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TORRINGTON — Molly Spino, a city native and member of the Board of Education, said Tuesday she will seek the Republican nomination to represent the 65th District in the state House of Representatives.

Spino made her announcement in the auditorium of Torrington City Hall, in front of an audience of Republican elected officials and well-wishers.

She said decisions made at the state level in Hartford have hurt Torrington and its residents, including tax increases and an inadequate commitment to fund city schools. She put the blame, in part, at the feet of Michelle Cook, the current 65th District representative.

“Our city deserves better. Residents of the 65th District deserve a stronger voice in Torrington — one who speaks up on the state’s challenging fiscal issues,” Spino said. “There’s no question that Connecticut faces major challenges, and those hurdles require fresh perspectives, whose connections are closer to the people that they serve than Hartford insiders and party leaders who are making the state’s problems worse.”

Spino cited her knowledge of the city and support of its citizens — particularly when it comes to small businesses, which she and her husband’s family have run — as well as her experience in the Marine Corps, as positive aspects to her candidacy.

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides, who accompanied Spino at City Hall, said Spino is the kind of candidate who would allow Republicans to take control of the state government, which is narrowly split.

“I can’t tell you what we need more than a multigenerational Torrington resident who served in the military, who has three lovely children, a husband, who knows small business because they have lived it and worked it for years — somebody like Molly Spino — and a strong woman,” Klarides said. “That’s why we’re here to support and do whatever she needs — and have you guys do whatever you have to do — to make sure she’s standing up there with us next year.”

Klarides said Spino and other candidates would allow state residents to see the party’s vision come to fruition, which is “not the travesty Connecticut has suffered for the past several years under Democrat leadership.”

After the formal remarks, Spino said she had been considering running for the 65th for a few years, after being involved in Todd Schaller’s 2016 run for the seat.

While she considered the idea, she said she spoke and worked with Rep. Jay Case, R-Winsted, and Rep. Brian Ohler, R-North Canaan — both in attendance Tuesday — and felt comfortable when visiting the Legislature.

Her stint on the Board of Education, to which she was elected in November, motivated her further, she said.

“Working through the budget — seeing the problems we have in Torrington — a lot of that stems from the issues that we have coming from Hartford, whether it’s education mandates, whether it’s special education, or whether it’s (Education Cost Sharing) funding or alliance grant money,” Spino said. “It’s motivated me more, to get more involved. I know I can do more.”

Spino said she was excited at the chance to represent her hometown at the state level.

“I love Torrington. Torrington’s where I was born and raised. After I got out of the military, I came back here. This is the only place I wanted to raise a family,” Spino said. “It’s a beautiful place to live. I love our teachers; I love our education system — we have a lot of caring, dedicated, hard-working people in this town, and they need better representation.”

The 65th District is entirely made up of a portion of the city of Torrington.

Cook, the Democrat incumbent, was elected to a fifth term in 2016.


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    Amazingly maintained 2-bedroom condo right off University Ave; brand new laminate wood floor in living Rm, Dining area and hallway, updated kitchen, & bathroom, in-unit laundry, large deck & covered parking; Heat, water & hot water are included in monthly condo fee. Large storage in basement. PRIME location: less than 5 minutes walking distance to bus lines, close to UW & UW hospital facilities; Excellent opportunity for any one who is looking for nice condos near UW campus.

    Listing Provided Courtesy of Tri-River Realty

    Property Type: Condominiums

    MLS ID: 1810166

    Taxes: $2,245

    Condo Fee: $275

    Condo Name: The Carrington

    Units in Building: 8

    Style: Garden (apartment style)

    Kitchen Features: Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Range/Oven, Refrigerator

    Interior Features: At Least 1 tub, Cable/Satellite Available, Dryer, High Speed Internet, Storage Unit Inc, Washer, Wood or sim. wood floors

    Fireplace: None

    Exterior Features: Deck/Balcony

    Elementary School: Crestwood

    Middle School: Jefferson

    High School: Memorial

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Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman Anzhela Martirosova said the roadside bomb exploded on the outskirts of Buinaksk town in the night of February 10 as a team of combat engineers was patrolling the area.

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The U.S. Justice Department's criminal complaint on July 20 charged Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv, Ukraine, who was arrested in Poland earlier in the day, with copyright infringement, money laundering, and other violations of U.S. law.

Vaulin owned and founded Kickass Torrents, or KAT, which in recent years has become the world's biggest source of pirated media.

"Vaulin is charged with running today's most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials," said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell. "In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly relied on servers located in countries around the world and moved his domains due to repeated seizures and civil lawsuits."

U.S. officials said they will seek to extradite Vaulin to face the charges filed in a Chicago federal court, which ordered the seizure of one bank account and seven domain names associated with the file-sharing website.

KAT, which distributes films, video games, television programs, music, and other electronic media, is the 69th most frequently visited website on the Internet.

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The website's value is estimated at more than $54 million, with annual advertising revenue in the range of $12.5 million to $22.3 million, according to the complaint.

KAT has moved its domains several times after being blocked in Britain, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, and Malaysia, according to the complaint, and has relied on a network of computer servers located around the world, including in Chicago.

Recently, the website allowed users to download illegal copies of recent hit movies such as "Captain America: Civil War" and "Finding Dory."

Vaulin, who used the screen name "tirm," was involved in designing the original website and ran the site, which has been operating since 2008 through a Ukrainian-based front company called Cryptoneat.

According to the Justice Department, KAT's website "purports to comply with the removal of copyrighted materials" but evidence showed it did not remove content requested by organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and Entertainment Software Association.

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Clusters of baobabs intersperse the varied terrain. This part of the world is a year-round destination off the beaten track. Said to have the highest concentration of mammals in the country, guests will be treated to sights of large herds of elephant and buffalo while ornithologists will delight in the over 500 bird species found in the park.

