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As the weather slowly starts to change, it can be more and more challenging to know how to dress fashionably, but it's actually very easy. Many of our warm-weather essentials can be reimagined for the new season. No need to say goodbye to our beloved tops or slip dresses, because here are the best ways to transition all your favorite items from Summer to Fall!
Hippie Tops
Pair these cool-girl staples with a skinny or flared jean, a tailored jacket, and perhaps a biker jacket to toughen it up!
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Graphic Tee
Wear your favorite graphic tee into fall with a suit and printed scarf!
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Pair with your favorite blouse and some killer heels for casual elegance.
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Here's how it went down.
Made homemade pancakes (rare)
Took twins to first day of Kindergarten.
Took tons of photos/video
Got in car to drive home, lost it.
Really lost it, hyperventilated and let husband drive
Had to take Xanax.
Husband thinks I need to go to the looney bin and to make me feel better says brilliant things like:
"Well, they are all grown up!" "Weren't they just so cute, I can remember when they were tiny newborn babies" and the kicker:
"You know, they will be in college before you know it."
Decide to hate husband.
Need another Xanax.
Identity Crisis.
Pull Self Together
Design Appointment.
Ok, so I'll take it from here. I have another room to work on with a beloved client (playroom) and snap some shots of a bedroom I just finished.
You may remember their living room.... and can see the transformation here.
After we finished this room, we moved onto their bedroom. Check out the BEFORE...
They wanted a more updated look that flowed with the rest of their coastal/organic look. Here's what we came up with.
We used the West Elm "Overlapping Squares" headboard
And a burlap/nailhead storage bench at the foot
The West Elm Ogee drapes (via catalog) because my IPhone didn't do them justice
The mirrored dresser from Pier One (what a steal).
Damn IPhone (via PierOne.com).
And some amazing side tables in reclaimed wood from Overstock.com. We weren't crazy about the knobs they came with, so we replaced them with some Mercury Glass from Anthropologie.
Not bad for the first day back at school. Hope you survived the hurricane and had a good day back too!
Bye bye birdie...
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Stories involving false confessions can be emotional and moving, as they appeal to our innate desire for justice. As such, stories of false confessions can be powerful tools in books, films, and televisions shows. The way that a false confession is framed, and the context in which it is introduced to consumers (whether as readers or viewers) makes a big difference in how a false confession will be perceived.
In fictional stories in print or on screen, typically the viewer (or reader) has some sense of a person's true innocence or guilt. In a television show, the viewer may have already seen a clip of the crime with the true criminal. Other musical or visual cues may also give viewers clues as to the true guilt or innocence of an individual offering a confession to a crime. Because viewers know, or will know, the true identity of the person who committed the crime in question, the use of an interrogation or a false confession (or both) can be used to demonstrate the moral character of the confessor. In exactly the same way, the use of a false confession in a fictional story can be used to demonstrate the morality of a police officer or even a whole police department. For example, a scene depicting the interrogation of a suspect that viewers know is not guilty may be used to demonstrate the use of immoral, coercive interrogation techniques by television detectives.
In nonfiction, the exploration of false confessions is often used to demonstrate the fallibility of the justice system. Because the idea that an innocent person would confess falsely to a crime that they did not commit seems incredibly counterintuitive to the average person, in-depth explorations (whether in documentaries, podcast series, newspaper or magazine expose, etc.) of the process by which false confessions can happen can be instrumental in helping people understand the reality of the phenomenon. The way a case or a confession is framed in the media and understood in popular culture also impacts our social construction of that person's guilt or innocence.
Keywords: false confessions, popular culture, innocence, coercion, justice
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BREAKING NEWS: Judge Orders Air Force to Reinstate Discharged Lesbian
A U.S. District Judge entered a ruling Friday ordering the Air Force to reinstate former Maj. Margaret Witt, who was discharged under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that bars gays from serving openly in the military.
Witt filed a lawsuit to get her job back.
NBC News is reporting, in 2008, a federal appeals court panel ruled in her case that the military can't discharge people for being gay unless it proves their firing furthered military goals.
After a six-day trial, the judge said testimony proved Witt was an outstanding nurse and her reinstatement would do nothing to hurt unit morale.
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Early December Cold Snap Grips the Nation
Frigid weather is gripping much of the country as far south as Florida.
Fort Lauderdale hit a record low temperature for this date (Tuesday) at 40 degrees. The old record was 42 set in 1841.
The National Weather Service issued hard freeze warnings Tuesday night into Wednesday morning for much of Florida with freeze advisories as far south as Hollywood.
Cold and snow have hit parts of North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Winter weather advisories are in effect for parts of those states with more snow expected.
IN Voters to Decide Whether Prop. Tax Caps Are Put In Constitution
Question 1 on the ballot in Indiana asks voters if they support making Property Tax Cap laws part of the state constitution.
Lawmakers expect the proposal to pass, but Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett says the caps are bad for cities who are struggling with the lack of revenue.
The Mayor says more cuts must be made to make up for the loss in revenue from the property tax caps.
Over the past two years, the caps have forced the city to cut more than $5.5-million.
Terre Haute is the 7th hardest hit city in the state when it comes to the caps' effects.
"It all sounds good. Everybody wants their taxes to go down," says Bennett. "But people don't realize that the translation is, you pay less, there's less service and people are not going to be happy with that in future years. I've not seen a lot of resistance to it out there and I don't think people really understand the true impact and cities and towns are the hardest hit because you can't raise any new revenue."
One city service that won't be cut this year is the city's leaf pick-up.
Last year, city leaders thought they wouldn't be able to afford to do it this year.
Wednesday, the Mayor said they'll make one pass to pick up the leaves if they are raked out to the curb.
Republic will also continue to collect bagged leaves.
The Mayor doesn't know if the city will be able to afford the program next year.
VA Man Accused of Plot to Bomb DC Metro
A Virginia man, born in Pakistan, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly casing Washington area Metro stations to possibly carry out a bomb plot on the Nation's Capitol, police sources said.
34-year-old Farooque Ahmed is accused of approaching government employees, he thought were al-Qaida operatives, to join the so called bomb plot on Washington's Metro.
NBC News has learned the ruse was conducted over the past six months and it allegedly involved Ahmed handing over video of northern Virginia subway stations to the men the thought were connected to the terror group.
Sources say he suggested using rolling suitcases, instead of backpacks, to kill as many people as possible.
Investigators also tell NBC Farooque offered to donate money to al-Qaida.
The FBI says the public was never in danger since agents knew what Ahmed was up to. They say he was monitored throughout the entire course of the investigation.
Hundreds Feared Dead in Mexican Mudslide
FROM MSNBC: Hundreds of people were buried in their homes early Tuesday after a rain-soaked mountainside gave way in southwestern Mexico, officials said.
Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec reached by phone, said 500 people were missing and that 300 homes were buried after the slide around 4 a.m. local time.
"We were all sleeping and all I heard was a loud noise and when I left the house I saw that the hill had fallen," Vargas said.
"It has been difficult informing authorities because the roads are very bad and there isn't a good signal for our phone," Vargas said shortly before the call dropped.
Reached by the news agency AFP, Vargas added that "we fear that those missing are buried inside their homes because we've already searched nearby areas."
Mr. Colbert Goes to Washington (But Did Congress Get the Joke?)
It was suppose to be "lol" funny! But I'm not sure members of Congress got the joke.
Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert appeared on Capitol Hill today as a witness on the issue of migrant farm work.
The funnyman was invited to speak to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security by the co-chair
"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN One," Colbert told members of the subcommittee.
Stephen Colbert's character comes across as a right-wing activist, ready to join the Republicans at any moment (while not confirmed, most think it's just an act).
"We have to do something" about the plight of farm workers "because I am not going back out there," Colbert jabbed.
"At this point, I break into a cold sweat at the sight of a salad bar," he said.
It's obvious his comments were meant to be taken light-heartedly by the elected officials but, as TV cameras showed glimpses of the committee members, not many seemed amused.
Some chuckled, others laughed out loud, but the majority rolled their eyes and sat expressionless as Colbert ranted on several issues including immigration and the economy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she thinks Colbert's appearance was appropriate.
"He's an American. He comes before the committee. He has a point of view. He can bring attention to an important issue like immigration," she said. "I think it's great."
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David Shepherd Wins "Best in General News" Award
I was recently honored to win a Spectrum Award for Best in General News by the Indiana Broadcasters Association for a story I did for NBC 2 WTWO-TV in Terre Haute.
This is my first award from the Broadcasters Association.
I'd like to thank my photographer, Josh Lum, for shooting and editing the piece. Without his stellar work, this award would not have been possible.
Democrats Stump For Last Minute Votes
Democratic candidates for state office were in Terre Haute Friday stumping for last minute votes.
The candidates for State Treasurer, Secretary of State, and State Auditor greeted supporters.
As the election enters the home stretch, the democrats know they have ground to make up if they want to pull out a win on Tuesday.
Democratic Senate candidate Brad Ellsworth also made a stop in the Valley Friday.
Ellsworth spoke to a group of ISU students at Rhodes Hall.
The Senate hopeful discussed a variety of issues including Cap and Trade and the economy.
Ellsworth says his campaign is in full gear leading up to Tuesday's election.
"It's going really well. I just left Indianapolis. I was in a room full of people; volunteers that were stuffing walking bags and making phone calls and that's really what it's down to now, is the ground game of who gets the votes out."
Ellsworth is running against Republican Dan Coats and Libertarian Rebecca Sink-Burris in Tuesday's election.
Residents Flee Erupting Volcano
The death toll stands at 19 in Indonesia after its most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted Tuesday morning; spewing smoke and ash for miles.
NBC News reports one of the dead was a young baby. There were also slew of other injuries.
Terrified villagers fled their homes following Tuesday morning's eruption.
The death toll is expected to rise.
President's Approval Drops to All-Time Low
Democrats are starting to smell blood in the water as new polling shows President Barrack Obama's approval rating dropping to record lows.
Only 42 percent of Americans approve of President Barrack Obama's job performance, according to a new CNN / Opinion Research Corporation poll. The poll shows 54 percent of Americans are not satisfied with the administration's performance.
A sluggish economy and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taken support for Mr. Obama to an all-time low.
Other democrats, some who are running in November's mid-term elections, aren't doing much better.
Congressional Democrats face a nine-point deficit when those polled were asked which party they'll support in November.
Some political analysts say Republicans have a serious shot at picking up the 39 seats needed to re-take control of the House of Representatives (currently held by the Democrats).
Those Democrats may not be asking the President to stump for them any time soon. Only 37 percent of likely voters say they are more likely to vote for a candidate backed by Mr. Obama.
Nearly half of those polled said they'd likely choose a candidate supported by the Tea Party movement, an ultra-conservative base that's gained growing support in recent months.
The poll also shows the majority of Americans believe Republicans, in general, are more engaged and excited about voting than their Democratic counterparts.
President Calls Ahmadinejad's Comments "Offensive and Hateful"
David Shepherd - Sept. 24
President Obama called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments to the U.N. on Thursday "offensive and hateful."
"Well, it was offensive. It was hateful," Obama said in part of an interview with BBC Persian released by the White House.
"And particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of ground zero, where families lost their loved ones -- people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation -- for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable," Obama said.
During Thursday's U.N. address, Ahmadinejad blamed the United States for the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, saying the U.S. was behind it.
I Iranian President's remarks caused delegates from the United States, Europe and other countries to walk out of the U.N. General Assembly in the middle of his speech.
counterpart Friday for what he called offensive and hateful remarks about the September 11 attacks.
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The audience loved the exchange and Cameron, 40, must have known that he had charmed his listeners.
Addressing guests of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce -- which included the reclusive Ratan Tata -- it was Cameron's first major address outside the United Kingdom.
Accompanied by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne -- who is just 35 -- the duo represented a striking contrast to the ageing band of Indian politicians. Especially when British Prime Minister Tony Blair who is supposed to be at the end of his political career is only 53!
On a four-day visit to India, Cameron was in Mumbai on Tuesday after visiting Pune. He will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Wednesday.
But it wasn't his earlier meetings with Ratan Tata, whose Tata Consultancy Services is the biggest Indian investor in the UK, and Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani that Cameron started his speech with.
He began on a somber note, expressing sadness over the road accident that had taken place that afternoon when a British high commission van carrying his aides and some journalists hit a woman in central Mumbai.
As the lady lies critical in hospital Cameron said he was praying she would be okay. The British high commission, he said, would do everything to ensure that she received the best treatment and they would cooperate with the police.
The MP from Witney, Oxfordshire -- who became the second-youngest leader of the Conservative party last December -- has been blogging about his India trip since he left London's Heathrow airport.
Expanding on his thoughts from his India blog, Cameron spoke about the need for forging a new special relationship with India, to meet shared challenges between the countries like terrorism.
Responding to a rediff.com question on how both countries could fortify themselves against the perpetual threat of terror, sometimes from its own citizens, Cameron said:
"I think there are lots of things we do already in terms of sharing intelligence. As you say, sometimes the threat can come from our own citizens, I think that shows the need not just for a security response based on policing and intelligence but also making sure that both India and Britain continue to be successful plural societies, that we build a cohesive society. We make people feel included, whether it is the new India or the new Britain. That people don't feel marginalised. There are both security issues and community cohesive issues that we can work together on."
Educated at Eton and Oxford where he received a BA in philosophy, politics and economics, Britain's Opposition leader was asked:
Whether Muslims were being marginalised in the present scenario
He said all political leaders in Britain have said that Islamic terrorists are completely unrepresentative of the Muslim community and those who follow Islam in Britain.
"The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain want to be part of a successful Britain. They believe Islam is a religion of peace and it is very important the political leaders make that point over and over again. When you have a successful multi-racial country like Britain, it is very important that different races don't live in different boxes never interacting with each other. I think there is sometime a danger in some parts of Britain that that has happened and I have made a number of suggestions on how we can bring people together."
"I think in India you have been successful in making it clear that you can be a Sikh and an Indian, a Buddhist and an Indian, a Muslim and an Indian, a Hindu and an Indian and we in Britain have the same approach. We need to redouble our efforts to see that people live, work and play together."
Making the case for a more open economy
India should continue to take further steps because the upside is huge, he said. India received just half per cent of British overseas investment and less than one per cent of its exports.
"Britain believes that the liberalisation of the Indian economy has been a great success and if it goes further and includes some of the sectors like banking, insurance, legal services, retail that would be good for both countries."
He was sceptical about proactive trade ministers "leaping into airplanes packed with businessmen flying into different countries. I think that was youthful cynicism if I can put it that way. There is a need for a more purposeful aggressive and enthusiastic trading support policy. We need a trade system, a minister who really puts effort year after year towards the great new economies in India, China and Brazil."
The Doha Round
Stressing on the need to restart the Doha Round, he said if there was no breakthrough, a possibility of an EU-India free trade agreement should be considered.
"One of our frustration as opposition is that we can only talk about it and I think every country is going to do all it can to get it started again and Britain's responsibility to push for reduction in agricultural subsidies in Europe and that's the key role we can play. Fortunately in Britain there's quite a consensus behind that."
On his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
"It is a listening and learning visit," Cameron said. "About a shadow ministerial team understanding the big challenges that face modern India and making sure that we are an effective Opposition ready for government if we win the election."
His take on society
"A strong society is an essential counterpart to an open economy. A strong society is built on strong institutions.
A company is not just a set of employment contracts.
A community is not just a place where people happen to live.
A nation is not just a hotel.
These institutions support human ties that make life worthwhile. Unless we sustain and strengthen those ties, globalisation will make us economically rich but socially poor."
Would he change the high fee structure for Indian students at British universities if he became prime minister?
"They always say the last question you take is the one you wish you hadn't!"
"The university fee is a very difficult question and subject for British politicians. Britain has a very good higher education institutions and our ability to produce great graduates is very impressive. We've got to build on that, which maybe makes it a very tough decision -- and politically speaking I am not answering that question directly!"
Why India?
"We attach the highest importance to Britain's relationship with India. I want us to develop a special new relationship, that's why I wanted to come here for my first major overseas visit as Leader of the Opposition."
"India is the third largest investor in Britain. 500 Indian companies are based in London. 1.3 million people of Indian origin live in Britain and make an enormous contribution, both economically and culturally. They even contribute to our cricket team!"
And then came Humphrey Bogart...
Cameron chose the famous last lines from Casablanca to describe the new relationship with India: 'This could be the start of a beautiful friendship'.


