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The 2010 midterm election was big for Republicans. Not only did they win every statewide elected office, they also won control of the Ohio House and retained control of the Ohio Senate. Almost as soon as those Republican members were sworn into office, a proposal to make collective bargaining tougher emerged. State Senator Shannon Jones was the sponsor of the bill known as SB 5 that took away bargaining powers from public employees like teachers, police officers and firefighters.
"I'm not doing this to punish employees who serve the people of this state day after day," Jones said. "I am doing this because I want to give government the flexibility and control over its workforce that it can continue to provide taxpayers with the services needed in a way that is sustainable over time."
The Republicans had won the election at a time when the state was strapped for cash, largely due to the national recession. In his first budget, Governor Kasich had cut local government funds to local communities. Jones maintained Senate bill five was a way to make sure those communities could hold down costs but she denied it would take money from the pockets of public employees.
"Certainly it is possible that some position, their salaries might be adjusted downward," Jones said. "But I think it's equally as likely that in many positions, those salaries might be adjusted upward."
Union activists who interrupted that senate hearing were gaveled down. But they were not silenced. Even as Governor Kasich made his first State of the State speech inside the Ohio Statehouse that year, union activists who were watching on closed circuit television made their voices heard as Kasich was introduced by former Senate President Tom Niehaus.
But the angry scene inside the Statehouse paled in comparison to the furious protests outside the building
Democrats, like State Senator Nina Turner, joined hands with union members in an effort to defeat the measure.
"Everybody knows that our public employees did not cause the fiscal crisis that we face in this state," Turner said.
Many protests continued as the bill was being debated, including one that attracted 8,500 union activists. But that wasn't enough to kill the bill. Kasich signed it into law March 31, 2011. But that wasn't the end of the fight.
The union activists wanted to attempt a recall of Governor Kasich but Ohio law doesn't allow that. So they focused on repealing the law. That summer, Melissa Fazekas with the union led group, said they collected way more than the 231 thousand signatures needed to put the referendum on the ballot.
"We have surpassed our signature goal by collected a staggering a 714,137 total signatures."
It was enough to put SB 5 on the November 2011 ballot. People on both sides of the issue debated it and a media campaign ensued
So what happened on Election day in 2011? More than 61 percent of Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Senate Bill Five. And while that vote repealed that law, the idea of passing a law to restrict unions is still alive and well.
In the days since SB 5 was repealed, some Republican lawmakers have proposed bills that unions say would weaken their power. Those bills haven't passed. A citizens group has talked about putting what they call a workplace freedom bill on the ballot this fall but that measure hasn't garnered support from Republican leaders in the legislature and it looks doubtful that the proposal will be on the ballot this fall. As voters go to the polls later this year, these anti union efforts might seem like a distant memory.
But Democrats say the threat of cracking down on unions still exists…and they promise to talk about that possibility a lot in the coming months.

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Commenti e giudizi di chi è stato nostro ospite!
John Fryer
We had a perfect stay at your hotel, the staff and management are kind, pleasant and helpful. The hotel is always so clean and well maintained. We will always stay at Hotel Tirrenia if possible when we visit Viareggio. Thank you very much, we look forward to staying with you in the future.
Nilma/Cosimo marchese
(Brasiliana /calabrese - 04/08/2017 20:10:35)
Siamo appena tornati a Torino, ma abbiamo passato 5 giorni bellissimi a Viareggio e siamo stati benissimo nel tirrenia, ambiente piacevole, pulizia perfetta, i personale molto educati,Eva in particulare molto gentile, colazione abbondante ed curatissimi. Noi raccomandiamo.
Claudio Alianello
(Italia - 06/06/2017 17:24:05)
Grazie infinite, quando torneremo a Viareggio sarà nostro piacere essere vostri ospiti. A presto Claudio Alianello
(Ferioli - 06/10/2016 16:23:24)
Onestamente ci siamo trovati molto bene presso la vostra struttura. Personale cordiale ed efficiente e grande pulizia nelle camere. Ottimi i materassi. Ma la cosa che più abbiamo apprezzato é stata la possibilità di fare una doccia dopo il check out. Siamo assidui viaggiatori e a nessuna latitudine ci era capitata una simile cortesia. Queste sono le attenzioni al cliente che fanno la differenza. Qualora dovessimo tornare nei paraggi non mancheremo di farvi visita.
Olga and Eduard
(Russia - 22/09/2016 16:44:25)
Большое спасибо за такое внимательное отношение к гостям. Отдых в вашем отеле оставил много приятных эмоций. Будем рады еще раз приехать в Виареджио и остановиться в вашем отеле. Ольга и Эдуард.
John and Kathleen
(Ireland - 02/08/2016 14:44:32)
Just a word of thanks for making our stay in Viareggio superb. Your welcome, service and facilities were fantastic. Thank you for all your assistance. We hope to see you again next year. Gratie John and Kathleen
(Italia - 07/06/2016 06:37:03)
Buon giorno Grazie a voi per la gentilezza e la cortesia. Sicuramente ci vedremo ancora Buona giornata a presto
Börje Kjellén and Trosa
(Sweden - 01/05/2016 09:25:46)
Grazie mille for two wonderful weeks in your excellent hotel. It was really a pleasure to be your guest and be treated so nicely in many ways. Your breakfast is outstanding with so much fresh fruits and other good things. Thank you also for your generosity to allow us to store our bikes in your garden during night time. The room was fine with a lovely bath room and I was happy to use the wonderful shower after every trip with my bike. And to visit your fantastic Tuscony by bike is the best way to learn about nature and visit cities in a pleasant way. Hope to be back soon.
Chris Bird
Thank you we had a great time at your Hotel and if we come to Viareggio again we would certainly use your hotel again. Chris Bird
Janet and David
Dear Lucca and family We had a wonderful holiday and staying with you was delightful, yet again. We are hoping to come again next year, but have to wait until the airline publishes their schedule later in the year Grazie mille I nostri piu cordiali saluti Janet and David
Jaine, Jill and Jenni
We had a lovely time and thanks once again for the great service. We were very impressed. Regards, Jaine, Jill and Jenni
salvatore esposito
Jeanne and Peter Hladek
We had a wonderful time in Italy with our family. We love staying at your hotel. We returned last night. Thank you for your hospitality. Jeanne and Peter Hladek
(Italia - 28/09/2014 17:35:45)
Bello, arredato bene,accogliente,camera slendida,personale gentilissimo.Ci torneremo sicuramente!!!!
Kirsten Boetker.
(Norway - 22/09/2014 18:49:40)
We had a wonderful stay in Italy. And thank you for helping us printing our boarding pass. We loved your hotel and the area, and the delicious breakfast with a lot of fruit. Thank you for everything. Kind Regards Kirsten Boetker.
Susan Beattie
Thank your for your email. I would like to say that we had a lovely time in Italy and hope to return. We found your hotel to be excellent. It was extremely clean, the staff were very friendly and helpful, the location was excellent and we will be recommending you to our friends. Regards Susan Beattie
Maria Wylie
We had a lovely four night stay in your wonderful hotel, thank you. We shall certainly be recommending you to friends & family & hope to return ourselves one day. Thanks especially to Lucca for his help with buses, etc. Maria Wylie
Paul Peixinho and Giovanna Marabella
(Canada - 11/07/2014 02:04:17)
Our family had a wonderful time visiting Viareggio and particularly Hotel Terrenia. We enjoyed your hospitality and the time we had with your family. You are wonderful people and we look forward to visiting once more in the future. Best regards, Paul Peixinho and Giovanna Marabella
Nick Hughes
(Regno Unito - 03/06/2014 01:57:49)
Dear Luca and team Thank you very much for helping make our holiday so good. Your hotel is excellent and your service first class. We would definitely choose to stay with you next time if returning to Viareggio. Best wishes Nick Hughes
Marinella Galbiati
(Italy - 21/08/2013 02:52:25)
Gentilissimi il soggiorno presso il vostro Hotel è stato perfetto, colgo l'occasione per rinnovare i complimenti fatti al momento della partenza. Diffilmente si trova personale cortese come il vostro e una struttura così ben organizzata e ben tenuta. Sicuramente torneremo volentieri da voi.
Manuela & Uwe
(Germany - 27.07.2013 - 27/07/2013 08:22:29)
Thank you very much for the excellent stay we had. We appreciated it very much. You kindness and friendship made our vacation in your hotel for an unforgetable unique experience.
Alan and Eileen
(Scotland - 01/07/2013 01:51:02)
We are getting back to normal in Scotland after our trip to Italy. Our stay was made all the more delightful because of your kindness and friendship, your parents and all the team. It is a true saying that "mia casa e sua casa" Alan and Eileen
sergiu gutman
(Israele - 22/06/2013 13:47:07)
Thank you for not only hoping but essentially very much contributing to our marvelous vacation in Viareggio. Keep, please, our appreciation for the excellent, professional service by Luca, sua madre and all the staff in helping us feel happy with our choice of vacation. Erna & Sergiu Gutman,
(India - 24/05/2013 02:43:26)
We had a good stay and wonderful memorties of Viareggio, Pisa, Genoa and Milan. Thanks a lot for making our stay comfortable and memorable. All the best. Regards,. Rajendra
Alessandra e Andrea
(Italy - 03/05/2013 02:04:04)
Vi confermiamo che siamo stati benissimo nella Vostra struttura molto accogliente, anche grazie al personale disponibile e cordiale. Sicuramente se dovessimo tornare da quelle parti, saremo volentieri ospiti dell'hotel Tirrenia. Saluti e buon lavoro.
