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| IzzWolf234 chapter 1 . 11/3/2012
You should update soon.
| fool101 chapter 1 . 10/30/2011
This reminds me of one of my teachers :D Can't wait for an update!
| EllYouSeeWhy chapter 1 . 6/30/2010
This sounds very idealistic so far, like all my favourite yaoi :D Wish I had a miserable, bitter yet aesthetically pleasing teacher to fall for :( please update I wanna read on! (:(:
| CinderellaWithCombatBoots chapter 1 . 8/5/2009
Please, please, PLEASE update soon. I loved the beginning and the summary sounds awesome. Update?
| Awsome17 chapter 1 . 12/2/2007
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| paputsza chapter 1 . 10/6/2007
i look 4 slash and you give me het? UpDate! *pout* but my reviews r just to fluffy, scitzophrenic.
| Gingitsune-chan chapter 1 . 8/16/2007
Very eloquent! I loved the sarcasm! Please keep writing!
| Caitlin Moon chapter 1 . 6/12/2007
I can't say too much yet but as of now, I can say that your writing is very fluid. Also, I really like your writing style.
| cloud-shadows chapter 1 . 3/28/2007
Hello! I took a look at your profile-you've only got one story up! How is that possible? Seriously-you're writing is awesome! It's only the beginning, so I can't really say much, but your writing is amazingly fluid while keeping the intentions of your characters clear. Please update soon!
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| billybob123 chapter 1 . 7/5/2006
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| Finnyh chapter 1 . 7/5/2006
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| Irish Angell chapter 1 . 7/5/2006
" … Well, you are the subject of my envy," has got to be my favorite line! LOL!
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Learning and Healing Part "29": 1in6 Thursdays on the Joyful Heart Foundation Blog
The last article I wrote was about triggers and learning new ways to address them to produce different outcomes. I called it a reclaiming of my life. I am beginning to think that it is learning what well balanced and healthy children learn as they are growing up. But as they say, better late than never!
I shared that I had a problem with a person of power and potentially for the first time in my life I told them what I needed and set limits on what I would and would not do. I expressed my needs, and set a healthy boundary. That felt like a great success, but it was not the end of the story.
As the process continued I found my boundaries being pushed, like when you stick your finger in a balloon. I was not inclined to move my limits, but the pressure was uncomfortable. In fact it made me feel terrible. How could someone I trusted, try to replace my limits with theirs? After weeks of trying to convince myself I had done something wrong, or was being unreasonable, I ended up with serious health problems and was sick in bed for a week.
One thing I have learned well is to listen to my body and my body was trying to tell me something. My square edges just would not fit into that round hole. The message I was hearing was if I backed down from my position I would be "sick" from then on. It finally came to me that I was in an abusive relationship and the person who was trying to get me to change my values was not my friend after all.
I wrote an email ending our connection, and I felt better than I had in months. I thought I wanted and needed that for my future and yet things got instantly better when I let go.
In the past I never would have had this experience because I never would have let anyone get close enough to betray me like that. After my abuse ended, I put up walls to keep everyone out. A major part of my healing process has been to take my walls down and let people in. I have just found out that makes me quite vulnerable.
Being vulnerable is not comfortable territory for most survivors. And yet my life is so much better today than it was when I thought I was protected, I will not consider putting my walls back up. The walls you see, keep out the good and the bad. I would lose the connection I feel to my own family as well as to all the great people and survivors that are part of my life today. I would rather be honest, vulnerable and living in the present moment and risk the possibility of being betrayed again.
If I want to experience the joy of life and connection to other people, I will be vulnerable to attack. But guess what? I am learning that I can even deal with the bad in life and still feel good about myself, and my choices. I think I am happier today after dealing with a bad situation than I have ever been before. Growth and healing can be painful, but also immensely rewarding. I know my life will have many ups and downs, but as long as I keep listening and learning I know I will find a lot of happiness along the way.
I can't say that I know what I've have missed in life because of my abuse, but I can work to stay open to learning new behaviors that are not connected to survival, but may enrich my experience on this earth.
– By Randy Ellison
Read more on the Joyful Heart Foundation Blog
Speaker, writer and author of the book Boys Don't Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse, Randy Ellison is a child sexual abuse victim's advocate and an activist promoting cultural change working with local, state and national organizations. He addresses abuse prevention and healing for survivors from a survivor's perspective. Randy is a member of the Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force. He is a founding member and former board president of OAASIS, Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service.
Randy recently received the Diane Sandler Award for his work in education, awareness and prevention of sexual violence in Southern Oregon.

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MVC Softball Splits Pair of Games at Tucson Invitational SaturdayPosted March 8, 2014
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Marshall, Mo. (March 8, 2014)- The Missouri Valley College softball team opened its 2014 season Saturday by playing two games at the Tucson Invitational. MVC lost its first game to University of Great Falls 4-0, but rebounded to take its second game of the day over Siena Heights University 11-7.
In the first game of the day against Great Falls, the Vikings fell behind by an early 4-0 score as Great falls plated all its runs in the first inning. MVC got one of those runs back in the top of the second, leading things off with a Sophomore Third Baseman Breanna Billups (Modesto, Calif.) walk. She was later brought home when Senior Outfielder Janelle Garcia (Oxnard, Calif.) singled to center. The Vikings got another run back in the third inning when Junior Outfielder Shelby Schmitz (Shelbyville, Mo.) led the inning with a single, followed by a Senior Second Baseman Kayla Mochizuki (Oxnard, Calif.) double. Schmitz was brought in on a Freshman Shortstop Kaya Naiwi (Nanakuli, Hawai'i) single. Despite the rally with no outs in the third inning, the Vikings were unable to keep the momentum going, eventually leaving the bases loaded. Starting Pitcher Senior Ashley Cobern (Cleveland, Mo.) pitched well after the first inning, giving up just one more base hit, however, the Vikings were unable to get a runner past first base after the third inning, and Great Falls defeated the Vikings 4-2.
