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A place for students to develop their ideas
5 October 2020 - Deutsch
Environment | Campus
ETH students should have opportunities to realise their ideas. To meet this need, ETH Zurich is building a new centre for student initiatives and entrepreneurial talent at its Hönggerberg campus. The winner of the architectural competition is the EQUILIBRES project designed by ARGE Buchner Bründler Planer / Rapp Architekten.
to meet and interact. The EQUILIBRES building and park-like forecourt. (Visualisation: ARGE Buchner Bründler Planer / Rapp Architekten)"
Construction of the new building, which is specifically for students and entrepreneurial talent, will begin on the Hönggerberg campus in 2024. The new centre will offer modern, versatile office space, multipurpose rooms and workshops for project-based and interdisciplinary collaboration, and accommodate the increasing student numbers as well. Various spaces will allow students to interact.
The concept reflects ETH Zurich's educational philosophy, which aims not only to give students fundamental expertise but also enable them to develop their own ideas, transform them into projects and thus acquire the key skills they will need in the workplace.
A place that brings projects to life
The new building will bring various student organisations, innovative teaching projects and entrepreneurial initiatives together under one roof. Currently, they are spread out at different locations in central Zurich and on the Hönggerberg campus. These include the student associations VSETH and SOSETH , which will use the structured spaces for their activities and share offices. SOSETH gives students access to digital and photo labs, AV technology and a place to work on projects directly; for example, SOSETH hosts the campus radio station -Radius-, cinema events and photo exhibitions.
The new building will also be home to the « Student Project House », where students can realise their own project ideas, and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab , which will give entrepreneurial talent and Pioneer Fellows a place to develop innovative business ideas, products and services. Certain ETH spin-offs will operate here as well, and special soundproofed workspaces and open-plan offices will be available to meet their needs. The building will also be used by student organisations that promote entrepreneurial activities, such as ETH Juniors and the ETH Entrepreneur Club.
-The new building will offer our students the perfect environment in which to realise their ideas, and is designed to foster their innovative spirit,- says ETH Rector Sarah Springman, who is responsible for education.
- This functional building will certainly help us to create an inspiring innovation ecosystem, where students and prospective entrepreneurs, spin-offs and start-ups will learn from and with each other and shape the future - adds Detlef Günther, Vice President for Research.
EQUILIBRES wins the architectural competition
The winner of the architectural design competition for the new building has been chosen: of the 12 designs submitted by selected general planning teams, a jury picked as the winner the EQUILIBRES project designed by ARGE Buchner Bründler Planer AG / Rapp Architekten AG. The proposals submitted for the competition were judged according to specific criteria for architecture and urban development, functionality and use concept, sustainability and building technology.
EQUILIBRES impressed the jury with its flexible spatial concept, broad range of areas for interaction and activities that promote interdisciplinary exchange, and a thoughtful approach to the surroundings and open space at the Hönggerberg campus. The building also has an air of the innovation that will take place within it. -The winning project impressed the jury for the particular attention it pays to the locational quality of the Hönggerberg campus, while integrating the new building thoughtfully into the future campus development,- says Ulrich Weidmann, Vice President for Infrastructure at ETH Zurich.
A pergola on the roof and a park-like forecourt
The new building, which in typical ETH style will be called HIC , will be situated in the still relatively quiet north-western part of the campus near the Arch_Tech_Lab (HIB) , which opened in 2016 .
A characteristic feature of the EQUILIBRES design is the building's open atmosphere, which is reflected in a style of architecture that responds to the various surroundings on each side of the building. To the north, the building extends above Eckmann-Weg, so that the free-standing reinforced concrete frame stands out clearly on that side, giving the building a floating appearance. To the east, the ground floor slides over the underground car park of the HIB building.
The overall architectural design of EQUILIBRES is characterised by its solid support structure in the basement that then transitions vertically into a light wood construction. (Visualisation: ARGE Buchner Bründler Planer / Rapp Architekten) The pergola rooftop garden features removable canvas panels and a variety of garden spaces with different sections, planting and water basins. Room with a view: the ground floor is designed specifically for events and social interaction and can be opened up completely for large events. The interior of the building is characterised by its openness, versatility, functionality and use of natural materials. On the lower ground floor, another entrance will lead directly to the Hönggerbergring with delivery access at the side. The new building will be situated in the still relatively quiet north-western part of the campus. (Photo: ETH Zurich / Alessandro Della Bella)
The building's supporting structure lends it a sense of lightness as it moves upward. The roof features a pergola garden that provides space for interaction and dialogue. Two additional work areas are located along the façade and can also be used for project work, depending on the season, and informal discussions. The planting and water basins add biodiversity to the rooftop garden and are another addition to the many green spaces on the Hönggerberg campus.
The jury appreciated how well the new building will integrate into the development plans for the campus: the open space concept of the ETH Campus Hönggerberg 2040 masterplan envisages numerous green zones in the surrounding areas, linking student activities with the research conducted in the planned adjacent HIN laboratory. The winning team's proposal includes a park-like area in front of the building's main entrance, offering a social space that fits well into the current campus layou t.
Sustainable construction and building operations
An important criterion for ETH Zurich's new building was sustainability : the competition explicitly sought out solutions for resource-conserving, climate-friendly and socially compatible construction. The energy concept of the winning project addresses these criteria through its use of space and dimensions, the choice of materials and use of renewable energy.
Much of the wood will be sourced regionally and rammed earth will be used as a material to help sustainably reduce the use of embodied energy and CO2 emissions in construction, enabling compensation of the use of concrete and steel. To cover as much as possible of the electricity requirements with renewable energy sources, the roof of the new building will be equipped with a photovoltaic system.
The building will also be connected to ETH's Anergy Grid , which was awarded the Watt d'Or 2020 prize. This grid uses an underground energy storage system, allowing the building to be heated and cooled efficiently, and with reduced CO2 emissions.
