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Radical extension: several hundred battery-powered bicycles will be on London's streets next year
Boris bikes to go electric next year as part of major expansion of London cycle scheme
Boris Johnson is to spark an electric bike revolution by introducing a new rental scheme on the streets of London next year.
Several hundred battery-powered bicycles will be on London's streets next year in a pilot scheme that breaks new ground in the UK. The bikes will be introduced in some of the capital's hilliest parts, where steep climbs put many off taking their bike or even walking.
Earmarked corridors will run through Muswell Hill, Crouch End and Alexandra Palace, with a base station at Finsbury Park Tube. Boris bike-style docking stations in these areas will double as electric charging points for the bicycles.
The cost of the £700 e-bikes and hi-tech docking stations will be met out of the Mayor's £913 million cycling fund.
Metropolitan Police beat officers will be given electric mountain bikes to help in the fight against cycle-mounted crime such as mugging. German-built "Haibikes" costing about £1,000 each can climb stairs and go over rough ground as quickly as a normal bike can travel on a road.
With e-bikes, police will be able to chase criminals into places cars cannot go and make officers more mobile. The Mayor also hopes to lure estate agents out of their branded city cars and on to e-bikes as a convenient way to shuttle between appointments without arriving in a sweat using only pedal power.
Mr Johnson said: "E-bikes are already big on the continent as they take the puff and pant out of cycling. Once again, London leads the way in Britain with new cycling innovations — and the elevated latitudes of Haringey are perfect for this trial."
Haringey council leader Claire Kober said: "We're really excited to be Britain's first e-bikes borough.
"This project with the Mayor underpins our commitment to being one of London's greenest boroughs and to promoting and rewarding greener travel through improved cycling facilities and sustainable transport across Haringey.
"Together, we can encourage more people to leave cars at home and offer the next generation of cyclists safer, better routes in our borough."
E-bikes will supplement buses — the area's only public transport. Routes will lead to Finsbury Park Tube station and will also link into an enhanced network of "quiet ways" of bike-friendly side streets and parks.
Although e-bikes will not link with the established pedal-powered Boris bikes or match that scheme in scale, the Mayor hopes Londoners will acquire the taste for electric bikes and invest in one themselves.
Boris bike sponsors Barclays have been given first refusal as backer of the e-bikes.
Assisted pedal power is much bigger in Holland, where one in five new cycles is an e-bike — and they are particularly popular among older people. Electric bikes are like normal cycles except for a small, battery-powered motor to aid pedalling. No licence, equipment or insurance is needed for one.
They are especially useful in hilly areas, for people who need to ride without breaking sweat or for those who are older or less fit.
Jos Dings, director of Brussels-based lobby group Transport & Environment, said: "Electric bikes are an opportunity and a threat. The amount of accidents involving assisted bikes driven too fast and causing serious accidents is a huge issue. But we'd like to see a shift, with more public money spent on electric bikes instead of electric cars."
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CROSSRAIL UPDATE
Crossrail tunnels reach the halfway mark
Halfway: Crossrail workers celebrate as 13 of the 26 miles of tunnel are completed.
Crossrail workers celebrated on the 8th of October as excavation work on its tunnels reached the halfway mark.
Long way to go: the project was given Royal Assent in 2008, with services expected to begin between Liverpool Street and Shenfield in 2015 The machine completed the 4.2-mile stretch from Royal Oak to Farringdon. So far, 13 of the 26 miles of tunnels on the the £14.8billion project have been drilled.
Control: the operations room for Crossrail's giant tunnel boring machine (TBM), Phyllis
Hard work: some of the team involved in the Crossrail project
Vast: one of the Crossrail tunnels last year
Big the TBMs used in boring weigh just shy of 1,000 tonnes
And furthermore.....................................
£35m 'flat pack' Crossrail station takes shape in Sheffield
Building work: The Crossrail station takes place
A £35 million "flatpack" station for Crossrail is being built hundreds of miles from London in a first for the rail industry.
The new station for Custom House is taking shape in a factory near Sheffield, pictured left, before being transported to London for assembly in 2015.
Crossrail chiefs say this will save time and money and minimise disruption for residents near the new line.
Built by Laing O'Rourke, the station will serve ExCel London and intersect the Docklands Light Railway line.
Terry Morgan, Crossrail chairman, said: "The construction of Custom House station is a perfect example of how a pound invested in London's infrastructure delivers economic benefit to the rest of the UK, in this case securing skilled manufacturing jobs in the East Midlands."
Roger Robinson, CEO Europe for Laing O'Rourke said: "Digital engineering has allowed us to design the station virtually before feeding the specifications directly to our manufacturing facility at Steetley where the major structural components are manufactured and pre-assembled in a controlled factory environment.
"Transporting them to London for assembly on site minimises site traffic volumes and general disruption to the local community, as well as reducing pollution and waste levels."
The Crossrail station is being built on the site of the former North London line station and will include a new ticket hall, an interchange with the DLR and step-free access between the platforms and street level.
When Crossrail opens, up to 12 trains an hour will link Custom House with central London and beyond, improving access between the Royal Docks and London's key employment areas.
The journey between Custom House and Bond Street will be about 10 minutes quicker and passengers travelling to and from Heathrow should shave about 35 minutes off their journey.
The new station — at the junction of Victoria Dock Road and Freemasons Road — is the only above-ground station in Crossrail's central section. Work on the site is scheduled to finish in December 2015.
FIRST GROUP HERITAGE BUS LIVERIES IN MANCHESTER
To celebrate their history, First Manchester have painted 8 buses in their heritage livery, in order to highlight the importance to remember the history of local communities.
Lancashire United Transport
Lancashire United Transport was formed in 1905 to take over the operations of the South Lancashire Tramway Co. to run trams and later buses in South Lancashire from three bases in Swinton, Hindley and the main head office and works at Howe Bridge, Atherton. On 1st January 1976 LUT was taken over by Greater Manchester Transport but continued to run largely independent until being fully absorbed into GMT in 1978.
This vehicle, no.37430, has been repainted into the last livery used by Lancashire United to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Bolton Corporation Transport
Bolton Corporation Tramways was formed in 1899 to take over the operations of the Bolton Horse Tramway to run electric trams in the Bolton area. The last trams ran on 29th March 1947 with the network being taken over and expanded by motorbuses under the Bolton Transport name with garages on Shifnall Street, Bridgeman Street and Crook Street. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations in the area, including Bolton, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the maroon and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white.
This vehicle, no.69139, has been repainted into the last livery used by Bolton Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Ramsbottom Urban District Council
Ramsbottom UDC began running trolleybuses in 1912 after an attempt to open a tramway network stalled due to costs. A small depot was constructed on Stubbins Lane, Ramsbottom to park and maintain the vehicles. In the middle of 1923 Ramsbottom UDC began operating a motorbus to connect two trolleybus routes and started to convert fully to motorbuses during 1926, although the last trolleybus actually ran on the 31st March 1931. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations and Undertakings in the area, including Ramsbottom UDC, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the crimson and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white.
Despite the undertaking no longer existing, Ramsbottom UDC still made history when in 1969 and just a few days after SELNEC took over, the former UDC took delivery of the very last half cab Leyland bus to come off the production line. Painted in full Ramsbottom livery, complete with coat of arms this vehicle also became the only brand new half cab bus to operate for a PTE anywhere in the country. Ramsbottom was also the smallest undertaking taken over by SELNEC with a total of 12 buses in 1969.
This vehicle, no.69166, has been repainted into the last livery used by Ramsbottom Urban District Council to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Bury Corporation
Bury Corporation came into being in the late 1900s with a view to running electric tramcars in the town. In 1902 a new depot was constructed on corporation land on Rochdale Road and in the evening of the 3rd June 1903, Bury Corporation Tramways was officially opened. By 1908 the depot had been expanded to house more trams as the network expanded. In the period just after the First World War, the Bury Postmaster approached the Tramway committee with a view to transporting mail on the trams from Bury to Bolton and Rochdale. This was agreed upon, as long as a fare was paid for each mail bag. The bags would be secured to a handrail on the platform with a padlock and chain and unlocked at the other end by a postman who would take the mail bags to a post office. Infact, this scheme continued right up until 1969!
Motorbuses began operating in the town on Friday 18th September 1925 and by the 13th February 1949 almost 1500 residents came out to watch the last tram enter the depot for the final time, with many removing items from the tram as souvenirs! The motor bus livery of grass green and cream was introduced in June 1944 replacing the previous vermilion and cream. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations and Undertakings in the area, including Bury, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the green and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white.
