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Sound plus electrical body stimulation has potential to treat chronic pain
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain's somatosensory or "tactile" cortex, increasing the potential for using the technique to treat chronic pain and other sensory disorders. The researchers tested the non-invasive technique on animals and are planning clinical trials on humans in the near future.
The paper is published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, a highly regarded, peer-reviewed scientific journal for the interdisciplinary field of neural engineering.
During the experiments, the researchers played broadband sound while electrically stimulating different parts of the body in guinea pigs. They found that the combination of the two activated neurons in the brain's somatosensory cortex, which is responsible for touch and pain sensations throughout the body.
While the researchers used needle stimulation in their experiments, one could achieve similar results using electrical stimulation devices, such as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) units, which are widely available for anyone to buy at pharmacies and stores. The researchers hope that their findings will lead to a treatment for chronic pain that's safer and more accessible than drug approaches.
"Chronic pain is a huge issue for a lot of people, and for most, it's not sufficiently treatable," said Cory Gloeckner, lead author on the paper, a 2017 PhD alumnus of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Department of Biomedical Engineering, and an assistant professor at John Carroll University. "Right now, one of the ways that we try to treat pain is opioids, and we all know that doesn't work out well for many people. This, on the other hand, is a non-invasive, simple application. It's not some expensive medical device that you have to buy in order to treat your pain. It's something that we think would be available to pretty much anyone because of its low cost and simplicity."
The researchers plan to continue investigating this "multimodal" approach to treating different neurological conditions, potentially integrating music therapy in the future to see how they can further modify the somatosensory cortex.
"A lot of people have been using acupuncture or electrical stimulation—non-invasive or invasive—to try to alter brain activity for pain," said Hubert Lim, senior author on the paper and a professor in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Otolaryngology. "Our research shows that when you combine this with sound, the brain lights up even more."
Lim said this opens up a whole new field of using this bimodal and multimodal stimulation for treating diseases.
"It's odd to think about using sound to treat pain, but if you think about what institutes like the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing or the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health are doing, they're looking at music therapy and combining other modalities with the traditional methods to be able to enhance healing of these types of conditions," Lim said. "This research gives us a new, structured framework for doing that moving forward."
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DAVE GORDINIER
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DAVE GORDINIER (1950- ) Arizona artist David Gordinier keeps watch over the Superstition Mountains. When the white tops of storm clouds appear over the rocky peaks just outside his studio window, he feels a quiver of anxiety, knowing that soon a towering wall of clouds will sweep westward over the flat desert. "If I've been in the studio all day working on a still life and see the thunderheads start to pop, sometimes I actually get a little mad because I have to deal with it," he says. "It's hard to change gears." Inevitably though, nature's drama proves too compelling to resist: Gordinier drops what he's doing and leaps into his well-traveled Jeep to go out and furiously photograph and paint the storm during the minutes before it rushes upon him, spraying dirt and moisture everywhere. "Sometimes I've hung out too long and have had to shovel sand out of my Jeep," he says with a smile. To Gordinier, each moment like this is a cherished opportunity. He paints every day, often late into the night. "If I live to be 120, I still won't have time to paint all the things I want to paint," he says. Joyously and single-mindedly, Gordinier is a man making up for lost time. Now in his late 40's, he looks back on his 20's and 30's as too many years spent at jobs he despised and too much time squandered on other interestsyears when his youthful dream of painting full time seemed elusive. But today his successful art career attests to the fact that it is possible to rediscover a cherished dream and make it come true. Gordinier and his wife Jo Anne live with their two huge malamute dogs in an unpretentious neighborhood in Mesa, Arizona, a few miles from the bustling art center of Scottsdale. There, he is becoming known as a southwestern painter, although it may be more accurate to describe him as a new realist and plein-air expressionist who paints the imagery of the Southwest. He approached Iowa subject similarly before moving to Arizona, although he smilingly acknowledges that the Southwest is a force to be reckoned with. "I was going to bring my own vision of the Southwest down here, but it's had more of an effect on me than I've had on it." As a colorist, Gordinier has been affected profoundly by the clear, rich southwestern palette, both in his landscapes and in his still lifes. Shortly after moving to Arizona three years ago, he arranged pottery, vases, fruit and other objects on his back patio for a still life. It was 114 degrees outside, but he was oblivious to the heat in his excitement over the high-contrast, brilliant color that popped out in what he calls the "screaming light" of afternoon. Likewise, he was captivated by the startling contrast of thunderclouds rolling over a deep blue sky. Gordinier makes similar discoveries every day, whether on his daybreak bicycle rides with his dog, Quiche, or driving to the hardware store. The bushes beside a dried-up canal may catch his eye, or perhaps the houses in his neighborhood at sunset or a row of warehouses against the skyline. The resulting landscape paintings are no less beautiful for their inclusion of ordinary, everyday sights. The artist describes it as "finding opulent things in the mundane." He says, "If I see something I like I'll still paint it, whether it is something that will sell or not." Beauty is what appeals to Gordinier. "I want to make pretty pictures; I make no bones about it," he says. "It's the reason I didn't fit in, especially in art school with the art crowd in Iowa. Being able to follow his own vision and paint full time is something Gordinier cherishes because he didn't always have that luxury. After graduating from art school, he married and taught in high school for two years. Then he got a job as a custom framer to support his family, which grew to include a newborn daughter. 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An original mid-19th-century etching print, Arthur Prichard Harrison Coat of Arms of Pierce William Drew.
In good condition for its age. Some slight age discoloration as shown.
This design comes from a collection of works by one of the nineteenth century's foremost heraldic artists. Arthur Oates Prichard Harrison ran a business in Great Portland Street, London, designing and illustrating coats of arms and other heraldic devices, and studies of flowers and other natural subjects played an important part in this work.


