Alan Pasha Tabatabaipour was born on November 6, 1989 in Orange County, California.
His father's last name is Tabatabaipour, and his mother's maiden name is Belmonte. If Alan is still alive, he's now years old.


Most of the time, we have no idea what our days will hold.
There are some things that are certain (and these things change periodically, of course).... skyping for Maddie (which means also playing Sims, Roblox, or any number of other pc games--it also could/will probably mean puppet shows, stuffed animal shows, fort building or pretend play whilst on skype), Pokemon Y on his 3ds for Trevelyn, whilst he listens to commentary or television shows, and reading and talking on his favorite gaming board--worldly affairs, science, and sometimes silliness.
Often our moments are steered by these two souls; I am the hired help [smile].
Since they have hired me (could be that I was the only one who applied, or was available) I figure I get to vote on how things go. Me being me, I have two objectives in this time-of-wonder that is mamahood: to pay such close attention that 'twill be impossible for my babes to grow up whilst I'm not looking, and to fill our lives with so much Sparkly that the extraordinary becomes expected and ordinary. "Ordinary" life magic.
In doing the filling, here is something I know for sure: Currency, by its essence, needs to flow.
Some currents are desirable, some are useful, and some are beautiful.
The currents in our home are no exception. Creativity? Ideas? Excellent conversations? Love? Joy?
This idea is why you'll never find me stockpiling ideas (ie we'll save that Project for another day), I know -and trust- that tomorrow will bring its own brilliant ideas and moments. We'll just love the hell outta this day, and let tomorrow take care of itself.
I don't necessarily think my own ineptitude is to blame... I think I just sort of cycled into it.
We had Autumn (Fall is very short around here), and then it's a month of holidays and busy-busy-busy as Life with its colored lights and a million flavors takes over... then we're recovering, and resting, and then it's, ...Uh.... we're still resting?
So that's where I found myself, recently. Standing beside a trickle, but not hopeless; knowing that the revival of the flow can initially come from me, and with an open mind and heart, I'll have it a babbling, laughing brook in no time.
Just gotta give it a bit of love.
And so. That's the way it goes, sometimes. And that's why unschoolers will so often insist it's not "child-led" learning. Because it regularly takes scrutiny, objectiveness, and loads of energy to keep the flow of magic flowing.
Early Tuesday morning, I had the ideas of Walk, marble run, microscope, and wax. Those were just quickies... I figured our day would hold much more, including things the children chose.
What think you? I asked the babes. Thumbs up on all of those.
We read a few chapters of How To Train Your Dragon. Loving that.
We padded down the stairs to bring up A Few Interesting Things, "Hey, Mom... do we have some bugs we could look at under the microscope?" asked Trevy.
My children have now pretty much figured out the marble run, after these many years. : ) Granted, we only play with it a couple of times per year or so, but now they've put two and two together, and are able to see how you can support it with other's pieces, and how you don't necessarily need loooooong, tall stacks of tubes. Fun!
Running and chasing outside with the pups.
More chapters of How To Train Your Dragon.
Wednesday morning found us beginning to sparklify the bedrooms... let's wash sheets and blankets, and get things prettied up, hmm?
And let's get some stories transferred... making Maddie's tablet ready for her listening, I'm going to fall asleep, now pleasure.
There was a long talk between mama and Trevy... about wintry blues (and an assurance by his Mama that many, many people get wintertime-blues), and what we can do to cheer ourselves up a bit when down in the doldrums.
World of Zoo and Sims 3 for Madd.
Book One of How To Train Your Dragon -- finished it! Can I read a chapter or two, now? (Trev) and Is it my turn to read, yet? (Maddie)... love that.
Light! And color! Oh, how we need Light and Color!
Using a beeswax candle was actually the safest and most efficient way to make our art (crayons and glass pieces)... using a hair dryer took so long that our fingers got too hot, a lamp wasn't efficient enough, the lightbox wasn't warm enough.... candles!
We used sheets of shrinky-dink plastic as our background.
While putting things away after our wax venture, Little Son found me, and clearly needed something.
Turns out, the something he needed was a two-hour long conversation whilst we laid on his bed.... talking about the meaning of life, love, and happiness. ♥ I love him so.
Thursday morning saw Daddy off skiing for a few hours, and left Mama with sleeping babes and a few minutes to dive into these pages of Stories.
Soon enough, Maddie is up and on her computer (skyping and playing Roblox :) ), and Mama is thinking Pretzels! and Walk! Tea party! Citiblocks! Calculating on the abacus! Math dice! New book! ...Treasure Island? Bambi? The Princess Bride? Harry Potter? Swiss Family Robinson?! Petrie dishes! More wax play! Aah. And so. Here come the ideas. The excitement of Let's do it all!
"Hmmm...." I said, as I looked over Trevelyn's bookshelves, "What shall we read? What are you interested in? A story, or a biography?"
"Abe Linkcoln sounds good to me," he says.
"Ooh! Here's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh! This is a fantastic book!" And, "Okay.. I'll go downstairs and find us a book on Lincoln, too...."
and the first chapter of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.
Now let's go for a walk, shall we? Down by the river.
Friday morning found me strippin' beds and doing laundry and sparklifyin' my bedroom.
The children choose two numbered dice they'd like to toss, and either the +/- die, or the ÷/x one.
We also get out whatever they'd like to go long with it; this day was the abacus and the cuisenaire rods.
As we played slowly, and talked, and I watched these two stacking and playing with the cuisenaire rods, and I thought how glad I was that our life is what it is, and we can live slowly when we need to, that I can just watch my children, and we have no need for quizzing, or supposed proof of our learnings upon paper.
"Can we get the marble run out again? I want to play with the marble run!?!" demanded Maddie.
"Could, theoretically, the Universe be reborn if it ends?" He wants to know.
Oh, we've been talking. Talking and talking and talking.
(With Trev's permission:) Taking about death. Talking about the meaning of life. Talking about his responsibilities as a possible (future) parent, and how he just doesn't (at twelve) feel up for it. Talking about possible scenarios in afterlife. Talking about negative thinking. Talking about feelings of suspension, and being uninspired. Talking of days gone by. Talking about the possibility of the best parts of one's life being over. Talking about Growing Up.
None of these are new topics in our home... we often talk about such things, but this has been different... this has been a twelve year old boy, taking the world upon his shoulders.
One small snippet of Little Son's world.
But this way of life is a very generous one; its largess is undeniable.
There is time enough for Pebble Meditation, and unscheduled adventures out under the sky. There are resources enough for options. There is open-mindedness, and wisdom enough to know that there is a never-ending flow (however slow at times) of Inspiration.
This beauty is our life.
I really feel your concerns coming through. I share them with my own deep, troubled 7 year old - carrying way more weight than he should...I ask myself...was it his early introduction world history with all of its tragedies? Or is it just who he is? I do hope you (and Trev) continue to share your process. I love the way you make majik happen in your home!! We've just started our homeschool journey and already, I feel the momentum slowing. My boy is a passive learner (which, sadly, he gets from me) and neither one of us are into games (but I do hope that will change - you certainly inspire me!). Finding our sparkly groove will - as I expected - take some time. I love January because it feels like such a quiet, gentle month for refueling after the holidays. We've taken it as such, but now the ease is becoming uncomfortably (depressingly?) slow. Looking forward to picking up the pace a bit and following your lead...more walks! more spontaneity! more sparkle! Wishing you all well in your journey.
Yeah... it's who they are.
It's the most remarkable thing to witness our babes asking themselves these very deep, very serious questions, isn't it?
Like Debbie said, I feel so honored that he comes to me with them, that he trusts me with the most tender, vulnerable, and confused parts of himself, and that he listens, and trusts my wisdom.
The slow-- I've never much minded. I love the time to go within, and the Still that winter provides.
It's only that this year I have a 12 year old boy who is most definitely making the physical shift from child to adult, and he is finding lots of things disconcerting.
So we have to pause often--to discuss, to analyze, to share ideas and fears and experience.
I'm used to these questions and introspections, I've been asking them of myself for thirty years... it's a new thing for Little Son, however.
Carefully and slowly is all I can do... nudging when it's good for him (and he can take it), and holding him while he cries when he's not.
I'm not huge on astrology, but I can say that to give a true example of his personality-- he prefers Home to all other places (and often has to be pried and prodded to leave), he's moody, and pessimistic, and a bit dramatic... he's extremely emotional (like both of his parents) and very, very sensitive (physically and not).
This puberty (and winter blues) thing has turned his world upside down, and I am doing everything I can think of to help him.
I remembered that I had that book, and got it out...I needed words different than my own, in order to help him see that running the same dark, unhelpful thoughts through his mind were not helping him.
It's a very definite balance... I asked him yesterday as we were walking (in the sun!) at our botanical gardens if I was making him feel like this is his fault... was trying to nudge him away from adding to his distress (by recycling the same thoughts of "what if this never passes?", and "my life/thinking will not improve", and "what if I am never happy again?")... was asking if it seemed that I wasn't listening or was dismissing all of it as 'his own doing', and why didn't he just change his thoughts? and that there was something wrong with him, because he couldn't easily do that.
He said No, thank God. I think I"m helping him make sense of it, and listening, while trying to sometimes convince him that 'dwelling' and 'recycling' isn't helping.
Thay's words framed it with "Growing the seeds of Happiness and Unhappiness". That makes sense to my children.
The last two days we've meant to put seeds in a jar, and to read more and meditate, but we haven't had the opportunity, yet. Today, hopefully.
My older kiddo recently went through a MAJOR World of Zoo obsession! Funnily enough, she played it, definitely, but was really more interested in watching walk-throughs of it on YouTube. Now, whether or not it was necessarily the walk-throughs that she was interested in, or the fact that the dude doing them occasionally taught her a new word or two, ahem, but I said it was okay to keep watching, anyway, because the walk-throughs were so great and I knew she loved them... who knows?
What looks like slow can really be major movement.
I've seen mucho evidence of that over the years!
"Me being me, I have two objectives in this time-of-wonder that is mamahood: to pay such close attention that 'twill be impossible for my babes to grow up whilst I'm not looking, and to fill our lives with so much Sparkly that the extraordinary becomes expected and ordinary. "Ordinary" life magic."
I love this so much! And I know at one time I kept this in focas in my heart, in my doings, but I feel like its slipped a bit, that somehow I let this all become work and a wee bit wearisome. I don't want that. I am glad I re-stumbled onto your words. Thanks so much!