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The Price-Tag of Grizzly Delisting
Money and politics have driven decisions about the fate of Yellowstone's grizzly bears for the last 50 years. You often hear that more is known about Yellowstone grizzly bears than any other population of bears. But the truth is that managers and researchers here have benefitted from ample resources to support research and monitoring primarily because of the controversies that surround this population, not because of any greater curiosity or competence on the part of those involved.
Money will continue to matter after the removal of federal endangered species protections for Yellowstone's grizzly bears, because the government will rely on implementation of the expensive post-delisting Conservation Strategy (CS) to maintain the population. According to the delisting rule published last week (hereafter, the Rule), inadequate funding to implement the CS could trigger a status review of the population and possible relisting (link).
While on one hand the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) touts the CS as a key part of "adequate regulations" for protecting Yellowstone's grizzlies, the agency at the same time admits that the CS cannot compel any land or wildlife management agency to do anything. (link). Everything in the plan, including funding, is voluntary.
How can both be true? Well, they can't. Here, the government speaks out of both sides of its mouth, telling all sides what they want to hear.
Even if management agencies want to implement the CS, there is no reliable source of future funding for implementation, which amounts to more than $5 million per year, not accounting for inflation (link). Agencies can't obligate funds -- Congress and state legislatures jealously guard that duty. In the Rule's discussion outlining which agency is supposed to do and spend what, the FWS reinforces this basic truth, saying that the: "[CS] neither obligates nor implies a requirement for the identified party to implement the action(s) or secure funding for implementing the action(s)".
The fact is that implementation of the CS relies on funding from no fewer than eight different entities, any one of which could withdraw funding at any time. The likelihood of funding shortfalls is all the greater because successful implementation of the CS requires an astounding 50% increase of annual budgets from pre-delisting levels of around $2.5 million-- to over $5 million. This comes at a time when both federal and state agencies face an unprecedented funding crisis, especially the US Forest Service. More on this later.
Furthermore, the FWS relies on 3 Indian tribes--the Shoshone Bannock, Northern Arapaho, and Eastern Shoshone—to participate in funding and implementing the CS. These very same tribes face enormous financial challenges, and have passed resolutions opposing the delisting decision. What are the chances that the tribes will fund a plan they do not support and cannot afford?
Why Managing Grizzly Bears Post-Delisting is So Expensive
Grizzly bear recovery costs a lot because of the expense involved in monitoring bears and their habitat using all of the requisite radio-collars, airplanes, field checking, etc. Also, it is not cheap to prevent and manage human-bear conflicts, including buying bear-resistant dumpsters and replacing them when they wear out, as well as educating the many thousands of Yellowstone's visitors about how to recreate safely in bear country. Adequate funding is especially important in the case of Yellowstone's grizzly bears because this population is genetically so vulnerable that it will require perpetual life support in the form of expensive importation of bears to address genetic concerns.
And monitoring what is happening with the population and its habitat is particularly critical if, as proposed, the government loosens restrictions, turns increasingly to killing bears to resolve conflicts, and allows trophy hunting for the first time in 40 years. Delisting will lead to a smaller population, thus adding risk to a situation that is already fraught in light of the increasingly excessive human-caused mortalities that have occurred during most of the last 10 years. In fact, the population is almost certain to be in decline, especially in the wake of sky-high mortalities between 2014 and 2016.
Monitoring the population will become ever more important when hunting is allowed and more grizzlies are killed.
The Problem of Accountability
When the FWS last attempted to delist Yellowstone's grizzly bears in 2007, they had no accounting system in place to allow the involved agencies or the concerned public to determine when funding gaps had occurred and how large they might be. Nothing has been done to remedy the problem since then.
Worse, members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC), which oversees management of listed grizzly bear populations in the lower 48 states, spent much of recent meetings arguing about the purpose and duties of the committee. The identity crisis seems far from over (link).
It is true that there are many in state and federal agencies who have good intentions when it comes to fostering co-existence between grizzly bears and humans. These good intentions that have been expressed in various documents focused on a post-delisting world. But the road to extinction is paved with good intentions. The Endangered Species Act requires more.
The 2007 Delisting: A Cautionary Tale
The story of what happened when grizzly bears were delisted in 2007 provides a cautionary tale. There are many readers who probably know that the FWS' 2007 delisting rule was overturned in federal court in 2009, because the rule pretty much ignored all of the science highlighting the threats posed to Yellowstone's grizzly bears by losses of whitebark pine, a key grizzly bear food source that was all but wiped out by an unprecedented climate-driven outbreak of mountain pine beetle.
But most do not know that, during the two years that Yellowstone grizzlies were delisted, the agencies blew through a windfall of $2 million and still fell far short of funds to implement the Conservation Strategy.
Here is what happened. A strident opponent of the Endangered Species Act and avid supporter of grizzly bear delisting, then Montana Senator Conrad Burns, served as Chair of the Interior Appropriations Committee. In the days when congressional earmarks were as common as mud, he was able to earmark $1 million/year for the first two years after delisting to support grizzly bear management (link). Knowing that inadequate funding would be a problem jumped on by those who opposed delisting, Burns' intent was to make this issue disappear for a while.
But it didn't. As I pointed out earlier, there was no central recordkeeping of how the funds were spent. After repeatedly being denied requests for whatever records the agencies had kept, I secured a response through a request from then Montana Senator Max Baucus. Even with the extra cash, the funding gaps were striking. The Forest Service showed a funding shortfall of at least $0.5 million during these 2 years post-delisting management, and Montana was $170,000 or so short (link). The problem was likely worse, but records from other agencies were so incomplete as to be incomprehensible. Burns' $2 million funding buffer proved far from enough.
Since that time, congressional earmarks were banned because of their widespread abuse. They no longer provide an option for filling the gaps, which are likely to be greater this time around.
Government Agencies are Strapped More Than Ever
Delisting comes at a time when funding for agencies such as the Forest Service has been tanking, with support for management of wildlife habitat hit hardest. By contrast, fire management and related extractive uses such as "forest restoration" logging now get the lion's share of funding. The Bridger Teton National Forest budget has declined by 30% (link), and the future is not likely to bring improvements.
