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Back in 2005, as the religious right was accusing The Little Mermaid of trying to promote sexual activity among children, we issued a satirical response. If evangelicals could find secret sexual messages in a cartoon from Disney, then whatever would they think about watching sweaty football players bending over in front of each other in a contact sport of hypersexualism. We were trying to be absurd, to make a point about how silly the religious right was being about Disney cartoons.
Now that I look at the images from sports fan pages, though, it does make me wonder.
When I was a kid, I watched football an awful lot. I was a fan of the Buffalo Bills, and that meant that I had to endure a lot of disappointment. One of the best consolations was the bloopers reel of funny accidents and photographs from the previous week's games. Watching football players moving so fast, getting into so many wild accidents, hit my young funny bone just right.
This morning, when I searched for funny football pictures, I came across something else.
Watching Sunday afternoon National Football League games, I never imagined that there could be an entire world of sexuality lurking behind the games, permeating the excitement of fans, pushing forward the enthusiasm of adult male viewers. Yet, that's what I found. Looking at the funny football pictures at fan forums online, one theme stood out over and over again: Homosexual fantasies about football players having sexual encounters on the football field.
Yes, if you go online and look for funny football photographs, you'll find some that have no sexual content - ones like the slapstick pictures I saw on the NFL blooper reels as a kid. You'll find pictures like these, humorous in a very instinctual way because they show athletes who are ordinarily in control of their bodies suddenly flying through the air. This one loses a helmet, ha ha! Another one flies through the air like a bird trying to avoid running into someone else, hee hee!
Then, however, there are more and more photographs fans cut and paste, trading with each other, posting on Internet forums, that are labelled as funny, even though they don't really cause a laugh. These provoke a basic instinct as well, but not the thrill of danger. This instinct is sexual, causing the viewer not to say ha ha, but to sit back and say hmmmm.
It begins with supposed accidents. Oops! This football player surely didn't mean to grab his opponent by the waistline and pull his pants down, exposing his buttocks to public display... or did he?
This isn't the official face of football, the version we see on television. Then again, on TV there are censors. On the Internet, there are none. So, we see what's really on the minds of football fans as they sit, um... glued... to the tube.
Oral sex figures highly in the supposedly funny pictures that football fans place online. They seem to love to find photographs where it looks like professional football players are giving each other blow jobs, as in the examples you see here.
If it were just one or two photographs of football players seeming to give each other blow jobs, I might dismiss it. However, looking at the non-pornographic football fan forums for funny football photos, I find these images over and over again. There's a pattern, and it's pretty clear what it's about: Football fans seem to love the idea that football players are secret lovers, having sex with each other in the locker room when the game is over.
Even in supposedly heterosexual photographs, there is a homosexual undertone. Consider this set of photographs of two beautiful women, nearly naked, posing as if they are playing football:
Yes, these are women, but they are women pretending to be men. This is a theme you find a lot in gateway porn: Help for men who have homosexual urges they don't feel comfortable expressing. The images refer to men having sex with each other, but women are put in their place, as substitutes, so that homophobia is not provoked. The fundamental message of the photographic image you see above is that football is sexy, with bodies rubbing up against each other, and the football players offering themselves to each other for sexual play. The picture shows women being sexual with each other, but the reference is actually to real football players - men - having sex. The picture is exciting to football fans because it plays with the homosexual arousal they feel watching men in tight clothes jump all over each other.
The Other Football
Let's not for a moment pretend that this homoerotic fantasy world of sports only exists in the United States for the American fans. There's a whole world of football out there - the other football, what we Americans call soccer.
Although the cultures that watch soccer are profoundly separate from US culture, and range across many nations, they all seem to share the homosexual fascination with athletic male bodies that dominates football fan photographs. Soccer fans from all over the world trade homoerotic photographs online, just like American football fans do.
The non-accidental accidental grab seems particular popular with soccer fans. Watching their favorite soccer players grab at each others' genitals or buttocks arouses soccer players. Public sport sexual naughtiness gets their blood pumping.
Hard muscles... tackling each other... punishing penalties... end zones... of course, it's all just humor right?
Oral sex among soccer players seems to be as popular among soccer fans as it is among American football fans. On the surface, it's all just a joke. The persistence with which fans bring the subject up over and over again shows the hunger underneath the humor.
The sex goes further than that, though. The idea of anal sex comes up quite often in soccer fans' supposedly funny pictures. Expressing their secret desires in the form of a joke that can be dismissed, the photographs even can take on an anti-gay appearance, all the while tickling the homosexual fancies of the fans who tell them... and download the photographs to view in private.
A great deal of the sexual arousal for sports fans seems to come from the contradiction between the supposedly masculine nature of athletes and the obvious zeal with which they embrace contact with the bodies of other men. Jocks are supposed to be very manly, but they've got a secret side too, one that they like to reveal every now and then, parading themselves around in cartoonish pantomime, pretending to be women. It's a sexual promise from athletes that breaks all the rules, and goes far beneath sports fans' cover story - that they like to follow the statistics.
These are games of play, of millions of men who get sexually turned on by other men, but can't admit it. It's the Wide Wide World of Sex.
Play ball!


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One of the lullabys I sing to my boys is that Bangles song, "Manic Monday"…"Oh, it's just another maaanic Moundaaay, Oooooh Oooh! Wish it were a Suundaayyy! Ooooohhh! Ooohh! 'Cause that's my fuun dayyyy!"
Beluga likes to ask, "What does it mean?" And I stumble through an explanation of weekdays and weekends and work and school and play. And it doesn't make any sense to a two year old whose schedule revolves around Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Except that he understands that weekends mean Brunch. We can take an hour making frittata in the slow cooker. Along the way, we'll munch the raw veggies, the cooked veggies, and only by the time we're almost full will we eat "the meal".
I lay a couple bell peppers down and Mingus retrieves their kid knives from the tool drawer. Unfortunately, it is not easy to cut the peppers. Watching their struggles, I decide it's time to introduce Mingus to a sharper knife. Enter: the potato peeling glove. It's made from woven something-fabricated and I help him poke his fingers inside. It will protect his holding hand from any slips.
