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I appreciate the help from Patrick Maurice to identify this as a female gadwall. It would have been easier if she would have been hanging out with her male partner! Seen in Ft. Collins in northeastern Colorado USA.
Mike Kane MP commits to help.
Greater Manchester Police has been working with a community organiser to develop positive relationships with a group of volunteers from across the Wythenshawe area. The volunteers are working towards changing attitudes and behaviours around domestic abuse to endeavour to support other victims who have not yet safely escaped their abusive relationships.
The group have been working together for the past 7 months and have set up a #SafeSpots scheme, whereby local businesses have received training in order to be able to sign post victims into available services.
This group has carried out a 'listening exercise', spoken to 1,000 people to identify what the community's views on how domestic abuse is perceived and dealt with by statutory agencies.
As a result of their findings, the volunteers have asked GMP if they could assist with providing a training video of how best to approach victims.
People in the Wythenshawe area who have experienced domestic abuse stated that they would be less likely to travel out of the area to seek assistance from services. It was identified that there was a lack of service provision based in the area. As such they have requested support from local police, the local MP and local councillors to develop a drop in centre in the Wythenshawe area to support victims of abuse.
Anyone who would like to support the volunteers can follow their account on Twitter - @WythSafespots with #SAFESPOTS
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
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Ok so I will hopefully be making a Batman Arkham City MOC to take to Brickworld and I thought I could incorperate this into the MOC, but I will need a bit of help. I have an idea to use the BA revolver as the grip and the chop off the barrel but from there I need a bit of help
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3 Lancaster and Chester locomotives sit on the main with the Archer Daniels Midland plant as a backdrop and the cars to their left fouling the main for about a quarter mile. They were here the weekend.
2268 has an interesting linage and is now a GP38m-2. GP38M-2 ex-FURX 2268, TFM 1168, CSXT 6709, SBD 6709, SCL 2554, SAL 639
2866 Former Southern, has worn various G&O reporting marks
2273 is also a GP38m-2 GP38M-2 ex-FURX 2273 exx-TFM 1173 exxx-CSX 6566 exxxx-CO 3791
I was recently honored to be asked to lead a media tour throughout several cities in my home state of Ohio to help legalize cannabis and industrial hemp. Our first stop was meeting with Matt Abel and friends hosted by Michigan NORML. Matt and I have known each other for years. He's a great guy! Special thanks to Charles Vest with www.HempMedsPX.com for sponsoring the media tour :) with Cheryl Shuman & Aimee Shuman Founders of www.BeverlyHillsCannabisClub.com
I'm so proud to be working to educate mainstream media about the benefits of cannabis. The past few weeks have been amazing.If you like what you see and hear, join our private social network, www.BeverlyHillsCannabisClub.com
I wanted to share my photo & video diaries with you. As you all know, I recently signed with William Morris Endeavor to develop a reality series evolving around my work in the movement and in building my companies etc. I love sharing these video diaries from behind the scenes of day to day business. I believe that the real life day to day business in the cannabis world is far more interesting than most reality series I see on TV currently :) If you would like to see the REAL people behind the scenes of this movement to be a part of the series instead of using actors, then please support us in our vision. Please share everywhere. Some supportive comments would be great also. Let's make sure we have a lot of positive support out there in the mainstream and take this viral :) Marijuana is safer than alcohol!!!! Spread the word! :) Please share, like, comment, G+, tweet etc :)
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Shuman was the founder of Beverly Hills NORML producing the largest cannabis convention on earth known as KUSHCon. As the face of KUSH Magazine, Cheryl Shuman was a founding member of the NCIA, National Cannabis Industry Association. Shuman transformed her non-profit career into a thriving profitable media enterprise.
Her private medical cannabis collective, "The Beverly Hills Cannabis Club" is unlisted and membership is by referral only. Through her personal relationships and connections within Hollywood and the media, Cheryl Shuman has been named as one of the most influential women in the cannabis reform movement by international media. Her position within the cannabis industry creates the first and only company of its kind and at the forefront of entertainment marketing, celebrity endorsements, product placement integration, sponsorships, production and technology.
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LUMBINI NEPAL
Lumbinī (Nepali and Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी listen (help•info), "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Nepal. It is the place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE.[1][2] Gautama, who achieved Enlightenment some time around 528 BCE,[3][4] became the Buddha and founded Buddhism.[5][6][7]Lumbini is one of many magnets for pilgrimage that sprang up in places pivotal to the life of the Buddha.
