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Tyler Lambert, the 25-year-old-son of late "Diff'rent Strokes" actress Dana Plato, has committed suicide, according to several reports.
The Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Tulsa, Okla., confirmed to ABC News that the young man's death was caused by a self-inflicted gunshot would to the head.
Lambert's suicide, on May 6, was just two days shy of the 11th anniversary of his mother's death.
Plato struggled with drugs and alcohol problems from an early age.
Her death in 1999, at the age of 34, was the result of an accidental prescription drug overdose of Loritab, a painkiller, and Valium, authorities previously told the New York Times.
She was on her way back to Los Angeles with fiance Robert Menchaca after an appearance on the "Howard Stern Show," where she insisted she had "been clean and sober for over a decade" at the time of her death.
Lambert's grandmother, Joni Richardson, one-time mother-in-law to Plato, told People that her grandson had a very hard time with his mother's death.
Lambert was just 14 when his mother died.
She also told the mag's Web site that Lambert had been experimenting with alcohol and drugs.
"He was talking so sweet to me on the phone that morning," she told the Web site. "But you never can tell what's in their mind."
Richardson said there would be no memorial.
"Our lives have just been wrapped around him," she said. "It's just devastating."
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Son of "Diff'rent Strokes" Actress Dana Plato Commits Suicide
Tyler Lambert, the 25-year-old-son of late "Diff'rent Strokes" actress Dana Plato, has committed suicide, according to several reports.


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In the shadow of the abandoned Michigan Central Depot building in Corktown, students from Lawrence Technological University and Southwest Detroit's Western International High School see an opportunity to improve the adjacent Roosevelt Park.
It's there that the nine undergraduate and graduate Lawrence Tech students and 39 Western International students, who have dubbed themselves the Roosevelt Proxy group, plan a building made from four reclaimed shipping containers as part of a multidisciplinary Lawrence Tech class taught by Associate Professor Steven Coy and Phil Cooley, owner of Slows Bar BQ in Corktown.
With the 40-foot-long by 8-foot-wide shipping containers and repurposed materials like floor boards, wall paneling and timber from abandoned Detroit houses, the group hopes the worn look of the building will complement the aesthetic of the hulking, century-old train station south of the park.
"The train station itself is really a rustic icon, so putting a new building in that space wouldn't do anything for the park," said Phil Lucas, a 23-year-old first-year MBA student from Monroe who is taking the class, called Design/Build Civic Engagement.
The pop-up restaurant Social Sushi would lease the building at a rate of about $1,000 to $1,200 per month, with rent payments primarily going toward park maintenance. Rent money could also be used for park improvements and events, Cooley said.
Although Roosevelt is one of the better-maintained parks in Detroit because of its city designation as a premier park, the group wants to help the city save on maintenance costs for things like grass cutting, and attract more people there.
"This isn't about us doing all the work," Cooley said. "The city is still mowing it and maintaining it."
Jay Rayford Jr., co-founder of Social Sushi, said the restaurant would have no more than 40 seats and that an official opening would be in mid- or late June, pending various approvals, including those from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission for a liquor license and Detroit City Council of site plans.
"We are hopeful that time frame is realistic," Cooley said. "We are hopeful that this is something that won't see a lot of resistance, something that people will rally behind."
He said the building is expected to be donated to the city when complete and that the council would have to accept the donation.
Various donors have contributed to the effort, including the Detroit-based Skillman Foundation, which chipped in $15,000. Cooley said a donation of an undetermined size from the Chicago-based Coleman Foundation is expected to be finalized this week. In addition, Roosevelt Proxy has submitted a request for funding from the Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Cooley said.
Total build-out costs are estimated at $200,000, with $100,000 coming from donated funds and $100,000 in donated goods and services. Several experts and contractors have donated goods or in-kind services.
Cooley said the building would likely be constructed off-site and then transported to Roosevelt Park and installed.
Coy and Cooley spent about eight months organizing and designing the course, for which the Western International students receive college credit, Crandell said.
"What they got was an eclectic, very enthusiastic team that represents almost every different department of the university — architects, industrial designers, graphic designers, motion graphics designers," said Breck Crandell, a 22-year-old first-year master's of architecture student who grew up in the Ypsilanti area but has lived downtown for the past four years.
For 17-year-old Carlos Gonzalez, a Western International senior, the project is an opportunity to improve the park and get his foot in the door at Lawrence Tech, where he has applied to attend in the fall.
"When you have a chance to do something good and learn something, go for it," he said.
A public meeting on the project will be held Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Ponyride, 1401 Vermont St.
Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412, [email protected]. Twitter: @kirkpinhoCDB


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Alhamdulillah. May Allah (swt) continue to unite the Muslims in the work of da'wah!
On January 20th, a reporter of LA Times & Huntington Beach Independent sat and attended Shaykh Waleed Basyouni's new seminar in Southern California. Little did we know that she would write a reflection article in her Unveiled weekly column.
It is safe to say that those who know me would describe me as a tough, assertive girl with a conviction that women are equal to men.
They would also say that I embrace my femininity and feel privileged to be a woman.
Although I grew up in Egypt, where women don't hold the same social status as men, I never felt less equal or less important as a girl.
This attitude and conviction I hold didn't develop when I moved to America. It was ingrained in me, and there are many reasons for it. The biggest, and I know this might be surprising, is Islam itself.
I grew up in a moderate-to-conservative Muslim family. I was naturally influenced by my mom, Shadia, and her six brothers, who all raised me and my sister. On the one hand, my mom has always been an elegant, sensitive and modest person, and on the other, she's always been tough, assertive and fair. Her brothers wouldn't dare mistreat her because she's a woman.
She has always been excellent at maintaining that balance, and I studied it carefully.
Growing up, I clashed a lot with my Uncle Beautiful, who was the most conservative and closest male figure to me. We mainly clashed over how he wanted me to dress.
But it was never about gender. In fact, he too instilled this sense of equality in me.
