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PLEASE EVERYONE, MY PC WAS HACKED. i HAVE NOT LOST MY MOTHER AND i AM NOT IN ANY TROUBLE. sORRY THAT WE HAVE HACKERS THAT CAUSE US A LOT OF TROUBLE.
Barbara C. Lange - just clarifying that this discussion thread concerns another Barbara in our group. There's been no hacking here.
On the banks of the Mississippi River in north central Minnesota (Brainerd lakes area)
Hi to Barbara's Quilting sisters, so far we have 30 people signed up to do a block, if anyone is interested , just PM me. I will get right back to you with my address.. I think I am calling this. BARBARA'S BIG HUG! It will be something! Thanks to everyone!
Hi to Barbara's Quilting sisters, so far we have 30 people signed up to do a block, if anyone is interested , just PM me. I will get right back to you with my address.. I think I am calling this. BARBARA'S BIG HUG! It will be something! Thanks to everyone!
Hi Candis,
I would like to also add a block to Barbara's quilt. I have not met her yet, but I would like to soon.. I will PM you so that you can send me your address to send it. I probably will not be able to send one until the end of next week.
Thea, I am so so sorry to hear about Barbara's trip home. Things are always so stressful when tragic things happen in families. Please tell Barbara when you talk to her that my prayers and thoughts are with her. Thank you so much for keeping us all posted.
Georgetown CA I'd Rather Be Quilting
To all my Family, I love you all .I'm home safe and sound ,I have just finished reading all of your messages and again it is so wonderful to have the support of all of you .
It was a difficult trip home as Thea as told all of you . It was not what I expected at all. I was accused of being neglectful of my mother and was no help to her in the past few years and I left the clan by moving out of state.I will not go into everything that was said ,but was told pretty much ,that I was not wanted there. I was at the home of my mother for 2 hours only. On my trip home I said my good byes to my mother and let her know this was not how it should have ended. I am just so happy that I had talked with my mother last Friday evening for some time and I did get to tell her I loved her.
the passing of a loved one is hard under any circumstance but when it is a violent passing ,it makes it even harder for the loved ones left behind. I know someday they will come to realize this and will be remorseful of their actions .
I just want you all to know I'm at peace with my decision to return home and I'm doing well .
Love to all of you
Bless you , Barbara Love to you. Ginny
Barbara:I just want you all to know I'm at peace with my decision to return home and I'm doing well .
So happy you are home safe-and-sound Barbara. It is so sad that family are the ones that seem to hurt us the most. (((HUGS)))
Life is like a quilt...bits & pieces, joy & sorrow, stitched with love
Spud you are so right in what you said. Weird thing about it is sometimes they don't even realize how hurtful what their saying is . I'm remembering when my brother said my quilting was a waste of time!
Barbara remember what the bible says.
Quilting My Rainbow
We love you Barbara, and are greatly relieved you are home safe and sound. Spud said it so well: our families seem to hurt us the most. And, I am so thankful that you had that last conversation with your mother and the opportunity to tell her you loved her. Keep that close to your heart always!
Winthrop, WA
Barbara, So glad to hear you are safely home and in good spirits, as well as you can be, under the circumstances. You are a real trouper!!! HUGS, Susan
Candis, sent you another pm...
barbara, i'm happy you are home safe and sound. HUGS
gini in north idaho
barbara, i'm happy you are home safe and sound. HUGS
Ditto that!
More hugs comeing your way, Barbara.
Quilters are people who strip so they won't go topless.
Barbara glad to hear you made it home safely. Remember the good times with your mother. What goes round comes round. Life is too short to worry about the past couple of days. Things will work out eventually. Take care.
Thank You all for your support and prayers. My son and I are both doing well ,and we know my mother loved us no matter how far away we are. I Miss her already but I know she knows she is very much loved. My step father Frank was killed on the very same road less then a mile form home in 1999, Frank was of hispanic descent and loved to Dance I know this is what they are doing now .My mother also loved to dance and went to all the senior citizen dances she could get to just to dance. I went with her once to a couple of these and she didn't care who she danced with .she was always dancing .. I know she is happy and with the man she always loved. Barbara
Barbara, It is good that you had just talked to your Mom and let her know you loved her. Not everyone gets that chance. You have a beautiful picture of what she and your step-father are doing now, and you know she is happy. Be happy. Ginny


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OCEAN CITY – A quaint community center has opened up downtown to assist international students working and living in Ocean City.
A ribbon cutting was held on Monday afternoon to open the All Friends Community Center for Youth. The ceremony was conducted by Smart Staff, who is dedicated to matching qualified international students with short-term seasonal work experiences in the U.S.
Smart Staff has been working with sponsors to connect Romanian and Moldovan exchange students with Ocean City businesses through the U.S. State Department's Summer Work and Travel program since 2005.
Smart Staff furthered that the All Friends Community Center for Youth is an addition to their network. It will provide a variety of services to the program's participants as they adjust to life and work in the U.S.
Smart Staff Managing Partner Calin Voicu, from Romania, first came to the U.S. in 2005 and worked as an international student in Ocean City through the Summer Work and Travel program. He said the business had been a U.S. entity and Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce member since 2008.
Smart Staff is also present in Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, Va., and Wisconsin Dells in Wisconsin, but the All Friends Community Center for Youth in Ocean City is the first office to open. They are planning on opening additional offices in Williamsburg and Wisconsin Dells in the future.
"Me and my colleagues were here in the summer to support the students and employers to suit their needs, but this year we decided it was time to open an office to help them also with travel, because it is a program about cultural exchange, it is not only about work," Voicu said.
Voicu explained 500 international students from Romania and Moldova have or are coming to Ocean City this year. Besides exploring Ocean City, the center will provide the opportunity for the students to travel within the U.S. to add to their cultural experience. Trips are set up to New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Washington D.C, Six Flags in New Jersey, Niagara Falls, Busch Gardens in Virginia, Boston, Florida, Las Vegas and California.
It isn't all fun and games for the international students while they are here. Voicu expanded how much goes into getting them to Ocean City.
