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As small business owners we have to be mindful of the fact that we have to prepare our taxes on the business as well our personal filings. As budding entrepreneurs we may not realize that there is a fair chance that we could create tax headaches for ourselves. Since we went into business we may have more forms to fill out that are growing more complex as time goes by because of new laws coming into play in the federal and state tax codes. And it can become difficult to keep abreast of the changes that affect us.
Just think about it. If we have employees we have to consider the new withholding taxes and the sheer volume of work that is involved. And it is not just the work; employees will need explanations as to why their pay stub is different. The employer must file federal tax Forms 941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return, and 940, Employer's Federal Unemployment Tax Return (FUTA), which address reporting of withholding for social security, Medicare and unemployment, as well as for federal and state income taxes. So it is difficult for the small business owner to keep up with all this information and the changes in the withholding tax laws and rates.
With regard to the business itself, Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business (sole proprietorship), revealing the sales and expenses of the business, must be completed. Some issues may come up in preparing these; for example, any change in the value of inventories must be calculated and the treatment for the related profits and losses must be addressed. The treatment for such changes can be a tricky situation for the entrepreneur.
If you have an online business and sell to customers out of state, there is another issue which can become problematic. Some states which are short of cash may force companies to collect tax on sales made to their residents even when the company is based elsewhere. Court challenges on this topic leave the requirement in doubt, but if the trend catches on companies would find it harder to comply with the various sets of rules and tax rates.
What is the entrepreneur to do? In the first place it is recommended that a payroll preparation company that serves small businesses be hired to prepare your payroll and file the required withholding taxes and quarterly reports for your business.They are not expensive and the time and energy they can save you makes this task worry-free.
Hiring a small business accountant who has experience in your type of business is also worthwhile. Make sure you interview them for their abilities and your needs. While the fees they charge are an important consideration, you may want to retain them instead of getting billed for every question you may have. An accounting firm should have a retainer, like $150 a month, to cover payroll, tax returns and other filings. In this way you will be able to develop a relationship with the accountant and someone you can lean on. Nickel and dime billings for phone conversations would be nonexistent.
An experienced small business accountant who understands your business can help you grow your business. If he is asking the right questions he would address your goals and where you want to be in the next couple of years. He can help you shape your life.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Joakim Noah scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls got off to a good start without Derrick Rose, beating the Sacramento Kings 93-87 Wednesday in the season opener.
Richard Hamilton added 19 points, while Carlos Boozer chipped in with 18 points and eight rebounds.
The Bulls are out to show they can get by while their superstar recovers from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, and this was promising even if it was a struggle.
Chicago led by 14 after a 10-0 run in the third quarter and hung on in the fourth after the Kings closed within three several times.
A basket by Sacramento's Tyreke Evans (21 points) cut it to 86-83 with 41.2 seconds left, but Luol Deng hit 1 of 2 free throws.
Evans couldn't get the ball in bounds, resulting in a five-second violation. That led to two free throws for Hamilton to make it 89-83 with 32.9 seconds left, and the Bulls hung on from there.
Along with the points and rebounds, Noah set a career high with five steals. He also blocked three shots
Hamilton was relentless after being sidelined for much of last season by injuries, and Boozer was effective down the stretch scoring seven points in the fourth.
That included a neat three-point play off a miss by Noah in which he crashed to the court and then hit the free throw, making it 86-78 with 2:45 remaining.
The Kings, who are trying to make a jump after six straight losing seasons, got 15 points from Marcus Thornton and 14 from DeMarcus Cousins.
This time last year, the Bulls were eyeing a championship run. Now, with their superstar sidelined, there's a different vibe around Chicago.
The mood changed when Rose crashed to the court late in the Bulls' playoff-opening win over Philadelphia, sending the Bulls spiraling toward a first-round exit and casting a huge cloud over a team that many saw as the biggest threat to Miami in the Eastern Conference.
To many, they're treading water until Rose returns. The Bulls, of course, don't see it that way.
Notes: Bulls F Taj Gibson did not expect to agree to a contract extension before the deadline late Wednesday night. Asked before the game if he's turning down the Bulls' offer, Gibson said that's "the way I see it." Without an extension, he becomes a restricted free agent. The Bulls would have the right to match any offer he receives from another team. ... The Bulls appointed Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen senior adviser to president and chief operating officer Michael Reinsdorf. Pippen has been serving as a team ambassador. In a statement issued Wednesday, Reinsdorf said the new title will "better reflect his role with the Bulls."

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Required heating capacity and required temperature differential of the medium are relevant when calculating the design water flow rate for a heating system.
The following parameters are relevant when calculating the design water flow rate for a heating system:
- required heating capacity
- required temperature differential of the medium.
The water flow rate qv corresponding to a given heating output Φ is calculated from the formula:
qv = Φ/Dtx cv x ςv) [m³/s]
Φ= heating output [kW]
Dt= difference between supply and return temperature of the water [K]
cv= specific heat capacity of water[kJ/kg K]
ςv= density of water [kg/m³]
The required water flow rate compared with the maximum acceptable flow velocity and the pressure loss in the system is used to define the sizes of piping, pumps, valves and other components.
Water flow rate and temperature are the two parameters used to regulate a heating system, to achieve the required heating output.


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Transcript of Republican Presidential Debate - NASA Excerpt, CNN
"KING: All right, let's continue the conversation, but we'll come back to this if we have to. Let's go to Jean Mackin in Hancock. She has a question.
MACKIN: Thanks, John. This question goes out to Speaker Gingrich. Next month, the space shuttle program is scheduled to retire after 30 years, and last year, President Obama effectively killed government-run space flight to the International Space Station and wants to turn it over to private companies. In the meantime, U.S. astronauts would ride Russian spacecraft at a cost of $50 million to $63 million a seat. What role should the government play in future space exploration?
GINGRICH: Well, sadly -- and I say this, sadly, because I'm a big fan of going into space and I actually worked to get the shuttle program to survive at one point -- NASA has become an absolute case study in why bureaucracy can't innovate.
If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles. And instead, what we've had is bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy and failure after failure."
Update: NASA insider: Some truth to Gingrich's barb, CNN
"Why so quiet? Some NASA officials suspect Gingrich may be letting us know that the emperor has no clothes.
Some insiders are wondering if NASA is operating with an outdated management paradigm better suited to the 1960s Apollo era rather than the 21st century."
"I think it's a tragedy, because younger Americans ought to have the excitement of thinking that they, too, could be part of reaching out to a new frontier.
You know, you'd asked earlier, John, about this idea of limits because we're a developed country. We're not a developed country. The scientific future is going to open up, and we're at the beginning of a whole new cycle of extraordinary opportunities. And, unfortunately, NASA is standing in the way of it, when NASA ought to be getting out of the way and encouraging the private sector.
KING: Is there any candidate who would step in and say, no, this is vital to America's identity, this is vital to America's innovation, I want the government to stay in the lead here when it comes to manned space flight? Nobody?
[King looks for a show of hands, none of the candidates raises a hand]
PAWLENTY: Yeah, I think the space program has played a vital role forward the United States of America. I think in the context...
KING: But can we afford it going forward?
PAWLENTY: In the context of our budget challenges, it can be refocused and reprioritized, but I don't think we should be eliminating the space program. We can partner with private providers to get more economies of scale and scale it back, but I don't think we should eliminate the space program.
KING: In a sentence -- in a sentence or two?
GINGRICH: John, you mischaracterized me. I didn't say end the space program. We built the transcontinental railroads without a national department of railroads. I said you could get into space faster, better, more effectively, more creatively if you decentralized it, got it out of Washington, and cut out the bureaucracy. It's not about getting rid of the space program; it's about getting to a real space program that works.
ROMNEY: I think fundamentally there are some people -- and most of them are Democrats, but not all -- who really believe that the government knows how to do things better than the private sector.
KING: All right, let's go down to the...
ROMNEY: And they happen to be wrong. And... (CROSSTALK)
KING: All right, the role of government -- we'll continue on the role of government. I'm sorry -- Josh, please."


