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Vegas startup community gets support, but still room for growth
Nevada is known for its gaming and tourism industry, but there has been a sustained effort to bolster the state's startup community, particularly in Las Vegas.
By Sean Hemmersmeier / Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 7, 2023 - 10:33 pm
Updated January 8, 2023 - 5:00 pm
Lindsay Ballengee, right, and Marta Spegman, co-founders of SafeArbor, talk to a reporter in their downtown Las Vegas building Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The startup makes distribution lockers for the cannabis industry. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
Lindsay Ballengee, left, and Marta Spegman, co-founders of SafeArbor, talk to a reporter in their downtown Las Vegas office Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The startup makes distribution lockers for the cannabis industry. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
The Herbert building in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, houses startup SafeArbor that makes distribution lockers for the cannabis industry. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
William Reny, co-founder of SEE ID, Inc., at his Las Vegas Office Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. The startup provides tracking services for a wide range of industries. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
In recent months, multiple business incubators and accelerator programs have launched in Southern Nevada with many focused on supporting and funding early-stage companies in Las Vegas. Most of the programs are being funded by the American Rescue Plan Act or other federal grants.
The extra help comes at a time when the city has seen several new companies launch their services in 2022 such as fintech firm Pomelo, self-driving rental service Halo.Car and Esoes Cosmetics, which makes cosmetics with safety features such as hidden drug testing strips for drinks.
Mayor Carolyn Goodman thinks the growth stems from how people now view Las Vegas and its potential for entrepreneurs.
"Really comes down to getting the word out on how good it is to do business in Las Vegas," she said.
In the 2022 fiscal year, the city gave out 3,850 new business licenses, a 10.6 percent increase from the 3,481 licenses in the 2021 fiscal year. Still, many in the business and tech community see more room for growth.
Jeff Saling, executive director and founder of nonprofit business incubator StartUpNV, thinks the startup community needs to take "advantage" of these funding opportunities to continue the development of Las Vegas' startup ecosystem.
"If we were comparing our startup ecosystems to others (using) our journeys through school … Silicon Valley (would be) all the way through grad school and having a Ph.D. I'd say Vegas is probably about in middle school," Saling said.
StartUpNV is partnering with government agencies to help administer several new programs for startups in Las Vegas.
Jamie Schwartz, director of industry and business engagement at UNLV's Office of Economic Development, grew up in Las Vegas. She said the area is still in the early stages of being a dynamic community for startups, but it has become more serious in recent years.
"We've talked a long time, really since I was a kid, about the need to diversify the economy down here," she said. "But I'm not sure I heard as much about using a strategy of attracting startup activity as a method of diversification until maybe five years ago."
'I feel like we're in summer camp'
One company that recently moved to Las Vegas for its business-friendly environment is SafeArbor. It sells lockers aimed at the cannabis industry so customers to easily pick up their dispensary orders.
SafeArbor co-founders Marta Spegman and Lindsay Ballengee said moving the company from Northern California to Las Vegas in 2020 was ideal because it could operate in a smaller startup environment and get funding while working with regulators.
"It was refreshing to step into a place where we could be taken more seriously from an investment perspective, and not, you know, beaten down by all of the exceptional talent that's in Silicon Valley," Spegman said. "I feel like we're in a summer camp for tech entrepreneurship downtown. There's this tightknit group of under 50 people, but that has a larger network, and I think it keeps getting bigger."
SafeArbor started with $100,000 from family and friends and has raised $270,000 in funding while in Las Vegas, which includes $220,000 from StartUpNV's AngelNV investment program.
"We were really able to move this at lightspeed here, further and faster than we would have been able to otherwise through traditional means of fundraising," Ballengee said.
Other support services for startups include the nonprofit Tech Alley, which launched last year and hosts monthly gatherings for the tech community, and UNLV's 122-acre Harry Reid Research and Development Park, which hosts students and small businesses.
"We have a strong competitive advantage here, in that every major CEO and organization comes to this city, at least every other year," Schwartz said. "We've got Harry Reid International Airport, all these major conventions — these are big opportunities in one pool to capture a lot of audiences."
Michael Luciani, managing partner at investment group Climate Capital, said the firm invested in Las Vegas-based Halo.Car not just because of its mission but also because of where it was headquartered.
"I do think that Las Vegas is a perfect place for (Halo.Car). You do have people from all across the country who are visiting Las Vegas, who are looking to rent cars, and have basically the ability to go drive around the city as a temporary visitor," Luciani said.
SeeID, a logistic tracking company, moved its operations from Idaho to Las Vegas in 2020 after considering several other markets, according to William Reny, SeeID's co-founder and chief revenue officer.
He said raising capital has been easier than expected, and in the past year, SeeID was able to raise $2.1 million when it was aiming to raise $1 million.
"The corporate taxes here are much more conducive for business, and to have a hub airport, that is a huge selling point," Reny said. "I have to give this to Las Vegas; it's the easiest thing in the world to convince a customer to come to see us because they're not just here to see us."
But to keep building up the Las Vegas startup community, it needs to overcome challenges that can't be addressed "overnight," according to Saling.
He said the challenges include a more robust system of higher education and bringing in more Las Vegas-based funding groups like venture capital firms.
He said such firms often develop when local founders "exit" their startup, or when they take the company public or sell it. And getting successfully-exited founders to invest back into the startup community creates a "virtuous cycle" of investing, Saling said.
"We need more founders to get to that successful exit so that we can get the rest of that virtuous cycle going," he said. "It's still going to take 15 to 25 years to consistently apply that effort to end up with that virtuous cycle. It just takes time to grow these companies and have an exit."
Contact Sean Hemmersmeier at shemmersmeier@reviewjournal.com. Follow @seanhemmers34 on Twitter.
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For the poll junkies, the latest poll from Insights West and Mario Canseco on the municipal scene.
While most of the results make sense (particularly the lack of transparency and engagement). one thing that is going to rankle Vision for sure — and does surprise me a little — is the low ratings they get on dealing with homelessness. This council has probably put more money and effort into creating more shelter spaces, providing for transitional housing, and even buying properties, to the point that staff grumble internally about how much is going to that issue.
I'd love to know more about those low ratings, whether it's that people think the city shouldn't intervene so much, that they think other policies that promote gentrification and development outweigh the homelessness efforts, whether they're irate about the promise to end homelessness, or whether they just don't get what the city is doing. I'm sure you'll all weigh in and let me know.


