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Title: Burning Submission
Author: J. Richards
Release Date: July 3rd, 2015
Sometimes submission can be hot...
Vicki's never had a problem standing up for herself. So when a meathead at the gym grabs her butt, she has no problem punching him in the face. Gavin, the gorgeous gym owner, throws the guy out, and his tender, but insistent demand to tend to her injured hand makes Vicki hot. The buff, sex-god-come-to-life is everything she's ever wanted, and he's only too happy to show her how good sex can be.
Gavin is entranced by the feisty woman, even though he already has more than enough on his hands with the gym and his work as a volunteer fire fighter. The last thing he needs is this bundle of contained fury tossed in his lap, but something about her calls to his inner Dominant. Not only that, her body responds to him like no other. But when he discovers someone is stalking her, it's no longer all fun and games. Submission is all about trust...and after a brutal attack, trust is the last thing Vicki is willing to give...to anyone.
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Is getting everything you want worth losing everything you have? Abby Jackson is a frustrated housewife. Her husband pays more attention to his Xbox than to her. She fills her days with erotica novels, wishing her husband would listen to her desperate pleas for more excitement in their sex lives, but he wants nothing to do with her wild fantasies. When Abby goes out for her weekly girl's night with her best friend Kelly, they enjoy a dangerous game of truth or dare that leads Abby to a controlling stranger who takes a shot of vodka from her breasts. The night rattles her to her core, and keeps Mr. Dark and Handsome in her mind for days after. Just as she returns to her boring, routine life, she gets a mysterious text message from an unknown number to come spend the night exploring her most secret desires. She knows she shouldn't go, but how can she not? Arriving at the hotel and unsure what will happen, Abby finds a box with a skimpy panty set, a blindfold, and a riding crop inside. There are also instructions to wear only what the box contains and to be ready for when the stranger arrives. Abby's first lesson in the Dominate/submissive world has just begun. The only frightening thing is how much she gets off on it. But will it fulfill her secret fantasies...or endanger everything she has? Reader discretion: contains light BDSM, spanking, blindfold play, multiple partners, intimate strangers, secret fantasies, domination/submission elements
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Hot, Delicious Read! By Kelsey At Battery Operated Book Blog
J. Richards really outdid herself with this hot, sexy, steamy read! Yes, Sir focuses on Abby who has just seemed to loose focus on any aspect of life with her husband, Jay. When a chance meeting occurs between a stranger, and herself, there is no mistaking that she needs to take her chance, and run like hell with it. With an interesting change of events - that had my mouth just drop open - she changes her chances with her husband, and has a chance to not only explore herself, but explore that of her husbands fantasies as well.A really great, short, exciting read that will have you begging for more with every turn of the page. There were only few grammar/spelling mistakes, and the story was easy to follow along with. Definite must read if you enjoy reading BDSM, and erotica. Very hot, delicious read! Thank you J, for reaching out to me to review your book. It is greatly appreciated!
Hot and sexy read By Amazon Customer
This book is a short read, but it's not lacking in anything. Its gripping, hot and sexy. It will have you turning the pages until you are done. I read this book in one sitting as i couldn't put it down. Abby loves to read erotica/BDSM books and longs to see what a sexual experience like that would be like. She can't convince her husband to partake and on a night out she meets a hot and dark stranger who later contacts her to give her what she needs. This book is a great read and i definitely recommend it.
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J. Richards is a twenty six year old mother and wife. She was born in a small town in New Hampshire, which she left at the age of eighteen to marry the love of her life. Leaving everything and everyone she had ever known to live down south with her new husband. They have now been married for almost eight years and are raising a wild child of a daughter. Her husband is in the military and because of that, they have shared the joys and struggles of moving around the country.
J. Richards has always loved reading and writing, dreams of becoming a published author seemed just that, only dreams. In 2015, with encouragement from a friend, she submitted a short story to etopia press and was beyond surprised when they wished to publish it. She now has four works under contract and a very hot series in the making.
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Nimetazepam (marketed under brand name Erimin) is a powerful hypnotic drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative which was first synthesized in Japan in 1964. It possesses strong hypnotic, anxiolytic, sedative, and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. Nimetazepam is also a particularly potent anticonvulsant.[1] It is sold in 5 mg tablets known as Erimin. It is generally prescribed for the treatment of short-term severe or debilitating insomnia in patients who have difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep.
Nimetazepam has a reputation for being particularly subject to abuse (known as 'Happy 5', sold as an Ecstasy replacement without a hangover), especially by persons addicted to amphetamines or opiates. For this reason it is no longer sold in most Western nations, but is still a significant drug of abuse in some Asian countries such as Japan and Malaysia. Nimetazepam is subject to legal restrictions in Malaysia, and due to its scarcity, many tablets sold on the black market are in fact counterfeits containing other benzodiazepines such as diazepam or nitrazepam instead. Diazepam and nitrazepam are among the most widely prescribed benzodiazepines in the region, and as a result, they're commonly diverted and encountered on the black market. They usually end up on the black market as a result of being passed off as nimetazepam, temazepam or triazolam.[2]
In Singapore, nimetazepam is a Class A-Schedule I controlled drug, along with another benzodiazepine, temazepam. The illegal distribution of nimetazepam may be punishable by death. Possession of the drug without a valid prescription from a registered medical doctor is illegal and punishable by extremely long prison terms.
