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Avonworth handling of teacher riles parentsFebruary 11, 2014 12:01 AM
Nearly 50 worried parents questioned Avonworth School District officials Monday night about administrators' handling of allegations made in 2009 against an elementary school music teacher charged Wednesday with raping a young female relative who later recanted.
In addition to the rape charges, Ben Avon resident Walter Street, 59, is facing accusations from teachers and students that he inappropriately touched young students at Avonworth Elementary, including holding several young girls in his lap. That likely wouldn't have happened if school officials had restricted his access to young children and had kept a closer eye on his activities, even if the initial accusations were never proved, parents told Avonworth school administrators during Monday's school board meeting.
"You kept a man who was accused of hurting a little kid and you kept him with our babies," said Rhodora Huffmyer of Ohio Township, whose 5-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son had Mr. Street as a music teacher. "Why wasn't he moved up to the high school, where the kids at least would have a fighting chance? You can move him anywhere you want and you kept him with our babies."
But with no actual charges, much less a conviction, resulting from the 2009 allegations, the district could do nothing, said school solicitor William Andrews.
"This witness recanted -- there was no way to take action," Mr. Williams said. "You can't take action without a witness, and no such witness existed."
Thomas Ralston, Avonworth School District superintendent, said they have been instructed by the police and by their solicitor not to discuss the details of the allegations against Mr. Street, pending an ongoing investigation. He said school officials would explain their actions between 2009 and Mr. Street's arrest last week when the police deemed it appropriate.
Mr. Street, a former high school band director, came to Avonworth in 1989 to teach music and direct the chorus. Mr. Street taught chorus before and after school, as well as piano lessons, and was often alone with fourth- and fifth-grade students, according to Rebecca Stetser, who has three children in the district and recently sent an open letter to school officials questioning their handling of the 2009 allegations.
The more recent investigation began in January when fellow teachers told administrators that Mr. Street was touching students inappropriately in the cafeteria, such as holding them in his lap and hugging them. When administrators searched Mr. Street's school laptop, they discovered a letter acknowledging a sexual relationship with the young woman, now 22, who had accused him in 2009 of raping her beginning when she was 10 years old.
The young woman, who was 17 when she accused Mr. Street, recanted her testimony twice during police questioning. After being shown the letter in which Mr. Street acknowledged sexual relations with her, however, she told police her initial accusations were true.
Mr. Street was then arrested, and has since been charged with 12 counts of rape, aggravated indecent assault, incest, corruption of minors and related offenses, according to police.
"We became aware of something, we acted on it and we're here tonight because the system worked to keep your children safe," Mr. Ralston said.
But that was scant comfort to some parents. Discovering this week that her two daughters were among the children Mr. Street had held in his lap left Cathy Burnheimer of Ohio Township feeling overwhelmed, she said.
"It makes me sick," she said, struggling to hold back tears. "What did you do to protect my daughters?"
If the district's financial manager, for instance, had been accused of some impropriety with the finances of a private business, but not school funds, wouldn't school officials still have watched him carefully with district accounts, asked parent Scott Brady.
They likely wouldn't leave their wallets with a person accused of financial impropriety, so why was it a good idea to leave young children with someone accused of sexual misconduct with a young girl, Ms. Stetser asked.
"He picked up every girl in my daughter's kindergarten class," she said. "He put every 5-year-old in his lap."
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I looked at the mailbox I filter all gtk.org and gimp.org webmaster/admin mail into... ugh. I can't keep up with it, never have been able to. If only there was a request system for such a thing, so we could make sure all things got responded to. We don't even really try to keep up with it anymore, 90% of the stuff gets ignored completely. There has to be a solution that doesn't take up a lot of time.
It pains me that gimp.org's content is growing stale. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get anyone else to work on it; even if they had 100% content control, etc., how do you find that person who is willing to do the work? Unknown.
www.gtk.org will get revamped again by myself soon. I really want to switch to a model which allows other developers to help update content on the site. Perhaps mod_virgule code can be used for this; it's an interesting idea in any case.
I wanted to redo content.gimp.org, because I think there is a need for it's existance, but since I haven't gotton a chance now I don't think it's going to happen. I'm kind of losing interest in the idea.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 373, November 02, 2007
Introduction to PAPI
Modern processors usually have hardware counters which allow an end user to get performance statistics from the processor with minimal performance overhead. The Performance Application Programming Interface library (i.e. PAPI) attempts to provide a common interface for hardware counters for different processor architectures. There are a number of low-level and high-level routines available in PAPI, including high-level routines to calculate MFlop rates.
The PAPI_flops routine queries the floating point instruction counters and outputs a MFlop/s value. It bases this value on the operations performed and the elapsed time since the previous call to PAPI_flops. Here's the C declaration for PAPI_flops (there is also a Fortran interface to this routine).
For more details see:
int PAPI_flops (float *rtime, float *ptime, long_long *flpops, float
Where the input values are:
total realtime since first PAPI_flops() call
total process time since the first PAPI_flops() call
total floating point operations since the first call
Mflop/s achieved since the previous call
Here's a simple example that uses the PAPI_flops routine to get floating point statistics for a program. This also does some basic sanity checking to ensure there isn't a PAPI version mismatch and to ensure that the PAPI library is functional.
