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#488801 - Mon Aug 03 2009 06:05 PM August Trivia Rounds 2009
Gatsby722
Registered: Fri May 18 2001
Loc: Canton
THE FT TRIVIA ROUNDS
Each day (except Sunday) one of our Trivia Round hosts will post 5 questions that have multiple possible correct answers. Each player should PM his or her answers to the host within the time frame specified (at least 48 hours, but usually more). Each unique correct answer provided (one that was not given by any other player) will receive 10 points, each non-unique correct answer will receive 5 points.
The winner(s) of each Round are awarded monthly points, which are eventually tallied for the entire year.
No sign-up or registration is required to play!!! and each player can play as many or as few Rounds as he or she chooses.
Mondays - Brandz_mygirl
Tuesdays - Gatsby722
Wednesdays - JaneMarple
Thursdays - Deepakmr
Fridays - Szabs and Maninmidohio
Saturdays - Mugaboo
Any changes, just let us know !
"The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful." ... H. L. Mencken
#488802 - Tue Aug 04 2009 09:54 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
brandz_mygirl
Registered: Sat Jan 06 2007
Loc: Singapore
Round 3 will be late. Sorry all, just kind of busy with real life. Will get it posted, hopefully later today.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger (Proverbs 15:1)
Round 4 ~ Tuesday
I just got the Independent Film Channel on my TV system (one can only imagine how much I'm loving that decision, too ) and have been glued to the independent movies they air. And these fresh, firecracker actors! Brilliant network, for sure. Anyway, I saw this guy in a film broadcast last week called Last Days. It, and he, caught my interest with its delivery and mind-blowing originality ...
P.S. He's no relation to a guy named Brad, either .
1. Michael Pitt was born in West Orange, a township in central Essex County, New Jersey. Small place, Orange -- the population, as per the 2000 Census, was less than 45,000. BUT the place has a good bit of charisma to it as it is a slice of small town Americana (kinda) just seventeen short miles from New York City ~ and it adjoins the South Mountain Reservation which has been described "a wilderness, as it probably existed at the time of Hendrick Hudson, a primitive forest abounding with deer and other wild animals, and traversed by streams alive with trout. Game is plentiful – partridges, quail, woodcock, rabbits, squirrels of every species, raccoons and foxes -- even occasionally a hungry bear ..." Sounds like a perfect spot for a creative young man to grow up, yes? The electricity of the city nearby, and the basics of nature even closer. Thomas Alva Edison, who invented the practical motion picture camera? His first movie studio was even located in West Orange, too, FYI. According to this site, West Orange's downtown has a pub called Cecil's Jazz Club at 364 Valley Road -- please tell me a *domestic* beer they sell there.
2. The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek is a stage play written by Naomi Wallace, set in a generic 'town outside a city' (much like West Orange?) somewhere in the United States in 1936. The story focuses on two teenagers with no hopes for the future. The only thing these lads can pit their wits against in their dead-end town hit hard by the depression is the "Seven-Ten Train" that crosses the trestle at Pope Lick Creek. You have to run across the tracks to reach said trestle - towards the oncoming train. If you don't make it before the train hits the trestle, there are no safety sides, and you're a hundred feet above a dry creek. In other words? You're a goner . Pitt made his off-Broadway debut in the play in 1999. Kindly tell me any other play written by the (rather fascinating, by the sounds of it) author Naomi Wallace.
3. The first time I remember seeing (or even hearing of) Michael Pitt was on the television series "Dawson's Creek", which began airing on the WB network in the late 1990's, whereupon he played a notably charismatic (but offbeat) high school student named Henry Parker. His character was engaging -- he was a football player, and a good one, who developed the 'hots' for the one-year-older Jen Lindley, always played magnificently by the fetching Michelle Williams. The two begin a short-lived fling together on the show, but only stay relevant for a mere 15 episodes (sigh) ... which, maybe, amounts to an almost *long-term* high school relationship? Their chemistry together was quite apparent, though. As it turned out, they were both incredibly gifted young actors. So, tell me an episode (from the year 2000 only) of "Dawson's Creek" in which Michael Pitt appeared.
4. Next, in 2001, came another 'colorful' project. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical film (based on the stage musical of the same title) about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgendered singer named *Hedwig*. Her lover, with whom she writes some songs, later leaves her and goes on to become a wildly successful rock star with the songs Hedwig wrote both alone AND with him. This runaway rascal is played by Michael Pitt. As it goes, 'internationally ignored' Hedwig and her band of Eastern Europeans, the Angry Inch, are forced to support themselves by playing coffee bars and strip mall dives, such as at a seafood restaurant chain called Bilgewaters. Over time, the picture has gathered a devoted cult following similar to that of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is high praise indeed. The film also won the Best Director and Audience Awards at the Sundance Film Festival -- and I have to say, it was truly a pretty exceptional movie (and original, too). This time, tell me any other film that has won the Audience Award: Dramatic at Sundance SINCE 2001, the year Hedwig and the Angry Inch won.
5. Last Days is a 2005 film by director Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The flick stars Michael Pitt as *Blake* (a not-so-disguised version of Cobain). Van Sant says he thought about the project for nearly a decade ~ at one point he wanted to do an official biopic, but decided against the idea out of fear of being sued by Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. He was [justifiably] not sure how Nirvana's fans and family would react to the film. The plot follows Blake, finally alienated and disenchanted entirely, who is escaping his disjointed life by isolating himself at his mansion. He eludes a private detective looking for him and ignores his ex-wife's demands that he should come home -- he spends much of the film walking around, muttering to himself, sometimes even wearing a dress while playing music (?). At the end, he goes out to a low-rent club, returns home, and dies (presumably by suicide). And that, folks, is pretty much the whole film . Pitt really sank his teeth into the role, though. His character's self-destruct was powerfully performed. But, to close, all I'll ask is that you name any member, any time, of the band Nirvana.
This mostly "unknown actor" round will close up on Sunday, around noon. Have a terrific week, hopefully free of too many angry inches !
Edited by Gatsby722 (Tue Aug 04 2009 11:22 AM)
#488804 - Tue Aug 04 2009 09:23 PM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Monday August 3 – Quiz
N is for Nice.
1) I remember there was a period in my primary school life when the whole class seemed to be fixated on the word "nice". Everything was nice. One day our form teacher decided to ban the use of the word "nice". We had to come up with a different word/words or face her wrath. Please give me a one-word synonym for nice. The meaning of "nice" has evolved a little since my primary school days. The "nice" that I am referring to in this question is "It's such a nice day for the beach, so let's go." –or- "She's such a nice girl, I want to be her friend."
2) Nuclear energy – The "How Stuff Works" website has an article on how nuclear power works. Within the article, is a diagram about the parts within a nuclear power plant. Please name any of those parts labeled A to J.
3) Never Never Land or Neverland – Not M. Jackson related. "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" was one of my childhood favourite books. From the novel, please name one of the lost boys or one of the Darling children.
4) Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901, to those who have contributed immensely in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace, and since 1969, there has also been an associated award granted for excellence in Economics. The prizes are awarded on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death (1833 – 1896). Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and made a huge fortune during his lifetime. Please tell me an organization that has received the Nobel Peace Prize and whose name (the organization's) does not include the word "International".
5) The Republic of Singapore Navy ("RSN") patrols the waters of Singapore "to safeguard Singapore's territorial waters, deter seas robberies and look out for illegal immigrants". The RSN has its own official "navy song" (which I didn't know about prior to reading up for this question). Excluding the chorus, please give me a line from the "navy song".
This round will close on Sunday 9 August at noon FT time. Happy week wishes to one and all.
#488805 - Wed Aug 05 2009 05:47 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
JaneMarple
Star Poster
Registered: Fri Jan 30 2004
Loc: North West of England
Q1	A film beginning with N
Q2	A song title beginning with N
Q3	A book title beginning with N
Q4	A eight letter word beginning with N
Q5	Something you can eat beginning with N
This closes on Sunday or Monday
My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
#488806 - Fri Aug 07 2009 11:39 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
szabs
Registered: Mon Aug 13 2007
Loc: Mijas, Malaga Spain
Round 8 Friday
Todays round is dedicated to the 8th of August
