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Looking for opportunity in the Gaza Strip
April 1, 2014 - Sheldon C. Good
Ryan Rodrick Beiler
For Hashem Manar Al Attar, raising rabbits and pigeons provides food and income in a time of uncertainty.
An MCC-supported effort to raise rabbits helps increase income and improve diets.
For more than 60 years, Hashem Manar Al Attar's family has lived on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, with generations eking out a living from what they can grow or earn, weathering the violence and turmoil of this spit of land as best they can.
Over the past decade, the difficulties have multiplied.
Since 2006, Al Attar and other Gazans have not been permitted to cross into Israel for the jobs that helped sustain Palestinian families in the small city of Beit Lahia, near the border. Three years later, during fighting between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian factions, the family's home was destroyed by an Israeli tank, forcing them to spend a year living in a tent.
To support himself and the 11 other family members who share his home, the 27-year-old has relied on selling strawberries, watermelons, cucumbers and corn he grows on rented land.
But whether Israel allows crops to be exported from Gaza can change from day to day, and Al Attar, to make a profit, needs trade to be allowed at the time his crop is ready for harvest.
As his options narrow, one of Al Attar's newest hopes is not in the fields he farms — but in the rabbits in simple wire cages outside his family's small, concrete-block home.
Since 2007, MCC and a Palestinian partner organization, Al Najd Developmental Forum, have provided livestock and training in raising animals for families in Gaza, a densely populated region where the United Nations estimates some 80 per cent of residents rely on outside assistance.
Maram Al Attar, 6, looks at photos of the rubble of her family's home, destroyed during fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian factions. Photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler
"In such a dire situation, the work of MCC partners like Al Najd becomes especially important, helping families to eat better and to have the dignity of better supporting themselves and their loved ones," says Joanna Hiebert Bergen, an MCC representative in Palestine and Israel.
Al Attar began participating in the project last June, receiving three female rabbits and one male.
He began breeding them, and within a couple of months, the family was able to eat rabbit meat, a valuable source of protein each week.
With income from selling rabbits, Al Attar began buying more vegetables and fruits in the market and purchasing needed items such as school clothes for the family's children.
Some 180 families have begun raising rabbits over the last three years through this effort, which MCC supports through its account at the U.S.-based Foods Resource Bank.
In addition to providing animals, Al Najd trains farmers how to properly feed the rabbits, give them medication and use their waste as organic fertilizer. A veterinarian regularly visits the homes of families involved in the project. During cold winter temperatures, Al Najd helped Al Attar and others involved in the project to build warmer shelters to protect the rabbits.
When the food security project began in 2007, it included chickens as well. But according to Al Najd, rabbits were more successful — better at both reproducing quickly and resisting disease.
According to Al Najd, female rabbits can give birth about once a month, with litters of up to 10 rabbits, though not all offspring always survive.
The benefits spread quickly. Al Attar, for example, has given rabbits to relatives, neighbours and friends and offered them advice on how to raise them.
With income from rabbits, he was able to begin raising pigeons — creating another source of food and income for his family.
But no matter how successful these efforts are, Al Attar's future depends on many factors outside his control.
Feed for rabbits and pigeons, for instance, must be imported from Israel, and prices have tripled since 2012, according to Al Najd.
The threats are not just economic. Al Attar's home is in a part of the Gaza Strip particularly vulnerable to fighting between Israelis and Palestinians and to attacks by the Israeli military.
Last December, a storm ripped into the simple concrete-block house where 12 family members crowd into the two main six-by-six-foot rooms to sleep. It soaked the family's meager belongings and tore off the metal roof. Al Attar was able to put the roof back on, but daylight shows through part of the damaged metal.
Al Attar doesn't think the area in which he lives is secure, but acknowledges a reality that rings true for people across Gaza.
"This is the only available option," he says.
His father, standing nearby, speaks up as Al Attar reflects on the situation in Gaza, eager to add that those in the international community who are conscious of the situation, and who want to, can act to raise awareness about the challenges Gazans face.
Seemingly against all odds, both Al Attar and his father maintain hope for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts between Palestine and Israel — a hope that Al Attar says grows out of his faith.
"We believe in God," he says, "and God will not leave us . . ."
The Canadian government is a strong ally of the government of Israel. In January, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed the government's ongoing support during his visit to Israel and the West Bank. For more information on his visit, read Rachelle Friesen's blog at mccottawaoffice.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/lack-of-sight.
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A Common Place - Spring 2014
Accountability: Canada, Palestine and Israel
Goats, latrines, soccer for peace, baking classes and more
Intersections: Participation


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Alcyna is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soorten
 Alcyna acia Cotton, 1948
 Alcyna australis Hedley, 1907
 Alcyna exigua (Gould, 1861)
 Alcyna kingensis (Gabriel, 1956)
 Alcyna lifuensis Melvill & Standen, 1896
 Alcyna lucida (H. Adams, 1868)
 Alcyna ocellata A. Adams, 1860
 Alcyna subangulata Pease, 1861

Synoniemen
 Alcyna kapiolaniae Pilsbry, 1917 => Alcyna ocellata A. Adams, 1860
 Alcyna kuhnsi Pilsbry, 1917 => Alcyna ocellata A. Adams, 1860
 Alcyna lineata Pease, 1869 =>  Alcyna subangulata Pease, 1861
 Alcyna rubra Pease, 1861 => Alcyna ocellata A. Adams, 1860
 Alcyna striata Pease, 1869 => Alcyna subangulata Pease, 1861

Trochidae

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Hands-on Activity: Cosmic Rhythm
Cosmic Rhythm
(two 50-minute sessions)
Subject Areas: Algebra, Physical Science, Physics
Motion: Newton's Laws
Motion Commotion
Catapults!
