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The Shadowman stepped close, looking into Damnation's eyes until he saw the Irishman recognize and focus on him. Then he nodded. "You were right. You were the one I sought." The houngan smiled wide, revealing just a hint of blood still on his white teeth. "We depart in the morning," he said. "Before dawn.
"Leave him there until then," he ordered.
Damnation fell into darkness.
Some time later, he woke in a momentary burst of perfect crystalline agony, as if the whole world had frozen solid, and then shattered into splinters – and then each and every one of those needle-sharp shards stabbed into his flesh. He arched his back, groaning, every muscle taut with agony; and then he fainted once more.
The English sailor chortled and then threw a second bucket of seawater across the Irishman's back; unfortunately, the bloody pirate didn't react the second time. The man shrugged and smeared the strange milky-blue ointment he had been given by the Shadowman and told to use on the pirate's raw, bleeding back; had he known what was infused into the salve, he might have been more cautious about applying it. Or perhaps he might have kept it for himself. As it was, he would feel the effects later, and would chalk it up, as the men did whenever they were visited by evil visions, to the malevolent spirits that gathered around the Shadowman.
They were not far wrong.
The sailor finished his ministrations, tying clean strips of cloth over the wounds, and then leaving the unconscious pirate tied to the Scourged Lady, like a bride and groom in Hell, dancing together as the devil's whips slashed and tore at them, and the blood flowed like wine.
The drugs in the salve worked quickly into Damnation's bloodstream; deadening his pain, they allowed him to fall into a deeper slumber: and then the hallucinogenic compounds flooded his brain and Damnation began to moan and whimper as the nightmares stooped down, caught him in their terrible claws, and swept him away.
He dreamed that he stood on a beach, a beach that seemed familiar, though the sea before him was black, and the sky above a turgid, looming maelstrom of red and dark grey, smoke and fire and thunder coursing and writhing above. He stood with both his arms outstretched, and in his hands was his sword, pointed at the sky; the blade gleamed, and the words Sangre-Muerte-Libertad flashed red in the hellish blood-colored light. He looked up from the blade and saw, between him and the black waves crashing onto the gray-brown mottled sand – the foam running in sickly green gouts and swaths across the sand like corruption from a wound – a line of men kneeling one behind the other all the way to the water's edge. He looked closer and saw that they were his men, the crew of the Grace of Ireland. As he realized it, they stood, moving as one, and marched in a line until the first – his mate and right-hand man, Ian O'Gallows – stood directly before him. Ian's face was somber, even sad, and Damnation wanted to say something to comfort his friend; wanted to smile, wanted to put down the sword ( surely there was no reason to hold a blade when facing his own crew?) and clap Ian on the shoulder, clasp his arm in friendship, offer him some solace for his suffering. But Damnation could not move, not a muscle, not an inch; he could not open his mouth even to speak, could make no sounds emerge from his throat.
But then, without him willing it to happen, his arms moved: the tip of the sword turned down, down, until it pointed straight at the center of Ian's breast.
Then Ian, eyes on Damnation, walked forward, moving steadily. The sword pierced him, and blood flowed; Damnation tried to shout, to drop the blade, to throw the sword from him, but he could only stand still as Ian thrust himself forward, driving the blade deeper into his own chest, deeper, and then through him: and still he came, until his breastbone pressed against the crossguard, and Damnation could feel the hot blood on his petrified fingers. He did not look down, though: he looked only into Ian's eyes, seeing the sorrow there, the grief, grief that was reflected on Damnation's heart.
Ian's knees gave, and he sagged down, and though it burned and tore at the muscles of his arms, his shoulders, his back, still Damnation could not lower his arms, could not lower the blade: he held it outstretched, parallel to the ground. Ian's eyes slowly rolled back in his head, his face going slack: dead. His head fell to the side, his body falling limp, the blood slowing to a trickle, a creep. And then the sharp blade began to cut up through Ian's flesh, as his weight pulled down, until finally the sword burst free from Ian's shoulder, the lifeless body collapsing to the sand at Damnation's feet.
Revealing, standing behind him, Damnation's cousin, Owen McTeigue. And everything repeated, with Owen: sad-eyed, he walked onto Damnation's blade, bled, died, and slowly fell as the blade worked its way up through his corpse.
And was succeeded by Llewellyn Vaughn. And then Kelly Ó Duibhdabhoireann. Shane MacManus. His kinsmen Arthur Gallagher and Michael Rearden. Salty O'Neill. Liam Finlay. Padraig Doyle. Roger Desmond and Robert Sweeney. Abram O'Grady, moving steadily over the sand even on his pegleg. One by one they died, and fell, their bodies tumbling over each other, now pressing up against his legs like a woodpile that had fallen into him.
The last was Balthazar Lynch. He was weeping openly, and Damnation could feel tears rolling down his own cheeks. But the sword never wavered: and Lynch, who was a full head shorter than most of his crewmates, was not tall enough for the sword's point to run through his chest: it slid into his throat, just below his softly rounded chin. His blood sprayed as the sword pierced his neck, sprayed hot across Damnation's face: and when Lynch died and fell, the sword slewed suddenly sideways, and severed the youth's head entirely.
But the head did not fall.
Lynch's eyes opened. As they did, his body, and the bodies of all of the other dead men, rose to their feet. They stood in a circle around Damnation, and he began to spin, his arms still holding the sword outstretched as he turned rapidly in place – not moving his feet, simply spinning like a top. As he watched, his gaze going form man to man, the men raised their hands, and dug their nails into the wounds in their chests and in Lynch's neck. They tore their flesh like cloth, like paper, and ripped it away, revealing themselves changed, underneath. They were still themselves, but now every one was aged into his dotage: wrinkled and sagging flesh covered with liver spots, hair white and falling out, teeth gone, yellowed filmy eyes swaddled in plum-colored pouched lids. He spun, and saw them all ancient, decrepit – Lynch's head now settled back onto his neck, the wound vanished in the sagging jowls drooping from his chin.