A job number is required in order for a student to obtain a Visa. Therefore, the staff screens and interviews students and employers on their interests and needs and matches them in the end. Once a student is hired, then the process can begin for them to receive their Visa. Housing is also secured before the students arrived.
Smart Staff picks the students up from the airport and brings them directly to the center where the application for a Social Security number will begin as well as provide transportation to Salisbury to receive it.
The center will also serve as a sanctuary for students. It is place for students to come to have computer and Internet access and receive discounted calling and SIM cards to help students keep in touch with home.
"It is a community center for youth," Voicu said. "They should come here if there are any problems, or to rest, to communicate with their families."
Voicu added that the center is also able to offer students a second job when the opportunity arrives.
Harrison Group Director of Sales Ruth Waters, past president of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, and Chamber Executive Director Melanie Pursel were present for the ribbon cutting.
"We couldn't run our businesses without them, they come at the right time, they stay through September, and they have over 500 kids here this year," Waters said. "They provide a fabulous resource."
Pursel added that the center will provide a seamless transition for students when they arrive in the U.S.
"It is just another way to make them feel welcome, and by having a place for them to actually come and feel comfortable, because we rely so heavily on these students," she said. "Our work force swells in the summer and there are just not enough workers to fill these jobs."
Voicu was sure to mention how the Summer Work and Travel program changed his life. He and his wife, Cristina, met in medical school. Cristina is a surgeon in France and he received his degree to practice medicine as a general practitioner, but chooses to run Smart Staff and the new All Friends Community Center for Youth in Ocean City instead.
"We came as students, we worked with each student here, and we are perfect at understanding what's in their minds, and on the other side because we worked here in the United States and we better understand the employer's needs," he concluded.
The All Friends Community Center for Youth is located at 203 S. Baltimore Avenue. What used to be a piece of a laser tag business has been remodeled into a comfortable office, which is designed and decorated to resemble a city loft with wood floors, exposed dry wall and brick walls.

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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by Gaius, Mar 19, 2012.
Both valid points.
So who goes next now?
Since we're hung up on comm badges, I suggest we list all the episodes where alternate comm badges were used.
On the TNG show, I believe there were only 4 instances of alternate communicator badges being seen
Future Imperfect featured a combadge with stripes signifying rank, in place of pips
Parallels featured the same one, used along with the traditional rank pips
All Good things featured a futuristic looking combadge
& Yesterday's Enterprise featured the combadge worn at the time of the Ent-C
Seen here, being used by Castillo
Don't forget this
from Cause and Effect.
Why we're at it, can someone explain why Picard wears an alternate uniform (an open coat), somewhere around season 5? It looks dodgy. This is not a quiz question, just curiosity.
I would argue that this example would not qualify as either being "alternate" or a "comm-badge."
1) The Bozeman traveled forward from the past and to the future, so it was obviously the insignia of the time (the TOS movie era); too, if we accept that the Bozeman is indeed from relatively the same timeframe, we know then that those badges were not in fact communicators but simple rank insignia pins.
Patrick Stewart wanted an outfit that would, as captain, distinguish himself/Picard from the rest of the crew. It probably also helped that the alternate uniform tunic with that jacket looks like it's 100 times more comfortable than the actual uniform he wore otherwise.
And it looked cool.
D'oh! Good catch. That's what I get for thinking TNG Trivia while multitasking. Not a good combination.
Yeah, not a communicator, but ironically enough, it looks like the exact same badge that Rachel Garret is wearing some 66 years after Morgan Bateson
It's been a good day since I answered this & no one seems to be suggesting it's incorrect, so I'll just go & ask a new question
In keeping with the current theme, how many outfits, costumes, or forms has Q ever appeared in, on TNG? Feel free to name them if you can
-TNG season 1 jumpsuit
-TNG season 3-7 uniform
-"Q as Data" in "Hide and Q"
-12th century monk in "Hide and Q"
-French Marshall's uniform
-Starfleet Admiral dress uniform
-US Army General uniform
-21st century drug-addict security guard
-Judge's robes
-17th century sailing captain uniform (the pirate costume)
-"These aren't my colors!" jumpsuit from "Deja Q"
-Mariachi costume
-Sheriff of Nottingham costume
-white "God" robes
-Flower delivery man "I'm looking for a John-Luck Pickerd!"
-Bartender outfit at the Bonestell bar
-"Grandpa" Q in "All Good THings..."
I know:
French Marshall
Starfleet Captain
civilian outfit
Sheriff of Nottingham
3 WW soldier
Starfleet Admiral
Okay, I'm way off.
Close but not quite, by my count
Oh shit, the three-headed snakes!
still more :P
These are a little vague too. There's actual costumes he's wearing
Oh, jeez for crying out loud...
TNG Season one jumpsuit - the captain's uniform, mirroring Picard's.
TNG season 3-7 uniform - the captain's uniform, mirroring Picard's
Not a uniform, but he also showed up in a Birthday Suit in Deja Q.
Still doesn't cover them all, sorry
Edit, this is kind of tougher than I thought lol
That's why I phrased it, outfits, costumes, & forms
Separate names with a comma.


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That said, you're more than welcome to run trophy only tournaments, but I doubt you'd get much of a turnout. TDs don't run events the way they do because they have to, they do it because that's what most players seem to want.
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That being said, I think maintaining the status quo contributes to unnecessarily high entry fees, and keeps out a lot of would be tournament players who might bite if said fees were half of what they currently are. As long as we keep doing what we've always done, we are not likely to get those folks on board, and we are going to always get what we've always gotten.
Imo most people want to see an R.O.I. if they do place. I won an ice bowl which is for charity so to get anything was a bonus. But paying 25$ to play a tourney and winning and only getting a cheap trophy would turn me away. Maybe thats the wrong mentality and i am part of the problem.
PDGA is taking money out....so you couldn't really do $20 and a good disc....
$35 and pick 2 discs???
