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Galapagos Cruise Cachalote Explorer - Western Route (8)
Tour/Activity in Baltra Island, Ecuador
Discover the islands Santa Cruz, Sombrero Chino, Rábida, Isabela, Fernandina, Santiago, North Seymour
The Cachalote Explorer
Sierra Negra Volcano
Puerto Villamil
Second Lounge
Cabin 3, 4 & 7
Cabin 5 & 6
Punta Espinoza
Golden Land Iguana on North Seymour
Young Sea Lions on Rábida's Red Earth (Picture by Victoria Röber)
Transfer from Baltra to Santa Cruz Island
Arrive at Baltra Airport and transfer to Santa Cruz Island
Highlands and Charles Darwin Station on Santa Cruz Island
Afternoon: As you venture into Santa Cruz's higher altitude areas, you will notice the changes in the vegetation as the climate becomes wetter and warmer. The earth in the upper altitudes is rich in minerals. Coffee plantations and fruit orchards line the streets and giant tortoises roam around at ease in their natural environment.
The Scalesia forests in this area offer the opportunity to discover endemic species of the Galapagos Islands, as well as giant cacti and a variety of deciduous trees and edible fruits.
Here you can also visit the twin 'craters' Los Gemelos. While they are not craters in the technical sense, these 70 meter vertical gullies with a carpet of lush vegetation are an impressive sight to behold.
At Charles Darwin Station, you will get a chance to learn more about the friendly giants that you met in the highlands. Here, scientists from around the world research the many special tortoise subspecies that are endemic to the Galapagos islands. The highlight of the research center is the breeding station, Fausto Llerena, where baby turtles take a training course over rocks, branches and sandy stairs in preparation for their upcoming release into the wilderness.
Visitors leave the station with a stronger understanding of the tortoises, iguanas and much of the flora native to the islands. You'll be impressed by the tiny tortoises, often only the size of your hand, who will grow over the next 100 years to become as large as the wild adults you saw in the highlands!
Sombrero Chino
Morning: One of the most recognisable of the Galapagos Islands, Sombrero Chino's name means "Chinese Hat" and it's easy to see why: this islet off of Santiago is shaped like an old-fashioned Chinese hat, with its gently sloping cone rising out of the clear Galapagos water. It's one of the smallest Galapagos Islands but don't be fooled - it has a terrific visitor site with an unforgettable view!
Rábida Island
Afternoon: On arrival at Rábida Island's red sand beach you will be greeted by the resident sea lions, basking in the sun. The island's otherworldy red colouring is a result of the high level of iron and magnesium left behind from previous volcanic activity.
A stroll along the beach reveals marine iguanas, mockingbirds, yellow warblers and several species of Darwin's finches. If you look carefully you may also spot the bright red Sally Lightfoot crabs, who have found possibly the only place on earth where they can effectively camouflage themselves.
Sierra Negra Volcano, Isabela
Morning: Spend the morning exploring the volcanic landscape of Isabela Island, created by five side by side shield volcanoes, whose lava flows have united to form a landmass. Although Sierra Negra is not the highest volcano at 1,200 meters, it has the second largest volcanic cone on earth, with a diameter of about 9 kilometers. From the edge of the crater, visitors are treated to a magnificent view out over the island of Isabela. Note: Please remember to bring high SPF sunscreen. The Sun's harmful rays can be very strong here.
Puerto Villamil on Isabela Island
Afternoon: Puerto Villamil is a charming small town on a white sand beach. Highlights include the Tortoise Breeding Station and the flamingo lagoon.
Punta Moreno on Isabela Island
Morning: Punta Moreno is a rugged young lava bay. At first it appears to be a lifeless landscape, however as you walk over the cooled lava, you'll see new green areas and lagoons hosting a wide variety of birds. Marine iguanas and lava lizards are usually found in the lagoons you'll often meet flamingos foraging here for their favourite meal. While the sharp rocks make this hike a little tricky, its path itself is easy enough to be enjoyed by everyone and provides an unforgettable landscape set against a backdrop of the volcanoes Sierra Negra and Cerro Azul.
We recommend bringing plenty of water during this visit, as the lava field reflects the sun making the temperature higher than average. Don't forget to apply sunscreen!
Elizabeth Bay on Isabela Island
Afternoon: The wide and sheltered Elizabeth Bay, on Isabela's east coast, hosts a bevy of the archipelago's unique wildlife. The mangrove-lined shore contrasts starkly against the surrounding lava fields. The myriad of small islets and rocky reefs make this is a particularly rich area for wildlife.
The waters here are particularly clear, and this makes Elizabeth Bay a great place to spot the rays, sharks, green sea turtles, Galapagos penguins, pelicans, and Galapagos sea lions known to gather here. Nearer to the shores and mangroves you'll see Galapagos flightless cormorants and the sunbathing marine iguanas.
Urbina Bay on Isabela Island
Morning: Urbina Bay graces the southeast slopes of the Alcedo Volcano. After volcanic activity in 1954 caused a significant uplift, the coast expanded almost a kilometer out. Marine life found a way to thrive in this newly fertile area and many species chose to stay. Today, this area is a great place for snorkeling. During your hike, you may see a large colony of land iguanas, Darwin's finches, giant tortoises (from June to September) and flightless cormorants.
Several species of whale have been spotted in the waters you'll be navigating through today.
Tagus Cove on Isabela Island
Afternoon: The historical pirate hideaway of Tagus Cove has been frequented by sailors since the 1800s. The names of visiting ships were often painted and carved in to the cliffs surrounding the cove.
Trails wind their way around Lake Darwin up to a ridge, offering wonderful views of the landscape and the ocean, with Wolf and Darwin Islands dotting the horizon. Punta Tortuga, just north of Tagus Cove, is another idyllic tropical beach surrounded by mangroves. Later, enjoy a panga ride through the cliffs, observing penguins, flightless cormorants, boobies, pelicans and Sally Lightfoot crabs. Return to the cove to relax on the shore or snorkel.
Punta Espinoza on Fernandina Island
Morning: Fernandina is the youngest island in the archipelago, at only around 700,000 years old. Surrounded by hills amidst a lava landscape covered with cacti and mangroves is the visitor location Punta Espinoza. Meet sea lions and hundreds of marine iguanas basking on the black lava rocks and on the beach. While snorkeling you might come close to the resident penguins darting quickly through the water. This is a perfect spot for finding the flightless cormorant.
Punta Vicente Roca on Isabela Island
Afternoon: The sea-horse-shaped island of Isabela is the largest of the archipelago and the most volcanically active. Punta Vicente Roca is considered one of the most impressive and spectacular places of the enchanted Galapagos Islands with high cliffs and tuffstone giving this area a majestic feel.
While you explore the two coves and the large bay with spectacular sea life, keep an eye out for seahorses, sea turtles, and the weird and wonderful mola-mola, also known as sunfish. In good conditions, Punta Vicente Roca is considered one of the best snorkelling sites in the Galapagos.
Puerto Egas on Santiago Island
Morning: After landing on the black sand beach of Puerto Egas, Santiago Island hike along a 2km long coastal area boasting sea lions, Sally Lightfoot crabs, lava lizards, Galapagos hawks and lava herons. The rugged lava coast with natural pools, where sea lions bathe and herons play marks the end of your hike.
An excursion to Santiago Island is also one of the rare chances to see Galápagos fur seals in the wild, though not in large numbers.
Bartolomé Island
Afternoon: Bartolomé in the northern part of the archipelago was nominated for the World Travel Awards 2012 as the most beautiful beach of South America. Here, you will find a fascinating, lunar-like volcanic landscape. At its center, the famous landmark of Galapagos: Pinnacle Rock.
A climb to the highest point of the island offers a wonderful view of the landscape. Take a swim together with some of the penguins who play in the waters and on the shores of the bay here.
North Seymour Island
Morning: The small island of North Seymour is one of the most diverse islands in the Galapagos archipelago. It is only about two square kilometers in size and above all known for of the intensive courtship rituals of many magnificent frigatebirds, taking place here during mating season. The island is also home to large colonies of land iguanas, marine iguanas and sea lions. The characteristic bush landscape features diverse species of animals amongst the aromatic endemic balsa trees.
Conclude in Baltra
The cruise will conclude in the harbor of Baltra. From there, transfer to Baltra Airport in time for your return flight to the mainland, or continue with your planned route through the Galapagos.


