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Can we use the power of financial markets to drive long-term positive outcomes? Can financial markets incentivize beneficial behaviors? Can financial markets shift the focus of development towards the demands of the poor? I believe the answer to all three questions is a wholehearted yes—the only thing missing is the right instrument.
The largest challenge in addressing poverty is providing the poor with access to sufficient resources to enable them to maximize their capabilities and live fulfilling lives. However, an important component of development is recognizing and responding to the demands of the poor to maximize the adoption and success rate of new initiatives. Only by understanding and responding to the demands and voices of the poor will we deliver meaningful, long-lasting, impactful and sustainable solutions.
We have created financial instruments to focus on commodities, risks, and the environment, but have neglected social outcomes that are the ultimate drivers of global growth and stability. Only when the torch of the global financial markets is shone on the plight of those poorest around the world will we truly comprehend the level of need and act. Proposed new life bonds represent one potential mechanism for empowering the voice of the poor and leveraging the power of financial markets to reduce poverty.
A life bond is a 25-year, market-traded, zero-coupon bond. Life bonds would be awarded on a national basis to ten percent of all children born to families below the poverty line, with a maximum of one awarded per family.
A life bond would work this way: Eligibility would require a child's birth to take place in a hospital, and the bond would vest only when a nourished and vaccinated child reaches the age of five. The bond would then increase in value upon the fulfillment of key health and education outcomes important in the development of children. Health milestones up to the age of 25 would focus on promoting the maintenance of vaccinations and adequate nourishment, and the avoidance of substance and alcohol abuse. Education-specific milestones would focus on promoting the completion of primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
A life bond would represent a publicly tradable financial security, with the market reflecting the expected realizable value of each bond specific to local conditions. Parents would assume joint trustee rights over a life bond until a child reaches 18 years of age, after which time the grantee would assume full legal entitlement.
A maximum of 40 percent of the ownership rights of a life bond could be realized prior to maturity. As trustees, parents would be required to provide joint consent in realizing the vested market value of a life bond. Although 40 percent of the ownership rights of a life bond could be transferred, the subject cannot be changed; death prior to a grantee reaching 25 years of age would extinguish all bond rights. Proceeds from the realization of the value of a life bond would be electronically deposited into the registered bank account of the bond owner.
An online identity protected biometric registry would detail the progression of each bond grantee, their location, and each bond's face and market value. A key requirement of life bonds is that the status of a grantee be verified on an annual basis to maintain validity. Verification would be performed as part of annual health checkups at hospitals and health centers, which would also include the validation of education records.
The proposal is for a ten-year trial of a life bond scheme within a least developed country, funded by foundation grants and supported by annual rigorous measurement. Data from the treatment group would be gathered on an annual basis and compared to a control group or national level statistics. It is hoped that after ten years of demonstrated incremental impact, national governments would adopt the program by providing for the expected realization of life bonds and internalizing the gathering of health and education information.
Life bonds would not represent a panacea to solving global poverty. They would need to supplement rather than replace supply-sided development initiatives to continue to encourage more equitable access to health and education services. But they would empower the voice of the poor and provide a mechanism for financial markets to support international developments and generate attractive returns. They also have the potential to promote greater active global citizenship, to accelerate the pace and adoption of innovative development initiatives, and to help strengthen the connection between the developed world and those living in poverty to encourage greater public contributions.


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When we get to Aston Tirrold, we stop in at the pub to ask directions to the cottage. The owners are a friendly, florid old couple, who invite us in while the husband phones the cottage to see if we are permitted to go up.
We cross the main road just outside tiny Aston-Tirrold and dip down into the dirt track that leads to the cottage. There are really deep ruts in the road, and when it rains, it is impossible to take the upper road at all. Everyone who drives up for the first time stops here. Can this really be the road? Jim Capaldi had mentioned the white farm gate giving us directions to get up here. You are reassured when you see it, it's the right road, everything is cool. Bristling hedges, moldly wooden fences; behind a clump of bushes there are some white wooden beehives, and, on the other side, vast fields recede endlessly into space. Weird, impossible perspectives curl around the horizon; covered hills interrupt infinity.
Traffic is dead, but the corpse is lively. Though Steve Winwood has split to find his own way, the rest of Traffic is carrying on with a new name, a returnee from Traffic past, and a new member. New name is "Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog," reflecting the new lineup: Dave Mason, bass and vocals; Jim Capaldi, drums and vocals; Chris Wood, reeds; and Mick Weaver, leader of the Wynder K. Frog band, on organ, in place of Winwood.
Traffic has broken up. The announcement, made in London this week, came at a time when Traffic had finally broken through in the United States.
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> I would use the word "destroy" rather than kill for something that is not
> alive.
More word games. First of all, it is grammatically correct to say you
destroyed a dog, while it is not grammatically correct to say you killed a
stone. So the word "destroy" is equally valid when applied to life as
non-life. Secondly, one of the meanings of "destroy" given in the dictionary
is "to kill", so the word can mean "to cause life to cease" just as kill does.
In any event, before you can decide which is more appropriate, "kill" or
"destroy", you have to know if the subject is alive or not. Fox has proven
that his protocells are alive, so "kill" would be the most appropriate term.
Go read the scientific literature.
> It is true what I have heard that one can use very old cells to clone
> a long dead animal? Is that true?
You mean as in _Jurassic Park_? It is theoretically possible, but the
technology needed is beyond our current capability. Besides, the DNA needed
could not come from cells, since the cells would have long since died and
broke apart, but from the fossil matrix.
> If true, how old can those cells be?
The cells would no longer exist. When the animal died any cells that were
still alive would starve, suffocate, be eaten by bacteria or poisoned by
them, and so would disappear. The DNA might survive, in pieces, but there is
controversy at present over how long DNA can be preserved even under the best
> Do such cells ever die?