Leading MVC was Mochizuki who went 2 for 4 from the plate, while Naiwi and Garcia each had one hit and one RBI. Cobern picked up the loss going six innings, giving up five hits, four runs, two earned with four strike outs.
In game two, the Vikings got on top of Siena Heights early. With two outs in the top of the first, the Vikings put together a rally, with three-straight singles. Billups brought two runners home on her single, but was left stranded. The Vikings added another run in the second inning, after Junior Centerfielder Lisa Luna (Anaheim, Calif.) hit a lead-off triple, and was later brought home when Senior Cathcer Hannah Garcynzki (Palm Desert, Calif.) hit a sac-fly to right field. MVC added three more runs in the third inning, the first two coming on a Junior First baseman Lauren Alferos (Carson, Calif.) single to right field. Later in the inning, Luna singled to center, bringing home Billups, but the Vikings ended the inning by stranding two base runners. MVC's went into the fourth inning with a 6-2 lead, but put the game out of reach, plating five runs in the innings. The big hit came early in the inning when Billups doubled down the right field line to bring two home. Alferos followed that up with a sac-fly to score the inning's third run, and the fourth and fifth runs were scored following Siena Heights errors. MVC ended the inning with an 11-2 lead. Siena Heights didn't go quietly, scoring five straight runs in the fifth and sixth innings, but MVC held on for an 11-7 victory.
Leading MVC was Billups who finished 2 for 3 from the plate, scoring twice, walking once and bringing home four runs. Naiwi, Davis and Luna all had two hits apiece for the Vikings. Naiwi and Davis also scored three times. Starting Pitcher Junior Melissa Spanton (Sacramento, Calif.) picked up the win, going 5.2 innings giving up seven runs on nine hits.
MVC sits at 1-1 on the season following Saturday's games.
Up next, the Vikings will play two more games Sunday in Tucson, Ariz., against Robert Morris University at 9 a.m., and Park University at 1:30 p.m.
About Missouri Valley College
Known for its dynamic, richly diverse, and friendly educational environment, Missouri Valley College offers many opportunities to grow in mind, body, and spirit. Grounded in the liberal arts, undergraduate studies empower students to master interdisciplinary skills needed to succeed in a knowledge-based global society. MVC offers over 40 academic programs, study abroad program, honors program, extracurricular activities, and 13 sports. The most popular majors include education and business, and some new majors are ag-business, nursing, graphic design, and health information systems (associate degree). Above all, Valley is committed to student success. For more information, call (660) 831-4000 or visit www.moval.edu.


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Country Parachute Roundup
By Georgiana Stewart
CD with CD-size booklet of directions with diagrams
Using Country Western music, this CD introduces rhythms and coordination patterns that are fun to do and help children develop basic skills. The popular western dance steps and sequences - Cotton Eyed Joe, Two Step, Texas Two Step, swing, schottische and clogging - are presented simply and slowly. The dances can be done with a parachute or as circle, line or partner dances.
Selections 1-7 contain narration directing the dance movements and then there are instrumental versions of each song.
1. Thank God I'm a Country Boy (Gallops, Lasso, Stomp)
2. 9 to 5 (Knee Slap, Dip Kick)
3. Cotton Eyed Joe (Two Step, Kick Variations)
4. Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (Single, Double, Triple Swing)
5. The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Texas Two Step, Clog Variations)
6. On the Road Again (Polka, Toe-Heel Slide)
7. Theme from the Dukes of Hazzard (The Good Ol' Boys) (Schottische, Grapevine)
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Archive for August, 2010
Green Bay Packers Family Night Scrimmage: My 10 Thoughts
by Boris on Aug.08, 2010, under Commentary
By Ryan Ellerbusch (Thanks Bleacher Report)
1.) Jermichael Finley is indeed the real deal. I got a little nervous this off-season when I read reports that he skipped team meetings and missed curfews, but if TGIFinley can keep up this kind of production, he will definitely be Rodgers go-to-guy in the clutch this year.
2.) Matt Flynn is still very raw and I don't feel comfortable having him as a backup if Rodgers goes down.
3.) I want Tim Masthay to win the punting battle. He has more hang time and yardage than Chris Bryan and played a big part in holding ball perfectly for Crosby's 51 and 53 yard converted field goal kicks. It was also great to see Mason Crosby regain his confidence again kicking in a big stadium atmosphere.
4.) Props to Sam Shields for his 98-yard interception return. I hope he makes the team in some way either as a cornerback or a key role on special teams.
5.) Quinn Porter should get cut. I remember watching him at mini camp and he either
dropped, bobbled, or muffed every punt during one practice. He also slightly bobbled one kickoff tonight deep in the end zone. He has scared me enough this year already.


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I think there was a thread like this some time ago...or maybe I'm dumb and this is that exact thread.
In any case, I don't have a problem with it, and I don't see any reason for anyone to have a problem with it. People love who they love...
"To live is to suffer. To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
I actually really like short/small guys lolol.
I have never dated one though. I know a lot of girls that think it's important for their man to be taller than them, but for me and in reality it's not a big deal. At the very least, you could probably get someone to think that it's fine through your other wonderful features if they prefer tall guys.
I like taller men, but that doesn't mean I'll pass up somebody I deem to be attractive just because they're shorter then me. I mean, Im pretty short too, also 5'5, so I never really dated many guys who were shorter. But still, if liked him height doesn't bother me- it's only a bonus feature, haha.
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Height is just a number, most of the times people don't care
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My maternal grandparents are like that; grandpa is short, grandma is tall. They're very happy together.
If you're scared about being with a number that's bigger then you, then consider yourself a zero.
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it's fine, as long as you like each other
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As long as you have money and/or a big dick, most girls will date you even if you are 3 feet tall. Although she might cheat with your gardener...
