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As reported earlier, Google announced some shiny new analytics features yesterday, with 36 more to come over the course of the week.
I asked a few analytics experts for their views on the new features, which are most significant, and how they could be put to use by online businesses.
What are the biggest changes announced by Google at the summit?
Dan Barker, EBusiness Consultant:
It's still early on. Google has said it'll be announcing 50 updates at this year's summit, and ran through 14 in the first livestream broadcast alone.
They are all great from my point of view, but perhaps the biggest three that every single website could make use of are:
- Tool to migrate from 'classic' analytics to 'universal' - Google has hinted about this for a while, and I think some website owners are getting a bit fed up of the mixed messages around classic/universal. It will be great to get to a point where you can migrate across and retain your historic data.
- Demographic segmentation. The data here is not perfect, but is broadly indicative. This is the sort of data that people pay thousands for at present.
Improved educational content. This will be boring for most readers, but I really like that they're focusing more on helping people use & understand Google Analytics. They're adding walkthrough videos to the tool itself, and setting up a proper set of educational resources.
The existing Google Analytics educational resources are surprisingly good, but few people use them. Hopefully this will change that & open up the tool and the information it unlocks to far more people.
Aside from those, some big ones that won't apply to everyone, but will be huge to those who can make use of them are:
- Event tracking through tag manager a little more easily. I implement events on almost every website I work with, so this will be a big help to me. The only downside with things like this are that it moves responsibility away from the development team and across to marketers, but also moves all of the risk. Fantastic potential, but an area where people have to be a bit more careful.
- BigQuery integration to allow you to export hit-level raw data and query it directly. Funnily enough this was accidentally leaked by an Econsultancy blogger more than two years ago & I was delighted by the idea then.
- Doubleclick display information import, allowing you to view 'display' data in multi-channel reports and attribution models.
- Play Store integration. Very, very good for Android app owners, allowing them to optimise their app campaigns & optimise their Play Store presence!
API to programmatically set up/manage analytics accounts and users. This is fantastic for companies with a large range of sites (let's say an international retailer with a site focusing on each country). This will allow them to manage all accounts centrally if they choose.
Also good for consultants like me, or analytics agencies, who have their own Google Analytics templates that they can apply to new clients a little more easily.
Peter O'Neill, Founder at L3 Analytics:
There is no single killer feature, different announcements really benefit different people. Premium became more appealing with the big query integration of raw unsampled data and Google Tag Manager SLA, marketers will love the view through reporting and new ABO reports while agencies will find their lives made easier with configuration work via API.
I feel the academy could evolve into the most significant feature if it greatly expands and includes a demo account to learn with.
Damion Brown, Econsultancy trainer and web analytics consultant at Datarunsdeep:
From a technical point of view, the announcement that Google Tag Manager will be able to support Event Tracking without making any changes to in-line javascript on the page is really exciting.
Historically, if you wanted something tracked as an event you'd need to manually code it into the html of the page. That's fine in smaller scenarios, but in an enterprise environment it's usually going to means bugging a developer to make a change, and with staging and testing it can be a long and uncomfortable process.
This announcement suggests that Google Tag Manager will make all that a thing of the past, which will really open things up. You can track a lot more with Google Analytics if you make use of Events.
How big a deal is the introduction of demographic reports? How will you be using this?
Dan Barker:
This is the big one really from most users' point of view. Something that really gives utterly new data to every website owner. The demographic reports themselves will be useful and interesting.
On top of those though, they're adding demographic segmentation. You will be able to view virtually any report in Google Analytics, segmented down by a particular demographic criteria. The possibilities there are almost endless. There are very simple uses, but also quite sophisticated ones.
For example, this along with some other Google Analytics features would allow you to ask: "what was the rough demographic makeup of my top 10% of customers?" and then to set up a remarketing list to reach other visitors that fit that profile but did not convert, or even to slice that down further, for example limiting it to (say) visitors who viewed 5 or 6 products and the cart page but did not convert.
Peter O'Neill:
The demographic data integration is interesting. The value of it depends on the business questions being asked.
I'm definitely going to see if these segments display different behaviour and what insights that provides.
Damion Brown:
For my money, audience demographics will have the biggest impact for marketers. Being able to see reports in Google Analytics showing, for example, which products are selling most among 25-35 year-olds will be huge, and if you segment that further by traffic sources and social touchpoints leading to conversion, it has a lot of potential.
I also think it will give content sites a new way of looking at how male and female audience members are engaging. Before too long, the idea of looking at analytics data without a demographic filter is going to seem archaic.
Where does this demographic data come from? Given the (not provided) issue, are there privacy implications?
Dan Barker:
Google holds profile data on most users. You can see what it thinks about you, and where that data comes from here.
From what I understand you need to be using the DoubleClick version of Google Analytics to make use of this within GA. That means essentially it's passing anonymous data derived either from your Google profile or from your browsing habits across to Google Analytics from Doubeclick.
In the UK that's fine, but in countries like Germany where they're much stricter, it will probably mean a lot of wrangling with the legal department. Turning this on may also mean you need to change your privacy policy/cookie policy, go through the ICO documentation, et cetera.
Google's story around '(not provided)' is very much around privacy, but the common perception is that there are other agendas driving it.
This makes the company look marginally more hypocritical, but they are a company of many tens of thousands of people, and already do things that step further over the line than this.
For example, I often take a look in Google Analytics' social reports, where you can often see personally identifiable data, let alone anonymous demographic information.
Peter O'Neill:
I believe it is based on DoubleClick cookies in which case it's OK, although I am concerned about growing reliance on these cookies. If linked to Google+ cookies, I would be really worried, as I think that would cross the line.
Hoping this isn't the thin edge of the wedge situation but I don't think it crosses any privacy lines as yet. Not provided is definitely not about privacy. And I don't believe it is about pushing people to paid search.
