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Air management systems
The air management system is among the most important contributors to the comfort on board an aircraft.
Liebherr has complete capability to develop, supply and service all aircraft and engine air systems: from the engine bleed air ports and engine pneumatics to the air distribution in the cabin and from the wing ice protection system to the cabin pressurization.
Liebherr also offers supplemental cooling, hydraulic cooling, fuel tank inerting air supply or air humidification. The company can either supply a complete integrated air management system (i.e. unique controller to drive multiple systems) or an individual dedicated system.
Liebherr masters the complete development including certification testing, as well as the production and worldwide customer services all along product life.
Liebherr is the system supplier for all kinds of platforms like commercial aircraft, regional aircraft, business jets, helicopters, UAV's, fighters or military transport airlifters.
Air conditioning
Air conditioning systems create a safe and comfortable environment for passengers and crews inside the aircraft cabin: significant amounts of cooled fresh air are hence brought into the pressurized cabin in order to maintain a comfortable cabin environment and also to ensure avionics and electronics ventilation and/or cooling.
The air conditioning system processes high pressure, high temperature air which is most of the time taken or "bled" from the aircraft engines (engine bleed air system).
The core of the air conditioning system consists of air conditioning packs based on the so-called air cycle machines using air bearing technology allowing higher reliability. These air cycle machines are usually pneumatically driven but can also be either electrically or mechanically driven. Various components like heat exchangers, re-heaters, condensers, water extractors, flow control valves, sensors or controllers are also part of the system.
Once the cooled air is blown into the cabin, it needs to be ducted to the appropriate zones and circulated in the cabin. This is accomplished by the so-called cabin distribution system.
Ventilation and heating
Some consumers may require local ventilation. This function is performed by the ventilation control system, basically made of electrically driven fans, valves, sensors, controllers and software. Some others may require local cooling. This is typically ensured by a vapor cycle system. Various components like compressors, heat exchangers, evaporators, condensers, water extractors, sensors and controllers are part of the system.
Alternatively, when required, Liebherr systems can also provide local heating, for instance, within the crew rest areas. This is ensured by the heaters developed by Liebherr.
Liebherr offers additional technologies enhancing the cabin air quality and thus the comfort of passengers and crew.
As the atmosphere at high altitude is very dry, cabin air has a very low relative humidity level, especially during long flights. It is therefore necessary to raise the air humidity level up to 20 or 25 per cent in order to guarantee appropriate comfort conditions for passengers and crew, either in the cockpit, the cabin or the crew rest compartments.
Liebherr supplies humidification systems for commercial airplanes and business jets. Connected to the water system of the aircraft, this system may be either powered by engine bleed air or by the aircraft's electrical network.
If an aircraft needs to be upgraded to incorporate such a system, Liebherr proposes a specific installation (Supplemental Type Certificate).
Engine bleed air systems bleed high pressure, high temperature air from the engine's low and high pressure ports. The air flow is processed through temperature and pressure control devices and supplied downstream to the aircraft's main air conditioning system, to the airframe anti-icing system and to the main engine starting system.
An engine bleed air system consists of temperature control valves, pressure regulating and shut-off valves, high pressure valves, over-pressure valves, pre-coolers heat exchangers, high pressure ducting, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, overheat / hot air leak detection devices and a control and monitoring electronic unit.
Liebherr also supplies high pressure, high temperature engine pneumatic valves and heat exchangers to perform such functions as cowl anti-icing, intermediate pressure check valve, handling bleed off valve, high pressure/low pressure clearance regulating valve.
The atmospheric pressure decreases as the altitude rises and becomes incompatible with the human physiology. That is why the pressure level and change rate inside the cabin need to be controlled in order to provide satisfactory pressure values for comfort and safety of passengers and crew. During all flight phases this is done fully automatically by the pressurization control system.
The complete cabin pressure control system provided by Liebherr includes outflow and safety valves, control panel, controller and software.
When a plane flies in frosting conditions, the nacelle and wings can be covered with white frost. There can even be accumulation of ice on the leading edges.
This accumulation of ice typically deteriorates the wing aerodynamic performances, in addition to increasing the aircraft's weight, which is particularly detrimental to the aircraft's performances and safety. It is therefore necessary to remove this ice or to prevent ice accretion.
The airframe anti-icing system carries hot air supplied by the engine bleed air system and blows it along the ice-sensitive parts of the airframe (engine nacelle air intakes, wing and tail leading edge).
An airframe anti-icing system is made up of pressure regulating valves, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, high pressure ducting, overheat / hot air leak detection devices and controller.
The supplemental cooling system developed and manufactured by Liebherr-Aerospace for the A380 is used for the cooling of food and beverages on board.
Besides the air conditioning system used to cool the air in the cabin for the passengers, an additional on-board cooling system might be necessary for food storage or avionics thermal management.
This function is achieved by a high power centralized cooling system. The cooling generated is distributed by a liquid loop carrying cooling in every place where it is required. A heat exchanger connected to this liquid loop converts the cooling power into air cooling blown on the food.
Such systems can also be used to cool down radars or electronics.
Liebherr also supplies hydraulic cooling systems to cool down high pressure (5,000 psi) hydraulic channels onboard the aircraft.
Nitrogen generation for fuel tank inerting requires the supply of high pressure air. Liebherr offers a wide range of fuel tank inerting air supply systems based on bleed air or electrically compressed air thanks to such proprietary components as heat exchangers, valves, air cycle machines, compressors and associated controls.
The test center ISA (Intégration des Systèmes d'Air) at Liebherr-Aerospace in Toulouse features exceptional facilities to conduct fullscale as well as digital model testing of all air management systems developed by Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS.