1. The most successful zeppelin ever built, was the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin which flew more than a million miles on 590 flights. During its nine year career, Graf Zeppelin made the first commercial passenger flight across the Atlantic, the first commercial passenger flight around the world, flew a scientific mission over the North Pole, made the first regularly scheduled transatlantic passenger crossings by air. On the 8th of August 1929 the Zeppelin started it's first round the world flight. From the wiki page of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin go to the section of "Round-the-world flight", please give me the name of any of the cities – countries mentioned in that section.
2. The Soviet Union formally declared war on the Empire of Japan on August 8, 1945, beginning the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Soviet invasion of Manchuria) on the following day. The Soviets invaded the Japanese state of Manchukuo, they also conquered Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation was subdivided into smaller operational and tactical parts, please give me the name of one of those operations.
3. The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn England. The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered. At the time, it was probably the largest robbery by value in British history, until the Baker Street robbery of 1971. Please give me the name of one of the gang members involved in this robbery.
4. The Warsaw radio mast was located in Konstantynów, Gąbin, Poland was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991, The mast was 646.38 metres (2,120.67 ft) tall. Its construction, started in July 1970, was completed on 18 May 1974, and it was used by Warsaw Radio-Television. A catastrophic failure, caused by an error in exchanging the guy-wires on the highest stock, led to the collapse of the mast, the mast first bent and then snapped at roughly half its height. From this page , please give me the name of a famous transmission site in Poland (doesn't matter if they are shut down).
5. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937. He has had a very active and prolific career since 1960, he first drew critical praise for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakout movie role as Ben Braddock in the 1967 film The Graduate. Please give me the title of a movie where he has an acting role from 2000 till 2008.
This round will end on Wednesday, if you have any questions just pm me, in the meantime have a great weekend.
#488807 - Sat Aug 08 2009 02:02 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Mugaboo
Registered: Fri Aug 13 2004
Loc: Scotland UK
Round 9 - Saturday 8th August
1. Name any menber of the "Rat Pack"
2. The Boomtown Rats were an Irish Rock band, mostly of the late 70's and 80's. Please give me a town where they go on tour during any December schedule of either "The Boomtown Rats" or "The Rats". (from any year)
3. Ellen van Deelen is a Dutch photographer. Recently she got two rats (Mosy and Witje) to pose for her camera. Please tell me any (miniature) musical instument, that Ellen van Deelen took with rats.
4. A rat was the only animal I dissected at school. From this diagram please give me a part of Rat anatomy.
5. Last week the small town of Ziketan (in the Chinese province of Qinghai), was struck by the bacteria of same species (yersinia pestis) that caused what was known as "The Black Death" in the 14th century. This is often blamed on rats (that carry infected fleas), but also caused by breathing on someone. The outbreak in Ziketan was caused by a herder's dog that died after eating a marmot infected it with the bacteria. Other than Pestis, please tell my a genus of the Bacteria Yersinia.
The round will close on Thursday (noon FT time).
Edited to clarify question 2
Edited by Mugaboo (Sun Aug 09 2009 02:03 AM)
24 hours to go for Round 4 ...
#488809 - Sun Aug 09 2009 05:14 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Round 3 has just under 6 hours to go before closing (says the writer sheepishly). I haven't yet sent acknowledgements to answers received but will be doing so shortly. Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday.
Round 4 - Tuesday
"Michael Pitt"
Five well-known (and quite skilled) players !
1. According to its official website, West Orange's downtown has a pub called Cecil's Jazz Club at 364 Valley Road -- please tell me a *domestic* beer they sell there.
For 10 Points:
Bud Light, Miller Lite
For 5 Points:
Coors Light (3)
The others are Budweiser, Smirnoff Ice, Sam Adams, Michelob and Miller High Life!
2. Kindly tell me any other play written by the (rather fascinating, by the sounds of it) author Naomi Wallace.
Birdy; The Hard Weather Boating Party; No Such Cold Thing; Things of Dry Hours; Twenty One Positions: A Cartographic Dream of the Middle East
"In The Heart of America", "One Flea Spare", "Slaughter City", "The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper", "The War Boys" and "The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East", among others, would've been right too.
3. So, tell me an episode (from the year 2000 only) of "Dawson's Creek" in which Michael Pitt appeared.
The Longest Day, Neverland, Valentine's Day Massacre
Weekend in the Country (2)
The rest of Pitt's appearances happened in 'Barefoot at Capefest', 'Northern Lights', 'Stolen Kisses', 'Show Me Love', 'The Anti-Prom' -and- 'True Love'.
4. This time, tell me any other film that has won the Audience Award: Dramatic at Sundance SINCE 2001, the year Hedwig and the Angry Inch won.
Real Women Have Curves (2002), Maria Full of Grace (2004), Hustle & Flow (2005), Quinceañera (2006), The Wackness (2008)
The Station Agent (2003), Grace is Gone (2007) and Precious: Based on a Novel by Sapphire (2009) were the rest.
5. But, to close, all I'll ask is that you name any member, any time, of the band Nirvana.
Aaron Burckhard, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
Dave Foster (2)
Chad Channing, Dale Crover, Jason Everman, Dan Pete and, o' course, Kurt Cobain himself round out the roster.
The Results!
50 Points! .... maninmidohio
45 Points! .... brandz_mygirl and denni19
40 Points! .... Mugaboo
35 Points! .... szabs
Yay! A perfect score for maninmidohio today. He gets a well-deserved August Trivia Point! I appreciate you all for playing! Great job, all-around !
I'll close round 5 - Wednesday's - tomorrow
#488812 - Mon Aug 10 2009 01:15 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
August 3 Round – Answers
Four fanta-bulous folks for N is for Nice.
1) Please give me a one-word synonym for nice.
For Ten Points: Congenial, Delightful, Peaceful, Pleasant.
For Five Points: None!
Not mentioned: Affable, Amicable, Charming, Good, Kind and more
2) The "How Stuff Works" website has an article on how nuclear power works. Within the article, is a diagram about the parts within a nuclear power plant. Please name any of those parts labeled A to J.
For Ten Points: None!
For Five Points: Control Rods (2), Pump (2)
Not mentioned: Containment structure, Cooling tower, Cooling water condenser, Generator, Reactor, Steam generator, Steam line, Turbine.
3) From the novel, please name one of the lost boys or one of the Darling children.
For Ten Points: Binky (one of the twins), John Darling
For Five Points: Slightly (2)
Not mentioned: Curly, Marmaduke (the other twin), Michael Darling, Nibs, Tootles, Wendy Darling
The twins' names were revealed in "Peter Pan in Scarlet", the official sequel to "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". Twin 1 and Twin 2 would have also been acceptable answers.
4) Please tell me an organization that has received the Nobel Peace Prize and whose name (the organization's) does not include the word "International".
For Ten Points: American Friends Service Committee, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces
Not mentioned: Friends Service Council, Grameen Bank, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, League of Red Cross Societies, Médecins Sans Frontières, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, United Nations.
5) Excluding the chorus, please give me a line from the "navy song" (of the Republic of Singapore Navy).
For Ten Points: See bold-ed lines below.
Not mentioned: See un-bold-ed lines below.
From a humble beginning the day we were born,
Onwards and upwards we've moved on and on.
Never looking back we'll always grow.
Onwards and upwards the best we'll show.
Our waters to guard to ensure they are safe.
It's a great task only meant for the brave.
It does make us proud to know that we
All play a part to protect our seas.
With our comrades in hand from the Land and the Air,
TO-GETHER we stand in defence of our land.
Never flagging in adversity,
Forward we'll march on to VICTORY.
Top Place:
45 points: Gatsby & Denni Well done to both our winners!
Other Results:
40 points: Mugaboo & Maninmidohio
#488813 - Mon Aug 10 2009 01:56 PM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Wednesday 5th August 2009 Results
FOR TEN POINTS:
No Funny Business (1933), Never Been Kissed (1999), Nick of time, Nell, Near Dark (1987),
FOR FIVE POINTS:
Ten Points to all
NOT MENTIONED:
Notorious and more
Nellie the elephant, Nothing Man (Bruce Springsteen), None of Us Are Free (Solomon Burke), No, No, Nanette, Now and Forever - Richard Marx,
Not tonight, Josephine and more
No Resistance (Evelyn Anthony), "Nights of Rain and Stars", by Maeve Binchy, Nights in Rodanthe (Nicholas Sparks), Never Cry Wolf (Farley Mowat), Never Enough by Harold Robbins,
Nemesis (Agatha Christie) and more
Nitrogen, Numbness, Neurosis, Namesake, Nobleman,
Nattered and more
Nutmeg, Nhoque (Brazilian potato dumplings), Nectarine,
Naan bread (2),
Nut brittle and more
Gatsby – 50
Maninmidohio – 50
Mugaboo – 50
Brandz_mygirl - 45
Denni – 45
Well done to Gatsby, Maninmidohio and Mugaboo
Monday August 10 – Quiz
It's all about "I". No, not an alphabet round.
1) I am a night owl, so getting up early isn't my thing. Yet, strangely enough whenever I am away on holiday, I tend to sleep earlier and wake up earlier. Must be all the sightseeing during the day. I often read about the health and other benefits of going to bed early and rising early, but sadly never about sleeping and waking up late. Should I change my ways? From here, please tell me "how to become an early riser", just the first sentence please from any of the pointers.
2) I haven't yet met a dessert I didn't like. I am especially fond of trifles and cheesecakes, just about anything really that is 'super-rich' and 'super-tasting'. Local desserts are nice too, readily available at most food centers at reasonable prices. Could you please name me a Singapore dessert that is listed in Wikipedia.
