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Topographic map series (raster)
The Topographic map series is a dataset depicting the terrain of all of Finland. The key elements in it are the road network, buildings and constructions, geographic names, waterways, land use and elevation. The more precise levels of the Topographic map series consist of the same map objects and map symbols depicted in the same way as in the familiar Basic map. Basic map raster is applicable to be used, for instance, as a base map for planning land use or for excursion and outdoor recreational purposes in mobile devices and in various Internet services associated with nature. When going over to the more general datasets in the Topographic map series, the number and visualisation of objects and map symbols changes. The generalised small-scale Topographic maps raster are applicable to be used as approach maps in e.g. mobile devices and Internet services. The product belongs to the open data of the National Land Survey of Finland. More information: Topographic data and how to acquire it http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/maps-and-spatial-data/expert-users/topographic-data-and-how-acquire-it
Background map series (raster)
The Background map series is a dataset product series in raster format that depicts the whole of Finland and that is meant for web use as a background material for thematic data. Its key objects are road names, roads and railways, buildings and constructions, administrative borders, geographical names, waterways, land use and addresses of buildings (from the Population Register Centre). The product belongs to the open data of the National Land Survey of Finland. More information: Topographic data and how to acquire it http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/maps-and-spatial-data/expert-users/topographic-data-and-how-acquire-it.


One of my favorite and first creations is this industrial inspired lamp. A vintage gas can and vintage gas pump handle married together, makes for a perfect industrial modern table lamp. This is still to date my #1 top pinned lamp on Pintrest at 225 pins. A simple DIY project, so keep your eyes peeled for these vintage pieces and get creative!
JunkArchitect writes: It's one of my favorites too! The bulb looks like a torch...so freaking cool!


Guildford, United Kingdom – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leader in health technology, today announced the global launch of Azurion, its next generation image-guided therapy (IGT) platform that integrates advanced interventional tools into one clinician platform. Combining advancements in vascular surgery, interventional cardiology, oncology and neuroradiology, Azurion provides procedure cards that allow clinicians to pre-program routine tasks and user preferences while state-of-the-art ergonomic design and an intuitive user interface lets clinicians swiftly and confidently perform a wide range of routine and complex procedures in the interventional lab.
Azurion is the result of a multi-year development program conducted in collaboration with leading clinicians in the field to acknowledge that with the rapid growth of image-guided therapy procedures, hospitals and health systems are increasingly faced with the need to control costs while improving their standards of care. Azurion has been designed to address these challenges and is equipped with new workflow options and performance dashboards, as well as an upcoming range of productivity improvement services.
Having acquired Volcano Corporation in 2015, subsequently becoming a leader in advanced catheters for diagnosis and therapy, Philips is further expanding its market footprint in the IGT market with one of its largest global product launches in recent years.
Azurion harnesses vital procedural information from various sources, such as imaging systems, interventional devices, navigation tools and patient health records to provide interventional staff members with the control and information they need for efficient procedures.
The Azurion platform features over 1,000 new components, including an enhanced flat-panel detector and Philips' newly developed ConnectOS operating system for the seamless integration of real-time information from all relevant technologies in the interventional lab. All of these components work together to deliver high image quality at ultra-low radiation exposure and real-time image processing on multiple work spots within the interventional lab. Parallel working enables the team of clinicians to complete different tasks simultaneously, saving valuable time without compromising quality of care.
Minimally-invasive therapies reduce patient trauma incidence, shorten recovery times allowing treatment to be offered to patients who would not be admissible for open surgery. Clinicians cannot directly see and feel the organs they are working on in minimally-invasive procedures so effective imaging, measurement and navigation technologies are key to guiding these procedures. At the heart of the interventional lab, imaging technologies allow identification and visualisation of target organs and tissues, the operation of interventional devices, and the placement of implants, leading to improved chances of therapy success.


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Q: How to find intersecting point of following type of functions? We are given a function,$$f(x,y)=4x^2-xy+4y^2+x^3y+xy^3-4$$
Now to calculate minimum and maximum value of $f(x,y)$,
i first calculated $f_x$ and $f_y$ for stationary points.
which gave $$f_x=8x-y+3x^2y+y^3---(equation\ a)  $$ and $$f_y=-x+8y+x^3+3xy^2---(equation\ b)$$
$f_x=0\ and\ f_y=0$ gives the stationary point  but i am unable to find it. I tried substitution method but could not get a valid substitute, i also tried
$y*equation(a) - x*equation(b)$
which gave me $x^2-y^2+y^4-x^4=0,$ but it does not yield (1.5,-1.5) and (-1.5,1.5) which I obtained from graph,
how can i obtain intersection point without graphing?
graph at https://www.desmos.com/calculator/5lficuv6ic

A: $equation(a)+equation(b)$ $\Leftrightarrow$
$$(x+y)(x^2+2xy+y^2+7)=0$$
Then
$$x=-y$$

