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We have been doing extensive testing on various platforms to determine what platform is best for eBay sellers to migrate to, or to start with. We have reviewed many platforms for sellers migrating from ProStores and MagentoGo with mixed results.
Most of the modestly priced contenders for multi channel eCommerce with eBay listing ability are priced at somewhere in the vicinity of 79. per month with the need for a module priced at 99. a month so you're total is about $179 a month. Smaller boutique sellers don't want to pay that price.We get it. There are other things more important, such as advertising and promoting websites. Why pay more than you have to.
There are also solutions that are in the range of $300 a month, and then there are those that are $700-2000 a month once you get all the bells and whistles.
So what is the affordable way of doing this?
eBay and Multi Channel eCommerce that is affordable
Now let's look at a contender in the field – Highwire.
Highwire is a contender for those who want to sell multi channel with eBay for a few notable reasons.
- The price is right at $29.95 with no transaction fees.
- It actually syncs and works
- It has eBay listing templates that you need to make your eBay perform in sales
- It is made by Inkfrog and is a stable environment. Inkfrog has been around for years and is a well loved platform for listing to eBay.
- It has many themes and the ability to customize themes.
- Yes, I know there are other affordable solutions but do they actually work, can you set them up quickly?
- So far, so good with Highwire. We have not found any issues here.
Inventory Management for eCommerce and eBay
Another interesting note is the Inkfrog new add-ons for Shopify and coming soon for BigCommerce. Both of these platforms are good, they are robust and they are not that expensive. Notes on this add-on are:
- It syncs one way – that is it will get your Shopify or BigCommerce items into Inkfrog.
- Inkfrog is a good listing system with the ability to make nice eBay templates and hold profiles.
The other solutions for Multi Channel eCommerce – what to look for:
Support: For US eBay sellers there is another thing involved and that is support. Many of the moderately priced alternatives are based in the UK and they lag for support. In fact, in our testing we could barely get a hold a trial account with a few who require a phone call first in order to set you up. Not only that but require a phone call and make it virtually impossible for a busy seller to get on the line with them. The window for support is something like 6am to 9am which is clearly not adequate for many sellers.
Longevity and Stability: Also many of the others are less than a couple years old. Personally I could not recommend a product to my customer that is a year or two old when they have hardly hit a single holiday shopping period to really find out if the rubber can meet the road when I really need them to.
Features: We look for eBay Templates, because in order to make money in eBay you have to look professional. Those who tout a 30% conversion increase are off the charts, bordering on lies, but there is conversion increases in using eBay templates. Also we look for ability to design a webstore the way you want it, left nav, right nav, top nav, dropdown menus, featured products on home page, banners, etc. We can not please our customers if we have to offer them a compromise on design.
Inventory Management: What is the point of multi channel selling if you can not control your inventory? Sync both ways, near immediate sync not once a day inventory management.
Templates and Profiles: A large seller needs to be able to format across the entire group of listings so that when he changes one thing it changes everywhere. Large sellers can not be in there modifying thousands of listings one by one.


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Pauline Miller is Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Lloyd's Corporation
and responsible for all diversity and inclusion strategies across Lloyd's to create a
diverse and inclusive workplace. One of the most senior Diversity and Inclusion
professionals in insurance, Pauline advises and supports the Inclusion at Lloyd's
consultative group (a collaboration between Lloyd's corporation, Lloyd's
Managing Association, Managing Agents, Brokers and other key stakeholders) on
Diversity and Inclusion for the Lloyd's Market. Pauline has led and implemented
a number of global projects including accountability for inclusion, employee engagement, building inclusive cultures and unconscious bias. Prior to joining Lloyd's, Pauline held positions at State Street,
Barclays Wealth and Barclays Capital within Diversity and Talent Development. Pauline is an active member of her community, a school governor for a local Infant and Nursery School and a mentor for teenage girls and women at the early stages of their career.

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Easton High School junior Ian Young is honored to have been selected to attend the Boston University Tanglewood Institute this summer.
BUTI's Young Artists Vocal Program has been an important stepping-stone for young vocalists seeking to enroll in one of the competitive music schools and/or conservatories. Many vocal program alumni have gone on to be winners of prestigious competitions and are successful professionals in opera, oratorio, and recital.
As one of the leading summer institutes for advanced young singers, The Young Artists Vocal Program nurtures and encourages the development of gifted high-school-aged singers geared toward professional studies. The intensive curriculum provides a conservatory model of training in the components essential for well-educated singers: vocal technique, musicianship, and performance.
On May 22nd Ian will perform a recital including classical, art songs, show tunes and contemporary music at the Academy Art Museum. All proceeds from the concert will be used towards the tuition for Ian to attend this unparalleled program for young artists.
Wednesday, May 22nd – 7pm
The Academy Art Museum
106 South Street • Easton MD, 21601
Tickets: $20 adults
$10 students
To find out more about Ian Young, please see his resume.


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A pair of straight 4mm (US 6) knitting needles
2 - 3 skeins (100g each) worsted weight yarn
50g worsted or bulky yarn for pompoms
Cardboard (for making pompoms)
PomPoms Pompoms are a lot of fun to make. If you don't have a pompom loom (available at craft stores) you'll have to make them the old fashioned way, using two rings cut from cardboard. If you're new to this craft, read my blog post with instructions. And just a note: I actually prefer the 'old fashioned' cardboard ring method because it creates a denser pompom.
When making pompoms the size of the ring = the size of the pompom. For my scarf I made two pompoms on cardboard rings 7.5 cm (or 3 inches) in diameter.


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The Long Road Ahead
by Kathy Sebright
What can I say to a group of hearts I understand so intimately?
I know from experience I can't take away your pain with words. I know from experience that no amount of understanding and empathetic head nodding will heal your broken heart. I know each of our struggles are both very different and yet very much the same. Our children are different and we are different because of it, and that is exactly what makes us the same regardless of the specifics. Whether you were given a shocking diagnosis in a small sterile room, or you always knew something was wrong and actively searched for an explanation, or your child was completely healthy until one day he just wasn't–we are all traveling the same long road.
It can be such a lonely, overwhelming, and painfully joyous road. It's a road filled with such deep lows and such great highs that there are no words to adequately explain it. But I don't need to explain it to you because you have been there like I have. You've seen the monsters in the trees. You've felt the wind forcing you backwards. You've tripped and stumbled over some of the same roots I have.
And like me, you've stood back up despite the fact that it would just be easier to lie there on the road and wait for someone to come rescue you. You stood tall, gritted your teeth, and kept going with no real destination in sight.
Thus is a parent's love. Endless, enduring, always moving forward even in the wake of fear, pain, and doubt.
Having been a very dedicated distance runner for about nine years, I had loved running for a long time. I knew who I was when I ran, I knew where I was going, I knew what I wanted to do in this life, and I was so sure of the road ahead of me.
That all changed when my one-year-old son was diagnosed almost two years ago. I was blindsided. Life fell apart around me. Even more so, I fell apart myself. But I kept running, day after day, out of a sense of obligation to my old life and my old self.
I was going through the motions until one day I felt a spark of hope. I found power I didn't know I had and I found the feeling of freedom at last. The road stripped away all of my defenses, all of my pretending, all of my noble intentions of being "strong" and exposed me for the truest person I was underneath. I could run as hard as I wanted, cry until I couldn't catch my breath, scream in anguish, pray desperately, collapse on the ground in the dirt, and then get back up and do it all some more. The road didn't judge me. It didn't matter what was wrong, only that I was out there trying to lose myself in the miles.
But when all was said and done, I didn't actually lose myself or anything else out there on the road. I found my new self in those miles. I uncovered the person I am today. I ran into her, almost literally.
The freedom offered in running is intoxicating. If you let it in, running can transform you, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually, too. The wind in your hair, the sound of your footsteps, the sights blurring by, even the pain in your legs can become a trusted companion. With each step you take, you are stronger, braver, and more capable of overcoming anything in front of you. Everyday life and situations can be seen in metaphor and in relation to your running.
A new perspective born out of every mile and light at the end of the tunnel.
When so much of your life is devoted to taking care of a child who is not well or has special needs, it can be hard to justify doing something for yourself. It can be downright scary, too. We spend so much of our life facing the great, big unknown, but what if this specific unknown could bring you to a new place? What if this specific unknown could change your entire life? How will you ever know it can't if you don't try?
What lies ahead on the open road is vast. It is there for the taking. You just have to be willing to reach out and grab it. Doing something for yourself, especially exercise, is a great stress reducer, confidence builder, and can give you the courage to face your day. I know it's hard, but I encourage you to get out there and just put one foot in front of the other.
Start small. If you believe you can do it, then you can. We must love and nourish ourselves in order to best love and nourish our children. It's for us, but it's also for them.
Thus is a parent's love. Endless, enduring, always moving forward, even in the wake of fear, pain, and doubt.
Author: Kathy Sebright • Date: 10/24/2014
About the Author
Kathy Sebright is an ambassador for Heart Strides. Heart Strides encourages mothers that have children with special needs, health challenges, and life threatening diagnoses to take charge of their physical and emotional health through movement by giving them a pair of running shoes. Kathy also volunteers for Broken But Priceless Ministries and works part time while raising two boys ages three and six with her husband of 10 years. Most days Kathy can be found running for hours or pouring out a never-ending stream of words and thoughts onto paper while the world is still asleep. You can find Heart Strides on Facebook or contact Kathy through her Facebook page.