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4/4/2013 | By Ron Kuykendall
The U.S. REIT market delivered solid returns in the first quarter of 2013, although it slightly underperformed the broader equity market, according to data from the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). REITs outperformed equities, however, on a 12-month basis ending March 28.
The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest index of the U.S. REIT market, delivered a 9.11 percent total return in the first quarter, and the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index delivered a total return of 8.10 percent, compared to the S&P 500's return of 10.61 percent. On a 12-month basis ending March 28, the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index returned 18.73 percent and the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index delivered 17.11 percent, while the S&P 500's return was 13.96 percent.
Mortgage REITs lead REIT market with 18 percent total return
Almost all segments of the U.S. REIT market delivered positive returns in the first quarter, with many providing double-digit returns. Mortgage REITs led the market with a 17.84 percent total return, fueled by the commercial financing segment's 23.71 percent gain and the 16.59 percent return of the home financing segment.
Among major equity REIT sectors, timber returned 15.47 percent; health care's return was 14.67 percent; lodging/resorts delivered 13.71 percent; and industrial returned 11.59 percent.
Generating strong income in a low interest-rate environment
In a low interest-rate environment, REITs' strong dividend yields continued to distinguish them from the broader equity market. The dividend yield of the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index at March 28 was 4.11 percent, and the yield of the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index was 3.31 percent. The FTSE NAREIT Mortgage REITs Index yielded 10.89 percent, with the home financing segment yielding 11.84 percent and the commercial financing segment yielding 6.80 percent. By comparison, the dividend yield of the S&P 500 Index at March 28 was 2.15 percent.
REITs raise capital from public markets to fund acquisitions and reduce debt REITs continued to raise a significant amount of capital from the public markets in the first quarter of the year: $22.6 billion, including $16.1 billion in equity. The amount outpaced the $19.0 billion (including $9.3 billion in equity) raised in the fourth quarter of 2012 and $21.2 billion (including $14.9 billion in equity) raised in last year's first quarter.
NAREIT's analysis indicates that REITs have used the capital they have raised both for acquisitions and to reduce balance sheet debt. At the start of this year's first quarter, the debt ratio for equity REITs was 35.1 percent, near its historical low and down from 38.6 percent at the beginning of 2012's first quarter.
"REITs continued to reward their shareholders with all the benefits of real estate investment in the first quarter of the year," said NAREIT President and CEO Steven Wechsler, "including portfolio diversification, continuing income and competitive returns. They did so while also providing the advantages of liquidity and moderate leverage."


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The Los Angeles Dodgers today reinstated outfielder Matt Kemp from the 15-day disabled list and optioned infielder/outfielder Elian Herrera to Triple-A Albuquerque. The 28-year-old made three rehab starts (two in center field, one as DH) for Triple-A Albuquerque, going 2-for-11 with two doubles and missed 24 games since being placed on the disabled list with a mild right hamstring strain on May 30. On the season, Kemp is batting .251 with two home runs, 17 RBI and seven stolen bases in 51 games.
Herrera has gone 2-for-7 in three games in two separate stints with the Dodgers this season.