I wasn't even a teenager when Uncle Beautiful once saw me walking on the street, and I must have looked uncomfortable or afraid for some reason, because when I got home he said to me: When you walk, walk with confidence. When someone speaks to you, man or woman, look directly at them, make eye contact, be respectful and be modest, but speak clearly and assertively.
He never told me why. I have never forgotten his words. And I have to say that I was a little bit surprised with them.
You might wonder why a conservative Muslim man would instill in me these values.
I wondered, too.
It all became clearer this past weekend. I spent it attending an AlMaghrib Institute seminar about women in Islam. I always knew that when it came to women, Islam was ahead of its time. Khadija, the prophet Muhammad's first wife, was 15 years older than him. She sought him out, and she was the one who asked him to marry her.
When Imam Waleed Basyouni, the seminar's instructor, addressed the status of women during the prophet and his companions' time, it blew my mind, especially when I compared it with the present day.
Not only were women back then allowed to vote, own property, operate businesses, seek knowledge and education, speak publicly, work, and support their husbands and families, but they also served in the army.
All that happened more than 1,400 years ago.
The kind of injustice done today to women in so-called Muslim countries is unfathomable and foreign to me and to Islam itself.
The prophet Muhammad never laid a hand on a woman. He warned men of mistreating women and told them that the worst among them are those who are not good and kind to the women in their lives.
The fact is, if these so-called Muslim rulers and followers would educate themselves about their own religion, they'd be ashamed of how they're treating women.
But there's also another important point that can't be dismissed. For much of history, women, even in the West, didn't always have the same rights as men.
And I also think it's not about religion. Men who oppress and mistreat women come from all sorts of backgrounds and hold various religious beliefs. The kind of man who would oppress or beat a woman doesn't need a religion or a culture to justify it. He is simply not a man.
Now when I reminisce about what Uncle Beautiful taught me, I understand.
(written by Mona Shadia)


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Chapter 5: Academic Integrity and Documentation
Avoiding Plagiarism
Keeping good records is essential to help you guard against plagiarism. Your records may take the form of note cards, bibliographic cards, your research log, or even photocopies of articles or pages. Whenever you consult a source, make a habit of writing down all the relevant information, from the details about the source to the notes you have taken from it. Always note whether you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing information you found or musing about the information. If you photocopy a source, be sure that you have preserved the correct bibliographic information and page numbers.
Using carefully organized note cards can also help you guard against plagiarism and even help you develop your own ideas while you are researching. Some guidelines for using note cards are listed below:
- Use 4-by-6 cards for taking notesthese accommodate longer notes.
- Write with inkpencil often smudges and becomes unreadable.
- Write only a single idea on each note card. If your notes require more than one card, staple them together. Staple personal comment note cards to the source card to which they refer.
- Write the source of the note in the upper left corner and the topic, context, or general heading in the upper right corner.
- Use note cards for summaries, paraphrases, quotations, and personal comments.
The following sample note card contains the pertinent information one writer will need later when he or she has integrated these notes into the final research paper. It's important that the writer introduce the quotation in the context of the idea being developed (systems thinking and organizational change) and then place quotation marks around the exact quotation, noting the author and page number so he or she can easily document the sources later.
Example of a Note Card Combining Paraphrase and Quotation
Senge, et al. 8990 Systems thinking and organizational change
Systems thinking includes methodologies, tools, and principles used to view common processes in terms of dynamic and related forces. Systems thinking is being used to detect and describe how to achieve change in organizations. Called "system dynamics," these tools and methods help us to understand "how complex feedback processes can generate problematic patterns of behavior within organizations and large-scale human systems." (p. 90)
You will also want to make note cards with your personal comments to help you recall what you were thinking when you were researching. Personal comments can be your questions, ideas, conclusions, explanations of terms or ideas, clarification of an issue, or even new ideas. Here is a sample note card with a personal comment. Notice that the note card is marked as "personal comment."
Example of a Note Card with a Personal Comment
Personal Comment
System dynamics attempts to discover the positive changes in the organization and describe the complex processes. However, there is no single right answer to any questionthe interrelated structural processes are merely illustrated. Also, note that some consequences of change are desired; others are unintended.
The following is a sample of the bibliographic card for these sample note cards. In general, any information used to identify and differentiate editions of a work should be recorded. In addition, to provide an exact reference to the original work, exact page numbers should be noted for both quotations and paraphrasing. The information you need to record for a citation from a book, for example, might look like the following as you are recording it during your research:
Example of a Bibliographic Information
Authors: Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, and
Bryan J. Smith
Remember the main reasons you are keeping accurate records: first, you are acknowledging your sources, and, second, you are giving your readers a trail to those sources so they can understand and evaluate your thinking.
In summary, here is what is usually required to provide a path to your sources:
- author's last name and first name or initials
- title of the source and edition
- date of publication, along with edition, if appropriate
- publisher and location
- page number(s) of material cited
For journal articles, you must record the author's name, the title of the article and of the journal in which it appears, the volume and issue numbers, the inclusive pages of the article, and the date of the journal issue.
Example of a Note Card for a Journal Article
Authors: John Barrie and R. Wayne Pace
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Eric's watch acted broken in the noodle shots...or we couldn't see straight!
We're still in it puddin Monkey "Business" and all. Haven't told you lately that YOU are the BESTEST NICEST and also IMPARTIAL MODERATOR on ANY AR Board so there, I've said it. Good Night
They've proven to be really good racers, even with all their terrible luck.They deserve to win.
Anyone with good res theres a good shot of Erics watch if someone could grab it?
On the innertube video--had the hourglass really run out before they noticed?? I couldn't tell on my screen.
