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LUMIX DMC-TS25 Active Lifestyle Tough Camera - White
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- Go anywhere, any time with this rugged adventure camera
- Tough waterproof, dustproof, shock and freeze proof design
- Enjoy instant creativity with in-camera retouch and effects
- Tough camera records super-clear stills and HD video in and out of water
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- Dimensions (W x H x D) 103.7 x 58.3 x 19.7 mm / (4.08 x 2.30 x 0.77 inch)
- Weight Approx. 125g without Battery and SD Memory Card (0.28 lb) / Approx. 144g with Battery and SD Memory Card (0.32 lb)
- Camera Effective Pixels 16.1 Megapixels
- Sensor
- Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.33-inch CCD Sensor / 16.6 Total Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
- Lens
ApertureF3.9 - 5.7 / 2-step (F3.9 / 9.0(W), F5.7 / 13.0(T))
Optical Zoom4x
Focal Lengthf=4.5 - 18.0mm (25 - 100mm in 35mm equiv.) / (29-108mm in 35mm equiv. in video recording)
- Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 5.1x (4:3 / 10M), 7.2x (4:3 / 5M), 9.0x (under 3M)
- Intelligent Zoom 8x
- 2- Speed Zoom -
- Optical Image Stabilizer/Five Axis Correction MEGA O.I.S. (On with Active Mode (Only for Motion Picture) /Off) / No
Digital ZoomMax. 4x
- Focus
- Focusing Area Normal: Wide 50 cm - infinity / Tele 100 cm - infinity / Macro / Intelligent AUTO/ motion picture: Wide 5 cm - infinity / Tele 100cm - infinity
AF Assist LampYes (On/Off), LED light in motion picture
- AF Metering Face / AF Tracking / 23-Area / 1-Area / Spot
- Shutter Speed approx. 8 - 1/1300 sec / 15sec / 30sec / 60sec in Sarry Sky mode
- Finder
- File
- File Format Still Image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3), DPOF / Motion picture: MP4
- Recording Modes
- Mode Dial / Mode Button Intelligent AUTO, Normal Picture, Creative Control, Sports, Snow, Beach&Surf, Advanced Underwater, Panorama Shot, SCN
- Creative Control mode Expressive, Retro, High Key, Low Key, Sepia, Dynamic Monochrome, Impressive Art, High Dynamic, Cross Process, Toy Effect, Miniature Effect, One Point Color
- Still Image Scene Mode Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Food, Baby1, Baby2, Pet, Sunset, High Sensitivity, Starry Sky, Glass Through
- Continuous Shooting Mode Full-Resolution Image, approx. 1.3 frames/sec / High-speed Burst Mode: approx. 8 frames/sec (recorded in 3M for 4:3, 2.5M for 3:2, 2M for 16:9, 2.5M for 1:1) / Flash burst shooting
- Motion Picture Recording (*2)
- HD Video 1280 x 720 pixels, 30 fps (HD: 10Mbps / MP4)
- STD Video 640 x 480 pixels, 30 fps (VGA: 4Mbps / MP4)
- Continuous recordable time (motion pictures)
- MP4 approx. 100 min (HD)
- Actual recordable time (motion pictures)
- MP4 approx. 50 min (HD)
- Exposure Parameters
ExposureAuto(Program AE)
Exposure Compensation1/3 EV step, +/-2 EV
- Auto (AE) Bracketing 1/3 -1EV step, Max +/-1EV, 3 frames
- Light Metering Intelligent Multiple
ISO SensitivityI.ISO / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / High Sensitivity mode (ISO 1600-6400)
- Picture Quality
- Still Picture Recording [1:1] 3456x3456 (12M) / [4:3] 4608x3456 (16M) / 3648x2736 (10M EZ) / 2560x1920 (5M EZ) / 2048x1536 (3M EZ) / 1280x960 (1M EZ) / 640x480 (0.3M EZ) / [3:2] 4608x3072 (14M) / [16:9] 4608x2592 (12M)
- Image Quality -
White BalanceAuto / Daylight / Cloudy / Shade / Incandescent / White Set
- Photo Style / Film Mode -
- Color Mode / Color Effect / My color Color Mode : Standard, Black&White, Sepia, Vivid( Normal only), Happy (only in iA Mode)
- Aspect Bracketing -
- Other
- Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Yes
- Wi-FI -
- Zoom in Motion Picture Yes
Self Timer2sec / 10sec
- Display
Playback ModeAll, Slideshow, Filtering Playback (Picture Only, Video Only, Category Selection, Select Date, Favorites), Calendar
- Thumbnails / Zoomed Playback 12,30-thumbnails / Yes
- Calendar Display / Dual- Image Playback Yes / No
- Set Favorites / Rotate Image Yes / No
- Show Histogram -
- Show Highlights -
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
- Edit
- Retouch Creative Retouch / Auto Retouch / Color Reproduction
- Resize / Cropping / Aspect Conv. / Leveling Yes / Yes / No / No
- Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / No / Yes
- Cut Animation -
- Video Divide Yes
- PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / Favorites / DPOF
- OSD language English, Spanish
- Monitor
LCD Monitor2.7"(6.7cm) TFT Screen LCD Display (230K dots)
- Flash
- Built- in- Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off, / 0.3 - 4.4m (Wide / i.ISO), 1.0 - 3.0m (Tele/ i.ISO)
- Media
- Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
- Built- in- Memory Approx.70MB
- Audio
- Microphone / Speaker Mono / Mono
- Battery life (approx.) 250 pictures (CIPA Standard)*1
- Standard Package
- Included Software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 9.0 SE / Adobe Reader
- Standard Accessories Battery Pack, Battery Charger, AC Cable, USB Cable, Hand Strap, CD-ROM
Further Specifications
- NOTE *1 / Recording conditions by CIPA standard / - CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association]. / - Temperature: 23 oC (73.4 oF)/Humidity: 50%RH when LCD monitor is on. / - Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card (32 MB). / - Using the supplied battery. / - Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image stabilizer function is set to [ON].) / - Recording once every 30 seconds with full flash every second recording. / - Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording. / - Turning the camera off every 10 recordings and leaving it until the temperature of the battery decreases. / *2 / - These are standard times taken at a temperature of 23 oC (73.4 oF) and a humidity of 50%RH. / - The time available for recording varies depending on the environment, the interval between recordings, and the manner of use. / - Actual recordable time is the time available for recording when repeating actions such as switching the power supply [ON] / [OFF], starting/stopping recording, zoom operation etc. / - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [AVCHD] in [FHD/60p]/[FHD/60i] is 29 minutes 59 seconds. / - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [MP4] is 29 minutes 59 seconds or up to 4 GB.
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I am a professional photographer who is seriously considering switching to the Lumix mirrorless cameras. Does Panasonic have, or can you suggest, a web site that demonstrates how professional photographers are successfully using the Lumix professional cameras?
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Project Old School, Part IIWritten by on September 4, 2003 Homemade Shortbed: Totally Polished Slices Through Bondo-Ridden Bedsides
Last month, I introduced you all to Project Old School, the newest project vehicle here at CLASSIC TRUCKS. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've bitten off more than I can chew, but that's mostly because I have Chris Daley and the rest of the crew at Totally Polished to lean on. While the original plan was to perform the big window and shortbed stories there and return later for the suspension story, it now looks like the truck will remain there until it leaves as a driver. Oxnard is a long way from Orange County, but I get more work done there than in my garage.
We knew there was a good amount of body filler on the bedsides, but since it had been blocked smooth and there was some metal showing, we had been keeping our fingers crossed that there would be no issues. Man, were we wrong. While cleaning off the areas of the sheetmetal to be cut and welded, we found areas with body filler as much as 1/2-inch-deep (and not just over a dent here or there) areas as large as 18 inches in diameter! By the time we left TP, the bed was thoroughly bodyworked and even had the first coat of primer--which is why much of the bodywork for next issue's installment was performed at this time as well.
For this month, we will concentrate on the actual shortening of the bed and frame. Totally Polished has performed about a dozen of these surgeries in recent years and has it down to a science. After slicing about 20 inches out of the length of the longbed's sheetmetal and chassis, the one other item that needs to be modified is the driveshaft. We took our long and skinny two-piece shaft and left it with Rich at Drive Line Service of Ventura County, where he built us a new shorter, one-piece unit that has a larger diameter similar to the later-model GM products. Follow along as Chris and his assistant, Steve Toomey, perform magic on the battered '64 bed. And, stay tuned for next month when we start welding up holes and slingin' filler.