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fixed livecd-kernel bug in bootloader code.
Fix post-install network code to create net.eth1+ symlink correctly
Change scp code to check for 'assword: ' instead of 'Password:'
Remove networkless from dynamic stage3 if locic. Remove print statement from scp:// code.
add scp to list of is_uri() so GenDialog doesn't complain.
Added full scp:// URI support to get_uri() in GLIUtility
Removed a FIXME in the GLIClientConfiguration that was no longer needed in set_network_broadcast.
Typo in build-a-stage3 code. Remove MAKEDEV call in build-a-stage3 postscript.
default to x86 in ClientConfig
Rewrote init of IP for gli-d. Other GenDialog updates. allow network_type to be None in CConfig. Changed IP init procedure. fix has_key bug w/ make.conf remove enemy-territory from extra_packages b/c it has a licence issue. added show_settings.
Add proxy and kernel module fields to CC screen. CC screen pulls values from self.controller.client_profile. CC screen saves values to self.controller.client_profile. Fix code to determine default route in get_eth_info() in GLIUtility. Fix serialization of dns-servers in ClientConfig.
Add _dynamic_stage3 option to IP. Add check for that option to dynamic stage3 code in ArchTemplate. Add option to Stage.py for dynamic stage3
moved GenDialog IP init out to the individual files. gli-dialog's version will change quite a bit. changed default values of cron/logger in IP. changed stable/unstable to advanced_mode only.
modified ArchTemplate for amd64 and ppc custom kernels. skeleton implementation of _configure_yaboot. small fixes to other templates.
added ppcArchTemplate. blank now. working on yaboot.
GenDialog updates. changed comment in IP. changed "Use Local" on portage and tarball selection to none for portage and stage3-on-the-fly for tarball selection. lowercase fix on portage sync type. fixed some more widths. fixed USE list_heights.
Fix service seperator stuff so that serialize/parse match up again.
Aren't python types fun? Casting is important\!
TEMP UGLY HACK of time.sleep(5).
Bootloader fixups.
fix global USE flags to not include the arch types at the end. updates to GenDialog and gli-d. fixed more heights/widths. fixed missing use_local_desc in set_make_conf
Add strip() to list_mirrors(), list_subarch_from_mirror() and list_tarball_from_mirror() to eliminate blank last item.
Allow optional exclusion of HTTP, FTP, and/or RSYNC mirrors in list_mirrors()
fixing bootloader code for no initrd and initrd->initramfs naming change.
Proper comments and parameters to GLIException in install_mta()
Added stage3 generation code
Added sleep(5) to partitioning code, temp got rid of the NOCOLOR in _emerge Mild changes to GenDialog.
Remove separate install step configure_rc_conf() since it's handled by update_config_files() Make a copy of newvalues in _edit_config() so quotes aren't added when the function is called twice on the same file.
Check in _quickpkg_deps() to ignore blank package names returned from _get_packages_to_emerge()
Removed explicit emerging of hotplug and no longer add it to the runlevel.
Missing \ in sed in _get_packages_to_emerge()
fixed agaffney's missing = and extra : in x86AT. commented out crashing line in the dialog.py gauge code.
Only use float() in partition xml parsing code if type == 'free'
added dialog.py to the fe/dialog directory so it actually gets used.
fixed self bug.
Check to see that _etc_files['make.conf'] exists in get_make_conf()
Add code to update_config_files() to go through etc_files and update stuff.
attempt at fixing rc.conf function. moved 3 generate functions out of fe/gtk/RcDotConf and put them in Utility.
finished almost all internationalization of GenDialog.
Roll rc_conf and make_conf into master etc_files structure in InstallProfile.
fix extra entry in list_mirrors() beginning internationalization runthrough.
fix for unused value in form in dialog.py and changed heights. fix GenDialog forms.
added dialog.py to /src temporarily until it gets accepted upstream.
More updates to GenDialog including two checklists that probably won't work. update IP to use comma-separated list instead of space separated for services.
Changed hostname/domainname for new baselayout. Changed _add_to_runlevel errors to logs. Updated TODO list to show status of GenDialog More updates to GenDialog including two checklists that probably won't work.
Add dhcp_options to the CC, CConfig, and GenDialog. More overall changes to GenDialog as it gets closer to completion.
float() instead of int() in add_partition_device_partition() for minor (closes 96804)
Modify get_eth_info() to take a full interface name (eth0 fex) Actually commit ClientConfig screen with working pre-install net setup
setup_network_post() writes custom DHCP options to /etc/conf.d/net
Changed setup_network_post to check for 'interfaces[interface][0] != dhcp' instead of 'interfaces[interface][1]' since DHCP uses that field for its options
Fix undefined variable 'output' issue in spawn()
Fix space vs. tab issue
Fix small error with <pipe>.close() returning None.
Make sure the return value from all spawn() calls is checked with GLIUtility.exitsuccess()
Add new screen for ClientConfig (nothing in it yet) Apply modified version of patch from #96644
more updates to GenDialog and gli-dialog
Modify list_mirrors() to return a list of mirror URL/name pairs.
Adding gli-dialog.py. Updates to GenDialog. Added function to GLIUtility to get subarch.
mount_local_partitions() cleanups and add else block to log unsupported netmount types to mount_network_shares()
Fix for mount_local_partitions() to remember device along with minor in the parts_to_mount dict (closes #96319).
Backend partitioning will create disklabel is none exists. Installprofile defaults to "" now instead of "msdos" for disklabel type.
Add notes about recent stuff.
2.4 support (pull version data from /usr/src/linux/Makefile), incl. 'make dep' call for custom compile. build_mode support for prepare-only and none types completed. custom compile function chains shell functions in spawned script, to allow for catching all errors.
fixed up build_kernel in ArchTemplate for build_mode as well as in dialogfe and GenDialog. other gendialog updates as well. kernel updates untested.
Change structure of etc-portage stuff. The serialization was broken before my last commit, and I am the only person that's ever used it.
Add new entry for gli-profile/kernel-build-method item. Add missing serialize_etc_portage (temporary). Make serialize_make_conf always print the keys in the same order.
Clean up commenting used by _edit_config(), and fix bug where wrong comment was repeatedly appended to make.conf.
Put some Linux-2.6 specific code under a if statement. Store list of successfully mounted swap device for using swapoff. Add proper error checking to install_packages and install_filesystem_tools. Fixed namespace conflicts on 'file'. Clean up some redundant code (thanks to pychecker).
Change _emerge('sync') call to direct call to spawn to avoid 'emerge -k sync'
Added list_mirrors() and list_stage_tarballs_from_mirror() functions to GLIUtility
Fix typos: get_extended() instead of get_extended_partition()
GLIInstallProfile.py: add missing set for dhcp_options if a tuple is passed in add_network_interface.
Mount /dev, /dev/shm, /dev/pts and /sys during prepare_chroot.
ensure PORTAGE_TMPDIR/PORT_LOGDIR/PORTDIR_OVERLAY/PKGDIR exist prior to any usage - this caused a failure for stage1/stage2 previously. swapoff for swap space at end of install.
Add in my documentation for work done today.
More error checking for _add_to_runlevel, to ensure that the init script actually exists before we try to add it. set_services phase must take place after the package installation, otherwise the init scripts might not exist. Find the correct init script for the cron and logging daemons, and add that instead of the package atom.
Fix up _edit_config so that it works if the file doesn't already exist. Fix usage of 'file' to 'contents' for the variable name, as it shadows __builtin__.file.
Add MTA install code, and include MTA install phase. Ensure PORT_LOGDIR/PORTDIR_OVERLAY are created in _emerge if needed. Add support for 'none' kernel config for build_kernel phase. Put kernel_script in /var/tmp instead of /root for build_kernel phase.
Rename mta vars to match syslog/cron vars.
Refactor partition formatting again to include error checking. Allow 'none' for kernel and bootloader specifications. Add .cvsignore files for .py[co].
Refactor code using spawn to reduce duplication.
refixed samyron's fix of set_architecture_template.
Move /tmp/spawn.sh and /tmp/post-install to /var/tmp since that should always be executable
Fixed set_architecture_template().
moved the mkfsopts input to the partition options menu instead of the during the creation process. updated GenDialog to say it supports reiserfs v3.
Fix call to get_partition_at()
Change from .1 and .9 to constants for partitioning. Fix free space overwriting bug. Remove a few unused functions from rewrite.
Update ChangeLog with my changes as accepted by agaffney.
Apply latest long/mkfsopts patch from robbat2
Change '_parser' to 'self._parser' in GLIClientConfiguration.
'mkfsopts' parameter is now used and support for creating xfs, jfs, and reiserfs is now in (patch from robbat2)
Removed start/end from XML output and added mkfsopts to partitioning info.
Updates to GenDialog and dialogfe. updated TODO too
Minor fix recommended by pychecker
Typo (%$^&#$!) fix in GLIStorageDevice
more GenDialog updates to partitioning.
Indenting issue in GLISD/get_ordered_partition_list. updates to GenDialog partitioning and added default UTC for timezone in IP.
Added GLISD.get_model()
Added get_eth_devices() to GLIUtility. Updated netfe.py to newest version. More updates to GenDialog :)
Added get_interface_realname() function.
Added auto-save of CConfig and copying to new /root after install. yet even more GenDialog updates.
removed print statement from GLISD. more updates to GenDialog.
Changed 'data' to 'self.data' in a few places in GLIClientConfiguration.
Fix typo in GLIStorageDevice causing mountopts to be loaded from XML as ['mountopts']
Chroot wrapper passes along exit code.
Not being able to fetch the stage tarball is now an exception
A few more fixes for templates/x86Archtemplate
A few more fixes for same.
Fix mount_local_partitions(), configure_fstab(), and install_filesystem_tools() to use GLISD directly
Removed more unused code from CConfig. Updated GLIGenDialog, but it is still a work in progress.
Changes in IP, GLISD, and templates/x86Archtemplate for IP using GLISD directly. GLISD can now handle data imported from XML.
Missing colon in GLIClientConfiguration. Add fix to GLIStorageDevice to handle blank (no disklabel) disks.
HUGE Reorganization of the InstallProfile. All sections alphabetized, cleaned up, documented, and separated out serialization and grouped all sections.
Reorganization of ClientConfiguration and gutting of unused functions. Removed verbose option from CC. Moved import statement in IP and CConfig up.
Fix use of /mnt/gentoo instead of _chroot_dir in finishing_cleanup
CC serializes install profile to disk and prepare_chroot() copies it into /mnt/gentoo/root
Fix a late-night coding error in partitioning
Fixed bug in finishing_cleanup()
Moved URI parsing into new function parse_uri()
Added XMLParser module
Minor fix to is_uri() regex to allow hyphens in hostname
Fix is_realstring() and rewrite is_uri() to use a regex to parse the URI
Add unicode support to is_realstring()
Fix minor bug in finishing_cleanup()
Updated finishing_cleanup for new unmounting method from agaffney.
Fix _edit_config() to properly comment out variables.
Fix GLILogger to use correct time format string.
Use NOCOLOR=yes instead of --nocolor.
Add code to output a traceback to the install log in the event of a GLI or non-GLI exception.
Fix is_eth_device to test for zero return value instead of non-zero.
Added --nocolor to all emerge calls
updated both for new filename. date changes. 2004->2005.
adding in the generic dialog function files.
Removed 'quiet=True' from spawn() calls
Updated GLIUtility with patches from chotchki. Also added documentation
unfix SimpleXMLParser
Minor fixes from bug #90823
Added the function for set_etc_portage to ArchTemplate. no step for it yet. Updated _edit_config in ArchTemplate, make_config, and various other fixes from bug #89683, mostly touchups.
GLIStorageDevice cleanup patch from bug #91761
Error logging casts 'error' to str
Fixed timezone code to not link to /mnt/gentoo/usr/share/zoneinfo/blah. Fix _edit_config()
Added code to CC to handle exceptions *not* thrown by the installer itself.
Exceptions received in CC are logged before being passed to the FE
Readded resizing support.
More dirty rsync hacks :-/
Fix _quickpkg_deps() to call _get_packages_to_emerge()
Fix _quickpkg_deps()
Fix minor bug in _get_packages_to_emerge()
Minor fixes to GLIStorageDevice as suggested by pychecker.
Split 'custom' sync option into 'none' and 'snapshot'
Patches from chotchki (bug #90325) to improve CC networking. untested.
Fixed missing int()s
Fixed == instead of = typos in GLIStorageDevice (pointed out by chotchki)
Proxies patch from chotchki (bug #90147)
Added group-adding code to set_users in ArchTemplate
added post-install script code
Fixed encapsulation issues in GLIClientController (bug #90141)
Update resizing code in GLIStorageDevice
Update AUTHORS, NEWS, TODO. Added documentation to GLILogger.
Reverted change to ArchTemplate and added support for commented line in old code.
_edit_config() changes value in-place and supports ##commented##
Back. Did the docuementation thang for ArchTemplate and ClientConfiguration. Also updated TODO list.
Use blackace's one-liner to add comments for all function for use with pythondoc.
End point of logical is now adjusted along with start.
Partitioning code now tracks start/end of extended for placing logicals.
Fix >4 primary partitions on non-x86.
Moved 'end >= device_sectors' check out of loop to check for next partition's start point.
Add int() around access to minor key in partition information due to new partition code leaving them as float.
Fixed all bugs that stood in the way of partitioning from a blank disk.
Finish overhaul of backend partitioning code.
tweaks to tidy code
tidy_partitions() function in GLIStorageDevice and remove debug statements (gtkfe also)
Major GLIStorageDevice overhaul...all MB now instead of sectors.
Added comments to the ChangeLog.
Pipe emerge through sed to properly strip out junk.
Changed mountopts check to work for blank and whitespace
fixed ethx not being added to runlevel defalt.
added hotplug/coldplug for livecd-kernel added --emptytree to stage2.
fixed the way set_timezone works.
Fixed indent problem in GLICController
Check for disklabel type loop and use the device name without a minor.
kernel_args -> bootloader_kernel_args
Remove most of content in amd64ArchTemplate and make it inherit from x86Archtemplate.
Patch from zahna to add get_eth_info() function.
Patch from zahna for extra arguments to the kernel.
Added code to (hopefully) keep 2nd thread running after install.
Remove /tmp/compile_output.log and /var/log/install.log when install is complete.
append to log when unpacking tarball
Added 'append_log=True' to all spawn() calls using logfile=
looks like it works so ripping out all the old filesystem_tools code.
rewrote filesystem_tools
added a fix to the logger from BenUrban
Added the finishing_cleanup function.
Changed the print statements to logging in the partitioning BE code. the logger may need to be imported to the x86archtemplate. unknown yet.
ripped out error checking of set_services. this is done by _add_to_runlevel.
ow my colon was missing!
set_stage_tarball_uri() doesn't raise an exception on a blank string.
Commented out spawn() debugging prints
GRP-ish quickpkg code pulls PKGDIR and PORTAGE_TMPDIR from make.conf info in the install profile if available.
livecd-kernel code pulls PKGDIR and PORTAGE_TMPDIR from make.conf info in the install profile if available.
Switch _emerge() call to spawn() call in livecd-kernel code to pass environment variables.
small changes to setup_network_post. moved adding to runlevel of net.x to after the device gets symlinked. added domainname runlevel command.
Removed call to mkvardb in livecd-kernel code as it's now done by catalyst.
minor fix (hopefully) to livecd-kernel code
lots of stuff in both FEs and backend...read the ChangeLogs :P
should emerge hotplug and coldplug before adding them to runlevel.
Remove command to 'rm /tmp/spawn.sh' as it breaks the piping.
added new hash_password() function to GLIUtility
added logfile parameter to spawn() calls
took chroot out of grub_install command. added back sync to dialogfe
Changed chroot wrapper code in spawn() to write the wrapper the python way instead of the bash way to avoid quote conflicts.
Added the amd64ArchitectureTemplate, mostly a copy of x86 without lilo.
Added 'origminor' parameter to GLIStorageDevice and GLIInstallProfile
Added _get_packages_to_emerge() to GLIArchitectureTemplate and calls in stage1() and stage2()
spawn() outputs to the actual tty8 with display_on_tty8 flag. Compile output logfile moved into /mnt/gentoo in prepare_chroot(). Removed fifo code in gtkfe
Fixed a couple bugs in add_netmount() in GLIInstallProfile. Fixed netmounts code in dialogfe
added code to convert MB/%/* to start/end sectors
Add sigunmask.c contributed by d_m (on freenode) to counteract python's retarted behavior regarding threads and signals.
add 2>&1 to cmd in spawn()
chmod a+x generated script in spawn()
change exitsuccess() back
spawn() automatically creates wrapper script for commands run inside chroot so multiple commands and redirection can be used.
Modified GLIUtility.exitsuccess() to work with return value from commands.getstatusoutput instead of os.waitpid()
Removed default values for stage tarball URI and portage tree URI from InstallProfile. These should be set by the FEs. also added services step to ArchTemplate and coldplug/hotplug runlevels to the genkernel step. Possibly fixed CC DHCP bug with -n. (thx agaffney)
Small fix for setting the default gateway. Also added feature to dialogfe.
switch spawn() over to using commands.getstatusoutput instead of fork/waitpid
only write new resolv.conf if there are dns servers listed.
more true -> True typos
Fixed a bunch of true -> True typos.
quick fix for fifo
added progress bar to dialogfe and fix logger bug in ArchTemplate.
moved lang to __init__
renamed GLISayWhat to GLILocalization
created GLISayWhat module
updated the TODO list
fix 'emerge -p blah' loop and add GRP option to Stage.py
initial code for quickpkg GRP support
added quickpkg to TODO list
check for dhcp in the network stuff and emerge it if it is
Changed the raising of 'warning' exceptions to a simple log of the error so that the installer can continue.
mildly big changes. First, changed most output to display_on_tty8. Second, added log lines to all templates. small cleanups of old commented lines.
escape fix
undo change with fix
minor GLIStorageDevice fix from BenUrban
changed tty8 output to a fifo
more updates to TODO list. hopefully we'll soon start removing items instead of adding them.
GLIStorageDevice fixes and finished moving stuff to PartProperties
updated TODO list again to keep everyone in sync on remaining tasks.
updated TODO list
small fix. see changelog
fixed custom kernels and added runtime pretend to dialogfe
changed output of portmap start to display_on_tty8. fixed bootloader for udev and multiple kernels
added code to allow custom kernel .config.
more changes. nothing big.
partition booboo
is_uri() only checked if portage_tree_snapshot_uri isn't blank
undo last change
swapon failure isn't an error for now
Added things to the TODO list. and forgot a /
Various fixes related to the add_users function. Still not yet finished.
fixed NFS mounting code
partition data fix
create filesystems
Took out unnecessary setting of random livecd root password.
breaking everything
Attempt at detecting and adding windows partitions to lilo.
small misc fixes. typos and such.
Added lilo code and cleaned up lilo code. also do_partitioning renamed to partition
basic pyparted resize code
clear partition table before third pass
partition() fixes
Added mount_network_shares. not able to test it from this computer. will test when i get back to school. also added start_portmap to the client_controller as an always-do. agaffney says this is needed for NFS mounts to work.
install.py updates and partition code fixes
fix ChangeLog
forgot about the set_root_password
Added grp_install and services
partition code move
one more fix + changelog b/c i am a good listener
rewrote configure_fstab and install_bootloader for new partition format.
my midday update on GLI
added mount_local_partitions
more sectors instead of cylinders changes
removed depends stuff from Installprofile
GLIStorageDevice ignores freespace <=100 sectors
sectors instead of cylinder for partitioning
GLIStorageDevice fix
Partition screen...yea!
GLIStorageDevice mods and major enhancements to Partitioning screen in gtkfe
switched to dumpe2fs to determine the free space for a ext2/3 filesystem in GLIStorageDevice
typo fix and gtkfe updates
Added a function to GLIUtility to pull a value from a make.conf-style config file
Added code in GLIArchitectureTemplate.py to write netmounts into fstab
split network mounts from partition data and updated ChangeLog (in case spyderous is looking over my shoulder :P)
changed the way GLIStorageDevice.py gets ext2/3 free space
We're supposed to update this way more often :)
Added GLIPartitionTools.py
see ChangeLog
added _edit_config() to InstallTemplate
ChangeLog update
updated changelog. added sax parsing to InstallProfile, fixed accessors, clean up, added pydoc, and more. added initial unit test code current tests pass but need a lot of work.
added skeleton misc files
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This is a fancy dish for Shabbat that was such a hit with our readers that we decided to repost it:
Combine the following ingredients in a mixing bowl:
- 4 Rock Cornish Game Hens cut in half and dried with a paper towel
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 jar of duck sauce
- 1/4 cup spicy mustard
- 6 cloves chopped fresh garlic
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 big squirts of honey
- these amounts can be varied according to your tastes.
- Place all Cornish hen pieces in a roaster that is sprayed with Pam.
- Mix all sauce ingredients and pour over Cornish hens- for better flavor- RUB sauce onto chicken(I use kitchen gloves).
- Roast uncovered for 50 minutes- 1 hour 350- 375 degrees till golden brown and carmelized.
Sprinkle chopped parsley on top and serve with a fruited rice on the side.
You can also use chicken cut in eight pieces for this recipe.