Damion Brown:
The demographic data comes from Doubleclick, the ad network owned by Google. This demographic data has always been collected by Doubleclick and has been available to anyone using the Google Display Network, so in a sense there's nothing strictly 'new' about the data itself.
What's new and properly exciting it its integration with all the other reports in Google Analytics.
I don't really see much of a connection to (not provided), which is a Google Search decision and not a Google Analytics decision. Privacy implications will probably be the same as for regular display advertising, but it's probably wise to check guidelines in your local jurisdiction.
How, if at all, do these changes help the average online business?
Dan Barker:
The 'classic' to 'universal' tools will affect everyone over the next few years, the improved educational content will be useful for anyone who wants to push further with analytics but is limited by the time to get over the learning curve.
Some of the changes are limited. Some of the others are limited to particular types of user.
The display attribution changes are a pilot I believe, the 'demographic' info is (I believe) only for those using the DoubleClick version of Google Analytics (this needs a very small technical change to turn on), BigQuery integration is only for Premium users, and the tag manager and API changes will only be useful to consultants like me, larger companies with dedicated developers working on analytics, or very forward thinking agencies.
If sites can get their heads around switching across to the DoubleClick version of Google Analytics, and they feel comfortable doing so, then demographic data will be the one that affects the average business most day-to-day.
And, once they've done that, they can also make use of the ridiculously powerful remarketing tools it also unlocks.
Peter O'Neill:
A business still needs to invest resources to get value from web analytics. With limited resources, switch to Google Tag Manager and take advantage of auto-tagging for events. Sign up for the academy and go through classes in the evenings.
You still need to define your objectives though, be asking the right questions, know how to get answers from the data and be prepared to act on these insights.
Damion Brown:
Demographics will be useful to all businesses and all websites. It's data that has always been a little out of reach for most organisations.
Aside from this though, it's probably fair to say that most of the changes are under-the-hood. They're still significant, but they relate to stuff happening behind the scenes.
The Management API for example. This lets you make bulk changes to give large groups of users access to large groups of Properties and Views without having to do them all manually.
That doesn't mean much to your average online business, but to someone that manages analytics for large organisations (yep, someone like me) it's a really significant change.
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Good post, need a little digestion over time to figure out how to use the new features.
I am concerned about data migration to the new version
I don't have the demographic features in my account. I'm sitting next to a buddy who does, and it is clearly not in my account...
...Is this slowly be rolled out?
Or do I need to enable these new features somehow?
What happens to the GA IQ test now?=( Im studying for it but would the test be updated with the new features? This would also mean that some of which that i studied could be changed right?
@Patrick - slowly being rolled out. For example, I have a few different logins. Some have particular features, others different. A bit of a shame, and it makes things a pain when running training for companies!
@Kai - they'll probably update - worth completing as soon as you can. And yes, they change things very frequently now so whenever you do the test, features will change subsequently.
Brilliant post.
I will definitely explore the new features as and when they get rolled out.
I am also interested in finding out what those other agendas would turn out to be for the "not provided" issue, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Would be nice to get your perspective on the matter.
Looking forward to reading more from you.
Hello all,
I am trying to get to the bottom of how accurate the demographic info recently released in GA is...
So I know it comes from Double Click and I have read the Adwords post saying the different sources from where the data "may" come from...
But that still does not tell me how accurate that is and how Double click get the data?
And...what about demographic data for a website which has no partnership with Double Click, will you still be able to get it if people visiting this website have also visited websites that do have a partnership with Double Click?
Thanks all!


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Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards has revealed he almost quit the game after missing out on a place in the British & Irish Lions' coaching team for this year's tour to Australia.
Edwards, the mastermind behind the water-tight defence that laid the foundation for his side's stunning Six Nations triumph, was surprisingly overlooked by Lions boss Warren Gatland despite their long and fruitful working relationship with Wasps, Wales and the Lions.
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"I've had plenty of highs in my professional life - 42 medals as a player, 11 trophies in 12 years as a coach - but the time that tested me most was the three days after discovering I wasn't going to be part of the Lions coaching squad this summer," Edwards wrote in The Guardian.
"Whereas 2009 with the Lions in South Africa was one of the big highs, hearing I was not going to be part of the set-up in Australia made me want to chuck the whole lot in. There were ideas of turning my back on union, going back to league, possibly even leaving the country to re-learn my trade as an assistant coach with the ARL.
"As I say, it took 72 hours to banish those ideas and on Saturday, among the Welsh players and fellow coaching staff, I understood why I did. They've been great to me, treating me as one of their own and it's a lucky man who can be part of such a set up.
"There are days that wipe the slate clean, banish hurt and make you glad to have stuck the course. Saturday was one of them. Wales 30, England 3 was a great performance not just because of the remarkable scoreline, but because it came from a team that had come through tough times together, showed remarkable resilience in the face of some big knocks over the previous 18 months."
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You can establish a home office in any one of a number of environments. If you have sufficient land available to you, you can create a stand-alone building to function as your office. If not, you can convert a garage or an extra bedroom or den into a home office. In a smaller living area, you can even set yourself up in a part of a room.
You should consider whether you will have people visiting you at your home office, and, if so, how many and how often. If you will have a lot of people visiting your office, you would be best off with a separate building or, at least, a separate entrance to a ground-floor location in your home for the office area. In that event, you should check with local zoning and building authorities as the increased traffic and changed use may run afoul of current requirements, and you may need to seek a variance for a non-permitted use of your residential property to stay in compliance with the law. You may also need to have additional off-street parking available.
If you won't have people visiting your office or will only have occasional visitors, you will not likely have a problem with the zoning, but if you will have any clients coming to your home office, you should check that out. You should also check with your insurance broker to make sure that you have appropriate coverage. Adding home-office coverage to your homeowner's policy should not prove too expensive (I pay about $100 a year for mine).
If you do not plan on having clients come to your home office, you do not need to concern yourself as much about a professional appearance to the office, and you can make it as comfortable and casual as suits your needs and tastes. If you will have clients coming, then the same considerations apply to your home office as would apply to any office environment.