This vehicle, no.37297, has been repainted into the grass green and cream livery used by Bury Corporation Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Manchester City Transport
Manchester City Transport began life in 1901 as Manchester Corporation Tramways to run electric trams in the Manchester region and becoming the Manchester Corporation Transport Department in 1929. The last trams ran on 10th January 1949 after the network had been wound down with the conversion to trolleybuses and motorbuses under the Manchester Corporation Transport name with garages on Birchfields Road, Parrs Wood, Princess Road, Queens Road and the Headquaters, depot and works on Hyde Road/Devonshire Street. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations in the area, including Manchester City Transport as it had become known, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the red and white livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white. MCT was the largest of the corporations taken over by SELNEC.
This vehicle, no.37289, has been repainted into the last livery used by Manchester City Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Salford City Transport
Salford City Transport started life on the 2nd May 1901 as Salford Corporation running horse drawn tram cars and lines purchased from neighbouring Manchester in a red and white livery. By September 1901 the corporations first electric tramcars were delivered and put into service operating from a grand depot and works on Frederick Road. By July 1920 the Corporations first motorbuses started to be delivered and a new depot in Weaste was constructed to house them. The last trams ran in Salford on the 31st March 1947, delayed from 1939 due to the war. In 1946 the Corporation became Salford City Transport and with it, the livery changed to green and cream. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations and Undertakings in the area, including Salford, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the green and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white. Salford City Transport was the second largest of the Corporations taken over by SELNEC.
This vehicle, no.37290, has been repainted into the distinctive 1950s livery used by Salford City Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Rochdale Corporation
Rochdale Corporation began operations on the 22nd May 1902 with its first electric tramcar. In 1925 the corporation bought the neighbouring Middleton Electric Tramways Co and its first motorbus began service in March 1926. 12th November 1932 saw the last tram service operate and in 1937 the tramway livery of dark brown and pale yellow gave way to Oxford blue and cream on motorbuses. The corporation's depot was located on Mellor Street and was split across two sites. On one side of the road was the works area and the other was the main parking area and offices. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations and Undertakings in the area, including Rochdale, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the blue and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white.
This vehicle, no.37451, has been repainted into the distinctive 1930s livery used by Rochdale Corporation Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
Oldham Corporation
Oldham Corporation began operations on the 15th December 1900 with its first electric tramcar. In 1925 the corporation began replacing parts of its tram network with trolleybuses after being requested to do so by Ashton Corporation with whom they ran a joint service. The trolleybuses lasted just over a year when they were replaced by motorbuses. The tram network was slowly wound down and replaced by motorbuses with the last trams running on the 3rd August 1946. The original motorbus livery of dark blue and white was replaced in 1931 by crimson and lake before being modified again in 1966 to pommard and cream. The corporation's depot was located on Wallshaw Street and is still in use today with First GreaterManchester's Head Office being located opposite the depot entrance. On the 1st November 1969 all Corporations and Undertakings in the area, including Oldham, were grouped together into one local body called SELNEC PTE which stood for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Executive" and the pommard and cream livery was swapped for sunglow orange and mancunian white.
This vehicle, no.66869, has been repainted into the last livery used by Oldham Corporation Transport to form part of a new 'Heritage Fleet' aimed at remembering the predecessors of our company and to show new generations the history of our public transport in Greater Manchester.
However, to date the only one captured by the Focus Transport team is of number 37297 in the Bury Corporation livery.
The near and offside aspects are illustrated as the bus operated over route 471 from Rochdale via Bury to Bolton, the latter town being where the bus was seen recently in October.
MALTA BUS NEWS
Arriva indicates it could quit
The inauguration of the Arriva bus service on July 2, 2011.
The future of bus service operator Arriva rests on the outcome of deadlocked talks over new bus routes, The Sunday Times of Malta has learnt.
During talks with transport authorities, executives from the company made it known it could pull out of Malta if it continued to face serious losses.
The company has reportedly gone under by €35 million since it started operating in Malta in 2011 and is looking at ending this year with losses comparable to the previous two years.
The talks are deadlocked over the subsidy to be given for the increased mileage of the new routes, and the frequency of some of the services. Another pending problem is the withdrawal of bendy bues from the roads, even though the company says it has found what caused three fires during the summer.
Read comments from the Sunday Times of Malta news link here
Robust Performance from Go-Ahead
Transport operator Go-Ahead has delivered a "robust" performance over the past four months.
The interim management statement released within the last few days, showed the Newcastle-headquartered group experienced underlying revenue growth of 3.5% in its deregulated bus services, 7% in its regulated bus services and around 7.3% across its rail divisions. The figures, which exclude the benefit of delivering transport for the Olympics last year, mean Go-Ahead is on track to reach its target of £100m operating profit in its bus division by 2015/16.
Go-Ahead chief executive David Brown said: "Our bus and rail businesses have delivered a robust performance, in line with expectations. Overall, I am pleased with the group's performance and remain confident that the full year result will be in line with our expectations."
Deregulated:
Trading in the deregulated bus operations has been robust. Underlying revenue growth, which excludes the benefit of delivering transport for the Olympic sailing events at Weymouth last year, was in line with expectations for the quarter, at around 3.5%. Concessionary passenger volumes continue to grow at a slower rate than journeys made by fare paying customers.
First quarter growth rates*:
Passenger journeys
(including Olympics) Underlying
(excluding Olympics) Total
(excluding Olympics)
c.2% c.3.5% c.1%# c.1%
#The Olympic contract was on a gross cost basis. Passenger journeys were not recorded.
Regulated:
Performance in the London operations has been strong in the quarter, benefiting from one-off rail replacement services and slightly higher QICs bonuses. Underlying full year mileage is still expected to be broadly flat as we expect to retain a consistent level of contracts.
c.3% c.7% c.2% c.4.5%
The rail division operates the Southern (including Gatwick Express), Southeastern and London Midland franchises through our 65% owned subsidiary Govia.
Underlying revenue performance in our three franchises has been in line with our expectations. As in the fourth quarter of last year, reported passenger journeys across all companies increased significantly due to a change in Department for Transport methodology in Travelcard allocations.
Passenger revenue**
Passenger journeys**
Southern c.6% c.7% c.5% c.6%
Southeastern c.0% c.6% c.(2.5)% c.5%
London Midland c.6% c.9% c.2% c.4.5%
**Passenger revenue and journeys associated with the Olympic and Paralympic Games are based on estimates.
Whilst trading in our rail division will remain challenging in the short term, we are committed to delivering long term value through operating in the UK rail market. We are working hard to submit strong bids for the Thameslink and Crossrail franchises, for which we are shortlisted.
http://www.go-ahead.com/media/news/2013news/2013-10-24.aspx
MIDLANDS METRO UPDATE
New Birmingham tram unveiled
Centro has held an unveiling ceremony at a depot in Wednesbury to show off the first of Birmingham's new fleet of CAF trams.
Birmingham is investing £40 million on 20 new low floor trams for the Midlands Metro network.
Following testing and driver training, the new vehicles will go into operation between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and eventually on the extension from Birmingham Snow Hill station to New Street, becoming the first trams to travel through the city centre in 60 years.
Having completed a four-day journey from CAF's manufacturing site in Zaragoza, Spain, Birmingham city officials unveiled the new tram on October 16.
It is really an historic day and something we've been working for for a very long time. Centro chief executive Geoff Inskip said: "It is really an historic day and something we've been working for for a very long time."
Centro has said the extension, which is part of a billion pound transport investment strategy for Birmingham, is creating 1,300 new jobs and boost the economy by £50 million.
The Urbos 3 light rail vehicle is the latest incarnation in the Urbos family, which are currently in use in Bilbao, Malaga, Vitoria, Seville, Edinburgh and Antalya.
The new trams will increase services to 10 trams in each direction and at nine metres longer than the existing stock, they will increase capacity from 156 passengers to 210.
The Midland Metro Urbos 3 is a standard (1,435mm) gauge, 2.65 metre wide, bi-directional, double-cab ended tram. The vehicle consists of five segments with four articulations. Three of the modules (C1, R and C2) are mounted on bogies and the other two modules (S1 and S2) are suspended.
Morgan Sindall are delivering a £13.8 million extension at the Wednesbury depot to maintain the new fleet of longer trams.
Above & below, one of the fleet of existing trams at Snow Hill
TRENT - 100 YEARS
Thursday 31st October is a big, big day in trentbarton land … it's our birthday and the day we officially hit the big 100! And, as ever, we want to celebrate in style – and you're all invited!