(Italia - 10/03/2013 17:33:56)
Abbiamo soggiornato questo weekend presso il vostro hotel. Complimenti, molto ospitali, sempre sorridenti e disponibili a dare alla clientela tutte le informazioni richieste. Le camere sono ampie, ben curare e molto pulite. E' stato un piacere !
Vincent Kaseta
We had a great time at the parade and loved the hotel. Everything was so clean, everyone was helpful, the fresh fruit at breakfast was great, and staff even prayed that we'd have good weather which we did for the next 2 days. In fact it was by far the best weather we had on our 24 day trip. If we make it back to your town again we will definitely stay at your hotel! Thanks and God bless you all.
Monia & Daniele
(Italy - 14/02/2013 09:26:20)
Sarà un piacere organizzare una nuova vacanza nella zona di Viareggio, avendo come punto fermo la certezza della Vostra squisita ospitalità. Come in precedenza, l'Hotel Tirrenia ci ha lasciato bellissimi ricordi oltre al desiderio di tornare Sinceri Saluti Monia & Daniele Romagnoli
Susan and Don
Luca and Staff, We just arrived back home in California and did have a wonderful trip. After Viareggio, we went to Perugia and Rome. Our favorite was Viareggio and we hope to be back next year. Thanks for your hospitality in making us feel at home. Susan and Don
Kathleen Velardo
Thank you we enjoyed your hotel very much! Sincerely, Kathleen Velardo
Pam e Mike
We have returned safely to England and now write to thank you all for your hospitality and help during our stay in Viareggio. It was much appreciated. We did enjoy seeing Tosca at the Puccini Festival Opera and revisiting Viareggio and Lucca (we were first here in 1994). It was good too using your bicycles to see more of the town. After Viareggio, we spent some time on the Cinque Terre and in Genova. In all a very interesting and enjoyable visit to Italy: we hope to return again to see more of your country. Again, thank you all. We have happy memories of our stay at Hotel Tirrenia. Our best wishes for your continued success in this and future years. Kind regards Pam & Mike
Jennifer and Graham
(British - 13/07/2012 14:19:50)
Thank you for making our recent stay in your lovely little hotel so enjoyable. We look forward to returning.
Thank you very much, we had a wonderful time - my neice had never been to Italy before and I couldnt have chosen a better place to bring her. She loved every minute of it, we both did. A big thank you for making our stay go so well , everyone at your hotel made us feel very welcome Best wishes Debra
Marina Smelyanskaya
(Russia - 27/06/2012 17:53:45)
Thank you so much for helping us to spend such a great holiday! It was really pleasure to stay in your hotel. We wish prosperity to your business and all the best to your family.
Martin & Lynn Pavis
We really enjoyed our 4 night stay at the Tirrenia. We loved the modern decor, clean, comfy room & great breakfast. The staff were friendly, very helpful & the manager always went the extra mile to ensure we made the best of our stay. The Tirrenia was excellent value for money & will be our first choice hotel if we return to Viareggio.
Phil Nadin
We stayed in the Tirrenia for two nights on the 7th & 8th October 2011. When we read the hotel guest reviews we thought they were too good to be true, but still thought we would make the booking How pleased we were that we did book and that the reviews did not lie. Everything was exactly as described. The Tirrenia should be on every traveller's 'places to visit' list Phil & Barbara, Gil & Doreen from Somerset, UK
Somaschini Luca
(Italiana - 07/11/2011 18:18:35)
il soggiorno è stato senz'altro piacevole, e il vostro hotel confortevole, accogliente e davvero ben curato! Una piccola grande sorpresa nella nostra vacanza, lo consiglieremo senz'altro. Non mancheremo di tornare qualora ripassassimo da Viareggio!
Spaar Trudi
(Svizzera - 30/10/2011 09:04:04)
Hallo Luca Wir haben uns über Ihr mail gefreut und danken auch Ihnen für die nette Gastfreundschaft. Herzliche Grüsse auch an Ihre Familie und Ihr Team. Trudi Spaar
Emmanuelle et Jérome
(France - 30/10/2011 08:50:21)
Nous tenons à vous remercier pour votre agréable accueil, sympathie et tutti quanti. Nous avons un souvenir exceptionnel de la région ainsi que de votre dévouement pour être au plus près des clients. Votre petit mail nous a profondément touché. Bonne continuation à vous Toutes nos amitiés ainsi qu'à vos parents Très cordialement Emmanuelle et Jérome
Derek & Eileen
(Nederland - 07/10/2011 11:39:17)
We did have a very good time in Italy. As always we do enjoy visiting your country. Your Hotel and all the people concerned with it made us feel at home and relaxed and were excellent in our treatment. We shall be returning in the future i hope it is not to long away. Once again thank you for having us. All the best to all of you Derek & Eileen
Fontana J
(francese - 21/09/2011 07:58:37)
superbe séjour, très bon accueil, les chambres sont très propres et bien entretenues, le petit-déjeuner est top ! et en plus l'hôtel est bien situé et proche de la plage sans être sur l'avenue centrale qui est plus bruyante ! vraiment une bonne et belle adresse !
Natalia Ivanova and Tetiana Antonchenko
(Russia - 06/09/2011 20:39:33)
We are very grateful to you and your employees for our pleasant stay and a very warm and welcoming reception at your hotel. We will surely recommend your hotel and services for our friends should they visit Viareggio. Wishing you success and prosperity, Best wishes
(Deutsch - 27/08/2011 11:25:19)
We enjoyed much our stay (10.-13.07.2011) at Hotel Tirrenia!!! It was our first holiday in Viareggio. Nice and very friedly the owner-family, perfect breakfest and service. And the rooms are very clean. We will stay again there in 2012!!!
(Italia- (13/08/11-20/08/11) - 22/08/2011 13:50:14)
Siamo appena tornati da Viareggio dove abbiamo soggiornato in questo fantastico hotel!!! Lo definisco fantastico pe vari motivi: la posizione è ottima, a due passi da qualunque cosa (mare, negozi, mercatino...), la camera carinissima e sempre molto pulita (noi avevamo quella mansardatata: un bijoux), la colazione al buffet abbondante e sempre fresca (al di sopra delle aspettative rispetto ad altri 3 stelle) ma soprattutto la cortesia e la gentilezza delle persone che gestiscono l'albergo: sembrava di essere a casa da parenti... persone meravigliose!!! A voi ancora un grazie di cuore per l'accoglienza ed il trattamento riservatoci durante tutta la settimana!!! Monia & Daniele Romagnoli
We again enjoyed our stay at Hotel Tirrenia!!!! This was our second visit to your hotel and we hope to return again in the near future. You and your family run a wonderful establishment. Thank you again, especially for arranging the bus to the Opera. Cheryl & Peter
Mariette et André
(Canada - 02/08/2011 11:06:55)
Buon giorno! Merci pour votre merveilleux accueil! C'était super! Nous n'avons que de bons mots pour votre établissements! Viva Italia! Mariette et André
Barbara Clark
we had a fantastic time and your hotel was perfect. Barbara
Christy and Jeff
We really enjoyed our stay at Hotel Tirrenia. Thank you for having such a great place. Christy and Jeff
Lesley Thomson
Hi Luca, family and friends we had another wonderful holiday and, as before, loved staying with you at Hotel Tirrenia and shall certainly return when we next visit northern Tuscany. Thank you again. Best wishes.
Vekshin family
(Russia - 09/07/2011 08:36:03)
Thanks a lot for warm welcome. We had a wonderful vacation thanks to your family. We were fascinated by your charming Inn with best personell and unforgottable breakfasts, which alltogether made us feel like home.Our return was OK, thanks for such attention. Kindest regards.
MASSIMO e SARA
Camera dotata di tutti i servizi necessari, comoda e fresca. Un'ottima colazione, titolare e collaboratori molto disponibili e gentili. Accoglienza ottima e completa di tutta le informazioni per il soggiorno nella città di Viareggio. Un sentito ringraziamento a tutti.
Charlie and Margaret
we had a great holiday in Italy, Hotel Tirrenia was fantastic, the staff very friendly and helpful. We could not have selected a better hotel and if we return to Viareggio we would certainly stay at the Tirrenia. We have also recommended the hotel to friends and family. We wish you continuing success for the future. Best regards
It was fantastic and your hospitality was brilliant. Hopefully we will be back sometime in your part of italy in the near future.
Novella e Claudio
(Francia - 14/06/2011 08:24:24)
Dopo qualche giorni a San Gimignano e Siena siamo stati costretti a tornare a casa, le vacanze finite. Essi erano molto bella vostra provincia con sue superbe città. Firenze, lo sapevamo già da alcuni anni, è una meraviglia del mondo con altre città italiane, naturalmente (Roma Venezia...). L'Italia è veramente magnifica. Ovunque ci aviamo incontrati una granda gentilezza, ma vostro ricevimento restera uno excelente riccordo da nostro soggiorno in Toscana, come dimostra la delicatezza del vostro E-mail. Mille grazie per tutto. Sincere ringraziamenti e molto successo per la stagione Novella e Claudio
Jean and Martyn.