Just my. 02¢
Myself I see it more in line with entertainment value then I do as a R.O.I. Like going to a movie theater to watch a new movie, I pay $10-$15 for my ticket and I expect a good movie to entertain me for a couple of hours. In this case my ROI is hopefully a movie I really enjoyed. Or going to a sporting event and forking over $50 for a ticket. I am there to be part of the atmosphere, not to try and win back some of the money I spent.
So I guess I would consider the small fee of $25 to enter the tournament my cost of admission to be entertained for a day. I get to have someone else do all the work of putting it together, assembling prizes and trophies, maybe even provide a small bite to eat (optional). For that small fee I get to show up with little effort done by me to play in an event with other DG'ers. I like to think I am paying for the experience, for the chance to interact with other fellow players, maybe learn a thing or two and if the planets align in some crazy way, even win, place or show. In that case, I would be thrilled that my $25 got me a full day of fun and if lucky a shiny new trophy too.
Would me getting some small return of $10 - $15 really change the experience I just had? I guess that is up to each individual person, but for me I dont believe it would. Like getting $5.00 for placing 6th wouldn't do a whole lot for me personally. In that case I would rather just donate it back to the TD or Club who took their time to put on the event. I don't see me spending $25 as an investment as much as I do me paying to be entertained.
Just my own personal expectation.
Here's my experience with organized competition that I posted in another thread:
Goldenthrower^valid points, being new to the tourney scene i just assumed the tourneys put themselves on. Very naive on that. I have learned from this site there is a lot of work involved. It is highly entertaining but can also be a pain depending on who you play with. That is one reason i prefer the am divisions, they take it less seriously in most cases and it is more like a casual round. The pro/advanced in many cases are too serious for my liking. My problem or non problem is my game is progressing and i will have to move up as i woild rather not be labled a bagger.
On a side note can i get my rating without playing in sanctiomed events or joining the PDGA? I am curious as to what it may be and would like to know what division i should b playing as opossed to guessing.
Best of luck to you!
From how long this whole argument of ams vs pros, cash vs merch, nothing vs everything, (it goes as far back as at least the late 80's from what I remember and not one single thing has changed except Al Gore inventing the internet so people could talk about it all the time) people don't seem to realize that the PDGA was not created just so people could argue about divisions. It was created to give structure to organized events and support the growth of the industry and to give players from all over a standardized set of rules to play by so no matter where they go, the rules are the same.
Simplest solution: (Which will probably make no one happy since it makes too much sense) Drop the whole AM/Pro thing entirely, understand once and for all that "Professional Disc Golfer" does not mean someone who playes disc golf for a living it means people who play disc golf in a professional and competitve way. Change the divisions to Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, Division 4 etc. and make qualifications purely ratings based. You could simply make all division play for cash (let's face it, this is what DG has always been for league play for ams, merch IS cash for tournaments or at least has cash value) or leave it as it is now, and "Division 1" would be the cash division and the rest continue with merchandise.
The whole cash vs merch system was created for alot of different reasons and has its pros and cons. In a perfect world we'd all want to play "trophy only" yet in a perfect world there would be billions of sponsership dollars begging to be given out too and players would be more easily to play for a living etc.
There's no real reason for it to go (a whopping 500$ in merch profit off the am divisions in this day and age once it's split among the pro field really isn't going to make or break the game or the players in either direction) but with disc manufacturers doing enough to promote themselves these days there's no real reason for it to stay either. (although it would ruin player's packs if all divisions played for cash and people like having souvenier discs.. but then again half the time it's a disc they don't use and gets given away.)
Sponsership money would go to the highest division/s only, and that would be the incentive to keep playing better and better.
more tourneys would become ratings qualified based.
I'm sure this will make no one happy But that's what we already are, Division 1, 2, 3, 4, it just happens to be called pro, am1, am2, am3. Not one bit of difference other then titles. And the whole cash vs merch thing.
Food for thought.
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text: Ok, I realize this has to be a non-guaranteed, training camp invite, similar to Chris Copeland, though Copeland is a better bet to make the team. Are we thinking this is a nice gesture or what? Wasn't particularly impressed with Smith in Vegas, imagine we have to be able to do better than this for the 15th roster spot, I'd get a specialist or leave it open as mentioned before for D league call ups in the event of a mid season injury. I won't read too much into this until training camp is ending and we see a guaranteed roster, but can't sit here and say this makes alot of sense to me. Again, if he's just being given a shot to battle in camp and earn a 15th spot I have no problem, but if we think we're going to just give him that spot, idk don't wanna make a big deal about a roster spot that shouldn't be significant, but I feel we could get better insurance options than him. Is important though to find someone for the last roster spots that can be content working hard and not playing in real game time, you plug a solid veteran into those roles they often get sour... thoughts?


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Two-sport star Casey recruited to play QB at Tennessee
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
Kelly, an 18-year-old senior out of Sarasota (Fla.) High School, is a two-sport star who was recruited to play quarterback for the University of Tennessee. However, the Red Sox are obviously confident Kelly will choose playing professional baseball instead of following in the footsteps of National Football League superstar Peyton Manning.
"We spent some time talking to the kid," said general manager Theo Epstein. "First of all, he's a great kid, from a great baseball family. You could hear the passion in his voice when he talks about baseball, and we wouldn't have taken him if we didn't feel in our hearts that he wanted to go out and play professional ball."
There is still a contract to be worked out. But all things being equal, Kelly sounded like a man who was ready to start a baseball career.
"It's definitely a tough decision," said Kelly. "I haven't talked to anybody at Tennessee yet. Out of respect to them, we'll just have to see how the summer goes and see how everything plays out with this."
Kelly was then asked if he saw his future in professional baseball or pro football.
"Right now, I'd have to say baseball," he said. "It's kind of up for grabs. I don't really know the answer to that yet. We'll see how the summer plays out."
Kelly's father, Pat, played in three Major League games for the Blue Jays in 1980 and is a veteran coach in professional baseball. He currently works in the Reds organization.
Making the pick even more interesting is that the Red Sox have the flexibility of using Kelly as a pitcher instead of a shortstop, the position at which he was officially drafted. Kelly starred in both positions in high school and is said to have a nice three-pitch mix.