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The New York Stock Exchange and two affiliated exchanges agreed Thursday to pay a $4.5 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for their failure to comply with the responsibilities of self-regulatory organizations (SROs) to conduct their business operations in accordance with Commission-approved exchange rules and the federal securities laws.
Wholly owned subsidiaries of IntercontinentalExchange Inc., NYSE, NYSE Arca, NYSE MKT, and Archipelago Securities have consented to the SEC's order without admitting or denying the findings and agreed to collectively pay the $4.5 million penalty.
The NYSE exchanges also agreed to settle the SEC's charges by retaining an independent consultant.
Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC's enforcement division, said on a call with reporters that "exchanges play a pivotal role in our national market system… and that role comes with significant responsibility." Thursday's action against the exchanges, he said, as well as prior ones over the last few years, "are all part of the SEC's broader focus on market structure investigations."
SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White told ThinkAdvisor in a recent interview, "it's a high priority for the [SEC] staff and Commission to really view the range of equity market structure issues."
The SEC regulates exchanges, in part, "by reviewing rules proposed by the exchanges that govern exchange activities and allow market participants to decide how and where to place orders," Ceresney said in a statement announcing the action. "We will hold exchanges accountable if they fail to have rules governing their operations or fail to follow them."
As the SEC explained, as SROs, the NYSE exchanges are required to conduct their operations in accordance and compliance with their own rules as well as the federal securities laws. They are required to file all proposed rules and rule changes with the Commission, which publishes them for public comment, before they take effect. This transparency enables all participants trading on the exchanges to understand how their orders are processed and executed.
According to the SEC's order instituting settled administrative proceedings, the NYSE exchanges repeatedly engaged in business practices that either violated exchange rules or required a rule when the exchanges had none in effect. For example, all of the NYSE exchanges used an error account maintained at Archipelago Securities to trade out of securities positions taken on as a result of their operations despite not having rules in effect that permitted them to maintain and use such an account.
In another example, NYSE Arca failed to execute a certain type of limit order under specified market conditions despite having a rule in effect that stated that NYSE Arca would execute such orders.
"The order highlights instances where the exchanges conducted business without a rule in place due to weak or inadequate policies and procedures," said Antonia Chion, an associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement, in the statement. "In other instances, the exchanges did not operate in compliance with their effective rules. Both failures reflect a troubling lack of compliance with the requirements and obligations imposed on securities exchanges."
The violations detailed in the SEC's order occurred from 2008 to 2012.
In addition, the SEC's order finds that NYSE Arca accepted midpoint passive liquidity orders in sub-penny amounts for National Market System stocks trading at over $1 per share, in violation of Rule 612(a) of Regulation NMS.
The SEC's order further finds that Archipelago Securities failed to establish and maintain policies reasonably designed to prevent the misuse of material, nonpublic information in connection with error account trading.
Archipelago Securities also violated and failed to give the SEC timely notice of its violation of the net capital rule, a federal securities law provision intended to ensure that brokers and dealers remain solvent and can meet their financial obligations.
Check out Andrew Ceresney, SEC's Enforcer: The 2014 IA 25 Profile on ThinkAdvisor.


