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The Human Element 3 commentsFeb 1, 2012 1:29 AM | about stocks: GSFVF
Companies & especially growth companies live and die by their management; if there is something I learned since I bought my first stock at the age of 17 is that management IS THE company; a company is not the brand, the name or the physical product or actual service they provide, a company is the embodiment of the people standing behind it; if you get the right people they will accomplish the impossible, and if you get the wrong people they will drive the best of products to the ground.
In my life I have came across many bright quantitative analysts; they can go through a balance sheet like going through a children book; within a couple of days of learning about a business they can quote you every ratio in the book, they will know the numbers better than the company CEO; but ultimately many of those people end nothing more than analysts because they can't turn their knowledge into profits.
One reason those quantitative analysts fail is because they are looking at the rear view mirror; they see what has been done, but they can't anticipate what will be; they can see how good a management team was, but they can't tell how good the new management will be; they can see how well the industry is doing, but they can't tell how it will do.
There is one thing quantitative analysts strive for, it is certainty; the numbers give them a sense of certainty, they don't have to guess, they don't have to wonder; it is all there for them to see; yet this certainty is a false one. Life by nature is uncertain; most of human endeavours are uncertain, for an investor to invest they need to bet on an uncertain future; piercing through the fog to get a glimpse of what to come.
Qualitative measurements are hard; judging people is not an exact science, such measurements for some people and investors are vague, unreliable, they want to see models; they want to dress an uncertain future with the appearance of certitude; every quarter analysts take their models and see how far reality has diverted from their vision of reality; in time they spend their days worrying more about the accuracy of their models than what is happening in reality.
I will not disclose what I have made in the markets, but I have made a fortune to retire many times over; yet I use no models, I don't care for models and I don't look for models. Once I identify an industry and a business I like, I follow this simple formula:
Who are the people behind the business?.
What are their intentions?
Can they execute on their intentions?.
For the first question, I check their history, for the second question I talk to them and hear/read what they have to say; and for the third I make a judgment and track their progress over a reasonable amount of time (minimum 4 quarters).
I am not looking for an exact number, or an exact target in terms of revenues and profits, I am looking to see progress; I want to see the company make more money in year two than in year one; I want to see the company with more customers in year two than in year one; I want to see them to sale more gadgets in year two than year one; as long as a company is executing and demonstrating growth, its value in the marketplace will take care of itself.
By the end of 2012, I don't know how many contracts Zeke and his staff will sign, perhaps one, two or three, I don't know if they will make $400m in revenues, $500m in revenues or more, I don't know if they will have $80m in ebitda or $100m in ebitda, I don't know if they will make 70c EPS or $1 EPS; at this stage this does not really matter; any of the numbers I mentioned will present significant progress in my book; and this is all what I need to see.
I only invested in Gasfrac after they hired a new management team, and through my conversations with them, they have passed my first two questions; now if they can really execute, investors in this company will be richly rewarded. There is no better value creation engine than a management team that can execute in a growth company.
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I would agree that when one buys into a business, one buys into the management and it is the management which will make it a success or failure.
Mtn, Thanks for your comment. Certainly when I wrote this blog post, I did not have you in mind; I believe you have a clear understanding of both the qualitative and quantitative side of investing; my focus was rather on those who totally ignore the human side and focus solely on their models.
Models make nothing happen, People with directed plans do.
Action is the name of any game!
It proves the model!!!
GFS Team as it is unfolding will not only prove the model, they will expand it beyond the present.
I know that those who understand both model & implementation see the future.
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By all accounts, this is the term that Sonia and the party must finish laying the groundwork for Rahul to take the reins — most likely as the next Congress candidate for prime minister."He is now not only a grownup man," said longtime Congress stalwart Mani Shankar Aiyar. "He has reached the age of 40, which was the age when Jawaharlal Nehru became president of the party in 1929, the age that Indira Gandhi became president of the party in 1959, and the age that [Rahul's] father, Rajiv Gandhi, became president of the party and prime minister in 1984."With gravitas and a touch of glamour, the Gandhi family is India's equivalent of the Kennedy clan. But the dynasty Aiyar cites — from great grandfather to grandmother to father to son — has come under increasing criticism in recent years as India strives to slough off its decades-long tradition of rule by a postcolonial, English-educated elite. 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Extended c.1200 to "a number of animals of one kind moving or feeding together;" of domestic animals c.1300. Transferred to bodies of Christians, in relation to Christ or their local pastor, from mid-14c.
"tuft of wool," mid-13c., probably from Old French floc, from Latin floccus "flock of wool, lock of hair."