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Wollongong is located on the south coast of New South Wales, 85 kilometers south of Sydney on the Princes Highway. There are 242 km from the capital Canberra and 835 km to Melbourne. Wollongong also lies on the railway line Sydney Nowra Bomaderry - on which drive many local trains.
Unlike most coastal cities Wollongong is dominated by heavy industry. Numerous coal mines were built and characterize the region. It also steel industry was settled and the BlueScope Steel works are the largest steel plants of Australia. As the Illawarra Attractions Museum and the old Courthouse ( Courthouse ) apply in Wollongong. Tourist are the Royal National Park to the north, the coastal road from Stanwell Park on the Sea Cliff Bridge to Thirroul, Illawarra Escarpment, the, Lake Illawarra and the Minnamurra rainforest of particular interest.
Wollongong is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wollongong.


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Melania Trump donates her inaugural ball gown to the Smithsonian
By Helena Andrews-Dyer
Helena Andrews-Dyer
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With a giant sculpture of the American flag in mid-wave as her backdrop, Melania Trump donated her inaugural gown to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on Friday.
"It can be a daunting task to choose an outfit that will be mesmerized" — we think she meant to say "memorialized" — "and become part of our nation's story and forever history," the first lady said at the museum just hours before the gown's debut as part of the famed "First Ladies Collection," a century-old exhibit said to be one of the most popular attractions across all the Smithsonian museums.
Trump added that she hoped the dress, a vanilla silk, off-the-shoulder couture piece created by the French-born designer Hervé Pierre, would be "one of many great beginnings to our family's history here in Washington D.C."
Flanked by the museum's director, John Gray, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian David Skorton, Trump arrived on stage Friday morning in a sleeveless cream sheath, hot pink heels and a long blush overcoat draped over her shoulders.
After thanking the Smithsonian for its work preserving the country's history and before diving into her prepared remarks, Trump first made sure to shine a light on the gown's creator.
[Designer Herve Pierre on getting that last-minute call from Melania Trump]
"While I may be the one on stage, I want to take a moment to introduce you to the person behind my gorgeous couture piece," said Trump before asking Pierre, dressed in a what looked like a morning suit and sneakers, to stand in the small crowd of about 100 gathered for the ceremony. She called the designer "a true artist and a real professional."
Trump then retold the gown's origin story.
"As most of you know, before being elected president my husband was never in politics," she began, "So you can imagine that after he won we were very busy with all that goes into preparing for a new administration and all the changes that we as a family would be facing."
"To be honest," she continued, "what I would wear to the inaugural ball was the last thing on my mind, in fact by the time I got around to thinking about my wardrobe choice poor Hervé was only given two weeks to design and produce this couture piece."
Melania Trump poses beside the display of her inaugural gown at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on Friday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The duo had never worked together before, but the first lady said she knew of the designer's "stellar reputation." She also wanted to work with someone who would "do more than just design a dress." She wanted a collaborator.
Trump's inaugural fashion was perhaps unsurprisingly mired in controversy. Before the 2017 inauguration a host of designers, including Sophie Theallet and Naeem Khan, preemptively announced that they would not dress the first lady because of her husband's politics. Designing and gifting the first lady a gown would be tacit support of the Trump administration, went the logic. Others said they would be happy to dress Trump, framing the issue as a patriotic duty.
In the end she chose to work with Pierre on a ball gown The Washington Post's fashion critic Robin Givhan called "daring."
[Melania Trump picks patriotism and international glamour for her debut as first lady]
"I have had a passion for design from a very young age," said Trump, a former fashion model, "and had a very precise idea of what I wanted for such an historic evening."
When sitting down with the designer to discuss her "vision," the first lady said that she had a clear mandate. She wanted "modern, sleek, light, unique and unexpected." The end result was a success, and now one of many permanent emblems of the Trump brand in the nation's capital.
"The president, Barron and I love living here," concluded Trump, "and we are so honored to represent this country."
After her three-minute speech the first lady posed for photos with the museum's brass and Pierre next to the gown before curators arrived with blue gloves to carefully lift the dress onto a dolly, wheeling it into history.
Helena Andrews-Dyer Helena Andrews-Dyer is the co-author of The Reliable Source. She joined The Post in 2013. Send your hot tips, sightings and gossip to reliablesource@washpost.com. Follow


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Q: ifnull () over multiple column i have two  tables, and i have created left join query for them.
Suppose they are Table A And Table B.
When i fire query  if Table B  contains key which is present in Table  A  then record are displays according to it.  if key not matches it displays null over all columns
if i have to replace null i use ifnull function of mysql , but there are much more column to apply ifnull, is there any way we can apply this function over all column at once ? means no need to apply on each individual columns

A: No, you need to apply IFNULL to each column individually.
However, if you had a slightly different requirement, that is, to show the first non-null column from a number of columns, and show a default if they are all null, you could use the COALESCE function like so:
select coalesce(col1,col2,col3,0)
from tbl

The problem with this is that it will return a single column in the result, and not multiple columns corresponding to col1, col2 and col3. Therefore, as long as you want to have multiple columns in your result set, you need to do the null handling on a per-column basis.

A: No, there's no way to use IFNULL on multiple columns at once, you have to do it on each column separately:
SELECT a.id, a.somecol, IFNULL(b.col1, 0) col1, IFNULL(b.col2, "") col2, ...
FROM Table1 AS a
LEFT JOIN Table2 AS b ON <some condition>

A: You can concatenate your columns, such as:
SELECT CONCAT(col1, "|", col2, "|", col3, "|", col4) AS ConcatenatedString;

And then split the string with whichever split character you decide to use.. In this case a pipe "|"


