mult ca sigur s-ar fosiliza, pierzandu-si importanta) o sa incerc sa scriu cate ceva.

zilele trecute s-au desfasurat astfel:
{...marti, miercuri, joi, vineri, sambata, duminica...}

* Marti, 7.10.2008 ~ plictis, Revenge, Mercur, Farouk, M.

* Miercuri, 8.10.2008 ~ nu-mi amintesc nimic interesant.. m-am trezit greu, am

pornit cu omu' meu, M. spre metrou la Izvor, apoi am apucat-o spre Piata

Romana, autobuz, matusha, si apoi probabil ca am pierdut toata ziua la facutlate.

* Joi, 9.10.2008 ~ Cantina Leu, Acolo
"preludiul" serii a fost reprezentat de plimbarea prin cantina facultatii, unde era un

fel de party "privat" al baietilor din liga. bere la pret ok, dar oamenii nu stiu prea multe.

e rebuturi. apoi, nerabdare mare.. abia asteptam sa ajung la "festivalul" Cybermental

organizat de AKM. se anuntase petrecere mare cu nume destul de cunoscute. din aceasta

pricina incercasem sa antrenez mai multi oameni sa vina la eveniment. dupa marea

nerabdare a urmat dezamagirea, nu foarte mare, chiar putin anticipata.. unii oameni

nu.. altii nu stiau ce e, nu aveau bani, chef, shosete de lana sau cizme de cauciuc. in

timp ce dadeam telefoane sa vad daca gaesc pe cineva, am inconjurat drumul

Universitate-Unirii de vreo doua ori.. ca deh, e sanatos sa mergi pe jos. pana la

urma, am vazut ca nu era efectiv nimic de facut decat sa merg singur (de nebun)

pana in clubul "Acolo" (fostul Clocks). zis si facut...autobuz politehnica-universitate

(fara bilet fiindca vorba aia.. toate amenzile ajung acasa), apoi un telefon sa ma

asigur ca ma indrept in directia buna, spre mosilor, la dreapta.. cativa africani,

si apoi clubul respectiv. se auzea niste muzica. la intrare, surprize surprize.. nu

am gasit pe nimeni caruia sa-i platesc intrarea (5roni) deci o bere in plus.

* Vineri, 10.10.2008 ~ a doua seara de Cybermental, Revenge, Gregory's

* Sambata, 11.10.2008 ~ dimineata zbuciumata, Constangeles

* Duminica, 12.10.2008 ~ Constangeles, doar de dragul continuitatii

If you're not going to find yourself on the pretty (cold) Whitby coast for the second of this year's goth weekends, then whynot head down to London for Club Antichrist's Halloween Special!
They've got the awesome Sexbeat, Texas Chainsaw Orchestra, and Uberbyte playing live as well as a well equiped dungeon, spaces for couples, wandering circus performers, and all the other gubbins for a memorable Halloween.

Unfortunately I shall not be attending due to a photography commitment which will make it impossible for me to get to London that day. However I will be there in spirit as Imago Mortis Clothing (www.imagomortis.co.uk) has donated a few t-shirts to the Raffle that all who attend will automatically be entered in (£2000 worth of prizes all-in-all!!!)

So head over to www.clubantichrist.com to find out more and to get your ticket!

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The latest tests found that Chinese liquid dairy products met the new temporary restrictions on melamine, the country's top quality control agency said on Saturday.

It was the ninth investigation on the industrial chemical following the tainted baby formula scandal that killed at least three infants and sickened more than 50,000 others, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). Read more at news.xinhuanet.com

Bon. În al doilea rând, în alt registru, vă invit să trageţi un ochi pe colecţia virtuală de eseuri ale lui Murray Rothbard, găzduită de prestigiosul centru Lew Rockwell. Dreptaci deosebit de simpatic şi afiliat curentului libertarian de gândire, dar aliat în principal cu Pat Buchanan şi ai săi paleoconservatori, Rothbard reuşeşte să formuleze un discurs absolut devastator asupra egalitarismului şi etatismului de stânga. Demontând ironic idee cu idee tezele neo-marxiste ale democratilor americani, dar şi pe cele cvasi-troţkiste ale neoconservatorilor, implacabilul Rothbard formulează o posibilă direcţie pentru dreapta "capitalistă" (cu adevărat capitalistă) într-o societate americană sufocată de programele social-socialiste. Această compilaţie de eseuri, intitulată The Irrepressible Rothbard, a fost editată de către Rockwell Jr. şi este o bună imagine a Vechii Drepte americane, a acelei drepte bazate pe iniţiativa personală a micului întreprinzător, pe libertatea individului faţă de dubioşenia unui Stat paternalist, pe morala religioasă vis-a-vis de etica impusă de structurile etatice. Cu toate scăpările şi năstruşniciile sale Murray Rothbard rămâne un herald al libertăţii.

El asiento reposera esta hecho de tubos de fierro de 1'' de diametro por 1,5 mm de espesor, los cojines son de cuerina, los elasticos ocupados fueron de 8mm y cuerda de 8mm. Al ocupar un modulo circular quisimos darle al soporte de fierro una estetica acorde a esos pequeños modulos por eso son arcos que tienden a formar una circunferencia.

En general se vieron trabajos buenos y mucha diversidad de objetos desde sillas reposeras(KATTY-PABLO) pasando por carros para la feria (VALE-VIKY) muy diferentes unos de otros hasta veladores furistas (JENNY-MARCE), OCHOCHINES 08' RULES!!

