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Leaders in monolith chromatography
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Purified monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been used in therapeutics and some analytical procedures. Purification of mAb by use of high-throughput anion-exchange methacrylate monolithic systems has been attempted in this work. Monolithic macroporous convective interaction media (CIM) with diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) and ethylene diamine (EDA) as anion-exchange ligands were used and evaluated for purification of anti-glycophorin-A IgG1 mouse mAbs from cell culture supernatant (CCS) after precipitation with 50% ammonium sulfate. The adsorption and elution of mAb from the CCS on CIM-DEAE and CIM-EDA disks were studied with three different buffer systems, acetate, MOPS (3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid), and Tris, to study the effect of the nature of buffer ions and to find the optimum buffer conditions for purification of mAb. The optimum buffers for purification of mAb using CIM-DEAE and CIM-EDA were 50 mM acetate buffer, pH 5.1 and 20 mM Tris buffer, pH 8.0, respectively. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) showed the antibody fractions obtained were highly pure, with high antigen-binding efficiency. High specific activity with purification factors of 130 ± 34 (unretained fraction with acetate buffer) and 74 ± 13 (fraction eluted with Tris buffer containing 0.6 M NaCl) was obtained for IgG1 using the CIM-DEAE and CIM-EDA disks, respectively. The results indicate that rapid separation and efficient recovery of high-purity anti-glycophorin-A mAbs could be achieved by use of anion-exchange CIM disks.
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Our shelves are still empty. We are notoriously bad at visiting the grocery store on a properly regular basis. This means that, on a Wednesday night like last night, the Husband is likely to call for pad thai and we'll wait an hour and a half past our fainting point for any food or I'll dig into the pantry and the freezer, and find whatever is left in the corner of the crisper to whip something delicious up.
Either way, we're unlikely to get any food until at least an hour and a half past our fainting points.
In my freezer, I found a bag of chicken legs.
From the crisper, I dug out the remaining stalks of asparagus and the last of a bag of spinach.
I just assumed there was milk. Or at least cream.
I got started.
As I mixed together the biscuit topping, I realized that my assumption was completely wrong. No milk. Not even in the dark back corner of the fridge. I made a sad face at my mix of flour, baking powder, salt, and rosemary and set the bowl aside.
No biscuits for the topping, I told the Husband.
Then, I turned to the sauce.
Wait a minute.
I had planned a cream sauce. Cream sauce required cream. Or, at the very least, milk.
I looked in the fridge again, just to be sure.
And then, brilliance struck! To the pantry I sent the Husband. Grab me a can of cream of mushroom soup, I said. That's cream! And here! On the top shelf of the fridge, the last of the sour cream onion dip. Sure, there's a broken crumb of a chip there on the one side... but I can scoop around that.
(Please don't judge.)
Half an hour later, after all the switches in my plan, after all the work-arounds, I had this.
Chicken and Asparagus in a Cream Wine Sauce
4 chicken legs (drumstick and thighs)
Approx. 12-15 asparagus stalks
For the sauce
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup white wine
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 tsp rosemary
A couple handfuls of spinach
For the biscuit topping
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 and 1/2 tsp rosemary
1/4 cup butter or margarine, cut in
1/2 cup sour cream and 1 tsp salt OR 1/2 cup sour cream based dip
Preheat your oven to 400*.
Cook your chicken using your favourite method. Since mine were all bony, I boiled, but if I had a breast or boneless thighs, I would probably have fried in order to keep as much of the flavour in as possible. If you boil, reserve the broth! There's all sorts of goodness in there.
While your chicken is cooking, make your sauce. Mix together the soup, the wine and the broth. As it begins to bubble, toss in the cheese, the rosemary and the spinach. Stir frequently and cook until the cheese is all melted and the spinach has wilted beautifully. Throw in your chicken to mix it all up.
Mix up your biscuit topping. Mix together the dry ingredients (the flour, the baking powder, the rosemary and the salt if you're using straight sour cream). Cut in the butter or margarine and mix together using a pastry cutter or, if you're like me and don't have one, a fork or even your hands until the butter is down to pea sized. Add in the sour cream or sour cream dip and mix well. It will be a crumbly looking biscuit batter, but trust me - it works.
In a casserole dish spoon enough of your sauce to cover the bottom. Layer the asparagus on top. (If you wish to cut your asparagus before doing so, it will make serving much easier.) Spoon the rest of the sauce over the asparagus. Drop the biscuit mixture in rough scoops onto the casserole. Pop it into the oven for 25 minutes or until the biscuits have become a beautiful golden brown.
We'll be going grocery shopping very soon, I promise, but I must admit that sometimes it's a little fun having empty cupboards. It's a challenge, really, to find out what you can create with almost nothing.
Don't forget to drop by the House! It's Thursday over there which only means one thing!

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More detailed information about stringed instruments and the history of violin making.
Contemporary violin makers from China and Taiwan
Ludwig Bausch: the "German Tourte"
Pierre Hel: notes on his life and work
Violin makers and masters: archive "A-C"
Cremona: the early Lombard history of violin making
Christoph Gotting: Excellence by tradition
Savoir-faire: The Chanot family of luthiers
Contemporary Italian violin of the Otello Bignami school: Gianni Norcia, Bologna
Fine workmanship in the details and the expressive elegance of this contemporary Italian violin by Gianni Norcia (student of the great Otello Bignami) is exceptional even for contemporary medium priced stringed instruments from Italy. Its brilliantly crafted and expressive scroll and the gentle flaming of the two-piece maple back as well as delicately inlaid purfling shape the aesthetic of the Gianni Norcia violin, and the finishing touch is the gleaming and intensely luminous orange-brown oil varnish. The coat of varnish is thick, highly transparent and glossy, playing up the violin's refined style. This good contemporary Italian violin bears the orignal label and brandstamp. After having been meticulously worked over, set up and tonally adjusted at our atelier for restoration, this fine quality contemporary Italian violin is now ready to play. The fine sound, which is balanced across all of the strings, is bright and warm, with a perfect response and an unmistakably Italian note. Gianni Norcia has been portrayed in Jost Thöne's publication "Contemporary Violin Makers - Vol. 1", Jost Thoene Verlag (2015). The price includes the original maker's certificate by Gianni Norcia which can be viewed by a click on the "certificate" button.
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Hi everybody ! :)
I can finally say it : I'm on vacation. 2 weeks of rest (~ Or not when I see all the work I have to do..). Anyway it is still two weeks ! I'm coming back home, I'm excited about it ;)
The title of this post is obviously inspired by the name of the last movie starring Natalie Portman, which is really great!
I bought this lovely Topshop feather's jacket, small problem: windy days are not the best if you don't want to look like a goose trying to fly ! ;)


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As well as breeding shelties, we are also a boarding facility for non-aggressive communal dogs. If you have a dog that is not able to get along with other dogs, than our facility is not for you. We don't use kennels so your dog will be in our house just like when their at home with you.
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GNIHM is among the top 10 hotel management college in Kolkata, growing at a fast pace offering bright career opportunities. GNIHM provides with educational internship and certification for ambitious students looking for a career in hotel management. GNIHM prepares the student to qualify for higher level of the industry's specialized areas including food & beverage services, business accounting, accommodation, marketing hospitality services, human resource and many more that include almost every aspect of the hotel industry. GNIHM plays a great role by training the students in such a way so that they could maintain the name and reputation of the hotel or restaurant by performing his/her duties most efficiently.
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Among 70 distinguished researchers chosen this year
James Collins (BME, MSE, SE), a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The institute, which advises policy makers and professionals on medical and health issues, announced at its 42nd annual meeting yesterday that Collins is one of 70 new members.
"I am thrilled to be elected to the Institute of Medicine and proud to have our lab's work on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance so honored," says Collins, whose lab has applied systems and synthetic biology techniques to better understand how antibiotics work and how antibiotic resistance emerges.
Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer, says the University is extraordinarily proud of Collins' election to the IOM. "The Institute of Medicine is one of the world's most respected and important scientific organizations," says Morrison. "Jim's election is both a reflection of the significance of his contributions and the extraordinary respect that his colleagues have for him. We are thrilled that he has been elected."
A pioneer in both synthetic and systems biology, Collins is developing innovative ways to design and reprogram gene networks within bacteria and other organisms to attack tumors, direct stem cell development, and perform other desired tasks that could bring about cheaper drugs, more effective treatments of antibiotic-resistant infections, and clean energy solutions. Also a trailblazer in efforts to improve function of physiological and biological systems, he has spearheaded several new medical devices, such as vibrating insoles to improve balance in elderly people and a device to treat stroke-induced brain failure.