3) I am a huge fan of Hugh Laurie and the show "House M.D.". Am waiting most eagerly for 21 September. The official Fox "House M.D." website has a list of "House-isms" (one-or-more-line quotes/zingers courtesy of "Dr. Greg House"), please give me one of them from the episode "Emancipation".
4) I am into walking for keeping fit. I started brisk walking about a year and a half ago. I lost some weight and I felt more energized. Now I try to take at least two long walks a week and shorter ones whenever I can. I've also discovered that many Singaporeans do not appreciate walking. Whenever I decide to walk anywhere, even if it's just a matter of a 10-minute walk, I am always being advised to take the bus or the car or the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train. I now don't bother to say I'm walking anymore and just leave a little earlier to get wherever I'm going. This site has "10 walking mistakes to avoid", please tell me any one of them.
5) I am currently reading a book by Hugh Laurie (yes, the man writes and writes well too, going by all the reviews). Please give me a last word from the first 10 paragraphs of the book by Hugh Laurie. That would make it 9 possible answers.
I started working on this round with all the good intentions of getting it out on time. Good intentions are obviously not enough. Will work on mixing some effort in with the good intentions and see what happens next week. This round will close on Sunday 16 August at noon FT time. Wishing one and all a wonderful week.
Round 11 ~ Tuesday
Hmmm. Another IFC Channel - themed quiz. This indie film I caught by accident, having woke up in the middle o' the night and finding the TV still on. A "Cult Horror" film, they call it? I'm not sure I'd be so complimentary ... but (obviously) it got stuck in my head ...
1. The movie was the (unsettling, times ten) brain child of Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965), better known by his stage name Rob Zombie. He's a Grammy-nominated American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer and the founder and former lead singer of the band White Zombie. 'Hellbilly Deluxe' is the debut solo album by Rob, released on August 25, 1998. The record met with notable success, spawning several popular singles (in particular, "Dragula" and "Living Dead Girl"). All told, Zombie has sold over 15 million albums -- five of which have been certified platinum and another two certified gold, making him the artist with the most gold and platinum discs on the Geffen Records label, which is actually v-e-r-y impressive! I'll hasten to add that his films have not been so successful, at least not in a *mainstream* sense. To begin, please tell me the name of a track on the album 'Hellbilly Deluxe' by the [entirely curious] Rob Zombie. Oh, and don't use any song title mentioned in the text of this question ....
2. The Devil's Rejects (2005) takes us on the unsavory adventures of the Firefly family, They consist of Tiny, Rufus, 'Mother' Firefly, Otis, Baby and a fellow dubbed "Captain Spaulding" (yes, there's even a side story in the flick that would make any memories of Groucho Marx more than a little disturbing) and this completely whacko clan have already been responsible for some 75 homicides by the time the movie begins. The police are closing in, however ~ which doesn't slow them down as they attempt, by the looks of it, to pull off app. 75 more gruesome murders in 90 minutes . The whole lot of it/them are pretty much unappetizing to consider ... so let's talk about the Firefly Restaurant ... much more tasteful, for sure. Sitting happily on 24th Street in San Francisco, it is (unlike those Fireflys in the film) quite civilized, inviting and almost whimsical in its theme(s). Food's pretty good, too, the locals say. Pick an entree from their menu at the Firefly Restaurant, please!
3. Leslie Easterbrook had a pivotal role in The Devil's Rejects -- she played *Mother* Firefly, the matriarch of this pack of crazies who, at the end of the day, met her Waterloo in a thematically violent, gut-churning manner. Easterbrook may be most remembered for roles far different than this one, however (let's hope so, anyway). Her first 'stab' at fame came playing Rhonda Lee, the Marilyn-Monroe-like neighbor on TV's "Laverne & Shirley", but her best known part was that of Sergeant (later Lieutenant, then Captain) Debbie Callahan, the no-nonsense blonde bombshell in the popular Police Academy movie series. She's also showed up in such TV series over the years like: "Murder, She Wrote", "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper", "Baywatch", "Matlock", "Hunter", "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Ryan's Hope". Good grief, before the woman showed up in the hellish movie in question today she'd even sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XVII and starred on Broadway! Anyway ... please tell me a subtitle of any of the Police Academy movies -- movies only, too, please. Nothing made-for-television.
4. As the grisly events shook down in the film, the 'family' saw that there was no hope left for their twisted selves. What to do, then? En masse they decided to commit *suicide by cop* - meaning that they planned to die, true enough, but chose to let the police have no other option but to kill them. Let me tell ya, these people were lunatics and clearly far (far) beyond hope. One could wonder if, at some point in their development, would it have helped had they read a book by Dr. Daniel G. Amen called "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life"? Probably not. They were hot (hot) messes genetically, I think. I sort of wonder if these characters as presented in the movie were even able to read to begin with ! At any rate, please tell me an odd-numbered chapter in the book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness".
5. As the Fireflys reached their gory end, several dozen dead and brutalized bodies in the path behind them, the song (by Lynyrd Skynyrd) called "Free Bird" played in the background. And it played. And it played! Let's just say that the long scene of the thugs being blown to smithereens seemed to go on for a (pretty much unnecessary) hour, in slow motion no less. I suppose it's the sort of thing that cult-ish audiences find "artsy". Me? Had it not been 3AM when I was watching, I might have blown lunch. Blech. So enough of all that. There's a decent, NONviolent (unless you're a chicken, that is --- poultry might consider it a bit deadly having the place as an address, I reckon) little farm in Amish country in Pennsylvania called Hain Pure Protein. It is there that FreeBird - Antibiotic Free Chicken - are grown and processed, then shipped to restaurants across the globe. Much more palatable than the 'Free Bird' as it happened in The Devil's Rejects, indeed. While on that subject, Southern Living magazine composed a list titled "Where to Eat at the South's Best Fried Chicken Restaurants" in the USA. Kindly tell me the name of one of the seven restaurants they selected as serving up the *best* fried chicken.
You might be thinking I mentioned very little about the plot in The Devil's Rejects. Nope. There was no 'plot' to mention ! I will mention, though, that this Round will close up Sunday, early afternoon. OK? Have a good rest-of-the-week!
Edited by Gatsby722 (Sat Aug 15 2009 09:39 AM)
Just a quick reminder Round 8 will be closing in about 6 hours.
Q1. A lesson children learn at school
Q2. Something children are unwilling to do
Q3. A popular children's television programme
Q4. A popular children's toy
Q5. A popular playground game
This closes next Monday!
#488818 - Thu Aug 13 2009 10:51 AM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Four wonderful players participated in the round dedicated to the 8th of August.
1. The most successful zeppelin ever built, was the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin which flew more than a million miles on 590 flights. On the 8th of August 1929 the Zeppelin started it's first round the world flight. From the wiki page of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin go to the section of "Round-the-world flight", please give me the name of any of the cities – countries mentioned in that section.
10 Points to all : Siberia, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Among Others: Friedrichshafen, Chicago
For 10 Points : Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation
For 5 Points : South Sakhalin Army Group Offensive Operation (3)
Among Others: Harbin-Kirin Offensive Operation, Sungari Offensive Operation, Seisin Landing Operation, Kuril Landing Operation
3. The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn England. The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered. At the time, it was probably the largest robbery by value in British history, until the Baker Street robbery of 1971. Please give me the name of one of the gang members involved in this robbery
For 10 Points : Charles Frederick Wilson, Roger Cordrey
For 5 Points : Tommy Wisbey (2)
Among Others: Bruce Reynolds, Buster Edwards, Gordon Goody, Ronnie Biggs
4. The Warsaw radio mast was located in Konstantynów, Poland it was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991, The mast was 646.38 metres (2,120.67 ft) tall. Its construction, started in July 1970, was completed on 18 May 1974, and it was used by Warsaw Radio-Television. A catastrophic failure, caused by an error in exchanging the guy-wires on the highest stock, led to the collapse of the mast, the mast first bent and then snapped at roughly half its height. From this page , please give me the name of a famous transmission site in Poland (doesn't matter if they are shut down)
10 Points to all : Wola Rasztowska, Przebedowo, Solec Kujawski, Konstantynow.
The others: Raszyn, Gliwice, Radom longwave transmitter
5. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937. Please give me the title of a movie where he has an acting role from 2000 till 2008.
10 Points to all : Finding Neverland, Moonlight Mile, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Meet the Fockers
Among Others: Confidence, Runaway Jury, The Lost City, Last Chance Harvey
We have a sole winner in this round, who finally ran away from the pack to get that much desired trivia point with a perfect score of 50 points : Mugaboo
With 45points: Brandz_mygirl
