These pages summarize the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and how the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) applies it to current and former employees of the United States Federal Government. For convenience, the phrase "current and former employees of the United States Federal Government" may be shortened to "Federal employees." Throughout these pages, "you" refers to a Federal employee, and "we" or "us" refers to OPM.
If you are NOT a current or former employee of the United States Federal Government, these pages do not apply to you. Please read the Who does what? page or go to the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration in the United States Department of Labor.
You should be aware that there might be a delay between official publication of materials and their change or appearance on these pages. We will make every effort to correct errors that come to our attention.
You must file an FLSA claim in writing because the claim must have an original signature by you or your duly appointed (in writing) representative. Additionally, an FLSA claim frequently must include contains supporting documentation such as position descriptions, organizational charts, time and attendance cards, and sign in/out logs, that are not available electronically.
One who is not covered by the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act).
One who is covered by the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Act.
If you want the FLSA claim you file with OPM to be treated confidentially (that is, if you do not want us to reveal your name to the agency), you must specifically state in your claim that your identity is not to be revealed. Witnesses or other sources may also request confidentiality. We will make every effort to conduct our investigation in a way to keep from revealing your name. If we are unable to get enough information to make a decision without revealing your name, we will notify you that your claim will be cancelled with no further action by us unless you voluntarily give us written permission to reveal your name.
Our claim decision is based on information supplied by you and your agency. If we need additional information, we will call, write, or visit the work site. If we conduct an interview with you, you will be the only person to participate unless we ask another person to participate. If necessary, we will interview others who may have information pertinent to resolving the issues of your claim.
Once we make a decision, we will notify both your agency and you or your representative in writing.
Compensation and leave claims generally are made under either title 5 of the United States Code or the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
If you have general questions about a particular FLSA issue, please contact OPM at 202-606-7948.
You or your duly appointed representative may request to withdraw your claim at any time before we issue a decision.
We may cancel your claim if you or your designated representative fail to provide requested information.
The FLSA Claim Decisions Table lists decisions in order by the occupational series code of the claimaint, or you may use our search engine to find decisions that may be of interest to you.
You must submit an FLSA claim in writing.
Earlier FLSA claim decisions are not available electronically. Paper copies of decisions still in our system of records may be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Submit the request to Classification and Pay Claims Program Manager, Merit System Audit and Compliance, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 6484, Washington, DC 20415. The request should state that it is a Freedom of Information Act request and describe the requested decisions by occupational series and grade(s), the time period, and if applicable, the agency. For example, "all decisions for GS-0318 positions at grades 6 and 7 in the Department of Agriculture from 1995 to the present."
The FLSA claim decisions posted on these pages do not substitute for application of our FLSA regulations and are not "case law." These decisions should not be used as the basis for other FLSA claims because these decisions do not provide enough information for direct application in other FLSA claims.
These decisions are provided with the following cautionary notes.
You must keep in mind that the decisions are taken out of context. The claim file is not provided to supplement the decision.
Each decision relates to a specific position and may not provide an appropriate basis for extrapolation to other positions.
Each decision provides an interpretation of our FLSA exemption criteria and regulations that we believe are appropriate for the circumstances of the claim in question. This interpretation may not be appropriate for other claims given different ways similar work is accomplished and the specific conditions associated with the work of the position being considered.
Some information, such as the claimant's name and organizational information that might identify the claimant, in these FLSA claim decisions has been withheld under exemption 6 of the Freedom of Information Act (section 552(b)(6) of title 5, United States Code). Exemption 6 allows information in personnel and medical files to be withheld if disclosing the information would be a "clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." Text in brackets indicates where information has been withheld under this exemption, for example [claimant's name] or [claimant's supervisor].
An OPM decision number identifies decisions. The 9-position decision number is made up of F (for FLSA), the 4-digit occupational series of the claimant's position, the claimant's grade, and the decision number for that particular series and grade; for example, F-0802-11-02 is the second decision we issued for a claimant who was a GS-802-11 Engineering Technician.
The decisions in the FLSA Decisions Table are listed in order by occupational series and within series by grade.
Because of the detailed information required and the fact finding and analysis work we must do in an FLSA claim case, we cannot respond to specific questions about your individual situation. Specific questions about your pay or leave entitlement, including FLSA matters, should be addressed to your agency's servicing human resources office. Check out our contact page for the address for Federal employee FLSA claims filed with OPM.
OPM decision number identifies decisions. The 12-character decision number is made up of F (for FLSA claim), 4 digits for the occupational series of the position, 2 digits for the grade of the position, and 2 digits for the number of the decision for that particular series and grade. For example, the decision number F-0802-11-02 indicates that it is an FLSA claim decision for a position in the 0802 Engineering Technician occupational series at the grade 11 level and is the second decision for a claimant who was a GS-802-11 Engineering Technician.
Position should be nonexempt, thus due FLSA overtime pay for time spent in training outside regular duty hours.
Position should be nonexempt, thus due FLSA overtime pay.
An OPM decision number identifies decisions. The 12-character decision number is made up of F (for FLSA claim), 4 digits for the occupational series of the position, 2 digits for the grade of the position, and 2 digits for the number of the decision for that particular series and grade.
For example, the decision number F-0802-11-02 indicates that it is an FLSA claim decision for a position in the 0802 Engineering Technician occupational series at the grade 11 level and is the second decision for a claimant who was a GS-802-11 Engineering Technician.
Claimant made whole by the agency; part of claim is time barred; willful violation did not occur; no additional overtime pay is due.
Changed: Was nonexempt, now exempt.
This decision was reopened, reconsidered, and sustained by OPM decision number F-0856-11-04, dated 10/5/01.
OPM decision number F-0856-11-02, dated 11/9/00.
Talk with your supervisor. Your Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemption status indicates whether you are nonexempt (covered by the FLSA) or exempt (not covered by the FLSA). If you think your FLSA exemption status or FLSA overtime pay is not correct or if you are concerned about the application of the child labor provisions of the FLSA, please review published FLSA regulations; then speak with your supervisor.
Talk with your human resources office. If you have questions your supervisor cannot answer, please speak with someone in your human resources office. Each agency applies the appropriate pay and leave policies for its own employees, including setting internal policies and procedures as needed. The Office of Personnel Management does not keep personnel records of employees in other agencies. You should first attempt to resolve individual FLSA, pay, and leave problems with your employing agency. Because of the detailed information required and the investigative work we must do in FLSA cases, we cannot respond to specific questions about your individual FLSA situation. Specific questions about your individual pay or leave entitlement, including FLSA overtime pay matters, should be addressed to your agency's human resources office.
If you want to file an FLSA complaint or claim after talking with your supervisor and your human resources office, remember that an FLSA claim or complaint must be filed in writing.
General inquiries about Federal pay and leave policies and programs (including FLSA overtime pay) may be sent to Pay-Leave-Policy@opm.gov. General inquiries about how the child labor provisions or exemption criteria of the Fair Labor Standards Act apply to current and former employees of the Federal Government and about how to file a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act may be sent to federal_FLSA@opm.gov.
If you are NOT required to file your FLSA claim using a negotiated grievance procedure, you may file your claim to either the agency employing you during the claim period or to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), but not both at the same time.
If you decide to file an FLSA claim with OPM, you must file the claim in writing with OPM at the address below. This highlighted link will take you to a page which lists the information that you should include in your FLSA claim. You may send comments or general questions to us electronically.


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Q: How does python print unicode strings and lists? What is the difference between the following two python outputs using print?
The first code
s=u'String'
print s

prints the following message.
String
The second code
sl={}
sl[u'String']=u'String'
print sl

prints a different message.
{u'String': u'String'}

Why are the unicode tags removed in the first scenario, but not the second.
Also, if I use IDLE and do not use print I get u'String', as shown below:
>>> s=u'String'
>>> s
u'String'

However, if I put the same two lines in file.py and run python file.py I get nothing.

