Software QA Engineer (SQA testing, Automated and Black box)(#108108)

<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Position</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">: Software QA Engineer<BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Location</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">: Austin, TX<BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Duration</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">: Full time<BR> <BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Job Description</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:<BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer with experience in testing software in Windows environments. The software quality engineer will be a member of our data analysis software engineering team working on challenging problems in the semiconductor production domain. The product environment includes mathematical data analysis algorithms, graphical data representation and user interfaces, database storage and management, real-time data processing and programming interfaces. Key attributes of the successful candidate are being a self-starter, problem solver, collaborative team player, and high productivity contributor</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.  <BR> <BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Responsibilities include</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:<BR> 1)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Write test plans and test cases for data analysis software product, including windows applications, database servers and APIs<BR> 2) Verify compliance with software requirements and general product usability<BR> 3) Automated and manual test execution using standard SQA practices.<BR> 4) Manage result verification activities by special contributors, such as scientists or other experts.<BR> 5) Verification of fixed defects.<BR> 6) Mentor other SQA engineers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR> <BR> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Education and/or experience desired</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:<BR> 1)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other technical field.<BR> 2) 2+ years of professional experience in SQA testing.<BR> 3) Intimate understanding of software quality assurance processes, including writing of test plans and use of defect tracking systems.<BR> 4) Experience with Windows operating systems, experience with Linux a plus.<BR> 5) Strong skills in scripting languages, such as Visual Basic or Perl.<BR> 6) Experience with automated test tools.<BR> 7) Experience with Microsoft .Net platform, Visual Studio development tools and C# or C++ programming languages preferred.<BR> 8) Knowledge of software development lifecycle and build/release of commercial software.<BR> 9) Experience in semiconductor industry a plus.<BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Basic Qualifications</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:<BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other technical field with 2+ years of professional experience in SQA testing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR> <BR> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kindly send your resumes to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><BR> <BR> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>

Software QA Engineer (SQA testing, Automated and Black box)(#108108)

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Things I Love: Oregon Chai Slightly Sweet

Chai tea is my absolute favorite morning beverage.  Heck, I don't need mornings to drink this deliciousness.  <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbMmhL9dEeYAFW8NqHa3dkbGGgk9ij4BP4CfELmWR9l23gKES1-0qtkXtJYhVRDSLV6_w122POyPamRXxUGrXKuRMoL2MMyQcVxtgGnKE2jwV4cr6pVHg5iQcv9CI-xuUQCzbkJqkhbQ/s1600/007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbMmhL9dEeYAFW8NqHa3dkbGGgk9ij4BP4CfELmWR9l23gKES1-0qtkXtJYhVRDSLV6_w122POyPamRXxUGrXKuRMoL2MMyQcVxtgGnKE2jwV4cr6pVHg5iQcv9CI-xuUQCzbkJqkhbQ/s400/007.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />I'm always on the search for a lighter chai.  I used to be in love with the chai at Starbucks (made by Tazo), but a grande size made with skim milk is 6 PointsPlus too many for me.  And truth be told, I really prefer to get the venti so it will last.  But 7 PointsPlus is a large chunk of change to be dishing out for just a drink!<br /><br />I've also made chai via a <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-goals-and-chai-tea-recipe.html" target="_blank">recipe</a> from Eat What You Love, and it's not a terrible one.  It's actually pictured above and that nice size cup yields 3 PointsPlus (despite what the previous blog post said).  Still, I was ready to give something else a try.  <br /><br />So this weekend I made Crock Pot chai from the <a href="http://www.mileskimball.com/MilesKimball/Shopping/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=BC00360353" target="_blank">Crock Pot Diet Cookbook</a>.  You basically take several black tea bags, 8ish cups of water, fresh ginger, cinnamon, cardamom and ground cloves along with 3/4 cup of sugar and heat that on high for 2.5 hours.  It's not bad, and I'm sure I can get used to drinking it.  My only complaint with this version is that the spices don't strain out very well in a strainer (I'm using a powdered sugar sifter).  I'm not sure they are supposed to, but you end up with a ton of spice sediment in the bottom of your cup.  I don't think anyone wants to digest about 2 Tbsp worth of wet spices.  I never figured out the PointsPlus value of this one.<br /><br />THEN, this weekend as I was strolling through Tar-jay, I came across this little lady:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHDde69FCaKYksyLkAHFd1R2orjCjL3El4I8MRyVOKPgVuJX38D5SEAw3GgyHKv2xwDQ3TNgjIXnkf-9F8_miCFvzxclIg-D31Mlge2Y84BxlilGeEmXll5LAS1QsP23QuwmGdS6DPNA/s1600/oregon+chai+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHDde69FCaKYksyLkAHFd1R2orjCjL3El4I8MRyVOKPgVuJX38D5SEAw3GgyHKv2xwDQ3TNgjIXnkf-9F8_miCFvzxclIg-D31Mlge2Y84BxlilGeEmXll5LAS1QsP23QuwmGdS6DPNA/s400/oregon+chai+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Oregon Chai comes in many <a href="http://www.oregonchai.com/products/default.aspx" target="_blank">varieties</a>, including a <a href="http://shop.oregonchai.com/SugarFree-Original-Chai-Tea-Latte-Concentrate/p/ORG-12032" target="_blank">sugar free version</a> made with Splenda.  But, if you're like me, Splenda does a number on my stomach.  But <a href="http://shop.oregonchai.com/Slightly-Sweet-Original-Chai-Tea-Latte-Concentrate/p/ORG-13032" target="_blank">slightly sweet</a>?  I'll take it!  As the awesome people at Oregon Chai state in the product description, it's like Light Chai.  The stats are impressive:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSPGmcC196R-phCQfGvKQ2uxMRfu8RDL6INUYKAJOtaeHRGK7PIZGu00dpcuCTwVSBWOC29_CWcnbNtZHb3KPlI8DK4MCypgliBcAkjaweUHLEv_UeNdg3oD6vU5jDG0ld6ytuu0XUfw/s1600/oregon+chai+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSPGmcC196R-phCQfGvKQ2uxMRfu8RDL6INUYKAJOtaeHRGK7PIZGu00dpcuCTwVSBWOC29_CWcnbNtZHb3KPlI8DK4MCypgliBcAkjaweUHLEv_UeNdg3oD6vU5jDG0ld6ytuu0XUfw/s400/oregon+chai+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Understand that you must add equal parts milk and chai when making it.  So, the chai mix itself for half a cup is 1 PointsPlus.  However, to get a grande size, I used 1 cup of chai concentrate and 1 cup of skim milk for a total of 4 PointsPlus.  I can do 4 PointsPlus for a chai.... 6 is pushing it 'bucks!<br /><br /><b style="color: #351c75;">Do you have a favorite coffee/tea beverage? </b><br /><br />If you're interested in trying the Crock Pot recipe, I'd be happy to share it.. just let me know!<br /><br />

Oregon Chai Oregon Chai Slightly Sweet Things I Love Things I Love: Oregon Chai Slightly Sweet