It's not too bad, and I don't think height is everything, but I have to admit there is a certain limit to how short they are. Hey, I want to wear elevated shoes without worrying how much of a difference there would be between me and my partner. But, if I really liked him, I don't think any of this would matter~ Loveeee °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
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Honestly, I don't really go for guys shorter than me. I don't know why, I just don't.
But I don't know, maybe there's girls who would prefer dating shorter guys.
Being a 6'4" guy I really have no place in this discussion because it startles the shit out of me when I run into anyone taller than me by two to three inches (heaven forbid I be forced to have to look around them if need be). I don't know if i could handle having to look up to my girlfriend constantly due to the previously stated issue I have. So when I look at a couple that is taller girl shorter guy I immediately interject myself there and feel a little weird about it. I know that there is nothing wrong with the people for being that way, who can put a size limit on love, I just cant see it. I may be a bit of a narcissist when it comes to my height, but whatever.
My ex's were just a little taller than me. Height don't matter to me. I think I am short. 5'4'' to 5'5''
I think it's kinda weird when short guys date taller girls. I think it's weird when the guy and girl are the same height
Please read my "About me"
Eh, it's kind of cute. Like that one anime where that short boy and that really tall girl fall in love. Man. What was the name of that?
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Wayne Rooney admitted he was delighted after scoring his 200th Manchester United goal as David Moyes' men opened their Champions League campaign with a 4-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen.
The England international opened the scoring at Old Trafford before adding a second after the break, with Robin van Persie and Antonio Valencia also on target for the Red Devils.
"It's something I'm really proud of. Delighted to be playing and scoring and it's a good result - the first game in the Champions League is always important and thankfully we got the victory," he told ITV Sport.
However, the striker reacted angrily when repeatedly questioned as to whether he asked to leave the club during the summer transfer window.
"Listen, I'm concentrating on my football, as I've done all summer," he added.
"I've got my head down, I've worked hard to get myself fit and ready for the season. I'm delighted with the way I've come back, delighted I'm back playing and scoring goals.
"The fans have been brilliant, as I've said all along, the fans here have been fantastic with me and it's great the reception I get here so hopefully I can repay them with performances and goals like tonight."
Rooney could have scored a hat-trick after rounding goalkeeper Bernd Leno but could not find the target from a tight angle and admitted he was undecided as to whether to shoot or pass to team-mate Van Persie.
"I don't know, I was sort of in two minds," he explained. "I didn't know whether to shoot or Robin was there as well, so I was in two minds so maybe I should've gone straight for goal but at the end of the day we got the three points, which is more important."


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Gmail works pretty well with Opera 9.x.
Note that the problem, as usual, is/was on Google's side. There's nary a company out there that's nearly as deadset against web standards and alternate browsers as is Google -- for months they'd purposely block Opera from Gmail, Google Maps, and so forth (identifying as Firefox would allow passage). Even Microsoft wasn't so draconian with Hotmail (they tried to block Opera, but only for a week or two).
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Good to see more useful features in Opera. It is my browser or choice when using Windows, and has been since they fixed the popup-windows-demaximize-all-other-MDI-windows problem (around 5.* IIRC). Of course outright blocking popups was even nicer So additional fraud protection fits nicely into their continuing improvements.
Google -- for months they'd purposely block Opera from Gmail
Yeah I really don't understand it. They do the same to Konqueror, which works fine when identifying as Firefox.
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3D Acoustic Guitar by Vicki Genfan and Truefire.com
Author: Vicki Genfan
Genre: Acoustic / Universal
Style: Acoustic Fingerstyle
Level: Late Intermediate / Advanced
Features: Tabs (.pdf) & GP5 files
Lessons: 35 Videos (incl. introduction & conclusion) | 195 Minutes
1 3D Acoustic Guitar – Introduction
2 Atomic Reshuffle – Performance
3 Tuning – Technique
4 Thumb Slaps – Technique
5 Thumb Slaps with Hammers – Technique
6 Thumb Slap Etude – Practice Etude
7 Harmonics – Technique
8 Thumb Slaps with Harmonics – Etude
9 Left Hand Harmonics – Technique
10 Body Slaps 1 – Technique
11 Body Slaps 2 – Technique
12 Kali Dreams Intro – Demonstration
13 Right Hand Harmonic Tapping – Technique
14 Harmonic Hammer-Ons – Technique
15 Hammering Single Notes – Technique
16 Groove – Maintaining Groove
17 Hammering Chords – Technique
18 Vibrato – Technique
19 Kali's First Steps – Practice Etude
20 Kali's First Steps – Breakdown
21 Creating Tunings – Create Your Own Tunings
22 Exploring Tunings: C2 – Step-by-Step Discovery
23 New Grass – Performance
24 Exploring Tunings: Dsus – Step-by-Step Discovery
25 Kali Dreams – Performance
26 Exploring Tunings: C-9sus4 – Step-by-Step Breakdown
27 C-9 Improv – Performance
28 Exploring Tunings: D2 – Step-by-Step Discovery
29 Let it Rain – Performance
30 Cause of You – Performance
31 Exploring Tunings: C6/9
32 Impossinova – Performance
33 Tunings Chat – Reference
34 My Gear – Guitars, strings and tuners
35 Conclusion – Have fun
I've got something very special for you out there. The course I'm going to review today is 3D Acoustic Guitar by Vicki Genfan, produced by Truefire.com. This review will be divided into four sections:
- Author/Lecturer
- Couse outline (Techniques & Songs)
- Target group
- Conclusion
1 Author/Lecturer
I must admit that I haven't heard about Vicki Genfan before exploring some of Truefire's courses on rhythm guitar. That's something I feel pretty bad about, now that I had the chance to read about and listen to this amazing guitar player! It is difficult to describe Vicki Genfan's playing style or genre. She's certainly a fingerstyle guitarist, however, she draws from various musical genres and combines it in what is difficult to summarize. You certainly hear influences of Jazz, Folk, Funk, to name a few. This cocktail of genres results in an amazing player with an incredible gift for rhythm. I definitely recommend to check her out on YouTube and to visit her website (www.vickigenfan.com). She's particularly active in terms of rhythm courses on Truefire.com.