With 40 points: Gatsby 722, Maninmidohio
A hearty congratulations goes out to the sole winner of this round Mugaboo , who will receive a much cherished trivia point for the month of August. Thank you to all for playing in this round, and enjoy the rest of your week.
Answers Round 9 - 4 played
For 10 points: Lauren Bacall; Peter Lawford
For 5 points: Dean Martin [2]
Not mentioned include: Humphrey Bogart; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Frank Sinatra
2. Please give me a town where they go on tour during any December schedule of either "The Boomtown Rats" or "The Rats".
For 10 points: Manchester (Boomtown Rats 1978); Andover; Poole; Whitehaven (Rats 2009 tour)
For 5 points: (none)
Not mentioned include: Glasgow; Lancaster; Leeds (Boomtown Rats); Bristol; Norwich (Rats)
3. Please tell me any (miniature) musical instument, that Ellen van Deelen took with rats.
For 10 points: Banjo; French Horn; Guitar; Piano
Not mentioned: Saxophone; Pan-flute; Accordion; Flute; Violin; Euphonium
For 10 points: Liver; Right ventricle of the heart; Stomach, Thymus
5. Other than Pestis, please tell my a genus of the Bacteria Yersinia.
For 10 points: Frederiksenii; Ruckeri
For 5 points: Bercovieri [2]
Not mentioned: Aldovae; Aleksiciae; Enterocolitica; Intermedia; Kristensenii; Mollaretii; Pseudotuberculosis; Rohdei
50 points: Maninmidohio; Szabs
40 points: Brandz_mygirl; Gatsby722
Four points were thrown into the wind, but only two fell safely at the feet of Maninmidohio and Szabs, well done to you both.
maninmidohio
Registered: Mon Dec 03 2007
Loc: Newark
June of 1966 was a momentous month for me because it was the month that I graduated from Hobart College with my Bachelor of Arts degree. This round will look at some of the other major events that occurred during that month. This will be the June 1966 Round.
1.	June 1, 1966, was the date that the last episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" aired after an extremely successful run that started on October 3, 1961. The show garnered 15 Emmy awards including well deserved multiple awards for its stars, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, and its great writing staff. Please give me the title of one of the last eight episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
2.	On June 8, 1966, a powerful tornado hit Topeka, KS, causing major damage and loss of life. The storm registered F5 on the Fujita Scale of storm intensity – the highest rating. Please tell me a F5 rated tornado (date and location) that had at least 35 deaths associated with it.
3.	On June 13, 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda vs. Arizona ruling that suspects must be informed of their rights before police can question them. This was a landmark decision strengthening the rights of the accused. Please tell me one of the dissenting Supreme Court justices in the Miranda opinion or alternatively one of the three other cases that were consolidated with Miranda vs. Arizona and therefore decided in the same opinion (because the Miranda case was listed first the decision is always referred to by that name).
4.	On June 14, 1966, the Vatican abolished the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of banned books). The index was initiated as early as 1529 with heresy, moral deficiency, and sexual explicitness being among the grounds for inclusion. It was under the reforms of Pope Paul VI that the index was abandoned. Please give me an author that was included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum either for selected works or for all works. Please limit your choice to those with surnames beginning with M.
5.	On June 30, 1966, the National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, DC. Twenty-eight women and men came together to found the new organization whose statement of purpose stated, "The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." On the NOW web site they have a page "Honoring Our Founders." Please tell me the name of one of these founders that has an M anywhere in their name.
This round will conclude noonish (FT time) on Wednesday, August 19. I look forward to your answers and hope you all have a great weekend.
Just 24 hours left until Round 11 closes up shop ....
#488822 - Sat Aug 15 2009 11:25 PM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
...and just under 12 hours to go for Round 10.
Round 11 - Tuesday
"The Devil's Rejects"
Five *take-no-prisoners* participants (thank you !)
1. To begin, please tell me the name of a track on the album 'Hellbilly Deluxe' by the [entirely curious] Rob Zombie. Oh, and don't use any song title mentioned in the text of this question ....
How to Make a Monster, Meet the Creeper, Superbeast
Return of the Phantom Stranger (2)
"Call of the Zombie", "Perversion 99", "Demonoid Phenomenon", "Spookshow Baby", "The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore", "What Lurks on Channel X?" and "The Beginning of the End" were the others to pick from.
2. Pick an entree from their menu at the Firefly Restaurant, please!
Arctic Char with Zucchini Pancake, Creamed Corn Sauce and Olive Oil Poached Cherry Tomatoes; The Fried Chicken of Your Dreams with Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Peas & Carrots and a Damn Fine Buttermilk Biscuit; Grilled Eggplant and Halloumi Cheese with Red Pepper Braised Fingerling Potatoes, Cucumber–Herb Salad and Toasted Pine Nut Vinaigrette; Grilled Georges Bank Sea Scallops with Gazpacho Sauce, Couscous and Blue Lake Beans; Grilled Pork Rib Chop with Corn Spoon Bread, Arugula Salad, Grilled Peaches and Roast Pork Jus
Yay. None to report today !
Sesame Crusted Beef Short Ribs with Shaoxing Wine Sauce, Black & White Rice and Baby Bok Choy and Corn and Toasted Basmati Rice Stuffed Ronde de Nice Squash with Coconut Curry Sauce, English Pea Purée and Sugar Snap Peas could have been chosen, too.
3. Please tell me a subtitle of any of the Police Academy movies -- movies only, too please. Nothing made-for-television.
#3 - Back in Training (1986); #6 - City Under Siege (1989)
#5 - Assignment Miami Beach (1988) (3)
The others? #2 - Their First Assignment (1985), #4 - Citizens on Patrol (1987) and Mission to Moscow (1994).
4. At any rate, please tell me an odd-numbered chapter in the book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness".
Looking Into Inattention and Impulsivity
The Dark Side (2), Looking Into Memory and Temper (2)
Readers in search of better self-control might have also browsed 'For Those Who Have Eyes, Let Them See', 'Looking Into Love and Depression', 'Looking Into Anxiety and Fear', 'Looking Into Worry and Obsessiveness', 'The Missing Links', 'Help!' and 'Brain Dos and Brain Don'ts'
5. Kindly tell me the name of one of the seven restaurants they (Southern Living magazine) selected as serving up the *best* fried chicken.
Gladys Knight and Ron Winans Chicken & Waffles (Atlanta, Georgia)
Fiorella's Restaurant (New Orleans, Louisiana) (2), Price's Chicken Coop (Charlotte, North Carolina) (2)
Leaving Babe's Chicken Dinner House (Roanoke, Texas), Bubba's Cooks Country (Dallas, Texas), Kessler's 1891 Eatery and Pub (Versailles, Kentucky) and Seafood & Chicken Box (Center Point, Alabama) ...
40 Points! .... Mugaboo and szabs
35 Points! .... brandz_mygirl, denni19 and maninmidohio
Close scores, indeed, once again. Congratulations and a coveted Trivia Point issued to Mugaboo and szabs today!
Thanks, folks, for joining in.
Edited by Gatsby722 (Sun Aug 16 2009 10:03 AM)
#488824 - Sun Aug 16 2009 01:57 PM Re: August Trivia Rounds 2009
Round 12 closes tomorrow
August 10 Round – Answers
Thank you to the fantastic group of five for It's all about "I".
1) From here, please tell me "how to become an early riser", just the first sentence please from any of the pointers.
For Ten Points: Commute, Do not rationalize, Take advantage of all that extra time
For Five Points: Allow yourself to sleep earlier (2)
Not mentioned: Don't make drastic changes, Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off your alarm, Have a good reason, Make waking up early a reward, Put your alarm clock far from your bed.
2) Could you please name me a Singapore dessert that is listed in Wikipedia.
For Ten Points: Cheng tng, Mango pudding, Red rubies, Tau-Huey, Watermelon sago
Not mentioned: Almond jelly, Beancurd barley, Bubur cha cha, Chendol Ais, Green bean soup, Honeydew sago, Ice kacang, Kueh, O-Ni, Pineapple tarts, Red bean soup, Tangyuan.
3) The official Fox "House M.D." website has a list of "House-isms" (one-or-more-line quotes/zingers courtesy of "Dr. Greg House"), please give me one of them from the episode "Emancipation".
- Emotional is immediate; if she went to the rational first, then there was no emotional to process.
- Just because we call something 'poison,' doesn't mean it's bad for you.
- Yesterday you were all BFF, today you think she's pathological.
- You didn't flinch when you found out a sixteen-year-old who should have her whole life ahead of her doesn't. Means you're here about someone even younger dying even faster.
- You treated her based on empathetic orphan syndrome -- and almost killed her in the process.
- I want you to stop thinking that acting inscrutable makes you anything other than annoying
- Our job is to find what's killing patients, not treat them for chronic idiocy.
- Pot calling the kettle a pot?
- Silent and unhappy is better than vocal and unhelpful.
- Tell her the thing about emotional reactions is they're definitionally irrational or... 'stupid.
- Thank God some of those offshore sweat shop jobs are coming back to America; makes up for the telemarketing work we're losing.
- Went home without ringing either her metaphorical or literal bell
- You're an idiot. You'd rather die than face your parents because what? You broke their Faberge egg?
4) This site has "10 walking mistakes to avoid", please tell me any one of them.
For Ten Points: No Arms, Not Drinking Enough
For Five Points: Head Down (3)
Not mentioned: Chicken Winging, Flapping Slapping Feet, Leaning, Overstriding, Overtraining, The Wrong Clothes, The Wrong Shoes.
5) Please give me a last word from the first 10 paragraphs of the book by Hugh Laurie.
For Ten Points: Consider, Pieces, Them
For Five Points: Don't (2)
Not mentioned: Answer, Arm, Me, Unbearable, Unless.
45 points: Mugaboo, Gatsby & Denni Three winners this round, well done!
40 points: Szabs & Maninmidohio.