In addition to being a Warren Distinguished Professor and an ENG professor, Collins is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His many honors include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, a MacArthur "genius" award, a National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, a Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize, a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration Award, a Sanofi–Institut Pasteur Award, a World Technology Award for Biotechnology, and the Metcalf Cup and Prize, BU's highest teaching honor. Collins has also been named to Scientific American's list of top 50 outstanding leaders in science and technology. He serves on the scientific advisory board of several biotechnology companies.
Members of the IOM, who donate their time and expertise to work for the nation's health, are drawn primarily from the health care professions, but they also come from the natural, social, and behavioral sciences, as well as from law, administration, engineering, and the humanities. They work on projects such as a recent study of the effectiveness of various treatments for traumatic brain injury and recommending which health insurance benefits should be included in Essential Health Benefits packages required by the Affordable Care Act. Other recent projects include studies of people's vitamin D and calcium needs, improving the process for clearing medical devices for the market, preventing obesity among infants and toddlers, improving Americans' access to oral health care, preparing for the future of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and ensuring the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Collins is now one of 1,732 active members of the IOM. He joins BU-affiliated members Karen Antman, provost of the Medical Campus and dean of the School of Medicine; George Annas, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and chair of the School of Public Health's health law, bioethics, and human rights department; Joel Alpert, a MED professor emeritus of pediatrics, sociomedical sciences, and community medicine and an SPH professor emeritus of health law; Larry Culpepper, a MED professor of family medicine; Richard Egdahl, a retired University Professor and founding director of the Health Policy Institute at the School of Management; Barbara Gilchrest, a MED professor and chair emerita of dermatology; and Gerald Keusch, an SPH professor and an assistant to the president.
The Institute of Medicine is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public. Established in 1970, it is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which was chartered under President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Nearly 150 years later, the National Academy of Sciences has expanded into what is collectively known as the National Academies, which comprises the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Research Council, and the IOM.


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Incorrect file associations could be the result of underlying issues within your PC system. As such it is highly recommended to scan your PC for invalid registry entries, unused processes and other unfavourable system settings to identify slowdown issues.
The DOWNLOADHOST file type is primarily associated with 'MSN Explorer' by Microsoft Corporation. If you are an MSN subscriber and having trouble with their service please contact MSN support for help. This file type seems to pop up now and again when it can't be found by the MSN Download Manager (View | Download Manager on the MSN menu). If you have a specific problem with the .DOWNLOADHOST file extension you can try this solution: Click on the Start and then Run items. In the dialog box type:
regsvr32 c:\progra~1\msn\msncorefiles\msnmetal.dll
...and then click on OK or press the Enter key (use cut/paste to be certain you've got it right). In case it wraps in your display, this is all one line with a space between the regsvr32 and pathname. This reregisters the msnmetal.dll file and solves the problem. If you are signed into MSN, sign out and then sign back in and everything should work OK. If, for some reason it does not, please contact MSN support.
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I have spent the last month preparing for a long fast (40 days) I started Feb 7. I figured with family being down on vacation and Dana's birthday that the 7th would be perfect. Here's the interesting part....
I started Thursday morning; needless to say I ended in two days. Interesting enough hunger was not my issue. I was actually surprised at the lack of hunger pain I encountered. What I did have a problem with, in regards to food, is the enjoyment of a great meal. The thought of not having flavor in my mouth and a great meal really bothered me. Why did I stop??? My headaches were so bad i couldn't take it. Dizziness was a big issue also. I knew that I would encounter that the whole time on and off but I did not expect the severity.
Let me back up one week. I go to bed around 9 and go to work at 7. When the family came down we stayed at the WD Dolphin on Disney property and did all of Disney in two days. 6 AM till after Midnight. It felt like a Three day "teen lock-in". For just a second let's back up a little farther. For years I have been 100 percent caffeine free. A few months ago I reintroduced caffeine in to my system having a little bit every morning. Back to last week... by Saturday afternoon I was so whipped that I downed a BIG can of Full Throttle. Yeah you're getting the idea. Back to the fast.. needless to say I have been feeling bad about the whole fast situation. On the way to church today it hit me, I was going through caffeine withdrawal. Now for those who have never been through that, WOW it's bad. When I did it the very first time you would swear I was a druggie. So here we go again. I am going to spend a week "withdrawing". And once I get that out of my system go for it all over again. Just for the record they say that every time you go though withdrawal it gets worse. Yeah.
On a serious note, I really want to fast in preparation for what God has planned for our family when it comes to ministry. I am refreshed, I am rejuvenated and I am ready to be used. The fast is for God to have his way with me and show me where he wants us to be. Please pray for me for strength and wisdom on this journey.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
A fast fast
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Best Pillow for Side Sleeping after Neck Surgery
I needed the best pillow for side sleeping after neck surgery. I was used to sleeping on my stomach, but it became impossible. I had to be careful with sleeping positions. One wrong move and I could undo everything that the surgeon did. I have three cervical fusions, and I need a pillow that makes side sleeping comfortable. It wouldn't feel natural to me, and I was concerned with losing sleep and/or hurting my neck in bed. I wanted to find the best body pillow for side sleeping. Thankfully, I found one that works for me.
Sleeping in a Recliner after Cervical Spinal Fusions
I slept in the reclining chair after coming home from the hospital. I had to at first. My neck was very delicate and it was also extremely sore. If you've had the same cervical fusion surgery you know how it is. I slept in the recliner in a semi-upright position for a couple of months. Although it was comfortable I became tired of it. I wanted to be able to lie down again and fully rest. I learned what the cats did all night long, and they kept me awake. I finally decided that it was time to try the bed. I was nervous about it, but it was time to get out of the chair. I already had my J-shaped body pillow. I hoping that it was the best pillow for side sleeping after neck surgery. I was scared and reluctant, but I wasn't sleeping well. I had to give it a try.
It Keeps a Person Comfortably On Their Side
The description lists it as a pillow for lower back pain, heartburn, sciatica, and fibromyalgia, but it enabled me to sleep in my bed again. It's ideal for just about anyone that has to sleep on their side. It's a good pillow for neck surgery patients because it keeps you as comfortable as possible while lying on your side. It's the best sleeping position for neck surgery patients that can lie down. When you're not used to sleeping on your side, it can be difficult. It was surprisingly comfy, and it made me feel secure. I drifted off to sleep fairly quickly the very first night. I had to wake up to turn and position myself on my other side, but I only had to reposition my body twice that night.
I Consider it the Best Pillow for Side Sleeping after Neck Surgery
Although it would take many more months to heal, my neck felt fine. I could finally sleep in my bed after neck surgery. I will never be able to lie on my stomach again since the range of motion was greatly reduced. At least, I can lie down. I'm thankful to have the best pillow for side sleeping after neck surgery, and I highly recommend it to others that had a cervical fusion, a laminectomy, or any other procedure that makes it impossible to sleep on the stomach.
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Yet another extension that is not available on the latest firefox! Why is the latest version of firefox losing all of its recommended addons?
Which upgrade is Print Edit WE not compatible with?
Are you referring to a Firefox upgrade?
This extension is unparalleled. Please upgrade it.
When a try to "Save as file", a small window pops up:
Print Edit:
- encountered error code: SFIL-1
- this should not normally happen
- please report to suppert e-mail address
Help, please
Great Add-on. One of the best. Too bad Firefox knee-capped it Print Edit WE is a pale, dysfunctional shadow of Print Edit
A nova versão Print Edit WE é muito inferior ao excelente Print Edit.
The new Print Edit WE version is much worse than the excellent Print Edit.
Yes, this is the best Print Editor extension and that's why I can't understand the reason PrinteEdit is not available for all up-to-date browsers.
I love this, and when I do actually want to print something out, like an e-mail, I can take out the personal stuff, CHANGE THE SENT DATE, whatever, and then show the boss... (<8
Great extension to adjust what is made for, Thanks for this wonderful add-on.
Does exactly what it supposed to, seamlessly.
Anytime I can avoid Adobe, it's a good thing:)
Just don't know if this latest update is another Moz "kiss of death" as they continue to break great extensions with their "API" requirements. If they want to be Google, I'm gone.
Any comments on the update and Win 7, 64-bit?
Print Edit 18.3 will continue to work until Firefox 57 is released. Print Edit will not work with Firefox 57 or later versions.
The good news is that there is already a successor add-on called "Print Edit WE" that works with Firefox 56 and later versions.
Print Edit WE has all of the features of the original Print Edit and allows simultaneous editing of several tabs. Print Edit WE is also available for Chrome.
All of the above should be true for Windows 7, Windows 10, Linux and Mac OS X.
Great add-on to adjust what is printed how.
No issues whatsoever. This add-on is my *default* PDF screen capture utility.
Очень выручает, когда нужно сохранить страницу «для использования потом». Использую не для печати, а всегда сохраняю в PDF. Жаль только, что в Справке нет пояснения некоторым кнопкам на Панели управления: Текстовые части, WEB-стиль и др.
Но все равно – большое спасибо за отличное дополнение!
