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Jolliet, Louis — (1645 1700) Born at Quebec; son of a wagon maker in the employ of the Company of New France. Educated by the Jesuits, and took minor orders, but renounced his clerical vocation to engage in the fur trade. Sent by Talon to discover copper mines … The makers of Canada

Jolliet,Louis — Jol·li·et also Jo·li·et (jōʹlē ĕt , jō lē ĕtʹ, zhô lyāʹ), Louis. 1645 1700. French Canadian explorer of the upper Mississippi Valley who with Jacques Marquette sighted the MississippiJustin Bieber isn't just a little punk, he's also got a lead foot. The pop star has gotten himself in trouble numerous times for speeding, but this time he's pissed off the wrong guy: former Super Bowl-winning NFL wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson. Apparently the two live in the same Southern California neighborhood, and when the 6'4" athlete saw 5'7" Bieber speeding down his street in his Ferrari 458 Italia at nearly 100 mph while the Johnson family was enjoying a BBQ on the lawn, Johnson chased him down in his Prius, busted through his security and had some words.


MARIETTA — People across the country who want to memorialize the late 22-month-old Cooper Harris, have created a fundraising campaign online to build a Marietta park in his memory.

Harris died after being left in his father’s car for seven hours on June 18.

His father, Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta, is charged with murder and child cruelty. He was denied bond and has been in the Cobb County jail since June 18.

Spectators interested in advocating for child safety created the group called Cooper’s Tree House Foundation.

Roxs Bourgeois of White City, Ore, a core member of the group who works for Macy’s, said she wants to raise money to build a park in Cooper’s name to remember the child.

The 275-member group has raised $780 of its $250,000 goal since thethe Inventory Section to manage its data independently, but integrated into the GIS.

With the aim of updating and expanding the basic information of the street map of the city, in 2004 it is signed an agreement with the University of Extremadura (UEX) to review the names of streets, the number of portals, and to identify chemists’s, bars, tobacco shops, buildings, kiosks, traffic direction, banks, public buildings, etc., on the map.

At the end of 2004, the new content of the GIS is released to the municipal officers in a training course integrated into the continuous training plan of the Municipality.

In 2005, the partial plans, reclassifcations and urban projects that develop the PGOU are incorporated to the GIS, adding a new aspect to the disposition of the city and which


are not in cartography. As they arrive to the Section, they are adapted to the structure of the GIS and they are added, so they can be accessed by all users connected to the system.

In May, 2005, the GIS section is ordered to develop a street map on paper to replace the obsolete one that dates from 1999, edited by an external company. The result of editing that street map is a circulation of 10,000 copies of it at 1/8,000 scale with details of streets, monuments, public utilities, roads, etc, and the incorporation of new urban areas in development.

At the end of 2005, the same street map is adapted to the web of the GIS, some functions are incorporated such as searching by street name and number, ormethods.

In June 2006, thanks to the assignment of the Urban and Rural mapping in digital format, by the Provincial Management of the Cadastre of Cáceres, the GIS obtains all the municipal cadastral data.

In 2006, an ambitious project, in collaboration with the Computing Service and the Statistics Section for the integrated management of Population Census, was started. For this purpose, a working group was formed and, until the month of May 2007, it had the following objectives:

• To determine, as precisely as possible, what the real numbers of police were on every street. For this, the city has been revised and photographed portal by portal.
• To link the data contained in the register of the city, with the database resulting from the previous step.
• To detect and resolve the


mistakes of the previous step, so that the final result allow, on the one hand, to locate any enumerated person in the map, and on the other hand, to determine how many people are registered in a portal of the city.

For this, a new informatic tool for the management of the population census and the control of the street plan, completely interconnected, has been implemented. Finally, to complete this work, the work procedures that allow to do the maintenance of this complex system were designed.

In November 2006, the reissue of the street map in paper is published with updated information from new neighbourhoods and new streets.

In 2008, GIS Technicians works for the collection and digitization of Ancient Cartography, the recovery of municipal roads, and the place names ofthe municipality. Ancient digitized and geo-referenced maps from others on paper, from different sources, have been incorporated to the GIS. Among others, it is digitized:

• The MTN 1:50,000 maps series corresponding to the municipality of Cáceres, in different years (between 1936 and 2000).
• The updated maps of the IGN 1:25,000 series corresponding to the municipality of Cáceres.
• The SGE 1:50,000 maps series corresponding to the municipality of Cáceres.
• Cartographic maps of the city of Cáceres 1993 1:5,000 scale.
• Cartographic maps of the city of Cáceres 1981 1:500 scale.
• Cartographic maps of the city of Cáceres 1942 1:2,000 scale.
• Maps of ancient cartography of the entire municipality with different scales and in different years (between 1898 and 1945).
• Rural Cadastral Planes of 1981.

In addition, the information linked to the


Special Plan (PEPRPA) has been completed, digitizing and geo-referencing all the planes in paper that compose that plan, and all the asociated documentation.

In July, a new edition of the street map of the city on paper is published, this is the third, which incorporates the orthophoto of the city as background, and updates the new neighborhoods.

On 1 April 2009 an airborne laserscanner is done to generate an orthophoto and a new map for the city , but a few months later the contractor of work goes into bankruptcy and the contract is terminated , which prevents this map could be completed.

In June we presented the “Cáceres GIS Development Over Geographics and GWP” project to BE Inspired Awards 2009. Of the 19 cities worldwide that are presented , someany cardholder data was in fact stolen, and currently it has no evidence of any misuse of any such data. … Based on information we have at this time, Albertsons stores in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas and our two Super Saver Foods Stores in Northern Utah were not impacted by this incident. However, Albertsons stores in Southern California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Southern Utah were impacted. In addition, ACME Markets in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey; Jewel-Osco stores in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; and Shaw’s and Star Markets stores in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were all impacted by this incident.

AB Acquisition LLC also said that SuperValu provides its IT services, which probably means that


sexual acts with a minor.  When he committed his crimes, O'Connell was a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island.  The Diocese and its insurers settled the victim's tort claim.  The current litigation, under the alien-citizen jurisdiction of 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(3), requires us to determine how much of the settlement is the responsibility of the Diocese and its primary insurers, Lloyd's of London and Centennial Insurance Company (collectively "Lloyd's"), and how much must be paid by the excess carrier, Interstate Fire & Casualty Company.  The answer depends on how many insured "occurrences" there were:  the Diocese is self-insured for the first $100,000 per occurrence, and Lloyd's share likewise depends on the number of occurrences.  O'Connell sexually abused oneboy during two policy years, and in two distinct places.  That's at least two occurrences from the victim's perspective, but O'Connell's crimes were intentional torts, excluded from coverage.  The Diocese's liability arises from negligence of the Bishop of Providence (and his subordinates) in supervising O'Connell.  The Diocese and Lloyd's contend, and the district judge held, that negligent supervision is a single "occurrence" no matter how many years or places the abuse spans.  The Lloyd's policy has been sold across the country.  No state court has addressed the meaning of "occurrence" under this policy, but two courts of appeals have held that there is one "occurrence" per priest, per abused child, per policy year.  Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette v. Interstate Fire &


Introducing, Be Cycle, a customization project where twelve great names in fashion and design modify and decorate twelve Peugeot fixed gears for auction. The proceeds will benefit ACT Responsible, a non profit dedicated to promoting environmental and social causes.

As a cult object and symbol of a responsible attitude, cycling made its comeback in many major cities. Very likely, it became the flagship of the new eco-committed generation. Meanwhile, fashion, luxury and design have established a real dialogue for several years with the creative and sustainable development, turning it more attractive.

The designers are as follows: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Ylan Anoufa, Antik Batik, Karim Bonnet, François Duris, Marithé et François Girbaud, Elieux by Kaori Ito, Jean-Claude Jitrois, Jérome L’huillier, Swarovski by On aura tout vu, Kenzo Takada. YouThe following navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. Left and right arrows move through main tier links and expand / close menus in sub tiers. Up and Down arrows will open main tier menus and toggle through sub tier links. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.

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Events Affecting CTA Service Beginning Week of 1/25

The CTA is notifying customers that the upcoming closure of the Adams Street Bridge by the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) will affect seven CTA bus routes downtown beginning on January 25. Customers are advised to check individual bus schedules that may be impacted by the service changes and plan ahead.

Separately, Kimball-bound Brown Line train service will also be temporarily affected at the Diversey station this weekend due to track maintenance work.

In addition, the CTA will provide extra service for customers heading to upcoming Blackhawks and Bulls games at the United Center.

The closure will require reroutes in the immediate surrounding area and will also require the temporarybuses will leave from Michigan and Randolph beginning approximately two hours before the start of each event. After each event, #19 buses will operate for approximately one hour and await customers on the north side of the United Center eastbound on Madison near Gate 3.