QuoteThey've proven to be really good racers, even with all their terrible luck.They deserve to win.They really, really do have horrible luck and are lucky to have over come it, I just wish they would have settled for a nice second, and pray that they do. (Sorry big papi, but I have to stay loyal!) PS - guys, there's a heat weave in Toronto and it's so hot in my house right now and I can't sleep
Did they forget to show us something? C/M's sidewalk! "Good Doing Business With You" -- Teams make their way to a Route Marker in the fishing village of Coloane, China, where they pick-up a basket of fish, take it to a shop and hang their fish to dry to receive their next clue on THE AMAZING RACE: ALL-STARS, which airs Sunday, April 22nd
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History of Exercise Recommendations During Pregnancy
Recommendations for exercise during pregnancy have undergone significant modifications since 1985. Initial guidelines placed restrictions on exercise intensity and duration, limiting women to a heart rate of less than 140 beats per minute and restricting exercise to 15 minutes or less. Following publication of numerous studies that showed maternal benefits from regular exercise during pregnancy and safety to the health of the baby, guidelines were relaxed in 1984. Although restrictions on heart rate and exercise duration were removed, these guidelines offered only cautious approval to women wanting to engage in exercise while pregnant.
In 2002, the most progressive guidelines to date were released. These guidelines recommend that in the absence of either medical or obstetrical complications, pregnant women who exercised before they were pregnant should participate in 30 minutes or more of moderately intense exercise on most, if not all, days of the week. Running, along with cross-training, such as swimming, stationary cycling, and cross-country skiing are now recommended and acceptable forms of exercise. Although upper limits on physical activity and intensity do not yet exist, the guidelines do give consideration to competitive athletes and their more strenuous training schedules as long as they remain under close obstetric supervision.
As the guidelines have evolved, acceptance by the medical profession is growing. It's understandable, however, why the medical community has been slow to endorse exercise, and running in particular, during pregnancy. Research in this area is inherently difficult. There are ethical concerns about research involving pregnant women, and much of the data comes from research on animals. Human studies have been difficult to compare because of differences in study design; maternal fitness levels; varied exercise activities, intensities, and duration; and the time during the pregnancy the exercise is performed. Despite these difficulties, when everything is evaluated together, clear maternal benefits can be gained from running during your pregnancy.
Benefits of Exercise During Pregnancy
Frequent complaints of pregnancy, including nausea, heartburn, insomnia, varicose veins, and leg cramps are reduced in women who remain active during their pregnancy. Other common discomforts of pregnancy, including fatigue, back pain, swelling of the extremities, and shortness of breath are also lessened. Exercising while pregnant can greatly impact a woman's cardiorespiratory fitness. A study of women runners who continued to run during their pregnancy improved their maximal aerobic capacity 8 to 10 percent more than that of a group of nonpregnant runners followed over the same period.
Exercise during pregnancy has also been associated with a reduced risk of developing certain obstetrical complications, including preeclampsia, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and gestational diabetes. (See table 3.1, page 38, for more information on these conditions.) However, a study in Dutch women published in 2009 calls into question the possibility that the risk of preeclampsia may be decreased. Women engaging in more than four and a half hours per week of physical exercise in the first trimester showed a significantly greater increase in the risk of developing severe preeclampsia than women participating in less physical activity. This suggests that an upper limit for exercise may exist during the first trimester. Future studies are needed to clarify these findings. While a relationship between exercise and length of labor has not been demonstrated, exercise during pregnancy has been associated with better tolerance of labor and a lower risk of Cesarean-section childbirth.
Circumstances That Prevent Training and Racing
Despite the liberalization of these guidelines, legitimate medical conditions that already exist or develop during pregnancy could prohibit you from running and racing while pregnant. Significant heart and lung disease, persistent bleeding in the second and third trimesters, and ruptured membranes are just some of these conditions. Table 3.1 contains a complete list. Several other conditions require a careful evaluation of the risks and benefits before you continue your running program. The most common of these include severe anemia, being extremely underweight, poorly controlled thyroid disease, and inappropriate fetal size and development. Although these conditions will not necessarily prohibit you from running during your pregnancy, experiencing them will require close monitoring by your obstetric provider.
Circumstances can develop that mean you should stop exercising. You should be aware of how important it is to change your running regimen if changes in your pregnancy make this necessary, and you need to know the warning signals that require an evaluation by a physician. In pregnant women these warning signs include the following:
Many women continue running during pregnancy until it becomes too uncomfortable to do so. When this occurs, consider switching to nonweight-bearing exercises, such as pool running or swimming.
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Highlighting things like acquiring Instagram and launching products will pull some of the focus away from the bottom line.
Having only been traded for about 90 days, how much bottom line are investors expecting to see? Sure, Facebook was stood up as a social networking system, but the stated goal is to become a common social platform for all sorts of internet consumption -- essentially a key in the internet lock, opening an entirely new experience.
It has been a big quarter for Facebook, even if it doesn't make investors swoon with huge revenue.
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Nearly everything a state does has distributional consequences, including grand strategy. Societal groups with different stakes in the international economy and defense spending often have conflicting strategic priorities, and these groups pursue their parochial interests by supporting the nomination and election of like-minded politicians. Thus, grand strategy is a product of political economy. An overview of American foreign policy over the last several decades illustrates this logic. In the 1980s, the Democratic and Republican coalitions had conflicting interests over the international economy, so the two parties diverged on grand strategy. The recovery of the Rust Belt in the 1990s and 2000s, however, brought increasing convergence. Political discourse over foreign policy was fiercely partisan, but, with the notable exception of George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, the two parties shared essentially the same view of America's role in the world. The disastrous outcome in Iraq led the Bush administration back to the middle ground in its second term, and Obama followed the same course. In contrast, the election of Donald Trump augurs change. Trump's electoral coalition consists of a different balance of interests in the international economy than that of past Republican presidents, so he is likely to pursue different strategic priorities.
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Lori Joy Smith and her daughters
I'm thrilled to share today's Show & Tell Home Tour with working artist and illustrator and creative mama Lori Joy Smith. Let's hop on up to Canada and see.
Come on inside...
