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"Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures," Sharpton, a civil-rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement Tuesday.
"We are totally offended by the continuous use of the n-word in (cartoonist Aaron) McGruder's show."
The episode, The Return of the King, aired Jan. 15, the day before the national holiday honoring the slain civil-rights leader. It shows King emerging from a coma and using the n-word in an angry speech venting his frustration toward sexually explicit hip-hop videos, among other things.
In the episode, King is branded a traitor and terrorist sympathizer for his "turn-the-other cheek" philosophy of non-violence in response to post-Sept. 11 retaliation. Exhausted, he moves to Canada, but his speech provokes a second civil-rights revolution.
Cartoon Network released a statement Tuesday saying the episode is a tribute to King and "in no way was meant to offend or 'desecrate'" his name.
"We think Aaron McGruder came up with a thought-provoking way of not only showing Dr. King's bravery but also of reminding us of what he stood and fought for, and why even today, it is important for all of us to remember that and to continue to take action," the statement said.
McGruder, who has been called a "genius" and "the angriest black man in America" as he skewered everything from the Bush White House to Black Entertainment Television, began writing The Boondocks comic strip, on which the TV series is based, in 1997.
The strip, known for its risky political and social satire, follows the adventures of two black children living in a white, middle-class suburb.
Sharpton said he could appreciate McGruder and his achievements, but added: "This particular episode is over the line."
The Boondocks airs Sundays at 11 p.m. ET on Cartoon Network. It is the centerpiece of the Adult Swim late-night block of programming.


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SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2013 — Covington & Burling advised Emeryville, Calif.-based Aspera, Inc. in its sale to IBM. Aspera's high-speed transfer technology helps clients securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world. Aspera's technology, licensed to clients and partners either in the cloud or on premises, reduces transmission times for large files or data sets by up to 99.9 percent.
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AKRON, Ohio -- University of Akron tennis coaches Brandon Padgett and Brian Peters have been selected to represent northeast Ohio as coaches in the 2014 Baird Cup on June 13-15. The event is sponsored by the United States Tennis Association (USTA).
Padgett will serve as the head coach for the 18-and-under girls team in the Marian Wood Baird Cup, held at the University of Illinois Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill.
"It is a great honor and wonderful opportunity to represent northeast Ohio as the coach for such a prestigious event like the Baird Cup," said Padgett. "It has been awhile since I coached high school aged players. I am looking forward to the interaction that will occur, and the ability to hopefully have a lasting impact on these young players."
Teams comprised of the best 18-and-under girls from each of the Midwest Section's 14 Districts participate in the annual event, which uses a round-robin format. Following two days of round-robin competition, the top four players advance to a playoff. Juniors competing on each district team are selected to participate based on their ranking, tournament play, character, and sportsmanship.
Peters will lead the region's 14-and-under boys and girls teams in the District Team Cup competition on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
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It is a natural pursuit to want to be happy. But that seems to be quite challenging in this day and age, when people are so stressed for success. This unique conference includes Paul Ekman, Jim Doty, Fred Luskin and other luminaries from the fields of neuroscience and psychology who will demonstrate the best ways of achieving happiness and compassion.
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KINSHASA May 10 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo state miner Gecamines said in a statement on Tuesday that it was not informed of Freeport-McMoRan Inc's sale of its majority stake in the Tenke copper project and "will assert its rights."
Freeport sold its 56 percent stake to China Molybdenum Co Ltd (CMOC) on Monday for $2.65 billion in cash. Gecamines holds a 20 percent stake in Tenke, one of the world's largest copper mines. (Reporting by Aaron Ross; Editing by Joe Bavier)
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Portugal's António Guterres possibly hold the world's top diplomatic post, former Prime Minister of Portugal may be the next United Nations Secretary-General following the sixth secret ballot held today by the UN Security Council.
António Guterres, a former Portuguese Prime Minister, has emerged as the favourite to hold the world's top diplomatic post. Mr. Guterres' name will be approved after the 6th secret ballot held by the UN Security Council. The 193-Member General Assembly should confirm their choice soon.
This month, an ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia holds the Security Council presidency. The Russian diplomat informed:
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The Council meets now (6 October 10 AM) to take a formal vote, the final decision would then be formally submitted to the General Assembly for its consideration. For the first time in a history of the United Nations, the Secretary-General elections wasn't a closed-door process but involve the public discussions with each candidate campaigning for the world's top diplomatic post.


