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Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active shown off with AT&T branding
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active isn't really much of a secret at this point, despite the fact that it's still unannounced. It's already been seen in its share of images and videos, and the I537 -- the AT&T-branded version -- has even been spotted passing through the FCC. Fortunately, @evleaks dug up some imagery of this particular variant of the rugged smartphone in black (though it will supposedly be offered in teal as well), complete with the trademark AT&T globe on the back. It's rumored to offer a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 chipset, HD display, 8-megapixel rear camera and water-resistant protection. What's more, we're being told that this is just one of many Samsung devices on its way to the large GSM operator this year, accompanying the Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S3 Mini (oddly), Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Galaxy Note 3. Pricing is still unknown, but we have to wonder if the date on the phone's display above is an indication of what we can expect to see at Samsung's June 20th event.
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IK Multimedia intros AmpliTube 3.0 with timeline editing, ships iRig HD
Artists going all-out on mobile music editing have relatively few options -- GarageBand won't always cut it for the pros. IK Multimedia thinks its newly launched AmpliTube 3.0 could be the solution for those producers on the move. The $20 iOS app introduces a full, multi-track audio editor that can create a final masterpiece. With the help of a guitar rig and customizable drum loop, the suite is theoretically good enough to keep computers out of the studio. Even if musicians don't want to go that far, they may be happy to hear that IK Multimedia has shipped the iRig HD. The $99 interface gives iOS and Mac users a preamped adapter for instruments with quarter-inch plugs. While we're sure some performers would rather stick to traditional recording methods, those who've embraced digital with open arms can check out both AmpliTube and iRig HD at the source links.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Putting the brakes on distracted driving
May 29, 2013 ? If you're still using your mobile phone behind the wheel, University of Alberta sociology researcher Abu Nurullah likely has your number.
More specifically, he can tell what statistical category you fall under. Using survey data from mid-2011 -- just months before Alberta's distracted-driving law went into effect -- Nurullah and his colleagues determined several characteristics of people who appear to top the risk scale by using cellphones while driving. The data are useful for police who have to deal with unlawful drive-and-dialers, and for policy-makers seeking to change offenders' habits with ad campaigns.
Nurullah says that although campaigns are an important piece of curbing the behaviour, social pressure from family and friends is also important.
"I think the social influence is the key one. Friends, family, employers -- they should be influencing others to reduce the use of cellphones while driving," he said. "Effective enforcement of the laws should include not only fines for such offences, but also mandatory lessons on the dangers of cellphone use while operating a vehicle."
Driving demographics: Mobile phone use by the numbers
- Men outnumbered women by almost 10 per cent in phone use while driving. The largest proportion of offenders in both groups fell in the 35-to-44 age category.
- The majority of mobile users had completed post-secondary education.
- Among income brackets, the lowest income earners had the lowest level of cellphone use while driving. Rates of use increased with each income category, with those earning over $100,000 per year being the top users.
- A slight majority of users indicated not being religious.
"These stats can be used to identify the worst offenders for effective enforcement of laws that deter cellphone use while operating a vehicle," said Nurullah. "Since males are more likely to undertake risky driving, it is expected that they would use cellphones more in driving situations."
Attitude adjustment: Social pressure and education critical
The survey also highlighted people's perceptions of the dangers of using a cellphone while driving. The majority of people -- those who used cellphones while driving and those who didn't -- agreed that texting while driving was dangerous and that cellphone use was more likely to result in a collision. But a much smaller minority said they didn't believe cellphone use is as dangerous as impaired driving.
Though the legislation introduced in 2011 may have curbed some use, Nurullah says that a common levelling-off effect means other measures need to be put in place to convince itinerant talkers to hang up and drive.
"There should be an emphasis on educating people about this, changing people's mindsets about doing this, because it is risky," he said. "There is no better alternative than social pressure because it is more effective than legal enforcement. Social media campaigns can also be designed to make people informed about safe driving practices involving the use of cellphones."
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Neil Patrick Harris returning to host Emmycast
NEW YORK (AP) ? CBS says Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Emmys again.
It's the second go-around for the TV, film and stage star. He last did the honors at the "Prime Time Emmy Awards" in 2009.
CBS will air the Emmycast live from Los Angeles on Sept. 22.
But for viewers who just can't wait to see Harris in emcee mode, he'll preside over "The 67th Annual Tony Awards" on CBS on June 9. It's Harris' fourth time hosting that show, which salutes the best of Broadway.
Harris currently stars on the hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
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Organic polymers show sunny potential: Groundwork laid for block copolymer solar cells
May 29, 2013 ? A new version of solar cells created by laboratories at Rice and Pennsylvania State universities could open the door to research on a new class of solar energy devices.