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Obesity at ex-sportsmen case presentation
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|October 24, 2011
Objective: Obesity nowadays is a very important health problem. Obesity is associated with high mortality risks due to increased rates of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes.The association of obesity with other pathologys like cancer are in research. In obesity treatment and obesity prevention sport is almost always indicated.
Our goal is to studing obese ex-sportsmen to determin if the past intense sport activity has a long time beneficial influence (independent of eating) on obesity risks - cardiovascular and diabetes pathology, plasma lipoprotein levels, insulin sensitivity and inflammation markers, studing also the distribution of body fat (visceral versus abdominal fat), regarding the difference in associated pathology of one versus another.
Visceral adipocity more then subcutaneous fat has been being associated with systemic metabolic variables like: alterations in plasma lipoprotein-lipid levels particularly increased plasma triglyceride and lowering high-density lipoprotein concentrations [1], elevated of blood glucose levels and decrease in insulin sensitivity at young men measured by an euglycemic hyperinsulinemic glucose clamp [2], link between the many facets of the metabolic syndrome: glucose intolerance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance [3].
Obesity has also a negative impact on the hormonal levels, decresing the total and free testosterone and FSH and LH levels in morbidly obese men (BMI>40) indicating a functional impairment of the gonadostat suggesting hypogonadotropic hypogonadism sindrom [4].
Material/Methods: We studied an young obese male after a 8 years period of sports activity interruption.
We fallowed body fat, distribution of body fat, plasma lipoprotein levels, insulin sensitivity, blood glucose levels, inflammation markers, cardiology consult, testosterone, psychological evaluation.
The psychological evaluation aimed for detecting eating behavior, eating disorders, factors that maintain the fat accumulation.
Male 28 years old ex-sportsmen (played rugby for 9 years), 194 kg and 187 cm (BMI 55,92) with 63 kg of muscle mass and a 133 kg of fat (measured with bioelectrical impendance), with no associated pathology other then morbidity obesity. He's father has diabetes mellitus type 2 so he had a genetical risk factor
He practice rugby from 11 years old until 20 years old.
After finishing the sport career he began adding kilos. At 20 (when he finished playing rugby) he had 120.
At cardiology consultation he had 130/80 mmHg with 87 beet/min without any other problems.
At psychological evaluation he was diagnosed with compulsive eating disorder.
Evaluation of plasma lipoprotein levels showed a total cholesterol of 200 with a low HDL of 42, a high VLDL of 41 and increased plasma triglyceride of 203.
For inflammation we evaluated he's fibrinogen that was high 355.
He's blood glucose was 100 and the glycated hemoglobin was at the maximum stage of 6.20 with high blood insulin levels of 19.90.
Gonad function is decreased with low LH of 2.63, low FSH of 1.56 and low free testosterone of 2.07.
At MRI the amount of visceral fat was bigger then subcutaneus fat.
Results: This case is part of a larger study in progres. It can not draw conclusion is more of initiating a question on quality of life for ex performance athlets, especialy in heavy sports like rugby, lifting weights etc.
We also want to initiate a warning signal that continuing practicing sport and controling eating behavior is necesarry all the time even for an ex sportman.
Our patients had atheromatosis and cardiovascular risk (low HDL and boundary high cholesterol, high triglyceride levels), insulin resistant and poor control of blood glucose levels (boundary high levels of insulin and glicated hemoglobin), protrombotic state (high fibrinogen) and gonad function affected.
The risks of pathology associated with visceral fat present.
Conclusion: So in this case the practice of sport even if it was of high intensity did not not offer a long term protection, considering also the fact that he has morbidity obesity.
Even if in our case the patient was young and had no other diseases he had risks of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, metabolic syndrom and hipogonadism.
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- Desprès JP. Lipoprotein metabolism in visceral obesity. Int J Obes. 1991;15:45–52.
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- Park KS, Rhee BD, Lee KU, Kim SY, Lee HK, Koh CS, Min HK. Intra-abdominalfat is associated with decreased insulin sensitivity in healthy young men. Metabolism. 1991;40:600–3.
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- Angel A, Anderson H, Bouchard C, Lau D, Leiter L, Mendelson R. Progress in Obesity Research: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Obesity (Toronto, Canada, August 20–25, 1994). London: John Libbey & Company; 1994. Vol 7. p. 525–32.
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- Kley HK, Deselaers T, Peerenboom H. Evidence of hypogonadism in massively obese males due to decreased free testosterone. Horm Metab Res. 1981;13:639–41.
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- Feinleib M. Epidemiology of obesity in relation to health hazards. Ann Intern Med. 1985;103:1019–24.


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News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming:
Do little jugs get your attention? No? Well, how about the Song Girls of USC, or the Texas Pom Squad. Or a guy from Michigan staring up the crotch of Paul Bunyan. Trophies and university-specific cheerleaders are part of the coat of polish the NCAA Football 13 gang is applying to this year's presentation. Details are teased in that video above.
• Elsewhere in NCAA Football 13, voting ended on Monday for the second position on this year's cover. But EA Sports is waiting to announce the winner on April 16 at the NFL Draft. The final matchup was between Barry Sanders and Herschel Walker. My money's on Walker.
• Madden's cover contest marches on, and I'm glad to see that my appraisal of Calvin Johnson borne out in the voting. Megatron took out Arian Foster, probably the second-toughest contender in the entire field. Madden's elite eight are: Cam Newton vs. Larry Fitzgerald; Patrick Willis vs. Victor Cruz; Aaron Rodgers vs. Ray Rice; and Johnson draws Rob Gronkowski.
• Every year, the diehard seamheads in the Operation Sports community go to the trouble of renaming MLB The Show's rosters to include all real minor leaguers in AAA and AA ball. (By contract, Sony cannot do this; a baseball player's likeness is not usable until he makes is Major League debut.) Those rosters are available now, information on getting them is at the link. [Operation Sports]


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Two young children were sitting inside of a car while their mother was inside of a gas station buying gas when a man opened the door to steal their mother's purse, KPRC reported.
"Shocking, scary and sad," is how 8-year-old Jose Alonso describes what happened to him and his family on their way to school.
Around 7 a.m. on Thursday, his mother had stopped to get gas at a Buzzy Bee Gas Station in Houston, Texas. Surveillance footage shows Alonso's mother walking inside, and a man pumping gas next to her car, looking for his opportunity to strike.
U.S. & World
"We were just watching him, like what is he doing, we were just looking at him, and I blink my eye, and I see him open the car door really fast, I told my sister just stay here, don't do anything," said Alonso.
You can see Alonso fighting over his mother's purse with the suspect. The man managed to snatch it away, but that's when Alonso took matters into his own hands.
"I was scared a little bit, but I told myself just go with it," said Alonso.
In the surveillance footage, Jose is sen jumping out of the vehicle, with only one shoe on, running after the suspect.
"I ran as fast as I can, so I reached in and grabbed my mom's black wallet with her credit cards," said Alonso.
The suspect was only able to get away with the purse and keys since Jose managed to hold on to his mother's wallet. The suspect took off in a red Ford Expedition with a woman who was inside the SUV.
Jose was left in shock. But when asked why he made such a bold move to get his mother's purse back, he had one thing to say.
"My sister's party was coming up and I wanted her to have her party, and I wanted my mom to get all of her stuff back," said Alonso.
The suspect is described as a slender black man in his late 20s. He was last seen wearing jean shorts, a white button down shirt and a red hat.


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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope project needs signs. It will use the signs to label its pictures for display. The Spitzer team comes to the Space Place Sign Company with a list of words to put on the signs.
Your job is to type the words on the signs as they pass by on the conveyor belts. Your typing paints the letters on the sign! What an easy, automated process this factory uses!
If you are a really good speller and fast typist, you will get to spell some big and strange words. If you want to know what some of the words mean, see this special Spitzer Sign Glossary.