Action-Reaction! Rocket
Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
Ring around the Rosie
Super Spinners!
Spin Me a Story
Swinging on a String
Swing in Time
mechanics meter pattern poetry rhythm
Activity Extensions
Metronome can set the tempo
Copyright © Image by Lutz Holzapfel from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/metronome-clock-sound-studio-594645/ Accessed August 4, 2020
Students write poems using rhyme and meter as they come to understand the mechanical concept of rhythm, based on the principle of oscillation, in a broader biological and cultural context, as seen in dance and sports, poetry and other literary forms, and communication in general. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world — concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.
Engineers are concerned with oscillations or resonances in the design of mechanical devices. They design automobiles to minimize vibrations from the motor and driving conditions, which can be dangerous and noisy for passengers. Aerospace engineers design to avoid wing flutter, which is a growing oscillation of an aircraft's wing surface resulting in stresses that can lead to structural failure. Engineers also design systems to control the oscillation of moving parts in factory machinery and power system oscillations that could lead to unstable power systems.
Explain why engineers are concerned with oscillations or resonances in the design of mechanical devices
Write poems using rhyme and meter to understand the mechanical concept of rhythm, based on the principle of oscillation, in a broader biological and cultural context
Use reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing skills to solve problems and answer questions
Various relationships exist between technology and other fields of study. (Grades 3 - 5) More Details
Compare and contrast different types of waves (Grade 8) More Details
paper, pens or pencils
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release.
An animation of a pendulum arc.
Copyright © Image courtesy of Robert DeSerio, http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy4803L/chaos/chaos.html. Used by permission.
The definition of rhythm, according to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition:
Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions: the rhythm of the tides.
The patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sound or speech.
The pattern of musical movement through time.
A specific kind of such a pattern, formed by a series of notes differing in duration and stress: a waltz rhythm.
A group of instruments supplying the rhythm in a band.
The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse.
The similar but less formal sequence of sounds in prose.
A specific kind of metrical pattern or flow: iambic rhythm.
The sense of temporal development created in a work of literature or a film by the arrangement of formal elements such as the length of scenes, the nature and amount of dialogue, or the repetition of motifs.
A regular or harmonious pattern created by lines, forms, and colors in painting, sculpture, and other visual arts.
The pattern of development produced in a literary or dramatic work by repetition of elements such as words, phrases, incidents, themes, images, and symbols.
Procedure or routine characterized by regularly recurring elements, activities, or factors: the rhythm of civilization; the rhythm of the lengthy negotiations.
Source: Dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rhythm.
Obviously, rhythm is a rich concept with application in many areas. Notice how often the word "pattern" appears in the definitions. Other important terms are "regular," "repetition," "recurring" and "alternation." Rhythm is essentially a repeating pattern.
This repetition of pattern powerfully assists memory and learning. Think of the simple but compelling patterns of rhyme and rhythm of the Dr. Seuss books, including the classic Green Eggs and Ham, the best-selling Seuss book of all time. Notice how the lines have the back-and forth rhythm of a pendulum.
Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
You can feel your body sway back and forth as you are carried along by the rhythm. Not all poetry is this regular, of course, and there are many rhyming patterns. The rhythm of poetry is measured by its meter and counted by means of a unit called a foot, which is composed of a pattern of stressed ( / ) and unstressed ( ^ ) syllables. There are several types of metrical feet, which have names derived from Greek: iambic ( ^ / ), trochaic ( / ^ ) , anapestic ( ^ ^ / ) and dactylic ( / ^ ^ ). For this activity, it is not essential for you to know all the different metrical types (there are several more). For now, just notice the pendulum-like effect of the trochaic line:
/^/^/^/
...and the iambic lines:
^/^/^/^/
Iambic meter is the most common in English verse. It is said to be most like the natural rhythm of English speech. For additional introductory information on the meter of poetry check out the following sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)
https://literarydevices.net/meter/
https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-poetic-meter
The theme for this activity — rhythm — takes its cue from the mechanical oscillation of a pendulum, as explained in Mechanics unit, Lesson 9.
In the immortal words of Duke Ellington, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." "It" includes everything from the beating of our hearts, to the ebb and flow of tides, to the rotation of pulsars. This literacy activity is a celebration of rhythm in its many cultural forms — music, poetry, art and dance. The activities included are only a starting point for students to begin a lifelong exploration of the wonders of rhythm.
Using the definition of rhythm (see the Introduction/Motivation section) as a start, think of as many things as you can that are rhythmical. Over a 24-hour period, make a list in your journal of rhythmical things you observe around your classroom and school, at home or on a walk through your neighborhood. See who can come to class the next day with the longest, most unique list. See who thinks of the most remarkable, unusual or often unnoticed rhythmical phenomena.
Generally, we think of rhythm in terms of sounds we hear with our ears, such as music or the drip of a leaky faucet. But, sounds are felt with the whole body as movement or vibration. Rhythm can also be experienced visually as in the harmonious lines of a painting or sculpture, or a beautifully engineered object such as a suspension bridge or sailing ship. In this respect, rhythm is often associated with concepts of balance and proportion in design. Use all your senses to add to your list of rhythmical things.
Rhythm of the river: A meandering stream.
Copyright © Kentucky Division of Water, http://www.water.ky.gov/sw/swmonitor/.
Perhaps, in composing your list, you thought of the rhythm of day and night, or waking and sleeping. Did you include the rhythm of the tides on your list? Did you know that rivers also move in rhythmic patterns? Over time, rivers form oscillating curves called meanders.
