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Dar al-Fatwa Comments on Civil Marriage Controversyإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's highest Sunni Muslim religious authority, on Monday waded into the renewed debate in the country over the thorny issue of legalizing civil marriage.
The heated discussion was revived by remarks by newly-appointed Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan, who is Lebanon's and the Arab world's first female interior minister.
"The stance of (Grand) Mufti (Sheikh Abdul Latif) Daryan, Dar al-Fatwa, the juristic council and the council of muftis, which categorically rejects and opposes civil marriage in Lebanon, has been well-known for years," Dar al-Fatwa's press office said in a statement.
"Because it fully contradicts with the rules of Islamic sharia and also violates the stipulations of the Lebanese constitution in terms of the need to respect the personal status law that is applied by the religious courts of the Lebanese," the office added.
"Accordingly, the draft law cannot be approved in parliament without taking into consideration the viewpoint and stance of Dar al-Fatwa and the rest of religious authorities in Lebanon," Dar al-Fatwa's press office said.
It also called for "refraining from debating and discussing the issue of civil marriage," saying "it falls under the jurisdiction of the Lebanese republic's Dar al-Fatwa, which is entrusted with the religion of Islam and the interest of Muslims."
Al-Hassan's statement has sparked debate between the supporters and opponents of civil marriage in Lebanon.
In an interview with Euronews, the minister said she is personally in favor of having a "framework for civil marriage" in Lebanon.
"I will talk about this issue and seek to open the door for serious and profound dialogue over the topic with all religious authorities and other officials, supported by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, so that civil marriage can be acknowledged," al-Hassan said.
And as long as politicians ask the opinion of these people, Lebanon will always be a joke of a state.
Civil marriage causes personal connections to develop between Lebanese people of different faiths. This would be a great first step into forming strong personal relations between all lebanese, allowing us to work together and support eachother as family no matter the sect.
This should eventually eliminate the fear, hate and "racism" that are caused due to the sectarian divisions we have in Lebanon. Ultimately this would allow the Lebanese people to thrive together hand in hand as brothers and sisters rather than enemies within the boarders of one country.
Civil marriage would be very good for Lebanon in the long run and anyone against this is an Israeli agent... :)
I believe Naharnet.com is owned by two people of different sects in such a civil marriage. It seems to bear fruit. I hope I don't get them in trouble with the Ministry of the Interior by letting their secret out. I read it on Google or someplace.
I know that Chris Rushlau is a certifiable imbecile. Everyone in his family, the state of Maine, the US army and all the faculty and student at the University know this as well. The did not have to read it on Google or someplace. They came to that same conclusion separately and on their own. The only person that does not know this yet is Noam Chomsky. I hope I don't get Chris in trouble with Noam Chomsky by letting this not so secret secret out.
and chris why would anyone in a civil marriage get in trouble with the Ministry of the Interior? Didn't the interior minster herself come out in favor of civil marriage? Why yes she did and she did it before Dar al-Fatwa commented on the civil marriage controversy on this very site.
So now we hear the Sunna mufti tak about Lebanon being under the "sharia law". Sorry but most Lebanese do not see this 6th century law being applicable to the rest of the nation. If your muftiness does not want to marry a person as holly as your turban is then its your choice but not your law! As long as they keep Lebanon under their religious rules they continue to control its destiny. Look at how well your sharia law works in KSA or in Iran or the wonderful canton of ISIS in Syria. if you are so enamored with that then dont let the door knob hit you in the ass as you leave Lebanon.


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Writer and producer Shawna Benson has written for television, film and multi-platform (web). She co-wrote and sold a multi-platform series with Bernie Su, wrote scripts with her sister, Julie Benson and wrote, directed and produced a webseries pilot called #Follow. Shawna has maintained a screenwriting blog, Shouting Into the Wind since 2004 and is currently employed as Ashley E. Miller's assistant. She also likes all manner of tea and is a budding oenophile. She also has a penchant for fireflies.
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Least favorite word: synergy"
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3. Turns you off creatively, spiritually, emotionally?
"Nothing halts creativity faster than "I don't think that's possible" – whether it comes from others or from within. The second you believe you can't do something or that an idea is stupid is the second that inspiration dies. An idea is never stupid – it may need further definition and refinement, but within every idea lies some kernel of golden truth."
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Baseball's Stellar Season
By Brad Welborn
Sports Information Director
The 2019 baseball season at Louisiana College was one for the record books -- literally. A program record 31 wins with 10 different team records broken in one year, makes this season one of the most successful under Head Coach Mike Byrnes.
Although it ended up a season of success, things were not so bright in the early part of the year. After suffering a sweep at the hands of Howard Payne University to open American Southwest Conference play, being outscored 35 to 10 in three games, the Wildcats were scrambling to find their way despite a 4-4 overall record.
The seeming turning point came in a game against Gwynedd Mercy University in the Russ Matt Florida Inviational. Following a 6-1 loss to Capital University to open the Florida trip, the Wildcats trailed 5-1 after three innings to Mercy. Six runs over the next two innings, sparked by what would be known as the "Rally Bird" propelled the Wildcats to an 11-5 win and set in motion a magical March.
The win over Mercy was the first of 15 straight for the Wildcats that included their first ASC series sweep since 2016, on the road at Belhaven, and a home sweep of Concordia (TX), then ranked No. 11 in the country, that really put the Wildcats on every one's radar. Those two series also saw two of the best pitching performances in LC history. Andrew Robinson threw the first nine-inning complete game shutout at Belhaven and Deauton Delgado the second no-hitter in program history against Concordia.
LC would go 16-2 in March and win 20-of-21 games between March 2 and April 6, when they finished off their third conference sweep of the season over McMurry University. During that stretch the Wildcats outscored their opponents 171-62 and went nine straight allowing four runs or fewer. They would finish the season at 29-10 and 16-8 in conference and a ridiculous 19-1 at Billy Allgood Field, earning the fourth seed in the ASC tournament and a spot in the Blue Bracket.
