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It is hot. That is the official word from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For the contiguous United States, July 2011 to June 2012 was the warmest 12 months on record since record-keeping began in 1895. Those 12 months averaged 3.2 degrees warmer than the long-term average.
More than 170 all-time warm temperature records were broken or tied in June, the administration's State of the Climate National Overview reported. The U.S. State Climate Extremes Committee thinks that South Carolina (113 degrees Fahrenheit) and Georgia (112 degrees Fahrenheit) set all-time statewide temperature records last month. Washington state, however, had its seventh coolest June on record.
The report says, "The first six months of 2012 were also drier than average for much of the contiguous U.S., with a nationally-averaged precipitation total 1.62 inches below average. Some 56 percent of the contiguous United States is in drought, but Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington had six-month precipitation totals among their ten wettest."
We all saw the news about the derecho, a line of fast-moving severe storms with high winds that knocked out power to 3.4 million households from Illinois to Virginia.
What we're now seeing is "a window into what global climate change really looks like," Princeton University geosciences professor Michael Oppenheimer told The Associated Press for a story on this freakish weather. "It looks like heat. It looks like fires. It looks like these kinds of environmental disasters."
The fires referred to are June's monster blazes burning out of control in the West. Within Colorado's second-largest city, a fire forced more than 30,000 people to hurriedly pack belongings and flee. (See related story on Page 15.)
The burning bush and the pillar of fire are both potent Old Testament images of God. Now they point to the New Testament's question: What then must we do (Luke 3:10)?
In 2010's World Day of Peace address, Pope Benedict XVI framed the answer well: "Our present crises -- be they economic, food-related, environmental or social -- are ultimately also moral crises, and all of them are interrelated. They require us to rethink the path which we are traveling together. Specifically, they call for a lifestyle marked by sobriety and solidarity, with new rules and forms of engagement, one which focuses confidently and courageously on strategies that actually work, while decisively rejecting those that have failed."
At the forefront of this effort to forge a new path are the world's Catholic women religious and an organization, the Catholic Climate Covenant, devoted to linking care for the poor with climate change.
They realize, as Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry counseled, that achieving right relationship with the planet is the great work of our time. They know that this is a critical time, that the Earth, our home, is subject to irreparable damage, that our very existence as a species is in jeopardy, that it is only through widespread eco-friendly practices, justice-seeking and peacemaking that the human species will have a future, that we must shift our very foundations from the sand of consumption and competition to the rock of sustainability and mutuality.
Or, as Barbara Marx Hubbard, keynote speaker at this year's annual conference of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, says: "Now there is a wake up call for the social, psychological and spiritual maturation of our species. We must be present now to do something new, something creative, that is pressing us from within toward emergence."
In mission statements and rules for women's communities, we read statements like this: "We seek daily to approach our lives and ministries with an awareness of God's gift to us -- our co-creative role and our interrelatedness to all Earth life." The sisters are marrying action to those words in many ways:
- In Monroe, Mich., the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary recently renovated their motherhouse using sustainable technologies and methods including a geothermal heating and cooling system and gray water recycling system. The design of the motherhouse maximizes daylight, incorporates retrofitted period light fixtures and restored original wood windows. The sisters also sponsor the St. Mary Organic Farm Community Garden.
- The Canadian Sisters of St. Ann in British Columbia sponsor a variety of environmental ministries, including Providence Farm, a therapeutic community that provides programs for people encountering barriers to education and employment with the guiding principle that "life is renewed in the cycle of people caring for the soil and the soil nurturing people."
- In Wicklow, just south of Dublin, Irish Dominican Sisters established An Tairseach, a farm and ecology center. It's the Gaelic word for threshold, and "suggests a new beginning, an alternative and more sustainable way of working with the land as well as a new relationship with the whole community of life, human and non-human."
These are just a few examples. This newspaper, together with the EcoCatholic blog on NCR's Web page (NCRonline.org/blogs/eco-catholic), has covered many of these "green" sisters' enterprises and will continue to do so. Excellent interfaith resources can be found on the website of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (www.nrpe.org).
Visit the Catholic Climate Covenant's Web page (www.catholicclimatecovenant.org), take the St. Francis Pledge, then browse for concrete ways to reduce your own carbon footprint and read about other bold steps Catholics are taking to advocate on behalf of people in poverty while protecting God's creation.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The minimum wage for both small and large businesses in Minneapolis increased slightly on Sunday, representing just one phase in the city's incremental plan to pay all workers at least $15 per hour by 2024.
Effective immediately, small businesses with 100 or fewer employees must pay an hourly wage of $10.25 for the next 12 months. Large businesses, which already saw an increase in January, must now raise their pay to $11.25 per hour.
"For our lowest-wage workers in the city of Minneapolis, this is going to be a really big deal," Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights Director Velma Korbel said. "This is going to mean more money that they're taking home and putting in their pockets every day."
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The city's plan does not include tip credits, meaning employees like waiters and waitresses must make the full minimum wage regardless of how much they collect in tips during a given shift. The Minnesota Restaurant Association, among others, has pushed for the tip credit as a way to ease the burden on employers and allow tips to supplement base minimum earnings.
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There's no question one of the most eagerly anticipated moments in Peter Jackson's new "Hobbit" trilogy will be the first appearance of the great dragon Smaug. In an interview earlier this year, Peter Jackson said the creature, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch, will have a "little cameo" in the first installment, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," and he described the challenges inherent in presenting one of literature's most famous dragons on-screen.
"The trouble with redesigning dragons I've found is… you very quickly can go into science fiction territory, and I don't want to do that," the filmmaker said. "I want to present the most venal, scary, decrepit, nasty dragon I possibly can."
Jackson spoke with Hero Complex contributor John Horn at Comic-Con International in July, just before announcing that the two-film adaptation of "The Hobbit" would become a trilogy. Watch the third part of their conversation above; you can see earlier installments here and here.