A: For your first piece of code you are printing a string hence why it prints as expected.
For your second piece of code:
sl={}

Defines sl as a dictionary and
sl[u'String']=u'String'

adds a key-value pair to the dictionary. So when you print sl it is printing the key:value pairs for all of the dictionary.
This may help you understand
>>> x = {}
>>> x[1] = "Hello"
>>> x[2] = "Bye"
>>> print x
{1: 'Hello', 2: 'Bye'}
>>>

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Maine Recognizes Clean Energy Week 2021
Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a proclamation recognizing September 20-24, 2021 as Clean Energy Week in the state in conjunction with the fifth annual National Clean Energy Week (NCEW).
Last year, Governor Mills, along with more than half of the nation's governors, signed proclamations officially recognizing Clean Energy Weeks in their respective states. In her 2021 proclamation, the Maine Governor cites that the Pine Tree State—which leads New England in wind-powered generation—is home to nearly 12,000 individuals that are employed in the clean energy sector.
"Thank you, Governor Mills for recognizing the important role that clean energy plays in addressing Maine's economic and energy needs through your Clean Energy Week proclamation," said Heather Reams, chair of NCEW and executive director of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES). "Today, 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are created outside of the United States. This means that U.S. energy and climate policy must foster innovation and commercialization pathways that work as well for Maine as they do for India. The fifth annual NCEW and the Policy Makers Symposium will provide a bipartisan platform to learn more about what is ahead for clean energy and build the necessary bridges between policy, finance, and innovation to make strides in this critical area."
"Transitioning to clean energy will not only fight climate change, it will create good-paying jobs, support our economic recovery from the pandemic, and make our state competitive in emerging industries around the world," said Governor Janet Mills. "We will continue our work to make Maine a global leader in clean energy by investing in research and development, expanding workforce training, and attracting innovation. During Clean Energy Week, I encourage the people of Maine to join me in recognizing the importance of clean energy as we chart our future."
Founded in 2017, NCEW brings together government officials, industry associations, businesses, non-profits, and advocates in the clean energy space for events in Washington, D.C., and across America. The weeklong recognition honors the clean energy sector's contributions to America's economic strength while reducing global emissions. Among the unique programming offered throughout the week, the NCEW Policy Makers Symposium will convene lawmakers, energy advocates, and private sector leaders for enlightening and influential clean energy and climate policy discussions.
Additional information about NCEW—including sponsorship opportunities, in-person events, examples of how businesses and communities can show their support, and registration for the Policy Makers Symposium—is available at https://nationalcleanenergyweek.org/.
National Clean Energy Week (NCEW), described by POLITICO as "a veritable who's who of the Clean Energy World," is an annual awareness week to recognize the value of clean energy including abundant job opportunities, economic growth, energy independence, consumer choice, lower energy prices, and a cleaner environment. Follow NCEW on Twitter (@NCEWConf) and Facebook (NationalCleanEnergyWeek) for event updates. www.nationalcleanenergyweek.org

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The Hard Road is the fourth studio album by Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods. Released on 1 April 2006 by Obese Records, it debuted at number one on the Australia ARIA Albums Chart, and was the first album by Australian artists to achieve that position. It contains the top 20 single "Clown Prince". It achieved Gold status (35,000 units) on 8 April 2006, a week after release, and has now surpassed Platinum status (70,000 units).

At the J Award of 2006, it won the Australian Album of the Year. announced on 1 December. It was also nominated for four awards at the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, winning Best Independent Release and Best Urban Release.

Five of the album's songs placed on the annual Triple J Hottest 100 chart announced on 26 January 2007: "Recapturing the Vibe" (#77), "Stopping All Stations" (#56), "What a Great Night" (#41), "Clown Prince" (#23) and "The Hard Road" (#3). "An Audience with the Devil" samples the spoken parts (the interview between Suffa and the Devil) from the Millennium episode "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me".

Background
The Hard Road's lead single, "Clown Prince", reached the top 30 on the related ARIA Singles Chart. This featured guest verses from New York rapper, Omni, and British MCs, Mystro and Braintax. Hilltop Hoods received the inaugural Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for Independent Artist of the Year and Best Performing Independent Album for The Hard Road in 2006. The track, "The Blue Blooded", is a collaboration with Australian MCs: Funkoars, Hau from Koolism, Mortar, Vents, Drapht, Muph & Plutonic, Pegz and Robby Balboa. On 27 April of the same year, Hilltop Hoods performed at the Bass in the Grass music festival in Darwin alongside fellow hip hop group, The Herd. That same day they issued a second single, the title track from the album. Its music video includes fellow members from the Certified Wise Crew – Cross Bred Mongrels, Terrafirma and Funkoars.

Following the success of The Hard Road Tour in early 2006, the Hilltop Hoods began their second national tour for the year, The Stopping All Stations Tour, which visited more regional areas of Australia as well as the capital cities. They were supported by Koolism and Mystro. Late that year, Hilltop Hoods released their third single from the album, "What a Great Night". The video shows the group at a club with camera shots panning up and down to reveal a new location. It used special effects and is one of the most expensive video clips for an Australian hip hop group, mirroring the group's rise in success and popularity. Also late in the year the band won the J Award for best album of the year from Triple J. They performed the Homebake Festival and Falls Festival before the end of the year. The Hard Road received the AIR Award for Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Release in 2007.

Track listing

Secret track and extra material
Video clip of the first single "Clown Prince" is available for viewing on the CD.
Untitled secret track ("Ya Feel Big?", which works only on some stereos) - to access this track, start on track 1, "Recapturing the Vibe", and scan backwards. The song is about Hilltop Hoods' rise to fame and the struggles they endured because of this rise.

Song credits
Due to the MCs Suffa and Pressure performing different verses and choruses of varying songs, the sections done by DJ Debris and the large number of guest artists featured on the album, what follows is an extensive list of song credits.

"Recapturing the Vibe" - 3:26
Produced by Suffa
Verse 1: Pressure
Verse 2: Suffa
Scratches by DJ Debris
"Clown Prince" - 3:52
Produced by Debris
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure & ct
Verse 3: Suffa & Pressure
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains samples of "Laying Pipe" by Pornosonic, "Excursions" by A Tribe Called Quest and "Things Done Changed" by Notorious B.I.G.
"The Hard Road" - 4:06
Produced by Suffa
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure
Verse 3: Suffa
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains a sample of "Out in the Woods" by Leon Russell
"Stopping All Stations" - 3:52
Produced by Suffa
Performed by Pressure
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains samples of "Ego Trippin' (Part II)" by De La Soul and "1-800 Suicide" by Gravediggaz
"Conversations from a Speakeasy" featuring Omni - 3:28
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/J. McDonald)
Produced by Suffa
Verse 1: Pressure
Verse 2: Omni
Verse 3: Suffa
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains a sample of "You Gots to Chill" by EPMD
"What a Great Intro" - 0:24
"What a Great Night DNR" - 3:06
Produced & performed by Suffa
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains a sample of "For Pete's Sake" by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
"City of Light" - 3:40
Produced by Suffa
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure
Scratches by DJ Debris
Bass guitar by Chris Lambert
Electric guitar by Nick Lambert
"Obese Lowlifes" featuring Mystro and Braintax - 2:24
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/K. Dafarmo/J. Christie)
Produced by Suffa
Verse 1: Mystro
Verse 2: Pressure
Verse 3: Braintax
Verse 4: Suffa
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains samples of "These Walls Don't Lie" by Promoe
"Circuit Breaker" 3:29
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/D. Rankine)
Produced by Trials
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure
Scratches by DJ Debris
Contains samples of "Professor Booty" by Beastie Boys and "Buddy" by De La Soul
"Breathe" - 3:15
Produced by Suffa
Performed by Pressure
Scratches by DJ Debris
Bass Guitar by Chris Lambert
Trumpet by Phil Ingram
Contains a sample of "Unbelieveable"  by Notorious B.I.G.
"The Blue Blooded" featuring Blue Blooded Allstars - 4:47
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/R. Mortimer/D. Rankine/A. Baker/L. Latukefu/P. Ridge/J. Laroner/D. Young/T. Staff/R. Warren/M. Honson)
Produced by Suffa
Introduction: Trials
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Mortar
Verse 3: Trials and Sesta
Verse 4: Hau
Verse 5: Drapht
Verse 6: Vents
Verse 7: Muphin and Pegz
Verse 8: Robby Balboa
Verse 9: Honz
Verse 10: Pressure
"Monsters Ball" - 4:19
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/A. Simmons)
Produced by Simplex
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure
"An Audience with the Devil" - 4:06
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/D. Rankine)
Produced by Trials
Performed by Suffa
Contains samples from an episode of Millennium entitled "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me"
"The Captured Vibe" featuring DJ Reflux - 2:12
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/D. Yates)
Produced by Suffa
Scratches by DJ Reflux
"I Can't Take It" (deluxe edition Bonus Track)
(M. Lambert/D. Smith/B. Francis/D. Rankine)
Produced by Trials
Verse 1: Suffa
Verse 2: Pressure

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Obese Records albums
2006 albums
ARIA Award-winning albums
Hilltop Hoods albums

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Q: Tapi3 CallerIDNumber returning 9900 I'm doing a simple call program for a CRM for a client, and I'm having trouble with their phone system. They have a Cisco IP phone system that has internal routing, and when I execute the following code, I always get '9900' as the caller ID number. Is there any way to get the routed number? I'm mostly new to TAPI, so thanks in advance for your help.
cn = tapi.RegisterCallNotifications(line, true, true, TAPI3Lib.TapiConstants.TAPIMEDIATYPE_AUDIO, 2);
if (cn.Call.CallState == TAPI3Lib.CALL_STATE.CS_OFFERING){
string c = cn.Call.get_CallInfoString(TAPI3Lib.CALLINFO_STRING.CIS_CALLERIDNUMBER);
}

Aaron Brake

A: I am not familiar with this system and it may be a long shot but have you tried looking at the ConnectedIdNumber (also in the CallInfo structure). This value will probably not be filled until the call is accepted (is not equal to being answered) but is it does show the correct calling line identifier it may still some your problems...
Good luck!

