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Life is so precious. So short. So full of happiness, sadness, bliss, love, and so much more. And when someone special touches your life, and that of your child is suddenly gone....what do you do?
Mrs. Guirguis was Science boys third grade teacher. School just ended last Thursday. I saw her, gave her gifts - some of which I made because she loved everything I made and science boy insisted - gave her a hug and said we would see her at the pool this summer. And now she's gone. Just one day after school was over she died in a car accident. She had 2 children and was to be married again this summer. She was in a good place in her life. She was always so joyful, so full of life. She really cared about her students, you could tell that teaching was more than a job to her, it was her mission. And sadly, this last school year was her last mission. God needed her home............I know that. But when someone so young is taken in such a split second it's almost - no not almost - it is surreal.
How do you tell your 9 year old that one of the most important people in his life is gone. She did so much for him, and believed in him so much - just like she believed in each and everyone of her students. She is one of a handful of teachers that I've come across that sees the child for the child...sees past what society may have done to the child...sees the core of the child...and brings that to the surface. Each child was an individual to her, and learned differently. She found out the best way to reach the child and they soared because of it. Don't we all just need someone to love us no matter what, push us and be there to watch us fly? Ms. Guirguis was one of the best.
As is probably the case for most of her students - I, the parent, am having a more difficult time with this. I'm the one breaking down in tears when I think about it or read the newspaper article. I think it's because there are so many unanswered questions. An investigation is still going on, so not much has been released. Science boy is sad, talks a bit about her, and goes on. We've talked about how God has a plan for us all, how he was so blessed to have been in her class...out of all the third graders he and his friends were chosen to be part of her last mission here on earth. And that satisfies him, he doesn't need the answers that we adults need. His heart accepts that as much as he will miss her, her work here is done. The only unanswered questions to him are what is going to happen to her children (he knows one of them), and why she was the only one killed...why not someone else in the car....why her. And after talking about that, he's satisfied.
All that knew her still have a lot of healing to do. If you believe in the power of prayer - please pray for her children, her family, friends, co-workers and students.
Ms. Guirguis you will be missed and I will think of you often. But now you have the best seat to watch your students soar.
With love and a heavy heart....
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Life can be so short
Life is so precious. So short. So full of happiness, sadness, bliss, love, and so much more. And when someone special touches your life, and that of your child is suddenly gone....what do you do?
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Say it ain't so........
Ok, it can not be. Please someone till me that I have blogged some since March. How and where did the time go so fast?????
I know a ton or so have happened since then, and I've been crazy busy. But I didn't think it was any busier than normal. But here we are, school is out...summer is around the corner.
May was an extremely busy month for us. And even held a few surprises. May 5th science boy turned 9 (I cried....I mean think about it in 9 years he'll be going off to college....The same amount of time that he's been here with us (I swear it was just a few days ago I was holding a smallish bundle of baby in my arms)he'll be leaving us to go to college. Wow!). On May 10th lego boy turned 7. It just boggles my mind how much he has accomplished this year. Plus he got his BAHA in April, what a difference!. My husband got laid off around this time...after 22 years with the same company.....don't get me started. But faith in God is an amazing thing, and we know that the right job is waiting.
Little Princess and mine last day of school was May 21st. My husband's b-day was May 22nd. The boy's school carnival was the last weekend in May...in which somehow I was in charge of all the crafts - this was being planned for months, as I was also planning 2 b-day parities, my class' end-of-school party, and lego boys last day of school party (I'm the room mom). Then I was offered a job at the other MDO our church does...so next fall I'll be working 4 days. And to top it all off, it was the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday on June 2nd. Phew!
The boys' school ended last Thursday....and with a bang. Little Princess got a fever Wed. night. Then Science boy got it about 1 hour after school on Thursday. So we went off to one of those after hour pediatric urgent care places. Little Princess had a fever of 104.9!!! So far it looks like it's just a virus...and they still have fever. So far just Little Princess and Science Boy have them. But I was told that they could have the fever for up to a week. Oh what fun!
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Spring Break
Growing up I always loved Spring Break. A whole week off school. It didn't matter if we were going anywhere or staying home. I never did like school, so any excuse to be away from it was wonderful! Playing for hours with my friends, torturing...I mean playing...with my younger brothers - doing anything was a welcome escape.
Then as a mom of one it wasn't too bad. I was very pregnant with my second child when my oldest started Mother's Day Out. So it was a great time to spend some quality time with him before both of our worlds were completely changed forever.
When my second child started preschool, it was crazy. He was in a different school district (due to going to a regional day school for the deaf) - so the boys Spring Breaks were different. One the week before the other. Plus I had had little princess by then...so life didn't change to much. I just had an extra child to take on errands, and dropping off/picking up one of the boys.
Now that I'm a teacher at my daughter's MDO, and a mom...Spring Break brings mixed emotions. I get a week off (no pay though), and my kids will be home. Wonderful and at the same time I know it's going to be hectic.
Now don't get me wrong. I love my kids, but it's been a long week so far (and it's only Wednesday). Monday I discovered...wait for it....lice! Ugh!!! now you'll be scratching your head all day...sorry. So I've been combing hair, shampooing, spraying and doing loads and loads and loads of laundry. And today I still found one in little princess' hair and one in mine. Help!!!! Plus yesterday it rained all day...so we couldn't even go outside to play. Ok, I'm sounding panicky now. I just hate lice! And I have long hair! The kids are getting cabin fever and doing everything they can to push each other's (and mine) buttons, we've had to cancel playdates, and my husband has been working very late.
I hope everyone else is having a much better spring break then we are! And if you have any suggestions for a lice infestation....please feel free to let me know. Gotta go and do more laundry!
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Well, I think the kids are finally all feeling better. Last week little princess was "flu like" (the flu test was negative), Lego Boy had a sinus infection, Science boy wasn't feeling well, and I had had about enough of it all. The house is a complete mess, I'm exhausted, and the more I look around the house, the more exhausted I get. Does it ever get better?