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In this segment of the interview, the filmmaker discussed the digital magic conjured by Richard Taylor and the team at WETA Workshop to invent the host of otherworldly species that populate Middle-earth. Jackson said he relied heavily on computer artistry for the Orcs and goblins, in particular.
"Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating," Jackson said. "At the end of the day, if you want the character to talk, which a lot of the Orcs and goblins do, you can design the most incredible prosthetics, but you've still got eyes where the eyes have to be and the mouth where the mouth has to be. That human triangle, two eyes and a mouth, is very difficult to disguise, no matter what you do with the ears and heads and chins and noses.
He continued: "One of the things we're doing on 'The Hobbit' — which is definitely technology that we have available now that we didn't have 10 years ago — we often shoot the Orcs as people in suits but they just have a leotard on their head with motion capture dots on it. A lot of the Orcs even though they're played by performers, the makeup is going to be CG makeup, which allows me to put their eyes further apart. They can open their mouths and scream in a much more dynamic way than they ever could."
Jackson, of course, has employed a groundbreaking, though controversial, new technology for his latest Tolkien films, shooting the productions in a revolutionary 48-frames-per-second-format — a new projection technique that's designed to offer viewers a hyper-realistic "immersive" experience.
Hero Complex will host a free IMAX screening of Jackson's highly anticipated fantasy epic on Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. at the AMC Burbank 16 & IMAX — three days before the movie's official release.
To RSVP for the screening, log on to latimes.com/hobbit starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4; RSVPs will close as soon as the screening is full.
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The day before Wii U debuted, NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime walked the line of fans outside New York's Nintendo World Store. He chatted them up, helping them pass a few minutes as they sat, stood and shivered while waiting for the console's midnight launch. He talked Nintendo. And, perhaps oddly, one game that was brought up in the middle of that interaction was Metroid Prime.
It seemed a bit out of place to mention – after all, the Prime series hasn't been active for a while, and it's been a full 10 years since Metroid Prime first arrived for the GameCube. Oh, wait. That's right. It was exactly 10 years since Metroid Prime was released – its anniversary overlapped precisely with the Wii U launch.
So you'd be forgiven for forgetting to mark that major Metroid milestone yourself, as, like us, you were probably much more concerned with securing your own spot in a Wii U launch line to remember to celebrate our girl Samus. But now that the Wii U's debut is behind us, we finally have a chance to look back and reflect on what was, arguably, the best game in the Metroid franchise – and the long wait Nintendo fans had to endure to finally play it.
It All Started with Super
If you were to argue against Metroid Prime's placement as the best game in this series, you'd likely be taking the side of Super Metroid instead. And understandably so – Super Metroid was absolutely brilliant. The 16-bit installment in Samus' series was so well crafted, so precisely tuned and so universally loved that even to this day it's still commonly placed among the top video games of all time in those countdown lists we journalists like to put together from time to time.
Following up a hit like that must have seemed like an impossible task. And, so, Nintendo didn't even try. Metroid went on hiatus as a series after Super Metroid's 1994 release, and the brand ultimately disappeared for over eight years before Prime finally brought it back in November 2002. It was one of the longest breaks any of Nintendo's major brands has ever taken.
The reason Metroid went dark for so long, though, has been revealed to us through the course of time – it's because Nintendo, for years, just couldn't settle on what the series' next step should be. Another 2D adventure? Bringing things into 3D, as with Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had done? Going another route entirely? The indecision ultimately resulted in the rumored "Metroid 64" never materializing, as Samus ended up missing out on the entire N64 console cycle – with the exception of her appearance in the first Super Smash Bros.
Five months after the stunning debut of Zelda in 3D, though, we finally got word that Metroid had not been forgotten.
The Silence is Broken
"Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto today confirmed that an internal development team at is working on a Metroid title for a Nintendo console." That was the opening line in a news post IGN published way back in March of 1999, and it kicked off a season of emotional highs and lows for the Metroid faithful. We were on a high with the revelation that a fourth Metroid was being made.
But then came a low, when the project wasn't mentioned again by Nintendo for over a year. The next time we got any news at all was at August 2000's Spaceworld show (remember when that was a thing?), when the Big N confirmed that the then-unnamed Metroid sequel would be coming to the GameCube. Which, at that point, was still itself over a year away from release.
The wait didn't seem too terrible, though, because the announcement came accompanied by our very first look at the game In action. Or, rather, a 10-second FMV sequence meant to tease the game. Samus appeared in 3D, running down a corridor, pursued by a swarm of alien bugs. She fled the creatures for a few moments, then turned around and opened fire on them.
And that was it. A brief, fleeting glimpse at Metroid being re-imagined into what we could only assume was going to be a new third-person shooter on Nintendo's next console.
Wait, Retro Who?
Fans were on another high with the Spaceworld reveal, as the next Metroid game was actually, visibly a work-in-progress now. But, then, the next low came right alongside it – because Nintendo also revealed that the title was no longer being developed internally. Instead, an untested, unknown little studio in Texas had taken over.
Retro Studios is a name now synonymous with quality for Nintendo fans, but in August 2000 they were met with nothing but skepticism. And actually, when I say that Nintendo revealed them as the game's developer, that isn't entirely true – they kind of revealed themselves.
Retro ran afoul of Nintendo's strict secrecy policies and posted a set of job openings on their website, saying "Wanna work for the company rumored to be developing Metroid for Nintendo GameCube?" alongside a 3D render of Samus. It was the kind of event we'd never seen before from a Nintendo second-party, and haven't seen again since. The oddity of it all just added to fans' fears, too, that this little outfit in Austin wouldn't be up to handling a property as revered as Metroid.
The First-Person Firestorm
Nothing could have prepared the Nintendo fandom for what came next, though. Three months after Retro letting the cat out of the bag about being Metroid's developer, a true firestorm ignited when it was announced that the new sequel would not be in third-person after all – it would, instead, be transformed into a first-person shooter. Angry mobs, pitchforks and torches the likes of which Nintendo had never seen emerged from that bit of news, as fans starting calling for blood and lamenting Samus' fall to the dark side.