The Wildcats would make it to the championship round of the bracket before falling to a red-hot LeTourneau team to eliminate them from ASC championship contention and burst their bubble for an at-large spot in NCAA tournament. Despite the disappointment in the loss, the statement made by Byrnes at the annual "LC Baseball First-Pitch Banquet" in January that the 2019 team had a chance to do something special certainly came true.
"You win championships with pitching," Byrnes said. "This year we had more depth in that area. We didn't really have any outstanding guys but we had several quality guys. I think everybody knows their role and we're getting excellent pitching this year because of that.
Everybody can hit. Everybody can play defense, but not everybody can pitch. I think the difference for this bunch is we're able to throw the ball better than we have and we're playing decent defense and putting up some good offensive numbers. You put all those things together and you're going to have a pretty decent team."
The right combination of pitching and defense, with hitting from a consistent lineup throughout the bulk of the season, led to one of the most productive seasons in LC history. New team records in wins (31), winning percentage (.721), consecutive wins (15), batting average (.325), slugging percentage (.493), hits (469), runs (341), home runs (40), RBI (311), and doubles (105).
While the wins, numbers, and records are a nice compliment to the season and the team, Byrnes cares more about the development of the players as men and leaving Louisiana College as better people, while having some fun playing baseball along the way.
"These guys mesh together, they believe in each other, and they believe in the system we've got going," Byrnes said. "Whether it's on the field or off it these guys are family. They don't come to just play baseball at Louisiana College like they do other schools. Here you're coming to play the coolest game for four years and leave here a better man. That's what it's all about."
The next step, and goal at the beginning of every season, is to take home the ASC championship. The Wildcats have come close in years past, but the title has eluded them thus far through the first 20 seasons of play. With six players from the lineup with more than 30 starts coming back for the 2020 season the offense will likely carry on from a banner 2019 season. On the mound is where the Wildcats will need the majority of their help to get over the hump.
The Cats will lose six pitchers and return just two with more than 30 innings from last season. Andrew Robinson will be the team's likely ace, with Konnor McDermott and Gerald Groue to be called on to fill a much bigger role for next year. Additions in the bullpen will be the key to getting the Wildcats to the top of the ASC ladder, with a strong emphasis on JUCO arms that have not only the talent but the experience to go along with it.
"Genuinely proud of the Wildcats baseball team as they continue to represent the Mission and Vision of Louisiana College on the playing field, in the classroom, and throughout our community," President Dr. Rick Brewer said. "The 2019 season will be remembered for winning streaks, a new milestone reached by Coach Byrnes, and an excellent team GPA. I am confident Coach Byrnes and the Wildcat baseball team will reach even higher levels of achievement in 2020."
Winning often breeds more winning and that is the hope for the LC baseball program going forward. With little expectations entering the 2019 season, picked to finish eighth in the conference, this team put the league on notice and will enter next year with a much different feel and much different expectations.
Stay connected to Louisiana College baseball during the offseason by following @LC_bsb on Twitter. For general athletics news follow @LC_Wildcats on Twitter or like Louisiana College Wildcats on Facebook.


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The Lord's Prayer "Our Father" indicates Slovenians are West Slavs
Jandáček, Petr
Paper given at the Fifth International Topical Conference (2007)
The currently held opinion of the political and academic communities is that Slovenians are South (Yugo) Slavs. While this concept is expedient and based on Slovenian proximity to, and recent communal history with and in the Federation of Yugoslavia, nuances of the "Lord's Prayer" (Our Father) {Očenaš} poignantly reveal that Slovenians are in fact West Slavs, sharing profound similarities with Polabians and other North Western Wends since the Ninth Century. This is especially evident in their terms for Father, Monarch, Evil, Bread, and Will.
About the year 862 Cyril and Methodius began to plan their mission to the Slavic peoples in Moravia. Cyril generated a Glagolithic alphabet and translated scripture and prayers into a "Common Slavic Language". Disciples of Methodius and Cyril "fine tuned" the Lord's Prayer to the needs of local Slavic populations. One could argue that at that time all the Slavs spoke a single albeit highly variable tongue. One could also ague that Slavic languages remained highly variable, pliable, "pluralistic" and "forgiving of local differences". Subsequently, to this day a Russian from Vladivostok (an Easternmost Slav) can understands the pronunciation of every last numeral (from one to ten) as uttered by the Westernmost Slovenian or "Polabian" Wend (Slav).
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Thesis – Littlewood's Conjecture
The proof of inequality by mathematical induction
The proof of inequality by mathematical induction
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
torus is a surface having genus one
torus is a surface having genus one
mathematica graphing a 2 by 2 matrix as an object
is there a possibility to "transform" a matrix (inheriting the input-output "weights") into a graph object inheriting the matrix relations?
you can convert it to an edge-weighted graph using
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Geometry of Linear Transformations of the Plane – HMC Calculus Tutorial
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Last weekend my rambling friend from the Peak District and myself took a ramble around one of the best loved green places of Rotterdam: the Kralingse Plas.
This 100 ha lake is man-made; for years it was the main source of peat in the Rotterdam area, so you would expect the water to be brownish black, but in fact it was crystal clear in the places I was able to look down into the water.
We started our ramble on the south side of the Plas (plas = body of water)and we weren't alone...The Kralingse Plas is busy-busy with all kind of Rotterdam folk who are aching for some greenery and fresh air. So the above photo is deceptive - there were hundreds and hundreds of people there, believe me!
Right: how Dutch can you get?
There are two windmills there, De Lelie (the Lily)from 1740 and De Ster (the Star) from 1886, which you can visit, and where cooking spices are still being milled, and some really nice restaurants.
Lysanne took me to the one next to the mills, and as it was sunny we were very lucky to snare the last available table for lunch. Our rambling boots got a few glances...most people there either dressed to impress or to skate or jog...
The Kralingse Plas is adjacent to the Kralingse Bos (bos = wood), the green lung of the north of Rotterdam. This neighborhood is very sought after to live, thus expensive. But next to Kralingen is Crooswijk, where many immigrants reside, and the Plas had a lovely mix of both kinds of people all enjoying the same sunshine.
