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A HOMELESS thief was chased off by pregnant women from an antenatal class.
Robert Pine, of Oxford Homeless Pathways in Luther Street, had sneaked into an antenatal class being held at the West Oxford Community Centre on December 11 and stole two purses.
The class had been taking a tea break and Pine was caught going through the expectant mums' belongings and was chased off by members of the class.
He admitted nine counts of theft and one count of failing to surrender to custody yesterday at Oxford Magistrates' Court.
Sarah Mackay, prosecuting, said the 29-year-old carried out most of the offences at off licences and convenience stores around Oxford between September last year and February this year.
Miss Mackay said Pine was addicted to Class A drugs, used £10 worth of heroin a day, and had stolen to fund his habit.
District Judge Tim Pattinson said he had no choice but to send the defendant to prison and noted he has 74 previous convictions for theft.
He said: "I have to remember that these were victims who would be caused an immense amount of distress by what you did."
Pine received a 12-week prison sentence.
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This is not a game for people who have 700 hours logged in Counter-Strike. The cursor is the size of an Action Man's head. The music and visual style is so saccharine it could give you diabetes. And the menus are so bright and accessible a man with no face could navigate them. Create is a physics-based casual puzzle game: fun, charming, polished, and unlikely to hold your attention for more than a few hours.
Each 3D landscape has a series of attached challenges that require you to use assorted objects to solve physics puzzles. You bring it to life with textures, decorative objects and stickers. For example: you have to propel a car through a flaming hoop across a gap. You grab a ramp from your ever-growing inventory of oddball items, position it beside the chasm, then hit the 'play' button. The vignette starts to play out, your car hits the ramp, goes through the loop and you receive Sparks, the currency required to unlock new items and progress through levels.
That's about as complicated as it gets. It's like Photoshop for idiots: big, fat paintbrushes, drag-and-drop props and easy to navigate palettes stuffed with textures and colours to smear your creation with. You can also do things like set the weather and change the sky, all through dunce-proof menus.
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Things get disarmingly complicated later on. The basic solution is always easy, but there are bonus Sparks that require cunning use of objects to collect. You might find yourself attaching a balloon to a car and using fans to blow it around the level, or guiding a motorcycle through flaming hoops using moving ramps that roll away.
It can be weirdly compelling. I regularly found myself peering into my monitor, tongue hanging out, piecing together a bridge from blocks or carefully resizing trees. It's just a shame your creativity is limited to a relatively small area of the screen, and your creations are so hamstrung by the layout of the level. A concession to gurgling, easily-confused toddlers, to whom Create, sadly, will appeal the most.
Disappointingly, for a game called 'Create' I didn't get many opportunities to use my imagination. You won't see people excitedly sharing things they've made on YouTube, because it's hard to create something and make it distinctly your own. You feel like you're creating by proxy; a slave to the developers' imaginations, rather than getting to use your own.
It's cute, and it works, but you'll have a hard time detaching yourself from the fact that it's a bit too simple. Devs EA Bright Light should be applauded for creating something genuinely fun and accessible, and which will fire young imaginations, but you'll yearn for something more. The slow pace and mass of tutorials wore my patience thin.
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Here's a game that came together pretty quick. From the start I had a pretty definite idea of what I wanted it to look like and what I wanted it to do, it was just a matter of coming up with the mechanics to make it happen.
Rogue Soldier is a hybrid dungeon-crawler / paranoia game (like warewolf or mafia). 3-6 players act as a squad of soldiers raiding a zombie-infested building. Some are trying to complete a mission, others secretly try and sabotage it. I created a unique dice-bluffing system to let players feign effort when picking locks, giving covering fire, etc. so that the traitors in the group can drag their feet without giving themselves away. I split management between two players: the squad captain runs a lot of the game but the first player to lose a character is put in charge of the zombies, raising the difficulty for the final rounds of the game.
The game plays better than I'd hoped. I built in mechanics that create tense horror-movie moments and difficult decisions, heightened by the countdown clock and the suspicion between players. Characters will die, zombies will surround you but its entirely possible to mow them down and escape just in time if you can figure out who to trust. I still need to do some playtesting to clean up some things but the reaction has been very positive.
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I can't help but be depressed at the continual AJC news stories about larger classes, fewer teachers and shorter calendars.
This story is about Cobb, a school system that has been an academic pace setter and a major factor in the county's appeal to middle-class families. When these top systems start slashing, I worry even more about the future of education in Georgia.
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After failing to reach agreement last week, the Cobb County school board held a special meeting Monday for another go at next year's budget, and approved one with $841.9 million in spending.
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My name is Natwar Agrawal and I am currently studying in University of Cincinnati and have been following Krishna Consciousness for a while. Actullay, I was going to Santa Clara for 3 months and wanted to stay with some of the devotees there so that there is constant association and my sadhna do not get affected. Please help me regarding this.
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St. Simons Island
St. Simons is a census-designated place (CDP) located on St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. Both the community and the island are commonly considered to be one location, known simply as "St. Simons Island", or locally as "The Island". St. Simons is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and according to the 2000 census, the CDP had a population of 13,381.
St. Simons Island is one of Georgia's renowned Golden Isles (along with Sea Island, Jekyll Island, and privately owned Little St. Simons Island). It is also the largest of the Golden Isles. After being cultivated by English colonists for rice and cotton plantations worked by large populations of African slaves, who created the unique Gullah culture, the island since the early 20th century has been developed as a resort community. It has many seasonal residents, as well as a steady base of year-round residents. Many of the residents have settled here after retiring in other parts of Georgia or the United States.
The primary mode of travel to the island is by automobile via F.J. Torras Causeway. Also, Malcolm McKinnon Airport (IATA: SSI) is located on the island.
Native American history
Just north of the village on St. Simons Island is a park of stately live oaks. On the southern edge of the oaks, along a narrow lane, is a low earthen mound. Growing upon it are three majestic oak trees; these serve as a natural monument for the more than 30 Indians buried in the mound. The men, women and children interred there lived in a settlement that flourished on this site two centuries before the first European touched shore.