Lumbini has a number of temples, including the Mayadevi Temple and several others which are still under repair. Many monuments, monasteries and a museum, the Lumbini International Research Institute, are also within the holy site. Also there is the Puskarini, or Holy Pond, where the Buddha's mother took the ritual dip prior to his birth and where he had his first bath. At other sites near Lumbini, earlier Buddhas were, according to tradition, born, then achieved ultimate Enlightenment and finally relinquished their earthly forms
In the Buddha's time, Lumbini was situated in east of Kapilavastu and southwest Devadaha of Shakya kingdom of Nepal.[8][9] It was there, that the Buddha was born.[10] A pillar discovered in 1896 (and erected thereafter at Rummindei) is believed to mark the spot of Ashoka's visit to Lumbini. The site was not known as Lumbini before the pillar was discovered.[11] According to an inscription on the pillar, it was placed there by the people then in charge of the park to commemorate Ashoka's visit and gifts.[12] The park was previously known as Rummindei, 2 mi (2 mi (3.2 km)) north of Bhagavanpura.
The Sutta Nipáta (vs. 683) states that the Buddha was born in a village of the Sákyans in the Lumbineyya Janapada. The Buddha stayed in Lumbinívana during his visit to Devadaha and there preached the Devadaha Sutta.
In 1896, Nepalese archaeologists (led by Khadga Samsher Rana and assisted by Alois Anton Führer) discovered a great stone pillar at Lumbini, according to the crucial historical records made by the ancient Chinese monk-pilgrim Xuanzang in the 7th century CE. Führer postulated that the pillar was placed at the site by Ashoka (emperor of the Maurya Empire) circa 245 BCE. Records made by another ancient Chinese monk-pilgrim Faxian in the early 5th century CE, were also used in the process of identifying this religiously acclaimed site.
Recent excavations beneath existing brick structures at the Mayadevi Temple at Lumbini have uncovered evidence for an older timber structure beneath the walls of the newer brick Buddhist shrine, which was constructed during the Ashokan era. The layout of the Ashokan shrine closely follows that of the earlier timber structure, which suggests a continuity of worship at the site. The pre-Mauryan timber structure appears to be an ancient bodhigara (tree shrine), consisting of postholes and a wooden railing surrounding a clay floor containing mineralized tree roots that appears to have been worn smooth by visitors. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from the wooden postholes and optically stimulated luminescence dating of elements in the soil suggests human activity (possibly pre-Buddhist tree worship) began at the site around 1000 BCE, followed by the development of a Buddhist monastery-like community by approximately 550 BCE
Lumbini is 4.8 km (3 mi) in length and 1.6 km (1.0 mi) in width. The holy site of Lumbini is bordered by a large monastic zone in which only monasteries can be built, no shops, hotels or restaurants. It is separated into an eastern and western monastic zone, the eastern having the Theravadin monasteries, the western having Mahayanaand Vajrayana monasteries.
The holy site of Lumbini has ruins of ancient monasteries, a sacred Bodhi tree, an ancient bathing pond, the Ashokan pillar and the Mayadevi Temple, where the supposed place of birth of Buddha is located. From early morning to early evening, pilgrims from various countries perform chanting and meditation at the site.
A non-governmental organization named Samriddhi Foundation started in 2013 working extensively in the field of education and health specially in government schools of the area where underprivileged children study. A non-governmental organisation called "Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation" (APECF) backed by chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)and then Prime Minister Prachanda, the Chinese government and a UN group called "United Nations Industrial Development Organization" (UNIDO) signed a deal to develop Lumbini into a "special development zone" with funds worth $3 billion.[15] The venture was a China-UN joint project. A broader 'Lumbini Development National Director Committee' under the leadership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal was formed on 17 October 2011.[16] The six-member committee included Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) leader Mangal Siddhi Manandhar, Nepali Congress leader Minendra Rijal, Forest Minister Mohammad Wakil Musalman, among other leaders. The committee was given the authority to "draft a master plan to develop Lumbini as a peaceful and tourism area and table the proposal" and the responsibility to gather international support for the same.
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Meet Santa's Other Helpers, Santa's real eyes and ears, who hang out in your house all year and write down all your childrens misdeeds and report back to Santa. These cute Goblins are about 13 inches tall, handmade from cruelty-free poly-felt. Their little tunics, hooded cloaks, and Fleece tights as well as pointy green elf slippers are alll handmade and removable. Every C.P.G. (Christmas Patrol Goblin) comes with a little hand stained wooden chest to keep their naughty list.