A: Kind of an old question, so I hope you found your answer, but just for posterity I did similar work against a UCCM phone system, and found a key limitation when the system uses UCCX for call queue/huntline management.
When using UCCX, the actual incoming call to the line is "parked" on one of a set of extensions set up by the UCCX layer for this purpose. When the call is then forwarded to a call center agent's line, the events visible to software on a TAPI client watching that line get the extension that UCCX uses to park the call as the caller ID, instead of the original external number. I could never find out how to use TAPI to get the number behind the original call, however UCCX keeps track, and so our eventual solution was simply to create a script in UCCX which would use the correct source number to query our database for more advanced CID information (which was the point of the original TAPI application, originally designed for use against a "vanilla" UCCM 800 block).


Have you ever glued that $20 tip on a ferrule only to find it was off center by a little bit? If it was not off enough to miss the ferrule on one side, you probably found as soon as you started trimming it, your bit started breaking the layers of the tip apart?
It happened to me too many times... If you do pool cue repair you need this tool.
It holds all tips sizes 11, 11.5, 12, 12.5, 13, 13.5, and 14mm firmly while you use your lathe's tailstock to perfectly center, apply, and hold pressure on the tip while it is drying.
Over 100 sold in a month and not one return. This will be the best tool on your bench. I guarantee it, Or your money back! Check out the feedback I've received from folks who have already purchased one.
I also have "no reserve" auctions going from time to time on this same tool.
Allen. I got your emails and emailed you back. Not sure if you got them. But I was lucky to see you here and i got your pics off of ebay. And have just posted your auction on the BilliardBidz site.
My bad Allen. You will have to repost it. When I fixed it for you. It posted it under my admin account. So you will need to log back on and repost it. Before you do. Watch the How To Video section. "How to Post a Auction" in there you will see how to post a image. Plus since this is no charge. go ahead and make it a featured auction.
Please call if you have trouble.
Got some Great Buck Horn Ferrules for sale also...Use the Ebay link above or send me a message for a great deal on these amazing ferrules.
I was wondering if you have anymore of those tip centering tools. If so, please email me on how I can get one.


The third race of the Autumn Series gets underway at 12pm on Sunday 9th April. Note that the start time for this race, and all others for the remainder of the season, has reverted to 12 noon for Daylight Savings.
There will be a prize giving at the Blues Point Hotel at approximately 4pm.


Privacy mattered in those days, even considering that the 'net was such a small place (only 10 million web pages by the time you launched your first Google prototype! How many are stored on your servers' memory these days? In 2008 or 2009, I believe it was over 6 billion pages). But there was a whole atitude that was part of being a netizen — a citizen of the Internet. And you and Sergey embodied that atitude quite well on the "Ten things we know to be true" philosophy for Google: namely, 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow and, more importantly, 6. You can make money without doing evil. The do-no-evil policy has been pretty much the trademark of Google over the time, and is still what makes Google and Google's products and services unique: to the best of my knowledge, no other company has stated that so clearly and stuck to it for so many years as a fundamental principle in their business relationships.
I haven't registered with Google for an account since the very early days, where pretty much the only significant service was Gmail; nevertheless, since the earliest "beta" search engine was released by you guys, I never felt the urge to use any other search engine. I've signed up with Gmail in September 2005 or so, not really because I needed the service (I run several servers and have plenty of mailboxes in them), but because even though Google was already a giant back then, I still felt that supporting your efforts would be great. Since then, you have added so many products and services that I cannot claim to have used all of them, but certainly a large part of them; and in my professional activity as an IT consultant, I actively recommend clients to switch over to Google — like dozens of millions of other IT professionals.
As an eager Second Life resident (user), when launching my own Second Life-related services and products, I found the amazing ability to precisely target Google AdSense ads to my intended audience very valuable. In the early days of Second Life, there were few websites with information and news about Second Life, so I attracted some traffic — enough for Google Ads to finance not only my website's annual lease, but the costs of maintaining a Premium account with Linden Lab, Second Life's creators. What was very important for me was the ability to show Second Life-related ads on all the sites I run, and, conversely, to make sure that my own ads would appear on other Second Life-related sites. Your service allowed that very easily, because Google users who happened to be Second Life users were so easily identified: their Google Profiles would tell the whole story. Now, Second Life users are a 20-million-user market. Small, yes, when seen at a global scale; but not that small. My own country, Portugal, has just half that amount of inhabitants (and not everyone is — yet — connected to the Internet). In fact, only 50 countries in the world have more than 20 million inhabitants, and that never prevented you to make business with countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, or Ireland, just to name a few. The vast majority of those Second Life users — certainly not all, of course, but a huge proportion — have Gmail addresses, and thus Google Accounts as well.
When you launched Lively, it was quite interesting to see that the majority of early users were all Second Life users. When you launched Wave and now Google Plus, I wasn't surprised any longer with the sheer amount of Second Life users who immediately joined the service: Second Life users, in general, are always eager early adopters. And my, are they vocal! Allegedly, Plurk only remains in activity because it's one social network favoured by Second Life users, which use it all the time. Since Second Life is effectively the only remaining three-dimensional social virtual world in existence (a statement that might be contested by some, but I will still stick to that claim), no wonder that its users are eminently social. And they use the Internet a lot: so much that Treet.TV, a streaming video network which provides video content around the clock only for Second Life users, claims to have as many or more viewers than several channel networks. Borrowing the words of Linden Lab's CEO, Rod Humble, there is a whole ecosystem out there which is spun around Second Life. Second Life is merely the pretext, not the main reason for people to get together, meet, and exchange information — publicly. And that information gets shared throughout the world using all sorts of technologies — even in the academic world, since Second Life is a very active area of research.
One of my personal areas of interest is integration. It was with great eagerness that I managed to integrate Google's translation services with some Second Life objects (these days, the Second Life viewer, as well as most derivative viewers, all include Google translation for in-world chat). And Linden Lab dropped their own internal search engine and opted to buy a Google Search Appliance instead. So there is definitely a lot going on between Google, Second Life, and Linden Lab; many, including myself, even joked about a possible acquisition of Linden Lab by Google. Mostly because of Google's "do no evil" stance, the majority of Second Life users actually would look at that possibility in a very favourable light — even if it meant that all advertising in Second Life would be taken over by Google Ads. But that, in itself, is generally not seen as being so bad.
This was the scenario when Google Plus launched: a community of roughly 20 million potential users who were quite eager to see Google "take over" the market dominance of web-based social networking currently held by Facebook. And why the eagerness? Very simple. Because, unlike Facebook, Google has always stuck to the old ideal that privacy is important, as opposed to Zuckerberg's Privacy is Dead mantra. And in this era where people publish too much about their personal information and share way too much — mostly because of a certain innocence of not recognising the inherent danger — Zuckerberg's statements are subversive and shatter the foundations of our democratic societies.
The right to privacy is not merely an utopic ideal. It's embodied on the United Declaration of Human Rights (Article 12), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 17), which are signed by pretty much every country of the world, even a few that aren't democratic. The important thing to remember is that the right to control one's own privacy is an unalienable right — not only in the US, but in most countries of the world. You might argue that people only volunteer the information they wish when using Google's services. That's true. But allegedly you're now demanding that people only use the name "that one commonly goes by in daily life". That is a little better than what Facebook demands — nothing less than a valid ID card to subscribe to their service — but it's way too vague. Who defines the name "that one commonly goes by in daily life"? Under the many international treaties regulating privacy and human rights, there is only one person that has the right to define that: the person itself.


A 100% Sancerre clone Sauvignon Blanc from Fronsac's clay and limestone soils matured in barrels though displaying no obvious wood character such is the pure and crystalline lemongrass, lime peach and mint character that charges from the glass. There's a beautiful balance, as finely weighted as they come with layer after layer of clear sweet citrus fruit and stones, impressive concentration and texture and a zesty and highly persistent finish. Hard to pin down as Sauvignon Blanc, but entirely Champs Libres. One of Bordeaux's truly great whites.


