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10 Dietary Rules of Thumb to Eat for Health with Diabetes
Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH July, 2008
Knowing what to eat when managing diabetes can be a real challenge! Recent studies are generating new interest- and new controversy- surrounding the best elements for a good diet for those with diabetes. As anyone who follows nutrition knows, there are many perspectives to ponder when considering food and food choices. How many carbs? Are they "good" carbs or "bad" carbs? How much protein? What about fiber (See Complementary Corner, April 2007) What is the glycemic index? Does this food contain hormones, antibiotics or pesticides? What about advanced glycemic end products (See Complementary Corner, December 2006)? What about inflammation, is this food a pro-inflammatory food? All of these questions- and more- make food choices seem difficult, especially in an environment like ours in which the "good" food choices are not the easy choices to make because we are surrounded by so many options for "bad" food choices!
In order to simplify these many perspectives, I have created my dietary "top 10" list. I use this list with patients regularly- and those who follow the advice do improve their blood sugar, often improving their cholesterol and blood pressure at the same time! Fortunately, research made possible from the support of Diabetes Action, a colleague, Dr. Erica Oberg, ND, MPH and I will study these dietary guidelines to see if they really are superior to standard recommendations for both blood sugar control as well as changes in antioxidant capacity and several markers of inflammation. In the meantime, I hope you find this list helpful. Rest assured, there are still many, many wonderful foods available to enjoy that are guilt free and healthful!
Rule #1: Follow the rainbow by eating colorful vegetables and fruits
The mysteries of fruits and vegetables are still being discovered. The truth is medical and nutritional science still does not understand why eating fruits - and more so vegetables - is good for human health. The antioxidant content (including vitamin C, polyphenols and carotenoids) is a popular theory because so many diseases, including diabetes, are associated with chronic oxidative stress (See Complementary Corner, September 2007). However these antioxidant compounds may prove to be just marker compounds for other, more active, constituents. Also, it may prove that no matter how researchers slice and dice the science of food (no pun intended) we just learn that fruit and vegetables are perfect the way they are, and dissecting them into smaller chemical bits (and putting these bits into bottles for sale, i.e. supplements) may prove fruitless (again no pun intended).
I recommend 5-7 servings (1 serving= ? cup or one medium sized fruit/veggie) of vegetables per day and 1-2 fruit servings. Although fruit contains many important nutrients as well, people with diabetes should reserve fruit for a treat (it is certainly better for you then most processed "treats") as it is high in sugars, including fructose which may contribute to weight gain, and therefore should be eaten sparingly. Dark berries including blueberries, blackberries and raspberries as well as high fiber foods like apples and pears make the best fruit options.
Rule #2: Use "good" oils (and cook with oil as little as possible)
"Oil" as we know it is really a complex mixture of different fats (called fatty acids) that are somehow extracted from their original source food; for most oils this source food is a fruit (e.g. olives), nut (e.g. walnut) or seed (e.g. corn). There are major differences in the types of fatty acids within each type of oil, as well as differences in the manner in which the oil has been processed (some oils are pressed while others are cooked). Because oils can be an important source of essential fats- as well as a less desirable source of oxidized fats- choosing good oils is important.
As a rule of thumb, I recommend olive oil for day-to-day use, including cooking. Olive oil is an excellent source of mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and also contains some antioxidant polyphenols from the olive fruit that help protect the oil from oxidation. Because olive oil is so rich in unsaturated fats, and because unsaturated fats oxidized with cooking, ideally olive oil should only be cooked on medium heat. Olive oil should be extra virgin and cold-pressed to avoid extra processing during manufacturing. Olive oil has a strong flavor and therefore is not a good choice for when you need a flavorless oil. Canola oil is the best option for a flavorless oil that resists changes with higher cooking temperatures.
An interesting alternative to olive oil is avocado oil; avocado oil is also high in MUFAs, yet also contains some short-chain saturated fat giving it an almost buttery flavor. Avocado oil has a higher "smoke point" than olive oil suggesting it may make an even better cooking oil (although it is expensive to purchase and so better saved for special occasions).
Other "good" oils include walnut oil (uncooked), pistachio oil (uncooked), flax seed oil (uncooked), and grape seed oil (which can be cooked).
Generally oils should be used sparingly- at least for cooking. Cooking in oil can oxidize the oil itself and fried or stir-fried foods are higher in glycylation end products than their steamed, boiled or poached counterparts. So, when possible, steam your vegetable medley until cooked, and add a little uncooked oil at the end for flavor!
Rule #3: Eliminate "white" foods
"White" foods include refined breads, foods made from white flours, refined sweeteners, rice, potatoes and pasta in moderation. These foods tend to contribute considerably to total carbohydrates throughout the day and tend to be very high on the glycemic index, making the foods somewhat inflammatory in nature. Substituting white foods with "whole grain" foods adds more flavor, more fiber and more nutrition to food- while reducing the high glycemic index carbohydrates considerably. Be careful with the "whole grain" labeling that is happening on foods, as many foods say they are "whole grain" but have been quite refined. In generally "whole grain" foods are darker and denser and often either still in the original hull or the hull is visible in the bread or cereal. Examples of whole grains include quinoa, amaranth, millet, barley, rye, buckwheat, whole-grain rice and whole-grain wheat.
Rule #4: "Whole foods" come in husks, hulls, pods, peels, shells, skins & leaves (not boxes wrappers, cans or tubes)
This is a long-winded way of saying: try to avoid processed foods. Granted, boxed foods can meet the needs of a family in a hurry or of someone still learning to cook, but these foods are rarely quality (some higher quality-even whole grain-boxed foods are becoming available for a price) and often contain added preservatives and added salt. Once you begin to experiment cooking with more whole foods, you'll find these foods taste better, are easy to cook and don't always take more time than their boxed alternatives. Digging the crock pot or pressure cooker out from way back in the kitchen cupboards can really speed up cooking whole foods, and especially whole grains.
Rule #5: Eliminate corn syrup and reduce salt & all sweeteners. Use natural sweeteners and herbs & spices instead
Our culture tends to rely on the three most universally appealing (but not the more healthful) flavors of sweetness, saltiness and fattiness (technically science still debates whether our fondness for a fatty "mouth feel" is a taste or a touch). Our fondness for these flavors was helpful in the survival of our ancient ancestors, as foods with these flavors provided dense nutrition: they are high in calories, and provide critical electrolytes during exposure to harsh elements. Climbing a tree to secure the last ripe mango was rewarded with dense sweetness that provided necessary energy in times of need! Well, times have changed. Many of us are exposed to environments no harsher than our offices or living rooms and have access to all types of foods with relative ease. Once a survival benefit to have salty, sweet and fatty foods, today over consumption of these foods leads to disease including diabetes and high blood pressure.
The good news is there are many ways to prepare delicious foods and still reduce the sugar and salt in the foods we eat- namely by using more herbs and spices. Not only does experimenting with new spices help to refine the palate and broaden our appreciation of the natural flavors of foods, but herbs and spices also appear to have health benefits for those with diabetes (See Complementary Corner, July 2006). Paprika, for example, is an extremely potent source of plant pigments called carotenoids which may be anti-inflammatory in the body, while basil and rosemary have very high antioxidant capacities.
Unfortunately the herbs and spice section of the grocery store is not the ideal place to start your experimentation with new flavors as many spice blends are loaded with sodium or flavor enhancers and the individual herbs are often over priced. The best option is to find a local spice shop; they often have a variety of blends and the staff will be thrilled to talk with you about your preferences in food and make a recommendation. Alternatively many health food stores, and now even some grocers, have a bulk spice section that will allow you to try small amounts of new flavors and experiment for less cost. Good luck!
Rule #6: Limit consumption of fried, broiled and roasted foods
For those of you who have read past Complementary Corner articles you know I am interested in the health hazards of the advanced glycosylation end (AGE) products in the foods we consume (See Complementary Corner, December 2006). Although, admittedly, it may be too early to place a lot of emphasis on AGE products in food, I believe this is one area of nutrition that deserves additional attention and we may look back someday and shake our heads in disbelief that we did not understand the importance of AGE products in food earlier.
For me, looking at nutrition through this lens helps me make sense of some of the inconsistencies in the nutritional literature. The health effects of eggs may be a prime example! Eggs consist of quality protein, are high in carotenoids and high in helpful sulphur-containing amino acids- they are a "whole food" and yet are often discouraged because of concerns about the cholesterol they contain. From a glycosylation perspective, a boiled or poached egg is much healthier than a fried or scrambled egg! Future studies should consider AGE contents as an important factor when describing the effects of different foods. (I also speculate than low AGE content may be responsible for some of the protective effects of a traditional Asian diet which includes a lot more poached, steamed and boiled foods, including fish).
The good news is the AGE contents in your diet can be greatly limited by reducing the fried, broiled and roasted foods you consume- especially fried, broiled or roasted meats and other animal products!
Rule #7: Eat some protein with every meal
A colleague of mine here in Seattle says, "There are no essential carbohydrates, just essential fats and essential proteins." I think the carbohydrates are assumed to be essential since carbs provide the most basic unit of energy for the body, but I think he has a good point. The human body is amazingly skilled at converting food into the energy it needs to function, including turning many proteins (technically amino acids- the building blocks of protein) into sugar! Because the body can convert amino acids into glucose, dietary protein provides a good blood sugar balancing effect. Additionally adding protein to meals tends to lower the glycemic index of meals, slowing the rate of absorption. Protein also helps with satisfaction from meals, therefore we tend to eat less than we would otherwise.
Good sources of protein to have include lean meats (white meat turkey & chicken, fish, buffalo, lamb, venison) in small portions (4 oz. servings or the size of the palm of your hand), beans, peas, soy-based foods like tempeh and tofu, garbanzo bean hummus dips, low-fat cheese, nuts and seeds.
Rule #8: Eat breakfast every day
In research investigating diet and behavior for weight loss, eating breakfast seems to come out on top as an important contributor to maintaining normal body weight. It isn't clear why this is, however one possibility involves helping to regulate a stress hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is produced by our adrenal glands (small glands on the tops of our kidneys) and is released in a regular rhythm to peak in the early hours of the morning , usually between 7-9 am.
Cortisol is considered a stress hormone because it is released in times of trauma and low blood sugar (which could accompany starvation which would be a real stressor). One of cortisol's actions is to reduce our sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that lowers our blood sugar, thus raising blood sugar. In the morning, following an overnight fast, we need a little extra push to get up and going in the morning- and we need enough blood sugar to be awake enough to function! So ideally, we get up, move around a little and within a short period of time,break our overnight fast with breakfast to provide our body with the energy it needs to start the day and our cortisol levels drop back down to a nice low level thus returning our sensitivity to insulin back to normal.
However, if we do not break our fast, our cortisol level continues to be elevated into the late morning hours (or until lunch for some) . All this time our cortisol remains elevated and thus we remain less sensitive to insulin. Skipping breakfast every now and then and this is unlikely to be very important in the development of diabetes or in the course of diabetes, however day after day and this effect may accumulate and slowly, progressively lead to resistance to insulin.
Unfortunately, good choices for breakfast are not well modeled by our culture.. Standard breakfast foods are either fried dough (AKA pancakes), fried fat (AKA bacon and sausage) or fried cholesterol (AKA fried eggs) and no matter which nutritional lens you look through (fat content, AGE content, inflammatory effect), they tend to be bad. So eating breakfast also means redefining breakfast for many. Breakfast can be leftovers from dinner the night before, a whole grain muesli that you make yourself (soak rolled oats, sunflower seeds, walnuts and unsweetened coconut flakes in soy or rice milk overnight until soft, add fresh berries in the morning), poached eggs with a side of veggies, a whole grain piece of bread with smoked salmon and avocado, steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and walnuts, etc. These are just some examples of how breakfast can be full of good nutrition, low on the AGE, glycemic and inflammatory index, and taste great!
Rule #9: Eat carbohydrate foods earlier in the day and eat light late
Let's face the facts; few of us are as active as we probably should be throughout our days. Whether it's because our jobs keep us chained to a desk, we are limited due to pain, or we just can't get to the gym, few of us exercise as much as we should. Therefore, it is important to consider how we time our food choices based on how active we are throughout the day. Because our body can "decide" how it uses protein - for repair, for detox, for energy, etc. - and because vegetables seem universally healthful ( I do not know of exceptions), these foods are better choices later in the day when we have less time for activity before sleep. Said differently, it is better to consume carbs earlier in the day because you have the whole day before you to be active and burn off the calories (and glucose load) from the carbohydrate foods.
As a rule of thumb, try to eliminate or greatly reduce the carbs from your dinner time meal, focus instead on proteins and vegetables. If you are going to have carbs for dinner, be sure it is a whole grain dish, rather than a "white" carbohydrate load like potatoes or white rice. Save the carbs for the following morning.
Rule #10: Follow a Mediterranean diet (& lifestyle when possible!)
After giving you so many rules of thumb it seems unlikely to be able to distill it all down into one recommendation, but if there is one diet pattern than seems to do the best job of incorporating these many rules, it would be to follow the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is a dietary pattern that includes lots of fresh vegetables, fresh lean meats including regular fish, whole grains eaten in moderation, olive oil as the principle oil, legumes eaten several times per week and moderate consumption of alcohol (specifically red wine).
A recent clinical trial comparing a low fat diet, a low carbohydrate diet and the Mediterranean diet found that the low carb diet and the Mediterranean diet did similarly well for weight loss and cholesterol lowering after two years, but for those with diabetes the Mediterranean diet was better at lowering fasting blood sugar and improved measures of insulin sensitivity more than the other diets (Shai et al, DIRECT, New Eng J Med. 2008).
I believe there is more to the protective nature of the Mediterranean diet than just the foods that are consumed- namely the lifestyle. While it is not feasible for many of us to bask under the Tuscan sun sipping a glass of Burgundy all afternoon (though wouldn't it be nice!), it is possible for us to incorporate more relaxation, laughter and mindfulness into our eating behaviors. Simple pleasures like sitting down to eat, sharing meals with friends and family, taking a moment to breathe between bites of food, and savoring the flavors of our meal as we eat will improve digestion through relaxation and may lead to being more satisfied with our meal more quickly leading to eating less!
Remember food is all about nourishment and this nourishment is far more involved than just fat and carbs- or AGE products for that matter! I hope these rules of thumb help guide you to some new ways your diet can be improved for your health and the health of your family.
In health- Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH


