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WOO HOO! African state of Angola bans Islam and will destroy all the mosques
UnknownBy popular demand, Angolan authorities have taken pre-emptive action and decided to ban the Muslim religion, which they consider a cult, NOT a religion. They see what Muslims are doing to Christians, especially in Africa, and are taking steps to prevent the same from happening in Angola.
imagesPoste reveille (h/t Susan K) The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Bento, said on the airwaves of local radio that "radical Muslims are not welcome in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques." Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva explained that the law on freedom of religion will be reviewed given the current national context, noting that the Government will redouble its efforts to fight relentlessly against religious cults like Islam which are contrary to the customs of Angolan culture.
95% of Angola's population is Christian. A quarter belongs to Protestant churches founded during the colonial period, including congregational evangelical church.
former-boko-haram-Nasir-IsiakuThis decisive action taken by the Angolan head of state is based on a desire to guard against the rise of the Wahhabi ideology that has created havoc, death and destruction in Africa and elsewhere. And as rightly explained Tunisian philosopher Mezri Haddad: "Islamism and Islamophobia feed each other. Worse, long-term Islamism as an ideology destroy Islam as religion. "
Africalap According to the International Religious Freedom Report 2008, Islam in Angola is a minority religion with 80,000 – 90,000 adherents, composed largely of migrants from West Africa and families of Lebanese origin. The Muslims comprise between 2.5 to 3 percent of Angola's overall population of 17 million people, most of them Christians.
in the last decade, but especially during the last few years the Muslim community in Angola has grown appreciably and Islamic activities have become more common in major cities. Mosques have sprung up in a number of places and Qur'anic schools have been built to provide Islamic instructions and teach Arabic language to adherents.
Public attitudes toward Islam have been generally negative. Cultural differences between Angolan and Muslim West African immigrants have been the basis for negative views toward Islam, as was the perceived link between Islam and illegal immigration. Since the September 11 attacks, there has been a deliberate attempt to link Muslims with terrorism. It has become a matter of routine at Luanda airport for security officers to detain Muslims arriving from Sahelian countries.
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3779664185On September 1, 2008, a Muslim mob attacked the Christian community in the town of Andulo. The school-age daughter of a deacon at one of the churches was decapitated. Forty Christians were assaulted or tortured. The mob burned three church buildings. They also went to Christians' houses to intimidate them or destroyed items of property. Stones were thrown at the headquarters of a local Christian project, causing some damage. An Angolan Christian leader said that the local police were unable to stop the attack and fled the scene.
1) He's sending weapons to Libya to help repair America's strained relationship with Al-Qaeda.
2) Parents all across the country can now point to Barack Obama's performance when they're explaining to their children why they shouldn't use drugs.
3) He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Hello!
4) Thanks to, "New Coke" no longer has to bear the shame of being the worst product roll-out in American history.
5) Because of Obama, 91 million people without jobs now have plenty of time to spend with their family.
6) He extended childhood all the way up to 26 by allowing "children" to stay on their parents insurance until then.
7) He's kept goofy Uncle Joe Biden from becoming President for five long years.
8) No President in American history has done more to further gun sales than Barack Obama.
9) Without Barack Obama, none of us would have ever heard the name Sandra Fluke and what a tragedy that would be!
10) He has already broken Bill Clinton's record for the most lies told in one presidency with three years left to go in office.
11) When the SEALS asked for permission to kill Bin Laden, he didn't insist that they merely give Osama a good talking to instead.
12) He has worked tirelessly to know the American people better through invasive TSA searches, reading their emails, and listening in on their phone calls.
13) He's living proof that even a pothead who thinks there are 57 states can still live the American dream.
14) Because of Obama's economic policies, more Americans than ever have gotten to experience the sweet, sweet joy of funemployment!
15) Obama's policies are so bad that even real racists have stopped hating him for being black and hate him for his failed policies.
Nuclear Ambitions Are Clear Sign Dear Leader Obama Losing Grip
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Despite concrete evidence that global warming has paused, despite evidence that the world is most definitely not running out of oil, despite evidence that the climate models are wrong, global warming still looms as a major disaster to people living in the United States, especially the poor and the middle class.
That's because the false hysteria surrounding global warming is partially responsible for electing the worst president that we've ever had.
And the cleanup from this disaster is going to take a long while.
Let's put it this way: The earth will begin to warm again before the fallout and toxic effects of Hurricane O are cleaned up.
In the latest manifestation of the man-caused disaster that is Obama, Senator Millionaire, Harry Reid, (D-Dead) got rid of the long agreed-upon rules that prevent presidential nominations from coming to a vote without a consensus amongst Senators.
This rule has been so sacrosanct that changing it has been referred to by BOTH parties as "the nuclear option."
While Democrats usually pursue a strategy of using dead voters to stuff ballot boxes and suppress the vote, Obama instead turned to a dead Senator, Harry Reid, to stuff the Senate votes.
And because the nuclear option was deployed, you can kiss an early debt deal goodbye, along with a deal on tax reform or a deal to keep government running past January 2013.
Only rulers of tin-horn dictatorships seek to go nuclear, like this, as an alternative to real, responsive government.
"I just think after today, legislating's going to be pretty tough," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, who infuriates the GOP's base for often cooperating with Democrats on bipartisan legislation.
"If you thought the Senate has already ground to a near standstill, this is like throwing sand into the gears of an already rusty machine," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's really going to heighten the tensions even further, create bitter partisan arguments and add to the acrimony that's currently in the Senate."
Strike that. I'm sure he meant to say: "create MORE, bitter, partisan arguments."
What's at stake is the thin veneer of civility-- perhaps the last civility left in our Republic-- that allows consensus to built even in tough times. It means that while a majority in the Senate rules, it also reigns.
Consensus is dead! Long live the tyrannies of the Majority... with nukes!
Make no mistake: This is just an attempt by Obama to poke the hornets' nest because the sting of Obamacare is killing him.
Nothing constructive will come out of it.
It's civil war, senatorial style… with nukes.
While the rest of us worried about Iran going nuclear, Obama went nuclear instead.
His nuclear ambitions are the surest sign that the Dear Leader is losing his grip on his people.
Obama likely meant for Senatorial Civil War. He's hoping for a shutdown or a showdown that will help him wiggle, waggle and worm his way out of the Obamacare debacle.
And here's the big giveaway: Obama invoked our Founders in defense of Reid's maneuver in getting rid of the "obstructionists" in the GOP who sought to build a consensus as an alternative to one party rule.
"But today's pattern of obstruction," said Obama about the rules that require 60 votes to move a presidential appointment forward, "it just isn't normal. It's not what our founders envisioned."
Yeah, like, when has he ever cared for what our Founders envisioned?
The last dead white guy he ever had a kind word for was Nancy Pelosi. Or maybe Joe Biden.
Sigh… it's always the WRONG dead white guys with that dude.
"If the Democrats proceed to use the nuclear option in this way, it will be Obamacare II: It will be another raw exercise of partisan political power to say we can do whatever we want to do," said Republican Senator Lamar Alexander as reported by WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee. "The only cure for that is a referendum next November."
And then let the cleanup of the man-caused fallout and real toxic waste begin.
On judges, ObamaCare, and the nuclear option...issues joined at the hip
By: Diane Sori
In a lawless power grab that broke all the rules in order to change the rules to favor Barack HUSSEIN Obama's leftist agenda...and knowing that Republicans will most likely retake the Senate and keep the House in 2014...the Senate under Harry Reid's hand invoked the 'nuclear option'...thus heralding in the start of at least one very dangerous year of


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"Unident" is a grasping-type force display that can change its inertia by moving a weight in a single axis direction at high speed. By rapidly changing the inertia while the user is shaking the device, we propose a method to simulate the sensation of an impact force being applied, even though no force is actually generated.
Assume the normal perception of impact force as follows:
- a. One first applies a force to the grasping object (e.g., the stick) to shake it.
- b. Then, one perceives an impact due to the instantaneous change in motion caused by an external impact force (e.g., the ball hitting the stick).
On the other hand, our proposed mechanism of pseudo-impact sensation mechanism:
- c. While the grasping object (Unident) is being shaken, the inertia is rapidly changed to simulate an instantaneous change in motion, making one feels as if an impact force were applied to the grasping object.
- Shuntaro Shimizu, Takeru Hashimoto, Shigeo Yoshida, Reo Matsumura, Takuji Narumi, and Hideaki Kuzuoka. 2021. Unident: Providing Impact Sensations on Handheld Objects via High-Speed Change of the Rotational Inertia. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE. _URL_

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The colored blocks on the clear sky charts show the forecast from these maps for the location of the chart. But the colored bock doesnt show you how nearby very different weather could be. Look at these maps to see if a colored block on the chart corresponds to a tiny clear hole surrounded by clouds or a large clear area. The larger the area of the same color under the cross hair, the higher the accuracy of the forecast..
