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The Quiet Photographer and The Bullhorn: T.S. Eliot and Amiri Baraka
(PHOTO: Courtesy) T.S. Eliot
A well-known poet once defined the poets' role as that of "forensic scientists." But, instead of a crime scene, poets comb the world around them, looking for evidence that the poem occurred.
In that context, the speakers in T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems: 1909-1962 and Amiri Baraka's Transbluesency: Selected Poems 1961-1995 aren't just concerned residents and nosy neighbors. Whether digging through mythology, religion or the news, these speakers document the ever-changing urban spaces.
In Collected Poems, Eliot's speaker is a private investigator tasked with catching the poem in the act of being. He comes across a betrayal in the poem "Sweeney Among the Nightingales":
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.
The circles of the stormy moon
Slide westward toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
Gloomy Orion and the Dog
Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
Tries to sit on Sweeney's knees
Slips and pulls the table cloth
Overturns a coffee-cup,
Reorganised upon the floor
She yawns and draws a stocking up;[1]
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That "the Raven" constellation drifts above the lewd acts of Sweeney and the woman "in the Spanish cape" is an allusion to two stories of Apollo and the raven.
According to the first story, Apollo's sacred bird was the raven, once a beautiful bird with silver feathers and able to talk to humans. Apollo charged the raven with protecting his pregnant wife, Coronis. But when Coronis falls for a mortal, the angry Apollo turned the Raven's feathers black and had his twin sister Artemis kill Coronis.
In the second story, the raven, who went for Apollo's water cup, arrived late and blamed his tardiness on the water snake. Apollo banished both the raven and water snake to the sky.
Eliot's poem "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" adapts those Greek myths. In that context, the unnamed woman (Coronis) engages in an extramarital affair with Sweeney (the mortal).
The poem documents London's transformation in 1920, six years after Eliot immigrated from the U.S. to U.K. "The lifting of war time restrictions in the early 1920s created new sorts of night-life in the West End," according to an online timeline. "Entrepreneurs opened clubs, restaurants and dance halls to cater for the new crazes: jazz and dancing."[2]
Sweeney and the unnamed woman are brushstrokes in Eliot's portrait of that "night-life." The speaker intensifies the activity by introducing another woman: "Rachel née Rabinovitch/Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;/She and the lady in the cape/Are suspect, thought to be in league."[3]
"Sweeney Among the Nightingales" is a poem about greed and sexual immorality, two associations with city living that goes back to the bible (the prodigal son and Sodom and Gomorrah). And, if those points are unclear, "Rachel nee Rabinovitch" is Eliot's cue to the reader that Rachel's a married woman with as much at stake as the unnamed woman.
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Eliot's speaker's observations continue in "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," which opens with a man walking the streets at all hours of the night ("Twelve o'clock/ […] Half-past one/ […] Half-past two/ […] Half-past three/ […] 'Four o'clock'"[4]). Eliot's speaker appears to have lost his mind ("Whispering lunar incantations/ Dissolve the floors of memory/ And all its clear relations"[5]).
While the speaker never says what caused him to lose his mind, "Rhapsody" in the title does enough work to set the reader up for irregular rhythms and the speaker's sudden change of topics to intensify his ecstatic emotions. He is a mad man who talks to street-lamps he encounters each hour. Even the "woman/ […] in the light of the door"[6] who hesitates toward him thinks Eliot's speaker is nuts.
But the speaker's not as crazy as we think. Re-reading this poem, one realizes it's about mental illness and how those people are treated. My mind immediately went to St. Elizabeths in DC, a psychiatric hospital that once housed 8,000 patients (among them Ezra Pound, Mary Fuller and William Chester Minor) at its peak of operation, according to various sources. The hospital's community-based healthcare included local outpatient facilities and drug therapy, which allowed patients near-normal lives.
My dad recalled his encounter with a patient nearly a decade ago. It happened around lunch time, in a nearby McDonald's. Dad read his newspaper while eating his cheese burger and fries, when a man about his age approached him. Dad said the guy picked his nose, then asked him, "You going to eat that"—pushing his finger into the hamburger bun. To which Dad said, "Not anymore."
In "Rhapsody," Eliot's speaker uses irregularities to bring the reader inside the mad man's mind, which makes the reader empathetic. Moving through the world in his own way, subtlety is a trademark skill the speaker weaves through the poems in T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems.
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On the other hand, the speaker in Amiri Baraka's Transbluesency: Selected Poems: 1961-1995 prefers an in-your-face approach. While Eliot's speaker is content with simply catching the poem in the act of being, Baraka's speaker not only accomplishes that but speaks directly to the reader.
Take Baraka's "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," where the speaker calls out decision-makers whose power and class status put them out of touch with their constituents:
Skymen coming down out the clouds land/and then walking into society try to find out/
whats happening—'Whats happening,' they be saying/look at it, where they been, dabbling in mist, appearing &/disappearing, now there's a real world breathing—inhaling/exhaling concrete & sand, and they want to know what's/
happening.[7]
It was impossible to read those lines and not think of the current political climate, where "Skymen"—with their heads far enough up in the clouds to dabble "in mist"—claim to speak for "the American people." What also comes to mind is the spectacle of the 2008 elections, when presidential candidates scaled down their spending and spun personal narratives to make themselves seem in-touch with working-class Americans.
John McCain's claim was hilarious since, unlike Obama, he never advocated for people on low or fixed incomes. The kicker was when he couldn't remember how many houses his family owned. "I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain said in a 2008 interview.[8]
But if they were wondering, Amiri Baraka's speaker in "A Poem for Deep Thinkers" breaks it down for the "Skymen":
What's happening is life itself […]/[…] stabbed children in the hallways of/
schools, old men strangling bankguards, a hard puertorican/inmate's/
tears/exchanging goodbyes in the prison doorway […][9]
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Baraka's speaker also alludes to Icarus:
[…] blinded by sun, and their own images of things,/rather than things as they actually are, they wobble, they/stumble […]/[…] the skymen stumbling, till they get the sun out/
they eyes, and integrate the inhead movie show, with the/material reality that exists with and without them.[10]
Those lines speak to failed policies for low and middle income Americans politicians passed without talking with their constituents, thinking they knew what the people needed. Also, like Icarus, politicians fall from grace when they're "blinded by sun," or their own self-interests.
And Baraka's speaker doesn't stop there. He goes on to challenge Christ and Christian fundamentalists in "When We'll Worship Jesus." This poem, published in 1972, addresses the scandals, atrocities and oppression of the time. During that year, the U.S. was already at war with Vietnam and Nixon was re-elected despite the Watergate Scandal, which later resulted in his resignation.
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Leading up to "When We'll Worship Jesus" being published, the draft occurred and the National Guard fatally shot four students—while wounding nine—for protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State in Ohio.
These events contextualize Baraka's speaker's angry tone: "We'll worship Jesus/ When jesus do/ Somethin."[11]
The poem is a wish list from Baraka's speaker to Jesus, asking for payback on a number of things: the U.S. bombing of Cambodia ("jesus blow/ the white house/ or blast Nixon down"[12]), Muhammad Ali jailed for protesting the war ("jesus get down/ […] & box w/ black peoples/ enemies"[13]) and police brutality ("jesus […]/ […] scare somebody—cops not afraid"[14]), to name a few.
"When We'll Worship Jesus" is an opportunity for Baraka's speaker to successfully flex his hyperboles, which intensifies his alarmed tone.
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Like T.S. Eliot's "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," Baraka's "Jesus" is a poem about betrayal. To which Baraka's speaker responds by reducing Jesus to the lowest of the low.
Jesus becomes everything from a prostitute ("jesus, in a red/ check velvet vine + 8 in. heels"[15]), to a pimp ("jesus pinky finger/ got a goose egg ruby/ which actually bleeds"[16]), to both a coon and a tom ("jesus at the Apollo/ doin splits and helpin/ Nixon trick niggers"[17]), to even a self-deprecating Cyclops ("jesus w/his one eyed self/ tongue kissing johnny carson/ up the behind"[18]).
At times, the hyperbole of Baraka's speaker seemed too over-the-top, just as there were times when the subtlety of T.S. Eliot's speaker seemed too passive. Still, both speakers opened a young poet up to possible approaches in tracking the poem down.
[1] T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems: 1909-1962 (London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963), 49.
[2] Exploring 20th Century London. Oct. 11, 2011. <http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.40>.
[3] Op.Cite, 49-50.
[4] Ibid., 16-18.
[5] Ibid., 16.
[7] Amiri Baraka. Transbluesency: Selected Poems 1961-1995. Ed. Paul Vangelisti. New York, NY: Marsilio Publishers, 1995. 165.
[8] Politico, "McCain Can't Recall Number of Homes He Owns," 20 Aug 2008.
[9] Op.cite.
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Overwatch: "Echo will be the last hero for Overwatch untill Overwatch 2 releases"
The DPS dealer is the last hero to come to base Overwatch.
byNick Nijland
Updated March 19, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Yesterday, Blizzard revealed Echo to be the 32nd hero that will be added to the cast of Overwatch. Next to a short origin video that revealed Echo, little was shown about the Omnic. After we got to talk with Game Director Jeff Kaplan, we learned a lot more about the Omnic which was made by Dr. Mina Liao. To probably a big surprise for many players, Echo will be a DPS Hero, which can take over the identity and form of her enemies and has especially strong attacks against shields.
Mina Liao, the creator of Echo, was a doctor that specialized in artificial intelligence and robotics. Jack Morrison asked her to join the ranks at Overwatch, even though she was a big reason the Omnics even existed. It was for this knowledge actually that Soldier 76 wanted her in his team. Who better to help defeat the Omnics, than someone that knows them so well.
Liao agreed and started an experiment named the Echo project, which could help agents in all different kinds of ways through adaptive learning intelligence. While Echo gains information, she quickly downloads all needed assets to help the team. She could for example immediately learn how to drive a car, or help her team by healing them. "Echo is sort of a Swiss Army Knife of an Omnic," Kaplan explains. But Echo was designed so well, that she even adapted the voice of Liao and learned to speak. She even got her own consciousness through adaptive learning. So when Liao died during an attack at the facility, she wasn't truly gone. Her spirit lived on through Echo.
You can watch the Origin Trailer below to see more about her story.
With Echo's past in mind, you would think that she will be classified as a Support hero, but this isn't the case. Echo is a DPS that is very fast and strong at breaking down shields. This might be disappointing for support players, but Jeff insures us "that there is a big list of support and tanks in development for Overwatch 2." When Jeff said this, the question rose if Echo will be the last hero coming to the standard version of Overwatch. "Yes, currently Echo is the last hero coming to standard Overwatch," Kaplan added. The focus for the next couple of heroes, will be on Overwatch 2.
Echo has a couple special abilities which give her an unique DPS role, which is different than previous heroes. With Flight, Echo kan give herself a short boost to fly up in the air and float somewhat similar to Mercy. "You can compare Echo to maybe a Kite, in the way she moves and dashes through the sky", Kaplan said. "This makes her hard to hit for some characters, but will be countered by Hitscan heroes." Next to that, Echo has a Sticky Bomb, which launches multiple projectiles towards an enemy. If they land, they stick on the enemy and detonate after a short time. Her most special ability is Focus Beam, which does 4 times the amount of damage against a target that is below 50%. In practice, this means that she breaks a Reinhardt shield very fast as soon as it cracks. Echo will be very useful to break down shields in fights.
Her Ultimate Ability shows her adaptive learning the best. We already saw that Echo can adapt to anything surrounding her, which shows in her ultimate ability. With Duplicate, Echo can change into the identity of any enemy, get full health, and even gain ultimate stacks more quickly. Jeff told us that the team in playtests primarily changes into enemy tanks, like Reinhardt for example. Imagine that Echo is flying around in a fight and suddenly finds herself being low on health. She changes into Reinhardt, falling to the ground and starts swinging her hammer. Since she charges her ultimate faster, Reinhardt gets his ultimate after a couple swings. "We noticed in our playtests that Echo copies could sometimes cast 2 to 3 ultimates per fight if the hero already had a short charge time. With Tracer for example, she gets a lot of pulse bombs, if you don't die of course," Jeff added.
Echo has been in development for a long time and was already a part of the game even before Overwatch was released. Echo was part of Project Titan, the canceled game from Blizzard Entertainment, which eventually became Overwatch. "We even used Echo as an example of what we wanted Overwatch to be," Kaplan said. "We knew from the start what her story was and how she came to be. Her role in the Overwatch universe is very important."
Kaplan also talked a bit about the implementation of Role Queue and how the team is happy with the results. They are noticing less toxicity and players being more happy in general. Role Queue won't disappear for the foreseeable future and we will probably see it in Overwatch 2 as well. The idea of 3, 2, 1, wasn't received as well, but the team believes they know why. "If Overwatch would have released with a 3,2,1 system, everyone would probably be fine with it, but since we didn't, players got used to something and don't want to see it be changed," Jeff added.
'We don't know yet when Overwatch 2 will release, but since Echo will be the last hero for the base Overwatch game, we don't expect it will take years until the game sees the light of day.
Developer: Iron Galaxy Studios
Publisher: Activision Blizzard
Platforms: Pc, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
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För fågelsläktet Caracara, se tofskarakaror