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Some of us already do this to some extent in our gamesbasing things on PC decisions, motivations, and goals. In a full-on sandbox game, you take things to the next level: let the PCs rule, and just run with it.
Here are some thoughts to keep in mind:
1) Keep open a clear line of communication with your players. If they're going to direct the course of the campaign, you need to know where they're interested in going so you can react and build things ahead of time. Maybe you're really good at improvisational DMing (some of us are), but it never hurts to be able to know about character decisions ahead of time and make plans.
2) Though the PCs are going to guide the game, you need to have a list of plot elements to throw in if your characters don't offer clear guidance. The last thing you want is the heroes wandering aimlessly and thinking "man, this is boring!" You want an exciting story that they mainly direct, but that you step in sometimes to keep things on track.
Keep this list adaptable. Write down connections that MIGHT be between enemies, but might not, depending on the needs of the story at the time. Improvise as you go along, because the flexible nature of this campaign only allows so much before planning.
You should plan a series of major plot events that will take place "in some form" as you go. For instance, there is a conspiracy of people who are after one or more PCs for some reason as yet unidentified--they launch a major attack on the PCs every five levels or so, and each foiled attack gets the PCs closer to puzzling out who's after them. At the same time, a particular priesthood is going through a major schism that could be fixed or worsened by the PCs, and several things happen at set points in the game. Etc.
Plan on a major plot point every 2-3 levels, is what I would suggest.
3) NPCs have their own lives and pursuits. If the PCs are going to be going about their business, you have to have NPCs who are doing the same thing. This is really the only way to give the PCs the choice of whether to support a given NPC or work against him--this is what's happening, take it or leave it, do what you want with it.
Some of the NPC action takes place off-stage, and the PCs can get involved if they want. For instance, to expand on the example in #2, a priestess might be speaking out against the patriarchical establishment in the church of Lathander; left unchecked, she might incite a movement in the church, or she might be captured/imprisoned/executed as a heretic. The PCs can support her or move against her--they shouldn't feel obligated to follow either course.
4) This sort of game lends itself very well to tying plot elements, villains, treasures, and destinations into the character's backgrounds, motivations, and goals. Your players need to do more work than usual to pull off a game like this: have them craft detailed backstories along with friends, family, enemies, and nemeses for their characters, then use these with abandon in the game. Make some of them what the players might expect, and invert their expectations sometimes. Also, tie some of the characters together in ways they didn't necessarily see coming.
5) D&D is a very swingy game, level-wise, and different places in the campaign are bound to have enemies of different levels. In a normal campaign, you feel justified in railroading the 1st level PCs toward the dungeon with the kobolds, rather than the haunted castle with the epic level lich. But in a sandbox, your tendency is going to be to let the heroes go where they want, and let them suffer the consequences. You need to avoid this, lest you freak your players out and make them too hesitant/timid to do anything, for fear of getting ruthlessly annihilated. You want your PCs to be brave and bold and take chances.
Have a definite "upper-limit" to where your game is going to go. Make a commitment to yourself and your players that you're going to guide the PCs on an adventure, not send them into the jaws of death. Do not send low-level PCs against epic level threats--don't involve those threats at all in the PCs' direct business.
This is not to say, however, that you should not feel free to send them up against overwhelming threats from time to time, to put the fear of the DM in them. This is just a staple of good DMing, albeit sometimes tricky to pull off: heroes should run away sometimes, and PCs who never have to run away may conceive the irrational belief that they can always handle what the DM throws at them. This attitude must be stamped out.
All I'm warning against is sending the PCs *consistently* against threats that are too powerful for them, and/or making it impossible to retreat. Big bads should just let them go sometimes, particularly seeing as they're low-level and weak and not terribly useful for the bad guy. YET.
6) Have an endgame--or rather, several endgames. You don't necessarily need to know how the campaign's going to end, but you should know roughly where it's going before you even start it. Knowing who the ultimate villains are will help you make the story coherent and keep the characters engaged in unraveling the mystery.
Those are just some of my ideas, which come from having run two long-running FR sandbox campaigns, and played in another one (which tragically fizzled from too much story damage thanks to a violation of #5). I am currently also in a sandbox-style game set in the paragon tier, hopping the planes, courtesy of your very own Farcaster. (So seriously, blame him.)
Good Gaming!
About the Author: Erik Scott de Bie is a professional author, game designer, and DM. His fourth novel (Shadowbane, a Forgotten Realms novel) is due out Fall 2011. Dastardly DM is his occasionally updated article series on the ins-and-outs of DMing, from someone who has been doing it ENTIRELY too long.