No one could imagine a first-person Metroid being any good. Everyone thought it was doomed from the start. Nintendo tried its best to clarify that the new Metroid would be a "first-person adventure," and not a standard FPS, but that terminology only confused the masses further.
Then things only got worse, as in July of 2001 the word got out that development was not progressing as planned. Retro was forced to cancel another project in the works – Raven Blade, which would have been a fantasy RPG for GameCube – and refocus all their personnel and energy into bringing Prime up to snuff. "Metroid Prime" was actually known as the name at that point, and fans had some hope that its story – promised to be a prequel – would be a compelling new tale of Samus.
But then insiders who'd played in-progress builds of the game came away so unimpressed that one of them flat-out said the game sucked. Yet another low, low point for Metroid's fans.
Everybody Loves Samus
Somehow, some way, through some bit of magic, things turned around. Development got back on track. Things that hadn't worked began to click. The balance was found between first- and third-person views – as players would step behind Samus' visor for exploration and combat, but the camera would pull back to allow for Morph Ball mode to function in cramped quarters.
No doubt all of this came about with no small amount of yelling, stern direction and up-ended tea tables from Japanese executives' visits to Austin, Texas. But, however it happened, Metroid Prime went from looking like a surefire trainwreck to one of Nintendo fans' most anticipated new titles.
The pendulum had swung so far back in the positive direction, in fact, that IGN began running a series of articles called Prime Time Friday, posting new videos of the game every single week. The series ran for 20 separate installments, leading almost all the way up to Metroid Prime's arrival on store shelves, 10 years ago.
The Doubters Silenced
And in the end, all of the chaos and confusion of development, all of the struggles and skepticism and all of the eight full years of waiting was put in the past and forgotten as fans enjoyed the incredible masterpiece that was Metroid Prime. The team at Retro Studios transcended the years of troubles and delivered a stunning, epic re-imagining of Metroid that absolutely worked with a first-person perspective. It perfectly recaptured the feelings of isolation, exploration and discovery that made Super Metroid so memorable – and achieved the impossible by being a true, capable successor to that earlier classic.
You can read our original review of Metroid Prime right here, if you like. We've updated it with IGN's new review formatting, making it look nicer than ever before. I'd also encourage you to walk through our full archive of articles covering MP over the years – it really has been a wild rollercoaster ride with this game. (And, since its release, with its many sequels.)
Yes, it's important to remember and recognize Metroid Prime, here 10 years after its debut, as waiting for it was, perhaps, the biggest test of patience Nintendo fans have ever had to endure. Much more than simply waiting in a line, sitting and shivering in anticipation of a new console release.
Though that moment with Reggie and the Wii U fans in New York does pose an interesting question, as we close – just why exactly was Metroid Prime at the forefront of the NOA President's mind? Perhaps Prime's story isn't yet done, and we'll soon see what connection Samus Aran may yet have with the all-new Wii U.
Lucas M. Thomas will never forget playing Metroid Prime, and the first time that an explosion in front of her visor caused Samus' eyes to be reflected back at her. You can follow Lucas on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.


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In 2009, Ryan Shaughnessy applied for a Class A LTC (license to carry) in Worcester. The authorizing agent, Chief Gary Gemme, after making sure Mr. Shaughnessy met the basic qualifications to own and use a firearm, granted the license, but with a sporting restriction.
Mr. Shaughnessy could only use the license for lawful recreational shooting or competition, the pursuit of game animals and birds, personal protection in the home, and outdoor recreational activities � hiking, camping, cross-country skiing, or similar activities.
Given that a Class A LTC entitles the holder to possess and to carry openly or concealed firearms that include large-capacity firearms with feeding devices, the sporting restriction seems practical, but Mr. Shaughnessy, with the help of the National Rifle Association, is suing Chief Gemme in U.S. District Court, contending that the restriction prevents him from using handguns for self protection, and thus infringes on his right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.
The suit, which includes five other plaintiffs against three other police chiefs in the state, is being argued by lawyer David D. Jensen of New York, and who was involved in December�s successful bid by gun rights� groups to get the 7th Circuit Court to overturn Illinois� ban on carrying concealed weapons.
The Massachusetts case is a bit different, as Illinois is the only state with an outright ban on carrying a concealed weapon. For example, the holder of a Class A LTC can carry a loaded handgun openly or in concealment in Massachusetts. The holder of a Class B LTC can carry a loaded handgun openly, but cannot conceal it.
The similarity between the two states, according to Mr. Jensen, is that both �concern the use of a gun for self protection.�
Winning this case in Massachusetts, however, might seem an uphill battle, considering that state law allows the local authorizing agent to restrict the possession, use and carrying of firearms, as they �deem proper.�
The state law appears to be the issue here, not the practice of the authorizing agents. But since the 11th Amendment prevents the plaintiffs from going after the state, Mr. Jensen said they are taking the customary route in such cases, going after the state actors, or the parties implementing the contested law.
Having participated in three such Second Amendment cases, Mr. Jensen anticipates the state�s general argument will be centered around public safety.
�It is exceedingly clear that states believe they have the right to put limitations on the use of firearms and the idea is to protect the public. Those (concerns) are valid reasons, but these restrictions, a sporting restriction for example, are not valid.�
An argument could be made that the Massachusetts law is too arbitrary, given that the roughly 351 authorizing agents in the state have taken various approaches to issuing licenses.
According to the suit, for example, about half of all the state localities generally issue unrestricted LTCs without restrictions to private citizens who request them.
Nevertheless, even in Worcester, which has four categories of license, sporting, target/hunting, employment and unrestricted, the number of unrestricted licenses issued far surpass those that are restricted.
According to Chief Gemme, there are about 3,800 Worcester residents, including some 400 law enforcement officials, licensed to carry a firearm. Only 760 have restrictions.
