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Pizza w/ Slow-Roasted Tomatoes, Roasted Garlic, Italian Sausage w/ Fennel, & Basil {food 'n flix}
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Yes, I'll take that pizza. Preferably in Italy with the sun shining in...ReplyDelete
Stunning pizza! I just couldn't with that book (or movie). Everything I heard about it made me cringe more! Although if I knew James Franco was in it I may have come around. I'm just not that attracted to Javier Bardem.ReplyDelete
do you have any idea how much i love you for this?! i couldn't bring myself to see the movie after reading the book. seriously..the italy part was okay...who doesn't like food...but honestly i couldn't wait to get to the end...and another thing..i hated her by the end. i wanted to make t-shirts that said...eat..pray..love..get over yourself. okay, now on to the pizza...looks delicious and i'd like to take a fork to those tomatoes...i could eat gobs and gobs of them!ReplyDelete
ditto....and his part isn't long enough to justify watching it.ReplyDelete
I am so happy to hear that I'm not the only one! I can't believe you even made it to the end. I'd buy one of those t-shirts.ReplyDelete
- BarbaraJanuary 21, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Loved your choice for Donna Hay! Those bananas on top are perfect. I'm copying that recipe.ReplyDelete
The pizza looks divine. (I was forced to finish the book as it was my book group's choice; my daughter forced me to see the movie, which I liked even less.)
- LeslieLimonJanuary 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Oh thank heavens for your honesty! It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one who wasn't completely enamored with the book. It took me forever to read Eat. Pray. Love! I started to read it almost as soon as I bought my Kindle, but after the first couple of pages I just couldn't read any more. Then a couple of months later, after hearing and reading about all of the hype, I decided to give it another try. Took me about 3 weeks to read it. I LOVED the Italy part, but I had to force myself to read the rest, hoping that it would get better and waiting to like it as much as I did the Italy part. (Never happened!) I bought the movie almost as soon as it came out, but I haven't been able to get past the Italy part! I'm forcing myself to watch it this weekend, so I can participate in Food n' Flix this month.ReplyDelete
Your pizza looks lovely!
I didn't read the book but I'd love a slice or two of that pizza! Looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
You're not alone! I'm glad you're forcing yourself to watch it...just because I want you to join in ;PReplyDelete
- BethFishReadsJanuary 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM
I've avoided the book and movie because you are not alone. I've heard not good things. Anyway, your pizza sounds devine and I'll eat in Italy with the sunshine or here in Pennsylvania holed up in the kitchen on a snowy evening.ReplyDelete
The pizza looks heavenly and I too did not like Eat Pray Love (the book) as much as the rest of the world. I have not seen the movie, but maybe I will just for the scenery.ReplyDelete
- ElizabethJanuary 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM
There's definitely a lot of people that don't like the book/movie. Oh well! At least it got you some yummy pizza.ReplyDelete
- ChocolateandcroissantsJanuary 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM
That pizza does look good. Enjoy your weekend. PS Twitter sent me a notice saying I was hacked-of course days after you sent me the notice.ReplyDelete
- SpicemantraJanuary 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Amazingly baked.....ReplyDelete
I watched the film with my husband (he's the romantic/girlie movie lover in the house-I prefer action packed adventures with unbelievable plots and lots of car chases). We both kept looking at each other like the movie was torture! We didn't make it through the whole thing. Glad to know we weren't the only ones not on that bandwagon!!ReplyDelete
Fennel and sausage is always a winner on pizza! We like to add maple too. Now I'm hungry. :)
- Margot PeckJanuary 21, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Roasted garlic is one of my favorite things on pizza along with italian sausage, roasted peppers and onions. Sounds like a good idea for Saturday night. Sorry the book and movie didn't work for you. No need to feel bad. That's why there are so many other books and movies out there. I am going to go check out Food 'N Flix. Sounds like fun.ReplyDelete
I actually...didn't like this movie either. and didn't read the book. I also found it VERY pretentious. Like...who really has the money to just leave their life behind and go traveling? No one. Only the very privileged.ReplyDelete
But I DO like this pizza! Yum on many accounts!
Exactly. And yes, I hope you join in Food 'n Flix. There's a new movie each month (picked by the host...a few spots open in 2012 if you feel like picking/hosting). Next month is My Big Fat Greek Wedding! =)ReplyDelete
- Jose36caJanuary 21, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Que buena pinta, una delicia.ReplyDelete
I read a bunch of reviews of this book, but couldn't even bring myself to pick it up to read the back. Just no appeal to me. oh well, lots of books, lots of readers, we don't have to like them all.ReplyDelete
I agree with you about the movie. I watched it and I liked it well enough, but let's be realistic. Who was the money to go traipsing all around the world indulging in themselves? I found it too indulgent!ReplyDelete
Your pizza looks incredible, from the crust to the toppings. Yum:)
Whoops...I meant who has the money..ReplyDelete
- Peggy @ Peggy Ann's PostJanuary 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM
Mmmm Oh my am I hungry now!ReplyDelete
- heidenkindJanuary 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM
That pizza looks good! As for Eat Pray Love... I only watched the movie, and it is self-centered and pretentious. Things improve slightly when she goes to Italy, but the self-congratulatory speech in Naples about how she wasn't going to count calories anymore made me want to projectile vomit.ReplyDelete
I went to a pizza party last night and your pizza would have been 10 times better. I've never watched the movie but now I want to. :)ReplyDelete
I want more pizza.