The first inhabitants of St. Simons lived there during fishing season about 2,000 BCE (Before the Common Era). No one knows what they first called themselves. The much later historic tribe, which encountered the Europeans, became known as the Timucuan. The tribe and people persist. Arising from the prehistoric Mississippian culture that flourished over much of the Southeast, the eastern Timucuan ranged along the coastal plain of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Their complex and loose confederacy was made up of seven distinct tribal groups that spoke at least five dialects of the Timucuan language.
The Marsh
St. Simons Island was the northern boundary of the tribal and Spanish mission province known as Mocama, which extended southward to the St. Johns River in present-day Florida. Its name was taken from that of the dialect of the people. The town of Guadalquini was located on the south end of the island at the site of the present-day lighthouse. The Spanish applied the town's name to the island as well.
Just north of Mocama was the territory of the Guale, who occupied the lowland coastal area between the Altamaha and Ogeechee rivers. The Guale spoke a different language from the Timucuan but their cultures were closely related.
The coastal Indians were a healthy and robust people. They adorned their bodies with strings of shell beads four to six fingers in breadth. These were worn around the neck, arms, wrists, and under the knees and ankles. They painted their breasts, biceps and thighs with bright red body paint, soot and charcoal. Both men and women wore their hair long. They let both their fingernails and toenails grow. The men would sharpen their fingernails on one side, to use in warfare. The Timucuan engaged in periodic warfare with their coastal neighbors as much for sport as for spoils; violent ball games sometimes substituted for war. The men wore deerskin breechcloths in all but the coldest weather; the women wore skirts made of moss.
The Indians' main source of food was the sea; they fished for sheepshead, sea catfish, drum, shellfish and the great Atlantic sturgeon, mostly in and near the coastal marshes. Their diet was supplemented by small game, such as raccoons, opossum and the white-tailed deer. They also grew varieties of pumpkins (a kind of squash), beans and corn; the latter was ground into meal for use. They also gathered a wide array of nuts, grapes and berries from the rich land.
During spring and summer, the Indians gathered in villages and planted crops, hunted, and fished until harvest. The villages included granaries, a large communal structure, and shelters for extended families made of saplings and boughs covered with palmetto fronds. The chief usually had a dwelling larger than other tribesmen. They used a wide range of bone tools; conch shells were formed into hoes for agriculture, as well as hammers.
They harvested corn in the fall, storing the surplus in the large village granaries. Several times a year they distributed the food held in common in ritualized festivals; after the fall redistribution ceremony, the Indians dispersed into small groups and abandoned the larger village pattern until the following spring. They ranged along the coast, from inland pine and river valley forest on the mainland to the high hammock forests, tidal flats, beach and dunes of the barrier islands. The group lodged in temporary shelters of large, oval-shaped pavilions, moving on when game and fish were no longer plentiful. When food was scarce, a hunter could hunt or fish in territory belonging to the village of his wife.
The Indians were governed by territorial and local chieftains known as "caciques" (Mocama) and "micos" (Guale) and by lesser-ranking functionaries within each of the coastal villages. Like nearly all Native Americans, they developed a matrilineal society, with hereditary power passed through the mother. The chiefs were required to marry a commoner, therefore a sister or nephew inherited the title. Governing power was based on the storage of corn – hence control of the food supply in lean times – cultivated by labor tribute from the subordinate villages. Along with their political power, the caciques and micos enjoyed the right to have more than one wife; monogamy seemed to be the norm for the rest of the population.
Little was recorded about the Timucuan religion before changes of European encounters. The accounts of the Guale were recorded by a Dominican missionary priest who heard it third hand. Guale mythology seems to have embraced the origin and destiny of the soul, and the communal atonement for sin. Their major deities were Mateczunga, god of the north, and Quexuga, god of the south. The Guales believed that all souls originated in the north, lingered briefly on earth, then departed to the realm of Quexuga.
The Spanish were fascinated by their ceremony with clearly religious connotations: the drinking of the "black drink" brewed from the berries of the cassina tree. After drinking this potent beverage, "their bellies swelled and vomiting followed", which allowed the participants to be cleansed.
Knowledge of the Timucuan and Guale way of life prior to European contact is limited by the archeological record and the subjective observations of the early explorers and missionaries. From all indications, they were becoming more settled at the time of European contact.
Spanish Florida
During the 17th century, St. Simons Island was one of the most important settlements of the Mocama missionary province of Spanish Florida. After the founding of South Carolina in 1680, conflict between the English and Spanish wreaked havoc on the Sea Islands. James Moore of South Carolina led a combined land and sea invasion of Florida in 1702 which essentially destroyed the Spanish mission system on the islands. Surviving Indians were subjected to slave raids leaving the islands depopulated by the time the colony of Georgia was founded. By the mid-16th century, Spain had come into her own as the most powerful nation on earth and had thoroughly staked out her claim in the New World.
Ponce de Leon claimed the southern region for Spain in 1513, and Hernando de Soto probed western Georgia in 1540.
After the Protestant Reformation, Protestants of France, known as the "Huguenots", were rebelling against the Catholics when persecution was revived after revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Determined to end the bloodshed, the French queen decided a colony in the New World could serve as a haven for the persecuted Huguenots, as well as a base for raiding the treasure fleets of Spain.
She selected Jean Ribault to head an exploratory expedition. It landed in 1562 at the mouth of the St. Johns River near present-day Jacksonville, Florida. He called it the "River May," and sailed northward as far as Parris Island, South Carolina. He named St. Simons Island the Ile de Loire Rene Laudonnière led a second expedition of three ships and three hundred colonists in 1564. They, too, landed at the St. Johns River, and immediately began work on Fort Caroline. Two ships were sent back for more supplies and additional colonists.