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This was when we realized we had some serious bodywork ahead of us. See the line of welds a couple of inches below the body line and a foot below that? It's a section of sheetmetal that came from another truck, and it ran the entire length of the bed. It was never bodyworked properly, so by the time we rescued it, it was covered with two extremely thick layers of body filler.As we worked our way up the bedside, it only got worse. Hey, at least we were about to cut out a big section of it.Once the entire shop was thoroughly dusted, Chris took his measurements and taped off two lines from top to bottom with masking tape. After all of the measurements are double-checked, he began to cut from top to bottom with a Sawzall. There's an inner bed wall that runs from the body line to the bed floor that also had to be cut.
Chris set the rear edge of the bed in place and checked the fit. The body lines are the most crucial areas and were tack-welded in place first. After determining that everything was right on, Chris tacked the rest of the panel in place.Once both sides were tacked up and the body lines were rechecked, Chris welded everything up--inside and out--moving around frequently to not warp the metal.Chris then smoothed out all his welds with the 4-inch grinder and flap disc. The areas of the bed that didn't need any bodywork still don't.Next, the front was prepared for the cut by dusting the shop all over again. This corner of the bed was the worst yet. Now we know why the passenger door was replaced and there's a big patch of filler on the cab corner.After he measured and taped out his lines, Chris cut out the front section just like the back. Only this time it was 12 inches.Again, the crucial points were lined up, tacked, and double-checked on both sides before being fully welded up.Finally, all of the welds were ground smooth. Now that the bed was back in one piece, we removed it to shorten the front section of the frame.
The four rivets that hold the center support were the next to go. Finally, the last eight rivets that hold the crossmember in place were removed. It will be relocated forward so the link bars can be reused without modification.Now the areas of the frame to be cut were ground clean. The brake line must also be pulled away from the frame to avoid accidentally cutting it.The factory two-piece driveshaft was pulled out and delivered to Drive Line Service of Ventura County. We don't think much of this one was reused. The link bars were also removed from the crossmember at this time.Chris marked off all of his measurements based on the factory holes. This step would probably be really difficult if he hadn't already done this a dozen times.The marks were double-checked, and the lines were checked with a square. The frame was also supported under the cab at this time.All of the edges were cleaned up around the cuts and in the area that the crossmember needed to slide through.
The welding began in the inside corners. When everything was determined to be square, the outside corners were tacked. We double-checked that we were right on.Now Chris welded around the inside with a heavy, solid bead. Then an even heavier bead was welded around the outside of the weld.The crossmember was cleaned up with the grinder and slid up between the framerails. Its location was determined by reconnecting the link bars.The top and bottom were cut off of the extra piece of frame, and Chris used it to box the area of frame that was welded up. Recycling at its finest.The rearmost of the two bed mount brackets was also reused and should line up with the front and rearmost holes from the two old mounts--if everything is done correctly. Chris even fashioned the welds to look like a pair of factory rivets.That's it! Other than a little grinding and paint, our shortened frame was complete. All that was left to install is the driveshaft.Looking at this comparison shot, we're pretty sure the Drive Line Service unit will stand up to anything we throw under the hood.

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I have been using LaTeX for about a year now. I don't consider myself an expert at LaTeX but I know my around it enough to get things done. One of my colleagues, whose background is entirely non technical, wishes to learn LaTeX so that he can switch from using Open Office. He uses computers for browsing and preparing documents in a word processor. Please advise on how to introduce LaTeX to him (without making it sound like rocket science) and any material that is available online (like a LaTeX simple guide) for this purpose.
I have introduced LaTeX into our organization and quite a number of other people at a personal level over the years. In academia it is almost tradition that LaTeX is introduced via word of mouth and that the person that made the introduction helps with the first steps.
Most "non-technical" people use Windows or maybe Macs and probably are not old enough to remember operating a computer via a command prompt. You can assist your friend tremendously by helping to install a full MikTeX installation. If you noticed I mentioned full, as the biggest frustration of new users is setting up everything and is best to avoid errors due to missing packages at the beginning. MikTeX can update on the fly, but on a slow internet connection, it often fails. Use the default Texworks editor, as spell-checking and highlighting are good.
Provide an empty template, with maximum one or two packages. Provide also a reasonably sized document that works (must have an index and contents) and relates to their work.
Give them a bit of a coaching how everything works and help them put their first document together. Newcomers get very excited when they see the first document with contents, index and footnotes. Most non-technical people find it almost impossible to do this with Word or Libre Office.
Introduce images early and the idea of floats. Leave tables as the last item under discussion and well after the newcomer has done a bit of LaTeX work.
I think we are the only Construction Company that uses LaTeX for our reports. Most users have an Engineering background and some of them have good computer skills. As they are a mix of 32 nationalities skills vary tremendously. Strangely enough one of our secretaries took to it very easily but not our IT guy.
As to your question about introductory material, the best is a good book (after you have whetted their appetite a bit to want to use LaTeX to its full capacity).
I would do the following, which has worked for a few of my friends already. Im my opinion one best starts with just the structure. Prepare an empty document for him, and show him the basic sectioning commands. Have him work a while with this reduced set of commands and step by step explain how to accomplish certain tasks e.g. tables, figures,etc.
What worked really well for me, since my friends usually are not close by: Setting up a Dropbox folder or Subversion access. This way I could always check their files in case they ran into trouble.
I also put the common
You should show them LyX instead of full Latex. LyX is an editor that lets you create files that are compiled to LaTeX source (and from latex to .pdf). You edit text mostly without using LaTeX commands (although you can insert plain LaTeX code in the document). While it lets you to edit using GUI, it is not a WYSWIG editor.
It does very nice things like converting graphics (if necessary), has very good support for tables and maths, includes support for many packages (memoir, report... etc).
Here is the Lyx editor Window:
Here is the output:
I wrote my Masters in Lyx and it was a nice experience.
Teach them how to use
What i discovered during the lectures that i gave is that users want results and usually do not try to understand what they are doing as well as they are shouting for help before they think. I believe this is induced by two facts.
First the usually are Word (or Word-like) socialized. What makes them believe that everything has to done manually e.g. to set the typearea manually every page or the most seen beginner lapse
Secondly they tend to copy too much. This certainly comes form the well known template culture. A template sometimes works perfectly for a beginner, but will not necessarily make them understand.
Here are some of the resources i recommend:
A complete environment with documentation installed and a simple editor (s.a. texworks) will make it much more pleasant to learn LaTeX.
BTW: TeX Support is even possible via facebook ;)


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1947 Chevrolet Truck Cooling System - Cool Runnin'Written by on July 8, 2010 Keeping Project Shop Truck Cool
During the course of building a classic pickup a lot of time and imagination is spent on the project's overall look. Color, stance, wheel choice, interior design, and maybe some exotic bed wood lead the way. After all, appearance is the goal when building something that's pretty much an extension of its owner's personality. That's all good, but practicality is even more important in many ways. What good is a beautiful classic truck if it's not a reliable driver? One mechanical facet of a classic pickup project's success is one that doesn't often end up near the top of the must-have list, and that's a good reliable cooling system. Choosing a radiator and fan may not be as much fun as choosing an engine, paint, or wheels, but waiting until everything else is done and then trying to find a radiator and fan that'll fit is not the way to keep a classic truck cool.
Think back to all the hot rods and/or trucks you've seen on the side of the road or pulling out of line at the entrance to a car show, sweet-smelling steam blasting from the radiator and a telltale green trail running down the pavement. Don't let that be your ride. We certainly don't want that to be Project Shop Truck when it does eventually hit the road.
As you know from recent articles, Project Shop Truck is our sister publication STREET RODDER magazine's stab at building a custom '47 Chevy truck completely from aftermarket parts. They're counting on it to be a reliable cruiser and getting the cooling system right is a critical part of achieving that. Besides that, the truck's going to have the SR name painted all over it and it wouldn't be good PR to have their rolling billboard parked in a puddle of its own chartreuse juice.
The first key to running cool is to move water. That means selecting a radiator that will drop the coolant temperature sufficiently. Their choice was one of U.S. Radiator's new Triple Flow radiators. The Triple Flow has walls inside the core that route water through the radiator three times instead of just once. Don Armstrong at U.S. Radiator explained that this technology isn't new, but has been used for years in Midget and Sprint Car racing.
Did you notice that the inlet on this radiator (PN 80071) is located on the left side? This is so coolant can be fed down the left side, then back up the center, and down the right side before hitting the outlet, effectively tripling the surface area. According to U.S. Radiator's testing, it also reduces outlet water temperature an average of 15 percent over single-pass radiators.
The second key to running cool is moving air. Without air moving through the radiator, the outgoing water isn't going to be much cooler than the water going in, no matter how much surface area you give it.
At highway speeds, the motion of the truck forces air through the radiator, but when stuck in traffic or idling in line at that truck show, you need a reliable fan to keep cool. For Project Shop Truck, they could have chosen a mechanical fan, driven by the engine, but decided on an electric fan. One reason is dependability under slow-speed conditions, when engine rpm is low and air isn't being forced through the radiator by the motion of the car.