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Collateral, series finale, BBC Two - Carey Mulligan hares to the finish
In a revelatory interview for the Royal Court's playwright's podcast series, David Hare admits to a thin skin. In his adversarial worldview, to take issue with him is – his word – to denounce him. He's quite a denouncer himself, of course. In...
Girls & Boys, Royal Court review - Carey Mulligan is stunningly brilliant
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare's BBC thriller Collateral, as well as onstage at the Royal Court in London's Sloane Square (she's much better live than on film). In a 90-minute monologue...
Collateral, BBC Two review - a lecture or a drama?
It says something about the state of television that sooner or later every actor has to play a cop or a spy. Latest in line is Carey Mulligan, starring as DI Kip Glaspie in David Hare's new four-parter Collateral.This is, on the face of it, a...
Suffragette
Suffragette is exemplary in its attempt to depict the harrowing experiences of the British women who risked their lives to win the vote. It depicts the awakening of a reluctant recruit who becomes a militant, and graphically depicts the violence...
DVD: Far From The Madding Crowd
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg specialises in claustrophobic, asphyxiating atmospheres, from his breakthrough family abuse tale Festen to the more recent study of small-town paranoia, The Hunt. Moving from domestic close-up to the Wessex wide...
The arrival of Thomas Vinterberg's new treatment of Thomas Hardy's novel has triggered a retro-wallow in John Schlesinger's 1967 version, but happily, that was long enough ago to allow Vinterberg's vision to resonate in its own space. My...
Skylight, Wyndham's Theatre
A totemic play from (nearly) 20 years ago surfaces afresh in Stephen Daldry's West End revival of Skylight, the power of David Hare's intimate epic fully intact if somewhat redistributed as is to be expected from the passage of time and a new cast....
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen's brooding homage to the Greenwich Village folk scene, is set in 1961 (January probably), just before Bob Dylan's revelatory songs popularised it. The film is named for its protagonist, a working-class singer...
LFF 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
Showbiz is a cruel and mysterious cosmic code that can grind the artist down, before he comes close to cracking it. That's the message behind the Coen brothers' elegy to the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) stands...
The mothership has landed. After a year or so of countless stage adaptations ranging from a recitation of the novel in its entirety to a themed party and (just this week) a dance piece, Baz Luhrmann's celluloid version of The Great Gatsby has...
DVD: Shame
Chocolat, a film about chocolate addiction, was extremely sweet. Trainspotting, a film about drug addiction, was wired and hip. Shame, a film about sex addiction, assaults you with wave upon wave of tristesse.When Sarah Kent reviewed the theatrical...
DVD: Drive
Director Nicolas Winding Refn says that his LA heist fable Drive was inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales, but viewers unfamiliar with the perverse labyrinth of Refn's imagination are more likely to detect echoes of Bullitt, Walter Hill's The Driver and...

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Q: ajax jquery adding to a table I am trying for the life of me to try and figure out the jquery ajax thing. I have an HTML dialog that comes up and one has to input some information. When they hit "add" it saves the data (call-add_patient.php) and then what I want is on the original page for the name to come up (the "success") part below.
If there are no people in the list then nothing happens (though it does go into the database so it seems to be an ajax misunderstanding). If there is at least one person in the list then the new person is added.
So, I don't get why this only works if there are people in the list. I tried putting a default empty person person and hoped this would work. It didn't.
The javascript:
$.ajax({
    url: 'call-add_patient.php',
    type: 'get',
    data: {
        name: name.val(),
        address: address.val(),
        city: city.val(),
        state: state.val(),
        zip: zip.val(),
        checked: ids.join(),
        CUID: CUID.val(),
        losap: losap.val(),
        ccnumber: ccnumber.val()
    },
    dataType: 'json',
    cache: false,
    success: function(data) {
        $("table#users tbody").append("
" + "" + " print" + data.name + "	" + "
");
    },
    async: false
});

The PHP that creates the HTML table:
print '

';

print '

';

while ($row_pt = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_pt)) {
    print '
';
    print ems_print($row_pt['UID']);
    print $row_pt['Patient Name'];
    print '
';
}

print '

 ';

The bottom of the call-add_patient.php:
   echo json_encode(array('uid' => $id, 'name' => $name ));

I am baffled and really need some help.
Edit:
Here is a chunk of code that I thought should work but doesn't.  I did not include the call-add_patient.php as I don't believe it is a problem (famous last words). Note, the "alert" provides the proper name so I think that is working. I was reading through Add table row in jQuery and tried to mimic the ideas but it still doesn't seem to be working.

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    print "here";
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A journalistic masterpiece about the grueling production journeys of some of today's most successful video games. Having worked in video game development for about three years, I know that making video games is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Video games are fun when you play them, but creating AAA titles involves long hard hours, vast budgets, and herculean team efforts. Video game production brings together disparate creative disciplines like no other industry — Coding, AI, Graphics, Music, Sound, Storytelling & Narrative.
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Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous.
Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart.
Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hell—and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.
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The Illawarra Cutters head overseas to face the New Zealand Warriors at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland on Sunday.
Coming off a strong win against the Wentworthville Magpies, the Cutters will head into the clash just outside the top four in fifth position.
Their opponents, the Warriors, had the luxury of the bye and will be well-rested before the game as they push ladder leaders the Penrith Panthers as they sit in second position.
Head coach Scott Logan was pleased with the win and heaped praise on young half Blake Wallace.
"Much happier with that performance and more so the commitment to each other. Last week was disappointing with our defence and we were off last week," he said.
"I thought Wallace was very stead and showed control at the back end when Shannon Crook went off.
The team has relied on the young players who did the job against the Magpies with try-scorers Eli Roberts and Junior Vaivai being retained along with Charly Runciman Drew Hutchison and new signing Luke Page coming into the side.
The Warriors offer plenty of experience with Dominique Peyroux, Jonathan Wright and Sam Rapira all having NRL games under their belt.


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Oklahoma Republican stands by calling pregnant women 'hosts'
Updated: 6:49 PM CST Feb 13, 2017
A Republican lawmaker from southeast Oklahoma who described a pregnant woman as a "host" is standing by his use of the term, saying his intent was not to offend anyone. State Rep. Justin Humphrey of Lane said Monday he didn't know of a better term to describe a pregnant woman and apologized to anyone who took offense. Humphrey used the term while discussing his bill that would require women seeking an abortion to first obtain the written informed consent of the father. The bill is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday in a House committee. State Rep. Emily Virgin described Humphrey's comment as "incredibly disrespectful." Oklahoma has passed some of the strictest anti-abortion bills in the country, although at least five have been struck down by the courts in recent years.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
A Republican lawmaker from southeast Oklahoma who described a pregnant woman as a "host" is standing by his use of the term, saying his intent was not to offend anyone.
State Rep. Justin Humphrey of Lane said Monday he didn't know of a better term to describe a pregnant woman and apologized to anyone who took offense.
Questions remain about abortion bills passed by House committee
Humphrey used the term while discussing his bill that would require women seeking an abortion to first obtain the written informed consent of the father. The bill is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday in a House committee.
State Rep. Emily Virgin described Humphrey's comment as "incredibly disrespectful."
Oklahoma has passed some of the strictest anti-abortion bills in the country, although at least five have been struck down by the courts in recent years.