mg56 % cat measure_flops.c #include <papi.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define MSIZE (1024 * 100) main() { int retval; /* return value for PAPI calls */ float rtime; /* total realtime since first PAPI_flops() call */ float ptime; /* total process time since the first PAPI_flops() call */ long long flpops; /* total floating point instructions or operations since the first call */ float mflops; /* Mflop/s achieved since the previous call */ int ii; int jj; float * array1; float * array2; /* Initialize the PAPI library */ retval = PAPI_library_init(PAPI_VER_CURRENT); /* Verify there isn't a version mismatch */ if (retval != PAPI_VER_CURRENT && retval > 0) { fprintf(stderr,"PAPI library version mismatch!\n"); exit(1); } /* verify that there wasn't a different PAPI error */ if (retval < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "PAPI Initialization error!\n"); exit(1); } array1=(float *) malloc( (size_t)MSIZE * sizeof(float) ); if ( array1 == NULL ) { printf("ERROR: array1==NULL!\n"); exit(1); } array2=(float *) malloc( (size_t)MSIZE * sizeof(float) ); if ( array2 == NULL ) { printf("ERROR: array2==NULL!\n"); exit(1); } /* Initialize the arrays */ for(ii=0;ii<MSIZE;++ii) { array1[ii]=.1234 * (float)ii; array2[ii]=.5678 * (float)ii; } /* Initialize the counters */ retval=PAPI_flops(&rtime, &ptime, &flpops, &mflops); if ( retval != PAPI_OK ) { fprintf(stderr,"Error running PAPI_flops!"); } /* Do some floating point work */ for(jj=0;jj<MSIZE/2;++jj) { for(ii=0;ii<MSIZE;++ii) { array1[ii]+=array2[ii]; } } printf("array1[0]=%f\n", array1[0]); /* Reread the counters */ retval=PAPI_flops(&rtime, &ptime, &flpops, &mflops); if ( retval != PAPI_OK ) { fprintf(stderr,"Error running PAPI_flops!"); } /* Print statistics */ fprintf(stdout, "real time = %f\n", rtime); fprintf(stdout, "processing time = %f\n", ptime); fprintf(stdout, "floating point ops = %ld\n", flpops); fprintf(stdout, "MFlop/s = %f\n", mflops); return 0; }
PAPI is available in the $PET_HOME directory on iceberg and midnight. Below is an example of how the above code can be compiled on midnight.
mg56 % PAPI=${PET_HOME}/pkgs/papi-3.5.0 mg56 % pathcc -I${PAPI}/include -Ofast \ -L${PAPI}/lib64 \ -Wl,-R ${PAPI}/lib64 \ -lpapi -lperfctr \ measure_flops.c -o measure_flops
When run on a compute node, the "measure_flops" code will produce the following output:
mt257 % ./measure_flops array1[0]=0.000000 real time = 1.177192 processing time = 1.176266 floating point ops = 2705502720 MFlop/s = 2300.077393
NOTE: PAPI is available only on compute nodes on midnight.
Similarly on iceberg:
iceberg2 % PAPI=${PET_HOME}/pkgs/papi-3.5.0-64bit iceberg2 % xlc -q64 -I${PAPI}/include -O5 \ -L${PAPI}/lib \ -lpapi64 -lpmapi \ measure_flops.c -o measure_flops iceberg2 % ./measure_flops array1[0]=0.000000 real time = 4.140038 processing time = 4.133397 floating point ops = 5242883584 MFlop/s = 1268.420166
For more details on PAPI check out the PAPI documentation online: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/files/html_man3/papi.html
There are tools built on top of PAPI that provide access to PAPI counters without code modification. One of these tools is TAU, also installed in $PET_HOME, will be featured in a future issue of this newsletter. For more information on TAU, see: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/tau
PathScale Debugging Flags
The default compiler suite on midnight is PathScale. This compiler has a few handy options which can aide in the debugging process.
When the -trapuv flag is used, uninitialized floating point variables are initialized to NaN and the CPU is set to detect floating point exceptions. When an uninitialized variable is used, a core dump will be produced. This option only applies to local scalar and array variables and memory allocated via the "alloca" call. This specifically does not apply to memory allocated via "malloc" (C), "new" (C++) or "allocate" (Fortran 90), nor will this option detect uninitialized integer data.Works with:
pathcc, pathCC, and pathf90 (as well as MPI compilers using PathScale)Example Use:
Here's a simple example using -trapuv to catch an uninitialized REAL*4 variable (b). It a good idea to include -g when using -trapuv to ensure the debugger can make sense of the core file.
mg56 % pathf90 test.f90 -trapuv -g -o test mg56 % ./test Floating point exception (core dumped) mg56 % gdb ./test core ... ... #0 0x0000000000400be4 in MAIN__ () at test.f90:7 7 b=b*a (gdb)
The -zerouv option will set uninitialized variables to zero at runtime rather than NaN. This is an easy option to try when a code misbehaves. This option works with local scalar and array variables and memory allocated via the "alloca" call. There is a slight performance overhead associated with this option as variables are set to zero at run-time.
The -C option will enable array bounds checking for Fortran90 codes. This can be a quick way to track down out-of-bounds array access.Works With:
pathf90Example Use:
mg56 % pathf90 test.f90 -C -g -o test mg56 % ./test lib-4964 : WARNING Subscript is out of range for dimension 1 for array 'C' at line 11 in file '/lustre/wrkdir/bahls/debug/test.f90', diagnosed in routine '__f90_bounds_check'. c(10)= 1.
You can set the environment variable F90_BOUNDS_CHECK_ABORT to yes to have the first out of bound array access cause the application to abort.
mg56 % export F90_BOUNDS_CHECK_ABORT=YES mg56 % ./test lib-4964 : UNRECOVERABLE library error Subscript is out of range for dimension 1 for array 'C' at line 11 in file '/lustre/wrkdir/bahls/debug/test.f90', diagnosed in routine '__f90_bounds_check'. Aborted (core dumped)
As with most debugging techniques, it is a good idea to include the -g option when compiling. More importantly, it is a good idea not to use these techniques when running production work as there may be a significant performance hit.
Other Tips
The MVAPICH MPI stack used on midnight has a few nuances that can cause confusion.