- belliniJanuary 21, 2012 at 7:40 PM
I would give in to pizza too Heather!ReplyDelete
I didn't like the book either, and so didn't see the movie. Your pizza. That I like.ReplyDelete
I'm with you! After all the hype the movie was a big let down and the book I only read a few pages and had no desire to pick it up again. I won't say I hated the movie, just was expecting more from it. A lot more. Your pizza, however would not disappoint! Love your toppings especially the slow roasted tomatoes.ReplyDelete
I wanted to like Eat, Pray, Love too - but wasn't a huge fan either. But I am a fan of pizza, and yours looks delish! I can always use another pizza recipe.ReplyDelete
lovely movie delicious looking pizza to watch with the movieReplyDelete
- Mary BergfeldJanuary 22, 2012 at 1:06 AM
Your pizza is a stunner. I never got the pray part of the book and it was even fuzzier in the movie. That is of course said with the unwritten IMHO. Have a great weekend. Blessings...MaryReplyDelete
- Girlie BloggerJanuary 22, 2012 at 1:07 AM
OK I want that roasted cherry tomato.ReplyDelete
- L A BrownJanuary 22, 2012 at 9:48 AM
I've not seen the movie or read the book. But this pizza looks wonderful. Especially with those slow roasted tomatoes.ReplyDelete
Marvellous pizza..ReplyDelete
I am far from hating you for this! I cannot stand Eat Pray Love and wouldn't see the movie ... I find it very pretentious and incredibly irritating that this privileged woman flits around finding herself because she has enough money to do it - but no self awareness about it. So self congratulatory. To be fair, though, I am not a fan of the chick lit or chick flick genre. And now everyone can hate me because: I can't stand Julia Roberts either! lol. Now this pizza on the other hand - what's not to love???ReplyDelete
So how do I know if my sausage was made by a "loose Italian"? Should I question the morals of my local purveyor of charcuterie? (ha ha ha, just kidding, I know you are talking about bulk sausage)ReplyDelete
I like this pizza especially with the added fennel. I might even sneak a little extra caraway seed too to boost the sausage flavors.
- MichelleJanuary 22, 2012 at 9:05 PM
Beautiful pizza!ReplyDelete
I haven't read the book or seen the movie. And I don't plan to...the subject matter is not my thing.
- Deb in HawaiiJanuary 23, 2012 at 1:04 AM
I actually liked the book--maybe because I read it at a time I was quitting a regular job and not sure what I was going to be doing. The movie I wanted to like but it went on way too long. Ah well. more about that in my F'nF entry this week. ;-) Your pizza, now that I love! It looks scrumptious. ;-)ReplyDelete
ha ha ha...no hate here, only love ;)ReplyDelete
Ha! I almost spit. Caraway seed sounds like a great booster =)ReplyDelete
I'm just relieved to hear that I'm not the only one...it seemed like I was in the minority, but apparently the field is pretty even.ReplyDelete
I knew what you mean ;)ReplyDelete
so true, so true...ReplyDelete
People often find it hard to believe that I like action/adventure equally as well as chick-flicks...not to mention other genres, but it just depends on my mood. I'll have to agree with your torture sentiments. And OH- MAPLE. YUM!ReplyDelete
- vianneyJanuary 24, 2012 at 5:45 AM
I cannot pass judgement I never read the book, only watched oprah talk about it on her show. I was lazy enough to watch the movie and I feel asleep on the couch. maybe if I would have had a HUGE slice of this pizza i would have stayed awake, lol. Glad you were honest. and from reading the previous comments the feeling was mutual.ReplyDelete
I hated this book. HATED it! I wanted to participate in Food n Flix but the book had left me with a bad taste in my mouth (no pun intended). You made a lovely pizza here. Makes up for the book and movie.ReplyDelete
Understandable...although, you don't have to enjoy the flick to post about it...you just have to cook from it ;)ReplyDelete
I did find the book a bit pretentious at first, but once I found out that the author had gotten a book advance to fund her trip, I looked at it for what it was and started to enjoy it. I did pick up on some quotes and philosophies that I liked, which contributed to my enjoyment of the book. But the movie was just horrible. Except for some of the food scenes in Italy - the breakfast scene was one of my favorites too. This pizza is a perfect way to erase the memory of the movie from your mind! Looks fabulous!ReplyDelete


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A creature of the secret state. Not quite the 'anti' war hero of the tv sound bites. And incidentally, a Yale Bonesman just like Dubya and his dad Poppya and Prescott Bush before that.
Quote:KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTShttp://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm
October 18, 2004
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, is being given money by an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian).
The KLA is currently smuggling weapons into Kosovo as part of a plot to attack American and other UN peacekeepers, should the UN Security Counsel refuse their demand for Kosovo's secession from Serbia and Montenegro.
