No sweets for diwali, No! That's what my brain was telling me all through the week. So I decided to make something and use a shortcut. I've heard about rosogollar payesh and have been wanting to try it. And I can get ready made rasgullas, that's half my work done.
I used one tin of rasgullas and the syrup to sweeten the milk. It took me a while to thicken the milk, about a couple of hours, but it was sitting in the back and I stirred it often and let it do its magic. I cooked the rasgullas for 5-10 min in the milk which gave it a nice creaminess. I threw in a good handful of almonds for crunchiness and that's it!
It's really simple, here's how to do it.
Take 5-6 tspoon of warm milk and soak the saffron. Heat the rest of the milk in a thick bottomed pan. Leave a spoon in the pan so that the milk doesn't spill over. Heat it on medium low and let it come to a boil.
After it has been boiling for an hour, add in the syrup, half of the saffron and let it cook to another hour. You want to end up with about 2-3 cups of milk.
Add the rasgollas, the rest of the saffron and almonds and let it cook for another 5 minutes on low.
Take it off the heat and chill before serving.
Happy Diwali! Have a bright and sparkling one.
You may also want to check out the e-book the the Indus Ladies published with 100 sweet recipes including one of mine.
For more rosogollar payesh see here and here.
The weather is changing, we're changing our wardrobe, putting things away from the summer. And in the midst of all this, I've lost my camera. There I've said it aloud! It's been a little more than a month, I kept thinking we've misplaced it somewhere, but I haven't found it. The possibilities of it being in a closet or a drawer is becoming slimmer and slimmer, unless Little A has a stash hiding in his special corner somewhere in the house!
I've resorted to taking pictures with my iPhone till I get a new camera, and all the pics for this post was taken by it. Not too bad, what do you think?
I made this aloo gobi paratha recently, and it turned out quite well. Little A had a special small one which he ate with raita. I'm going to try making more of these. What other vegetable can I use? Do tell.
So to make it easier, I boiled the potatoes and grated the cauliflower and mixed it together with the dough to help rolling out and it helped. I didn't use any extra water and the parathas were soft.
Boil the potatoes and mix it well with the grated cauliflower, coriander and cumin powder and the pepper.
Take the dough, add the salt, chilli powder, a tspoon of oil and mix it with the potato and cauliflower mix. You can do it the other way too, putting the filling in the middle and rolling it out. But mixing it together is easier and helps me in rolling out the parathas. Keep it aside for about 30 minutes or so.
Heat a hot griddle or pan, cook both sides, put a tspoon of oil and cook till the brown spots appear.
Shubho Bijoya everyone. How was your dusshera/Navratri/Durga Pujo. Here is a picture from the pujo we went to over the weekend.
For the pujo prasad, I made some saffron sandesh. The last time I made sandesh was for diwali 3 years ago. My mom was here, and I had plenty of help. This time, I was on my own.
I made chana (cheese) at home by boiling milk and curdling it with lime juice. I hung it in cheese cloth in two batches. And here is what happened. One batch came out well - the chana was smooth. The other one retained a little bit water (I didn't know that at the time), so the sandesh from that batch had small grains (you can see it in the images). The tip I got from my mom - put something heavy on the chana like a pan filled with water. This will help dehydrate the chana completely. I am going to try it next time.
The sandesh tasted great. Everyone including Little A and his little friend at the pujo loved it. After the first one, Little A's friend came up to me and asked for another sweet. I offered her an alternative. "Do you want some strawberries?," I asked. "Does it have sugar in it?," she asked back. "No," I said. "Then I'll just have another sweet," she said and walked away with another sandesh.
Soak the saffron in the milk and keep it aside. Mix the chana and the sugar really well taking care that there is no lumps. Once it's mixed well, transfer it to a deep botton pan on low medium heat and keep stirring it.
It will loose water first and then start binding together. Keep stirring till it begins to stick together almost like a dough.
Take it off the heat, mix the safrron milk and put it in the processor to make it smooth.
Make small balls, flatten them and put a sliver of almond in the middle.
And this is going to Susan's Black and White Wednesdays. Thanks Suasan!


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Gene Harris (born Eugene Haire, September 1, 1933 – January 16, 2000) was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.

From 1956 to 1970, he played in The Three Sounds trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy. During this time, The Three Sounds recorded regularly for Blue Note and Verve.

He mostly retired to Boise, starting in the late 1970s, although he performed regularly at the Idanha Hotel there. Ray Brown convinced him to go back on tour in the early 1980s. He played with the Ray Brown Trio and then led his own groups, recording mostly on Concord Records, until his death from kidney failure in 2000. One of his most popular numbers was his "Battle Hymn of the Republic," a live version of which is on his Live at Otter Crest album, published by Concord. The singer and actress Niki Haris is his daughter.

Discography

As leader

As sideman
 Branching Out (with Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin) (1958, Riverside)
 A Double Dose of Soul (with James Clay, Nat Adderley) (1960, Riverside)
 Organ-izing (with Melvin Rhyne) (1960, Jazzland)
 Blue Note Live at The Roxy (with the Blue Note All-Stars) (1976, Blue Note)
  'S Wonderful: Concord Jazz Salutes Ira Gershwin (with various artists) (1979, Concord)
 Soul Route (with Milt Jackson Quartet) (1983, Pablo)
 When the Sun Goes Down (with Ernestine Anderson) (1984, Concord)
 Soular Energy (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1984, Concord)
 Don't Forget the Blues (with the Ray Brown All Stars) (1985, Concord)
 The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1985, Concord) recorded live at the 'Blue Note'
 A Gentleman and His Music (with Benny Carter) (1985, Concord)
 Love Me Tender (with Junko Mine and the Ray Brown Trio) (1986, All Art [Japan])
 Summer Wind: Live at The Loa (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1988 [1990], Concord)
 Bam Bam Bam (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1988, Concord) recorded live at the Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival
 The 20th Concord Festival All-Stars (with various artists) (1988, Concord)
 Black Orpheus (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1989, Evidence)
 Mr. Blue (with Takashi Ohi and the Ray Brown Trio) (1989, Denon)
 Moore Makes 4 (with Ralph Moore and the Ray Brown Trio) (1990, Concord)
 At Last (Gene Harris/Scott Hamilton Quintet) (1990, Concord)
 Live at The Apollo (with B.B. King) (1990, GRP)
 Concord Jazz Festival: Live 1990 (with various artists) (1990, Concord)
 Concord Jazz Festival: Live 1990, Vol. 3 (with various artists) (1990, Concord)
 Three Dimensional (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1991, Concord)
 A Concord Jazz Christmas (with various artists) (1991, Concord)
 Georgia on My Mind (with the Ray Brown Trio) (1991, All Art [Japan])
 Jazz Celebration: Tribute to Carl Jefferson (with various artists) (1992, Concord)
 Fujitsu-Concord 25th Jazz Festival (with various artists) (1993, Concord)
 Fujitsu-Concord 26th Jazz Festival (with various artists) (1994, Concord)
 I Waited for You (with Mary Stallings) (1994, Concord)
 Spectrum (with Mary Stallings) (1996, Concord)
 It's the Real Soul (with Frank Wess (1996, Concord)
 Down Home Blues (with Jack McDuff) (1997, Concord)
 Dreaming A Dream (with Niki Haris) (1997, BMG)
 Just Friends (with Marian McPartland) (1998, Concord)

Compilations
 The Best of The Three Sounds (with The Three Sounds) (1993, Blue Note)
 Gene Harris: The Concord Jazz Heritage Series (1998, Concord)
 The Blue Note Years (with The Three Sounds) (1999, Blue Note)
 Gene Harris: The Best of the Concord Years (2000, Concord) 2-CD
 The Complete Blue Hour Sessions (The Three Sounds with Stanley Turrentine) (2000, Blue Note) 2-CD
 Big Band Soul (with the Gene Harris Superband) (contains Live At Town Hall, N.Y.C. + World Tour 1990) (2002, Concord) 2-CD
 Swingin' the Blues (2002, Recall) 2-CD
 Ballad Essentials (2003, Concord)
 Live From New York To Tokyo (with the Ray Brown Trio) (contains The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio + Bam Bam Bam) (2003, Concord) 2-CD
 Instant Party (2004, Concord)

References

External links
Official website
Gene Harris discography
Gene Harris Jazz Festival
Biography (Allmusic via VH1)
Gene Harris on Resonance Records

Honors
The Gene Harris bandshell in Boise's Ann Morrison park is named in his honor.
The Gene Harris Jazz Festival is an annual event in Boise that brings together the best of Boise jazz and education in memory of the city's most famous jazz musician.