A: If you make $y=x$ you would get
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If you make $y=-x$ you would get
$$f_x=9 x-4 x^3=0\implies x=\pm \frac 32\implies y= ???$$
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Welcome to the Sholem Aleichem College Parents' Association. Parents of the school are automatically members of the Parents' Association and we encourage everyone to be active in the life of our school/preschool. The Committee meets every 6 weeks to discuss upcoming events and the ongoing services we provide for all our children. You are welcome to come to one or all of the meetings to ask questions, voice an opinion or make a suggestion. Everyone is welcome!
SACPA has two main functions. We run fundraising activities and major events for the College and the wider community. We aim to coordinate one big event each year as well as a number of smaller ones. These have included the College Carnival, Trivia Night and stalls for Mother's & Father's Day, to name a few. We also provide services to the College community including second hand uniforms, hotdogs and sushi and social events like the Welcome Picnic. We work hand-in-hand with the staff and Principal to ensure that all money raised directly benefits all the students at the College.
Examples of what our efforts have provided include: iPads, interactive whiteboards and TVs, puzzles & toys, Hebrew books, air conditioning, native gardens, readers and classroom resources, sports equipment, outdoor musical instruments, an outdoor chess set, and so much more. We are very proud of all we achieve.
SACPA also comprises lots of other fantastic volunteers who help to run events, have a say at meetings , help out where they can or just coming along to support our events!
SACPA meets every 6 weeks, at 8pm in the school staff room. Please check the SACPA Calendar for meeting dates as we rotate the day. Please join us, we're friendly, it's a great way to meet other parents, it's social, fun and there's always chocolate!
You don't need to be on the Committee or even come to the meetings; you can offer an hour here or there when you can. We often call for volunteers for services and events; helpers to prepare hotdogs and sushi, look after a stall, set up a function etc. Parents, grandparents, nannies are all invited to do what they can, when they are available. The kids all love to see you helping out at school.
The best way to stay in touch with all that's happening at SACPA is to read the weekly email that is circulated every Wednesday. This is the most up to date information, always lists what's happening and asks for volunteers when required. You can also join our Facebook page, email us at sacpa@sholem.vic.edu.au or grab us in the playground (we seem to spend a lot of time there)!


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Business Observer Friday, Mar. 5, 2004 15 years ago
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)
This week's items: Bill Lockhart not running for Pinellas County clerk of the courtFormer partner Jamie Slater and Bruce Young feud Influential stock market watchers let go, but still to speak beofre Financial Analysts Society of Tampa Bay
Bill bows out
Don't expect Bill Lockhart as a candidate for Pinellas County clerk of the court, though he had pondered the idea of replacing retiring Clerk Karleen DeBlaker.
Lockhart, the 6th Circuit's retired court administrator, told GCBR last year that he expected to run for the constitutional office. But a source who spoke with Lockhart about a month ago says he is no longer considering public office.
"He's in Africa right now. He said he's enjoying his retirement too much."
Coffee Talk is amazed to learn that Lockhart, a fixture for decades at the Clearwater courthouse, prefers travel overseas to getting tangled up in the ever-pressing state court funding issue. Not really. Others, such as the new court administrator, Gay Inskeep, must be envious.
You've heard the stories about the messy breakups of law partners. Clients are fought over. Locks on office doors are changed. Some attorneys act far worse than spurned lovers feuding over the children, pets or marital assets.
But the recent problems between Palm Harbor lawyers Jamie Slater and Bruce Young, who have practiced together since at least 1999, seem especially tumultuous. Slater, who has handled some high-profile criminal cases and is known for his easy-going manner, showed up for a divorce trial Feb. 23 in Dade City to discover Young had called the proceeding off.
The previous Friday Young had sent 6th Circuit Judge Linda Babb a fax telling her that Slater was home in bed, out of his mind.
Now, Slater says the charge is ludicrous. He had the flu for a week or two, but he's feeling quite fine these days.
Babb was obviously unhappy to be caught in the men's bickering. She has ordered Young to pay the costs incurred by witnesses who had been scheduled to travel to the courthouse for the two-day divorce trial.
Last call?
The timing was a little startling.
Coffee Talk received word March 2 that the Financial Analysts Society of Tampa Bay was bringing in one of America's most influential stock market watchers to speak at the society's next meeting.
Later that day, Charles L. Hill's employer announced he was leaving the company.
Dubbed "Father Earnings" in a recent Associated Press story, Chuck Hill has been in charge of gathering, compiling and analyzing profit forecasts from Wall Street investment firms for Boston-based Thomson First Call since 1992.
But First Call is cutting Hill loose as its research director. The 66-year-old Harvard Business School graduate says his departure was involuntary. It is apparently part of Thomson's revamping of the First Call research office. Hill's replacement starts March 15.
So, will Hill still be making the trip south for his scheduled address to FASTB at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club on March 9?
"Definitely," Hill told GCBR. As president of the analysts society in Boston, Hill says he knows how difficult it is for a volunteer organization to line up speakers for meetings.
The Florida speaking engagement does not portend an early retirement for Hill. The First Call research director, who has been credited with helping spur reform of how companies report earnings, says he intends to seek new employment on Wall Street in due course.
In the meantime, even though he recently underwent prostate cancer surgery, Hill has every intention of traveling to Ireland in June to play in a rugby tournament with his Harvard B-School alumni team. "I may be in diapers," says the chuckling Hill. "But I'll be there."
Gold finds gold
The private investors led by career banker C. Stanley Bailey who are buying the Kansas-based parent of Gold Bank won't change the name, despite a 2003 embezzlement scandal.
Bailey, who used to be chief financial officer at AmSouth Bancorp, heads up Silver Acquisition Corp. that was formed to buy Gold Banc Corp. Inc. for about $672 million. The group includes a pair of private-equity fund managers.
Gold has been expanding along the Gulf Coast since 2000 and considers the region a future growth market.
The banking company was just getting back on its feet before the Feb. 25 acquisition announcement. In December, Gold received a final restitution payment from former chief executive and chairman Michael W. Gullion, who was accused of diverting more than $3 million of bank resources to his own accounts.
The scandal alarmed federal regulators, who had Gold sign monitoring agreements last summer. The Federal Reserve Bank lifted restrictions in January after regulators restored Gold to well-managed status.
But Gold still disappointed Wall Street with its 2003 fourth-quarter results.
For instance, Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP, which also served as Gold's investment banker for the deal with the Bailey group, had forecast earnings of 19 cents a share. The firm pegged Gold's operating earnings at only 17 cents, excluding nonrecurring events like branch sales.
Gold's presence in Florida is concentrated in Charlotte, Hillsborough, Manatee and Sarasota counties. Its biggest market share is in Manatee, where it bought the old American Bank four years ago. Gold has almost 9% of Manatee's deposits, according to SNL Financial's analysis of June 30 data.
The bank has nearly 4% of Charlotte's deposits, SNL says, but less than 1% in the Hillsborough and Sarasota markets.