Karakaror är en grupp rovfåglar som oftast placeras i underfamiljen Polyborinae,i familjen falkfåglar (Falconidae), hemmahörande i Syd- och Centralamerika. De skiljer sig från de vanliga falkarna i att de inte är snabba jägare utan i huvudsak asätare och opportunister. En ofta använd alternativ klassificering är att gruppen behandlas som tribuset Caracarini. Andra alternativa uppdelningar är som den egna underfamiljen Caracarinae eller som en del av underfamiljen Falconinae.

Till karakarorna hör fem nu levande släkten Daptrius, Ibycter, Milvago, Phalcoboenus, och Caracara, vilka omfattar 7 nu levande arter. Släktet Caracara kallas alternativt Polyborus. Utöver dessa släkten tillhörde den nu utdöda arten Badiostes patagonicus gruppen.

Den "mexikanska örnen", avbildad på Mexikos flagga, är egentligen en nordlig tofskarakara (Caracara cheriway).

Arter
Släkte Daptrius
 Svart karakara (Daptrius ater)
Släkte Ibycter
Rödstrupig karakara (Ibycter americanus) - tidigare Daptrius americanus
Släkte Phalcoboenus
 Vitstrupig karakara (Phalcoboenus albogularis)
 Strimkarakara (Phalcoboenus australis)
 Skrynkelstrupig karakara (Phalcoboenus carunculatus)
 Bergkarakara (Phalcoboenus megalopterus)
Släkte Caracara (syn. Polyborus)
 Sydlig tofskarakara (Caracara plancus) - syn. tofscaracara
 Nordlig tofskarakara (Caracara cheriway) - behandlades tidigare som underart till C. plancus
Släkte Milvago
 Chimangokarakara (Milvago chimango)
 Gulhuvad chimango (Milvago chimachima)