Philip II of Spain learned of the French efforts and picked the ablest of his naval commanders, Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, giving him full power to destroy the French settlements. With a small fleet, Menéndez landed 40 miles south of Fort Caroline in August 1565. From this new base, which he named St. Augustine, Menéndez attacked and destroyed the fledgling French colony. He captured and executed Ribault and most of the survivors of a French relief expedition that was shipwrecked just south of St. Augustine. With them died France's last hope for a colony on the Atlantic coast.
Although the French threat was neutralized, Menéndez decided to cultivate stronger alliances with the Native Americans to prevent future incursions. He traveled northward from St. Augustine in 1566 to meet with the most powerful chief in the area, the mico of Guale, on present-day St. Catherines Island. The mico was called Guale as well, and soon the Spanish adapted the name to the mico, his people and their territory.
During the meeting with the Guales, Menéndez erected a cross on St. Catherines Island, and soon after, a drought-ending rainstorm arrived. What seemed like a display of supernatural power by the Spanish leader made the Guale more receptive to the Jesuit missionaries who arrived next. The land of the Guale became one of the Spanish mission provinces of La Florida.
The Spanish Jesuits, respected throughout Europe for their piety as well as their scholastic achievement, were selected to convert the Indians of Guale. After an unsuccessful attempt to establish a mission in the province of La Florida, Father Sedaño and Father Báez were assigned to the district of Guale. Father Báez rapidly learned the Guale language and reportedly wrote a grammar, the first book written in an indigenous language in the New World, which was published in the early 17th century. The Guale were reluctant to convert to Catholicism. After spending fourteen months in Guale along with three priests of less tenure, Father Sedaño could claim only seven Indian baptisms: four children and three dying adults.
Indians and missionaries found the process frustrating. The Jesuits were dedicated and capable men, totally committed to their task, but the most zealous were discouraged in those early days. Father Rogel shared the frustrations when writing about the neighboring district of Orista just to the north: The Indians were so reluctant to receive the Catholic religion that no admonitions would curb their barbarity – a barbarity based on liberty unrestrained by the yoke of reason and made worse because they had not been taught to live in villages. They were scattered about the country nine of the twelve months of the year, so that to influence them at all one missionary was needed for each Indian.
The Jesuits had to accommodate to the nomadic habits of the Guale and Orista. Father Rogel followed one group for twenty leagues (roughly sixty miles), offering presents, gifts and adornments to entice them to return to their newly built village and cornfields, but to no avail. By 1570 the colonial government judged the missions a failure. They sent several of the Guale missionary contingent to Virginia, where they were massacred by Indians there. The remaining Guale missionaries were re-assigned to Mexico City the following year. Their sacrifices paved the way for the Franciscans who followed.
A few Franciscan priests arrived in 1573. Most were killed and the survivors were recalled. During the next 10 years, there were sporadic and bloody conflicts between Spanish soldiers and the Mocama and Guale. The Spanish government had to be alert to its national competitors, especially after Sir Francis Drake destroyed St. Augustine in 1586. The English leader's raid was a timely reminder to the Spanish that their grip upon Florida was fragile; more Franciscans were soon sent to the fledgling province. The first permanent Franciscan mission, to establish the Mocama missionary province, was in place by 1587 under Father Baltasár Lopéz.
Spanish Missions circa 1655
In 1593, a dozen friars arrived in Cuba, six of whom were sent to Guale. One missionary each was assigned to the mainland villages of Tolomato, Tupiqui, Santo Domingo de Talaje/Asajo, and Talapo, while two were sent to Guale (St. Catherines Island).
The priests worked to learn the Timucuan and Guale languages, and in return demanded that the Indians learn the Catholic ceremonies in Latin. They memorized the Ave Maria, the Credo and the Pater Noster. The frequent Spanish religious and national holidays were confusing to the Indians, as they were encouraged to work one day and prevented from working the next. The priests abolished polygamy, enjoyed by the chiefs, prompting the complaint that "they take away our women, leaving us only the one perpetual [sic], forbidding us to exchange her."
As the priests made more intrusions into the Indians' lives, resentment built up against them. Juanillo, the son of a mico, became incensed when the Franciscans interfered with his succession after his father's death. The priests picked the older and milder-mannered Don Francisco over the quarrelsome Juanillo. The infuriated Juanillo responded by leading the Indians in revolt. Juanillo and a small group of his father's followers killed Father Corpa at Tolomato on September 13, 1597. They killed Father Rodrigues of Tupiqui three days later. The following day, the two priests of the Guale mission on St. Catherines Island, Father Miguel de Auñon and Father Antonio de Badajoz, were clubbed to death after ignoring warnings by friendly Indians of the insurrection.
At Asajo, Father Francisco de Velascola was absent, away on a visit to St. Augustine. Afraid of his physical strength and huge stature, the Indians agreed that he must be killed. They ambushed him on his return. They wounded and captured Father Francisco Dávila of the Talapo mission. He escaped, but was recaptured and sent to the Guale interior as a slave.
Four hundred Indians in forty canoes attacked San Pedro, the Mocama mission on Cumberland Island. A loyal chief, Don Juan, rallied the mission Indians and killed many of the attackers. Meanwhile, a messenger had reached Governor Canzo in St. Augustine, who sent a relief force of 150 infantry. They retaliated on Guale, razing the villages and storehouses, burning the corn in the fields and destroying all canoes which they found. Canzo was unable to catch the rebels and returned to St. Augustine with Chief Don Juan, his people and the surviving friars.
Almost a year after this upheaval, a Spanish scouting party near St. Elena heard rumors that Father Dávila was still alive. Under threats, the Indians released Dávila. The friar had been starved, beaten, and threatened. The Spanish captured seven young boys, four of whom were the sons of micos, and took them to St. Augustine. The oldest of the boys, a seventeen-year old named Lucas, was found guilty of being present at Father Rodrigues' murder, but the others were released because of their age. Lucas was tortured and hung, the only legal response carried out by the courts for the Juanillo revolt.