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"Hold your breath, dance slowly," invites artist Lee Kit. As you walk into the dimly lit galleries, wandering from space to space, or nook to nook, you find yourself doing just that: holding your breath in quiet anticipation of what is to come. And perhaps if the gallery assistants were not standing guard you would dance, or at the very least catch yourself swaying as you move to the melody of Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love (1961), a karaoke instrumental version of which permeates the exhibition space.
Curated by Misa Jeffereis, the Walker exhibition marks Lee's first US solo show and is presented as part of a two-part exhibition. (A small sound in your head, curated by Martin Germann at SMAK, Ghent, will open on May 28.) With gentle care and great sensitivity, Lee offers us an interior space, a domestic space, and perhaps what is usually coded as a female space. Forgoing the open-plan galleries many contemporary artists and artworks seem to favor these days, the architecture of the show evokes an interior with many walls, doorways, hallways, and closet-like niches that are populated with wardrobes, tables, and other household furnishings.
Using floor lamps and the soft light that spills over from the many projections that punctuate the gallery, Lee casts a warm glow on the unremarkable actions we tend to perform behind closed doors: The works in the show incorporate objects of an intimate nature, ranging from bathroom products (Nivea cream, Smith's lip balm, Johnson's baby oil, etc.) to a shower stall situated in a corner of the exhibition. Beyond these direct references to commonplace consumer products, his works more broadly evoke the daily regimen of personal hygiene and care that we conduct in private. We are shown fragments of hands and soles of feet, body parts that heighten our sensations of touch and which we can imagine caressing with the various creams and lotions alluded to throughout the exhibition.
Though deeply personal, the show suggests an intimacy not limited to the artist himself. You can feel traces of the body, an unspecified, non-gendered body, that had inhabited the space before: Folding chairs are arranged throughout, variously opened or left leaning against walls, while rugs are displayed both rolled and unfurled so you can imagine yourself taking up where the previous tenant had left off, tidying and rearranging objects as you might at home.
This sense of familiarity resonates throughout the exhibition: When presented with the phrases "Fuck you" and "You feed yourself everyday" (transferred via inkjet onto a piece of cardboard or, in the case of the latter, at eye level directly onto the wall), you can easily imagine moments, the most private of moments, when you might look up into the bathroom mirror after washing your face and, assessing your reflection, offer up words of uncharitable condemnation or, if in a more generous spirit, of self-encouragement.
"When we talk about places, we seldom consider our emotions," Lee says. "People don't often talk about emotions, particularly in art. They talk about concepts and ideas, but emotions are also very important. I'm not talking about expression. I'm referring to feelings that are subtle and often indescribable."1 Lee's installations, or what he calls "situations," can be described as meditations on feelings that are subtle and indescribable. Like emotions, the exhibition possesses a dematerialized presence that feels at once ethereal and embodied, imagined and very real. The works that inhabit the spaces are themselves fragile and ephemeral (digitally projected images permeate the installation; lightweight, translucent plastic bins are stacked up and scattered throughout the space; and paintings on cardboard and paper are casually tacked onto the wall). The modes of presentation also suggest a transience or impermanence (projected images fade into one another; passersby cast shadows onto the projection surfaces, the shadows ostensibly becoming a part of the experience of the artwork that is impossible to hold onto). There is no beginning, middle, or end, no narrative structure to grasp; instead, you get the sense that you have experienced an all-consuming sensation that, albeit pleasurable in the moment, begins to slip away the moment you walk back into the daylight.
But perhaps the act of forgetting is precisely the point. Upon entering the exhibition, the space stirs up a feeling—a tender, loving, comforting feeling—guided by Lee's sensitivity to the poetics and aesthetics of touch. We indulge in this feeling as we wander in and out of the various recesses of the physical architecture, an analogue to our subconscious mind, but it eventually recedes from our memory once we exit the gallery. In other words, Lee prompts us to actualize through movement the fleeting nature of our feelings, and in turn the impossibility of rendering them permanent or concrete. "I focus on a moment that attracts my attention and then I extend it," Lee says. "When I stretch it, I begin to see it more clearly. Then I pull in other things from the moment and extend it again, until I cannot extend it any further."2 Despite the artist's attempts, and by extension our own, to stretch a moment, to prolong a memory by visiting and revisiting it over and over again, the original feeling inevitably fades. And so the exhibition, despite being sweet and romantic, is also tinged with sadness. Because for every good feeling or memory had, there is always the possibility of subsequent longing. Dance ever so slowly, Lee seems to suggest, for this feeling, too, will soon evaporate.
Lee Kit: Hold your breath, dance slowly is on view at the Walker from May 12 to October 9, 2016.
1 Lee Kit in conversation with Misa Jeffereis and Olga Viso; "Lee Kit: The Good Traveler" in Lee Kit: Never (London: Koenig Books, 2016), 25.
2 Lee Kit in conversation with Misa Jeffereis and Olga Viso; "Lee Kit: The Good Traveler" in Lee Kit: Never (London: Koenig Books, 2016), 25.


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If Justin Bieber's "Foreign" remix was a little bit too pop for your summer playlist then perhaps this latest drop from Tha Dogg Pound is just what you've been waiting for. Retaining Songz's original chorus work, this new rendition finds Daz & Kurupt joined by frequent collaborator Snoop Dogg on some fresh bars for the ladies.
"Foreign" will find itself on The Pound's That's My Work, Vol. 5, the sequel to Vol. 4, which dropped just a few short weeks ago.
Is this remix the best version of the song yet? Share your thoughts in the comments section. Stay tuned for more from Tha Dogg Pound as they continue to roll out the new project.
Quotable Lyrics:
Where to next?
Off to Morocco
Private jet
Ten bad hoes
Nigga, wanna bet?


