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Monday, October 31, 2011
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Dog survived gas chamber, up for adoption in NJ (AP)
NEWARK, N.J. ? Unnamed and unwanted, the young beagle mix was left anonymously in a drop box outside an Alabama pound. His life was supposed to end in a gas chamber.
Instead, the young stray emerged frightened but unscathed, wagging his tail. Now, he's being hailed as a miracle dog, given the name Daniel after the biblical figure who survived the lion's den.
And he has a fresh start in New Jersey, where a rescue group hopes to find him a good home.
Only three animals have survived the gas chamber at the Animal Control facility in Florence, Ala., in the past 12 years. "Maybe God just had a better plan for this one," said city spokesman Phil Stevenson.
Daniel's tail never stopped wagging as he stepped off a plane at a New Jersey airport, where he was flown Wednesday by the nonprofit Eleventh Hour Rescue group and placed with volunteer Jill Pavlik until he can be adopted.
"He's absolutely fabulous," Pavlik, a hairdresser who works and lives in northern New Jersey, said Friday. "He walked in the house like he had always lived there. He's very sweet, happy and outgoing."
Linda Schiller, the shelter's founder and president, said the facility has already received about 100 applications from people around the country seeking to adopt Daniel. About half said they weren't interested in adopting another dog if the 20-pound Daniel wasn't available.
"Maybe we'll get a cosmetic surgeon to make all our dogs look like Daniel," Schiller said jokingly. She added that Daniel, while thin, hadn't shown any residual effects of his ordeal.
No one is sure why Daniel was the lone survivor. "It may be that his breathing was shallow because of a cold or something," Stevenson said.
He said the gas chamber is a stainless-steel box roughly the size of a pickup truck bed, and dogs are put into the chamber about seven or eight at a time. A computer-controlled pump slowly feeds carbon monoxide into the chamber once it's sealed, and an operator presses a button.
Normally, the animals just go "to sleep slowly. It's like the cases you hear about where people are overcome by carbon monoxide in their home and just never wake up," he said.
On that Oct. 3 day, a new animal control officer placed the stray beagle into the chamber with several other animals and started the machine, Stevenson said.
Variables that could allow a dog to survive such a gassing include the number of animals placed in the chamber, the concentration of carbon monoxide, whether the chamber is airtight or gas is leaking out and the health of the animal, said Julie Morris, senior vice president of community outreach for the ASPCA. Young, healthy animals have the best chance for survival.
Since carbon monoxide is heavier than air, it sinks, so a tall dog, or one that climbed to the top of a pile, would have a better chance of surviving, she said.
Vinny Grosso, the Florence animal shelter's director, said Daniel showed up in one of the shelter's "drop box" cages where people can drop off animals anonymously.
"It was an unwanted dog. ... We didn't have a history on him," he said.
As many as 30 animals a month are put down; Stevenson said Daniel was the third dog he could remember surviving in the last 12 years.
"It's just very, very rare," Grosso said, adding that the shelter's policy calls for officials to find surviving animals a new home.
Grosso said the shelter is limited by law on how many dogs it can hold and had just taken in 60 in one day. Because of the huge number, it had to pick some to put down, and strays like Daniel, dropped off with no evidence of an owner, are the first to go.
Mindy Gilbert, Alabama director for the Humane Society of the United States, said Daniel's story explains why the group pushed the Alabama Legislature to ban gas chambers for euthanizing dogs, effective Dec. 31. She said many states still use them.
"They are still considered a humane method in many parts of the country."
At least 15 states, including New Jersey and New York, have banned carbon monoxide for euthanizing shelter animals.
The ASPCA recommends injections of sodium pentobarbital for euthanizing shelter animals because it is faster, quicker and safer than carbon monoxide.
Pavlik, who was worked with Eleventh Hour Rescue for seven years, said she planned to proceed with the adoption process with an abundance of caution due to the publicity generated by the case.
"We're going to be very careful," she said. "He's a dog; he's a lucky dog, but he's a dog. And there are a lot of nutty people out there."
Grosso said he was pleased to see the reception Daniel got in New Jersey and hopes his story will increase adoptions.
"It was a great ending to a kind of bizarre story," he said.
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Associated Press writer Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., Phillip Rawls in Montgomery, Ala., and Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, N. J., contributed to this report.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
How Can I Find Affordable Health Insurance If I Don't Have Coverage from My Employer? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker,
My employer doesn't offer health insurance, so I need to find my own. Where should I look to get an affordable plan and what kinds of coverage can I get?
Thanks,
Health Plan Hunter
Dear HPH,
Many of us are in the same boat as you, whether because we work for ourselves, lost a job, or, like you, work for a company that doesn't have offer health insurance. Unfortunately, health insurance coverage outside of work isn't very often what you might call "affordable," but we can help you sort through your options.
Cheapest Option: Get Covered Under a Parent's Plan
If you're under the age of 26, you may be able to be added to your parent's health plan. According to Healthcare.gov, this applies even if you're married, not living with them, and not financially dependent on them, and it would most probably be your cheapest option even if you pay your parents back for your part of the premium costs.
For Select Cases: Federal/State Options
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP)/High Risk Pool: Under the Affordable Care Act, people who have had trouble getting insurance due to a pre-existing condition can get health insurance coverage with a PCIP. It'll cover major medical and prescription drug costs. Deductibles, premiums, and out of pocket limits may vary by state. As an example, though, in New York, the premium ranges from $362 to $421 per month. See coverage details for your state here.
