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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If history is a guide, Democrat Barack Obama will have a tough time in the first presidential debate on Wednesday, Republican Mitt Romney will be particularly aggressive, and both will risk committing a damaging gaffe if they wander off their talking points. The 90-minute showdown in Denver - the first of three televised Obama-Romney encounters in October that will set the tone for the final month of the presidential campaign - will feature two experienced and competent debaters who are at their best in scripted settings. ...
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Canada Celebrates 50 Years in Space | National | Canada | Epoch ...
Alouette satellite paved way, next-generation Canadarm prototypes unveiled
Created: September 27, 2012 Last Updated: September 28, 2012
The Canadian space program marks its beginning in 1962 with the launch of the Alouette-1 research satellite. With this mission, Canada became the third country in space and the third country to design and build its own satellite, after Russia and the United States. Alouette-1, designed to study the ionosphere for a year, continued to transmit data for 10 years. (Communications Research Centre Canada)
Canadians will celebrate a major milestone in space this Saturday as they mark 50 years since the launch of Alouette-1 on Sept. 29, 1962, one of the most successful scientific satellites ever deployed.
With this historic mission, Canada entered into the space age and became the third nation, after Russia and the U.S., to have entirely designed, built, and operated a device in space. It also launched a new era of international scientific cooperation.
Canada?s rich history in space began with Alouette-1, and this legacy paved the way for Canadian innovation in space, such as the iconic Canadarm.
?Industry Minister Christian Paradis
?This was the beginning of a proud space legacy for Canada?it opened the door for outstanding international partnerships that continue to this day,? said Steve MacLean, president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), in a news release.
The small science satellite was designed to study the Earth?s ionosphere, a layer of ionized gas in the upper atmosphere, from above.
\>");Developed by a team led by John Chapman at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) in Ottawa, Alouette-1 was launched by NASA from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Some of the equipment used on the spacecraft, including semiconductors, deployable antennas, and solar cells, later became standard technologies in space systems.
?Canada?s rich history in space began with Alouette-1, and this legacy paved the way for Canadian innovation in space, such as the iconic Canadarm,? said Industry Minister Christian Paradis in the release.
Paradis highlighted that Earth observation, space robotics, space science and exploration, and satellite communications are among the Canadian space sector?s niche areas of expertise today.
Alouette Success Remarkable
Before the age of satellites, besides landlines and underwater cables, the main method of long-distance communications was based on high frequency radio, where radio waves in this shortwave band of frequencies are reflected back to Earth by the ionosphere.
This wireless communication was not very reliable due to irregularities in the ionosphere, especially at northern latitudes.
The success of Alouette-1 was all the more remarkable in that a new art had to be established in space electronics and space mechanics.
?Colin Franklin, former Chief Electrical Engineer for Alouette
Alouette-1 presented a new and powerful way of using satellite-borne radar to explore the topside of the ionosphere not observable from Earth, and ultimately to provide ionospheric data needed to improve this type of radio communication.
Designed for a lifetime of one year, Alouette-1 actually operated for 10 years, producing more than 1 million ionograms. In 1993, it was designated an International Milestone of Electrical Engineering by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
?The success of Alouette-1 was all the more remarkable in that a new art had to be established in space electronics and space mechanics,? Colin Franklin, former Chief Electrical Engineer for Alouette at DRTE, said in the release.
?The program was undertaken at a time when there were few guidelines to satellite design, little was known of the in-orbit environment, semiconductor electronics was in its infancy, and satellites frequently failed or had limited lifetimes.?
New Space Robotics
Canada will launch the CASSIOPE satellite in 2013 to further study the ionosphere and the space weather that occurs there, which impact satellites in orbit as well as power lines, pipelines, and communication and navigation systems on Earth.
On Thursday Canada also unveiled prototypes of the Next-Generation Canadarm (NGC) at the MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates? facilities in Brampton, Ont.
The NGC consists of two robotic arm prototypes, two test facilities to simulate bringing a pair of spacecrafts together for docking or close-contact operation, and a mission control station to allow remote operation of the NGC systems.