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How to make clogged bathroom sinks and toilet troubles disappear
Arguably, there are few features in a home as important as your bathroom plumbing. To prevent problems of the most inconvenient and pleasant sorts, you'll need to keep an eye out for seasonal plumbing problems. Your sinks, toilets and showers can get a lot of extra use thanks to hot, sweaty family members and houseguests. This heavy-duty workload can open the door for some genuinely unpleasant situations, like a clogged bathroom sink or a troublesome toilet.
Address the mess: Clogged bathroom sinks and toilets that won't stop running
Your clogged bathroom sink keeps clogging and re-clogging, over and over again. You dump some Drano, the clog goes away and a week later, it's back. Why?
Or maybe you're familiar with this scenario: you're running late. You hit the bathroom before you run out the front door. You flush the toilet, and you wait for the tank to fill, but the water keeps running...and running...and running.
Sometimes, a quick jiggle of the toilet handle does the trick. Other times, it doesn't -- at least not on the first try. You can waste gallons of water (and so much time!) if you don't know how to make that running stop.
Why sinks clog and toilets run
- A clogged bathroom sink or tub drain is the result of accumulated dirt, skin flakes and hair. This nasty trio bonds to soap scum inside of your plumbing. Over time, this accumulation reduces water flow -- or dams it altogether.
- Toilets depend on gravity and a fairly simple system to flush correctly. That simple system, however, can still get out of whack, especially after prolonged use over a period of years.
Here's how to tackle these problems:
Clogged bathroom sink
If your bathroom sink isn't draining, pull out the remove the pop-up stopper (if you have one). You may have to do this from beneath your sink. Tug slowly, in case a glob of hair and soap is stuck to it. Oftentimes, you'll be able to clear the obstruction that's been trapped here. Voila -- problem solved.
Liquid solutions
Drano or even sulphuric acid can eat through a clog, but regular use of caustic products can be expensive, time-consuming and dangerous. Probably not the best idea to regularly torch your plumbing, either! There are several home remedies for clearing a clogged bathroom sink, including boiling hot water mixed with vinegar or chlorine bleach.
Drain snakes
Snaking a drain is another way to clear a clogged bathroom sink. There are a couple of inexpensive options that homeowners can try: a drum auger, which is a plumbing snake that you attach to a drill. The drill spins the snake slowly but surely down the pipe and, hopefully, through your clog.
Some homeowners swear by a drain-cleaning tool called the Zip-It to force through and break up bathroom clogs.
Clean the elbow joint
If the first steps don't work, you may start feeling adventurous. You can remove the drain's elbow joint and clean it out. Our own team wrote about this plumbing solution a while ago, and offer some important advice:
Be prepared for some unfamiliar smells when you actually go about untwisting the trap, as the main function of this piece is to literally "trap" water in a way that will block unpleasant plumbing odors.
Check the vents
Still having a problem?
Check the vents on your drain plumbing—they are on your roof. A blocked vent can prevent your clogged bathroom sink from draining properly.
Yes, this involves climbing up on the roof and potentially clearing out anything from a dead (or, maybe worse, a live and angry) bird to leaves and garbage. Proceed with caution!
Call a plumber
The clog may also be somewhere in your plumbing system that you can't reach with your own tools. You may need to call a plumber with a professional-grade, extra-long snaking equipment to clear your line, especially if you live in a neighborhood with mature trees. The roots often find their way into cracks in your pipes and cause blockage.
The ever-running toilet
The good news: a running toilet is usually an easy, do-it-yourself fix. Let's dive in, shall we?
Pop the lid off your toilet tank and take a look inside. You should see four main parts:
- A round rubber flapper, probably in the center, connected to the flush lever.
- A pump, usually located to the left, which refills the tank after it empties.
- A float, probably on the right-hand side, which rises and lowers with the water level.
- An overflow tube, which should be right next to the flapper.
NOTE: The water in the tank is clean, so don't worry about putting your hands in it. Just wash them when you're done.
Now what?
Check the chain that connects the flapper to the lever. Is it too short or too long, preventing the flapper from closing correctly.
Look at the flapper itself. Is it warped? Cracked? Dirty? If so, replace it. You should be able to pick up the new parts inexpensively at a hardware store.
Next, flush the toilet and watch to see when the tank stops filling. The water should stop just below the overflow pipe. If it doesn't, the float is set too high. Try to bend the rod connecting the float to the pump to keep the float lower, signaling the pump to turn off sooner.
Alternately, you may need to adjust float in the tank by turning the screw on top of the fill valve. You want the toilet to stop filling approximately 1 inch below the top of the overflow tube.
Calling in the professionals
Sometimes, DIY solutions don't work. You may feel uncomfortable doing the work yourself because you're worried about breaking something. Maybe you just don't want to deal with gross, sticky hairballs or tinker with the guts of your toilet.
Fair enough! In those situations, call the plumbing experts. You can schedule service with us online at your convenience. And if you have any questions, feel free to connect with us on Twitter.


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I am a connoisseur of finer foods. You know, growing up in a white household, he's [her husband] not used to all this fancy stuff. He likes canned foods. He likes packed meats. He just doesn't care. But it's very important for me to feed people the way I like to be fed which is the best of the best.
How would that direct quote sound if you replaced white with black, canned foods with fried chicken and packed meats with watermelon? With all her college degrees, Attorney Phaedra Parks still manages to be stupid.
Here the mannequin-like ridiculousness that is the self-anointed Goddess of Lips (uh...Light) Attorney Phaedra Parks introduces her magnificence in the first episode of season 3, The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
We can pretty much surmise that there was no one on the other end of that cell phone. Attorney Phaedra Parks, you're playing yourself.


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The Coachella Lodge just had a very successful Third Annual Masonic Chili Cookoff! The dining hall was packed with brothers, concordant body members, friends and family alike. Everyone had a fun time and were able to eat their fill in home made chili.
There were eleven chili entries this year and a big thanks is due to all the chili chefs that brought forth their chili this year. The competition was fierce, and the top three chilis were only separated by a few points. Below are our chili taste testing winners...
Third Place - Alicia Weiss - "The Winning Weiss"
Second Place - Jill Weiss - "Jilly's Chili"
First Place - Wor Fred McCubbin - "Kiss of Fire"
Chili Master 2016
Congratulations to this year's winners!!!
Afterwards there were several prizes that were raffled off to our attendees including: $25 gift card to Kaiser Restaurants, $25 gift card to Dickie's BBQ in La Quinta, Job's Daughters fireworks and Aspen Mills sourdough bowls.
A big thanks to our local community restaurants - Jackalope Ranch, Dickie's BBQ in La Quinta, and Aspen Mills - who donated prizes and supplies to our cookoff.
Our gratitude goes to our brothers, friends and Job's Daughters that helped make this event a huge success by helping serve, setup and cleanup.
Click here to view the pictures from the event


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Although it may not be as global as some other publishing categories, the partworks business is definitely worth a look for kids property owners planning significant brand activity in Europe. In its stronghold territory, the UK, licensed titles were responsible for three-quarters of all kids partwork sales last year. And across Europe, the category posted an estimated US$281 million in sales.
So what are partworks, anyways? In a nutshell, they're collectible magazines containing quizzes, games and fun facts, usually published weekly or bi-weekly. Each part can range from 16 to 32 pages, and they often include a toyetic cover-mount like a figurine or mini-pack of trading cards. Much emphasis is placed on the first issue as a starting point from which kids can build a whole collection of exclusive products. When the first issue of Nickelodeon's Dora Dress Up & Go launched in January, it came with a Dora doll, and subsequent parts featured doll clothes that tied into a different theme each time. So the 'Ice-Skating Fiesta' issue sported a lycra figure skating costume, and 'Cowgirl Adventure' offered a tasseled vest and denim skirt.
Although partworks have been around since the 1950s, they really made their biggest gains in popularity in the '70s, most prominently in the UK and France, but also in Australia, Japan, South America and Latin America. They experienced a resurgence in the market in the '90s, thanks to new technologies that allowed publishers to package them with higher-value cover-mounts such as DVDs and CD-ROMs, driving the retail price up to a top end of about US$15.
A typical series lasts anywhere from 30 to 60 fortnightly issues or between 70 and 100 weekly releases, so they tend to be on shelves for around two years – and sometimes even longer. Eaglemoss Publishing Group's Lord of the Rings partwork, for example, has been in distribution since the first movie's release in 2001 and was recently extended to 140 issues.
But not all properties are good candidates for the partworks format. Brands that do well in this category tend to already have a solid and widespread fan base, as well as a wealth of characters and environments that can be translated into the vast amounts of content needed for an extended print run. Gregoire Halbout, VP of home video and publishing for Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products International, which derives 25% of its total publishing revenue from partworks, stresses that they should really only be considered for the second or third phase of a property's licensing program. 'The partwork is not a trendsetter that can be used to establish a franchise,' he says. 'You would always wait to have established your main product categories, especially where publishing is concerned. The (brand) awareness has to be sufficient enough to sustain such a heavy investment-based project.'
To this point, the creation and approval process on partworks can take quite a bit of time, not to mention the intensive market testing that's typically involved. Susan Bolsover, a category director at Brit agency CPLG, says the company's latest Shrek partwork with DreamWorks and publisher GE Fabbri was in development for two years, going through many rounds of editorial tweaking, testing each new version vigorously, and then waiting for licensor approval.
Although tedious, the testing phase is vital to the process because it determines whether the partwork is marketable and what distribution levels it will support. Hachette Partworks starts off the process by testing concepts, magazines and cover mounts with focus groups. Then if the feedback is favorable, the company will release a handful of issues in a specific geographic region. MD Celeste Surugue says he waits for statistics from the first four issues to come back before making a final call about whether or not the title is viable. A good test not only yields decent sales on the first issue, but maintains or exceeds that level of buy-in on the next two or three to indicate that consumers will keep coming back for more over the duration of the program.
If a partwork comes out of testing successfully, then the publisher embarks on an expensive, high-profile media launch. It's not uncommon to spend upwards of US$1.5 million on the television campaign alone, says Hachette's Surugue, delivering the same number of ads in 10 days as a Fast Moving Consumer Goods company does in a month. Because the program will hit retail with so much marketing behind it, Surugue adds that retailers are generally quite eager to display the product to its best advantage. He says an average partwork running in the UK will be distributed in as many as 25,000 to 30,000 newsstands, kiosks and supermarket magazine aisles across the country.
Subscriptions have also become an integral part of the sales strategy in this category, and most programs kick off with subscription inserts in the first few issues. Eaglemoss's editorial director Maggie Calmels says that this distribution method is experiencing increasing success and observes that 'some people subscribe based on seeing the URL on the TV ad, without buying anything at all in the shop.' CPLG's Bolsover says that in some cases, subscriptions can account for more than 50% of a program's total lifetime sales.
Royalty rates in this category are based on cover price and can range between 2.55% and 6%. CPLG's Bolsover expands that companies don't start recouping on their investment until about 15 or so issues into the run, which can make for a stressful first year. But despite the inherent risk, a successful partworks program can do wonders for a brand and trigger a high revenue flow. Nickelodeon sold 19 million units of its Rugrats, Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants partworks in four years. And though he wouldn't divulge specific numbers, Halbout says it's a multi-million-dollar business, and NVCP is currently working on developing partworks for other territories. For its part, Eaglemoss's Lord of the Rings program experienced a US$27.6-million turnover.
With such solid potential, you may be wondering why this publishing model hasn't hit North American shores. It's certainly not from lack of trying. But almost without fail, partworks sales for test programs in the US and Canada have tended to drop instead of increase as time goes on. Hachette's Surugue believes that one factor working against the category is that North America doesn't have the same penetration of newsstands and smaller kiosks as Europe, which gives customers better and easier access to product.
Nickelodeon's Halbout theorizes that the economic model of partworks doesn't jibe with consumption habits in North America, where shoppers have become accustomed to and almost reliant on a heavy and constant barrage of marketing to remind them to keep buying an ongoing product range. Instead, the 'declining curve' of the average partworks planogram funnels all the investment into the beginning stages of the program to maximize brand exposure, and then consumers are left to their own collecting pleasures with no further promotions beyond the initial push.