Limits set within a PBS script are not propagated to the MPI environment. The workaround for this is to set the limits within the rc file for your shell. For example if your login shell on midnight is bash, you can increase the "core" limit for MPI applications using the ~/.bashrc file
# for bash users
mg56 % grep ulimit ~/.bashrc
ulimit -Sc unlimited
# for csh/tcsh users
mg56 % grep limit ~/.cshrc
ulimit -Sc unlimited
limit stacksize unlimited
Also, environment variables are not propagated to the MPI environment by default. You need to specify the environment variables within the mpirun command.
mpirun -np 4 F90_BOUNDS_CHECK_ABORT=YES ./a.out
Quick-Tip Q & A
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Last night several friends asked me for the recipe for the "absolutely wonderful," "amazing," and "best pumpkin bread I have ever had" that I had brought to our Christmas party. To tell the truth, though, the nice words my friends had for the pumpkin bread were, well, an understatement. This pumpkin loaf was very heavy, yet not too dense; rather, the texture was perfect. The crust was a beautiful golden shade all around. This pumpkin loaf also pulled off what is one of the most difficult feats of all in baking: being sweet without sugary.
There was one thing about this pumpkin loaf, though, that I wish was different …
It wasn't my recipe.
In fact, I'm not even sure how to make this pumpkin loaf from scratch, because I didn't do so the first time.
That's right, I made it from a kit, Libby's Pumpkin Quick Bread Kit to be specific. I bought mine at a Safeway here in Denver over the weekend and am going back to get more just as soon as I can get away from this computer. If you find the kits in your own local supermarket, you should buy up as many as you have room to store, as they are only available during the holiday season. And even then, these sweet little kits (no pun intended) can be a bit difficult to track down.
Oh, and while you are at the supermarket, you should go ahead and pick up some eggs and vegetable oil if you are running low. The kit comes with the bread mix and a can of Libby's pumpkin. The recipe also requires 4 large eggs, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, and water.
One you have purchased your very own Libby's Pumpkin Quick Bread Kit, follow this recipe (found on the side of the kit) for turning it into your own high altitude holiday hit:
Pumpkin bread mix
1 can Libby's pumpkin
4 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1-1/4 cups water (1 cup water only at lower altitudes)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Blend the eggs, vegetable oil, and water together in a large mixing bowl.
Gradually stir in the bread mix until it is completely moistened.
Pour batter into greased 9″x5″ loaf pans.
Bake for 70 to 80 minutes or until a toothpick or knife comes out clean when inserted near the middle of the loaf and the crust is golden.
The directions on the box say to bake for 60 to 65 minutes, regardless of altitude, but my loaves took 80 minutes to bake. To be safe, it would be a good idea to start checking your loaves for doneness the first time you use this recipe at 60 minutes initially and then every 10 minutes thereafter.
You may also wish to use this mix to make muffins. To do so, prepare the batter the same as for the pumpkin loaf but divide it among several muffin pans instead of loaf pans. (Muffin pans should be greased or lined with cupcake holders.) Bake regular size muffins for 20 to 25 minutes; mini muffins should be done in 15 to 20 minutes.
Regardless of weather you use this kit to make pumpkin loaves, regular, size muffins, or mini muffins, you should be aware that this batter likes to rise on the high side, at least at 5,280 feet, that is. Therefore, fill your pans about two-thirds full. Filling pans all the way to the top will give the expression "muffin top" a new meaning, as well as the inside of your oven a need for a serious cleanup job.


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Governments have finally taken ownership of the diabetes problem:
Major National NCD Plans which will improve diabetes prevention, treatment and care have been launched, including:
- China: 15 government ministries drafted and adopted the 2012-2015 multisectoral NCD Working Plan. The Plan aims to improve early detection + treatment for diabetes, and sets a target to ensure 80% of township hospitals provide blood glucose monitoring.
- India: launched a 5 year national plan to reduce NCDs, which aims to screen the entire population for diabetes risk.
Whole-of-government mechanisms to coordinate intersectoral action on diabetes and NCDs have been established in countries as diverse as Jordan, Malaysia, Norway, Suriname and Uganda.
But Civil Society is still growing in influence + leadership:
- IDF and the NCD Alliance continue to lead and mobilise a global civil society movement for NCDs, focused on the follow up to the UN Summit
- After years of campaigning, the Ethiopian Diabetes Association + NCD Consortium secured a major victory post-Summit; the NCD Strategic Framework is now included in the 2011-2015 national Health + Development Plans
- Major health NGOs, such as Management Sciences for Health and PATH, are moving into NCDs.


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For more than twenty years, Dr. Sharon Lee has been providing medical care to the region's poor and uninsured at her non-profit, safety net health clinic on Southwest Boulevard. Among the earliest treated at the clinic were HIV AIDS patients, when few in Kansas City knew anything about the disease. Today, it's diabetes, high blood pressure and other health issues, all treated regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Remarkably, Dr. Lee pays herself the same salary as the clinic's janitor and receptionist. That's right: an MD who makes $14 an hour. Sean Holmes produced our story.
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Is there any legal requirement for them to deal with a budget?
The law requires Congress to pass a budget every year, on the grounds that Americans deserve to know how the government plans to spend the trillions of taxpayer dollars it collects, along with dollars it borrows at the taxpayers' expense. But Majority Leader Harry Reid, who last allowed a budget through the Senate in April 2009, has ignored the law since then.
Apparently not being that the House has sent 15 budgets over to them and Harry Reid has not brought one to the floor
These were not budgets, these were thinly veiled "frick you"'s to the american people.
Then they should have been brought up for a vote, and let the Senate vote no.
...an egregious dereliction of duty on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D–NV) watch.
Just as they did in March in the House of Representatives, Republicans forced a vote on a bill that was supposed to resemble the president's budget, but wasn't actually the president's budget. A Republican Senator submitted it, and called for the vote.
This vote, on a Potemkin "Obama Budget," is not intended to be taken seriously. It's a stunt designed to get a slag into the newscycle, and they tend to work. What happens is a Republican legislator presents a "budget proposal" that's designed to be a satirical presentation of an "Obama budget." Democrats don't vote for it, because they recognize that it bears no resemblance to their budgetary preferences. Back in March, it was Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) who got the Harlequin role in this bit of legislative commedia dell'arte. As Dave Weigel reported at the time, Mulvaney presented the pretend Obama budget with a knowing wink:
Why? The Republicans have refused to allow this to happen so many times since the Senate went Democratic. See the use of the filibuster in recent years.