?Space robotics will be required for a variety of missions, from rovers that act as robotic planetary explorers to robots that will repair and refuel satellites and space telescopes,? said Gilles Leclerc, Director General of Space Exploration at CSA, in a news release.
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Evolutionary psychologists study the purpose of punishment and reputation
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? For two decades, evolutionary scientists have been locked in a debate over the evolved functions of three distinctive human behaviors: the great readiness we show for cooperating with new people, the strong interest we have in tracking others' reputations regarding how well they treat others, and the occasional interest we have in punishing people for selfishly mistreating others.
In an article published September 27 in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology report new findings that may help settle the debate and provide answers to the behavioral puzzle.
As they go about their daily lives, people usually don't know the names of the people they encounter and -- in cities, at least -- typically expect never to see them again, noted Max M. Krasnow, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at UCSB and the paper's lead author. Despite the fact that these encounters are brief, anonymous, and unlikely to be repeated, however, people often behave as if they are interested in the ongoing well-being and behavior of the strangers they meet.
"Imagine that, while grocery shopping, you see someone help a wheelchair-bound person he or she doesn't know get her bags across the parking lot to her car. For many people, witnessing the action would elicit feelings of kindness toward the helper," Krasnow explained. "Equally, if people see someone driven off the road by a reckless driver, they might become angry enough to pursue and even confront the driver. Evolutionary scientists are interested in why humans have impulses to help the kind stranger or to punish the callous one. At first glance, these sometimes costly impulses seem like they would subtract from the welfare of the individual who exhibited them, and so should be evolutionarily disfavored."
Other contributors to the paper include Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, professors of psychology and anthropology, respectively, and co-directors of UCSB's Center for Evolutionary Psychology; and Eric J. Pedersen, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Miami.
Scientists have struggled for decades to explain these behaviors in evolutionary terms, with two alternative theories gaining prominence. The first proposes that these social inclinations emerged because our ancestors lived in small populations, where every encounter -- even one with a stranger -- had a chance to develop into an ongoing relationship that yielded mutual gains from cooperation. In such a world, paying attention to how those around you treat others could help zero in on the partners most likely to cooperate with you. In addition, letting it be known that you wouldn't allow yourself to be treated poorly would increase the likelihood that you'd be treated well.
The second theory suggests that these behaviors emerged because our ancestors lived in groups that often fought with other groups -- interactions where groups with high levels of internal cooperation would have the advantage over groups in which the members were divisive and exploitative of each other. This theory proposes that these other-oriented social inclinations were designed to cultivate a group-wide culture of cooperation.
"The reason why the debate has dragged on so long is that previous studies unfortunately focused on situations where the two theories made very similar predictions," said Tooby. "We wanted to design studies involving situations where the theories made sharply contrasting predictions, so the results would falsify one theory or the other."
In the studies reported in this paper, over 200 participants were tested in a series of structured social interactions designed to capture the essence of real-world situations like the supermarket mentioned above. "We wanted to know exactly what kinds of information people actually use in deciding who to trust -- that is, who to cooperate with, and who to avoid," said Krasnow. "If our minds are designed to seek out the benefits of cooperative relationships with others, then participants should have preferred to trust those likely to cooperate with them in particular. On the other hand, if our reputational psychology is designed to support group-wide cohesion and cooperation, the participants should have resisted cooperating with those who defected on other group members."
The findings supported the individual cooperation account, not the group cooperation account. "Participants ceased responding to information about whether their partners cheated others when they had good information that their partners would not cheat them," Tooby emphasized.
The researchers were also interested in testing the diverging predictions about what situations should trigger the inclination to punish cheating. "We all recognize that punishing others is costly and unpleasant," said Cosmides. "So what benefits led it to evolve?"
The authors reasoned that tracking the triggers of punishment should illuminate which benefits favored its evolution. "If the impulse to punish evolved as a bargaining tool to defend the individual by deterring against future instances of being cheated, then participants should be inclined to punish others' defections when they themselves would be vulnerable to being cheated by that person in the future," said Kasnow. "On the other hand, if our punitive psychology is designed to defend the group against cheating, then participants should have punished those who mistreated others, regardless of their own personal exposure to continuing mistreatment by that person."