Lori Joy Smith's wonderful illustrations and artwork make me smile. It's not surprising that peeking around her house made me smile too. Full of original artwork and handmades by Lori and other favored artists, lots of color bursts, and kid spaces that will make you want to skip on back to childhood for awhile, Lori's home is a delight. I'm so glad we scored a nice visit. Here we go...
1. Tell us a little about your family and your home.
We are myself, my husband Paul, and our daughters Sosi (age 4) and Ila (age 6 months). Our home is over 100 years old. We live in downtown Charlottetown, minutes away from everything. We decided to move here from Vancouver almost two years ago. When we were visiting looking for homes, I walked into this house, and it felt like my heart exploded. We haven't looked back since.
The fam: Paul, Sosi, Lori, and baby Ila
2. How do you approach decorating in your home? What's the most important thing?
I think comfort and functionality are the most important things. But I do get deep happiness from being surrounded by beautiful things that aren't necessarily functional at all. "Beautiful things" being anything from an old thermos I found at a flea market to original art. I love looking around and seeing things that I love.
Paintings by Vancouver artist Marilynne Stark
Mia Hansen dolls, Ingela P Arrhenius print, and Jasna Sokolovic ceramic piece
Thrifted cookie jar and thermos
3. You have two young daughters. How does their STUFF influence the look and feel of your home?
If you let it, their "stuff" can take over your entire house. We try to stay really organized. I am from the "everything has its place" school. Life is so much easier and more fun when you know where things are. So we just try to have distinct places for their things that are accessible to them. I am a big fan of baskets and containers for kids' stuff and also of throwing things I don't want to see in closets!
Sosi's drawing table: table from IKEA, baskets found at a local dollar store.
Baby Ila's room: fabric art by Lori, child's chair from IKEA, thrifted doll
Thrifted and painted rocking chair, blanket by Lori, pillow made from a Sukie handkerchief
Little Ila is learning to sit... still not too good at it. Here she is in her toy basket.
4. Great design can be expensive. How do you get the most bang for your buck?
There aren't many places to shop here on the island. We don't even have a Gap! I find most things at flea markets or online. We make a lot of things ourselves too.
Emigre poster, yellow pillow made from a thrifted tea towel, Uglydoll,
pillow on right made from Lori's own fabric made through Spoonflower
5. Tell us about the best deal you have gotten lately for your home.
My best deal would have to be our kitchen bent plywood chairs. I found them at a flea market for $10 each. The best thing is that both my husband and I love them, which is something that doesn't happen often!
Kitchen: custom table made from counter top leftovers, thrifted chairs, DIY bench,
cushions made by Lori, another poster by Swedish illustrator Ingela P Arrhenius
6. Tell us about one DIY project you have taken on recently and love.
DIY projects are a bit rare these days with the delicate balance of a new baby, life, and work. I have many ideas bouncing around in my head waiting to get made. One thing that I did manage to sew recently were some simple felt boxes (also see below). They are so handy. I use one by the door for keys and odds and ends. Sosi has one on her bedside table with her little treasures tucked safely inside, and I use the last one on Ila's diaper table. It makes me happy to have these little handmade touches in our home.
Sosi's room: painting and felt box by Lori, painted IKEA dresser, hand-me-down IKEA bed,
blue bunny by M.Patrizio, little kitties made by Lori
Sosi's room: painting by Lori, gifted ceramic bunny, thrifted dresser with IKEA knobs.
Fabric art made from Sosi's baby clothes.
7. Do you have a favorite piece of furniture or decorative item in your home? Tell us about this item.
My first instinct was to answer "my bed." I think that's simply because I don't get to spend as much time in it as I would like these days. My real answer is our kitchen/dining table. We made it out of some left over custom kitchen counter we had made, and then we just added some stainless steel legs we found at a second-hand furniture shop. It is so big but cozy and comfortable at the same time. It is perfect for putting together puzzle or painting and, of course, eating. We usually are huddled all together at one end, but it is nice to know we have lots of space for when we have friends over.
Sosi painting at the kitchen table
8. You are an artist and illustrator. What household chore do you tend to back burner most so you can tend to your creative life?
Whatever you do, don't look in my fridge! Just kidding, it's not that bad... but it definitely doesn't get as much attention as it should.
Lori's desktop
9. What is your most important everyday ritual at home?
I love our time eating together. The kitchen is my favourite room in our home. It gets great light all year round and looks out onto our backyard. We sit sleepily together in the mornings for breakfast and always try to have dinner together. I cherish those moments spent all together.
10. In your home, what is one indulgence you give into?
Cookbooks, 85% cacao dark chocolate, wine, fabric, and yarn. Maybe some fancy cheese now and then (oh, reading that list makes me happy!).
11. What are your favorite stores to shop for home?
For some reason, we always end up at IKEA, I guess because it is so cheap and has such good design.
12. What Home & Garden blogs or websites inspire you the most?
When I am in the mood to covet things I can't afford, I visit Poppytalk, where the lovely things are, Design*Sponge, and Apartment Therapy.
In addition to those sites, I also really enjoy seeing people with original ideas making things on their own. Here are some sites I visit regularly:
- Emira: domicile
- Sarah: The Small Object (she is a genius!)
- Jane Brocket: Yarn Storm
- Gayla: You Grow Girl
- Sharilyn: lovelydesign
That was so very nice, Lori! Thank you so much. Adore your personal, creative touches in every room.
Find more on Lori Joy Smith's website, where she keeps a blog, her portfolio, and a little shop of handmade goodies.