A lovely park in Rockhampton not far from the Catholic Church. We bought some good fish and chips from a shop near by and ate them at one of the tables provided with a large shady tree, being winter in 2017 and rather warm there was hardly anyone around just a view birds.
The fountain looks lovely and inviting to put ones toes in.
Nice to see the ibises feeding on the lawn.
These were a lot more scattered about looking for a bit of fish and chips to eat..
They are rather large compared to some.
Oh well, different places have different birds even if it's a similar climate.
Beautiful area.. which bird are those? they are quite big!!!
Esas aves quisieron acompañarte en la comida, para que no te encontraras tan solitaria.
A pesar de que mi tierra es calurosa, en invierno suele hacer frío.
The Ibises usually come for a feed thinking they may get something to eat, they usually do.
The bin chickens look very large in Rockhampton. I would describe the fountain as a Municipal fountain, that is one put in by local government in a prominent civic area. Nevertheless, always good to see fountains.
I've never seen ibises! They are beautiful!
Thanks re photos and the week.
It was a nice day for a picnic.
Indeed it was as most of the days that we stayed in Rockhampton .
That is a lovely fountain.
We had never visited that park until 2017 and that's when we came across that lovely fountain.
fish and chips with no marauding seagulls? That's new. The park and fountain are lovely.
I love the Ibis, beautiful.
The scene reminds me so much of my vacations in Florida.
The Ibis know a good spot to be - near the Fish and Chip shop. I haven't had bought fish and chips for years, and we have the shop that won best Fish and Chip shop in the country in our town, must give them a try.
When the Greeks migrated to Australia many of them opened a fish n chip shop and always made wonderful fish n chips, then they the Greeks children didn't necessarily follow in their parents footsteps so you hardly see any Greeks these days owning fish n chip shops. We go without that meal for ages then we get a fad on them.
I hope you refrained from feeding those damn scavenger birds!
I absolutely detest them like the Indian Mynah 'murderous" birds.
the Capricorn Coastline do have excellent fish dishes and the "fish and chips"
shops are pretty good also.
Someone has to eat the rubbish and we only gave them those very small chips that are left in the bottom of chips.
We had my favourite - Barramundi of course, and I know it's not yours.
Hope your cold is soon better, nasty this time of year but then nasty anytime of year.
The are, something to look at.


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We just purchased a FA2040 and I am trying to undertstand the virutal to physical NICs.
This is all new to me so I apologize for any "duh" information.
the until has 16 physical network ports (2 sets of eight).
Can I assign a physical port to be used by a virtual nic?
Do I have to have both the top and bottom network cable in a active switch to have a connection on the virtual nic?
Example. I want to have 1 virtual nic setup on a 75 subnet for manangement and another virutal nic setup on an 80 subnet for connection to servers.
You can think of it like this.
A Physical NIC is just a road, path, highway.
A Virtual NIC will be set to a specific lane on said road, path, highway. That Lane is a VLAN.
A Virtual NIC uses 2 roads, paths, lanes. So e0a and e0b are physical ports. vif1 will drive on both e0a and e0b because vif1 is a virtual NIC that always represents a specific VLAN.
Welcome to NetApp Communities !
The 2040 only has only so many ports.
A virtual NIC, or VIF, is 802.3ad link aggregation - also refered to as 'ether channel'.
You'd need to configure switch ports to support this.
There's also the concept of VLANs, or 'trunking' port groups that you can implement on virtual or physical interfaces.
You can read the 'Networking Guide' in your Data ONTAP docs for more information.
See also - the 'vif' command and the 'vlan' command.
You mention top/bottom ports. On the 2040 those are seperate controllers.
Technically it's LACP (802.3ad like you said) and not EtherChannel. EtherChannel is the Cisco proprietary blend. NetApp does not support EtherChannel to my knowledge. Among network engineers when you use the term EtherChannel we hear PAgP not LACP. If a NetApp administrator asked a network engineer to configure EtherChannel you would probably have a broken segment.
There is never a dumb question. We all learned this stuff at some point.