The researchers found that participants strongly conditioned their punishment of their partners' cheating on their own vulnerability to continued bad treatment from their partner. As Krasnow pointed out, people in these experiments systematically avoided expending effort to reform those who only posed a risk to others. Cosmides noted, "It's very hard to reconcile these findings with the group cooperation theory."
These results have significant implications for the science of cooperation. "The current research findings suggest that the human readiness to cooperate, our selectivity in who we cooperate with, and our tendency to respond negatively when we are cheated form an efficient package to forge and maintain strongly cooperative relationships," said Krasnow. "The human tendencies to care about how a person treats others and to protest bad treatment are not simply a thin veneer of cultural norms atop a cold and calculating core. Rather, they represent fundamental features of a universal human social nature."
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Risk markers for erectile dysfunction following radiation treatment in prostate cancer
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? In the first study of its kind, a research team led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University discovered 12 genetic markers associated with the development of erectile dysfunction (ED) in prostate cancer patients who were treated with radiation.
The findings, to be published online Sept. 27, 2012, in advance of the October 1, 2012 print issue in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology? Biology? Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, are an important step towards helping clinicians determine the best course of treatment for prostate cancer patients and may lead to the development of therapies that alleviate side effects.
The main treatments for prostate cancer -- surgery, brachytherapy (seed implants) and external beam radiation therapy -- are all very effective at curing prostate cancer. Unfortunately, each treatment places patients at risk for ED. According to the National Cancer Institute, the prevalence of erectile dysfunction following external beam radiation for prostate cancer ranges from 65 percent to 85 percent. The Prostate Cancer Foundation estimates prevalence of ED following seed therapy at 25 to 50 percent. Many men will be able to regain their potency with time and treatments, but doctors would like to identify which men may be more likely to develop this side effect.
In the first large scale Genome-Wide Association Study to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with susceptibility for the development of erectile dysfunction following radiotherapy for prostate cancer, researchers conducted a two-part study, first, to discover the candidate genetic markers of side effect risk, and second, to confirm which of those markers are replicated in a second group of patients. In the first group of prostate cancer patients, which included 132 men who developed erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy and 103 men similarly treated who did not develop erectile dysfunction, they found a set of genetic markers associated with erectile dysfunction. In the second part of the study, which examined 128 patients who developed erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy and 102 who did not, researchers confirmed that 12 SNPs were associated with erectile dysfunction.
"Thankfully, current treatments for prostate cancer offer excellent rates of long-term survival, so patients and their physicians have a choice about which treatment path to take," said Barry Rosenstein, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "However, the risk of developing erectile dysfunction after radiation treatment is highly variable, suggesting there may be a genetic component to determining that risk. Our study confirms that specific markers make certain patients more susceptible to this side effect."
Patients in the study cohort were given one of three treatments: internal radiotherapy, known as brachytherapy; brachytherapy plus external beam radiation; or external beam radiation alone. They were followed for an average length of nearly four years to determine level of sexual function after treatment.
Interestingly, the 12 SNPs identified in this study were located near genes that seem to be related to erectile function rather than related to radiation response. The researchers conclude that these SNPs may affect genes that sensitize a patient to developing erectile dysfunction when exposed to radiation during therapy.
"Prostate cancer screening and treatment are undergoing major shifts," said Harry Ostrer, MD, Professor of Pathology and Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of Genetic and Genomic Testing at Montefiore Medical Center and co-principal investigator of the study. "This is part of our ongoing effort to identify men at highest risk for disease, identify the aggressive tumors that would be responsive to therapy, and to improve quality of life for men with indolent prostate cancers who might benefit from active surveillance, rather than therapy."
The authors indicate that examination of a large, independent cohort of similarly treated patients will be necessary to definitively determine which SNPs to include as part of a clinically useful predictive test to identify which men are at greatest risk for developing erectile dysfunction following prostate cancer radiotherapy. The researchers are also evaluating the impact of radiation treatment on urinary complications and proctitis, the inflammation of the rectum.