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Changing times! Looking back twenty years in the Western Region
May 9, 2019 /in Population, Regional Development, Regional Statistics, WDC Insights /by WDC
The Western Development Commission (WDC) recently published its strategy for the next five years 2019-2024 'Work Smarter Live Better'. It was launched in Ballinasloe on 15th April, and that launch provided us with an opportunity to look back at how the seven county Western Region has changed since the WDC was set up.
The WDC was established by the Western Development Commission Act in 1998 so it is interesting to consider the changes experienced by the Region since the WDC came into being. As the seven counties (Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Galway and Clare) which make up the Western Region (the area under the remit of the WDC) do not align with other statistical regions for data collection, the best Western Region data comes from sources which publish data by county, such as the Census of Population, which allow us to combine county data to get statistics for the Western Region. Comparing the Censuses of 1996 and 2016 gives a good picture of change in the Region over two decades. It is not often we look back so far but it is a useful exercise, highlighting how much has changed in twenty years.
In this post I briefly consider changes in population and demographics, labour force, employment, and finally, income. There are many other areas which merit examination which will be covered in a future post.
The Western Region population.
Looking first at population change, in 1996 the population of the Western Region was 657,231. By 2016 after a very significant 26.1% increase, it was 828,697. Different counties grew at very different rates, showing (Figure 1) the uneven rates of development and change.
The largest population growth in the period was in Galway, which grew by more than a third (36%) and the smallest population growth was in Mayo (17%) and Sligo (17.4%).
Figure 1: Population Change in Western Region counties 1996-2016
Source: CSO Statbank E2001: Population at Each Census 1841 to 2016 by County, Sex and Census Year
Demographic change
The make up of the population has also changed over that period. In 1996 13.7% of the Western Region population was over 65 and 3.3% was over 80. By 2016, 15.4% were over 65 and over 65 and 3.7% over 80.
More significant changes occurred in the younger age categories, in 1996 24% were under 15 while 41% were under 25 and by 2016 this had changed to 21.1% under 15 and 33% under 25.
Employment and the Labour Force
The labour force has grown even more significantly than the population. There were 266,102 in the labour force in the region in 1996 and this had grown to 387,770 by 2016, a 46% increase. The percentage of the population (aged 15-65) in the labour force was 53.5% in 1996 and had increased to 59.3% by 2016. This increase is largely the result of higher female participation and also reflects the changing age demographic.
Skills have also changed considerably. In 1996 in the Western Region only 16.7% had a third level qualification but by 2016 39.2% did.
My colleague Pauline White is currently undertaking a detailed analysis of employment by sector in the region and has published on six sectors. Looking at key Western Region sectors, the significant changes in employment are noted here.
In 1996 15.6% were employed in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing and by 2016 only 6.8% were. Similarly, in 1996 19% of those in employment worked in Industry, and in 2016 13.7% did. In contrast, in 1996 40.1% were employed in Services but by 2016 67% were.
Finally, although the data discussed so far is from the Census of Population it is useful to consider how income has changed over the same period. In 1996 Household Disposable Income per person was €15,032 in the Western Region (2016 prices) and by 2016 it had risen to €22,689 an increase of 51% over that period. However, in 1996 Western Region disposable income per person was 89.2% of the State average, but by 2016 it had fallen to 83.5% of the state average. Clearly the improvements in income have been greater in other parts of Ireland.
This short post has provided a useful reminder of how things have changed in the Western Region in the period since the WDC was set up. A future post will focus on spatial changes in infrastructure and where people live. Looking back, the changes that have taken place over the 20 year period examined have seemed dramatic, though many of them have taken place gradually. It is interesting to contemplate how things will change between 2016 and 2036 but, unless the retirement age increases even more, I won't be around to blog about them. And perhaps blogging won't be around either.
Helen McHenry
Tags: Data, Regional Development, Western Region
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Enterprise in Western Counties
Future Work - What will work and workers be like in the future?
Census 2016 Preliminary Results – What does it say about the Western Region?
2017 – A very important year for Broadband and the National Broadband Plan
Understanding Changes in the Components of County Incomes
Unemployment declining in Western Region at a slower pace
1 in 4 working in Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing in Ireland live in Western... Smaller Labour Catchments across the Western Region


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Hi, what a great board area - it's the first time I've seen it.
My husband served in Vietnam, and was a POW, so if you have questions he may be able to help.
My current WIP is set 100% underwater, and I've more research than I know what to do with. I can't help much with the scuba stuff, though.
I've done a fair amount of snorkeling but no scuba. Might be able to answer a few questions.
I'm a scuba diver who has thumbed through an underwater marine life field guide or two. I've also attended media briefings and interviewed people who were doing innovative underwater things. Send me the questions and I'll try and see what I can do?
Don't know much about Vietnam, but feel free to include those questions I've got people around I could ask when we are not too busy playing tag the least busy one.
HUGE thanks to all those who responded! I'm ashamed to say that I've been away from the board and buried in another project, but I need to get this one off to an editor so I will be sending PMs to those of you who so graciously offered your help. Thanks again!


The VBAC and Cesarean Prevention Handbook has many articles by midwives, doulas and mothers on the powerful experience of VBAC, as well as technical information about cesarean sections and VBACs designed to help you support VBAC moms in a safe and empowering way, regardless of setting.
The VBAC and Cesarean Prevention Handbook will teach you how to work with VBAC moms and how to prevent cesareans in the first place. VBAC ( vaginal birth after a cesarean) is often discouraged by the medical system, but VBACs can be a healing process for mothers who have endured a cesarean and an amazing experience for birth attendants. A woman pregnant after a previous cesarean section has special needs and concerns, and it is very important that her midwife and doula are aware of these and take the proper precautions.
Like all books in the Holistic Clinical Series,The VBAC and Cesarean Prevention Handbook is a compilation of articles from past issues of Midwifery Today magazine.