We had a wonderful holiday in Italy, made even more special by your fabulous hotel. Everything was excellent, location, rooms, food and particularly the staff. You can be assured that we will recommend you to our friends and family, and that we will return ourselves in the future. Many thanks for a wonderful stay Jean and Martyn
We had a great holiday. Thanks again for all your hospitality. We will certainly be back in the future. Kind Regards Ken and Lisa
Justyna and Mark
(United Kingdom - 14/05/2011 08:57:22)
Many thanks for the great stay. We had a terrific time. All the staff there at Hotel Tirrenia are wonderfully warm and helpful and the BREAKFAST was simply outstanding! Thank you again Justyna and Mark
We had a great time in Italy and the stay at your hotel was really good, Thank you for the friendly welcome and the always helpful staff who made my two teenager's so welcome. We look forward to coming back in the summer. Kind regards John
NONOSTANTE LA BASSA STAGIONE,SIAMO STATI BENISSIMO.OTTIMA ACCOGLIENZA E DISPONIBILITà DEL PERSONALE.OTTIMA SISTEMAZIONE E PULIZIA DELLA CAMERA.BUONA LA COLAZIONE. SICURAMENTE IN ESTATE RITORNEREMO.
(Argentina - 16/10/2010 15:12:20)
Realmente una estadía muy agradable… el servicio, la comodidad, la gente, un lugar maravilloso… Verdaderamente Viareggio se complementa con el maravilloso servicio del Hotel Tirrenia. Un lugar muy alegre y diferente. Estoy muy agradecida, y feliz de haber pasado por ahí. Muchas gracias por su excelente servicio.
(italiana - 16/10/2010 14:58:05)
Di transito per viareggio, ho avuto mod di apprezzare ,le ottime caratteristiche di questo hotel, seppure in bassa stagione , mi sono sentito come a casa. Ottima la disponibilità del personale tutto, la sistemazione e non ultima la colazione abbondante e varia. Sicuramente un hotel da ritornarci, magari in estate, e sicuramente da cosigliare. PASQUALE
(italiana - 15/10/2010 15:45:02)
viareggio era una tappa fuori programma, quindi abbiamo prenotato l'albergo affidandoci al caso.è stata veramente una bella sorpresa; è un albergo pieno di colori, arredato con stile e fantasia, e poi il personale si è fatto in quattro per soddisfare ogni capriccio, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la colazione.
(Ireland - 10/10/2010 19:22:33)
We had a great time in Italy and arrived home safely. As always we enjoyed our stay in your hotel so thanks to you and all the staff for giving us some great tips about where to go and what to do. You should tell all your guests to hire bicycles - we really enjoyed the cycle to Forte dei Marmi even if it took us a few days to recover!
(Italiana - 27/09/2010 11:37:39)
Stanza bellissima e comodissima. Colazione varia ed abbondante. Albergo stupendo e romantico. Il miglior tre stelle che abbia mai visto.
John & June Fryer
(United Kingdom - 23/09/2010 18:24:57)
We would like to thank you for your kindness and hospitality during our stay with you on 04/09/10 - 11/09/10. It is a pleasure to stay at your lovely hotel, and should we return to Viareggio we will most definately be staying with you, and would always recommend any friends or family to stay with you. We wish you and your family and also your staff the best wishes for the future. John & June Fryer
Mille Grazie dal mio cuore! We were in Viareggio in the middle of July 2010 and we enjoyed whole time in Toscana. I thank, specially, a helpful hotel reception, polite and smiling chambermaid, faithful and functional breakfast, and strategically perfect hotelroom. Huge thanks to older signore and signora of help and kindness. They are both very honored. A più tardi in futuro!
Thankyou for a lovely stay in your hotel. Everything was first class and the owners and staff couldnt do enough for you, very helpful and nothing was too much trouble. Very clean and modern hotel with all amenities and so near the beach and promenade. Highly recommended. Hope the men from Finland had a safe journey home! Best regards
Yana & Dima
(Russia - 26/07/2010 08:05:16)
Thank you very much, we had the best rest in your hotel during our long trip. We were visited a lot of hotels in different countries, but only in Tirrenia we met so polite, careful & nice owners. The Hotel is excellent, near the sea, restaurants & promenade. In a room there are all we need. Thank you very much & see you again!Grazie e arrivederci.
Anastasia and Alexey
(Russia (from 5/07/2010 -- 15/07/2010 - 23/07/2010 20:50:28)
It was wonderful staying in Tirrenia Hotel. 1. Very polite, kind, pleasant, and helpful people who tried to fulfill every of our crazy needs 2. Very clean and nice room which included all we need -- good separate conditioner, refrigerator, the TV and a lot of mirrors :) 3. Very, really very close to the sea 4. Close to main walking street but at the same time it is absolutely silent in the room. 5. Have I already wrote about people who work there? They are really amazement! Very good energetic in the hotel and surrounded support are left a dream in our hearts to came back again ASAP! We were in different hotels in Italy and visited many countries but never before we met such goodwill and care in relation to visitors. Thank you for the wonderful vacations! And especially thankx for your support in the day of our departure. We are very appreciate your help and understanding!
Eva Sternhoff
(Norway - 21/07/2010 19:36:16)
We are SO glad we stayed at Hotel Tirrenia! You surely give your guests the very best service! Thank you so much for helping us to get to the airport in Firenze on the day of strike! We hope to be back in Viareggio! Wishing you a wonderful summer, Eva Sternhoff
Phil & Tanya
Hello, We have a lovely stay at Hotel Tirrenia thank you. Your hotel is beautifully maintained, breakfast was really impressive. All staff were so helpful & accommodating & made our stay very enjoyable. We would definitely recommend Hotel Tirrenia to our friends.
Brian, Edna, Sarah walsh
Ciao Luca ed il personale molto gentile. Si, abbiamo passato un tempo meraviglioso -stupendo! Grazie mille. Non dimenticheremo mai,-Viareggio,le nostre gite ma sopratutto,il albergo. Speramo molto andare a vedervi tutti in un futuro non troppo lontano--la età e la salute permettendo. Riguardarte, Cordiali saluti, Brian,Edna e Sarah
Sarah and family
(England - 08/07/2010 16:11:39)
My parents and I stayed for a week in your hotel and had a lovely time. The rooms were clean, we had lovely views from our balconies, the breakfast was fantastic and you and your family/staff were all very friendly and helpful. We also thought Viareggio was a lovely charming town. We hope to return some day!
Johanna and Eino Kaarlela
(Finland - 04/07/2010 11:47:33)
Thank you, we had a great time in your Hotel Tirrenia. You were all very kind and helpfull in hotel! We can reconmed your hotel to anyone who is coming to Viareggio! Have a nice summer! Sincerely, Johanna and Eino Kaarlela
Patricia & Carol
(England - 28/06/2010 20:29:12)
We both had a lovely time in Tuscany and enjoyed our stay at your hotel. Everyone was very friendly and helpful - the hotel was very clean and the breakfast was excellent. We will definitely recommend your hotel to our friends.
Jarlath Heneghan
(Ireland - 17/06/2010 18:15:19)
Hi Luca, Claudia & all, We had a terrific time at your hotel and thanks again for all your help and friendly assistance during our stay. It made our holiday all the more enjoyable. Hope to see you again some time in the future.
Sue Pardy
We really enjoyed our short stay with you and will be returning to spend longer in Viareggio at some time in the future. When we do we shall definitely look to stay with you, the hotel, room and the breakfast were second to none. Thanks to you and your staff.
Pat Egan
(Ireland - 11/06/2010 17:19:21)
We had a great time in beautiful Tuscany and especially in your excellent Hotel.
(dutch - 28/04/2010 10:20:50)
We had a wonderful stay in Viareggio.Your hotel was very nice decorated and clean and the breakfast was fantastic!But above all you and your family were very helpfull and warm so we felt us very welcome!Best wishes to you and your family!The sorellas from holland
Roddy and Pam
(United Kingdom - 12/09/2009 21:22:52)
Thanks Luca , we had a wonderful time and your family are so nice. Maybe see you next year.
(United Kingdom - 06/09/2009 17:44:30)
Dear Luca, Barbara & staff It was lovely to receive your e-mail. Brian and I had a great stay at the Tirrenia - we will be recommending it to everyone! We were really happy to have a lift back to the airport from Barbara - which was very kind off you and the flight was on time - only to land back in Newcastle in rain and 12 degrees and then back to work! When we return to Viareggio we will definitely stay with you again and do more sightseeing. We hope you and Barbara have a great holiday in California this year - you deserve the rest before you start again next season! Ciao Susan
Judy Walker
(United Kingdom - 02/09/2009 11:30:45)
We had a lovely time too and hope to come back and see you again soon. Thank you for looking after us so well. Best wishes Judy
Vincent & Mena
(United Kingdom - 01/09/2009 09:12:08)
Dear Luca Nice to hear from you. We did indeed enjoy our stay with you and thanks for the Italian lessons. Prego? Best wishes to you and your family Vincent & Mena Duffy
Robin Williams
(United Kingdom - 30/08/2009 11:34:42)
We certainly enjoyed staying at your lovely hotel and will certainly stay again if we return to Viareggio. Thank you Robin Williams
Joan and Thieu
(Nederland - 27/08/2009 14:56:36)
Thanks, we had a great time in Italy. We had a good trip to Germany where we stayed for 2 days, but we had a lot of rain there.... Back in Holland we still have 1 week holiday, and the weather in Holland is very good, so that is nice. We hope for next year that we can travel for 14 days, and than we also want to come to Viareggio and stay for a few days in Tirrenia Hotel So we think that we will send you an e-mail at the end of the year for making a reservation for august 2010. Thanks for your hospitality during our stay in the hotel!!!! Best regards to all of you.....Joan and Thieu Hochstenbach.