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If you have a good waffle iron, waffles are a surprisingly easy way to start your day. Like pancakes, the batter for this recipe can be mixed up in just a couple of minutes. Unlike pancakes, however, there is no need to stand over the stove because the iron does all the work for you while you do other morning tasks, such as brewing up ... Read More »
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I can't remember the last time I had a really good bear claw. A bear claw is a type of pastry that originated in the US sometime in the early 20th century, getting its name from the partial slices made along one side of the curved pastry that resembled the claws of a bear (particularly if you squint). There are actually several styles of bear ... Read More »
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There are two types of cake that I will serve at breakfast: streusel-topped coffee cakes and moist, fruit-laden cakes. The fruity cakes could certainly be considered as dessert options, but when cakes are loaded with fruit I tend to feel that they don't need frosting and that frosting-less cakes are very valid breakfast options (even though they're still technically cake). This Blueberry Lemon Brunch Cake ... Read More »
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If you're preparing a weekend brunch, a homemade coffee cake is a must-make item. It's a brunch staple because it is delicious – and this streusel-laden Vanilla Bean Coffee Cake is even more delicious than most. It is made with greek yogurt, which contributes to the dense, but tender, crumb of the cake and gives the cake a hint of tanginess that contrasts well with ... Read More »
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There are many ways to enjoy Angel Food Cake and this Angel Food Cake French Toast just might be the best one yet. The recipe is exactly what it sounds like: slices of homemade angel food cake are used to make some of the most delicious french toast you've ever eaten. Angel food cake is ideal for making french toast because its light, spongy texture ... Read More »
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Funfetti cakes are always crowd-pleasers, whether the people eating them are 5 or 95. The colorful cakes convey a sense of fun that few other cakes do - and they're delicious, as well. Cakes aren't the only baked goods that you can add some edible confetti to. These Funfetti Belgian Waffles allow you to bring some of that fun into breakfast by adding rainbow sprinkles to ... Read More »
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I recently got a copy of Crissy Tiegen's new cookbook Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat. The book has a fun mix of recipes – but more on that when I dedicate a full post to it – and the one for Yellow Cake Baked Oatmeal caught my eye immediately. The recipe combined a popular dessert option (yellow cake) with a ... Read More »
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I'll eat fresh asparagus any time I can get it (except, of course, for dessert) and I tend to eat quite a bit of it during the spring when it has just come into season and is at its best. This Asparagus & Goat Cheese Frittata is an excellent breakfast or brunch option for asparagus fans who want to make the most of this delicous ... Read More »


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On 01 Sep 2004, at 23:19, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Mark Lundquist wrote: > >> Dear devs, >> >> I like to use cocoon.sh "as is", configuring it from without by means >> of a wrapper script. Using cocoon.sh without modification makes it >> easier to take Cocoon version upgrades. >> >> There is one thing, though, that I still have to change. I use the >> DJB "daemontools" package to run all my Jetty+Cocoon instances under >> supervision and provide for automatic startup at boot-time. This >> only works if I change cocoon.sh to exec the Java interpreter without >> forking. > > > What do you mean by "without forking" ? The shell has to lauch the JVM > in a separate process. Or do I miss something? I'm using http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/ - which has a native part doing the daemonizing of the VM. I had a look at commons-daemon and DJB's daemontools as well, but finally sticked with wrapper - it worked as promised and didn't require any exotic thinking so common to DJB's tools. All three of them require you somehow to "unfold" what is transcribed/constructed in the cocoon.sh shell script into a one-line JVM invocation. Doing an "echo" at the end will help you to find out classpath, class to be invoked, etc etc... Since this is all system-dependent, I wonder if we could offer init-v like shell scripts with Cocoon. Most of those which came with other Java apps didn't work as expected on my system (like forking into another user). </Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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Native English Writer Who's Also a Passionate RUNNER Wanted for Running Lifestyle Articles - Running Shoe Reviews, Best Shoe Lists, Running Guides
Ten projekt otrzymał 21 ofert od utalentowanych freelancerów ze średnią ceną ofert wynoszącą $1014 USD.Otrzymaj darmowe wyceny do podobnego projektu
Budżet Projektu$750 - $1500 USD
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I'm looking for a NATIVE English (born and raised in UK,Canada, Australian, NZ, or US) who can write high quality reviews about running, specifically write running shoe reviews and guides!
Reviews must be high quality, full of real, legit information (which you must research). I would like someone who is passionate about running.
Many of the articles will also be general running guides (how to prepare for a marathon, how to improve your 10k run time, etc).
You're task will be to write many huge and detailed reviews about various running shoes (to start). The reviews will be 1500-2500 words and full of details. The goal will be to give the reader informative information to make a buying decision. I expect the reviews to be the BEST reviews out there about the shoes one can find.
If you are NOT native English born or you can't write quality articles about the topics listed, don't apply.
My rate is $4 per 500 word article to start (and work ill be up tp 750 dollars worth of articles). Also, if you are the sort that doesn't mind writing big articles, this job is for you. Many of the articles will be "big" articles -- 2000 words, though the average review will probably be 1500 words.
If your work is good, STABLE l work available writing about the topic. If you are a proven article writer and you know how to write high quality, informative, and well-researched articles about shoes, then this is the job for you.
Please, please, please. If you have no intention of actually doing consistent work, don't wast my time or your time applying and doing the trial.
-Articles must be written by native-English born speakers, well-written, and very informative
-Researched! Article must NOT be full of fluff and filler words just to reach the word limit!!! This means you will need to do good research for each article and the reviews should read like any quality review you might find on a trusted running shoe website. In some of the reviews, you may put in pictures too. If you are the type that just sits down and starts writing, please don't wast both our time by applying. I am going to be very picky here. If the work is not good, I won't accept it.
-Article must pass copyscape (I will check every single article)
-Keyword present in first paragraph, once or twice in body, and once in final paragraph; keyword not to appear more than 6 times per 1500 words. Use of related keywords as well.
-Keyword must be placed in such a way that it makes grammatical sense
-Consistent delivery of articles to deadline! I give you constant work, you give me consistent articles!
-You must have experience writing quality articles -- university, past credible freelancer projects, etc. Many of these articles will be REVIEW articles, so it helps if you've had experience writing big indepth reviews about running shoes (New Balance, Nike, etc).
-A PASSION for running!
We'll start with a 3 big paid article trial with a slightly lower rate just for this trial: $3 per 500 words. The trial article will be three running shoe review articles, each between 1500-2000 words. If the reviews are impressive, then there will be a LOT of work for you right away. Please note, don't accept the trial and write a bunch of crap expecting to get paid -- if the trial article is not of quality with in-depth information, I will reject it!
So if you are interested in earning some stable money right away, pop me an email with a paragraph explaining why you think your a good match for this position (MUST have this paragraph or I won't consider you) and your experience with running/running shoes. You must attach relevant samples of your past work (you won't be considered for the position unless I can see how you write). Those who do NOT send me a message won't be considered.
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GPI finds qualified adoptive homes for retired racing greyhounds, thus providing opportunity for these gentle creatures to continue life as family companions. GPI educates the public on the benefits of greyhound companionship, provides information on the care and welfare of ex-racing greyhounds, and provides opportunities for volunteer service in a well established greyhound rescue organization.