To many sites stink when it comes to printing. They put stupid boxes that cutoff the text that prints across pages among many other problems. This perfect add-on fixes a whole lot of those problems permanently!
And it's working without annoyances.
It's fast! PDF creation was faster than the built in driver I have been using for years! Completely LOVE it!!
Those that gave it low stars are giving for petty reasons! So what, every piece of software has bugs, use your brain a little bit and work around those if you have to; why demote an excellent idea that's well executed?
I'd give it 7 stars if I could. Yes I've used many plug-ins over the years and many are nice but I'm not saying that for most of them.
It's 5 stars add on!
Very nice addon. I rated it with 5 ★ even with this small bug.
The bug is: when I try to preview XUL page it informs that Firefox cannot preview XUL page.
It is OK. But after this the addon informs that Firefox cannot preview XUL page regarding any page and only restart Firefox solves this.
The Print Preview Scale function is trouble. When I select any scaling value, the viewed image remains at 100% and the scale value displayed in the drop down menu also shows 100%, and the page preview shows 100%.
Hope this is an easy fix and the developers correct it!
Unfortunately, this problem is caused by a bug in Firefox, which only affects Mac OS X, and won't be fixed until Firefox 56 is released.
Have been using PrintEdit on PC and Mac and love it! Especially the ability to edit and the WYSIWYG in Preview.
Only 4 stars because of Print Preview issues. I'm on Mac OS 10.12.5, and am using Firefox 54.0.1 and have v.18.2 of PrintEdit installed.
The Print Preview Scale function seems to be faulty. When I select any scaling value, the viewed image remains at 100% and the scale value displayed in the drop down menu also shows 100%, but the Page Setup and Print dialogue boxes will show the correct scaling that I had selected. For example, I set the scale to 50%, but the image on the screen remains at 100% and the scale value in the drop down menu also shows 100%. I then if go to Page Setup or Print, the scale shows 50%.
Hope this is an easy fix (and is hopefully an operator error that you can point me to so I correct it)!
Unfortunately, this problem is caused by a bug in Firefox, which only affects Mac OS X, and won't be fixed until Firefox 56 is released.
Use this to keep pdfs of all important online activity. Just wish it could be configured to automatically just go into save-to-pdf preview mode to save a couple clicks!
Edit: Not sure how I missed those options!! Sweet!! Thx for the awesome addon.
You can configure Print Edit for automatic entry into 'Save as PDF' mode by enabling the 'On first entry enable PDF' option in the Options dialog.
Great product, but how can the Page Setup tags be positioned.
Say the "Page # of #" appears right at the bottom of the page, but outside the page print range. Can it be moved to show it appearing further away from the physical bottom of the paper?
But great. Thanks
The position of the headers and footers can be changed as follows:
- In the address bar, type "about:config" and then press Enter.
- You may see this message "This might void your warranty!".
- Scroll down until you see entries for your printer, starting with: print.printer_<printer-name>.print_ ...
There are three sets of margins:
1. The unwriteable margins define the printable region of the paper, creating an invisible border from which the edge and content margins are measured, for example:
2. The edge margins define the positioning of the headers and footers on the page. They're measured as an offset from the unwriteable margins, for example:
3. The content margins define the positioning of the content on the page. They're measured as an offset from the unwriteable margins, for example:
Saves a lot of paper! Easy to select the bits of a page that interest you and lose the clutter. 5+ * from me
Good only excellent
"Save as File" doesn't work.
- encountered error code: SFIL-1
- this should not normally happen
- please report to support e-mail address
How Can I fix this error?
Thank you for the response!
Print Edit WE works Great!!
You are probably getting the error code 'SFIL-1' because you have the Mozilla Archive Format (MAF) 4.1.0 add-on installed.
Print Edit is compatible with MAF 4.0.2, but not with MAF 4.1.0. One solution is to revert back to MAF 4.0.2.
Alternatively, you could switch to using Print Edit WE.
Print Edit WE has a built-in 'Save As HTML Complete" feature that saves a page and all of its resources as a single HTML file.
If you need to save a highly accurate copy of the page, then you can use Save Page WE with Print Edit WE.


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If CBS' latest plan is successful, David Letterman will be dominating more than the latenight talkshow wars.
CBS announced Monday it would be feeding Letterman's nightly "Late Show" Top 10 List to local radio stations, via satellite, in effect syndicating it as a daily program.
The feature, which debuts April 1, is being offered to CBS radio affiliates and non-affils.
CBS took out a full-page ad in Monday's USA Today listing its top-10 reasons for radio-station managers to pick up the show. Absent from the list was one of CBS' own top reasons for offering it — for months, local radio stations have been taping the list off TV sets and playing it back on the air the next morning.
"They have to deal with us exclusively," said CBS Radio's VP of affiliate relations Nick Kiernan, stressing that the list is the Eye web's "creative property."
Over the next few weeks, CBS will run ads in the trade papers, "explaining this issue" of copyright to radio programmers.
In response to the ad, more than 75 interested radio-station managers contacted the network about airing the feature. Revenue will be generated through barter.


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KIC-Europe is introduced in 2016 its new flagship program: KIC-Autobahn. This initiative is a disruptive and ground-breaking internationalisation programme providing financial and strategic support to Korean startups and scale-ups looking to develop their products and services to be commercialised in the European market. KIC-Autobahn gathers a pool of human, technology and financial resources oriented towards internationalisation, through the development and production of truly scalable businesses. We aim to boost the investment awareness and readiness of Korean innovative ventures, promoting them towards the European investment community and actively facilitate investment matching with startup investors. In an increasingly competitive and globalised economy, KIC-Autobahn also facilitates a unique platform that provides a single entry-point for innovative companies seeking to partner with large corporates, be it through procurement processes, open innovation, customer engagement, special interest groups, etc.
As a continent, Europe consists in multiple countries which speak a cornerstone language (English) and offer outstanding quality of life, surrounded by safe environments and robust political environments. A liberal labor market grounded on a well-educated society complement the region's solid infrastructure. In conjunction with low bureaucracy and low tax environment, a friendly startup environment offers access to an extensive range of startup support programmes and, from a funding perspective, many types of different investors, who between them can satisfy the needs of companies across all stages of their growth. Europe is probably the most open and globally-connected continent in the world. Its geographic position and the Euro strength makes it a magnificent base from which to access the US, Middle East and North Africa. Europe outstands for its capabilities for research and innovation, streamlined through an ongoing support by its well-established industry clusters, such as financial services, bio-pharma and space – among many others.
The European tech industry has more scale and intricacies than you might think. In 2015 alone, more than $14 billion was invested across 2,400 startups in Europe. That's a three-fold increase from the $5 billion invested in 2009. European technology startups raised approximately €12 billion last year, with 'fintech' and 'e-commerce' as the most popular verticals, unsurprisingly, alongside 'health' and 'food'.
The combination of a more developed commercial and customer-oriented strategy in Europe, together with the research & development world-class capacities from Korean entrepreneurs will thrive Korean entrepreneurs to succeed by understanding what kinds of growth and restrictions they face when scaling their businesses. The development of these skills and mindset aim to transform creative ideas into entrepreneurial action and – most probably – the next generation of global success stories. In the last few years, vital startup ecosystems have been growing in almost every European country, aiming at offering an integrated pan-European platform to help promising startups emerge from these local ecosystems and scale-up. Korean business establishing in Europe will benefit from an array of services, funding opportunities and participation in projects to engage in a truly continental network.
- Increase the number of investor-ready Korean tech entrepreneurs for expansion to Europe
- Encourage bilateral KO-EU entrepreneurship collaboration across the digital economy
- Develop a network of tech-creative physical and virtual entrepreneurship spaces across Europe
- Provide a virtual-accelerator platform of tools and supports to empower teams to develop and scale-up real products and services
- Provide fast-track access to new markets through networking, investment referrals and pitching opportunities in new countries
- Incentivize and inspire the startup-corporate collaboration for the sake of entrepreneurship's success
- One week intensive startup training in Brussels (Investment Readiness Programme) including FREE flights and accommodation where companies will develop startup ideas with seasoned entrepreneurs, mentors and investors from across the EU
- Access to an on-line virtual accelerator where your team will receive free technical and business development advice and supports as your validate your startup idea.
- The opportunity to pitch to investors at Pioneers Festival in Vienna (24-25th May'16) and TNW Conference in Amsterdam (26-27th May'16). Flights and accommodation paid for selected teams.