Liebherr operates large air system testing facilities in Toulouse, France. Here, air management test rigs allow to perform elaborate tests of complete aircraft air systems.
The test center ISA ("Intégration des Systèmes d'Air") at Toulouse, allows to test particularly all electrically driven systems of a future more electric aircraft.
Equiped with state-of-the-art vibration test rigs, a noise optimization anechoic chamber and altitude chambers of various sizes, the test center is a powerful research and development tool.


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Bruce Springsteen and company performed in Charlottsville on Tuesday, and Springsteen didn't miss the opportunity to pay tribute to Virginia native Clarence Clemons. Daily Press reporter and resident Boss-ophile Mike Holzclaw traveled to Hooville and filed this report. -- Sam McDonald
The Big Man was there last night. In Spirit. And no, not just "Spirit in the Night," the sax-drenched song that served as the centerpiece to Bruce Springsteen's 25-song, three-hour show at John Paul Jones Arena.
In the midst of his first tour since the death of Clarence Clemons, the Norfolk-born saxman who spent four decades as Springsteen's primary on-stage foil, The Boss told the crowd: "He's here. You know how I know that? I can hear him in your voices."
The band introductions, which have always been presented during uptempo anthems, on Tuesday night came during a doleful version of "My City of Ruins" that drew even more heavily than usual on the song's gospel roots. The song was written for the blighted Asbury Park, N.J., and later adapted to a post-9/11 elegy, but on this tour it serves as a sweet, heartfelt ode to the ghosts of departed loved ones. Moving to the spot on the stage where Clemons used to play, Springsteen stood stock still, closed his eyes and let the music wash over him.
Later, when the band opened its encores with "Jungeland," Virginia Beach's own Jake Clemons – The Big Man's nephew, and part of the four-part horn section enlisted on this tour to replace the irreplaceable – stepped to the center stage to blow Clarence's signature solo. Jake played it note-for-note, and if he couldn't match his uncle's soulful timbre … well, who could? At the end of the song, when Springsteen and Jake embraced, both men appeared to be genuinely emotional after sharing that song.
Finally, there was the last encore, "Tenth Avenue Freezeout," the song that tells the story of the E-Street Band's formation. Since time immemorial (well, since 1975) when Springsteen sang the key line "They made that change uptown and The Big Man joined the band," it was Clarence's cue to blow his horn. This time, that line brought the song to an instant halt so that a minute-long montage of photos and silent video clips could play behind the stage. The crowd cheered for another full minute before – on Springsteen's cue – Jake re-started the song.
Jake is good. There can be no doubt. Springsteen was wise to bring in the full horn section to take some of the pressure off the kid, but he certainly is not intimidated by the role that has been handed to him. A likeable young man with shaggy hair and nerd glasses, Jake cuts a very different figure onstage than Clarence's larger-than-life "King of the World" persona; where The Big Man was Springsteen's equal and his spiritual advisor, Jake is his faithful acolyte, and there is obvious affection between them. During "Spirit in the Night," he sat at center stage and played that moody sax line while Springsteen sat, then laid down, and then sprawled on his belly to smooch a fan. At the climax of "Dancing in the Dark," Jake complied with a fan's request to come on stage and dance with him.
Five days after appearing alongside Bill Clinton at an Obama campaign rally in Ohio, Springsteen made no political references on Tuesday night. Instead, the first half of the show was built around a single question ("Can you feel the spirit?") and the second half leaned heavily on anthems that were both fun and electrifying. Max Weinberg's drums have never crashed harder, and the guitar interplay was impeccable among Springsteen, the rock-solid Little Steven and the sublimely incomparable Nils Lofgren.
Any political commentary came from the songs themselves: "Death to My Hometown" vowed to "send the robber barons straight to hell" for fattening their own bank accounts by shipping jobs overseas. The incendiary "Murder Incorporated" decried the culture of gun violence (and was paired in a medley with "Johnny 99," about the tragic desperation of an unemployed auto worker at the end of his rope). "We Take Care of Our Own" stressed a promise that America makes but sometimes forgets.
For the record, The Boss turned 63 last month, but don't tell him that. In the middle of "Waiting on a Sunny Day," he sprinted across the stage and slid on his knees just like he used to do 30 years ago. During the thunderous version of "Shackled and Drawn" that opened the show, he was flanked by a dozen musicians and singers and he led them in a neatly choreographed line dance. (Springsteen is no Gene Kelly, but he has always been an enthusiastic dancer onstage, and last night's moves even included a quick, giddy bit of "Gangnam Style.") He went crowd surfing during "Hungry Heart," and when he sang "Darlington County" – about a raffish young man trolling for women while doing small-town contract work – he clambered into the seats and turned a group of young fans into the co-stars in the song's narrative. He asked for a show of hands from fans seeing the E-Street Band for the first time, and noted that this is why he still has something to prove each night. "I'm an old man," he joked, "but I don't want to go home!"
And, yes, he paid tribute to his early scuffling days, when his itinerary was dominated by dive bars and parking garage rooftops in Richmond. "At one time," he said, "Virginia was all that all that was between us and starvation."

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Graduates of NAU's paralegal studies programs are eligible to sit for the Certified Legal Assistant (CLA) exam administered by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) and receive the designation of "Certified Paralegal" or "CP". Graduates may also seek certification from the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) through the Paralegal CORE Competency Exam™ (PCCE™) exam.
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Breaking the Trance of Fear
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
-- Tao te Ching (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Fear is the biggest energy thief there is. A master seducer, it shamelessly robs of us of everything good and powerful, preys on our vulnerabilities. Many people become mesmerized for a lifetime, letting negative attitudes seize control. Enough! Though some fears are intuitively protective (we'll go into these), we can't let the irrational ones bamboozle us. Fear never stands alone; it inflames every vampiric emotion from worry to shame. This program shows you how to break fear's trance and reacquire lost energy.