State wildlife management agencies are in no better shape. Even though Wyoming was relatively flush until recently due to energy-related revenues, it is loath to spend on conservation of grizzly bears, which are seen a competitors for their cash cow, big game such as elk (link).
In light of the States' zeal to keep the grizzly bear off the endangered species list once they wrest control away from the federal government, there is little chance that funding shortfalls could trigger a relisting, no matter how bad the problem. Meanwhile, given the larger economic forces at play on both the state and federal levels, funding shortfalls will likely only increase.
Hunting Grizzly Bears Won't Generate Net Revenue
You hear from some quarters that hunting grizzly bears will generate revenue for the states that will offset the cost of management. This is bunk.
Wyoming officials have announced that they will charge nonresidents a fee of $6,000 for a tag to hunt a grizzly bear and residents a fee of $600 (link). It is not yet clear what Montana and Idaho will do: they could follow Wyoming's lead, or possibly the example of Alaska or British Columbia. In Alaska, the costs of a brown bear tag for residents are $25, for nonresidents $500, and for "aliens" $650. In British Columbia a tag for a resident is $80 and a nonresident $1,050. Given the level of harvest, none of these tag fees come close to covering the costs of bear management in either Alaska or British Columbia.
Given that the northern Rockies states will, combined, be sport hunting no more than a couple of dozen grizzlies, license-related income will only be a trivial fraction of grizzly bear-related expenses, outweighed by the rising costs of management outlined in the CS.
To the extent that a hunt has economic value, the lions share goes to the outfitter – and outfitted hunts start at $15,000. But right now in Greater Yellowstone, outfitters are increasingly dependent on watching rather than killing wildlife – and this is the overall trend in recreation and public demand regionally and nationally. The fact is that hunting is an industry in decline. Since 1998 hunting has declined by over 40% in Greater Yellowstone (link), and the trend is expected to continue. In any case, while you can still justify subsistence hunting of birds and big game, killing carnivores is about little more than gratifying the ego and libido.
By contrast, alive, wildlife is worth over a half billion annually (link), and provides the base of the economic and cultural well-being of the region.
Rather than generating revenue, hunting grizzly bears will give the Northern Rockies states a black eye. It will come at the cost of the growing outfitting industry that depends on something other than killing. Further, by hunting bears at a time when the ecosystem is unraveling (link), states are risking the future of the Great Bear. Hunting will invite an even more expensive emergency response if and when relisting is necessary.
Grizzly Bear Trust Fund?
To fill the funding gap, people inside and outside the government have been talking for the last 25 years about creating a trust fund for managing grizzly bears, and possibly other large carnivores such as wolves. No matter how you cut it, large carnivores are expensive, with high costs entailed by both monitoring and reducing conflicts. It makes sense to establish a stable source of funding not subject to the vagaries of Congress and state legislatures.
But no one has sorted out how to do this. No billionaire grizzly bear fan has decided to part with several millions to make this idea a reality. Given the government's chronic accountability problems, I doubt that this idea can be realized unless it is made truly separate from the government, with a rigorous system of transparent record-keeping.
Funding is important to sustaining Yellowstone's grizzly bear population. It is time for the government to come clean and admit that the funding is not in place to manage grizzly bears after delisting and fulfill the terms of the Conservation Strategy. Nor is there a system of accountability in place. Sport hunting and the promotion of ever more bear killing will increase risk for Yellowstone's grizzlies. With this risk comes a demand for rigorous monitoring at a time when the government is increasingly short on funds.
What happens if the needed funds are not forthcoming? A likely scenario over time is that we will know less and less about the status of bears and their habitat. As is the case now, the government will likely continue to hold its monopolistic death grip on Yellowstone's grizzly bear data as a means of preventing close scrutiny of its science. Meanwhile, the states will probably continue unsustainable levels of sport hunting until population problems are so obvious that they cannot be denied. At which point, interventions are hideously expensive – but more important, too little, too late.
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Katamari Damacy Creator Felt Like An Outsider At Namco
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Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn't happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it "so-so". His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that.
Katamari Damacy Designer Leaves Namco Bandai, Calls It "So-So"
It seems that Keita Takahashi, the man known for Katamari Damacy, has left Namco Bandai.
"The reason why I quit Namco was because I started to feel like I didn't belong there any more," Takahashi recently told website Eurogamer. Takahashi's games, he noted, "were not the best-selling ones", and he also realized that "Namco was, as a business, going down a bit".
Couple that with the fact his colleagues were moving on to other projects, and you have a guy that doesn't feel like he belongs anymore.
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Rakul Preet Singh Appears Before ED In Drugs Trafficking Case
The ED had already grilled Telugu director Puri Jagannadh and actress Charmee Kaur in the case.
Rakul Preet Singh appeared before the EDI in Hyderabad on Friday
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The drug racket was exposed in July 2017 and several cases related to drug trafficking were registered and over 20 people were arrested including a US citizen, who was a former aerospace engineer and had worked with the NASA, a Dutch national, a South African national besides seven B.Tech degree holders employed with multi-national companiesin Hyderabad. The names of some Tollywood personalities came out during the interrogation of people arrested in connection with the racket.
The ED had earlier summoned over 10 Tollywood (Telugu film industry) personalities in connection with the sensational racket of supplying high-end narcotics that was busted by the Telangana's Prohibition and Excise department.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Telangana's Prohibition and Excise department, as part of its investigation had also probed the alleged drug-links with Tollywood, in 2017, and had then questioned 11 people connected to the Telugu film industry including actors and directors besides the driver of one of the actor and had also collected hair and nail samples. The SIT questioned them to find out if they had any links with the racket as consumers or suppliers or with those arrested.
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Automakers go back to school for r&d on self-driving cars
The academic effort gives automakers a better chance to take some of the marketing sheen away from Google,
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) -- Automakers didn't build the modern self-driving car: Google did. That's a big problem for them.
Hoping to catch up, Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen are betting on academics. Along with Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm and Panasonic, they're each giving $300,000 to the University of California at Berkeley to fund artificial intelligence research.