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BLOWING OUT SOMEONE ELSE'S CANDLE TO MAKE YOUR'S SEEM BRIGHTER

<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhT4OnqAJ9B6HMk-o4UJk_TKLxnIKOzbdDbAzmZUZNQWMcag6tMXExsI-h8lJkEqjvlVW8ORN4dI8LtUMZ85YIwR1jW5igqciuTwNaE2_WTv3bR2H2xN2aaZ1T744cpqblVzrlY1caQ6tj/s1600/Candle+Blowing.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhT4OnqAJ9B6HMk-o4UJk_TKLxnIKOzbdDbAzmZUZNQWMcag6tMXExsI-h8lJkEqjvlVW8ORN4dI8LtUMZ85YIwR1jW5igqciuTwNaE2_WTv3bR2H2xN2aaZ1T744cpqblVzrlY1caQ6tj/s320/Candle+Blowing.png" width="320" /></a><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"> <o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></span></v:shapetype><v:shape alt="Funny Birthday Ecard: Blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours any brighter! Never waste your energy hating on someone else." id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 220.5pt; margin-left: 157.5pt; margin-top: 48.8pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 315pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-103 0 -103 21453 21600 21453 21600 0 -103 0"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <v:imagedata o:title=" Blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours any brighter! Never waste your energy hating on someone else" src="file:///C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png"> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></v:imagedata></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other people’s criticism, or judgment of what is wrong or bad about somebody or something, is merely a reflection of their need to control and dictate rules, guidelines, and boundaries. They are enforcing apon other's the principles by which they use to feel better about themselves. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their criticism is also a reflection of what makes them feel insecure. Otherwise they wouldn’t take the time and effort to impose their opinion with the intent to put other’s down.  It is this type of controlling person that attracts chaos, and expresses criticism that constantly wreaks havoc, attracts conflict, and draws attention towards to their need for attention and control.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwGRzRvscQ6uQOZ5h7n0mcgRxvDzLHxbeorx3E7EKb5UuBPEJJiGmbi_vytwBNFcmJ5EMGvDS5xJHYukcpPxGb8baBeoSpv5RR2EXsGoSdOM8wYjR9qgWZ5opANsWa1Z_33T8wkbnG0eEo/s1600/DRAMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwGRzRvscQ6uQOZ5h7n0mcgRxvDzLHxbeorx3E7EKb5UuBPEJJiGmbi_vytwBNFcmJ5EMGvDS5xJHYukcpPxGb8baBeoSpv5RR2EXsGoSdOM8wYjR9qgWZ5opANsWa1Z_33T8wkbnG0eEo/s320/DRAMA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Could it be that their bias is what they think gives them value, that they like the control they feel when people submit to their judgments, or that criticizing others puts them higher-up in a pecking order? Is their offensive attack to protect and control something they don’t want to lose? Even if what you do has no bearing on what they do, if (in their mind) it conflicts or competes with their bias, they’ll feel the impulse to protect their ego, and justify an offensive attack - thus, blowing out someone else’s candle to make theirs brighter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I understand this reaction. This is the premise for why we war, why there’s prejudice, why we feel justified in hurting others, why ideals judge, hate, and fight to seek value above other ideals. This is why people who have low self-esteem feel the need to put others down in order to pump them-selves up. As if putting someone else down really improves self-esteem!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If a person was confident in themselves and what they do, would they:</span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Start rumors, lie, and put effort into seeking allies that construe faults conflict and controversy?</span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spend more time trying to discredit the work of others, than they do crediting their own work?</span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Need to justify or defend their beliefs or actions? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their energy and motive is no longer in the integrity of the work they do, but instead to the corruption of their shallow ego to offend the work of other’s.  </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If they were secure in their view, would they feel the urge to attack other people’s belief?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How many of you have been overly criticized by someone you love and want approval from?  Is their disapproval the truth of who you are or is it merely a reflection of the ideology they think you should adhere to? Is their criticism a way to control you, to put you beneath them, and a way for them to feed their ego? One of the most common reasons people emotionally eat is out of insecurity, or to compensate </span><v:shape alt="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/542321_391698880871415_100000939200797_1019599_1604640405_n.jpg" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391698880871415&set=a.187609904613648.35308.100000939200797&type=1" id="Picture_x0020_7" o:button="t" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 201.75pt; margin-left: 172.5pt; margin-top: 44.25pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 288.9pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-112 0 -112 21520 21645 21520 21645 0 -112 0"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <v:imagedata o:title="542321_391698880871415_100000939200797_1019599_1604640405_n" src="file:///C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"> <w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></v:imagedata></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: Calibri;">for lack of approval. Eating is a form of self-approval and an easy means to feel secure when insecurity ensues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But what if you are that critic? Is it your entitled right to force others to remove your insecurity? Instead of forcing other’s to fulfill you are you forcing your insecurity on your body? Do you criticize yourself and enforce diet restrictions to control your feelings of insecurity? Is it your body’s job to make you feel better about yourself?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Consider your internal battles and question if you are the critic, if you are your own opponent, and if you are a martyr to your own abuse. Is the battle you have with other’s really a battle within yourself? If you are secure in yourself, secure in what is authentic and what makes you independently valuable, is there really a threat? Is there a need to put others or yourself down? No. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Before you criticize yourself and others seek what you are compensating for. Are you defending something that needs no apology or are you taking offense to something because you feel insecure? Question why you feel threatened and why you need something outside of yourself to feel better. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you are blowing out someone else’s candle, it really doesn’t make yours burn brighter, but in fact, it just makes your surroundings darker. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSebgbQHGAZIVuQ55syvjX-5xBfiLQuQo2h7WBMdhCBptFyfzq6sjpu0XYx65EdkPk2t2Cz5oNH7bkrhN9j26f18br26KwtdZLZIGKw_YYsUI6YLeKTcA4o5xauN1AzzUY8pesktL2qWA4/s1600/Distorted+Thinking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSebgbQHGAZIVuQ55syvjX-5xBfiLQuQo2h7WBMdhCBptFyfzq6sjpu0XYx65EdkPk2t2Cz5oNH7bkrhN9j26f18br26KwtdZLZIGKw_YYsUI6YLeKTcA4o5xauN1AzzUY8pesktL2qWA4/s640/Distorted+Thinking.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><br />

BLOWING OUT SOMEONE ELSE'S CANDLE TO MAKE YOUR'S SEEM BRIGHTER

Other people’s criticism, or judgment of what is wrong or bad about somebody or something, is merely a reflec...

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party in the front, business in the back

My house is currently a reverse mullet. <div><br /></div><div>All business in the back. The business of huge holes in my deck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCtdt2WCtz1T2M7q33Ka0qvhN_jvJ74N1qhKfL3B6sBd2Q1F8k3mLBsEpAgBCa4eKJ8NsuH3XRFPVhhz60KRb-IkMubaDlfEJaFB6Mwi6sNBfyVJx5JEKIlF-33tTk1RAnqWHE6ytqn3W/s1600/P5166558.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCtdt2WCtz1T2M7q33Ka0qvhN_jvJ74N1qhKfL3B6sBd2Q1F8k3mLBsEpAgBCa4eKJ8NsuH3XRFPVhhz60KRb-IkMubaDlfEJaFB6Mwi6sNBfyVJx5JEKIlF-33tTk1RAnqWHE6ytqn3W/s640/P5166558.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />But its OK, because even if I could step out onto my deck, I'd have no way of walking down the stairs.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTX2BasyQLZwMT94jalg2bE7uDL31gzIW2-82gEKdyu3Rt595Bt91Sq-MPSkJv9qY4u0ibyBVaH4kntZdGr8Yd5cbPfSGvHcd8wZ2CQablbXDcyNaeNy5QrJ0tDw1wb3cecXrQ7q2yCaf/s1600/P5216848.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTX2BasyQLZwMT94jalg2bE7uDL31gzIW2-82gEKdyu3Rt595Bt91Sq-MPSkJv9qY4u0ibyBVaH4kntZdGr8Yd5cbPfSGvHcd8wZ2CQablbXDcyNaeNy5QrJ0tDw1wb3cecXrQ7q2yCaf/s640/P5216848.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />This adds a new level of fun to letting the dog outside, let me tell ya. However, the hubs has been hard at work and hopefully this will all be done by the end of the week.<br /><br />So to counter the chaos in the back of the house, I added some party to my front. You know, to complete the mullet. Thanks to <a href="http://mycraftyhomelife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Linda,</a> for the flower box inspiration.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMXSDFoI5Gf2xkkjUosisuMpSlptbElI1h1Ly8D0-4tF7ycYChOzsOFjd2In3TssNhyphenhyphenYGer1reYK1UhOeuEpuF7l5gx4GL73F54BSnyYaVG2R1kdUWgLpw8CNuFqb_wi-29gyFZNEXh9E/s1600/P5216840.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMXSDFoI5Gf2xkkjUosisuMpSlptbElI1h1Ly8D0-4tF7ycYChOzsOFjd2In3TssNhyphenhyphenYGer1reYK1UhOeuEpuF7l5gx4GL73F54BSnyYaVG2R1kdUWgLpw8CNuFqb_wi-29gyFZNEXh9E/s640/P5216840.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I also have three different colors of paint on my hands and paint chips in my hair. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is going to be one productive week! What do you have planned for this week?</div>

party in the front, business in the back

My house is currently a reverse mullet.  All business in the back. The business of huge holes in my deck. But its OK, because even if I coul...

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Children’s Librarian - Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

<strong>Children’s Librarian</strong> - The <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library</strong></span> is looking for a dynamic, independent, technologically proficient individual for a full-time professional position to re-energize and manage services for children. The Children’s Librarian is responsible for ages birth to 12 and works closely with the Young Adult Librarian to coordinate services. This individual should be enthusiastic and motivated to perform outreach and collaboration in a community setting. The successful candidate will be responsible for collection development, programming, and marketing of services to the public, readers’ advisory, community outreach to schools and agencies and grant writing. In addition to the core activities, this position provides assistance with public computers and the public access catalog, afterschool activities and the summer reading program. Assisting public services staff in the Circulation Department and Informaton Services is also required. Qualifications: requires a Master's Degree in Library Science and preferably a concentration in children’s services. One year experience in children’s library services preferred. Requires knowledge of children’s literature, reading interests and the ability to relate to children and adults. This person will have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills as well as understanding of room/behavior management; relevant computer skills in Microsoft Word and knowledge of MS Office software; basic knowledge of Internet and graphic design software, and general knowledge of library automated systems as well as electronic and digital resources. This is a full time 35 hour per week position including some evenings and Saturday rotation. Salary range $39,500 to $41,350. Benefits package. EOE. Please submit cover letter, resume and names/contact information for three references via email to: <a href="mailto:mfiorell@oldlyme.lioninc.org">mfiorell@oldlyme.lioninc.org</a>. Closing date is Friday <span style="color: red;">June 15, 2012</span>.