Democrat-Held Senate Rejects Obama's Horrific Budget, 99-0
For the second consecutive year, the Democrat-controlled United States Senate has unanimously rejected President Obama's 2013 budget. The final vote was 99-0, making the the running two-year tally 196-0.
This move follows the House of Representatives' 414-0 rebuke of the same fiscal blueprint earlier this year. Astonishingly, not a single Senate Democrat has voted in favor of any budget for three years, even as they refuse to offer a plan of their own. Democrats have claimed that three fig leaves mitigate this embarrassing spectacle:
(1) "The Senate has already passed a budget!" False. The Senate has not passed a budget. It "deemed" itself a budget as part of a separate piece of legislation over the summer. That law did not address tax policy, entitlement programs, and a slew of other items that a real budget entails. Harry Reid's hand-picked Senate Parliamentarian has confirmed Republicans' contention that the Senate has not fulfilled its basic budgetary obligations. This is the 1,113th day in a row that this has been the case.
(2) "Republican obstructionism!" False. Budgets explicitly cannot be filibustered. If Democrats introduced a budget, whipped their members, and called a vote, it would pass. Simple as that. Republicans couldn't do a thing to stop it. But that would require Democrats to put their long-term plans on paper, which they've been avoiding like the plague for entirely political reasons.
(3) "This vote is a gimmick!" If Democrats want to label an up-or-down vote on a Democratic president's budget a "gimmick," they're welcome to do so. In some ways, it's an appropriate description, given the pitiful gimmicks upon which Obama's budget relies -- even to achieve the fraudulent "savings" it claims. Had it not been defeated by Congress 513-0, Obama's budget would have added $11 Trillion to the gross national debt. It would literally never balance.
The Senate will now move on to vote on four separate Republican-proposed budgets, including the House-passed version. They will all receive more votes than President Obama's brainchild, but none is expected to pass. Stay tuned for updates...
UPDATE - The Senate has defeated the House-passed Ryan budget, 41-58.Head-to-head tally: Paul Ryan 41 - Barack Obama 0
UPDATE II - The Senate has defeated Senator Pat Toomey's (R-PA) budget resolution, 42-57. This is the seventh consecutive proposed Senate budget that has failed to attract even one Democrat vote.
UPDATE III - The Senate has rejected the two remaining GOP budget alternatives, authored by Senators Lee (17-82) and Paul (16-83). Harry Reid's Senate once again goes oh-fer on budgets, in an age of $16 Trillion debt, a national credit downgrade, and a struggling economy. Disgraceful.
"the D led Senate refuses to pass a budget"
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383 build knock?
Hey guys, I built a 383 stroker for my 96 Chevy Express 1500 Van a while back and had a ton of issues. I haven't really driven it other that to move it around. It has had noise in the engine that I thought was due to bad gas (a mix of 4yr old and new 93 octane gas 50/50) I found that my MAF was dirty and when I cleaned it, it was not as noisy. I have babied it when I did move it. I moved it today and I drove it around the block to get the juices flowing and it was ok (it's normal noisy self... I thought I needed to check the rocker arm adjustment again) but I stopped it and ran in the house came out and it was making a heavy knocking souns. So bad that the intake manifold felt like it was being hit. I pulled plug wires to see if the noise would stop and it did when I pulled #8 cylinder. Is that the tell tale sign that it has a blown rod bearing? This van is a PITA to work on ,even to just remove the valve covers!!! I thought I triple checked everything when I built it but I guess I missed something. I have had solo many issues with this build I am at a loss!! So if the spark is pulled and the knock goes away does that mean the rod bearing is bad? Sorry for the long post. I am sad!!!
I just listened to it again and the knock is not consistent . i am going to pull the valve cover but it sounds like it is in the intake manifold. this engine has the spider assy fuel injection...is it possible that the injection popped out of the manifold and that compression is banging it against the upper manifold? i just wanted to see if anyone has had a similar issue before i go ripping everything apart again.
Not sure about the fuel injection. But it should not be the issue. I have herd them click and clat a little but a full on knock is not efi unless its from a badly leaking injector.
I would be willing to bet its a loose rod bolt.
That being said did you clearence the block for the larger crank. Most of the time they fit but sometimes they just bearly touch and will make noise.
I have also seen a flex plate make some aweful noise. But usally that does not go away when a plug is pulled.
How hard is it to get the oil pan off?
Thanks for the reply!
I bought the block from summit already clearanced for a stroker crank. I swear I triple checked all of my fasteners but I guess you never know if you missed something. I thought to check the flexplate also but haven't yet. The pan should be a real PITA to pull in vehicle! It is a really hard knock and almost feels like something is hitting the inside of the manifold. This engine has the poppet injectors that are all concealed inside the manifold... I was thinking that maybe the #8cyl. poppet popped out and compression is banging it into the manifold? I'm so lost I was just trying to think of anything else it could be other than a rod bearing. The weird thing is that it does not make the noise directly related to RPM. It does kinda have a pattern but if you gas it it doesn't seem to be based RPM solely.
Here is some questions you need to ask yourself:
What kind of oil pressure does it have??. Kind of low??.
What does the oil look like??.
Do you think even if you could get the pan off,you could clean out the engine from a bad bearing let alone check the crank??.
Does it have press fit piston pins or full floating pins.What kind of locks if full floating pins??.
Decide right now the worst and be willing to accept it.
You can run tests like you did pulling plug wires,but at the end of the day sounds like there is something very wrong that needs to come back apart out of the van.Do not run it much anymore.
Not based on rpm? Got an iphone make some videos and lets hear it.
If it does not get faster based on rpm its something out side the motor knocking against the block. But if it rattles when you let off the gas its a lose rod bolt. Under pressure they make a little less noise. Not much...