Their hands raised again, now to their faces: they scratched and clawed at their eyes, their ears, their mouths; they found purchase, dug in, tore the paper-thin skin away –
They stood in a circle around him, and they were beings of light, glorious, exalted. Human shapes gone, frailties and infirmities vanished, they burned and shone like stars. The red-grey turbulence above reeled back, fleeing to the horizon, fleeing the light; and Damnation was blinded by it, so much light he could see nothing at all.
He opened his eyes. The light was gone, his men were gone, the beach, the sword, all vanished. He looked about him now and saw only darkness. It was a comfort, now.
Then he heard a voice, a familiar voice, speaking words in a dead tongue, speaking at a slow, rhythmic pace. A longing burst into him, a longing so deep, so poignant, that he cried out, wordlessly; he thought the steady chanting paused then, even missed a beat – but then it continued, and perhaps it had not paused at all. Though he could not sense his body, could not tell direction nor sense where he was, he had a feeling of turning around, turning, turning – there.
Surrounded by the flickering glow of torchlight, his mother knelt, somewhere before him, though he could not tell how close or far, nor where she was. He longed to reach out to her, to call out to her, to see her eyes as she recognized him, to hear her say his name; but he could not find his own body to move his limbs, his lips, his lungs. He drank in the sight of her: he saw new grey strands in her hair, saw that she wore a dark robe of heavy material that swaddled her completely, saw the lines carved deeper at the sides of her mouth and the corners of her eyes, saw the crease between her brows that came when she was worried or afraid. He listened to her chanting, speaking the language of the druids, and he knew she was seeking him.
He could not reach out to her. He could not even find himself to try.
He watched as her head began to fall forwards, as her eyelids drooped down, her chanting slowed; the light around her seemed to dim, and she – or he – began to recede. With no idea how he did it, he opened a mouth he did not have, breathed air into lungs that did not exist, and called out, "Mam!"
Her eyes jumped open. Her head snapped up. Her mouth fell agape, the chant stopping entirely. She looked: and she saw him. She reached out, she cried out, "Nate!"
She disappeared.
Damnation collapsed once more, and fell into another vision.
He wakened in pain, his back on fire, arms shaking with cramps; he bit his tongue to keep from crying out, and slowly raised his head and looked around through slitted eyes. Rain washed down his face in streams, and he blinked it away so he could see.
He saw the Scourged Lady. He was tied to her, chest to chest, hanging back from arms wrapped around her neck, his wrists bound together behind her, his arms looped through the spaces between her head and her raised arms, her own wrists bound together as his were, but with the wood that comprised her, rather than rope: her bonds were part of her substance. Rain washed down her face and made it seem as though she wept. From the sky above, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled and boomed.
With a groan, he pulled himself upright, his arms quivering and aching with the motion, his shoulders nearly crying out with relief as his weight eased off of them. His legs shook as he stood upright – and suddenly his strength fell away like autumn leaves blown from their branches, and he collapsed forward, sagging against the Lady, who held him up, held him almost in an embrace, as if she tried to comfort him. He sighed and leaned into her, his arms clasped about her neck. The storm above eased, the thunder passing into the distance, the rain tapering to a drizzle and then nothing.
Then, in the quiet after the storm, he heard a strange sound. It was almost a cracking, a snapping, but it was drier, quieter; not the snapping of a twig, but the crumpling of folded paper. He tried to ignore it: but this was his ship, and he could not ignore it when his senses detected something out of the ordinary; too much of being a captain over a ship was paying attention, was never turning a blind eye to something that looked not quite right – or a deaf ear. It was too ingrained in him to deny, even now, even as he was. He turned his head wearily, opened his eyes to see what it was.
It was his beloved Grace: she was falling to pieces. As he watched, the yards fell from the mainmast, making again that crumpling, crumbling sound; the wooden yards fell into splinters as they came down, pattering onto the deck like dry rain. He felt something soft and desiccated brush by his face, his shoulders; he looked up and saw the sails and shrouds of the foremast, rising up directly above him, now falling in flakes and flinders like cold ash, like burned snow. As he looked up, the foremast broke in half with a dry snap!, and then broke again; the segments clattered to the deck, shattering when they hit with a sound like old bones thrown onto a wooden table. The mainmast followed, the shrouds and lines puffing into clouds of dust. He breathed it in, and it coated his throat so that he choked, the ash sticking to his rain-wet skin in dry, itching clumps.
His heart leapt into his throat. His ship! His ship was – was dying, was crumbling into ashes and dust! As he watched, the rails cracked and fell away, the poop deck and the cabins beneath fell in on themselves in a cloud of grey particles and fragments of wood. The deck groaned and shuddered under his feet, a crack suddenly splitting across from port to starboard, then running suddenly to stern – and then under his feet – and then he was falling, crashing through the decks which blew apart as he struck them, like dry crusts of bread crushed under a bootheel.
But the Scourged Lady remained: solid and heavy, she fell with him, fell below him, and then she hit the water with a splash, he falling across her, his arms around her neck and his hands in the water; all around them, the shell of the ship shivered and whispered as it crackled into dust and fell away.
He straddled the wooden Lady, tried to sit upright – tried to reach out to his ship, to call to her, to save her; but he was bound tightly and could not free himself, and could not turn away nor reach out his hand. He lowered his face to the Lady's, closed his eyes, and wept.
He sensed movement. He raised his head and opened his eyes. At first he saw nothing but a cloud all around him, like dark grey fog: it was all that remained of his beauty, of his Grace. A sob shook his throat and made him cough: the expulsion of his breath roiled the cloud, and then he saw what had moved: it was a hand, an arm, reaching out to him, the fingers outspread, stretching towards him. The arm was slender, the hands smaller than a man's, but seeming strong, nonetheless; and they reached for him, to him: reached to save him.
As he looked at that hand, a word flashed into his mind, a word he somehow knew was attached to that arm, to the person behind that reaching hand, the person he could not see. Traitor. Betrayer. He felt a hot anger wash through him, and his eyes and throat burned with the heat of his rage and the dust of his Grace.
The traitor's arm reached out to him, reached to save him. It could not get to him unless he reached out, as well, met the traitor halfway.
