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Tonight's All Star game is a good reminder for lawyers who represent people - whether they've been hurt by the medical system, at work or in an accident. Here in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, there are certain things to look for in a lawyer to make sure you get the service you deserve.
Like ballplayers, not all lawyers are created equal - you need a specialist working for you after a serious injury. So what do you look for? What makes an All-Star law firm?
- Board Certified Lawyers - the kind of pros who have the experience and taken the time and money to develop skills, pass the all day exam and get recommendations from judges and other lawyers. If they've invested in added qualifications and education, you'll benefit (plus, it shows a certain dedication and work ethic that they'll bring to your case)
- Happy Clients - look for reviews of real people they've helped (lots of them). What do real clients who have been through the same thing you're going through say? All-Stars will give you this information.
- Experienced Staff - All-Star firms focus on helping you and your specific situation - you, you, you. So how are you treated when you call? With courtesy, respect and professionalism? Or as an interruption?
- Knowledge - All Star firms have lawyers who have published books, guides and reports in the specialized areas they practice in? Can these publications help you and your family? Every area of the law is complicated these days and the best lawyers focus on only a few very limited practice areas, so the lawyer who wrote your will is probably not the best choice for your sister's medical malpractice case.
- Case selection - All-Stars are very selective in who they represent. Do you want a law firm where you're part of a mill, just a number, with a case handled by a young associate just out of law school in a firm that takes every case to pay for its advertising budget?
Serious injuries - where you need surgery, can't work to pay your bills, need a lot of medical care in the future and have to try to get your life back - require serious lawyers.
If you'd like to discuss a situation in confidence, for you or someone you know, call or send us an email. We'll get you good information you can use, even if we can't represent you. That's what All-Stars do.

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Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines have criticised the traditional Easter rituals of people publicly whipping themselves or having themselves crucified.
It should not be done as an act of superstition," Monsignor Pedro Quitorio, the bishops' spokesman, said in a statement.
from ABC News
Which made me smirk a little, and think "isn't all of religion an act of superstition?". I wondered, how can a senior religious figure tell his followers not to conduct any acts of superstition, when one could consider everything about religion is a superstition? Perhaps I had incorrectly remembered the definition of superstition, so I thought I better find a definition and check. From Wikipedia:
Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason, knowledge, or experience.
So my first reaction was correct, but then I read the rest of the Wikipedia entry. Not surprisingly this line in Wikipedia intrigued me, "religious believers have often seen other religions as superstition" which is like the oft used phrase "We're all atheists, I just believe in one less god than you do". It's that amazing ability of religious people to look skeptically at other beliefs but not their own.
This sentence in the Wikipedia entry for Superstition also intrigued me:
Religion and superstition are usually considered separated because while superstitions are based on fear, uncertainty and insecurity in the future and in peril, religious people can feel secure and safe under the protection of their God(s), thus actually making them fearless and resilient to calamity.
But isn't a fair portion of most faiths based on the fear and uncertainty of what happens in the afterlife? Don't a lot of religions teach that the followers better be good or else they'll go to hell when they die. Isn't that then the definition of superstition per "fear, uncertainty and insecurity in the future"?
Then I got to the bit about the Catholic Churches take on superstition, which explains why the bishops in the Philippines criticised some of their followers who whip and/or crucify themselves at Easter.
The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be sinful in the sense that it denotes a lack of trust in the divine providence of God and, as such, is a violation of the first of the Ten Commandments.
But what constitutes superstition for the Catholic Church?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states superstition "in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion" (para. #2110); or this "a deviation of religious feeling" (para. #2111).
So according to the Catholic church its only a superstition if your too religious? 😉
A lot of people have superstitions about all sorts of weird things, but as long as you don't let them rule your life, or worse make your superstitions rule other people's lives, then they are probably reasonably harmless.
Then there's always this fantastic Superstition:


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The Eclipse Lyo project is focused on providing an SDK to enable adoption of OSLC specifications. OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration: http://open-services.net) is an open community dedicated to reducing barriers for lifecycle tool integration. The community authors specifications for exposing lifecycle artifacts through uniform (REST) interfaces and relying on Internet and Linked Data standards.
The project is divided into three categories:
Lyo is not an Eclipse IDE plugin and is not on the platform release cycle.
The Lyo 1.1 deliverable is
The Lyo 1.1 deliverable is
|M1: 4Q2011 milestone
|M2: 1Q2012 milestone
|M3: 2Q2012 milestone
|1.0: 1.0 release
|1.1: 1.1 release
OSLC4J is an SDK for Java application development. It requires Java 6 or higher. OSLC4J is based on Apache Jena 2.7.1 or higher and Apache Wink 1.2.1 or higher
The Lyo OAuth library are an API to assist with development of OAuth 1.0/1.0a compliant OSLC applications. It requires Java 6 or higher and makes extenisve use of the Net.OAuth Java libraries.
OSLC4J and the OAuth libraries have a limited number of serviceability messages which are enabled for translation. The OSLC test suite is not currently enabled for translation.
The 1.1 API is backward compatible with 1.0
The themes for the 1.1 release of Lyo are:
OSLC4J is a Java SDK for the development of OSLC applications. It is based on Apache Jena and Apache Wink. It provides Java annotations which let developers represent OSLC resources as Java objects. The OSLC4J JAX-RS providers assist with serialziation and de-serialization of Java OSLC resources to and from RDF/XML and JSON.
OAuth is a popular Internet authentication protocol and is in common use by linked data applications. The OSLC Core specification recommends OAuth as a compatible authentication protocol. OAuth is commonly thought of as "difficult" to implement. The Lyo OAuth libraries have a goal of assisting developers in implementing OAuth-compliant OSLC applicatons. Content includes:
The OSLC test suite provides a way for developers to assess the quality of their OSLC implementations. It contains tests for the OSLC Core specification and for the following domain specifications:
Lyo contains many samples of OSLC implementations which developers can use as guides or starting points for their own implementations. The samples cover many domain specifications and include:
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Extreme Angler TV- Season 12 Episode 13 –
Who`s ready for some football? Its late Fall and Karl is in Northern Ontario tossing 3/8th oz. Strike King Football Finesse jigs and small plastic trailers along grass lines and rocky points for bulked up bass.
Big Fish… Bigger Audience… Biggest Difference!
Entering Season 12, Extreme Angler Television has taken great pride in creating one of the industries leading brands that entertains, educates and inspires the 'Next Generation'. A leading communicator in the sport fishing industry, offering marketers "the total audience solution".
Through the integration and convergence of targeted multimedia communication tools including one of North America's most watched and popular national television programs, live events, tournaments, seminars, DVD library, multiple social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and anchored by a high traffic website, www.extremeanglertv.com, Extreme Angler Media provides the total audience solution to penetrate a worldwide audience.
Extreme Angler TV has become so popular because of its ability to not only target a core viewer, but appeal and entertain the widest audience available from weekend angler to hardcore expert alike by nationally broadcasting quality primetime programming.
The show distils more action, excitement & viewer education into five minutes than most traditional shows generate in a entire episode! Every episode of Extreme Angler TV offers the home and on-line viewer a realistic insight about techniques, equipment and strategies involved in fishing at a up-tempo pace with cutting edge, innovative entertainment in a tasteful manner, unlike a lot of competitors shows that resemble 'paid programming or late night infomercials' with the occasional fishing content. The high powered montages of exciting, unscripted outdoor moments and a irresistible mix of heart pounding sound track ensures viewers never leave the edge of their seat, a favourite of non-fishermen as well.
EXTREME ANGLER TV is the 'NOW' generation… inspiring the 'NEXT' generation!
Beginning January 2014, Extreme Angler TV will be beaming to a much larger audience, on both DIRECTV & DISH network, thirteen High Definition episodes into every major market in North America with additional national broadcast partners and carriers offering sponsors and television partners alike a very strong foot print to angling enthusiasts via cable, satellite and telecommunication subscribers.
© Extreme Angler TV 2013. All Rights Reserved.


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Before your presentation, you might want someone to preview your slides before going live. During your presentation, you might want some others to access the live results of your presentation remotely. And after the presentation, you might want to share the results of your presentation to your participants or post it up online.
The good news is, you can do all of the above just by getting a specific link! Here's how you do it:
- Click on 'Share voting link or results'
- Copy the link for 'Show others the result of the question'
- Send the link out!
You can also share the presentation link from directly inside the Edit view of Mentimeter by selecting the 'Share' and then 'Results sharing'. Copy the link under 'Link to live results'; it's now ready to share!
When you share the Presentation URL, the person who receives it will get the following view, where they can see the presentation:
Note! As the link directs one to the live view of your presentation, do be careful not to delete or hide your results, or your audience will not be able to see them.