I used to be very organized, everything in it's place, etc. Ok, OCD is more like it. Cans all lined up, alphabetically in my pantry. Music and movies all alphabetical, music alphabetical and arranged by different types, etc, etc. I obsessed at work if I forgot to put a pair of shoes away, it bugged me all day. Then I got married, I still kept up with my OCD habits, I mopped my floor 2 - 3 times a week, vacuumed all the time, you get the picture. Then I had one child....I still look at the pictures I have and say "oh look, a clean house". Things weren't totally put away. The kitchen counters had stuff on them, but still relativity clean and put away. Then I had another baby, and got very, very sick. Got diagnosed, felt better, got pregnant again. So I had a 4 1/2, 2 1/2, and a newborn. What was I thinking??????(but that's another story) Now the house should be condemned...ok not that bad all the time. But it's still got stuff (toys, papers, craft stuff, etc) everywhere. It's madness I tell you. Just when I think I've got part of the house together, and go work on another part either one of the little people living here, or the other big person, messes it up somehow. It's a never ending process. One day I will toss everything out. Including clothes. I swear I want to have nude days here, I'm becoming anti-clothes just because I'm tired of picking them up off the floor, washing them, sorting them on my bed, then having my husband move them from the bed to another piece of furniture in our room, re-sorting them on our bed, putting them away, picking them (and more)clothes off the floor. I told my husband I need a wife, not for him, for me. He would get nothing out of it...well maybe I could be a better wife to him if I wasn't frustrated(?) But me, I could have a clean house (for about 5 minutes), and somehow it doesn't upset me when the kids mess up the house after someone else cleaned it, just when I do.
I used to have a cleaning lady, how I loved her and miss her dearly. But expensive. I've actually said that if I got paid what she did, it might make a wee bit of difference, I might actually think about it a little more often. Right now I work two days a week teaching at my daughter's Mother's Day Out Program. It's great because she goes free, and I get paid a little. In the fall she'll be going 4 times a week, and I'm thinking of working all four days, just so the extra money can go to a cleaning lady.
I'm hoping that soon, real soon I can get into some sort of routine and do all I need to do. Of course, now it will be even harder since I don't have any free time of my own. Oh, wow, now I sound like I'm whining. It's late and I'm tired, and I guess I've lost my train of thought. Go figure.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Menu Plan Monday
After a long time of not posting I'm back. Until a few weeks ago I was still planning my menus but things have gotten crazy around here. So I've decided to start blogging again, and posting my menus. Thanks to Laura for hosting Menu Plan Monday.
Oh, and for some reason my spell checker is not working, so please ignore any misspellings.
Monday - Roasted chicken legs, rice, brocolli
Tuesday - Cranberry balsamic pork tenderloin, roasted potatoes, corn
Wednesday- Chicken fajitas, mexican rice, refried bean, queso
Thursday - Easy Baked Parmesan Meatballs, Spaghettti & sauce (either GF spaghetti for me, for spaghetti squash), salad
Friday - Family pizza and movie night
Saturday - Husband and kids to his parents for dinner, I'm planning on having friends over for dinner and scrapbooking and serving them Maple Chicken'n'ribs, and Ice Cream Cake with Butterscotch Sauce
Have a wonderful week.
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When we think of heroes, many different images may pop into our head. Superheros are probably the first thing. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonderwoman (oh, how I loved that show!), etc. Using their super powers to win against the bad guys. (In fact as I'm writing this, my kids are playing Star Wars. I'm not sure who the boys are, but Little Princess is shouting "Let me in guys, this is Princess Leia" As the sound of lightsabers are heard through the closed door).
Or perhaps a historic person comes to mind. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Thersea, to name two.
But my hero. My hero is Lego Boy, my 6 1/2 year old son. I've been thinking of this for a while, and on January 10th, 2008 he earned his place as my top hero. Lego Boy was born with profound hearing loss in one ear, he has speech apraxia, and also has autism. On January 10th, he had a Baha hearing aide implant. This was probably most troublesome to me. To see him laying in a hospital bed, his ear bleeding (he also had a hole in his eardrum fixed), a 3X2 inch bald spot behind his ear with a bloody gauze, a metal "snap" with a plastic cap on, plus a "c" shaped incision....what kind of mother was I to elect to have this done to my child! To see him fight against us giving him pain meds..right after surgery. It took 4 of us, 2 nurses, my husband and myself to hold him down and get the medicine down his throat. While he was thrashing about, his IV came out, more blood gushed from his ear...what a sight.
Later I told him he was my hero. "No, I'm not a hero..just a kid" he replied.
A hero is someone who lives their life how it should be lived. Who does not think about how others view them. They are not embarrassed when they are under a table in a restaurant screaming and crying. While their older brother is so embarrassed, their mother thinks "not again, ", the family they are sitting with does not know what to say or do, and their younger sister and father ignore it all. I've learned just to say "Oh, I'm sorry he has autism". The smiles and the talk then start. Questions asked. All is well. Then the hero gets up, sits on his mama's lap and proceeds to eat her food, not caring or acknowledging what has happened.
A hero is someone who goes to school, plays with friends even though he is hard to be understood, does not have acceptable social graces...and yet his friends accept him as he is..and he accepts himself.
Isn't that what it comes down to...accepting oneself flaws and all? And what kind of mother puts her child through that kind of surgery...a good one..one that sees the big picture how his quality of life will improve. And no matter what he says that 6 1/2 year old is and always will be my hero.
Friday, February 1, 2008
I'm back
Wow, it's been a long time since I've blogged. So much has happened, and yet everything is the same. How can that be? Time has gone by, the kids have grown in so many ways, Little Princess is now 4, lego boy has had a hearing implant surgery (more on that later), science boy has matured in so many ways, and I've started working part-time. And still, the house is in major disorder, my husband can't seem to pick things up...just steps over them, I'm feeling overwhelmed (ok, I also have had 3 sick kids this week, and I'm not feeling well). So a lot has changed, but not much. I still don't understand how that happens. What a mystery. But I'm hopping to start blogging again, and to somehow make it more interesting. I've been trying to get a little more creative lately, so hopefully that will also transfer into my writing.
