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YBhg Tan Sri Rozali Ismail
Executive Chairman of Puncak Niaga Group
Aged 62, Male, Malaysian
YBhg Tan Sri Rozali Ismail is the founder of PNSB Water Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Puncak Niaga (M) Sdn Bhd) (PNSB), the Executive Chairman of Puncak Niaga Holdings Berhad (Puncak Niaga) Group and major shareholder of Puncak Niaga. He was appointed to the Board of Puncak Niaga on 24 April 1997. He is the Chairman of Puncak Niaga's Executive Committee (EXCO) and Executive Vice Chairman of Puncak Niaga's Oil & Gas Division.
A Bachelor of Laws Degree holder from the University of Malaya in 1981, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali began his career as Legal Advisor with the Urban Development Authority (UDA) before joining Bank Islam (M) Berhad in 1983. Together with a few pioneer bank staff, he conceptualised the first institution of Islamic banking in Malaysia. Subsequently, in 1987, he started his own legal practice as an Advocate and Solicitor for seven years, specialising in corporate, property and banking works.
In 1989, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali set up a family-owned company and embarked into the property development sector, with involvement in several development projects in the Klang Valley, Kuantan and Johor. Under the banner of Puncak Alam Housing Sdn Bhd, he developed a new township known as Bandar Baru Puncak Alam. The family-owned company also ventured into the utility business in 1989 with the setting up of PNSB. Due to his vast experience in various fields, he was entrusted by the Selangor State Government, via PNSB, to manage the water treatment plants for the whole of the State of Selangor Darul Ehsan and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. PNHB was subsequently incorporated in January 1997 as the holding company of PNSB and was listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (now known as the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad) on 8 July 1997.
YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was conferred a Fellowship Award by the Institute of Marketing Malaysia (IMM) on 6 November 2001 for his invaluable contributions to promote the growth and development of the Malaysian property market. In recognition of his outstanding contributions in championing management excellence and best practices in the Malaysian water and wastewater industry, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the prestigious Asia Water Management Excellence Award 2002 – Individual Award Category, an award at Asian level, by the Regional Institute of Environmental Technology on 26 March 2002. YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was a Top 10 Nominee for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year – Malaysia 2002 and Malaysia 2003 (Master Entrepreneur Category) Award in recognition of his outstanding entrepreneurship and leadership skills. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Complementary Medicines (Humanity Services) by the Open International University for Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 24 September 2004. YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was conferred the Jaksa Pendamai (JP) award in conjunction with the 72nd birthday of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Melaka on 9 October 2010.
On 30 November 2007, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was bestowed the SME Platinum Award 2007 by the SMI Association of Malaysia for his outstanding entrepreneurship, leadership and achievements in the water industry. This award signals the SMI Association of Malaysia's recognition of YBhg Tan Sri Rozali as a role model for budding entrepreneurs, especially in view of his rapid rise from a small and medium business entrepreneur to becoming a Chief Executive Officer of a large listed company.
On 16 January 2009, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali received the title of Kolonel Kehormat "60 Rejimen Pakar Pengendalian Air (AW)". In recognition of his excellent services performed with utmost dedication towards the betterment of the community, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was the proud recipient of the Vocational Excellence Service Award 2009, conferred by the Paul Harris Fellow Award and inducted as an Honorary Rotarian by the Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur West on 6 November 2009. On 16 June 2010, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali received the Anugerah Perdana (Kepimpinan), a Premier Award for Leadership at the 'Anugerah Usahawan Bumiputera 2010' organised by Gagasan Badan Ekonomi Melayu (GABEM). On 20 June 2010, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was honoured with the Top Achiever Of The Year 2009 Award at the Fourth Business Of The Year Award organised by the SMI and SME Worldwide Network.
On 28 June 2011, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was honoured with Technology CEO of the Year-Global Award by World Finance Magazine under the World Finance Technology Awards 2011 in recognition of his contributions towards the water sector in Malaysia and the region over the past 15 years and commitment to continuously innovate and improve lives in the process. YBhg Tan Sri Rozali received the title "Brigedier Jeneral (Kehormat) Pakar Pengendalian Air Ke-60 RAJD (AW)" on 4 July 2011. On 20 July 2011, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali received the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2011. On 28 July 2011, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the Masterclass Leader Award at the International Standard Quality (ISQ) Award 2011. On 9 January 2012, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was recognised as International Distinguished Entrepreneur Of The Year for the Asia Pacific International Brands Summit (Malaysia) 2011 by the Asia Entrepreneur Alliance. On 23 February 2012, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the Special Individual Achievement Category at the 1st Malaysia Achievement Awards 2012. On 10 February 2015, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the "Utility Man Of The Year" at the Brandlaureate Brand Leadership Award 2014-2015. On 27 March 2015, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the "Munisaraphoin Medal" by the Prime Minister of Cambodia, H.E Hun Sen. On 18 October 2015, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali received two (2) international recognitions, namely the Certificate of World Business Leader for being a successful leader who works in an innovative, knowledgeable and systematic manner and the Certificate of Excellence in Business Leadership from the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB). On 15 May 2016, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was recognised as World Leader Businessperson by WORLDCOB at The Bizz 2016. On 17 November 2016, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the Outstanding Leaders in Asia at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Award 2016 by MORS Group. On 27 July 2017, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was again recognised as World Leader Businessperson by WORLDCOB at The Bizz 2017. On 6 September 2019, YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was awarded the Special Achievement Award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2019.
YBhg Tan Sri Rozali is a member of various influential governmental and non-governmental associations such as Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology, Malaysian Institute of Directors, Malaysian-British Business Council, Malaysia-Indonesia Business Council, Corporate Malaysia Roundtable, Malaysia-Russia Business Council, Malaysia India Business Council, Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management, Yayasan Budi Penyayang Malaysia, Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM). He is the Advisor to IMM, Governor for Malaysia of Asia Pacific Marketing Federation Foundation and Advisor of "Persatuan Bola Sepak Melayu Malaysia". He is also the Chairman of Gabungan Wawasan Generasi Felda Berhad and Chairman of Majlis Perundingan Ekonomi Melayu.
YBhg Tan Sri Rozali was the past Deputy President of the Malaysian Water Association (MWA) (2003/2005 Session), former Board Member of the Universiti Utara Malaysia (2004-2006), and past Advisor of the Business and Accounting Faculty Council, the University of Malaya (21 May 2004 to 20 April 2007), past advisor of Gabungan Persatuan Usahawan Melayu Selangor/Wilayah Persekutuan (GAPUMS) (2005-2008), former Trustee of Yayasan WAQAF Malaysia (January 2008 – December 2009), past President of the Malay Chamber of Commerce for the State of Selangor (2005-2013), former President of the Water Association of Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya (SWAn) (2006 – 2013), a non-profit organisation which represents the common interest of all water supply and wastewater industries within the States of Selangor, and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya with the aim of promoting interaction with the general public, and enhancing their understanding of water resources and former Pro-Chancellor of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (July 2007 – June 2015).
YBhg Tan Sri Rozali is the Chairman and major shareholder of Pimpinan Ehsan Berhad.
YBhg Dato' Abdul Jalil Abdul Karim
YBhg Dato' Sri Adenan Bin Ab. Rahman
YBhg. Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr. Marimuthu A/L Nadason
Encik Azlan Shah Tan Sri Rozali
YBhg Datuk Sr Haji Johari Bin Wahab
YM Tengku Loreta Tengku Dato' Setia Ramli Alhaj
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nice post - must admit, i was most disappointed to see they don't intend to model infantry.
damn - those are the kind of 'steps forward' i would most appreciate. if you're going to the trouble of epic-looking scenery, one would think it would be logical to fill said scenery with epic-looking objects, vehicles, and yes, even people.
but what if i want to frag bomb allied soldiers, then...?
"Lets put in a FPS mode into the Combat Flight Sim!"
Ok, that'd be pretty cool in a way, but so much re programming, this thing, that thing, modelling, sounds, etc... No one would actually want to do it, but if two people bail out, there's a way to end the match once and for all... Hehehe.
But whenever they talked about him, they always had a slight smile on their faces.. And that, perhaps, maybe your answer.
sure, i think an FPS element would be cool, but that is far from what i'm asking. really, we need some infantry dudes running about to bring life to the battlefields. there's no need to be super-detailed, or have them affecting gameplay - just some eye-candy, is what i'm after.
i know it's a flight sim, but it's time to kick it up a gear - one flaw of most modern flight sims is the clinical battlegrounds, with hardly any sign of life other than your designated targets.
...but that is far from what i'm asking.
I meant it generally, not just you Malone, apologies.