Our family farm, Hardship Hills Farm, is located in the 'Heart of Hancock County'. Near the intersection of State Route 144 and State Route 69, it sits in the hills of central Kentucky, near the Ohio River. Our family has been producing sorghum syrup for six generations, dating back to the mid 1800's. My forefathers would travel around Kentucky with a small sorghum mill and cook pan. They would harvest the cane, extract the juice, boil it into sorghum syrup, and keep a percentage of the syrup as payment. We began producing sorghum at our current location in the 1980's. We have improved our harvesting and production systems, along with the quality of syrup considerably over the years and continue to push the limits to provide the highest quality products for our customers.
We currently have three generations of sorghum producers, Irvin (4th generation), Freddie (5th generation) and Joshua (6th generation). Sorghum production wouldn't be the same without the involvement of so much of our family. We truly love producing sorghum syrup. We hope you fall in love with our quality products as much as we love the tradition.
At Hardship Hills Farm we strive to continually improve our relationship with Mother Nature. We take a wholesome approach in all of our farming practices. We use biological techniques in raising sorghum cane that focus on promoting the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the soil. Harvesting our sorghum cane in the field allows the nutrients of the unneeded plant material to be returned to the soil profile. This natural nutrient recycling stimulates the soil's microbial activity and improves the soil structure. We work to improve the soil composition by planting an array of cover crops in the off-season. With improved seed technology we have reduced the amount of equipment emissions by tremendously reducing the amount of mechanical cultivation. Sorghum cane usually isn't affected by pests or diseases. Therefore, we do not use insecticides in our production. Our sorghum is 100% pure and contains no additives that enhance flavor or consistency.
Our family has spent decades perfecting our processes to allow us to produce the highest quality sorghum, and we strive for perfection. Using a mechanically automated harvesting system allows us to focus more of our time in the cookhouse. All of our products are produced in our state-inspected, FDA approved facility. Each time our juice, semi-syrup, or syrup is transferred it is filtered; thirteen times to be exact. The time between harvest and cooking is the difference between average and award-winning sorghum. During this time our juice is chilled to reduce the amount of starch, preheated to reduce the amount of chlorophyll and other impurities, and pastuerized. We use cooking instruments we have developed over the years to improve our sanitation and improve our syrup quality. There are many factors to consider when determining if sorghum is finished cooking such as- temperature, color, smell, speed of boil, size of bubble, and color of steam produced. Our sorghum exits the pan between 227-232 degrees fahrenheit, passes through a filter, and into a stainless steel two gallon pail. The sugar content of each pail is measured with a refractometer. If the pail meets our standards, it is immediately chilled. Sorghum continues to cook while over 180 degrees F, so the pails are submerged into a chilling tank. Then, it is hand-bottled and packaged.
From before the seeds are planted, until the last bottle is filled, every decision is made with quality in mind. My family produces products that are consumed by our customers, and we do not take that lightly. We hope you fall in love with our quality products, as much as we love the tradition.


I thought it would be fun to animate the 2016 Design Crawl poster (originally styled by Noah Pannucci of id29) and further customizing it for each creative stop we'll be making on the Syracuse, Upstate New York crawl.
This crawl was in Syracuse, on Thursday, October 6th. There were also AIGA Upstate NY Design Crawls in Saratoga and Glens Falls that evening. We were reppin' the 315.
Huge thanks to The Gear Factory, Caitlyn Bom Photography, Budmen Industries, and The Lab Creative; for sharing an insight into their creative world, through their workspaces AND their words!
Below is a quick animated photo mash/recap of some fun shots from the night that we posted immediately on Friday morning, following the Thursday evening event.
Post event, social media post.
Below are some animations, created as little social media promo blasts for each of the stops. They were created based on the 2016 AIGA Design Crawl Poster originally designed by Noah Pannucci.
The event was a blast; seeing a healthy variety of different spaces and talking about many different aspects of design.. From nitty gritty business chats to more theoretical optimistic and real discussions about the greater art community and creative environment of Syracuse.
Search #AIGADesignCrawl on instagram and twitter for more about the Design Crawl.


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Danton Heinen could be a solid Alex Kerfoot replacement for the Leafs
Photo credit: © Gaelen Morse-USA TODAY Sports
By Michael Mazzei
The Leafs are one of eight teams that are currently over the salary cap, and that doesn't take into account what @Rasmus Sandin will make on his next deal.
As a result of this, they are limited to what else they can add on the open market with free agent frenzy about to head into its second week, meaning they cannot afford to go big fish hunting (ie @Nazem Kadri) unless they ship off a significant amount of cap space. They are more likely to ship off just enough money to get Sandin locked up and add one more forward to the middle-six since improving the @John Tavares line remains an area of need.
I wrote yesterday about one such player that the Leafs could target that fits this mould in @Sonny Milano. He is projected by Evolving Hockey to make around $1 million and is fresh off a breakout season where he posted solid numbers all across the board. Again, the Leafs would need to ship off salary before they can consider signing him but Milano is totally worth going after.
Sonny Milano is one of the few remaining free agent options that makes sense for the Leafs
I mentioned in that piece how Alex Kerfoot is the most obvious trade candidate to ship off since he has a $3.5 million cap hit and the team that acquires him would only need to pay him $750 K for the year since most of his signing bonuses have been taken care of.
The cap relief that would come from shipping him off would be very beneficial, there's no question about it. At the same time, he does have some value in his ability to play up and down the lineup while also playing both centre and the wing. So perhaps the player they could target is someone who has a similar playstyle to Kerfoot.
Luckily for them, a non-tendered RFA remains available who could do just and be signed to a much cheaper contract than what Kerfoot is currently listed at.
A breakaway beauty from Danton Heinen. 🤩 pic.twitter.com/KuhSf0vVHi
— NHL (@NHL) April 14, 2022
@Danton Heinen is someone who Leafs might be familiar with since he was on the Bruins during the recent two playoff matchups between the two teams. He has since played on two different clubs and remained a reliable middle-six forward with some pop in his game so it was surprising that the Penguins opted not to give him a qualifying offer. It's even more confusing that after nearly two weeks of free agent frenzy, Heinen has yet to find a home.
During his lone season in Steel City, he registered 18 goals, 15 assists, and 33 points in 76 games played, good enough for eighth on the team in scoring. Heinen added on three goals during their first-round series against the Rangers with one of them being a game-winner in Game 3. For comparison, Kerfoot is coming off a career year where he recorded 51 points while he only mustered up two points in their first-round matchup versus the Lightning.
Here is how the two players stack up at 5v5 in terms of the underlying metrics:
CF%
FF%
XGF%
SCF%
HDCF%
HDGF%
KERFOOT
HEINEN
All signs seem to point to Kerfoot experiencing a regression in terms of his point production since his GF% is a complete outlier when compared to what he was expected to record. Heinen's numbers are not only impressive all across the board, but they are pretty consistent while doing so at an efficient rate and below his expected output.
The one major difference between the two is that Heinen was almost exclusively on the left wing in 2021-22 while Kerfoot took 178 of them in the regular season. If the Leafs want to completely fill that void left by a potential Kerfoot trade, they would need to make Heinen work on his faceoff efficiency so he can more comfortably be relied on in that situation. It would be totally worth the effort because Heinen's output for hits and blocks is similar to Kerfoot's along with having a better giveaway-takeaway ratio.
TK-GV RATIO
As for how much it would cost for the Leafs to get Heinen to a contract, it is quite reasonable given what he is capable of. Evolving Hockey projects him to get a two-year contract with a $2.195 million AAV, which is something that the Leafs can probably squeeze into the mix with just enough to lock up Sandin. Obviously, it could end up being just under $2 million to make things more manageable, but the point is that Heinen won't put a major dent in their cap space when compared to Kerfoot.
When you put it all together, Heinen makes a lot of sense as someone the Leafs could target in free agency as a replacement for Kerfoot. He is one year younger, is coming off a solid season all across the board, stacks up better in many areas compared to Kerfoot, and could come in at a lower cap-hit. The one caveat is that Toronto would need to shed some cap space first and get Sandin re-signed before pursuing Heinen, but he could be the missing piece for their middle-six.
Who knows, perhaps adding Heinen could help elevate Tavares and @William Nylander to improved results on the defensive end in 2022-23. And an improved second line will certainly make the Leafs a better team.
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Q: Another "Why shouldn't structs be mutable?" C# I've read
When should I use a struct instead of a class?
which references MSDN's guidance, which says:

Do not define a structure unless the
  type has all of the following
  characteristics:

*

*It logically represents a single value, similar to primitive types
  (integer, double, and so on).