2 Course Outline
The course consists of two main parts with each being subdivided into several mini chunks. Starting out with a brief introduction in which Vicki explains what to expect from the course you are going to get an impression of her playing skills in a tune called "Atomic Reshuffle". There you can already get a hint on what to expect in the following lessons. The moment you hear the tune you are going to realize that her style is heavily influenced by percussive sounds, as well as harmonics and alternated tunings.
After this performance, she goes on and introduces you to the first main section of the course in which you will learn more about the various techniques that are required to play the upcoming tunes. Some of these techniques may be new to you or you may have used them in a different form but be sure that all these techniques form a must-know arsenal of techniques and tools that a contemporary fingerstyle guitarist, you may also call it 'modern fingerstyle', needs to have.
These aforementioned techniques, i.e. percussion, harmonics, etc., shall also serve you as the very spark that ignites you, puts you on fire and keeps your motivation and inspiration growing. Some of those techniques come with special etudes, i.e. studies that help you grow your technical skills in a musical way. That way you get immediately into practicing the techniques in a way that enhances your technical skills, those you will need to prove yourself when we come to the songs that are within this course.
Moving away from the pure technical part, you come to the second section that spans several important concepts of exploring your instrument: alternate (open) tunings. Following the course, you are going to get inside into the vast possibilities of alternate tunings, the new sounds that you can reach on your guitar and even a new way of economizing your picking. You will be pushed to explore new tunings, tunings that are part of your playing and that define your style.
Once you've finished the course you are going to find a reference chart of the open tunings that you've discussed during the course, giving you visual aid that will help you get started with the tunings in case you have a hard time memorizing them, say, if you are new to alternate tunings in general.
3 Target group
As for the techniques and tunings that form the main body of this course, you can't expect this course to be anywhere within the range and reach of a beginner. The concepts that are introduced here go far beyond basic chords, basic rhythms and basic techniques that are related to the beginner's stage. I would recommend this course to rather advanced players. However, if you are beyond the beginner stage, delving into intermediate material and feel you need to study a particular area, say rhythm, in depth you may lay your hands on this course but be aware that the course will be demanding. As I've mentioned several times by now, the content is incredibly complex, despite Vicki Genfan's easy, accessible and highly didactic method of explaining the content of this course so that everyone can understand it. But understanding things in music and being able or even ready to play it are, in my humble opinion, two different things. So be reminded that you can grow huge with this course but may need strong willpower if you are not yet familiar with the basics of playing. On the other hand, if you are a seasoned player, you may very well draw a lot out of this course, further expand your style and learn new voicings that give you a whole new world to explore.
4 Conclusion
If you are on the lookout for a course that helps you get beyond the beginner stage, developing basics on the guitar, this course may not be for you. On the other hand, however, if you are someone who wants to practice his rhythmic play, by adding percussive elements to your playing, emulating a bass player, or if you are someone who is just on the search for a whole new open world to explore, given the alternate tunings you will find in this course or the various techniques that will make your playing more interesting, then this is what you've been looking for.
Personally, now that I've finished the course, I think differently about the title of this course. In the beginning, I was wondering what "3D guitar" may be. Now, having learnt so much from Vicki, I know that the beautiful instrument I dedicate so much time to, has many different aspects to it that were always there, I simply had to alter my perspective in order to find new, unexplored blank spots on the map. I wish you all the best in exploring your instrument and creating new sounds; sounds that fit your style and that are yours to use.
Lukas Wedrychowski
MeridirhProductions – 'cause music matters
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In the Cockpit with Barron Hilton is now available in print and as an ebook. The book is the fourth volume in Passion for Flight, a series of short biographies regarding notable pilots who inspire young and old alike to take to the skies.
Barron Hilton is the retired chairman, president, and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation. He became fascinated by aviation when he was a child and learned to fly when he was 17. Regarded by many as the "patron saint" of sport aviation, his involvement includes founding the Hilton Cup, an international soaring competition, and sponsoring Earthwinds Hilton and Global Hilton, both efforts to circumnavigate the earth in a manned balloon.
He received the Gold Air Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 2009 and was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in 2012 for his lifetime support of aviation. He owns a Cessna Citation V Ultra, a restored Beech Staggerwing, a vintage Bull Stearman, a Bellanca Super Decathlon, five gliders, two tow planes, three hot air balloons — and until recently — an Extra 300 and an MD 500-E helicopter. Before he retired from the cockpit in 2012, he flew them all.
A special Amazon edition of In the Cockpit with Barron Hilton is available in full color on white paper, 6.69" x 9.61," 160 pages, with 50 pictures. Most interior pictures are in color; however, some vintage photographs are in black and white. In the Cockpit with Barron Hilton will soon be available in an economical black and white version.
Electronic versions are available through Gumroad, Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble and the iBookstore.
Visit Di Freeze's Amazon page to see other books in this series, including Passion for Flight with Chuck Yeager, Passion for Flight with Bob Hoover and Passion for Flight with Cliff Robertson.


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|Boxee Has Plans for the iPhone, iPad and Android
|Home Theater News Home Theater/Media Center PCs News
|Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Take today's Boxee Blog as an example. Andrew Kippen revealed some very interesting information in his latest post. Apparently, Boxee has moved closer to getting a payment system set up so users can buy apps or pay for subscriptions to services. You'll even be able to pay with your iPhone or Android device.
But where it gets really interesting is the last sentence of the post. "Boxee's eventual expansion to these platforms will pave the way for universally accessible content no matter where a user is," writes Kippen. The payment platform will be released at the end of this summer. There's no word on when we'll start seeing mobile content.


