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Q&A: Micro Bird's Normand Paquet
School BUSRide spoke with Normand Paquet, chief commercial officer at Micro Bird Inc., about significant changes in the school bus industry, alternative propulsion, the rise of electric vehicles, and the critical steps being taken to train the techs and drivers of tomorrow.
Please introduce yourself and your day-to-day role at Micro Bird.
I have been working for Micro Bird since 2007, always within the same role: business development, growth. My title is chief commercial officer. I graduated in business administration from the University of Montreal with a specialty in marketing distribution and a second diploma in procurement and logistics.
What are the most significant changes you have observed in pupil transportation over the last five years?
In our respective environment, we grew the business and responded to demand based on the quality with a major focus on cost of ownership. Today, we are number one in the market share for commercial buses in Canada, and North America for school buses. The way we do business is to really focus on exceeding customer's expectations. Our approach is basically a vertical integration that includes pupil transportation.
The Girardin family also owns the Blue Bird dealership for the Maritime provinces in Canada, the Province of Québec and Ontario, as well as New York and Connecticut. That is why our approach was tailored toward dealers and custom ownership for customers.
Over the next five years, what do you speculate will be the most significant changes in the industry?
We believe that the right quality, as well as an alternative fuel approach, is part of the equation. With the inflation that is ahead of us right now, we're back to the cost of products and the cost of acquisitions of goods. I am sure controlling the greenhouse gases with alternative fuels is part of the solution ahead of us and has already started with Government and grant money.
Our business approach will continue to be directed toward quality, being competitive, and market-driven needs.
How do you view different forms of alternative propulsion shaking out in the next few years?
I think it is a matter of vision. We see EVs becoming more and more significant within the industry. We can observe rapid adaptation in other countries, Europe and China are good examples.
Today, it is more a vision than a precise forecast for America. Because the U.S. is late taking the turn, it is not a period that we can put a number or precise timeline on.
How do you view the mandates that government entities have exercised as having a ripple effect through the industry?
No contractor will buy buses on which they will lose money. And yes, the new generations are much greener and demonstrate more attention to climate change and global warming.
Research & Development when behind us in America, volume will for sure get prices down. Never neglect maintenance cost-savings with electric vehicles and longevity. Gradually people will pay more attention to understand the differences. With alternatives or electric there is much less maintenance compared to any kind of gas or diesel engine.
What kind of preliminary advice would you give to a school district looking to take that first step?
Your current bus supplier may not be your best choice. In today's marketplace, you always want to look at alternatives before deciding. With every new product there is a very limited number of newcomers remaining after five or 10 years. More than 50 percent of them will probably disappear.
It is very important that a school district or fleet operator have a good relationship with their local dealer, and that the dealer is being supported by his OEM. If you want to move toward EV the dealer must be instrumental in getting everyone onboard with the proper infrastructure.
How involved is the dealer in helping the district
with technicians?
Blue Bird and Micro Bird both have the reputation to offer training solutions for the dealers via our Program Academy. It's important to ensure that the service techs, as well as the salesmen, are fully up to speed on the product itself and are receiving certified training to effectively work on the product and educate the school district to better control introduction costs.
Is working with the driving force also part of your academy, or is that left up to the school district?
It is between us and the dealers, but normally it's the dealer. It is not as complicated as you might think, it is just a matter of taking the time to do it right. We have EV training, tutorials, and maintenance videos available on our YouTube site, covering elements from maintenance to driver training sections.
What advancement do you think is going to be most important in pushing the whole industry forward to the next level?
I think driver assist technologies will gradually take their rightful place, because of safety and their increased affordability.
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Call of Duty: Warzone 2: Completely new gaming experience in development according to rumor
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Instead of expanding the current Battle Royale Shooter Call of Duty: Warzone with any new main part of the series, is a further part in development according to rumors. Insider Tom Henderson writes that Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is exactly that: a second part. Therefore, no weapons of the predecessors are integrated into the game. The new Battle Royale battlefield should be located for current consoles, ie Xbox Series X | S and PlayStation 5, as well as for PC in development. Just a completely new game for a better hardware. About a successor to Call of Duty: Warzone first reported Bloomberg. There it said that at least three more games of the Shooter series should appear after the purchase of Microsoft on PlayStation consoles. Including Warzone 2 in 2023.
Apex Legends: Filter details of the version for PS5, as the size it occupies on the hard drive
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Apex Legends is one of the phenomena that has been dragging a large mass and an excellent community of players; Also because from Respawn Entertainment you are worrying that it grows with new options. And that is why they will expand the game to the new generation consoles.
Battle Royale is already compatible with Xbox Series and PS5, but there is a native version on the way. And we have known more details of the version for the PlayStation console. According to the web PlayStation Game Size, the game will have a size of 80 GB on the hard drive , which guarantees that many technical improvements have been added to have that weight. And they are already awakening the HYPE among the fans.
What we can not still have to tell you what will bring the PS5 version of Apex Legends , since even if the study has made official this Port; But the announcement will be imminent because the source is usually ahead thanks to the database of this type of launches ahead of time.
It is expected that, in addition to having access to all the content available during these years, Apex benefits from Visual Improvements, 4K resolution and a greater Frame rate , so that the performance in the multiplayer battles of one of the highest titles Player is better.
Exactly How A Rat Identifies Ash Apex Legends Season 11 s New Personality
Apex Legends Season 11: Escape starts November 2 and also introduces usable personality Ash to the battle royale game. Like a number of the previous tales, Ash has a partner– a tiny rat that rides on her shoulder as well as hides in her hood– and also it s created to inform gamers of her characterization.
Ash s rat has no name, Respawn lead animator Moy Parra claimed in a tweet. This was a request from us in the animation department with a specific objective in mind.
That purpose, as it ends up, was to provide a little of humanity for the frightening simulacrum. Ash offers a great deal like Pinnacle Legends various other simulacrum, Revenant, in that both are seemingly cold individuals with an insatiable wish for murder. But Ash s rat identifies her as a bit much more calculating as well as purpose-driven than the murderous Revenant.