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Interactive data in financial reporting: the construction of the non-professional investor
Alan Lowe, Joanne Locke
Aston Business School
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States and in particular its immediately past chairman, Christopher Cox, has been actively promoting an upgrade of the EDGAR system of disseminating filings. The new generation of information provision has been dubbed by Chairman Cox, "Interactive Data" (SEC, 2006). In October this year the Office of Interactive Disclosure was created(http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-213.htm). The focus of this paper is to examine the way in which the non-professional investor has been constructed by various actors. We examine the manner in which Interactive Data has been sold as the panacea for financial market 'irregularities' by the SEC and others. The academic literature shows almost no evidence of researching non-professional investors in any real sense (Young, 2006). Both this literature and the behaviour of representatives of institutions such as the SEC and FSA appears to find it convenient to construct this class of investor in a particular form and to speak for them. We theorise the activities of the SEC and its chairman in particular over a period of about three years, both following and prior to the 'credit crunch'. Our approach is to examine a selection of the policy documents released by the SEC and other interested parties and the statements made by some of the policy makers and regulators central to the programme to advance the socio-technical project that is constituted by Interactive Data. We adopt insights from ANT and more particularly the sociology of translation (Callon, 1986; Latour, 1987, 2005; Law, 1996, 2002; Law & Singleton, 2005) to show how individuals and regulators have acted as spokespersons for this malleable class of investor. We theorise the processes of accountability to investors and others and in so doing reveal the regulatory bodies taking the regulated for granted. The possible implications of technological developments in digital reporting have been identified also by the CEO's of the six biggest audit firms in a discussion document on the role of accounting information and audit in the future of global capital markets (DiPiazza et al., 2006). The potential for digital reporting enabled through XBRL to "revolutionize the entire company reporting model" (p.16) is discussed and they conclude that the new model "should be driven by the wants of investors and other users of company information,..." (p.17; emphasis in the original). Here rather than examine the somewhat illusive and vexing question of whether adding interactive functionality to 'traditional' reports can achieve the benefits claimed for nonprofessional investors we wish to consider the rhetorical and discursive moves in which the SEC and others have engaged to present such developments as providing clearer reporting and accountability standards and serving the interests of this constructed and largely unknown group - the non-professional investor.
2009 School Seminar Series - Hamilton, New Zealand
Duration: 23 Sep 2009 → …
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Lowe A, Locke J. Interactive data in financial reporting: the construction of the non-professional investor. 2009. Abstract from 2009 School Seminar Series, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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Another picture of the snow on Friday. This time, from inside of our apartment complex, which is called the Roman Garden.
i have never seen a statue look cold before–but these do!
hard to know where one is. if you wrote you were visiting italy or greece… do you know anything behind the name and decorations? in arizona, there is always a kachina hotel or a kiva trading post, etc. that, of course, have nothing to do with hopi…absolutely nothing. but, someone must have loved the concept or been enamored of hopi.
The complex was designed by someone from Hong Kong. There are Romanesque statutes around the grounds. One of the first high-end Western-style complexes in Beijing (built around 1993).


An Olympic victory was not just my dream, it was my destiny and God's plan for His glory.
I devoted eighteen years of my life in judo to reach the epitome of sports success. My energy and focus went into an ultimate goal of winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games. To this day, much of my thinking and paradigms are influenced by those experiences, relationships, and knowledge. And as I reflect on all I've accomplished, I want to share a final story that brings success into perspective.
After winning at the Olympics and then graduating from college, I moved back to Hawaii to start my new life. My silver medal represented all of my life's labor, dedication and sacrifice. I was so concerned about someone breaking into our house and stealing it that I hid it where no burglar could find it. This became a problem when, after a few months, even I couldn't remember where I hid it. I tore up the whole house but still couldn't find it. I was discouraged, thinking I had lost the medal for good.
How important was that medal to me? The silver medal represented the greatest achievement of my entire life's work; however, it is only a piece of metal. Over the years, it will tarnish and lose its shine. A thief could break in and steal it. When I'm long gone, it will be forgotten by the world. In fact, my name is only one line in the record books. My accomplishments have already become part of the past.
What good are all of my accomplishments and successes, if at the end of my life, I lose what is really important?
What if I achieve prestige in the world's eyes and lack approval from God? What if I get rich and enjoy every comfort that money can buy…but in the end lose my soul? Sure, success and accomplishments are wonderful. But in the light of eternity I believe that only one thing matters: a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Allow me to share with you how you can have a personal relationship with Christ. This has made all the difference in my life, and I would be remiss not to offer it to you.
God created us with a purpose and destiny. Unless we find His plan for our lives, we are never truly fulfilled. We try to satisfy our emptiness with things like money, accomplishments, pleasure, drugs, or relationships. These seem to satisfy, but are very temporary, never really bringing lasting or true contentment.
Because God is perfect and holy He cannot tolerate sin. Just as light and darkness cannot occupy the same room, a sinful person cannot stay in the presence of a holy God. The Bible goes on to say, "For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). This means all who have sinned – all of us – deserve death, or separation from God.
If God stopped there, our lives would be meaningless and without hope. Yet one of the most well-known verses in the Bible is also one of His greatest promises: John 3:16, which says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." In other words, God loved us so much that He provided a way to forgive our sins and give us eternal life. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place. He lived a perfect life and, though He didn't have to, Jesus took the punishment for our sins. His death on the cross paved the way for us to escape punishment.
The exciting thing is that three days later, Jesus rose from the dead. This proved that He was not just a mortal man but indeed the Son of God. And by doing so He conquered sin and death to give us the free gift of eternal life.
And finally, by committing our lives to follow Him. When we do this, God will come into our hearts and change us.
"If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9). There is nothing we can do to deserve God's love and forgiveness. We receive His promises free by faith.
Dear Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner and cannot save myself. I believe that You died on the cross for me. Please forgive me for all of my sins. I invite You to come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. With Your strength I will live my life for You. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, God has forgiven you and has given you a new life with a new purpose. You now have eternal life!
When I received Jesus as my Savior, I didn't feel any different or experience any strong emotions. But in my heart I knew something had changed. From that time on, I attended a Bible-believing church and started to grow in faith. Accepting Jesus into my heart has been the best decision that I have ever made.
My prayer is that as you walk along your journey in life, you too will come to know Christ and have a personal relationship with Him. With Christ at the center of your life, He will give you hope and purpose that will change your life forever.