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Homemade Doughnuts Filled with Strawberry Jam
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- 600 g laucke bread mix ( including yeast )
- 1 x egg (lightly beaten with fork )
- 1 x jar of strawberry jam
- 1 x sachet of vanilla sugar ( 8 g )
- 425 ml warm water
- 1 x bottle of oil ( to fry )
- 1 cup extra plain flour( for dusting bench)
- 100 g icing sugar
- 2 pinches caster sugar
1)Sift flour (bread- mix ) into bowl,in another small bowl dissolve yeast with …bit of water and 2x pinch of sugar and 1 tablespoon plain flour.Leave to rise.Pour this into bread -mix,add egg and water and make nice and elastic dough.If need more flour add it,if need more water add it,but not to much.Cover and leave at warm place to rise.
2)Dust working surface with plain flour,transfer dough on and roll out into 5-6 mm thick.Cut small square and fill each one with strawberry jam.Stick the corners together and leave on working surface to rise.
3)In deep saucepan heat oil on high and then put in one by one( the doughnut),turn heat down and fry them slowly until brown and golden.Put on paper towel,to take it the excess of oil.
4)Serve hot or cold dusted with icing sugar mixed with vanilla sugar.You can serve as well with ice cream this.Kids will love it.
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Thank you Snjezana.I made them yesterday and was very yummy.
I want one right now!! They look delicious and of course calorie free!! LOL!
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AlphaGo's historic victory is a clear signal that we've gone from linear to parabolic. Advances in technology are now so visibly exponential in nature that we can expect to see a lot more milestones being crossed long before we would otherwise expect. These exponential advances, most notably in forms of artificial intelligence limited to specific tasks, we are entirely unprepared for as long as we continue to insist upon employment as our primary source of income.
Source: Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines – Basic income


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Pokemon has been enjoying massive success since its release of Red and Green in February 27th 1996 in Japan, or September 30th in 1998 here in America with Red and Blue. Every Pokemon game has raised the bar for itself with new features in each title, from breeding to personality types. One of the latest features Nintendo has brought to the table with Pokemon X and Y is the Pokemon Bank feature, which allows you to store up to 3000 Pokemon in a cloud like storage online. Allowing you to deposit, store, and manage all of your Pokemon via private boxes, Pokemon Bank is a paid service that will cost you $4.99 annually and is obtainable through the Nintendo eShop. More information on how the Pokemon Bank system works check it out here.
Nintendo is about to gift everyone who accesses their Pokemon Bank account between February 27 2015 to November 30 2015 with Meganium, Typhlosion, and Feraligatr. If you aren't familiar with these Pokemon, they are the final evolutions of your starter Pokemon from Gold and Silver version or recently revamped HeartGold and SoulSilver. Each of these will come with Hidden Abilities, and will more than likely be level 50. Make sure you have the proper badge to fully use the potential of these Pokemon as they will not listen to you otherwise. Here's a breakdown of a few of the abilities these Pokemon are coming with:
- Hidden Ability: Leaf Guard – Protects the Pokemon from status conditions when sunlight is harsh or extremely harsh.
- Sunny Day – When this move is used, the sunlight will be harsh. This effect will last for 5 turns.
Meganium takes full advantage of its own ability with Sunny Day active so remember that when using this Pokemon, but also watch for the switch to a fire type from your opponent as Sunny Day ups the damage of Fire-type moves.
- Hidden Ability: Flash Fire – Powers up Fire-type moves by 50% and prevents the Pokemon from taking damage from Fire-type moves.
Typhlosion will come with 3 already hard hitting Fire-type moves as it is, so it will definitely pack quite a punch right out of the box.
- Hidden Ability: Force Sheen – Eliminates the additional effects of this Pokemon's attacks, but they will do an additional 30% damage instead.
Feraligatr comes with the moves Ice Punch, Crunch, and Waterfall. All of these moves have additional effects that will not trigger, but will cause a massive amount of damage.
In order to recieve your three Pokemon, you'll need to access the Pokemon Link in your Pokemon X, Pokemon Y, Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, or Pokemon Omega Ruby after you have accessed Pokemon Bank using one of these games. Each Pokemon Bank account is limited to receive only one set of these Pokemon.


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In the wake of the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife's (WDFW) recent decision to not designate a Wild Steelhead Gene Bank (WSGB) for the north Puget Sound, WDFW is now seeking applications for membership on a new ad hoc advisory group. The group is tasked with developing fishery and hatchery management strategies tailored to specific watersheds throughout Puget Sound as well as helping identify a new wild steelhead gene bank in north Puget Sound.
The new advisory group will meet twice a month through December to develop recommendations that support conservation objectives and improve sustainable fisheries opportunities for steelhead in tributaries to the Sound. WDFW is planning to use the input from the advisory group to make a final decision on a gene bank in north Puget Sound later this year.
If you are well acquainted with the fisheries, hatchery programs, and ecological issues of watersheds throughout Puget Sound and are interested in helping make the entire Skagit Watershed a WSGB, then please consider applying today.
To apply please submit the following information in writing to the address below:
- Applicant's name, address, telephone number and email address.
- Relevant experience and reasons for wanting to serve as a member of the advisory group.
- Applicant's effectiveness in communication.
- Name and contact information for any individual or organization submitting a nomination.
Applications must be received by Sept. 1. They may be submitted to Cathy Davidson by mail: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA, 98501; or email at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, contact Jim Scott at (360) 902-2736.


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Ronda Rousey-Sarah Kaufman Strikeforce Title Bout Official for Aug. 18 in San Diego
A previously rumored women's Strikeforce bantamweight title tilt between Ronda Rousey and Sarah Kaufman is now official and will take place Aug. 18 at Valley View Casino Center in San Diego.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker verified the booking Tuesday during a media conference call. The upcoming event marks the promotion's third trip to Valley View Casino Center, the most recent of which came in December and featured a lightweight championship headliner between reigning titleholder Gilbert Melendez and challenger Jorge Masvidal.
Rousey, 25, has never allowed an opponent to escape the first round. The 2008 Olympic judo bronze medalist has submitted all five of her professional foes via armbar, most recently wresting the Strikeforce title from Miesha Tate on March 3 in Columbus, Ohio.
Kaufman, meanwhile, looks to regain the title she relinquished to Marloes Coenen nearly 21 months ago in the lone loss of her pro career. Since dropping the belt, the 26-year-old Canadian has rattled off a trio of wins, besting Megumi Yabushita and Liz Carmouche in 2011 before kicking off 2012 with a majority decision victory over countrywoman Alexis Davis.


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On European Heart Failure Awareness Day (6th, 7th and 8th May 2016), Members of the Heart Failure Policy Network will be writing and talking about heart failure in traditional and social media, along with other patients, healthcare professionals and supporters across Europe.
We're highlighting the huge cost that heart failure represents in terms of hospital admissions, much of which could be reduced, and calling for much greater recognition for heart failure in healthcare policies and strategic plans – an essential first step to making progress.
Our Twitter badge!
Please join us in raising awareness of heart failure by following our twitter feed @HFPolicyNetwork or by looking out for our campaign hashtag, #changeHFpolicy.
You can also help by:
- By pinning our badge to your twitter profile (see above!)
- By signing our Call to Action on heart failure
- By tweeting facts about heart failure (we have provided some example tweets below)
- By featuring our press release in your publication or online news
If you would like to discuss an article or media comment from the Heart Failure Policy Network and our members, please write to email@example.com
Social media graphics
Please feel free to use any of the below in your social media:
Social media facts
We encourage you to use the following statistics in social media posts:
- At least 15 million adults live with heart failure in Europe
- 1 in 5 adults are at risk of developing heart failure over their lifetime
- Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalisation in people over the age of 65
- Over 50% of unplanned hospital admissions may be avoidable through careful discharge planning, appropriate patient education and personalised follow-up in the community
If you like, you can also use the following example heart failure tweets:
- #Heartfailure poses significant & growing cost & is the most frequent cause of hospitalisation in ppl 65+ https://www.hfpolicynetwork.org/
- #DYK outcomes for people with #heartfailureworse than breast, prostate & bowel cancer: https://www.hfpolicynetwork.org/
- This #HeartFailureAwarenessDay we call on governments across #Europe to make #HF a national priority: #changeHFpolicy https://www.hfpolicynetwork.org/
- More than 50% of hospital admissions for #heartfailureare preventable. We need to #changeHFpolicy: https://www.hfpolicynetwork.org/
Sign the Call to Action:
Our Call to Action on heart failure is one of the most comprehensive, cross-sectoral calls to action in heart failure yet developed.
Please sign it, and let us know by Twitter!