But the rebels were still at large, and Governor Canzo was determined to exterminate them. The Indian tribes north of Guale were urged to make war on the rebels, and Canzo issued orders that all Guale Indians captured would be enslaved. This decree, however, was judged to harsh by his superiors and was revoked. The Spanish scorched-earth policy was ultimately successful. Severe drought compounded the Spanish destruction. By 1600 some of the important micos, their people facing imminent starvation, were ready to come to terms. The town of Tolomato refused to yield, and Asajo became the main village of Spanish influence. With his new power, the mico of Asajo led a successful expedition against Tolomato, after which more villages returned to the Spanish flock.
Juanillo still held out, aided oddly enough by his former rival Don Francisco. The two rebel chiefs and their remaining followers retreated to the interior stockaded village of Yfusinique. The mico of Asajo, Don Domingo, led an attack upon the town. After a fierce fight, the scalps of Juanillo and Don Francisco were sent back to St. Augustine. Don Domingo was made head mico of all Guale after his victory.
Thus the Juanillo rebellion was crushed, and the Spanish were once again masters of the land. But the ferocity of the revolt and the three years it took to extinguish the Indian spirit caused many in the colonial government to question the wisdom of maintaining a missionary presence in Mocama and Guale. The winning of heathen souls was proving to be a costly endeavor. To justify the expense, the crown ordered an investigation by the governor of Cuba, which quieted the missionaries' detractors, and future Spanish presence was insured.
Governor Canzo, determined to make the province an anchor of the Spanish empire, threw himself into improving the coastal missions. In 1603, he made an inspection tour of the Guale district, rebuilding the missions and cementing Indian loyalty. He was transferred soon after the tour, but his replacement, Governor Pedro de Iberra, was just as eager to develop both Mocama and Guale. Iberra toured the districts in 1604, and promised the Indians that more friars would be forthcoming. With the consolidation of Indian fealty, the way was paved for the first visit of a bishop on Mocama and Guale soil. Bishop Altimoreno arrived in St. Augustine in mid-March, 1606. He traveled for two months throughout the two districts and confirmed over one thousand souls.
The attentions of two governors and a bishop assured more friars for Mocama and Guale. From 1606 to 1655 the Spanish missionary effort reached its zenith as the Franciscan missions reflected a steady growth. San Buenaventura de Guadalquini was established on St. Simons, San Jose de Zapala on Sapelo Island, and Santiago de Ocone near the Okefenokee Swamp. Now Spain had a total of ten Mocama and Guale missions. Apparently conversions had increased dramatically, too. By 1617 Governor Iberra could report that although half the Christian Indians had died of pestilence, some eight thousand were still alive.
Despite the growth of the numbers of missionaries and converts, the conditions in which the Franciscans carried out their duties remained harsh. The main source of funds to support the mission effort was intestate properties of the colonies and deceased traders' estates unclaimed in Seville, the Spanish seaport link to the New World. Often ill clothed and hungry, friars rarely reached old age. Few ever saw their native Spain again; most succumbed to the hardships of their calling.
Primary emphasis was placed on spiritual conversion rather than colonizing for material gain; accordingly, there was no trade, no guns permitted, and very few skills taught. Horses had been introduced to La Florida, and some had been given to caciques and micos. But cattle were not made available for fear that crops would be eaten by them and the temptation for thievery would be too great. The most discernible changes resulting from Spanish contact were reflected only in pot manufacturing and the replacing of conch shell hoes with those made of iron. Spain's failure to supply attractive and practical trade goods (such as flints, mirrors, silver or brass ornaments) gave the English the advantage in the final conflict for Mocama and Guale that loomed ahead.
Apart from the Indians' decimation from disease – their numbers were reduced by 95% within a century of European contact – the death knell was sounded for the Spanish missions in 1661 when the "Chichimeco" Indians destroyed the mainland Guale town of Asajo. These fierce slave raiders, armed by the English in Virginia to ensure a steady supply of Indian slaves, migrated southward in the 1650s, preying on weaker tribes.
The disruptions of the Spanish missions did not abate. In the next few tumultuous years the Guales reestablished Asajo on the northern end of St. Simons Island (Cannons Point site). The "Yamassees" of coastal South Carolina, also fleeing the Chichimecos, established the refugee towns of San Simón (Fort Frederica site) and Octonico, 2-1/2 miles below, on the inland side of the island.
Charles II of England granted to eight Lords Proprietors all the land between Virginia and La Florida (31° -36° N) in 1663. This threat was sharpened in 1670 when Charles Town was settled. By 1675, only four Guale mission towns remained. The two Mocama missions left were widely separated and the intervening coast settled by unconverted Yamassees. The probability of attack from the English and the Indians loyal to them was now a constant fear to the Spanish. That fear was realized at its worst when the Chichimecos returned in 1680 to attack the towns of Santa Catalina and San Simón. The confusion and helplessness of the missionary and refugee Indians mounted as English pirates terrorized the Mocama and Guale coast in 1683. The following year, San Buenaventura de Guadalquini was ransacked and burned by pirates, and St. Simons Island was abandoned forever by the Timucuans who, for untold centuries, had called it their own.