*It has an instance size smaller than 16 bytes.

*It is immutable.

*It will not have to be boxed frequently.

and Why are mutable structs "evil"? has answer:

Structs are value types which means they are copied when they are passed around.

I'm struggling to understand why I shouldn't just be conscious that structs need to be passed by reference, else changes made to the version passed through a function will not affect the original. Yes, I've had tons of bugs from this in the past, but now I'm experienced enough that I'm careful not to have it happen.
I make exclusively games in C#, and variables for stuff in games need to change a lot.
Say I have a player character, represented by class "Player" in my game. If Player has variables X and Y to say where it is, these would change a lot. I wouldn't want to create a new Player every time it moves, just to preserve immutability? So my class should be mutable. OK.
But what if I want to store data about my entity. If I store its position on the screen in a Rectangle (x,y,w,h), should I make Rectangle a CLASS because it's going to be mutable? It's just a logical collection of 4 variables, so a struct seems sensible as a container to me.
I also have "Colour" as a struct (r,g,b,a), but I have it as mutable because I might want to shift the alpha of things in the game to fade them in/out, or colour something red for a second when it gets hurt, without the overhead of calling "new Colour" every render call.
I saw another post which said structs should be used if these conditions are met:

*

*Is the main responsibility of the type data storage?

*Is its public interface defined entirely by properties that access or modify its data members?

*Are you sure your type will never have subclasses?

*Are you sure your type will never be treated polymorphically?

The answer to this would be "yes" for the structs I use, but most of them would be mutable.
I'm confused about all of the conflicting advice here. Are mutable structs OK for certain types of use, or am I designing my code all wrong?

A: It's not just the chance of accidentally losing information:
list.ForEach(item => item.X = 10);
// this code does nothing useful if item is a mutable struct

It's also the weird interaction between mutating methods and readonly:
readonly MutableStruct m_field;
...
m_field.MutatingMethod(); // mutates a temporary copy rather than the field

But if you've determined through profiling that:

*

*You cannot afford reference types, because, say, GC pressure, or you
want to put all your objects in an array for better locality

*You cannot afford to copy the entire struct when you modify it

*You cannot reasonably change your design to work around these issues (make the structs smaller, have a pool of reference type objects, etc.)

*You know what you're doing

Then mutable structs may be what you need. That's why they're in the language after all.
Speaking of game code, SharpDX is full of mutable structs (example) and methods that pass by reference.


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Angel Olsen Will Tear Your Heart Apart (In a Good Way!)
Catch the indie rock star with the prodigious pipes at three Brooklyn shows this month.
Photo by Cameron McCool/Courtesy of Pitch Perfect PR
Written by Mac Montandon
I first noticed Angel Olsen because of her song titles. I mean, who wouldn't take note of: "Shut Up Kiss Me," "High & Wild," and, most crucially, "Unfucktheworld." But it's not Olsen's linguistic flourishes that have made her a star—for once you dive into her discography, it's impossible not to sit up and pay attention to That Voice. Big, powerful, searing. This may be a tired line, yet it certainly applies to the 30-something woman, raised in St. Louis by foster parents after being put up for adoption soon after she was born: She's an old soul.
Olsen's soulful mashup of sounds—'60s folk, '70s glam, '80s pop-punk—ultimately renders tracks that don't sound like anyone else's. High-wire guitar parts and booming drums wrap elegantly around her rangy vocals, her heart (and yours!) shredding as she sings about love and loss and pain and redemption. You know, all the great pop topics!
"I feel so lonesome I could cry, but instead I'll pass the time sittin' lonely with somebody lonely too," she sings on the crackling rock song "Hi-Five," off of her 2014 album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, before concluding, "Well, there's nothin' in the world I'd rather do." Olsen has made three excellent records since then—the latest, All Mirrors, finds her going in a new, electronic direction—and trust us when we say there's nothin' in the world you should rather do than catch her in Brooklyn later this month.
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"Very friendly and welcoming hosts. Town Centre location. Decent breakfast cooked to order. Good value for money...."
Barley Mow is a vintage hotel, with a hint of Greek culture. Its facilities offer a hotel bar with comfortable seating areas. Breakfast is also served daily if requested, just ask our friendly and welcoming staff.
Barley Mow Hotel is located in the centre of Pontefract, the town has an intriguing and interesting past with its roots dating back over 1000 years.
Pontefract is a modern name deriving from the Latin word, "broken bridge". Historians believe this town takes its name from the historic event in 1069, whereby William the Conqueror was blockaded by local Anglo-Scandinavian insurgents of whom had broken the bridge and held the opposite bank in force. The history behind this market town makes it a desirable place if you are interested in visiting the castle and church ruins, or taking a guided tour into the dungeons.
Whilst being the home of Haribo, Pontefract holds an annual liquorice festival to celebrate its historic liquorice past, the festival is an entertaining day out which provides something for everyone. Pontefract is also home to the longest flat race course in Europe, which offers great facilities which include tennis, golf and football. This course is also fantastic for running, cycling and general exercise. The park is 5 minutes from Barley Mow Hotel, therefore if you enjoy open and spacious greenery, it is only a short walk away.
The main reason for staying at any hotel is primarily to sleep whatever the price you pay; well good luck in getting even a short nap at this 'hotel' due to the noise from inside and outside the premises.
The Barley Mow is situated right in the centre of the nightlife area of Pontefract; no mention is made of this on the website (the manager /owner will say otherwise as there is no such information). Adjacent to the hotel is a 24 hour taxi office; there is also a kebab shop right across the street (open until 5am) and numerous bars open late nearby, including the 'hotel'. Therefore sleep was very hard to realise and the noise from outside is compounded by the racket of the hot water system in a cupboard in the room I occupied and the occupants of the room next door due to the thin walls. The owner/manager although he did try to assist with my concerns about noise on arrival really could not care; all he wanted was my money and nothing more in the way of service was forthcoming; asked if he had a room at the back of the hotel to assist in getting away from most of the noise he requested double the rate I was paying to move even though the room was vacant; he kept saying that I had been informed of the noise issues (not the case).
I took the decision to stay in the alternative room at the front of the 'hotel' he offered which was not en-suite but higher up, which I thought would assist but it did not. He also did not reduce the rate for the downgraded room going from the booked en-suite to shared bathroom facilities.
You are not given an entrance door key, just a room key and payment is demanded on arrival. Breakfast was not offered.
Room 9 looked like it had recently received a coat of paint and it had a flat screen TV. The bed had a terrible mattress and the washbasin was ancient, as was the room furniture which did not include a chair (only choice was to sit on the bed) however the room was clean. The shared bath was installed in the dark ages of times gone by and in need of complete renovation; the old shower did not work. The 'hotel' should do more to warn guests of the noise issues and should be more accommodating for those wishing not to party the night away but sleep after a long day's work. I was unable to find an alternative accommodation on that night; else I would have. Cannot recommend this 'hotel' as it is more nightclub then hotel and the owners / managers do not deserve to be paid for what they are offering.