The alliance, called DeepDrive, is a rare moment of AI cooperation among car companies, which are racing one another to create the kind of brains that propel Google's prototype gumdrop-shaped vehicles around Mountain View. It also highlights the new position universities find themselves in. Their AI lab work is in high demand-- and corporations don't want to wait months or years to get their hands on it.
The companies' money will go to projects selected by UC-Berkeley. In return, the automakers get to give feedback on research proposals; meet the academics toiling away on the tech; and, thanks to the upfront payment, can commercialize any of the research without having to go through the headache of an additional licensing stage.
"They've essentially pre-negotiated access to software," said Trevor Darrell, a professor at the university who leads DeepDrive. In corporate terms, $300,000 may not seem like a lot of money, but altogether the donations will back between 20 and 30 graduate students a year.
It's a cheap way for the companies to get a bead on a dangerous, unpredictable future.
"If vehicle manufacturers, five years from now, haven't been to the drawing boards to figure out how to get self-driving tech into their cars, then those companies will be left out," said Thilo Koslowski, top car analyst at the research firm Gartner. "It's that dramatic."
For UC-Berkeley, it's an opportunity to get funding without having to delay publication at the behest of a sponsor. That's the normal protocol for corporate-backed research, where companies can ask to review results prior to general publication, delaying publication for months -- or more.
Openness has become a big deal in artificial intelligence as the pace of research speeds up. No one wants to be caught reinventing the wheel (or the car). With DeepDrive, the university "can have open research with no publication restrictions, no lock down of early review for patenting, so the research can move as fast as it possibly can," says Darrell.
Testing ideas
It also gives the university a way to test its theoretical ideas in the real world, says Pieter Abbeel, a professor at UC-Berkeley and one of the principal investigators at DeepDrive.
"We do all this research, but unless you do a startup where's it going to go?" Abbeel said. "These companies, they all have experts in the same topics but might not have the time to do research. But they understand everything we're doing and can translate it very nicely into their own projects and we can see it in action."
Through the project, UC-Berkeley researchers could also get access to driving data from the companies, and be able to run their software on the automakers' vehicle simulators, letting them test out new approaches without risking crashing real cars, he said.
The types of problems DeepDrive's researchers will tackle read like an index page from a science fiction novel: custom semiconductors for vision systems, software to predict how a pedestrian will behave, AI that can drive in unusual terrain, techniques that let machines learn from human drivers. It will also fund work on Caffe, a programming framework developed by UC-Berkeley that cuts out some of the grunt work in writing AI code.
Applicable now
DeepDrive is emblematic of the new interest in university research projects around artificial intelligence and robotics, says Andrew Moore, the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's school of computer science and a former Google employee. "We've hit this inversion where the stuff the universities are doing is applicable right now to industry," he said.
Typically, university research needs to be adapted for specific industries or problem areas. That's not the case with the current crop of AI technology, which is generating such excitement because it can be applied easily and quickly to new areas.
"It's a real boom time," Moore said. Google and Facebook regularly turn research papers into products in a matter of months, as opposed to years. In 2014, Uber partnered with Carnegie Mellon to develop self-driving car technology. By 2015 it had hired away academics from the lab.
Car companies have been throwing a lot of money and resources at artificial intelligence lately. Ford moved the development of self-driving cars from its research lab to its engineering operations in June, as the company prepared to put AI into more of its vehicles.
In September, Toyota hired Gill Pratt, the U.S. military's top robotics engineer, as part of a $1 billion investment into developing smarter cars. Volkswagen AG used its presentation at the Geneva auto show in February to talk about its planned investments in self-driving cars.
Why competitors cooperate
The automakers are starting to worry that if they let Silicon Valley win the AI race, they'll be sidelined as contract manufacturers of sheet metal-- a future they'd like to avoid. So, as with past research pushes like hydrogen fuel cells, the competitors are coming together.
"You need to think differently about who is the partner and who is the enemy," says Gartner's Koslowski. "The whole notion of frenemies will become more important to the auto industry going forward."
Most of all, it gives them a better chance to take some of the marketing sheen away from Google, which has garnered huge amounts of media attention for being the first company to create and demonstrate an autonomous vehicle.
That's likely galling to the auto companies which have been developing self-driving, or driver-assistive services (think cruise control) for years, but haven't been so public with their zanier research efforts. After all, the team that won a government self-driving challenge in 2007 was sponsored by General Motors, Caterpillar, and Continental. (Then again, the director of that project, Chris Urmson, now runs Google's self-driving car group.)
"Google has had a lot to do with this in terms of their ability to get out and really publicly talk about what they're doing," says Tom West, the director of the California Program for Advanced Transportation Technology at Berkeley. "I think a lot of the auto companies were doing a lot of this work and were doing it under wraps."
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#ifndef SCREENTEXT_H
#define SCREENTEXT_H

#include "main.h"
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namespace cgu {

    class GPUProgram;
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     * @author Sebastian Maisch <sebastian.maisch@googlemail.com>
     * @date   2014.02.04
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CARICOM intelligence officials forecast more use of armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones around the region by Mexico's super cartels. In October 2017 law enforcers seized a weaponized drone in possession of CJNG members and December 2017 recorded the first aggressive armed drone scenario piloted by Mexican cartel operators. Continuance of such activity would herald the underworld's technological advancement, from drones that transport drugs and conduct surveillance, to machines that carry out assassinations.
On July 10, 2018 the Mexican Public Safety Secretary for Baja California was attacked by unidentified UAVs at his home. Baja California is located in colonia Los Laureles in Tecat, a border city in the San Diego/Tijuana metropolitan area. One drone was equipped with audio and video technology, plus two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which failed to detonate, the second UAV providing surveillance. Reports verify the CJNG, Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel control individual trafficking operations in Baja State and along the US/Mexico border.
Since 2009 US federal agencies used "Predator B" UAVs to gather intelligence in Mexican airspace. Such model is an unarmed version of the "MQ-1 Predator," used by American Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. From March 2012 Mexico's Navy deployed its drones to support the government's antidrug operations against organized crime groups and cartels. The Mexican Navy's specially developed aerial technology is reinforced with carbon fiber, with a wingspan of two point five four meters, weighing nine point five kilograms.