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This periodical is part of the collection entitled: Southwestern Historical Quarterly and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Texas State Historical Association.
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these parts has four chapters which deal, respectively, "with the
physical aspects, economic development, urban problems, and social
life in the five towns." In a summary which he calls "One Hundred
Years of Urban Growth" the author puts a finishing touch upon
his scholarly production. Quite unexpectedly the bibliography does
not list the many sources from which the author drew, a fact
which he explains by saying that his footnotes showed what those
sources were and that he did not "propose to indulge in . . . a
paroxysm of citation." Instead, the bibliography lists guides to
the manuscript and printed materials, prints, maps, and finding
lists of manuscripts. The book is undoubtedly a very valuable
reference work in colonial history and will stimulate further study.
The University of Texas.
McGillivray of the Creeks. By John Walton Caughey. (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press. 1938. Volume XVIII,
Civilization of the American Indian Series. Pp. x and 363.
Map, illustrations, and bibliography. $3.00.)
With this book a significant volume has been added to the
Civilization of the American Indian Series, sponsored by the
University of Oklahoma. Professor Caughey of the University
of California at Los Angeles has made available his interesting
find in the Archives of the Indies at Seville. While working there
some years ago he discovered a packet of letters written by Alexan-
der McGillivray, that most gifted and highly educated of Indian
leaders. Inspired by his discovery, Dr. Caughey has extended his
study, combining with those letters other documents and related
papers from various sources. Thus is fulfilled the primary purpose
of his book "to assemble and place into conveniently available
form the essential documents descriptive of the man and his work."
As an introduction, the author sketches in ten short chapters,
and within the limits of less than sixty pages, the career of Mc-
Gillivray; in this interesting and compact summary he brings into
focus McGillivray's importance to Creek adamantine diplomacy
in safeguarding for a decade their lands against the incursions of
Georgians, Tennesseeans, Spaniards, and Englishmen. The result,
in the opinion of this reviewer, is that this volume affords the
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Joe's of Westlake: The End of a Bay Area Era
2013 was a rough year for some San Franciscans, and by "some San Franciscans," I mean me.
Tosca, North Beach's iconic bar, was closed and remodeled (it's nice, but it'll never be the same), the first unionized strip club The Lusty Lady was shut down (to reopen under Tosca's new owners in late 2014 as a stripper-themed bar that will probably be nice, but never the same), Schroeder's ancient German restaurant in the FiDi is soon to be under new management, The Gold Dust relocated and the only Thai restaurant I enjoyed that delivered to my house closed up like a clam shell after 20+ years. Like a stereotypical cranky native, I mourn and moan over these losses and write them off as "locals losing the culture wars, one shuttered establishment at a time."
2014 isn't starting any better from this standpoint. In November, it was announced that Joe's of Westlake, the practically San Francisco adjacent Daly City restaurant, had been sold due to the owner's health and would be closing on January 26th for a year-long renovation that will likely destroy everything I love about the unchanged monument to Mad Men era cuisine and service.
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Change is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we have to like it.
I said a tearful goodbye to the original Tosca decor a year ago (including the Marilyn Monroe portraits above the urinals), and drank at the Gold Dust one final time, but the Lusty and my Thai restaurant were snatched from under me so fast I could only wave in sorrow after they departed. Not wanting to live forever in regret over missing one last serving of steak fries as big as your head or a final nod of respect to the white jacket clad busboys, my best friend and I got on 280 for half a minute and got off on Glenwood Drive for a tearful journey into the heart of wood-paneled memories.
If you've never been to Joe's of Westlake, there's still time, and you'll need plenty of it because the wait is huge these days as locals crowd in for a final round. In the future, San Francisco will be divided into two camps: those who remember Joe's and those who don't.
I'm not suggesting Joe's is a realistic candidate for historic preservation, but I am asking that Daly City's planning board at least consider it. The mid-century sweep of the arched windows, the wrap around vinyl booths that make the rudest sounds if you sit too quickly and the old fashioned coffee shop style counter all are reminders of a certain kind of "pre" era that once existed in the Bay Area. Joe's is decidedly pre-health food (meat is not one but nearly two food groups if you order a steak), pre-foodie and pre-scene. The best part is that it's also pre-irony. Probably because of its proximity just outside the city limits, it was never really discovered by the new urban diners looking to glance at the menu through a retro-hip filter. The clientele at my last meal was classic Joe's, and by classic Joe's I mean predominantly senior citizens. As long as I remember going to Joe's, these same retirees have held court in booths and counter chairs so used to their weight that imprints remain upon their departure. No matter the time of day, it was the same; we long suspected that these customers had been there since the place opened in 1956.
On our final visit, my friend and I settled into a booth and took in the special smell of cholesterol and decaf coffee that always permeated the place. It would be a hard goodbye.
"This is the second great suck we've witnessed in our lives here," my friend pointed out as we sank into our Shirley Temples (although we were sad to note they were no longer served in bar glasses like when we were kids and that the once plentiful maraschino cherries were greatly reduced). "First there was the original boom in the '90s," she said, reminding me of the pioneering dot commies we started to encounter in high school, "and that took out a bunch of old favorites." We sighed remembering family owned restaurants that were once plentiful in North Beach (many slowly replaced in the '90s with the kind of "scene cuisine" that is the root of present day foodie-ism) and started naming a dozen hair dressers, thrift shops, Asian markets, dive bars and old movie theaters that bit the dust back in the day.
"It's like San Francisco's wave of Giulianization," I said, remembering New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's campaign in the '90s to sanitize Time Square of everything from XXX movie theaters to overly aggressive hot dog venders. "I don't feel like anything interesting is allowed to stick around here any more, and if it does get to stay, it's scrubbed and air brushed beyond recognition like models in foundation ads." The Kentucky Derby and sad clown paintings on the walls looked down at us in understanding.