In Hong Kong, nimetazepam is regulated under Schedule 1 of Hong Kong's Chapter 134 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Nimetazepam can only be used legally by health professionals and for university research purposes. The substance can be given by pharmacists under a prescription. Anyone who supplies the substance without prescription can be fined $10000 (HKD). The penalty for trafficking or manufacturing the substance is a $5,000,000 (HKD) fine and life imprisonment. Possession of the substance for consumption without license from the Department of Health is illegal with a $1,000,000 (HKD) fine and/or 7 years of jail time.[3]
In Japan, where seizures of diverted nimetazepam are mostly concentrated, it remains as a major drug of abuse. Seizures of the drug in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Hong Kong, and Indonesia are also common. The drug is usually exported from Japan, where the drug is legal by prescription for insomnia. Japanese organized crime syndicates control the distribution of nimetazepam and to a lesser extent, flutoprazepam, temazepam, midazolam, and triazolam, all of which are the most heavily controlled and most in demand benzodiazepines throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia.[4]
In a rat study Nimetazepam showed greater damage to the fetus, as did nitrazepam when compared against other benzodiazepines. Diazepam however showed relatively weak fetal toxicities.[5]
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- ↑ Fukinaga M, Ishizawa K, Kamei C. (November 1998). Anticonvulsant properties of 1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives in amygdaloid-kindled seizures and their chemical structure-related anticonvulsant action.. Pharmacology 5 (57): 233–41.
- ↑ DEA Resources, Microgram Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 1-4, January-December 2004
- ↑ Bilingual Laws Information System. (English) The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
- ↑ Devaney, M., Reid, G. and Baldwin, S., 2006. Situational analysis of illicit drug issues and responses in the Asia-Pacific region, Research Paper 12. Australian National Council on Drugs, Canberra.
- ↑ Saito H, Kobayashi H, Takeno S, Sakai T. (1984). Fetal toxicity of benzodiazepines in rats.. Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol. 46 (3): 437–47.
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Lay aside your understandable assumption on economic matters that if O's for it, it's probably a bad idea. Is this, objectively, a bad idea? CNN Money and, especially, CNBC have nifty primers on the myRA ground rules. It's an IRA aimed at the lower class, promising them a guaranteed return to entice them into parting with scarce funds they might not otherwise be willing to invest. The minimum initial investment is just 25 bucks and the choice of investments is limited to U.S. government securities so that there's no risk of loss. (Well, sort of. More on that in a sec.) Essentially, it's like having a Roth IRA consisting of nothing but savings bonds. If/when the account hits $15,000, it rolls over into a plain ol' Roth IRA and you're free to invest in the broader market from there. And although these will be offered through one's job, it'll cost an employer nothing to do so. The feds will handle the expense of administering the accounts in order to encourage businesses to make them available to workers. The grand idea, I believe, is simply to encourage saving for retirement even among the poor and working class, especially blacks and Latinos:
More often than not, blacks and Latinos benefit little from the tax breaks and other policy initiatives aimed at bolstering retirement security because they typically have no money to save for retirement in IRAs and other vehicles outside the workplace, according to Diane Oakley, executive director of the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS), which conducted the study. In addition, they are much less likely than whites to have defined-benefit pensions, particularly outside of public sector jobs.
"Those are startling findings," Oakley said. "The typical household of color has nothing saved in a retirement account."…
The NIRS report said that among households headed by blacks and hispanics between the ages of 55 and 64, the average retirement savings account balance was $30,000. Among whites on the verge of retirement, it was $120,000. Meanwhile, investment and human resource firms typically recommend that retirees have assets worth anywhere from eighth to 11 times their annual wages in order to adequately prepare for old age.
A key point made in that same WaPo report: As states scale back pensions and the feds start to cope with the inevitable entitlements crisis, encouraging people to save who otherwise might not makes fiscal sense. Plus, if it catches on as a "starter IRA," it should — and actually will, per the $15,000 cap — lead eventually to broader public interest in private markets. After all, as the CNBC piece linked above points out, O's assurance that the principal is "guaranteed" doesn't mean that the purchasing power of your hard-earned dollar is:
The problem with that strategy is that you'll give up a substantial return. Since the Federal Reserve collapsed interest rates to save the financial system five years ago, the return on a short-term Treasury bonds hasn't even kept up with inflation.
With a MyRa account, your money will be invested in the Government Securities Investment Fund available to federal workers. That fund has an average annual return for the past three years of 2.24 percent. As of December, the average annual inflation rate for consumer prices over the past three years was 2.07 percent.
As some myRA holders come to realize that, they'll look to transition relatively quickly to private investments and a regular IRA. The myRA should, in theory, simply be their entrance to the stock market. It's a baby step, but better that than proposing a new entitlement.
Two questions, though. One: How many people will this attract, realistically? Just 24 percent of the public is confident in the stock market as place to save for retirement, according to one recent survey. That's part of the appeal of the myRA, especially to groups that are more pro-government on balance in the first place — if another financial crisis hits, your money's still safe — but Treasury rates are so low that it's anyone's guess how much encouragement a two-percent return will provide to people who are living paycheck to paycheck. Two: Related to the last point, if the goal here is to help the poor, why treat the myRA as a Roth IRA? Why not make it tax-free on both ends, like a traditional IRA when the money's deposited and a Roth when it's finally withdrawn in retirement? If you're worried about too many middle-class and upper-class people using that as a tax shelter, you could impose an income cap for tax-free treatment. The lost tax revenue would likely be chump change relatively to the size of federal spending.
Update: A good point from Heritage: The myRA isn't limited by regulation to lower-income workers. On the contrary, the income cap for a household to qualify is $191,000. Even upper-middle-class people can open one if they like. But … why would they? It's inferior to a regular Roth IRA in every way. If you're too risk-averse to invest in private companies, you can just use your Roth to buy a basket of government securities. The point of the myRA, I think, is simply to catch the attention of people who otherwise wouldn't think twice about saving for retirement. The higher you go up the income ladder, the fewer of those people there are likely to be.


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"Come to my place sometime. And stay free. Don't work. Just eat and sleep," replied him.
"Woahhh.. so good ah??? Hahahaha... Volunteer to cook maybe? ;)" I typed again.
"I mean it. No need to do that even," said him firmly.
"Why made you do that for me?" asked me curiously.
"Because you deserve it."
Still in my mind our conversation that night. And now, here I am, on my way to Chau, a small village at the land of the blue dragon.
After some time, I finally made my mind coming here, to make my wish realized, dreams come true, as a volunteer in an organisation that protected Vietnamese youth from being trafficked as slave, or sold as prostitute, sending kids to school or training center, providing shelter to homeless boys and girls, and so on.