Children’s Librarian - Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

Children’s Librarian - The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library is looking for a dynamic, independent, technologically proficient indivi...

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Jamaica Mun!

I tried my best to mimic the Jamaican accent through the blog title.... perhaps a fail?<br /><br />Either way, I have some fun news to share with you all today:<br /><br /><div style="color: #351c75; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Joel & I will be getting married June 9, 2012 in Montego Bay, Jamaica!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's right!  In just a few short weeks, we will be touching down in paradise....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciBk2k-UY2IFyOQfQKfH7YPR43x7K7pANJTl04anwcLHu2mGX63BKlXwdZZp4mYCZmc_XQOnvTgWgwmX2mwKRolj8xbiMl8mzMo1SaK-CJ7k6p2BnxSxDYSTtOzXD1Dmkf29QLNdjv7Q/s1600/sandals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciBk2k-UY2IFyOQfQKfH7YPR43x7K7pANJTl04anwcLHu2mGX63BKlXwdZZp4mYCZmc_XQOnvTgWgwmX2mwKRolj8xbiMl8mzMo1SaK-CJ7k6p2BnxSxDYSTtOzXD1Dmkf29QLNdjv7Q/s400/sandals.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We chose Sandals Montego Bay to host our intimate wedding ceremony.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6IWxg_IPIxLhjVs-5HbDbY7N8po4FHWiPWaqenvta224n8pIWGCTKD2xBLLMvXCfgedNtamSDWzbwdoJxaPFXdAD-5DoyxXm36j3F2D8jX9h9iR-Cn5_K6dtLJkcrTZ2dYEIMA9cmxs4/s1600/sandals+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6IWxg_IPIxLhjVs-5HbDbY7N8po4FHWiPWaqenvta224n8pIWGCTKD2xBLLMvXCfgedNtamSDWzbwdoJxaPFXdAD-5DoyxXm36j3F2D8jX9h9iR-Cn5_K6dtLJkcrTZ2dYEIMA9cmxs4/s400/sandals+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm pretty sure this is going to be a trip of a lifetime!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHRlYu66193vGk1YUIKvARf5E13jdzlla-xSctbY5C-SBxYsCnW4btaBHbapfC3TbeZOm2bx4-6uShfH3F9xN0BObL5HYJGBeLUu6jl8tvCRO07Il4nVGfFMRlV8a45UNw9jJ4_JmIJw/s1600/sandals+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHRlYu66193vGk1YUIKvARf5E13jdzlla-xSctbY5C-SBxYsCnW4btaBHbapfC3TbeZOm2bx4-6uShfH3F9xN0BObL5HYJGBeLUu6jl8tvCRO07Il4nVGfFMRlV8a45UNw9jJ4_JmIJw/s400/sandals+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03kGWsI0h7zihGXVM3zw1f0uuxb7H8TT3r39wIn6-bw-faS7AbRuEVaOhYz3H5o-O4LjnBsUPFZw9_SuyVAVfW7BVGqR6biLYxjuDCtt6OI5dUbM7QLHTYloxMyUnCGh8olnyjcWb4oo/s1600/sandals+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03kGWsI0h7zihGXVM3zw1f0uuxb7H8TT3r39wIn6-bw-faS7AbRuEVaOhYz3H5o-O4LjnBsUPFZw9_SuyVAVfW7BVGqR6biLYxjuDCtt6OI5dUbM7QLHTYloxMyUnCGh8olnyjcWb4oo/s400/sandals+4.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGfXwN8IxI-SvtVHZ84U2ntEbn2h4Dsbh9G2FdchvSZLMT3MEJ2TxF6sIyWikPbxhZ1_r_29YrsmpuQyDFACpoYiZQE_6NqEM8zTA2OFgY5P62aA_VA6LzRClLwzhoBiPumO2HuIBZqo/s1600/sandals+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGfXwN8IxI-SvtVHZ84U2ntEbn2h4Dsbh9G2FdchvSZLMT3MEJ2TxF6sIyWikPbxhZ1_r_29YrsmpuQyDFACpoYiZQE_6NqEM8zTA2OFgY5P62aA_VA6LzRClLwzhoBiPumO2HuIBZqo/s400/sandals+5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cannot wait to lounge here with a book!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">(all pictures courtesy of sandals.com) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We both love the beach and couldn't think of a better place to get married.  While Joel and I did have a hiccup in our relationship back in February (for the new readers), we have worked through our differences over the past several months and continue to honor each other every day through our commitment to one another and to God.  We love each other, and that time apart taught us a great deal.  We chose to do an intimate destination ceremony because neither of us enjoyed the stress of planning a traditional wedding.  Planning our Sandals trip has been so incredibly easy.  We're doing it just for us, and that's all that matters.  This is <i>our </i>wedding.  Not our parent's.  Not our family's.  Not our friend's.  That has been a very tough pill to swallow for some, but we want what <i>we </i>want and we know <i>this </i>is it!              </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will, of course, wear a traditional wedding dress.  Joel will wear  a cream colored suit with a purple shirt - as keeping with the theme of our original decor for the "first" wedding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I went dress shopping a few months ago with two of my closest friends in the DC area, Racheal and Meghan.  I couldn't have done it without them.  What surprised me most about wedding dress shopping was that I actually enjoyed it :).  Below are some of the dresses I tried on... and THEE dress is pictured.. you'll just have to guess which one it is :).  I went to <a href="http://www.davidsbridal.com/" target="_blank">David's Bridal</a> and <a href="http://www.curvygirlsbridal.com/" target="_blank">Curvy Girls</a> Bridal.  I have to say, my experience at <a href="http://www.curvygirlsbridal.com/" target="_blank">Curvy Girls</a> was nothing short of a <a href="http://kleinfeldbridal.com/" target="_blank">Kleinfeld's</a> <a href="http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/say-yes-to-the-dress" target="_blank">experience</a>.  They really know how to make a bride <i>feel </i>like a bride!  The facility was clean, fancy and luxurious.  I loved it and am so glad I went!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was going for a dress that had a vintage feel that wasn't form fitting, but yet wasn't a ball gown either.  I also didn't want satin, but knew I wanted ivory, even though some of the dresses I tried on were in white.  Despite what my intentions were, I came home with a dress that shocked even me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIMkLUC6x1Qt4_X6SNPhHlDK9KgB9zPWGdLFh9-PV2OCw5MgXCJX56PLDe1VCWtsmAdOX9OAbWODQj1PgGT8wRAWuEU1Gh5E01V2NCFDCheKW6wC5vSVcD1qf54IjN45qjRhjC1yy-NM/s1600/wedding+dress+1+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIMkLUC6x1Qt4_X6SNPhHlDK9KgB9zPWGdLFh9-PV2OCw5MgXCJX56PLDe1VCWtsmAdOX9OAbWODQj1PgGT8wRAWuEU1Gh5E01V2NCFDCheKW6wC5vSVcD1qf54IjN45qjRhjC1yy-NM/s400/wedding+dress+1+copy.jpg" width="203" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 1</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dress 1 had very pretty detail on the back and chest area.  It definitely offered the vintage look up top!  I also thought it was a flattering cut.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXE947mraZEDYj2kQaAzp09NOVI0am7IAo2fowsE-o-uyZiCwNcl1QqTMLt29R9EkUJNJ_RyKkWU-nOBxQz6pKFB-Lwh8P8KElIAqSzM6hh8y8Oi498syyz88w4hx19ZfnyqVlUDzCbXE/s1600/wedding+dress+2+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXE947mraZEDYj2kQaAzp09NOVI0am7IAo2fowsE-o-uyZiCwNcl1QqTMLt29R9EkUJNJ_RyKkWU-nOBxQz6pKFB-Lwh8P8KElIAqSzM6hh8y8Oi498syyz88w4hx19ZfnyqVlUDzCbXE/s400/wedding+dress+2+copy.jpg" width="262" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 2</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I thought dress 2 looked great on me as well, accentuating my waist with the wide band of fabric.  It was very flowy and definitely a perfect beach-style wedding dress!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLU0xnoNrviu_2sBF96e9vs2YKlVrmH59Jp16n2w-vIwfiyKc3d_ofqymRgf7ASFkrxWnAEH2_gA-cdGMt_PF4KBMORHrsTyfW9zt3gous9IRlOu_Fabm2cGkB8pCHMWkUgWziZlUn0TY/s1600/wedding+dress+3+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLU0xnoNrviu_2sBF96e9vs2YKlVrmH59Jp16n2w-vIwfiyKc3d_ofqymRgf7ASFkrxWnAEH2_gA-cdGMt_PF4KBMORHrsTyfW9zt3gous9IRlOu_Fabm2cGkB8pCHMWkUgWziZlUn0TY/s400/wedding+dress+3+copy.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 3</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dress 3 is all lace with great beading detail on the chest, back and down near the top of my legs.  I like how it really gave me a waist when it was pulled in tight.  This is definitely a vintage style look!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOubP0VdjjNe62RTZnDCRbrw-h827GLmaD0gFzJGm5EvTsqKhApRdNM51dmBGgunfegqDtf4wjKNo68dxdarLJi4X7y2ALz3KrFV3qHUqJhOJbyX0TdIqxY5MW0OXrvXKkE9FgMU-I3fM/s1600/wedding+dress+4+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOubP0VdjjNe62RTZnDCRbrw-h827GLmaD0gFzJGm5EvTsqKhApRdNM51dmBGgunfegqDtf4wjKNo68dxdarLJi4X7y2ALz3KrFV3qHUqJhOJbyX0TdIqxY5MW0OXrvXKkE9FgMU-I3fM/s400/wedding+dress+4+copy.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 4</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Man, when they put that veil on you, it kind of seals the deal, right?  My legs got a little shaky thinking, "Holy crap I really am getting married!"!  Dress 4 was a typical ballgown with the sweetheart neckline and wide, glitzy belt of jewels around the middle.  The cell phone picture does not do it justice!  The fabric felt amazing as well... silk taffeta I think.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgICL7hsyUJ_Xjc0xgeuMIt4Ql2xZ1XSXkWNlg4_aZQcxM5bcbnkiDPW9mvephamN-45_zQc83j3hOQkey3P2DVHsG3NhqmsC3doAHmRCE0Fj5Q_amvIifgcErYGCIkEBC6gcw515qCxh0/s1600/wedding+dress+5+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgICL7hsyUJ_Xjc0xgeuMIt4Ql2xZ1XSXkWNlg4_aZQcxM5bcbnkiDPW9mvephamN-45_zQc83j3hOQkey3P2DVHsG3NhqmsC3doAHmRCE0Fj5Q_amvIifgcErYGCIkEBC6gcw515qCxh0/s400/wedding+dress+5+copy.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 5</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dress 5 was another cool fabric, though I don't remember the name.  It was shiny and felt sooo nice on!  I liked the ruching/criss-cross detail of the top with the sweetheart neckline and jewel detail near the top of my leg.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy6cGsFITGHTnoH2THa7cQm0qt_FBsHNq8AU6-OYSF-Iut0i0eoGT3zPjj8OAwu7Y9xtH70NwPSpLRhfxEF4p6_6-sQgZgC2Eyl1ve3ZmDvIR8qFhUlNRpjutAkbGU2ccJdTdhoYDSzno/s1600/wedding+dress+7+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy6cGsFITGHTnoH2THa7cQm0qt_FBsHNq8AU6-OYSF-Iut0i0eoGT3zPjj8OAwu7Y9xtH70NwPSpLRhfxEF4p6_6-sQgZgC2Eyl1ve3ZmDvIR8qFhUlNRpjutAkbGU2ccJdTdhoYDSzno/s400/wedding+dress+7+copy.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 6</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dress 6 offered a combination of dresses 4 and 5: traditional ballgown style, sweetheart neckline, ruching/criss-cross top with the detailed jeweled applique.  Again, poor quality picture due to the cell phone.  I hate when they don't allow real pictures!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNflahV20XcHwLzsSv0mirOaUZ9x6VE62qHWXe8z9jO6W1PV16WqYvbVTvfWznXLwj11tTjOR5wKV9HXXPyDQfzjJVXtEyxWuPiAc91zgMRh8dsh7IPjLB60ZtQtzAgeuDDMi7D3xcIU/s1600/wedding+dress+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNflahV20XcHwLzsSv0mirOaUZ9x6VE62qHWXe8z9jO6W1PV16WqYvbVTvfWznXLwj11tTjOR5wKV9HXXPyDQfzjJVXtEyxWuPiAc91zgMRh8dsh7IPjLB60ZtQtzAgeuDDMi7D3xcIU/s400/wedding+dress+8.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dress 7</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And last but not least, dress 7!  I guess you'd call this a drop waist style.  This one, again, offered features of dresses 4 and 5 - ruching on top, sweetheart neckline and beading detail all over the skirt.  I tried this on in white but would order this in ivory!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #351c75; text-align: left;"><b>Any guesses on which one I took home????  Any favorites??  I will be happy to share the answer with you very soon! :)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

