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'The Purge: Election Year': EW review
By Chris Nashawaty
June 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT
The Purge: Election Year
Since we're smack dab in the middle of a very surreal and polarizing race for the Oval Office, there's a temptation to look to The Purge: Election Year for timely metaphorical resonance. You'll find it. It's so simplistic and heavy-handed that it's impossible to miss, but to be honest, it's the least interesting thing about the film. If, on the other hand, it's sleazy kicks you're after, you'll be in exploitation heaven. Because writer-director James DeMonaco's third chapter in the thrill-kill vigilante franchise is the best and pulpiest Purge yet.
When the first Purge hit theaters in 2013, it became a surprise hit thanks to a gloriously perverse, high-concept premise that had the sort of fiendish simplicity you could have fit on a blood-stained cocktail napkin. If anything, the idea was a lot smarter than the movie that spun off from it. Set in the year 2022, America has rebounded from economic catastrophe, unemployment is at an all-time low, and crime is non-existent. Why? Because one night every year, the government sanctions a no-questions-asked license for ordinary folks to kill, loot, and act out their most depraved impulses. In the first film, Ethan Hawke was in the eye of the Purge Night storm trying to protect his well-off family from the masked mob. It was basically a low-stakes siege movie that left most of its best ideas on the table. The follow-up, 2014's Purge: Anarchy, opened up DeMonaco's ultraviolent world beyond one family's bloody fight for survival while introducing a promising cop character played with sinewy, slice-and-dice heroism by Frank Grillo. Quality-wise, however, the sequel was a lateral move.
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In Election Year, DeMonaco's reach finally matches his grasp. Senator Charlene Roan (Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell) is a presidential hopeful and champion of the downtrodden who wants to abolish Purge Night. Naturally, the powers that be (i.e. older white men in their one-percent star chamber) are threatened by her soaring grassroots popularity and put a bounty on her head during this year's Purge. Grillo's Leo Barnes (thankfully) returns, this time playing her head of security. He's the sort of no-nonsense badass that if Election Day was made 40 years earlier, his role would have been played by Charles Bronson. Since this is hardly enough to hang a 105-minute B-movie on, the film also introduces a struggling African-American deli owner (Mykelti Williamson, hogging all of the film's best lines), his loyal delivery man (Joseph Julian Soria), a Black Lives Matter-style revolutionary (Edwin Hodge), a tough-as-nails Good Samaritan (Betty Gabriel), and a deadly posse of Neo-Nazi mercenaries gunning to assassinate the Good Senator on behalf of the nefarious incumbent Lockjaw in Chief (Kyle Secor).
One of the many things that DeMonaco does surprisingly well in Election Year is throwing together all of these characters and making it feel organic to the story. Williamson, Soria, and Gabriel come to the aid of the on-the-run Mitchell and Grillo, helping them run the kill-crazy gauntlet 'til daybreak. Another thing he excels at is borrowing from other really good genre movies like Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, The Warriors, Total Recall, and especially John Carpenter's Escape from New York. (He must have an excellent DVD library at home.) Still, Election Year manages to put a lot of ideas and images on screen that are totally its own. Especially, its hallucinogenic, "Halloween for adults" vision of Purge Night's murder and mayhem. The film's violence (and there's a ton of it, so consider yourself warned) is stunningly art-directed. In one scene, the steps of D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial are lit up with bonfires and littered with dead bodies, while its white columns are graffiti'd with the word P-U-R-G-E scrawled in blood. In another, a rabid mob of female looters sport cutesy masks and are tarted up in skimpy corsets while wielding bedazzled machine guns. It's like watching Miley Cyrus skipping through Dante's Inferno.
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It's tempting to watch Election Year and draw knee-jerk parallels between Mitchell's virtuous senator and Hilary Clinton, and Secor's righteous right-wing blowhard Minister and Donald Trump. Actually, it's impossible to read the film any other way. But DeMonaco's campaign-season partisan allegory doesn't do the film—or its message— any favors. As political satire, it's cheap, obvious, and lazy. But as a rousingly tense, Carpenter-esque thriller, Election Year is surprisingly effective. The only shame is that film's finale paints itself into a narrative corner that will make it tricky to justify another sequel. Too bad, because three films in, the Purge saga has finally hit its sick, sadistic stride. B
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I thought I would share a pic of my partner and I. We had a pretty good run in the open Scotch division. With matches starting at 9AM and running every 2 hours until 11PM on Friday, it was a grueling tournament. I lived on granola bars and beef jerky, because there was no time to get a meal. Anyhoo, we lost the hot seat match on Saturday morning at 9AM and got bumped to the 1 loss side. After winning the next match we got a rematch with Bernie and Jesse from Phoenix.
My partner Lois Schmitt played very well and I missed a couple key shots. Bernie and Jesse played a lil bit better and ended up winning the match and taking home 1st place.
Here is the pic of myself and my partner, Lois, who also took 2nd place in the Womens Senior Singles.
Congratulations, how many teams did you have to plow thru to get there?
My wife and I entered Novice Scotch 2 years ago. 3 games and 17 minutes later, we were done.
So, in other words, I can imagine what an accomplishment that was.
But as far as food is concerned, I can exist on jerky, peanuts and beer for days.
Water is highly over rated, but its better when you add barley to it.
congrats....how you are an open player i will never know. i think you and Bernie were both stealing. Cant blame you for playing thou. great shooting!
congrats on such a high finish...you two must be deadly....how often do you practice? always wanted to play scotch doubles competitively but never lived anywhere long enough to get committed to a strong partner.
I beleive there were 338 teams in the Open Scotch Division. We played some pretty good teams along the way and got some fortunate rolls also. In a tournament this size, a little luck always plays a small part in coming out on top.
Oh, and the best sportsmanship award goes to an opposng player. I can't remember where they were from, we played them at 7PM or 9PM Friday. The girl was trying to play a touchy safe and she handed me the cue ball after she shot. She said it double hit her tip. I wasn't sure about the hit, I told her after the match it was pure class.
Congratulations, but how does Trigger feel about this picture? ;). My you're a busy boy.
I'm not sure how this finish will affect my "OPEN" status, but in the singles event I place 129th. There are some good players in the Mens Open.