The more we reminisced about a certain kind of unselfconscious strain of San Francisco's cultural life (the kind remembered and still experienced fondly by those retirees stationed at the counter), the more I began to feel like Fran Lebowitz talking about New York. In the documentary Public Speaking, Lebowitz points out one of the great over-looked points of nostalgia: no matter when in our history it happens, nostalgia is a form of insisting things were in some way preferable when you were younger. Nostalgia isn't just for past times, it's for past selves. The memories that I have from places like Joe's, Tosca, and the Lusty Lady are all memories of my younger self. Were we just holding onto the past to keep in touch with those even just slightly more youthful incarnations of yore? As I polished off the last of my mushroom omelet (and felt my hands and feet swelling after more than my usual month's intake of sodium), I got up and took a final look at the old Joe's of Westlake.
The lounge still smelled of spilled Chivas and second hand smoke (although they had finally removed the ancient cigarette machine more than a decade after the indoor smoking ban), but the glass grapes above the bar were still back-lit like I remembered. Maybe the plant fronds were a little dusty, but there was something just so...intact about the place that made me wonder what a mid-century modern antique dealer would be able to get for the atomic age fixtures that would probably be gone come closing.
We ate the cherries from our drinks and walked out slowly, savoring our last breaths of the familiar greasy air. Just where would the long situated retirees go once the doors to Joe's of Westlake closed? For that matter, what about the busboys in the white cutaway jackets, the cooks, barmaids and waitresses I remembered from childhood wearing double sets of false eyelashes? Where could a couple locals like my friend and I go the next time we needed a familiar taste to bring forth our memories like a 21st century madeleine?
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"I think Cesar's on Powell is still there," my friend suggested the old Italian eatery right by the usually off-limits Fisherman's Wharf.
"Closed!" I reminded her. "I think it's been over a year."


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EU formally extends sanctions against Russia
(BRUSSELS) - The European Union prolonged economic sanctions targeting specific sectors of the Russian economy by a further six months on Monday, continuing its response to the crisis in Ukraine.
These measures were originally introduced on 31 July 2014, initially for one year as a response to Russia's actions aimed at destabilising the situation in Ukraine.
The sanctions, which were reinforced in September 2014, target the financial, energy and defence sectors, and the area of dual-use goods.
On 19 March 2015, the European Council agreed to link the duration of the sanctions to the complete implementation of the Minsk agreements, which was foreseen to take place by 31 December 2015.
Since the Minsk agreements were not fully implemented by 31 December 2015, the Council extended the sanctions until 31 July 2016, and on 1 July 2016, until 31 January 2017. Having assessed the implementation of the Minsk agreements at the European Council meeting of 15 December, the EU heads of state and government paved the way to renew the sanctions for a further six months, until 31 July 2017. The Council formalised this decision on 19 December 2016 by written procedure and as it is the rule for all decisions on prolongation of restrictive measures, unanimously.
The economic sanctions prolonged by this decision notably:
- limit access to EU primary and secondary capital markets for 5 major Russian majority state-owned financial institutions and their majority-owned subsidiaries established outside of the EU, as well as three major Russian energy and three defence companies
- impose an export and import ban on trade in arms
- establish an export ban for dual-use goods for military use or military end users in Russia
- curtail Russian access to certain sensitive technologies and services that can be used for oil production and exploration
In addition to these economic sanctions, several EU measures are also in place in response to the crisis in Ukraine including:
- targeted individual restrictive measures, namely a visa ban and an asset freeze, currently against 152 people and 37 entities until 15 March 2017;
- restrictive measures in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, limited to the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, currently in place until 23 June 2017.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Reading group: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Trevor suggested this book in which widowed and middle-aged Japanese narrator Etsuko, now living in England, is visited by her younger daughter Niki after the suicide of her elder daughter Keiko, and is prompted to remember a short friendship she had in Nagasaki just after the war as a young married woman pregnant for the first time, with another young woman, Sachiko, whom the war had left single with a disturbed and sometimes sinister-seeming child, Mariko.
This was a very interesting discussion which became focused in part on the issue of whether, in reading a novel, one should ever take into account known authorial intention.
Firstly, Trevor introduced the book appreciatively by saying that he liked its portrayal of the two different women, Etsuko and Sachiko, and their radically different reactions to the aftermath of the war, Etsuko still accepting the subservient role of the traditional Japanese wife, and Sachiko rebelling against it all, leaving her uncle's traditional house to live alone with her child, and hoping to depart for America with a lover Frank. Trevor commented that the book was very oblique in its treatment of the atomic bomb: the characters never refer to it directly. The book, he said, seemed a conscious portrayal of Japanese reticence and formality - the characters constantly bow to one another and their conversation is characterised by formal repetition - but he was troubled by a sense of being unable to judge how authentic that was. He didn't know if this was just because he knew that the author, though born in Japan, was brought up in England, but he felt that there was also something very English about the book. One or two people in the group murmured that they too had felt that the tone of the book was somehow hybrid.
Jenny now said that she agreed about the characters, and that what she really liked about this book and Ishiguro's work in general is the way that he never tells you what characters are feeling but you always know exactly what they're feeling.