Home offices come in all sorts of sizes, shapes, and configurations. Sometimes they occupy a portion of another room, such as a den or a bedroom, other times they occupy a room by themselves (and those rooms come in different sizes). Occasionally, they occupy a converted garage or even a completely separate structure.
Once you know where you will put your home office and the size of the office, you can look at furnishing and equipping the office. Furnishings will reflect a combination of your personal taste and needs. Some of you may choose to visit an antique shop and acquire an antique rolltop desk and antique bookcases; others may choose more contemporary furniture. What ever you choose, be sure that it accommodates your needs. The last time I built a home office, I moved in my rolltop desk from my previous home office and hired a carpenter to build a work table to hold my office equipment and bookcases and cabinets to hold office supplies, reference books, and computer program manuals. The cost of that construction proved quite reasonable when compared to buying quality furniture elsewhere and gave me the opportunity to have exactly what I wanted. Another possibility is to go to a modular installation available from a variety of office supply and furnishings dealers. Reliable Home Office (www.reliablehomeoffice.com) is a good example of a place to obtain such modular furniture and build an office.
Before you install all of your furniture, do an inventory of electrical outlets and phone jacks. Decide (1) if you have a sufficient number of each, and (2) if the current location of outlets and jacks matches your plans for the setup of your office furniture. You will find it easier to bring in an electrician or telephone technician to relocate a jack or outlet or to add additional jacks or outlets prior to the installation of all of your furniture. While many people buy extension cords and run them around rooms to change the location of a connection or to create additional outlets, having an electrician add additional wired outlets and/or circuits, if necessary, works better and generally presents less risk of fire or injury.
Speaking of installations, you most likely will want high-speed Internet access, so you should arrange for the delivery of those services, installation, and connection prior to outfitting your office. The cost of DSL or cable broadband service has dropped significantly in the last few years. You can obtain it for quite reasonable costs now. Having such service gives you immediate access to e-mail and to the comprehensive online libraries available through providers such as Lexis and Westlaw as well as access to all the other facilities of the Internet. Augmenting that with wireless connectivity will provide you with the ultimate level of flexibility.
To make your home office fully functional, you will want office equipment comparable in function to the equipment in your office. The basic equipment list includes: telephone, computer, printer, copier, fax machine, and scanner. Ideally, you will get a telephone that has a built-in answering machine. Wireless phones add convenience at a reasonable cost. You may also want to bring in a VOIP connection as a cost-saving device. (VOIP, or "Voice Over Internet Protocol," allows you to have very inexpensive long-distance and international telephone coverage.) You have the choice of getting a separate fax machine, copier, printer, and scanner or purchasing good-quality and reasonably priced multipurpose machines combining some or all of those functions into a single unit. The quality of the multipurpose machines has signifi-cantly increased in recent years, and such devices have evolved into reliable equipment fully functional for the type of use typical of most home-office operations. Most of the multifunction devices print through an ink-jet technology, although more and more are using laser technology. You can find good multifunction devices from manufacturers such as Canon, Brother, and HP in the range of $200 to $500. You can find some laser printer multifunction devices at a higher price. Depending upon the amount and type of printing you do, you may wish to consider getting a relatively inexpensive laser printer as well. You can find laser printers for as little as $100 these days. Buying the multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax machine has the advantage of saving considerable space in your office, as the multifunction devices generally have a footprint smaller than any two of those devices placed next to each other.
I recently brought a Brother multifunction unit into my home office and replaced my stand-alone fax machine, printer, and scanner. The system I purchased, a Brother 9420, provides color copying, printing, and scanning and has a footprint similar in size to the Canon copier that I replaced, thereby recovering significant countertop real estate.
You will need a computer as well. The power available in laptop computers has dramatically increased, and they now offer functional equivalence to desktop units. If you wish, you can counter any differences in size and functionality of keyboards, pointing devices, and screens through the use of external monitors, keyboards, and pointing devices. Prices on laptop and desktop computers have dropped. Desktop units generally remain less expensive than laptop computers (especially if you add in the cost of external monitors and keyboards). On the other hand, the laptop's portability offers significant flexibility that a desktop cannot.
Decisions about whether to use a laptop or a desktop computer will reflect individual preferences and needs. You will, however, probably want to get a computer with at least the following specifications:
Monitor: LCD/XGA or SXGA resolution/15"+.
CPU: Windows desktop or laptop: Core Duo or Core 2 Duo equivalent (1.66 GHz+); Macintosh desktop or laptop: Core 2 Duo (2.0 GHz+).
Hard Disk: Desktop: 250 GB+; laptop: 160 GB+ (more is better).
RAM: Windows XP users: 1 GB+ (more is better); Windows Vista users: 2 GB+ (more is better); Mac users: 2 GB+.
Optical Drive: CD RW (read/write) + DVD R (read-only), or DVD RW (preferred).
Communications: For desktops: built-in Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and a 56k modem for emergency use; for laptops: the same, plus PCMCI or Express 34 slots for air cards (these cards allow wireless "cell phone"-style communication).
Connections: At least two USB 2.0 and/or FireWire ports; built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (short-range wireless). The best bet is to have both USB and FireWire. In laptops you will usually get two or three USB 2.0 and one or two FireWire ports. In desktops, you may get as many as five or six USB and two FireWire ports.
Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional; Mac OSX Version 10.4. By early 2007 expect that Apple will release Mac OS X Version 10.5 (code named Leopard) and that Windows will release its new Vista system. Depending on your personality, you will either want to run out and upgrade as soon as the new software comes out or wait until others have checked it out and found it acceptable. For most users the latter approach works best.