In 2013 Mexico's appetite for UAVs increased sevenfold. Israel is comfortably top drone supplier to Latin America. Between 2005 and 2012 Tel Aviv supplied US$500 million worth of UAVs to that region. In 2010 Brazil received the biggest sale comprised fourteen drones valued US$350 million. In June 2013 Bolivian counter-narcotics enforcers found two hundred and forty drug labs in the Santa Cruz department, aided by Brazilian drone intelligence data.
Despite America's reputation as principal supplier of modern security technology and equipment to the Caribbean and Latin America, US manufacturers are subjected to strict controls and regulations regarding drone sales. According to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data, since 2014 Mexican Cartels have utilized "custom-made narco drones" to smuggle cocaine across the US/Mexico border.


So the birthday weekend was fantastic! Seriously a great time was had by all. We headed out to Palm Springs on Saturday afternoon and started with at a must stop. Grill-A-Burger.
Here The Phi and her Nana enjoy some conversation.
We then walked over to Latino Books Y Mas for the Victor Villasenor book signing. We wandered the store for awhile and as The Phi searched through the kids books Mr. Villasenor himself came up to her and said hello. Of course The Phi got shy and hid behind my leg. But one day after she reads "Rain of Gold" for the first time and it changes her life I can tell her about the encounter she had at a book store in Palm Springs.
The actual lecture was at the frozen yogurt place next door. The book store is tiny and they had a pretty good crowd. We all stood in the back and listened to his lecture. It was amazing! He talked about his books and gave some insight to how he became a writer. His first manuscript was rejected over 250 times! 250 times! This was a real treat for me. Victor Villasenor has been one of my favorite authors for many many years. I was happy to hear that there will be one more book in the series. Yea!
Telling a story from "Burro Genius"
The Phi enjoying the lecture.
My Pops having his copy of "Macho" signed.
After the lecture we had time to kill so we wandered downtown Palm Springs until we found a pub with a happy hour going on. So we sat and talked and drank until it was time for our dinner reservation. Tia Day-Day, Tio Luis and their tribe as well as The Dre's met us at Las Casuelas for dinner.
I was spoiled by everyone and my sisters totally got my hint and I got the new Gwen Stefani perfume. The Dre's got me a gorgeous Frida bracelet and my parents hooked me up with a new awesome 22inch flat screen monitor that went perfect with the new computer that PR Dad got me!
And of course the gifts were nice, but having my family and the love they give me really is the best gift of all.
Happy Birthday! He is an amazing writer!
Glad you had a great b day weekend! It was fun going out there. I wish we could have been there for the whole weekend.
You've got an awesome family! I am totally jealous about the book signing. Oh...and Xixi has that same shirt! Too cute.


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require 'protobuf/message/enum'
require 'protobuf/message/service'
require 'protobuf/message/extend'

::Protobuf::OPTIONS[:"java_outer_classname"] = "PoloProto"
::Protobuf::OPTIONS[:"java_package"] = "com.google.polo.wire.protobuf"
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  defined_in __FILE__
  class MessageType < ::Protobuf::Enum
    defined_in __FILE__
    MESSAGE_TYPE_PAIRING_REQUEST = value(:MESSAGE_TYPE_PAIRING_REQUEST, 10)
    MESSAGE_TYPE_PAIRING_REQUEST_ACK = value(:MESSAGE_TYPE_PAIRING_REQUEST_ACK, 11)
    MESSAGE_TYPE_OPTIONS = value(:MESSAGE_TYPE_OPTIONS, 20)
    MESSAGE_TYPE_CONFIGURATION = value(:MESSAGE_TYPE_CONFIGURATION, 30)
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class PairingRequest < ::Protobuf::Message
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class PairingRequestAck < ::Protobuf::Message
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class ConfigurationAck < ::Protobuf::Message
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class SecretAck < ::Protobuf::Message
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1918 drew to a close with the various Battalions of the Suffolk Regiment still scattered around the globe. Their aim achieved, now the great dispersal began.
The 1st Battalion were still on the Macedonian front, but were soon to return home to Rugeley Camp before being sent to India. The 2nd Battalion has marched into Germany and were at Gymnich in the Rhineland, starting a tricky period of policing as part of the Army of Occupation. They had fought the longest and in some cases, the bitterest periods of the campaign.
The 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion were still in existence at Felixstowe. They had been ceaseless in training numerous drafts of new recruits and reservists over the entire period of the conflict, and soon the would be reduced to a cadre and eventually disbanded. They were the 'axle upon which the wheel turned' as someone once noted. This was no understatement.
The 4th Battalion (T.F.) were like their counterparts in the 2nd Battalion, marching into Germany. They were gallant but always seemed to lack a decisive commander who would bring them greatness. The 5th Battalion were in the Middle East, enjoying the climate before the long journey home. Of all the fighting Battalions of the regiment in the great war, they had their greatest victories against the Turk and not the Hun, but the majority of their casualties fell to disease rather than enemy action.
Of all the war-raised 'Service' Battalions, just the 11th and 12th Battalion's remained. The 11th fought onto the bitter end and ended the war close to their counterparts in the 2nd Battalion near Le Cateau. In modern history they have become idolised as a 'Pals' Battalion. In reality they were absolutely nothing of the sort and by the end, the greater proportion of its ranks were from neither Suffolk nor Cambridgeshire. The 12th Battalion, were no longer exclusively of men short in stature and though the loss of their commander in early 1918 dealt them a bitter blow, they were still in at the finish, though by early 1919, they were all but gone.
The 15th Battalion was in France having fought as dismounted yeomanry, then later as infantry. They were facing extinction in the post-war re-organisation, being reembodied as an artillery unit.
The 1st (Reserve) Garrison Battalion was still on the lonely window Grain peninsular, but it had provided valuable drafts for the front early in the War and thought their war may not have been glorious, the Battalion was a springboard for many to serve at the front.
The War was over, but it was not peace. It was but an Armistice with a formal signing of a peace treaty coming a few months later. It therefore seems an appropriate end to our venture, to close Operation 'Legacy' here.