Of course they can. If they did not self-destruct, they more than likely
starved/suffocated when the lack of blood flow cut off their food and oxygen,
or they were poisoned by the putrifaction going on around them. Even cancer
cells can be killed; they just don't die by wearing out or committing suicide
like normal cells can. Cells die when their metabolic systems shut down or
if their membranes are broken. The former can happen because there is a lack
of glucose, amino acids or fatty acids to provide energy; there is a lack of
oxygen to pick up the waste electrons produced when the cell releases the
energy in glucose to produce heat and ATP; toxins inhibit the enzymes;
radiation destroys the genes; or a gene is triggered that activates a
metabolic mechanism that shuts overall metabolism down. In the absence of
these conditions, however, there is no reason why a cell cannot continue to
live indefinately.
Fox's protocells die when their metabolic systems shut down or their
membranes are broken, just as with real cells. Otherwise they continue to
live indefinately as well. By your reasoning we should conclude that since
protocells die like modern cells, they should be considered alive like modern
cells as well.
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None of us have forgotten how Gwadar grew to become the actual property spotlight of the 90s and early 2000s, and satisfied many buyers with its thoughts-blowing potential to buy land within the space that was to change into the area's most taking place metropolis. It looks as if a few years handed earlier than we might see this dream assembly its realisation, however it was meant to occur eventually.
Gwadar, a deep, heat water seaport of the Arabian Sea, is essentially the most handy port for a lot of essential buying and selling international locations within the area, China being probably the most distinguished one. The funnel-formed Gawdar is nature's present to Pakistan and its location is of paramount significance in regional commerce. Contemplating its significance, Pakistan, in collaboration with China, has achieved numerous milestones within the deliberate improvement of Gwadar, together with the completion of Gwadar Port, which opened in March 2007.
Gwadar has been declared the winter capital of Balochistan and it is without doubt one of the few deliberate cities of Pakistan, others being Faisalabad and Islamabad. The grasp plan of town was permitted by the Authorities of Pakistan in 2003, which incorporates the event of street infrastructure, associated public services, industrial parks and particular financial zones. The Gwadar undertaking was handed over to China in 2013, who will develop a full-scale business port there. China can also be providing grants and gentle loans for the whole improvement of Gwadar right into a port metropolis.
China is the principle stakeholder within the Gwadar undertaking as a result of the port there would cut back its transport route from sixteen,000 kilometres to a mere 5,000, and supply a harbour that's open and purposeful yr-spherical. Pakistan's neighbour Iran has additionally stepped ahead to get its share of one of the essential developments within the area. Iran has introduced that it's going to arrange an oil refinery within the metropolis with a $four billion price range. Turkmenistan has additionally introduced a $three billion funding to put a 1,400km gasoline pipeline to profit from Gwadar's financial promise.
Due to such huge developments underway aimed toward remodeling Gwadar from a fishing village to crucial financial zone of the area, the inhabitants of town has already doubled and it's anticipated to achieve 500,000 within the subsequent 5 years.
Now we all know why everybody was so enthusiastic about investing in Gwadar. It's nonetheless not too late, and also you do have time to assert your piece of treasured land in Gwadar. Perhaps 5 years down the road, you may remorse it in the event you didn't.
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Plz share the details of localities (names of societies / commercial areas )where we can invest now.
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In 2005, Starks led the Tigers to a win in the National Minority Championship, a tournament for golf teams from historically black colleges and universities. It was the first time TSU had won the tournament, and it also was Starks' last year coaching.
Under her guidance, the team also produced the first African American men's head coach for Michigan State University (Sam Puryear), a top swing coach of professional golfers in Canada, including Tiger Woods (Sean Foley) and an All-American who is a member of the European Tour (Robert Dinwiddie).
Now, as head of TSU's Human Performance and Sport Sciences department, Starks has updated the curriculum, grown the number of students matriculating through the department and increased graduation rates in both the bachelor's and master's degree programs.
Recently, Starks' story has been featured in the sports film 'From the Rough' starring Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson.
According to BVonMovies.com, Henson will play a fictionalized version of Starks named Cassandra Turner, who parlays a successful stint as coach of the women's swim team at a historically black college into a shot at building the men's golf team. With available black players scarce, Turner scours Europe, Australia and Asia for hidden talents and constructs a uniquely multi-racial team.
The film's portrayal of Starks and the team she built provides audiences a glimpse of how the team overcame their differences to nab a NCAA Regional Championship invitation and a Division I-record win for the National Minority Championship.
"Hopefully this will draw more African-American females into coaching on the collegiate level and coaching the opposite sex," Starks said. "Men have been doing it for many years and I think there are a lot of great women out there who probably could do a much better job than I have done. I hope this film inspires other women to try their hand at coaching."
Watch the trailer for the movie "From the Rough" below:
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We've heard it said backward and forward that tablets are eating into laptop sales, but rarely if ever do we hear much about the tablet's influence on TV watching. Turns out all those iPads are disrupting that experience too.
So says a new survey out of Google's mobile division anyway, where we learned that laptop, PC and even TV usage are all declining thanks to the thing nobody knew they always wanted:
Among other results, 77% of respondents said their PC use dropped after they got a tablet, and 43% said they spend more time with their slates than with desktops or laptops. As for television, one in three of those who replied said they lock eyes with their tablets more than with their TVs. - CNET
Additionally, 28% of those polled in the survey said the humble tablet was their "primary computer" and a staggering 84% said they used their tablet as a game-playing device.
Not a bad return for something that literally wasn't on a overwhelming majority of consumers' radars one year ago. [CNET]


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East Midlands Ambulance Service still needs to improve in a number of areas, according to a health watchdog report.