This is the restaurant; nice, eh? It is called De Tuin van de Vier Windstreken (Garden of the Four Compass Points) and I can recommend it.
After lunch we did the thing everybody does there: take a walk around the water. From the north side, looking towards the centre of Rotterdam, the wonderful skyline was a thing to behold. It must be amazing in the dark as well, but Lysanne told me she would not be seen dead after dark there...it is a notorious cruising spot for folk up to no good.
But on this Sunday afternoon it was tranquil, as was the water. And here our hiking boots came in handy, as we could take the more adventurous trail.
The last quarter took us along the beach; empty now save for a bunch of enthusiastic dogs chasing sticks and balls. Part of this beach is a designated nude area; this made me pause for thought. How on earth does this work? I must go back in summer and see this for myself - I can image women in headscarves and long sleeves next to women with bare boobs&bums...or rather, I cannot.
We took in one of the nice citizen initiatives: the Kralingse Botanical Garden. It is tiny. But very full of lovely shrubs, flowers and trees all the same. Lysanne apologized for the appearance of everything, dying down, but my botanical knowledge is good enough to be able to imagine how it must have looked when everything was in bloom.
I really like this plant, Giant Gunnera, even now when it was all brown with holes in the leaves.It is our Wetland equivalent of jungle plant, being more than man high. I have its tiny brother near my house, and it is the first thing that blooms at the end of winter, with cheerful little yellow marigold-like flowers which appear way before the leaves shoot up.
The nitty-gritty:
I took 15.638 steps, boiling down to 10,18 km.
It was sunny, with temperatures reaching a high of 20 degrees at 2 pm, rather unusual for October!
The Kralingse Plas is famous for the Dutch Woodstock (The Holland Pop Festival in 1970); look up the documentary about it called Stamping Ground. I desperately wanted to go, but as I was only 12 at the time my parents successfully vetoed!
And it is also famous for the first official gay "meeting" area.
You can reach Kralingen by both metro, tram and bus.


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The Tottenham star is reportedly close to signing with the high-profile agent.
Dele Alli could be in line to become latest star to join super agent Jorge Mendes' Gestifute agency - amid continuing chat of a possible move to Real Madrid.
The Tottenham star has been mulling over which agency he would like to represent him in the future after he parted ways with former agent Rob Segal in September.
Up to six companies were thought to be vying for Alli's signature once his contract with Impact Sports management expires next summer, but Mendes appears to be on the cusp of winning out if the Daily Mail is to be believed.
Alli's family is said to have met with Mendes about the possibility of adding the attacking midfielder to his clientele ranks as the battle for English football's most talented ace continues to play out.
Alli would certainly benefit from Mendes' negotiating skills, particularly when it comes to improved contract talks, and the Portuguese's ties to Real would only ratchet up rumours of a future switch to Santiago Bernabeu.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy knows that it would take a monumental offer for him to even consider selling the 21-year-old to Los Blancos and, with Alli's contract not due to expire for another five seasons, holds most of the cards in that respect.
The promise of yet another wage hike could prompt Alli to remain in north London too for the time being, but the England international is thought to be open to a switch to one of La Liga's giants at some point in his career.
Mendes' relationship with Real's hierarchy would help smooth any potential move, but his alleged checkered history over helping other clients commit tax fraud in Spain could count against him bringing Alli on to his list of clients.
The 54-year-old was called up to testify in both Cristiano Ronaldo's and Radamel Falcao's tax evasion cases in Spain in the past few months, and Alli's family may sway their relative away from Mendes if they feel joining his ranks isn't the right call.


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Used 2009 Ford Ranger Regular Cab Review
Edmunds expert review
The 2009 Ford Ranger is affordable and competent off-road when properly equipped. Due to its aged design, however, it falls short in many other areas, making just about any other small or midsize pickup a better choice.
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Vehicle overview
Like the leftovers in most bachelors' refrigerators, the 2009 Ford Ranger is past its expiration date. While other compact pickups have grown bigger, more refined and more powerful, the Ranger is still acting like it's 1995. As such, in this age where folks also use pickups as daily drivers and even family vehicles, the hard-working Ranger comes up short in the areas of driving dynamics and passenger room and comfort.
But if you're among the relative few looking for either a stout, economical work truck or a nimble and capable off-roader for weekend adventures, the Ford Ranger certainly has its charms. An available segment-exclusive 7-foot bed allows a lot of stuff to be hauled to work sites, while the Ranger's relatively small size and rugged underpinnings make it ideal for trail-bashing.
As an everyday driver, though, the Ranger doesn't make much of a case for itself. Its more modern rivals offer more powerful engines and larger crew-cab body styles. The latter is key for those who regularly carry backseat passengers, as a crew cab provides a conventional bench seat back there with nearly sedanlike comfort. The Ranger only offers the option of an extended cab with inward-facing jump seats -- cute but they're not safe and not ideal for seating anyone except children for short trips. And sadly, the Ranger also falls behind in terms of safety features and interior design. Stability control and side curtain airbags are not available, while the cabin, though functional, is dated.
So unless you're a hard-core off-roader or a business owner in need of a basic workhorse, there's little reason to consider the 2009 Ford Ranger. Trucks like the Dodge Dakota, Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma are easier and more comfortable to drive on pavement, and all offer roomier cabs with more convenience and safety features.
Trim levels & features
The 2009 Ford Ranger is a compact pickup truck available in regular-cab and extended-cab (called SuperCab) body styles. Both are available in XL, XLT and Sport trim levels, while the SuperCab can also be had in the FX4 Off-Road trim. A 6-foot bed is standard on all cab styles and trims, but a 7-foot bed is optional on the regular-cab XL and XLT.