The photovoltaic devices created in a project led by Rice chemical engineer Rafael Verduzco and Penn State chemical engineer Enrique Gomez are based on block copolymers, self-assembling organic materials that arrange themselves into distinct layers. They easily outperform other cells with polymer compounds as active elements.
The discovery is detailed online in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
While commercial, silicon-based solar cells turn about 20 percent of sunlight into electricity and experimental units top 25 percent, there's been an undercurrent of research into polymer-based cells that could greatly reduce the cost of solar energy, Verduzco said. The Rice/Penn State cells reach about 3 percent efficiency, but that's surprisingly better than other labs have achieved using polymer compounds.
"You need two components in a solar cell: one to carry (negative) electrons, the other to carry positive charges," Verduzco said. The imbalance between the two prompted by the input of energy -- sunlight -- creates useful current.
Since the mid-1980s, researchers have experimented with stacking or mixing polymer components with limited success, Verduzco said. Later polymer/fullerene mixtures topped 10 percent efficiency, but the fullerenes -- in this case, enhanced C-60 buckyballs -- are difficult to work with, he said.
The Rice lab discovered a block copolymer -- P3HT-b-PFTBT -- that separates into bands that are about 16 nanometers wide. More interesting to the researchers was the polymers' natural tendency to form bands perpendicular to the glass. The copolymer was created in the presence of a glass/indium tin oxide (ITO) top layer at a modest 165 degrees Celsius.
With a layer of aluminum on the other side of the device constructed by the Penn State team, the polymer bands stretched from the top to bottom electrodes and provided a clear path for electrons to flow.
"On paper, block copolymers are excellent candidates for organic solar cells, but no one has been able to get very good photovoltaic performance using block copolymers," Verduzco said. "We didn't give up on the idea of block copolymers because there's really only been a handful of these types of solar cells previously tested. We thought getting good performance using block copolymers was possible if we designed the right materials and fabricated the solar cells under the right conditions."
Mysteries remain, he said. "It's not clear why the copolymer organizes itself perpendicular to the electrodes," he said. "Our hypothesis is that both polymers want to be in contact with the ITO-coated glass. We think that forces this orientation, though we haven't proven it yet."
He said the researchers want to experiment with other block copolymers and learn to control their structures to increase the solar cell's ability to capture photons and turn them into electricity. Once they have achieved higher performance from the cells, the team will look at long-term use.
"We'll focus on performance first, because if we can't get it high enough, there's no reason to address some of the other challenges like stability," Verduzco said. Encapsulating a solar cell to keep air and water from degrading it is easy, he said, but protecting it from ultraviolet degradation over time is hard. "You have to expose it to sunlight. That you can't avoid."
Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Yen-Hao Lin and Kendall Smith; Penn State graduate student Changhe Guo and undergraduate Matthew Witman; Argonne National Laboratory researcher Joseph Strzalka; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Cheng Wang and staff scientist Alexander Hexemer; and Enrique Gomez, an assistant professor in the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering. Verduzco is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
The National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Welch Foundation, the Shell Center for Sustainability and the Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation supported the research.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
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Alabama's Saban calls for SEC to expand schedule
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) ? Alabama coach Nick Saban has a strong ? and seemingly solitary ? stance on the Southeastern Conference potentially moving to a nine-game league schedule.
Saban said Tuesday he would like to see the SEC expand from eight to nine games, an opinion that surely will draw debate and dissent during the league's annual spring meetings this week.
Saban was the only SEC coach to publicly call for increasing the number of league games, the biggest topic being discussed during daylong meetings held in the resort town. Although unlikely, SEC presidents and chancellors could vote on the issue Friday.
"I'm absolutely in the minority, no question about it," Saban said. "But everybody has their reasons."
Having won three of the last four Bowl Championship Series national title games, Saban admitted he should be against changing the model.
"If you look at it through a straw and how it affects you ... then you're not going to be for it," he said. "I shouldn't be for it. We'd have a better chance to be successful if we don't do it, but I think it's best for the game and for the league. I'm trying to look at it from 1,000 feet."
Others, including Georgia's Mark Richt, Vanderbilt's James Franklin and Mississippi's Hugh Freeze, want to keep things status quo. The SEC currently plays eight conference games: six games against division opponents, one against a designated rival from the other division and one rotational game against the remaining six teams.
Several coaches argued that expanding to nine games would only make an already difficult schedule even tougher ? and could affect bowl eligibility for teams on the bubble.
"You add a ninth game and that's seven more losses for our conference," Freeze said. "We want to fill all our bowl slots and represent our conference. When you play that ninth game, it would create some more revenue, but it's seven more losses. I'm in favor of playing the West and two rotators. That's what I will push and vote for."