As Parra adds, Ash is not so caring regarding name the rat, but the truth continues to be that the rat s wellness as well as trust fund of Ash betrays that Ash can dealing with a creature, in spite of her voice lines dripping with supposed derision for biological life and also her duplicated vocalizations that humans are weak because their bodily needs make them breakable.
[The rat] enabled us to show a little bit of humanity from the character, without jeopardizing the personality itself, Parra tweeted. Actually, it is the rat that reveals the a lot more warm/human side, the side that Ash herself will never ever reveal!
Though Respawn won t ever inside call the rat, the studio is a lot more than great with the Apex Legends neighborhood creating one. So far, the preferred option appears to be Ronin, of the name of the Titan that Ash pilots in Titanfall 2. As a matter of fact, Ash s abilities are apparently motivated by Titanfall 2 s Titans, especially her ultimate capability which behaves in a similar way to a Ronin s Phase Dashboard.
Ash is simply the most recent legend to have a pet-like friend. At launch, the only two tales to have this kind of companion were Lifeline, that has D.O.C, and Bloodhound, who has Artur. Given that after that, Respawn has routinely depended on pet-like partners to assist characterize many of the brand-new tales– some are actual living creatures but the majority of are drones or signature weapons. Octane had Navi (past tense as Navi died), Wattson has her Nessi plushie, Crypto has Hack, Rampart has Sheila, Perspective has N.E.W.T., and Fuse has Wally.
Mobile Siege of undead returns to Call of Duty Mobile
Call of Duty (short COD) is a computer game series of the US Publisher Activision from the genre of the ego shooter. The player usually takes over the role of a soldier in a war scenario. The first title of the series, developed by Infinity Ward, was released in the fall of 2003 and plays in World War II. Later titles are located in contemporary or futuristic, but usually fictitious scenarios. In addition to the mostly linear single player campaign, the various multiplayer options form a main focus of the series. New games are published in an annual rhythm, most recently called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold was (2020).
The series is one of the largest and most successful game franchises. By November 2009, more than 55 million games were sold, making the series total income of more than $ 3 billion. In 2011, more than 500 developers worked at the Call of Duty brand. In addition to Infinity Ward, the Studios Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games belonging to Activision are responsible for the development of new parts, there are other developer studios of Activision, which supports support for development.
The siege of the Undead is coming back along with the premiere of Call Of Duty: Mobile Season 9: Nightmare on Wednesday, October 20 at 02:00 CEST. In the siege of undead players will again go to the map Isolated Battle Royale, filled with Halloween Easter eggs, new stories to discover and zombie hordes.
For those who want to play the game , in the 9th season, a new draw will be available to which Billy the Puppet from the Iconic series Piła produced by Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures, as well as other scary items related to films saw In addition, players will have the opportunity to acquire 50 new levels of seasonal pass.
Season 9 will start a new delivery of free and premium content, including premiere characters such as Nikto – fear for sparrows and arters – Nosferatu. There will also be a new functional weapon – Swordfish, a new award for a series, weapon diagrams, business cards, pendants, Call of Duty (CP) and much more throughout the season!
Map Halloween Standoff Returns together with a ghostly Halloween finish, and Hovec Sawmill from Modern Warfare will appear for the first time in Call of Duty: Mobile. We also receive a new multiplayer mode, Drop Zone. In this new mode, introduced for the first time in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, teams fight for domination over the designated screenshoty zone, which changes its location during the match. Drop Zone will be available on the day of the season s premiere.
We will also get a new thematic event, Trick or Treat. Under it, players walk from the door to the door with their friends or independent characters crying candy or a psikus. If you receive a pusikus, they will have to do a task to get a candy (experience points). But if you get a candy right away, then They will also receive points immediately. Experimen points collected during the event can be exchanged for thematic prizes.

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Q: How to change MySQL's ft_min_word_len in Windows? None of the solutions suggested to reduce MySQL's ft_min_word_len works for me on Windows 7 Pro.
In Control Panel Services the path to MySQL56 server executable reads "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" MySQL56
Both files at "C:\windows\my.ini" and at "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" reads
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ft_min_word_len = 3

In MySQL, the query SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'ft_min_word_len'; still shows 4!!!

A: My bad!!! I was changing the file at "C:\Windows\my.ini" and "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" instead of the correct one at "C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" as per the path to MySQL56 server executable which reads "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" MySQL56.
Now working as expected!

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Beijing, June 4: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Chinese military's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square 29 years ago.
Pompeo released a statement on the eve of the anniversary on Monday of the June 4, 1989, suppression of demonstrations that also called on China to release those who have been jailed for their efforts to keep the memory of the crackdown alive.
Hundreds if not thousands of unarmed protesters and onlookers were killed late on June 3 and the early hours of June 4, 1989, after China's communist leaders ordered the military to retake Tiananmen Square from the student-led demonstrators.


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Cheracol – d and planes sometimes restricted, however not very dangerous product may cause side effects. Due was to cypress pharmaceutical, inc.'s efforts commanded the global manufacturing and network for prescription drug (freely be sold in some regions) can jointly produce in excess of 400 million treatments annually and has been tested accordingly.
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The default support (the one which holds the Brain) is broken on my rover after few rough tests so I want to re-print it. I could not find any relevant models here, is it available somewhere else?
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The total data used/data remaining is not quite correct. I have 30GB/60GB - peak/offpeak and the numbers add up to approx 29.4GB/58.3GB.
I have uninstalled the widget and reinstalled it, shut down Leopard (10.5.6) and restarted and it's still the same.
Try deleting the widget, deleting the prefs file (in your ~/Library/Preferences folder), emptying the trash, then downloading and re-installing.
Exetel's user data provides usage and quotas in MB, i.e. 30GB is expressed as 30000MB. Strictly speaking 30000MB equals only 29.297GB, and I have followed this in reporting usage data. Exetel reps may be able to indicate whether the true limit is 30GB = 30720MB.