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Lackland sergeant pleads guilty to less serious charges
An Air Force basic training instructor pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he was involved in a tryst that two women said occurred in a base supply room.
But Staff Sgt. Kwinton Estacio pleaded not guilty to the most serious charge, sexually assaulting one of the women, which carries a maximum 30-year sentence. He asked for a jury trial, and a panel of five officers was seated late Monday to weigh his fate. Opening arguments will begin this morning.
Estacio admitted that he had sex with the woman, identified as Airman 1 and under his command, and not only violated rules prohibiting such relationships but also conspired to obstruct an Air Force investigation.
He told Lt. Col. Matthew Van Dalen, the judge in his case, that he kissed the woman and performed oral sex on her.
Estacio is the fourth training instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to go on trial in a sex scandal the Air Force revealed just before Christmas. He pleaded guilty to violating an Air Education and Training Command rule prohibiting trainers from having intimate relationships with trainees.
Estacio admitted that he impeded an investigation into his case, but he denied asking the woman to lie or that he warned that her career would be damaged if she talked. He said he violated an order by meeting with two other trainers also under investigation and talking about their cases.
The maximum sentence on those charges is 13 years.
"We became our own support group," Estacio told Van Dalen, adding that all three of the instructors felt "betrayed" by others in their squadron. They met for lunch and called and texted each other, he said, even after being told not to have contact.
"We felt we were all we had," he said.
In finding Estacio guilty, the judge did not assess a sentence. The jurors, led by a lieutenant colonel, will sentence Estacio on the charges he pleaded guilty to as well as the sexual assault counts, if he is convicted.
If found guilty on all charges, he could spend 43 years in prison, be reduced to the lowest rank, airman basic, and be given a dishonorable discharge, said Brent Boller, a spokesman with Joint Base San Antonio.
So far, 17 basic training instructors at Lackland have been investigated or are being investigated on suspicion of pursing illicit relationships with 43women. One trainer, former Staff Sgt. Luis A. Walker, was given 20 years in prison for his involvement with 10 women, including recruits he trained.
One-time Staff Sgt. Peter Vega-Maldonado is expected to be a key prosecution witness against Estacio and another basic training instructor, Staff Sgt. Craig LeBlanc. Vega-Maldonado said in June that he had "unprofessional" relationships with 10 women as he implicated Estacio and LeBlanc.
After pleading guilty to charges stemming from his relationship with a 21-year-old airman he supervised in basic training, Vega got a reduced sentence in a plea deal requiring him to testify against the other trainers, but neither he nor the Air Force has described his relationships in detail.
Vega got 90 days in jail, 30 days of hard labor, reduction in rank from staff sergeant to airman and forfeiture of $500 a month in pay for four months. But he was spared a bad-conduct discharge.
In Estacio's case, the women were called from their dorm to the supply room late on a Sunday night and just hours before they were to ship out for technical training. They called Estacio a stern trainer who instilled strict discipline in their training flight.
"A lot of us wanted to be like him," one said in the June 1 evidentiary hearing that triggered Estacio's trial.
Once in the supply room, the women said one of them sat in LeBlanc's lap. Soon all four were having sex.
At times nervously twitching his thumbs, Estacio recounted the episode Monday before the judge, who methodically read through the charges and specifications after each plea.
"Do you believe that you had any legal justification or excuse for what you did?" the judge asked.
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Restaurant review: The Blue Elephant is pretty much like being in Thailand. But in a way that nervous Western tourists see it, rather than the grittier reality.
I used to adore the Fulham Broadway branch of Blue Elephant. But then I used to be a poverty-stricken aficionado of high camp. It was the buffet brunch: where else could you, for a fixed price, ingest Bunterish quantities of rather splendid Thai food in an environment that made Disney look like Strindberg?
Vast and chaotic, it rustled with tropical greenery and tiki-ish huts; a carp-filled stream snaked through the room. Now, after 25 years it has relocated to expensive, impersonal Imperial Wharf, to an equally vast space that used to be called Saran Rom – another spendy Thai where I had one of the worst evenings of my restaurant-going life. Google it if you fancy a gawp.
Saran Rom's already extravagant, carved mahogany fittings have been layered with even more flamboyance. You walk through a bloom-laden lobby, plastered with Blue Elephant products, to a theme park of royal Thai-ness. In the downstairs bar – giant vats of frosty martini for a tenner; recommended – is a 9m golden dragon. If you're the sort of person who likes to propose by a river view, with a diamond in a glass of fizz, this is right up your boulevard.
The new menu is more complex than it was in Fulham Broadway, with lots of pontificating about Thai Cooking of the Past, Thai Cuisine of Today and Thai Kitchen of Tomorrow. There's an extensive vegetarian menu but no mention of whether or not it avoids fish sauce.
It's big on decorative nonsense: carved vegetable flowers; pandanus leaves on puddings; elaborate crockery and cutlery. One starter – mieng kham – arrives in what looks like a jewellery box full of tiny cups and spoons; you fold betel leaves round quantities of toasted coconut, palm sugar sauce, shallots, scud chillies, dried shrimp, ginger and slivers of lime. It's top fun: shame some of the aromatic leaves are browning at the edges.
Staff, in silky, self-conscious outfits, are a curious mixture of typically Thai over-solicitousness and sweet ineptitude: their knowledge about wine appears to be zilch. And they're equally clueless about ingredients and techniques, as demonstrated when I ask how they turn catfish into what appears to be fish candyfloss for yum pla duk fu (catfish and green mango salad; and yes, I do know). They giggle charmingly – for this service they charge 12.5 per cent.