You can find desktop computers and monitors meeting these specifications for as little as $500. Laptops meeting these specifications should cost between $1,000 and $2,000. You can pay less and get close to the recommended specifications or more and get additional bells and whistles. If you want to save some money, you can get very acceptable older technology. Apple recently converted to the Core 2 Duo processor. The Core Duo units are being discounted as a result. Windows machines have gone through two processor generations in the last several months as manufacturers moved from the Pentium processors to the Core Duo and now the Core 2 Duo. The release of the Core Duo units saw price drops in the Pentium units. The release of the Core 2 Duo has seen price drops in the Core Duo units and further drops in the Pentium units.
If you intend to spend a lot of time working in your office, spend the money to get yourself a good ergonomic desk chair. My personal favorite is the Herman Miller Aeron chair, which now costs about $700 (you can pay more or less depending on what features you choose and where you purchase it) (www.hermanmiller.com). If that seems pricey, then note that it was about $1,000 when I bought mine some seven years ago. My Aeron chair has received heavy use in those seven years and remains in excellent condition.
You also need to consider the software you will acquire for your computer. At the most basic level, you will want software compatible with your office so that you can work effectively at home. That means that you should use pretty much the same programs in both places. Check the software licenses; in some cases the license will allow you to install the program on a second computer at home. In other cases, you will have to buy another copy to comply with copyright and license restrictions.
Beyond these basics, personal tastes might induce you to augment the office with a few additional items such as a stereo (consider getting an iPod and speaker system) and a television set and DVD player. While you can create TV functionality on your computer and also use it as a DVD player, in the long run you will find it easier and better to have separate units. If you have the space and really want to make the home office a "retreat," consider adding a comfortable reading chair (preferably one with massage functions).
Jeffrey Allen is the principal in the Graves & Allen law firm in Oakland, California. A frequent speaker on technology topics, he is the special issue editor of GPSolo's Technology & Practice Guide and editor-in-chief of the Technology eReport. He also teaches business law in the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the Business School of the University of Phoenix. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. This article was presented at the 2006 National Solo and Small Firm Conference and originally appeared in Experience Magazine, Winter 2005 (15:2), © 2005 American Bar Association. Reprinted by permission. The article has been updated for publication in this issue of GPSolo.


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Marilyn Manson Unveils Album Cover Art + Track Listing for 'Born Villain'
With Marilyn Manson's 'Born Villain' set to drop on May 1 and its first single 'No Reflection' making waves, the superstar rocker has now revealed the album's cover artwork and track listing.
The disc is 13 songs strong, with Manson's Johnny Depp-assisted cover of 'You're So Vain' serving as a bonus track.
It doesn't feel like a coincidence that there the album is comprised of 13 songs, since it's a number often associated with ominous and nefarious things. The titles are vintage Manson, full of dark, aggressive and distorted biblical imagery and phrases that should effectively irritate the religious right.
The album cover is shaded in bluish tones, featuring Manson's distinctive profile, with prominent, blackened lips and one eye peeking out from under a curtain of hair. It's a bit mysterious and has us interested, as is usually the case with Marilyn Manson.
Manson will be embarking on a U.S. theater tour that kicks off April 27 in Providence, R.I. Check out the full list of dates here.
'Born Villain' Track Listing
1. 'Hey, Cruel World…'
2. 'No Reflection'
3. 'Pistol Whipped'
4. 'Overneath the Path of Misery'
5. 'Slo-Mo-Tion'
6. 'The Gardener'
7. 'The Flowers of Evil'
8. 'Children of Cain'
9. 'Disengaged'
10. 'Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms'
11. 'Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day'
12. 'Born Villain'
13. 'Breaking the Same Old Ground'
Bonus Track: 'You're So Vain'


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Do people think that their own will is "freer" than others'?
Emily Pronin and Matthew Kugler's recent paper, "People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others," confidently suggests an answer to that question.
While the debate concerning the existence of true "free will" rages on (see the Re:Cog piece on that debate here), it is accepted that "free will" is, at least, a subjective feeling everyone has. Published in the most recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pronin and Kugler's paper is centered around an interesting phenomenon known as the "actor-observer bias," which was first described forty years ago by social psychologist Richard Nisbett. The actor-observer bias describes people's inclination to perceive their own actions as calculated responses to shifting circumstances, while viewing others' actions as results of a fixed, established personality.
In a series of survey-based experiments, Princeton's Pronin and Kugler show that people exhibit the actor-observer bias in a variety of circumstances. In one experiment, subjects answered the question "What are you doing this Saturday night?" In most cases, their answers reflected their own desires and intentions in the moment (I imagine these answers went something like: "I'm gonna go to the bar because I'm in the mood for a drink and I'm tired of going to the weekly campus concert"). When subjects were asked "What is your roommate [X] doing this Saturday night?" their answers tended to account for history and personality more than desires and intentions ("Jake is probably going to the concert series because he goes to it every week and loves loud indie rock.")
In another study, the author's asked restaurant employees to describe the possible paths of their futures. Those asked generally listed twice as many paths for their own future than that of their fellow workers:
Participants circled more options as being genuine possibilities in the case of themselves than a coworker…[They] believed that their own futures contained many possible paths, but that others were likely to continue on whatever path they were currently walking.
While we may like to think that free will, if it exists, is imbued by evolution in all individuals in equal measure, our actions don't appear to reflect this principle. We attempt to predict our peers' behaviors by drawing on our knowledge of their previous actions and their personality, while we characterize our own behaviors as reactions to our ever-changing environment:
This research supports the hypothesis that people perceive themselves as possessing more of the ingredients that constitute free will than those around them. Individuals in our experiments viewed their past and future behaviors as less predictable a priori than those of their peers, and they believed that, relative to their peers, there were more possible paths that their own lives could take…Our participants indicated that it was internal desires and intentions that best predicted their own (but not others') future behavior.
In some ways, though, this result should not come as a surprise. We can only really know our own minds, and it makes sense to think of our own behaviors as malleable and adaptive – after all, that's why we think we have free will. On the other hand, we cannot get inside others' minds and can only use what we know about them (their history, personality, etc.) to predict their behavior.