I will stay here for 6 months and help them writing and promoting the organisation, to find more donors from worldwide. After all, I'm capable of writing and hope it may bring awareness to outside world. I'm sure many people out there are willing to contribute to society, if not physical work, then in monetary way.
And in this rough, stony and dusty road, my mind imagined only the best and positive thing that will happen in the next six months. They already warned me the condition of the village that I'm going to stay. Hike at least an hour to reach their so called office, limited Internet access plus poor electricity and clean water access, very humble space to live in, limited health care access, and so on. It won't deter me anyway!
|One day... yes one day.... :)
And once all this over, I'll then message my bestie back and claim for his words, let myself relax - just eat and sleep - no work.
P.S. It's just my imagination. Not the real story. However, it's what I want to do in my life, at least once. Don't know when and where, let's cross my fingers that this day will finally come. One day. Yes, one day :)


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- We were one of only a handful of magazines in the world to be invited to ride the brand new Indian FTR750, the day after its competitive debut at the Santa Rosa Mile.
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- Deus Ex Machina big cheese, Julian Heppekausen writes about his Mexican 1000 off-road race.
- Our portfolios alternate between photographers and artist/illustrators. This issue is the turn of French postermeister, Lorenzo Eroticolor.
- British bike builders Redmax have had a few different appearances in the mag, they're back in SB27 with a Ducati 749 street tracker.
- Don Galloway gives up some of the secrets of a giant-killing Honda 350 framer.
- Regular contributor Dave Bevan rides his Royal Enfield into the DIY squatted skatepark he helped build. He took a photographer with him too
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This is not a magazine chucked together with a few badly written, misspelled emails and crap phone photos. It is full of thousands and thousands of words. This isn't a pitiful excuse for journalism that just regurgitates press releases and believes everything it's told. Sideburn is a proper motorcycle magazine, one that thinks differently, searches out stories and goes its own way.
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This is by no means a straightforward love story however; do you still think I'm exaggerating when I perceive her and her family as the very personification of the troubles that beset this tragic nation?
Fast forward to the next morning when I was awoken by an early call and a request to come straight round; I'd asked her to help me pack and move to my new apartment but not at such an unholy hour. She arrived, trying to put up a chirpy front but I could immediately detect a troubled heart. I naturally assumed she was having second thoughts or had heard something about my misdemeanours but I was off the mark.
As we were getting it on the previous afternoon, four police cars packed with mean cops swarmed over to the house of her elderly frail mother who is nursing her sick ex-husband and mad son. They were sent to evict her.
She'd bought the property over five years ago but being illiterate had no documentation. The man she'd bought it off was allegedly managing for a French couple and wasn't the owner. It had been jungle but her mother had had the land cleared and created farmland and built a house on it thus its value had risen.
Now I don't know, and neither can they, whether these French people exist or not; all that's known is that nearly twenty heartless cops took residence in the house, refusing to budge and demanding constant feeding until the matter was 'resolved'.
Evidently the fuzz can amicably and magnanimously go to great lengths to procure the missing title deeds within a day but naturally this feat would involve the hard labours of many officers and the necessary gratuities would not be slight. Furthermore they had two days to come up with the arbitrary, outrageous and extortionate sum of $500 otherwise the family would be homeless.
Yes, I'd said before that I wasn't going to support the entire family through their misfortunes but heck, I wasn't in love and committed at that point and it occurred to me that if I can't save Cambodia per se including the thousands of families on my new doorstep facing the same fate in a month, I could at least make the gesture to help one family, one representative of the endemic greed that is the cancer running through the body of the country.
I also said previously that I hate being the fairy godfather making everything okay with the wave of his magic wad but there was really no alternative option; having strived so hard to piece the girl together after the last expensive family disaster I couldn't stand by and let her fall apart again and anyway, having made an assurance that as her boyfriend I would care for her I couldn't put a financial ceiling on such a promise.
She returned two days later after I'd all but given up on her and was building myself up to another night out alone and all the risks that entails but fortunately she turned up while I was still procrastinating and yet again the reason for her non-communication was that she was having a torrid time.
It turned out the $500 would keep the provincial filth off their backs but it was the city police who could produce the document and their fee was a further $200. Corruption is a fascinating and amazingly precise science you know; it's not as if somebody produces some arbitrary sum out of the air.
The precise number of fingers in the shit have to be counted, along with the respective ranks and an exact fee is arrived at which allows little room for negotiation. Besides, the other party had also handed over a wad to the country cops and so if the city police didn't intervene they'd still be evicted. She was so upset about this that it took me two days of patient love and reassurance to get this out of her (man, I've come a long way); when I finally got her to look me in the eyes I saw in her soul something I (and presumably no one else) had ever seen before.
Whilst it frequently gets buried under various distractions, I have to remind myself that my central purpose for being here, foregoing the comforts and accoutrements of living in the West is to make some contribution to the alleviation of suffering and here the overriding cause of suffering is poverty. Pretty much all the problems she and her family face along with countless others in similar straits can be solved with money. I used to have a real aversion to money but now I see my hatred was more of materialism and even that was based more on the injustice of the haves and have-nots. Here the basic necessities of life such as food, medicines and shelter are never guaranteed if you lack the security that money brings.
There is another dimension that makes no sense in the affluent West but is a massive learning curve for me. She tells me that she now knows that I truly love her and am committed to her. I asked her what caused her to come to this conclusion and her answer was that it was when I insisted on stuffing the wads in her reluctant mits – in other words when I put my money where my mouth was. We're not talking about "If you really love her buy her a diamond" obscenity here; the money saved her family from destitution, but at the end of the day it still equates to loving me because I have money but here it makes perfect sense and it's alright.
And so everything worked out and she helped me move into a new apartment which is very nice and she never quite moved out which is absolutely brilliant, not simply because I can keep an eye on her and ensure a full recovery but more because I love her company and I feel like I have a home and I'm all settled now.
