combat boots and driving a humvee, but she took it all in stride," said Ms. Pugh.
She also became a nurse surveyor and consultant in 1998 with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and traveled extensively throughout the country evaluating hospitals and other health care facilities.
Dr. Stanfield continued this work until last year, when she became disabled. She was an active member of the National Black Nurses Association and the National Association of Nurses for more than 25 years.
She was married in 1968 to Murphy Stanfield Sr., a pharmacy technician, whom she met when both were working at Spring Grove.
After retiring, the couple moved in 1998 to Little River, S.C., where Dr. Stanfield became an active member of Chesterfield Missionary Baptist Church in Long, S.C.
At the church, she served as CEO of the Bridging the Gap Ministry and was a member of the nurses', hospitality, educational and ushers' ministries.
An accomplished cook who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, Dr. Stanfield was known for her barbecued pigs' feet, collard greens, ribs and fried turkey.
"She was also an excellent baker and was known for her homemade lemon pound cake and sweet potato bread," said Ms. Pugh. "She would bake large batches of cookies, cakes and breads, and deliver the fresh baked goods to the infirmed in the congregation."
Dr. Stanfield also enjoyed reading, gardening and traveling.
Her husband died in 2009.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Union Bethel AME Church, 8615 Church Lane, Randallstown.
Also surviving are a son, Joseph Lumpkins Jr. of Catonsville; two other daughters, Darnelle Domineck of Pikesville and Evelyn Lumpkins MoragneEl of Newport News, Va.; a stepson, Murphy Stanfield Jr. of Charleston, S.C.; a stepdaughter, Sharon Stanfield of Charleston, S.C.; five sisters, Cecilia Guary of Aberdeen, Brenda Washington of Baltimore, Gail Akins of Dundalk, Paula LeDuff of Randallstown and Colleen Walker of Oakland, Calif.; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
Rosie L. Stanfield, a registered nurse who later became the first African-American director of nursing at Spring Grove Hospital Center, died Saturday of ovarian cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.


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Following the success of movies like 'Maleficent' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' Disney is working on yet another live-action fairy tale reboot.
Variety reports that Bill Condon is attached to direct the revamped version of 'Beauty and the Beast.' Twihards might recognize his name from his role as the director of 'Breaking Dawn' parts 1 and 2, although Condon also adapted 'Dreamgirls' and wrote the script for the movie version of 'Chicago.' He won an Oscar for the 'Gods and Monsters' screenplay.
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