Don't miss our previous Show & Tell Home Tours:
- Amanda Soule of SouleMama (Portland, ME)
- Andrea Jenkins at hula seventy (Portland, OR)
- Elisabeth Dunker from fine little day (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Rubyellen Bratcher at Cakies (Southern CA)
- Rachel Denbow of Bling on My Sewing Machine (Springfield, MO)
- Hannah Huffman from huffmania (Kansas City, MO)
- Summer Allen-Gibson from design is mine (Portland, OR)
- Martha McQuade at UNIFORM Studio (Minneapolis, MN)
- Tess B. (Kansas City, MO)
- Mary Tsao (San Mateo, CA) - Nursery Tour
- Hanne Rismyhr (Bergen, Norway)
- Amy Hanson from Sweet Sweet Life (San Diego, CA)
- Stephanie Congdon Barnes of 3191 Miles Apart (Portland, OR)


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After Thanksgiving was over and our bellies were sufficiently full of turkey and cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, pie and wine, we settled in Saturday evening for a quiet night at home. The only cooking we did that night was homemade turkey stock, with enough bones to fill both our stockpots. As the stock bubbled away on the stove, I thought of decorating for Christmas – usually I'm eager to put up the tree and lights Thanksgiving weekend – but thought I'd wait a week and get the house organized first.
We have an electric fireplace in our condo that doesn't even really make an attempt at looking very authentic, but it's cozy nonetheless. But I do miss a real fireplace, in spite of the mess it creates. Nothing says "home for the holidays" quite like a crackling fire, especially if the fireplace has a nice hearth for sitting on.
My childhood home in South Carolina was heated by a black, wood-burning stove, and in spite of the dust and ash it created in the winter, it was one of my favorite features of the house. The bedrooms were chilly in the winter, but the living room and kitchen stayed nice and toasty. One winter, when my dad was working in another state, we woke up to a chimney fire, although at the time, I didn't know enough to be scared, only that our house got to be the center of attention in the neighborhood that night when the fire trucks arrived. I even wrote a poem about that fireplace in one of my college writing classes, and although I don't write poetry anymore, I really enjoyed the class at the time. The poem may be long gone, though, or packed away on an outdated floppy disk somewhere.
I was the type of kid who didn't like being away from home for very long, or very far away from my mom. A week of daily Bible camp in the summer, which meant spending half the day, every day for a week, away from home, was torture. Starting kindergarten and having to spend all day with strangers in a school that smelled weird – like paper mache and that chemical they use to clean vomit out of the carpets – was completely heart wrenching to me. It was the year I lost a friend on the playground for saying her Cabbage Patch doll had a nose like a pig, got my first crush on a boy named Marcus Painter, and had my waist-length hair chopped short all over my head when my sister and I got lice from an epidemic at school. My sister, having straight hair, was able to keep her hair, but I, with all my curls that were too difficult to clean, came out of it like a shorn sheep. I was sure everyone in my class knew why I'd gotten such a drastic haircut.
With the holiday season, comes one of my favorite things – Eggnog. I never understood people who say it's too rich – I could drink a whole glass and love every creamy, spiced drop. This year, though, I thought I'd try making my own for the first time, and I loved how it turned out. A mixture of egg yolks, milk with a splash of cream, pumpkin, spices and a little sugar, simmered gently on the stove, made a creamy and flavorful concoction that was even more delicious with the addition of vanilla and bourbon. I think Jamie's glass contained a much higher ratio of bourbon to eggnog, but I liked mine with just a little hint of the bourbon.
We sipped our homemade eggnog warm that Saturday night, but I chilled a little to taste later, and it was as wonderful chilled as it was warm. I wish I had some more of that eggnog today while we put up the decorations and listen to Christmas music. I start to feel like a kid again, this time of year, and there's nowhere I'd rather be than home...
Pumpkin Pie Eggnog
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- 3 cups 2% or whole milk
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Small pinch of salt
- 2 egg yolks
- 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons bourbon (optional)
In a small saucepan, combine the pumpkin, milk, cream, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt. Bring to a gentle simmer over medium low heat. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar.
When the pumpkin mixture starts to bubble around the edges, slowly pour ½ cup of the hot liquid into the egg yolk/sugar mixture, whisking constantly. Pour the warmed egg mixture back into the saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, for 4-5 minutes until thick and creamy. Stir in the vanilla and bourbon.
Serve hot with a cinnamon stick, or refrigerate for several hours and serve chilled.
Yields 4 servings.
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Grand Junction ruined the home opener for the Durango High School boys tennis team with a tidy 7-0 shutout Friday at the DHS tennis courts.
Spencer Weinberg was tough to deal with for Durangos Ryder Searle at No. 1 singles. Weinberg picked up the victory 6-0, 6-0 over the Pagosa Springs High School student, who plays for DHS because the Pirates dont have a tennis program.
Aaron Cash fared a bit better at No. 2 singles for the Demons, falling to the Tigers Jacob Lapkin 6-1, 6-1, while Wesley Komick was a 6-1, 6-0 victim of Grand Junctions Caleb Gartner.
At No. 1 doubles, Tate Hegstrom and Jake Filutze downed Durangos Dylan Blair and Patrick Neil 6-1, 6-0. Aaron Gossage and Max Prioletti picked up another victory for the Tigers, 6-1, 6-1 over Blake McDaniel and Jalen Muller of DHS.
Derek Crowell and Chris Walton put up Durangos best fight of the afternoon before falling 6-2, 6-2 to Brian List and Matthew Prinster at No. 3 doubles, while Tim Martin and Harrison Quick were downed 6-1, 6-0 by Matthew Ness and Ben Arja.
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Catherine Malabou, Ph.D., born in 1959, was a student at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and Sorbonne University in France. She wrote her dissertation on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel under the direction of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, completing it in 1994. The thesis was published in 1996 under the title L'Avenir de Hegel, plasticité, temporalité, dialectique (The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic). Catherine Malabou has taught at Nanterre University in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, the New School for Social Research in New York City and currently is a full-time professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy of Kingston in the United Kingdom. She also teaches an intensive summer seminar at the European Graduate School (EGS).
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15 April 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's daughter told a cheering crowd on Friday that Libya was not defeated by air strikes in 1986 and won't be defeated now.