Throughout the day, vintage buses of yesteryear will be running for free on the very first routes of the Trent Motor Traction Company – what we now call i4 between Derby and Nottingham and swift between Ashbourne and Derby. Whilst you're all welcome to enjoy these wonderful relics of times gone by, we will be encouraging you to part with your hard-earned pennies and pounds to help support our charity of the year, The Lewis Mighty Fund. Look out for our own i4 and swift buses, which will also have collection buckets on them too.
And that's not all… several lucky customers throughout the day will get their hands on £100 in cool, hard cash as a special thank you for supporting us throughout the years. You could be surprised anywhere, at any time across trentbarton land throughout the day on board one of our buses – keep watching here and on Facebook and Twitter for more details!
Read our 100 year story here.
We're really looking forward to celebrating our 100th birthday with you!
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As shown in the text above vintage buses are scheduled to operate over the i4 and the Swift routes. Below number 728, one of the Trent fleet of Optare Tempos passed through the island roundabout near to the Queens Medical Centre when on way to Derby from Nottingham during October 2013.
The vintage vehicles are also scheduled to run on the Swift-named route between Derby and Ashbourne from where Trent number 737 a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE in dedicated livery passed by the Council House in Morledge at Derby during 2012, as it headed to the end of the route at the bus station.
Whether the following two interesting preservation pieces will perform remains to be seen.
The single-deck is a 1940 built BMMO SON with Willowbrook bodywork, the double-deck a 1958 Leyland Titan PD3 with bodywork from the same stable. Both were seen several years ago parked up in the Trent bus garage in Belper. And very nice they looked too.
MANSTON AIRPORT (KENT) SOLD FOR £1.00p
The Herald Scotland reports that Stagecoach founder buys airport for £1
STAGECOACH co-founder Ann Gloag has agreed to pay £1 to buy Manston Airport in Kent from Infratil, its New Zealand owners who have also been trying to sell Prestwick Airport.
TRANSPORT VETERAN: Ann Gloag says she is well-placed to maximise opportunities at Manston.
The deal comes a week after the Scottish Government stepped in to the Prestwick auction with a promise to take the airport into public ownership, after an unsuccessful 18-month sale process.
Infratil said the value of the two airports had now been written down to zero, which suggests that the taxpayer may be paying just £1 for Prestwick, and that Mrs Gloag was unwilling to do so.
Infratil, the Wellington-based infrastructure investment fund, said it had agreed to sell the Kent airport to Lothian Shelf (710), an entity owned by Mrs Gloag, for the nominal sum, plus a further £350,000 for working capital and cash injected by the owner between now and completion at the end of November.
Mrs Gloag, 70, said: "Having worked in the transport industry for over 30 years, I believe I am very well-placed to help maximise opportunities for both freight and passengers at Manston."
The veteran entrepreneur was unwilling to comment further on her plans for the business, or on her attitude to the opportunity of acquiring Prestwick Airport.
She added: "I am delighted to have purchased Manston Airport from Infratil as I believe there is real potential for growth that has not been fully captured."
Marko Bogoievski, Infratil's chief executive, said: "Infratil Limited is very pleased to have found an acquirer with a vision for Manston Airport's future development."
Stagecoach's experience in the sector has been mixed. It acquired Prestwick Airport in 1998, as part of ambitious plans to diversify which included paying £107m for a stake in a Hong Kong-based toll road builder Road King, which it sold for book value in 2004.
Stagecoach had paid £41m for Prestwick, but sold it three years later to a consortium led by Infratil for £26m, after investing £10m in improvements - a total loss of some £25m. The airport had been particularly hit by the withdrawal of anchor freight customer FedEx.
Mrs Gloag and her brother and Stagecoach co-founder Sir Brian Souter had already moved into airlines, buying a 90% stake in Cambridgeshire-based Suckling Airways for £5m in 1999. The new owners changed its name to ScotAirways, invested £5m, and introduced tartan branding, which disappeared after they sold the stake back to the airline's family founders in 2006 for a reported £10m - breaking even on the venture.
Meanwhile, Infratil had picked up Manston, its second UK airport, in 2005 from the administrator of the Planestation group.
It paid £17m and said the plan was to expand as an operator of regional airports in Europe.
The past two years, however, have seen the two Infratil airports written down to a total value of £11m in the company's accounts, as they racked up losses of £7.2m in 2011 and £6m in 2012. Prestwick is said to have accounted for only £2m of those losses annually.
In January this year, the loss of two Polish routes left Ryanair as the only passenger operator at Prestwick.
Then last week, the Scottish Government said Infratil had reached a stage where it was "clear no private investor is able to commit to a successful purchase" on a timescale acceptable to the owners.
Transport Scotland said the Government would negotiate a purchase price which would "aim to maximise the return for taxpayers' investment".
Mr Bogoievski said: "From Infratil's perspective, while Manston was a very small part of the company's overall asset base, this sale will result in a more focused portfolio and improve our future cash flow position."
The deal for Manston is expected to formally complete on or before November 29.
Mrs Gloag is still a non-executive director at Stagecoach. She has a range of other business and charity interests.
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Over the years a succession of Springbok coaches have relished visiting "Fortress Nelson Mandela Bay" where SA have become invincible in recent times.
Few disagree with Zwide - born Springbok captain Siya Kolisi when he proudly says the Bay is the spiritual home of South African rugby.
But is not only the superb win ratio and its fanatical supporters that make the venue special.
The oval ball code has a rich history in the Bay dating back to 1891 and PE is the vibrant home of black rugby.
Since 1960 the Boks have only lost once in 21 Tests played at the old Boet Erasmus Stadium and the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
It is a marvellous record and Bok coach Rassie Erasmus will be looking to extend SA's unbeaten record to six matches at the NMB Stadium on Saturday when they face Australia.
The new generation of Bok backline stars like Aphiwe Dyantyi, Jesse Kriel and Cheslin Kolbe will be keen to write their names into the history books.
Erasmus, who was born in Despatch outside Port Elizabeth, has a close affinity with the Eastern Cape.
He took his players to watch the Southern Kings beat Glasgow Warriors in a PRO14 clash at NMU's Madibaz Stadium.
Erasmus was hailed as hero inside the stadium and a section of the crowd chanted his name as he sipped a soft drink in a VIP Suite.
Bok assistant coach Mzwandile Stick also hails from PE and played for Eastern Province and the Blitzboks.
"I am a home boy and Port Elizabeth has been a special place since 2009 when we opened the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium," Stick said.
"The Boks have not lost a game here and have only drawn against England.
Stick played for the Southern Kings when they took on the British and Irish Lions in the opening game at the NMB Stadium in 2009.
The Wallabies have played only two Tests in Port Elizabeth, losing both.
Both games were played at the Boet Erasmus Stadium, with SA winning 23-11 in 1961 and 22-6 in 1963.
However, things were not quite so good for the Boks before rugby moved to the Boet Erasmus Stadium from the Crusaders Ground.
Ten Springbok Test matches were played at the Crusaders Ground (St George's Park), and 16 at the Boet Erasmus before international rugby in the city found a new home at the NMB Stadium.
At Crusaders the Boks lost three of the 10 games they played. The opening Test at the Boet Erasmus was won 18-10 by the Boks against a Scotland team making their first tour of SA.
The Boet Erasmus was to become home to Test rugby in the city until 2011 when the first Test was played at the new NMB Stadium.
The Springboks used the Scottish Test at Boet Erasmus to blood a young team for a visit later in the year by Wilson Whineray's mighty All Blacks.
For the PE Test several new caps were selected, including players who would become icons of the game like Jannie Engelbrecht, Doug Hopwood, John Gainsford, Hugo van Zyl and Dave Stewart.
The game was not a great showpiece, mainly because Scottish flyhalf Gordon Waddell preferred to keep the game tight. The Springboks won the match through tries by GH van Zyl (2), Mannetjies Gericke and DC van Jaarsveldt.
Mickey Gerber, first of the modern running fullbacks, converted the tries and kicked a penalty.
One of the proudest moments for EP rugby was in 1955 when the home team thrashed the British Lions 20-0 at the Crusader Ground.
Another famous day was the clash between the SA Africans and England at the Wolfson Stadium in 1972.
England went on to win the clash 36-3, but the SA team were missing several stars because of tensions between the Spring Rose Club and the Port Elizabeth Board officials.
Players like Peter Mkata, Phindile Mdodana, Skumbuzo Oliphant and Temba Ludwaba, top candidates for positions in the team, did not turn up for trials because of the tensions.
Another memorable match was played at the Wolfson Stadium in 1975 when the SA Africans (known as Leopards) beat the SA Federation 18-12 after a fierce battle.
Another famous match at the Boet Erasmus Stadium was in 1974 when the British Lions beat the Springboks 26-9 to win their first series in South Africa.
It turned out to be a rough Test with both sides using their fists and was dubbed the "Battle of the Boet".
At the end, a delighted Lions skipper, Willie-John McBride, was chaired off the field by his players.
So what was it like back in the day?
While some may bemoan the passing of some of the old and quaint customs, Kolisi will not be among them.
If things were still being run as they were back in 1891, Kolisi would most likely not be leading the team today.
As was the tradition in the old days, the organising union, Eastern Province, chose the captain and the team before the first-ever South African rugby Test was played in PE.
And there was a perfectly logical reason for the hometown selection, according to the men administering the game at that time – they said it would cut down on travelling expenses.
This week the Boks flew fullback Willie le Roux back from his club side in England at the last moment to join their squad for today's Test.