Medicaid: The Medicaid program offers health coverage if you have limited income and/or meet other criteria, such as being pregnant or disabled. Your state's department of health is the best place to check for more information.
Finding Your Own Insurance: Comparison Tools
If the above doesn't apply to you, you'll need to find a private health insurance plan that'll cover either just you or your family. Two good resources for comparing plans are HealthCare.gov's plan finder and eHealthInsurance.com. Check both because they might not list the same exact plans.
With the HealthCare.gov finder, you can sort by "Estimated Monthly Base Rate"?the amount you'll have to pay by month, rather than the default out-of-pocket limit (Before resorting, the top plan listed for me was estimated at $1,932 per month! For an individual plan!).
At eHealthInsurance, you can also sort by price or deductible and also see customer ratings.
Plan Types
Other than traditional health insurance plan types, such an HMO plan where you see a primary care physician who refers you to specialists if needed, or a PPO plan where you choose from a network of health care providers to see, there are two other types of plans that can save you money:
Emergency Coverage: The cheapest plans are the hospital-only ones, best if you're pretty healthy and only need "just in case" hospital care insurance. Thanks to new regulations, some of these types of plans are required to also offer preventative care services at no charge, such as flu shots and regular well-child visits.
High Deductible, HSA-compatible Health Plans: A high-deductible plan can be cheaper than regular plans on a monthly basis, because your coverage doesn't begin until after you've paid for any health care up to the deductible amount (usually a few thousand dollars). Using a Health Savings Account (HSA), you can put away money towards that high deductible using pre-tax dollars, for some significant tax savings, and unlike FSAs, your money doesn't have to be all used up every year. eHealthInsurance has a calculator for you to see the tax savings you can get using a HSA.
Other Places to Look for Health Insurance: Associations
Finally, in addition to comparing plans using the sites above, you may be able to get more affordable health insurance by joining an association or other group. The Freelancers Union, for example, is a free group that offers health and other types of insurance. Be sure to compare any quotes, however, with plans you can find on your own, as above.
Good luck on your quest to find coverage!
Love,
Lifehacker
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
'Expendables 2' Stuntman Dies In On-Set Accident
Explosion, which injured a second stuntman, occurred while sequel was filming in Bulgaria.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Sylvester Stallone in "The Expendables"
Photo: Lionsgate
Tragedy has struck the Bulgarian set of the star-studded action sequel "The Expendables 2."
A stuntman was killed when an accident occurred involving a rubber boat and an explosion. Two stuntmen were involved in the scene, which was filming around 7 p.m. local time on Thursday night. The second man suffered serious injuries, but he is now said to be in stable condition.
No information has been released yet as to the identities of the men involved in the incident. A representative from the production company behind the Sylvester Stallone-produced film, Nu Image/Millennium Films, released a statement, saying, "It is with great regret that we confirm this unfortunate accident. Our hearts go out to the families and those on the production affected by this tragedy. The filmmakers are working closely with the authorities in responding to and investigating this accident."
The accident occurred while the second unit filmed at the Ognyanovo dam in Bulgaria. None of the film's stars were present during the incident, as the first unit was filming at a resort more than two hours away.
"Expendables 2" is scheduled to hit theaters next August and stars Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It is the sequel to the hit 2010 action film written and directed by Stallone. The sequel reunites most of the cast, while adding Simon West as director and adding Norris and Van Damme to the lineup.
Check out everything we've got on "The Expendables 2."
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673345/expendables-2-stuntman-killed.jhtml
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Egyptian prisoners leave Israeli jail for swap
JERUSALEM?? Twenty-five Egyptians left a jail in southern Israel on Thursday and were being bused to the border with Egypt ahead of a swap for a U.S.-Israeli citizen jailed in Cairo on suspicion of espionage.
The arrest of 27-year-old Ilan Grapel in Egypt in June set off new concerns in Israel that relations with the Egyptians would sour after the ouster of their longtime president, Hosni Mubarak.
The swap deal was expected to help ease the strains that have developed between the two countries since Mubarak was toppled in February.
Grapel's father, Daniel Grapel, told The Associated Press that his son had been held in isolation in an unknown location and that when they last spoke two weeks ago, he seemed to be in "OK" condition and "getting fed."
"I am happy that this thing will be done and over with and that he will be able to resume his normal life away from Egypt," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Queens, N.Y.
Under a swap deal reached earlier this week, his U.S.-born son was to board a plane in Cairo later Thursday and fly to Israel.
Daniel Grapel said his wife, Irene, flew to Tel Aviv to meet their son. They will remain in Israel for at least two days to meet with Israeli and American officials before returning to the U.S., he said.
The United States, which provides the army that now runs Egypt with billions of dollars in military aid, had called for Grapel's release.
Analysts said the exchange provided a cover for Egypt to resolve the diplomatic headache.
"I consider it a cover for returning this spy with pressure from the United States," said Egyptian analyst Hassan Nafaa.
"The release of those 25 represents a cover that has no meaning in fact. It does not harm Israel and it does not significantly benefit Egyptians," he added.
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Grapel was volunteering at a legal aid group in Cairo when he was arrested June 12 and accused of spying for Israel during the grass roots revolt that overthrew Mubarak. Israel denied the espionage allegations, as did Grapel's family and friends.
Grapel made no secret of his Israeli background and entered Egypt under his real name.
His Facebook page had photos of him in an Israeli military uniform. Such openness about his identity suggested he was not a spy. The arrest was ridiculed even in Egypt, where hostility toward Israel runs high.