"gather, congregate," c.1300, from flock (n.). Related: Flocked; flocking.


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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: Marian Gaborik #10 of the New York Rangers celebrates with teammate Vaclav Prospal #20 after scoring in the third period against the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center on October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
Marian Gaborik has been the New York Rangers best forward thus far this season. Gaborik has returned to the form of his first season in New York with four goals already and showing the burst he never really had last season. With as well as Gaborik has been playing the fact he was not playing for much of the third period against Winnipeg caused concern for possible injury and/or anger at coach John Tortorella for possibly benching the star winger. Luckily it appears that neither of those was the case. According to Larry Brooks at The New York Post the reason that Gaborik only got four shifts and 3:03 of ice time in the third period was because of the amount of time the team spent pinned in their own end.
"It was not a benching," Tortorella said. "Gabby has probably been our most consistent forward."There are those who still want to see Gaborik get his ice time because of how good he has been and it is hard to blame them for that. It was a missed Gaborik shift that saw Prust, Richards and Fedotenko get pinned in the defensive zone for nearly two minutes, but eventually led to the power play that Callahan scored on. Once the Rangers took the lead there was no reason to double shift Gaborik to make up for the lost ice time, especially since there are forwards much better equipped to preserve the lead. Sure Gaborik could go out and make it a two goal game with another snipe and make the rest of the game a little easier to take, but his line also could have been responsible for giving up the tying goal and then Tortorella would have been hammered for having him out there.
Gaborik will get used and abused when the team is in need of a goal while down one or tied in the third, so there is no reason to worry about running him out there when you have the lead. That is the luxury of having Callahan, Dubinsky, Boyle, Prust to sustain those third period leads. Tortorella makes questionable decisions with the lineup and the lines, but his use of Gaborik in the third period Monday night was not one of them.
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After I put the coffee pot on to perk this morning, I started to unload the dishwasher. Since I hate unloading the flatware basket, I always do it first. I carefully removed it from its slots in the machine's front door and started to lay it on the cabinet when the latch abruptly opened and dumped all the clean spoons, forks, knives, peelers, spatulas, and God only knows what else into the floor. Immediately from somewhere deep in the remotest recesses of my brain, I thought, "Man, I sure am fumble-fisted this morning."
Laughter gurgled up from my belly. Where on earth did that expression come from? I hadn't heard anyone say that in decades, probably not since it came from Grandpa Hayes' mouth, and he died when I was 19 years old. That was a while back.
"Fumble-fisted!" What on earth is going on in my brain? I shudder to think.
Recently, a student was speaking to me about his C- grade.
"Mrs. Ellis, I just don't see how I could possibly have a 71 average," he moaned. "My mama is going to kill me."
I've noticed that students rarely worry about grades until taking them home to mama is imminent.
"Well, John, I don't understand myself," I replied. "It seems to me that it should be somewhere in the 50's."
"Oh, no, ma'am," he said. "I've worked a little bit. You know I've learned something in here, even if my grades don't show it."
"Well, John, I'm sure your mama will understand when you explain that to her. You'd have learned a lot more and your grades would show it if you weren't so dad-blamed lazy," I replied.
"Dad-blamed?" He asked. "What does that mean? Is that a bad word?"
He started laughing. "Mrs. Ellis, I think you just said a bad word."
What I had said had dated me for sure. My mama used to say that when she was really frustrated.
"Dad-blame it, Mary Ann. I told you to wash them dishes. Why ain't they done yet?"
I even heard it come from my daddy's mouth a few times when a tire blew out, but I haven't heard it from anyone in quite a long time until it tumbled out of my mouth. My parents would never have uttered society's BAD words, but they had quite a variety of synonyms that were just as effective.
John and I both started laughing, his deplorable grade temporarily forgotten.
"You told us the only bad words were linking verbs," John said. "At least, 'dad-blamed' isn't a linking verb. It's pretty graphic."
I haven't been able to figure out why these archaic expressions from my deep, dark past keep popping up and popping out. I am befuddled, to say the least. I like to consider myself a wordsmith. I love language, enjoy new words and old ones. Language enriches my life, so why am I slipping backward to my roots? Those language roots are the ones I worked so hard to eradicate.
I haven't slipped all the way into the abyss yet though. All the Sundays of my childhood we visited my grandparents, placed our fannies on wooden benches, and feasted at my grandma's long handmade wooden table. We'd sop our gravy with her biscuits hot from the belly of her giant woodstove and eat streak-o-lean and ham from grandpa's smokehouse. Then, especially if the weather were nice, Grandpa invariably invited us to sot on the porch with him. Now sot was an interesting verb, all tenses. You didn't have to put a lot of thought into it.