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Teach Physical Education in Kenya
- PLACEMENT LOCATION: Nanyuki
- ROLE: To inspire children to learn new sports and coach children during their physical educational lessons
- REQUIREMENTS: None
- ACCOMMODATION: Host family
- LENGTH OF PLACEMENT: From 1 week
- START DATES: Flexible
By getting involved as a Physical Education teacher in Kenya with Projects Abroad, you can help teach children and young adults the importance of sport and inspire the next generation of sporting talent. This project is a great option for gap years, university students, career breakers, or those simply looking for a meaningful vacation experience. You can volunteer without any previous experience. All you need is a passion for sports and a desire to help others develop their own sporting ability.
Kenyans are passionate about sports and you will often find children kicking a ball around in their school playground or running around outside. Even though soccer is the most popular sport in Kenya, you can get involved with coaching a range of different sports including volleyball and netball. Children are eager to participate in a wide variety of sports, so you are encouraged to introduce new sports and activities at your placement.
Coach Sports in Schools and Drop-in Centres in Kenya with Projects Abroad
Teach Physical Education volunteers work in elementary and junior schools and drop-in centres in and around the town of Nanyuki.
In the morning, you will usually help with basic physical education lessons and ensure that each student gets involved in a diverse range of activities, both individually and as part of a team. You will be working with students of all ages depending on when their physical education lessons take place.
In the afternoons, you will coach teams of school children of different levels (beginners, intermediate, and advanced) with the long term goal of preparing the students to take part in local tournaments. You may find yourself working in several different schools during your stay, depending on the timetable in each school.
Your Role Volunteering on a Teach Physical Education Project in Kenya
While volunteering abroad, you could choose to focus on one sport or help with coaching a range of sports or physical activities. Just let us know where your interests lie once you have applied and we will match you to a suitable placement.
Encouraging children and teenagers to participate in sports in Kenya means that they become fitter and healthier. It also helps to give them a sense of belonging to a team with a shared passion and goal. This in turn has positive benefits for the community by engaging many of the youth in sports outside of school, which can give them vital structure and purpose.
The school vacations in Kenya take place in April, August, November, and December, so during this time volunteers will focus on the drop-in centres. Here, volunteers work with teenagers and young children from the ages of 5 up.
You can join the Teach Physical Education Project in Kenya from one week if you do not have time to join us for four weeks or more. This project has been selected by our local colleagues as being suitable for short term volunteering for both the host community and the volunteer. Although you will gain a valuable cultural insight and work intensely within the local community, please be aware that you may not be able to make the same impact as someone volunteering for a longer period.


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New Super Low Pro 1-3/4" center to center rise for BMW and KTM. This riser was developed around the F800GS ABS model so that you do not have to replace your front brake line. Riser barely clears the stock F800GS handlebar clamps and can be pivoted to your desired fore and aft location. Note; we moved our front brake perch inboard on the handlebar 3/8" as well to releave even more brake line and to insure proper function. Low Pro Riser clears KTM clamps as well, a recommended Riser for the 990 Adventure with stock lines. Low Pro Riser also has (4) 8mm tap holes in the end of the posts to mount what ever you desire, Ram ball, etc.


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Arts & Events
UC Berkeley Holiday Offerings
While it's a secular institution and also largely shuts down during the Christmas / New Year's week, the UC Berkeley campus does have sources of winter holiday gifts and cheer. Several of them come at the end of November / beginning of December. Here's a short overview.
An affordable and fun musical evening takes place this Friday, November 30, in Hertz Hall when the UC Chorale Ensembles stage their annual Holiday Show. Student singing groups and Music Department choruses perform. This year there are at least nine performing groups, each doing a couple of numbers, which usually range from Christmas carol parodies to sweet holiday classics, Hanukkah songs, spirituals, and traditional classical music—all beautifully sung.
The Alumni Chorus and Cal Gospel Choir add their massed voices to the smaller a capella groups. At the end of the evening all of the performers—hundreds and hundreds of them—gather on the Hertz Hall stage and lead the audience in a spirited sing-along of the "Twelve Days of Christmas". It's a light-hearted and very musically talented event.
8:00 PM, Hertz Hall on campus. I couldn't find an exact ticket price on line, but in previous years it's been about $10 for the general public—a very good deal for music of this quality and variety. Open seating, so arrive a bit early if you to pick a prime location (remember hat where you sit also determines which of the Twelve Days you sing). Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Student Musical Activities office on campus, by phone (before 12:30 on Friday), or one hour in advance of the performance, at the door. See the Choral Ensembles website at http://ucce.berkeley.edu/
The campus used to have a School of Forestry. No more, but there's still an active Forestry Club among College of Natural Resources students. Each year they do a Holiday Tree Sale on campus, featuring conifers "from Sierra Nevada; handpicked by Cal Forestry Students." "Trees are selected by students to be trees that would not normally survive to adulthood (usually because they are too close to other trees), thus they are considered sustainably harvested. Tree species harvested are mainly White Fir, Red Fir, and Incense Cedar." Proceeds benefit the Club. Trees cost $6 a linear foot which, to my mind, compares favorably with commercial tree lots.
The sale is outside Mulford Hall (on campus, uphill from Oxford Street). It runs Sunday, December 2, through Saturday, December 8, 8-5 pm, "rain or shine". For details, see http://nature.berkeley.edu/
This on-campus studio (formerly the ASUC Art Studio), located just downhill from Sather Gate by the south bank of Strawberry Creek, offers students and community members art classes from photography to ceramics. Student and professional works are sold in their annual sale. Offerings this year include ceramics, some jewelry, painting, and photography. Last year, I felt the prices had sharply escalated; this year, for the ceramics at least, they're back closer to a level where you feel you're getting both a handcrafted artwork and a financial deal.
Starts this week, and runs through December 13. Monday through Friday, noon to 9 PM. Weekends, noon to 5 pm. http://sa.berkeley.edu/asuc/
On December 5, there's a two hour evening class where you can make your own holiday wreath or garland using foliage from the Garden.
December 7, from 2-6:30 PM there's a "Garden Holiday Soiree" selling plants and "garden inspired gifts."
And almost any fall or winter day is worth a stroll through the beautiful and varied temperate landscape of the Garden in Strawberry Canyon.
See the Botanical Garden website http://botanicalgarden.