1933 births
2000 deaths
Soul-jazz musicians
African-American pianists
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
People from Benton Harbor, Michigan
Blue Note Records artists
Concord Records artists
Jazz musicians from Michigan
20th-century American pianists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
The Three Sounds members
20th-century African-American musicians

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Dining » Dining Lead
Sarita Opens in Former Players Spot, Though Doesn't Quite Achieve Same Heights
by Douglas Trattner
Emanuel Wallace
14523 Madison Ave., Lakewood | 216-226-5200
sarita-restaurant.com
I had my concerns about Sarita before we even walked in the door. Standing on the sidewalk, peering through the enormous storefront windows, it looked as if every last diner in Cleveland had the very same idea that evening. Fortunately we had reservations, which were honored immediately, but, man, was that joint jumping. A large private party gobbled up the entire second room, both the bar and communal table were 100-percent vacancy-free, and we were seated in what appeared to be the last remaining chairs in the entire restaurant.
In terms of service, my fears turned out to be unfounded. Apart from an initial delay, our server was a champ operating under very challenging circumstances. The food, on the other hand, didn't fare as well. Both the barbecued pork chop ($24) and the miso-glazed cod ($26) entrees were total busts. The former suffered from overcooked meat, crunchy, undercooked onion rings and chilly polenta. The latter was cooked to a dry, crumbling heap and partnered with an oily, soggy vegetable spring roll. The sauce? Sriracha, straight from the bottle. Our server, to her credit, removed the fish from the tab of her own volition.
Diners learned last fall that longtime Player's owner Gary Lucarelli was selling his popular Lakewood restaurant to his longtime chef Anthony Romano. Sarita, we soon discovered, would take its spot. Romano described his fresh concept as a modern, health-conscious, New American bistro with Asian, Latin and Mediterranean influences. Following a wholesale interior renovation, Sarita opened its doors in mid-November.
Sarita, post-makeover, is sharper, brighter and more cosmopolitan than I recall Players being. It's also spare, largely featureless and loud as hell when the dining room is full. Apart from a handful of monotone wall hangings, which I assume are ineffectual sound-dampening panels, the decor pretty much is limited to a Pinterest-worthy silverware chandelier and wall art assembled from tableware.
Given the time of year, we chalked up the initial experience to the pre-holiday rush and gave Sarita another shot. We were glad we did as the subsequent post-holiday, mid-week meal was tranquil, the servers were unflustered and the food was delivered hot, fresh and mostly unblemished. Instead of being the cute new girl at school, Sarita had settled into its familiar role as approachable neighborhood bistro.
After working in the same kitchen for 16 years, Romano might have a different definition of "modern" and "New American" food than I do. Asian-spiced calamari with Napa slaw, blue cheese-encrusted beef tenderloin and horseradish-crusted grouper all might be delicious, but they aren't exactly cutting edge. In fact, many dishes here are not new at all, but rather holdovers from the Players playlist.
Our meals tended to be up-and-down affairs. How can one not devour a cast iron skillet of oven-hot cornbread ($4), served with honey and spice-kissed butter? That bread was all but crumbs in a pan when the roasted beets ($10) arrived, which, despite the appealing name, were simply ice-cold sliced cooked beets sprinkled with some crushed nuts and paired with goat cheese. "You really have to love beets to like this dish," a tablemate uttered matter-of-factly.
Romano's crispy pork belly appetizer ($11) takes some interesting turns, perched as the perfect cubes are on crispy tostones and capped with dollops of cool and tangy creme fraiche. But the meat is so lean, fat-free and firm that it tastes as though it came from a completely different part of the pig. While devoid of any actual lumps of sweet meat, the crab cakes ($12) are perfectly enjoyable renditions of the classic starter.
The most common buzz words associated with New American cooking are "local" and "seasonal," but Sarita buries that bone-in barbecued pork chop beneath a mound of out-of-season corn-tomato salsa. The only complaint I can muster about Romano's wholesome bouillabaisse ($27), a medley of clams, shrimp, scallops, white fish and potatoes in a flavorful broth, is the price, which strikes me as high given the catch.
In fact, much of the menu comes across as steep. Granted, it's a huge portion, but $20 for cavatelli and meatballs in a straightforward marinara doesn't exactly scream value. Sarita's pepperoni and sausage pizza — a doughy Cleveland-style pie that's heavy on the sweet sauce and cheese and light on crunch — weighs in at $16.
At these prices, Sarita feels more like a special occasion restaurant than a neighborhood mainstay that will solicit repeated visits from neighbors and friends, the type of place where attentive and professional servers know and welcome guests by name, the kind of place that survives for decades on good vibes. A place, coincidentally, like Players.
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Minnie Minoso, Major League Baseball's First Black Latino Star, Dies
By Sam Sanders,
Sam Sanders
Published March 1, 2015 at 8:40 PM EST
Nam Y Huh
Minnie Minoso smiles in front of a sculpture of him before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at U.S. Cellular Field. Major League Baseball's first black Latino star, Minoso died March 1, 2015.
Major league baseball legend Minnie Minoso, known as the Cuban Comet and Mr. White Sox, has died. Minoso, who hailed from Havana, Cuba, played 12 of his 17 seasons with the Chicago White Sox, after getting his start in the majors with the Cleveland Indians in 1949.
The left fielder hit 135 homers and 808 RBIs for the White Sox. His number 9 was retired by the team in 1983, and today there's a statue of Minoso at the field where the White Sox play.
Minoso was one of the major league's first black Latino stars. The peak of his fame came in the 1950s, but his career stretched into the 1980s, with stints in the Mexican League, coaching gigs and occasional returns to bat in the US majors.
In a statement issued by the White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the team, said, ""Our organization and our city have suffered a heart-breaking loss today ... We have lost our dear friend and a great man. Many tears are falling."
The statement elaborated on Minoso's groundbreaking career:
"Minoso was widely regarded as the first Cuban-born black player to reach the big leagues (records of distinction based on birthplace and/or skin color weren't kept). When the White Sox acquired him from the Indians early in 1951, four years after the debut of Jackie Robinson, they identified him as their first black player."
After he joined the White Sox, the team notes, he "became so popular that the club saluted him with a 'day' late in his fine rookie season."
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Chicago White Sox outfielder Orestes "Minnie" Minoso smiles in Tampa, Fla., on March 9, 1957. Minoso, who was born near Havana, Cuba, became the first black player with the White Sox when he was traded in 1951 by the Cleveland Indians.
The White House issued a statement Sunday honoring Minoso's life. In it, President Obama said Minoso had to overcome particular obstacles as a black man in major league baseball:
"Minnie came to the United States from Cuba even though he could have made more money elsewhere. He came up through the Negro Leagues, and didn't speak much English at first. And as he helped to integrate baseball in the 1950s, he was a target of racial slurs from fans and opponents, sometimes forced to stay in different motels from his teammates. But his speed, his power — and his resilient optimism — earned him multiple All-Star appearances and Gold Gloves in left field, and he became one of the most dominant and dynamic players of the 1950s."
Minoso, whose full name is Saturnino Orestes Armas Minoso Arrieta, was born near Havana, Cuba, in a town called El Perico. His parents worked in sugarcane fields; the White Sox website says Minnie also did the same work before he started playing baseball.
The Chicago Tribune says Minoso died early Sunday morning "from a tear in his pulmonary artery caused by 'chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,' an autopsy found Sunday afternoon." There are conflicting reports on Minoso's age, but his family has concluded he was 90 years old when he died, according to the Tribune.
In an interview last month with ESPN, Minoso looked back on his career and the hardships he faced as a black baseball player decades ago. He said the fans were more important that any insults he had to deal with:
"The most important thing in my life? The fans. To have a smile, and pay them back with a smile. Sometimes, they might say something bad, and you don't like it? Will you let that get you? No, just smile. That's what I used to do when I was playing. I never thought I was going to do so many things, do so much for the team. I just wanted to play the game and do the best I can, for the fans, for my family, and for the country that I came from, to open the door for somebody else. Sometimes I have to take a lot of things, but I did not want to do anything to hurt somebody who might come to a game the next week."
Sam worked at Vermont Public Radio from October 1978 to September 2017 in various capacities – almost always involving audio engineering. He excels at sound engineering for live performances.
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Sam Sanders is a correspondent and host of It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders at NPR. In the show, Sanders engages with journalists, actors, musicians, and listeners to gain the kind of understanding about news and popular culture that can only be reached through conversation. The podcast releases two episodes each week: a "deep dive" interview on Tuesdays, as well as a Friday wrap of the week's news.