As a psychiatrist, I know we all experience fear. Me. You. Your mother. The President. No one escapes. The wise ones admit it, and eyes open, confront and heal fear. The ones who're in trouble look the other way, and bit by bit, get eaten alive. The point is to stay conscious. When we know what we're dealing with, we decide who's in charge.
7 Anti-Fear Tactics
Tactic One. Know your fears well to avoid ambush
First, to de-energize fear you must name it. Identify the whole gamut, miniscule or monstrous."I'm not smart enough, pretty enough...I'll never find a soulmate so I might as well not try." Some of my biggest fears include ending up drooling and alone in a nursing home: or if I suddenly die at home I'd just lie there unmissed until my cleaning lady found me.
Breaking the Trance. Don't drift into denial. Say to the fear, "Thank you for sharing." Then make a conscious move into your heart. Do this by verbally reframing your dilemma from a compassionate perspective. For instance, to replace fear with faith, I affirm, "I will be taken care of,not abandoned in my time of need." To further cement your new affirmation, I suggest meditating on your heart to reconnect with whatever you love. Conjuring positive energy in these ways collapses fear.
Tactic Two. Listen to your intuition
Once you've identified the fear, tune into the actual truth of the situation. Some fears are protective, others are not.
Breaking the Trance. Follow these guidelines to tell intuition from fear. (1) Trustworthy intuitions will energize you. They are either neutral, simply conveying information; compassionate, never beating you up; or a gut feeling that something feels right or off.
(2) Irrational fear, on the other hand, exhausts you. It's emotionally charged so that centered neutrality is impossible. The content is often cruel or demeaning, with no gut-level confirmation.
Tactic Three. Say A Prayer to Lift Fear
Sometimes fear grips your spirit and just won't let go. You do everything right. You know fear is irrational, but still can't shake it. Now, ask for another kind of help. You may believe in angels, or that your grandfather is watching over you (mine is!). Whoever your positive energy emissaries are, get ready to call in the troops.
Breaking the Trance. Take a breath.
Close your eyes. Know that the non-material world holds much magic our rational mind can never understand. Then say a prayer from the heart. It could be very simple: "Please take this fear from me." Meanwhile, just stay open. Let the positive energy you're summoning do its job.


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The drum is constructed of an aluminum and foam body with a sponge padding, a slot that will hold the ends of the paper, and a locking tube to secure the paper. For use with drills, drill presses, motor arbors, etc. The smallest drum is ideal for carvers, as it can be used with flex shafts or rotary tools. The arbor size has been selected for safest use – drums with a 1/4" or 3/8" shaft are for use in drills, drill presses, etc.; drums with a 1/2" shaft are for use in drill presses or 1/2" motor arbors.
Recommended speed is 1750 rpm with a maximum of 3600 rpm. Sample of sandpaper included.
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For one of our clients, an international IT company, based in the South of Germany we are currently recruiting a Dutch and German speaking e-Logistics Project Manager.
The Job
– First point of contact in giving customer support to existing b2b clients
– Answering any queries related to the business platform via phone and email
– Writing reports and analyzing incoming queries and trying to solve them on your own
– Creating effort analysis for client requests in close cooperation with the developer and IT infrastructure team
– Creating new offers for the client and managing signed contracts for additional services to the existing products
The Profile
– Excellent level of Dutch + German + English language (spoken and written)
– Min. 1 year of experience in customer service/technical support on the phone
– Team and customer oriented, able to work autonomously and in a team, excellent organization skills, problem solver, pro-active, dynamic and motivated
– Very strong knowledge in MS Office (Excel and Outlook)
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– Salary based on level of experience (30.000 € – 35.000 € gross/year) + additional benefits
– Career opportunities: workshops and training to develop your career
– Working in a young and dynamic company which is constantly growing
– International and multicultural environment
– Shift work from Monday to Friday 7:00 AM to 6 PM (rotative)
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There is high demand for the physician assistant (PA) profession, as physician assistants (PAs) help to fill the gap in a projected shortage of primary care physicians and can practice in virtually any medical specialty. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of PAs will increase 37% from 2016 to 2026 (much faster than average). Interest in the profession is also very high, as the PA profession is consistently named one of the Best Master's Degree for Jobs by Forbes and among the Best Job's in America by U.S. News & World Report.
In response to pending local and national primary care provider shortages and the changing healthcare industry, the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Board of Regents approved the new Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies academic program in 2012. The EMU PA Program is situated in the School of Health Promotion and Human Performance, within the College of Health and Human Services. The PA Program is a twenty-four month, full-time, year-round graduate professional program with students starting as a cohort annually in May. This program prepares its graduates to be certified and licensed to practice medicine using autonomous decision making under the supervision of a physician.
The EMU PA Program facilitates students in developing critical thinking and patient-centered problem-solving skills with a practical focus to prepare them for the experiences they will encounter upon graduation. We seek to not just produce physician assistants, but rather to create highly respected ambassadors of the PA profession. Here are some points of distinction:
We recognize that not all students learn in the same way, so we should not teach using only one method. Instead, we combine interactive lectures with a clinical focus, small group interactions (PBL), hands-on practical training, out of classroom learning and high fidelity medical simulation. Students do not simply sit in a lecture hall all day long. Visit PA Curriculum for a full listing of our innovative curriculum plan and links to course descriptions.