The dish is good though, a cloud of crunchy, fried fish fibres on shredded green mango with nice, sweet, tart, hot, caramelly dressing. Laab (aka laap or larb) ped – finely chopped duck salad – delivers a massive thwack of flavour from quantities of lime juice, Thai basil, nippy little pink shallots and threads of kaffir lime leaves. They've correctly included ground, toasted rice and snake beans – this is rare, even in good Thai restaurants – but I wish they'd either roasted off the clods of flabby duck fat or omitted it altogether.There's a thick, oily Penang curry ('red' spices, peanuts and loads of coconut cream). 'Drunken sizzling beef' shows no evidence of either booze or sizzle and the meat is greyish and sinewy. With a royal ransom's-worth of interior design, it seems reductive to skimp on ingredients. Maybe they figure we'll be too dazzled by the surroundings to notice.
The Blue Elephant is, in fact, pretty much like being in Thailand. But in a way that nervous Western tourists see it, rather than the grittier reality. I was once trapped in the Four Seasons Bangkok while Red Shirts barricaded the streets and people were getting shot, unable to get home thanks to a pesky Icelandic volcano. We were the only people in the hotel but the string quartet played on. This oasis of manufactured exoticism reminds me of that.It's way, way more expensive than a high street Thai. But with its genuinely Thai pedigree – chef and owner Khun Noroor Somany Steppe also runs cooking schools in Bangkok and Phuket, and she's about to open one in this outpost's upper floor – it's a taste of the real-ish thing.
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If Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has his way, employers will soon play a much more active role in selecting newcomers, and those chosen will be put on a fast-track to admission to Canada.
But Kenney disputes the notion that the reforms will cede too much control to private interests.
"The reforms are not about completely handing over to employers the power of selection, but rather about increasing their role," he told The Huffington Post Canada this week. "There will continue to be a certain criteria that people have to meet."
In an editorial board meeting with HuffPost, Kenney detailed the Conservative government's plan to better align Canada's immigration system with labour market needs, and address a skills mismatch that he says has led to "a huge waste of human talent."
"I think it's almost immoral to invite people from the highest socioeconomic status in their countries of origin to come here to Canada and face an uncertain future [...] to get stuck in perpetual unemployment," he said. "This makes no sense in a country with a skilled labour shortage."
His solution: develop an Internet-based system that allows employers facing a labour crunch to select immigrants from a pool of qualified would-be Canadians.
"If they like what they see, [the employer can] offer them jobs, and they'll be in Canada in a couple of months," he said. "That's the immigration system of the future, rather than someone whose education and experience may be completely irrelevant to the Canadian labour market coming here to sink or swim."
Meanwhile, Kenney says the government intends to make it easier for certain classes of workers to immigrate, allowing foreign graduates of Canadian universities and high-skilled foreign temporary workers that have been employed for a year to become permanent residents.
"That is my favourite program," he said. "I hope that in the future it will become the core immigration program because those folks have work experience, Canadian degrees. They already have a job lined up. They have perfected their language skills. They are set for success."
But while most observers agree that government should take action to address the skills mismatch, some question the effect of putting employers in the driver's seat of Canada's immigration system.
Peter Showler, former chairperson of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, said allowing businesses to pick and choose the country's newcomers hands "significant control over the selection of ideal immigrants to employers, who are acting in their own self-interest, not in Canada's interest."
"Employers are not selecting someone based on whether they are going to be an ideal Canadian. They are simply selecting them on a narrow focus of whether or not they can fill a particular job," he told HuffPost in advance of Kenney's visit. "They are not looking at any wider issues in terms of geographic distribution, how they are going to contribute to Canada, other than the fact that they can have a job, which is important, but is it the only important issue?"
Liberal MP and former Citizenship and Immigration minister Judy Sgro expressed similar concerns. Though she believes that immigrants should be arriving with the promise of work, she says that government -- not employers -- should determine who is let in.
"A business is going to look strictly at their needs, and the needs of today," she said. "The government has a responsibility to try to do the very best to try to make sure that we've got a balance in who is coming to the country [...] There are a lot of things that have to be given consideration."
But Kenney says the government will continue to be at the forefront of the immigration process, ensuring that newcomers meet a variety of benchmarks -- including minimum language proficiency and education -- before employers get involved.
"People will still go through the points system analysis so there will be people with high levels of [human] capital," he said. "That means that if they come through an employment offer, and the company that hired them goes under or the job doesn't work out, they will have the skills to transition out to another job quickly."
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"Law & Order" earned a special present for its 20th anniversary this week.
New York CityMayor Michael Bloomberg declared Wednesday, September 23, "Law & Order Day" in the city, according to Wenn.
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However, the stars of the long-running NBC series didn't get any special treats on their big day.
"It's big and I'm not sure what it means for us as a holiday, but since we are all police officers on the show we get free doughnuts for the day across the city every September 23rd," Anthony Anderson, who plays Detective Kevin Bernard, joked to the wire service. "No, no. It's just a piece of paper."
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The current cast reportedly reunited with several "L&O" alumni, including Angie Harmon and Benjamin Bratt, at a party for the anniversary earlier this week.
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Suzanne Collins'"The Hunger Games" trilogy has sold millions of copies in the United States since the first book was published in 2008. Now, with the release of the blockbuster movie of the same name, the series has achieved even more: It has influenced kids to spend more time outside.
Two weekends ago, 13 young "Hunger Games" fans braved the rain to learn about archery. The Saturday event, which was hosted by the Thurmont Regional Library and run by members of the Tuscarora Archers, allowed the teenagers to learn how to shoot a bow.
"[It] was a neat experience. It wasn't the first time I have taught kids to shoot, but being related to 'The Hunger Games' there was sort of a different spin on it," said Sophia Strachan, a 13-year-old with the Tuscarora Archers. "One of the smaller kids I was helping said something to the effect of 'I think I could survive the hunger games, but I'm not sure I could shoot someone.' "
Sophia and her teammates helped teach "Hunger Games" enthusiasts about bow safety and choosing the right equipment before allowing them to shoot at targets behind the library.
"I have really never thought of my bow as a weapon before. ... Several people at school who know I shoot have asked me if I am as good as Katniss. ... The movie has given archery a pretty cool image," she said.