Damnation turned away from the saving hand. He lay full-length atop the floating figurehead: he embraced the Scourged Lady, finding solace there in pain, in her unchanging solidity, her reliable unliving immobility.
The hand drew slowly back, vanishing into the dust.
Damnation and the Scourged Lady sank beneath the surface of the water, down into the endless cold depths. The sea poured into him, washing away the heat of his rage, washing away the last clinging remnants of his ship. He was left with – nothing. Cold. Dark.
He woke, choking on a mouthful of fresh water. His back was numb, his arms afire, his head pounding. He groaned, cracked one eye open; a man's head, silhouetted darkness against the starry sky, leaned close. Damnation made a noise like words, and the silhouette leaned closer, said softly, "Take more. You'll need it."
Hobbes. A cool metal pressed against his lips, and Damnation opened his mouth: cool, sweet, fresh water poured slowly into him, and he swallowed again and again, feeling the burning ache in his throat vanish, feeling his limbs and extremities sighing in relief. The water slowed and stopped, and he held the last mouthful for a moment, sluicing it around in his mouth; then he swallowed. With that, his consciousness returned fully, and he was alert. He nodded to Hobbes and said, "Thank you." Then with a moan and a curse, he stood upright, finding himself as in his dream, tied to the Scourged Lady – but his ship, thankfully, remained whole around and under him.
Hobbes offered the metal bottle, and he drank more until the water was gone. Without a word, the Englishman disappeared, as well.
As well as he could, though he could not free himself, Damnation turned away from the Scourged Lady. She was not his solace; for him, she held no true comfort. He saw a slight movement behind her, and he stretched out his hand and caught – a rope. A length of two-inch rope, sticky with tar, swinging free at one end since the ship was at anchor, but attached to the foremast above.
Attached to his Grace.
He held that rope with both hands, his face turned away from the statue to which he was bound; and, softly, he sang a song to his ship. A love song.
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News is that worldwide, Harry Potter 6 is shattering all previous records as well. It has grossed 4.7 million pounds in ticket sales on its opening night in UK. In US and Canada, the movie has made over 35 million pounds. Thus, worldwide it has made around 520 crore on its opening-day.
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11th Annual Community Wellness Summit Held at Red Lake
Published March 20, 2017
Theme: "Coming together for the People"
"The dynamics of oppression on a culture, and the dynamics of alcoholism in the family, resemble each other so much as to be indistinguishable from each other when viewed through Indian eyes." ~Dr. Cecil White Hat, (Lakota Sioux) 8th Annual Drug and Gang Summit.
RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION – The Eleventh Annual Red Lake Community Wellness Summit (formerly Drug & Gang Summit) was held Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, March 8-10, 2017 at Seven Clans Casino Hotel & Events Center in Red Lake. The 2017 theme was "Coming Together for the People." Community Members, Chemical Health and Mental Health Services, Public Safety personnel, School Personnel, and other programs and services, both on and off reservation, were among those attending. The event was free and open to the public with lunch provided each day.
The Summit turn-out was significant despite chilly and windy weather. With registration beginning at 8 am each day, over 200 registrants participated in a variety of learning opportunities from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm the first two days, and noon on Day Three. Participants came not only from Red Lake, but from Leech Lake, White Earth, Turtle Mountain, Bemidji, and other communities.
Each day featured a key-note speaker, special presentations, and/or with workshops. Subjects included narcotics and paraphernalia identification, drug identification, principles of wellness, suicide prevention, eating well, healthy babies, healthy relationships, Medicine Wheel teachings, and physical fitness. Booths representing programs from Chemical Health, Public Safety and other related services dotted the perimeter of the hotel lobby. A Recovery Support Group Meeting was held on the first night.
Day 1, Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The Summit began with an invocation by Obaashiing elder Murphy Thomas who also acted as emcee combined his hosting with teachings and humor. He then called on the Kingbird Singers to do two songs plus a song in tribute to women.
Thomas along with Chance Rush (Three Affiliated Tribes – Hidatsa) acted as summit facilitators. "This is your community, your home and your story," said Rush to those assembled.
Rush then introduced Marilyn Mountain acting Director of Red Lake Chemical Health Programs. "We welcome you to the 11th Annual Community Wellness Summit, formerly the Drug and Gang Summit," said Mountain. "We changed the name because we want to take a deeper look at a more cultural or holistic view of a person's healing journey, so we've added other topics that pertain to people that are in need of any kind of healing. We want to look at all aspects of healing, mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health, the whole self."
Next, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Darrell G. Seki, Sr., welcomed the attendees
Seki, as is his manner, first spoke in Ojibwemowin. "Ozaawi Naabesim indizhinikaaz, Migizi indoodem, Obaashiing indoonjibaa," he said introducing himself, his clan and where he was from. He then followed up in his second language, English. He thanked the tribal council members and chiefs for the work they do. He then spoke of maji-mashkiki (bad medicine) speaking about the danger of drugs and suicide.
"No matter what color we all have to deal with it," said Seki. "We must remember our kids and our kids not here yet. Thank you to law enforcement for all the battle they have fought. It's not easy, it hurts our families, our children are taken away to foster homes." Seki closed by thanking the team from Chemical Health programs for organizing the summit and the good work they do. "We should love one another."
Key Note Speaker: Ron Kingbird on the "Three Principles to Wellness."
Kingbird is a tribal behavioral health technician whose primary work is in the Red Lake Criminal Justice Complex where he conducts psycho educational seminars for inmates. He earned a BA in Indian Studies and a BS in criminal justice from BSU.
Kingbird, a certified trainer in the "Three Principles" has been sharing the approach for over 15 years. In his PowerPoint, "The Source of All Experience," the focus is on how to achieve psychological and emotional well-being. "We make life happen, we have choice…and those choices have consequences…for the good or bad," he said sometimes speaking in Ojibwemowin.
The Three Principles
"Mind" is defined as the "The energy and intelligence of all life, whether in form, or formless. The Universal Mind, or the impersonal mind, is constant and unchangeable. The personal mind is in a perpetual state of change."