I’m having trouble naming my commando squad and I want your help naming them. So far I have come up with a possible squad name Amber but I’m open to suggestions. I have some that I like but if you find something better I might change it Wreck for the black sniper, Frost for the one with the blue visor, Buck for the split blue and gray helmet, and I haven’t came up with a name for the dark red one but I’m open to suggestions.
So they say , members of the QSC Queensland. Show Choir group .. all happy smiles here .
Christmas Parade
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There's a logo on the front that says "King of the Road". I don't know the make or model of the car.
HI! anyone who knows all the items listed in this picture could you help them find this Flickr so they can get this person and the people in the creators box reported. I stumbled upon this place trying to find a amusement park for me and my mum to hang at.
I know one is Pink Fuel:
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Hiba and Adel are a newlywed couple living in a small single room apartment in a well-known refugee neighbourhood in Gaziantep, Turkey. Adel, 26, used to work as a chef in Raqqa before coming to Turkey 1.5 years ago. “I always loved to cook. When I was a kid I would always help out my parents and relatives in the kitchen. When I got older, I started to work in kitchens in restaurants,” says Adel. “I knew early on that I wanted to open up a restaurant of my own.”
Things changed for him quickly once ISIL came and took over Raqqa. “It was not too bad at first, but once they gained control of the city they began closing down all of the shops. That’s how I lost my job and couldn’t make more money.”
After that things got much worse.
“Then they started the public executions and beheadings. I can’t even remember how many people I saw killed in front of me. It got to the point that all the good memories I had living there were ruined by the horrors that I saw there. I left the city while I still had the chance to do so.”
Hiba, 24, was a nursing student in Aleppo when the war began. Her love for medicine began at an early age when she would spend time helping out in a medical laboratory and maternity clinic. “I’m fascinated by the whole subject. I really do hope to be able to finish what I started one day so I can work as a nurse.” As the war raged on in Aleppo, Hiba and her family eventually fled to Gaziantep nine months ago.
While living in Turkey, their families eventually crossed paths and their marriage was arranged. “I was so nervous when I first met him. I knew nothing about him,” laughs Hiba. Adel also recounts nervous jitters when he first met his wife-to-be “I knew that we didn’t have to marry if we didn’t like each other when we met but once I set my eyes on her I knew she was the one.”
Happily in love, the two had a modest ceremony with close family members, all of whom were from Hiba’s family. “I have no family here, my family is still trapped in Raqqa and I haven’t heard from them in months.”
Now they face a new problem together; finding affordable housing. “I used to work here in a local restaurant in Gaziantep but the owner was not paying me very much and gradually started paying me me less and less until he simply stopped. I couldn’t keep working like that.” As they struggle with paying the rent with no work, IOM has been providing the couple with rental assistance. “The help is greatly appreciated. It has given us some time to breathe and my husband to find new work and I can find a way to resume my studies.”
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"Angles" for the 2010 Lighting 102 group using a rather dashing "Help for Strobists Heroes" stuffed toy. Just need to remember to keep this one away from the dog when I've finished with him!
Going from 90 deg (normal to subject) left of shot in roughly 1/8s of a circle (it doesn't seem right to say 22.5deg - it's clearly not that precise) missing out the on axis (i've got plenty of those).
The three rows are different height angles 30deg up, eye level and 30 deg down.
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We need you to vote and help us reach a minimum of 250 votes. We are currently at 108 votes which was gained over a period of 24 hours. If we can keep the momentum going we can easily reach 250 in 48 hours. This can only get done with your help and with you spreading the news. After you vote tell everyone you know to vote as well and have them tell everyone they know. If we can get 5 people to vote and then they get 5 people each to vote and then they get 5 people each to vote we will have our goal! But it starts with that first vote... YOU!
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(This picture was taken with my phone, hence the crappy quality!)
I'm considering buying the Olympus Pen E-1 which is really cheap at the moment. But I'm not sure. So here's where you guys come in. Should I buy it?
I love the 7D I have now, but it's so big and heavy and I really want a GOOD quality camera I carry with me. I do have a compact camera of 6 months old or so.. but the quality is so crappy that I never use it, it's the same as my phone! The Olympus Pen would be a perfect solution since it's so small and light... but it wouldn't it be quiet useless? I mean, I would definitely carry it with me way more than the 7D... but I'm also afraid I'd use the 7D less since the Olympus wil be so easy to carry with me
Aargh dilemma... what would you do? The Olympus Pen is now only 350 euro including 14-42mm lens which is very cheap in my eyes...