Katniss Everdeen, the main character of "The Hunger Games," is a skilled archer and outdoorswoman. The movie showcases her skills with a bow while she is in the woods hunting and while she is competing in the deadly hunger games, a battle in which 24 teenagers must fight until there is only one survivor.
"We couldn't keep the ['Hunger Games'] books on the shelves," said Claire Bush, who coordinated the event for the library.
Thurmont Regional Library has several teen events each month, but Bush was particularly impressed with the turnout of the archery event.
"It poured rain that Saturday, [but] we had 13 people show up," she said. "I think the movies are really bringing a lot of attention to archery."
Rick Lushbaugh, president of Tuscarora Archers, was happy to be involved with the event.
"The libraries came to us [because] … we have a strong youth program at our club," he said.
"The Hunger Games" shoot allowed young fans to send arrows flying at target bags for about two hours. Many of the attendees were teenagers around the same age as 16-year-old Katniss.
"It went really well," said Nicholas Van-Derpoel, 15, who has been shooting for three years and is a fan of "The Hunger Games." "There were a good number of kids there. It seemed like they all had fun."
One of them was Cayie Chu, a 12-year-old who has been shooting for six years. "The books inspired me to keep on trying at archery so I could become a better archer like Katniss," Cayie said. "I absolutely loved the books."
Jerry Shuck, the coach of the Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) program with Tuscarora Archers, says most of his young archers are motivated by "The Hunger Games." "The books sparked their interest," he said.
Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who played Katniss in the movie, also had a JOAD instructor while she was preparing for the role. That coach, Khatuna Lorig, is a four-time Olympian (she competed for the Unified team in 1992, for Georgia in 1996 and 2000, and for the United States in 2008) who hopes to represent the United States again this year in London.
The connection could draw attention to archery at the Summer Games.
"Archery is a great sport. … We're glad that there seems to be more interest in the sport since the movie came out," said Millette Miller, whose 15-year-old son, Robert, has been involved in archery for six years.
Alyssa Everett, captain of the Tuscarora Archers' JOAD team, starting shooting well before the books were published and is thankful for the popularity the series has brought to her sport.
"To see a whole new generation take up a bow is very exciting," she said.
In Baltimore County, Ted Light runs a program called Oriole Archers that practices in Timonium. He has started to see an increase in applications.
"One of my friends warned me that a lot of young girls would be coming out," he said. Most of the people on his waiting list are girls.
"Usually there's a ratio of about 3-1, men to women in archery," Light said. He tries to keep the ratio a little more even in his club. Now, with the large number of young girls signing up, he won't have much difficulty getting the numbers to line up.
For information about clubs in the state, go to the Maryland Archery Association's website, md-archery.org.


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Classroom Notes: Embarrassment of Riches
These are the times that try the souls of men. I am not here speaking of what my colleagues have taken to calling, increasingly with less irony, the Little Depression. Rather, I am referring to my extremely busy semester. What with three full classes and a senior seminar, I no longer even have the time to feel sorry for myself, which I suppose is a good thing. But more remarkable than even my emergence from a certain lacunae of self-involvement is that after a disastrous fall semester, I am suddenly up to my ankles in ice cream.
All three of my classes are astonishingly, incredibly loquacious. Experienced teachers will know that this is a double-edged sword, for as much as student conversation can engage a classroom, it demands even more energy from the professor in terms of guiding and shaping discussion not only towards productive pedagogical ends, but to make sure that the Chatty Pattys, in their robust enthusiasm, do not push the quieter students to the margins. In my classes, this task is even more thrilling, in that we are talking about race and sexuality, which means that every student utterance has the potential of a pipe bomb to maim, injure, and deform.
Only one of my courses truly has this explosive potential, an intermediate course on race theories that is full of talkative Black students, a lot of white student anxiety, and Asian American student watchfulness. Because this is not my first time at the rodeo, and I tend not to be intimidated by even the most daunting classroom ecology, I approach this class with a certain insouciant sangfroid. Arriving at class, I am typically already mildly exhausted, for teaching at night is no excuse, I have discovered, to not have endless meetings during the course of the day before class begins. A final cigarette, a cup of vending machine coffee, and we are off.
The classroom is small, overheated, and the students are literally on top of one another. Such close proximity frays the boundaries students create around themselves. There is simply no room for coats, books, or anything to make safe space. There are exactly 33 seats, one for every student and one for myself. Such close quarters are still being negotiated, but they have tended to create an electric energy with both positive and negative benefits. For every remarkable observation made, there are two that are off topic, in the way that lived identities, such as race, can enable students to make observations without necessarily understanding the connections between their experience and the concepts we are exploring.
Yet, there are students who work with me, setting boundaries and returning us to relevant questions. We are all working together, in tandem, to create the space that we need to actually talk in depth about race. And it is working. I have done this before, but when it actually comes together, it can seem like a miracle.
At times, it can also feel like towing a boat with your teeth. Cajoling, smiling madly, writing on the board, asking questions, we rarely have any time for group work. Conversation can be inchoate, wild, wandering. Reining it back in takes energy, and when the last student has left and I walk to my car, I am blank. The flick of the lighter in the car, the heat running against the winter night, the crackle and spark of the tobacco, the first sharp inhalation of the dense smoke, is reward enough.
After last semester's taciturn class, with its poisoned ecology, I feel like I have rediscovered some buried talent. How Oso Got his Groove Back. I know these things are variable, and that we all have bad semesters. Yet, for a teacher, nothing feels quite as good as when a class goes well. A quiet, deep satisfaction elevates one's mood and heightens the senses, opening up rather than closing off possibilities within and beyond the classroom.
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- Narciso Espejo said...
I celebrate that Slaves of Academe didn't exhale. And I also celebrate that you are enjoying a rewarding and promising semester, Profesoroso Raro.
- Mon Feb 09, 10:11:00 AM
- GayProf said...
