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Conflict of Interest PolicyInformation Technologies2020-07-15T21:06:10+00:00
This conflict of interest policy is designed to foster public confidence in the integrity of Hands and Feet Project (the "Organization") and to protect the Organization's interest when it is contemplating entering a transaction (defined below) that might benefit the private interest of a director, a corporate officer, the top management or top financial official, or a key employee (defined below
Article I: Definitions
The following are considered insiders for the purposes of this policy:
Each member of the Board of Directors (BOD) or other governing body.
The president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, treasurer and chief financial officer, executive director, or any person with the responsibilities of any of these positions (whether or not the person is an officer of the Organization under the Organization's Bylaws).
Any key employee who (a) has responsibilities or influence over the organization similar to that of officers, directors, or trustees; or (b) manages a program that represents 10% or more of the activities, assets, income, or expenses of the organization; or (c) has or shares authority to control 10% or more of the organization's capital expenditures, operating budget, or compensation for employees.
Interest means any commitment, investment, relationship, obligation, or involvement, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, that may influence a person's judgment, including receipt of compensation from the Organization, a sale, loan, or exchange transaction with the Organization.
A conflict of interest is present when, in the judgment of the Board of Directors, an insider's stake in the transaction is such that it reduces the likelihood that an insider's influence can be exercised impartially in the best interests of the Organization.
Transaction means any transaction, agreement, or arrangement between an insider and the Organization, or between the Organization and any third party where an insider has an interest in the transaction or any party to it.
Article II: Procedures
Duty to Disclose
Each insider shall disclose to the BOD all material facts regarding his or her interest in the transaction, promptly upon learning of the proposed transaction.
Determining Whether a Conflict of Interest Exists
With regard to an insider, the BOD shall determine if a conflict of interest exists. The insider(s) and any other interested person(s) involved with the transaction shall not be present during the BOD's discussion or determination of whether a conflict of interest exists, except as provided in Article IV below.
Procedures for Addressing a Conflict of Interest
The BOD shall follow the procedures set forth in Article IV in order to decide what measures are needed to protect the Organization's interests in light of the nature and seriousness of the conflict, to decide whether to enter into the transaction and, if so, to ensure that the terms of the transaction are appropriate.
Article III: Review by the Board
The BOD may ask questions of and receive presentation(s) from the insider(s) and any other interested person(s), but shall deliberate and vote on the transaction in their absence. The BOD shall ascertain that all material facts regarding the transaction and the insider's conflict of interest have been disclosed to the BOD and shall compile appropriate data, such as comparability studies, to determine fair market value for the transaction.
After exercising due diligence, which may include investigating alternatives that present no conflict, the BOD shall determine whether the transaction is in the Organization's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it is fair and reasonable to the Organization; the majority of disinterested members of the BOD then in office may approve the transaction.
Article IV: Records of Proceedings
The minutes of any meeting of the BOD pursuant to this policy shall contain the name of each insider who disclosed or was otherwise determined to have an interest in a transaction; the nature of the interest and whether it was determined to constitute a conflict of interest; any alternative transactions considered; the members of the BOD who were present during the deliberations on the transaction, those who voted on it, and to what extent interested persons were excluded from the deliberations; any comparability data or other information obtained and relied upon by the BOD and how the information was obtained; and the result of the vote, including, if applicable, the terms of the transaction that was approved and the date it was approved.
Article V: Annual Disclosure and Compliance Statements
Each director, each corporate officer, the top management official, the top financial official, and each key employee of the Organization, shall annually sign a statement on the form attached, that:
affirms that the person has received a copy of this conflict of interest policy, has read and understands the policy, and has agreed to comply with the policy; and
discloses the person's financial interests and family relationships that could give rise to conflicts of interest.
Article VI: Violations
If the BOD has reasonable cause to believe that an insider of the Organization has failed to disclose actual or possible conflicts of interest, including those arising from a transaction with a related interested person, it shall inform such insider of the basis for this belief and afford the insider an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the insider's response and making further investigation as warranted by the circumstances, the BOD determines that the insider has failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, the BOD shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action.
Hands and Feet Project (the "Organization") follows a conflict of interest policy designed to foster public confidence in our integrity and to protect our interest when we are contemplating entering a transaction or arrangement that might benefit the private interest of a director, a corporate officer, our top management official and top financial official, or any of our key employees.
Part I. Disclosure of Financial Interests
We are required annually to file Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service, and the form we file is available to the public. To complete Form 990 fully and accurately, we need each officer, director and key employee to disclose the information requested in this Part II.
A "conflict of interest," for purposes of Form 990, arises when a person in a position of authority over an organization, such as an officer, director, or key employee, may benefit financially from a decision he or she could make in such capacity, including indirect benefits such as to family members or businesses with which the person is closely associated.


On Tuesday evening, Ajax qualified for the UEFA Champions League playoffs. At home, the Amsterdam team defeated Standard Liege by 3-0 thanks to goals by Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Matthijs de Ligt and David Neres.
Erik ten Hag selected the same 11 players who were at kick off last week in Liege. That meant that, compared to the most recent game against Heracles, Nico Tagliafico, Frenkie de Jong, Lasse Schöne en Klaas Jan Huntelaar were back.
Michel Preud'homme left his line up intact compared to last week. Only Orlando Sá was swapped for Renaud Emond, who had a good turn as a substitute last week.
Ajax wanted revenge for their loss of point against Heracles and the poor second half in Liege. Thus, they were on the hunt for a goal as soon as the opening whistle blew.
And that's what Ten Hag's men did. In the first five minutes in the cosy Johan Cruijff ArenA, which lived and breathed the Champions League, Ajax already had 3 corners, which illustrated their attacking intentions.
They were rewarded for these intentions. After half an hour, they earned a lead. Tagliafico set forth from the back line and Huntelaar made good. 1-0! This was his 4thEuropean goal of the brand new season.
The atmosphere got even better and the players got swept up in the cheering. Four minutes after the opening goal, the score was 2-0. De Ligt sent a header into the goal via Emond. Just as in Liege, Ajax was sitting on a comfortable lead at halftime.
But the second half was different than it had been in Liege. After just one minute, Neres scored after a ruthless attack via Tagliafico and Dusan Tadic. 3-0!
After an hour of play, Standard showed up. Captain M'Poku shot the ball onto the post. Ajax let the pace drop, and the Belgian formation was able to head to Onana faster when the home team lost possession. And when that loss of possession happened 20 meters from the goal, things looked threatening. But Standard was unable to convert. Neres was almost successful in the counter. Ajax pressed on, substitute Kristensen served Huntelaar in the 78thminute, but Ochoa was in his way.
Standard fought for its last breath, but when the Belgians did break through, Onana was there to make the stop. The score remained 3-0 and Ajax will play their playoff game against Dynamo Kiev next week on Wednesday, at home. The winner of these two games will qualify for the group phase of the UEFA Champions League.