Would still prefer the monthly quota as it was though (not sure which is accurate TBH) - but I guess I can always go back to the previous version.
Tamar wrote: Exetel's user data provides usage and quotas in MB, i.e. 30GB is expressed as 30000MB. Strictly speaking 30000MB equals only 29.297GB, and I have followed this in reporting usage data. Exetel reps may be able to indicate whether the true limit is 30GB = 30720MB.
So that's how it works... widget updated to use SI convention, figures now match those on the exetel usage page, please download the new version (0.16).
I downloaded 0.16, and it didn't seem to work. Trashed it, and went to download again in case I mucked it up the first time, and the download file seems to be AWOL.
Oops minor website problem. Should be good now.
Yes not sure why this happens. Try deleting all versions of the widget and prefs entirely, kill the dashboard (or login/logout) and then reinstall.
Does this usage meter support HSPA accounts ?
Or else does does anyone know of a mac compatible HSPA meter ?
After upgrading to Snow Leopard the widget places the bars in the incorrect order. I've attached a screenshot to show what I'm referring to. Is there a fix for this coming? Or is there any information that I can provide to help a fix?
Yep, the underlying quartz composition seems to have changed quite a bit for Snow Leopard. I do hope to fix this in the not too distant future.
Fortunately it seems the data is still correct, so please continue to use the current version for now.
Just FYI, it also seems to use far too much CPU on SL (10.6.1). I can have nothing else running and my MBP5,5 gets toasty hot. I pinpointed the hub of activity to the widget - as soon as I remove it from my dashboard, the CPU graph drops significantly.
If there's anything I can do to help debug, let me know.


I saw Eric White's paintings at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery yesterday. Referencing movies set in New York (The French Connection among them), the pieces made me nostalgic for Old Hollywood glamour: bouffant coifs, protracted pontiac hoods, and imperfect film — blurs that assured movies were dreamworlds. That, I think, was my favorite part about White's paintings: his photographic composition maintained a lot of obscurities impossible to capture on digital film. A blurred realism that melded today's photographic clarity and yesteryear's nebulous images, by which we've learned our past. Looking at his work, I felt taken by two mediums, and a sort of simultaneous time. I walked all day, one foot in this concrete world, the next in my imagination.
Unfortunately, a lot of White's larger, and more magnificent work is not in New York, but you can view it here. I still suggest the exhibition though, for I left in high spirits, a contentment not even those nice, little gallerina ladies could spoil when I told them, "Thank you," and they looked at me like I was a neanderthal.


Leader, where are we going?
The group started to take off when the first rays of sun appeared, the streets began to be crowded. The first schedule was to fill the tank for the series. The group focused in the center of Ha Giang City and took photos at theMilestone 0 km landmark. Many other groups also set up motors and took picture in this landmark.
Ha Giang city was very beautiful with clean streets and wide trees.
According to some reviews on the internet, the group had breakfast at a noodle shop along the road. I started to remember names of my some first friends here.
Then, the group started to go to Dong Van Dictrict, beginning the Motorbike Trip Vietnam.
My companion, who came along with me the whole trip, was a guy of my age who loved to take pictures…. behind him. On the way, we talked a lot. He was introduced by a older boy to the group. This was his first time with the group, his first time in a long trip. In the group, many of members came with the group for the first time, and we may well recognize several couples.
The road to Dong Van was new, beautiful and wide. After the easy paths, soon the group went into the mountainous area. The roads were up in a spectacular way, winding, up and down. Scenery on both sides of the road was graceful. There were some beautiful 180 degree roads of crabs, so the driver was also sublimated!
Feeling dizzy, but full of consciousness, was also an attraction on the road to drivers.
The first stop was Quan Ba, 50 km from Ha Giang center.
Quan Ba Heaven Gatewas the first gateway toDong Van Highland Geological Park. The sky gate was at the top of the pass. Previously, 4 districts of Quan Ba, Dong Van, Meo Vac and Yen Minh were "autonomous regions of the Cat ethnic". In 1939, the French built a huge 150cm thick wooden door at the gate of heaven to define the boundary.
The sky gate was narrow between two peaks that was lowered and extended enough for the road to pass, which was also where the road to Happiness began. Around the sky gate, white clouds covered as the sky. This was the ideal place to watch theDong Vanstone plateau.
Took a short more step was theQuan Bacouple mountain (also known as Fairy Mount), stretching between the valley. The group stopped a bit, everyone was trying to capture the picture of the most beautiful Mountain!
The next 50 km was Yen Minh, one of the most beautiful pine forests in Vietnam. The road was an "intersection of shape" with the arc of the elbow, the other side was the cliffs upright, one side was deep chasm. Coincidental message, climax that such as dancing, the car moved smoothly, kept the distance with stable speed.
The two sides of the road opened to reveal the green pine hill.
At 11 o'clock, the whole group had lunch break. The location was a lush "restaurant" on pine hill. We used nylon, bag ball, raincoat down and then ate bread together. Everyone would have milk, sausages, pates up to their choices. After that, we picked all the garbage and then slept. Each person was at each corner, under the tree shadow to sleep. Having rested 40 minutes and then hit the road. We brought the trash and left it in the trash bin in the nearest town.
The next stop was Pho Bang, about 27 km from Yen Minh. The small town was nestled within the rocky mountains of cat ears, deep within the valley. The town was peaceful after the noisy of life. After endless passes, the valley of roses blossomed into the middle of the plateau.
An interesting point when traveling in groups was that when a motor needed to stop to "feed" gasoline, the entire team stopped. The same motor should share the same frequency of gasoline, the same group of gasoline. At this point, people can take rest, relax muscles, check the phone.
However, the minus point was to remove the luggage to pour gasoline and put in took a long time! From my understanding, the whole project needed to focus diligently to avoid any mess whenever we needed.
