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Ex-Pacer On the Move?
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After being released by the Indiana Pacers a few months ago, Travis Diener was eventually picked up by the Portland Trail Blazers.
That year for Diener was just a waste and had no point or value to it at all. First of all, he had a major toe injury that forced him to miss most of the season and lose his job with Indy.
Diener will now be a free agent on July 1st.
So far, there's three teams interested in the young point guard.
One are the New York Knicks, who need a consistent guard to run their system. The Los Angeles Lakers are another team, who needs a point guard that can cover faster players and Derek Fisher can't do that. There's also the Magic, but that's if they don't re-sign their backups.
There's also a chance of Diener going overseas to play ball in Europe.
"If something doesn't work out here, I'm not afraid at all to go overseas to play," he said. "It's a high level over there, but my first objective is to get another contract here. But you have to weigh all the options. One of the options for me is I want a chance to play and play a lot.
"We'll see what happens; there's still a lot up in the air. In a couple of months I'll know more."


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Social Networking for Fashion Doll Lovers
my recreation of barbie day at the matine. Made from a blazer from my mom that I was going to give to goodwill
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Thanks Lilly, This is Bratzee, (i'm thinking she is a Bratz doll) got, no, ACQUIRED her from the Salvation Army. Gave her a good bath and shampoo and she cleaned up well. Her hair is beautiful! It even has streaks running down the back. I should try washing and even curling it more and see what happens. I DO love this suit. The skirt turned out a bit large (the snap is way over to the side, but if we don't turn her around, we're good) Great to be in your club. We'll have to swap pics...
eh this is so cute!!
love the color with her hair color as well. you did a great job!! and a very good recycling idea as well !! welcome in my private "Recycladoll club " hee hee my mom send me plenty of stuff in regular basis and I use them mostly to dress my gang :)
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Share an Airport connection with iPad via Bluetooth
Handy hint. I'll save it off for future use.
Share WiFi within WiFi in Hotel-Like Situations
I get that in "hotel with Ethernet Internet" situations I can connect an Airport Express to hotel's ethernet port to create my own wifi that I can then share with multiple devices - and that these connections are secured per WPA/WPA2. What I would like more info on is for how to have multiple wifi devices share a "hotel's 'one-per-room' wireless" connection. I've tried connecting my Mac via its Airport to a wifi network, and then connecting an Airport Express to that Mac via Ethernet cable to create a second wifi network - and then connecting an Ipad to the second network. The iPad seems to find and connect to the second network (per Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Choose a Network...), but data does not seem to be moving through that connection. Are such wifi networks within wifi networks possible? I hope so, but I have not gotten it to work yet. Any suggestions?
Share WiFi within WiFi in Hotel-Like Situations
I don't think I've tried it your way, but I've had success the other reverse order: Hotel wifi --> APEx (just as Join with "share to ethernet" checked) --> wired to Macbook --> Macbook Internet sharing, sharing its ethernet over wifi --> private wifi network created by macbook --> ipad/iphone/etc connect to macbook.
Share WiFi within WiFi in Hotel-Like Situations
This should work fine... I have done both, your solution pdquinlan, and TF's solution. Do you have internet connection sharing turned on on your Mac to share the internet connection over ethernet? If this isn't the problem, I know I've occasionally had problems using different types of wireless security... you may want to turn off security while troubleshooting...
Share WiFi within WiFi in Hotel-Like Situations
Get a router with DD-WRT. It can (the router) receive a signal and then create a new network. Depending on the situation you create either a wireless bridge ---
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* Despite looming sequester cuts, many members of Congress left for the weekend on Thursday. That's the problem with this country. We're led by people who think "The 8-Hour Work Week" is their bible.
* Saturday has been declared National Unplug Your Device Day. Electronic devices like smartphones and iPads are not to be used. Young Americans are planning to call it "Why Did I Bother To Get Out of Bed Day."
* A prosecutor will not pursue marijuana possession charges against Chicago Bears offensive lineman J'Marcus Webb. The prosecutor obviously feels being in the same huddle with Jay Cutler is worse punishment than incarceration.
* A man is looking for a fourth person to travel around the world with him in a car shaped like a banana. OK, liberal arts majors, this may be your best opportunity.
* Actually, hold on, he just found a fourth rider to go around the planet in the banana-shaped car. Joe Biden told President Obama he'll check in by phone every 1,000 miles.
* The guy is referred to as an "adventurer." Let's get something straight -- the dude who climbed Mount Everest is an adventurer. The man who sailed a hot air balloon across the Pacific is an adventurer. The guy driving the banana is not an adventurer.
* Office Depot and OfficeMax are nearing a merger. The two finally threw in the towel after not one person in U.S. history has ever been able to tell them apart.
* On his trip to North Korea, Dennis Rodman told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, "You have a friend for life." What's weird here is that I'm pretty sure Rodman doesn't stay in touch with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
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Quito hotel with a restaurant
Situated near the airport, in Quito, this hotel is close to Foch Square, Atahualpa Olympic Stadium, and Botanical Garden of Quito. Also nearby are La Mariscal Craft Market and Central University of Ecuador.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Sol de Quito features a coffee shop/café. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and a 24-hour business center.
Room Amenities
Guestrooms open to balconies with garden views and feature fireplaces and wireless Internet access (surcharge). Other amenities include safes and minibars.