I only live once, right? ;)
(I've sold the 400D which I do not regret at all... it would still be too big compared to the Olympus Pen :))
Edit: Never mind, I just ordered it XD YAAAY
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G-2B Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA 94304 (next to the Bloomingdales) - Google Map - additional views
Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on El Camino Real at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the actual buildings or stores. However, both the shopping center and the neighboring Stanford University Medical Center are counted as part of the city of Palo Alto. The shopping center buildings are owned by Simon Property Group, which manages the property and leases the land from the university.
The outdoor center is 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m²) and includes four major department stores: Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom. Stanford Shopping Center also includes such luxury retailers as Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., Burberry, Cartier SA, Polo Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Wilkes Bashford, Ermenegildo Zegna and Juicy Couture.
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BC businesses have a new online tool to help them be ready to tap into the generational opportunities that will be driven by the Liquefied Natural Gas industry.
The registry and tool at LNGBuyBC.ca was launched so companies large and small can be ready and profile their goods and services to proponents and their contractors when the first Final Investment Decision is reached.
Businesses create online profiles in the LNG-Buy BC online tool that makes their specialties, their certifications, and their contact information available to other registered businesses to help them grow networks, develop new partnerships and secure new business opportunities. There are no limits to the number or types of businesses that can create profiles and connect with opportunities through the website.
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Donation Information:
If you would like to help those affected by Wednesday's storms, the American Red Cross is accepting donations in a couple of ways.
Make out your check to "American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need", and mail it to:
American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need
300 Chase Park South
Hoover Alabama 35244
If you prefer to make a donation on-line, please click here to visit alredcross.org
-To apply for federal disaster assistance online, go to www.disasterassistance.gov
-To apply over the phone, call 1-800-621-3362 between the hours of 7am and 10 pm.
-The United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing. Call 211 for more details.
Volunteer Information:
-United Way's Hands on Birmingham - www.handsonbirmingham.org
-Volunteers in Tuscaloosa are asked to register at St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Skyland Boulevard
-Volunteers in Calhoun County must register at the Ohatchee Police Department
-Volunteers in Concord must register at the YMCA on 4th Avenue South
-Webster's Chapel leaders are looking for volunteers with vehicles who can distribute supplies to tornado victims. Volunteers should go to the Webster's Chapel Fire Station
Drop off Locations:
-Harvest Church in Northport is accepting donations for tornado survivors
-Christian Service Mission at 3600 3rd Ave South is accepting personal care items, baby supplies, and other items of basic need
-First Baptist Church Trussville is a drop off point for donations Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm
-Church of the Highlands on Grants Mill Road is accepting items of basic need
-Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria is collecting donations of bathing supplies
-Clear Branch United Methodist Church in Argo is a drop off location from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday
-Mark Ferrier Ministries has a drop off point at 97.7 Fox FM radio in Jasper
-Alabaster First United Methodist Church accepting donations for storm survivors at Restore Building behind the church
-Holy Faith Temple is accepting donations for tornado survivors in Childersburg
-Central Baptist Church of Jasper is collecting supplies for victims in Cordova.
-McAlpine Recreation Center at 1115 Avenue F in Ensley is now a drop off point
-108 Haynes Street in Talladega is collecting donations for survivors in East Alabama
-East Birmingham Church of God on First Avenue North is collecting supplies
-All Books-A-Million stores are collecing monetary donations for the Salvation Army
-East Birmingham Church of God in Christ on 1st Avenue is collecting supplies
-Aldrich Assembly of God is collecting relief supplies at Lucky's Market in Montevallo and Sammy's Fresh Market in Wilsonville.
-Vance town community center is collecting donations for survivors in Vance
-Helena Cumberland Presbyterian Church is accepting donations all week from 9am until 6pm.
-Donations in Calhoun County may be dropped off at Eagle Point Baptist Church in Jacksonville and Word Alive Church in Coldwater.
-Jasper Jaycees are accepting donated items at the fairgrounds on Airport Road. Cash donations can be made at Bank of Walker County. Call 205-221-3928 for more info.
-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site
-Cullman county donation locations: Eagle Point Church, Isaiah 58-Word Alive Church, Piedmont Benevolence and Salvation Army
-UAB is holding blood drives at the North Pavillion from 10am to 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. 7am to 2pm Tuesday and Friday
Places to pick up items or get help:
-People with disabilities who have lost medication or equipment can call 205-251-2223 ext 102
-United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing - call 211
-There will be a physician on site and medicine available at Scott School through Saturday from 7am to 7pm
-Tornado survivors in Hale and Greene counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union
-Toiletries and clothing are available for pick up at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. If you need transportation, call 205-292-5836
-Food and water stations for victims are set up at the Leland Shopping Center, Forest Lake Baptist relief center and Skyland Elementary.