But with a four-team playoff on tap for the 2014 season, strength of schedule should become a bigger priority for teams with national title hopes.
"What I'm looking for is a decision that's in the long-term best interest of the Southeastern Conference," commissioner Mike Slive said. "Everybody may have a different view of what that is. One of the hallmarks of this league over time is being careful, thoughtful, creative, doing new things and sitting down when the going gets tough and making decisions based on what's best for the league and sometimes subordinating one's own interest to that.
"We're going to have enough dialogue to make sure we get there from here."
The SEC's 14 coaches spent Tuesday discussing the pros and cons of eight- and nine-game schedules. While most want to remain at eight games, some would like to see the 6-1-1 model switched to a 6-2 version that would eliminate cross-division fixed opponents. That would mean the end of annual rivalries like Alabama-Tennessee, which have played all but one season since 1928, or Auburn-Georgia, which have played 116 times in the past 120 years.
"Eight games, nine games, 6-1-1, 6-2, I think you can make a lot of arguments," Franklin said. "That's what we're going to discuss. Again, we've won the last seven national championships with similar models to what we have now. Our first couple of years in these meetings was to make sure we were able to hold on to some of these rivalries we've had for a long time. That's important to certain fan bases and certain institutions, so we'll see.
"The thing that I'm pounding the table about is eight games. Really there's no other discussion but eight games. That's in the best interest of the SEC. That's in the best interest for Vanderbilt."
Coaches will vote and take the result to athletic directors Wednesday. The ADs will make a final suggestion to presidents and chancellors later in the week. The league plans to stick with the 6-1-1 format for 2014, and any resolution on future schedules likely will come down the road.
"If any coach is going to speak truthfully and honestly, they prefer the eight," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said. "A wise man once taught me: if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The SEC has won the last seven BCS titles, no doubt a stretch of success that any conference would love to boast about.
But the league is in the midst of a major overhaul, so the schedule might just be next to change. Not only did the SEC add Texas A&M and Missouri last year, it is launching the SEC Network in 2014, with ESPN as a partner. The network surely will want more marquee matchups in exchange for increasing revenue.
Saban, though, said more consideration should be given to fans during these scheduling discussions.
"One of these days, they're going to quit coming to the games because they're going to stay at home and watch it on TV," Saban said. "Everybody's going to say, 'Why don't you come to the games?' Well, if you'd play somebody good, then we'd come to the games. That should be the first consideration. Nobody's considering them. They're just thinking about, 'How many games can I win? Can I get bowl qualified? How many tough teams do I have to play?'
"After coaching in the NFL for eight years, everybody in the NFL plays everybody in the NFL, and you lose some games. The Giants lost how many games and won the Super Bowl, six? I think it makes it more exciting if you don't have to go undefeated or lose just one game to be able to have a chance to qualify to play for something at the end."
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Balotelli to sit out Italy friendly with back pain
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updated 9:26 a.m. ET May 29, 2013
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) -Mario Balotelli has back pain and will sit out Italy's friendly with San Marino on Friday, joining striker partner Stephan El Shaarawy on the injured list.
Italy physician Enrico Castellacci says the plan is for Balotelli to return for next week's World Cup qualifier at the Czech Republic.
After hosting San Marino in Bologna, Italy visits the Czechs in Prague on June 7.
Balotelli trained apart from the rest of the squad on Wednesday.
El Shaarawy will also miss the friendly with a bruised right ankle. Another forward, Pablo Osvaldo, was kicked off the squad on Monday for insulting his club coach at Roma.
The remaining Azzurri forwards are Alessandro Diamanti and Alberto Gilardino of Bologna, Sebastian Giovinco of Juventus and Marco Sau of Cagliari.
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Managing a telesales team | Clevertim ? small business CRM blog
?The world is flat? some have said recently and what they mean is it has never been easier to outsource your jobs across the world, making geography irrelevant for your business. And that has worked pretty well for many businesses, including us ? yes, we have used and we still use freelancers across the globe in order to improve our product in a cost effective way that allows us to pass the cost efficiencies back to our customers.
Job positions that have been successfully outsourced in the past include virtual assistants, web designers, graphical designers, web and computer programmers, but also marketing jobs and telesales.
In telesales, it makes a lot of sense to outsource the lower end of the sales process, the pre-qualifying of leads. In most cases, it is an expensive and time consuming process, many times repetitive, boring and the rate of success can be quite low. Not something you?d want your star sales people to do. You?d like your star sales people to chase qualified leads, those leads that need the final nudge from an expert in closing deals.