This rhythmic power provides an obstacle to engineers who seek to channel or dam rivers for flood control. The rhythm of the river works constantly to create new channels. Notice how the meanders of the river resemble the graphical curve of the pendulum swing shown in the introductory graphic. How many other natural rhythms can you think of?
Are you a poet and don't know it? Do you ever notice that sometimes your speech patterns develop a rhythm? Not all poetry has to rhyme, but all poetry benefits if it conveys a sense of rhythm in some fashion, either through patterns of words or rhythmic movements within the lines of the poem.
Notice how the repetitions of words (such as "mark'd," "filament," "surrounded" and "till") and word-forms ending in -ing (such as "unreeling," and "musing, venturing, throwing") and initial sounds ("vacant, vast" and "seeking the spheres") contribute to the rhythmic effect of this poem by Walt Whitman:
A NOISELESS, patient spider,
I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them — ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, — seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form'd — till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
Now, try writing a poem yourself. You might want to experiment with the fun rhymes and meters of Dr. Seuss or the stirring free verse rhythms of Walt Whitman. You could first try closely imitating the poet's meter, using your own subject. What metrical foot is used throughout the following Emily Dickinson verse and the imitator? (Answer: Iambic [ ^ / ])
Emily Dickinson original:
Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just ourselves —
And Immortality.
Sample imitation:
Because the car ran out of gas
I had to walk a mile
I met a troll along the way
We walked and talked a while.
Source: A Brief Guide to Poetic Imitation, Honors Program, University of Nevada at Reno, 2004, formerly located at www.honors.unr.edu/~fenimore/en297/imitate.html.
alternation: Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again.
free verse: Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.
meander: To follow a winding and turning course: Streams tend to meander through level land.
meter: A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.
oscillate: To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm; to waver, as between conflicting opinions or courses of action; Physics. To vary between alternate extremes, usually within a definable period of time.
phenomenon: An occurrence, circumstance or fact that is perceptible by the senses.
recur: To happen, come up or show up again or repeatedly.
regular: Occurring at fixed intervals; periodic: regular beats of the drum.
stress: The emphasis placed on the sound or syllable spoken most forcefully in a word or phrase.
synchronize: To cause to occur or operate with exact coincidence in time or rate: We synchronized our watches.
Journaling: Journal entries of rhythmical things indicate how observant students are and how well they understand the concept of rhythm prior to the class discussion, and poetry analysis and writing exercise.
Kinesthetic Movement: While the rhythm of the river is being discussed, students may act out the principle of oscillation physically in the form of a dance or pantomime.
Writing Exercise: By writing an imitation of a famous poem or an original poem that uses meter and rhyme, or other rhythmic principle, students demonstrate how well they understand the principle of rhythm and apply it in their own work.
Activities on the topic of rhythm are potentially endless; below are just a few suggestions. Students can make observations in their journals about the activity, or write a brief report, essay or poem about their understanding.
All that Jazz — Play Duke Ellington or other jazz greats in class. For starters, try Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train" or the long version of Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" from his Carnegie Hall concert. Learn more about the different types of jazz and their distinctive rhythmic signatures. For more ideas and information, see All About Jazz, http://www.allaboutjazz.com/.
Stomp! — Create your own Stomp group. Stomp is an exciting modern dance troupe using everyday objects in non-traditional ways. To learn more, visit Stomp, http://www.stomponline.com.
Got Game? — Think of all the ways that a good sense of rhythm improves performance in sport and helps athletes get "into the zone" — from the rhythmic dribbling of a basketball to the even strokes of a swimmer to the steady pumping of a marathoner's legs.
Tête-à-tête — In conversation, as in all areas of life, it is good to have a sense of give and take. Pay attention to the rhythm of your speech, especially when you are talking with someone else. Good communication has a kind of pendulum swing — tête-à-tête, as the French say, from head-to-head — with neither partner dominating the conversation. Practice taking turns listening and speaking, and develop the rhythm of give and take.
The Rhythm of the Night — Visual art can also convey a sense of rhythm. Does the swirl in Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting remind you of anything? (Answer: The swirl defined by the pendulum arc in the introductory graphical animation.) Visit a local art museum to explore how works of visual art incorporate rhythmic elements or convey a sense of rhythm or balance.
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. The artist painted furiously and his painting vibrates with rockets of burning yellow while planets gyrate like cartwheels. The hills quake and heave, yet the cosmic gold fireworks that swirl against the blue sky are somehow restful.
Copyright © Image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, http://www.moma.org.
Some students may need to practice imitating the rhythmic pattern of a famous poem several times before attempting an original composition.
The Activity Extensions address a wide range of interests, abilities and learning styles and can be used selectively, as appropriate.
Jazz. The Web's Ultimate Guide to Jazz. Accessed May 15, 2004. All About Jazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language. Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. Source of "rhythm" definition. Available online at: http://www.dictionary.com
DeSerio, Robert. "Chaotic Pendulum: The Complete Attractor." American Journal of Physics. Vol. 71, pp. 250-257, 2003. (Source of animated gif of chaos movement. Used with permission. See http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy4803L. Accessed August 12, 2004.)
Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. Accessed May 15, 2004. (Source of vocabulary definitions, with some adaptation) http://www.dictionary.com
Klawitter, George. Scansion. Updated July 23, 2000. Poetics, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX. Accessed May 15, 2004. (A basic introduction to scansion) http://myweb.stedwards.edu/georgek/poetics/scansion.html
Percussion for Kids. Stomp. Accessed May 15, 2004. http://www.stomponline.com
Rhythm, Meter and Scansion Made Easy. Mr. Black's 5th and 6th Grade English Page, Riverdale, Oregon. Accessed May 15, 2004. http://server.riverdale.k12.or.us/~bblack/meter.html
Stomp, The International Percussion Sensation. Accessed May 15, 2004. http://www.stomponline.com
Toon, John. Out of Time. Updated September 10, 2000. Georgia Tech Research Horizons. Accessed May 15, 2004. (Researchers recreate 1665 clock experiment to gain insights into modern synchronized oscillators.) http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-f00/time.html
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     -Standby - The replica is in standby. The value is 2.
     -Ready - The replica is ready. The value is 3.
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The south China Sea conundrum is just getting more and more murkier by the month. All other nations of south east Asia except China, on the periphery of South China Sea, are much weaker, compared to China, and are finding themselves at odds with their giant neighbour. An effort was made during July 2012 by some of the South China Sea nations, to present a joint front of a sorts to China by agreeing to a joint code of conduct in South China Sea, through the association of these nations known as ASEAN. China effectively managed to bomb the move by using dormant historic rivalry between Cambodia and Vietnam. Since this tiff off between Cambodia and other nations of ASEAN has happened, their relationship in spite of efforts to patch up by Indonesia, have remain little strained, no doubt.
In an earlier post on this subject, Is India leaving South China sea conundrum? I had tried to explain, how India has got drawn in this dispute. To make things clear, I might repeat part of this history here. India's Government owned 'ONGC Videsh Limited' or OVL, (International Petroleum Company of India) had set up its office in Vietnam as early as 1988 ( then known as Hydrocarbons India Private Limited.) with the sole intention of participating in oil exploration in South China Sea region. OVL has been in few petroleum blocks in Vietnam for years and has successfully extracted gas from them. OVL has made some of the blocks commercially viable and has made profits from its activities in Vietnam and the South China Sea in last two decades. China never objected to this and lay any claim to any of the blocks. India was awarded Block 127 and 128 by Vietnam for oil exploration, located up north in Phu Kanh Basin, having roughly equal distance from the Vietnam coast and Hainan Island of China, where it has a large submarine base. Vietnam has always claimed that Phu Kanh Basin is in a continental shelf and falls in it's exclusive economic zone. India began production tests in these blocks in September 2009. However, India first decided in 2011 to get out of block 127 as no oil showed up in the exploratory well. After another year of exploration, OVL informed the oil ministry of India of it's intent to relinquish block 128, also on basis of techno-commercial (not enough oil there) considerations. Oil ministry approved the action and as per terms of contract with Vietnam, India has paid a $15 million exit fee to Petro Vietnam for getting out of the block. China never objected to any activity by OVL except making some angry noises, which were largely neglected by Vietnam.
Exiting these two blocks only for purely techno-commercial considerations, India has made it quite clear to Vietnam of its intentions of staying put in South China Sea and is in negotiations with Vietnam for getting some other blocks allotted to it. Meanwhile, sensing a vacuum created by India's exit from blocks in Phu Kanh Basin, China has suddenly upped the ante with a dangerous act of unilateralism, by putting this petroleum block, till now owned by Vietnam and only claimed by China, up for global bidding. This is likely to increase tensions in this area no doubt.
Indian foreign office, perhaps peeved by these clever Chinese antics and with a wish to support its ally Vietnam, have thrown a jab in China's direction from a diplomatic standpoint. India has now agreed to allow Taiwan to open a consulate in Chennai. This can be straightway considered as a slap in the face for the Chinese, because they have also requested permission to open a consulate in Chennai quite some time back. India has neither refused the permission nor given it. The request has been pending for quite some time (Six or Seven months)now.
Meanwhile, India , it seems, has requested China, to allow reopening of its consulate in Tibet at Lhasa. The requests for opening new consulates are dealt by countries by principle of reciprocity. When a country asks another country for permission to open a consulate, it would have to allow the other country to return the favor. By this convention, India's request seems to be fair in order.
However, this request has put Chinese foreign office in real quandary. Tibet is China's weak spot and the Chinese are quite sensitive about Tibet. India also allows the Dalai Lama of Tibet to run his government-in-exile from Indian soil since last half-century. India's formal diplomatic presence in Lhasa, could turn out to be real thorn in the flesh from Beijing's perspective. It is just not possible for the Chinese to accept India's request. Indians know this and have used it very effectively as a Quid Pro quo demand for the Chinese
It seems, a new little game of Ping Pong, has just began between China and India.
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US about to be Home to largest Bitcoin Mining Facility as Northern Bitcoin Merges with Whinstone US Inc.
The United States is about to become home to the largest cryptocurrency mining facility in the world as Germany based firm Northern Bitcoin merges with US based Whinstone US.
The merger will see the firms build the world's largest Bitcoin Mining facility in Texas thus positioning it as a global leading player in crypto mining business.
According to the Press Release issued by Whinestone US on the 18th of November, 2019, Whinstone Inc has successfully operated its own Bitcoin mining sites in the US state of Louisiana and is now building the world's largest Bitcoin mining facility with a capacity of one gigawatt on an area of over 100 acres of land in Texas.
The project will take three phases of which the first phase will be completed by the first quarter of 2020 with over 300 megawatts of capacity. The project is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2020.
According to the Press Release, the first customers of the new site are two stock-listed firms that will use a significant portion of the capacity for Bitcoin mining. The firm also said, apart from bitcoin mining, the facility after completion can also be used for video rendering and artificial intelligence applications in the future.