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- General
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. An Internet point is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, a technology helpdesk, and small meeting rooms. 2 meeting rooms are available. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle. This business-friendly hotel also offers a library, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sol de Quito has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 18
- Banquet facilities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business services
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Airport transportation
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Number of floors - 4
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 74
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 2
- Free secure outdoor parking
- Free secure parking
- Shopping on site
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Coffee shop or café
- Technology helpdesk
- Tour assistance
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Event catering
- Fireplace in lobby
- Designated smoking areas
- Internet point
- Computer station
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free parking (limited spaces)
- Patio
- Luggage storage
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Security guard
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in lobby
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi, Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Parking
Free secure parking, Free secure outdoor parking, Free parking (limited spaces)
- Room Amenities
- Fireplace
- Balcony
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- In-room safe
- Clock radio
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Direct-dial phone
- Multi-line phone
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Pillowtop mattress
- Garden view
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Television
- Desk
- Cribs/infant beds available
- TV Internet access (complimentary)
- Down blanket
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Dining
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7:00 AM and 9:30 AM. An additional hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily (subject to charges).
Sol de Quito has a restaurant serving breakfast only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
- Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Ecotours nearby
- Bungee jumping nearby
Sol de Quito Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11:30 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 1, Pet maximum weight in lb is 35
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Caters to groups
No elevators
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for high-speed Internet (wired) in business center: USD 1 (for 15 minutes, rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 50
- Late check-out fee: USD 20
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Additional Details
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 8 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Welcome Dr. McDade
Cedar Creek Dental Center hosts an open house 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, at 485 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
The center welcomes Dr. Michael McDade to the practice. Call 683-8683.
Breakfast is served
Wasabi Restaurant now serves breakfast Monday and Wednesday-Sunday at 740 E. Washington St., Sequim.
The restaurant is open at 7 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays-Sundays and 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Wasabi continues to offer lunch and dinner.
Call 683-8773.
High tea, lunch served
Cedarbrook Garden Cafe hosts a March high tea at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, at 1345 S. Sequim Ave., Sequim. Reservations are required.
Lunch service is available from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 18-20.
Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.
Contact 683-4541, cedar brookgardencafe.com or cedarbrooklavender.com.
Baldwin retires
Clallam County PUD employee Pat Baldwin retired on March 1.
Baldwin started working in the Sequim office in May 1982.
Lunch, food classes served
Common Sense Nutritional Therapy offers a VIP lunch at noon Fridays in March. A combination of raw and cooked foods will be served. Reservations are required. A $5 donation is requested.
A movie night is scheduled at 7 p.m. Friday, March 12, at the Common Sense Nutritional Therapy office, 261043 Highway 101, Suite E, Sequim. Movie night is free.
A raw and live food class will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 13, at the office. The cost is $40 per person before March 5 and $55 after that date.
Call 683-2756.
Financial planning series
Certified financial planner James D. Hallett teaches the first in a free series about financial planning from 3:30-5 p.m. and 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
Topics include what the new rules mean, creating an up-to-date plan, how a good estate plan enhances a family's financial security and the power of your social capital.
Reservations by March 16 are suggested.
Contact 683-1355 or julie firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learn to grow berries
Henery's Garden Center hosts a free class on growing berries at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 6.
R.T. Ball, owner of Evergreen Enterprises, teaches the class, which covers how to plant, which berries work in the area, what berries need for best production, pruning and harvesting.
Evergreen Enterprises is a yard maintenance and pruning business.
Contact 683-6969.
More time to visit nursery
McComb Gardens resumed regular hours on March 1.
The nursery is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily at 751 McComb Road, Sequim.
Contact 681-2827, www.mccombgardens.com/ or email@example.com.
Name change
The Movie House, 612 S. Lincoln St., Port Angeles, changed its name from Blockbuster on Feb. 6.
Call 417-0616.
Pet food demonstrated
Jennifer Stevenson will demonstrate Innova, EVO and California Natural brand kibbles, canned and treats for dogs and cats and new introductions from noon-4 p.m. Monday, March 8, at Best Friend Nutrition, 680 W. Washington St., Suite B102, Sequim.
Stevenson is Northwest area manager for Natura Pet Products pet food manufacturer. Contact www.naturapet.com.
Free samples will be available. Call 681-8458.
Pup meet-up
Free puppy socialization time in a supervised indoor setting is from 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 20, at Petco, 1205 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Proof of current vaccinations is required.
Contact 582-9283 or dog trainer firstname.lastname@example.com.
Time-saving tips and tools
First Federal's branch managers present time-saving tips and demonstrate time saving tools for small-business owners at free after-hours business education seminars in March.
The 90-minute seminars begin at 6 p.m. with a light meal and beverage provided.
_ Tuesday, March 9, at Sequim Village Marketplace Branch, 1201 W. Washington St. 683-7935
_ Thursday, March 11, Port Angeles Downtown Branch, 141 W. First St. 452-6620
_ Tuesday, March 16, Port Townsend Castle Hill Branch, 1321 Sims Way. 360-385-1416.
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Nov. 3, 2006
Morningside College theatre department
to present "Antigone"
Morningside College's theatre department will present Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Antigone" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, Nov. 15 to 18, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, at Klinger-Neal Theatre, 3700 Peters Avenue.
The performances are sponsored by Morningside's Academic and Cultural Arts Series (ACAS).
"Antigone" was written around 441 BC. The Morningside production will feature a new adaptation of the play written by Arthur Moss, assistant professor of theatre at Morningside, who is also the production's director.