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Кри́шень Павло́ Фе́дорович (*12 липня 1921, Зелене — 15 липня 2020, Дніпро) — український вчений, медик. Доктор медичних наук, професор. Заслужений діяч науки УРСР.

Біографія
Павло Федорович Кришень народився 12 липня 1921року в с. Зелене Петрівського району Кіровоградської області. Коли йому було 10 місяців, батьки переїхали до села Петрівського цього ж району. У 1937 році закінчив семирічну школу і вступив до авіаційного технікуму в Запоріжжі. Після закінчення технікуму працював майстром на авіаційному заводі в Куйбишеві.

У вересні 1941 року добровільно пішов на фронт. Був кулеметником у піхоті. При форсуванні річки Терек і захопленні Моздока був тяжко поранений в голову, ноги та груди. Після закінчення короткострокових курсів стає механіком-водієм танка. Звільняв Прибалтику. Відзначився мужністю і майстерністю в бою за литовське місто Седа, коли врятував палаючий танк з екіпажем. Для нього війна закінчилася пораненням під час атаки японських смертників на Далекому Сході під Мукденом.

У 1953 році закінчив з відзнакою Дніпропетровський медичний інститут. З 1967 по 1987 рік обіймав посаду директора Дніпропетровського науково-дослідного інституту гастроентерології. З 1987 року був головним науковим співробітником вищеназваного закладу, працював у лабораторії патофізіології.

Помер 15 липня 2020 року.

Наукова діяльність
Підготував 42 кандидати та доктори наук. Автор більше 200 наукових робіт і 4 монографій.

Відзнаки і нагороди
Нагороджений орденом Слави III ступеня та ще 15 орденами та медалями. Медалі учасника ВДНГ СРСР та УРСР.

Примітки

Джерела
 Біографія на Кіровоградському обласному інформаційному порталі
 Сайт Інституту гастроентерології АМН України
 Хто є хто в Україні /перший випуск/К. І.С.,Київ,1997,с.259-260

Заслужені діячі науки УРСР
Доктори медичних наук України


The monument comprises a fort which is situated in moorland 800m WSW of Kildalloig. It has been built round a flat-topped oval hillock which overlooks Campbeltown Loch from a height of 120m O.D.
The fort measures 54.5m by 29m internally, and has been defended by triple ramparts, the innermost of which follows the margin of the summit area while the other two have been drawn round the flanks of the knoll. The medial and outermost ramparts are also accompanied by external ditches. There is only one entrance, located at the E end, where the approach is easiest, and the interior is featureless.
The area to be scheduled is oval on plan and measures 90m from WNW to ESE by 75m to include the fort and an area around in which associated remains may survive, as marked in red on the attached map extract.
The monument is of national importance because it is a well preserved fort, with well defined-field characteristics, which has the potential to provide information about later prehistoric society, its buildings, agricultural and economic practice and social organisation.
RCAHMS record this site as NR71NW 10.


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Wednesday, 19 January 2022,
Barta
Shakib's World Cup mission is over
07:11 AM | 1 November, 2021
Barta24.com
Sports Desk, Barta24.com, Dhaka
Shakib Al Hasan
Shakib Al Hasan is injured. Shakib was already uncertain in the South Africa match on November 2. This time he withdrew himself of the World Cup. A source in the Bangladesh team confirmed the news.
Later on Sunday, October 31 evening, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) also confirmed the news. Shakib will not be available in the remaining two matches of the Tigers in the World Cup. BCB doctor Debashish Chowdhury confirmed the news, saying, "Shakib has injured the bottom of his left leg. He got this injury in the last match against West Indies. Shakib will not be able to play in Bangladesh's next two matches in the World Cup due to this Grade One injury. '
Shakib got a hamstring injury while fielding against West Indies. That injury has finally become tomorrow for the world's best all-rounder.
Tigers will have to play the remaining two matches against South Africa and Australia in the Super Twelve of the World Cup without Shakib. Shakib left the Sharjah Cricket Stadium with an injury after the last match of the red-green team against the Caribbean. The left-arm star all-rounder also bowled four overs later on the field. He also bat as the opening batsman to avoid injury.
The performance in the field fight is not going well. Bangladesh's dream of a semi-final has been shattered after losing three matches in a row against Sri Lanka, England and the West Indies. The goal now is to snatch the consolation win in the remaining two matches.
But there is a fear of winning the last two matches because the Bangladesh team is now disordered due to injury. Mohammad Saifuddin has already returned to the country with a back injury. This time Shakib Al Hasan became a spectator due to injury. There are also fears about Nurul Hasan Sohan.
Shakib was initially under 48-hour observation with the injury. It was later learned that the cricket superstar would have to rest for a week to recover from the injury. As a result, Shakib's World Cup mission ended in the middle of the event. Shakib will be fit and someone new will join the team to finish the quarantine, the remaining two matches of Bangladesh will be over.
Cricketers have to stay in the bio-safety zone during the corona period. The Tigers are taking someone to replace Shakib as there is an obligation of quarantine.
Bangladesh's next two matches are against Australia and South Africa. Bangladesh will play against South Africa in Abu Dhabi on November 2. The Tigers' last match of the super league is against Australia on November 4 in Dubai. Both games will start at 4 pm Bangladesh time.
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Bangladesh women win U -19 SAFF trophy
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Pakistan beat Bangladesh in 2nd T20
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 4 wickets
Australia- new champion of T20
Australia to meet New Zealand in WC T20I final on Sunday
New Zealand moves to final of the WC T20
India also fell to New Zealand
07:01 AM | 5 January, 2022
Today is an unforgettable day for Bangladesh cricket. Dreamy one day. It was a dazzling morning with an incredible fairy tale mix. The Tigers made history by performing on fire. The red-green representatives won by a huge margin of 8 wickets on New Zealand soil. Bangladesh snatched the first victory in the country.
Muminul Haque has dominated the field battle for four days. The remnants of which remained on the fifth and last day of the first Test. The golden boys of the country fought with greater strength than before. The victory came as soon as the hosts were bowled out for 169 in the second innings.
Mushfiqur Rahim's bat touched the boundary of the field and the silence was broken. The guests reached the easy target of 40 runs given by the Kiwis by losing only two wickets. The wicket-keeper-batsman roared on the field. He threw his hand into the air. Mushfq hugged the captain. By that time, the festival and excitement had spread among all the cricketers of the country.
On the fourth day, Ebadat Hossain laid the foundation of the Tigers' victory with four wickets in devastating bowling. He took two more wickets today. His bowling figure is 6/46. Match best played a leading role in the team's victory in the incredible bowling of his career.
Brief score: New Zealand: 328 & 169
Bangladesh: 458 & 42-2
Result :Bangladesh won by 8 wickets.
08:12 PM | 22 December, 2021
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Bangladesh women's national football team
Bangladesh have beaten India 1-0 goal to lift the trophy of the SAFF U-19 Women's Championship 2021.
Anai Mogini scored the only goal in the 79th minute in the final match at Bir Shrestha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the capital on Wednesday.
Earlier, the Bangladesh women became the champion of the SAFF U-18 Championship 2018, defeating Nepal.
The same tournament was held in the name of the U-19 Championship this year.
SAFF U-19 Women's Championship 2021 Bangladesh have beaten India 1-0 goal to lift the trophy
02:11 PM | 30 November, 2021
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Pakistan needed 93 runs to win on the fifth and final day. The visitors reached the target by losing only two wickets. The Tigers started a new cycle of the World Test Championship losing by 8 wickets. Pakistan lost 2 wickets in the second innings and scored 203 runs.
Azhar Ali (24 *) and Babar Azam (13 *) did the rest while Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafiq laid the foundation for the victory. With this victory, the visitors went ahead 1-0 in the two-Test series.
Abid Ali was on his way to a century in batting. But the opener had to leave while he was 99 runs away from the century. Taizul Islam returned Abid for 91 runs.
Mehdi Hasan Miraj hit Pakistan's batting line-up on the fifth and final day of the Chattagram Test. Abdullah Shafiq's wicket deprived him of a century. The opener scored 83 runs before being adjudged LBW with the ball of Miraj.
Pakistan started the fifth and final day with 109 runs without losing a wicket in 33 overs. Abid had survived the previous day by 56 runs. And Abdullah Shafiq was accompanying him from unbeaten on 53 runs.
The Tigers were bowled out for 157 in 56.2 overs in the second innings. Bangladesh took a 201-run lead in the first Test against Pakistan with the bowling of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sajid Khan and Hasan Ali.
Liton Das's century and Mushfiqur Rahim's fifty in the first innings made the capital of 330 runs. Pakistan were bowled out for 286 in 115.4 overs in the first innings of the first Test against Bangladesh at Taizul's Spin magic.
Mehdi Hasan Miraj Pakistan
06:11 AM | 30 November, 2021
The Copa America title has been presented to Argentina after 28 years. The former club brought the Copa Del Rey trophy to Barcelona. The football magician won a record seventh Ballon d'Or in a colorful football career.
PSG superstar Messi has overtaken Bayern Munich megastar Robert Lewandowski to win the Ballon d'Or this time.
Messi won two more Ballon d'Ors than Portuguese superstar Cristiana Rolando. CR Seven won five Ballon d'Ors.
Bayern Munich's Polish star Robert Lewandowski has snatched the Ballon d'Or Striker of the Year award for the first time.
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"Cut, Cut, Cut," by Walter Mosley [bio] (edited by Maurice Broaddus), appeared in Apex Magazine issue 95, published on April 4, 2017.
Pro: The basic idea is pretty cool, and the more we learn about Martin and his work, the more we're interested in finding out what he's really up to. The buildup is great.
Con: There's no payoff. The story ends abruptly, and the conclusion is just narrated.
I feel this one needed more work. So if Martin was Vulcan, were his wife and her lover Venus and Mars?