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Our fully renovated banquet hall of HOTEL PANORAMA with its magnificent terrace is a great choice for your wedding reception. The imposing marble flooring with its warm blend of modern colors and French style décor is a unique aesthetic experience. The ingenious layout of the hall allows the hotel to organize the smallest to the largest of wedding receptions, especially during the summer months, taking advantage of the privileged terrace above the evening sky of Thessaloniki. Our warm and friendly atmosphere, exceptional service, delectably hand-crafted cuisine, and professional staff, make our hotel wonderfully ideal for your reception. The wedding suite with its spectacularly unique view overlooking the city, is definitely the best choice for a truly unforgettable wedding night!
The Panorama Hotel can organize any type of special event, such as corporate or private dinners, baptisms, dances, club parties, children's parties, etc.The vast experience and superior quality of our restaurant ASTERIA, guarantee the successful organization of any event. Our events team having extensive experience with coordinating small to large events, can readily arrange an event specifically catered/customized to your individual needs and wishes. Please do not hesitate to contact us, so we can begin making unique recommendations especially designed for you!
The hall "Alexander" is an excellent choice for all types of business or scientific gatherings, such as corporate training events, assemblies, conferences, meetings, etc. This hall can accommodate up to 120 people, is located on the first floor of the hotel, features natural light and also offers a wonderful view overlooking the city of Thessaloniki. Our conference facilities are fully-equipped with modern audio-visual equipment, and along with the exceptional service provided by our knowledgeable and well-trained staff, we can ensure that your event will function with ease.For larger events, we offer the multipurpose room "ASTERIA", also with natural lighting and views of Thessaloniki.


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Last Thursday, I attended a seminar organized by Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (Mass TLC) where speakers shared and discussed their experience and provided real life examples of how they had implemented SaaS business model in their organizations. Topics discussed in the session were focused around specific areas such as revenue model, customer acquisition, customer retention, and pricing. Here are the notes I took at the event.
David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners
David keynoted the event and provided a detailed framework for analyzing profitability, cashflow, and sales strategy in a SaaS business.
David presented these key metrics for anyone in operating in the business of SaaS:
- (Customer) Lifetime Time Value (LTV) – this is an indicator of how well a SaaS business is performing. LTV relates to how much an average customer will return in value to the business over its predicted lifetime. In plain speak, LTV measures a SaaS business monetization performance.
- Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) – this is the business sales and marketing expense incurred over a period to acquire a customer. Basically, CAC measures a SaaS business cost.
- Churn Rate – known also as attrition rate, this is a measure of net customers acquired or lost (through service or subscription cancellation) in a SaaS business.
David compared LTV with CAC and stressed that every SaaS company should strive for a CAC/LTV balance of:
LTV > 3*CAC (and good SaaS business are in the 5+ range)
David also talked about the growth of a SaaS company. It's all about timing, don't invest too early and burn cash as a company spends a lot of money during growth phase. SaaS companies need to know how to best utilize capital to maintain the key metrics and understand when is the best time to grow a company. On the latter point, David emphasizes that company growth usually coincides with one of the phases of a SaaS company. Get them right first before growing.
- Search for product/market fit
- Search for repeatable and scalable sales model
- Scaling the business
David's presentation can be found here.
William Daly, Manager of Professional Services at Iron Mountain
William gave an introduction to Iron Mountain and talked about their first customer, a leading financial company, they acquired. He highlighted how addressing the needs of their first customer changed their product/service offerings and business model. He ended the presentation emphasizing personal touch and connection goes a long way for any SaaS business.
Bill's presentation can be found here.
Jim Kizielewicz, Senior VP and CMO at Kronos
Jim started his presentation with an overview of Kronos's product offerings. It has been challenging for Kronos transitioning from a license-driven business model to one that provides both SaaS and perpetual-licensing. At the end, Kronos adopted a system that includes their traditional business model of offering perpetual licensing and one offering SaaS. They then broke their product/service offerings along the dimensions of pay, deploy, and manage, and designed bundles that comprise varying degrees of these dimensions.
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|Hosted License
|Deploy (Hosting)
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Under this strategy, Kronos first let the customers select a product and then allow them to pick a bundle that fits the customers requirements and budget.
Jim's presentation can be found here.
Drew Fortin, Senior Manager of Internet Marketing at Compete
Drew gave a recount on one of Compete's past marketing campaigns on driving free account holders to convert to paying customers. A few years ago, the company started speaking their brand and engaging more deeply with free account holders through a more streamlined online presence. The result created Compete Pulse, the company's online magazine/blog, a series of white papers (to get white papers, users have to ask questions which turned out to be great), and expert educational content where partners in other domains are involved (Compete don't claim to be an expert in everything, they refer to other partners who know their domains better). Conversion jumped from 0.85% to 1.25% while number of free accounts increase. There were no change in product and just marketing alone increased sales by 30%.
Drew Fortin's presentation can be found here.
Cory von Wallenstein, VP of Product Management at Dyn
Cory discussed two tactics that the were used at Dyn to combat churn rate (reducing attrition and improving retention):
- Don't ask customers whose accounts are due to expire on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday to renew their subscription because their motivation to renew is low during the weekend. Defer notifying the customers about the renewal till Monday. This tactic change increased renewal rate from an average of 62% to 85%.
- The Support team typically hears from people who dislike or love the product, but not from people from the middle. The company implemented a policy that whenever Support has the time, they proactively reach out to the customers in the middle asking them about the renewing their subscription. The team also asks if customers want to auto-renew, which generates huge upsell.
Cory also mentioned that customers love transparency and simplicity. It seemed contradictory to conventional wisdom at first to consolidate all DNS services into one service package. But Dyn did it anyway with a simple call to action, and all key metrics increased as a result.
Cory's presentation can be found here.
The speakers were insightful and provided valuable information about the SaaS business model. The event was definitely a good one.
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Direct clean sound with added delay, Strat
|All clips recorded with the guitar into the Compulator straight into Axe FX Ultra
With the Compulator Pro, James Demeter has brought sophisticated studio compression to stompbox users. Whereas many stomp compressors keep it simple, offering only compression and volume knobs, Demeter has squeezed controls from high-end rack compressors into a package guitarists can use in front of their amp.
First Take
Housed in a yellow metal case, the Compulator Pro looks sharp and feels solid. The pedal sports four knobs: Attack, Release, Compress, and Volume. Below the controls are a true-bypass footswitch and a bright blue LED that tells you when the compressor is active. The unit runs on a 9-volt battery or an optional power supply.
In addition to standard 1/4" input and output jacks, the Compulator Pro has a High/Low Gain switch, which is connected to a recessed trimpot that lets you dial in a preset amount of boost. The trimpot is accessible with a small screwdriver along the unit's left-hand side, and it's set to 20 dB of boost at the factory.
The pedal's compression circuit is based on a photocell, a design borrowed from vintage studio compressors. Because of its big, natural sound, optical compression has been a favorite of studio engineers for decades—but it isn't often found in stompboxes. Attack and Release controls let you adjust how fast the compressor turns on and off. The unit also includes a Volume control for making up the gain you may have lost after compressing your signal.
The Compulator Pro gives you a lot of flexibility to sculpt sound, but such flexibility often makes a device more challenging to operate. To learn how easy or hard it would be to dial in great tone, I ran the pedal through a variety of tests.
In Play
To begin with, I plugged a Les Paul with Sheptone AB Specials into the Compulator Pro and then directly into a Creation Audio Labs MW1 Studio Tool. The MW1 is a Swiss Army knife for D.I. signals and reamping, and it offers the cleanest way I know of to get a guitar signal into Pro Tools without coloring the sound.
After setting the Compulator's controls to noon and engaging the footswitch, I realized those settings are quite extreme and significantly lowered my overall volume. Playing an open-E chord and letting it ring, I could hear the sound trigger the compressor, get pulled down in volume, and then slowly ramp up as the Compulator pushed the gain higher in response to the fading notes. As I listened, I was impressed that the Compulator Pro added no extra noise—its circuit is dead quiet.
Wanting a less obvious compression effect, I pulled Attack and Release down to 9 o'clock and repeated the drill with the E chord. At these settings, the sound was much smoother. Though I knew the compressor was operating, it was virtually undetectable. The attack and the release were so smooth I couldn't hear the make-up gain coming into play.
With that in mind, I fully cranked the Compress knob and experienced nearly infinite sustain. Remember, this is with a completely clean signal. This setting reduced the overall level, but a quick twist of the Volume control easily remedied that. However, I should note that at extreme compression settings, you may not get back all your volume (that is, the volume you'd have if the effect were bypassed)—even if the Volume control is maxed.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Arizona State University
- Soni, Utkarsh
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- 1 Sefair, Jorge
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- Graph
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- 1 Graph Layout Comparison
- 1 Graph Layouts
- 1 Perception
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
When looking at drawings of graphs, questions about graph density, community structures, local clustering and other graph properties may be of critical importance for analysis. While graph layout algorithms have focused on minimizing edge crossing, symmetry, and other such layout properties, there is not much known about how these algorithms relate to a user's ability to perceive graph properties for a given graph layout. This study applies previously established methodologies for perceptual analysis to identify which graph drawing layout will help the user best perceive a particular graph property. A large scale (n = 588) crowdsourced experiment is conducted to …
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Jane Reeder Cole, Kirtling School
Front Reverse
Border sampler, dated 1852
T.7-1943 (view catalogue record)
Given by Miss Sarah Cole.
Wool, embroidered with coloured silk and cotton threads in cross-stitch. The top and bottom are rolled and stitched, some damage. A double blue line selvedge (the woven edge of the fabric that does not unravel) on both the sides.
Width: 12 1/2" (31. 7 cm)
Length: 16" (40.7 cm)
Sampler Analysis
The sampler has a repeating honeysuckle border pattern, and similar narrow geometric and floral repeat border patterns divide the sampler. There are 4 horizontal sections in total.
The top section includes the alphabet in Roman capitals and numbers from 1-14:
In the second part, a second alphabet appears below in cursive style, letters H and K look very similar, and Jane missed out letters I, U, W, Y and Z:
The large third section includes detached motifs and inscriptions which read:
Fear God and keep his commandments for
this is the whole duty of man Eccles. 12Ch
favour is deceitful
and beauty is vain
but a woman that
feareth the LORD
she shall be prais'd
The first inscription is from the Old Testament, Ecclesiastes 12:13, and the second is from Proverbs 31: 29-30.
The fourth section includes more detached motifs of dogs, birds, coronets, floral sprigs and sprays, a peacock and a tree, as well as the maker's name, school name and year within a rectangle:
Jane Reeder Cole
Kirtling School
Jane's Story
In the 1891 census, Jane Reeder Cole is listed as being born c.1840 to John and Mary, making her roughly 12 years old when she finished her sampler and about 50 when the census was taken. Kirtling parish registers do not have a record of her baptism, but this is because she was born in Middlesex, London, whereas her sisters, Ann Cole (b. 1844) and Sarah (b. 1854) were both born in Kirtling. Her mother may have moved residence after the birth of her first child, or the family could have had a temporary home in London.
At the age of 30, Jane was unmarried and worked as a housemaid, along with three other servants, for the Scott family who lived at 102 Lancaster Gate, London. Twenty years later, after the death of John L. Scott, Jane continued serving his widow, Mary Scott, working as her lady's maid at 17 Montague Square, Marylebone, London. As lady of the house, Scott needed a number of servants to help run her home, including a butler, footman, kitchen maid and cook. When the 1911 census was taken and Jane was 70, it records her as being an assistant housekeeper, living in 26 Portugal Street, Cambridge with her two sisters, all of whom were unmarried.
Kirtling School
The Parish of Kirtling lies 5 miles south east of Newmarket, and since 1723 there had been a parish school master who taught eight poor children thanks to the financial support of Francis North, Earl of Guilford (1704-1790). But after the Earl's death in 1790 this stopped. Records show that a dame school existed in 1833 with 40 children attending. By 1846 the number had increased to 94. All these schools, however, were too early for Jane Reeder Cole.
Kirtling's National School and master's house opened in 1850, and this is the school that Jane Reeder Cole most likely attended. While not much information exists about the school master, mistress, curriculum and pupils, the Cambridgeshire County Record Office has bills relating to the building and contents of the school, including ink stands, desks, bookshelves, window blinds, drainage and fences. We know that the children read the National Society's school books, as there is a payment entry of £10 0s 2d (approx. £614) to purchase them. Not much information exists regarding instruction in needlework.
A Family Tradition: A Sampler by Jane's Mother
In addition to the sampler stitched by Jane Cole, the Fitzwilliam Museum is fortunate enough to own one made by her mother, Mary. This is dated 1826. Both were given in 1943 by Sarah Cole, who was Mary's daughter and Jane's younger sister. According to Sarah, Mary misspelt 'Reader', by substituting an 'a' rather than an 'e' in her surname.
Mary Reeder
Front Reverse
Border sampler, dated 1826
T.6-1943 (view catalogue record)
Given by Miss Sarah Cole.
Wool, embroidered with coloured silks in cross and satin stitches. The top and bottom are rolled and stitched, some damage. A double blue line selvedge on both the sides.
Width: 12 3/4" (32.4 cm)
Length: 15 1/4" (38.7 cm)
Sampler Analysis
The 1/4" border has stems and buds. The first four lines of the upper section include duplicate letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case, as well as numerals 1-10 and 1- 20:
Different border patterns separate the lines. The inscription in the middle section is flanked by flowers in vases:
Great God in mercy condeßcend
Thro life to be my Guardian friend
And when my spirit leaves its clay
To raise it to eternal day
The lower part of the sampler includes detached motifs, such as flowers in vases and baskets, birds, dogs and crowns. The maker's name, age and date are contained within a decorative rectangle:
Mary Reader
Aged 12 Years 1826
Mary's Story and Sampler
Mary was born c.1814 in Helions Bumpstead, a village in Essex. She married John Cole (b. 1815), a bricklayer from Suffolk, and in addition to three daughters they also had a son, John William (b. 1849). In the 1851 census, the Cole family lived together in Kirtling. At this time, Jane was about 10 years old and was recorded as a scholar, so too was younger sister Ann who was around 7 years at the time. Perhaps they both attended Kirtling National School, which opened in 1850. Twenty years later, husband and wife, now in their 50s, lived alone together at 64 Ridlands Lane, Surrey. The family seemed to have a connection with London, as this was also the area of Jane's birthplace. One possibility might be that John and Mary lived in Middlesex when their eldest daughter was born, and then moved back to the Cambridge area and settled there while their children grew up.
Mary was also 12 years old when she completed her sampler, and both mother's and daughter's are particularly decorative and colourful. The format of both samplers is very similar, including almost identical dog motifs.
Mary's dog motif Jane's dog motif
Both samplers had also been framed as there are tack marks on the edges. It seems likely that Jane was aware of the format, design and motifs used in her mother's sampler when she made hers. Even though the inscription implies that it was made at school in Kirtling, the format strongly resembles her mother's work. This may indicate that Jane used her mother's as a model. Evidence does not exist to inform us of Mary's schooling, so it is not known where she made her sampler. One possibility could be the dame school in Kirtling, which had about 40 pupils in 1833.