She gave the speech at the ruins of the Bab Aziziyah compound, which was devastated by U.S. bombs during the Reagan administration. Bab himself could not be reached for comment and did not return phone calls. The compound has been left in its ruined state since 1986 as a museum that proves that Libya was not and cannot be defeated. By comparison, the Berlin disco that the Libyan Secret Service blew up the week before has long since been repaired.
Aisha Gadhafi said, "When I was nine years old, in this house, they tried to kill me with missiles and bombs. But we are a people that cannot be defeated." She spoke to a crowd of hundreds, who oddly did not have jobs to go to in this prosperous nation that cannot be defeated. They carried signs that said, "We cannot be defeated" and "Cover up your face, you harlot."
The message that Libya cannot be defeated might have been lost, however, as neither the NATO Supreme Command nor American political leaders were in the audience, a consequence both of President Obama's decision to have "no boots on the ground" and the military men's reluctance to attend a protest in bedroom slippers or flip-flops.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Washington, "The emergence of Gadhafi's daughter is designed to send us a clear message: that Libya might turn out like Cuba, where for decades we used brief and ineffective military attacks, and then cut off the entire country from trade, and then just waited for the ruthless dictator to die, only to find out that he has scruffy relatives who would seamlessly fill the vacuum of power.
"But, really, what are the chances we'd be wrong twice in a row?"
Karin Laub "Gadhafi's daughter sends defiant message". Associated Press, April 15, 2011


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The more time that passes and the more books I read, the more I realize how dangerous the religious right is, and how pointless it is to try to reason with them. You might as well be trying to argue with a brick wall.
The Christian Nationalist movement (also known as Dominionism - which both Bachmann and Perry appear to have some ties to) is a subset of the evangelical community that is highly mobilized, extremely efficient, well financed, and extremely dangerous.
For many who do not know much about them, they are often dismissed as quacks that have no influence, and those who raise the alarm about them are accused (even in the liberal community) of being "alarmist over-reactors."
However... this is one of the most dangerous things about the Christian Nationalist movement.... their chameleon ability to appear harmless and even beneficial. Make no mistake! Those of us who watch them like hawks are NOT alarmists! They are more powerful than most people know, and they often lack any sense of moral decency. They are willing to lie, cheat, threaten, bribe, and even occasionally murder to get their way. They will hide their true motives from the American public with deceptive language, that often they have one message for the public, and another for their own kind.
Knowing how dangerous they are, I wish I knew what to do about them. They are determined to take over the country and forcibly subdue it to biblical law. They are raping and rending the Constitution on their way there.
I have tried using logic, reasoning, and modern scholarship to make them see that what they are doing is wrong in more ways than one. But as I have learned, this is pointless.
Atheists can debate all they want. We can write books or throw books at them. We can point out logical fallacies or laugh at them. We can make youtube videos or send letters. We can flash our degrees at them and demand they recognize that we know what we're talking about.
There is no point to this at all.
Christian Nationalists live in their own parallel universe. And certain aspects of this "universe" make it quite obvious that there is nothing we can say that will convince them that they are wrong.
Michelle Goldberg lays out the immunity that the Christian Nationalist delusion has devastatingly clear in the book "Kingdom Coming."
1. Most of the "warriors for Christ" have been brainwashed from infancy to believe only what their cult tells them to believe. They are denied public education and herded into either homeschooling or special fundamentalist christian schools... where like any cult, they are cut off from the outside world, until their brainwashing is so thorough that there is no escaping it.
2. They are trained to believe that mainstream science and academics are part of a liberal agenda, corrupted by professors and scientists who push an anti-christian religion. They will therefore, refuse to believe any of modern scholarship no matter how stacked the evidence is against them. In fact, the more the evidence is against them, the more they believe that they are the only pious people, the holders of the real truth that is being suppressed by evil anti-christians. There is no way to get through to them... so don't even try.
3. You can't use liberal christians to convince them because they believe mainstream christians are deluded agents of satan.
Basically, nothing we can say will ever get through to them.
However it is absolutely essential that we stop their drive to push christianity on the country by force. My question is... what are we supposed to do? They cannot be reasoned with. They are relentless and enraged. They are well financed and have many "friends in high places" within our government.
What can we do to stop them before it is too late?
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You're right, I don't think you are going to get through to anyone at the individual level. If you can, try to get involved with groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation or the ACLU who are equipped to handle matters of constitutional law. If you can't, then even doing something simple like writing a letter of complaint whenever you see a church/state violation can be helpful. The law is the law, no matter how much they dislike it.
Isolate the genes responsible for fundamentalism, produce monoclonal antibodies specifically to target and destroy those genes, develop a method to disperse these to the general population.
What are we supposed to do? We keep doing what you, and others (myself included), keep doing - by blogs, videos, etc. We expose them and keep exposing them until a majority of people - including other Xians and the mainstream media, finally get the message that such people are dangerous.
We must not relent, we must remain diligent and resolute ;-)
Unfortunately, I have been told repeatedly even by liberal christians and agnostics that I'm "overreacting." I know that I am not.
Hi Beth. You can't compose your text somewhere else and paste it into the stream unless you have the text in white because of the black background.
first, welcome! Second: please drop the black font, it very hard to read on a gray background.
One thing to remember is that one need not be faced with some religious fundamentalist type to find its hard to discuss serious topics, be it Bible/God stuff or science topics. Now I tend to step back and ask myself if the roles were reversed, what words would I want used or how would I like to be spoken to? By and large I think some people may feel that their religious beliefs are being attacked rather than someone who is a non believer wanting a thought provoking dialogue.
And I speak from experience where one rabid atheist who was a friend, started to even turn me off as far as being around her. Sadly there are some atheists who will turn a person off as much as some fundamentalist Christian who comes knocking on ones door. Or some animals rights vegan who tossed fake blood on some meat eater.
Know of a wonderful agnostic whom when Christians meet her,assume she is a Christian, because of her gentle spirit and kind ways. Its well after Christians meet her and fall in love with her, that they discover she doesnt share their religious beliefs. She is very upfront and simply requests that she be allowed her beliefs. And for some reason none of the Christians in her life ever try and convert her. They may be praying for her, but they love her enough to leave her in peace.