5 Memes About Primary - LDS S.M.I.L.E.
You're telling me that I have to stay hungry for how long???
You do it for the gold stars!
When you get to sing your primary jam!
Who doesn't love the free food at ward activities?
The excitement when you find out that Jesus wants you for a sunbeam too.
Can You Pass The Hardest Mormon Quiz Ever?


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WG21/N3787
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Hans.Boehm@hp.com
N3787: What can signal handlers do? (CWG 1441)
This is an attempt to summarize the current state of discussions around CWG issue 1441. Much of this discussion has occurred within SG1, and it has moved significantly past the original issue, so it seemed appropriate to turn it into a separate paper. This attempts to reflect the contributions of many people, especially Lawrence Crowl, Jens Maurer, Clark Nelson, and Detlef Vollmann.
This version is a minor revision of N3633. It reflects some changes due to SG1 concerns in Chicago, and reflects the easiest-to-address comments from the CWG discussion in Chicago. It does not reflect all of the latter. More discussion and almost certainly another paper revision is required.
CWG Issue 1441 points out that in the process of relaxing the restrictions on asynchronous signal handlers to allow use of atomics, we inadvertently made it impossible to use even local variables of non-volatile, non-atomic type. As a result of an initial discussion within CWG, Jens Maurer generated a proposed resolution, which addresses that specific issue.
Pre-Bristol discussion in SG1, both in Portland and during the February 2013 SG1 teleconference, raised a number of additional issues. Both Jens' solution and all prior versions of the standard still give undefined behavior to code involving signal handlers which we believe should clearly be legal. Our goal was to correct such oversights, and allow some realistic signal handlers to be portable, while preserving a significant amount of implementation freedom with respect to what is allowable in a signal handler. In particular, we do not want to reinvent Posix' notion of async-signal-safe functions here.
This issue was revisited as part of the concurrency group (SG1) meetings in Bristol. After some initial debate, that discussion concluded with several straw polls reaffirming that we want lock-free atomics to be usable in signal handlers, that signal handlers should be able to read data written before the handler installation, and that accesses to ordinary variables in signal handlers should be OK, so long as there are happens-before relationships separating such code from mainline code accesses. Some of us remember this as the original intent behind the C++11 changes, but recollections vary.
In spite of reaffirming the intent of this paper, the changes below were not brought forward as a change to the C++14 working paper, since there was a feeling we should take more time to consider alternate approaches to the wording, and that input from WG14 would be desirable.
My current hope is that something along the lines of this proposal, but probably not precisely these words, will find its way into the draft.
Proposed resolution and discussion
We give several proposed changes and summarize the reasoning behind the change as well as some of the past discussion:
Replace 1.9p6, the paragraph imposing the restrictions on signal handlers
Replace 1.9p6 [intro.execution]:
When the processing of the abstract machine is interrupted by receipt of a signal, the values of objects which are neither
of type volatile std::sig_atomic_t nor
lock-free atomic objects (29.4)
are unspecified during the execution of the signal handler, and the value of any object not in either of these two categories that is modified by the handler becomes undefined.
If a signal handler is executed as a result of a call to the raise function, then the execution of the handler is sequenced after the invocation of the raise function and before its return. When a signal is received for another reason, the execution of the signal handler is unsequenced with respect to the rest of the program.
The original restriction would now be expressed elsewhere (see below) in terms of data races. This means that signal handlers can now access variables also accessed in mainline code, so long as the required happens-before orders are established.
We concluded during the February discussion that the old "interrupted by a signal" phrase referred to an asynchronous signal, and was basically OK. But after reading the C standard I'm not sure, and it makes sense to me to be more explicit. This is my latest attempt to do so.
Weaken the restriction on unsequenced operations
Change one sentence in 1.9p15 [intro.execution]
If a side effect on a scalar object is unsequenced relative to either another side effect on the same scalar object or a value computation using the value of the same scalar object, and they are not potentially concurrent (1.10, intro.thread), the behavior is undefined. [Note: The next section imposes similar, but more complex restrictions on potentially concurrent computations. -- end note]
This is a delicate area. Asynchronous signal handlers are unsequenced. If we said nothing else, even atomic operations in mainline code and the signal handler might introduce undefined behavior. We don't want that.
This is not an issue for regular unsequenced expressions. Consider the question of whether the following is legal:
atomic<int *>p = 0;
(i = 17, p = &i, 1) + (p? *p : 0);
After some false starts, we concluded in the February phone call that the answer is yes, for reasons having more to do with function calls in expressions than atomics. The store to p and the initial test of p are indeterminately sequenced. If the latter occurs first, the potentially unsequenced access to *p doesn't occur. In the other case, the store to i is sequenced before the store to p, which is sequenced before the test on p, which is sequenced before the questionable load from *p. This again relies heavily on the fact that atomic operations are function calls in C++. The situation in C is unfortunately different.
In spite of earlier contradictory conclusions, there are however strong reasons to treat unsequenced expressions differently from data races in signal handlers. These have to do with weaker memory orders. Consider the following example:
Mainline code: x = 1; y.store(1, memory_order_mo1);
Signal handler: if (y.load(memory_order_mo2)) tmp = x;
This should or should not result in undefined behavior, depending on mo1 and mo2. I don't think this is expressible without relying on happens-before.
Fortunately, I think this doesn't apply within expressions:
(x = 1, y.store(1, memory_order_relaxed), 0) + (y.load(memory_order_relaxed)? x : 1)
(all variables initially zero as usual) must return 1. A compiler that violates this by reordering the initial two stores and performing the y.load() in the middle is broken. (At least so we claim with only mild uncertainty.)
Thus the restriction on unsequenced operations should apply only to code that may not run concurrently. For code that may run concurrently (threads and signal handlers) we need the happens-before-based notion of data races that reflects memory_order specifications.
Expand the discussion of data races to cover signal handler invocations we want to prohibit
Change the normative part of 1.10p21 [intro.multithread] as follows:
Two actions are potentially concurrent if they are performed by different threads, or if at least one is performed by a signal handler, they are unsequenced, and they are not both performed by the same signal handler invocation. The execution of a program contains a data race if it contains two potentially concurrent conflicting actions in different threads, at least one of which is not atomic, and neither happens before the other. Any such data race results in undefined behavior. As a special exception to the preceding rule, two accesses to the same object of type volatile sig_atomic_t cannot result in a data race if both occur in the same thread t (with one occurring in a signal handler). The evaluations of such volatile sig_atomic_t objects take values as though the execution of the signal handler had been sequenced at one particular point, consistent with the actual happens-before ordering, during the execution of t.
By the above reasoning, we need to give signal handlers the same data-race-based treatment as threads. Memory_order specifications must be respected in determining whether there is undefined behavior.
There was some discussion during the February phone call as to whether we should view signal handlers as being performed by a specific thread at all, and I think we were moving towards removing that notion. A signal handler probably cannot portably tell which thread it's running on. But after thinking about this more, I don't know how to reconcile this change with atomic_signal_fence, so I am once again inclined to leave things more like they are.
These changes should now have the effect of allowing full atomics to be used in communicating with a signal handler. I can now allocate an object, assign it to an atomic pointer variable, and have a signal handler access the non-atomic objects through that variable, just as another thread could. Since signal handlers obey strictly more scheduling constraints than threads, I think this is entirely expected, and what we had in mind all the time.
Ensure that signal handler invocation happens after signal handler installation
Insert in 18.10 [support.runtime] after p7:
The function signal defined in <csignal> shall ensure that a call to signal synchronizes with any resulting invocation of the newly installed signal handler.
This is necessary to allow signal handlers to access data that is read-only after installation of the handler. I expect this happens all the time already.
Note that 29.8p6 already talks about synchronizes-with relationships between a thread and a signal handler in the same thread, so I don't think this is a very fundamental change in perspective.
Clarify which C-like functions can be used in a signal handler
Change 18.10 [support.runtime] p9 as follows:
The common subset of the C and C++ languages consists of all declarations, definitions, and expressions that may appear in a well formed C++ program and also in a conforming C program. A plain lock-free atomic operation is an invocation of a function f from clause 29, such that f is not a member function, and either f is the function is_lock_free, or for any atomic argument a passed to f, is_lock_free(a) yields true. A POF ("plain old function") is a function that uses only features from this common subset, and that does not directly or indirectly use any function that is not a POF, except that it may use functions defined in Clause 29 that are not member functions plain lock-free atomic operations. All signal handlers shall have C linkage. A POF that could be used as a signal handler in a conforming C program does not produce undefined behavior when used as a signal handler in a C++ program. The behavior of any other function other than a POF used as a signal handler in a C++ program is implementation-defined.
Since we currently refer to C99 as the base document and C99 does not support thread_local, this somewhat accidentally prohibits use of thread_local in signal handlers. Discussion in Bristol suggests this may be a good thing, since thread_local might be implemented with a e.g. a locked hash table, which would result in deadlocks if access from signal handlers were allowed.
Some of the earlier phone call discussion seems to have overlooked the existing clause 29 exemption which, for example, makes calls to is_atomic legal.
That exemption was too broad, since it allowed non-lock-free calls. All calls that acquire locks need to be prohibited in signal handlers, since they typically deadlock if the mainline thread already holds the lock.
I don't understand the meaning of a normative sentence that says "X does not have undefined behavior". We otherwise define its meaning, so why would it possibly have undefined behavior without this sentence? Hence I'm proposing to rephrase.
(This paragraph removes the need for a 1.10p5 change I previously proposed.)