Grapel moved to Israel, where his grandparents live, as a young man. He did his compulsory military service in Israel during its 2006 war in Lebanon and was wounded in the fighting. He later returned to the U.S. to study.
At the time of his arrest he was doing a legal internship with a local nonprofit organization in Cairo and planned afterward to return to the U.S. for his final year of law school.
Some Israelis have criticized their government for making a deal to free a citizen arrested in a friendly nation on what they think were trumped-up allegations.
"It is ... hard for me to accept the fact that an innocent and perhaps naive citizen travels (to Egypt) to identify with the Arab Spring ? and it's clear this is not a spy, nor an agent, nor a drug trafficker ? and he is arrested under all kinds of false allegations, and we are then forced to pay a price in order to free him," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel's Army Radio.
'A good thing'
The family of Ashraf Abdallah, 18, one of the Egyptians to be released, said he had been sentenced to three years in prison by Israel on charges of illegally crossing the border. They say he had lost his way. He has spent one year in jail.
"We just want to see our brother. It is a good thing from Egypt to work on freeing them," his brother Mohamed el-Swarky said.
Others in the area said many of the Egyptian prisoners to be released had been involved in smuggling, which is rife along Egypt's border with Israel and the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
Israel's Prisons Service said Abdallah had been jailed for drugs trafficking as well as "infiltration." The others on the release roster were held for similar offences, including gun-running, but not for espionage or attacks on Israelis.
"Our happiness isn't complete. We want our third brother. They went (across) because of the hard conditions," said Youssef al-Atrash, who said two of his brothers were among those to be freed, while a third would stay behind bars.
Many Bedouin in Sinai complain of neglect by the state. Sinai resorts such as Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh, with their five-star hotels, are popular with tourists. But Bedouin say they are excluded from jobs there and have to scratch a frugal living, or turn to smuggling.
Since Mubarak was toppled, Egypt's military rulers have often warned against what they call "foreign" attempts to destabilize the country. And like other Arab states, Egypt has a long history of blaming internal problems on Israel.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45060714/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
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Friday, October 28, 2011
State issues can be tricky for presidential field
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, talks with workers during a visit to a GOP phone bank, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Terrace Park, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, talks with workers during a visit to a GOP phone bank, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Terrace Park, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
CINCINNATI (AP) ? Mitt Romney gingerly distanced himself from a labor issue on the Ohio ballot one day. The next, he embraced the initiative "110 percent."
The reversal not only highlights his record of equivocations but also underscores the local political minefields national candidates often confront in their state-by-state path to the presidency.
Candidates visiting Nevada often wade into the debate about where nuclear waste should go. They're pressed in South Carolina to take a stand on an aircraft maker's labor dispute. In New Hampshire, they face questions about right-to-work issues. And then there are the perennials, such as ethanol subsidies in Iowa and the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina.
Such local issues aren't of concern to most voters across the nation, but these topics can matter greatly to voters wanting to hear the thoughts of candidates soliciting support ahead of presidential primaries. Candidates often work to strike a balance between addressing issues local voters care about without staking out hardline positions that could hurt them elsewhere.
"They've got to be careful about not weighing in on issues that are exclusively local. That could backfire," said Kevin Smith, a conservative activist and likely Republican gubernatorial candidate in New Hampshire. "It's something that could easily be blown up into something bigger than it ought to be."
As Romney proved this week, such local issues can trip up even the most cautious candidate, causing headaches for their national campaigns while hurting their standings in important states for both the primary and general elections.
"Fully support that," Romney said about the Ohio ballot initiative while visiting a local Republican Party office Wednesday in Fairfax, Va.
The former Massachusetts governor was trying to fix a problem he created a day earlier during a trip to Terrace Park near Cincinnati.
Romney visited a site where volunteers were making hundreds of phone calls to help Republicans defeat the Issue Two ballot effort to repeal Ohio Gov. John Kasich's restrictions on public sector employee bargaining.
Romney took a pass on supporting the measure just as a newly released Quinnipiac University poll indicated Ohio voters opposed the GOP-backed restrictions 57 percent to 32 percent.
But Romney already had weighed in, supporting Kasich's efforts in a June Facebook post.
Republican and Democratic critics alike were quick to point out Romney's waffling. His campaign rivals Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman fired off statements supporting the union restrictions, and Obama's Ohio state campaign director, Greg Schultz, sent out emails Tuesday night to supporters noting Romney's "sidestep."
Roughly 24 hours later, Romney clarified his support for Kasich.
Even so, Huntsman, the former Utah governor languishing in polls, sought to gain ground by arguing that the episode demonstrated Romney's failure to show leadership.
"This is a time when if you are going to be president of the United States, you show a little presidential leadership," he told ABC News. "That's by taking a position and leading out ? sometimes there is a risk associated with taking a position, but that's all part of leadership."
And some observers questioned whether Romney's response had less to do with the GOP primary, which Ohio will hold well after the early voting states, and more to do with the general election and the need to woo independent voters.
On the other hand, Romney may lose the party loyalists he needs to get the GOP nomination by waffling on the matter.
"The people who would be paying the most attention to this are probably the base of the Republican Party, and that's why it has the potential to be most damaging to him," said veteran Ohio political scientist Gene Beaupre of Xavier University.
At one time, presidential candidates visiting Iowa would stumble over that state's pet issue: support for subsidizing ethanol, the fuel additive the state leads in producing. But the issue has faded as a litmus test in the years since Bob Dole, a strong advocate, won the Iowa caucuses while opponent Phil Gramm of Texas finished a disappointing fifth.