Consciousness is the gift of awareness. Consciousness allows the recognition of form, form being an expression of Thought.
The power of Thought is not self-created. Thought is a divine gift, which serves you immediately after you are born. Thought is the creative agent we use to direct us through life.
The fundamental premise of the theory is that life is spiritually generated into form from the formless, and that our experience as human beings is created from the interaction of the Three Principles; including the experience of self-identity.
"The Three Principles propose that feeling states (and all mental states) are self-created (through Thought), and that beyond each person's limited, personal thought system lies a vast reservoir of wisdom, insight and spiritual intelligence. No one person has greater access to spiritual wisdom than any other," says Kingbird. "Mental health is the resting state, or 'default' setting of the mind, which brings with it non-contingent feelings of love, compassion, resilience, creativity and unity; both with others and with life itself."
Specifically, that for mental wellbeing, it is not important to process the past, nor that the content of peoples' personal thought systems has to be "worked with" and analyzed. "The Three Principles emphasize kindness, sharing, caring, and the simple gift of love," Kingbird said.
Awareness of the principles…mind, thought and consciousness…can lead to overall wellness. Many people make up stories about themselves through thinking, which then influences behaviors. "We're all little creators creating life moment to moment via these three principles," Kingbird said. "Everybody is doing it all the time, but not everyone is conscious of it, how they're doing it…or as they're creating it..realize that it's coming from their own thinking."
Afternoon: Presentations by Public Safety
The afternoon of Day One feathered Red Lake Public Safety staff Kelly Brunelle and Ron Leyba, who work with the Red Lake Criminal Investigation Division. Brunelle has been with Public Safety 10 years, and Leyba seven. The pair used a PowerPoint presentation in their first session entitled Narcotics & Paraphernalia Identification.
Drug paraphernalia" is a term, to denote any equipment, product, accessory, or material that is modified for making, using, or concealing drugs, typically for recreational purposes. Drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine are related to a wide range of paraphernalia. Paraphernalia generally falls into two categories: user-specific products and dealer-specific products.
Many images were projected on the screen of user-specific products including glass hashish pipes, crack cocaine pipes, smoking masks, hashish bongs, cocaine freebase kits, syringes, and roach clips. The presentation included many statistics. After a short break, the team of Brunelle and Leyba returned to expand upon Drug Identification.
In the evening at 7 pm, the Summit featured a Recovery Support Group Meeting at the Casino & Event Center.
Day 2, Thursday, March 9, 2017
Murphy Thomas opened day two with an invocation. Facilitator, Chance Rush warmed up the crowd with music and humor before introducing Salena Beasley, Chemical Health Project Director. She welcomed all those in attendance and went though the agenda for the day.
Keynote: by Kasey Nicholson, Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor
Nicholson is a member of the Ah-ah-nii-nin (White Clay Nation) of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north central Montana but currently resides in Billings. He is a self-employed motivational speaker, presenter, entertainer, comedian and life coach. He displayed his humor throughout the presentation and even took some time to play the flute. He spoke of cultural identity issues, educational endeavors, spiritual awareness, cultural understanding, substance abuse awareness, suicide prevention, bullying, traditional vs westernized issues and other issues that face Native America today.
After a short break, Kailee Fretlund, Pharmacist at Red lake Comp Health spoke on those who are medical professionals and how medicines can assist in treatment.
Day 2 Afternoon Breakout Sessions
The Seven Clans Event Center was split into three rooms, Ogiishkimanisii (Kingfisher), Migizi (Eagle) and Awaazisii (Bullhead) for the afternoon breakout sessions beginning at 1 p.m. There would be three rounds of three sessions each.
The first round of sessions included a presentation on "Eating Well" by David Manuel in one room. In the next room was "Medicine Wheel Teachings" presented by Vickie Fineday of Equay Wiigamig Women's Shelter. The final session was entitled "Suicide Prevention" presented by Ayla Koob, Wellness Counselor and Suicide Prevention Coordinator.
The next round featured "First Steps to Healthy Babies and Substance Exposed Infants," presented by Kari Josephson, APRN,CNP. In another room participants learned about "Healthy Relationships" as presented by Selma Lussier from Equay Wiigamig Women's Shelter, and in room 3, Karen Norris-Barrett spoke of the "Chemical Health Programs" offered by the Red Lake Band.
The last round of sessions included; "Asset Forfeiture" presented by Red Lake Criminal Investigators, Kelly Brunelle and Ron Leyba. The spoke of tribal laws that allow all things to be confiscated including cars for drug offenses, and trespassing.
In another room, Cheri Goodwin, Director of Red Lake Family and Children Services gave a quick review of the programs she and her staff offer.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Participants found themselves visiting with new friends while enjoying pastries and coffee before Thomas gave a short invocation and Rush warmed up the crowd.
The bulk of the morning would be a Community Wellness Panel that would provide information and answer questions from those in attendance with much information shared.
The panel consisted of Ayla Koob from Suicide Prevention, Darlene Lussier, Director at Equay Wiigamig, Cheri Goodwin, of Family & Children Services, Bill Burnelle and Dana Lyons from Law Enforcement, Karen Barrett from the Alcohol Rehabilitation Program, Matt Antone, President of the Red Lake Youth Council, and Kailee Fredlund, PharmD from Indian Health Services.
Thomas then asked participants to feel free to gather around the Kingbird Singers Drum for a Healing Ceremony explaining its purpose. After a healing song came a Traveling Song.


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The Benefits of Pedestal Express Light Stands
One of the best utilizations of floor space in retailing lamps is what is known as clusters of lamp stands displaying portable lamps. Clustering small groups of pedestals/light stands that are close together allows more lamps to be shown in the least amount of square footage. By using our five different heights you can display various sizes of lamps nesting them together by styles, manufactures or colors. One lighting retailer overlaps the shades within the cluster, thus making maximum use of today's expensive square footage.
Lighting retailers that sell portable lamps know the importance of having a broad selection. There are now many lighting showrooms displaying as many as 300 individual lamps on light stands. Some people may question that this is too many and how do we effectively inventory so many? The key here is to use very specific categories. By putting all the brass together or crystal together you have to rely on many clusters again, only with these huge lamp selections you then sub-group by price point or style.