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The coffee in a cone is a small latte served in a chocolate-lined homemade waffle cone.
Have you always wanted to drink coffee out of a waffle cone? Your answer is probably "yes," because why wouldn't you want to combine three of the best things in life (coffee, ice cream cones, and chocolate)? Hailing from The Grind Coffee Company in Johannesburg, South Africa, coffee in a cone is the latest food trend that has people traveling from all over the place, and for good reason. "We used the cone as a way to become an Instagrammable product. When people come in they take a selfie and tag #coffeeinacone," the man behind the concept, Dayne Levinrad, told CNN. It's true: everyone who orders the coffee in a cone from The Grind seems to adapt the "pics or it didn't happen" mantra because the Instagram opportunity is way too good to pass up. Keep reading to see how truly trend-worthy the coffee is, and get a closer look at the ingenious hybrid.


Have you ever wondered what unbelievers do with death? What really goes through the mind of an unbeliever when they encounter the death of a loved one? How do they process it? How do they cope with it?
Each of them had been in the last instant alive, and then dead. I realized that I had never believed in the words I had learned as a child in order to be confirmed as an Episcopalian: I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting, amen.
I did not believe in the resurrection of the body.
Nor had Teresa Kean [these are the dead from her husband's book], Parlance, Emmett McClure, Jack Broderick, Maurice Dodd, the four people in the car, Charlie Buckles, Percy Darrow, or Walden McClure.
Nor had my Catholic husband.
I imagined this way of thinking to be clarifying, but in point of fact it was so muddled as to contradict even itself.
I did not believe in the resurrection of the body but I still believed that given the right circumstances he would come back.
He who left the faint traces before he died, the Number Three pencil.
Joan Didion says that she denied what we confess in the Apostles' Creed, but yet somehow she hopes that death is not final, that it's not the end, period. There's confusion here and uncertainty, lack of clarity and contradiction.
We can contrast that with what we confess from the Scriptures in the Heidelberg Catechism. Here we have clarity, certainty, and comfort. When we're faced with the death of a believing loved one, and also when we're faced with our own death, we can confidently say with Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:55, "Where, O death is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." We can look death in the face with clarity, certainty and comfort because we know Jesus Christ, our resurrection and our life. That's our theme this afternoon as I preach God's Word to you.
Then we find those powerful words in Jesus' reply: "I am the resurrection and the life." Notice how he puts this: he says that he is the resurrection. Martha has her knowledge of the Old Testament and her belief that the dead will be raised at the last day. But Jesus says that all of those passages point to him. He is the one in whom the resurrection will become a reality.
He is the one who raises Lazarus from the dead – showing in a preliminary way that he has power over death. He is the one who himself rises from the dead on the third day – definitively illustrating that death does not have the final say over him. Rather, he's the one who has power and the victory over sin and death. He rises from the dead on the third day and reveals himself as the resurrection.
Through faith we share in his resurrection. Lazarus came back from the dead, but he only came back for a time. Lazarus eventually died again and was buried, and he did not rise again. But look at what happened with Christ and you get a picture of what will happen with all who believe in Christ. Christ died and was buried and on the third day rose again. He rose again, never to die again. The blood that flows through his glorified body will never cease to flow. The heart that pumps his blood will never stop pumping. The lungs that expand and contract with his every breath will never stop expanding and contracting. The electrical nerve signals that course through his body will do so into eternity. And all these things will be true of us too when our flesh is reunited with our souls and made to be like his glorious body! We die once and then we will rise again, never to die again.
Loved ones, we can be confident of this, because the Lord Jesus promises it. He promises that as we rest and trust in him, we can know that he is our resurrection, that whoever believes in him will live, even though he dies. That means that we do die, but only once. And then Jesus adds that whoever lives and believes in him will never die, in other words, such a person will never experience the second death. Believing this, we can have confidence, and we can also have comfort. We can know that there is nothing to fear from death. Because death is not the end. In fact, with Christ and his death and resurrection, we see the death of death.
Let me draw out a couple more important points about the resurrection of the body. First of all, let's be clear that this resurrection is a resurrection of the body. The body is a material thing, something you can see and touch. This is underlined by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 when he says that Christ's resurrection is the first-fruits of our resurrection. When Christ rose from the dead, did he still have a real human body that his disciples could see and touch? Well, you remember the story of Thomas the doubter in John 20. John 20:27, "Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Christ's resurrection body was a body that could be seen and touched. If he is the first-fruits, we would expect everything to follow to be in the same line.
Furthermore, from Romans 8:23 and Romans 8:11, we learn that Christ's redeeming work includes the body, the physical human body. And in 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, it is the body laid in the grave that is later raised. It is the same body, but now perfected and glorified, raised imperishable, glorious, powerful, and spiritual. In the resurrection, everything about us will be healed and restored as it was created to be.
Towards the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sam believed his friend Gandalf to be dead. When he learned that he was not, he cried out, "I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself! Is everything sad going to come untrue?" In the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the body, we have the answer to that question. Everything sad about us is going to come untrue and even more amazingly, somehow it will be even greater for having once been broken and lost. This too is part of the comfort of knowing Jesus Christ to be our resurrection.
We also should reflect briefly on the time of the resurrection of the body. Very briefly, the Bible tells us that it will take place when Christ returns. When that will be, no one but God the Father knows. When Christ returns, the dead will be raised, and then comes the final judgment.
So, there is a resurrection of those who have been justified by faith in Christ, and a resurrection of the wicked, those who are still in their sins. The difference between these two is their destination after the resurrection. Jesus says that the just will rise to live. In John 10:10, he said that he came so that we may have life and have it to the full. And the Catechism paraphrases 1 Corinthians 2:9, describing an undescribably wonderful perfect blessedness. The difference is life. The difference is that those who are resting and trusting in Christ's perfect righteousness will have abundant life and abundant comfort for eternity. That gives us perspective, that gives us the big picture as we continue on our pilgrimage through this world where there's so much brokenness and dysfunction. We are on our way to a better land, to the promised land where there is perfect blessedness. We can be sure of this comfort because just as he said to Martha, Jesus is not only our resurrection but also our life.
That means at least two things. First of all, Jesus Christ is the source of the life everlasting. "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me" – John 14:6. Believing in Jesus Christ, we can come to the Father. It is through Christ alone, because of Christ alone, that we have the life everlasting. We're going to look at this more closely next week when we deal with Lord's Day 23 and what the Bible teaches about our justification.
That Jesus is our life also means that he is the one who publicly announces our eternal life at the last day. From Scripture (Matthew 25) we know that Jesus Christ is coming to judge the living and the dead. At the last day, he will separate the sheep from the goats. To the goats he will say, "Depart from me you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." But to the sheep, to all believers, he will announce publicly for the whole world to hear, and we'll hear these comforting words from his lips, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world." And what will happen after that? The Lord Jesus says that the goats (unbelievers) "will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." (Matt. 25:46).
Let's now consider that eternal life a bit more carefully. First of all, we have to be clear that when we die, our souls are immediately taken up to Christ and his presence. Do you want proof of that? Think of the thief on the cross who repented and believed. Jesus says to him in Luke 23:43, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." In Acts 7:59, when Stephen was stoned, he expected to be received by Christ right away and that's reflected in his prayer, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." So too, when we die, we can be absolutely sure that the moment our heart stops beating and we take our last breath, we will be immediately with God in heaven, free from sin and its effects. What a wonderful, comforting thought!
Also, wonderful and comforting is the truth that something even better is coming. Yes, we will immediately be taken up to Christ after we die. But that's not the final state of believers. The story is incomplete at that point. The drama continues when Christ returns and the dead are raised, and we receive our bodies back and condemnation takes place for unbelievers and vindication for those who are righteous in Christ. When that last day comes, the Bible teaches us to expect something awesome. There will be a new creation which will be a renewal of the present creation. The present creation will be purged and cleansed with fire. Not only that, but Revelation 21 leads us to expect a dramatic coming together, a dramatic conjunction of heaven and earth. And this is the place where we will dwell for ever in God's blessed presence. In his Reformed Dogmatics, when he deals with the doctrine of the end things (eschatology), Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck put it in a beautiful way when he says that at that moment, time will be charged with the eternity of God, space will be full of his presence, eternal becoming will be wedded to immutable being, and even the contrast between heaven and earth will be gone. Amazing, mind-blowing, incomprehensible.
And we will have joy for eternity. The Catechism says that right now we feel in our hearts the beginning of eternal joy. As believers, we face struggles. There are struggles with sin, struggles with temptation, struggles with disease, struggles with circumstances beyond our control. But in the face of all that, like Paul in prison in his letter to the Philippians, we can feel in our hearts the beginning of eternal joy, because we know Christ, and we know that we're right with God through him, and we know that all of God's promises are for us because of him. This joy flows out of faith, faith in Christ. And because we have Christ, because Christ has us, we know for sure that perfect blessedness and joy await us hereafter.
This joy which we will enjoy hereafter is a joy that will only increase for eternity. As we live in God's blessed presence, we will take more and more joy in God, and God's worth will be more and more magnified by us. If one thing is clear about our eternal dwelling place from the Revelation to John, it's that it's going to be a busy place. What are we going to be busy with? Giving praise and glory to God for eternity, piling up the praises for him, piling up the joy that we experience from knowing him as our gracious Father. Loved ones, don't think of your eternal home as a place where everything stands still. If you do that, you'll be missing out on the expectation of the joy that's going to be ours. We have much to anticipate, much to look forward to in the life everlasting. Ever abounding, ever increasing joy. And all because Jesus Christ is our life.
I know that there are a lot of questions about all these sorts of things. Every time I teach Lord's Day 22 to our catechism students, we end up having a lot of discussion. That's because there are lots of questions, questions like: are we going to remember what happened here on earth in this life? Are we going to recognize one another? What if I had a baby and he passed away, what age will he be in heaven and will I recognize him? What age will my elderly mother or father be in heaven? We have so many questions and quite honestly, the Bible doesn't give us all the answers. It does tell us everything we need to know to live and die in the joy of the comfort of belonging to Christ. It does direct us to the gospel. It does tell us to keep looking to Christ, to fix our eyes on him, to rest and trust in him and in his Word, in his promises to us. So loved ones, let's do that and look forward to this perfect blessedness in which God will be all in all, and in which we will be praising him forever.
We thank you for the comfort that the doctrines of the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting give us. We thank you for Jesus Christ, who is our resurrection and our life. Help us to continue fixing our eyes on him in faith. We pray that he would return quickly with the clouds of heaven, with his holy angels, to usher in the age to come. Father, we also pray that if we die before he returns, that we would be strengthened with your Holy Spirit to face death without fear, and with the comfort of knowing that we belong to you and that we will go to you. Father, we pray that through faith in Christ we would constantly feel in our hearts the beginnings of eternal joy, and that after this life, we would have the perfect, indescribable blessedness promised in your Word. Please give us more grace with your Word and Spirit so that we grow in our trust in you and in your promises. We pray it all in Christ, who is our resurrection and our life. AMEN.