Cast members are Tanya Anderson, a junior from Piedmont, S.D., as Antigone; Sharona Ernst, a senior from Falls City, Neb., as Ismene; Trey Blackburn, a sophomore from Knoxville, Iowa, as the Chorus Leader; Christina Meranda, a sophomore from Ceresco, Neb., as Chorus I; Tyrel Drey, a freshman from Storm Lake, Iowa, as Chorus II; Whitney Gries, a freshman from Onawa, Iowa, as Chorus III; Joshua Phipps, a freshman from Larchwood, Iowa, as Chorus IV: Beau Sudtelgte, a sophomore from Le Mars, Iowa, as Chorus V; Mackenzie Deeds, a junior from Sioux City, as Chorus VI and the Messenger; David Kenan, a junior from Cherokee, Iowa, as Creon; Greg Anderson, a freshman from Sioux City, as Haemon; Elizabeth Kelly, a senior from Falls City, Neb., as Teiresias; and Sarah Schreur, a freshman from Hawarden, Iowa, as Eurydice.
The costume designer is Bette Skewis-Arnett, professor and chair of theatre. Michael Rohlena, admissions liason to theatre, is scene and lighting design manager; and Randy Peters of Sioux City is mask designer. Peters is a 1985 graduate of Morningside. Rachel Radel, a junior from Mitchell, S.D., is the stage manager, and Nicole Helgeson, a junior from Altoona, Iowa, is movement coach.
General admission is $5 for adults and $1 for students. Reservations can be obtained by calling the Klinger-Neal Theatre box office at (712) 274-5196.


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Monster Seeks Fresh Mojo By Merging Facebook Networking App BeKnown With Its Job Site
Will it be enough to catch its many competitors?
Monster.com is trying to prove it still has all the right credentials in a market infiltrated by specialized job boards, job aggregator sites, and LinkedIn [2].
Starting today, the giant job search website is baking its professional networking Facebook [3] app, BeKnown, into its core Monster.com site across 34 countries. The integration puts BeKnown in front of the more than 100 million people visiting those properties each month and gives Monster users the option to create a BeKnown profile that will live within Monster.com.
Users of the 10-month-old Facebook app are able to view tailored Monster postings and selectively connect with Facebook friends, as well as people outside their social network. Now, when BeKnown users visit Monster.com, they'll also see how they're connected to people at companies that post job listings.
Monster senior editor Charles Purdy tells Fast Company one of BeKnown's greatest competitive advantages is the clout carried by the Monster brand. "It makes BeKnown incredibly powerful because it's more than just a networking tool," says Purdy. "Having something like BeKnown on Facebook makes sense because it goes to Monster and Fortune 1000 companies with global reach."
But stats from recent years suggest Monster has steadily been losing traction in the online job search market. Job postings aggregator Indeed.com surpassed Monster.com [4] in unique visitors to become the top online job site in 2010; Monster has since slipped behind CareerBuilder.com [5]. LinkedIn reportedly recently passed on an opportunity to buy out Monster [6]. Monster's parent company, Monster Worldwide Inc.--which boasted a peak market value of $7.5 billion in 2006--is currently valued at $965 million. (For comparison, LinkedIn's current market cap is a cushy $10.2 billion). Not to mention BeKnown's most direct competitor, BranchOut, has seen some stellar user numbers [7] since its Facebook launch almost a year before BeKnown's.
BeKnown's appeal as a professional networking alternative to competitors such as LinkedIn and BranchOut lies in the company's investments in Monster's semantic search technology to deliver users more relevant postings. But BeKnown largely limits listings results to those posted by paying Monster.com customers, whereas BranchOut, BeKnown's most direct competitor (which Facebook recently singled out [8] as a top mobile app) has the advantage of drawing from multiple job aggregator sites.
BeKnown product lead Tom Chevalier says Monster has always planned to integrate the app with the core site, but held off until BeKnown could demonstrate staying power on Facebook. Though Monster doesn't release internal user numbers, Chevalier says BeKnown reached the one-million-user mark "faster than LinkedIn and Facebook did it." But recent numbers show [9] BeKnown was hovering around 170,000 users till this weekend's integration sparked a 20,000-user uptake, which still leaves it trailing well behind BranchOut's 11.5 million.
The fact that Monster is investing heavily in BeKnown, a free service that's not generating revenue, indicates it understands how integral a strong social presence is to the game of catch-up it's playing. Monster's clearly trying to make good on its mission to "successfully connect people to job opportunities." But others may have already found ways to do it more successfully.
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History of the National Football League in Los Angeles
Professional American football, especially its established top level, the National Football League (NFL), has had a long history in Los Angeles, which is the center of the second-largest media market in the United States. Since the 1995 departure of the Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles has been by far the largest U.S. market without an NFL team. It is currently more than double the size of any other North American market to get serious consideration for a team. The NFL and other professional leagues have had multiple teams in Los Angeles between 1946 and 1994, all of which originally played home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The nearest team for the area is the San Diego Chargers.