Julie Cox is a special counsel in the Intellectual Property team at Baker McKenzie, Sydney. Julie's practice encompasses all key aspects of intellectual property, consumer, advertising and media law. She has gained considerable experience previously working with private law firms in Australia and England and as an in-house solicitor at British Sky Broadcasting in London.
Julie focuses on commercial intellectual property, including patent and trade mark licensing, advertising and consumer law, trade promotions, brand management and general commercial matters such as event management and sponsorship agreements. She advises a number of leading FMCG businesses and media owners on all aspects of the Australian Consumer Law and has particular experience advising on the regulation of food and alcohol advertising and labeling in Australia.


Judah Lifschitz and Gregory Seador author an article for Construction Executive discussing recoupment and setoff in construction contracts.
The Aftermath: Hurricanes shouldn't be the end for your projects.
Peace 2.0: Preserving the harmony between owners sharing a party wall.


A new and unique way to display a kukri in an upright position that is made possible by KHHI's vertical wooden stand unlike any other displayers..
This vertical display stand is completely handmade by using only conventional domestic tools. It is made out of treated wood called Ashna, famously known in Nepal as "Seesau". The process of making a single stand is very slow and laborious. It is as time consuming as making a Khukuri, costing almost a complete day to finish one. All stands are made in Kathmandu where skill craftsmen work around the clock to give quality and quantity. They are foldable (hands come apart) so that they can be carried and transported very easily. They are also completely break-free since they can be swiftly dismantled.
A new and unique way to display a kukri in an upright position is made possible by KHHI's vertical wooden stand. Unlike any other displayers the vertical stand displays or accommodates a kukri, either only the blade or along with its scabbard vertically as shown in the picture exhibiting a unique and perhaps a better look than other displayers. The flat base is simple yet suitable from where an arched shaped shaft is erected and fitted on top of it is a "U" shaped wooden piece to hold the handle of the displaying kukri as depicted in the picture. The wooden base also has a small round hole opposite side of the erected shaft to secure the pommel or tip inside it so the movement or sliding is prevented. The spine of the blade or scabbard lie on the erection and handle rests in the holder. The flat base/platform and the erected wooden are screwed to each other thus can be flattened by unscrewing; easy to pack or transport. An amazing and creative way to display your kukri to wow your visitors. First ever made by KHHI nepal.


A used car purchase can be a great choice. It can save you hundreds of dollars. Before you jump on the chance to save, however, you have to ensure that your choice works well and safely.
Many a car buyer have bought used vehicles in hopes of great cost savings, only to end up spending even more due to significant problems with the vehicle.
Used vehicles can also be unsafe to drive if you fail to check it thoroughly. You can protect yourself from both costly repairs and potential road accidents by carefully picking your used car purchase.
You can check the history of your used car choice through services such as Carfax or Autocheck. These resources can let you know if your choice has been in a wreck before or if major repairs were done.
Sometimes, you can buy a vehicle in its condition — defects and all. In such cases, you can spend for repairs. You can save up on costs by purchasing used spare parts. But you'll need to find suppliers that offer parts specific to the make and model of your vehicle. For instance, KD Autospares focuses on Nissan spare parts.
The New Zealand Transport Agency recommends checking for a used vehicle's warrant of fitness. Used vehicles for sale must have warrants of fitness no older than one month. The warrant of fitness serves as a seal of approval on the safety of your choice.
To seal the deal on a vehicle's safe, working condition, you can hire a trusted mechanic to inspect it. A mechanic can assure you that all parts are working. The auto professional can also detect problems, saving you the trouble of buying an unfit vehicle.
A used car purchase can be a wise decision. But you need to keep your wits about you and carefully consider your options when choosing a vehicle.


With rising health care costs and longer life spans, many people with modest wealth have concerns about how they are going to pay for quality care without leaving their families destitute. Asset Protection is not just for the super wealthy when it comes to long term care.
Some of the options you have are 1) Long term care insurance if you are insurable and the premiums are affordable; 2) You can also choose to pay all of the costs of your care and deplete your assets leaving nothing for your family; or 3) Apply for government benefits such as Medicaid and Veterans Benefits.
By moving your assets into an irrevocable trust specifically designed with Medicaid or Veterans Benefits in mind, you can leave some of your estate for your family. These irrevocable trusts should be established by older adults who are willing to give up direct control over their assets while still maintaining control over their income.
An Irrevocable Medicaid Protection Trust is an irrevocable trust that is created for the purpose of protecting any property placed into the trust from (1) having to be spent on nursing home care for the person who created the trust (the Grantor) (2) having the property in the trust count as an asset when the Grantor applies from Medicaid, and (3) having the property placed in the trust be subject to "estate recovery." Estate recovery is the process whereby Medicaid looks to be paid back for the care paid by Medicaid from the deceased person's estate.
Irrevocable Medicaid Protection Trusts work particularly well for protecting real estate. Other assets such as cash and stocks can also be placed in an Irrevocable Medicaid Protection Trust as well, but it is not as advantageous as putting real estate into the trust.
The Veterans Benefits Asset Protection Trust works in the same way as the Medicaid Asset Protection Trust. There are, of course, different rules and forms involved but the same principals apply to both types of trusts.
Long term care asset protection planning is something that everyone needs to consider and discuss with their financial advisors or estate planning attorneys.


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Q: How to find all entries of more than one type of record in Ember.js? I have two types of records in the Ember DS.Store: users and location. (In fact I have more, but for the sake of simplicity).
Now to get all entries of, say, 'user', I would simply do
this.store.find('user')

Now say I have a variable allResults and I assign it to this command.
allResults = this.store.find('user')

This gives me what Ember calls a promiseArray, and to do anything after this promise array loads I simply
allResults.then(successfunction(), failurefunction())

Now this works great when I need only one type of record - say I need only users, I can easily call my successfunction() as the first argument.
However, my need goes beyond that: I am basically building a searchbar that searches through these records, so if someone types in "mary", it needs to both show the user "Mary" and the location "mary Ave" for example.)
So I need the combined results of
this.store.find('user')

&
this.store.find('location')

Therefore, here are my questions: [I feel that either of them would work.]

*

*Is there a way I can fetch all data pertaining to both 'user' and 'location' and have it returned as one glorious promiseArray? This seems likely and also the best way of approaching this issue.

*Can you concatenate two promiseArrays to make one larger one, then user the .then function for the larger one? If so, how?

A: You can combine promises.
http://emberjs.com/api/classes/Ember.RSVP.Promise.html
Something like this should work for you:
var bothPromise = Promise.all([
  store.find('user'),
  store.find('location')
]).then(function(values){
  //merge the values arrays
  var all = Em.A();
  all.addObjects(values[0]); //users
  all.addObjects(values[1]); //locations
  return all;
});

bothPromise.then(function(allObjects){...

See the "Combine" section at this promise library called Q for another explanation of combining promises.

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November is now here, and in a few short weeks I will join you as your pastor. To say that I am excited about the journey we have before us is a tremendous understatement!
As we finish up our ministry here in North Carolina, my family and I have surely felt your prayers for us. This goodbye hasn't been easy, and your prayers, notes, and phone calls have sustained our spirits. Thank you.
November is the time when we naturally turn our thoughts to the blessings we enjoy and our thankfulness to God for all the grace and love in our lives. This year, I am particularly grateful for the opportunity to serve Christ alongside such a faithful and loving family at River Road.
Please continue to pray for our family as we joyfully pray for you.
With our new Pastor, I find myself feeling like a young person at Christmas. I feel anxious and uneasy as to what our church will become with new blood. I understand the need for change to entice young families and children into RRC. We came to River Road in 1974 and have enjoyed the formality of the 11:00 a.m. service. As a member of the Chancel Choir for over 42 years gives me great pleasure to participate in and with some of the very best singers and musicians anywhere. At 70, I realize I am on the side of the mountain that is going down into the valley. I trust God has more for me to see and do before I rise to glory! I see a time where Christians will face new challenges in the U.S. Dear God give our new Pastor the wisdom of Solomon and the presence of Paul to lead us into a better Christian life!


I remember using graph paper to make my sprites and adding up the bits to make hex codes that would put them into the games I wrote.
There was a version for MacOS, Windows, DOS etc to make C64 games via cross compiling.
If there is software like that to make C65/M65 games, I'd be interested in making Commodore Games again.
There also was Arcade, Shoot 'em Up, and Pinball makers that did the same things.
I'd even be considering making games I create with it for free and release the source.