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On The One-Year Anniversary Of George Floyd's Death, Minneapolis Continues To Struggle With Unprecedented Violent Crime Surge
(Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
Greg Price Contributor
One year after George Floyd's death, the city at the center of last summer's racial justice protests has experienced a surge of violence that has reversed efforts to defund the police.
Minneapolis has reported 32 homicides so far in 2021, a 108% increase from the 15 that were reported at this point last year, and just eight for the first half of 2019, according to data cited by Axios.
Minneapolis murders have more than doubled since George Floyd's death last year, city murders have quadrupled since 2019. Three kids under ten have been shot this past week alone. Police aren't perfect, but defunding them is madness: https://t.co/G23O0AK8KI
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 25, 2021
In the last month, three children under the age of 10 have been shot in the Twin Cities, including 6-year-old Aniya Allen, the granddaughter of an anti-gang activist who died last week from a gunshot to the head, Axios reported.
Shootings overall in the city have risen by 153% this year compared to 2020 and carjackings have seen a 222% increase, averaging 1.27 incidents per day, according to Fox 9.
In the days that followed Floyd's death, the Minneapolis city council voted unanimously to dismantle the city's police department, a proposal that was later blocked by the Minneapolis Charter Commission.
The city council in December also voted to cut $7.7 from the Minneapolis Police Department, which was redirected to city violence prevention and community programs. (RELATED: Minneapolis City Council Complains About Crime Spike Months After Voting To Abolish Police)
Police most recently responded to a shooting at the George Floyd Memorial in Minneapolis on Tuesday as people gathered to pay tribute. A male was reportedly taken to Hennepin County Medical Center after he sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
A shooting was caught on camera at the George Floyd Autonomous Zone on the one-year anniversary of Floyd's death. The area has seen a spike in violent crimes, including one murder, since police were chased out. pic.twitter.com/53sqoybUTh
Minneapolis is one of many cities that set records for violent crime in the months following George Floyd's death, as previously reported.
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Imagine driving on a slippery road on a rainy evening and an animal runs to the middle of the road, just a few meters ahead of your used car. Would you be able to stop the car in time to save the poor creature?
If you're hesitating, you definitely need to get yourself an Anti-lock Brake System (ABS). This safety system will help you to immediately stop and guide the vehicle to safety in skidding conditions. Such speed and precision are only possible through the ABS which prevents the wheels from skidding as it gives the vehicle more grip on the road.
Speed sensors which are located at each wheel and indicate when the wheel is about to lock up.
The valves which are located parallel to the brakes and control the brake fluid to fuel the ABS.
The controller which is the brain of the car; it monitors the speed sensors and operates the valves.
If you feel a sensation while applying the brakes, there is no need to get worried. The spontaneous movement of the valves creates a pulse in the brake pedal which causes that stir. With 15 cycles per second, your super fast ABS matches up to 100 times of pumping action per wheel revolution.
But, like any other equipment, some precautions are needed in operating this system. The brake pedal should not be pumped with ABS as it adds pressure which may affect the working of the valves.
The plus point of ABS is that there is little maintenance required for the system. When a light shows up on your dashboard, it is an indicator that there is some malfunctioning which needs to be repaired.
The bottom line on ABS is that if you have it in your car, you need to take care of it. That isn't really hard, though. You just have to get your wheels inspected on a routine basis and get them inspected by a trained professional.
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ectrification recorded in reports in the past and putting in context the available financial numbers, the paper leans towards continuing a dual traction policy of electric and diesel, which is what the Railways has.
Presenting data of railway systems from other countries, the analysis has taken note that China, Russia and Europe have between 33 and 43 per cent diesel traction in their railways. In North America and Latin America, 99 per cent of the trains run on diesel. In India, it is 50 per cent. Globally, the railway systems (India included) have a mix of traction wherein 45 per cent locomotives are run on electric while the majority are on diesel.
"It is also suggested that Indian Railways puts in place a rolling stock strategy," the paper states.
The future traction strategy, according to the paper, should consider aspects like gradual phase-out path of less efficient and lower horse power diesel and electric locomotives with modern state-of-the-art products; impact of train sets on future requirement of diesel and electric locomotives in passenger business, etc.
The analysis estimates that the capital cost of electrification of around 40,000 km of lines, replacing around 5,000 diesel engines with electric ones together, would be around Rs 1 lakh crore when taken together with depreciation cost and the debt service obligation over the next four-five years — funds for which Railways would have to tap market sources.
In terms of financial feasibility of total electrification, the paper puts forth arguments that question the official calculation that conversion to a total electric fleet will save the Railways Rs 10,000 crore on fuel bills annually.
To present arguments on utility of having two kinds of fuel systems, the paper touches upon the rationale of strategic flexibility that diesel engines offer, especially in cases of crisis, disasters, war etc.