The XL is sparsely equipped with 15-inch steel wheels, a 60/40 front bench seat (vinyl with regular cab, cloth with SuperCab) and an AM/FM stereo. The XLT adds chrome exterior trim, air-conditioning, a CD/MP3 player and an auxiliary audio jack. These items are optional on the XL. The Sport is similarly equipped but adds unique styling elements (such as a color-keyed grille surround and bumpers), a Class III trailer hitch, satellite radio and different wheels. The FX4 Off-Road adds two-tone paint, 16-inch alloy wheels, all-terrain tires, heavy-duty shocks, a limited-slip rear axle, skid plates, full power accessories, keyless entry, bucket seats with a center console, a leather-wrapped tilt steering wheel and cruise control.
Options on the XLT and Sport levels include bucket seats, leather upholstery, inward-facing fold-down jump seats (SuperCab only), full power accessories, cruise control, keyless entry, a tilt steering wheel and upgraded stereos.
Performance & mpg
The 2009 Ranger lineup offers a choice of inline-4 or V6 power. The base engine is a 2.3-liter inline-4 with 143 horsepower and 154 pound-feet of torque. The available 4.0-liter V6 is rated for 207 hp and 238 lb-ft of torque. Transmission choices include a standard five-speed manual and an optional five-speed automatic, and most models offer a choice of two- or four-wheel drive. Properly equipped, Rangers with the 4.0-liter V6 can pull a maximum of 6,000 pounds.
Fuel economy estimates range from 21 mpg city/26 mpg highway and 23 mpg combined for a 2WD Ranger with the 2.3-liter and five-speed manual drivetrain to 14/18/15 mpg for a 4WD Ranger with the 4.0-liter and five-speed automatic drivetrain.
The 2009 Ford Ranger comes standard with four-wheel antilock brakes, but features such as stability control and side curtain airbags are not available. In government crash testing, the Ranger earned four out of five stars for driver and front-passenger protection in frontal impacts. SuperCabs received four stars for front-passenger side-impact protection, while regular cabs earned a full five stars. In Insurance Institute for Highway Safety frontal offset crash testing, the Ranger earned an "Acceptable" rating (the second highest on a scale of four). It received the second-worst rating of "Marginal" for front side protection, and although rear passenger side protection wasn't rated, the IIHS noted that the inward-facing jump seats were "not recommended for safe transport."
When equipped with the 4.0-liter V6, the 2009 Ford Ranger offers solid acceleration, but it feels underpowered with the base four-cylinder. Rangers are quite capable off-road, especially when equipped with the FX4 package. Ride and handling characteristics on pavement are tolerable, but when the Ford is driven back to back with newer offerings from Dodge, GM, Nissan and Toyota, the Ranger's age and lack of refinement show.
The Ranger's interior was last overhauled during the Clinton administration -- and the first term at that. At least the Ranger's ergonomics are quite straightforward, with easy-to-use controls. Front-seat comfort is acceptable unless you're of tall stature. SuperCabs can be equipped with an extra pair of access doors and small, inward-facing rear jump seats. As you'd expect, these seats are suitable only for children on short trips (or for people you don't like). For work purposes, the optional 7-foot bed is the longest available in the compact-truck market.
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Cable giant Comcast is rumored to take over the command in the smart home market by setting tough competition for Amazon and Google. The cable company is testing a program that has the potential to turn its customer's TV into a smart home hub, reports CNET citing people familiar with the news. The alleged program deploys the existing hardware of the Comcast and software supported by X1 video service to enable users of smart home connected devices use the TV with voice commands.
The development is likely to increase competition for Amazon and Google which are currently dominating the smart home devices market. Homeowners still have control over certain smart home devices such as thermostats and connected locks. Google and Amazon, however, are working day-on and out to mark their innovation as the standard system in the smart home market. It is for the first time when Comcast has decided to set a direct competition to Amazon and Google.
The program that is currently being tested by Comcast will be able to stream internet video from various apps such as Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, according to a statement by the person familiar with the matter. Streaming-media boxes such as Apple TV and Amazon's Fire TV are certainly not what Comcast desired to compete with. Comcast would levy a monthly fee to its customers for availing the program. The company, however, is yet to decide on the business model of the program and price scheme, according to reliable sources.
CNBC in its report dated 7th November 2018 stated that Comcast is in the process of developing a product that would enable its broadband users to stream apps such as YouTube and Netflix through a voice-controlled remote. The new product was also alleged to provide a platform for the connected home.
The smart-home device market is currently being dominated by smart speakers. Google and Amazon have come up as pioneers in the smart speaker segment with the products via Amazon's Echo speaker that enjoys 70% share in the smart-speaker market, while Google Home enjoys 25% share. Many companies have been seen struggling to pay their way to the smart home market with video displays. In the similar line, Amazon revealed Echo Show display in 2017 which is later revamped in September. Similarly, Google in October unveiled a countertop display dubbed Home Hub.
The rest of the contestants in the home-hub display are racing in the footsteps of Amazon and Google. For instance, a portal by Facebook deploys Amazon's Alexa as well as products such as Lenovo Smart Display and Google Assistant powered JBL Link.
On the other side, Comcast has developed a platform that powers smart-home devices such as connected door lock, light and thermostats through a bigger screen of the TV. The Comcast software X1 system servers support the connectivity. The software already has integrated streaming video services such as YouTube and Netflix.


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Hope is flat out agonizing. Hope requires that you groan inwardly while, at the same time, waiting expectantly. The alternatives to hope are a deadening of desire and a growing cynicism about what you can really expect from life in this world. Indeed, most hope is squashed by the simple phrase, "I'm just being realistic." But our war with hope inevitably leads to God: will God respond to the cries of my heart?
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I'll begin with three sentences from Psalm 27
7 Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me.
13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
But hope is not synonymous with waiting… there is one more element to hope…
hope involves groaning. Groaning from the inside. Longing for something.
Hope is groaning inwardly while waiting expectantly.
Hope is groaning—longing for something—while, at the same time, expecting it to happen.
Now, this is precisely what the German philosopher Nietzsche couldn't stand about Xnty.