Those numbers would suggest the chief is being quite judicious in how he implements his weapons policy in a city of this size and complexity. He is not preventing people from bearing arms, he�s just trying to prevent Worcester from having a modern day gunfight at the OK Corral.


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MACON, Ga. (April 15, 2011) - The ETSU softball team's chances of making next month's Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament took a big hit on Friday evening as the Bucs were swept by Mercer 8-0 in game one (five innings) and 4-0 in the nightcap from Sikes Field in Macon, Ga.
The Bucs, who entered the day two spots out of the sixth and final spot of the double-elimination tournament, dropped to 14-26, 3-11 after being swept. Meanwhile, Mercer entered the day in sixth (removing FGCU from competition as the Eagles are ineligible for postseason play until 2012 due to NCAA reclassification rules) and the Bears improved to 23-17, 6-6 in conference play.
Game One Recap
Mercer's Kari Chambers tossed a two-hit shutout and she was rewarded with a six-run second as the Bears cruised to an 8-0 five-inning victory in the first game of the A-Sun doubleheader.
Junior Amy Campbell (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and sophomore Sam Lower (Sebring, Fla.) generated the only offense for the Blue and Gold as they each registered singles off Chambers, while senior righty Jessica Duncan (Ooltewah, Tenn.) suffered the loss (7-11). Duncan allowed eight runs (seven earned) on ten hits in 4.2 innings of work. Chambers, who tossed her fourth shutout of the year, improved to 11-8 as she struck out six and walked none.
Mercer broke the game open in the second when the Bears loaded the bases with one out, and recorded four singles and a walk to take a 6-0 lead. Duncan finally worked out of the long inning by forcing Sara Stukes to pop out to short and Amanda Santa Maria was doubled off at second when she broke to third before the catch by Sam Lower.
From there, neither team lit up the scoreboard until McKenzie Woody worked a two-out bases load walk to plate the Bears' seventh run and Santa Maria ended the game with an RBI single to right-center in the fifth to make it an 8-0 final.
Campbell notched her single in the first and Lower recorded her hit in the fourth, while the one through three hitters for Mercer combined to go six for ten with six RBI.
Game Two Recap
Mercer scored two runs in the fourth and added two more in the sixth, while Jenni Holtz tossed her second shutout of the season, and Bucs fell to Mercer in the nightcap, 4-0.
Amy Campbell recorded her fifth multi-hit game of the year by going 2-for-4 with a double, while Katie Henderson (Jackson, Tenn.) also reached base twice by doubling in the first and walking in the fifth.
Once again the Blue and Gold offense couldn't muster anything as ETSU has now only scored one run in the last 22 innings. With the lack of run support, freshman Katie Wolff (LaGrange, Texas) saw her record fall to 1-7 after allowing four runs (two earned) on seven hits in 5.1 innings of work. Holtz improved her record to 11-9 after tossing the seven-hit shutout and posted seven strike outs.
After both teams missed on scoring chances early in the game, Mercer finally scratched a pair of runs across the plate in the fourth when two Bear runners came around to score on Anna Johnson's one-out single to left - giving the home team a 2-0 advantage. A fielding error by Sade Johnson (Lawrenceville, Ga.) on the play let pinch runner Heather Strange score all the way from first, while Tiffany Phillips - who led off the inning with a walk - scored from second.
Mercer added two insurance runs in the sixth to take a 4-0 lead, and the Bears capped off the sweep by turning a triple play in the seventh to walk away with the four-run victory.
The Bucs - who didn't have a runner reach second base in game one - wasted little time making that happen in the nightcap as Henderson ripped a two-out double to the fence in left in the top of the first and moved to third on Sam Lower's single through the left side. Unfortunately, Wolff was unable to help her cause as she hit into an inning-ending fly out to right.
Mercer also missed on a scoring opportunity in the bottom half of the inning as McKenzie Woody led things off with a single and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt. However, Woody was left stranded after Wolff got Kassie Bailey to ground out to short and forced Sara Stukes to foul out.
Once again both teams left runners in scoring position in the second, but Mercer finally scratched runs across the dish in the fourth to snap a scoreless game.
The Blue and Gold threatened in the fifth when the Bucs loaded the bases after Campbell laced a two-out double to center, and following a Henderson walk, Lower was hit by a pitch. Although, it was Wolff again, who couldn't come through with the clutch hit as she tapped a grounder to short for the third out.
From there, Mercer added its two additional runs in the sixth and poured more salt into the Buccaneer wounds by turning the triple play to end the game.
The Bucs wrap up the road swing on Saturday afternoon when ETSU takes on Kennesaw State. First pitch of the A-Sun doubleheader is set for 2 p.m. at Bailey Park.
For more information on Buccaneer softball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com or follow the Bucs on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ETSUAthletics.


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Slowdowns ahead for motorists as I-93 expansion nears 2014 finish
By APRIL GUILMET
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Construction crews work on the new southbound bridge over Route 111 in Windham on Monday as part of Interstate 93's ongoing expansion program. (APRIL GUILMET PHOTO)
With the spring construction season officially underway, travelers on Interstate 93 can expect some delays.
State transportation officials say the $800 million highway-widening project is expected to make significant progress from Exit 1 in Salem to Exit 5 in Londonderry.
The ambitious project to create a six-lane, 20-mile stretch of highway from the Massachusetts border to Manchester started in 2007 with the construction of the Exit 4 Park-n-Ride in Londonderry, according to I-93 Project Manager Peter Stamnas.
On Monday night, work on the new Exit 2 interchange began in Salem, with the installation of a portable concrete barrier along I-93 southbound. Work on the $43.7 million barrier project, which will continue for at least another year, is being done by George R. Cairns & Sons of Windham.
Department of Transportation spokesman Bill Boynton said the work will take place from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m., and will continue through Friday.
"It's anticipated this work will take five nights to complete, although additional days may be needed," Boynton said.
Project supervisor Jay Levine said the temporary barriers would serve to separate highway traffic from the work zone.
A temporary barrier on the northbound side will be installed next week.