These three ways to lower your cholesterol level are surprising!
Oats and whole grain foods actually seem to bind to cholesterol, in other words they soak up bad cholesterol. Eating a healthy cereal every morning, something like oats, or a wheat cereal, or porridge, can help you to control cholesterol levels by binding to cholesterol within the body and helping to eliminate it in the normal cycle.
Although this is a very simple thing to do it is also very effective and for anybody who seriously wants to lower their blood cholesterol levels, heating more oats is very simple and effective way to do it.
Losing weight gives you that ton of health benefits. Everybody knows that. However, what may not be widely known is that weight in itself seems to increase your cholesterol levels and if you are particularly overweight the likelihood is that your cholesterol levels will be fairly highly elevated as well.
Losing weight is a good way to lower your cholesterol levels and it brings you so many other benefits that no serious discussion can be had about cholesterol without mentioning that weight loss is one of the biggest things you can do for your own health. You'll feel better, you have more energy, and you lower your cholesterol level as well-what more could you ask for?
Sunshine is actually a bit of a wonder "cure" for cholesterol because it activates within your skin and it turns cholesterol into vitamin D.
It has been estimated that most of us are nutritionally deficient in vitamin D for a variety of reasons. The single most prominent reason is probably that we all spend our time indoors nowadays and don't get as much sunshine as people used to do when they were outside, working.
This is true particularly in northern countries where there is not as much sunshine. A lack of vitamin D is a serious problem. But the effect on cholesterol should not be underestimated.
Vitamin D uses cholesterol to form itself and some light on your skin stimulates the production of vitamin D, therefore getting a daily dose of sunshine-in a sensible way of course-means that you will be using up some of the cholesterol in your body to make vitamin D.
If you have a look at the other articles on vitamin D you will see that it is being hailed as a real wonder vitamin, because of all the positive things it can do. That means that a simple daily period spent enjoying sunshine will not only give you a massive positive health benefits because of the vitamin D, but will also give you health benefits because it will help to lower your cholesterol.
What's even better is that it is entirely natural-and free!
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Islamophobia on the rise in Europe: Will the cost be too high for the UK?
by Jane Louise Kandur
by Jane Louise Kandur Mar 09, 2015 12:00 am
Investors throughout the Middle East are becoming cautious about investing in the U.K. in light of increasing Islamophobia in the country. Partly catalyzed by the rise of ISIS and recent events in Paris, Islamophobia is leading to a serious crisis in confidence. The rise of far-right political movements in mainstream British politics along with the growing anti-immigration narrative are not helping to ease these fears either
There is a worrying trend, which has been increasing in recent weeks. It seems that Muslims are now considered to be legitimate targets for smear campaigns and vitriolic fear mongering; indeed, there has been a dramatic rise in such cases and a particular focusing on high profile and foreign Muslims. A loose network of Islamophobes and Islamophobic journalists in the British press appear to be spreading fear against Muslims with complete impunity. Such a development has led to growing concern among Muslims around the world. Recently, journalists such as Andrew Gilligan and Nick Cohen have effectively taken up a campaign to portray high profile or high net-worth Muslims as being a threat to the UK and Europe.
Two weeks ago the Telegraph published an article by Gilligan entitled "Islamic Radicals at the Heart of Whitehall." The title is designed to strike terror into the hearts of the readers of right-wing papers. After Charlie Hebdo and all the horrors inflicted on people by ISIS, this was the nightmare that the British had been dreading. Radical Muslims had infiltrated the very heart of British government.
The message in the Telegraph is clear. While the nation's attention was elsewhere, Baroness Warsi, who is not only a senior Conservative politician, but also an outspoken Muslim, had filled parliamentary working groups with radical Muslims to steer the agenda, what the Telegraph calls "entryism." However, when the facts of the case are examined, this slanted and poorly documented piece of journalism can be seen to be little more than an ugly smear campaign waged by the Telegraph.
The Telegraph has been criticized lately for its advertising policies, being accused of improperly or insufficiently reporting stories that might harm major advertisers. This has most recently appeared with reporting on HSBC's tax evasion. However, perhaps even more sinister, HSBC has also been on the agenda due to their policy of cancelling accounts belonging to leading Muslim individuals and charities. The accounts were cancelled without warning or explanation, leaving the account holders in a state of financial limbo. Such events were widely covered in all the main papers, but were significantly under-reported in the Telegraph.
As a result, this story about Baroness Warsi and other prominent Muslims once again raises many questions about the intents and editorial policies of the Telegraph.
Baroness Warsi was welcomed in Turkey this winter; she was hailed as a heroine who stood up for her principles rather than maintain an influential position in the government. Last August Baroness Warsi resigned from her post as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, stating that she found the government's position on the Israel-Gaza conflict "morally indefensible."
However, Warsi does not just speak up for Muslims. In Washington D.C. in 2013 Baroness Warsi stated: "There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger. From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow."
Just months after resigning over the government's policy in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, Warsi is being accused of bringing radical Muslims into the government. These so-called "radicals" are the very people she brought in to help the discussion about Islamophobia and to increase inter-cultural dialogue. The people Warsi appointed to a "cross-government working group on anti-Muslim hatred" are being accused by Gilligan of being "radicals" or "former radicals" or even "their allies." What is meant by radicals or how one defines a former radical is not clarified.
One of the people being referred to as a "radical" is Muddassar Ahmed, who Gilligan states was "a former senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), an extremist and anti-Semitic militant body."
What the Telegraph fails to report here is that Ahmed has publicly condemned MPAC with whom he was involved for a short time many years ago (and yet he does not get the accolade of being a "semi-radical" but is rather a full-blown "radical"). In Ahmed's own words in an article in the Huffington Post (revealingly entitled "A British Muslim Journey from Protest to Engagement"), Ahmed states: "MPAC is politically orientated and unapologetically staunch in its vocal criticism of the government. ... Attracted by the organizations conviction and commitment, as well as playing on my youthful idealism and a desire to bring about change … I became involved with the organization. At the time, I felt the best way to get my voice heard was through strong, old-fashioned activism, but I left after a year due to differences on vision, strategy and tactics. A decade later, my perspectives have evolved and certainly MPAC has moved on with its agenda and focus, one that diverges from my own thinking."
Ahmed is accused of trying to force through planning permission for the so-called Mega Mosque in London, which Gilligan implies will be a focal point for radicalism. The Mega Mosque has, thanks to Ahmed's personal intervention, put aside a large space for women and again acting on Ahmed's advice, will be open to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The plans for the mosque read more like a large community project in an underprivileged area of London that will help communities meet and converse, as well as creating a public space for women.
In May and June of 2012 Ahmed wrote articles for the Telegraph. Curiouser and curiouser. Does that mean that the Telegraph has radical tendencies? Rather difficult to imagine.
The article, which appeared in the Telegraph at a time when the wounds from the tragedies of Charlie Hebdo and Chapel Hill are still fresh, appears to be nothing but another attempt by some parts of the British media to fan the flames of Islamophobia. Islamophobia is on the rise throughout Europe, but the British press should think twice before jumping on the bandwagon. There could be serious repercussions. Britain has long been a major hub in international trade and business, attracting investment from all over the world. The London-based economy has had a long tradition of welcoming business and investment. But Islamophobia, encouraged by the media, is something that has caused Muslim investors from all over the world to hesitate and reconsider their position. It is not so much the reports of incidents of Islamophobia on the streets that are of concern; rather, when institutions like the press become involved in spreading Islamophobic sentiments and when responsible journalism is used to target leading Muslim figures, many people start to reconsider how safe a location London may be for long-term investments. The accompanying rise in the popularity of UKIP, the far right, which brings with it a growing anti-immigration narrative, only helps to increase worries.
A number of experts, observers and politicians have been concerned by this trend, warning that the targeting and smearing of high profile Muslims by the press has escalated; this is a matter that should concern the British government. When the right-wing press targets former cabinet ministers, activists, business people or just foreigners solely because they are Muslim and when they feed fears about the threat posed by Islam and Muslims worries about investing in London grow. The question being asked is can such an environment be one that will be conducive to Muslim investments. Combined with the HSBC scandal of cancelling the accounts of prominent Muslim individuals and organizations, Muslim business people and investors may soon start to look for more friendly shores.
One does not have to look far to see the results of right-wing anti-Islamic tirades on business. Geert Wilders, the Islamophobic Dutch politician, mocked the Saudi flag, insulting not only Islam and Muslims, but also Prophet Muhammad. This brought business deals between Saudi Arabia and the Dutch into question, and the Saudis announced that they would no longer cooperate or work with Dutch companies. Not only was the Council of Saudi Chambers ordered not to work with Dutch companies, the government also called for reductions in the number of visas issued to Dutch businessmen. These measures threatened approximately $8 billion worth of Dutch business interests in Saudi Arabia and caused panic in the Dutch government.
Similar negative reactions from Muslim investors in Britain can already be seen. A representative from a Pakistani business delegation stated that the rise in institutional and mainstream Islamophobia in the UK makes it difficult to consider London as a favorable business destination. Investors from Malaysia also consider the UK a no-go zone for investment opportunities due to this rise in Islamophobia.
The impact of the Telegraph's recent "entryism" accusations, along with other Islamophobic events that can be seen to be harboring Islamophobic intent – both in the media and institutions, as well as in mainstream society – has also led Turkish investors to reassess the situation. One Turkish businessman, who runs a multimillion investment company, stated that he would not invest in the UK because the Islamophobic hatred was "open" and being perpetrated by the mainstream British press.
Professor Yusuf Tuna, a former member of the Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervisory Agency and current vice-president of Istanbul University of Commerce, commented that in his opinion the current trend of Islamophobia as reflected in institutions like the British press is worrying and could affect future investment activities on the part of Turkish investors.
Islamophobic rhetoric, particularly that which is appearing in the press, has created an unfriendly environment for Muslims who want to invest in London for business or any other high stakes purposes; there is a very real fear that a network of right-wing journalists with institutional backing can very easily harm their interests and reputation with illegitimate and unfounded accusations and smear campaigns. This uncertainty continues to grow; whether or not such irresponsible newspaper articles will lead to major crises like the one faced by the Dutch remains to be seen. But the stark reality is that a well-respected and experienced former minister, Baroness Warsi, and a respected community leader, government advisor and businessman, Muddassar Ahmed, have been targeted and find themselves confronting the slippery ghost of subtle – or perhaps not so subtle – innuendo and accusations.
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Q: List Covariance results in duplication of code I have 2 independent classes A and B and I have a Storage class which manages the storage of objects of type A and B.
I am trying to abstract the code that does the Store of A and B, however I am stuck due to List covariance I could not assign List<object> objList = new List<A>(); in the following code.
 [DataContract]
public class A {
    public int UID;
}

[DataContract]
public class B {
    public int UID;
}

public class Storage {

    public void Store(A a) {
        List<A> aList = ReadA();
        if (aList == null) {
            aList = new List<A>();
        }
        aList.Add(a);
        WriteNodes(aList);
    }

    public void StoreB(B b) {
        List<B> bList = ReadB();
        if (bList == null) {
            bList = new List<B>();
        }
        bList.Add(b);
        WriteNodes(bList);
    }

    public List<A> ReadA() {
        //deserializes from aFileName and returns List<A>
    }

    public List<B> ReadB() {
        //deserializes from bFileName adn returns List<B>
    }

    private static void WriteNodes<T>(List<T> nodeList) {
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(aFileName, FileMode.Create);
        XmlDictionaryWriter writer = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateTextWriter(fs);
        DataContractSerializer ser =
            new DataContractSerializer(typeof(List<T>));
        ser.WriteObject(writer, nodeList);
        writer.Close();
        fs.Close();
    }
}

If you look at StoreA and StoreB methods they have a generic pattern except for the type that is used. ReadA and ReadB are no problem I could just take the type as another parameter and create a single function Read.
So is it possible to create an abstraction for Store so I don't end up with StoreA and StoreB methods?

A: What about:
public void Store<T>(T a) {
        List<T> aList = Read<T>();
        if (aList == null) {
            aList = new List<T>();
        }
        aList.Add(a);
        WriteNodes(aList);
    }

public List<T> Read<T>() {
 //Read a or b depend on T
}

A: Yes, you can do it by introducing common interface for items to be sotred and extract item type into enum.
STORAGE
public class Storage
{
   public Storage()
   {
     // create it once on construction stage
     // so you do not need to check for null each time in Sore()/Read()
     this.AllItems = new List<IItem>();
   }

   public IList<IItem> AllItems { get; private set; }

   public void Store<TItem>(TItem item)
      where TItem: IItem
   {
       this.AllItems.Add(item);
   }

   public IEnumerable<IItem> Read(StorageItemType itemType)
   {
      return this.AllItems.Where(item => item.ItemType == itemType);
   }
}

Abstract Storage Item type (more generic solution):
// Item types
enum StorageItemType
{
  A,
  B
}

interface IItem
{
   int UID { get; }
   StorageItemType ItemType { get; }
}

public abstract class StorageItemBase: IItem
{
  public int UID { get; private set; }

  public abstract StorageItemType ItemType
}

public sealed class B : StorageItemBase
{
  public override StorageItemType ItemType
  {
    get
    {
       return StorageItemType.B; // !!!
    }
  }
}

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US may delay new tariffs on Chinese goods
The United States could delay fresh customs tariffs, currently set for 15 December, on about 160 billion in Chinese goods, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
The financial daily reported, quoting officials from both sides, that US and Chinese negotiators were doing the groundwork to delay the new tariffs.
Washington is trying to obtain, among other things, a firm commitment from Beijing on massive purchases of U.S. farm products.
In the past, U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration had already agreed to delay new customs duties so as to ease the pressure on the negotiators. If, however, the 15% tariff were to take effect, all imports from China would be subject to punitive customs duties.
According to WSJ sources, Chinese and US officials stressed that there was no firm timeline.
President Trump's main economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said on Friday on CNBC that a trade agreement with China was still close, although he declined to comment on the new wave of punitive U.S. tariffs scheduled to take effect on 15 December. Kudlow said the agreement was "even closer" than the last time he made a statement to that effect in November.
Only last week, Trump had raised doubts by saying there was no deadline for signing an agreement.
The US. President launched a trade war against China in March 2018, accusing Beijing of unfair trade practices. Since then the two countries have traded punitive customs tariffs on billions of dollars of goods.
The ongoing dispute between the world's two economic giants has weakened global growth by slowing down trade.


