to do list for today:
a. complete University reference form for a friend for doctorate program
b. tighten up top 25 celebrated #newmedia women for #BIGnewEdayMedia2014 coming soon to www.mystrawhat.com (pass along to #neweverydaymedia development director)
c. gather & pass along new original poems to #neweverydaymedia development director for #BIGnewEdayMedia2014 coming soon to www.mystrawhat.com
d. post about The Endless Tour Project on http://theneweverydaymedia.blogspot.com/
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
in Chelsea lately = a new poem
Living inside collared shirts
Button down everybody
Around & around about worth
In & Out of town everybody
Working at something like
In Chelsea lately what a gas
Something like 30 dirty necks
With new debt on the cost to flirt
But in Chelsea lately she'll love you
Anyway when in each other's eyes
She leaves the table with red lips
It's 3am in Chelsea & I got kissed
While standing at the bar in NYC
(Oh memories) written 1/14/14
Best of Rusted Roses,
#BIGnewEdayMedia2014 coming soon to
mystrawhat.com
Button down everybody
Around & around about worth
In & Out of town everybody
Working at something like
In Chelsea lately what a gas
Something like 30 dirty necks
With new debt on the cost to flirt
But in Chelsea lately she'll love you
Anyway when in each other's eyes
She leaves the table with red lips
It's 3am in Chelsea & I got kissed
While standing at the bar in NYC
(Oh memories) written 1/14/14
Best of Rusted Roses,
#BIGnewEdayMedia2014 coming soon to
mystrawhat.com
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Prince-Priest: Apostle of the Alleghenies (western Pennsylvania) = a book & character review of D.A. Gallitzin
Beyond interesting look at a Prince denouncing his family's titles and materialism and working as a frontier Catholic priest in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania and neighboring areas. The author accomplishes providing the reader with both correlating local and worldly insights and historical accuracies of Prince D.A. Gallitzin' s time.
While reading "PRINCE GALLITZIN and the Lost World of American Catholics: 'the prince-priest' D.A. Gallitzin (1770-1840): a historical novel & popular history" just after reading a book on St. Francis Assisi I was stricken by the obvious life as Servant of God similarities and also the supernatural recognition from animals and people that will hopefully inspire a scholar to write about them once the Prince-Priest: Apostle of the Alleghenies (Father D.A. Gallitzin / AKA "Father Augustine Smith") is canonized as one of America's first saints.
John Alan Conte` Jr.
Loretto, Pennsylvania: Catholic Pioneer Heritage
Loretto was founded in 1799 by Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (statue at right) as the first English-speaking Roman Catholic colony west of the Alleghenies. Located 18 miles SW of Altoona and northeast of Johnstown, Loretto is home to St. Francis University (est. 1847), one of the nation's oldest Catholic institutions of higher learning. But it was two generous men - Father Gallitzin and Charles Schwab (a century later) - who transformed a backwoods Allegheny village into a place of remarkable importance to American Catholics. Two extant structures remind us of Loretto's extraordinary history.Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel
The current stone Basilica, which stands adjacent to the site of Father Gallitzin's original log church, was built in 1901 with funds donated by Charles Schwab (then president of U.S. Steel), who was raised in Loretto. The architect was Pittsburgh’s celebrated Frederick J. Osterling, who designed the Romanesque church with a massive stone bell tower above the main entrance. There were notable Gothic details incorporated into the design. All the exterior sandstone was locally quarried, and the interior boasted barrel vaulted ceilings adorned with frescoes, all without visible post or column supports. The roof was surfaced with red paving tiles. Extravagance and fine craftsmanship abound. The elaborately carved pews were made from polished quartered red oak, and a 70-ft. long communion rail was fashioned from Mexican onyx. The four altars, all imported from Italy, were carved from Carrara marble, the same stone from which Michelangelo's Pieta was carved. In today’s value the $150,000 original cost converts to more than 4 million dollars.
An elaborate 3-manual organ (J. D. Didinger, Philadelphia) with stenciled façade pipes was placed in the rear gallery as a gift from Andrew Carnegie; costing $8,000 at the time, the organ was the only major expense not covered by the Schwab family. Carnegie, who was passionate about organ music, fully or partially funded more than 7,800 pipe organs during his lifetime.
Schwab, whom Carnegie considered a protégé, had worked his way up from the lowliest ranks at Carnegie’s steel mills, where he began as a stake driver and blast furnace operator, and Carnegie’s generous contribution to St. Michael’s reflected his high regard for Schwab. Unfortunately, after a meteoric rise in fortune and prestige, Schwab eventually lost nearly everything in the stock market crash of 1929 and died bankrupt in 1939. Schwab was interred in a neoclassical mausoleum on the grounds of the Basilica's cemetery, and Gallitzin's grave is located between the present church and the adjacent site of the 1799 log church.
The basilica, which seats 1,000 worshipers, was renovated in 1959 and again in 1993-94. On Sept. 9, 1996, Pope John Paul II raised this parish church of St. Michael to the status of a minor basilica. In 2007 a Mass was celebrated at the Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel to recognize the nomination of Gallitzin for sainthood, only the eight American Catholic so honored.
Immergrün Estate Gardens
Charles Schwab, a steel industrialist, was raised a Catholic in Loretto from the age of five and always considered it his home town. Schwab even named his $100,000 private railroad car “Loretto,” which is today on display in Altoona’s Railroaders Memorial Museum. Schwab was a graduate of St. Frances University in Loretto. His 44-room summer home, a 1919 mansion he called Immergrün (“ever green” in German), sited on a hilltop in Loretto, is now home to the Mount Assisi Monastery (Franciscans, Third Order Regular), which offers public daily access to its celebrated gardens from dawn to dusk. A stunning stair-step cascading fountain forms the centerpiece of the estate grounds. The sunken gardens also contain a shrine to Fatima, which is visited by throngs of the Catholic faithful on the 13th of every month. In the 1920s Schwab employed 70 full time servants to staff his summer estate, which he lost just after the stock market crash of 1929.