Lets face it, if you have a minimal amount of lamps for sale, the customer is going to the lighting retailers who specialize in this category and boast the best selection. There is such a lighting retailer that admits 300 lamps on light stands are not 6 inventory turns a year. In fact he admits that many lamps in that 300 group never sell and he has changed his thinking and refers to them as store fixtures. There are times in retailing a product you are forced to carry (store fixtures as product) to be the largest selection in town and have a reputation for it. The eighty twenty rule works here, twenty percent of your selection provides eighty percent of the sales.
"This is our 3rd order as we expand our lighting showroom, the pedestals we originally purchased about ten years ago look and match our latest order and we love them."
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Please note Leading Workshops are held in the Old Dispensary, 13 St. Mary's Street, Ely.
The Copper foiling technique, developed in the Tiffany Studios in the1890s, is ideal for decorative panels, sun catchers and mirrors as well as lampshades and other dimensional work. Copper tape and solder are used to create a seam joining the pieces of glass.
This one day workshop to copper foiling is suitable for beginners and gives practical experience of the techniques needed to move on to projects of your own. A choice of patterns will be provided and a selection of coloured and textured glass will be available for you to make your own panel on the day. If you have a piece of glass from the glass painting workshop at the Museum that you would like to incorporate do bring it along with you.
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John Farrell has announces that he has Stage 1 Lymphoma and will miss the remainder of the season.
While undergoing hernia surgery earlier this week in Detroit, doctors discovered the cancer. Farrell, who held a press conference just a short time ago, said that he was very fortunate to have caught this disease so early.
Farrell, 53, who has managed the team since 2013, has amassed a record of 372-390 in his 5 season as a MLB skipper. He has won one World Series (2013) as a manager with the Red Sox and was previously a pitching coach under Terry Francona with Boston.
"It was a little bit of a shocker to be told later that afternoon that this was going on, but like I said, I'm fortunate. Stage 1, it's localized, it's highly curable, and I'm extremely fortunate to be with not only the people on the Red Sox, but access to Mass General and all the world-class talent that can handle this over at MGH," Farrell said. "So it's been a surreal four, five days. I never had one symptom before the notification of it: no fatigue, no night sweats, no loss of weight, obviously, no lack of appetite, none of the things that are commonly asked when you're facing something like this. So it's been a shocker. But I take a step back and I am extremely, extremely, extremely fortunate to be able to have caught this at this stage."
Farrell will begin treatment immediately and assistant manager Torey Lovullo, who was previously linked to managerial positions in the offseason, will assume the position effective today.
Our thoughts and prayers are with John Farrell, his family, and the entire Red Sox Organization.
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When Google first demonstrated its AI phone-calling technology Duplex back in May, the pre-recorded demo struck many observers as eerie. Piped through the speakers on stage at the Google I/O developer conference while a video capture of an Android phone played on screen, we heard an artificial voice call both a hair salon and a restaurant to book reservations on behalf of a human.
Right away, many in the tech community cited two big problems. First, the people on the receiving end of the call were unaware that the voice speaking into the phone was a machine, meaning Duplex was essentially fooling unsuspecting humans. Second, the bot in the demo never indicated it was recording the phone call, raising the eyebrows of privacy advocates and prompting follow-up questions from journalists (including writers at WIRED).
On Tuesday, Google gave multiple demonstrations of its Duplex technology in action. This time, there were some obvious differences.
Now, just a couple weeks ahead of Duplex's rollout among a small set of users and businesses, Google is trying to give its phone-calling robot a do-over. The company is attempting to prove it has addressed some of the concerns about Duplex. And its latest pitch around transparency is coming at a time when some of its more critical use cases for AI are being seriously questioned—just recently, the company released a set of AI principles prohibiting Googlers from using AI in technologies that could violate human rights or cause "overall harm."
On Tuesday, at a hummus shop in Mountain View, California just down the road from Google's headquarters, the company gave multiple demonstrations of its Duplex technology in action. This time, there were some obvious differences. "Hi, I'm calling to make a reservation," the bot said, which Google patched through speakers in the shop so the assembled reporters could hear it. "I'm Google's automated booking service, so I'll record the call. Can I book a table for Thursday?"
Google executives Nick Fox and Scott Huffman, along with product manager Valerie Nygaard, were on-hand to answer questions from reporters. Nygaard even had reporters rotate through the host's stand at the front of the shop and take turns answering the phone, so we could interact with the Duplex-powered virtual assistant calling the restaurant. Each of the Duplex calls were being initiated by a Google Assistant request off of a laptop, just feet away in the restaurant.
I'll admit that when I answered the phone at Oren's Hummus Shop, I tried hard to trip up the Duplex bot. A female-sounding voice called and asked for a reservation Monday the 2nd. After determining that "she" meant the 2nd of July, I asked for the number of people in her party and for the desired time. "At 9pm," she replied. I told the bot that the shop closes at 9:30 pm—making it up as we went along—so she might want to book for an earlier time. 7:30pm, the bot suggested? "We have something at 7:45, actually," I said.
I then asked whether there were any allergies in the group. "OK, so, 7:30," the bot said. "No, I can fit you in at 7:45," I said. The bot was confused. "7:30," it said again. I also asked whether they would need a high chair for any small children. Another voice eventually interjected, and completed the reservation.
I hung up the phone feeling somewhat triumphant; my stint in college as a host at a brew house had paid off, and I had asked a series of questions that a bot, even a good one, couldn't answer. It was a win for humans. "In that case, the operator that completed the call—that wasn't a human, right?" I asked Nygaard. No, she said. That was a human who took over the call. I was stunned; in the end, I was still a human who couldn't differentiate between a voice powered by silicon and one born of flesh and blood.
Talking Back
I asked Huffman and Fox whether Google regretted showing off a carefully-produced Duplex demo back in May that offered little in terms of transparency or exposition. Fox didn't say directly whether he regretted it. "We thought of the demo at I/O as much more of a technology demo, whereas what you see here is much more of the product side of the technology," Fox said. "It was more of a pure technology demo. But we always knew we needed disclosure and it was the right thing to do." Fox added that Google found all of the feedback from people "useful."