Within moments, Mingus has chopped his way through two bell peppers and is asking for more. I retrieve zucchini and broccoli from the fridge. As we talk about making frittata, Mingus explains, "I am bending my rule."
"What rule is that?"
"About eating eggs."
"You don't eat eggs?"
"No. I don't want to eat animals."
"They aren't animals – the eggs were never fertilized. They can't become chicks."
"Yes, but I think the Hens might be sad."
Mingus has quietly moved towards vegetarianism. Recently he said , "Mommy, I want you to cook less meat this week, and then next week make even less, and then don't make any at all." He passes his portion of meat to Beluga. And I sympathize.
As Mingus and I reflect on our conversation, Beluga – the innocent youngster – happily cracks the carton of eggs for us.
Lured by the mixer, Mingus whips them up. I can see that he's pondering those yolks.
His spirits lift as we get back to cooking vegetables.
We chomp the cooked vegetables and I don't feel bad at all that the kids will have to wait another hour for their meal. It's always in the middle of cooking, before the food ever reaches the table, that my two little chefs consume their greatest quantity of vegetables.
"Do you want to pour the eggs into the slow cooker?"
"No," Mingus says, and pads out of the kitchen.
An hour later, brunch is ready. As the rest of us devour frittata, Mingus leaves his alone, eating only the salad sitting alongside it.
- 2 Bell Peppers
- 1 Zucchini
- ½ Head of Brocolli
- 12 Eggs
- 2 Tbs Olive Oil
- Salt and Pepper to Taste
- Grated Parmesan Cheese for Garnish
- Steam the brocolli in advance so that it is soft enough for a child's knife to chop it up.
- A plastic child's knife can cut through the steamed brocolli easily, making it an excellent vegetable for them to take charge of.
- Meanwhile, if you have a slightly older child, they can cut the bell peppers and zucchini. A smaller child will be able to chop these vegetables into large pieces with a plastic knife, and you can then cut them smaller.
- Then, a child can crack a dozen eggs and beat them with a fork, a whisk, an electric mixer or a hand mixer, depending on what you have on hand.
- Pour Olive Oil into your slow cooker and set on "Sautee". If your slow cooker doesn't have this setting, then you can do it in a skillet. Lower the chopped vegetables into your pan and heat for about 15 minutes until they are tender and browned.
- Pour the eggs into the slow cooker, overtop the vegetables, set the machine to cook on "high" for 1 hour and place the lid on top.
- Use the cook time to prepare a salad, set the table, watch Planet Earth, gather the family, and enjoy!


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Window cleaner runs in the background and hides windows which are open but you are not using.
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Uh, wow. Okay then. O_O
Pretty sure pot's not that addictive. Now if it had been a bag of coke, then I could see the hand shaking. ;) Unless of course that's some sort of zombieverse drug, let's call it "Zeddy", that she's partaking in.
Physiologically, no. It's amazing how much importance one can tie to a drug/habit/ritual, though especially if it gives comfort. Psychological addiction can run far deeper.
I'm confused, is that weed or meth?
It's broccoli. Duh.
I smoke broccoli at least twice a week. It's good for my eyesight, and helps to build a healthy immune system. Not only that, it strengthens the liver and kidneys against infection.
Yep. Smoking broccoli is a healthy vice, and a hard one to quit.
Part of me really wants this to be true
Addictive blue pot. Sorry, this is just . . . sad.
Whoa…just marathoned the whole comic.
This. Is. BRILLIANT.
This is the freshest take on the zombie genre that I've ever seen!
Thank you guys for creating such an epic comic- I look forward to reading more!
Its not that pot is addictive, its just that she can't seem to think of another way of coping. I could always be reading too deeply into it.
Normally I'd have a problem with the negative portrayal of pot, but she's clearly using it as a psychological crutch which REALLY isn't a good idea.
Stacy, if you need to get rid of your stash just hand it over. I'll make sure it's disposed of properly.
In my lungs.


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Az álláshirdetés lejárt.Aktuális állást talál az aktív állásajánlatok között: új keresés indítása itt
International MICE Sales Manager
Five star Hotel in Budapest is seeking a self-motivated, talented candidate for
International MICE Sales Manager
Basic purpose of the roll:
Promote and sell our property to MICE market in a defined geographic region. Generate resort awareness through direct phone sales; direct sales calls, tradeshows and networking groups. Work closely with sales team to solicit, sell and confirm MICE business required to meet budgeted sales goals.
The primary responsibilities will be:
- Increasing the sales performance of our Hotel by establishing, maintaining and expanding our customer base
- Develop accounts (new and existing) by mapping specific business and buying tendencies, maintain organized and professional plan for correspondence and follow up
- Conduct tours of our property to meeting planners and other potential customers while discussing all of our hotel services available; entertain customers on property during site inspections, pre-planning trips, and program operation when appropriate
- Coordinate all sales related activities with the director of sales; negotiate contract specifics to achieve maximum profitability while satisfying customer needs
- Reaching the targets and goals set for your area
- Servicing the needs of your existing customers
- Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market
- Developing sales strategies and setting targets
- Keeping up to date with competitors
- Reporting to Director of Sales
The ideal candidate will need to have:
- A relevant qualification (university or college degree in Business Administration or in Hospitality Industry Management)
- Over two years professional sales experience
- Ideally a good understanding of the hospitality industry
- Full professional proficiency in English, other foreign language skills are preffered
- Excellent sales and negotiation skills
- Good business sense
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Excellent communication and 'people skills'
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Ability to work calmly under pressure
- Good IT, budget and report writing skills
- A full driving licence
In case you are interested in this opportunity, please send your English and Hungarian CV with a recent photo indicating "International MICE Sales Manager".