Directions: From Bedford, PA, travel north on Rte. 220 for 31 miles; at Hollidaysburg merge left at exit 28 onto west Rte. 22; after 9 miles take the Cresson/Summit exit, turning right onto Adm. Peary Hwy. After crossing the Cresson railroad tracks, bear slight right onto St. Joseph St.; after 4 miles St. Francis University will be seen on the left in downtown Loretto; turn left onto State Rd. 1001, Manor Dr., then a quick right onto St. Francis Street. The Monastery and gardens are on the right.Loretto is an easy hour's drive north of Bedford, and the Bedford Springs Resort and Spa makes an excellent base for exploring this part of western Pennsylvania; Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is one hour and forty minutes by car from Bedford Springs.www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/BedfordSprings.aspx
Father Demetrius Gallitzin (1770-1840) pronounced “GAL-it-sin,” was born a prince in the Hague, where his father served as the ambassador of Catherine the Great to the court of the Netherlands. The Gallitzins were a princely family of Lithuanian descent who figured among the nobility of the Russian Empire. Gallitzin's mother, Amalia von Schmettau, was a Countess of German birth. Young Gallitzin left his home in Germany at the age of 21 to see the New World, since the more typical aristocratic Grand European Tour was not an option, because much of Europe was embroiled in wars at the time. His mother had arranged for Father Brosius to be her son’s personal chaplain and escort during his journeys through America.When they arrived in Baltimore in 1792, local Bishop John Carroll was less than pleased; he desperately needed German-speaking priests, and this one was tied up escorting a rich tourist. Carroll made the best of it by offering Gallitzin a place in his year old St. Mary’s Seminary (est. 1791 in Baltimore) as one of its first students; three years later, at age 25, Gallitzin found himself ordained as the first priest ever to receive all of his Orders (major and minor) for the Priesthood on U.S. soil. The Archdiocese of Baltimore was the first diocese established in the country (1789), and John Carroll its first bishop; the state of Maryland had been founded by a Catholic – Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. At the time this Archdiocese included all of the territory of our nation’s original thirteen states.
Soon thereafter Gallitzin found himself traveling 150 miles on horseback to the western frontier (now southwestern Pennsylvania), to attend the call from a non-Catholic woman who was deathly ill and requested a visit from a priest. He gave her last rites, and she died a Catholic. Father Gallitzin asked Bishop Carroll to be able to relocate to serve the people of McGuires’s Settlement, as Loretto was then known. Because the local citizenry was unable to support a priest, Father Gallitzin used his personal funds to build a church of white pine logs in 1799, thus founding the Catholic colony of Loretto, which he named (note variant spelling) after the famous Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, Italy.
Gallitzin set about baptizing children and many adolescents, as well, because there had been no priest present when they were younger. Indeed, many of the Catholics in this pioneer area had never seen a priest. In the decades that followed, Gallitzin transformed Loretto into the cradle of Catholicism in western Pennsylvania. Again, using his own money, he purchased large portions of land, which he sold in small tracts at a low price or often at a loss. He financed the construction of saw-mills, grist-mills and tanneries, and established other industries for the benefit of his flock. In so doing, he attracted more than four thousand residents to his Catholic colony (Loretto’s present population is fewer than 1,500). Father Gallitzin served the people of this area for forty years until his death in 1840, when he was buried on the grounds of his beloved log chapel.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Colorado +21 #potheads how's it feel not to be labeled a criminal?
Legal View on CNN reporting live from Colorado New Year's Day 2014 the 1st day of January:
@NewEdayMedia: @CNNAshleigh Hey Denver Colorado over +21 #potheads, how's it feel not to be unjustly & unfairly labeled a criminal for buying & smoking?
Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses),
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
@NewEdayMedia: @CNNAshleigh Hey Denver Colorado over +21 #potheads, how's it feel not to be unjustly & unfairly labeled a criminal for buying & smoking?
www.huffingtonpost.com
For more than 70 years, the sale of marijuana for recreational use has been criminally prohibited in the United States. But that ban, as it has existed for decad...
@NewEdayMedia:
Hey Colorado, are you feeling all right?! For you #potheads how's it feel to buy & smoke #weed with out your individual & minority rights, civil & human rights violated by unjustly & unfairly being made into a criminal?! #passion #compassion #empathy #elevation
Marijuana:
It has no lethal dose unless you can smoke 500lb in a half hour, is non addictive, natural and if you’re of a religious persuasion God given to use for its purpose.
The war was started by Mr. corrupt himself Nixon as a foil against the equal rights act as it was perceive that minorities were the common users and heaven forbid that those jazz addled, stoners affect America with their cool jibe and rhythms, they might just not bother turning up for America’s lovely Vietnam war.
Nixon feared the young and minorities more than anything.
It was clear that revolution was brewing from the smoke filled mouths of those radical young poets authors and musicians and there was no way that he wasn’t going to nip it in the metaphorical bud, as they seemed to be starting to think for themselves and freedom of thought and action should not be tolerated in a (cough) free society (waves flag and says America).
Of course the gate way theory about weed evolved and was promoted around the same time and they had a point but not the one they expected.
By declaring war on it, it became the business opportunity of some very unsavory operatives who formed cartels and the cartels supplied dealers, who sold all forms of drugs so kids came into contact with them and they knew the government was lying about drugs, like just about everything else so if they said, weed is bad, then weed was good, if they said all other forms of drugs are bad then the natural assumption was they’re lying again.