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First world war poetry
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First world war poetry 39′ faris-slm Web definitions A war poet iS a poet written at that time and on the subject of war. This term, at the beginning applied especially to those in military service during World War I. then, documented as early as IS4B in reference to German revolutionary poet, Georg Herwegh The main figures in the first world war Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)-1 Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebdle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero.
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Born Into a wealthy Jewish family In 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, playing cricket, golfing nd writing romantic verses. Being an Innocent, Sassoon's reaction to the realities of the war were all the more bitter and vlolent both his reaction Trough his poetry and his reaction on the battlefield (after the death ot fellow officer David Thomas and has brother Hamo at Gallipoli). Sassoon sadness, he believed that the Germans were entirely to blame.
Sassoon showed innocence by gong public to protest against the war. Luckily. his friend and fellow poet Robert Graves convinced the review board that Sassoon was suffering from shell-shock and he was sent instead to the military ospital at Craig Lockhart where he met and influenced Wilfred Owen. Sassoon is a key figure in the study of the poetry of the Great War: he brought with him to the war the ideal pastoral background. he began by writing war poetry reminiscent of Rupert Brooke. he wrote with such war poets as Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden.
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e spoke out publicly against the war. he spent thirty years reflecting on the war through his memoirs, and at last he found peace in his religious faith. Some critics found his later poetry lacking in comparison to his war poems. How to Die" ' Dark clouds are smouldering into red While down the Craters morning burns The dying soldier shifts his head TO watch the glory that returns He lifts his fingers toward the skies Where holy brightness breaks in name: Radiance reflected in his eyes, And on his lips a whispered name.
You'd think, to hear some people talk, That lads go West with sobs and curses, And sullen faces white as chalk, Hankering for wreaths and tombs and hearses. But they've been taught the way to do it Like Christian soldiers: not with haste And shuddering groans: but passing through it With due regard for decent taste. From the age of nineteen Owen wanted to be a poet and immersed himself in poetry, eing especially impressed by Keats and Shelley. He wrote almost no poetry of importance until he saw action in France in 1917.
He was deeply attached to his mother to whom most of his 664 letters are addressed. (She saved everyone. ) He was a committed Christian and became lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden near Reading 1911-1913 – teaching Bible classes and leading prayer meetings as well as visiting parishioners and helping in other ways. He escaped bullets until the last week of the war, but he saw a good deal of front-line action: he was blown up, concussed and suffered shell-shock. At Craig Lockhart, the psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh, he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry.
He was sent back to the trenches in September, 1918 and in October won the Military Cross. by seizing a German machine-gun and using it to kill a number of Germans. On 4th November he was shot and killed near the village of Ors. The news of his death reached his parents' home as the Armistice bells were ringing on 11 November. Wilfred Owen is the greatest writer of war poetry in the English language. He wrote out of his intense personal experience as a soldier and wrote with matchless power of the physical, moral and psychological impact of the First World
War. All of his great war poems about his reputation rests were written only in a fifteen months. Anthem for Doomed Youth BY WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs," The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds In England For the first time, am essential number of important English poets were soldiers, writing about their experiences of war. A number of them died on the battlefield, most famously Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Wilfred Owen.
Siegfried Sassoon survived but were scarred by their experiences, and this was reflected in their poetry. Wilfred Gibson (1878-1962) -3 Wilfred Wilson Gibson was born in Hexham, England in 1878. Gibson worked for a time as a social worker in London's East End. He published his first verse in 1902, Mountain Lovers. He had several poems included in various Georgian poetry 1910. After the outbreak of war, Gibson served as a private in the infantry on the Western Front.
It was therefore from the perspective of the ordinary soldier that Gibson wrote his war poetry. His active service was brief, but his poetry contradict his lack of experience, "Breakfast" being a prime example of ironic war verse written during the very early stages of the conflict following the armistice, Gibson continued riting poetry and plays. His work was particularly concerned with the poverty of industrial workers and village workers. Back They ask me where I've been, And what I've done and seen.
But what can I reply Who know it wasn't l, But someone Just like me, Who went across the sea And with my head and hands Killed men in foreign lands… Though I must bear the blame, Because he bore my name. str Herbert Read (1893-1968) -4 the poet and critic, was born in France, Yorkshire in 1893 His college studies, at Leeds University, were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, in which he served with the Yorkshire Regiment in France and Belgium. During his service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Military Cross in the same year, 1918.