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Entravision Expands into Africa and Acquires Leading Advertising Solutions Company 365 Digital.
by 365 Digital | Nov 4, 2021 | New Partnership
The acquisition provides access to a high-growth, emerging digital advertising industry with significant expansion opportunities across Africa
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, November 4, 2021 – Entravision (NYSE: EVC) ("Entravision" or "the Company") announced that it has acquired 365 Digital, a digital advertising solutions company headquartered in South Africa. This investment provides Entravision with a geographic foothold in Africa, as the Company looks to expand its breadth of digital services to new emerging markets.
Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, 365 Digital maintains exclusive sales representations with TikTok, the leading destination for short-form mobile video and brand solutions, and Anzu, an in-game advertising platform, and is also the authorized representative for Triton Digital, a leader in the digital audio streaming and podcasting market.
365 Digital also offers end-to-end digital publisher solutions for premier South African publishers, including a proprietary digital ad network.
Entravision's acquisition of 365 Digital continues the Company's evolution into a leading marketing technology service provider in the world's highest growth economies. Sub-Saharan Africa is an extremely attractive digital marketplace with nearly 500 million digitally connected consumers. Importantly, the Sub-Saharan Africa customer, including those in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana, is young, tech-savvy and digitally connected.
"This is a major milestone for our company, and we are excited to join Entravision," said Julian Jordaan, Chief Executive Officer of 365 Digital.
"We see tremendous synergies between our two companies not just in traditional digital advertising, but also in digital audio, mobile and programmatic advertising. I am confident that with Entravision's expertise, guidance and global
platform, we will be able to take our company to the next level and attract an even stronger demand for our innovative services."
This acquisition follows Entravision's recent acquisitions of Cisneros Interactive, a leader in the rapidly growing digital advertising sector in Latin America and globally, and MediaDonuts, a leader in digital marketing solutions covering seven countries in Southeast Asia. Upon the closing of this transaction, all 365 Digital employees will remain with the company and Julian Jordaan will continue to serve as CEO of the business based out of its headquarters in Cape Town. For more information on Entravision, please review the Company's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K.
"We are very pleased to announce our acquisition of 365 Digital and our continued global expansion," said Walter Ulloa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Entravision. "365 Digital's strong management team will fit seamlessly into Entravision's growing digital business, and we look forward to leveraging their regional expertise and existing big tech representations to scale Entravision's digital platform across Africa. This acquisition fully aligns with our vision to position Entravision as a global digital marketing solutions powerhouse, serving brands and local leaders with advanced branding, performance and programmatic needs. We've strategically expanded our geographic footprint into some of the fastest-growing marketplaces across the globe and, as reported today in our third quarter 2021 earnings press release, digital revenue increased nearly 10 times more than the prior-year period."
About Entravision Communications Corporation
Entravision is a diversified global media, marketing and technology company serving clients throughout the United States and in fast-growing population centres in more than 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Our dynamic portfolio of services includes digital, television and radio offerings. Digital, our largest revenue segment, is comprised of five core businesses: Entravision Digital, Smadex, Entravision-Cisneros Interactive, MediaDonuts, and 365 Digital. Entravision Digital provides branding and performance digital solutions to clients and small- and mid-size businesses throughout the world, including the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Smadex provides cutting-edge mobile programmatic solutions and demand-side platforms which enable advertisers to effectively execute performance campaigns using machine-learned bidding algorithms. Entravision-Cisneros Interactive provides unique digital marketing solutions representing major global publishers and ad-tech platforms in Latin America, while also managing the leading digital audio network and solutions player Audio. Ad. MediaDonuts provides digital marketing performance and branding services in the Southeast Asia region and maintains unique commercial partnerships with some of the world's leading digital publishers and social media platforms. 365 Digital is a digital advertising solutions provider that offers exclusive sales representations with major global platforms in South Africa. Beyond digital, Entravision has 53 television stations and is the largest affiliate group of the Univision and UniMás television networks. Entravision also manages 46 primarily Spanish-language radio stations that feature nationally recognized, Emmy award-winning talent. Shares of Entravision Class A Common Stock trade on the NYSE under ticker: EVC. Learn more about all of our innovative media, marketing and technology offerings at entravision.com or connect with us on social on LinkedIn and Facebook.
365 Digital is an African online media and ad-technology business with a rich heritage in the African advertising industry. 365 Digital represents the largest publishers and platforms and helps global brands reach connected consumers and drive business impact. With a mission to connect publishers to brands, and brands to consumers, 365 Digital helps brands reach audiences at scale through its exclusive partnership with leading platforms like TikTok, Anzu, Zando.co.za, OLX and EWN. Headquartered in Cape Town and with offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, the business is committed to unlocking the true potential of premium publisher platforms and to providing advertisers access to audiences at scale.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including without limitation the Company's current expectations and intentions with respect to the filing of its Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements, which are included in accordance with the safe harbour provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results and performance in future periods to be materially different from any future results or performance suggested by the forward-looking statements in this press release. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from these expectations, and the Company disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements made by the Company. From time to time, these risks, uncertainties and other factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Entravision:
Christopher T. Young
Kimberly Esterkin
ADDO Investor Relations
evc@addo.com
365 Digital:
Julian Jordaan
Julian@365Digital.co.za


