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Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip :: AIN'T BAD YET
Ain't Bad Yet is the sixth album by the Finnish Blues Award-winning (for "Best Band") blues-rock group Micke Bjorklof (pronounced Be-York-Loaf) & Blue Strip. The record was produced by John Porter, legendary for his productions of Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', Santana, and no less than 10 Grammy-winning albums.
The band traveled to Rockfield Studios in Wales to Ain't Bad Yet. The studio has played host to many of the world's biggest artists from Black Sabbath to Rush and Oasis, and which, in 1975, was the primary studio Queen used for the recording of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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Karen Lovely :: TEN MILES OF BAD ROAD
Ten Miles of Bad Road, recorded at Ultratone Studios in Studio City, CA with Grammy-winning producer Tony Braunagel is a powerful mix of contemporary blues, roots and soul performed by a killer session band including Johnny Lee Schell on guitar (Bonnie Raitt, Phantom Blues Band), the "Godfather of Outlaw Blues" Grammy nominee Alan Mirikitani (BB Chungking of the Buddhaheads) on guitar, James "Hutch" Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt) on bass, Jim Pugh on piano and B3 (Robert Cray, Etta James), Tony Braunagel on drums (Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, Eric Burden, Phantom Blues Band), with special guest artists Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds on harp, Joe Sublett of the Phantom Blues Band on saxophone and Les Lovitt on trumpet.
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Blues On the Chippewa Festival, Aug 5-7, 2016 adds Bobby Messano, The Jimmy's and Chris O'Leary band
(Durand, WI) - The 8th annual, free admission Blues On the Chippewa festival will run from August 5-7 2016 in Durand, WI! This year's lineup includes: The Jimmy's, Chris O'Leary Band, Skyla Burrell, Inside Straight Band, Biscuit Miller & the Mix, Bobby Messano, Ray Fuller & the Bluesrockers, Katy G & the Girls, Dee Miller Band feat. Jimi Primetime Smith, Mark Cameron Band, Left Wing Bourbon, Alex Rossi Band, Josh Hoyer & Soul Collosal, Nick Foytik & Brother Sun Sister Moon. On site vendors will provide food, beer, wine, soda and water. An ATM will be on site as well. There will be a craft fair both Saturday and Sunday and a motorcycle show Saturday. Sunday evening the "afterglow jam will be held at the Corral Bar in downtown Durand. ...Find out more details about Blues On The Chippewa
Green River Festival Hosts Tedeschi Trucks Band, North Mississippi All Stars, Los Lobos July 10
(Greenfield, MA) - The Green River Festival, Western Massachusetts' favorite music and hot air balloon festival will take place July 8, 9, and 10 on the grounds of Greenfield Community in Greenfield, MA. July 10 will feature Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Lobos, and North Mississippi All Stars in the Wheels of Soul tour. Presented by Signature Sounds, the festival was recently deemed "one of 2015's must see summer festivals" by Rolling Stone and one of the "fifty essential summer music festivals" by The New York Times.
The Green River Festival combines a spectacular lineup of nearly 40 acts on three stages, the best in local food, beer and wine, handmade crafts, a dance tent, a wide array of kid's activities and entertainment, and hot air balloon rides and a balloon glow,
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Genoa Blues Festival, July 30 presents Headliner Kenny Neal and His Family Band & special guest Grady Champion
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This is the best outdoor festival lineup of the summer, in the most picturesque venue, Mormon Station Historic State Park, Genoa, NV.
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15th Annual Tbaytel Thunder Bay Blues Festival,
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada July 8, 9 & 10
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This year the Line-up is All-Canadian, and includes Tom Cochrane, Colin James, Burton Cummings, Serena Ryder, Gowan, Downchild Blues Band, David Gogo, April Wine, Jack de Keyzer and much more! ...Find more details on the Thunder Bay Blues Festival
Festival has delivered a bit of the Bayou and Blues to Long Beach for 30 years
(Long Beach, CA) - When you think of Southern California the sounds and tastes of New Orleans and the Louisiana Bayou mixed with West coast Blues and soul may not come to mind, nor a social club called the La La's decked out and leading a festive Second Line parade in a place called Long Beach. But in fact they are several such festivals in these parts and one special one in particular, The Long Beach Bayou Festival, was just held June 18-19, and was their 30th anniversary! Generally held over Father's Day weekend, this annual event delivers on many levels especially on being laid-back and friendly yet, with lots to enjoy for everyone.
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Byronosaurus
Byronosaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: †Troodontidae
Genus: †Byronosaurus
Norell, Makovicky & Clark, 2000
†B. jaffei
†Byronosaurus jaffei
Discovery and namingEdit
Comparison of troodontid teeth; L is Byronosaurus
In 1993, Michael Novacek, a member of an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert, discovered the skeleton of a small theropod at Ukhaa Tolgod. This was further excavated in 1994 and 1995. The find was illustrated in a publication in 1994.[1] On 15 July 1996, at the Bolor's Hill site, about eight kilometers (five miles) away from the original location, a second specimen was discovered, a skull.