Inspectors from the Quality Care Commission (CQC) say EMAS will miss out on meeting the minimum standard for response times to life-threatening calls for the full year and more emergency vehicles needed to be made available at the start of shifts.
The CQC inspection in January, said four of the six areas inspected require improvement.
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Inspectors also noted that EMAS is taking reasonable steps to progress its improvement plans, and is happy that no further action needs to be taken by the CQC.
EMAS Chief Executive Sue Noyes, said the findings of the report reflected that EMAS was well underway in delivering an organisation-wide improvement programme.
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Revs see more players added to list after Saturday's Columbus match.
The New England Revolution athletic training staff released the Tuesday injury report this morning before departing for Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup play-in match against the New York Red Bulls. With the team only able to travel 14 players to New York - and only 16 to Columbus last weekend - the list has grown by two players this week.
NE Injury Report - May 11, 2010
QUESTIONABLE: Kevin Alston (R hamstring Strain), Cory Gibbs (R quadriceps strain), Edgaras Jankauskas (R hamstring strain)
OUT: Darrius Barnes (R midfoot sprain), Emmanuel Osei (R leg infection), Matt Reis (L shoulder/L knee surgeries), Taylor Twellman (concussion), Mike Videira (L ankle Os Trigonum)
Kevin Alston and Edgaras Jankauskas remain QUESTIONABLE with their respective hamstring injuries, while Cory Gibbs, who played the full 90 minutes on Saturday after being listed as PROBABLE on last Friday's injury report, has been downgraded to QUESTIONABLE with the same injury.
Also added to the list this week is Darrius Barnes, who got caught up with Preston Burpo late in the Columbus game, but stayed in for almost the whole game before being subbed off in stoppage time. He has been diagnosed with a sprain in the midfoot of his right foot. He joins Emmanuel Osei, Matt Reis, Taylor Twellman and Mike Videira as OUT on this injury report.
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text: Latest News Staff Picks Al-Qaeda again stalls Aleppo evacuation Agreed evacuation of Jihadi fighters from eastern Aleppo stalls as local Al-Qaeda commanders refuse to allow reciprocal evacuation from two besieged Shiite villages and some Jihadi fighters reportedly try to smuggle their prisoners out of Aleppo. Published 2 years ago on December 16, 2016 By Alexander Mercouris 1,249 Views Share Tweet The withdrawal of Jihadi fighters and civilians from the formerly Al-Qaeda controlled districts of eastern Aleppo has against stalled today, notwithstanding that thousands of civilians and Jihadi fighters left eastern Aleppo under Russian military escort yesterday. The Syrian government says that there are two reasons for the latest delay. The first is that the Al-Qaeda tried to smuggle some of the prisoners the Jihadi fighters had captured out of Aleppo as part of the evacuation. This allegation appears to be disputed. It is not however inherently implausible. Jihadi groups in Syria, especially those aligned with Al-Qaeda, regularly take prisoner individuals whom they then try to ransom. Prisoners are therefore valuable items of merchandise, and it is not surprising if some Jihadi fighters are reluctant to release prisoners they have taken. The second reason is that Al-Qaeda is refusing to allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded Shiite fighters from two Shia villages in Idlib province, which are themselves under siege by Al-Qaeda led Jihadis. This evacuation from these two villages was part of the deal agreed by Putin and Erdogan the day before yesterday, and which the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis accepted in order to secure their withdrawal from Aleppo. The important point to make about this second reason, is that it is not being disputed, a fact which highlights a key point about the Syrian war that the Western media tries to avoid. This is that unlike the Syrian government, which is avowedly secular and non-sectarian, the armed opposition to the Syrian government consists almost entirely of militant Wahhabi Jihadists, who are sectarian by definition. Not only are these people violent sectarians who besiege Shia villages – a fact the Western media incidentally also prefers to ignore – but their sectarianism is so fanatical that they are unwilling to let Shia villagers go even if this means putting in jeopardy the safety of their co-religionists in Aleppo. The reality is that with the Syrian army in control of Aleppo, the remaining Jihadis there are in no position to offer any more resistance. Almost certainly despite the opposition of the local Jihadis to the evacuation of the two villages, overwhelming pressure will be brought upon them to let the civilians and wounded Shiite fighters from the two Shia villages go, so that the evacuation of the remaining Jihadi fighters from Aleppo can resume. In the meantime, in light of the atrocity stories about which so much has been written and said over the last few weeks, it is worth also pointing out that no one is so far saying that there have been any attacks on the Jihadi fighters and civilians who have been leaving eastern Aleppo as a result of the Putin-Erdogan agreement. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 16 hours ago on February 15, 2019 By Eric Zuesse Originally posted at strategic-culture.org: At the present time, the latest month for which the US Department of Energy publishes the number of barrels per day (bpd) of oil that's exported to the US is November 2018. Here are the rankings: 1. Canada 142,206 bpd 2. Saudi Arabia 30,028 3. Mexico 18,020 4. Venezuela 16,889 5. Iraq 11,767 6. Colombia 7,769 7. Russia 7,611 8. Ecuador 5,866 9. Nigeria 5,392 10. Algeria 4,848 11. UK 4,653 12. Norway 4,073 13. Kuwait 3,027 14. Brazil 2,777 15. Belgium 2,075 16. S. Korea 1,927 17. Netherlands 1,462 18. Egypt 1,405 19. UAE 1,771 20. China 1.268 21. France 1,239 22. Singapore 1,232 23. Indonesia 1,204 24. Argentina 1,101 25. Peru 1,061 26. Denmark 1,000 27. Brunei 961 28. Spain 846 29. Angola 833 Here were the top 10 for the entire year of 2015 as reported by Bloomberg Finance at Forbes. For comparison to today, the country's sales and rank in November 2018 is also indicated [between brackets]" 1. Canada 3.2 million bpd [1. Canada 142,206] 2. Saudi Arabia 1,1 [2. Saudi Arabia 30,028] 3. Venezuela 780,000 bpd [4. Venezuela 16,889] 4. Mexico 690,000 [3. Mexico 18,020] 5. Colombia 370,000 [6. Colombia 7,769] 6. Iraq 230,000 [5. Iraq 11,767] 7. Ecuador 225,000 [8. Ecuador 5,866] 8. Kuwait 210,000 [13. Kuwait 3,027] 9. Brazil 190,000 [14. Brazil 2,777] 10. Angola 190,000 [29. Angola, 833] Clearly, the figures change over time. Whereas Angola was #10 in 2015, it's #29 now; and whereas Russia, Nigeria, and Algeria, weren't in the top 10 in 2015, they now are. US President Donald Trump is bringing down the latest Venezuelan monthly number from 16,889 to close to zero. On 25 August 2017, Reuters headlined two stories, "Trump slaps sanctions on Venezuela; Maduro sees effort to force default" and "Venezuela says US sanctions designed to push Venezuela to default". The first of those reported that, "US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new debt from the Venezuelan government or its state oil company on Friday in an effort to halt financing that the White House said fuels President Nicolas Maduro's 'dictatorship'." The second reported that Venezuela's Government daid that Trump's action "essentially forces the closure of its US refining unit Citgo," which means bringing an end to Venezuela's oil exports to the US Venezuela's socialized oil company, PDVSA, of which Citgo is the US distributor, had never prepared for the measures that Trump is now imposing, and Reuters's report said, "As a result, it will be it tricky for PDVSA to refinance its heavy debt burden." The Reuters report continued: "Maduro may no longer take advantage of the American financial system to facilitate the wholesale looting of the Venezuelan economy at the expense of the Venezuelan people," US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday. PDVSA, the financial engine of Maduro's government, is already struggling due to low global oil prices, mismanagement, allegations of corruption and a brain drain. However, the likely failure of Venzuela's oil company is due not only to the lowered price of oil, but to the fact that Venezuela's oil is among the two costliest in the world to produce, because it's from the dirtiest source, tar sands, much like Canada's oil is. The difference between Canada and Venezuela is twofold: first, that whereas Canada is a vassal-state of the US empire and so its aristocracy is allied with America's aristocracy (which controls America's Government), Venezuela isn't. And, second, that whereas Venezuela has a monoeconomy that's based on oil (which accounts for around 95% of Venezuela's exports), Canada does not. Saudi Arabia used to be the top foreign source of oil imported into the US, but now it's only a very weak second-place to Canada in this, exporting only 21% as much oil to the US as does Canada. This is a huge decline for the Sauds. Whereas Saudi oil is the world's most "light" or cleanest and least-costly to produce and therefore has the lowest "carbon footprint" of any oil, Canada and Venezuela have the most "heavy" or dirtiest and most-costly to produce and therefore have the highest "carbon footprint" of all the world's oils. (NOTE: There are many different ranking-systems for the 'average' cost per barrel of oil produced, such as this and this and these, but all tend to vastly underestimate in order to continue the case for fossil fuels. The BBC once noted that its calculation-system "only covers the cost of production, not the cost of exploration and development." And it also ignored the cost of transit. It also ignored environmental costs. It also ignored the costs to taxpayers for the many subsidies they pay in order for the fossil-fuels investors to continue investing in those companies. The environmental site "The Energy Mix" headlined in April 2018, "Ditched Bitumen Desperately Seeks True Commitment" and reported that fewer and fewer investors were continuing to trust the industry's reported numbers regarding the costs of tar-sands oils. Also, on 11 February 2019, they headlined "Trans Mountain's Fee Plan for Fossil Customers Represents $2-Billion Taxpayer Subsidy". But, mostly, the heavy taxpayer subsidizations to the fossil-fuels industries are ignored, both by consumers and by investors. Realistically, the tar-sands oils in both Canada and Venezuela are costing far more than any per-barrel oil price that's below $100. They are money-losers, but bring lots of money to the 'right' people.) So: the US is replacing the world's cleanest oil with the world's filthiest oil, and that's not only from Canada but also from Venezuela. However, because the US aristocracy want to take over Venezuela, the US Government now is set to zero-out oil imports from Venezuela, so as to increase the pressure on Venezuela's Government to place in charge there a leader who will do America's bidding. Canada has been working right alongside the US to achieve that objective, and will probably be supplying to the US much (if not all) of the 16,889 bpd oil that currently has been supplied by the other producer of very dirty oil: Venezuela. The US produces fracked oil, which is dirty but not as dirty as that from Canada and Venezuela. The US, Canada, and Venezuela, have been committed to ignoring the global warming problem. To the extent that the problem becomes globally recognized, the oil-production in all three of those countries will decline in its marketable price even more than will the oil-production in other countries (especially than Saudi Arabia's oil-production, since that's the cleanest); and, so, the profits from those dirty oils will quickly (especially for Canada and Venezuela, where it has already happened) turn into losses. All three governments — Venezuela, Canada, and US — are trying to postpone that, till as late a time as possible. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest While Pompeo Pouts In Poland, Putin Pushes Peace In Syria In the end, the Neocons in D.C. and Tel Aviv are showing real desperation in summoning everyone to Poland while having almost no support for the intended policy, war with Iran. Published 16 hours ago on February 15, 2019 By Tom Luongo Authored by Tom Luongo: If there was ever a Valentine's Day which highlight the stark differences to diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia it is this one. In Warsaw, the U.S. cajoled some sixty countries, many of them Arab, to send representatives only to be scolded like schoolchildren by Vice President Mike Pence for undermining the drive for war with Iran. Mike Pompeo, for his part, showed no signs of shame or remorse after his public rebuke by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. Szijjarto retorted to Pompeo's lecturing that "the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries." He insisted that Budapest can have transparent relations with Moscow and Beijing and the West, and said it was an "enormous hypocrisy" that Hungary is singled out for its ties with Moscow. He then went to Poland with the intention of whipping up support for a war with Iran. But not to actually call it that. Until Benjamin Netanyahu arrived with fever dreams on his lips. As Moon of Alabama pointed out, this was a huge slap for Pompeo, whose staff kept trying to downplay the anti-Iran nature of the Poland fiasco to make it more palatable for media