Szervezés / Menedzsment / Cégvezetés
Idegenforgalom / Szálloda / Vendéglátás
Értékesítés / Kereskedelem
|Minimális tapasztalat
|2 év
|Szükséges iskolai végzettség
|Főiskolai végzettség
|Vezetői engedély
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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
|Numéro de demande
|Date de publication
|17 mai 1988
|Date de dépôt
|24 janv. 1986
|Date de priorité
|27 févr. 1981
|État de paiement des frais
|Autre référence de publication
|Numéro de publication
|Jerome Drexler
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|Drexler Technology Corporation
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|Citations de brevets (4), Référencé par (60), Classifications (43), Événements juridiques (7)
|Liens externes: USPTO, Cession USPTO, Espacenet
This is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser. No. 693,856 filed Jan. 22, 1985, now U.S. Pat. 4,692,394, which is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser. No. 443,596 filed Nov. 22, 1982, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,503,135, granted Mar. 5, 1985, which is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser. No. 238,832 filed Feb. 27, 1981, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,360,728, granted Nov. 23, 1982 and patent application Ser. No. 238,833 filed Feb. 27, 1981. This application is also a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 721,384 filed Apr. 9, 1985.
The invention relates to optical data information storage and more particularly to a system for recording and reading personal information on an information card containing both eye readable images and laser recorded machine readable data.
Identification cards have used magnetic data strips in conjunction with photographic prints of the card owner.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,236,332, Domo discloses a medical record card containing a microfilm portion having some data visible to the eye and other data visible by magnification. The directly visible data is alphanumeric character codes pertaining to emergency medical conditions of the patient and the magnifiable data portions detail the medical history.
Silverman et al. teach in U.S. Pat. No. 4,213,038, an access control system with an identification card. The card has machine recordable indicia used to choose a master microspot pattern from the machine's memory. This master pattern is compared with an identical pattern on the card for verification. The card also has space for a picture and a signature. Similarly, Idelson et al. in U.S. Pat. 4,151,667, teach an identification card having a photograph and a phosphorescent bar code pattern used for verification.
The amount of information these cards can hold is extremely limited. Data visible to the eye occupies a considerable amount of space on a card, which further limits the amount of information that can be stored. In the patent to Idelson et al., the photograph and bar code pattern overlap. Random microspot patterns can only be used for verification, while bar codes can only represent a small amount of specific data. The prior art does not provide for simultaneous reading of machine readable and eye readable information.
An object of the invention is to provide a method of recording personal information on a card, both a visual image and data to accompany that image either prior to, during, or after exposure forming such image, where the data does not overlap the visual image and to provide for simultaneous reading of both types of data.
The above object has been met by creating visually readable information on a piece of laser recordable material or on photographic material and recording related data in situ on a strip of laser recordable material disposed on opposite sides of a wallet-size card. The visually readable information, which is adhered to an inner or outer surface on one side of the card, relates to a person, and may, for example, consist of a face image or fingerprint. A laser beam records data on the strip of optical storage material, in situ, either by ablation, melting, physical or chemical change, thereby forming spots representing changes in reflectivity. The recording process produces differences in reflectivity detectable by a light detector. In this manner data concerning the person may be recorded and read directly from the strip. Since visually readable information and laser written data are disposed on opposite sides of the card, no overlapping occurs and a wider data strip with greater information capacity may be used.
The uniform surface reflectivity of this reflective strip before recording typically would range between 20% and 65%. For a highly reflective strip, the average reflectivity over a laser recorded spot might be in the range of 5% to 25%. Thus, the reflective contrast ratio of the recorded spots would range between 2:1 and 4:1. Laser recording materials are known in the art that create either low reflectivity spots in a reflective field or high reflective spots in a low reflectivity field. An example of the latter type is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,343,879. When the reflectivity of the field is in the range of 8% to 20% the reflective spots have a reflectivity of about 40%. The reflective contrast ratio would range from 2:1 to 5:1. Photographic pre-formatting, as described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,304,848, would create spots having a 10% reflectivity in a reflective field or 40% in a low reflectivity field.
By means of in situ laser recording, transaction data, information, or the like related to the photographic image is recorded at subsequent times. For example, insurance claims or medical record entries may be processed sequentially, recording various transactions on the strip one after another, without erasing data. Digital voice recordings or signatures could also be recorded. A photograph of the claimant would protect against fraudulent use of the card. A card reader, capable of simultaneously reading machine readable data and projecting eye readable data gives a user adequate information for making a human judgment regarding a new transaction.
FIG. 1 is a top view of a first embodiment of the recording medium of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a top view of the second embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 3-6 are alternate sectional constructions of the medium of FIG. 1 taken along lines A--A in FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 is a top view of the personal information card of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the card of FIG. 7.
FIGS. 9-11 are alternate sectional constructions of the card of FIG. 7 taken along lines B--B in FIG. 7.
FIG. 12 is a partial sectional view of an alternate embodiment of the medium of FIG. 1.
FIG. 13 is a plan view of optical apparatus for reading and writing on the data strip portion of the medium illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 7.
With reference to FIG. 1, the data medium used in the present invention may be seen to comprise a photographic medium 11 having a planar major surface 13 which is divided into a visual image area 15 and a data strip 17. Visual image medium 11 is in sheet form disposable on a wallet-size card. The visual image area 15 can be conventional photographic images, produced by usual photographic techniques, typically by exposure and development of the medium. Alternatively, a laser can be used to create eye-readable visual images on a thin laser recording medium. The image areas 15 may occupy the entirety of the visual image medium, except for the data strip, or discrete areas as shown in FIG. 1. Several images may be disposed on the photographic medium. Alternatively, only a single image may be on the medium.
The present invention uses an optical data strip 17 which may have prerecorded information, but must have user written information, written on the strip in situ. The type of material that may be used is relatively highly reflective material which forms a shiny field against low reflectivity spots such as pits, craters, holes or dark spots in the reflective surface which tend to be absorptive of light energy. The contrast differences between the low reflectivity spots and the shiny reflective field surrounding the spots cause variations at a detector when the spots are illuminated by light of lesser intensity than the light that originally created the spots. Alternatively, a low reflectivity material may be used which creates high reflectivity spots when recorded with a laser.