In 2000, Mark Norell, Peter Makovicky and James Clark named and described the type species Byronosaurus jaffei. The species name as a whole honoured Byron Jaffe, "in recognition of his family's support for the Mongolian Academy of Sciences-American Museum of Natural History Paleontological Expeditions".[2]
The holotype, IGM 100/983, was found in a layer of the Djadochta Formation dating from the late Campanian. It consists of a partial skeleton with skull. It contains a partial skull with lower jaws, three neck vertebrae, three back vertebrae, a piece of a sacral vertebra, four partial tail vertebrae, ribs, the lower end of a thighbone, the upper ends of a shinbone and calf bone, a second metatarsal and three toe phalanges. The paratype, specimen IGM 100/984, is the skull found in 1996, of which only the snout has been preserved. Both specimens are of adult individuals.[2]
In 2003, the skeleton was described in detail.[3]
In 2009, two front skulls and lower jaws of very young, perhaps newly hatched, individuals, specimens IGM 100/972 and IGM 100/974, were referred to Byronosaurus, after originally having been identified as Velociraptor exemplars.[4]
Byronosaurus is a troodontid, a group of small, bird-like, gracile maniraptorans. All known troodontids share unique features of the skull, such as closely spaced teeth in the lower jaw, and large numbers of teeth. Troodontids have sickle-claws and raptorial hands, and some of the highest non-avian encephalization quotients, meaning they were behaviourally advanced and had keen senses. Byronosaurus is one of few troodontids that have no serrations on its teeth, similar to its closest relative Xixiasaurus.[5] Byronosaurus was 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long and 50 cm (20 in) tall.[6] It weighed only about 4 kilograms (9 lbs).[6] Unlike most other troodontids, its teeth seem to lack serrations. They are instead needle-like, probably best suited for catching small birds, lizards and mammals. Specifically, they resemble those of Archaeopteryx.
The holotype skull measures about twenty-three centimeters long (nine inches). The snout is pneumatised, with a sinus in each maxilla.[3]
Hatchling skullsEdit
IGM 100/972 at the AMNH
Mark Norell and colleagues described two "perinate" (hatchlings or embryos close to hatching) specimens of Byronosaurus (specimens IGM 100/972 and IGM 100/974) in 1994. The two specimens were found in a nest of oviraptorid eggs in the Late Cretaceous "Flaming Cliffs" of the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. The nest is quite certainly that of an oviraptorosaur, since an oviraptorid embryo is still preserved inside one of the eggs. The two partial skulls were first described by Norell et al. (1994) as dromaeosaurids, but reassigned to Byronosaurus after further study.[4][7] The juvenile skulls were either from hatchlings or embryos, and fragments of eggshell are adhered to them although it seems to be oviraptorid eggshell. The presence of tiny Byronosaurus skulls in an oviraptorid nest is an enigma. Hypotheses explaining how they came to be there include that they were the prey of the adult oviraptorid, that they were there to prey on oviraptorid hatchlings, or that an adult Byronosaurus may have laid eggs in a Citipati nest (see nest parasite).[8]
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Timeline of troodontid research
^ Novacek, M.J., Norell, M.A, McKenna, M.C. and Clark, J.M, 1994, "Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs", Scientific American 271(6), 60-69
^ a b Norell, M.A., Makovicky, P.J. & Clark, J.M., 2000, "A new troodontid theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1): 7-11
^ a b Makovicky, P.J.; Norell, M.A.; Clark, J.M.; Rowe, T.E. (2003). "Osteology and relationships of Byronosaurus jaffei (Theropoda: Troodontidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3402: 1–32. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)402<0001:oarobj>2.0.co;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
^ a b Bever, G.S. and Norell, M.A. (2009). "The perinate skull of Byronosaurus (Troodontidae) with observations on the cranial ontogeny of paravian theropods." American Museum Novitates, 3657: 51 pp.
^ Junchang Lü; Li Xu; Yongqing Liu; Xingliao Zhang; Songhai Jia & Qiang Ji (2010). "A new troodontid (Theropoda: Troodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of central China, and the radiation of Asian troodontids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (3): 381–388. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0047.
^ a b Montague, R. (2006). "Estimates of body size and geological time of origin for 612 dinosaur genera (Saurischia, Ornithischia)". Florida Scientist. 69 (4): 243–257. [permanent dead link]
^ Mackovicky, Peter J.; Norell, Mark A. (2004). "Troodontidae". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 184–195. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ Norell, Mark A.; Clark, James M.; Dashzeveg, Demberelyin; Barsbold, Rhinchen; Chiappe, Luis M.; Davidson, Amy R.; McKenna, Malcolm C.; Perle, Altangerel; Novacek, Michael J. (November 4, 1994). "A theropod dinosaur embryo and the affinities of the Flaming Cliffs dinosaur eggs". Science. 266 (5186): 779–782. doi:10.1126/science.266.5186.779. PMID 17730398.
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The existing kitchen in this historic home was a dark and crowded 60-square-foot space. Designer Karr Bick Kitchen & Bath took the out-of-date space and made it work for a modern-day family by combining it with an under-utilized kitchen-table area. To take advantage of the total space, a side window was closed off in the eating area, which created wall space to accommodate appliances and enlarge the work triangle. A radiator was moved to open the entry into the dining room and allow for an island with seating. The designer wanted to be respectful of the age of the house, but also had clients who were willing to be adventurous in their material selections. To achieve an eclectic mix, upper cabinets in a classic white are paired with lower cabinets finished in Inkwell Blue Black. Open wall space is covered in etched marble accent tile and includes reclaimed wood shelves with iron metal brackets. Stainless appliances, copper accent lighting and brushed brass hardware add a mixed metal theme. Classic subway tile in a larger size frames the sink window and adds interest with its wavy texture and gray grout lines. The wood theme is repeated in the walnut countertop on the island as well as the handsome wood-look herringbone floor file.
The base cabinet color is so unique. Mixing metals in the space boosts the eclectic feel the designer wanted to achieve.


I was very surprised this pic came out as well as it did. I was looking at the Orion Nebula through my Orion SpaceProbe 130ST with my NASA Orion sticker on the back. Using NightCap, I set my iPhone 7 to long exposure and held the phone really still (as still as my hands would allow). Fortunately I left my flash on without realizing it. So I was surprised when I looked at this later and saw that the constellation (as well as Sirius) came out nicely, even with the flash! Enjoy!