• The characteristics of the industry (highly regulated, monopolistic, inelastic demand, seasonal supply, high risk industry, environmental issues and duty structure) are discussed in detail.
• The industry structure along with the different mining methods and the regulatory framework within which the Industry players operate have been explained.
• Global supply and consumption pattern for FY04-07 is provided along with the export volume of the leading coal exporting countries.
• Category-wise Domestic Coal supply for the period CY02-07 is provided along with the geographical distribution of the coal reserves across the country. The production trend of the major coal suppliers for the period FY03-08 has been analysed.
• Domestic Coal demand from different coal consuming sectors (power, steel, cement) for the period FY03-08 has been analysed.
• Coal imports into the country from countries like Indonesia, China, South Africa, Australia have been presented in detail.
• CARE Research’s projection on sector-wise demand for coal for FY08-10 is presented along with demand projections by other competent authorities (CIL’s Coal vision, ‘Expert Committee road map on coal reforms’).
• The challenges and steps that need to be taken to further the interest of the industry have been discussed along with SWOT analysis of the industry.
• Financials of CIL and its subsidiaries have been presented.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Coal formation
1.2 Types of coal
1.3 Importance of coal
1.4 Uses of coal
Chapter 2 Coal mining methods
2.1 Surface mining
2.2 Underground mining
2.2.1 Room and Pillar method
2.2.2 Longwall Mining method
2.3 Coal mining methods in India
Chapter 3 Coal mining in India
3.1 Evolution
3.1.1 Nationalization on coal mines
3.2 Current industry structure
Chapter 4 Industry characteristics
4.1 Highly regulated
4.2 Monopolistic
4.3 Inelastic demand
4.4 Seasonal supply
4.5 Highly risky
4.6 Environmental issue
4.7 Duty structure
Chapter 5 Regulations
5.1 Coal distribution
5.1.1 Current coal distribution policy
5.1.2 Coal distribution prior to October 2007
5.2 Coal pricing & trade
Chapter 6 Global demand supply position
6.1 Global supply

6.1.1 World coal reserves
6.1.2 World coal production
6.2 World coal consumption
6.3 Major coal exporting/importing countries
Chapter 7 Domestic coal supply
7.1 Domestic coal reserve
7.2 Type wise & category-wise coal resources
7.3 Major coal producers in India
Chapter 8 Domestic coal demand
8.1 Offtake of coal
8.2 Sector -wise coal offtake
8.2.1 Demand from power sector
8.2.2 Demand from steel sector
8.2.3 Demand from cement sector
8.3 Import of coal
8.3.1 Coking coal imports
8.3.2 Non coking coal imports
8.4 Export of coal
8.5 Coal logistics
8.5.1 Modes of coal transportation
8.5.2 Cargo handling at Indian ports- Coal
8.5.3 Transportation cost
Chapter 9 Industry outlook
9.1 Demand projection
9.1.1 Projected coal requirement of the power sector
9.1.2 Projected coal requirement of the steel sector
9.1.3 Projected coal requirement of the cement sector
9.1.4 Total coal requirement of all sectors
9.2 Demand vis-à-vis availability as per ‘Coal Vision 2025’
9.3 Demand vis-à-vis availability as per ‘Expert committee
road map on coal sector reforms’
Chapter 10 Challenges & Road Ahead
10.1 Meeting demand-supply gap
10.2 Bringing better technology
10.3 Promoting clean coal technologies

10.3.1 Coal beneficiation
10.3.2 CBM related activities
10.3.3 Underground coal gasification (UCG) related activities
10.3.4 Coal liquefaction related activities
10.4 Reducing coal cost
10.5 Improving mine safety
10.6 SWOT analysis of the industry
Chapter 11 Major players
Annexure I Definition
Annexure II State-wise distribution of coal reserve
Annexure III Grades of coal
Annexure IV Trends of fatal & serious accidents in CIL coal mines in India
Annexure V Labour productivity
Annexure VI Sector-wise allocation of coal blocks (Dec 07)
Annexure VII Abbreviations

Figure No. Index
Figure 1.1 Formation of coal
Figure 1.2 Types of coal
Figure 1.3 Price predictability
Figure 1.4 Prime energy consumption
Figure 2.1 Coal mining methods
Figure 2.2 Room & Pillar mining
Figure 2.3 Longwall mining
Figure 3.1 Industry structure
Figure 4.1 Pit head closing stock of raw coal FY07
Figure 4.2 Trends in custom duty & Import of non-coking coal
Figure 4.3 Trends in custom duty & import of coking coal
Figure 5.1 Domestic coal price
Figure 6.1 Estimated recoverable coal reserves
Figure 6.2 Major coal producing countries
Figure 6.3 Major coal consuming countries
Figure 6.4 World coking coal export growth
Figure 6.5 Major HCC/ SSCC Suppliers (2000-2006)
Figure 6.6 Major coking coal exporters
Figure 7.1 Geographical distribution of coal reserves in India
Figure 7.2 Coal & Lignite resource in India
Figure 7.3 Proved coal reserves in India
Figure 7.4 Trend in production of coking & non – coking Coal
Figure 7.5 Source-wise coal production
Figure 8.1 Sector-wise offtake of coal
Figure 8.2 Mode-wise breakup of installed capacity & electricity generation in India FY 08
Figure 8.3 Offtake of coal to the power sector
Figure 8.4 Domestic crude steel production & coal offtake to the steel sector
Figure 8.5 Total import of coking coal in India
Figure 8.6 Total Coal imports
Figure 8.7 Indian metallurgical coal imports by source FY07
Figure 8.8 Indian non-coking coal imports by source FY07
Figure 8.9 China’s coal exports & imports
Figure 8.10 Modes of coal transportation in India
Figure 8.11 Type-wise coal handled at the Indian ports
Figure 11.1 Total annual production of CIL subsidiaries
Figure 11.2 Annual production of CIL subsidiaries by type of mine
Figure 11.3 Labour productivity of CIL subsidiaries
Figure 11.4 PAT of CIL subsidiaries