Costs & Diet - rev. Dr. A. Jordan, NA.D., Ph.D.
First and foremost HEALTH costs are experienced at the grocer. You must eat the best food available meaning organic and local when possible, 80% raw at each meal, no meat or fish, clean water, and lots of supplements. Supplements should be medical grade so for the most part, they will not be available at the grocer or health food store.
Eat like a King at breakfast, Prince for lunch, and Pauper for dinner. So the largest meal is breakfast with lots of fiber and protein. All your major protein has to be consumed before 3 pm as the liver cannot digest it after 3 pm so it will sit in your system and fester. To get your daily required servings of fruits and veggies each day go to www.origojuiceplus.com and order all three blends (vineyard, garden, fruit) for each member of your family. It will change the quality of your life.
Food combining is crucial to good digestion and overall health. See the following chart on how to plan your meals. This is of course a sample but it gives an idea of how foods are to be combined. Typically you want no more than 3 things on the plate.
Most people believe that unless red meat, fowl, and fish are part of ones diet they will be missing proper nutrition. Not true.
1/4 cup of food grade hemp seed has all the protein and omegas you need for the day. Nuts and seeds also contain protein and omegas. Quinoa (this is pronounced keenwa) is a vegetable and a complete protein- it also is high in carbs so go easy with it.
Spirulina is a complete protein and a very good source of B-vitamins good for nerve tissue, temperament / mood, and sleep. Spirulina is rich in gamma-linolenic acid(GLA) for auto-immune problems and puffiness; and also provides alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) for cardio vascular health; linoleic acid (LA) for unwanted growths, skin rashes, and sugar problems; stearidonic acid (SDA); eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) for mental health and puffiness; docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for heart, liver (triaglyceride) and brain health; and arachidonic acid (AA) for muscle growth, brain health and reduces puffiness. helps to support the immune system. Spirulina is also a rich source of potassium, and contains calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium, sodium, and zinc.
And the old stand-by for protein is beans with rice or whole wheat. This is not the best source of protein - it is hemp and spirulina that are the best non-animal foods.
What is the story with alkalizing?
The body must be alkaline. If it is not, then you are in some state of illness whether you feel sick or not. When the body becomes alkaline, it gets rid of what it does not need. Some have reported a loss of 10 pounds of fat per month after alkalizing. Why that is so is because the body stores acid in fat tissue. Get rid of the acid and the fat goes. You must use gelatinous seeds or herbs when detoxing and should have some each day to rid the body of toxins. Gelatinous seeds are chia and flax and herbs are marshmallo and slippery elm. The seeds must be kept whole until ready for consumption.
How to do this is really easy. First get rid of the heavy metals in the body through our state of the art Detox Foot Spa and cilantro. Then begin supplements and finally a special 3 day fast. This is not a one time thing. This requires a series of each of these steps and when complete, the rewards are worth all the detoxing discomforts. Your skin will glow, you will have energy like never before, your bowels will move properly, bumps and lumps begin and do disappear, and your mood will be level and constant. Also, fungus and parasites cannot live in an alkaline body - how cool is that!
Here is a sample of alkaline and acid foods. Please note that if you have a sugar issue please be sure your alkaline food choices are low on the glycemic index.
People vary, but for most, the ideal diet is 75 percent alkalizing and 25 percent acidifying foods by volume.
And remember your stomach is supposed to be as large as your fist so begin reducing the amount of each meal and have several small meals a day. Never consume more than 3 cups of food at any meal and 2 cups is ideal.
When you are beginning a wellness program and you are not presenting any major health issues, your monthly fees for services can vary - the cost depends on your condition, your willingness to invest in your health and your budge.
What does it cost to recover from a major illness?
Major illnesses cost major funds. Typically with full services, either at our location or on-site here at your location, the cost is from $800 to $2,500 U.S. a day plus remedies. For our location the cost includes labor, room, and meals, but not remedies; for on-site at your location, the cost includes labor only, all other costs will be that of the client. For those who do not require 24/7 care, which is the fastest and best way to restore health even if you are not faced with a major issue, the cost is usually the cost of services for 1-3 visits a week plus remedy costs.
Being willing is a major factor in restoration of health. We get benefits from not being healthy like reasons why we cannot do things and we get lots of help and attention from others when we are unable to do for ourselves. So there must be a major shift in consciousness and commitment for one to be healthy.


"For the past 24 hours, two stories have been making the rounds in the British press. The first story: that in this age of social media and greater digital communications, a recent study has found one in 10 people do not have a close friend, with many left without vital support of friends and family. The second story: prior to his premature death, one of the quotes attributed to actor Robin Williams has proved the most haunting: "I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone." KimBo Theatre Company's take on imaginary friends and the search for what we're missing emotionally is therefore timely, and offers something to say on emotional succour. If I had to make an observation, it is that Nothing To See Here crams a lot into its hour-long show, and as such, there are a lot of details to absorb in one sitting. All the more reason, perhaps, to see the show a couple of times!
The Etcetera Theatre as part of The Camden Fringe.
We have all had an 'Imaginary Friend'. One of the tragedies of the emergence into adulthood is the loss, the removal, from this primal source of being. Nothing To See Here will attempt to awaken aspects of the audience's imagination that lay dormant in the minds of most adults - imagination that can be unnerving in the absence of childhood innocence.
A blend of physical and interactive dynamics meet in this project which explores the parameters of the human imagination expressed through the medium of childhood fantasy.
'Nothing to see Here' is a tender, truthful, sincere and moving exposition of the relation between self and unconscious. Above all it is a humorous and human account of that which makes us what we are. Characters were inspired by the everyday people we have collectively encountered whilst living and working in London. Imagination and the imaginary friend seemed a potent topic for inspiration when working in the antithetically varied and yet monotonous London landscape.
"A piece suitable for anyone who has an imagination"
Gavin is a director, theatre-maker and producer. He is extremely proud to be collaborating with the creative theatre-makers at KimBo Theatre. Gavin has worked with Rising Tides (HighTide Festival) , Zinc Arts, All Terrain Theatre (Camden Fringe), Skylight Theatre, Pensive Federation (Significant Other and Collective Project) and Riff Raff Productions (London Design Festival). Gavin enjoys creating work to be played in traditional theatre and site-specific spaces.
Gavin is founding member of the 'Directors Union.' The aim of the group is to allow directors a forum to discuss, support and promote work as well as advise. The project has over 90 members who are all active theatre-makers.
Penny started her career in the theatre, stage managing and then writing and producing for London and Edinburgh fringe.
She turned her attention to prose, gaining an MA in Creative Writing, an agent and a two book publishing deal in the process. As well as teaching creative writing at Lauderdale House, Highgate, she has returned to her first love the theatre and couldn't be more excited about it.
Jared Rogers trained at Acting at Arts Educational Schools. His recent theatre credits include: Carter in Silk at The Tristan Bates Theatre and Joseph Brown in An Innocent Man at The Space. Recent Film and Television Credits include: Rick in The Agency by Palikuku Films and Agent Robinson in CIA Declassified by WMR Productions.
Michael studied Acting at Arts Educational Schools graduating in September 2013. He had the pleasure of meeting the rest of the KimBo crew as part of The Pensive Federation's 'Collective Project', and went on to work with Gavin and Kim again as part of Paradigm Theatre's 'A Bad Case of the Mondays' New writing showcase at the Park Theatre. He has recently played the role of The Porter in Mike Carter's 'The Trunk' and the title role in Butterfly Theatre Company's production of 'Macbeth' which toured Germany in late April.
Kandy had the pleasure of working with the inspired KimBo Theatre company on their piece Imaginings last year. She has subsequently gone on to perform at the Arts Theatre in The Lonely Soldier Monologues and at the Young Vic in the devised piece The Beauty Project. She is currently working on her first feature film.
Kandy loves working in ensembles and devising; which is why she is thrilled to be a collaborator with KimBo Theatre Company.
Ryan trained at the Drama Centre London and has since been working consistently on both screen and stage. In early January 2014 he finished shooting the lead part in the feature film "The Redeeming". He can also be seen in the BFI short film "To Leech" that is currently being screened internationally at various festivals as well as a new SONY music video for the band Scouting For Girls. Ryan also has a passion for Shakespeare and has played parts King Lear (Cockpit Theatre) in As You Like It (The White Bear Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (Courtyard Theatre).


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"Micemageddon" in the Learning Commons
Photo: US Government Publication @ Wikimedia Commons
Written on 27th February 2017 . Posted in News
A video of a mouse that was spotted in the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons building has been widely circulated on Facebook this week. The video, titled "Micemageddon", was shared via the 'Spotted: The University of Manchester page' and has been viewed over 17,000 times.
'Spotted' allows people to anonymously post pictures and videos of unusual things that they see around the University campus including several showing rodents.
In March last year, another video of a mouse in the Learning Commons was viewed on the 'Spotted' page over 16,000 times.
Mice eat sporadically from a number of different food sources throughout the day rather than relying on larger meals. According to the Manchester Council website, in order for traps to be effective "all rubbish and food waste should be removed." So any crumbs and other food that is being dropped on the floor in University buildings, may be providing an alternative to the bait in the pest control traps.
There has also been extensive work on Oxford Road since last year, as part of the council's GROW project which aims to "see more than £1 billion invested into city centre infrastructure by 2017".
However, a council spokesperson told The Mancunion that they haven't had an increase in the number of rodent reports in recent months. Which, they say, suggests that the problem hasn't been exacerbated by the work. They did add that there are other pest control services that operate in Manchester so they couldn't definitively say whether or not the road works have had an effect on the overall reports across the city.
The Mancunion contacted the University to ask if they were aware of any rodent problem and has received the following statement from 'a University spokesperson':
"The major building works currently taking place on campus are disturbing the ground, which will inevitably bother rodents and bring them to the surface. We are currently carrying out extensive baiting and trap laying in the buildings and areas surrounding the works as a result. If anyone spots a pest, they should report this to House Services on 0161 275 2606, who will arrange for our pest control contractor to attend to the issue."
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Tags: Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, Mouse, Spotted, University of Manchester


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Q: Spring MVC interceptor I need inputs related to Spring MVC, I have a URL to which a client will send a post request with an xml as the pay load. I plan to have a controller method which maps to the requested url, I want that xml to be validated/converted to an object using jaxb before controller method is executed. And also, the controller method should have only the object as the parameter to its methods and no httprequest etc.
So, how do I achieve this? Will interceptor be helpful? If yes, how will it be done?
I plan to use Spring 3.