"I have a two-seam fastball that moves a lot and sinks, and a curveball that's pretty good, and a changeup. I have three pitches," he said.
Jason McLeod, Boston's amateur scouting director, and Epstein both feel that the most likely projection for Kelly is as a pitcher.
"I think we've liked him a lot as a pitcher," McLeod said. "I think eventually that will be where he ends up, that would be my guess. But if we can get something done and get him out playing this summer, he certainly would have the opportunity to go out as a shortstop."
Though Kelly's commitment to Tennessee certainly added an element of risk to the pick, the Red Sox thought it was far outweighed by the possible reward.
"A lot of teams liked him as a shortstop, and there were rumors of teams that would pick him as a shortstop in the first round, and there were a handful of teams that liked him as a pitcher," Epstein said. "He's a unique animal. We have someone who's a potential first-round talent as a position player and as a pitcher and can go to Tennessee and play quarterback."
Red Sox's top five selections
|Casey Kelly
|Sarasota HS
|Bryan Price
|Rice U
|Derrik Gibson
|Seaford HS (Del.)
|Stephen Fife
|U of Utah
|Kyle Weiland
|U of Notre Dame
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Because of his passion for playing shortstop and quarterback, Kelly didn't start pitching until his latter years of high school. But McLeod, who scouted him first-hand, saw plenty to like.
"Right now, he's exceptionally advanced for a high school kid," said McLeod. "It comes pretty easily to him. He's very natural on the mound. He has command of a low-90s fastball with movement. Very good breaking ball, hard curveball that he throws, and the changeup as well. He's a kid, obviously, with his football talent as well as his talent in the infield, doesn't spend a lot of time on the mound. But with the time he has spent [pitching], he's pretty advanced.
"He did what you'd want to see out of a high school pitcher -- size, arm action, delivery, worked on both sides of the plate. [He] could throw fastballs away that ran back over the corner, which you don't see a lot out of a high school kid. Hard breaking ball. It was a very good look."
As a position player, Kelly hit .473 in his senior year at Sarasota, adding in 14 doubles, one triple, five homers, 31 RBIs and 11 stolen bases. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, he went 8-1 with a 1.16 ERA and two saves in 12 appearances. In 66 innings, he walked 12 and struck out 66.
The Sox didn't have to wait long before making their next selection. Thanks to losing Eric Gagne as a free agent to the Milwaukee Brewers, they were able to pick right-hander Bryan Price out of Rice University in the supplemental round (45th overall).
Price had an impressive junior year, going 3-4 with a 3.65 ERA in 27 appearances, which included one start.
The Red Sox see a lot of untapped talent in Price.
"Again, [he's] another kid who has the physical attributes we look for, with size and delivery and arm action," McLeod said. "As you do your research on him, you'll see he didn't have a lot of innings his first couple of years at Rice due to ineffectiveness when he did pitch. He only threw 17 innings his freshman and sophomore years. You can look at it two ways. For us, we kind of see that as meaning he wasn't abused, he has a fresh arm.
"Big arm, fastball up to 95 [mph], with good life down in the zone," continued McLeod. "Hard slider, and he's someone that's a little untapped for a college right-handed pitcher, which excites us. We think there's more upside left to him. And having the physical attributes that he does have, we're just really happy to get him into our player-development system and let our guys get their hands on him."
The Red Sox project Price as a starter.
"As far as starting and relieving, I prefer to start," said Price. "I feel like I can get into more of a rhythm when starting. I feel like I'm much more polished due to the fact that I'm not throwing day after day. I've got some days off where I can work on stuff in the bullpen and in between. I think I'm sharper as a starter."
As part of an MLB initiative, each of the 30 teams held a special Draft of surviving Negro League players, who represent every player who did not have an opportunity to play in the Major Leagues.
Boston's selection was pitcher Jim Colzie, who played for the Indianapolis Clowns and Atlanta Black Crackers for seven years and is best remembered for beating future Hall of Famer Satchel Paige in 1947.
Here is a look at Boston's Day 1 selections in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft:
Supplemental round (No. 45): RHP Bryan Price, Rice University
Price, 21, went 3-4 with two saves and a 3.65 ERA in 27 games (one start) as a junior at Rice University this season. He fanned 50 and walked 24 in 44 1/3 innings, an average of 10.2 K's per nine innings pitched. In 2007, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound right-hander went 0-0 with a save and a 7.84 ERA in eight games (one start). He fanned 12 and walked seven in 10 1/3 innings pitched, an average of 10.5 K's per nine innings. He was ranked the No. 47 overall prospect and the No. 25 pitcher in this year's Draft by Baseball America.
Round 2 (No. 77): SS Derrik Gibson, Seaford (Del.) High School
Gibson, 18, was ranked the No. 199 overall prospect and the No. 92 position player in this year's Draft by Baseball America. He hit .633 with five doubles, five triples, five homers, 29 RBIs, 34 runs scored and 13 steals as a senior. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound right-handed hitter was named the 2008 Delaware High School Player of the Year as well as earning First-Team All-State honors at shortstop in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He was named the 2006-2007 Delaware Baseball Player of the Year after batting .491 with a home run, 19 RBIs and 15 steals while going 7-1 with a 1.38 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 56 innings on the mound. He was recommended by Red Sox scout Chris Calciano.
Round 3 (No. 85): RHP Stephen Fife, University of Utah
Fife, 21, was ranked the No. 57 overall prospect and the No. 33 pitcher in this year's Draft by Baseball America. The 6-foot-3, 215 pound right-hander was 7-5 with a 3.72 ERA in 15 starts as a junior for the University of Utah in 2008. He struck out 78 and walked 29 over 92 innings. He threw two complete games, including one shutout. The Boise, Idaho, native led the Utes in wins (seven), starts (14), innings (92), strikeouts (78) and opponents' batting average against (.252). He went 6-2 with a 4.43 ERA in 17 games (six starts) as a sophomore in 2007. He posted a team-low .298 batting average against the finished second on the club with 53 Ks.