Speaking on the merger, Aroosh Thillainathan, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Whinstone US said, "With stock-listed Northern Bitcoin AG, we have found the ideal partner to position our successful business development on the capital market from now on. The joint company has the immediate potential to shape the future course of the global mining industry,"
CEO of Northern Bitcoin AG, Mathis Schultz,
"With this merger, we are catapulting ourselves faster than originally planned to the top of the world in Bitcoin mining. Whinstone's team has done a great job over the past few years and is proving its leadership in the blockchain industry by building the world's largest mining facility,"
He went further saying, "Together, we have a dominant leadership position in this fast-growing industry and are well-positioned to benefit significantly from the future development of blockchain technology."
The completion of the project will see the US home to the largest bitcoin mining facility globally. The joint venture will see both firm's experienced management complement that of Northern Bitcoin
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Bitmain Announces the release of two new ASIC Antminers
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Bitmain announces the development and release of two new cryptocurrency mining products in the Antminer 17 series. The announcement was made by the Co-founder of Bitmain Jihan Wu at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) held at Frankfurt, Germany today the 9th of October, 2019.
The new mining models which are the S17+ and T17+ both come with improved power efficiency and hashrate. According to Bitmain, the Antminer S17+ posses a hash rate capacity of 73 TH/s and works with a power efficiency of 40J/TH + 10%.
The other product, the Antminer T17+ offers a 64 TH/s hash rate capacity at a power efficiency of 50 J/TH + 10%.
Speaking on the release, Jihan WU at the Summit in Frankfurt said "our new Antminers are at the forefront of mining innovation. They each represent the future of its rig design and power efficiency."
He went further saying "We remain committed to our research and development capabilities and will continue to improve our devices."
Using what it called the dual tube heat dissipation technology, Bitmain revealed the miners has been designed so that the space between the air inlet to the air outlet has been reduced by half thus improving head dissipation effectively as well as minimizing the noise of the fan.
Also included to ensure stable and safe operation of the miners, high temperature and fan abnormal production mechanism has been built in, revealed Bitmain.
According to Bitmain, the two new miners, Antminer S17+ and T17+ will be available on the company's website according to a given timinig.
Sales will commence from the 11th of Ocotber, 2019 at 19:00 GMT+8 while delivery time will be between 1st to 10th December, 2019.
Bitmain was founded in 2013 by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan with its headquarters in Beijing China. Since it was founded, Bitmain has grown to be the largest designer of application specific integrated circuit chips for cryptocurrency mining.
In a report titled Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector, the US Congress has released a report via its Congressional Research Service detailing potential applications of blockchain technology in the country's energy sector.
According to the report dated 9th of August, 2019, the US legislators examined the current state of the cryptocurrency industry with emphasis on cryptocurrency mining.
The report discussed the requirements of mining cryptocurrency using Proof of Work POW consensus, saying it requires "substantial energy". The energy is to operate the devices computing the calculations required to maintain the integrity of the blockchain and to thermally regulate the devices for optimal operation.
Quoting estimates of power consumption in 2018, it says energy usage range between 2500 MW and 7670 MW and this comparably is nearly 1% of electricity generating capacity in the United States.
On Co2 emissions impact as a result of mining cryptocurrencies, the report maintains that "opinions differ".
As the demand for energy to mine cryptocurrency increases, the governments of the world are developing policies to respond to the growing demand for power as there has been various mention of power theft as a result of some form of restrictions owing to the burden the mining facilities are putting on the power infrastructure.
It should be recalled that few weeks ago, the Iranian government legitimize cryptocurrency mining as an industry in the country. The study highlighted States that are attractive to miners such as Canada, Georgia etc.
In spite of the energy demands of the mining of cryptocurrency in the United States, the report highlighted the government's efforts to improve the energy efficiency of mining operations.
And despite the challenges of cryptocurrency mining to the energy sector, the report presented the opportunities for blockchain technology such as electric vehicle charging infrastructure and distributed energy resources amongst others the report said.
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Major Mining Company BHP, Japanese Shipper NYK Deliver Biofuel Traced via Blockchain
Can this qualify as blockchain adoption at Multinational level?
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Shipping news magazine Dry Bulk on Tuesday, February 5th reports that international metal and oil mining giant BHP has successfully tested blockchain in a conjoint experiment with Japanese shipping company NYK.
BLOC — a developer of blockchain applications for the maritime industry — built the decentralized ecosystem for the trace and Sustainable biofuel company GoodFuels provided its product for the experiment.
For the testing was the GoodFuels biofuel was delivered to the BHP-chartered and NYK-owned bulk carrier Frontier Sky, while carbon dioxide (CO2) savings were verified via a blockchain fuels assurance platform.
As reported by cointelegraph Dry Bulk explained that, the sustainable biofuel used in the experiment serves as an alternative to traditional fossil-based marine gasoil, allowing for the reduction of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to over 125,000 miles driven by a car.
According to the magazine, the joint delivery is an important step for BHP and NYK in terms of global decarbonization policy. Blockchain, in its turn, could help the industry to verify supply chains, making sure that only sustainable fuel is used during the shipping process and that the origin, emission reductions and fuel quality metrics are transparent and easy to trace.
it is no news that blockchain has gained a significant level of adoption in the maritime industry, with major ports and shipping companies using the technology to support supply chains and trace shipments.
Can this qualify as blockchain adoption at Multinational level? letshave your opinion on this. is blockchain adoption viable in the marine industry?
Morocco's Bitcoin Mining Sector Set to be Powered By Wind
Rebecca Asseh
Morocco is moving into the blockchain space confidently as the Northern African will be having a wind farm. The wind farm will be built to tackle the issue of the amount of electricity bitcoin mining consumes. Brookstone Partners, a New York-based private equity firm has proposed to build a 900-megawatt wind farm that will be structured to power a data centre that will only serve the purpose of bitcoin mining.
