Escaped slaves also found comfort and protection amongst the Seminoles.  Angry slave owners entered Indian villages searching for fugitives, whom they considered their property.  Because they had welcomed the runaways into their villages, the white slave owners attacked the Seminoles and burnt their villages down.

As white settlers began to notice the rich and fertile land of Florida, they began to move into Seminole lands.  Soon they ordered the Seminole people to abandon their homes and move west of the Mississippi River.

Though Osceola was young, he was smart and fierce and he began to emerge as leader amongst his people.  Upon reaching Florida, they found sanctuary with the Seminoles.  These Florida Indians were really a part of the Creek Nation and spoke a very similar language.  The Seminoles were first called Seminolies, which is thought to derive from the Spanish word “cimarron,” meaning “wild people” or “runaway.”

Someone on the HikiCulture FaceBook group shared a link to this New York Times article about a thirteen-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York who spent a total of 11 days in a subway station. The boy happened to have Asperger's Syndrome (like myself), which can lead some people to become highly reclusive and anti-social.

I thought I'd share this article since it's not very often that Asperger's is mentioned in major newspapers such as the New York Times.

PS. Thanks for the link Theo.

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Dear stray doggies I saw this morning -

Do you mind if i take you home? I saw how skinny you were! I can help!!!

Let me know by coming up to me next time I see you. I will bring treats.

xo

Do You Mind – The XX

• Bro. Eli mentioned that Don Manolo Fabis was asked by Willy and Warly to air  their show in his program and to side with them attempting with money talk. Don Manolo refused and said, “Sa totoo pa rin ako. Kay Eli pa rin ako (I still go for the truth. I still go for Eli)

• Bro. Daniel Razon then again welcomed the newly baptized member who came from different places in the Philippines from Kidapawan City, North Cotabato City Jail, Mandaue City, Leyte and Apalit Pampanga. In abroad, converts came from Dubai, Macau, Hongkong, and Singapore. Also included are  African and  Singaporean nationals.

• Played in the congregation the video clip of Sis. Jane Santiago (Willy Santiago’s wife) that she willingly run away from her husband with her kids, refuting the accusation of Willy’s camp that MCGI members took them from him.  Elaine, their daughter, testified as well in a video clip, saying that she saw her dad hurting her mom.

- Notes from 11.21.09 TG

From the New York Times:

Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one.

After getting in trouble in class in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and fearing another scolding at home, he had sought refuge in the subway system. He removed the battery from his cellphone. “I didn’t want anyone to scream at me,” he said.

All told, Francisco disappeared for 11 days last month — a stretch he spent entirely in subway stations and on trains, he says, hurtling through four boroughs. And somehow he went undetected, despite a round-the-clock search by his panicked parents, relatives and family friends, the police and the Mexican Consulate.

Since Oct. 26, when a transit police officer found him in a Coney Island subway station, no one has been able to fully explain how a boy could vanish for so long in a busy train system dotted with surveillance cameras and fliers bearing his photograph.

But this was not a typical missing-person search. Francisco has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism that often causes difficulty with social interaction, and can lead to seemingly eccentric behavior and isolation. His parents are Mexican immigrants, who say they felt the police were slow to make the case a priority.

“Maybe because you might not understand how to manage the situation, because you don’t speak English very well, because of your legal status, they don’t pay you a lot of attention,” said Francisco’s mother, Marisela García, 38, a housecleaner who immigrated in 1994 and has struggled to find ways to help her son.

The police, however, say they took the case seriously from the start, interviewing school officials and classmates, canvassing neighborhoods and leafleting all over the city.

Francisco says his odyssey wound through three subway lines: the D, F and No. 1. He would ride a train until its last stop, then wait for the next one, wherever it was headed. He says he subsisted on the little he could afford at subway newsstands: potato chips, croissants, jelly rolls, neatly folding the wrappers and saving them in the backpack. He drank bottled water. He used the bathroom in the Stillwell Avenue station in Coney Island.

Otherwise, he says, he slipped into a kind of stupor, sleeping much of the time, his head on his book bag. “At some point I just stopped feeling anything,” he recalled.

Though the boy’s recollections are incomplete, and neither the police nor his family can retrace his movements in detail, the authorities say that he was clearly missing for 11 days and that they have no evidence he was anywhere but the subway.

For his parents, the memories of those 11 frantic days — the dubious sightings, the dashed hopes and no sleep — remain vivid. “It’s the most terrible thing,” his mother said in Spanish.