Noter

Falkfåglar

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New people in new roles at Plastics Europe, GCI Health, Hill+Knowlton, Burj Al Arab Jumeirah; new business success for Ketchum Pleon, Stir PR, Buman Media.
Holmes Report 31 Aug 2015 // 4:44AM GMT
BRUSSELS—PlasticsEurope, the association representing European plastics manufacturers, has appointed Leonor Garcia as director public affairs. Garcia is currently director of corporate scientific and regulatory affairs at The Coca-Cola Company, responsible for providing thought leadership, strategic direction and driving all external advocacy. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, she was the manager of the European product stewardship and regulatory affairs department at UCB Chemical Specialties and worked for 10 years at Exxon Chemical.
LONDON—GCI Health has appointed Cally Clarkson (pictured) as its first director of medical education as it gears up to deliver a new integrated communications approach. Clarkson is based in GCI Health's London office and brings more than 15 years medical communications experience, most recently with Apothecom Scopemedical where she was director of client services. She has previously held leadership roles at HealthEd, Delta Kn and TVF Communications.
LONDON—Hill+Knowlton Strategies has strengthened its sports and entertainment capabilities with the addition of Adam Paris and Emma Wright. Paris joins as an associate director in the sports marketing and sponsorship team, after working as manager of European public relations at Activision and holding positions at Exposure and Radiator PR. Wright joins the same team as account director after working on Carlsberg, Puma Football, EA Sports and holding positions at Clifford French and Markettiers4dc.
BERLIN—Ketchum Pleon has been selected to handle communications for the US tech startup Hashplay and its live streaming platform #Play, which enables live streaming of gameplay content on mobile and virtual reality devices. The agency team is supporting Hashplay with its press and public relations work in the B2B and B2C sectors. Launch communication, brand strategy, product and corporate PR are aimed at establishing Hashplay swiftly and sustainably in the UK, the US and the German market.
DUBAI—Niamh Keohan has been appointed director of marketing and public relations at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai. Keohan, from Ireland, joins the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah team following directorial appointments at luxury hospitality brands including Anantara Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa and InterContinental Hotel Group in Abu Dhabi. In her new role, she will be responsible for managing all marketing and communications initiatives for the property and driving its global presence.
LONDON— Independent wine and spirits supplier Kingsland Drinks has appointed food, drink and lifestyle agency Stir PR as its retained public relations agency. Kingsland has tasked the agency to drive reappraisal of the company, both within consumer and trade media, as it enters a new phase of transition and growth.
MOSCOW—Buman Media has been selected by App Annie, a market leader in app store analytics, app rankings and market intelligence. The agency will deliver integrated campaigns and strengthen brand's position in Russia. Buman Media has been also appointed to devise and implement communications plan for Altium Limited, a public software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers. The firm has been tasked with delivering media outreach activities, expanding content development capabilities and support anti-piracy campaigns.
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How Militarized Are California Police?
Police in camouflage carry rifles in Ferguson, Missouri.
In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, a conversation is sprouting about the "militarization" of police in America. In images distributed by the news and social media over the past days and weeks, its sometimes become difficult to distinguish between Ferguson police and actual military forces deployed in international conflicts.
Now, even Congress is having second thoughts. Tuesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the oversight of federal programs which arm local police with military surplus weapons.
Police have been acquiring and using military gear for more than two decades. What makes it possible is a Department of Defense program called the 1033 Program established in the early 1990s. It permits the federal government to transfer to local law enforcement agencies surplus military gear including rifles, vehicles and body armor. Usually, local agencies pay only shipping costs.
Then, 9/11 provided a new rationale for military disbursement: domestic terrorism. The wars that followed helped provide the supply as new military gear replaced the old.
According to data from the Defense Logistics Agency, most counties in the United States have obtained some form military surplus equipment from the 1033 program. The New York Times mapped it in a fascinating interactive graphic.
A screenshot of the New York Times' interactive on 1033 data.
1033 data on the county-level has been widely available for a few weeks now. Data showing inventories for individual agencies was only just released last Friday by the California Office of Emergency Management. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit will be poring over those documents in the coming days.
A lot of the 1033 gear local police obtain resemble the kinds of things one might encounter in an actual military surplus store: clothing, luggage, flashlights and camping supplies. But it also includes gear more often seen in an actual theater of war: grenade launchers, armored vehicles, aircraft and assault rifles.
In California, the counties that have most used the 1033 program are in the south: Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties together have obtained more than $50 million of military gear. According to the just-released agency-level documents, the equipment includes five helicopters and more than 3,000 assault rifles.
In Northern California, Sacramento is the stand-out. California's capital boasts more than 1,000 assault rifles, 14 helicopters, eight grenade launchers and an airplane.
Click here to see a map of 1033 data in California.
Counties that don't make heavy use of the 1033 program can still get some impressive equipment. Even in the Bay Area, where 1033 use is relatively low, mine-resistant vehicles can be found.
A mine resistant vehicle obtained by the Redwood City Police Department from the Department of Defense.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, the vehicle weighs 30 tons and cost the federal government $750,000. In Iraq and Afghanistan, it's usually known by its acronym, MRAP: Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected.
Despite the relative absence of mines in the Bay Area, the vehicle is relatively popular. The Redwood City Police Department clearly has one, but so does the Napa PD, and South San Francisco. San Jose PD obtained an MRAP as well, but returned it this summer. All told, the latest data shows that 41 MRAPs are in the possession of law enforcement agencies in California.
In terms of cash value, California gets more 1033 gear than other states, but it's also got a very large population and a ton of law enforcement agencies. It's interesting to look at how the states compare year-by-year. We've charted that data below from 2006 to 2013. Usually, California sits somewhere near the top. But in other years, smaller states acquire far more. Watch Florida in 2010 and 2011, or Washington, DC in 2008.


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Getting Kids Into Nature: Project Wild Thing
By Michael Stelzner
Are your kids afraid of nature?
Want to discover why it's important to swap electronic time for wild time?
To learn about the benefits of getting kids into nature, I interview David Bond for this episode of the Parenting Adventures podcast.
More About This Show
The Parenting Adventures podcast is a show from My Kids' Adventures.
It's for parents (and grandparents) who are looking for creative things to do with their kids.
The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).
In this episode, I interview David Bond, a documentary film director and the man behind Project Wild Thing.
Project Wild Thing is an amazing documentary that explores David's new job as the marketing director of nature (a.k.a. the great outdoors).
Project Wild Thing is more than just a film. It's a movement and message, as well as an app, to encourage families to spend more time outside.
David shares what inspired him to make this film.
You'll discover the importance of incorporating nature into your kids' lives, even if only for a few minutes a day.
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Murina chrysochaetes és una espècie de ratpenat de la família dels vespertiliònids. És endèmic del sud de la Xina.

És un ratpenat de petites dimensions, amb la llargada de l'avantbraç entre 27 i 29,8 mm i un pes de fins a 4,4 g. El pelatge és llarg.

S'alimenta d'insectes.

Aquesta espècie és coneguda només a la província de Guangxi.

Com que fou descoberta fa poc, l'estat de conservació d'aquesta espècie encara no ha estat avaluat.

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Bibliografia
 Eger, J. L.; Lim, B. K. 2011. «Three New Species of Murina from Southern China (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)». Acta Chiropterologica, 13: 227-243