Now that a plurality of the public wants weed legalized, the powers that be, big corporations behind the façade of government are heavily vested in the prison industrial complex, big pharma so in spite of the free will of the people allegedly being a right, the free will to capitalize on people by locking them up and filling them full of chemicals is the accepted reality of both parties.
When weed becomes an inside joke among people in power, it’s time to legalize weed and the hypocrisy is overwhelming as they light up in the halls of power and police stations nationally.
Give me liberty and past the joint!
It has no lethal dose unless you can smoke 500lb in a half hour, is non addictive, natural and if you’re of a religious persuasion God given to use for its purpose.
The war was started by Mr. corrupt himself Nixon as a foil against the equal rights act as it was perceive that minorities were the common users and heaven forbid that those jazz addled, stoners affect America with their cool jibe and rhythms, they might just not bother turning up for America’s lovely Vietnam war.
Nixon feared the young and minorities more than anything.
It was clear that revolution was brewing from the smoke filled mouths of those radical young poets authors and musicians and there was no way that he wasn’t going to nip it in the metaphorical bud, as they seemed to be starting to think for themselves and freedom of thought and action should not be tolerated in a (cough) free society (waves flag and says America).
Of course the gate way theory about weed evolved and was promoted around the same time and they had a point but not the one they expected.
By declaring war on it, it became the business opportunity of some very unsavory operatives who formed cartels and the cartels supplied dealers, who sold all forms of drugs so kids came into contact with them and they knew the government was lying about drugs, like just about everything else so if they said, weed is bad, then weed was good, if they said all other forms of drugs are bad then the natural assumption was they’re lying again.
Now that a plurality of the public wants weed legalized, the powers that be, big corporations behind the façade of government are heavily vested in the prison industrial complex, big pharma so in spite of the free will of the people allegedly being a right, the free will to capitalize on people by locking them up and filling them full of chemicals is the accepted reality of both parties.
When weed becomes an inside joke among people in power, it’s time to legalize weed and the hypocrisy is overwhelming as they light up in the halls of power and police stations nationally.
Give me liberty and past the joint!
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
My New Year's Resolution for #2014
In 2013 I distinctly received the message that being a douchebag is more "Not Cool" than Greg Gutfeld's upcoming book "Not Cool" ...
For in the way I heard women say "what a douche-bag!" ... or "he's such a douche-bag!" ... or "what a real douche-bag!" = I know I don't want that to be me.
(those inflections could haunt anyone)
Mt. Gallitzin Academy to Quigley Catholic Highschool ... just turned 14 this summer. A chance encounter with Nikki Sixx & Tommy Lee had left an impression.
My New Year's Resolution for #2014 is not to be a douche-bag! .. or to even smell like one.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Not Cool Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel: how Tucker Carlson is suspect
Dear Greg Gutfeld,
While watching your 3 a.m. TV program Red Eye on Fox News Channel last evening / this early early morning, it was evident that your #newmedia-round-table-guest Tucker Carlson was quite testy & agitated when discussing the value of the NSA and its abilities to actually prevent terror attacks like the Boston Bombing and 9-11-2001 despite its absolute over-reach in so far as privacy for U.S. citizens go. ..
Tucker was promoting that "living your life without fear" is more of a bigger win for the War on Terror (overseas-contingency-plan) than NSA spying and its absolute power programs in the face of the U.S. Constitution just like the long-haired he is.
Going as so far as to say that "government does not and should not have power over the rights and privileges of its U.S. citizens." Ha! What a hippie-freak!! ... "Government should not have control of our lives and has no right to know everything about us by labeling all-of-us suspect." ... Can you believe this guy?!
But we know why Tucker Carslon is so sensitive about human rights, civil rights and individual & minority rights! ... I mean, yeah, CNN exploited him from like age 12 by under-paying him and over-working him. .. for years!
However, he's such a long-hair with a case of "affluentenza."
Actually, I wonder how he's kept that child-star quality long hair all these years anyway. Hahha.
I wonder what kind of "hair products" he's using?!
Well, according to Edward Snowden and the paranoid long-haired Tucker Carlson himself - we can label him "suspect" inside the NSA surveillance programs and then "target" him ... connecting dots for an agenda to expose him for using "hair products" not yet approved by the FDA.
As a matter of fact, if he's using these "hair products" not approved by the FDA, he's probably selling them too.
No wonder why Tucker Carlson is so anti-government!
See, Greg, all of his followers need to know he is being investigated as a suspect.
When they "bag-him" it will be doing all of us a favor and not only meeting quotas for busting someone involved with illegal-drugs not approved by the FDA so the real war = the war on drugs can continue to get large amounts of funding even from those wacky left-wingers Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid.
We are all safer from terror because of the NSA and its spying and the war-on-drugs.
No wonder why Tucker Carlson is so "pro-rights" and anti-government and is paranoid about "bad actors" abusing the system.
Not Cool Greg Gutfeld.
Not cool.
Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You [Greg Gutfeld] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Behind every awful, dangerous decision ...
Best of the Roses,
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
While watching your 3 a.m. TV program Red Eye on Fox News Channel last evening / this early early morning, it was evident that your #newmedia-round-table-guest Tucker Carlson was quite testy & agitated when discussing the value of the NSA and its abilities to actually prevent terror attacks like the Boston Bombing and 9-11-2001 despite its absolute over-reach in so far as privacy for U.S. citizens go. ..
Tucker was promoting that "living your life without fear" is more of a bigger win for the War on Terror (overseas-contingency-plan) than NSA spying and its absolute power programs in the face of the U.S. Constitution just like the long-haired he is.
Going as so far as to say that "government does not and should not have power over the rights and privileges of its U.S. citizens." Ha! What a hippie-freak!! ... "Government should not have control of our lives and has no right to know everything about us by labeling all-of-us suspect." ... Can you believe this guy?!