In 1686, the English settled Port Royal, South Carolina – the old Spanish outpost of St. Elena. The Spanish responded by destroying the settlement, burning the English governor's mansion, and threatening Charles Town itself. It was a final, futile gesture. Most of the remaining Mocama and Guale Indians had already abandoned the missions and retreated southward to the St. Augustine area, to be eventually absorbed by the Yamassees. After almost a century and a quarter under the cross and sword of Spain, the Mocama and Guale Indians were no more – their land soon to be known as Georgia
Fort Frederica
Remains of Fort Frederica
Fort Frederica, now Fort Frederica National Monument, was the military headquarters of the Province of Georgia during the early colonial period, and served as a buffer against Spanish incursion from Florida. Nearby is the site of the Battle of Gully Hole Creek and Battle of Bloody Marsh, where on July 7, 1742, the British ambushed Spanish troops marching single file through the marsh and routed them from the island, which marked the end of the Spanish efforts to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
American Revolution
An important naval battle in the American Revolution (the Frederica Naval Action) was won by the American Colonists near St. Simons on April 19, 1778. Colonel Samuel Elbert was in command of Georgia's Continental Army and Navy. On April 15, 1778 he learned that four ships (including the Hinchinbrook, the Rebecca, and the Galatea) from British East Florida were sailing in St. Simons Sound. Elbert commanded about 360 troops from the Georgia Continental Battalions at Fort Howe to march to Darien, Georgia. There they boarded three Georgia Navy galleys: the Washington, commanded by Captain John Hardy ; the Lee, commanded by Captain John Cutler Braddock; and the Bulloch, commanded by Captain Archibald Hatcher. On April 18 they entered Frederica River and anchored about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Fort Frederica. On April 19 the colonial ships attacked the British ships. The Colonial ships were armed with heavier cannons than the British ships. The galleys also had a shallow draft and could be rowed. The wind died down and the British ships had difficulty maneuvering in the restricted waters of the river and sound. Two of the British ships ran aground and the British escaped to their other ship. The battle showed how effective the galleys could be in restricted waters over ships designed for the open sea. The Frederica Naval Action was a big boost to the morale of the Colonists in Georgia.
Lumber for ships
Saint Simons' next military contribution was due to the Naval Act of 1794, when timber harvested from two thousand Southern live oak trees from Gascoigne Bluff was used to build the USS Constitution and five other frigates (see Six original United States frigates). The USS Constitution is known as "Old Ironsides" for the way the cannonballs bounced off the hard live oak planking.
Wesley brothers
Historical marker about the Wesley Oak
St. Simons Island Light
US Coast Guard Station
King and Prince Hotel
During the 18th century, St. Simons served as a sometime home to John Wesley, the minister of the colony. He later returned to England, where he founded the Methodist Church. Wesley performed missionary work at St. Simons while he was still in the Anglican Church, but he was despondent about failing to bring about conversions. (He wrote that the local inhabitants had more tortures from their environment than he could describe for Hell). In the 1730s John Wesley's brother Charles Wesley also did missionary work on St. Simons.
On April 5, 1987 fifty-five members from St. Simons United Methodist Church were commissioned, with Bishop Frank Robertson as first pastor, to begin a new church on the north end of St. Simons Island. This was where John and Charles Wesley had preached and ministered to the people at Fort Frederica. The new church was named Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica.
Christ Church
In 1808 the State of Georgia gave 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land on St. Simons to be used for a church and its support. Called Christ Church, Frederica, the structure was finished in 1820. During the Civil War, invading Union troops commandeered the small building to stable horses and nearly destroyed it. The church was restored in 1889. This historic building is still in use as of 2011.
Cotton production
During the plantation era, Saint Simons became a center of cotton production known for its long fiber Sea Island Cotton. Nearly the entire island was cleared of trees to make way for several cotton plantations. One of the last slave ships to bring slaves from Africa docked at St. Simons Island, but the slaves marched off the boat into the water, dragged down by their chains, and drowned themselves rather than becoming slaves. An original slave cabin still stands at the intersection of Demere Rd. and Frederica Rd. at the roundabout. Recently, the White House announced its intention to abolish subsidies to cotton growers and sent a draft to Congress. Previously, the illegality of subsidies claimed the World Trade Organization (WTO).
St. Simons Island lighthouse
St. Simons Island Light is a lighthouse near the entrance to St. Simons Sound in United States Coast Guard District Number 7. It is 104 feet (32 m) tall and uses a third-order fresnel lens which rotates to flash a beam of light every 60 seconds. The light keeper's residence is a two-story Victorian brick structure.
The original octagonal lighthouse was built in 1811. Confederate forces destroyed it in 1861 during the Civil War to prevent its use by dominant Union forces. A replacement was completed in 1872, during the Reconstruction era. Electrified in 1934 and automated in 1954, it is still operational.
The current structure is both an active lighthouse for navigational purposes and a museum. On lease from the United States Coast Guard to the Coastal Georgia Historical Society, it is open to the public.
In 2010, the St. Simons Island lighthouse underwent a major renovation. It was closed to the public for several months while all interior and exterior paint was sandblasted off, and then repainted. Eight iron handrail posts at the top of the tower were replaced, recast from one of the originals. All ironwork was sandblasted and repaired as needed. Great lengths were taken to protect the valuable Fresnel lens during the restoration. It was bubble wrapped, shrink wrapped, and then finally enclosed in a plywood box. A temporary spotlight attached to top railing of the lighthouse continued to guide ships into the Sound while the main light was out of operation.
Coast Guard Station and World War II
The historic Coast Guard station is one of circa 45 such stations of the same design built in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). They were part of the numerous public works projects sponsored by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the Great Depression. The station was commissioned in 1937 and operated until 1995. One of only three remaining stations built at the time, the station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It houses the Maritime Center, a small museum run by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society. The Coast Guard uses a new station built to replace the one from the 1930s.
On the night of April 8, 1942 off the coast of St. Simons, the German submarine U-123 chased and torpedoed two tankers, the S.S. Oklahoma and the Esso Baton Rouge. Both ships sank and 22 of their crew members were killed. Survivors were rescued and brought to the Coast Guard station on St. Simons for care and debriefing. Five of the sailors killed in the 1942 incident were buried as "Unknown Seamen" in Brunswick, Georgia's Palmetto Cemetery. In 1998 they were positively identified.
Both ships were raised and towed to the port at nearby Brunswick for repairs. Although they both reentered service, the two ships were sunk during warfare in the Atlantic Ocean before the end of World War II.
King and Prince Hotel
The King and Prince Hotel on St. Simons Island was built in 1941. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
[edit]Coast Cottages
The Coast Cottages is a neo-traditional planned community located on St. Simons Island.


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Milk Reviews
All I know is that I can never get through Times of Harvey Milk without a handkerchief, while Van Sant's Milk left me forlornly dry-eyed.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Ultimatelt resembles less the man than the titular white liquid -- warm, nourishing, somewhat sleep-inducing
Tulsa World
Why is there no openly gay Hollywood actor portraying any of the historical figures in this film? Because no American A-list film star has come out to be counted.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
The New Republic
Milk was murdered 30 years ago. The exceptional The Times of Harvey Milk won the Oscar for Best Documentary 24 years ago.... Yet, all this time later... Hollywood wants us to applaud its courage for finally--finally--telling this story?