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Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose Discuss Latina Representation and 'West Side Story'
Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose star as María and Anita in West Side Story. The film was adapted for the screen from the original 1957 Broadway show, and tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City. From 20th Century Studios, The Walt Disney Company will release West Side Story in theaters on December 10.
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Zegler will star in Disney's live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is set to begin production in 2022. She is one of the first Latina actresses to star in a live-action Disney film. Additionally, the actress is set to appear in DC Comics' Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to Shazam! The movie is currently set to be released in summer of 2023 and recently wrapped production.
DeBose is best known for her role as Disco Donna in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, which earned her a 2018 Tony nomination for best featured actress in a musical. For the same role, she was also nominated for a Drama League Award for disnguished performance and won a Chita Rivera Award for outstanding female dancer in a Broadway show.
Recently, the actress starred in the Netflix adaptation of the hit Broadway musical The Prom, where she played the role of Alyssa, as well as Schmigadoon!, the Apple TV+ musical comedy series. She has also joined the cast of the space thriller ISS. In 2015, DeBose appeared in the Tony-winning musical Hamilton as a member of the original cast in both the Broadway and off-Broadway productions. A film version of the production was also released on Disney+. After Hamilton, she completed a run as Jane in the original Broadway cast of A Bronx Tale. Other theater credits include Pippin, Motown the Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, and Company.
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I spoke with the talented duo about seeing their characters on screen for the first time and realizing they were going to allow Latinas everywhere to feel seen as well as performing "A Boy Like That / I Have a Love" together.
Watch my interview below for everything they shared with me:
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NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin's funeral next week.
Franklin's rep, Gwendolyn Quinn, says other speakers will include former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, music mogul Clive Davis, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Bishop T.D. Jakes. Michael Eric Dyson, former TV judge Greg Mathis, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones and U.S. Rep Brenda Lawrence are also additional speakers.
This story has been correct to show that Mike Duggan, not Brenda Lawrence, is Detroit mayor. Lawrence is a U.S. Representative.


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Read each statement in the numbered pair, then determine which best describes the sample in front of you.
3. Leaves angled in cross section --not hemlock (spruce) Hint: Try rolling the needles between your fingers. Spruce needles (angled) will roll, hemlock and fir needles (flat) will not.
Needles have 2 white "racing stripes" on the underside. Fir needles have similar stripes.
Conical to Egg-Shaped (more or less); fine branches give this tree a lacier appearance than spruce, fir or pine. The topmost branch often points away from the prevailing wind.


Is the workplace the appropriate venue for political protest?
For most of us the answer to the question of whether the workplace is the appropriate venue for political protests is no. At least every company I've worked for has some regulation in the employee manual regarding political activism that is usually stated as politely as possible that campaigning, petitioning, protesting is to be done on the employee's own time, with the employee's own resources, and is never to be associated with the company. Sounds fair enough to me. The workplace is the place for doing business and not the place for politics other than the occasional watercooler discussion.
But what happens when the workplace is subsidized by taxes? Do the same rules apply?
Sometimes I've wondered about what that makes the NFL so special, with municipalities vying for the teams to be domiciled within their limits, insisting that taxpayers of all walks of life, many of them single moms and people living from paycheck to paycheck, foot the bill to build the stadiums. The teams then charge such astronomical sums for tickets to the games that place attendance at the games well out of reach for the majority of the people subsidizing it. I used to enjoy pro football before I put some deep thought into the tyranny involved in it, and afterward it appears more disgusting to me than anything else and I want nothing to do with it. Of course it doesn't really matter how I feel about it. The NFL will end up with my money one way or another whether I like it or not – what a racket!
Then there is Donald Trump who can't seem to train himself to think about what is coming out of his mouth. He has a thought and it goes straight out through the mouth (or Twitter) within a few hundredths of millisecond. And it really is a curse because I think what he should have said is that the kneeling thing is disrespecting the people who pay for the grassy area the overpaid rent seekers are kneeling on – even the guys both black and white who have the daylights beaten out of them by cops – who couldn't be there because they couldn't afford a ticket.
I'd have to say that if NFL players want to protest they should do it on their own time and their own dime, as I am pretty sure they have plenty of dimes from plenty of others who have no say in where they go and get zero benefit from them going to the players. And then they can go and Have a Nice Day!


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YG's Rookie Monster is Back!
YG Entertainment's latest (and only) girl group, Blackpink, is back and ready to rock the K-Pop world! The group made their comeback on the 22nd, with title song 'As If It's Your Last'. Contrary to their previous releases – dark and powerful songs – their latest song is rather cheery and girly.
Record-breaking comeback
The group's anticipated comeback is deserving of the title 'successful', as the MV literally broke a record for being the most viewed K-Pop group MV in 24 hours. Within 24 hours, the MV garnered 13,316,290 views, the most ever for a K-pop group in 24 hours. Previously, the record was held by BTS, with their MV 'Not Today' being viewed 10,979,502 views 24 hours after its release.
Blackpink is also the fastest girl group in South Korea to win in a music show, only within 13 days after their debut. Congratulations to Blackpink!
Watch 'As If It's Your Last' MV here!
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OVER 150 music fans gathered in Llanelli over the weekend to celebrate the life of one of their own, raising over £3,000 for charity in the process.
Three live bands performed at the Thomas Arms on Saturday evening (Jan 26) to pay tribute to Clive Jones, who played in many bands over the years. Clive, who was 69, lost his battle with Parkinson's Disease in May last year.
He is survived by his wife, Heulwen; his two sons, Richard and Greg; and his grandson, Ryan. A guitarist, Clive's passion for music started in the 1960s, when he was a member of Llanelli bands including The Spartans and Freshwater Spring. He continued to gig with many other bands, alongside friends including ex-Llanelli policeman Robert Lewis, nurse practitioner Jonathan Lewis, and Wes Reynolds, of the Hall Street Blues barber shop.
Musicians at the tribute night included Robert, Jonathan, Phil Lewis, Mike Arthur, Chris Seager, Rob Seager, Andrew Morgan, Dennis Evans, Tony Rees, Greg Meyrick and Sharon Wells. Alun Rees, of Cadno Music on John Street, provided support with sound. All proceeds from the event will go to Parkinson's UK, with over £3,000 having been raised.
Heulwen said: "It was a wonderful way to celebrate the life of my dear husband, Clive. It's what he would've wanted – a night of live music, family, friends and laughs.
Robert Lewis said: "Clive was like the older brother I never had. When I was growing up, I remember him helping out at my parents' shop, Falcon Music on Park Street. He was a constant figure in my life, who is hugely missed by so many people.
Reverend Eldon Phillips oversaw an auction on the evening, which included a signed shirt and ball from the Scarlets, a signed Mark Knopfler box set, and a painting by Llanelli artist Patricia Hazard.
Clive was brought up on Lakefield Road in Llanelli. He married Heulwen in 1970, later living in Swiss Valley, New Road and Pwll. He worked for companies including Llanelli Steel, British Steel in Trostre, and European Profiles in Llandybie. Clive also spent time working in Abu Dhabi in the early 1980s.