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Recent Research Exhorts the Goodness in Bread
Tweet The Irish Bread Bakers Your Favourite Sandwich and Be in with a Chance to Win one of 20 Sandwich Makers
Tomorrow, National Sandwich Day, (3rd November – the Earl of Sandwich's Birthday) the humble sandwich, the staple daily lunch for thousands of school goers and workers, is getting a revamp. The recent research from the Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance* (IUNA) says that sliced pan can contribute to a healthy balanced diet and the Irish Bread Bakers Association wants to know what sandwiches the people of Ireland are eating.
Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Dr Mary McCreery speaking about the IUNA report says that "there are so many untruths about sliced bread in Ireland that are totally unfounded. The research states that sliced bread can contribute to a healthy, balanced diet. It's an affordable, nutritious food, that has been consumed for thousands of years. It is low in fat, low in sugar and is a good source of carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, iron, protein, fibre, and folic acid."
"Like all good foods, bread should be an important part in everyone's diet. But unlike all foods, bread is such good value and is an inexpensive source of many of the nutrients our bodies need, whatever your age. It is one of the most nutritionally valuable foods that money can buy," concluded Dr. McCreery.
To celebrate National Sandwich Day the Irish Bread Bakers Association are offering the chance to win one of 20 sandwich makers by tweeting them what is your favourite sandwich. To be in with a chance of winning one of these 20 sandwich makers please tweet your sandwich recipe to @BreadBakersIrl
*Report is the Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance (IUNA) Report on the Pattern of White and Wholemeal Bread Consumption in Irish Adults and Pre-School Children, (September 2016).
Facts about bread:
- Bread is a good source of carbohydrate, as well as vitamins (especially B vitamins), calcium, Iron, protein, fibre and folic acid.
- Bread is low in fat and low in sugar.
- Bread is an inexpensive source of many of the nutrients your body needs no matter what age you are.
- Bread is an important part of everyone's diet, even if you are watching your weight.
- Bread is good value and is available fresh every day


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Remember us? We're Lorna's exclusive marketing agents. She's our only
literal literary client, so we come cheap and she's getting her money's worth.
Lately we've been specializing in goofy signs and other bloopers that we don't even make up. Let's just say that our copy/paste department is bigger than our creative department.
Business has been pretty good, so we've been ignoring our book marketing duties. Can you blame us?
We thought we should check in with Lorna before she dies or something to see what she's up to. Then it would be easier for us to tell you. See? We here at Readum N. Weap Ink, Inc. are pretty smart if you give us half a chance–for twice the price.
We're gonna list the breaking news, just to break it up for you. Dewey Hafta and Sons, our affiliates (aka enforcers) thought of that one–good, eh? When it comes to breaking things, they're the best.
1. Lorna's still alive, though a bit smaller than she was. She's missing a gallbladder, too.
2. She tells us she feels like the new stuff McDonald's is serving–crap. Eating solid foods makes her sick. So she's drinking again. But don't worry, she's not hitting the hard stuff–just a whole lot of the light healthy stuff that tastes like regurgitated grass.
3. By this week, she'll be finished with her edits on her new novel, Never Turn Back. She's gonna need beta readers and reviewers, people, so if you want to read something really different from her funny yet poignant memoir, pony up and volunteer. If you don't, you may be getting a surprise visit from Dewey Hafta and Sons…and, trust us. they ain't a pretty sight.
4. The free promo Lorna ran on the 2nd edition of her memoir is over and the e-book is for sale for $3.99 at Amazon. We hear tell of others running these promos and having
4 million 4 thousand 4 hundred downloads. Lorna got 114. I guess 4 is a magic number but she was on the low-end of it.
5. All of you who downloaded it for free apparently can't write a review on Amazon because you didn't buy it. That must've been in the fine print she didn't read. We know all about fine print and customers not reading it. Why the heck do you think we make it so fine? Anyway, if you have a blog or website, posting a review on it would be the next best thing to get the word out about the memoir. Hey, it's the least you can do. You got the award-winning book for free. (See how we're earning our money? Lorna would never say anything like that.)
6. The paperback version will be out in the next couple of weeks. Lorna had some trouble with her tech guy prioritizing the cover techie-hoopla to submit to CreateSpace. You wouldn't think he'd put her off like that since she sleeps with the guy–but she's been sick. Oops! Way too much info.
Our job is to boost sales so that she has enough money to pay to get the next book out. So, what do we need to do People to sell more copies of her award-winning, funny, courageous, touching memoir? It even has great pictures in it.
How many laughs can you buy for $3.99?
How much inspiration can you buy for $3.99?
How much entertainment can you get for $3.99?
How much enlightenment can you find for $3.99?
How much cuter a paperweight could you find for $3.99?
Have I convinced you yet? If you already have one, talk a friend or family member into buying it. If you love them, that is. Show them the reviews the first edition got. And that was before the book got even better!
Okay, we just ran out of whatever little funds Lorna gave us to promote her and her writing and fighting-to-stay-alive career. We're a business and we can't let emotions like pity get in the way of our business model.
Once she scrapes together a few more dollars, you'll see us again. And if there's any hint of any bad-mouthing our No. 1 client, Dewey Hafta and Sons will be on the job to put an end to any hooliganery. When you only have one client, you gotta protect her reputation.
Disclaimer: This breaking news report is the sole property of Readum N. Weap Ink, Inc. Lorna, as a client, had nothing to do with the content of this ad, but has generously allowed us to use her blog to broadcast this announcement because we can't afford our own free site. If anything, and we do mean anything, from this announcement is quote-unquoted, disunderstood, or unfactually misunderepresented, you will getting a visit from Dewey Hafta and Sons. And they will be in disguise.


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Have you ever woken up in the morning and wondered "Did that actually happen or was I dreaming?" That was my exact thought as I groggily arose from my warm bed recently, unsure of whether or not I had attended a game-changing event in the world of UX. It wasn't until I scrolled through the abundance of notifications on my iPhone with the tag #CFUXHACKATHON attached that I realised not only had the event actually happened, right here in central London, but also that I was not alone in my feeling of fulfilment.
Many members of the digital community have often walked away from an event that has a UX focus to it, still with so many questions left unanswered. UX is such a complex discipline, it is hard to keep up or even retain the information being spoken on stage by the UX thought leader of the moment. The digital community in the UK has long awaited an event where they can leave and go to bed knowing more, understanding more and being more than they were when they woke up that morning. As the hope was slowly beginning to drift away, along came the meetup group UX Designers HQ: London. The organisers (Career Foundry) promised an intense, knowledge filled six hours of UX-iness, in the form of a UX Hackathon, which is believed to be the first held in London of its kind and scale. Was this the event that the community had been looking for? We all waited in anticipation for the date of the six hour UX Hackathon to be announced; Wednesday 25th February 2015 at 6pm.
6pm mid week? Haven't we all go work in the morning?
Despite the fact that it was on a work night 100+ members from the digital community arrived, representing some of the biggest technology companies globally and of all abilities, knowledge and experience in UX.
The Career Foundry team had asked me and six other UX professionals to mentor the twelve teams during the hackathon based on our experience practicing UX in specialist areas related to the briefs that the teams would be working from. The seven of us also formed the expert judging panel, where we provided critique and scored the final presentations from our UX Hackers.
- Jay Tulloch – UX Designer at Sopra Steria
- Yael Levey – Senior UX Designer at the BBC
- Sandra Sears – UX Designer for TalkTalk
- Andy Iosifescu – Freelance Interaction Designer
- Neil Sampson – Professional UX Designer
- Paola Miani – Senior User Experience Consultant at IG
- James Walters – UX Lead at Open Inclusion
The night flowed extremely smoothly with the teams getting acquainted and well and truly stuck into the tasks at hand.
The Hackathon consisted of five stages:
- User research and prep
- User testing 1: User Interviews
- Divide, coordinate & conquer: value proposition, user flows and information architecture
- User testing 2: paper prototyping
- Iteration & pitch
As a mentor, it was my job to add value to teams and help direct them through their design brief, providing them with the in-depth UX knowledge and methodology required for them to really understand the needs and goals of their ideal target users. I soon found myself being called to different tables to provide my insight and expertise. This was great! It meant that the information that I was sharing not only made sense but was indeed valued. By the end of the night, all of the twelve teams had confidently presented their final designs to us judges and there was uproar of applause from the audience for everyone involved.
The feedback from the attendees both directly and on-line has been incredible: thanking Sopra Steria for sharing our expert knowledge and experience in the UX field with them, which they found invaluable during the tasks. Participants and Mentors alike displayed a keen interest in the great work that we are all doing in digital transformation at Sopra Steria. The organisers have been praised in huge amounts for the event, and they are planning a full three day UX Hackathon in nine months time for over 300 participants! This is another event which could provide Sopra Steria with the opportunity to further increase our influence as thought leaders, as we continue to make our own transition from the New European Leader to the New Global Leader in Digital Transformation.
Read on, for a timetable of events
Competitor Analysis
Teams researched three competitors who shared the same goals as the teams business concept. It was important for the teams to understand their competitors in order to begin to form a picture of their target users. I asked the teams to think about:
- Who are their competitors communicating to?
- How are their competitors communicating?
- Why are their competitors communicating in this way?
- What is their competitors message?
- Is there a story behind their business?
- Do their competitors values match theirs?
User Personas
After identifying three of their closest competitors, the teams were asked to create a single persona which described their ideal target user of their product or service. It was important for the teams not to be distracted by the look, age and name of their persona. They needed to look deeper into who the person actually was and think to about:
- What are their interests?
- Who do they socialise with?
- Where do they socialise?
- What are the motivations for using their product/service?
- Goals, what does their persona want to be or do?
- Is this why they are using the product/service?
Card Sorting
Card sorting was a fun exercise that really brought the team together. They rolled up their sleeves and got stuck into this task and were asked to maintain focus on their vision for the product. Once they grouped their ideas into categories they carefully prioritised features, ideas and pages that were must haves for the MVP of their product/service.
The teams went out into the big wide world (the table next door) to find representatives of their target audience, and ask them questions based on the teams assumptions of how their users would interact with the product or service. The task was very insightful and the teams soon realised that the answers that they received were not those that were first expected.
A huge task which required the teams to be very organised. Based on the data obtained from the user interview stage the teams went about creating the optimum user journey through their proposed product. From this, they could then begin to develop the information architecture and place in the features and ideas that they had prioritised for the MVP. When constructing the IA, I discussed with the teams the importance of how information is delivered to the user through content (labelling, hierarchy, tagging, grouping), which allowed them to question some of their own decisions and assumptions, and provided a starting point for the next round of user testing.
STAGE FOUR: USER TESTING w/PAPER PROTOTYPES
Another fun task, however, one of the most valuable. The teams tested the paper prototypes of their proposed user journeys and interactions with users from other teams. None of the teams got the design right first time, and that was ok because they gained invaluable insight into how their users actually will use their products and what their expectations really are.
They now had the opportunity to refine their design before the final presentation, it was critical to the success of their product that they utilised the helpful feedback obtained from the user testing stage. The data received from the testing would help them to direct their iterations towards the needs of their ideal target users.
Once they were satisfied that their final design was a perfect fit for the needs of their user the teams began to organise how they would pitch their vision to the audience and more importantly the judges.
All twelve teams pitched extremely well and delivered the goals from the brief. Some of the pitches were long, some were short, some were fun…and some were not so much. At the end of the night, there was not a single person without a smile, and there was a brief moment where everyone could see the satisfaction in the faces of their team mates. The whole room congratulated one another and it was clear to see that the night was one we'd all never forget.
Apologies in advance for the "cringe factor" of the following images. Although I feel strongly that this feedback is important for us to know and it does not only reflect the work that I did on the night, it is also reflective of the awesomeness of us as a UX and Innovation team at Sopra Steria and the work that we have all done over the last two years building our Digital Practice from the ground up to get us into spaces such as this one.