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Paul M. Boyer
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Paul M. Boyer, age 70, of Goldsboro, died at 11:02 AM Thursday, January 19, 2023, at UPMC Harrisburg. He was the companion of the late Amelia Satcher, and former spouse of Anita Marinelli, of Cly.
Born March 24, 1952, in Mechanicsburg, he was a son of the late Joseph H. Boyer, Jr. and the late Gertrude M. (LeVern) Boyer. He was a 1970 graduate of Red Land High School and was retired from Harley-Davidson Motor Company after 38 years of employment. He was a member of The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 175 (District 98), Susquehanna Rod and Gun Club, Goldsboro Fireman's Club, Guy E. Shelley American Legion Post 974, and The Wago Club.
He loved hunting, outdoors, wildlife and family. He enjoyed going to the cabin in Lycoming County to hunt and vacation with family. He was a quiet and reserved simple man, and was a true tinkerer, who liked to know how things worked and how to fix things.
Mr. Boyer is survived by a daughter, Teresa Waller, and her husband Todd, of Goldsboro; a son, Paul M. Boyer, Jr., and his wife Gretchen, of York Haven; six grandchildren, Crysta and Rebecca Waller, Alvadee, Egon, Crosby and Myles Boyer; a brother, Melvin Boyer, of York; and several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews; and Amelia's children Debra Hobbs, Louis Robertson, Sandra Smith, Tory Doherty, and Tom Doherty. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Joseph H. Boyer, III; and a sister, Grace Sandnes.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 AM Saturday, February 4, 2023, at William E. Little Funeral Homes, Inc., 60 South Main Street, Manchester, with Pastor Jim Smith officiating. Visitation will be 9-10:00 AM. Burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to York County SPCA, 3159 Susquehanna Trail North, York, PA 17406 and to the Colon Cancer Alliance for Research and Education for Lynch Syndrome online at fightlynch.org.
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ARTSHUM2016 Registration -- 2016 International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Xi'an, China.
Welcome to 2016 International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ARTSHUM2016).
In principle, there should be at least one author for each paper to participate in this conference.
Note: Listeners who wish to give oral presentations in the conference will be charged extra 80 USD in addition to the above price (Ticket C/D). The topics and abstracts of the oral presentations will be included in the conference guide.
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The human body is as complex as it is mysterious. So many systems work together in perfect cohesion all controlled by the epicenter – our brain. Despite there still being many things we don't understand about the body or mind, extensive research has revealed some amazing facts!
Laughter, for example, can actually boost your immune system and stave off infections; tears, on the other hand, are used to clean our eyes but scientists don't actually know why we produce them when we're upset! Want to learn more about exercise, your body, or the complex organs within it? Then check out the facts in this section!
Kidneys clean your blood and keep your body chemically balanced through its filtration system. Without them, it would be harder to pee! Also, did you know you don't need both kidneys to live? Here are 20 interesting facts about your kidneys!
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You are probably well aware that your body requires sleep every night - ideally around seven to eight hours - to function properly and maintain your health. But we bet you didn't know these eight surprising things that your mind and body does while you snooze!
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Through our website dekratomshop.nl you can order fresh and high quality kratom powder. Our kratom powder is harvested in Central Kalimantan (Palangkaraya area), Kapuas Hulu or Kabupaten (West Kalimantan) and Sumatra (Riau). We buy our kratom powders STRAIGHT FROM THE HARVESTERS in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
Our harvesters have been hand-picked by ourselves after a long vetting and selection process. Each year we go to Indonesia (Kalimantan) to visit our producers to keep them keen and to find and try new exciting Kratom strains for our shop.
I discovered kratom in 2011 for the first time during one of my stays in Indonesia. Since 1994 i spend mostly every year half of my time in Indonesia and half of my time in The Netherlands.
I had been suffering from depression on and off since 2001 and often during my stay in Jakarta i would get depressed due to the intensive and busy lifestyle in the big Durian. It is a huge city (probably one of the biggest if not the biggest in SE-Asia) and i developed a kind of love-hate relationship with the city. On the one hand i love being there and enjoying all the things the city has to offer and on the other hand i hate it due to the stress, smog, pollution, traffic and intensity. My webdesign business and my side business in teaching were mainly focussed on Jakarta so i had to be there most of the time i was in Indonesia each year, otherwise i would most likely have tried to spend my time in for example Bali.
In 2011 i was in Jakarta also and slipped into a very serious depression. It is very hard to live in such a big and wild city with a depression, i was ready to pull the plug and get a ticket and go back to Holland when i met somebody by chance. I told this person about my depression and anxiety (i had developed social anxiety due to my depression as well) and he could feel i was not well at all. He told me about this herbal thing called "Kratom" and told me to try it out, it could perhaps help me he said and who knows, i would not have to go back to The Netherlands.
I went with him to his Kos (boarding house) where he made me a kratom with hot coffee and lots of sugar. It tasted of course horrible for me and i nearly had to vomit but i managed to keep it in. That night i went to bed and could not sleep, i was restless and had the feeling i should go out and do lots of things, i felt i had loads of energy and for the first time in about 3 weeks (since my depression had become severe) i felt actually happy again.
I went out of bed, and took a shower put on some good clothes, sprayed on a nice scent and went out to a cafe or pub. I managed to talk to the other patrons and they actually enjoyed me being there and talking to them. Before during my depression i also went out sometimes but was so depressed and unhappy and emitted such a negative vibe that people avoided me which made me even feel more depressed and miserable. I made some new friends that night and went back home almost reborn.
I am not saying i was cured from my depression during that stay in Jakarta in 2011, the depression would still be there and i would still have bad days and nights but i started using kratom every day and night since i got introduced to it (the guy generously gave me about 500 grams, enough to last me a month and after it was finished i would get more), and it helped me to slowly get out of the depression and to not have to suffer too much from it.
Every morning i woke up the mere thought that i could take some kratom again that day would lift my spirits and make me able to get out of bed and do my things. Before that when the depression was bad, the waking up would be one of the worst parts of the day knowing i had to go through another day again, getting out of bed would be a very difficult thing (i think people suffering from or having suffered from depression will know what i mean by that).
Anyway kratom helped me to function again and in 2013 i decided to open my own webshop and try to sell kratom too, one of my big motivations for that was the fact i really had come to love the product and i wanted to share it with as many people as possible.
After we recieve your order and after your bank transfer has been confirmed we will usually ship your order within one day. If shipping cannot be done within the next day we will inform you of that.
Our kratom is delivered with Postnl in airtight vacuüm seal bags. It is then put in neutral and lightproof air cushion enveloppe or (from 600 gram onwards) put in a box. We despatch from The Netherlands.
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Goede Kratomsoort voor een snelle boost. In tegenstelling tot witte of groene kratomsoorten kickt de Yellow variant sneller in, althans zo lijkt het. Ik nam mijn gebruikelijke dosis van 4 gram zoals bij elke kratom voor mij gewenst is, en op die manier kon ik dus goed vergelijken wat het verschil is tussen yellow, red, white en green Kratom. Aarader is het zeker, voor de afwisseling, maar ook voor bijvoorbeeld een cardiotraining, hardloop sessie of krachttraining vroeg op de ochtend.
This was the first kratom is tried, used around 4-5g mixed with protein shake for breakfast, pretty much immediate stimulation, switched on edge, euphoria however not "wired" like caffeine. Really enjoyed this and will try more or a different kind. Also stopped hunger cravings and got stuck in about cleaning the house. Helps kill boredom and in general very enjoyable. Can see this being taken in the morning before getting stuck in about work.
Very good and potent strain, very consistent in quality. The first strain I tried from dekratomshop.nl, and I never used an other vendor after. Big thumbs up for the products, costumer-service and delivery-time! This strain can be very relaxing or energizing, depending on the dosage used. Also works very well for managing pain, without having any feelings of "sedation". Great in energy, fast acting, and quite long lasting in my experience. I would highly recommend this strain!
4 tot 5 gram geeft een milde, rustige werking, wat ik erg fijn vind. Ik neem het eens in de week op een lege nuchtere maag in de ochtend en spoel het weg met lauw water. Na 45-60 min zijn de rustgevende effecten goed merkbaar. Hoger dan 5 gram ga ik niet, omdat ik dan bang bent dat er sedatieve effecten op gaan treden.


Based in Shetcliffe Lane, Bradford, Wagon House Farm is a homeware shop.
Wagon House Farm is in Shetcliffe Lane Bradford. You can view a list of neighbouring businesses by going to the Shetcliffe Lane page.
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1088 () fue un año bisiesto comenzado en sábado del calendario juliano.

Acontecimientos
 12 de marzo: Urbano II sucede a Víctor III como papa.
 16 de abril: Un terremoto de 6,5 sacude el sur de Georgia dejando varios muertos.
 Primavera y verano,  Odón de Bayeux lidera una rebelión contra Guillermo II de Inglaterra, conocida como Rebelión de 1088
 Raimundo de Borgoña es designado conde de Galicia.
 Yves de Chartres es consagrado obispo por el papa en Roma.
 Fundación de la Universidad de Bolonia.

Nacimientos
 Piroska de Hungría, esposa de Juan II Comneno, emperador romano.

Fallecimientos
 6 de enero: Berengario de Tours, teólogo francés.
 11 de marzo: Bertholdo de Reichenau, cronista alemán.
 7 de abril: Burcardo II de Halberstadt, obispo de Halberstadt.
 15 de junio: Gerardo de Helfenstein, arzobispo de Salzburgo y Seliger.
 3 de julio: Robert de Rhuddlan, aventurero normando.
 28 de septiembre: Hermann de Salm, antirrey de romanos.
 Nasir ibn Alnas, emir hammadí.
 Naser Josrow, teólogo persa.
 Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, poeta sufí persa
 Guillermo de Warenne, I conde de Surrey.