Data strip 17 is intended to provide a personal data record accompanying the visual images on the same material just as a movie sound track accompanies a sequence of frames of film. Data is written in individual tracks extending a longitudinal direction, as indicated by the spot patterns 19 and these spot patterns are analogous to sound track on a film, except that the data tracks contain a much higher density of information and are usually read in reflection, rather than in transmission. The information density is greater because each of the spots in the spot pattern is approximately 5-25 microns in size with a spacing of about 5-25 microns between spots. The spots may be either digital or analog data, and can be circular or oblong, but in any case are recorded by a laser in the usual way, for example as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,278,756 to Bouldin, et al.
FIG. 2 is similar to FIG. 1 except that a larger visual image medium 21 is used with a plurality of rows of images 23, 25, and 27. Accompanying each row of images is a corresponding data strip 33, 35 and 37. These data strips are analogous in construction to the strip of FIG. 1. Once again, it is not necessary that each row have individually different images. Each row may consist of either multiple images or a single image. The embodiment of FIG. 2 is a microfiche type medium where each row of images would have corresponding data on a data strip. The images are such that they can be viewed with the naked eye or with low power (magnification) optical systems. On the other hand, the data strips are not usually read with the naked eye, but require either microscopic inspection or preferably reading by reflection of a scanning laser or light emitting diode beam as explained below. However, a laser could record visual images such as serial numbers, personal data, or even face images on the laser recordable material.
FIG. 3 illustrates a first construction of the recording medium shown in FIG. 1. The sectional view includes a substrate 22 which is transparent and may be one of the many polymeric substrate materials known in photographic arts. Applied to the substrate 22 is a subbing layer, not shown, and an emulsion layer 24. This emulsion layer has a photographic image area 15 made by exposure and development in the usual way. The wavy lines 26 represent filamentary silver particles which characterize normal photographic images. Data strip 17 is one of many laser recording materials. For example, it could be a reflective silver/gelatin layer converted from silver-halide emulsion having fine grain size, less than 0.1 microns, by a silver diffusion transfer process described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,312,938 (Drexler and Bouldin), incorporated by reference herein. Such material is known as DREXON, a registered trademark of Drexler Technology Corporation, and is sold by said firm.
In the referenced patented process, silver halide emulsion is exposed to a non-saturating level of actinic radiation to activate silver halide. The activated emulsion is then photographically developed to a gray color of an optical density of 0.05-2.0 to red light, forming an absorptive underlayer. There is no fixing after this first development step. The surface of the emulsion strip is then fogged by a fogging agent such as borohydride to produce silver precipitating nuclei from the part of the unexposed and undeveloped silver halide emulsion. The strip is then contacted with a monobath containing a silver halide solvent and a silver reducing agent to complex, transfer and reduce the remaining unexposed and undeveloped silver to reflective, non-filamentary silver at the nuclei sites on the surface. The reflective layer contains from 20% to 50% silver particles of which 1% to 50% may be filamentary silver formed in the initial development step. Beneath the reflective layer is an absorptive underlayer.
The reflective surface layer is characterized by non-filamentary particles 28 overlying a concentration of filamentary particles which form the absorptive underlayer. Separating the data strip from the image area is an unprocessed silver halide buffer area 30 which would remain generally clear since it is neither exposed nor developed. The buffer area 30 is not necessary, but is desirable because chemical processing of data strip 17 differs from the processing of image area 15. The buffer area 30 may be fixed to remove silver halide so that the area will remain clear. This is optional. Both processes may occur by spraying of chemicals onto the surface of the film, with a mask covering buffer area 30. Such spray processing is well known in photolithography. However, in the present case it may be necessary to proceed in two steps. In the first step, conventional photographic processing of image area 26 takes place. Subsequently, the image area, together with the buffer area 30 is masked to allow separate processing of the data strip 28. After processing is complete, a transparent plastic layer 32 is adhered to the emulsion, forming a protective layer. Layer 32 may be any of the well known plastic protective layers. The remainder of the film, apart from the data strip 17, need not have fine grain size. Data strip 17 can also be added to the photographic material in the form of an adhesive tape which is bonded to the photographic material either before or after the photograph is developed, or both can be bonded separately to a wallet-size card.
FIG. 4 is similar to FIG. 3 except that substrate 34 is coated only with silver halide emulsion to the right of line 36. The image area 15 is exposed, developed and fixed. A protective coating 38 may then be applied. A pre-formed strip 40 of laser recording material may then be disposed on the substrate. This may be a strip of DREXON material, previously mentioned. Such a pre-formed strip of laser recording material would have its own thin substrate 39 carrying the emulsion layer. Alternatively, the recording material could be any of the other direct-read-after-write laser recording materials, for example such as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,230,939 issued to DeBont, et al., where the patent teaches a thin metallic recording layer of reflective metal such as Bi, Te, In, Sn, Cu, Al, Pt, Au, Rh, Sb, Ge, Se, Ga. Materials which are preferred are those having high reflectivity and low melting point, particularly Cd, Sn, Tl, In, Bi and amalgams. These materials may be premanufactured on a very thin substrate and adhered to the substrate by means of subbing layer. After adhering the laser recording material to the substrate, a transparent protective coating 44 is applied. This coating material may be the same as protective material 38.
With reference to FIG. 5, substrate 52 has a notch or groove 54 which allows placement of a laser recording material 56 therein. This laser recording material may be processed in situ from silver halide material previously existing in the groove, as in the case of FIG. 3, or pre-existing laser recording material which is placed in the groove, as with the pre-existing laser recording material of FIG. 4. In either case, the photographic image area 15 is exposed and developed in the usual way, while an unexposed and undeveloped area 58 protects data strip 56. Since emulsion area 58 is unexposed and undeveloped, it remains clear and forms a protective layer over the data strip.
In the embodiment of FIG. 6, no groove exists in substrate 60. Rather, a photographic image area 15 is exposed and developed in the usual way, with the remainder of the substrate being covered with emulsion which is masked and protected from exposure and development, forming a protected region 62. On top of the protected region 62 a strip of laser recording material 64 is positioned. This laser recording material may be formed in situ by application of a silver halide emulsion strip which is then processed, as data strip 17 in FIG. 3 is processed, or may be a pre-formed strip which is applied as in FIG. 4. The strip is then covered with a protective layer 66.