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On February 21, Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah held talk with Sheikh Imran Abdulla, Home Minister of Maldives, on mutual cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation in New Delhi, reports The Hindu. A statement issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) sta Read more...
On February 21, Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah held talk with Sheikh Imran Abdulla, Home Minister of Maldives, on mutual cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation in New Delhi, reports The Hindu. A statement issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) stated, "Welcoming the strengthening of India-Maldives Partnership, the Ministers welcomed the expansion of bilateral cooperation between India and Maldives in diverse fields, including policing and law enforcement, counter-terrorism, counter-radicalisation, organised crime, drug trafficking and capacity building." Read less...
On September 10, Maldives Minister of Defense Mariya Didi and United States (US) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Reed Werner signed the "Framework for U.S. Department of Defense-Maldives Ministry of Defence Defense and Security Relationship" in Philadelphia, report Read more...
On September 10, Maldives Minister of Defense Mariya Didi and United States (US) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Reed Werner signed the "Framework for U.S. Department of Defense-Maldives Ministry of Defence Defense and Security Relationship" in Philadelphia, reports defense.gov. The press release from US Department of Defence informed, "The Framework sets forth both countries' intent to deepen engagement and cooperation in support of maintaining peace and security in the Indian Ocean, and marks an important step forward in the defense partnership". Read less...
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India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka agreed on November 28, to enhance intelligence-sharing to tackle common threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering as the three countries revived their maritime security cooperation dialogue after a gap of six years, reports Hindustan Times. Th Read more...
India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka agreed on November 28, to enhance intelligence-sharing to tackle common threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering as the three countries revived their maritime security cooperation dialogue after a gap of six years, reports Hindustan Times. The meeting in Colombo, attended by India's National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, Maldives' Defence Minister Mariya Didi and Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne, also decided that working groups at the level of deputy NSAs will meet twice a year to bolster cooperation at the operational level. A joint statement issued after the dialogue said the three sides exchanged views on common security threats and "agreed to broad base cooperation by expanding the scope to improve intelligence-sharing and include issues like terrorism, radicalisation, extremism, drugs, arms and human trafficking, money laundering, cybersecurity and effect of climate change on the maritime environment". Read less...
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Q: Tape Equilibrium Codility Training: Why Does It Return 0? ***I'm not looking for solution posts
I was taking the Tape Equilibrium Codility Training in C and this was how far I got:
// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// printf("this is a debug message\n");
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int solution(int A[], int N) {
    int difference;
    int smallest;
    int left;
    int right;

    if (N == 1) return 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        right += A[i];
    }

    for (int P = 1; P < N; P++) {
        int val = A[P - 1];
        right -= val;
        left += val;
        difference = abs(left - right);
        if (P == 1) smallest = difference;
        if (difference <= smallest) smallest = difference;
    }
    return smallest;
}

I kept getting that my solution was returning 0 (I assume due to the "if (N == 1)" line... I'm not sure why the program is entering that 'if' case considering that the given example is N=5). I gave up and turned this in, and my code returned 0 for all Codility test cases.
Whenever I commented out that line, the program would return some huge number, I'm not sure why either.
Is there some sort of C principle I'm missing?? I'm going crazy because I have no idea why the program would enter that if case if N!=0.

A: Change initialization code to
int smallest = 0;
int left = 0;
int right = 0;

And everything should be ok. The reason is that you've got undefined behavior. Also the reason is not in the
if (N == 1) return 0;

You can add something like
printf("%d - %d\n", P, smallest);

to the end of the for loop and see the result at every step. Also you would see the warnings from the compiler

Compiler output:
  func.c: In function 'solution':
  func.c:19:14: warning: 'left' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     left += val;
          ^

func.c:13:15: warning: 'right' may be used uninitialized in
  this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     right += A[i];
           ^

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Shadows of Berlin: A Novel
by David R. Gillham David R. Gillham
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From the cafes of war-torn Germany to the frantic drumbeat of 1950's Manhattan, SHADOWS OF BERLIN dramatically explores survival, redemption and the way we learn to love and forgive across impossible divides.
"Straddling the ragged line between guilt and tender mercy, Shadows of Berlin is Gillham at his best, writing compelling, evocative history. He is a master wordsmith who deftly pulls us down winding corridors riddled with broken spirits and haunting ghosts on a quest for absolution. An unspeakable past unspools in spits and sputters. Gillham nimbly sews the scraps together. The result is a riveting story that is unputdownable." — Leah Weiss, bestselling author of If The Creek Don't Rise and All the Little Hopes
"A powerful, heartrending story of guilt and forgiveness, loss and love, war's long shadow over the living and our memories of the dead. With exquisite poignancy, Gillham asks what it means to survive profound trauma and find hope in a broken world." — Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings
"In a poignant novel saturated in the rich hues of time, place, and art comes the unforgettable story of Rachel Perlman—a child of war, grown in body but held captive in soul by a past of abuse, guilt, and unimaginable trauma. Yet even from the ruinous embers of war, Gillham skillfully, tenderly allows Rachel to rise, revealing the life-affirming truth that we may always begin again, no matter where we are. Though timeless, Shadows of Berlin is novel for our time because it provides what we desperately need all the time: Hope." — Erika Robuck, national bestselling author of The Invisible Woman
"I have been a fan of David Gillham's work since City of Women and his latest, Shadows of Berlin, is his best yet. The story of Rachel, a Holocaust survivor, who seeks to start a new life in New York City with her American-born husband, Aaron, but cannot outrun the secrets of her past and what she did to survive, is haunting and enigmatic. Gillham writes about both the war and its aftermath with a sure hand, placing readers in the shoes of his memorable characters and compelling them to ask what they would have done. Reminding us that history is made up of infinite individual choices, Shadows of Berlin is a masterful story of survival and redemption." — Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star
"David Gillham has written a deeply moving story about an aspect of the Holocaust that few people know about - how thousands of survivors came to New York City to restart their lives and escape demons from the past. But some have a hard time dealing with the guilt, shame, and anger caused by the terrible experience. Gillham paints a vivid picture of their life in post-war New York while imaginatively linking it to their ordeal in wartime Berlin." — Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect