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CRITICAL HIT AWARDS: Winners Picked by Laura Miller of Salon
Brian Hurley
Books Editor @The_Rumpus, Founder @FictionAdvocate. I like things that are much, much bigger than I am.
Welcome back to the Critical Hit Awards for book reviews. This is a round-up, a recommended reading list, and — why not? — a terribly prestigious and coveted prize. Winners receive a bang-up gift from Field Notes, our beloved sponsor. Nominate your favorite recent review by tweeting it at @electriclit with the hashtag #criticalhit, or cast your vote in the comments section below.
Our guest judge is Laura Miller, a co-founder and staff writer at Salon.com.
Electric Literature: You've been writing for Salon for nearly 20 years. In that time, book reviews have largely migrated from print publications to join you on the web. How do you think reviews have changed as a result of their migration?
Laura Miller: I think the public's idea of what reviews mean has changed a lot, and that only some reviewers have caught up to it. This has to do with the authority — usually institutional — invested in any particular review. You still hear people say "The New York Times loved this book," when really it's just one of the staff critics there who loved it and probably no one else who works there has even read it. Nevertheless, I think the informality of web publishing and the proliferation of amateur reviewers on sites like Amazon and Goodreads have made many more people than ever before aware that any given review is not the last word on a book.
Reviews are seen more as points in an ongoing argument, which to me is a welcome change.
When a critic — like Pauline Kael, for instance — develops a large body of work, we can look back and identify her major themes and arguments. Do you keep your own larger themes and arguments in mind when you review, or are you taking each book as it comes?
A certain chunk of my "criticism" lies in picking the books I'll review — I look at several for every one I write about. And there are dozens more that I eliminate out of hand for one reason or another. That stage of the reviewing is the most programmatic, because I know that some books interest Salon's readers more than others, and other books (say, a 500+-page, densely written biography) just aren't practical for me to review in a week. But by the same token, it's beholden on me to mix it up a lot because our readers are interested in a wide variety of subjects.
Once I've picked something, I do have specific preferences, but these also have to be measured against what the book is meant to be doing. You can't indict an author for not writing a book she never set out to write in the first place. I'm sure someone looking at the hundreds of reviews I've written could see some patterns emerging:
I don't have much patience for writing that I call "pretty-pretty," where Language just accumulates on the page like plaque, insistently calling attention to itself.
I think a little landscape description goes a long way. I prefer witty to broad humor and roll my eyes at bad-boy narratives. But unlike Kael, I don't have such an emphatic idea of what a book *should* be, except that it should not be boring. Alas, so many are. Still, I like to think that the right book can talk me out of my prejudices. I used to go around saying I couldn't stand novels about 1) stage magicians and 2) rabbis in Prague, but then along came The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
What's the one thing you could hear about a book that would make you feel like you absolutely had to read it?
It's less what than who. There are fellow readers out there whose recommendations I consider golden. These are handed back and forth privately, since I have no faith whatsoever in blurbs. We send each other emails and ask what we're liking these days. Lev Grossman is one. So is Kelly Link. Jonathan Franzen used to recommend books to me, and they were always good, but he hasn't in several years. Elizabeth Hand, a novelist who should be better known, is another. I have a friend in Minneapolis, Melissa Klug, who works for a paper company and gets a lot of advance reader copies that way, and her tips are always worth checking. And then I know a lot of people who work in publishing. When they tell me that they love a book published by another house, I know it's got to be great.
What I most want to hear about a novel is that somebody started reading it and lost all sense of time and place. Who doesn't want that immersion in a fictive world? With nonfiction, which is mostly what I review for Salon, I want to hear that the ideas or information or narrative in the book has changed the way that reader sees the world, on whatever scale.
Lydia Kiesling on Hill William by Scott McClanahan vs. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki for the Tournament of Books
Kiesling, who writes for the Millions and not enough other places, is just about my favorite regular book reviewer, and I also love the Tournament of Books. When it comes to critics, I'm less fond of the school of disembodied pronouncements emanating from the cloud-shrouded peak of Mt. Olympus than the type of review that reflects the idiosyncratic nature of reading itself. It's an approach that comes from movie criticism: in other words, Pauline Kael and David Thomson are writers who mean more to me that Dwight MacDonald or Alfred Kazin. Kiesling always writes about what it feels like to read a particular book, an approach that can be slipshod and solipsistic in amateur hands (which is where you most often find it). When done right, however, it can be sublime, but perhaps more to the point it strikes me as more true. This is the usual top-notch Kiesling performance, even if the two books in question don't fire her up as much as some of the other things she's written for the Millions. Her series on reading the Modern Library is not to be missed.
As for the Tournament of Books, as someone who's been on more than one prize jury, I find the transparency it brings to the decision-making process endlessly fascinating. Why do some readers like certain books more than others? What makes a reader decide one book is "better" than another — a related but different question. I suppose some people would call the bracket device artificial or overly competitive, but to me it's the height of realism: Each of us is only going to be able to read a limited number of books in our lifetime, and these are choices readers make every day.
Leslie Jamison on MFA vs NYC for The New Republic
Call me a Marxist (although you'd have to be pretty dumb to do so) but I firmly believe that the means of production tend to determine what is produced. That's why I found Chad Harbach's rundown of the two primary economic models for supporting fiction writing in America to be refreshingly honest. Jamison doesn't entirely concur with Harbach (and perhaps I don't either — I just think it's a phenomenon that ought to be talked about), but she understands what Harbach was getting at better than anyone else who wrote about the essay "MFA vs NYC" and the anthology named after it. Many reviewers seemed to think the book was a referendum on MFA degrees and the need for aspiring novelists to live in New York. This review is smart, thorough and informed by personal experience without being blinkered by it.
Tim Parks on "Where I'm Reading From" for The New York Review of Books
This isn't the very strongest of the series of blog posts Parks writes for the NYRB web site — that would be a post from last fall about the evolution of a "global style" in fiction — but I get the impression that few people are aware of the excellent column-like essays he writes there. And this essay is also not technically a book review, but it is most definitely an example of the sort of writing about reading I admire. Parks describes how his own internalized geography of taste was first laid down in his childhood, where each of the rooms in his family's home contained books of a different category, reflecting the appetites of his sister (Georgette Heyer romances), his brother (science fiction), and his father (parched and learned biblical commentary — the family was evangelical). To this day, Parks is put off by "literary exhibitionism; intellectuality as an end in itself, self-indulgent performance whose main intention was to encourage the reader to concede that the author was smart" because they remind him of his father's books. How much of what we love and hate in a book is determined by these highly personal influences and memories? This seems like a subject most critics have barely touched upon in their earnest scramble to present their opinions as definitive or invested with some special authority.
Congratulations to our winners! Please contact Brian Hurley to claim your Field Notes prize.
Read a good review lately? Nominate it for a Critical Hit Award by tweeting it at @electriclit with the hashtag #criticalhit or cast your vote in the comments section below.
– Laura Miller is a journalist and critic living in New York. She is a co-founder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years, the New Yorker, the Guardian, Harper's magazine and other publications. She is the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" (Little, Brown, 2008) and editor of the "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" (Penguin, 2000).
– Brian Hurley is Books Editor at The Rumpus, Founder of Fiction Advocate, and Curator of the Critical Hit Awards.
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Time marches on as you walk down the aisle. With our Personalized Two Watch Winder with Glass Face, you can keep your favorite self-winding (automatic)watches wound up until you get back from the honeymoon to wear them again. Also makes thoughtful groomsmen gifts for the men in your wedding party who are kindred watch collectors.
Watch winders are helpful devices that not only store your timepieces (in this instance in a handsome leather box with glass lid and silver-tone hardware) but emulate human movement to keep them running while not being worn. When presenting as groomsmen gifts, have the recipient's initials engraved on a small plate displayed on the front.