It seems to me that race and ethnic studies are at a moment of new interest and attention. Enjoy the ride.
- Mon Feb 09, 11:36:00 AM
- Margo said...
This is a perfect description of a class that is going right. (Not that I can really remember what that's like.) I am inspired, and will channel you tonight as I drag my sorry ass through another night class. Gotta bum a cigarette. I think that might be the key.
- Tue Feb 10, 02:14:00 PM
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Good sales leaders don't need the reality of a bad quarter or a string of bad quarters to know when something is amiss. They sense it before the numbers tell the story for them.
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Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.
Single loading would be hard for AA.
I might have my World Wars confused but I think that it was used to sink ships if a torpedo didn't need to be used or if a crippled ship needed to be sank. Correct me if I am wrong.


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There might be a compass, but their poles are moving around looking for an acceptable settling point.
A few times I noticed that 'freedom is slavery', could have won out over 'do as I command, not as I do!'
Once you get to a certain point of self understanding, much of the BS generated from excess testosterone, male bravado, economic greed, ideological true belief, youthful idealism, political sophistry, etc, can drop off a little.
I don't have a gun. I could be the biggest dog on the block if I wanted to. I want people to be ok, because the alternative is very unsettling, and seems very mean. I am not the center of universe, and I know I will die. I do not live in a 'privilaged' place, thinking that I have a RIGHT to rule or control. I have noticed my own demons a few times, and I do not feed them, much.
As a theist, you should consider yourself lucky to live in a culture where even your beliefs can have a say in the formulation of culture, and where extremism is generally not rewarded. Even I would not desire to live with atheists as the Big Dog, I like the variety.
I have lived with people that have heavy theist beliefs, such situations are draining, and my performance always under par. The desire for conformity under such a condition drains the blood from my brain case.
Time. I think that the concept scared me when it first entered my head, but it has been over 25 years since that time and it's hard for me to remember how I felt back then.
Existence is the tiny sausage which is sandwiched between two very large slices of non-existence.
I never believed in god or the afterlife. I certainly tried but it never felt right. I never had the experience of realizing that there was no such thing as eternal life or life after death. For me, life has always had an expiration date.
The mind is what the brain does. When the brain ceases to function the mind ceases to be. Death doesn't scare me because I won't even know that I'm dead.
"Life is a lot like a book. There's no point wondering if it has an end, it does. The point is whether you enjoyed the book or not." ( I don't know who this quote belongs to but it isn't mine.)
I am however disappointed, like I am with a good book, that I will never get know what happens next.
It does seem a shame, we get one book, while Harry Potter gets a series --
I did Death Watch with a friend's family once. Her mother was near passing, and we had placed a hospital bed in the family's livingroom with a crew of friends and caregivers. This happened during the few hours/days around New Years 2000, so it was memorable, and heart felt.
I stayed in the room, with the mother as she slowly passed, not knowing how to be helpful, but knowing that I was witness to something that was important to myself and the family's well being. In the background, the TV was on with the news from around the world as the change to 2000 rolled around the planet.
I noticed that the air in the room had changed, with the smell of ammonia, and the caregivers came in to clean her. A little while latter, I noticed a silence, as breathing stopped, and a simple peace filled the house.
The silence felt like a prayer, almost. I never really saw the transition, but felt that silence, it is amazing how loud another's breathing is, and how life processes seem to fill the space around us.
Sorry, James, but that just seems so incredibly inhumane and unnecessary to me. I wish our species would get over itself and let people opt out by quick death while under anesthetic. This whole idea of drawing it out to the last possible laboured breath just saddens me.
The family was Catholic, need I say more...
Wow, James - thanks for sharing that with us. You made me feel like I was there.
How I might choose to look at existence and its inevitable end is the quintessential moot question, isn't it? since the FACT of death is not altered by my perception of it. It just is, and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is make the best of it. I like to challenge religionists who demand that I explain what comes after death to remind me of what came before life. That generally elicits a blank stare in response. That being said, I'd be glad to share my particular coping paradigm.
First of all, I see no reason why I should fear what comes after death any more than I retain horrific memories of my suffering before I was born. Secondly, I define eternity, in human experiential terms, as one's particular lifespan. Therefore, whether a baby dies in infancy or an old man hangs on to 110, those two eternities are of equal quality, equal value, and perhaps most profoundly, equal duration. Sometimes, too, I like to think of death as a dreamless sleep during which there is no sense of time passing.
Nearly everyone, including me, fears dying, because it usually is accompanied by physical pain. If there were a god that promised relief from that agony, I would have a much tougher time rejecting him/her/it. But that, too, is moot, because no religion of which I'm aware bothers to address that issue. I'd like to think, though, that I would still reject it, because giving up my powers of reason is my idea of the ultimate hell.
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
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To mark Victims Day today (February 22), VSS is asking people to talk about the work of VSS and how it helps people.
People can spread the word by: joining in an online thunderclap, like the VSS Facebook page, tweet about the work at #vsscotland, or chat to friends and colleagues about VSS.
Today marks the start of campaign week, and VSS will be hosting events in towns and villages, train stations and supermarkets to publicise what it does.
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I just recently audited a home that had a blower door number of 11,684 CFM50 and/or 11.81 ACH50. And of course one of the main air infiltration culprits was a stone face wall that was continuous on the outside and inside of the building envelope. The basics as I see it is this: the 1/4" stone joints allow air to freely flow into the house.
Does anyone know of any good methods to seal a high-end stone wall air leakage like this?
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At first, I thought that maybe there would be a core wall of CMU, and thus possibly a way to reach the interior top of the wall to find a way to block airflow from passing over it, and eliminating at least part of the problem; maybe even filling the wall with a self leveling cementitous product that is thick enough to not pour out the joints; or possibly do so with a very fine dry sand. But apparently, the builder did go with the old-fashioned way of building a stone wall, with a skilled mason. Looks beautiful.