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Sorta #49: My night with the Emancipation Proclamation
Posted on June 22, 2011 by John
Last night my friend John Cady and I went to go see the Emancipation Proclamation — the original — which was on view last night at The Henry Ford — as part of a special Civil War exhibit, created with the National Archives. Now, as a member of The Henry Ford, I've been there many times, but this traveling "Discovering the Civil War" exhibit is brand new, so…
The EP — which is normally kept secure deep inside the Archives in DC — is only on view for a total of 36 hours per calendar year, due to damage and degredation caused primarily by light. We were told that typically it's shown for special events — 6 hours here, 4 hours there… but only for a total of 36 hours in a given year. Since this special Civil War exhibit was going on, The Henry Ford was fortunate enough to get all of the EP's 2011's hours allocated for the Museum. It won't see the light of day anywhere else this year.
So… The Henry Ford set up this free, vigil-like 36 hour window for folks to come and see it — started Monday at 6pm, and ended this morning at 6am. The museum was open round the clock for that time, for free — and you could tour all of the museum exhibits if you so desired. The only previous time the museum was open for 24 hours or longer was when Henry Ford himself lay in repose sometime in the 40's.
And people showed up. In droves. News reports yesterday afternoon said that some people were waiting three hours or longer to see it. I have waited for an iPhone for seven hours; I figured if I couldn't wait for the EP for three then there's something wrong with me.
So, John and I figured we'd check it out; after grabbing dinner we headed over to the museum and made our way in around 9pm:
We were told that the wait was approximately SEVEN hours. Figuring that to be a case of overestimation, we got in line anyway, figuring that it probably wouldn't be much longer than four or so hours… after all, people wouldn't wait that long, would they?
The line snaked around much of the museum.
A little while after we had been in line, the estimate was increased to eight hours. At 10:30pm the line was closed, so that everyone in line might be able to see the document, 'cause once 6am came — no matter who was in line — the EP would be removed and returned to its blackened vault.
It was like one of those amusement park lines that just keeps on going… after one huge zig-zag that took three hours to complete, there was a long straightaway…
… and another zig-zag… about the same size as the first one. That above shot was snapped around 1:30 or so. I was amazed at the makeup of the crowd. Old folks in wheelchairs, little kids no older than seven, all races. The group behind us were two african-american couples, the folks in front of us were a white family reading a Sarah Palin book they had brought to pass the time. At one end of the space, Ken Burns' The Civil War was showing on a big screen; we joked that they had ample time to run the whole series like three times.
Luckily, I didn't have any pressing work for the morning, and John was able to reschedule a 10am meeting, so we committed to the duration. iPhones and iPads were of great diversionary value.
We got to this point – the EP is just around the corner in this room, surrounded by cops — about 3:45 in the AM.Once inside, photography is prohibited — no surprise there — and after a brief orientation, people could spend as much time gazing on it as they wished, mere inches away from the EP in its glass case. There was no real need to read the document — everyone was given a copy of the text as they entered the museum, anyway — and since the original was double-sided, we only saw two of the actual faces of the document. Apparently they rotate document faces from engagement to engagement… so in actuality, the document is exposed to direct light for 36 hours every two years. The other sides were presented in facsimile copies, nicely done.
The best part was that of the actual sides we saw, one was the signature of Lincoln, along with Secretary of State Seward, and the official seal which was embossed with ribbons — sort of in advanced decay — embedded in the seal.It might have been the hour, but one couldn't help but get slightly verklempt upon viewing this very important piece of American history.
And here's a shot taken at 4:06 or so… with at least two hours of people left in line. Note the folks passed out on the couches!
All in all, very cool, a neat event for the museum, and worth the time. I got home by 5am and passed out in seconds.
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Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Very cool. Thanks for sharing, J.
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The list: to do by November 28, 2017
1. Make salsa with tomatoes that I have grown myself DONE!
2. Visit 30 new units of the National Park Service (26/30)
3. Purchase a new car DONE!
4. Read 18 of the greatest 100 novels of all time (2/18)
5. Visit the seven counties in Michigan that I still have not set foot in (0/7)
6. Learn how to make great guacamole DONE!
7. Master one video game to completion
8. Hike Half Dome [all the way to the top]
9. Write, shoot and edit "The Island of Dr. Fangboner"
10. Incorporate my business as an LLC
11. Launch an illegal firework on the 4th of July DONE!
12. Write an iPhone/iPad app DONE!
13. Learn how to make five new cocktails (4/5)
14. Watch the sunrise and the sunset in the same day
15. Ride 12 new-to-me roller coasters DONE!
16. See the Northern Lights
17. Attend the taping of two Public Radio programs (1/2)
18. Ride my bike for a minimum of 100 miles a week for a month
19. See nine foreign-language films (3/9)
20. Eat completely vegetarian for one week
21. Learn how to replace hoses and tubes in my car
22. See six sporting events in venues that I've never been to before DONE!
23. Attend a D23 event DONE!
24. See five plays or musicals, at least one on Broadway (1/5)
25. Rewatch all episodes of the first four seasons of The West Wing (73/90)
26. Take a wine-appreciation class
27. Come up with two fantastic cake ideas for the FCRT Christmas Party DONE!
28. Attend a midnight premiere of the final Harry Potter movie and three other movies DONE!
29. Get a 2nd generation iPad DONE
30. Ride a burro to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
31. Learn a 3D drawing program
32. Host a dinner party outside my home
33. Take an advanced Motion course
34. Be able to do 25 (well, maybe 15) consecutive pull-ups
35. Increase my fiber intake by 20% without using Metamucil
36. Ride in a helicopter
37. Make children laugh hysterically DONE
38. Do more to support the Democratic Party in Oakland County DONE!
39. Play 4 new board games (2/4)
40. Buy a new bike DONE!
41. Visit 15 new restaurants/bars in Michigan DONE!
42. Maximize my IRA contribution annually (0/2)
43. Go barefoot for an entire day
44. Make quarterly visits to the Zoo (5/11)
45. Throw a pot on a wheel DONE
46. Bike on 14 rail-trails that I've never been on (10/14)
47. Get six professional massages (1/6)
48. Tour the New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins, Colorado
49. Visit ten new museums (5/10)
50. Take a cooking class
51. Get a T-shirt design accepted on Threadless
52. Drive 100 mph
53. Surprise a server with a 100% tip
54. Visit the Royal Oak Farmer's Market at least 2x/month in season
55. Attend a NYC taping of a late-night talk show
56. Update this blog at least once a month (16/33)
57. Ride six metric centuries (0/6)
58. Read five presidential biographies (0/5)
59. Go to ComicCon
60. Vacation with friends in another state DONE!
61. Fire a gun
62. Visit a Canadian province other than Ontario DONE!
63. Ride a horse
64. Backup items for my Safe Deposit Box semi-annually (0/5)
65. Dine alongside a lake, river or ocean eleven times DONE!
66. Drive historic Route 66 (at least a couple hundred miles of it) DONE!
67. Visit five of the eight states that I haven't been to yet (1/5)
68. Buy an item at a live auction
69. Volunteer at the Royal Oak Animal Shelter
70. Ride on a sailboat
71. Visit a Disney Park outside the USA
72. Create a plan to purchase a home
73. Learn how to make a really great Lemon Cake
74. Acquire three new pieces of art (1/3)
75. Mail a wooden postcard
76. Volunteer at a local food bank
77. Visit the Dentist at least once a year DONE!
78. Attend a religious/philosophical debate DONE!