This pagw features not only great Home Recipes, as well as Low Calorie Recipes, but also Trail Mixes, and Horse Camping Campfire Recipes!! There might even be Holiday Recipes.
If you have a recipe you would like to share with us, please email it to marna@doesmybuttlookbiginthesaddle.com We would love to have a photo of the prepared food, and or of you or you with your equine, or if you like, just your equine. Photos make the page so much more fun and people love to see the dishes when prepared.
Here is one! It falls into a soup category and my mouth is watering just thinking about it!
add extra chicken and extra spicy flavor...like jalapeno juice. Yummy!
Combine all of the above in the crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Mine was done in 5 hours. Remove the chicken breasts from the soup and shred the meat with 2 forks. Return it to the soup and stir.
LOW CALORIE PIZZA! Yes. LOW CALORIE PIZZA!
THIS ONE CAME FROM SOMETHING I SAW ON TV....NOT QUITE THE SAME, BUT CLOSE. Deron Kazmaier, my husband mad the sauce from scratch. You could used jarred or canned.
I, Marna Kazmaier, can Stirrup Up on my horse again because of foods like this one.
This is easy enough for even someone like me, someone that is not the best cook, and really does not even like cooking.
Take a Burrito Shell, make a Pizza Pie, anyway you want it.
Deron made a Pizza Sauce using a can of diced tomatoes, onion, garlic, with a little bit of honey and seasoning.....cooked it down a while in a skillet, low flame.
And man. Is it good and hot and Delicious when it comes out and is ready to eat! Chew slow and enjoy!
This one is sent in by member Nancy Sachs.
Here is my favorite EASY recipe, everyone I serve it to loves it - dressed up it can be served even at elegant dinner, yet keeps in the fringe for easy snacking.
cream cheese and blend until very smooth.
Garnish with any fresh fruit, mint leaves, a bit of shaved chocolate, what ever goes well with the flavor you are using.
Holiday favorite - Cranberry gelatin and cream cheese - before chilling stir in walnuts, grated orange peel and halved large table grapes.
10. cool, cut into squares.
Preheat oven to 350F. Spray an 8x8 baking dish with butter-flavored cooking spray. In a large skillet sprayed with butter-flavored cooking spray, brown meat and onion. stir in corn, mushrooms, olives, and rotini pasta. Add tomato soup, salsa, Brown Sugar Twin, and Cheddar cheese. Mix well to combine. Spread mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake 30 minutes. Place baking dish on a wire rack and let set 5 minutes.
HINT: 1 cup uncooked rotini pasta usually cooks to about 1 1/2 cups. Also good topped with 1 T fat-free sour cream.
In a small bowl, combine flour, onion flakes, and parsley flakes. Coat steaks on both sides in flour mixture. In a large skillet sprayed with butter-flavored cooking spray, lightly brown steaks for 3 minutes on each side. In a large bowl, combine mushroom soup, mushrooms, beef broth, and any remaining flour mixture. Pour soup mixture evenly over steaks. Bring mixture to a boil. Lower heat, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes or until steaks are tender. Spoon gravy over steaks to serve.
In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and egg. Add crab meat, baking mix, and parsley flakes. Mix well to combine. Form into 12 cakes. Place cakes on a hot griddle sprayed with butter-flavored cooking spray. Brown for 3 to 4 minutes on each side.
Steam 2 bags of frozen broccoli.
Combine all ingredients, and mix well, heat and serve.


Frykholm's (pronounced like "brick home" with an F) stories of his 40+ year career as the first internal graphic designer for Herman Miller kept the audience at Hopscotch Design Festival rapt in the very same way. In an age where a two-year stint at a job can seem like a lifetime and where college students today can expect to switch careers – not just jobs – between three and seven times before they retire,1 it seems almost unfathomable to think about how Frykholm could stay creatively and professionally satisfied through eight CEOs and countless projects mostly centered around something you sit in, on or at.
Maybe his hands were the secret.
Struggling with the perception that you're "not working" if you aren't staring at a screen. Or maybe at least your boss's perception.
Frykholm drove home the point that serendipity feeds creativity in a story about his series of 20 company picnic posters that landed in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
No joining the Peace Corps on a whim? Maybe no MOMA.
After he advertised his initial service using a poster proclaiming FREE KITTENS in bold letters with "just kidding, not really, but free music is pretty cool too" in much smaller print he pulled in test pilot users that helped design BoomBoxFM's product: new music, personally curated and delivered via email. Using the tagline of "Let us introduce you to your new favorite song" the company has built a base of more than 40,000 subscribers, adding 400 a day.
Kleon's keynote reminded the crowd that a computer makes you edit ideas before they are born and that a sketchbook make possibilities endless. Perhaps more importantly, he made the point that "going through the motions" is very relevant in design, that moving things around in the physical world — dice, pencils, pens, toys — kickstarts your brain into thinking.
One of my favorite #hopdesignfest concepts was Frykholm's claim that "there can always be a first time." In 1948 he designed a catalog that was gorgeous but way too expensive with its $30,000 print-run price tag. After management shut him down, he came back in a few days with the same design, except this time it came complete with a hard cover and book jacket to be sold for $3. After the initial reaction that "nobody in the furniture industry sells their catalogs!" the executives at Herman Miller took a chance, and it was so successful they had to print a second edition. It gave the company a reputation larger than life, and its largest competitor took the bait, pricing its catalog the next year at $5.
Matt Curtis, director of global partnerships at TED, talked about the organization's transition from 300 people at the inaugural 1984 conference — the "kind of dinner party you'd always wanted to throw with the most interesting people" — to 2.5 billion TED talks in 120 different languages. Embracing its concept of "ideas worth spreading" TED adopted radical openness, licensing its platform to the masses. It worked: after the shift to democratizing content, ticket prices went up 50% and the event wait list increased by another 1,000, while committed fans now police the brand's standards worldwide.
Through her Creative Reaction lab, more than 60 ideas culminated in five projects: Cards Against Brutality, Look Beyond Your Fear, VibeSwitch.co, The Red Table Project and Connected for Justice.
One of the most visual symbols of the effort was a mirrored casket, allowing protestors to reflect images from their point of view. The powerful tool now resides in the Smithsonian.
With the right delivery, technology can not only make information more accessible, it can tell the story better. One of his projects used bluetooth beacons streaming audio throughout the grounds at Monticello. Through the technique visitors can better understand the slaves' perspective, a story that absolutely needs to be told but would not be nearly as impactful by simply reading a brochure.
A lasting image from Simmons' presentation was the "caution tape" his studio created. When they installed it onsite people obeyed the instantly recognizable yellow and black combination instead of reading the words "everything is ok." The medium was stronger than the message, underscoring how radically important design is to making sense of the world as we quickly filter through content each and every day.
He and co-founder Ray Boyle's mission?
We have the tools; we just need to use them. Maybe everything is ok.