- Provide online mentoring and technical support to KIC-Europe's portfolio companies to develop their businesses through a bespoke mentorship package
- Identify and win business acceleration/ venture incubation programmes across the top-tier organisations in Europe
- Select the best startups to compete in EU Startup Contests where they will pitch to leading venture capitalists, angel investors and successful entrepreneurs
By providing the full spectrum of support from ideation to prototype development to market validation, KIC-Autobahn provides:
- A unique opportunity to unleash your entrepreneurial ambition within the European early stage funding ecosystem
- An truly global entrepreneurship experience with networking and pitching opportunities and high tech venture possibilities
- Physical & virtual access to training and resources with targeted, relevant experts
- A powerful entrepreneurial toolkit of vital insights and supports to overcome challenges
- Exposure, recognition and empowerment to the leading-edge trends of IoT & Big Data, Cybersecurity, Mobile, Fintech & E-/M-Commerce, E-Health and the Creative Industries.
KIC-Autobahn seeks out talented, promising tech entrepreneurs to participate in a unique international entrepreneurship experience to scale up their businesses in Europe. A series of hands-on, practical workshops in key areas of expertise targeting both new and seasoned entrepreneurs will be delivered, including business modelling, business pivoting, marketing, finance investment readiness and IP & legal matters. We are focused on creating and supporting Korean companies to make them investor-ready & global ventures.
KIC-Autobahn looks for companies with:
- A solid team with experience in their industry
- A set of skills and determination to execute a unique or new idea
- Market traction, which could be in Beta customers, partnerships, revenues or other metrics
- The ability to listen and utilise our pool of mentors and industry experts
- The capacity of understanding the meaning and value of a growing community
KIC-Autobahn is an ongoing programme with applications accepted in three rounds of selection a year. We accept mainly applications from those companies operating in the following sectors: IoT, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Fintech, eHealth, Mobile and Creative Industries. We will only accept applications received by accredited partners. KIC-Europe's mentors will be assigned relevant applications based on their expertise and skills. Most of them are renowned investors and successful entrepreneurs, whilst others are experts in a vertical fields. This wide variety of skills boasts an excellent panel of evaluators.
January & July
Each application will be reviewed by at least three evaluators, based on three main criteria: team, product and innovation. After that, each team will be invited for a 15-min telepitching session in front of a jury, presenting the team, the idea, their vision and fit with our programme.
The pitch will be followed by a 15-min Q&A session with the team, to get a better understanding of the project and clarify any unclear points.
February & August
After a company is selected, one or more mentors will be assigned to collaborate on developing its strategic roadmap. This mentor-to-mentee relationship lasts up to 6 weeks.
Upon completion of the mentoring sessions, companies will be invited to Europe to receive a one-week Investment Readiness Programme (IRP).
Subsequently, companies will be showcasing their innovative solutions in a number of international events, including startup contests and demo days, where KIC-Autobahn's companies will pitch and present their product and service.
Along with it, companies may receive exclusive invitations to join international accelerator programmes from KIC-Europe's associated partners located in London, Barcelona, Lisbon, Stockholm and Vienna – just to name a few.
Find out more about the KIC-Autobahn softlanding package.
March & September
We make entrepreneurship accessible by providing ongoing support for graduated companies, allowing our alumni to actively network, create business opportunities and partnerships, and support each other through different challenges after they graduate.
Through our partnership, we can offer you unique access to our global community of members and their technical, financial, production, legal, commercial and marketing experience. We connect you to the answers and expertise you need.
May & November
>> Support programme of 8 weeks for 20 teams
>> Customised mentoring programme
>> Networking, pitching and matchmaking sessions with investors
>> Workshops, seminars, conferences and close contact with large European corporates
>> Access to office space, business accelerators and innovation centers in Europe
>> Investment Readiness Certificate
Mentoring Sessions
We have a pool of international mentors in our network from virtually every sector. During our mentoring sessions – yet to determine whether these are off or online – you will benefit from one-on-one meetings with a series of industry experts and early stage investors. This forges connections not just to the mentor, but their network too.
Founder stories: glory & failure
We invite in startup founders who have already been there and have done it. Insights regarding their experiences and lessons learnt to really understand what it's like to start, build and grow a startup.
In-house support
KIC-Europe's team will analyse the development of each team on a fortnightly basis. You'll have the chance to share any challenges you are having. We'll help you solidify and – if required – pivot your vision and strategy, and set specific measurable milestones for you to achieve before the next meeting.
We have collectively supported over 100 startups to date; whatever challenge you are facing, we will either know how to help or we will link you to someone who can actually do it.
Workshops & Masterclasses
Over the course of the programme a series of lecture-style sessions will be run on a range of startup topics. Example sessions are; lean methodology, growth hacking, metrics, legal & tax, pitch rehearsal, marketing and finance.
We already received funding. Can we participate?
Yes. Probably your investor(s) would like you to join an international programme because they know this way you will get the best support to grow your business. Seed investors often spend time to coach companies in their portfolio, but through our KIC-Autobahn programme our mentors, partners and network can provide you with intensive, all-round support to grow your business and raise follow on funding.
We are not early-stage company. Can we apply?
The programme is open to all companies that are in a startup phase, during their first 3 years. KIC-Autobahn can provide you with a rich and lively entrepreneurial ecosystem, challenging the adequate model for an optimum growth.
I don't have a team. If I am by myself, can I apply?
Yes. However, we recommend to have at least a team of two people to be able to join the programme. It is difficult enough to build and grow a business, so you should at least have a partner to be able to make it a success. KIC-Europe might be able to help you find the right partner.
How much funding do we get?
KIC-Autobahn doesn't provide with funding to the selected companies. We enable startups' access to a pool of tools:
■ Technology & data
■ Partners
■ Funding & investors
■ International business development
■ Regional know-how
■ Accelerated growth
■ Participation in international events
Are there geographical restrictions when applying for the programme?
No. We welcome all startups from across the globe, as long as they target expansion and scalability from Korea to EU and vice-versa. Since most of the sessions and learning will be sourced by Gust®.
Gust is an internet-based interactive connection platform that provides all the tools entrepreneurs need to scale their business. Through KIC-Autobahn via Gust, you can:
■ Create a startup profile: your startup profile serves as a universal funding application accepted by all investors on our SaaS funding platform.
■ Control who sees what: choose which information to share publicly and which to share privately with accredited investors.
■ Share documents securely: upload and selectively share your business documents with potential accredited investors.
■ Track investor activity: easily track the status of your applications and manage investor relationships.
Full information about the KIC-Autobahn mechanism can be found at this link.
How can I get funding after the conclusion of the programme?
During the KIC-Autobahn we will be connecting you primarily to early-stage investors, in order to by build relationships with active players. A number of Demodays will also be hosted (check our 2016 roadmap), enhancing your visibility and recognition to domestic and international investors.
Here, our teams will have the chance to pitch to international seed funds, angels and VCs.
Do we give away equity from my company?
No. KIC-Europe does not take any equity from the participating companies. However, when negotiating with all the decisions made for your company from start to end will be yours and only yours. We'll help guide you through the pitfalls and hurdles of the entrepreneur life, providing expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs.
How will you protect my business idea & intellectual property?
We are here to be part of your success. When your business proposal gets sent through our application process, we merely use it for the purpose of evaluating your startup. NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) will be formalised upon agreement to participate in our KIC-Autobahn.
How do we apply? How is the selection process structured?
1. Online application: please visit KIC-Europe's organisation profile in Gust. We also welcome referrals from partners and other associated investors.
2. Shortlisting: applications are reviewed by the core team accelerator and mentors to select the best of the breed.
3. Experts review: applicants are narrowed down to 25 candidates as per evaluations from KIC-Europe's steering committee.
4. The best 10 startups will be accepted in the KIC-Autobahn project. They will also pitch during our Demodays and other European startup events.
What's the deadline for submitting my application?
Applications for the 2016 programme open in February 2016. Stay tuned as we will announce the application deadlines shortly, or subscribe to our newsletter.
How will you protect my business idea & intellectual property?
We are here to be part of your success. When your business proposal gets sent through our application process, we merely use it for the purpose of evaluating your startup. NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) will be formalised upon agreement to participate in our KIC-Autobahn.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Richland County is paying $750,000 to settle a lawsuit after the beating of a handcuffed, homeless inmate in the county jail.
Robert Sweeper III suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs and broken vertebrae in the 2012 attack, The State newspaper reported.
Officials said guards left him in his cell for five days before medics were called to take him to the hospital. One guard, 38-year-old Robin Smith, was sentenced to two years in prison. Six other officers were fired.
Sweeper had been arrested on trespassing charges and was placed in a suicide watch cell after authorities said he was incoherent before the assault.
Attorney Dick Harpootlian said Sweeper is in a facility in Charleston recovering from physical and mental issues related to the beating.
The settlement is more than twice the amount of a state limit of $300,000 the county could be liable for if a state jury considered the lawsuit. Richland County officials decided to pay the higher amount because the case could have been moved to federal court, with the potential for a higher award.
"If this were moved to federal court, we could be exposing Richland County to a multimillion-dollar jury award," said Councilman Seth Rose.
"We also had to take into account we would also be spending a large amount of money in attorneys' fees defending what is basically an indefensible act by some employees," Rose said.