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2010. What a year! It's about that time when we all sum our memories and experience from the year past. We decided to compile some of the best releases, tracks and trends from 2010 in our view. Not in any particular order or ranking. Just a few pieces of amazing music that never left our headphones during the last 12 months. Here we go!
Thestrom's 2010 picks:
Jay Electronica: Exhibit A, B & C.
These days it doesn't happen very often that we're blown away by a new MC, but Timothy Elpadaro Thedford a.k.a. Jay Electronica did just that. With amazing storytelling skills backed by Just Blaze's cinematic beats his exhibit A, B & C stopped me in my track everytime it popped up in my headphones. We're very much looking forward to an official album release in 2011.
Jay Electronica - Exhibit B
Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
Mala (Digital Mystikz) - Return to space
South London dubstep pioneer Mala dropped his highly anticipated album "Return II space". It was released on his own DMZ imprint and hasn't left my daily commute playlist since it dropped in July. He has such a unique sound that blends that deep dubby laidback vibe with menacing beats and dirty basslines. It was the mindblowing soundtrack to one of the hottest summers of the decade.
Robert Glasper - Dillaludes
Dilla passed almost five years ago but he's still very much present. Robert Glaspers unreleased live performance of his stunning dillaludes was one of my strongest musical memories of 2010.
Jazz pianist, Robert Glasper, worked with Dilla several times and the dillaludes are his ode to the late James Yancey. He recreates the vibe of some of James Yancey's finest moments together with his live band including drummer extraordinare Chris Dave. We challange you to unveil what classic dillatracks he's covering...
Robert Glasper - Unreleased dillaludes
Mark Pritchard/Harmonic 313/Africa HiTech
Mark is a longtime Beathearts favourite. Every since the days of his Jedi Knights and Global Communication projects I've followed his every release with great anticipation. 2010 was no exception with absolutely stunning tracks, remakes and collaborations with people like Wiley, Steve Spacek and others. We have very high hopes that a full lenght Africa HiTech album will see the light of day in 2011.
Mark Pritchard ft Wiley - Scar
2010 - Year of the Afrobeat
We never saw it coming but 2010 turned out to be the year when Afrobeat came back. Cratediggers turning to south central Africa instead of south central Los Angeles for crate digging. The spotlights were turned back on Afrobeat legends such as Ebo Taylor who after all these years got a new record deal and released his first album in years.
2010 - Year of the Afrobeat
We never saw it coming but 2010 turned out to be the year when Afrobeat came back. Cratediggers turning to south central Africa instead of south central Los Angeles for crate digging. The spotlights were turned back on Afrobeat legends such as Ebo Taylor who after all these years got a new record deal and released his first album in years.
Afrobeat parties seemed to pop up everywhere and the tribute/cover mixtapes never stopped coming. One of the better productions was J.Period and K'Naan's The messengers.
Finally, and I never thought I'd say this but, Jay-Z, Will Smith and Questlove put together a stunning broadway show (!) entitled Fela covering the life story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. It raised the awareness of Fela's (and Africas) amazing muscial heritage to a whole new audience.
Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy (1975)
Antwan's 2010 picks:
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye did his "comeback" late 2010, and got nothing but good reviews. The album is a little rugged, but no doubt this makes my top 5. Quality music.
Kanye West - Devil In A New Dress feat. Rick Ross
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
This collaboration was quite a match! Combined political criticism, humble awareness and hard-hitting attitude results with a beautiful album.
Nas & Damian Marley - Patience
Apollo Brown - The Reset
Detroit hiphop at it's best, dillauesque wonderful samples and fantastic guests. The mellow "Seasons" is one of the best tunes this year.
Apollo Brown - Seasons feat. Stik Figa
Benny Tones - Chrysalis
New Zeeland's Benny Tones has crafted a masterpiece, with rhythms and beats out of this world.
Benny Tones - Fire Fly feat. Mara TK
Black Milk's Album of the Year and Nottz's You Need This Music share the last spot on my list.
These two marvellous beatmakers each made heavy music in 2010. I've got a soft spot for Nottz smooth melodies, though equally for Black Milk's massive music!
Black Milk - Deadley Medley feat. Royce da 5'9'' & Elzhi
Nottz - You Need This Music feat. Dwele