House Next Door
A paint-by numbers biopic of the tireless activist that wastes the efforts of some fine actors.
New York Daily News
The final result somehow undersells a man whose life and death were watershed moments in the gay rights movement.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Bad art serves no one, but the reach for significance is often enough to proffer a pat-on-the-back and an affirmative nod, as if 'attempt' and 'achievement' were suddenly synonymous terms of action.
Tolucan Times
A biopic so adoringly biased it destroys credibility.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/10
Captures the feeling of the city, and the events of Milk's life; but never captures the dynamic charisma that had to be a vital part of the man
Full Review | Original Score: 5/10
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
With neither subtlety nor depth, 'Milk' does no service to its group cause or individual subject.
Milk presents details about the title character and his relevance... but the presentation itself appears more intent on being a recruitment film than an actual biopic.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0
New York Press
A bizarre manipulation of the gay political impulse.
Film Freak Central
Actually retards attempts to understand what it is that transforms some men into symbols and others into sheep.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Daily Mail [UK]
The frustrating aspect of the movie is that it could - and should - have been a moving drama. Instead, it settles for being agit-prop.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
The movie's getting a lot of praise for being an "unconventional" biopic. I don't think this is true, but it's happening, I suspect, because it's NOT a biopic: It's a cause movie.
Full Review | Original Score: B
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A poignant lesson about the ripples of impact one impassioned individual can have, regardless of sexual orientation, and regardless of the cause.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
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A little more sour to go with the sweet would have made Milk one of the greats.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
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Whether you are heterosexual, homosexual or somewhere in between, Milk is such an inspiring and powerful movie that you should drop everything you are doing right now and instantly head to the theaters.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
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It puts Harvey Milk back on his soap box, where his unyielding commitment to his issue cost him his life.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
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Josh Brolin's double murderer steals the film from Sean Penn's Saint Harvey. That couldn't have been the intention, but the most fully developed character wins.
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A former football player at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro is accused of stealing from the football field house.Coaches told Nashville's News 2 they noticed thefts in recent weeks and had a good idea who was behind them.They installed surveillance cameras in the building that could be monitored on their phones. Last week, one of the coaches observed the burglary suspect inside the building.He called another coach who was near the field house. The coach chased the suspect, who fled the area on foot.Upon reviewing the surveillance video, coaches identified the thief as a 15-year-old former player who had been dismissed from the team earlier in the week. Police arrested the teen at his home a short time later. "I think that's the most disappointing thing. It's a kid that's done it and this is on the kid's record now as a juvenile," said Head Coach Greg Wyant. "I hate to see something happen to a kid like that but we can't sit around and just take this either."The coach would not say specifically what items were taken.The teen used keys he had stolen to get inside the building, according to officials. The surveillance video was turned over to the Murfreesboro Police Department for its investigation.The stolen items were not recovered.
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Shedding for the Wedding Trainer Spills Her Own 7 Wedding Prep Secrets
Written on November 10, 2011 at 11:13 am , by Karla Walsh
As a fitness expert, author and trainer on the reality show Shedding for the Wedding, you might think that Jennifer Cohen would find preparing for her own big day to be a breeze. But just like any bride-to-be, Cohen has learned that it takes a lot of balance, patience and drive to keep fit and healthy during such a hectic time.
We spoke with Cohen just days before her wedding day (November 20!) to find out how she has changed her workout routine and diet leading up to the event.
- Sweat to abolish anxieties. "Planning a wedding is very stressful. I've found that exercise is one of the best ways to alleviate stress. The endorphins really help!"
- Buddy up. "Use your workout time to bring you closer together with your partner. My fiance and I live in L.A. and do a lot of hiking. I love to use my environment to inspire my exercise."
- Tone your strapless zone. "I installed a pull-up bar in a door frame in my house and try to do a couple every time I walk through that doorway to help strengthen my shoulders and core while improving my posture. Upper body exercises can elongate you and make you look better in a strapless dress."
- Ramp up the intensity. "High intensity interval training, also known as HIIT, helps me get great results in less time. Twice a week, I do a HIIT routine for 20 to 25 minutes while using my Polar heart rate monitor to make sure I'm near my target heart rate—85 percent of my max. Try it by doing one minute of mountain climbers, take a 10 second break, and repeat that one-minute on, 10-seconds off pattern three more times. Then do the same with jumping rope and other cardio exercises."
- Find the right fuel. "I really believe what they say about diet playing 80 percent of the role in terms of maintaining a healthy weight. You can work out all day, but you have to be conscientious of what you eat. I try to keep a pretty stable schedule with my meals and always start my day with a Muscle Milk Mocha Latte."
- But allow indulgences. "Part of the fun of wedding planning is picking the menu. I don't want to deprive myself, because that could lead to binging, but I also don't want to make my efforts fruitless! I recently tried several cupcake flavors at the bakery that's making our desserts, Design Cakes and Cupcakes, but told myself before we started that I would have one forkful of each flavor."
- Make healthy food the centerpiece. "We haven't solidified our menu yet, but I think we'll probably serve, among other dishes, Ahi tuna for a healthy entree and perhaps grilled cheese bite-sized sandwiches as an appetizer option for those who prefer to indulge."
Want to check out one of the most unique proposals ever? Watch Cohen's fiance pull it off here.
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How to Tame Wedding Planning Stress
Written on August 11, 2011 at 4:10 pm , by SparkPeople
So you've joined the ranks of your friends on Facebook and are planning a wedding, too? Congrats! But we know the planning can at times wreak havoc on your mental health, so check out this post from our buddies at SparkPeople…
It's a gross understatement to say that planning a wedding is stressful. With all of the coordination, timing and numerous things to prepare for (not to mention family politics!), it's no wonder that nice, normal people turn into grumpy grooms and bridezillas. However, you don't have to become a stressed-out stereotype on your big day. In fact, it is possible to plan a wedding and keep your healthy cool—no matter the situation.