"Once those shifts happen, we can begin hanging steel on the northbound bridge," said Levine, noting that's expected to happen toward the end of April. "This summer southbound traffic will go over a temporary bridge as we begin construction on the new median."
During construction on both sides, traffic will be reduced to one lane.
Exit 1 work
An extensive project surrounding Exit 1 is now in the final stages and should be completed this summer, according to Levine.
Improvements at Exit 1 include new northbound and southbound ramps, as well as the widening of both mainlines and replacement of both the north and southbound bridges over Lowell Road.
"We've still got quite a bit of cleanup work to do," Levine said, noting both the northbound and southbound segments near Exit 1 would be paved this summer.
Middlesex Corporation of Littleton, Mass., is in charge of the $30 million Exit 1 ramps, widening and bridgework project.
Salem Town Manager Keith Hickey said local safety officials are gearing up for some challenging months, but are keeping their eyes on the prize.
"We'll just have to deal with a little pain for a little longer before we can enjoy the benefits those changes will bring," Hickey said Monday.
Exit 3
Over Exit 3 in Windham, the reconstruction of I-93's southbound mainline bridge over Route 111 and Route 111A is ongoing.
"You'll see more and more of our trucks crossing over Route 111," Levine said."
The $35.1 million southbound widening project, which is being done by R.S. Audley, Inc., of Bow, will ultimately result in the relocation of a section of Route 111.
Another Bow company, E.D. Swett, Inc., has Exit 3's $12.1 million bridge replacement project.
The bridges will be completed sometime this September if all goes as planned.
And that means those living nearby can expect plenty of daytime blasting, Levine said.
He noted that construction crews are making one exception - blasting near a Windham kindergarten won't be done until after 6:30 p.m.
The two new bridges over Exit 3 should be completed later this year, though won't likely be open to traffic until late next year.
Exit 5
At Exit 5 in Londonderry, project plans include improvements to Route 28 and a new northbound interchange.
Severino Trucking Company of Candia has the project's $36.7 million bid.
The project should be completed by June 2014, officials said.
Final stretch
Stamnas said the final stretch of the project is scheduled to begin in fall 2014, with $231 million dedicated to construction of the northern segment.
Another $19 million will be devoted to the construction of Exit 4A, he said.
Stamnas said the state DOT has been given legislative authority to issue additional bonds to complete the project.
To date, $314 million in total construction projects are active or have been completed.
Another $38 million in construction project advertisements are required to complete mainline priorities, meaning the stretch of highway connecting the Massachusetts border to the weigh stations north of Exits 3 and 5.
Those mainline priority projects should be completed in 2016, Stamnas noted, though the entire project won't be finished until 2020.
Within the coming three years, project officials said the plan is to build over three miles of a new southbound section of the highway in the Exit 3 area. A big chunk of that project, which entails $40 million in ramp construction, will go to bid in September, Levine said.
"The final job there will be to build northbound on- and off-ramps, and address changes to Route 111A and the Route 111 intersection," Levine said on Monday. "That's when we'll be removing a lot of the northbound section that's no longer being used. It should clean up that area nicely."


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Mrs. Barbara Stasiuk Daigle of Westbrookville, NY, passed away Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at her home, with her family by her side. She was 66.
She was born in Long Island, NY, the daughter of the late Ernest and the late Dorothy Reynolds.
She was married over 30 years to her loving husband, Raoul "Ralph" Daigle who passed away May 29th of this year.
She was a caregiver to all! She was a kind, loving woman who always put others before herself. She especially loved her family, children, and her grandchildren were very special to her. She enjoyed pets, gardening, holidays, crafts, cooking and baking. Mom was a simple woman, didn't have many wants. A great day was one spent at home. She will be greatly missed.
Surviving are two sons, Stefan Stasiuk of Cuddebackville, NY and Bill Stasiuk of Westbrookville, NY; two daughters, Anne Wagner of Oklahoma and Laura Stasiuk of Westbrookville, NY; four grandchildren: Victoria Bloom, Benjamin, Hailey and Stefan Stasiuk, III; her siblings: William, Bet and Fred Reynolds.
Friends may call at the Gray-Parker Funeral Home, Inc., 100 East Main Street, Port Jervis on Friday, November 16, 2012 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Gray-Parker Funeral Home. Burial will follow at the Westbrookville Cemetery, Westbrookville, NY.
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Ahead of the Vanguard Conference on urban innovation taking place in Cleveland next week, the PreservationNation Blog offers a photo essay of five reasons to love the Rust Belt. They are: space to dream big; art to turn heads; good building stock; a can-do attitude; and a propensity for personal reflection. (That last one seems a bit of a stretch, but we'll take it.) Vanguard is a fellowship program "that gathers emerging urban leaders working to improve cities across such various fields as urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media," according to material from Next City, the conference organizer. (Next City describes itself as a nonprofit media organization "dedicated to promoting socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America's cities and examining how and why our built environment, economy, society and culture are changing.") More than 40 young leaders — people under age 40 — from 28 cities will visit Cleveland for a series of presentations, workshops, tours and other activities. Vanguard members will visit 25 different places in and around downtown. On their itinerary: a boat tour of Cuyahoga River waterfront development, a bike ride through the Detroit Shoreway and Ohio City neighborhoods, and a tour of the East Side's emerging urban agriculture scene. Vanguard members will hear talks given by local leaders including Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman; Terry Schwarz, director of Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative; and Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc.