That hasn't stopped Romney this year from noting his support for ? and Perry's opposition to ? the federal renewable fuel standard as Romney seeks Iowa agribusiness' support.
In South Carolina, candidates always are asked about flying the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds. Supporters say it honors heritage and valiant native sons; opponents, led by the NAACP, say it is a divisive reminder of slavery. Republicans usually say the flag is a state matter, but Arizona Sen. John McCain said after losing the 2000 primary that he should have spoken out on the issue and admitted that he feared opposing the flag would scuttle his chances in the state.
This year, candidates campaigning in South Carolina have been all but forced to weigh in on Boeing's efforts to build a plant in the state.
And in South Carolina and Nevada, opening Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste depository is a sensitive issue.
South Carolina's congressional delegation wants the site in Nevada opened to relieve the Savannah River site, which has been storing nuclear weapons waste. That made recent debate pronouncements by Romney, Perry and Texas Rep. Ron Paul against using the Nevada site hard to swallow for some South Carolina Republicans.
"It's got to go somewhere, and we can't wait for them to figure out where it's going to go," Republican Gov. Nikki Haley said. Voters "are going to want to know what their answers are to that."
In New Hampshire, candidates have had to weigh in on a right-to-work drive aimed at unions.
Romney has already voiced support, saying in an August stop in Claremont, N.H., that "people should have the choice of deciding whether or not they want to join a union and have union dues."
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in Concord, N.H., Jim Davenport in Columbia, S.C., Tom Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, and Philip Elliott in Fairfax, Va., contributed to this report.
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Too Much Drinking May Raise Lung Cancer Risk: Study (HealthDay)
THURSDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- While smoking has long been linked to cancer, its frequent companion, drinking, may be as well, a new study suggests.
Three new studies presented at a medical meeting this week find a link between heavy boozing and a rise in risk for the number one cancer killer.
On the other hand, studies also suggest that heavier people are less likely to develop lung cancer than smaller folk, and black tea might help ward of the disease, as well.
The findings were to be presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, Oct. 22-26, in Honolulu.
More Americans die from lung cancer than any other form, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2007, the most recent year for which statistics are available, more than 203,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with lung cancer, and nearly 159,000 died.
In one study presented at the meeting, Dr. Stanton Siu and colleagues at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., looked at the diets and lifestyles of more than 126,000 people first surveyed between 1978 and 1985. They then tracked their incidence of lung cancer through 2008.
The team found that having more than three alcoholic drinks per day upped lung cancer risk, with a slightly higher risk ascribed to beer consumption versus wine or liquor. Specifically, compared to teetotalers, people who had three or more drinks daily were 30 percent more likely to develop lung cancer, with a 70 percent rise in risk if the drink of preference was beer.
One expert stressed, however, that it's tough to tease out drinking from another, even more carcinogenic habit, smoking, since the two often go together.
"Smoking remains an overwhelming factor, but . . . heavy drinking, whether it's the alcohol itself, or that heavy drinking is a surrogate for hanging out in smoky bars and getting more smoke, I don't know," said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, who was not involved in any of the studies.
In another intriguing finding from the study, a higher body mass index (BMI), which indicates overweight or obesity, was linked to a reduction in the odds for lung malignancies.
The finding may not mean that packing on extra pounds insulates one against lung cancer, however. Edelman noted that being overweight or obese is typically associated with poorer health, while "people who are sick weigh little," he said. So, the results may just mean that the heavier study participants haven't suffered the ill effects of their lifestyle -- yet.
In a separate study also slated for presentation at the meeting, researchers from the Czech Republic found that among non-smoking women, regular black tea consumption appeared to lower lung cancer risk by about 31 percent, and higher amounts of fruit in the diet was also linked to lowered lung cancer risk for both genders.
Edelman and Dr. Mark Rosen, chief of the division of pulmonary/critical care and sleep medicine at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y., cautioned that all of the study results need to be replicated before being taken seriously.
"They show some interesting associations, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily factual," Rosen said. "If you put a lot of data into a computer, you're going to find some things come out [linked] just by chance. Associations are interesting, but they all require further studies."
Experts also note that research presented at scientific meetings is considered preliminary and has not been peer-reviewed.
More information
For more on alcohol and health, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Leaked: Are These Nokia?s New Windows Phones?
We're but a mere 14 hours away from the long-awaited unveiling of Nokia's first ever Windows Phone 7 handsets, and it seems they just can't keep the spigot plugged. A set of images seemingly detailing not one, but two of the handsets set to be announced has just leaked out.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jhjXK7Txcbc/
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Al Checchi: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
We hear a lot these days about those evil corporations and their pernicious effect on America. Should we hunt down these malefactors of malice? Perhaps, but on examination, they would be us. Off with our heads?
Every one of us who is not employed by the government but engages in some commercial endeavor, be it giving manicures or building bridges, conducts these activities either as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation. The differences: unlike proprietorships and partnerships, corporations are taxed twice, once at the corporate level and again at the individual stockholder level, but their owners (shareholders) are insulated from personal liability. For example if I own a restaurant as an individual proprietor, I can be sued personally by an accident victim. A corporation like McDonald's may be sued for the same accident but its individual shareholders cannot. Without the protections of limited liability, very few individuals would be willing to invest in any enterprise and subject themselves to defending against potentially unlimited liability. Our very first corporate charters were granted by the states to induce private individuals to join together to build large infrastructure projects like bridges and turnpikes.