It makes sense to outsource the pre-qualifying of leads to a team of telesales people, who can go through a list of leads you provide, make contact either by calling, emailing or using social media and determine the level of interest the lead shows and filter out the leads that are unlikely to buy and pass the rest, the qualified subset to your star people.
But just hiring a telesales team and leaving them to it will generally not work. And why not, you might ask?
Well, first of all, because outsourcing is still work, you just change the type of work you do. When you outsource, your main type of work is managing, rather than actually doing the work yourself. There is a strong misconception that outsourcing means you don?t have to do any work at all. We?ve done outsourcing here at Clevertim and we found out that never works. You need to actively manage your outsourced projects or face failure.
And here?s a simple truth: You can?t manage what you can?t measure. And you can?t measure what you can?t see. Having visibility of what your telesales team is doing is critical in the success of your outsourcing telesales project. Are they being diligent in pre-qualifying your leads? Do they follow up always or do they ?leave money on the table?? Do they follow the same rigorous processes for all your leads or does it all depend on the ?mood? of the telesales person? Are they saying the wrong things to your leads which can affect not only your sales prospects, but also your brand ? yes, the word of mouth can cut both ways.
The other aspect of ?visibility? is seeing what the leads are saying. You can gain so much information from the feedback you get from your prospects, information that you can use to improve your products and services, feed back into product management, customer service, sales and marketing. It can give you an idea of what customers are looking for, what?s missing in your ?recipe? and it can literally tell you how to sell more. It will also give you a fantastic insight into customer objections to selling. Dealing with customer objections is part of selling and mapping out what the common objections are will help you prepare for the next sale. Having answers ready for your customers looks very good when your sales people are trying to close the sale. Contrast that with the line ?I will consult with the headquarters and get back to you with the information you need?, which delays the closing and gives your leads time to change their minds and shop around.
In a nutshell, you need to ?see? what your telesales team is doing, how they communicate with the leads, what?s being said, how often, what the leads are saying. And that?s where a simple CRM solution can help greatly. Managing a telesales team becomes so much easier when all the data is in one place, you can see who?s doing what when and you can set tasks for the next steps to be followed with certain leads. It?s visibility that puts you in control and gives you the ability to manage the telesales effort.
From that point on you can choose your management style, you can be as micro or macro as you want, you can set individual tasks or general goals and monitor the progress and have meaningful conversations about the performance and improvements needed by your telesales team. It allows you to see whether the telesales team is ultimately working for you or whether you?d better off looking for another telesales team or even bring the whole project in-house.
If you don?t have a CRM system today, take a look at our Clevertim CRM which is a CRM and lead management solution designed for small businesses. Start getting on top of your telesales projects today!
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Agent: Ravens should have signed Flacco in '12
APFormer Bills coach Marv Levy earned the 17th spot on ESPN.com?s list of the best coaches of all time.
Several members of the Dolphins will be thinking about their family members in the military on Memorial Day.
Former Patriots T Matt Light expects ?stiff competition? at an upcoming ?Cornhole Commotion? event he?s hosting.? [Editor's note:? Beavis just passed out from laughter.]
Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg praised QB Mark Sanchez?s accuracy in OTAs.
Ravens DE Will Pericak is dealing with diabetes as well as trying to make the roster.
Bengals CB Leon Hall doesn?t do much self-promotion.
Offensive coordinator Norv Turner says the Browns offense will be in attack mode next season.
OL Ramon Foster isn?t taking a Steelers roster spot for granted.
Colts quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen spent time visiting military personnel overseas this offseason.
Recapping the Jaguars offseason to date while looking at the big questions still facing the team.
Titans coach Mike Munchak shares his thoughts on the start of OTAs.
Said Broncos LB Shaun Phillips of signing in Denver, ?At this point in my career, I?ve made some money. I?ve done that. So it was really just down to do you go to the team that pays you the most money and you have a miserable season? Or do you go to a team that will take care of you and give you a chance to win??
The Chiefs are moving at a faster pace this offseason.
KR Josh Cribbs talks about his first days with the Raiders.
The Chargers? website wraps up the last week of activity around the team.
Former Giants DE and current morning TV host Michael Strahan said the Cowboys would have won a Super Bowl if he played for them.
Giants DB Terrell Thomas said that his oft-injured knee has been holding up well this spring.
Eagles special teams coach Dave Fipp is working to turn things around after a poor 2012 for those units.
Don?t ask Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper to compare his knee injury to the one suffered by Redskins QB Robert Griffin III.
Former Bears LB Brian Urlacher ranks his five most memorable games.