Just what propelled Francisco to take flight on Oct. 15 is unclear. Administrators at his school, Intermediate School 281, would not comment. But Francisco said he had failed to complete an assignment for an eighth-grade class, and was scolded for not concentrating.

After school, he phoned his mother to say he was heading home. She told him the school had called and she wanted a serious talk with him.

His first impulse was to flee. He walked eight blocks to the Bay Parkway station and boarded a D train. It seemed a safe place to hide, he said.

When he did not arrive home, his mother started to panic. In January, after another problem at school, Francisco had left home and ridden the subway, but returned after five hours. “We thought this time it would be the same,” Ms. García said. “But unfortunately it wasn’t.”

Her husband, also named Francisco Hernandez, went to the nearest subway station and waited for several hours while she stayed at home on Bay 25th Street with their 9-year-old daughter, Jessica. After midnight, the couple called the police, and two officers from the 62nd Precinct visited their apartment.

The next morning, Mr. Hernandez, 32, a construction laborer, borrowed a bicycle and scoured Bensonhurst. He and his wife separately explored the subway from Coney Island to Midtown Manhattan.

They had been trying to help their son for years. Born in Brooklyn, Francisco grew up a normal child in many ways, his mother said, earning mostly passing grades and enjoying drawing and video games. But he had no friends outside school, and found it difficult to express emotions. A gentle, polite boy, he spoke — when he did speak — in a soft monotone.

In

2006, his parents had him evaluated at a developmental disabilities research clinic on Staten Island, where his Asperger’s was diagnosed. The clinic’s chief neuropsychologist concluded that Francisco struggled in situations that demanded a “verbal or social response.”

“His anxiety level can elevate, and he freezes in confusion because he does not know what to do or say,” the doctor wrote.

After he disappeared, his parents printed more than 2,000 color leaflets with a photo of Francisco wearing the same red hoodie; friends and relatives helped post them in shops, on the street and throughout the subway in Brooklyn. The family hand-lettered fluorescent-colored signs.

“Franky come home,” one pleaded in Spanish. “I’m your mother I beg you I love you my little boy.”

Francisco said he never saw the signs. He lost sense of time. He was prepared, he said, to remain in the subway system forever.

No one spoke to him. Asked if he saw any larger meaning in that, he said, “Nobody really cares about the world and about people.”

Sightings were reported. An image of a boy resembling Francisco had been captured by a video game store’s security camera, but he turned out to be someone else, the police said. A stranger called Mr. Hernandez to say he had spotted Francisco with some boys at a movie theater in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. A search turned up nothing.

Ms. García said one detective told her the boy was probably hiding out with a friend. She replied that her son had no friends to hide out with. Frustrated, the parents sought help from the Mexican Consulate. Officials there contacted the Spanish-language news media, which ran brief newspaper and television reports about Francisco, and called the police — “to use the weight that we have to encourage them, to tell them that we have an emergency,” a consular spokesman said.

Six days after Francisco’s disappearance, on Oct. 21, the case shifted from the police precinct to the Missing Persons Squad, and the search intensified. A police spokeswoman explained that a precinct must complete its preliminary investigation before the squad takes over.

The squad’s lead investigator on the case, Detective Michael Bonanno, said he turned the focus to the subway. He and his colleagues blanketed the system with their own signs, rode trains and briefed station attendants.

About 6 a.m. on Oct. 26, the police said, a transit officer stood on the D train platform at the Stillwell Avenue station studying a sign with Francisco’s photo. He turned and spotted a dirty, emaciated boy sitting in a stopped train. “He asked me if I was Francisco,” the boy recalled. “I said yes.”

Asked later how it felt to hear about the work that had gone into finding him, Francisco said he was not sure. “Sometimes I don’t know how I feel,” he said. “I don’t know how I express myself sometimes.”

Apart from leg cramps, he was all right physically, and returned to school a week later. But Ms. García said she was still trying to learn how to manage her son’s condition. Though doctors had recommended that Francisco be placed in a small school for children with learning disorders, she said, officials at his school told her he was testing fine and did not need to be transferred.

“I tell him: ‘Talk to me. Tell me what you need. If I ever make a mistake, tell me,’ ” she said. “I don’t know, as a mother, how to get to his heart, to find out what hurts.”

One of the fluorescent signs hangs on the living room wall. The others are stacked discreetly in a corner, and Ms. García said she was not ready to discard them.

“It’s not easy to say it’s over and it won’t happen again,” she said.

Last Friday night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 10 animated short films that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. The original list contained thirty-seven films that were eligible for the category and this new list is in itself only interim. The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy will now vote amongst themselves to select five films that will make up the final short-list, which will be announced on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 around lunchtime.