U.S. Pacific Northwest States: Washington, Idaho, Oregon.
Canada, British Columbia and Alberta
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This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
How does this organization make a difference?
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Through the efforts of GPI volunteers, over 5,200 retired racing greyhounds have found rewarding lives as companions in family homes. As Greyhound Racing venues diminish there are periods of intense need for care of large numbers of retired racers while they await adoptive families. GPI is one of the largest, best equipped and supported organizations able to assist in meeting those needs.
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Program 1
Kennel Facility Operations
GPI's largest continuing program is the operation of "Hern Greyt Works". This kennel facility houses and cares for up to 37 retired racing Greyhounds as a halfway house between track and a "Forever Home".
Program long term success
This new modern facility began operations in July 2008 after two years in development. The facility is staffed by part time employees and volunteers enabling continuous operations in support of GPI's mission. Recent enhancements to the facility have enabled conduct of volunteer training and public educational events.
Program success monitored by
The kennel program is monitored continually by the board of directors and the kennel manager. Employees directly contribute to evaluation of operational procedures and facility assets.
Program success examples
Having a central operations facility has enhanced the ability to care for many more Greyhounds as they await placement in an adoptive home. The physical capacity of the facility allows storage of large volumes of essential consumables that are donated from a variety of sources. The modern, high quality, full featured aspects of the kennel have increased participation of existing volunteers and attracted new volunteers at a much higher rate than previously experienced. As Greyhound Racing Tracks continue to close across the country, GPI is specifically sought out by industry principals to assist in transitioning large numbers of retiring Racing Greyhounds into adoptive homes.
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
Program 2
Available Dog Veterinary Care
Upon receipt of a retired racer from the Greyhound racing industry, every hound is given a physical, worming, update on shots, dental treatment and cleaning, spay or neuter procedures and microchip identification. When dogs are identified as having special needs, follow up evaluation, treatment and medication are provided until full recovery or determination of the need for a continuing care regimen.
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Publications and Public Outreach
Production and distribution of educational materials on Greyhound adoption, Greyhound care seminars, newsletter, volunteer manuals, adopter manuals, donor thank you certificates, donor recognition displays, meet-n-greet booths and commercial advertisement.
Program long term success
Public awareness has been notably enhanced within the region served by GPI. Growing interest in GPI's Retired Racer adoption program is often reported in the regional press and in British Columbia press in addition to the growing notoriety of public outreach events where available dogs are featured. Several locally based major corporations have joined in support through matching donation programs.
Program success monitored by
The board of directors regularly evaluates the scope and effectiveness of the educational and outreach programs through review of internal and external feedback
Program success examples
There are many public encounters where people express appreciation for what GPI is doing regardless of their ability to adopt a Greyhound. Adopters contribute their experiences for publication in the "Bark" newsletter and many give feedback on the value of specific care recommendations. GPI's on-line forum is a 24/7 resource for information exchange and alert communications that is highly valued and well subscribed. Website promotion by business card distribution at public events has resulted in a growing number of website 'hits'. Appointments for kennel visits have increased over 200% in the past 18 months.
Population(s) Served
Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
General Public/Unspecified
U.S. Pacific Northwest States: Washington, Idaho, Oregon.
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The integration of both theories and practices of management enables in-service executives to gain management knowledge, expertise and insights they require to take on the personal and professional challenges of their future lives and careers. The programme is designed by experts in management education at the University and delivered by local faculty associates who are both academically qualified and professionally experienced.
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Video of the arrest shows a driver stepping slowly out of his truck, kneeling and putting his hands on the ground before several officers rush in and start punching him
Police then took him to jail, instead of the ER where they had taken him to get a mental health evaluation. He was unresponsive and brought back to the same ER
Six white plainclothes officers accosted Blake, throwing him down on a sidewalk in midtown Manhattan after he was misidentified as a suspect in a fraud case
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Meanwhile at Trent Bridge... a lonely vigil continues
Richard Latham reports
It's Derbyshire's day at Taunton. Shivnarine Chanderpaul has seen them to a two-wicket victory that could have a huge bearing on the LV=County Championship relegation issue. Somerset's last throw of the dice was to hand Alfonso Thomas the second new ball with five runs needed, but there was no dislodging the experienced West Indies star, who finished unbeaten on 74.
Derbyshire take 21 points to Somerset's three and leapfrog their opponents, who drop into the bottom two of the First Division with two games left. Bottom club Surrey, who have a game in hand, visit Taunton next week and if the game is anything like the one we have just witnessed the nerve ends of Somerset fans will be stretched to breaking point.
Meanwhile, Derbyshire continue to confound the pundits with their spirited fight to retain First Division status. They are the team among the strugglers with momentum and it would take a brave man to bet against them staying up. Great game of Championship cricket with more twists than a snake charmer's convention.
Richard Latham reports
Cricket can be a mad game at times. Having delayed lunch at 12.30pm because a finish was imminent, the umpires have now signalled the interval at 12.45pm with Derbyshire potentially just one hit away from victory. They are 238 for eight, needing six more runs, and no doubt the rules have been applied. It means a prolonging of the drama, which has seen Chanderpaul dropped at mid-on by Craig Meschede off Chawla, two-handed to his right, when 21 runs were still required. The potential consequences of that error don't bear thinking about.
Leach has been the pick of the Somerset attack, although Chawla has five wickets in the innings and ten in the match. Chanderpaul is 72 not out and on the verge of being the toast of Derbyshire. Can there be one final twist in this see-saw game? Somerset - and Meschede in particular - will be praying for one.
Richard Latham reports
Now Wainwright has departed for seven, stumped by Kieswetter advancing down the track to Chawla, with 28 still needed and only two wickets left. Chanderpaul and Groenewald have both just survived huge appeals for catches in Leach's latest over. If there has been a better game in the Championship this season I wish had been there to see it.