Table No. Index
Table 1.1 Sustained availability
Table 1.2 Percentage of Coal–based electricity generation out of total electricity generated.
Table 3.1 Company –wise production for FY08
Table 4.1 Comparison of coal v/s other fuels
Table 4.2 Duty structure on imported coal FY09
Table 6.1 World recoverable/ proved Coal Reserve
Table 6.2 World coal production
Table 6.3 World coal consumption
Table 7.1 Coal reserves of India
Table 7.2 Type-wise and category-wise coal resources
Table 8.1 Sector-wise offtake of coal
Table 8.2 Indonesia ‘s coal export potential
Table 8.3 South Africa coal export potential
Table 8.4 Australia’s coal export potential
Table 8.5 Coal exports from India
Table 8.6 Coal traffic at major ports in India
Table 8.7 The average turnaround time for coal at the major ports in India
Table 9.1 Crude steel production (National Steel Policy)
Table 9.2 Projected non-coking demand from non captive power utilities
Table 9.3 Projected non-coking demand from captive power utilities
Table 9.4 Projected requirements of coking coal of the steel sector
Table 9.5 Non-coking coal demand from sponge iron producers (FY03-07)
Table 9.6 Projected requirements of non-coking coal by the sponge iron producers
Table 9.7 Projected non-coking coal requirement of cement sector
Table 9.8 Total coal requirement of all sectors
Table 9.9 Demand vis-à-vis Availability as per ‘Coal Vision 2025’
Table 9.10 Demand vis-à-vis Availability as per the Expert Committee on
Road Map for Coal Sector Reforms
Table 10.1 Present Coal Beneficiation Capacity
Table 11.1 Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. (BCCL) Financials
Table 11.2 Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (ECL) Financials
Table 11.3 Central Coalfields Ltd. (CCL) Financials
Table 11.4 Northern Coalfield Ltd. (NCL) Financials
Table 11.5 Western Coalfields Ltd. (WCL) Financials
Table 11.6 South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (SECL) Financials
Table 11.7 Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL) Financials
Table 11.8 North Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (NEC) / CIL Financials
Table 11.9 Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) Financials

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So, how scary can the American recession get for the Indian? Reality check: This evening's rumor was that ICICI is going to be no more. Imagine shutting down all together. So fearful were public reactions that all long distance phone calls suggested people take out all their money from ICICI. Forget minimum deposit; forget accrued charges because of your impulsive actions because what good is maintenance of bank deposits if there's going to be no bank at all. So, for a moment you fear.

Then you try to rationalize with those who fear. Your common sense prompts a thought. Can a bank you first heard of in your economics book in 1996 really shut down? Then it was about learning full forms to score so you mugged it, ICICI: Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. Over the years I don't know about industrial but it certainly serves as a brilliant personal bank. You pay your internet connection bills, pay your phone recharge vouchers, ask anyone for cash on broke days, send money to people, parents included, shop, watch movies, everything you can think of, ICICI does for me. So now if it just disappeared, I'd go back to the ice age.

People are cautious, the share markets spelling doom. ICICI share prices of 900 rupees, quoted 350 rupees today. Are you scared? Depositors rushed into endless queues to withdraw their hard earned money. The RBI issued a security statement and notices were posted outside all ICICI ATM's stating that ICICI has enough funds to return all depositors funds. I believe ICICI will not liquidate; it's just a passing tide. Obviously I need to believe because else all my NEFT transactions would come to a standstill. I also believe because since young I believed in everything red, my sports house, favorite clothes, football teams, my car colors, the red heart, everything. Today, I understand the consequence of my choices, Ferrari, Manchester United, Hastings House, and ICICI to name a few.

What started out as a red debit card with an understanding with HP, even though I don't own a vehicle, it has come a long way. When the market is bleeding, hold your own, the market will turn. It's a war between the bull and the bear, and when the bear sees red, you know what happens.

This is a transcript of the second in a series of videos about Tillie Black Bear - the executive director and one of the founders of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS).

For 31 years, the WBCWS has served the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD.

Black Bear spoke to the Northern Michigan University 2008 Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.

This is the second of several videos about her talk in the Great Lakes Room of the NMU University center and informal discussion that followed.

Tillie Black Bear:

"When we look at who we are as woman. We really have to look at where we come from as woman."

I always encourage women from other tribes to take a look at where they were before - pre-European contact. What belonged to women

Tribal women, we had rights. We owned property. We had our children with us. Our children belonged to the women.

With the impact of colonization, those rights were skewed.
Because we had our white sisters coming from Europe who were the property of the men. And the children were the property of men, as well.

So you had this group of people coming and interfacing with tribal women all across Turtle I sland. Whether it was the eastern coast or the western coast. And what they found there was (tribal) women who owned property.

What was written about tribal women by the explorers, the priests, by the churches was they depicted this image of  - if you close you eyes and imagine whats your image of an Indian woman - we were portrayed as we had this thing on our back and we were towing something. We had like wood or we were towing something somewhere. Or else either that we were standing by a big black pot cooking."

"If you could do a paradigm shift to that idea - that the woman who had that stuff on her back - that was her property. It was what she owned. And she was carrying it somewhere.
That big black pot belonged to her.