So, we live on alone, tortured by the endless number of options we have at every moment and annoyed by the millions of robots that get in our way. George Carlin, in one of his best comedy specials, made an astute observation on driving that seems eerily apropos:
Have you ever noticed that when you're driving, anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?


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Forty-six year old Reverend Ernst Toller is the pastor at the historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York. It is seen as the "tourist" church or the "souvenir shop" (its historical significance partly it being a stop on the underground railroad before the slaves crossed into Canada) by Abundant ...
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Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn't actually exist - until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
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District info for Rolla, Newburg and St. James squads.
The Rolla High School softball team has been seeded No. 3 for the Missouri Class 4 District 10 Tournament, to be held this coming week at Willard.
Host Willard (17-10) has been seeded No. 1 for the event while Waynesville (9-10) is seeded No. 2, Rolla (12-8) No. 3, Lebanon (12-11) No. 4, Springfield Hillcrest (12-14) No. 5 and Springfield Central (11-5) No. 6.
Rolla is the defending district champion.
In first-round games on Wednesday, Oct. 9 Lebanon plays Hillcrest at 3:30 p.m. and Rolla takes on Central at 5:30 p.m. Willard and Waynesville get first-round byes.
In the semifinals on Oct. 10 Willard meets the Lebanon-Hillcrest winner at 4 p.m. while Waynesville takes on the Rolla-Central winner at 6 p.m.
The district championship game is set for 5 p.m. Oct. 11.
The District 10 champion will play the District 9 survivor in Class 4 Sectional action on Oct. 16. Teams in District 9 include Columbia Battle, Camdenton, Jefferson City Helias, Columbia Hickman, Jefferson City High, Columbia Rock Bridge and Sedalia Smith-Cotton.
That sectional winner moves on to quarterfinal play against either the District 11 or 12 champion on Oct. 19.
The Class 4 Final Four is slated for Oct. 25-26 at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield.
Class 1 District 6
The host Newburg High School softball team has been seeded No. 2 for the Class 1 District 6 Tournament, to be held at Newburg Oct. 9-11 of next week.
St. Elizabeth (12-8) is seeded No. 1 while Newburg (14-2) is No. 2, Crocker (8-9) No. 3, Tuscumbia (3-8) No. 4 and Stoutland (3-14) No. 5.
Tuscumbia plays Stoutland at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 in the first-round game. In the semifinals on Oct. 10 St. Elizabeth plays the Tuscumbia-Stoutland winner at 5 p.m. while Newburg meets Crocker at 6:30 p.m.
The district title game is set for 6 p.m. Oct. 11.
The District 6 champion will meet the District 5 champ on Oct. 16 in sectional playoff action. Teams in District 5 include Hermitage, Leeton, Macks Creek and Montrose.
The winner of that sectional game will meet either the District 11 or District 12 champion on Oct. 19 in the state quarterfinals.
The Missouri Class 1 Final Four is set for Oct. 25-26 at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield.
Class 3 District 9
The St. James Lady Tigers are seeded No. 4 for the Class 3 District 9 Tournament, to be held Oct. 9-11 at Washington.
Sullivan (14-7) is the top-seeded team while Union (16-6) is No. 2, St. Francis Borgia (14-8) No. 3, St. James (14-7) No. 4, Salem (13-8) No. 5, Owensville (7-8) No. 6 and St. Clair (6-14) No. 7.
In first-round games on Oct. 9 St. James meets Salem at 3:30 p.m., Union faces St. Clair at 5:30 p.m. and Borgia takes on Owensville at 7:30 p.m. Sullivan gets a first-round bye.
In the semifinals on Oct. 10 the Union-St. Clair winner plays the Borgia-Owensville winner at 7:30 p.m. and Sullivan plays the St. James-Salem winner at 6:30 p.m.
The district title game is set for 4:30 p.m. Oct. 11.
The District 9 champion will play the District 10 champion Oct. 16 in Class 3 sectional action. District 10 schools include Blair Oaks, California, Eldon, Osage, Southern Boone and Versailles.
That sectional winner moves on to quarterfinal play against either the District 11 champion or District 12 champion.
The Class 3 Final Four will be Oct. 25-26 at Killian Softball Complex in Springfield.


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Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja will participate in the Theme Session of the Nordic Council in Stockholm on 11 April.
Within the past few years, Nordic foreign, security and defence policy cooperation has been promoted in major extent, on the basis of the report from 2009 by the former Norwegian Foreign and Defence Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg in particular. In the Session, the Nordic ministers responsible for foreign, security and defence policy and Nordic Council parliamentarians debate further prospects for closer cooperation. The topics of discussion include, for example, comprehensive concept of security, joint action in civilian crisis management and cyber security. This is the first time the Nordic Council devotes a separate Theme Session for foreign, security and defence policy.
Finland holds the chairmanship of the Nordic Defense Cooperation (NORDEFCO) in 2013, and Defence Minister Carl Haglund will also attend the Session.
After the debate, a press conference will be held at 2 pm local time at Mittpoolen, Swedish Parliament.
Additional information: Tarja Kantola, Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister, tel. +358 040 590 4119; and Bo Lindroos, Head of Secretariat for Nordic Cooperation, tel. +358 295 350 643 or +358 40 158 5451
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By Chris Francescani
(Reuters) - NBC News anchor David Gregory is being investigated by police after displaying what he said was a high-capacity gun clip on Sunday's broadcast of "Meet the Press," Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday.
Gregory held up what appeared to be a 30-round gun magazine - which would be barred under Washington municipal code - while hosting the nationally broadcast interview with National Rifle Association Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre.
"Here is a magazine for ammunition that carries 30 bullets," Gregory said as he held aloft the black cartridge, according to video posted on the network's website.
"Now isn't it possible that, if we got rid of these, if we replaced them and said 'Well, you could only have a magazine that carries five bullets or ten bullets,' isn't it just possible that we can reduce the carnage in a situation like Newtown?" Gregory asked LaPierre.