Werner & Ursula
(Deutschland - 22/08/2009 23:04:10)
Dear Tirrenia-Team, thank you very much for the hospitality we found in your Hotel during our recent stay. We had a save and good trip back home. As mentioned at our departure my wife Ursula & me very much appreciated the service you presented to us and we enjoyed the special ambiente of your Hotel. Due to the high temperatures the balcony was very pleasant which offered often a cooling breeze and a nice place to sit, to read or just to enjoy the atmosphere. We wish you all the best for the future, coming back to Toscany and Viareggio, we will get in touch with you. kind regards Werner & Ursula Pietsch
James Buckley
(United Kingdom - 11/08/2009 04:35:44)
We had a fabulous holiday. The service, breakfast and rooms were excellent! Thanks for a wonderful time James Buckley
Seab R Mullen
(United Kingdom - 09/08/2009 20:35:16)
Hi, We really enjoyed our stay in Viareggio and Hotel Tirrenia. We would certainly recommend Viareggio and especially your Hotel and we would be pleased to visit there again. Thank you for your kind hospitality. Seab R Mullen
Gunnar and Anne-Marie
(Suomi - 31/07/2009 19:07:19)
Thank you for your good service and friendliness, we stay 2 nights in Berlin on our way back home, a fantastic city. Regards Gunnar and Anne-Marie
(United Kingdom - 22/07/2009 05:17:42)
Hi, We had a lovely time. Thank you for a lovely time. This was my second visit and I am sure I'll return again. Thank you Clay
Julie e Kevin
(United Kingdom - 15/07/2009 22:58:07)
We really enjoyed our stay and your hotel was lovely - particularly the breakfasts and capuccinos! I hope that you have not been affected by the terrible train crash that we saw on the news recently? Best wishes Julie and Kevin
(United Kingdom - 05/07/2009 10:00:28)
Would like to thank you again for a lovely stay. Was really saddened to hear about the train blast in Viareggio. Hope all is well. Regards Jackie Sweeney
Jo & Jan
(Nederland - 30/06/2009 00:44:53)
We had enjoyed our stay in Italy and also in your fine Hotel Tirrenia. Also the nice weather was a present, so our vacation was plenty enjoying. If we are intend to go to Toscane again, we'll surely come again into your hotel. Many greatings to your whole family, Jo & Jan Schreppers
Chiara Perucconi
(Italia - 28/06/2009 09:59:12)
Siamo stati benissimo! Buona giornata Chiara
Carine & André
(België - 22/06/2009 15:29:49)
We had a marvelous vacation in Italy and in hotel Tirrenia. Great hotel, great breakfast, great hosts !!! We will surely come back ! (even our dog Bruce liked it) Greetings en see you one of the following years. Carine & André De Keyser
Susan Headley
(United Kingdom - 19/06/2009 17:47:14)
Thanks a lot we had a wonderful time and will certainly return. I have just sent a review to tripadvisor which will be on the site in the next few days. Many Thanks again for a great time, Susan
Brian and Marjorie
(United Kingdom - 09/06/2009 11:41:36)
We had a fabulous time in Vareggio and at your hotel. If we knew what we know now we would have stayed at your hotel for the whole week!! Best Regards Brian and Marjorie Ridley
Caroline and Alex
(United Kimgdom - 04/06/2009 23:12:01)
Ciao Luca and co Thanks for the reminder that we are no longer on holiday! I'm joking of course, we had a great time staying with you and enjoyed Viareggio immensely. Im not sure if we will ever come back to the region, but rest assured if we do, we will come and say hello to you all. Best wishes, Caroline and Alex
Franco Bizzozero
(Italia - 31/05/2009 21:32:21)
Vi ringrazio per il piacevole soggiorno presso il vostro Hotel, nel quale ci siamo trovati molto bene. Hotel che sicuramente consiglierò. Cordiali saluti. Gianfranco e Sandra Bizzozero
Geoff and Sheila
(United Kingdom - 26/05/2009 08:08:40)
Thanks for such a friendly welcome and a lovely hotel, i would love to come back someday and i will reccomend it to all my friends. regards Geoff and Sheila
Fatrini Paola
(Italia - 11/05/2009 11:12:01)
Grazie per la cortesia, la gentilezza e la disponibilità dimostrate... Spero di tornare presto a Viareggio e se lo farò sarò sicuramente di nuovo vostra ospite. Saluti Paola Fratini
(United States of America - 26/04/2009 02:27:25)
We made it home just fine. Your advice was perfect! I hope you and your family have a very Happy Easter. Please say Hello to Barbara and your parents. We truly enjoyed meeting your family and the Tirrenia Hotel. You helped make our visit to Italy wonderful and we will remember you all for a long time. Marla and I both look forward to returning some day. Best regards, David


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Yoga teachers in Virginia are fighting back against planned state regulations of Yoga schools. Three yoga instructors filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop a state mandate which would regulate yoga schools like vocational classes. The officials seeking to impose regulations see it as a way to protect the investments of the students who participate in teacher training programs. Regulations are implemented on vocational classes that prepare students for a job.
Yoga teachers highly disagree. "Yoga is the study of the self through direct experience," said Suzanne Leitner-Wise, a plaintiff and president of U.S. 1 Yoga Teacher Training. The teachers who initiated the lawsuit vehemently disagree with the notion that yoga teacher trainings should be regulated. Conversely, they view the process as passing on a tradition that is millennia old, and to regulate it, goes against our constitutional right of free speech.
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Certification will require an initial fee of $2500, then ongoing audits, annual charges which can add up to as much as $500 and additional paperwork. And ultimately, who's to say that a yoga teacher certification prepares students for a job? As a director of two Yoga Teacher Training programs, this really hits home for me. Every year I have a fair number of students who participate in the teacher training programs just to deepen their practice and understanding of this ancient science of yoga. Very few if any participants are involved just to prepare for a "job."
All over this nation and the world, there are programs based in "self" education that support the current career path of the participants, and that cost thousands of dollars, but do not qualify for state regulations, yet. If we support regulating Yoga Teacher trainings by an entity entirely unfamiliar with what we do, then how are we going to keep it authentic. Vocational regulation could just be the beginning. After the bureaucratic body steps into one aspect of the program, then the door has been opened for all the others as well. Does this mean that teacher training curriculums will be subject to approval by the state, and penalized (usually in the form of fines) if non-compliant?
I am a believer in basic standards for all teacher training programs, and I believe that our governing standards organization, Yoga Alliance, is doing a fair job and raising the bar for yoga schools. But to allow regulations to dilute the core of the teachings in order to meet some arbitrary standards set by governing bodies unfamiliar with the practice is dangerous territory.
On the other hand, some would say that being recognized by the state as an educational institution can give us more credibility as a "school" and more weight in the professional arena. That through regulation we gain the ability to see yoga move away from the fringe and more into the mainstream. I do not argue that it would be nice to feel more respected at my high school reunion when I respond to the question, "what do you do?" with "I'm a yoga teacher," an answer that usually equates me with an aerobics instructor in the minds of my former classmates. But at what cost would we seek more respect if we allow the government to regulate yoga?
I would rather receive the disregard of those who do not understand my path, than the dissolution of this ancient science. I would rather fight for the dignity of the practice and all that it represents than fold under the pressures of government regulation.


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The sounds of nail guns and power saws filled the air in a section of the east side of Springfield last week. Men with tool belts worked feverishly to build a new home at the corner of 12th and Edwards streets, raising walls and covering the frame with plywood.
Right next door, a rundown, boarded-up abandoned house awaits demolition, a reminder that there is still much work to be done.
Both properties belong to TSP-Hope, a nonprofit group focused on building affordable housing, and each property's metamorphosis is another step toward revitalizing Springfield's east side.
In late September, The Springfield Project, which spawned TSP-Hope, secured a $1.26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support TSP-Hope's overhaul of the neighborhood's housing.
The money will help pay for 11 new homes and the demolition of 25 abandoned properties within the area bounded by Cook Street and South Grand Avenue between 11th Street and Martin Luther King Drive.
Once TSP receives the funds, they will be disbursed to Habitat for Humanity of Sangamon County and TSP-Hope. Habitat will build five new homes in the 49-square-block area. TSP-Hope has already begun building a few of the other six homes to be funded.
"Honestly, this is not a cure-all for what needs to take place over there," TSP executive director Tim Rowles says. "But hopefully if we can get this project going, people will see what's taking place, and we'll be able to attract or generate some new funding."