She'd taken any number of quantum leaps over the space of a few days which is probably not what she needed given the extremely traumatic issues she had to cope with at the same time; then again it was due pretty much in whole to my cash and care that she came through. She's utterly paranoid about what people might think or say about her to the extent that I insensitively tell her that she allows people who she doesn't even know including ignorant hookers and neighbourhood gossips to control her life.
It left me with an interesting situation when the lady came with the contract for me to sign; as my sweetheart hid and subsequently fell asleep in the bedroom I found myself having to explain away my penchant for very small girly platform shoes.
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Kitane (キタネ, Kitane) was once a member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja. He appears to have once been friends with Asuma Sarutobi before his death.
While he was still alive, he was part of the Twelve Guardian Ninja. Ten years before the start of the series, when six of the members tried a coup d'etat, he alongside Asuma Sarutobi, Chiriku, Nauma, Tōu, and Seito fought against them, only to be killed by Kazuma when Kitane and the three other lightning users tried to use Limelight on Kazuma.
Kitane never made a move unless it was a carefully thought out one. He would calculate every possible outcome of things during battle.
Kitane had brown hair and black-coloured eyes. He wore a black vest jacket un-zipped over a blue long sleeve shirt. He also wore the Twelve Guardian waist cloth around his waist. He was usually seen walking around with his staff.
As a former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, Kitane was one of the strongest ninja in the land of Fire during his time. His abilities were recognised enough that his corpse was hidden with great care in fear of it being used unjustly. Likewise, he was later resurrected to be used for Kazuma's plans of destroying Konohagakure.
Like Asuma, his battle style revolved around combining superb taijutsu skill with his elemental affinity through a unique weapon. He was skilled in bōjutsu, using a three-parted metal staff that could conduct his lightning based attacks. He was skilled enough to fight on par with Asuma, another skilled practitioner of bukijutsu, and achieving victory in the end, although Kitane did believe that Asuma's skills had diminished somewhat.
Nature Transformation
He along with Nauma, Tōu, and Seito were known as the greatest lightning-chakra masters of their time. Kitane could send lightning through the ground to attack by striking his staff into the ground. When separating his staff into three pieces he can use his Lightning Release: Thunder Binding to form a barrier around a target. When in one of the four cardinal directions, he along with Nauma, Tōu, and Seito could use a technique called Limelight to destroy everything within that area to ash.
Part II
Twelve Guardian Ninja
His, Nauma's, Tōu's, and Seito's corpses are stolen by grave robbers, and later revived using lightning. After being revived, they were all approached by Asuma, who had figured out the scheme of the robbers. There, he tries without luck to stop the three who seem to have become mindless puppets, while Kitane, the only one of them who still seems to think clearly, attacks Asuma, saying that he cannot go against his summoner's orders. Kitane uses his separated staff and Lightning Release: Thunder Binding to trap Asuma inside of a barrier so he can carry out his summoner's orders.
He was later "killed" again by Asuma before he got to the Limelight spot. When Kazuma's plan failed, he decided to release the summoned Nauma, Tōu and Seito.


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On the surface, the similarities are there: Both originally young adult novels, both now films with a young, sexy cast, both stories revolve around a potentially ill-fated love triangle. But beyond that, The Hunger Games -- which we have to wait until March 23, 2012 to see (boo!!) -- is not and never will be Twilight. I'm with Jennifer Lawrence on this one.
The actress cast to play the HG lead, Katniss Everdeen, recently spoke up to Vanity Fair about the comparison on everyone's lips. It sounds like she was being modest, explaining, "I try not to think too much about it. Hunger Games is not Twilight ... It's really premature to say it will be the same phenomenon." Well, as good an actress as I'm sure she is, she can't fool us. She knows how huge the futuristic franchise is going to be; she's just playing nice. The fact of the matter is that Hunger Games definitely WON'T mimic the success of Twilight. No, it's going to be even bigger.
Hold up, Twi-hards, don't hate on me just yet. Hear me out!
Twilight is/was a tremendous smash, and we all know there's a huge audience out there for it, filled with folks of all ages. But if the films are able to truly capture the heart of the books, The Hunger Games series will appeal to an audience that's even more massive than the legions of Edward Cullen admirers. Actually, I see it being more like Harry Potter.
That's because the message underlying the post-apocalyptic madness in The Hunger Games epic could very easily strike a chord with anyone. It's almost impossible to NOT relate to the story in some way, shape, or form. It's compelling commentary on politics, war, the environment, entertainment, violence, coming of age, and above all, humanity. Sure, Twilight had something to say about ... virginity, I guess? ("Save it for marriage, or else you'll get hurt and turn into a vampire. Oh, but wait, sex while married will immediately strap you with a scary pregnancy.") But sorry, there's no deep, important, internationally relevant message in Stephenie Meyer's tales. (Unless we really have to beware a vampire takeover in the near future, heh.)
Maybe the wealth of fans who will fall for the series won't necessarily realize depth plays such a large part in why they're loving Hunger Games more than Twilight. Or maybe they'll decide it's like comparing apples to oranges. Either way, Jennifer Lawrence better steel herself, because come springtime, her life is going to change in a major way.
How do you feel about The Hunger Games being called the next Twilight?
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Bunk is a collection of beats. It's instrumental hip hop and ambient. Minimalism and maximalism. To explain it, is better to imagine a triangle. In one vertex we would have r'n'b: The Weeknd, Drake or araabMUZIK (even). In another, the maximalism of people like Flying Lotus, Rustie, amor,est. or Mouse on Mars. Dreamer Tokyo may also be included in this vertex. The last vertex would be for the minimalist ambient: Alva Noto, Balam Acab, Nicolas Jaar electro ... Arguably, Bunk tries to find the middle point within this triangle. Is a compilation of tracks seeking contrast: relaxation with jerky rhythms and noisy arrengements, and tension with dark and minimal atmospheres. Yet, Bunk is quiet music in general. Good for listening to after a hard day's work.