But we know why Tucker Carslon is so sensitive about human rights, civil rights and individual & minority rights! ... I mean, yeah, CNN exploited him from like age 12 by under-paying him and over-working him. .. for years!
However, he's such a long-hair with a case of "affluentenza."
Actually, I wonder how he's kept that child-star quality long hair all these years anyway. Hahha.
I wonder what kind of "hair products" he's using?!
Well, according to Edward Snowden and the paranoid long-haired Tucker Carlson himself - we can label him "suspect" inside the NSA surveillance programs and then "target" him ... connecting dots for an agenda to expose him for using "hair products" not yet approved by the FDA.
As a matter of fact, if he's using these "hair products" not approved by the FDA, he's probably selling them too.
No wonder why Tucker Carlson is so anti-government!
See, Greg, all of his followers need to know he is being investigated as a suspect.
When they "bag-him" it will be doing all of us a favor and not only meeting quotas for busting someone involved with illegal-drugs not approved by the FDA so the real war = the war on drugs can continue to get large amounts of funding even from those wacky left-wingers Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid.
We are all safer from terror because of the NSA and its spying and the war-on-drugs.
No wonder why Tucker Carlson is so "pro-rights" and anti-government and is paranoid about "bad actors" abusing the system.
Not Cool Greg Gutfeld.
Not cool.
Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You: Greg Gutfeld ...
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
#traffic #selfie #city
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
#CaliforniaPizza & #MegynKelly dreams: wish my friend Wallace Fowlie were alive to psychoanalyze
we all should have such dreams.
vivid, vivacious.
fun & confusing dreams
where you awake and are happy yet confused in a WTF (what the fuck) was that all about moment = however nevertheless = you're #feelinghappy
wish my friend Wallace Fowlie were alive to psychoanalyze and talk with me in person, over the telephone or through letters like we used to do. .. with his background I wonder if he ever heard of such? ..
Last night I woke up from this dream where I was in California in a little canyon town up & just outside of L.A. and I was on the phone with this Hollywood-Agent-Guy I know and I was picking up some pieces to take to his home. He wanted me to pick-up a #CaliforniaPizza and get to his home but I was asking the girl if they made a pepperoni pizza like east coast style.
And, then.
Woke-up from a dream of vividly genuine laughter with Megyn Kelly.
a strange lucidity during all of this extraordinary happenstance taking place where it's obviously special circumstances you know happens and you're rolling along with it like you do and other people just smile in amazement (and maybe a tiny bit of resentment) like WTF, man, how do you do it?
Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works), Moliere, Claudel, Baudelaire, and Cocteau, and literary studies of, among others, Rimbaud, Stendhal, Gide, and Mallarme. His widely acclaimed Journal of Rehearsals, originally published in 1977, is the first in his series of memoirs. In this passionate book, Fowlie explores his "love affair" with the literature and culture of France, and offers insights into his own intellectual and social life, his early love for the French language, and his encounters and relationships with an impressive cast of characters: Kenneth Burke, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, and others.
Best of the Roses,
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
vivid, vivacious.
fun & confusing dreams
where you awake and are happy yet confused in a WTF (what the fuck) was that all about moment = however nevertheless = you're #feelinghappy
wish my friend Wallace Fowlie were alive to psychoanalyze and talk with me in person, over the telephone or through letters like we used to do. .. with his background I wonder if he ever heard of such? ..
Last night I woke up from this dream where I was in California in a little canyon town up & just outside of L.A. and I was on the phone with this Hollywood-Agent-Guy I know and I was picking up some pieces to take to his home. He wanted me to pick-up a #CaliforniaPizza and get to his home but I was asking the girl if they made a pepperoni pizza like east coast style.
And, then.
Woke-up from a dream of vividly genuine laughter with Megyn Kelly.
a strange lucidity during all of this extraordinary happenstance taking place where it's obviously special circumstances you know happens and you're rolling along with it like you do and other people just smile in amazement (and maybe a tiny bit of resentment) like WTF, man, how do you do it?
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Monday, December 9, 2013
to you.
It reads
It really matters.
to you
Hope you see it
See it too.
Like laughter
We do need it
Everyone needs it
Like I need you
happy birthday, baby
this song's for you
It reads
happy birthday
to you
happy birthday
to you
(written a couple days early,
to you.)
Best of birthday Roses,
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
It really matters.
to you
Hope you see it
See it too.
Like laughter
We do need it
Everyone needs it
Like I need you
happy birthday, baby
this song's for you
It reads
happy birthday
to you
happy birthday
to you
(written a couple days early,
to you.)
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Thursday, December 5, 2013
25 Top Hottest Women of #BIGnewEdayMedia 2014: draft 1
Dear Santa,
It was easy to
compose a Top 100 Hottest Women of new everyday media for the e-book NewMedia Matters on mystrawhat.com with so many dynamic and engaging personalities
via new media.
Only choosing 25
Top Hottest Women of new everyday media for upcoming e-book #BIGnewEdayMedia 2014
for mystrawhat.com is hard! I am not a Grinch by any means and have always been
known as a giving, generous good-guy. Only 25 is tough!!
I come to realize that the
women we have in our lives can drastically effect the path we find
ourselves on or want for ourselves.
Henceforth, to be good
is to have a better woman.
Some women in new
media seem to exude this emissary type role to help sift through the coal ashes
and expose a gossamer morning with real promise of inspiring day light = for a
New Day.
A new day with better
stuff. .. Inspiring #everyday people to want to be better by doing better. #passion #compassion #empathy
Dear Santa, there are
a lot of women of new everyday media that inspire me everyday to be better and
provide informative yet fun deliveries of important information to help break
down unjust and intolerant mindsets & laws we need to work to change.