Rowles says he expects to have new homes ready by the start of 2010. "We're being very aggressive with this," he says. "But we're also going to take our time and make sure we do it right."
Ron Fafoglia, executive director of TSP-Hope, says the neighborhood was chosen because his organization already works there.
"That's where the most need is," Fafoglia says. "We've got several pieces of property already purchased in that area, and we're pretty much ready to hit the ground running. We want the work to be concentrated in as small an area as possible to make the biggest impact."
Dana Plummer, executive director of the local Habitat for Humanity, says the grant would pay for half the cost of the five houses to be built. Plummer says Habitat is still accepting applications to receive one of the homes it will build with the funds.
"It's exciting, for me, to build in that area," she says. "They need it. The area needs it. There's a lot of great people over there."
Habitat and Hope are grant partners with TSP on the project, along with the City of Springfield, the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Springfield Black Chamber of Commerce and the Q5 Diversity Development Council.
Mike Farmer, director of the city's Office of Planning and Economic Development, said the city will be using other federal dollars to update infrastructure in the east side, including almost 9,000 feet of new sidewalks along Capitol Avenue, as well as new sidewalks along Kansas, Stuart, Brown and Cook streets.
Rowles says the groups involved with the housing project have more plans to rejuvenate the east side in the future.
"We're interested in not just housing, but also in some retail and commercial development," he says. "We'd love to see some mixed-use development along South Grand."
Rowles says the east side redevelopment efforts are a community effort.
"We've got to make sure that we build partnerships, that we work together and get everybody involved," he says. I'm really expecting that once we get started on this, people are going to join together and we're going to make a positive impact in a place that has long been neglected."
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Brad Davis wants his team to dig in and "do the dirty work" on Saturday against Toronto FC (3 p.m. KPRC Local 2) as the Houston Dynamo bid to find the winning formula on the road.
The Dynamo captain delivered a typically-committed performance on Sunday and scored an 81st-minute winner as the Dynamo overcame the Chicago Fire at BBVA Compass Stadium to set a new MLS record of 35 straight unbeaten home games in all competitions.
It was an eye-catching, all-action display from the five-time MLS All-Star - enough to earn him league player of the week honors
"It's great, it means you had a good week, but the biggest thing is that that award's not handed out unless individually you did well and as a team you did well, that's the most important thing," he said.
WATCH: Dynamo 2, Fire 1
For Davis, one of the keys to the 2-1 victory over the Fire was the willingness of every man in orange to put in the unseen effort that lays the foundations for success - tackling, tracking back, marking, helping each other. He wants to see that recipe repeated on Saturday.
"It's not always fun to do the dirty work and the little things that go unnoticed as a player sometimes but you have to do that to get good results as a team," the 31-year-old told HoustonDynamo.com. "Everybody was digging in, everybody was a part of that game at all times, attacking and defensively, so that's definitely something that we have to have on the road. It's a challenge for us but it's something we're going to have to overcome and hopefully it starts this weekend in Toronto."
Dominic Kinnear's side have now won all five of their fixtures in their own back yard this season, but all three road trips have brought defeats. A chance to start repairing the away record comes on Saturday as the Dynamo travel to BMO Field to face Toronto.
Since the Eastern Conference-leading Montreal Impact do not play this weekend, a win in Ontario will hoist the Dynamo into first place after seven games. Despite being only a quarter of the way through the 2013 season, Davis believes that leading the pack is always significant. He would prefer the Dynamo to be front-runners rather than snapping at the heels of the leaders and waiting for them to slip up.
"You always want to be up top with teams chasing you," the veteran midfielder said. "You don't want to be chasing teams, no matter if it's the beginning of the year, the end of the year, the middle of the year. You always want to be looking down on teams and putting pressure on teams to maybe say, 'you know what, we need to get some points to catch these guys.'
"It's pressure for us to stay there. We might get a chance to get there, but once we get there can we stay there? Can we stay consistent throughout the year? We've kind of had some ups and downs, we haven't been the best team at starting years off over the years, and now we've had a great start to this year so far. Can we keep at a consistent level throughout the entire season?"
Houston endured a disappointing second half against the Portland Timbers and a poor first 45 minutes against FC Dallas in recent weeks but were solid throughout against Chicago.
The need to improve results beyond BBVA Compass Stadium is intensified by a tough set of fixtures ahead, with the Dynamo away for six of their next nine matches. But Kinnear is not looking past Toronto.
"I try not to think too far ahead," the head coach said. "The focus really is on winning the game. It's about gritting the game out, playing well, taking your chances and defending well. You can always replicate the effort but you can't replicate the game. So long as the effort remains the same for 90 minutes then we'll be in good shape."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian and SI.com.


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UK-DPRK Relations by Prof David A Tizzard
Returning UK Ambassador to the DPRK offers extensive comments following David's presentation.
Cropping Korea: Shifting National Characters on Display at Changgyeong-gung
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Amazing Aftermath of Seoul 1988 Olympics
Lecturer: Kathryn Weathersby, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of History, Korea University
The 1988 Summer Olympics were the Republic of Korea's international debut as a modern, prosperous country. The games' Opening Ceremonies drew television's largest audience to date -- over a billion people. The Olympics also proved to be a turning point in South Korean foreign relations and in the entire configuration of international relations in Northeast Asia. Just days before the games began, Seoul announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of Hungary, formerly a staunch ally of North Korea. The ROK then turned to Moscow, which, strapped for cash, agreed to recognize Seoul in exchange for significant loans and credits. South Korea's price for such assistance was that the Soviet Union cease its military support to North Korea. When Pyongyang responded to Moscow's betrayal by threatening to recognize the independence of rebellious Soviet republics, the Soviet Union cut off economic aid as well, demanding that the DPRK pay world market prices for its oil. The post-Soviet Russian Republic continued Gorbachev's realignment toward the two Koreas, China followed suit, and the North Korean economy imploded.
As we face another possible realignment following this year's PyeongChang Olympics, Professor Weathersby will provide some context by recounting the amazing story of what happened in the aftermath of the 1988 Olympics. She will begin with the ROK pursuit of a "north policy" concurrent with its Olympic bid, explaining the origins and logic of this approach. She will then examine Seoul's successful negotiations to establish diplomatic relations with Moscow and the lasting impact of that historic shift.
Kathryn Weathersby is a historian of the international history of modern East Asia. She has focused her research on Soviet involvement in the Korean peninsula before and during the Korean War, and on the history of North Korea. She founded and directed the North Korea International Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and taught courses on North Korea at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Currently at Korea University, she is teaching a course titled "The International History of Divided Korea."
Lecture Video: The Rise and Fall of Youth Culture in 1970s South Korea
Lecturer: Matthew VanVolkenburg
Throughout the late 1960s, a form of youth culture influenced by the West began to take shape in South Korea. It was not until 1970, however, that a discourse on youth culture (ch'ŏngnyŏn munhwa) began to develop in the Korean-language press. These media outlets also tended to portray developments in the US and Europe in a sensationalist manner, highlighting "free sex," nudity, rebellion, and drug use, particularly by hippies. By 1969, bands playing psychedelic and soul music became popular in Korea, while in early 1970 the "new trend" of long hair on men gained coverage. The beach and vacationing also became an integral part of this culture, reflected in 1970's hit song by the Key Boys, "Go to the beach." Weekly magazines like Sunday Seoul reported on risqué avant-garde art and revealing fashion shows as well, and by the summer of 1970 young people were said to be caught up in the go-go dancing craze, while some students were reported to be smoking marijuana. These trends culminated in a crackdown on all of these aspects of youth culture at the end of August 1970, one which focused mostly on men with long hair but also targeted avant-garde art.
Such long hair crackdowns would become a common occurrence throughout the 1970s and intensified after the authoritarian Yusin system was established in 1972. In 1975 Park Chung-hee used the defeat of South Vietnam as an excuse to ban all dissent and exercise total control over students on campuses. This was accompanied by censorship of rock and folk music and the sudden arrests of hundreds of young people, particularly musicians, for smoking marijuana. The reason the latter crackdown was so effective – leading to dozens of musicians being banned from performing for life – was that few young people realized marijuana was illegal. Its criminalization dated back to the summer of 1970, when marijuana use among Korean students was exaggerated to justify prohibition and obscure the fact this was being done at the behest of US military authorities. After years of indifference to drug use by US soldiers, the ROK's sudden cooperation was linked to the planned withdrawal of 20,000 US troops under the Nixon Doctrine. The resulting enforcement of the new law near US bases and nowhere else contributed to ignorance of the law and facilitated the spread of marijuana use, which inadvertently gave the authorities the means to suppress Westernized youth culture while promoting wholesome music and patriotic spirit.
This lecture will focus on the years 1969 and 1970 and make extensive use of photos from contemporary weekly magazines to explore the incipient youth culture which was suppressed by South Korea's authoritarian government.
Matt VanVolkenburg first arrived in Korea in 2001 and began the blog Gusts of Popular Feeling in 2005. His interest in modern Korean history encompasses film, music, urban redevelopment, reactions to Western culture, and media depictions of foreigners. He contributed research to a case brought before the UN Committee on the Eradication of Racial Discrimination which ultimately ended HIV testing of foreign English teachers. He recently received an M.A. in Korean Studies from the University of Washington where he focused on the topic of this lecture.