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The restoration of the Sauer organ in the St Nicolaaskerk at Amsterdam by Henk Verhoef
by Henk Verhoef | Het ORGEL | Year 98 | (2002) | Issue 6
Henk Verhoef
The restoration of the Sauer organ in the St Nicolaaskerk at Amsterdam
Het ORGEL 98 (2002), nr. 6, 10-19 [summary]
In 2001, Organ builder Verschueren (Heythuysen) finished the restoration of the three-manual Sauer organ in the St Nicolaaskerk at Amsterdam (Ton van Eck was consultant). The organ was built in 1889 in the new church, in a case that was designed by the architect of the church, A.C. Bleys, based on a drawing of Sauer. The disposition mirrors Wilhelm Sauer's interpretation of the German 'modern organ', as it had developed at the end of the 19th century: the 8′ stops are set up in sets of two (a fundamental stop and a stop with more clearly audible overtones), but recall Cavaillé-Coll's principles at the same time, since each manual has a Principal, a string, a harmonic flute and a (half-)stopped flute.
In the 20th century, Sauer worked once again on the organ (1904); then Bernhard Koch (1914/1921/1928/1931) maintained it. Adema/Schreurs changed the instrument in 1960: the Gamba on Manual I, one of the most important stops in Sauer's concept, was removed to make place for a 2 2/3′ Quinte; other string stops were cut -off to make 'baroque' stops such as a Nasard and a Tierce.
Organ builder Jean-Marc Puet, appointed organist of the St Nicolaaskerk in 1975, began to reconstruct the original situation. He placed, for instance, a Salicionaal from a Valckx & Van Kouteren organ on the slider of the Gamba. Puet was succeeded by Henk Verhoef. He found several old Sauer pipes among the remains of the Sauer organ at the Stadsgehoorzaal at Middelburg (1902).
These pipes were used by Verschueren; with them, almost the entire original specification could be reconstructed. It is remarkable that the Gamba has not been reconstructed; the much milder Valckx & Van Kouteren Salicionaal was retained. Also, the wind system was not completed (Martin Boltes recalled in het ORGEL in 1889 that the organ had three horizontal bellows; in the meantime the organ seems to have lost one, as there are now only two). The wind was stabilised by adding concussion bellows.
The organ sounds as if reborn. The organ builder has proceeded very reticently, with respect to both the technique and the sound. The result demonstrates how valuable this way of restoring is.


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Chocolate and Trains: A Winning and World Record Combination
What could be better than a train carrying a load of chocolate? A train made of chocolate! At least, that's the way it seems to me--someone who likes chocolate and trains.
It must have seemed that way to Andrew Farrugia of Malta, too. Farrugia, a master chocolatier, has created a 34 metre long (111 feet) chocolate train that weighs 1,250 kilograms (2,755 pounds).
The train, on display at the Brussels, Belgium South Station, took nearly three months to create. It has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records as the longest chocolate structure in the world.
Like many a model railroader whose layout ended up bigger than first planned, Farrugia wasn't planning to make the train that large.
"Actually it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I kept on adding another wagon, and another wagon, and it's the size it is today,"" he said.
Meanwhile, in what might be related news, a truck carrying 18 tons of chocolate was stolen in Austria this past week.
According to a story in USA Today, someone with forged documents drove a truck to a factory in Bludenz, had the truck loaded with chocolate destined for the Czech Republic--then disappeared. The theft was only discovered when the real truck showed up.
Maybe they want to make an even bigger chocolate train in that country.
Click here to see a video of the chocolate train.
Great Model Railroad: Lyle Beck's Lake Michigan Division of the Wisconsin & Michigan
A scene from Lyle's Lake Michigan
Division of the W & M.
Earlier this year I was able to feature Dave Rickaby's Wisconsin & Michigan layout. It was the first time that photos of that great layout, featured in the January, 1995 and June, 2002 issues of Model Railroader, had appeared on the Web.
As I noted in that earlier post, I wanted to feature Dave's layout because of its quality and operational concept. But I also liked it because of how it was twinned with Lyle Beck's layout of the same railroad. And now I get to feature photos of Lyle's great layout on the Web for the first time, too.
The two friends met in 1983 through a local hobby shop. Although they didn't know each other, they discovered they were modelling the same railroad—the Wisconsin & Michigan. Despite modelling different eras, they settled on a common paint scheme, herald and numbering scheme for locomotives.
The main difference was that where Dave modelled the Western Division of the W & M in the 1960s, Lyle modelled the Lake Michigan Division in the in the 1990s.
(The Wisconsin & Michigan was actually a real railroad; it existed from 1894 to 1938. Dave and Lyle modelled it as if it never disappeared. This is something I have taken to calling "faction"—a combination of fact and fiction. It's a concept I used on my own layout, which is loosely modelled after a real line owned by CN. On my layout, it is owned by CP Rail.)
Lyle's layout ran from Marinette in the south to Everett Junction, then continued to Iron Mountain and Monarch Mine. It featured unit coal, grain, taconite and double-stack trains, along with an intermodal yard and rotary dumper. At least 18 trains ran during an operating session.
As with Dave's layout, I am speaking of the Lake Michigan Division in the past tense—it is gone now (taken down in 2011). Lyle is no longer modelling the W&M; he has turned his attention to the C&NW and the Milwaukee Road in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Dave was kind enough to send me some photos he took of Lyle's layout before it was dismantled—allowing me to also feature that great model railroad on my blog. Enjoy!
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VIA Rail Special on the M & M Sub.
I decided to run the private owner's train on the CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Sub. this week; it's been awhile since there was a passenger movement on the layout. As usual, it looks good!
Click here and here to see photos and read more about my private owner's train--a unique way to run some older varnish on a modern freight-only layout.
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First Snowfall on the Prairies
The first snow has fallen in Manitoba, and the other prairie provinces--which means we will be seeing a lot more of the images on this page for the next five months.
Today, as the first snow lightly falls, it has its own kind of beauty. In March, however, when we just want the stuff to go away already, it will be a different matter altogether.
Mind you, none of this applies to the CP Rail M & M Sub., where it is perpetually summer. Even in the depths of a prairie winter, I can retreat to the basement to enjoy summertime weather and forget the cold and snow outside.
Photos on this page from Indianhead from--where else?--Indian Head, Saskatchewan, and the CPR Indian Head Subdivision, which runs 135 miles from Broadview to Moose Jaw.
Week of Remembrance: Canadian Railway Troops in World War One
Canadian Railway Troops working on tracks
near the front line.
It's the week of remembrance here in Canada—the week leading up to November 11 when Canadians remember those who fought and died in this country's wars.
Among those who served in World War One were 19,000 men in the Canadian Corps of Railway Troops. These troops were responsible for the laying, repair, maintenance and operation of railway lines in France and Belgium.
While much attention is focused on those who fought in the battles of that war (and deservedly so), less attention has been paid to those who made the fighting possible by making sure that soldiers got the ammunition, food and other supplies they needed to fight the war. Among the most important were the railway troops.
Troops take the train back from the front.
Railway troops came from all parts of Canada, and most had railway experience; the first troops were recruited from the ranks of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which supplied 500 experienced workers. The first of the troops arrived in France in 1915, at the request of the British War Office. The railway troops were still there in 1918 when the Armistice was signed.
During the war, railway troops laid lines on the heels of advances, such as at Vimy Ridge where 60 miles of narrow gauge track was laid. Ammunition was brought up, and casualties taken back. At Cambrai tanks were brought forward via rail; at Canal du Nord 2,000 tons of rations a day were brought to soldiers in the trenches.
Canadian troops and German prisoners send the
wounded back from Vimy on the train.
Altogether, the Canadian Railway Troops laid all of the narrow gauge and 60 percent of the regular gauge tracks on the western front. In 1917-18 alone they laid 1,404 miles of light gauge and 1,169 miles of broad gauge tracks.
Although the conditions were less than ideal, laying and maintaining track on the Western Front was similar to conditions in Canada's frontier regions (except for people shooting at them, of course). In the Canadian west it was common to build temporary lines and bridges and deal with unusual and unique circumstances and terrain.
Bending rail.
As A. MacDougall noted in a memorandum proposing a Canadian railway unit: "It would seem that the experience thus gained [in Canada] in the operation of lines over temporary structures and with irregular and incomplete roadbed would be in a large measure analogous to conditions likely to be met with in keeping up communication with an army advancing over a country in which the enemy had wrecked existing structures and partially demolished the road bed."
Although the troops were non-combants, and did not receive military training, many were killed and wounded while laying tracks or repairing lines. Added to the danger was that while regular troops could shelter in trenches, the railway troops worked out in the open where they could be observed by the enemy. A total of 483 Canadian Railway Troops died during the war, while 1,383 were wounded.
Wounded heading back by train.
Unlike other units, which were maintained as militia units when the war ended, the units that made up the Canadian Railway Troops were disbanded at the war's end. As a result, their service has largely been forgotten. Forgotten, too, is the important role they played—and the sacrifices they made—in the success of Allied operations on the western front.
Sources: Sinews Of Steel: Canadian Railway Troops On The Western Front, 1914-1918, Major George Jager, CD, and Peter Broznitsky, Canadian Railway Troops. Photos from various sources, including the Canadian War Museum.
Cap badge, 12th battalion,
Canadian Railway Troops
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This list took some time to also compile. There are many fantastic cartoons out there for both children and adults. The cultural impact of some of these shows is extraordinary.
Both old and newer childhood cartoons have structured our television-oriented generations. If it's not apparent enough, I love cartoons, always did as a kid and always will as an adult.
So it brings my great pleasure to work up a top 20 list for you guys of the Greatest Television Cartoons of All-Time. Per usual the list was put together methodically. See About page for how the lists are put together.
7. Scooby Doo: Where are You?