In 1946, the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference started play, lasting four years before folding with the demise of the AAFC. Also in 1946, the Cleveland Rams became the first NFL franchise to locate in Los Angeles. The Rams moved to Anaheim Stadium in 1980, and left southern California altogether in 1995 for St. Louis. The American Football League (AFL) founded the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, who subsequently moved to San Diego the following year. The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles in 1982, only to return to Oakland after the 1994 season.[1] There were problems with filling all of the 90,000-plus seats in the Coliseum to avoid a television blackout in the Los Angeles area.[1]
The lack of an NFL team in Los Angeles is an issue the league and the city have been working on to resolve since the Raiders left.[2] One key sticking point had been whether the Coliseum should be the primary venue for a new team, or whether a lower capacity NFL-specific stadium should be built in the area.[1] In November 2007, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared that the policy of requiring the NFL to relocate to the Coliseum will change and other options will be explored.[3]
There have been other professional football teams in the city, including PCPFL teams during World War II; as well as XFL, AFL, USFL, and WFL teams.[2] On September 28, 2012, the Los Angeles City Council approved a proposal to build Farmers Field in a 12-0 vote. The new stadium will enable an NFL team to move to Los Angeles. The stadium will be located in Downtown Los Angeles as part of the LA Live complex and is expected to be completed by 2016.[4]
The early years[edit]
The first NFL team to name itself after the city of Los Angeles was the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926. However, this was a road team, based in Chicago, made up of Californians, primarily University of California and University of Southern California alumni. Historian Michael McCambridge said that the Buccaneers became a road team because the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission had banned pro teams from its stadium.[5] However, the difficulty of transcontinental travel in the era before modern air travel must have also been a factor in the decision to base the team in the Midwest. The upstart American Football League also featured a similar Midwest-based road team of West Coast players, the Los Angeles Wildcats. Both Los Angeles teams performed respectably on the field but folded after the 1926 season. Ironically, the Wildcats' last game was an exhibition in San Francisco against the Buccaneers in January 1927.[6]
The first major professional football team to actually reside in Los Angeles was the Los Angeles Bulldogs, who operated both as an independent and as a member of several other leagues from approximately 1934 to 1948, in its later years reduced to minor status. The NFL had actually admitted the Bulldogs to the league for the 1937 NFL season, but reneged on the agreement because of travel concerns (the great distance between the Bulldogs and every other team, plus having to cross the Rocky Mountains in an era when travel by airplane was still a rare and hazardous endeavor, proved to be too much of a risk for the NFL to be willing to take).
The NFL All Star Game/Pro Bowl and Super Bowl in and around Los Angeles[edit]
The NFL did play its first league All-Star Games (which later became known as the Pro Bowl) in Los Angeles. L.A.'s Wrigley Field hosted the first All-Star Game after the 1938 season. Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles hosted the 1939 and 1940 All-Star Games following the respective NFL seasons.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was the site of the Pro Bowl from 1950 through 1972. The 1979 Pro Bowl was also held at the Coliseum. In 1980, the Pro Bowl moved to Aloha Stadium on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, where it has been held ever since except in 2010.
The first Super Bowl, known originally as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game and retroactively as Super Bowl I, was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967. The Coliseum also hosted Super Bowl VII.
The Rose Bowl in Pasadena also has hosted Super Bowls XI, XIV, XVII, XXI, and XXVII.
NFL franchises in Los Angeles 1946–1994[edit]
The Rams[edit]
In 1946, the defending NFL champions, the Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles.[7] The other league owners were not pleased with the move, but the league relented due in large part to concern that Los Angeles could potentially become the nucleus of a rival league. The Rams played home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which had originally been built to host the 1932 Summer Olympic Games and which was also the home of the USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins. The Rams made history their first season in 1946, when they signed the NFL's first African-American players since the early 1930s: former UCLA stars Kenny Washington and Woody Strode.
Also in 1946, the upstart All-America Football Conference (AAFC) began play: the AAFC's Los Angeles Dons also played at the Coliseum. When the AAFC folded in 1950, the Dons went out of business, but the AAFC's San Francisco 49ers were admitted to the NFL. This provided the NFL with a workable pair of West Coast cities for travel.
Another AAFC franchise which moved over to the NFL was the Cleveland Browns, who were based in the city the Rams had deserted. The Browns and the Rams met in the 1950 NFL Championship Game, and the Browns won the game 30–28.
The Rams quickly became established as an NFL power, winning 7 straight divisional titles from 1973–1979, with top quarterbacks like Roman Gabriel and the legendary Fearsome Foursome, consisting of Rosey Grier, Lamar Lundy, Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones.
Rams move to Anaheim[edit]
By 1979 the Rams were a successful franchise, and made it to their first Super Bowl that year. However, they had long been dissatisfied with the L.A. Coliseum, due to its size (the cavernous venue sold out very infrequently, causing blackouts of Rams games on local TV), its location (in South Central Los Angeles, perceived to be one of the city's more dangerous neighborhoods), and its lack of nearby parking. At various times they shared the stadium with both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins football teams. Ownership (Carroll Rosenbloom, followed by his widow Georgia Frontiere) was unable to persuade the city to build a new stadium in Los Angeles, so they decided to move out of the Coliseum to Anaheim (28 miles southeast of downtown L.A.) in Orange County, which was then experiencing an enormous boom in population and construction.
Beginning in 1980, the Rams played in Anaheim Stadium, which already had a football press box built into the upper deck when it opened in 1966.[8] Further renovations included enclosing the facility by extending the stadium's three decks (the baseball outfield area had previously been open to the outside), and building luxury suites in the mezzanine "club" level.
Three teams had previously played home games in Anaheim Stadium prior to the Rams' move: the Southern California Sun of the World Football League and the now-defunct football programs at Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State. During the Rams' stay in Anaheim, they were the stadium's sole football tenant and shared it with the California Angels baseball team.