I would check with a masonry supply house to see what products or methods they have, but clearly there are air gaps in the grout material that will be impossible to specifically locate. Considering the appearance of the wall, I'm not sure I would trust someone to do a clean job using caulk or foam. Maybe use backer rod and stuff it into the joints? I'm not sure how effective it would be, but it's a fairly inexpensive material for a first attempt.
Dry stacked or is there mortar holding it together? If there are actual mortar joints you can see about getting a mason in there to fix all the B-holes - if it is dry stack then they will not like the fix (and no it does not involve mortar or caulk) & just concentrating on fixing the soffit areas, recessed lights, etc...
While that is a lot of leakage, is it all coming from that wall surface alone? Wall leakage is a big issue, but what if you concentrated on all the other leaks could you bring the exchanges down enough to warrant not having to do this part?
Only sealants I am aware of are for moisture and will not stop air flow transfer such as this. I would simply concentrate on the other leaks in the house assuming they have more and inform the owner that they will have to live with what is going on on that wall surface.
There is a web site where you can make an inquiry about this. It is the brick industry site. www.bia.org. Perhaps you will find the information your looking for there.
Good luck, keep us posted on how you make out with this one.
Maybe Zone Pressure Diagnostics could of been done to determine where the significant air leak spots are. If dry stacked, air leakage could be more significant in walls than in attic.
During the audit, I wonder if the walls felt very leaky. If comfort is an issue, air sealing direct leakage to indoors is a high priority. The Mean Radiant Temperature or the average radiant temperature of the room is significant to the comfort and if direct convective paths are present, the wind chill will significantly reduce effectiveness of thermal boundary or insulation if present.
Hello. I have a large basalt stone floor to vaulted ceiling tall fireplace that also leaks. I have reduced my ACH to 8 from 12 and am now working on the fireplace. My plan is to caulk/foam (may be more economical) the whole dang thing from the attic/basement side first and see what that gets me. Foam would be unsightly for you, I think, so clear caulk??
As an aside, based on your numbers, I calculated the the house in question to be about 2, 337 sq. ft. with a volume of 58,420 cu. ft. Is this correct? I am far from an expert in this stuff but am trying to learn. Thank you. John
Is it possible to cover the wall adequately enough to isolate that air leakage? Even if you covered the wall exterior and interior with plastic sheeting, or covered the exterior, and built a plastic wall on the interior, you might be able to verify a quantity of air leakage from the wall. Given the pictures of the house, it looks custom built. Before you go intruding on the mortar joints, (or voids, if a dry laid wall), you might want to verify the wall is the biggest leakage site. If it is, try backer rod or injected foam from the outside into the joints, covered with a clear siliconized caulk, and recessed as much as reasonable. It may be quite a time consuming project, another reason to verify the culprit.
Finished Floor Area: 5,460 sf / 59,340 cf / 4 Stories / Half Slab - Half Crawlspace
Are you saying that there's not a block or poured concrete wall in the middle of all that stone? That's almost inconceivable to me in modern construction, but I suppose it's possible... in which case you would have to grout the entire thing, probably on all sides. I would call a commercial stone maintenance/restoration company if you have access to such a thing--those are the guys who know how to put mortars and sealants into gaps and make it look good.
If it's just the gaps between stones at places where door and window jambs are let in, then it's hard to see how it's responsible for all that leakage, although we can't see the extent of the stone in the few shots you posted.
Question about your manometer setup. You appear to have your indoor references teed together and piped away from the manometer. What's the reason? And, you appear to have -43pa at ~5250 CFM, so how did you come up with the 11,000 number?
Thanks everyone for your input. The test was a two blower door test (that only got up to -43 Pa) - we had to add up both manometer readings and use the Can't Reach Fifty factor. The wall is a facade about 3" thick (with concrete masonry on ext. and wood insulated framing on int.) that is made to look like a dry stack wall - mortar is used in the back for stability.
Below was a recommendation by another co-worker that I think I am leaning towards using:
Because the original construction process was mismanaged and the masons installed the rock prior to other finishes, your options are somewhat limited if you are to maintain the dry stack appearance. I would recommend that you seek to limit the air leakage in the following manner.
It looks to me like the main leakage is from the intersection of stone and conventional framing, not necessarily directly through the wall.
In the second picture, is the stone i see that appears to be interior actually a reflection? I suspect it is. in the shot with the recessed lights, I am looking in from outside too, right? if so, does the stone wall pass through those features and continue inside? If not, why not cut away the interior sheetrock finishes and approach the Butt end of the stone wall in the interstitial space with foam? Do the same at the soffit. Then do a blower door test and use smoke to identify any leaks you may have missed at these transitions that are ininterstitial space and seal those. Then put the sheetrock back up and refinish it.
I had a similar issue with an exposed historic brick wall in a condo I was testing. We couldn't find the leak with our eyes or thermal imaging becuase the leak was EVERYWHERE. We confirmed this when we taped a sheet of poly over the wall and when we kicked on the blower door, the poly ballooned like crazy at the slightest pressure change. The owner sealed every mortar joint with silicone caulk and then painted the wall (~20' x 10') with several gallons of a transparent sealer. The porous brick guzzled the paint like crazy. It was very important to the owner to have the urban loft feel of the exposed brick. Sealing just this one section of one of the four exposed walls reduced air infiltration from 14 ACH@50 to <7 ACH@50.
Hi Jonathan,
I have the same problem after the catastrophic result from Blower door test 30-35 ACH@50Pa of two stone built houses in mountain. I and my team developed air sealing technology for stone walls without mortar.
After the air sealing we achieved major success to reduce the Blower door test results more that 3 times!
Sorry for my poor english!