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Anita Logo Now! necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 177 design presentati da 13 designer.
Luminous Path, Inc.
Luminous Path, Inc. is passionate about helping people on their "path" to wellness through natural health & healing.
We offer Raindrop Technique & Young Living therapeutic grade essential oils, which are known as nature's living energy.
Raindrop Technique combines reflexology on the feet & massage on the back with Young Living essential oils for a gentle, yet powerful healing experience. (It is based on the healing that the Lakota Indians received from the Northern Lights.)
We also offer Blessingways & Mama Bear Blessings(see my site for more info.: http://www.luminouspath.com ) & may expand in the future to offer yoga classes and meditation.
I would like the logo to convey comfort & healing & make people say or think "Ahhhh"(relaxation sigh), but still be clean & crisp. I want it to convey hope & positivity & to be simple(if possible).
It needs to have a sun & a path (preferably made of stones), & I would like a tree & a drop of essential oil (I don't want the oil to look like water, so blue will not work). I want a white background.
I visualize the "L" being a tree with a branch that hangs over the word "Luminous" so that a drop of essential oil drops off of a leaf & forms the dot over the "i". The "o" in "Luminous" is the sun & there is a path that is formed under the words from the root of the tree (the bottom of the "L") connecting with one of the letters in "Path". (or-the "L" forms a path made of stones under the words)
My target audience is adults, male & female, in Long Island, N.Y. It needs to appeal to those living or interested in living a natural, healthy lifestyle & natural/holistic healing.
The slogan is: "Comfort & healing for body, mind, & soul."
I don't have a logo yet, but you can see the current design on my website at http://www.luminouspath.com. I love the feel of it, but Vistaprint will not allow me to alter the background color. So, I want a design that I can take with me anywhere on the web, etc.
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A signature of i9 Sports programs is that learning doesn't stop once the game starts! Players learn the basics of the sport through teachable moments during game play. Officials and staff take time to explain the rules so our young players get comfortable with structured play while having fun in the process. We make an effort to give each child equal playing time and since we practice player rotation, they also get a chance to play various positions on offense and defense.
By the end of the season, your child should have learned the basic skills of the sport (i.e., how to kick, catch, run, shoot, throw, etc.), as well as the basic game rules. Since every child develops at a different pace, some players may have a better mental understanding of the game, while others might show enhanced physical abilities. This is completely normal.
Beyond developing young athletes' understanding of the game, our Pee Wee program is designed to teach the principles of good sportsmanship, build a basic appreciation for being part of a team, and increase self-confidence. These are vital life tools that will help your child on and off the field. In the end, our number one goal is for your child to have fun!


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It's difficult figuring out what Kratom is unless you've had a chance to use it. Many people, medical researchers, and scholars do paint this plant in different images. The worst is done by writers who go ahead and taint the Kratom image. They bring it out in black and give you a wrong impression.
But, here we are going to tell you what Kratom is as a user and writer, having gathered sufficient information from the relevant highly researched medical evidence. From here, you will not let people sway your attitude from this herb. You will lead a Kratom life well informed and not worried at all.
Origin of Kratom
This herb has an ancient Asian origin in Thailand and Malaysia, Indochina, floristic regions, South East Asia and Myanmar. It's the evergreen plant that was discovered a long time ago and used for medicinal purpose. Red Vein Kratom is used to killing the body pain anciently up to date.
It's become the best alternative to other pharmaceutical painkillers. It's known to be less bitter yet very effective in the body pain relief. Since its time of discovery, this plant has been valued because of its leaves and up-to-date it's still the practice. The leaves got all the value.
Chemical composition of Kratom
It's very vital to understand the science behind this plant before trying it out. Did you know the scientific name of Kratom? Mitragyna species is the binomial name for Kratom. It's been classified in the class of coffee family. Chemically, this Asian plant has got more than 40 naturally existing elements in combined different forms.
It contains mitragynine, mitraphylline, hydroxy mitragynine, raubasine, and corynanthidine all alkaloids found in Kratom. Alkaloids are substantially responsible for the effects earned from Kratom. Mitragynine that is the most potent alkaloid of all varies depending on the locality of Kratom. Kratom is based in Asia, will have more of mitragynine unlike the plants in greenhouses and other parts.
Legality of Kratom
Although the scientist and medical researchers have chemically proved this plant to be fit for human consumption, the debate has taken roots in the whole world especially with increasing Kratom use. Many countries are now discussing greatly on whether to prohibit the utilization of this plant or not.
In Thailand, the government has disobeyed the science and tainted this herbs image black! Possessing Kratom leaves in this country is running afoul of the law, and if caught, one can be charged in the court of law. Malaysia has also flowed suit and blacklisted this herb.
The use of this Kratom in their country is illegal. United States of America is on the high debate whether to illegalize Kratom or not, although it's still legal using Kratom in U.S.A. However, other countries remain calm about this herb, and the user is still allowed. you can buy favorite kratom from online vendors
Don't just listen to what others say, people will speak but decision making solely lies within your jurisdiction. Come let's together enjoy this herb. It's neither banging nor is it like cocaine; legally you can consume your herb and enjoy this short life to your best. Make the right choice today, and make every minute count in your life!


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Why Yes, I Do Have Other Things to Do
It seems proper to me to come back to personal blogging after nearly two years with what's basically a gripe. That's the blogging tradition, right? Find something marginal to complain about and focus too much on the minutiae? So yeah, that's about to happen with this piece by Paul Theroux in the Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed page. And not even with all of it–just with one minor point he makes.
Theroux is talking about the importance of taking notes, and I am fully on board with him. I'm reading this piece and I'm like "yep, yep, of course, yep" and then he writes this:
No electronics, you see. No Palm Pilot, no Memo app in an iPhone, no voice-recorder, no video, no contraption, no wires—just ink and paper. A computer is useful for putting the notes onto a file, but the road—at least the ones I find myself on—is no place for anything breakable. Drop a notebook and you only need to dust it off; drop an electronic device and you're sunk.
And then I sigh.
I'm never going to be one who denigrates writing in a notebook. Doing so this year has helped me start writing poetry again after a scary-long hiatus. And I've crashed enough hard drives and broken enough electronics in my life to know the unique pain of data loss. But I've also dropped enough notebooks in puddles and toilets, sinks and streets, not to mention just plain leaving them on coffee shop tables and park benches to know that notebooks aren't a cure-all for data loss. Personally, I'm more likely to lose a notebook than I am to break an e-device so badly that the data is lost, mainly because I'm also a spaz about backing stuff up–to the cloud or to another device.
Besides, when was the last time Theroux dropped an e-device? They're not the fragile little things they used to be. You've got to work to break some of them. My iPad has taken a pretty harsh beating over the last two years and it's still going strong, and we won't even talk about what my phone goes through daily.
Which is not to argue that Theroux is wrong here. He's right when it comes to his own writing practice, and given his success, it's obvious his practice works really well for him. And if he'd stuck with that talk, rather than going off on this claim of the supremacy of the notebook, I probably wouldn't have decided to start blogging again today. So thanks Paul Theroux. You helped me delay the work I need to be doing for a precious few minutes.