Another reason is that a compact electric fan would fit in the limited space of the '47 Chevy's engine compartment. That was their theory anyway, but we'll get to that in a bit.
To go along with their Triple Flow radiator the guys ordered a 17-inch High Output Single RAD Fan Kit (PN 16217) from Derale Performance. Derale has tested this fan to move up to 2,400 cubic feet per minute. In testing U.S. Radiator got a reading of 320 linear feet per minute using a handheld airflow meter. In either case, it's plenty of air movement for Project Shop Truck.
This Derale fan features a symmetrical housing so that it can be mounted on either side of the radiator for use as a pusher fan or puller fan. They mounted it on the rear of the radiator as a puller, which is more efficient. Pusher fans have the disadvantage of physically obstructing airflow to the radiator, and pushed air is more likely to bounce against the radiator causing turbulence.
Getting the most advantage of a puller fan requires a shroud between the fan and the radiator. Since the whole purpose of the fan is to draw as much air as possible through as much of the core as possible, they chose the largest diameter that would fit. But without a shroud, even a 17-inch diameter round fan would miss a lot of potential air from the four corners of the 203/4x193/4-inch radiator, so they had U.S. Radiator create an aluminum shroud before shipping the fan and radiator to Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix, where they were waiting to install it in the Chevy.
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U.S. Radiator finished the shroud for our Denale fan and Triple Flow radiator before we showed up, so we were allowed into the shop area to watch while a similar shroud was being built for a dual fan setup.Sebastian started with a piece of 12-gauge aluminum cut slightly larger than the dimensions of the radiator core. He then measured and marked the position of the two 11-inch fans that will be used with this shroud.Once the shroud housing is constructed and the fan placement determined, the fan or fans are then set into place and readied for installation.
With the fans in position, Sebastian marked the positions of the mounting holes, and then finished the job at the hole punch.The next stop was the welding department, where the nuts were threaded onto the mounting bolts, then welded onto the underside of the sheetmetal, and the bolts removed. Four mounting tabs were welded to the edges of the shroud.Looks like they've done this a few times before. The perfect fit of the shroud will allow the fans to pull air in across the entire core. Everywhere you see sheetmetal is an area that otherwise would not have been covered by the fans.It's got to look good, too. A little metal polish takes any scratches out of the aluminum and cleans up the finish.Then it's on to the shipping department and out the door on its way to the customer. U.S. Radiator can build a shroud for any size radiator. They don't even need the radiator. All they need are the core dimensions.Meanwhile, in Phoenix, the fan and radiator had arrived at Hot Rods by Dean, and Jonathan was ready to install the fan and radiator into Project Shop Truck. At that point, they discovered that their 25/8-inch-deep Derale electric fan and the 5/8-inch shroud weren't shallow enough to clear the crankshaft pulley and water pump. Uh-oh.
The core support on the Dynacorn '47 Chevy body has mounting holes in two positions. Using the lower mounting holes, as shown here, put the fan right on the crank pulley. Using the upper holes positioned the radiator too high in the truck. They could retain the Triple Flow radiator, and would like to run an electric puller fan for the reasons already stated, but that's going to require a narrower fan. Even in magazine-land, projects don't always go perfectly-but stay tuned, as they'll come up with a solution.While they're thinking of their solution, they're still going to need hoses. The off-center position of the radiator inlet requires an unusually curved hose. Jonathan consulted the Napa belts and hose catalog, which lists hoses by id and length, to find one that would work. This is when it's helpful to be friends with an auto parts store clerk, who might let you search through the inventory and borrow a few hoses until you find a fit.It's a tough trial-and-error process to determine the right shaped hose from a tiny 2-D drawing, so Jonathan ordered a few-and then a few more. This 11/2-inch id upper hose can be cut to fit just right.Finding the right lower hose was a little easier, but it also had to be cut. The rough ends were ground on the belt sander and the hose was rinsed to get rid of any residue that may have gotten inside.


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For ailing vets in rural areas, telemedicine can be the cure
Originally published on Wed May 29, 2013 6:05 pm
Howard Lincoln of White Mountain, Alaska, doesn't always hear it when people knock on his door. He's 82 and he still has a little shrapnel in his jaw from a mortar shell that nearly killed him in the Korean War 60 years ago.
"We heard it whistling, but I was the third one in line running toward the bunker," he recalls.
Wounds to his face, arm and hip laid him up in a Tokyo hospital for quite a while. But he recovered, came home to Alaska in 1955 and says he never applied for Veterans Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs) benefits.
The nearest VA hospital was hundreds of miles — and at least two plane rides — away. White Mountain, along the Fish River, is still pretty remote. It's a day's journey by snowmobile or dog sled to Nome or a short flight if the weather allows. But the distance to health care just got a lot shorter — virtually.
"Travel is a big burden on a veteran who may be older, not feeling well," says Susan Yeager, who directs the VA health care system for the state, "and just the sheer expense of travel. That can be a barrier to care, and that's part of what telemedecine is about."
"Telemedicine" happens over a secure computer connection between the big VA hospital in Anchorage and hundreds of small clinics across Alaska. Each clinic has a cart — picture your old desktop computer with retractable cables that connect it to everything in a doctor's little black bag — a stethoscope, an otoscope to look in ears, high-resolution cameras and an ultrasound.
Saving Time, Money And Travel
Brian Laufer, chief health officer at the Anchorage VA hospital, recalls a recent case where he showed a patient's skin lesion to the head of dermatology at the VA in Seattle, a thousand miles away.
It could have taken weeks and maybe a plane ride to get a specialist to look at the lesion in person. Instead the specialist asked — over the video link — for an immediate biopsy.
"Turned out to be a melanoma. Within three weeks it was fully excised and had surgery here and had a cure because the melanoma was caught very early," said Laufer.
Quick action like that can save lives — and lots of money on travel. The VA estimates it has saved more than 800,000 miles of travel that patients didn't have to make since the program was set up.
Vets with post-traumatic stress disorder can sit in group therapy by video. Therapists say that can be more discreet for veterans in tiny towns where everyone knows everybody's business.
Last year the VA made the distance to get care even shorter by joining with the Indian Health Service, which already has hundreds of clinics around rural Alaska and six other states. Vets, whether they are Native Americans or not, can now use the Native clinic system and the VA will pay for it.
That means vets like Howard Lincoln in White Mountain can get care near home. For Lincoln, it's just a short walk to the village clinic, or a snowmobile ride when the snow is too deep.
Aging Veterans From Vietnam And Korea
Vets from the Korean and Vietnam eras make up the large majority of those seeking care these days, as they reach an age where health complaints are common. Lincoln's sister Willa Ashenfleter helped him get signed up with the VA — and not a moment too soon. Lincoln had two minor strokes last year. Now he's monitoring his health more closely.
"There's a machine by his table that he takes his blood pressure around 8:30 every morning," says Ashenfelter, adding that the information can be beamed directly to the VA.
At 82, he's still fiercely independent, Ashenfleter says. Her brother worked hard to recover and stay active even after his strokes, she adds.
"Couple times he's been on his roof ... working on his stovepipe ... and when we tell him he shouldn't be up there, he isn't happy," she says.
Howard Lincoln was back up on his roof last winter. His sister says he doesn't like people telling him where he should or shouldn't go.
Yesterday on the program we heard how difficult it can be to reach or even find U.S. veterans. NPR's Quil Lawrence took us to a remote town in rural Alaska. It was just one extreme example, though truth be told many vets live in hard-to-reach places. Today we're looking at how to get them health care without making them travel hundreds of miles to a hospital. It's a problem technology is helping to solve. Quil Lawrence has today's report from a snowy village just south of the Arctic Circle.
QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Howard Lincoln of White Mountain doesn't always hear it when people knock on his door. He's 82.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: All right, Howard.
HOWARD LINCOLN: OK, Ryan.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: These two guys are going to talk with you.
LINCOLN: Yeah, OK.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Yeah, they're really good people.
LAWRENCE: He's skinny but spry. Lincoln jumped up to say hello when his nephew showed us in. Nice to meet you.
LINCOLN: Welcome to White Mountain. This is my home.
LAWRENCE: Out the window of his home the sun is casting long shadows on the Fish River. Sun sets at midnight this time of year.
LAWRENCE: When we came in, Lincoln had been sitting at his coffee table sharpening a buck knife on a piece of flint. Knives and knickknacks fill the shelves of his double-wide, also photographs of Lincoln with famous dog sled racers. He's got his Purple Heart up on a shelf too. Do you remember when you got wounded?
LINCOLN: Yeah. It was terrible.
LAWRENCE: Did you get hit by bullets or shrapnel or...
LINCOLN: Shrapnel.