In our culture as Lakota Sioux women - the teepee that we had was the womens domain. It was our teepee. And what went on inside that teepee was our responsibility.

Today we are real fortunate as tribal women that we dont have to set up those big 16-foot teepees anymore. Our brothers, our male relatives are the ones who learn how to set up for us the three poles and then bringing in the next poles until you have 12 poles that are standing up.

Our brothers do that today so we have been ind of spoiled as women because we dont have to do this anymore. In our tribe, can you imagine women - they would have contests to see how fast women could put up these teepees.

Within our tribe there might be two or three sets of women who could do it (now). I certainly couldnt do it and not have my brothers there, my males relatives, to come and help me.

Tribal women were responsible for that task. She owned that. It belonged to her.

If you look at who you are today as a women, what are the rights that you have, especially our white sisters, where did that come from?

About 20 years ago feminist historians began to have the eyes to see where suffrages like Matilda Joslyn Gage, Susan B. Anthony - where they got their ideas from about womens equality. It was from the Iroquois  nation because a majority of those suffrages women have been adopted by the clan mothers.

"So they began to get their ideas about womens rights and they adopted many of their ideas about womens equality from those clan sisters from the Iroquois Nation.

So when we work today for equality for women, I work for tribal women to reclaim that equality that existed for us prior to colonization.

For our white sisters, I work for equality for them.

In todays world for tribal women, its pretty confusing because many of our male relatives have adopted those ways of our white male relatives in how they beat women - how they beat women today.

So I always encourage women, especially tribal women, to go back to the day that we were before that contact - pre-colonization.
How was it  for Turtle Island women and all over Canada and Mexico.
We find that women definitely had rights.

Sociologist Susan Fletcher wrote a lot about what was happening to the Indian people in the 1860s there especially in South Dakota.

Fletcher went to Fort Randall where Chief Sitting Bull was being held and incarcerated.

One of his wives came in with wood and she was stoking up this fire, warming up the fire, in the tent where he was held

Fletcher said:

Is there anything youth think I could help you with and he (Sitting Bull) looked at her and said.

By me signing the treaties our Indian womens lives are going to change.
I want you to look out and write about our Indian women.

Sitting Bull took off a ring and gave it to her to do that.

This Chief Sitting Bull from Standing Rock knew what was going to happen to us as tribal women when he signed those treaties. The treaty of Fort Laramie was signed in 1868

Sister of man doing Crazy Horse monument came to Crow Creek on their honeymoon.
She was standing there with a group of tribal women and one of them gave a horse away.

She said: Shouldnt you ask your husband?

And the tribal woman said: My husband why? The horse belongs to me

The woman said: I forgot who I was talking to.

Property belonged to us and it was ours to give or to keep.

The many of the treaties between the U.S. and American Indian tribes were written by men not used to women with power or rights.

They came from a background where only men were in positions of power.
Only men signed treaties. Only men were in Congress.

They only wanted men in leadership positions.

If you look at the Irquois Nation. The clam mothers picked who would represent their clan. They had a process of nurturing a male to get to that point. There were things that this man could not do in order for him to be in a leadership position for the Iroquois Nation.

Black Bears visit was coordinated by the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the non-profit Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan.

The Turtle Island Project (TIP) has held several concerts and other events to raises funds for the WBCWS. TIP Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard travels several times a year to the Rosebud Reservation.

Black Bear was greeted by Dr. Judith Puncochar, an NMU Professor and an organizer of the annual UNITED Conference.

Tillie Black Bear was introduced by Grace Chaillier, an NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Native American Studies and a registered member of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux - the same tribe as Black Bear.

Please watch the other Turtle Island Project videos on Tillie Black Bear's talk in northern Michigan.

Black Bear addresses the Lakota teen suicide crisis, domestic violence, people respecting people and many other important issues.

The Turtle Island Project thanks Tillie Black Bear, NMU Center for Native American Studies, Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) and White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
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Great womens quotes by nations:

http://www.shannonthunderbird.com/indigenous_women_rights.htm
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Rosebud Indian Reservation map Wikipedia graphic by Karl Musser

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Rosebudreservationmap.png
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Native Americans and European settlers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states#Native_Americans_and_European_settlers

http://www.webconnections.com/MES5th/ColonialWomen_B4.htm

Iroquois clan sisters and suffrages women:

http://www.now.org/nnt/summer-99/iroquois.html

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/gage/features/untold.html

http://www.awakenedwoman.com/iroquois_women.htm

Cartoon on Iroquois clan sister and suffrages women drawn by Joseph Keppler
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/chp11.html

Photo of suffrages women and Iroquois sister: Iroquois clan sister and suffrages women courtesy Syracuse Peace Council website and author Sally Roesch Wagner
http://www.peacecouncil.net/pnl/06/751/751haud.htm
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Native American & Indigenous and White Women’s Rights:

http://www.shannonthunderbird.com/indigenous_women_rights.htm

http://www.historians.org/pubs/global_gender.cfm

http://www.academicleadership.org/uploads/1/Review-Conquest-final.pdf

http://www.academicleadership.org/literary_review/conquest_sexual_violence_and_american_indian_genocide.shtml

http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/AmericanWomen/colony-country/index.html
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Colonial women gather quilting website:

http://virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/mkehoe/weekly%20assignments%20history_116.htm
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Sitting Bull Photo & Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sitting_Bull_-_edit2.jpg

Sitting Bull photo by D. F. Barry, 1885 via the Library of Congress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull

Sitting Bull Photo #2 & 3 - unknown photographer:
http://sittingbull.org/
http://www.nativeusa.org/sitting_bull.htm