And yeah, Jane's WWII fighters had crew running frm vehicles after you blew them up, you could even strafe troops and single troops.. You even had deers you could shoot!!! I remember editing the config and adding Deer density to like, 100, and there were a bunch of deers all over the place, and you could shoot them, blow them up and all.. MAHAHAHAHA! And on one of my videos, there's a near miss with a deer! You gotta see that!
cockpit gets a little re-adjustment.
WIP. I guess they will tune it in time.
Thanks! I saw that discussion at the new IL-2 website as well... some people want that to be fixed as well.
I still would like to see infantry support... it would make things more historically authentic. If the concern is that there will be a graphical representation of people being killed... c'mon, this is a "combat" flight simulator... how can it be OK to shoot a more lifelike human being in medal of honor, red opera, and a multitude of other ground 1st person sims, but it is not ok to do it from the air? the idea of infantry is for the immersion factor especially in the eastern front... it was fought close to the ground. But alas, it is up to the developers.
Why can't everything be Rocket Propelled!
IL-2 1946 has little peoples that run from the trucks when you strafe them.
Why can they make the "Troops" an small squad of of like 5 to 10 of these peoples that are treated as (to the game engine) as one truck or some thing. when you strafe the "squad" and destroy it it changes to a bunch of guys lying about the battlefield.
I'm sure the game engine could handle a bunch of "trucks" in a large group. we have seen it already.
This might even work in IL-2 1946.


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Obama the Republican
Next year's presidential election will offer a choice between Republicans. More here. --PG
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Why the GOP should nominate Barack Obama in 2012
Tuesday, Jun 21, 2011 07:01 ET
A modest proposal stemming from the president's apparent rejection of his own party's liberal tradition
By Michael Lind
With the possible exception of Jon Huntsman, the Republican presidential field is weak on candidates who could appeal to centrist swing voters, including moderate Republicans. But there is one 2012 prospect who has a proven track record of pursuing policies that owe a great deal to the moderate Republican tradition and who could potentially shake up the race for the GOP presidential nomination: President Barack Obama.
If Obama chose to run for reelection not as a Democrat but as a moderate Republican, he could bring about two healthy transformations in the American political system. The moderate wing of the Republican Party could be restored. And the Democratic presidential nomination might be opened up to politicians from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
In the last generation, the old-fashioned moderate Republicans from New England and the Midwest symbolized by Nelson Rockefeller have been driven out of the GOP by the conservative followers of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Streaming into the Democratic Party as voters, and buying it with ample Wall Street cash as donors, this upscale elite has changed the party from a populist liberal alliance of unionized workers and populists into a socially liberal, economically conservative version of the old country-club Republicanism of the pre-Reagan era. The transformation began under Jimmy Carter, accelerated under Bill Clinton and has nearly been completed under Barack Obama. This is not your grandfather's Democratic Party. It is your grandfather's Republican Party of 1955.
In his book "The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House," Bob Woodward described a Clinton administration meeting in 1993: "Where are all the Democrats?" Clinton bellowed. "I hope you're all aware we're all Eisenhower Republicans," he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "We're all Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and free trade and the bond market. Isn't that great?"
The Obama administration is the third Clinton administration -- or perhaps the fifth Eisenhower administration, following the four combined terms of Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton (by comparison to both, Richard Nixon, as president, was a New Deal liberal). Under the influence of Treasury secretary and master fundraiser Robert Rubin, the Mark Hanna of the modern Democratic Party, Clinton scrapped the "putting people first" agenda he had run on in 1992 and focused on rapidly balancing the budget -- a longtime obsession of fiscal conservatives in the Eisenhower-Rockefeller tradition, rather than supply-siders in the Reagan-Kemp tradition. Similarly, Barack Obama supported a stimulus that was only a quarter as big as necessary -- half of the $2 trillion that his advisor Christina Romer estimated was necessary, with about half of that wasted on ineffectual tax cuts. In spite of the prospect of years of mass unemployment, Barack Obama, in the spirit of the budget-balancing Rubinomics of the 1990s and Ike-onomics of the 1950s, has called for freezing discretionary spending except for defense. He has allowed the conversation to be shifted from recovery to long-term fiscal consolidation, which conservatives will try to use as an excuse to partly replace Social Security and Medicare with mandatory private accounts that will generate lucrative fees for Wall Street and the insurance industry from a huge captive population of American fee-payers.
If he were to run for the Republican nomination, Obama could point out that in the past few years he has already done far more to thwart American liberalism than any of his rivals in the GOP primary have done in their entire careers. He could boast that when liberal economists called for the temporary nationalization of insolvent megabanks, forcing shareholders to swallow their losses and firing their managers, he stood firm and protected Wall Street.
In the area of job creation, too, Obama can honestly tell Republican voters that he never supported massive public works job creation programs, like those of the New Deal. To the extent that the Obama administration has had any job creation policies at all, other than an inadequate stimulus and diversionary rhetoric about training today's children for high-tech jobs in the 2030s or 2040s, it has consisted of payroll tax cuts -- a supply-side measure that practitioners of voodoo economics like Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp would have supported.
Of course, there are limits to Obama's moderate Republicanism. While his economic policy is moderately conservative, Obama's foreign policy is expansive -- and expensive -- Neoconservatism Lite, not a rebirth of Eisenhower's cautious, budget-conscious "New Look" strategy of the 1950s.
In spite of an economic boom, Eisenhower worried about the effects of military spending on the civilian economy. In spite of a near-Depression, Obama exempted defense spending from the government spending freeze.
Eisenhower wound down the Korean War that he inherited from Harry Truman. Obama expanded the Afghan War that he inherited from George W. Bush. In Afghanistan Obama pursued the "surge," a strategy backed by neoconservatives that will have led to the unnecessary death and crippling of even more Americans before the inevitable U.S. withdrawal.
Eisenhower refused to take part in the British, French and Israeli attack on Egypt, during the Suez crisis in 1956. Obama, in contrast, agreed that the U.S. would provide most of the muscle in the Franco-British-American attack on Gadhafi's regime in Libya.
In committing the U.S. to a third ongoing war in a Muslim country, President Obama lied to the public and trashed the Constitution. The administration lied when it said that the purpose of the Libyan war was only to protect civilians in a few areas of Libya from being massacred by Gadhafi's forces. Pilots from the U.S. and other NATO countries soon began trying to assassinate the Libyan dictator from the air.
Obama had already torn up the Constitution, when his administration announced, in effect, that the part about Congress declaring war was a dead letter, as long as an American war was approved by the United Nations and European countries that belong to NATO. The president then set fire to the torn-up shreds of the Constitution, when his administration informed Congress that the War to Assassinate Gadhafi did not trigger the 1973 War Powers Act, with the Orwellian argument that the attempts at murder by American forces of the ruler of Libya while bombing all of the nation's territory did not rise to the level of "hostilities."
All of this might help Obama win the Republican nomination. His appeal to some neocons as well as to socially moderate fiscal conservatives would make Barack Obama an attractive Republican presidential candidate in 2012. After all, the chief problem facing the GOP is its over-reliance on high turnout among white working-class populist conservatives. The Goldwater-Reagan conservatives succeeded too well in pushing out Rockefeller Republican RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), many of whom voted for Obama in 2008. If he received the Republican nomination, Obama might bring many of the moderate Republicans back home. His fiscal conservatism would appeal to Republicans worried about deficits and put off by supply-side economics, while his foreign policy of three simultaneous wars, one of them his own, would reassure neoconservative Republicans worried about the kind of right-wing isolationism symbolized by Ron Paul.
Best of all, Obama could run on healthcare. "ObamaCare" after all was modeled on "RomneyCare" in Massachusetts and resembled the healthcare plan set forth in the 1990s by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Another model for the newly enacted healthcare system, based on individual mandates and subsidies to for-profit private insurance, was the plan that Lincoln Chafee, an old-fashioned Northeastern liberal Republican, put forth during the Clinton era healthcare debate. The pedigree of Obama's healthcare program stretches all the way back to his true role model, Dwight Eisenhower, whose vice president, Richard Nixon, backed the Eisenhower's administration plan to expand healthcare access by subsidizing private insurance rather than through universal social insurance like Medicare.