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Being Nice Isn't a Marketing Tactic. Or Is It?Blog Post: December 23, 2011
Totally agree. I had a similar thought this morning about an apology. A family member apologized for "snapping" at me. When my response was "It's OK, I am kind of used to it", the apology was instantly rescinded. My first thought was "You weren't really sorry then". An apology or a nice action is only "good" when it is done regardless of a positive response by the other party.


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A decisive victory by the Conservative Party in Great Britain may portend greater cost cutting to social services and lower corporate taxes for the UK.
While the Conservatives gained a majority with over 327 seats, the Liberal Democrats suffered a fall from grace as they lost about 30 seats in the House of Parliament. The Labour Party, with over 230 seats, will be the second largest party and the opposition to the Conservatives, but they will also have to contend with the Scottish National Party, whose representation in the Parliament surged to at least 56 seats.
Scottish Challenge
David Cameron, who has been prime minister of the UK since 2010, declared aggressively a number of victories during a tumultuous period in British history. Most recently, Cameron faced a Scottish vote for independence that nearly split up the United Kingdom. Despite keeping the union intact, a surge of support for the Scottish National Party, which spearheaded the secession movement, means that they will be the third largest party in the House of Parliament.
Some analysts believe this move indicates Scotland's uncertainty in remaining in the union, with a secession only a matter of time; others point to frustration with the two-party dominated system in the UK, in which Conservatives and Labor have failed to provide sustainable economic growth for the country as a whole.
Austerity and Growth
Cameron has also become notorious amongst economists for his aggressive adoption of pro-growth austerity, which Keynesians see as a paradox and a headwind to the UK.
Cameron claims austerity, tax-cutting, deregulation, and pro-business policies have brought Britain back on the path to growth after the 2009 recession. Critics argue that a cyclical recovery was inevitable regardless of Cameron's actions, and growth has averaged 2% annualized since the beginning of 2013, far below the average. However, economic recoveries should show a growth rate above the average.
Lower Living Standards, Higher Popularity
Additionally, critics argue the net national disposable income per head has fallen since 2008 and failed to recover, being lower in 2014 than it was in 2011, even as GDP per capita has risen to pre-crisis levels. Critics also point to zero hour contracts, in which employees are required to remain on call but may not actually receive paid work during a workday, and a higher cost of living driven by spiraling housing prices as indicators that Conservative policies are failing most British people.
Despite these criticisms, popular opinion has swayed towards the Conservatives, especially on economic matters. In a 2015 YouGov poll, Labor saw a large loss in support on economic issues—with the Conservatives leading by 18 points versus Labor on the economy. The Conservatives have made an aggressive campaign stating that not only have they saved the economy, but that a profligate Labor party will raise taxes and spend the revenue on wasteful and unnecessary social services.
At the same time, Conservatives lost favor on every other issue since they came into power, including housing, the National Health Service, welfare, law and order, and immigration.


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Guys Get Upset When They Realize They're Staring at a Man's Butt in Hilarious Yoga Pants Prank [VIDEO]
Yousef Eraka, a.k.a FouseyTube, said that a girl friend of his recently told him that he has no idea how hard it is being a girl because when she wears leggings, everybody stares at her butt. So he decided to find out exactly how hard it is.
Eraka painted on a pair of the tightest yoga pants he could find and set up shop in a parking lot where he would bend over and reach into his car and wait to catch some unsuspecting dudes walking by staring at his big 'ole rump. The result is the hilarious video below.
Some of the guys Eraka caught ogling his butt tried to deny it and play it off, others got really defensive and were ready to fight, and some admitted that they thought he was a girl with one guy even saying that he has a really nice butt.
The moral of this story: don't judge a butt by its cover.


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OWASP Newsletter 7
Sent to owasp-all mailing list on 19 Mar 2007
- 1 OWASP Newsletter #7 (19-Mar-2007)
- 2 Featured Item 1: OWASP Spring Of Code 2007
- 3 Featured Item 2: OWASP Chapters
- 4 Featured Item 3: WASC Threat Classification Project - Call for Participants
- 5 Featured Project: OWASP SWAAT Project
- 6 Featured Event: Application Security Track at Spring
 Conference 2007 (Athens, OH Mar-22)
- 7 Latest additions to the WIKI
- 8 OWASP references in the Media
OWASP Newsletter #7 (19-Mar-2007)
Welcome to the 7th OWASP Newsletter, featuring the new OWASP Spring of Code 2007, OWASP Chapter activities and introducing the new OWASP SWAAT Project. As always this newsletter is stuffed with the latest OWASP updates, blog entries and Web Application Security updates!
If you want to follow the latest changes to the OWASP web site, you can now point your favorite newsreader to the OWASP recent changes feed (atom feed).
If you have any content to add to the next edition, feel free to add it directly to its WIKI page (OWASP Newsletter 8).
Sebastien Deleersnyder
Belgium Chapter Leader
Featured Item 1: OWASP Spring Of Code 2007
Following the success of last year's Autumn of Code (AoC 06) we are are now launching the OWASP Spring of Code 2007 (SpoC 007) with more budget, more energy and more expectations :)
Here are the main links for this initiative:
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007 - main page
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007 : Press Release - The press release
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007 Project Ideas - If you are looking for projects to do
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007 Applications - Where to submit Applications
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007 : Selection - The selection criteria and links to each selected project page
Featured Item 2: OWASP Chapters
Currently there are over 80 OWASP chapters world wide! The OWASP chapters program helps to foster local discussion of application security around the world. Our local chapters are free and open to anyone. Check out the chapters page to locate a chapter near you or start a new chapter.
There are a lot of resources available for all chapters: The Chapter Rules, the OWASP Chapter Leader Handbook and if you are short of local chapter material, we have started to make available presentations in the monthly Chapter Presentation Bundles.
An extra call for action towards the OWASP (chapter) leaders: If you are in other countries/cities and you would like to participate in a local chapter meeting, do not hesitate to contact the local chapter leader!
Also have a look at the great Phoenix/Tools page, created by the Phoenix chapter.
Featured Item 3: WASC Threat Classification Project - Call for Participants
The WASC Threat Classification Project is seeking people to contribute towards The Threat Classification Version 2.0. Time has passed since the initial TC release, and it's important to keep this widely utilized document up to date.
Project Homepage: http://www.webappsec.org/projects/threat/
Interested participants can contact '[email protected]_webappsec.org' with any questions.
Featured Project: OWASP SWAAT Project
SWAAT is a free web application source code analysis tool. SWAAT searches through source code and analyzes against the database of potentially dangerous strings given in the .xml files. Thus it does NOT positively identify the existence of a vulnerability - this generally requires application contextual knowledge. It identifies the usage of functions / strings / SQL that could lead to a finding. All potentially dangerous code references are included in the output report.
Future releases of SWAAT will include:
- a graphical user interface (GUI)
- integrated development environment (IDE) plug-ins
- more sophisticated functionality and logic (for example to work with .java source)
SWAAT was generously donated by Security Compass
Featured Event: Application Security Track at Spring
 Conference 2007 (Athens, OH Mar-22)
Harden web applications against the OWASP "Top 10 Threats"! The Spring
 Conference 2007 is held on Thursday, March 22, 2007 on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. They have a dedicated Application Security track and more in this day long event that has been described as, "one of the best kept secrets in Information Technology!".
At this event, the fifth annual, Joel Stanley of Resource Interactive, in Columbus, OH, will share his experiences in maintaining applications with user bases as large as 15+ million. He'll explore how to utilize standards by which application security and vulnerability can be judged. Join hundreds of your IT professional peers in this and your choices of thirty-four other sessions in seven tracks at this day long event that costs only $35 (including your lunch!). Ben Forta, Chief Product Evangelist of Adobe Systems will be giving the Key Note presentation, plus Ben will be back to give a presentation at the Lunchtime Session as well. Visit http://www.sbconference.com for all the details and to register online!
Latest additions to the WIKI
New Pages
- OWASP Spring Of Code 2007
- Kansas City March 2007 Meeting
- Authorization form
- Session Fixation in Java
New Documents & Presentations from chapters
- Advanced Injection Attacks from the Kansas City chapter meeting (ppt within a zip)
- Adobe Flash Security from the Kansas City chapter meeting (pdf)
- Luca Carettoni has published an interview to OWASP-Italy (OWASP interviews OWASP :) ) Here the full article (in Italian).
- File:Web Services Hacking and Hardening.pdf 3/8/07 NoVA chapter meeting, Adam Vincent from Layer7
For a complete list of chapter presentations see the online table of presentations.
Latest Blog entries
Updated pages
Updated chapter pages:
- Philadelphia
- London
- Phoenix
- Kansas City March 2007 Meeting
- Kansas City
- New Jersey
- Italy
- Austin
- SanDiego(new!)
- Toronto
- Helsinki
- Long Island
- Switzerland
Other pages:
- Appendix A: Testing Tools
- Testing for SQL Server
- Ajax and Other "Rich" Interface Technologies
- Testing for business logic (OWASP-BL-001)
- Category:OWASP SWAAT Project
- Preventing SQL Injection in Java
- Category:OWASP WebGoat Project
- 6th OWASP AppSec Conference - Italy 2007
- OWASP Java Table of Contents
- Signing jar files with jarsigner
- Testing for HTTP Methods and XST
- Category talk:Code Snippet
- OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 - Project Completion
- OWASP Education Presentation
- Category:OWASP Education Project
- How to value the real risk
- OWASP Education Presentation
- Category talk:OWASP XML Security Gateway Evaluation Criteria Project
- WebGoat User Guide Introduction
- OWASP SiteGenerator
- Chaining WebScarab onto another proxy
- Edcuation Track: Web Application Security Primer
- OWASP Education Presentation
- DN BOFinder
- OWASP Newsletter 8
- OWASP Community
- Java server (J2EE) code review
- OWASP Code Review Guide Table of Contents
- Application Security News
- Webgoat
- CSRF Guard
- Testing for SQL Server
- Ajax and Other "Rich" Interface Technologies
- Testing for business logic (OWASP-BL-001)
- Category:Encoding
Latest Application Security News
- Mar 15 - local IE 7 phishing hole
- Provides a nice proof of concept with CNN (Link at the bottom). "Internet Explorer 7.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in one of its local resources. In combination with a design flaw in this specific local resource it is possible for an attacker to easily conduct phishing attacks against IE7 users." CNET News also picked this up as a story.
- Mar 14 - GMail Information Disclosure
- Only a tiny XSS hole to demonstrate a disclosure proof-of-concept through AJAX/JSON of all contacts you ever mailed. If a domains covers a lot of functionality and users, one XSS can be devastating. Remember the Google Desktop vulnerability. What is frightening is that it took Beni only ~5 minutes to find a XSS hole.
- Anurag Agarwal maintains an interesting blog on Web Application Security. Recently he started a serie of reflections on people active in this field. Up until now he covered Amit Klein, RSnake, Jeremiah Grossman, Ivan Ristic and Sheeraj Shah. Lot's of good pointers to web application research of the last years!
OWASP Community
- Apr 17 (18:00h) - Rochester chapter meeting
- Apr 12 (18:00h) - Netherlands chapter meeting
- Apr 11 (18:00h) - Toronto chapter meeting
- Apr 10 (18:00h) - Washington DC (N. VA) chapter meeting
- Apr 4 (18:30h) - Boston chapter meeting
- Apr 3 (18:00h) - Melbourne chapter meeting
- Mar 28 (11:30h) - San Antonio chapter meeting
- Mar 22 (18:00h) - London chapter meeting
- Mar 21-22 - [email protected]
- Mar 20 (18:00h) - Rochester chapter meeting
- Mar 14 (18:00h) - Toronto chapter meeting
- Mar 14 (18:00h) - Chicago chapter meeting
- Mar 13 (18:00h) - Washington DC (N. VA) chapter meeting