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Home » Lifestyle » Torvill and Dean net worth: Fortunes famous ice skaters have made during their careers
Torvill and Dean net worth: Fortunes famous ice skaters have made during their careers
Dancing on Ice: Torvill and Dean's stunning performance at final
Jayne Torvill, 63, and Christopher Dean, 62, are famous ice skaters. Tonight the pair star in Dancing On Thin Ice, a new ITV documentary which examines the impact of climate change on remote communities. The show, filmed in Alaska, is the latest of Torvill and Dean's money-making enterprises.
How much have the skating pair earned from their successes over the years?
Torvill and Dean net worth
British ice dancer Jayne has a net worth of £6million, according to website CelebrityNetWorth.
Meanwhile, fellow skating champ Dean has a £5million in the bank, said the net worth site.
How did Torvill and Dean make their millions?
The skating duo have danced together since they were teenagers and their credentials went on to induct them into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Jayne and Christopher began skating on top of their full-time roles at work,
She used to work as an insurance clerk while he was a policeman.
However, they made ice skating their career after coming fifth in the 1980 Olympics.
The twosome later rose to fame after taking home a gold medal thanks to their iconic Bolero skate at the 1984 Winter Olympics
The dance received a total of twelve 6.0 marks – the highest possible score.
In more recent years, the ice-skating duo have become known for their role as judges on Dancing On Ice, hosted by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
The pair also competed in the show in 2016.
In December 2018, a biopic called "Torvill and Dean" was released on television.
As for their personal lives, Christopher has been married and divorced twice and has been with current partner Karen Barber since 2011.
He has two children.
Meanwhile, Jayne has been married to her husband Phil Christensen since 1990.
The pair have two children together.
Many wonder whether Jayne and Christopher have ever been romantically involved.
The answer is yes, fleetingly. Jayne once said in a Radio Times interview: "We did actually kiss once – before we were a skating couple… It was a one-off. We never talked about it afterwards. We laugh about it now."
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Participatory Assessment of Entitlements (PAE) is an SHG level discussion module.
PAE was developed with the primary objective of getting inputs to two components of the NRLM results framework – governance processes and household benefits.
PAE is also an initiative aimed at sensitisation of SHG members on entitlements and benefits. PAE also works as a means of formulating a baseline and as a tool for information sharing among SHG members.
Discussions are facilitated by LRG members under the guidance of mentor resource persons. All SHGs in pilot areas are covered through PAE.
NRO orients the LRG on the concept and process of PAE. PAE module is explained to LRG and processes explained.
LRG takes the lead in conducting PAE meetings at SHGs. PAE is always done either during regular SHG meetings; if this is not possible, it is held as per the convenience of the SHG members. Mentors support LRGs in the first couple of meetings in a block. Typically, a PAE meeting takes about 90 minutes.
Once all the SHGs in a VO complete their PAE meetings, data is consolidated and presented at the VO level. It is VO members who consolidate present the results, with support and guidance from LRG. Ward members are also invited to the meetings. The consolidated data of all SHGs in a VO provides a picture of the extent to which women are able to access entitlements. The document forms the basis for collective action with the GP.
After the completion of data consolidation in all the VOs in a GP, VO status documents are compiled at the GP level. Representatives from all the VOs in the GP attend the meeting. President and members of the GP are invited to the meeting.
GP level consolidated PAE report is a direct input to the GP; it also works as the starting point for the GP and the VO to discuss the possibilities of working together.
VOs prepare action plans based on the consolidated SHG level PAEs.
VOs and GPs work together to integrate the VO action plan into the gram panchayat level development plan.
Implementation plan to be developed laying down course of action for the next one year, mentioning specific roles of GP and VO in each activity.
Annual implementation plan is worked out at this stage.
"The ribbon exercise was brilliant", said MomiBaruah, one of the participant women in a meeting of Bikahit Village Organisation in Sutar Gaon GP, Nugaon, Assam. Momi Baruah was explaining the way they conducted PAE exercise in the SHGs under their VO.
"I was very proud to wear the blue ribbon for my attendance in Gram Sabha", said Bharti Borah Saikya. She pointed out that ever since the LRG members started working with them, she made it a point to attend all the Gram Sabha meetings. Therefore, in the PAE exercise, while some of her friends who had attended only the last Gram Sabha got red ribbons, she proudly wore a blue ribbon.
In the PAE exercise, which was held for each SHG, they played the ribbon exercise. Two LRG members facilitated each meeting. Each of the attending women wore ribbons of particular colours according to their achievements. These achievements included attending several Gram Sabha meetings, having a toilet at home, using it etc".
"The ribbon exercise helped women openly express things which they would not have been comfortable talking about. For example, a woman who has got a latrine at home wore a green ribbon while a woman who also used that toilet would wear a white one", said Radha, a mentor overseeing the process from KS-NRO.
"It was the ward member who always used to decide who got what; now after attending Gram Sabha meetings and after going through the ribbon game, we know what to demand for", said Julie Bordoloi. She said the ribbon game helped her SHG members to understand what was due to them from the GP and the government. "Now we know how to get it; nobody else can decide on these any more".
"The ribbon game was very interesting", said Bordoloi. At the end of the game in her SHG, she was asked to explain how she got the maximum number of ribbons on her wrists. She felt very proud. She was also proud about the particular colours of ribbon that she got.
While one of the two LRG members helped the women do the exercise, the other LRG member counted the ribbons and noted down relevant information. Responses where written against each question in the PAE schedule.
After completing the exercise in all the SHGs in a VO, the LRG members compiled the information at the VO level.
EAP is a Target Plan that each Village Organisation (VO) prepares for addressing the gaps in accessing entitlements identified during the Participatory Assessment of Entitlements (PAE). Using the information collected through PAE as baseline, each VO sets quarterly plans for different schemes. Once set, VO monitors and evaluates these targets on a regular basis.
EAP is prepared through discussions on the ways in which different schemes could be used for improving the state of poor households. A story ('Roshni') is used for facilitating the discussions.
The entitlement demand identified through participatory exercises is taken up with Gram Panchayat and appropriate line departments. The progress is monitored at regular intervals. The CBO functions here as a facilitator for ensuring basic entitlements of the community.
The CBO engages in consultations with the PRI and the line departments for presenting the status of entitlement access of the member households to them. The CBO also presents the demand for entitlements in consolidated form through consultations. The PAE and EAP are presented then to the Gram Sabha for approval.
CBO forms sub committees for different schemes as part of the preparations for the process. The VO sub committees are strengthened through training and awareness programmes. Each SHG identifies volunteers to work on different schemes. Institutionalisation of the consultative platform between CBOs and PRIs evolve through the process.
Active involvement of the CBO in the local demand generation and entitlement access plans adds to their capacities. Their engagement with the processes offers crucial support to the PRIs while exerts pressure for transparency and inclusion in scheme implementation. Participatory planning exercises offer a platform for PRIs and CBOs to engage with each other on a regular basis.


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REC Partners with T-Hub to Launch 'REC Innovation Platform'
By Sarkaritel February 1, 2018 19:26
BSNL lost Rs.3,785 crore, MTNL Rs.1,567 crore
CMD, REC, inaugurates Maitri Ghar, a Widows' Ashram
PFC has been conferred with "EPC World Awards 2014"
REC Foundation, the CSR arm of REC Limited, has joined hands with Telangana's startup incubator T-Hub to launch 'REC Innovation Platform' aimed at raising 1800 young innovators in 30 government institutions in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Students will be mentored to produce 600 projects, out of which 30 projects will be selected for advanced mentoring and finally the top three projects will be selected for further mentoring at T-Hub. REC Foundation has committed Rs. 2.55 crore to T-Hub for the programme.
The objective of the programme is to raise the level of education in India to global standards and to enable students with 21st century competency skills for delivering innovation. It will encourage students to become active learners, who can apply their knowledge to understand the benefits of innovation in renewable energy to develop novel applications and promote its use in their surroundings.
Dr. PV Ramesh, CMD, REC and Shri Jay Krishnan, CEO, T-Hub signed the Memorandum of Agreement on 29th January 2017 in Hyderabad. Telangana IT Minister Shri KTR Rao who was present at the signing ceremony, expressed his support for the programme stating that it will promote industry-academia partnerships.
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(Ecofin Agency) - During the visit of Emmanuel Macron, the French president, in East Africa on March 11-14, 2019, Ethiopia and Kenya signed space cooperation agreements with France.
Thanks to these cooperation agreements, both countries can boost their competencies in the various space sectors such as telecommunications, meteorology, cartography, climate change, agriculture and defence.
The agreement between France and Ethiopia was signed in Addis-Ababa on March 13 by Solomon Belay Tessema, managing director of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI), and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of French Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES). This agreement is about the Observatoire spatial du climat (OCS), created to measure the impacts of climate change and develop space apps for water management, forest and crop monitoring, health services as well as the development of connectivity. The agreement with Kenya was signed on March 14.
During the visit, the French president also discussed reinforcement of space cooperation with the African Union Commission. They also discussed the operationalisation of the Panafrican university's space science institute.


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Q: Is it possible to select all elements which do not have any CSS class? The W3C Recommendations defines the ability to select any anchor which has a defined class by using A[CLASS]{/*Code*/}, but is there an antecedent?
Can I select all anchors that do NOT have a class?
My instinct is to use A[~CLASS]{/*Code*/}, but that isn't documented, and A[CLASS=]{/*Code*/} selects all anchors which have a class name which is an empty string (for instance, This anchor has a class, but it's empty.).
Example usage

In this code, I only want classless links to be green.

<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="http://example.com/externalUneditableStyles.CSS" />

This link is red, as specified by the CSS above.
This link is green, as specified by the CSS above.
This is a link to a child page, and is styled by external uneditable CSS. That CSS doesn't specify a color, so it is green, even though that might not be the intended effect.

A: Use something like this:
a:not([class]) {
    /*some styling here*/
}

Little demo: little link.

A: That's exactly what cascading is for, if you do:
a { color: #000; } /* this targets all anchors */

Then after this in your stylesheet you can do
a.classname { color: #ffcc00; } /* to override the color for the once with the classname class defined. */

I hope that's clarifies your question.

A: Try to play with the .foo:not(.bar)-pseudo selector. I also advise you not to code tags in caps. I believe it is allowed in HTML5, but not in XHTML. Even so, the practice is frowned upon.