Obama's speech to the Republican convention practically writes itself:
"I have fought against the failed tradition of New Deal liberalism from the strongest possible position -- the presidency. When the liberals wanted to nationalize the banks, I bailed them out and let their executives reap huge bonuses, thanks to the taxpayers. When the liberals wanted an expansion of Lyndon Johnson's big government Medicare, I said no and pushed for a version of the Heritage Foundation's healthcare coverage plan and what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts. When the liberals wanted a bigger stimulus, I drew the line in the sand. When the liberals criticized the Bowles-Simpson plan to gut Social Security and Medicare, I praised it. When the liberals demanded tougher action against Chinese mercantilist policies that hurt our manufacturing industries, I said no and sided with the U.S. multinationals that want to appease the Chinese government. When the liberals wanted America to withdraw from Afghanistan, I sided with the neoconservatives and ordered the surge. When the voices of the old, failed liberalism said that Congress has a part to play in authorizing foreign wars, I ignored that radical liberal assault on unchecked, arbitrary presidential power and ordered the U.S. to war in Libya on my own authority."
You can already hear the thunder of the standing ovation in the Republican convention hall, when Barack Obama declares: "America needs a president who can stand up to the kind of Wall Street-bashing, big-government, Franklin Roosevelt liberalism that thinks that three wars at one time are too many -- and my record in the White House proves that I am that president."
Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation and is the author of "The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution." More: Michael Lind
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MANILA, Philippines - Some takers of the September 2015 Mechanical Engineering board exam admitted cheating as exposed in viral photos on social media on Sunday, October 4.
Screenshots of the conversation through Facebook claiming what was happened in some test centers of mechanical licensure exam were captured by George William Ong with his post captioned: "Nasaan ang dangal? Nasaan? #MechanicalEngineeringBoardExam September2015."
"Una looksfam, sunod solve ng madali, sunod solve ng mahirap at lastly ang mahiwagang circle of friends. haha, pag di ganyan ang ginawa mu nung exam, others ka. Haha..salamat sa mga katabi ko..at sa mabait na proctor na nasa tabi ko na kunwaring titingin sa bag at magtutulugtulugan para maka aura ako.hahaha," a netizen confessed online.
"Kahit proctor naawa na din eh 30 mins nalang. la pa shade. Haha. Yung iba manhid pero kaya yan brad," one netizen said.
One taker asked not to judge them because of cheating and said they also exerted effort in problem solving and have shared the answers to other examinees.
Some also questioned how the recent ME board was administered. "In terms of the exam was administered, apparently, many proctors were not strict, hence, somehow, encouraging cheating among student."
Some takers also defend the rationale of passing mechanical engineer board exam and summons for respect and understanding.
In the official Facebook page of PRC, a certain Mhar Ilaga (not real name to hide his identity) shared his side on the issue.
"Palitan muna po natin yung topic na kopyahan sa topic na KATOTOHANAN.. Para po sabihin ko sa inyo, pwedeng motive lang po iyon ng mga UP student to retake the board examination or to blackmail the students na involved.. why? Dahil sa totoo lang po, may UP student na hindi tinapos ang board exam.. Hindi po yun pagrespeto sa naganap na board exam dahil ang totoong nagrerespeto sa board, kulan man yung mga given, tatapusin mo pa rin yun.. Nagmakaawa lang po yung proctor na shade nya lahat ng boxes."
Aside from cheating, takers also highlighted the fault of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Board for Mechanical Engineering who have conducted the licensure exam. Allegedly, there are discrepancies in the testpapers as needed tables (i.e. Steam table, Mollier diagram) according to instructions on Day 1 exam were not provided. They just discovered that supplement data sheets were attached on test papers for Day 2 exam. This caused panic to some takers, pushed them to cheat while some students 'walked-out' of the test center.
The September 29-30 Mechanical Engineering (ME) board exam results should have been released after 2 or 3 working days or on Friday or Monday per PRC Resolution No. 2014-874.
It is possible that PRC and the Board of Mechanical Engineering are now investigating on the alleged cheating and the mistakes on how the board exam was administered.
TheSummitExpress will try to contact PRC to clarify the issue. This site is also open for the official statement of the agency.


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Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'
( Louisa Bertman )
Summary Transcript
Desiree: I wanna be in movies. I wanna act. You ever watch teen movies, what's that? mean girls, mean girls. I wanna be like one of those.
YOUTUBE TRAILER: Get in loser... we're going shopping.
Rodriguez: Desiree is seventeen. And what she craves most is the carefree life of a spoiled teenager:
Youtube trailer: Calculus class ...
You want to experience that even if it's just in a movie.
Desiree: Even if it's just in a movie. Yeah if I could just act it out and pretend it's happening and I could watch myself over and over again. I'm fine with that.
Yes, material things are part of the appeal—nice car, nice house, good clothes. But it goes deeper than that:
Desiree: Like the schools is just so nice. They got everything they want in they school.
Desiree wants the basics: a decent school, a home, friends, and maybe most of all, a nurturing mother….
Desiree: And they could bring home company and they mom will cook for their company, cook for them, wash the dishes, wash their clothes, get they clothes out like I would want something like that. (laugh)
Have you ever had any of that? No, never did I want something like that though.
What Desiree has is something much different—a group home in the Bronx, the last stop on the 2 train…...where she lives with 11 other girls.
Let me just sign this book really quickly….
The group home is two stories with a pitched roof and a small balcony. From the outside, it looks like a large family lives here. From the inside, the living room feels more like a waiting room...
Desiree: It's a 24 hour facility so somebody comes in like 3 shifts.
Desiree's lived here since last July.
So this is the place?
Desiree: Yes.
It's her latest placement. She's moved more than 20 times since she was 10.
Desiree: I wouldn't call it a home… I would call it… it's like very independent... it's not basically for me…
I've been getting to know Desiree for 7 month..that's not her real name. We gave her a pseudonym because she's young and we wanted to protect her identity.
Desiree: Wanna walk? wanna take a walk? …
No she can't take a walk. She gotta walk out the door.
Desiree: I'm talking about up the block….
oh ok.
Desiree: How long you been doing this for?
Rodriguez: A long time…
Desiree: a long time…?
For nearly half her life, Desiree's been considered a foster kid and a juvenile delinquent. Both systems have run her life. She has no trust in either and feels wronged by both.
Desiree: I wanna write a letter to the commissioner...
The system didn't work for her and she says it doesn't work for most kids but they're too scared to speak up:
Rodriguez: And you're not? No I'm not scared because if Martin Luther King stood in front of that whole crowd … did a speech on black people and tried to help segregation and stuff, you think I'm really gonna be scared to try to help people out that don't have a voice for theyselves….
KAI: And Desiree will get a chance to talk to city commissioners. She is smart, expressive, and painfully honest about her life...and she's been chosen to tell her story to a task force trying to change the way the juvenile justice system in New York City treats girls.
I'm Kai Wright and you're listening to Caught.
Girls can be an enigma for policy-makers. That's because research typically focuses on boys since they dominate the system.
But studies that do exist, have found that within the juvenile justice system, girls experience higher rates of trauma than boys—especially sexual trauma. Policy experts call this the sexual abuse to prison pipeline and they say it's why incarcerating a young girl perpetuates more negative behavior and makes it hard to exit the system.
WNYC REPORTER CINDY RODRIGUEZ TAKES IT FROM HERE:
Rodriguez: When we talk about the "system", we're talking about a lot of different players. There's caseworkers, group homes, probation officers, police, judges, psychiatrists….
Desiree: Everytime I go to a psychiatrist I got a different diagnose….
Zimmerman: but you gotta keep it real. I don't know if you need to be on medication or not. I'm not a doctor.
Desiree: I don't...
That's Brian Zimmerman. He's what's called an 18B...a private attorney the state pays to represent indigent clients...like a public defender...only in family court. He and Desiree are talking after a check-in with her judge last fall:
Desiree: I still feel like I could do better but right now I feel like I'm doing very good…
Zimmerman: you've lasted pretty long without a real staff altercation so that actually, I'm proud of you for the fact that you're holding that part together..
Rodriguez: Brian's seen Desiree go from a tiny 10-year-old to a 5'9 young woman. She probably has four inches on him. Where she's quick and impulsive..he's slow and deliberate.
Zimmerman: But I think you shouldn't fool yourself about the connection about your past and why you feel the way you do sometimes.
Desiree: Uh hum.
Desiree's past starts like this. When she was four-months-old, her mom stabbed her father to death and was sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter. Desiree and her sister were sent to live with relatives in Rochester, New York. But eventually their mom got them back:
Desiree: The first month was fine like she was taking her meds. She was treating me like a daughter. It was fine. She wasn't even hitting me or nothing.
But that changed and Desiree says it was like her mom needed an excuse to, " beast out". In other words, release a lot of pent up anger. SHE ENDED UP WITH CUTS AND BRUISES.
DESIREE: And like I had a busted eye and stuff
A teacher called Child services AND THAT'S WHAT LANDED HER and her sister in foster care...AT GELLER HOUSE,
Desiree: Most of the kids that were in Geller House with me… They had a lot of clothes. They had people that was always calling them, like their family making sure they ok and things. And I wanted all that but I couldn't have it.