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Library Aide, Circulation - Groton Public Library

<strong>Library Aide, Circulation</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Groton Public Library</strong></span>. 16 hours per week - evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. $10.00/hour. High school diploma or equivalent required. Some library experience preferred. Ability to perform basic word processing, use office and library equipment and deal effectively with the public. Must have good oral and written communication skills. Applications are available at the Human Resources Office, Groton Town Hall, 45 Fort Hill Road, Groton, CT 06340 or <a href="http://www.town.groton.ct.us/" target="_blank">www.town.groton.ct.us</a>. Applications must be returned to the Human Resources Office on or before Friday, <span style="color: red;">June 1, 2012</span>. The Town of Groton is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Library Aide, Circulation - Groton Public Library

Library Aide, Circulation - Groton Public Library . 16 hours per week - evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. $10.00/hour. High school diplo...

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Teen Librarian - Avon Free Public Library

<strong>Teen Librarian</strong> - The <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Avon Free Public Library</strong></span> is looking for a dynamic, tech savvy, full-time professional to develop and manage the Teen services department. Avon’s teen services is geared towards ages 12-18 and is in the brand new library's very busy 2000 sq ft Teen Room equipped with study rooms and 21st century technology. This person should be energetic and enthusiastic about Teen Services. Responsibilities include teen programming, book talks, school visits, forming and managing a Teen Advisory Board, community activities, collection development, tech instruction, marketing, and readers' advisory. This person will also be part of the Children’s Services Team. Candidate will be creative, flexible, have knowledge of adolescent growth and development and understand behavior management. This position requires a Master's Degree in Information and Library Science and preferably a concentration in youth services. It includes some evenings and one Saturday a month. Salary starting at $47,730. Applications are being accepted through <span style="color: red;">June 1, 2012</span>. Please send letter of interest, resume and town application to: Human Resources Office, 60 West Main Street, Avon, CT 06001.