Richard Latham reports
Hughes has gone for 33 and it is Leach, not Chawla, who is looking the biggest threat to a Derbyshire win. The left-armer had reeled off 20 dot balls from the River End when pinning Hughes lbw on the back foot and has just beaten Poynton twice in an over. But the calming influence of Chanderpaul is still there, content to push singles and take his time over reaching the finishing line. It's down to 38 needed, but as I write Poynton has fallen leg before to a Chawla long-hop which he attempted to pull for four. Three wickets for Somerset to take at 206 for seven and it's edge of the seat stuff.
Richard Latham reports
The Kieswetter experiment lasted three overs, which saw him lucky to concede only 14 runs, and Derbyshire have advanced to 195 for five, with Chanderpaul having completed a priceless half-centure off 86 balls. Somerset's cricket is starting to verge on desperation, but the ball is still turning and one breakthrough might yet set up a nerve-racking finale. Just 49 needed.
Richard Latham reports
With Derbyshire 172 for five and needed a further 72 to win, Somerset have opted to change wicketkeeper, with Alex Barrow taking over from Kieswetter. This may not reflection on Kieswetter's performance behind the stumps, poor as it has been. He boasts two first class wickets with what can only be described as extremely occasional off-spin and was seen bowling in practice before the start today.
It was a Kieswetter catch off a slow Chawla leg-break that accounted for Richard Johnson before he had scored this morning, but since then Alex Hughes has played positively in a half-century stand with Chanderpaul, which may provide the most significant twist in this see-saw contest.
Now Kieswetter has indeed been introduced as a bowler from the Old Pavilion End with the chance to go from zero to hero in the most extraordinary of circumstances
Richard Latham reports from Taunton
Good morning from Taunton where the first important news is that is is dry after overnight rain and play will start on time. There are a lot more clouds than on the first three days, but most are white and high. Derbyshire require 117 for a win that would see them overtake their opponents in the First Division table and push Somerset into the drop zone. That's how important the coming session is to both teams.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is 20 not out, which will give the visitors a feeling of security, while Somerset will be hoping Piyush Chawla can work his magic and Jack Leach extract the turn and bounce that was evident yesterday afternoon. They will also need to stem the flood of byes, which have boosted Derbyshire's run tally in the game by 40.
With Surrey having lost yesterday, Somerset can create a 31-point gap between themselves and the bottom two by winning. The stakes are high for both teams here and we await more absorbing cricket.
Richard Rae reports from Trent Bridge
Looking out a rain-drenched and sorrowful Trent Bridge, Durham's rolling over of Sussex yesterday takes on even more significance. Not that all hope has been abandoned of a result here: needing 211 to win, you'd have thought Notts might have a go if as little as 20 overs are possible, so a 90 minute window might be all it needs. Convince Alex Hales it's a 20 over as opposed to championship match and he's a different batsman. Unless they're content to walk away with ten points, of course.
Mark Robinson's post-match interview in Chester le Street made for interesting listening, not least because I don't think any of the media had realised Matt Prior will be available to Sussex next week, and with Ed Joyce and Matt Machan also returning,Yorkshire will find themselves up against a much stronger batting side at Hove. The business of international call-ups, and who is available when, has such a big effect on the championship now it surely needs looking at. Not easy for the ECB to come up with clear criteria so everyone understands when an England player will be available or must be rested though.
Yesterday's report from Somerset v Derbyshire
Somerset's Craig Kieswetter has a day to forget and give Derbyshire hope
• Somerset 103 & 438; Derbyshire 298 & 127-4
• Wicketkeeper concedes 22 byes in 127 for four
If Craig Kieswetter ever writes a book on what no doubt will be a long and successful career, this match will feature only in the chapter on nightmares. Out to a poor shot in Somerset's first innings and then to the last ball of the second day's play, the 25-year-old wicketkeeper found a turning, lifting ball too much for him as Derbyshire chased a victory target of 244 and let through 22 byes in a total of 127 for four. That made it an embarrassing 40 byes conceded in the match by a man with 46 one-day internationals and 25 T20 appearances for England behind him. Somerset may not be able to afford such generosity as their opponents now require 117 to win a game of huge potential significance at the foot of Division One, which has provided absorbing cricket from the opening over.
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The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for counting and measuring operations and, more particularly, to such operations using dynamically variable barcodes.
Since about the beginning of the twentieth century, utility companies have employed persons as meter readers to walk routes, visually read utility meters, and record the current readings. The raw data is transcribed by clerical workers in the utility customer accounts department, more currently by key entry into a data terminal of a customer billing computer, where the current reading for an account is compared with the previous reading to determine utility usage for the period. Any errors in reading the meter, recording the data, or transcribing the data results in costly inefficiencies in the billing procedure by overcharging or undercharging the customer which must then be corrected, often by a special service call to the customer's home or business. Utility companies have sought to increase the efficiency of meter reading and to reduce errors throughout the billing procedure.
In general, these problems are reduced by reducing the involvement of humans in the data communication chain from the meter to the billing computer. One of the problems associated with changing the billing procedures of a utility company is the large scale of the effort. A utility company in a large metropolitan area may have hundreds of thousands, even millions, of service connections and, likewise, meters. Thus, modifying or replacing the meters of a company can be very expensive, as well as complex and confusing during the changeover period.
One class of approaches to solving these problems is remote meter reading. In one type of remote meter reading, each meter is provided with a small sensor or computer combined with a radio transponder which records utility usage and sends a code string identifying itself and conveying the usage data when interrogated by a compatible meter reading transponder unit on a utility truck which drives in the vicinity. A computer in the truck stores the data received from each meter interrogated for subsequent uploading to the utility billing computer.