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Now, in order to become familiar with sampling, you need to become familiar with some terms.
A population, also called a universe, is the entire group of units, items, services, people, etc., under investigation for a fixed period of time and a fixed location.
A frame is a physical list of the units in the population.
The gap is the difference between the units in the population and the units in the frame.


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The early version of the development tools for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 have been around for quite a long time but it finally looks like it is nearing completion as the beta version is now available for developers interested in this mobile platform.
Microsoft is also supporting this new beta by saying that the built represents the near final version so probably when the time comes to shift the app over to the devices you may not have to go through a lot of trouble. The API as been tweaked and Expression Blend is now fully integrated with the tools. Although, it currently lacks a few controls which still need to ready for primetime and they will be added over the coming weeks.
If you are not much interested in the emulator, then you might be excited to know that developer devices will be shipping out next week and you may very soon get one if you have signed up for it.


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Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers Propels Nationwide Growth
By: Press Release – RestaurantNews.com
April 02, 2018 at 08:41 AM EDT
Fast-Casual Concept Opens 17 New Locations in Q1
Wichita, KS (RestaurantNews.com) Fast-casual restaurant concept, Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, announced it experienced significant growth in the first quarter of 2018, opening 17 new restaurants. This continued surge in franchise development has helped expand the brand's presence in new and existing markets nationwide. Freddy's opened its first Chicago-area restaurant in Orland Park in February and has plans to open three additional locations in the market throughout the year. The company also opened its 300th restaurant in Indianapolis March 13.
Additionally, Freddy's signed a development and master franchise agreement with Younata Investment Limited to bring the concept to the Middle East, with plans to develop in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman and Qatar. The franchisee group brings more than 25 years of regional business experience within the Gulf Cooperation Council to the American brand and will be opening Freddy's first international location in Dubai later this year.
"The growth we're seeing so far in 2018 is unbelievable. It's through leadership of our outstanding franchisees, commitment to quality products and exceptional service that we're able to continue expanding and make Freddy's accessible to more people across the country," said Randy Simon, co-founder and CEO. "Beyond our domestic openings this year, we're thrilled to be taking Freddy's internationally with the opening of our Dubai location later this year. We're eager to introduce the brand to the international market, as well as new and existing markets in the U.S., and look forward to continuing this accelerated growth momentum throughout 2018."
This year, Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers plans to open more than 40 restaurants nationwide. Franchise opportunities remain in markets across the U.S., including Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York.
For more information about development opportunities, contact Markus Scholler, vice president of franchise development, or visit www.freddysusa.com/franchising.
Co-founded in 2002 by Scott Redler and Bill, Randy and Freddy Simon, Freddy's opened its first location in Wichita, Kansas, offering a unique combination of cooked-to-order Steakburgers, Chicago dogs, and other savory items along with its signature desserts prepared with premium frozen custard churned fresh throughout the day. Today, 300 Freddy's restaurants serve 31 states across the nation from California to Pennsylvania, Virginia and down the East Coast states to Florida. In 2018, Freddy's has been named for the fifth year in a row as one of the top 10 on Franchise Times magazine's Fast & Serious list, and for a sixth time to Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 list (ranked #44). In 2017, Freddy's was included on Inc. Magazine's 500/5000 list of "Fastest-Growing Private Companies" for the fifth consecutive year. Other notable accomplishments include a feature on Consumer Reports'® lists of best burgers, cleanest fast-food restaurants and those with the best service last published in 2014, and first-place winner of many local newspaper readers' choice categories throughout the U.S. including Best Burger, Best Fries, Best Hot Dog and Best Dessert. For more on Freddy's, visit the Newsroom, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest news.
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England Table Tennis Success – Live Coverage by 1080 Media TV
International Table Tennis, At Fenton Manor SportsCentre Stoke. England's Paul Drinkhall in action
1080 Media TV were appointed to provide multi-camera coverage and live stream England's European Qualifying table tennis match against Greece on 1st November 2016. This attracted a record 2.2 million unique viewers to the live broadcast on TheSPORTbible Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/2111350545677133/
Breaking new ground for both rightsholder and broadcaster, the full fixture was broadcast exclusively digitally, achieving viewing figures which surpass many major televised football fixtures.
The audience figures establish clearly for the first time the market for stream-only sports events, reaching an audience demographic of millennials which mainstream broadcasters have found increasingly difficult to engage with.
The stream-only broadcast marks a first both for sports governing bodies in England and digital publisher TheSPORTbible (whose reach of 100m a week makes it more popular than both the Daily Mail and the Guardian websites).