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YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana 2022: Vidya Kanuka Kits, Beneficiary List
April 16, 2022 by Editor
The Andhra Pradesh government started various schemes for the citizens of the state every time. The state government has started YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana 2022 to help students from poor families in the state. Poor students do not have adequate resources to buy school uniforms and essentials. Therefore, the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh will provide school kits to the students through this scheme in which the basic necessities will be available.
You all probably know that there are still many poor families in the state who are able to send their children to school due to financial constraints, so the Andhra Pradesh government has started this scheme. Through this page, we are going to provide you with all the information about YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana. Such as the purpose of the scheme, facilities, required documents, eligibility criteria, and Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana registration. Read the full page to know more about this.
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Name of Scheme YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana
Scheme Benefit Andhra Pradesh government school students will be given the benefit of this scheme.
Objective The purpose of this scheme is to provide school kits to the students of government schools in the state.
The scheme has been started to provide benefits to the poor students of the state through the concerned authorities of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. There are still many families in the state who are unable to send their children to school due to poverty, as those families do not have adequate resources to buy uniforms and necessary school kits for their children to go to school. The state government has started YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana so that all those students can join the national school.
The school kit that will be given to the students through this scheme will include basic necessities like school bags, textbooks, notebooks, school uniforms, shoes, belts, etc. The Andhra Pradesh government is making continuous efforts to ensure that no student is left behind. And the concerned authorities in this scheme have informed that Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Kits are available in sufficient quantity so there will be no shortage of school kits if the students of government schools are admitted. This is the only way for the children of poor families in the state to go to school.
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Launched by State Government of AP
Post category Scheme
Beneficiary Andhra Pradesh government school students will be given the benefit of this scheme.
Eligible students Students studying in 1st to 10th class
Budget ₹ 648.09 crore
We will give you some information about the purpose for which this scheme has been started by the State Government –
The Andhra Pradesh government is making continuous efforts to ensure that no student in the state is left behind. The scheme has been started for students from poor families in the state. The scheme will create an efficiency rate and Gross Enrollment Ration in the schools of the state. Officials of the concerned authorities in Andhra Pradesh have started work to rehabilitate about 12,365 schools in the state in the first term under the Naadu Nedu Scheme. Through this scheme, students from all the poor families in the state will be able to study and they will be able to improve in the future. Andhra Pradesh English medium education activities will provide thin and youngster compliant books for students in grades 1 to 6 and handbooks for parents.
రేపు "జ‌గ‌న‌న్న విద్యా కానుక" కార్య‌క్ర‌మాన్ని ప్రారంభించ‌నున్న ముఖ్య‌మంత్రి వైయ‌స్ జ‌గ‌న్#JaganannaVidyaKanuka pic.twitter.com/zzeKDiY6Ny
— YSR Congress Party (@YSRCParty) October 7, 2020
Under this scheme, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has recognized nine basic components including latrines, furniture, fans, compound dividers, drinking water, fixed works, English labs, etc. About 45,000 schools and universities and inns will be protected through this scheme. Don't forget to bookmark our website to get the latest updates on various schemes and other information about Andhra Pradesh.
The benefit of this scheme will be given mainly to students from class 1 to class 10. Through this scheme, the state government will provide necessary school kits to the students of poor families. This school kit will have almost all the basic necessities like notebooks, bags, school uniforms, shoes, belts, and other important things. The purpose of this scheme is to ensure that no student in the state is left behind. The Andhra Pradesh government has said that YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana School Kits are available in sufficient quantity so there will be no shortage of kits for students enrolled in government schools. Through this scheme, more than 2.5 lakh students have shifted from private schools to government schools.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. YRS Jagan Mohan Reddy will send the program of YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana to Punadipadu ZP High School in Kankipadu Mandal on 8th October. The state government has made relentless efforts to educate the students of the state. Also, the Collector of the area A.Md. Imtiaz, MLA K. Parthasarathi, Commissioner of Police B. Srinivasulu, Government Program Facilitator T. Raghuram, and others visited the school on Tuesday and evaluated the game plan.
According to sources, the Hon'ble Chief Minister of the state will arrive at the school by 10:20 am on Thursday as directed by Area Collector A.Md. Imtiaz. The Chief Minister will assist the students of the school before sending the plan to the school. Authorities say about 45,000 schools, universities and institutes will be protected through the Mana Badi Nadu Nedu conspiracy. Police Commissioner B Srinivasulu said strict security measures would be taken at the spot as there would be many more prominent people including the Chief Minister.
We would like to give you some information about the benefits that the state government will provide to the beneficiaries through this announcement –
Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Mr. YRS Jagan Mohan Reddy has started YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana thinking about the future of students in the state.
Through this scheme, students from poor families will get the necessary school kits to go.
Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana will provide school kits to students in grades 1 to 10. This school kit will provide other important items including textbooks, notebooks, 3 sets of school uniforms, shoes, socks, belts, and school bags.
The state government will help government school students through this scheme.
YSR Vidya Kanuka Yojana Kits will be provided to about 43 lakh principals under this scheme.
All the expenses through this scheme will be borne by the State Government.
Andhra Pradesh government has set a budget of Rs 648.09 crore for Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana.
Through this scheme poor class students will be able to go to school and their future will be bright.
The purpose of this scheme is to ensure that no student in the state is left behind.
The school kits that the state government is providing to the students through this scheme are –
Students studying in classes 1 to 10 will be given three pairs of uniforms.
2 pairs of socks will be provided.
A pair of shoes will be provided.
Notebooks and textbooks will be provided.
A belt will be given.
A suitably sized school bag will be provided to carry all the books and textbooks.
We will give you some information about the Eligibility Criteria of this scheme –
Student to be a permanent resident of Andhra Pradesh.
Students to study in government schools in Andhra Pradesh.
Students must be studying in the 1st to 10th class.
The required documents issued by Raju Sarkar under this scheme are –
Guardian's Aadhaar card
All interested beneficiaries in the state who wish to apply under this scheme should follow the procedure given below –
The Andhra Pradesh government has started this scheme to provide benefits to students from poor families in the state. YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka School Kits will be distributed to students of government schools in Andhra Pradesh. Beneficiaries are not required to apply for benefits under this scheme, the scheme will be extended to the students through the school authorities.
Today we have given you almost all the information about YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana 2022 through this press. And we hope you find the answers to all your questions through the information on this page. If you still have any questions you can ask in our comment box, we will reply to you via email and comment box as soon as possible.
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What is YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana?
The Andhra Pradesh government has started this scheme to provide school kits to the students of government schools in the state.
Who will be eligible under Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana?
Students of 1st to 10th class studying in government schools in Uttar Pradesh will be eligible for this scheme.
What items will be available at YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka School Kits?
School uniforms, shoes, socks, textbooks, school bags, notebooks, belts, and other essentials will be available through YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Kits.
Benefits of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana only for students in government schools?
Yes, the YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana facility will be given only to 1st to 10th class students studying in government schools. Students studying in private schools will not be given this scheme.
Can 12th class students take advantage of YSR Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Yojana?
No, the Andhra Pradesh government will provide this scheme only to government school students studying in 1st to 10th class.
What is the budget of YSR Vidya Kanuka Yojana?
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O Centraal Museum (em português, Museu Central) é um museu localizado na cidade de Utrecht, nos Países Baixos. Fundado em 1838, é o mais antigo dos museus municipais neerlandeses. Encontra-se instalado em um antigo claustro medieval, totalmente reformado em 1999. Conserva um amplo acervo, distribuído pelos departamentos de arte antiga e moderna, design, moda e história regional.

Histórico

O Centraal Museum foi fundado em 5 de setembro de 1838, por iniciativa do prefeito de Utrecht, Van Asch van Wijck, como um espaço museológico voltado à história da região. Expunha ao público diversos objetos de interesse histórico e artístico, coletados junto aos órgãos públicos ou adquiridos de particulares, além de parte do arquivo da cidade.

Em 1921, a coleção do museu foi fundida com diversos outros acervos municipais e coleções privadas, como o conjunto de pinturas da Utrechtse genootschap Kunstliefde e a coleção de arte do palácio episcopal da cidade, resultando uma única coleção "centralizada" (origem da denominação "museu central").