The University is committed to the PA program and PA students. To this end, the multimillion dollar facility renovations in the Rackham Building were designed specifically for our multiple teaching styles, use of cutting-edge technology while also being conducive to student learning and success. Additionally, the University collaborated with nearby St. Joseph Mercy Hospital to create a new Human Anatomy Cadaver Laboratory and Advanced Medical Simulation Center. Together, these facilities provide an exemplary student learning environment. Visit PA Facilities for a detailed description and photos of our great facilities.
We have taken an innovative approach to utilizing small group learning (modified problem-based learning - PBL) and medical simulation in our curriculum. In our Pathophysiology courses, small groups of students work together to solve a medical case using a cloud-based software program while focusing on the pathophysiology of diseases. Students work in small groups with an active approach to problem-solving, discuss medicine with their classmates and work together to solve medical cases. This type of modified-PBL promotes active learning so students learn how and where to find answers to their questions, interact with peers using medical terminology and develop patient-centered problem-solving skills. Students also hone their skills through advanced medical simulation experiences as part of the regular schedule of courses each semester. Students are placed in simulated medical experiences with realistic patient interaction to practice and build confidence in their skills, obtain constructive feedback and establish a minimum proficiency prior to interacting with real patients. Visit Sim Center for a detailed description and photos of the new Sim Center.
The PA program faculty and staff have a wealth of clinical and educational experience and are truly academic clinicians. Our curriculum is based on current medical practice and utilization of today's technology (flat screen monitors, audience response devices, utilization of electronic devices, etc.), best practices for student learning and a focus on practical medical knowledge and skills. Visit PA Curriculum for a full listing of our innovative curriculum plan and links to course descriptions.
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Eastern Michigan University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Eastern Michigan University. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be March 2028. The review date is contingent upon continued compliance with the Accreditation Standards and ARC-PA policy.
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The Rosetta Disk is the physical companion of the Rosetta Digital Language Archive, and a prototype of one facet of The Long Now Foundation's 10,000-Year Library. The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. The foundation attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.
The Rosetta Disk is one small answer to the riddle of longevity. An "iconic object" designed to last about 2,000 years, the disk itself is heavy nickel, 3 inches in diameter, and decorated with the words "Languages of the World" swirling around a core of 30,000 microetched pages. The pages contain a small bit of text — 27 pages from the biblical story of Genesis — and some basic phonetic and grammatical details, printed in at least 1,000 languages, legible only under a 1,000x microscope.
The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: "Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation." The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—'get a magnifier and there is more.'
On the reverse side of the disk from the globe graphic are over 13,000 micro etched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification. Each page is .019 inches, or half a millimeter, across. This is about equal in width to 5 human hairs, and can be read with a 650X microscope (individual pages are clearly visible with 100X magnification).
The 13,000 pages in the collection contain documentation on over 1500 languages gathered from archives around the world. For each language there are several categories of data—descriptions of the speech community, maps of their location(s), and information on writing systems and literacy. Grammatical information including descriptions of the sounds of the language, how words and larger linguistic structures like sentences are formed, a basic vocabulary list (known as a "Swadesh List"), and whenever possible, texts are also included. Many of the texts are transcribed oral narratives. Others are translations such as the beginning chapters of the Book of Genesis or the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The Rosetta Disk is held in a four inch spherical container that both protects the disk as well as provides additional functionality. The container is split into two hemispheres with the three inch Rosetta Disk sitting in an indent on the flat meeting surface of the two hemispheres. The upper hemisphere is made of optical glass and doubles as a 6X viewer, giving visual access deeper into the tapered text rings. The bottom hemisphere is high-grade stainless steel. A hollow cylinder has been machined into the bottom hemisphere that holds a stainless steel ribbon for disk caretakers to etch their names, locations, and dates – hopefully creating a unique pedigree for each Rosetta Disk as it travels through time and human hands. A small stylus tool is included for future caretakers to add additional information.
At the very least, the Rosetta Disk provides an informative overview of human linguistic diversity in the 21st century. However, it may do much more. The translations on the disk, for example, are a close analog to the Rosetta Stone, whose parallel texts (in this case unintentionally) enabled the decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It isn't a great stretch to imagine that the language information on this disk could provide the key to the (re)discovery of valuable society sustaining knowledge far into the future.
The Rosetta Disk is being designed and developed through the collaboration of artists, designers, linguists and archivists including Kurt Bollacker, Stewart Brand, Paul Donald, Jim Mason, Kevin Kelly, and Alexander Rose and Laura Welcher. Primary funding for the first Rosetta Disk and the project that grew out of it came from the generous support of Charles Butcher and the Lazy Eight Foundation.
"I don't think it's an apocalyptic object," Mason says. The Disk might survive a nuclear winter, but planning for a total collapse of civilization isn't the point of Long Now. "There's a variety of purposes for the Disk, from the iconic to the actually functional."
The Disk is already an icon, in fact, for a more awesome project — a massive effort to collect basic information about every existing language into a single online database, called the All-Language Archive. In some ways the Disk is beside the point: It has led to a practical, down-to-earth venture that may be more important than a bunch of microscopic Genesis translations. What started as a dreamy experiment by a handful of Buckminster Fuller-ish future theorists at a Presidio nonprofit has evolved into a serious effort to preserve the world's dying tongues, and Mason — to his considerable surprise — finds himself in charge. Maybe that's why he talks so stiffly sometimes, using a lingo one might call "visionary-bureaucrat." He's not an uptight guy, but he moves around the office with a stressed, intense concentration laid over his native bohemian looseness.
"We found ourselves in possession of a tool," he says, "and a medium" —the Web —"that allowed for a collaborative creation of a very broad reference work, one that we're now on the verge of recasting as an attempt to finish one of the [critical] data sets of humanity." (The human genome map would be another major data set.) The goal, he explains, is to create "a record of human languages, tending towards All."