LAWRENCE: That's maybe another reason Lincoln is hard of hearing - a screaming mortar shell in Korea 60 years ago. He's still got a little metal in his jaw and scars on his arm and hip. But he recovered, came home, and says he never applied for VA benefits. Anyhow, the nearest VA hospital was hundreds of miles and at least two plane rides away. But recently that distance got shorter - virtually.
SUSAN YEAGER: Travel is a big burden on a veteran who may be older, not feeling well.
LAWRENCE: Susan Yeager directs the VA health care system for the state.
YEAGER: And just the sheer expense of travel, that can be a barrier to care. That's part of what tele-medicine's about.
LAWRENCE: Tele-medicine happens over a secure computer connection between the big VA hospital in Anchorage and hundreds of small clinics across Alaska.
BRIAN LAUFER: So this is a global media cart.
LAWRENCE: Brian Laufer is chief health officer at the Anchorage VA hospital. Each clinic has a cart. Picture your old desktop computer with retractable cables that connect it to everything in a doctor's office.
LAUFER: There's a stethoscope, there's an otoscope to look in ears, ultrasound.
LAWRENCE: In a recent case, Laufer used a high-definition webcam to show a skin lesion to the head of dermatology at the VA in Seattle, a thousand miles away.
LAUFER: Turned out to be a melanoma. Within three weeks that melanoma was fully excised and had seen surgery here and had a cure because the melanoma was caught very, very early.
LAWRENCE: Quick action like that can save lives - and lots of money on travel. Vets with PTSD can sit in group therapy by video, which turns out to be more discreet - important in a tiny town where everyone knows everybody's business. Susan Yeager of the VA says tele-health carts are all over the state.
YEAGER: We have these carts - hundreds of them now - throughout the native clinic system.
LAWRENCE: The native clinic system - that's the key. The VA doesn't have a presence everywhere. But the Indian Health Service already does. A recent deal in Alaska and six other states allows veterans to use these clinics. And that means Howard Lincoln, the Korean War vet back in White Mountain, can get care in his home village and the VA will pay for it.
WILLA ASHENFLETER: There's a machine that's by his, his table that takes his blood pressure around 8:30 every morning.
LAWRENCE: Lincoln's sister, Willa Ashenfleter, helped him get signed up with the VA, which was a good thing, since he had two minor strokes last year. But, she says, he's worked hard to recover and stay independent - too independent maybe.
ASHENFLETER: Couple times he's been working on his roof, and when we tell him he shouldn't be up there, he isn't happy with that.
LAWRENCE: Howard Lincoln, 82 years old, was back up on his roof last winter. He doesn't like people telling him where he should or shouldn't go. Quil Lawrence, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Palladino: A final look at the hoop season
This is it, I promise, the final reference of any kind concerning high school basketball, and we open with a repeat topic: When is an All-City basketball team not an All-City basketball?
When the team is selected in Waterbury.
It has been suggested that the selection of an All-City team has become something of an antiquity around here. Not true. Area coaches first selected All-NVL and All-City teams in 1945. There is no reason to stop either now. The All-City team means a lot to the players in this town, which is why we ask the next question: Why aren't all basketball teams in Waterbury represented in the All-City process?
Neither Kaynor Tech nor Chase Collegiate are invited to participate in the selection of the All-City basketball teams.
Kaynor Tech and Chase athletes can earn a place on All-City teams in cross country, track and golf because they compete against the five city NVL schools in annual championship meets or tournaments.
But in all others, the Panthers and Highlanders are not considered.
Once upon a time, Kaynor Tech had a seat at the table. The first Panther to earn All-City status was Ken Lewis in 1969. Others were Chris White (1977), Darryl Lovett (1984) and Rufus Freeman (1985, 1986).
On the girls side, and this is not an all-inclusive list by any means, Ingrid Kelley was All-City for Tech in 1985, as was Charlene Shepard of Notre Dame Academy, 1984 through 1986. I could not find a player from St. Margaret's-McTernan or Chase Collegiate on the team.
The last sniff of the squad for the Tech boys came in 1991, when Jason Arnauckas was named to the second team. In 1990, Lucretia Spellman of Tech was voted second-team girls. That's it.
For more than 20 years now, if you don't play for a city NVL school you are not All-City worthy.
There has been one reason given, and it was repeated again this year: You can't cast a vote for a player you've never seen play.
That's a good point, but it doesn't explain why the Crosby, Holy Cross, Kennedy, Sacred Heart, and Wilby coaches own the singular voting honor. Would not the All City teams selected by Hank Spellman, J. Paul Vance, Brian Stasaitis, and Ray Behr be equally valid?
Lack of representation is significantly noticeable this year, with players like Terrance Thompson, Tre-Kel Douglas, and Tre'von Gibbs for Tech being All State worthy, but not All City. Other players like Kyle Bonicki, Ryan Shiel, Matt McClain, Taylor Brady, Idalis Miranda, Daelyn Kale, and Audra Spellman are, for lack of a better word, ineligible.
That needs to change.
A word about the ladies: When we say ladies, we need to say eighth-grade ladies. There are eighth grade phenoms out there who will make their mark on high school basketball in seasons to come. One of them already has.
Chase Collegiate's Idalis Miranda is just an eighth grader, but that didn't stop her from competing with the Highlanders varsity this season. Miranda averaged 12.4 ppg, led the team in assists and steals, was third in rebounding, and was the only eighth grader to compete in the New England prep school all-star game.
The other is Jalissa Rodriguez of North End Middle School. Nicknamed Wolverine, Rodriguez averaged 20.3 ppg for North End, set a school single-game record when she scored 37 points against Tyrell Middle School, and when she hit a basket with seven seconds left in the championship game against West Side Middle School, Rodriguez helped North End to its third straight city title.
Rodriguez will attend The Taft School in the fall.
It is a pity that the Chase and Taft girls do not meet on the court.
A final word: We say farewell once again to many star basketball players, but happily, we have many with star potential returning next season.
Players like Walter Wright and Gabbie Holness produced a brand of basketball that will long be remembered here. There were many records set by these young stars, some of which may stand for many seasons to come, such as the 11 3-point field goal night of Wamogo's Nick Nemergut back in the state tourney of 2011. It remains a Berkshire League and, as far as we know, a state single-game record.
If any player comes along and makes 12 3-pointers in a game I sure hope I am in the gymnasium to see it.
We will have memories-in-the-making for the 2013-2014 season. There is one that I can see in the crystal ball right now:
Currently, Matt Curtis, Jordan Williams, Phil Lott, Dave Vigeant, Jerome Malloy, and Edmund Saunders are the only area players who have done it.
Can you guess?
Good job: Score 2,000 points for a career. If he stays healthy, Crosby's Tyshon Rogers is a sure bet to become just the fourth player in city history to become Mr. 2,000.
A final video: Visit the Rep-Am's Hoop Zone webpage, at www.rep-am.com/hoopzone, to check out one last video, a tribute to area players who crossed the 1,000-point threshold this season.
And that's it, time to bust out the bats and balls and clubs and rackets, and shots and javs, it's time for spring, somewhere.
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Happy Monday, all! I'm writing this post from the airport, waiting to board my flight to the exciting city of Copenhagen with the ECCO team! We'll be meeting the ECCO designers, attending shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week, and attending the ECCO Walk In Style Award Show. We have a number of other exciting events on the agenda, so keep tuned to follow along the journey, both on the blog, and on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest (check out the ECCO team on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest, as well)!
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Fall damage is (blocks-3)/2. So a 23 block drop (or more) should kill you (or a mob). But if I'm building a falling trap and want to use water to collect the items dropped, how much higher does it have to be? The floor would have water running over it to gather the items and monsters would fall to that floor. How high a drop do I need?
If you put a fence at the base of the fall, mobs will still take their regular falling damage. Due to the fence taking up 1.5 blocks of space (this is why you can't jump over fences), the mob will hit the fence instead of the water breaking the fall.
This mechanic can be applied like this (not my trap - it's part of a world I downloaded):
Mobs spawn in this gigantic tower...
...and hit these fences. The water then funnels the items into the middle (which then connects to another stream flowing the lava you can see, to kill any mobs that fell through the middle).
The minecraft wiki page on water states:
So considering the inverse, a single block of water will only prevent fall damage if you're holding in the jump key. Since mobs have no reason to jump if there are no players around, a 23-block drop into 1 block of water should be enough to kill any mob instantly. Just make sure you're nowhere near your trap when the mobs fall, so they're not trying to jump as the descend.


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Announcing 2008 Poetry Contest Winners
The results of the 2008 Poetry Contest are in! This year we added a third category and asked students to respond to a new challenge—writing a poem based on one of three famous American paintings. This was in addition to requiring that poems adhere to a specific form.
The judges were delighted with the entries they received—more than 250 poems were submitted in all three categories. The creativity and discipline showed by students was truly inspiring.