This study was supported by the American Cancer Society, United States Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health.
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Assange: Obama exploiting Arab Spring in campaign
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of seeking to exploit the Arab uprisings for personal political gain, as he addressed a sideline meeting of the U.N. General Assembly via videolink from his hideout at a London embassy.
The Australian activist has sheltered inside Ecuador's embassy in London ? beyond the reach of British police ? since June 19, when he sought refuge after he exhausted all legal routes to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations.
Assange and his supporters claim that the Swedish sex case is part of a Washington-orchestrated plot to make him stand trial in the United States over his work with WikiLeaks, which has published thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and other documents. Both Sweden and the U.S. reject that claim.
At a sideline meeting organized by Ecuador, the activist attempted to draw parallels between himself and the instigators of the Arab Spring ? claiming that they had all been let down by Obama.
"It must come as a surprise to Tunisians for Barack Obama to say the U.S. supported the forces of change in Tunisia," Assange said, speaking from Ecuador's tiny apartment-sized London mission.
He claimed that uprisings across the Arab world had been inspired, in part, by his organization's disclosures about despotic rulers, including Tunisia's deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Assange claimed that Obama ? whose administration he accuses of building a criminal case against WikiLeaks and of harassing its staff ? was seeking to exploit the reforms of the Arab Spring during his reelection campaign.
"Mohamed Bouazizi did not set himself on fire so that Barack Obama could get reelected," Assange told the meeting, referring to the 2011 self-immolation by a Tunisian fruit vendor which sparked the uprising that toppled Ben Ali.
Assange, who made no reference to the Swedish sexual misconduct case as he addressed diplomats, also accused Britain and Sweden of failing to provide guarantees that he would not face extradition to the U.S. to help preserve close military and intelligence links with Washington.
Both European nations insist that Assange must be sent to Sweden under international and European law, and that they cannot legally offer any pledges to refuse a possible future U.S. extradition request.
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has granted Assange asylum, but if he steps outside the country's London embassy he will be arrested by police who surround the building.
The case has left Britain, Ecuador and Sweden at a diplomatic impasse. Foreign ministers from Quito and London will meet Thursday in New York, as Assange marks 100 days holed up in the embassy.
Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino told the meeting that he believed there were "many ways to achieve a solution," without specifying potential routes. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday that he saw "no sign of any break through" in the saga.
Britain's foreign ministry said it was "committed to seeking a diplomatic solution" with Ecuador, but insisted that it was legally obliged to send Assange to Sweden.
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Obama touts 'economic patriotism' in 2-minute ad
President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters after speaking at a campaign event at The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters after speaking at a campaign event at The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters after a speech at The Seagate Center in Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, during a campaign stop. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski)
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at The Seagate Center in Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2012, during a campaign stop. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski)
President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is pitching a broad economic argument to voters before next week's debate with Republican opponent Mitt Romney, buying TV time in seven battleground states to promote a "new economic patriotism."
In a two-minute ad, Obama looks into the camera as he promotes an economic plan he says will create 1 million manufacturing jobs, cut oil imports and hire thousands of new teachers.
The ad set to air in New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and Colorado comes as both men shadow each other while looking for votes in a closely contested race. It was not running in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, underscoring the states where the president's campaign contends the election is truly being fought.
On Thursday, the two candidates are scheduled to campaign in the same state for the third straight day, this time in Virginia, a critical battleground in the Nov. 6 election. Romney is to appear in suburban Washington for a veterans' event, while Obama speaks in Virginia Beach.
The simultaneous visits follow an all-day duel Wednesday in Ohio, where Romney declared he can do more than Obama to improve the lives of average people. Obama scoffed that a challenger who calls half the nation "victims" was unlikely to be of much help.
Amid the hunt for working-class voters, Romney released a new ad Thursday aimed at coal miners. It included video of Obama as a candidate in 2008 saying he would support laws to force emitters of greenhouse gases to buy allowances at auction. "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them," Obama says in the ad.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul responded to Obama's two-minute ad by arguing that the GOP nominee can deliver a recovery, while Obama has mishandled the economy during his four years in office. "In the time it takes his latest ad to run, our national debt grows by at least another $5 million," Saul said in a statement.