With reference to FIGS. 7 and 8, a personal information card 71 is illustrated having a size common to most credit cards. The width dimension of such a card is approximately 54 mm and the length dimension is approximately 85 mm. These dimensions are not critical, but preferred because such a size easily fits into a wallet and has historically been adopted as a convenient size for automatic teller machines and the like. The card's base 73 is a dielectric, usually a plastic material such as polyvinylchloride or similar material. Polycarbonate plastic is preferred. The surface finish of the base should have low specular reflectivity, preferably less than 10 percent. Base 13 carries a photographic or laser recordable visual image medium 75 on one side of the card and an optical data strip 77 on the opposite side of the card from medium 75.
Photographic medium 75 has a visual image, which can be a conventional photographic image produced by usual photographic techniques, typically by exposure and development of the medium. Alternatively, when medium 75 is a piece of laser recordable material, a laser can be used to create eye-readable visual images. The images may occupy the entirety of the medium 75 or discrete areas as shown in FIG. 8. A single image may be disposed on the visual image medium. Alternatively, several images may be on the medium. For example, user identification indica 79, such as name, card number and card expiration date may be provided along with a face photograph or fingerprint photograph. Alternatively, the indicia 79 may be embossed on either surface of the card.
Strip 77 is preferably disposed on a side of the card opposite that containing the visual image medium 75. Whereas strip 17 in FIG. 1 disposed is side-by-side relationship to image area 15 is typically about 15 millimeters wide to avoid overlapping with image area 15, the optical data strip 77 in FIG. 7 may be larger, typically about 35 mm wide. Strip 77 may also have other sizes and orientations. In any case, strip 77 has a data capacity which is at least as great as, and often more than twice that of the capacity of strip 17 in FIG. 1. The strip is relatively thin, approximately 100-500 microns, although this is not critical.
FIG. 9 illustrates a first construction of the card shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, and is similar to FIG. 3 except that card base 77 is generally nontransparent and the photographic or laser recordable visual image material 75 is disposed on the opposite side of the card from strip 77. Applied to card base 77 is a photographic material 75, comprising an emulsion layer, made according to techniques well known in the photographic art. Note that the card base itself becomes the substrate for the emulsion layer and should carry an appropriate subbing layer, as well as a moisture barrier layer. For the latter purpose, a very thin film of Aclar may be used having a thickness of about one mil. No separate film base layer is used in order to minimize thickness of the card. Photographic images 81 are made by exposure and development in the usual way. The wavy lines 83 represent filamentary black silver particles which characterize normal photographic images. Visual images may also be made by a laser. Said laser recorded visual images are typically made of a plurality of laser created spots, which alter the surface reflectivity of the recording medium.
Data strip 77 may be any of several laser recording materials. For example, it could be a reflective silver/gelatin layer converted from a fine grain silver halide emulsion by a silver diffusion transfer process, as described above with reference to FIG. 3. Areas 85 and 86 are not subject to this process. After processing is complete, a transparent layer 87 is applied to the emulsion, forming a protective layer. Layer 87 may be any of the well known protective layers, such as acrylates. Data strip 77 can be bonded to the card base 73 either before or after the photographic material 75 is developed.
FIG. 10 is similar to FIG. 9 except that a pre-formed strip 91 may be disposed on a card base 93. This strip may be any of the direct-read-after-write laser recording materials described above with reference to FIG. 4. Such a pre-formed strip 91 would have its own substrate 95 carrying the emulsion or thin metallic recording layer 97. After adhering the pre-formed strip 91 to the card base 93, a transparent protective coating 99 is applied. A transparent protective layer 101 may also be applied over the visual image medium 103, or any of the other image media in FIGS. 9 and 11. The protective layers 99 and 101 may be any of the well known protective layers, such as acrylates.
With reference to FIG. 11, card base 105 has a notch or groove 107 which allows placement of a laser recording material 109 therein. This laser recording material 109 may be created in situ from silver halide material previously existing in groove 107, as in the case of FIGS. 3 and 9, or preexisting laser recording material may be placed in the groove, as with the preexisting laser recording materials of FIGS. 4 and 10. In either case, the photographic emulsion material 111, having a construction and placement similar to emulsion layer 83 in FIG. 9, is exposed and developed in the usual way. In all cases, the preferred total thickness of the card conforms to ISO standards for credit cards or bank cards, although other thicknesses may also be used.
With reference to FIG. 12, a substrate 70 is shown which carries a photographic image in a substrate portion not shown. This image may be above the substrate surface or withing a groove of the substrate, as previously mentioned. The substrate carries a secondary substrate 72 which is a thin flexible material, only a few mils thick, carrying a laser recording material 74. The secondary substrate 72 is adhered to the primary substrate 70 by means of an adhesive or sticky substance, similar to dry adhesives found on tape. The laser recording material may be any of the materials previously discussed, such as DREXON material, except that the secondary substrate 72 is substituted for the substrate previously mentioned. A protective layer 76 is adhered over the laser recording material. The laser recording material rests above developed silver halide emulsion, resembling FIG. 6, except that the visual image emulsion is completely exposed and developed in the region underlying the secondary substrate.
In all of these embodiments, a strip of laser recording material is disposed on a card along with one or more visual images for providing data storage for data related to the same person associated with the photo image. Remarks in the form of alphanumerics, voice or digitized pictures or signature may be laser recorded adjacent to the photographic image. By this means these two forms of communication will not be separated. Information about the person is complimentary to the photo image on the card. For example, transaction information related to a person may be recorded on the card. Such transaction information could be banking information, such as a record of deposits and withdrawals. In former years, such transactions were recorded in a passbook, but because of the amount of time taken for sequential entries in a passbook and because of automation, passbook banking was abandoned, even though it was more favorable to consumers. Now, sequential transactions may be recorded automatically so that a consumer may once again have a complete record of prior transactions, although a card reader is necessary. The visual image on the card provides for security and guards against fradulent transactions. Insurance transactions, immigration matters and the like all involve sequential transactions involving personal data. While it is important to record the transaction, it is also important to relate the transaction to eye-readable personal data so that a human judgement may be formed. For this purpose, a visual image of a face or fingerprint assists in forming a human judgement relating to the validity of the transaction. Prior to execution of a transaction, the identity of a user is checked against the personal information on the back side of the card. Both sides of the card are read by a machine. Once the user's identity is verified by a human judgment, or that of a machine comparing user charactereistics, such as fingerprints, then a transaction is entered on the data strip.