Teen Librarian - Avon Free Public Library

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Four competitons for South African teachers and their classes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has come to my notice that there are a few exciting competition available for South African teachers and learners. The first one, a Skype competition is a world wide competition and could include High School classes. More information is available at <a href="http://education.skype.com/">http://education.skype.com</a> The next three seem more suited to the Primary School learner and are advertised on our South African classroom site <a href="http://e-classroom.co.za/">http://e-classroom.co.za/</a>. Why not take a look and get your class to participate?</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Win your class a Skype video call with a celebrity!</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfSqTjQD_Xx3bOa2xatL2ac2DBwpnJv7YGacuNPhlw2VMSkjtcChN72HJJx67fg9Qke1mVS9CNvtoKwmXTzCferNUqp-r7LX2G9-MZGKoCLrEm2pzVyyQZYKPMYjYeaM_ropM0RMRm_x4/s1600-h/image4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim7WgrUv7XjPrZUVrVR8ljM1tuFBKM-ZeAF5TWfJEDQY_YLzib8NPuUVwhG1VOoWJ9kl0fDVntBOPzn9C-iAqkWfE8ojz6hRJMby2-4A1QbPPmVgtuZwPj2ZBFXlhC_CXLiZdvk7ibpvU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b>Calling all teachers!</b></h3><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On June 6th at noon EST, your K-12 class could have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hold a Skype video call with well-known celebrities Steve Harvey, James Patterson, actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse, author Jackie Collins or musician Tinsel Korey through Skype in the classroom’s global Connected Classroom Sweepstakes! Skype in the classroom is thrilled to offer five lucky teachers the opportunity for their students to speak to these celebrities.</span></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b>Starting today, here’s how you can enter on Facebook:</b></h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>‘<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like’ Skype in the classroom’s Facebook page</span></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Sign up for Skype in the classroom (if you are not already a registered member)</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe in 150 words or less the ways they currently use or would use Skype in their classroom</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe in 150 words or less the ways they currently use or would use Skype in their classroom</span></li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b><br />Closing date</b></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Make sure to submit your entry before the sweepstakes ends on Tuesday, May 29th and check your email on Tuesday, May 29th at 2:00 P.M. EST to see if you are a winner!</span><b><br /></b></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b><br />More information</b></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more information on the Connected Classrooms Sweepstakes, please visit <a href="http://education.skype.com/">http://education.skype.com</a> or the Skype in the classroom Facebook page.</span></div><br /><br /><b></b><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Classroom of the future competition – for Grade 6 pupils in South Africa</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpjIdKCgtGK0f2c6E6Q9FgQzJsf0ZdNsEaC5VXbDH6R4si1aliAQe1wHS6PeaIF-TOZxSsOVyaGz8Qo-u5EAZoWDdKJXi6gaFS793sAh7hdQ9CG9H5eMgbgI4_1eOUQwB7eLLSA16JCEw/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJu_6C6R6kc64rAwnXArV1ms98FxqhAjFsV0AMJQBbWLBVVkhy-QLadc_EAS4-9XlFBc-8rRIKJZ51hA-we_dYB0iS34s5oxd5okI5oHX1L50xSQ5pmjCYILCQAdXQE_jt_1h3aIz1i0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b>Closing date</b></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">21st September 2012</span></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b>Prize</b></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prize: A complete classroom makeover consisting of an eBeam interactive board</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">+ projector, + a Mecer laptop for the teacher + new modular desks and chairs for the</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">students. Prize includes training. Find out more: <a href="http://e-classroom.co.za/">http://e-classroom</a></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">3. Cartoon network competition</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfJ0thMqHW7fhLEPJoLI2_ZCrVlmuYpDzn-D_sjrrN8aaLFC0-A4rTzRFw-GYjrSYDO35kfFXtrbRSIZyvEVoBn70d00sWCgxvW4xDkNQ4ydsX5rsCB60pHGRQeLvy4OldAN-ie0-Bo8/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWiyt7CtHN89J8twGw8DXhQ6HPPotTvE8-HIon1Wz4nbGsj4R_SUazzhRkFAsZxQYBrKcpxJdUf6zDp031neF_nu8Rcm-J6uz-91u5XMzXX6wb_kL1QaZjtAupUu3Y6GSh2h6x_Jcrlq0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="255" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2012 Animation Generation post competition focuses on “The Amazing World of Gumball”, the action-packed popular television show about the adventurous cat, Gumball, who has a flair for misadventure. To enter the competition, all learners need to do is draw a NEW character for “The Amazing World of Gumball”, and to incorporate their character into a colourful poster design.There are only two conditions: the learners’ work must be original (so no tracing); and as imaginative and original as possible!. Find out more <a href="http://e-classroom.co.za/">here</a>.   </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4. Collect – a – can competition</b> </span></div><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmP_0fQ1ptW2gs9VVcmys_nD2tHZ6odaumIAo0OzTa3eUdztNYgapxXEsous6ahJ9rFYVLiZ3kGLqRvh5WfbM1QTugE886DL6keA0M4DjslWsoAe6BjfjDCyRGCCMhD9VMpnM2VYuNm0M/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtCkDO4yqMc7tMA4N7VzGFbohnBfLKxbFzZu6PM6zpOiI5_YPLnXTVtDDMOHBFlV8hbZT-ugdUVc9Pzrn4Uy61M6BLJ03OVa4w1CCJt8sUQrJqVhhl0oFXLjEAo0ygNmFas9DAqXm4Fg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="280" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Collect-a-can competition rewards schools for their efforts in collecting cans that can be recycled. To find out more about the competition click <a href="http://e-classroom.co.za/2012-schools-competition/">here</a></span> </div></div>

Competitions Four competitons for South African teachers and their classes

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Over the Rain-Forest and the Still Water Beach