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Battered Oil-Sands Servicers Pin Hopes on Shell's LNG Project
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 After years of suffering through plunging prices and declining spending by oil-sands behemoths, Canada is finally seeing a light on the horizon.

Canadian Crude Prices Plunge Once Again
Friday, September 07, 2018 Canadian crude prices are plunging once again as repairs were completed on Alberta's second-biggest oil sands upgrader and production surged from a new mine.

Canada's Top Heavy Oil Producer Eyes Lighter Crude
Friday, August 03, 2018 Canadian heavy oil is the weakest in almost five years.

Cenovus To Hold Back Oil Output On Pipeline Woes, Suncor Weighs Hit
Thursday, July 26, 2018 Cenovus Energy says it would hold back on future oil production until pipeline bottlenecks have eased.

BC LNG Terminal to Help Struggling Canadian Gas Producers
Thursday, July 19, 2018 A liquefied natural gas terminal in British Columbia will 're-focus people on Canadian gas.'

IHS Markit Sees Canadian Oil Sands Growth Moderating After 2019
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Canadian oil sands production will rise more than half a million barrels per day in 2019.

Suncor's Syncrude To Resume Some Output In July, Full Ops In Sept
Monday, July 09, 2018 Suncor says its Syncrude oil sands project in Western Canada will resume some production in July.

Oil-Sands Outage Upends Global Oil Market, Overshadows OPEC
Monday, June 25, 2018 The shutdown of a key oil-sands facility in Canada is flipping the global oil market on its head and slamming shares of producers that depend on the plant.

Power Outage Affects Syncrude Oil Sands Output
Thursday, June 21, 2018 A power disruption at Syncrude's Mildred Lake, Alberta, crude oil upgrading site has affected operations.

Industry Group: Canadian Oil Output to Rise 33% by 2035
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Canada's crude production will rise 33% by 2035, driven by increased output from oil-sands operations, according to the industry's main trade group.

Trudeau's Pipeline Takeover Is Bittersweet Win for Oil Sands
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Canada's purchase of Kinder Morgan Inc.'s embattled pipeline is good news for the oil patch, so long as it doesn't become the norm.

Facing Shipping Constraints, Canada Moving Oil One Truckload at a Time
Monday, April 23, 2018 Canada's oil industry faces significant challenges, not the least of which are high production costs, remote oil fields and, perhaps most pressing, the shipping bottlenecks.

Cenovus Energy Says Transportation Bottlenecks Hit Production
Thursday, March 22, 2018 Cenovus says it was running oil sands production below capacity and stockpiling excess oil due to trouble with exporting.

Oil Sands Upgraders May Make a Comeback Amid Pipeline Crises
Monday, March 12, 2018 Turning Canada's heavy oil sands into a more marketable kind of crude is making a comeback, or rather half a comeback.

CEO: Mexico's Pemex Eyeing Partners For Heavy Oil Projects
Tuesday, March 06, 2018 Pemex might bring partners into two heavy crude oilfields in the Gulf's shallow waters, the company's chief says.

Canada Trims Pipeline Reviews as Oil Patch Says Details Missing
Thursday, February 08, 2018 Justin Trudeau is trying to make the oil industry's life a little easier.

Kinder Pipeline Battle Spirals as Alberta Halts Power-Deal Talks
Friday, February 02, 2018 Alberta is striking back at British Columbia after the neighboring Canadian province proposed restricting shipments.

Suncor Going Autonomous in Oil Sands
Thursday, February 01, 2018 Implementing electric AHS will change some employees' roles, skill sets.

As Crude Rallies, Husky May Gain as Top Oil-Sands Stock Pick
Monday, January 15, 2018 Husky Energy, the best oil-sands stock last year, may emerge as a top pick for investors.

Rail Shipments of Canadian Oil to US Seen Rising Over 60 Pct
Friday, January 05, 2018 "Canadian barrels are a great fit for Gulf Coast refiners right now. It's just a matter of getting those barrels down here," said a Gulf Coast trader.

Sources: Two Alberta Oil Sands Upgraders Warn Customers Of Volume Cuts
Monday, November 20, 2017 Two oil sands upgraders in Alberta have warned customers about cuts to synthetic crude output.

Suncor Says Makes Progress In Oil Sands Project Dispute With Total
Thursday, October 26, 2017 Suncor Energy says it has made progress in resolving a commercial dispute with joint venture partner Total.

Thailand's PTTEP Delays Canadian Oil Sands Project At Cost Of $550MM
Thursday, October 19, 2017 PTTEP says it was delaying plans investment for the Mariana Oil Sands in Canada.

Canadian Oil's High-Priced Run Set to End as Supply Surges
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Canadian oil-sands producers enjoying the strongest market for heavy crude since 2008 will soon face a renewed glut.

Energy East Death Pins Oil Sands Hopes on Two Troubled Pipelines
Friday, October 06, 2017 Energy East would have given oil producers in Alberta and Saskatchewan another market for their crude.

Cheap Option to the Oil Sands Emerges as Hot Play in Canada
Wednesday, October 04, 2017 There's a land grab quietly taking place in a little-known corner of the Canadian oil sands.

It'll Take Oil Above $50 for Shale Boom, Oil Sands to Pay Off
Thursday, September 28, 2017 Shale drillers and oil sands producers have posted some healthy profits so far this year, but it'll take oil consistently above $50 a barrel for their investments to pay off in the long run.

Canadian Oil Sands Producers: Heady Days May Not Last Long
Monday, August 21, 2017 Most Canadian oil sands producers are expected to book losses or post sharp drops in profit in the coming quarters.

Canada's Imperial Oil Posts Unexpected 2Q Loss
Friday, July 28, 2017 Imperial Oil reports an unexpected second-quarter loss due to planned and unplanned maintenance that curbed oil output.