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Any vehicles without the appropriate parking pass or credentials will not be allowed past the gated entrance to the park.
Pre-race shuttles will depart approximately every 10 minutes from the participant parking area. Estimated one-way shuttle time is 10 minutes. Spectators, crew, and pacers are allowed to ride the shuttles.
Following the start of each race, a return shuttle will transport spectators, crews, and pacers back to the parking lot. Continuous shuttles will run throughout the day for participants, crew, pacers and spectators approximately every 30 minutes.
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Academic Guidance Archaeology vs History
Thread starter Humanum
History Help Forum
Academic / Career Guidance
Humanum
So I'm applying to uni soon, but I am so split in two over what subject I want to do. I've enjoyed the idea of Archaeology ever since I was little, but I worry it was just that, the idea, like it sounds better in my head then in reality.
On the contrary, the reading and essay writing of being a historian and studying texts is a tried and tested thing which I love!
I just worry that if I choose to study just history than I'll be missing out. If anyone could offer some guidance of any sort I'd really appreciate it.
Ad Honorem
Canary Islands-Spain
Be sure, that if you choose history, you'll barely see something related to archeology. Standing buildings and remains of some activities, yes, but you can't get into them properly, because you'll lack the methodology and qualification.
You'll basically work with texts and authors.
Entreri
It really depends on the university you are going to and the kind of archeology you would like to actually do. At my alma mater, for example, all disciplines in the area of classical and ancient studies were consolidated in single department and you were able to combine elements from each rather freely. You could combine ancient history with classical and ancient archeology as a double major, for example. There is, anyway, quite a lot of overlap between both majors. However, our archeology program was quite humanity-focussed, and while you would have a bit of training in excavation and 3-d reconstruction techniques, it was by no means a vocational/natural science based program; in other words, you would do a lot of interpretation or analysis of things already found, but you would not be out in the field or in the lab. We had a Technical University nearby, where they had such a science-based program, a large part of which was taught by construction engineers, architects, and experts in urban planning. So, my take would be to choose which kind of archeology you want to do, and if it's the humanity-based type, look for double majors, and if it's the more technical/science-based type, go for a pure archeology program. It might be possible to find a dual major in history and (science-based) archeology, but you will probably have to decided on what to focus from you master onward.
Humanum said:
Go with whichever inspires you most in the here and now. If you like scratting about in the mud in the pouring rain looking for little bits of muddy pot whilst developers chivvy you along so they can wallop a bypass through a bronze age cemetery, go for archaeology. If you prefer sitting in libraries sipping an overpriced takeaway coffee whilst checking your Facebook status on your smart phone with an unread copy of A Reconsideration of the Mid-Etruscan Lavatories of the Orvieto Region: Volume IV in front of you, go for history.
In reality, you will soon discover that modern history is a multidisciplinary approach. I am a historian, but believe that archaeology tells us far more about my specialist period than the textual sources. It is necessary to look at all forms of evidence, which means you will need to develop an interest in not only history and archaeology, but also in language, linguistics, toponymy, genetics, landscape and so on.
History students can volunteer for archaeological digs and, as all major digs are written up, can access detailed archaeological evidence without ever having to don a Hi-Vis vest or a hard hat. Archaeologists have to spend time in libraries, writing up or researching.
So, don't worry about making the wrong choice, as there are a multiplicity of routes and no one is any better than the others.
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The Halifax Wanderers Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Alejandro (Alex) Dorado as First Team Assistant Coach to Stephen Hart.
Dorado, who hails from Madrid, Spain boasts an impressive coaching resume, most recently serving as Assistant Coach to Rafa Benitez at Dalian PRO in the Chinese Super League. He began his coaching career as a youth coach for the Spanish Football Federation (2010-2012) before joining Real Madrid as an Academy Head Coach for six years. In 2018, Dorado enjoyed his first coaching appointment overseas with FC Honka in Finland before joining Benitez's staff in China through to May 2021.
"We're extremely pleased to welcome Alejandro to Halifax," says Head Coach Stephen Hart. "Alejandro impressed us throughout his interviews with his knowledge of the game as well as the thoroughness of his research of the team, the club and the city. We share a common vision for our club development and a belief in how football should be played on the front foot."
Alejandro Dorado, in the Real Madrid sports city. (FdV)
In addition to his coaching pedigree, Dorado holds a series of excellent qualifications. He has earned a UEFA PRO license and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Science as well as several Masters Degrees in Player Identification and Development, Sports Psychology, Big Data/Analytics and High Performance and Periodization Training. As a fun fact for our Wanderers fans, Dorado was introduced to the club by his agent and former Halifax player Alex De Carolis, who has launched his own successful agency based in Europe.
"Alejandro's resume speaks for itself – he's an astute tactician with a strong technical understanding of football," explains Sporting Director Matt Fegan. "I think our ability to attract a coach of Alejandro's calibre from overseas to the Wanderers speaks volumes to the growing stature of the Canadian Premier League and the Club we are building.
"After a thorough interview process with several candidates, we felt Alejandro was the ideal fit for Stephen, his staff and the players. He comes with a wealth of experience, despite still being a relatively young coach, and also speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese. Beyond working on the pitch with the current squad, Alejandro will also be a tremendous asset in helping our players prepare and optimize their performances through their work off the pitch. Alejandro's extensive relationships throughout the global game will also help us attract quality players to Halifax."
Dorado with his latest team Dalian Pro at the San Javier facilities.
The Wanderers are also very pleased to confirm Assistant Coach Mesut Mert will transition to a new role with the Club's planned U23 program. Mert served as First Team Assistant Coach to Stephen Hart for two seasons while balancing his role as Head Coach of the Saint Mary's Huskies in Atlantic University Sport.
"Mesut has contributed greatly to our ongoing development at Wanderers," says Hart who also serves as the Technical Director for Halifax Wanderers. "We respect that he wants to continue his role with SMU and wanted to ensure we found a suitable role for him to remain within the Club. He has a proven track record of developing some of the best players in Atlantic Canada as a Coach and I have no doubt he'll give us the perfect foundation to grow our U23 program this summer."
In 2021, the Wanderers announced a plan to launch a U23 team, designed to improve the pipeline of the region's best talent into the First Team. After icing the plans due to COVID border restrictions last Summer, Wanderers held their first U23 ID camp in November 2021 and are committed to delivering the program in the summer of 2022."
"We're pressing ahead with our plans to launch our U23 team this summer," explains Fegan. "We held a successful ID camp late last year and will hold our next one in February. The team will launch as a Select Squad, playing a series of exhibitions against top opposition from outside the region this summer. We are having some very interesting conversations and will have more to announce soon."
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Dolomitization: from conceptual to numerical models
Fiona F. Whitaker, Peter L. Smart and Gareth D. Jones
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 235, 99-139, 1 January 2004, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.235.01.05
Fiona F. Whitaker
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
For correspondence: Fiona.Whitaker@bristol.ac.uk
Peter L. Smart
2School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
Gareth D. Jones
3ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company P.O. Box 2189, Houston, TX 77027, USA
Dolomitization requires not only favourable thermodynamic and kinetic conditions, but also a fluid-flow mechanism to transport reactants to and products from the site of dolomitization. This paper reviews work that seeks to provide a quantitative framework for conceptual models of dolomitization, using analytical and, particularly, numerical simulation models of fluid flow and rock-water interaction. This approach is starting to yield new insights into the major controls on the rate and pattern of fluid flux, and the resultant dolomitization.
Three sets of forces can drive the fluid flow required for dolomitization: elevation (topographic) head of meteoric water and/or seawater; gradients in fluid density due to variation in salinity and/or temperature; and pressure due to sedimentological and/or tectonic compaction. However, in many situations individual flow mechanisms may not operate in isolation. Rather fluid flow will commonly be a product of a number of different drives acting simultaneously. The balance between drives will change over time with variations in relative sea-level, climate, platform geometry and palaeogeography (which collectively comprise the critical boundary conditions). The simplistic prediction of dolomite body geometry from a single driving force may be misleading, as fluid flow will critically depend both on the boundary conditions and the distribution of permeability. Indeed, even for single driving forces, model predictions change significantly as simplistic assumptions are relaxed and these key parameters are specified with increasing realism.
The coupled modelling of dolomitization reactions within the flow field is less tractable than that of groundwater circulation because the kinetics of dolomitization are less well understood, particularly at lower temperatures. Dolomitization is likely to occur along a reaction front, where a favourable balance is struck between mass transport and reaction kinetics. For instance, in simulations of geothermal convection dolomitization focuses along the 50–60 °C isotherm. Dolomitization reactions are favoured by higher temperatures in deeper zones, but rates are limited by low flow because of lower permeability. Although flow rates are higher in shallow more permeable carbonates, lower temperatures limit reactions. High flow rates during reflux of platform-top brines give rapid dolomitization. This is associated with porosity occlusion in front of and behind the broad zone of replacement dolomitization driven by anhydrite cementation and overdolomitization, respectively. Lithological heterogeneities strongly affect the pattern of dolomitization, which is highly focused within more permeable beds and those with a higher reactive surface area.
While we focus here on dolomitization, models can also provide insights into diagenetic processes such as marine calcite cementation and aragonite, calcite and evaporite dissolution by refluxing brines, and by seawater circulation below the aragonite and calcite compensation depths. However, it is important to be aware of the assumptions and limitations of the numerical model(s) used. Particular attention must be paid to specification of boundary conditions, permeability and reactive surface area. The uncritical application of numerical techniques to particular cases of dolomitization is at best uninformative and at worst misleading. Careful application of these techniques offers great promise for well-constrained field problems, with greater inclusion of natural heterogeneity and time-variant boundary conditions. We also need to model feedbacks between diagenesis and porosity-permeability, and to include platform growth in simulations of slower diagenetic processes.
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Today, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, presented his annual report on Foreign and International Affairs to Parliament. In addition to providing an overview over foreign policy issues and events in the last 12 months, it lays down detailed, forward-looking foreign policy objectives.
"The Foreign Service is the most powerful tool we have to safeguard our interests in a constantly changing world. We need to regularly sharpen this tool so that it serves its purpose," said the Minister. A new review process of the work, priorities, and objectives of foreign policy has been launched. It is planned that the review will be completed this autumn, providing a guidepost for foreign affairs in the years to come.
In his speech the Minister touched upon four main areas: security and defence, new challenges in external trade, the importance of sustainable utilisation of natural resources and environmental affairs, and a new vision for development cooperation.
Within NATO, Iceland has emphasised matters pertaining to the North Atlantic and to marine safety, as well as defence planning for the area. Protection of the airspace remains unchanged, and a total of nine countries have carried out 26 air-surveillance missions since 2007. The number of civil experts working for NATO has risen, and host country support has been increased at the security area at Keflavík Airport. Participation in two extensive NATO exercises is currently underway: in summer 2017, and autumn 2018.
Among the Icelandic authorities' priority tasks in the near future are discussions on the future structure of trade relations between Iceland and the United Kingdom. An analysis is needed of the impact of Brexit and Iceland's most important interests in this context. Consultations with the British authorities, EFTA member states, and the EU has already begun.
There is a great need to strengthen Iceland's work within EFTA and the EEA. Collaboration within EFTA is a fundamental element in Iceland's trade policy. In recent years, the EFTA states have strengthened their free trade network, which now includes 38 countries. Iceland emphasises that, as soon as possible, EFTA must commence free trade negotiations with countries important for Icelandic exporters. Through EFTA, negotiations are underway with important countries, including India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and discussions with the South American Mercosur bloc are about to begin. An agreement on air transport with Israel was recently concluded and soon talks with Russia on air transport issues, including on crossing clearance will commence.
Iceland's interests in the fight against the adverse effects of climate change lie primarily in the impact on the sea and the marine biosphere, both in nearby oceans and worldwide. This is a field of some of Iceland's most vital interest and protecting those interests is one of the cornerstones of foreign policy. There is good reason to hope that an agreement will be finalised soon in order to prevent unregulated fishing in the Arctic Ocean.
Foreign Minister Thordarson said that Iceland's presidency of the Arctic Council in 2019-2021 will provide an excellent opportunity to strengthen Iceland's international position in these areas and its more active participation in international cooperation on environmental protection, sustainability, and stability, thereby supporting Iceland's long-term interests.