In Category I, students ages 7 to 11 wrote blank verse poems of 15-20 lines based on The Stampede by Lightning by Frederic Remington, 1908.
For Category II, students ages 12 to 15 wrote blank verse poems of 20-25 lines based on View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836.
Finally, in Category III, students ages 16 to 19 wrote blank verse poems of 25-30 lines based on Approaching a City by Edward Hopper, 1946.


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Types of Surgery: Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: January 22, 2002
About Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
This "Helpful Facts" sheet is designed to give you basic information on axillary lymph node dissection. More detailed information can be provided by your doctor or nurse. If, you have other questions or would like additional information, please talk to your doctor or nurse.
What is the Lymph System?
The lymph system is important in your body's defense against infection. It is made up of lymph vessels and lymph nodes. The lymph vessels collect fluid and protein from surrounding body tissues. The fluid is then filtered through the lymph nodes, which are clustered in various parts of the body. Lymph nodes act to filter out and trap bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, and other unwanted substances.
What is an Axillary Lymph Node Dissection?
The lymph nodes under your arm are called "axillary" lymph nodes. These lymph nodes drain and filter fluid from the arm and chest area. An axillary lymph node dissection is the surgical removal of these lymph nodes. This procedure is done to determine if the cancer has spread beyond the breast. If there is cancer in the lymph nodes, it may influence additional treatment recommendations.
Does Everyone with Breast Cancer Require an Axillary Lymph Node Dissection?
Very early breast cancer, such as ductal carcinoma in situ, is "noninvasive" breast cancer. This means that the abnormal cells are found only in the lining of the milk ducts or lobules of the breast and have not yet invaded the surrounding breast tissues, lymph vessels or blood vessels; therefore, these abnormal cells can not spread to other areas of the body. Patients with noninvasive breast cancers generally do not require an axillary lymph node dissection.
What are the Risks of an Axillary Lymph Node Dissection?
As with any surgery there is a risk of bleeding, infection and poor wound healing. Fluid or blood could accumulate around the breast or underarm area and require drainage. Numbness and tingling in the underarm and arm can occur due to nerves cut during surgery. Muscle tightness of the underarm and shoulder can occur. Lymphedema, or swelling of the arm, can occur weeks, months or years after surgery. There is also a life-long risk of developing arm infections following a lymph node dissection.
How Long Will I Be in the Hospital?
You will be discharged from the hospital within 48-72 hours of the surgery even if a mastectomy or lumpectomy is performed. If a mastectomy is performed with immediate reconstruction the hospital stay is usually four to five days.
How Will I Look and Feel After the Dissection?
You will have an incision in the underarm area. Initially there will be some swelling and discomfort. Drains, or thin plastic tubes with a plastic "balloon" at the end, will be in place to collect fluid from the breast and underarm area. The drain(s) will stay in for approximately one week. You or your family will need to learn how to care for these at home. A referral will be made for home care visits to assist you and your family in your care (visits may vary according to insurance). A "Preparing for Breast Surgery" class is held weekly at the Rowan Breast Center. The class provides an opportunity for you and your family to learn, before your surgery, how to care for your drains and incision. Check with your nurse or doctor to register for the class.
Your underarm and arm may be numb and tingling after the surgery. Most women get a significant amount of this sensation back, but not usually full sensation. Your skin may also feel tight on your chest and underarm area. This is due to the skin being pulled tightly during the surgery. Your skin has elastic components and will loosen as time goes on. Muscle tightness of the underarm and shoulder may also occur. Once your drains are removed, it will be important to exercise that arm. You will be shown some arm exercises at your first post-operative visit.


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HRA (Heartland Racing Association) Non-Wing Sprint Cars will be supporting the World of Outlaws on June 8th at the Clay County Fairgrounds. World of Outlaw driver Craig Dollansky's CDR Promotions will be promoting the World of Outlaws show and CDR and HRA just came together on an agreement last night and made it official that the HRA Non-Winged Sprint Cars will be the support class for this very anticipate June 8th date of the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars at Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer, IA.
"We were certainly wanting to have a support class with the Outlaws on June 8th," says World of Outlaw driver and promoter Craig Dollansky. "These HRA Non-Winged 360ci Sprint Cars put on a great show and it will absolutely add a level of excitement to our World of Outlaw event...I'm happy to be working with Josh and the HRA on this."
"We are going have a great car count along with a great purse for our drivers and this is something that is really going to help the HRA," says Josh Holt of Rapid Speedway and the Heartland Racing Association. "It is certainly a step in the right direction and it is going to open some new doors for the HRA Sprint Cars. These cars are some of the most economical when it comes to sprint car racing with our rules package; it keeps everyone very close, and you simply don't need a bunch of money in the motors or for the tire bill. On top of that, they put on a great show! We race them weekly on Friday nights at Rapid Speedway in Rock Rapids, Iowa, so one should definitely come check them out on a weekly basis!"
More information for the drivers and the fans will be made available throughout this coming month and you can follow the HRA Sprint Cars on the Official Website of the Heartland Racing Association and Rapid Speedway at www.heartlandracingassociation.com.
The season for the HRA Sprint Cars and Rapid Speedway begins on May 4th with a test and tune date scheduled for April 28th.
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Did you hear that Richard Dawson has died?
he was the host of family fued that got in trouble for kissing the ladies. he was also in hogan's heroes. he was 79.
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And the survey says?? No...
But seriously, he was a funny man... I'll always remember him from Hogans Heroes and Match Game 75...
So did Kathryn Joosten from Desperate Housewives.
Read it a few minutes earlier. He was very entertaining, and good at his job.
I hear nothing!
Dawson's first wife was supposed to be England's version of Marilyn Monroe: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2723715072/nm0002047 Newkirk finally escaped!
He seemed to get cranky and irritable the last few years of the show. I didn't blame him though. Those families were annoying.
I just heard on twitter. It's sad he was by far my favorite family feud host and a favorite on the match game too. Also somewhat of a meme between my friends. Along with whispering "the password is... "
Was it a kissing disease?
Seriously, he kissed EVERY woman that came on the Family Feud at least once...
@capguncowboy: You beat me to it. That was my first thought as well.
I read that he met his second wife on Fued. Maybe that's why he kissed them all - tryouts!
Oh man, he was one of the greatest game show hosts ever.
Sad times. Celebrities from that era were truly a different breed. When I look at shows like Match Game from back then and how the celebrities were vs how things are now there's simply no comparison.
I saw an old episode while on vacation, and I just wanted to call the police. You can't do what he did and not go to jail these days.
RIP ! I loved him in Hogans Heroes as well as watching him on various gameshows as host/ partcipant
KNOWN for always kissing the ladies, he has now gotten the kiss of death.


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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said its tests showed the oil had a much lower flash point -- the temperature at which a fire can ignite -- than originally indicated on tank-car signage and was more dangerous than identified on the railcars that plowed into Lac-Megantic on July 6.
By PAUL VIEIRA and TOM FOWLER
OTTAWA -- The oil carried on railcars that derailed,
exploded and killed 47 people in a small Quebec town this
summer was a more-flammable liquid than its shippers indicated,
Canadian transport investigators said this week, a development
that heralds a further tightening of oversight of the booming
trade in shipping oil by rail.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said its tests
showed the oil had a much lower flash point -- the temperature
at which a fire can ignite -- than originally indicated on
tank-car signage and was more dangerous than identified on the
railcars that plowed into Lac-Megantic on July 6.
Because of the inaccurate labeling, the oil may have been put
in tank cars that weren't classified as safe enough to hold it,
the safety board said, although it added that it hadn't made a
final judgment.
The board said it had written to North American regulators
asking them to review labeling guidelines for the shipment of
dangerous goods. US regulators have been tightening safety
standards they apply to rail-tank cars and their use. The
findings could also raise more questions of negligence and
liability for companies that were involved in shipping the oil
from North Dakota's Bakken region into Canada.
The announcement answers a question experts have asked about
one of North America's most fatal derailments in decades: How
did crude oil, which typically has a high flash point, ignite
and explode as it did in Quebec. But it leaves many questions
unanswered, not least the exact contents of the cargo and
whether correct labeling would have stopped an accident
investigators say appears to have started when the brakes on
the unattended train were released, sending the Montreal, Maine
& Atlantic Railway Inc.-operated train careening into the
"We are interested in knowing more about the product," said
Donald Ross, the lead Canadian investigator. He said his
investigators will continue to test the samples from 11
suppliers they found in the Bakken region.
Investigators said those who supplied and handled the cargo
had offered "contradictory" details about the fuel's hazard
levels. Dangerous fluids are measured on a scale of 1 to 3,
with level 1 being most hazardous. The TSBC said the fuel
should have been identified as level 2. The trucks that first
moved the oil from Bakken to a rail-loading facility in North
Dakota had documents that indicated level 2, but the rail cars
that took the cargo on to Lac-Megantic had identified it as
level 3.