Please let me know the 25
who have been naughty ;) and the 25 who have been nice.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
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(Sister "Annie")
Christmas 72 or 73 = love her
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Sunday, December 1, 2013
want to listen to refreshingly fresh new music?!...
The Debut Album: All That's Covered Over
“Part of the appeal is the freshness of the material. It's not purely rock, not purely anything” states Rege Behe of TribLIVE. “While the raft of musicians might seem to imply a noisy product, the Drowning Clowns actually create musical landscapes that are serenely intricate.” -Rege Behe: TribLIVE.
The Drowning Clowns are:
Mike Speranzo
Frank Spadafora
Liz Berlin
Dirk Miller
Mike Hammer
Jesse Prentiss
Evan Smith
Mike Speranzo
Frank Spadafora
Liz Berlin
Dirk Miller
Mike Hammer
Jesse Prentiss
Evan Smith
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Snow globe acts as a magnifying glass in the sun onto a suspiciousless straw hat and cause a fire
the symbolism of parallel construction
#BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014) .... .... ....
As Officer Pfeifer describes it, the solution sounds like it came from a detective story.
“The sun came through the snowglobe, magnified it enough, and caught the straw hat on fire,” he said.
The globe acted like a magnifying glass focusing the sun’s rays, and the straw hat was fuel for a fire.
“That’s what we’re coming up with. Nobody was in that room for four hours,” says Assistant Fire Chief Glenn Pfeifer.
“We
were sitting down there having a tea party,” says Crystal.
Then,
the smoke detector went off.
Crystal
found her youngest daughter’s bedroom fully engulfed.
“These
blackened walls used to be bright yellow,” she said. “It melted all the hangers
in her closet.”
Officer
Pfeifer grabbed the kitchen extinguisher, but the heat and flames were too
much. He did notice that the hottest spot was atop Olivia’s dresser
After another first responder and the Middlesex Township volunteer firefighters got the fire out, they began looking for a cause. That led back to the dresser and the charred remains of a snowglobe and a straw hat.
“It’s gotta be the snow globe,” says Crystal. “There was nothing else in here plugged in.”
Strange it may be, but all got out safely, including the family’s pet Bearded Dragon, belonging to one of the Yosts’ 10-year-old twin daughters. It’s one for the family memory books.
“The Lord was looking out for us,” said Crystal.
Watch here http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/11/21/firefighters-investigating-possible-snowglobe-fire/
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thankful for ThanksGivingDay Family Memories: my Family Tree Flashback 2007
This was our annual ThanksGivingDay I had the pleasure of knowing on an annual basis for many years at the Pittsburgh Athletics Association (PAA) in Oakland
at the University of Pittsburgh
in a private room with its own bar
= = =
thanks to my great Aunt Helen
(well Michael flew in from his place Monaco) for ThanksGiving
(Joan's mother and Michael & Matthew's grandmother)
and their two boys
My upper west side cousins
at the camera and smiling sister Maureen, my mom seated in blue w/ her cape and
my father seated on the right
(I have six siblings who were all present)
because like it or not new traditions come in
At the time I was working on a #newmedia project including a collection of poems for an e-book for mystrawhat.com called
EveryDay There's
Something 2008
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&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Sunday, November 24, 2013
One of These Days
Erik Cirelli "one of these days" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-Mxo_fLyE
Camper Van Beethoven - One of These Days
Camper Van Beethoven playing One of These Days at the Abbey in Chicago
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Meant to Be
"Those who know = whispering hey see us walking = there's a love that's meant to be" ...
Meant To Be- Squirrel Nut Zippers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79WpiIWxHU
Chateau Marmont July 07 - 2007
L.A.
upgraded pool cottage
uptight seer-sucker-blazer too old school Pittsburgh
Best of the Roses,
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the new everyday media
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Meant To Be- Squirrel Nut Zippers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79WpiIWxHU
L.A.
upgraded pool cottage
uptight seer-sucker-blazer too old school Pittsburgh
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald dead on live TV for shooting JFK: 50 years ago
First live TV murder
50 years ago
My father receives a call from Belli to join him in Dallas, TX and serve as a legal expert (specifically for my father's recent victory in a high profile "insanity" case where a boy shot his father who was the Sheriff of Baden, Pa.).
My father's partner, Paul Courtney, tells his wife that he & John (my father) would be going to Dallas to assist in representing Jack Ruby.
Recently Mrs. Courtney gave my father a copy of her personal diary from that moment in history when the whole world was watching.
Her honest insight into these events in U.S. History like no other are strikingly fascinating for me to read ... especially how she describes what it was like for her when the local Pittsburgh media caught wind.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald dead on live television.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awy3h5QK7WI
Dallas, Nov. 24--President Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was fatally shot by a Dallas night-club operator today as the police started to move him from the city jail to the county jail.
The shooting occurred in the basement of the municipal building at about 11:20 A.M. central standard time (12:20 P.M. New York time).
The assailant, Jack Rubenstein, known as Jack Ruby, lunged from a cluster of newsmen observing the transfer of Oswald from the jail to an armored truck.
Millions of viewers saw the shooting on television.
As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: "Jack, you son of a bitch!"
A murder charge was filed against Ruby by Assistant District Attorney William F. Alexander, Justice of the Peace Pierce McBride ordered him held without bail.
Detectives Flank Him
Oswald was arrested Friday after Mr. Kennedy was shot dead while riding through Dallas in an open car. He was charged with murdering the President and a policeman who was shot a short time later while trying to question Oswald.
As the 24-year-old prisoner, flanked by two detectives, stepped onto a basement garage ramp, Ruby thrust a .38-caliber, snub-nose revolver into Oswald's left side and fired a single shot.
The 52-year-old night-club operator, an ardent admirer of President Kennedy and his family, was described as having been distraught.