consumption. By claiming that the conference is about waging war on Iran Netanyahoo is not only embarrassing the State Department and Secretary Mike Pompeo. He also makes it extremely difficult for other attendees to justify their presence. The Arabs will be especially furious that they are shown in such an open alliance with Israel and its hostility against Iran. Scheming with Israel in the dark is fine. But being publicly associated with a war mongering Israel is difficult to sell to their people. It would be unsurprising to see some of them leave. The entire Warsaw meeting was designed to impress upon everyone how seriously they should take U.S. and Israeli desires for regime change in Iran. And how committed they are to keeping everyone in the fold on all matters pertaining to the Trump administration's hostility towards Iran, Russia, and China. This is part of a wider set of actions, taken broadly, designed to hit the headlines all at the same time: U.S. is openly pushing for regime change in Venezuela and drumming up international support for it. It is also urging EU Parliamentarians to push through new pipeline rules as part of changes to the EU's Third Energy Package to try and stop the Nordstream 2 pipeline from being completed. New sanctions were placed on Russia a few days after Moody's had to accede to reality and upgrade Russian government debt to investment grade, which will only accelerate foreign capital inflows into Russia. Pompeo and Netanyahu were putting the world on notice that they are not only 1) insane but 2) committed to their path to braying for war While, as Elijah Magnier points out, the entire dog and pony show in Warsawa was for Netanyahu's re-election bid amidst cabinet resignations and corruption scandals. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Sochi to discuss the next phase of bringing peace to Syria. These three countries continue moving the ball forward pragmatically and diplomatically to resolve the issues left by the U.S.'s insistence on staying in Syria. Putin, with the iron fist firmly in his velvet glove, said two things that are important in his post-meeting remarks . The first will give the frothing red-baiting, Trump-hating buffoons in the U.S. media and foreign policy establishments a fit of the vapors. "President Trump is quite actively working on fulfilling his election campaign promises, which in practice rarely happens in the US political life. The withdrawal of the American troops from Syria was one of those promises," Putin said. Think of the thirteen different ways Rachel Maddow will spin this simple statement of truth by Putin. He's got the goods on Trump. Putin wouldn't say this if Trump were working for the U.S. Yadda Yadda Yadda. This type of naked stupidity used to be frowned upon now it is openly encouraged at every level of the U.S. and European narrative machines. But regardless of that, Putin is right to encourage Trump to fulfill that campaign promise because that is the quickest path to peace in Syria, a U.S. troop withdrawal. Putin continued, "If that happens the only right decision in terms of security would be handing over those territories under the control of the Syrian armed forces." And that is his way of saying that he has control of Turkish President Erdogan and will not let the Syrian Kurds be attacked. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not make reconciliation between his government and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Council easy. But it will be better than anything Erdogan would offer them. But, then again, they lost their gambit for independence the day Barzani's Peshmerga forces were destroyed in Erbil, Iraq last year by the Iraqi militia known as the Popular Mobilization Unit. Erdogan's biggest worry is the U.S. leaving the Kurds weapons after leaving to be a constant annoyance on Turkey's border. That's the Bolton way of doing things. Putin also stressed that Erdogan's pet terrorists in Idlib province are to be wiped out as part of the plan to stabilize Syria. These are all wins for Syria diplomatically, establishing Turkey as Russia's subordinate in the power structure to reshape the Middle East. The fact that Erdogan was not in Warsaw with his NATO allies but rather at a high level summit with the Russian and Iranian presidents tells you all you need to know about where he feels his future lies. Then again, I've taken for granted that Erdogan is still a NATO member in name only for a couple of years now, so I wasn't surprised by this. Lastly, don't overlook the Saudi's offer to Putin recently about creating a new OPEC+ cartel with Russia and Saudi Arabia leading it. Trump's own plans for Middle East peace rest on the Saudis keeping the rest of the Gulf States in line, which is why there was nothing on the agenda about ending the conflict in Yemen. In the end, the Neocons in D.C. and Tel Aviv are showing real desperation in summoning everyone to Poland while having almost no support for the intended policy, war with Iran. You can only hold onto people for so long through fear of retribution. Eventually, they realize you can't attack everyone at once all the time, though Trump and company are certainly willing to give it the old college try. As each instance of disobedience occurs and punishment is ineffective – Erdogan is still in power despite a coup attempt and a currency attack, for example – the bolder allies will become in their own defiance. Join my Patreon and subscribe to the Gold Goats 'n Guns Newsletter for exclusive commentary and investment ideas. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Deep State coup d'état against Trump confirmed by Andrew McCabe The Duran Quick Take: Episode 84. Published 17 hours ago on February 15, 2019 By Alex Christoforou RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran's Alex Christoforou take a quick look at Andrew McCabe's 60 minute interview, where the disgraced FBI Deputy Director admitted that DOJ officials were considering the removal of President-elect Donald Trump from office in a brazen coup attempt, by invoking the 25th amendment. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Via RT… President Trump has lashed out at former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, after McCabe said he investigated Trump out of concern the case might "vanish." McCabe also revealed Justice Department plans to remove Trump from office. "Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax," Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a "poor little Angel" when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax – a puppet for Leakin' James Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was devastating. Part of "insurance policy" in case I won…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019 ….Many of the top FBI brass were fired, forced to leave, or left. McCabe's wife received BIG DOLLARS from Clinton people for her campaign – he gave Hillary a pass. McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019 Trump savaged McCabe for his handling of the 'Russiagate' investigation, branded a "witch hunt" by the president. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General last year found that the FBI acted improperly during the investigation. McCabe, according to text messages examined by the IG, discussed developing an "insurance policy" against Trump with two other FBI employees in 2016. Trump described the message at the time as "treason," and said it laid bare an FBI plot to work against him once elected. The president also accused McCabe of giving "Hillary a pass," after the agency cleared Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing in its investigation into her email misuse, overseen by McCabe. In her 2015 campaign for Virginia's state Senate, McCabe's wife Jill had taken donations from Terry McAuliffe, a prominent Virginia Democrat "with long-standing ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton." McCabe allegedly leaked information to the press about an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation, to deflect attention from his own ties with the Clinton family and push back against the narrative that he was therefore impartial. Although referencing old events, Trump's latest attack on McCabe comes as the former FBI #2 embarks on a tour to promote his new book. Titled 'The Threat,' the book is a passionate paean to the three-letter agency and a diatribe against Trump. In an interview with CBS, McCabe said Trump's firing of then-FBI Director James Comey in 2017 prompted McCabe to open an investigation into Trump as quickly as possible. .@ScottPelley on what McCabe told @60Minutes: "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment." pic.twitter.com/iVAyrEV4MF — Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) February 14, 2019 "I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion," McCabe told CBS' Scott Pelley, in an interview due to air on Sunday. "That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace." McCabe did not explain the agency's rationale for opening the investigation, beyond unsubstantiated rumors of "collusion." He did not present any new evidence to back up the oft-repeated but still-unproven accusation. Wearing a wire Instead, Trump himself seemed to be the problem. Pelley said that McCabe described panic at FBI headquarters after Comey's firing, as "the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president." Among the ideas circulated was that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would wear a wire to surreptitiously record the president, gathering evidence that he was unfit for office, and triggering his eventual removal under the 25th Amendment. The New York Times reported this plan last year, citing an anonymous cabinet member, but Rosenstein dismissed the story as false. Now, McCabe told Pelley that the plan was real. Rosenstein came up with the idea himself, and "it was so serious that he took it to the lawyers at the FBI to discuss it," Pelley said. To be clear: McCabe just confirmed on national TV that he seriously discussed using federal force to remove our President from office In any other country state security forces trying to remove the head of state would be referred to as a coup attempt Let that sink in — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 14, 2019 It's staggering that McCabe and CBS clearly think this is a bad look for Trump and not the FBI. "Things were so bad that we at the FBI tried to take out the President." "I'm sorry, what?" — Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 14, 2019 The top law enforcement officials in the country conspired to overthrow the elected president, thereby effectively overriding the expressed will of voters. 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Soy Chorizo Recipes
Chili Stuffed Mushrooms (Vegetarian Appetizer Recipe)
If you thought chili couldn't be the basis for an elegant appetizer, give this recipe a try! I had leftover vegetarian chili, so I scooped it into stemmed crimini mushrooms. I baked them for 20 minutes, sprinkled on a combination of queso manchego and Oaxaca cheese and then baked them again until the cheeses melted.
After placing them on the table, I just turned my back for a few minutes and the appetizers were all gone. Everyone asked for more, and since these little bites are pretty nutritious, I had no problem obliging!
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Mushroom Mozzarella Cheese Tart Recipe
My husband Lulu is addicted to anything with puff pastry dough. Because of the horrible windy weather, I decided to prepare my version of (vegetarian) chicken soup for the soul in the form of individual mushroom and mozzarella tartlets accompanied by a bowl of warm corn chowder. It's the perfect prescription for this cold, gray day.
This savory tartlet consists of 4 layers. First, I baked the puff pastry shells separately in the oven. I cooked the first layer of soy chorizo along with tomato paste and tomato sauce (you could also add ground beef for extra flavor if you don't need it to be vegetarian). The second is sautéed large button mushrooms in butter and the last one is thick mozzarella slices. The result is spectacular and is really enhanced pairing it with corn soup and garlic cheese bread. You won't be disappointed!
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Mushroom Cheese Tart (Savory Tart Recipe)
Making savory tarts is pretty simple. All you need is a crust, a filling and usually a cheese topping. I pair these tarts with a green salad, which make a healthful, tasty, light meal.
I prepared a vegetarian tart with California Lavash pizza lavash as the pie crust. I put together two layers of lavash for sturdiness. The filling is a combination of caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms, marinara sauce and soy chorizo. I garnished the tart with goat cheese topping and shredded Parmesan.
I've really enjoyed cooking with California Lavash breads; check back again tomorrow and see another new recipe using the delicious soft flatbread! And don't forget to enter our giveaway this week. Just click the "like" button below and you're entered in the contest! At the end of the week, we'll pick three winners at random who will win two bags of whole wheat, original, spinach and pizza lavash. You'll l♥ve it!
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Stuffed Potato Appetizers (Bolognese Potatoes)
Our family loves potatoes, any kind of potatoes. They're filling and delicious, especially when they're baked. Personally, I love the crunchy exterior and creamy inside. Today, I played with white-fleshed sweet potatoes (Japanese sweet potatoes), purple-fleshed potatoes (Okinawan sweet potatoes) and regular Yukon Gold potatoes, respectively from the sweetest to the least sweet variety.