Rams move to St. Louis[edit]
Rams owner Georgia Frontiere began to shop around for a new home for her team, which was falling behind other NFL teams in luxury-box and other non-shared revenue. By the end of the 1994 season, talks had begun with St. Louis and Baltimore; meanwhile, she was hoping that Anaheim and/or Orange County would also make an attractive offer. Anaheim, going through a recession, could not agree on a tax package to pay for the improvements that Frontiere insisted on, so they dropped out of the bidding. Rams fans, bothered by Frontiere talking to other cities about moving the franchise, voiced their anger by asking for her to sell the team, booing her and starting derogatory chants at games directed at her. Attendance began dwindling, due to frustration by the fans over ownership and the performance by the team on the field. Eventually, St. Louis gave Frontiere the offer she wanted, a brand-new $280 million domed stadium called the Trans World Dome (now known as the Edward Jones Dome) with a long-term lease and over 100 luxury boxes. The move was announced in February 1995 and approved by NFL owners that April. The Rams played their last game in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve in 1994, losing 24–21 to the Washington Redskins in front of only 25,750 fans in attendance at Anaheim Stadium. During the 2009 offseason, following Frontiere's death, it was announced the Rams were for sale. It was considered possible that the next owner of the Rams could potentially move the team back to Los Angeles;[9] however, this prospect became much less likely when then-minority owner Stan Kroenke, a Missouri native and resident, acquired complete control in August 2010.[10]
The Raiders[edit]
The Coliseum next received an NFL team in 1982, when the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles to become the Los Angeles Raiders. Team owner Al Davis relocated there without the approval of his fellow owners or NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle. One major factor for Davis in moving to the Coliseum—despite its flaws as a football stadium—was his assumption that the NFL would eventually approve pay-per-view telecasts for its games; such a move would potentially have given the Raiders a virtual TV monopoly in Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest TV market. Davis also counted on being able to persuade the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission to renovate the facility, particularly by installing scores of luxury boxes.
The Raiders continued the success they had in Oakland after the move south, winning Super Bowl XVIII in January 1984 and reaching the AFC Championship Game after the 1990 season. But the team gained a controversial reputation off the field, as its silver and black colors became associated with L.A.'s notorious street gangs. More importantly, the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission never gave Davis the lucrative package of amenities he had been promised, and the NFL's broadcast contracts never instituted pay-per-view. Davis entertained an offer from Irwindale, California (east of downtown L.A.) in 1987, but did not move there.[11][12]
Prior to 1993, the Coliseum Commission approved multiple changes to enhance the stadium as a football facility: Capacity was reduced, the field was lowered, the surrounding running track was removed, bleachers were replaced by single seats, and locker rooms and fan restrooms were upgraded.[13]
The Coliseum briefly fielded another professional football team, the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL), from 1983 to 1985. The league played in the springtime, avoiding stadium conflicts with the NFL and the Raiders.
Raiders return to Oakland[edit]
Due in no small part to the decision by the Los Angeles Sports Commission to halt further planned renovations to the Coliseum due to repair costs generated by the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Al Davis gave up on Los Angeles, and decided to accept a new stadium renovation offer from Oakland, California and to return to his team's former home. The renovation expanded the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum to 63,000 seats and added 86 luxury boxes and thousands of club seats. The deal was announced on June 23, 1995 and approved by league owners on August 9 of that year. The Raiders, like the Rams, played their last game in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve in 1994, losing 19–9 to the Kansas City Chiefs in front of 64,130 in attendance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. This is, to date, the last NFL regular-season game played in Los Angeles.
AFL franchise in Los Angeles[edit]
In 1960, the American Football League (AFL) was formed. The now-San Diego Chargers played their first season in Los Angeles, but moved to San Diego in 1961.
Since 1995: Major developments[edit]
Within months of the moves of the Rams and Raiders, several NFL teams were rumored to be replacements. They included the Cleveland Browns, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Seattle Seahawks. However, the Browns moved to become the Baltimore Ravens in 1996 amid major controversy, and a new Browns team occupied a new stadium in 1999. The Bengals, Buccaneers and Seahawks, meanwhile, used L.A.'s vacancy as leverage to convince their cities to help finance new stadiums.
Other developments have included:
- In March 1996, Seattle Seahawks owner Ken Behring moved office equipment and some athletic gear to the elementary school in Anaheim that once held Rams practices, hoping to get approval for a permanent move to southern California.[14] Because of an owners' revolt, Behring halted the process and moved the equipment back to Seattle. Eventually, Paul Allen bought the team and kept it in Seattle by building Seahawks Stadium, now known as CenturyLink Field.
- Perhaps the closest Los Angeles has come to regaining the NFL was in 1999, when the NFL approved a new franchise, the league's 32nd, for Los Angeles, on the condition that the city and NFL agree on a stadium site and stadium financing.[15] Those agreements were never reached, and in October 1999, the franchise was awarded to a Houston ownership group instead, which formed the Houston Texans.
- In 2001, a proposal was floated for a new stadium near Staples Center. The stadium and team would have been owned by billionaire Phillip Anschutz and Hollywood scion Casey Wasserman, and the stadium would have been built with private funding. That died down quickly when it failed to get the support of the city council. In particular, Mark Ridley-Thomas, whose district includes the Coliseum, never supported it.