Irish eyes will be firmly fixed on this category with Brown Bag Films’ Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty representing our fair isle. Competition is set to be tough with Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park up for A Matter of Loaf and Death and Disney/Pixar’s excellent short Partly Cloudy also in contention.

The full list of the current ten is as follows:

The Cat Piano
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Kinematograph
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Partly Cloudy
Runaway
Variete

The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7th, 2010.

奥斯卡刚刚宣布了最佳动画短片奖项的十位竞争者，这还不是最终的被提名者哦。只有五部可以获得被提名的殊荣。这意味在还有一轮筛选在等着它们。乘着《Up》的东风，《Partly cloudy》可是相当讨观众喜欢的一部作品。中文翻译为《暴力云和送子鹤》，虽然土，但是那种自在天然，反而深得我心。下面列出十强名单，和所有能找到的视频或预告片 （虚张声势，除了猫钢琴其他都是预告片）。短片嘛，好处就在于短，很适合茶余饭后观看哦。至少看看猫钢琴吧，那个旁白的轻缓徐急实在太妙了。
“The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson 《猫钢琴》

“French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert 《法式烘焙咖啡》

“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan 《格林奶奶的睡美人》

“The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski 《电影》

“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” Javier Recio Gracia 《老太与死神》

“Logorama,” Nicolas Schmerkin 《商标电影》

“A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park 《超级无敌掌门狗：面包还是死亡》

“Partly Cloudy,” Peter Sohn 《暴力云与送子鹤》

“Runaway,” Cordell Barker 《逃跑》

“Variete,” Roelof van den Bergh 《音乐厅》

“The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson
“French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan
“The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” Javier Recio Gracia
“Logorama,” Nicolas Schmerkin
“A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park
“Partly Cloudy,” Peter Sohn
“Runaway,” Cordell Barker
“Variete,” Roelof van den Bergh

Fünf von denen werden als als nominierungen schaffen…mal sehen:

“The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson

einfach fantastisch! gehört ganz ganz oben auf der liste! katzen*geile farben*geile erzählung: WIN!

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“French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert

besuche die seite: Frenchroast
nicholas marlet hat sein bestes gegeben…witzig.

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“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan
viele halten dies für das witzigste in ganz ganz langer zeit…also GUTE gewinnchancen!

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“The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski

polnisch, wahnsinn!
vielleicht mein favorit!!!

ANSEHEN!

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“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” Javier Recio Gracia

sehr ungewöhnlich. ja und die academy lieeeebt ja die spanier, also gute chancen..

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“Logorama,” Nicolas Schmerkin
jap, wird wohl das rennen machen…

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“A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Nick Park

ja, leider wallace & gromit…nicht mein fall…

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“Partly Cloudy,” Peter Sohn

kennen wir, ist ein pixar…

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“Runaway,” Cordell Barker

DER HAMMER!!!!! FAVORIT!

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“Variete,” Roelof van den Bergh

Отвык я от таких игр. Давно не видел и особо не надеялся. После того, как “Сломанный меч” сменил мультипликацию на 3D, в памяти всплывает лишь “Runaway”, который я честно побоялся проходить из-за необходимости прощупывать каждый пиксель при разрешении картинки 1024 на 768. Не люблю я проходить квесты и адвенчуры с подсказками, а терпения порой не хватает. По этой же причине прошел мимо легендарного МИСТа…

А тут наткнулся на картинки заботливо прорисованного мира. Забавного, грустного, с кучей деталей, в прямом и переносном смысле. При виде индустриальных декораций, вспомнились творения Миядзаки, с его уютными иллюстрациями промышленных элементов. То были японцы, здесь же работала фантазия чехов. И судя по всему, получилось не менее чувственно и проникновенно. Эх, давно я не мечтал попасть в другой мир… тем более с такой музыкой “Дождь барабанит по железной крыше, гулко отдается эхо во дворе-колодце”.

‘She’s an actress of weight, honesty, integrity and depth,’ Jett tells MTV News at ‘New Moon’ premiere’.

It’s no secret that Kristen Stewart has become very, very famous over the past year. It’s also no secret that she takes her craft very seriously, respects a lot of artists who have come before her and holds a special place in her heart for Joan Jett.

At Monday’s (November 16) “New Moon” premiere, the legendary rocker was a special guest on the red carpet, walking just a few feet ahead of the A-list actress who has spent the past few months sharing her short, spiky haircut for “The Runaways,” an upcoming film about Jett’s all-girl ’70s punk band. Stewart told us the film is going to aim for a Sundance premiere in January, and Jett revealed much more about the pair’s friendship and whether KStew will be performing her own music in the flick.