Time is running short for this kind of work, because linguistic diversity is going the way of species diversity. Hundreds if not thousands of tongues are spoken only by a few isolated and elderly speakers, so linguists need to get to those speakers before they die —and take their rare words with them. The Rosetta Project wants to ease that problem, if it can.
The site lists 1,470 languages so far, out of about 4,000 worldwide that have paper documentation —either published in dusty books or "languishing away," according to Mason, "in file cabinets and shoe boxes and closets," where missionaries or far-flung researchers might have left it for posterity. The project's goal for the next five years is to collect that written information on the rest of the world's languages and put it online. This first step toward an All-Language Archive seems modest when compared to the company's reallyambitious second step, though: collecting data on the remaining 2,000 or 3,000 languages that aren't even documented. Of course, such a huge undertaking might not get funded by the Rosetta Project's backer, the Lazy Eight Foundation, which supports unorthodox educational and scientific work.
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The Statistical Consulting Center (SCC), in existence since 1990, is a Core Facility of the University of Georgia. The mission of the SCC is threefold: to provide collaborative research assistance to faculty, research staff, and students in all departments of the University of Georgia; to increase the quality of quantitative research performed at the University; and to provide an advantageous educational experience to students of statistics through training as statistical collaborators.
The SCC consists of a faculty Director (Dr. Jaxk Reeves), an Associate Director (Dr. Xianyan Chen), and five graduate students supported on assistantship, as noted on the Staff and Appointment Hours link to the left. The SCC is housed in the Department of Statistics, and receives partial financial support from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Graduate School, and the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences. The links to the left describe the operation of the SCC, its services, and its policies.
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Marketing and Publicity Guidelines
This article provides guidelines for how you can market and publicize your organization's participation in Google's Map Content Partner Program.
Marketing and Publicity:
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On a brisk fall day in the not-too-distant future, the New England Patriots will unveil their Bill Belichick statue outside Gillette Stadium.
If we were commissioned to create it (this would be a stunning decision by Patriots brass) we'd depict the coach with a subtle scowl etched across his face, clad in his standard cut-off hoodie (not the red one), his hair slightly disheveled for all eternity.
It would honor arguably the greatest coach in NFL history. Think that's too strong a statement? Perhaps it's time to take a look at the credentials BB has built up during the past 12 seasons.
As Ben Volin of The Palm Beach Post pointed out Saturday, a win over the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday's AFC Championship Game would do more than advance the Patriots to their sixth Super Bowl in the Belichick-Brady era. It would give Belichick 19 playoff wins, tying him for second-most all-time with Don Shula.
That would put Belichick just one victory behind Tom Landry for the top spot.
So keep that in mind. If the Patriots win twice in the next three weeks, Belichick will have four Super Bowl rings as head coach -- six in total -- and will be tied for the most postseason victories ever.
More than enough hardware for a compelling G.O.A.T. discussion.
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Something I wanted to try out since I set up the blog as hugo static site was the automatic testing and deployment straight from the git to our webserver. As we are not using any of the common hosts for static sites, because why would we when we have a server at our disposal, it was a interesting to find a solution without using third-party services.
Our current setup is a VPS running a nginx and a docker environment for everything we don't quite trust and or want to run on bare metal. Two of those docker containers are Gogs and Drone CI, which work miraculously well together.
Let's Encrypt was released to the public on the 6th of December last year and has been a huge boon to the worldwide adoption of SSL/TLS Encrpytion for admins who prefer their own little site or mail server to huge sites like Google and the inherit indexing and spying by basically everyone.
Up until now SSL Certificates were either expensive, not quite trustworthy or generally not accepted in any browser or mail client. Let's Encrypt certificates on the other hand are easily requested, verified and installed on any machine while also being free and trusted by any software thanks to a cross sign.
Let's Encrypt offers a rather complex python script which helps setting up the certificates for different webservers and alike but almost always requires a standard setup to work. And anyone who has set more than a few basic settings is out of luck and has to do it manually, which is rather annoying considering the very short certificate lifetime of three months.
Alternative tools to the rescue. There is now already a pletora of different tools implementing the ACME protocol ranging from little bash scripts to full blown python applications. Many of these will do the job just fine as does the official client for that matter. I decided to go with acmetool a great little tool written in Go.
In addition to the common webroot, listen and manual mode
acmetool also offers
DNS verification and a proxy mode, basically webroot without the need for
filesystem access. Due to the fast iteration on the tool it also already
supports the signing of ECDSA certificates in addition to the standard RSA
And once again a new blog software. Well not as much blog software as just a static site generator. I went with hugo as it seemed to be of reasonable complexity and allowed me to port over the blog theme in a minimal amount of time. Whole blog and the content are now maintained in the old microblog git.
All old links should still work as before. e.g. /entry/1/ or /page/2/. In addition code blocks now support syntax highlighting for all of pygments supported languages, which are quite numerous. Including most programming and config file syntaxes. Which is quite important for a coding and administration oriented blog.
//go example
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
server {
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=off;
server_name server.name.nic;
location / {
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
The old famfam icon set was replaced by a web font with just a minimal set of glyphs we actually need, thanks to fontello. The Icons come from Font Awesome and Entypo I'll do an inlined version of the SVG font version later to remove absolutely all binary traffic from the blog.
For one of my projects I'm making heavy use of I²C devices. For development it would be nice to connect them to my notebook and develop and debug the sourcecode natively.
Luckily I remembered that all common display connection standards (VGA, HDMI, DVI) have an I²C control channel. In the linux kernel these pins are exported as I²C device by the graphic card driver. For example my intel driver exports 8 I²C devices.