-Aldridge Community Missionary Baptist Church in Parrish has food, formula, clothes and water for any storm survivors who need help.
-Victims in St. Clair County can get food, water and other supplies at the Shoal Creek Community Center.
-Tarps available in St. Clair County at Odenville Fire Department, Pell City Fire Station One, Reiverside Fire Department
-The Salvation Army has set up mobile canteen operations in Forest Lake, Holt High School and on 15th Street in Alberta City.
-Tornado victims in Hale and Greene Counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union.
-The Masonic Lodge in Pleasant Grove is serving meals and distributing supplies to tornado victims.
-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado survivors in that community
-Food, water and other supplies are available at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Hueytown.
-The Red Cross has opened feeding stations at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Knighten's Volunteer Fire Department, Webster's Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, First Baptist Church of Williams, Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department in Ohatchee and the Ellis Community Fire Department.
-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site
-Free first aid station is open in Pleasant Grove from 9am to 6pm at 615 Pleasant Grove Road Monday through Friday
-Free medical clinic at Scott School in Pratt City 7am to 7pm
Shelters:
-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado victims in that community.
-The American Red Cross has set up shelters at the Belk Center in Tuscaloosa, First Baptist Church in Hanceville, the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, the Civic Center in Cullman and First United Methodist Church in Springville.
-American Red Cross shelter in St. Clair County is at Greensport Baptist Church in Ashville
Insurance office locations:
-Allstate Insurance has mobile claims centers set up at the Lowe's in Bessemer, the Winn-Dixie at River Square Plaza in Hueytown and the K-Mart on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.
-State Farm has centers set up at Lowe's in Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Fultondale.
-ALFA has centers at the Save-a-Lot in Cullman and the ALFA Service Center in Gadsden.
-Farmers Insurance has centers at Home Depot in Tuscaloosa, the Forest Square Shopping Center in Forestdale, and the Farmers district offices in Vestavia Hills and Pell City.
Misc:
-A battery charging station is set up at the Walmart in Tuscaloosa. Flash lights are also being given away while supplies last.
-If you have loved ones who are still missing in the Birmingham area, call 205-787-1487 or 205-787-1488.
-Greater Birmingham Humane Society lost and found pet hotline open 8am to 5pm daily: 205-397-8534. Hotline is for Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties
-Official FEMA mobile disaster recovery center in Sumter county: Geiger Town Hall 201 Broadway
-Victims in Pratt City are in need of trash bags and baskets to help collect their personal belongings
-Calhoun County needs rope, tools, gloves, masks, tarps, first aid supplies and baby supplies
-Some local contractors in Tuscaloosa are offering free debris removal. Call 205-248-5800.
-Samaritan's Purse in Tuscaloosa is providing free debris removal and free tarps. Call 205-345-7554.
-The McWane Center in Birmingham is offering free admission to anyone who brings supplies for tornado victims.
-A dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for all of Cullman County.
-An 8pm to 6am curfew is in effect in the city of Tuscaloosa.
This little yearling gator is still living at home, sharing Mom's gator hole and enjoying her vigilant protection. (All sorts of things like to eat baby alligators!) But he hunts for himself, as he has since he hatched. He had caught a frog, and was just sitting and resting with it by the side of the pool. A few minutes later we saw him slide into the water, but continue to just rest hanging onto the frog. One of the naturalists we heard mentioned that this is common behavior and explained it by saying that the spurt of energy gators put on when hunting takes a lot out of them, and they need to rest before feeding.
This little guy is benefiting from the rich concentration of fish and amphibians that have come to share Mom's gator hole, here towards the end of the winter-long dry season in the Everglades. Adult gators gradually scoop out these holes over many seasons by thrashing their bodies, so each gator lives in its own, custom-made home. During the dry season these gator holes serve as refugia for everything in the Everglades that needs water -- that is, just about everything. Naturally, the gator welcomes its guests with open arms; they constitute a well-stocked larder. Then, when the summer rains come, the survivors repopulate the vast, re-flooded river of grass. The gator hole is thus an essential part of the Everglades ecosystem.
There were two sizes of young in the gator hole: this years babies and the larger ones from last year's brood; this is one of the latter.