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In the animation Up a grumpy old man uses hundreds of helium filled balloons to lift his house to a faraway destination. Well South African Matt Silver Vallance, 37 has taken up the mantel to raise money for the Nelson Mandela children's hospital.
Vallance flew his helium balloon contraption from Robben Island, the prison that Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, to Cape Town. The stuntman wearing a wetsuit and custom made harness with 160 balloons attached to it, flew above shark-infested waters to complete the stunt.
The around 6km trip took around an hour and was not short of drama as Vallance's rig went through a time of uncontrollable lift, during which he reached 1000 meters. Vallance used a combination of a sharp stick and BB gun to descend and regain control.


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Ask most people to date the beginning of Jewish history in Florida, and they`ll probably pick the 1950s.
Try 1763 -- 13 years before the Revolutionary War. That year, three Jews from Louisiana set up businesses in Pensacola.
Other Florida Jews have fought Indians, opened stores, founded schools and served in public office, according to researchers in a new project. The more they dig, the more Jews they find who have contributed to the state`s history.
``It`s like a snowball tumbling downhill,`` exclaims Laura Hochman, adult programming director of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Jewish Community Center, who birthed the idea nearly two years ago. ``It keeps getting more massive, more complex, more fascinating.``
With the working title ``An American Jewish Mosaic: Jewish Life in Florida,`` the project is being handled jointly by workers from the JCC, the University of Miami and the Central Agency for Jewish Education. The work will be turned into a traveling exhibition.
A subtitle calls it a ``Microcosm,`` both of Jewish experiences in America and of the ways an ethnic group meets the challenges of U.S. society.
``We hope it not only presents a picture of the Jewish community, but also shows how a small group adjusted and retained its own identity,`` says Abraham Gittelson, vice president of the Central Agency. ``So we hope it will interest non-Jews.``
The idea started in September 1984 when Hochman wanted to develop an exhibit with a Jewish theme. She hit on the idea of Jewish contributions to Florida`s development.
``A lot of people feel we`ve had a negative influence,`` she explains. ``I wanted to show that Jews did good things for the state. But I decided we couldn`t do that without going into history.``


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Some 200 Christians traveled to the threatened Jewish community of Migron in Samaria on Sunday to stand in solidarity with the pioneering Jews who live there.
Despite being originally established with tacit government approval and the cooperation of the Israeli army, Migron has been repeatedly targeted for uprooting as an "illegal" settlement outpost. Most recently, the government of Israel ordered the destruction of the village's first three permanent homes. The rest of the residents have lived for years in trailer homes.
The Palestinian Arabs and the international community claim such outposts are the primary obstacle to peace in the region.
But Jan Willem van der Hoeven and the pilgrims joining him for the International Christian Zionist Center's (ICZC) Feast of Tabernacles celebration brought a different message.
"Be strong and very courageous," Van der Hoeven told the 50 Jewish families that live in Migron. "Do not give up the fight for the land God gave your people forever."
The beleagured community, seemingly without a friend in the world, was surprised but touched as the hundreds of Christians prayed over the village and firmly proclaimed the God-given right of the Jews to live there.
In a press release sent out prior to the visit, Van der Hoeven stated that "the eternal God of heaven and earth has singled out this, His land, as an everlasting possession for His own people Israel. We – Christian Zionists from the nations – will visit Migron during our Feast of Tabernacles celebration to show our deeply felt support and encouragement for these courageous Israeli families."
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Xenosaga: The Animation
DVD 2 - Voices From the Past
The Elsa, like any ship crewed by a crackerjack collection of iconoclastic social misfits, squeezes—with a little help from KOS-MOS' abs—past all dangers in the path of their goal, eventually making it to the Kukai Foundation, home to crackerjack social misfits everywhere. Availing themselves of the free time their stay on the space colony allows, Shion and her retinue hang out, growing closer to diminutive battle-cruiser captain Junior, Kukai Foundation president Gaignon, valuable realean prototype Momo and a host of other residents. Peace is predictably short-lived, as U-TIC puts into motion a plan to gain access to Momo, one that forces Shion to dive into KOS-MOS' memory where she and Junior are forced to relive memories that everyone would prefer stayed dead.
When measured against the often atrocious failures of other video game adaptations, Xenosaga is actually fairly successful. That is, however, a very low bar to pass. But for a certain over-density of plot and a sense that it condenses a lengthy space opera into far too short a space of time, it is an easy watch; but easy doesn't mean compulsively watchable or even enjoyable, just that there are enough events of interest that watching the next episode always seems like a better option than stopping.
Those events of interest revolve nearly exclusively around Shion. Shion, as with the rest of the cast, is hardly a fleshed-out or compelling character. She is sympathetic though, as well as believably strong-willed and, most importantly, cute in a very grown-up kind of way. Thus Shion's fate is important, whereas it doesn't matter whether the scarred Marine guy or the soft-spoken badass (his name is "chaos," so he's obviously a badass) marry swimsuit models and have fleets of offspring or get tortured to death by Huns. Of course, one sympathetic character isn't enough to make a series watchable, but whatever else it is that makes Xenosaga go down even as smoothly as it does is a complete mystery. The tone, especially once the space-battles die down, is dull and far too serious to complement the utter ridiculousness of certain passages. The humor introduced in this volume to lighten the mood is brutally unfunny, especially the virtual reality parodies of anime "ultimate attacks." The plot barrels from one plot point to the next, far more concerned with cramming everything into the allotted time than with the dramatic or emotional impact of the plot. One particular bombshell, a life-threatening one no less, is dropped one scene, only to be forgotten at the next cut and ignored for the entirety of the volume. Did it just go away? Will it be resolved later? Who knows. And by the time the fourth episode rolls past without even mentioning it, who cares?
The likeliest suspect for the series' ease of viewing, besides perhaps the good sense that made the director reign in the pace enough to prevent complete confusion, is the simple fact that it looks and sounds good. Any four-year-old will tell you that pretty pictures make a story better, and Xenosaga's pictures are pretty indeed. As befits a series in which the lead's abs can crush a fleet of spacefaring monsters, the character designs are the real stars of the show. Character designer Nobuteru Yuuki's renowned style informs the profiles and eyes of every character, giving the cast a distinctive, pleasing appearance. His preferences for pastel color schemes and relatively subdued hair steers the visual aesthetic away from gaudiness, and faces are expressive without being elastic or overbearing. 3D effects are confined to external shots of vehicles and to the monsters, all of which (with the exception of the monsters) are suitably impressive. Animation ranges from solid during the space battles to careless during the animation of characters during their off-time. Standard shortcuts—speedlines, stills, plummeting detail levels, some repeated animation—are used, only becoming truly bad during the virtual reality fights in episodes eight and nine.
The series' other star is its score. It's an expansive, operatic score, one that uses the human voice—high, clear wordless song and ominous low chants—to superb effect and spans comic, energetic and solemn tones without ever breaking character. It benefits from an excellent, appropriately mysterious opening and a sparely beautiful closing. It deserves a better vehicle for its qualities, something with epic scope and range; alas, it has to make do with Xenosaga.
Those willing to brave the awkward dialogue additions typical of faithful dub translations that need to match lip-flaps will find in ADV's dub a work that makes up for its occasional lapse in conversational rhythm with performances that periodically improve on the Japanese. Luci Christian's English KOS-MOS has a mechanical delivery that never resorts to halting computer-talk and avoids the toneless shouting of the Japanese KOS-MOS. Junior has one emotional breakdown during which Greg Ayres goes to town, turning in a performance that crushes the lackluster Japanese rendition.
The mystery of Xenosaga (the real mystery, not all of that obfuscation that the plot tries to pawn off as mysteries) is that one can watch the plot holes swallow up common sense, cringe at the humor and laugh at the sadly ineffective appeals to emotion, and still be carried along as one episode flows into the next until you find yourself at the end of the volume. But when the disc is over, where the desire to see the next volume should be, there's nothing but an empty hole, best filled by a repeat watching of, say, Crest of the Stars.
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The next meeting of the new Committee will be at 8.30pm in the bar at ILT&SC on Tuesday evening, after the Predictor Run. Any member of Ilkley Harriers is welcome to come along to meetings, and the agenda for the meeting is attached here.
Amongst other things we will be discussing the programme of races that we will be organising in 2010 - we'll need lots of volunteers to help with this; the calendar of social events including the Presentation evening; and the Development Plan which will set targets for the next year.
If you have thoughts on any of these issues then bend the ear of any Committee member, or come along to the meeting.


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Japanese Army of Darkness Movie Poster
Translating Hollywood, the new book by Sam Sarowitz of Posteritati, takes a look at movie posters from around the world (and how different they are from the US versions). Take a look at this gem of an example: the Japanese Army of Darkness movie poster (why the soup cans? Because the actor's name is Bruce Campbell, get it?)