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The work in Lee Valley Continues
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Off the course, 2021 has been a nightmare for golf courses with no play in the first three months of the year. On the course, the closure given owners and managers a chance to get lots of work done, and that's certainly been the case in Lee Valley where there have been plenty of changes. With the staff covering the normal tasks of cutting a lot quicker when there's no golfers on the course, the team have been able to get at some of the jobs that a lower down the priority list, as well as those tricky jobs that mean closing holes for days or weeks. New bunkers, new tee boxes, drainage work and clearing the rough were all on the long list in Lee Valley and when the course does re-open, members and guests will be pleased with the outcome. The Keohane family have been hands-on for the last twenty years and David Keohane, and near the top of their list was a big job to renovate the bunkers on the course.
Jerry and David Keohane pictured at Lee Valley Golf Club where the investment and hard work continues.
We've always listened to our members and visitors to find out their most significant issues with the course" explained David Keohane. "Bunkers were the recurring theme of where we needed to make improvements. Lee Valley was constructed on good soils, but our earth has a significant stone content and over time stones will make their way into the bunker either through the bunker's base or sides, so we needed a product to battle this problem. Jerry met Huw Morgan from Ecobunker on one of his promotional trips to Wales and we trialled it on our 16th bunker. It involved sealing the base and walls of the bunker with astroturf. This process is patented by Ecobunker, and it has been installed in bunkers all over the world. This bunker construction method is both expensive and labour-intensive, but in the long run, it should save us money on the sand, and also aesthetically, it looks good."
The layered astroturf walls add to the visual effect of the hazard, and while giving course staff a very safe and stable edge to the bunker. The programme started in 2019, and the enforced closure in over the last 13 months have allowed the team to accelerate their plans. Sixteen bunkers are now complete with nine finished since November, including two new bunkers on the 3rd and the 18th.
A new bunker on the front left of the 18th in Lee Valley adds to approach while two bunkers near the back of the green have been closed in.
The work didn't stop there, with several other upgrades included in the spring programme of work. "We also have four new tee boxes redeveloped, with our 3rd/10th Championship tee, 18th men's, 18th ladies, and our 15th forward tee box's all getting reshaped with over five hundred square meters of sod being added. We also removed a few trees and large bushes to open up greens and bunkers that were obscured, from the course. Our yearly sanding program has continued and we spread over three hundred tons of sand on the course last week alone. Off the fairways we have tidied up a lot of ditches that had become overgrown and extensive drainage has been added to our 1st and 14th holes." Members are being kept up to date with regular emails and everyone can see the daily posts on social media detailing the work that's taking place. There has been huge engagement with the updates, with many tuning in for the daily pictures and videos.
David and his brother Paul are the second generation of Keohane's to hold the reins at the Ovens course, and the venture is very much a family business with Jerry and Peg still involved, and the third generation starting to lend a hand where they can. Like almost every hospitality business, 2020 was a year of disruption for the Keohane's. "We had great plans for the course at the start of 2020, and then we were hit with Covid 19 news, so we had to shelve any significant capital investment due to the uncertainty of whether we would open or not" said David. "Throughout that first lockdown, we kept all our greenkeepers employed, and we also went to work on the course. Working on the course was what probably kept us sane throughout that first lockdown.
Golf is no doubt the dominant part of the Lee Valley offering, but the bar and restaurant are an important part for golfers and non-golfers, but unlike the course staff, there was bad news for the bar staff as David added. "I still remember the day that I had to close our clubhouse and tell all of my loyal team that we were closing with no knowledge of an opening date, I'm working at Lee Valley for eighteen years, and I have never felt so bad as I did that day. We employ twenty-five people there, and we are renowned for our food and service. Our bar and restaurant would be an integral part of our business where it heavily contributes to our bottom line, so its forced closure has been very challenging for us. Having a great golf course is the primary motivation for a golfer to play Lee Valley, but I often hear how golfers love coming to the Lee Valley as the bar's atmosphere and food are great after their round." While the venue is closed, the improvement work is also continuing indoors. The restaurant has been refurbished and the work has now started on the bar. While it's unclear when Lee Valley will be open for food and drink, the premises and the outdoor terrace will be ready to entertain customers once restrictions are lifted.
And when play does return, the team will have a good idea of what's in store for the start of the 2021 season. "When the season kicked off in 2020, tee times were fully booked from first light until eight at night. The course was in pristine condition, and I remember one member saying that he felt bad taking a divot on the course as the fairways were perfect. At that point, it was about repairing the course from all the wear and tear it was going through. Our team of Greenkeepers, lead by head greenkeeper James Mulcahy were at the top of their game throughout a challenging period."
2021 is likely to be similar but two new machines will help the team. A new rough mower arrived recently and a new fairway mower is currently on the way from UK, underpinning the ongoing investment in the course.
Membership demand was robust last year. We closed membership in mid-summer as we wanted to allow our existing members to access the available playing times. Even though we had strong membership demand, this was offset by societies, corporates, and classics cancelling their events. Many companies were not permitting their employees to meet as a group, and golf classics did not have the necessary time to organise an event. It is a similar story for 2021, where societies, corporate and classics are all waiting to see when restrictions will be lifted. We would be hopeful about starting our Monday Open singles once Golf Ireland gives the ok.
Driven by limited access to green fees and tee times, 2020 turned out to be a great year for golf membership. Nationally there were over 20,000 new golf club members, and every club in Cork benefitted from the uplift. There's an expectation that 2021 will see more demand for membership, but Lee Valley are taking a cautious approach. "At the moment we are taking a minimal number of new members. Once we get an indication of when we can open and at what intervals golfers will be allowed to tee off, we will review that decision. I do think the demand for a golf membership in 2021 will be strong, particularly for golf courses that have invested in their course." And David is keen to add that the members are central to the Lee Valley proposition. "We have a great relationship with our members, and I always take on board what they feel is necessary for investment on the course. We are passionate about the golf course, which is reflected in how we present our course week on week. Our members here want to see the course be up there as one of the best, and without great members, you can't have a great golf course."
Although he retired a few years ago, there's still a regular driving the fairways in Lee Valley. Jerry Keohane was involved in the original development of the course in 1990 and still keeps a watchful eye over the course. While Christy O'Connor designed the course, it's fair to say it was Jerry who matured it over the course of the last 25 years. While Paul and David and now in charge, Jerry is an important sounding board. "Jerry is still as active as ever on the course. Any decisions on new bunkers, tee boxes, planting, or machinery all go through him first. You can't replicate the knowledge he has built up over his time in the industry. He has excellent attention to detail, and he keeps us all on our toes. Christy's design is at the heart of the course, but Jerry has improved that design with his own stamp over the years. Hospitality is at the heart of who Jerry and Peg are, with both being in the industry for over 50 years, and they were heartbroken to see an empty clubhouse and golf course. The entire Keohane family can't wait to welcome all our customers back to the Lee Valley."
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ECONOMICS - History