Mark Taffler, Head of Commercial at Table Tennis England, believes that the broadcast could pave the way to a whole new market for sports rights. He said: "We've proved that there is a market for this kind of broadcast – and that it's a big market. By broadcasting through TheSPORTbible we've bypassed the traditional sports rights market and gone to where the audience is. As a strategy, it's proved incredibly effective. The same night as Man City were playing Barcelona in the Champions League, there were 2.2m people watching table tennis. There is an appetite from people to watch our sport and, through a platform like The SPORTbible, we are finding them."
After this – we 1080 Media TV were then commissioned for a Women's International in Gillingham on November 22nd and this was another huge success with England also winning this match 3-2, and with another sizeable audience watching our live stream on Team GB's FaceBook page.
Exciting times and hugely enjoyable to be involved.
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As part of our weekly coffee chats, this week we talked to our interns at GlossGenius, Catherine Wang ('19 Operations Research and Financial Engineering), Esther Liao ('19 Computer Science), and Madeleine Cheyette ('19 Computer Science). GlossGenius is a company which develops business software for independent beauty professionals, serving a key demographic of beauty professionals who would like to leave their jobs in salons and go independent. GlossGenius has built an app which serves as a digital personal assistant for these people, helping them to manage appointments, clients, and payments in a way that maximizes profits.
Esther: I've been working on their social media, a little bit of engineering, and general product development.
Catherine: As business development interns, Esther, Madeleine and I have taken on a "jack-of-all-trades" sort of role where we fill in wherever we're needed. On one hand, we've used more of our communications/marketing skillsets to develop sales, customer experience, and content marketing strategies. On the other hand we've also had a chance to take on a project manager's mentality, helping to design features of the app, coding a little bit for white-glove service. Right now GlossGenius is looking to hire a customer service expert so Madeleine and I have even helped with interviewing potential candidates!
Madeleine: A bunch of different things! At the start of the internship we worked on some product management things, like brainstorming ways the app can be more intuitive for users when they download it. We've also done a lot of work on the sales side of the business, like creating a spreadsheet with potential salon partners. Lately we've been working on ways to streamline their customer service.
Esther: We've either been eating out or packing food. Learning how to make food with a microwave has been pretty interesting. We've honestly just kind of talked about anything (a lot of food conversations).
Catherine: Back when we were in the Hearst Tower office by Columbus Circle, we would mostly bring lunch or buy from the cafeteria downstairs. Occasionally, we would buy food from the Turnstiles and go out to the fountain by Central Park and eat lunch. Now that we've moved down to Union Square, we've been trying some nearby restaurants! Last week, Danielle and Karim took us out for team lunch at Pokeworks, which was really fun and delicious.
Madeleine: We actually just moved offices this past week, so there are a bunch of cool new restaurants around us to try! Before that I was bringing lunch to work most days. On Fridays, we have a team lunch which is pretty fun.
Have you had any funny lunch conversations?
Catherine: I honestly am not sure what we talk about at lunch sometimes. Once, I was planning on eating lunch with Madeleine and Esther, like I usually do, but then I ran into Danielle in the cafeteria and she told me that she was "thinking about moving office spaces." I interpreted that to mean probably after our internship was over. Rookie mistake … 48 hours later she'd closed the deal and gotten the keys to the new office (apparently she negotiated a price that's way lower than the market price). When Danielle says "we move fast," she totally means it.
Madeleine: When we have a team lunch we get a chance to ask the founders more about their experience and if they have any advice, and it's really cool to be able to have those conversations with the founders of the startup themselves. Otherwise we usually just talk about random stuff — mostly food.
If you could choose one word to describe the last week, what would it be and why?
Catherine: Hectic. To give you a sense of what we were working on: we moved office spaces, helped create a FAQ manual for customer experience team members, wrote content marketing blog posts, manually tested the partial refunds feature of the app for bugs, and even started interviewing potential customer service candidates. Overall though, I wouldn't say that hectic is bad at all. On the contrary, I think that the hectic pace is exciting and extremely rewarding. It feels like the company is flexible and dynamic because of how open Karim and Danielle are to changes and suggestions.
Madeleine: Eclectic — we were really handling a lot of different things in the office, switching between customer service and content marketing and product development. It was fun! Also things were just kind of all over the place since we moved offices.
What is a belief about startups/entrepreneurship that has changed as a result of your work this summer?
Esther: My initial impression that start-ups had a clear idea of what they wanted to achieve and the steps they would take to achieve those goals. Our company has a very clear vision, but sometimes the process of getting there feels a bit muddled.
Catherine: I took EGR491 last semester and the feeling that I got about startups from that class was that all startups can be fit into formulas: the MVP testing, the 3 Ps, customer segmentation, VC pitches. As a result, I didn't necessarily feel like working at an early-stage startup would feel so different from working at a larger company. The class didn't necessarily highlight how much more creative working at a startup can be. It's been really exciting seeing how quickly Danielle and Karim might think of an idea and execute it, since it's encouraged the three of us to think creatively about how we can do the same.
Madeleine: That they are the more 'laid back' kind of job — true, I do think that the atmosphere is slightly more chill than a lot of other jobs, but our co-founders work super, super hard. I think when you work at a startup, at least in the early phase, you are constantly thinking about your company. That's why it's important to do something you care about!