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TEMPE, Ariz., April 24 (UPI) -- Heating leftovers in the office microwave can leave possible toxins in the food and cold spots that harbor bacteria, a U.S. expert says.
Rolf Halden, the director for the Center for Environmental Security at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, said the level of chemicals leaching into food while being reheated in the microwave depends on the type of plastic put in the microwave, the time it is heated and the physical condition of the container, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We don't know if and how many people die from plastic exposure, but we do know that in the developed world we suffer from a lot of diseases -- breast cancer, obesity and early onset puberty -- that are less prevalent in developing countries," Halden told the Journal. "These are a result of our lifestyle. From a public health perspective, we should consider heated plastic an unnecessary source of exposure to harmful elements and eliminate it."
Halden, who has done studies on emerging contaminants and plastics for more than a decade, said phthalates can leach into food, resulting in hormone imbalances and birth defects -- but no one knows at what level those effects are triggered.
Bisphenol A is potentially worse. Used in everything from the lining of metal soup cans to receipt paper, BPA was banned from baby bottles by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration but other exposure continues.
Old, cracked plastic containers and those washed hundreds of times often give off more toxins when heated, Halden said.
Instead of plastic, Halden suggested using glass or ceramic for microwave heating, or better yet, avoid the the hot and cold spots of microwave reheating and use an oven or the stove.


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Far faster than previous model, Bright screen, Solid camera performance
Design is the best yet, light and compact, amazing screen
iOS 6 improvements, Very thin and light, Better earphones
A bit expensive, Feature-poor in some respects, Low-res screen
Most formats didn't play too well
Stylish design, DAB+ support, Good lossless format support
Decent bundled earphones
Battery life, Easy to navigate menu system, Sound Quality
'Its indoor video quality is poor, and without even basic controls for brightness and contrast, there's nothing you can do to compensate for bad lighting.'
'Slim design with larger screen.'
'The bundled headphones do a capable job of rendering FM-quality broadcasts but fall a little flat when it comes to high-quality audio files, and still struggle with sounds at either extremes -- rolling, deep bass or high trebles came out a little squidgy for our tastes.'
'I plugged several pairs of headphones into the new nano and I was as pleased as ever with the sound, playing MP3, AAC, and AIFF files.'
'The FM radio and JPEG photo viewer found on the NWZ-S710F are nothing special, but both are easy to use and add value to the device.'
'In PC World Test Center audio tests, it netted a signal-to-noise ratio score of 82 decibels--just a shade below the latest iPods and the top-ranked Creative Zen X-Fi --as well as a barely registering harmonic distortion and noise level of 0.01 percent. '
'Even without any of the whiz-bang options or noise-cancelling activated, music is full-bodied and vibrant. '
'MPEG-4 and WMV videos are playable as well.'
Poor screen quality
Unstable OS
Slow performance
Versatile music player
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MURRAY, KY. - 29 unanswered points to end the game by Murray State proved to be the difference as the Racers defeated Tennessee State 49-28 Saturday afternoon at Roy Stewart Stadium.
With TSU (8-2, 4-2 OVC) leading 28-20 late in the third quarter, the Racers (4-5, 3-3 OVC) scored on three straight possessions over the next five minutes, 54 seconds.
The Racers first possession of the game resulted in an interception as receiver Josh Brown was picked off by Ronn Vinson in the end zone from six yards out.
The Tigers took advantage driving 80 yards in 12 plays, ending with a two-yard touchdown run by Trabis Ward for the 7-0 lead with 6:57 left in the first quarter.
Ward had 37 carries for 111 yards and a touchdown. He has run for over 110 yards in eight of the 10 games this season.
MSU spent little time answering as quarterback Casey Brockman connected with Walter Powell for a 13-yard score to tie the game at seven less than a minute later.
Powell led all receivers with eight catches for 117 yards and a touchdown. It's only the second time all season that Powell has been held under nine catches and the first time in the last five games that he has not had 142 yards or more.
The punt by Steven Mix was misplayed by Garlington forcing the Tigers to start the drive inside its own one-yard line.
The Racer offense would score on its next two possessions to retake the lead 35-28. Berry had his second TD of the day from five yards out with 27 seconds on the third quarter clock. Brockman started the fourth with a one-yard TD run within the first minute.
TSU has a bye next week before finishing the regular season at UT-Martin (7-2, 5-1 OVC) on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Trabis Ward moved past Javarris Williams (2006) for the third most rushing yards in a season for a TSU running back. His 37 carries is the second most in his career and the third time this season he has had 34 or more carries. He leads the FCS with 285 carries on the season ... The nine minute, 30 second scoring drive by TSU in the second quarter is the longest since a 9:33 drive at Southeast Missouri State on Oct. 25, 2008. The 99-yard drive in the third quarter is also the longest for TSU since the same 9:33 drive at SEMO ... TSU had the ball for 40 minutes, 25 seconds ... The Tigers had 411 yards on 86 plays. The last time that TSU ran more than 86 plays in a game was Sept. 15, 2007 at Austin Peay in a 33-32 double overtime victory ... At the start of the game, TSU had outscored its opponents 85-32 in the fourth quarter. The Racers outscored the Tigers 22-0 in the fourth quarter Saturday ... Murray State leads the all-time series 13-11 and have won the last five meetings dating back to 2008, including four in a row at Roy Stewart Stadium.