Geller House is a facility for adolescents with serious emotional problems. Desiree and her sister were 10 and 11 and were young compared to everyone else.
They stuck together, and when it was time to go to sleep, Desiree would sneak into her sister's bed.
Desiree: And then we used to get in trouble in the morning time when they wake us up.
It was one of the rare times she would act like a little girl.
Desiree: I really couldn't sleep and I would tell them that I would tell the psychiatrist I really cannot sleep without my sister… Cuz like I have to play with her ear. I was still like a big behind baby.
Desiree felt alone and she started to have angry outbursts to get noticed
Desiree: ...when I was first having my episode, my tantrums, they was coming, 'oh she's a little girl just talk to her', and they would talk to me and then like as I would do it consistently it's like, 'oh no, she's too bad; she's doing too much, she needs counseling, she needs this'.
She got the desperately needed attention but not the kind she was hoping for.
Desiree: So they put me on medication thinking that was gonna help. But I was still being bad and stuff so they just end up hospitalizing me, putting me in the hospital just because every program I went to they didn't want me the would kick me out.
Rodriguez: How was the hospital experience for you? It was sad. It was very sad. It was very depressing because it was like look at me like as I am your daughter. Yes, I am a little girl...
Desiree talks fast. I asked her to explain. It turns out what she wanted was something simple and not so simple….she wanted someone to reassure her and give her hope that things would get better. But she wanted it to come from someone who loved her UNCONDITIONALLY:
Desiree: I'm not gonna blame like, I'm not gonna put my trauma like to like be like, 'oh that's an excuse to be bad or whatever'. But like I've been through things. I just want attention. I just want somebody to love me. I don't care if it's like, for a second. So like, that's basically yeah."
This need for attention is about to expose Desiree to the police. One day, DESIREE, her sister and a friend tore apart the Geller House library.
Desiree: I threw all the books off the library shelf and I flipped over the air hockey table….We were all just like you know little kids silly moments but you know we took it out of hand. We wanted to be cool. We wanted to be older cuz me my friend and my sister, we was the youngest so we wanted to be older; we wanted to be cool so we decided oh, if we get arrested we older, we did something, we grown…
She says the home called the police and just like that they went from being seen as little girls recovering from trauma to juvenile delinquents who destroyed property:
Rodriguez: Did a police officer actually come in and put handcuffs on you?
Desiree: No we ran… and they finally caught us and then they put us in handcuffs and we went down to the precinct. We got arrested. We went to juvenile justice cuz our age.
Rodriguez: And you were like a little girl? 10 is really young.
Desiree: Yeah really little.
Rodriguez: And how did that feel to have handcuffs on you?
Desiree: Once again it felt like I'm older like again... I'm in handcuffs. You can't tell me I'm not grown cuz I'm in handcuffs. Only grown people go in handcuffs cuz you don't see no little kids going in handcuffs…. only grown people so we felt like, excuse my language, that we was the shit.
Rodriguez: Since that day at Geller House, Desiree says she's been arrested more than 20 times. But those arrests no longer make her feel strong...they do the opposite….they make her feel constrained, powerless and misunderstood…The trajectory from the foster care system to the juvenile justice system is very common. Researchers working with the city found more than half the girls who get arrested have an open child welfare case...that means one of their parents has been accused of abusing or neglecting them….
One system feeds the other. For Desiree, being in both means she's moved around a lot…. There's been detention centers, mental health treatment centers, group homes, foster homes…
Rodriguez: How many foster moms have you had?
Desiree: I can't even count...The ones that I can think of ...1,2,3... five that I can count but I know I had more than that…
And in each setting she's on the defensive. Desiree's gained a reputation as a "don't mess with me," kind of girl. BUT she's delicate. And that makes her vulnerable in a way that may be hard to see.
In her book, Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd, whose an activist, wrote this line about girls that have been sexually exploited. It goes something like this: "Girls weren't drug addicted, they were love addicted and that I'll learn is far harder to treat."
Desiree does long for love. And that craving makes her a target:
Desiree: so now what am I getting you? A double cheeseburger and what else? A McChicken.
I didn't know Desiree had been sexually exploited until SHE TOLD ME ABOUT IT… SITTING IN A MCDONALD'S…
A girl she met in one of the facilities she was placed in introduced her to a young man who was 19 at the time. She considers him a friend.
DESIREE: She said, 'here's a way you can go on a date with a man... and get some money.
He took provocative pictures of her and MADE an ad on Backpage which he paid for in bitcoin. Desiree says her ad got a lot of attention. SHE WAS 13 YEARS OLD.:
Desiree: all these guys, white men, african, spanish all different races probably like 60 years old, 50 years old, forty, thirty ...older guys.
Rodriguez: Wow. And you would go to their house.
Desiree: Uh huh.
Just last year a senate subcommittee accused Backpage of facilitating sex trafficking. And a source told me when girls run away from a juvenile detention facility, one of the first places caseworkers look, is Backpage. Having sex with grown men was hard for Desiree:
Desiree: I would have to be under drugs to do it cuz like I can't do it sober cuz like yo, what am I really doing? So I would get high or I would get drunk. And I would do it and then after I come off the drugs and stuff, I'd be like what did I really do. Oh I'm about to stop doing this.
It became a cycle. She felt bad about herself because she was doing it and she was doing it because she felt bad about herself:
Desiree: I would feel nasty like yo why am I doing this like what made me in my mind do this?...Like how can I say I used to have like nightmares. I used to be mad at myself. I used to be angry because it's like yo, 'nobody know what I have to do on a regular daily basis just to get money.'
The Administration for Children's Services found out she was being sex trafficked and put her in different programs… but she says nobody could convince her to stop:
Desiree: Like when I first started doing it, 'I was like alright I can stop.' but then as I start getting into it and more money starts coming in it was like yo, this is addictive... so it's hard to get.... Once you in it it's hard to get out.
Girls and boys under 18 are no longer prosecuted in New York for prostitution. They are supposed to be seen as victims… BUT ATTORNEYS SAY SOMETIMES if girls have nowhere else to go...JUDGES put them IN DETENTION FOR SMALL INFRACTIONS TO KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THEIR PIMPS.
That never happened to Desiree. But prostitution did expose her to a lot of danger:
Desiree: Yeah I almost got kidnapped. Yeah.
Rodriguez: What do you mean?
Desiree: I had went on a date with a guy whatever. Come to find out he was a pimp.
It's an intense conversation to have at a McDonald's. She got a bad feeling about the guy the moment she stepped in his house:
Desiree: And then as soon as I said something's not right to turn back around…he pushed me. He pushed me on the bed. Mind you, it was just a mattress on the floor. No furniture, no TV, no refrigerator no food in the house just an empty house.
Rodriguez: Wow.
Desiree: And he was like, oh you're not going nowhere.
She says HE WANTED TO MAKE HER WORK FOR HIM IN FLORIDA…… He screamed in her face. She tried to act like she wasn't scared until several other men came out of nowhere.
Desiree: You would've thought it was just him and me in the house. So like they hold a gun to my head like if you scream or do anything I'm gonna shoot you so I'm not gonna hold you I started crying like yo, what do you want, do you want money. I'm throwing them money…. you could have whatever you want.
But then one guy felt bad and yelled at the others to let her go. He opened the door and she took off running down the stairs and down the block shaken and terrified…but with the wherewithal to take care of herself and go to the hospital
Desiree: Cuz I had a dress on whatever so he like tried to rape me or whatever ...but he didn't get a chance but then the guy he felt bad for me cuz I was crying...
The police got called and they tried to convince her to cooperate with an investigation:
Desiree: I'm not going to go through with it. He got my whole ID. He has my information. What am I gonna do? Oh I could put you in protective custody. No ou can't do that because you can't. What you going to do with me in protective custody. I'm not going through with nothing.
Desiree was scared but she also has no trust in public system especially the police.
Desiree: I didn't call the cops I just came to the hospital just to get tested and to get medicines because I don't know what he had or anything like that.
Rodriguez: Right. Right. Wow that is really scary. I'm so sorry that you went through that.
Desiree: It's okay.
Rodriguez: I think most people would be pretty destroyed by that. I've been through worse things, worse things.
When we come back, Desiree finds ways to speak out for change to the system.
KAI: WHEN WE LAST HEARD FROM DESIREE SHE WAS TELLING US A TERRIFYING STORY ABOUT NEARLY BEING KIDNAPPED AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY A MAN SHE SAYS WAS A PIMP WHO WAS TRYING TO FORCE HER TO WORK FOR HIM.