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Everyone deserves equal access to justice. At Bradley, we are forceful proponents of the ethical obligation to help address unmet legal needs of indigent individuals and charitable institutions. Our commitment to pro bono service in the communities where our lawyers live and practice is of vital importance to our attorneys and staff.
Accordingly, we expect our lawyers to spend a significant amount of time on pro bono work and community service. In support of our commitment, Bradley attorneys and staff performed more than 19,800 hours of pro bono service valued at more than $7 million in 2018. The firm also donated more than $900,000 to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.
Among the many areas where our pro bono program supports people and groups in need of legal representation are death penalty cases, adoptions, evictions, human rights, privacy rights, prisoner rights, services for people in recovery from addiction, representation of start-up charitable nonprofits, and intellectual property work for low-income inventors, artists and entertainers.
As part of serving our communities, we are the only Alabama-based firm that is a challenge member of the Law Firm Pro Bono Project of the Pro Bono Institute (PBI). Challenge member firms commit at least 3 percent of their hours to charitable work. As a signatory to PBI's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge®, our firm has publicly demonstrated its commitment to pro bono work and access to justice.
The Douglas Arant Public Interest Fellowship, named after a founding partner who helped imbue the firm with its dedication to community service, offers Bradley summer associates the opportunity to work with public service organizations of their choice, subject to the approval of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Some of the worthy organizations that have been approved as partners in our fellowship program include the Southern Poverty Law Center, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (death penalty representation) and Legal Services of Alabama. Fellowship recipients work a minimum of six weeks at a Bradley office and at least four weeks for their chosen organizations while still being compensated by the firm.
Douglas Arant was known for his good judgment, tenacity and overall ability, and he maintained notable civic and charitable commitments throughout the state. Upon learning of Mr. Arant's death, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court noted that "apart from being a distinguished lawyer with a national reputation, he was a superb human being." We believe this fellowship keeps these sterling characteristics alive.
Bradley has a long history of representing individuals on death row, particularly in Alabama, which has unique death penalty challenges and the highest death sentence rate in the country. Alabama is also the only state where judges override jury recommendations of life without parole.
Bradley is currently representing 21 death row prisoners and annually devotes more than 1,000 pro bono hours to death penalty work. Over the years, we have had four clients removed from death row.
At Aguirre's request, Bradley stayed on for his retrial.
In preparation for the new trial, Bradley developed additional exculpatory evidence and impeachment evidence against the State's witnesses. On the eve of opening statements for the new trial, prosecutors announced they were dismissing all charges against our client. This sudden dismissal reflected Aguirre's innocence and the legal team's unwavering five-year resolve to set him free. Aguirre was immediately released and is now a free man.
In recognition of our pro bono work, Bradley received an Exceptional Service Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) Death Penalty Project in 2012.
Scott E. Adams, a partner in our Birmingham office, donated over 1,000 hours in 2013 and 2014 in serving a one-year commitment as a Fellow with the International Justice Mission (IJM) in Uganda. IJM is a human rights agency that seeks to rescue people victimized by horrendous abuses such as slavery, sexual exploitation, land grabbing, and other forms of violent oppression. Often, bereaved widows and orphans in Uganda have powerful neighbors, or even relatives, who take their homes and farmland through force or deception, leaving the victims not only homeless but also unable to support themselves even by subsistence farming. Through his work, Scott helped Ugandan attorneys prosecute land grabbers and helped local courthouses organize land records so property rights could be enforced. Because he could not appear in court, his help focused on writing appellate briefs, analyzing and investigating cases, and organizing courthouse records so they might be searched and used to enforce legal rights.


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Multiple Juno Award-winner Dave Genn is a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and performer whose musical pedigree boasts a diversity and scope that spans over twenty-five years in the business. Since 2003 he has been the lead guitarist for Canadian alt-rock heroes 54-40. Prior to his tenure with 54-40 he was a member of the Matthew Good Band, from 1995 until 2001.
Dave's soundtrack work for film has garnered him three Leo Award nominations to date. His notable scores for the short films 'Direct Lines' (1995), 'Second Date' (1999), 'The Dogwalker' (2003), and 'The Flying Lion' (2007) have led him to compose the original soundtrack for the feature film 'Old Stock' in 2013. Directed by his brother James Genn, 'Old Stock' was produced in conjunction with the Canadian Film Centre, distributed by E1 Entertainment and received glowing critical reviews throughout it's theatrical release and tour of the film festival circuit. Dave contributed score for the National Geographic documentary 'Yukonna' in 1998, and more recently has written and produced three exclusive original songs for the CAPCOM video game title 'Dead Rising 3', released Christmas 2013. He has acted in the capacity of Musical Director for award shows as well, most notably the NHL Awards '07 and Canadian Video Game Awards 2012.


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Are New Zealand's universities doing enough to define the limits of academic freedom?
By Matheson Russell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
The news last week that University of Auckland public health researcher Simon Thornley was retracting a co-authored paper about supposed vaccination risks during pregnancy raised deeper questions about the limits of academic freedom.
Thornley's own head of department had called for the paper to be retracted due to "the anxiety it is creating for expectant parents and those planning to have a…


Using Windows Server's security templates looks like a bit of a black art but mastering them can massively improve the management of an enterprise network.
If you've already learned that Windows Server's security templates are beyond mortal ken, you may not have held off inflicting them on your enterprise.
Their difficulty is a result of their flexibility, so if you can manage their flexibility, they cease to be the sole domain of gurus.
Behind templates lies a simple concept: wrap multiple security settings in a single file and apply the file to many computers on an enterprise network. To simplify mixing and matching company-wide, department-wide, location-wide and job-function-based, security settings across a company, Microsoft made security templates cumulative. That cut the number of templates you might ever have to create but introduced the problem of working out which template is applying which setting.
Knowing what effect each setting actually has on a computer is another hard-to-learn pearl of guru-dom.
Microsoft Windows includes two tools to make these tasks easier. The Security Configuration and Analysis (SCA) snap-in shows the effect that each setting in a template will have. It also allows you to apply new templates to an existing set of templates - collectively called a security database - and to see, more or less, visually what their cumulative effect will be.
The secedit.exe tool does the same thing from the command line, with the added spice of helping you deploy templates. While not so hot at SCA-style "show and tell" visuals, secedit can be driven by scripts - so it can apply templates to multiple computers without inflicting a devastating case of mouse-finger.
It's not easy to find these tools. The only visible security template management tools on an Active Directory-installed server install are Domain Controller Security Policy and Domain Security Policy.
Find the SCA tool by creating a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) by entering MMC at the command line and using the Console, then the Add menus to find the SCA in the default list of MMC snap-ins; when you've added the SCA snap-in, save the MMC as a "security tools.msc". It will now be available in Windows Servers' Administrative Tools menu.
To get to the meat of analysing security settings we're going to skip over the "how to" details that are visible in the SCA tool's inline instructions. They are very visible and speak for themselves.
From the SCA, create a new database and name it. Note that it will be saved with an .sdb file extension. Once you save it, follow the "Import template" wizard that will automatically start up. When asked, import the security template called hisecws.inf, which tightens password restrictions on workstations.
Importing hisecws.inf will not apply hisecws to your computer; it will merely allow you to analyse what settings it would impose and how those settings differ from the computer's current settings.
Analysing the security database you added hisecws to is easy - the inline instructions tell you how. But comprehending the analysis is harder. Try drilling down in the left hand SCA pane from "Account Policies" through to "Password Policy". On most Windows Server 2003 default installs, you should see two out of six icons showing red warning signs in the right hand pane. These settings - minimum password age and minimum password length - are the settings that would be made stricter if you applied the imported template to the machine.
Call it play or call it study - this exercise is among the most valuable tests you can do on Windows machines. Once you see it, you will realise that you now know how to predict the impact of applying any security template files in C:\WINNT\security\templates. You now have the skills to take the scary-looking "hisecdc.inf" and "DC security.inf" templates, that look as though they could damage vital domain controllers, and test them against any DC's current settings.
Getting to this point leaves you with only two things to learn: how to apply the security database to a machine and how to apply, efficiently, the database to many machines.
" option). By default it will save the database you have created as a template file with an .inf extension in the C:\WINNT\security\templates directory - just like the default templates.
The easiest way to deploy the template to a range of machines is to create a Group Policy Object (GPO) in Active Directory, import the newly-created security template file into the GPO, then link the GPO to a site, a domain, or an organisational unit. How to manipulate GPOs is too big a subject to detail here, but it is very well documented on the Web.
Less well documented but just as efficient is to use the server's built-in secedit.exe tool to apply security databases on an enterprise-scale via scripts. Note that secedit takes a security database as its input file, not a template file.
If you were deploying the database you created at the start of our example above, you would use the .sdb file that you created prior to importing the template file.
in unattended install scripts or in logon scripts after making sure the .sdb file is available to the machine running the script from a network share.
The /areas switch limits the security changes to each machine's file system, registry and system services settings, which prevents errors blocking the script. The /quiet switch prevents commands from being output to users' screens when the script runs.
Managing security template configuration and rollouts in enterprises is a huge task and one that many sysadmins put off out of fear of mistakes, or pay consultants to manage.
But getting to know the SCA and secedit are the start of a journey into truly owning your network's machines.
Where there is a conflict in security settings applied by two different security templates, the latest applied setting will dominate.
Document the function of each template you deploy.
Analyse each server's security settings against your baseline templates every three months.
After business changes, ask if your security templates continue to meet your objectives.