The Tham Ma Pass, the classic slope, which was one of the most dangerous 8-shaped turn, had been around the people for a long time. Many brides and grooms chose this as their wedding photography venue. From here, we can take the majestic angle – the road as a giant snake curved around the mountain zigzag.
Having woke up early, took a little snap at noon, although I drank lots of coffee but I was still sleepy on the motor. But the drivers were still very concentrated while driving on the road, it was admirable. On the road, I tried to talk to avoid being sleepy, then tried enough games such as eye-opening continuous games, shaking heads… but that still did not succeed. This situation also normally occurred in most people who seated behind. Therefore, as soon as the group stopped for a rest, I had to jump right off the motor and jumping around to escape from the sleep. At lunch break time, I immediately found a place to sleep, enlisted every minute to recover energy. Driving a motorcycle in a hard road is dangerous if you fall asleep! So, you should try to stay awake, call for help of the drivers, take a rest until you are fine before continuously going!
Therefore, I could figure out that couples liked to travel on Motorbike Trip Vietnam so much. Because that you needed to sleep a little, just hugging and holding your driver tight!
Sung La Valley was the next place to conquer. This was the town of H'Mong people. They planted triangles circuit flowers on highland, grew corn, rice in the land. Sung La was a favorite place for travelers because there wasHouse of Pao, the backdrop of the famous movie "Pao's Story", based on the short story "Tiếng đàn môi sau bờ rào đá" by the writer – Do Bich Thuy.
The ancient house was preserved and invested for tourism. Here, visitors can witness the real life of ethnic people.
Road to the House of Pao, the two sides of the Triangle flowers bloomed, many crowded tourists took photos.
When we left, it was staring to get dark. The group rush to the last place of the day is theCat King's Palace (Palace of the Vuong's family). The residence was nearly 100 years old byCat King – Vuong Chinh Duc.He hired skilled workers and tens of thousands of construction workers to construct it during 9 years. The cost was then 150,000 in Indochina, or VND 150 billion at present. The Cat King's Palace was influenced by the architecture of three cultures: China, Mong ethnic and France. Most of the mansion was made of precious natural wood.
This residence was recognized by the State asNational Monumentin 1993. In 2004, the Vuong family decided to devote the palace to the State for conservation.
The architectural complex of the Cat King Palace really impressed me. At the end of my trip, I found documents and materials of the family and contributions of the Vuong family with the two resistance of the country.
At 7 o'clock, the group arrived at Dong Van.
Dong Van town is located on the plateau at an average height of 1,000-1,600 m above sea level, 160km far from Ha Giang city. At the beginning of the 20th century, the old town was only inhabited by several Mong, Tay and Hoa families. During the occupation, the French planned and left important architectural highlights, especially Dong Van Market, built in stone in the 1920s almost new to this day.
The old town and Dong Van ancient market were bold features with extremely thick walls of stone, large columns. Tile roofs on sturdy timber. In front of the house, there is a high hanging lantern to light up at night, dispelling the harsh cold of the Rocky Plateau.
The previous house that we rent was a stilt house right in the center of the intersection. Twenty two people rented a whole floor, the price was 3-4 USD/ person/night. There was a private toilet area, no hot and cold water. The whole house was in the same floor, divided into small groups. To save time for hanging out and having dinner, we went 2 people in each bath!
At night, the temperature dropped very low, the weather was very cold. After dinner, we hang out to visit the old town of Dong Van. Very cold, I had to borrow the clothes of everyone in the group to wear. On weekends (Friday night), it was very crowded.
The triangle circuit flower / buckwheat flower season has changed the life of the highland people. Tourist photos attached with the Triangle Circuit Flower Fields have became famous brands. Not only that, Triangle Circuit cake was very delicious, you can buy on the street for snacks or breakfast.
In terms of fashion, there were specialty brocade cloths of the Mongolian. The small towel used by the H'Mong girls to tie the head was very prominent. And now, it became the uniform of the local women. The price was just 1 USD/unit, just a souvenir, as well as an interesting gift for relatives.
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UPDATED: The second Tuesday coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics pulled in 20.5 million viewers across broadcast, cable, and streaming, according to total audience delivery data.
That is an 8 percent increase over the comparable night of the 2014 Sochi Olympics (18.9 million), but down 9 percent from the the first Tuesday's primetime coverage of the Olympics last week (22.6 million).
PREVIOUSLY: Primetime coverage on the second Tuesday of the 2018 Winter Olympics was something of a mixed bag in the Nielsen ratings.
In metered market households, the combined coverage on NBC and NBC Sports Network drew a 13.9 rating. That is up 16 percent in that measure from the comparable night of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, though Sochi coverage did not air on NBC Sports Network.
That 13.9 is down, however, from the first Tuesday's coverage of 2018. The first Tuesday, which saw Shaun White win another gold medal, drew a combined 15.2 rating, meaning this week's coverage was down approximately 9 percent week-to-week.
In the fast affiliate ratings, Tuesday's primetime coverage on NBC alone is averaging a 3.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 16.8 million viewers. That does not include West Coast viewership, NBC Sports coverage, or those who streamed the Games on NBC's digital platforms. Total audience delivery data will be available later today. But the first Tuesday initially drew a 5.2 rating and 20.1 million viewers, eventually rising to 22.6 million when total audience delivery was calculated.
Only ABC aired originals against the Olympics. "The Bachelor Winter Games" (0.9, 3.2 million) built to its highest ratings in both measures, while "Kevin Probably Saves the World" (0.4, 1.6 million) hit a series low.
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Pre-heat oven to 200 F [100 ºC].
Peel the bananas (or plantains). Cut into 6 slices each banana or 7 slices each plantain. Heat oil for frying over medium temperature.
Fry each slice until they are golden brown all over. Squeeze the slices using a lemon squeezer forming small cups. Once all the cups are formed, fry them again over medium heat until all the light parts have turned golden brown.
Turn off the oven and leave the cups in the oven while you go ahead to the next step.
Heat the olive oil over very low heat. Add the garlic and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Do not let the garlic burn. Add the shrimp and cook until they are pink throughout. Season with salt to taste.