Posterwire has the big version of the poster: http://posterwire.com/image.php?img_full=http://posterwire.com/wp-content/images/army_of_darkness_jp.jpg&img_title=Army%20of%20DarknessPreviously on Neatorama: American Movie Posters in Belarus | Movie Posters Re-Made Grindhouse Style
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now thats something special... Bruce Campbell soup... I wonder if hes seen that...


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From Eugene, Oregon, USA:
I understand that the GlucoWatch is available in England. If I were to go to England, could I buy one, bring it home and use it here, buy the supplies and so forth? Are there certain reasons one would need to remain in England? I am considering a vacation in England and this would be something wonderful to bring home. who might I contact in England? Would I need to see a doctor, or could I just go to a druggist and purchase one? I am considering a vacation in England and this would be something wonderful to bring home.
The GlucoWatch in England is not being generally marketed yet. As far as I know, it is only available through certain hospital diabetes centers, so you would have to be a patient at that center. I don't think that you would be allowed to take the instrument and supplies back to the US.
Additional comments from Dr. Donough O'Brien:In the last few days [March 22, 2001] GlucoWatch has announced their final approval by the FDA. How soon and how widely it will be available remains to be seen.
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Seth Brown | The Pun Also Rises: Harry Potter and the Mount Greylock tourism board
NORTH ADAMS — As the Harry Potter fans among you already know, J.K. Rowling has announced that while British wizards go to Hogwarts, the Potterverse school of American wizardry is located high atop Mount Greylock, right here in the Berkshires.
While the sunsets atop Mount Greylock are occasionally magical, the mountain's main trick seems to be making an afternoon disappear, which may or may not be enough to cast that most essential of spells, "Accio Tourism."
Still, a new location for a new wizarding school requires a new sorting of the students into thematic houses. Admittedly, Rowling may have thought of a few new houses, but the fact is that we don't get many Horned Serpents or Wampuses around here. And from my wizard's study in NORTH ADAMS, where many a SHAMAN TROD, I know that sorting students can't just be left to RANDOM HATS.
So if Hogwarts has a Sorting Hat, then surely the Berkshire School of Wizardry and Witchcraft demands something equally majestic, befitting the spirit of the Berkshires: The Sorting Flannel.
And just as the Sorting Hat sings each year about the four houses into which it will sort the four students when worn, the Sorting Flannel has asked me to share with you this short song about its role in selecting the proper affiliation for magical students in the Berkshires:
Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
Or that some folks shouldn't wear plaid,
But here amidst the Berkshires,
It's the cloth in which we're clad.
You can keep your sweater-vests,
And keep your blouses too,
For I'm the Sorting Flannel
And I know what's right for you.
Forget those school advisers,
They're a bunch of useless fakes.
To see where you should be,
Just put on ME, that's all it takes!
You might belong in Tanglewood,
Whose tastes are quite refined,
Preferring proper picnics
Full of upscale cheese and wine.
The Tanglewoods are striving folk
Who seek the very best,
And fill their halls with music
To leave visitors impressed.
You might belong in Splatterbrush,
Where dwell creative hearts.
Their burning need to make things
Drives them further in the arts.
Creating something wondrous
Is the way their minds are flexed,
But a Splatterbrush will never rest,
And always ask "What's next?"
You might belong in Ashuwillticook,
Where does reside
The soul who nurtures nature
And just loves to be outside.
The Ashuwillticooks are strong,
On foot, on ski, on bike,
And always nice to have along
If going on a hike.
Or last, you may be Hatchet-Bear,
The house that takes its name
From an old North Adams incident
That brought the town some fame
If you like drunken forest runs
And acting like an ass,
Then Hatchet-Bear's the house for you.
(There's one in every class!)
Seth Brown is an award-winning humor columnist, the author of "From God To Verse," and a hirsute ceramicist. His website is RisingPun.com.
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Chapter 1 of It Takes Ganas: Jaime Escalante's Secret to Inspired Learning
Jaime Escalante was an incredibly effective teacher. Yet this very effectiveness came at a cost: wherever he went, he created waves. For many of the educators who worked with Escalante, that wasn't a problem. Escalante's students achieved such remarkable success that fellow teachers and administrators were often willing to cut him slack. The new principal at Garfield High, however, thought otherwise. She ran a tight ship, and she wasn't about to let anything rock her boat.
Maria Elena Tostado had risen through the ranks of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Like many of her fellow career educators, she had taken the safe and steady path to success. The surest way to regular promotions was to follow procedures, obey instructions, and make sure employees who reported to her did the same. She wasn't about to jeopardize her professional standing to placate a prima donna math teacher who was a royal headache at district headquarters.
In the main office – known by many in the school system as "Downtown" – Escalante was notorious for his endless demands and insistence on bending the rules. And when rules got bent, complications arose: angry parents, unhappy administrators, unsettled unions, unfriendly politicians. The California state educational code was 2,300 pages long. Tostado's responsibility was to deliver its promises and policies, not circumvent them, to 3,500 mostly poor and Hispanic students that crowded into the Garfield campus in East LA, built more than sixty years earlier and badly frayed by decades of overuse and underfunding.
Her predecessor, Henry Gradillas, had handled Escalante like a rock star, giving him what he wanted and shielding him from the wrath of students, parents, and school administrators who chafed under his high expectations and low tolerance for mediocrity. Gradillas's sympathetic view of Escalante and his unorthodox teaching techniques would be swept away by Tostado's new vision. Maybe Gradillas was willing to spend his own personal and professional capital to insulate this renegade from the consequences of his behavior; but she was not.
Within five years of Tostado's arrival at Garfield, every teacher and teaching method associated with the controversial and divisive Jaime Escalante would be gone without a trace. And so would one of the most spirited, innovative, successful and famous Advanced Placement programs in the history of American education, replaced by a system that failed in every way except that it followed the rules. Tostado ensured the elevation of procedure over results, the return to mediocrity from hard-won excellence, the triumph of indolence and apathy over talent and industry. Indeed, few have been as successful as she at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.[1]
Advanced Placement Calculus
Escalante taught his first Advanced Placement calculus class in 1978, four years after he came to Garfield, cobbling a curriculum together from old test questions and handouts he scrounged himself because there was no budget for textbooks. Five students survived his intense regimen of drills, before- and after-school tutoring, and lunchtime review sessions to take the Educational Testing Service national AP exam at the end of the year. Two of them passed.
Gradually attendance increased. In 1982, eighteen students took the AP calculus test and for the first time everyone passed. That was also the year fourteen of the pupils were accused by ETS of cheating. Shocked and angered by the accusation, Escalante, Gradillas, and a growing national chorus accused the testing company of discrimination, despite the fact that students' identities were unknown to the graders who read their answer sheets. Twelve of the fourteen agreed to retake the test (the others had already moved on with their educations) and all twelve passed.
This spectacular vindication transformed Escalante and Garfield High into celebrities. All the Advanced Placement courses on campus surged in popularity, with AP calculus enrollment growing every year. In 1987, 127 Garfield students took the AP calculus exam and eighty-five of them passed. That meant 27 percent of all Mexican-American students in America who passed AP calculus that year were students in Jaime Escalante's program.
Hollywood Comes to Garfield
Also in 1987, production began on a Hollywood version of the 1982 controversy over whether Escalante's students had cheated. Stand and Deliver, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips, was filmed that summer at Garfield and at nearby Roosevelt High. It dramatized the story of poor Latino kids whose parents were gardeners and hotel maids, who pinned their hopes for the future on passing an elite national test, and who proved the doubters wrong by passing a retest with the encouragement of their incredible and gifted teacher.
What the movie didn't show, and what Mrs. Tostado and other like-minded educators fretted so about, was the price of this success to everybody outside the AP calculus bubble. By the time Stand and Deliver celebrated its Oscar nomination for best actor, the seeds for the destruction of Escalante's calculus program were already sown.
After Henry Gradillas was promoted from dean of discipline to principal in 1981, he had used his position to help Escalante build his program. He helped scrape up money for advanced math textbooks even though most Garfield students struggled with far simpler problems. In the aftermath of the 1982 publicity, so many students signed up for AP calculus that Escalante requested a new, larger classroom. Gradillas gave him a big music rehearsal hall and assigned the other calculus teacher, Ben Jimenez, to a second music room. A member of the school board appropriated $25,000 for air-conditioning to make Escalante's room more appealing to summer school students. Escalante also eventually arranged facilities and funding for high school summer classes at East Los Angeles Community College a few blocks from Garfield.
Escalante took a dim view of activities that detracted from math. Indeed, he thought of students who engaged in such activities as "murderers" insofar as they "killed" time that could have been spent more productively on math. Time was, for Escalante, the most precious commodity and he filled every available minute of his young students' lives with mathematical training. He opened the old band hall, MH-1, at seven a.m. every school day and kept it open late. Students came by for tutoring during lunch. They came on Saturdays and kept working through the summer.