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Does anyone have any experience with these flea treatments? I've noticed most people use Frontline or Advantage/Advantix. Is this because there is some problem with Revolution? They're all three topical that you put on the back of the neck.
Zack had skin lesions, pyoderma, and he had antibiotics for it, and it was going away, there were no new lesions, they were all healing, they heal slow, leaving a big scab that takes a long time to fall off. but they were going away, mostly gone. Then, last Sunday he got some new ones.
I called the vet and she said regretably, i should give him Revolution. She said it was the most gentle of the topical insecticides. I was put off because it also kills ticks and heartworms, and i don't have those, but it seems like it would be stronger if it kills all those things. The vet was guessing the pyoderma might be caused by fleas, and said it would be better to give him the insecticide than to give him antibiotics again. She also said to give him Capstar too, which is in pill form, taken orally, and is fast acting (within an hour) and short acting (only lasts 24 hours).
So i got both of those. I thought i might give them to him tomorrow when i can be home with him all day, in case he has any reaction. I was just wondering if there's something inferior about Revolution that would cause people to use Frontline or Advantage instead.
About the new pyoderma lesions, i started giving him colloidal silver orally three times a day, and spraying it on his new lesions, and i'm really pleased with how fast they are healing up compared to the first wave when i didn't use CS. And no new ones. Maybe it works, although many people say it doesn't. I've used it for stuff though and thought it did work, that's why i have it around the house.
As for the nontoxic flea control stuff i've been trying, if he didn't have the pyoderma, i'd still be working with those things, but basically i didn't know what i was doing this year, the learning curve was so steep, and i haven't gotten on top of it, but i feel hopeful that based on what i've learned this year, next year it will work out and there won't be any fleas. It's only Zack that is having fleas, they are so attracted to him, they leave me and Fluffy alone completely. but he doesn't have it too bad, he's not allergic to it, he doesn't scratch much, he goes hours without scratching. But when i flea comb him, there are usually a few fleas there. They are not getting less despite what i've done. He's getting new ones from the yard. I put nematodes out, but too late i think, and maybe i didn't apply it right, who knows. I used a sprinkling can. Next year i'll buy a sprayer or have Fleabusters come out and do it professionally. also i have to treat the rug and inside the house with diatomaceous earth or boric acid powder, and i haven't done that correctly, i'm not good at stuff like that. so, i'll probably have flea busters do it next year. The heat wave we had really ramped up the fleas, and i have just not gotten over the top of them. i feel defeated and not thrilled about the insecticide, but i am hopeful for next year. The possible ill effects of the poisons are more likely when cumulative. This is just one year....