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Senior Library Conservator Endowment
to endow a new senior conservator position in the library
Champaign, IL, United States
Other grants awarded to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921
Awarded $500,000 in December 2022 to support a project examining the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in 19th and early 20th century US newspapers
New Directions Fellowship: Beyond the Case Study: Toward Analysis of the Local News Crisis at Scale
Awarded $273,000 in March 2022 to support a New Directions Fellowship for Nikki Usher
Intersectional Studies
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What Does It Look Like to Build a Virtual Gala?
With the spring charity circuit sufficiently canceled, can the gala scene be taken digitally? The first such attempt kicks off this week.
By Leigh Nordstrom on April 1, 2020
Virtual galas are an innovative concept.
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The Frick Collection's annual Young Fellows Ball was one of the last holdouts of the spring social circuit; planned for March 12, it was eventually canceled day-of, as most of New York City had newly shifted to working-from-home at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.
Larry Milstein, the Manhattan-based social and founder of Gen Z-focused creative consultant agency PRZM, was set to co-chair the event, as well as host an after party at Omar's La Boît.
"I saw first-hand how for these incredible institutions that had decades-running events it was no longer feasible for those to occur," Milstein says over the phone from Long Island, of the Frick event's cancellation. "But there was still this real sense of interest and untapped potential for people to step up and support important causes."
So together with his sister Toby, Milstein is throwing a "virtual gala" this Thursday, with 100 percent of the funds benefiting the WHO's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and the International Medical Corps. Around 200 guests, who will be sent digital invites, will pay a recommended donation fee of $25 and be invited to log onto a Zoom call, beginning at 6 p.m. EST. The dress code is open-ended; if you want reason to bust out a favorite spring gown now shelved, by all means, or if you want to rock "your favorite groutfit or your comfy pair of sweats, with a glass of wine," Milstein says, "more power to you." The expected crowd will include familiar faces of the New York social scene, from Shantell Martin, Athena Calderone and Paul Arnhold to Casey Fremont, Stacey Bendet-Eisner and John Targon.
Larry Milstein at the Frick Collection, fall 2019. Lexie Moreland/WWD
"Given the fact that, in light of the global pandemic and the necessity to social distance, what I didn't want to get lost was the opportunity for people to come together for an important cause, especially now when the demands for individuals to make a positive impact are even greater than in 'normal times,'" Milstein says. "There was a real opportunity for there to be an event that could champion that, and serve as that unifying occasion to really make a positive impact."
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The Zoom call is trying to replicate many of the experiences typically had in person at any such event. Instead of passed trays of Champagne or an open bar of signature cocktails, mixologist Pam Wiznitzer will lead a live cocktail-making session (ingredients for a specialty cocktail will be sent to attendees prior to the event). Indie pop artist Anna of the North and DJ group Cheat Codes, both 300 Entertainment artists, will perform, logging on from Sweden and Los Angeles, respectively. And no event is complete without photo ops: BFA has been tapped to create a gallery of event images (how exactly that will play out remains to be seen. "There's no playbook for how to do this," Milstein says).
Anna of the North, who will perform virtually along with Cheat Codes (below).
Milstein also sees this as an opportunity to open up who is typically involved in such events.
"We really want to almost reassess who we could have serve in a leadership capacity, and not just have it be some sort of the same charity circuit folks," he says.
Milstein, at 25, says he feels a responsibility for his generation to be at the forefront of rethinking fund-raising for the digitally mandated world.
"Millennials and Gen Z, we're the first generation to have been essentially raised on our smartphones, and to be groomed in this environment of the 24/7 news cycle, and social media, and the glare of our phone screens throughout our adolescence and adulthood. Of course we're going to be the ones to also channel that for a positive cause as well," Milstein says. "It's almost incumbent upon us to be the ones to pioneer this new model, and take some of the best practices from earlier generations of folks who did incredible fund-raising, and now apply it to the environment that we are in."
"As a digitally native generation, we have the potential to help reinvent what a charitable event looks like in the virtual space," his sister Toby adds. "By utilizing two familiar platforms — Venmo and Zoom — we can maximize the impact of the event, offering people an accessible way to connect and be philanthropic through tools that have been highly adaptive for the COVID-19 era."
See Also: Coronavirus Halts the Hollywood Fashion Machine
It all sounds pretty good: 100 percent fund-raising, the chance to see exclusive musical performances, have fancy drinks, get your photo taken and socialize with friends, all from the comforts of your home. So will the virtual gala come to replace the in-person experience, once the pandemic flattens?
"A virtual gala is never going to fully replicate that sense of immersive experience that an in-person event, by definition, is going to offer," Milstein says. "But I think there are really interesting ways in which taking it into a virtual sphere can actually open the door to a whole new type of experience that would not have been possible at a traditional, seated, black-tie dinner."
And he hopes that other organizations, now without their signature spring fund-raisers, might be able to adapt his model for their own virtual benefits.
"The big thrust of it is that especially early on, as people began to social distance, I feel like there were two really concurrent forces that were occurring. On one hand, you had all of these individuals coming with creative ways to connect, because there was this need to see one another, so you had these happy hours or birthday parties on Zoom, or just hang-out sessions, and that was incredible. People found innovative ways to connect," Milstein says. "Then I think the other concurrent force that was there was all this mobilization for people to try to make friends and to raise funds, and that was the GoFundMe model, where people were finding these causes, and rallying support for that. There was this opportunity to bring those two together, and this is what that event is intending to position itself as: those two shouldn't be mutually exclusive. There are ways to bring them together: that pull to connect, but also that urgency to make a difference."
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The annual Serie Del Caribe or the Caribbean Series represents the highest honour for the baseball-loving nations around the Caribbean region. It is considered to be one of the must-watch events around February as six nations' best winter league teams are competing against each other in a tournament format.
In the 2020 Caribbean Series, there are seven players and three coaches related to the CPBL. We will be going through them one by one and provide some brief information about their time in Taiwan.
Felix Pie – Dominican Republic
The Uni-Lions signed Felix Pie back in 2016 with the hope of boosting their firepower. Pie, the former Major League hitter, lived up to the expectation, hitting his first CPBL home run in his second game. However, five games into his CPBL season, he fractured his ankle on a foul ball.
With the team down on one foreign player, the Uni-Lions had to release Felix Pie to make room for a new foreign player. Felix Pie finished his short CPBL journey slashing .300/.333/.550 over five games and 21 plate appearances.
Warner Madrigal – Dominican Republic
In 2015, the Uni-Lions signed Warner Madrigal as their closer. With his unique pre-pitch stance and his great personality, Madrigal quickly gained popularity among the Uni-Lions' fans.
Warner Madrigal finished his 2015 season with 16 saves and five holds. In over 48 relief appearances he posted a 2.75 ERA, 1.22 WHIP across 55.2 innings.
Eulogio De La Cruz Martinez (Frankie De La Cruz) – Dominican Republic
In 2012, the Uni-Lions signed Eulogio De La Cruz Martinez (Frankie De La Cruz) as a mid-season signing before the August 31 trade deadline. Before he even arrived in Taiwan, there was already plenty of buzz about him that his fastball can reach 164kph (102mph).
De La Cruz finished his 2012 CPBL season posting a solid 2.00 ERA and 0.89 WHIP over 36 innings of work. He also made one appearance in the 2012 Taiwan Series, in game two, he went six innings and allowed three earned runs on seven hits.
Lino Rivera (Manager) – Dominican Republic
Lino Rivera was one of the top tier CPBL foreign players in the late '90s. From 1997 to 1999, Rivera was without a doubt the ace for the Mercuries Tigers. Over the three seasons with the Tigers, River posted a combined record of a 2.98 ERA and 1.29 WHIP over 441.1 innings.
With the disbandment of the Tigers at the end of 1999 season, Lino Rivera ended up signing with the Uni-Lions in the following year. However, he was never able to repeat his success from his time with the Tigers.
Rivera pitched two seasons (2000 and 2002) for the Uni-Lions, but with limited game time. He compiled a disappointing 6.11 ERA and 1.68 WHIP with only 53 innings during his time with the Uni-Lions.
At the end of the 2003 Mexican League season, Lino Rivera decided it is time to retire and moved on to the coaching role. Over the years, Rivera managed several professional teams in the Latin Ameria region from Mexico, Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic. His latest managerial gig is with the Toros del Este of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).
David Martinez – Venezuela
The Uni-Lions signed David Martinez at the beginning of the 2018 season. Despite finding success in some of his first couple of outings, the CPBL hitters had him figured out around mid-April.
After a few months of mediocre performance, Martinez was released by the Uni-Lions in August. He finished his 2018 CPBL season with a 7.73 ERA and 1.76 WHIP over 75.2 innings.
Ricardo Gomez – Venezuela
The Brother Elephants signed Ricardo Gomez in 2011 before the August 31 trade deadline. Gomez finished the 2011 CPBL season with a 4.61 ERA and 1.23 WHIP over 43 innings.
In 2012, the Elephants re-signed Ricardo Gomez, but he did not make the opening day roster. The Elephants released Gomez around mid-March and signed another foreign pitcher Luis Gonzalez instead.
Hassan Pena – Venezuela
Hassan Pena joined the EDA Rhinos on January 2016. Given his previous record as the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League's top closer, the Rhinos appointed Pena as their closer on Opening Day.
For some unknown reason, Hassan Pena was not able to replicate his LVBP success and struggled in Taiwan. In eight relief appearances, he posted a 12.79 ERA and 2.53 WHIP across 6.1 innings of work. The disappointing results eventually led to his release at the end of April.
Although his time in the CPBL was not that memorable, Pena, however, will have a spot in the CPBL history book, being the first player that defected from Cuba.
Luis Ugueto (Manager) – Venezuela
The Uni-Lions signed the switching hitting shortstop Luis Ugueto in 2006. Unfortunately a few days before the opening day, Ugueto broke his nose during practice and began his 2006 season on the injured list.
After two weeks of absence, Luis Ugueto finally made his CPBL debut on March 21 while wearing a nose guard. Ugueto was a solid defensive player at shortstop, but he was unable to contribute offensively with his bat.
Wanting to boost their lineup, the Uni-Lions released Luis Ugueto around mid-August that year for power hitter Tilson Brito. Ugueto finished his 2006 CPBL season with a slash line of .239/.301/.320.
After leaving the CPBL system, Luis Ugueto continued to be active as a player until 2016. He switched over to the coaching role in 2018 as the hitting coach in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. The following year, Ugueto secured his first managerial gig with the Cardenales de Lara.
Jared Wilson – Puerto Rico
The Wei Chuan Dragons signed Jared Wilson at the end of October 2019 with the idea of boosting their pitching depth for the upcoming Asia Winter Baseball League.
During the 2019 CPBL Winter League, Jared Wilson posted a 2.35 ERA and 1.70 WHIP as a reliever. He walked and struck out seven in the span of 7.2 innings.
Anthony Viscaya – Colombia
Anthony Viscaya joined the Wei Chuan Dragons at the end of October 2019. Just like other foreign players signed by the Dragons, their sole purpose was to share the pitching workload at the 2019 CPBL Winter League.
As a reliever, Anthony Viscaya posted a respectful 1.42 ERA and 0.63 WHIP across eight appearances. He struck out 23 and walked two over 12.2 innings for the Dragons during the Winter League.
Angel Tovar (Pitching Coach) – Colombia
The Vaqueros de Monteria's pitching coach Angel Tovar had a cup of tea in the CPBL back in 2004. Tovar joined the Macoto Cobras as one of their many mid-season signings during the season.
Unfortunately, Angel Tovar only lasted two games in Taiwan before getting axed by the Cobras. He finished the 2004 CPBL season with a 22.50 ERA and 5.50 WHIP over two innings of relief work. During that two brief innings, he allowed four hits and issued seven walks along with two wild pitches.
After leaving the CPBL, Angel Tovar continued to pitch in various professional leagues in the Latin America region. At the end of 2018, Tovar finally hung up the cleats. In 2019, he accepted a coaching role within the Colombian Professional Baseball League.
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The Law and the Multiverse blog is a geek-meets-lawyer funfest, looking seriously at the legal challenges and ramifications of superpowers, superheroes and villains, and the battles they wage against each other.
WATCHMEN often receives praise for taking a 'realistic' look at how society would deal with superpowered creatures and vigilantes who leap from rooftop to rooftop in their masks and capes. But Law and the Multiverse looks at how such questions would play out with the actual laws on the books today in the United States.
Questions like: is Superman's heat vision a weapon? If so, would the Second Amendment protect his right to melt pistols and cook hamburgers with it?
Now, admittedly, it looks at the issue from a US-perpsective, but since most comic book heroes seem to protect American cities and citizens it only makes sense. It's great fun for those of us who have ever read about an epic battle between superheroes and supervillains and really, really want to know who should be found liable for the broken buildings and shattered streets.
Kicked off on Nov. 30, it addresses questions like: "What if someone is convicted for murder, and then the victim comes back to life?" And whether mutants are a legally recognizable class entitled to constitutional protection from discrimination.
The answers are dry, technical and funny in their earnestness. The Second Amendment, the bloggers suggest, would protect many powers, but "at least some superpowers would qualify as dangerous or unusual weapons (e.g., Cyclops' optic blasts, Havok's plasma blasts)" that are "well beyond the power of weapons allowed even by permit." Those super-duper powers would be tightly regulated, if not banned outright.