Escalante was always playing catch-up, having to cover a vast amount of remedial ground. Students entered Garfield in the tenth grade, most of them with the barest grasp of arithmetic and basic algebra. To prepare them for AP calculus in only three years was a massive challenge that took all their focus and concentration. Escalante discouraged them from cheerleading, band, football, and anything else that distracted them from his assignments. He also discouraged after-school jobs, even though many students needed to help support their families, work in the family business, or take care of younger siblings.
To keep them interested, Escalante transformed his classroom into a wacky wonderland. He decorated the walls with posters of his beloved Los Angeles Lakers, rewarded correct answers with candy, and threw pillows at students who gave wrong answers. Some days he made them answer a question before they could come in the door. Sometimes he brought doughnuts or hamburgers to class. He might demonstrate a math idea by cutting apples into pieces with a meat cleaver, or using an E.T. doll as a puppet. Steps to problem-solving were transformed into basketball or hockey moves. He patrolled the aisles, dishing out encouragement and criticism in equal measure, commenting on a haircut here, a fashion statement there. He mimicked a cheerleader one minute and a gang member the next. When the class needed a change of pace, he blasted "We Will Rock You" and pounded his desk along with the class. Or he might play music from a favorite opera, or folk tunes from his native Bolivia.
In Jaime Escalante's view, this was what it took to cram five or six years' worth of math into three. It was a matter of having the ganas, a Spanish word he often used to describe the desire to learn. Anything was worth the sacrifice to give these students a chance to compete for a college track that would take them out of the barrio and into a successful, high-paying career. Escalante's students were accepted into top colleges around the country. At one point fourteen of his former students were at Harvard, Yale or MIT at the same time. MIT professor and audio system inventor Amar Bose gave an open invitation to any Escalante student who wanted to enroll there, and helped pay their expenses.
Escalante's principal, Henry Gradillas, steadfastly supported this enthusiastic teacher who devoted so much time and energy to students and poured himself into their lives. That level of dedication deserved all the help the principal could give him. Gradillas, formerly a captain in the elite Army Airborne Rangers, respected the school district's rules and regulations but found many creative ways around them. He charged in with confidence where rules were ambiguous or absent. And there were times when he conveniently looked the other way, convinced that the results Escalante achieved were worth veering a bit from those 2,300 pages of regulations.
But it was also true that Escalante made other teachers feel shortchanged. Why didn't any of them get a bigger classroom? Air-conditioning? Off-budget textbooks? After he became math department chairman in 1981, why didn't he do his required faculty service, the administrative work he was supposed to do along with his fellow teachers? What right did he have to make a student give up band practice? The football team? An after-school job?
The counseling office sometimes told students who wanted to drop Escalante's classes that they couldn't, which was not exactly true. Parents complained about the long hours and endless quizzes and homework. "Downtown" complained about the money. The teachers union disapproved of the long hours and large classes, believing they were against the work rules and set a bad precedent. Yet, upstream to administrators and downstream to teachers and parents, Gradillas tirelessly ran interference for his friend and colleague who worked harder than anybody and got spectacular results. When even the janitor complained about Escalante's long hours, Gradillas gave the teacher his own key.
Nineteen eighty-seven was a pivotal year. It was the year that, by hogging resources and irritating a wide range of people, Jaime Escalante developed and led a calculus program that produced more than one-fourth of all the Mexican-American students in America who passed the AP calculus test – leaving Beverly Hills High in the dust and besting all but three high schools in the nation in the number of exams given. It was the year the Hollywood film Stand and Deliver went into production, which soon would make Jaime Escalante a media celebrity far beyond the world of education. It was also the year that Henry Gradillas decided to take a sabbatical to finish his doctoral dissertation, "Characteristics of Capable Teachers," explaining, "I wanted to show the kids you're never too old to learn."[2] And it was the year that his successor, Maria Elena Tostado, began to dismantle the program Escalante had built and Gradillas had protected in order to replace it with her own.
In an interview in the fall of 1987, Tostado hailed Escalante as "one in a million. Everyone is trying to get into his classes. He and his students seem to feed off each other with their energy and enthusiasm." She added that the surge in interest in AP classes was continuing. "He's had a huge impact on the whole school." And yet at the same time, the first steps for undermining Escalant's calculus program were already under way.
The following spring, Stand and Deliver was released and Edward James Olmos received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Escalante. Suddenly, everyone wanted to interview this remarkable teacher and see him in action. Vice President George Bush stopped by his classroom, and President Ronald Reagan applauded Escalante's drive and success. Escalante began going on speaking trips, sometimes accompanied by Tostado. Participation in AP calculus was down a bit compared with the year before, and results down even more: 119 students sat for the exam and fifty-five passed. Escalante blamed the drop on the distraction of so many visitors and the false impression of moviegoers that passing the AP test was easy. Years of actual classroom preparation had been squeezed into one academic year in the film. But the interest in advanced calculus had sparked enrollment in other subjects as well so that 443 students campus-wide took at least one Advanced Placement exam, ranking Garfield thirty-third out of 8,247 public and private high schools nationwide, and more than any other inner-city school.
"It was Mr. Escalante, who has followed his own grinding trail of self-improvement, who was the catalyst for the sparkling gains the school has made," Tostado said in 1988. "Jaime is a master teacher above all."
Within a year, Escalante was the subject of a biography, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, by Jay Mathews, the host of a Peabody Award-winning PBS series titled Futures, and had been invited to the White House to consult on education (he declined, but met President Reagan in California later on). A feature article in The New York Times[3] described an animated Mr. Escalante standing in front of his class with a baseball and glove explaining trajectory in terms of a pitch. On the wall was a poster reading, "Calculus need not be made easy: It is easy already."
John Bennett, director of the AP program at Garfield, sounded one note of caution in the Times article: "I think a lot of people feel Escalante has built a little empire. That has been divisive to some extent, but the overall effect has been really positive."
"The good [teachers] are not jealous of him," Tostado responded. "The ones I find making the noise are the ones who are not measuring up."
Escalante's Support Structure Destroyed
But as these glowing comments went out in the national press and Jaime Escalante's star continued to rise, the support structure that made his success possible was being destroyed and the new leadership was beginning to reveal its true colors.
In the fall of 1988, Henry Gradillas finished his doctoral dissertation and returned to Los Angeles. Not only was he renowned as the principal who had supported and encouraged Jaime Escalante, he was also praised for his skill in reducing gang violence, managing discipline, and raising academic standards. With his new Ph.D., he might have expected an assignment that put his abilities to work system-wide. Instead, he was put in charge of asbestos removal.
A spokesman for the district explained that it was a temporary assignment until they "found something good for him." However, Escalante believed office politics were involved and one unnamed administration source admitted that Gradillas was "too confrontational." Jaime's friend was being sidelined because he stirred things up "Downtown." "He eliminated a high percentage of the teachers who were teaching from the desk, not doing their jobs," Escalante remarked. Tostado pointed out that Gradillas had sharply reduced the number of shop classes and "some people downtown are philosophically at odds with that."
In fact, Gradillas had curtailed shop classes because, as he explained in a later interview, "boys were sitting around in woodshop making shoeshine kits. It was a waste of time. The auto shop had an old car with a carburetor. What's the point of learning to fix [an obsolete] carburetor when cars don't have them any more?" He wanted the classes to be useful or be eliminated and the space used for more productive learning.[4]
"When someone like Henry makes a drastic change in curriculum or in policy," Tostado continued, "he ends up fighting not only his faculty, to convince them of the need of it, but ends up fighting with the powers that be that determine such decisions." It was a kind of fight Tostado preferred to avoid.
One administrator who asked not to be named told the Washington Post that Gradillas had "offended his superiors by being 'fiercely, unbelievably dedicated to children … A number has been done on him.'" Another colleague added, "A maverick in this district … is in trouble." Garfield's career counselor, Joe Lopez, told reporter and author, Jay Mathews, that Gradillas' treatment was payback from "Downtown" for the disruptions his high standards and dedication to students caused. "Henry proved them wrong in everything they did."[5]
By 1990, Escalante could no longer depend on the Garfield administration for the help he needed to maintain his celebrated but unorthodox program. Tired of facing irate parents and unhappy students, counselors now allowed students to drop Escalante's class when they felt overwhelmed. Under Gradillas, the administrators had encouraged, even cajoled, students to tough it out and had worked to convince parents that the sacrifice was worth it. When a counselor let a student drop calculus for more practice time with the swim team, Escalante believed the school had lost sight of what he was trying to achieve.