About the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK)
In order to fully understand the significance of John Kerry's involvement with the KLA it is first necessary to understand what sort of an organization the KLA is. The KLA is a terrorist organization with ties to Osama bin Laden and the Iranian government. The KLA's main objective is to break Kosovo, which has been an integral part of Serbia for centuries, away from Serbia.
The KLA began on the radical fringe of Kosovo-Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II. [1]
The KLA made its military debut in February 1996 with the bombing of several camps housing Serbian refugees from wars in Croatia and Bosnia. [2]
In early 1998 the KLA caught the attention of the U.S. Special Envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard. Gelbard told Agence France Presse "We condemn very strongly terrorist actions in Kosovo. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group." [3]
The KLA has been credibly linked to the notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden. In 1999 The Washington Times obtained intelligence documents that showed what is described as a 'link' between bin Laden, and the KLA --including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports said bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization has both trained and financially supported the KLA. [4]
In 1998 Fatos Klosi, the head of SHIK, the Albanian intelligence service, told London's Sunday Times newspaper that Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. His was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, Klosi said. [5]
In 2002 the U.S. State Department issued a report giving Iran the dubious distinction of being "the most active state sponsor of terrorism." Their report went on to report that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning of and support for terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups that use terrorism to pursue their goals. [6]
The Jerusalem Post reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were training the KLA in 1998. The newspaper said that "Selected groups of Albanians were sent to Iran to study that country's version of militant Islam." The same article went on to report that "millions of dollars have been funneled through Bosnia and Albania to buy arms for the KLA. The money is raised from both Islamic governments and from Islamic communities in Western Europe, particularly Germany." [7]
Yossef Bodansky, the Director of the U.S. House Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, wrote a report for the magazine Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy saying that "In the Fall of 1997, the uppermost leadership in Tehran ordered the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps] High Command to launch a major program for shipping large quantities of weapons and other military supplies to the Albanian clandestine organizations in Kosovo. [Ayatollah] Khamene'i's instructions specifically stipulated that the comprehensive military assistance was aimed to enable the Muslims 'to achieve the independence' of the province of Kosovo."
Bodansky's article corroborates the Jerusalem Post's account. He wrote that in 1997 "the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran." [8]
In addition to the direct financing that the KLA receives from Islamic terror organizations, the organization also relies on funds raised by the Albanian mafia. [9]
The Baltimore Sun, citing western intelligence officials, reported that part of the KLA's funding comes from "powerful Albanian mafia organizations that deal in narcotics, prostitution and arms smuggling across Europe." [10]
The London Times reported that the KLA was "an outgrowth of the Kosovo Albanian mafia." Their report said, "these Kosovan criminals operate the most powerful drug-running network in Europe." [11]
According to police in the Czech Republic, Kosovo Albanian drug traffickers fund the KLA with proceeds from the heroin trade. "Kosovo Albanian drug smugglers have become a major phenomenon," said Jiri Komorous, head of the Czech Republic's national narcotics police, who added that his heroin division "spends about 80 percent of its time" on Kosovar drug gangs. [12]
Interpol estimates that Kosovo Albanians may control 40 percent of the European heroin trade. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, they may have as much as 70 percent of the market, according to the estimates. [13]
In addition to drug trafficking. The KLA kidnaps women and young girls and forces them into prostitution.
During NATO's 1999 bombardment of Yugoslavia, which resulted in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo refugees, the KLA robbed refugee families and forced refugee girls into prostitution.
According to the London Times, "Reports from Macedonia and Albania confirm that KLA 'minders' [inside the refugee camps] ensure that all refugees peddle the same line when speaking to Western journalists. KLA gangsters rob them of any remaining cash. And KLA pimps driving Mercedes kidnap refugee girls for prostitution in Italy." [14]
The Albanian mafia's involvement in prostitution is huge. In 2001 The Economist, citing an internal British Home Office briefing, reported that "Albanians or Kosovars now control 'around 70%' of massage parlors in Soho. That ties in with a report last year [2000] by the National Criminal Intelligence Service, which noted a long-term threat from organized Albanian gangs who run immigration and prostitution rackets across Western Europe to pursue their goals."
The article says that there is "little the police can do. They say that immigrant sex workers refuse to testify because the gangs threaten reprisals against the women's loved ones. Since these groups operate internationally, the British police cannot protect the families of the workers. They are powerless against such intimidation."
Paul Holmes, who heads London's Metropolitan Police's Vice Unit says "All our intelligence and evidential experience is that these women are being used, effectively as sexual slaves, by ruthless, exploitative pimps." Tackling prostitution is harder than ever. But it is not the sex that is the problem. It is the slavery. [15]
The Albanian mafia has become extremely powerful as a world-wide criminal force. The effects of the Albanian mafia are even being felt in the United States where they are taking over organized crime.
The FBI says, thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime. [16]
According to Chris Swecker, the head of the FBI's criminal division, Albanian gangsters have already seized control of some rackets from New York Mafia families. [17]
John Kerry and the KLA
The leader of the KLA is a man named Hashim Thaci. Thaci, who goes under the nom de guerre "Snake," attended the Democratic Party's convention in Boston earlier this year.