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10 Quick Steps to Creating a Facebook Ad Campaign
By Jonathan Blum and Alex Dalenberg December 3, 2012
For small businesses, Facebook can be a logical place to experiment with paid advertising without the risky investment of a lot of time and money. The social media giant offers an easy way for even the smallest companies to quickly start a targeted ad campaign, displaying business content to Facebook users while they browse the site. Businesses can, for instance, create ads to direct new fans to a Facebook page, ensure that more users see certain posts or send viewers to their websites.
As with most pay-per-click campaigns, businesses set a budget for how much they are willing to spend over a set period. Costs run the gamut, but on average, clicks can cost less than $1 each, depending on whom you are targeting.
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These campaigns are easier to monitor than complex pay-per-click search engine marketing because they require much less day-to-day tinkering. They also are less expensive than traditional media ad buys. Done properly, Facebook ads can drive fans to your page and viewers to your website -- and most important, create new customers.
Log into your personal Facebook account.
To get started, log into Facebook and go to the page called Advertise on Facebook by clicking Create an Ad in the dropdown menu next to the Home button. This is in the upper right-hand corner of the main Facebook news feed screen.
Businesses don't actually need a Facebook page to advertise on the site, but the owner or whoever is managing advertising needs a personal account to create, manage and pay for ads. However, ads don't link to personal profiles.
Decide what to advertise.
Next, Facebook wants to know what your ad should link to. You can send users to a specific website, such as a company blog. You also can direct users to a company Facebook page or promote other pages you or your business has created on Facebook, such as events or places.
Pick an advertising goal.
Once you've selected where your ad should link to, decide what you want to accomplish. If you want to build your social media presence by driving fans to a Facebook page, select Get More Likes. If you want to promote specific content on Facebook such as a blog post, select Promote Page Posts.
If you want to drive traffic to a website, click See Advanced Options. All these options are worth experimenting with, but for this demo we will focus on advertising a website.
Design the ad.
Now, it's time to start designing. Facebook ads consist of a simple 25-character headline and a 90-character description, plus a thumbnail photograph. Facebook automatically suggests these, but it's usually better to rewrite them for your intended audience. These can be updated in real-time, so don't be afraid of trial and error.
The site displays images at 100 by 72 pixels, so be sure to use a photo that will still be clear even when it's displayed in a smaller format. Facebook recommends your image be at least this size, although the site automatically resizes images for you.
Facebook has a lengthy set of advertising standards related to what you can and cannot post. For example, ads can't refer to a potential customer's financial status. So before you write any copy, be sure to refer to the site's advertising guidelines.
Target the ad.
You can narrow your ad's audience by targeting specific users. You can micro-target by location down to specific zip codes, then by age, gender and interests. In advanced options, you can segment by relationship status, languages spoken, college attended, workplace or just your own fans. By a process of trial and error, you can whittle down your audience from Facebook's roughly 167 million users in the U.S. to as few as 20 people, if your marketing goal is to target specific decision-makers.
Set name, pricing and schedule.
Next, it's time to name your campaign, and then set your budget and schedule. The name should be distinct, perhaps something related to whom you are targeting. A simple descriptor, such as "college grads," can be effective as long as it helps keep you organized.
Then, tell Facebook how much money you are willing to spend. This can either be a daily budget or a lump sum of total spending while the ad runs. Payment is either per click -- you pay every time someone clicks your ad -- or per thousand impressions -- you pay every time one thousand people see the ad. You can set ads to run continuously or through a specific date and time.
Pay for the ad.
After submitting your first ad, Facebook will prompt you for payment information -- credit card, direct debit, PayPal or a Facebook Ad coupon. Billing is monthly. Facebook can hold your ad, usually for about a day, so it can approve its content.
Monitor your campaign.
Now that your campaign is up and running, you'll want to follow its progress by using the Ads Manager tool, accessed from the left-hand side of your personal Facebook account. The ads manager shows detailed information about your campaigns, including budget, spending and schedule.
Clicking an ad campaign will take you to a dashboard with even more information, including a series of charts and performance metrics. From here you can view how many people have viewed your ad, how often it shows up in news feeds, number of clicks and click-through rates. The two most important metrics are clicks -- what you're paying for -- and actions, which show that people are interacting with your ad.
Generate a report.
You can export reports from the Reports tab in the ads manager. These are spreadsheets or HTML files that can be used to assess and compare ads. This critical function provides intricate data that offers enterprise-level insight into an ad campaign, such as the demographics of people who are clicking on your ads or the amount of time between when a user clicks on an ad and likes a page.
Manage your ads and tweak as you go.
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Options to find a MAC Address in VMware Environment.
In one of my ESXi host we have found the alert mentioning the NFS IP Conflict and it points the specific MAC address as the owner . I was looking to find the Host\IP which is causing the conflict and found some various options to find the results from both the ESXi \VM level and hope it will be useful to share the information..
If it couldn't get the result then it will give the empty message..
To Determine the MAC address of an ESX Hosts administration interface.
The MAC address is found in the first line after HWaddr. In this example, the MAC address is 00:50:56:41:5a:59.
Note: The ESX host uses self-generated addresses starting with 00:50:56 (as opposed to the burned-in address of the interface itself).
Alternatively, review the outputted information and MAC addresses from the command esxcfg-nics -l.
Another way to find the Mac address is from the DHCP Server , Go to the Scope – Address Lease , It will list all the IPs with the Mac address but it will help only for the DHCP IPs and not for the static address .
Next step is to try the ARP command which will give the list of recently resolved IP addresses to MAC address mapping from the ARP cache.
To populate the ARP table, ping a broadcast IP address to get a reply back from all hosts listening on the same subnet.
Have a try on both from the ESX and the Vcenter so that we can get more chances to find the IP..
Method 4 – find the manufacturer.
If you suspect the MAC is from any hardware like printer then we can try the below link to find the manufacturer.
Method – 5 How to find the MAC of the ESXi servers using the PowerCLI.
Pls see the below reference link for the info of the script and I just copied the main content of the script here..
The Get-VmMacAddress function use the function to find the MAC of the VM using the powerCLI.
Lot of free tools are available in the internet like IP Scanner but the tool have to scan the entire network ..
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X-ray diffraction from fibrous DNA tipped off Watson, Crick to double helix
Watson (left) and Crick in 1953 with their model of part of a DNA molecule.