The British Journal of Pharmacology is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of experimental pharmacology. It is published for the British Pharmacological Society by Wiley-Blackwell. It was established in 1946 as the British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy. The journal obtained its current title in 1968.
The editor-in-chief is Amrita Ahluwalia. Previous editors-in-chief include Ian McGrath, Humphrey Rang, Alan North, Phil Moore, Bill Large, and Tony Birmingham. A sister journal, also published for the British Pharmacological Society by Wiley-Blackwell is the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. The journal publishes research papers, review articles, commentaries and correspondence in all fields of pharmacology. It also publishes themed issues, as well as supplements.
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY is a supplement of the British Journal of Pharmacology, replacing the "Guide to Receptors and Channels". It is produced in association with the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. The current version, The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2013/2014, was published in December 2013, and edited by Stephen Alexander, Anthony Harmar, and John Peters. This edition is a compilation of the major pharmacological targets divided into seven sections: G protein-coupled receptors, ligand-gated ion channels, ion channels, catalytic receptors, nuclear receptors, transporters, and enzymes. These are presented with nomenclature guidance and summary information on the best available pharmacological tools, alongside suggestions for further reading. It is freely available online and also available in hard copy. Previous editions of the "Guide to Receptors and Channels" are available through PubMed Central. The content of the "Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY" is also available through the online portal Guide to PHARMACOLOGY.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 4.842, ranking it 24th out of 254 journals in the category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy".
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K.Ganesh
Serial Entrepreneur, Chairman, Portea Medical, ( Founder and ex CEO- TutorVista)
Ganesh is a successful serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. His last venture, TutorVista which was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM. He was among the top 5 nominee for the Economic Times Entrepreneur of the year 2012 award .
His current venture, Portea Medical aims at providing technology led home health care services to the Indian consumer. Forbes magazine rated Portea as the top 5 start-ups to watch out for in 2014. With Rs 48 crores ( $ 8 MM ) from Accel partners and Ventureast. Portea is currently operational in 7 cities across India .
He is actively involved in incubating start-ups and is strategic investor / promoter of India based consumer Internet and ecommerce companies – Bluestone.com ( online jewelry), Bigbasket.com ( egrocery), MustseeIndia.com(travel packages and content), bookadda.com ( academic focused online books) and delyver.com ( hyper local delivery), onlineprasad.com ( online religion ).
Ganesh was founder of the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His earlier venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions.
In 1990, as his first entrepreneurial venture, he promoted IT&T ,one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003. Aside from founding and successfully growing four ventures, Krishnan has worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd.
He is a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and Technology events. He has been Recognized as one of the Iconic Entrepreneurs of India document published by National Knowledge Commission , Government of India. He serves as a member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management , Calcutta
Krishnan is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.


Around the corner from my office in DC there's a tiny storefront restaurant called, quite simply, "Greek Deli". It would be easy to miss, were it not for the long serpentine queue stretching all the way to the pavement, then turning 90-degrees and continuing on for a good distance more. Unsuspecting pedestrians are often corralled by the hungry ranks, eyeing the potential interlopers with suspicion as they push through towards their intended destination. You might think foul weather would dampen the resolve of the masses, and sometimes it does. But there are days when the promise of a carton of lush avgolemano soup is the only thing that gets you through the dull, grey drudgery of life in the city. And so you wait.
You take the full hour for lunch, and you spend most of that hour outside in the drizzle, the collar of your wool-coat hiked up and itching your neck because you left your scarf at home again. By the time you make it to the door, your coat smells, and you hate every person ahead of you. You stare at them through the stenciled door, they're smug and cozy, and also idiots. You didn't think this was possible, but you actually hate them more as they bumble through their orders.
And then, the door opens. A rush of warm air, saturated in olive oil hits you, and suddenly the last 40-minutes spent shivering in the cold are forgotten. The space is packed tight to the counter with customers. Behind the glass stands Kostas Fostieris. He looks like the captain of an old dory, with his fisherman's cap, leathery skin, and a beard as full as his belly. You watch him age through the pictures and news-clips crowding the walls. You're shocked by how little has changed. Aside from the color of his beard and the style of the suits, the scene around you perfectly mirrors the ones on display. Does he notice it too? Finally, it's your turn. But you were distracted by the photos and the baklava. "MEEEEEESSSS! MEEEEESS?" barks Kostas, and you realize that you haven't decided what to order. Now you're the one staring into the case of steaming lamb and salmon and brisket and spanakopita and moussaka and orzo and white beans and green beens like a tongue-tied nincompoop. The woman behind you sighs heavily, and someone from the back of the shop hisses "you've gotta be kidding." Suddenly you're very warm, you blurt out a list of six different items. Because overcompensation? Azzad is at the the register, more relaxed than his employer, he sneaks you a wink and a smile along with your giant white sack of food.
By the time you make it back out into the rain you're late for work. You take the shortcut through the alley, and a driver blares his horn at you for blocking his way. That girl across the hall gives you the stink eye as you slink into your office, and you can't really blame her. The conference call you were supposed to be on has already started and you hope no one notices the 'bloop' announcing your arrival. They say something about slide five, you mute your line. You, are very, very hungry. You rip open the sack, it's oil-stained now and making an even bigger mess of your desk. You start to ask yourself why you keep going there anyway, but the first bite of warm bread shuts you up before you can finish the thought.
The below is my rendition of one of my very favorite dishes from the Greek Deli. I've added kale to make the dish a bit more substantial, and would not be against throwing a fried egg on top for good measure. Serve with crusty bread.
Cook beans in salted water according to your preference until just shy of done. For me, this means a "power soak," followed by about 20 min. in the pressure cooker.
While beans are cooking, prepare tomato sauce. Pour tomatoes (including their juices) into a large bowl, and squish to break up into a nearly uniform consistency. Heat 1/4 c olive oil in a large sauté pan, cook onion until translucent, add garlic and cook 2 more minutes. Add wine and tomatoes, fill can half full with water to rinse out any additional juice and add that as well. Cook over high heat until reduced by almost half (you can always add water if it gets too concentrated, sauce should still be a bit soupy). Add beans, kale and dill, and season to taste, then stew until beans are tender. Stir in additional 1/4 c olive oil, and top with crumbled feta.