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Nikkie Finke reported yesterday about the upcoming Thor film and how Marvel and director Kenneth Branagh are facing a big challenge in trying to cast the lead character. In her report, she lists some of the candidates in the running to wield Mjolnir and become the God of Thunder.
Interestingly, she also points out that they are considering Josh Hartnett not only for the role of Loki, the God of Mischief, but to play The Mighty Thor himself. Now, I can see him giving an interesting performance as Loki but my suspension of belief doesn't extend to him playing Thor.
While there's some desire by Marvel to see Hartnett or another recognizable actor to play Thor, there's also a lot of interest in casting an unknown. Personally, I don't know which would be best for this movie but I liked the idea of casting a relatively unknown actor like Alexander Skarsgård (who was rumored to be Branagh's leading choice last week).
So, now we have a list of candidates (or shall I say…contestants) who are in the running to play our favorite Asgardian Avenger. Let's see what they're all about:
Josh Hartnett
Our first contestant enjoys reading, writing and long walks on the beach... Sorry, couldn't resist.
Josh, our obviously most famous candidate, is 30 years old, 6' 3" and was born in San Francisco, California. Josh has starred as the lead in many feature films including Pearl Harbour, Lucky Number Slevin and Hollywood Homicide.
Josh was rumored last week to be sought after to play Loki in the Thor movie, it is now said he is being considered for Thor.
Liam Hemsworth
Liam is an Australian actor who doesn't have a large acting resume as of yet. He is best known for roles on the two television programs, Neighbours and The Elephant Princess. Liam has upcoming appearances in next month's Alex Proyas movie, Knowing as well as a rumored role in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables.
Tom Hiddleston
Tom is 6' 1½" and nearly 28 years old. He hails from London, England and played a role in the Wallander miniseries which starred Kenneth Branagh as the lead character, police detective Kurt Wallander – Now we get the connection.
Charlie Hunnam
Charlie stands 6' 1" and turns 29 next month. Born in Newcastle, England, Mr. Hunnam and has had roles in some big movies such as Children of Men and Cold Mountain. Charlie made his mark in the business with his starring role alongside Katie Holmes in the 2002 thriller, Abandon.
Joel KinnamanThere's not much information on the web available for Joel but we do know that he is a Swedish actor, 29 years old who hasn't yet starred in any North American films or television.
Alexander Skarsgård
Son of actor Stellan Skarsgård and both our tallest and oldest candidate, Alexander also hails from Sweden, is 32 years old and stands 6' 4". Alexander is growing rapidly in popularity for his role in HBO's Generation Kill and his current role in HBO's True Blood as a 1000+ year old vampire who sports the same hairstyle as Thor.
Alexander was also spotted in a meeting with Kenneth Branagh last week, which sparked rumors of him being the director's first choice to play Thor.
That's it for our contestants – My personal pick goes to Alexander Skarsgård whom I thought was a good pick when the rumors first surfaced last week. There was some feedback however, saying he was small or skinny which I believe is entirely untrue - just look at the following image of him as Eric Northman in True Blood.
Now imagine giving him another two years to workout for the role.
Out of the candidates, Alexander is the tallest, oldest and the largest. He also hails from a Nordic country and has the natural hair and look. I don't think it gets better than that.
As for Josh Hartnett, I can in no way see him as Thor but I do like him as Loki.
What do you think of the candidates and who should Kenneth Branagh cast?
Thor opens in theaters June 17, 2011.
Source: Nikkie Finke


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I don't know if you have noticed, but it is hot out there. And dry! One might think that we would all just retreat to the indoors and the AC, but our Transition communities find that there is always much work to be done (and fun to be had). We have a lot going on over the next several weeks–despite the drought–and would especially like to share the many events that we and/or our friends are scheduling.
But first, a public service announcement shared by Linda Foss on the Transition Houston ning group:
NPR interviewed Trees for Houston who said that we are now in an exceptional drought and trees will begin dying if it doesn't change or people don't water them. Trees for Houston can't keep up with all the trees they've planted and are encouraging people to water trees in esplanades and other public spaces near them. I've forwarded this to the neighborhood associations around me.
He (the Trees for Houston representative) advised:
"Punch a small hole in a 5-gallon bucket. Fill it up, put it by your tree and it drips out. You'll get more water percolating right where you need it in a more efficient way, than a broad lawn sprinkler system."
Thank you Linda for taking the time to share this information with our community. Here's hoping that the rain we need will be coming this week, and that exceptional events like this one will prompt people to consider climate challenges and resilient community responses.
Transition Heights Initiating Meeting, Thursday, June 23, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Website Poll closes Friday, June 24, Midnight
Energy Action Group Solar Ovens and Pallet Building, Saturday, June 25, 10:00am to 12:00 noon
Save the Date: Transition Houston Hub meeting, Tuesday, July 5, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Save the Date: Green Film Series presents The Power of Community, Tuesday, July 12, 6:30pm
A Conversation with Rob Hopkins, Monday, July 18, 10:00am to 11:15am
Transition Heights Initiating Meeting, Thursday, June 23, 7:00pm
As a group of neighborhoods with a historic core, the Heights has many of the qualities that would make for an easier transition, such as walkability, pre-AC housing stock, and local and independent businesses. Many of our Transition Houston members live in the Heights, perhaps many more than we are aware. If you do live in the Heights, you may be very interested to know that a group of Transition Houston members are getting together this week on Thursday to initiate a Heights Transition neighborhood.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Jan by email (jankindel at aol dot com) for location and directions.
Transition Heights Initiating Meeting
Thursday, June 23
For location/information: jankindel at aol dot com
Website Poll closes Friday, June 24, Midnight
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the Transition Houston Media Action Group has previewed three web page designs and are leaving it up to our membership to help make the final decision. Whichever design gets the most votes will become Transition Houston's new website design.
Voting for the new design closes this Friday, June 24, at midnight, so please vote now!
Using the link below, you will have the chance to view functional designs which have dummy text and images. Be sure to click around beyond the first page to see examples of other content pages, text treatments, popdown menus, etc.
For those of you who are concerned that the page may become stale if we are not be able to keep the fancy elements updated, such as slideshows and images, please note that all page content including menus, navigation, and slideshows are optional. Basically, any of the content you see in the samples can be removed from displaying on the page.
Please take a moment to vote using this link: http://www.transitionhouston.org/survey/webdesign
Energy Action Group Solar Ovens and Pallet Building, Saturday, June 25, 10:00am to 12:00 noon
The Energy Action Group of Transition Houston has a great event scheduled for this next Saturday, June 25. Hosted at the City of Houston ReUse Warehouse, there will be two items of interest: solar oven field tests and a pallet reuse demonstration with David Reed of Texas Natural Builders.
Says Theresa of the Energy Action Group: Join us for warm solar cookies and cold drinks. And leave with enough pallets to make your own quick and easy compost bin and the knowledge to harness the sun's energy with reclaimed material.
If you've never been to the Warehouse, this would be a great chance to check out what's available for your Transition projects.
Energy Action Group Solar Ovens and Pallet Building
Saturday, June 25
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
City of Houston Building Materials Reuse Warehouse
9003 N. Main., Houston, TX 77022
For more information and RSVP: Ning or Facebook
Save the Date: Transition Houston Hub meeting, Tuesday, July 5, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
We are still putting the program together for the July meeting, but we expect to have another excellent guest speaker, hear from our neighborhood initiatives and action groups, and find out which design won out for the new look to our www.transitionhouston.org website.
As is our tradition, the business program will end at 8:30 and the time for refreshments, conversation, and community will begin.
Transition Houston Hub Meeting
Tuesday, July 5
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Christ The King Lutheran Church
2353 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX 77005
For more information and RSVP: Ning or Facebook
Save the Date: Green Film Series presents The Power of Community, Tuesday, July 12, 6:30pm
The Houston Green Film Series partners (Rice University Environmental Club, USGBC Emerging Professionals of the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter, Transition Houston, and Houston Tomorrow) present The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, on Tuesday, July 12. Please save the date for this movie, and for the panel discussion which will follow.
The Power of Community is a documentary on how Cuba, an isolated island nation, rebuilt its quality of life following the collapse of cheap oil which had been supplied by the former Soviet Union. This film shows how communities pulled together, created solutions, and ultimately thrived in spite of their decreased dependence on imported energy. The showing will take place on July 12th at 6:30pm at Talento Bilingue de Houston, 333 S. Jensen.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Tuesday, July 12
Talento Bilingue de Houston
333 S. Jensen Dr., Houston, TX 77003
New Thinking in the Transition Movement: A Conversation with Rob Hopkins, Monday, July 18, 10:00am to 11:15am
Transition US has arranged for an opportunity for all Transition members to join in a conversation with Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement! Dial in and join the live conversation on Monday, July 18:
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For those photography buffs familiar with the groundbreaking pictures he made for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, the notion that a powerful, uncompromising artist like Walker Evans was for decades a staff employee at Time Inc. can sometimes come as something of a shock. There's a certain cognitive dissonance, after all, in finding that the man who so passionately chronicled—and, in a real sense, ennobled—the dire struggles of the poor in 1930s America was also a salaried editor at, of all places, Fortune magazine.
But from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, Evans—arguably the single most influential American photographer of the 20th century—neatly balanced his vehement artistic drive with an utterly practical desire for security, serving as a photo editor at Fortune until 1965. That the magazine was known, somewhat surprisingly, not only for its social conscience and its willingness to decry the excesses of the free market, but also as a publication that recognized and published genuine—and even iconoclastic—talent (James Agee, Alfred Kazin and Archibald MacLeish were just a few of the writers in its pages) likely made Evans' decision to remain at Fortune, and at Time Inc. in general, for as long as he did easier than it might otherwise have been.
While at Fortune, Evans worked on countless features in his dual capacity as editor and photographer. Here, on the anniversary of the March 15, 1906, founding of Rolls-Royce, LIFE offers a gallery of Walker Evans photos from one such assignment: pictures he made in August 1958 "at Montreal," noted Fortune in its December 1, 1958, issue, "at a meet of the Rolls-Royce Owners Club. About 100 cars came to Montreal, one from as far away as Kansas. The club was first formed by owners whose principal enthusiasm was the vintage machines of 1906-1936," the piece concluded, "but it has been tolerant enough to admit even owners of recent models."
The larger Rolls-Royce feature in that 1958 issue, meanwhile, titled "Rolls-Royce Stoops to Sell," included a few bits of information that, more than five decades later, feel as if they might be dispatches from ancient history, rather than from the middle part of the 20th century. For example:
"Now that it has descended into the market place, which it austerely disdained for so long, Rolls-Royce of England may do what no U.S. car manufacturer has seriously attempted to do—sell cars that cost a cool $13,000 or more to thousands of Americans every year." (At the end of the 1950s the average cost of a car in the U.S. was around $2,000.)
But probably the single most striking observation in the entire 4,000-word article comes from Llewellyn Smith, Ph.D., the managing director of Rolls-Royce's Motor Car and Auto Dealer Bond Division. After discussing the happy obsession with precision parts and the attention to superb quality for which Rolls-Royce has always been famous, Fortune quotes Smith offering this marvelous admission: "I suppose you might say that Rolls-Royce is the only company in the world that make automobiles for the fun of it."
Whether for fun, or for profit, the result for close to 100 years has remained the same: automobiles quite simply unlike any other—captured here by a photographer unlike any other.