So the only hardware needed to use an I²C device on my notebook is a cheap VGA cable. After cutting it in half we have two I²C adapters. I decided to create one cable for 5V I²C devices. This one is already done after cutting the cable in half. I soldered a jumper wire connector on the four needed wires and removed the others.
Recently we decided to switch the ISP and therefore a new server needed to be set up. Since Xen runs great we figured to stick with it. Unfortunately not many Linux distributions support Xen so we ended up with XenServer Free from Citrix.
Our new ISP of course does not offer an automated installation for XenServer
but quite a lot of other options (even an outdated OpenBSD). The first approach
to sneak in XenServer was by installing some random Linux distribution,
mounting the second hard drive and using KVM to install it there. Afterwards
chainloader entry in Grub would save the day. At least in theory
since it failed in practise. With all hope lost on that approach surfing the
web to look for suitable solutions seemed the right way to continue in this
Luckily someone had the exact the same problem and came up with a clever solution (german): Launching the unattended installer via Grub. Infact it worked like a charm.


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The father of the cocktail and the first celebrity bartender in America would be proud of his namesake saloon on Second Avenue in the East Village.
With a 41 foot bar, a large selection of draft beers, a second floor lounge with a private screening room, 17LCD televisions and a High-Definition Projector.
Professor Thom's is the perfect place to catch a game, celebrate your birthday, or just hang out with some friends.


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The Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure in Red Rocks Park near Morrison, Colorado. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large boulders angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for more than 9000 people in between.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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Jared Smith: 'Our biggest enemy is ourselves'
Sitaram Chamarty: 'English is never going to be as precise as perl or shell. That's my biggest problem in life.'
Joerg Simon (kital): 'The event was really smooth. All talks started on time, with German precision. Almost feels like a German event.' (In an offline chat with me).
Jared Smith: 'Best FUDPub EVER!' (on-video, off-video, in multiple locations, in multiple voices)
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On Tuesday Sam Seder and I had a brief discussion during his daily web broadcast The Majority Report that touched on some points I made in my post here last week The Empty Rhetoric of School "Reform" (with broken links fixed – my apologies). We ventured into other topics related to education policy as well, including the news story in Monday's USA Today about a cheating scandal in Washington, DC that occurred during Michelle Rhee's tenure as leader of that school system.
I invite you to listen to the discussion and then return to my comments . . .
Just a brief back story and follow-up on Ms. Rhee: Rhee has been lionized in print and in film as the "warrior woman" who would "save DC schools" mostly by firing teachers and closing schools based on standardized test scores.
But according to the USA Today investigation, based on documents and data secured under D.C.'s Freedom of Information Act, during much of her tenure, there were a number of schools that had "extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones." The fact that during her reign there was such a high rate of erasures on standardized bubble tests now makes her supposed record of achievement in the District highly suspect.
In her initial response to the USA Today article, in an interview with Tavis Smiley , Rhee made it appear that there was just a problem with one school, Crosby S. Noyes, and that the USA Today story was "distorted" and "unfounded."
But as the article states, "Noyes is one of 103 public schools here that have had erasure rates that surpassed D.C. averages at least once since 2008. That's more than half of D.C. schools." Also, the report notes that three years ago, upon the urging of DC's Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the test-maker McGraw-Hill did an "erasure analysis" and found that "among 96 schools flagged for wrong-to-right erasures were eight of the 10 campuses where Rhee handed out so-called TEAM awards 'to recognize, reward and retain high-performing educators and support staff.'"
My point to Sam was that the prevalence of cheating is inevitable when you impose a public policy system where devotion to a single metric – like scores on standardized tests – ends up distorting how all the active players in the system do their work. As Jim Horn at Schools Matter explains, this is:
a classic case study of what happens when high stakes, high pressure, and big bucks corrupt social policy, per Campbell's Law, which states that
"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
Not only have social processes been corrupted, but children have been damaged, too, as noted in this remarkable news story.
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As I said to Sam, all this distortion, scandal, and acrimony is an outcome of these top-down mandates – such as high-stakes tests and enforced firing of teachers and closing of schools based on their results – that continue to be enforced on our schools by an out of touch establishment of elites in Washington DC and Wall St. As I said to Sam, the process of public education should be essentially democratic. And right now, it's sadly becoming less so.
One of the reasons that America has a system of public schools that most countries of the world, such as China, try to emulate, is because of the bottom-up, generally democratic process that is the backbone of successful neighborhood schools. Without a doubt, it is America's most widely shared collaborative endeavor.
True, the federal government has a role to play, primarily in ensuring that education services are distributed to children equitably and that creating and improving our schools remains fundamentally democratic and fair. Unfortunately, right now, what our leaders in DC are doing is mostly the exact opposite.
When the progressive educator Deborah Meier looks out across this current landscape of confusion, what she sees in Michelle Rhee and other self-anointed "reformers" are not people with good intentions with just mistaken notions or unclear agendas; she sees something far more "villainous."
If collective action—unions—seems un-American, why do the rich create institutions in which they, too, pool their wealth with their peers in order to lobby for their self-interests and bargain with their legislators for more favors?
We do them a favor to call it merely hypocrisy. It's more villainous.
Faced with such inequality, our current government demurs to act and continues to blame public schools for not addressing the widening gaps between rich and poor. This is not only unfair, it's cowardly. Sure, public education, operating under the principles of democracy, has a role to play. But standardization and high-stakes testing aren't going to be the enablers of a better education system. As Meier concludes:
[Public education] can offer the "capital" needed to make sense of the world as it is, and recognize when we are being conned and stupefied—something we do not yet have any "objective" test for measuring. The best we can do is place our unwarranted trust in the school community, within the widest and least onerous boundaries. There is not a single "best" curriculum nor a single best way of governing democratically. Out of such diversity we will learn, although we may never find consensus on the details, nor need we.