Remove from the heat and reserve.
Peel avocado and crush using a fork until it doesn't have any lumps. Mix in the lime juice.
Spoon about tablespoon of avocado mix into the cups.
Top each with a shrimp and garnish with cilantro leaves.
I must clarify that I did not come up with the idea of these little cups; in fact I've tried it in several restaurants, usually filled with crab meat, and on at least one occasion with avocado and onions. This particular combination, however, is of my own making.
For this recipe you can use either unripe bananas or plantains. Plantains would be the more traditional choice (they are easier to work with and yield better-looking cups), but my experiment using green bananas turned surprisingly delicious; the taste and texture are pretty different than if using plantains. The picture above is of the banana version.
If you do use plantains, skip the oven step, as plantains get dry and hard too easily.
Looks delicious want to try them.
I love your recipes, this one I will do tomorrow, God willing. It's just fantastic! I can taste it by just looking at it. Thank you!
I am not sure they'll be that good in two hours. If you have tried old tostones you'll know what I mean.


VIENNA — The well-heeled crowd in the large ornate hall at Vienna's old stock exchange was dressed for success on Friday.
What they got was Norbert Hofer, who is running for president of Austria and could become Europe's first directly elected far-right head of state since the end of World War II.
The 45-year-old engineer-turned-politician reinforced his message of change before the group of around 300 during his last rally after a long and exhaustive campaign.
"The old dust needs to be shaken off, and we need to be proud of Austria again," Hofer said as he stood in front of a large poster of his country's distinctive red and white flag. "Your homeland needs you now."
The Freedom Party's Hofer was defeated by just 31,000 votes by Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen in May's presidential run-off.
But the 45-year-old was given a second chance after Austria's highest court ordered a new vote when counting irregularities were uncovered, and Austrians return to the polls Sunday.
Just a few months ago, the idea of a far-right candidate becoming president of a state in Western Europe would have prompted disbelief among the continent's establishment.
Yet a series of political earthquakes in the intervening period — like Brexit and the triumph of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election — could make it just the latest electoral swing toward populist candidates and causes around the world.
Hofer has built up support among Austria's large middle class, many of whom have been alarmed by the influx of thousands of refugees who have flooded across the country's borders in the past year, according to Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief for the weekly news magazine Falter.
"They live in a very safe environment but are afraid to lose it," he said.
The Europe-wide refugee crisis created a kind of national trauma, Klenk added, even though the real impact of immigration on everyday life is relatively small.
The Freedom Party has successfully capitalized on these fears and, much like president-elect Trump, has used social media to get its message out. While Hofer is reserved in interviews and speeches, the party's message is much harsher on Facebook, Twitter and the party's own online TV channel, Klenk said.
The Freedom Party, known in Austria by its acronym FPÖ, was founded in 1955 by former Nazi Party members, among others. After little success at the polls it rose to prominence in the 1990s under Jörg Haider, who employed a more modern populist stance.
With political issues such as the refugee crisis and criticism of the European Union, the Freedom Party has been able to get the attention of voters once again.
"We need someone who can represent Austria's interest in the European Union, and also against Brussels," Heinz-Christian Strache, the Freedom Party's leader said during the event Friday introducing Hofer.
Strache has also railed against the media — like Trump has in the U.S.
"We are used to not being portrayed objectively by the media, and people are aware of it," he said.
Hofer's speech Friday was toned down in comparison to past statements, concentrating on issues such as social justice, healthcare, the economy and farming. But he also spoke out against Europe, saying it has mishandled the refugee crisis. Only "real war refugees" should receive protection — and then only for a short time, Hofer said.
He also spoke out against the E.U., and while he did not say that Austria would choose to leave he union as Britain has, he said Austria would call for further reform.
"There is no connection between politicians and people anymore," he said.
It's a message that has already resonated in other European countries, including Poland and Hungary where far-right parties have won elections in parliament.
The campaign has created a deep-split within Austrian society.
Although the Austrian presidency is not as powerful as its American counterpart — the chancellor leads the government and the president has mostly ceremonial functions — a win for Hofer would represent a dramatic political shift.
Hofer has already hinted during the campaign that he would try to take a more active role in creating government policy.
"I will shape the office differently," he said Friday. "Things will change."
Peter Filzmaier, an Austrian political scientist, told NBC News that the recent success for Hofer's Freedom Party mirrors Trump's rise.
He said those living in the countryside and who don't hold college degrees support Hofer, while those with college degrees and in the cities are more likely to vote for Van der Bellen, who has the backing of the Green Party and others.
However, Filzmaier said there is one big difference to Trump.
"Hofer is not an outsider," Filzmaier said. "He steadily rose through party ranks."


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"The Thick Black Line: Image and Objectivity in Roman Ondak's 'Measuring the Universe'" by Catherine Falls
"The Thick Black Line: Image and Objectivity in Roman Ondák's Measuring the Universe"
Catherine MacArthur Falls
As discussed by historians of science Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, visual representations—including, for example, anatomical and botanical illustrations—have for centuries been integral to the production of scientific knowledge. Believed since the nineteenth century to be a more direct and 'objective' way to represent scientific phenomena than the potentially flawed realm of language, such visualizations, they suggest, have historically helped construct generalized 'objective truths' about the complex individual subjects they represent.1 In his 2007 participatory installation work, Measuring the Universe, Slovakian artist Roman Ondák critically and playfully engages with this longstanding relationship between art, statistical or scientific visualization, and human subjectivity. In a gesture mimicking both biological data collection and the quaint measurement of a child in the home, Ondák traced the heights of all exhibition visitors on the walls of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, repeating this action until a unified visualization—a thick black line at the average height of all visitors— emerged from the accumulated measurements. This 20-minute talk will explore how this and other similar contemporary works foreground or interrogate the often-obscured process by which idiosyncratic and infinitely complex subjectivities, and their intermediary data, are converted into clean, finalized visual representations of objective, authoritative scientific knowledge. It aims to demonstrate how, in a subversion of the historical relationship that artists have had to scientific knowledge production, such works reveal the process by which statistical and scientific visualizations construct not only truths about human subjects, but also human subjects themselves. It will argue that the exposure of this process and its role in subjectivity construction are increasingly necessary at a time characterized by a proliferation of infographics and other forms of often unquestioned data visualization.