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It is one of the most famous molecular structures ever determined, the now iconic DNA double helix. Although X-ray diffraction played a role in its solution by James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick in 1953, it was not an X-ray crystal structure. That wouldn't come for another 20 years from the laboratory of Alexander Rich at Masschusetts Institute of Technology.
The data that inspired Watson and Crick's breakthrough wasn't from a crystal; Rosalind Franklin and her student R. G. Gosling produced diffraction patterns from fibrous DNA. Franklin, a serious crystallographer, didn't even know that Watson and Crick had access to her X-ray diffraction data on two distinct forms of DNA, dubbed A and B. The data had come to them in a somewhat roundabout way through the agency of Max F. Perutz, who directed the University of Cambridge lab in which they both worked.
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The data clearly indicated to them that B DNA was a double helix and provided key information about its dimensions. They also knew from the work of Erwin Chargaff that, regardless of the provenance of the DNA, adenine and thymine bases and guanine and cytosine bases were always present in approximately equal amounts.
That information was enough for them to build their model, which suggested immediately how DNA encoded genetic information and how it could replicate (Nature 1953, DOI: 10.1038/171737a0). It eventually earned them the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, which they shared with Maurice Wilkins, a colleague of Franklin's. Franklin had died in 1958 at the age of 37 from ovarian cancer.
Wilkins and Franklin and Watson and Crick weren't the only scientists chasing the structure of DNA. Looming over them was the towering figure of Linus C. Pauling, who only three years earlier had used X-ray diffraction data and model building to correctly deduce the α-helix and β-sheet secondary structures of proteins.
X-ray diffraction image of B DNA.
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Many people have suggested that, had Pauling had access to Franklin's X-ray data, he would have very likely deduced the correct structure of DNA. Pauling, however, didn't have access to Franklin's data. Because of Pauling's political activism, the U.S. State Department denied him a passport in 1952 and prevented him from making a planned trip to London.
In the 20 years that followed Watson and Crick's Nature publication, X-ray crystal structures of simple DNA structures had called into question their hypothesis. In May 1973, however, Rich and coworkers reported they had solved the X-ray crystal structure of the dinucleoside phosphate adenosyl-3′,5′-uridine phosphate, noting that it "crystallizes in the form of a right handed antiparallel double helix with Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding between uracil and adenine" (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/243150a0). Other DNA X-ray crystal structures would follow, but Rich's team had settled the question once and for all.—Rudy Baum
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Plural: calli.
Bare and shining area on the frons, in particular in some groups of orthorrhaphous Diptera, e.g., Tabanidae and (female) Therevidae.
Mound-like, rounded or elongate swelling of the exoskeleton (the body surface), especially on the thorax; see: humeral callus, prealar callus, postalar callus.
calypter
The posterobasal portion of the axillary membrane, joining the hind margin of the wing to the thorax, forms two basal lobes called the calypteres (sing. calypter; squamae, squamulae). The proximal lobe, called the lower calypter , begins as a narrow, membranous ligament arising from the furrow between the scutellum and the postnotum and ends where the more distal lobe, the upper calypter , folds sharply over it.
Links: http://en.wikiped.../Calypters
calyptral fold
Fold between the lower calypter and upper calypter .
calyptral fringe
The fringe of hairs along the posterior margin of each calypter.
Calyptratae
Calyptratae is a subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera, commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids (or simply calyptrates). It consists of those flies which possess a calypter that covers the halteres, among which are some of the most familiar of all flies, such as the house fly.
Links: Diptera classification
calyptrate
Calyptratae (synonym)
carrot fly
Vernacular name used for Psila rosae (Psilidae), a pest in gardens and farms, and mainly affecting carrot crops but also attacking parsnips, parsley and celery.
Links: http://en.wikiped...Carrot_fly
catalogue (synonym)
An nomenclatorial index that gives a list of taxa with relevant taxonomic literature. Catalogues are prepared for particular regions (zoogeographic regions, countries), particular collections (museum collections or, more restrictive, type collections), or particular taxa (families, genera). The taxa are arranged in a convenient way (either alphabetically or systematically) and reference to the literature for each taxon is given, if necessary supplemented with reference to material in collections. Catalogues usually are prepared to provide a list of all relevant taxonomic literature and nomenclatorial issues pertaining to a taxon or the taxa in a particular collection. Example: Stone, A., et al., 1965. A Catalog of the Diptera of America Corth of Mexico, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Also compare with checklist .
cell cup
posterior cubital cell (synonym)
Latin, compare (with); for example, in respect of a determination: Anthomyia cf. pluvialis means that whilst the specimen compares well with pluvialis the determiner is not quite sure and suggests implicitely to compare it with a specimen with undisputed identification.
cfr.
cf. (synonym)
chaetotaxy
The study of the number and position of setae (bristles, chaetae, hairs) on the insects in systematics. The number, shape and placement of many setae is of big importance during identification and often has systematic value as well.
When using setae while identifying specimens, it is recommended always to check both sides (left and right) in case setae are broken or lost altogether on the side examined firsts. Pinned material is prone to breakage but loss also may occur in living flies, especially on legs. The presence of an 'empty' alveolus may indicate a broke seta.
Links: http://www.ento.c.../fly.html#
Usually a list of species belonging to a particular taxon (class, order, family, genus, etc.) that are found in a particlar region (zoogeographic region, country, nature reserve, etc.). The species are listed according to a convenient or systematic classification (for example, alphabetically or cladistically). Checklists provide a quick reference, for example while arranging collections, establishing the distribution of species, etc. Example: Beuk, P.L.Th, 2002. Checklist of the Diptera of the Netherlands. KNNV Uitgeverij, Utrecht. pp. 1-448.
Also compare with catalogue .
cheese skippers
Vernacular name used for the family Piophilidae in general or the species Piophila casei in particluar.
Links: http://en.wikiped...Cheese_fly (site checked by Bernhard Merz, Geneva)
The colourless polysaccharide that is the major component of the insect cuticle or integument .
Links: http://en.wikiped...iki/Chitin.
circumscriptional name
Taxon name used above family-group level (e.g., order or class) which are not ruled by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and which are defined by the particular set of members included, not the number of species. A little used term not just relating to the early history of taxonomy but very important for theoretical reasons.
Links: The division I.3. from the book by N. Kluge "MODERN SYSTEMATICS OF INSECTS", Nomina Circumscribentia Insectorum - Catalogue of Circumscriptional Names of Arthropod Taxa.
cladogram
Graphic display of the result of a cladistic analysis; a diagram drawn up to show a hypothesis of relationships between different organisms, usually in the form of a branching tree.
Links: http://en.wikiped...Cladistics.