Check all the bolt on items. Alt, water pump, powersteering. Make sure its not something to do with the belts making all the noise. I would go pver everything before i ripped the engine out of the van. But i got a feeling its coming out. Maybe setup an engine stand to run the engine out of the truck and. Check it before/after to make sure its ready to install. Fyi. Sometimes its better to Use wallet and let a younger back go to work for you and remove the engine. If theoil pan is not clear then not much point in pulling it. You will need room to work.
I would drop the trans and start it back up and see if the noise is still there. But its probably got to come out and most vans are not going to make this easy unless you go with open exhuast. Then you wont be able to hear.
Never used summits blocks but did they give you rod bolts or did you buy your own. Are they all tighted so the flat side is facing the block not a point. 5.7 rods or 6.0? You didnt use stock rod bolt?
Did you Torque the rod bolts according to the spec of the bolts or the block? Also does your engine or bolts require tightening and losing the bolts during the install process? Rod resized during bolt change?
Sorry for the questions and no answers but trying to get a handle on the problem. Also some of them are just to lead you in the right direction. No need to answer everything with long details.
It has full floating pins with a standard type clip.
it does get faster if the engine is rev'd but it kinda has it's own beat at times.
I did think about disconnecting the flex plate from the crank to isolate it but it going away when I pull spark to #8 makes me think it's something inside the engine.
The summit block was bare and clearanced for a stroker already, I installed a Scat rotating assy. and used the rod bolts they supplied. I did use all arp studs on the crank. the rods did not have stud/nut combos...they came with 12 point screws for added clearance.
Because it is only on number 8 I agree it is internal and the more you run it "trying" to test it the more damage you are creating.Take it back apart and the hell with a video.A knock is a knock and it is serious.
did you check cam to rod bolt clearances ?
I seen one that the new distributor cap was arching thru and made it knock also
Sound tracking gear.
For checking noises from engines my neighbour lent me a" mechanics stethoscope" . It looks like a doctors piece of gear that has two ear pieces and the listening proble is either a steel or wood screw in pointer. You place the pointer on the engine where you think the knock is and listen. As you think it is no.8 rod bearing , if you could listen with a probe on the sump, you may track it down. I had a bad cam and lifters in my 347 stroker, (caused by a "loose" cam gear retaining bolt.) and pinpointed the equivalent lifters/rockers with this piece of gear. Sorry i dont have a picture of it but i think you will get what i am describing here.
Could be OLD GAS that you mentioned. 4 year old gas, even mixed with fresh fuel, will gum up the intake valve stems which will make the valves stick, which will cause the push rods to bend and flatten lifters/cam lobes.
Happened to me. I had to pull the heads and hammer out the valves and use lacquer thinner to get the varnish off, and change the cam and lifters and push rods. old gas can make a big mess in the valve train.
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For her senior thesis project, Princeton civil and environmental engineering major Ida Posner is developing a filter that could allow scientists to quickly measure water use by plants like this basil grown in the Princeton EcoHydrology Lab. Measuring plants' water use is critical for understanding how ecosystems are affected by drought, development or climate change.
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Most gardeners can tell by rule of thumb how much water their tomatoes and carrots need, but taking an accurate reading of plants' actual water use is a very difficult problem.
Although the measurement is critical for understanding how ecosystems are affected by drought, development or climate change, there is no easy way for scientists to verify estimates of water use. Right now, scientists have to use expensive, bulky laboratory equipment to analyze samples that allow them to directly track how much water plants are using. But if Ida Posner's senior thesis project works the way she hopes, that could all change.
Posner, a civil and environmental engineering major at Princeton University, has developed a technique to simplify and reduce the cost of water vapor measurements. It is not just a theory: For her thesis project, Posner is building a small, cylindrical device that could lead the way for scientists to quickly and efficiently measure plants' water use.
"You put your sample in, and within a few seconds it gives you a reading," she said. Posner is still working on technical details in the hydrology lab in the Engineering Quadrangle and, although she has not obtained final results, she is "pretty confident about it."
Posner is working with a research team led by Kelly Caylor (right), an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Princeton EcoHydrology Lab, in the effort to find better ways to measure the water use in an ecosystem.
Posner is working with Professor Kelly Caylor's research team, which is looking for better ways to measure the water use in an ecosystem. Making accurate estimates of how much water is used by plants in a given area is a critical element in governing development in semi-arid regions of the world, such as the area of Africa just below the Sahara Desert.
"There is an urgent need for better guidance regarding the management of water for use in dryland agriculture and the response of rangelands to rainfall variability in semi-arid regions," said Caylor, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Princeton EcoHydrology Lab. "Any advice or additional insight to these issues depends critically on being able to routinely and accurately characterize the water use of plants."
Posner, who is from Pittsburgh, is completing a certificate in African studies and spent a semester last year studying at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She hopes that her research will lead to new work in the area.
"There are so many opportunities for great projects," she said.
To track how plants use water from the environment, the researchers measure isotopes present in water vapor emitted by a plant — a process called transpiration. The proportion of isotopes, which are variants of elements determined by the number of neutrons in an atom, is affected by how the water vapor formed.
"The isotopic signature of water gives it a fingerprint that you can use to trace water through the ecosystem," Posner said. "In the hydrological cycle, you are looking at water being sent back into the atmosphere — is it through evaporation or transpiration?"
Water vapor created by plants through transpiration has a distinct isotope composition, but this measure is often skewed by organic contaminants, including ethanol and methanol, that are emitted by the plants. It's possible to remove or account for these contaminants, but that requires laboratory equipment not suitable for field use. Posner's task is to create a cheap and practical filter to remove these chemicals without disturbing the sample.
In testing her device, Posner first extracts water from a basil plant in Caylor's Princeton laboratory by mashing up a sample and freeze-drying the water. (Another of Caylor's students, senior Alice Suh, is working on a special clamp that can directly collect emitted water vapor. Suh, also a civil and environmental engineering major, is developing the device as part of her senior thesis project as well.)