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Aerial Photos Call into Question City's Decision to Fully Demolish 70 Mulberry Street
Posted on: June 1st, 2020 at 5:08 am	by Karlin Chan
Photo: Karlin Chan
On the evening of January 23, as Chinatown residents prepared for the Lunar New Year, a devastating five-alarm fire decimated the former PS23 at 70 Mulberry Street. Nearly five months later, many in the neighborhood continue to question the city's choice to fully demolish the facility.
Especially after the emergence of aerial photos showing the charred interior.
True to form, elected officials held press events in the immediate aftermath of the blaze, including an onsite cameo by Mayor de Blasio, who "vowed" to restore. It took five weeks before the nonprofit tenants – Museum of Chinese in America, Chinatown Manpower Project, HT Chen & Dance, United East Athletics – could return and conduct salvage operations.
However, transparency about the fire or plans for the city-owned building were seemingly nonexistent until a Community Board 3 Land Use meeting last month. Department of Citywide Administrative Services deputy commissioner Quintin Haynes presented pictures of the burned building and said full demolition was well underway due to the severity of infrastructural damage to supporting wooden joists and beams.
All along, residents had been told that removal of the roof and top three floors was necessary to prevent imminent collapse. Not a removal of the whole structure.
The CB3 full board adopted a resolution last week calling for continued demolition of top floors down to the historic stonework. Yet recommended that an independent structural engineer assess the feasibility of saving the remainder of the historic facade. (One was hired the next day.)
However, amateur aerial footage of the site doesn't appear to comport with the DCAS assessment. For instance, steel girders and support beams are clearly visible; and major damage can be seen on the Bayard Street side, from the third floor upward. But most of the roof was intact and you could even see a worker standing on it.
Coincidentally, it appears demolition crews have accelerated the pace of work. Is the city pulling a fast one on the community? A reputable source had disclosed that DCAS allegedly pressured some of the nonprofits to endorse a joint letter calling for full demolition lest it be years longer before occupancy.
Is there more here than meets the eye?
70 Mulberry Street Chinatown Community Board 3


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Culture Review: Weezer's "OK Human"
Review: Weezer's "OK Human"
Karan Chandra
There are two Weezers: the first is the legendary alternative rock band with universally acclaimed landmark releases such as the genre-defining Blue Album and Pinkerton. These classics managed to tactfully combine the catchiest pop melodies with an edgier embrace of noise and angsty lyricism. The other, unfortunately, is characterized by a painful mediocrity, occasionally supplemented by abrasively immature lyricism. Their output in the latter half of the 2000s (Raditude, in particular) seemed to represent an all-time low and could have been the band's demise. Since then, though, Weezer have remained musically prolific.
In the last five years, Weezer have not strayed from the polarity that has defined most of their discography. The universally acclaimed White Album in 2016 was followed up with critical duds, 2017's Pacific Daydream and, two years later, the Black Album. There was even an awkward covers record in between.
For the most part, however, Weezer's releases since the 90s have maintained some stylistic consistency, with the same signature 'Power Pop'. The release of the first single from the delayed album Van Weezer, a tribute to the band's pop-metal influences, changed this.
OK Human, recorded during the summer of 2020, represents such a deviation. Weezer has always referenced the catchy melodies of the Beach Boys and The Beatles as a key influence in their music; but in OK Human, that influence is elevated to another level. The band's signature electric-guitar centric instrumentation and loud power chords is replaced with straight-up baroque instrumentation with a full 38-piece orchestra. Beyond the obvious sonic differences in this approach, the band seems to have reflected certain themes present in the album; they even stated on Twitter that "OK Human was made at a time when humans-playing-instruments was a thing of the past. All we could do is look back on ancient times when humans really mattered and when the dark tech-takeover fantasy didn't exist." The album title also plays into similar themes, referencing Radiohead's OK Computer.
The opener and lead single, "All My Favorite Songs", released a week prior signalled some cause for optimism. The lyrics are typically emblematic of teenage angst, "I love parties, but I don't go. Then I feel bad when I stay home." The chorus itself catchily laments the contradictions present in the speaker's life: fundamentally, that "Everything that feels good is bad." This culminates in great uncertainty and a lost sense of direction. While the subject-matter evidently is nothing new for Weezer, the songwriting built around delicate strings certainly is. It's an effective combination, with the lush instrumentation complementing the moodiness of lead singer Rivers Cuomo's vocals.
The second track, "Aloo Gobi", employs even grander instrumentation, which is almost jarring at first. The impeccable arrangements and mixing, however, prevent this from seeming too gimmicky. The chorus is anthemic, while the subject matter is uncharacteristically mature. Cuomo ponders over the monotony that has taken over his life. This is something that seems increasingly poignant in the age of lockdowns and social restrictions.
Next, "Grapes of Wrath", a relatively lighthearted tribute to Audible audiobooks, alludes to the Steinbeck novel in its chorus. The instrumentation maintains the grandiose arrangements from the previous tracks, presented with a more dramatic chord progression. This is followed by "Numbers", an initially more stripped back and introspective ballad about feelings of personal inadequacy. As the almost Radiohead-esque chorus hits, elaborate strings emerge, and Cuomo employs his falsetto. The track builds up seemingly to an end, before a final stunning iteration of the chorus hits.
While the remainder of the album is perhaps not as memorable as the opening tracks, there is still a consistent quality and a considerable amount of highlights. "Playing My Piano" is a dramatic ballad about immersing oneself in a passion. "Here Comes the Rain" is a motivational anthem that tributes The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun". The closer, "La Brea Tar Pits" also stands out, with subtler instrumentation, and Cuomo using the California landmark to ponder mortality. Throughout OK Human, the transitions between tracks are also worth commending.