Sitting Bull disrespected and insulted in death by the author who wrote Wizard of Oz:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/sitbull.html

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Native American and Tribal women graphics:

Photo of Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.manyponies.com/indianponies.htm

Lakota Grandmothers:
http://ladyhawkesite.tripod.com/grandmothers.htm

White Buffalo Calf Woman Legend:
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/White-Buffalo-Calf-Woman-Sioux.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony (standing) photo on Wikipedia courtesy the Library of Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Anthony

Suffrage Parade photo from The New York Times photo archive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Suffragists_Parade_Down_Fifth_Avenue,_1917.JPG
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Lakota Tipi

Courtesy: National Park Service
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Tipi

Courtesy: Alpha

Tipi Tatanka Camp

Photo by Wanaunsapi Tiyospaye
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1868 Sicangu Women and Children

1893 Arapaho two women and child

Lakota Woman works with dog on Rosebud Reservation
Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Lakota) - all courtesy:

First People website.
http://www.firstpeople.us

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Colonial women and Native women
http://www.snowwowl.com/histswritnawomen.html

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Tillie Black Bear. Executive Director
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.

October is Domestic Violence Month

Tillie Black Bear is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation/Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

She is presently the Executive Director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc., which operates the oldest shelter for women who have been battered or raped on Indian reservations; and is the first shelter for women of color in the U.S. (1978).

Tillie Black Bear is recognized throughout the state, nationally, and in Indian Country as one of the leading experts on violence against women and children.

She is a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and a founder of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SDCADVSA) both in 1978.

She was the first woman of color to chair NCADV and continues to sit on the Board of Director for the SDCADVSA

Black Bear presently serves on the advisory board of National Sexual Assault Resource Center, Pennsylvania and is past member of the professional advisory board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Austin, TX.

Tillie Black Bear is pictured on Sept. 23, 2008 in Marquette, MI with Dr. José Cuellar of La Raza Studies at San Francisco State University, who spoke on "The Four Enemies of Diversity."

Black Bear and Dr. Cuellar were both featured speakers at the 2008 UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University.

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Black Bear is currently a council member for Clan Star a technical resources for tribal grantees through Department of Justice.

Tillie Black Bear was the recipient of an award from the U.S. Department of Justice for her work with victims of crime in April,1988; and in 1989 was one of President Bush’s “Point of Light”.

In 1999 at the Millennium Conference on Domestic Violence in Chicago, IL, Black Bear was one of 10 individuals recognized as one of the founders of the domestic violence movement in the United States.

She was awarded an Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in December, 2000 by President Clinton.

In May, 2003 Black Bear was a recipient of the first annual LifeTime Achievement Award from LifeTime Television.

Black Bear was selected as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century award by Women's eNews in 2004.

In 2005, she received an award from NOW.

She is retired from Sinte Gleska University as a part-time instructor in Human Services; Casey Foundation as a licensed foster parent.

Currently, Black Bear works as a teacher of 13 years teaching students taking a course on cross-cultural ministry at Catholic Theological Union through Shalom Ministries out of Chicago, IL.

Black Bear and colleague Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. have completed a poster series on Dakota and Lakota women elders on each of the nine Dakota and Lakota Nations in South Dakota entitled: “Dakota and Lakota Women - Keepers of the Nation”.

Another collaborative work is workshops on issues of Racism and Cultural Diversity, which has taken them to South Dakota, Vermont, New York, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.

Black Bear has worked as a therapist, certified school counselor, administrator, college instructor and comptroller.

She holds a Master of Art (1974) from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; Bachelor of Science (1971), Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD.

She has served on the St. Francis Indian School Board of Directors, St. Francis, SD; and Sinte Gleska University Board of Regents, Mission, SD.

Black Bear is single mother of 3 girls, grandmother of thirteen and survivor of domestic violence.
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Related Links:

NMU Center for Native American Studies

Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI
49855

(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu

April Lindala, Director
112F Whitman Hall

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(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
alindala@nmu.edu
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall

(906) 227-1390
e-mail:
grachail@nmu.edu
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)

PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555

For more info on the WBCWS:

Javier H. Alegree
Public Relations Specialist
Media and Education

(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)

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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:

http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml

Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
e-mail:
jpuncoch @nmu
(close above gap to email Dr. Puncochar)
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Turtle Island Project
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, TIP Co-founder, Director

Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP Co-Founder, Board President

Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI was a guest speaker at the 2007 and 2008 UNITED Conference at NMU. Rev. Hubbard is pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.

Please see the videos on his talks on TIP TV.

For more information on the TIP call 906-202-0590 or 906-401-0109.

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Turtle Island TV (blipTV)

Turtle Island TV (youtube)

Turtle Island (myspace)

email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net

In recent years, the Turtle Island Project has held several free concerts and other events to raise money for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society. This concert was held in Munising Michigan in Dec. 2007

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Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
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Lakota Sioux & Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
http://www.tradecorridor.com/rosebud/spirit.htm
http://www.sicangufund.org/rosebud/index.html
http://www.travelsd.com/ourhistory/sioux/tribes/rosebud.asp
http://pie.midco.net/lmrose/sicangu.htm
http://www.tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=4571
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/LakotaSioux.htm

]]> http://cbpowerandindustrial.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/industrial-picture-of-the-day-industrial-fronds/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:16:36 +0000 cbpower http://cbpowerandindustrial.ro.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/industrial-picture-of-the-day-industrial-fronds/

Industrial Fronds, originally uploaded by Lost America.

A still operational industrial complex at Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco Bay.