Distance from Los Angeles International Airport to Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport is 2177 miles / 3504 kilometers / 1892 nautical miles.
Estimated flight time from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (BZE) is 4 hours 37 minutes.
The time difference between Los Angeles and Belize City is 1 hour. Belize City is 1 hour ahead of Los Angeles.
Flight map from Los Angeles to Belize City.
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"We know Baldwin's a prisoner of hope."
Return of the Prophet: Baldwin in the 21st Century
James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn't over. Fifty years ago, he was a young, bug-eyed man from Harlem who wrote, in essays and novels, his own version of the civil-rights movement. Now his words have become the rallying cries for a new rising generation—in film, in music, and in the press.
Raoul Peck, the Haitian-born director of the Oscar-nominated Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, sees Baldwin as a mirror on American life:
He went really deep into what the society is, you know, and he was the only one who was able to formulate it in a way that a scholar of course would understand it but also the man in the streets would understand it in a way where he could be very critical to the white liberal but without pushing them away. But he found a way to put every one of us, whether black or white, in front of the reality. He put a mirror in front of us in a way that you can't look away.
Teju Cole views the Baldwin of today as a master aphorist: a pithy prophet well-suited to the twitter age and "the go-to quote factory of those who are woke". On a deeper level, Cole finds kinship in Baldwin's transnational sense of self. Cole guides us through his own pilgrimage to Leukerbad, Switzerland—the remote town where Baldwin composed his seminal essay "Stranger in the Village":
The essay I ended up writing about this journey to Leukerbad became also a kind of exercise in Baldwinian form … I deeply love the essay that he wrote about being there, and in my essay, which I call "Black Body," I wanted to think about what it meant to inhabit somebody else's space. I was inhabiting his space and, in a sense in the essay, I was inhabiting his prose style. … it was conscious to allow that to happen, to allow the visceral effect of being there as he was there, walking the streets as he walked the streets, to let all of that come through and still have it be analytical.
Cornel West reminds us of Baldwin's unpopularity, and his nagging truth-telling habit that alienated him, in later years, from the white liberal media professional who first popularized his work, as well as from the radical black nationalists. But for Brother West, this outsider truth-teller "was really a kind of Democratic saint, if you define a saint as a sinner who looks at the world through the lens of the heart."
"He was heartbroken." Cornel says, "America broke his heart, day in and day out."
And Ed Pavlic, author of Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener, hears in Baldwin's words echoes of the black musicians Baldwin dearly loved – Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson et al. Above all else though, Pavlic reminds us of Baldwin's deep love for Ray Charles, highlighting the concert Baldwin and Charles organized together at Carnegie Hall as part of the 1973 Newport Folk Festival.
Illustrations by Susan Coyne. This program was originally broadcast February 2017.
Raoul Peck
director of the James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negro
Teju Cole
writer, art historian, and photography critics for New York Times Magazine
preacher, philosopher, and author of Black Prophetic Fire.
Ed Pavlic
poet and author of Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener
The Art of Fiction No. 78 - Paris Review
James Baldwin & Jordan Elgrably
Come On Up, Sweetheart - James Baldwin's Letters to his Brother
Black Body: Re-reading James Baldwin's "Stranger in the Village"
James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation
Nathaniel Rich
This week, we revisit our 2017 show on James Baldwin. James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn't over. Fifty years ago, he was a young, bug-eyed man from...
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Barney Frank's memoir reminds me that we're almost exact contemporaries – two white guys who've been watching a lot of the same stuff, in Boston and Washington, politics and culture,...
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What ever happened to sin? Have Christians become so preoccupied with the major sins of our society that we have lost sight of our need to deal with our own more subtle sins? Jerry Bridges returns to his trademark theme of holiness and addresses a dozen clusters of specific "acceptable" sins that we tend to tolerate in ourselves, such as jealousy, anger, pride, unthankfulness, and judgmentalism. Jerry writes not from a height of spiritual accomplishments but from the trenches of his own battles with sin. In his admonitions, Jerry offers a message of hope in the profound mercy of the gospel and the transforming grace of God as the means to overcome our subtle sins.
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No one writes more powerfully today about the need for holiness than Jerry Bridges, who carries on the tradition of Tozer and other great saints through the years. In this book, he focuses us on our own failings. You can't read this without coming to grips with the log in your own eye before dealing with the speck in your neighbor's. This book should have a wonderful ministry in the Christian church. I highly recommend it.
For the believer seriously considering the lordship of Christ in his life, Respectable Sins is must reading!
Respectable Sins is just what we need: an exposé of the little sins that are disappointing to God and get in the way of our spiritual growth.
Dr. Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) was an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and staff member of The Navigators, an international, interdenominational Christian ministry focusing on mentoring, discipling, and building relationships. Bridges earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Oklahoma before serving as an officer in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He joined the Christian discipleship organization The Navigators in 1955, where he served as an administrative assistant to the Europe director, office manager for the headquarters office, secretary-treasurer of the organization, and as vice president for Corporate Affairs before moving to a staff development position with the Collegiate Mission.


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With reversible seat, safety fold mechanism, large netting compartment detachable armrest, 3 recline position, 5 point harnesses.
What's best than happily wander in the city while knowing that your child is comfortably and safely seated in one of the best pushchairs? Sold with a whole range of features as a netting bag to transport all your baby products (cloth diapers, feeding bottles…) or a five point harness to ensure security to your child.
This My Dear Baby Stroller, is the perfect match-up for you.
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Beaducation: The Blog: Leather On Sale!
Summer's casual style is the perfect time to accessorize with leather. We have a selection of leather cuffs and cord on sale right now, making it a great time to try it out! We have even discounted two letter sets that are specifically designed for stamping on leather.
We think leather looks great on its own (especially if you stamp a name or quote on it), but check out this video we made to see a plethora of ideas for adding stamped metal and riveted embellishments. There are so many ideas!
Let us know if you've worked with leather before and what are your favorite ways to embellish it and wear it. We love hearing from you!


I'm going to put this in Brewing, as in your own homebrew Super Nintendo, since it's the best category I have for now.
When we were in Montreal, we stumbled on this cafe that had a Super Nintendo with Super Mario for customers. It was the coolest idea, video games while you enjoy your coffee. I suppose the area was for kids, given the low ceilings and bright colors. We enjoyed ourselves regardless, and I resolved to work up something similar.
Now, back in New York, I started looking into getting a SNES for our apartment. Turns out they can be had for $40-80 used on eBay, with an extra $20-25 or so per game. Watch out because some of these are remade hardware and not original. For $100 or so you can get yourself set up with some still functional nostalgia. However, given that you can get a Gamecube or other more modern system for even less, you're paying for the nostalgia factor.
I found the low-budget route: OpenEmu, a free open source emulator for Mac, has support for SNES, Genesis, original Nintendo, and more. Just add a controller and connect to your TV.
There's a SNES mini console being re-released by Nintendo at the end of September 2017. It will come with two controllers and 20+ games for $80. It's a good place to start if you're looking for a list of must-try games for your new system.
Now that I have the SNES all set up with Mario, Kirby, and the rest, I'm going to head back to Google and find Sonic the Hedgehog. If you'd like to step even further back in time to play Pitfall! or Centipede, there is support for the Atari 2600 / 7800.