Suncor, Total Argue Over Cost Of Fort Hills Project
Thursday, July 27, 2017 Suncor Energy is in a dispute with Total after the French company said it would not provide any more funding for the Fort Hills oil sands project in northern Alberta.

Oil Sands Help Shale Stymie OPEC's Effort to Rebalance Market
Thursday, July 13, 2017 OPEC producers are finding that shale oil drillers aren't their only adversaries in their battle to drain a three-year crude glut.

Fire Extinguished At Syncrude Oil Sands Plant In Alberta
Monday, July 10, 2017 A small fire broke out in a sulphur emissions reduction unit at the Syncrude oil sands plant in northern Alberta.

Innovators Toil To Revive Canada Oil Sands As Majors Exit
Monday, June 19, 2017 In the boreal forests and on the remote prairies of Alberta, a handful of firms are running pilot projects they hope will end a two-decade drought in innovation.

Official Panel: Canada Oil Sands Need More Emissions Measures
Friday, June 16, 2017 Canada's oil sands need more emissions-cutting measures and monitoring, an official panel says.

Synthetic Crude Rises On Extended Syncrude Oil Sands Cuts
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 The price of oil sands synthetic crude strengthened after the majority owner in the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta said maintenance on the facility had been extended.

Kinder Commits to Pipe Linking Oil-Sands Crude to Asian Markets
Friday, May 26, 2017 The Houston-based company announced its final investment decision for the Trans Mountain expansion project Thursday.

Syncrude Oil Sands Project to Further Cut Shipments -Source
Thursday, May 25, 2017 Trading volumes are currently thin in the Canadian crude market as the trading "window," lasting from the first of the month until the day before pipelines nominations are due, closed last week.

Canada's Suncor Prepares Oil Sands Growth as Global Majors Exit
Thursday, May 11, 2017 Even as the world's largest energy companies exit Canada's high-cost oil sands the country's top producer Suncor Energy is lining up its next phase of growth in the world's third largest crude reserves.

Suncor to Apply to Build New Oil Sands Project in Northern Alberta
Monday, May 08, 2017 Suncor said it has not yet formally sanctioned the project, but if it goes ahead, construction could begin in 2024, with first steam being pumped into the reservoir to liquefy and extract tarry bitumen in 2027.

PetroVietnam Says Venezuela Oil Project Still Stalled, Hopes To Reactivate
Wednesday, May 03, 2017 PetroVietnam's joint venture with PDVSA remains stalled but the Vietnamese company hopes ongoing talks will lead to reactivation of operations.

Syncrude Resumes Shipments from Mildred Lake Oil Sands Upgrader
Monday, May 01, 2017 The Syncrude Canada oil sands project has started shipping crude from its Mildred Lake upgrader again after cutting production as a result of a fire at the plant in mid-March, majority-owner Suncor said on Monday.

Suncor Evaluates Potential Oil-sand Deals as Global Majors Exit
Thursday, April 27, 2017 Canada's largest energy producer is still evaluating opportunities for oil sands acquisitions in northern Alberta as foreign oil majors exit the high-cost region, Chief Executive Steve Williams said on Thursday.

Cenovus Energy Posts Smaller-Than-Expected Quarterly Loss
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Cenovus Energy reports a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss as operating costs fell, while oil sands production rose.

Oil-Sands Operators Bet on Local Advantage as US Partners Flee
Thursday, April 20, 2017 Now that multinational energy producers have sold their stakes in Canada's oil sands, local companies are hatching plans to make some real changes.

Sources: Chevron Exploring Sale Of Canada Oil Sands Stake Worth About $2.5B
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Chevron is exploring the sale of its 20% stake in Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands project, which could fetch about $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.

Syncrude Outage Limits ConocoPhillips Oil Sands Production
Tuesday, April 04, 2017 A shutdown at the Syncrude oil sands facility in northern Alberta has curbed output from ConocoPhillips' Surmont plant, the US company says.

Sources: Syncrude Oil Sands Project Cuts April Production to Zero
Monday, April 03, 2017 The Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta has cut its production to zero for all of April following a fire last month, according to three market sources.

Deal Of The Month: ConocoPhillips Cashes In With $13.3 Billion Sale
Friday, March 31, 2017 Selling most of its Canadian oil sands assets to Cenovus, ConocoPhillips exceeds divestment target and is positioned to achieve more than $16 billion in asset sales by the end of the year.

Fire At Syncrude Oil Sands Site Extinguished After Two Days
Thursday, March 16, 2017 The fire at Syncrude Canada's oil sands plant in northern Alberta was extinguished on Thursday morning.

Trudeau: Majors Exiting Canada's Oil Sands Acting In Own Interest
Friday, March 10, 2017 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed a recent string of major oil companies selling their holdings in the heavy oil sands of Western Canada and moving investments to shale fields.


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In 1951, Halliburton made its first appearance in Europe as Halliburton Italiana SpA., a wholly owned subsidiary in Italy. In the next seven years, Halliburton launched Halliburton Company Germany GmbH, set up operations in Argentina and established a subsidiary in England.

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Over the past few weeks parts of the country have been hit by two category four hurricanes: Texas, devastated by Hurricane Harvey, and Florida, which most recently felt the impact of Hurricane Irma.  Harvey has claimed at least 70 lives, and Irma more than 40, and untold hundreds of millions of dollars in property has been damaged or destroyed.  In the wake of these natural disasters, it has been a wonderful encouragement to see the world in general and the church in specific rising up to meet the needs of our fellow human beings.  Humanitarian efforts and the prayers of thousands have gone out to assist those whose lives have been so violently and drastically changed by these weather events.  When we help those in need we have the glorious opportunity to image our life-giving God who likewise provides for us in our time of need.  Let us show him to those who suffer as a result of these hurricanes by helping them in their time of need.