Of course, while the photo images may be read by conventional means, low-powered laser or a photo-detector array apparatus must be used to read the data strip. A laser apparatus is illustrated in FIG. 13, which illustrates the side view of the lengthwise dimension of the medium of FIG. 1 or 7, consisting of a data strip in combination with photo images on a card.
In FIG. 13, a side view of the lengthwise dimension of a card is shown. The optical system shown represents one embodiment of a laser read/write system. The card has a first data strip 41 and an eye readable image 43 adhered to opposite sides of card 100. Strip 41 is laser recordable, in situ, while image 43 is a prerecorded eye readable image. The card is usually received in a movable holder 42 which brings the card 100 into the trajectories of the beams. Laser light source 143 is preferably a pulsed semiconductor laser of near infrared wavelengths emitting beam 145 which passes through collimating and focusing optics 147. Light source 173 is either a laser or light emitting diode of near infrared wavelengths which emits beam 175 which passes through collimating and focusing optics 177. Beam 145 may be either a read beam or a write beam. Beam 175 may be only a read beam. In the read mode, laser power of beam 145 is lowered to about 5% of the record power. Beam 145 is sampled by a beam splitter 149 which transmits a portion of the beam through a focusing lens 151 to a photodetector 153. The detector 153 confirms laser writing and is not essential.
The beams 145 and 175 are then directed to first servo controlled mirrors 155 and 185 respectively. Mirror 155 is mounted for rotation along axis 157 in the direction indicated by arrows A. Likewise, mirror 185 is mounted for rotation along axis 187 in the direction indicated by arrows B. The purpose of mirrors 155 and 185 is to find the lateral edges of the laser recording material in the coarse mode of operation and then in a fine mode of operation identify data paths which exist predetermined distances from the edges.
From mirrors 155 and 185, the beams 145 and 175 are directed toward mirrors 161 and 191 respectively. Mirror 161 is mounted for rotation at pivot 163, while mirror 191 is also mounted for rotation at pivot 193. The purpose of mirrors 161 and 191 is for fine control of motion of the beams along the length of the card. Coarse control of the lengthwise position of the card relative to the beams is achieved by motion of movable holder 42. The position of the holder may be established by a linear motor adjusted by a closed loop position servo system of the type used in magnetic disk drives.
Mirrors 155, 185, 161 and 191 may be under independent servo control. The servos for mirrors 155 and 161 are linked by software to the servos for mirrors 185 and 191 to allow simultaneous reading or reading and writing of data strip 41 and 43. Alternatively, mirrors 155, 185, 161 and 191 may be mechanically linked, so that one servo controls mirrors 155 and 185, while another servo controls mirrors 161 and 191. Note that mirrors 161 and 191 pivot about axes 163 and 193 respectively. In simultaneous reading and writing of strip 41 and 43, information is recorded on strip 41 at a position corresponding to the position of the next transaction in a series of transactions. Both the strip and the eye readable image are read simultaneously from respective positions on the two strips.
In addition to text the card may be prerecorded with a preinscribed pattern containing servo tracks, timing marks, program instructions, and related functions. These positioning marks can be used as a reference for the laser recording system to record or read data at particular locations. U.S. Pat. No. 4,304,848 decribes how formatting may be done photolithographically. Formatting may also be done using laser recording or surface molding of the servo tracks, having marks, programming and related functions. Dil, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,209,804 teaches a type of surface molding. Reference position information may be prerecorded on the card so that position error signals may be generated and used as feedback in motor control. Upon reading one data path, the mirror 157 is slightly rotated. The motor moves holder 41 lengthwise so that the path can be read, and so on.
As light is scattered and reflected from spots in the laser recording material, the reflectivity of the beam changes relative to surrounding material where no spots exist. The beam should deliver sufficient laser energy to the surface of the recording material to create spots in the data writing mode, but should not cause disruption of the surface so as to cause difficulty in the data reading mode. The wavelength of the laser should be compatible with the recording material to achieve this purpose. In the read mode, power is approximately 5% to 10% of the recording or writing power.
Differences in reflectivity between a spot and surrounding material are detected by light detector 165 which may be a photodiode. Light is focused onto detector 165 by beam splitter 167 and focusing lens 169. Servo motors, not shown, control the positions of the mirrors and drive the mirrors in accord with instructions received from control circuits, as well as from feedback devices. The detector 165 produces electrical signals corresponding to pits. Other optics, including beamsplitter 197, focusing lens 199 and camera 195 are used to observe the photo images, while data is being read or written on the data strip.
A photodetector array such as a CCD could also be used, rather than camera 195. It could be either a linear array or area array. The number of detector elements per track would be approximately three elements to create a reading redundancy. The surface would be illuminated with low-cost, light-emitting diodes generating power primarily in the near infra-red to match the sensitivity specturm of the photodetector array.
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When you always can't get what you want
One thing we expect in a democracy is that the majority gets its way. But even though it does get its way in the end, getting there involves a certain amount of deliberative discussion and a healthy amount of compromise. Give and take is the name of the game – sometimes you get what you want, and sometimes you don't.
Clearly, the Republicans have been missing that memo ever since Grover Norquist first undertook to "inoculate them against the virus of compromise," whereupon they proceeded over the next two decades to fulfill their anti-government animus by effectively gridlocking Washington right out of the governing business.
In the absence of compromise, and especially the action it enables, what remains is talk, and the talk that remains serves mainly to hog up the available bandwidth of public discourse with pet ideological complaints that have little bearing on the practicalities of actually running a large industrialized nation-state.