One problem with radio linked metering is the expense of adding a meter sensor and radio transceiver to a great number of meters. Additionally, utility meters are often located outdoors, so that such a meter sensor and transceiver would have to be capable of operating precisely in extremes of temperature, moisture, and sunlight as well as protected from vandalism and animals. While such protection is within the capabilities of the state of the art of electronic devices, it would add further to the cost of implementing such a billing procedure.
Another remote metering approach which has been considered is interfacing a meter sensor to the utility billing computer by way of the customer's telephone line or television cable. Interrogation of the customer's meter generally occurs when the transmission line is not in use for its primary purpose to avoid possible interference, that is, when no call is in progress on a telephone line or when a television connected to the television cable is not in use.
Meter reading over existing communication lines requires the involvement of the telephone company or cable system for data gathering and transfer to the utility company. This adds a layer of complexity to the billing and the resolution of billing disputes. While most households have telephone connections, some do not have cable connections. If service to these facilities is interrupted by nonpayment of bills, weather, or accidental cutting of the service lines, billing is also interrupted. Thus, such an approach might require conventional meters as backup for such contingencies. Additionally, some customers might object to such a billing method on privacy grounds because of fears that their private activities are being surreptitiously monitored.
In addition to the practical problems of remote meter reading mentioned above, there are advantages to having utility personnel periodically visit each installation. This allows for at least a cursory inspection of the meter to note its condition, whether vandalism has occurred, or if a safety situation exists which warrants immediate repair, such as evidence of a gas leak around a gas meter.
Another class of improvements in utility billing procedures is based on increasing the efficiency and precision of readings taken by meter readers. These methods include portable data entry devices into which the meter reader enters the meter reading and other pertinent information by a keypad on the device for eventual uploading into the billing computer. Use of this type of device requires no modification of existing meters and allows an inspection of the premises of each installation, but has the possibility of error from miskeying of data. In another method, a sensor is interfaced to the meter and is interrogated through an infrared communication link by a portable data collector. This method is similar to and suffers from some of the same problems as remote radio linked meter reading but has the advantage of an on-site reading by a meter reader.
What is needed to improve utility meter reading is an approach which requires minimal modification to existing types of utility meters, which is rugged and inexpensive, and which incorporates the periodic personal presence of a meter reader at each installation but does not require the meter reader to transcribe or key in the usage date.
The present invention provides an improved utility meter reading system which overcomes many of the problems described above by providing apparatus and methods for reading utility meters which require a meter reader to personally visit each utility installation, which do not require human transcription or keying of meter readings, and which require only minimal and economical modification to existing types of utility meters.
The present invention includes a dynamically variable, optically readable display device, particularly, a barcode encoded odometer. In a utility meter reading application, a barcode odometer is mounted on a utility meter and engaged with a rotary drive member thereof to replace or supplement the numeric readout thereof. The meter is also, preferably, provided with a barcode label having the utility customer's account or meter number encoded thereon. The meter is read using a conventional barcode scanner which is used to read the meter label and the odometer to gather and store usage data associated with the meter. The data is subsequently uploaded to a utility accounting computer through a communications interface on the scanner unit for billing purposes.
The odometer may be mechanically similar to conventional types of odometers, also referred to as cyclometers, and may be of either the internal or external pinion type. It includes a plurality of number or indicating wheels rotatably positioned on a mounting shaft. Each wheel has an outer cylindrical surface which is divided circumferentially into a number of indicia regions or segments, such as ten, for example. On each wheel, optically readable barcode indicia are imprinted to represent a sequence of numeric values, such as from zero through nine. In an exemplary embodiment, the number wheels are formed of a plastic of one color, and the barcode indicia are imprinted in a contrasting color, as by hot stamping in the manner in which conventional odometers have numerals imprinted thereon. The indicia regions may also have human readable numerals corresponding to the barcode indicia imprinted thereon. Any one of a number of barcodes may be used on the odometers of the present invention, and the code selected would depend on the size of the odometer, the distance range from which the odometer is to be scanned, intervening media such as glass or plastic windows through which the odometer will be scanned, and other factors.
The odometer has a rotary input member, such as a gear which has a diameter sized to calibrate the odometer to read out in selected units of utility usage, such as cubic feet of gas, kilowatt-hours of electrical power, or gallons of water. The odometer may be encase in a housing having a window aligned with the indicia regions to be read or mounted in a conventional type of utility meter housing which is provided with a similar type of window.
The odometer is read using a conventional type of barcode scanner unit which may incorporate a rotating mirror type of scanning mechanism or may include a light pen type of input device which is manually drawn across barcodes. Such scanner units are specialized computers which are programmable to recognize a desired barcode, convert a barcode string into data representing numeric and alphabetic characters, and store the data in addressable memory. A scanner unit for the present invention preferably includes a display, such as an LCD, to display the converted characters. The memory is of a capacity to store a considerable number of data strings. A communications interface, such as an RS-232 serial port, is usually provided for connection of the scanner unit to another computer, such as a utility customer accounts computer, for transferring the gathered data into the utility customers' account files.
Although the present invention is described with particular reference to utility meter reading, it is also applicable to other types of counting and measuring operations which make use of odometer types of counters, such as liquid flow including gasoline pumps, printing, packaging, food and beverage manufacturing, vending, production winding, textiles, material handling, and product manufacturing. In addition to applications in reading the utility meters of end-user customers, the present invention also has utility in other aspects of utility operations, such as in reading flow meters in water pumping substations, in water and sewage treatment facilities, and the like. Another use of the present invention is in fleet vehicle operations, as to read vehicle hubodometers on buses, trucks, taxicabs, and the like and acreage counters on agricultural equipment.