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'GTA Online' Wants To Give You Free Money
Like most other online games that are wildly popular upon release, Take-Two Interactive's GTA Online suffered technical headaches when widely released. With around 20 million copies of GTA 5 already sold, the Oct. 1 launch of GTA Online saw servers overwhelmed and technical glitches such as infinite load times and rampant game crashes.
Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games is issuing an aggressive mea culpa and backing it up with cash. In a blog post, the company announced it was issuing a "special stimulus package" for all players who either have played the game, or will play it this month.
The "stimulus" is two deposits equal to $500,000 of the game's in-game currency, GTA$. With $500,000 GTA$ bundles selling within the game for $10 (in real-world dollars), this could be a $200 million giveaway by Rockstar. While this is a pretty generous offer, it could wind up being a savvy business move as well.
A troubled launch
Rockstar's offer comes on the heels of an especially troubling launch of GTA Online. Online games are frequently a nightmare when they debut. While games have soft "beta" launches to squash bugs and look for potential problems upon release, it's extremely difficult for games to handle launches where millions of players can suddenly overwhelm servers and dredge up unknown technical glitches.
The poster child for a broken online release was this year's Sim City from Electronic Arts . Prior to release, reviews for the game were largely positive. However, as hundreds of thousands of players tried logging into the game, servers were overwhelmed and the game became widely described as "unplayable."
GTA Online hasn't been quite the disaster Sim City was. Rockstar did its part to lessen expectations, warning in a blog post prior to the game's release to expect the usual problems for new online games during GTA Online's first couple weeks. Also, unlike Sim City, which required online access to play the game, GTA Online is essentially a free add-on to GTA 5.
Squaring up with its customers
As a single player game, GTA 5 is the best reviewed game of the year by a mile. Customers shelling out $60 for the game get more than their money's worth without any online play.
Yet, GTA Online could be the future of the franchise. As I described in an earlier article on GTA Online, the current version of GTA moving online feels like a large test from the company with an eye to something larger in the future. The wide open world of GTA, whether in Liberty City or Los Santos, seems built to be inhabited by thousands of real life gamers rather than one long single-player quest.
From that standpoint, Take-Two and Rockstar simply can't afford for buzz around the release of GTA Online to so low that it's considered a failure. Sim City reached that point after its release, and scathing reviews of the game have done immense damage to a very valuable franchise.
If GTA Online fails as a free add-on to GTA 5, it could torpedo momentum for a more ambitious -- and financially lucrative -- online game in the future.
GTA$ for all!
Offering 500,000 in GTA$ (again, an amount that sells for $10) has little "cost" to Take-Two. After all, it's a currency made up by the company. Yet, it has a high "opportunity cost" since many players would have purchased 500,000 GTA$ regardless of the latest "stimulus" offer.
Consider that EA's Simpsons: Tapped Out was highlighted by the company on a recent earnings call as a success story of the "free to play" model. The game was generating about $10 million a month in sales earlier this year. All of that success comes thanks to an average revenue per user (ARPU) estimated at roughly $5.
Take-Two is giving away around twice the ARPU of one of the most popular online games to all its customers, which on the surface could seem high. However, remember that ARPU isn't evenly divided by customers. One player ordering $50 of in game purchases while nine others never buy anything would lead to an ARPU of $5.
Offering $10 worth of in-game money will likely be a small percentage of the total in-game purchases for the game's heaviest users. If a user spends $100 in GTA Online, that $10 free offer is a small percentage of their spending. For a high number of users, they likely would have never purchased in-game dollars to begin with. Offering them free GTA$ didn't take away money they would have spent, and the offer of free money might get them playing a game they otherwise wouldn't have.
Such a strategy isn't foolproof. If it were, every game with "freemium" mechanics would copy it. Yet, in GTA Online's case, where it has a dedicated following that's already shown a willingness to pay for the initial game, doing right by its customers and bringing them back into the online game is a low-risk move.
Add it all up, not a bad move
When you add it all up, Take-Two's move seems pretty savvy. The offer of free in-game cash goes a long way to recuperating GTA Online's tattered launch. Also, it gets GTA's huge and very engaged user base back into GTA Online after Rockstar has had a chance to squash many of the bugs plaguing the game and get additional servers online.
The idea of an online GTA is far too valuable for Take-Two to take any risks. Their offer of free in-game cash is a clever move that will have the right long-term payoffs.
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HAY RIVER, Northwest Territories — Sitting in the captain's seat, Ken Bews wags the rudder pedals and notches forward the dual throttles, trying to unstick the DC-3's big tires from the icy ground. "Since it was about minus 18 last night," he notes, "I might need a bit more power than I would in the summer."
The plane finally nudges forward toward Hay River's small terminal, where a full load of 24 passengers wait inside to board. Its dual 1,200-h.p. engines wash frigid air across the tarmac with enough force that one of the ground crew loses his footing on the ice.
At the terminal, the crew blitzes the plane, attaching a heavy drape over the open rear door and tucking a large heater vent under it to warm the cabin. Bews and copilot Kelsey Ball catch bags and packages tossed up from the ramp, stowing them in the cargo compartments. The passengers — about half white and half aboriginal, businessmen and government workers and some families headed to the territory's capital — hurry single-file from the terminal into the plane's warm interior. They walk up the tailwheel plane's steeply inclined aisle and are quickly seated in the seven rows of four seats each, two on either side. The seats are old-fashioned but comfortable, with plenty of leg room. A male flight attendant in blue coveralls helps close the door and the plane starts up. Hay River's airport has no taxiways, so the DC-3 must taxi up the runway and come around before it begins a takeoff roll.
The loudspeaker crackles. Bews pipes up from the cockpit: "Welcome on board Buffalo Airways Flight 169, DC-3 service to Yellowknife."
A quiet, comfortable ride
In his early 30s, Bews is Buffalo's director of flight operations and already a company veteran. Early in his flying career, he piloted their old planes across the northern reaches, then left to fly Dash 8s for Air Canada. That airline's troubles sent him back north to fly the DC-3 again. While many Buffalo pilots prefer to haul cargo or maneuver a fire bomber, Bews remains mindful of the details that keep passengers coming back: a friendly greeting from the flight deck, a smooth ride on the 45-minute trip across the massive expanse of Great Slave Lake — the world's 10th largest.
"Amazing for a 60-year-old airplane," says passenger Paul Venn, sitting in the front row. He has worked at the region's mines and at times flown Buffalo flights every few weeks. "They just keep going, these things."
'No one in their wildest dreams...'
The flight attendant pours coffee and water for the drowsy passengers. In the cockpit, Bews watches Ball fly the plane, occasionally posing a question. Pilots who want to fly for Buffalo don't simply show up, get hired and head for the skies. They'll start out in the office or on the ground crew, nursing engines and tossing cargo, or perhaps handing out drinks to passengers and securing baggage. "You've got six months to a year to look at a guy," says Jim Smith, Buffalo's chief pilot. Then they might get to train in the DC-3 or in one of the airline's Curtiss C-46s, which once transported Allied supplies and now carry cargo to the Northwest Territories' many desolate corners, supplying mining camps or small villages, or helping to disassemble sites on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line that once guarded North America in the early days of the Cold War. There is irony in that last mission, perhaps, because these same models of planes helped build those installations. "No one in their wildest dreams thought that's what they'd use to be taking it apart 50 years later," Smith says.
At the same time, the payoff is undeniable; other pilots blink twice when they meet someone who's logged this sort of flight time. "I think it would be a crime not to stick around and say I was a captain on a DC-3," she says.
Sharing a dream
If the cold and the desolation take their toll in winter, to say nothing of 14-hour days and six-day work weeks, the airline's staff remains tight-knit. Crews in Hay River overnight in a staff house and cook meals together. Leading it all is Buffalo owner Joe McBryan, who only accepts employees that can share in the company dream: to keep the great old planes aloft, doing the things they were built to do so very long ago.
And some, like Bews, return — for a little while, at least — and once again settle into the cockpits of these flying museum pieces. The tough work ethic and long path to the flight deck is meant to force Buffalo's pilots to appreciate the effort required on everyone's part to keep the planes flying. "You'll understand when you look out the window and you see the guy out there de-icing the airplane and it's 20 below," Bews says. It can be frustrating, he says, when pilots who trained in warmer places — and on far less demanding equipment — don't fully appreciate the ground crews who help keep them in the air.
Evening flight out
Outside the hangar in Yellowknife, Bews and Ball are preparing their DC-3 for an evening flight. He sits, readying the flight deck while she scurries around outside, removing the thermal blankets, or tents, that protect the engines from cold shock. He reviews his checklist, hits the ignition and gestures to the crew outside as he spins up the propellers — first the right, then the left. The cockpit instruments come to life, old analog dials and switches alongside two glowing GPS units. He slowly taxis over to the terminal, settling in by two 737s.
Just a handful of passengers show up for the flight — along with a scant few pieces of cargo, a far cry from the full load that usually comes up from Hay River. Buffalo handles freight for parcel services like FedEx and UPS, and hauls anything from soup to auto glass. Tractor trailers often haul overnight up nearly 700 miles of paved highway from Edmonton to Hay River. But the pavement turns to gravel north of there that and stores like Wal-Mart prefer to fly their cargo into Yellowknife — save when the lake ice is solid and a winter road is cleared.
The external heater is tucked into the back of the plane once more. Bews throws on a parka and steps outside to walk around for a final preflight, checking the wings' leading edges for hints of ice. He steps back inside, enjoying the rapidly warming cabin: "It's going to be toasty pretty quick."
Ball laughs. "That's the thing I like best about the DC-3," she says. "The heat." The baggage cart arrives and she begins to stow luggage — suitcases, duffel bags, a hockey stick.
'Very slow, very gentle'
The DC-3 picks up a strong headwind down the Yellowknife runway and lifts into the air, pulling into a leisurely climb. A salmon streak of sky, the only remaining shard of light, frames the darkened clouds. The dark ground below is covered with grey patches: hundreds of small frozen lakes that dot the tundra.
At 3,000 feet, the plane breaks through the clouds, skirts the tops and climbs another couple thousand feet. The two pilots level off and turn due south. In the cockpit, hands on the manual controls, their movements are cautious and deliberate as they eye the engine gauges for any flutter that might signal a problem — a sort of flying that often requires more constant attention than the Dash 8s Bews has flown. "The radial engine is almost as intricate as the human body," he says. "You have to be very slow, very gentle."
The flight time passes quickly. Bews quizzes Ball about their approach and she begins a slow, 100 foot-per-minute descent. Soon enough, the distant lights of Hay River appear and with 21 miles to go, they radio the controller to cancel their instrument flight plan and begin a visual approach. Bews runs through a landing checklist with Ball as she continues to fly toward the lights below. "Eleven hundred feet to descend, nine miles to go. Perfect." He smiles. "Perfect."
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The Epistle to the Galatians or Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament traditionally credited to St. Paul.
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The letter, from the Apostle Paul, is to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. In the letter, Paul is mainly concerned with the controversy surrounding Gentile Christians and the application of the Mosaic Law in the very earliest days of the Christian Church.
External links
- Commentary of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Galatians (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
- St. John Damascene's Commentary on St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians translated by Rev. Dr. George Dion. Dragas
- Galatians at biblegateway.com
- Epistle to the Galatians at Wikipedia