The firm will be raising capital for the construction of the first phase of a wind farm that will be located in Dakhla, Morocco. The idea behind the wind farm is to reduce the amount of money spent on computing power due to the surge in electricity cost. Also, the idea is to reduce the amount spent on traditional fuels such as coal that the mining sector spends money on. Renewable energy is cheaper and eco friendly and more big miners are switching to it to attract investors.
Michael Toporek, Brookstone's Managing General Partner, revealed: "We have exclusive rights to the area for a wind farm, but the issue was there's no real place to put. These days, what you can do with stranded power is set up a computing center, develop this as an off-grid project."
The project will be developed by Soluna, a company founded by Brookstone Partners, Altus AG. The site Soluna has chosen is a Class I wind site. This means that the wind speed reaches higher than 22 mph, that covers 37,000 acres in southern Morocco. The company has the backing of the United States' former ambassador to Morocco, Dwight L. Bush. The project will also be designed as off-grid operation, with the anticipation that transmission lines will reach the site by mid-2019.
Soluna is looking forward to raising $100 million through an initial coin offering (ICO) that will be used to develop 36 megawatts of turbines. The project's whitepaper reveals that the electricity generated will be used by crypto-mining and data centres that process blockchain transactions that run on 18 megawatts of power.
John Belizaire, Chief Executive Officer of Soluna explains :
"Our power cost will be among the lowest in the world. That gives us benefits and allows us to keep participating in the ecosystem while others might not be able to sustain their businesses."
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The four cybersecurity terms everyone is talking about at Black Hat
Monzy Merza	3 years
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Monzy Merza is the chief security evangelist at Splunk.
Diversity and inclusion, data privacy and security ops will be on everyone's mind at RSA
How The Rules Of Cyber Engagement Have Changed
As the saying goes, knowledge is power. And when it comes to cybersecurity knowledge, every year thousands descend on Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference to acquire as much of it as they can. For some, it's an opportunity to share research and to demonstrate the fragility of computing systems. For others, it's a chance to show off new tools and technologies to defend against threats.
And for most of us, it's an opportunity to drink from the firehose. Technological evolution yields a constantly changing threat landscape. Those who learn survive, and those who don't evolve and grow their knowledge are left behind.
With so much to learn in so little time, how does one peer through the bazaar of the expo floor and the deep specialization of the technical talks? How does one focus and get some value out of the event without getting completely overwhelmed, and how can one participate in the thousands of hallway conversations?
Here are four cybersecurity terms that are rooting many conversations, both on the expo floor and among experts and analysts in the briefing rooms:
Behavior Baselining
Time and time again we see undetected attackers lurking in organizations' networks for months – even years. Just this past October, it came to light that cyber attackers linked to the Chinese government breached Samsung Pay provider LoopPay for months without detection. Stories like these are a reminder that our best means for minimizing a breach's impact is to differentiate between normal and abnormal activities.
The core concept of behavioral baselining is to understand the normal behavior such that you can identify deviations from the norm. Most organizations accomplish this by employing people and technologies utilizing data science and machine learning for automated analysis. They combine this with and fast access to forensic data to quickly spot abnormal activity patterns and detect breaches before they take down an organization.
Active Response
As organizations get better at detecting threats, the number of alerts their systems create also increases. This causes what security operations center (SOC) managers call alert fatigue. Too many alerts, but not enough time to respond to them. Imagine knowing about all the wildfires in an area but not having a mechanism to prioritize and address the fire with limited resources. Due to the inability to respond, breaches persist for long periods of time. Just this summer theDemocratic National Committee grabbed headlines when it was revealed that Russian hackers were inside its servers for over a year.
Active response is the ability to respond to an attack as soon as it is detected within the organization's environment. The response could include communication with secondary systems such as a ticketing system, or it could include creating a ticket or collecting additional data. It also could be a configuration change such as modifying a firewall to block communication with a bad actor. Active response can be fully automated or it can be human-mediated. The goal of active response is to enable an organization to make the best use of its people, process and technology through automation.
Identifying trends and patterns in an organization is a good starting point to mitigate systemic problems as well as identifying threats. Security analytics are the result of data analysis across multiple sources of data, often log data enriched with non-log data such as threat intel. The purpose of security analytics is to provide actionable knowledge to the security analysts and to security managers.
Attackers regularly target outdated or unpatched systems. Many industrial control systems (ICS) and infrastructure systems have been recently targeted due to their ineffective and outdated defenses. An example of security analytics in this case could be to identify the number of systems that are vulnerable and accessible from the internet. This analytic enables the actioning of vulnerability management efforts.
Other examples include analyzing data to spot an attack based on previously known patterns, peer-group based analytics to spot outliers within connections and activities of "like" individuals. There is a clear need for security and IT teams to use analytics to broaden their security and operations insights.
Public Key Cryptography
For many of us, the word cryptography reminds of James Bond films with incredibly smart yet evil mathematicians feverishly working to break the code to a nuclear warhead. But today, we use public key cryptography hundreds or thousands of times per day – whether it is purchasing a product online, digitally signing a document or to logging in to a device or website via a multi-factor authentication system. In an oppressive country, public key cryptography may be the only way for citizens and dissidents to exchange messages without risking their safety at the hands of governments. In many circles, cryptography has become a controversial topic.