Lions DT Ndamukong Suh met up with an octopus at a recent Red Wings game.? [Editor's note:? Hopefully, that won't inspire a new sandwich at Subway.]
Evan Dietrich-Smith has strengthened his hold on the Packers? center job.
The Vikings kick off the next phase of their offseason this week.
Falcons QB Matt Ryan is 27 touchdown passes away from tying the franchise record.
As part of his initiation to life in Charlotte, Panthers DT Star Lotulelei is learning about NASCAR.
Saints WR Kenny Stills helped Feed the Children distribute supplies in Moore, Oklahoma on Sunday.
Five Buccaneers who might be on the hot seat this season.
Cardinals CB Javier Arenas thinks the team?s defense can be very good this season.
Looking at the Rams? running back situation in comparison to their divisional rivals.
A statistical breakdown of the 49ers cornerbacks.
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US, Russia discuss peace plan for worsening Syria
PARIS (AP) ? The top U.S. and Russian diplomats met Monday to try to accelerate frustratingly slow peace efforts in Syria, where the signs point only to a worsening conflict.
Capping off an eight-day trip to the Middle East and Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry flew into the French capital to see Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and exchange updates on their respective diplomatic efforts.
The United States and its Arab allies are attempting to secure the participation of Syria's fractured opposition at an international peace conference in Geneva, planned for next month. Russia is pledging to deliver Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to the talks.
But despite claims of progress by both, there is little evidence to suggest either side is ready to halt more than two years of violence that has killed more than 70,000 people. President Barack Obama has demanded that Assad leave power; Russia has stood by its closest ally in the Arab world.
The one-on-one Paris meeting between Kerry and Lavrov, to be immediately followed by a dinner that includes French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, comes as Sen. John McCain slipped into Syria Monday to meet with rebels and at an increasingly dangerous time for the country.
For the past week, regime troops and allies from Lebanon's Hezbollah ? and even some Iranian fighters ? have waged an offensive in Qusair, gaining ground against the rebels behind intense bombardments of the strategic western Syria town.
Hezbollah's enhanced role poses an assortment of concerns for the Obama administration, with the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowing over the weekend that his militants would back Assad to victory.
Beyond providing powerful reinforcements to Assad's regime, Hezbollah's involvement increases the risk of spillover into Lebanon, a country as ethnically divided and fragile as Syria. Two rockets struck a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut on Sunday, raising fears that the country could be plunged back into civil war.
And any conflict with Hezbollah threatens to drag in Israel, which has proven with airstrikes it won't tolerate large-scale and advanced weapons transfers to its northern border. Lebanon's state-run news agency reported one missile fired from that area toward the Jewish state on Sunday night.
For Kerry and other would-be peacemakers, the confluence of developments only reaffirms the need for a serious peace process to begin.
The Americans have stressed that any talks be carried out in good faith and lead to the full transfer of power to an interim government. Logic, they say, compels that this government not include Assad or other members of his government culpable in widespread abuses.
Getting to the talks hasn't been easy. Kerry is waiting for Syria's Sunni-led opposition coalition to unearth itself from a mountain of internal divisions, from adding new representatives to determining how Islamist or how secular to define their movement.
Opposition leaders met among themselves Monday in Istanbul for the fifth straight day. And while they've grappled for unity, they haven't given a firm yes to the peace strategy outlined by Kerry and Lavrov earlier this month.
McCain spokeswoman Rachel Dean confirmed the Arizona Republican met with rebels in Syria. She declined further comment. McCain has been a leading proponent of arming the rebels and other aggressive military steps against the Assad regime.
Russia has achieved, rhetorically at least, greater success. The Syrian government said Sunday it agreed "in principle" to send delegates to Geneva, strengthening Moscow's hand ahead of any direct ? and potentially proxy ? U.S.-Russian diplomatic negotiations.
With Syria's opposition scrambling politically and militarily, some European countries are looking to change the equation. However, the bloc remained divided Monday on whether to scrap its arms embargo to allow Britain and France to provide the rebels with military aid.
The Obama administration has been mulling a similar step for months. Despite Assad's military advances and evidence that his forces used chemical weapons against the rebels, the Obama administration remains wary about getting too involved.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
EU should be willing to amend arms embargo on Syria: Hague
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Depending on your point of view, U.S. General Keith Alexander is either an Army four-star trying to stave off a cyber Pearl Harbor attack, or an overreaching spy chief who wants to eavesdrop on the private emails of every American. Alexander, 61, has headed the National Security Agency since 2005, making him the longest-serving chief in the history of an intelligence unit so secretive that it was dubbed "No Such Agency." Alexander also runs U.S. ...
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California Faces Huge Budget Surplus (Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)
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