text: CHICAGO — I recently visited a Laundromat in southern Florida, and noticed something different. At first, it seemed like a typical self-service laundries, with machines on both sides and a tiny office in the back. All the signs were in English. But I soon realized that most of the customers didn't speak English.I spoke with a store employee, and she told me that most of the clientele — more than half — were Guatemalan. Then I asked if she spoke Spanish. She didn't.If there ever was an operation that should have gone "ethnic," this was it. The attendant should be fluent in Spanish and English. The signs should be posted in both English and Spanish. The vending machine should feature South American drinks. Or, if a vender wasn't available, the owner could have a small refrigerator stocked with tamarind soda for sale. Do you think the patrons would appreciate a basket filled with guava pods from Costa Rica?EMBRACE THE BASE All Laundromats should embrace their customer base. If the majority is Spanish, or Asian, or Polish, the facility should make the customers feel at home. They should "ethnocize."For starters, attendants should speak the majority language. This is a must. On the Gulf Coast of Florida, I visited a store in a town of heavy Greek ancestry. The attendant told me: "About 80 percent of our customer base is Greek. The reason this place is so busy is because we all speak Greek, and the competition doesn't."Can you imagine the confusion when the attendant doesn't speak the language? A customer is trying to explain that the dryer is not working adequately or that the changer won't take a bill, and the attendant has to ask the person three times to repeat the statement. Such encounters cause great frustration.Besides having language problems, someone who speaks the language better understands the customers. Instead of hiring a friend, feed into your clientele base by bringing in someone offering ethnic cohesion.Second, print every sign, every instruction, and every pricing notice in two languages. The customers probably can figure out the price of your dryers from the English, but it's more welcoming to see the amount in their own native language. All of this makes your customers feel at home.If your clientele is split 50-50, going ethnic is still appropriate. After all, the neighborhood will have diverse stores, restaurants and community centers. Everywhere, residents are reminded of their background. So why not bring in that culture to your establishment? Will the non-ethnics be offended? Not a chance. If they didn't want to be around the neighborhood, they would have moved to a drab area a long time ago. Most likely, many of the English-speaking customers will learn enough of the language to read the signs in both languages and appreciate the diversity.A TOUCH OF CULTUREProvide plenty of cultural touches. Offer unusual foods, if possible. Offer ethnic snacks and sodas for sale. How about offering homemade pastries using native recipes from the homeland? Contact a local resident to prepare and deliver a batch every day. Sell the treats for 75 cents or $1, depending on your cost. Serve coffee in the style of the ethnic homeland. If the store is in a Turkish area, have a hot plate and long-handled pots with Turkish fine-grained coffee, so that customers can brew their drink in a way they are accustomed to. Patrons will pay for such offerings.On the wall, hang a map of the native country draped by the national flag. Nearby, post a bulletin board where customers can pin postcards from relatives or headlines from homeland newspapers. Patrons can stick pushpins in the map to designate where they came from — their town or city of origin. If you put some effort into this, customers will flock to the board every visit.Decorate the facility appropriately. If your neighborhood is heavily Bahamian, start out by painting the walls the colors of the Bahamian flag — light blue, black and yellow. Be as creative as you desire. Put up a shelf of conch shells, some attractively painted. Hang the official Bahamian calendar filled with attractive drawings and recipes each month. Of course, offer benne cakes, the locals' pastry. Do you see the possibilities?QUITE AN EVENT Celebrate native events. Focus on national celebrations, be it Day of Independence (Bastille Day for a predominantly French population, Junkanu for Bahamians) or a national election day. Celebrate the birthday of a national hero. Invite folks to recite the country's national anthem on these festive days.Organize a talk by an expert well-versed in national issues. At a minimum, put a notice on your outdoor signage, celebrating the country's birthday. If nothing else, that will get curiosity seekers to visit your laundry.Sponsor events. In a predominantly Portuguese community, invite a fado singer to perform. Suggest that people bring in some folding chairs. Think you would get an audience? I imagine there would be an overflowing crowd. You just want to make sure that you don't drive away customers in the process. These events don't have to be every week, but periodically (perhaps four times a year) just to show your Laundromat's orientation.Would you make money from the fado event? Probably not. You would have to pay the singer, but you could charge a small admission. You could also make money by selling snacks. So you might break even. More importantly, by doing this, you will endear yourself to the community. And you will break up the laundry routine. You'll be perceived as more than just a Laundromat. You will have become a community resource.Embrace your community's roots, its ethnicity. It will pay off in satisfaction. It will also generate more revenue.


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The Lee Family. Once upon a time Noel and Rena got married and had 2 kids - Doris and Donald. Then one day, Doris got married to Jeremy and had her own 2 kids - Vince and Edda. We all live far apart, and keep moving around. It's hard to keep tabs on each other. Welcome to our blog.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Love the library.
6 comments:
- yamster said...
Rockville Library is awesome! Wish we could get there more often. Encyclopedia Brown is awesome, too. And whose mysteries are you reading? I need some new authors to try...
- November 09, 2009 11:04 AM
- Doris said...
I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - awesome. I've also been reading Lee Child's books, I've read about 4-5 of his books and now they are all kind of the same... I thought I'd never read murder mysteries because I thought they were too gory, but I love them now because all problems are solved in the end. Unlike life which has no solutions!
- November 09, 2009 7:06 PM
- yarn shop girl said...
Doris, have you heard about the clinical trials at Boston childrens? my pediatrician let me know about it, it sounds so promising.
- November 09, 2009 7:15 PM
- Doris said...
Hi Tara,
I've heard about the clinical trials in Boston - which are funded via IRSF! Hooray! I'm not sure where in the process they are in terms of signing people up - I know lots of folks are excited... Do you need the contact info or anything?
- November 09, 2009 7:20 PM
- yamster said...
Have you tried Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers? Not gory at all! Actually I've noticed that British mysteries tend to be much cleaner than American ones. Are we that much more barbaric???
- November 11, 2009 11:08 AM
- Doris said...
Yeah, I have read a bunch of the british mysteries, but the I went hard core a few years ago.
- November 12, 2009 8:52 PM


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London Still Calling
On Monday night I was genuinely scared I'd wake up to Armageddon. I kept waking in the night and bursting in to tears after spending the night watching the horror unfold across London, the place I love unconditionally. I did wake to unrest, destruction, scars and cracks split open across the city. But I also woke to something else. Riot Clean Up
Thousands of tweets streaming from people all across London rolling up their sleeves and rushing to the aid of our communities. It felt like the most brilliant, sane, compassionate act of vigilantism I have ever witnessed and it made me feel so proud. It's all thanks to Dan Thompson from artistsandmakers.com who started the idea and it soon spread like wildfire. And you know why it did? Because the vast majority of us are decent people who care for this city.
If I could have escaped from my desk I would have been there, and although I hope and pray there will be no call for it tomorrow I will be there if more help is needed. This is my attempt at spreading the messages I've seen on Twitter today, how we can all help rebuild and move on from these mindless atrocities. I know there is a lot of anger out there, but if we channel that angry energy in to helping just think how much we can all achieve.
Please, please if you know of any charitable groups, individuals or communities that are going above and beyond the call of duty email me at firstname.lastname@example.com so I can keep updating this blog post and keep momentum going within the volunteer community.
- Follow Dan Thompson and Riotcleanup who have been tirelessly organising volunteers. If you're needed you'll know from them first. Also, a lot of local council's have also been keeping people up to date with details so find your borough on Twitter
Donations for those made homeless by the riots are being taken at Tottenham Green Leisure Centre by Haringey residents. Updated list from them as of August 12th is on their website for what items they need. If you've been hording your Boots Advantage points now could be a good time to trade them in for people more in need of essentials? They are open 9am – 8pm and the number to call if you want to contact them is 02084895308. Again it may be worth checking with your local councils in areas badly hit if they are arranging drop off points closer to home.
- Collection points have also been arranged by some fantastic people on Twitter (Katie Khan, Kate Nash, Emmy The Great, Knitnhealthy, Milla Traylen & Sonny Malhotra ). Future pick ups listed below
Thursday 11th. 9am-11am Elgin Avenue/Portebello Road. Follow Emmy for details Thursday 11th. 11am-2pm. Majestic Wines in Camden. Follow Knitnhealthy for updates on Twitter Thursday 11th. 11am-2.30pm. Hoxton Square. Outside White Cube Gallery. Follow Sonny & Kate for details Thursday 11th. 6am-2pm. Enfield Chase Station. Follow MycoffestopUK for details Thursday 11th. 6pm Paddington Library, Porchester Road. Follow Emmy for details Friday 12th. 6am-2pm. Enfield Chase Station. Follow MycoffestopUK for details Friday 12th. 3pm-7pm. Clapham Common (near the tube station) Look out for Nennie Pops sign Saturday 13th. 11am-2pm. Hoxton Square for the items in this link ONLY. Follow Sonny & Alex for details
- Monday 15th. 6am-2pm. Enfield Chase Station. Follow MyCoffestopUK for details
Shop local to help get the businesses in your communities back on their feet. Commerce is so important in recovery. A Facebook group has been set up for Thank Turk It's Saturday as a great example of this. Shop local this Saturday and show some love for an East London community who stood tall during the rioting.
- To get your name on the clen up list for Croydon please call 02087266000 and choose option 7. They will keep you updated
- If anyone knows places that are taking in furniture for those left homeless from the riots can you please get in contact with me urgently? I have had tons of emails today from people wanting to donate.
- A donation page has been set up for Ashraf Haziq who was robbed as he lay bledding in the street. You can donate on the fund raising page set up for him here
- A donation page for Aaron Biber has been set up by interns at BBH as they were so moved by his story. You can read details in The Telgraph and make donations here
- Sonny is a photographer and has offered his services free of charge to those that lost everything in the fires. How many of us say the first thing we'd rescue from our homes if it was on fire say our photo albums? Spread the word if you know people affected. Click on his name for details
- A donation page for Siva Kandiah, a local shopkeeper in Hackney, has been set up for donations. Help him get his local business back on it's feet. You can donate here
- Citizens Advice Bureau have some practical information/advice on their website for if you were affected by the riots. Click here to be directed to the page
- Another fund raising page for Nick who lost his home in Clapham and needs some help getting back on his feet. This page was set up by his best friend who lives the other side of the world and wanted to help still. People are still finding ways of helping from across the globe! You can donate here
- There is huge support for Pias who lost their stock in the Sony Distribution Centre fire. You can follow Pias or RecordLabeLove on Twitter to find ways to support an independent, much loved label. Jarvis Cocker has also put together a compilation of his favourite Pias label songs available to buy as a way of donating AND getting some amazing music. Win – Win
- A website has been set up to help bring positivity back to Peckham. Their wall of messages alone made my heart skip. So many wonderful people out there
- Red Cross are collecting for 400 people made homeless in Croydon. Parchmore Methodist Church in Thornton Heath. Donate generously
- Those that want to donate to the Tottenham Fund can do so on Haringeys website
- Riot Rebuild has been set up to help mobilise the UK construction industry to help with the repairs. You can also follow them on Twitter
Stay Safe and to everyone that has helped, whether it's sweeping shards of glass or donating the bin bags to put the debris in, you are hero's!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥


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OMNIA is the new software platform developed by COSMED designed for data management, interpretation and reporting of all tests performed with the entire COSMED product range, from spirometry to lung function equipment and from metabolic to body composition assessment. OMNIA, entirely designed and developed by COSMED, provides an innovative and user-friendly interface (touch-screen ready) that allows operators to navigate and access main features and testing almost without any training in a multi-language environment. OMNIA is easy to setup, and, thanks to its intuitive environment, it is extremely easy to learn. OMNIA is available in both Stand-alone and Network version, a fully featured software with Server/Client architecture.
Easy to use. Beautifully designed GUI makes complex operations easy to perform, test and interpret. Versatile. Designed for clinical and research environments. Integrated. With HL7 connector OMNIA brings productivity and efficiency of the Lab, while integrating it with your Hospital Information System. You own your data. OMNIA is based on either Express or Standard SQL database to store data securely. SQL language ensures that your database is continuously improved, updated and well maintained. Modular and scalable. OMNIA is a modular solution that allows you to upgrade at any time according to your specific needs. Long term investment. OMNIA design, based over the most recent generation of Microsoft programming language, makes easy to follow the evolution of the Microsoft Operative System for the years to come.
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the republic of yukata cottons
By Patricia Belyea
SEATTLE WA When I was eleven years old, Canada adopted a new flag. It was a bold red maple leaf on a white background, flanked by two red bars. The red ensign had been the de facto flag for years and it was time for a unique image for my home country. Lester B Pearson made it part of his campaign platform to deliver a new flag to Canadians within two years of being in office. (He was elected as Prime Minister.)
In four short weeks, I'll be hosting a special event at my home to celebrate the grand opening of my new yukata cotton shop and classroom.
Typically when I have an Okan Arts open house, I go to Safeway and buy helium balloons to set out front. This time I'll be flying a new flag I made with some 1970s yukata cotton and solid-dyed Kona cottons. It's a special occasion flag that was fun to make.
I started my flag project on one of my Victoria BC trips. Cutting the fabric squares in my hotel room (yes, I did travel with a cutting mat and rotary cutter in my suitcase), I stitched the pieces together at Satin Moon Quilt Shop in downtown Victoria.
Here are some things I learned from my flag project:
Hanging the Flag
Special event flags are hung horizontally to the ground, not at an angle.
I bought grommets at the sewing store (left). In researching how to install the grommets. I learned that brass-colored grommets will actually rust in the weather and streak a flag. I bought a Lord & Hodge grommet set on Amazon with a cutting block, hole cutter, inserting punch, die and solid brass grommets (right) for $10. Easy to use, the grommets look heavyweight and professional.
Flat-felled Seam Review
The correct finishing for a flag is flat-felled seams—like the seams on the legs of your jeans. Here's a quick refresher of how to sew flat-felled seams:
1. With right sides together, sew a 5/8″ seam.
2. Cut the seam allowance of one of the seams to 1/4″.
3. Press the seam toward the trimmed side.
4. Grasp the untrimmed seam and fold it over the trimmed seam until the edge meets the stitching line and conceals the trimmed seam.
5. Press flat and pin in place with the pins running the length of the seam.
6. On the back side, stitch 1/8″ inch from the folded edge, removing the pins as you go. Backstitch at both ends.
7. Add another line of stitching 1/8″ from the original seam, backstitching at both ends.
8. Press flat. There should be two lines of stitching on the front and three lines of stitching on the back.
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I find your fabrics exquisite. They have a grace all of their own and speak yo the spirit of a quilter. I live in Spain so attending a workshop would be impossible but will follow what I canmad4
Enjoyed this "flag" article. I'm pretty bad at understanding instructions of flag making (seams) and wanted to see the finished seam (couldn't picture myself the 3 stitching on the back of #8 flat-felled seams (i see a small photo of a seam though; and i also am unfamiliar with "flat-felled seams" so i will google).


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Kim Collins Kalicky is a 50-something wife, writer, and mother of two grown boys. Her latest book, Mothers Fulfilled, focuses on her life as a full-time working parent, and the challenges her hectic schedule presented in the office and at home. On a broader scale, the book discusses work-life balance for families throughout the United States. Kim introduces a dialogue about the need for parents to have more flexible scheduling options at work.
Kim, who's had a long career in finance, recalls her life as a working mother and believes a four-day work week would have been ideal. She doesn't throw out this number without basis. Rather, she remembers a time when a four-day schedule was her only viable option. During this time, her husband lost every hair on his body over a 10-week period; a condition his doctors attributed to stress. While this family health crisis was occurring, her youngest son, Ben, was having trouble adjusting to daycare. Kim knew her family needed her, and she requested a temporary four-day schedule (a request that took 6 months for the leaders at her firm to approve). Despite the challenges of trying to do a full-time job in 32 hours, Kim says the extra day made all the difference, giving her the breathing room she so desperately needed.
In retrospect, Kim wishes she asked for a flexible schedule from the get-go, but as many working parents know, flexibility is not always an easy thing to ask for – or acquire. MP couldn't help but think of her own years as a full-time working parent, and how nervous she was to ask her boss for part-time work before CP#2 was born. There's so much risk involved. What happens if your company says no to your request? What will you do next? And how will you be regarded once you've asked?
Kim believes that parents should be able to ask for schedules that work for them without fear of consequence. In retrospect, she says, she might have found a firm that would have allowed her a permanent, four-day schedule. She advises new parents to listen to their needs and advocate for themselves in each phase of their working/parenting lives. She writes, "Now you may decide you want some flexibility in your schedule or fewer hours, and if your company doesn't feel right any more, perhaps you should dig deeper."
In Mothers Fulfilled, Kim is the cheerleader in your corner, the knowing friend you go to for support. It's a book worth reading if you're on the fence about where to go next with your career, or if you need the courage to make a choice. If you're like MP, who took a great leap of faith in her own career, it's a book that makes you remember where you came from, and appreciate the decisions you made all the more.
To learn more about Mothers Fulfilled, visit amazon.com.


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Serving customers since 1977, the Guthrie Clinic Pharmacy is conveniently located in the Sayre Medical Office Atrium lobby in Sayre, Pennsylvania. It's easy to get a continuing prescription refilled or to drop off a new prescription to be filled after appointments. The Pharmacy also sells over-the-counter medication.
Guthrie can also deliver prescriptions by courier to the Guthrie regional office nearest the patient, or mail it directly to their home at no extra charge. For your convenience, refills can be submitted, 24/7, by calling the Clinic Pharmacy at 1-800-GET-MEDS (1-800-438-6337) or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Paper money drives America's black market, from prostitutes to drugs; babysitters to servers; and blood diamond buyers to tax evaders.
If we moved to a cashless society would crime take a plunge?
Ellen Zimiles, lawyer and money laundering expert told Slate's Katy Waldman she isn't so sure.
Here are her two reasons:
- Electronic currency moves fast, making fraud that much easier.
- Hackers would love nothing more to pilfer through all our online data. (Even regular Joes want to snoop through your smartphone.)
Given Americans' love affair with online banking and banks' proclivity for letting their customers choose stupid debit card PINs, Zimiles makes a strong case.
More than 11.6 million consumers reported identity theft in 2011, according to Javelin. The number is only expected to rise as our lives continue growing online.


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by Gary Pendleton
Monarch on Milkweed
On sunny summer days, the black-and-orange monarch floats on the air, seeking nectar from milkweeds and other flowering plants. Its graceful flight pattern is just one characteristic that distinguishes the monarch from others of its kind. Unlike most butterflies, monarchs are bitter tasting and poisonous to birds that prey on them. They are also North Americas only migratory insect.
The midsummer cohort of monarchs are a non-migratory generation. In late summer, their offspring will begin a round-trip journey that is remarkable not just because of the distance they will attempt but also because they are now two or three generations removed from the last migratory generation. Somehow, millions of monarchs will travel hundreds of miles to a single location with no obvious means of navigation.
Monarchs travel on paper-thin wings from as far north as Canada, southward across rivers, mountains and prairies to the Mexican border and beyond to the mountains called Sierra Transvolcanica in the state of Michoacan. Huge numbers, 40 million or more, concentrate there, seeking shelter in the pines from wind and cold, cloaking the trees with their royal colors. In spring, they will retrace their southward journey. Along the way, some females will stop to lay their eggs on the leaves of milkweed.
The various species of Asclepias, or milkweed, occur throughout the monarchs range, and these plants are key to both the butterflys toxicity and migratory nature. Milkweed is the host plant for monarch caterpillars and the preferred nectar source for the adult butterfly. Milkweed sap contains a heart poison that the caterpillars consume but are immune to, while would-be predators are not. The widespread presence of milkweeds enables monarchs to feed and lay eggs at convenient places along their migratory trail.
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As an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, Tweakersoft offers this handy application that seems to handle vector art very well.
About VectorDesigner
Its the perfect application for vector drawings, diagrams, illustrations, raster image handling, filtering and color correction, offering everything users need to create professional level vector artwork, such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web design, tshirts and more.
Whats New in this Version:
– Rulers and guides.
– Single key keyboard shortcuts.
– Rulers and guides.
– Single key keyboard shortcuts.
– Preferences option to keep the last tool selected.
– Improved smooth path algorithm (better tablet support).
– Minor bug fixing.
– Minor bug fixing.
Try it out by downloading a free trial version. Let us know what you think about it.
Like it? Love it? Hate it?
Tell us about it in the form of a review and we'll be happy to share your opinion with the ANCHORPOINT community.
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The Frequency Shifter shifts the spectrum of the input signal up or down along the frequency axis. This effect is also know as "Bode Frequency Shifting" or "Single Sideband Modulation"; IMHO one of the most underrated and ignored effects ever.
#Musicproduction: Full Bucket Music updates the blooo (v1.1.2) and Frequency Shifter (v1.0.1) for Windows #freedownload