Why isnt there a single forecast map for observing conditions?
The observation of fine detail seen in telescopes on planets or the moon requires good seeing but can still be good during poor transparency. Visiblity of galaxies and nebulae in telescopes, or the milky way with the un-aided eye, requires good transparency but isn't much affected by seeing. All astronomical observations require a low percentage of cloud cover or clear skies. Humidity, Wind, and Temperature won't determine if you can observe, but they might affect how comfortable you are or how much your telescope will shake or dew up. Many factors affecting observing means many maps.
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The way that you can deduce this formula from the name is that first it starts with potassium - K, you don't know how many yet, but you know the first atom is K, and because K is a positive cation, it is outside of the brackets. Then for hexacyanido - hexa means 6 and cyanido means CN-. Then you have Cromate which means the chromium atom. So far now you have K [Cr(CN)6] - but how do we know how many K's there are? That's solved by the roman numerals that are in the name, Chromate (III). This means that chromium has a 3 plus charge, and we already know that CN has a minus one charge. Since the next compound is neutral that means we need to have 3 K+ ions to balance out the charges. Hopefully that helped.
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Why Do Doctors Press on Your Stomach During a Checkup?
I was wondering, why do doctors push on your stomach during a checkup or if
you complain of abdominal pain?
Pressing on your stomach is a way to find out if the size of your internal organs is normal, to check if anything hurts, and to feel if anything unusual is going on.
Looking, listening, and feeling are all part of a physical exam. Doctors use all three to check that everything's normal or to evaluate a health condition. For example, doctors use sight to diagnose conditions like acne or pinkeye. They'll listen to a person's heartbeat to be sure it sounds normal. And they'll use touch to investigate areas that aren't visible to the naked eye, like bones or internal organs.
During a checkup, don't hesitate to ask your doctor questions if you're curious about why something's being done. Your doc is there to help, and answering questions is part of that!
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Littefuse's eFuse provided circuit protection for a smartwatch wireless charger.Littefluse
Whether they come from Apple or other manufacturers, today's smartwatches are a prime example of the wonders of modern electronics design, cramming components into a tiny form factor that fits the wrist of a human. But achieving the final design often involves many painstaking design decisions─and of course innovative engineering.
In the case of Littelfuse, their eFuse helped an unnamed smartwatch maker meet circuit protection requirements for the watch's wireless charger, taking into account both performance requirements and physical constraints.
According to Littelfuse, the engineers needed to provide protection from overvoltages, overcurrents, and high temperatures. One potential solution, using a fuse, Zener diode, temperature sensors, and control ICs, could not fit in the limited pc board space available. The decision was then made to investigate using an electronics fuse IC that integrates these functions.
The smartwatch maker looked at several e-fuses, but their output voltage was limited to 12 V, falling short of the 20 V @ 5 A needed.
Enter the eFuse
The smartwatch maker then turned to Littelfuse's solution was the LS0505EVD22 Series eFuse, part of the company's eFuse series introduced by the company last October. The eFuse ICs provide a wide range of power inputs (3.3V to 28V) and integrated protection. In addition to overvoltage protection, these electronic fuses protect against overcurrent, short circuit, inrush current, reverse current, and overtemperature events with real-time diagnostics—all in one chip.
While providing all the necessary circuit protection, this electronic fuse (eFuse) IC conforms to the requirements of the USB Type-C power delivery standard in portable devices. The IC can safely withstand 100 W of power and is not damaged if the Type-C power delivery adapter supplies 20 V and 5 A. The figure shows a block diagram of the LS0505EVD22 eFuse whose output is controlled by a series MOSFET with a low 50 mΩ RDS(ON). The MOSFET's low RDS(ON) of the MOSFET reduces the IC's power loss and temperature rise.
According to test data, the IC's temperature will only rise by 37° C when operating at 5V @ 1 A, and an input short appears for 20 minutes.
According to Littelfuse, the parallel MOSFET provides overvoltage protection, and a current limit block provide protection against overcurrent. A soft start function controls the rise time of the output to prevent potentially hazardous overshoots. Also, the 30 V rating of the eFuse is higher than that of the available competitive products.
The eFuse IC package is a space-saving DFN2X2_8L Package. The figure shows an eFuse protecting a portable device in a USB Type-C power circuit. Also, the eFuse offered flexibility to allow designs with 5 V and 3 A output in the future, saving the smartwatch's design team development time and cost as there was no need to select and qualify a new component.
Besides smartwatches, the eFuse is suited for other products such as tablet PCs, Bluetooth headsets, PCs/notebooks, datacom power systems, storage devices, and other applications.
Spencer Chin is a Senior Editor for Design News covering the electronics beat. He has many years of experience covering developments in components, semiconductors, subsystems, power, and other facets of electronics from both a business/supply-chain and technology perspective. He can be reached at [email protected].
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I want to print a row in Excel. One row contains data for one project.
I want to print one row on one page nicely formatted. Meaning the value of one cell is the header and should be printed fat and centred, the other values should also be placed at fixed positions on the page.
Is this with VBA possible? When I was searching for this problem I only found results for printing a worksheet or a table or parts of it, but no results to use the values of the cells and formatting them.
Thanks in advance
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If you only need to print some value to a cell and give the cell some formatting, you can simply record a Macro, do it manually, then use the recorded VBA code. – KMC May 11 '12 at 10:08
does it have to be in VBA? you can create a sheet as a template for printing with formulas like =INDIRECT("sheet1!A"&row_number), create a named range called "row_number" and enter here the row number you want to print... – deathApril May 11 '12 at 10:17
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As the other answers indicate, it is certainly possible in Excel VBA, but it is not really Excel's strong point.
What would typically be done to obtain the result you seem to be after is use a fully formatted Word document with fields that are then filled in with values from an Excel worksheet. You can even cheat a bit and use the Mail Merge \ Letter wizard to set everything up.
If you do want to do it all in Excel, you can find instructions and an example VBA macro here: _URL_
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Template is a good way to do. With a macro there's better performance where it avoids the usage of volatile functions such as INDIRECT() However again it depends on how many volatile functions your worksheet carries.
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Yes, it is possible when you use the Styles in excel. I know you can do Font formatting quite easily. Not sure about indenting it, but worth a try.
If style doesnt support it (it might in Excel 2010), you can always indent it via VBA (record a macro when you indent the values, it should look like this):
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Biographical details are given for John Theodore Buchholz (1888–1951), including his interest in conifers of California and New Caledonia. Buchholz made detailed studies of the vegetative morphology, reproductive morphology, and embryology of Sequoiadendron giganteum and Sequoia sempervirens prior to his 1939 segregation of Sequoiadendron from Sequoia. Buchholz, a professor at the University of Illinois (1929–1951), spent spring and summer of his 1936 sabbatical in California. Description of Buchholz's technique for morphological collections provides valuable information about his itineraries and his herbarium collections of S. giganteum in 1936. Buchholz also spent the summers of 1940, 1942, and 1944 in California collecting Sequoiadendron (1940) and cultivated material of Podocarpus (1942), as well as investigating Pinus (1942, 1944). Information sources included: obituaries and other biographical accounts of Buchholz and his students, labels of his herbarium collections, 55 letters archived at the California Academy of Sciences and the University of Illinois, and Buchholz's extensive bibliography on gymnosperms (57 titles, including those of his student Netta Elizabeth Gray, 1913–1970). Publications with available PDFs allowed systematic searching of relevant dates and text strings.
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As part of ongoing research on student understanding in upper-division thermal physics, we developed a number of simple diagnostic questions designed to probe understanding of basic probability concepts. Preliminary results showed that many students had difficulty in distinguishing the concepts of microstate and macrostate, and in applying mathematical relationships for multiplicity of simple systems. We have tested a tutorial sequence designed to address some of the difficulties. We will summarize previous results, show post-test results from the target courses, and describe aspects of the tutorial sequence that are likely in need of modification.
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Contributing Advent 6: C is for Cookie
Today we start with bugs in PHP's Date/Time extension. There are a fair amount of them and they require some hard needed attention. So this post addresses a number of bugs.