So many scenarios could add complexity to the legal questions involved. Was the graffiti itself created with or without the permission of the owner of the surface used? Was it commissioned? Has the work gained notoriety or fame or is it obscurely tucked away in a quiet neighborhood? In what way has another party used it and has it brought financial gain to that other party? Does the artist lose something of value if the owner of the surface paints over it or tears down the building?
In one New York City case, a federal judge dismissed a graffiti artist's lawsuit against HBO for a couple-second clip in a TV show in which the plaintiff's graffiti on a dumpster showed up in the background of the scene. The court said this flash of art was a "de minimis" use not protected by copyright because the use was so trivial it added no value to the second work and was not substantial enough to establish similarity.
As of this writing on July 19, 2018, a case is pending in federal court in California in which General Motors used graffiti on a car ramp wall in online Cadillac advertising. The artist, who is internationally prominent, is claiming copyright infringement and asking for compensation for the use of his art, which had been commissioned by the ramp owner.
We will watch the outcome of this case with interest for its potential impact on protections for graffiti and similar expression.


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'We have some catching up to do' – Vettel on Ferrari's unsettled Friday
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Sebastian Vettel may have led the first free practice session of the weekend in Russia, but his championship rival Lewis Hamilton was close behind despite not running the fastest hypersoft tyre during the session. And when Hamilton did bolt on the pink tyres for FP2, he was able to unleash a lap that was over half a second quicker than Vettel's best...
Valtteri Bottas backed up Hamilton's pace, finishing Free Practice 2 in second place and just 0.199s slower in the sister Mercedes, while even the two Red Bulls were ahead of the Ferraris - at a track where the Milton Keynes team have never previously scored a podium.
All of this was not good news for Vettel or Ferrari, with the German currently 40 points down on Hamilton in the championship race and in dire need of his first win since Belgium. So are Mercedes really looking that strong? Or were Ferrari sandbagging? On the strength of Vettel's comments at the end of Friday's running, it looks as though it may be the former…
"We looked quite far away from the rest of the [front-runners], so not ideal," he said. "We're struggling a bit for one lap but also in the long run [pace], I think we went through our tyres a bit harder and quicker than the rest. We need to have a look.
"And looking at ourselves, it wasn't a good day in terms of feel for the car. I think there's more that we need to get to."
"Certainly the traffic doesn't help, but I think we have some catching up to do" - Sebastian Vettel
Vettel was also seen to spin late on in the session at the difficult Turn 13, backing up his assertion that he wasn't feeling comfortable behind the wheel of the SF71H.
"That's Friday for you," he said. "Sometimes you have better Fridays, sometimes not. I think for us it wasn't a particularly clean run in the end but still good enough. As I said, we struggled with the tyres with or without the traffic. Certainly the traffic doesn't help, but I think we have some catching up to do."
However, Vettel's pessimism was countered by team mate Kimi Raikkonen's nonchalance. The Finn finished slowest of the leading runners in sixth, a full second off Hamilton's frontrunning pace.
So was Raikkonen alarmed by his lack of speed around Sochi? Not so much…
"I don't understand why people make such a fuss about Friday," he fired back when asked if there was more to come from him. "I guess you (the media) have nothing else to do.
"If you look at all the Fridays, you'll probably see that it's not always the truth that shows on Friday. For us, it's a very normal thing. We try things and see what happens. Do the normal work for tomorrow. In qualifying we will see. It's not an easy place to go fast. As any track, the last tenths are hard to find."
So assuming Ferrari do find enough pace to put them in a competitive position for Sunday's race, can Vettel then count on the support of his Sauber-bound team mate to help him reduce his championship deficit to Hamilton?
"I mean, I want to get the best result possible for myself," said Raikkonen on the matter, "and obviously doing that is the best I can offer for the team."
Perhaps not a response that will add to Vettel's confidence ahead of qualifying in Sochi...
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Our scouts have been infesting fraternity houses, dorms and locker rooms for months and now they arise, to a man, and declare that undergraduates do wear garters. Perhaps, after all that has been said and written on the subject, that's an item for Ripley. Anyway, we just know they wear 'em– the solid color elastic web kind, sketched here. As for other things they're wearing, the trend at the moment seems to be toward an elaborately casual English countryside manner. The balmaccan topcoat is a case in point. So, for that matter, is the extent to which they are wearing short sleeveless sweaters. This is a direct follow-up on the lead of young Englishmen, a recent report from London saying that there the bright young men are turning up at smart cocktail parties wearing these short sleeveless sweaters with light weight tweed suits. As for color combinations, since men have definitely thrown off the feminine-fostered taboo against the use of grey and brown in combination, many odd color schemes have won acceptance. The big surprise, of course, is how quickly the black banded brown hat has caught on as a college and prep school fashion, to say nothing of the extent to which it has won acceptance among men of the sportsman type. Brown brogue shoes are getting a big play on the campus from those very undergraduates who, for a long time, stuck to the white buckskin shoe for year around wear. Knitted ties are the dominant note as far as neckwear is concerned, although the batwing bow, as shown on the next page, is gaining ground fast. The hat in the panel is the Tyrollean type for sportswear, an item that is getting acceptance at the Eastern colleges.