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The best advice I've ever got is to not worry. Sometimes it's hard to follow this advice, but if you can do it, you will find things a lot easier to deal with. When you're really busy or when things are just not going your way, you may feel stressed out. The best thing you can do is to stop thinking about everything and focus on one thing at a time. Put everything in order from the most important to the least important and deal with them separately, in that order. It's really not that hard to do and I've found it ridiculously helpful. I got this advice directly from the Lord. Just read Mathew 6: 25-34.
Sometimes not worrying means you have to stop. If you have to stop, do it. If you have a million things on your mind or a million things to do, it can make it impossible to actually do anything. If that's the case then just STOP and do something fun. Play guitar (or any instrument) or do some puzzles online or play with your pets or draw; anything that will help you relax and take your mind off things.
I've shared this advice with a few people, so I thought I'd just post it here.
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EU-Ecofin approves e-commerce package
At a meeting of Ecofin on 5 December 2017, the 'e-commerce package' containing a directive and two regulations was approved. These changes will be gradually implemented by 2021 and will change the VAT obligations of many e-commerce businesses.
The EU has outlined the following timetable for implementation:
- A set of thresholds (EUR 10 000 and EUR 100 000) for cross-border supplies of electronic services will be introduced to help microbusinesses and SMEs. This means in practice that only businesses with cross border sales of more than EUR 100 000 will be subject to the standard rules (distance selling).
- Building on the success of the mini One Stop Shop for electronic services (MOSS), this concept will be extended for online supplies of goods and to all cross-border services to end consumers.
- The intra-EU distance sales regime and the small consignment exemption on imports will be removed in line with the commitment to apply the destination system for VAT.
- The new One-Stop Shop (OSS) will also be extended to imports. Unlike today, VAT can be collected at the point of sale to EU customers by sellers or market places. Non-EU sellers will then declare the VAT using the OSS. These goods will then benefit from a fast-track customs mechanism.
- Where the OSS is not used, a second simplification mechanism will be available to imports–VAT will be collected from customers on importation and a simple monthly declaration to customs will be transmitted by the transporter.


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Vela St Martin is equipped with the latest in high performance gear featuring NeilPryde sails and rigs, JP Australia, and. Sails include the very latest Excess, Combat, Hellcat and RS slalom. The new JP-Australia line includes the Freestyle Wave, Freestyle and X-cite Ride and Super-sport lines. For beginners we feature the popular JP Funster and JP Funride. Please help us maintain the high quality of our fleet by handling with care. All rigs with adjustable harness lines. Harnesses also available at the center and included with your pre-booked rental.
Great for everyone! Flat water in the lagoon, choppy conditions in front, and swell and waves outside. Stop on nearby Pinel island and Green cay island, the ride is safe and the waters are crystal clear. Pro instruction with certified instructors, we have private lessons or complete clinics. All lessons take place in the flat-water of the Orient Bay lagoon. Our friendly instructors will help you learn new skills
The island receives excellent weather, sunny and warm most of the year because of its dry climate. Winds average 13-18, though back-to-back days of 20+ are common. The tradewinds season extends from the beginning of December until the end of April. July and June generally receive tropical waves which reinforce the tradewinds. Typically, the wind is more established in the morning, weakens mid-day, only to be reinforced in the early afternoon.


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SHIRLEY MacLAINE (Katharine Richelieu) has starred in almost 50 motion pictures, countless television specials, her own mini-series and on the Broadway stage. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, after receiving nominations for Some Came Running, The Apartment, Irma La Douce, Turning Point, and, as a producer of The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, which she also co-directed. Among her numerous international accolades, she has received ten Golden Globe Awards, two Venice Film Festival Awards, two Silver Bear Awards from the Berlin Film Festival, and in 1999, was presented with Berlin's Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her television appearances have brought her five Emmy Awards, among many nominations for her six musical television specials and The Shirley MacLaine Special won her the Golden Rose in Montreaux.
MacLaine made her motion picture debut in 1955 in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, followed by Around the World in 80 Days, The Matchmaker, Ask Any Girl, Ocean's Eleven, Can-Can, Two Loves, The Children's Hour, Two for the Seesaw, What a Way to Go!, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, Gambit, Woman Times Seven, Sweet Charity, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Possession of Joel Delaney, Being There, A Change of Seasons, Madame Sousatzka, Steel Magnolias, Postcards from the Edge, Used People, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Guarding Tess, Mrs. Winterbourne and Evening Star, among others. More recently, she starred in Carolina, Bewitched and In Her Shoes.
In 1999, she made her directoô˜rial debut and starred in the critically acclaimed independent film Bruno with Kathy Bates, Gary Sinese, Jennifer Tilly, Brett Butler and 10-year old Alex Linz in the title role of a boy whose sense of individuality wins him the respect of his peers.
starred in her first motion picture for television in 1995, pairing with Liza Minnelli in the Ernest Thompson screenplay based on his hit play, West Side Waltz. Among her additional television credits, she played a key cameo in the lavish CBS mini-series Joan of Arc, and in 2001, she united with three other icons of the screen, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins, in the comedy entitled These Old Broads, written by Carrie Fisher which aired on ABC. In 2002, she starred in the CBS mini-series The True Story of the Salem Witch Trials. Most recently, she starred in the title role of famed cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash in the CBS telefilm Hell on Heels: the Battle of Mary Kay.
MacLaine was born in Richmond, Virginia and was raised in Arlington, Virginia by her real estate broker/musician father and housewife-painter-actress mother. A dancer at heart, she was taking ballet lessons at the age of two-and-a-half and by the time she was a student in high school, she was spending her summers dancing in New York chorus lines.
MacLaine was thrust into stardom when she was the understudy for Carol Haney on Broadway in The Pajama Game. When Haney broke her ankle, MacLaine went on, drawing the attention of legendary film producer Hal Wallis who was in the audience and immediately signed her to a Paramount Pictures contract.
In l974 she returned to the stage starring in a one-woman musical revue If They Could See Me Now, which played to sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Atlantic City and theatres throughout the country as well as highly successful tours of major cities throughout the world. The show was later adapted into an Emmy-winning CBS television special. She subseô˜quently starred in two additional television specials The American Spirit and Gypsy in My Soul, which also received an Emmy.
In 1995, MacLaine's dancing and singing revue Out There Tonight was sold-out during its American tour. She later took the show to Japan, Australia and England, as well as a two-and-a-half month tour of Europ
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text: Fluid Power Robotics Challenge Apply for the $40,000 Scholarship This application is closed as of May 1st, 2020 Thank you for visiting. Please check back in Autumn of 2020 for information about the 2021 Robotics Challenge Scholarship! About the NFPA Robotics Challenge Scholarship As close to real-world engineering as a student can get! The NFPA Robotics Challenge is a scholarship program that launched with the 2016-17 school year. In support of the missions of FIRST® Robotics and National Robotics League (NRL), NFPA will be offering one merit-based scholarship, for $40,000 ($10,000 per year for four years), to a high school senior who participates as part of a 2020 FIRST® Robotics or NRL Competition Team. This scholarship may be used to study engineering at any accredited technical college or university in the United States. The goal of the NFPA Scholarship is to bring an awareness of fluid power options in robotics to high school students and to stimulate increased use of fluid power products in these competitions. About Careers in Fluid Power There are many rewarding careers available right now in the fluid power industry. Students can post resumes, search for jobs, review descriptions, salaries, markets and other employment information. Check it out! About Manufacturing Day℠ Manufacturing Day℠ is a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. NFPA supports events like these both through our own programs and by promoting programs that align with our objectives, like MFG Day. While Manufacturing Day is officially the first Friday in October, NFPA member companies plan their events throughout the year. NFPA's Student Career Connections program links engineers to students and makes meaningful real-life connections to curriculum, click here to get involved! And the 2019 winner is… We are happy to announce that the winner of the NFPA Robotics Challenge scholarship is Noah Santoni of Richardson, Texas. Noah will be pursuing a degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. To read more about Noah Santoni, click here! Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team through these competitions to help students gain practical knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) – all essential skills for manufacturing. Learn more about these programs and how to become a mentor. Want to be a part of choosing the next winner?