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European 'migrant crisis': Avoiding another wave of refugees living in limbo
June 23, 2016 , Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Migration
Pavle Kilibarda
The Idomeni informal refugee settlement at the Greco-Macedonian border, pictured here at its peak shortly after the closure of the Balkan route in March 2016. The camp was evacuated at the end of May. (Photo by Julian Buijzen/Flickr)
That the brutal excesses of the conflict in Syria, well into its sixth year, have proven capable of causing one of the greatest forced migrations since the end of World War II should serve as a harrowing reminder of the lasting need to reinforce the international system of refugee and migrant protection.
The tragic phenomenon of forced displacement, present throughout human history, persists well-into the 21st century, and its effects may be felt on every continent. It is therefore unfortunate that it took a humanitarian disaster of such a scale as last year's mass influx of refugees on European soil in order to once again spark genuine debate concerning these issues. We should therefore use this opportunity to reflect upon the most important developments during what has been called the 'refugee crisis' of 2015, as well as to appeal for greater humanitarian efforts in order to alleviate the suffering of refugees and displaced persons across the globe.
Reflecting upon the 'refugee crisis' in Europe
Starting in April/May 2015, the number of new arrivals in Europe began to increase dramatically, with what was called the 'Western Balkan route' soon eclipsing the old Mediterranean route in terms of sheer numbers; traveling from Turkey towards Greece, and then northwards through the Balkan countries in order to reach Western and Central Europe gradually became a preferable alternative to braving the dangerous and often lethal voyage across the Mediterranean. Combined with increasing desperation concerning livelihood possibilities in Turkey and other neighbouring countries, the perception that Europe could – and would – provide safe shelter led a record number of Middle Eastern refugees to embark on their journey towards those countries perceived as safe countries of asylum.
Over the course of 2015, the number of first-time asylum applicants in EU countries increased from around 562,680 in 2014 to 1,255,685. Most notably, among them there were 362,775 applications by Syrian nationals (whose number tripled from 119,000 in 2014), 178,230 were submitted by nationals of Afghanistan and 121,535 by nationals of Iraq (all statistical data comes from EUROSTAT). These three countries – in addition to others – are considered 'refugee-producing countries' by UNHCR, meaning that asylum-seekers coming from them are prima facie likely to fulfil the conditions for refugee status of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (see, for example, the latest UNHCR position papers on the international protection needs of asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq).
This unforeseen mass influx situation put European solidarity to the test, both amongst receiving and transit countries, as well as towards refugees themselves. Although the necessity of forming a common European response was recognized early on during the crisis of 2015 and in spite of high expectations concerning the outcome of several EU summits, a comprehensive common policy was not implemented. However, policy towards refugees and migrants travelling along the Western Balkan route did evolve through several distinct stages, usually through joint undertakings by major EU receiving countries and the governments of Western Balkan countries themselves. Following increasingly restrictive regulations concerning access to these countries' territory – often done in a manner whose conformity with international law was called into question, with certain groups being designated as irregular migrants a priori – this policy culminated in the controversial EU-Turkey deal of March 2016; in light of this deal, Western Balkan states began shutting their borders to refugees and migrants, effectively leading to the closure of the Western Balkan route.
This mass influx situation likewise highlighted real or perceived shortcomings in the framework of international refugee law, particularly in the so-called 'transit context', wherein many persons who likely met the criteria for refugee status in line with article 1 (A) (2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, facing asylum procedures that were often dysfunctional and poor perspectives of integrating into the local community, declined to seek asylum in countries which they were merely transiting through prior to reaching the ones they perceived as being safe countries of asylum. This situation sparked debate as to the extent of these states' obligations under international refugee and human rights law, including respect for the principle of non-refoulement, the legal safeguards in forced returns procedures and the related issue of ensuring access to their territory to such persons.
Reinforcing the international system of refugee and migrant protection
The events of 2015 have highlighted more than ever the need not only for States as such to cooperate in resolving issues with global implications, but also the necessity of fostering cooperation between state authorities and civil society in order to ensure full respect for relevant standards of international law. Such cooperation was often difficult during 2015, with issues such as whether the term 'refugee' was preferable to 'migrant', often overshadowing more pressing issues such as ensuring these persons' safety and dignity.
Every policy solution in this regard must conform to international law at all times, in particular to such fundamental norms as the jus cogens principle of non-refoulement. Above all, the refugee crisis of 2015 has demonstrated to what extent making predictions with any level of precision is impossible in the field of forced displacement; this should be a reminder to policy-makers that only long-term planning and preparation may lead towards adequate migration management and ensuring full legal protection for persons who meet the conditions for being granted asylum either as a matter of international refugee law or human rights law.
Furthermore, notwithstanding the special protection granted by international law to refugees as persons fleeing persecution on various grounds, all migrants remain protected by the overarching norms of international human rights law; their urgent humanitarian needs must be addressed and all proceedings governing their status or potential forced return must be in line with human rights standards.
The persistent influx of persons in need of international protection arriving to the shores of Europe should likewise not be an excuse to disregard the situation of refugees elsewhere. Millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq remain in neighbouring countries such as Turkey and Lebanon, often in conditions of extreme poverty, and their number greatly exceeds that of refugees who have so far arrived in Europe. All around the world, protracted refugee situations continue to leave millions of human beings living in inhumane conditions with little or no prospect of local integration. To mention a few noteworthy situations, Pakistan and Iran have hosted millions of refugees fleeing subsequent conflicts in Afghanistan for decades; tens of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons, a legacy of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, continue to face a lack of durable solutions many years after said conflicts came to an end; and hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have been living in Kenyan refugee camps since the early '90s (many of whom may now be repatriated).
These situations should serve as a warning to the international community, so as to hopefully avoid another wave of refugees living in limbo for years to come.
Pavle Kilibarda (L.L.M. Geneva Academy) worked at the UNHCR office in Belgrade and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, engaging principally with the legal position of refugees and asylum-seekers in Serbia. He is the author of several publications dealing with international refugee and human rights law and has spoken in various media outlets.
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 Oadyra - Meaning of Oadyra, What does Oadyra mean?
[ syll. oa-dy-ra, oad-yra ] The baby girl name Oadyra is pronounced as OW-DiyRAH †. The origin of Oadyra is the Arabic language. Oadyra is a derivative of the name Oadira.
Oadyra is a rarely used baby name for girls. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names.
Baby names that sound like Oadyra include Oadyrah, Oadeara, Oadira, Oadirah, Oderah, Oderra, Oderrah, Otrera, Oadearah, Oadeera, Oadeerah, Oderea, Oderia, Oderrea, Oderria, Otreria, Otrerea, and Audris (German).
† approx English pronunciation for Oadyra: OW as in "oak (OW.K)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"


Combine the pears, cinnamon, wine, & sugar in a skillet over medium-high heat.
Bring to a gentle simmer & cook about 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the pears are almost falling apart. Let warm to room temperature .
Transfer the compote to a food processor & pulse until slightly chunky. (The compote may be covered & refrigerated for up to 8 hours; bring to room temperature before serving).
Transfer the compote to a serving bowl & place on a large platter. Arrange the cheese and baguette slices around the compote & put a bit of honeycomb on each slice of cheese.
Guests can layer a slice of cheese & a dollop of compote on the baguette slices.


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Q: Providing Access to a Whitelisted Server through OpenVPN There's a server A. This server is only accessible from another server B, with a given IP address. I want to install OpenVPN on server B so that clients connecting to this VPN can access server A as well.
If I understand correctly, the OpenVPN should be bridged, am I correct? Any advise on how to do this? An online tutorial maybe? I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.