<a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g1015495-Mismaloya_Banderas_Bay_South_Shore_Pacific_Coast.html"><img alt="Mismaloya Photos" src="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/c3/b6/ee/night-of-the-iguana-set.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Abandoned movie set, Mismaloya, Mexico: photo courtesy of TripAdvisor </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The programmers at Turner Classic Movies may not have planned the schedule with me in mind, but they’ve lined up a fine mix of films for me on my birthday this year.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PrzT6K3OHqc6ANHLd_12wZce2Jp6jbsK-oBdNkgCQqlpJ17fXIZkE8GO5g0IMDGDG_bJ2T2K64Ag-UjauXTpo3caFV37-iTRPg9JyxtZit-teuGK5i8TWKRVJqfVjL5XHHVRuEP1oO9K/s1600/Wings+of+Desire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PrzT6K3OHqc6ANHLd_12wZce2Jp6jbsK-oBdNkgCQqlpJ17fXIZkE8GO5g0IMDGDG_bJ2T2K64Ag-UjauXTpo3caFV37-iTRPg9JyxtZit-teuGK5i8TWKRVJqfVjL5XHHVRuEP1oO9K/s320/Wings+of+Desire.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruno Ganz in <i>Wings of Desire</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">I share my day with Sir Laurence Olivier (born May 22, 1907), and TCM has programmed some films of his that I haven’t seen, including <i><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/112933/Term-of-Trial/overview" style="color: blue;">Term of Trial</a> </i>(1962) co-starring the great French actress, Simone Signoret. Later on in the day my beloved San Francisco provides the setting for the 1955 sci-fi classic, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048215/" style="color: blue;"><i>It Came from Beneath the Sea</i></a>, in which the city is attacked by a radiation-enlarged octopus. In the evening, this month's TCM guest programmer, Deborah Winger, is set to appear. Among her choices is one film I haven’t seen but have had on my to-watch list for a long time: <a href="http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/int/html/wenders/" style="color: blue;">Wim Wenders</a>' 1987 classic, <i>Wings of Desire</i> brought its director the Best Director prize at Cannes in 1987 and won or was nominated for a raft of other awards.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Winger has also chosen to spotlight John Huston’s masterful production of Tennessee Williams' <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> (1964), one of the great film adaptations of Williams' work. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><a name='more'></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tennessee Williams had vacationed in Mexico during 1940, and his experiences at the Hotel Costa Verde outside Acapulco later formed the basis for his 1948 short story entitled <i>The Night of the Iguana</i>. Over time, the story evolved into a stage play that debuted on Broadway in 1961 starring Bette Davis in the role of Maxine Faulk, Margaret Leighton as Hannah Jelks and Patrick O’Neal as The Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon. It is Tennessee Williams' final masterpiece.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3si3bvA14jIBYQLeGpild1IM2QV-QSxOOBvWtEX7hmIGZvJ9JDeIwkC5H-mVp3-kJbgB3X214ktC-1vLHG90Wn__wTMC10ZrggZzAni1lK0GvCR7J8SHVtB8qhhIT4EnIABixVwEkTPU/s1600/leighton+williams+oneal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3si3bvA14jIBYQLeGpild1IM2QV-QSxOOBvWtEX7hmIGZvJ9JDeIwkC5H-mVp3-kJbgB3X214ktC-1vLHG90Wn__wTMC10ZrggZzAni1lK0GvCR7J8SHVtB8qhhIT4EnIABixVwEkTPU/s320/leighton+williams+oneal.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margaret Leighton, Tennessee Williams and Patrick O'Neal</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reverend Shannon is an alcoholic Episcopal priest locked out of his church for stirring up scandal and reduced to working as a guide on a bus tour south of the border. A new scandal involving a nubile young woman in his group of mostly biddies has consumed him. As the play begins, Shannon brings his party to the broken down hotel of his friend Maxine and her late husband Fred on the Mexican seacoast. Also staying at the hotel are Hannah Jelks, an itinerant artist, and her elderly grandfather, a 'practicing' poet.  As Shannon wrestles with his demons he forms a bond with Hannah who is also in spiritual crisis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stage production was rocky from the beginning, but it was also acclaimed and successful, running for 316 performances. <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> received Tony nominations for Best Play, Best Producer and Best Actress - for which Margaret Leighton won the award - and was also chosen the best new play of the year by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmLTWc0EjIM4H0paoQk4oeop8x8ULA2zWRotFKzTAE5-BDgncq51Oda1WIg-IWbdOWlI_uG922G65uiN3L2oX45NQYdYBitex_iZbLnemRqhnPvol2ts9VFsMlRCE8g5tVQffpiKcjvAv/s1600/Bette+as+Maxine.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnmLTWc0EjIM4H0paoQk4oeop8x8ULA2zWRotFKzTAE5-BDgncq51Oda1WIg-IWbdOWlI_uG922G65uiN3L2oX45NQYdYBitex_iZbLnemRqhnPvol2ts9VFsMlRCE8g5tVQffpiKcjvAv/s320/Bette+as+Maxine.JPG" width="248" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bette Davis as Maxine Faulk on Broadway</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Legendary writer/director/producer Joshua Logan’s reaction to Bette Davis’ performance was enthusiastic: “She was svelte, handsome, voluptuous, wicked, wise, raffish, slightly vulgar – in fact, she was ideal for the part and gave the play added dimension.” But Davis was deeply unhappy in the production and began regularly missing performances. She left the show in April 1962 and Shelley Winters, who replaced her, quickly understood why Davis and her understudy, Madeleine Sherwood, had both been miserable in the part. It seems co-stars Patrick O’Neal and Margaret Leighton routinely undermined the actresses who played Maxine by using the age-old stage trick of moving slightly for a few seconds to divert the attention of the audience whenever they set up her lines. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIu2XHOjvpDtVyAtIKK0uWEHNafB82AFqrWd9g1thjsl8Ofjkl5QUawUd-EnzpDhflVVwevQcscE7ex0DGXWsc9_4cJOy7r49Wzz362rQPRPgIFX69SDq7yf9SfzfZTjcEVa61apSVcdEm/s1600/burton+and+gardner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIu2XHOjvpDtVyAtIKK0uWEHNafB82AFqrWd9g1thjsl8Ofjkl5QUawUd-EnzpDhflVVwevQcscE7ex0DGXWsc9_4cJOy7r49Wzz362rQPRPgIFX69SDq7yf9SfzfZTjcEVa61apSVcdEm/s320/burton+and+gardner.jpg" width="283" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Burton and Ava Gardner</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The journey of <i>The Night of the Iguana </i>from stage to screen began with a call from producer Ray Stark to writer/director John Huston during the play's Broadway run. Huston, no stranger to adapting great works (<i>The Maltese Falcon</i>, <i>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</i>, <i>Moby Dick</i>, etc.), was interested and the two quickly began working out the details of their collaboration. They agreed on casting: Richard Burton as Shannon, Deborah Kerr as Hannah and Ava Gardner as Maxine. Burton and Kerr signed on immediately but Miss Gardner required some courting. Both Stark and Huston flew to Madrid, where Gardner was then living, and spent days wining and dining her until she agreed to take the part. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Huston and Stark disagreed on one major point, Stark wanted to film in color but Huston preferred black and white for fear that the vibrant colors to be found everywhere on location in Mismaloya, Mexico (azure skies and seas, multi-hued flora and fauna) would distract from the story. Years later, in his memoir, Huston wrote, “Looking back now, I think I was probably wrong.” He was. Color could only have underscored the power of Williams' evocative meditation on the tangle of spiritual and physical yearnings that drive human life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span id="goog_1507063323"></span><span id="goog_1507063324"></span><span id="goog_1507063326"></span><span id="goog_1507063327"></span><span id="goog_1507063328"></span><span id="goog_1507063329"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJ6l1wcotC-RFnac8HK5SjH6eF7OWilYOJCDfaxtVS9ZpJem-J45Meob9kUm5ESmAS9el7k8TUUhusCdrOxDOUxWsNmWgNlLrFdJ3AXGemIGtiONa8gAUZ6KtqIiF5_lL5UR9NLvrd8uV/s1600/huston+and+burton.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJ6l1wcotC-RFnac8HK5SjH6eF7OWilYOJCDfaxtVS9ZpJem-J45Meob9kUm5ESmAS9el7k8TUUhusCdrOxDOUxWsNmWgNlLrFdJ3AXGemIGtiONa8gAUZ6KtqIiF5_lL5UR9NLvrd8uV/s400/huston+and+burton.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Huston and Richard Burton</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">At the time location work began on <i>The Night of the Iguana</i>, Richard Burton had not yet sacrificed his talent for fame and riches. One of the great, classically trained actors to emerge from Britain in the post-war era, Burton’s finest performances were defined by depth and soul and enriched by his majestic voice, piercing blue-green eyes and potent physical presence. As Deborah Kerr observed in a diary she kept during the shoot, Burton was at his peak as an actor at this point and she agreed with Ava Gardner that </span><span style="font-size: small;">"he makes everyone else act well, he is so good himself."</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Burton’s agonized rendering of the Reverend Shannon's dark night of the soul seems, at times, a glimpse into his own conflicted nature. Though he was not Oscar-nominated for this role (it was for his performance in <i>Becket </i>that earned his Best Actor nod in 1964), Burton would be nominated a total of seven times for an Academy Award, winning none, though he was otherwise acknowledged with BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards. When the filming of <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> got under way in October 1963, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were living together but not yet married; their life of paparazzi-infested, glittering excess had just begun. Even so, Huston later wrote, "There were more reporters on the site than iguanas..."</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Q3sjrUOon4TAIHVNuWz8ohm6KrlYQFU22B2pE8_sBwuBl4AYlQS9XoUwRgJwmWMibOYuiqtMPkWtpYk48rdJ06nAEI2qH2R3TU58CAol7lcAypOTXxO4LkxXc68Sc3Qq_hbX6pdJ2eGu/s1600/huston+on+set.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Q3sjrUOon4TAIHVNuWz8ohm6KrlYQFU22B2pE8_sBwuBl4AYlQS9XoUwRgJwmWMibOYuiqtMPkWtpYk48rdJ06nAEI2qH2R3TU58CAol7lcAypOTXxO4LkxXc68Sc3Qq_hbX6pdJ2eGu/s400/huston+on+set.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Huston</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkA3-EcuYb5up0GL5fxefQfxeKwO2K-3gvvdCWYP0LnBK0-df8XGWwM4R708IMnyYI9Yudqqg2dEFKWNzpgPD0g3zL5MakZIzkMkIlBjUpYuIC2XpogRwuvYv6MuRCpiaeg4kU7FwIH6U/s1600/Ava+Gardner+gorgeous+youth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkA3-EcuYb5up0GL5fxefQfxeKwO2K-3gvvdCWYP0LnBK0-df8XGWwM4R708IMnyYI9Yudqqg2dEFKWNzpgPD0g3zL5MakZIzkMkIlBjUpYuIC2XpogRwuvYv6MuRCpiaeg4kU7FwIH6U/s200/Ava+Gardner+gorgeous+youth.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very young Ava Gardner</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Ava Gardner’s Maxine Faulk was a departure from the character as written by Williams and portrayed on the stage. Warmer and softer, Ava’s Maxine personified the “openness and freedom of the sea” Williams had envisioned, but lacked the man-eating qualities of the original. Huston, who felt Williams’ Maxine became far too devouring by the play's end, was responsible for these changes. Ava <span id="goog_1232263459"></span><span id="goog_1232263460"></span>Gardner later recalled that Tennessee was never entirely happy about Huston’s tinkering with the character but she also noted, “…anyone seeing the film knows that John’s choice was the only one that fit.” And Gardner committed herself fully to her role. In an earthy, raucous performance, she allowed herself to appear casual to the point of dishevelment. Clad in a loose serape and toreador pants through much of the film, she had lines penciled in under her eyes and her hair tied back into a loose ponytail to de-emphasize her glorious good looks. During filming, Kerr recorded a comment of Huston's that for Ava it may have been a real disadvantage to be so beautiful, "...it has made her appear publicly as someone she is not, and in her work has made her appear the kind of actress she is not." </span><span style="font-size: small;">For this performance Ava Gardner received the best reviews of her film career. Reflecting in her memoirs she wrote, “I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul. And the director I trusted most of all was John Huston. Working with him gave me the only real joy I’ve ever had in movies.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FAl4nQmnkZnc3CVIV2V2CaJr8pY1CBOkJn-ULhVU6uJVp21KWBch4yYyZmVqZeu9LE1OhlOdWgdM8qYteb_0xF0Wg0ab5qbfQBGEeY4k6_BB9T9qpJxm-kXEtWE72PHlS6z7JCRwmYLn/s1600/ava+and+deborah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FAl4nQmnkZnc3CVIV2V2CaJr8pY1CBOkJn-ULhVU6uJVp21KWBch4yYyZmVqZeu9LE1OhlOdWgdM8qYteb_0xF0Wg0ab5qbfQBGEeY4k6_BB9T9qpJxm-kXEtWE72PHlS6z7JCRwmYLn/s400/ava+and+deborah.jpg" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1232263433"></span><span id="goog_1232263434"></span>Hannah Jelks is an intriguing entry in Deborah Kerr's filmography. Kerr portrayed sensitive ladies of delicacy and reserve to perfection, but Hannah was slightly different, a "Thin-Standing-up-Female-Buddha," in Tennessee Williams' words. Down-on-her-luck, adrift in Mexico and living by her wits and intuition, the spinster has only her remaining dignity, the care of her 97-year-old grandfather and her paintbox to keep her going.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the international press descended on the set, Kerr admitted that she was beginning to "feel more and more like Hannah in this movie." Reporters insisted on quizzing her for 'dirt' on Burton, Taylor and others, and, in her diary, she quoted Hannah's sentiments, "Nothing human disgusts me unless it is unkind or violent." Kerr added, "I do loathe and detest unkindness and violence and gossip and troublemaking and envy and malice."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the day filming of <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> ended in late 1963, Deborah Kerr put down her thoughts in her journal, "It's funny how you get so close to a bunch of people on a movie. It is constant making and breaking of emotional relationships - some of the people you work with and get to know so closely, you may never see again." An interesting reflection, coming on the heels, as it did, of completing a film about the redemptive power of human connection.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was on an evening in 1940 while in Mexico, that Tennessee Williams watched the sun set on a tree of golden lemons. He would later write a poem about it that provided inspiration for the story that became a play and then a film.  The poem was revised slightly and incorporated into <i>The Night of the Iguana</i>.  Here, Cyril <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Delevanti, who portrayed Nonno in the film, recites the verse popularly known as <span style="color: blue;">"</span><a href="http://youtu.be/8eW6v7zoUNk" style="color: blue;">Nonno's Poem</a><span style="color: blue;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> (click title to view). </span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKApfhg3kQ98LKYcU8zOJiNGeHVRjT3eFquEGNCdrj21NYVvaaOmdtlH7IysTagp4X-pYauw8lfrCYQluJGQdxdV_p_AizNls7vRL-I_4O36GVxDkern2wPoKkWdW9h6eSWlcbDAJpKQ0/s1600/hannah+and+nonno+arrive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKApfhg3kQ98LKYcU8zOJiNGeHVRjT3eFquEGNCdrj21NYVvaaOmdtlH7IysTagp4X-pYauw8lfrCYQluJGQdxdV_p_AizNls7vRL-I_4O36GVxDkern2wPoKkWdW9h6eSWlcbDAJpKQ0/s400/hannah+and+nonno+arrive.jpg" width="322" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyril Delevanti and Deborah Kerr</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Huston spent many, many years of his life in Mexico, and was living not far from Mismaloya, in Las Caletas, while working on his autobiography in the late 1970s. Sixteen years had passed since the making of <i>The Night of the Iguana</i> and the location site was now deserted. All that remained were the ruins of the buildings constructed for his film. Huston wrote, "No one - other than an old man who passes there on an occasional trip between Las Caletas and Vallarta - seems to give a damn what happens to the place. He would like to see it torn down and given back to the iguanas. The old man is me of course."</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyarEYIRxOur8BW2E-nPTbAxPkyNQT1uiWq-DIvsnbVc3BHCKJ5rv5X3-bXfnxFv0Winr-_YWp9NtgO45zrUJ31wvtKqIJMVRa7eiYuh_XREEGYLZyK48uWlzHPN5LSXBHJTL833zNb_Q/s1600/huston+living+in+Mexico+1979.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyarEYIRxOur8BW2E-nPTbAxPkyNQT1uiWq-DIvsnbVc3BHCKJ5rv5X3-bXfnxFv0Winr-_YWp9NtgO45zrUJ31wvtKqIJMVRa7eiYuh_XREEGYLZyK48uWlzHPN5LSXBHJTL833zNb_Q/s400/huston+living+in+Mexico+1979.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Huston in Las Caletas, 1979</td></tr></tbody></table><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">...I was at the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Hotel Costa Verde <span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="color: #38761d;">over the rain-forest and the still-water beach</span> </span>which were the off-stage background for </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Night of the Iguana</span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">.</span></i><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">~ Tennessee Williams, </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Memoirs </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><u>Sources</u></b>:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>An Open Book </i>by John Huston, McMillan (1980)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Ava: My Story</i> by Ava Gardner, Bantam (1990)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis</i> by Ed Sikov, Henry Holt (2007)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Deborah Kerr Personal Collection</i>: <a href="http://www.deborahkerr.es/" style="color: #cc0000;">http://www.deborahkerr.es</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>