Upon returning from the convention, Thaci told the Albanian-Language KosovaLive agency, "It was a very successful visit at the Democratic Convention, where the PDK [Tachi's political party] had been invited as a guest. It was confirmed once again that the Democratic authorities would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosova for self-determination" [18]
In addition to the KLA leader's attendance at the Democratic Convention was the presence of KLA members at a John Kerry fundraiser in New York.
In September, the Dutch Television station VPRO produced a documentary entitled "De Brooklyn Connectie." This documentary follows a KLA terrorist named Florin Krasniqi as he attends a John Kerry fundraiser, and then smuggles weapons into Kosovo for a war that is being planned against American and other UN Peacekeepers there.
The video can be downloaded from the VPRO website at:
Krasniqi lives in Brooklyn, where he allegedly works as a roofer; although his big house, his shiny new car, and his swimming pool, suggest that he makes money in other ways.
The first few minutes of the video consist of Krasniqi praising the KLA and accusing the Serbs.
At the 11:08 mark of the video, he goes to a John Kerry fundraiser together with a group of KLA members. They are shown writing checks to the Kerry campaign for thousands of dollars each.
While at the fundraiser, they openly identify themselves as the KLA. Krasniqi is seen introducing himself and his brothers-in-arms to Wesley Clark (Commander of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and former Democratic presidential candidate). Krasniqi says, "Mr. Clark. This is your group, your KLA." Clark then praises the group saying, "They fought against tremendous odds."
Then, Richard Holbrooke (Kerry's Sr. Foreign Policy Adviser), who apparently knows one of the terrorists, comes over and jokingly says, "He almost got me killed." To which Krasniqi quips, "He would not let his Kalashnikov go. He will keep his Kalashnikov." Then Holbrooke, Clark, and this group of KLA terrorists all have a good laugh.
It is rather disturbing to see these high officials in the Democratic Party having such a relaxed and friendly exchange with a group of terrorists, even though they have just given thousands of dollars to John Kerry's campaign.
Krasniqi makes clear that he expects a quid-pro-quo for his donation. He says, "With money you can do amazing things in this country. Senators and congressmen are looking for donations. If you fund them and raise the money they need for their campaign they pay you back."
At the 29:03 mark of the video, Krasniqi visits a gun store and purchases weapons to use in Kosovo. From this point forward you get to see how the KLA smuggles weapons into Kosovo, disguising them as humanitarian aid and so forth.
Near the end of the video, at the 46:00 mark, you finally learn why the KLA has been smuggling all of those weapons into Kosovo. The Dutch TV reporter says, "In Pristina I talked to the NATO spokesman and he told me that he was very successful in disarming the Albanians."
Krasniqi laughs and replies, "It's a NATO propaganda. No one ever is going to disarm Albanians. There is no way. No NATO, no one is going to disarm Albanians. [...] NATO can collect a few arms. But most Albanians in Kosovo are very well armed. Just incase NATO pulls out, or we don't get our independence peacefully then we'll use those weapons."
Because the video has been edited, the end of this conversation is way back at the 4:08 mark (you can tell that it is part of the same conversation because he is standing in front of the same wall, in the same lighting conditions, and wearing the same clothes).
The Dutch Reporter asks: "It's going to be war?"
Krasniqi replies: "Hope not, but if it is were ready; if not this spring then the next one. If Kosova does not get its independence there will be a war."
In case you are unaware of this fact, the only ones in Kosovo that the KLA can have a war with are the UN peacekeeping troops, which include Americans. The Serbs all withdrew in 1999 after the NATO bombing.
This is not such a thinly veiled threat, Krasniqi is saying that if the KLA does not get its way then it will attack the UN Troops who are stationed in Kosovo, and those UN troops include Americans.
These terrorists have already shown that they are not afraid to attack the UN. In September, UCK sniper attacks on UN vehicles forced the UN to stop using the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic road between 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM. [19]
The KLA is clearly a terrorist organization. It is backed by Islamic terror organizations. It is linked both to Osama bin Laden and to the Government of Iran. It is heavily involved in drug trafficking and forced prostitution.
The KLA is directly threatening the safety of American personnel stationed in Kosovo. They're smuggling weapons in for a war against a UN force that includes Americans, and they're so brazen that they'll do for everybody to see on Dutch national TV.
John Kerry, who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee from 1993 until 2000, must know who the KLA is, but he clearly doesn't care.
Instead of condemning the KLA, Kerry takes money from them. And instead of distancing itself from the KLA, Kerry's party invites the KLA's leader to come to their convention in Boston.
The United States of America, was brutally attacked by terrorists on 9/11, we are in a life or death struggle against terrorism, and here is John Kerry taking money from terrorists; if there was ever anybody that we needed to keep out of the White House it's John Kerry.