I wanted to make sure that the entire family could enjoy the trio of bite-sized potato appetizers I made, so I filled them with soy chorizo. If you're a meat lover, you could replace it with ground beef. I topped the potato bites with a cheesy crust. They took some time to assemble, but it literally took half a second for our family to inhale them all!
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Chili Non Carne with Kidney Beans (Veggie Chili Recipe)
Lya's school just served vegetarian chili for lunch and she begged me to replicate the meal she had this week. I was more than happy to oblige. To recreate the dish, I used store-bought vegetarian chorizo, red kidney beans, caramelized onions, unsweetened cocoa powder, tomatoes, crumbled firm tofu, roasted green bell peppers and jalapeños. I just mixed them in a crock pot and let the flavors simmer together.
I nested the chili in tortillas, added shredded cheese and secured them with little sticks decorated with cherry tomatoes. It's not authentic Mexican cuisine, but it's delicious and incredibly hearty.
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Your digital multimeter (DMM) should have a CAT rating on its case. The CAT rating gives you a transient voltage range for which that DMM (or any other electrical test instrument) is safe to use. If you look at your DMM and don't see this rating, then you cannot know its safety level. Destroy and discard that DMM.
The categories, in ascending order of transient voltage withstand capability, are CAT I, CAT II, CAT III, and CAT IV.
The manufacturer achieves a given CAT rating through various means. The basic strategy is to put higher resistance between potential points of crossover within the device. If you compare a CAT I multimeter to a CAT IV DMM, you'll notice the lead jacks on the CAT IV are spaced much farther apart than those on the CAT I.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Understanding Schizophrenia
Thirty years ago, Dr Cameron related, a psychiatrist told him that schizophrenia was not a brain disorder. Rather, it was a psychosis (in the Freudian sense of the term) that could be treated with family therapy. Too bad no one got better.
The first indication that schizophrenia could in fact have something to do with the biology of the brain came more then three decades ago in the form of a breakthrough brain scan study by Johnstone and Crow. The scans, which compared the brains of those with schizophrenia to controls, revealed that those with schizophrenia possessed larger ventricles (open spaces) than the controls. Check out what looks like a butterfly silhouette in the two images below. Notice the decidedly more pronounced butterfly on the right.
Dr Carter recounted reading the Johnstone and Crow study back when it was first published in The Lancet in 1976. "Bollocks!" (a UK term of derision) someone had scribbled in his copy.
More sophisticated imaging studies over the years reveal losses in gray matter volume in different areas of the brain, but this is not the same as loss of brain cells as in Alzheimer's, Dr Carter was quick to point out. All the cells are there. What seems to be going on, among other things, is loss of connectivity (circuitry anomalies, especially in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and neuronal oscillations (particularly in GABA cells). The different regions of the brain, in effect, are out of sync. Thinking gets disrupted.
Dr Carter gave the example of an American tourist in the UK having to negotiate crossing the street. Habitual responding won't do.
But cognitive challenges and psychosis are related, with the first anticipating the latter. Well before psychosis rears its head, it appears that first there are changes in the cortical areas. As these changes progress, this may lead to subcortical dopamine dysregulation and psychosis.
Then there is something called "psychosis risk syndrome." Thirty to forty percent of those who experience attenuated psychosis features - ie not meeting DSM criteria - go on to develop schizophrenia or bipolar over two years.
So perhaps by improving function in the cortical areas prior to first psychosis, we can prevent psychosis.
This is one of the hot areas in schizophrenia right now. Dr Carter heads up the EDAPT program - Early Diagnosis and Preventive Treatment of Psychotic Illness - at UC Davis. Family involvement, Dr Carter, told us, is the most effective component. New developments include the likelihood of two or three new meds - not antipsychotics or dopamine blockers - that would target cortical areas to improve cognition. Also, cognitive training - pioneered by Sophia Vinogradov of UCSF - based on the "use it or lose it" principle is taking off. Another possibility is transcranial magnetic stimulation.
The brain science over the past five or six years has led to enormous advances in our understanding of schizophrenia. But will our knowledge lead to better treatments and possibly even prevention? Good question.
7 comments:
- Smitty said...
The big question is still this, John: Are these images of the schizophrenic brain on drugs?
You are familiar with the European studies a few years back, which showed how the brain actually shrunk in naive patients who had been treated with antipsychotics? I believe the drug was Haldol. The shrinkage was a measurable effect resulting from first time medication.
- September 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Smitty said...
And further: a link from an article in the LA Times
- September 4, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Smitty. Off the top of my head, Nancy Andreassen found brain shrinkage attributable to antipsychotics a little while ago. I wasn't familiar with the European studies. I do need to update my website article on antipsychotics in light of this, so many thanks for the reminder.
I don't know if these images are of individuals on meds. It's a very good question.
- September 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Smitty said...
I cannot believe Dr. Lieberman said haloperidol is better than nothing, when this is the drug that shrinks the cognitive section of the brain!
- September 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Smitty. The link on your second comment - yes, the Andreasen study. Re the Lieberman comment - I'm not ready to condemn him for one remark, especially when we don't know the context. There is a lot of nuance to the "bad drug is better than no drug at all argument," especially if the bad drug is all we've got.
Often, the drug only becomes bad in the hands of an incompetent clinician, and there are no shortage of them.
- September 4, 2011 at 5:08 PM
- Smitty said...
Hmm. So you are saying Haldol can be good if in the hands of a good clinician, yet you say such clinicians are a rarity? I'm not sure that makes sense to me.
I'll say this from my own experience: It turned me into a zombie, with a wooden gait. It took my emotions from me, and it also made it impossible to write because my handwriting just got smaller and smaller. And it made my upper back muscles absolutely rigid. And no amount of massage made impact on that. No, and I don't think the big H had any positive effect on my emotional state, and by-the-way, I still had breakthrough symptoms.