Nietzsche said,
"Look, you Christians talk about hoping in God—you say 'even though your life is not going well currently, put your hope in God and things will change in the future.'
And this is what's so abusive about Christianity: it prolongs your torment… because you keep hoping for something that is never going to happen."
Nietzsche called hope the evil of all evils because it "prolongs your torment."
Q: What torment is he talking about? The torment of longing for something that is never going to come to fruition.
Now, if you're a Xn, you probably have this sense that you're supposed to disagree with everything Nietzsche says.
But he's putting his finger on something here.
Think about your own life.
There is something that you want—graduate school (pause), a child (pause), your Dad to actually be a Dad—and you've wanted it for years and you've done everything you can to get it, and you still haven't gotten it—
isn't it foolish to hope that this year you'll get into graduate school,
that next month you'll conceive,
that this afternoon your Dad will call and tell you he's entered counseling and he's beginning to realize how he has failed you as a father?
Your Dad is the same today as he's always been—you've tried to talk to him and nothing works—does it really make sense to hope that he's going to change now?
This is Nietzsche's point. Hoping that your Dad will change—that's just foolish. It's putting your head in the sand and ignoring what your life has already taught you.
Far better to say, "Look, my Dad's just not going to change. So stop wanting him to." Ah, there's the key—wanting.
Hope… is letting yourself want.
And when you let yourself want something that you don't have, you experience an inward groaning. A longing. Not-yet-met desire.
Now, if you do that—if you let yourself want, let yourself long for something—you're halfway to hope. But you're still not there.
Hope also requires that you wait expectantly.
Hope is not merely longing for a wife, it is longing for a wife while, at the same time, expecting to meet her tonight. [pause]
Groaning inwardly while waiting expectantly.
Hope is agonizing.
Hope is both longing for a husband and anticipating walking down the aisle.
Hope is both yearning for more intimacy with your spouse and anticipating a romantic evening tonight.
Hope is both longing for more meaningful employment and envisioning yourself at your new job. Anticipating it. All the while wrestling with God until you're at your new job.
Living in hope requires three things to happen at the same time:
Bringing our specific longings and desires to God
Expecting him to meet those desires,
Wrestling with how he can be a good Father when he hasn't met the desire yet.
The first alternative to hope is a slow deadening of desire and the second alternative to hope is cynicism.
Your body naturally yearns and groans. Look at a child. They are a mass of longings. They always want something.
So groaning, longing is the natural disposition of the human heart.
But what happens when you long for something and you don't get it? Disappointment.
In time, disappointments pile up. When disappointments pile up, it creates questions about God, doubts, anger, resentment.
When repeated disappointments make longing for something too painful, the tendency is to kill your desire.
The enemy, you feel, is your desire: If I didn't want that thing so badly, I wouldn't hurt so much.
And so, slowly but surely, you try to deaden your desire, to numb it out.
Instead of hoping that your husband will begin pursuing your heart, you say to yourself, "He's just not like that. And, besides, it's a broken world. Your expectations are too high."
Q: What is that? It's a deadening of your desire to be pursued by your husband.
But also, it's a deadening of your hope in God to do the miraculous and turn your husband toward you in pursuit of your heart.
The second alternative to hope is cynicism.
Repeated disappointments lead to cynicism.
Instead of waiting expectantly for the letter that says you got accepted at such and such graduate program, cynicism says, "it's not gonna happen."
Instead of starting some new endeavor—which would invite you to hope—you think, "that would never work."
Cynicism is often fueled by the following sentence, "I'm just being realistic…
"It's not that I lack hope, it's that I'm realistic. Realistic about what I can expect from life in this world…
It would be foolish to hope that my husband will really begin engaging my heart because we've fought about it for 7 years and he hasn't done it yet. I'm not cynical, I'm realistic."
Q: Now, what's the problem with that sentence if you're a Christian? [pause] There is nothing more unrealistic than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
There is a form of cynicism that I call Christian cynicism. There's nothing Xn about it, but I call it Xn cynicism because so many Xns not only have it, but justify it with theology.
It's a cynicism that is fueled with sentences like, "Hey, it's a broken world" and "I'm not going to get everything I long for until heaven." [pause]
Have you heard those sentences? Have you said those sentences?
Now the dilemma with those sentences is that they're true. It is a broken world. And your longings won't be fully met until heaven.
However, we often use those sentences as a way to kill hope, to kill desire.
But they're utterly cynical. It's cynicism bolstered by theology. It has nothing to do with Jesus.
Q: Why does it have nothing to do with Jesus? Because it's a denial of the resurrection.
Q: Is it a broken world? Yes, but his broken body was resurrected.
Q: Are you going to have all your longings met in this world? Of course not, but you don't know which ones.
The question you have to wrestle with is this: What can you hope for from God in the land of the living? [pause]
v. 13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Many of you have killed hope by saying, "God doesn't promise such and such until heaven, and so I shouldn't hope for Him to give it to me until heaven."
Cynicism is the byproduct of repeated experiences of powerlessness.
If you wrestle with hope, it is almost guaranteed that you have experienced a great deal of powerlessness in your life.
If you had to write your story through the lens of powerlessness what would the chapter titles be? What are those areas that you have felt powerlessness?
The core of trauma is powerlessness—it is the inability to say or do something to make something bad stop happening.
Herein lies the biggest reason we hate hope: hope forces us to wrestle with God.
Most wrestling with God is avoided by a simple phrase: "if it be your will."
You express a desire to God and then tack on the phrase, "if it be your will."
"Not my will but yours be done" is a beautiful sentence as long as it comes after a 12 round match of wrestling with God.
Now, you may be thinking, "Wait a minute, aren't we supposed to surrender our will to God's will?" [pause]
Yes, but that's just the point—you're called to SURRENDER your will to God's will. And what does the word surrender mean? It's to give in after a long… drawn out… bloody war.
You can't surrender until you have fought with God.
And generals never surrender until they have fought to the end of their strength.
Surrender only comes in a moment of exhaustion.