While Google has addressed the stickiest stuff in that demo—adding a statement identifying the caller as a bot and disclosing the recording of the phone call—one big unanswered question about Duplex is one of agency: Who is responsible when a bot calls a business but then a human flakes?
"The agency question to me is the most complex, and will probably take the longest for us to work out as a society," says Roman Kalantari, senior design director of creative technology at the design consultancy Fjord. "Will people feel less pressure to show up to an appointment their bot made because they never spoke to a person? This is already a huge problem at restaurants, for example, and this will likely get worse when it is easier, and the user has even less emotional attachment to the interaction or guilt about cancelling or not showing up."
Bot Beginnings
During Tuesday's demo, Huffman gave the group some background on the development of Duplex—its earliest phone calls, the human operators who back it up, and why Google sees Duplex's tech evolving with use the same way self-driving car systems do. Huffman said it only took "a couple months" for the initial version of Duplex to get set up, but its earliest demos were incredibly rudimentary, with the speaker of a wired telephone being placed next to a Mac laptop's speakers while the Duplex technology ran on the machine.
Huffman played one of the first Duplex phone calls ever made, when the bot tried to reserve a table at a restaurant. It was awkward. There was some confusion when the human being on the phone asked about the reservation time, and again when the human asked for the first name of the reserving party. The Duplex-powered bot was clearly flustered. "It wasn't super good," Huffman admitted, "but we could tell it had potential."
Google began to employ human moderators who would annotate the earliest Duplex calls. This team would take those notes and feed them into the system, allowing the AI to learn and adjust. Those human moderators are still working on Duplex—in fact, some of them are operators who will save a Duplex call when things go sideways—but Huffman and Fox declined to say how many people they've hired for the Duplex team. Google has also been studying speech disfluencies, and how they relate to Duplex, Huffman said. How should a bot deal with uncertainty in a polite way? How frequently should it offer conversational acknowledgement—the "Mmhmm"s we all say when someone's been rambling for awhile—over the phone?
One way Google is trying to position Duplex is in the same realm as a self-driving car—an analogy that might be more welcome right now than an association with Google's controversial military AI program. There's a manual mode, in which the human's hands grip the wheel, or, in this case, when a human makes the phone call. Then there's a supervised mode, and then, "maybe the system is good enough where you can sit back and let the car drive itself," Huffman said. "Four out of five of the calls we work on can be automated completely."
Your Call
Google still hasn't said when it will officially roll out Duplex to a wide user base, just that public tests of it are going to start in the next couple of weeks, with a "limited set of trusted testers and select businesses." It also won't say how many testers or businesses there are, to start. Duplex will work as part of Google Assistant, the company's virtual assistant for phones and smart speakers. Initially, it will respond to requests around holiday hours for businesses; over the next few months, it will expand to include restaurant reservations and hair salon appointments.
Much of Google's focus during Tuesday's Duplex demo was around how it could help businesses. According to Google's own internal research, 60 percent of small businesses that take reservations don't have an online booking system. Huffman says telling people to pick up the phone and call some place is a barrier in an age when so many tasks like booking appointments and placing orders can be done online. Google thinks it can fix this resistance to making phone calls and help those businesses that still do things the old fashioned way.
Huffman said there was an interpretation after the demo at Google I/O back in May that Google's AI could be used to take over any conversation. "This is trained for specific tasks," he said. "I really want to make clear that the reason why it works is that we've chosen very specific tasks … it's not a general purpose AI, but it's very good at doing these narrow and specific things."
Huffman makes a good point, but it may not be the "specific things" that continue to raise questions about Duplex. Rather, it may be the "very good" part.


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The rack is fitted with a single power supply unit (as part no. 770) or delivered with full "hot swap" dual redundant power supply capability (as part no. 770-DR)
These convert the AC mains input voltage to low voltage DC power for each of the processor modules and provide forced air cooling to the whole rack enclosure. Three LED indicators show the status of the 5 and 12 volt rails and cooling fan operation and where a 79x 'blade' is present in the rack, will signal status to the Media Manager administration system and optionally a corporate SNMP monitoring system.
When processor modules are fitted into the rack, their RF and Video/Audio inputs are accessible from the rear side, and network and control interfaces are available on the face. AC mains input to the rack is via IEC connectors on the rear.
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The Best Lee Pace Movies
List Rules Vote for your favorite
List of the best Lee Pace movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Lee Pace's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Lee Pace movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Lee Pace movies will be at the top of the list. Lee Pace has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Lee Pace movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Lee Pace films to end the squabble once and for all.
If you think the best Lee Pace role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Lee Pace performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
List contains films like 30 Beats and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug."This list answers the questions, "What are the best Lee Pace movies?" and "What are the greatest Lee Pace roles of all time?"
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are among those who have directed Lee Pace at one point or another during their careers in the film industry.


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Learn about scholarships and enrollment process in our First Amendment courses that equip religious and civic leaders to become constitutional specialists in issues of religion and public life. Meet current students. Hear from faculty and national experts. Enjoy a light breakfast. Take a free tour the Newseum.
Final notice: Applications the Spring 2018 courses are due no later than Sunday, January 7, 2018.
Only those applicants who successfully submit their application by the Early Decision due date of November 1, 2017 will be eligible for scholarships in the Spring 2018 semester.
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The Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute invites you to attend our February webinar, Religious Studies and Journalism: Promising Venues for Public Scholarship. We will discuss how scholars of religion can engage different publics through print and online journalism, both by communicating effectively with members of the media and producing original content. We are pleased to host co-presenters Debra Mason, Janet Saidi, and Inés San Martín. The webinar will include a presentation and extended Q&A.