"Inchies" are little works of art which are 1″x1″ in size. They can be made of almost any material: felt, fabric, card, paper, Tyvek, metal. Felt is a good choice for your first "Inchies".
If your chosen fabric or felt is thin, a stabilising backing is useful, especially if you are machining, but a thick or stiff fabric works alone Having a theme is a nice way to choose what to bring: a colour, seaside, garden, flowers, stitch samples, the seasons, leaves, and so on. In one workshop I think you may make a little set of 4 or 6 "Inchies" so no need to bring lots of big things, this is a gentle day!
Base material: felt, cotton, polycotton, or stiffer fabric.
Stabiliser: small amount of iron-on Vilene, Bondaweb, or similar.
Decoration: tiny pieces of silk, net, organza, scrim, shiny bits, lace, old embroideries, doilies, ribbons, string, tiny buttons, beads, sequins, tiny shells, seaglass, findings, anything tiny!
Equipment: usual sewing kit, embroidery threads, (gold always useful), scissors, fabric marker, pencil, ruler.
Optional: cutting board, set square, glue stick, Sewing machine only if you wish. You could use it for edges but I like the hand-edged look on felt and it seems gentler. You could if you wish decorate a large piece of fabric by machine and then cut up your "Inchies" if that is nicer for you.
some old magazines with pictures (but I will have a bundle). Gardening and house ones work well but a range is good!
The idea for the day is to look at all Stitches, simple and more elaborate that can be used to embellish your work. It is good to make a small sampler to refer back on. I will also bring an exercise where you use One stitch to do the whole embroidery in different size and weights of threads. Basically it is a day to play with Stitches you may not have tried before.
Embroidery threads, either stranded or Perle plus some thicker threads for crouching.
Stitch book – Mary Thomas, Anchor *I will bring several different ones.
Fabric to stitch onto – either Aida if you wish to make a sampler, a piece of printed fabric to embellish, or small pieces to manipulate.
**I will bring some flower shapes that can be used to make a name badge.
Piece of cardboard, 9″ x 9″ slightly thicker than a cereal box if possible. I will have afew pieces with me.
Two fabric squares 9 3/4″ x 10″. One will be the outer fabric, and one the inner.
Four small jewellers' jump rings or any small hoops to thread ribbon through.
Transfers, rubber stamps or any small pictures for decorating the felt. I will show you a method for transferring a design from paper.


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"Nine in the Afternoon" is a song by the American rock band Panic at the Disco, and the lead single from the group's second album Pretty. Odd.. It was the band's first song release that did not include the exclamation mark at the end of the "Panic" in the group's name. It was the fifth song written for the album.

It was the first song written after the band decided to scrap an entire album of songs that the members had been planning to release in autumn 2007. Panic at the Disco's first performance of "Nine in the Afternoon" was at Virgin Festival 2007. The song has undergone changes in key and lyrics since first being performed. This song was number 44 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.

On January 28, 2008, at 9:00pm, Panic at the Disco released "Nine in the Afternoon" via the group's MySpace page. Soon after, the band removed the song from that page and added a demo of another song from the new album, "We're So Starving". The following day, Apple added the single for download. The song impacted radio on February 19. As of March, "Nine in the Afternoon" has received moderate radio airplay. It has also been featured in the episode of the NBC television series Heroes titled "Cautionary Tales" and was included in the official television soundtrack album released in early 2008.

The song was covered by The Academy Is..., another Decaydance band, on Warped Tour 2008.

The song is a playable song in the music video game Rock Band 2. It was included on the soundtrack for the video game NHL 09, and was released as downloadable content for the games Just Dance 2 and Lips. It is also on the guitar game Guitar Rock Tour 2.

On the deluxe LP of Pretty. Odd., the song does not have the cymbal hit from the previous track. Instead, it starts with piano.

The song's title comes from an event during a practice session. After playing for a while and not knowing what time it was, Spencer Smith suggested that it was "seven in the afternoon". It was later changed to "nine in the afternoon" to mesh better with the other lyrics.

On the spine of the Australian CD single, the title of the song was misprinted as "Nine in the Morning".

Music video

According to an advertisement, the concept of the video for the song is a "series of bizarre yet fundamentally recognizable events with the band members". The video contains 40 extra and people will be featured as there are different periods, looks, wardrobe and hair changes. In an MTV interview, it is said that in the video "there are gratuitous fake mustaches involved and a rather bizarre parade being led by the members of the band, who are dressed in what could only be described as 'Sgt. Pepper's-meets-ice-fishing' attire (lots of epaulettes and thermal underwear). Each of them also wears a sash printed with the phrase 'Pretty Odd'." Originally, some of the scenes were supposed to be filmed in a "desert wasteland", but in the writing process, the director made a typing error and spelled out "dessert wasteland". The group decided to adapt that idea. The dessert wasteland shows the band in animal masks. The band members also wear black, red and other colored turtleneck sweaters. The turtlenecks covered up the mask necks and made it seem the band actually had animal heads. The video was directed by Shane Drake, who worked on "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and "But It's Better If You Do".

Many elements of the video relate it to The Beatles. Already mentioned is the Sgt. Pepper attire. The members of the band also each wake up in a different colored room, much like The Beatles had in their movie Help!. The members of the band also wear animal costumes like The Beatles had done for their "I Am the Walrus" video. The sequence where the members run away from a crowd of screaming girls is reminiscent of "A Hard Day's Night".

MTV premiered the music video of "Nine in the Afternoon" on February 10, 2008, at 9:00pm. This date was confirmed earlier during Panic's Final Challenge on MTV's website. The video made its TRL debut the next day.

In July on MTV, it was announced that "Nine in the Afternoon" was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.

Track listings
Digital download single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (album version or radio mix)

Australian CD single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio mix)
 "Behind the Sea" (alternate version)
 "Do You Know What I'm Seeing?" (alternate version)

UK CD single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (album version)

UK 7-inch single part 1
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (album version)
 "Do You Know What I'm Seeing?" (alternate version)

UK 7-inch single part 2
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (album version)
 "Behind the Sea" (alternate version)

US 7-inch single
 "Nine in the Afternoon"
 "Pas de Cheval"

US promotional CD-R single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio edit)
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio mix)

European promotional CD single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio edit)
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio mix)

Japanese promotional CD-R single
 "Nine in the Afternoon" (radio edit)

Chart performance
In its first week of release, "Nine in the Afternoon" was the most added track at modern rock radio. For the chart week of February 16, 2008, the song debuted at number 29 on the Modern Rock Tracks, at number 79 on the Hot 100, at number 58 on the Canadian Hot 100 and at number 24 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The single debuted at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart on downloads alone, becoming the band's highest charting single in that country to date. On July 30, 2008, the song was certified gold by the RIAA.

Charts

Certifications

References

External links
 Official band site
 Nine in the Afternoon Music video
 Nine in the Afternoon (Acoustic) Pimp Music video
 Nine in the Afternoon lyrics on Songmeanings.com
 Review of Nine in the Afternoon on Unreality Music

Panic! at the Disco songs
2008 singles
2008 songs
Fueled by Ramen singles
Music videos directed by Shane Drake
Song recordings produced by Rob Mathes
Songs written by Brendon Urie
Songs written by Jon Walker
Songs written by Ryan Ross
Songs written by Spencer Smith (musician)

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The Importance of Social Mobility
Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
Improving social mobility is the single biggest reason I stood for Parliament. I've always believed in the moral imperative to do everything humanly possible to help people, whatever their backgrounds, go as far as their talents will take them.
Education is an essential driver of that social mobility. It is what takes a talent child born into entrenched, generational, disadvantage and allows them to soar and achieve their true potential.
Nowhere is that more important than here in Cheltenham. Here, for many decades, affluent areas have sat cheek by jowl with some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England. And it is a passion to heal that gap which underpins so much of my ambition for Cheltenham – for generating new cyber opportunities to attracting new infrastructure investment.
And it's why I am delighted that, on top of additional schools funding for Cheltenham through the new national funding formula, our town has been awarded a further six-figure grant from the Government's £140 million Strategic Schools Improvement Fund (SSIF).
This money will go towards closing the attainment gap in Maths at Key Stage 2, primary school children aged between 7 and 11. It will support a broad range of school improvement activities across Gloucestershire including, but not limited to, promoting best practice in leadership and teaching methods. And it will fund initiatives which are sustainable, with support provided by schools, for schools.
I want to congratulate the leadership and staff of Balcarras school whose dedication has helped secure this funding. As Cheltenham's local GLOWMaths Hub with strong links to Shanghai, Balcarras is well placed to lead this initiative.
Although there is more to do, recent evidence from secondary league tables show schools in the South West are continuing to make progress in narrowing the attainment gap. The gap in results between disadvantaged secondary school pupils and their peers has narrowed by 3.2 per cent since last year and 10 per cent since 2011.
We have a duty to strive for better still.


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Wife-After-Death
Wife After Death
Tue 24 - Sat 28 Sep, Lichfield Garrick Studio
Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There's Harvey, who wrote Dave's material; Vi, Harvey's wife; Kevin, Dave's agent, and Kevin's wife Jane. Dave's glamorous widow Laura has arranged a funeral to remember, complete with a horse-drawn hearse and an attendant dog. An unfamiliar woman in flamboyant mourning clothes turns out to be Kay, Dave's ex-wife from before he was famous, and a series of revelations end with Kevin throwing a drink into the coffin and all the guests asking themselves if they ever knew the "real" Dave.
Tue 24 Sep 7:45 PM £14 (£12 students)
Wed 25 Sep 7:45 PM £14 (£12 students)
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