Round 3 (No. 108): RHP Kyle Weiland, University of Notre Dame
Weiland, 21, is the University of Notre Dame's all-time leader with 25 career saves. The Albuquerque, N.M., native posted a 2-2 record with seven saves and 5.04 ERA over a team-high 26 appearances as a junior for the Fighting Irish in 2008. He struck out 31 and walked 10 in 30 1/3 frames, an average of 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings pitched. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound right-hander went 1-2 with a save and a 2.38 ERA for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League in 2007 and ranked third nationally with 16 saves as a freshman in 2006. He was recommended by Red Sox scout Chris Mears.
Round 4 (No. 142): OF Peter Hissey, Unionville (Pa.) High School
Hissey, 18, hit .509 with 26 steals and a .672 on-base percentage as a senior for Unionville (Pa.) High School this year. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound left-handed-hitting outfielder was ranked the No. 136 overall prospect and the No. 66 position player in this year's Draft by Baseball America.
Round 5 (No. 172): OF Ryan Westmoreland, Portsmouth (R.I.) High School
Westmoreland, 18, was ranked the No. 113 overall prospect and the No. 53 pitcher in this year's Draft by Baseball America. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound outfielder hit .486 with four homers, 31 RBIs, 37 runs scored and 17 steals for Portsmouth (R.I.) High School this season. He went 7-0 with a 0.45 ERA in seven games (six starts) and tossed a perfect game on April 30, fanning 19 of 21 batters faced. He also pitched a complete-game one-hit shutout and fanned 20 on April 3. In 2007, he was named the Rhode Island High School Baseball Player of the Year as well as the state's Schoolboy Athlete of the Year.
Round 6 (No. 202): C Ryan Lavarnway, Yale University
Lavarnway, 20, led the Ivy League with 13 homers, 42 RBIs, 29 walks, a .824 slugging percentage and a .541 on-base percentage as a junior for Yale University. He led the Bulldogs with a .398 batting average. The Woodland Hills, Calif., native is Yale's all-time leader with 33 career home runs. He was a semifinalist for the Johnny Bench Award and the Golden Spikes Award, as well as a candidate for the Brooks Wallace National Player of the Year Award. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound right-handed-hitting catcher was named Second Team All-Ivy and First-Team All-New England. As a sophomore in 2007, he led the NCAA with a .467 batting average and a .873 slugging percentage, both school records. He also set single-season Yale marks in homers (14), hits (70), doubles (17), RBIs (55) and total bases (131).
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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OCEAN CITY — As the first week of budget hearings wraps up, it seems that City Manager Dennis Dare's "rightsizing" mantra has been replaced with Councilman Joe Hall's outspoken desires to "cut until it hurts."
As each line item in the proposed FY 2011 budget gets placed under the proverbial microscope and each town department comes before the Mayor and Council to present their already lean budget proposals for the next year, Hall has seemingly chimed in on almost every department and has been quite blunt in his belief that holding the line on the constant yield tax rate at 40.5 cents per $100 assessed valuation is simply not good enough for him.
"I want to send a clear message that we understand that because of the economy, times have been very tough for people in this town," said Hall. "That's why I think it's responsible and completely doable for us to find an additional $1.5 to $2 million in cuts and actually lower the tax rate."
Hall's strategy for finding further cuts in addition seems to weigh heavily toward salary cuts for the town's employees, as he has pondered the idea of up to a 5 percent trimming of employee salaries.
"Everybody has felt the pain of this economy, and I think that it's time that the town employees feel the pain as well," said Hall. "I think it's responsible to talk about pay cuts rather than have to get to a point where we are talking about cutting jobs or entire departments. If you ask any employee if they would rather take a 5-percent pay cut versus losing their job, I think that they would take the pay cut. I know I would."
As with any budget process, the Mayor and Council are seeking additional places to trim the budget, but Hall's outspoken tendencies in the past week have seemingly miffed a few of his colleagues, and although he seems to have an ally in Councilwoman Margaret Pillas, who said last week that she would like to consider cutting salaries for town employees, there are others on the council who think the employees have sacrificed enough.
"At this point, I think throwing out random numbers about cutting salaries is irresponsible," said Council President Joe Mitrecic. "There are people in the town of Ocean City that think the employees are paid too much, and we are going to look at that at the end when the regional competitive salary study comes back to us. But, to just say you want to cut people's salaries and try to balance the budget on the backs of the employees is something I've never been in favor of. He's messing with people's livelihoods with comments like that."
Dare contests that the employees have already volunteered and accepted huge sacrifices in the last two years, such as the halt of their annual step and COLA increases. He also notes that the town's workforce is now 86 fewer than last year, and that cutting salaries when employees are already doing more for the same or less money would be a crushing blow to morale.
"We need to do things to energize and stabilize our workforce because we are asking them to do more for less," said Dare. "If I would have thought that cutting salaries was a good idea, I would have put it in the budget, but I think it's the complete opposite of what we should do in this situation."
Mayor Rick Meehan pointed out that last year's decision to cut the employees' step and COLA increases cut their pay by more than 2 percent, which essentially equate to almost $700,000 in payroll savings.
If salaries were cut by 5 percent, the savings to the town would be over $1 million.
"I don't believe with [Joe Hall's] comments that we need to arbitrarily cut so everyone feels pain," said Meehan. "We've all felt the pain, including the employees of Ocean City. There is always posturing and political statements that are thrown out in the budget process and it's a good process that we've been working on for months now. We are going to go deeper into each line item and try to come out with the best tax rate possible. Do I think that there's another $2 million in cuts? No I don't, but I am confident we'll find responsible cuts for the town, not just arbitrary ones."
The one number that seems to concern all council members is the 30-percent hike in the town's health insurance premiums. Dare believes he might be able to trim the number down to about 20 percent, but that added expense still is concerning to the bottom line, and those on the council who are inspecting the proverbial bottom line.
Still, Dare said that if he is tasked by the council to go and find "budget cuts by whatever means necessary", he says that he has some options, but he isn't necessarily a fan of those options.