"I don't think it's what will work,'' LaPierre responded.
The network had contacted the police department prior to Sunday's broadcast "inquiring if they could use a high capacity magazine for the segment," police spokesman Araz Alali said on Wednesday.
"NBC was informed that possession of a high-capacity magazine was not permissible and their request was denied."
Alali, the police spokesman, declined to elaborate on the investigation into NBC.
Washington's municipal code prohibits possession, sale or transfer of "any large capacity ammunition feeding device, regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm."
The maximum penalty for conviction on such a charge is a $1,000 fine and one year in prison.
NBC spokeswoman Erika Masonhall, contacted by email, said the network had no comment on the investigation.
After the broadcast, which originated in Washington, a number of bloggers and websites questioned Gregory's actions and the legality of the gun clip.
(Reporting by Chris Francescani and Paul Eckert; Editing by Paul Thomasch, Andrew Hay and Gunna Dickson)


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Official BioEdit
- from Sesame Workshop
Rickey Boyd's (b. August 19th, 1964) interest in animation and puppetry began at an early age. At eleven, he and one of his friends produced their own crude TV puppet shows at a local cable access station and experimented with 8mm animated short films.
Most recently he has performed Grandma Cookie Monster for Sesame Workshop's Sesame Beginnings, Scooter and Crazy Harry in Muppet's Wizard of Oz, and Waffle in Animal Jam. Other projects include Muppets From Space, Dinosaurs the series, Muppetvision 3D, Muppets at Disney World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Jim Henson Hour's Dog City and Song of the Cloud Forest, as well as various videos and commercial projects. In addition to Henson Productions, Rickey has performed lead characters for The Nashville Network's Peppercorn Productions.
Rickey continues to perform for Henson and works as an animator and director for Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio in Nashville, Tenn. There, he designs and directs animations for clients such as Sesame Street, among others. He lives outside Nashville with his wife Judy and their children Emily and Andrew.
Puppeteer CreditsEdit
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Our cruise ship deck plans will show you what is what (activities, amenities, serving what purpose), located where, changed when (newest upgrades / latest refurbishment review). All dining venues (restaurants and food bars) reviews also contain basic menu/cuisine information, and whether the dining options are complimentary, at surcharge PP or a la carte priced.
Like all things in life, cruise ship deck plans do change in time. Often, cruise lines change facilities and public venues - their location, type (services and amenities) or names. Other changes may relate to new cabin categories. Often, after a major refurbishment, cruise lines add to the ship:
- new passenger cabins.
- new dining venues - specialty restaurants, bars, lounges, etc.
- new facilities - aqua park, water-slide(s), Spa, pool(s) / whirlpool(s), outdoor movie theater, etc or - simply change the names of the existing ones.
Talking of balconies, a balcony cabin does cost more than an inside or oceanview cabin, but for a extra few dollars a day a balcony cabin more than repays the cost in quality of cruise life – you have uncrowded sea and port views, fresh air whenever you want, and the luxury of privacy. Go for cruise ship cabin plans first.
Many lines, especially river cruise companies, offer bonuses such as free flights, pre-paid gratuities and on-board credits when you book and pay several months in advance. You also have the benefit of booking your preferred deck plan and cabin and if you are planning a family cruise during school holidays, always the busiest times, booking at least six months ahead is almost essential.
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Those who think the growing popularity of highly-partisan opinion shows is tearing the United States apart now have some empiric evidence on their side.
Research published in the September issue of Political Research Quarterly has found pundits on political opinion shows influence attitudes toward presidential candidates — and in a way that is entirely negative.
"An increasing number of Americans engage in selective exposure to ideologically consistent news sources. This fact has caused some scholars and pundits to worry that partisan news sources such as Fox News are making their audiences more polarized," Glen Smith of the University of North Georgia and Kathleen Searles of Augusta State University wrote in their study.
The researchers found Fox News viewers became more favorable of McCain and less favorable of Obama over the course of the 2008 presidential election. Both Fox's news programs and opinion shows made viewers more favorable of McCain and less favorable of Obama, but the effect was stronger for those who watched the opinion shows. The study also found MSNBC's opinion shows had the converse effect, viewers became more favorable of Obama and less favorable of McCain.
Opinion shows on both news networks adopted an "attack mentality" during the 2008 election season. Pundits on MSNBC and Fox News attacked the candidate they disagreed with far more often than they voiced support for the candidate they agreed with.
This tendency to attack the opposition influenced how viewers perceived the candidates. Watching Fox News opinion shows made viewers more likely to think Obama was extremely liberal. Conversely, watching MSNBC opinion shows made viewers more likely to think McCain was extremely conservative.
But watching Fox News opinion shows had little impact on how viewers perceived McCain's ideology, and watching MSNBC opinion shows had little impact on how viewers perceived Obama's ideology.
The study suggests that "viewers'' attitudes are shaped predominantly by vitriolic coverage of the opposition," Smith and Searles wrote. "Rather than viewers consuming news from a source that confirms their support for their in-party candidate, viewers are consuming news from a source that seems to confirm their distaste for the opposition. The result is not only more polarized partisans but also partisans who are polarized because they hate the other side rather than because they are card-carrying supporters of their side."
The findings have worrisome implications for American politics.
"If a large segment of the base of either party believes the president is ideologically extreme, they are likely to attach that extreme label to any policies the president supports," the researchers wrote in their study. "Perhaps the rise of partisan news outlets, and consequently the increasing influence of opinion show hosts on the right and left, has contributed to polarization of the two political parties."
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Bodies zigged, zagged and criss-crossed at girls soccer practice Thursday at Musgrove Fieldhouse.
A few months removed from his personal breakout season for the boys squad, Alfredo Lopez jogged from station to station. This spring, he and Cruz Artega serve as managers. Boys head coach and girls junior-varsity coach Chris Interone says there's a waiting list.