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Q: volatile increments with false sharing run slower in release than in debug when 2 threads are sharing the same physical core I'm trying to test the performance impact of false sharing. The test code is as below:
constexpr uint64_t loop = 1000000000;

struct no_padding_struct {
    no_padding_struct() :x(0), y(0) {}
    uint64_t x;
    uint64_t y;
};

struct padding_struct {
    padding_struct() :x(0), y(0) {}
    uint64_t x;
    char padding[64];
    uint64_t y;
};

alignas(64) volatile no_padding_struct n;
alignas(64) volatile padding_struct p;

constexpr core_a = 0;
constexpr core_b = 1;

void func(volatile uint64_t* addr, uint64_t b, uint64_t mask) {
    SetThreadAffinityMask(GetCurrentThread(), mask);
    for (uint64_t i = 0; i < loop; ++i) {
        *addr += b;
    }
}

void test1(uint64_t a, uint64_t b) {
    thread t1{ func, &n.x, a, 1<<core_a };
    thread t2{ func, &n.y, b, 1<<core_b };

    t1.join();
    t2.join();
}

void test2(uint64_t a, uint64_t b) {
    thread t1{ func, &p.x, a, 1<<core_a  };
    thread t2{ func, &p.y, b, 1<<core_b  };

    t1.join();
    t2.join();
}

int main() {
    uint64_t a, b;
    cin >> a >> b;

    auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
    //test1(a, b);
    //test2(a, b);
    auto end = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
    cout << (end - start).count();
}

The result was mostly as follow:
x86                                         x64
cores    test1           test2              cores       test1        test2
         debug  release  debug  release               debug release  debug  release
0-0      4.0s   2.8s     4.0s   2.8s        0-0       2.8s  2.8s     2.8s   2.8s
0-1      5.6s   6.1s     3.0s   1.5s        0-1       4.2s  7.8s     2.1s   1.5s
0-2      6.2s   1.8s     2.0s   1.4s        0-2       3.5s  2.0s     1.4s   1.4s
0-3      6.2s   1.8s     2.0s   1.4s        0-3       3.5s  2.0s     1.4s   1.4s
0-5      6.5s   1.8s     2.0s   1.4s        0-5       3.5s  2.0s     1.4s   1.4s

test result in image
My CPU is intel core i7-9750h. 'core0' and 'core1' are of a physical core, and so does 'core2' and 'core3' and others. MSVC 14.24 was used as the compiler.
The time recorded was an approximate value of the best score in several runs since there were tons of background tasks. I think this was fair enough since the results can be clearly divided into groups and 0.1s~0.3s error did not affect such division.
Test2 was quite easy to explain. As x and y are in different cache lines, running on 2 physical core can gain 2 times performance boost(the cost of context switch when running 2 threads on a single core is ignorable here), and running on one core with SMT is less efficient than 2 physical cores, limited by the throughput of coffee-lake(believe Ryzen can do slightly better), and more efficient than temporal multithreading. It seems 64bit mode is more efficient here.
But the result of test1 is confusing to me.
First, in debug mode, 0-2, 0-3, and 0-5 are slower than 0-0, which makes sense. I explained this as certain data was moved from L1 to L3 and L3 to L1 repeatedly since the cache must stay coherent among 2 cores, while it would always stay in L1 when running on a single core. But this theory conflicts with the fact that 0-1 pair is always the slowest. Technically, the two threads should share the same L1 cache. 0-1 should run 2 times as fast as 0-0.
Second, in release mode, 0-2, 0-3, and 0-5 were faster than 0-0, which disproved the theory above.
Last, 0-1 runs slower in release than in debug in both 64bit and 32bit mode. That's what I can't understand most. I read the generated assembly code and did not find anything helpful.

A: @PeterCordes Thank you for your analysis and advice.
I finally profiled the program using Vtune and it turns out your expectation was correct.
When running on SMT threads of the same core, machine_clear consumes lots of time, and it was more severe in Release than in Debug. This happens on both 32bit and 64bit mode.
When running on different physical cores the bottleneck was memory(store latency and false sharing),and Release was always faster since it contains significantly fewer memory access than Debug in critical part, as shown in Debug assembly(godbolt) and Release assembly(godbolt). The total instruction retired is also fewer in Release, which strengthens this point. It seems the assembly I found in Visual Studio yesterday was not correct.

A: This might be explained by hyper-threading.  Cores being shared as 2 hyperthread cores do not get double the throughout like 2 entirely separate cores might.  Instead you might get something like 1.7 times the performance.
Indeed, your processor has 6 cores and 12 threads, and core0/core1 are 2 threads on the same underlying core, if I am reading all this correctly.
In fact, if you picture in your mind how hyper-threading works, with the work of 2 separate cores interleaved, it is not surprising.


Fixed Battle Hunger against Roshan.
Fixed Berserker's Call against Roshan.
Fixed Blood Bath interaction against siege weapons.
Bloodbath now heals him for the correct amount on hero kills.
Fixed Thirst being removed instantly when no heroes are found, rather than waiting 3 seconds.
Power Cogs will no longer knock back units that are being moved by abilities (like Pudge's Meat Hook) or items (like Force Staff).
Units being knocked back by Power Cogs will now have their channels interrupted and can no longer use abilities while being knocked back (such as Leap).
Fixed Wall of Replica not providing vision.
Fixed Impetus working while silenced.
Chronosphere now properly affects siege weapons.
Fixed Torrent being slower than designed.
Fixed Torrent and Ghostship affecting Ancients/ Roshan.
Fixed vision on Sacred Arrow (traveling and endpoint).
Fixed Sprout's interaction with Linken's Sphere.
Fixed Sprout's position when targeting a moving unit.
Dismember channel will now correctly break if dispelled by Tidehunter's Kraken Shell.
Fixed Electric Vortex affecting Roshan.
Fixed Static Remnant cast point.
Fixed Geminate Attack – it will no longer break his invisibility.
Issuing an Attack-move while invisible will now cause your hero to break invisibility to attack, if you encounter an enemy.
Fixed Force Staff (and other forced movements like Pudge's Meat Hook) not triggering Rupture damage.
Fixed Force Staff affecting Roshan.
Nevermore's Requiem of Souls will now properly break him out of invisibility 1 second after the cast has begun.
Fixed Purge's ( Diffusal Blade and Satyr Banisher) slow mechanism not working correctly.
Fixed a movement calculation bug with Yasha / Sange and Yasha and other movement bonuses.
Fixed Dagon cooldown resetting after it's upgraded.
Fixed Smoke of Deceit thinking a tower was alive for a bit after it was destroyed.
Removed the hero XP bonus when picking after the game has started.
Fixed Battle Fury's cleave on denies.
Fixed suicides ending kill streaks.
Fixed Diffusal Blade not using up charges if the target has Linken's Sphere.
Fixed a bug where if you began moving from idle to auto-attack an enemy, then became invisible on the way to the enemy, you would continue to the enemy and attack it, breaking your invisibility.
Fixed "Out of Temp Viewers" crash.
The Keypad's enter key now properly works when invoking chat and team chat.
Fixed a case where items would not combine when picked up if one or more components was in the stash.
Friends list now shows hero and level for people currently in a match.
Friends list shows if a friend is currently spectating a match.
Added "Watch game" to the right click menu for friends currently playing a game.
The camera will no longer get stuck at the edges of the map when centering the camera on your hero.
Added hotkey settings for Courier and Glyph.
Added hotkey settings for purchasing the first item in your quickbuy.
Added hotkey settings for purchasing the item in your sticky section (unbound by default).
Added a game speed slider to the replay viewer, including speeds slower than default.
Increased spectator delay to two minutes.
Now shows you when spectating will start (live games are delayed by two minutes to prevent cheating).
Now shows the current match time.
Fixed a bug that prevented the respawn timer for a hero from updating if the controlling player disconnected.
Fixed voice ban button not hiding correctly for the local player.
Improved legibility of item cooldown time, item stack count and gold value on the inventory.
Fixed the Spectator's Stats panels.
Fixed not being able to set an item in the quick buy if the inventory and stash contained an uncombined version of that item.
Fixed not being able to one-click buy an item from the store if the inventory and stash contained an uncombined version of that item.
Fixed Viper's Viper Strike buff tooltip not showing correct values.
Fixed Spectators not being able to drag the camera via middle mouse.
Added more voice content to several heroes.
Added Radiant Defeat music piece.
Fixed a bug that caused heroes to play their Pain lines when they were hurting themselves (as in Bloodseeker's Bloodrage).
Fixed a bug that prevented victory music from playing for spectators.
Game Started Horn now plays 10 seconds before the game starts.
Announcer says Battle Begins 2 seconds before the game starts.
Heroes say their game start line 1.5 seconds after the game starts.
Fixed hearing heroes get hurt while fighting under the fog of war.
Added a music cue when a hero buys back into the game.
Added a music cue when Roshan dies.
Fixed the item sold sound playing multiple times.
Add new effect for Faceless Void's Chronosphere.
Faceless Void's Time Walk and Backtrack effects now properly draw his time shifted form.
Fixed Nature's Prophet's Teleportation effect not drawing properly in some cases.
Fixed Clockwerk's Power Cogs and Rocket Flare not drawing properly in some cases.
Fixed some cases where linear projectiles weren't visibile.
Fixed bots being jerks and denying teammates' creeps.
Bots will now always announce when returning to their lane during the laning phase.
Bots will now always announce when they're moving to gank an enemy.
If a bot detects that it's stuck, it will try to attempt to blink out or TP home.
Fixed a case where bots could get stuck at a side/secret shop trying to buy something they incorrectly thought they didn't have room for.
Fixed a bug where bots weren't using their Black King Bar to avoid an incoming stun.
Bots are now less likely to tunnelvision on a tower push when there are enemies attacking them.
Bots will now deny towers that are low, if it's safe enough to do so.
Fixed a bug that was preventing Tiny bot from target switching when he was trying to get into range for an Avalanche+ Toss combo.
Juggernaut bot should no longer use Healing Ward while in the fountain.
Juggernaut bot now considers casting Healing Ward when pushing or defending a lane.
Juggernaut bot now commands his Healing Ward to follow him around.
Fixed bots not responding correctly to Axe's Berserker's Call.
Lina bot will now lead targets with Dragon Slave slightly.
Lina bot will now defer to Light Strike Array more when considering casting Dragon Slave (results in her using the LSA+DS combo more).
Bots will no longer try to pick up items if they don't have a slot and don't have an item they're willing to drop.
Bots will now drop the cheapest item they're willing to part with when they want to pick up an item that they don't have room for.
Fixed bots getting stuck trying to destroy an enemy's item.
Support-hero bots (or gank-hero bots if there are no support heroes on a team) will now purchase a courier for the team, and will upgrade it to flying courier.
Bots ignore players inside the base when trying to determine which lane the player is going to.
Made bots a bit more likely to retreat when being ganked before they reach the point of being almost dead.