The Stressor: You and Your Fiancé Want Different Types of Weddings
One of the biggest wedding stressors occurs when you and your fiancé have very different ideas of what your special day should be like. Traditional and in a church? A tropical destination wedding? The options are limitless and stress can be high from the get-go, if the soon-to-be-wed couple can't agree on what kind of ceremony to have.
How to de-stress: Before you plan any wedding details, sit down with your fiancé and make a list of the top three things that are important to each of you as far as the ceremony and reception are concerned. Then, calmly and patiently compare lists to see where you can compromise. If he wants a small wedding but you want a big one, you can always hold a small ceremony and then a big after-party. Marriage is all about give and take!
The Stressor: Overbearing Family Members or Friends
Almost every bride and groom deals with at least one or two overbearing (yet well-meaning) family members or friends while planning a wedding. Whether it's a future in-law, your own parents, or even a bossy friend, everyone seems to have an opinion.
How to de-stress: Remember that this is your wedding—not everyone else's. It may be hard to tell your loved ones "no", but if you want your wedding day to be truly special and unique, you must stand your ground. Politely and firmly state your decisions with the support of your partner. Think of it as if others are trying to derail or sabotage your diet—it's really none of their business!
The Stressor: Fear that Your Dress Won't Fit
Of course you want to feel confident and healthy on your wedding day…but stress only hurts your weight-loss efforts.
How to de-stress: First, make sure that you aren't being unrealistic about your body image on the big day. Your wedding weight-loss goals must be realistic, especially since planning takes a lot of time and you may not have as much time as you think to exercise and cook healthfully. Second, be sure to drink enough water, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and get that beauty rest. These three things will really give you that wedding-day glow. Lastly, visualize yourself walking down the aisle with confidence on the big day. Picturing yourself in a positive light helps squash stress and can give you the energy to plan, plan, plan!
Keep Reading: How to tame stress from the budget, guest list, and more!
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the owner is really friendly and i love the food we took thai i mean where a best place to eat thai food :)
i want there twice so it was cool
should go there guys
Nice calm bar with friends and not to "on going" staff who speaks english.
A place good place to have a beer or watch a football match if you fancy that.
The food I tasted was also good.
By far the best breakfast in town. All usual smiles and friendly staff. Offers a wide selection of food for all tastes.
After reading the good reviews we thought we would give it a try. Where do I begin?? It was about 1.30 - 2 and we were looking for a light lunch and opted for some veggie spring rolls, french fries and cappuccinos nothing elaborate and playing it safe, or so we thought. The french fries were edible but the spring...
Excellent food, great prices, football on tv and pool table....perfect! Will definitely be back for breakfast!
Been on the hunt for food that was excellent quality, filling, and quick. I needed a break from Thai food to be honest so I ordered the club sandwich with fries. It was outstanding. Best I've had possibly ever. Bonus was the whole grain local bread-- not gross white bread that is Served everywhere. I'm super happy. Service also quite...
Chicken with cashew was delicious and they put on the repeat game of Barcelona vs Milan for us. Also great waffle and ice cream. A little bit dark inside though.
The ladies at the Indie cafe service a fab breakfast, great choices and such good service,also do a lovely lunchtime sandwich
Probably the best bar in ao nang, such nice staff and owner. I really recomend this place. Food is greate too.
If you fancy genuine spicy thai food, this is the place to be. I was hooked after my first visit, and found myself returning time after time urging for more. My personal favorite was the pad ka pow, but I also recommend the tom yam kung. Yummi!
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[QUOTE=terham;850519]I guess I still have time to paint mine. :laugh
No paint necessary...Silver is quite lovely, particularly on a piece of German made machinery. :D
But I hear that there is a move afoot among owners of Pathetic Blue machines to take over the Salem rally!
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In Other News, I Met A Painter.
Two months ago, the Wedding Date was entertaining clients in a Times Square hotel bar and asked me to join him.
It would've been our second date.
If I'd actually met up with him.
I arrived at the address of a slightly seedy hotel with a very closed lobby bar just as he texted me his room number.
Um, not what I signed up for.
I replied with a dismissive text—enjoy the minibar but I'm out like trout—before jumping on the downtown E train.
On the subway, the intercom announced that, due to construction, there would be no 23rd Street stop: passengers have to transfer to the C train at Penn Station.
I do as I'm told but as usual, the signage for the A*C*E in Penn is a practical joke: sure, go ahead and follow the arrows to the C Downtown but when you arrive on the platform—surprise!—it's actually the C Uptown.
Last summer, I spent 10 minutes in this same maze, hauling a suitcase up one flight of stairs and down another only to give the fuck up and take a cab.
So tonight, when I find myself—again!—on the uptown C platform, I scoff and turn on my heel in disgust.
And nearly bump into a handsome, 6-foot-twelve tall man with a shaved head and sport jacket.
A man who's asking me if this is the downtown train?
Not so much, I answer. You followed those stupid signs too?
We laugh and fall into step together, bonding over the lameness of post-midnight transit.
It occurs to me that at 1am in Penn, it's not such a bad idea to keep walking with someone who's tall enough to scare away the riff-raff.
We find ourselves exchanging names and following the same exit signs.
When we reach the sidewalk, I announce that I'm walking home.
Where you headed? he asks.
Me too.
Well then, I say.
He starts walking east on 34th Street.
Hey Six Foot Twelve, I say. Chelsea's the other way…sure you actually live there?
He laughs, mumbles something about having a few drinks and a bad sense of direction.
Five blocks later, I learn that he's a 30-something painter from the West Coast who once toured apartments in my building with an ex-girlfriend. He learns that I'm a writer living in her late husband's place.
Three blocks later, we part with a handshake and a card exchange.
A day later, he Facebooks me.
Five days later, we meet for a drink.