Rodriguez: Desiree brushes off the experience like she's had to brush off other sexual abuse in her past. But sexual trauma cuts deep. There is an impact. And it comes out when she punches, kicks and bites the staff who try to restrain her. And in the angry fights, she has with other girls and adults who try to control her. And in the way she abuses drugs and alcohol. These private details of her life all get exposed back in family court....
ZIMMERMAN: Well I think the judge was mostly concerned with what I told you.
Brian's sitting on a bench inside Brooklyn family court talking to Desiree on his cell phone.
Zimmerman: And she really, she was like waking up on the subway drunk. She knows about that you know they're going to report that….
Weeks earlier, police found her on a subway train, so DRUNK she had to be hospitalized. It's troubling behavior and there's no parent to decide what to do. Brian and her judge, Amanda White will handle it. She's been overseeing Desiree's case since 2015.
Zimmerman:..she's worried …that you're using substances to deal with the traumas and the pain, ok. Remember I told you that's how it would be thought of.
Desiree, on the other end of the line, explains how alcohol helps her forget about things.
Zimmerman: I know. And that's exactly the point... That's how you get your minds off things. It's because you're not addressing the things you need to address.
The judge wants Desiree in therapy. Desiree thinks therapy is useless. Brian tells her Judge White is concerned
Zimmerman: It's not your parent but…You know. It's just like me…You're stuck with me as kind of a parent. You have to know... that I'm not going to say it's okay. Right? Moderation. You know what moderation means...It means don't too much to the point where you're not controlling yourself. That's not good. It's when bad things can happen.
Rodriguez: This is the system as parent. JUDGE WHITE is the top judge in Brooklyn family court... And she's held dozens of hearings about Desiree. There was a period when Desiree kept getting arrested...and the system was about to send her upstate to the most restrictive detention center for juveniles. It houses kids charged with felonies. Desiree never committed a felony. but here's what she did do:
In 2016, she was arrested for allegedly throwing a candle and spitting on a worker at a group home. She was sent to a juvenile detention facility where she got arrested four times in about a month...for biting, pushing, and slapping workers...Her charges---assault, menacing, harassment
Lashing out at workers and at other girls, kept happening. Desiree says in at least one case, she was attacked by other kids and had to defend herself. After a fight, she says she would feel regret:
Desiree: Was it that serious? Even if she started it you don't know what she's going through outside of here…You don't...Just like she don't know what I'm going through
Brian didn't want Desiree to go upstate...and thought that would only make things worse. So he argued to Judge White -- all Desiree's arrests were for behavior INSIDE detention facilities where being physically restrained set her off. He said it wasn't like she was out on the streets robbing and assaulting people.
He asked that she be removed from the juvenile justice system and placed back in the child welfare system…meaning, treat her like an abused child again—INSTEAD OF A DELINQUENT. Judge White agreed, which is why DESIREE is living in a group home today.
Zimmerman: You heard what she said...
Recently, she and Brian had a check-in with Judge White…where it was revealed that when Desiree doesn't want to go to school, her group home calls the police, yes the police.
Zimmerman: That's not the way they should be handling it..
DESIREE: Just for not waking up that's so dumb. So that makes me going to get even more upset because now you're calling the police. I didn't even wake up yet. . .
Zimmerman: I know you haven't put on your makeup yet to be seen by the police. But that's. (LAUGHING)
Exposing her to the police ups the chances Desiree will be arrested again. And she's 17 now--so when she gets prosecuted, it's as an adult.
Zimmerman: No, it's not right because someone like you who doesn't do well with authority who's with the trauma stuff, like might react. You don't want to catch …
Desiree: Another charge
Zimmerman: Another charge.
Zimmerman: because you're…
Desiree: I already got too many…
Zimmerman: you're gonna be upset. . . That's one of the reasons I ask those questions because... it bothers me. That they would put you in that position cuz this has always been a problem …they put you in this position...
Desiree: exactly.
Desiree: That doesn't excuse you from reacting…you have to keep controlling yourself because you know there's high stakes if you don't.
And Desiree has been trying to control herself. Once she left the juvenile system, she went 9 months without getting arrested. She also got a job at Denny's And an internship at Vera Institute of Justice--A NONPROFIT FOCUSED ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.
Rodriguez: How was Vera today?
Desiree: Um, Vera was. . it was good. At first I really wasn't in the mood to come. They actually got me working as a fellowship there. So now they gonna set me up with an email, a desk... so now I'm gonna officially be working at Vera instead of working like ...not just come in to help with like end girl's incarceration….
Rodriguez: that's pretty cool.
Desiree: Yep, they surprised me with that today. I'm like Vera. Got me an internship at Vera…that's good…
It's an unseasonably warm night and we just left Vera's offices at the Woolworth Building:
Rodriguez: the Woolworth building is beautiful right? Desiree: Yeah. I like being down here at night because it's pretty.
Vera first recruited Desiree to speak to a city task force working to end detention for girls …And now as part of her fellowship, she's actually helping to create a set of questions that will hopefully get used by the city to assess foster homes for girls.
Through her work, she also got introduced to a researcher, Shonda Chapman, whose become a mentor.
Chapan: Um call me though. Ok. like if you want somebody just to show up there and be there to support you. I'm like down. I'll come through. I'll be with the kid. Desiree: I'm gonna call you tonight. It might be a little bit late. . . (FADE the rest of the conversation under me)
Shonda encourages Desiree to keep up with school so she can graduate. Desiree wants help with math:
Desiree: You know how to do like trigonometry and stuff?
Chapman: I do statistics. Trig is outside my wheelhouse. Laughter. But I can get you some support around trig….
Shonda was also in the juvenile justice system.
Chapman: There's this tendency to like do this thing where it's like, ' you need to take accountability for your actions lalalala' But being able to say, no every fucking thing around me was like messed up and everybody that was supposed to protect me did not and every institution that should have be able to intervene thought that I was worthy of just being thrown in the trash and so you wonder why these kids are out here punching folks in the face...uhhh.
The idea that girls are being violent because they've been abused, ignored and misunderstood is PART OF THE REASON WHY THE CITY TASK FORCE WANTS TO END INCARCERATION FOR GIRLS….OR AT LEAST REDUCE THEIR ARRESTS AND FIND SERVICES they respond to that will keep them out of the system in the first place. Last year girls in New York City were put in detention 415 times. Those are short term stays while a judge decides what to do with them. 49 got sentenced to a more long term placement.
90 percent of the girls in the juvenile justice system are black or latina.
LINDSAY ROSENTHAL IS A RESEARCHER AT VERA… SHE SAYS THE CHARGE THAT GETS GIRLS DETAINED THE MOST IS ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE… THE LEAST SERIOUS ASSAULT CHARGE. And these fights mostly happen at school and at home:
LINDSAY: We're really trying to pinpoint specific schools and neighborhoods that might be struggling with family violence the most and having the most simple assault cases coming into particular precincts.
VERA IS RUNNING THE CITY TASK FORCE. ROSENTHAL HOPES THAT WHAT COMES OUT OF IT WILL BECOME A NATIONAL MODEL FOR ENDING INCARCERATION FOR GIRLS. DESIREE IS CRITICAL OF THE SYSTEM BUT SHE's also kind of an expert on it.
AND VERA HAS INVITED HER TO A NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN Washington DC…. IT'S ABOUT EMPOWERING GIRLS IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM. It's a CHANCE TO TRAVEL AND TO get away from her group home:
Zimmerman: it may be nice to have a few days away from them…
Desiree: to live the rich life….
Zimmerman: but that's not the only reason you're going to the program. It is to talk about the issues of women incarcerated.
Desiree: I KNOW THAT BECAUSE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AND ALSO TO GET AWAY
BUT THE Administration for Children's Services SAYS HER MOM HAS TO APPROVE THE TRIP. THEY WON'T LET HER GO WITHOUT IT…Brian STEPS IN ONCE AGAIN, AND SAYS HE'LL GET A COURT ORDER IF NECESSARY:
Zimmerman: You need to be responsible and I will do my job to kept it on the calendar so I can get orders if I need to.
He gets the court order and Desiree makes the trip:
Desiree: Hi Cindy…so I'm walking up the escalator on my way to my room. We just got back from building power, a woman's initiative. . . I like it here…it is really good…like really, really good.
Rodriguez: She leaves me this message from the conference. Desiree isn't just an attendee. She's on a panel and there's dozens of people sitting in front of her waiting to hear her speak:
Desiree: Good afternoon….I've been working with Vera on ending girls incarceration in NYC. Girls come into child welfare as innocent kids but as they go deeper into the system and are moved from home to home it messes with them mentally. Taking psych assessments over and over. . . It's retraumatizing to have to think about your story -- getting verbally assaulted and physically abused. With the trauma and everything child welfare does to them, girls are unhappy. They have all this anger inside them. They go into the community and commits things. Then the juvenile system gets involved and sends them to these placements for god knows how long, where you don't know who is going to hurt you. You are forced to become older. You are disrespected because of your history; and you are not able to be a kid no longer.