Rail Service:

CTA’s Ashland/Lake station, served by the Green and Pink lines, is located a few blocks northeast of the United Center. Customers exiting at the station can transfer to #9 Ashland buses or simply walk a few blocks to the stadium. Customers taking the Blue Line can get to the United Center by exiting at the Illinois Medical District station and walking a few blocks north to the United Center.


a traditional car body and adding electric is
just going to waste space.

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ptaipale
Yes, but internally the eGolf is not quite the same structure as combustion
engine models.

Also the most iconic full EV car, Tesla model S, looks very much like
combustion engine cars. In fact, from distance it's hard to tell it apart from
a Ford Mondeo, the symbol of mediocrity (at least in the UK) which is also a
fine and nicely contoured car.

The more distinctly formed EV cars, on the other hand, look about as weird as
Granma Duck's 1916 Detroit Electric; they have some futuristic aerodynamics
but on the desirability scale, they seem to suck.

~~~
ZeroGravitas
The externals are driven by aerodynamics and should be converging generally.

The interior is where there's a bunch of new rules in play, with the front
mounted ICE being replacedAtheism

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A PAMPHLET that reprints an article that appeared in the AmericanAtheist in May 1982, records a political phenomenon, typical of our languishing nation, which may be little known today and certainly deserves attention.
The article is unfortunately so organized that judicious…

by Revilo P. Oliver
THE CHANGE in the cast of the perpetual comedy staged in the White House was of some minor importance. (ILLUSTRATION: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush)
Old Ronnie was a stupid galoot. According to Newsweek, he at least once sent a letter of condolence to one of the fictitious characters…

by Revilo P. Oliver
THE SCABROUS STOOGES who are destroying Canada for the Jews succeeded, on their second attempt, in having James Keegstra convicted of “hate,” that is, of having mentioned certain historical facts to his


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"On January 23, journalist Elena Klimova, the founder of the online LGBT youth support group Children 404, was convicted of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors.” The judgment against Klimova marks the latest assault on Russia’s LGBT community and the continued crackdown on civil society and freedom throughout the Russian Federation.

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Over two dozen people were arrested in raids against media critical of Turkish president. (OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

A wave of arrests Sunday morning shook Turkey and made headline news throughout the world. The arrests, which


use a toilet (with a male guard watching her), Leyla says she was not informed of charges against her.

Less than half a year later after the detention, Leyla (and soon her husband Arif Yunus) were arrested and given ridiculous charges of treason and tax evasion. Amnesty International considers both Prisoners of Conscience and calls on Baku to release them immediately and unconditionally (add your voice to our appeal).

By Andy Graan, Amnesty International USA Country Specialist for Serbia, Macedonia, and Western Europe

LGBT activists and supporters in Serbia have been working tirelessly to prepare for Belgrade Pride, scheduled for September 28. Despite annual efforts to celebrate Belgrade Pride, the 2014 parade, if held successfully, will mark only the third time in more than a decade that the event has actuallyoccurred.

A man protects a woman as they face a police officer dispersing protesters who gathered near Taksim square in Istanbul as the police blocked access to the square during the one year anniversary of the Gezi park and Taksim square demonstrations (Photo Credit: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images).

On the first anniversary of the Gezi Protests and their brutal suppression in Turkey, central Istanbul resembled nothing so much as a city under occupation. Public transportation into the city center was cancelled. Ferry service from the Asian to the European side of the metropolis was ended by the late afternoon. You could leave, but you couldn’t come back.

This is the image of the new Turkey, where dissent is stifled with overwhelming force and massive police presence.

Relatives of the victims of the coal


The motion for default judgment was also mailed to Fifth Third Bank and Tower

Bank and Trust Company. On June 26, 2012, Tower Bank and Trust Company filed a

praecipe with the court clerk, asking the clerk to serve Robertson, by certified mail, a copy of

its response to the county's default judgment motion and its cross-claim against Robertson.

The clerk sent Tower Bank and Trust Company's response and cross-complaint to the

business address, which was signed for by a Denise Ramey. Robertson did not respond to

the default judgment motion or the cross-claim. On July 18, 2012, the trial court granted

default judgment and ordered a sheriff's sale of the property. Notice of the trial court's

judgment and order was sent to the business address by ordinary mail.

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Comedian Dave Chappelle has announced that to he will perform three extra dates at New York City’s Radio City with musical guests. The extra shows will run from the 24th to the 26th of June 2014 with new musical guests performing each night. The Roots will perform on the 24th, Busta Rhymes, DJ Premier and Janelle Monae on the 25th, while Erykah Badu will perform on June 26.

Tickets can be bought via the Ticketmaster Website. Chappelle recently announced he is set to play his first show in New York City in ten years. Chappelle will be the headline act at Radio City Music Hall based in New York, from June 18 to June 22, 2014. The five day show sold out immediately, and now these three extra


President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube, the first to use a filter on Snapchat. Over the past eight years, the President, Vice President, First Lady, and the White House have used social media and technology to engage with people around the country and the world on the most important issues of our time (while having some fun along the way).

Looking back over the past eight years, our digital footprint reflects some broader changes in the ways people consume news and information and engage with the world around them online. In 2009, in addition to rolling out a revamped WhiteHouse.govfeaturing a blog, RSS, and an email list, we joined Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, iTunes, and even MySpace. In 2011, we launched We the People, a platform for citizens to petition the White House. In 2013, the First Lady posted her first photo to Instagram. In 2015, President Obama sent his first tweet from @POTUS. In 2016, the White House debuted an official story on Snapchat for the State of the Union. This digital infrastructure is an asset not just for the next president but for all future presidents to build off of. The archive belongs to the American people.

From the very beginning, our mission has been to reach Americans and people around the world on the channels and platforms where they already spend their time. This work


Biographical Data :

Name :

Riad Mahmud

Period :

1917 - 1992

Biographical detail :

An Egyptian diplomat and soldier.

Riad participated in the overthrow of King Farooq and became a confidant of President Nasser. He served as an ambassador to Syria (1955-58), representative to the U.N. (1962-64) and foreign minister (1964-72) and from 1979 he was secretary general of the Arab League.auditorium in France’s Massif Central), and piano music (because the festival was founded by the great pianist Georges Cziffra in 1966).”

Courtesy of the Festival of Music at La Chaise Dieu

This year’s program has rich offerings in all three categories. Several examples of “big” music are on offer, including an evening of Russian music with the Berlin Philharmonic and a performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. There are other gems as well: this year, the sacred program expands to include music from South America, and there will be recreations of a Medici wedding festival from the Renaissance and an evening with two South Korean choirs singing music by Verdi and Puccini.

For the 50th anniversary, though, the highlight will be a recreation of the first-ever grand symphonic concert that started the


Report: Tizen flavored handsets from Samsung and DoCoMo to launch in 2013

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Japan's largest carrier, DoCoMo, and Korean manufacturer Samsung are teaming up to offer handsets powered by the open source Tizen OS which will be released globally at the same time; DoCoMo is the only one of Japan's major carriers not to offer the Apple iPhone and is hoping that Tizen will prove to be a hit...

Except Tizen has the backing of carriers like Sprint in the U.S. so it will actually be given a chance. Also, I don't think Bada was open-source until recently. Also, Bada didn't have the backing of another big company like Intel. So, I think it has a pretty good shot at becoming a major player in the mobileDallas Mavericks' owner financed anti-American film that may have inspired Frankfurt terrorist

The Dallas Mavericks' owner, billionaire Mark Cuban, financed and distributed Redacted, the 2007 Brian De Palma film that depicted US troops raping and killing civilians in Afghanistan.

According to John Rosenthal, clips from Redacted have been regularly used in the German media as if it documents actual US war crimes -- when it doesn't. It's fiction. And those clips may have inspire Arif Uka, the Islamic radical who murdered two US airmen in Frankfurt and wounded two others in a jihadist attack last week.

Whether Redacted inspired the Frankfurt terrorist or not, there's no doubt that Cuban financed that film, and there's no doubt that it was intended to present a very negative image of American troops.


Q:

Did the Peoples of Middle Earth know of Beleriand in the Third Age?

Did the people of Middle-earth know of the lands of old that sunk west of the Blue Mountains, or was it just not common knowledge?
For example: If by chance somebody brought up Beleriand, would people know of it?

A:

Some did.
Elves
Elrond remembered the battles of thangorodrim at the end of the first age that led to the destruction of Beleriand.