Orion-Four submitted the sole bid of S$10.8 million for the site which has an area of 5,743.2 square metres.

The site was launched for public tender on September 3 and the tender closed on October 7.

It was offered for sale on a 60-year lease.

Source : Channel NewsAsia - 10 Oct 2008

I was fortunate enough to not only secure a long enough slot to go into the length and breadth of the Laibach/NSK phenomenon, but was also able to get Laibach founding member and spokesman Ivan Novak on the phone for an interview on the eve of the Portland show. That was exciting for me, as I am a huge fan.
I don't want to go into too much detail as to what's going to happen, but I do hope you tune in, if you can.

Blurb below:

A Three Hour Laibach Special
Join us for a three hour marathon of music from Laibach and NSK (Neue Slovenische Kunst).

For over twenty years, Laibach has been twisting insipid pop songs into sinister anthems, turning the art world upside down with menacing imagery and film, utilizing political propaganda systems as readymades in an unrelenting assault on dogmatic beliefs while revealing the 'hidden reverse' inherent in Western culture.

We'll explore the world of Laibach's music, their cryptic and often purposely contradictory ideology, hear from compatriot Slavoj Žižek, as well as music by side projects 300,000 V.K., Germania and an interview with founding Laibach member and spokesman Ivan Novak, recorded on the eve of their Portland show.

Laibach is currently on tour in the US and their latest album Volk turns anthems from around the world - both ancient and modern - into lovely pop songs.

That's on KBOO Community Radio at 90.7 FM in Portland, 100.7 FM in
Corvallis & Albany, and 91.9 in The Gorge and streaming worldwide at kboo.fm/listen

Realmente es difícil describir lo que fue ayer NIN en el Poliedro de Caracas. Arrancaré siendo bastante sincero, no soy ni remotamente cerca de ser un fanático de esta banda, de hecho sólo conozco el "The Downward Spiral" y algunas otras cosas sueltas de otros de sus discos, sin embargo lo visto ayer no tuvo nombre, y si para mi fue así, no imagino como habrá sido para un verdadero seguidor de ellos.

En todo nivel estuvo excelente, la música, los visuales, la entrega de Trent en lo que cantaba, hasta incluso la organización, la puntualidad y el excelente comportamiento del público.

Desde el comienzo era ver y ver cosas sorprendentes, de verdad se lo trabaja el Trent y su gente, de hecho me atrevo a decir que las 2 horas continuas de presentanción de NIN han sido una de las mejores presentaciones que he visto.

Hubo momentos que de verdad fueron alucinantes, de esos que los ves y te paran todos los pelos o te dejan sin palabra, definitivamente fue mucho vas que ver una banda tocar, fue tanto ver una banda dando todo junto con un espectáculo que pocas veces o tal vez no se ha visto en el Poliedro y que probablemente este a la par de los mejores conciertos que pueda dar alguna banda contemporanea.

Aunque la verdad prefiero dejarme un poco de palabrería y mostrar más lo que realmente. Aquí me gustaría tener la ayuda de ustedes, voy a poner el setlist y me gustaría poco a poco ir armando el concierto en videos, así sea en youtube, vimeo o cualquier otro hosting de videos, incluso no sólo las canciones, si no también los intermedios y bueno tampoco caerían mal unos comentarios al final de sus impresiones.

Setlist:
01. 999,999
02. 1,000,000

03. Letting you

04. Discipline

05. March of the pigs

06. Piggy

07. The frail
08. The wretched

09. Head down
10. Closer (con segmento de “Down in it”)

11. Gave up
12. Interlude
13. Me, I'm not

14. The great destroyer

15. Corona radiata

16. Pinion

17. Wish
18. Terrible lie

19. Survivalism

20. The big come down

21. 31 Ghosts IV

22. Only

23. The hand that feeds

24. Head like a hole
Encore:

25. Echoplex

26. The beginning of the end

27. Reptile

28. Hurt

29. In this twilight

Debo admitir que me hubiese gustado que incluyeran "Everyday is Exactly The Same" y "The Perfect Drug", pero bueno es difícil complacer a todos, pero igual como pueden ver tanto los que fueron, como los que no fueron estuvo increible.

Mención especial para Evenpro por la organización y a ViniloVersus que supieron defenderse bien en la tarima y ganarse merecidos aplausos.

There will also be $L1000 up for grabs in our Best Avatard contest, may the most retarded looking idiot win!

Kolejna odsłona „Przeglądu” jest poświęcona szeroko pojętemu Electronic Body Music (w skrócie EBM). Jest to gatunek bardzo niszowy i zdaję sobie sprawę iż niewiele osób wie z czym to się je tak naprawdę.

EBM to muzyka taneczna, choć nie tak lekkostrawna jak chociażby trance, czy house. Nieprzystępność tej muzyki wiąże się z m.in. jej industrialnym rodowodem. Zależnie od podgatunku, cała ta fascynacja degeneracją ludzkości związana z postępem technologicznym właściwa dla prekursorów industrialu, jest w większym lub mniejszym stopniu obecna w każdym z prezentowanych podgatunków. Jednak mimo pozornego chłodu, szeroko pojęty EBM, zdaje się też dużo czerpać z nowo-romantycznej tradycji lat 80-ych. Maszyny też mają uczucia? A owszem ;) Czasem też mogą nam sporo powiedzieć o nas samych :) Tak więc, jedzie... Chwilkę. Nim zabiorę Was w mała podróż po różnych syntetycznych krainach, chciałem wspomnieć, że pozwoliłem sobie lekko zmodyfikować formę przeglądu. Do opisu każdego wykonawcy dodałem listę kawałków niezbędnych do obadania oraz podobne stylistycznie zespoły (wiem, od tego jest last.FM, ale i ten serwis zdarza się być nieprecyzyjny). To tyle gwoli wstępu. Zapinać pasy. Jedziemy.