Desiree has a 79-point-pan to make things right. The core of it is this: bad behavior is rooted in a child's pain and they don't deserve to be punished for that:
Desiree: When I went to jail and stuff, I wanted to be a child. I was forced to be like older. I had to take care of myself at the age of 11. It was really hard. Like I was out there doing things that I didn't want to do but I was basically forced to do it. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.Um I just feel like they just need to treat kids like kids and base things off their history cuz everybody been through stuff. They just wanna like … they just wanna like look at your paperwork instead of like looking at the person you are because when everybody interview me and they see my paperwork they be like, 'oh dang I don't want to interview this person or she's crazy; she needs to be locked up. But when you really get to know me and really see me I am not that person on paper, I am not that person no more. I try everyday to be a new person and not go back to my old ways…applause
Five months after she returned from the conference, Desiree was picked up by police in the Bronx. She had warrants for failing to check in with her probation officer and for missing court dates. Her public defender told me her group home did nothing to help Desiree keep up with the requirements imposed by the criminal justice system...like helping her to find transportation to court. She is now in Rikers Island, a violent, chaotic jail for adults. The city is still coming up with ways to end incarceration for girls. Unfortunately, any change to the system, comes too late for Desiree.
KAI:Ok, so it's been a while..but remember Z? from earlier in the podcast?
[Bouncing like a bunny music or stay in school rap]
Yeah, him, the goofy kid who, somewhere along the way... grew into an angry kid.
In episode 1, we explained that, by the age of 12, Z was already caught up in the system... getting repeatedly detained and arrested, going to court, and eventually getting locked up at 16 -- after he and a group of friends robbed somebody...one one of them had a gun. That's where we met Z. He was in juvenile detention..and we hung out with him until he got out.
Mom: welcome home!
Z: yeah, i'm back!
Mom: Tay Tay, your brother's home!
Z's mom has always felt like his real problem was his environment ... that he's just surrounded by bad choices, in the neighborhood and in school, and so he's set up to fail... She would've loved an option like wilderness camps -- to send him away some place that wasn't jail and to buy him time to grow up.
But she didn't have that option. And when Z got out... well, he didn't stay out. That's where we left him in Episode 2: getting arrested again.
Kia: Z is in Coxsackie Correctional Facility. I believe he has no idea where he is, how far he is away from home.
So we're gonna follow Z upstate, to prison. That's in final the final episode of Caught.
CREDITS / Caught is a production of WNYC Studios and the Narrative Unit of WNYC News. This episode was reported by Cynthia Rodriguez.
Dwayne Betts is a consultant on the podcast. Cayce Means is our technical director. Bill Moss mixed this episode … Hannis Brown is our composer and Students Taja Graves-Parker, Alberto Lugo and Sean Gary from Building Beats provided additional music.
Our team of talented producers includes Rebecca Carroll, Jessica Miller, Sophia Paliza-Carre and Patricia Willens Michelle Harris is our fact checker. Kaari Pitkin is our senior producer. Karen Frillmann is our executive producer. Jim Schacter is WNYC's Vice President for News. And I'm Kai Wright. Thanks for listening.
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The World Cup led to a record-breaking number of app downloads and consumer spend in Q2
July 20, 2018 at 12:07 PM EDT
The second quarter of 2018 was another record-breaker for mobile app downloads and revenue. According to a new report this week from App Annie, there were over 28.4 billion app downloads worldwide across both iOS and Google Play in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year. That number is even more remarkable because it doesn't include […]
The second quarter of 2018 was another record-breaker for mobile app downloads and revenue. According to a new report this week from App Annie, there were over 28.4 billion app downloads worldwide across both iOS and Google Play in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year. That number is even more remarkable because it doesn't include reinstalls or updates – only new app downloads. In addition, consumer spending in apps was up 20 percent year-over-year to reach $18.5 billion across iOS and Google Play combined.
This is the most money spent in apps compared with any other quarter before, the report notes, topping the prior quarter's record-breaking $18.4 billion in app revenue, and 27.5 billion downloads.
Much of the download activity in Q2 came from Google Play.
On its app marketplace alone, global downloads topped 20 billion, up 20 percent year-over-year and widening the gap between itself and iOS by 25 percent points to 160 percent. (See below).
This massive download growth is attributable largely to India, says App Annie .
The country was the biggest driver of download growth year-over-year in both absolute values and growth in market share. Indonesia also played a big role in Google Play downloads.
Meanwhile, the U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia saw the largest growth in iOS downloads.
In particular, Google Play app downloads included growth in categories like games, video players and editors, and – not surprisingly, given the World Cup – sports applications. And on iOS, Sports apps were also the largest driver of global iOS downloads, followed by Finance and Travel apps.
The impact on the 2018 FIFA World Cup on sports app downloads was also highlighted last month by Sensor Tower, whose own analysis found that new installs of the five leading live TV on demand apps offering channels with the World Cup grew 77 percent during the first week of World Cup coverage, compared with the three preceding weeks (excluding the NBA Finals period).
Sports streaming service fuboTV saw the largest impact, growing at a whopping 713 percent and adding 309K new users in the U.S., while Hulu saw the smallest impact at 18 percent growth.
Single network apps grew, too, this earlier report said. FOX Sports downloads increased by 95x for the same period, while Telemundo Deportes En Vivo grew 444x, for example.
App Annie added that the top 3 sports apps in Android in the U.S. during the first three weeks of the tournament were Telemundo Deportes (#1), FOX Sports GO (#2), and FOX Sports (#3), in terms of average megabytes per user – an indication of users' live-streaming activity. The apps were also new entrants to the top 10 list of apps by total time spent, compared with the three weeks directly prior.
In the U.K., over 6 million hours were spent in the top 10 sports apps on Android during the first 3 weeks of the World Cup, up 65 percent from the 3 weeks prior.
The World Cup also had an impact on consumer spending in apps in the quarter.
Sports apps on iOS were the third largest contributors to absolute growth in consumer spend and in market share in Q2, while Entertainment and Productivity apps were numbers one and two, respectively. In-app subscriptions for both Sports and Entertainment apps drove the consumer spending increases.
On Google Play, Games, Social, and Music & Audio apps saw the largest download growth, quarter-over-quarter.
However, despite the downloads and consumer spending in sports and TV apps, the charts of the top 10 apps by worldwide downloads and consumer spending look a lot like they usually do – with Facebook apps dominating the top 10 by downloads (Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were the top 4).
And the top 10 apps by spending were still largely those subscription-based entertainment services like Netflix, Tencent Video, iQIYI, Pandora, Youku, and YouTube.
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On the far eastern side of Jefferson County lies the peaceful city of Sullivan. If you find your way there you owe it to yourself to visit Pour Man's Pub and Grill, where you will find great home made pizza for a really reasonable price. Your Jefferson County Pizza Review Crew made the run to Sullivan on a recent Sunday afternoon.
It all begins and ends with the crust and Pour Man's has a good one. This crust has a crunch that only ground corn can provide. Super scrumptious. The toppings on our pizzas were plentiful. No need to order double cheese or double anything for that matter. Pour Man's pours it on with plenty to satisfy. Order a beer and it comes in a cold 16 ounce glass. Yummy!
This place is a pub, not a fancy schmancy establishment. Famous for their broasted chicken, we had to have a sample and were not disappointed. Real mashed potatoes and gravy on the side made the chicken just heavenly.
Try Pour Man's. Neat and clean as a whistle, and Wisconsin friendly, this joint is right up the old pizza alley in beautiful downtown Sullivan.
Your Jefferson County Pizza (and Broasted Chicken) Review Crew!


Snap, the parent company of the social messaging company Snapchat, has filed the paperwork required for its initial public offering.
The company, cofounded by Evan Spiegel, who was one of our 35 Innovators Under 35 last year, is thought to be seeking to raise $3 billion on a valuation of up to $25 billion. It's expected to go public in March. If all goes to plan, it will be the largest tech IPO since Alibaba in September 2014.
The company's flagship product, Snapchat, is based firmly around the now: capture a moment, share it, and watch it disappear. It was originally designed as a one-to-one communication tool to send photos and later added video. Then the app allowed people to share stories with larger groups, and also enabled brands to post disappearing articles for people to see. Much of this content can be bedecked with what Snap calls lenses—photo and video filters, most of which are saccharine or silly.