Bug #63776
As usual I started with the most recently filed bugs and ran into bug #63776, which turned out to not be a bug. Titled "strtotime fails with 'at'" it goes about how a date string with at in it (like in "Nov 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM") does not get parsed properly with strtotime() (or really any other parsing routing). strtotime()'s documentation page mentions The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp. The word "try" is quite important here. In general, people are a lot better at this sort of thing than computers, as they sense what is part of the data and what is noise. In this case, the parser routine sees the phrase at as a timezone abbreviation, which it does not understand. And because of this, it refuses to parse the string. If you use date_parse() you will see what it actually parsers out of the string:
var_dump( date_parse( "Nov 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM" ) );
which outputs (reformatted):
array(13) {
 'year' => int(2012)
 'month' => int(11)
 'day' => int(19)
 'hour' => int(19)
 'minute' => int(3)
 'second' => int(0)
 'fraction' => double(0)
 'warning_count' => int(0)
 'warnings' => array(0) { }
 'error_count' => int(1)
 'errors' => array(1) {
 [13] => string(47) "The timezone could not be found in the database"
 'is_localtime' => bool(true)
 'zone_type' => int(0)
Which mentions very clearly [13] => string(47) "The timezone could not be found in the database" — the key 13 is the position in the original string.
Bug #64294
The next one, bug #64294, with the title "date conversion problem when dst present" turned out not to be a bug either. Simply forgotten that Daylight Saving Time already had gone away for the year. However, I should point out that parsing a timestamp with: $date = new \DateTime('@ _PHONE_'); always sets the timezone UTC, and not the configured default. This means that:
$timestamp = _PHONE_;
$date = new \DateTime('@'.$timestamp);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i O'), "\n";
Will always show a timezone of +0000:
2013-10-28 10:00 +0000
Bug #53879
However, there was a bug that needed a fix. Bug #53879, "DateTime::createFromFormat() fails to parse cookie expiration date" talks about parsing a date string such as Mon, 21-Jan-2041 15:24:52 GMT with the factory method DateTime::createFromFormat(). This method takes as first argument a series of format specifiers to signal how the date string should be parsed. It mostly uses the same format letters that the DateTime::format() method uses to output a DateTime object in a specific format.
In this case, the user did not specify his own format, but used one of the predefined constants that is meant for displaying a DateTime object in a format that HTTP Cookies want. The constant DateTime::COOKIE was in fact just the string l, d-M-y H:i:s T. The y here stands for a two-digit year. Specifying the year in two digits appeared in the original RFC 850 but has since then be superseded by a whole bunch of interconnecting and contradicting standards.
The general consensus seems to be what is now on, but that was formerly hosted on a now-defunct page. This pages defines the date format as needed for cookies as:
The date string is formatted as:
This is based on RFC 822, RFC 850, RFC 1036, and RFC 1123, with the variations that the only legal time zone is GMT and the separators between the elements of the date must be dashes.
In PHP, Wdy, DD-Mon-YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT is represented as l, d-M-Y H:i:s T to which I now changed PHP's DateTime::COOKIE constant.
There are plenty more issues, so we'll be coming back to the DateTime extension.
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Cleveland volcano forms the western half of Chuginadak Island, a remote and uninhabited island in the east central Aleutians. It is located about 75 km (45 mi.) west of the community of Nikolski, and 1500 km (940 mi.) southwest of Anchorage. The volcano's most recent significant eruption began in February, 2001 and it produced 3 explosive events that produced ash clouds as high as 12 km (39,000 ft) above sea level. The 2001 eruption also produced a rubbly lava flow and hot avalanche that reached the sea. The most recent minor ash emissions were observed in November 2012.
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Blog Topic: Play Pontoon and Score Big Wins with a Twist!
Pontoon: Play Pontoon and Score Big Wins with a Twist!
Pontoon is a popular card game that has been enjoyed by players for many years. It is similar to blackjack, but with a few key differences that add an exciting twist to the game. In this article, we will explore the rules of Pontoon and discuss some strategies that can help you score big wins.
The objective of Pontoon is to have a hand that is closer to 21 than the dealer's hand, without going over 21. Just like in blackjack, the cards have different values. Number cards are worth their face value, face cards are worth 10, and an Ace can be worth either 1 or 11, depending on what is more advantageous for the player.
One of the main differences between Pontoon and blackjack is the terminology used. In Pontoon, a "Pontoon" refers to a hand that consists of an Ace and a 10-point card. This is the best possible hand and it automatically beats any other hand. Another important term in Pontoon is a "Five Card Trick." This is when a player has a hand of five cards that total 21 or less. A Five Card Trick also beats any hand except for a Pontoon.
Now that we understand the basic rules of Pontoon, let's discuss some strategies that can help you increase your chances of winning. One important strategy is to always hit when you have a hand of 14 or less. Since the objective is to get as close to 21 as possible without going over, it is important to take additional cards when your hand is low.
On the other hand, if you have a hand of 15 or more, it is generally recommended to stick, or "stand." This is because the chances of going over 21 increase significantly when you have a higher hand value. By standing, you are minimizing the risk of busting and giving the dealer an opportunity to win.
Another strategy to consider is doubling down. In Pontoon, you have the option to double your bet after receiving your initial two cards. This can be a risky move, but it can also lead to big wins. It is generally recommended to double down when you have a hand value of 9, 10, or 11. This is because the chances of getting a 10-point card are relatively high, which would give you a strong hand.
Lastly, it is important to pay attention to the dealer's face-up card. In Pontoon, the dealer's second card is dealt face down, so you can only see one of their cards. This can give you valuable information about the dealer's potential hand. If the dealer's face-up card is a 2 to 6, it is generally recommended to stick with a hand value of 12 or higher. This is because the chances of the dealer busting are higher when their face-up card is low.
In conclusion, Pontoon is an exciting card game that offers a unique twist on blackjack. By understanding the rules and implementing some strategic moves, you can increase your chances of scoring big wins. Remember to hit when your hand is low, stand when it is high, consider doubling down in certain situations, and pay attention to the dealer's face-up card. With these strategies in mind, you are ready to dive into the world of Pontoon and experience the thrill of the game!


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Poster for Jewish Luck (1925) by Natan Altman
Jewish Luck was among the first Soviet Yiddish films to be released in the US during the 1920s. Based on Sholem Aleichem's series of stories featuring the character Menakhem Mendl (played by the famous actor Solomon Mikhoels) the film revolves around the daydreaming entrepreneur Menakhem Mendl who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression by Tsarist Russia, Menakhem Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero as the film uncovers the tragic underpinnings of Sholem Aleichem's comic tales. Notes Village Voice critic Georgia Brown, "The movie's best intertitle translated from Isaac Babel's Russian: 'What can you do when there is nothing to do?'"
A dramatized version of the Menkhem Mendl stories was first staged by the Moscow Yiddish State Theater, under the direction of Alexander Granovsky, who later made this silent film. Jewish Luck features some of the finest artistic talents of Soviet Jewry during this period. It has been speculated that the cinematography done by Eduard Tissé inspired the filming of certain scenes in one of his later projects, Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin (particularly the famous "Odessa steps" scene of that film, the same setting as the Jewish Luck finale). The original Russian intertitles were written by Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, who later became a victim of the Stalinist purges in the late 1930s.


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Motion denoising with application to time-lapse photography
Author(s)Rubinstein, Michael; Liu, Ce; Sand, Peter; Durand, Fredo; Freeman, William T.
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Motions can occur over both short and long time scales. We introduce motion denoising, which treats short-term changes as noise, long-term changes as signal, and re-renders a video to reveal the underlying long-term events. We demonstrate motion denoising for time-lapse videos. One of the characteristics of traditional time-lapse imagery is stylized jerkiness, where short-term changes in the scene appear as small and annoying jitters in the video, often obfuscating the underlying temporal events of interest. We apply motion denoising for resynthesizing time-lapse videos showing the long-term evolution of a scene with jerky short-term changes removed. We show that existing filtering approaches are often incapable of achieving this task, and present a novel computational approach to denoise motion without explicit motion analysis. We demonstrate promising experimental results on a set of challenging time-lapse sequences.
DepartmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Rubinstein, Michael, Ce Liu, Peter Sand, Fredo Durand, and William T. Freeman. "Motion Denoising with Application to Time-Lapse Photography." CVPR 2011 (n.d.).
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Brian Congiu '08 and Lisa Romas '08 in Alaska in July, 2006.
A team of three faculty members and two students from St. Lawrence University are
among the researchers studying the environmental impact of a Formerly Used Defense
Site (FUDS) in a remote area of Alaska called, fittingly enough, St. Lawrence Island.