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Q: Is there a way to install animate.css via Bower/Homebrew/etc? I've finally started developing locally and have installed Roots.io for WP builds.  Bower, gulp, node, it's all great.  I've used Bower to install wow.js and it's there, but the dependency is animate.css.  Is there a way to install animate.css via Bower/Homebrew/etc?
On the animate.css Github I don't see a simple way to include it in the Roots build.  I've tried to manually include in  which hasn't worked either, hence looking for the ideal/clean solution to the problem.
Thank you!

A: When installing dependancies via bower (or any package manager really) that project should include a manifest (bower.json) that lists it's own dependancies. E.g. The bower.json in wow.js should include a reference to animate.css. However if it does not you can include it as any other dependancy:
bower install animate-css --save

Then run you build process again. In this case:
gulp


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ULT83 was established in 2015, initially to represent the female supporters of Dundee United. Now open to all Dundee United supporters, we have 2 main aims:
To give our supporters a voice in discussions and proposed changes in our club
Raise funds to support local causes.
While we began as a female organisation, we now have memberships available for all supporters aged 16 and over. We welcome support from all and endeavour to support all of our members to the best of our ability.
To date, we have raised over £5,000 for local causes including Maggie's Centre, local branches of the National Autistic Society and Ninewells Hospital. We also support local community projects by offering our time and presence as well as promoting events and activities.
We offer support to our club in any way we can and are represented on the Youth Development Board, SLG and ArabTrust board. We regularly help out at Club events such as the Open Day, Meet the Players events, and the Burns' Dinner to name just a few examples.
We have an ongoing partnership with Dundee United Community Trust and have supported their community projects by donating to the Season Ticket fund and organising a Boot Collection at the GA Arena. We will continue to work closely to support them in the most effective way we can.
We host regular yearly events in the form of our Christmas Fayre and the now infamous Ladies' Day hospitality event for female members.
Membership is only £5 a year and information can be obtained from our website or from our application forms in the club shop.
Contact ULT83:
If you would like more information about us or are interested in becoming a member, please contact us.
Email: ult-83@outlook.com
Web: www.ult-83.com


By RedDragoness, June 26, 2011 in Good News!!!
Mom had her surgery early Thursday. It took about 2.5 hours and then another 2 in recovery. Doc told me and Sis (Samantha) that it went better than he anticipated and that she should have the same if not more range of motion than she did before the surgery. He also said that after going in there he finally understood why she was in so much pain because it was a "Mess". He also said she should be able to do CPR after recovery (3-6 months) which was the biggest concern since no CPR = no more emergency room nurse! Keep the prayers rolling! Thanks all.
I'm glad your mom's surgery went well. I pray for a speedy and complete recovery. Thanks for letting us know.
GALS/PALS Name: Gerry's Texas Torchbearer GAL, Guardian of the Golden Corridor to the Lair.
Oh, that's such good news! Our prayers are with her!
My prayers and best wishes for a complete recovery for Naoma!
Great news! Naoma, prayers are being said for you to have a complete and speedy recovery.
Thanks for letting us know Char!
Thanks for the update Char.
Thanks all for the well wishes. I will see Mom agan next week as we help Sister Sam celebrate her 25th anniversary. She is FINALLY getting to have a wedding! well vow renewal but she gets to wear a big white dress!!
Awesome news, thank you Char!


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Anthology Contributor 4
Born and raised in Edinburg, Texas, Luke Van Garza earned degrees in English, Radio-TV-Film, and Cinema-Television from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California. He worked in script development in the entertainment industry and as a segment producer for a network TV series. Currently, he teaches screenwriting at Austin Community College. He also serves as a producer, director, and writer of independent films. Luke runs Inner Sanctum Films, the horror division of Starshine Productions LLC, a production company jointly owned by his wife Martha. As of 2022, Inner Sanctum has produced two shorts, SPECTRAL WIND and PETE & RE-PETE; SPECTRAL WIND was an official selection of the South Texas International Film Festival.
The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page.
The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...
For more information on Luke and his projects, visit Starshine's official page: starshinefilms.com
Anthology Contributors 3
Guy Prevost is film/TV writer based in Los Angeles. His background encompasses work as a story editor in Hollywood, college teacher, fiction writer, and flaneur. Film credits include award winning episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, Dead Man's Gun, and the SyFy Channel hit Dinoshark. His short stories have appeared in The NonBinary Review, The North Atlantic Review, Story Quest Magazine, and elsewhere. He's humbled and honored to be represented in Beyond [the] Barriers.
For more about Guy Prevost CLICK HERE.
Tezozomoc is a Los Angeles Chicano Essayist, Poet and 2009 Oscar Nominated Activist, internationally published and has been published by Floricanto Press, "Gashes!: Poems and Pain from the halls of injustice", a collection of poetry, ISBN-13: 978-1951088040, 9/2019. Featured nationally and internationally across zoom open virtual mics. Published in the following journals /anthologies: 2021 Boundless Anthology, 1/20/2022, MacroMicroCosm, Healing Hands, Vol 7 Issue #3, BC, Canada, 4/15/2021, Rigorous Journal, 9/21/2020, Red Earth Productions & Cultural Work, 12/17/2019, Underwood Press, 9/9/2019, Mom Egg Review, Los Angeles Poets for Justice, 03/15/2021.
Anthology Contributors
Diana Elizondo is the author of "Smoked Blood and Lavender" and "Yellow Eye Tea." She earned her master's degree in English and Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Diana is also a part time English instructor for Texas Southmost College.
NEW! Anthology by The Raving Press
The Raving Press has done it again! We are raising the profile of border life with our newest anthology of art and literature by authors, artists and photographers called "Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers".
This anthology was realized with the participation of nearly 40 authors and artists all writing from or about the U.S.-Mexico border states. Some of these artists and authors have extensive publishing careers and experience in the the publishing field working as writers, photographers, journalists, and editors for such big name enterprises as the Miami Herald, the New York Times and other organizations.
Other authors and artists may not be so firmly established in their respective fields, but their works included here reflect a love, talent, and appreciation of border life that needs to be seen and read in every corner of our nation.
The border arts reflect the real face of the people and cultures straddling this invisible line between nations. It is not a clear, pristine image. It is a chaotic, complicated one. It cannot be accused of villainy outright, nor granted sainthood altogether. But the overall product of its activity and existence is one with a magnitude of great global influence artistically and culturally. We are the artists, photographers, authors, and publishers shaping the reality of the border like sculptors working with stone. These are the stories and images of the border. These are the border arts.