Thanks but if I had my choice I would chose anxiolytics first....
- September 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- John McManamy said...
Hey, Smitty. You got it right. The catch is finding a good clinician and good luck finding one. I'm guessing you got prescribed Haldol because some idiot valued your life at 10 cents, which I think is the unit cost of a tablet.
No doubt, the same idiot also told you that you would have to be on Haldol the rest of your life.
We really are out on are own. Hence the title to this blog.
- September 5, 2011 at 9:58 PM


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Tom Wolfe on the casuistry, laziness, and childishness of political correctness - plus local talent!
This seems like a good time to quote Tom Wolfe again, this time against barking mad pc rubbish invading scholarly disciplines:
People in academia should start insisting on objective scholarship, insisting on it, relentlessly, driving the point home, ramming it down the gullets of the politically correct, making noise! naming names! citing egregious examples! showing contempt to the brink of brutality! The idea that a discipline should be devoted to "social justice" is ludicrous. The fashionable deconstructionist doctrine that there is no such thing as truth, only the self-serving manipulation of language, is worse than ludicrous. It is casuistry, laziness, and childishness in equal parts. Sociology in this country didn't start with Max Weber. It started with an act of pious charity on the part of Protestants concerned about life in the slums. Today the discipline, if it can still be called that, has returned to sheer sentiment. Only this time the pious are from the puritanical order of political correctness, preying with the rhetoric of Rococo Marxism, which means steering clear of the by-now totally discredited "vulgar Marxism," all that tired old business of the proletariat, the peasants, the capitalists, the bourgeois elements, the infantile leftists, since all they really care about is preserving Marxism's greatest joy: the Manichaeistic take on life. Everything is light or darkness! Black or white! No irksome middle grounds or shades of grey! How much simpler the taxing stone-hard task of analysis becomes! He good! He bad! That's the right idea!More intellectual freedom news:
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Brian Lilley reports that the Moon report on the Canada "human rights" commission will be released Monday.
He is more hopeful than the freespeechers who are bracing themselves for the usual whitewash, but he does say:
For what it's worth, I think professor Moon's research into the topic should have ended with a reading of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically section 2b.[The critical question is, does that MEAN anything? Like, does "including freedom of the press and other media of communication" mean that my duty is to my readers and not to government minders and the endlessly offended? It better mean that. It did once, and it will again. ]
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
Also, this just in!: Free Speech cardholder wins Governor General's award for poetry. May we assume that Madam Governor General's appointees have noted the well-deserved meltdown at the Canadian "human rights" Commission" - and this is their response ... ?
Also, in the Calgary Herald today, Rob Breakenridge urges the Conservatives to get beyond their mere convention rah rah for free speech in Winnipeg - and do something!
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- Jay Currie suggests that the Canadian "human rights" Commission is circling the wagons and getting its few friends inside because a major Fire. Them. All. report is expected soon ... .
- Kathy "Five Feet of Fury" Shaidle (the voice of common sense, unforgettably phrased) reminds us:
"Words can hurt/are powerful" is a favourite anti-free speech argument. And yeah, I guess if you're a wimp, words can hurt. So man up. ...Kathy is right. Words are never powerful in themselves. Think of all the doctors warning their patients that if they don't quit drinking or using, they'll die ... and the patients believe the doctors, but don't quit. And they die ...
More importantly: if words were truly powerful, we wouldn't be having this fight over the HRCs and Section 13.1 in the first place.
Because millions of Canadians read 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 in high school -- including, I'd wager a thousand dollars -- every single employee, past and current, of the Canadian Human Rights Commissions ... And those words weren't powerful enough to get a single, solitary one of those people to go, "Hey, this weird stuff I'm doing all seems kinda... familiar... maybe I should, like, quit my job..."
Words must fall on willing ears to have any effect at all. That's part of the reason why the "human rights" commission racket is so despicable. It encourages people to focus on negative stuff they may hear about themselves and not about how to frame and achieve their own best goals, and flip the bird to people who don't like that.
Look, I'm not much, but if I had heeded negative comments, I would never have written a single sentence for publication, let alone award-winning books and magazine articles, or doing radio and TV. (Actually, in a few minutes, I will be taping another radio show on The Spiritual Brain.)
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With February coming to a close, it's that time of the year again.
With February coming to a close, it's that time of the year again.
The annual Ralph Matzeder Special Olympic Basketball Tournament will be held this Saturday at Leavenworth High School.
Besides a bracket competition, athletes from the Leavenworth County program will also participate in a free throw shooting fundraiser beginning at 8:30 a.m.
The event's opening ceremony will start at 9:15 a.m. with basketball games beginning at 10 a.m. Twenty teams from the metro area including five from Leavenworth County are signed up with games to be held in both the small and main gym at LHS.
Admission is free. Concessions and raffle drawings will go on throughout the day with all proceeds benefitting the Leavenworth County Special Olympic program.
For more info or to volunteer, contact Vicki Lozenski at 684-1550, ext. 1300, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Learners model how the Moon's volcanic period reshaped its earlier features. The children consider that the broad, shallow impact basins contained cracks through which magma seeped up. A plate in which slits have been cut is used to represent an... (View More) impact basin and a dish of red-colored water is used to represent the pockets of magma within the Moon's upper layers. When the model impact basin is pressed into the "magma," "lava" fills in the low areas through the same process that produced the dark patches, or maria, on the Moon. Children may examine a type of Earth rock (named basalt) that is also found on the Moon and that would have been shaped by the processes explored here. This station investigates the Moon's "teen years," when it was one to three billion years old. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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