In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving the economy from a sluggish Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system. Whereas the system operates within a political framework of strict Communist control, the economic influence of non-state organizations and individual citizens has been steadily increasing. The authorities have switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprise in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978. In 2001, with its 1.27 billion people but a GDP of just $4,300 per capita, China stood as the second largest economy in the world after the US (measured on a purchasing power parity basis). Agriculture and industry have posted major gains, especially in coastal areas near Hong Kong and opposite Taiwan, where foreign investment has helped spur output of both domestic and export goods. On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy and lassitude) and of capitalism (windfall gains and growing income disparities). Beijing thus has periodically backtracked, retightening central controls at intervals. The government has struggled to (a) collect revenues due from provinces, businesses, and individuals; (b) reduce corruption and other economic crimes; and (c) keep afloat the large state-owned enterprises many of which had been shielded from competition by subsidies and had been losing the ability to pay full wages and pensions. From 80 to 120 million surplus rural workers are adrift between the villages and the cities, many subsisting through part-time low-paying jobs. Popular resistance, changes in central policy, and loss of authority by rural cadres have weakened China's population control program, which is essential to maintaining long-term growth in living standards. Another long-term threat to continued rapid economic growth is the deterioration in the environment, notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table especially in the north. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and economic development. Beijing will intensify efforts to stimulate growth through spending on infrastructure - such as water control and power grids - and poverty relief and through rural tax reform aimed at eliminating arbitrary local levies on farmers. Access to the World Trade Organization strengthens China's ability to maintain sturdy growth rates, and at the same time puts additional pressure on the hybrid system of strong political controls and growing market influences. Although Beijing has claimed 7%-8% annual growth in recent years, many observers believe the rate, while strong, is more like 5%.
Reforms began with the phaseout of collectivized agriculture, and expanded to include the gradual liberalization of prices, fiscal decentralization, increased autonomy for state enterprises, growth of the private sector, development of stock markets and a modern banking system, and opening to foreign trade and investment. China continues to pursue an industrial policy, state support of key sectors, and a restrictive investment regime. From 2013 to 2017, China had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, averaging slightly more than 7% real growth per year. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis that adjusts for price differences, China in 2017 stood as the largest economy in the world, surpassing the US in 2014 for the first time in modern history. China became the world's largest exporter in 2010, and the largest trading nation in 2013. Still, China's per capita income is below the world average.
In July 2005 moved to an exchange rate system that references a basket of currencies. From mid-2005 to late 2008, the renminbi (RMB) appreciated more than 20% against the US dollar, but the exchange rate remained virtually pegged to the dollar from the onset of the global financial crisis until June 2010, when Beijing announced it would resume a gradual appreciation. From 2013 until early 2015, the renminbi held steady against the dollar, but it depreciated 13% from mid-2015 until end-2016 amid strong capital outflows; in 2017 the RMB resumed appreciating against the dollar – roughly 7% from end-of-2016 to end-of-2017. In 2015, the People's Bank of China announced it would continue to carefully push for full convertibility of the renminbi, after the currency was accepted as part of the IMF's special drawing rights basket. However, since late 2015 the Chinese Government has strengthened capital controls and oversight of overseas investments to better manage the exchange rate and maintain financial stability.
The Chinese Government faces numerous economic challenges including: (a) reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic household consumption; (b) managing its high corporate debt burden to maintain financial stability; (c) controlling off-balance sheet local government debt used to finance infrastructure stimulus; (d) facilitating higher-wage job opportunities for the aspiring middle class, including rural migrants and college graduates, while maintaining competitiveness; (e) dampening speculative investment in the real estate sector without sharply slowing the economy; (f) reducing industrial overcapacity; and (g) raising productivity growth rates through the more efficient allocation of capital and state-support for innovation. Economic development has progressed further in coastal provinces than in the interior, and by 2016 more than 169.3 million migrant workers and their dependents had relocated to urban areas to find work. One consequence of China's population control policy known as the "one-child policy" - which was relaxed in 2016 to permit all families to have two children - is that China is now one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world. Deterioration in the environment - notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table, especially in the North - is another long-term problem. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and urbanization. The Chinese Government is seeking to add energy production capacity from sources other than coal and oil, focusing on natural gas, nuclear, and clean energy development. In 2016, China ratified the Paris Agreement, a multilateral agreement to combat climate change, and committed to peak its carbon dioxide emissions between 2025 and 2030.
The government's 13th Five-Year Plan, unveiled in March 2016, emphasizes the need to increase innovation and boost domestic consumption to make the economy less dependent on government investment, exports, and heavy industry. However, China has made more progress on subsidizing innovation than rebalancing the economy. Beijing has committed to giving the market a more decisive role in allocating resources, but the Chinese Government's policies continue to favor state-owned enterprises and emphasize stability. Chinese leaders in 2010 pledged to double China's GDP by 2020, and the 13th Five Year Plan includes annual economic growth targets of at least 6.5% through 2020 to achieve that goal. In recent years, China has renewed its support for state-owned enterprises in sectors considered important to "economic security," explicitly looking to foster globally competitive industries. Chinese leaders also have undermined some market-oriented reforms by reaffirming the "dominant" role of the state in the economy, a stance that threatens to discourage private initiative and make the economy less efficient over time. The slight acceleration in economic growth in 2017—the first such uptick since 2010—gives Beijing more latitude to pursue its economic reforms, focusing on financial sector deleveraging and its Supply-Side Structural Reform agenda, first announced in late 2015.
GNI, Atlas method (current US$) (billions) 374.11 1,181.55 5,801.89 13,394.91
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) 330 940 4,340 9,620
GNI, PPP (current international $) (billions) 1,118.11 3,642.93 12,325.78 21,650.46
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) 980 2,890 9,210 15,550
GDP (current US$) (billions) 360.86 1,211.35 6,087.16 13,894.82
GDP growth (annual %) 3.9 8.5 10.6 6.8
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %) 5.7 2.1 6.9 3.5
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) 27 15 9 7
Industry (including construction), value added (% of GDP) 41 46 46 40
Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) 14 21 27 19
Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) 11 19 24 18
Gross capital formation (% of GDP) 34 34 47 44
Revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP) .. .. 11.2 15.9
Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP) .. .. .. ..
Time required to start a business (days) .. .. 32 9
Domestic credit provided by financial sector (% of GDP) .. .. .. ..
Tax revenue (% of GDP) .. .. 10.2 9.4
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.5 1.9 1.9 1.9
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) 0 6.6 62.8 115.5
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) 0 1.8 34.3 54.3
High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) .. .. 32 31
Statistical Capacity score (Overall average) .. .. 66 80
Merchandise trade (% of GDP) 32 39 49 33
Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100) 102 100 82 85
External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$) (millions) 55,301 145,874 734,639 1,962,304
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income) 11.7 13.1 3 8.2
Net migration (thousands) -780 -1,966 -1,552 -1,742
Personal remittances, received (current US$) (millions) 196 758 13,636 24,306
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) (millions) 3,487 42,095 243,703 235,365
Net official development assistance received (current US$) (millions) 2,030.60 1,749.00 671.9 -737
GNI, Atlas method (current US$) (billions) 1.59 1.51 10.84 10.46
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) 270 180 910 680
GNI, PPP (current international $) (billions) 4.12 6.32 21.02 24.61
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) 690 760 1,760 1,590
Income share held by lowest 20% .. 6.3 4.9 ..
GDP (current US$) (billions) 1.74 1.39 10.67 11.24
GDP growth (annual %) -4.2 -0.9 13.6 2.4