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Biografia
Bertoldo II, così come il padre Bertoldo I, sostenne Rudolfo von Rheinfelden, di cui sposò la figlia Agnese (1079). Nel 1077 sia i Rheinfelden che gli Zähringen vennero spogliati dei loro titoli e dei loro possedimenti dal re in favore degli Eppenstein, con la quale entrarono in uno stato di ostilità. Bertoldo, alleato dell'abate di Reichenau Eccheardo II di Nellenburg, attaccò a più riprese i possedimenti l'abbazia di San Gallo, retto dall'abate Ulrico, della stirpe rivale degli Eppenstein, come le continuazioni anonime delle Cronache di San Gallo si soffermano più volte: quando questo venne nominato patriarca di Aquileia, nel 1086, vide il monastero attaccato da Bertoldo. Un'altra serie di attacchi si ebbero nel contesto della lotta per il controllo della carica di vescovo di Costanza, retto dal fratello Gebeardo III di Zähringen in contrapposizione ad Arnoldo di Heiligenberg.

Alla morte di Bertoldo I di Rheinfelden, Bertoldo cercò di ottenere i loro territori in Borgogna. Appoggiato dalla casata dei Welfen e dal papa, nel 1092 venne eletto duca di Svevia. Nel 1097 dovette però rinunciare al titolo in favore di Federico I di Svevia, mantenendo, a titolo di compenso, il rango di duca. Per questo Bertoldo II è il primo duca di Zähringen. Nel 1092 venne eletto duca di Carinzia e margravio di Verona.

Bertoldo II estese la propria signoria attraverso la fondazione di nuovi insediamenti e monasteri, soprattutto nella Foresta Nera. Nel 1093 fondò il monastero benedettino di San Pietro nella Foresta Nera, dove vennero poi sepolti tutti gli Zähringen.

A Bertoldo II succedette Bertoldo III. Anche Corrado I, che divenne duca di Zähringen alla morte di Bertoldo III, era figlio di Bertoldo II.

Famiglia e figli
Sposò Agnese di Rheinfelden, figlia dell'anti-re Rodolfo di Svevia e di Adelaide di Savoia. Essi ebbero:

 Bertoldo (nato attorno al 1080);
 Rodolfo II (1082 circa-1111), conte di Rheinfelden;
 Bertoldo III, duca di Zähringen (r.1111-1122), succeduto da suo fratello, Corrado I;
 Corrado I, duca di Zähringen;
 Agnese († dopo l'8 gennaio 1125), che sposò Guglielmo II di Borgogna-Besançon;
 Liutgarda (morta giovane);
 Petrissa (1095 circa-prima del 1116), che sposò Federico I di Pfirt;
 Liutgarda (1098 circa-25 marzo 1131), che sposò Goffredo di Calw;
 Giuditta (nata nel 1100 circa), sposò Ulrico II di Gammertingen.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Duchi di Svevia
Duchi di Carinzia
Duchi di Zähringen
Zähringen

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Checking in with Cat Bruce – Vincent Black Lightning
by Corinna Mantlo | Jul 20, 2016 | Community, Films, MFF 2014 | 0 comments
Cat Bruce won the Short Narrative award at the 2nd annual MFF for her film Vincent Black Lightning, an animated film that follows the heartwarming yet tragic love story of Red Molly and James, A film about love, motorbikes, and a redheaded girl. Read all about Cat and the MFF award winning film here: http://motorcyclefilmfestival.com/vincent-black-lightning/.
Vincent Black Lightning will be screened at Petrolettes festival in Berlin July 29-31 2016 as part of an MFF films from the female perspective, so we took a few minutes to check in with Cat.
MFF: What new projects do you have in the works?
CB: After making Vincent Black Lightning, I went on to make a number of promotional animations, including a music video for a band called STRAW: vimeo.com/102508143. Following that, I made a short animated film called No Place like Home, focusing on a woman dealing with the threat of eviction. The trailer can be seen here: vimeo.com/154026285. I'm currently working on a few projects including another music video, and a promotional animation for a company I've worked for many times, called Black Cow Vodka, who make Vodka from the milk of grass grazed cows in West Dorset, England.
MFF: How did you find out about the MFF?
CB: I just happened to come across the festival online after making Vincent Black Lightning (an animated music promo) for musician Ewan Robertson in 2014.
MFF: Have you attended the MFF?
CB: I have not attended! I would have loved to, but as I live in Scotland, it would have been a very big trip, but maybe I will go another year!
MFF: How did you get into making films?
CB: I went to Edinburgh College of Art, and originally wanted to take the sculpture course. In my first year, I tried out all sorts of stuff, and after creating an animation, I fell in love with it and decided to do my degree in animation, which lead in to freelance animation jobs and making my own films.
MFF: Was making motorcycle films always an interest, or was this film an exception in your work?
CB: It was an exception, however, I have been inspired and may venture back into the animated realm of motorcycles.
MFF: Do you ride motorcycles?
CB: I do not ride motorcycles, however I don't drive either. I've always thought that if I was going to use any vehicle, it would be a motorbike, but I haven't gotten round to it yet. So I cycle a pedal bike and make engine noises with my mouth in the meantime.
MFF: Is there anything you'd like to say as a woman filmmaker of a motorcycle themed film specifically?
CB: It was a great fun film to make. For me, when I think of motorcycles, I get a sense of freedom and adventure, which is something that as a female filmmaker, really resonates. As a filmmaker, you should be adventurous in what you are making, and you have the freedom to show people how you see the world. This is an important thing to remember, especially when at the moment, there are far fewer well known female filmmakers than males. The male point of view can dominate media, and that is why it is so significant to encourage female filmmakers and filmmakers from any other minority group; so we can see that there is more than one perspective, more than one way to live, more than one way to have an adventure, and more than one way to be free.
MFF: Anything else you'd like to add?
CB: I grew up in the highlands of Scotland, where we have a yearly Harley-Davidson festival called Thunder in the Glens, and I remember as a kid I really looked forward to it. Hundreds (or what seemed like hundreds) of folk from all over the world on Harleys, and other motorbikes would ride through all the wee highland villages, until they got to Aviemore where there was music and food. And it was so loud, it really did sound like thunder. It's quite a poignant memory, watching and hearing these big thunderous and super cool motorcycles roaring past as a small kid. So it probably has positively affected the way in which I see motorcycles. Just thought I should give it a shout out.