When natural disasters such as these occur, it can be tempting to try and discern the reason(s) for why they have happened, or why, in particular, God has either allowed or caused them to take place.  Unfortunately, some (usually high profile) Christian celebrities sometimes foolishly connect the occurrence of natural disasters to sinful behaviors or political ideologies.  But the Bible does not tell us how or why we should link specific natural disasters to other circumstances in the world.  In other words, we have no biblical justification for saying "Hurricane Harvey happened because _______________."  We simply have no basis for knowing specifically why a natural disaster has taken place.

That being said, the Bible does guide our thinking when it comes to the occurrence of natural disasters.  Although it does not give us specific reasons why a disaster occurs, it does give us at least four general principles that we should consider, especially in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

1. Natural disasters remind us that this world is not as it should be.  All of us intrinsically know that when people have been killed by a natural disaster, it is not right; it is not good; it is not the way the world was meant to operate.  God created the world perfectly, and in his perfect creation there were no natural disasters.  The entrance of sin into the world brought with it death and destruction.  The world became a dangerous place to live when mankind fell into sin.  Since then, the world has been "subjected to futility" and in "bondage to corruption," and has been waiting eagerly for the time when it will be remade once more into a perfect dwelling place where that corruption and futility will be no more. (Rom. 8.20-22)  When we hear about the death and destruction that has take place as a result of the recent hurricanes, it is a reminder to us that the world is a sinful, fallen place where bad things happen.

2. Natural disasters remind us that Jesus is coming back.  Over the past couple of weeks I have seen several social media posts about how the existence of these two very severe hurricanes so close in proximity to one another is a "sign of the times," or in other words, a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that Jesus' return is more eminent than it was prior to the hurricanes or had the hurricanes not occurred.  It is true that natural disasters such as these remind us that Jesus is coming back, but it is not accurate to say that his return is more eminent now that the hurricanes have taken place.  When the Bible speaks of "signs of the times" it does not do so in such a way as to give us clues about the exact date or hour of Jesus' return, but rather as a general reminder that he is coming to recreate the heavens and the earth into a glorious dwelling where life will flourish and death and destruction will be abolished.  Hurricanes and other natural disasters point us to his future return, and encourage us to long for his return and for things to be made right again.

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4. Natural disasters push us towards the cross.  Natural disasters not only remind us that we are all going to die some day, but they also encourage us to be ready to die.  Because we live in a world that has been disastrously affected by sin, and because death is close to each of us simply because we get out of bed in the morning, it behooves us to be ready to face it.  Again in Luke 13, as Jesus comments on the collapse of the tower that killed 18 Jerusalem citizens, Jesus says that the lesson to be learned from such a tragedy is to repent - to turn from our sin.  When we see suffering as a result of natural tragedy, we should realize that our time is coming, and that we need to be ready for it.  Each of us were born into a sinful state, separated from God.  In that natural, sinful state we are not able to live at peace with God.  But God has reconciled this - our most basic human need - by sending his Son into the world to live a perfect life and die a perfect death, and then rise from the dead.  By grace through faith in Jesus, we can be ready for when our time comes.  When we hear reports of death and destruction, we should be reminded of the folly of sin and our own need for redemption, and cling ever tighter to the cross and the redemption offered by and through the one who hung there.

In the wake of these recent disasters, the church has a wonderful opportunity to be Jesus to the world.  We can be his hands and feet as we meet the needs of those who have been touched by tragedy and loss, and we can be his witnesses to this world that is devastated by death and destruction of the life-giving, glorious truth of the gospel: death is coming for each of us, but it is not the end.  There is a Savior who will rescue us from its effects so that we need not fear when the rain comes and winds blow.


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(April 18, 2011)  – Today, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) began a $200,000 project to repair pavement on MD 140 (Reisterstown Road/Main Street) between Chartley Drive and MD 30 (Hanover Pike) on weekdays for approximately two months.
Single lane closures and flagging operations may occur along sections of MD 140 at any time between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday.   SHA advises motorists to plan ahead for extra travel time on weekdays, look ahead for flagging operations, and use caution when entering and exiting driveways within the work zone.
The MD 140 highway repair project is made possible through Governor Martin O’Malley’s aggressive management of the requirements of the landmark American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  This project, together with other ARRA projects, is stimulating Maryland’s economy by preserving and creating thousands of jobs.  The State’s contractor for this project is Gray and Son, Inc. of Timonium, Md.  Weather permitting, the project will be complete early summer.
Those who have questions about maintenance operations on State highways within Baltimore County may contact SHA’s District Four Office – Maintenance Division in Hunt Valley at 410-229-2360, toll-free at 1-866-998-0367 or by email at
Construction season is here with numerous active work zone sites that include major construction projects taking months to complete and mobile operations taking only minutes.  While SHA and its transportation partners work hard to maintain safe traffic mobility in work zones, each driver needs to actively modify his or her driving style to help prevent crashes. Stay alert - look for reduced speed limits, narrow driving lanes and highway workers.  Slow down and don't follow too closely.  Safer Driving. Safer Work Zones.  For everyone.


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The following email is from one concerned roommate to another, after discovering that a certain culinary instrument was being used for purposes it shouldn't have been used for. Read on. Send your New Year's resolutions to

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To: Sarah Huston

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I just have to mention this. And I'm only saying this because I'm concerned, not mad or upset in any way. Please don't read this email the wrong way.

I was just very taken aback because poisonous chemicals and food areas should not mix. That scares me.

Even when you're at the grocery store and buying a bottle of milk and a bottle of Draino, the cashier won't even put those in the same bag together--they're trained to keep them separate.

But since I'm the one so concerned about this, I will buy a plastic beaker that we can use for cleaning and keep under the sink, and I'll get a new glass one that we can use for cooking. Seriously, it's only a $10 or less expense that I would gladly spend to be sure we're safe and orderly.