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In 2010, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and VII Photo launched "Starved for Attention," an international multimedia campaign to rewrite the story of childhood malnutrition. Petition signatures were collected from people around the world who joined us in demanding that donor nations stop supplying nutritionally substandard food to malnourished children.


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I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 64bit (clean install) and updated it.
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In Ubuntu software center there is no
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So, how this is possible on clean install of Ubuntu 64bit? And how to fix it? And will someone fix it in next update?
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Patch 5.4 drops on Tuesday September 10th, and resto Druids have a whole lot of changes to be prepare for and look forward to. I have also updated my Restoration Druid Healing Guide to reflect the 5.4 changes. If you're looking for a 5.4 gear guide, you won't find it here – go visit Juvenate for his 5.4 PVE Gear Guide.
Spell changes
- Genesis is a new Restoration spell learned at level 88. Genesis targets all party or raid members within 60 yards and accelerates the casting Druid's Rejuvenation effects, causing them to heal and expire at 400% of the normal rate. Costs the same amount of mana to cast as Rejuvenation.
A new spell! Finally! This should help fill the gap in our healing toolkit quite well by making Rejuv a little more bursty. Start playing with the timing on this spell immediately, as I think it's one of the things that will differentiate the great Druid from the ones who are just okay.
- Living Seed effects can now stack, up to 50% of the casting Druid's maximum health, and will no longer be consumed if the target is already at full health.
It is an improvement, but the change that really need to happen to make LS a decent heal is that it needs to trigger from magic damage. Until that happens, LS is unlikely to do more than a couple percent of overall healing.
- Swiftmend's area-of-effect healing effect is now called Efflorescence.
Not sure why they changed the name in the first place.
- Nature's Swiftness is no longer a talent, it is now baseline for Resto Druids.
And there was much rejoicing. We'll now actually have a choice to make with our T2 talent.
- Wild Mushroom for Restoration Druids now summons a single mushroom at the friendly target's location. If the mushroom is recast, the mushroom moves to the new location and retains its accumulated bonus healing.
-A single mushroom now heals for as much as what 3 mushrooms combined healed for previously.
-Wild Mushroom and Wild Mushroom: Bloom now have a shared 3-second cooldown.
-The spell is no longer capable of critical strikes, and accumulates overhealing done by Rejuvenation by 100%, down from 150%. Overhealing bonus no longer benefits from Naturalist or Mastery: Harmony.
HUGE quality of life change here. One mushroom to place is superior to three. We can also choose between spawning the mushroom beneath our target, or placing it manually (see new glyphs below). The best part is that the Mushroom can be moved, so you don't waste your charge if the raid moves.
- Innervate now restores mana equal to 50% of the Druid's spirit.
This means you need at least 12000 spirit to get the same effect from Innervate that you did in 5.3. With better gear, this is a buff.
- Dream of Cenarius has been completely redesigned. It now causes Wrath to deal 20% more damage and heals a nearby friendly target for 100% of the damage done.
This will let us be kind of like Disc Atonement healers, but much less powerful. Another change was also made that will impact this talent – Wrath now deals 10% more damage, but has its mana cost increased by 50%, so healing by doing damage may be a little expensive. This talent should excel on fights where the boss/mobs take extra damage.
- Heart of the Wild when activated, now also provides a 25% bonus to healing for Restoration Druids.
With a 6-minute cooldown, this doesn't strike me as that big of a deal. I think the HotW on use is still best used for adding some damage.
- New talent: Ysera's Gift, which replaces Nature's Swiftness, and heals the Druid for 5% of their maximum health every 5 seconds. If the Druid is at full health, it will heal the most injured friendly target nearby instead.
Passive healing. /yawn. If you don't want to have to worry about another spell and take Cenarion Ward, this is a good option.
- Nature's Vigil when activated now increases all damage and healing done by 12% (up from 10%), and causes single-target healing spells to trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed. This is in addition to the existing effect where it damages a nearby enemy target for 25% of the healing done.
This has gotten much stronger with the additional heals. I'd say this will be the go-to level 90 talent for most fights.
- Soul of the Forest now causes the Druid to gain 100% haste (up from 75%) on their next spell after casting Swiftmend.
- Glyph of Lifebloom's effect is now baseline.
Awesome, and opens up a glyph slot for:
- Glyph of Efflorescence increases the healing done by Swiftmend by 20%, causes the Efflorescence healing effect to be triggered by Wild Mushroom instead of Swiftmend, and lasts as long as the Wild Mushroom is active.
This is an amazing glyph. The 20% increase the Swiftmend is good, and the ability to have Efflorescence up all the time is great.
- Glyph of Innervate now causes Innervate to give both the Druid and the target 60% of the normal effect of the spell if it's cast on a target other than the Druid.
- Glyph of the Sprouting Mushroom (minor): Allows the Wild Mushroom spell to be placed on the ground instead of underneath a target.
And a few random, cool things:
- Teleport: Moonglade now returns the Druid to a location near their original departure point when the spell is cast while in the Moonglade area.
- Glyph of One With Nature: Grants the Druid the ability to teleport to a random natural location.
Patch 5.4 is giving Druid some great buffs and quality of life changes. We should be in a much better place now than we have been all expansion.
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Boston-based author Randy Susan Meyers thinks any woman can fall in love with an abusive man.
"The taste for bad boys is fed to us," she said. "Every woman becomes attracted to a bad boy in her life."
Meyers third book, "Accidents of Marriage," set in Jamaica Plain, will be released Tuesday. It explores an emotionally abusive marriage between Madeline and her husband, Ben, a public defender who takes his rage out on his family.
Ben's rage reaches a tipping point after the SUV he is driving crashes, leaving Maddy with a traumatic brain injury.
"Maddy is attracted by her passion," Meyers said. "Ben's a lawyer fighting all the bad. He's not afraid. When the pieces turn against her, it becomes serious. Nobody falls in love with the worst parts of a person; we excuse them."
The couple's 14-year-old daughter, Emma, plays a significant role in the novel, giving voice to the emotional journey of children who are damaged by both parents – the abuser and the abused.
"Children never sleep through violence," Meyers said.
She grew up in Brooklyn and wrote her first book when she was in her 20s. She published again at 57, and she started writing again at 62. Now she teaches writing at the Grub Street Writers' Center in Boston and is already working on her next novel.
Her first book, "The Murderer's Daughters," conveyed her firsthand experience with abuse. Her father tried to kill her mother when she was a child.
"I think with each book I've become less worried with the question 'Is this me?' They (readers) think I'm the cheater, the cheated, the killer, the killed. I have no worries about that anymore."
She said her readers sometimes mistakenly assume that she must be in an abusive marriage.
Meyers also draws on things she experienced during a decade (1990 to 2000) of working with male abusers in a batterer intervention group through Common Purpose in Quincy. She said abusers come from all backgrounds.
"We saw every social class, every religion, every culture," she said. "Interestingly, all (of the abusers) claimed it was cultural privilege. They were claiming it as a male privilege."
Meyers said working with batterers eventually grew toxic.
"I found I had a great talent for working with criminals. At times they were nasty and mean. My problem was I was absorbing their pain. These were really sad, sad men."
She said people are emotionally abusive in many ways.
"We all have to watch ourselves. There are behaviors in all of us we have to watch. We treat the people we're closest to the worst."
As for how her books are received, she said women often take her aside and confide in her about the abuse they experienced in their homes. That abuse, both emotional and physical, is so common that even when people ask her questions about her work, they often wind up talking about themselves and their own experiences, Meyers said.
Meyers said her fiction writing isn't primarily social justice-focused, but she's glad her writing coincides with social justice.
"I'm just drawn to social-impact topics. By the grace of God I've been able to use it also for social justice," she said.
She thinks people will find "Accidents of Marriage" interesting because it's not about what we accept as typical domestic violence.
"It's about being impatient and mean in our relationships and how often we hurt the people we love," she said.
Meet the author
7 p.m. Sept. 4 Thursday at the Duxbury Free Library
7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Tufts Library, 46 Broad St., Weymouth
For more information, go to randysusanmeyers.com.