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namespace ash {

namespace {

constexpr int kToastSpacingFromBar = 8;
constexpr int kToastDefaultHeight = 36;
constexpr int kToastVerticalPadding = 8;
constexpr int kToastHorizontalPadding = 16;
constexpr int kToastBorderThickness = 1;
constexpr int kToastCornerRadius = 16;
constexpr gfx::RoundedCornersF kToastRoundedCorners{kToastCornerRadius};

constexpr float kBaseRingOpacity = 0.21f;
constexpr float kRippleRingOpacity = 0.5f;

constexpr float kBaseRingScaleUpFactor = 1.1f;
constexpr float kRippleRingScaleUpFactor = 3.0f;
constexpr float kHighlightedViewScaleUpFactor = 1.2f;

constexpr base::TimeDelta kVisibilityChangeDuration = base::Milliseconds(200);
constexpr base::TimeDelta kScaleUpDuration = base::Milliseconds(500);
constexpr base::TimeDelta kScaleDownDelay = base::Milliseconds(650);
constexpr base::TimeDelta kScaleDownOffset = kScaleUpDuration + kScaleDownDelay;
constexpr base::TimeDelta kScaleDownDuration = base::Milliseconds(1350);
constexpr base::TimeDelta kRippleAnimationDuration = base::Milliseconds(2000);

constexpr base::TimeDelta kDelayToShowNudge = base::Milliseconds(1000);
constexpr base::TimeDelta kDelayToRepeatNudge = base::Milliseconds(2500);

// Returns the local center point of the given `layer`.
gfx::Point GetLocalCenterPoint(ui::Layer* layer) {
  return gfx::Rect(layer->size()).CenterPoint();
}

// Returns the given `view`'s layer bounds in root coordinates ignoring any
// transforms it or any of its ancestors may have.
gfx::Rect GetViewLayerBoundsInRootNoTransform(views::View* view) {
  auto* layer = view->layer();
  DCHECK(layer);
  gfx::Point origin;
  while (layer) {
    const auto layer_origin = layer->bounds().origin();
    origin.Offset(layer_origin.x(), layer_origin.y());
    layer = layer->parent();
  }
  return gfx::Rect(origin, view->layer()->size());
}

// Returns the init params that will be used for the toast widget.
views::Widget::InitParams CreateWidgetParams(aura::Window* parent,
                                             const gfx::Rect& bounds) {
  views::Widget::InitParams params(views::Widget::InitParams::TYPE_POPUP);
  params.opacity = views::Widget::InitParams::WindowOpacity::kTranslucent;
  params.parent = parent;
  params.bounds = bounds;
  params.name = "UserNudgeToastWidget";
  params.accept_events = false;
  return params;
}

}  // namespace

UserNudgeController::UserNudgeController(views::View* view_to_be_highlighted)
    : view_to_be_highlighted_(view_to_be_highlighted) {
  view_to_be_highlighted_->SetPaintToLayer();
  view_to_be_highlighted_->layer()->SetFillsBoundsOpaquely(false);

  // Rings are created initially with 0 opacity. Calling SetVisible() will
  // animate them towards their correct state.
  base_ring_.SetColor(SK_ColorWHITE);
  base_ring_.SetFillsBoundsOpaquely(false);
  base_ring_.SetOpacity(0);
  ripple_ring_.SetColor(SK_ColorWHITE);
  ripple_ring_.SetFillsBoundsOpaquely(false);
  ripple_ring_.SetOpacity(0);

  BuildToastWidget();
  Reposition();
}

UserNudgeController::~UserNudgeController() {
  DCHECK(toast_widget_);
  toast_widget_->CloseNow();
  if (should_dismiss_nudge_forever_)
    CaptureModeController::Get()->DisableFolderSelectionNudgeForever();
}

void UserNudgeController::Reposition() {
  auto* parent_window = GetParentWindow();
  if (toast_widget_->GetNativeWindow()->parent() != parent_window)
    parent_window->AddChild(toast_widget_->GetNativeWindow());

  auto* parent_layer = parent_window->layer();
  if (parent_layer != base_ring_.parent()) {
    parent_layer->Add(&base_ring_);
    parent_layer->Add(&ripple_ring_);
  }

  const auto view_bounds_in_root =
      GetViewLayerBoundsInRootNoTransform(view_to_be_highlighted_);
  base_ring_.SetBounds(view_bounds_in_root);
  base_ring_.SetRoundedCornerRadius(
      gfx::RoundedCornersF(view_bounds_in_root.width() / 2.f));
  ripple_ring_.SetBounds(view_bounds_in_root);
  ripple_ring_.SetRoundedCornerRadius(
      gfx::RoundedCornersF(view_bounds_in_root.width() / 2.f));
  toast_widget_->SetBounds(CalculateToastWidgetScreenBounds());
}

void UserNudgeController::SetVisible(bool visible) {
  if (is_visible_ == visible)
    return;

  is_visible_ = visible;

  views::AnimationBuilder builder;
  builder.SetPreemptionStrategy(
      ui::LayerAnimator::IMMEDIATELY_ANIMATE_TO_NEW_TARGET);

  if (!is_visible_) {
    // We should no longer repeat the nudge animation.
    timer_.Stop();
    // We should also stop any ongoing animation on the `base_ring_` in
    // particular since we observe this animation ending to schedule a repeat.
    // See OnBaseRingAnimationEnded().
    base_ring_.GetAnimator()->AbortAllAnimations();