Canadian investigators are also looking at whether the types
of railcars used to ship the Bakken oil are safe enough. This
week, they wrote to regulators in Canada and the US, as well as
rail- and energy-industry players, asking them to ensure proper
procedures are in place to accurately identify dangerous
This month, the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration said it is reviewing proposals that would force
tank cars to be equipped with better puncture-resistance
systems, among other measures designed to make them safer.
PHMSA started surprise inspections on Bakken crude shipments
in the past month to verify that shippers and rail carriers are
properly classifying the oil, said Jeannie Shiffer, its
director for governmental, international and public
In August, the US Federal Railroad Administration said it is
concerned that some oil shipments are being transported in tank
cars that aren't safe enough. The agency also said it is
investigating whether some shipments of crude contain chemicals
that make them more hazardous than their classification
More than 34 million barrels of crude were delivered to US
refineries by train in 2012, a fivefold increase compared with
a year earlier, said the Energy Information Administration.
The MM&A train was headed to an oil refinery in St. John, New Brunswick,
owned and operated by closely held Irving Oil. Investigators
said regulations dictate the importer of the goods -- in this
case, Irving -- has the responsibility to ensure railcars are
properly labeled.
A spokeswoman for Irving Oil said the company is working
with authorities as they investigate. MM&A, a unit of
Illinois-based Rail World Inc., didn't respond to a request to
A spokeswoman for Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt
said in an email that companies that fail to properly identify
their goods could face prosecution.
Ms. Raitt's spokeswoman didn't respond to questions on
whether Irving Oil could face such penalties.
In Lac-Megantic, residents said the findings came as little
surprise. "We knew that the materials in the train were more
dangerous than they said in the beginning," said Yannick Gagne,
35 years old, who owned the Musi-Cafe, the downtown bar in
which many of the victims were believed to have died.
Mr. Gagne said he believes the oil and railway companies
should pay for all the damage. "They destroyed our property,
our families," he said.
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Hirak Dutta
Transportation of crude oil thru rail-cars is always dangerous. Crude oil contains lighter hydrocarbons and is highly hazardous. Thus to my mind we must classify crude oil at level 1 and not level 2. Considering the risk and potential threat, we must take this additional precautionary measure & classify as level1.
Robert in Houston
Yes, there are questions on how air-to-release brakes could have failed as a result of the engine fire. But bigger questions if Bakken condensate was being transported as if it were Sask heavy. How well was it stabilised? I doubt anyone could stabilise a light crude below 2# RVP, and even that is prob 90'F CC Flash. At the best of times, crude might be as flammable as jet fuel. If light and/or poorly stripped it will be closer to gasoline (much worse). Flammability also does not blend linearly , so a small quantity (1-5%) can throw a whole tender off. Disclosure: I work for an oil major in refining , but not directly in Crude production , transport, storage or distillation.
Brad ONeal
The Obama administration should take the full brunt of this disaster. By killing the Keystone pipeline, he has forced oil producers to use rail transport to get oil to market.
Simon Richards
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WELLSBURG - Area residents looking for a peaceful place to have lunch during a busy work day or somewhere to unwind and have dinner should try The River Club, a new restaurant at 801 Main St.
Many who live or work in Wellsburg know the location as the former site of Staffileno's on the River, and the new eatery has retained many of its staff.
But the restaurant has a new menu and in many ways, a new look, with the dining area, banquet room and bar among areas that have been painted, re-carpeted or undergone other renovations, said Todd Bernardini, who with Jeff Cusick, oversees the business.
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NEW RESTAURANT — The staff of The River Club, a new restaurant at 801 Main St., are ready to serve a variety of quality entrees and sides for lunch and dinner in the eatery's scenic location along the Ohio River. They include, front, from left, Kayla Yost, Cassie Hunter and Sarah Dobbs; and back, Eric Owings, Jordan Wallace, Bridget Burns, Jeff Cusick, co-general manager; Ben Anthony and Channlear Burek. The staff also includes Jeff Cusick, co-general manager; Anita Craft, Josh Barnhart, Ashley Dobbs, Cody Dunson and Megan Pollock.
-- Warren Scott
Bernardini said in addition to its spacious dining area, banquet room and bar, the location's view of the Ohio River, was a strong selling point. Patrons have an expansive view of the river and at night, the lighted dock installed by the former owner, from the dining room's wide picture window or its large outdoor deck.
The deck also overlooks the restaurant's newly re-landscaped marina. Bernardini said docks are available for boaters who want to enjoy a view of the colorful fall foliage along the hillside above the river.
The restaurant also is taking reservations for the private banquet room, which seats up to 120 and is well suited for business or club meetings and Christmas and other private parties.
A Brooke County native and former chef at Aspen Manor, Bernardini said the menu includes a variety of sandwiches, wings in an assortment of flavors, appetizers and sides at affordable prices.
Dinner entrees include a 12-ounce sirloin steak, baked cod and several Italian dishes.
"Our pasta dishes are our biggest seller," said Bernardini, who noted the wide selection includes fettuccine alfredo, chicken marsala, gnocchi Corleone, pasta florentine, baked sausage ziti and shrimp scampi.
The kitchen is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Patrons in the dining area may order a variety of legal beverages from the bar or have a seat there, where they may catch some sports on television or enjoy a game of pool.
He said those looking for a night out are encouraged to stop by on Friday or Saturday nights, when The River Club offers music by popular local bands, a disc jockey or karaoke.
Bernardini encouraged those interested in making reservations or learning more about The River Club to call (304) 737-0064.


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If I salt tomato, potato and pasta, their tastes change in completely different ways to me. Why is this? Had I put oregano on them, they'd all taste like oregano.
Update: The question is not "is it so?" but "why is it so?"
Two properties of salt that oregano doesn't have:
water solubility: you drop salt in water, you put it on chicken, you put it in tomato sauce. Most or all of it ends up dissolving, making it easier to mix.
osmosis: related to above. Sprinkle some salt on raw meat. Come back in 5 minutes and you'll see beads of liquid on the meat, almost like it was sweating. That's a combination of salt dissolving into the liquid on the surface of the meat, and osmosis pulling less salty water out of the cells of the meat to balance the salty water on the surface. In 10 minutes, some of that liquid will have disappeared. Part of this might be due to evaporation, but part of this is due to the liquid pulling salt into the cells, which changes the equilibrium and allows for the cells to draw liquid back in (principle behind brining meats).
Salt has a natural way of penetrating organic matter that oregano and many other seasonings don't. There are other mechanisms at play too--salty foods can make you salivate, which may make something feel "juicier" in your mouth. I'd highly recommend the Good Eats episode on salt as a start.
Salt has a neat ability to bring out and enhance flavours in other foods. If the food tastes "salty", you're probably adding too much. If you use something like Kosher salt, you don't actually need to use very much to add the flavor.
Here's a decent article on it.
Salt is completely water soluble, unlike only trace amount of what is in oregano. That being the case, it will completely saturate anything that is wet, therefore it can completely consume and pair with every bite, whereas oregano remains in chunks and can be distinctly tasted alone.
This is because salt is a natural flavor enhancer, which basically brings out the flavor of whatever you are putting it in. Different salts also give different flavors, depending of the minerality in them.


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This exercise will strengthen your core muscles, keeping your abdomen and back strong, and helping prevent lower back pain. It also stretches your leg and arm muscles. Start from an all-fours position. Keeping your back in a neutral position, lift your left arm in front of you and your right leg up behind you. Be careful not to arch your back or lift your leg higher than the hips. Hold for a count of five and slowly lower. Then repeat with your right arm and left leg. Do around 10 repetitions for each arm and leg.
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First-Class Humidor Combo - Cigars International for $15
20 Capacity Humidor with 8 cigars for only 15 dollar.. Limit one per household. Five dollars shipping.
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Weird thing is the description at the site says it's $15 but when added to a cart it becomes $25.
Bait and switch or error? I've emailed the site. We'll see.
THat's weird. I just did this and I got the following:
Sub-Total $15.00
Shipping $5.00
Sales Tax $0.00
Order Total $20.00
Aw man, $15 would've been awesome for this. Not it's up to $30 with shipping.
@patentdude: huh looks like the price changed. I just clicked on the link and it says 25.00. Still not a bad price though. I bought 2 hand rolled cigars in Florida this past fall and they cost me almost 30.00 total.
here the correct link:
definitely the wrong price, its too bad... it looked like a good deal
@jameskandt: THat's the link that I used...and I wonder why when I cleck the link I posted I get the correct page?
The description in the page even says $15 but it's listed as $25. I'm still tempted to get this, but I'm much more interested to see if the price is $15 somehow.