79. Learn to identify 10 new constellations (0/10)
80. Paint a picture using oil paints on canvas
81. Walk on a beach at night
82. Visit three cousins DONE!
83. Develop a great chicken marinade DONE!
84. Jump off a dock or jetty
85. Attend a film festival
86. Visit Solar Decathlon 2015 or 17
87. See Patton Oswalt perform
88. Seek out 16 new bands/recording artists (8/16)
89. Have an original video get at least 2,000 hits on YouTube DONE!
90. Make three kinds of pie that I've never made before (0/3)
91. Ride a Segway
92. See a drive-in movie
93. Eat only food items with less than five ingredients for a week
94. Visit three Presidential libraries and/or museums DONE!
95. Complete a wind-power technology/information blog
96. Watch a minor-league baseball game
97. Learn how to shoot HD video with a DSLR IN PROGRESS!
98. Top H$1 billion in my HSX portfolio DONE!
99. Tour ten LEED-Certified buildings (0/10)
100. Look for four new philanthropic or charity organizations and contribute to them (1/4)
101. Get inside the "Bond Villain" house along the waterway in Garden City, SC
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India - Ghazni & temple
India - Temple destruction
Article follows my comments
This issue has been a sore subject with the Indians. Ghazni did destroy the Somnath temple, and it has been believed as destruction of Hindu Places of Worship.
This is one of the most damaging issues in the Hindu-Muslim relationships. As a Muslim I condemn Ghazni for doing this, and state that he was another King, like many of the Kings of the time; be it Hindu, Muslim or Alexander, who had nothing else to do than go around robbing other nations and keep usurping the neighboring kingdoms, a strong king was shamelessly praised for this destructiveness.
For the Hindu community, I would urge them to see Ghazni in that light, it will release some of the tension. For Ghazni did not do it for Muslims, nor did he leave institutions for Muslims for their betterment, nor any Muslim in India has his inheritance. We should not be carrying his burden.
Finding the truth is one's own responsibility, given that the below book review by Yogi Sikand is welcome.
Truth Behind Tales of Temple Destruction
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_451_500/truth_behind_tales.htm
Name of the Book: Temple Destruction and Muslim States in Medieval India
Author: Richard M. Eaton,
Publisher: Hope India, Gurgaon (mailto:hope_india@indiatimes.com)
Year: 2004 Pages: 101 Price: Rs.225 ISBN: 81-7871-027-7
Reviewed by: Yoginder Sikand
Central to the diverse memories of Hindus and Muslims in India about the history of Hindu-Muslim relations are incidents or claims of the destruction of Hindu temples by Muslim rulers. These memories are a defining element in the construction of contemporary communal identities. Some Muslims see medieval Muslims Sultans who are said to have destroyed temples as valiant heroes who struggled against Brahminism, idolatry and polytheism. For many Hindus, these very kings are the epitome of evil and godlessness.
The theme of the iconoclast Muslim Sultan is routinely put to use for political mobilization by communal forces, as so tragically illustrated in the case of the Babri Masjid controversy, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Not content with that, Hindutva forces are on record as declaring that they aim at destroying or capturing some 30,000 mosques and Muslim shrines, which, they claim, were built on the sites of Hindu temples allegedly destroyed by Muslim rulers. Hindutva literature is replete with exhortations to Hindus to avenge the misdeeds, both real and imaginary, of medieval Muslim kings, including destruction of temples. This propaganda and the communal mobilization that it has provoked have resulted in a sharp deterioration of inter-communal relations in recent years.
That some Muslim kings did indeed destroy certain Hindu temples is an undeniable fact, which even most Muslims familiar with medieval history would readily concede. However, as this remarkable book by the noted historian Richard Eaton points out, extreme caution needs to be exercised in accepting the claims of medieval historians as well as in interpreting past events in terms of today's categories. Failure to do this, he says, has resulted in the construction of the image of all Muslims as allegedly fired by an irrepressible hatred of Hindus, a gross distortion of actual history.
The notion of the Muslim Sultan as temple-breaker, Eaton says, derives essentially from history texts written by British colonial administrators, who, in turn, drew upon Persian chronicles by Muslim historians attached to the courts of various Indian Muslim rulers. Eaton argues that British colonial historians were at pains to project the image of Muslim rulers as wholly oppressive and anti-Hindu, in order to present British rule as enlightened and civilized and thereby enlist Hindu support. For this they carefully selected from the earlier Persian chronicles those reports that glorified various Muslim Sultans as destroyers of temples and presented these as proof that Hindus and Muslims could not possibly live peacefully with each other without the presence of the British to rule over them to prevent them from massacring each other. Although some of these reports quoted in British texts were true, many others were simply the figment of the imagination of court chroniclers anxious to present their royal patrons as great champions of Islamic orthodoxy even if in actual fact these rulers were lax Muslims.
Dealing with actual instances of temple-breaking by Muslim rulers, Eaton appeals for a more nuanced approach, arguing that in most cases these occurred not simply or mainly because of religious zeal. Thus, the raids on temples by the eleventh century Mahmud Ghaznavi must be seen as motivated, at least in part, by the desire for loot, since the temples he destroyed were richly endowed with gold and jewels, which he used to finance his plundering activities against other Muslim rulers in Afghanistan, Iran and elsewhere. Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the Delhi Sultans' policy of selective temple desecration aimed, not as in the earlier Ghaznavid period, to finance distant military operations on the Iranian plateau but to de-legitimize and extirpate defeated Indian ruling houses. The process of Indo-Muslim state building, Eaton says, entailed the sweeping away of all prior political authority in newly conquered territories. When such authority was vested in a ruler whose own legitimacy was associated with a royal temple, typically one that housed idol of ruling dynasty's state-deity, that temple was normally looted or destroyed or converted into a mosque, which succeeded in 'detaching the defeated raja from the most prominent manifestation of his former legitimacy'. Temples that were not so identified were normally left untouched. Hence, Eaton writes, it is wrong to explain this phenomenon by appealing to what he calls as an 'essentialized theology of iconoclasm felt to be intrinsic to Islam'.
Royal temple complexes were pre-eminently political institutions, Eaton says. The central icon, housed in a royal temple's garba griha or 'womb-chamber' and inhabited by the state-deity of the temple's royal patron, expressed the 'shared sovereignty of king and deity'. Therefore, Eaton stresses, temple-breaking, especially of temples associated with ruling houses, was essentially a political, rather than simply religious, act. As proof of this thesis he cites instances of the sacking of royal temples of Hindu rulers by rival Hindu kings as early as the sixth century C.E.. In AD 642 CE the Pallava king Narashimhavarman I looted the image of Ganesha from the Chalukyan capital of Vatapi.. In the eighth century, Bengali troops sought revenge on king Lalitaditya by destroying what they thought was the image of Vishnu Vaikuntha, the state deity of Lalitaditya's kingdom in Kashmir. In the early ninth century the Pandyan king Srimara Srivallabha also invaded Sri Lanka and took back to his capital a golden Buddha image that had been installed in the kingdom's Jewel Palace. In the early eleventh century the Chola king Rajendra I furnished his capital with images he had seized from several neighboring Chalukya, Kalinga and Pala rulers. In the mid-eleventh century the Chola king Rajadhiraja defeated the Chalukyas and plundered Kalyani, taking a large black stone door guardian to his capital in Thanjavur, where it was displayed to his subjects as a trophy of war. In addition to looting royal temples and carrying off images of state deities, some Hindu kings, like some of their later Muslim counterparts, engaged in the destruction of the royal temples of their political adversaries. In the early tenth century, the Rashtrakuta monarch Indra III not only destroyed the temple of Kalapriya (at Kalpa near the Jamuna River), patronized by the Pratiharas, but, Eaton writes, 'took special delight in recording the fact'.