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If you are shopping for a used Audi A8, they can be difficult to find in certain areas of the country (especially in those areas that receive considerable snowfall), but a well-maintained example can be a very satisfying car to purchase and own. Competing in the same premium luxury car segment as the BMW 7-Series and the Mercedes S-Class, the Audi A8 has been sold in the US since the 1998 model year, and the general characteristics of this flagship model have generally remained the same ever since. For example, in the US, the A8 has always been offered with a V-8 engine, Quattro all-wheel drive (although front-wheel drive was standard initially), an aluminum space frame construction, leather seats, dual-zone automatic climate control, an upgraded audio system and numerous electronic convenience features. In fact, due to its relatively lighter weight (thanks to the extensive use of aluminum), and its famed Quattro system, the A8 maneuvers like a much smaller sports sedan. The A8 was completely redesigned for the 2003 model year, when the Quattro system became standard equipment and a 6.0L 12-cylinder engine option became available in the US. Due to a more aggressive marketing campaign in North America, the A8 became a more popular car within its luxury segment - which means that the 2003 to 2009 versions are more plentiful on the used car market. Two versions of the A8 deserve honorable mention: the S8 and the A8L. The S8 version is a sportier version, including a higher-output V-8 engine, a firmer suspension, the Quattro system, larger brakes, wheels and tires, along with special interior touches. The A8L is the stretched version of the A8, with five more inches of rear-seat legroom. Both were produced in very limited numbers, so expect to pay a higher premium for either version. Before you buy a used Audi A8, you should carefully research the vehicle history report and the maintenance records, and make sure that the car has been inspected by a certified mechanic. For more information, and to locate A8s in your area, consult the CarsDirect pages below.Show More »
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t seemed, as I recall it, a lonely little house of scholarship...But that humble little school had a dignity of a fixed and far off purpose...It was the outpost of civilization. It was the advance guard of the pioneer, driving the wilderness farther into the west. It was life preparing wistfully for the future.
James Rooney,
The Freeman School, or the Red-Brick School House as it was originally called, served the community of Blakely Township, Nebraska from 1872 to 1967. It is representative of the one-room schools that once dotted the landscape of the American West. At the time it closed it had the honor of being the oldest, continuously used one-room school in the state of Nebraska. The Freeman school served not only as an educational center, but also as the church, a meeting hall, the township polling place, and as the social and political center of the community. At present, the National Park Service maintains and preserves this historic structure that is located within the boundaries of Homestead National Monument of America in southeastern Nebraska.
Although no children's voices fill the yard, the red brick school still offers visitors the lesson that one-room schools were not only places where children learned reading, writing and arithmetic, but also places where far-flung families could gather to forge a sense of community.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
Homestead National
This lesson is based on the Freeman Homestead and Freeman School, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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Weeds: Midnight Mass memory
When I was young, Midnight Mass at St. Mary's in Sleepy Eye was a spectacle. Incense, candles, lights bedazzled. Trumpets, organ, and choir filled the church with rich sound.
We dropped Midnight Mass in the early '80s. A few years later it was back, only without the pageantry. In its place was a subdued, simpler service that continues today. Still joyful, there are fewer lights, a single cantor, a smaller crowd. As magnificent as the Christmas story is, I like stepping into the peaceful stillness of the church at that hour.
It was one of those Midnight Masses that I want to tell about.
On a Christmas Eve years ago, I was out at Miller Sellner in the afternoon. We only had daughter Anna then, and I went to Miller Sellner to buy a last gift from Santa, a little farm toy. Plus I might find just the right tool that wife Pam wanted for Christmas. Ahem.
Bart Kretschmer was there, too. Bart farms out south of me. He was also filling out his Christmas list, thinking his wife Katherine would like a new block heater for their 706 tractor. We agreed that we were lucky to have such pragmatic wives, and decided to toast our good fortune with a brief stop at Meyer's Bar.
Coincidentally, our buddy Salty Waters was up there. Well, it wasn't much of a coincidence. Salty was what you'd call a regular.
Salty was one of those characters you used to see in small towns. It didn't appear that he'd had the easiest life. Nowadays some social agency would have swept Salty off to senior housing. Back then, "senior housing" was living upstairs in the old Chief Hotel.
I think Salty came to town to work at Pietrus. We assumed he came from somewhere down south. He never said much about where he'd been. I'm still not sure if he was Salty Waters or Watters. He claimed he went by both.
Salty did lots of odd jobs. My dad had him out to help with bigger, usually nasty, jobs on the farm when I was young. He wasn't afraid to work. He made a little money, but quite a bit of it went to barkeeps in town. Bart's dad Hugo also had him as a hired hand now and then. Bart and I agreed you could learn a thing or two shoveling manure alongside Salty, not necessarily stuff our dads wanted us to learn.
So Salty knew Bart and me pretty well. He thought we were both too smart for our own good, and liked to give us grief about ending up back in Sleepy Eye. Salty always seemed up on the news, and he liked to tweak you wherever you were on the political spectrum. I remember Salty pointing out to that I couldn't vote for Reagan because he was going to nuke the Russkies, but I couldn't not vote for Reagan because he saved babies.
This was back when some of the first Hispanics were coming to Sleepy Eye. That wasn't the smoothest population shift for my little German town, where Swedes were considered exotic.
I remember once in Meyers when a couple Hispanic men were in there. The whole place looked his way when Salty started speaking with them in perfect Spanish from a couple stools away. Soon he was laughing with them about something no one else in the bar understood. Later after the men left an old guy hollered over to Salty, "Hey, Salty, how do you know Spanish?" Salty replied, "Whatthehellkindofquestionisthat? How do you know English? I learnt it."
On this particular Christmas Eve, Bart and I sat down next to Salty. Half-scowling, half-smiling, he asked, "Who let you boys out of the house?" He was drinking a pop which caught our attention. Salty said that it was Christmas, and that he was a C-and-E teetotaler. That didn't make much sense, but so be it.
There was only time for one and a little banter about Maggie Thatcher, who Bart and I proclaimed to be Salty's girlfriend. As we were leaving, I asked if he had plans for Christmas. Salty sort of huffed, "Yeah. I got people." Then Bart offered, "Going to church for Christmas? You should come to Midnight Mass." Salty was used to us being brash, and he said, "Young Mr. Kretschmer, you should probably worry more about yourself."
That night, it was just little Anna and I who stayed up for Midnight Mass. I was surprised, nay, shocked when I walked into St. Mary's, and there was Salty sitting way off to the side against the wall. I looked back at him a few times, and could see he wasn't following along with all the kneeling and standing parts. He mostly sat, leaning against the wall. At Communion, Bart caught my eye as he was walking back to his seat. He mouthed the words, "Did you see who's here?"
Only Anna and I were up this late from my family, and halfway through the homily it was just me. Anna fell fast asleep, and she lay snuggled in her big furry coat on the pew. As Mass ended, I lifted her, head up to my shoulder. I looked around and spotted Salty slowly getting up. The church was emptying, and with my load of sleeping-weight I went over to his pew. I said in a hushed voice, "Hey, Salty, Feliz Navidad."
He sat back down and looked up at me, "So. I don't got people. You probably knowed that. I used to, once." Salty looked at Anna, and said "I guess you got people. You're carrying one of 'em." I didn't say anything, but now I sat down in the pew, shifting my living baggage onto my lap.
"She's a gift, ain't she?" said Salty in her direction. I nodded my head a little. Then Salty turned toward the front of the church, and said, "I guess this is a gift, tain't it?" I wasn't sure whether he meant Christmas or the church or what, so I just nodded once more.
By now some of the lights were off and the church was mostly empty, a few stragglers praying. Then Salty asked, "Is it OK if a feller sets here for a while?" "Oh sure. People set here all the time," I assured him. Salty rested his head down some, and closed his eyes. Sometimes it seems right to just do nothing, so that's what I did.
Father Wyffels was preparing for Mass in the morning. He walked over to us and softly wished me a Merry Christmas. Then he looked over at Salty and asked if he was with me. I'm not sure why, but I said, "My uncle." Father nodded and walked on.
A minute or two passed. Salty opened one eye and said, "Uncle?" I shrugged, "Sorry." Then I heard, "Harumph."
Gradually the other eye opened and Salty said, "Spose'n, you better get that little girl home." I agreed, "Yeah, Santa's got to come yet tonight." I boosted Anna back up toward my shoulder, pulling her hood around her head.
When I got to the end of the pew I heard, "Feliz navidad y bendiga a su familia." Then with a smirk he added, "Nephew." I smiled. Then it was off to a cold car and a warm house.