I bought this sampler when this deal was going on about a year ago. The cigars are all pretty solid, the Oliva Serie 'G' is one of my personal favorites. The humidor is pretty much worthless, though the cigars are worth the price alone.
@jameskandt: still says 25.00
I'm not sure who marked it dead but it still came up at $15 just now. Using the link in my above post.
Here it is again:
Definitely says $25.00 in shopping cart, even though description says "15 bucks" literally. Not sure if that would be a bait and switch, but definitely not interested in buying from them. Especially the fact the price "changed" yet the description didn't. (or did it? as anyone actually bought this for the $15 it claims?)
Just to make sure it still worked I bought one. It is $5 for shiping but the deal is 15 bucks. Try the link I posted above yours not the original link.
That's really weird I just clicked the original link and it worked.
It must be a browser of cookie thing
See picture.
this works, its 15$
it says $25 for me.
and yes, I tried EVERY link on this page :(
Shows that it's $25 for me also, $30 shipped. I'm not going to bite until it's known why the price is $25 instead of the $15 that the deal says it is.
Still, at $30 shipped for 8 cigars, it remains a good deal, I paid almost three times that about a two months ago for 10 cigars.
The Oliva's are pretty good, too.
It keeps changing because they have multiple prices for the same thing. Weird, I know. But Cigar International does a lot of these deals. Generally they have deals like this in magazines as "starter" deals. They are a good company but these good deals have glitches in prices a lot of times.
Seeing 25 dollars both on the page and in the cart (tried all links). I would definitely bite for 15 dollars... Gonna keep my eyes on this one.
I'd buy for $15, but the page advertising the deal and listing the details doesn't even say $15 - it says $25. I never even saw it say $15. Boooo!!!
gotta be over 21 to order? pooey. (said $30 for me too.)
I've contacted CI for an official response that would provide either, A. a link to provide the item [20 cigar capacity humidor plus 8 cigars] at a description price of "15 bucks" for a check-out price of US$15.00, or B. correct/remove the description pricing of "15 bucks" for a check-out price of $25.00. Either way - just make it clear for potentional WOOT referred customers (and non-WOOTers, if such a thing exists).
I'll report back if I hear anything.
Unfortunately, I think they've "corrected" the price. When I go to the page it lists the price as $25 (before I even put it in my cart and get surprised by the final total!). If you're listening CI - I'd buy at $15, but not $25!!!
Says $25 for me as well.
Thank you, kira - and this applies to this conversation...how???
Funny thing I'm using Firefox got 15, opened IE and got 25. Worth a shot I guess.
Cigars International runs these specials every once in a while...sometimes its %10 for 8 cigars and sometimes they throw in a humidor for an extra $5. The humidor is decent enough if you don't have one. These were always hit and miss so it doesn't surprise me the site is acting weirdly.
try this one http://www.CigarsIntl.com/sax43
Got this for my buddy last Christmas and he loved the smokes. That humidor it comes with is nice, too.
sax43 one worked for me where the rest didnt
I don't know if they changed it because I emailed them on the site, but the original link for the CPA11 shows up as $15.00 for me NOW... previously it showed $25. Both links CPA11 and SAX43 show up $15 for me now. I'd get it while the getting is hot! lol
SAX43 worked for me, 15 bucks plus 5 shipped. cant wait till they get here!
$15 worked for me. I just had to refresh the site a few times. sweet deal
SAX43 worked for me as well. Not a bad deal at all.
Got one for $20 including shipping, seems like a pretty good deal.
This one worked! Great deal...now off to find a deal on a good Single Malt and my day will be complete!!
@rie811: Worked for me too. 20 bucks out the door.
rei811 link works great. The humidor looks cheap and cheesy but those 8 cigars at the local shop will run around $60 and plus 25% tax here in IL.
21 plus only? What is up with that? Are they really going to check my id on delivery?
To clarify, with response from customer service from Cigars International; and why the discrepancy of "15 bucks" in the description and $25.00 as a listed price...
Customer Service response:
Dear Mr. (removed),
Thanks for getting back to me. I unfortunately don't have the promotional code. Promotional codes can be found in magazines or websites where we advertise such as Playboy, Golf Digest, etc. A promotional code is needed to receive this item at this discounted price; otherwise it is $25.00. I apologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know if there is anything we can assist you with in the future! Have a great day!
Customer Service
As supplied by http://www.retailmenot.com/view/cigarsinternational.com, use the discount code SAX42
thanks for figuring this out for me! it works perfectly now.
Awesome $20 shipped! Got one. Now I can say.....yes I have a humidor.
Sax43 works great. good deal for the cigars, regardless of the humidor
Souns like a good deal. Count me in.
Just placed an order for this for $20 with shipping. Why is it listed as RIP?
@mill25joe The humidor is cheap, but it does seal really nicely, so if you don't have one or you need an extra, you can't beat this price.
It still seems like a valid deal considering I got it for $20 shipped 10 min ago. I'd un-RIP it
Deal is still good using
@kidincredible: Yeah the problem is people just come in and click on the link, never bother to check the comments and when they see the link doesn't "work" or hasn't been updated they "tattle" and mark it dead.
WOW..I got mine today and this is well wort 20 bucks. I was expecting a cheaper humidor and would have been happy with eh sticks for 20 bucks.
The humidor has nice weight and from what I can tell a good seal, I'll know more after I season it but I'm happy with it and might go for another.


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The New York University Bookstore has rescheduled two events that were postponed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: poet Bhisham Bherwani (originally scheduled for Nov. 12; now scheduled for Nov. 19) and Zadie Smith (originally scheduled for Oct. 30; now scheduled for Dec. 3).
The event featuring Greta Gleissner, originally scheduled for Nov. 5 and rescheduled for Nov. 27, has been cancelled.
All events, which are free and open to the public, will take place the Bookstore's 726 Broadway location (between Astor Place and Washington Place). Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.998.4667 or go to www.bookstores.nyu.edu. Subways: N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
Monday, November 19, 6-7:30 p.m.
Poetry and Poetry in Translation with Bhisham Bherwani
Bhisham Bherwani will be reading from his poetry collection, "The Second Night of the Spirit", and from "Atlanta Review: The India Issue", an anthology of Indian poetry in English.
Tuesday, November 27, 6-7:30 p.m.--CANCELLED
Greta Gleissner, author of "Something Spectacular: The True Story of One Rockette's Battle with Bulimia"
"Something Spectacular" is Greta Gleissner's personal chronicle of the devastating effects bulimia exacts upon her life during her time as a Rockette. In recovery from bulimia for the last 10 years, Gleissner uses her experience as a platform to help others. The event is co-sponsored by the Silver School of Social Work at NYU.
Monday, December 3, 8-9 p.m.
Zadie Smith, author of "NW"
Zadie Smith's new novel follows four Londoners as they try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of "White Teeth", "The Autograph Man", "On Beauty", and the essay collection "Changing My Mind".
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King Abdullah chairs Cabinet meeting in Makkah
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet's weekly session at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah this evening. At the outset, the monarch ordered all authorities to spare no effort in providing for the needs and comfort of Umrah performers and visitors to the Holy Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque during the final days of Ramadan.
The Cabinet was briefed on several multilateral conferences that took place last week, including the 16th meeting of Saudi Governors in Makkah, the 132nd session of Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo, and the 81st meeting of the Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Jeddah.
King Abdullah then offered a briefing on plans for the 79th Saudi National Day [September 23rd], noting that the holiday will coincide with the official opening of the King Abdullah University for Sciences and Technology (KAUST) in Thol. The new university, the King remarked, will reflect Saudi Arabia's role in contributing to human knowledge and will become a bridge of contact between the world's civilizations.
The Cabinet expressed satisfaction over the World Bank's annual "Doing Business" Report for 2010, released last Tuesday. The report ranked Saudi Arabia as the best place to do business in the entire Middle East and Arab world and 13th on a broader list of 183 countries. The ministers stressed that the Kingdom plans to intensify efforts to improve its business environment and to remove obstacles to investment.
After reviewing its agenda, the Cabinet approved renaming the fund established under Royal Order No. X/41362, dated 20/10/1423, to be the "Social Charity Fund" and approved, for a period of ten years as of 30/12/1430 H., the extension of the government's concession of its share of profits distributed by the Saudi Electricity Company.


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6 New Weapons That You Literally Cannot Hide From
Wars have been won and lost purely on the ability of one side to hide really well. Even a superior enemy can't take you out if they can't find you. Give ancient Rome barbarian-seeking arrows, and we'd still be wearing sandals to the bath house to wipe ourselves with sticks.
OK, bad example.
Finally, in the 21st century, technology is catching up to the problem with weapons that almost seem like cheating. So we're not sure if we should be impressed or terrified by...