Circuit breakers are installed and used for safety purposes in both residential as well as commercial and industrial areas. In power distribution, we need circuit breakers at different levels. Depending on the current carrying capacity, breaking capacity and other functions, we select a suitable circuit breaker according to our needs i.e. VCB, ACB (Air Circuit Breaker), MCCB and then MCB , this is common hierarchy being followed in power distribution system.
MCB stands for "Miniature Circuit Breaker".
Rated current under 100 amps.
Suitable for low current circuits (low energy requirement), i.e. home wiring.
Generally, used where normal current is less than 100 Amps.
MCBB stands for "Molded Case Circuit Breaker".
Rated current in the range of 10-2500 amps.
Interrupting rating can be around 10k – 200k amps.
Suitable for high power rating and high energy i.e. commercial and industrial use.
Generally, used where normal current is more than 100 Amps.
Should I go for MCB or MCCB?
Now the question is that for a situation, where standard current carrying capacity needed is 100A with breaking capacity of 15KA, what should be used? An MCB or an MCCB? We assume cost is not very different.
Both are in moulded case and having almost similar features especially when we are comparing with fixed thermal setting option of MCCB and they are classified as low voltage circuit breakers. For magnetic setting, we can select MCB as per curve and MCCB will have either fixed setting or can be adjusted.
Actually there is difference in standards they follows. An MCB is supposed to function in accordance to IEC 60898-1 (Unless mentioned otherwise) and so is tested accordingly. While an MCCB is tested in accordance with IEC60947-2. So to understand the difference between MCB and MCCB we need to get a brief idea of these two standards.
It defines behavior of circuit breaker having rated operational voltage not exceeding than 440V (between Phases), Rated current not exceeding than 125A (We have range 0.5A-125A) and rated short circuit capacity not exceeding than 25KA ( Usually it is 10KAin MCB). This is designed for unskilled user (or say uninstructed user) and for devices not being maintained consequently. Also pollution degree covered is zero pollution to maximum pollution (degree 2). These are the circuit breakers we find in residential homes, shops, school & offices electrical distribution switchboards.
So it is clear that these items are different in their fundamentals. An MCB designed for indoor, pollution-free conditions and would not be suitable for harsh, outdoor applications that require pollution degree 3.
Typically, IEC 60898-1 certified Circuit Breakers meet minimally required performance to proof proper protection of household installations: Pollution degree 2, impulse voltage 4kV, isolation voltage is the same as nominal voltage 440V. That is the reason why usually we meet limited number of technical information printed on Circuit Breakers.
It is not necessary that Circuit breakers certified with IEC 60898-1 can't be certified with IEC 60947-2, but for sure any manufacturer need to obtain certification. Rating of same MCB can be different for different standards, so, it is highly recommended to check the data properly printed on it.
So, the application and needs will decide that which device is to be used or selected.
How to select MCB or MCCB at different circuit levels?
by the way, it depends on your needs and requirement for what you want to install. Many other different factors affect the situation, So you will have to read the next article below as we have added some simple calculation and formulas for MCB installation & selection for Electrical Wiring.
Anyhow, You will have to read the next article about the proper selection of MCB 0r MCCB according to your needs.
Difference between ICS & ICU in term of Circuit Breakers.


Cary Campbell is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the faculty of education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is an educational researcher, currently working for the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC) and MODAL research group. His main research interests are broadly philosophy of education, semiotics, and arts/music education. His published research has mostly been concerned with developing semiotics informed educational approaches and conceptualizations. Cary is also the co-founder and editor of the arts group philosophasters.org, focusing on scholarly journalism and interviews. As of recently he is the new editor of the journal Chinese Semiotic Studies' 'CS. Peirce Section'. Aside from writing and research, Cary teaches music and is active as a performing and recording guitarist in several musical groups.


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A new startup backed by an anti-aging wunderkind is taking cues from animal hibernation to help humans recover from heart attacks and strokes
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Pyros (not pictured) needs no wingman.
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Fauna Bio, a new biopharmaceutical startup backed by venture capitalist Laura Deming, is researching hibernating animals to unveil clues about how the human body can protect itself in emergency medical conditions like trauma, heart attack, and stroke.
Hibernating animals have the ability to manipulate their metabolic rates, control blood flow levels, protect tissues against damage, and put on and lose a large amount of weight safely.
The company is working to re-create a hibernation-like state in patients by using a combination of repurposed drugs that are used now for other indications, and natural compounds like melatonin.
Hibernation allows bears to sleep through entire winters — now a new startup wants to replicate this state in humans to help protect the body against severe injuries.
Ashley Zehnder, Katie Grabek, and Linda Goodman started Fauna Bio in June after they met studying different, but very complementary projects at a post-doctoral lab in Stanford.
Their company is backed by 24-year-old venture capitalist Laura Deming, who runs The Longevity Fund, which principally invests in aging-related research and discoveries.
Hibernating animals are excellent at healing themselves after suffering the equivalent of a heart attack or a stroke. The reason is because these animals are adept at manipulating their metabolism.
Hibernation as a trait can be a spectrum. True hibernators, like bears, drop their body temperature by 2-6°C for 6-9 months.
Smaller animals, like pet hamsters, go into something called torpor, which is a light form of hibernation that can occur daily. Their small size forces them to lower their body temperature more drastically in order to achieve the same metabolic processes. By proxy, they have to re-warm their bodies more periodically.
This dynamic physiology allows them to control blood flow to their heart, function in low oxygen settings (hypoxia), and protect tissues against damage and deterioration.
The Fauna team is mapping and analyzing hibernators' RNA and DNA, and linking important genes into a network that can be activated pharmacologically. These genes span across networks in charge of energy metabolism, circadian rhythm, and insulin management.
These also overlap with the mTOR, one of the pivotal pathways implicated in aging, and AMP Kinase, a cellular metabolic pathway that's activated by diabetes drug Metformin.
How hibernation can improve medical outcomes in emergency rooms
Emergency rooms use therapeutic hypothermia to lower patient metabolic rates and improve their survival rates in cases of traumatic brain injury, strokes, and heart attacks. This cools the body artificially from outside inwards.
"We're forcing the body to cool when it doesn't really want to, and that causes problems. It causes deficiencies in immune function so people get really bad pneumonia, they have issues with blood clotting," Zehnder told Business Insider. "Part of what we're doing is trying to figure out what are the exact initiating factors to be able to allow you to lower metabolic rate, without having to be cooled from the outside. That's something a lot of the model hibernators do."
Mimicking short term hibernation or creating a synthetic torpor – accounting for caveats like maintaining immune function, preventing blood clots, and stopping muscle deterioration – can help patients safely cool, heal, and re-warm. Heart attack patients can recover without suffering heart damage, and stroke therapy can be enhanced.
It can also be given long-term to patients with diabetes or silent ischemic heart attacks to resist damage from severe cardiac or metabolic events.
Further research can aid obese patients in losing weight safely, since hibernators have mastered the craft.
Fauna Bio co-founders, Linda Goodman, Katie Grabek, and Ashley Zehnder
Fauna Bio
"We have a couple of avenues for advancing the work that we're doing for human trials," Zehnder said. "Each of those have different development paths and different levels of capital efficiency." These include repurposing drugs that are already on the market, using natural compounds, and inventing new drugs.
In a recent experiment, combining the natural compounds beta-hydroxybutyrate and melatonin improved survival in animals suffering from a 60% blood loss. This combination will enter human trials sometime this year as a form of trauma therapy.
Currently, the company's 12-18 month timeline involves a mix of experiments that they're kicking off in the following weeks. One or two of the products will advance to pre-approval stages by late 2019.
"It's a great time to be doing this type of work," Zehnder said. "We're really sitting on the precipice of being able to take advantage of new genetic drug discovery tools."
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I just added another show to Jake Sharon's SUSHI EATING Northwest Tour 2013! On August 1, I will be at Portland's 2-acre, indy art collective, Milepost 5!
As a bonus, I'm bringing Indianapolis comedian Kris Shaw! Two headliners for the price of one!
Show starts at 9:30pm Come on down!