1. Suicide Commando (hard elektro)

Projekt za którym stoi pan Johan Van Roy, to waga superciężka, nawet w tzw. harsh ebm. Znakiem rozpoznawczym tego projektu, jest bardzo ostre brzmienie, które zyskało wielu naśladowców (nieśmiało się uśmiechnę w tym miejscu :P). Lecz pomimo ciężkiego brzmienia, mocno przesterowanych wokali, muza tego belgijskiego projektu posiada niesamowite walory parkietowe. Jeśli chodzi o tematy liryków natomiast, to nie radzę się wsłuchiwać w nie tym jednostkom, które kochają życie, ludzi i są pozytywnie nastawione do świata. Samobójstwa, mordercy, obsesje, zuo, różnego rodzaju psychozy, nienawiść (ale też miłość, zwłaszcza ta nieszczęśliwa) to tematy, które najczęściej pojawiają się w tekstach tego kultowego projektu. Swoją drogą, uwierzycie że Suicide Commando istnieje już 20 lat? :)
Dla kogo? Dla psychopatów wszelkiej maści :P
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: Hellraiser, Love Breeds Suicide, Cause of Death: Suicide, Body Count Proceed, Bind Torture Kill, See You In Hell.
Podobne zespoły: Hocico, Aesthetic Perfection, Aslan Faction, Agonoize, Dawn of Ashes, Grendel, Tactical Sekt, X-Fusion, Kombat Unit.
Last.fm: Suicide Commando
MySpace

2. Ashbury Heights (electro-pop)

Próżno mi opisywać co siedzi w muzyce prezentowanej przez to szwedzkie duo. Z jednej strony niesamowita dawka syntetycznych, wpadających w ucho melodii, energetycznych tanecznych bitów, a z drugiej klimat lat 80-ych. Wszystko okraszane podwójnymi, damsko-męskimi wokalami Andersa i Yaz. Czego chcieć więcej? W sumie chyba tylko porządnego towarzystwa, dużej ilości alk... Przepraszam, zagalopowałem się. Tak czy inaczej, kapela ma dopiero 1 album na koncie (no i świeżo wydaną EPkę), ale już zdołała nieźle namieszać na electro-scenie. Jako ciekawostkę podam fakt, że szefostwo, kultowej w kręgu synth/electro, wytwórni Out of Line, zaraz po wysłuchaniu demówki zaproponowało im kontrakt.
Dla kogo? Przede wszystkim dla ludzi, którzy lubią się zabawić przy dobrej muzie, ale też dla tych, którzy lubią od czasu do czasu oddać się nostalgii.
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: album "Three Cheers for The Newlydeads" w całości.
Podobne zespoły: Marsheaux, The Knife, do pewnego stopnia Apoptygma Berzerk.
Last.fm: Ashbury Heights
MySpace

3. Combichrist (techno-industrial, techno body music)

Ten amerykańsko-norweski projekt zaczynał jako projekt power-noise'owy. Andy LaPlegua, wyraźnie znudzony liderowaniem w future-popowym Icon of Coil, postanowił spróbować sił w mocniejszych brzmieniach. Tak na marginesie, kto przesłucha debiutancki "The Joy of Gunz" dwa razy pod rząd bez najmniejszego grymasu na twarzy, ma u mnie piwo. Drugi album przyniósł wyraźną zmianę w stylu. Muzyka na "Everybody Hates You" jest mocna, już nie tak hałaśliwa, acz mocno imprezowa. To połączenie techno-rytmiki i szorstkości tradycyjnego EBM nazwano Techno Body Music. Styl, w którym Andy i jego wesoła banda czują się jak ryba w wodzie, a który electroheads uwielbiają. Jeśli potrzebujecie czegoś mocnego na rozkręcenie imprezy, to Combichrist spełni swoje zadanie w 100%.
Dla kogo: Dla ludźmi z nadmiarem energii.
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: Sex Drogen und Industrial, Tractor, Get Your Body Beat, Happy Fcuking Birthday, Like To Thank My Buddies, Today I Woke To The Rain Of Blood, Electrohead, What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?, Shut Up And Swallow, Sent To Destroy.
Podobne zespoły: Northborne, Reaper, Soman, Urkom.
Last.fm: Combichrist
MySpace

4. Dulce Liquido (power-noise)

Nim sięgniecie po dokonania Dulce Liquido, chcę Was, drodzy czytelnicy, uczulić na to, że nie jest to muzyka dla normalnych ludzi. Sięgacie po to na własną odpowiedzialność. Ale jeśli jednak macie ochotę zryć sobie psyche i pokaleczyć uszy dawką konkretnego hałasu, muzyka Dulce Liquido będzie świetnym wyborem. Za aliasem DL stoi Racso Agroyam - na codzień 1/2 Hocico odpowiedzialna za warstwę muzyczną. W DL Racso daje upust swoim noise'owym fascynacjom, przeplatając je z klimatami dark electro czy techno. Dużo tu eksperymentów, rytmicznych zabaw przesterowanymi dźwiękami, ale też znajdą się kawałki, które swobodnie mógłby się znaleźć na którymkolwiek albumie macierzystej formacji Racso czyli Hocico.