Over the centenary of the conflict, the Friends have recorded the personal aspect of the Suffolk Regiment soldier and his service in the Great War in over 250 posts. A unique remembrance of not just one battalion or campaign, but all Battalions in all campaigns. We have charted defeat and victory, sorry and joy and have been proud to put the history of the regiment in a new light with new information found since the official Regimental history was written almost 90 years ago.
It has been a highly rewarding, if at times demanding, personal campaign, but we are proud to have left our 'legacy' for future generations to read. As the epitaph on one Suffolk War Memorial proclaims: "Let them who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten".


You know that cliff you've driven by countless times, scanning it for features, eyeballing the approach, and wondering if it's climbable? Other climbers have probably seen it, too. And at some point, someone will bushwhack up and tug on some lichen-covered holds. That's how development starts. Climbers pull out brushes and drills, scrub handholds, and put up a handful of routes. Then a handful more get developed, and soon approach trails begin to form. Before you know it, a new crag or boulderfield is born.
From backcountry walls to roadside boulders, climbing's heroes tirelessly mine for new routes, building the latest crags across the country. We talked to developers, guidebook authors, and locals to determine the best areas in the U.S. that have taken shape in the past several years; there, you can expect unconfirmed grades, scrappy approaches, and, best of all, hardly any crowds. Here's the lowdown.
Denverites live the good life. Even with nearly 10,000 established routes within a couple of hours of the city, there's still virgin rock. In 2010, Colorado State Parks announced a master plan for a new park an hour's drive from downtown Denver, bringing together almost 4,000 acres of formerly-private ranch land that's littered with a halfdozen granite domes and slabs. You'll find everything from single-pitch climbs to 600-foot-tall routes. Before the park's public opening, slated for spring 2013, officials granted access to a small group of local climbers to establish dozens of sport, trad, and mixed routes typical of Colorado's South Platte area, which lies just to the south of Staunton. Diverse climbing on granite cracks, slabs, chickenheads, jugs, and flakes will lift you out of thin pine forests and yield views of high plains all the way to Colorado Springs' prominent 14er, Pikes Peak.
Eight crags in the main area, Staunton Rocks, have produced more than 60 lines from 5.3 to 5.12c, with the majority at 5.10 and under. More potential exists throughout the park—route developer and South Platte guidebook author Jason Haas estimates there's potential for around 100 more new routes, including on the 600-foot southeast face of Lion's Head, a cliff a mile southwest of Staunton Rocks.
Get there: Staunton State Park is just north of Pine Junction, Colorado, 40 miles from downtown Denver off U.S. 285; day fee is $8. The approach to the main climbing area, Staunton Rocks, is an easy walk about two miles along a narrow dirt road to the base of the cliff. The park will initially be open as a day-use only park.
Stay there: Campgrounds will be built in later phases of the park's development; check parks.state.co.us/parks/staunton or call 303-816-0912 for updates. Camping is available in the South Platte; fs.usda.gov/activity/psicc/recreation/campingcabins.
Season: Year-round; south-facing routes will be hot in the summer, but climbable on sunny winter days.
More beta: A free PDF guidebook is available at fixedpin.com.
Bishop may have to surrender its reign as California's premier bouldering destination: The Zephyr Boulders, on Lake Tahoe's east shore in Nevada, have seen a flurry of development in the last four years, resulting in more than 300 new problems, with potential for probably 200 more. Tahoe local Jay Sell had eyed this area for about 20 years before finally investigating in 2008. Mostly moderate in grade, the problems climb arêtes and pillars, with lots of crimps and compression moves. The biggest group of boulders, called Mecca, has about 80 problems, delivering problems for every skill level. Multiple sun exposures keep the boulders warm in the winter, and the crisp zephyr winds in the summer keep the temperatures about 10 to 12 degrees cooler than down in town, about 10 minutes away. Sells says you can climb in every month with good weather.
Across the shore in California lay the Sugar Pine boulders, which host a staggering 1,100 problems, also established in the last several years. While Sell was exploring the Zephyr Boulders, another Tahoe climber, Dave Hatchett, began developing problems along General Creek, finding more clean granite, but with seams, cracks, and diorite knobs. Hatchett, who's currently producing a guidebook to the entire area, believes there's potential for at least 500 more boulder problems.
Get there: Mecca is just north of Zephyr Cove, Nevada, reached by hiking north and east from a fire road across U.S. 50 from Tahoe Drive. The fire road is 5.3 miles north of the California-Nevada border on U.S. 50. Hike 35 minutes trending north and west uphill to a saddle, where a trail forks; take the left fork to Mecca. Access the Sugar Pine Boulders via the General Creek Trail in Sugar Pine Point State Park, 20 miles north of South Lake Tahoe on CA 89.
Stay there: There are numerous campgrounds along the shores of Lake Tahoe, but some close for the winter season. Nevada Beach Campground is closest to the Zephyr Boulders; for Sugar Pine, stay at Sugar Pine Point State Park. Find these and more at reserveamerica.com.
Season: Spring through fall, although sunny winter days can offer good conditions. At Sugar Pine, the snow doesn't usually melt until early June.
More beta:Bouldering Lake Tahoe, by Dave Hatchett, will be published in spring 2013 (laketahoebouldering.com). Until then, visit Tahoe Sports Ltd. in South Lake Tahoe for beta; tahoesportsltd.com, 530-542-4000.
The three crags in the Land's End area—the Land's End Wall, Beyond Civilization Wall, and Misspent Youth Wall—lay at 10,000 feet, staying cool in the summer. "There's everything—mellow hand cracks, offwidth, steep delicate sport, and roof cracks," Garhart says. "The sport and mixed routes have some slab and crimps, but typically you find yourself making big moves between good holds." On any given climb, turn around for wide-open views of the valley below and Grand Junction.
Get there: From Grand Junction, drive south 14.5 miles on U.S. 50 and turn east on Kannah Creek Road/Land's End Road. Follow the signs approximately 20 miles to the Land's End Observatory. Approaches to each crag vary, but all are under 15 minutes.