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Fossil barnacles, the original GPS, help track ancient whale migrations
By Robert Sanders, Media relations| March 25, 2019 March 25, 2019
March 25, 2019 March 25, 2019 Robert Sanders
Whale barnacles line the edges of the flukes of a humpback whale. (Photo courtesy of Blue Ocean Whale Watch)
Barnacles that hitch rides on the backs of humpback and gray whales not only record details about the whales' yearly travels, they also retain this information after they become fossilized, helping scientists reconstruct the migrations of whale populations millions of years in the past, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.
Oxygen isotope ratios in barnacle shells change with ocean condition and allow scientists to chart the migration of the host whale, for example to warmer breeding grounds or colder feeding grounds. Now, marine paleobiologists led by UC Berkeley doctoral student Larry Taylor have discovered that barnacles retain this information even after they fall off the whale, sink to the ocean bottom, and become fossils."
As a result, the travels of fossilized barnacles can serve as a proxy for the peregrinations of whales in the distant past, like GPS trackers from the Pleistocene.
"One of the more exciting things about the paper, in my mind, is that we find evidence for migration in all of these ancient populations, from three different sites and time periods, but also from both humpback and gray whale lineages, indicating that these animals, which lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, were all undertaking migrations similar in extent to those of modern-day whales," Taylor said.
One surprise finding is that the coast of Panama has been a meeting ground for different subpopulations of humpback whales for at least 270,000 years and still is today. Whales visit Panama from as far away as Antarctica and the Gulf of Alaska.
This information about ancient migration will help scientists understand how migration patterns may have affected the evolution of whales over the past 3 to 5 million years, how these patterns changed with changing climate and help predict how today's whales will adapt to the rapid climate change happening today.
This fossilized whale barnacle was unearthed in Panama at an ancient meeting place for whale subpopulations from around the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Larry Taylor)
"We want to understand how malleable migratory behavior has been through time, how rapidly whales have adapted to previous climate changes, and see if this can give us some clues as to how they might respond to the current changes in Earth's climate," he said. "How will whales cope with that, how will the food base shift, how will the whales themselves respond?"
Taylor and his colleagues, senior author Seth Finnegan, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology, Aaron O'Dea of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Timothy Bralower of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, will publish their findings this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Riding the whales
Barnacles are crustaceans, like crabs, lobsters and shrimp, that remain stuck in one place their whole lives, encased in a protective hard shell and sticking out their legs to snatch passing food. Most glue themselves to rocks, boats or pilings, but whale barnacles attach to a whale's skin by boring down into it. Some whales have been estimated to carry up to 1,000 pounds of barnacles, which are visible when they breech. Clusters of barnacles are used to identify individual whales.
Patterns left by whale barnacles are so distinctive they can be used to identify individual whales. (Photo courtesy of Blue Ocean Whale Watch)
"This gives the barnacle several advantages: a safe surface to live on, a free ride to some of the richest waters in the world and a chance to meet up with other (barnacles) when the whales get together to mate," O'Dea said.
Taylor's technique works because different species of whale barnacle hitch rides on different species of whale, so paleontologists can know, when they find a fossilized barnacle, which species it rode with. Normally, the barnacles stay with a whale between one and three years, until they fall or are brushed off, often at whale breeding grounds. At least 24 fossil assemblages of whale barnacles have been found around the world, Taylor said.
The new discovery means that the fossilized barnacles recovered at these sites can tell about ancient migrations of humpbacks, gray whales and perhaps other baleen whales (toothed whales, such as sperm whales, do not host many barnacles), potentially turning up previously unsuspected feeding and breeding areas.
The technique is based on measuring the oxygen isotopes in the calcium carbonate, or calcite, shell of the barnacle. The ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 goes up as the temperature drops. Since barnacles lengthen their shells by a few millimeters a month as they try to stay attached to whales in the face of the mammals' shedding skin, the composition of the new shell reflects the ocean temperature and general isotopic composition where it formed.
Taylor built on previous work showing that barnacles attached to living gray whales record a chemical signature of their migrations. He confirmed that the isotopic composition of the humpback whale barnacle (Coronula diadema) also tracks its environment today during the whales' yearly migration, showing monthly changes. He then demonstrated that fossilized barnacles from Panama and from the California coast could be analyzed similarly, and that they showed isotopic changes similar to that of today's whales."
A fossilized whale barnacle from Panama that once rode along with a humpback whale. (Photo by Larry Taylor)
This technique will be particularly valuable for studying prehistoric humpback populations, Taylor said, because the humpback was and is more cosmopolitan than the California gray whale, cruising widely through the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Scientists theorize that whale migration began as food sources became more scattered as the climate changed 5 million years ago. Modern Pacific whales migrate tens of thousands of miles annually, visiting several known feeding areas and returning to warm waters off Central and South America or Hawaii to breed.
"We plan to push this approach further back in time and across different whale populations," Finnegan said. "We hope that by analyzing other aspects of the geochemistry of the barnacles shells we might ultimately be able to figure out what areas different ancient whale populations were migrating to."
This study was supported by the National Science Foundation (EAR 1325683), the National System of Investigators (SENACYT) in Panama, the Paleontological Society, the Geological Society of America, Sigma Xi and the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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module BSP.Util.InitOnce
    ( InitOnce
    , getInitOnce
    , newInitOnce
    ) where

import           Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar
import           Control.Exception
import           Control.Monad.STM

newtype InitOnce a = InitOnce (TVar (InitOnceToken a))

data InitOnceToken a = Unitialized
                     | Initializing
                     | Initialized a

newInitOnce :: IO (InitOnce a)
newInitOnce = InitOnce <$> newTVarIO Unitialized

getInitOnce :: InitOnce a -> IO a -> IO a
getInitOnce (InitOnce tokenVar) initializer =
  bracketOnError acquire release $ \maybeVal ->
    case maybeVal of
      Just val -> return val
      Nothing  -> do
        val <- initializer
        atomically $ writeTVar tokenVar $ Initialized val
        return val
  where
    acquire = atomically $ do
      token <- readTVar tokenVar
      case token of
        Initialized a -> return $ Just a
        Unitialized -> do
          writeTVar tokenVar Initializing
          return Nothing
        Initializing -> retry

    release maybeVal = atomically $
      case maybeVal of
        Nothing  -> writeTVar tokenVar Unitialized
        Just val -> writeTVar tokenVar $ Initialized val