So far, the playful, ephemeral approach has worked: the app has over 158 million active users.
But Snap's IPO paperwork reveals that, despite generating $404.5 million in revenue in 2016, in total it made a loss of $514.6 million. While it has started generating income via placing ads in stories and asking brands to sponsors lenses, it's also been spending heavily. Perhaps most notable is the fact that it doesn't run its own farm of servers, instead running its operations on Google's Cloud Platform service. And a deal inked last month commits it to spending $400 million per year for the privilege over the next five years.
But it's also pushing new technologies and ideas hard. While disappearing messages are its bread and butter, it's dreaming up new ways to acquire and deliver its evanescent content. So it's selling its own smart glasses to capture first-person video, building augmented reality into its app, and developing weird and wonderful new ways to make its experience sticky (read: sell more ads).
Snap is clearly brimming with ideas, then, if not profits. The only question is: are people in the market for vision, or are they worried that the successes it breeds might be just as transient as the content they're centered around? It looks like we'll find out later this year.


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Home > Courses > Course Search Results > Australian Catholic University (ACU) > Bachelor of Business Administration / Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Business Administration / Bachelor of Laws
This program is designed to produce well- rounded graduates ready for legal practice and a range of professional careers in an increasingly global environment. As a graduate you can pursue a range of legal careers including: private practice as a solicitor or barrister; legal officer in the public sector; in-house counsel for a wide range of organisations including corporations, regulatory authorities and NGOs. In addition to a career in the law, this double degree is excellent preparation for careers in accounting, administration, banking, business analysis/development, business management, regulatory compliance, communications, computing, financial management, human resource management, international business, international marketing, management consultancy, marketing recruitment, staff development and sales. As part of this degree you complete up to 160 hours of pro bono work (after your first year), providing you with firsthand experience of the legal system while allowing you to contribute to the common good. You will also study business administration, which provides knowledge in many areas of business management including: accounting; business information systems; commercial law; finance; human resource management; international business; management; marketing; occupational health, safety and environment. Completing a Bachelor of Business Administration/Bachelor of Laws is excellent preparation for a career in: business; politics; public and policy administration.
International: $147,920
Year 12 level, or equivalent. NSW prerequisites: English (Standard) (Band 3) or English as an Additional Language (EAL) (Band 4); VIC Prerequisites: Units 3 and 4 - a study score of at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or 25 in any other English.
400 credit points. You will complete up to 160 hours pro bono experience (after your first year) which will count as credit for a compulsory community engagement unit (10 cp).
Accounting; Business information systems; Commercial law; Finance; Human resource management; International business; Marketing; Occupational Health, Safety and Environment; Law
The degree provides a pathway to specialisations in a variety of legal and business related disciplines.
This double degree is designed to produce well-rounded graduates ready for legal practice and a wide range of professional careers in an increasingly global environment. Graduates can pursue a range of legal careers including: private legal practice as a solicitor or barrister; legal officer in the public sector (for example in federal or state government departments and publicly-funded organisations such as universities or public broadcasters); in-house counsel to a wide range of organisations from corporations to trade unions; public interest legal work in community legal centres; and legal research. This double degree is also excellent preparation for pursuing a career in areas such as accounting, administration, banking, business analysis/development, business management, communications, computing, financial management, human resource management, international business, international marketing, management consultancy, marketing recruitment, staff development, and sales.
This course has been specifically developed to meet the requirements for admission to practice law. The course has been approved for admission to practice law in Victoria and New South Wales, and is recognised for admission as a legal practitioner in other States and Territories in Australia.
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Malaria Drug Quality
The American Enterprise Institute has raised concerns about the quality of drugs that might be purchased for large scale donor efforts. Roger Bate explained that for malaria, "only 7% of malarial drugs on the Global Fund's list have undergone bioequivalence testing yet malaria kills more than a million people a year." He goes further to note that, "Some of the drugs are "monotherapies," single drugs which have been actively discouraged by WHO because they encourage drug resistance. The list contains further drugs which go against good medical practice, the specific advice of the WHO and even, according to insiders, against the technical advice of competent people at the Global Fund." The head of Kenya's malaria control program quotes as saying that their ministry "plans to buy untested Indian copies of Coartem." Mr Bate is therefore concerned that, "Uganda and Nigeria are likely to do the same. And this is probably just the tip of the iceberg."
As we have reported before, there are definite concerns about cost and availability of malaria drugs expressed by African countries. What can be said about quality? The Global Fund, one of the largest sources of money for malaria drug purchases, addressed the quality issue through its Board, which has issued guidelines for countries. These guidelines distinguish four categories od medicines: A, B, Ci and Cii. Of note, "The Global Fund does not endorse or warrant the fitness of any product on the Compliance List for a particular purpose," These categories are defined as follows:
A – Products acceptable under the WHO Prequalification Program
B – Products authorized for use by a stringent regulatory authority
Ci – The manufacturer has submitted an application for approval of such product to the WHO Prequalification Program or a stringent regulatory authority
Cii – If the manufacturer of such product has not submitted an application for approval of such product to the WHO Prequalification Program or a stringent regulatory authority, such product is manufactured at a GMP compliant manufacturing site, as certified (after inspection) by the WHO or a stringent regulatory authority
Only one drug in the list is found in category A: Artemether-Lumefantrine by Novartis. Only one is ranked in category B: Artesunate-Mefloquine by Mepha. This list is available in the internet for all countries to review and use for planning. The so-called monotherapy drugs are in large part artemether rectal capsules for use in severe malaria only. Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine is listed since it is the drug used for Intermittent Preventive Treatment/Therapy in Pregnancy.
For the past three months the international Roll Back Malaria Partners have been providing technical guidance to African countries as they develop their next proposal for the Global Fund, and these partners are using such guidance from WHO and GFATM to ensure that countries order quality medicines. Contrary to fears that Nigeria may be ready to buy cheap, poor quality alternatives, the Nigerian proposal development team is at this very moment basing all its procurement and costing estimates on Artemether-Lumefantrine (Coartem). A positive and synergistic aspect of the planning is that if high coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets is achieved, demand for ACTs will actually decrease, which addresses in part the cost issue.
Finally, although major RBM partners are trying to address quality issues, there are still many areas of concern – what malaria drugs are being imported and sold through the private sector? – what malaria drugs are governments in endemic countries buying with their own funds? The RBM partnership has made a start to ensure malaria drug quality, but must continue advocacy until all organizations and agencies that purchase malaria drugs adhere to quality standards and more drugs are added to the prequalification list.
Published June 23, 2007 By Bill Brieger
Categorized as Advocacy, Drug Quality, Funding, Partnership
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About coal
Coal is the world's most plentiful fossil fuel, it is organic and is formed from decayed plant materials.
Coal is organic. It is a mineral formed from the remains of land-based plants buried hundreds of millions of years ago and subjected to tremendous heat and pressure.
Coalification
Coalification has an important bearing on coal's physical and chemical properties and is referred to as the "rank" of the coal. In general, the longer the organic material is subjected to heat and pressure, the higher its rank and the more carbon content will be contained per unit of weight. Ranking is determined by the degree of transformation of the original plant material to carbon. The ranks of coals, from those with the least carbon to those with the most carbon, are lignite, subbituminous, bituminous, and anthracite.
Lignite and subbituminous coal (brown coal) are low-ranked coals
Bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coals) are high-ranked coals
Figure 1: How does one type of coal differ from another?
Illustration of coal ranking
Source: Coal Information, International Energy Agency
Typical use
Low-ranked -
Lignite and subbituminous coal (brown coal)
High-ranked –
Bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coals)
thermal purposes
Premium-grade bituminous
(metallurgical coal, coking coal, or steelmaking coal)
Coal is used to create coke, which is a key ingredient in iron and steelmaking.
Anthracite, the highest-ranked coal (smokeless)
metallurgical purposes or sometimes for household cooking and heating fuel
Coal is classified according to:
energy value – how much energy is released when coal is burned
degree of transformation into carbon
moisture content – coals high in carbon and low in moisture are ranked the highest
composition – coal is predominantly carbon but may also contain varying amounts of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur
Coal mining in Alberta
It was the primary source of energy until the late 1960s when it was overtaken by oil. Coal-fired power generation currently provides more than 37% of the world's total electricity.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
Alberta's coal mining started in the late 1800's, Alberta averages 25 to 30 million tonnes of coal production each year from its nine mines. Coal-bearing formations underlie about 300,000 square kilometres, almost half of Alberta.
In 2014, nine mine sites produced approximately 30.8 million tonnes (Mt) of marketable coal. Subbituminous coal accounted for 78% of the total, metallurgical bituminous coal the remaining 22%. Six surface mines produce subbituminous coal.