A: Simply use @RequestBody in conjunction with @Valid on a method argument and that is all you need.
public void myRequestHandlingMethod(@Valid @RequestBody YourJaxbObject jaxbObject) { … }

I strongly suggest you take a look at the Spring reference guide


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Want to make your data work for you?
Use the internet like you're part of Gen Z. That means both learning TikTok dances and valuing customization and personalization over a false sense of privacy.
This week on Business Casual, we're talking about data—how our data is gathered online, where it gets bought and sold, and why we might be entitled to some of the money it makes Big Tech. The conversation started with a teardown of former 2020 hopeful Andrew Yang's proposed data dividend project.
On today's episode, we're asking some important follow-up questions: Does the next generation of tech users even care about their data, where it's used, and whether they get paid for it?
The short answer is no—because 1) the activist generation has larger concerns than getting a dividend from Big Tech and 2) "People tend to not care about data privacy until they are personally affected." That's according to our guest today, Tiffany Zhong, the cofounder and CEO of Zebra IQ and the young entrepreneur once dubbed the Mary Meeker of Gen Z.
Zhong says the ways Gen Z grew up—in a mobile-first world—shapes their approach to content consumption, communication, and privacy.
Plus, they're more concerned with things like dismantling systems of racial oppression than they are taking Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos to task.
Many in Gen Z think this way: The value of the content they get from Big Tech and social platforms is greater than the value of their data—some in Gen Z feel that they're getting the good end of the bargain. But does that give Big Tech free reign over their data?
This is a nuanced conversation about young people and their relationships with data privacy. Check it out now.
7.20.20 Morning Brew Tiffany Zhong
Kinsey Grant, Morning Brew business editor and podcast host [00:00:07] Hey, everybody, and welcome to Business Casual, the podcast from Morning Brew, answering your biggest questions in business. I'm your host and Brew business editor, Kinsey Grant. And now, let's get into it. [sound of a ding]
Kinsey [00:00:19] Whether you pronounce it data or data, you know that it matters. The personal details that make you who you are and lift the curtain on the ways that you use the internet are all but invaluable to the big tech companies that make our lives so frictionless. But those personal details are also a huge part of why big tech has become what it is today—an unstoppable force for profit making. And it's not Mark Zuckerberg's can-do attitude that earned Facebook $71 billion in profit last year. It's mostly advertising. And when I say mostly, I mean mostly. Ad revenue accounted for 98.5% of Facebook's 2019 sales.
Kinsey [00:00:57] And those ad spots are made all the more attractive to marketers because they can be targeted down to basically what you ate for breakfast that morning, for all intents and purposes. That's begged the huge question—one we took on in our last episode with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Should we, as the people whose data makes big tech so rich, get a share of the wealth? According to Yang, we should. And that's why he's proposed a Data Dividend Project—to get tech users a portion, albeit a very small portion, of the profit that tech makes off of them.
Kinsey [00:01:28] But I gotta say, to me, it kind of sounds like a long shot. Big tech already skirts their taxes to the tune of billions of dollars a year—and legally, for the most part. So I have reservations about the likelihood of these CEOs actually greenlighting checks to every user. And even more importantly, I have to wonder if it's even a concern for anyone under the age of 35 or so.
Kinsey [00:01:50] We grew up online. We entered into the bargain of sharing our data for access to these tech platforms, essentially out of the womb. So to figure out the next generation's view on data and data privacy and maybe even a data dividend, I am bringing in the expert once called the "Mary Meeker of Gen Z," Tiffany Zhong, Gen Z Whisperer. Welcome to Business Casual.
Tiffany Zhong, Gen Z Whisperer [00:02:11] Thank you for having me.
Kinsey [00:02:14] I'm very excited to speak today. You have a really, really interesting background. I'll give a little bit of it, and then I want you to also chime in at any point. You were the co-founder and CEO of Zebra IQ, which is a Gen Z audience intelligence company. You specialize in creating communities and helping brands understand and connect with Gen Z, which is a really important generation to connect with. But it also kind of feels like a bit of an undertaking [laughs] to understand Gen Z and, to a lot of people, it's a really, really impactful group of people. So I wonder what it is that you actually do on a day to day. What's your job?
Tiffany [00:02:46] What is my job? It's a great question. Changes every day. It changes every few hours. So, right now, I am focused on onboarding a lot of different content creators, actually, from artists to athletes to very different verticals. Basically, we're helping creators build their own [indistinct] communities and at the same time, still helping brands get actionable insights from this audience. And so this will be a very relevant conversation because we really do believe in Gen Z Millennials' users getting paid for their data.
Tiffany [00:03:26] Taking the money from the big companies to understand this audience. But at the same time, we're paying them to answer these questions as opposed to just stealing their data and selling it where users don't see a profit. Users don't see anything come in. We want it to be a two-sided relationship where both sides benefit. The brands benefit from the insights and the audience, the users, benefit on the monetary side for exchanging their feedback. And so that's what we're focused on right now. As a CEO, I'm hiring. We're fundraising. I do all sorts of different things. But it's a fun job for sure.
Kinsey [00:04:07] Yeah, I'm sure it is. And I have to say, we put out the ask on Twitter who we should talk about Gen Z and data with, and the overwhelming majority was you have to talk to Tiffany. So, I'm glad that we have you here. And I think that one of the big questions, before we even get into the whole data dividend concept, one of my big questions is what exactly makes Gen Z Gen Z? I've seen some differing reports on what years it is, how many people it is. So to you, can you define Gen Z for the listeners here?
Tiffany [00:04:35] Yes. So, Gen Z starts in 1996. And marketers sometimes do it in 10-year, 15-year batches. So we can say 1996 to 2006. Some people argue that it's even up to people who are born this year. Given that Gen Alpha is still somewhat being established, it's still not a real thing yet. If anyone has any better generation names, please let me know. I'm not sure Gen Alpha is a great name.
Kinsey [00:05:04] Yeah. Is that what they're going with? Gen Alpha?
Tiffany [00:05:07] Yeah, [Kinsey laughs] it's awful. Like, please give me a better name and I'll market it. I'll change this whole generation's name. But the poor kids being born today are named Gen Alpha.
Tiffany [00:05:17] And so, what I've seen as the major differences between Gen Z and Millennials. Millennials are the internet generation, and Gen Zs are the mobile generation. And that's where things differ. We grew up on smartphones. We grew up on iPads. We grew up having everything accessible to us within milliseconds. Anything we want to understand, anything we want to search, anyone we want to stalk on the internet—we can do that within seconds. We can learn anything within hours of spending on YouTube or Google or going down Reddit rabbit holes.
Tiffany [00:05:51] And so that is the overwhelming difference between how Gen Z grew up versus how Millennials grew up. And that really shapes how we approach content creation, how we approach content consumption, how we approach friendships and communication. Everything is different. Given that we're stuck to a small screen pretty much 24/7—other than sleeping.
Kinsey [00:06:13] Yeah, seriously. Like other than sleeping is so true. I sometimes struggle with this concept, though—just full disclosure, because I was born in 1994. I think I'm technically by most measures a Millennial, but I think a lot of people also my age, around 25, 24, 25, 26, are thinking I'm a Cusper. I don't really know which one I belong to.
Kinsey [00:06:34] I remember when I got my first cell phone, but it was like one of those Migo phones that you can call, like, five people, [chuckles]—that I didn't necessarily grow up in the kind of time when you could just get on Instagram from your phone when you were 12 years old. But I also am so totally familiar with that. I have a bit of an identity crisis every time [chuckles] I try to pick a generation that [chuckles] I belong to. But you are Gen Z, right?
Tiffany [00:07:00] I am Gen Z. I am on the tail end of Gen Z. My co-founders are Cuspers, so they understand everything you're going through. It's the same thing. They're like, I'm half Gen Z, half Millennial. And it's also always an identity crisis of which generation do I actually belong to? I'm just like, you're the best of both worlds. [Kinsey laughs] This is what it is. [Kinsey laughs]
Kinsey [00:07:23] Yeah, it is what it is. And, you know, try as I might, I can't change the fact that I'm 25 right now. Talk to me again on November 3rd. Let's get started here. We've got a lot to cover, a lot that I want to talk about. But I think that the most important question here to begin with is a big one. Does Gen Z, on the whole care, about their data, their privacy of their data?
Tiffany [00:07:47] It's a really good question and there's lots of nuances to it, obviously. I would say Gen Z has more of a trigger finger than any other generation, which means Gen Z is very quick to enter an email or a phone number without thinking twice. It's interesting because Gen Z can also call a scam from a mile away. And so this speaks to the evolving contrast between the way Gen Z grew up versus the state of the world now.
Tiffany [00:08:13] Gen Z grew up in a world where personalization became the norm. Personalization became the expected, where you're expecting every app, every store you walk in to, every website you sign up for, to be able to customize everything for you and personalize everything for you based on how you've grown up, essentially.
Tiffany [00:08:35] And so that's what we've seen so far in terms of how Gen Z thinks of it. But there's also an overlapping theme across all generations. People tend to not care about data privacy until they are personally affected. And even then, if you want to know whether anyone from all ages, especially the Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials and how they think about data privacy, we can look back to how consumers reacted to the Equifax breach a couple years ago, where it started off as: Step 1—awareness.
Tiffany [00:09:05] Step 2—outrage. Step 3—short-term behavior modification of like what do I do now. Step 4—oh, I might be able to make money from the class action lawsuit that I'm getting in my email. Step 5—the concern is forgotten over time. Step 6—the payout maybe never arrives, but nobody remembers except a small fraction of folks. In the final step, people carry on with the same behavior, and so I think this goes hand in hand with everything that's happening on Twitter today, which is things are happening so quickly.
Tiffany [00:09:42] Things are trending so quickly. But the other topics become trending topics the next day. And so everything is moving so fast. Everything is trending so quickly that these types of trends are also just forgotten within a few months for the major, major topics that are happening. We're just seeing that cycle happen.
Kinsey [00:10:01] Do you think that data privacy, as we understand it today, is the sort of trend du jour—that eventually we're gonna have something else that we move on to, but right now, it just feels really important?