This and other such evidence clearly suggests, Eaton argues, that 'temples had been the natural sites for the contestation of kingly authority well before the coming of Muslim Turks to India'. Hence, the Turkish invaders, in seeking to establish themselves as rulers, followed a pattern that had already been established before their arrival in India. Yet, the iconoclastic zeal of the Muslim rulers of India must not be exaggerated, Eaton says. He claims that based on evidence from epigraphic and literary evidence spanning a period of more than five centuries (1192-1729), 'one may identify eighty instances of temple desecration whose historicity appears reasonably certain', a figure much less than what Hindutva ideologues today claim.
In judging these incidents, extreme caution is necessary, Eaton suggests. These temples were destroyed not by 'ordinary' Muslims, but, rather, by officials of the state.
Further, the timing and location of these incidents is also significant. Most of them occurred, Eaton says, on 'the cutting edge of a moving military frontier', in the course of military raids or invasions of neighboring territories ruled by Hindu kings. Once Muslim rulers had conquered a particular territory and incorporated it into their kingdom typically such incidents were few, if at all. When Muslim rulers grew mainly at the expense of other Muslim ruling houses, temple desecration was rare, which explains, for instance, why there is no firm evidence of the early Mughal rulers Babar and Humayun, whose principal adversaries were Afghans, in engaging in temple desecration, including, strikingly, in Ayodhya. Certain later Mughal and other rulers are said to have engaged in the destruction of royal temples and building mosques on their sites in territories ruled by rebel chieftains. These acts were intended to be punishments for rebellion, and once rebellions were quelled few such incidents took place.
Whatever form they took, Eaton says, 'acts of temple desecration were never directed at the people, but at the enemy king and the image that incarnated and displayed his state-deity'. Eaton cites in this regard a contemporary description of a 1661 Mughal campaign in Kuch Bihar, northern Bengal, which resulted in the annexation of the region, makes it clear that Mughal authorities were guided by two principal concerns: to destroy the image of the state-deity of the defeated Raja, Bhim Narayana and to prevent Mughal troops from looting or in any way harming the general population of Kuch Bihar. Accordingly, the chief judge of Mughal Bengal, Saiyid Muhammad Sadiq, was directed to issue prohibitory orders that nobody was to touch the property of the people. Sayyid Sadiq, Eaton tells us, 'issued strict prohibitory orders so that nobody had the courage to break the laws or to plunder the property of the inhabitants. The punishment for disobeying the order was that the hands, ears or noses of the plunderers were cut'. In newly annexed areas formerly ruled by non-Muslims, as in the case of Kuch Bihar, Eaton goes on, 'Mughal officers took appropriate measures to secure the support of the common people, who after all created the material wealth upon which the entire imperial edifice rested'.
The theory that politics, rather than simple religious zeal, lay behind most instances of temple-breaking by Muslim rulers is strengthened by the fact that, as Eaton points out, once Hindu Rajas were defeated by Muslim kings and their territories annexed, pragmatism dictated that temples within the Emperor's realm remained unharmed. This was the case even with the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, generally projected as the epitome of Muslim iconoclasm. Eaton quotes an order issued by Aurangzeb to local officials in Benares in 1659 to provide protection to the Brahman temple functionaries there, together with the temples at which they officiated. The order reads:
In these days information has reached our court that several people have, out of spite and rancor, harassed the Hindu residents of Benares and nearby places, including a group of Brahmans who are in charge of ancient temples there. These people want to remove those Brahmans from their charge of temple-keeping, which has caused them considerable distress. Therefore, upon receiving this order, you must see that nobody unlawfully disturbs the Brahmans or other Hindus of that region, so that they might remain in their traditional place and pray for the continuance of the Empire.
Justifying this order, Aurangzeb asserted, 'According to the Holy Law (shari'at) and the exalted creed, it has been established that ancient temples should not be torn down'. At the same time, he added that no new temples should be built, a marked departure from the policy of Akbar. However, Eaton says that this order appears to have applied only to Benares because many new temples were built elsewhere in India during Aurangzeb's reign.
Eaton thus seeks to dismiss the notion that various Muslim rulers in India wantonly engaged in destroying Hindu temples, allegedly driven by a 'theology of iconoclasm'. Such a picture, he insists, cannot, sustained by evidence from original sources from the early thirteenth century onwards. Had instances of temple desecration been driven by a 'theology of iconoclasm', he argues, this would have 'committed Muslims in India to destroying all temples everywhere, including ordinary village temples, as opposed to the highly selective operation that seems actually to have taken place'. In contrast, Eaton's meticulous research leads him to believe that 'the original data associate instances of temple desecration with the annexation of newly conquered territories held by enemy kings whose domains lay on the path of moving military frontiers. Temple desecration also occurred when Hindu patrons of prominent temples committed acts of treason or disloyalty to the Indo-Muslim states they served'. Otherwise, he notes, 'temples lying within Indo-Muslim sovereign domains, viewed normally as protected state property, were left unmolested'.
This slim volume is a path-breaking book, a passionate protest against the horrendous uses to which the notion of the 'theology of iconoclasm' has been put by contemporary Hindutva ideologues to justify murder in the name of avenging 'historical wrongs'. It urgently deserves to be translated into various Indian languages and made readily available at a more affordable price.
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Anonymous Monday, March 12, 2007 8:54:00 AM
I do not agree with your point of view and speculation about the Muslim ruler being ignorant about the Hindus at the time. If you have read a book written by Yogi sikand that is good but it should not be a basis to conclude the final results about the Muslims rulers as u did in your article and i would suggest you as the historian look and review your history carefully and do not jump into conclusion. And do not forget the fact that a lot of Hindus were converted by Mohammad Bin-Qasam during this period. Today if you look Muslims in India they are not foreigner but the local Hindus at the time. There family tree falls in Hinduism. Only fraction of the Muslims came from Persia and other middle eastern countries. The point about looting the temple is generally wrong. You just can not support this idea on the basis on one book or an article.
I do not know what are you trying to convey to people with this message . Mike i have no clue how would this bring better for the Indian people with your article.
Ghazni is still a heroic figure in south Asian country.
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Q: Checar se um elemento de um array está contido em cada elemento de outra array com php Eu tenho duas arrays, preciso pegar cada elemento da segunda array e checar se está contido em algum elemento da primeira array usando, por exemplo, a função strpos().
Ou seja, preciso verificar se alguma string da lista 2 está contida em alguma URL da lista 1. Desde já agradeço.