[1] "Fog of War -- Coping With the Truth About Friend and Foe: Victims Not Quite Innocent," New York Times, March 28, 1999
[2] Jane's Intelligence Review, October 1, 1996
[3] Agence France Presse, February 23, 1998
[4] "KLA Rebels Train in Terrorist Camps: Bin Laden Offers Training Too," Washington Times, May 4, 1999, pg. A1
[5] "Bin Laden opens European terror base in Albania," The Sunday Times (London), November 29, 1998, Sunday
[6] FORM item 9, U.S. Department of State , Patterns of Global Terrorism -2002, dtd April 30, 2003
[7] "Kosovo Seen as New Islamic Bastion," Jerusalem Post, September 14, 1998
[8] "Italy Becomes Iran's New Base for Terrorist Operations," by Yossef Bodansky, Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy (London), February 1998
[9] "Albanian Mafia, This Is How It Helps The Kosovo Guerrilla Fighters," Corriere della Sera (Milan, Italy), October 15, 1998
[10] "Speculation Plentiful, Facts Few About Kosovo Separatist Group," Baltimore Sun, March 6, 1998
[11] "In spontaneously opening our hearts to these Kosovan refugees, we are opening our country to organised criminality," The Times (London), May 6, 1999, Thursday
[12] "A New Drug Route is Traced to the Old Balkans Anarchy" The Boston Globe, June 3, 2001, Sunday, Pg. A14
[13] Ibid.
[14] "In spontaneously opening our hearts to these Kosovan refugees, we are opening our country to organised criminality," The Times (London), May 6, 1999, Thursday
[15] "Prostitution: SoHopeless; Albanian organised crime dominates prostitution in Soho" The Economist - June 21, 2001
[16] "FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia'," CNN, August 18, 2004
[17] "Hunt for 'terrorism nexus' changes how FBI handles crime," USA Today - August 19, 2004
[18] "Thaci Says US Democrats Support Self-Determination of People of Kosova," KosovaLive - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 [FBIS Document # FBIS-EEU-2004-0805]
[19] "UN Pulls Out of Night-Time Use of Kosovo Road For Security Reasons" BBC Monitoring, September 24, 2004 - FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1151 gmt 23 Sep 04
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Thursday, October 7, 1982
PIX #1 - Dr. Charles Henry Jr.
PIX 2 - Nicholas Burtschber
PIX #3 - The building at 111 W. Center St. is where Dr. Henry practiced for many years, now owned by Sam Hammonds, attorney.
PIX #4 - Dr. Charles Henry Sr. with granddaughter Josephine, now Mrs. John Lee.
PIX #5 - Photo shows two buildings on Main Street built by Nicholas Burtscher and still owned by that family. Corner is West Center Street.
Last week the second installment about West Center Street was completed. We had covered the north side from Main to the first north-south alley.
Today's article starts at Main on the south side of the street. History that cannot be shown through pictorial views from the past will perhaps be made up by descriptive copy.
A photo that was used with a Potluck article more thant two years ago (August 1980), accompanies today's article. The reason for reprinting it is because additional information about the Burtscher family, which I did not have at that time, is associated with today's information. Our look at West Center Street begins with the corner building where City Loan & Savings is now. All informtion with the earlier article is not repeated.
The two buildings shown in the photo, where the two separate City Loan Offices are located, did not always appear as they do today. Both have been remodeled extensively in past years by the Burtscher family.
Going back to the turn of the century and for many years thereafter, the Hollinger & Sayre Millinery Shop occupied the second floor of the corner building. In later years at various times, the following were located on the second floor of the building.
C. Willard Glassburn, chiropractor; Dr. G.H.W. Bruggeman; Dr. Walter A. Geiser; Dr. George A. Gehlert; Foxie Beauty Salon; James Ford, attorney; and C.C. McKay, attorney.
On the first floor of the corner building there was, through the years: People's Credit Clothing Co.; Emmet Sheeran, physician; Leon Beebe, music teacher; August J. Vogel, tailor; C.C. Crawford, insurance.
The patriarch of the Burtscher family to whom much credit must be given for real estate developments and business activity in Fostoria was Nicholas Burtscher.
According to Helen Burtscher Wright, 400 N. Main St., his granddaughter, he was born in Prussia in 1838 and was brought to this country by his parents the next year. They were the Adam Burtschers.
In 1857, at age 17, Nicholas arrived in Fostoria, having walked from Perrysburg. Mrs. Wright recalled that his family kiddingly asked in later years why he didn't walk north to Toledo, a shorter distance instead of to Fostoria. The latter decision would have been Fostoria's loss.
In 1876, he built the Burtscher building and started a grocery store where the City Loan is now, south of Chapman's Jewelry Store. He was also associated in the Burtscher & Ash Shoe Store at the corner of Center and Main streets, another building that he owned.
Nicholas was also active in politics, having served seven years as a county commissioner and on the city board of public service.
He also had built and once owned the building where Elsea TV and Appliance is now at 117 S. Main St.
With great faith in the future of Fostoria, he joined with the McDonel family in developing a large tract of land in the eastern section of town, east of the Hocking Valley Railroad, which is now the Chessie System
One of Nicholas' last projects was the building of a bridge across Portage Creek, west of Reservoir No. 2, according to Mrs. Wright, while assisting at the site he was bitten by a mosquito that caused massive infection for which there were no known antibotics to combat it. The infection that he suffered for nine days caused his death on August 19, 1912, at age 74.
The next subject as we move west on Center Street is the two-story building shown on the left in the accompanying photo.
Today that building is owned by attorney Sam Hammonds and houses his law business, as well as that of attorney Lester Stewart.