Tiffany [00:10:12] I think with the news around everything that's happening with TikTok, Facebook, etc., it's what tech people are talking about on Twitter—all day. Tech people and people working within politics. But besides that, if you ask the broader audience, broader population, how much do they actually care about this happening? Ask them in two, three weeks. And they've already moved on. I will guarantee that they've already moved on once TikTok and Gen Z—and TikTok potentially being banned is already, like, forgotten.
Tiffany [00:10:50] I've talked to lots of TikTok creators. We work with lots of TikTok creators, and they're asking me if TikTok will actually get banned and what they should do about it. And when it might happen, as if I somehow run the government and have these answers, which is what I reply back and like, I don't run the government, actually.
Kinsey [00:11:11] Not yet.
Tiffany [00:11:11] So I don't have any concrete answers. [chuckles] Not yet. Hopefully never. [Kinsey chuckles] But what I respond is, we'll see what happens. It's really hard to tell. And then a week later, after the whole save TikTok campaign that happened on TikTok with all these major creators, just [indistinct], which is the ninth-biggest TikTok creator in the world who we work with. He posted a viral TikTok, hundreds of thousands of comments, almost half a million comments, I believe, last time I checked, around creators being like #saveTikTok.
Tiffany [00:11:47] Thinking that they can apply the same principles around the Black Lives Matter movement and petitions to the U.S. to stopping the U.S. government from banning TikTok. And that was last week. And this week, they think that it's all good. They think that TikTok has been saved because they thought the decision would be made end of last week because the news sources were, like, a decision will be made by Friday. It didn't happen. So that's already forgotten. And it just shows how quickly things, news topics, trending topics, are happening in 2020, at least.
Kinsey [00:12:20] Do you think that the concept of a Data Dividend Project is one that Gen Z would buy into?
Tiffany [00:12:26] So it's interesting. We ran a survey, actually, around how Gen Zs think about data privacy, whether they actually care or not. We have some responses that I can share here. A 20-year-old male from California, for example, said it might sound dehumanizing, but the value of the content that they offer is greater than the value of my personal data. And so that's obviously a very strong statement where the personalized feed you're getting, the curated ads you're getting, is very highly valuable in the eyes of these Gen Zs.
Tiffany [00:13:05] Another woman from Kansas, for example, who's 23, said we live in a world where freedom is not really free. And so it goes back to kind of the statement where if something's free, it's probably data or something being sold. You're probably giving up something. Nothing is ever free, right? To the point around a data dividend and whether that would work—I think it's an interesting question. I think it goes back to what we're doing, which is we're giving people money to answer different types of questions and give feedback, essentially data that we're anonymizing, and offering to brands.
Tiffany [00:13:43] And so that's already the first step to helping these consumers earn different types of rewards in exchange for participating in these ecosystems. For Gen Z, it also goes to the point of origin. Like the side hustle generation. They want to be able to generate income on the side. And if they can do that while browsing content and answering really shortform questions, why not? And so another response that we got from our users was having curated ads is honestly very, very effective. But I'm not sure how much more data that they're getting or that they're using around me.
Tiffany [00:14:25] And this is a 22-year-old female. A 27-year-old guy was saying that honestly, I don't really care anymore because tons of apps got my data already. But these days, I try my best to give my data to places where they most likely either are innately accountable, like the way Zebra probably is. And so we're just super-transparent with fundraising right now.
Tiffany [00:14:46] I would get this question a lot from investors, which is kind of how the data flows, how transparent are we with our users around what data that we're selling to brands. And we're as transparent as can be, essentially, around helping make sure that they understand what they're giving up in exchange for monetary incentives.
Kinsey [00:15:07] Yeah, and it's tough because at the same time, a data dividend makes a lot of sense when we value these value exchanges. But also we are already getting a lot out of giving our data. Like you said, we are getting personalization. We are getting these ads that make a lot of sense. So trying to navigate where exactly we start to care about our data being used and at what point suddenly we reached the tipping point where we say, OK, now I don't feel comfortable with this, I think is a real challenge that I can't quite put my finger on it.
Kinsey [00:15:36] Does it bother me that TikTok might know where I am? Not really, if I'm being honest. It doesn't bother me that much because I enjoy using TikTok and, I don't know, it is giving me a little bit of pause [chuckles] trying to understand the value of a data dividend situation if we already get what we need.
Tiffany [00:15:56] Yeah, I think for Gen Zs, they think that the curated feed is already good enough. I mean, the mindset is more so, how do I make my data work for me by giving it to companies that will make my life better? YouTube, for example, they're taking your data, they're giving you fantastic video recommendations. TikTok has obviously taken that to the next level.
Tiffany [00:16:19] But compare that to a news website that makes you sign up before you can read. It's annoying, but it gives you direct benefit and likely won't affect your life negatively in the long run. And so people who are—like Gen Zs who are woke, essentially, are basically thinking about how they can make that data work for them. They're thinking about how they can choose who sees that data so that they directly benefit from this data exchange.
Kinsey [00:16:51] Yeah. And I think that that's something that feels pretty uniquely Gen Z—that they have this capacity to discern what platforms should and should not use their data and are and are not using their data to the biggest possible advantage for the user. I want to talk more about the platform-specific aspect of this in just a second. We're gonna take a short pause to hear from our partner. And when we come back, we will do just that. —
Kinsey [00:17:17] And now back to the conversation on Gen Z and their data with Tiffany Zhong. Tiffany, we were just talking about how Gen Z navigates the platforms that use their data, how they feel comfortable with some and not so comfortable with others. It also brings up something that we talked about with Connie Chan from Andreessen Horowitz recently on the show. She was saying that we have all of these big moral values and core tenets of what we believe, and we believe in privacy.
Kinsey [00:17:45] But when it comes down to it, we're going to value convenience over these perceived values that we've put out in the world for ourselves. When, though, does trust come into play? Because I do think that trust is actually a pretty important value, especially as we consider our use of tech in the grand scheme of the world. Does Gen Z—are they considered a trusting generation? Do they trust these tech leaders to use their data to their best of their abilities after they go through that list of pros and cons? When does trust matter?
Tiffany [00:18:16] Trust is built over time, and Gen Zs are generally very, very skeptical of everyone and everything. And so, with that being said, these companies—trust just takes time, as well as the fact that they're looking at how their friends are using it. They're looking if celebrities are using it and if they are, then the trust factor goes up. I think it's both a combination of social assessment as well as some lightweight personal assessment as well. Do you smell something sketchy going on? If not, they'll move forward with using the product.
Tiffany [00:18:58] But Gen Z is really smart and they're able to discern these things pretty quickly, I would say. And they're also quick to cancel companies that are not working in their favor and are sketchy as well. So if they see something that is bad, that doesn't align with their values or what they think is right, then they'll go and try to get them trending on Twitter and TikTok and get everyone to cancel the app or cancel the company.
Kinsey [00:19:30] Yeah. And I would argue to pretty good success rate [chuckles] so far.
Tiffany [00:19:37] Yeah, yeah. What happened recently was Gen Z's going in and downloading Trump's app and rating it 1 star so that it gets removed off the App Store. That's how it was trending. That's how Trump's app was suddenly number 2 in the App Store. It was because of that.
Kinsey [00:19:59] Yeah, it's an activist generation, I feel in a lot of ways. I do want to avoid making too many generalizations because I do think that that can be unfair at a certain point. But the Millennial generation is so often considered the Me generation. It's a self-centered generation. And as I'm going to identify as a Cusper from here on out, because I feel like maybe that speaks [laughs] to me a little bit more. But I can see that. I can see how that would be the perception from someone on the outside looking in.
Kinsey [00:20:28] And then when you think about Gen Z, it's so often, in media, is considered a generation that is so driven by value, so driven by this need to do something to activate en masse. And I think that it has been really interesting to watch, especially from a business perspective, that they're actually moving the needle in a lot of ways. That young children—not children, but young people—sometimes children, sometimes not, are actually doing things that older generations would not have done. And a lot of that is because of the tech platforms that they are utilizing.
Kinsey [00:21:02] So when we think about this activism beyond just rating an app 1 star or something like that, is there any other way that activists' voices could come to the fore in the data conversation? Do you ever see a time when Gen Z could reach such a critical mass that they could affect real change at Facebook or some big company like that?
Tiffany [00:21:28] If they cared, which they don't. Because there are more pressing issues in the world than data privacy.
Kinsey [00:21:33] Very fair point. [laughs]
Tiffany [00:21:36] That just the truth, where you're not going to see someone like Yara Shahidi trying to take down Facebook. There's so many more things that have a higher priority over that. And to your point around this Gen Z being the activist generation, it's because we grew up on social media. We realized that these tools work for us versus the reverse, which is how Millennials grew up.
Tiffany [00:22:01] We realized that we can utilize these tools to expand any sort of movement we're looking to make. We can make movements go viral. We can make petitions go viral. We can make protests go viral. Videos go viral. I think a better, better way to describe this generation is, I guess, the viral generation.
Tiffany [00:22:25] Gen Zs, if they put their mind to it, they can make anything trend. You think about all the main pages on social media. Most of them are run by kids and literally kids, like high school kids and college kids. And no one even knows who they are. They're really behind the scenes. They're in their bedroom and they're just making things go viral for the sake of it or to support movements. And so that kind of power—it's just unprecedented. You haven't seen that ever before, and Gen Zs are realizing that they can use that for good.
Kinsey [00:22:57] Right. But I also have to wonder if that sort of unchecked power is dangerous.
Tiffany [00:23:04] It's dangerous, but it's also just the same as Gen Xs having the same power. It's just who you want to trust with the power, really, so —
Kinsey [00:23:16] I mean, I can definitely see that. But I also just, like, what I thought the world was when I was 18 is very different from what I consider the world to be at 25.
Tiffany [00:23:28] Yeah.