The Korean War Remembered: An international Perspective
How is the Korean War remembered by the nations involved in the conflict of 1950-1953? How can a war that is not yet ended be memorialized and consigned to history? Korea remains the "forgotten war" for many Americans – overshadowed by the victory of the "greatest generation" just five years earlier. Even today, as tensions rise on the Korean peninsula, most Americans hold only vague memories of the war's causes and its significant consequences in shaping the international order of East Asia. The war is ever present, however, in the lives and memories of Koreans living both North and South of the DMZ; and, on a divided Korea peninsula, competing historical narratives vie to establish legitimacy for rival regimes and complicate any effort at reconciliation. Meanwhile, the People's Republic of China holds its own unique understanding of the war and its significance.
This presentation will examine the evolving international memory of the war from June 1950 to the present in an international context. The public memory of the Korean War in the United States, the two Koreas, China and United Nations Command allies will all receive attention. Of special note will be the belated efforts to honor the service of Korean War veterans in the United States, South Korea and elsewhere. As diplomats and political leaders struggle to resolve international conflict, endeavors to memorialize the Korean War have brought to the public a fresh awareness and a greater understanding of the war's troubled legacy.
Understanding the Importance of Classifying Old Maps of Korea
Old maps are fascinating since they don't depict the world as we see it nowadays. Dr. Savenije will show about 75 maps (with and without Korea) to show what the west knew about the Korea going back to about 1500.
He will also talk about the importance of classifying these maps based on the shape they had from this.
Japan and Korea have been arguing for a long time which name of the East-Sea/Japanese sea is the correct one, Dr. Savenije will show that these arguments are invalid for many reasons. There's even a group of people who argues that Korea should be written with a C as in Corea, he will also show why these arguments are wrong.
Dr. Savenijewill show in a selection of about 60 old maps dating from about 1568 to 1894 to make my point. Showing the earliest map from Van Langeren in Van Linschoten (1595) and an odd exception by the Portuguese cartographer Vaz Dourado which was only discovered in the last century, till the pretty accurate German map of 1894 of Carl Flemming.
Based on the available information you could see the shape of Korea evolving from a circle island, an upside triangle attached to China, a pendula shaped peninsula which sometimes was attached to and sometimes separated from the mainland, then for a short time a square to a peninsula in the shape approaching the real shape. Till when finally the French procured a map which was based on a map stolen by a Chinese general and given to the Jesuits who were mapping China. The last shape lasted the longest, for about 100 years till the Germans started making maps which finalized in the map above and which was pretty accurate.
Henny Savenije hails from the Netherlands and was always fascinated by history, maps and Asia (in that order). Strangely enough he first got a masters in math and a PhD in psychology but after his first visit to Korea he seriously started to do research into the early Dutch documents of Korea.
A Dutch adventure in Asia (the adventures of a Dutch soldier, a dairy kept from 1895-1705) (in print)
An article in Korean about Hendrick Hamel in a magazine for KLM April 2000.
Hamel's Journal: A modern translation of the Journal in Dutch. Ad Donker B.V. Rotterdam 2003
Hamel's Journal in Korean Hamel Bokoseo, M&B, Seoul, 2003
Korean Cartography in a historic perspective, paper presented at the 11th Conference about the name of the East Sea in Washington, DC, 2005
The Japanese Sea, a sign of Japanese aggression? paper presented at the 12th Conference about the name of the East Sea in Seoul, South Korea, 2006
Asian Beliefs How Chinese Zodiac Signs Affect Women
Folk beliefs in the power of the Chinese zodiac signs to affect fortunes of human beings have flourished for millennia in Asian regions. Even today, in Korea and elsewhere, in tandem with world-record-breaking scientific and technological advances, the zodiac myths exert power over men and women, and contribute to the creation of various societal phenomena, including the dramatically fluctuating birth rates, increased abortions of female fetuses in certain years, population imbalances, and popularity (or unpopularity) of persons of certain signs as marriage or business partners.
In China, Korea, and other Asian countries, such beliefs enable expanding commercial activities, such as fortune telling, match making, and shamanistic rituals. Presenting numerous images and a discussion of philosophies, such as Taoism and the Yin-and-Yang-and-Five-Elements School of Philosophy, which contributed to the formation of the zodiac signs and related practices including geomancy and feng shui, the lecturer will discuss how Asian beliefs in Chinese zodiac signs continue to impact lives, particularly those of women.
The lecturer's talk on this topic can be listened to at: KKFI FM 90.1, "Every Woman," 8/05/2017, http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/...
Maija Rhee Devine earned her B.A. from Sogang University and an M.A. in English literature at St. Louis University. She is the author of The Voices of Heaven (2013), an award-winning autobiographical novel about Korea, and a book of poetry, Long Walks on Short Days (2013). Her short stories, essays, and poems have been published in literary journals in the United States, including The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boulevard, and The North American Review, and in anthologies. Her poems also appeared in Wilderness, a Korean literary journal.
She has taught English and Eastern Civilization at Soodo Women's Teachers College (Sejong University), Sogang University, Xavier University, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Kansas.
Her TEDx Talk about today's gender issues in Korea and other Asian countries is at: http://youtu.be/GFD-6JFLF5A. Her work-in-progress is a nonfiction book, World War II Comfort Women Experiences. Her numerous op-eds on this topic were published in The Korea Times and The Kansas City Star.
Lecture Video: The Earliest Commercial Korean Music Recordings and Their Historical Significance
Lecturer: Jihoon Suk
In the first decade of the 20th century, the newly-established record industries in North America and Europe were eager to expand their market to all over the world. Starting in 1902, the London-based Gramophone and Typewriter (G&T) company began a series of recording sessions in non-Western countries, usually referred to as "recording expeditions," to record music and other types of performing arts for potential customers in the non-Western world.
During these recording expeditions, there were always "intermediaries" in the area, who, not only acted as "talent scouts" to find performers willing to make recordings, but also acted as sales agents for the recording companies. Korea was no exception in the eyes of the executives of the G&T company. The 101 sides of Korean recordings recorded by the company (but eventually produced by its American affiliate, Victor Talking Machine Co.) in 1906, were the direct results of their third major recording expedition to Asia.
The musical importance of these 1906 Korean recordings cannot be stressed enough, as they provide rich resources for studying the earliest attainable forms of Korean pre-modern music. Their production history also reveals an interesting dynamic between the Western record companies and the Korean public, which paralleled the socio-economic effects and outcomes of the coming of the "West" to the "East" at the turn of the 20th century. (It even reveals a surprising connection with the RAS!)
This lecture will include a demonstration of early sound recording technologies, both playback and recording technologies using period equipment. It will also include several sound clips of several extant 1906 Victor Korean recordings.
Jihoon Suk received a BA and MA in Korean modern history from Yonsei University. While he calls himself a "generalist" in terms of his knowledge on Korean history, his primary research focuses on the roles of the modern non-textual media (sound recordings, films, and photographs), as it was one of the most crucial factors shaping the modern perception of Korean "traditional culture" or "national culture" as we see today.
He is also an avid collector of vintage sound recordings, which led to his involvement with the Korean 78rpm Discography Project and Archive (http://www.78archive.co.kr), a near-complete online database of Korean commercial records issued between 1907 and 1945. He also has been working with various museums and archives in Korea and around the world, including the Independence Hall Museum of Korea, the Korean Film Archive, the National Gugak Center, U.S. Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, and the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Lecture Video: The Korean Red Pine: a companion from cradle to grave
Despite the ecological and landscape importance and the public popularity of conifers, especially in the case of the Korean red pine (Pinus densiflora S & Z) or Sonamu in Korean, not much scientific and cultural information related to this familiar conifer is available. At present, red pine forest occupies 22.7 percent of the total Korean forest are, 1,447,439 square kilometers in extent. It is not merely a conifer that occurs on the mountains. The Korean red pine tree has long been regarded as a vital link between nature and people from the cradle to the grave in the Korean context, and Korean culture is often known as the Pine Tree Culture in comparison with the Oak culture of Europe.
The Korean red pine tree has been a dominant plant species for a long period of time, and has served as the key tree species maintaining ecosystems and landscapes, as well as being an important tree with respect to culture and the local economy. The Korean red pine has provided a wide range of seasonal produce required for the daily life of the common people, including foodstuff, firewood, tools, timber for shelter and coffins, especially when the country was in absolute poverty. The Korean red pine tree had a great impact on people's everyday life. It is also well-known for its popularity in traditional painting as one of the ten longevity symbols, and is also regarded as a symbol of fidelity, loyalty and eternity, along with bamboos.
The pine tree has been in existence in the Korean peninsula since the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era. Data from 1454 to 1931 have been obtained from seven historical documents and used to interpret the history of the Korean red pine. Historical records for conifers mainly contain descriptions of its use for timber, pine boards for royal coffins, diverse by-products, such as pine resin, pine mushrooms, seeds, and medicinal items. In recent years the Korean red pine has encountered a series of ecological challenges, such as cutting, forest fire, insect outbreak, regional development, and climate change.