Read wrote two volumes of poetry based upon his war experiences: Songs of Chaos (1915) and Naked Warriors, published in 1919, along with two volumes of autobiography, In Retreat (1925) and Ambush (1930). He became an outspoken pacifist during the Second World War. He continued to publish poetry for the remainder of his life, his final volume, Collected Poems, being published in 1966. As a literary critic he championed the 19th-century English Romantic authors, for example in "The True Voice of Feeling" Studies in English Romantic Poetry .
Ernest Hemingway -5 Ernest Hemingway, the son of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, was was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on 21st July, 1899. His mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a music teacher but had always wanted to be an opera singer. According to Carlos Baker, the author of Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969), he began writing stories as a child: "Ernest loved to dramatize everything, continuing his boyhood habit of aking up stories in which he was invariably the swashbuckling hero".
When the United States entered the First World War in 1917 Hemingway attempted to sign up for the army but was rejected because of a defective eye. He therefore Joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. He later wrote: "One becomes so accustomed to all the dead being men that the sight of a dead woman is quite shocking. I first saw inversion of the usual sex of the dead after the explosion of a munition factory which had been situated in the countryside near Milan. We drove to the scene of the disaster in trucks along poplar-shaded roads.
Arriving where the munition plant had been, some of us were put to patrolling about those large stocks of munitions which which had gotten into the grass of an adjacent field, which task being concluded, we were ordered to search the immediate vicinity and surrounding fields for bodies. We found and carried to an improvised mortuary a good number of these and I must admit, frankly, the shock it was to find that those dead were women rather than men". A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway's great novel set against the background of the war in Italy, and eclipses the poetry dealing with his war-time experiences.
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It's a problem we've faced for only a few months, and already it feels like eons. Every time he appears on screen in Weekend Update I can feel a crawling sensation under my skin. I'm sure you feel it, too. I call it CJS (Colin Jost Syndrome). It's an affliction for which there is no cure in sight. Researchers are working day and night, but they've come up empty. It looks like we'll simply have to live with CJS for the foreseeable future.
In the meanwhile, though, it might be helpful to familiarize ourselves with the causes of CJS. It took great minds to find them, but all evidence now points to Colin Jost's face. It's not a bad looking face by any means, but there's something there, often in his subtle facial expressions, slowly driving us all mad.
So let's take a closer look, shall we!
The most important facial expression in the Colin Jost stable. Jost makes a joke and then smirks. He's trying so hard to pull a Seth Meyers-style affable grin, but the result is so smarmy, and the way his upper lip turns downward only makes matters worse. It's a combination of pride and discomfort that's simply obnoxious. And speaking of discomfort, have you seen the look on his face in the Weekend Update opening?
It's okay, Colin, we don't blame you. It's all Lorne's fault. Onward!
Weekend Update anchors have often done the "serious face" thing. What better way to sell a punchline than to say it with a totally straight face, as seriously as possible? Colin Jost does it a lot, and that would be fine, except that his 60s news Wall St. executive vibe makes his attempts fall flat almost every time.
Actually, let's take a moment to discuss Jost's 60s-inspired style.
Colin Jost looks like a kid who wanted to be taken seriously, so he raided his dad's closet for old suits and sprayed a ton of product in his hair. I've got news for you, Colin. It ain't helping. Sure, you look reasonably sharp, but are you aware that SNL is supposed to be an irreverent comedy show? This isn't Tonight with Jack Parr, buddy, you can stand to look a little dishevelled.
That attempt to be taken seriously shows itself so clearly in moments where one of his jokes lands. He's just so happy! Like he want to run to his mom and have her pat him on the head. Just look at the way that little, and that squinting gleam in his eyes. He's done it and he's oh so proud. It'd be endearing, but there's something about the control in it. You can see it in the way his mouth stays small. He's trying to avoid looking too silly, and that just makes him look uptight.
Look at that stubbly face and Bieber-esque hair cut. He's probably just a goofball who's afraid of looking a little weird on TV. In fact, I have pictorial evidence of exactly that!
See! He's probably a total goofball deep down.
He's a goofball who just wants to be taken seriously. And to his credit, sometimes it works. Plus, it can be pretty easy to get lost in his eyes.
And hey, apparently he's dating Rashida Jones, so he must have something going for him!
Anyway, hopefully Jost does improve, because I doubt he's going anywhere any time soon. Maybe he'll loosen up a little, let his inner goofball run free and wild and vanquish CJS for all time. Until then, we can probably stand to let Jost enjoy the little things.