"I have a list of things that could be some further cuts. Some big, some little, and could generate additional savings, but I didn't include them because I don't think they are good for the town of Ocean City in any way," Dare said.
The council praised both the police department and the fire department for substantial trims to their budgets, including a 4.8-percent decrease in the police budget and a huge turnaround in the department's once problematic overtime expenditures. In addition, the tourism department and the convention center announced a partnership of sorts that would see many of the employees pulling double duty in both divisions, which will enable some positions to be trimmed, an almost six figure payroll savings seen for the budget.
If the first week of budget hearings is setting a precedent for the rest of the process, it seems that each department will present a much leaner budget to the Mayor and Council, mostly due to departmental restructuring and right-sizing. However, if the council follows Hall's lead and wants Dare to pursue further cuts, they are going to have to consider employee salaries, services like the offseason bus system and the Boardwalk Tram, and they will undoubtedly have to address the rise in health care costs.
Although Hall acknowledges employees have done a lot to put the town in a position to meet the constant yield tax rate, he says some departments haven't done enough yet.
"What [Public Works Director] Hal Adkins has done to address rightsizing has been totally proactive and very good, but I don't think that [Recreation and Parks Department Director] Tom Shuster and some of the department heads have done enough to rightsize their departments yet. The majority of people in this town have seen decreases in their businesses and in their incomes and I think we need to share that pain and find a way to lower the tax rate."


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Editorial: From fast to slow on 27 University?
Original post made on May 31, 2013
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a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 10:38 am
I have a simple solution. Stop work on this project -- do nothing. The Stanford Hospital Expansion is already in the works, and it already vastly overloads the capacity of the city to provide proper levels of service for that area, including an almost catastrophic increased demand for water that so far everyone has ignored but which is a looming disaster. Closely following that is the onslaught of increased traffic. Adding any significant further development to that area is crazy.
a resident of Walter Hays School
on May 31, 2013 at 10:52 am
Well, this proposal, particularly if it includes high density housing, will exacerbate the severe traffic congestion problems we have on University. The Theatre alone could be OK, as could some restaurants if coupled with additional parking and improved traffic flow, but NO MORE HOUSING!
a resident of College Terrace
on May 31, 2013 at 10:54 am
Arrillaga cant always just put $$$ to get his way.
I am glad to see this, lets not let him build. The Arrillaga family wants to take over Palo Alto. Get a Clue....you cant buy your way in...
This horrendously large and imposing project would destroy our quaint town.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 11:07 am
I strongly dissagree with your recommendation for high density housing. This would surely lower the quality of life for all, and increase traffic. University ave. is already a parking lot most of the day. Time to just say "no" to ABAG regarding high density. They should also be held to the required 50 foot height limit.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 31, 2013 at 11:49 am
Stop work! Cancel the White Elephant! No one wants this but the Real Estate Fat cats and Glory Hound politicians. . Another $500,00.00 blown! Get A Grip!! I will NEVER enter or use this abortion!!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 31, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Just say "No".... No to unrealistic ABAG mandates. No to heights over 50'. No to sweetheart deals for developers. No to high density, BMR housing. No to more traffic. No to reduced set- backs.
Quality of life in Palo Alto would not improve by a "Yes" to any of that. I have a right to my backyard -- I paid for it. NIMBY, and proud of it.
One yes: time for a change in City Council.
a resident of Downtown North
on May 31, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Who wrote this editorial? Can we know the names? I would like to understand how this person/s came to these conclusions.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 31, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Palo Alto has become a very busy place and it seems as if we are being crushed by so many additional housing and business projects. Many of these are shoved close to sidewalks with contemporary designs. I agree with stopping Arrillaga's plans as a means of putting some boundaries in place to maintain a saner way of living in a once quiet city. Big is not necessarily better and in this situation not good at all. And who can dispute the increase in traffic as a genuine problem.
a resident of Downtown North
on May 31, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Staff's proposal is totally transparent to any veteran city hall watcher. It is designed to stretch out the process at a low level of visible effort, get it below the public's radar, and wear down the opposition on the city council in preparation for a sudden ambush that rams it through. It worked at 800 High, and again at 195 Page Mill, and it will work once more at 27 University.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 31, 2013 at 2:25 pm
This town and this particular natural environment, squizzed between the bay and the environmentally diverse and precarious glorious foothills are physically unsuitable for the kind of massive growth triggers that Both Stanford and John Arrillaga are trying to impose. We will end up with an environmental irreversible disaster with serious social implications. We will end up as the 405 by-the-Bay.
a resident of University South
on May 31, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Why is a theatre location right next to the railroad tracks desirable? Even if they muffle the sound of the fast trains, there's vibration. Seems like a poor choice of location when concentrating on watching a play.
As far as 27 University, lots of gall in that proposal. I suppose Arrillaga figured that after lots of negotiation he would end up with something smaller but still very dense which would make money for Stanford. And WHY did Palo Alto spend money working with this plan which benefits Stanford??
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 31, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Housing is an insane idea. The theatre is exactly what downtown Palo Alto needs. Has
anybody noticed the congestion around Lucie Stern when shows are there? This provides for an appropriate theatre that comes with enough public parking spaces, plus access to public transit. What a great idea! The office buildings are next to public transit - something the current generation of office workers are actually using. And Arrillaga is willing to spend extra millions to fix up our ridiculously out of date public transit hub. I don't know why he is being cast as a villain - I think he is a hero.
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on May 31, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Do the proponents of more development ever try to run an errand by car between 3 and 7pm? Do they see how long it takes to make a left turn from southbound El Camino to eastbound Embarcadero? What about Oregon eastbound toward 101, backed up all the way to Waverley, starting at about 3:30pm? Not to mention El Camino in near gridlock, both directions, through Menlo Park. People who live on the peninsula are not interested in public transportation for daily purposes, no matter what developers try to make us believe. Most people with families prefer to have their car near work in order to pick up a child bound for an appointment, buy groceries on the way home, etc. This area will soon be unlivable if 27 University and similar monster projects are allowed to go forward. The expanded hospital will already exacerbate the traffic situation.
a resident of another community
on May 31, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Let me guess, no one will want go there because it will be too crowded?