February 13, 2018
12 – 1 p.m. EST
Debra Mason is among the leading experts on how religion is portrayed in the media. She brings more than 30 years of professional and scholarly experience to her position as director of the Center on Religion and the Professions, an interdisciplinary center at the world-renown Missouri School of Journalism that works to improve the religious literacy of professionals so they can better serve a multi-faith public. In addition, she has produced the largest repository of religion resources for journalists, including ReligionStylebook.com and ReligionLink.com. Since 1997, she's also directed the Religion Newswriters Association, a professional association of journalists writing about religion in the mass media. She is publisher emeritus of Religion News Service (RNS), the world's only non-sectarian wire service exclusively covering religion.
Janet Saidi is a freelance writer, producer and teacher in Columbia, Mo., working with print and public broadcasting and teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism. Janet recently served as vice president of news at Kansas City Public Television, leading a team of multi-platform journalists and launching KCPT's digital magazine FlatlandKC. Before that Janet spent eight years at the Missouri School of Journalism directing the newsroom at NPR-affiliate KBIA Radio. Janet has written and produced stories for National Public Radio, PBS, the BBC and BBC World Service, Wired magazine and the Los Angeles Times, and in her spare time she writes book reviews for the Christian Science Monitor. Janet lived for several years in England, where she earned a master's in literature from University College, London.
Inés San Martín is an Argentinean journalist who covers the Vatican in Rome for Crux. Before joining Crux, Inés was a community manager, content director, and graphic designer for Contá con Nosotros, and worked as a reporter and editor for Valores Religiosos in Buenos Aires. She managed the international press office for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. Inés holds a bachelor's degree in social communications and journalism from Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires and Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
This webinar is hosted by the Public Scholars Project, a joint initiative of the Public Understanding of Religion Committee of the American Academy of Religion and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute. The Public Scholars Project created this webinar series to help scholars hone their skills at communicating with a variety of publics. Our webinars feature scholars and practitioners who can provide tools, resources, and recommendations for presenting in a variety of settings (e.g., social media, news, public events, community gatherings) about a range of topics. To view the complete webinar schedule for the 2017-18 academic year, please visit our webpage.
We will discuss how scholars of Islam and American public life can engage different publics to raise the visibility of their work. We are pleased to host co-presenters Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research at ISPU, Najeeba Syeed, Associate Professor of Interreligious Education at Claremont School of Theology, and Asma Uddin, Fellow with the Initiative on Security and Religious Freedom at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. The webinar will include a presentation and extended Q&A.
The Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute invites you to attend our September webinar, Religion and Immigration: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public. We will discuss how scholars of religion and immigration can engage different publics to raise the visibility of their work. We are pleased to host co-presenters Jennie Bell, faith community organizer for the Immigrant & Refugee Rights Program, Sylvia Chan-Malik, associate professor at Rutgers, and Janelle Wong, professor at the University of Maryland. The webinar will include a presentation and extended Q&A.
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The acronym CHAID stands for Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector. It is one of the oldest tree classification methods originally proposed by Kass (1980). According to Ripley, 1996, the CHAID algorithm is a descendent of THAID developed by Morgan and Messenger, (1973). CHAID will "build" non-binary trees (i.e., trees where more than two branches can attach to a single root or node), based on a relatively simple algorithm that is particularly well suited for the analysis of larger datasets. Also, because the CHAID algorithm will often effectively yield many multi-way frequency tables (e.g., when classifying a categorical response variable with many categories, based on categorical predictors with many classes), it has been particularly popular in marketing research, in the context of market segmentation studies.
Both CHAID and C&RT techniques will construct trees, where each (non-terminal) node identifies a split condition, to yield optimum prediction (of continuous dependent or response variables) or classification (for categorical dependent or response variables). Hence, both types of algorithms can be applied to analyze regression-type problems or classification-type.
The acronym CHAID stands for Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector. This name derives from the basic algorithm that is used to construct (non-binary) trees, which for classification problems (when the dependent variable is categorical in nature) relies on the Chi-square test to determine the best next split at each step; for regression-type problems (continuous dependent variable) the program will actually compute F-tests. Specifically, the algorithm proceeds as follows:
Preparing predictors. The first step is to create categorical predictors out of any continuous predictors by dividing the respective continuous distributions into a number of categories with an approximately equal number of observations. For categorical predictors, the categories (classes) are "naturally" defined.
Merging categories. The next step is to cycle through the predictors to determine for each predictor the pair of (predictor) categories that is least significantly different with respect to the dependent variable; for classification problems (where the dependent variable is categorical as well), it will compute a Chi-square test (Pearson Chi-square); for regression problems (where the dependent variable is continuous), F tests. If the respective test for a given pair of predictor categories is not statistically significant as defined by an alpha-to-merge value, then it will merge the respective predictor categories and repeat this step (i.e., find the next pair of categories, which now may include previously merged categories). If the statistical significance for the respective pair of predictor categories is significant (less than the respective alpha-to-merge value), then (optionally) it will compute a Bonferroni adjusted p-value for the set of categories for the respective predictor.
Selecting the split variable. The next step is to choose the split the predictor variable with the smallest adjusted p-value, i.e., the predictor variable that will yield the most significant split; if the smallest (Bonferroni) adjusted p-value for any predictor is greater than some alpha-to-split value, then no further splits will be performed, and the respective node is a terminal node.
Continue this process until no further splits can be performed (given the alpha-to-merge and alpha-to-split values).
CHAID and Exhaustive CHAID Algorithms. A modification to the basic CHAID algorithm, called Exhaustive CHAID, performs a more thorough merging and testing of predictor variables, and hence requires more computing time. Specifically, the merging of categories continues (without reference to any alpha-to-merge value) until only two categories remain for each predictor. The algorithm then proceeds as described above in the Selecting the split variable step, and selects among the predictors the one that yields the most significant split. For large datasets, and with many continuous predictor variables, this modification of the simpler CHAID algorithm may require significant computing time.
Reviewing large trees: Unique analysis management tools. A general issue that arises when applying tree classification or regression methods is that the final trees can become very large. In practice, when the input data are complex and, for example, contain many different categories for classification problems, and many possible predictors for performing the classification, then the resulting trees can become very large. This is not so much a computational problem as it is a problem of presenting the trees in a manner that is easily accessible to the data analyst, or for presentation to the "consumers" of the research.