What do American corporations do today? They do the same thing that any proprietor does, e.g. make and deliver goods and services. They succeed or fail based on the difference in the value that consumers put on their products and the cost of producing them - that ugly thing called "profits". The formula for running a successful business is quite simple: combine human and material resources as efficiently as possible to create the greatest amount of value for the consumer.
Most corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Federal Express, Marriott, and Proctor and Gamble obey the rules and strive and succeed at developing and producing popular products and services that create value (what some call corporate greed). Others like Enron and WorldCom break the rules. Corporations are only as good or bad as the people who run them. Just as most people are honest and do not break the law, most people through their actions as (proprietors, partners, and corporate employees) are honest and conduct themselves within its bounds. Some obviously don't and they should be removed and punished. Most behave ethically; too many don't. That is human nature. And as in any endeavor, half the people running business enterprises are below average. Only a minority are exceptional.
Corporations are our principal providers of employment but that is decidedly not their objective. Their objective is to maximize profits (more corporate greed). They seek ways to make investments and increase value (provide more goods and services at a profit). To do this generally requires that they employ more people. Employment is the byproduct of investment.
Governments have a role in this process too. While they don't create employment directly, they are a major influence on the ability and willingness to make investments that increase employment. Case in point: As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, California based CKE which operates 3000 restaurants nationwide is no longer opening restaurants in California but is opening 300 in Texas. One of the reasons: In California the regulatory process can take two years versus only 6 weeks in Texas and as a result, the cost of opening a restaurant in California is $200,000 greater.
Similarly, America will import approximately $350 billion of oil this year. While we have many proponents of "green energy", until we develop viable alternatives to fossil fuel, we must continue to consume oil. We have ample untapped oil reserves of our own to replace all imports. If not restricted by government, we would invest in extracting them. This would create jobs in the oil industry. The $350 billion increase in domestic income and spending would produce more jobs. And the increase in supply and resulting decrease in the cost of oil would allow consumers to spend their savings on other things and increase jobs even more.
The lesson, if you want to create jobs, shape public policy to attract private investment. America and indeed the world have no shortage of individuals or enterprises that want to make a buck. Off with their heads?
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-checchi/we-have-met-the-enemy-and_2_b_1027158.html
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Perry sidesteps questions about Obama's birthplace
Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the ISO Poly Films plant, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Gray Court, S.C. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday declined to say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
At a news conference with state legislators just hours after he'd introduced a major economic plan, the GOP presidential candidate answered questions about the widely debunked claims that Obama wasn't actually American-born.
"I'll cut you off right there," Perry said when asked about Obama's birth certificate. "That is one of the biggest distractions that there is going. We need to be talking about jobs."
But Perry wouldn't answer a reporter's direct question about whether he believed the president was born in the United States. Obama's birth certificate shows he was born in Hawaii.
Speculation about Obama's birthplace ? a way to question his legitimacy to be president ? has swirled among conservatives for years. Business mogul Donald Trump brought it up repeatedly as he considered a bid for president. Earlier this year, Obama held a news conference to release his long-form birth certificate and try to put the issue to rest.
Perry also offered to release his own birth certificate Tuesday. "If somebody wants to see my birth certificate, I'd be happy to show it to them," Perry said. "But the fact is that this is a distraction, and Americans really don't care about that, if you want to know the truth of the matter."
The comments come on the heels of Perry's interview with CNBC and The New York Times, released Tuesday morning, in which he said the birth certificate question was "a good issue to keep alive."
"It's fun to poke him a little bit," Perry said of the president.
Perry's comments are keeping alive an issue that some Republican party elders say is bad for the party.
"Republican candidates should categorically reject the notion that President Obama was not born in the United States," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told The Washington Post in an email. "It is a complete distraction from the failed economic policies of the president."
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour also said it was a distraction.
"Look, if this election is about Barack Obama's policies and the results of those policies, Barack Obama's gonna lose," Barbour told reporters in Washington when he was asked about Perry's comments. "Any other issue that gets injected into the campaign is not good for the Republicans."
But to win the nomination, Perry has to appeal to the conservative base of the party ? and talking about Obama's birth certificate could be a way to reach those voters.
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Lilly pulls sepsis drug Xigris, no benefit found (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Eli Lilly and Co withdrew its sepsis drug Xigris from all markets after the product, deemed a potential big seller when it was approved a decade ago, failed to improve survival in a clinical trial.
Sepsis is a severe, often life-threatening illness caused by the immune system's over-aggressive response to infections -- releasing inflammatory proteins that cause shock and shut down multiple organs. The condition occurs in 1 to 2 percent of all hospitalizations in the United States.
Approved in the United States in 2001 and in Europe in 2002, Xigris never reached its initial lofty sales expectations. The intravenously infused drug, also known as drotrecogin alfa, had global sales of about $100 million last year.
Xigris has increased the risk of serious bleeding in earlier studies, although no significant higher risk was found in the latest study.
"While there were no new safety findings, the study failed to demonstrate that Xigris improved patient survival and thus calls into question the benefit-risk profile of Xigris and its continued use," Timothy Garnett, Lilly's chief medical officer, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Patients currently receiving Xigris treatment should stop, while doctors should not start any new patients on the drug, Lilly said.
The failed study, called PROWESS-SHOCK, comes only two days after Lilly's top-selling Zyprexa schizophrenia treatment lost U.S. patent protection in the United States -- making it prey to cheaper generics.