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ARGENTINA and AFRICA

<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1QmjmuNdQF0EiSofvhxukc8oUu_HkO2_cw5X3cwtQvlqLDjNm15gZ38m8fiDQWgHtv6MxFxhTaa8qPdtWvslOIb7w5Zi1G9qoU3uMoqjbO4u19SQe2VFLPd5fkga4s8bg4ByRRT9tI-3/s1600/africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1QmjmuNdQF0EiSofvhxukc8oUu_HkO2_cw5X3cwtQvlqLDjNm15gZ38m8fiDQWgHtv6MxFxhTaa8qPdtWvslOIb7w5Zi1G9qoU3uMoqjbO4u19SQe2VFLPd5fkga4s8bg4ByRRT9tI-3/s400/africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA IS FORECAST TO EMERGE AS THE FASTEST-GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS.</span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA'S </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> WISE FORESIGHT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i>Spanish version of this article will follow in due course</i> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GEOPOLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS ON ARGENTINE</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">   PRESIDENT'S LATEST STATE VISIT TO ANGOLA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA’S foresight in seeking economic ties with AFRICAN counties such as ANGOLA, SOUTH AFRICA etc. will prove to be priceless in the not too distant future for ARGENTINA, because AFRICA is the “rising continent” that many countries seem to have neglected for various reasons. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SUB SAHARA AFRICA, EMERGING MARKETS OF TOMORROW</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2012, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA is rapidly coming of age as an economic region and as an investment destination. The so-called "frontier" markets of today's AFRICA will be the emerging markets of tomorrow.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Over the next five years, according to the IMF, seven economies in SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA are expected to be among the ten fastest growing economies in the world. In 2011, the economy of GHANA grew by 13.7%, while ETHIOPIA'S grew by 8.5%. Elsewhere, the MOZAMBIQUE economy grew by 7.5%, NIGERIA and ZAMBIA by 6.8%, and the Democratic Republic of CONGO by 6.5%. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA seems to be one of the countries that understand what this means, and the opportunity it presents. ARGENTINA has what AFRICA needs most: Nutritious food supply, agriculture technology and engineering know-how, water and health care, mining industry know-how to name but a few. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA: ENORMOUS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA, just like AUSTRALIA could jump the bandwagon and benefit from the mining boom. There are around 200 AUSTRALIAN mining companies with operations in AFRICA, and they are involved in projects valued in excess of $45 billion. ARGENTINA on the other hand herself experiences a mining boom that will boost its economy, thus ARGENTINA could increase its presence on the continent by providing professional services, education and infrastructure projects.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A perfect example for the emerging market trend in AFRICA is AUSTRALIA. Following Two-way trade between AFRICAN countries and AUSTRALIA is reaching $5 billion a year, and has been on an upward trajectory for several years. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA IS FORECAST TO EMERGE AS THE FASTEST-GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS.</span></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeking economic ties with the continent augurs well for the future, both for AFRICA and ARGENTINA. AFRICA is forecast to emerge as the fastest-growing region in the world over the next 20 years. To realize this growth, it will have to nurture a number of key competitive advantages: the world's richest mineral and energy deposits, the most arable land, and what is predicted to be the </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">youngest population in the world by 2050</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">S current prosperity is largely due to its own resource boom. By mid-century, that boom may well have extended to AFRICA and helped drive a huge wave of supplementary development, raising living and education standards throughout the continent. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to inside sources ARGENTINA is planning to establish liaison offices for international trade in various AFRICAN countries. AFRICA, the continent will be looming large on more than just ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">S investment radar in the coming decades. And if we can keep economies open for multilateral investment, this will present an opportunity for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">DEROGATIVE COMMENT BY RENOWNED ARGENTINE JOURNALIST <span style="color: blue;">JORGE LANATA</span> ON CURRENT STATE VISIT TO ANGOLA BY ARGENTINIAN PRESIDENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In view of above mentioned facts, it seems strange that a renowned ARGENTINE journalist such as JORGE LANATA, criticized the ARGENTINE President, who visited ANGOLA in order to increase economic ties between the countries and generate bilateral business ventures.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">ACCORDING TO LANATA, ARGENTINA SHOULD FOCUS ON ECONOMIC TIES WITH EUROPE AND THE USA RATHER THEN AFRICA!!</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">When allegedly asked by a journalist what he, LANATA thought about ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">S AFRICAN venture he condemned the ARGENTINE government and responded in a derogative way: “This is our future”?, referring to ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">S Economic and Geopolitical focus on AFRICA, instead of EUROPE and the USA!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In view of the current economic growth Africa is experiencing, such comment seems rather inadequate to say the least, or show rather decisive ignorance, lack of objectivity and Geo- and Eco-political know-how. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z0UMb4F8tSE?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">See:  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Angola">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Angola</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.angolaglobal.net/en/news-about-angola/Angola-will-be-fifth-in-the-ranking-of-African-economies/773">http://www.angolaglobal.net/en/news-about-angola/Angola-will-be-fifth-in-the-ranking-of-African-economies/773</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/angola-economy-to-grow-estimated-7-in-2012-as-oil-output-gains.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/angola-economy-to-grow-estimated-7-in-2012-as-oil-output-gains.html</a></span></div>

ARGENTINA and AFRICA

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TURKEY: EVERYONES ENEMY?