I said, But what did people think of the idea that Etsuko and Sachiko are in fact the same person (which rather puts paid to the notion that their, or rather her, motives and feelings at any one time are clear)? There is a passage towards the end where Etsuko, talking to the child Mariko about Mariko's imminent departure for America with Sachiko, switches from second person plural to first person plural, from 'you' to 'we', which gave me this distinct impression - and, it turned out, others in the group too. This had sent me off on the internet to the Paris Review interview with Ishiguro (Trevor made his usual cynical comment about appeals to the internet), and here Ishiguro explains that through working with homeless people he had come to realize that people often tell their own painful stories via another character. He says he had expected readers to be caught up short by the fact that Etsuko almost immediately starts talking about her involvement with someone else in the past (rather than her daughter Keiko's recent suicide, which is shrouded for the reader in mystery, or her own story that led up to it), and the implication seems to be that he expected readers to be jolted into guessing fairly soon that Etsuko is making Sachiko stand in for herself (in which case, to reveal it here is not, after all, to plot-spoil). I said that I didn't feel it worked, and others, in particular Ann, agreed. Pretending to talk about someone else, usually an invented character, when really talking about oneself, is a technique employed specifically to avoid referring to oneself, but here Etsuko inserts herself into the story as a large-as-life character minutely involved (for the short period they know each other) with Sachiko and her daughter Mariko, and very different from the more mysterious Sachiko not only in character but in concrete circumstance. There are too many internal inconsistencies to fulfil the notion that they are the same person. On the more trivial level, but nevertheless sending a strong diversionary signal, Sachiko runs off with an American to America while Etsuko has clearly come to England with an English serviceman. More problematically, it's difficult to see the parallels between Etsuko's meticulously-portrayed home situation, living with her husband and father-in-law, and the rather mysterious yet significant-seeming setup with an uncle and ancient female cousin that Sachiko has left behind; more glaringly, if Sachiko is really Etsuko, then Sachiko's daughter Mariko must be Etsuko's elder daughter Keiko (and indeed if Keiko is this disturbed child, then her suicide is explained) but at the time when the two women are friends, Etsuko, significantly for her emotional state at the time, is pregnant with her first child. These things are, clearly, enough to put many readers right off the scent. Although Ann and I had wondered at times as we read if Sachiko and Etsuko were one, the inconsistencies had made us discount the notion until we reached that final pronoun shift. Then, instead of having the desired Of course! reaction, we racked our brains to try and see how it had all fitted, and couldn't. I told the group that in the Paris Review interview Ishiguro acknowledges that the book is baffling, that he failed to handle 'the texture of memory' and resorted to 'gimmickry' at the end, leaving the ending 'like a puzzle.'
Like many readers of this book, Jenny and Trevor hadn't picked up on the intended conflation of the two characters, and Jenny now said that this proved the mistake of reading about authors' intentions, as it was a better book if you saw the two characters more simply as separate. John endorsed this by putting in that some writers, such as Beckett, famously refused to explain their work. I said that I agreed absolutely that an author's intentions are irrelevant in any critical appreciation of a book: authors can fail to achieve what they intend, and they can also achieve things they didn't intend or envisage, and what matters is the words on the page, and everyone in the group strongly agreed.
However, we were somewhat at odds about the effect of the words on the page. Clare now said that she didn't read things as pinned down in such a concrete way, ie that Etsuko and Sachiko were actually the same person: she saw the parallel as looser, Sachiko and Mariko being characters in their own right but their experiences and desires and fears echoing those of Etsuko and Keiko at another time in their lives. Disregarding Jenny's injunction and looking now more closely at Ishiguro's remarks about this book in The Paris Review, I see that this is closer to his aims: he says, (erroneously, I think) that people often use the experience of a friend (rather than an invented character) to talk about about their own. Nevertheless, Clare's was a seductive argument, which seemed to make sense of the book and its inconsistencies. Its inconsistencies and conflations, she suggested, echoed the fragmentation and fusions of the bomb and its aftermath in Nagasaki society and the psychology of its citizens. What, someone had asked earlier, was the puzzling business about the mysterious (possibly threatening) woman that Mariko kept seeing, and her connection with the woman Mariko had seen drowning her baby? And Sachiko drowning Mariko's kittens, and Etsuko keeping dragging a rope on her foot when she looks for Mariko in the dark by the river? Seen in the light of Clare's interpretation, these are dreamlike connections rooted in Etsuko's concerns during her first pregnancy for her competence as a mother, and illuminating the hints at the start of the novel that she might blame herself for Keiko's death. In addition, this reading accommodates the differences in the attitudes and psychology of the two women as the opposing aspects of one woman's psychology, suppressed or released by circumstances.
Jenny said that she felt that that was the clever interpretation of the novel, but it didn't satisfy her, it left her with too many things unresolved, and she likes to have things resolved in novels and ultimately to know what really happened when. I felt (though didn't say) that, attractive as Clare's take was, it didn't play out on the page: there simply weren't enough pointers while reading to make me read in this highly non-naturalistic way. Trevor said that he still preferred to read the book on the more simplistic, realistic level, ie that Etsuko and Sachiko were simply two contrasted characters. Clare's interpretation, and Ishiguro's stated intention, however still posit separate identities for Etsuko and Sachiko, and this poses a problem that Doug now homed in on, and which creates, in both Clare's and Trevor's interpretations, a huge gap in the novel: mysterious as Sachiko is, we know much about how she came to leave Japan, especially the flavour of her leaving, yet we know nothing about how Etsuko, our very different narrator whom we feel we know much better, negotiated her similar situation. I said, Yes, it is only if we take Etsuko as Sachiko that we can know this about Etsuko (and then of course we come up against the inconsistencies). Then Mark, focusing on the words on the page in the way that we had agreed was the only useful way to approach a novel, drew our attention to another passage near the end. A key section in the novel is the outing taken by Sachiko, Etsuko and Mariko to the hills outside Nagasaki that Etsuko can see from her window, the pale hills referred to (and thus made significant) in the title. (It's also interesting that the title is A Pale View of Hills, rather than A View of Pale Hills, implying distortion in perception.) In the passage pinpointed by Mark, Etsuko, talking in the present time to her second adult daughter Niki, seems to refer to that outing and says, 'Keiko was happy that day.' This may be, in Ishiguro's view, a mere 'gimmick', cutting across his subtler intentions, but the fact remains that the words are there on the page, and it's very hard not to interpret them as meaning that Keiko and Mariko, Sachiko's daughter, are the same, and that therefore Etsuko and Sachiko too are one and the same.
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- anais-bayrakdar said...
I just finished reading A Pale View of Hills and i'd like to add something to the discussion if you don't mind.