Associate Professor of Geology Jeffrey Chiarenzelli '81 and colleagues from Clarkson
University and SUNY Albany have been studying the area, with other researchers, and
have been awarded National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Environmental
Justice grant funding. He traveled to the area in the summer of 2006, along with
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales (whose wife, Matilda, is half
Yu'pik and has family in the region); Associate Professor of Geology Cathy Shrady;
Brian Congiu '08, of Bayonne, NJ; and Lisa Romas '08, of Fayetteville, NY. Romas was
awarded a University Fellowship for the research, and others are being assisted by
the University, in part through the Center for International and Intercultural Studies.
Congiu and Romas are the only undergraduates who were part of the field research team,
from any institution.
Researchers are gathering information on St. Lawrence Island and other communities
in the Norton Sound region of Alaska, populated mostly by Yu'pik and Inupiat native
peoples. The project involves environmental sampling at FUDS that were used throughout
World War II and into the 1950's. The residents have asked for assistance as they
are concerned that contaminants left at these sites may be affecting their health
and their food supply; air, water, soil and other environmental samples were collected
for study. Other researchers are working with residents to collect tissue samples.
Romas and Congiu assisted with sampling, and will continue on the project, developing
the research into independent projects and senior theses. They are working on
Geographic Information System(GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) databases of
More information: Alaska Native Heritage Web Site
Posted: October 18, 2006


Wołogór the Dreamer and the Ancient Spirit of Ox Mountain – Elder Mountain Dreaming
Budniki Poland
Wołogór, Mountain Spirit's helper
(via Lamus Dworski)
Legends about the Mountain Spirit of Karkonosze is shared in Polish, Czech and German folk legends, where he is usually called Liczyrzepa, Krakonoš or Rübezahl respectively. In the Polish legends apart from the popular name of Liczyrzepa, also names of Duch Gór (Mountain Spirit), Karkonosz, Rzepiór or Rzepolicz are used in various Silesian regions.
Wołogór has a task of guarding the small region near Wołowa Góra (which according to local tales was named after him), and reporting the situation to the Mountain Spirit. Wołogór is depicted with an ox head, and carries a decorative staff that gives him magical powers. He makes sure that everything works in order and the people living nearby stay safe and respect the local nature. Sometimes he can help the locals or show a way to lost tourists.
Local stories tell about occasions where he helped the inhabitants to hide from bandits raiding the villages by covering an entrance to a cave with his magic, or when he used his staff to melt snow and make safe passages through the woods during harsh winters. He was appearing only in the locals' dreams to let them know who gave them a helping hand.
One local legend says that Wołogór fell in love with a girl named Maria and started seducing her in her dreams. However, she already had a man she loved and was always rejecting Wołogór's advances in the dreams. He didn't want to give her up and one night decided to appear in her home in person.
He came burning so much with love, that a spark fell out of his heart and it set Maria's house on fire. Everyone thankfully survived, and Wołogór understood his great mistake. He helped to rebuild the house and decided not to intervene human lives. Maria got married to her beloved man and had lots of kids.
Years were passing by and the surroundings of the mountain were changing. The village Wołogór was always protecting started declining when people began moving to bigger cities for a better lifestyle, and Wołogór's staff was slowly loosing its powers. Eventually, he understood it's time for him to go and there's no one left for him to take care of.
He went up a spring called Malina towards waterfalls, and there he pushed his staff and his right foot against a huge boulder leaving the shapes in the stone. He was never seen in the dreams again, but locals believe he might return when they will be in need. (end)
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Phoenix of Elder Mountain – What I find the most interesting about this entire legend is that Wołogór is a Dreamer, who experiences Love and has a Magical Staff. These are three really great symbols of the sacred masculine and in some ways, the legends show the transformation from the sacred masculine of love, into the struggle of unrequited love in a changing time of cultures around the world (from shamanic cultures into pagan and then into the patriarch).
The symbol of Wołogór's staff is etched into a stone near the Ponura Cascade near the waterfall. This area is made of natural forms and cascades of rocks covered with diverse mountain vegetation. This is where the start of one of the ravine branches of Malina. The image on the stone looks like a maiden with the symbol of a bird upon her head with wings on her body, which is in the shape of a dress (which some Slavic symbols have this similarity).
Cultural symbolism of a Maiden with Ox legend are also found in "Ox Heard Boy & Weaver Girl" which are ancient legends of the Chinese, based on the symbolism of the Magpie Bridge and Ursa Major (but in modern times, its their Valentines love story). Its also symbolically similar in symbolism to the Cretan myths of the Minos Bull and the Maidens which dance upon him:
The story in Crete is that Minos competed with his brothers to rule. Minos prayed to Poseidon, the Sea God, to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support (the Cretan Bull). He was to kill the bull to show honor to the deity, but decided to keep it instead because of its beauty. He thought Poseidon would not care if he kept the white bull and sacrificed one of his own. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Pasiphaë, Minos's wife, fall deeply in love with the Bull.
budnikach staffPasiphaë had craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull. The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur. Pasiphaë nursed him, but he grew and became ferocious, being the unnatural offspring of a woman and a mythical oxen; Minos, after getting advice from the Seers and Oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. Its location was near Minos' palace in Knossos.
I find these remarkably similar in the the language of symbolisms, except that the Slavic tradition includes the folklore of the "Dreamer" which is so wonderful. The legend it says that he leaves because the times have changed (shamanism to paganism to patriarchy) as well. Just as Ox Heard Boy and Weaver girl are separated and can only unite at a certain time of the natural year which is the 7th day of the 7th month. The festival has been celebrated since the Han Dynasty (206 BCE).
Links to old shamanic ways can be found in legends and folklore (what Slavic people call paganism), Wołogór most likely has much earlier beginnings as an ancient oxen (bull) which had roamed free in the mountains and probably goes back to the same times of the Cretans. As a folk legend Wołogór is a good spirit, and one of helpers of the Mountain Spirits and that puts him fully into the shamanic category.
The other Ox Polish pagan folk tradition includes Kolęda; Old Polish Kolenda and Kolędowanie (caroling) at the Winter Solstice (Christmas for the Catholics). Ukraine and Poland both both have strong caroling rituals associated with animals, the (goat, associated with pagans) and the ox (associated with shamanism). They walk around the week of Christmas visiting homes with someone dressed as one of these two animals and carrying elaborate Christmas Stars. (See article on Elder called the "Midnight Sun", the Koliada Star).
During the magical period of the winter solstice time in Poland (now called christmas) pagan rituals were to foretell fertility for the coming year, and people would dress as animals, in particular the spirit of the Ox called the Turoń. Two more kolędowanie festivals emerged from this — Szopki and Herody. Where a boy would wear a wooden Ox head, complete with movable jaws, horns, and a sheepskin covering. In pagan terms, Turoń is an older tradition that the pagan Dionysus Goat who appeared in cultures, but that cult had arrived very late in the Slavic lands, making Ox still seen in modern rituals. The older oxen had greater meaning from a more archaic time of indigenous rituals than the newer goat symbolism.
Turoń, typically has two boys "walk" the Ox on a leash from door to door and upon entering a home, the Turoń would begin dancing and acting festive in the hopes of bringing on a fertile year. Just like the Russians walk the bear in ritual.
Legends like the Mountain Spirit of Karkonosze help us reclaim we have forgotten when we fell asleep from what religion had forbidden during the changing of cultural rituals. Now we can return them without persecution, maybe harsh judgment, but times are changing for the better.
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Description: It is considered at present that the best way to subdue a noise consists in averaging the results of accumulated images. However, as far as this requires an availability of several superposable images, this method may not be implemented in a series of applications spheres where such images cannot be obtained. In such cases the image noise spatial filters are widely used. For these conditions an analysis of efficiency of image noise spatial filters is carried out; as a result, the measures are proposed which allow to increase the performance of these filters for solving a number of important application problems.
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Data center downtime is a nightmare for C-Levels. When a data center experiences downtime, all enterprise applications become unusable, leading to severe losses such as loss of potential revenue, the collapse of public trust, and even lawsuits.
What is Data Center Downtime?
The definition of "data center downtime" varies from organization to organization, but it usually involves when IT systems are unavailable to their users due to a breakdown or malfunction. This can be anything from a few hours to several days or weeks. The period covered by the study also varies from organization to organization, but generally, it covers up to six months before and after the actual downtime incident.
In other words, it includes all the time and money spent before and after a particular outage: for example, if an outage lasts for 1 hour, then the study period includes all the costs incurred during the calendar month when the incident occurred.
What causes data center downtime?
The most likely culprits are hardware problems or human error. The first step in avoiding severe downtime is ensuring all of your hardware is functioning correctly. Outdated hardware can cause system crashes and corruption, so you should perform thorough testing every so often to ensure that your hardware still operates as well as it did when it was new.