Thereupon Elrond paused a while and sighed. ‘I remember well the splendour of their banners,’ he said. ‘It recalled to me the glory of the Elder Days and the hosts of Beleriand, so many great princes and captains were assembled. And yet not so many, nor so fair, as when Thangorodrim was broken , and the Elves deemedthat evil was ended for ever, and it was not so.’ ‘You remember?’ said Frodo, speaking his thought aloud in his astonishment. ‘But I thought,’ he stammered as Elrond turned towards him, ‘I thought that the fall of Gil-galad was a long age ago.’ ‘So it was indeed,’ answered Elrond gravely. ‘But my memory reaches back even to the Elder Days. Eärendil was my sire, who was born in Gondolin before its fall; and my mother was Elwing, daughter of Dior, son of Lúthien of Doriath. I have seen three ages in the West of the world, and many defeats, and many fruitless victories.

There are older elves than Elrond in middle earth (Cirdan, Galadriel and Celeborn for instance)
Hobbits
In the fictional history Bilbo is the author of the Silmarillion.


This tells the tale of Beleriand so he must know.
He sings of avernien (the coastlines of Beleriand) before the Council of Elrond.

Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow he fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid.

It seems he also passed on this lore to Frodo, as he is aware of the history of the sword Sting

‘That would not help us now,’ said Frodo. ‘Come! Let us see what Sting can do. It is an elven-blade. There were webs of horror in the dark ravines of Beleriand where it was forged. But you must be the guard andhold back the eyes. Here, take the star-glass. Do not be afraid. Hold it up and watch!’

Men
Aragorn is descended from Luthien and knows the lore, he will have learned it from Elrond, he certainly knows of Dorthonion which was immediately north of Berleriand.
The history of the Barrowdowns is discussed in the appendixes of the Lord of the Rings, it seems the Dùnedain kept the history of Beleriand alive.

‘It is said that the mounds of Tyrn Gorthad, as the Barrow-downs were called of old, are very ancient, and that many were built in the days of the old world of the First Age by the forefathers of the Edain, before they crossed the Blue Mountains into Beleriand, of which Lindon is all that now remains.

Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil tells the


hobbits of the world when it was younger.

When they caught his words again they found that he had now wandered into strange regions beyond their memory and beyond their waking thought, into times when the world was wider, and the seas flowed straight to the western Shore; and still on and back Tom went singing out into ancient starlight, when only the Elf-sires  were awake.

Treebeard
Treebeard sings of Belariand

In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring. Ah! the sight and the smell of the Spring in Nan-tasarion! And I said that was good. I wandered in Summer in the elm-woods of Ossiriand. Ah! the light and the music in the Summer by the Seven Rivers of Ossir! And I thought that was best. To the beechesdirect experience of Beleriand.
Sauron and the Balrog were around in the third age, Gandalf and Saruman and the other Istari would have had lore from various sources, even if they never personally visited it in their previous forms.
Trees
Old man willow and his kin where ancient, they seem to have memory of those days.

It was not called the Old Forest without reason, for it was indeed ancient, a survivor of vast forgotten woods; and in it there lived yet, ageing no quicker than the hills, the fathers of the fathers of trees, remembering times when they were lords. The countless years had filled them with pride and rooted wisdom, and with malice. But none were more dangerous than the Great Willow:

Dwarves
The dwarves seem to have poems and songs


relating the first age so some clearly had knowledge of Beleriand. Indeed Gimli speaks of this in the Chamber of Mazarbul.

The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall Of mighty kings in Nargothrond And Gondolin , who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away: The world was fair in Durin’s Day.

LA Rams re-sign CB Troy Hill to practice squad after arrest

Los Angeles Rams free safety Maurice Alexander (31) and cornerback Troy Hill (32) celebrate after a defensive play against the New York Jets during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth

Seth Wenig

November 23, 2016

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Troy Hill is getting a second chance with the Los Angeles Rams, and he claims he won't waste it.

The Rams re-signed the second-year cornerback to their practice squad Wednesday, one day after waiving him in the wake of his arrest last weekend. Hill participated in practice while the Rams (4-6) prepared for their trip to New Orleans.

Hill had carved out a regular role on the Rams' defense after just nine


games in his second NFL season, only to lose it by crashing his car and getting arrested last Saturday morning. But coach Jeff Fisher said he believes in second chances, and Hill got one immediately after clearing waivers.

''It's a humbling experience, and I'm thankful for these coaches,'' Hill said. ''I let them down, and they gave me this second opportunity. I just want to do everything I can to show them that I can be trusted and work my way back.''

Los Angeles waived Hill on Tuesday, three days after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. He was involved in a crash on a freeway near Encino early Saturday morning, and the Rams deactivated him for Sunday's game against Miami.

Hill declined to goguilt that I let them down, regardless of whatever the situation was.''

The Rams claimed Hill off waivers from New England on Dec. 31 after the undrafted Oregon product spent most of his rookie season with the Cincinnati Bengals. Los Angeles liked Hill's coverage skills and grasp of their defensive scheme.

''I think people deserve second chances in life,'' Fisher said Tuesday before the decision to re-sign Hill. ''I think he learned from it, but I was just disappointed in his choices.''

The Rams also re-signed cornerback Steve Williams, who joins rookie Michael Jordan on the active roster in their restocked defensive secondary. Los Angeles signed and released Williams earlier this season, and the San Diego Chargers re-signed him in early October before releasing him two weeks ago.

The Rams are shuffling


Free Bets

Trouble Brewing For Leeds And Charlton In The Championship

It was a good day for teams in the lower echelons on Saturday as QPR were the only team to pick up three points in the top half of the table.

The shock of the day came at Elland Road where Bolton put five past Leeds with only a late consolation for the home side in reply. Dougie Freedman may have been dodging the proverbial axe since the start of 2014, but he has turned it around and the Trotters have now scored nine goals in the last two outings. Mark Davies, Joe Mason and Lukas Jutkiewicz have all got the Bolton fans on their feet and it would be churlish to brandish them as 'safe', but the upturn inon Tuesday whose lacklustre display against Bournemouth should be cause for pessimism. They are now 18 games without a win and are in danger of breaking an unwanted club record. The Tangerines simply must pick up points against The Lions as they follow that with a trip to Leicester.

Elsewhere, Middlesbrough scored their first goals in over 12 hours of football as a Danny Graham double was enough to see of Ipswich who are missing the presence of David McGoldrick up front. Brighton and Reading shared a point a piece and as touched upon earlier, a Ravel Morrison double saw off Birmingham as QPR looked to make ground on Derby.

Sunday played host to a Lancashire derby and the match looked to be Blackburn's until two goals in the last


museum, have been classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.

The newly pedestrianised section has been car-free for a month every summer since 2002, for the hugely popular Paris Plages riverside beach bonanza. This year, it remained closed to traffic for an exhibition after the sand was cleared away.

Hidalgo’s “Paris Respire” (Paris Breathes) anti-pollution programme has also included banning cars from the Champs-Elysees avenue on the first Sunday of every month.

Another nine new routes are reserved for pedestrians and bicycles every Sunday and public holiday.

The mayor is determined to fight pollution in a city where air quality regularly violates EU norms, sometimes rivalling that of heavily polluted cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.

Medical experts blame air pollution for 2,500 deaths each year in the city, and 6,600in the greater metropolitan area.

On Sunday, a large part of central Paris was closed to cars, repeating an exercise first carried out a year ago, when nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by between 20 and 40 percent.

Socialist Environment Minister Segolene Royal has praised Hidalgo’s “courage” for the latest initiative, saying that banishing cars from the Right Bank puts Paris “on the right side of history”.

To ensure its effectiveness, the city plans to monitor traffic on other main arteries, as well as noise and emissions levels in the area as well as use of the river bank by pedestrians, cyclists and rollerbladers.

(AFP)

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and open their taps. Pink Guy then starts to scream and yell as water (or possibly piss), began to flow from the brothers' taps and onto his face.

Of course, Pink Guy is terrified about this and starts to fight the Tap Brothers. They try to run away but Pink Guy summons Saint Nicholas who fights them and in the end incapacitates them both. Fake Frank then communicates with Pink Guy through what he considers "Cell Service" of which, takes up a lot of chromosomes.

One of The Tap Brothers appears in "FILTHY FRANK VS CHIN CHIN" where he fights the Real Frank. Ultimately The Tap Brother is defeated and his fate after that is unknown.

According to Frank The Tap Brothers are "...notoriously wanted in the omniverses".

Somehow, in "PINK GUY- FALCON PUNCH", one of them appears to be enslaved by Pink Guy, along with an unknown brown lycra, as Pink Guy is a higher being by now. Both lycras are apparently forced to work with him in the Time Police.

Abilities

They can produce a piss-like substance from their Taps. This ability however is ineffective as shown when the Tap Brothers were releasing their juices on Pink Guy.

The Tap Brothers have considerable hand-to-hand combat abilities. They were however defeated by Pink Guy and his partner Nicholas.

Later on in the video "FILTHY FRANK VS CHIN CHIN", one of the Tap Brothers showed to have a considerate boost in their fighting ability.


Northwest tribes resume sacred ritual: Hunting bison

'For me and my son to come up here as Cayuse, like our ancestors, it's a great honor'