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Kiririsha
Deities of the ancient Near East
Ancient Egyptian
Amun
Buchis
Montu
Nephthys
Tefnut
Aglibol
al-Lat
al-Qaum
al-'Uzzá
Atarsamain
Athtar
Baalshamin
Bēl
Dhul Khalasa
Dushara
Hubal
Malakbel
Manaf
Manāt
Nasr
Nuha
Orotalt
Suwa'
Theandrios
Wadd
Ya'uq
Yaghūth
Yarhibol
Yatha
Levantine (Canaanite)
Arsay
Arsu
Asherah
Ashtar-Chemosh
Astoreth
Atargatis
Azizos
Baalat Gebal
Berith
Baal Hermon
Chemosh
Eshmun
Ishara
Kotharat
Kothar-wa-Khasis
Liluri
Manuzi
Marqod
Misor
Nikkal
Resheph
Shadrafa
Shalim
Shapash
Sydyk
Yarikh
Elamite
Inshushinak
Jabru
Khumban
Lahurati
Nahundi
Napir
Napirisha
Ninsusinak
Pinikir
Abzu/Apsu
Agasaya
Amurru
An/Anu
Anshar
Ashur
Enki/Ea
Ereshkigal
Inanna/Ishtar/Ishtarat
Kingu
Kishar
Lahamu
Lahmu
Mummu
Nammu
Nanna/Sin
Ningishzida
Ninhursag
Ninlil
Utu/Shamash
Religions of the ancient Near East
Kiririsha, the 'Lady of Liyan,' was worshiped principally in the south of Elam. Along with Khumban and In-shushinak, she formed the supreme triad of the Elamite pantheon.[1]:401 Pinikir, another goddess, was held in the same regard in the north of Elam, but "as the centre of the kingdom gradually shifted southward, she became less important, and gave place to the 'lady of Liyan', Kiririsha."[1]:406
Kiririsha, strictly translated, means "the great goddess," in the Elamite language. This reflects a feature of the Elamite pantheon, and, likely, other ancient pagan religions of Western Asia—that of the "ill-defined character of the individual gods and goddesses. ...Most of them were not only ineffable beings whose real name was either not uttered or was unknown, but also sublime ideas, not to be exactly defined by the human race."[1]:403
The king, Khumban-Numena, had "a chapel built at Liyan (an Elamite port on the Persian Gulf)...dedicated exclusively to Kiririsha."[1]:390
Kiririsha was sometimes merely called "'the Great' or 'the divine mother'."[1]:406
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^ a b c d e Edwards, F.B.A., I.E.S.; Gadd, C.J.; Hammond, F.B.A., N.G.L.; Sollberger F.B.A., E., eds. (1975). The Cambridge Ancient History, Third Edition, Volume II, Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000 B.C. Cambridge University Press. pp. 400–416. ISBN 0 521 08691 4.
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Бойко, Галина Николаевна:
 Бойко, Галина Николаевна (1936—2006) — русский советский график и живописец.
 Бойко, Галина Николаевна (род. 1966) — советский и украинский педагог и тренер.


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Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz (vereinzelt auch Holtz; * 27. Dezember 1799 in Grüneberg; † 1. Mai 1873 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Architekt.

Leben
Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz studierte an der Berliner Bauakademie. 1824 war er Mitbegründer des Architektenvereins zu Berlin und wurde nach seiner Bauführerprüfung Privatarchitekt in Berlin. 1836 entwarf er zur Ausstellung der Akademie der Künste ein Rathaus. Zwischen 1843 und 1850 legte er seine Baumeisterprüfung ab, von 1850 bis 1873 war er Lehrer der Berliner Bauakademie.

Sein Hauptwerk war die Planung des Hamburger Bahnhofs in Berlin gemeinsam mit dem Direktor der Berlin-Hamburger Bahn, Friedrich Neuhaus, in den Jahren 1846 bis 1847. Das Bahnhofsgebäude ist das einzige heute noch erhaltene eines Berliner Kopfbahnhofs aus dieser Zeit. Die Anlage wird aber bereits seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht mehr als Bahnhof benutzt. Zwischen 1841 und 1872 schuf er zudem zehn Mappenwerke mit Architekturvorlagen und schrieb zahlreiche Lehrbücher für den Unterricht an der Akademie.

Bauten
Zusammen mit Friedrich Neuhaus gilt Holz als Mitarchitekt einer Reihe von Bahnhofsgebäuden an der Berlin-Hamburger-Eisenbahn, unter anderem:
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in (Berlin-)Spandau (heute Bahnhof Berlin-Stresow)
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Nauen (nicht mehr existent)
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Paulinenaue
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Zernitz
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Glöwen
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Bad Wilsnack
 1844–1846: Bahnhof in Wittenberge
 ca. 1859: Bahnhof in Karstädt
 1845–1847: Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin

Werke
 Architektonische Details zum praktischen Gebrauch. Heymann, Berlin 1844; .
 Entwürfe zu Land- und Stadt-Gebäuden. In 8 Lieferungen à 6 Blatt in Farbendruck. Bearb. nach den verschiedenartigsten Bedingungen und Baustylen von F. W. Holz. Grieben, Berlin 1852 (, SLUB Dresden, Digitale Quellensammlung zur Technikgeschichte II).
 Details griechischer Haupt-Gesimse zusammengestellt für die mannigfachsten Anwendungen in 40 Blättern. Berlin 1854; .
 Ziegelstein-Architektur. 2 Bände. Grieben, Berlin 1866 und Scholtze, Leipzig 1871.
 Öffentliche Privat-Bauten. Architectonische Entwürfe. 2. Auflage. Grieben, Berlin 1900.

Literatur
 Uwe Kieling: Berliner Privatarchitekten und Eisenbahnbaumeister im 19. Jahrhundert. (= Miniaturen zur Geschichte, Kultur und Denkmalpflege Berlins, Nr. 26). Berlin 1988.
 Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg, Manfred Hamm: Architektur und Schönheit. Die Schinkelschule in Berlin und Brandenburg. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88747-121-0.