One such bit of bluster that has had a lot of replay lately is a perennial favorite of the Republican core constituency: "states' rights." It's the old song, and very much a song of the South. To hear the sons of Dixie tell it (the daughters don't get to, of course), it seems that nearly anything that the government wants to do to promote the general welfare will somehow end up trampling states' rights. Never mind voters' rights or women's rights – these must take a back seat to the state's rights, depending on which particular state it is whose rights are under threat.
Almost always, the state or states in question once belonged to the Confederacy, and for a while the term "states' rights" was code for resisting Washington on the matter of racial integration. Jim Crow, a post-slavery incarnation of the Southern caste system, seemed to be as emblematic of that nation and its way of life as George Washington is of the nation whose capital city bears his name, so the resistance came with a patriotism-like intensity.
Although race-based subjection has had to keep a low profile since then, the resistance to Washington's "impositions" continues, through one diversionary objection or another, and the resistance is so enduring and visceral and seemingly pervasive throughout the Southern body politic that it calls for some sort of account beyond writing it off to bigotry – or just sheer cussedness – and simply leaving it at that.
An account that blunt, while accurate, seems inadequate. Simply noting that awful behavior is in fact awful doesn't give us much in the way of understanding it well enough to deal with it, let alone deter it.
Likewise, there's not much help to be had in making an apologetic case for the South, pointing out the pockets of relative enlightenment in mostly-urban areas – nor the flip side, pointing out the abundant racism and redneck-style orneriness that take place outside the borders of the old Confederacy. Again, these observations would be true, but kind of miss the point.
What we have here in the halls of our dysfunctional democracy are two groups that are roughly equal in power, each of whom wants something they value. The values tend to be cultural, further complicating reasoned discourse. What has broken down is the expectation that differences between opposing positions can be narrowed and overcome through deliberation and compromise.
In this situation, not only is compromise removed from the process, the values are so far apart as to be mutually exclusive. The Republicans, carrying the banner of Southern patriarchal values, refuse to accept gay marriage, for example, while the Democrats maintain that it's a matter of equality to allow it.
There's a whole litany of similar issues in which there is little or no common ground, no values shared, and in many cases, directly opposed. In each case, the majority prevails, and the opposition doesn't get what it wants. In theory, fair enough – after all, you can't expect to get your way all the time.
How this plays out in the long term, however, is interesting to consider. Following the premise that "you can't always get your way," there seem to be at least two possibilities: A) you get your way, certainly not always, but some of the time, or B) you can't ever have the one particular thing you want, and if it's something you insist on valuing, you will be the subject of scorn until you by golly come off it, change your values, and stop pushing for it.
This is a decidedly unpleasant dilemma. If it's option "A," I hate to think what the states' rights crowd would inflict on the rest of us when they did get their way – especially considering the institutionalized racism and theocracy for which "states' rights" is usually a proxy issue.
If it's option "B," on the other hand, there's a built-in hazard that long-term denial of a particular advocacy group's goals – however distasteful those may be – will form a kind of residue of resentment that eventually stands to gum up the works for everybody. Witness the gridlock we're experiencing today. When we insist that an interest group take part in our governance, yet consistently outvote them on what they are most interested in, it does not turn out well for us. To put it starkly, we end up with a viper in the nest.
There's a good case to be made that today's GOP, with its predominance of Southern leaders and values, has effectively become a political arm of the cultural region that once tried for independence as a nation of its own, the Confederate States of America. They were anti-Washington then; they remained anti-Washington after their independence was suppressed by force of arms, and they are anti-Washington today, expressed more politely in Republican ideological terms as "smaller government."
Post-1865, the US became more like a continental empire and less like a federation. For the latter, we would have to assume participation of the various states to be voluntary, but now there was a conquered people, a subject nation, within its borders. Conquered people don't just get over it in a few generations, and if their descendants who are obliged to share in the governing of such a forced union end up intentionally or unintentionally defeating the process for everyone, it should come as no surprise.
This is not to say that Southern aspirations, as curated by the GOP, necessarily include political independence from the US. It would probably be too much to hope for, given how badly that went for them last time.
However, it does seem likely that the passive sabotage of Washington's legislative abilities is consistent with the reaction of a people – a nation – who are forced to be one kind of nation, when all they want to be is their own kind of nation. Unfortunately for the union, that nation is hierarchical, theocratic, patriarchal, and historically committed to a racial caste system.
Those of us who identify with the "true America" – the Union that was preserved and enforced by the Civil War – take it for granted that we have some say about who qualifies as a legitimate nation and who doesn't. Official US policy certainly makes case-by-case distinctions throughout the world, e.g., Iraq qualifies, but Kurdistan doesn't. There might be some disagreement with some of those calls as they apply outside US borders, but inside – well, the very idea is so un-American it's usually taken as a fair subject for raucous humor.
And yet, here we are, two nations with irreconcilable differences. Apparently, we're staying together for the kids' sake. Even if there were some way to separate amicably, most Union sympathizers would cringe at the thought of what an irredeemably backward and benighted country Dixie would become if allowed to go its own way.
Arguably so, but it's also true that there's a missionary zeal in US tradition that often puts us in the redemption business, and almost as often, leaves us wishing we hadn't. Another un-American notion, perhaps, but there's a certain wisdom in dealing respectfully with foreign nations who happen to have customs and institutions that are contradictory to one's own.
So, if indeed having two or more nation-states between Canada and Mexico is an effective and just outcome, how does it happen peaceably? Big question. But that's the first step, to admit that civil war is not inevitable and that our own turned out to be pretty much of a mistake – a crummy choice among the possible ways to end slavery, and a complete failure at winning Southern hearts and minds.
It's also helpful to buy into the axiom that for any just end, there exist just means. Then it's only a matter of will. Here in the US, it must be the will of the majority, so it would probably take a while. There are actually quite a few examples throughout the civilized world that we could benefit from – Scotland's separation from Britain and Catalonia's from Spain, just to name two that are being taken seriously. Maybe it can't happen here, but then again, it may be too hasty to say that it shouldn't.


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Ebook even… (print is coming, I promise). Hopefully within the month. At least it will be able to be ordered.