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Francis Marsh, left, and Cody Nowland of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Ore., stand with a bison shot and killed by Marsh's father Jim Marsh on Feb. 13, 2011, near Gardiner, Mont.

GARDINER, Mont. — Knee deep in snow, Francis Marsh crouched behind a boulder and peered through the rifle scope at his target 40 yards away. He breathed in deeply to calm his racing heart.

Picturesque mountain peaks rose behind him. The sunlight glittered off the snow, and all was quiet and still.

Ever so slowly, he exhaled, waited, then pulled the trigger.

The bison dropped to its big belly.Francis gasped for air — and with that shot became one of the first members of an Oregon Indian tribe to hunt buffalo in more than a century.

Sacred ritual
For years, Jim Marsh — Francis' father — had heard stories about his great-grandmother's buffalo-hide teepee, the last of its kind in their family. He'd seen photos of it, but buffalo were a thing of the past.

The Cayuse Indians once traveled hundreds of miles on horseback to hunt bison, a lean meat rich in protein and high in cultural significance. Those hunts ended in the late 1800s, as federal agents restricted travel from their reservation on the Columbia River plateau and the decimated bison herds were largely confined to Yellowstone National Park.

Jim Marsh's great-grandfather was the last family member to


travel across the Rocky Mountains to hunt bison.

But in 2006, the state of Montana gave permission to the Nez Perce of Idaho and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes of northwest Montana to hunt bison on federal lands outside Yellowstone.

Hunting is illegal in the park, but during harsh winters, bison migrate to lower elevations outside the park in search of food. The tribes' 1855 treaties with the federal government grant them the right to hunt on traditional hunting grounds on open, unclaimed land, such as the current day Gallatin National Forest bordering the park.

Marsh soon accompanied Nez Perce relatives on a hunt, tagging along to watch and help. The significance of a tradition long lost to him immediately struck home.

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The Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla tribes also have an 1855 treaty that relegated them to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Ore., but also guaranteed hunting rights on aboriginal lands. Marsh pushed the tribe's wildlife program to seek access, prodding them when paperwork lay dormant. He ran for and won election to the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

"Our tribe has been hunting buffalo for centuries. It's one of our traditional foods. They were just returning from buffalo country before the treaty was signed," Marsh said, recalling the Indian chiefs who cited buffalo more than a dozen


times in their treaty. "It was important to me to try to return that tradition to my people."

Montana granted permission last fall after months of negotiations — and to the Shoshone-Bannock of Idaho as well — and the tribe issued permits for hunts beginning in January.

'You take the shot'
The buffalo buried its head in the snow, safely digging for grass in a no-hunting zone behind a U.S. Forest Service compound.

Twenty minutes earlier, the hunters had excitedly bounded out of their pickups to snap photos. Now they were forced to acknowledge that this big bull wasn't going anywhere.

Marsh gathered his team: Francis, his 23-year-old son, Joe Ball, David Sams and his nephew, Chuck Sams, and Cody Nowland. All were seasoned hunters of deer, elk, sheep and cougar. None hadever shot a bison.

The crew drove back down the snow-covered road and over the hill, where a herd of bison slept and grazed several hundred yards away. The hunters climbed out of the trucks and assessed the scene. And waited.

From this vantage point, the buffalo were too far away through deep snow.

Jim Currey, tribal game officer, pointed to a closed road. A legal shot could be made from beyond the gate, where two bulls stood between the herd and the hunters.

They waited some more. Finally, at 11:30 a.m., Marsh turned to his son.

"It's yours," he said, smiling at Francis. "You take the shot."

Francis grabbed his gun and walked toward the herd with a Nez Perce hunter also in the area. Rounding the corner, they found the bulls had


made it easy. They were right there.

"It's almost like those buffalo gave themselves up so we wouldn't go after their children and their wives — like people, basically," Francis said later. "As soon as he dropped, my heart dropped."

He fired another shot, and the Nez Perce at his side fired on the other bull. Nowland let out a yell. After firing a third time to ensure the animal was finished, Francis and Nowland men stood at its side for a prayer and song.

"This was a good, clean kill today. Thank you for all of us being out here today for this historic moment for our people," intoned Nowland.

All six men and wildlife program manager Carl Scheeler, who helped get the hunts approved, pitched in for the grueling taskof butchering and skinning the animal. They carved with knives, sharpening and resharpening them. Three boys with the hunting party played in the snow, stopping every so often to watch the men at work.

Four hours later, the meat was loaded on the truck. Francis planned to give away much of it to family members and elders who no longer hunt, as well as to provide for ceremonial observances in the longhouse.

"As a native, that shows respect to the animal, to give a lot of it away. Especially with a first kill," he said. "Karma comes around."

'An honor'
After a celebratory dinner, the hunters headed out the next morning to the Forest Service compound, where the big bull that had grazed in safety now wandered in an open field across


the road.

Jim Marsh immediately jumped out of his truck, pushed several feet through deep snow and took aim. The bison took several shots to go down, and Francis hiked to the animal to deliver one final shot.

Nowland let out another yell. The others gathered to tie up ropes to tow it closer to the road and then began field dressing this second bison of the hunt. Nearby, the three boys built a "snow buffalo."

Marsh quietly stepped away to put on his overalls and gather his knives. He thought of his wife, who died several years ago, and younger son Ryan, 18, who will hunt next year.

"I am 47 years old. For me to come up here now and exercise my treaty right is an honor," he said. "It'sminority voters helped President Barack Obama win both states in 2008 and Virginia again in 2012. Nationally, Republican Mitt Romney lost among African-Americans by about 85 percentage points and Latinos by about 44 percentage points, margins that virtually ensure a Democratic victory.

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Across

The

Largo

Book One: Seek Song

Mitchell Atkinson III

Copyright 2014 by Mitchell Atkinson

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  1. # Table of Contents

Introduction

Esmeralda and Robert

Mr. Chandrasekhar

The Party

The Largo

Song

The Princess Switch

Yaris, Robert and Unfortunate News

Among the Phoon

The Mountain Pass

Under the Tower

Wane and the Ivory Turtle

The Songs of Ko

Fire in the Night

The Mother Turtle and the Return to Song

Home
  2. # Introduction

There is an old story. But then, old is in the eye of the beholder. To some it is an old story. To others it is moderately old. To some it is brand new.

The story is about a young scientist giving a lecture about the universe. He talks about the stars and planets, about gravity, about how the earth revolves around the sun, and so forth. He gives a beautiful presentation, and everyone clapsthat Esmeralda didn't care and wanted to misbehave. There were just so many different things to think about.

"That was brutal," Robert said as he and Esmeralda walked out of class.

"Yeah, I guess," she answered. "He's just being himself."

"But, no one can blame you for spacing out in Eldredge's class. He is pretty boring."

"And at the same time terrifying," Esmeralda said. "What were we supposed to be talking about anyway?"

Robert smirked. "Christopher Columbus and stuff. We've been doing it all week."

"Yeah, Columbus," Esmeralda said distantly.

Robert and Esmeralda were very good friends. They had been so ever since the first grade when Robert offered to share his lunch with Esmeralda after she forgot hers at home. Robert was good for Esmeralda; she did not have many friends. He was a


Robert got concerned about the salmonella.

"Salmonella comes from chickens, Robert," Esmeralda said.

"I just don't want to get a disease in my eye, okay?"

"Are you wearing a chicken on your eye?" Esmeralda smirked.

"I don't know. I can't see it." Robert pointed to the steak now resting upon him. "It's on my eye."

"Robert," Mr. Comstock cut in, "you can't get salmonella from free-range flank steak. You can get mad cow disease from it. But you won't. And if you do, have your parents call me. Now, as for you, Esmeralda, I'd like you to come upstairs to my study so that we can talk alone."

Esmeralda's father's study was filled with huge and ancient books. They lined the walls, riding tall shelves cut from cherry wood. His desk was a big,filled with helium; they said "Happy Birthday" on them and clung fearfully to the ground. On the dining room table sat a little circular cake, not encased in plastic. Upon it, in blue frosting, the words "Happy Birthday Ezzie" were written in a rather unsure and haphazard style.

"Oh, no," Esmeralda said, inspecting the dessert. "I think Dad tried to bake."

"What do you mean, tried?" Esmeralda's father came out from the kitchen wearing jeans, a white t-shirt and an apron with "Kiss the Cook" printed across the front.

"Hello, Mr. Comstock," Robert said.

"Robert, you know to call me Aaron," Esmeralda's father said.

"I know that you want me to, sir, but propriety really dictates that..."

The doorbell rang.

"Excuse me, Robert." Mr. Comstock walked from the dining room muttering something about twelve year


looked very old, made of some dark wood like mahogany or rosewood. A faded, brown skin stretched across the top. The wood was decorated with odd, angular letters that Esmeralda didn't recognize. On the top of the drum, painted into the skin, lay a dull, red circle.

Mr. Chandrasekhar sat on the floor, crossed his legs, set the drum down to one side, the briefcase in front, and removed his flute. Esmeralda, Robert and Mr. Comstock took seats on the couch opposite Mr. Chandrasekhar. No one spoke, only waited; Mr. Chandrasekhar began to play.

It was slow, mournful music. The flute seemed to pull the light from the air and cause everyone's skin to feel soft and warm. Esmeralda turned her gaze from Mr. Chandrasekhar's eyes momentarily and looked atthe middle of January. There was snow everywhere. He opened and closed his fists several times. Robert looked at Esmeralda, knelt down and picked up a handful of snow. "What's going on?" Robert asked.