Analyzing ANCOVA-like designs. The classic CHAID algorithms can accommodate both continuous and categorical predictor. However, in practice, it is not uncommon to combine such variables into analysis of variance/covariance (ANCOVA) like predictor designs with main effects or interaction effects for categorical and continuous predictors. This method of analyzing coded ANCOVA-like designs is relatively new. However, it is easy to see how the use of coded predictor designs expands these powerful classification and regression techniques to the analysis of data from experimental.
For classification-type problems (categorical dependent variable), all three algorithms can be used to build a tree for prediction. QUEST is generally faster than the other two algorithms, however, for very large datasets, the memory requirements are usually larger, so using the QUEST algorithms for classification with very large input data sets may be impractical.
For regression-type problems (continuous dependent variable), the QUEST algorithm is not applicable, so only CHAID and C&RT can be used. CHAID will build non-binary trees that tend to be "wider". This has made the CHAID method particularly popular in market research applications: CHAID often yields many terminal nodes connected to a single branch, which can be conveniently summarized in a simple two-way table with multiple categories for each variable or dimension of the table. This type of display matches well the requirements for research on market segmentation, for example, it may yield a split on a variable Income, dividing that variable into 4 categories and groups of individuals belonging to those categories that are different with respect to some important consumer-behavior related variable (e.g., types of cars most likely to be purchased). C&RT will always yield binary trees, which can sometimes not be summarized as efficiently for interpretation and/or presentation.
As far as predictive accuracy is concerned, it is difficult to derive general recommendations, and this issue is still the subject of active research. As a practical matter, it is best to apply different algorithms, perhaps compare them with user-defined interactively derived trees, and decide on the most reasonably and best performing model based on the prediction errors. For a discussion of various schemes for combining predictions from different models, see, for example, Witten and Frank, 2000.


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Your chuancai cupboard
Western foodie Jessie Levene breaks down Sichuan's infamous cuisine into its building blocks. This time she takes a look at the quintessential component (and quintessentially Sichuanese) douban paste, with which countless dishes have been made and for which at least one social-networking website has been named.
Douban jiang (豆瓣酱), or, in English, "chilli-bean paste," is one of the most essential foodstuffs in the Sichuanese kitchen. It is a vital ingredient in many of the most famous dishes of the region—Mapo Tofu, Shuizhu Beef, Twice-cooked Pork—and it is also often added in small quantities to jazz up a simple dish like fried rice or noodles.
The literal meaning of douban jiang, "beans mixed into sauce," hints at one of its two main ingredients: hudou—the fava or broad bean. Legend has it that these beans were brought to Sichuan by immigrants from the central plains of China after the population of Chengdu was decimated at the end of the Ming Dynasty. By the time they had finished their long journey, it is said, the beans had started to go off in the humid new climate; not wanting to waste what they had brought, the immigrants mixed their beans with local chilli peppers, thereby inadvertently creating what we now know as douban jiang—often referred to as simply "douban."
The traditional ingredients in douban are minimal—fresh chillies, beans, salt, and wheat flour. The method for producing it is similarly simple, but makes up in length for what it lacks in complexity. First, fresh chillies are pulverised and left to ferment in large earthen-ware containers; after five months the chillies and other ingredients are added, and then the whole lot is left to ferment for another several months.
In total, the process of making doubanjiang should take at least a year, although nowadays less scrupulous producers add various extra ingredients such as soy sauce and MSG to enhance the flavor and cut down on the fermenting time.
The real, slow-baked deal, however, can be found just outside Chengdu in Pixian, where Zhao Feng He (兆丰和) has been producing doubanjiang using traditional methods since 1666. In the courtyard, over 5,000 earthenware pots are neatly arranged according to their stage in the fermentation process. The doubanjiang here is mixed every day, the lids of the pots removed during good weather, and the product left to ferment for at least two years before being sold exclusively to private customers. Various ages of doubanjiang are available at Zhao Feng He, including an eight-year-old, limited vintage, apparently the finest and most unadulterated doubanjiang in China.
It's also probably the most expensive doubanjiang in China, so unless you're a total Sichuan food obsessive, I recommend less pricy varieties. You can buy doubanjiang loose at open markets, and packaged versions cost as little as RMB3 for 200g. Various companies advertise their product as real Pixian doubanjiang; check that the package lists no more than five ingredients to be sure you're getting good stuff.
Finally, note that doubanjiang should be used sparingly—it can be overwhelmingly pungent if added with a heavy hand.
Douban Recipe: Fish-Fragrant Eggplant
Adapted from Fuchsia Dunlop's Sichuan Cookery
2 medium-sized eggplants
vegetable or peanut oil
1½ Tbsp doubanjiang
3 tsp freshly chopped ginger
3 tsp freshly chopped garlic
150 mL water
1½ tsp sugar
1 tsp light soy sauce
2 tsp black vinegar
4 spring onions, sliced into 3cm chunks
1 tsp starch (doufen) mixed with 1 Tbsp water
1 tsp sesame oil
1. Remove either end of the eggplants, cut into quarters, and slice each quarter lengthways into 3 or 4 chunks.
2. In a wok, heat up about 3 tablespoons of oil. When hot, add the eggplant pieces and stir-fry until almost done (about 3 to 5 minutes). Place into a serving bowl.
3. Wash the wok if necessary, and then heat up another 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil. Add the doubanjiang and stir-fry for about 20 seconds until the oil is red and fragrant; add the ginger and garlic and continue to stir-fry for another 30 seconds. Take care not to burn the flavourings. Turn down the heat if necessary.
4. Add the water, sugar, and soy sauce and mix well.
5. Once the liquid is boiling, return the eggplant pieces to the wok and let them simmer for a few minutes to absorb the flavors.
6. Add the vinegar, spring onions, and salt, and cook until the onions are soft. Add the starch and water mixture and stir to thicken the sauce.
7. Turn off the heat, stir in the sesame oil, and serve.
This article was originally published in CHENGDOO citylife Magazine, issue 26 ("how to 3.0"). Photos and text by Jessie Levene
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