Posner then must remove the impurities without damaging the sample. To do that, she has made a special filter that operates like a car's catalytic converter. Essentially, she took a 5-inch stainless steel pipe and filled it with aluminum pellets coated with a thin layer of platinum. She attached air hoses at both ends of the pipe so she can stream the water vapor through. If all goes according to plan, the platinum will break down the organic contaminants, which will then remain inside the pipe. The vapor that emerges from the other end will be ready for analysis. In the field, Posner's pipe assembly would be attached to a suitcase-sized device that measures the isotopes.
Caylor said if Posner's technique works "we will be able to quickly and routinely assess the isotopic composition of plant water use in field settings."
"Right now, there are no methods for addressing organic contamination in the field, and laboratory approaches that have been developed are not suitable for field use," he said. "So Ida is really working on a silver bullet — a method of removing contaminants that can be used either in the field or in the lab."
For Posner, the senior thesis has been not only an education in science, but also in the practical aspects of conducting research. She applied for, and was awarded, two grants totaling $1,750 from the engineering school's Adler Fund and Lidow '73 Fund to pay for some of her lab expenses. She had to put together a budget, buy equipment and schedule lab space to conduct her work. Although she said many people from the department, from graduate students to professors, went out of their way to help teach her how to use the equipment or offer advice on everything from supplies to lab techniques, the final responsibility for the project was hers.
"I had not done any independent lab work before," Posner said. "Learning how to do research on your own and make a plan, figuring out how to build something and then building it, is amazing."


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Medicare payment to physicians is set to be slashed 21.5% in January 1, 2010, with a cumulative total of 40% reduction in reimbursements planned over the next few years. This is due to the flawed Medicare physician payment formula put in place in 1999.
Fair payment is critically important to ensure access to care for our senior citizens and the disabled. Plus, Tricare has been using Medicare rates so the issue impacts our military as well.
Medicare cuts can prevent doctors from seeing new Medicare patients, discourage them from investing in health technology, and make many consider closing their practices altogether!
The formula must be repealed and replaced with a fair, stable system that better matches the cost of providing care. S 1776 is critical to help get us toward that goal.
Seems reasonable that a formula created 10 years ago may not reflect the cost of care today, just taking into account technological advances in medical care in that 10-yr period.
If S1776 does not pass, and Medicare participants begin having trouble finding doctors who will accept the reimbursement levels of Medicare, it might make some people want to move toward the new health care proposals.
Or it might make some people realize that the private insurance companies negotiating lower payment schedules is minor league compared to the govt negotiating lower payment schedules.
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Using floppy disks as a recording medium, this digital device plays a high-quality acoustic piano during playback, ensuring that tonal irregularities, noise and distortion typically found in audio recordings of a piano, are completely avoided. The owner enjoys hearing the beauty of "true" piano sound from a high-quality acoustic piano, instead of a "recording" of one.
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Time was when thePresident of the United States delivered theState of the Union Address, and people cheered or jeered — dependent on their political persusasion then everybody went out and g0t drunk.
Now everyone from the party boss to the janitor gets face time on the tube to pontificate on the state of affairs in the nation.
Barack Obama, of course, delivers the State of the Union next Tuesday. That's part of his job as the top boss. TheRepublican Party gets its change to and down its view on the state of things in the official GOP response, delivered this year byWisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, new chairman of theHouse Budget Committee.
But wait. This year there's a new player in the halls of power. Re.Michele Bachmann, the mouth that roared ad designated shouter thisyear for the boom box majority,, will broadcast the the "official response" Tea Party Express.
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As a collector of Vintage figures what was the last vintage figure you bought and how much did you get it for???
As a collector of Vintage figures what was the last vintage figure you bought and how much did you get it for???
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
I just picked up Rancor Keeper and Admiral Ackbar yesterday, and am waiting for Amanaman to arrive in the mail later this week.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Again...Han Solo Hoth Gear for $2...it has his gun and the figure is very well conserved, but it had no card of course.
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As a collector, I was fortunate to be able to buy all of the vintage line as they came out (from the Early Bird Set that started me off to the bitter end). I only missed out on Lumat and bought him in a lot of loose figures (in perfect condition) a year or two after the line ended. I thought my collection complete.
Then the price guides started to be published and I found a listing for "Yak Face". I thought that the author had made a mistake and dismissed it as such for years. Bear in mind, we didn't have the internet back then, at least not as we enjoy it now. Eventually I saw retailers advertizing it and found it at conventions. When I first discovered Mr. Face, I refused to pay $40.00 for a loose figure, even one I didn't have. I passed him up at $45.00, at $50.00, at $60.00...
The last figure I bought, the one that completed my vintage collection, was of course Yak Face, at the painful price of $75.00. But then the price continues to rise. I'm just glad I got my Imperial Dignitary when it came out for about $3.25 and my Amanaman in the Jabba's Dungeon Playset (Christmas 1984).
"Does the name "Dingo" mean anything to you?" - Jedi Boulton to DingoDad at the October Dallas ComiCon.
Well, I just got Amanaman, Lumat and Romba in the mail today so those are my last figures for now. I think I'll get the A-Wing Pilot, Han Carbonite and Warok next.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
My very last figure was Han in Carbonite. I paid the outragious price of $90 for it, but it was my very last vintage fig to complete my collection, so what the heck!
The last figure I bought was a Kenner bagged wind-up R2-D2. It has been years, since I actually bought a vintage figure. I really don't need anything except for Vlix, telescoping Ben, telescoping Vader, and prototypes. That's why I havn't bought figures. I have been trying to complete my coin set for a while now. I am down to needing two.
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Description Flattened, diamond-shaped pectoral fin disk slightly wider than its length. Long, moderately pointed snout. Eyes small, placed just ahead of the large spiracles. Small teeth with raised cusps, with 24-48 rows in the upper jaw and 22-45 in lower. Pelvic fins have a weak notch in each. Two small dorsal fins on the tail, absent anal fin, and simple fold for the caudal fin.