Yes it was! Unfortunately, being a teacher I was unable to get the day off for it. This was just as well, because our school had purchased glasses for the entire school, and we all went out to the sports field during the eclipse to watch (it was pretty close to totality, close enough for my students to be impressed!). I was able to take a SunSpotter device out to set up, which gave some great views for the kids! I was even interviewed by an Atlanta news station about how to build a box viewer!
Hello! My name is Mountaineerfan, and I am a new member from Milton, GA (north of Atlanta). Recently bought an Orion SpaceProbe 130ST, and have been loving it! I am an 8th grade science teacher, and love boring the socks off of my family and my students with everything SPACE! I'm looking forward to learning a lot of things from you wonderful folks!
I recently bought a new Orion Spaceprobe 130ST. Nicest scope I've ever owned. On March 2, I was camping with some friends in Eastman, GA and took this picture of the full moon. I ran the picture through an Instagram filter that helped enhance the contrast (hence the bluish color). I used a GoSky mount to put my iPhone 7 on the 25mm eyepiece, and then zoomed in with the phone's screen. Enjoy! I'm just now getting into photography!


I have painted all my life from the age of about 10 and I largely have my father to thank for this as he bought me oil paint from a young age .
I remember buying old canvases in the Portobello market (a very different second hand market then) which I could paint over and use. I painted because it just always made me feel good and that feeling, the need to paint,has not changed.
I taught myself from various books but the most important were those of Fletcher Watson, a very generous teacher who I never met and I am so grateful to him his books are all still available.
When I stopped medicine in 2000 it was a terrible shock to lose income and status and I did a 3 year training to become an Alexander teacher .This is tool for change and without it I would have been lost and would have been unable to cope with the totally different way of life of a professional painter.I also realised I need a good back as painting is very physical career.
I was fortunate to have lessons from Zohar a wonderful teacher of classical painting in North London who has been a very important person in my career. I also continue to copy the classics, Rembrandt being the artist I most admire.
The work from the model has translated easily into work from the landscape so I have come to love painting seascapes and trees, Here nature imposes hurry ( tide coming in, dogs etc) and forces change and decisiveness.
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Posted On: 19 Jul 2016 - 2:45pm
By Michelle Eigenheer
"I'll throw you an idea for Louisville.com," Kam Franklin (vocals) said to me as we stood in the shade at Forecastle Festival's media area. "We're coming back. We're playing Zanzabar this fall… I think we should do a follow-up interview where y'all come and try and challenge us at some of these games."
The Suffers, a 10-piece group with Gulf Coast Soul and an energy made for dancing, are no strangers to Louisville. Their Sunday Forecastle set is the third time they've performed in town, with Zanzabar a memorable landmark for the Houston band.
"[It] has one of the most unique green room experiences of any of the venues we've ever played," said Nick Zamora (drums). "The green room is across the street. All the games are plugged in there, and some of them take quarters still. Some of them you just hit start and go. And so, like, every time -- both times we've played there literally with two minutes left to be on stage, there's still someone playing."
"I'm pretty badass at Ms. Pacman," said Kam. "No Paperboy. I think that game is evil."
"Maybe we need to pick the games, because they're going to be able to go in and pay someone off to go practice," suggested Nick for our ZBar competition (an epic battle that is absolutely going to happen). But we vow not to rig the game - we'll choose one when the band comes to play as a stop on their fall tour.
You're sure to find The Suffers playing Louisville more in the future, as they've found pieces of home here. "The second time we played here some people…saw the first show by accident and showed up to the show with all their friends and they knew, like, all the words, and Zanzabar isn't that big of a stage...the amount of noise from the front of the stage was insane. It was, like, drowning out some of the instruments at some points," recalled Nick.
Kam: "We felt like we were playing a show at home, which was really great."
Adam Casteneda (bass): "You've got to rep your city."
Kam: "Yeah, you've got to be proud of your city and where you're from. And the people we meet from here remind me of Houston because even though people try to discredit it, they tell you what's up and I really like that."
Nick: "And then bourbon."
Kam: "And bourbon, yeah.
Check out our photos from The Suffers' Forecastle set in the slideshow below:
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Team selection can make or mar Eagles' chances — Adelabu
By Gowon Akpodonor
12 March 2022 | 3:30 am
Former Green Eagles winger, Adegoke Adelabu, has warned Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen, to be mindful of the calibre of players he parades in the fast-approaching World Cup qualifier against the Black Stars of Ghana. The Super Eagles will travel to Cape Coast on March 25 for the first leg of the last qualifying…
[files] Eagles during training
Former Green Eagles winger, Adegoke Adelabu, has warned Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen, to be mindful of the calibre of players he parades in the fast-approaching World Cup qualifier against the Black Stars of Ghana.
The Super Eagles will travel to Cape Coast on March 25 for the first leg of the last qualifying tie, with the reverse fixture billed for March 29 at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja.
Adelabu, who played club football with IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan, told The Guardian, yesterday, that a coach with good team selection between Eguavoen and his counterpart in Ghana, will smile last at the end of the match.
"The game with Ghana's Black Stars will require a good ball carrier in the midfield to organise ball distribution," Adelabu said. "The coach will also require a good striker, who will be able to use both feet around the goal area. The rest of the players will have to prevent the opponents from scoring."
Adelabu added: "At the last AFCON tournament in Cameroun, many of the players in the Super Eagles squad put in effort to get into the team not because they had something special to offer at the end of the day.
"Egauvoan should play back some of our crucial matches, and see whether the players did what he instructed. The strength of the team will be based on the potency of the instructions of the coach and the ability of the players to carry them out."
Adelabu, a sports scientist, also stated that it is important for Eguavoen to watch the matches played by Ghana Black Stars, the games they won and lost in recent times.
"I want Eguavoen to ensure that only players, who are playing regularly in their clubs are picked for the encounter. Whatever system he will play, must be consistent with the abilities of the players to be picked. By now Eguavoen should know the players he needs to accomplish what he wants," he stated.