Here is some thermograms, videos and photos from this project:
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Penn State Beaver Alumni Society golf outing winners are announced
The Penn State Beaver Alumni Society announced the winners of the its twelfth annual golf outing held Monday, Sept. 10 at Seven Oaks Country Club, Brighton Township. First place team was Kip's Ice Cream with a score of 57 by team members Nick Anderson, Shane Hecht, John Murawski, and Don Ware. The Beaver County Times team won second place with a score of 60 by team members Greg Best, Larry Boggs, Bob Johnston, and Vaughn Vacar. Each first-place winner received a $75 gift certificate and each second-place winner received a $60 gift certificate to be used in the club's pro shop. The golf outing proceeds, which will be announced soon, benefit the Alumni Society's endowed scholarships for Beaver campus students. For information about the 2013 golf outing, contact Diana Patterson, director of development at Beaver, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 724-773-3558.


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I am so thankful to have this little guy in my life! Happy Birthday Dallin!! I love you!
So, let me explain why he looks so sad in the first picture! Yesterday I realized he had a fever midmorning, which was a major bummer, considering he was supposed to have his birthday party in the afternoon. He was heart broken after Matt broke the news to him, and I felt so bad for him. We ended up calling the doctor since his temp was at 1o3 and was still climbing. He diagnosed him with the flu and put Dallin on tamiflu. He was pretty much lethargic all day, and went to bed early. This morning, which was his birthday, he woke up feeling good. However, after playing around just a few minutes, he was beat and rested all morning at home, while Matt, Kaiden, and Dallin went to church. He held onto his birthday present all morning and watched the clock until Matt and the kids got back.
As soon as the Matt and the kids got back, Dallin ripped into his present and was surprised to see a Nintendo DS. He was pretty happy. He started perking up and his fever went away. Knock on wood, he went to bed fever free and feeling good. We'll see how he is in the morning.
Like I said earlier, where has the time gone? I can't believe he is 7 already!!
Happy Birthday Dallin!! I love you!


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Healthy Christmas Lunchbox Fillers
by Louise Blake
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Christmas food is undoubtedly something we spend about a whole year looking forward to. The turkey, cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, mince pies... We love it.
However, our traditional Christmas binge is not exactly the healthiest of pursuits, and although you may want to spread the Christmas cheer by packing your child's lunchboxes full of festive treats, a mince pie a day may not be the best route forward.
If your child is already over excited about the festive season, here are four Christmas lunchbox fillers that will help keep up the festive cheer, and make you happy that they're eating something that's good for them.
Turkey Roll-Ups
Switch traditional sandwiches for some yummy festive wraps and inject a bit of health and colour into their lunches.
Take a wholemeal wrap, and sprinkle lettuce and raw greens on it – spinach is great for young minds. Put on a thin layer of lean, cooked turkey and scatter over a handful of fresh cranberries. Fold in the bottom edge, and then roll up. Wrap tightly in a single layer of foil, so your little one can rip in and then unwrap as they eat to avoid losing filling!
Festive Potato Salad
Potato salad is a great alternative to sandwiches and can be made in a large batch in advance. Just remember to supply them with a fork!
Cook and cool new potatoes. Chop into bitesize chunks, and pop into a bowl with some cubed ham, a handful of fresh cranberries, and finely sliced spring onions. Add a little ground pepper, some chopped fresh parsley (optional), a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and a little olive oil – or use low fat mayonnaise. Toss together, and then pop onto a bed of raw spinach or salad in a Tupperware container.
Christmas Fruit Salad
There are so many yummy pudding options around at this time of year, so why not blend these flavours into a healthy fruit salad for your child's lunchbox?
Peel and cube a dessert apple and pear, pop in a bowl, and add in the juice of ½ orange to stop the fruit going brown. Peel a clementine or satsuma, remove pith if your little one is fussy, and separate into segments. Add to the bowl, along with some fresh or dried cranberries, some sultanas, and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Stir, and dish into small Tupperware containers.
A top tip that would earn you teacher rewards: to keep salads cool, simply freeze a juice carton and use as an ice pack in their lunchbox!
Holiday Trail Mix
Trail mix should be only served in small portions as it's calorie-heavy, but it's excellent as brain food at lunch or as a mid-morning snack for student motivation. Make sure to check out your child's school's rules on nuts before preparing this, as some ban them due to allergies.
Mix equal amounts of almonds, cashews, pecans, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, soft-dried apricots and dried apple. Add a little cinnamon, mix up, and then put portions into small pots or ziplock bags.
Do you put anything special into your child's lunchboxes over the Christmas period?
Thanks for sharing Louise. Some lovely ideas there!


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Enrichment Core
The Joslin Enrichment Program facilitates the exchange of research information and discussions among investigators, fellows and students within the Joslin Diabetes Center, as well as between Joslin Staff and outside researchers with similar interests. The program has six components including:
1. The Longwood Area Diabetes/Metabolism Research Seminar Series consisting of weekly research seminars featuring invited outside experts and including each year four named lecturers (The Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecturer, the Alexander Marble Lecturer, the Priscilla White Lecturer, and the Michael Brownlee Lecturer).
2. A weekly internal research seminar series serving as a platform for senior postdoctoral research fellows and investigators to share their ongoing research with others at the Joslin.
3. A clinical seminar series featuring external and internal speakers with clinical research interests, journal club presentations, and case presentations arising from the clinical practice experience in the Longwood Medical Area.
4. A summer seminar series given by DERC core directors as well as outside experts to encourage awareness of the services provided by each core and to introduce new technologies that would enhance the current research at Joslin;
5. A series of presentations given by Joslin investigators to the students participating in the Joslin Summer Research Student Internship Program to familiarize them with diabetes research inside and outside the Joslin.
6. A two-day Research Retreat held every two years to foster interactions and the exchange of ideas among Joslin researchers.
During the next cycle, we will continue this successful and popular program of which we are proud for the decided impact it has had at the Joslin and in the Longwood Medical area over the past twenty years.
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Bozeman, MT — Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks are seeking information on a poaching case north of Belgrade.
A pronghorn doe was shot sometime in the evening on Saturday, June 15, near Theisen Road, about 10 miles north of Belgrade. The poaching was reported to FWP on June 16.
Those who may have information on this incident are asked to call Montana's toll-free hotline for reporting poaching, 1-800-TIP-MONT (847-6668).
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