What Are The Advantages of Choosing Natural Dental Care?
It might appear to be immaterial at in the first place, however amassed dangerous materials in the body will cause extreme results. Among one of the many fields that is said to add to acquainting harmful materials with the body is conventional dentistry. Comprehensive dentists, also called biosafe dentists, contend that the conventional dentists utilize poisonous materials, for example, mercury dental fillings and fluoride toothpastes to give dental treatment that are destructive over the long haul. Contrasted with all encompassing dental care, conventional dentistry is thought to be a convenient solution.
In spite of the fact that it has been ignored years prior, all encompassing dental care has returned with retribution. Because of the expanding worries of individuals about their health and the potential lethality realized by customary dentists, an ever increasing number of people are swinging to comprehensive dentists for their dental concerns.
One advantage of all encompassing dentists is that you can spare additional time and cash with their method of treatment. Dissimilar to conventional dentists, they evaluate your teeth and gums as well as your general health also. They investigate your way of life, eating routine, your activity schedules and how you manage stretch. They trust that when you have an unhealthy body, keeping the teeth healthy can be a careful undertaking. They construct their training with respect to anticipating maladies at an opportune time as opposed to tending to them when they start to show and that keeping the body healthy is additionally basic in the event that they need to keep the teeth healthy. Not exclusively will you ready to spare more cash on dental medicines, you will feel healthier comprehensively too.
Another advantage of swinging to emergency dentist is that they will guarantee that they are giving you nothing not as much as the best and the most secure dental treatment in presence. They are scrupulous dentists who don't just take a gander at your dental issues alone yet additionally observe to it that your body is working taking care of business too. Their training considers an agreeable connection between your mouth and whatever remains of your body to be the reason for general health. Subsequently, dentists in all encompassing dental care will never utilize the utilization of handy solutions to treat your dental issues. They guarantee that the treatment alternatives they prescribe won't make any damage you and nature later on.
Likewise, all encompassing dental care additionally makes utilization of materials that are not poisonous to the body. While conventional dentists utilize mercury dental fillings and fluoride toothpastes that have been known to cause a few inconveniences including Alzheimer's infection, Multiple Sclerosis, dental fluorosis and neurological harm, all encompassing dentists use an assortment of treatment techniques such as maxillofacial surgery that are natural, sheltered and healthy notwithstanding when utilized as a part of the long run.
Marianna Ibrahiam is the author of this article. for more info maxillofacial surgery and emergency dentist please visit the website related to dentist problem.
A beautiful Smile certainly comes with healthy teeth. For getting white and healthy teeth, there are several ways of dental care that must be obeyed. Basically, the real colours of our teeth are white.
What Are the Benefits of Choosing a Family Dentist?
When it comes to taking care of your teeth, periodic visits to your dental office becomes inevitable. In addition to being a qualified dentist, he/she should also make you feel comfortable.
Many individuals are awkward with the presence of their smiles since they neglected to utilize legitimate dental care strategies. To many individuals, dental care just feels like a considerable measure of work.
A smiling face can change your mood in seconds and this is why we all should smile as often as possible. So that you are well-informed about taking oral dental care for your kids, we have listed down a few very important tips which you can give to your kids so that they have healthy teeth.


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Music for Smithsonian Polka by W. Bergman
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Neg. # 92-2053 is a color negative of the cover sheet. Neg. # 82-3240 is a black and white negative of the cover sheet. The original sheet music is in Accession 99-031. See also Negative #'s 82-3242, 82-3243, and 82-3244 for photographs of the rest of the sheet music.
Page 1 of the musical score (4 pages) "The Smithsonian Polka," composed by W. Bergman, a Washington, D.C. music teacher. The music was probably written to commemorate the opening of the newly completed Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle. The original sheet music was given to Charles D. Walcott, fourth Secretary (1907-1927) of the Smithsonian Institution, by Mrs. Herbert Hoover in 1924.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 66, Folder 15
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
Bergman, W
Smithsonian Polka
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Photographic print
Smithsonian Music
Musical Treasures


These are the exact strokes we use when testing a new pen or warming up. We even scanned in our warm-up sheets for sixteen pens so you can see real stroke sizes, textures, and colors side-by-side.
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The wet spots that you see are not really wet spots. The spots are caused by shrinkage and air bubbles that occur as the wax is cooling inside the container. Part of the wax pulls away from the glassware and sticks to the container giving it this particular look.
It is more common with paraffin wax but can also occur with soy.This is common even in expensive candle lines.
Wash your glass with mild, soapy water and dry thoroughly before using.
Make sure the room where the wax is cooling is not too cold. 70-72 degrees F is best.
Pre-heat your glassware in a warm oven prior to pouring (100- 110 degrees F), this will allow the wax to cool more slowly and give air bubbles time to escape to the surface.
Raising or lowering the pour temperature of the wax can affect glass adhesion.
Tap the glassware gently right after you've poured the wax to release any air bubbles.
Glass with a uniform thickness will cool more evenly. Jars with thick and thin spots will cool at different rates and can cause the wax to pull away. Pouring the wax at a cooler temperature in pre-heated glass can help reduce that.
While cooling your candles place them about 4" apart. Glass containers placed right next to each other will hold heat on the adjacent sides. This causes those sides to cool more slowly than the rest of the jar. Try to cool the entire candle at the same rate.
Set the candles on a wire rack rather than on a counter or table top. Solid surfaces will pull the heat from the bottom of the jar and can cause the wax to cool too fast so that it shrinks and pulls away from the glass.
Try using a softer wax like a paraffin wax blend.


Sterling Silver Post Earrings. Created by Navajo Artist Artie Yellowhorse. Signed by the artist. The Yellowhorse trademark "Rising Sun" design is one of their most popular collections with its round or oval-domed center surrounded by small 'drops' or beads of silver - each one made by hand.
Post Earrings are 1" L x 1" W.