- In 2004, reports circulated that Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay visited Southern California, presumably for meetings with local officials on moving his team to Los Angeles. Irsay never confirmed nor denied those reports, and the Colts later reached a deal for a new stadium in Indianapolis.
- As recently as 2005, then-Dodgers owner Frank McCourt showed interest in a similar plan to Peter O'Malley's in which a new NFL stadium would be built in Chavez Ravine next to Dodger Stadium. However, like O'Malley, McCourt was accosted by city officials who expressed their displeasure with his idea in mere part to their favoritism of the repeatedly defunct Coliseum plan. McCourt merely stated that his idea was suitable if the most recent Coliseum plan were to fail. In addition, the NFL was also rumored to favor the Dodger Stadium proposal to the countless Coliseum ideas in the past.[16]
- On November 7, 2006, voters in an upper class part of Pasadena overwhelmingly rejected a financing package that would have allocated money for a renovation of the Rose Bowl that would have accommodated an NFL team in fear of greatly increased traffic. The vote was 72 percent against, versus 28 percent in support.[17] Two days later, the San Francisco 49ers broke off talks with the city of San Francisco on a new stadium at Candlestick Point and began negotiations with suburban Santa Clara, where they hope to build a new stadium to open by 2012. However, many details remained unresolved, and at least one person quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times said that L.A. could still be a possibility for the 49ers.[18] But the following day, the 49ers reopened talks with San Francisco under pressure from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (both San Franciscans, the latter also being Member of Congress for most of the city of San Francisco).
- In April 2008, developer Edward P. Roski Jr., a part owner of the NHL Kings and Lakers, proposed a stadium in the City of Industry.[2][19][20]
- In June 2008, reports surfaced that the City of Industry could become the home of the 49ers or Raiders by as early as 2010 when both teams' stadium leases expired. Other teams mentioned included San Diego, Minnesota, Jacksonville, Atlanta, New Orleans, Buffalo, and St. Louis.[21]
- On December 1, 2009, in an interview for KTTV (Fox 11), John Semcken of Majestic Realty Co.—(the developer for the Los Angeles Stadium in Industry)—stated that there was a 50/50 chance of a team returning for the 2010 season and a 100% chance for the 2011 season. The teams explicitly mentioned in the interview were the Jacksonville Jaguars, San Diego Chargers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, and St. Louis (formerly Los Angeles) Rams. The interview occurred shortly after the California State Legislature and the governor approved plans for the stadium, but several months before Stan Kroenke became sole owner of the Rams.[22]
- In mid-season of 2011, news regarding several teams involved in potential expansion broke. It was reported that Malcolm Glazer, the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a franchise located in a metropolitan area with some of the lowest attendance figures in multiple pro sports, including football, had talked with officials in L.A. Nothing has been made official yet though, and Glazer also has ties to England (he also owns Manchester United), where there has been a small but growing conversation about potential NFL relocation. Meanwhile, Jacksonville Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver sold the team to Shahid Khan; Khan had unsuccessfully attempted to buy the Rams. Khan gave a verbal, but nonbinding, commitment to keep the team in Jacksonville. Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis died during the same season, passing the majority ownership of the team to his wife and son. In early 2012, the Davis family acknowledged negotiations with the L.A. groups, but were dissatisfied with both of the proposals and are instead considering sharing Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara; Los Angeles remains an option.[23]
- In March 2012, Yahoo! Sports reported on a meeting between the league management and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), in which it became clear that none of the NFL's owners were willing to agree to the terms AEG was putting forth for the relocation of a team to Los Angeles. Neither AEG nor the league confirmed the meeting, which, if true, would jeopardize the project unless AEG were to make concessions.[24] At the same time, the new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers expressed interest in bringing the NFL to Chavez Ravine, current location of Dodger Stadium.[25]
- On April 18, 2012, after a Minnesota Legislature committee rejected a public financing proposal for the proposed new Minnesota Vikings stadium, the league met with Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and Minnesota governor Mark Dayton to discuss the potential sale and relocation of the Vikings franchise.[26] Soon after, Wilf met with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa regarding the same topic, and indicated he would not renew the Vikings' lease on the Metrodome without a plan for a new stadium.[27] After a re-vote, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a stadium financing bill on May 8, albeit with less money than the Vikings were seeking.[28] The Senate passed the bill May 10, at which point the Vikings indicated they would be willing to accept the terms. This effectively eliminated the Vikings from the threat of relocation.[29]
- In September 2012, The Buffalo News reported that the Buffalo Bills had missed a deadline to have their proposed stadium upgrades partially financed by the league, which effectively blocks any efforts to sign a long-term lease and places the future of the team in Buffalo "in jeopardy."[30] The Bills eventually settled on a short-term lease extension (seven to ten years) with the intention of beginning plans for a new stadium near the end of the lease.