The Inuit people of Labrador won the right to self-government in 2004 after settling a land claim agreement with the Newfoundland and Labrador government. The Settlement Area consists of 72,520 square kilometers of land in northern Labrador, which includes the five major Inuit communities of Nain, Hopedale, Rigolet, Makkovik, and Postville. The Nunatsiavut Government came into power as a result of the agreement and is now able to pass laws concerning education, health, and cultural affairs.
The Inuit people of Labrador won the right to self-government in 2004 after settling a land claim agreement with the Newfoundland and Labrador government.
Photographer unknown. Reproduced by the permission of the Maritime History Archive (PF-323.059), Memorial University, St. John's, NL.
The Labrador land claim was the final one to cover Inuit in Canada and was the culmination of more than 15 years of negotiations. For generations leading up to the contract, Labrador's Inuit were engaged in an almost constant struggle to preserve their culture, language, and society against increasingly intrusive outside forces. Although that struggle has not yet ended, the land claim provides hope to many Inuit that they will now be better equipped to protect their traditional way of life.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government had little formal contact with the Inuit people before the 20th century. Unlike many Canadian regions, trade between Aboriginal peoples and European settlers at Labrador did not evolve to the extent that it required formal legislation or significant government involvement. Moreover, Labrador was far removed from the centre of political activity at St. John's and providing services to its small scattered population would have been both difficult and costly. Instead, government officials delegated the day-to-day administration of Labrador affairs to religious groups and commercial trading companies in the area, the most prominent of which were the Moravian missionaries and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
In 1935, the Commission of Government created the Newfoundland Ranger Force to police isolated and rural areas, including Labrador. Alongside enforcing game and other laws, rangers distributed government relief payments and acted as a link between local residents and government officials. The rangers' arrival was welcomed by many Labrador residents – fur prices plummeted during the Great Depression and the need for relief payments was immense.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government had little formal contact with the Inuit people before the 20th century.
Photographer unknown. Reproduced by the permission of the Maritime History Archive (PF-323.057), Memorial University, St. John's, NL.
After the HBC withdrew operations from northern Labrador in the 1940s, the government assumed control of all company trading posts, placing it in closer contact with the Inuit people than ever before. At this time, and in contrast to Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador government did not have any special agencies to deal with Aboriginal affairs, nor had it developed a system of reserves or land claim treaties with the Inuit, Innu, Mi'kmaq, or Southern Inuit people. In Canada, the Indian Act made the federal government financially responsible for the delivery of health, education, and other social services to much of its Aboriginal population.
When Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949, the two governments decided against extending the Act to the new province's Aboriginal population. Moreover, the Terms of Union did not even mention Aboriginal peoples, despite recommendations from National Convention delegates that the Canadian government accept full responsibility for the provision of social services to Newfoundland and Labrador's Aboriginal peoples, as it did for similar groups across the country.
The reasons for this omission are unclear. Publicly, federal and provincial politicians argued that extending the Indian Act to the new province would disenfranchise its Aboriginal population – prior to Confederation, Newfoundland and Labrador granted equal status to all its residents; under the Indian Act, Aboriginal peoples would lose their right to vote.
Some academics today, however, speculate the high costs of providing services in Labrador may have proved unattractive to politicians in Ottawa, while the Newfoundland and Labrador government may have worried that Aboriginals under federal care would receive a higher level of service than their non-Aboriginal neighbours, sparking tensions within the province.
Whatever the reasoning, when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949, the province continued to administer the Aboriginal peoples, with the federal government providing various grants to help pay for services in Labrador. Under this arrangement, however, federal funding became available to all residents of eligible Labrador communities, instead of to the Aboriginal population.
A number of Aboriginal political organizations formed across Canada in the 1970s to protect and promote Native concerns and cultural traditions. This was partly in response to a 1969 federal report (The Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy) that suggested abolishing the Indian Act. The report generated much protest from Aboriginal peoples, who felt their treaty and other rights were under attack, and the federal government withdrew the document in 1971.
In the report's wake, however, various political organizations formed to provide a unified voice for Aboriginal groups. Although the Indian Act, and therefore the 1969 report, did not directly affect Newfoundland and Labrador's population, publicity surrounding it encouraged local Aboriginal people to form similar groups to better protect their rights and cultural traditions from outside forces.
Among these was the Labrador Inuit Association (LIA), which formed at Nain in 1973. Within 15 years of its formation, the association expanded to include the Labrador Inuit Development Corporation, which created jobs and focused on economic development for Inuit people, the OKâlaKatiget Society, which provided broadcasting services in Inuktitut and English for Inuit audiences, the Labrador Inuit Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, and the Labrador Inuit Health Commission.
The LIA filed a land claim with the provincial and federal governments in 1977 for about 116,000 square kilometers of land and sea in northern Labrador. Negotiations began in 1988 and successfully ended on 6 December 2004, when the provincial government passed the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act. As a result of the act, Inuit in Labrador became a self-governing people and formed the Nunatsiavut Government on 1 December 2005.
The land claim area is known as Nunatsiavut, which means "Our Beautiful Land" in Inuktitut, and consists of 72,520 square kilometers of land in northern Labrador and 48,690 square kilometers of sea. Of this, the Inuit people own 15,800 square kilometers of land outright and have special mineral, marine, and land rights in the remaining areas. The agreement also provided for the establishment of the Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve within the settlement area.
The Nunatsiavut Government has the power to establish its own justice system and pass laws concerning land and resource management, education, health, culture, and language. The government's Legislative Assembly is based at Hopedale and its administrative centre at Nain. In addition, there are five Inuit Community Governments at Nain, Makkovik, Hopedale, Postville, and Rigolet. All adult Nunatsiavut residents, regardless of ancestry, are eligible to vote in elections, and because Nunatsiavut is still a part of Newfoundland and Labrador, its citizens have to pay provincial and federal taxes.
As a result of the land claim agreement, the Inuit people now have more power than ever before to preserve their language, culture, land, and resources from outside threats. They can, for example, determine what is taught in their schools and in what language their children are instructed. As of 2008, the Nunatsiavut Government represents about 5,000 Inuit men and women.


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Washington, Feb 26 (KMS): Several lawmakers in the United States raised concerns over the anti-Muslim violence that has erupted in northeastern parts of New Delhi since Sunday, claiming at least 20 lives in three days. The protests began after clashes between those in favour and against India's Citizenship Amendment Act escalated with multiple attacks on Muslim homes.
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United States Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal expressed shock over the violence, and described it as a "deadly surge of religious intolerance. "Democracies should not tolerate division and discrimination, or promote laws that undermine religious freedom," she tweeted. "The world is watching." Last year, Jayapal had introduced a United States' Congressional resolution asking India to end the restrictions on communications in Jammu and Kashmir, and reserve religious freedom for all residents.
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