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At Harvard and elsewhere, college students such as Youngstown's Shannon Lytle are turning away from English, philosophy, history, etc., in favor of majors they believe will give them an edge in the job market. The Wall Street Journal says a new report from the humanities division at Harvard "suggests the division aggressively market itself to freshmen and sophomores, create a broader interdisciplinary framework to retain students and build an internship network to establish the value of the degree in the workforce." Among recent college graduates who majored in English, the unemployment rate was 9.8%, The Journal says. For philosophy and religious-studies majors, it was 9.5%; and for history majors, it was also 9.5%, according to a report this month by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute that used data from 2010 and 2011. By comparison, the paper notes, "recent chemistry graduates were unemployed at a rate of just 5.8%; and elementary-education graduates were at 5%." Students seem to be aware of the numbers; in 2010, just 7% of college graduates nationally majored in the humanities, down from 14% in 1966, The Journal says. Mr. Lytle, 19, who is heading into his sophomore year at Harvard, tells the newspaper he considered majoring in history, but instead he will pick computer science when he declares a concentration in a few months. "People say you should do what you love," he says. "But the reality is that it's kind of a tougher economic time, and we do have to worry about living after graduation. I don't want to be doing what I love and be homeless."
Remember this, jobseekers: Forbes.com rounds up the 10 U.S. companies with the most summer jobs still available, and one of them is the Highland Heights-based Things Remembered chain, which sells engraved gifts such as photo frames, decanters and martini glasses. "These are not jobs that require a college degree and the store associates make minimum wage," the website notes. "Store managers can do a little better, starting at $30,000 a year," and according to Amy Myers, vice president of creative services at Things Remembered, managers can earn more with experience. She says the company's 700 openings aren't technically summer jobs, but rather "core" positions. The company is hiring now and needs people to work over the summer, according to Forbes.com. One tip from Ms. Myers: If you want to work for Things Remembered, the best way to apply "is not through a faceless website, but by approaching a store manager in your community," the website reports. Pure energy: Northeast Ohio gets a quick mention in today's column by David Brooks of The New York Times, which highlights a new book arguing there's a "power inversion" taking place in the country. The book is "The Metropolitan Revolution," by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley of the Brookings Institution. Mr. Brooks says they write that as Washington, D.C., has become increasingly paralyzed, the federal government becomes less energetic and city, state and regional governments become more so. In turn, Mr. Brooks writes, "Economic changes also reinforce regional concentration. For decades, companies sought to protect their intellectual property by isolating their research-and-development functions in suburban research parks. But now scientific breakthroughs are less likely to come from discrete teams. They tend to come from large, loose networks of researchers brought together in physical proximity. It makes sense to locate research facilities in urban districts, often around urban universities, where researchers will make wider and more flexible contacts." Thus, according to Mr. Brooks, "Leaders in northeastern Ohio can focus on their region's historic strengths, including a history of expertise with polymers. That leads to certain concrete opportunities — the chance to get into flexible electronics, which are very thin electronic components attached to flexible materials. They can design specific policies around concrete circumstances." Along for the ride: Ryder Systems Inc. the largest commercial fleet leasing company in the United States, is working with about 50 companies, including Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Inc., that are beginning to test the use of natural gas in their truck fleets. Scott Perry, vice president of supply management for Miami-based Ryder, tells Bloomberg that the number of partners is up from 12 two years ago. The degree to which companies are embracing natural gas as a transportation fuel means its use will keep growing and supplant some diesel demand, Mr. Perry notes. He tells Bloomberg that the development of fueling stations, truck engines and lower-cost manufacturing capabilities also is rising. "There are so many positive variables there," including abundant supply, environmental benefits and cost, he says. By the numbers: Education Week reports the financial health of three U.S. school districts — including Cleveland's — facing significant teacher-pension liabilities "varies greatly based on the choices lawmakers have made to deal with the debts," according to a new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning think tank. The study projects how the pension costs in Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Cleveland will fare financially through 2020. The scenarios are quite different. "In Milwaukee, savings have been effected because of the controversial 2011 Act 10, which removed retiree health benefits from the scope of collective bargaining and required teachers pay half of their annual pension contribution," Education Week says. "In Cleveland, legislative changes have raised employee benefits and reduced contributions, but those alterations will be felt primarily by new employees; and Philadelphia, which is in big trouble because of uncertainties about whether the state will continue to help pay some of its share. Under a worst-case scenario, pensions could account for 13 percent of Philadelphia's budget by 2020." In all, "the report estimates that per-pupil retirement costs will rise by just $64 in Milwaukee, actually fall by $107 in Cleveland, and will skyrocket to between $752 to $1,923 in Philadelphia," according to the story.
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There are plenty of reasons to fret over Carlos Vela's maddening decision to stay away from El Tri once again.
The forward is in the form of his life, fits a need for a flexible shadow striker to play alongside Chicharito, and just makes Mexico a better team.
And after this latest mess – in which the FMF tried its best to get Vela back and he still refused – may just mean the end of Vela's chances of being in Brazil next year.
But don't pull your hair out just yet, El Tri fans. Here are some reasons not to worry about this crazy Vela situation:
There's no immediate urgency to get Vela in.
From El Tri's point of view, Mexico certainly doesn't need Carlos Vela for the opening round match up with Jamaica in the Hexagonal. There's another round of games coming up in March where Vela's inclusion would be more useful – El Tri plays at Honduras and home to the U.S. in March – and inclusion for that series makes perfect sense.
If Vela is called in for the March matches and accepts, this whole incident will be over with and forgotten.
There are others perfectly capable of playing those spots.
In the meantime, there are other players in the system who can hold their own just fine in the spots Vela might occupy. It would be great to see an in-form Vela alongside Chicharito up top, but it's entirely possible that Chepo de la Torre would continue to prefer the size of Aldo Di Nigris or shifty goal getting of Oribe Peralta at that forward spot.
If Vela drops into a wing position, he's going to necessarily occupy the place of Javier Aquino, Gio Dos Santos or Marco Fabian, all players that bring equally dangerous attacking skills to the table.
Finally, Club America forward and Olympic hero Raul Jimenez has been called into the full team for a well deserved chance, but may have lost his place for the qualifiers had Vela been on board (he could still be dropped). Jimenez's stock has risen like a rocket at the onset of the Clausura 2013, and given the chance he could develop into a viable alternative for Vela by summer 2014.
This may not be the end of the story.