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Four million farmers received N800b under CBN Anchor Borrowers' Programme, says Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, disclosed that four million farmers across different value chains received N800 billion under the Central Bank Anchor Borrowers' Programme (ABP).
Abortion allegation: FG stands with military, dismisses agency's report as fake news
Federal Government, yesterday, dismissed a report by an international news agency, alleging the military carried out thousands of abortions on victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.
X-raying call by BOSAN for review of apex court appointment procedure
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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday commenced the distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for eligible voters who registered during the past Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
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Following the introduction of the Interactive e-Brochure and e-Syllabus System (IBASS), by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the agency on Monday, commenced training of all administrative staff of tertiary institutions to keep them abreast of the workings of the policy.


Deltadromeus agilis dinosaur tooth from the late Cretaceous from the origins of North Africa. A remarkable specimen with a dark rich brown palette, evident serrations and like all Deltadromeus teeth, fine, slim to a point and more elongated than the Dromaeosaur raptor dinosaur teeth. The 'delta-runner', was an enigmatic dinosaur discovered from the region of the Tegana formation in the Kem Kem beds. The scarcity of discoveries for this genus to date is extremely rare, for a single skeleton has yet to be discovered.
Origin: Tegana formation of Kem Kem, Morocco, North Africa.
Age: Middle Cretaceous period, Cenomanian stage, 100,000,000 to 93,000,000 years.
Condition report: Displaying serrations, exhibiting exceptionally good apical point to the crown of the tooth while the to ventrally one face you can evidently see the red matrix-bedrock from the fossil bed still attached to the tooth, an archetypical dark mahogany iron colour. In a stable condition, the enamel is superb. Often the rigours of the fossil bed determine the outcome of fractures within these wonderful fossil Deltadromeus agilis teeth, with plate movements within the sediments that have changed over the eons dating back to 100,000,000 years.
This Deltadromeus agilis dinosaur tooth is the exception, attaining an excellent morphology and exhibiting perfect miniature serrations compared to larger dinosaurs through to the tip, with the slightest of evident life wear only perceivable under a magnifying lens. This for the author is an added morphological bonus.
Deltadromeus teeth are far less common than that of other dinosaurs, thousands of dinosaur teeth have been discovered from this location over 30 years, among these teeth, very few are of actual quality, let alone excellent quality and again, even rarer when we're looking at the Deltadromeus agilis.
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You'll see it on the decor at Preach and man is it true! Head to Preach Cafe if you're looking for green smoothies, hip vibes and pancakes with coconut ice cream. Somehow Preach manages to make everything healthy—or it does a fantastic job of making it seem that way! Their Banana Pancakes are gluten free, vegan AND they have coconut ice cream on top. I strongly suggest pancakes, but their scrambled eggs and Detox Green smoothie were delicious as well and the perfect pre-yoga breakfast.
Preach Cafe is located right on Campbell Parade next to Bondi Backpackers Hostel. The staff are so warm and the food comes out like a work of art.
If you haven't booked a place to stay in Bondi yet, Bondi Backpackers is the place to be. The ocean view room on the top floor has a glorious view of the beach, there's rooftop yoga twice a week and free surf board rentals.
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It's just one block from the beach and right next to Yoga Bar—an awesome yoga studio with 2 weeks unlimited classes for newcomers at $35—yes please! I especially loved the YB Beats class.
I visited Trio Cafe on a rainy day towards the end of my trip. I specifically planned nothing for the day and laid in bed all morning watching Vikings on my phone and intermittently searching for a new breakfast heaven—enter Trio Cafe. I saw Mango Lime Pancakes on the menu AND Cinnamon & Vanilla Scented Fresh Toast, so I ordered a glass of rosé to help me decide. I almost ordered a half order of each but didn't, thank God. A full order of the pancakes was enough for my breakfast and dinner, and eat it for dinner I did—on the hill overlooking Bondi Beach while playing fetch with a strangers dog, specifically.
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P.S. Bacon in Australia is NOT the same as in the USA.
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Another Blow to Private Equity: "You Can Pick Winners" Again Shown To Be a Fool's Game
Posted on December 1, 2020 by Yves Smith
Back in 2015, when CalPERS held a one-day private equity workshop, which was a vehicle for justifying its loyalty to the strategy despite the SEC and major press stories revealing abuses and embezzlement, its star witness, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner, gave a surprisingly tepid defense. Lerner conceded that typical returns in fact didn't justify investing in private equity, given its higher risks. It made sense only if you could get into top quartile funds.
A new study confirms that Professor Lerner's, and most private equity industry investors' aspirations aren't worth pursuing since superior performance in private equity no longer persists. Or as a Bloomberg write-up of that paper put it, Private Equity Legends Are No Longer Living Up to Their Hype.
What is nevertheless surprising is that the academics act as if their finding is novel. It isn't, as well demonstrate shortly. Yes, there was a time, before the 2000s, when top private equity fund managers could regularly out-do their competitors. The most likely explanation is that the private market was inefficient enough that there were arbitrage opportunities and some firms were better and finding and executing on them than others. Too many parties chasing too few deals have bid away a lot of the upside.
We'll also remind readers shortly that even if you believed that there were private equity fund managers who could regularly beat the odds, it's no different than saying, "It doesn't make any sense to invest in stocks unless you can invest in the top 25% performers in the market." Investors have accepted that they can't all be the next Warren Buffett and expect to out-invest everyone else; it's now widely held wisdom that you are better off to accept market returns rather than doing even worse via ovetrading.
But even back in 2015, we wrote that academic evidence was mounting that so-called persistence of top quartile performance in private equity was a thing of the past. A new, large-scale study puts another nail in that coffin. We've embedded this NBER paper by Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ruediger Stucke at the end of the post.