The NY Bagel Café franchise opportunity, President Joe Smith and franchise salesman Dennis Mason are being investigated by the Maryland Attorney General for fraud and violations of franchise law. The investigation was prompted by a complaint filed by UnhappyFranchisee.Com regarding complaints of fraudulent and illegal business practices we've received. If you've given money to NY Bagel Café, Joe Smith or Dennis Mason, contact us at UnhappyFranchisee[at]Gmail.com.
(UnhappyFranchisee.Com) We have received many complaints from alleged victims of the NY Bagel Café franchise scheme, NY Bagel president Joseph Smith, and infamous NJ-based franchise salesman Dennis Mason.
Many complain that they were promised 100% funding for a NY Bagel Café franchise, but once they paid their franchise fee (typically $19,500 or $17,500) they did not receive either franchise funding or a refund of their initial fee.
Others complain that Joseph Smith and Dennis Mason fraudulently induced them to buy and open a NY Bagel Café franchise with illegal earnings claims of $1500 in sales every day and documents that hid the 90% failure rate of previous locations.
UnhappyFranchisee.Com has been working with the alleged victims who are trying to receive refunds from NY Bagel Café and/or put an end to what they call a blatant franchise scam. Alleged victims include a widowed mother who served in Afghanistan, a legally blind man, and a father of eight children.
Our complaint to the Attorney General of Maryland over the unregistered and illegal sale of a NY Bagel Café franchise to a Maryland resident prompted an investigation and the following Show Cause Order.
According to the Maryland Attorney General's office, NY Bagel Café, Joe Smith and Dennis Mason have failed to respond to the Order within the 15 days allowed.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Commissioner hereby orders Respondents to show cause why a final order should not be entered ordering each of them to permanently cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud, registration, and disclosure provisions of the Maryland Franchise Law.
1. The Commissioner has jurisdiction in this proceeding and over Respondents pursuant to section 14-210 (a) of the Maryland Franchise Law.
2. NY Bagel Enterprises, Inc. ("NY Bagel") is a New Jersey Corporation with a principal business address of 301 Route 17 North, Suite 800, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070.
3. NY Bagel offers and sells franchises for retail stores using the name "New York Bagel Cafe & Deli," which sell take-out bagels, coffees, sandwiches, and other food related items.
4. NY Bagel owns the trademark for the New York Bagel Cafe & Deli logo design and words, which NY Bagel registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2010.
5. SMS, Inc. ("SMS") is a Delaware corporation with a principal business address of 1521 Concord Pike, Suite 301, Wilmington, Delaware 19803.
7. Joseph V. Smith ("Smith") is the president of both NY Bagel and SMS. Smith's last known business address is 301 Route 17 North, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070.
8. Dennis Kenneth Mason ("Mason") is a franchise sales agent or broker for franchise offerings, including New York Bagel Cafe & Deli. Mason's last known business address is P.O. Box 1085, Medford, NJ 08055.
9. NY Bagel was registered to offer and sell franchises under the Maryland Franchise Law for a one year period, from January 30, 2012 through January 30, 2013.
10. According to the Franchise Disclosure Document ("FDD") that NY Bagel filed with the Securities Division as part of its franchise registration application, NY Bagel has offered and sold franchises in the U.S. since 2007 and had, as of November 2011, 13 franchised outlets open and an additional 21 franchise agreements signed but the franchise was not yet opened.
11. The franchise registration application that NY Bagel filed in Maryland identified two individuals who would solicit, offer, or sell franchises for the franchisor in Maryland: Dennis Kenneth Mason and Joseph V. Smith.
12. NY Bagel has not been registered to offer or sell franchises in Maryland at any time after January 30, 2013.
With positive same store sales growth and 96% brand awareness, NY Bagel is poised to add a 1000 [sic] new restaurants in the next 10 years. Be the next NY Bagel franchisee to build a drive-thru, dine-in, in your market! Our Franchise Fee is a reduced onetime fee of $17,500 and all monies required for the build-out, equipment, furniture & fixtures, inventory, lease & security deposits, working capital is 100% financed… For full details Call: Mr Dennis (888) 550-8020.
15. On April 24, 2015, the Securities Division sent a letter ("Franchise Warning Letter") by certified mail, return receipt requested to NY Bagel advising the franchisor and Smith that NY Bagel was not registered to offer or sell franchises in Maryland. The Securities Division requested information and documentation regarding NY Bagel's sales activities in Maryland.
17. The Securities Division sent a second copy of the Franchise Warning Letter to NY Bagel at a company-owned NY Bagel & Deli located in Newburgh, NY. The return receipt shows that the second copy of the Franchise Warning Letter was delivered to that address on April 27, 2015.
18. The Securities Division received no response to the Franchise Warning Letter.
19. In March 2015 "Mike H," a Maryland resident, purchased an independently operated cafe located in Ocean City, Maryland.
20. At about the same time Mike H purchased his cafe, he saw an advertisement on Craigslist to purchase a franchise for a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli.
21. Mike H called the number listed in the Craigslist advertisement and spoke to Dennis Mason.
22. Mason told Mike H that by purchasing a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli, his cafe could earn $1,500 per day.
23. In April 2015, Mason, identifying himself as being from the "Franchise Dept." sent Mike H an e-mail with a copy of a 3 page application that needed to be completed to be considered for ownership of a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli.
24. On or about April 19, 2015, Mason met with Mike H in Middletown, New Jersey to discuss the purchase of a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli.
26. On April 23, 2015, Mike H entered into a "License Agreement" with SMS (the "SMS License Agreement") granting him the right to operate a retail store under the name New York Bagel Cafe & Deli.
27. As required under the SMS License Agreement, Mike H paid SMS an initial fee of $17,500, and agreed to pay ongoing royalties of $500 per month.
28. Smith signed the SMS License Agreement as president of SMS.
29. Mason witnessed Smith's signature on the SMS License Agreement.
and operation of the business.
32. Under the SMS License Agreement, Mike H agreed to operate the New York Bagel Cafe & Deli business in conformity with the SMS's standards and specifications.
33. Smith sent Mike H a copy of the New York Cafe & Deli logo to use and a copy of a standard menu with proposed pricing.
34. Smith also provided Mike H with a copy of a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli operations manual.
35. The SMS License Agreement, in fact, is nearly identical to the form of NY Bagel franchise agreement captioned " EXHIBIT 6 TO NEW YORK BAGEL ENTERPRISES, INC. FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT" that NY Bagel filed with the Securities Division in 2012, except that the SMS License Agreement substitutes the word "license" for "franchise" in most places, and the SMS License Agreement contains different provisions for the amount of royalties and advertising contributions that Mike H must pay SMS.
37. Smith traveled to Ocean City, Maryland on June 30, 2015 to help Mike H with his grand opening. Smith brought with him someone whom Smith said worked at a company-owned New York Bagel Cafe & Deli.
38. Mike H opened his New York Bagel Cafe & Deli on July 1, 2015.
39. The SMS License Agreement that Mike H signed to operate a New York Bagel Cafe & Deli constitutes a franchise under the Maryland Franchise Law.
40. SMS has never been registered to offer to sell or sell franchises in Maryland.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Respondents show cause why they should not be ordered to permanently cease and desist from the offer and sale of franchises in Maryland in violation of the registration provisions of section 14-228 of the Maryland Franchise Law.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Respondents Smith, Mason, and SMS show cause why they should not be ordered to permanently cease and desist from the offer and sale of franchises in violation of the disclosure provisions of section 14-223 of the Maryland Franchise Law.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Respondents show cause why they should not be ordered to permanently cease and desist from the offer and sale of franchises in violation of the anti-fraud provisions of section 14-229 of the Maryland Franchise Law.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that Respondents Mason and SMS show cause why a final order should not be issued against them directing them to permanently cease and desist from the offer and sale of franchises in violation of the Maryland Franchise Law.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that Respondents NY Bagel, Smith and SMS show cause why a final order should not be issued against them directing them to permanently cease and desist from the offer and sale of franchises in violation of the Maryland Franchise Law.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to section 14-210 of the Maryland Franchise Law and COMAR 02.02.06.06, that Respondents shall file with the Commissioner a written Answer to this Order within fifteen days of service of the Order. The Answer shall admit or deny each factual allegation in the Order and shall set forth affirmative defenses, if any. A respondent without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of an allegation shall so state.
The Answer also shall indicate whether a respondent requests a hearing. A hearing will be scheduled in this matter if one is requested in writing. Failure by any respondent to file a written request for a hearing in this matter shall be deemed a waiver by that respondent of the right to such a hearing. Failure of any respondent to file an Answer, including a request for a hearing, shall result in entry of a final order directing Respondents to permanently cease and desist from violation of the Maryland Franchise Law.
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Gate City Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in Gate City
^ The average commercial electricity rate in Gate City, VA is 8.32¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in Gate City
^ The average residential electricity rate in Gate City, VA is 10.89¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in Gate City
^ The average industrial electricity rate in Gate City, VA is 6.62¢/kWh.[1]
Gate City, VA Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Gate City
The average commercial electricity rate in Gate City is 8.32¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Gate City is 2.97% greater than the Virginia average rate of 8.08¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Gate City is 17.54% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Gate City
The average residential electricity rate in Gate City is 10.89¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Gate City is 1.71% less than the Virginia average rate of 11.08¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Gate City is 8.33% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Gate City
The average industrial electricity rate in Gate City is 6.62¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Gate City is 1.49% less than the Virginia average rate of 6.72¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Gate City is 0.75% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Virginia Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Virginia
Commercial electricity rates in VA [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Virginia is 8.08¢/kWh, which ranks 42nd in the nation and is 19.92% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in VA [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Virginia averages 9,298 kWh/month, which ranks 3rd in the nation and is 49.05% greater than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in VA [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Virginia is $751, which ranks 8th in the nation and is 19.4% greater than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Virginia
Residential electricity in Virginia
Residential electricity rates in Virginia [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Virginia is 11.08¢/kWh, which ranks 30th in the nation and is 6.73% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in VA [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Virginia averages 1,117 kWh/month, which ranks 10th in the nation and is 23.7% greater than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in VA [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Virginia is $124, which ranks 8th in the nation and is 15.89% greater than the national average of $107 per month.
Learn more about residential electricity in Virginia
Industrial electricity in Virginia
Industrial electricity rates in Virginia [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Virginia is 6.72¢/kWh, which ranks 21st in the nation and is 0.75% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in VA [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Virginia averages 363,196 kWh/month, which ranks 10th in the nation and is 223.83% greater than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in VA [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Virginia is $24,389, which ranks 10th in the nation and is 225.93% greater than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Virginia
Household Income in Gate City, VA
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Income Summary for Gate City, VA
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State aid: Commission extends crisis rules for banks
Brussels, 1 December – The European Commission has updated and prolonged a set of temporary state aid control rules to assess public support to financial institutions during the crisis. The main provisions consist in explaining how to ensure that the State is adequately remunerated if – as is increasingly likely in the future - Member States decide to recapitalise their banks using instruments, such as ordinary shares, for which the remuneration is not fixed in advance. A revised methodology was also agreed concerning the remuneration of guarantees for banks' funding needs – the bulk of the support to date – to ensure the fees that banks pay reflect their intrinsic risk, rather than the risk related to the Member State concerned or the market as a whole. The rules will apply as long as required by market conditions.
In 2008-2009, the European Commission adopted special state aid rules to allow Member States to support the banking system during the financial crisis for the sake of financial stability without undue distortions of competition in the European Union's single market. The crisis rules have proven their value in ensuring that banks restructure when changes to their business models are required to ensure their long-term viability, e.g. if they are heavily reliant on risky activities. By also ensuring that shareholders and hybrid capital holders bear a fair share of the burden, the Commission ultimately reduced the amount of taxpayers' money used to support the banks.
"The exacerbation of tensions in sovereign debt markets has put banks in the Union under renewed pressure, justifying the extension of the crisis rules, in particular to help put in place the package agreed by the European Council in October to restore confidence and to continue the necessary restructuring of the sector", said Commission Vice-President in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia. He added: "We will continue to insist on the restructuring and cleaning up of balance sheets where it is necessary, to help break the vicious circle between the sovereign debt crisis and a weak financial sector. In its application of the rules, the Commission will take full account of elements that indicate that banks can be viable in the long term without the need for significant restructuring."
The Communication adopted by the Commission on the application, from the 1st of January 2012, of state aid rules to support measures in favour of banks in the context of the crisis, keeps in place the four Communications that set the conditions for the compatibility with the Treaty rules on state aid of support in the form of funding guarantees, recapitalisation and asset relief, as well as the requirements for a restructuring or viability plan (the Restructuring Communication).
The Commission will continue to grant swift temporary approval whenever required to preserve financial stability provided the terms of the intervention comply with the guidance provided.
Increased tensions in sovereign debt markets since the summer have put the EU banking sector under renewed pressure, making it necessary to prolong the extraordinary crisis rules, including to facilitate the implementation of the "banking package" agreed by the EU Heads of State or Government in October. The package aims to restore confidence in the sector by way of guarantees on medium-term funding and the creation of a temporary buffer amounting to a capital ratio of 9% of the highest quality capital after accounting for market valuation of sovereign debt exposures.
In view of regulatory changes and the changing market environment, the Commission anticipates that State capital injections may in the future more commonly take the form of shares bearing a variable remuneration. As such shares are remunerated in the form of dividends and capital gains that are by definition uncertain, guidance is given on the use of market-based valuations to give a reasonable assurance of an adequate remuneration for the State. Shares should be subscribed by the State at an appropriate discount to the latest share price, depending, among other things, on the size of the capital injection compared to the bank's existing capital and whether or not the shares carry voting rights. As to hybrid capital instruments, to cater for circumstances in which banks may be unable to pay the agreed remuneration in the short term, such instruments should include an "alternative coupon satisfaction mechanism", allowing coupons that cannot be paid in cash to be paid in shares, instead.
The Commission has also reviewed guidance on the fees that banks must pay for guarantees to ensure the aid is limited to the minimum necessary and to reflect the risk for public finances. The revised methodology establishes the minimum fees that should apply where the guarantees are granted on a national basis. The new rules apply for guarantees covering debt with a maturity between one and five years (seven in case of covered bonds). The rules for shorter maturities remain the same.
Restructuring plans
The Commission will continue to require Member States to submit a restructuring plan (or an update of a previously approved plan) for all banks which receive public support in the form of recapitalisation or impaired asset measures, be it from national or EU sources, regardless of the size or the reason for support. The Commission will determine the need for restructuring through a proportionate assessment of the long-term viability of banks, taking full account of all relevant elements: whether the capital shortage is essentially linked to a confidence crisis on sovereign debt, the public capital injection is limited to the amount necessary to offset losses stemming from marking sovereign bonds of the EEA Member States to market in banks which are otherwise viable, and the analysis shows that the bank in question did not take excessive risk in acquiring sovereign debt.
Banks which have not received public support in the form of recapitalisation or impaired asset measures, but benefit from State guaranteed funding, do not have to present restructuring plans. Only "heavy users" of state guarantees on their liabilities will continue to be obliged to submit viability reviews to the Commission.
The crisis regime was first adopted in 2008-2009 in the wake of the financial crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It comprises the Banking Communication, the Recapitalisation Communication, the Impaired Assets Communication and the Restructuring Communication. These special rules were introduced under Article 107(3)(b) of the Treaty on the functioning of the EU that allows the Commission to approve state support to remedy a serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State.
The rules were updated twice before, in July 2010, when the guarantee fees were increased to better reflect the risk profile of the beneficiaries and to avoid excessive dependence on an instrument that represents a high contingent risk for public finances. In December 2010, the regime was extended for one year with the main change being to require all banks receiving support through either recapitalisation or asset relief measures to submit a restructuring plan regardless of the size of the support (see IP/10/1636).
For a list of the ongoing individual state aid investigations as well as decisions taken since the beginning of the crisis, see MEMO/11/858.
The full text of the Communications is available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation/temporary.html
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Two Rounds of Storms Could be Strong on Monday
By: Justin Thompson-Gee Facebook | Twitter
Posted: Apr 9, 2017 7:29 PM CST
Sunday proved to be a gorgeous day with highs reaching the 70s for everyone in southeast Wisconsin. Burlington even made it to 80° and Milwaukee's high of 74° was the warmest of 2017 topping February 22nd's high of 71°. The warmth will stick around for Monday, but it comes with a chance for two rounds of storms.
The first round arrives early Monday morning. Timing between different weather models is a little off with some bringing in storms as early as 3 AM and others holding them off until 7 AM. The latest version of Readycast shows the storms rolling quickly through southeast Wisconsin around 7 AM.
The National Weather Service has most of southeast Wisconsin in the marginal risk for severe weather since some of these storms could be strong or severe. Typically it is difficult for storms to become severe at night but since temperatures will hardly cool tonight it will give any potential storms increased fuel to become strong.
After the first round of potential storms rolls through a second round is possible during the afternoon of Wednesday after 3 PM with a few pop up showers and storms. Just like the morning round these storms will be quick in and quick out.
Once again, the National Weather Service has placed southeast Wisconsin in the marginal risk for severe weather. These storms will be firing along a cold front, but at this point don't look as strong as the morning round.
Overall these storms look to be elevated which means that they form at a higher elevation. Elevated storms don't have a large tornado risk but usually are accompanied by some hail so hail will be the biggest threat with any storms that develop but gusty wind is also possible along with some brief downpours.
These storms are in no way a knockout and there's a chance that they don't form at all, but if they do they could be strong. Download the CBS 58 Ready Weather app which will give you warnings if any severe storms pop up where you love. You can also track the storms with the interactive radar.