Hardware failures can be due to the collapse of the hardware itself or due to environmental factors like power surges or temperature changes. It would be best if you took precautions against both types of failures by keeping your servers in a dry, cool room and investing in hardware from reputable manufacturers known for their reliability.
Data Center Downtime Costs
The data center is the heart of any IT system, and downtime can be highly costly for businesses. In addition to the loss of revenue from disruptions in business operations, the cost of data center downtime includes both direct and indirect costs:
The direct costs include the following:
- Costs of repairing damage to hardware and software caused by a disaster or other incident.
- Costs associated with manual recovery efforts include hiring contractors, buying equipment, and paying overtime wages.
- Costs incurred during the time taken to rebuild systems and recover lost data. This includes salaries for staff charged with rebuilding systems; cost of materials needed to repair damaged hardware; building rental costs while systems are offline (if applicable); etc.
The indirect costs include the following:
- Losses from decreased employee productivity due to lack of access to critical systems.
- Potential losses from missed opportunities due to lost data or systems downtime.
For example, if your organization experiences data center downtime for 4 hours on one day, that's $146k in direct costs alone. If you experience total downtime over a weekend or holiday when employees aren't working, this is just an indirect cost that your organization can absorb.
Gartner predicts that by 2022, 4% of enterprise IT organizations will have suffered data center outages that last more than four hours, which can result in significant financial losses for any business operation.
The costs associated with data center downtime include loss of revenue (from interrupting service), brand damage, legal liability, regulatory fines, and lost productivity from employees who cannot work until systems are restored. Companies incur these expenses whether they suffer an outage that affects the entire system or if they experience localized outages in specific parts of the network infrastructure.
The average cost of data center downtime is $10,000 per minute for each affected business unit and between $1 million and $2 million per hour for each multi-hour outage event. The cost of downtime in 2022 has increased by $1000 per minute from 2021, which is $9000 per minute.
This is why companies should consider using data centers in Indonesia. The best way to reduce costs is by using a cloud backup or Backup as a Service, so if downtime occurs, you can fail over to DRC.
How to Prevent Downtime?
Data center operators are always looking for ways to lower their expenses, and downtime is a considerable expense. It's one of the most significant expenses in today's data centers. If you think about it, there are dozens of things to consider when it comes to reducing downtime. The process can seem overwhelming, so it's essential to start small and work your way up from there.
The first step is to find a provider who offers backup services. A trusted provider will be able to monitor your system for any issues that could lead to downtime and prevent those issues from occurring. Several factors can cause downtime, even some that your team might not realize are an issue.
For instance, improper power settings or a power surge may cause damage that could lead to data loss or hardware failure. That's why it's also essential to ensure your backup provider can handle all potential issues that could cause downtime.
A study by The Aberdeen Group also showed that companies lose more than $1.4 trillion in revenue each year because of unplanned outages and business disruptions. The Aberdeen Group research also revealed that companies with higher levels of IT maturity have a greater focus on event management and a lower likelihood of experiencing financial impacts from unplanned events or "disruptions."
The bottom line is that you don't want your business to experience downtime or disruption. You want your IT system to be secure and stable, so your employees can use your infrastructure to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. You'll save money by reducing downtime because you won't have to deal with lost productivity and maintaining redundant systems for redundancy's sake.
With the accelerating expansion of data centers, it is essential to estimate the cost of downtime. In the last two years, data center downtime has increased by 29%, which is a considerable increase. If you're not currently using a system that can track your data center downtime, you're losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
According to a recent study, the average cost of data center downtime per minute is $8,000. In 2021, the expected cost of downtime was $9,000 per minute. These numbers could be even higher in 2023.


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Why Vocational Training is So Important
After the ups and downs of the global economy that leaves so many people out of work, many individuals around the world have come to realize how important it is to have a backup plan. One of the best backup plans that can have one these days is to have undergone vocational training.
As a matter of fact, undergo vocational courses like a good idea that so many young people do not even see it as a backup plan, but as their main blueprint for a better future. You can get best vocational education training via
Vocational educational purposes to teach people hands-on skills in various trades available worldwide today. Vocational schooling so it does not really focus on the theoretical aspects of the various employment sectors but rather focuses on hands-on skills needed to do manual work in their respective sectors.
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It is a comprehensive form of education that rivals professional education with the only difference being that focus on manual skills. In almost all industries that an individual has a passion for, they can get some vocational courses that will help them get a job and start a successful career in a particular sector.
Is able to cater to many of the industries is not the only reason that more and more people choose to undergo a vocational program. Another major reason that has seen so many people choose vocational training more professional careers such as medicine or teaching is that it focuses on hands-on skills.
People need to have some kind of intelligence to fit into professional careers such as medicine or law. With vocational training, anyone interested in certain types of calls can be taught how to do it because it depends on the skill of their users.
One other advantage that comes with vocational training is that it does not really look like a person's age professional career education.


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This paper offers state-level estimates of job loss from increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour in 2016. Given the vast differences in nominal wages across geography, a federal increase in minimum wage that is not indexed to local wage levels will have a differential impacts across states. The proposed minimum wage would be binding for between 17 and 18 % of workers nationally. We estimate coverage rates ranging from just 4 % in Washington D.C. to as high as 51 % in Puerto Rico, with 13 states having at least 20 % of the employed population covered by the proposal. Using labor demand elasticities from previous empirical work, these coverage rates imply national employment losses between 550,000 and 1.5 million workers. The range of state estimates shows that states are differentially impacted, with high-end loss estimates ranging between 2.8 % of covered employees in Arkansas to over 41 % in Puerto Rico. Sensitivity analysis highlights that using even a simple methodology with relatively few assumptions for estimating employment loss from minimum wage changes is subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
Hanson, Andrew and Hawley, Zackary, "The $10.10 Minimum Wage Proposal: An Evaluation across States" (2014). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 497.
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Some of the most common mistakes that parents make during a custody dispute in Virginia are:
1) Making the child feel like they need to choose between the parents;
2) Blaming or badmouthing the other parent;
3) getting children involved with a new boyfriend/girlfriend too early in the relationship;
4) involving the children in disputes between you and your spouse: and
5) giving your children the appearance that you are not receptive to their concerns or needs.
Children are resilient and can adapt to the changing situation if both parents take the time to make sure that the child's concerns are being heard and addressed. Even if you have made some mistakes in dealing with your child during a custody dispute, you can easily repair the damage by admitting that you have made the mistakes and taking the time to repair your relationship with the child.
One of the worst things that you can do is to assume that your child will get over the breakdown of their family if they just have enough time. Children often believe that they are at fault when Mom and Dad separate. This can be made even worse if the children believe that they must choose a side and spending time with the other parent is being disloyal to their custodial parent. Both parents must work together to make sure that the child understands that the parents relationship is separate from their relationship with the child. You need to encourage your kids to talk about their feelings, but let it happen naturally. Regardless of who they are living with, let them know you will always be available to listen to them. Be sure that when they talk about the other parent, you allow them to share their feelings and concerns openly. It is easy to let your emotions come out when talking to the child but you have to remember that this is not about you but about making sure that your child is happy.


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A Body Image Program for Girls
The Robert Crown Center has developed the innovative program Express Yourself! to help girls overcome concerns about their body image. The proactive approach teaches young girls how to adjust to changes in a positive way and feel good about their own bodies as they mature, despite the barrage of the media's unhealthy messages and role models. The program helps youth develop an individual positive sense of self and learn effective strategies to respond to peer and media pressures. Through this program, RCC is adding an affirming voice into the mix of input that young people receive regarding their bodies.
About Express Yourself! The program is facilitated by an RCC Health Educator to an audience of primarily sixth grade girls, but can be adapted to fifth or seventh grade. Express Yourself! is based upon Illinois State health learning standards, and address the topics of body image and self-esteem. RCC Educators engage students in discussion and creative activities to help construct a positive body image through the topics of healthy decision-making, media awareness, and self-expression. Express Yourself! also features a journal for girls to complete at home, either on their own or with family members or friends. Girls will receive the journal at the conclusion of the program.
Activities/skills acquired include:
- Through an interactive activity, students learn how the opinions of their peers may influence their decision making skills.
- Students identify how women are normally portrayed in the media and develop media literacy skills.
- Students develop skills to continually improve their self-esteem including adequate sleep, nutrition, and exercise.
- Students learn the benefits of positive thinking, respect (including self-respect), challenging themselves, goal setting, and positive self-expression.
What is body image and why is it so important? Body Image is a combination of a person's feelings and thoughts about their body. A healthy body image is critical to establishing good health. A poor self-image, lack of confidence, and social problems are precursors to many poor health habits; these habits include eating disorders, drug abuse, early sex, teenage pregnancy, alcohol, tobacco abuse, and violence.