It is worth noting that the authors of this study include some of the top academic researchers into private equity. Sadly, private equity academics are almost entirely captured; they make far more money consulting to private equity firms than they do from their day jobs. And you can see signs of that in this paper. The authors repeatedly tout investing in private equity and venture capital by comparing returns to the S&P 500. But that's bogus, as referring to their own past publications would reveal. Private equity is higher risk that public stocks due to its illiquidity and higher leverage; venture capital is even riskier. The authors never once acknowledge that private equity needs not only to out-do public stocks, but to do so by a meaningful margin, which historically was set at 300 basis points. Venture capital should be benchmarked against smaller-cap stocks and have a risk premium at least as high as private equity.
Implicitly, the repeated references to private equity and venture capital returns compared to the S&P 500 is an effort to counter the widely-reported findings by Oxford professor Ludovic Phalippou, that since 2006, private equity has performed pretty much on a par with the S&P 500, which means its performance is too poor to compensate for its outsized risks.
Their study is noteworthy for being more comprehensive than past studies on fund performance, and in particular, in relying on a non-cherry-picked data set, one from Burgiss, a data service for fund investors. The authors have also taken the critically important step of looking at the reported performance of fund managers' most recent fund at the time they are raising a new fund, which is typically on a five-year cycle. That is the data investors have available to them when considering a new offering; past studies have looked at what ultimately happened to the predecessor fund, which is something no investor could know at the time when it makes a commitment.
Nevertheless, the study still has limits in that it relies on IRR, as opposed to the less-game-able PME (public market equivalent). But the latter can't be properly calculated until a fund is wound up. Specifically, the authors fail to acknowledge the rise of subscription lines of credit and how they can render IRR computations utterly meaningless.
Before 2000, the authors found that a fund that looked like a top quartile performer at the time of a new fundraising would give you one-in-three odds of getting a winner again, but that vanished:
…using performance information available at the time of fundraising, the results differ. For buyout funds with post-2000 vintages, performance persistence based on fund quartiles disappears. When funds are sorted by the performance quartile of the GP's previous fund at the time of fundraising, performance of the current buyout fund is statistically indistinguishable regardless of quartile. First-time funds perform at least as well as any of the groups based on prior fund quartile rankings.
The authors did find that if you looked at final performance, that did predict performance of the next fund, even after 2000. But that's of no use to those deciding which horse to ride. The study also found, contrary to conventional wisdom, that new funds performed as well as established funds. They also determined that top venture capital funds are likely to deliver again.
What is disingenuous is the authors' position that their finding is news. It isn't. We been pointing to evidence of the lack of persistence of top fund performance for years. And we are hardly alone. From the transcript of public comments at the aforementioned 2015 CalPERS private equity workshop, by Rosemary Batt, co-author with Eileen Appelbaum of the landmark book Private Equity at Work:
And so I want to talk a little more about the performance data and just expand on Professor Lerner's excellent presentation….
Professor Lerner then refers to another really important paper by Robinson and Sensoy who report, they actually report performance based on real returns, so liquidated funds. And here they find that the average fund does outperform the stock market by 1 to 1.5%, depending upon the index.
The median fund, however, just matches the stock market, which means that 50% of the funds do not perform as well as the stock market. It is the top quartile funds that outperform both indexes by 3 or 4%.
So, if we put this together, then, Professor Lerner also points out this problem of persistence of performance. And the studies he refers to show that prior to 2000, the private equity firm with a top performing fund had about that 50% chance of being in the top performing funds in the follow-on fund. But since 2000, that probability has dropped to 22%, and that is less than would be expected if the distribution were random.
In other words, all this new study has done is refine what ought to be conventional wisdom, save that private equity investors have staffs who have job incentives to believe that fund-picking is a productive exercise, and those staffs have industry consultants who also have strong financial incentives to perpetuate that fiction. The older studies found that private equity top quartile persistence was actually higher, 50% versus 1/3 now, but found that since 2000, you'd do better throwing darts than investing in a prior-period top quartile fund.
And that's before getting to the elephant in the room, whether investing in top-quartile funds, even if they could be identified, is attainable in practice. As we wrote in 2014:
Rather than question the logic of investing in private equity at all, everyone in the industry has convinced themselves that it is reasonable to believe that they can be the Warren Buffett of private equity. The investment consultants go through the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel exercise of convincing their institutional clients that each of them is prettier, smarter, and more charming than average, and therefore capable of achieving sparking results. Needless to say, flattery is an easy sell….
Fundamentally, this is an intellectually dishonest exercise, and diametrically opposed to the way many public pension funds construct other parts of their investment portfolios. With public equity in particular, it's almost certain that a significant majority of U.S. pension fund assets are invested in index funds. That's because pension funds have recognized that, collectively, they cannot do better than average, and that after paying active management fees, actively managed public equity portfolios typically perform worse than the market average.
So it's not as if these investors are so clueless that they can't grasp the point that all of them cannot achieve above average results, let alone significantly above average results. Instead, with private equity, there is a desperate desire to be in the asset class for reasons that probably reflect a combination of intellectual capture by the PE managers, political corruption in legislatures that control public fund board appointees, and the need to have a strategy that could conceivably solve the pension underfunding problem over time.
So while it is gratifying to see our contentions about private equity reaffirmed, it's discouraging to see investors desperately throwing even more money at it. Just like second marriages, it's a triumph of hope over experience.
00 Nov 2020 NBER private equity returns paper
This entry was posted in CalPERS, Dubious statistics, Investment management, Private equity on December 1, 2020 by Yves Smith.
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vlade December 1, 2020 at 4:58 am
Oh, PE does pick the winners. Anyone who receives the fees.
Harry December 1, 2020 at 6:26 am
Quite!