Stay there: Jumbo Campground is open from May to late September, and is 15 miles east on CO 65. Fees range from $18–$22 and include water and toilets; recreation.gov.
Season: Late spring through early fall.
When boulderer Aaron Parlier moved from North Carolina to southwest Virginia in 2009 for college, he saw a void: There were no climbing gyms in the area, and not much of a climbing community. So he began to explore, clean, and develop boulder problems at Grayson Highlands State Park, a 4,800- acre area near Damascus, and meticulously listed all of them on mountainproject.com. "Up until maybe three years ago, I never saw another crash pad," he says. "At the 300th boulder problem I posted on Mountain Project, I saw another climber, and from then on, it has grown steadily by word of mouth, photos, and a few videos." Parlier, who began climbing during a four-year stint in the Army, estimates he has about 400 first ascents of the park's more than 700 problems scattered throughout the hills. Problems range from Veasy to V10 on rhyolite to metamorphic sandstone, with the majority between V1 and V6, and the climbing style is similar to that of Hound Ears near Boone, North Carolina: steep, powerful and crimpy.
The climate in southwest Virginia is fairly mild year-round, and GHSP sits at around 5,000 feet, ensuring send-friendly temperatures even in the summer. Weaving his way though the hardwood forests and mountain creeks, Parlier is now an official climbing ambassador for the park.
Get there: Grayson Highlands is 30 miles east of Damascus on U.S. 58. Main bouldering areas are off the Listening Rock Loop Trail; the Boneyard area, which is located a mile west outside the park entrance; and the Highlands, the most well known area in the park. Parking fee is $2–$3.
Stay there: Camping inside the park is $15–$20 per night; amenities include picnic tables, water, and bathhouses; dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks, 800-933-7275.
Season: Spring through fall; high altitude keeps it cool in the summer. The park is closed December through March.
More beta:mountainproject.com; Parlier and Dan Brayack will publish a guidebook to the area in winter 2012/spring 2013; brayackmedia.com.
New climbing at Devil's Lake, the Midwest's most famous/popular/sandbagged climbing area? No one believed it could happen until 2009. This regional hotspot has challenged climbers since the early 1900s with its stout traditional routes. Local developer Steve Schultz says everyone thought its potential for new routing was tapped out. "In the mid- 2000s, I had someone tell me that the chances of finding a truly new boulder problem, let alone an entire boulder, are so slim it doesn't warrant thinking about," he says. But in 2009, Schultz and a small group of climbers started exploring the park beyond the established cliffs, cleaning boulders and posting their findings on Mountain Project—adding 300 to 350 new problems throughout the area.
Most problems hover around V0 to V5, with a few dozen in the V6 to V11 range. The climbing features slabs, cracks, highballs, and arêtes—basically everything but friction: "The rock itself is absolutely bulletproof quartzite, but extremely slick," Schultz says. "It's got a lot of features similar to granite, but with none of the texture." The boulders are spread throughout the park, many not far from established trails.
Get there: Devil's Lake State Park is an hour north of Madison. The highest concentrations of problems are along the East Bluff and West Bluff, the two main climbing areas at Devil's Lake. Mountainproject.com has detailed information for each sector.
Stay there: There are three campgrounds in the park: Quartzite, Northern Lights, and Ice Age campgrounds. Sites fill up months in advance, and you can reserve up to 11 months ahead of time; $15–$17, reserveamerica.com, 888-947-2757.
More beta: Find information on the main bouldering areas, plus topo maps, on mountainproject.com.
Crane Mountain is farther off the beaten path than other Adirondacks spots; Harrison says the cliffs don't look that impressive from afar, but upon closer inspection, they revealed huge potential for single-pitch routes. "The predominant character in route development first arrived in 1990, but he was a hard-nosed, ground-up, anti-bolting idiot—that being me," he says. This kept the cliffs from seeing much traffic through the mid-2000s. But in 2007, a younger, visionary climber, Jamie McNeill of Burlington, Vermont, convinced Harrison to take a second look, and the duo has established more than 150 routes at the Black Arches and surrounding cliffs since then.
Get there: Crane Mountain is closest to Johnsburg, New York. Three trails leave the Crane Mountain parking area at the end of Sky High Road; the unsigned climbers' trail heads east out of the parking lot, winds around Crane Mountain, and gains about 400 vertical feet to the base of the Black Arches Wall. Expect a strenous, 40-minute approach.
Stay there: Free, non-designated camping is allowed on all forest preserve land as long as it's 150 feet from trails, roads, and water; there are also scattered designated sites labeled with a yellow "Camp Here" disc. Camping for more than three days requires a permit; dec.ny.gov, 518-623-1200. Find more camping options, including maps and prices, at visitadirondacks.com.
Season: Spring through fall—early August through mid-October has the best conditions. Warning: bugs and humidity spike in May and early August.


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Let's face it. There comes a time when we all need a break from our mini-me's and crave adult conversation. There are even times when we crave not only adult conversation but also (dare I say it) a glass of wine. And since wine seems to be the adult beverage of choice among my mom friends, let's have a glass.
I decided that if we were going to have a glass of adult grape juice, I may as well save some money. And since we are finally going out, we shouldn't stay up all night, because those kids wake up really early. So let's have a glass of wine that is under $4 and before the sun sets.
I suggest having your hubby take over the kid's nighttime routine so you can grab a mom-friend (or two) and check out these budget-friendly spots around Jax. We have you covered every day of the week!
Could I bring the kids? Sure- they have coloring pages & kids eat free on weekdays 4-6pm!
Is the food cheap: Yes! $2 appetizers all day on Tuesday, including fried pickles and popcorn shrimp (um, yes please).
Is the food cheap: It's not the most inexpensive on the list, but on Wednesdays they feature their famous Bang Bang Shrimp for only $6!
Could I bring the kids? Bonefish isn't the restaurant that immediately comes to mind when you think of kid-friendly, but my kids LOVE coloring all over tables that are topped with white paper!