Ainda em 1921, o museu é transferido do espaço que ocupava na prefeitura da cidade para um antigo claustro medieval - um grandioso edifício, composto por diversos pavilhões erguidos ao redor do pátio central, que abrigou paralelamente diversas outras funções, de orfanato a hospital psiquiátrico.

Entre 1961 e 1972, o edifício foi ampliado seguindo um projeto de Gerrit Rietveld, ganhando ainda um auditório idealizado por Mart van Schijndel. Em 1991, o edifício foi reformado pelos arquitetos Stéphane Beel, Lieven Achtergael e Peter Versseput.

Acervo

O Centraal Museum conserva um vasto e variado acervo, abrangendo um período histórico de mais de dois mil anos, com peças distribuídas em cinco departamentos: arte antiga, arte moderna, design e artes decorativas, moda e história local.

Na coleção de arte, destaca-se o núcleo dedicado aos pintores "caravaggescos" de Utrecht, como Gerard van Honthorst e Hendrick ter Brugghen, além de várias outras obras de Jan van Scorel, Joachim Wtewael, Abraham Bloemaert, Paulus Moreelse e Pieter Saenredam, entre outros. No segmento dedicado à arte moderna, há obras de Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, Pyke Koch, etc.

Encontra-se conservada no museu a maior coleção existente de desenhos de Rietveld. Há ainda uma exposição permanente de obras de Dick Bruna, um amplo conjunto de mais de oito mil peças de vestuário, jóias e acessórios, mobiliário, ourivesaria e prataria. Entre os destaques da coleção de história, encontra-se o milenar navio Utrecht, encontrado em 1930, nos arredores de Willem Arntszkade.

Ver também

 Huis Doorn
 Mauritshuis
 Stedelijk Museum

Ligações externas
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General Election 2017: Hornsey and Wood Green candidates debate social care crisis
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Hornsey and Wood Green candidates (L-R): Catherine West, Helen Spiby-Vann, Sam Hall, organisers Sue Hessel and Mary Langan, Dawn Barnes and Nimco Ali. Picture: ANNA NICHOLSON - Credit: Archant
A tax on salt, scrapping Trident and adding a penny to income tax were three solutions to the social care crisis put forward in a general election hustings yesterday.
Hornsey and Wood Green candidates settle in for the 90 minute hustings. Picture: ANNA NICHOLSON - Credit: Archant
Carers quizzed Hornsey and Wood Green's parliamentary candidates on funding, respite centre closures and benefits during their coffee morning at Crouch End's Abide Church Hall.
Helen Spiby-Vann of the Christian Alliance party promised a money raising salt tax and highlighted the benefits of "biblical marriage" as cures for social ills.
She commented that she wanted to ensure the constituency was a beautiful place to live in saying, "We can do that by doing things God's way."
Lib Dem candidate Dawn Barnes promised £12m for local social care budgets to "make carers' daily lives a little less full on".
The Green's Sam Hall repeated his party's pledge to scrap Trident to raise extra funds and give all carers a wage.
Both Lib Dem and Green Party candidates attacked Tory plans for a so-called "dementia tax" which could see people forced to sell their homes to pay care costs.
Dawn Barnes said: "There's a huge issue here. There are lots of people who don't own a home. They cannot afford to get on the property ladder. They're not going to have a home to sell."
Sam Hall commented saying: "It's going to get worse and worse if we follow this path."
Labour Party candidate Catherine West outlined her record before grouping the absent Tory and UKIP candidates as a single party.
Mrs West said: "I'm not surprised they aren't here today because I don't think they prioritise [social care] spending."
She ended saying: "This election we have a real choice - more austerity or relaxed austerity to some degree."
The Women's Equality Party candidate Nimco Ali pledged to make carers' voices heard.
"Caring is seen as a burden not the glue that keeps the economy together. The key thing is to flip how we look at carers," she said.
Speaking afterwards, Sue Hessel – who organised the hustings with the National Autism Society and Save Autism Services Haringey – said: "I'm hoping whoever wins exercises the strength and scrutiny Haringey's local services require."


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Best Mercedes-Benz Ever: W124 E-Class
Mercedes-Benz E-class W124
Coming home from a long bike ride today, I kept looking at the cars parked on the side of the road, looking for something that stood out. And out of all of the cars that caught my eye, there was a 1992 (or so) Mercedes-Benz E-Class in very good condition–not bad for a car that is almost 20 years old. And I thought for the umpteenth time; that is the finest Mercedes-Benz ever, which is quite a claim to make given their immense automotive history.
I know this is a highly subjective and emotional topic, but after much soul-searching and contemplating and pontificating, and maybe a beer or two, I have concluded that the W124 Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the best Merc ever.
What? Heresy, you say? Maybe a certain 300 SL Gullwing pops to mind? Maybe an AMG or two can blow the doors off it, you say? What about the massively awe-inspiring 300 SEL 6.3 from the late '60s–especially in that deep maroon? What about an S-Class or two? None of these was ever a taxi, and many of them had better performance and pedigree within the Mercedes-Benz empire.
Look, I could quote production numbers, and such. Such as the 2.5+ million W124s that were sold across the globe over an 11-year period. Granted, many of those were diesel taxis, but that doesn't detract from the stunning sales for a luxury car. I could also go into the numerous performance versions with heart-stopping V-8s, the, sheer longevity of the turbodiesels, or even the stately station wagons that are still in demand as used cars across the globe. But none of those points really makes my argument (well, maybe the production figures do, but that's only part of it).
What I believe made W124 E-Class the mid-size luxury vehicle to have was that it was one of the most complete Mercedes-Benz cars to incorporate everything that is the Mercedes-Benz brand–and that encompasses a lot. It's about solidity, longevity, safety, luxury, engineering excellence and of course, prestige.
The W124 was developed by perhaps one of the best designers ever to lay pen to paper, Bruno Sacco. Two other designers had a helping hand, Joseph Gallitzendrfer and Peter Pfeiffer, and should be recognized for creating a truly timeless, elegant, solid and brand-enhancing set of lines, inside and out. From the beveled edges, to the elevated trunk that cut drag coefficient, to the masculine sides and perfect proportions between front and back, there hasn't been a Mercedes-Benz that has had this kind of design impact and longevity.
The interior isn't to be forgotten either. There is a visual structure in the cabin. Its layout is balanced and driver-focused. It has excellent ergonomics, great seats (I got a ride in this vehicle on multiple occasions, so I can attest to that), and a kind of German design sensibility that made it stand out from its peers in this market and still does in my opinion.
It terms of solidity, safety and engineering excellence, this was the stiffest vehicle in its class by a wide margin and set off a series of other claims by rival manufacturers as to the stiffness of their chassis. It incorporated offset crash crumple zones and superb aerodynamics into its design for a low (0.29-0.32) drag coefficient–still very good by today's standards. It also had optional 4Matic, stability and slip control (novelties back then) and a cool feature that I love to this day, the one-armed windshield wiper that covered more area than any other.
And don't forget the engines. From four- and five-cylinder diesels to V-8 monsters that could chase down a 911 on the Autobahn. The six-cylinder engines were superbly balanced, the diesels are still running to this day, and the V-8s are all refined, controlled muscular mayhem.
Imagine that–a luxury car that could be a sedan, convertible, station wagon, and with the right engine, a sports car. What a wide breadth of talent and skill. It's all of these factors together that lead me to make this claim: it's the finest Mercedes-Benz ever in my opinion, and I still want one.
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The Pros and Cons of Playing Video Games
| 16 Aug 2018 8:07 AM GMT
Like any other inventions of science, video games too have certain advantages and disadvantages. The positive aspect of video game is that it improves mental skills. The negative side is that it can become equally destructive and it kills our time. In this article, we will be discussing both the pros and cons of this game.
Traditionally, the word "video" in video game refers to a raster display device; however, towards the 2000s, it implied any type of display device that can produce 2D or 3D images. Nowadays, it is seen that both adults and young people spend several hours every day either playing video games on television or by playing any other games available on electronic devices such as mobile or tablets. There is no specific definition of the video game. The video game, as Wikipedia defines is, "An electronic game in which one or more people interact, through a command, with a device equipped with video images. This electronic device, known generically as a platform, can be a computer, an arcade machine, a console or a portable device as a mobile phone. Video games are today, one of the main industries of art and entertainment." The electronic systems that are used to play video games are known as "platforms."
The advantages of playing video games are as follows:
Training and improvement of physical and mental ability
Studies say that if we play video games daily then one can improve his or her visual attention. The players become more efficient in changing tasks; be faster in tasks, where we have to do a visual search or discriminate objects by their shape/ color.
Also among other benefits, it contributes to enhancing the effectiveness in the follow-up of multiple objectives (Green and Bavelier, 2003). Other researchers have conducted training studies confirms that the practice of video games also improves the implementation of divided tasks and mental rotation (De lisi and Wolford, 2003 quoted in Salguero, 2009).
Video games are Therapeutic
Video games can be used by people who have both physical and mental problems. It has also been used in a constructive way in people who have problems of care, among others.
Did you know video games can be used as an educational tool?
Of course, video games can serve as a way of learning for people, who use it in a different context. Thus, video games are a good means of an impetus for children and young people, as well as for the differently-abled children.
Thanks to this mean students can be motivated to learn by creating fun feelings (Salguero, 2009).
Video Games Promote Positive Values
The games of consoles and computers also promote values such as solidarity, friendship, cohesion and a sense of belonging to a group. It is important for parents to take advantage of these benefits to improve family relationships (Reyes-Hernández et al. 2012, Reyes-Hernandez, 2014).
Video games are used as a tool for leisure and entertainment
We need to get distracted so we do not feel stressed in our day-to-day or just to fight the daily boredom. For this reason, video games are a great means of entertainment because of the large number of realities they present (González, 2010 in Reyes-Hernández et al., 2014).
Video games develop empathy and encourage teamwork
Since there is a multitude of group games, players have to make decisions and know that they can have consequences, both positive and negative, on the other players in the game. Therefore, it acts as a way to help in the development of empathy (Levine, 2009 Reyes-Hernández et al., 2014).
In team games, players develop group work skills as they need to work together, in unity, to beat the challenges.
Video games create feelings of self-esteem and competence
The use of video games also creates feelings of self-esteem and competition among the players.
Also, as mentioned earlier this advantageous technology also serves as a devil in many ways. Some of the disadvantages are:
The players fall prey to addiction and the video games make the players aggressive.
The child who has fun with games that are violent can lead to negative effects in their socialization skills with their other equals, leading to their lack of sense of belonging or social justice (Reyes-Hernández, 2006 in Reyes-Hernández, 2014).
It has been seen that sex and sensuality plays an important part in the stories or plot. This image can make it assimilate in the players that the body of a woman should be that (as portrayed in the games) and not another (Abanes, 2008 in Reyes-Hernandez, 2014).
Therefore, it is quite important to be aware and plan suitable timetables for playing video games. Both children and adults must practice timetables in order to make the best use of its benefits.