Saul cited the Commerce Department's announcement Thursday of sluggish economic growth in the last quarter as evidence of Obama's economic failings. The growth rate was lowered from a previous estimate of 1.7 percent to 1.3 percent for the April-June quarter because of the severe drought that reduced farm production in the Midwest.
Meanwhile, new Republican-leaning independent groups have entered the presidential advertising fray as polling suggests Romney's campaign may be losing ground against Obama in key states such as Ohio and Florida.
The commercials, aimed at voters who supported Obama in 2008 but are now undecided, join those from the campaigns and outside groups swamping a narrow and possibly shrinking map of competitive states in the fast-moving presidential contest. Americans for Job Security launched an $8.7 million ad buy in six battleground states, while the Ending Spending Action Fund, a new conservative group bankrolled by billionaire Joe Ricketts, was set to debut a $10 million, four-state ad campaign on Thursday.
Polls show Obama widening his lead in several key states amid backlash from a leaked video in which Romney disparages the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income tax as government-dependent Obama supporters who see themselves as victims and won't take responsibility for their own lives.
Obama's campaign was reveling in the latest public polling but trying to crush any sense of overconfidence. "If we need to pass out horse blinders to all of our staff, we will do that," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.
Romney went after working-class voters at three stops in Ohio, while Obama rallied college crowds at Bowling Green and Kent State. Early voting in Ohio begins next week.
"If President Obama were to be re-elected, what you'd see is four more years like the last four years, and we can't afford another four more years like the last four years," Romney told a boisterous crowd in Toledo at his final stop on Wednesday.
Romney said the country had lost more than half a million manufacturing jobs in the past four years. "This is not the path we want for America," he said.
Romney's campaign has been reeling from his caught-on-video comments at a Florida fundraiser last May. New opinion polls, conducted after the video became public last week, show Obama opening up apparent leads in battleground states, including Ohio and Virginia.
Romney told ABC News that the race was in a statistical tie in some national polls.
"I'm very pleased with some polls, less so with other polls, but frankly at this early stage, polls go up, polls go down," he said.
Obama was not about to let the video comments fade away. He said Wednesday that "America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together, as one nation, as one people."
He added, "You can't make it happen if you write off half the nation before you take office."
Obama supporters also are working to keep Romney's "47 percent" comments alive. Democratic super PAC Priorities USA Action and a political group tied to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees released a radio ad in Ohio and Virginia airing the remarks. The ad, part of a $1.25 million radio buy, tells listeners Romney's "just not looking out for us."
Obama flubbed a line at Kent State while building to his argument for keeping jobs in the United States. He mistakenly said, "I want to see us export more jobs." He quickly corrected himself, saying he meant to say "export more products."
"Excuse me," Obama said. "I was a channeling my opponent there for a second."
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Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt and Steve Peoples in Ohio, Beth Fouhy in New York and Ben Feller and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.
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Angered by the release of a video critical of Muhammad, a mob ransacked and burned down a Lutheran church and other church property in Mardan, a city in northern Pakistan.
President Asif Ali Zardari decried the attack as ?unfortunate and reprehensible? as well as against Muslim teaching.
?The divine books in the church have also been burnt down while the church has totally been ransacked and in a shambles,? said the church?s vice president. ?We are Pakistanis first and then Christians, so we would condemn any such act which would be against Islam or any other religion and would expect the same treatment from our Muslim brothers as well.?
?We are peaceful and hold Muslim and their religious faith in high esteem and condemn the individual act which had become a source of embarrassment and outrage for the Muslims across the world, but we also need protection and respect from them,? he added.
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HP Blogs - The Business Value of Cloud: Improve productivity - The ...