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Ancient DNA evidence of major population movements from West Eurasia all the way to China just after the Neolithic is really piling up now. The quotes below are from a new paper at BMC Biology focusing on a 4,000-year-old burial site in the Taklamakan desert:
Besides the East Eurasian lineage, two West Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups H and K were found among the Xiaohe people. H lineage is the most common mtDNAhaplogroup in West Eurasia [20], but haplogroup H with a 16260T was shared by only nine modern people in Genbank, including one Italian, one German, one Hungarian,one Portuguese, one Icelander and four English people. Haplogroup K, a western Eurasian–specific haplogroup, is mainly distributed in Europe, central Asia, and Iran [20, 21]. However, haplogroup K with 16134T, found in the Xiaohe people, has not been found in modern people to our knowledge.
Regarding the Y chromosomal DNA analyses, the seven males identified all belonged to haplogroup R1a1a. It is most frequently found in Eastern Europe, South Asia and Siberia. In contrast, it is relatively uncommon in Middle Easterners and rare in East Asian [22-24]. It is thought to be a trace of the migration events of early Indo-European [38-39]. The presence of haplogroup R1a1a in the ancient Xiaohe people implies that the parental ancestry of the Xiaohe people originated from somewhere in Siberia or Europe, which is consistent with the origin of maternal ancestry.
Chunxiang Li et al., Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age, BMC Biology 2010, 8:15, doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-15


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Senate Rules for Radicals
Democrats break the filibuster in a precedent they may regret.
Today's Democrats have grown up in the Saul Alinsky tradition, and on Thursday they proved it with a partisan vote to break the Senate filibuster rule for confirming judges and executive-branch nominees. The new rules will empower the party's liberals for as long as they control the White House and Senate, but they will also set a precedent for conservatives to exploit in the future.
Majority Leader Harry Reid broke a GOP filibuster of a judicial nominee on a 52-48 vote. He was prodded by the Democratic Senate classes of 2006-2012,...


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Kingsville, Texas
King Ranch
Founded in 1853
Texas A&M University – Kingsville
Founded in 1925
Naval Air Station – Kingsville
Founded in 1941
The Living Legend
Located between the shimmering Texas Gulf Coast and the untamed beauty of South Texas' rugged brushland, the city of Kingsville has managed to retain its unique historical legacy while solidifying its place as a center of growth and industry. Founded in 1904, Kingsville's development as a thriving community was thanks in large part to massive efforts made by Robert J. Kleberg and Henrietta King of the world famous King Ranch. Seeking to foster community and economic development in the untamed "Wild Horse Desert", Mrs. King donated acres of land which became the site of a railroad hub and later, the site of present-day Kingsville. The ranch's support and influence has left an indelible mark on the city's growth and culture that continues to this day.
As a centennial city, the secret to Kingsville's longevity lays in the resilience of its people and the array of local attractions that draw a wide variety of guests who are seeking to immerse themselves in a bit of southern charm and a slower pace of life. Today, Kingsville has become a multicultural city that offers something for everyone including several historical sites, acres of prime land ripe for hunting and fishing, one of the largest working ranches in the world, a growing music and theatre scene, a renowned public research university and some of the most delicious cuisine in the Lone Star state.
Whether you want to get up close and personal with hundreds of species of wildlife, indulge in some retail therapy at the many quaint specialty shops that dot the city's historic downtown or just kick up your boots after a long day at the ranch, we've got you covered. Start planning your visit to Kingsville today or, for more information, contact the Kingsville Visitors Center at the information listed below.