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March 6, 2010
BALTIMORE, Md. – Hat tricks from Zach Brenneman (East Hampton, N.Y./East Hampton) and David Earl (Simsbury, Conn./Westminster School) spearheaded the offense for No. 3 Notre Dame in an 11-9 victory over No. 10 Loyola at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic on Saturday afternoon. The contest was played in front of 19,742 fans at M&T Bank Stadium.
Senior attackman Neal Hicks (Atlanta, Ga./Lovett School) upped his team-best point streak to 21 games by depositing two goals and an assist for the Fighting Irish. Max Pfeifer (Crozet, Va./Western Albermarle), Steve Murphy (Shirley, N.Y./William Floyd) and Colin Igoe (Columbus, Ohio/Worthington Kilbourne) all scored one goal for Notre Dame.
Igoe, Earl and Andrew Irving (McLean, Va./The Hotchkiss School) each had one assist in the victory. Irving also had a game-high seven ground balls. Senior goalie Scott Rodgers (Wantagh, N.Y./MacArthur) made 11 saves to up his career record to 18-1.
Loyola struck first two minutes into the contest on a goal from Eric Lusby. Lusby and Collin Finnerty both had three goals for the Greyhounds. The deficit was the first of the season for the Irish.
Notre Dame (3-0) did not stay down for long as Earl tallied his first goal of the day with 11:34 showing on the clock in the first quarter. Lusby responded three minutes later to put Loyola back up by one.
Brenneman's first tally of the game evened the score with just over six minutes left in the opening quarter. A Matt Langan goal gave the Greyhounds a 3-2 lead after the first 15 minutes of play.
The Notre Dame defense held Loyola without a goal in the second quarter, while the Irish offense went on a 3-0 run to take a 5-3 lead at the intermission. The surge began with a goal from Earl with 2:03 left in the first half. Hicks scored with 56 seconds remaining in the stanza and Murphy scored with eight seconds showing on the clock.
Loyola (3-1) went on a 3-0 run of its own to claim a one-goal advantage (6-5) with less than five minutes elapsed in the second half. Two of the goals came from Finnerty, while the third was from Taylor Ebsary.
Notre Dame put a halt to the surge with tallies from Hicks and Brenneman, which gave the Fighting Irish a 7-6 lead midway through the third quarter. The Greyhounds answered back with goals from D.J. Comer and Finnerty to produce an 8-7 advantage with 1:53 left in the third period.
Brenneman's third goal of the day, which came with 48 seconds left in the period, evened the contest (8-8) after three quarters of play. The hat trick was the second of the season for Brenneman, who also notched three goals in an 11-7 win over No. 2 Duke in the season opener. Brenneman, a junior midfielder, and Hicks both lead the Irish with seven goals apiece this season.
Pfeifer scored with 13:42 left in regulation to give Notre Dame a 9-8 edge. A man-up tally from Lusby evened the contest once again with just over 12 minutes left.
The Fighting Irish went up for good as Igoe deposited a goal with 9:26 remaining in the fourth quarter. Earl put the finishing touches on the win and his third career hat trick with 48 seconds left in regulation. The four-points were a single-game career-high total for the junior midfielder.
Notre Dame held a 36-29 advantage in shots in addition to going 14-10 in faceoffs. Junior Trever Sipperly (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich) won 14-of-23 faceoff attempts.
"Our execution was not very good," said Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan. "We were very fortunate that our guys made enough plays to help us win the game. Some days you're not at your best and you hope you have guys that play as hard as they did and make some good plays. They made some great plays. (Zach) Brenneman did not have his best day, he had three goals, but Zach knows what I'm talking about, but three goals is a great day for anybody."
The win improved Notre Dame to 3-0 for the third straight season. The Fighting Irish boast a 20-game regular-season win streak. Notre Dame has won the last four meetings against Loyola.
The Notre Dame-Loyola tilt was the third and final game of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic on Saturday. Maryland topped Duke, 11-10 in overtime, in the opener, while Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins, 11-10, in the second contest.
The Fighting Irish return to action at Drexel on Tuesday, March 9. Game time is slated for 4:00 p.m. (ET).
March 6, 2010 – M&T Bank Stadium – Baltimore, Md.
#3 Notre Dame (3-0) – 2 3 3 3 – 11
#10 Loyola (3-1) – 3 0 5 1 – 9
Notre Dame Scoring (goals-assists):
David Earl 3-1, Zach Brenneman 3-0, Neal Hicks 2-1, Colin Igoe 1-1, Max Pfeifer 1-0, Steve Murphy 1-0, Andrew Irving 0-1; Goaltender: Scott Rodgers (W, 60:00, 11 saves, 9 GA)
Loyola Scoring (goals-assists):
Eric Lusby 3-0, Collin Finnerty 3-0, Matt Langan 1-2, D.J. Comer 1-1, Taylor Ebsary 1-0, Kevin Moriarty 0-1;Goaltender: Jake Hagelin (L, 60:00, 10 saves, 11 GA)


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Homemade Vegan Shampoo and Conditioner
Please enjoy this guest post by Maria Rainier.
Although I once loved Trader Joe's for supplying me with cruelty-free shampoo and conditioner for bottom dollar prices, I was pretty bummed when I saw, far down on the ingredients list, two types of parabens.
Although the jury is still out, many in the scientific and green community have nick-named this common preservative a "gender bender." Propylparaben has shown in some studies to adversely affect male reproductive functions, and according to a 2002 study published by S. Oishi even decreased sperm production when taken at levels deemed acceptable under EC law. Meanwhile, parabens have been found in human breast tissue, although the link between it and breast cancer has yet to be solidly established.
My point is this: why take the risk when you can make your own vegan and paraben-free shampoo on the cheap?