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No. 3 Florida winning with 1-dimensional offense
No. 3 Florida is making balanced offense seem overrated.
The Gators are last in the Southeastern Conference in passing, averaging a mere 145 yards a game at a time when throwing the football is as fashionable as alternate uniforms. And it's not because they're running the triple option or the Wing T.
Nope, the Gators are simply sticking with what works best - getting the most out of a shifty running back, a fleet-footed quarterback and a physical offensive line that tends to get better the longer it's on the field.
Although the close-to-the-vest, grind-it-out style has carried Florida to its highest ranking in three years, it also has created a perception that the Gators (6-0, 5-0) are vulnerable heading into Saturday's game against No. 9 South Carolina (6-1, 4-1).
What if the Gamecocks, who rank fourth in the league in rushing defense, shut down Florida's seemingly one-dimensional attack? What if Florida gets behind early? Could the Gators survive costly turnovers?
''I didn't realize we were last in passing, but we're first in the East,'' quarterback Jeff Driskel said. ''That's all that matters. We're undefeated. We haven't dropped a game yet. If you're winning, everything's all right. Obviously we got to get better in the passing game, but we're winning games. That's all that matters.''
The Gators have used stingy defense and stellar second-half performances to climb up the polls. They have trailed in five of six games this season, been down at halftime in three and never really looked like one of the best teams in the country.
It's clear that Florida has become exactly what Muschamp promised from Day 1 - a tough, physical team that outworks its opponents and does whatever it takes to win games.
Call them the orange and blue-collared Gators.
It should be no surprise that the Bowl Championship Series computers - unbiased machines that rank teams based on complicated algorithms and don't see a single down - love Florida. Others have their doubts, believing it's difficult to maintain success in this day and age while completing just 13 passes a game.
Offensive coordinator Brent Pease, who came to Gainesville after six seasons at Boise State, wants to be more balanced. But he also makes it clear that if his offense continues giving opponents fits on the ground, he's going to stick with it.
''When we go in and hit 10 explosive plays, the bottom line is run them again,'' Pease said. ''Run them again, OK. Let's not get greedy here as a coach and say, `I don't like that. I'm throwing the ball because that's what we all love to do.'''
Mike Gillislee ranks second in the SEC in rushing, averaging 102 yards a game. Sophomore Jeff Driskel has just four touchdown passes, but he's completing nearly 67 percent of his passes and has just two turnovers. He also has 326 yards rushing and four scores, including a school-record 177 yards and three TDs on the ground last week at Vanderbilt. And the offensive line, which raised eyebrows when coaches called it the strength of the team, has held its own against some formidable fronts.
Throw in Florida's stout defense and two of the best specialists in the nation - punter Kyle Christy and place-kicker Caleb Sturgis - and it's hard to argue when Muschamp and Pease pass on passing and play for field position and field goals.
''If Jeff Driskel can carry the ball 70 yards and outrun everybody, he's getting the ball,'' Pease said. ''If Mike Gillislee can get the ball and outrun everybody, he's getting the ball. And if our O-line blocks like they block, we're giving them the ball. I'm not going to be stubborn as far as playing off numbers every week. I'm going to do what's best for this team and what they create for us to be productive and score points and win football games.''
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, who will return to his alma mater Saturday and the place he nicknamed ''The Swamp'' during his 12-year coaching tenure in Gainesville, always had Florida at or near the top of the league in passing. But even the head ball coach recognizes that what the Gators are doing could be special.
''There's all kind of ways to win the game,'' Spurrier said. ''The best one is to play outstanding defense, special teams and run the ball. There've been a lot of champions that ran the ball. I remember it was 1992 when Alabama won the national championship. I think they completed one pass in the national championship game against Miami. So you don't have to throw the ball to win championships.''
The Crimson Tide completed four passes in that Sugar Bowl, but Spurrier's point is valid.
And the Gators know it.
''We're just doing what it takes to win,'' receiver Frankie Hammond Jr. said. ''If it's running the ball 40 times and throwing it 10, as long as we get the `W,' I can't complain. Because at the end of the day, we're brought here to win games and win championships, and that's what we're trying to do.''