"I don't know." She could only be honest.

"I can feel the snow. I mean, I know the snow is in my hand. But I can't feel the cold of the snow." Robert's voice shook. "What is going on?"

"Listen," Esmeralda said. "We can't get distracted. When Mr. Chandrasekhar starts playing, we have to be listening."

They were startled by a loud metallic bang coming from up the street. They wheeled about simultaneously and saw one of the missing streetlamps. It was walking down the middle of the street. Esmeralda gripped Robert's hand. The streetlamp hopped along the


stairs.

"Where are you going?" Esmeralda asked.

"To see if your father's awake."

Esmeralda ran after him. "No, Robert, don't you see? My father won't be there. We aren't in my house anymore."

Esmeralda followed him upstairs. They flung wide the door to her father's office and found a man's body seated behind the desk. The body was wearing an old black tuxedo, perhaps the one Esmeralda's father wore on his wedding day. Attached to the neck of this body was a very large amphibian head, the head of a turtle. The turtle head inclined in their direction and blinked twice.

Robert held his right hand over his stomach and sank down into a crouch. He did not look well at all. "You know, you always ask yourself if you get in aand the flags and towers of light within.

"You see it?" Dorthea called from her perch atop the carriage.

"I see it!" Esmeralda said, smiling.

The carriage picked up speed, passing a couple of people riding matching ostriches, and came through the half-finished gate. The interior of the City smelled like cinnamon and roses and people and baking bread and nectar and olive trees and all manner of unknown things.

The place vibrated with interior, bustling life. On either side of the road citizens went happily about their day's business. Everywhere Esmeralda's eyes fell there were different kinds of people, different colors of skin, different types of clothes. The air was thick with sound and laughter and the shrewd but good-natured haggling of market-goers.

Dorthea took the carriage off of the main thoroughfare


Beautiful place. Sunflowers mostly, some corn and beans too. I have a little garden where I grow tomatoes and such. The Tower is a place where great things have happened, they say. Seems too big a place for me to puddle around in."

"Esmeralda," Raahi said, turning from Dorthea, "this is a place where many things are possible. Nearly anything. The reasons for that are not known to us. When the grandfathers of my grandfathers of my grandfathers came to this land, the Tower was already here. This Shrine is older than our histories and commemorates something we do not understand. Many people, even those who live near here in the City, feel like Dorthea. They don't come to Shrine. Or if they do, they stay in the courtyard."

"Why?"filled her with contempt. Earlier that morning, he brought her tea with only two sugars. She knew it was only two sugars. It was horrible. She thought she would come up with an excuse to have him fired tomorrow, maybe thrown in one of the dungeons. Princess Yaris smiled.

She went back to brushing her hair, thinking another three hundred and thirteen strokes might be in order, when she heard the strangest sound, unlike anything she had heard before. It was high and smooth and somehow found its way deep into her chest. Yaris stood up and went to the window. She couldn't see what made the noise, but could tell the direction. She began to itch all over. She tried to scratch the itch, but couldn't cover enough


huge emerald at its head. He was very thin, his gaunt face incongruent with the surrounding excess. Also, Esmeralda noticed that, though this seemed to be a banquet, no food was placed in front of the Emperor. Neither did the Attendants to either side of him have anything to eat. Perhaps they had just finished.

"Finally!" The Emperor's voice was a bitter sizzle high and low at once. He held up his green-gloved hand and the hall fell completely silent. Motionless. "Daughter dearest, nearest my heart, where have you been?" The Emperor smiled from the mouth down; his eyes were set in stone. His teeth were perfectly aligned and blindingly white.

Esmeralda hesitated.

"Can you not speak?" he shouted. "Do you have no memory in that head of yours? Can youtell me where you have been this very night?"

"Outside," Esmeralda managed to say.

"Come here." The Emperor motioned to the area directly in front of the table.

Esmeralda began to move across the crowded room. As she approached the mass of performers, they made a path, slinking to either side. Each held his or her head down so that Esmeralda saw none of their eyes. She could not get a sense of whether they felt sorry for her, whether they would be mocking her under their breath, or whether—and this seemed the most likely—they were simply going through the motions because this kind of thing happened all the time. She caught the eyes of one of the panthers, lying now on its side and staring up at her, the only


took the fence out and went straight for the princess's bedchamber. She was the purpose of the attack, there can be no doubt. They..."—the wounded Guardian shifted her position, groaned a little for the pain—"...took her and created a horrible smoke. The haze covered their retreat. I don't think even the Palace Watch could track their escape."

"Oh, save us," Dorthea said.

"What does this mean?" Robert asked.

Raahi looked at him, unable to say anything.

Princess Yaris chortled. "It means I left on a good day."

Dorthea walked across the room, sending Yaris a hateful look. She grabbed Robert by the arm and took him down the hall.

"It's best we leave certain talk to the higher-ups," she said when they were alone. "Besides, I just might put that pissy little girl throughgroup of Phoon before they reach their difficult lands...they are twenty-five Phoon man-hounds, and we are four Elites. One of us is wounded and at the edge of death. There is the woman and the small boy among us. And of course one of us is, no offense to you, sir, a flautist."

Dorthea and Robert walked back into the room.

Raahi smiled. "No offense taken; I assure you, before this ordeal has run its course, we will have need of a song or two."

"We have to leave," Ngare said, resolute. "The palace will send a battalion, at least, of troops into the field. It will take some time to organize, and they will be slow exiting the city; but once in open country, they will be swift. We must


body of Acheron, her captor and tormentor, a thing in the world that, as far as she knew, had no human feeling or sympathies of any kind. But could that really be true? She looked and looked, and she said nothing.

***

The travelers quickly organized themselves for departure. They had only one carriage now, and no one had a clue as to how to operate the Phoon Crawlers. So they crammed Esmeralda, Dorthea, Robert, Raahi and Ngare into the carriage, and the remaining Elite Guard went on horseback. South, along the mountains toward the river they rode, a humble caravan soft in the glow of the setting sun.

"Are you going to try it?" Raahi asked Esmeralda.

"Try what?" Esmeralda said.

"The flute."

"Yeah," Robert chimed in, "we went through all this forspeak.

"Yaris?" Raahi said. "What are you doing?"

"Sleeping."

"Do you need some help?"

"I don't know," she said and stood slowly on wobbly legs.

Dorthea, Robert and Esmeralda, sensing an end to the danger, came up from the carriage. They all stood in a half-circle staring at Yaris with disbelief.

"Yaris," Raahi said, "your father's army is somewhere on this plain. Alavariss itself is northeast of here. Are you trying to get home? If so, you seem to be heading the wrong way."

Yaris stared at the floor. "I don't think I can go home."

"Well, I'm sure you can. If you need help, we can give you one of the horses and some water."

Yaris was near tears. "No. I mean, I just don't want to go back there."

Ngare sighed heavily. Raahi pulled him aside.

"What


all happily, perhaps thinking about what strange creatures human beings are.

Finally Esmeralda stopped and readied her flute. "Maybe if I just try to play again."

"It's worth a shot," Dorthea said.

Esmeralda placed the flute to her lips and attempted to play. At first no sound came. She repositioned her fingers, not knowing in the least what she was doing, and attempted one more time. This time the flute played an ear-splittingly high note that rang through the courtyard and bounced off of the white walls of the Tower. They waited. Nothing happened. Esmeralda experienced no revelations or visions.

"Well, that didn't work," she said, slightly depressed.

She moved to put the flute away when a grinding noise began coming out of the ground.

"The circle!" Dorthea gasped.

They all stood back around thedifferent colors, some blue, some orange or red, some bright, sparkling white.

They made their way through the forest and onto the beach. The fireflies surrounded them in a wide, circular formation and headed out toward the rowboats. The travelers made their way to the boats and out to sea, floating through a thousand reflections of light to the vessel sleeping in deeper waters.

  14. # 12. The Songs of Ko

Robert stared at the Turtle, who was slowly shuffling around the deck of the ship. "What kind is it?"

"What do you mean?" Esmeralda asked.

"What kind of Turtle."

"I don't know," Esmeralda said. "Raahi called them Great Turtles."

"The Grandfather Turtle was more like a sea turtle. You know? With like fins and stuff. This one looks more like a box


never known. Somehow Ko is written on the underside of my skin. So, I am going to try to take that feeling and what I can see from inside your head and figure out what it is that Ko is all about."

Her mother drew a representation of Ko on the blackboard. "Now if you can take your practice flute please?"

Esmeralda looked at her desk, and a little, wooden flute sat there, not Ko, but a kind of mock-up of Ko, having the same number of buttons and the same location for the air hole.

"Where is Ko?" Esmeralda asked.

"On the boat," her mother said. "I tried to feel Ko into this room but couldn't do it. I don't really know why. I think maybe Ko is sort of onesound the opposite of All for as long as her lungs would allow.

For a moment nothing happened, and Esmeralda was a little disappointed, though she knew on some level that what she had done was something of an accomplishment. But soon afterward, a kind of shower of little lights descended into her vision—nothing particularly substantial or representative, just sparkling lights, coming briefly from the sky and disappearing into the deck of the ship.

"Robert, did you see..." Esmeralda began.

"Yeah," Robert interrupted. "We all saw it."