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Idea completes roll-out of its VoLTE service across all its 4G circles, offers 30 GB data for free
By Sagar Bakre	 On Jun 19, 2018
Telecom operator Idea Cellular – often referred to as Idea – started rolling out its VoLTE service in India from March this year. However, it was initially only available to its employees. But, from earlier last month, Idea started rolling out its VoLTE service for customers as well, and by the end of the month, the telco had rolled out VoLTE across 15 circles. Now today, the telco has announced that it has completed the roll-out of VoLTE across all its 4G circles.
Idea has said that it has rolled out its VoLTE service across five more circles, they are Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Assam, North-East and Jammu & Kashmir. With the roll-out of VoLTE in these circles, Idea now has its VoLTE service available across a total of 20 circles.
Idea in its press statement also said that brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, OnePlus, Nokia, Asus, Kult, Panasonic, Honor and Huawei have rolled out software updates for their smartphones that adds support for Idea VoLTE.
As part of the roll-out of VoLTE, Idea is offering a total of 30 GB data for free to its customers – 10 GB on making first VoLTE call, 10 GB on giving feedback about the service after four weeks, and, 10 GB on giving feedback about the service after eight weeks.
Commenting on the completion of roll-out of VoLTE, Mr. Sashi Shankar, Chief Marketing Officer, Idea Cellular, said, "With the completion of last phase of VoLTE roll out, Idea is now the only operator to offer pan India integrated 2G, 3G, 4G and VoLTE services. Through our collaboration with 10 leading device brands, which cover 75% of the smartphone market, we will cater to our growing base of VoLTE users across the country."
With the roll-out of VoLTE, Idea customers get benefits like "HD-quality" voice calls, faster call setup times, and, the ability to use 4G simultaneously while on a voice call. Besides, they also don't have to pay anything extra for making calls and using data on VoLTE network as call and data charges are based on the customers' existing plans.
Having said that, do note that to be able to use Idea VoLTE, you will need Idea's 4G SIM as well as a 4G VoLTE-enabled handset.
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This nation is currently in crisis -- one so terribly familiar from previous centuries, and one that we must act upon now... before it grows even more severe than it already is.
Despite the black community's desperate calls for justice in the wake of record killings of unarmed men and women -- from young men like Sean Bell on the morning of his wedding back in 2006 to other citizens such as Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile on ordinary days in 2016 -- police officers who commit crimes have remained above the law. Indeed, not since the turn of the century, when lynching headlines were all too regular, has this nation taken so little action to remedy the killing of African American citizens at the hands of those with privilege, power and the authority of a badge.
And, once again, just as it did in that last century as well, African Americans have utterly lost faith that justice can be found in the legal system. Too many African American mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children can barely breathe under the weight of what has become a bone-deep sense of frustration and hopelessness.
In this terrible moment as in the last, a catastrophic loss of faith has inspired entire communities across America to gather together, and to march -- peacefully but forcefully -- in the hope that the killings will stop. They have prayed that their sheer numbers in the streets, and the sheer depth of their collective pain, will finally move someone to stop the killings.
And tragically, in this historical moment just like the last as well, a tiny few who have lost of faith have turned to reactive and retributive violence.
And so now the families of seven officers are also in grips of agonizing, horrific, despair.
The nation is now at a crossroads.
Only one question now really matters. Will this new level of collective trauma--now suffered so acutely not only by many hundreds of black families America, but also by law enforcement families in cities such as Dallas--lead to real change in this country, or will this national crisis just deepen?