Ultimately, the album is about the human experience: the joys and monotonies; the passions and anxieties; the connection and solitude. OK Human represents a successful foray for the band from the formula they have set for decades. The instrumentation is lush and compliments Weezer's typical songwriting styles, as well as their occasional attempts at greater maturity. The chorus melodies are catchy as ever, and Cuomo's vocal performances memorable. Looking forward, it is undeniably difficult to predict the quality of any releases from Weezer. However, given the precedent set here, there is reason to remain cautiously optimistic.
Image credit: micadrew via Flickr & Creative Commons.
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui named in actor Niharika Singh's #MeToo account
Published Nov 10, 2018 03:52pm
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Singh describes Nawaz as an abusive, manipulative boyfriend in a #MeToo story that also names Bhushan Kumar of T-Series
Sacred Games actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been described as an abusive and dishonest boyfriend in a #MeToo account penned by Miss India winner Niharika Singh, whom he dated in 2009.
Niharika took to Twitter via journalist Sandhya Menon to share her story in what she calls an attempt to "expand my own understanding of what constitutes abuse, who we choose to punish and whom we are willing to forgive".
She shared that she befriended Nawazuddin on the sets of their 2012 film Miss Lovely and that he forced herself on her at her apartment one day:
"One morning, when I was home and he had been shooting all night, Nowaz sent me a text saying he was near my building. I invited him over and asked him to come and have breakfast with me. When I opened the door, he grabbed me. I tried to push him away but he wouldn't let go. After a little coercion, I finally gave in. I wasn't sure what to make of this relationship. He told me it was his dream to have a Miss India or an actress wife, just like Paresh Rawal and Manoj Bajpayee. I found his little confession funny but endearing," she writes.
She claims she ended the relationship after she found he was lying to her:
"In the next couple of months, I began to discover one lie after another. Nowaz had engaged multiple women, giving each one a different story; one of them even called me from his phone and started yelling at me. I also found out about a woman he'd married in Haldwani, whose family had sued him for making dowry demands. I told him to clean up his mess, be honest with himself and everyone around him; also that I did not want to see him again."
She further stated that she and Nawazuddin recommenced a friendship after both attended the Cannes screening of Miss Lovely but she cut him off when he "tried to re-engage me sexually" when they were both working in the film Anwar ka ajab kissa. The two met again at the India premiere of Miss Lovely and Niharika claims that during promotions, "he tried to grab me again" and "I just walked away".
She added, "Anwar ka ajab kissa didn't get a theatrical release and I heard from various sources that Nawaz had started telling people that I was a terrible actress. I didn't get too many film offers after that."
Niharika also named T-Series head Bhushan Kumar in her #MeToo story, describing about her earliest days in Bollywood:
"Bhushan Kumar called me to his office to sign 'A New Love Ishtory' where he gave me an envelope as a signing amount for the film. It contained two 500 Rupee notes (less than 14$). I got a text from him later that night- 'I would love to know you more. Let's get together sometime.' I wrote back saying- 'Absolutely! Lets go on a double date. You bring your wife. I'll bring my boyfriend.' He never wrote to me again." Kumar is yet to comment on Niharika's account.
Read her full account here.
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Nov 10, 2018 04:47pm
In Nawazuddin Biography 2016 he clearly said they were dating. But she prefered to hide it as she was ashamed of the relationship, as nawaz wasnt well knwn figure then and she was miss India star. She sued him and his biography saying they never met. Now she is admitting they were bf gf with u-turn. Anyway a relationship gone sour doesnt come under metoo.
Dint expect this from him. I was a big fan of his. But if this turns out to be true, I won't watch any of his films henceforth.
Publicity stunt. She was in relationship with him for 2 years. Same with guy she was engaged. Not a case of metoo.
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Honestly it never entered my mind that this can be a perfect revenge story #MeNToo


Here's a simple graph problem: Find the shortest path from the top-middle vertex to the bottom-middle vertex in a given tri-graph. A tri-graph is an acyclic graph of (N ≥ 2) rows and exactly 3 columns. Unlike regular graphs, the costs in a tri-graph are associated with the vertices rather than the edges.
So, considering the example with N = 4, the cost of going straight down from the top to bottom along the middle vertices is 7 + 13 + 3 + 6 = 29. The layout of the directional edges in the graph are always the same as illustrated in the figure.
Your program will be tested on one or more test cases.
Each test case is specified using N + 1 lines where the first line specifies a single integer (2 ≤ N ≤ 100, 000) denoting the number of rows in the graph. N lines follow, each specifying three integers representing the cost of the vertices on the ith row from left to right. The square of each cost value is less than 1,000,000.
The last case is followed by a line with a single zero.
Where k is the test case number (starting at one,) and n is the least cost to go from the top-middle vertex to the bottom-middle vertex.
very easy problem.think in terms of reachable and unreachable nodes.
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o/p: -3 shouldn't it be (-1-1=2)?


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Customer service leaders need a simpler technology ecosystem that minimizes the amount of work it takes to stand up a contact center. This would allow all sizes of companies, not only the large ones with deep pockets and IT resources, to offer great service. It would also allow all sizes of companies to focus on people and process improvements instead of configuring and testing complex software.
Queuing and routing technologies. They capture the customer inquiry, which can be via voice, digital, or social channels, and route and queue the inquiry to the right agent pool.
CRM customer service technologies. They enable customer service agents to create and work the incoming service request.
Workforce optimization technologies. They record agent interactions with customers, evaluate the quality of these interactions, recommend targeted training based on quality scores, manage agent schedules, forecast future schedules, and more.
Companies are demanding a simpler, more prepackaged, end-to-end customer service technology ecosystem that allows companies of all sizes to offer good service. They want: 1) to better support omnichannel interactions by passing contextual data across channels so that customers don't have to restart conversations when they switch channels in the course of an interaction; 2) consolidated reporting across all channels, which can be used to staff and forecast agents to control headcount costs; 3) optimized routing based on current agent skills and success rates for similar interactions for higher first contact resolution scores; and 4) targeted coaching based on quality scorecard results.