The HeartBleed bug in openssl and the various backdoors discovered in network security devices have caused concerns of trust for a number of manufacturers. Like these technologies, cryptography is embedded in many software and hardware systems that form the core of our financial systems and healthcare systems. In some cases, cryptography has been leveraged by attackers, most notably in ransomware attacks against healthcare providers during which attackers encrypt critical data and demand a ransom in return. But just like cryptographic bugs in commercial hardware and software, even malware has had crypto bugs.
It is important for all security practitioners to understand the implications of cryptography to their business. Understand where the most critical applications are, how they make use of cryptography, who manages the cryptographic keys in your business, and how you will manage the next big crypto related vulnerability in your environment.
Security risks are heightened when organizations lack the ability to speak the same language as security professionals. And because of its rapidly shifting nature, cybersecurity is a moving target. It's unreasonable to expect everyone in your organization and external parties, like partners and customers, to be experts, but making the risks easier to understand can go a long way toward improving security hygiene.


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Growing Southern California-based sandwich and salad chain Mendocino Farms is almost ready to debut its first San Francisco location, in the historic Merchants Exchange building at 465 California Street in the FiDi. A representative for the company says it's aiming to open the doors by August 9.
Mendocino Farms, which has 20 locations around the state, was founded in 2005 by the husband-and-wife team of Mario Del Pero and Ellen Chen. It's also received backing from Whole Foods Market and TPG Growth.
The forthcoming FiDi location will be the largest in Mendocino Farms' family of restaurants, with 5,882 square feet of space and a second kitchen specifically for catering and third-party delivery orders.
While this will be its first outing in San Francisco, Mendocino Farms already has three Bay Area locations in San Jose, Campbell and San Mateo. New outposts in San Ramon and Palo Alto are also in the works.
Though the restaurant got its start in the southern part of the state, Del Pero and Chen are both Northern California natives. "We got much of our early food inspiration from places like Tartine, Bakesale Betty and the original Oakville Grocery," said Chen in a statement.
Del Pero has familial ties to the new San Francisco location as well: "Our new location at the iconic Merchants Exchange building is only a few blocks from my great-grandfather's butcher shop on Pearl Street, which he operated at the turn of the century," he said in a statement.
At the new location, diners can expect to see signature sandwiches and salads like the "Not So Fried" Mary's chicken sandwich, a pork belly banh mi, and an avocado and quinoa superfood ensalada, as well as a few special menu items unique to this location.
In a first for the company, the new location will also serve breakfast items and offer a grab-and-go case stocked with an assortment of salads. It will also be the first Mendocino Farms to serve coffee from Santa Cruz-based Verve Coffee Roasters.
As for seating, expect to see communal tables and banquettes, in addition to an outdoor patio.
Beginning August 9, Mendocino Farms will be open weekdays from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. It eventually plans to open its doors earlier in the day, once its breakfast program is up and running.


Leading wireless solution provider, Laird Connectivity, has now joined Semtech's Design Partner Program. The program, which debuted in September 2018, streamlines the creation and deployment of LoRa-based IoT solutions by connecting customers with experienced designers that understand LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology).
Semtech's Design Partner Program brings unique value to customers by linking them directly with experts on LoRa Technology like Laird. Laird's standard LoRa-based solutions can be coupled with Semtech's comprehensive engineering services and certification capabilities to offer customers the solution they need, from a standalone node to a complete IoT network. Collaborating with Semtech means there will be a system in place to easily find and work with customers directly to create and deploy innovative LoRa-based solutions to market even faster.


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Child marriage survivors say UK law legitimises 'terrible' abuse
by Emma Batha | @emmabatha | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tuesday, 23 October 2018 00:01 GMT
ARCHIVE PHOTO: A bride sits on a wall opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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Nearly 2,000 young people in Britain, the vast majority of them girls, were wed before the age of 18 between 2010 and 2015
By Emma Batha
LONDON, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Zee was 13, she returned from school one day to find an engagement party under way at her home in northern England, but her excitement at the celebrations quickly turned to shock.
"I asked my mum who's getting married. She said, 'It's you'," Zee told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Her betrothed was represented by a photo – an older cousin she had never met who lived in Afghanistan, her parents' country of birth.
"One day I'm not even allowed to talk to boys and the next I'm told I'm getting married," Zee said.
"I was dressed up to look like a Christmas tree - very sparkly, very bling. Everyone was happy. The only person who was miserable was me."
Child marriage - defined internationally as marriage under 18 - remains legal in Britain. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, teenagers can wed at 16 with parental consent. In Scotland, they do not need consent.
Zee, who did not want to give her full name, escaped by running away from home, but she says many girls are still being pushed into marriage.
Campaigners say it is time that Britain - which has been vocal about ending child marriage in developing countries - got its own laws in order.
They were particularly dismayed when Bangladesh changed its law recently to allow marriage at 16 - and cited British law as a justification.
"The UK should practice what it preaches," said Mabel van Oranje, chairwoman of global advocacy group Girls Not Brides.
"Britain's delay in reforming its own marriage laws is increasingly counterproductive."
British parliamentarian Pauline Latham agrees. She has introduced a bill to raise the marriage age to 18 which is set to receive its second reading later this year.
She said it was "crazy" that Britain still allowed child marriage when it was spending about 39 million pounds ($51 million) over five years to support efforts to end it in developing countries.
Changing the law was also crucial for protecting girls at home, she said.
Nearly 2,000 young people in Britain, the vast majority of them girls, were wed before the age of 18 between 2010 and 2015, according to official data.
Although the numbers are low, campaigners believe most are pressured into marriage by their families. If the minimum age was raised, girls would be more empowered to say no.