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A number of years ago, HP had transformed its IT environment and achieved great success in doing so. That?s when HP realized there was a large IT base that had been left untouched?in other words, all the computers under the desks of the engineers. Indeed, our R&D engineers used a variety of tools during the development of new products, hardware and software alike. They kept rebuilding those systems so they provided them with the right tools at every step in the development process. And most engineers, not trusting anybody, had the systems literally under their desk.
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HP Product Development & Engineering IT Transformation
A painful transformation started. How would we get those systems away from under the engineers? desk in a datacenter where they could properly be managed? In the mind of the project team this would have several benefits:
- Standardize the toolset used by the engineers
- Focus the engineers on what they do best, development of new products, and relieve them from system management and configuration tasks
- Ensure security, back-up and disaster recovery, so information and intellectual property would be better protected
That stated, the engineers would start doing things in a standardized way. But how do you achieve that with people whose creativity you want to stimulate? You ask them to be as creative as possible in the design of their product, while you streamline them to use standard processes. It?s an oxymoron. Transforming the engineering environment requires careful change management. You must constantly demonstrate the added value to engineers of handing in their servers and software which requires depending on a central team to deliver what they need. The interesting part is the savings HP has experienced from doing this transformation. Actually, if you are interested in understanding more about this transformation you may want to read ?Transforming product design and engineering to save time and money in the electronics industry.?
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Researching for this blog entry, I ran into a post from my friend Gareth Evans dated from 2009, but in which he describes the benefits HP got from this exercise. HP?s PD&E IT transformation freed up 10-20 percent of engineering resources to go back to performing core productive work that adds up to potentially more successful, higher quality offerings consistently delivered at ever deceasing cost points and competitive time-to-market. The environment can also be kept current in a systematic and organized way going forward. So in a nutshell following benefits can be achieved:
- 10-20 percent more engineering productivity resulting in better products delivered with shorter time-to-market
- Better utilization of the R&D IT environment
- Better management of tools licenses, which can result in the need for less licenses
- Standardization of tools used (improves compatibility between projects and potentially component re-use)
- Increased protection of intellectual property
The question is obviously how these benefits are expressed in monetary terms and whether they can help you justify the migration to cloud. The Engineering IT transformation will not just give you the benefits I discuss above, but will also make you more agile, which in turn brings its own benefits with it.
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Software Development
What is true for PD&E is also true for software development. Mostly software development is done in an artisanal way. As we discussed, the increasing importance of digitization in general and the associated software development in particular, standardizing and optimizing the way software is built is critical. One way to address this is to migrate to PaaS environments, and we see many start-ups actually doing just that. They jumped from the traditional approach to public cloud based PaaS environments all together.
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Larger enterprises may not be ready for that. However, streamlining software development, standardizing the processes and improving the use of the development platforms are critical for enterprises to invest their money wisely and improve their agility. Four components are key to achieve this objective:
- A well-established project governance supported by tools allowing a thorough visibility of the requirements, progress and budget constraints. To achieve this, we use a tool called Project and Portfolio Management
- An environment in which you can manage and track every step in the development process, regardless of the platform you use (as larger projects will most probably combine multiple development platforms). That environment will gather information on the product through the different development steps. We call that Application LifeCycle Management.
- A cloud environment allowing your development engineers to quickly get access to the appropriate infrastructure and tools required at each step of the development. I?ll come back to this in a minute.
- Closer integration between development and operations to ensure a seamless production start-up. As I described in an earlier blog entry, we should learn from design for manufacturability and involve operations people throughout the development process to ensure compatibility between the application being developed and the environment on which it will run.
Let me come back to what we call the ?dev/test? cloud. During the different steps in the development process, multiple environments are required and the amount of compute power needed will vary drastically. So the question really is whether we use the public cloud for all development steps or whether we do some things internally while using public cloud for others. Dev/Test is truly a converged cloud use case.
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Stress testing an environment with anonymized data is definitely something we?ll do in a public cloud, but it will be interesting to see how public cloud-based PaaS environments will be adopted by developers of larger enterprises. Ideally what you would like is to be able to develop your application completely in the public cloud and then be able to take it back in-house without having to adapt it for a different cloud environment. Here again the concepts of converged cloud apply.