[District Attorney Henry Wade said he understood that the police were looking into the possibility that Oswald had been slain to prevent him from talking, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Wade said that so far no connection between Oswald and Ruby had been established.]
Oswald slumped to the concrete paving, wordlessly clutching his side and writhing with pain.
Oswald apparently lost consciousness very quickly after the shooting. Whether he was at any point able to speak, if he wanted to, was not known.
The politically eccentric warehouse clerk was taken in a police ambulance to the Parkland Hospital, where President Kennedy died Friday. He died in surgery at 1:07 P.M., less than two hours after the shooting. The exact time Oswald was shot was not definitely established.
Four plainclothes men, from a detail of about 50 police officers carrying out the transfer, pounced on Ruby as he fired the shot and overpowered him.
Ruby, who came to Dallas from Chicago 15 years ago, had a police record here listing six allegations of minor offenses. The disposition of five was not noted. A charge of liquor law violation was dismissed. Two of the entries, in July, 1953, and May, 1954, involved carrying concealed weapons.
The city police, working with the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said last night that they had the case against Oswald "cinched."
After some 30 hours of intermittent interrogations and confrontations with scores of witnesses, Oswald was ordered transferred to the custody of the Dallas County sheriff.
This was preliminary to the planned presentation of the case, next Wednesday or the following Monday, to the county grand jury by District Attorney Wade.
The transfer involved a trip of about a mile from the uptown municipal building, where the Police Department and jail are. The route went down Main Street to the county jail, overlooking the spot where President Kennedy was killed and Gov. John B. Connally was wounded by shots from the book warehouse where Oswald worked.
A Change in Plans
The original plan had been for the sheriff to assume custody of Oswald at the city jail and handle the transfer. Late last night, for unspecified reasons, it was decided that the city police would move the prisoner.
Police Chief Jesse Curry declined to comment on suggestions that he had scheduled the transfer of Oswald at an unpropitious time because of pressure from news media.
Chief Curry announced about 9 o'clock last night that the investigation had reached a point where Oswald's presence was no longer needed. He said that Oswald would be turned over to the county sheriff today.
Asked when this would take place, the chief said: "If you fellows are here by 10 A.M., you'll be early enough."
When newsmen assembled at the police administrative offices at 10 o'clock, Chief Curry commented: "We could have done this earlier if I hadn't given you fellows that 10 o'clock time."
Armored Van Used
This was generally construed as meaning that preparations for the transfer had been in readiness for some hours, rather than implying a complaint from the chief that the press had had any part in setting the time.
Chief Curry disclosed this morning that to thwart an attempt against Oswald, the trip was to be made in an armored van of the kind used to transfer money.
"We're not going to take any chances," he said. "Our squad cars are not bullet-proof. If somebody's going to try to do something, they wouldn't stop him."
A ramp dips through the basement garage of the municipal building, running from Main Street to Commerce Street. Patrol wagons drive down this ramp and discharge prisoners at a basement booking office. The garage ceiling was too low for the armored car, so the van was backed up in the Commerce Street portal of the ramp.
The plan was to lead Oswald out the doorway in the center of the basement and about 75 feet up the ramp to the back of the armored car.
Prisoner on Fourth Floor
At about 11 o'clock, Chief Curry left his third-floor office, followed by plainclothes detectives and newsmen, to go to the basement. Oswald was still in a fourth-floor jail cell.
As the group with the chief walked through a short corridor past the basement booking office and out the door onto the guarded ramp, uniformed policemen checked the reporters' credentials. But they passed familiar faces, such as those of policemen and collaborating Secret Service and F.B.I. agents.
Ruby's face was familiar to many policemen who had encountered him at his two night clubs and in his frequent visits to the municipal building.
Inconspicuous in Group
Neatly dressed in a dark suit and wearing a fedora, he was inconspicuous in a group of perhaps 50 men who for the next 20 minutes waited in a 12-foot-wide vestibule and adjacent portions of the ramp.
Television cameras, facing the vestibule, were set up against a metal railing separating the 15- foot-wide ramp from the rest of the garage. Some newsmen clustered along this railing.
Across Commerce Street, in front of a row of bail bonds-men's offices, a crowd of several hundred persons was held back by a police line.
Soon Oswald was taken in an elevator to the basement. He was led through the booking office to the open vestibule between two lines of detectives.
Walks Behind Captain
Captain Fritz, chief of the police homicide division, walked just ahead of him. Oswald was handcuffed, with a detective holding each arm and another following. On Oswald's right, in a light suit, was J. R. Leavelle and on his left, in a dark suit, L. C. Graves.
As they turned right from the vestibule to start up the ramp, Ruby jumped forward from against the railing. There was a sudden loud noise that sounded like the explosion of a photographer's flashbulb. It was Ruby's revolver firing.
A momentary furor set in as Ruby was seized and hustled into the building. Policemen ran up the ramp in both directions to the street, followed by others with orders to seal off the building.
About five minutes elapsed before an ambulance could be rolled down the ramp to Oswald.
The ambulance, its siren sounding, was followed by police and press cars on the four-mile drive to the hospital.
The hospital's emergency department had been on the alert for possible injuries arising out of the projected transfer.
Oswald was moved almost immediately into an operating room, at the other end of the building from the one where President Kennedy was treated.
The bullet had entered Oswald's body just below his heart and had torn into most of the vital organs.
Dr. Tom Shires, the hospital's chief of surgery, who operated on Governor Connally Friday, took over the case. The gamut of emergency procedures--blood transfusion, fluid transfusion, breathing tube and chest drainage tube--was instituted immediately.
But Dr. Shires quickly reported through a hospital official that Oswald was in "extremely critical condition" and that surgery would take several hours.
Family Put in Custody
Oswald's brother, George, a factory worker from Denton, Tex., got to the hospital before the assassin died.