The Turtle looked up at her, beaming.

You did very good.

"You think so?" Esmeralda said.

Oh, yes. Can you feel it? Can you feel the song in you?

Esmeralda thought that she might. A warm feeling rising from somewhere in the depths of her stomach, a calm was


The Ivory Turtle followed Esmeralda as best he could, shuffling his squat, square legs with all available speed.

Ngare led them below deck, taking them across the cramped sleeping quarters and into one of the cargo holds full of food and other supplies. The underside of the ship was dark and full of strange shapes; even after Raahi followed them into the hold carrying an oil lamp, the room looked to them full of shadows.

"Ngare, Alavariss. Alavariss is come. How can this...what can we do?" Raahi spoke rapidly, not quite frantic.

"I don't know," Ngare said. "Somehow we have been betrayed. I don't know. I need you to stay here with the children."

Above them, they heard a crash like thunder but no sound of rain.

"I have no time," Ngare said.to rend the night.

"While they're distracted!" Raahi said, steering the boat toward shore.

Rowing with their greatest unified effort, they sped over to Ngare and the other Elite Guard. They found the soldiers floating there and, for the most part, miraculously unhurt. Beyond them, on the shore, the Mother Turtle was an unstoppable destructive force.

There were too many soldiers to fit onto the boat, and it took some jostling around before they accepted that they would certainly capsize before they got everyone out of the water. They finally decided that Ngare and a couple others were strong enough to swim, even in shifts, until they found someplace relatively safe to dock.

They were about to depart when Esmeralda felt something curious. She felt strangely, suddenly alone.

"The Turtle," she said. She


moment to head into the tower and visit Yaris.

"Are you all right?" Esmeralda asked, once in her room.

"This is a really nice place," Yaris said.

"I like it too."

Yaris stared out the window. "I heard you were in danger."

"A little, but it worked out okay."

"Is my father alive?" Yaris let no emotion into the words.

Esmeralda said, "I don't think so. If he's still alive, he's hurting pretty badly."

"Hmm."

Esmeralda tried to lighten up. "Are you going to come down to the party? It's like the best thing that has ever happened to Song. The whole City is celebrating!"

"I don't think so. I don't think they will like me, considering where I come from...or who I come from."

Esmeralda walked up beside Yaris. In the time since she had last seen her,interior of the tent was filled with shimmering light of all colors. The light drifted toward the seated diners in little pockets, and as each piece of light touched the top of a head or a shoulder, it burst into a thousand shards, and each of these danced away into the air.

Everyone stood, erupting into thunderous applause.

Pa looked over at Esmeralda, surprise and delight on his face. "You know a lot more about playing songs than you think, little lady."

"Thank you," Esmeralda said.

"Now," Raahi began with a fading smile, "unfortunately time has really gotten away from us."

Esmeralda looked up at him. "Time to go?" she asked.

"Time to go."

The citizens of Song crowded outside the tent and around the Mother Turtle. Here and there throughout the throng, people were


the Largo? Who will play for us to lead us?"

"Mother will send you where you need to go," Raahi said. "And she will keep those of us that must remain from being pulled in by the drum. She is quite powerful."

With that, Raahi and Dorthea hugged them both quickly. Yaris was next; she awkwardly shook Robert's hand, but she held Esmeralda in a long, honest embrace. Esmeralda and Robert sat before the drum, took a deep breath and began tapping out the rhythm, still burned in their minds after those long days. Doom tick tak ta doom tick takita. Doom tick tak ta doom tick takita...
  17. # 15. Home

As they played, the world became ghostly and unreal. Esmeralda looked at Yaris; her head was tilted towardaddition (200 kg N·hm-2·a-1) on the bacterial and fungal community over a 40-year chronosequence of coniferous P. tabuliformis plantation forests. After nitrogen addition, the Shannon diversity of both bacteria and fungi significantly increased in the 25-year-old stand, while the abundance-based coverage estimator of bacteria increased significantly in the 40-year-old stand. Nitrogen addition enhanced the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes in the 40-year-old stand and that of Acidobacteria/Zygomycota in the 25-year-old stand. In contrast, the relative abundance of Thaumarchaeota was reduced by nitrogen addition in the 40-year old stand. The effects of nitrogen addition were stronger on bacterial than on fungal community structure as indicated by the results from non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis. Moreover, the effects of nitrogen addition were stronger in the 25-year-old stand than in the 40-year-old stand.


previously characterized. High-resolution investigation of 37 Y-chromosome STR loci and analysis of 35 bi-allelic markers in 47 individuals revealed a predominant northwest African component (E-M81, haplogroup E1b1b1b) which likely originated in the second half of the Holocene in the same ancestral population that contributed to the maternal pool of the Libyan Tuareg. A significant paternal contribution from south-Saharan Africa (E-U175, haplogroup E1b1a8) was also detected, which may likely be due to recent secondary introduction, possibly through slavery practices or fusion between different tribal groups. The difference in haplogroup composition between the villages of Al Awaynat and Tahala suggests that founder effects and drift played a significant role in shaping the genetic pool of the Libyan Tuareg.

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(Photo: Screenshot via YouTube/Comedy Central)16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education advocate who was shot by the Taliban in the head in October 2012, speaks with host Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on October 8, 2013.

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as the entrance to a circular drive that leads to the Lyceum.

The cemetery is in a secluded part of campus and has graves of Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Shiloh.

Pro-Confederate groups from outside the university rallied at the statue Feb. 23, and Ole Miss basketball players knelt during the national anthem at a game that day to protest those activities.

Because of a student-led effort, the university in 2015 stopped flying the Mississippi flag, the last state flag to prominently feature the Confederate battle emblem.

The nickname for athletic teams remains the Rebels, but Ole Miss retired its Colonel Reb mascot in 2003. In 1997, administrators banned sticks in the football stadium, which largely stopped people from waving Confederate battle flags. The marching band no longer plays "Dixie."

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Follownone of his abilities are anything to look down on, he is also constantly challenged by his opponents. In fact, most of his growth as a character has happened mid-battle. What's more, Oda established a deep roster of powerful opponents for Luffy and his crew from the beginning, allowing stronger foes to show up without the audience asking, "where the hell have they been this whole time?"

Mixed Power Curve — Dragon Ball Z

No one can question how great DBZ is, but that comes with the caveat of admitting how out of hand things got by the end. While characters got stronger at a good pace in the beginning, some really important characters get completely left behind/overshadowed later in the story just because they weren't saiyan. And Goku's first


transformation into a super saiyan remains one of the most badass moments in all of anime, but it stopped being special when every partial saiyan could find a way to, at least, go super saiyan two. Also, by the end of Dragon Ball GT, Goku was so strong that the only person who could still train him was a reality-warping, mythical dragon.

Bad Power Curve — Bleach

For something that started off so good, it's almost impressive how dreadful it became. The story was mostly fine at the beginning, and most people were content to let Ichigo progress as a shinigami at a startlingly fast rate. Then things changed halfway through the Hueco Mundo arc. Suddenly Ichigo could wear his hollow mask for entire battles with no explanation, and heSEATTLE, WA — A 25-year-old woman died early Sunday morning after she was stabbed at Cal Anderson Park, Seattle police are reporting.

The attack happened just before 3 a.m. near Nagel Place and Pine Street at the south end of the park. Police arrived to find the woman with a chest wound. Officers and Seattle fire medics tried to revive her, but she later died at Harborview.

Police did not make any arrests, and detectives were still investigating the incident on Sunday.


to a white man on an Alabama bus, Irene Morgan did the same thing on a Greyhound bus in Virginia. But Morgan's response was far from soft-spoken," writes DeRamus. "She first refused to let the young, baby-carrying woman sitting next to her give up her seat. Morgan then ripped up her arrest warrant and threw it out a window. The high-heels-wearing Morgan also kicked a sheriff's deputy in what she called 'a very bad place.' When another deputy tried to touch her, she tore his shirt." Above: The civil rights pioneer in 2000. (Kyndell Harkness / Associated Press)

"NAACP lawyers appealed Irene Morgan's 1944 arrest and fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That resulted in a 1946 decision ending segregation on interstate buses," writes DeRamus. "Inthe South, though, some Greyhound drivers ignored the ruling. As a result, young white and black activists began testing the decision by riding together on interstate buses. Often arrested and sometimes beaten, they became known as Freedom Riders. One rider was Bayard Rustin, who would later organize the unforgettable 1963 March on Washington."

"NAACP lawyers appealed Irene Morgan's 1944 arrest and fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That resulted in a 1946 decision ending segregation on interstate buses," writes DeRamus. "In the South, though, some Greyhound drivers ignored the ruling. As a result, young white and black activists began testing the decision by riding together on interstate buses. Often arrested and sometimes beaten, they became known as Freedom Riders. One rider was Bayard Rustin, who would


Efforts to Open Texas White Rhino Sanctuary Gaining Traction

A potential white rhino sanctuary may open in Texas to save the species due to the rampant poaching problem in South Africa.