Adults have 2-3 thorns mid-back, 13-17 (up to 55) thorns along midline of tail, and interdorsal thorn. Ventral side is white, with dark spots or blotches. Back is mottled brown to reddish brown, olive-brown, or gray, with small white spots or scattered dark blotches. Wings have two large dark spots with pale borders.
Dimensions Up to 8' (2.4 m).
Related Species Family: Rajidae.
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows.
Range California, Northwest, Western Canada, Alaska.
Discussion The big skate's slow reproductive rate has led it to be assessed as 'Near Threatened' by the World Conservation Union due to recreational and commercial fishing.


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Greg Matos (Psychology, '08) is currently finishing his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP). He is the Program Coordinator for Train Vets to Treat Vets, an innovative project bringing veterans into the mental health field to work clinically with returning veterans.
Greg is a former Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps who returned to Rhode Island after serving as a Marine Embassy Guard in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and India. He chose Rhode Island College to continue on his journey in psychology. "After four years in the Marine Corps, RIC was my intellectual home."
A semester into the graduate program, Greg enrolled in Cognition, taught by professor Paul Jeffries. "He taught me how to think critically, to choose the words I wrote and spoke with care." Greg attributes much of his success in graduate school to the afternoons spent in Jeffries' office, painstakingly pouring over his master's thesis proposal. "The experience continues to shape my clinical and research work."
Greg recently received the U.S. Navy's Health Professions Scholarship for Clinical Psychology and will be returning to active duty next year. He will be providing mental health services to Marines and sailors. Greg also recently published a memoir about his military experiences, entitled: "Shattered Glass: The Story of a Marine Embassy Guard." For more information, visit: www.GregMatos.com.


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What do Mr. Rogers, Bill Clinton, Keanu Reeves and Prince William all have in common? Besides being famous, they also all happen to be color blind! Inspired by our Left Handers Trivia Quiz, we decided to do a Color Blindness Quiz. To get you revved up, take a look at this image and see if you can decipher what letter or number it shows. Which leads us to our first Quiz question. . .
- What letter or number is inside the circle? If you can't tell, chances are you're color blind!
- TRUE or FALSE. If you're color blind, you can't see any colors at all.
- Who is more likely to be color blind, men or women?
- Name a job that requires you NOT to be color blind.
- Are bees color blind?
- If you're color blind, how many color hues are you able to see? A. 0 B. 3 C. 20 D. 50
- Name the cure for color blindness.
- How can a color blind person tell if a traffic light is red or green?
- If a woman is color blind, will all her sons be color blind?
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There has to be some sort of support group for this. I am a woman scorned — not for the love of another woman but for the love of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft, also known as WoW to its denizens, is the medieval-themed, multi-player, online role-playing game that picked up where Dungeons & Dragons left off, imprisoning the minds of more than eight million players and siphoning them from the arms of their loved ones.
I know. My boyfriend has been playing the thing night and day for more than a year now.
WoW is more than just a game: it's an all-consuming mania that starts as a lark and turns into an addiction, as evidenced by the thousands of online message-board postings from wives, husbands, parents, and friends who have been abandoned for late-night "guild meetings" and all-night point-accumulating "quests." And after last month's release of the game's much-anticipated expansion, fervent gamers have more dungeons to raid, lands to quest in, and mobs to slay, making the future pretty bleak for significant others.
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I fall asleep better on my own, and he always comes to bed eventually, waking me with a kiss on the forehead every night. He's meeting interesting people, I suppose, and I equate the glimmer in his eyes when he tells me about his character's new plated armor to the one I get when I show him the sweater I scored at Filene's Basement. He doesn't glaze over when I tell him about my bargain shopping; he at least deserves some feigned enthusiasm for swiping a spear and magic helmet off a dead troll.
The problem isn't the game itself; it's that I feel I've been had.
Virtual trumps realityThis is a guy who used to navigate through conversations with enviable skill. He could talk about anything from woodworking to Lead Belly, to fine art, to surfcasting. He was dynamic and indefinable. He was a poet in a Red Sox cap. He could change a tire while eulogizing the merits of Riojan reds. He was the last guy you would expect to lose his soul to a video game. He seemed so strong, so vital, so immune.
Now I look at a shell of the guy I fell in love with and see a drone in his place. Sometimes it's like a parasite has sucked the life out of him and inhabited his frenzied mouse-finger. Warcraft has become more than a quirky pastime; it's grown into a complete lifestyle.
For months I've been strategically leaving out books and articles that I hope will distract him for a night and break the Warcraft spell, but he prefers to devour the contents of his Warcraft Atlas and Encyclopedia instead, memorizing every map and battle cry.
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he came in the combine at 5' 6
he came in the combine at 5' 6
As someone who lives in the area and watches the Big 12.. I don't think he will ever be an every-down back.
He reminds me of Dante Hall, if any of you remember, he was a running back at Texas A&M and we drafted him as such. The general feeling before he broke out as a kick returner was that he was pretty mucha bust, though.
I can see Sproles as an explosive returner and someone who could have a role in an NFL offense, but... the guy is a midget.
a midget who can flat out run! hes also very hard to bring down once he gets rollingOriginally Posted by Cochise
To be the Budd you must take the Walk - Mike Buddwalk
This guy definitely wouldnt solve our problem at RB. A team that already has there featured back and is looking for a change of pace guy or a 3rd down back should take a chance on him, but not us. If you think this guy can carry the ball 30X's a game if need be you are mistaken imo.
Hey, I hope he has success in the NFL. I'm rooting for him. But, when you think about the NFL, he's going to run against 11 guys who were in the upper echelon of the people he would have faced in college.Originally Posted by Buddwalk
I can see him being a great return man, someone you put in to catch the ball or move in motion out to the slot to catch passes, that kind of thing. But, 20 carries a game in the NFL?