Goals of Express Yourself!
- Students will learn the factors that influence body image and self-esteem.
- Students will learn how body image and self-esteem play an important role in developing critical thinking skills to positively navigate media messages and peer influences that may negatively impact their behavior, eating habits, self-esteem, and decision making.
- Students will develop tools and communication skills, including self-expression, that support positive feelings about who they are and build self-esteem.
Express Yourself! for Boys How strong? How athletic? Boys too, experience cultural pressures linked to body image. Express Yourself! serves as an effective follow-up class to the Michael and Linda puberty programs.
Express Yourself! can be presented as a one-time (one hour) program or in six after school sessions as an Express Yourself! Club. Register for Express Yourself!


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In the spiritual world omens are everywhere and there are no such thing as coincidences. You can use signs around you to guide your life and your workings if you only know how to interpret them. 7 day candles have long been used by rootworkers to read a specific working and determine its effectiveness, or warn of any problems or solutions. Just like reading tea leaves, the burnt candles can provide valuable insight.
The soot on a candle is one of the most recognizable results of burning a candle. While in the mundane world one might say this was merely soot, in the spiritual we know there is a message to be interpreted in that soot.
BLACK SOOTBlack soot is a sign of negativity and witchcraft.
- If the soot does not travel all the way down the glass, is only at the top or perhaps stops in the middle, the negative influence or obstacle has been unblocked.
- If the black goes down the entire length of the candle it means your working has been blocked and there are still things preventing you for attaining your desired result. It could also indicate someone has casted against you or has significant spiritual protection. If this is the case burn another candle to try to break through their defenses.
- If the soot is at the bottom of the candle it is a warning that negative influences are being sent to you. This can be the case when someone casts against you.
WHITE SOOTWhite soot is another matter all together. This can indicate spiritual communication, purity, and exorcism. It could indicate that the spirits have heard your prayers and removed the negativity from the working. This is especially true in unhexing rituals. Again, look to the amount of soot to tell you if it is completed or not.
- If the soot only goes half way down or less, the cleansing was successful.
- If the soot is carried through the length of the candle you may need further cleansing and spiritual work.
- If the soot is at the bottom of the candle, it signifies the presence of outside aid or help either spiritually or physically.
- If the candle burned half black and half white this means that one aspect is overriding the other. Look to which is on top to see what was undone. If black is on top, your spirits cleared it. If white is on top the spirits of another have combated your attempts.
- If the soot is on only one side of the candle, this is a sign that what you are doing is incorrect. Either the candle fixing wasn't appropriate or the spirits aren't happy with the candle itself.
The flame is by far the most important part of any candle working. The subtle actions of the flame can tell you a lot from the moment you light it, to the moment it goes out. Let start with lighting the flame.
- If the candle does not light this means that this type of working will not work for what you need and another type of spell should be used.
- If the candle lights and splits into two or more flames, this indicates the presence of others, either spirits, deities, or human, getting involved. Look to the rest of the candle to interpret whether this person is good or bad.
- If you are trying to split up a couple and both flames stay lit, the couple will stay together.
- If you are doing a working for attract a lover and the second flame seems to rise out of the wax your working will be successful especially if both flames grow into one large flame.
- If the candle flame is high it means there is a lot of power behind the spell and little resistance. If the candle burns low it means there is a strong opposing spiritual force and a cleansing and or banishing may be needed.
- If the flame makes a crackling or popping sound it indicates conversation. Either the spirits are trying to talk to you or the target is talking about you. Look to the purpose of the candle and the other actions of the flame to determine which is which.
- If the flame flickers there is a spirit around. If the flame pops while flickering it is the spirit trying to communicate to you. Open yourself up to it. If it is a devotional candle and it is flickering it means you are in contact with your deity and any prayers or petitions will be heard.
- If you attempt to blow out the flame and it does not go out this means the spirit does not want you to extinguish it. The same can be said if you blow it out and it flicks back on. Let the spirit complete its work, something important may be in the works that you do not want to interrupt. If you are uncomfortable ask the spirit to protect the candle or ask for permission and try to extinguish it again.
- If the entire top of the prepared candle catches fire it means all the resources of the prepared candle are being used due to spiritual influences creating obstacles. Look to the other signs to see if the candle was successful. If the preparations do not collect along the glass as the candle burns, but remain pooled together, it means all the resources are needed and will burn at the end of the candle. The soot, flame, and glass should be read for the outcome.
- If the flame burns high and calm and produces no soot you are in the presence of a larger entity or guardian spirit, most likely benevolent. The same can be said for high aggressive flames that flicker in large strokes. These tend to be darker spirits and deities, both are there to listen or aid you.
- If the flame goes out while burning this means the spirits cannot help you and the answer you seek is already determined. This can also happen if you unexpectedly get the result before the candle is finished.
- The glass retains the story of the working through the soot and preparation but the glass itself can tell you things about the spell.
- If the glass cracks but does not break it means there was some type of opposition that was broken. It may have been sent to the spell to try to deflect it or it may have been encountered along the way. If it does not break or shatter then the spell is protected and was successfully defended.
- However, if the glass breaks or shatters it means you are up against something larger than yourself. Malicious forces have either protected your target or have been attracted to your working and are trying to interfere. It can also indicate someone is casting against you and you are not spiritually protected or strong enough as what was thrown at you was larger than what you were sending out. Either way, do a stronger working and light another candle to try to combat it.


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BETHEL, Ohio (Adam Clements) -- Social Media can be a source of negativity and vicious bullying.
But now tri-state schools hope to use that same social media to spread positive messages to students. Local 12's Adam Clements gives us a look at a special initiative from the coalition for a drug free greater Cincinnati called, Your Live, Your Choice."
Ten years ago, if you got caught in class with a cell phone it usually meant a one way ticket to the principals office. In today's tech savvy world things like iPads and cell phones are actually encouraged, when they can be used for good.
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GCC; See what arguments are passed to the linker.

I am in a situation where I must have an intermediat object file. However when I build the execuable there is error when linking. When having the compiler start the linker for me then it goes fine. Is there an easy (Not Going Through GCC SRC) way to find out what is passed to the linker in terms of arguments. Thanks.
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GCC uses a utility called collect2 on nearly all systems to arrange to call various initialization functions at start time.
The program collect2 works by linking the program once and looking through the linker output file for symbols with particular names indicating they are constructor functions. If it finds any, it creates a new temporary '.c' file containing a table of them, compiles it, and links the program a second time including that file.
The actual calls to the constructors are carried out by a subroutine called __main, which is called (automatically) at the beginning of the body of main (provided main was compiled with GNU CC). Calling __main is necessary, even when compiling C code, to allow linking C and C++ object code together. (If you use -nostdlib, you get an unresolved reference to __main, since it's defined in the standard GCC library. Include -lgcc at the end of your compiler command line to resolve this reference.)
The program collect2 is installed as ld in the directory where the passes of the compiler are installed ...
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-v Print (on standard error output) the commands executed to
run the stages of compilation. Also print the version number
of the compiler driver program and of the preprocessor and the
compiler proper.
-### Like -v except the commands are not executed and all
command arguments are quoted. This is useful for shell scripts
to capture the driver-generated command lines.
-- excerpt from man gcc, q.v.
A partial output of the -v option from a trivial c code compilation on my system is:
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LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-mtune=generic'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/collect2 --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../.. /tmp/ccgpROfj.o -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/crtn.o
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The new season iOSR initiative is underway, with the first meeting of Syngenta's oilseed rape growers group having taken place at Sutton Estates, Lincolnshire.
This season's predominantly big oilseed rape crop plants may be concerning for growers fearful as winter approaches, but vigorous top growth is indicative of strong rooting which could prove the foundation for good yield potential, according to Yara Consultant and agronomist Ian Matts.
Discussing nutrition plans with the Syngenta iOSR grower group, he said nutrients from leaves which do die-back and drop off over winter will be recycled by the plants, to drive green leaf development over spring and summer.
Host for the November iOSR Group meeting Chris Baylis, head of farming for Sutton Estates, based at Stainton le Vale, Lincoln, said the combination of good establishment conditions and growing 100% hybrid varieties had resulted in strong autumn growth.
With the farm's gradual improvement in soil conditions, the reliability of establishment techniques and the early autumn hybrid vigour, Mr Baylis believes there is scope to reduce the seed rate even further from this season's 45 seeds/sq.m.In October he had already applied an autumn triazole fungicide, intended as much to suppress growth as to prevent disease.
The application rate had been tailored to the size of different crops, based on 25gof tebuconazole per true leaf emerged. "We will certainly be looking closely at spring nutrition to keep the crop growing. The farm has relatively high pH levels, so there is the risk of lock up and availability," he added.