The Exotic Wildlife Association’s Second Ark Foundation is heading up efforts to open a Texas white rhino sanctuary for hundreds of orphaned white rhinos. South Texas is an ideal location for the proposed sanctuary due to the climate (which is similar to South Africa) and the better protection that it gives the rhinos from poachers.

Currently, the white rhino population in South Africa is under siege from poachers; over 1,200 rhinos were killed in 2014. Despite dramatically increased anti-poaching efforts, many African governments are finding themselves unable to combat the dramatic rise in rhino poaching lately.

South Africa has been busydama gazelle, and the addax were great successes.

Setting up a Texas white rhino sanctuary would allow the rhinos to be well guarded and enable managers of the sanctuary to constantly monitor the rhino population for threats, which would be much easier to do in south Texas than in South Africa.

A Texas white rhino sanctuary could potentially allow for the reintroduction of these rhino and their descendants back to South Africa in the future if things go well.


The rustling in the leaves of oak and sassafras reaches a crescendo as light plays in the canopy top and splashes down into the carpet of newly green huckleberry and blueberry leaves.

The Sun winks in and out of billowing clouds that move on the breeze towards the vast ocean over the pines and towns and bay and barrier islands beyond.

Faint sweet scents tease me as I catch them on the air. For today is clement and fine, and this is one of the sweetest days of late spring.

Butterflies flit in jerky patterns between trunks and branches. Newly minted birds sing out with insistent peeping as they learn the ways of the world. Squirrels chatter down as my feet crunch scattered acorn shells, while fence lizards dive into theOn March 29, 1929, President Herbert Hoover has a phone installed at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. It took a while to get the line to Hoover’s desk working correctly and the president complained to aides when his son was unable to get through on the Oval Office phone from an outside line. Previously, Hoover had used a phone located in the foyer just outside the office. Telephones and a telephone switchboard had been in use at the White House since 1878, when President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first one installed, but no phone had ever been installed at the president’s desk until Hoover’s administration.

READ MORE: How US Presidents Have Communicated with the Public—From the Telegraph to Twitter


Eight Haunting Quotes from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’

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Lorraine Hansberry was not yet 30 when she completed the manuscript for “A Raisin in the Sun,” a play that went on to premiere on Broadway in 1959 and earn the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award. She was the first Black playwright and the youngest person to win the honor. An activist whose circle of friends included luminaries like James Baldwin, Hansberry leveraged her platform to champion civil rights and other social causes.

Hansberry grew up in a heavily           for the Middle District of Florida
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Before TJOFLAT, MARTIN and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

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      In this case, after Johnathan Everett Johnson was indicted for two offenses:

Count One, possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony, in violation


Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) staff already admitted she is open to a semiautomatic rifle ban, and on Thursday night, McCaskill made clear that she, too, is coming after gun shows.

She also called for other gun controls and maligned the NRA for standing against infringement of Second Amendment rights.

On October 16, 2018, Breitbart News reported an undercover Project Veritas video that showed McCaskill field organizer Carson Pope discussing McCaskill’s openness to a “semiautomatic rifle ban.” Other members of McCaskill’s office laughed at how the Senator was hiding the full extent of her gun control support from Missouri voters in order to get elected.

During the October 18, 2018, Senate Debate McCaskill revealed a little more about her gun control wishes by citing her desire for universal background checks, adding theLike Facebook

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7 CONFIRMED False Flag Attacks
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By definition a false flag incident is a covert action taken by a country or agency which is designed to appear as if someone else performed it, and these acts are often used to give pretext for political or military action.
Between 15th and 19th of August 1953 the Iranian Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown from government, and his downfall had long been desired by the governments of the UK and the USA. But before deposing Iran's most senior Minister, first he had to be discredited.
Historians still aren't 100% sure if the Reichstag fire was a false flag attack, but we do know of many Nazi actions which were, several of which took place on the 31st of August1939.
The 2001Anthrax terror attacks occurred one week after 9/11, making them the most unnecessary sequel since Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. The first movie tied off everything I needed to know about the Paul Blart universe, and now you've gone and ruined it. ThanksHollywood.
In 2008 two minibuses driving on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia were carrying Georgian citizens looking to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections, when their vehicles were attacked by assailants wielding automatic weapons and grenades.
Sadly terror attacks in French cities are nothing new, but the incidents we're referring to in this entry actually date back to the 1970s and 80s. During this time three terror bombings took place in Paris, Nice and Cannes where thirty people were injured and one killed. Initially blame was


placed on an extremist Zionist group called the Masada Action and Defense Movement, after anti-Islam leaflets bearing the Star of David were found at the scene.
Only one year after the USA and UK'sOperation Ajax, Israel decided it wanted a piece of the delicious false flag pie, and framed the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Communists as having been responsible for a series of bombs planted across locations in Egypt. These locations included cinemas, libraries and an American diplomatic facility, but thankfully none of these bombs managed to kill or injure anyone. Phew. Case closed…or perhaps not.
The Vietnam War took place between 1955 and 1975, but the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred in 1964. So why would you need to orchestrate a false flag operation when you've already got theincluding a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards. They have released five studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

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internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for gambling, shopping, fine dining and nightlife and is the leading financial and cultural center for Southern Nevada.

7 CONFIRMED False Flag Attacks

7 CONFIRMED False Flag Attacks
Narration provided by JaM AdvertisingNew Mexico www.tasteofjam.com
By definition a false flag incident is a covert action taken by a country or agency which is designed to appear as if someone else performed it, and these acts are often used to give pretext for political or military action.
Between 15th and 19th of August 1953 the Iranian Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown from government, and his downfall had long been desired by the governments of the UK and the USA. But before deposing Iran's most senior Minister, first he had to be discredited.
Historians still aren't 100% sure ifthe Reichstag fire was a false flag attack, but we do know of many Nazi actions which were, several of which took place on the 31st of August 1939.
The 2001Anthrax terror attacks occurred one week after 9/11, making them the most unnecessary sequel since Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. The first movie tied off everything I needed to know about the Paul Blart universe, and now you've gone and ruined it. ThanksHollywood.
In 2008 two minibuses driving on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia were carrying Georgian citizens looking to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections, when their vehicles were attacked by assailants wielding automatic weapons and grenades.
Sadly terror attacks in French cities are nothing new, but the incidents we're referring to in this entry actually date back to


the 1970s and 80s. During this time three terror bombings took place in Paris, Nice and Cannes where thirty people were injured and one killed. Initially blame was placed on an extremist Zionist group called the Masada Action and Defense Movement, after anti-Islam leaflets bearing the Star of David were found at the scene.
Only one year after the USA and UK'sOperation Ajax, Israel decided it wanted a piece of the delicious false flag pie, and framed the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Communists as having been responsible for a series of bombs planted across locations in Egypt. These locations included cinemas, libraries and an American diplomatic facility, but thankfully none of these bombs managed to kill or injure anyone. Phew. Case closed…or perhaps not.
The Vietnam War took place betweenagency which is designed to appear as if someone else performed it, and these acts are often used to give pretext for political or military action.
Between 15th and 19th of August 1953 the Iranian Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown from government, and his downfall had long been desired by the governments of the UK and the USA. But before deposing Iran's most senior Minister, first he had to be discredited.
Historians still aren't 100% sure if the Reichstag fire was a false flag attack, but we do know of many Nazi actions which were, several of which took place on the 31st of August 1939.
The 2001Anthrax terror attacks occurred one week after 9/11, making them the most unnecessary sequel since Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. The first movie tied


off everything I needed to know about the Paul Blart universe, and now you've gone and ruined it. ThanksHollywood.
In 2008 two minibuses driving on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia were carrying Georgian citizens looking to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections, when their vehicles were attacked by assailants wielding automatic weapons and grenades.