Two topics which have always been useful to media outlets to draw attention and spur consumption are teenagers and technology: they are right up there with communism and germs. Since at least the fifties Americans have worried about teenagers and what they are up to in their spare time, and why they are not "doing school" in the way we adults wish they would; since at least the early 19th century luddites and others have feared what technology is bringing us.
Put teens and tech together and you can cause quite an alarmist splash.
What are teens doing with their free time?
Why aren't they studying what we tell them to study in the ways we tell them to do so?
What is all this new technology doing in schools anyway?
Let's acknowledge there are certainly valid concerns. Like the principal at Woodside, I see seeking moderation in all things (as the Greeks advocated) as my guiding philosophy: of course we want teens to have balance. Of course Ramon, the ninth grade boy at Woodside, would be healthier if he were not playing video games 50 hours a week, but let's not mistake this: if school doesn't engage him, he will find something else which does: video games, skateboarding, or any number of other activities (many of them far more destructive than video games).
It is appalling that schools are canceling recess so students take more time to fill in the blanks of their workbooks; it is appalling that schools are cutting arts, music, and athletics so as to narrow their students' focus to what can be tested, at the expense of balance in their lives and intellectual development. At my school, I am entirely proud of all the ways in which we have students learn out-of-doors (4-8 days a year), participate in interscholastic athletics (80+%), perform on stage (50+%), perform community service, and discuss real issues in advisory: all of them without any computers present.
The New York Times piece, however, doesn't strike this reader as genuinely respecting balance: it seems its primary intent is to induce our fear of technology's power to distract our kids from what we think is most important for them: sitting in our classrooms and doing what we assign them for homework.
Young, developing brains are becoming habituated to distraction and to switching tasks, not to focus…Teachers at Woodside commonly blame technology for students' struggles to concentrate, but they are divided over whether embracing computers is the right solution.
In fairness, there are a number of places where the reporter seeks to acknowledge that there are multiple perspectives about these issues, and there are parents, administrators, and teachers who value and advocate for technology in learning. Most importantly, the very student at the center of the article, the one who is most distracted from his studies, is recognized for the way in which he is using digital tools, in his case film-making ones, to engage him in meaningful, creative ways.
Across the internet, some great responses are emerging: Don Tapscott's at HuffPo and Megan Garber's at Nieman, for instance, both speak with far greater knowledge and sophistication than I am able to offer here, and I urge folks to read both.
About Distraction: As the article's title makes clear, this is the largest point being made: that technology is problematically and powerfully driving our kids to distraction.
What are we doing as educators to meaningfully engage our students, to give them the autonomy, purpose, and opportunity for mastery which they crave and to which they respond with focus, energy, enthusiasm, and diligence?
The approach we take is not finger wagging about what is distracting kids, but thinking harder about and doing more to bring about the opposite: engagement.
Do we think that before technology, most students avoided distraction? Do we think they spent school-days sitting in lecture consumed with fascination as they listen to a teacher talk about the Smoot Hawley tariff? Have you seen Ferris Buller's Day Off, a film made before cell phones and computers?
Students report regularly that what engages them most in learning is doing projects employing technology, far more than listening to lectures. (HSSSE). Clearly this is how young professionals (physicians, lawyers, engineers, academics, managers) spend their time: using computers to gather information, communicate and collaborate with others, and publish and post their answers, to tackle meaningful problems.
Yes, of course, students can and do get distracted when their computers and smartphones are open on their desk or lap, and teachers need to respond thoughtfully to this problem. It is fine for teachers to ask students to put them away at certain times. William Stites has a terrific post about how schools can confront and manage the technological distraction issues.
But don't ever forget that students have always been distracted, and let's remember too: what better time for students to learn how to manage technological distractions than when they are under our influence, rather than waiting until we send them off to the far less supervised university settings!
So a kid loves the drums but can hardly get through a chapter of "The Sun Also Rises"; and another aces algebra tests but can't even understand how Call of Duty is played. The actions of these children may dismay or please adults, but anyone who has ever been bored by one practice and absorbed by another can explain the kids' choices more persuasively than does the dominant model, which ignores the content of activities in favor of a wonky span thought vaguely to be in the brain.
Sometimes I fear attention-span is a club we use to clobber people who don't pay attention to what we want them to pay attention to; if they are not compliantly listening to what is interesting to us, we accuse them of lacking concentration. Kids give enormous attention to what they care about, and I see them do so every day in class when they are challenged, when they are welcomed to collaborate, when they are allowed to be creative.
The research cited in the Times about how video games over-stimulate such that sleep patterns are disrupted does concern me: sleep is so important. But I am not sure the answer is to prefer kids watch movies instead, and lull them into passivity. Yes, balance is important, and yes, kids should be allowed to be bored sometimes. But let's not decide we deprive kids of these "stimulating" video game experiences which stimulate their brains by being interactive, difficult, and complex.