The police took Oswald's mother, wife and two infant daughters into protective custody. They were escorted to the hospital to view the body, then were taken to an undisclosed lodging place in Dallas.
Governor Connally is still a patient at the Parkland Hospital. The excitement of the Oswald case swirled around the temporary office the Governor had set up there.
Back at the jail, Ruby was taken to the same fourth-floor cellblock where his victim had been the focus of attention the last two days.
Reports that filtered out about his preliminary remarks said that he had been impelled to kill President Kennedy's assassin by sympathy for Mrs. Kennedy. It was reported he did not want her to go through the ordeal of returning to Dallas for the trial of Oswald.
District Attorney Wade said yesterday he was sure the prosecution of Oswald could be carried out without the personal involvement of any members of the Kennedy family.
A half-dozen lawyers who have worked for Ruby converged on police headquarters in the next hour or two. They said they had been directed there by relatives and friends of Ruby and had not been called by Ruby himself.
One lawyer said that he had arranged for a hearing before a justice of the peace tomorrow morning to ask for Ruby's release on bail.
"He's a respectable citizen who's been here for years and certainly is entitled to bail," the lawyer said. "We'll make any amount of bail."
"He is a great admirer of President Kennedy," the lawyer said, "and police officers."
The last remark was an allusion to the fact that Oswald was accused of fatally shooting the Dallas patrolman after the President's assassination.
Ruby, the lawyer said, "is a very emotional man."
Chief Curry called the second formal news conference of the last three days in the police headquarters basement assembly room at 1:30 P.M.
His face drawn, he said in a husky voice:
"My statement will be very brief. Oswald expired at 1:07 P.M.
"We have arrested the man. He will be charged with murder. The suspect is Jack Rubenstein. He also goes by the name of Jack Ruby. That's all I have to say."
Sheriff Bill Decker commented that the police "did everything humanly possible" to protect Oswald, as he said they had in the case of President Kennedy.
"I don't think it would have made a bit of difference if Oswald had been transferred at night," he said. "If someone is determined to commit murder, it's almost impossible to stop him."
Ironically, it appeared that Ruby might have had a number of far easier opportunities for killing Oswald than the method he finally used.
He was reported to have circulated repeatedly the last two days among the throng of people that was constantly in the third-floor corridor near the homicide bureau. Oswald was led along this corridor a number of times as he was taken down from the fourth-floor jail for interrogation.
The shooting occurred in the basement of the municipal building at about 11:20 A.M. central standard time (12:20 P.M. New York time).
The assailant, Jack Rubenstein, known as Jack Ruby, lunged from a cluster of newsmen observing the transfer of Oswald from the jail to an armored truck.
Millions of viewers saw the shooting on television.
As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: "Jack, you son of a bitch!"
A murder charge was filed against Ruby by Assistant District Attorney William F. Alexander, Justice of the Peace Pierce McBride ordered him held without bail.
Detectives Flank Him
Oswald was arrested Friday after Mr. Kennedy was shot dead while riding through Dallas in an open car. He was charged with murdering the President and a policeman who was shot a short time later while trying to question Oswald.
As the 24-year-old prisoner, flanked by two detectives, stepped onto a basement garage ramp, Ruby thrust a .38-caliber, snub-nose revolver into Oswald's left side and fired a single shot.
The 52-year-old night-club operator, an ardent admirer of President Kennedy and his family, was described as having been distraught.
[District Attorney Henry Wade said he understood that the police were looking into the possibility that Oswald had been slain to prevent him from talking, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Wade said that so far no connection between Oswald and Ruby had been established.]
Oswald slumped to the concrete paving, wordlessly clutching his side and writhing with pain.
Oswald apparently lost consciousness very quickly after the shooting. Whether he was at any point able to speak, if he wanted to, was not known.
The politically eccentric warehouse clerk was taken in a police ambulance to the Parkland Hospital, where President Kennedy died Friday. He died in surgery at 1:07 P.M., less than two hours after the shooting. The exact time Oswald was shot was not definitely established.
Four plainclothes men, from a detail of about 50 police officers carrying out the transfer, pounced on Ruby as he fired the shot and overpowered him.
Ruby, who came to Dallas from Chicago 15 years ago, had a police record here listing six allegations of minor offenses. The disposition of five was not noted. A charge of liquor law violation was dismissed. Two of the entries, in July, 1953, and May, 1954, involved carrying concealed weapons.
The city police, working with the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said last night that they had the case against Oswald "cinched."
After some 30 hours of intermittent interrogations and confrontations with scores of witnesses, Oswald was ordered transferred to the custody of the Dallas County sheriff.
This was preliminary to the planned presentation of the case, next Wednesday or the following Monday, to the county grand jury by District Attorney Wade.
The transfer involved a trip of about a mile from the uptown municipal building, where the Police Department and jail are. The route went down Main Street to the county jail, overlooking the spot where President Kennedy was killed and Gov. John B. Connally was wounded by shots from the book warehouse where Oswald worked.
A Change in Plans
The original plan had been for the sheriff to assume custody of Oswald at the city jail and handle the transfer. Late last night, for unspecified reasons, it was decided that the city police would move the prisoner.
Police Chief Jesse Curry declined to comment on suggestions that he had scheduled the transfer of Oswald at an unpropitious time because of pressure from news media.
Chief Curry announced about 9 o'clock last night that the investigation had reached a point where Oswald's presence was no longer needed. He said that Oswald would be turned over to the county sheriff today.
Asked when this would take place, the chief said: "If you fellows are here by 10 A.M., you'll be early enough."
When newsmen assembled at the police administrative offices at 10 o'clock, Chief Curry commented: "We could have done this earlier if I hadn't given you fellows that 10 o'clock time."