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The last two weeks of December at work were really slow and quiet. Maybe a quarter of my coworkers were in the office. The rest were out celebrating the holidays and leaving whatever needed to be done, which wasn't much, to the rest of us. Let's put it this way - it was so quiet that the Hairy Beast came to work with me, twice. The second time he even had a friend to play with!
Once everyone was back in the office after the holidays, things got crazy busy. I have a lot of projects going on, my manager was out of the office unexpectedly due to the death of his mother, and I moved offices.
We've been fairly busy at home as well. Christmas decorations were taken down and put away. We move out all the living room furniture and shampooed the carpet. Last Saturday we took advantage of the unseasonably warm sixty degree weather and drove down to Amish county to stock up on a few necessities. It's been a blur of a month.
Earlier in the month, many people were coming up with what their "word" for the year was going to be. I wanted to come up with one that was positive and glorious and profound. Hope and Change sounded good, but I think they've been a bit overused, no? If I really thought about what I wanted for this year, one word stuck out - Reduce.
I didn't make New Year's resolutions. Those always seems to go by the wayside rather quickly. Instead, I wrote down my goals for the year. I tried to be "SMART" about them - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound.
When I looked at my goals for the year - lose weight, eliminate sugar from my diet, clean out the basement and garage and sell or give away what we don't need/use, spend less, shrink debt, exercise more, watch less TV, read more - many seemed to have one thing in common: the need to Reduce something.
It's not a glamorous, sexy word. It's not profound like I had hoped. But, it is accurate and something that has been weighing on my mind. And, it has the potential of having an impact on my life. At least I'm hoping it will.


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Unleash your inner artist with Coloring Crush. The set includes everything you need to make dreamy, just-add-colour works of art. And, for those who can't find the pointy end of a pencil, it includes a simple, introductory how-to guide includes a crash course in using coloured pencils, blending and layering, colour scheme inspirations and artist-approved techniques. It's everything a budding artist could want!


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Low budget time lapse camera
This diminute mini cameras were built into multiple forms like keychains, gum pack, pen, cigarette lighter, etc. All basically have a CMOS picture sensor, image processor and a rechargeable battery to record video (with audio! ) and to take still pictures, usually using a removable micro SD card.
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The build quality of those cameras is very low (their price is usually under 5 USD/EUR/GBP) so they fails often. The rechargeable battery like in other portable electronic devices is their Aquiles Tallon. If there's a battery failed camera somewhere lying in a drawer, it's time to give a second chance as a time lapse camera with very low budget additional components.
The project's features are:
* Programmable time intervals
* Very low power
* Automatic flash
* External battery
* Low budget ( could be 0 )
The camera has two push-buttons to set up the different operating modes, like video recording or still pictures taking. Usually one of the two buttons, when pressed for some amount of time powers on the camera , and if pressed again for the same amount of time, the camera powers off . The on/off process is all in software because the power of the camera is never cut (to preserve the time and date).
The other push-button is used as camera shutter to take still pictures if pressed and released quickly. If kept pressed for some amount of time, the camera enters into a continuous video recording mode, and it will be in that mode until the button is pressed again or battery is depleted. If the camera isn't recording video it will shut down automatically after some time, if there is no other action like taking still pictures.
Push-button quantity, time intervals to turn on/off, take pictures, start/stop video recording may vary depending on camera model and manufacturer, but generally speaking, tends to work in the way mentioned earlier.
To control and power the camera externally (in case of defective battery or to give more autonomy), wires must be soldered into the circuit board to the push-button contacts and battery PCB pads. Use enameled wire as thin as possible.
To automate the picture taking process, a simple 555 or transistor based circuit is enough. However, if more complex things are required like taking pictures with varying time intervals, or the time interval is longer than the automatic shut down camera timer, or if a flash is needed in low light conditions, a "smart device" is needed.
To complete this task, whatever embedded programmable platform could be used, in this case a Digispark will be used, thanks to its small size, very low cost (clones available for around 1USD/EUR/GBP worldwide shipment included),plugs directly into USB port so no cable is required, and also with a bit of effort supported in the Arduino suite.
The cyclic steps executed by the microcontroller are the following:
* Press power button, keep pressing and then release (camera power on)
* Wait while the camera initializes
* Observe light conditions (using toy solar panel) to turn on "flash" if needed.
* Press shutter button, keep pressing and release quickly (to avoid entering into video recording mode)
* Turn off flash
* Wait until the picture is written into the micro SD card
* Press power button, keep pressed and then release (camera power off)
* Enable watchdog and put microcontroller in sleep mode.
The different waiting times, like button presses, initialization, turn on, turn off, should be found experimentally because they tend to vary according to the camera used. Usually one of the push-button works in "pull-up" mode and the other in "pull-down" mode. Verify this with a multimeter to know the proper way to connect each optocoupler.
The system was programmed in C using AVR GCC, Micronucleus drivers must be installed to program the Digispark module.
The camera stores the images on a removable Micro SD card. Every image is stamped with the programmed date time. This could be a potential problem if the images would be used to make a video, because there is no official way to remove the date time in every frame. There are some alternatives in the 808 forum, like to modify the firmware (only for very specific camera models), or to apply virtual dub filters, etc.
A much simpler approach to remove the timestamp from the image is to use imagemagick, cropping the area of the photo where the timestamp lies, also could be necessary to resize the image to match the aspect ratio of standard video formats in the following way:
mogrify -crop 1280x720+0+64 *.*
The bottom 64 pixel lines from the image were cropped, also the resulting image is 1280 x 720 pixels matching 720p video resolution.
Finally to generate a 30 fps video from multiple images, with their filenames in sequence starting from zero (i.e. EKEN0000.jpg, EKEN0001.jpg, EKEN0002.jpg...) avconv could be used:
avconv -r 30000/1001 -i EKEN%04d.jpg -r 30000/1001 video.mp4
* Image quality isn't very good, play with the object distance and different kinds of illumination to get better results.
* Putting the microcontroller in sleep power down mode, and turning off the camera between takes, saves a lot of energy, so external batteries could be used for days making a relatively "portable" system.
* There are a lot of alternatives for time lapse photography, usually more expensive or power hungry. This simple exercise can be made in a couple of hours with components already available in the parts bin with, very low power consumption.
(See bottom part - Attached files)
* Complete article in PDF, code and schematic included
* Source code
* Makefile
Video showing modifications that were made to the camera and a 3 day period time lapse video of a seed germination


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The Department is excited to be undergoing renovations to our lounge and administrative spaces, as well as many faculty offices. The end result will be a lighter, updated, more user-friendly space with better, much-needed directional signage!
During renovations, you will find EAS reception in RL14211. From the elevator, turn right and follow signs to the room.
If you have any questions or concerns about the renovations, please do not hesitate to contact EAS's Office Manager, Natasja VanderBerg at email@example.com


text: SPICE CSL HAS PROVEN ITSELF TO BE THE TOP AGAIN WITH THE RELEASE OF THE CSL MI 350 – THE FIRST DUAL SIM ANDROID IN MALAYSIA July 25, 2011 crizlai Spice CSL has once again proved itself in the telecommunication sector by establishing its brand name with yet another first product in Malaysia. With the release of the CSL MI 350, nicknamed as SWITCH Dual, the slim and executive looking mobile phone, would become the first Android phone of its kind in Malaysia with a switchable dual SIM card mode. One thing for sure, this model would also be available at an affordable price as always for everyone. Currently, they are planning to launch the product very soon on the market with a recommended retail price (RRP) of RM699. That would be a reasonable price too hard to resist for Android users compared to the other competing brands around. CSL SWITCH Dual would simply the best Android phone available in town – Innovative, Prestigious & Affordable. Now you can switch between networks and browse the internet with ease by just a finger touch. Here is the information that you would want to know about the CSL MI 350: • Size 114.8 x 62.8 x 14.7mm • CPU Qualcomm MSM7227-1 with DSDS BSP • Network GSM Quad bands: 850/900/1800/1900 • Data SMS, MMS, Email • Display 3.5" HVGA(480 x 320) • Memory 512MB NAND Flash/512MB DDR • Camera CMOS 5MP • Battery Li-ion 1500 mAH • Expansion Slot Micro SD • Features GPS/AGPS Bluetooth, FM Compared to the previous model of CSL MI 300, this new model would be almost the same size, except that it would be thicker by about 2mm. With a wider touch screen now at 3.5" HVGA, I'm sure it would have a less cramped virtual keyboard for big fingers people like me. 😛 Well, I can't comment much such as which version of the Android OS they will be having until I have the physical phone in my hands. I'll write more on the user-friendliness of the model when I get my hand on one soon. At the mean time, you can check out CSL Malaysia's official website for more updates. I'm thirsty for a drink now. Would you be kind enough to treat me?