For all the fretting, there has been some indication from both sides that this is hardly the end of the line for Vela.
Chepo de la Torre has already said that Vela's personal reasons are valid ones, as hard as that may be to fathom without more information. Vela himself held a press conference to tell worried Mexicans that he still loves his country. That should mean that he still wants to play for it, too, eventually.
So at least there's no open posturing going on here that could lead to problems down the line.
Good news could be on the way.
Vela's personal reasons are the X-factor here. There's little sense in speculating about what might be going in his personal life, but could those reasons actually be professional?
There are only a few days left in the transfer window in Europe. Could a big club in need of a striking fix be after the red hot Mexican?
If so, it still wouldn't be a good reason to miss a FIFA match date. But it would, at least, satisfy the crowd calling for Vela's head. Until, that is, the next call-up list without him comes out.
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Apotheosis of the Medici by Luca Giordano, early 1680s
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ST. PAUL - The country's economy could worsen if the federal government sends aid to financially hurting states, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty warned Tuesday after meeting with the in-coming president.
"It is gravely concerning, the amount of money being thrown at this problem," Pawlenty told reporters, predicting harmful inflation due to federal deficit spending.
"The states should substantially fix their own problems," the Republican governor told a reporter in Philadelphia, where he and other governors met with president-elect Barack Obama.
However, in talking to Minnesota reporters later, Pawlenty said that he would reserve final judgment about whether he would accept Washington money until he sees a specific proposal.
Many governors were eager to get federal funds.
"It is going to help us," said Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, like Obama a Democrat.
However, even Doyle's support came with a caveat: "There is not enough federal money in the world to take care of the deficits states are facing."
"We are going to have to make very deep cuts in state budgets and they are going to be very painful," Doyle said.
About 45 states face substantial budget deficits. Minnesota probably will be one of them, but official word will not come until Thursday.
Minnesota officials are braced for a deficit predicted to be $4 billion to $6 billion. The Minnesota Management and Budget Department on Thursday announces the size of the deficit lawmakers and Pawlenty must bridge in the two-year budget that begins July 1.
The current state budget tops $34 billion, but Pawlenty has ordered his agency heads to give him plans for spending less money.
While Pawlenty talked about "the need to put a limit on the nation's credit card, or better yet, tear it up," he also said that since Minnesota sends more money to Washington than it gets in return that he could consider accepting federal aid.
Obama gave the governors few specifics about an economic recovery plan, Pawlenty said, but promised to include money for infrastructure - such as road construction - in the program he wants Congress to pass next month.
Pawlenty complained that from what he knows about past federal assistance programs, states could be required to maintain some programs' current spending levels if federal money comes their way.
While on national television it appeared that Pawlenty was firmly against federal aid, he told Minnesota reporters that he might consider it: "It will depend on the strings attached."
Pawlenty said he briefly talked one on one with Obama about energy issues, receiving a promise that Obama's staff would be in touch with his office on the matter.
Upper Midwestern states like Minnesota that have emerging clean energy-related industries should benefit from an Obama economic recovery package, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said, because Obama would spend billions of dollars to increase energy production.
Klobuchar said infrastructure aid should be part of an Obama economy recovery plan and predicted it will receive bipartisan support.
"This administration does not intent to delay in getting you the help you really need," Obama told governors.
Doyle said federal funds could help his state plug a $5.4 billion deficit in the next two-year budget and $500 million in the current budget.
He said there is "no doubt there will be reductions in jobs" throughout state government.
The story is similar in many states.
"Over the next two years, $140 billion of deficits will be facing state governments and that is a conservative estimate," said Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who heads the National Governors' Association. "We believe the number could go as high as $200 billion."
How to fund federal aid to states remains unanswered.
Klobuchar said that while Obama promised during the campaign that he would provide ways to fund all of his proposals, the economy is such an emergency situation now that funding decisions can come later.
Wheeler News Service and Stateline.org contributed to this story.


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SMILA/Documentation/HowTo/Howto integrate a component in SMILA
This page summarizes the different types and complexity levels for the integration of components in SMILA.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conventions
- 3 Integrating BPEL service
- 4 Enhanced: Integrating own workers
- 5 Integrating data sources
- 6 Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
Due to its architecture SMILA allows for the easy integration of third-party components into its framework. Actually there are three different possible integration scenarios available that are depicted in the following table.
|Integrating BPEL service
|This is probably the most frequently used integration scenario. It allows for the integration or exchange of functionality (services, 3rd party software, etc.) used to process records in the workflow engine.
|The figure demonstrates how you can integrate the functionality of your service or your piece of software to SMILA by adding it to the workflow engine.
|Integrating data sources
|Integrating your own crawler or agent implementations is another common scenario for adding functionality to SMILA. By doing so, further data sources can be unlocked to provide additional input to SMILA.
|The figure above exemplary shows how you can add your own crawler implementation to SMILA. Please note that though you may also add an agent implementation likewise this option is not shown in the figure. This was chosen due to simplicity.
|Integrating workers
|Integrating your own worker implementation is another common scenario for adding functionality or adapting workflows to SMILA.
|The figure above exemplary shows how you can add your own worker implementation to SMILA. Please note that you also have to add the worker to the job manager configuration files (workers.json, workflows.json) and add your worker as an OSGi service to activate it.
|Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
|This scenario is particularly intended for the experienced (SMILA) developer and comprises the possibility to exchange existing implementations of the SMILA core components by your own implementations.
|The figure above demonstrates how two of the SMILA core components -- connectivity and data store -- may be exchanged by your own implementations. These components serve as examples only, that is, you may also exchange other core components such as the blackboard service or the delta indexing manager.
Handling of Character Encoding
To make processing of data in SMILA easier: If external data must be converted to a string (e.g. an attribute value), the crawler, agent or any other component accessing an external data source should try everything that is possible to ensure that the conversion is done using the correct encoding. For example, HTTP clients should use the encoding reported by the HTTP server. If the data source does not provide information about the character encoding, you can use the class org.eclipse.smila.utils.file.EncodingHelper that tries to convert a byte[] to a string by trying to detect the correct encoding from a byte[] by checking BOMs or checking XML and HTML content for instructions and finally by using UTF-8 or, if this fails, the default platform encoding. You may find this helpful.