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What business can learn from Bruce Bochy
Net Worth Experts point out what business can learn from baseball
What can managers in business learn from San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy, who led two very different teams to World Series championships in three years?
I asked a variety of management professors, consultants and managers themselves that question. Their answers focused on his communication skills, humility, confidence and ability to manage away from a superstar mentality.
Here's what they had to say:
-- Chester Spell, an associate professor of management at San Jose State University, says Bochy epitomizes what management consultant Jim Collins calls a "level-five leader," someone who can transform a company from good to great through a "paradoxical combination of personal humility plus professional will."
In a Harvard Business Review article, Collins says a level-five leader demonstrates compelling modesty, shuns public adulation and is never boastful. He acts with quiet, calm determination and relies on inspired standards, not inspiring charisma, to motivate. He looks in the mirror to apportion responsibility for poor results and looks out the window - to other people, external factors and good luck - to apportion credit for the company's success. He also "demonstrates an unwavering resolve to do whatever must be done to produce the best long-term results, no matter how difficult."
Spell, who has studied demographic diversity in baseball, says the most successful team managers are also able to "dampen or handle any harmful effects of having a lot of differences between players on a team." This includes differences in race, national origin and age.
"Diversity is a good thing, but it's a complicated thing," Spell says. Bochy's team this year included five players from Venezuela, three from the Dominican Republic and two from Puerto Rico, and ranged in age from 22 to 39.
When you have such diversity, in baseball or business, "divisions are very apparent. Some call them fault lines," and they can do more harm than most people realize. "A good manager can actually manage these divisions and focus on what brings them together and help them work as a unit," Spell says.
-- Byron Deeter is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners who is working with a dozen companies. He was also part of four national championship rugby teams at UC Berkeley under renowned coach Jack Clark.
He says managers can learn two lessons from Bochy. One is that "culture matters." Before games, you would see players jumping up and down in the dugout, just having fun. Instead of telling them to get serious for the big game ahead, "Bochy did the opposite; he allowed the team to be themselves. They really enjoy playing together and play better when they are loose and relaxed."
In business, "helping establish a culture in whatever way is right for that company is time and money well spent. Team bonding activities may in some cases seem childish, like the pranks going on in the Giants dugout," but they help when the going gets rough, he adds.
"We see this in our companies. They are investing in the little things - beer bashes, bringing dogs to the office, swag, road trips and hackathons - to build up this team culture and energy so that when those tough times come, it's just much easier to turn to those around you and say everyone is needed and 'Coach, how can I help?' "
The other lesson is "team first," he says. "People joke about how baseball is an individual team sport." Sports, like business, is full of prima donnas. But a good manager, through consistent actions, sends the message, "we are all a unit, no one is above the team."
Deeter says Bochy's decisions not to reactivate left fielder Melky Cabrera after his drug suspension to preserve the team dynamic, and to transfer struggling starter Tim Lincecum to relief are good examples. At Cal, coach Clark "would bench all-Americans if they showed acts of selfishness," he adds.
"Asking an engineer to go on a sales call is the equivalent of Lincecum coming out of the bullpen or a sacrifice bunt," Deeter says.
Interviewing for "cultural fit" is important, he adds. When a job candidate "says 'we' when describing success and 'I' when describing failure, it's a team mentality. The opposite is toxic."
-- Dean Hickman-Smith, senior vice president of worldwide sales with Aerohive Networks, a Sunnyvale wireless infrastructure company, admires Bochy's ability to "deliver good news and bad news very directly" and to "home-grow" a team. "That's essential for people who are trying to build an organization. You can hire from outside at great expense or build from within."
He adds that Bochy "manages up well," and has a good relationship with the Giants' general manager and chief executive.
Finally, he says, "He's not grabbing the glory. He seems like a very well-rounded manager. He has great hiring skills, great nurturing skills, great cross-functional skills. He instills great confidence. He is consistent. He is a stable anchor for the team."
-- Jennifer Chatman, a management professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, says good managers "look at things on a situation-by-situation basis. They don't rely on what they did before."
Bochy's 2010 team "had a lot more experienced players" than his 2012 squad. "He understood that what he had to do to get this team to the playoffs is different. Most leaders are locked into a single style. That's why startups often need to change managers when they get to a bigger size. His flexibility in style is a lesson in leadership."
He also understands "that you can't motivate people in the same way. He has a way of customizing his coaching to what motivates each player," she adds.
Another lesson: Bochy and the Giants "are careful about shielding the internal organization. They are good at presenting at image to the external world that may be different from what happens within the organization."
Chatman also admires Bochy's ability to "manage away from a superstar mentality. In the workplace, that superstar mentality is what led to Enron, people drinking their own Kool-Aid, doing things in their own best interest without thinking about what is best for the organization."
-- Bill Binch, senior vice president of sales and general manager with Marketo, a marketing software company in San Mateo, applauds Bochy for his communication skills and his consistency.
He also admires his ability to help struggling players get back on track by focusing on basics, by examining tapes to see if his baserunning or swing is off.
"We have highly motivated, well-compensated salespeople. They're like ballplayers. They have bad weeks, slumps they get into." When a salesperson is in a slump, instead of viewing tapes, "We analyze data," he says.
"We bear down on the areas we have concern in and work on those areas. We spend time doing mock presentations. If we can be as tough on you inside as you will be in the real world, you will be prepared hopefully for any scenario they throw at you," Binch says.