He'll come in the middle rounds probably, someone will pick him and he'll get his chance. He does seem like a down to earth kid who feeds off people doubting him.
you guys say he cant take the carries obviously you havnt watched any of the video clips...take a look and see for your self the guys a beast
was this thread created to get a laugh???
........... hey as long as he doesn't steal too many carries from Vernand Morency, I'm ok with it. Hahah
The kid has a heart and has been told throughout his career that he is too small, and guess what?? he has made believers out of everyone. I payed close attention to him in the senior bowl and IMO he ran better than any back out there. So I say: Why not give this guy a chance? True, his senior season his production was down but that was because his suporting cast was inferior to previous years and oposing DC's were game planning to stop him. If the Dolphins go with a QB with their 1sr rd pick I say why not Sproles in the later rounds?
I think you are going to be on this bandwagon all by yourself. With all the quality backs in the draft, why on God's Green Earth would you want to draft 5'5 175 pound guy who will NEVER be more than a 3rd down/change of pace guy, AT BEST. It just doesn't make sense.Originally Posted by Buddwalk


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5.3: Magnetic Polarity Evidence for Continental Drift
"The Wegener hypothesis has been so stimulating and has such fundamental implications in geology..."
"...as to merit respectful and sympathetic interest from every geologist. Some striking arguments in his favor have been advanced, and it would be foolhardy indeed to reject any concept that offers a possible key to the solution of profound problems in the Earth's history." - Chester R. Longwell, "Some Thoughts on the Evidence for Continental Drift," 1944
Wegener and his supporters did all they could do to find evidence to support continental drift. But without a mechanism the idea would not be accepted. What was needed was the development of technologies that would allow scientists to find more evidence for the idea and help them describe a mechanism. But first, they would find still more evidence that the continents had moved.
Magnetic Polarity Evidence
The next breakthrough in the development of the theory of plate tectonics came two decades after Wegener's death. Magnetite crystals are shaped like a tiny bar magnet. As basalt lava cools, the magnetite crystals line up in the magnetic field like tiny magnets. When the lava is completely cooled, the crystals point in the direction of magnetic north pole at the time they form. How do you expect this would help scientists see whether continents had moved or not?
Magnetite crystals.
As a Wegener supporter, (and someone who is omniscient), you have just learned of a new tool that may help you. A magnetometer is a device capable of measuring the magnetic field intensity. This allows you to look at the magnetic properties of rocks in many locations. First, you're going to look at rocks on land. Which rocks should you seek out for study?
Magnetic Polarity on the Same Continent with Rocks of Different Ages
Geologists noted important things about the magnetic polarity of different aged rocks on the same continent:
- Magnetite crystals in fresh volcanic rocks point to the current magnetic north pole (Figure below) no matter what continent or where on the continent the rocks are located.
Earth's current north magnetic pole is in northern Canada.
- Older rocks that are the same age and are located on the same continent point to the same location, but that location is not the current north magnetic pole.
- Older rocks that are of different ages do not point to the same locations or to the current magnetic north pole.
In other words, although the magnetite crystals were pointing to the magnetic north pole, the location of the pole seemed to wander. Scientists were amazed to find that the north magnetic pole changed location over time (Figure below).
The location of the north magnetic north pole 80 million years before present (mybp), then 60, 40, 20, and now.
Can you figure out the three possible explanations for this? They are:
- The continents remained fixed and the north magnetic pole moved.
- The north magnetic pole stood still and the continents moved.
- Both the continents and the north pole moved.
Magnetic Polarity on Different Continents with Rocks of the Same Age
How do you figure out which of those three possibilities is correct? You decide to look at magnetic rocks on different continents. Geologists noted that for rocks of the same age but on different continents, the little magnets pointed to different magnetic north poles.
- 400 million-year-old magnetite in Europe pointed to a different north magnetic pole than magnetite of the same age in North America.
- 250 million years ago, the north poles were also different for the two continents.
Now look again at the three possible explanations. Only one can be correct. If the continents had remained fixed while the north magnetic pole moved, there must have been two separate north poles. Since there is only one north pole today, what is the best explanation? The only reasonable explanation is that the magnetic north pole has remained fixed but that the continents have moved.
Wegener was Right!
How does this help you to provide evidence for continental drift? To test the idea that the pole remained fixed but the continents moved, geologists fitted the continents together as Wegener had done. It worked! There has only been one magnetic north pole and the continents have drifted (Figure below). They named the phenomenon of the magnetic pole that seemed to move but actually did not apparent polar wander.
On the left: The apparent north pole for Europe and North America if the continents were always in their current locations. The two paths merge into one if the continents are allowed to drift.
This evidence for continental drift gave geologists renewed interest in understanding how continents could move about on the planet's surface.
- Using magnetic evidence found on a single continent in the 1950s, scientists showed that either the north magnetic pole was in a different spot in Earth's past or that the continents had moved.
- When they added magnetic evidence from a second continent, they showed that in the past there had either been two magnetic north poles or the continents had moved.
- Since there is only one magnetic north pole today, they concluded that the simplest explanation is that the continents have moved.
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2. What direction is the pole moving?
3. Describe the movement of the south pole.
4. What direction is the south pole moving?
1. What is apparent polar wander?
2. How does magnetic evidence from one continent show that either the north magnetic pole has moved or the continents have moved?
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My point was. Not that I would compete in their events. But you can't compete in their event unless it's their breed for their event. That is my point.
Bring them on I agree cause they are supporting our sport with us.
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I should become a mini poodle hunt test pro. Your trailer could be a whole bunch of mailboxes for their holes and they don't eat much. Sounds like a money maker deal if you ask me!
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The only thing I am concerned about is that they might get lost in the cover. So, how do you judge them if you can't see them?
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I thought this was about Mini-Coopers. Saw one at the last HT I attended. Had a bunch of labs taking pictures with it as if, it was some sort of celebrity.
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