The PROWESS-SHOCK study began in March 2008 as a condition for continued market authorization in Europe.
Results of the 1,696-patient study showed Xigris did not meet the main goal of a statistically significant reduction in deaths from any cause over a 28-day period in patients with septic shock.
According to European Medicines Agency, 26.4 percent of patients taking Xigris died compared with 24.2 percent taking a placebo, a difference that was not deemed statistically significant.
The risk of severe bleeding events in the study, the main risk with Xigris, was similar, "suggesting there was no increased harm" from the Lilly drug, according to the European regulators.
Garnett noted that Xigris has increased the risk of serious bleeding in earlier studies.
Xigris has been used on top of standard treatments, most notably intravenous fluids and antibiotics.
In large studies conducted more than a decade ago, Xigris did significantly cut mortality, Garnett said.
But in recent years, medical practice has greatly improved in intensive care units, Garnett said. Faster and more aggressive treatment with IV fluids and antibiotics has sharply improved survival rates of sepsis patients.
"So the incremental benefit of Xigris is no longer apparent, and no longer clinically relevant," Garnett said.
Lilly estimated it would take a charge tied to the withdrawal in the range of $75 million to $95 million in the fourth quarter, or about 5 cents per share after taxes. It maintained its full-year profit forecast that excludes special items.
Lilly shares were down 1.2 percent at $37.73 on Tuesday morning on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf and Ransdell Pierson in New York, editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Matthew Lewis and Derek Caney)
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The IRIS 9000 is a little box with a built-in microphone that sits next to your iPhone 4S and lets you use Siri from across the room, HAL style.
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AG Holder, pastors praise Ala. civil rights icon
Retired U.S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s attorney Clarence Jones, Howell Raines, former editor of The New York Times and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Diane McWhorter meet prior to a panel discussion of the life and times of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth who died Oct. 5, 2011 at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Jeff Roberts)
Retired U.S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s attorney Clarence Jones, Howell Raines, former editor of The New York Times and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Diane McWhorter meet prior to a panel discussion of the life and times of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth who died Oct. 5, 2011 at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Jeff Roberts)
Cosby Sanders leaves a bouquet of roses at the base of the statue of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth who died Oct. 5, 2011 during a remembrance and visitation of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Shuttlesworth will buried Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Jeff Roberts)
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's children, widow, and others sing during his memorial service Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in Birmingham,Ala. at Bethel Baptist Church in the Collegeville neighborhood where he was a pastor from 1953-1961. He was a civil rights leader who helped transform Birmingham by challenging its racial segregation laws. This memorial was the first of several. His final service will be Monday. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Tamika Moore)
Members of the Birmingham Police Department and Birmingham Fire and Rescue escort Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's casket and family members from Bethel Baptist Church to the new Bethel Baptist Church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Michelle Campbell)
Fred Shuttlesworth's widow Sephira Shuttlesworth holds her hand over the casket during the march from Bethel Baptist Church to the new Bethel Baptist Church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.(AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Michelle Campbell)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ? The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, often eclipsed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in life, was praised Sunday as the catalyst who brought the civil rights movement to Birmingham and launched King into immortality.
Those who knew him best urged others to continue the tireless example he set, working long after victory in the 1963 campaign to liberate the segregated Southern city he called home. Fellow preachers, foot soldiers from the movement, and members of his family told a crowd gathered at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church that for all of his heroic efforts, the fiery minister's work remains undone.
Attorney General Eric Holder told the audience: "Without him, there would be no me."
"We are bound by more than sorrow," Holder said. "We are united by our shared admiration of Reverend Shuttlesworth, by our deep appreciation of his legacy, and perhaps most importantly by our collective responsibility to carry on his critical work, and to live up to the example of service that he left to us."
A parade of clergy lined up to give Shuttlesworth his due at the memorial, which lasted nearly three hours. Five decades ago, when a little-known black Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King took the helm of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, Shuttlesworth was already in Birmingham trying to start a movement, but hardly anyone was paying attention.
Shuttlesworth was from a small church. His credentials and pedigree made it easy for local whites to dismiss him as a radical. Until King came to Birmingham, Shuttlesworth couldn't get the national press to recognize his city as the embodiment of the horrors of the segregated South.
He was just another black preacher getting beat up, said former Atlanta mayor, congressman and United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who worked alongside King and Shuttlesworth in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. All three men helped establish the organization in 1957.
"They were sued together, they helped organize SCLC together," Young said of King and Shuttlesworth. "He wanted the spotlight very much, but there wasn't but one Martin Luther King."
It was King who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and went on to become the icon of the civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth, who was overshadowed in life by his comrade in the movement, was again eclipsed by King in death.
Though he died nearly three weeks ago, Shuttlesworth is only now being buried on Monday. The reason for the delay: The dedication of the King Memorial on the National Mall, sending most of Shuttlesworth's civil rights colleagues to Washington last weekend.
Had they not been there, they would have likely been in Birmingham remembering Shuttlesworth.
"His friends and Martin's friends were the same," Young said. "But you don't have two memorials at the same time if you want your friends to come." Shuttlesworth's funeral will be Monday.
Among the events held in Shuttlesworth's honor was a public viewing of his body at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a panel discussion at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
In tribute, many at the 16th Street Baptist Church ? where four black girls were killed in a bombing before Sunday services on September 15, 1963 ? recalled Shuttlesworth's courage but also called on those left to mourn him to be courageous. Holder said Shuttlesworth was a warrior for justice and advocate for peace who has left behind a legacy for the country to follow.