Mining in Alberta is regulated by the Alberta Energy Regulator. Mining activities and reclamation are subject to review and approval through Alberta Environment and Parks. Labour is responsible for mine safety.
Environmental management is an important part of developing, running and closing down a mine. Mining companies develop and carry out plans to minimize impacts on air, land, water and wildlife. Companies use a variety of techniques to reclaim and restore mined lands.
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15.421 conferences, courses, symposium
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[1] From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing- (22)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities, Edinburgh,
8-11 Sept 2002
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (17)
Subject: H-Net Technology Sessions at the AHA
[3] From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu> (24)
Subject: Computing Courses of interest at Virginia
[4] From: Sarah Farthing <sfarthing@ull.ac.uk> (35)
Subject: Advance Notice - Manuscript Studies Symposium
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From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities, Edinburgh, 8-11
CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH 2002
http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/
Deadline: 1 March 2002
The DRH conferences
The annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference is the major
forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our
cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic resource to
further research; the teacher gathering Web resources into an online
learning environment; the publisher or broadcaster integrating print or
analogue with the digital to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator
or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the
digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and
scholarship; the computer or information scientist seeking to apply new
developments to the creation, exploitation and management of humanities
resources. A volume of selected papers from the conferences is published
annually by the Office for Humanities Communication at King's College
London. See http://www.drh.org.uk/.
DRH 2002
DRH 2002 will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, Scotland UK, from 8th-11th
September 2002. Conference information will be posted on the Web site at
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
H-Net Technology Sessions at the AHA
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
January 3-6, 2002, San Francisco
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha/
http://www.theaha.org/
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:51:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark Kornbluh, H-Net Executive Director" <hnet3@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
To: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu>
RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its 2002 Sessions, a collection of
five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts,
the history of books and printing, and special collections to be held at
the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the
complete brochure and Rare Book School expanded course descriptions,
providing additional details about the courses offered and other
information about Rare Book School, visit our Web site at:
http://www.rarebookschool.org
Subscribers to the Humanist list may find the following Rare Book School
courses to be of particular interest:
25. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH
11-15). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized
machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed
at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an
introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on
component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using
examples selected from among their own institution's finding aids. Topics:
the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML
authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to
EAD. Instructor: Daniel Pitti.
DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's
Institute for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian
for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was
the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative.
From: Sarah Farthing <sfarthing@ull.ac.uk>
ADVANCE NOTICE:
The University of London Library, the Centre for Palaeography and the
Institute of English Studies within the University of London are pleased to
announce an International Symposium entitled:
"The Future of Manuscript Studies in a Switched-On World"
to be held at the Senate House, University of London on 18th March 2002.
The symposium will be an international forum to discuss the role library
collections and services, and information technology should play in
promoting and supporting research and teaching in this field in the 21st
The ULL will put forward its innovative vision for a virtual library
service, an International Manuscript Studies Portal, seeking to secure the
broadest academic feedback and support. This initiative builds on the
success of the current project funded by the UK Research Support Libraries
Programme entitled Palaeography - Developing the National Resource
(http://www.palaeography.ac.uk), under completion by a library consortium
of the University of London Library (lead site), and the Universities of
Durham and Liverpool.
We are pleased to have received much interest in both the Portal and the
symposium, and are currently finalising the list of speakers and the
conference programme. This event would be of particular interest to those
involved in manuscript and book studies, palaeography, computing in the
humanities, subject gateways and digital libraries.
Registration details will be sent out in January 2002. Further information
is available from Mura Ghosh, Palaeography Project Officer, University of
London Library, by telephone at 00 44 (0) 207 862 8475 or by e-mail at
mghosh@ull.ac.uk
Sarah Farthing
Library Development Officer
University of London Library
email: sfarthing@ull.ac.uk
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What Would Success—and Failure—Look Like at COP21?
Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.
(Photo: Wally Gobetz/Flickr)
On December 11—or whatever day COP21 actually ends, since climate negotiators have a problem with deadlines—your newsfeed will be filled with articles analyzing who won and who lost in the various deals to cut carbon emissions and prepare for (and pay for) life in a warmer world.
Since you'll probably be busy with holiday shopping by then, let's jump ahead. Here are three possible Paris outcomes, from best to worst. Look for elements of these scenarios in whatever emerges from the conference, and you'll be able to confidently opine on the success or failure of the talks.
SCENARIO 1: OUTRIGHT SUCCESS
If each country fulfills its carbon reduction pledge, known as an INDC (intended nationally determined contributions), average global temperatures will likely rise by 2.7 degrees Celsius come 2100, according to the United Nations. While analysts fiercely debate whether our target should actually be a maximum of two degrees or 1.5 degrees, no one wants to live in a 2.7-degree-warmer world.
The best scenario is that a wave of good feeling and cooperation in Paris inspires our leaders to do more. While the INDCs are already submitted, they won't be formalized until after the conference. Each country will have an opportunity to strengthen its pledge, either by promising deeper cuts by 2030 or by moving its target date forward to 2025. The European Union, for example, wants to lead on climate change. Accelerating its commitment by five years would be a bold statement, and other countries (*cough* China *cough*) could follow.
In addition to a round of strengthened pledges, the best-case outcome would also include agreements on a slew of disputed issues, which brings us to....
SCENARIO 2: ACCEPTABLE MIDDLE GROUND
If countries aren't willing to voluntarily improve their carbon reduction pledges, the next-best thing would be a mechanism by which each nation could re-assess and improve its global warming mitigation commitment over time. Various scenarios have been floated, most notably a joint proposal by China and France for five-year review cycles.
Enforcement has been another major sticking point. There has been a great deal of talk across the Atlantic in recent weeks about whether the deal will be "legally binding." While European leaders demand that it be, the United States says it won't accept such an agreement. That matters, but it's hardly something to fixate on. The line between what's voluntary and what's mandatory can be hazy when it comes to environmental agreements, and enforcement is somewhat soft. For example, countries guilty of violating the legally binding Montreal Protocol to limit ozone-depleting substances receive international technical and financial assistance. That's hardly draconian. Trade sanctions are possible, but only after persistent noncompliance, and no country has ever been punished in that way.
Enforcement mechanisms aren't necessarily important to ensuring compliance anyway. Peer pressure is a powerful tool in diplomacy. Just look north to Canada, where new Prime Minster Justin Trudeau won election in part by accusing his predecessor of turning the country into an international climate "pariah." Presidents, prime ministers, and premiers will not want their peers constantly asking them why they're not fulfilling their carbon promises.
In addition to re-assessment and enforcement, an acceptable agreement will need to provide funding for mitigation and adaptation beyond 2020 and will have to improve transparency in accounting and compliance, especially in the developing world. Read more on those issues here.
SCENARIO 3: TRY AGAIN
Despite the strong international momentum for an agreement, as embodied in the ousting of climate change-denying administrations in both Canada and Australia, the negotiations could still implode. Small island nations—which face the most severe and immediate consequences—may decide to walk away if they don't get the adaptation assistance they need, or if they feel developing countries aren't taking them seriously on "loss and damage" payments. India has campaigned hard for improved financial support for its mitigation efforts and could withdraw if it doesn't get it. President Obama, who insisted during the Iran nuclear negotiations that "no deal is better than a bad deal," might take the same approach in Paris.
More likely than a total collapse is a weak or pro forma agreement akin to what came out of the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference. A kick-the-can-down-the-road deal would earmark a re-assessment process for discussion in future meetings, leave the $100 billion funding commitment for 2020 as the only funding commitment, and fail to address the differing reporting requirements that apply to developing and developed countries.
The recent terror attacks in Paris may serve as an unfortunate reminder to global leaders of what can happen when they fail to work together and leave obvious problems to their successors. Let's hope they have learned a lesson.
This story originally appeared on Earthwire as "Arc De Triomphe" and is re-published here under a Creative Commons license.
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Q: Why is Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2],{x,-Infinity,Infinity}] not the same as -Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2],{x,Infinity,-Infinity}]] Version 12.1
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Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2],{x,-Infinity,Infinity}]

generates the correct conditions. But,
Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2],{x,Infinity,-Infinity}]]

doesn't.  This isn't strictly incorrect--but strange?

A: In 12.1.0 on Windows 10 Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2], {x, Infinity, -Infinity}] returns unevaluated. This can be done through
Limit[Integrate[Exp[-x^2/s^2],{x,a,b}],{a,b}->{Infinity,-Infinity}]
(*ConditionalExpression[-Sqrt[\[Pi]] s, s > 0]*)

Up to usual conventions, the sign of a definite integral changes to the opposite one if we replace the limits of the integration.

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