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Exposure: Dance (23-25 February) offers the chance to see a range of exciting contemporary work in a programme of short pieces from emerging choreographers. Levantes Dance Theatre provide pre-show entertainment with Canapé Dances in the Linbury Theatre foyer from 7pm and there's a chance to meet the choreographers, dancers and collaborators afterwards to chat about their work over a drink.
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Jorge Crecis will recreate his dance-sport piece 36 for Exposure:Dance. In the piece, collectively the dancers will cover 12 kilometres - the equivalent of 30 times around the Olympic running track; a bottle is thrown on average every 0.81 seconds, pushing the dancer's awareness to the limits and the force of each bottle throw is equivalent to throwing a hammer!
Alexander Whitley of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance will be premiering a new commission. He was nominated for a Critics' Circle Dance Award 2012 in the category of Outstanding Modern Male Performer for his performances in Wayne McGregor | Random Dance's FAR and Entity. Alexander recently spoke to GQ Magazine about the future of contemporary dance, revealing his passion for combining dance and digital arts and his plans for producing a 3D film.
Ilona Jäntti will be bringing a touch of the circus to the Linbury Studio Theatre with a premiere of new aerial solo accompanied by live cello. Since studying choreography at Laban Dance Centre, Ilona has collaborated with venues and companies including Shakespeare's Globe, the Darwin Centre of the Natural History Museum and The Place. Her work, described by The Stage as 'calm beauty', is not to be missed.
Gary Clarke's 2 Men and a Michael will also be performed, using simple gestures and actions to create a dead pan send up of the likes of Morecambe & Wise. A droll work, which would fit just as well into a comedy night as programme of contemporary dance, 2 Men... will provide a humorous counterpoint to the evening's other performances.


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When it comes to saving for retirement, your employees trust you to help them get their finances in order. Don't undermine their trust by making mistakes that could have been easily avoided. Instead, take a proactive approach to the administrative responsibilities you are expected to manage. Keep reading to discover three areas retirement plan auditors are checking for mistakes and what you can do to avoid future issues.
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It is a tribute to the impact that Ferenc Puskás had in his career that any football fan should know at least one thing about him.
Record tally
Maybe his role in the great Hungary team of the early 1950s that won Olympic gold, twice crushed England and reached the FIFA World Cup final, the man himself scoring a record 84 international goals; or his performances for the peerless Real Madrid CF team later that decade; or even the much-publicised auction of some of his personal archive.
New biography
However, those are only small parts of the incredible tale of the 'Galloping Major', and one that local journalist György Szöllősi was determined to tell. In his recently published book "Puskás", Szöllősi not only recounts his on-pitch successes, but also something of the man himself, not least his heart-breaking 25-year exile after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956.
Long exile
"Puskás would speak about his homeland almost with tears in his eyes, so it was very hard for the public to understand why he only came back in 1981," Szöllősi said. "Puskás was afraid of the life sentence that was the 'reward' for deserting soldiers."
Honoured by Hungary
Now requiring 24-hour medical attention for Alzheimer's disease, Puskás is finally receiving requisite recognition in Hungary. He is one of ten 'Sportsmen of the Nation', entitling him to a pension of around €2,200 a month. His family also receive contributions from Real Madrid, who played in a recent testimonial in Budapest.
'Nice man'
"Wherever I went during the preparation of the book, everyone who knew him told me that Puskás was one of the nicest men they had ever met," Szöllősi said. "Hardly anyone saluted him as a player initially. It quite surprised me.
As his former Real Madrid strike partner Alfredo Di Stéfano said 'he deserved ten out of ten as a player, and a man'."
The author, born a full 50 years after Puskás in 1977, has been delving into the hidden side of Hungary's greatest football era for more than a decade. For this book he has conducted more than 100 interviews, speaking to the Madrid president, many of Puskás's former team-mates and even his translator during his spell as Panathinaikos FC coach, when they reached the 1971 European Champion Clubs' Cup final, a unique achievement for Greece.
Role model
Puskás, Szöllősi states, is the model for all Hungarian footballers. "Every youngster who starts to play football wants to be the most skilful player," Szöllősi said. "However, at the same time they want to be the boss on the pitch with the best sense of humour. The reason for this is Puskás's character which sets an example and lives in the minds of Hungarians."
Sense of humour
There are many light-hearted anecdotes in the book, from his early fame at Kispest Honvéd FC, where at the age of 13 fans built a small step over the training ground fence near his home so Puskás did not have to walk round to the main gate, to his first postcard home from the Bernabéu that read: "Greetings from the new workshop."
Unhappy time
But another side of Puskás's life has remained hidden in Hungary. He was in Spain with Honvéd when the Soviet Union cracked down on the liberalising Hungarian leadership. Puskás, along with several team-mates, defected and drifted for two years before a 1958 move to Madrid, where he was to win three European Cups and even be capped for Spain.
Black propaganda
At home, though, the government-controlled media portrayed the former hero as a fat, drunken smuggler, and many in Hungary were indeed angry at the 'deserter'. However, he did not counter the propaganda. Szöllősi said: "
He did not want to react from abroad, as he was afraid of the punishment that could have awaited his relatives who had stayed in Hungary."
Mixed blessing
Oddly, his exile did invigorate his career. "Before 1956 in Hungary, he was the boss on and off the pitch, playing cards, drinking alcohol quite a lot and playing jokes. After emigration, he had to become a real professional. In a way, the bloody 1956 revolution, which is a very sad issue in Hungarian history, was good fortune for Puskás the player."
Real story
But only with the fall of Communism could his name be fully cleared. Szöllősi said: "After the political changes, we could feel a renaissance of the Magical Magyars. The reason why we came out with this book is to give the country back a real hero that was torn away by the political storms." This is doubtless why Erzsébet [his wife] told the press: "My husband wanted György to write this book about Puskás's real life."
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