"We are doing regular tissue tests to build up a picture of the crop's requirement over time. That can be linked to satellite imaging and N sensor readings of crop health.
He urged growers to assess crop GAI in autumn, and then again in spring before making any management decisions. GAI is an important management guide, but growers should not get too obsessed with hitting targets per se, he advocated.
A review of the original trials data which set the optimum GAI at 3.5, revealed the highest yield was from a crop with a GAI of 5.5, with crops from GAI 2-5.5 all capable of performing well. "Individual plant structure is more important; a dense plant population with masses of tall, thin stems may have a desirable GAI, but is far less efficient and will be less productive than a lower count which can be managed to develop big leafy plants."
Mr Matts highlighted the natural inclination may be to delay spring fertiliser applications on the larger and more forward crops, in an effort to restrict the target GAI to 3.5. "However, they are the crops which are likely to get growing first when conditions warm up," he said. "And they are most likely to have already used up any available N in producing the bigger plants.
"That makes it more important to give them an early spring application, of 20-30kg nitrogen/hectare for example, as soon as growing conditions commence, if we are to avoid stressing plants which will affect yields."
Although timing should not be changed just because of the canopy size, the rate at the early timing should be adjusted to take this into account.
Crops which have been more backward throughout autumn and winter – particularly in drier eastern counties this season, where autumn growth was restricted by dry conditions and insect pest damage – will also require the early N application as soon as conditions warm up for growth, but may need higher rates of application to stimulate rapid development.
Once crops get motoring, they can be using up to 2.5kg N/ha per day to support green leaf growth. Mr Matts also reminded growers of the importance to hold back some of the N allocation for a late flowering application, which had consistently been shown to increase yields.
Although the oil content (as a percentage) is generally decreased with increasing N application, but this is outweighed by a larger increase in yield, he pointed out.
Syngenta technical manager James Southgate added that spring nutrition timing and application rate to manage crop growth should be allied to the use of Toprex to adjust crop architecture to make most efficient use of inputs and sunlight.
"Oilseed rape performance suffered severely with the low levels of sunlight through the crucial June pod fill period – with light for photosynthesis down by more than 30% over the month," he reported.
"It emphasised the crucial importance of managing the crop architecture to open up the potential of the most efficient green leaves," he said.
"Furthermore, Toprex use can synchronise flowering of the crop into a shorter, more intense, period – which reduces the sunlight reflectance and allows more light to reach the green leaf and maximise energy production."
Norfolk iOSR grower Chris Eglington said his crops were as big as they have ever been going into winter.
"They are certainly the biggest in terms of GAI since we've been sowing at ultralow seed rates. "I think autumn GAI is a good base to start from, so I've made my visual assessment of the crop; whatever happens over winter my fertiliser programme is pretty well set now," he said. "If I had a poor GAI in autumn, then spring GAI would be far more important."
Taking on board what Ian said, I may have been starving my crop more than I should, but totally agree a good proportion of the nitrogen should be left for later application, which for us has been going through with solid at the last possible moment and then applying liquid."
High humidity and almost permanently wet leaves in a dense crop canopy could create the ideal conditions for light leaf spot (LLS) development in late autumn, warned Frontier agronomist Jeremy Ruff.
Where growers had been targeting phoma with early autumn fungicide applications, as the season progresses into November, greater emphasis should be on bolstering LLS protection, typically adding tebuconazole to Plover treatments.
"There is little or no curative activity for LLS, so the priority has to be on early prevention to stop disease getting established," he advised.
"Once it's in a dense crop it will continue to cycle and develop, especially over another mild winter." Mr Ruff pointed out that while varietal resistance may help slow development of disease within the crop, plants are still susceptible and will be using energy to fight infection – which is better dealt with by a fungicide programme.
"With phoma, the resistance rating is based on a score of stem cankers in spring, not leaf infection in autumn; growers should be using varietal resistance as a guide for managing crops and prioritising treatments."
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Materials and Equipment
Leave (large enough for a sail)
Bushcraft Knife (Adults only)
- Get your kids to collect twigs of roughly the same diameter.
- Break the twigs to roughly 9 or 10 twigs of the same size.
- Wrap your string around the first twig and tie a knot then attach your second twig and knot to secure.
- Repeat this process for the remaining twigs, as shown in image 1.
- Next repeat this process along the centre and opposite side then trim off any loose ends. (shown in Image 2)
- Once you have the main body of your raft constructed, you will need two more twigs measuring slightly over the width of your raft. These will attach underneath your raft, placed in the opposite direction, along your original knot lines.
- Turn your raft so the underneath is facing you, then lay your first twig in the opposite direction and tie the twig around the original knots at one end, secure at two or three intervals as shown below.
- Repeat this step for your second twig, which should be placed parallel to the twig you've just secured at the opposite side, again attach it to the original knots to secure (see image 3 above).
- To make your boat a mast, find a straight 'ish' twig and approximately the same size as the length of your raft. Using your bushcraft Knife (ask an adult to help with this part) flatten around 2cm of your twig at either side, this will allow it to slot in between a gap at the centre of the raft (please NOTE the width should be slightly larger than the gap and be a tight fit to secure it in place).
- Find a large leaf for your mast. Then make two holes in the leaf one at the centre bottom and another one opposite at the top.
- To finish your raft thread the leaf through the holes on to your mast.
Congratulations!!! you've made your 1st twig raft, now have fun sailing!!!


Maori Poi Dance, New Zealand 1913
Maori, Poi, Dance, Tribal, Tribe, New Zealand, folk costumes, dress, ritual, ancient weapons
Maori Poi Dance, New Zealand 1913
Maori Poi Dance, New Zealand 1913.
"Poi" as an art form originated in the Māori in New Zealand.
The origin of Poi itself is relatively little studied, mainly because oral traditions are known. The Ur-Poi were an invention of Maori women and consisted of two equally long branches that were connected at their ends with flax. The other ends are put into the fire and brought it to burn in order to achieve an effect in the dark.
The Poi dance was originally used by the Maori women to maintain flexibility of their hands, and of the men in order to promote the necessary strength and coordination in a fight. Poi were also used as a training tool for other ancient weapons like Mere or Patu.
Poi spinning is kinesthetic related to staff rotation or pen spinning, since crossing the manipulation of a rotating object to be kinetic center, stands in front of and adjacent to both sides of the body and not on throwing and catching objects. The traditional Poi game is about a thousand years old and is regarded by the descendants of the original inhabitants of New Zealand today as a cultural tradition.
Source: Picturesque New Zealand (1913) by Paul Gooding. Photography by Muir & Moodie; and Josiah Martin.


Evaluate selector
Overview
The Evaluate Selector filter enables you to evaluate the contents of a specified selector expression, and return a boolean result. A selector is a special syntax that enables API Gateway configuration settings to be evaluated and expanded at runtime.
This filter enables you to evaluate a specified selector expression and make a decision in a policy based on whether the expression value fails or passes. For example, you could use the following expression to check if the user belongs to a particular group that allows the user to access a particular resource:
This expression checks if the memberOf attribute retrieved for the first user contains the specified value (in this case, membership of a particular group). If the expression matches, the filter passes.
Alternatively, you could use the following selector expression to check if the user email address is valid:
This expression checks if the mail attribute retrieved for the first user contains the specified value (in this case, a particular email address). If the expression matches, the filter passes.
For more details on selectors, see Select configuration values at runtime in the API Gateway Policy Developer Guide.
Configuration
Configure the following settings:
Name:
Enter a descriptive name for this filter to display in a policy.
Expression:
Enter the selector expression to be evaluated. Defaults to the following selector expression:
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IFOCUR (HLI function)
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The conventions used on this page are described in Function call notation conventions.
Summary
Description
The IFOCUR call (OPEN CURSOR) opens a cursor on the thread to a previously established found set.
Thread type
multiple cursor IFSTRT
IFCALL function number
95
Syntax
IFOCUR(RETCODE,CURSOR_SPEC,CURSOR_NAME,%VARBUF,%VARSPEC,FILE_SPEC)
Compile-only form
IFCALL function number: 106
IFOCURC|IFOCRC(RETCODE,CURSOR_SPEC,CURSOR_NAME,FILE_SPEC)
Execute-only form
IFCALL function number: 107
IFOCURE|IFOCRE(RETCODE,CURSOR_NAME,%VARBUF,%VARSPEC)
Specify the parameters in the syntax order shown above.
Parameter Description
RETCODE [O,i,r] The Model 204 return code is the required first parameter. The code is a binary integer value.