I'll let you into a secret: I can't swim. Which is crazy considering that I live on an island, and that I grew up on an estuary (or Thames Delta, as it's coming to be known). But here's another secret: I love the water – or maybe I should say the sea, I love the sea.
Recently me and the angel of my better brain have taken to driving across to the Welsh coast as often as possible and diving in. She swims like a mermaid, you wont be surprised to find out. Me? Not so much. I flounder. I gasp. I bob with the waves and skip-float crablike with every crash of saline. But I still love it.
Where I and my partner currently live in Wales we have a lot of saints. So many in fact, that it seems impossible to walk down a street without tripping over a chapel, shrine, hermit's cell, a holy well or a place where a saint worked, knelt, prayed, cried, or was generally displaying mutant super-powers. A testament to this is the Isle of Bardsey a little way north of us – called "the Home of 20,000 Saints" because it's dirt is so stuffed full of their relics. As you may already know, one of my hobbies is being an amateur history nerd – and I am constantly fascinated by this intersection between history and mythology.


UKIP? I would rather jump off Beachy Head!
THURROCK MP Jackie Doyle-Price insisted this week she would "rather jump off Beachy Head" than defect to Ukip.
Her defiant comments came after speculation she could be one of the next Conservative MPs to follow in the footsteps of Clacton MP Douglas Carswell and join the Eurosceptic party.
Mr Carswell sent tremors through Westminster last Thursday by announcing he was off to Ukip at a press conference alongside leader Nigel Farage.
After winning the 2010 electionby just 92 votes, Ms Doyle-Price – a Eurosceptic herself – was touted as one of those who might switch allegiance.
But she left the Gazette in no doubt about her views on the matter.
She said: "I would sooner jump off Beachy Head than join Ukip.
likely to let Ed Miliband into Downing Street.
"If people want to leave Europe, the best chance they have is to vote Conservative, because we will hold an in/out referendum. If you vote Ukip in Thurrock, you will end up with a Labour Government, who won't give you a referendum.
Meanwhile, Tim Aker, who is due to stand in Thurrock for Ukip against Ms Doyle-Price at next year's general election, believes the party is on course to "paint Essex purple".
Ukip was successful in Thurrock at the local elections in May, securing five new council seats and receiving 39 per cent of the vote.
Mr Aker, elected as one of the region's Euro MPs in May, said: "My message to Tory MPs in Essex is none of your seats are safe any more – we are turning Essex purple.
Mr Carswell defected after saying David Cameron was "not serious about change" on Europe.


Parenting is tricky. Many people feel like they should innately know how to parent their children. The truth is there are probably aspects of parenting that are innate; biologically we are designed to feel bonded towards our children. A hormone called oxytocin is partly responsible for the immediate attraction we have towards babies and children. Oxytocin also facilitates production of breast milk and enhances contractions during birth. Part of parenting, however, is a learned process. We learn from our parents what to do, and what not to do.
A third part of parenting is based on situational factors; different temperaments call for different parenting styles. Because parenting behaviors are multi-faceted, they are complicated and therefore not necessarily easy to figure out or implement. Over the years there have been many different schools of thought about parenting; some are focused on making sure that children do not get spoiled, while others are especially focused on preserving and enhancing the attachment process between parent and child.
The parenting philosophy and methods you use need to be adapted to children's individual personalities and life circumstances. Some children only need to be told something once, and they do it. Some children hardly argue. Some children are calm and quiet. Other children are talkative, ask a thousand questions and get into everything. Some children argue, don't like schedules, and always say no before they say yes. How we parent our children affects how they respond to us.
There are other factors too that may impact your child's behavior. Children who are under stress, not feeling well or are anxious, hurt or angry are more likely to act out. Acting out and tantrums are not simply a sign of oppositionalityor being spoiled.
There are a few principles that can be universally applied to all types of children.
1. Set expectations for your children that are developmentally appropriate.
2. Express those expectations in clear and age-appropriate terms to your child.
3. Set consequences that relate logically to the direction or limit that you are trying to set are appropriate for the limits – Ideally, consequences should be both positive if the expectations are met, and negative if they are not.


In case you haven't heard about the horrible tragedy that took place Tuesday in southern rural Kentucky, a 5-year-old accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death. The toddler had been given a .22 calibre rifle as a gift at the ripe age of 4. The weapon was bought from Keystone Sporting Arms, and the name of the product was "My First Rifle."
"It's a little rifle for a kid ... The little boy's used to shooting the little gun," said Cumberland County Coroner Gary White. Yes, because why should 4-year-olds be given mini-putt kits when they can be given mini-rifles instead?
Jezebel's Katie M.J Baker uncovered a truly horrific photo album on the website that features toddlers proudly posing with their brand new guns.
Take a look at the "Kid's Corner" and judge for yourself. In light of recent events and for children's sake, could we please stick to plastic guns instead of the real thing? If you're not potty trained, you shouldn't be carrying a gun. I can't believe a statement like that is actually necessary. This is bananas.


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Heart Surgery Device Recalled for Deaths, Injuries
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The TigerPaw System has been recalled after reports of heart tissue tears and severe bleeding. More than 4,000 devices, commonly used during open heart surgery, were recalled after dozens of injuries and one death. Medical device lawyers at Pintas & Mullins Law Firm detail this recall below.
The device is manufactured by Maquet Medical Systems and is most commonly used to obstruct the left atrial appendage during surgery. Recently, Maquet has received reports that the device has been tearing the appendage, causing serious bleeding. This recall is considered a Class I, the most serious of its kind.
The FDA has documented many violations at Maquet in the past few years, resulting in five Class I recalls and 40 other recalls between 2009 and 2014. These violations also led to a $6 million settlement in February 2015, which stemmed from a federal lawsuit accusing Maquet of maintaining poor quality standards.
At least one of Maquet's products involved with that settlement was associated with a suspicious patient death. The FDA requested the company stop production on several devices after its inspections, including hernia meshes and vascular grafts and patches.
Lawsuits from Defective Medical Devices
The medical device industry reaps sales of more than $85 billion per year, and companies have the legal and ethical responsibility to ensure their devices are safe and effective. When the device is designed or manufactured improperly, or if the approval process was flawed, patients can be subject to serious injury or even death from complications.
If an injured patient decides to sue the medical device manufacturer for negligence, it is considered a product liability lawsuit. Any and all companies that manufacture products are responsible for making a safe product; therefore, the company could be liable for any injuries caused by defects or a dangerous design.
Companies are also required to warn the public about the risks associated with their products. Unfortunately, device manufacturers try to get new innovations onto market as soon as possible, often failing to adequately test for long-term complications and other serious side effects. Product liability lawsuits fall under three general categories:
1. Manufacturing defects – this applies if the design and promotions of the device were proper, but there were flaws in the manufacturing process causing the product to be defective.
2. Design defects – if the original design of the product can cause serious injury or death.
3. Marketing defects – if the company improperly markets the products, either failing to warn the public about the risks or by giving inadequate instructions to physicians.
A great example of the third type of claim is the recent deadly outbreak from a particular kind of medical device called a duodenoscope. Hundreds of patients have been infected by this medical scope and dozens have died. The duodenoscopes can infect patients with a "super bug", or drug-resistant bacteria that can be fatal in vulnerable patients.
The devices were contaminated with this super bug because they were not properly cleaned by hospital staff. Duodenoscopes are supposed to be cleaned and disinfected with a special machine, though the instructions provided by the device manufacturer are inadequate. This makes it difficult to fully disinfect the device, causing dangerous bacteria to be transferred between patients.
The FDA released an alert in early 2015 stating the duodenoscope's complex design makes cleaning challenging. Hospitals state they have been sterilizing the scopes according to the manufacturer's standards, which opens the company up to possible liability. At least one infected patient has filed an injury lawsuit against the company, Olympus American, for failing to instruct hospitals on proper disinfection techniques. More on this issue can be found here.
Our team of product liability lawyers is currently accepting cases of serious injury and death from dangerous, defective, and recalled products. We provide free, no-obligation case reviews to injured victims and families nationwide.
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