After a first touch with his knee to control the ball, Lopez popped up a volley with the inside of his foot. He turned, breezed past senior Sydney McCaslin, grabbed an errant pass and threw the ball back to Taylor Pomahatch before another juggling exhibition at the next station.
Five minutes went by, the drill switching to a chest for the first touch. Then a header. Lopez gave a textbook example of how it's done with the biggest of smiles, a microcosm of why the girls' program is headed in the right direction:
Everyone needs someone to show them how it's done.
"When we play games like keep-away or freeze tag, going against him definitely teaches you about playing defense," Pomahatch said of squaring off against Lopez. "I can't say it enough: The better players you work with, the faster you learn and the better you become."
The boys team turned the super-fast field turf at Roscoe Eades Stadium into the ultimate home-pitch advantage last season.
"They – honestly – are so much different than us," McCaslin said, a forward. "We say we pass well, but they're phenomenal."
But it wasn't long ago that the boys were where the girls hope they are now: the tail end of the building process.
The program was truly hitting its stride around the time senior Allie Johnson was in eighth grade and her family hosted foreign exchange student Daniel Ortega. She watched him and the spitfire Sterling kickers, then he would conduct brief clinics in the Johnsons' back yard.
"I had really never played before," Johnson said. Today, it's the midfielder's favorite sport, and fourth-year head coach Brian Cebula calls her the "heart of the team."
"She has been for the past few years."
Exposure is vital, and that's where the Sterling United youth program is paying dividends.
"It might have been around, but it wasn't something that was advertised," McCaslin said, thinking back to when she was younger.
But word of mouth has turned the program into a feeder system.
The Golden Warriors boast a freshmen class unlike any the program has seen. Pomahatch and McCaslin gush over Rosa Sanchez's skill. They're both midfielders, and Sanchez is also listed as a forward.
"Rosa is one of the best younger girls I've ever seen play," Pomahatch said.
Pomahatch, like McCaslin and Johnson, is entering her fourth varsity season. Having played since third grade, she's grateful that her family's then-hometowns in Wisconsin and Nevada had developmental teams. She feels kickers in Sterling weren't given the same opportunities.
"Soccer hasn't been around here very long, so a lot of people don't know how to play until they get to high school," Pomahatch said. "People criticize us all the time that we're not playing that well, but it's something you have to work on your whole life to get good at it. You have to be with the same team for a long time."
That became glaring when Pomahatch served as a manager for the boys team as a junior in the fall of 2011. She played with the stalwart players spent many years building synergy. Then she played with them during the summer. While her skills sharpened, it made the spring trying, at times.
"It makes you work a lot better with them and makes you want to bring it to our team, too," Pomahatch said.
When Brian Cebula took over the program 4 years ago, about 30 players tried out. After a few more the next year and about 45 a year ago, he, junior varsity coach Chris Interone and new freshman coach Allen Stewart oversee about 65 players. And they're finally grasping and applying Cebula's possession-emphasis system.
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It was breathtaking for all parties involved when runs started getting rewarded by well-timed through-balls.
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LONDONDERRY - Last week's tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., came up during a public hearing on next year's municipal budget Monday night, when Londonderry's lack of school resource officers was noted with concern.
A potential warrant article asking voters to consider the addition of a second school resource officer, at a cost of $101,000, was discussed at length during this week's Town Council meeting. If approved, the additional officer would have a 3-cent per $1,000 impact on residential tax rates. Retired Londonderry police officer Daniel Bouchard told the council he supported the proposal, and hoped it was the beginning of some lasting changes for the future.
"I support this and would like to see us do even more," Bouchard said. "At one time, we had four school resource officers in the school. Now we're down to one."
With several retirements and budget cuts over the past several years, the Londonderry Police Department currently has just one full-time school resource officer.
Councilor Tom Dolan noted that the 2013 warrant specifically calls for just a single school resource officer next year, though he said citizens have the option of asking for more than one school resource officer during the town deliberative session this spring.
A parent, Anthony Palma, told the board he'd just learned about the resource officer shortage when he called Principal Carol Mack Friday afternoon. Palma said he'd initially called Mack to address safety concerns after that morning's tragedy in Connecticut, but learning about the school resource officer shortage deeply concerned him as a parent of four. "I think we need to be proactive instead of reactive," Palma said. "(In Connecticut), it sounds like this school did everything right, but it still happened there. We need to get back up to four resource officers and I certainly wouldn't mind paying higher taxes for it."
Police Chief William Hart, Londonderry's acting town manager, said a new school resource officer would be a fully-trained police officer and would be ready "to do whatever any trained officer is needed to do." Hart said the town wouldn't "go lower than two school resource officers on his watch" next year. "Is there any lack of clarity?" he asked councilors.
Later, the board also shared details of Articles 9 and 10, the proposed agreements between the town and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Police and Safety Employees Local 3657 (AFSCME), and the Londonderry Administrative Employees Association (LEEA). AFSCME encompasses all regular, permanent members of the town's police department, including patrolmen, sergeants, patrol supervisors, juvenile officers, sergeants, animal control officers and assistants, telecommunications operators, telecommunications supervisors, records supervisors and clerks and detectives.
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A potential government shutdown is just two weeks away as Con- gress continues to feud over a necessary budget stopgap at the end of the month and whether to involve the fight over the Affordable Care Act health-care law.
Dozens of House Republicans, and some in the Senate, are insisting that any budget stopgap must defund and delay "Obamacare" for at least a year before state-by-state health care exchanges are initiated Oct. 1.
Because Democrats and the GOP remain at a stalemate on overall federal spending levels, a short-term budget fix, called a continuing resolution, is needed to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.
Republican opinions vary, though, on whether to force health-care funding into the fight.
U.S. Reps. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, and Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, want the health-care law repealed, but they have argued that a potential government shutdown is neither the time nor the place to do it. They contend that the American public and the GOP brand would suffer.