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %) 8 5.3 6.4 5
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) 28 41 52 45
Gross capital formation (% of GDP) 7 23 34 21
Revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP) .. .. .. ..
Time required to start a business (days) .. 62 62 58
Tax revenue (% of GDP) .. .. .. ..
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2 1.4 5.8 2.1
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) 0 0.1 24.1 45.1
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) 0 0 1.7 6.5
High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) .. .. .. ..
Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100) 112 100 182 159
External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$) (millions) 514 1,099 2,158 3,242
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income) 4.3 .. .. ..
Net migration (thousands) -10 219 100 10
Personal remittances, received (current US$) (millions) 1 .. .. ..
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) (millions) 9 115 313 662
Net official development assistance received (current US$) (millions) 310.6 131.3 490.2 875.4
GNI, Atlas method (current US$) (billions) 569.29 695.71 1,508.74 1,573.49
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) 20,480 22,610 44,370 42,870
GNI, PPP (current international $) (billions) 538.64 874.38 1,334.17 1,691.10
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) 19,380 28,420 39,230 46,070
GDP (current US$) (billions) 593.93 742.29 1,613.46 1,653.04
GDP growth (annual %) 0.2 5.2 3.1 3
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) .. .. 1 1
Industry (including construction), value added (% of GDP) .. .. 27 28
Revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP) 19.8 20.9 16.9 17.4
Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP) -4.5 2.2 -2.2 0.1
Time required to start a business (days) .. 4 6 2
Domestic credit provided by financial sector (% of GDP) 100.6 111.1 172.3 ..
Tax revenue (% of GDP) 14.2 14.9 11.8 12.2
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) 2.1 28.4 75.6 85.9
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) 0.4 51.3 80.3 91.2
High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) 14 18 14 13
Statistical Capacity score (Overall average) .. .. .. ..
Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100) .. 100 118 106
External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$) (millions) .. .. .. ..
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income) .. .. .. ..
Net migration (thousands) 699 1,027 1,146 1,100
Personal remittances, received (current US$) (millions) .. 555 1,199 1,337
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) (millions) 7,581 68,309 29,713 27,526
Net official development assistance received (current US$) (millions) .. .. .. ..
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Breathless In the Bush: Online Writing Courses or Classroom-based Sessions?
Online Writing Courses or Classroom-based Sessions?
Wherever you are on the journey from aspiring writer to established author, you'll know the importance of continually striving to improve your writing.
I'm an emerging author, constantly on the lookout for courses that deal with different aspects of the writing craft/business, not just for that 'professional training' aspect, but because there's a sense of personal fulfilment in completing them that I really enjoy. Over the last few years, I've enrolled in a number of both online and classroom-based courses. Here are a few of my thoughts.
Online courses are, apparently, on the rise, and it's easy to understand why. They offer flexibility and convenience for those of us who work day jobs and/or have family commitments. You can work at your own level and pace at a time that suits you. However, from my experience, you really do need to schedule a time to work on assignments (and make sure that you schedule enough time).
I dropped out of one course I did with Margie Lawson's Writer's Academy when 'life' intervened; I wasn't in the right headspace and just couldn't keep up. (Bye-bye $100 bucks!) Having said that, though, no one can predict life dramas, and the other two courses I did with Lawson's Academy were absolutely brilliant. The assignment feedback from each of the mentors, and other enrollees, was invaluable.
✻Also, ensure that your computer is working well – nothing is more frustrating than dealing with technology issues when you're on limited time.
The Romance Writer's of Australia OWLs (Online Writing Lessons) are fantastic. (Check out the schedule for 2019 here.) I've done a couple and found them very worthwhile. They cover a huge range of topics and are very reasonably priced at $55 for RWA members ($88 for non-members). Our writing group completed Cathleen Ross's very practical Self-publishing for Beginners, which enabled us to publish our Christmas Anthology.
One thing I have found difficult with online courses is that there is (usually) no instant clarification of concerns. Being able to read back over lectures (or Pause/Rewind on videos) is helpful, as is the presence of a chat room, but this is where classroom-based courses come into their own.
Learning in a group is fun!
There's nothing quite like being in a 'real' room with other like-minded people, discussing a topic you're all enthusiastic about. The spontaneity of discussion that comes with being in a face-to-face group provides so many fabulous learning opportunities.
There's also something about being in a classroom that enables you to keep your attention focused (so much more effectively than watching a video or reading through a lecture on your own at home – or is that just me?? 😕).
I've heard good things about Writing NSW courses, with top-notch presenters from among our best-known Aussie authors. The wonderful Anne Gracie has a one-day course in May, Romancing the Page.
The Australian Writer's Centre (North Sydney) offers both online and classroom-based courses. I have no experience with their online courses, but the classroom-based Blogging for Beginners was the starting point for our Breathless Blog. I'm also very excited to say that I'll be attending History, Mystery and Magic in March, a two-day course with Kate Forsyth.
Last, but not least, Daily Writing Tips has an interesting review of James Patterson's Masterclass here.
Do you invest in your writing by doing courses? Do you prefer online or classroom-based sessions? Do you have any writing-related courses you'd particularly recommend?
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Love the flexibility of on-line courses, Marilyn. Thanks for highlighting some that are available.
Yeah, that flexiblity is a winner, isn't it? Thanks for dropping by, Alyssa!
Hi Marilyn. Absolutely, writing courses are a great tool for improving your writing and it's great that there are different courses for different needs. I've attended a few, each helpful, and then I discovered two writing sites that for me was like discovering 'gold'! One is run by author Juliet Madison (http://writingmojoacademy.com) - excellent site offering a number of courses.The other is The Writer's Studio (http://www.writerstudio.com.au) - for unlocking your creativity this one is pure diamond!
Great blog post Marilyn. I do love courses too but you do have to set aside time for them. I've done some Reedsy online courses which have been great and usually comprise of 10 once a week emails. There is also FutureLearn which are courses put on by Universities all over the world. You can do a wide variety of courses. I've done on on Hadrian's wall and I am currently doing one on Jane Austen. These courses are more in depth and have a lot of information and fitted into one week. They also have a forum so you can chat and discuss aspects of the course with other students.
Hi Jayne! I know what you mean about having the time to actively participate. You start off with all good intentions and then life interferes. :( Your SA writing course sounds fabulous - who better to learn from than Clare and Trish.
Hi Marilyn, I definitely prefer face-to-face courses. I love the interaction, lively discussions and the opportunity to ask questions. Thanks for all of the suggestions.
Hi Sharon! I love all those things about face-to-face courses, too!
Hi Marilyn, I'm a big fan of any writing course really... online, face to face... I find I get something from all of them. I did a face to face masterclass with Margie Lawson a few years ago and it was fantastic. I'm running one of OWLs next month - playing at being god - all about worldbuilding which,contrary to popular belief, is not just for fantasy writers �� it should be lot of fun!
Hi Sue-Ellen! I love the sound of your World-building OWL and, as you say, it's not just for fantasy writers. I think it's an important aspect of writing for any genre. So envious of your masterclass with Margie Lawson!
Marilyn, terrific post, and a great resource for writers. Thanks also for mentioning my in-person workshop at the NSW Writing Centre in May. I'm also doing one in Melbourne in October.
Hi Anne! Thanks for dropping by. I love your articles in HeartsTalk, and I'm absolutely certain any workshop of yours would be invaluable for aspiring/emerging romance authors.
I meant to add, another benefit of face-to-face workshops is meeting other participants. I've seen a lot of small crit or friendship groups result from a course — and we all need our writer buddies.
Wonderful, thanks Marilyn! But I can't decide, I'm a fan of both. If you can't make the physical course, online is a great alternative. But I must say the buzz of being around like minded people is truly inspirational!
Yes, meeting with your 'tribe' is very appealing, isn't it?