About reading books: It is absolutely a great and powerful intellectual experience of growth to read full-length books, and I want this for our students. The Times article saddens me when it suggests that the digital age is driving our students away from reading, but I am not persuaded altogether. I assigned summer reading as a teacher in the late eighties and early nineties, and it has to be said: reading compliance then was also, often, poor. I know I read more than I did before because I am inspired to do so by online social networks, and I see my own sons, and my students, still reading. Let's continue to ask students to read, and let's help them do so by helping them find inspirational, meaningful reading.
About texting: Many teenagers, we have known for a long time have a fierce craving for social connections, and they have always used what is at their disposal to do so. Some skip school because they hate to miss out on social networks happening outside of school, some come to school only to see their friends, and some text constantly. None of these things are ideal or healthy for kids, but technology is not to blame; I think we can realize that some kids who used to go out at night to socialize with their friends can now do so from their home computer/smartphone while still multi-tasking by doing their homework. Is it my preference that students text during homework? No. But is texting sometimes preferable to alternatives (driving cars around town seeking out friends in parks and at 7-11, for instance)? Yes. Should we work as parents and educators to promote self-discpline, self-regulation, and accountability for results for our teen students: Yes, just as much as we always should. But we should also be glad they have tools to stay connected in reasonably healthy ways, and that the issue is healthy balance, not the tool.
there is no actual evidence to support the view that this generation is distracted, performing poorly or otherwise less capable than previous generations. In fact the evidence suggests that on the whole, this is the smartest generation ever. IQ is up year over year for many years, university entrance exam scores are at an all time high and it has never been tougher to get into the best universities. Furthermore, volunteering amongst high school and university students is at an all time high and in the US the percentage of kids that are clean in high school — i.e. they don't do drugs or alcohol — is up year over year for 15 years. This is a generation about which we can be enormously hopeful.
The world is changing, faster and faster, and we do need to be thoughtful and intentional about how technology is used by our students, and we do need to strive for healthy balance. I appreciate that the Times Wired piece asks this of parents and educators. But I don't think we need to heighten fears and anxieties: let's embrace the opportunity technology provides our educational programs to return to Aristotle's call that we learn by doing, that our schools are centers of technologically empowered active investigation, collaboration, and creation, the type of learning that will be challenge, engage, and prepare our teens.
A very thoughtful response to the Times piece. Didn't they say the same thing about rock and roll?
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Sorry about the links, and thanks for the heads up. I had noticed that just in the last week wordpress has changed the link box format, but what I didn't realize, until now (!), was that the new format requires a slightly different technique for pasting in the link. They are now correct.
An apology: I continue to have difficulties with my links– they work when I preview them, and then they seem to be crashing thereafter. I'll keep working to fix the problem– I wonder if others are having challenges with broken links in wordpress?
An apology: I continue to have difficulties with my links– they work when I preview them, and then they seem to be crashing thereafter.
I'll keep working to fix the problem– I wonder if others are having challenges with broken links in wordpress?
Let's agree that kids can't get through books and may want to follow their own passions instead. One question that arises is how long *do* they pursue these interests? An educator only gets to track them closely for a year; a school administrator likely is not that focused on the issue. It's usually the parents who worry the most.
Self-directed learning is the ideal (all learning is essentially self-directed). If we're being honest we would also admit that schooling is a method for collective socialization and cultural training. So you can interpret "the kids aren't doing what we want them to do" also as "the kids are not learning what we want them to learn." In a culture that's increasingly specialized/fragmented, there may be no turning back.
I suppose the trick is how to cultivate these individual pursuits while also ensuring that young people are indoctrinated just enough into the mandates of a broader society. I could also more questions such as Who or what does this indoctrination ultimately serve? but I think I've used up a lot of comment space already. 🙂 Thanks for the compelling post!


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SCHRODER European Real Estate Investment Trust, which invests in properties in European growth cities, said its direct property portfolio was independently valued at €207.1 million (R3.6 billion), reflecting a like-for-like increase of 2.2 percent over the quarter.
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In addition, a 50 percent interest in a joint venture in Seville continued to be recognised at nil interest, Schroder said in an update yesterday.
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Q: Javascript rounding this number down 9703248444284653 I'm sure this has something to do with floating point math or something, but I need to out how to correctly interpret this number 9703248444284653. Javascript apparently doesn't like it
If I just do this.
var test = 9703248444284653
console.log(test)

The result is 9703248444284652, which is obviously not correct. Problem is that 9703248444284653 is an id that can't be changed. I have no idea what to do with this.

A: Your value is larger than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER.

console.log(9703248444284653n > Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER);

You should treat your IDs as BigInt values. So you can should probably store the values as strings and then parse them as BigInt values if you need to perform any math on them.

const
  bigIntNative = 9703248444284653n,
  bigIntConstructed = BigInt('9703248444284653');

console.log(typeof bigIntNative === 'bigint' && bigIntNative === bigIntConstructed);

console.log(`${bigIntNative}`);


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