MTV: So, Joan, are you a “Twilight” fan?

Joan Jett: I’d obviously heard about the movie, but before she was cast as me, I hadn’t seen it. Of course, when she was cast as me, I wanted to see the movie, and I’ve seen everything she’s done. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was really entertaining, and I’m excited that she was cast as me in “The Runaways.”

MTV: Kristen told us awhile back that she wasn’t sure if the director would dub in her singing voice and guitar. Will we hear her or a studio musician?

CONTINUE READING…

Adolescence is one of the most tumultuous period in any man’s life.  Many will see their life in conflict with themselves, parents, peers etc.  I too could not escape that.

My parents, particularly my father was a control freak.  Somehow during those adoloscent period I hated anything that has got to do with academics and naturally my dad used to get extremely upset seeing my grades.  Though capable of studying and scoring good grades, my mind used to wander endlessely into so many things whenever I picked up a book to study.

I had this great fascination for going off to unknown places within the city. In mid 80s traffic used to be much more saner and I and a group of my classmates would set off on bicycles to explore different localities, eating out in small joints, seeing movies, going for a swim, play in the beach etc. And all this while the classes were on in the school.  Schools were not stricter like these days. After the morning interval break, our gang will escape. Getting out of school is not a trouble in any goverment run school. Give some money to buy cigarettes to a watchmen and they will  happily see you off…

We will have a sort of timetable of the places we would want to cover in the next few days and execute the plan with precision.  Though it may sound simple, we do not make it as an everyday affair.  Our teachers would not even notice our absence and our other pious classmates will never dare to inform the teacher about the missing gang. They will have to face our wrath the next day and simply they do not want to be thrashed in the football ground.

Being with the gang gives you a sense of kick as we keep bullying other students. But as we age one important realisation is that, this bullying, cutting classes etc are purely attention gathering behaviour. As we are too simple guys without any innate talent to exhibit, we used to feel heroic for all wrong reasons.  It is later in life you realise there are right ways to feel like a hero and wrong way to feel like a hero. Unfortunately in adoloscent period most resort to the second option though not the best option.

Will share more….but would like to remain anonymous.

Wayward plants

A London art, plants and urbanist organization Waywardplants.org rescues unwanted plants– “discarded, abandoned, rogue, stray or runaway”– and discovers new homes where they will be cared for. This horticultural intervention has created adoption forms, placed itself in the Barbican Art Gallery in London, and encompasses a full life range from “freecycle” sharing to composting “cemetaries.”

You can watch a Wayward Plant presentation made at Pecha Kucha London. As all their talks, it is 20 slides at 20 seconds, for a total less than 7 minutes. They will also be participating in the Graham Foundation’s exhibit, “ACTIONS: What you can do with the city” that presents 99 actions “that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world” based on common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening. It’s in Chicago until March 13, 2010.

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Nov. 15- 21

1. John Mayer’s new CD Battle Studies comes out Nov. 17! I heard a leaked copy and it is good. Solid, classic mayer. I HATE his current single, Who Says. The rest of the album is better.

2. Precious opening in Jackson on Friday- there is so much Oscar Buzz about this film, and I saw a couple interviews with the star, Gaboures Sidibe. LOVED her.

3. New Moon! I mean, this is going to be the feel-good movie of the year… Just kidding! those of you who know me for real know there’s no way I’ll ever see this movie.

The real #3: Broken Embraces starring Penelope Cruz and directed by Pedro Amaldovar, the team behind one of my favorite movies from last year, Volver.

4. Joseph Gorden-Levitt hosting SNL Nov. 21. I think he’ll be really good (he can’t be worse than January Jones). And if you don’t know who he is, see 500 Days of Summer.

5. Open by Andre Agassi

6. Christopher Walken’s spoken word version of Pokerface:

7. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. Maybe you’ve never read anything by this short story master, but its time to start. She is a genius. YOu can start with my favorite collection of hers, Runaway.

8. My Sister’s Keeper on DVD Tuesday

I first heard this guy on an Anoraak EP where he remixed “Nightdrive with You” and he just blew me away. I haven’t been able to track down any of his stuff  until now. Let me tell you, it was well worth the wait. Get all 3 singles after the jump. Enjoy.

Rating: 5/5 – Club Anthems.

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This was written in the Billy Idol days of the 80’s. It was keyboards and guitar and drum machine.  Man, did we have fun in the 80’s. We (my wife and I) hung around with musicians who played and the clubs in the greater Cleveland area. It was booze and drugs every weekend, work all week and then do it again. Maybe this one is about those day- but I don’t remember.