One thing that often comes up when framing a brainstorm is how 'blue sky' the team should be when ideating. This is especially true with new technologies, when what can and can't be done is often well-defined, but likely to change in the very near future.
How you frame a brainstorm in this context is probably worth a post on its own, but for our workshop, technical designers from Cooper & Carbon Five each presented their take on the Alexa platform, and its inherent opportunities and challenges. We also demoed some of our favorite (or at least popular) Skills and a couple of early proofs of concept.
Always-on/always-listening devices like the Alexa and Google Home pose huge privacy and security issues. As a consumer, users of these products place their trust in both the parent corporation and ultimately in the State. That said, even if the average developer wouldn't own one, if the behavior of very young children getting a daily knock-knock joke is any indicator, these kinds of devices will be more and more a part of our lives over the next decade.
One of the first things you want to try and do with an Alexa Skill is to try and get the device to interact with you proactively. Imagine Alexa being able to tell you when someone is at the door or reminding you of your next meeting.
One of the big gotchas of the platform is that you are limited to interactions that are initiated by the user invoking the Skill and Intents by voice. This is probably at least in part due to application sandboxing and we can assume that, like the evolution of the iPhone SDK, both background processes and push notifications that can activate a Skill will come at some point.
Still, this limitation, combined with the way Alexa aggressively tries to parse phrases — even a short pause is interpreted as the end of a command — means that the experiences are by necessity relatively short-lived.
The second thing we tried to do with Alexa was to use it to take something you said and pass it along to a third-party service. Specifically, we wanted to be able to ping another employee by name via Slack. And while the Alexa platform is great at recognizing things in the Amazon universe (i.e. book titles and actors) it is pretty poor at processing long blocks of spoken text, for instance. Other stumpers include unusual first names or even first names that sound similar (i.e. "Dan" and "Don").
And, while there is almost-deprecated LITERAL Slot type, any Skill that needs to parse free text will require a fairly robust search service on the backend and a well-executed conversation tree on the front end to catch the inevitable edge cases. Even more frustrating, the built-in Simon Says Skill has access to internal private libraries that clearly parse free text better than the publicly available API. Bottom line: don't assume that you can rely on free text without trying it out in code.
Given how far Alexa pushes the limits of privacy, it's a little surprising that Skills don't immediately have access to the user's location. Instead, you will need to capture and store a postal code or address. This would normally be done as part of the setup flow for your Skill but it seems like something that could be easily streamlined and shared across Skills. Hopefully in the near future (note from the future: this feature now exists!) users will be able to automatically provide their Lat/Long, Zip code, or primary Amazon shipping address to Skill upon request.
From an interaction-design perspective, Alexa is optimized for in-home use by someone who is logged into their own Amazon account, and knows how to use an Alexa device, which Skills are installed on the device, and how to use those Skills. This means that operating an Echo or Dot at a stranger's house or in an office setting comes with additional challenges (like, how do you even Alexa?). One of our first ideas was a "virtual receptionist" and this problem, along with the unreliable parsing of first names made that concept seem particularly challenging to pull off. That said, differentiating between users that have created a custom profile for a particular Alexa device is on the horizon, which ought to help with some use cases.
One of the Cooper designers brought up a particularly interesting challenge. When we think of the expression of a brand, one way we talk about it is in terms of 'tone' and 'voice.' Since Alexa has a specific voice out-of-the-box, the question becomes how you communicate and differentiate your brand through a voice UI?
Alexa provides a few ways to tweak this. First, you can provide a phonetic guide (using markup called SSML) for pronouncing key words or phrases (useful for pronouncing a brand or product name correctly). Additionally, you can provide short audio files in your response, which seem to be (at least in part) intended for sonic branding.
When we're designing and building bots of any decent complexity, we almost immediately need to preserve state. Alexa gives you a session to work with, but designing flows and implementing a state machine are still decent challenges. Preserving this state across multiple sessions means getting into OAuth and a more interesting application on the backend.
Given the lack of both a visual UI and a reliable input device (like a keyboard), combined with the relatively short snippets of voice that you need to use to control the Skill, complex interactions that require much thinking (say, scheduling an event with multiple participants) aren't recommended. In fact, the overall Alexa experience can be in turns both frustrating and delightful.
While there are still a lot of rough edges, the current state of the Alexa ecosystem is still a lot of fun to work with. For instance, developing locally is a breeze. Unlike getting a 'hello world' application running locally on your personal iPhone, your first Alexa Skill will probably take you less than a half hour, and that's including setting up an Alexa-ready Lambda service and prepping the app for submission to the Skill store. And unlike a lot of AWS documentation, the Alexa docs are pretty thorough and feel like they were mostly written in one go.
So, if you already have a Facebook Messenger, Slack, or other 'bot, you might as well consider if an Alexa Skill would be useful to your customers. That said, the user's context for a voice UI is quite different, so the best applications will take this into account. Also, we feel like some of the most interesting experiences will happen when people can move those interactions and conversations easily between devices, input methods, and contexts, throughout their day.
We're excited about this new class of devices, and Alexa feels like a good place to start. And we're especially excited to be collaborating with our friends from Cooper. While we tend to stay grounded in how we might use technology today to solve problems, they bring energy and excitement about the future, which makes us a great team. So stay tuned as we combine forces throughout this year and continue to explore voice UIs, and hopefully create some interesting experiences to share along the way.
If you'd like to talk further about using technologies like these on your next project, please drop us a line. We'd love to chat.