Dla kogo: Dla psychopatów.
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: Illusion Hecha Mentira, Castillo De Impurezas, Incubos, Humid Dreams, Infernus, Serial Killer, Reaxxxion.
Podobne zespoły: KiEw, Terrorfakt, Xotox, FeindFlug, Caustic, Combichrist z pierwszej płyty.
Last.fm: Dulce Liquido
MySpace

5. Seabound (future-pop)

Pierwsze rzeczy, które nasuwają mi się na myśl, gdy chodzi o ten niemiecki duet, to klimat i elegancja. Nie są to typowi future-popowcy. Nie przesadzają z "ubitowieniem" czy tanecznością swoich kawałków, chwytliwych melodii też nie jest tu dużo. Jest za to dużo ciekawego klimatu, który jak sama nazwa kapeli wskazuje ma sporo wspólnego z morzem (no, ale to raczej kwestia dyskusyjna, mnie przynajmniej muzyka Niemców tak się kojarzy). Jest też całkiem interesujący wokal Frank Spinatha; w większości kawałków bardzo łagodny, a i czasem zdarza mu się coś złowieszczo szepnąć czy też krzyknąć (z obowiązkowym przesterem). Dodam jeszcze, że Frank jest z wykształcenia psychologiem, przez co w tekstach Seabound mamy do czynienia z wnikliwymi obserwacjami ludzkiej natury. Całość tworzy bardzo oryginalną i atmosferyczną mieszankę, którą z czystym sumieniem mogę polecić każdemu szukającemu niebanalnej, tanecznej elektroniki.
Dla kogo: Dla marzycieli, samotników i romantyków.
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: album "Double-Crosser" w całości.
Podobne zespoły: VNV Nation, Icon of Coil, Pride and Fall, Edge of Dawn, Necessary Response, do pewnego stopnia Apoptygma Berzerk.
Last.fm: Seabound
MySpace

6. Nitzer Ebb (oldschool EBM)

Długo wahałem się kto będzie reprezentował oldschoolowców w tej odsłonie przeglądu. Po długim biciu się z myślami zdecydowałem się na Brytyjczyków z Nitzer Ebb (na drugiej szali była inna kultowa ekipa - mianowicie belgijski Front 242). Co tu dużo mówić. Muza spod znaku oldschoolowego EBM jest prosta jak drut. Taneczny bit, surowa linia basu i skandowane, bardzo agresywne, krzyczane wokale. Dziś taka muza może wydawać się śmieszna, ale w 1987 roku, kiedy Bon Harris i Douglas McCarthy wydawali swój debiut zatytułowany "That Total Age", był to początek rewolucji. Rewolucji, która dała podwaliny pod całe masy podgatunków EBM, których reprezentantów macie okazje podziwiać wyżej / niżej. Co więcej, EBM w swojej pierwotnej, minimalistycznej formie jest uskuteczniany przez wiele różnych zespołów. Spora część z nich jednak, nie wnosi do gatunku niczego nowego. Ale czy fanom elektronicznego minimalizmu potrzeba czegoś więcej do szczęścia? :-)
Dla kogo: Dla agresywnych minimalistów.
Kawałki do sprawdzenia: Join In The Chant, Murderous, Let Your Body Learn, Control I'm Here, Violent Playground (nim ktoś się przyczepi, ze względów czysto subiektywnych i by zachowac spójność postanowiłem pominąć późniejsze dokonania kapeli i skupić się na 2 pierwszych LP).
Podobne zespoły: wczesny Front 242, DAF, Orange Sector, Ionic Vision, Spetsnaz.
Last.fm: Nitzer Ebb
MySpace

Zostaje jeszcze kwestia grania eksperymentalnego ew. takiego, którego nijak nie da się zaklasyfikować. Jako przykład takiego grania proponuję... Momencik. Czy ten przegląd nie wydaję się Wam odrobinę za długi? Tak? Też tak sądze. Dlatego też następną odsłonę poświęce w dużej mierze "eksperymentatorom", jak również postaram się przybliżyć kilku ciekawych wykonawców działających na naszej rodzimej scenie. Stay tuned!

By contrast, the market for office space is softening, the firm says.

Executive director Ms Chua Wei Lin said: “Demand for private industrial properties - in particular, hi-tech and business park space - is expected to be firm for the rest of 2008, supported by a spill-over of users from the office sector.”

But, in view of an increasing supply of space and a softer economic outlook, industrial space rentals are generally expected to experience a decline next year, she said.

For offices, the downturn is coming earlier, said Ms Chua’s fellow executive director,Ms Cheng Siow Ying. She said: “Office occupiers have become more cautious, with many adopting a wait-and-see approach. While negotiations for space are still ongoing, they are taking longer to conclude.

“Many occupiers have shelved expansion plans for the moment amid economic uncertainties, and (are instead) choosing to renew leases at existing premises to avoid relocation costs. Many also continued to relocate to more cost-effective, decentralised offices and converted state properties, while those that qualify for hi-tech industrial and business parks are relocating there.”

Average office rents peaked in the third quarter of the year, with no rental growth during the quarter. Although most landlords are maintaining their asking gross rents, they are now more flexible in their lease packaging, resulting in lower effective rental rates, DTZ research shows.

The pace of office users relocating to business parks accelerated, as more companies - deterred by high office rentals - sought premises with lower occupation costs. Occupancy of business parks averaged 92.5 per cent.

Most of the planned new space is built-to-suit buildings already committed to financial institutions, such as DBS and Citibank. Other multiple-tenanted business parks developments are also attracting strong interest; for example, Mapletree Business City in Pasir Panjang, which has one of its three business parks towers already pre-committed.

Source : Today - 9 Oct 2008

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