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A: Percorra os 2 arrays em busca de uma ocorrência:
foreach ($ads as $link) {

    foreach ($filter_ads as $ads) {

        if (strpos($link, $ads)){
            echo "Achei aqui:
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            . "Link: ". $link ."
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";
        }

    }

}

Você ainda pode testar essas outras 2 opções, dependendo da sua necessidade elas podem resolver. Nos 2 casos transformei o array de links em uma grande string separada por virgula apenas para procurar uma ocorrência do filtro:
Assim ela retornará 1 se encontrar e 0 se não encontrar:
foreach ($filter_ads as $filter) {
    echo preg_match("/". $filter ."/", implode(",", $ads));
}

Assim ele retornará a posição em que se encontra a ocorrência, isso se houver ocorrência:
foreach ($filter_ads as $filter) {
    echo strpos(implode(",", $ads), $filter);
}

Espero ter ajudado!


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2022 Bmw X3 First Drive
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Its steering feels precise at excessive speeds, nonetheless, the suggestions might have been better.
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Q: How to configure master-slave with 2 nodes using redis-cluster How to configure master-slave with 2 nodes using redis-cluster
I previously used redis-sentinel
I created a master-salve with 2 nodes.
I am asked to change from redis-sentinel to redis-cluster.
I want to use redis-cluster with the following requirements

*

*2 node HA (1 master node, 1 slave node)

*Do not use sharding, use only replication settings

I think redis-cluster cannot fail over automatically if there are at least 3 master nodes.
Redis cluster failover: slave won't become master
How can I use redis-cluster for automatic failover on two nodes?

A: Redis Cluster minimum specification is 6 instances and sharding is not something you can just turn off.
You theoretically run 3 instances on each node but it will not give you highly available cluster.


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