World of Runaways(copyright 1987)

(Verse 1)

You’re just a new face, don’t know your way around

And you don’t know if you’re up or if you’re down

If you’re down, if you’re down

Put one hand in my hand and one hand against the light

I got my finger on the trigger of the night

of the night, of the night

(Chorus)

In a world, In a world, in a world of runaways ( times 3)

In a world that’s got too much too many find me

Standing in the shadow of the world

(bridge)

Guitars scream like animals on the run

midnight goes off like a loaded gun

All the while think you’re right behind me

and you turn around to find me

I’ll be walking in the shadows, I’ll be walking in the shadows of the world

verse 2)

Step into the darkness where the night can just occur

And the things you see and feel are just a blur

just a blur, just a blur

Spike heels on the sidewalk set the beat that drives the night

Doesn’t matter if its wrong or if its right

if its right, if its right

(Chorus)

In a world, In a world, in a world of runaways ( times 3)

In a world that’s got too much too many find me

Standing in the shadow of the world

Dakota Fanning é a capa de Dezembro da Teen Vogue e eu sempre fico assustada quando vejo fotos dela toda glamourosa e crescida! Eu lembro dela pequena e penso: “estou realmente ficando velha!”

Ela falou da amizade com Kristen Stewart e do seu papel em New Moon, além de ressaltar que é uma garota comum que frenquenta escola. Eu já disse aqui sobre o filme Runaway no qual ela também trabalhou com Stewart.

Ela ficou linda né? Adorei as roupas do ensaio!

Por Tati Carvalho

This pretty much is how I’ve been feeling lately:

It’s been a long week
I’ve got a slow leak in my left front tire
I’m sick of where I work
My boss is such a jerk, don’t care if I get fired

My bag’s about to break
No money in the bank and she don’t call me anymore
I’m down to my last drink
It’s time to sell my things

And pack my bag and never look back
Run a parallel line with the railroad tracks ohh
And make my getaway
Put the pedal to the medal as the sun goes down
Leave everybody sleeping in this sleepy town tonight
At the break of day… I’ll be a runaway (be a runaway, be a runaway)

A hundred miles in I got a stupid grin on my scruffly face
With every cigarette I’m burnin’ my regret Don’t wanna leave a trace
And from the rearview I’ve got a clear view of who I used to be
A little bit faster now don’t wanna turn around

I’m gonna pack my bags and never look back
Run a parallel with the railroad tracks ohh And make my getaway
I’ll put the pedal to the metal as the sun goes down leave everybody sleeping in this sleepy town tonight(ohh)
At the break of day I’ll be a runaway (be a runaway, be a runaway) I’ll be a runaway, I’ll be a runaway be a runaway)

It’s crazy I know to count on this road to give me what I need
but with every state line
somehow I find another part of me yeah yeah

(instrumental)

I’m gonna pack my bags and never look back
Run a parallel line with the railroad tracks ohh
And make my getaway
I’ll put the pedal to the metal as the sun goes down
Leave everybody sleeping in this sleepy town tonight ohh
And at the break of day I’ll be a runaway
(be a runaway I’ll be a runaway) yeah I’ll be a runaway (I’ll be a runaway) I’ll be a runaway…

Yep. Runaway.

          Am visat-o. Am visat-o după atât de mult timp încât credeam că am și uitat cum arată. Dar imaginea ei, atât de fidelă realității, atât de reală, de fapt, a durut atât de tare încât am tresărit. Am deschis ochii, pierzându-i silueta prezentă sub pleoapele mele închise. Îi mai auzeam doar chemarea… chemarea pe care și-o striga din alte lumi, din locuri necunoscute mie. Ce s-a ales de ea? Abia acum știu… și ea nu a știut atunci… Suntem sortiți să fugim unul de celălalt doar pentru a ne striga unul altuia numele din adâncul iadurilor veșnice. Nu ar exista paradis dacă am fi împreună, doar o lume în care nimic altceva nu ar mai conta decât noi doi.

            Dar amândoi știam, când vorbeam învăluiți în fumuri de țigară, că suntem inadaptații oricărei lumi. Că suntem oameni ai extremelor, lipsiți de orice normă și de orice constrângere. Fugeam de orice lume care ne-ar fi încorsetat, de orice loc care ne-ar fi făcut să ne pierdem această unicitate – de fugari din calea fericirii. “Ce ne facem?” o întrebam mereu… “Fugim…”.