Weblinks
 Projektliste. In: Datenbank des Architekturmuseums Berlin

Architekt (Preußen)
Architekt des Klassizismus
Berlin-Hamburger Bahn
Deutscher
Geboren 1799
Gestorben 1873
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#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/auditmanager/model/ShareRequestType.h>
#include <utility>

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{
namespace Http
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{
namespace Model
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Specifies whether the share request is a sent request or a received
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Specifies whether the share request is a sent request or a received
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Orioles Announce Birdland Caravan To Be Held February 2-5
Marks the return of the weekend-long tour designed to bring Orioles baseball directly to fans throughout the region
The Orioles today announced the return of the club's 'Birdland Caravan,' a four-day winter tour, that will take place from Thursday, February 2, through Sunday, February 5, at multiple locations throughout the region. The first such weekend-long celebration since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic will include autograph sessions and happy hours with current Orioles players, top prospects, broadcasters, members of the front office, and the Oriole Bird.
New in 2023, the caravan will make stops at Bowlero College Park and Topgolf Baltimore to give fans a unique and fun opportunity to interact with Orioles players and staff as they bowl and tee off with fans. The tour will also feature a community service project with the Maryland Food Bank, closed to the public, as well as fan rallies at Bel Air High School, Wilde Lake High School, and Winters Mill High School that are open to fans of all ages. Designed to take the Oriole Park experience directly to the fans, the Birdland Caravan will make stops throughout Maryland in Baltimore City, Bel Air, Bowie, College Park, Columbia, Frederick, Odenton, Salisbury, Towson, and Westminster, as well as York, Pa. Fans in Elkridge and Owings Mills will also have the opportunity to meet and take photos with the Oriole Bird.
"We are excited to reintroduce the Birdland Caravan to our fans throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and engage with them beyond the ballpark," said JENNIFER GRONDAHL, Orioles Senior Vice President, Community Development and Communications. "The weekend's events will feature unique opportunities to interact with players, prospects, and staff, in a larger geographical circle than ever before. We're eager to get back out into our communities and celebrate the exciting present and future of Orioles Baseball."
Current Orioles participating in select events include BRYAN BAKER, FÉLIX BAUTISTA, DL HALL, AUSTIN HAYS, GUNNAR HENDERSON, JOEY KREHBIEL, DEAN KREMER, RYAN McKENNA, JOHN MEANS, RYAN MOUNTCASTLE, ADLEY RUTSCHMAN, KYLE STOWERS, RAMÓN URÍAS, TERRIN VAVRA, and NICK VESPI, along with Orioles prospects HESTON KJERSTAD and GRAYSON RODRIGUEZ. Additionally, Orioles Executive Vice President and General Manager MIKE ELIAS, Vice President and Assistant General Manager, Analytics SIG MEJDAL, Assistant General Manager, Baseball Operations EVE ROSENBAUM, and Manager BRANDON HYDE, a BBWAA American League Manager of the Year finalist, Baseball America Manager of the Year, and the Sporting News AL Manager of the Year, will attend select events throughout the weekend.
Tickets are required for autograph signings, Bowlero, and Topgolf events. Fans must purchase tickets in advance as availability will be limited. Tickets will go on sale online this Wednesday, January 11 at 10:00 a.m. ET, at Orioles.com/Caravan.
Birdland Caravan will begin with a kickoff fan rally, featuring a Q&A session with Elias and Hyde, open to fans of all ages on Thursday, February 2, in Bel Air High School's auditorium.
Friday will feature a private community project at the Maryland Food Bank where players and staff will be packing food for local families. Fans are then invited to join players and staff at Evolution Craft Brewing Company in Salisbury for a guest-bartending happy hour from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The caravan will continue on Saturday, February 4, when one bus will participate in an autograph session at Frederick Community College, followed by a fan rally at The Jim Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia. A group of players and staff on a second bus will bowl alongside fans at College Park's Bowlero and will then participate in an autograph session at Bowie State University. The two groups will end the day at Checkerspot Brewing Company in Baltimore City for a guest-bartending happy hour from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The caravan will wrap up on Sunday, February 5, when one bus will visit Topgolf Baltimore, followed by an autograph session at the Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel in Towson. A second bus will participate in an autograph session at the York Expo Center, featuring O's Alumni AL BUMBRY and JOE ORSULAK, and a fan rally in the auditorium of Winters Mill High School in Westminster. The two buses will meet at Crooked Crab Brewing Company in Odenton for the caravan's final event from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
A full schedule of the caravan's stops, including times and locations, is available below. For more information, to purchase tickets, and for further details, please visit Orioles.com/Caravan.


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Belgian writer, exhibition organizer, collagist and composer. As a young composer he was influenced by Erik Satie. He collaborated on Dadaist-inspired journals and published, with René Magritte, Œsophage (1925), the only issue of which, containing the poems of Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, remained faithful to the Dada spirit. In 1926 Marie, a 'journal bi-mensuel pour la belle jeunesse', published under his direction, pursued the same vein; it only had two issues. Mesens was involved in the establishment of a Surrealist movement (see Surrealism), which was strongly permeated with Dadaism in Belgium. In 1927 he became Director of the Galerie L'Epoque and in 1931 of the Galerie Mesens, both in Brussels. Miró, Magritte and Max Ernst all exhibited with him. He founded the Editions Nicolas Flamel, which published the Surrealists' collective homage to a parricide, Violette Nozières (Brussels, 1933), André Breton's lecture 'Qu'est-ce que le surréalisme', held on the occasion of the first international Surrealist exhibition organized in Brussels by Mesens under the auspices of ...
Mesens, Édouard Léon Théodore
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 27 November 1903, in Brussels; died 13 May 1971, in Brussels.
Collage artist, art dealer, curator, poet.
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Louisa Buck
(b London, Oct 14, 1900; d Chiddingly, E. Sussex, April 23, 1984).
English patron, poet, painter, sculptor and collagist. After completing his BA at Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1922, he worked as a painter in France from 1922 to 1935 and through Max Ernst became closely involved with the Surrealist group in Paris. On his return to England, he established the British Surrealist Group and in 1936 organized the first International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London, which provided Britain's first full-scale exposure to the movement. He took part in most of the group's activities and was secretary and treasurer of its showcase, the London Gallery, as well as co-editor of its publication, the London Gallery Bulletin.
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends Review
written by Jahanzeb Khan
The third and final chapter of the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy is aptly dubbed as The Legend Ends, picking up right where the cliffhanger finale of Kyoto Inferno left off. A fair spoiler warning to those who are about to read on, there will be references to the previous films so tread carefully.
Kyoto Inferno ended with the frightening unveiling of Shishio Makoto's ultimate weapon: a battleship equipped with modern warfare. Something that is completely alien to Japan. Shishio Makoto uses this powerful weapon to showcase the true extent of his terror, giving him the ultimate trump card against the crumbling Japanese government. What's interesting is that this war machine was also introduced in the original anime series, except that Shishio never even got to use it because Sanouske somehow managed to sink the damn thing. Now in this movie adaptation the ship is put to great use as a compelling plot device. This is where The Legend Ends demonstrates a rare instance where taking liberties with the source material, and even executing ideas differently, can lead to good if not better things. These liberties ultimately allow The Legend Ends to ground more convincingly in reality, and make tension feel far more believable than weird anime logic.
That said, The Legend Ends still retains much of what made the gripping manga/anime saga such a timeless classic. All the major battles and character development has been effortlessly worked into the confines of the film, leaving nothing to be desired. The same cast that made the respective characters shine in the prior two films deliver exceptionally once more in this trilogy finale. The cinematography, visuals, and the use of scenery, all of it coming together to deliver an experience that does the namesake justice and more.
The most compelling aspect of the film is Kenshin's soul searching quest to find a resolve to fight, and more importantly to find closure for his unending guilt and existential crisis. Kenshin's portrayal in the movie is so gray that you could very easily make a case for him being just as bad as Shishio, and this is something that is incredibly rare in shonen stories. Before he can even come close to ending the evil of Shishio Makoto, Kenshin must first figure out who he his, and why he has the right to exist despite all the wrongs he has done. This personal internalized journey is delivered powerfully, and ends up teaching an eye-opening lesson on the grayness of humanity.
The action present here is the best out of all the three films, with every major battle from the arc represented aptly and realistically. From Kenshin's encounter with Aoshi to his insanely rapid blow-for-blow duel with Sojiro, almost every classic bout has been delivered. They even managed to throw in Sanouske's brawl with Anji the Destroyer. Now this is where one could nitpick, as the comedic slapstick fight shown here is a huge far cry from the emotionally charged battle in the original anime/manga. That said, perhaps it was right to be consistent with Sanouske's goofy movie portrayal, and not turn any of his moments too grave or serious.
The final battle involving Shishio exhibits perhaps the best choreography and storytelling out of any other duel in the trilogy. They managed to convincingly implement all the main signature moves as realistically as they could have, and their inclusion is much appreciated in helping the intense and long build-up to the final encounter really pay off. Shishio pulls out all the stops with his secret swords; from the Burning Soul (his sword getting engulfed in flames) to the gunpowder assisted Crimson Lotus Arm, it's great to see all these moves intact and executed with sharp realism. Our hero Himura Kenshin doesn't pull any punches either, for he brings his ultimate secret technique to the table: Flash of the Heavenly Flying Dragon. The maneuver is not only executed with beautiful finesse in this film, but it also ties in strongly with Himuara's character development, all accumulating to a single unforgettable moment.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends is an epic finale to a great trilogy that simply could not have been done any better. The storytelling, battles, sword techniques, and character portrayals, all of it done exceptionally well. The prodding and methodological build up starting all the way from Kyoto Inferno pays off big time in the spectacle of a battle presented in The Legend Ends. When it's all said and done, Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends delivers a movie experience that is quite simply, a dream come true for fans.
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