I'd just toss the measuring cup we have now. After draino was used in it, I'd rather not have it floating around in our apartment and get it confused. Either that or I can mark it up with a sharpie marker so it's clear that it's for cleaning products only, but it should not be kept near our food. Chemicals are much different than food grease. They can penetrate the microporous surface of containers and that's why they should never be used for food again after used for chemicals. That measuring cup should never ever be used for food again! (Unless you want to call yourself Miss Peacock and say that I was killed in the Kitchen with a measuring cup!) And what's to say that draino is even water soluble or able to be cleaned off with hot water and soap? Draino and other harsh cleaners were never intended to be made safe to use with kitchen surfaces we eat off of--their purpose is to eat away grime from drains in an industrial strength way and it doesn't matter if traces of it lingers in pipes. But it's a huge issue for it to linger on stuff we eat with or off of. After all, many places won't even recycle chemical containers for fear of poisoning later down the line. I'd rather be safe than find out otherwise in some misfortunate way.

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The phrase "perpetual anticipation" is bandied about a good deal in the lyrics of the musical "A Little Night Music." Now it is the name of a quintet of local singers which started out in a Pittsford Musicals production of that Stephen Sondheim work. Sopranos Myriah Marsh and Kristin Mellema, mezzo-soprano Allyn Van Dusen, and tenor Thomas Racculia enjoyed their anxiously amorous musical experience so much they decided to stick together as an ensemble, adding baritone Michael Roddy. Perpetual Anticipation, with pianist Julie Covach, will perform at The College at Brockport this Friday night. The program includes classical and Broadway selections by everybody from Francesco Cavalli to Jason Robert Brown as well as a sequence of songs by contemporary female musical theater songwriters. There's also, of course, a little Sondheim.

Perpetual Anticipation will perform Friday, September 9, at Brockport's Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage, 180 Holley Street. 7:30 p.m. $17 general; $12 seniors, alumni, faculty, staff; $9 students. 395-2787;

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been updated to correct the performance date. The show is on Friday, September 9.

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A previously blind man from North Carolina has been granted the ability to digitally see once again through a new “bionic eye” which can transform light into images.

Larry Hester, 66, was blind for 33 years before scientists at Duke University, in North Carolina, switched on the device.

As the “eye” was switched on, Hester jumped from the shock initially, before his face broke into a persistent smile and his wife, Jerry, rushed over to him to share his joy. “Can you really see?” she said, adding: “Can I give him a kiss?”

Hester became only the seventh person in the US to have the eye – and he expressed his good fortune to his doctors.

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Both Larry and Jerry Hester had lost hope of any improvements in Larry’s eyesight until Jerry found an article in a magazine last year.

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Look at the URL of a website to ensure it is legitimate and secure. Secured websites begin with ‘https’ which means it is secured using an SSL certificate. SSL certificates secure your data as it is passed from your browser to the website’s server. To receive an SSL certificate, a company must go through a validation process. If the website begins with ‘http’ only – and does not have the ‘s’ at the end – it means it is not secure.

6. Be careful when using social media platforms
Fraudsters trawl social media platforms looking for information that can be used for criminal activity. This can range from addresses to personal information such as birthdays, pet names, and even where you bank. Be sure to familiarise yourself with the privacy settings on the social media platforms you use and make sure you apply them. This restricts your posts to friends and family, (i.e. only the people you want to see your posts), while blocking strangers and potential fraudsters.

7. Keep an eye on children’s online activities
Teach children about the risks they may encounter online such as infected links, inappropriate content and the danger of oversharing. You can also use parental controls to discretely monitor what they do online.
It’s packed with practical advice and tips to help parents keep their children safe online.

8. Monitor online gaming
Many online games have a feature that allows a gamer to buy in-game items and add-ons for real money. It’s not unusual to see hundreds of pounds disappear as children innocently make purchases if you have card details linked to the account. At the same time parents should also set up a specific email account for game registrations to ensure email accounts that hold addresses, contact information and online banking information are kept separate from the game account.

Paul Lipman, CEO at consumer security company BullGuard concludes: ‘The WannaCry attack was a wake-up call for a lot of people but the reality is that these attacks happen all the time. The irony is that many of them can be stopped by applying some basic security measures.’

‘Attacks of this scale and nature will most certainly happen again but if people can get into the habit of applying a few simple security steps they can stay safe online. Many of these precautions are very straightforward yet they avert a lot of trouble when applied.’

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Maple Muesli Banana Bread + The Balancing Act

Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine

While millions of pumpkin spice lattes are brewing in America, here there is only the slightest change in breeze temperature to signal the seasons changing. This is about the time of year when a bittersweet sort of homesickness kicks in.

The longer I live in Morocco, the more wildly these feelings seem to fluctuate. When I first moved here almost 3 years ago, I was in a frenzy of learning to be myself and have a life in a place where no matter how hard I try I will always be a gauwria (foreigner). I was humbled daily and learned so much that I felt like a dog constantly chasing the tail of cultural understanding. I probably still am, to be honest.

It took me a year or so to realize that what I am really living is a balancing act. A one-woman, core-shaking balancing act, wobbling between who I am and who I am willing to adapt myself to be. The back and forth between past self and present/evolving self never seems to slow; it just springs around from month to month, surprising me with sudden bouts of homesickness followed by crazed passions for the country I’m in now.

One of the most poignant and truthful articles I have read about being a foreigner is a thesis paper written by Wu Zhou, a Ph.D. student in Canada. I happened upon this paper when I was doing research for my most recent choreography project, Bodies Between Borders which premiered last spring. Since the performance was about what happens to the human condition when it crosses over into foreign territory, I did some googling on pieces written about those kinds of experiences. This work, The Lived Experience of Being a Foreigner, popped up and spoke to me on a deep level. Zhou writes the following about trying to accept the condition of “foreignness:”

To regain peace and confidence, a re-organization or reshaping of self is needed. This process is threatening, as one has to alter one’s own identity, in order to accept this reincarnation.