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Mutação constitucional do controle difuso no Brasil? Uma análise do papel do Senado Federal diante do art. 52, X, da Constituição
The goal of this study is to assess the soundness of the thesis that the Brazilian system of diffuse judicial review has undergone a 'constitutional mutation', specifically regarding the Federal Senate's constitutional ...


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Australia continues to punish us for the poor box office performance of Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles by debuting the new Redline hi-po Commodore trim and a wild-looking SV R8 Maloo Limited Edition ute. Crikey.
For just $2,300 on top of the money you put down for one of the many Commodore SS-V variants (Ute, Sportwagon, Calais, Sedan), Holden will throw in larger Brembo brakes, low-profile performance tires wrapped around new alloy wheels, and a revised sport suspension. And no, you won't get a Saturn.
If that's not enough for you, the Holden Special Vehicles arm of GM's Aussie brand will offer a special edition of the HSV Maloo R8 designed to commemorate 20 years of the HSV Maloo Ute. The obvious upgrades are limited to the wild body kit, 20-inch black alloy wheels, and a new exhaust. Inside, they've added in all the electronics they've got including a blind zone alert, rear park assist, and SAT nav.
Maybe we should have taken Yahoo Serious more seriously.


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News Ticker
DFAT helpline
Australians who need consular assistance after the Beirut explosion can call (+61) 2 6261 3305 (outside Australia) or 1300 555 135 (inside Australia).
A US judge has set bail at $US6 million ($6.4 million) for a Utah woman suspected of killing six infants after giving birth to them, then stuffing their bodies into cardboard boxes which were found at a house where she used to live.
Police said Megan Huntsman, 39, admitted under questioning that she strangled or suffocated the babies immediately after their births.
Bail was set on Monday at a court hearing a day after Huntsman was arrested and booked into the Utah County jail on six counts of murdering the babies born over roughly a 10-year period.
The remains of a seventh infant were also found, but authorities believe that baby was stillborn.
At a hearing in Provo, Utah, District Judge Steven Hansen set bail at $US1 million for each count of murder, court spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said.
Ms Huntsman was in jail for the bail hearing, as is routine, and appeared via videoconference, Ms Volmer said.
Ms Huntsman has not been formally charged, and Ms Volmer said she did not know if the woman had retained an attorney.
An arraignment date will be set for Ms Huntsman after she is formally charged, Ms Volmer said.
Police said Ms Huntsman was the only person of interest in the case and was cooperative.
She was arrested after her estranged husband, Darren Brad West, discovered the remains of one infant while cleaning the garage.
Mr West is not believed to have played a role in the killings, and investigators plan to conduct DNA tests to determine the paternity of the infants, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Police found the remains of the six other newborns, all wrapped in a towel or shirt and placed in plastic bags in separate cardboard boxes at the home where Ms Huntsman lived until 2011 in Pleasant Grove, about 56 kilometres south of Salt Lake City, said Pleasant Grove Police Captain Michael Roberts.
Police believe the seven babies were born to Ms Huntsman from about 1996 to 2006.
In 1996, Mr West was sentenced on state and federal drug convictions, and he is now residing in a Salt Lake County half-way house, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Aaron Hawker, 73, a neighbour of the house where the bodies were discovered, said in a phone interview that Ms Huntsman babysat his grandchildren about 10 years ago and was "shy, very nice always".
He said he never noticed her looking pregnant.
Mr Hawker said he "had a lot of respect" for Mr West, who he described as "a really good guy".
"We've been in a state of shock since yesterday," Mr Hawker said.
"Finding out about all these children. Short of the shock value, we've never seen anything weird or strange or out of sorts with that family."
He said he spoke with Mr West, who "was in tears and saying he does not know how this could happen".


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Lyon Panoramic City Tour - Morning
There is so much to see and do in the city of Lyon that your only problem will be finding enough time to see it all! Choose to discover Lyon´s quintessence with our private Panoramic Sightseeing Tour. During 3 hours with a local guide, visit Lyon's best monuments in minibus or coach and learn everything about its fascinating history.
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Follow the visit on the left bank of the Rhone river passing the beautiful Brotteaux Square, Tête d'or Public Park, the Cité Internationale Conference Centre before heading to Croix Rousse neighbourhood.
At Croix Rousse, stop to admire the largest painted wall called "Mur des Canuts" and learn about the fasciniting history of Lyon's silk industry. Then discover, another painted wall called Les Lyonnais which presents you all the famous characters of the city from its to origins to today.
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On the way down, discover the well-preserved Antic Gallo-Roman amphitheatre (11,000 seats) which hosts in summer many music concerts.
Finally, enjoy a nice walking tour through Vieux-Lyon (Old Town) listed as Unesco World Heritage Renaissance area. Go through several "Traboules", these intriguing passageways which link private courtyards to neighbouring streets and learn architecture. Take time to enjoy Vieux-Lyon atmosphere with many boutiques restaurants, café and souvenir shops.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gosselin May Appear On Amazing Race Or Survivor
Imagine Jon Gosselin stranded in a remote jungle eating bugs. Or being forced to run mile after mile.
No, it's not Kate Gosselin's secret dream come true – Jon is getting ready to take a meeting with CBS and talk about appearing on special celebrity editions of The Amazing Race or Survivor, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Jon, of course, is exploring other opportunities now that he told TLC they can no longer film his children, effectively ending Jon & Kate Plus 8. And although the network has filed suit against him, alleging he has breached their exclusivity clause (among other things) that apparently doesn't mean Jon isn't exploring other opportunities.
A source familiar with the situation told RadarOnline.com: "Jon is planning to fly to Los Angeles in late November for a meeting about appearing on one of the shows. Nothing is a done deal yet. This is in the very early stages."
The network does not want word out and has made no commitment.