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 3:51 pm
The theater element is a transparent ploy to gain approval from PA residents who get brainwashed by the "arts district" baloney. Read the details...only the shell of the theater would be built, no seating, staging, etc.
Snake oil.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 3:52 pm
The massive project would block the views of the Stanford Hills.
Just say "no." Quit spending money on this outrageous project.
Arrillaga still thinks he is going to get his way. Palo Alto citizens need to be vigilant to make sure Arrillaga's project doesn't get approved and built. The guy is ruthless and relentless.
a resident of Community Center
on May 31, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Abortion, snake oil, arillaga is Eli, Stanford is evil etc. the typical hysterical pronouncements when anything new is proposed for palo alto. Throw in the usual comments about " too much traffic" ( maybe the naysayers can get yoriko to be the front person on that aspect) . Then add in the claims that a view of the Stanford hills is an ingrained right for residents.
Instead of trying to deal with this issue and reach some kind of soultion that will be beneficial to all sides, we have the usual " lets hire consultants and try to please everyone because we are afraid of the vcal opponents" approach by the council and staff.perhapsmthey could hire consultants that will guide then how to,develop spines.
And for those that say that the solution is to do nothing--- that is not really an option for reasons that should be obvious to all.
a resident of Gunn High School
on May 31, 2013 at 5:06 pm
Palo Alto, a "guaint town"??? That has not been true for decades. Palo Alto has to decide to accept life as a " city" or call a halt to expansion.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Here's an idea, propose something that doesn't require any variances! Then you'll get your project built.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Paris has adhered to the same building code for about 150 years. They have strict rules about what can be built where, and almost everyone accepts the regulations because otherwise Paris wouldn't be the Paris that people love. Is there even a French equivalent to "NIMBY?"
We don't need to try to turn every small city into a megalopolis. Making plans to trash a community in the name of progress, branding the opposition as terrified Luddites, insisting that we have to grow and grow and grow just misses the point. People who live in a community should have the right to determine the look & feel of their town. We, the residents. Not developers hoping to enrich themselves. They aren't going to be living with the consequences, the ugly oversized buildings, the traffic, the overcrowded schools, the inadequate infrastructure. Time to reclaim our city.
a resident of Midtown
on May 31, 2013 at 6:33 pm
During last years budget cycle, the city manager & city council cut the animal services budget & police staffing.
Now we find there was $500,000 for the city to spend on "working on the 27 University" development, $250,000 (including benefits) for a Chief PR Hack, $250,000 for a Chief "Sustainability Office", another $160,000 extra to spend on Natural Gas Honda Civics, millions of dollars to loan for a High Density development at Maybell Ave, millions of dollars on endless consultant studies, millions of dollars to expand the California Ave street redo, etc. etc.
Nice to know when the next time we read about another downtown robbery.
a resident of Community Center
on May 31, 2013 at 7:43 pm
Before my term on the Parks and Recreation and Commission ended last December, I had an opportunty to hear a presentation at our regular meeting from the architect working on this project.
I found it to be offensive on two counts:
First, as a Parks Commissioner who had invested considerable time to develop a re-design of El Camino Park when the underground reservoir is completed, this guy suggested that the building known as "Hostess House," which McArthur Park currently occupies, be placed on the El Camino Park Footprint. He displayed at best a limited understanding of the existing design for El Camino Park, or the implications of moving Hostess House to that site., Rather, he came across to me as merely interested in getting Hostess House off the 27 University, without regard to other objectives or designs that could intelligently place the building in another location.
I am not one to get into traffic issues in town, and it was also apparent in that hearing last year that there had been little or no thought given to the implications for traffic in the vicinity. The proposed design at the hearing includes hundreds of underground parking spaces. How are the drivers going to get to work? On University? On Lytton? On Hamilton? Fly in Jetson-style?
The Palo Alto process is not something for which I have a great deal of affection. In this instance, I am all for it.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 31, 2013 at 8:30 pm
What is the budget the City can spend on sorting our the development of this location? I hope there is a ceiling. $500,000 has already spent!!! Will this amount be recovered from the ultimate developer? Or all the money the City spent would be our tax money?
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 1, 2013 at 12:00 pm
The city is poised to spend upwards of $1M to further study this project!? This sounds like a page torn from how Parsons Brinckerhoff is 'managing' the massively fraudulent CA HSR project; lots of expensive studies, and nothing to show for it.
I believe ABAG, or is another buerocratic acronym, is hoping to develop housing densities of 10000 persons/square mile in spots all over the Bay Area, exceeding the density of Manhattan! Is this project potentially evolving into one of these over stuffed projects.
a resident of another community
on Jun 1, 2013 at 1:19 pm
ABAG doesn't "develop" anything, private developers do because there is a market need for more housing. Palo Alto can "study" this to death, but if the past 40 years are any indication, they are completely inept at everything except for passing the buck onto the next generation.
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 1, 2013 at 6:02 pm
First priority. Clean house at City Hall and get rid of every non-essential department, manager, whatever. Get a new City Manager. NOW And stop this Arrillaga project in its tracks. NOW. If not, it is time for a recall....NOW. Is this city council listening? What is the PA Weekly thinking? PS Tell ABAG "where to go". This issue should go all the way to the State Supreme Court and higher.
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 1, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Bob- on what grounds would it be taken to the state supreme court? Stopping the project in its tracks is not an option. Something g will be built there-- the question is can the city and the developer reach a middle ground that will satisfy many ( but not bob, of course).
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 1, 2013 at 7:33 pm
my bad, I meant to say ABAG forces (blackmails, coerces, choose your own word) cities to add more dense housing then they want.
A cool $million to 'study' this, amazing.
a resident of Downtown North
on Jun 1, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Who is going to foot all this project. Dare I say that we will all be in some form.