If you're not exhausted from fighting with God, then the words, "not my will but yours be done" are not words of surrender, they are words to avoid hope, which is to avoid warring with God.
You can't talk about hope without talking about wrestling.
If you don't find yourself regularly wrestling with God, you don't live with much hope.
Because hope creates longing in you. And unfulfilled longings inevitably drive you to God because God is the only one who can satisfy the longing.
Until you take the risk of hoping that God will fulfill the desires of your heart in this life—until you bring your disappointment and anger to him again and again—God will always remain strangely impersonal to you.
You might know him as God the Savior of the world, but you won't know him as what the Psalmists call The God of My Rescue. The God of my rescue.
Now, a life focused solely on resurrection is not hope, it's optimism.
Hope has nothing to do with optimism.
There is a spirit of optimism that has invaded the church. It appeals to us because it allows us to escape staying connected to the longings of our hearts.
It allows us to turn away from darkness and pain. To pretend it isn't real.
Much of what you hear in bible studies and small groups are sentences that shame you for admitting that you have longings, that you groan and yearn.
Q: What do you do when someone in a group expresses an unfulfilled longing, when someone expresses:
disappointment over not getting into a particular graduate school or
anger over not being married or
sorrow over not being reconciled to their father.
The tendency is to subtly do one of three things:
Encourage them to believe more in the sovereignty of God – "Maybe it's not God's will for you to get into that graduate school."
Wonder if they are idolizing that which they long for – "It kind of sounds like you're making an idol out of being married."
Suggest they are wanting too much – "Aren't your expectations for your Dad too high? He may not be able to give you what you want."
Q: Are you familiar with the parable of the persistent widow? Jesus tells this story in Luke 18 and it goes like this: a widow kept going to a judge to demand that she get justice against the person who harmed her.
And because the widow keeps coming back to insist on her case, the judge finally relents and gives her justice.
Then Jesus says, "Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?"
Here's the point: It's not called "the Parable of the Widow Who Learned to Surrender to God's Will."
The whole point is that she refused to take "No" for an answer. She knew nothing of "maybe it's not God's will for me to get justice in this life."
Last point. In a very real sense, our hope is not merely in God, our hope is God.
The essence of rescue is not primarily receiving that which you asked for but rather experiencing the responsiveness of God to the hurt in your heart. REPEAT
It is not merely the graduate school or the husband or the healing of an illness that satisfies us, it is the satisfaction of knowing I have a Father in heaven who is deeply involved in the desires of my heart. Who cares. Who responds to my cry.
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The tagline of this blog is "It's always time for something…"
And it's true. It is always time for something.
Right now it's time for a little rant.
Not am angry rant. Probably more of an exasperated one. Exasperated because just when I get excited that folks around me are getting it, I discover that they're not.
Jesus followers love to talk about revival. I'm wondering just how we're all defining that word.
Lots of people meeting Jesus?
Lots of people repenting of destructive thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors?
Lots of people getting healed?
Miracles, signs, and/or wonders?
A visitation of the presence of God?
Whatever it is, it seems that plenty of people are waiting on God to move so these things will happen. Until then we have to keep begging Him for it, proving that we're really serious about it.
You know…pray more.
Fast more.
Expand the list of things we don't do.
Expand the list of worldly things we shun.
Worship longer.
Do whatever it is that makes us more holy, more righteous.
As if we have to talk Him into showing up. As if we have to perform perfectly in order to get His attention.
Sometimes we seem to forget how eager He is to interact with His creation. We seem to forget how deeply and wildly He loves, and how willing He is to bend to kiss the heads of frail and faulty humans.
And we forget that when He put us in Christ, He also put Holy Spirit in us.
The power, the presence, the glory. It's in us.
We don't have to beg for it to come. It's already there, waiting for us to make a draw on the deposit in us. We are not groveling on earth, hoping heaven shows up. We're operating from heaven, where we're already seated with Christ.
Do you understand that this means?
You are walking revival.
Everywhere you go you take the power of God. Release it.
Everywhere you go you take the presence of God. Release it.
Everywhere you go you take the glory of God. Release it.
And revival will come. It will come in Walmart and on the bleachers at soccer games. It will come in your workplace and in the grocery store. It will come in conversations with friends and strangers.
People will meet Jesus. They'll fall in love with Him. Sin will become amazingly less enticing when confronted with outrageous love. People will get healed. Signs, miracles, and wonders will occur because the supernatural is God's natural.
Revival isn't coming. It's here.
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App+7mnejhu - posted on 03/30/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )
I am new to this group and any suggestions or input any one can offer would be great.
My son will be 4 in a few weeks. My son is normally very well behaved and just a sweet, kind and caring boy.He is extremely shy around others, and very timid. He has been enrolled in a 3K program, to help him be more social , and help his speech delay.
He started last fall. There are 3 other boys in the class. They are very out spoken and have some behaviorable problems. The teachers always have great things to say about my son. They say how sweet and how polite he is.
The last few weeks, I have noticed such a change in his behavior. He is not listening...I have to tell him 3 or 4 times to do something, he is being loud, and lots of talking back his father and I. Just crazy wild behavior.This behavior is just at home and at Grandma's ( who watches him after school) Just not used to seeing him be so different. When at school he does not act like this, or anywhere else. I just don't know if this a phase or what. I have been putting him in time out's and that does not seem to be working. Anyone go through something like this?


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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the PDP 11 line of computers in 1970. DEC had effectively invented the mini computer concept with the PDP-8 introduced in 1965. This was a low cost alternative to the IBM Big Iron. The PDP-8 had limitations due to its low cost point, small memory space (4096 12 bit words), one interrupt etc. Yes I said 12 bit. It was a 12 bit computer. Toward the end of the 1960s, the 16 bit computer was to be the big thing. And the PDP-11 was DEC's entry. It had some advantages over the PDP 8, more memory (16 bit addressing gave 64 KWs of memory, later models even more), more interrupts etc. The PDP 11 was very popular and many applications and Operating systems own there existence to the PDP 11. Obviously, UNIX had much of its early development on the PDP 11, but also MS-DOS and CP/M leaned heavily on some concepts of OS RT 11* for the PDP 11. The PDP11 system supported both multitasking and multiuser setups.