Woo-seok Kong is a Professor of Biogeography in Kyung Hee University, Seoul. He is author of The Plant Geography of Korea (1993, Kluwer Academic Publisher), and several Korean books such as Conifer Science (2016, Geobook), Climate Change and Ecosystem (2012, Geobook), Biogeography and Ecology of Korean Plants (2007, Geobook), Ecosystem of DPRK (North Korea) (2006, Jipmundang), and Vegetation History of the Korean Peninsula (Acanet, 2003).
Lecture Video: King of the Dragons
Lecturer: David A. Mason
Dragons have always played a key role in Oriental traditions, especially in religious and governmental artworks. They are plentifully employed in Korean royal palaces, Shamanic and Confucian shrines, and Buddhist temples as uplifting and protective spiritual guardians of the heavens. They are found depicted on furniture and on many artifacts, believed to bring good fortune to the owners.
"Dragon" is one of the 12 auspicious figures of the oriental zodiac, as the leader of them all. The word itself is heavily employed in all eastern languages, and appears within an extremely high percentage of place names and other names, in comparison with other words. Looking deeper, in Korea they are presented much less as motifs of heaven-granted authority as in China, but more as symbols of the vital energies of water and its life-sustaining cycles as it moves through transformations – and the depictions have subtle characteristic differences.
Most Korean Buddhist temples have at least a small shrine for Yong-wang the dragon-king, and he also appears in Guardian Assembly Icons and some paintings of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. There are many interesting myths about appearances and behavior of this royal figure within Korean Daoist, Buddhist and folklore traditions. This lecture will explain about dragons and their monarch, and the role they play in eastern spirituality, while showing many colorful photos of the artworks and shrines.
David A. Mason is a Professor of Korean and International Cultural Tourism at Sejong University, Seoul Campus, and a longtime researcher on the religious characteristics of Korea's mountains. A native of the USA, he has been living in South Korea for 33 years now. He has authored and edited ten books on Korean culture and tourism, including Spirit of the Mountains about Korea's traditions of sacred mountains, the English Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism, and Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea's 'Go-un' Choi Chi-won. His popular website on sacred Korean mountains and mountain-spirit traditions can be found at www.san-shin.org


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Dear Aunt Fattie,
Over the past couple of months, I have embraced HAES, starting working on my negative body image, bought some pretty clothes in my correct size(s) (including new bras that actually fit), and got a great (shorter) haircut. Moderate exercise energizes me and makes me give off a rosy endorphin glow. In short, I look good and feel better that I have in 13 years. People have started to notice and compliment me on my transformation. It's all good, right? The thing is, my new intuitive eating and exercise habits have resulted in the loss of a very modest amount of weight, so modest that it would go unnoticed if it weren't for all of the other changes I've made. (The only reason I noticed is that the nurse told me at my last check-up.) What do I tell people when they ask the dreaded questions, "Have you lost weight?" or "How much weight have you lost?"
People want to say nice things to me, and I want to let them know that I appreciate the comments, but I don't want to talk about my weight. Or, perhaps I do want to talk about my weight, but only if it is going to be in a FA context. Specifically, I'm looking for responses for a) my husband, b) my co-workers, and c) my girlfriends (only one of whom I've ever known to diet).
Any suggestions?
Never learned how to accept a compliment
You are searching for something even more elusive than well-fitting bras: a response that conveys at once appreciation for an attempted compliment and complete indifference to the content of that compliment. Your husband is presumably aware of the provenance of your newfound glow (and the personal sturm und drang that probably preceded it), so with him, only gentle candor is needed: "Honey, you know I'm trying to move on from caring about my weight, so can you compliment things I'm really proud of, like my clothes or my haircut or my biceps?" With your girlfriends, you can skirt the Diet Talk canyon by focusing on the real issues: "have you lost weight?" is met with "mostly I got new bras, let me tell you about how amazing it is to have a bra that fits!" But what to say to coworkers and casual acquaintances? You don't want to lie and say that you haven't lost weight, but at the same time you want to downplay the importance of weight loss and, if possible, demonstrate the virtues of fat-positivity. And talking about your underthings is probably crossing a line.
Aunt Fattie's recommendation: variations on the theme of "really? I hadn't noticed." For people who are keenly attuned to others' weight fluctuations, this is guaranteed to blow their minds. It is not rude or dismissive, but the genuine indifference not to the weight loss compliment but to weight loss itself alerts people that something unusual is going on here. (In order to show that you are not indifferent to the compliment, it may behoove you to add something like "are you sure you're not just noticing my kicky new 'do?" In other words, acknowledge the attempt at telling you that you look good, and guide them towards the kind of compliment you care about and want to receive.) Thus, you are not only sidestepping an awkward conversation; you're also quietly, non-confrontationally challenging people's assumptions that weight loss is always deliberate and desirable.
If your coworkers and acquaintances are intrigued by your response, you can gauge whether you want to engage them in a more in-depth discussion of Health At Every Size and what it's done for you. But remember that you are not obliged to discuss your body or your health choices with anyone unless you want to. If someone asks whether you've lost weight, and they are genuinely trying to compliment you, it's polite to acknowledge their good intentions — but you are under no obligation to answer their question or, having answered it, to give more detail. Visibility does not make your body public property.
If you've got your own questions on fat, fatshion, fatiquette, self-esteem, or body image, send them to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Less than a year after being appointed as the town's first full-time fire chief, David F. Cobb has resigned.
Town Administrator John Lebeaux released a statement this morning announcing Mr. Cobb's resignation, effective Nov. 19. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
"The Board intends to quickly commence the process to fill the vacancy for this important position," the statement read. "It also wishes to acknowledge Princeton Fire and EMS personnel for their continued commitment to provide superior emergency services."
Mr. Cobb was placed on paid leave July 7, after the Board of Selectmen learned that he was facing criminal charges related to theft of drugs from the town's ambulance. On Nov. 5, selectmen voted to place him on unpaid leave.
Mr. Cobb was arraigned one count of larceny of a drug, and one count of obtaining drugs by fraud, and is due back in court on December 3.
Mr. Lebeaux declined further comment. Calls to Mr. Cobb's home were not returned.


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Dave Herman jokingly accused me a couple of TC39 meetings ago of being an "advocate for JavaScript as we have it today", and while he meant it in jest, I guess to an extent it's true — I'm certainly not interested in solutions to problems I can't observe in the wild. That tends to scope my thinking aggressively towards solutions that look like they'll have good adoption characteristics. Fix things that are broken for real people in ways they can understand how to use.
This is why I get so exercised about WebIDL and the way it breaks the mental model of JS's "it's just extensible objects and callable functions". It's also why my discussions with folks at last year's TPAC were so bleakly depressing. I've been meaning to write about TPAC ever since it happened, but the time and context never presented themselves. Now that I got some of my words out about layering in the platform, the time seems right.
Let me start by trying to present the argument I heard from multiple sources, most likely from (in my feeble memory)
Anne van Kestern Jonas Sicking(?):
ECMAScript is not fully self-describing. Chapter 8 drives a hole right through the semantics, allowing host objects to whatever they want and more to the point, there's no way in JS to describe e.g. list accessor semantics. You can't subclass an Array in JS meaningfully. JS doesn't follow it's own rules, so why should we? DOM is just host objects and all of DOM, therefore, is Chapter 8 territory.
Brain asploded.
Consider the disconnect: they're not saying "oh, it sure would be nice if our types played better with JS", they're saying "you and what army are gonna make us?" Remember, WebIDL isn't just a shorthand for describing JavaScript classes, it's an entirely parallel type hierarchy.
Many of the Chapter 8 properties and operations are still in the realm of magic from JS today, and we're working to open more of them up over time by giving them API — in particular I'm hopeful about Allen Wirfs-Brock's work on making array accessors something that we can treat as a protocol — but it's magic that DOM is appealing to and even specifying itself in terms of. Put this in the back of your brain: DOM's authors have declared that they can and will do magic.
Ok, that's regrettable, but you can sort of understand where it comes from. Browsers are largely C/C++ enterprises and DOM started in most of the successful runtimes as an FFI call from JS to an underlying set of objects which are owned by C/C++. The truth of the document's state was not owned by the JS heap, meaning every API you expose is a conversation with a C++ object, not a call into a fellow JS traveler, and this has profound implications. While we have one type for strings in JS, your C++ side might have
std::string, and/or some variant of
JS, likewise, has
Number while C++ has
short int,
long int,
long double,
long long int…you get the idea. If you've got storage, C++ has about 12 names for it. Don't even get me started on
It's natural, then, for DOM to just make up it's own types so long as its raison d'être is to front for C++ and not to be a standard library for JS. Not because it's malicious, but because that's just what one does in C++. Can't count on a particular platform/endianness/compiler/stdlib? Macro that baby into submission. WTF, indeed.
This is the same dynamic that gives rise to the tussle over constructable constructors. To recap, there is no way in JS to create a function which cannot have
new on the left-hand-side. Yes, that might return something other than an instance of the function-object on the right-hand side. It might even throw an exception or do something entirely non-sensical, but because
function is a JavaScript concept and because all JS classes are just functions, the idea of an unconstructable constructor is entirely alien. It's not that you shouldn't do it…the moment to have an opinion about that particular question never arises in JS. That's not true if you're using magic to front for a C/C++ object graph, though. You can have that moment of introspection, and you can choose to say "no, JS is wrong". And they do, over and over.