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The increasing globalization trend makes private capital investors the engine for development, requiring their investments to be successful.
Globalization, an ever-growing private participation in the development of projects and the outsourcing way for cost effectiveness, represent a challenge to the entrepreneurial organization.
Today private projects relate such companies as SERVICES PROVIDERS, TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIERS and the COMPANIES EXECUTING the PROJECTS.
Under such conditions, how is it then possible to obtain economic undertakings in time and with an assured quality?
COINTEC, based on its vast experience, processes reports carried out for each structuring of an undertaking, and the experienced application of the most modern software available, attains the implementation of effective Project Management techniques needed for a successful result.
The heterogeneity of the involved agents forces a particular analysis for each case by means of multidisciplinary tools such as:
- Processes Survey
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- Programming of Control Database in any language. Programming in Visual Basic, Access, etc.
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*Fly Fishing Trip.
Yes, believe it or not, I went fly fishing!
This was actually several weeks ago now, but I haven't had a chance to post the pictures yet. One Friday night I was talking to some friends and discovered that my friend Brian likes to go fly fishing. One of my students who goes to my church as well really enjoys fishing. He had commented on how he really wanted to go fishing before he went back to Korea. When I found out that Brian liked to fish, I asked if him if we could all go fishing sometime soon. The next day we went somewhere (the Skykomish River, I believe) about an hour and a half north of Seattle.
Fly fishing is definitely more involved than regular fishing. We didn't catch anything, but we did have fun!


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Women, Beauty and Advertising.
I recently watched this video from Peter Shankman (to his wife and female friends) that my friend shared on Facebook. He explains that he saw an advertisement at a local Wal-Mart while on a business trip. An ad for women in the clothing section that shows a woman putting on makeup and saying that she can be beautiful. His message is refreshing – that women are beautiful. No matter what time of day, what they are wearing or what makeup they may or may not have on.
So much of advertising to females – women, teens and girls – sets a high standard of beauty. Body image and definitions of beauty for girls usually start with Barbie, princesses and Bratz and it only gets worse from there.
"Girls' perceptions of their femininity and appropriate behavior are largely formed before they even hit first grade—good reason to consider these dolls a lot more than child's play. "Until children are about five, they can't distinguish fantasy from reality," says Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., coauthor of Packaging Girlhood. "So what they see is how they think the world operates and what it means to be a girl." – Glamour
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The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty was one of the first to expose the unfair standards of beauty set by the media and to show real women, confident, independent, beautiful.
"Based on the findings of a major global study,The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report, Dove® launched the Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004. The campaign started a global conversation about the need for a wider definition of beauty after the study proved the hypothesis that the definition of beauty had become limiting and unattainable. Among the study's findings was the statistic that only 2% of women around the world would describe themselves as beautiful." – Dove
Females grow up comparing themselves to unrealistic images of beauty in magazines, advertisements, on television and in movies.
As a mother of two young girls, it is my hope that they will be more self-confident than I was growing up. I want them to realize that they are beautiful, intelligent, capable women and that they are a gift to this world.
Common Sense Media – Girls and Body Image Tips
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This article is a player character biography page
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
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Name: Ahad "Krush" Blackhorn
Race: Tauren
Age: not 100% sure exactly how old, he never talks about it...
Home Server: Server:Steamwheedle Cartel US
Class: Hunter, sometimes Bounty Hunter, or just Nomad...
Guild: Dracon of Ordo Draconis
Professions: "Nothing to be proud of..." Krush HATES seeing people kill beasts, and then leaving a rotting corpse... He has learned how to skin, and how to cook what he has killed [or fished]... He also was learning about herbalism before he left, but never really spent much time studying it, so can not do much more than gather some useful "weeds" to sell later for some coin...
Brief Physical Description:
Typical Tauren, thought two things tend to really stand out...
1) Obviously from 'mixed' parentage, as his hair is a strange mix of both black and white. Though not as much of a problem now, he was teased a lot because of his mixed splotched pattern... His mane is really mixed, so it tends to look almost grey and gives him a older appearance...
2) There is a large obvious scar across his head, and one horn that is severely disfigured, despite the attempts to trim it into something respectable...
Brief Personality Description:
Shy, quiet, indifferent - but looking for more [answers] The years of wandering have made him tough, but smart with survival instincts...
Krush was orphaned at a young age; not really sure how old he is, as he doesn't really remember much [or really wants to]... He was part of a tribe that still wandered and migrated. At one of their camps, his parents set their tent close to the cliff face... Supposable, the Earthmother caused a great commotion that night, and sent some of the mountain down on the camp... Huge chunks of rock fell on their tent, and instantly crushed both his parents and his sister... He was dug out of the rubble, and was somehow still alive... The elders thought it was some sign, and there was some great plan, and that is why his life was spared ?
"But the more I learn about life, I think it was just dumb luck... I did receive a good blow to my head though [, like the scar ?]."
He was raise by everyone in the tribe, and because he was "chosen", was pretty much free to do whatever he wanted... That, and his strange coloration, did mean that most of the other kids teased him most of the time... So, over time, he did less studying, and took longer and longer walks... he learned how to hunt and fish, and how to avoid the others... He heard stories of other races; Trolls, Orcs, Humans; traveling at a much younger age than when Tauren usually were allowed to leave, so he too left before his Coming of Age Ceremony to see the world...
He now mostly hunt, though he will take odd jobs here and there, and has been known to bounty hunt once in a while for coin. He don't really trust anyone, though he doesn't have any negative feelings against anyone either.
Krush later joined up with the guild, Ordo Draconis, and soon rose in their ranks. He is presently a Dracon in Ordo.
While in Ordo, he met the cow, Mooth, who he eventually made his life-mate.
On January 7th, 2008, He finally succumbed to poisons from an old bullet wound acquired during his time as an exile of the Horde, a combination of lead and mercury poisoning. His death was announced by Pand Stonebinder. He was laid to rest with his ancestors up at Red Rock in Mulgore.
Allies and Enemies
Name: Toby [Tobyas Feuer]
Professions: Pet/Friend/Companion
Age: ??
Brief Physical Description:
Though a tiger, there is so much orange in his fur, even his stripes have a dark orange hue rather than black...
Brief Personality Description:
Almost looks and acts intelligent, yet you can still see the wild in his eyes... He sits by Krush's side though, usually waiting for a cue before acting...
(as told by Krush one day)
It was another one of my adventures - somehow not wanting to really get involved, but pulled in anyways... I was looking for a good place to fish, when I popped over a downed log, right between a Naga trying to finish off a Night Elf ?!?!? As with most of my wonderful timing, my jump put me right into the Naga Warrior's next swing and his trident dug deep into my back... Instinct then took over, and I swiped my axe back and hit him back in the tail... But his unintentional mark was a better blow, and I didn't have the energy to get up and pull the trident free... He though was soon back up on his tail and had a knife out to finish off me and the Elf...
Then, suddenly, a great orange flash jumped out of the jungle brush and struck the Naga... The cat's bite was true and the Naga fell almost instantly... It then flashed away almost as fast, but then came back after a minute... By then, I had regained some of my strength and had started to patch myself up, and then looked at the Night Elf. The cat just sat down and stared at us, watching the jungle every now and then... I bandaged the Elf the best I could, then moved us to what I thought was a safer place, where I was fishing earlier... Interestingly, the cat followed us, and I thought that maybe he was a friend of the Elf...
I don't speak much common [should have paid more attention in training], but I was able to get from the Night Elf that it was not her pet, and the encounter was her first meeting of our new friend too... The cat though was watching out for us, sometimes going out to hunt and bring us back small game, and just watching... I was able to slowly heal from my wounds, but the Elf was hurt too severely... I did have to admire her strength though, she too knew she was mortally hurt, but talked and chatted like two friends would in a tavern. Though I didn't understand it all, I learned she was a bounty hunter who preferred working with a sword [and 'sword' was somehow in her name, though today I can't remember it exactly]. She was hunting the Naga, as there was a large bounty on his head. She didn't know the cat, but was thankful for his help. She then told me a story about a Human Paladin named Tobias Feuer, though to this day, I have no clue why... But when she said the name the first time, the cat seemed to look up at us and purr ?
After a few days, the Elf asked to be taken to a Troll ruin that was in the area ? I carefully put her down where she asked, and in a next few minutes, watched as the rest of her precious life faded. Tobias too, stood and watched, and let out a huge roar as she passed.
And he has been following me ever since... I guess you could say, he picked me as a friend...
Name: "Mooth" Blackhorn
Race: Tauren
Professions: Life-Mate
Age: (Never say a cow's real age)
Brief Physical Description:
The most beautiful cow Krush has ever laid eyes on...
Brief Personality Description:
One word... Trouble !
Jhullienne Treyakan and Krush Blackhorn have met on several occasions, the first being an attempted storming of the Scarlet Monestary. Since then, they have often met in the wilds or, occasionally, in a city, and spent some time together. Their most recent interaction was during the first meeting of The Conclave, when Krush endorsed Jhullienne for Premier on behalf of The Hunt. He has since been sent on a special errand for the Conclave by the Premier herself.
On a personal level, the two of them seem to have little in common, but they have a mutual respect that could lend itself to great friendship.