In addition to barcode odometers, the present invention includes other dynamic barcode devices. Electro-optical displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCD's) and the like, can be formed with display elements in the form of barcode elements which can be selectively activated to display barcodes. Such electro-optical device may be driven by conventional digital counter circuits through code converter circuits similar in function and concept to seven segment display decoders and binary decimal code (BCD) decoder circuits. The present invention additionally contemplates dynamically variable mechanical barcode printers comprising a plurality of cylindrical print wheels, assembled in a manner similar to odometer number wheels on a common shaft, with barcode groups embossed in circumferential indicia regions about outer cylindrical surfaces of the print wheels. The print wheels may be sequenced by internal or external pinions in the manner of odometers or may be individually driven, as by individual gears engaging toothed peripheries of the print wheels. Such a dynamic barcode printer mechanism may be used to print barcodes on a receiving medium, as by impact through an inked ribbon.
The principal objects of the present invention are: to provide an improved system for counting and measuring operations; to provide such a system which greatly improves the accuracy and efficiency of such operations; to provide such a system which avoids the transcription of counts and measurements by humans; to provide apparatus for such a system including readout devices which incorporate dynamically variable indicia which are readable by instruments, particularly optical scanning instruments; to provide such apparatus including an odometer with optically readable barcode indicia formed on counting wheels thereof for reading by conventional barcode scanner units; to provide, additionally, dynamically variable barcode devices, such as barcode displaying liquid crystal displays (LCD's), print wheels, and the like; to provide such a system which is particularly well adapted for employment in the reading of utility meters; to provide an improved utility meter reading method in which a barcode odometer is installed on a utility meter, drivingly engaged with the drive mechanism thereof, and calibrated to indicate utility usage in optically readable barcode indicia for reading by a conventional barcode scanner unit to gather and store usage data for subsequent uploading to an accounting computer of a utility company; to provide such a system which is adaptable for other types of counting operations in which counts are recorded, such as on manufacturing machinery to record unit production and other operations which conventionally employ large numbers of odometer type numeric readouts; to provide such a system which is capable of employing a great variety of existing barcodes; and to provide such a dynamic coded mechanical metering system which is economical to manufacture and implement, precise and efficient in operation, and which is particularly well adapted for its intended purpose.
Other objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein are set forth, by way of illustration and example, certain embodiments of this invention.
The drawings constitute a part of this specification, include exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and illustrate various objects and features thereof.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a barcode odometer for use in the dynamic coded mechanical metering system embodying to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of a barcode odometer, such as is illustrated in FIG. 1, shown enclosed in a housing with a scanning window formed therein.
FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a print wheel having barcode imprinting indicia embossed thereon.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating major functional blocks of a utility meter reading system according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a top plan view representing a conventional barcode scanning unit for use in the system of the present invention with an optical scanning component and a communications interface indicated in phantom lines.
FIG. 6 is a barcode representation illustrating a portion of the Code 39 or "3 of 9" barcode which is capable of use in the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a barcode representation illustrating the POSTNET barcode which is capable of use in the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a front elevational view representing a barcode liquid crystal display (LCD) for use in the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating principal functional blocks of driver circuitry for interfacing between an electronic counting device and the barcode LCD shown in FIG. 8.
FIG. 10 is a diagrammatic front elevational view of a utility meter equipped with a barcode odometer according to the present invention along with a barcode label identifying the meter.
As required, detailed embodiments of the present invention are disclosed herein; however, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, which may be embodied in various forms. Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a basis for the claims and as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to variously employ the present invention in virtually any appropriately detailed structure.
Referring to the drawings in more detail:
The reference numeral 1 generally designates a dynamic coded mechanical metering device embodying the present invention in the form of a barcode encoded odometer. The barcode odometer 1 has the form of a conventional numeric odometer with numerals replaced by ordered sequences of barcode indicia groups 2. The barcode odometer 1 is particularly well adapted for use in a dynamic coded mechanical metering system 3 (FIG. 4) which, in an exemplary embodiment, is employed for reading utility meters 4. In the system 3, the odometer 1 is drivingly engaged to the utility meter 4 in such a manner as to read out utility usage units in a barcode sequence which is scanned by a barcode scanner unit 5 to gather utility usage data for eventual transfer to a utility host computer 6 for utility customer billing purposes.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the barcode odometer 1 is structurally and mechanically identical to conventional numeric odometers, the principal difference being the barcode indicia groups 2 imprinted on indicator or number wheels 14 instead of numeric indicia. The illustrated odometer 1 includes a plurality of the indicator wheels 14 rotatably mounted on a mounting shaft 15. Each wheel 14 has an outer cylindrical surface 16 which is divided circumferentially into indicia regions or segments 17. Each of the indicia regions 17 has a barcode indicia group 2 imprinted thereon. Adjacent indicator wheels 14 are separated by partitions 18 which are rotationally fixed relative to the wheels 14 to avoid undesired transfers of rotation from one wheel to the next. Rotational inputs to the odometer 1 are made by way of a gear 19 affixed to a units wheel 20. The gear 19 is illustrated as externally toothed; however, it may also be internally toothed, depending on the configuration of the drive gear (not shown) which will be meshed therewith. The odometer 1 may be mounted in a frame 21 and enclosed in a housing 22 having a window 23 formed therethrough. The mounting shaft 15 is maintained rotationally stationary with respect to the wheels 14, as by being keyed or press fit to the frame 21, for the same reasons that the partitions 18 are kept stationary.
The illustrated odometer 1 is a decade odometer in which counting is based on the decimal number system; however, the odometer 1 could also be based on another number system. The odometer 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 is an internal pinion odometer in which rotational numeric carries from one wheel 14 to the next are implemented by an internal pinion (not shown) engaged between adjacent wheels 14. The odometer 1 may alternatively be configured as an external pinion type in which the carry pinions are positioned external to the number wheels 14. Additional mechanical and functional details of odometers are not presented herein since such details are well known by manufacturers of odometers which have been in existence for numerous decades. The illustrated odometer 1 is classified as a non-reset type of odometer which is similar to automotive mileage odometers and which is suitable for applications such as in the utility meters 4 in which selective resetting is not desired. However, in some applications, reset type odometers, similar to automotive type "trip" odometers, may be desirable.