Three dates and dinners later, he surprises me with a shockingly aggressive kiss.
A bite-my-lips-pull-my-hair-kind-of-kiss.
I say yes to the fourth date.
And the fifth date.
After which he walks me to my lobby door and lifts me into an embrace that makes me not care if any of Alberto's neighbors—technically, my neighbors—see us.
Inconveniently, I am scheduled to spend the next month in California.
Conveniently, The Painter texts me a week before I return to New York.
Books me for the Thursday after I return.
After wine and gallery-hopping on our sixth date, we go to his place.
Where he whips up homemade pizza.
And shows me his art.
His incredibly technical, beautiful art.
Until 2pm the next day.
Over brunch in bed, we survey the damage:
A chair is broken.
My socks are MIA.
Tufts of my blond hair are strewn across his studio floor like souvenirs.
We laugh and eat and kick our brunch plates off the bed.
Work up an appetite for dinner.
Or whatever the next meal might be.
When I finally find my jacket and exit his building, the air is as brisk and lamp-lit as it was when we arrived last night.
My Walk of Fame is just three non-avenue blocks.
No train required.
No Penn Station.
The walk is just long enough to keep me smiling.
Not long enough to dwell on other shaved heads or sport jackets or chance meetings.
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8 Ways to Fire Up Hawaii's Economy
Illustrations by Andrew Catanzariti
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6) Conserve energy
Conserving energy means saving money that pays for oil — money that mostly ends up outside of Hawaii.
Oil not only fuels our cars but generates most of the electricity in Hawaii. So cutting energy use not only helps the planet but keeps money in Hawaii that can be spent stimulating the local economy.
Hawaiian Electric Co. spokesman Peter Rosegg said that, depending on oil prices, a 10 percent reduction in Hawaii's oil imports would keep $250 million to $700 million here each year.
"Last year, Hawaii sent nearly $7 billion out of state for oil to provide jet and marine fuel, gasoline and electricity," Rosegg said. "We need to increase energy efficiency in our homes and businesses, get higher auto mileage and use more local renewable resources like sun, wind, water and even garbage to generate electricity. If we do this, we can keep part of those billions at home to create investment and new jobs."
Energy-efficient technologies are often more expensive up-front, but save money in the long-run. And those up-front investments would help Hawaii's economy right now.
* With Hawaii's abundant sunshine, it makes sense to install solar panels for water heating. State and federal tax credits and electric company rebates bring your cost on a $5,000 system down to about $1,500 (Find more info at www.solarpowerrocks.com).
* Replace older, energy-guzzling appliances with new efficient ones labeled "Energy Star," and switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs that last eight times as long as regular incandescent bulbs and use 25 percent less power.
* Install photovoltaic and wind-power systems to cut your use of oil-generated electricity.
* Wash clothes in cold water and hang them to dry inside or out.
* Run the dishwasher only when full; use the air conditioning only when really necessary; install a timer on the water heater and add an inexpensive insulation jacket; turn on the refrigerator's energy-saving switch and set the temperature at 37 degrees F and freezer at 0 degrees; and switch to low-flow shower heads and shorter showers.
* Instead of driving, carpool, ride TheBus and other public transportation, walk or bike.
Find more ideas at www.heco.com; www.EnergyStar.gov; and the Alliance to Save Energy at www.ase.org. —BC
7) No layoffs
People won't spend money if they don't have a job. So one obvious way to boost Hawaii's economy right now is for businesses to keep their workers employed.
The biggest mistake companies can make during a down economy is to cut their talent, says Barron Guss, president and CEO of Altres. He says layoffs might be a quick fix, but the perception that a company doesn't value the contributions of the workers who helped create value and generate profits in the past can damage its brand and hurt future business.
Instead, companies should take this time to get their house in order and focus on employees, Guss says. Make sure your staff is running on all cylinders in the most efficient way by having the right people in the right positions, getting the right mix of permanent and temporary employees, outsourcing noncore functions to increase efficiency, and doing a good job of recruiting. Remember that your competitors may be beefing up their people equity by training and developing their staff; taking skinnier margins; cutting nonessential expenses, such as travel costs or entertainment; asking employees to take voluntary furloughs or reducing hours and wages — anything to prevent layoffs.
"People need to remember that we will come out of this slump," says Murray Towill, president of the Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Association. "And when we do, businesses will need their employees to help get them back on track." —SE
8) Stay at a Hawaii hotel
While falling visitor numbers cripple Hawaii's No. 1 industry, maybe you can't afford to fly across the Pacific. The solution: Take a staycation. If you shop around, you'll find plenty of bargains for kamaaina, such as free extra hotel nights and complimentary meals. The money you spend will keep hotel workers employed and help ancillary businesses like car rental agencies, restaurants, airlines and tour guides.
There are plenty of adventures to choose from, both familiar and new: Stay in Waikiki for a night on the town, watch Madame Pele expand the Big Island, or perhaps visit Molokai and Lanai for the first time. –JU
Other things we can do right now to help Hawaii's economy
Compiled by Hawaii Business with the help of Paul Brewbaker, consultant and senior economic adviser to Bank of Hawaii, and Leroy Laney, professor of economics and finance at Hawaii Pacific University and economic adviser to First Hawaiian Bank.
* Workers: Be more aware of the risk your employer faces and be as productive as possible.
* Consumers: Don't overreact. Spending stimulates the economy, but if you are worried, focus on the necessities and investing in the future.
* Businesses: Over-reacting isn't good for your business. Assess your circumstances and spend smart. Remember, Hawaii went into the recession in a better position than many states.
* Businesses: Offer unpaid internships to college students; they provide experience for the intern and help for your business. Or hire a new employee; the pool of available talent has grown.
* Government: Don't wait: Float bonds and act now on big-ticket capital projects like schools, roads and sewers.
* Government: Other development can happen without costing government a cent. For instance, giving private developers the opportunity to build around future rail stations means that when the train is up and running, parking lots, convenience stores and housing will already be in place to fuel new economic growth. –BC
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