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The battle report shows that my casualties are 700, but the enemy killed only 400. Presumably 300 is friendly fire. If yes, it would be interesting to know what kind of friendly fire there is and how to avoid it.
I know two types of friendly fire for sure (cannon and rifle fire). It is pretty obvious how to avoid being hit by cannon fire, however it is not entirely clear how to avoid friendly rifle fire?


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Hi guys,
So there has been A LOT of talk about body image for the past couple years. Many have tried to promote body positivity, a memorable example would be the song "All About the Bass"by Megan Trainor. But on every post, article or video attempting to show even a morsel of body positivity, whether its encouraging plus size women to wear bikini's or urging more brands to have bigger sizes available, there is also a counter argument.
This is that obesity, whether you like it or not, is unhealthy and the world in general is going through an obesity crisis that must be stopped.
The question is who is right? Are any of these opinions the correct way of tackling the obesity problem?
As someone who has been very thin and also obese, I understand the mindset and the issues people face when it comes to weight. A lot of the time when people discuss weight, they often discuss the physical, whether that is your physical appearance or your health. However, people often negate a very important factor in weight and that is mental health. The state of mind you are in determines your will power, your happiness and your hope for a better life and improving it. This is why body positivity is a MUST in today's society. Although many may not understand but constantly putting someone down and telling them you need to lose weight does not work. Whether you believe it or not so much negative things are said about and to fat people. Even when trying to be active there are always snarky remarks made, for example in the TLC reality show "My Fat Fabulous Life", Whitney is constantly told by people online that she should not be dancing or she should only dance after she loses all the weight?? Do people not know how you lose weight? And should you stop living just because you've gained some weight? This only causes overweight people to become more depressed and lock themselves in the safety of their own homes until they get bigger and bigger and by that time the problem has gotten too out of control for a healthy solution.
Some of you are probably saying "But obesity is wrong!!! FAT KILLS!!" and this is true. It is important to take care of your physical health and no matter what that means getting down to a healthy size. However, taking care of your mental health is also important. Promoting a healthy lifestyle should by showing a healthier life like blogilates whose changed the lives of millions for the better. It is possible for body positivity and promoting a healthy lifestyle to co-exist and both are necessary in order to reduce the obesity epidemic.
Stay healthy, mind and body;
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Oracle Team USA wins Race 4 of America's Cup
After a rough week of unprecedented penalties and three straight losses, defending America's Cup champion Oracle Team USA finally had something to smile about following a high-speed romp around San Francisco Bay.
Oracle Team USA's 72-foot catamaran came flying out of the fog around the fourth mark and stayed ahead of challenger Emirates Team Zealand in a heart-stopping sprint to the finish to win Race 4 by 8 seconds Sunday.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill reached back with his left hand and patted the left shoulder of tactician John Kostecki, one of only two Americans on the 11-man crew.
"It was a real sign of strength from the guys to be able bounce back from a situation like that, having lost three in a row, especially going into the break tomorrow," Spithill said. "It's a real confidence booster for the boys."
It was the first victory of the regatta for Oracle, which still has a long way to go to keep the oldest trophy in international sports. Owned by software billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp., Oracle Team USA was docked two points by an international jury in the biggest cheating scandal in the regatta's 162-year history. That meant the Americans started at minus-2.
Oracle needs to win 10 more races to keep the silver trophy.
"It was fantastic racing," said Spithill, an Australian who lives in San Diego with his American wife. "We've been talking about this for a long time and there have been a lot of people who have probably bagged it and said, `Ah, are we going to see a decent race?' Well, man, it's delivering. Just to see the energy in the crowd and the people that are getting behind us is huge. And that's making a difference. The more people who can do that, we've got a better chance of keeping the Cup here."
Team New Zealand won Race 3 earlier in the day and needs to win six more to take the Auld Mug to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, which held it from 1995-2003.
Monday is a lay day, with Races 5 and 6 scheduled for Tuesday.
Race 4 was a thriller in the fog, wind and salt spray on San Francisco Bay, with the foiling 72-foot catamarans sometimes veering toward the edge of control in wind that reached 22 knots.
After an even start, the boats sprinted across the bay parallel to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge. Spithill got there first and swung his catamaran around the buoy at 45.97 knots, or 52.9 mph.
Oracle stayed ahead the rest of the five-leg course, but it wasn't easy.
As the fast cat approached gate three at the end of the downwind leg while riding above the whitecaps on hydrofoils, someone released a daggerboard while all the weight of the seven-ton boat was still on it, dropping the hulls into the water and slowing the boat from about 35 knots to 20 knots.
"It might have been the other redhead, to be honest, or it could have been me," said Spithill referring to fellow Aussie Tom Slingsby a strategist and grinder. "That was our only real crew-handling mistake, I think, since we started the regatta. The guys have been sailing the boat very, very well. It was an obvious mistake, and put us under pressure straight away. But for me, what was good to see was the guys just keeping their cool and keeping these guys behind us for the rest of the beat."
The American-based crew rounded just five seconds ahead, but slowly rebuilt its leading in a tacking duel heading upwind toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
Team New Zealand, which used good crew work to win the first three races, was a bit wobbly on the third leg. At one point its hulls popped higher than normal as if it were popping a wheelie, and the boat was a bit on edge as it rounded Gate 3 and popped onto foils.
The Kiwis closed the gap and trailed by just five seconds rounding mark four as both boats emerged from the fog. But Spithill kept Oracle ahead as the boats flew across the wind to the finish line just off America's Cup Park on Pier 27-29.
It was Team New Zealand's first real loss in this regatta. Its only previous loss came when it dropped out of Race 2 of the Louis Vuitton Cup final against Italy's Luna Rossa after an electronics problem disabled the hydraulics system that operates wing sail and daggerboards.
"It doesn't change anything for us," skipper Dean Barker said. "We certainly knew coming into this event that it was going to be very, very close. To predict that you'd make it through either way to zero, I think, would be a bit cold. We know that we've got to be on our game to keep winning races. We've got to win a lot more points. There are certainly things we need to do better.
"We've got to get in good position at mark one, and from there you've got more control over your own destiny," he said.
In Race 3, Barker rebounded from a penalty at the first mark and overtook Oracle on the windward third leg to win by 28 seconds.
Team New Zealand's 72-foot catamaran reeled in Oracle during a tacking duel sailing upwind toward the fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge.
Spithill had an aggressive start and got his cat across the line first. Holding inside position at the reaching first mark, Spithill flew around the buoy and came within a few feet of Team New Zealand. Both teams flew protest flags and the Kiwis were penalized for not keeping clear. Barker had to slow down to clear the penalty.
Oracle led by 18 seconds after completing the upwind second leg. The boats headed to different sides of the course and the Kiwis began to show better speed upwind. Oracle remained in the lead the first time the boats crossed.
Halfway up the mark, Oracle let the Kiwis tack toward the left-hand boundary. Because the boundaries are new to this Cup, a boat that has tacked onto port to avoid crossing the boundary has advantage. That helped the Kiwis take control. Team New Zealand led by 29 seconds rounding the windward gate mark and kept that margin at the downwind gate before making the turn and heading to the finish.


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