The building was originally erected by Dr. Charles Henry Sr. in the early part of this century, perhaps 1905, according to Mrs. John (Josephine) Lee, 700 N. Main St. She is the daughter of Dr. Charles Henry Jr.
The father and son team occupied that building (111 W. Center St.) for all of their years of practice, which amounted to more than 80 years of combined service.
Charles Henry Sr. was born in West Millgrove in 1844. He became interested in medicine when he served as a medical helper in the Civil War. According to Mrs. Lee, he had a natural aptitude for that profession, being especially skilled at bone setting. He later graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical School.
Charles Henry Jr. served in World War I at Fort Riley, Kan., where hundreds of young men died of the flu.
The Henry's had a large local practice. The devoted mornings to making house calls, a practice that has faded from the medical scene.
She said both were very fond of animals and at one time had what amounted to a small zoo in the lot beside their home, which is the actual location of the house where the Lees now live.
At one time, the menagerie consisted of deer, pheasants, horses, ponies, rabbits, ducks, and many other species. Down through the years they owned between 20 and 30 dogs, including seven or eight Great Danes.
Mrs. Lee will be remembered by readers as an art teacher in the Fostoria School system for a number of years and an accomplished artist herself.
Jean Henry, residing in Stewart Fla., is also a daughter of Dr. Henry Jr. She has the same love for animals as her father and grandfather and for many years worked with the humane society when she lived in Vermont as she does now in Florida.
The building where the Henry's practiced medicine for many years was purchased by Dr. M.E. Seiple, dentist, where he was located for many years up to the time of his retirement. Sam Hammonds purchased the building in 1975.
Others in later years occupying the structure built by Dr. Henry Sr. were: Dr. Spooner; Dr. N. Gordon Hartnett; Dr. M. Seiple.
The second floor of the building was once the office for Kleinhen & Son Real Estate. It was also a residence apartment at one time for Mrs. Georgia Wagner and later for Mrs. W. Ellis Sr.
The small one-story building shown in the right of photo where Drs. Henry had their office was built by the Burtschers in later years after the death of Nicholas.
The following used that building at various periods of history up to the present: Kissing Millinery, owned by Mrs. A.E. Gregg; Mrs. E.A. Eakins, art goods; Court Motor Supply; Gribble Insurance Agency; Carl Reed Insurance Agency; Callender Sewing Machine; Rillia Hatfield, corsets; Mac & Swartz Barber Shop and Baker's Lock & Key Service.


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Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists — but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belief and draws out three problems with common attitudes toward scientific inquiry — and gives her own reasoning for why we ought to trust science.
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Life in Biosphere 2
At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.
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John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech
"I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr says in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. To create a world fit for his daughter to live in, he says, we need to invest now in clean, green energy.
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Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt
Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the type of future in store for us if we don't significantly cut our greenhouse gas emissions now. She suggests that it's time we do things differently—a whole system change, in fact—and seriously consider trading
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New thinking on the climate crisis
In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.
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Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'
The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate.
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David Keith's unusual climate change idea
Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?
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Al Gore warns on latest climate trends
At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal."
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Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
"Save the rainforest" is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the 1990s, new laws (and transparent data) are helping slow the rate of deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough? Not yet. He has five ideas about what we should do next. And he asks if the
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Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole
Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-before-seen video.
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A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam
From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam — none of which can be recycled. Frustrated by this waste of resources and landfill space, Ashton Cofer and his science fair teammates developed a heating treatment to break down used Styrofoam into something useful. Check out their original design,
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle
In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project "6 billion Others," and his soon-to-be-released movie, "Home," which documents human impact on the environment
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My country will be underwater soon — unless we work together
For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated, denied or legislated against — it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. In a personal conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kiribati President Anote Tong discusses his country's present climate catastrophe and its
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One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.
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Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism
We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK, www.skollfoundation.org
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Inside an Antarctic time machine
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.
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A climate solution where all sides can win
Why are we so deadlocked on climate, and what would it take to overcome the seemingly insurmountable barriers to progress? Policy entrepreneur Ted Halstead proposes a transformative solution based on the conservative principles of free markets and limited government. Learn more about how this carbon dividends plan could trigger an international domino effect towards a
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The science behind a climate headline
In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.
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Do the green thing
Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.
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How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
"We're not in a clean energy revolution; we're in a clean energy crisis," says climate policy expert Michael Shellenberger. His surprising solution: nuclear. In this passionate talk, he explains why it's time to overcome longstanding fears of the technology, and why he and other environmentalists believe it's past time to embrace nuclear as a viable and desirable
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Global priorities bigger than climate change
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
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Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth
Zaria Forman's large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility. Join her as she discusses the meditative process of artistic creation and the motivation behind her work. "My drawings celebrate the beauty of what we all stand to lose," she says. "I
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How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs
Kristen Marhaver studies corals, tiny creatures the size of a poppyseed that, over hundreds of slow years, create beautiful, life-sustaining ocean structures hundreds of miles long. As she admits, it's easy to get sad about the state of coral reefs; they're in the news lately because of how quickly they're bleaching, dying and turning to slime. But the good news is
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The taboo secret to healthier plants and people
Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money.