    // Animate all animation layers and the toast widget to 0 opacity.
    builder.Once()
        .SetDuration(kVisibilityChangeDuration)
        .SetOpacity(&base_ring_, 0, gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN)
        .SetOpacity(&ripple_ring_, 0, gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN)
        .SetOpacity(toast_widget_->GetLayer(), 0, gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN);
    return;
  }

  // Animate the `base_ring_` and the `toast_widget_` to their default shown
  // opacity. Note that we don't need to show the `ripple_ring_` since it only
  // shows as the nudge animation is being performed.
  // Once those elements reach their default shown opacity, we perform the nudge
  // animation.
  builder
      .OnEnded(base::BindOnce(&UserNudgeController::PerformNudgeAnimations,
                              base::Unretained(this)))
      .Once()
      .SetDuration(kDelayToShowNudge)
      .SetOpacity(&base_ring_, kBaseRingOpacity, gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN)
      .SetOpacity(toast_widget_->GetLayer(), 1.f, gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN);
}

void UserNudgeController::PerformNudgeAnimations() {
  PerformBaseRingAnimation();
  PerformRippleRingAnimation();
  PerformViewScaleAnimation();
}

void UserNudgeController::PerformBaseRingAnimation() {
  // The `base_ring_` should scale up around the center of the
  // `view_to_be_highlighted_` to grab the user's attention, and then scales
  // back down to its original size.
  gfx::Transform scale_up_transform;
  scale_up_transform.Scale(kBaseRingScaleUpFactor, kBaseRingScaleUpFactor);
  views::AnimationBuilder()
      .SetPreemptionStrategy(
          ui::LayerAnimator::IMMEDIATELY_ANIMATE_TO_NEW_TARGET)
      .OnEnded(base::BindOnce(&UserNudgeController::OnBaseRingAnimationEnded,
                              base::Unretained(this)))
      .Once()
      .SetDuration(kScaleUpDuration)
      .SetTransform(&base_ring_,
                    gfx::TransformAboutPivot(GetLocalCenterPoint(&base_ring_),
                                             scale_up_transform),
                    gfx::Tween::ACCEL_40_DECEL_20)
      .Offset(kScaleDownOffset)
      .SetDuration(kScaleDownDuration)
      .SetTransform(&base_ring_, gfx::Transform(),
                    gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN_3);
}

void UserNudgeController::PerformRippleRingAnimation() {
  // The ripple scales up to 3x the size of the `view_to_be_highlighted_` and
  // around its center while fading out.
  ripple_ring_.SetOpacity(kRippleRingOpacity);
  ripple_ring_.SetTransform(gfx::Transform());
  gfx::Transform scale_up_transform;
  scale_up_transform.Scale(kRippleRingScaleUpFactor, kRippleRingScaleUpFactor);
  scale_up_transform = gfx::TransformAboutPivot(
      GetLocalCenterPoint(&ripple_ring_), scale_up_transform);
  views::AnimationBuilder()
      .SetPreemptionStrategy(
          ui::LayerAnimator::IMMEDIATELY_ANIMATE_TO_NEW_TARGET)
      .Once()
      .SetDuration(kRippleAnimationDuration)
      .SetOpacity(&ripple_ring_, 0, gfx::Tween::ACCEL_0_80_DECEL_80)
      .SetTransform(&ripple_ring_, scale_up_transform,
                    gfx::Tween::ACCEL_0_40_DECEL_100);
}

void UserNudgeController::PerformViewScaleAnimation() {
  // The `view_to_be_highlighted_` scales up and down around its own center in
  // a similar fashion to that of the `base_ring_`.
  auto* view_layer = view_to_be_highlighted_->layer();
  gfx::Transform scale_up_transform;
  scale_up_transform.Scale(kHighlightedViewScaleUpFactor,
                           kHighlightedViewScaleUpFactor);
  views::AnimationBuilder()
      .SetPreemptionStrategy(
          ui::LayerAnimator::IMMEDIATELY_ANIMATE_TO_NEW_TARGET)
      .Once()
      .SetDuration(kScaleUpDuration)
      .SetTransform(view_layer,
                    gfx::TransformAboutPivot(GetLocalCenterPoint(view_layer),
                                             scale_up_transform),
                    gfx::Tween::ACCEL_40_DECEL_20)
      .Offset(kScaleDownOffset)
      .SetDuration(kScaleDownDuration)
      .SetTransform(view_layer, gfx::Transform(),
                    gfx::Tween::FAST_OUT_SLOW_IN_3);
}

void UserNudgeController::OnBaseRingAnimationEnded() {
  timer_.Start(FROM_HERE, kDelayToRepeatNudge,
               base::BindOnce(&UserNudgeController::PerformNudgeAnimations,
                              base::Unretained(this)));
}

aura::Window* UserNudgeController::GetParentWindow() const {
  auto* root_window =
      view_to_be_highlighted_->GetWidget()->GetNativeWindow()->GetRootWindow();
  DCHECK(root_window);
  return root_window->GetChildById(kShellWindowId_OverlayContainer);
}

gfx::Rect UserNudgeController::CalculateToastWidgetScreenBounds() const {
  const auto bar_widget_bounds_in_screen =
      view_to_be_highlighted_->GetWidget()->GetWindowBoundsInScreen();

  auto bounds = bar_widget_bounds_in_screen;
  if (toast_label_view_) {
    const auto preferred_size = toast_label_view_->GetPreferredSize();
    // We don't want the toast width to go beyond the capture bar width, but if
    // it can use a smaller width, then we align the horizontal centers of the
    // bar the toast together.
    const int fitted_width =
        preferred_size.width() + 2 * kToastHorizontalPadding;
    if (fitted_width < bar_widget_bounds_in_screen.width()) {
      bounds.set_width(fitted_width);
      bounds.set_x(bar_widget_bounds_in_screen.CenterPoint().x() -
                   fitted_width / 2);
    }
    // Note that the toast is allowed to have multiple lines if the width
    // doesn't fit the contents.
    bounds.set_height(toast_label_view_->GetHeightForWidth(bounds.width()) +
                      2 * kToastVerticalPadding);
  } else {
    // The content view hasn't been created yet, so we use a default height.
    // Calling Reposition() after the widget has been initialization will fix
    // any wrong bounds.
    bounds.set_height(kToastDefaultHeight);
  }

  bounds.set_y(bar_widget_bounds_in_screen.y() - bounds.height() -
               kToastSpacingFromBar);

  return bounds;
}

void UserNudgeController::BuildToastWidget() {
  toast_widget_->Init(CreateWidgetParams(GetParentWindow(),
                                         CalculateToastWidgetScreenBounds()));

  toast_label_view_ = toast_widget_->SetContentsView(
      std::make_unique<views::Label>(l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(
          IDS_ASH_SCREEN_CAPTURE_FOLDER_SELECTION_USER_NUDGE)));
  toast_label_view_->SetMultiLine(true);
  auto* color_provider = AshColorProvider::Get();
  SkColor background_color = color_provider->GetBaseLayerColor(
      AshColorProvider::BaseLayerType::kTransparent80);
  toast_label_view_->SetBackground(
      views::CreateSolidBackground(background_color));
  toast_label_view_->SetBorder(views::CreateRoundedRectBorder(
      kToastBorderThickness, kToastCornerRadius,
      color_provider->GetControlsLayerColor(
          AshColorProvider::ControlsLayerType::kHighlightColor1)));
  toast_label_view_->SetAutoColorReadabilityEnabled(false);
  const SkColor text_color = color_provider->GetContentLayerColor(
      AshColorProvider::ContentLayerType::kTextColorPrimary);
  toast_label_view_->SetEnabledColor(text_color);
  toast_label_view_->SetHorizontalAlignment(gfx::ALIGN_CENTER);
  toast_label_view_->SetVerticalAlignment(gfx::ALIGN_MIDDLE);

  toast_label_view_->SetPaintToLayer();
  auto* label_layer = toast_label_view_->layer();
  label_layer->SetFillsBoundsOpaquely(false);
  label_layer->SetRoundedCornerRadius(kToastRoundedCorners);
  label_layer->SetBackgroundBlur(ColorProvider::kBackgroundBlurSigma);
  label_layer->SetBackdropFilterQuality(ColorProvider::kBackgroundBlurQuality);

  // The widget is created initially with 0 opacity, and will animate to be
  // fully visible when SetVisible() is called.
  toast_widget_->Show();
  auto* widget_layer = toast_widget_->GetLayer();
  widget_layer->SetOpacity(0);
}

}  // namespace ash

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