Futures F8 Alpha thruster set up surfboard fins - For a larger rider (180lbs+) for a balanced ride.
Futures F8 Alpha 3 fin set up is a performance fin designed for large sized riders. Alpha fins are constructed with an exclusive material which is carbon and air infused, and lighter than honeycomb. They are fall in to the balanced fins category, making them a great all round fin, because they provide plenty of spring to make it around sections while still maintaining some predictability and hold.
Flat foil fins are good at speed control, and work well in fast powerful surf where additional speed does not need to be created.
Each set of futures fins comes with a size rating, and each rating has a suggested rider weight range so that you can easily figure out if a fin set is going to work for you.


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package quasar.mimir

import quasar.precog.common._
import quasar.yggdrasil._

import scalaz._

trait TypeLibSpecs[M[+_]] extends EvaluatorSpecification[M]
    with LongIdMemoryDatasetConsumer[M] { self =>

  import dag._
  import instructions._
  import library._

  def testEval(graph: DepGraph): Set[SEvent] = {
    consumeEval(graph, defaultEvaluationContext) match {
      case Success(results) => results
      case Failure(error) => throw error
    }
  }

  "the type functions" should {
    "return correct booleans for isNumber" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isNumber),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 9
      falses.length mustEqual 15
    }

    "return correct booleans for isBoolean" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isBoolean),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 4
      falses.length mustEqual 20
    }

    "return correct booleans for isNull" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isNull),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 2
      falses.length mustEqual 22
    }

    "return correct booleans for isString" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isString),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 1
      falses.length mustEqual 23
    }

    "return correct booleans for isObject" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isObject),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 3
      falses.length mustEqual 21
    }

    "return correct booleans for isArray" in {
      val input = dag.Operate(BuiltInFunction1Op(isArray),
        dag.AbsoluteLoad(Const(CString("/het/numbersAcrossSlices2"))))

      val result = testEval(input)

      result must haveSize(24)

      val result2 = result.toSeq collect {
        case (ids, SBoolean(b)) if ids.length == 1 => b
      }

      val (trues, falses) = result2 partition identity

      trues.length mustEqual 5
      falses.length mustEqual 19
    }
  }
}

object TypeLibSpecs extends TypeLibSpecs[Need]


Have this Combo: Apple Cider Vinegar, Magnesium, and Psyllium Husk Seed Powder and mix with water.
Stay hydrated and keep pounding down water.
Fast until the next day. "Kill off" the bad bacteria from the cheat meal to reduce/remove any potential cravings the next day(s). If you can go for 24 hours then do it. The sweet spot tends to be 18-24 hours before I start to feel the benefits of "resetting" the body.
Get out of bed and WALK. Simply do brisk walking while drinking tons of water. At least an hour would be optimal.
Break the fast (after 18-24 hours) with a high fat, moderate protein, low/no carbohydrate meal. The less inflammatory foods in the body, the better.
Include Kimchi, Sauerkraut, Kefir or some other fermented food in this meal to increase the amount of beneficial bacteria in the gut.
Have the Apple Cider Vinegar, Magnesium and Psyllium Husk Seed Powder combo again.
Stop eating foods that would create more cravings or promote poor gut health. Remove packaged foods, processed foods, artificial sweeteners, and foods high in sugar. Stay away from the foods for the next few days, or even better, stay away from them all together.


When a person considers a career in counseling, a major question is the amount of education to obtain. Counselors operate at various levels of knowledge, with bachelor's degrees and master's degrees being acceptable prerequisites for entering the field. So the question becomes: is a master's degree in counseling worth the money? Here are some points to consider when answering this question.
Some counselors operate after obtaining only a bachelor's degree, usually in counseling or psychology. With a bachelor's in psychology, a person can do a lot of work related to counseling. For instance, one could work in a rehabilitation center or as a social worker in a charity or government organization. These types of jobs would provide a person with the opportunity to help others and counsel them in difficult situations. If these jobs appeal to the applicant, then a bachelor's degree in psychology or counseling may be all that is necessary. Sometimes it may be possible for a person who holds a bachelor's degree in psychology or counseling to find some counseling work. This type of work will usually be found in non-profit organizations.
However, for a person who is serious about counseling as a career, it is a good idea to put the time and effort into getting a master's degree in counseling. The jobs that are available to holders of master's degrees are much more varied. Also, the competition for good counseling jobs is tough, and a person who holds a master's degree will have a leg up in getting the jobs. Although the initial energy invested into getting a master's degree is intimidating, the possession of the degree will be a tool that will make the rest of a person's career run much more smoothly.
Finally, a master's in counseling will give the individual a comprehensive base of knowledge that will allow him or her to truly help others. Although bachelor's degree holders may know some things about psychology or counseling, and they may have a general idea of how to do the job, they often don't have enough of a well-developed skill set in order to truly help the people they are counseling. So while it is possible to stop at a bachelor's degree, a master's degree is a smarter choice for the lifelong professional.
Getting a master's in counseling is not as difficult as it used to be, with the proliferation of online degree programs. Online programs allow a person to develop as a professional while holding down full- or part-time jobs at the same time. Many people find this option more appealing, because they can earn money while studying.
In conclusion, getting a master's degree in counseling is an investment, but it's worth the time and money. The additional knowledge and credentials that it provides will allow a person to have a more flexible and meaningful career. Taking the step of getting a master's degree in counseling will save a person years of learning on the job and allow him or her to do excellent work from the very beginning.
For information about different types of master's degrees available in the counseling field, visit Masters in Counseling.
For more information on the best online master's programs, click "Top 10 Masters in Counseling Degree Programs".


There's no place on earth quite like Vermont and I think that owning property here is one of life's greatest privileges. From the spectacular green mountains to the sparkling rivers and lakes, down quiet country roads to quaint neighborhoods, I love it here and I want you to love it to!
I am a lifelong resident of Vermont. I have called Brandon home for more than 30 years. My husband Don and I raised our twin boys here and have been an active part of the community. I know this area and I will put that knowledge to work for you!
I love auto racing and spend a great deal of time at the local dirt track where both my twins, Jake and Joey, race cars. When I am not biting my fingernails at the racetrack, I take every opportunity to relax and enjoy all Vermont has to offer in the great outdoors!
Family is a way of life for me. I want my customers to feel like family. I want the very best for them. Whether buying or selling I will LISTEN to what you really want and work tirelessly on your behalf.
Having spent many years in Property Management, I reached a lifetime goal when I became a real estate agent. Working with Stephanie Corey and the experienced team at Adirmont Real Estate ensures I will be exposing your property to the widest possible range of qualified buyers using the latest internet and marketing tools. I am so excited to take all of this experience and GO TO WORK FOR YOU!