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Believe it or not, not all fundies are permanently set in their ways. I personally know several hardcore believers that are now very adamant atheists. But, despite these cases, I say that the fundies aren't the real target. The real targets are the prospective fundies and those with a naturally weaker grounding in their religious beliefs. These people constitute the majority of believers in our country and stand a better chance of being more susceptible to logic and reason.
That doesn't mean that we should turn our attention from the fundies. By engaging the most radical views, we are putting out our most persuasive and compelling arguments. These messages are reaching a much wider audience than simply the fundie population. We must persist if for no other reason than they will. Just imagine how dangerous fundie arguments and propaganda would be if they were not countered by something equally as compelling. It is better to have one's voice heard by someone rather than by no one.
By addressing all the issues brought up by the fundie community, we are addressing all of the important religious issues. While our messages may not get through to them, they are getting through to those around them and each generation seems to be weakening in faith.
As frustrating as it may be sometimes, I think that it's better to engage in dialog than not.
1. I suggest some serious ridicule of fundie beliefs whenever possible--show that the emperor has no clothes as loudly and publicly as is safe. Not a few religious folks are in it for social reasons and making their beliefs look most uncool will cause at least some to reconsider who they run with.
2. Make use of the Constitution whenever religious folks try to impose their beliefs on anyone--nothing like some public civics in a country that could use as many civics lessons as possible. Lets not waste one of the greatest documents in history.
3. Speaking of the Constitution, if worst comes to worst, don't forget the Second Amendment--it's not just for right wingers anymore.
4. And for the FSM's sake, stay open and public about your atheism--that's where social acceptance ultimately comes from and will also continue to make others think about what they really believe. As much good as atheist groups, including this one, do and as much influence as prominent atheists like the four horseman accrue in the media, it's individual, personal relationships that, one by one, will affect the deepest and most lasting change.
As for the terminally close minded in this country, you're right, nothing can be done for them. But the future of such folks is not bright, in a world that changes faster than ever. As Larry Niven likes to say, think of it as evolution in action.
There is a diagram on google-pictures called "debate_flow_chart.jpg". It shows how to have a rational debate. At the very top there is a box with the very first question that the atheist should ask the theist:
"Can you envision anything that will change your mind on this topic?"
If the theist replies affirmatively, then there are instructions for continuing the debate.
If the theist answers negatively then the atheist is instructed to reply:
"This is not a discussion. I will not talk to you about this topic."
And that ends the discussion.
One thing I would love to see is non believers doing more local authors nights, science fairs for the entire community, math and spelling bees, and even debates. Just make sure the non believer who will be debating the Christian, is actually a strong debater and a nice person.
And start a charter school where math, science are stressed, because I know many of our homeschooling peers dont like the regular public schools because they are so weak when it comes to math and science. And if you homeschool, start or join a secular homeschooling group like we have done since the 80's.
Jim does bring up an interesting question. Why do we have so few babies being born to non believers? Or am I wrong on this?


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Hunter rescued after northern Alaska bear mauling
ANAKTUVUK PASS, Alaska (AP) -- The Alaska Air National Guard says crews equipped with night-vision goggles rescued a hunter more than 36 hours after he was mauled by a brown bear in northern Alaska's remote Brooks Range.
The man was part of a guided hunting party about 30 miles north of the tiny village of Anaktuvuk Pass. Initial rescue efforts by local search teams and the Alaska State Troopers were turned back because of dense fog.
The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center learned of the man's plight Thursday. A medical professional who happened to be in a nearby hunting party reached him and stemmed his blood loss.
The Alaska Air National Guard launched a search-and-rescue plane and helicopter from an Air Force base near Fairbanks at 12:30 a.m. Friday. The plane's crew launched flares to guide the helicopter through the pass, and the helicopter reached the victim before 3 a.m. Friday.
The man was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.


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Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel's son has made his modeling debut alongside his actor dad in a new Got Milk? advert.
The "Private Practice" hunk stars with Walker in the organization's latest campaign with Kellogg's, which aims to provide more than one million breakfasts to kids in need, and Diggs insists it was a very special moment sharing the spotlight with his three year old.
He tells People.com, "Being able to shoot the Got Milk? ad with my son was one of the better times in life just because, obviously, the ad is going to last forever."
The father-son duo are featured sharing a bowl of cereal and flashing bright white smiles with milk moustaches, but the 42-year-old admits he had a tough time getting the tot to focus on the shoot.
He adds, "We had to constantly make up games and excuses just to keep him occupied. So when it seems like he's smiling, he's actually roaring because he wanted to be a tiger."


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White iPhone 4 vs. Black iPhone 4: Do They Have Different Cameras?
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It's no Duke Nukem Forever, but the recently-released white iPhone 4 is one of those products that seemed it would never actually come to market. Originally slated for release in June 2010, the white version of Apple's iPhone 4 fell prey to delay after delay, and it didn't hit stores until late April 2011.
Apple never released an official statement specifying why the white iPhone 4 was so slow to get out of the gate, but there's never a shortage of rumors or speculation when Apple's involved. According to the Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney, who cited "a source with connections to Apple who asked to remain anonymous," camera-performance issues were a big reason for the delay. More specifically, the iPhone's white glass case allowed light to seep back into the body and flood the camera's sensor, producing overexposed photos.
"A source with connections to Apple who asked to remain anonymous" isn't exactly the gold standard in terms of qualified attribution, but Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is about as good a source as it gets. During an interview on The Engadget Show earlier this year, Wozniak said that pictures taken with his prerelease modded white iPhone 4--made with "defective parts" from Apple's first production run on the white iPhone--took "bad flash photos" that didn't match up to those taken with the black iPhone.