What we're witnessing here isn't "right" or "wrong"-ness. It's entirely conflicting world views that wind up in tension because from the perspective of some implementations and all spec authors, the world looks like this:
Not to go all Jeff Foxworthy on you, but if this looks reasonable to you, you might be a browser developer. In this worldview, JS is just a growth protruding from the side of an otherwise healthy platform. But that's not how webdevs think of it. True or not, this is the mental model of someone scripting the browser:
The parser, DOM, and rendering system are browser-provided, but they're just JS libraries in some sense. With
<canvas>'s 2D and 3D contexts, we're even punching all the way up to the rendering stack with JS, and it gets ever-more awkward the more our implementations look like the first diagram and not the second.
To get from parser to DOM in the layered world, you have to describe your objects as JS objects. This is the disconnect. Today's spec hackers don't think of their task as the work of describing the imperative bits of the platform in the platform's imperative language. Instead, their mental model (when it includes JS at all) pushes it to the side as a mere consumer in an ecosystem that it is not a coherent part of. No wonder they're unwilling to deploy the magic they hold dear to help get to better platform layering; it's just not something that would ever occur to them.
Luckily, at least on the implementation side, this is changing. Mozilla's work on dom.js is but one of several projects looking to move the source of truth for the rendering system out of the C++ heap and into the JS heap. Practice is moving on. It's time for us to get our ritual lined up with the new reality.
Which brings me too David Flanagan who last fall asked to read my manifesto on how the platform should be structured. Here it is, then:
The network is our bottleneck and markup is our lingua-franca. To deny these facts is to design for failure. Because the network is our bottleneck, there is incredible power in growing the platform to cover our common use cases. To the extent possible, we should attempt to grow the platform through markup first, since markup provides the most value to the largest set of people and provides a coherent way to expose APIs via DOM.
Markup begets JS objects via a parser. DOM, therefore, is merely the largest built-in JS library.
Any place where you cannot draw a line from browser-provided behavior from a tag to the JS API which describes it is magical. The job of Web API designers is first to introduce new power through markup and second to banish magic, replacing it with understanding. There may continue to be things which exist outside of our understanding, but that is a challenge to be met by cataloging and describing them in our language, not an excuse for why we cannot or should not.
The ground below our feet is moving and alignment throughout the platform, while not inevitable, is clearly desirable and absolutely doable in a portable and interoperable way. Time, then, to start making Chapter 8 excuses in the service of being more idiomatic and better layered. Not less and worse.


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Intuitive researcher David Wilcock spoke about the existence of ETs, whistleblowers' testimonies, stargates, and the coming of 2012. He suggested that conditions in our galaxy have made human-type life plentiful. It's a myth that aliens are malevolent scary-looking creatures-- they actually look similar to ourselves, he said.
Much of Wilcock's material about ETs was gathered from conversations he had with whistleblowers such as 'Henry Deacon' who claims that through his work in black budget projects he met and interacted with 40-45 different human/alien species. Deacon said he traveled to a base on Mars, and there were 240,000 personnel on the Red Planet, with only 10% of them born on Earth. He also explained the ancient means of traveling through a stargate didn't permit the transfer of anything non-biological, whereas the current method allows for instantaneous travel along with non-organic objects.
Wilcock spoke about the testimony of Sgt. Clifford Stone (video interview) who said he knew of 57 different types of aliens that range from 1½ feet tall to 15 ft. tall, in every skin color including orange and green (beings from the Alpha Centauri system are said to have dark green skin and engage in a kind of photosynthesis). The ETs are particularly focused on Earth, as we are about to go through an energetic change in 2012 that will raise our frequency to their level, Wilcock explained.


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PASADENA >> Get ready for Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches on East Colorado Boulevard.
Two deadlocked 4-4 votes of the City Council on Monday night paved the way for the restaurant to take over a vacant Burger King and expand the eatery's drive up lane. The tie votes prevented the council from overturning a previous decision that approved the restaurant.
Not everyone was happy.
"This is really putting lipstick on a chicken, and I think we should really not tolerate it," City Councilman Terry Tornek said. "It is a terrible land-use decision on a highly visible incredibly importantly located site."
Councilmen John Kennedy, Victor Gordo and Gene Masuda sided with Tornek. Councilwomen Jacque Robinson and Margaret McAustin, Mayor Bill Bogaard and Councilman Steve Madison voted for the fast-food restaurant, that is both loved and reviled.
"I predict … that years from now as Colorado Boulevard develops and really becomes what it should be and can be in this part of Pasadena, people will be scratching their head and saying, 'How did that ever get there?'" Tornek said.
Bogaard defended the restaurant, which will be within walking distance of the college.
"This is a case where we have the opportunity to support significant new investment in the city, to allow beautification of a parcel that has certainly some deficiencies with regard to its appearance in the neighborhood," Bogaard said. "The alternative … for the foreseeable future is the status quo, which is certainly not desirable."
Chick-fil-A spokeswoman Jennifer Daw said the restaurant will employ 80 to 100 locals as well as 300 workers during construction.
Though some have accused Tornek and his supporters of discriminating against Chick-fil-A for the company CEO's anti-gay statements, Pasadena Planning Director Vince Bertoni assured the council and the public that staff cannot prohibit certain businesses from coming into the city.
"The city doesn't under its jurisdiction decide whether a particular type of business can go in or not," Bertoni said. "It's important to keep that in mind."
One resident spoke in opposition to the new Chick-fil-A, arguing that the use would be detrimental to the nearby residential neighborhood and criticizing the traffic study. Two others, including a PCC student, spoke in favor, arguing that the site is an eyesore as a vacant former Burger King and shelters a few homeless people.
Chick-fil-A will be located at 1700 E. Colorado Blvd. and is tentatively scheduled to open later this year.


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Looking Inside the Audi + Ducati Deal
by, 04-18-2012 at 05:02 PM (9019 Views)
It's been a big news day at Audi today, with revealed plans for a Mexican Q5 plant and the even more widely followed story about Ingolstadt's purchase of motorcycle manufacturer Ducati. We've found an interesting piece by HellForLeather's Wes Siler posted over on Jalopnik about this very subject ( HERE ). In the piece, Siler theorizes on why Audi (also Volkswagen) would pick up the storied motorcycle marque.
Siler has his own theories and we have ours. We'd encourage you to go to the link to read his, but also to read below to read ours.
Why Ducati?
The Volkswagen Group has shown themselves to place high value on brands with rich history. The company has shown nearly unparalleled expertise in picking up these brands and injecting them with product, marketing, etc. in order to elevate them to their maximum potential. Three very good examples of this the boutique brands of Bentley, Bugatti and (in the case of Audi AG) Lamborghini. All of these brands have flourished under Volkswagen Group ownership.
Our guess is that you could call this the SEAT principal. Volkswagen picked up the Spanish carmaker with little heritage to speak of beyond Spanish-built Fiats. Since that time the company has had little success turning the brand into a powerhouse, even with multiple racing efforts and a fair amount of product. It is our guess that SEAT taught Volkswagen Group managers that you can't just throw product at the wall and hope it's successful. Companies like Hyundai and Kia might suggest otherwise, but the Volkswagen Group has not been able to replicate this sort of magic and their expertise is more the rebuilding well-established brands... which probably explains why Volkswagen Group chairman Ferdinand Piech also made headlines with his desires to pick up lagging-but-storied Alfa Romeo as well.
Why Motorcycles?
The move to get into the motorcycle business by Audi and the Volkswagen Group is an interesting one. Certainly Audi has history here with its retired NSU and DKW brands. Audi itself built a one-off motorcycle prototype in the 70s that used an Audi 50 engine - this last one a project of Dr. Piech, an admitted motorcycle aficionado. Piech has always had a passion in bikes and also in Ducati for which he'd expressed interest publicly years ago. Piech missed his chance to pick up Ducati last time and it seems that this time he didn't waste his time snapping it up.
There are some economies of scale to be had here. Ducati has its proficiencies as does Audi. One can imagine direct-injection petrol or electrically powered Ducatis might not be far off. Still, the Volkswagen Group has shown itself to prefer a strategy of savings through mass production with economies of scale realized through volume. SEAT's very existence nowadays is largely due to the added volume it brings to the group.
In the grand scheme, Ducati doesn't produce that much. While Piech has said the Volkswagen Group would be just about perfect with 12 brands (now achieved with the addition of Ducati), we wonder if there won't be more moves to achieve economies of scale in motorcycle production. More two-wheeled volume would help move the group into covering all levels of personal transportation, and storied brands like Vespa (solely a guess on our part) seem interesting considerations as additions to the two-wheeled side of the group.
Brainstorming and theorizing on motorcycle possibilities, the KTM X-bow also comes to mind. This racecar for the streets powered by a 2.0 TFSI and packed in a Dallara chassis (just like Audi's LMP1 racers) is an interesting experiment. How cool would a jointly developed alternative sold as Ducati or Audi be?
Whatever the case, we're excited to see where this leads and we'll be doing that as we add Ducati to the list of additional brands we cover on this site, alongside others like Lamborghini, Spyker, KTM, etc. that share Audi DNA either financial or mechanical.
Full Story - Hell for Leather Article on Jalopnik
Press Release: Audi Buys Ducati


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