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Some scenery is always an enjoyable background. I live in a part of the country that is quite beautiful and relatively diverse. Besides the natural beauty, there are also some critters that keep the background interesting. Right down the road from me are some Scottish Highlander cattle. If you've never seen them before and don't care to Google them, think of a musk ox or a yak crossed with a Texas Longhorn.
Another guy a few miles away has a few bison. They're always fun to look at as I go by. It would be fun to have some of my own, but I know I wouldn't be satisfied with their genetic quality and would ultimately end up attempting to use A.I. on them to create better animals to speed up my herd's genetic progress. Take all of my cattle fun and multiply it by 10 for bison and you'll see why I don't own any.
So I let the professionals raise the bison. A recent trip to Custer State Park in South Dakota and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming proved to me that the professionals are doing a fine job raising bison. My friend and I would pop up over a hill in Custer State Park and we'd see hundreds of bison grazing in the valley. I took so many pictures of majestic bulls on my trip that I could make several years worth of calendars with a different bull featured each month.
One thing you should notice when you get inside a park like Custer or Yellowstone is the sign that tells you NOT to feed the animals, and NOT to get close to them. When we left the lodge in Cooke City, Montana, to head to the park for a day of sightseeing, we noticed a burly looking bison bull grazing near a building in the next town between Cooke City and the northeast entrance of the park. He walked around the town like it was his backyard, which it is, technically. It was all I could do to resist the temptation to walk up to the bison and get a better picture. Common sense and the sign kept me from doing that, though.
As cute and cuddly as they appear, and as Disney-like as your adventure may seem, those are not animatronic devices you are watching. They're real and they're really dangerous.
My friend and I wandered around the park (safely inside our car when near wildlife, of course) the rest of the day and took in all kinds of scenery. Seeing as how it was July 4th, we had asked around to find out where the best place to see fireworks would be that night. My hunch was that we wouldn't find any within the park, what with the park rangers' aversion to forest fires and everything. Sure enough, the best recommendation we found was to go to nearby West Yellowstone, Montana, and watch their rather elaborate display that evening preceded by a BBQ and a parade.
Please take a moment to grab a dictionary, if you could. Look up the word "nearby." Merriam-Webster says it comes from the 14th century and means "close at hand." You will note that NOWHERE in that definition does the word "Yellowstone" appear. In the 14th century, "close at hand" does not equate to "from one side of Yellowstone to the other."
Even though the park looks compact on a map — it only covers one corner of Wyoming, after all — it's not exactly covered by roads where you can make good time. Yellowstone is not about making good time. Case in point: the food service inside the park is provided by one company. Not to get all Karl Marx on you here, but competition is a good thing. A lack of it causes you to need two-and-a-half hours for dinner at a Yellowstone sit-down restaurant. So by the time you're done with dinner near Old Faithful on the southwest corner of the park, and you're thinking about going to see fireworks at West Yellowstone on the west side of the park, or getting back to your lodge on the northeast corner, you're looking at some serious road time.
Add in the two extra hours for dinner and we decided that maybe we'd make this 4th of July a little less traditional and skip the fireworks and community BBQ part of the equation. We'd hit the road and head back to the lodge instead.
Did I mention the lack of straight roads? Did I mention there are mountains in the park? Did I mention that it begins to feel like 40 mph is Mach 2 once you've been on a few of those hills and curves for an hour or two, trying to get from one side of the country to the other? Sorry, I meant from one side of the park to the other.
We decided it could very well be July 5th before we made it back to the lodge. Midnight was looking like an optimistic goal. A 1:00 a.m. arrival seemed more realistic. We kept driving. We found hills. We found curves. We found hills with curves. We found valleys with curves. We found no shortcuts, but we did find one stretch where we could get all the way up to 52 mph. It felt like a freeway.
Then, right as we crested a hill at about 50 mph or so, we found a bison on the other side. He was hugging the center line of the road!
The good people in both Engineering and Marketing at General Motors probably never put this in their literature, but the Buick Park Avenue is quite good at going from 50 to 0 in a matter of seconds. Best guess, I'd say 1.63 seconds, to be precise.
I didn't really need any Red Bull to stay awake at that point. That big brown bull a few yards in front of me pretty well did what a six-pack of the Red stuff would.
We all sort of waited around for a few moments to see if what just happened really happened. No one retreated and no one made any forward progress. Once we had our collective wits about us again, I proceeded to roll forward, pretty much lining up my hood ornament with the center line. The bison did the same. After a few feet of this game of chicken, we simultaneously moved over to our respective right-hand lanes. It was a draw, so we gave one another a knowing glance of acknowledgement as we met and passed. I was close enough to the bull that I could have easily rolled down my window and accosted him as we drove by, but rules are rules. The sign said no feeding or molesting of animals.
That bull looked like he probably had a good attorney, so I didn't push my luck. You might be bold enough to tick off a bison, but I can't wait to see what happens to you in court when you tick off his attorney.
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If you need your assembly program to figure out what slot the CoCoPSG is plugged into so you can turn off the autostart and access it without the user having to tell your program where it is you can use the little bit of code I wrote up based on Ed Snider's idea. Ed's idea is to write the value 255 to the address $FF5E which is the channel register of the YM chip inside the CoCoPSG. The idea is to write the value 255 to channels 0 through to channel 6. Since Channels 1,3,5 are only 4 bit registers they will only output a value of 15 and channel 6 is a 5 bit register which will output a value of 31. After writing to the registers and reading back the values the sum should be 255+15+255+15+255+15+31=841. If it is not 841 then it's not a CoCoPSG.
I needed this information in my MIDI to CoCoPSG player and I wanted the code to be pretty tight since one of the features is to have the CoCo play music in the background while BASIC is running. This code only uses 63 bytes.
The routine returns the value of which slot the CoCoPSG is in the B Accumulator. If B=$FF then it didn't find the CoCoPSG in the MPI. Otherwise B=the slot # -1 (0 to 3) where 0 = Slot 1,1 = Slot 2,2 = Slot 3,3 = Slot 4
Thanks Ed for the idea.
Have fun...
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* Detect what slot the CoCoPSG is in the Multi-Pak Interface
* Using Ed Snider's idea to detect which slot the CoCoPSG is plugged into in the Multi-Pak Interface
* All registers are preserved except B
* Result is in the B accumulator
* If B=$FF then no CoCoPSG is in any slot of the MPI
* otherwise B = the slot where the CoCoPSG is in -1 (0 to 3) where 0 = Slot 1,1 = Slot 2,2 = Slot 3,3 = Slot 4
LDA $FF7F * Get the original MPI_Register value (MPI Register)
PSHS A * Save it for restore later
LDB #%11111100 * We will AND this value to select through the different MPI slots SCS selector
STB $FF7F * Select Slot (MPI Register)
PSHS B * Save B
LDD #$06FF * Store $FF in registers 6 to 0 of the YM2149
STD $FF5E * To see if the sum is 841 since Registers 0,2,4 store 8 bit values, 1,3,5 store 4 bit values (YM_Register Select)(YM_DATA)
DECA * and register 6 stores a 5 bit value
BPL CS1 * Keep adding 255 to each byte
STA $FF5E * Select the different registers (6 ot 0) (YM_Register Select)
LDB $FF5F * Get the stored value of this register (YM_DATA)
ABX * Add B to X to keep a running total
DECA * Total stored on the CoCoPSG will be 255+15+255+15+255+15+31 = 841
BPL CS2 * Count down A from 6 to 0
PULS B * Restore B
CMPX #841 * If the sum is 841 then this is the CoCo PSG slot
BEQ FoundCoCoPSG * If X=841 then we found the slot with CoCo PSG :)
CMPB #$FF * Check if we just checked slot 4
BEQ ExitPSGCheck * If so then no CoCo PSG is detected exit with B=$FF :(
INCB * Else, load next slot value
BRA CheckSlot * Go check next slot
ANDB #%00000011 * B now has the slot # (0 to 3) value
PULS A * Get the original MPI_Register value
STA $FF7F * Restore the original value (MPI Register)
PULS A,X,CC,PC * B = slot # -1 or $FF if not found


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I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates
echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets through event interface
/dev/input/event5 (I checked this). This event interface is attached to the GPM
gpm -m /dev/input/event5 -t evdev. But mouse don't move.
Maybe this will help: in Xorg.0.log i see the following:
[ 666.521] (II) config/udev: Adding input device (/dev/input/event5)
[ 666.521] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
It seems, that code is ok, but some outer features interfere my module work.


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Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd are leaving the daytime talk show "The View."
McCarthy joined the long-running chat series last September, but has decided to walk away just nine months into the job after her co-anchor Sherri Shepherd announced she was leaving.
Shepherd confirmed her exit on Thursday night, saying in a statement, "It's been seven wonderful years on The View and after careful consideration it is time for me to move on.
"I am extremely grateful to Barbara Walters and (executive producer) Bill Geddie for giving me the opportunity. I look forward to the business opportunities that lay ahead for me and I am incredibly grateful to my View family and my fans for supporting me on this journey."
McCarthy then took to Twitter.com to tell her followers she is also leaving the program.
She writes, "If Sherri goes… I go too. #sisters… My View will be changing too. As will with many hard working folks. Thanks to everyone at the show for your dedication and an amazing year."
Geddie is also leaving.
A statement from bosses at ABC confirmed their departures: "The View will be moving in an exciting new direction next season and ABC has made decisions to evolve the show creatively."
The pair's exit comes months after creator and executive producer Walters retired in April. She launched the Emmy-winning show in 1997.
Actress/comedienne Whoopi Goldberg will be the show's only returning host when the program comes back for its 18th season this fall.


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Java Scripting for Velocity
Use cases
To be able to call Velocity engine from the standardized Java Scripting API (JSR 223).
Scripts are not Compilable. We rely on the internal Velocity cache for the parsing and re-use of templates.
No script generation method is to be considered, neither is any use of the Invokable interface.
Scripting of Java objects is already natural to Velocity, apart from Objects instantiation (currently possible only via an ugly hack).
A script corresponds to a Velocity template.
The script context corresponds to a Velocity running environment.
The scripting engine is Velocity and its corresponding discovery mechanism.
A scripting engine instance is a Velocity instance.
A scripting engine instance metadata corresponds to the Velocity instance configuration.
A scripting scope is a wrapper around a Velocity context.
Scripting scopes contain bindings, which correspond to Velocity contexts.
There can be chained scripting scopes, which corresponds to Velocity context chaining (to be developed - Global Scope & Engine Scope).
Script context writers correspond to Velocity writers.
Script exceptions are wrappers around Velocity exceptions (and can have filename and line number informations).
- What does the scripting engine eval() method return? It could be the modified Velocity context resulting from the rendering (if so, do we make those contexts immutable?).
- May it be pertinent to reuse the Velocity Tools framework, rather than directly invoking Velocity engine objects? Maybe both approaches should be supported, as the former helps populating Velocity context with standard tools, and the latter allows less marshalling and configuration.
- Also check possible interactions with the Bean Scripting Framework.
- How shall we expose string templates evaluation?
Design Choices
Threading: MULTITHREADED
language formal name = one of velocity, vtl, velocity-template-language
mime type = text/x-velocity
extension = vhtml (my preference) or vtl
Following will be the inter relationship between fundamental jsr 223 API classes.
ScriptEngine — ScriptContext — * Namespace
Namespace — Scope — * Attributes
Namespace — Reader
Namespace — Writer
ScriptEngineInfo — ScriptEngineFactory — * ScriptEngine
HttpScriptContext IS-A ScriptContext
Namespace IS-A java.util.Map


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