Boy did I ever relate to that statement. It has been a struggle to rediscover a calm center inside of myself among the chaos and confusion of Tangier. Communication breakdowns, cultural misunderstandings, and the inability to do certain things independently have all threatened my previously confident sense of self.

Speaking to my concept of the balancing act, he also writes in the conclusion,

...One has to find out the new connection between one’s present existence and one’s past, and make it meaningful to one’s own future.

These wise words are exactly what I am now striving to do. You cannot totally discard where you came from, just as you cannot completely assimilate to where you ended up. You can only take the pieces from each experience and put them together into a perhaps slightly messy yet beautiful whole.

Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine

So at the moment, I am embracing the feelings of homesick nostalgia as a fragment of what completes who I am these days. I am letting myself sink into (but avoid wallowing in) wistfully shutting my eyes and imagining that crisp fall smell in Minneapolis, when the lakes become sharper blue in the cool air and leaves turn to fire and crumple.

To share a slice of my nostalgia with Marouan (because that’s what marriage is about, right?) I decided to bake the feeling into a loaf of banana bread, infused with midwestern maple and made hearty with some whole-wheat flour and muesli. This twist on traditional banana bread is warming, crumbly and delicious- exactly the remedy I’ve needed.

Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine

Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine

P.S. Shout out to Marouan for helping me with the photography + snagging the first bite.

Maple Muesli Banana Bread | Ruby Josephine

Maple Muesli Banana Bread

Adapted from Rachael's Super Simple Banana Bread over at Eazy Peazy Meals

Makes 1 loaf

  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 75g (1/3 cup) melted butter, slightly cooled
  • 65g (1/3 cup) granulated sugar
  • 3 tbsp maple syrup
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp jam (I would recommend apricot)
  • 1/2 tsp maple extract
  • 75g (1/2 cup) whole wheat flour
  • 75g (overflowing 1/2 cup) all-purpose flour
  • 80g (3/4 cup) muesli (if you don't have muesli you can use any mixture of rolled oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit- use what you like, but the rolled oats are a must)
  • 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt

  • 35g (1/3 cup) muesli
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar

Preheat your oven to 175ºC (350ºF) and grease + flour a loaf pan. In a large bowl, mash up your bananas and whisk in the butter, sugar, syrup, egg, jam, and maple extract. In a smaller bowl, mix the flours, muesli, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and fold to combine. Pour into your prepared pan. Make the crumble topping by smushing together all ingredients in a small bowl with your fingers so that it gets coated + clumpy. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the batter, place in the oven and bake for 50 minutes-1 hour. Stick a knife in the center to see if it's done, or take out when the top is golden brown. Let cool about 10 minutes, remove from the pan, and slice.

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A Long Run Along a Lake

3-Countries marathon: Austria, Germany, Switzerland in 26.2 miles

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Today’s age of marathons as spectacles, 26.2 miles need to be something more than just a race in order to attract the masses. The 3-Countries Marathon offers peripatetic marathoners the chance to check three nations off of their international to-do lists in one morning’s work. Yet the race is refreshingly devoid of pomp, with nary a theme park, metropolitan skyline or live rock band dominating the course. Instead, the race remains modestly sized and continues to rely on the history and natural scenery of the route. In fact, were it not for the dead giveaway of the race’s name, you wouldn’t have any idea that you were passing from one country to another.

This year, rain has returned to the small island town of Lindau, Germany. Though clear skies brought the tourists and shoppers out in force yesterday, this morning’s weather is more reminiscent of that which flooded the area a few weeks earlier. Driftwood that was carried down the Rhine from Austria and Switzerland and out into Lake Constance is still washing up against the sailboats in Lindau’s small enclosed harbor.

Regardless, the Bahnhofplatz is still bustling. Instead of street vendors, the harbor’s edge is lined by clusters of spandex-clad men and women, the smell of coffee from the sidewalk cafes replaced by the reek of linament. As some runners hustle into town to pick up their numbers, others huddle in doorways and under awnings, hoping to stay dry until the start of the sixth 3-Countries Marathon.

Unlike many of the other towns in this region, which tend to feature an eclectic mix of architecture—stone and brick juxtaposed with steel and glass—Lindau has a more uniform look. Densely populated and veined with tight, cobbled sidewalks and streets, Lindau is filled with old buildings and dotted with cathedrals.

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As I wait for the start of the race, I wander the streets aimlessly, trying to find the location of the church bell that’s echoing through town. Fortunately for me, Lindau is large enough to get lost in but small enough to find your way. After 15 minutes of wandering, I’m no closer to the bell and decide to find the starting line instead. When I finally emerge by the harbor again, it’s unrecognizable: The street is so packed it’s impossible to move toward the correct corral. Only 1,230 runners will complete the marathon today, but once you add the half marathon, quarter marathon, kids’ race, and nordic walk, there are more than 5,000 people taking part in the event this year.

When the gun finally fires, we spill into town, weaving through Lindau for the first kilometer before emptying onto mainland Germany, where we swing east, toward Austria. The street eventually turns into a bike path, with the shore of Lake Constance to our right. Up ahead, the path arcs to the southeast toward Bregenz, the capital of Vorarlberg, Austria’s western-most region. To our left is the lush green slope of the Pfander, its peak, 1,000 meters above us, obscured in clouds. The rain has been light thus far, but the beautiful views across the water to the snowcapped peaks of Switzerland have been wiped out by the fog.

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Pockets of spectators, sparse since leaving the island, become more frequent as we near Bregenz. Some seem befuddled that so many people would choose this particular activity on such a grim morning; others carry signs in support of friends and family. Many are chanting "Hopp! Hopp! Hopp!," a popular ski cheer on the European alpine circuit. Though I don’t know any German, the meaning is clear: Go!