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Manafort indictment also implicates Tony Podesta, the Clinton-connected superlobbyist | BizPac Review
Manafort indictment also implicates Tony Podesta, the Clinton-connected superlobbyist
September 14, 2018 | BPR Wire | Print Article
Chuck Ross, DCNF
Clinton-connected lobbyist Tony Podesta knew he was working with Paul Manafort on behalf of a Ukrainian politician, according to an indictment released Friday by the special counsel's office.
Podesta, Manafort and Mercury Public Affairs all failed to register as foreign agents of Ukraine for the work.
Manafort entered a plea agreement with the special counsel Friday.
Two lobbying firms, including one owned by Democratic superlobbyist Tony Podesta, knowingly worked with Paul Manafort at the direction of the Ukrainian government, according to an indictment released Friday by the special counsel's office.
Image: Tony Podesta, Photo by Rebecca D'Angelo/For the Washington Post.
The indictment, which was released ahead of an expected plea deal for Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, says that as a part of his "lobbying scheme," Manafort solicited two lobbying firms in February 2012 to lobby on behalf of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
"Various employees of Companies A and B understood that they were receiving direction from MANAFORT and President Yanukovych, not the Centre, which was not even operational when Companies A and B began lobbying for Ukraine," reads the indictment. The Centre is a reference to the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a Brussels-based non-profit that the government says was used to support Yanukovych.
Company A has been identified as Mercury Public Affairs, a lobbying shop operated by former Republican Congressman Vin Weber. Company B has been identified as Podesta Group, the firm that Tony Podesta founded with his brother, John, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Manafort is expected to plead guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and obstruction of justice. He was convicted in federal court in Virginia on Aug. 21 on bank fraud, tax fraud and money laundering charges. He was scheduled to face trial in Washington, D.C. on charges directly related to his consulting work for Yanukovych.
Nobody from Podesta Group or Mercury Public Affairs has faced charges in the case, though the latest indictment suggests that the lobbying firms skirted federal law by failing to register as foreign agents with the Justice Department.
According to the indictment, Manafort knowingly avoided registering with the Justice Department and lied to the government about his work for Yanukovych, who was forced to leave office in 2014.
The indictment lays out evidence that Manafort, his business partner Rick Gates, and employees at Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group were aware they were working for Yanukovych.
The head of Company B, believed to be Podesta, told his employees "to think the President of Ukraine 'is the client.'"
The indictment also cites evidence that an employee of the Podesta Group realized that the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine was being used as cover for Yanukovych.
"An employee of Company B described the Centre as a fig leaf, and the Centre's written certification that it was not related to the Party of Regions as 'a fig leaf on a fig leaf,' referring to the Centre in an email as the 'European hot dog stand for a Modern Ukraine,'" the indictment reads.
"Company B wrote in an email to its team about a 'potential representation for the Ukraine,' having been contacted 'at the suggestion of Paul Manafort who has been working on the current PM elections.'"
The indictment also says that Manafort, Gates, and "employees of both Companies A and B referred to the client in ways that made clear they knew it was Ukraine, for instance noting that the 'client' had an Embassy in Washington D.C."
Working at Manafort's direction, Mercury and Podesta Group lobbied dozens of members of Congress, their staffers, and White House and State Department officials regarding a host of issues related to Ukraine, including the validity of its elections.
Manafort frequently briefed Yanukovych on Mercury and Podesta's lobbying activities. He also tasked the companies to prepare reports that he could provide to Yanukovych.
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Максим Анатолійович Ілюк ( 10 листопада 1990, Красноїльськ, Чернівецька область, УРСР) — український футболіст, нападник клубу «Волока».

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Клубна кар'єра
Перший тренер Максима — В. Бужак. У дитячо-юнацькій футбольній лізі України виступав за чернівецьку «Буковину» з 2006 року по 2007 рік. Влітку 2007 року потрапив в основну команду «Буковини», клуб виступав у другій лізі чемпіонату України. У складі команди дебютував 29 липня 2007 року в матчі проти «Нафтовика» з міста Долина (1:0), Ілюк почав матч в основі, але на 60 хвилині був замінений. У сезоні 2007/08 Ілюк забив 11 м'ячів і став найкращим бомбардиром команди, разом із Степаном Маковійчук. В кінці сезону він не міг грати через травму. В чернівецькій команді провів півтора року і зіграв за «Буковину» 45 матчів в яких забив 18 м'ячів.

У грудні 2008 року підписав трирічний контракт з донецьким «Шахтарем». Також їм цікавилися: донецький «Металург» і «Дніпро», а також московські «Локомотив» і «Спартак». Ілюк в «Шахтарі» виступав за дублюючий склад який виступав в молодіжній першості України. У сезоні 2008/09 «Шахтар» вперше став переможцем молодіжної першості. У наступному сезоні «Шахтар» став срібним призером першості поступившись лише львівським «Карпатам». У сезоні 2010/11 «Шахтар» знову став переможцем молодіжного чемпіонату. Ілюк виступаючи за дубль «Шахтаря» протягом двох з половиною роки провів 40 матчів в яких забив 13 м'ячів.

Влітку 2011 року перейшов на правах оренди в луганську «Зорю». Виступав за клуб протягом сезону 2011/12. У Прем'єр-лізі України дебютував 9 липня 2011 року в 1 турі чемпіонату в виїзному матчі проти сімферопольської «Таврії» (3:1), Ілюк вийшов на 79 хвилині замість Бруно Ренана. Всього за «Зорю» Максим провів 9 матчів в Прем'єр-лізі України і 1 матч в Кубку України. А також виступав і за молодіжний склад «Зорі» з якої став срібним призером молодіжної першості України.

У 2013 році повернувся в донецький «Шахтар», де був направлений в третю команду, протягом півтора року провів 22 матчі в яких забив 5 м'ячів. Взимку 2015 року перейшов на правах оренди в маріупольський «Іллічівець». Де Максим виступав протягом півроку. Влітку продовжив контракт ще на один рік. У літнє міжсезоння 2016 року залишив склад «приазовців». 1 березня 2017 року підписав контракт з рідною «Буковиною», в якій виступав до закінчення 2016/2017 сезону. Після отримання статусу вільного агента, тривалий час підтримував форму виступаючи за команду «Іванківці» в чемпіонаті Чернівецької області, а згодом розпочав виступати і за один із найсильніших аматорських клубів чемпіонату Чернівецької області: «Волока» (2018–2019, з 2022).

Кар'єра в збірній
У 2009 році провів 2 матчі за юнацьку збірну України до 19 років проти Латвії і Росії. Ілюк був претендентом на потрапляння до складу на юнацький чемпіонат Європи до 19 років в Донецьку і Маріуполі, але через травму Юрій Калитвинцев не взяв його на турнір.

Досягнення
 Переможець молодіжної першості України (2): 2008/09, 2010/11
 Срібний призер молодіжної першості України (2): 2009/10, 2011/12

Посилання

Уродженці Чернівецької області
Уродженці Сторожинецького району
Українські футболісти
Футболісти «Буковини» (Чернівці)
Футболісти «Шахтаря-2»
Футболісти «Зорі» (Луганськ)
Футболісти «Шахтаря-3»
Футболісти «Маріуполя»
Гравці МФК «Урожай»


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Writing is the key to express my inner soul and the demons within. It's a way to release my dreams along with a vivid, wild imagination. Some are based on truth while I look to the future to answer questions of who we are and where do we come from.
I reach deep within the darkness of my soul to bring to light of what is or what can be. As I write about "Darkness Within", my heart is troubled by the amount of suicides we hear of everyday. Unfortunately, it's only the famous who really get recognized, as others will suffer in silence.
Within days two icon personalities have left us. Kate Spade and now Anthony Bourdain. Not long ago we heard of Robin Williams. All were gifted souls with incredible talent. As human beings we must not forget about those struggling in their darkness of despair, putting on a "pretend face" in public, scared to reach out due to being ridiculed as weak or loosing supposed friends.
Chronic Depression is a real disease. It grabs you and takes you to this dark place never letting go. You feel embarrassed to speak about it because no one really listens.
Sometimes, all you need are real friends and a hug. Seriously – it's a personal fight within your soul.
Those who don't understand it, will never ever understand why.
My heart is deeply sadden.
If only we can talk to each other without feeling ashamed or singled out. We don't have to fight the darkness within alone. All anyone needs to do is really listen.
May your Soul find Peace Anthony and Kate. A great loss to us all. I wrote Soul Saver because of depression – it was my way to reach out after the death of my daughter Jenni.


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We are officially, albeit slowly, transitioning our small practice to VW Landmark. I've been running two trials back to back on different computers to try and get the hang of the software and although I've been tinkering and watching all the videos I can for several weeks I can say with certainty that I am still just scratching the surface.
Do you really need to use pervious materials? in a flood plain? or is it a flood way?
How do I contribute? I think the biggest challenge is building up a standardized plant library. Tools for grading and drainage would be great.
I was in school, but also working for several firms. i always received positive feedback on my work from instructors, other students, and prospective employers. it could be said that i had a very strong portfolio, coupled with solid work experience–all before graduation.
vray is the best, longer learning curve though..
My advice: if you're job searching, bypass the larger cities and look for growth opportunities in small, medium cities and towns–if your goal is to make a living. If you want to be a small fish in a big ocean and maybe do some cad for some very prestigious projects go for the big city.
I think you're just being a contrarian.
I agree that virtually ANY development creates more work for LA's and other allied professionals, even so-called 'suburban sprawl.' We could argue semantics on that one all day.
I spent most of the day yesterday with the Landmark trial and a handful of the tutorials VW offers and as much as I WANT to love Landmark, I'm really having a hard time justifying spending more time with it.
Like I said, we are still a very small upstart, but have invested in technology to give us an advantage over other larger firms and it has paid off–however slowly.
We are a small firm of two, both with over a decade of experience in AutoCAD. We are looking to transition to a BIM platform, but I am waffling between something like a Land f/x addon and VW Landmark.
Anyone able to share a few details, maybe a good site, layout plan?
For what it's worth, I have been listening to the audio version of 'Creativity Inc.' about the founding and management of Pixar studios. I am finding it to be entertaining and focused mainly on the interplay between creativity and process management.
Post your portfolio here. I'll critique.