Here is a PDP11/45 console. The console gave the traditional blinkenlights display and allowed for bootstrapping and diagnostics. Yep, you could toggle a program in via the toggle switches. Set the address hit load, set the value hit load. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, this was originally from WKU's computer science department. It was built around 1972. It is non-functional as most of the computer is long gone.
And many of the earlier computers utilized magnetic core memory and the PDP 111/45 was no different:
* RT-11 had an file system so similar to FAT for MS-DOS, one could create a disk to work on both. The only one would be the RX33 for the PDP11 and the 1.2 M 5.25 floppy for the PC. All the files has to be sequential for the PDP11. So first start with a blank formatted DOS disk and copy the files to it using a PC. Next on the PDP11, create the directory entries for the files. You had to know how many blocks they occupied. This would destroy the second copy of the FAT but leave everything else intact. Now you had a disk that could be read natively by both OSes. Of course RT-11 came first. Wonder where Bill Gates got his ideas…….


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BRIDGEWATER, Mass—Junior Ari Bilotta (Leominster, Mass.) recorded five RBI, to lead UMass Boston softball to a marathon, 14-12, eight-inning victory over host Bridgewater State University.
UMass Boston 14, Bridgewater State 12
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UMass Boston rallied from an early 8-3 deficit, blew a three-run lead in the seventh and then held on in the eighth, to secure a victory in the three-hour contest.
The first game went so long, that the second contest was called due to darkness after 3.5 innings. Since the game had not reached regulation length, the contest officially goes down as cancelled game (Bridgewater State was leading 5-4 in the bottom of the fourth).
Bilotta was one of five Beacons to put together huge numbers in the high-scoring affair. The Beacons third baseman finished 3-5 with a career-high five RBI, including the game-winning hit in the eighth inning.
Fellow junior Giovanna Bonilla (Queens, N.Y.) finished with a career-high four hits in five at-bats and also set a new career-high with three RBI and tied her career-high with three runs scored.
Freshman Jayla Blackmon (Cambridge, Mass.) earned her first collegiate start in the lineup and made the most of it. The designated player went 2-3 with three runs scored, three RBI and a walk.
Kiera Prusmack (Houston, Texas) added three hits and three runs in four at-bats, while Roxanne Vento (Arlington, Mass.) recorded two hits and two RBI.
In the circle, Jess Greenspan (Rocky Hill, Conn.) persevered through one of the toughest outings of her career to earn her 40th career win. Greenspan was charged with 17 hits, 12 runs (10 earned) and five walks on a windy afternoon. She added a season-high six strikeouts, to move into second-place in program history in career strikeouts.
Bridgewater State designated player Megan Sharon led six Bears with multiple hits with two hits, two runs scored and five RBI. Samantha Mulcahy added three runs scored and Alexandra Ruprecht tacked on three hits, two runs and an RBI.
In the circle, three Bridgewater State pitchers failed to slow down the Beacons offense. Kelley Reichert got the start and allowed 11 hits and 10 runs (seven earned) over six innings. Laura Hatch gave up two runs in the seventh and Natalie Sorrenti was charged with the loss after allowing two unearned runs in the eighth.
Sharon and the Bears opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning, when she belted a one-out, two-run home run.
The Beacons took the lead right back in the top of the second with a two-out rally. With two on and two outs, Blackmon delivered a two-run single to right in her first collegiate at-bat. After Blackmon took second on the throw and third on a passed ball, she raced home on Bilotta's RBI single.
Bridgewater State came right back with six runs in the second inning to grab an 8-3 edge. Nine of the first 10 batters in the inning reached, with Sharon delivering the big hit: a three-run, bases-clearing triple.
UMass Boston began to cut into the deficit in the fourth. With Prusmack on second and no outs, Blackmon recorded an RBI single up the middle to make it 8-4. Bonilla brought Blackmon home with a two-out RBI single and Vento drove Bonilla home with an RBI single of her own to make it 8-6.
The Bears pushed the lead back to three in the bottom of the inning, as Ruprecht hit a solo home run.
Bilotta kept the Beacons two-out hitting going in the fifth inning. After the first two Beacons in the inning were retired, Prusmack singled and Blackmon was hit by a pitch. Bilotta followed with a two-out, two-run double to left center to cut the Beacons deficit to 9-8.
Bridgewater State loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning with one out, but Greenspan induced a pair of fielder's choices to keep the Bears off the scoreboard.
UMass Boston tied the game with a single run in the sixth. With the bases loaded and one out, Cassidy Gaeta (North Reading, Mass.) drove a ball to center field that was easily deep enough to score Bonilla who tagged up at third base.
The Beacons pushed their run to 9-1 with a three-run top of the seventh.
Blackmon walked to open the frame and was replaced by pinch runner Sarah Harlinski (Sturbridge, Mass.). Harlinski stole second and moved to third on a Gigi Braga (Medford, Mass.) single. After Braga stole second, Bonilla blasted a double down the left-field line to score both runners and give the Beacons the lead at 11-9. Vento followed with an RBI single to give the Beacons a three-run advantage.
Unfortunately the Beacons couldn't hold on to the lead in regulation. With one out and a runner on second, the Beacons dropped a popup on the infield to put runners on the corners. Jenny Heller followed with an RBI single and Ruprecht added an single of her own that scored both runners when the Beacons outfield committed a miscue. With the game-winning run on second and still one out, Greenspan recorded a strikeout and groundout to force extra innings.
With Kelly Danahy (Kingston, Mass.) on second to start the extra-frame, Gaeta reached on a bunt after the Bears tried to get Danahy at third base. Tori Dicenso (Lynn, Mass.) came on as a pinch runner for Gaeta and stole second. Sorrenti struck out the next two batters, but Bilotta followed with a single up the middle to score both runners and give the Beacons a 14-12 lead.