CURSOR_SPEC [I,c,r] The cursor specification is a required input parameter that indicates an existing found set of records or values that was established by a previously compiled call. Specify the found set as a character string using one of the following formats:
{IN setname [ordering clause] | ON [list] listname [ordering clause] | OF fieldname [value set specification]}
where:
IN setname specifies the compilation name for the previously compiled IFFIND, IFFNDX, IFFWOL, IFFAC, IFSORT, IFFDV, or IFSRTV call that established the set.
ON listname specifies the name of a list of records. If the list does not exist, it is created in context of the default file or group.
ordering clause is optional and specifies ordering criteria, and it is valid only for cursors opened against an unsorted record set. Ordering criteria cannot be specified for cursors opened against a value set or against a record set that is sorted (with IFSORT).
Specify the ordering clause using only the IN ORDER clause for sorted file ordering, or the following format line in full for B-tree ordering:
IN [ASCENDING | DESCENDING] ORDER [BY [EACH] fieldname] [(FROM value1) (TO value2)] [LIKE pattern] [BY [ASCENDING | DESCENDING] RECORD]
where:
ASCENDING and DESCENDING are mutually exclusive keywords that indicate the order in which the record set will be processed. ASCENDING order is the default.
fieldname specifies the name of the field to be used for ordering the records.
The FROM and TO clauses specify the range of values for fieldname, where value1 specifies the beginning value, and value2 specifies the ending value. You can specify the range using both FROM and TO, or using only FROM (for all values greater than or equal to) or only TO (for all values less than or equal to).
Note: Specifying a range limits the selection of records to process. If a range is specified, records that do contain the field are not processed.
pattern specifies a field value as a character string that is used to match against the record. Enclose the pattern string inside single quotation marks.
Note: Specifying a pattern limits the selection of records to process. Only records that meet the pattern matching criteria are processed. See Record loops for a description of the valid pattern characters and examples of their use.
The BY ASCENDING|DESCENDING RECORD clause specifies how records within each Ordered Index value are processed by IFFTCH. If BY DESCENDING RECORD is not specified, IFFTCH processes records in ascending order.
Ordering clause options are similar to the ordering options available in a FOR EACH RECORD statement in SOUL. For IFOCUR, the WHERE|WITH retrieval conditions clause is not supported. For information about the FOR EACH RECORD IN ORDER statement, see Operations on multiply occurring fields.
OF fieldname specifies a value set specification that is compiled and saved as a part of the IFOCUR/IFOCURC compilation. At execution time (IFOCUR or IFOCURE) this specification is executed and a value set is created. A cursor then opens against this value set.
Subsequent IFFTCH or IFFTCHE calls fetch the values from the value set. When the cursor is closed using IFCCUR, the value set empties.
IFOCUR with OF fieldname is similar to the Model 204 FOR EACH VALUE OF statement.
value set specification is optional and allows you to specify selection or ordering criteria against a value set.
[FROM value1] [TO value2] [[NOT] LIKE pattern] [IN [ASCENDING | DESCENDING] [NUMERIC | CHARACTER | RIGHT-ADJSTED] ORDER]
where:
FROM and TO clauses are optional and specify a minimum (greater than or equal to) value (FROM), a maximum (less than or equal to) value (TO), or a range of values (FROM and TO) for selection criteria.
LIKE|NOT LIKE clause is optional and specifies a string pattern for selection criteria. See Record loops for a description of the valid pattern characters and examples of their use.
ASCENDING and DESCENDING are mutually exclusive keywords that indicate the order in which the value set will be processed. ASCENDING order is the default.
CHARACTER, RIGHT-ADJUSTED, and NUMERIC are mutually exclusive keywords:
 - CHARACTER specifies values sorted in standard EBCDIC collating sequence.
 - RIGHT-ADJUSTED specifies that values are temporarily right-justified before sorting so that shorter fields sort first.
 - NUMERIC specifies a sort of number values with the usual numeric order relationships.
CURSOR_NAME [I,s,r] The name to be assigned to the cursor is a required input parameter. Specify the cursor name as a short character string variable from 1 to 32 characters in length. The cursor name must be unique and must begin with a letter (A-Z or a-z) followed by one or more of the following characters: a letter, a digit (0-9), a period (.), or an underscore (_).
%VARBUF [I,c,o] The variable buffer is an optional input parameter that addresses a data area which accommodates up to 255 bytes of data per value. The buffer contains values that are defined by the %VARSPEC parameter, below, to be assigned to %variables. Specify a character string. For information about %variables, see Using variables and values in computation.
%VARSPEC [I,c,o] The variable specification describes the format of the data that is contained in the %variable parameter, and it lists the %variables to be assigned. %VARSPEC specifies the contents of the variable buffer, described above. Specify a character string that follows a LIST, DATA, or EDIT syntax. %VARSPEC is a required input parameter if %VARBUF is specified.
Note: For IFOCUR, use these parameters to assign values to the %variables in the ordering clause before executing the call.
FILE_SPEC [I,c,o/r] The file specification is a required input parameter only when using the OF fieldname form of the IFOCUR call. FILE_SPEC identifies the Model 204 file that will be updated to contain the new record. Specify the file as a character string using a standard Model 204 IN clause.
Usage notes
Use the IFOCUR call to open a cursor to a record or a value in a set that has been named on a thread. You can open more than one cursor against the same named set to maintain different positions within the set. You can also open several cursors against several different record sets.
When executing an IFOCURC (compile-only) call, Model 204 maps the cursor to the specified named set. The initial cursor position is located prior to the first record or value in the set. If ordering criteria is specified, Model 204 also validates the ordering criteria.
When executing an IFOCURE (execute-only) call, Model 204 performs the following actions:
 1. Resets the cursor position prior to the first record or value in the set.
 2. Assigns percent variables (%variable) in the ordering clause, for any FROM/TO conditions or ordered field names that are specified.
Using OF fieldname to create value set specifications
The OF fieldname form of IFOCUR allows you to use IFOCUR to create a value set without first calling either IFFDV or IFSRTV. If OF fieldname... is specified, an IFOCUR/IFOCURC call does not reference a previously compiled HLI call.
Instead, a value set specification is compiled and saved as a part of the IFOCUR/IFOCURC compilation. At execution time, this specification is executed and a value set is created. A cursor is then opened against this value set.
Subsequent IFFTCH or IFFTCHE calls will fetch the values from the value set. When the cursor is closed using IFCCUR, the value set is emptied.
Choosing IFOCUR or IFFDV and IFSRTV
IFOCUR with the OF fieldname clause performs much the same function as IFFDV. The main difference is that IFFDV creates a value


MTD Blade Removal Tool for a Riding Lawn Mower
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How to Use a Blade Removal Tool on a MTD Riding Lawn Mower
This video focuses on safely removing lawn mower blades on your MTD riding lawn mower. The blade removal tool helps to stabilize and remove the cutting blade so you can sharpen or replace it at the start of the season. Keeping your blades sharp increases fuel efficiency and leads to a much healthier lawn. It can also extend the life of your lawn mower. Maintenance on lawn mower blades should be done once a year for a lush, even, green lawn.
Step 1: Removing the lawn mower deck
Park your riding lawn mower on a flat surface, turn it off, remove the key and lock the brakes. You should also remove the spark plugs to avoid it accidentally turning on. Then remove the lawn mower deck as instructed in your operator's manual and place it upside-down on a piece of cardboard or blanket.
Step 2: Attaching the lawn mower blade removal tool
When working with the blades, make sure you have safety gloves on. Even lawn mower blades that are bent or need sharpening can cut you. Place the blade removal tool over one end of the lawn mower blade and adjacent side of mower deck.
Step 3: Tightening the blade removal tool
Tighten the clamping screw onto the mower deck unitl it's firmly in place and the blade is not moving.
Step 4: Loosening the blade nut and removing the lawn mower blade
Keeping hand away from the edges of the blade and using the proper sized socket, loosen the blade nut that connects the cutting blade to the spindle shaft. When removing the lawn mower blade, set the nuts and any other parts aside nearby. You should also pay attention to the orientation of the blade while removing it.
Step 5: Sharpening or replacing lawn mower blades
Check the condition of your lawn mower blades. If blades are not badly worn but have gotten dull, you may want to use a blade balancer and sharpener to get them ready for this season. However, if worn away, bent or damaged, replacing the lawn mower blades may be in order. Sharpen or replace the old blade, and secure it back on the blade shaft using the blade removal tool and the pieces you set aside before.
Step 6: Removing the lawn mower blade removal tool
Loosen clamping screw and detach the blade removal tool from the mower deck. right the mowing deck and reattach it to the riding lawn mower.
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