As we near Bregenz, one of Vorarlberg’s most famous attractions comes into view: the stage for the Bregenzer Festspiele. This season’s performance is a modernized version of Verdi’s "The Troubadour," and the massive floating stage looks as if it has more to do with refining oil than fine arts, all metal pipes and smoke stacks. Heading into town we pass another major tourist destination: the striking glass Kunsthaus, home to Bregenz’s modern art museum.

Though Bregenz is of modest size, with a population of just 25,000, and isn’t exactly on the typical European vacation itinerary, the town has much to offer. Nestled in the Rhine Valley between Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, Vorarlberg is affected as much by these neighbors as by eastern Austria. After all, Bregenz is as close to Paris as Vienna and nearer to Milan than Salzburg.

For the outdoorsman, the region has obvious allures beyond the watersports available on Lake Constance. Germany and Switzerland are both reachable in the course of a run or bike ride from Bregenz, and Liechtenstein is just a few miles away as well. All three countries are linked by a series of gorgeous traffic-free routes. Vorarlberg boasts more than 6,000 kilometers of hiking trails, and several hundred kilometers of bike paths that connect the towns. Whether you’re looking to do some rugged single-track trail running or a flat and fast workout, you’ll be able to find what you need, often in the course of the same run. With regional trains connecting the towns, you need only pack a small bag to go off on a new running adventure every day.

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Runners who find their way deeper into Vorarlberg should stop at the local tourism office, where a pamphlet of running routes is available for free. Inspired by the town’s mayor, Wilfried Berchtold, who is an avid runner, the pamphlet includes maps and detailed descriptions of 15 routes on the town’s trails: they vary from paved bike paths that lead to the Rhine and into Switzerland to a lighted quarter-mile wood-chip path that you can run at night. Distances vary from 2.2 to 11K.

As the marathon heads through Bregenz, we get a brief taste of the region’s trails. The bike path that we’ve been on for the past few miles turns to dirt, and, as the rain increases, each stride kicks up a thin stream of mud. In the forested Mehrerauer Seeufer, the course passes the stadium where we’ll be finishing in a couple of hours. The field thins as the 10K runners break off, their morning’s effort nearly done. For the rest of us, the giddiness of the early miles has faded, and we slowly become more focused on the task at hand.

Personally, I start to realize that I’m not exactly overheating. At 13K, I pass a water stop that’s stocked with everything: water, sports drink, Coke, and, what sounds to me like, "Bier!" That seems pretty odd, but the cups are filled with brown liquid. A couple miles later, my curiosity gets the better of me: I grab a cup from a volunteer and am pleasantly shocked to find that it is warm, and non-alchoholic. For the rest of the race, I go out of my way to find the volunteers calling "Tee! Tee! Tee!"

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The locals’ penchant for steel and glass seems to stretch beyond art museums to bridges, which wouldn’t be so disconcerting if the rains hadn’t turned the muddy Bregenzerach into a raging rapid. With the marathoners crossing the Harder-brücke in one direction and the half marathoners doubling back in the other, the bridge bounces in rhythm with some strides and bucks up to interfere with others. On the far side, the course enters the ominously named town of Hard, a quaint farming village—and, despite its name, as flat as the rest of the course.

While Austria and Germany are members of the European Union, Switzerland has remained independent. This means that passports are often checked at the border, though this is largely a formality and has been waived on race day. When we pass into the race’s third country, the border is evident only because a handful of sentries are standing idly by, watching us pass.

In every marathon, there’s a point where increasing fatigue and decreasing spectator support collide. With the exhausted pleasure of finishing still too far away to provide even imagined relief, this is the time to swear you’ll never put your body through a marathon again. At 3-Countries, this point was reached somewhere on an elevated bike path that links Switzerland and Austria.

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The scenery matched the quieter mood: Below, lush green pastures lay to the left, and the Rhine to the right. The loudest noise heard on this stretch, between 29 and 32K, was the clatter of cowbells.

Everyone in the race, it seemed, had turned inward. Conversations stopped. All were focused intently on the shuffle of the runner in front of them, trying to avoid looking at the vast straightaway ahead.

Once that long stretch mercifully came to an end, we began retracing our path back to Bregenz—through Hard, across the shaking bridge (which was thankfully stable now that just a few runners were crossing), and onto the forgiving dirt paths of Mehrerauer Seeufer.

Most spectators had long since abandoned the course for warmer and drier locales, so the encouraging chants of "Hopp! Hopp! Hopp!" were now few and far between. Instead, the final kilometers were fueled by thoughts of finishing, and the warm tea and hot showers that awaited us when we crossed the line. This seemed fitting, in a way, since those simple touches—rather than any grand theme or spectacle—are what makes this a special race.

After crossing the finish and receiving my medal, I walked through the chute and was handed a familiar-looking brown drink. But I was to be surprised again. This one was cold. There was nothing lost in translation this time. Even as I stood shivering in the rain, that beer hit the spot.

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Weekend to End Women's Cancer in Melbourne, Victoria

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Melbourne, VIC

Run/Walk Road/Path/Park Ultra Team

The Weekend to End Women's Cancers benefiting the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is a 60km walk over two days in Melbourne: 30kms each day.

Proceeds from The Weekend will provide vital funding to research and clinical care at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia's only public hospital solely dedicated to cancer, and home to Australia's largest cancer research group. Peter Mac immediately assigns your funds to enable life-saving cancer research. This means a contribution today will have an immediate impact in the fight against cancer.

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Poll Question 276 – Would you rather have lots of maps with low quality visuals or less maps with high quality?

25th May 2012

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

This is a question from James Partridge AKA Aazell.