FIG. 2 illustrates the housing 22 in more detail. The housing 22 may be provided with mounting tabs 26 extending from opposite sides, as shown, or other mounting structure for mounting the odomter 1, as within a utility meter housing. The tabs 26 are shown with apertures 27 to receive mounting fasteners. The housing 22 includes a front plate or wall 28 which has the window 23 formed therethrough. The window 23 may have a transparent glass or plastic pane 29 positioned therein to restrict access to the indicator wheels 14. Many barcodes make use of some sort of start and stop code which are positioned at opposite ends of the barcode indicia string. Such start/stop codes are fixed in character, in contrast to the barcode indicia string displayed by the indicator wheels which varies according to the quantity counted. The odometer housing 22 illustrated in FIG. 2 is provided with masks or bezels 30 at opposite ends of the window 23 and having start and stop code indicia 31 imprinted thereon. In the barcode shown in FIG. 2, the each of start and stop codes 31 comprises a single long stroke which is referred to as a frame bar. The bezel 30 may also have "quiet zones" of a selected length on outer side of the start/stop codes which is free from indicia or other marks, as is required by some barcodes.
FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate portions of two exemplary barcodes. There are a number of barcode schemes which would be appropriate for various applications of the present invention. FIG. 6 illustrates a portion of the USS-39 barcode which is also referred to as the Code 39 or "9-of-9" code. (USS refers to a Uniform Symbol Specification of the Automatic Identification Manufactures, Inc. or AIM of Pittsburg, PA.) The name of the USS-39 code is derived from code structure which includes three wide elements out of a total of nine elements. The nine code elements consist of five bars and four spaces. In FIG. 6, the barcode symbols represent the numerals 0-5 along with a start/stop character 31, represented by an asterisk or star. The barcode fields for each character in FIG. 6 are designated by separator lines 33, which are not normally present on a barcode label using this code, although the human readable characters represented by the barcode segments are often present. The USS-39 code is an alphanumeric code and is self-checking. Additional details and specifications of the USS-39 code can be obtained from AIM, Inc., referred to above, including acceptable spectral characteristics of the code elements.
FIG. 7 illustrates the POSTNET barcode which is used primarily by the U. S. Postal Service (USPS) to encode ZIP codes on letters for automatic sorting. Each POSTNET barcode indicia group consists of five bars, including long and short bars. The code is only used for the numeric characters 0-9. Each complete POSTNET barcode string includes frame bars on opposite ends which function as start/stop codes 31. Further details and specifications of the POSTNET barcode can be obtained from USPS Publication 25. In FIGS. 1-3 and 8, the illustrated barcodes therein are POSTNET codes for simplicity of drafting. However, in actual applications, other barcodes, such as USS-39 would probably be more suitable.
Additional barcodes in current use in various industries include barcodes known as: Interleaved 2-of-5, Codabar, Code 11, UPC/EAN also known as Universal Product Code, Code 128, and Code 93. Each code has characteristics which make it suitible for certain applications. Further information about these and other barcodes may be obtained from AIM, Inc., referenced above. The above described barcodes are referred to as linear barcodes which are read by a line scan. More recently, two dimensional symbologies have been developed which encode information in two dimensional arrays. Such techniques are capable of encoding far more information in a given unit of area than conventional barcodes. However, scanning such two dimensional codes is somewhat more complex than conventional barcodes, and usually involves devices such as charge coupled device (CCD) arrays. The present invention is not intended to be limited to the use of any particular barcode.
FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate components of conventional type of barcode scanner units 5. The unit 5 is essentially a portable miniature computer which is programmed to perform the functions of scanning and reading barcodes, storing data representing characters represented by the barcodes, and communicating the data to other sources, such as another computer. The unit 5 includes a basic barcode scanner assembly 37 including a central processing unit (not shown) and an optical scanning mechanism 38 which is preferably of the rotating mirror type which is operative to scan a laser beam across a barcode to illuminate same and detect reflections therefrom. The detected reflections are digitized and decoded to data bytes which are stored in internal memory or storage 39. The laser may be in the visible spectrum or in the infrared spectrum. Infrared scanner units are used to read barcodes printed with carbon based inks and have the advantage of high immunity to smudges and scratches on a barcode label. The unit 5 may include a port for a barcode wand or light pen (not shown).
The illustrated barcode scanner or reader unit 5 includes an LCD display 40, a keypad 41, and a communications interface 42 (designated as a COMM port in FIG. 4). The characters read by the unit 5 may be echoed to the display 40, and function and error messages may also be displayed on the LCD 40. The keypad 41 includes numeric keys 43 and function keys 44. The numeric keys 43 may be used for entering data represented by a barcode, when human readable translations are displayed with the barcode symbols, if for some reason a particular barcode display cannot be successfully scanned by the scanner mechanism 38. The function keys are used for initiating selected functions of the scanner unit 5. In FIG. 5, an account number function key 45 is designated by a pound symbol, and a usage function key 46 designated by the letter "U" are illustrated. The account key 45 may be selected to cause the unit 5 to regard a scanned barcode as an account number of the utility meter read. Similarly, the usage key 46 may be selected to cause the unit 5 to store a scanned barcode as an actual meter reading.
The communications interface 42 is preferably a standard RS-232 serial port which allows the unit 5 to be connected to a compatible communications interface or serial port 47 of a host computer 6 to transfer data from the unit 5 to the computer 6. The communications interfaces 42 may alternatively be some other type of standard communications interface, such as RS-422, RS-485, or the like, or a proprietary type of communications interface. The scanner unit memory 39 may include read-only memory for storing operating programs for the unit 5 and read-write memory for storing operating data and sets of associated account numbers and meter readings. Scanner units 5 having memory capacities for storing thousands of readings are not uncommon.