The attorney general used the occasion to point out Alabama's strict new immigration, considered the toughest crackdown in the nation. He said too many in Alabama "are willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past" and he would not let that happen. The Obama administration is among the parties suing the state to block the law.
The Rev. Tommie Lewis urged Holder to remember Alabama in his duties.
"We got some serious issues down here," Lewis said, looking at the attorney general. "Our issues are not going to be handled between these mountains, down in this valley."
There was also candlelight vigil for Shuttlesworth across the street in Kelly Ingram Park, made famous the same year when news footage of policemen and firemen unleashing dogs and blasting water hoses on defenseless civil rights marchers was broadcast to a shocked international audience.
Long before the television cameras arrived, Shuttlesworth was there, organizing many such nonviolent protests.
Shuttlesworth survived a Christmas 1956 bombing that destroyed his home, an assault during a 1957 protest, chest injuries when Birmingham authorities turned the hoses on demonstrators in 1963 and countless arrests. He moved to Ohio to pastor a church in the early 1960s, but returned frequently to Alabama for key protests. He came back to live in the Birmingham area after he retired a few years ago.
"He was able to see how the civil rights struggle kept reinventing itself in different forms," said Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution."
"He was always there to make it clear that this was a continuous struggle."
McWhorter said she never got the sense that Shuttlesworth was bitter about King overpowering the narrative of the movement, and that he never badmouthed King to her.
"He had a huge ego ... but he never said anything like, 'Oh, I should've been the leader of the movement,'" she said. "He kind of recognized that he couldn't have done what King did. But he was just such a key ingredient that it couldn't have happened without him, either."
Quoting from his book, "My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South," former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines, a Birmingham native, said at Sunday's panel: "King's name would've never touched immortality had it not been for Birmingham."
In his 1963 book "Why We Can't Wait," King himself called Shuttlesworth "one of the nation's most courageous freedom fighters."
After Shuttlesworth's death on Oct. 5 ? the same week the Rev. Joseph Lowery turned 89 and the Rev. Jesse Jackson turned 70 ? Alabama lowered its state flags to half-mast.
"I really do feel like he has sort of gotten his due more and more over the last number of years," McWhorter said. "Partly because he's outlasted everybody, with distinction and class."
Young agreed that Shuttlesworth ultimately received his due, and is recognized as one of the true heroes of the movement. Besides, he pointed out, attention is no substitute for longevity.
"Yes, Martin overshadowed him," Young said of Shuttlesworth. "But he got to live to 89. Martin didn't make it to 40."
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Monday, October 24, 2011
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Why ghosts get 'spooked' by HD cameras
"Paranormal Activity 3," the latest in a series of successful low-budget horror films about amateur ghost hunters, opens on Friday. The first film, released in 2007, was a surprise indie hit around the world.
The films are shot in a "found footage" style, in which the audience is treated to footage supposedly taken in real life from home videos and security cameras. This technique, often involving handheld cameras and actors talking to the camera operator, has been around for years but was widely popularized in the 1999 film "The Blair Witch Project."
The grainy, low-budget look of the films is no accident; it was done partly because the films actually are low-budget, and partly for added "realism." The fact that the low-quality picture skips and jitters adds to the suspense, and Horror Filmmaking 101 teaches that a dark, partly obscured monster is much scarier than one that's seen clearly in bright light.
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It's been an effective technique in the first two films, scaring up hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. And it's also true in real-life ghost hunting: Virtually all of the "evidence" for ghosts appears in the form of brief, ambiguous anomalies recorded with low-quality cameras (or good-quality cameras sabotaged by low-light conditions).
People have long reported weird, ghostly and paranormal activity, but perhaps the biggest mystery is why the evidence ? especially the photographic evidence ? hasn't improved. Are ghosts afraid of high-definition cameras?
The idea that amateur ghost hunters wandering in the dark with crummy video cameras are going to uncover genuine evidence of a spirit realm unknown to science seems absurd. Nonetheless, the SyFy show "Ghost Hunters" has been wildly popular for years ? it was recently picked up for an eighth season ? despite the fact that the team has never found scientific evidence for ghosts.
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The show is, of course, entertainment television instead of real investigation, but what about the hundreds of amateur ghost-hunting groups around the world inspired by the show?
If ghosts exist, you would expect the photographic and video evidence for them should improve dramatically as more and more people look for them with better and better equipment.
There are more people actively trying to document paranormal activity than ever. And, thanks to smartphones, at no time in history have so many people had high-quality cameras on hand virtually all the time.
Today there's no excuse for anyone to capture grainy photos or video images of anything, whether it's your aunt in a horrid floral hat, Bigfoot in the woods, or paranormal activity in your hallway. And yet that is so often the quality of the footage that makes the rounds on the internet. [ Mythical Creatures: Beasts That Don't Really Exist (or Do They?) ]
Last weekend, Apple sold 4 million iPhone 4S units, each of them equipped with a built-in high definition 1080p camera featuring state-of-the-art optics, image stabilization, automatic lighting adjustment and other features that rival cameras used by Hollywood videographers only a few years ago. Perhaps one of those iPhone users will finally record some clear evidence of ghosts.
High definition provides more image information, which helps identify things often mistaken for ghosts, such as random shadows, unnoticed reflections and video artifacts. With those ghost impostors more easily dismissed, any real ghostly images should be sharper and clearer than ever before.