Once the white iPhone 4 finally became available, an early tear-down of the white iPhone 4 by a Japanese-language blog revealed that the camera module was noticeably different from the one found in the black iPhone 4. The white iPhone's camera lens looked to be a bit more recessed, possibly to reduce the distance between the glass and the sensor and eliminate or reduce the light-leakage issue.
So What's the Big Deal?
For most people, none of that really matters. What does matter is whether one color of iPhone 4 or the other is better for photo and video quality; with the iPhone becoming the most popular photography device on Flickr, that's a more important question than it may seem on the surface.
In last year's hotly contested smartphone camera battle, we rated the black iPhone 4 as having the best camera overall among smartphones at that time.
We were eager to see if the white iPhone 4 had the same photography chops; now that it's here, we ran it through the same image-quality tests as its predecessor. Here's the shocker: Based on PCWorld Labs' standardized image- and video-quality testing, the different flavors of iPhone 4 produce slightly different flavors of photos and video.
The differences are most dramatic when using each camera's flash to snap portraits. The white iPhone 4 produced noticeably different skin tones and color depth with the flash enabled than the black version of the same phone. On the video side, the white iPhone 4 produced slightly sharper footage, with better contrast and brighter colors in low-light situations.
This doesn't necessarily mean that the camera's lenses and sensors are different. The white iPhone 4's flash may illuminate subjects differently due to reflection off the phone's bright backside; the software responsible for adjusting white balance and exposure settings may be optimized for one iPhone's flash photos but not the other; the difference in camera module construction may have noticeable results in the images; or it might just be that the two test phones we used were built differently. But for what it's worth, our tests showed differences between the two iPhone 4 cameras.
To gauge how differently each iPhone 4 camera's images looked, we snapped test shots with a white iPhone 4 and a black iPhone 4, both loaded with iOS 4.3.3 firmware. We printed out unmarked sample images shot in our standard lab-testing environment for photo quality and showed them to a panel of seven editors. Five of the seven editors said that the test shots taken with the white iPhone and those taken with the black iPhone looked as if they had been shot with different cameras. Of the remaining two editors, one said that the test shots looked as if they might have been taken at different flash intensities, and the other said that in-phone image-processing software might have been handling the images differently.
Everybody's eyeballs are different, so why not see for yourself? Click through to the next page for the sample images and video from each iPhone 4, along with comments from our panel of seven editors.


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TORONTO – Canada's mortgage brokers say recent changes to federal rules have taken too big a bite out of an already cooling housing market and they suggest policymakers should address the needs of their industry.
The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals says a survey of 2,000 consumers in October, conducted on CAAMP's behalf, suggests that first-time buyers have been hard hit by the tighter mortgage rules.
"We worry that this is having a dampening effect on what was an already cooling market and we hope policy-makers will give some thought to addressing the needs of this key sector of the market," association president and CEO Jim Murphy said in a statement.
CAAMP chief economist Will Dunning said the smaller number of first time buyers has already affected the resale market.
"The housing resale numbers behave like a canary in the mine for us," Dunning said. "My concern is that a policy-induced housing market downturn creates unnecessary risk that directly affects not just housing but job creation and the economy as a whole."
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has said the new rules were intended to deal with overpriced real-estate in certain cities and certain types of housing. He has said the tighter mortgage rules reduce the risk of buyers taking on too much debt.
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has also warned that Canadian personal debt levels have reached record high levels, posing a risk to the economy if consumers can't afford to carry their debt once interest rates rise.
CAAMP is the national organization representing Canada's mortgage industry. With over 12,250 mortgage professionals representing over 1,700 companies
Among findings of the association's semi-annual report:
– Since the most recent round of mortgage tightening in July, housing resale activity in the August-October period is down eight per cent compared with a year earlier.
– About 17 per cent of high ratio mortgages funded in 2010 cannot be funded today, including 11 per cent of prospective high ratio homebuyers who can't qualify under the new 25-year amortization rule.
Flaherty has reduced the maximum amortization for Canadian mortgages several times in recent years. Most recently, the maximum was cut from 30 years. Previous reforms included reductions in the maximum amortization period to 35 years from 40 and then to 30 years from 35.


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Annabelle Loudon's dorm room is also a classroom. Although she attends a traditional university, she's also taking some of her courses online.
"We'd have a reading assignment and then every week you'd have a quiz or a test. So you could work on your own time during the week, which was great for me," she said.
Online education is fast becoming the norm across the United States, with 35 percent of students now taking at least one course online. And, 65 percent of colleges consider online learning as a critical part of their future.
"In the last three to five years, the number of schools that are offering online degrees has exploded," explained Vicky Phillips, founder of GetEducated.com.
Phillips says the institutions that offer them may surprise you.
"Eighty-five percent of all online degrees are offered by traditional, residential schools. This includes state universities, large public brand names, ivy league schools," she said.
Experts say online classes have distinct advantages including flexibility, more choices of courses and teachers, and, of course, affordability.
"There's a crisis right now in being able to afford even a first primary college degree. Online learning is a tremendous help to consumers in that regard," said Phillips.
So should we expect to say 'see ya' to the traditional campus experience in the future? Some say that's where we're headed, and that has some educators concerned. They believe virtual learning falls short of a full college experience.
"If you ask most students what they remember about their college experience, most remember interpersonal interactions they've had, they remember the social experiences. They remember the ways in which they've grown as a person. That's much harder to do in an entirely online experience," explained Kevin Kruger, President and CEO of NASPA,, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Kruger believes a hybrid experience may be best.
"The faculty member has some portion of the class that will be live. But they also offer many components of the class in an online environment." he said.
Annabelle Loudon enjoyed some of her online classes, but wouldn't have wanted the entire experience to be virtual.
"I like showing up to class, I like being around other students, and having people to talk to about the class. I think that's nice," she said.
While the ultimate future of brick and mortar institutions is still unknown, experts agree the large lecture halls with 300 or more students may soon be a thing of the past. Experts say those classes are already being replaced by online learning taught by faculty from institutions around the world.


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