Kinsey [00:23:28] And it's a different world. A lot has happened [laughs] in the interceding years there. But I just wonder, if we can say this is going to go viral because I want it to and Gen Z has the power to make it happen. Obviously, that can be used to mobilize in really positive and world-changing ways like we've seen in the last six or so months. But at the same time, it's a big question mark. Is that a good thing at all times? Is this cancel culture a good thing?
Tiffany [00:23:57] Right. So I think Gen Zs are much smarter than people think because they're also able to just learn everything online. And so at a much younger age, you are able to absorb all this information without having to go to school and read textbooks to be able to learn. We're getting information in real time. And so we're developing these opinions at a much younger age and we're gathering evidence.
Tiffany [00:24:23] There is a tweet which was like, Gen Z's like a knock-off like FBI, where if you tweet something, looking for someone, something, whatever it is, Gen Zs are going to figure it out really quickly. That's crazy. But at the same time, cancel culture is keeping people, especially celebrities, accountable. And so that's the change that Gen Z is looking for. They're looking to their favorite influencers, to favorite celebrities, their favorite actors, athletes, and they're trying to make change happen that way.
Tiffany [00:24:53] It's arguable on whether this is a positive way to change people, but we know that public humiliation is something that somewhat works. That's just the one that Gen Z is harnessing right now. Whether this is a good long-term solution, I doubt it. There should not be a trend every day of someone being canceled. My prediction is within six months, cancel culture is going to be canceled. And so that's just a hot take from what I think around every day, multiple people are getting canceled on the internet.
Tiffany [00:25:29] We're gonna get tired of this in six months, except for major, major things happening. But those are all coming out already. And so people are also gonna be now realizing that they need to change. Celebrities realize that they need to own up to their mistakes and be better people or else the kids will come after them.
Kinsey [00:25:48] Do you think that the kids could go after these big business leaders, you know, the Mark Zuckerbergs, the Jeff Bezos of the world, and say, we want a data dividend. If you don't give it to us, we will cancel you?
Tiffany [00:26:00] That's a stretch.
Kinsey [00:26:02] A bit of a stretch.
Tiffany [00:26:02] Black Lives Matter more than data dividends matter.
Kinsey [00:26:06] Yeah. Yeah. All right. I completely get it. I know, but I also love that —
Tiffany [00:26:10] We can only focus on so many movements at a time. [Kinsey laughs]
Kinsey [00:26:13] And also, like, have to still go to school and stuff [indistinct]. There are bigger fish to fry.
Tiffany [00:26:18] They'd rather cancel schools before data dividends movement probably happens, I would say.
Kinsey [00:26:26] OK. So it's not exactly a high-priority thing. But it is important to recognize because this might be, like I said at the beginning of this episode, this may be like a uniquely 35-plus [laughs] issue. In just my anecdotal experience and talking about this with some coworkers literally yesterday, the day before we were recording this, talking about, that I said, I don't really give a shit if they know where I am sometimes. Yeah, it could be dangerous at times and whatever if they give my Social Security number away.
Kinsey [00:26:54] But for the most part, using personal data has made my life easier. And I'm OK with that. And I like getting targeted with the things we get targeted [laughs] with for the most effort. But I was talking to some coworkers who were a couple of years older and they basically were like, had this whole freak-out that that was my [laughs] position.
Tiffany [00:27:13] They might freak out. But what are they doing about it? Are they doing anything about it? It's just all posturing.
Kinsey [00:27:19] Exactly. Exactly.
Tiffany [00:27:20] It is all just, let me freak out about privacy. It sounds scary, but let me not take any time to do actual research behind it before I go and yell at the top of my lungs that we want data privacy. If you talk about how Gen Z is powerful on the internet and potentially dangerous with all the power that they have in terms of making things trend, we can talk about Gen X the same way, where they don't know what they're saying. Half of the Gen Xs probably have no idea what they're saying around data privacy, given that they're probably reading random websites and trusting them.
Tiffany [00:28:02] And maybe you should be a bit more discerning about the kind of content that you're reading on the internet, given that there's a ton of fake news.
Tiffany [00:28:12] Boomers are usually the ones who are tricked by the fake news. So that's more dangerous.
Kinsey [00:28:17] And there's benefit number one of being this generation that was raised on the internet—is that we can smell something a mile away. And we understand when something is fake, we understand when something is not genuine or not a genuine representation of what's going on in the world, I would argue much better than most generations can. And you might notice that I'm using Weeb. [laughs] I want to be counted and part of this.
Tiffany [00:28:42] Welcome to the movement.
Kinsey [00:28:44] Thank you. Happy to be here. [laughs] So, Tiffany, that was a great mic drop of an answer. So we're going to take a short break to hear from our partner. When we come back, we're going to have a little fun. —
Kinsey [00:28:56] And now back to the conversation with the Gen Z Whisperer herself, Tiffany Zhong. Tiffany, we have talked about a lot here. I really feel like you stuck the landing with that last answer. And so now we're going to have some fun, do some weird shit, learn a little bit more. But I'm going to give you a couple of options of games to play. So we have three games, and I would like to get to all of them. But your options are story time, challenge, or crystal ball. So which one do you want to first?
Tiffany [00:29:25] Crystal ball.
Kinsey [00:29:26] All right, crystal ball. So what will Gen Z look and act like in 20 years when they're not the teen generation, but rather the adult generation?
Tiffany [00:29:35] In 20 years, the tail end of Gen Z's gonna be 43, which would be me in 20 years, which is crazy to think about. I'm going to basically be a boomer by that time or of a boomer age. I think in 20 years, we're going to be living in a virtual world, everything's just going to be virtual within VR and AR. And, yeah, I have no idea. Will we be on other planets already? Will we be in outer space? Like, how will everything have changed? I think it's going to be a dramatic change within 10 years, uh, 20 years.
Kinsey [00:30:14] So you're preparing for a huge cultural paradigm shift?
Tiffany [00:30:18] Yeah. I'm preparing for everything to shift. Like, everything. In 20 years.
Kinsey [00:30:24] OK. [laughs] OK.
Tiffany [00:30:26] By that time, Gen Zs will be running the world, which is also something to think about.
Kinsey [00:30:30] Yeah. Well within the age to run for president. If the office of president still exists.
Tiffany [00:30:36] Oh, yes, we have presidents, I think. My prediction is it's going to be an internet celebrity who becomes president within 20 years. Another hot take. [Kinsey laughs] It's going to be crazy times.
Kinsey [00:30:48] OK, so now story time or challenge, which one you wanna do first?
Tiffany [00:30:52] Story time.
Kinsey [00:30:53] OK. How did you end up working in venture capital as a teenager? Tell us the story.
Tiffany [00:31:00] The story is I started using Twitter when I was 15 or 16 years old. The reason behind why I made a Twitter account was I wanted to ask people questions and I saw that these famous tech people were using Twitter, were answering questions. I didn't know about cold emailing then. And so Twitter was my alternative. Gen Z's first solution is going to social media as opposed to email. And this is a good example of it. So I started using Twitter to reply to people, ask people questions.
Tiffany [00:31:29] First person that I started engaging with on Twitter, and asking a bunch of questions that I was just curious about, was Marc Andreessen. And he was super-active. He was tweeting ten times a day. And so I would just be like, why do you think this way? Why do you think that way? And I was just curious. No one knew who I was too, so I had nothing to lose. And that's always been my mindset, which is do everything with the mindset of nothing to lose. And that mindset is just freeing for anything you want to be able to do.
Tiffany [00:31:58] And so with that, I ended up meeting a lot of investors. A lot of entrepreneurs just through Twitter. And from there, I ended up working at Product Hunt at my senior year of high school. After that, I was already tweeting about consumer apps, consumer product, how to build communities just from my experience at Product Hunt.
Tiffany [00:32:21] And I ended up joining a $300 million VC firm right after high school. And I was 18 at the time. I was investing for a year and a half. And then I finally started college and tried out UC Berkeley for a year before dropping out and starting Zebra IQ.
Kinsey [00:32:43] It's incredible. It's like a crazy story, but it's, I think, a really powerful story of getting what you want and just going into the world with that mindset of nothing to lose, which is so important. It's a question I often ask myself is, what's the worst possible outcome if I do this thing, and if it's something that I can stomach, then just do it. Just send the tweet. Just —
Tiffany [00:33:07] It's usually not as bad as you think. It's usually—the worst that can happen is not as bad as you think.
Kinsey [00:33:13] Awesome. OK, so the last question that I have for you is the challenge question. Tiffany, do you know how to do any of these viral TikTok dances that have absolutely taken the world by storm?
Tiffany [00:33:24] I am not a dancer. I've tried to learn.
Kinsey [00:33:26] You don't do any of them?
Tiffany [00:33:27] I've tried to learn them.
Kinsey [00:33:28] OK.
Tiffany [00:33:29] Especially during quarantine times. And I think I need to go to a real TikTok star's house after the pandemic is over to have them teach me [indistinct] because these YouTube videos are not cutting it. I do not know how to mirror a YouTube video and my body does not move that way. I cannot dance. [Kinsey laughs] So I need someone to teach me in real life.
Kinsey [00:33:57] I feel the exact same frustration—that I just can't figure it out.
Tiffany [00:34:01] I'm going to stick to tweeting. It's a lot easier to —
Kinsey [00:34:04] I've got that down pat. [laughs] Yeah, any TikTokers out there want to offer your services pro bono to teach us?
Tiffany [00:34:13] Well, I have TikTokers; they can teach us.
Kinsey [00:34:16] Take me with you.
Tiffany [00:34:17] We'll go. We'll go to LA and we'll figure this out.
Kinsey [00:34:21] OK. Perfect. All we need is just this pandemic to end.
Tiffany [00:34:24] Or we do a Zoom call.
Kinsey [00:34:25] OK. Yeah, that could work.
Tiffany [00:34:27] Where we force them to teach us step by step.
Kinsey [00:34:31] I smell a side hustle for someone. Someone should be out there teaching people how to do these TikTok dances over Zoom. Maybe we'll set it up. But Tiffany, thank you so much for playing along with these questions, for explaining all of this to me. I think that the big takeaway for me here is that it's all about the exchange of value. It's all about knowing what you're gonna get out of something before you put something in. I think Gen Z is really uniquely positioned to be the kind of generation that makes that a priority more than anybody else has previously.
Kinsey [00:35:03] So I'm excited to see what happens as they age into more voting power, more purchasing power, and really make the voice heard. But thank you so much for the insights, for coming by, and I really appreciate it.
Tiffany [00:35:16] Thanks for having me. Kinsey. This was fun.
Kinsey [00:35:26] Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Business Casual. You heard Tiffany say that you should follow us on Twitter and get the conversation started. So I'm going to remind you to do just that. If you want to follow Tiffany, her handle is @ T Z H O N G G. That's TZhong with two Gs at the end. And mine is @KinseyGrant. See you next time. [sound of a ding]