"Let's sot on the porch right now," he'd say, beckoning us toward the front of his shotgun house. "Yore ma and me sot out here shelling peas most of the day yestiddy," he told my mother. "We'll most likely sot out here tomar, too."
The verb sot is my ultimate gage. If I'm talking to you and invite you to sot with me, please do me a favor and call the nice young men in their clean white coats. You can bet I will have finally lost it and lapsed into the language of another age entirely. Maybe they can find some of my peers who speak that language, too.
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The widget displays a list of your most frequently called contacts that you can dial directly from your home screen.
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This app searches all fields in your contacts. It integrates seamlessly with Google's Search functionality. It can also be added to Google's Quick Search Box working besides the default Contacts search functionality.
Add this app to the Quick Search Box by looking into the settings of the Quick Search Box. You'll find it added at the list of Searchable Items.
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Also see Quick Calendar and the widget Quick Toolbar
Version 1.1 : Change icon to match Quick Toolbar
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To make it work, you must install the latest version of Next Launcher 3D which is #1 3D home launcher app in Android Market.
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Launcher Pro, ADW Launcher, Zeam, Go Launcher, Home+ etc. are all supported Launcher. Provided you enable Scrollable support in Launcher Settings.
Default Android Launcher does not support Scrollable Widget, neither does HTC Launcher or Samsung TouchWiz Launcher.
There are two Contact widgets:
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Very Fast and low on memory.
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Application Launcher widget shows selected by you apps at one icon. You can group some frequently used apps to widget and start those apps in 2 taps. Long tap on app opens App info page, that allows to force stop the app quickly.
Group contacts is advanced folder of contacts, that allows to start any action of any contact in 2-3 taps. Skin, color and image customization will help you to highlight contacts and find them on the screen quickly.
All widgets provide possibility to use various types of gestures: swipe, scroll, pinch, zoom. One-finger, two-finger and three-fingers gestures are supported. Don't waste time to find out the icon of the action on the screen – just open widget and make short gesture to execute favorite app or start call to your friend.
You can save space on your home screen. Group items according to labels and create fully customizable folders and widgets. You can organize your apps, contacts and bookmarks in efficient way.
Transfer Contacts
Works with iPhone, BlackBerry and most of Bluetooth enabled phones.
If you have less than 100 Contacts, operation is 100% free.
For more than 100 Contacts, fee is about 1$, depending on your region and currency.
You can easily transfer Contacts from any Bluetooth enabled phone to Android:
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Does it show my contact photo?
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There are several good home screen launchers that provide this functionality.
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What all shortcuts can I make?
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This is a standalone app for performing shaft alignment, using indicator dials, on typical applications such as a motor and a pump. The app guides the user through the complete measurement and alignment process simplifying otherwise cumbersome tasks such as calculations and determination of directions and amount to move the machine to achieve a perfect alignment. With this release users who have purchased the Fixturlaser Dial Kit can forget about bar sag compensation altogether - the app compensates automatically for the correct amount of bar sag.
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Set of Contact, Contact Group, Apps Launcher and Bookmarks Launcher Widgets.
Contact widget shows photo of the contact and provides instant access to various contact's actions: phone call, SMS, chat, email, make calls and sending messages through instant messengers, opening post address on map, opening URLs in browser and so on. Start any action in 1-2 tap.
App Launcher widget shows selected by you apps at one icon. You can group some frequently used apps to widget and start those apps in 2 taps. Long tap on app opens App info page, that allows to force stop the app quickly.
Group contacts is advanced folder of contacts, that allows to start any action of any contact in 2-3 taps. Skin, color and image customization will help you to highlight contacts and find them on the screen quickly.
All widgets provide possibility to use various types of gestures: swipe, scroll, pinch, zoom. One-finger, two-finger and three-fingers gestures are supported. Don't waste time to find out the icon of the action on the screen – just open widget and make short gesture to execute favorite app or start call to your friend.
You can Save space on your home screen. Group items according to labels and create fully customizable folders and widgets. You can organize your apps, contacts and bookmarks in efficient way.
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APW Widgets
✓ Designed for both smart phones and tablets
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✓ Scrollable widgets (please read notes 2-3)
✓ For any issue please email us to firstname.lastname@example.com
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"Now This is What an Ice Cream Sandwich Widget Should Look Like" - AndroidSpin (refers to Modern ICS themes)
■ Available widgets:
☆ Agenda & Calendar
☆ People
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☆ Twitter
■ More tools:
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☆ Say What - little 4x1 widget to update Facebook/Twitter quickly from the home screen.