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Conclusion
Whether it is engineering or software development, centralizing the development resources (hardware, software) and making them easy to provision, frees engineers up and allows them to spend more time on developing the product or software. This is value to the bottom line as it allows projects to run faster and smoother, delivering results earlier and improving agility.
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But there are side effects. Standardizing the processes and documentation makes re-use of components easier, centralized management of tool licenses reduces cost while facilitating compliance and central back-up/recovery of information protects key assets of the enterprise. The real question is how the last three elements are represented as financial benefits, facilitating the ROI calculation of cloud investments.
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So, how much time do your users spend setting up IT environments, trying to get access to them, finding the right connections etc.? How much are your users spending time and effort finding the appropriate ?shadow-IT? tool because IT does not deliver them what they are looking for? Ask yourselves those questions, think about how cloud computing could help and use the results of your investigations to justify your move to cloud.
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In birds' development, researchers find diversity by the peck
ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) ? It has long been known that diversity of form and function in birds' specialized beaks is abundant. Charles Darwin famously studied the finches on the Galapagos Islands, tying the morphology (shape) of various species' beaks to the types of seeds they ate. In 2010, a team of Harvard biologists and applied mathematicians showed that Darwin's finches all actually shared the same developmental pathways, using the same gene products, controlling just size and curvature, to create 14 very different beaks.
Now, expanding that work to a less closely related group of birds, the Caribbean bullfinches, that same team at Harvard has uncovered something exciting -- namely, that the molecular signals that produce those beak shapes show even more variation than is apparent on the surface. Not only can two very different beaks share the same developmental pathway, as in Darwin's finches, but two very different developmental pathways can produce exactly the same shaped beak.
"Most people assume that there's this flow of information from genes for development to an inevitable morphology," says principal investigator Arhat Abzhanov, Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB). "Those beaks are very highly adaptive in their shapes and sizes, and extremely important for these birds. In Darwin's finches, even one millimeter of difference in proportion or size can mean life or death during difficult times. But can we look at it from a bioengineering perspective and say that in order to generate the exact same morphological shape, you actually require the same developmental process to build it? Our latest research suggests not."
The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Caribbean bullfinches, geographic and genetic neighbors to Darwin's finches, are a group of three similar-looking species that represent two different branches of the evolutionary tree. These bullfinches have very strong bills that are all exactly the same geometric shape but slightly different sizes.
"They specialize in seeds that no one else can touch," explains Abzhanov. "You'd actually need a pair of pliers to crack these seeds yourself; it takes 300 to 400 Newtons of force, so that's a really nice niche if you can do that. But the question is, what developmental changes must have occurred to produce a specialized beak like that?"
A new and highly rigorous genomic analysis by coauthor Kevin J. Burns, a biologist at San Diego State University, has shown that among the three Caribbean bullfinch species, this crushing type of beak actually evolved twice, independently. Convergent evolution like this is common in nature, and very familiar to biologists. But understanding that phylogeny enabled Abzhanov, lead author Ricardo Mallarino (a former Ph.D. student in OEB at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and colleagues in applied mathematics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) to perform a series of mathematical and morphogenetic studies showing that the birds form those identical beaks in completely different ways. Such studies must, by their nature, be performed early in the embryonic stage of the birds' development, when the shape and tissue structure of the beak is determined by the interactions of various genes and proteins.
"In the small bullfinch you have almost a two-stage rocket system," says Abzhanov. "Cartilage takes you halfway, and then bone kicks in and delivers the beak to the right shape. Without either stage, you'll fail. In the larger bullfinches, the cartilage is not even employed, so it's like a single-stage rocket, but it's got this high-energy, synergistic interaction between two molecules that just takes the bone and drives its development straight to the right shape."
In embryos of the small bullfinch, Loxigilla noctis, the control genes used are Bmp4 and CaM, followed by TGF?IIr, ?-catenin, and Dkk3, the same combination used in Darwin's finches. Embryos of the larger bullfinches, L. violacea and L. portoricensis, use a novel combination of just Bmp4 and Ihh.