- In January 2014, the Los Angeles Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a holding company affiliated with Rams owner Stan Kroenke had purchased a 60-acre (24 ha) tract in Inglewood between The Forum and Hollywood Park, with the Times indicating that the land could be a possible location for a new stadium. The Rams' lease at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis states that if the venue is not one of the NFL's eight best by the end of the 2014 season, the lease will convert to a year-to-year deal. In 2012, the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission proposed a $124 million upgrade; the Rams countered with a $700 million proposal. An arbitrator ruled in favor of the Rams in February 2013, and the commission soon announced that it would not pursue any upgrade, leading to speculation about Kroenke's plans for the team.[31]
Potential league expansion[edit]
In 2012, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared on Costas Live on NBC Sports Network to discuss a possibility of football in L.A. Goodell said that he wouldn't like any team to relocate to the city. The commissioner said that if L.A. were to get a team, the league would have to expand to 34 teams.[32]
Los Angeles as a bargaining chip[edit]
The NFL may prefer having no franchise there to help the rest of the league,[33][34] as many teams use the threat of moving to Los Angeles during negotiations for new or renovated stadiums, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.[35][36] According to NBC News,
The threat of moving a team to Los Angeles is more valuable for the NFL than actually placing a team there. It's the perfect bargaining chip for the league: Why would a franchise stay in, say, cold-weather, small-market Minnesota without a new stadium when big-market, celebrity-studded L.A. beckons?[33]
and a Yahoo! Sports contributor observed that
The NFL doesn't necessarily use Los Angeles as a bargaining chip with other cities, but whenever there is a stadium issue in another city, that team suddenly ends up on a list of franchises that could relocate to sunny Southern California. Convenient.[34]
Civic disinterest[edit]
Whether Los Angeles residents would support a new or relocated NFL team is unclear. The area already has very popular USC and UCLA football games, with much greater attendance than the Raiders had during the team's time in Los Angeles.[33] Many residents are originally from elsewhere in the United States and tend to support teams from their previous cities.[34] During the Cleveland Browns' relocation to Baltimore in 1996 owner Art Modell received death threats. NBC News wrote that by contrast, "[w]hen the Raiders and Rams departed in 1994, Angelenos yawned before going surfing."[33]
Pro football activity in L.A. since 1995[edit]
- The Anaheim Piranhas were a member of the Arena Football League and played in the Los Angeles suburb from 1996 to 1997; it folded after owner C. David Baker was promoted to league commissioner.
- The Los Angeles Avengers were a member of the Arena Football League from 2000 to 2009, when the league suspended operations.[37] The league would be revived in 2010, but (initially) without a Los Angeles-area team.
- The LA KISS, a team owned by and branded after the band of the same name, will begin play in the Arena Football League in 2014. While nominally representing the city, the team will reside in Anaheim.[38]
- The Los Angeles Xtreme won the only championship in the brief history of the XFL, in 2001.
- The United Football League had committed to a Los Angeles franchise (possibly with Mark Cuban as its owner) for its 2009 season and, when the league cut back the number of teams it planned to launch from six to four, had planned to have the team that became the Las Vegas Locomotives play one of its home games in the Home Depot Center in preparation for a full-time Los Angeles team in 2010. However, the league later dropped their plan to play at the Home Depot Center in 2009 and, by the time the league failed in October 2012, had not established a team in the city as promised.
- The NFL has maintained a limited presence in the market. NFL Network, the in-house cable and satellite network founded in 2003, is headquartered in nearby Culver City and players often visit its studio, especially in the offseason.
- The NFL Players Association's "Rookie Premiere," in which first-year athletes pose for trading card pictures, is held annually at the Coliseum. The Coliseum also staged part of the league's opening-weekend celebrations in 2005.
- The annual spring meeting of the NFL owners, where new rules are voted on and other issues are talked about, is usually held in the Los Angeles area in March.
- The Dallas Cowboys host their training camp in the Los Angeles suburb of Oxnard on a rotating basis.
- The Los Angeles Temptation of the Legends Football League (known as the Lingerie Football League before 2013) played its first two full seasons (2009 and 2010) in the city (specifically the LA Memorial Coliseum) before relocating to the Inland Empire in 2011. The Temptation still refer to themselves as a Los Angeles team.
- Los Angeles had been named to have a franchise in the relaunch of the USFL, which will have Sean Salisbury as coach,[39] but the league opening has experienced frequent internal turmoil and has yet to have any significant development.[40]
Proposed stadiums[edit]
Then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed a new football stadium in Anaheim in tandem with a new L.A. Coliseum. There are reports, however, that NFL owners will not approve a return to the L.A. area until two teams commit to play in a single new stadium (similar to the New York Giants and New York Jets, first in Giants Stadium and since 2010 in MetLife Stadium).[41] Due to worldwide increases in the prices of steel, concrete and fuel some cost estimates for new stadiums have exceeded $1 billion.[42] As a result, it will be difficult for the league to privately finance one stadium, let alone two.[43] In response to rising cost estimates for a new stadium, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said that returning the NFL to Los Angeles will require the league to consider unspecified "alternative solutions."[44]
The National Football League is not planning on expanding, so one or more teams would have to relocate to justify any new stadium projects. The three teams which used to play in Los Angeles but moved elsewhere (the San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders) have all been rumored to be open to moving back. Four other teams— Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, and the San Francisco 49ers — had also been identified as possible prime tenants of a new stadium.[45][46] As previously mentioned, the Vikings were removed from relocation consideration after agreeing to a 30-year lease on a new Minnesota stadium in 2012. Of the rest of those teams, the Bills' lease expires after the 2012 season and the Raiders' lease expires in 2013. The Rams and Chargers, although both are in long-term leases, both have escape clauses written in their current stadium leases; the Jaguars do not.[47] On April 19, 2012, groundbreaking for a new stadium for the 49ers in the city of Santa Clara was held,[48] hence insuring that the team would remain in the San Francisco Bay Area.[48] The new Santa Clara stadium is also a possible relocation candidate for the Raiders.