Girls Not Brides says the impact of getting married young is similar wherever girls live. They are more likely to drop out of school and at greater risk of marital rape, domestic abuse and health problems relating to teenage pregnancy.
The minimum age of 16 was set in 1929 when living together or falling pregnant out of wedlock was socially unacceptable. But campaigners said the "parental consent" clause for under 18s had now become an "open door" to forced marriage.
Latham said there was general support in parliament for raising the marriage age, but her bill may not be heard due to lack of time.
If so, she will push ministers to insert an amendment into another bill. Campaigners suggest it could be included in the Domestic Violence Bill.
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Girls from South Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds are seen as most at risk of early marriage in Britain because having relationships outside marriage is often considered shameful.
Amina, a mother of four in her thirties from London, had never talked to her husband before her wedding just after her 17th birthday.
The marriage, done to please her parents, put an end to her studies and plunged her into depression as she dealt with her husband's temper and controlling mother-in-law.
"The marriage was all about fear. I was a total stranger in my own house," said Amina. "I was really naive. I felt like a child myself when I had my first children."
Amina, whose parents were born in Bangladesh, says girls are still coerced into early marriages in Britain.
"It was a big sacrifice of my life. I had no chance to explore things. I went through terrible times," said Amina, who is still married to her husband and asked not to use her real name.
Campaigners say official marriage statistics do not reflect the true scale of the problem as many girls are married early in traditional ceremonies, but the weddings are not officially registered.
Others are taken abroad for marriage and brought back to Britain when they are older.
Last year, the government's Forced Marriage Unit received reports of about 1,200 possible cases of people, mostly girls and women, being coerced to wed - a figure widely said to represent the tip of the iceberg.
Nearly 30 percent of cases where the age was known concerned minors, and over half of these involved children under 16.
Britain banned forced marriage in 2014. It has taken action to rescue girls from abroad, prosecuted parents and issued forced marriage protection orders.
Campaigners say it makes no sense to invest in tackling forced marriage, while retaining a law that facilitates it.
"It's an anomaly. We need to address it - and the time is now," Latham said.
(Reporting by Emma Batha @emmabatha; Editing by Katy Migiro. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, and climate change. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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Fountain of Trajan, Ephesus
by Carole Raddato
Built around 104 CE, the fountain of Trajan is one of the finest monuments in Ephesus. It was constructed in honor of Roman Emperor Trajan. The pool of the fountain was 20×10 meters, surrounded by columns and statues. These statues were of Dionysos, a Satyr, Aphrodite and the family of the Emperor. They are now on display in the Ephesus Museum.
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Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.
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SILVER: With the commodity continuing to hold on to its bullish offensive following its recovery triggered off the 14.38 level, further price extension is envisaged.
Resistance resides at the 15.70 level where a break will turn attention to the 15.90 level. A cut through here will open the door for a move higher towards the 16.20 level.
Further out, the 16.00 level comes in as the upside objective. Its daily RSI is bullish and pointing higher suggesting further strength. Conversely, support lies at the 15.30 level and if broken it could weaken further towards the 15.00 level where a break will aim at the 14.80 level followed by the 14.60 level and subsequently the 14.40 level.
All in all, Silver now looks to strengthen further.


Most of the new features are aimed at creating applications that can run either on the browser or the desktop. The new beta works with the beta of Visual Studio 2010 or with Visual Web Developer Express. You can also write applications that access a webcam or microphone and implement improved media delivery and use over 60 new controls. Other new features include offline DRM, local printing and a trusted mode to get Silverlight out of the sandbox and able to access desktop resources.
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Like everybody else, geologists and their work were affected by the outbreak of World War II. This page shows some of these effects and the contributions made by geologists to the war effort. In addition to the subjects covered the Survey was involved in a wide range of activities such as advising the on the siting of military camps, aerodromes and storage depots (surface and underground), surveying for minerals in the UK, giving advice on where to get sand for sandbags and producing a series of wartime pamphlets.
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== Preparing for war ==
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Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers
C. W. Su, H. Y. Ho, C. S. Shern*, R. H. Chen
Two unusual magnetic properties were observed when Co ultrathin films on Pt(111) were capped with Ag overlayers. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy was significantly enhanced after annealing at high temperatures, and the spin reorientation transition (SRT) could be induced by the Ag overlayers. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of 1 ML Ag/1-3.5 monolayers (ML) Co/Pt(111) was enhanced dramatically after Co-Pt alloy formation. The easy axis of the magnetization was reoriented from the in-plane direction to the out-of-plane direction, when Ag overlayers were deposited on 3.5-7 ML Co/Pt(111). The possible mechanisms for the magnetic anisotropy enhancement and the SRT are discussed.
Chinese Journal of Physics
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Su, C. W., Ho, H. Y., Shern, C. S., & Chen, R. H. (2003). Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers. Chinese Journal of Physics, 41(5), 519-527.
Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers. / Su, C. W.; Ho, H. Y.; Shern, C. S. et al.
In: Chinese Journal of Physics, Vol. 41, No. 5, 10.2003, p. 519-527.
Su, CW, Ho, HY, Shern, CS & Chen, RH 2003, 'Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers', Chinese Journal of Physics, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 519-527.
Su CW, Ho HY, Shern CS, Chen RH. Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers. Chinese Journal of Physics. 2003 Oct;41(5):519-527.
Su, C. W. ; Ho, H. Y. ; Shern, C. S. et al. / Changes in the Magnetic Anisotropy of Co Thin Films on Pt(111) Capped by Ag Overlayers. In: Chinese Journal of Physics. 2003 ; Vol. 41, No. 5. pp. 519-527.
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