#6. Bullets That Will Outright Chase Your Ass Down
Really the only thing there is to know about bullets is that they travel in a straight line. If a dude is shooting at you, you're fine as long as there's something good and solid between you and him. A car door, a sandbag, another less fortunate person you're using like a bullet proof vest. This has been the rule for the last 700 years or so.
Until somebody came up with a way to develop guided bullets.
The building full of crazed geniuses known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have developed the EXACTO program, which involves using "smart" bullets complete with processors and steering vanes to allow the bullet to correct its trajectory in mid-fucking-air.
So even if you duck around a corner as some asshole is shooting at you, his bullets will supposedly be able to just swing around and follow your ass. We aren't talking about some wimpy small-caliber bullets either; the only size they are building these in (for now) are .50 caliber BMG, huge rounds which are intended either to kill trucks, or explode a guy's head from several miles away.
Just in case the word "overkill" hasn't entered your mind yet, they've got a much more explodey version of that idea, too. It's the XM-25 "smart" grenade launcher. It has a laser range-finder built in that can detect the distance to the wall or trench that you're hiding behind. That way the shell knows not to explode until it's right next to your fucking head. That's right; it won't detonate until after it punches through the wall you're hiding behind, but just before it hits you in the nose.
The XM-25 has a range of different munitions it can use, from high explosive to thermobaric, all of which are designed to make your trip to the other side as sudden and unexpected as it is horrifying.
#5. BOSS Will Find You
But they can't shoot at you if they can't find you, right? After all, two can play the sniper game, and maybe you're hidden a hundred yards away in some bushes, or peeking through a small hole in a building.
Ah, wait. You have suddenly exploded. It was your eyeballs that gave you away.
You can thank the Battlefield Optical Surveillance System, a device that can be mounted on a truck that scans the landscape with lasers and sensors. When it sees the glint of a rifle scope, or your freaking retinas, it lights you up with a laser beam, at which point a bunch of soldiers turn you into salsa.
It will feel way less awesome than it looks.
If you do avoid detection, god help you if you actually fire a shot. That's where the Boomerang system comes in, which uses an array of microphones to instantly judge the speed and direction of the shot, based on the muzzle report and the shockwave of the bullet as it zips past. Immediately it knows where the shot came from, and even what kind of weapon it is.
So if you only get one shot, you'd better have something pretty badass, right? Like a rocket propelled grenade? Ah, that won't do you much good with the goddamned invisible force field protecting the vehicle you shot at.
DARPA calls it the Iron Curtain, and it uses an invisible pulse to detonate shells before they can hit the vehicle. Our only question is how long until they have a beam that just makes the enemy's own rocket explode right in his face.
#4. Flying Sniper Bots
Of course, the people shooting at you are still humans, and humans can be killed. So that's still... sort of fair, right? Well, until they replace the snipers with robots. Who can fly. And shoot far, far more accurately than any human.
Unmanned drones are already all over the news, spotting terrorists in the mountains and even blowing them up sometimes. But researchers never stop looking for ways to make the concept more terrifying.
That's why they're building ARSS (yes, it's pronounced "arse") to straight up murder you from the sky while the pilot lounges comfortably on a recliner miles away drinking a cocktail out of a halved coconut.
ARSS is nothing less than a goddamn aerial sniper bot, complete with a .338 rifle that fires seven to 10 rounds a second, with "extreme precision." Though that two-word phrase seems a bit insufficient for something that can fire large caliber bullets that will punch through body armor from 10 football fields away. Silently. From the sky.
For the time being, aerial drones aren't being designed to be truly autonomous, at least until Skynet boots up. They have the ability to navigate pre-programmed flight paths, but for now, they require a human to control the finer flight control and to actually fire the weapons. Though the hyper-accuracy comes from the software, which sort of does auto-aiming. Hey, it's just like an FPS game! Finally, a job our generation is over-qualified for.
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Discover the Sumatran jungle and have an outdoor adventure with orangutans to keep you company at the jungle village of Bukit Lawang. Literally meaning "door to the hills", Bukit Lawang is a small village situated at the south of the Mount Leuseur National Park. It's located about 90 kilometers northwest of Medan, the capital city of North Sumatra.
Bukit Lawang is a gateway to the legendary Sumatran jungle with it's steep slippery terrain and muddy slopes, exploring the jungle here is a true adventure. Trek through the breathtakingly thick jungle and be transported into to new world.
It is the gentle giants of the jungle, the orangutans, which are the main attraction here. Bukit Lawang is one of the best places in the world to meet this rare and endangered primate. See these graceful creatures swing through the forest canopy as they forage for fruit. This is one of the largest stronghold communities of orangutans, with more than 5000 of them living in the here.
The Orangutan rehabilitation center is where young orphaned orangutans are trained to live in the wild. The center has been operating since 1973 and today attracts visitors from around the world who come here to catch a glimpse of these amazing orphaned creatures.
The number of orangutans in the jungle has decreased as a result of hunting, animal trading and a damaged environment. The rehabilitation center helps orangutans regain their natural habits by putting them through intensive training before their release back to the wild. Once a primate heads back the jungle, the rehabilitation center keeps providing it with food supplements and regular check-ups.
Most of the hotels in Bukit Lawang are run by the local citizens. Here are alternatives to stay in during your visit to Bukit Lawang:• Bukit Lawang Eco Lodge (+628126079983), an eco-friendly lodging situated in the forest• Noras Homestay & Restaurant (+62813620706561), situated on the rice field side and the materials are dominated by bamboo huts.• Wisma Leuser Sibayak• Wisma Bukit Lawang Indah• Indrah Valley• Garden Inn• Jungle Inn
•Make sure you are healthy, fit and well prepared because navigating the Sumatran jungle is not always easy.
•It is the impact of humans, through poaching and logging that has threatened the orangutan for decades. For this reason there are strict rules in place to regulate how visitors interact with the natural flora and fauna here.
•Bring along a mosquito & leech repellant.
•Whenever you trek, be sure to bring sunscreen and water.
•Wear shoes with good grip as the ground is always slippery.
•Wear long sleeves and long pants.
•There is often heavy rain in the afternoon; so bring your rain jacket and a water resistant bag to cover your items.
•Do not litter, make sure to collect your trash, any type of trash.
•Don't feed the animals.
For more info please visit: www.bukitlawangtrust.org
Bukit Lawang Visitor Centre, open from 08.00 am to 15.00 pm
PHKA Ranger Station opens from 07.00 to 15.00 pm
As you venture deep into the Sumatran jungle, you'll have little way to get around but to use your feet and walk. Trek through the wild and muddy jungle and try and catch a glimpse of the native wildlife. The park is home to Sumatra's and the world's most exotic animals including elephants, tigers, sun bears, gibbons clouded leopards as well as the famous orangutans. Hike the hills for some incredible views of the spectacular landscape. For a true adventure go rafting and ride the wild rapids of the river.
From Medan use a car or a bus to get to Bukit Lawang. Buses depart frequently from Pinang Baris bus terminals (located at Jalan Gatot Subroto). The trip takes around 3 hours.
If you are traveling in a group or want something more convenient instead of the public bus, you can rent a car with arranged trips through most of the main tourist destinations. National Car Rent (+624157744) which is located at Jl. Balai Kota 2 is a good alternative.


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You may have seen a large set of wings heading to the airport this morning, but they weren't in the sky. They were the wings of a historic war bird that will have a new home in Bowling Green at Aviation Heritage Park.
"The first exhibit went in place at Aviation Heritage Park in 2006, and that was the F-4 Phantom that I flew in the Vietnam War." said Aviation Heritage Park Vice President Dan Cherry.
The park is now home to three aircrafts, and soon to be four.
Pieces of the F-111, known as the "Aardvark" rolled into the Bowling Green Warren County Regional Airport today. It will be the first aircraft in the park dedicated to the War on Terror.
"That's an era of aviation that's extremely important to all of us, but to have that local connection too is very special," said Cherry.
That local connection is Arnie Franklin, an F-111 pilot that lead Operation Eldorado Canyon, the 1986 Lybian raid authorized by President Reagan in response Gaddafi's acts that killed American servicemen in Germany.
"When they offered us this airplane, I went back and checked my records and low and behold, this airplane was in the raid on my right wing," said Aviation Heritage Park President, and F-111 pilot Arnie Franklin.
The plane went on to serve with distinction in the Gulf War.
"She was the high-flier in the Desert War, flying 56 combat missions. she was also distinguished in that she dropped the last bomb on the last night of Desert War," said Franklin.
She's been retired in Arizona since 1998, just waiting for Franklin and the Aviation Heritage Park to give her a new home.
"She sat there in the desert all these years, waiting for us to find her," said Franklin.
Now the Aviation Heritage Park crew has the challenge of piecing her back together, and restoring her to her former glory. They hope to have her ready to display by next summer.


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