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font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} </style><![endif]--> <br /><br /> <div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNL_V5QDkHYob-dKoI0pnc4vbgoBu_WDHdm07nFu3W20KugJIU3lHFaeR013j3awR0pyB8Iz6YAvMVYTrlxeuTkq6UA18xnRVXozTiE4kXaHQK95iZyp-BfgdfZmuB2TjdeJIbia5GfuV/s1600/77454165turkey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNL_V5QDkHYob-dKoI0pnc4vbgoBu_WDHdm07nFu3W20KugJIU3lHFaeR013j3awR0pyB8Iz6YAvMVYTrlxeuTkq6UA18xnRVXozTiE4kXaHQK95iZyp-BfgdfZmuB2TjdeJIbia5GfuV/s400/77454165turkey.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>TURKEYS CURRENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY MAKES ENEMIES WITH EVERYONE</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">By Barry Rubin</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization. The decline of the Ottomans began when, proud of their triumphs over the West, they cut their ties with the European nations. This was a mistake which we will not repeat.” — Kemal Ataturk, 1924</i></span><br /><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Spinning in his grave, indeed, for now his successors not only think they can revive a TURKISH-ruled imperium, but have made the very mistake of turning their backs on the West, which the republic’s founder rightly saw as the downfall of that earlier incarnation of his country. I’d change Ataturk’s wording slightly: the Ottomans turned their backs on the modern world then being developed in the West while still forming alliances with EUROPEAN powers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Once upon a time there was a country named TURKEY whose republic was created by Kemal Ataturk, who famously said: “Peace at home; peace abroad.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He and the TURKISH people had seen their Ottoman Empire collapse after failing to modernize, engaging in chauvinistic nationalism (under the Young Turks), and entering an unnecessary war that led to 20 percent of its population dead and the country prostrate.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And so Ataturk and his colleagues saved the country based on two basic principles: at home, joining Western civilization through modernization and secularization; abroad, avoiding foreign ambitions and conflicts. Whatever their faults, they did a remarkable job. TURKEY made steady progress far in excess of what happened in IRAN or the ARABIC-speaking world.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But then came the regime of the Justice and Development Party. Pretending to be moderate and democratic, it was actually a radical Islamist party seeking to — if I may coin a phrase — fundamentally transform TURKEY. This regime was not moderate but merely patient in achieving its radical goals.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4O2J0JuzzLqbvsEPVPRGBpT-O8H8brs6OuSlP67Vp7wMtRK2QaBN0Au5K54sJ3r1y1XqY5sqZoNNvmNyflFeOvH7xNOoJgiQw8zrXOlzIzlEvhjh2rcI6PS6o-kx1LqA1CfL4UBy_R2a1/s1600/110711a3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4O2J0JuzzLqbvsEPVPRGBpT-O8H8brs6OuSlP67Vp7wMtRK2QaBN0Au5K54sJ3r1y1XqY5sqZoNNvmNyflFeOvH7xNOoJgiQw8zrXOlzIzlEvhjh2rcI6PS6o-kx1LqA1CfL4UBy_R2a1/s400/110711a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It insisted that under its rule TURKEY would be everyone’s friend and no one’s enemy. And President Barack Obama thought this would be a great model for the MIDDLE EAST. In fact, though, the regime didn’t see everyone as an equal friend. It preferred the company of IRAN, SYRIA, Hamas, and Hizballah.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Soon, as events developed in the region, the veneer of modesty boiled away and the aggressive ambition was revealed. And that ambition was expressed most clearly by the devious Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to parliament in late April: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We will manage the wave of change in the MIDDLE EAST. Just as the ideal we have in our minds about TURKEY, we have an ideal of a new MIDDLE EAST. We will be the leader and the spokesperson of a new peaceful order, no matter what they say.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wow. Off with the “everyone’s buddy” image and out comes the raving would-be dictator over the MIDDLE EAST. But the problem is that there are these people called “ARABS” who don’t want to be bossed around by a TURK, even if they both are Sunni Muslims. In addition, those ARABS have their own ambitions. So when they hear stuff like this they become even more angry and suspicious.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“No matter what they say,” intones Davutoğlu, a man who has gone even further in addressing his party’s convention in a closed meeting, where he said that somebody ought to run the MIDDLE EAST so why not him and his colleagues. </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since his speech was reported in a U.S. embassy message, it was available to the White House. Yet it has been Obama’s naiveté about TURKEY that has even further puffed up the arrogance of such people.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sounding like another man who wanted to become the dictator of the MIDDLE EAST — EGYPTIAN President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who once said that those who didn’t like him running things could “go drink the Nile” — Davutoğlu says:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’d like to advise those who are criticizing TURKEY: Go to Cairo. Go to Tripoli. Go to the streets of Beirut, Tunisia, Jerusalem, and ask about TURKEY’S policy on SYRIA. They will hug you and express their appreciation for TURKEY’S honorable policy.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yes, this regime has supported the overthrow of its former close ally in SYRIA in order to install an Islamist regime friendly to Ankara. <b style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">It has even </span>obtained full support from Obama for creating an anti-American government in Damascus.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnubPIBZXqol_DX_3IewkwigyE24pxh86A1rxcOpiYPlX5qmghItUQnR2JzFla44y1cLbUxUbum7BeFchbFdQmNkz99tmdfjASuXPKrYghdYDCWjPInEsaQeLDA5ad_1l3xpky95ZN4Af/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnubPIBZXqol_DX_3IewkwigyE24pxh86A1rxcOpiYPlX5qmghItUQnR2JzFla44y1cLbUxUbum7BeFchbFdQmNkz99tmdfjASuXPKrYghdYDCWjPInEsaQeLDA5ad_1l3xpky95ZN4Af/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After the foreign minister spoke, an opposition leader, Osman Korutürk, explained that he was just back from Cairo for a regional conference of parliamentarians and did not find such a love and worship of TURKEY there. On the contrary, they were not thrilled with the idea of TURKEY dominating SYRIA, or anything else in the area for that matter.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The increasingly power-drunk behavior of TURKISH leaders</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> may go unnoticed by a worshipful Obama, who touts the “TURKISH model,” but the ARABS have been alienated by such attitudes. Having also threatened ISRAEL, GREECE, and CYPRUS, while partly antagonizing IRAN — though the Ankara regime continues to break trade sanctions with Tehran, sabotage totally accepted by the pliant Obama administration — the TURKISH leaders have destroyed their own foreign policy. While this regime began with a realistic chance of being everyone’s friend, it has now made itself everyone’s enemy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Regarding domestic governance, the power-drunk arrogance is also increasingly contradicting democratic practice. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once said that democracy was like a trolley. You ride it until you get to your destination and then get off. Presumably that’s at the point where you have consolidated power to the point you can do whatever you want and have turned TURKEY into an ISLAMIST state.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Speaking in Adana and threatening retaliation to Kurdish PKK terrorist attacks, he abandoned the pose of moderation and pluralism to threaten:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We have four fundamental principles. And these principles are:</span></span></div><ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One people</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One flag</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One religion</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One government</span></span></li></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While there are echoes here of traditional TURKISH centralization under the old republic established by Ataturk, the third principle shows not only the abandonment of TURKISH secularism but its replacement by Islamic rule. Where Erdogan is willing to compromise is that he left off the demand for one language, accepting some use of the KURDISH language.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thus, TURKEY, which had done so well for decades under pragmatists, has now fallen under the sway of megalomaniacal ideologues who believe that they can impose Islam on TURKEY and TURKEY on the region.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKI5xmZpha581kB411LkfCuO42I_9qgvVniKXwNavlnwWMEPSvY-Q93g81w-xFtisVeZc1HaPT6papb1lQ4RNcamHgbW4DuJKpjZxEYqtX1fIs4acaN4fR8OtjjdloTmpZ3qqNuhFltbj/s1600/157644680-20191400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKI5xmZpha581kB411LkfCuO42I_9qgvVniKXwNavlnwWMEPSvY-Q93g81w-xFtisVeZc1HaPT6papb1lQ4RNcamHgbW4DuJKpjZxEYqtX1fIs4acaN4fR8OtjjdloTmpZ3qqNuhFltbj/s320/157644680-20191400.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Meanwhile the regime is arresting scores of former high-ranking officers, destroying the army that used to protect secularism. The time will come when it appoints Islamists or opportunists who act as if they were Islamists to the top commands.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And the U.S. government has finally given some tiny indication of dissatisfaction with TURKEY’S hostile policy toward ISRAEL. Obama and the top officials have done nothing while the Islamist regime has behaved as if ISRAEL is its worst enemy in the world and sided with radical terrorist groups that seek ISRAEL’S extinction. Of course, this statement of mild dissatisfaction was dragged out of a junior official by critical members of Congress and was narrowly limited. </span></span></div>

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