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Car Review: 2015 Hyundai Accent
Once upon a time, the subcompact car was something grudgingly settled for, when one's budget had been stretched beyond the point of no return. While it may have been cheap, cheerful it wasn't. Little effort was put into exterior styling, beyond the minimally functional, and interiors were rarely more than dismal swaths of dreary, cheap plastic. Nobody expected it to be anything more than what it appeared: an economic compromise.
But something happened during the past decade.
People came to the realization that their resources – and the planet's – were finite. That transportation needs could be met sufficiently, and efficiently on a smaller scale. Finding favour among urban dwellers and the environmentally conscientious, small cars became a conscious choice instead of a last resort. The segment exploded, and the resulting competition led to enormous changes in quality, innovation, and customer expectations.
Today's compact cars often boast features once seen only in premium brands, and if cabin materials reflect their price points, designers go to great lengths to use them in stylish and imaginative ways.
This week's test car, the 2015 Hyundai Accent, is a good example of its segment.
Previous generations of Hyundai's smallest entry went from woefully ugly to acceptably forgettable. Hyundai's "Fluidic Sculpture" design ethos reshaped the Accent into one of the most stylish in its segment. This particular Accent is the new for 2015 "Sport Appearance Package" trim which includes all the features of the mid-range GL and adds sunroof, fog lights and 16-inch alloy wheels. The GL model's base price is $17,799, the Sport Appearance Package is $18,849, a $1,050 difference. It's wrapped in a cheery "Yellow Sunflower" paint that's new for this year.
Inside the Accent, you'll find plenty of hard plastics, too – but they've been molded into creative surfaces and textures with plenty of attention to design and function. There's no pretense of luxury here. Niceties like leather seating and navigation are unavailable on the Accent, but you can get them on its sister car, the Kia Rio. But that doesn't mean that the Accent's cabin is without charm.
Seating may be cloth, but it's attractively patterned and the front ones are heated. There's a lot more room overhead than you'd expect from a car that doesn't look that tall from the outside.
Highway fuel consumption in the 2015 Hyundai Accent was a pleasant surprise, with the as-tested economy coming up lower than the 7.8 L/100 km official combined rating.
The steering wheel telescopes (not all competitors do), there's hands-free Bluetooth, remote power entry, cruise control, a power sliding sunroof, steering wheel audio controls and air conditioning.
Rear seats split 60/40 to produce 600 litres of cargo space – which is about mid-pack for the segment. However, it falls far short of the Honda Fit, which, with its grand total of 1,492 litres, is the undisputed champion of interior flexibility.
The Accent has no flashy touchscreen and, as mentioned, no navigation. It's fairly simple to pair a smart phone and channel the turn-by-turn app through the Accent's sound system, but the caveat is increased data usage. The communication between my iPhone and the Accent's connectivity system was a bit wonky as incoming phone calls would sometimes sever the navigation connection and only "rebooting" the car would reestablish it.
With the display screen, there's no backup camera, which could be of concern to some buyers. The Accent's tapered roofline and small rear window result in poor rearward visibility.
On the road, the Accent is well-mannered and with the predictable sort of handling you'd expect. It's soft enough to be comfortable without inducing a lot of wallow. Suspension is comprised of a shock and struts with sway bar front setup and a simple torsion beam in the rear. Steering feel is solid and weighty (which I liked) but utterly devoid of feedback (which I didn't).
There's a nice level of sound deadening when it comes to wind noise and vibration, but the tinny sound of rocks or ice pinging off its undercarriage give away the Accent's budget lineage.
With 138 horsepower and 123 pound-feet of torque, the Accent boasts best-in-segment power. However, the six-speed auto tends to keep it in the lower rev range to conserve fuel, which makes it seem rather lethargic at times. Knock the shift lever over to sport and drop it down a few gears and the Accent can zip along nicely.
However, with extra power comes extra fuel consumption. The Accent's official combined rating is 7.8 L/100 km – and this go-round they're being truthful as that's pretty much what I averaged. However, the roomier Versa Note and Honda Fit boast combined ratings of 6.7 L and 6.5 L, respectively.
During a four-hour road trip through a miserable snow and ice storm our highway consumption actually dropped to 6.1 L/100 km – mostly because traffic conditions forced us to keep it below 70 km/h the entire way. But the trip itself was warm and pleasant, the cloth seats remaining comfortable for the duration of the long drive.
In this highly competitive segment, there are a lot of choices. Some offer better utility, and others are more fuel efficient. But the Hyundai Accent is a stylish little car offering plenty of features, and with its low base price and terrific warranty it's definitely worth considering.
Type of vehicle FWD compact hatchback
Engine 1.6L 4-cylinder
Power 138 hp/123 lb.-ft. of torque
Transmission 6-speed automatic, or 6-speed manual in lower trims
Brakes Four-wheel disc
Natural Resources Canada fuel economy (L/100 km) Automatic transmission: 8.9 L/100 km city, 6.3 L/100 km highway
Price (base/as tested) $18,849; $20,544
A/C Tax $100
Freight & PDI $1,595
Standard Features Front active headrests, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Traction Control System (TCS), and Vehicle Stability Management (VSM), Dual front/side and side curtain airbags, remote keyless entry with panic alert, power door locks, AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3/USB/iPOD audio system, Bluetooth hands-free phone system, air conditioning , cruise control, steering wheel audio controls, front heated seats, sliding sunvisor, telescopic steering wheel, power windows with driver auto up and down, automatic light control, body colour door handles and mirrors, power, sliding sunroof, mirror mounted turn signals, fog lamps, rear spoiler, 16-inch alloy wheels
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