Is the food cheap: Not necessarily cheap, but it is GOOD. With a 92% rating on Urban Spoon, it is arguably the best pizza on the Westside.
Could I bring the kids? It's pizza,- of course you can!
Is the food cheap: If you sit at the bar or at a bar table, appetizers are half off during happy hour. With options such as steamed mussels, meatball & ricotta flatbread & zucchini frittes, you are sure to find something shareable with your mom-friends!
Could I bring the kids? They have an outside deck with a fantastic ocean breeze that the kids would love.
Thanks to a few wine loving JMB fans, here are a few additional restaurants with fantastic vino prices!
Is the food cheap: It's not as pricey as you may think for a steakhouse specializing in Prime, custom-aged, mid-western beef!
Could I bring the kids? Sure! The atmosphere is that of a bustling steakhouse, which fits right in with less-than-quiet children.
Is the food cheap: You get what you pay for with pizza. Al's was voted "Best Pizza in Jacksonville" for 16 straight years. A large 16-inch pizza will run you about $24, but it is worth it!
Could I bring the kids? Yes! And with unique Italian selections for the kids such as such as Ziti, Lasagna and tri-colored tortellini, it is a great place to broaden your child's dining choices.
Is the food cheap: No, but it is fantastic and unique (and you are saving tons on booze, so you can afford to spend a little more cash). Try the Bayou Bleu or Red Skin Potato Pie if you are feeling adventurous!
Could I bring the kids? Yes- Mellow is a great place for the kids. With their hippie, colorful decor and awesome Wikki Stixs each child receives, kids are guaranteed to stay entertained while their pizza bakes!
These are just a few of the places to get a cheap glass of wine in Jax- what are your favorite spots?
Next articleIt's Time for Baby's Close Up!
Brucci's pizza has $1 slices and $1 wine and draft beer on Thursday 4-10pm.


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Martha Roby – The Lost Interview
As we approach the final hours before the AL-D2 Congressional Runoff between Republicans Martha Roby (I) and Bobby Bright, I thought I would weigh in on the hoopla that is and was Martha Roby's decision not to vote for Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
First, a quick refresher, back on October 8th, 2016, during a critical and uncertain time of the presidential race, Roby sent this tweet:
Donald Trump's behavior makes him unacceptable as a candidate for president, and I won't vote for him.
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/Ge7GU1TSvm
— Rep. Martha Roby (@RepMarthaRoby) October 8, 2016
This caused an uproar among the staunchly pro-Trump Alabama 2nd congressional district Republican voters. Voters which had already elected Roby to face a token democrat and have no trouble winning re-election in November. Outburst such as this one went viral on the internet:
Well, as they say, the rest is history. History that you all know all too well. Roby barely edged out her
Democratic opponent, Nathan Mathis
in the general and was elected for a fourth term to congress.
Now, here we are near the end of the 2018 season and Roby's opponents are still bringing this up. Earlier today I was thinking about this blog and what I did to cover that election back in 2016. Deer Stand Hill was only a few months old as it's currently incarnated and if you listen to the early podcast it shows. I did try to land interviews with influencers and the politicians running for office all got request from me for interviews. As I thought about those days, it hit me..The Roby email interview! There was a blog post that gained little traffic back in late October 2016 where Roby responded to a series of questions, that I asked during an email exchange with her campaign, regarding her decision to not support Trump. The post received little notice and a database issue caused me to lose it between then and now. But the original email? Well, today I found it! Here is the exchange between the Roby Campaign and myself, this is from October 20th, 2016:
(Question) Was the video released on October 7th the only factor in your decision to drop your support of Trump? If not, what were some other factors?
(Answer) Rep. Roby had several stated concerns about Donald Trump as the nominee, particularly as it concerned his shifting positions on conservative issues (life, spending, constitutional order, etc). But, she believe[sic] the best thing for the country and the party was to support the Republican nominee. After the tape, it became clear to Rep. Roby that Donald Trump was unacceptable as a presidential candidate and that the best thing for the party and the country would be for him to step aside and allow Mike Pence to lead the Republican ticket to victory. Politics aside, Rep. Roby is also a mother of two children. She has said that she cannot support a candidate for president who demonstrates such a pattern of abuse and disrespect towards women.
(Question) How have your constituents reacted to this announcement in the days after you made it? Was this reaction expected?
(Answer) There has been pretty significant reaction, some positive and some negative. Many have reached out to express gratitude for her speaking out for what's right. Of course, others don't see it that way. Some have misconstrued her decision in a way that would make it seem like she somehow supports Hillary Clinton. That couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, it is precisely because she wants to defeat Hillary Clinton that she spoke out when she did in hopes of Trump doing what's best for the party.
As she has traveled around and met with constituents this week, most have come to understand that she was simply being open and honest about her views, not campaigning against Trump or trying to tell others how to vote. In fact, she has turned down more than 100 media appearances just because she doesn't want to appear to be telling others how to vote. Most people can respect that even if they don't agree.
(Question) If Donald Trump is elected, will your decision not to support him during this last month of the campaign carry over to you not supporting him as President?
(Answer) Of course Rep. Roby would work with him as president. No matter who is in the White House, Rep. Roby's responsibility is to be a strong voice for the people of her district and advocate for the issues that matter.
Rep. Roby is committed to advancing the conservative cause and putting this country back on the right track. We all believe the best way for that to happen is under a Republican president. Whether it is playing offense with a Republican president, or defense with a Democrat, Rep. Roby is going to fight for conservative principles and values.
End of interview.
Has Martha Roby supported President Trump since his election? Look at this, from
, Roby was expected to vote 93.5% of the time with Trump but actually voted 96.5% with the president. Maybe that is why we recently saw this tweet from President Trump endorsing Rep. Roby for a 5th term:
Congresswoman Martha Roby of Alabama has been a consistent and reliable vote for our Make America Great Again Agenda. She is in a Republican Primary run-off against a recent Nancy Pelosi voting Democrat. I fully endorse Martha for Alabama 2nd Congressional District!
So why all of the hoopla? Rep. Roby has stood by her words as far as I can tell. What do ya'll think? Let me know in the comments below.
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