When a grift is this successful, one shouldn't allow pesky facts to get in its ways.
Trustee December 1, 2020 at 5:57 pm
This is the reason behind the push for longer dated or even forever funds.
A 20 year guarantied income stream is better than a 10 year income stream especially when the annual management fee and carry remain the same. The longer life also means delaying the return of unearned excess carry paid on early exits.
Larry December 1, 2020 at 7:06 am
This is just par for the course for Western societies that are largely engines for redistributing income gains to an elite class. Ignore the data on PE, well that's really about hovering up pension, endowment, and 401k pools of capital for the private jet class. And just wait until we need PE to save Social Security because we need outsized returns! Or look to our environmental crisis while we throw good money after bad at fracking, which nets fossil fuels at negative returns. But it provides make-work for parts of the country and tremendous potential for riches for a precious few. Sadly to me the PE story looks like the story writ large everywhere in Western society. Not doing things because they make sense, but justifying the reasons to keep doing them so that rich people can get richer and further entrench their power via those same riches.
Mikerw0 December 1, 2020 at 7:50 am
As I read this I couldn't help but think about my experiences dealing with PE and VC firms from the capital raisers perspectives. I think there is a potentially more caustic side affect of their rise, which is there dominance in the capital investment process.
Having both advised and been CFO of firms dealing with the private capital complex I have repeatedly come across similar behaviors. First, they all think they know everything. Second, they all seek IRRs above 20%; this being despite where interest rates are and regardless of what type of firm they are (this includes many credit funds). Third, and very importantly, they want to achieve these returns without risks. That's right without risks, as opposed to understanding the risks that have to be managed. One would expect nothing else from a group of MBAs who have never worked in an operating company, receive very high compensation and are really focused on raising the next fund — as we know they really get paid for having more AUM, as opposed to investment performance.
The impact this has is that firms that require and should receive capital have trouble accessing it. Equity markets have largely been closed off as a source; a combination of you need to be a unicorn with hype and the fact that the large firms have largely wiped out the small and mid sized broker-dealers who would otherwise raise capital for emerging companies.
Maybe I have it wrong. In a world awash with capital, both debt and equity, shouldn't returns go down. Yet, all the PE firms I have been speaking to over the last couple of years are raising their hurdles to invest. The net of all of this is it is another factor cutting off the innovative portions of the economy from the lifeblood it needs to grow and develop.
tegnost December 1, 2020 at 9:38 am
Instead, with private equity, there is a desperate desire to be in the asset class for reasons that probably reflect a combination of intellectual capture by the PE managers, political corruption in legislatures that control public fund board appointees, and the need to have a strategy that could conceivably solve the pension underfunding problem over time.
I'd say that pretty much encapsulates california, at least for the meritocrats, and who would listen to anyone else? This collective state of mind may be why CalPERS was picked to be the thanksgiving turkey. There was a commenter over the weekend who decried those greedy (/s ) firefighters with 6 figure pensions, but nary a mention of the ridiculous cost of living in coastal cali.
Fleecing undeserving pensioners is AOK in cali, heck, fleecing anyone in cali is a basic requirement of living there…see prop 22 as a recent example.
Anthony G Stegman December 1, 2020 at 3:50 pm
You seem to forget who pays for the pensions. The more pensioners get the less taxpayers keep. Is it okay for a pensioner to reap a $100K per year pension on the backs of those who earn less than half that while working? Where is the fairness?
Yves Smith Post author December 1, 2020 at 3:54 pm
The pensions were negotiated in the context of overall wage and benefits bargaining, as in the wages were lower than they would otherwise be.
James E Keenan December 1, 2020 at 11:54 am
IRR: I had to look it up! Internal Rate of Return, from Investopedia.
David in Santa Cruz December 1, 2020 at 5:36 pm
Professor Lerner (who the IRS says makes the bulk of his income from Private Equity firms he advises, not Harvard) offered the secret to coming out on top in PE investing: "You have to have the Secret Sauce." His clear implication was that the overpayment of fees and carry would garner investors to access to top-decile returns.
This is a classic confidence scheme — in which the "mark" thinks that they're "in on the con."
Unfortunately, the evidence is that Private Equity is fresh out of deals. The massive Blackstone funds ($26B and $8B respectively) that CalPERS's conflicted ex-CIO had his hair on fire to enter have yet to call a dime of the $1.75B in commitments he made beginning nearly two years ago. Money that could have been deployed elsewhere, like maybe rebuilding manufacturing and infrastructure instead of trying to loot it.


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49ers disrupt Cowboys kicker Brett Maher's pregame warmups as he tries to recover from brutal wild-card game
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Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher needs to get back on track Sunday in order for the Cowboys to pull off the upset over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC's divisional round. Maher is coming off a brutal wild-card game in which he missed an NFL-record four extra points.
The Cowboys won the game despite Maher's struggles, and then immediately signed another kicker to their practice squad ahead of Sunday's road game against the 49ers.
Maher responded with a strong practice Thursday, and will look to get back on track against the 49ers on Sunday. The 49ers, however, have other ideas.
During Maher's pregame warmups, some members of the 49ers attempted to disrupt his kicking drills.
Words were exchanged, but Maher was allowed to continue warming up. That didn't go super well. Maher hit his next kick, but was spotty throughout warmups.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones eventually came out on the field to speak with Maher. That might be unusual for most team owners, but Jones often chats with Maher before games.
There's plenty of pressure on Maher to get things right Sunday. The Cowboys looked dominant against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and didn't need Maher to convert those kicks to win the contest.
It could be a different story against the 49ers, who boast a dominant defense. If Dallas' offense can't convert like it did against the Buccaneers, the game could come down to whether Maher can hit multiple field goals.