Vendors are reacting to this demand. Established vendors in each software category have made out-of-category acquisitions. Case in point is Verint Systems, a workforce optimization vendor that purchased KANA, a CRM customer service solution. NICE, another WFO vendor, purchased inContact, a cloud contact center provider.
The nimble cloud contact center vendors are bundling and selling technologies in this ecosystem together. They offer a unified communications infrastructure, robust routing, and queuing engines for interactions of all types. They have integrated WFO software suites for agent quality management, scheduling, forecasting, and contact center performance. Today, they tend to either have adapters to leading CRM systems or they have lightweight case management and knowledge capabilities that can be easily hardened or acquired.
Two companies of interest: Twilio is targeting the contact center market by adding core Q&R services to its platform. But customers need to build out the rest of a full contact center solution on their own. Amazon is leveraging its size and scale with AWS, offering Connect for a fuller contact center, voice-oriented package, and integrations with customer service solutions, in addition to offering Lex for self-service.
What does this all mean? There are only a handful of dominant vendors in each software category. The shift in the market will drive a reduction in best-of-breed components to more integrated suites, so a vendor's longer-term roadmap must reflect this consolidation and migration. Also, keep an eye out for emerging vendors that offer all-in-one capabilities.


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Question: What Condition Must Be Satisfied So That Q K?
What does KC stand for in texting?
What is the equilibrium constant expression?
How does volume affect equilibrium?
How does Q relate to K?
What happens when Q K?
What is the value of the equilibrium constant KC at 700 K?
What does a high KC value mean?
What is the difference between the reaction quotient Q and the equilibrium constant K?
What is the KC?
What is difference between Q and K?
What does it mean if q is greater than K?
What is KC affected by?
Which one of the following will change the value of an equilibrium constant?
What condition must be satisfied so that QC KC?
How is Q value calculated?
What is Q MC ∆ T used for?
What does it mean if k is greater than 1?
Which side of equilibrium is favored?
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The equilibrium constant expression is the ratio of the concentrations of a reaction at equilibrium. … Reactions containing pure solids and liquids results in heterogeneous reactions in which the concentrations of the solids and liquids are not considered when writing out the equilibrium constant expressions.
Because there are more moles of reactants, an increase in volume will shift the equilibrium to the left in order to favor the reactants. When there is a decrease in volume, the equilibrium will shift towards the side of the reaction with fewer moles.
Q can be used to determine which direction a reaction will shift to reach equilibrium. If K > Q, a reaction will proceed forward, converting reactants into products. If K < Q, the reaction will proceed in the reverse direction, converting products into reactants. If Q = K then the system is already at equilibrium.
If Q is greater than K, the system will shift to the left. If Q is less than K, the system will shift to the right. If Q is equal to K than the system is already at equilibrium so it will not shift in either direction.
At 700 K the equilibrium constant KC for the reaction between NO(g) and O2(g) forming NO2(g) is 8.7 × 106. The rate constant for the reverse reaction at this temperature is 0.54 M–1s–1.
If K is a large number, it means that the equilibrium concentration of the products is large. In this case, the reaction as written will proceed to the right (resulting in an increase in the concentration of products) If K is a small number, it means that the equilibrium concentration of the reactants is large.
The reaction quotient is given by the same equation as the equilibrium constant (concentration of products divided by concentration of reactants), but its value will fluctuate as the system reacts, whereas the equilibrium constant is based on equilibrium concentrations.
Kc is the equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction. The letter c implies that reagent amounts are expressed as molar concentration. For the reaction A+B=AB, the equilibrium constant Kc is defined as [AB]/[A][B]. Brackets denote reagent concentrations that must be given in order to compute Kc.
And what is activity (a)? The difference between K and Q is that, K is the constant of a certain reaction when it is in equilibrium, while Q is the quotient of activities of products and reactants at any stage of a reaction.
In the case where Q > K Q>K Q>KQ, is greater than, K, this suggests that we have more product present than we would have at equilibrium. Therefore, the reaction will try to use up some of the excess product and favor the reverse reaction to reach equilibrium.
Only Temperature affects the equilibrium constant, i will use Kc to explain instead of equilibrium constant. Kc is temperature dependent, so changing the temperature will change its value. … If endothermic, increasing the temperature will increase Kc, and vice-verca.
The only thing that changes an equilibrium constant is a change of temperature. The position of equilibrium may be changed if you change the pressure. According to Le Chatelier's Principle, the position of equilibrium moves in such a way as to tend to undo the change that you have made.
Any given chemical reaction at equilibrium has an equilibrium constant, K, associated with it. We do not need any shift in the reaction to reach equilibrium for Qc = Kc since it already means that the reaction is at equilibrium. Therefore: Qc = Kc is satisfied when the reaction is at equilibrium condition.
Here's how to calculate a Q-value:Rank order the P-values from all of your multiple hypotheses tests in an experiment.Calculate qi = pi N / i.Replace qi with the lowest value among all lower-rank Q-values that you calculated.
The quantitative relationship between heat transfer and temperature change contains all three factors: Q=mcΔT Q = mc Δ T , where Q is the symbol for heat transfer, m is the mass of the substance, and ΔT is the change in temperature. The symbol c stands for specific heat and depends on the material and phase.
If K is larger than 1, the mixture contains mostly products. If K is less than 1, the mixture contains mostly reactants. If K is about equal to 1, the reaction will reach equilibrium as an intermediate mixture, meaning the amounts of products and reactants will be about the same.
Weak acids and bases are lower in energy than strong acids and bases, and because equilibria favor the reaction side with the lowest-energy species, acid-base reactions will go to the side with the weakest acids and bases. As a rule, the equilibrium of a reaction will favor the side with weaker acids and bases.
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