DIY Shampoo
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup liquid castile soap
- 2 tsp jojoba or grapeseed oil (optional, see below)
- 1/8 cup aloe vera gel (optional)
- 5 drops of essential oil of your choice (optional)
Combine all ingredients and put into an old shampoo bottle (you can see my old Trader Joe's bottle in the picture). Shake before use and apply directly to your scalp, since it tends to be watery. Don't let its consistency fool you, though—it lathers very well and doubles as shaving cream.
Admittedly, the initial price plunge is steep, but keep in mind that there's enough in each bottle of each ingredient to make multiple batches of your shampoo. For the liquid castile soap, I love using Dr. Bronner's because it's fairly traded, vegan, and economical.
Bonus: it already comes with jojoba oil, so that's one price tag you can scratch off the list!
If your hair is curly or otherwise drier than most types, you can add some aloe vera gel for added moisture. If your hair tends to be oily, try adding a few drops of lavender or tea tree oil as both are antiseptics and add a little jump to your morning shower.
DIY Conditioner
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar isn't just for facial toners; it's great for your hair, too. It has mild exfoliating properties which removes product and shampoo buildup as well as dandruff. It's also an effective detangler, which is great for someone with hair like mine (I'm positive there's a monster that lives under my bed and spends his evenings tying knots into my curls and splitting the ends).
Combine in a bottle and shake before use, applying directly to scalp. Run your fingers through your hair a few times while the mixture does its cleaning and conditioning, and then rinse out. The smell won't leave the shower, I promise.
Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she writes about education and online degrees. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.
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Got to try this, Thank you
I haven't tried them yet but I will. I'm only twelve and when I saw what happens to those cute little animals I tot gave up on dove shampoos and cons. I am trying really hard to be cruelty free and it will work thanks to you! Thank you!!!!
Hi! Can i replace the castile soap with something else?
Hi 🙂
What's the shelf life of this recipe?
Hi! I was thinking of trying out your recipe and I was wondering if you could just combine the shampoo and conditioner and put the apple cider vinegar in the shampoo?
I have been trying to find a shampoo recipe for years and have tried them all, with no success. This one is fabulous! I absolutely love it!? Thank you!
Does it actually work? If it does then thanks to you too!
You have save me!!!
I have all the ingredient for this and I was out of shampoo and broke so I had to keep using other people's non-vegan shampoo in order to stay clean. I thought I was going to have to try baking soda in order to keep vegan! Thank you thank you thank you!!! 😀
I was wondering if there is something besides vinegar to use for conditioner since I can't get a comb through my hair……
Hey there, I recommend to part your hair with your hands into four sections then before taking out the water and vinegar mix use a hairbrush instead of a comb for detangling your hair, trust me it will save you time and it makes the detangling easy.
let me know if this works out for you too! 🙂
Hi there –
I recently mixed my own batch of the shampoo with castile soap, peppermint and lavender oil, and water. My castile soap suggests mixing less than 1 oz. of soap with 2 gallons of water! I tried only a little of the soap in the water and oil mix and it does not lather and leaves my hair greasy. I tried adding another squirt of soap to my bottle and shampooed again – still no lather, and my scalp still looks and feels greasy. Should I really be using a 1:1 ratio of castile to water? Seems like a lot (compared to the soap's recommended use)…?
Other than that, I have very harshly treated/coloured hair, and it works like magic! The ends of my hair feel healthy and silky, and the soap even removed some of my brassy colour.
Lye is used in making soap…..but during the process it is changed chemically so there is not lye in the finished product. This is true of the castille shampoo, also. Many commercial products are not really soap but are detergents. The ratio of oil to lye is what makes it gentle or harsh. That is why many homemade soaps are so gentle…..soapmakers can add extra skin friendly oils during the process….it is called superfatting. Homemade shampoo bars are used by many people.
HI! Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, As I am new to this whole organic thing? But 1st a question "Is there a difference in Vegan products & Organic products??
OK if the answer is NO! Castile soap is not an Organic product. Castile soap has Sodium hydroxide in it. Sodium hydroxide is also known as caustic soda, or lye, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaOH. Please I welcome any comments.
Sharon: I know this post is old but I will comment anyway. Castile soap can be "called" organic if the olive oil used was organic. I am a soap maker and the NaOH is no longer present once it meets the oils. That reaction is called saponification thus yielding a soap molecule and a glycerin by product.
I color my hair often – and my hair is also really dry and damaged from the coloring sometimes. I've tried so many different shampoos-color, moisturizing, damage repair, curly, and they all pale in comparison to the Shielo Hydrating Shampoo. The Shielo Shampoo really brought out my hair color and made my hair not just shiny but shimmery! After using when you dry your hair, it still smelled so fresh and clean, like I just walked out of the salon.
I am so excited to make my own shampoo! Instead of conditioning, I put coconut oil in my hair overnight every 6 days or so, and then shampoo it out (it's like a hair mask, you can't leave it in or your hair will be very wet-looking). It's super cheap, and smells nice 🙂 my hair's the nicest it's ever been, even after all the yucky things I've done to it in the past.
What kinder of aloe Vera you use? Drinkable kind? Or the One that is meant for skin?
Believe it or not, the DIY conditioner is exactly what I used as a teenager in the 1950s before "Tame Cream Rinse" came on the market. Of course if you were a blond you used lemon juice instead of vinegar. Can't wait to get the ingredients for your shampoo and give it a try.
Margret Roy, That's so funny you say that, I too used this as a child growing up in the 60's. I had completely forgot "Tame" until you mentioned it, but growing up in a family of 9 we never had store bought conditioner, we used apple cider vinegar mixed with water too. It is ironic a lot of "beauty products" I grew up using and have been old fall backs are now the "in" thing again.
If you aren't too keen on making your own stuff, check out jennydaisyblue.com While we do not have a specific shampoo several items work –the baby wash, the bohemian body wash, the face wash, and Rosemary Mint Shampoo bar all work great as shampoo –all our products are paraben free… as well as free from ALL toxins and artificial ingredients, AND GLUTEN FREE!!