Escalante was now under more pressure to conform to district policies. In the past, any student who wanted to take one of his classes could do so with his permission, even if they didn't have the required prerequisites. Now those exceptions became problematic. He raised administrative hackles when he wanted to use an aide for calculus that was hired for remedial instruction. There had been complaints about the money designated for his use that he received from corporations to fund his summer school at East LA Community College, saying it should instead go to the college math department for them to distribute. (When they threatened to commandeer the money, the sponsor in turn threatened to withdraw it, saying it was for Escalante's program specifically.)
Also in 1990, Escalante was replaced as chairman of the math department by his protégé Ben Jimenez. It's likely that Tostado and others were weary of their celebrity teacher having the title and the extra $500 per year and yet not fulfilling his assigned administrative duties. Escalante believed it was a ploy by the teacher's union to undercut his ability to assign students to their classes and funnel promising prospects into his advanced sections. The union had turned teachers against him and promoted his young colleague. The first vote was a tie; Jimenez won on the second ballot. Escalante resigned his union membership after his defeat.
That year he decided to move to another school.
Stung by the "ingratitude" of parents and teachers he believed didn't appreciate academic achievement, Escalante announced in February 1990 that he would resign from Garfield to teach elsewhere or take a job in computer design. A story in the Los Angeles Times[6] reported that his main reason for leaving was receiving letters from parents who wanted their children to drop advanced math classes to spend more time with sports and other interests. He claimed these parents "don't see education as the way to succeed in this country." He also said he had received threatening phone calls both at the school and at home. What's more, Escalante complained of a "lack of district support" and what he believed was jealousy on the part of other teachers.
It was true that some teachers resented the attention Escalante received because of the film Stand and Deliver. They thought he was arrogant and demanding. It was also true that Jaime lacked subtlety when judging fellow teachers who failed to meet his high standards. In one often-repeated exchange, Escalante bluntly criticized a teacher for her students' poor performance. When the teacher exclaimed that she'd been teaching students for fifteen years, Escalante replied, "Well, you've been teaching them the wrong thing." Others resented the idea that for them to be considered good teachers the public now expected them to be as flamboyant and spend as much time in class as he did. Some colleagues also resented that President George Bush had visited Escalante at Garfield High, and that the teacher had openly supported Bush for president.
Though many students loved him and worked hard to earn his approval, some were glad to hear he was leaving. One Garfield graduate who had been in Escalante's classes for three years commented, "I think once he leaves, the school will go back to normal and start doing good things. The movie really made things bad for us at school."
Days after his announcement, Escalante changed his mind. Following a meeting with the assistant superintendent of Los Angeles schools and Tostado, he said that he would stay at least until the end of the school year. "I was going to quit in two weeks," he told reporters. "I was going to be a bad boy, but I looked at all the kids and decided I couldn't do that." In addition, he wanted to continue developing a summer program he had started at nearby East Los Angeles Community College (ELAC). When administration policy kept him from teaching the courses he wanted in summer school at Garfield, Jaime had arranged to teach his summer classes on the ELAC campus. Under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation and funded by ARCO (now a subsidiary of British Petroleum), the program had grown to 1,000 students a year from schools all across the district studying math, science, English, and teacher training in the Escalante method. Other corporate sponsors included Xerox, IBM, GTE, and the Carnegie Foundation, all donating specifically to Escalante's summer program.
Escalante Leaves Garfield
But in the spring of 1991, Escalante again announced his departure. This time he made good on his threat. He blamed "faculty politics and petty jealousies" for his decision to leave Garfield after seventeen years for a teaching position in Sacramento. Henry Gradillas would never have let a teacher who got such results leave his school; he would have done whatever it took to keep him. But while calling him "excellent" and "an undisputed leader of his profession … a master," Tostado also told the LA Times, "Here, he is just one of the faculty. No one makes a big to-do about Jaime. I don't think that's strange. It's just the way it is."[7]
Lucy Romero, a faculty member at Garfield for more than thirty years, remembers Tostado as a "very, very insecure person" who "wanted to make her mark" as a principal.[8] Three years into Tostado's tenure, the faculty petitioned the district unsuccessfully to have her removed. She left after nine years on the job.
Angelo Villavicencio, who started teaching at Garfield the year Gradillas left and taught calculus alongside Escalante, believed Tostado was jealous of Escalante's success and notoriety and wanted him gone. "She did not want any Escalante legacy at Garfield," Villavicencio recalled later, "and brought in her own team of teachers she believed were better. She tried her best to get rid of any Escalante legacy, and she succeeded."[9]
Ben Jimenez, Escalante's protégé and successor as department chair, left at the same time, and Villavicencio took Escalante's place. A year later, Villavicencio followed his mentor out the door. "I saw the writing on the wall and said, 'I'm not going to last,'" he says of those days. He was identified with the Escalante regime, and, he says, the new principal's attitude was, "My team is better than Escalante's team." Tostado declined his request to add a third class of calculus in order to reduce class size, and in fact threatened to make matters worse by taking away the large music classroom he had inherited. She shied away from supporting Escalante's strict standards in the face of continuing complaints from parents and district officials. Don Mroscak, a counselor at Garfield from 1967 to 1994, remembers that "expectations fell off" during that time. "There was no more push."[10] Concludes Villavicencio, "There were some narrow-minded people there. They were jealous of his success … It took four or five years for the whole thing to go down the drain."
In a 2002 article, Jerry Jesness, who later collaborated with Gradillas on a book, wrote of Escalante's legacy at Garfield, "By 1996, the dynasty was not even a minor fiefdom."[11] Reporting Escalante's death from cancer in 2010, The New York Times observed, "Without him, Garfield's calculus program withered."[12] Results prove the point. In 1996, five years after Escalante left Garfield, eleven students passed the AP calculus exam, down from the historic high of eighty-five in 1987. When Villavicencio offered to return to the school to relaunch the calculus program, the administration told him they were doing fine and didn't need any help.[13] In 2009, fifty-five Garfield students sat for the AP calculus exam; thirteen passed.
As a team, Jaime Escalante and Henry Gradillas produced an educational system that outperformed anything before or since. But it was of necessity a renegade operation that strained, evaded, or ignored the rules and put their professional careers at risk. When Gradillas left, Escalante lost the protection of a sympathetic principal and was hounded from his job. Their results had been historic, but their methods were an administrative headache. Weighed in the balance by "Downtown," administrative harmony trumped student performance.
In any other field or venture that puts a premium on results, Escalante's success would have had the world beating down his door to copy it. Anything impeding such astonishing results would be swept aside in the quest for excellence – people replaced, polices changed, priorities and resources reordered. But history and experience show us that the world of education is a different world.
Does great teaching have to be a renegade operation? Do the best results have to come from outside the educational mainstream? Unconventional teachers, along with parents desperate for unconventional results, may spill out around the edges but more often leave the system entirely to find a better way. The legacy of Jaime Escalante proves we can achieve incredible results in education by doing an end run around the system. It also proves that the system resists end runs and is only too happy to embrace mediocrity.
Why is that? And what will it take for the American educational mainstream to encourage and support a teacher like the Bolivian immigrant who wore funny hats, played loud music, annoyed his colleagues and superiors, and proved to the children of immigrant gardeners and hotel maids that they could get into Harvard, MIT, or any other top university that they might want to attend?
Throughout his career, Escalante hammered home the fact that we all can do far more than we think we can. And that includes educators as well as students.
All it takes is ganas.
1. Information about Maria Elena Tostado and her relationship with Jaime Escalante from author interviews with Henry Gradillas (11/9/14), Lucy Romero (11/10/14) and Angelo Villavicencio (11/11/14).
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2. Gradillas's comment on reasons for finishing his doctorate from author interview
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3. Quotations from "Something More Than Calculus" by Ron La Brecque, The New York Times, November 6, 1988
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4. Gradillas's comment about shop class from author interview
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5. Quotations about Gradillas's reassignment from "Praised Principal Put in Academic Siberia" by Jay Mathews, Washington Post, November 27, 1988
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6. Escalante's comments about "ingratitude" and his decision to leave Garfield from "Celebrated Math Teacher Escalante Says He'll Quit" by Elaine Woo and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1990
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7. Escalante's and Tostado's comments about Escalante's final decision to leave Garfield from "A Calculated Move: Jaime Escalante Prepares to Leave to Teach in Sacramento" by Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1991
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8. Lucy Romero comments about Tostado from author interview
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9. Angelo Villavicencio comments about his departure from author interview
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10. Don Mroscak's comment about falling standards at Garfield from author interview (11/9/14)
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11. Jerry Jesness comment on Escalante's legacy at Garfield from "Stand and Deliver Revisited" by Jerry Jesness posted at reason.com, July 1, 2002
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12. Quotation about "withered" program from The New York Times obituary by William Grimes, March 31, 2010
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13. Villavicencio's offer to relaunch calculus at Garfield from author interview
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Information about the life of Jaime Escalante and the history of his calculus classes at Garfield High from Escalante: The Best Teacher in America by Jay Mathews, New York: Henry Holt and Company 1988


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