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Someone uses your credit card details to make online purchases. The funds are taken from your account without your knowledge or consent.
Depending on the nature of how funds are lost, banks will only refund consumers for loss of funds if it happens at a bank controlled pay point i.e. restaurant checkout, service station. But the banks will not reimburse funds lost if the money was taken because the consumer willingly provided their details i.e. online payment, in-app purchases, suspicious website, keystroke logging, clicking on a link that installed malware on their devices or specifically a Trojan.


Information on this page will help parents and carers support their children with learning at home. To meet the requirements of the new National Curriculum, we have revised expectations in key areas to ensure that children are able to progress at the required rate.
We would really like ev ery child to read at least three times a week with an adult. This is the most important area for parents to support children's learning and our experience shows us that children that have this help at home make the most progress. Please record home reading in either the reading records or homework diaries.
The children will be set a weekly homework task which will be given out on a Wednesday and will be handed in the following Monday. The homework will be alternated each week and will usually be a maths, reading comprehension or grammar task. Homework will be accompanied by a guidance sheet outlining expectations and optional comments box. Each half-term there will also be a learning log task linked to the current topic. For this there will be a selection of different activities for children to choose from. The Learning Log activity will start after the October half-term.
Children in Years 1- 6 will have weekly spellings to practise at home, ready for a test in school. These spellings will be based on words that each year group are required to spell as part of the new curriculum. Children will be assessed in class to find out their 'gaps' which will determine the appropriate spelling phase. This assessment will be repeated each half-term and moved on accordingly.
Spelling phase lists will be sent home each week on a Monday and will be tested on a Friday. In addition to this, each year group will have a weekly spelling focus in class, which will look at specific spelling patterns and rules. We are aiming to have all spelling lists on the year group pages of the new website as soon as possible.
We have reviewed our approach to teaching times tables, in line with the requirements of the new curriculum. Each week children will carry out an activity in school to help them learn the times table off by heart; we would also like them to practise at home as this will really help them in their general maths lessons.
Year 1 - know number bonds to 20, including adding and subtracting; counting in groups of 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 2 - know number facts up to 100. Recall multiplication and division facts for 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 3 - recall multiplication and division facts for 3s, 4s and 8s.
Year 4 - recall multiplication and division facts up to 12x12.
Year 5 - use known multiplication facts up to 12x12 to mentally calculate larger numbers (i.e 6 x 60 = 360); to identify multiples and factors of numbers; to know prime numbers.
Year 6 - use known multiplication and division facts to calculate written methods for long multiplication and division; to be able to multiply fractions and decimals.
Reading and spelling homework will be related to the phonics being covered and the needs of the child. The children will start with learning their initial sounds; they will then apply this knowledge to reading and writing, CVC, high frequency and tricky words. At some stage over the year your child will progress onto reading books. The children will be sent home with a weekly task relating to the above. For more information see Year R under the Classes tab.


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Buzzfeed: Trump's Son In Crosshairs Of Special Counsel Mueller
Federal prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller are focusing keenly on the president's son Donald Trump Jr. and are trying to determine his intent when he attended a controversial June 9, 2016, meeting with a Russian lawyer, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Three public interest groups in July filed complaints with the FEC and the Justice Department, requesting an investigation into whether election laws were violated at the June 9 meeting. Lawrence Noble, general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit election law group that joined in the complaint, said that to get a criminal indictment prosecutors would "want to show that Donald Trump Jr. specifically knew that he was talking to a foreign national, and that he was encouraging them to take action that would support the campaign." He said willfulness can be difficult to prove: "That means that you know what you were doing, and you knew it was illegal."


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Contract extension for Gallagher to be considered
Bob Gallagher's contract as interim city manager in Sunland Park could be extended
Contract extension for Gallagher to be considered Bob Gallagher's contract as interim city manager in Sunland Park could be extended Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/28NJRBg
Steve Ramirez, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 7:43 p.m. MT June 18, 2016
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LAS CRUCES - Another six-month extension to a contract between Sunland Park and interim City Manager Bob Gallagher will be considered its city council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Sunland Park City Hall, 1000 McNutt Road.
Gallagher has been serving since early February as Sunland Park's temporary city manager. He was hired after former city manager Robert Coleman resigned in late December 2015 to become budget and grants manger for the city of Las Cruces.
Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea cast the deciding vote among the seven-member city council, on Feb. 2, to hire Gallagher. His contract then, as it is now, will remain the same, with a take-home salary of $8,000 a month and stipulations that he will pay for his own health insurance, and his contract could be terminated with 30 days notice.
"He's done a good job in the time he has been with us," Perea said. "The city has made some strides in the time he has been with the city, and I hope the rest of the council will feel the same."
Gallagher's contract expires June 30.
An evaluation of Gallagher's performance as temporary city manager was conducted by the council about two weeks ago, and he was apparently given a favorable review. Gallagher has been serving on a part-time basis as the top administrator of Sunland Park's city government. Two weeks out of every month, Gallagher is in Sunland Park to oversee city operations. The other two weeks of every month Gallagher continues in his position as part-time city manager in Jal.
"I've very much enjoyed the time I've had in Sunland Park," Gallagher said. "I hope it can continue. I am convinced Sunland Park can continue to grow economically. I would like to believe I have worked well with the city council and the hard-working staff they have. There remains many tremendous opportunities for Sunland Park."
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This week SFF authors M.E.Vaughan and J.A.Ironside take a look at how the entities of 'Faery' changed from centuries of press as capricious, mischievous and sometimes malevolent 'others' in folklore, to the neat, pretty and minute bewinged coquettes that are most familiar today, during the Victorian era. Looking at the literature of the time including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie and Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market as well as traditional folktales, the incident of the Cottingley Fairies and the art and ballet inspired by Shakespeare's rendering of fairies in Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tempest, to the influence this has had on modern writers such as Holly Black, Sarah J Maas and Marissa Meyer. One thing is certain, the 'fairy' remains an elusive and shadowy figure in mythology, despite the centuries of propaganda.


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What YouTube's removal of the dislike button could mean for the future of the public sphere…
On November 22, 2021 By aliceherrickIn Uncategorized
Earlier this month, YouTube officially removed the dislike counter on every video on their platform. The dislike button will still be active, but the number of dislikes on a video will be private, only to be viewed by the creator through the YouTube analytics tab. YouTube's publicly stated reasoning for this change was the result of an experiment performed back in March of 2021. "…we experimented with the dislike button to see whether or not changes could help better protect our creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks — where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator's videos" From the experiment they concluded that, "they [creators] were less likely to target a video's dislike button to drive up the count. In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior." Matt Koval, head creator liaison at YouTube, released a video addressing the change, explaining that the removal of the dislike counter was necessary to combat creator harassment since, "half of YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice". But it's statements like that, that a majority of the YouTube community feels that the company's decision was both tone-deaf and inauthentic.
Matt Koval, Head Creator Liaison at YouTube, explains the change in his announcement video
YouTube claims that this meant to help out the smaller creators, but a quick glance at the comment section on Matt Koval's announcement video reveals that almost every creator, regardless of audience size, is against this change… everyone except for the most powerful. The majority of YouTube videos that have a massive ratio of dislikes to likes tend to be mega corporations and brands, political press conferences and news networks, and somewhat ironically, YouTube's own official content. In fact, the most disliked video on the platform to date was YouTube Rewind 2018.
It is key to remember that the reactionary functions on a YouTube video (the comment section and like/dislike buttons), are a form of the public sphere; a space that can be metaphysical, where people can come together and exchange options and ideas. Any comment section or online forum is a public sphere, but by removing the dislike button, YouTube is removing a tool of expression that helps the public communicate in this metaphysical sphere. By limiting access within this sphere, we have less of an authentic understanding of public opinion. Matt Koval briefly stated towards the end of his announcement video that many other platforms don't even have a dislike button, therefor we'll probably all get used to this change in no time. Right?
Well, take a look a video on Instagram that a majority of viewers didn't enjoy. It's very likely that the top pinned comments from users that read something along the line of "use me as the dislike button", are overwhelmed with upvotes. When in doubt, we want our opinions to be heard, so we'll always find ways to communicate that within the public sphere. I predict that it won't be long before pinned comments take the place of the dislike button, and YouTube either has to reassess their decision to remove the dislike counter, or decide to disable comments altogether.
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