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Getting Girls into Tech: Founder of 'Girls Who Code' Shares Advice with Greenwich Girls
By: greenwichfreepress | October 2, 2016
About 50 girls descended upon Second Congregational Church on Friday afternoon to hear the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani.
Ms. Saujani, who aptly billed her talk "Perfectly Brave," echoed the themes of her hugely popular TED Talk, Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection, which has more than 2.5 million views and sparked a national conversation about raising girls.
Dita Bhargava introduced her longtime friend, Reshma Saujani. Sept. 30, 2016 Credit: Leslie Yager
Ms. Saujani was introduced by Greenwich's Dita Bharvaga, a longtime friend, who along with Alex Bergstein, Deirdre Kamlani and Aya DeSimone founded the Parity Partnership.
Saujani began her career as an attorney and activist. In 2010 she was the first Indian-American to run for US Congress. She described becoming brave herself after getting trounced, earning just 19% of the vote, going broke and becoming humiliated in the process.
Despite the disappointing loss, Saujani took much away from the experience. During the campaign, she visited local schools and witnessed first hand the gender gap in technology. "Where are the girls?" she recalled asking herself.
She pointed out that absence of girls in technology classes, and in the workplace is hard to reconcile with the fact that women are the majority on college campuses and majority of the labor force.
And so, from an experience that resulted in failure, was born the idea for what would become a hugely successful national non-profit. Girls Who Code offers free summer programs and high school clubs where girls explore coding in a friendly atmosphere. The ultimate goal, Saujani explained, is to close the gender gap in technology.
Longtime friends Reshma Saujani and Dita Bhargava at Second Congregational Church, Sept. 30, 2016 Credit: Leslie Yager
There's still not enough women in the field of STEM, Saujani said to the crowd of about 100 enthusiastic girls from Greenwich High School, Greenwich Academy, Stanwich School, Whitby School, Convent of the Sacred Heart and Greenwich Country Day School.
The girls nodded knowingly when Saujani described the reluctance of girls to "put themselves out there when there is a high probability that you won't succeed."
"There are haters. There are people who don't want you to succeed. How many of you have talked yourself out of an idea?" Saujani asked, to a round of more affirmative nods. Using the example of the moment in the film "Mean Girls" when Lindsay Lohan pretends to be bad at math to earn the attention of her love interest, Saujani said there is nothing innate making boys better at math.
Saujani, the daughter of refugees from Africa, said when she was a teenager she knew she wanted to give back.
Her parents, both engineers, had scrambled to leave Africa after Idi Amin warned that they had 90 days to leave. She described applying to Yale Law School three times before being accepted, and said she'd been motivated after watching the film "The Accused," a film about a prosecutor who assists in bringing the perpetrators of a brutal bar room rape to justice.
What is the Image of a Computer Programmer?
Saujani said that in the 1980s, when the personal computer came out, it was targeted as a toy for boys, and there was a subsequent decline of girls majoring in science.
She said that in the 80s the image of a computer programmer was "a boy in a basement, not cool, working alone, but making something interesting that would change the world."
"All of a sudden your whole generation was turned off," she said.
Saujani blames American culture, the media, and even parents, for reinforcing stereotypes that harm girls. She said girls are taught to only chase the things they're good at, when what they really benefit from is learning how take risks and fail.
"Boys are taught to take a ton of risks. Girls gravitate only toward what they're very good at." – Reshma Saujani
Saujani talked about the ideal of perfection. "Girls are taught to be nice, smile pretty and don't let your dress get too dirty, don't raise your voice to much," she said, adding that the result is that girls don't aspire to take risks.
"If you only chase the things you are great at, you are going to miss out on so much of life. So be imperfect," she urged the room full of school girls.
"Failure and rejection are important. Because you're protected as young women for so long, we let failure break us," she said. "With boys we want to toughen them up, whereas with girls we want to protect them."
Saujani said bravery is learned behavior. "It's not that men are innately brave. There are more women who sign up to be in the Peace Corps. There are more women who donate kidneys. For so long we created this myth in the media that men are more brave," she said. "How many stories do we see of damsels in distress?"
She referred to a study that revealed when women apply for a job, they will only apply when they have 100% of the qualifications, whereas men apply when they only meet 60% of the qualifications, suggesting that indeed, women are socialized to be perfect rather than brave.
"From middle school, to high school, to college, girls outperform boys in grades all the time," she said. "But then, all of a sudden you get into the workplace, where what women are rewarded for historically doesn't matter any more."
Saujani urged the girls to work on becoming brave, and to embrace risk-taking and failure. Of the summer coding programs, she said, "The results speak for themselves. Ninety-five percent of the girls say they intend to declare a major or minor in computer science."
Girls Who Code has 1,500 clubs, including a few in Greenwich. The organization now reaches 40,000 girls in the US, and will run 78 summer programs in 2017, including 21 programs in New York City.
"Perfectly Brave" was presented by The Parity Partnership, and co-sponsored by ICC Greenwich, Urban League Southern CT, YWCA Greenwich, Greenwich Academy, Stanwich School, Whitby School, and Second Congregational Church Greenwich.
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Sheringham Woodfields School to hold its first Open Studio Event
Sheringham Woodfields School will be holding its first Open Studio Event in the school courtyard from 9:30am to 14.30pm on Friday 30 September, and again on Friday 7 October 2022.
The artworks on display will include paintings, charcoal drawings, sculptures and mono-prints and portraits, all of which will have been created by the school's pupils and staff. These exhibits will celebrate the traditions, locations, people and animals for which Norfolk is so well known.
Sheringham Woodfields pupils will be on hand at both Open Studio Events to greet visitors, serve refreshments and to provide an insight into the varied range of activities which make up the life of this innovative SEND school.
It is also hoped to provide a limited number of tours around the School and its new Carole Fields Therapy Centre which, despite the disruption caused by COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns, has been in full use since last year.
"The pupils and staff are working incredibly hard to produce an eclectic collection of artworks for our first Open Studio Event," commented Jake Millin, the teacher who is organising the Event, which is part of the Norfolk Open Studios scheme running from 24 September to 9 October 2022.
He continued: "Art plays an important part in the life of our School and last year a work entitled 'Emotions in Colour' created by our Maple Class featured in the 2021 Royal Academy of Art Young Artists Summer Show.
"Everyone here is greatly looking forward to the Open Studio Event, and we are hoping to attract visitors from the wider North Norfolk communities, as well as from the families and friends of our pupils and staff."
Sheringham Woodfields School is a purpose-built school for pupils with complex needs situated on the outskirts of Sheringham, where it shares a campus with Sheringham Academy and Sheringham Primary School. It offers exceptional facilities both within the school and in the outside play areas which are designed to assist pupils with complex needs and multi-sensory impairments to gain the best possible education.
Recent developments, including the Fields Therapy Centre which was part of the Local Authority's SEND Transformation project, now enable the school to cater for 145 pupils from across Norfolk who are supported by 140 members of staff.
Matthew Smith MBE
Business Manager, Sheringham Woodfields School
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