He wrote to me and asked “In my experience the majority of the time it takes to put together a good map pack is spent making the maps look pretty and getting the detailing to an acceptable standard.

Given there are only so many mappers out there and most work alone, their time is finite. As a result this level of detailing leads to less maps being released as mappers feel the pressure to create high quality visuals.

So it comes down to a simple choice, the community can have lots of playable, fun, low detailed maps with basic visuals or few and far between highly detailed projects… which would you prefer?”

Time to Vote!

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  1. TabMan

    I would rather play one highly detailed map than play a full mod with 50 levels.

  2. Unq

    Quality over quantity, any day of the week. That said, the experience and gameplay are more important to me than just the visuals.

  3. dougjp

    Quantity over quality, I can live with weaker graphics, as can anyone here who enjoys it when a HL1 map comes along.

    Doing nothing is far worse. THE major problem for more than a year is the lack of games to play. Its almost bad enough where I’m thinking of playing different genres that I don’t really enjoy.

  4. bobdog

    I think it depends on the game. If you present me with a bunch of low-poly maps that look like HL1, yet released for HL2, I’m not going to play it as I have higher expectations. I also don’t like to play simple maps that are just square boxes connected by corridors. My time is finite too as a player, so I would prefer to concentrate on fewer maps of higher, although not necessarily pristine, quality, as opposed to many low-quality maps.

  5. Derbler

    My favorite Half-Life 2 mod is G-String, which I would say is a ton of maps with all high-quality visuals, so if MyoHyo can do both without compromising one or the other, I think anyone can!

    1. Aazell

      She did spend 5 years building it…

  6. I’d say somewhere in between. The gameplay is the most important part, but I think there also some minimum level of detail that a map should exceed for it to be enjoyable. I don’t have particularly high standards when it comes to that, however.

    1. Herr_Alien

      I’ll second that.

      Once you go below that minimum threshold, it tends to ruin the game, perhaps because the map ends up looking … fake.
      Now thing is, this threshold is subjective. Mine is on the lower end of the spectrum, but still, I draw the line for:
      – lights with no fixtures
      – cube rooms with no details
      – using only 3-4 textures in the entire map

      A room in a map doesn’t need to have a full set of props, but still, it should convey a purpose much like a real room.

  7. I agree with the people above, the graphics are not the most important, gameplay is. However, I would say high quality graphics but fewer is better than loads of lower quality graphics. The same for gameplay, high quality gameplay but fewer maps…

  8. That’s a tough choice, considering that the more frequent maps in the given scenario, while less polished, are still fun and playable. I do really appreciate the polish in mods with visuals, and I do value quality over quantity.

    I think I would want less maps with greater visuals. Well-polished, high quality visuals can make a huge difference in my appreciation of a mod.

  9. Hec

    I allways love good loking maps, and I definitely would love to have few of them, but worthly in quality visuals terms.

    But indeed what really happens is that I think i’m somewhere in between, because I think the most of the maps i’ve played have an average medium acceptable visuals, I think only very few are crappy, I think the standard mesure is that they are set in an average grade.

    For example some MIgga maps, are just stuning in the visuals at some points, but mostly in his maps we have an ok visual grade, the last map i’ve played Station 51 by Sam Cob, is one example I can give of great quality vissuals and powerful environment-atmosphere scenario. Now I know is more difficult to find high great visual maps, than to find average, sometimes blocky maps available.

    With mods this change because it suposed that a mod has so much more time and work effort invested so the visuals are superior more often than the maps, I can name in this superior visuals some mods I own like, The Citizen, Call In, Hardwire CSS, G-String, etc…, and even in here short-medium mods often are better in visuals than longer mods, like Strider mountain or Off Shore, some parts are visualy stunning and some others are just crappy.

  10. Kyo

    I would vote quality over quantity. Visuals are the first sentence of the book – they are likely the first thing people will know about your mod. Therefore, you have to get their attention with looks, then win them over with great gameplay to back it up.

    At some subjective threshold, the importance of visuals is equal to gameplay. Lousy visuals can obscure the best route forward, lead to unclear communication with the player, and break the player’s sense of immersion and suspension of disbelief. These things, either directly or indirectly, impact gameplay in a negative way.

    In practice, great visuals and gameplay tend to go hand-in-hand when it comes to mods. If the modder put a lot of thought and effort into the graphics, chances are they were similarly thoughtful about the gameplay.

  11. SPY

    I am so glad you ask this now here Phillip, because we both have discussed this issue over and over a few years ago or so.
    Back then it seemed to me that most people like quality over quantity, but reading all comments above do show to me that it seems half way, 50/50%.

    Personally I like stunning visuals, but as mapper I know to well how much time it takes to make those. And rather prefer to play 15 maps with visuals that are 70% ok, as say play 2 maps that are so awesome that you can’t believe they where made by a custom mapper. The more maps, the more gameplay, the more fun it gives to me. Ofcourse is there a bottom to where it also stops for me, awful looking maps I too like to leave alone. But when they do look ok enough, and there are many of them in a single mod, then I will be one of the first to give them a try.

    I will follow this discussion with great interest, to see which side will “win”,
    quality of quantity. But, as I said, the maps do need to look ok, boring, empty maps without any detail are simply no fun to play, (comes to mind that one shacker mod, where they even left out some textures, so half of the maps where build out of purple/black blocked “textures”. even to this day it surprises me that still so many people thought it was fun to play that one).

    i hope my mapping skills have progressed over time, and when I may believe some then they did. With my latest mod I do try to get to a much higher standard qua quality, but still keep the map count high.

    again Phillip, thanks for this poll, I guess this is important info to all mappers and modders out there, at least those that take there work seriously.

  12. I just played “daylight” and actually this was a point that I disliked. I love detailed environments and therefore I think its much better if its detailed, I will stroll around and spend some time on thje map, just for eye candy.

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