■ Please
☆ Need help? Email us to email@example.com
☆ Read the notes before you comment.
☆ Use http://apw.uservoice.com for any feature request.
☆ Read known issues and suggested fixes at http://androidprowidgets.blogspot.com/p/known-issues.html
■ Buy the license key to support the development and unlock all features including access to many themes.
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■ Theme Makers:
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■ Notes:
[1] This is a widgets package. The main app is mainly intended for explaining how to actually add widgets to your home screen.
[2] A scroll button is used on Android 2.x with launchers that don't support scrollable widgets. If your launcher does not support scrolling either use the scroll button or replace your launcher. Honeycomb, ICS, JB, ADW Launcher, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher Ex and many other launchers support scrollable widgets.
[3] Calendar widget is not scrollable in its grid mode.
[4] In Quick Event entering the edit window will ignore the reminder setting and the selected calendar, and use the default calendar application settings instead.
[5] Bookmarks widget supports the following browsers: Stock, Chrome, MIUI, Skyfire. Please understand that most browsers simply can't be supported.
[6] Facebook/Twitter pictures are cached to SD card. Clear cache in preferences if the pictures are outdated.
[7] On Android 4.x the Facebook for Android application does not normally allow non system applications to access contact images. Use the free Facebook contact Sync application http://goo.gl/Jw8W7
[8] Reasons for every permission are available here http://androidprowidgets.blogspot.com/p/android-permissions.html
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Attach Contact
Have you ever started to write an email and then realized that you want to attach the contact information of someone in your People (contacts) app? Only to then find out that the "attach" button in your email client won't offer you to select a contact. Okay, now…
• close the draft
• exit the email app
• open the People app
• open a contact
• press "Share"
• select the email app
• and type the text again
Too complicated? I agree! That's why I made this little app to allow you to attach contacts directly from the email app.
• While composing an email, select the "attach" action.
• When asked what type of attachment you want to add, select "Attach a contact".
• Finally, select the contact whose information you want to attach in the VCARD (.vcf) file format.
Works with…
• Gmail
• Email
• K-9 Mail
• Kaiten Mail
• MailDroid
• … and most likely every other email app.
If this app doesn't work for you, please drop me a line using the "email developer" link in the Play store.
1.) User
2.) Node
3.) Comment
4.) Taxonomy
5.) DB Log
6.) Site Configuration
Supports following Drupal Contributed module :
1.) Backup Migrate
Additional Features:
1.) Push Notifications for Drupal 7 sites
Documentation link for the application.
People Widget
To make the most of this widget you will need to have contact photos set, and if they're high resolution then crank up the size of the widget for a cool photo frame effect!
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All proceeds from this morning's breakfast benefit the Zanesville Kiwanis Club. Preside of the Kiwanis Club Bob Davidson says this benefit helps the club fundraise projects that will make a difference in someone's life.
"One of our key focuses is on children and meeting some of their needs. With the special riders; the car seats. We also have had some projects in the past where we had diaper drives to help those mothers who need assistance with diapers," said Davidson.
Davidson says other projects include building wheelchair ramps and painting world maps on local school playgrounds. Davidson says the Kiwanis Club's goal is to dedicate themselves to serving their neighbors.
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It's an oft-cited FEMA statistic that 40 percent of small businesses never reopen after a disaster. Almost certainly contributing to this eye-popping failure rate is the fact that an estimated 74 percent of small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) lack a disaster recovery plan, while 84 percent haven't bothered to obtain disaster insurance.
On an annual basis, flooding ranks as the most common and costly type of natural disaster in America. This hurricane season alone is expected to boast 10 named tropical storms and five hurricanes. Those SMBs that don't want their data to wash away with the rest of their possessions should consider revisiting the planning process, strategies, and cloud technologies that help businesses stay afloat in the event of a disaster.
Be Proactive - Planning Improves Reaction Time and Outcomes
Most businesses naively believe that they won't experience a true disaster, or that they'll just cross that bridge when in happens. However, according to the Aberdeen Group, disaster is arguably inevitable with the average business experiencing 2.26 downtime events per year, at an average cost of $163,674. Since all businesses aren't created equal, and many are constrained by dollars and cents, businesses must carefully calibrate their strategy for response to be commensurate with their risk. A well thought out business continuity and disaster recovery plan that takes into account the following six steps can make all the difference between a business that is poised for continued success, and one that is done in by something going awry:
Step 1: Identify mission-critical applications and data by performing a risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA) as well as taking an asset inventory. This analysis will allow the business to calculate the potential impact of its most likely threats and prioritize their response accordingly.