If pregame warmups are any indication, the 49ers are going to do whatever they can to throw Maher off his game as he tries to recover from last week's disastrous performance.
San Francisco was successful on Maher's first try of the day, blocking his extra-point attempt after the Cowboys scored a touchdown to take a 6-3 lead in the second quarter.
Cowboys kicker Brett Maher is looking to rebound from his historically inept performance last week against the Bucs in the wild-card round. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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After a young girl is hit by a truck, the driver is brutally assaulted; the girls family members are accused of knowing and protecting the attacker.
A man from the Cape who rents a vacation home in California take his ex-landlord to the mat over a bag of Christmas decorations.
A woman witnesses her neighbour ramming into her gate and knocking it off the hinges; the neighbour denies she was involved.
Tami and Alan get married within months after meeting, but when Tami starts using her good looks to get what she wants from every man she meets, one of them will end up dead.
Tanya Buschman is just getting out of a nasty marriage when she falls for a handsome bartender, but its not long before jealousy in their relationship leads to a suspicious death.
Annie McCarrick vanished in 1993 after being seen with an unidentified man. No trace of her has ever been found, despite her fathers frustration at the Polices attempts to find her.
Donal MacIntyre meets former Metropolitan Police DI Tony Bishop to find out how the murder of the entire Chohan family, was solved, when they went missing without a trace.
SNAPPED: KILLER COUPLES
Series 14, Episode 2
A beloved grandmother and her new husband go missing, triggering an investigation that reveals a twisted tale of first love and a motive fueled by obsession and greed.
A good Samaritan falls victim to a brutal crime, leading police on a manhunt for a pair of killers fuelled by envy and rage.
When a family falls victim to a devastating crime, the search for the killers lays bare a twisted romance and a motive no one can believe.
A loving couple are gunned down outside their home, setting in motion a cross-country investigation to track down an unlikely killer and a motive for revenge.
When a respected soldier is murdered on New Years Eve, the quest for the truth reveals a deadly plot driven by temptation and obsession.
Notorious incidents are revisited in this insightful series. Taking a look at the notorious Bermuda Triangle, plus investigating Therapeutic Touch healing.
A nightclub owner is killed while riding his motorbike, some believe it was murder, and parents panic when kids in a small town begin contracting leukemia.
A beauty queen goes missing without a trace, a young couple are murdered, and a man disappears after an argument with his girlfriend.
We continue to follow Katrinas harrowing fight against cancer, plus dispatcher Kevin struggles to balance the demands of his job with the needs of his young family.
A distraught Katrina is left in tears when a passenger unkindly comments about her short hair, and there are tears of joy for Jane when she witnesses a proposal.


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Transactions for August 28, 2014
8/28/14 Baltimore Orioles optioned P Kevin Gausman to Rookie GCL (Gulf Coast).
8/28/14 Arizona Diamondbacks claimed RF Nolan Reimold off waivers from Toronto Blue Jays.
8/28/14 New York Yankees signed LF Chris Young. Analysis
8/28/14 Los Angeles Angels outrighted P Wade LeBlanc from the 40-man roster.
8/28/14 New York Mets activated P Daisuke Matsuzaka from the 15-day disabled list (n/a; went on 7/26).
8/28/14 New York Mets placed P Vic Black on the 15-day disabled list (n/a).
8/28/14 Boston Red Sox optioned P Edwin Escobar to Triple-A Pawtucket (International).
8/28/14 Seattle Mariners optioned P Erasmo Ramirez to Triple-A Tacoma (Pacific Coast).
8/28/14 Los Angeles Dodgers traded P Victor Arano to Philadelphia Phillies.
8/28/14 New York Yankees traded P Jaymie Bane to Cleveland Indians.
8/28/14 Pittsburgh Pirates assigned P Charlie Morton to Double-A Altoona (Eastern).
8/28/14 Kansas City Royals placed P Michael Mariot on the 60-day disabled list (n/a).
8/28/14 Kansas City Royals called up P Michael Mariot from Triple-A Omaha (Pacific Coast).
8/28/14 Cincinnati Reds optioned P Daniel Corcino to Triple-A Louisville (International).
8/28/14 Cincinnati Reds called up P Dylan Axelrod from Triple-A Louisville (International).
8/28/14 Oakland Athletics called up P Evan Scribner from Triple-A Sacramento (Pacific Coast).
8/28/14 Oakland Athletics optioned P Drew Pomeranz to Class A Beloit (Midwest).
8/28/14 Detroit Tigers assigned P Luke Putkonen to Class A West Michigan (Midwest).
8/28/14 Baltimore Orioles called up 3B Jimmy Paredes from Triple-A Norfolk (International).
8/28/14 Kansas City Royals activated P Scott Downs from the 15-day disabled list (n/a; went on 8/12).
8/28/14 Kansas City Royals optioned P Liam Hendriks to Double-A NW Arkansas (Texas).
8/28/14 Kansas City Royals claimed 3B Jayson Nix off waivers from Pittsburgh Pirates.
8/28/14 Cleveland Indians traded P Josh Outman to New York Yankees. Analysis


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2007 | May 2007 | March 2007
AC: " 'Where's everything you promised us?' "
Anderson (in LA) talks to Michael (in NYC) about the reason for the spike in American troop deaths this month, as well as the report released today that 7 of 8 studied reconstruction projects have failed.
PZN: "America broke Iraq, now America must stay until it's fixed."
Michael talks to Paula about the potential fallout if the US withdraws from Iraq now.
LDT: "...a new school of thought that's being applied by the military."
Michael sits down with Lou to discuss an article published today by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, which details a "failure" in the general officer corps. Is General David Petraeus the kind of officer who can restore the leadership our troops deserve?
AC: "The militias...are still the true power in Iraq."
Anderson talks to Michael shortly after the war-funding bill was passed. What message does it send to our troops, the Iraqi government, and the Bad Guys?