Armored Van Used
This was generally construed as meaning that preparations for the transfer had been in readiness for some hours, rather than implying a complaint from the chief that the press had had any part in setting the time.
Chief Curry disclosed this morning that to thwart an attempt against Oswald, the trip was to be made in an armored van of the kind used to transfer money.
"We're not going to take any chances," he said. "Our squad cars are not bullet-proof. If somebody's going to try to do something, they wouldn't stop him."
A ramp dips through the basement garage of the municipal building, running from Main Street to Commerce Street. Patrol wagons drive down this ramp and discharge prisoners at a basement booking office. The garage ceiling was too low for the armored car, so the van was backed up in the Commerce Street portal of the ramp.
The plan was to lead Oswald out the doorway in the center of the basement and about 75 feet up the ramp to the back of the armored car.
Prisoner on Fourth Floor
At about 11 o'clock, Chief Curry left his third-floor office, followed by plainclothes detectives and newsmen, to go to the basement. Oswald was still in a fourth-floor jail cell.
As the group with the chief walked through a short corridor past the basement booking office and out the door onto the guarded ramp, uniformed policemen checked the reporters' credentials. But they passed familiar faces, such as those of policemen and collaborating Secret Service and F.B.I. agents.
Ruby's face was familiar to many policemen who had encountered him at his two night clubs and in his frequent visits to the municipal building.
Inconspicuous in Group
Neatly dressed in a dark suit and wearing a fedora, he was inconspicuous in a group of perhaps 50 men who for the next 20 minutes waited in a 12-foot-wide vestibule and adjacent portions of the ramp.
Television cameras, facing the vestibule, were set up against a metal railing separating the 15- foot-wide ramp from the rest of the garage. Some newsmen clustered along this railing.
Across Commerce Street, in front of a row of bail bonds-men's offices, a crowd of several hundred persons was held back by a police line.
Soon Oswald was taken in an elevator to the basement. He was led through the booking office to the open vestibule between two lines of detectives.
Walks Behind Captain
Captain Fritz, chief of the police homicide division, walked just ahead of him. Oswald was handcuffed, with a detective holding each arm and another following. On Oswald's right, in a light suit, was J. R. Leavelle and on his left, in a dark suit, L. C. Graves.
As they turned right from the vestibule to start up the ramp, Ruby jumped forward from against the railing. There was a sudden loud noise that sounded like the explosion of a photographer's flashbulb. It was Ruby's revolver firing.
A momentary furor set in as Ruby was seized and hustled into the building. Policemen ran up the ramp in both directions to the street, followed by others with orders to seal off the building.
About five minutes elapsed before an ambulance could be rolled down the ramp to Oswald.
The ambulance, its siren sounding, was followed by police and press cars on the four-mile drive to the hospital.
The hospital's emergency department had been on the alert for possible injuries arising out of the projected transfer.
Oswald was moved almost immediately into an operating room, at the other end of the building from the one where President Kennedy was treated.
The bullet had entered Oswald's body just below his heart and had torn into most of the vital organs.
Dr. Tom Shires, the hospital's chief of surgery, who operated on Governor Connally Friday, took over the case. The gamut of emergency procedures--blood transfusion, fluid transfusion, breathing tube and chest drainage tube--was instituted immediately.
But Dr. Shires quickly reported through a hospital official that Oswald was in "extremely critical condition" and that surgery would take several hours.
Family Put in Custody
Oswald's brother, George, a factory worker from Denton, Tex., got to the hospital before the assassin died.
The police took Oswald's mother, wife and two infant daughters into protective custody. They were escorted to the hospital to view the body, then were taken to an undisclosed lodging place in Dallas.
Governor Connally is still a patient at the Parkland Hospital. The excitement of the Oswald case swirled around the temporary office the Governor had set up there.
Back at the jail, Ruby was taken to the same fourth-floor cellblock where his victim had been the focus of attention the last two days.
Reports that filtered out about his preliminary remarks said that he had been impelled to kill President Kennedy's assassin by sympathy for Mrs. Kennedy. It was reported he did not want her to go through the ordeal of returning to Dallas for the trial of Oswald.
District Attorney Wade said yesterday he was sure the prosecution of Oswald could be carried out without the personal involvement of any members of the Kennedy family.
A half-dozen lawyers who have worked for Ruby converged on police headquarters in the next hour or two. They said they had been directed there by relatives and friends of Ruby and had not been called by Ruby himself.
One lawyer said that he had arranged for a hearing before a justice of the peace tomorrow morning to ask for Ruby's release on bail.
"He's a respectable citizen who's been here for years and certainly is entitled to bail," the lawyer said. "We'll make any amount of bail."
"He is a great admirer of President Kennedy," the lawyer said, "and police officers."
The last remark was an allusion to the fact that Oswald was accused of fatally shooting the Dallas patrolman after the President's assassination.
Ruby, the lawyer said, "is a very emotional man."
Chief Curry called the second formal news conference of the last three days in the police headquarters basement assembly room at 1:30 P.M.
His face drawn, he said in a husky voice:
"My statement will be very brief. Oswald expired at 1:07 P.M.
"We have arrested the man. He will be charged with murder. The suspect is Jack Rubenstein. He also goes by the name of Jack Ruby. That's all I have to say."
Sheriff Bill Decker commented that the police "did everything humanly possible" to protect Oswald, as he said they had in the case of President Kennedy.
"I don't think it would have made a bit of difference if Oswald had been transferred at night," he said. "If someone is determined to commit murder, it's almost impossible to stop him."
Ironically, it appeared that Ruby might have had a number of far easier opportunities for killing Oswald than the method he finally used.
He was reported to have circulated repeatedly the last two days among the throng of people that was constantly in the third-floor corridor near the homicide bureau. Oswald was led along this corridor a number of times as he was taken down from the fourth-floor jail for interrogation.
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