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Signed, sealed, delivered: Atlanta investors ID'd as Westport post office buyer
The investment group that last week purchased the Post Road East building that houses the town's post office is considering a range of future uses for the site.
Ansley Westport Partners, a limited liability company of Atlanta-area investors, bought the 10,000-square-foot building at 154 Post Road East from the U.S. Postal Service last Wednesday for $2.35 million. During the next few months, the Postal Service will lease back the property from Ansley Westport until its Westport post office moves to Playhouse Square. Postal Service officials have not yet disclosed a relocation date.
Following the Postal Service's departure, a retail outlet, restaurant, offices or a mixed-used complex could occupy the building, according to Ansley Westport principal and Atlanta-based lawyer, Alon Panovka.
"It's a unique and historic building. We appreciate the importance of the building to Westport," he said. "We would like to find a tenant that will enhance the downtown Westport area."
Aside from the Postal Service temporary rental, no new leases for 154 Post Road East have been signed yet, he added.
Panovka, whose brother owns a home in town, said he has visited Westport several times.
The acquisition of the property culminates a months-long tussle between the town and the Postal Service over the future of the site. After announcing his opposition to the post office's relocation to smaller quarters at Playhouse Square, First Selectman Gordon Joseloff criticized the Postal Service in March for not considering a buyer that was willing to accommodate a smaller postal retail operation at its current location.
Last month, Joseloff retracted and apologized for that assertion, claiming that a postal official misstated the buyer's plans in a letter to him. Joseloff was unavailable for comment on the sale.
The Postal Service had owned the building at 154 Post Road East since it was built in 1935.
The Westport-based commercial real estate firm HK Group, and Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate firm headquartered in New York City, respectively represented Ansley Westport Partners and the Postal Service in the sale of 154 Post Road East.


text: Hi, I was thinking while the packaging of speech dispatcher continues I could finalize certain UI considerations for speech synthesis. I had a word with Tomeu and he advised me to write all the points in a mail to the list. Particularly we want to focus on : 1. A Speech Configuration Management for Sugar 1. Provision of a control panel for modifying speech synthesis parameters 2. How these parameters will be stored and retrieved when changes are made 3. What parameters to expose? 1. Language - Perhaps this should be the sugar default? 2. Voice Selection - Male/Female, Child/Adult, Age 3. Rate 4. Pitch 5. Volume 2. GUI considerations 1. A Speech Synthesis Button 1. Has many states - Play/Stop (Pause?) 2. Reveals a control panel for modifying the speech synthesis parameters and provides a text box for getting some text data for speech synthesis? 2. What to text to send for speech synthesis? 1. If some text is highlighted then that text should be sent 2. If no text is highlighted and speech synthesis button is clicked 1. Send data of some active window and provide karaoke style highlighting of text? 2. Continue synthesis until the end of the document or stop button is pressed 3. Possibly a Speech Synthesis keyboard shortcut too - Should effect the Speech Synthesis button 4. Speak out a welcome message to the child when the XO boots up? (Hello xyz welcome to sugar or something like that?) Please share any other ideas which you think can improve the User Experience wrt speech synthesis. I'd like to write the patches and wrap up the coding by the time speech dispatcher RPMs are ready so that we can roll this feature in the XOs and get some feedback :) Thanks! -- Hemant Goyal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/attachments/20080301/7ebf6ad8/attachment.htm


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How to improve the relevancy of search results when doing keyword-specific Google searches?
How to improve the relevancy of search results when doing keyword-specific Google searches?
you should search keyword with following guidelines mentioned below:
1 - Be specific
2 - Be relevant
3 - To the point
4 - Take guess from suggested keywords
5 - Use popular query term
6 - Add informative word in long trail keywords
Thanks. Nice answer. Regards, Sunil
There are many articles on the subject, so I'll only suggest a few tips:
1. Use more than one keyword. 2-3 often work best. More can sometimes be helpful, but will often reduce the efficacy of the search.
2. Choose the keywords carefully! It may seem obvious, but many keywords can mean different things (e.g. "Cannon" is a well known Japanese make, but it is also a piece of artillery and a name). If the first keyword is ambiguous, choose a second word to clarify your meaning (e.g. "cannon printer").
3. You can also use the - operator to eliminate certain results. For example, "cannon -artillery" will exclude all the pages mentioning artillery (note that the double-quotes are not part of the search).
4. If you are searching for a phrase (e.g. a line from a lyric, a bit of text from a book, error message on the computer), you can enclose it in double quotes (such as "once upon a midnight dreary") and Google will only return the pages containing that exact quote. I usually do this only if searching without the double-quotes didn't work, since minor differences in the text will prevent pages from being matched.
Thanks. Very important points for relevant search


text: Holy Hip-Hop. Gospel Rap. Christian Rap. Whatever you wanna call it, thank God it's here. (and since I am a HUGE fan of house music, thank God for Gospel House Music too!) Why? Well, first of all because I do love hip-hop music. However, most of what we hear on the radio is filled to the brim with foul, ungodly lyrics that promote an immoral lifestyle. Really, take some time and actually listen to the lyrics and break them down. Pay attention to the principles that are being promoted. And remember, music is powerful because the natural thing to do with it is to meditate it. Think about it, when you like a song you rehearse it over and over in your head, learning the words, letting the rhythms and melody sink into your mind. Those of you who listen to urban radio, think of all the songs that you can quote the lyrics to off the top of your head right now. Now think about what those lyrics really mean and stop fooling yourself into believing that you can marinate your mind in that material without being effected by it. The point is, we all should make some conscious decisions about what we fill our minds with. What we read, what we watch, and what we listen to DOES matter. It impacts how we see the world, how we see people, and how we think. The point is, I encourage everyone who reads this to check out some gospel rap or some gospel house music. A few years back, you could say that most of it sounded corny, but not anymore. Some of the hottest rappers out there are spittin' for Christ! I have a few sites in my "links" section that I hope you will check out. I will also be adding a page to my music section called "tracks U Need 2 Hear" where I will post some gospel rap tunes for you to check out. By all means, go to my "holla!" section and holla back at me with your thoughts.


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2013 Mini-Album Reviews Part Two: Britney Spears, Cults, and HAIM
Editor's Introduction: What a year 2013 has been! Between releasing "Run in Circles" with Vestron Vulture [link], the "Contagion EP" [link], being called The Future of Electronica in Sykomindz Magazine [link], moving into the city of Pittsburgh, and a million … Continue reading
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Morrissey's Relationship With Jake Walters Omitted From American Release & British Hardcover Editions of His Autobiography
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Ian Shepherd Analyzes CD & Audiophile Masters of "Hesitation Marks" by Nine Inch Nails
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Music Business: Last Chance to Buy a Physical Copy of Esthero's "Everything Is Expensive"
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Photek Spotlight: Two Free Downloads To Celebrate His Nomination At The 55th Annual Grammy Awards!
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Music Business: Why I Would Like to be in a Conference Room at Sony or Universal Music Right Now
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Music Business: Columbia & Interscope Records See Devastatingly Low Sales For Kreayshawn & Nelly Furtado
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One does not hesitate to even sacrifice his life for the sake of his beloved; he gets the courage to throw away all kinds of fears which otherwise tend to make him weak. What love can do, punishment and revenge cannot. However, today we have drastically failed to benefit from the real power of love and compassion. Why? It is because the factors of selfishness, attachment, expectation, etc. have immensely spoiled the real glory of this divine trait of love. How these factors distort the face of the love and compassion, let's know…
… As milk is spoiled on coming in contact with sour tamarind; likewise, when the attribute of love (originally, the characteristic of the Soul) comes in contact with sensual pleasures, it gets transformed into lust. This lust, which is never satisfied, ultimately results in anger. Anger further distorts wisdom and the person falls even deeper into the trench of delusions. The end result is 'an utter collapse'!
Whether apparent or not, love in all relationships that we see in the world is majorly driven by the factor of 'expectation'. Be it parent-child, husband-wife, boss-colleague, or any other relation- the underlying phenomenon of these bonds lies in 'expectation'.
…In the world, we see different expressions in the name of love. Essentially, the variation arises when this attribute is expressed through the intellect or is guided by emotions alone. When expressed through the intellect, love becomes a sort of bargain, driven by the calculative attitude of 'What is in it for me?' In such a give and take relationship, instead of love, the unwanted traits of expectation, jealousy… reflect from the personality of an individual, And when love is expressed solely through the world of emotions, then, it often becomes blind and gets distorted into attachment.
However, beyond the realm of intellect and emotions, how it is expressed? How to reach that highest form of love? To know this and furthermore, read the complete article in the July'15 edition of English Akhand Gyan Monthly Magazine.