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Again, thanks to my friend for this article below…:
There has been a lot of discussion going on in various websites and forums about our proposed system, over the last couple of days. Sadly, most of this discussion has revolved around its legality and/or the impact of Mercury on the environment, rather than its merits and the technical reasons behind it.
We will leave it to the self-proclaimed "experts" on the different forums to argue about its legality, as we trust that finally the real experts (i.e. the FIA) will decide if it's legal or not. Just an interesting observation. ScarbsF1's report on the new McLaren MP4-27 mentions that he asked Paddy Lowe regarding the Lotus anti-dive brake system and he said that the team looked into it but dismissed it immediately because the engineers felt that it was illegal. However, when ScarbsF1 inquired with regards to interlinked systems, the team refused to comment…
Enough with that. In the meantime, we will try to explain over the next couple of days, to the few fans with an interest in the technical aspects of the sport, the idea behind the system, and more specifically:
1. Why it is not just another" interconnected /hydro-elastic suspension" – as some like to claim,
2. Why it is not "enough" to just "lock out" the front suspension under braking, and
3. Which specific characteristics of an F1 car, have been leading to the development of the Lotus –Renault "reactive ride height" system [now banned by the FIA] and our proposed system.
In order to do so, let´s first take a look at a "generic" F1 car according to the 2011 rules.
First, we will define, which loads we have in a hard braking manoeuver at top speed [5G deceleration] and we will later show what this means to the front ride height [front wing height over the ground] of the car.
We will show all the maths [no panic – it´s simple], and we will make some assumptions along the way. Now as is the case with every assumption, we can make some "wrong" assumptions, but this will not take away from the general principle or overall concept, nor will it render the final conclusion void. So, if you feel we have made some wrong (or inaccurate) assumptions in terms of overall downforce levels, centre of gravity [CoG] height, % of front downforce or tyre stiffness, we encourage you to do the calculations based on your own numbers, and to see what the end result looks like. We are confident, that it will not be night and day different from our final values.
So let´s look at some numbers:
To comply with the 2011 rules, a Formula 1 car must have a minimum weight of 640 kg including the driver. To complete a race distance of approximately 300 km without refueling, the car will need an estimated 160 kg of fuel. The weight distribution between the front and the rear axle is set by the rules to 45.5-46.7% front and 53.3-54.5% rear and we assume a maximum downforce value of 15000 N [1523 kgf] and a distribution of 43% at the front axle [feel free to use your own values here].
Therefore the fuel load changes the total weight of the car by approximately 25% between Qualifying and the start of the race. This in itself is already a great challenge when it comes to choosing the appropriate setup for the car. On top of this, the amount of downforce generated by current Formula 1 cars will change the load at the wheels by about 300% at the front and about 322% at the rear. For the suspension and the tyres, the car appears to be three times as heavy at high speeds, than it is at low speeds. Combine this 300% increase in vertical load with the very low ground clearance of a Formula 1 car, and you start to see, where the challenge for the race engineers lies. The lower the car can run to the ground, the more downforce it will produce, as long as a minimum clearance is maintained, and the skid block/plank does not get excessively worn.
During braking, load will be transferred from the rear axle to the front axle; the underlying calculation for the load transfer is:
Total load transfer = (total weight of the car x longitudinal acceleration x CoG height) / wheelbase
We use a car with a ½ full tank as basis for our calculations. Please see the graphics below for the results.
As you can see, from the calculations above, the weight on the front axle increases by +267 kg and decreases by -267 kg at the rear axles during the 5G braking maneuver in our example. What this means to our front ride height and front wing and splitter (tea-tray) height, we will explain in the next blog entry.
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Ronald and Marlene Culver of Moon Township, PA are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennie Marie Culver, to Victor Yates II, son of Victor and Mary Yates of Moon Township, PA.
The bride-to-be is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and the future groom is a graduate of Duquesne University. Victor is a member of the Local Union 712 and is currently a third year electrical apprentice. Jennie is employed by Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Project Manager.
A June 2010 wedding is planned.


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It's been a while since my first attempt at sugar cookies. I thought I'd make some more as they are easy trasnportable and keep quite well. The recipe is exactly the same as I used last time - although I decided that this attempt I'd use rolled fondant instead of flooding with liquid icing. I baked them on silicone baking tray liners.
Unfortunately, my new paint brush is totally useless and the bristles stick out in all directions and made rather scratchy looking marks. I managed some basic decoration painting food colouring on to the icing - but it wasn't fit for fine detail
Sugar cookies transport well as little boxed gifts in the post. I actually made a whole batch of these and they're going to the retired gentleman up the road when I collect Henny Penny from him. Henny Penny took very poorly a couple of weeks ago and I'm very thankful he's managed to nurse her back to health.


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When you're so over the cold and the first sign of Springtime comes, it's quite exciting - well at least that's what I used to think when I lived in a place with seasons. But the feeling is still there for me, despite LA's steady temps of 75-ish degrees pretty much all year round. The pastels, the wake up from the post holiday slug, the pretty new blooms (that does actually happen in Los Angeles) all tend to help me feel a little revived and really just more excited for summer. I remember this time well in Chicago growing up, when the pretty white snow turned into not so pretty brown slush and we were all just trying to find a decent shoe to transition into. Hence the very pretty pastel short Hunter boot I am still lusting over in this guide. And the days that tended to start so cold but ultimately had us stuffing our puffy coats into our backpacks by the time school let out. It was an awkward time, the push and pull for a decent change in weather but it was also an opportunity to feel new again. So I guess that is why I take seasons here in Los Angeles that much more seriously than I did back home, because I really miss the inherent anticiaption of something different. And so the easiest way for me to hit the restart button has always started with my wardrobe and for Spring I have always been so hopeful. So I thought I'd compile some of my tips for freshening up my wardrobe after the winter, hope you enjoy.
Style Tip No. 1 Add a chic scarf to every outfit, the easiest way is to tie one to a handbag to add something extra. It's also a nice way to take something old and make it new and fresh. I have about five silk scarves in various color ranges that I swap out with all my purses but I have also worn them as belts and even tied them around my neck to channel Audrey Hepburn! Since I tend to wear lots of neutrals and blues, my scarves with hints of pink and navy tend to be my favorites so I recommend getting one that either matches or compliments your favorite color palettes.
Style Tip No. 2 Wear a pastel something. Ever since I bought a light pink coat last winter it's become such a staple in my wardrobe. I was surprised how many things it goes with, especially since I tend to wear it over jeans or navy leather pants. But if you can't commit to a full on pastel coat I recommend something smaller, like a purse, sunglasses, or even an iPhone case.
Style Tip No. 3 Keep it classic with the chic basics like stripes, trench coats, and tassel loafers. As much as I love a trend, off the shoulder forever, every season has its classics and a trench coat is definitely one of them that I'm not willing to ever tire of. And as our toes defrost it's back to leather loafers, preferably in with a fun twist, like these pebbled silver slides. Stripes need no explanation.
{ trench coat | jeans | loafers }
{ scarf | green leather tote old similar here }
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Are you a fan of any of these bourbons?
- Willett Pot Still Reserve Bourbon
- Rowan's Creek
- Noah's Mill
- Johnny Drum
- Old Bardstown
- Kentucky Vintage
- Pure Kentucky Bourbon
If so, I've got a great video for you featuring Kentucky Bourbon Distiller's very own, Britt Chavanne. The video was brought to my attention by the fine folks over at DrinkSpirits.com. If you enjoy the video I suggest you head on over to their website and read the story that goes along with the video.
During the 2012 Bourbon & Banter Pilgrimage we spent some time at KBD and took a tour led by Britt's husband, Hunter. It was a fantastic stop on the Pilgrimage and one that I can't recommend enough. If you find yourself in the area, make sure to add KBD to your agenda. Their hard at work on their goal to become the "Napa Valley" of Kentucky and would appreciate you stopping by to check them out.
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