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Aerial Silks Workshop with Julia Langenberg
Join the Two Hour Silks Intensive
Aerial Silks Workshop in August
August 12th from 1:00-3:00, Julia is kicking things into gear with a two hour intensive aerial silk workshop at Axis! The workshop is $55 per person. Come train with an amazing instructor that has traveled, taught, and performed around the world. Call (713) 408-4723 for more information.
Join the Workshop!
Julia Langenberg is a professional aerial performer, choreographer, and instructor, consistently performing for national and international companies for nearly 10 years. After dancing on the sides of buildings for several years as a core company member with Blue Lapis Light, Julia became the principal aerialist at SeaWorld San Antonio, where she performed for 3 years above whales and dolphins on silks, lyra, bungee/trapeze, and harness in the shows "VIVA!" and "Azul" with World Entertainment Services and Oma Entertainment.
Cirque du Soleil contacts Julia several times a year to employ her talents for their shows. Locally, Julia's aerial artistry has been commissioned by Luminaria, the San Antonio Zoo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Convention Center, TEDx, Nimble Arts, MOTH Poetic Circus, and Cirque Imagination. The Artist Foundation of San Antonio awarded Julia two grants this year, one for an Original Production and the second is the Tobin Grand Prize for Artistic Excellence.
In addition to her performing career, Julia built an aerial community in San Antonio, where none existed before. Her dedication to teaching, performing, and recruiting other professional aerialists to the area, led to the formation of Aerial Horizon LLC, San Antonio's only professional aerial performance company and school. Julia and her instructors teach hundreds of students every month through Aerial Horizon's regular adult aerial classes and workshops. Aerial Horizon also performs regularly for corporate, educational, and private events, including opening for ZZ Top at the Alamodome.
Julia is a graduate of the New England Center for Circus Arts, where she mastered aerial fabric, lyra, trapeze, and rope, while expanding her expertise with experience on Chinese pole, acrobatics, tumbling, sling, and an invented ground apparatus called a "halo." As a dancer, Julia performed with a variety of national modern dance companies and taught ballroom at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios. She also earned a vocal scholarship and graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Julia went on to sing with the Austin Lyric Opera and the Grammy nominated choir, Conspirare.
Julia serves as an instructor at Northwest Vista College, where she created and teaches one of the only college level Aerial Dance courses in the nation. She is a guest aerial instructor at St. Olaf College, Palo Alto College, Brownsville Dance Center, Trinity University, and Texas State University. Julia enjoys helping her students transform their lives by conquering their fears and fitness goals and encouraging their airborne creativity.
As the Artistic Director of Aerial Horizon, Julia and her company are known for creating innovative and meaningful art on the ground and in the air. Students from across Texas are seeking out training with Aerial Horizon's coaches and Julia's teaching and performances can be found across the country.
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Join the two hour intensive workshop in August at Axis!
July Silks Workshops
Join Michelle Teeters for beginner and intermediate/advanced silks workshops - just $25 per workshop!
Michelle Teeters Workshop in Review
Check out what you missed from Michelle's silks workshops!
Rope Workshop with Emma D'Lemma
Emma brings the first aerial rope workshop to Axis June 24th.
Michelle Teeters Silks Workshops
Sign up for two great workshops from Michelle Teeters June 10th; watch her in action showing off what she'll be teaching. The first six people that purchase tickets to Flight Night also get to take Michelle's workshop!
Rebecca Starr Workshops
Rebecca Star comes to Axis May 2017 with two workshops to choose from.
Lux Atl Workshop
Lux Alt Workshop will exceed your expectations!
Axis Pole Fitness provides pole, lyra hoop, and aerial silks classes for the Cypress area (close to Hwy 290 and Hwy 6 / FM 1960). Drop by to take a class, or come by with a group of friends for a bachelorette party, birthday party, or girls night and get your dance on. Axis promotes fitness, fun, and inspiring entertainment in northwest Houston, Texas.
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Cherrydidi & ZaktheCollieDog News – Tagged "Mother's Day"
To all the Mums out there!
Keswick's on fire today! As always thx for supporting handmade!
'Home is where your Mam is' mug, a perfect gift for a Northern Mum! Flying out today!
What about a little Mum for your Mum this Mothers Day? It's 26th March don't forget!


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Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds
Edited by Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, and Einat Klafter
This collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit. From womb to tomb, how are we defined and confined by gender and by space? Interrogating the thresholds between sacred and secular, public and private, enclosure and exposure, domestic and political, movement and stasis, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory to suggest new destinations for future study.
People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds
Edited by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth Houts
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they...
Ravenna: its role in earlier medieval change and exchange
Volume editor Judith Herrin and Jinty Nelson
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the eleventh century. Ravenna's story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared...
Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton
Edited by Matthew Davies
This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.
Rashid Al-Din: Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran
Anna Ayse Akasoy and edited by Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Rashid al-Din (1274-1318), physician and powerful minister at the court of the Ilkhans, was a key figure in the cosmopolitan milieu in Iran under Mongol rule. He set up an area in the vicinity of the court where philosophers, doctors, astronomers, and historians from different parts of Eurasia lived together, exchanged ideas and produced books. He was himself involved in collecting, collating and editing these materials, and the substantial oeuvre that resulted is a gold-mine for anyone studying the transmission of knowledge across cultures. By bringing together contributions from the fields of the history of religion, medicine, science and art, this book examines the cultural dynamics of Rashid al-Din's circle. It addresses questions...
Gender and Historiography: Studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of Pauline Stafford
Janet L. Nelson, Susan Reynolds, and Susan M. Johns
The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Anglo-Saxon England, they deal with such questions as the nature of kingship and queenship, fatherhood, elite gender relations, the transmission of property, the participation of women in lordship, slavery and warfare, and the nature of assemblies. Gender and historiography presents the fruits of groundbreaking research, inspired by Pauline Stafford's own interests over a long and influential career.