I agree on the interpretation that Etsuko and Sachiko were the same person, mainly because it's clearer that Mariko and Keiko are the same. And on that account one thing that really makes sense to me is what you mentioned about the title, how the way it's phrased gives you the impression that what you are reading is a very clouded recollection of events, as if faded by time. So it's almost natural that these memories are not only unaccurate (i think Etsuko herself mentions it somewhere) but also out of order in time.
I thought about this while reading the last part when Mariko asks Etsuko why she is carrying something and she says it was caught in her sandal. I thought "hey, didn't I read this before?" and it's very simmilar to other part earlier in the story. So, could it be that the memories are also disorganised? (like what Julio Cortázar does in "Hopscotch", where one story, when re-arranged makes two different readings).
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Thanks for your comment, Anais. Yes, the business of the rope caught in the sandal is important, I think. It also has a hint of threat about it (as if she is contemplating murdering the child with it, or in danger of doing so) and this links with the earlier reported incident when Mariko sees a woman drowning her baby. This also links of course with the drowning of the kittens, so you could see the whole book as an illustration in displacement (ie Etsuko attributing to Sachiko her own destructive feelings towards her own daughter.)
- wendi719 said...
I am so glad other people felt the same way about Sachiko and Etsuko. I thought this book was much more complex and subtle than Ishiguro's other books. I couldn't explain why but this post has given me such an in-depth and interesting discussion of Sachiko, Etsuko and my favourite character, Mariko. Yes, the scenes where the rope is stuck to Etsuko's foot are very eery. Thank you for this review/post of such an amazing book.
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Thank you for that Wendi.
- View this site for Land For Sale in Alaska information said...
I recommend A Pale View of Hills, and I will be tracking down more of Ishiguro's works, probably The Remains of the Day next, as that would appear to be his most famous.
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- Sofia said...
I know you wrote about this book a very long time ago, but I couldn't help but pitch in even five years later. I just finished the book myself a few hours ago, and was equally quite confused about the ending. Reading the opinions of your book club made things a lot clearer for me, but not in an expected way.
I just realized that what we don't know about Etsuko is what we know about Sachiko, and that what we don't know about Sachiko is what we know about Etsuko.
For instance: we don't know anything about Sachiko's pregnancy with Mariko, nor do we know anything about the man she married other than that he was from a prominent family, and that he forbade her to study English. However, we have a very detailed account of Etsuko's home life at the time of her pregnancy. Wouldn't Jiro be the type of man who would certainly forbid his wife to partake in such an activity?
Another example: we know a little bit about Sachiko's family, that her father was an important business man with international connections, for instance... but we don't know anything about Etsuko's real family, which all died during the war. We only know that Etsuko was taken in by a man that later became her father-in-law. We also know that Sachiko has an uncle living in Nagasaki, someone not related to her by blood, someone who belonged to her husband's family. Couldn't this uncle, perhaps, be Ogata-san? Etsuko describes him as a very healthy man, but makes an allusion to a time when he grew old and sickly, just like Sachiko's uncle.
What I mean to say is that Etsuko and Sachiko can be the same person, just in very different moments of their life. Etsuko while pregnant, with all her hopes and expectations about motherhood. Sachiko after the child is born, and after the war. (We don't know what has happened that has turned Etsuko from such a subservient wife into a rebelled Sachiko. In my opinion, that was the result of the war.) The description of the scenes where Etsuko and Satchiko talk to one another can additionally be perceived as Satchiko's memories of how she had been in the past, when she was younger and more hopeful about the future.
This interpretation seems to work with every single character. Look at Mrs. Fujiwara, for example. She was close to Etsuko while she was pregnant, and later helped her out by hiring her as an assistant when she had already "become" Satchiko.
Of course there are still mysteries, questions that have not been clearly answered. Why is Etsuko in England instead of America, for example? I find it possible that Frank never came through and just abandoned her after he made it home. However, as desperate as Sachiko was to leave Japan, it wouldn't be unthinkable for her to have found another foreigner. Etsuko, in the present, described her late husband as someone idealistic, who believed that Keiko would be happy in England. That definitely does not sound like Frank, who Satchiko described as being afraid of the responsibility her daughter represented. So it's definitely possible that Frank deserted her, and that she simply was able to find another man, who later married her and became Niki's father.
This is simply my interpretation of the story. I'm sure there are gaps in it as well, but it works for me and leaves me more satisfied than anything else I was able to come up with. Sachiko represents Etsuko during the darkest period of her life. I believe this is what the author had in mind when he said "people often tell their own painful stories via another character".
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Sofia, thank you so much for adding so much to our discussion, with such an in- depth analysis!
- Susan Serafin said...
Sofia's analysis makes sense to me,and allows me settle the question of identity. With five pages left in the novel, Etsuko gives a calendar to Niki, whose friend has requested an image of Nagasaki to illustrate the poem she is writing about Etsuko/Sachiko. "The calendar I was holding had originally offered a photograph for each month, but all but the last had been torn away." The one remaining image is of the harbor, and she remembers how happy Keiko, not Mariko, was riding in the cable cars that day. This is the image the author leaves us with as the lasting memory.
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Good point.


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NOW Peter Mink had never learned to read. In the first place, he had never had a chance to learn. And in the second, he was such a good-for-nothing rascal that he wouldn't have gone to school anyhow.
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Being all confident with ordering items from over the big giant blue pool by now (I've had some troubles with that in the past), I couldn't resist the urge of ordering a few Jenna Rose bags (ahem, four in total, oops... I couldn't choose and some were on sale). This bag is the Small Bucket with ships. It's so convenient for yarn stashing, or directly knitting from it.
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A Texas judge last week lifted a restraining order for construction of the Gulf Coast project, the U.S. leg of the planned Keystone XL pipeline. A landowner accused TransCanada, the company planning the pipeline, of offering misleading information about the type of crude oil designated for the project.
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