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Finding Aid to the Fremont Family Collection MS.217
- Box 1: Primary resource materials
- Box 2: Biographical publications
- Box 3: Oversize items
Subjects and Indexing Terms
A bond between John C. Fremont and Charles Gould, 1857
Manuscript regarding restoration of rank in the regular army, undated
Correspondence - Envelope to John C. Fremont from Benton Via Carson, 1847
Correspondence - from Benton regarding trial, 1842
Correspondence - Thomas Hart Benton to John C. Fremont regarding the Fremont family, 1847
Correspondence - Benton to Abert suggesting John C. Fremont go to South Pass, 1842
Thanksgiving proclamation by John C. Fremont, as Governor of Arizona Territory, 1879
Correspondence - Letters regarding the Lost Cannon, 1887, 1949
Correspondence - Grand Army of the Republic memorial resolution, 1890
Correspondence - Envelope from Jessie Benton Fremont to "Governor Fremont," undated undated
Pencil sketch of John C. Fremont by Frank Carpenter, undated
Swatch of crocheted lace, undated
"Gen. Fremont, wife, and daughter at the Fremont Redwood" postcard, 1917
Manuscript of declaration by Elizabeth Benton Fremont at donation of the flag to the Southwest Museum, 1912
Special Order number 100, Headquarters of the Army, United States of America, to retire Major General John C. Fremont from active duty, 1890
Note - John C. Fremont apology regarding charges, 1886
Correspondence - John C. Fremont to Dr. Torrey, 1844
Correspondence - Thomas Hart Benton to John C. Fremont, 1847 October 14
Correspondence - Thomas Hart Benton to John C. Fremont, 1847 October 7
Correspondence - Jessie Fremont to John C. Fremont and clipping regarding death of Godey, 1889 January
Note for $182.31 to Dr. Marcus Whitman, 1843
Envelope addressed to John C. Fremont with note on reverse, 1887
Manuscript titled Captain de Arnaud, undated
Correspondence - Typed letter E.M. David to Jessie Fremont, 1886
Correspondence - Letter of introduction, John C. Fremont from fur trader Pierre Chouteau, 1843
John C. Fremont's commission as Major General USA vide #13, 1890
Correspondence - John C. Fremont to John Torrey, 1845
Correspondence - Thomas Hart Benton to John C. Fremont regarding the trial, 1847
Typed version of John C. Fremont's farewell to his troops, 1861
Proofs of the Senate Record regarding John C. Fremont's expedition to the Rockies, 1843
Fremont campaign envelopes, undated
Correspondence regarding John C. Fremont's commissions, 1886
Engravings of John C. Fremont, 1862, undated
Correspondence - unknown author on behalf of Jessie Benton Fremont and daughter, undated
Newspaper clippings regarding the military reduction of son Francis, 1907-1908
Newspaper clippings regarding John C. Fremont's idea to flood the California desert, 1879
Newspaper clipping mentioning John C. Fremont in the Mexican War, undated
Newspaper clipping regarding John C. Fremont in California before Castro, undated
Newspaper clipping of article by Putnam regarding John C. Fremont's promotion to Lt. Col., undated
The Fremont Songster political song book, New York: P. J. Cozans, 1856
Correspondence - Elizabeth B. Fremont to Charles F. Lummis, 1916
Correspondence - Charles F. Lummis to Elizabeth B. Fremont, 1917
Correspondence - Elizabeth B. Fremont to Charles F. Lummis, 1907
Correspondence - Elizabeth B. Fremont to Charles F. Lummis, undated
Correspondence between Elizabeth B. Fremont and Charles F. Lummis, 1916
Photo postcard - Elizabeth B. Fremont to Charles F. Lummis, 1910
Copy of Senate document introduced regarding title to land, 1901 December 12
Correspondence - Elizabeth B. Fremont to Charles F. Lummis, undated
Copies of Resolution by California Federation of Women's Clubs to settle the Fremont claim, undated
John C. Fremont's diploma of graduation from Charleston College, 1836
Col. Fremont Not a Roman Catholic pamphlet, undated
"JCF" verse manuscript, 1890
Fremont Glee Club: newspaper clipping, photostats, and correspondence, 1901-1902
Printed pamphlet regarding Fremont land in San Francisco, undated
Elizabeth B. Fremont's calling card, undated
Postal sleeve bearing Elizabeth Benton Fremont and John Charles Fremont, Jr.'s names and address, undated
Small envelope bearing the words "Fremont's promotion," undated
Correspondence and photographs of Jessie B. Fremont to Mr. Wm H. Whiton, 1895
Correspondence - Charles Fletcher Lummis with Fremont family members, 1899-1917
Elizabeth Benton Fremont obituaries, 1919
Report of the Governor of Arizona by John C. Fremont, 1878, 1879
Newspaper clippings regarding the Fremont property at Fort Mason and the death of John C. Fremont's grandson Benton Fremont, 1960
Newspaper clipping on Santa Barbara Headquarters building, undated
"A Man Unafraid" book review, 1927
Newspaper clipping regarding dedication of John C. Fremont bust in Oakland, 1911
Newspaper clippings on Fremont relics to Southwest Museum by Charles F. Lummis, 1905, undated
Newspaper clippings regarding plaque for Fremont headquarters in Santa Barbara, 1929-1931
Newspaper clipping regarding "Fremont Experience" Agua Mansa, 1933
Biographical newspaper clipping on John C. Fremont from The Daily Telegraph, 1890 July 16
Newspaper clipping regarding the Gun Carriage, 1948
Newspaper clipping of John C. Fremont's grandson John Charles Fremont's obituary, 1957
Newspaper clipping regarding Fremont Flag, 1946
Review clipping on Jessie B. Fremont's forthcoming biography of her husband, 1901
Newspaper memorials of Jessie Benton Fremont's death, 1952-1953
Newspaper clipping "Stories of Gen. Fremont," 1905
Newspaper clipping "Gleanings from History," 1940
Articles regarding the "Lost Painting" of John C. Fremont as Senator, 1953
Newspaper clipping on the Fremonts' 1849 journey to California, 1949
"Fremont and the Bear Flag" by William Simpson, 1910
"Life of Col. Fremont" pamphlet, 1856
"Our Fremont Flag" Masterkey article by M. R. Harrington, 1952
"Fremont for President" Masterkey article by Allen W. Welts, 1956
"Pioneers of the Western Frontier: John C. Fremont" Touring Topic article, 1931
"Fremont and Carson in Nevada" by George Wharton James, 1914
"Documentary: The Fremont Episode" in California Historical Society Quarterly, 1927
Bigelow's Memoir of Fremont excerpt, undated
"The Fremont Myth" by A.T. Richardson, undated
"Fremont's Expedition to the Far West, 1842" by J. Gregg Layne, 1951
Reviews of Catherine Coffin Phillips's book on Jessie Benton Fremont, 1936
"The Last Survivor of Fremont's Army" by Byron E. Cooney, 1913
"Last of the Voyageurs" by Thomas R. Henry, 1926
Five articles on John C. Fremont and California history from The Century Magazine vol. XLI, no. 5, 1891 March
Newspaper clipping "The Pathfinder: Century Agone, His Natal Day," 1913
Copy of Presidential commission of Second Lieutenant, Topographical Engineer to John C. Fremont, 1838
Copy of Presidential commission of Captain to John C. Fremont, 1845
Copy of Presidential commission of Lieutenant to John C. Fremont, 1846
Copy of Presidential commission of Major General to John C. Fremont, 1861
President's restoration of rank Major General to John C. Fremont, signed by President Benjamin Harrison, 1890
Copy of 1842 map of the Rockies, Oregon and Northern California by J. C. Fremont, undated
Jessie Benton Fremont portrait lithograph, 1856
Daughters of the American Revolution memorial resolution for Jessie B. Fremont, Eschscholtzia Chapter 1903
Scott County Fremont Club memorial certificate for Jessie Benton Fremont, 1903
Picture map of San Francisco formerly Yerba Buena, by Captain W. Swasey, circa 1847
New England Associated California Pioneers diploma for John C. Fremont, 1890
Native Sons of the Golden West Brooklyn Parlor No. 151 memorial for John C. Fremont, 1890


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Hi Tyll,
Excellent technical article and really helps in understanding the problem. It seems several manufacturers releasing new products are having this problem. John Grandberg mentioned in the comments of the ZDAC article that they also had a problem in their initial production run and had an output impedance of 40 ohms from the headphone out. They have corrected it to 10 ohms now. This could also be a potential reason for John rating his ZDAC(10 ohms) better than the XDA-2, while Steve Guttenberg felt the ZDAC (40 ohms) to be inferior through headphones.
Can I also suggest more technical articles as I feel there is a lot of false unscientific information floating around. Thanks


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Ancient Pyramid Found - Mexico City
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:40 am
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The Aztecs are older than thought.MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.
Mexican archeologists found the ruins, which are about 36 feet high, in the central Tlatelolco area, once a major religious and political centre for the Aztec elite.
Since the discovery of another pyramid at the site 15 years ago, historians have thought Tlatelolco was founded by the Aztecs in 1325, the same year as the twin city of Tenochtitlan nearby, the capital of the Aztec empire, which the Spanish razed in 1521 to found Mexico City, conquering the Aztecs.
The pyramid, found last month as part of an investigation begun in August, could have been built in 1100 or 1200, signaling the Aztecs began to develop their civilization in the mountains of central Mexico earlier than believed.