PZN: "...provide security. Only then -- maybe -- you will have democracy."
Another recap of the possible ramifications of a troop withdrawal.
TSR: "...the political solution everyone talks about may be a non-democratic state."
Michael describes what he believes will happen if we pull our troops out of Iraq, as well as what the best-case scenario may look like.
AAM: "You broke it, you've got to fix it now."
Michael is joined by Kyra Phillips for some discussions about life in Iraq, the current debate on withdrawing our troops, and the consequences one has on the other.
AC: "America has a lot of tough decisions to make right now."
Anderson talks to Michael about today's discussions in Washington, and for the first time brings up the possibility of us settling for less than democracy in Iraq. (More on that tomorrow.)
PZN: "You really want to fix Iraq: surge the whole country."
Michael is in NYC, and his first interview is with Paula, where he joins a discussion with Pam Hess of UPI and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. They respond to today's comments from General Petraeus and also some general discussion about the situation.
AC: "This has been a bloody day in Diyala Province..."
Having just come back from Diyala, Michael reports tonight on today's suicide bombing that targeted our troops there and killed nine members of the 82nd Airborne.
TWAW: "It's one of the most intense battlefronts of the war at the moment."
Tom Foreman talks to Michael about the Diyala embed.
TSR: "There is in Diyala province an extraordinarily agressive fight currently underway."
Michael is back from a 9-day embed in Diyala province, and discusses the campaign against al Qaeda in Iraq as that group is squeezed between the surge in Baghdad and the fight to reclaim al Anbar province.
LDT: "...the war rages on here in Iraq."
A recorded update on today's events.
TSR: "Well, welcome to the war..."
Michael talks to Wolf about a particularly lop-sided battle that occurred in Baghdad today (there has GOT to be a way to give our guys the advantage, even in this kind of guerilla fighting...hasn't there?) as well as a female suicide bomber in Diyala province.
LDT: "Firmly replanting himself back on the political scene."
A recorded piece on the Najaf demonstration.
TSR: "He's saying...look at what I can still do."
Michael talks to Wolf about today's demonstration in Najaf, which was called by Muqtada al-Sadr as a show of solidarity against the US forces.
NR: "This is a piece of grand political theater."
Michael talks to Fredericka Whitfield about the current status of violence throughout Iraq, as well as Muqtada al-Sadr's latest message to his followers and all Iraqis.
LE: "There is a great game in play here..."
Michael talks to Wolf about a massive explosion in Mahmudiya earlier today, and about Muqtada al-Sadr's very slick call for a national show of unity tomorrow (the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.)
(Despite what Wolf says at the end of the piece, Michael was not on again.)
AC: The Mujahedeen-e-khalq (MEK)
Michael reports on a dissident Iranian group of 3800 fighters who have been living on a base north of Baghdad. Since the invasion, US forces have been protecting them and using their intelligence, such as knowledge of Tehran's nuclear program.
TSR: "...to avoid a loss of face."
Suzanne Malveaux asks Michael about why the Iranians want their Quds Force detainees back so badly.
LKL: "...they are fighting for the mate next to them."
Lou Dobbs (filling in for Larry King) about politics, pressure, and morale.
TSR: "America does not have one rock-solid strategy"
Suzanne Malveaux asks Michael whether the Bad Guys are paying attention to American politics.
NR: Iranian captured inside Iraq released
Michael discusses the release of one of the five Iranians that were captured inside Iraq.
AC: "Progress, but still far from victory..."
Michael talks to John Roberts about the weekend's events. (And non-events.)
PZN: "...the senator disagrees with our assessment of the war."
Kyra Phillips joins Michael in Baghdad to talk with Rick Sanchez about the security plan.
LDT: "...what they claim is the untold story..."
Michael recaps the surge's successes and failures so far.
TSR: "The policy of containment..."
Michael talks to Suzanne Malveaux about the ramifications of the various redeployment plans.
YWT: "...signs of limited progress here in Baghdad."
Hala Gorani talks with Michael about the surge, the walk, and the rumor.
AAM: Reality check from Baghdad
Michael recaps the Baghdad visit from Senators McCain and Graham, and also addressed yesterday's unsubstantiated rumor regarding comments he supposedly made during the press conference. (You can watch my video of the press conference here.)
LE: Iraq status check
Wolf conducts a roundtable discussion with Michael, the WaPo's David Ignatius, and Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations.


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Dubbed "a major artist" by the Miami Herald and a "quiet maverick" by the Daily Telegraph, pianist Alexander Korsantia has been praised for the "clarity of his technique, richly varied tone and dynamic phrasing" (Baltimore Sun)...
Ingrid Jacoby
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Praised by The New York Times for the "passion and poetry" in his performance, pianist Andrew Tyson is emerging as a distinctive and intriguing musical voice. Since winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2011...
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Q: Multi-thread daata access issue, @synchronized & serial queue As you may have experienced, access none-thread safe variables is a big headache. For iOS one simple solution is to use keyword @synchronized, which will add NSLock to insure the data can be accessed by unique one thread, the disadvantage is as below:

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*Lock too many will reduce app performance greatly, especially when invoked by main thread.

*Dead lock will occur when logic becomes complex.
Based on the above considerations, we prefer to use serial queue to handle, each thread safe critical operation will append to the end of the queue, it is a great solution, but the problem is that all access interfaces should by designed in asyn style, see the following one.
-(id)objectForKey:(NSString *)key;

The people who invoke this class aren't reluctant to design in this way. Anyone who has experience on this field please share and discuss together.

A: The final solution is using NSUserDefault to store small data, for large cache data put them in file maintained by ourselves.
Per Apple doc the advantage of NSUserDefault is thread safe and will do synchronize work periodically.

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