On the other hand, if valid string data must be converted to a byte[] (e.g. if it is stored as a attachment after pipelet processing), the conversion must always use UTF-8 encoding.
Integrating BPEL service
As already shown in the overview above, SMILA offers the possibility to integrate your own service or piece of software into SMILA BPEL workflows. In SMILA we simply call these workflows pipelines. A pipeline is the definition of a BPEL process (or workflow) that orchestrates pipelets and other BPEL services (e.g. web services).
There are several options on how to achieve this:
- Simple: The easiest method to add functionality is to invoke a web service by using the standard functionality of BPEL. However, the disadvantage is that not all data of SMILA records are accessible if you opt for this method of integration.
- Default: The recommended way to integrate additional functionality in SMILA is to provide Java implementations of an interface that allow for an easy creation of the above mentioned pipelets.
- Advanced: (idea, not realized yet) This method extends the default mechanism by providing an alternative procedure for integrating OSGi services that do not run in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow but in another OSGI runtime that may even run on a remote machine.
Simple: Integrating web services
The simplest way of integrating additional functionality in SMILA is to call a web service, which is a standard BPEL workflow engine functionality independent of SMILA. However, there are some limitations concerning the input and result data to/from web services: The workflow object (a DOM object) that enters the BPEL workflow in SMILA contains only the record IDs by default. That means records and the data contained therein - attributes, annotations, and attachments - are not accessible from a BPEL workflow because it can only access and use the values contained in the BPEL workflow object.
To overcome this restriction you can add additional data to the workflow object by adding filters in the configuration file located at org.eclipse.smila.blackboard/RecordFilters.xml. These filter rules define which attributes and annotations should be copied to the workflow object to make them accessible in the BPEL workflow. Additionally, you should not forget to include all attributes and annotations in the RecordFilters.xml file that you wish to write data to. Though filters work on attributes and annotations there is no possibility to access attachments of records because binary data is not reasonable in DOM.
A good example for this use case is the integration of the Language Weaver web service. The Language Weaver Translation Server provides a web service interface that translates a text into another language. This service could easily be used within SMILA to extend its functionality.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Default: Integrating local SMILA pipelets
The default and thus recommended technique to integrate simple and small functionality or software in SMILA is to provide a pipelet that runs in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow engine. Pipelets are easy to implement as they require only standard Java knowledge. They are not shared between multiple pipelines, even multiple invocations of a Pipelet in the same Pipeline do not share the same instance. The lifecycle and configuration of pipelets is managed by the workflow engine, not by OSGi runtime. For further information on pipelets refer to the Pipelets documentation.
The above mentioned restriction of integrated web services using the BPEL default engine functionality does not apply to pipelets. Both have full access to SMILA records by using the [SMILA/Glossary#B|blackboard service]], which makes it easy to read, modify, and store records.
In general pipelets follow the same (sometimes optional) logical steps (of course this depends highly on the business logic to be executed). These steps are:
- Read the configuration (optional)
- Read input data from blackboard (optional)
- Execute the business logic
- Write result data to blackboard (optional)
In terms of the pipelet that implements the business logic you are totally free to use any desired technology. Some of the posibilities include:
- Using POJOs (For examples refer to the XML processing pipelets)
- Using any local available OSGi service (For an example refer to the LuceneSearchPipelet that uses a LuceneSearchService)
- Using other technologies such as JNI, RMI, or CORBA to integrate remote or non Java components (As an example consider the integration of Oracle Outside In Technology.)
- Typical examples for pipelets are the XML processing pipelets. These lightweight pipelets are used for XML processing (e.g. XSL transformation). Each pipeline uses its own pipelet instance.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Advanced: Integrating remote services
Enhanced: Integrating own workers
When the desired changes are not simple and small or the desired functionality requires more than just accessing the records, it is recommended to integrate your functionality as new workers. These workers have to be defined in the asynchronous job processing configuration and can then be integrated in workflows.
A worker is an OSGi service, that implements the Worker interface, i.e. provides a name (to collect tasks and to be identified in workflows) and offers a threadsafe perform method, which takes a TaskContext object (generated by the WorkerManager) as an argument.
Normally the worker will handle a bulk of records in the perform method, manipulate the contained records, may access external services or stores and create new bulks of records.
The worker does not have to handle tasks or check if tasks are available. These menial jobs are done by the WorkerManager that cares for all registered workers, handles the invocations of their perform methods and copes with input and output bulks, up-scaling or exception handling. The worker just has to provide the pefrom method to deal with the records.
If the worker needs direct access to the JobManager/TaskManager, e.g. because it is an initial worker and has to get initial tasks to start workflow runs, it must not register itself as a Worker service but has to tackle TaskManager and JobManager itself. Be careful, this is tedious work! So if possible stick to the Worker interface and let everything else be handled by the WorkerManager.
Further reading
Please consult at least the following pages about asynchronous job processing:
Integrating data sources
Due to the architecture of the SMILA connectivity framework it is easy to include additional data sources by providing appropriate implementations of agents and/or crawlers.
- A typical agent is a FilesystemWatcher. It monitors a folder (or folder structure) for changes (creation, modification, or deletion of files/folders) and reports those actions to SMILA.
- Typical crawlers are the FilesystemCrawler or the WebCrawler. The first iterates over a folder structure and sends all encountered files to SMILA. The latter traverses the links of HTML pages, follows links to other HTML pages, and sends these pages as well as other resources (images, PDF files, etc.) to SMILA.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
The component-based architecture of SMILA even allows you to provide your own implementations of SMILA core components. More info coming soon...
A typical example is an alternative implementation of the DeltaIndexingManager that does not store its state in memory but in the file system or in a database.
Further reading


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