Bridgewater State put two runners in scoring position with one out in the bottom of the inning, but Greenspan recorded a fly out and a shortstop to end the game after exactly three hours.
- The two teams combined for 26 runs, 32 hits and five errors in the contest. UMass Boston recorded a season-high 14 runs and 14 RBI, tied their season-high with 15 hits and finished 6-6 on the basepaths.
- Over her last three games, Bilotta has gone 9-11 with two runs, seven RBI, two doubles and two stolen bases.
- Ten of the Beacons 14 runs came with two outs.
- Greenspan has now recorded 226 strikeouts in her career. She needs 27 more strikeouts to tie Michelle Zullo ('15) for the program record.
- With the win, UMass Boston improved to 11-8 all-time against the Bears. The Beacons have won seven of the past eight meetings.
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It's good to see that the youth of my nation have finally come out of their protected and fancy layer of shell, to protest against the system and its administrators. The cause may be the horrifying rape incident with a medical student from Delhi but it has sure put the youth together, on one platform to stand and raise their voice. The outcome may not be concrete but it will definitely make a lot of change in the mentality of the political, and bureaucratic administrative branches.
The media is to be praised significantly, for bringing this entire incident to light, and churning righteous anger, out of the people on the street. However, what surprises me is the media's almost no role in bringing out the atrocities on the tribal females in light that happened couple of years ago. They were humiliated, and went through the kind of pain that none of us would ever understand or want to experience. The media could have played a lead role in getting them the justice but it didn't put the news in the same manner, as it did with the New Delhi rape victim or the Assam molestation victim.
Laxmi Oraon
She was barely 19 when she was participating in a rally with fellow tribefolk in the month of November 2007, asking to be recognized as "Scheduled Tribe" in the state of Assam but not a "Tea Tribe." The rally went peacefully for sometime till the local hooligans started to interfere with their procession. In a few minutes, there was a scene of chaos. Whomsoever could run and save their lives, did so in a haste. More than 100 females went missing by the end of the entire carnage. Dead bodies of the tribal were all around the place, who were brutally beaten to pulp by the locals.
Laxmi Oraon, in particular was chased, stripped, kicked and chased again while she was running frightened, absolutely naked on the street. Did something happened to the people who were responsible for tormenting her. We do not know that.
Sony Sori
Soni Sori was a tribal school teacher, who was arrested on the 4th October, 2011 on the alleged charges of her being in connection with the Communist Party of India (Maoist). She was also accused of being a courier person for the said organization. As per her statement, she was interrogated on the 8th and 9th day of October, 2011. Prior to gang raping her, she was stripped, and given electric shocks. All this was done on the orders of the (then) DSP Ankit Garg, who later received a medal from the government. When she was sent to Kolkata Medical College Hospital, the doctors had to remove the stones lodged into her vagina and rectum.
Although the DSP Ankit Garg has denied her allegations, but the question remains prudent that if she was in police custody, then how these stones went into her body cavity????
|Soni Sori's letter to the judge!
What saddens me is that the indigenous populace of India is not being supported by the media, the way it supports anyone else. The coverage is negligible, if compared to to the attention it gives to other victims. The justice will be done with these victims of present times, but what about these tribal females and other victims of police, bureaucracy, politics and system?
At times, I am a bit frightened, what if the peaceful tribal agitate violently one day? What if they take over the streets in a suicidal blandishment? What if they follow the path of the Tibetans but take the lives of the culprits with them, while they make their own way to heaven?
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BJP targets govt over poor law and order situation
Nearly 200 executives, including invited office bearers and functionaries of the party from the district level are attending the meeting that was inaugurated by BJP national secretary and in-charge of Orissa Santosh Gangwar.
Besides BJP state president Jual Oram and senior party leader B B Harichandan, party national general secretary Dharmananda Pradhan, Surama Padhy and senior BJP leader Bijay Mohapatra are attending the meeting.
The national vice-president Venkaiah Naidu is scheduled to attend the meeting on Thursday when the party would prepare a political agenda for the panchayat elections in the state slated for next year, BJP sources said.
Today the leaders focused on its strategy to take on the Naveen Patnaik government on issues of corruption, law and order including police firing on innocent people, failure of the government to tackle the Maoist menace and failure of administration on all fronts.
The meeting also chalked out the party`s strategy to expand its organization in rural areas in view of the 2012 panchayat election.
The party would target both ruling BJD and opposition Congress in Orissa as these parties have `internal nexus`, the sources added. .
Even after having as many as 26 MLAs, the Congress party in the state is not functioning as an effective opposition party, Oram said.
The recent police firing incidents at Kodala, where four innocent people were killed and police `highhandedness` at Puri and Angul indicate that the police in the state under the leadership of Chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who also holds the home portfolio is unable to control the control the law and order situation, he added.
Senior party leader Bijay Mohaptra was in favour of setting up a judicial commission to go into the `uncalled for` police firing in Kodala.
The enquiry should be made by a sitting judge of Orissa High Court, he demanded.


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One of Britain's most wanted men found ... working as a Kirklees Council car park attendant
A WANTED man who appeared on a national TV crime programme has been arrested in Huddersfield.
Police had appealed through the ITV Manhunt programme on Monday evening for helping finding 62-year-old James Dougill.
He was wanted for deception offences in Derbyshire, but had failed to turn up at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court in Derby in February 2004.
The Examiner can now reveal he was arrested in Huddersfield on Tuesday where he has been living and working.
The arrest followed tip-offs by people who had seen the programme.
Dougill - who had been using another name here - has been working as a Kirklees parking attendant and living in Dalton.
Kirklees Council could not comment about what checks had been made on him, stating the matter was now "sub-judice".
Dougill was taken back to Derbyshire and appeared before magistrates on Wednesday.
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We can reveal he is alleged to have used his friend, Thomas Ferguson's, identity when he sought employment with the Probation Service.
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A Derbyshire police spokeswoman said: "We had several phone calls following the programme and Mr Dougill was arrested in Huddersfield."
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