The age of amateurs posting questionable video evidence of the paranormal should be coming to an end. Professional ghost hunters, however, might well continue using cameras that produce low-quality images. After all, that's where the ghosts appear.
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Burden of osteoporotic fractures increases dramatically in the Middle East and Africa
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2011) ? A new audit report issued October 22 by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) shows that osteoporosis is a serious and growing problem throughout the Middle East and parts of Africa.
Gathering data from 17 countries in the Middle East and Africa as well as Turkey, 'The Middle East & Africa Regional Audit' is a landmark report examining epidemiology, costs and burden in individual countries as well as collectively across the region. The report was introduced at the close of the 1st Middle East and Africa Osteoporosis Meeting in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai.
A major increase in fractures is predicted for the region as a whole. In the Middle East, a predicted demographic explosion in the number of people over the age of 50 will take place in the coming decades. By 2020 it is expected that 25% of the population will be over the age of 50 and by 2050 this will rise to 40%. In Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, this means that the number of hip fractures is projected to quadruple by 2050.
An alarming finding from the report shows that solid epidemiological research on osteoporosis and fracture incidence, and related relevant outcomes, is scarce at best. The Lead Author of the report, Professor Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, Director of the Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, and WHO Collaborating Center for Metabolic Bone Disorders, at the American University of Beirut, commented, "This report reveals that a great research gap needs to be filled. Published data on incidence rates for hip fractures are only available for Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco and Turkey. Furthermore, access to densitometry and care was limited in many countries, and reimbursement for diagnostics and therapeutics varied widely." One of the primary recommendations of this report is the need for more research to gather the necessary evidence that would aid health authorities to develop comprehensive healthcare policies at all levels.
Due to economic development, non-communicable diseases have become the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the region yet osteoporosis has been identified as a national health priority in only three countries in this report and national osteoporosis treatment guidelines are available in only five countries. As well DXA technology, considered the gold standard for measurement of bone mineral density, is not widely available or available only in urban centres in many cases. Furthermore, the level of awareness of osteoporosis among primary healthcare professionals is estimated as poor to medium in many countries. Education and lifestyle prevention programmes for the general public, measures which could help stem the rising tide of fractures in the coming decades, are also seriously lacking.
Widespread vitamin D deficiency and low calcium intake may be in part responsible for the alarming increase in osteoporosis. The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D is one of the highest in the world, and has been estimated to range between 50-90% in many countries and across all age groups, despite ample sunshine in the region. Dr. med Gemma Adib, first author of the report and General Secretary of the Pan Arab Osteoporosis Society, stated "Vitamin D is an essential component of bone health and a relatively inexpensive way to decrease fracture risk. It is essential that the region develops vitamin D supplementation strategies based on local data for at-risk groups."
For the individual, fragility fractures result in great suffering, disability as well as loss of productivity and quality of life. Fractures also represent an enormous burden for healthcare systems. Older people who suffer hip fractures are often faced with long-term disability that results in loss of independence and higher risk of death. Mortality rates after hip fracture may be higher in the Middle East and Africa than those reported from Western populations. While such rates vary between 25-35% in Western populations, preliminary studies have shown that these rates may be as high as to 2-2.5 fold higher in certain populations within this region.
IOF President Professor John A. Kanis spoke at the launch of the Audit and commented, "Despite the severity of the problem, osteoporosis is being dangerously ignored as it competes with other diseases for scarce healthcare resources and recognition. Notwithstanding the burden of fragility fractures, osteoporosis remains greatly under diagnosed and under treated, and both health professional training and public awareness is sub optimal in most countries in the region. The result is premature death for many hip fracture sufferers, immense personal suffering, lost productivity and long-term dependence on family members."
The International Osteoporosis Foundation joins local osteoporosis societies throughout the region to urge immediate government action to help prevent the rising tide of fractures and their profound socio-economic impact on millions of people and communities throughout the Middle-East and Africa.
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Newly discovered reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes
ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) ? Waters polluted by the ordure of pigs, poultry, or cattle represent a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes, both known and potentially novel. These resistance genes can be spread among different bacterial species by bacteriophage, bacteria-infecting viruses, according to a paper in the October Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
"We found great quantities of bacteriophages carrying different antibiotic resistance genes in waters with fecal pollution from pigs, cattle, and poultry," says Maite Muniesa of the University of Barcelona, Spain, an author on the study. "We demonstrated that the genes carried by the phages were able to generate resistance to a given antibiotic when introduced into other bacteria in laboratory conditions," says Muniesa.
Although we often think of antibiotic resistance genes as evolving into existence in response to the antibiotics that doctors use to fight human disease and that agribusiness uses to fatten farm animals, microbes had undoubtedly been using both antibiotics and resistance genes to compete with each other for millions of years before antibiotics revolutionized human medicine and resistance genes threatened their efficacy to the point where the World Health Organization considers them to be one of the biggest risks to human health.
Thus, the Spanish researchers suspect, based on their study, that these resistance gene reservoirs are the product of microbial competition, rather than pressure from human use of antibiotics. They note that the pasture-fed cattle in their study are not fed antibiotics, and they suggest that even if antibiotic feed additives were banned, new resistance genes might emerge while old ones spread from these reservoirs into bacteria that infect humans.
And if resistance genes are being mobilized from these reservoirs, it becomes important to understand how the resistance genes are transmitted from phage to new bacterial species, in order to develop strategies that could hinder this transmission, limiting the emergence of new resistance genes, says Muniesa.
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