I found the BEST shampoo & conditioner at costco. Its called Kirklands Professional salon formula Moisture shampoo & conditioner. Its vegan, Color safe with UV protectants, sulfate free, gluten free, paraben free and NOT tested on amimals. I have bleached platinum blonde hair this product leaves my extremely damaged hair soft manageable and brings it back to healty. Amazing product. The best part its CHEAP! 🙂 $10 bucks for two huge 33.8 oz bottle. Last forever to. MY HG vegan shampoo & conditioner and I tried them ALL.
my son uses the baking soda and I got to be honest his hair looks bad never looks clean since he stopped using shampoo
He should mix the baking soda with vitamin e, apple cider vinegar and(optional)an emulsifier such as corn starch to actually clean his hair. =D raw baking soda will eventually dry out the hair and if you don't get it all out it can look like you have dandruff ^^
Mom, I too had issues with the baking soda shampoo's the it isn't pH balanced and strips your hair. I am wondering if this recipe will do the same because I have washed my hair with Dr. Bronner's castil soap and it made my hair a dried out frizzy rats nest.
Kammy: castile soap is similar to baking soda in that they are both very alkaline (9-10 pH). Something you can do to bring the pH down is add a substance with a low pH like honey, which is about 3.9, to balance it out and make it scalp friendly (thereby stopping the over-production of oil). You could add other things with a lower pH too–but don't add apple cider vinegar as castile and acv don't mix.
Hey! Love this site and the amazing info and tips! I recently started my own homemade beauty recipe blog — check it out if you want and give it some love! http://beautysparecipes.blogspot.com/
Thanks for keeping me inspired and learning new beauty tips!
I just use baking soda and water mixed in a bottle and squirted into my hair roots first, rub it in, give it a minute, and then rinse followed by the apple cider vinegar conditioner listed above. Works great and I think my color lasts longer with this hair washing technique than when using shampoo. A little baking soda and water makes a nice exfoliating facial wash too!
I've never done this at home, but I think I'll try now after reading your blog. Thanks for sharing.
Baking Soda Paste also works well as a Shampoo.
Are these safe for color-treated hair? 🙂
That's really interesting, I'll have to give it a try!


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Nkwali map: South Luangwa National Park in Zambia
Below is the most detailed current Google satellite map of Nkwali. To zoom out, to see more, click the minus sign (-) at the bottom of the bar on the left.
For a Google map of all the lodges in the area, including Nkwali, see our Google map of South Luangwa National Park.
For a more graphical, original map, also with clickable lodges, see our South Luangwa National Park reference map.
Navigating around this Nkwali map
Drag-and-drop the sliding marker along the vertical scale to zoom the map in (+) and out (-).
Move the mouse over the pins to see lodge names.
Click on a blue lodge pin to open a bubble with more information. In the bubble, click on the lodge name to read more information about the lodge.
Brown pins indicate points of interest, while black pins show important villages and towns.
South Luangwa N.P.
|No. of bedrooms: 6 chalets
|Season: Open Year Round
|In the heart of South Luangwa, overlooking the river, Nkwali is unusual in being open year round. It offers great safaris; a high standard of food, service and care; and an excellent springboard for Robin Pope's various safaris in the park.
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When you have a lot of files in some repository and you have added a couple of new, in CVS there is no command to add just the new ones to the repository, so here is a workaround for that.
cvs status 2>/dev/null | awk '{if ($1=="?")print "cvs add -kb " $2}'
Well, if you are adding text files then you might want to remove the "-kB" in the cvs command above.
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12. CARL SAGAN: Make the most of this life
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, author and the coolest nerd ever. He was famous for making science accessible to anyone with half a brain. His 1980 documentary series, Cosmos, inspired a whole generation of people and I think it's the greatest television series ever made. I only watched it for the first time five years ago (I wish I saw it when I was 14 instead of 24), but since then I've devoured all of Sagan's books and watched Cosmos again about a thousand times. His work explained so much to me: the history of the cosmos, evolution, civilisation, the beauty of science, the perils of superstition and pseudoscience, the origin of religion – basically life, the universe and everything. Carl Sagan was the teacher I never had.
– Sagan wrote the above quote in an article for Parade magazine in 1996 while in hospital and facing death himself. It's a beautiful article and you can read the whole thing here.
– I highly recommend you watch Cosmos (it's on Youtube). Yes, It was made over 30 years ago and it looks a bit dated, but I can honestly say it was life-changing for me.
– If you don't have a spare 13 hours, then these short 10-minute Sagan tribute clips edited by Milky Way Musings are a good place to start.
– Seth MacFarlane (yes, the Family Guy creator) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (often said to be this generation's Carl Sagan) are making a Cosmos sequel that will air next year.
– I find Carl Sagan's voice to be soothing and pleasantly hypnotic. Others think it sounds like Agent Smith from The Matrix.


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There's nothing we like better than the words "secret lab." So when we learned the secret lab is at Google — tasked with coming up with 100 big ideas that could radically change the way we live — we got positively giddy.
Images of the Six Million Dollar Man, the Bat Cave and M's gadget lab from the Bond movies all come to mind. It turns out that the things dreamt of in those fantasy labs may not be too far from reality with the "Google X" project.
So secret that many Google employees don't even know of its existence, the project is located in a lab at a non-disclosed location. Its staff — from such prestigious institutions as MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford, Nokia Labs, Microsoft and more are charged with thinking beyond developing simple apps or gadgets, but rather what is next for the future of computing and how humans can integrate digital technology deeper into our lives.
While the exact nature of the work is as locked up as tight as the CIA, some clues can be gleaned from what Google and its founders have shared, or let slip in public. Although described as being only in the conceptual phase, they've discussed things such as space elevators, hotly debated as either a genius or foolish way of hauling items into space. That's how big the secret Google-led collective is willing to go.
There is also the idea of "a web of things" which involves looking for ways to connecting objects to the Internet so humans can access and use them from afar. Or, objects could share information on their activities without having to use their computers. Imagine being able to water your houseplants while on vacation in Istanbul — or have your refrigerator your grocery list for you and push it to your smartphone.