Step 2: Estimate when operations should/will resume by measuring success against established RTO/RPO through frequent testing to ensure flexibility in the disaster recovery technology solution(s) the business chooses. Companies should keep in mind that, while accurate RTO/RPOs are easy to attain with specific systems, they are very hard to meet when data becomes more agnostic and distributed across more systems.
Step 3: Identify a backup worksite in the event the business becomes unsafe.
Step 4: Design and publish the business continuity plan/disaster recovery plan (BCP/DRP), making sure it is accessible to everyone from anywhere.
Step 5: Make sure employees know about the plan and are familiar with it. When disaster strikes, businesses with a clearly defined plan and consistent communication can more quickly cut through the chaos and get back on track.
Step 6: Businesses should regularly put their BCP/DRP to the test to ensure it meets current and future needs, and to expose areas that can be updated for improvement. With the maturity of cloud solutions, you also have to take into account migrating and living with a more diverse private/public cloud portfolio. Ensure you have a go-to plan for the future to expand into new things like high availability, and archiving within clouds.
Disaster-Proofing Strategies & Technologies for Every Situation and Budget
First, let's get one thing out of the way: tape is not a recovery solution. With the dizzying pace of innovation, today's modern business continuity and disaster recovery solutions available in the cloud have proliferated almost beyond count. This is making it challenging for a business to hone in on the right solutions, so let's take a quick look at some solutions that can fit various needs and budgets.
Community Cloud
In the SMB market, one strategy we are increasingly seeing is "community cloud" initiatives, which allow businesses to share risk and pool resources to stretch their dollars. For instance, through a mutual agreement, two companies in the same region could house one of their servers in the other's data center. Thus, rather than having to set up, manage, and pay for a duplicate data center, the companies are each afforded off-site protection. However, in event of a regional disaster, such as a storm, each of the sites might be subject to identical threats. Therefore, this option should be reserved for businesses with shoestring budgets, in areas that face low regional threat risk.
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
The emergence of cloud-based DRaaS over the past few years has been a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and budgets. DRaaS solutions can enable complete recovery of data and entire production environments in minutes - not hours or days. On a predetermined basis, a company's physical and/or virtual servers send images of their environments to the cloud of a DRaaS provider. In the event of an adverse event at the company's site, such as a storm or fire, a virtualized (and fully-operational) version of the physical server can be rapidly spun-up in the DRaaS cloud. Additionally, the affordability of DRaaS is attractive as it doesn't require capital investment and even some appliance-based solutions are offered as Hardware as a Service.
Despite its abundant benefits, though, DRaaS still doesn't solve the age-old problem of "what" a business needs to protect unless it's set up manually by default. Moreover, while advances in WAN Optimization equate to more rapid transfer of data to the cloud, there are still some bandwidth issues.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Hybrid cloud solutions are bursting onto the market and freeing applications from the need to be tied to a physical piece of hardware. They enable applications to live both locally, as well as in a cloud environment, at the same time. These hybrid solutions mean businesses don't have to DIY for their own disaster recovery sites and can instead designate a cloud provider to provide the infrastructure
In turn, these cloud vendors can achieve efficacies of scale and performance rarely seen with individual operators. For a small number of application-centric situations, such as finance institutions, this won't be the best solution. But for almost any other business, it leaves no reason not to move disaster recovery to the cloud.
Multi-Cloud Solutions
The disaster recovery landscape continues to evolve at a breakneck pace and very soon businesses will have the ability to operate between many clouds and avoid being locked down by just one. For instance, companies can now choose solutions that enable virtual and physical loads to be recovered inside multiple cloud providers and even orchestrate cascading failovers between different providers. This freedom essentially enables businesses to place their recovery eggs in multiple baskets. In the distant future, we can logically surmise that businesses will one day be able to move between cloud providers on a whim by simply pushing a button and failing over on top of another cloud platform.
Choosing the Right Solution
Businesses can narrow their search a bit further by choosing universal products that address their basic need around recovery (failover/failback) while being as agnostic to hardware and software as possible. At the same time, they should expand their horizons and look for application-centric solutions that enable them to focus on what matters: the actual data that drives their business. Any company that maintains a business continuity plan and implements the right cloud technology to meet their needs is well on the path to saving itself from becoming another morbid statistic the next time disaster strikes.
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