While in the minority of the Republicans in Congress, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Reps. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge; John Fleming, R-Minden; and Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, have all signed letters asking the GOP House leadership not to support any spending bill unless the Affordable Care Act health-care law is defunded.
While the letters do not specifically call for a government shutdown, they do ask the GOP leadership to oppose any continuing spending resolutions that fund the health-care law. The chances are slim-to-none that Democrats and President Barack Obama will agree to support any bill that does not fund health care, so the leadership of both parties recognizes that such an approach likely would lead to the shutdown of countless government services for the first time since 1996.
A government shutdown would not cut off most of the funding for the Affordable Care Act implementation.
Despite a line in the sand on Obamacare likely leading to a government shutdown, Cassidy, Scalise and others are vehement that they oppose a shutdown, or even the threat of one, and that the Democrats would be to blame.
Cassidy also is the only initial Louisiana cosponsor of a new plan proposed Thursday by U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., that ties defunding the health-care law for a year into the funding for the federal government.
Republican House leadership this past week pushed a potential compromise intended to make the Senate vote on whether to fund "Obamacare." After that Senate vote failed and put people like U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on the record, then the Senate would essentially be able to vote on a clean continuing resolution. But some tea party and conservative groups have called that approach a gimmick that accomplishes nothing.
Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens put out statements calling out individual Republicans if they support that approach.
"House Republican leadership is proposing one of the most cynical political shell games seen in Washington, D.C. in years," Mehrens stated. "Their proposal is to allow a symbolic vote on defunding Obamacare in conjunction with the continuing resolution that would fund the federal government, but not have that vote be binding on any Senate action to fund the government. This is a gimmick, and any member that votes for it will own it."
Such threats enhance the tension and make a shutdown much more likely if GOP members agree.
Then you have Vitter offering an either-or approach. Vitter is currently causing a kerfuffle in the Senate by aggressively pushing his proposal to require members of Congress, their staffs and the president to acquire their health insurance through the health-care exchanges without any federal employee benefits.
To not do so, he said, would be hypocritical.
Either defund Obamacare or make everyone lose their employer subsidies and go independently through the exchanges.
"We're going to demand one or the other," Vitter said.
Jordan Blum is chief of The Advocate's Washington bureau. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Last week I started watching Glee on Netflix. I was bored and the selection on Netflix (streaming), well, sucks.
I have enjoyed the show, must to my surprise. It would fun to sing "responses" to stuff...mostly for the cheesy factor. I really hope that's the comedian in me.
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I wrote about this earlier in the week. I tend to write "on-the-fly" without editing or any such thing, so it was natural that I left out quite a bit.
What I did not mention is probably more important as that article focused mainly on how I felt.
As a dad of 2, one with special needs (and I'm not just saying that because she is a girl :) ), I have a lot of work to do outside of my professional responsibilities. Playing with them is #1 on that list. Mom deals with the day to day operations while I'm like the Cruise Director, maybe Captain of Fun. At least I should be. This weight thing affects how I interact...in that I get tired way too easily or I just simply don't want to (or can't) play. That blows.
We lived in Simi Valley, CA from 1979 to 1983. My dad worked in downtown L.A. off of Wilshire Boulevard. During the week, it was a 2 hour commute, each way. Despite this, he would still come home and play catch with me or take me to the local school for some batting practice. I want to be more like that.
And then there's the, "I'm gonna die" thoughts, if I let this continue. That might be overstating things just a tad, but to fall so far from grace, those thoughts are hard to shake. I don't know what "normal" people are like, i.e. ones who never exercised like I once did. Maybe I'm crazy for thinking like this, but that wouldn't be much of a surprise.
Finally, there's the thought (related to the previous) of what would happen if I fell over? Currently, I don't have life insurance (working on it though) and we have $0 in savings. Since I'm on a 2 month schedule consulting, that would be good, but doubtful that would cover the costs of my funeral (Roman Pyre, Irish Wake, perhaps a New Orleans Jazz Band in there somewhere...). I can't leave my family in a lurch like that (Yes, I would be missed, I understand that, by housing and food, the basics, are my primary concern).
Finally Part II, the fear of not seeing the little monsters grow up, or simply growing old with Kris. That more than anything, scares me. I remember a time where I never concerned myself with such things, then LC showed up and suddenly I had a sense of mortality.
So the little monster requires surgery next week. Ugh. Didn't go over well in this household, last time was teh suck.
We know her record with Death, and it's good. She's given him The Bird twice so far. That's why she's a Rockstar.
Besides, this one is not GA, it's just to remove some ear tubes that never fell out. Should be in and out in a short period of time.
Dang, initially, I had some funny ones in here. I started out funny, then devolved into the morbid.
I'll do better next time. :)
5 comments:
- Aman Sharma said...
Best wishes to Katezilla for the surgery. Our angel would do just great, I am sure of it!
- May 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM
Deep breaths. Sounds like things are working out for you and best wishes for you and yours. You'll get there. And yeah working on your health is the best thing you can do for your family - it won't feel like it right away but it is.
- May 6, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- Joel Garry said...
Hey, in 1980 I went to computer school on Wilshire. I have wondered at times if I ever crossed paths with Obama (who went to Occidental College in Eagle Rock).
My commute is 2 hours each way. Bums me out being too tired to play with the kids also. We turn into our parents no matter how hard we try not to.
One of my nephews had the ear-tubes too. The one who programs radiotelescope aiming for NASA and tours in a jazz band now. Keep the faith.
- May 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- Gary Myers said...
Check out the insurance thing. I've got life insurance, disability insurance and income protection (unable to work for an extended period). But then I'm paranoid.
I remember working for the Health Service in the UK (in IT) and someone told me they intentionally had a long waiting list for grommet removal (those ear tubes) because most fell out before the child was due for the operation.
- May 7, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- hillbillyToad said...
The eartube stuff is nothing! I'm sure she won't mind a bit, plus an excuse for ice cream :)
- May 9, 2011 at 11:07 AM


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