Near the end of the 2010 season, two of those seven teams suffered severe problems with their current facilities. The roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis collapsed after record-breaking snowfall in December 2010, forcing the Minnesota Vikings to play their last two home games elsewhere. The first game was delayed one day and was moved to Ford Field in Detroit. The second one was played as scheduled in Minneapolis on Monday Night Football, but it was moved across town to TCF Bank Stadium, home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. Also in December 2010, Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego flooded, although no Chargers home games were moved or delayed as a result. These issues led to plans to build new stadiums for the Vikings and the Chargers. In May 2012, however, speculation that the Minnesota Vikings would move to Los Angeles officially ended after a financial package providing for the construction of a new stadium in Minneapolis was approved by both the Minnesota State Legislature and the Minneapolis City Council.[49][50]
Other than Los Angeles, the NFL has returned to every city it vacated in the modern era (Oakland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Cleveland and Houston). The 2009 NFL season was L.A.'s 15th year with no franchise, thus eclipsing Oakland for the longest duration in the modern era that a former NFL city has lacked a franchise (20 years as of the upcoming 2014 NFL season).
In an open letter on its labor blog, the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell brought up Los Angeles first when writing about the need to finance and construct new stadiums with a new collective bargaining agreement.[51] There has been talk of bringing two expansion teams to Los Angeles after a new collective bargaining agreement is achieved.[52]
Coliseum renovation[edit]
A renovated Coliseum would seat 65,000 for most major events, expanding to about 80,000 for Super Bowls and University of Southern California (USC) home games. The Coliseum would retain the peristyle section and columns that are part of the current stadium, in a design similar to Soldier Field in Chicago, which is the home of the Chicago Bears. This stadium was supported by then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Los Angeles City Council approved a preliminary financing plan and environmental impact report in 2006. But the Exposition Park area still carries safety concerns among some fans.
In October 2006, a new doubt was cast over the Coliseum's future as a possible venue, as reports surfaced that the Coliseum Commission was negotiating to hand over control of the stadium to USC, which could preclude any plans to renovate the stadium for the NFL.[53][54] Pat Lynch, the Coliseum's general manager, claimed in a panel discussion in December 2006 that the true cost of a new Coliseum would be closer to $650 million.[55]
Dodger Stadium site[edit]
The Dodger Stadium parking lot has been discussed by NFL owners, in private, as possibly being the best site in Southern California to build a new professional football stadium. Officials with the Dodgers and the NFL met in secret twice in 2005 to discuss the possibility of constructing a stadium and retail complex adjacent to Dodger Stadium. The 49ers' future home, Levi's Stadium, is also a facility being planned in the parking lot of a venue. After the Boston Herald reported the details of the plan, political pressure forced both the NFL and Dodgers owner Frank McCourt to deny that either party was aggressively pursuing the idea.[56]
City of Industry[edit]
Edward P. Roski, a part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, has announced plans for a new stadium on the northern side of the interchange of State Routes 57 and 60 (almost 22 miles (35 km) east of downtown LA) with the purpose of attracting a team to the Los Angeles region. Roski, who built the Staples Center, stated that the new 75,000 seat stadium, which is part of a 600 acre entertainment and retail project, would all be privately financed and would be the centerpiece of a new entertainment complex in the City of Industry.[57][58] The project is cleared to begin construction though it is waiting on the negotiations of the NFL's commitment to relocate a team (or possibility two) to Los Angeles.
Downtown Los Angeles[edit]
Casey Wasserman and Tim Leiweke have investigated the probability of building a 72,000-seat stadium behind Staples Center, where the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center now sits. In December Leiweke set a deadline anticipating a cleared negotiation with Los Angeles over control of the current convention center and ownership of the land and an agreement with the NFL over the likelihood of a team moving to Los Angeles.[59] AEG owner Philip Anschutz currently is not in support of the project.[60][61][62] Anschutz has discussed potential relocation with three teams: former Los Angeles teams: San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams, and Oakland Raiders. The Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, and San Francisco 49ers are no longer candidates for relocation.[63][64] On August 9, 2011, the LA City Council approved plans to build Farmers Field in a 12-0 vote. If an NFL team relocates to Los Angeles, the stadium could open in 2016.[4] Recently, AEG has released renderings of a new design plan for Farmers Field. These renderings show Farmers Field being an open sided retractable dome stadium, with a clear membrane acting as the retractable roof.
In fiction[edit]
In the season 7 Entourage episode "Buzzed", the fictional Hollywood agent Ari Gold is offered to run an NFL franchise in Los Angeles after he impresses the NFL board, but fails to win the contract to sell the NFL media rights.
In season 3 of Psych, an episode revolves around a murder of a player on the fictional L.A. Thunderbirds NFL team.
In the 1984 film Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges's character plays for a fictional team, the L.A. Outlaws.
The 1991 action film The Last Boy Scout revolves around a fictional team, the L.A. Stallions.
In the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty is the quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams.
The 2011 book Between the Lies by Marv Levy has a fictional NFL team from Los Angeles called the Los Angeles Leopards as one of the best teams in the NFL, along with the Portland Pioneers.[65]
The 2008 Midway Games video game Blitz: The League II featured a team called the L.A. Riot who played in Los Angeles and was the antagonist to the player-created team.
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External links[edit]
- Reasons for No Team in Los Angeles
- Potential Teams for Relocation to LA
- New Los Angeles stadium proposal site
- Does The NFL Really Want A Team In Los Angeles?


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