Robots are in the mix, too, with talks of giving them the artificial intelligence to perform the mundane tasks humans would rather avoid. Given that Google already uses a form of artificial intelligence to drive its powerful search engine, it seems a viable avenue. And, of course, there's Google's famous driverless cars.
While only a small part of the Google business is dedicated to Google X, there are big minds behind it. One of Google's founders, Sergey Brin, is said to be involved and committed to the idea of thinking for the future. Other leaders include Stanford's Sebastian Thun, a robotics and AI expert who helped develop the driverless car. There's also Johnny Chung Lee, a specialist in the human-computer connection who hailed from the Microsoft Kinect Project. The list goes on.
There is a saying "that to win big, you have to risk big." Google is setting itself up to do just that. If even a few of the big ideas come to fruition they could make fundamental shifts in our daily lives, and ensure Google is in the center of it. Just like, you know, Google's search engine.
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Elise Jones
Party: Democratic
Residence: Boulder
Website: www
Age: 48
Family: Karl, partner; McKenzie, daughter
How long have you
lived in Boulder County? 15 years
Professional background: Executive director, Colorado Environmental Coalition, 1999-2012; Rocky Mountain director, League of Conservation Voters, 1998-99; environmental staff, Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse, 1993-97; lobbyist, National Wildlife Federation, 1987-91
Political/community experience: Boulder Planning Board, 2003-11; Regional Air Quality Council, 2009-12; Colorado Conservation Voters Board, 1998-2012
Education: B.S. in natural resources, Cornell University; M.S. in natural resources, University of Michigan
Name a person you admire and explain why: My parents, both educators, who dedicated their lives to community service
What problems or situations in the District 1 area need attention, and how would you address them?
District 1 includes the county's wonderful mountain towns, which are uniquely impacted by rural issues such as wildfires and conflicts with recreational shooting. I will encourage greater collaboration between the county, fire districts and mountain residents to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health conditions, including enabling homeowners to create defensible spaces around their homes. I will also work with local residents, mountain communities and the Forest Service to resolve the important safety issues posed by shooting ranges on our national forests lands, by closing unsafe shooting sites and working with other Front Range counties to find areas that could be safely designated.
On a countywide basis, what are the top problems or situations or concerns that need the county commissioners' attention, and how would you address them?
Fighting Poverty: More than 42,000 people live below the poverty level in Boulder County, including 25 percent of children younger than 5. I will work to ensure that families and individuals hit hard by the economic recession can find a pathway out of poverty and to close the growing achievement gap between rich and poor children.
Protecting our environment: From addressing climate change to keeping oil and gas fracking away from our homes and schools to ending GMO use on our county open space, I am committed to tackling the threats facing our environment. We need to work toward a sustainable energy future focused on renewables and efficiency and to better support our farmers and the production of local, healthy food.
Improving transportation choices: Our county needs a safe, affordable and convenient transportation system that provides for transit, bikes and pedestrians, as well as cars. I'll work to deliver the promise of FasTracks throughout the county and push for Ecopasses for all county residents.
Why would you be voters' best choice for this seat?
I have more than 20 years of public policy experience at the federal, state and local levels. As the executive director of Colorado Environmental Coalition, a statewide nonprofit, I've helped lead efforts to pass more than 130 state bills over the past 13 years to better protect our environment and public health. Locally, I served on the Boulder Planning Board for eight years, including two years as chair, and was appointed by the governor to serve on the Regional Air Quality Council.


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RM Auctions has bought the Kruse International Auction Park in Auburn, Ind., from financially troubled auctioneer Dean Kruse and plans to hold the site's annual Labor Day weekend car auction Sept. 2-6.
Rob Myers, RM Auction CEO, said his company will spend the next several weeks making upgrades to the auction facility and lining up consignments. Myers said he expects to have between 1,000 and 1,500 cars for the September auction. He also plans to hold a spring auction at the complex.
The acquisition vaults RM Auctions, based in Chatham, Ontario, into a high-volume segment of the auto-auction business that caters to fans of muscle cars, customs and hot rods. Until now, RM Auctions has focused on smaller, high-end events and vehicles--selling 200 or fewer vehicles in places such as Monterey, Calif.; Amelia Island, Fla., and Monaco.
The deal was announced on Thursday in Auburn, although speculation of Kruse selling had circulated for weeks after the State of Indiana canceled auction licenses for Kruse and his business in late May.
Kruse appeared to have been in trouble since last year, when reports surfaced of consignors (sellers) at auctions not getting paid and buyers not receiving their cars. Kruse told AutoWeek last summer that the financial woes were the result of a down economy and cash-flow problems.
Myers noted that RM Auctions had only purchased the Auburn auction-park assets from Kruse, not the entire business. The purchase price was not disclosed. The auction site will be renamed Auctions America by RM Auctions.
At the announcement, Kruse said he would be available as a consultant to RM Auctions but would not be a full-time employee. Myers said Kruse has no legal or financial interest in Auctions America.
Asked whether the deal would help him pay people who sold cars at Kruse Inc. auctions but haven't been given the proceeds, Kruse said: "I intend to earn as much money as I can. The state has given me three years to pay consignors, but I want to do it faster than that. My bills are mine. I have a list of 62 people left to pay. I carry the list with me, and as I pay them I cross them off."
Some Kruse Inc. employees will be offered jobs with Auctions America.
Ed Cepuran, the CFO of Auctions America by RM Auctions, said the company will set up client trust accounts and accelerated pay processes for buyers and sellers at the Labor Day event.
"We have to restore some integrity and confidence back into this company," Cepuran said.
He said he has spent the past several weeks looking at Kruse's operations to see what went wrong.
"He received a series of bad advice over the past couple of years and he acted on that advice," Cepuran said.
Myers said he had been considering expanding his business for several months and started discussions with Kruse in April.
"In the last five weeks, I've been on the road and I've had to turn down hundreds of cars because I had no venue for them," Myers said.


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