Conventional utility meters 4 are driven by the media being metered, such as by gas or fluid flow for gas and water meters and electrical power for electric meters. The meters 4 include a rotary output member, such as a drive gear 50 which may be meshed with additional gearing 51 to calibrate a conventional utility meter numeric readout 52. Utility meters 4 typically have either pointer register readouts or odometer readouts, also referred to as cyclometer readouts. Pointer register type readouts include a plurality of what appear to be single handed clocks, each representing a digit of the current meter reading. Odometer type meters display the current meter reading directly in numerals.
Modification of a utility meter 4 having a pointer register type readout 52 for use in the present invention involves replacement of the pointer register unit with the barcode odometer 1 and providing the necessary gearing 51 to calibrate the odometer 1 to the meter 4. Modification of a meter 4 having a numeric odometer type readout 52 is much simpler in that the existing numeric odometer can simply be replaced by a barcode odometer 1 of the same size and type. In the present invention, it is desirable to have both a barcode display 1 and a human readable display of some sort. A newly designed utility meter 4 may be provided with two odometers, a barcode odometer 1 and a numeric odometer 52. Where a barcode odometer 1 simply replaces an existing numeric readout, it might be desirable to imprint numerals above or below the barcode indicia groups 2. Where the barcode odometers 1 are to be read using an infrared barcode scanner unit 5, the barcode indicia groups 2 may be provided with human readable characters similar to the OVERCODE (trademark) scheme of York Tape and Label Co. of York, PA. In this scheme, human readable symbols are printed in red ink over the barcode symbols. The red ink is invisible to the infrared scanner units, but is readable visually.
FIG. 10 illustrates a utility meter 4 having a barcode odometer 1 installed therein. In a preferred nethod according to the present invention, a barcode label 53 is applied to the meter 4 to identify the particular meter 4 by a utility customer account number or a meter number or some other number associated with the account number. In performing a meter reading, the scanner unit 5 is used to scan the label 53, as by operating a scan key 54, placing the scanner unit 5 in a position for the scanning mechanism 38 to scan and read the label 53, then operating the account key 45 to store the read data as the account number. The scan and read operation is repeated to take the actual meter reading, except that the usage key 46 is operated to store the read data as the current meter reading. If for some reason either barcode is unreadably by the scanner unit 5, the required data can be entered using the numeric keypad 43 of the unit 5 if the odometer 1 and the label 53 are also provided with equivalent human readable symbols. When a number of meters 4 have been so read, the collected data may be uploaded to the utility host computer 6 using the communications interface 42 of the scanner unit 5, either directly or by some intervening medium such as by a modem (not shown), an intermediate computer (not shown), or the like.
FIGS. 8 and 9 illustrate an alternative electro-optical dynamic coded metering display in the form of a barcode liquid crystal display (LCD) 55. The barcode LCD 55 includes display elements 56 which are selectively activated electronically to display barcode indicia groups 2 representing numeric or alphabetic characters. The displayed barcode indicia 2 may then be scanned using a barcode scanner unit 5 to read the displayed code. The barcode LCD 55 is particularly useful on equipment in which counts and measurements are sensed electronically. Circuitry 57 for driving the barcode LCD 55 includes an electronic counter input 58 which provides count pulses, an electric counter circuit 59 which accumulates the pulses and outputs a binary code represent the accumulated count, code converter circuitry 60 which converts the binary code to a code suitable for activating the desired display elements 56, and LCD driver circuitry 61 which provides the proper voltage levers for activating the desired display elements. The converter circuitry 60 may be similar in some respects to the type of circuitry which is used to convert binary codes for activating seven segment numeric displays.
The illustrated display elements 56 form a POSTNET code for simplicity of illustration. If this code were employed, each display element would consist of a pair of vertically aligned bar shaped display subelements. To activate a long stroke, both subelements would be activated or only the lower subelement would be activated. Alternatively, other types of barcodes could be employed in which adjacent groups of display elements 56 would be activated to represent wide and narrow bars. The display 55 could also be adapted for displaying two dimensional barcode type symbologies, as described above. Although the electro-optical display 55 is described and illustrated as an LCD, illuminating type electro-optical displays, such as light emitting diodes (LED's), gas plasma displays, and the like could also be employed.
FIG. 3 illustrates a dynamic barcode print wheel 65 which may be similar in many respects to the indicator wheels 14 of the barcode odometer 1. The print wheel 65 has an outer cylindrical surface 66 divided circumferentially into indicia regions 67 in which mirror reversed barcode indicia groups 68 are embossed. A plurality of the print wheels 65 may be rotatably mounted in side by side relation on a mounting shaft (not shown) extending through central bores 69 to form a multiple dynamic barcode character printing device having a form similar to that of the barcode odometer 1. Such a printing device may be mounted in such a manner as to strike a receiving medium through an inked ribbon. The print wheels 65 may be rotationally positioned by driving gears or pawls engaging detents 70 formed about the periphery of the wheels 65. Alternatively, the print wheels 65 may have carry pinions (not shown) similar to odometer pinions and receive rotational inputs in the manner of odometers for serial barcode printing.
In the exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclosed above, optically readable dynamic barcodes and devices incorporating same have been described and illustrated. The present invention is not intended to be limited strictly to optically readable codes. The present invention also contemplates the incorporation in the apparatus and methods thereof of equivalent types of instrument readable indicia, such as magnetic characters and stripes, optically readable characters, and the like. The use of optical character recognition (OCR) is foreseen to have particular appliation in improved methods of utility meter reading. In such a method, the barcode scanner unit 5 would be replaced by a portable optical character scanner (not shown). It should be noted that a distinction between optically readable, implying readable by an optical instrument, and visually readable, implying readily human readable, is intended for most embodiments of the present invention, with the exception of optically recognizable characters which are both instrument and human readable.
It is to be understood that while certain forms of the present invention have been illustrated and described herein, it is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangement of parts described and shown.
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