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Monday, November 17, 2104
Run/ Walk/ Bike/ Elliptical (Today: 3.00 miles; Running Total: 42.00 miles)
Day 129 of *Another* 100 Days of Good Karma.
There was so much excitement yesterday, I don't even know where to begin. Are you ready for a view into the glamour? Well then hold on because it's about to get cuh-razy.
I went to the gym and wrote a blog post.
(I know what you're thinking. How do you go up from there? But wait…)
I went thrift store shopping with a friend. The find of the day was a hard copy of Tina Fey's book Bossypants for $2.00. Woo!
We picked up a few groceries. Then I went home and took a nap.
(Ooh… Livin' life on the edge.)
A friend brought over dinner – homemade stew with carrots and potatoes. We chatted for a few minutes before I made myself sit down and work on a story I'm writing.
Then I folded laundry and dropping off dry cleaning.
(I am a party animal.)
I picked up the kids. Badgered them into eating dinner, doing homework, taking baths and getting ready for bed. Then we played card games in front of the fire place.
Later, after the kids went to bed, Justin and I finished out the day on the couch watching The Walking Dead.
(I know. I know. The excitement is too much to bear. But don't hate. Not everyone's cut out for this kind of madness.)
Today's silver lining: I love my very ordinary life.
What's your silver lining today? I love comments!
Don't want to leave a comment, but have something you want to share? Send me an email at gettingthewordswrong(at)gmail(dot)com.
CrAzY day! What season are you on in the Walking Dead? Tyler and I just started binge walking and we're on season three now.
Sounds like a perfect day.
One of my favorite songs is called "Ordinary" by Wayne Brady. The chorus says
"Happy here on earth in our beautiful ordinary life."
Your day was perfect.
(Check out the lyrics – http://www.metrolyrics.com/ordinary-lyrics-wayne-brady.html)
This sounds like an awesome normal day, even a special day because contentment is underrated. Wishing you many more ordinary days to enjoy to the fullest. P.S. I enjoyed the book, but the cover creeps me out.


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[ kloh-zher ]
/ ˈkloʊ ʒər /
the act of closing; the state of being closed.
a bringing to an end; conclusion.
something that closes or shuts.
an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers.
Phonetics. an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound.Compare constriction(def 5).
Parliamentary Procedure. a cloture.
Surveying. completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error.Compare error of closure.
- the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation.
- the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set.
- the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.
- a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.
Obsolete. something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.
verb (used with or without object), clo·sured, clo·sur·ing.
Parliamentary Procedure. to cloture.
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OTHER WORDS FROM closurenon·clo·sure, nounpre·clo·sure, noun
Words nearby closure
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for non-closure
Facial cleft is due to non-closure of the fissure between the nasal and maxillary processes.
British Dictionary definitions for non-closure
/ (ˈkləʊʒə) /
the act of closing or the state of being closed
an end or conclusion
something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container
(in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote takenSee also cloture, guillotine, gag rule
mainly US
- the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life
- a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution
geology the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it
phonetics the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop
- the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables
- the process of forming such a closed sentence
- the smallest closed set containing a given set
- the operation of forming such a set
psychol the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is
(tr) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure
Word Origin for closure
C14: from Old French, from Late Latin clausūra bar, from Latin claudere to close
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Connecting local responses around the world
On 28th Sep 2018, I facilitated a one-day session on use of SALT and Community life competence process in development and M&E . NILERD -National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (An Autonomous Institute under NITI Aayog, Government of India) organises M&E course for foreign professionals every year in Delhi, India. Here is a short summary of the discussion we had on our 'common humanity' and what it means in context of our work with people. This is part I of the three series blogs I will write.
I put before the question 'what makes us human?' to 27 professionals from 20 countries. Human beings may look different from each other but have same physical parts. Everyone has soul, mind and body, emotions, intelligence, imagination, reasoning and knowledge. We spent some time deliberating on the need to belong and importance of connection and relationships in our life. One participant made a remark "uniqueness is common to all mankind." Through this conversation we realised that there are certain things, which are universal and we need to keep them in mind in our work with people.
This deep dive into conversations around relationships and how they are key to a flourishing life reminded me of something I had read "Humans have a need to belong, to connect, to bond. We are biologically wired to seek relationships." The discussion showed that when we see each other as human beings, we connect at a deeper level. Zamira said that this is not easy in practice and cited a proverb from her country Tajikistan - Science is easy but to be human is difficult-
An observation from one participant at the end seemed to have said it all "I can see myself in you."
Second blog -Appreciative and caring conversation- https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/appreciative-and-car...
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Dear Rituu,
That is such a beautiful title for the post. All manner of sad and bad things can flow from my inability to see myself in you. But when I do see myself in you, then those sad and bad things become impossible and all sorts of beautiful things become possible. We can choose what we wish to see (or to look for) and our choice will make the difference. That is a fine start to my day. Thank you.
What a great way to build connection, and appreciate diversity, Rituu, by asking that question. I love the answer: "I see myself in you"
27 professionals from 20 countries! What is our shared humanity?
I must agree that CLCP as implied in the blog first enters into a person's heart. And then after reflection, the conviction of the mind occurs.
So, you could say, by being human, CLCP enthrals the heart, and captures the mind!
Win the heart, the mind will follow.
This soft nature of CLCP working through the resonating chord of being humane does not mean it is weak;
Remember, hardly anything is softer than water,
But the force of water can break or wear away the strongest rocks!


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Use this page as a guide for creating links from library resources.
It is usually best not to copy a link from the top of a web browser, as it may not actually lead you back to the resource. This is because many library resources are proprietary and require you to access them through a proxy server, which will ensure you may obtain full text later and also go directly to the resource.
Directions are included for the following resources:
Library Catalog
What is a permalink?
A permalink is a persistent or constant link to a resource. It is a convenient way to share a link to a resource.
Can't I just copy the link from my browser?
Most library resources are from vendors who use dynamic links through scripts to access items in their resource. This means the url can change and will not be constant. In addition, the proxy to gain access to library resources may not be included in the url shown in the browser, and then you may be unable to access full text from the link later.
What is the library's proxy?
The proxy server allows a user to authenticate as a Logan user in order to access a resource. This is especially important off-campus. While on-campus, you may be recognized by the IP used at the computer, but off-campus (or using wireless), you will need to go through a proxy server and enter your Logan credentials. This will then process you through the correct IP to access proprietary resources.
Can I just email a PDF of an article or book/chapter?
You may be in violation of copyright by doing so. In order to adhere properly to copyright laws, you should use a permalink instead.
What if it is open Access?
When an article is open access, go directly to the publisher's website and locate the article. Then copy the url from the browser or from the article's share feature (where available). Sometimes you may directly post a PDF for something that is open access. This is going to depend on that specific publisher's terms and if the article has a creative commons license. Check the publisher's website for this information, or contact them for permission. Otherwise, just use the link to the html version to be safe.
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Sunday, November 1st, is the appointed date to change your clocks for daylight savings time. The Washington State Fire Marshal's Office also reminds people that this is the time to change batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Operational smoke alarms allows people to get out their homes safely and cut the risk of dying in a fire by half.
According to the Fire Marshall:
- 67% of fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
- Peak time for home fire fatalities is between 11pm and 7am
- Burn injuries are the fifth leading cause of accidental or preventable death.
Most vulnerable to fire-related deaths are young children, adults over the age of 75 and low-income families who do not have smoke alarms or are using portable or area heating equipment for heat.
This information is provided by Washington Injury Attorney blog, a service of The Farber Law Group. We represent people who have suffered burn injuries due to car accidents, construction accidents or due to the negligence of another.
Contact The Farber Law Group at 1-800-244-9087 or firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule a free and confidential case evaluation. We have offices in Seattle and Bellevue to assist you.


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Ah, those pesky men.
A quick list of some of the finest specimens...
Agent Thompson - self important,egotistical,smug, sexist, bigoted asshole.
Howard Stark - skirt-chasing, two-faced, arms dealing liar.
Edwin Jarvis - stuffy, useless in a fight and far too loyal to his master.
Agent Souza - Dogged, intelligent, sympathetic but looked down on because of his war injury.
Chief Dooley - Stark-hating, devious, suspicious but finally showing some competence.
Mr Mink - sadistic, smuggling, extortionist murderer.
The prodigal billionaire returns as a smuggled package. Peggy and Jarvis deal with the smugglers trying to up their handling fee, but with nowhere of Stark's left unwatched by the SSR, there's only one place he can stay....Read more


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