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Priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses (Ex. iii. 1 et al.). In the account of the marriage of his daughter Zipporah to Moses (Ex. ii. 16-21), he is called "Reuel" (
The different names of Jethro puzzled the Talmudists: some thought that his real name was "Hobab," and that Reuel was his father (see Hobab); others thought that his name was "Reuel," interpreting it "the friend of God" (see Jethro—Biblical Data, and comp. the view of some modern scholars, who hold that his name was "Reuel," and that "Jethro" was a title, "his Excellency"). According to Simeon b. Yoḥai, he had two names, "Hobab" and "Jethro" (Sifre, Num. 78). It is, however, generallyaccepted that he had seven names: "Reuel," "Jether," "Jethro," "Hobab," "Heber," "Keni" (comp. Judges i. 16, iv. 11), and "Putiel"; Eleazar's father-in-law (Ex. vi. 25) being identified with Jethro by interpreting his name either as "he who abandoned idolatry" or as "who fattened calves for the sake of sacrifices to the idol" (Ex. R. xxvii. 7; Mek., Yitro, 'Amaleḳ, 1; Tan., Shemot, 11; comp. Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Ex. vi. 25 and Soṭah 44a).
Jethro together with Balaam and Job was consulted by Pharaoh as to the means for exterminating the children of Israel; and as he dissuaded Pharaoh from his design, he was recompensed in that his descendants, the Rechabites, sat with the Sanhedrin in the Temple (Sanh. 106a; Ex. R. i. 12; comp. I Chron. ii. 55). In Ex. R. xxvii. 5 it is said that Jethro and Amalek were consulted by Pharaoh, and that both advised him to throw the male children into the river; but, seeing that Amalek was excluded from both this and the future life (comp. Ex. xvii. 14), Jethro repented.
R. Joshua and R. Eleazar ha-Moda'i disagree as to Jethro's position in Midian: according to one, the words "kohen Midyan" mean that he was the priest of Midian; according to the other, "prince of Midian" (Mek. l.c.; Ex. R. xxvii. 2). The opinion that Jethro was a priest is met with in Ex. R. i. 35 and in Tan., Yitro, 5. It is further said (Ex. R. l.c.) that Jethro, having remarked that the worship of an idol was foolish, abandoned it. The Midianites therefore excommunicated him, and none would keep his flocks; so that his daughters were compelled to tend them and were ill-treated by the shepherds. This, however, is in conflict with another statement, to the effect that Jethro gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses on condition that their first son should be brought up in the worship of idols, and that Moses swore to respect this condition (Mek. l.c.; Yalḳ., Ex. 169).
Whether Jethro went to the wilderness before or after the Torah was given, and consequently what it was that induced him to go to the wilderness, are disputed points among the Rabbis (Zeb. 116a; Yer. Meg. i. 11; Mek. l.c.). According to some, it was the giving of the Torah; according to others, the crossing of the Red Sea dry-shod, or the falling of the manna.Honored by Moses.
The manner in which Jethro announced his arrival to Moses is also variously indicated. According to R. Eliezer, Jethro sent a messenger; according to R. Joshua, he wrote a letter and tied it to an arrow which he shot into the camp. Moses did not go out alone to meet his father-in-law; but was accompanied by Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel, in order to honor Jethro. Some say that even the Shekinah itself went out to meet him (Mek. l.c.; Tan., Yitro, 6). The words "wa-yiḥad Yitro" (Ex. xviii. 9), generally translated "and Jethro rejoiced," are interpreted by the Talmudists as "he circumcised himself"; or "he felt a stinging in his flesh"; that is to say, he was sorry for the loss of the Egyptians, his former coreligionists. By an interchange of the ח with the ה, the phrase would read "wa-yihad," meaning "he became a Jew" (Tan., Yitro, 5).
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About petegrif
This is absolutely correct. Mark Suster has written some great pieces on the importance of Twitter that addresses precisely this issue.
e.g. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
what a pair of greedy losers
presumably you prefer something mindlessly one sided?
Perhaps on example of a weak argument would help? The writers argue that musicians will continue to produce music even if their work is pirated and their economic interests are thereby damaged because they are not rational economic actors. They just like to play and perform. This may well be true. But not many media companies will make $100m films just because they love making movies.
The argue that whilst record sales are down concert fees and other such secondary sources of revenue are up! And perhaps they outweigh the losses. No evidence either way - but they could! I seem to recall an article to the effect that the big performance winners are the big brand names who were established in the good old days paid for by record sales.
There are no simple answers here. But I salute the professor for shooting down b/s numbers.
It is a good piece and his points are well made. The key observation is that the true economic impact of the technology on society as a whole is much more complex than one might imagine. It should be observed that he is a professor of law, not economics, and he does not pretend to propose much that is substantive in the analysis of what is admittedly a more complex phenomenon. The paper he cites as an expert review of the economic and social impact may have been authored at HBS but it is (to say the least) shallow and is largely devoted to itemizing the many things we don't begin to understand.
The point that copyright exceptions are as important as rights is absolutely key and is indeed often ignored. But I couldn't help thinking, as I was reading, of what the benefits to the US economy and society are of the overwhelming majority of Microsoft software in China having been pirated? Perhaps the argument is that by saving this cash they can spend it on imports of other US goods? :)
"Yet you are unable to provide any reason or logic yourself for why I am wrong, and ignoring I myself cited an economist."
I am sorry. I didn't see a citation of an economist. Could you repeat the citation? I would very much like to see any bona fida economist supporting the theory of value you are espousing.
as anyone with any economic training whatsoever beyond high school who is on this board will quickly tell you, what you are saying may seem conmmonsensical to you, but it is nothing more than a failed theory. Look it up.
viacom screwed up and that is bad from a PR point of view but is not directly relevant to youtube's liability.
What it does bear upon is the practical difficulties for youtube in assessing what is and what is not copyright and acting expeditiously to remove material.
"How the district court could apply the law and NOT find that YouTube lost their safe harbor is beyond me."
I can absolutely understand that. If there was not absolutely blindingly obvious evidence that youtube just didn't give a damn and were aiding and abetting then they would be at serious risk, but it would be for a jury to decide. I don't think it is as clear as you suggest that that is the case wrt youtube. So it seems to me a jury trial is appropriate.
"the district court acknowledged that "a jury could find that the defendants not only were generally aware of, but welcomed, copyright-infringing material," and that the infringing material "was attractive to users," and "enhanced defendants' income from advertisements." SPA9. I"
I do find that surprising. I can't see how the court could find that "a jury could find..." and issue a summary judgement that there is no case to answer.
silly and rude.
He is trying to make a serious point. Why don't you address it rather than just mindlessly flaming him?
"They just can't figure out how to monetize it in concrete ways now that distribution is now beyond their control."
This is absolutely correct. The problem is that this is a VERY hard problem. It is easy to blog about what a bunch of greedy dummies they all are, but it is genuinely difficult to figure out a new business model that works when the content/your product can be freely copied. It just is tough. Perhaps you have a clear idea about how best to proceed that some very smart people have failed to figure out yet. If you have, there's a very highly paid job just waiting for you.
" This may mean trouble for business that depends on being the sole decider of who gets to access what and when, "
again, this is a confusion about value.
businesses are not the sole decider.
Even in cases where they are a monopoly supplier consumers in most cases do not have to purchase the good. It is their willingness to do and and the price they are prepared to pay that determines economic value not some innate quality.
Bear in mind that the intrinsic value that people are talking about here may very well be very different for each consumer of the good, that we can't know what that value is in anyone's mind and we can't aggregate a set of such different individual values.
It does actually go directly against what has "been said here." Because what has been "said here" by Mike above is that the value is intrinsic and hence that value cannot be diluted by the act of putting the content on youtube.
"A work being freely available is *more* valuable to people who demand it"
You are confusing the use of the ideas of "value" and "valuable."
If you make something free and freely available you may well make it extremely convenient and hence in that sense valuable for the consumer but you have also thereby destroyed its economic value for the content creator. And Mike was arguing that you don't destroy its value.
All this comes down to confusing different meanings of "value'
Viacom, crazy and hyperbolic though they may well be, are not talking about "value"' as some intrinsic quality, they are talking about "economic value" and it is this economic value they are claiming is being destroyed.
The problem here stems using an intuitive notion of 'value' which attributes value to some intrinsic quality of the object, in an economic context. This way of analyzing value, whilst popular in early classical economics, is long discredited and it can quickly and easily lead, as it does above, to mistaken analysis of the impact of changes in market conditions on value. If you believe that value is something intrinsic then you are likely to believe, as Mike does above, that this value has an enduring worth. So putting it on youtube doesn't change is value. But this kind of analysis is obviously false because if you turn a private good into a free public good you have changed its value profoundly.
I agree that their pleading is ridiculous hyperbole. But I don't agree with one element of your argument.
"Second, the idea that the value of the work is "destroyed" again makes no sense. After all, the value of any particular content is intrinsic to the content and how any individual feels about it. The value of a piece of content doesn't change if someone puts it up on YouTube."
The idea that value is "intrinsic" to an object is an old and long discredited theory of value. Modern economics considers value to be determined by the market. So the question is, does the work being on youtube alter market value? I think it is quite credible that the market value of work is damaged by work being freely available. There have been arguments to the effect that the value is enhanced by the 'promotion' of the work. But record companies find that a hard argument to swallow and having seen the damage wreaked on them it is understandable that movie companies are sceptical. At the end of the day however it is an empirical question. For the record industry, the answer is pretty plain. As you point out, it is not yet quite as clear for the movie business. But at the end of the day, as far as a computer is concerned, the only difference between a song and a movie is bandwidth and storage.
a ceramic knife is practically undetectable, can easily be disguised as something harmless and is a deadly weapon.
Absolutely correct. All we need is for a team to carry explosives in rectally and we will all be bending over.
You can't stop a smart determined terrorist. And we make matters worse by our politically correct aversion to profiling. Israelis don't make this mistake.
He is not wrong. He is absolutely right. The primary concern of the authorities is to create public fear and then be seen to make heroic attempts to assuage those fears. It is so easy for the enemy to attack us it is ridiculous. All they have to do is switch their attention from planes.
totally agree
the cost of creating this illusion of security is gigantic
imagine how many lives we could have saved or improved if we had spent it on health care.
I totally agree with this article. But I feel it can be taken quite a bit further.
"But, if you wanted perfect security, the only way to do that is to not let anyone fly, ever."
If you want perfect security you can't travel by train, or bus, bike or car. You can't go into a building or go need industrial plant of any kind. The focus on planes is ridiculous. How about chemical plants? There are so many soft targets which if attacked could do catastrophic damage. The whole thing is a charade and is aptly named security theater.
you are correct
you have
a) a working implementation rather than the idea and some concept of how to reduce to practice ie you have truly invented the exact same thing
b) you can prove that you fulfilled (a) above. typically by means of a lab notebook, witness statements etc. In other words, you must be able to demonstrate that you had all the elements in place before the filing date of the other inventor and that such an invention would cover exactly the same claims.
the problem of course is that in many cases the inventions do not cover exactly the same claims but are rather in the same area with some overlap. And the 'earlier' inventor hasn't kept such notes etc etc


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