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A National Memorial to Moms Lost too Soon
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Our Popcorn ELT Readers are a series of low-level, graded readers aimed at students in the early stages of learning English. We believe that learning English should be fun, so every Reader is based on a popular film, TV series or classic children's book – perfect for even the most reluctant of readers!
Our ELT Readers are published at four levels following a carefully graded syllabus. There's a wide selection of books, from Snoopy to How to Train Your Dragon. Today, we're picking our top five Popcorn ELT Readers to inspire ELT teachers to make learning fun!
Who doesn't love Angry Birds? Their fun and colourful world is great for encouraging young learners to remember key vocabulary about colours and animals. Pigs on Bird Island also includes plenty of activities to try, including an Angry Birds chant that children will love!
In this fourth Ice Age story, mammoth Manny and his friends Sid and Diego head off on another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Sailing on an iceberg, the friends meet new creatures and tackle pirates as they encounter a new world.
Ice Age is a firm favourite among children and adults alike. Meet Manny, Sid, Diego and friends for another adventure and don't forget to try the quiz with your students! This is one of our favourite readers as it also provides some very informative real-world context about the continents.
There's serious drought in the desert town of Dirt and the inhabitants are getting desperate. They're thirsty, scared and they need a hero! So when Rango the chameleon strolls into town, it looks as if things may be about to change. But can Rango outwit the evil town mayor and his terrifying sidekick, Rattlesnake Jake?
With Rango, children can learn about the Mojave Desert while enjoying the quirky reptilian characters! With its desert setting, this reader has great cross-curricular appeal – there's even the opportunity for children to create their own desert creature.
The Little Prince lives on a very small planet. Then he flies away and his rose is sad. Where does the Little Prince go? Who does he meet? And can he go back?
The Little Prince and the Rose is based on the recent film adaptation of the classic fairy tale. The gorgeous, colourful illustrations are engaging for even the most reluctant of readers.
Can you help Oh and Tip in their search for a new home?
Full of funny characters, Home is perfect for animated film fans. With plenty of comprehension questions, new vocabulary and real world information about space, this Level 3 reader is a fun new challenge for English learners gaining in confidence.
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Q: ASP.NET IIS Failed Request Tracing event AspNetHttpHandlerEnter I am troubleshooting a problem with an ASP.NET ASMX web service (legacy code) in which some requests are taking a long time to complete (more than 10 seconds).
I added logging to the application and the delay seems to be happening between the event that causes Global.Application_AcquireRequestState() to fire, and the first line in my application code which logs entry.
I enabled Failed Request Tracing and the trace for requests over 10 seconds stop at the event AspNetHttpHandlerEnter.  My understanding is that the trace ends when the specified time limit is up, so the request was somewhere in/after/near the last event.
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A North Atlantic Climate Pacemaker for the Centuries
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title={A North Atlantic Climate Pacemaker for the Centuries},
author={Richard A. Kerr},
Although El Niño and La Niña are the largest single sources of global interannual climate variability, climate shifts on longer time scales than El Niño's 2 to 7 years are also drawing the attention of researchers. On multidecadal time scales of 40 to 80 years, a restless North Atlantic seems to be at work, alternately countering and enhancing humankind's alterations of climate. The evidence for this is turning up in such records as tree rings, ice cores, and corals.
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Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and European Summer Climate
R. Sutton, D. Hodson
New evidence is presented that basin-scale changes in the Atlantic Ocean, probably related to the thermohaline circulation, have been an important driver of multidecadal variations in the summertime climate of both North America and western Europe.
Multidecadal Tendencies in ENSO and Global Temperatures Related to Multidecadal Oscillations
J. D'Aleo, D. Easterbrook
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Effects of solar forcing and North Atlantic oscillation on the climate of continental Scandinavia during the Holocene
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J. Knight, R. Allan, C. Folland, M. Vellinga, M. Mann
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An annually resolved coralline algal time series from the northwest Atlantic Ocean that exhibits multidecadal variability extending back six centuries is presented and it is argued that changes are associated with a regional climate reorganization involving an amplification of the AMO that coincided with onset of the industrial-era warming.
The role of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on medieval drought in North America: Synthesizing results from proxy data and climate models
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Public Orator, Mr H E Jones presented the Honorary Graduand at the Degree Congregation held on the afternoon of Tuesday 14 July.
They were a semi-aquatic race who lived on low swampy islands and threaded the winding channels through high reeds in flat-bottomed boats.
So wrote John Seymour, not of the residents of Barrow on Soar where John Whitworth lives, after an outbreak of flooding in the Soar valley, but about the Fen Tigers with whom John is proud to be associated albeit as a twentieth century descendant. Born in Ely in 1921, the son of a potato merchant, John recalls sitting on his brother's lap at the age of four playing the central part of the piano keyboard. This is his first musical memory.
John boarded at Kimbolton School but the onset of World War 2 interrupted plans for the completion of his education. John volunteered for service in the RAF and was trained as a flight mechanic. He was transferred to Canada in 1941, crossing the Atlantic in just five days in the liner Queen Elizabeth, which comfortably outran German Uboats. John took his record collection with him, returning with a larger one and while in Canada sang in Kingston Cathedral Choir and as a member of the camp's male voice choir. It was a requirement that the engineer would join the first flight of the aircraft he had just serviced. John is here with us today. Clearly he was a more than adequate mechanic.
Posted back to Europe to salvage aircraft, John recalls being in Paris for VE Day and joining in the street celebrations.
Academia beckoned him after demobilisation in 1946 and he became a choral scholar at Kings College Cambridge singing alto. He took his MA in 1949 and half a BMus. Apparently, errant piano playing torpedoed the performance section. While a student John belonged to Consolidated Operas Incorporated, a group of singers who would take over each other's rooms and render complete operas, John being cast in what he describes as `the heavy female roles.' Perhaps this had some bearing on his failure to be accepted by the University Madrigal Society!
As a first step in his professional career John was appointed a lay vicar of Westminster Abbey, a position he held continuously for 22 years. Encountering some larger than life characters such as a bass Sandy Henderson who had a wonderful resonance where his brain should have been and the irascible organist Sir William McKay an Australian appointed ahead of better musicians because he was a colonial, John has particular memories of the Coronation Service. Trapped in the Abbey for nine hours he professes not to have needed the portable Elsans which had been pullied up to the triforium to supplement the building's sanitation. Apparently, the Abbey choir stalls once had a trap door on the cantoris side, though not in John's time, and, so the story goes, the organist once came down during a service to discover half his choir missing – they had gone to appease their thirst after righteousness.
A salary of £400 per annum needed seriously augmenting if a living was to be made and so John tried teaching. His first appointment was not a success. Shouting at pupils in the morning and singing at a men-only service in the afternoon of the same day proved too taxing. He held an appointment subsequently in the Abbey choir school teaching mathematics, a feat he still can't explain! He supplemented his income by joining other choirs when time permitted and of course launching his solo career. John helped pioneer the rediscovery of the counter tenor voice, alongside Alfred Deller with whom he collaborated. They both benefitted from the revival of interest in baroque music and John acknowledges a particular debt of gratitude to Henry Washington, an inspirational mentor from whom John learnt a tremendous amount. John soon came to the notice of the BBC and until his retirement gave over 100 broadcasts as well as making many recordings. A 7 guinea fee was Auntie's standard rate for a soloist and studios in maida Vale were the venues for sometimes chaotic rehearsals.
A gifted ensemble singer, John was quickly recruited to groups such as the Deller Consort, the Renaissance Singers (which he directed for seven years) and the Golden Age Singers, touring in Europe and beyond. In fact the last named, with just five members, gave no fewer than 40 concerts in a two-month trip to America. John was an immediate hit, not just as a performer of early music, but also by virtue of his talents as a cabaret artist. His imitation of Clara Butt singing Land of Hope and Glory and of a cinema organ playing Just a Song at Twilight made a deep impression. Actually, John was still transfixing audiences as recently as two years ago when, here in our own Music Centre, he gave a virtuoso rendition of the double octave German drinking song and I remember too his dispensing with a comb and paper in favour of his nose and fingers to fill in for a crumhorn.
John's outstanding contribution to musical scholarship and teaching was recognised in his appointment as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music in 1965. He has written extensively about the counter tenor voice, giving great encouragement to such familiar names as James Bowman and, using his reader's ticket to the British Museum, has studied and transcribed for performance many rare choral works from the early middle ages onwards. Theologians in Bach's time argued that the counter-tenor voice which seemed to belie the body from which it issued, symbolised the disembodied mystery of the Holy Spirit. "A down to earth bunch singing in a high register" probably fits John and his contemporaries better. The trademark of the British counter-tenor, a clear unadorned line, owes much to John's influence, in contrast to the brash wobbly style of the Americans, the overdramatic outpourings of the Germans and an insufferably affected approach from the French – James Bowman's opinions I should add, not necessarily shared by John himself. No mean composer and arranger, John, in his typically modest way, dismisses as a piece of nautical nonsense his setting of the Mermaid, commissioned by the Kings Singers. Friendships made in his early career have lasted to this day, atribute to John's sociability, loyalty and wonderful sense of humour.
John was organist at St. Pauls Covent Garden, London's loveliest barn, between 1965 and 1970. The incumbent, Prebendary Clarence May, an ex-actor with dimensions five feet by five feet , was want to hold animal services during which, apparently, his minah bird took a prominent role shrieking `Sylvia, Sylvia' to be answered loudly from the back of the church by a large Mount St. Bernard.
John will be the first to admit that he can be forgetful. One example will suffice. He and Donald Burgess were performing in a mass at St James' Piccadilly and the moment for their duet arrived. John failed to rise. Nudged by his anxious partner he stood up eighteen bars later to sing the last two bars with great conviction. John was not alone. He remembers one service of Evensong at the Abbey when a minor canon fell asleep during a long setting of the Nunc Dimittis, to wake up with a start during the Creed and shout "I believe in Pontius Pilate".
In 1971 John was appointed assistant music adviser to Leicestershire Education Authority, encouraged to apply by Dr Andrew Fairbairn whom he had first met at Cambridge. John has made a crucial contribution to the development of amateur music-making in the county. Immensely knowledgeable, he has drawn on his amazing stock of scores to help amateur groups such as Opera Dei, he has trained youth choirs and he has given practical guidance to countless teachers as well as rescuing many pianos. He also found time to edit a collection of hymns, Their Words My Thoughts, for use in schools. He retired from this position, though not from musical activities in 1986. Showing undiminished enthusiasm, John continues to direct the Vautor Ensemble and he is currently organist and choirmaster at Holy Cross Priory which now possesses a fine new organ through his efforts. He is president of the Leicestershire and District Organists Association and teaches singing part-time at Uppingham School and Nottingham University.
John's passion for aircraft is exceeded only by his passion for cars. He has owned 34 of these since 1952 including a 1947 standard flying eight drop head coupe, the roof of which could be taken down while driving, a 1929 Morris Oxford Tourer Empire Model bought for £40 in 1957, (this car could run on rails when its tyres were removed) and a 1929 Rolls Royce phantom 2 limousine, a car which comfortably met Queen Mary's definition of one she could walk through while keeping her hat on. This car, curtains drawn, provided John's wife Pat with a most suitable location in which to feed her baby daughter while waiting for her husband in Dean's Yard. John first met Pat in 1963 when they both sang in a Bayswater church choir. They married in the same year. Now a qualified psycho-therapist, Pat`s early career was in teaching. She is an exceptional artist. Their combined talents together with a love of animals, have passed on to their three daughters, Alex, Juliette and Vicky. Alex and her husband Michael presented John and Pat with their first grandchild earlier this year.
My own association with the Whitworth household extends back twenty years. Rehearsals and parties there have always been marked by welcoming and abundant hospitality, fun and constant surprises from the menagerie! John is a remarkable person, raconteur and mimic extraordinary, unfailingly courteous and utterly self-effacing. Generous to a fault he never speaks ill of anybody and only rarely does he use his talent for gentle but well-timed put downs. Quite simply, anyone who comes into contact with John feels better for having been in his company.
Chancellor, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour for me to present to you and to the university John Whitworth for the degree of Master of Arts honoris causa.
Source: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/degree_1998/whitworth.html.
Copyright © Loughborough University. Used with permission.
2 comments for "Presentation of an Honorary Graduand 1998"
9th June 2015 at 12.50 pm
This contains many useful—some very funny!—additions to what I know about John! I loved reading them. By the way, there are one or two little slips/typos in the text that can be dealt with in due course. Incidentally, the honorary MA should have been a doctorate. Peter
Patricia Whitworth
23rd June 2015 at 2.16 pm
Thanks, Peter! Pat.


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