Video archive for the film Jarhead, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2005. There are currently two videos available for the film, of which two are trailers, as listed below. Happy viewing!
No other videos have been filed under Jarhead as of yet.


What transforms a good pilot into an expert? Well, very simple: training, training, training, ... In the military permanent training is part of every soldiers life. The best training a soldier/pilot can get is an exercise which simulates a realistic scenario. An exercise is also a good way to show the taxpayer the capability of his/her Armed Forces. For us it is a great opportunity to get as close to the "real world" as possible.


Joseph III, named for Joseph Sr.
would she have been better off saving the money?
Jesus condemns the religious practice of the scribes, showy and oppressive. He lifts up the religious practice of the widow; faithful self-giving without show.
Friends, what we read in this book is are not old dusty words for us to gather around once a week and feel good about how we are not like some of these bad people.
This book is the living Word of God calling to us over generations and ages because we still don't have it right.
God is calling us to religious practices that give of ourselves for God and for others in need. This is a common thread woven through the fabric of the scriptures. God calls us away from religious practices that only give to ourselves, things done for us, and not for God.
God is calling me to be careful with the office with which I have been entrusted, to remember the God of my salvation and to remember the vows I took at ordination.
We have talked this morning about reading the Bible, reading the entire Bible. And we have talked about religious practices. Our discipleship is the life resulting from reading the scriptures and our religious practice.
Jesus himself defied simple answers as to whether he was or wasn't the Messiah–he simply told people to look at the fruit of his ministry and decide if it conveyed truth and power.
Recently, you should have received your stewardship letter and pledge card in the mail. If not, there are some here today. As you prayerfully prepare your pledge for 2010, I pray that we will consider our gift to God that comes from our abundance, even sacrificially, not because God needs it, but because we need to give it up.
We need to learn about offering the best we have for God. And not from what's left over, but from the very best we have to offer.
Friends, we are a small church. And we are the right size to wrestle with the transforming truth of the Bible. This church has a rich and vital history on this corner in the middle of this town. Through many changes God has saved this church, and God has not saved it for nothing.
We are each woven in the rich fabric which is the First Presbyterian Church – people of God in this church, our lives are inter-twined with the life and ministry of this church over the years. Each one of you represents a unique color or texture in this fabric, and the whole of it wouldn't be the same without you.
May we recommit ourselves to God, and may our gift be of ourselves, our lives – the most precious gift we can give through the renewal of spirit, commitment to worship, fellowship, and service for the sake of the Church of Jesus Christ that we serve. So may it be with us. Amen.


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Cecilia Paredes | CALABRIA
PAY WITH ART MONEY - $1,000.00 PAY IN FULL
39 x 39 inches | Performance photography | float framed in white lacquer wood
About Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes is renowned for her performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Using her body as the canvas, she paints herself into backgrounds of damask and chintz, forests, and deserts. But she never completely blends; never becomes mere decoration. Paredes is a part of the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Panama Modern Museum, Museo del Barrio New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Costa Rica among many other institutions. In 2010 she will have a solo show at the Moscow Modern Museum of Art and a Fulbright-sponsored show at the Cultural Institute in Lima.


Pearl TV has reached an agreement with Eonti and DigiCert to provide a secure Industry Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to safeguard transmissions between a broadcast station and receiving devices.
The system will be as seamless to the viewing public as accessing a secure website, Pearl TV promises.
As part of the agreement, Eonti (as the management authority) and DigiCert (as the certification authority) will issue X.509 certificates and operate an online certificate status protocol responder — both of which conform to the ATSC 3.0 Security Standard for Next-Gen TV.
"The television industry needs a secure platform, and the American public needs a television system that is secure and dependable, in particular to protect emergency alerting and accessibility features. This system will secure our transmissions and operate as easily for the public as accessing a website. Pearl is pleased to support the launch of a PKI on behalf of the industry to support cryptographically signed applications and ATSC 3.0 signaling tables as per the Next-Gen TV standard's A/360 specification," said Anne Schelle, Pearl TV Managing Director.
"We have been preparing for the commercial launch of ATSC 3.0 services by working with Eonti and DigiCert for the past 18 months to design and test the various certificates types, as well as the supporting Online Certificate Status Protocol Responder infrastructure. This is a critical step in securing the broadcast signals, allowing ATSC 3.0 receiving devices to verify the authenticity of the transmission and protecting the American public against security threats such as man-in-the-middle attacks," Schelle explained.
"Eonti is honored and extremely excited to be part of this compelling service and is committed to providing a strong foundation for the digital certificate issuance required to secure transmission between Next-Gen TV services," said Oscar Marcia, CEO and President of Eonti, Inc.
The new PKI is being used as part of the Phoenix Model Market and is currently available to broadcasters for test purposes. Commercial availability is expected in the coming months.
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