We need nuclear power to solve climate change
Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy. His analysis of the world's energy realities puts a powerful lens on the stubbornly touchy issue of nuclear power, including new designs for plants that can compete economically with fossil fuels. We have the potential to
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Obsessions are dangerous, because in any conflict, be it political, economic, or military, they create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by one's adversaries -- not to mention one's purported allies. That is because obsessions shape the Orientation of one's Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action (OODA) loop in a way that induces one to see and act on what one "wants" to see rather than what "is." When this happens, one's decision cycle looks inward and becomes disconnected from its environment, and as a result, the actions decided on will not have the desired outcome. The mismatch between desires and reality will then feed back into subsequent decision cycle, and if the obsession is not corrected inside the decision-maker's orientation , the mismatches will amplify themselves in subsequent actions. Left unaddressed only one outcome is possible: what the American strategist Colonel John Boyd, the inventor of the OODA Loop, used to call "incestuous amplification," or an increasingly self-referencing decision making spiral, that by "talking to itself, succumbs to an inevitable evolution into chaos.
America's amplifying obsessions with Israel are creating just this kind of evolution, and there is no better example than in our increasingly dangerous self-referencing policy towards Iran, which itself is now turning into an obsession.
The downward spiral becomes apparent when one tries to examine the results of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the Middle East through the eyes of those she was trying to win over. Her aim was to shore up our Arab "allies" in a unified anti-Iran policy. But as Rami Khouri, a highly-regarded observer of politics in the Middle East (bio), explains in this commentary in Lebanon's Daily Star, Clinton's pathetically transparent efforts devolved into yet another version of our old self-referencing efforts to shore up a pro- Israeli, neo-colonialist, foreign policy that is doomed to fail again.


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If you are a victim or someone who cares deeply for a victim of sexual violence, the Missoula Police Department wants the opportunity to ensure you get access to help from us and our many partners in the community. We want you to have a voice in moving forward and receive consistent information about the services available here in Missoula.
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- All our officers are trained to understand the complexity of sexual violence reporting and are prepared to provide you with comprehensive information about the options a victim has.
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The rain stayed away and the blue skies remained in Harwich & Chatham. The wind however did show up and gusted at 65 mph so the surf got interesting and trees came down. Being Brits we decided it was time to put the kettle on and have a cup of tea!
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In El Salvador, I marched with a crowd as they remembered their martyred hero. Romero, who was a Salvadoran version of Nathan Hale, had stood up to what the people had considered American imperialism. The march passed a long shiny black monument (that looked a lot like our Vietnam memorial) covered with countless names — each a casualty of a war that their loved ones believed was fought against American interests and American-funded troops in their country.
During that visit, I saw that living in San Salvador was no picnic. In the last several decades it had endured a civil war and the collapse of its coffee industry — coffee fell from 50 percent of the country's export earnings to about 3 percent. San Salvador had the highest homicide rate of any city in the Western Hemisphere and gang violence was on the rise. Nice homes had fenced-in and fortified front yards, and in the wealthy neighborhoods, each street and every sizable business posted an armed guard.
In 2001, El Salvador had suffered two devastating earthquakes that killed 2,000 people. A quarter of the private homes in the country had been destroyed or badly damaged, leaving 1.5 million homeless. Seismic safety is a luxury that only the privileged can afford. (My hometown north of Seattle had required that I spend tens of thousands of dollars to reinforce my travel business' office building for earthquakes. I chafed at the cost. But I was upstairs in that building when a quake hit the Seattle area that same year, and we rode it out safely.) Unfortunately, the best that those living in a San Salvador shanty town could do for protection was to live in what they called "mini-skirt housing" — cinderblocks for the lower half of the walls, along with light corrugated tin on the walls and on the roof.
In the wake of the earthquake devastation, Salvadorans saw capitalists who claimed to be compassionate roll up their sleeves and speed to the rescue. Shirt manufactures moved into the earthquake-devastated area to provide jobs...on condition that the government allowed them to lower the minimum wage from $144 a month to $85 a month.
Traveling to places recovering from war and natural disasters, I'm struck at how poor people don't despair. Could it be, the poorer you are, the less you lose in a natural disaster? Perhaps poverty leaves you no time to get down...you're too busy surviving.
I visited with Beatriz and her daughter Veronica, who lived in a shack on El Salvador's minimum wage. The place was as clean and inviting as a tin-roofed mud shack with a dirt floor could be. Beatriz told of raising a family through a war and on $140 a month.
About her life, she said, "My house becomes a lake in the rainy season. Still, we are thankful to have this place. Our land was very cheap. We bought it from a man receiving death threats. He fled to America. While we make $140 a month in the city, the minimum in the country is much less — only $70 a month. To survive there, you need a home that is already in your family. You have one light bulb, corn, and beans. That is about all. Living on minimum wage is more difficult now than before."
On that visit to El Salvador, I was what locals joked about as a "round-trip" revolutionary — someone who goes down there...but only with a round-trip ticket. Still, having had the opportunity to sit and talk with Beatriz and Veronica, even that round-trip revolutionary flew home with an indelible understanding of the human reality of that much-quoted statistic that "half of humanity is trying to live on $2 a day."
Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. Email him at


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Every single Israeli soldier who crosses the border of 1967 is enforcing an illegal occupation, ethnical cleansing, genocide. They are without exception war criminals, and we must never forget their crimes. We must do everything possible to bring them before justice.
Here are some officers of the IDF and other Israeli armed forces who are known to have murdered Palestinians, and contributed to or committed directly or indirectly acts which qualify as crimes of war, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing ...
If you have pictures, documents or other verifiable information of these or other individuals belonging to the IDF which could help in securing arrest warrants against them in any jurisdiction, please contact me.
I hope that these individuals will be on their way to The Hague sooner or later.
NOTICE: Some of these pictures are taken from other websites. These pictures help to identify terrorists of US, German, English, French, etc. nationality who operate in the West Bank under assumed impunity. These pictures belong to their respective owners, and are used here for informative and educational purposes only. I claim no ownership over these pictures. Their use here is strictly non-commercial, and intended to help bring the persons depicted to justice. This applies equally to civilians and IDF military officers.
UPDATE: Some of the individuals listed here were posted by persons unknown to me to the website israeliwarcriminals.zzl.org, which no longer exists. The list was sent me by several readers. Because of their participation in the Gaza massacre of 2008/2009, they are "persons of interest" and thus included here.
Yoav Mordechai
Yoav Mordechai
Jonathan Locker
Brig. Gen. Jonathan Locker
Guy Zur
Brig. Gen. Guy Zur
Avi Zamir
Brig. Gen. Avi Zamir
Shlomo Turjeman
Brig. Gen. Shlomo Turjeman
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Colonel David Menahem, a criminal from the Kfir Brigade.
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Charles Cressent, (born Dec. 16, 1685, Amiens, France—died Jan. 10, 1768, Paris), French cabinetmaker, whose works are among the most renowned pieces of French furniture ever made.
Grandson of a cabinetmaker of the same name and son of the sculptor François Cressent, Charles practiced both arts, becoming a brilliant metalworker as well. He probably went to Paris about 1710, working at first for the studio of the late cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle. Soon he became influenced by the designer Gilles Marie Oppenordt and the painter François Watteau and also became friendly with the sculptor François Girardon. Appointed official cabinetmaker in 1715 to the Duke d'Orléans, regent of France, Cressent was elected in 1719 to the Academy of Saint-Luc, a position that brought him important orders. Although he made furniture for foreign courts (Portugal, Bavaria) and for wealthy French aristocrats, notably Mme de Pompadour, he apparently did not work for King Louis XV of France.
Cressent's first works, in the manner of the Louis XIV style, have affinities with Boulle's creations. In the following period (c. 1730–50), his artistry became balanced, retaining an elegant strength and avoiding the excess of Rococo; from that period can be dated the charming espagnolettes—i.e., female figures generally fixed to the corners of tables, most characteristic of his style. Finally, after 1750, his work was inspired by a return to the antique. Cressent not only designed the models and made the furniture himself but also carved magnificent mountings of gilded bronze for them, but such unorthodox totality caused him to clash with and break the restrictions of the guild. In 1722 the Guild of Bronze Founders and Chasers took legal action against him; he was saved through the intervention of the regent, whose son, the Duke d'Orléans, had to protect Cressent on two subsequent prosecutions, in 1735 and 1743.
Most important of all, Cressent became the leading exponent of the Régence style (i.e., the transitional phase from Baroque to Rococo), replacing the monumental style of the earlier part of Louis XIV's reign with a lighter and more fluent curvilinear style. In his work, the mounts of ormolu (i.e., brass made to imitate gold), so important to the design of 18th-century French furniture, became equally if not more important than the marquetry decoration of the case. He also helped introduce the marquetries of coloured woods that began to replace ebony and ebonized woods.


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Comic book series : The Enigma of Al Capp
The Enigma of Al Capp
Acclaimed writer Alexander Theroux (the former Harvard, Yale, and MIT professor best recognized for his novel Darconville's Cat and The Primary Colors, which John Updike called "a unique gem") delves into the well-known, yet often glossed over, dark side of one of our most celebrated funnymen, Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner. Compassionately, but with a keen eye, Theroux traces Capp's transformation from a brilliantly funny social advocate creator of the American myth into a much darker, haunted man who adopted the conservative politics he once criticized. By juxtaposing Capp's art with his life, Theroux offers a rich and compelling analysis of this complex icon of American culture.
"An extended look at how the good-hearted unpolitics of the character Li'l Abner and the mean-spirited politics of his creator were drawn into irresolvable tension. Theroux's analysis is at its finest when he explores Capp's inability to negotiate in his own life what he'd criticized in his strip for so long." – Josh Glenn, Hermenaut


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Watch the 12 Best (Or Worst?) Ice Bucket Challenge Fails
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has taken over the Internet and, presumably, your Facebook feed. It is all the rage. However, there are plenty of people who've had issues trying to pull it off.
It seems so simple -- get a bucket of ice dumped over your head in the name of charity.
Sometimes, though, the simplest things can go horribly, horribly wrong.
Here, then, for your approval, are some of the more memorable Ice Bucket Challenge fails. We nominate you to find even better ones. You have 24 hours.
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