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There's probably more-those are just the ones I could do on an easy search, so if you check out ebooks from your library, do a search! If they don't have it, you can absolutely request it. This is one of those instances where patrons/readers have a lot of power. The more who request titles from specific authors/genres, the more likely those requests will be heard.
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text: Review: 'PALLIATIVE CARE: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness'; editors Diane E. Meier, MD; Stephen L. Isaacs, JD; and Robert G. Hughes, PhDSinclair, Christian MDOncology Times: May 25th, 2010 - Volume 32 - Issue 10 - p 42, 45 doi: 10.1097/01.COT.0000381229.32343.7b Book Review Article Outline 'The Fantastic Thing…' CV Editors: Diane E. Meier, MD; Stephen L. Isaacs, JD; and Robert G. Hughes, PHD ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION SERIES ON HEALTH POLICY, 2010, JOSSEY-BASS, 452 PAGES, ISBN 978-0-470-52717-7 For a field as ancient as palliative care with one of the primary goals to "relieve human suffering," the field has made the largest strides in the past two decades. Not because of any technological breakthrough, as might occur in cardiology or infectious disease, but rather because of a refocusing on the importance of shared medical decision making, patient and family rights, and investment in examining what happens when medicine can no longer cure. REVIEWED BY CHRISTIAN SINCLAIR, MD, Associate Medical Director of Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care and Co-editor of Pallimed (www The growth in intellectual capital in 20th century medicine rested primarily on two components of good medical practice: disease-centered diagnostics and therapeutics. But with the advent of each new technology the questions often followed about whether situations existed where the treatment should not be applied. Because of the luxuries afforded by new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, medicine faced some of the greatest ethical and moral challenges that could be effectively dealt with by only another component of good medical practice: communication. And with further understanding of the key role communication plays in medicine, palliative care has grown to become an accredited specialty. Yet, it wasn't always easy, and there is still a lot of work to be accomplished. Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness is the newest release in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Series on Health Policy, which has successfully featured primary care, school health, and the impact of tobacco use. With this new addition to the series, editors Diane E. Meier, MD, Stephen L. Isaacs, JD, and Robert G. Hughes, PhD pull together the landmark articles in palliative care to give a comprehensive snapshot of the fantastic gains made in the last 20 years. While the majority of articles come from the 2000s, the book does offer some historical perspectives on the changes from the previous decade as well. As one would expect, the SUPPORT study from JAMA in 1995 is included, which is a must-read for any professional involved in health care administration, policy, primary care, palliative care, or hospice. The other articles cover such diverse topics as intractable terminal suffering, curriculum development, access to palliative care consultations, the case of Terri Schiavo, and the (in)efficacy of living wills. Before each article the editors discuss the importance and context of the article to the field and to medicine in general. It would be nice to see this feature expanded in future books in this series as more discussion of these articles would be helpful. The articles have more contextual exploration featured in the first chapter written exclusively for this book by Dr. Meier, Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a 2008 MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' recipient. Understanding the medical history and demographics of this modern life sets the foundation for why palliative care has risen to such a prominent position while being held at arm's length from the rest of medicine's curative approaches. As someone who entered the field in 2003, Dr. Meier quickly frames the growth of the movement in a very clear manner for that chapter, information that I had previously been aware of but with punctuated gaps of knowledge. She was able to take me beyond a basic understanding of Saunders, leading to Kübler-Ross, followed by the SUPPORT study, on to Project on Death in America, and then to official specialty accreditation. In addition, this chapter nicely summarizes many complex issues in the growth and sustainability for palliative care (and by extension, hospice) including: the availability of expert faculty to teach good palliative care, workforce issues, and policy hurdles, reimbursement challenges for a cognitive specialty, and legal implications such as physician-assisted dying. Back to Top | Article Outline 'The Fantastic Thing…' The fantastic thing about discussing medical care for people with life-threatening illness is the ability to revel in the science and hard facts while simultaneously inquiring about the philosophical aspects of the human condition, which is done with great skill by Meier in the opening chapter as well as in the article selection overall. Palliative Care is a field that naturally allows for reading Cassell's "The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine" right after reading a data-driven research article from, say, the Journal of the American Geriatric Society asking "Do Palliative Consultations Improve Patient Outcomes?" The diversity in the types as well as the content of the articles in the book helps expand the audience that might find this book appealing, as opposed to focusing exclusively on policy, data-driven research. or broad inspirational essays with sharp insight. While many of the articles chosen might be available through one's hospital or university library system, it would take some time to gather them all and you may not have easy access to some of the more historical and probably most important papers. This book puts them all in one handy reference for any administrator, policy maker, or palliative care clinician/educator/researcher, and for that I am very appreciative.© 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Harare - An animal protection group says four Chinese nationals have been arrested on cruelty charges after they cut up and ate rare tortoises.The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the men admitted killing 40 of the Bell's hinged species, which are listed as endangered.Another 13 live tortoises and tortoise meat were found in a house raided by investigators in rural southern Zimbabwe, the group said on Thursday.Villagers reported selling tortoises to the Chinese citizens to eat and said the reptiles were dropped into boiling water to dislodge their shells before being butchered.The four were found to have illegally entered Zimbabwe and were now in jail awaiting deportation, the group said.
Some good news from that quarter!
The small dickenese will eat anything.
Great job catching them ~send them home!
they probably think they are entitled after they bought uncle Bob a bus for his birthday.
Bloody Chinese should be eliminated from this planet - they have no respect for everything that is endangered - rhino, abalone, tortoises. What next?
It's a pity the Chinese were not there in the garden of Eden, do you know why I'm so sure they were not there? because they would have eaten the bloody snake before it could deceive the poor Eve.
I would love to drop him in boiling water and sees how he likes it!
Now that's funny! People with an actual reason(weird though) to jump the border into Zim?
Zim is super Shingi.....many whites left against their will and they still dream of going back there.
Not very lady-like.
They are here to elliminate the African capital.
Slaughter & chop them into 40 peaces and export them to china for tortoise meat.


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We knew something was up when Paul Stuart decided not to host its own warehouse sale this year. Well, Monday through Thursday, it looks like they're letting the Soiffer Haskin showroom do the honors.
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