Sadly terror attacks in French cities are nothing new, but the incidents we're referring to in this entry actually date back to the 1970s and 80s. During this time three terror bombings took place in Paris, Nice and Cannes where thirty people were injured and one killed. Initially blame was placed on an extremist Zionist group called the Masada Action and Defense Movement, after anti-Islam leaflets bearing the Star of David were found at theothers may look all pretty and spooky, the Krubera takes the honour of being the deepest known cave on Earth.

7 CONFIRMED False Flag Attacks
Narration provided by JaM AdvertisingNew Mexico www.tasteofjam.com
By definition a false flag incident is a covert action taken by a country or agency which is designed to appear as if someone else performed it, and these acts are often used to give pretext for political or military action.
Between 15th and 19th of August 1953 the Iranian Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown from government, and his downfall had long been desired by the governments of the UK and the USA. But before deposing Iran's most senior Minister, first he had to be discredited.
Historians still aren't 100% sure if the Reichstag fire was a false flag attack, but


we do know of many Nazi actions which were, several of which took place on the 31st of August 1939.
The 2001Anthrax terror attacks occurred one week after 9/11, making them the most unnecessary sequel since Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. The first movie tied off everything I needed to know about the Paul Blart universe, and now you've gone and ruined it. ThanksHollywood.
In 2008 two minibuses driving on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia were carrying Georgian citizens looking to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections, when their vehicles were attacked by assailants wielding automatic weapons and grenades.
Sadly terror attacks in French cities are nothing new, but the incidents we're referring to in this entry actually date back to the 1970s and 80s. During this time three terrorbombings took place in Paris, Nice and Cannes where thirty people were injured and one killed. Initially blame was placed on an extremist Zionist group called the Masada Action and Defense Movement, after anti-Islam leaflets bearing the Star of David were found at the scene.
Only one year after the USA and UK'sOperation Ajax, Israel decided it wanted a piece of the delicious false flag pie, and framed the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Communists as having been responsible for a series of bombs planted across locations in Egypt. These locations included cinemas, libraries and an American diplomatic facility, but thankfully none of these bombs managed to kill or injure anyone. Phew. Case closed…or perhaps not.
The Vietnam War took place between 1955 and 1975, but the Gulf of Tonkin incident


a country or agency which is designed to appear as if someone else performed it, and these acts are often used to give pretext for political or military action.
Between 15th and 19th of August 1953 the Iranian Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown from government, and his downfall had long been desired by the governments of the UK and the USA. But before deposing Iran's most senior Minister, first he had to be discredited.
Historians still aren't 100% sure if the Reichstag fire was a false flag attack, but we do know of many Nazi actions which were, several of which took place on the 31st of August 1939.
The 2001Anthrax terror attacks occurred one week after 9/11, making them the most unnecessary sequel since Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. Thefirst movie tied off everything I needed to know about the Paul Blart universe, and now you've gone and ruined it. ThanksHollywood.
In 2008 two minibuses driving on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia were carrying Georgian citizens looking to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections, when their vehicles were attacked by assailants wielding automatic weapons and grenades.
Sadly terror attacks in French cities are nothing new, but the incidents we're referring to in this entry actually date back to the 1970s and 80s. During this time three terror bombings took place in Paris, Nice and Cannes where thirty people were injured and one killed. Initially blame was placed on an extremist Zionist group called the Masada Action and Defense Movement, after anti-Islam leaflets bearing the Star of David were


found at the scene.
Only one year after the USA and UK'sOperation Ajax, Israel decided it wanted a piece of the delicious false flag pie, and framed the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Communists as having been responsible for a series of bombs planted across locations in Egypt. These locations included cinemas, libraries and an American diplomatic facility, but thankfully none of these bombs managed to kill or injure anyone. Phew. Case closed…or perhaps not.
The Vietnam War took place between 1955 and 1975, but the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred in 1964. So why would you need to orchestrate a false flag operation when you've already got the agonising conflict you so desperately wanted Mr President?
For the sheer numbers involved we had to include the Krubera Cave on this list,by nobody at the time it was aired - but which more than a decade came to be used by a rebel group in Syria ... ....

The left needs to figure out how to weigh its critiques of Antifa against the movement’s success ... The pathetic turnout was the work of Antifa and student organisers, who had blocked the entrances to the event ... While some of the criticism was rather unhinged – like Robert Reich’s bizarre suggestion that Antifa was a falseflag operation created by the right – much of it came from a place of sympathy ... --> Getty ....

On the eve of his latest uneventful election triumph, the Russian state media highlighted “dirty tricks” plotted in the West to trigger anti-Putin street protests and smear


Muslim family 'denied boarding' on flight to US from Gatwick Published duration 16 December 2015

image copyright Oli Scarff/Getty image caption The family say a border guard told them he had received a call from the US ordering them not to board

A Muslim family of nine from London, including four children, have been refused permission to board a flight to the US out of Gatwick.

Mohammed Zahid Mahmood, from Walthamstow, eight members of his family and two other children checked in on Tuesday for the Norwegian Airlines flight to Los Angeles.

They had obtained travel authorisation under the Visa Waiver programme.

The family say they were told an official in the US had objected.

At the boarding gate Mr Mahmood said they were told they could not travel but no reason was given.

Hesaid in order to use the VWP, the family's application to travel had been authorised by the Department for Homeland Security a month prior to the flight.

Detained in Tel Aviv

'"We checked in, there were no problems," Mr Mahmood told the BBC. "Just before the final check we were singled out.

"Border control came and said 'Can we have your passports?'. He asked us to distinguish between my brother's children and my children.

"Then he came back and said, 'I'm sorry you can't board this flight. We received a call from Washington DC that we can't allow this family to board the flight'."

Mr Mahmood said he had educated his children "to live in this country peacefully" and had been invited to speak at local schools about Islamophobia.

He said he had once


Soda Drinker Pro Is Coming to Xbox One

The developer behind the game said there are some big surprises in store.

Around five years ago, Cambridge resident (he lived in Somerville at the time) Will Brierly woke up in the middle of the night, thirsty for a soda. It was then that it dawned on the software developer that he needed to create a first-person video game where the entire premise would center on drinking soda, and collecting “bonus soda” points.

âIt just came to me,â said Brierly, fresh from a trip to PAX East, where a following of fans of his video game Soda Drinker ProÂ flocked in full costume to meet the man behind the interactive soda-guzzling game.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that China's currency, the yuan, will join the fund's basket of reserve currencies.

Currently just the US dollar, the euro, the yen and the pound are in the group.

The IMF said the yuan ``met all existing criteria'' and should become part of the basket in October 2016.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said it was "an important milestone in the integration of the Chinese economy into the global financial system".

She added it was also a recognition of the progress that the Chinese authorities have made in the past years in reforming China's monetary and financial systems.

The yuan will now make up part of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) - an asset created by the IMF which serves almost as a


The Latest: California judge remorseful over cardholders

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a California judge censured for taking business card holders (all times local):

4:20 p.m.

A Northern California judge says swiping two business card holders from a judges' dinner last year was "a moment of ridiculous stupidity" and he remains disappointed in himself.

The Commission on Judicial Performance announced Monday its censure of Napa County Superior Court Judge Michael S. Williams, who agreed to resign as part of the discipline.

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Williams was attending a dinner hosted by a matrimonial lawyers association in March 2016 when he took two cardholders styled in the art deco decor of The City Club of San Francisco. They were each worth about $30 to $50.

The commission says Williams returned the cardholders after being informed thathe was caught on video.

Williams, who is 70, agreed to resign effective Dec. 5, which is when he can retire.

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A Northern California judge is losing his job after swiping two art deco-style business card holders from a judges' dinner in San Francisco.

The Commission on Judicial Performance announced Monday its censure of Judge Michael S. Williams of Napa County. Williams also agreed to resign effective in December.

Williams was attending a dinner hosted by a matrimonial lawyers association in March 2016 when he took two cardholders in the art deco decor of The City Club of San Francisco. They were each worth about $30 to $50.

The commission says Williams returned the cardholders after being informed that he was caught on video.

The judge expressed remorse and said he had an


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