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 1, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Sorry. A mistake on my computer's part. Several sentences were omitted. I meant to say that the push and demand for more and more housing and forcing cities to go beyond their capacity should go all the way to the State Supreme Court. What right has the state to force the cities to house more than they can do safely? What right has the state to force a community to be something it does not want to be and can't handle? Housing density is drowning Palo Alto, and 27 University is a very bad place for dense housing under the umbrella of the ABAG mandate.
a resident of Green Acres
on Jun 3, 2013 at 4:33 am
I wish all of you on the North side of town crying out about no more housing would extend your concern to those of us in the South who are being forced to take the dense housing in the middle of our residential neighborhoods, without any protections from this "Palo Alto Process". Most of the dense housing in Palo Alto is either going in around downtown -- which let's face it, is DOWNTOWN -- or in south palo alto, including in residential areas.
The City has loaned Palo Alto Housing Corporation over $5 million to help partially finance the purchase of an old orchard with 4 ranch houses across from Juana Briones Park. They plan to sell part of the parcel with the 4 homes to a for-profit developer who will tear down the 4 perfectly good homes and put up in their place 15 tall skinny 3-story houses like at Alma Plaza, completely out of character with the neighborhood, and benefitting in sale price because of that neighborhood. The developer will only make things work out for PAHC if he gets everything rezoned to maximize his profits. PAHC will then put a 60-unit development there -- which they admit they decided would be for seniors not because they had any analysis that it would best meet the needs, but because it would be the easiest to get their way politically. (Their failure to analyze the needs left them with 20 of 24 BMR units at Moldaw vacant for 3 years.)
The development would sit on a parcel right between two overly congested school transit corridors. You think you have traffic problems downtown? Try Arastradero and Maybell during the school year. Maybell has traffic signs that are mowed completely over replaced more than once a month, yet is the only other designated bicycle boulevard besides Bryant. Even though over a thousand children on foot and bike travel to and from school every school day, the bikes weren't studied in the City's traffic report, even though school commute corridors are supposed to be accorded a heightened level of scrutiny. There is no way to route traffic from the 15 dense houses and 60-unit-development anywhere except the existing overcrowded school commute corridors (to Terman, Gunn, and Juana Briones) of Arastradero and Maybell.
Neighbors with kids, dealing with cancer, dealing with job crises -- have to drop everything to battle this project or face even worse problems than we already have.
That location is the WORST place to put a dense development. Those of you in the North have no idea, because no one is trying to do away with the zoning in the middle of Professorville or Old Palo Alto. You even get to combine lots and tear down houses. Even though, if you came over here and drove up Georgia to Donald to Willmar, you'd see why any old 2,000 sq ft home here goes for over $2 million, we are never accorded the same respect of the zoning rules. Here, even though we already have 3 large affordable housing units in a relatively small neighborhood, we're told the need is so great, and the City is under so much pressure to put in these units, we have to do our share.
Honestly, putting in senior/affordable housing is like kryptonite against anyone who wants to enforce zoning in this community -- I don't know why Arrillaga hasn't proposed it already. He could have gotten away with anything if he had. There are other properties on this side of town where the developers have stopped even pretending they won't get their rezoning, and just proceed as if everything has been rezoned. The City included the Maybell property in its Housing Element as if it had been rezoned, but when neighbors protested, put off the vote on the Housing Element until after their fait accomplit of rezoning Maybell so they could claim it didn't affect their decision (even though they didn't take the Maybell rezoning out of the draft of the Housing Element).
I think putting some housing at 27 University is a great idea. It's a far better place than right in the middle of an R-1 residential area with no nearby services at all. It's right on the rail and bus lines, walkable to PAMF, Avenidas, Stanford, any amenity you could think of. If you're worried about traffic, in THAT location, it would be possible to ask residents to take a no car pledge. They wouldn't need cars there, and thus would not add to traffic.
27 University is a far better place than the middle of a residential neighborhood, especially since it would be possible to create the housing without cars. It's all well an good to complain about ABAG, but it won't help our neighborhood now. If you think housing density is drowning Palo Alto, try walking in our shoes over here!
As for Hostess House, we'd be thrilled to take it on that orchard instead, it could be made into a community orchard, a counterpart to Gamble Garden house only for trees and on this side of town. But the City will never go for it unless other housing units are found. At least at 27 University, the housing could truly be made in a way that created no new traffic.
a resident of Green Acres
on Jun 3, 2013 at 11:21 am
Oops - naturally I meant to say:
That location is the WORST place to put a dense development. Those of you in the North have no idea, because no one is trying to do away with the zoning in the middle of Professorville or Old Palo Alto. You even get to combine lots and tear down houses. Even though, if you came over here and drove up Georgia to Donald to Willmar, you'd see why any old 2,000 sq ft home here goes for over $2 million, we are never accorded the same respect of the zoning rules. Here, even though we already have 3 large affordable housing DEVELOPMENTS in a relatively small neighborhood, we're told the need is so great, and the City is under so much pressure to put in these units, we have to do our share.
From what we've seen with this proposal at Maybell, if Arrillaga were to propose to put, say, 75 units of affordable housing for seniors at 27 University - especially if it were a visionary green no car proposal (since it's right on the rail and bus lines, and right downtown - perhaps the complex might have a few shared vehicles), it would put a teflon coating on his project as far as City Council is concerned. With a performing arts center - which we really could use, 400 seats at Lucie Stern is not large enough - and affordable housing for seniors, green no less, there are no concerns, real or imagined, that will take precedence. The project would go forward.
a resident of Green Acres
on Jun 3, 2013 at 11:23 am
Oops again! When I repeated myself about -- "That location is the WORST place to put a dense development" I of course meant Maybell, in the middle of a residential area and at a traffic bottleneck to the neighborhoods between two safe routes to school. 27 University is a good place to put the density, especially because it sits so perfectly to access transit and every amenity anyone could want.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jun 3, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Why is it that the city looks so favorably on rich developers while the rest of us have to abide by the zoning?
a resident of Community Center
on Jun 3, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Isn't ABAG a developers front anyway?
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