"Importantly," Abzhanov says, "despite the fact that these birds are using different systems, they end up with the same shape beak, and a different shape beak from Darwin's finches. So that reveals a surprising amount of flexibility in both the shapes and the molecular interactions that support them."
The finding offers new insight into the ways birds -- the largest and most diverse group of land vertebrates -- have managed to adaptively fill so many different ecological niches.
"It is possible that even if the beak shape doesn't change over time, the program that builds it does," explains Abzhanov. "For evolution, the main thing that matters for selection is what the beak actually looks like at the end, or specifically what it can do. The multiple ways to build that beak can be continually changing, provided they deliver the same results. That flexibility by itself could be a good vehicle for eventually developing novel shapes, because the developmental program is not frozen."
Following a standard process in studies of developmental biology, Abzhanov's team began with measurements of the morphological differences between species, followed by observations of gene expression in bullfinch embryos and functional experiments using chicken embryos. Along the way, mathematical models helped the team to quantify and categorize the beak shapes they were seeing.
"We used geometric morphometric analysis, looking at these beaks as curves," says coauthor Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at SEAS and Harvard College Professor. "The beak shapes would turn into contours, contours were digitized into curvatures, and curvatures were turned into representative mathematical formulas. This provided our biology colleagues with an unbiased way of determining which of the different species had beak shapes that were identical up to scaling transformations, and which were in a completely different group."
In order to observe gene expression in the developing bullfinch embryos, Mallarino and a team of undergraduate field assistants had to collect eggs from wild nests in the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Puerto Rico. The birds breed in dome-shaped nests with small side entrances, often in the tops of tall cacti. In accordance with strict fieldwork regulations, Mallarino's team collected only every third egg laid, which required them to return to the nests daily, climbing dozens of trees and cacti to carefully label every new egg. Laden with radios, notebooks, markers, heavy ladders, and a special foam crate for the delicate eggs, the team ventured into remote field sites at the crack of dawn and returned to camp before noon to incubate those they collected.
"They're much more fragile than a chicken egg, and extremely small," says Mallarino. "We just walk very carefully."
"It's a big logistical operation," he adds. "It's five months of really, really hard work under the sun in crazy conditions, but when it works it's really rewarding. At day 6 or 7 you have a perfect, live embryo with a beak beginning to form, and you can learn so much about it."
The next step in this work is to widen the lens yet again and compare the morphological development of a broader group of birds.
"In time, hopefully we'll see how the great diversity that you see among all these highly adaptive bird beaks may actually evolve at the genetic level," says Mallarino. "That's the greater challenge."
In addition to Abzhanov, Mallarino, and Brenner, coauthors included Otger Camp?s, a former postdoctoral associate at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); Joerg A. Fritz, a graduate student in applied mathematics at SEAS; and Olivia G. Weeks, a graduate student in organismic and evolutionary biology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
This work was supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health.
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Common-law, lone-parent families on the rise, census finds | The ...
For the first time, Statistics Canada says there are more people living alone in Canada than there are couples with children. One-person households now make up 27.6 per cent of all homes, a three-fold increase since 1961 that is especially notable in Quebec.
Fewer married couples
Despite a growing population overall, the number of married couples declined outright by 132,715 over the past decade.
Lone-parent families and multiple-family households, on the other hand, were on the rise. Single parents increased by 8.0 per cent from 2006, and more of those parents were fathers ? although eight out of 10 lone parents were still mothers.
Same-sex couples were also on a steep incline, up 42.4 per cent from 2006. About half of these couples were married, while the rest were common-law. Still, same-sex couples only made up 0.8 per cent of all couples in 2011.
And for the first time, Statistics Canada zeroed in on children living in untraditional arrangements.
In Canada?s first-ever national count of foster children, the agency revealed that there were 29,590 of them under the age of 14 in 2011, with the highest predominance in Manitoba, where there is a high First Nations population. Overall, 29 per cent of the country?s foster children were younger than 5, and 30 per cent were between 5 and 9 years old.
More than 17,000 households are involved in taking care of foster children, and more than half of those households had taken in at least two kids.
The pure numbers are only a start in figuring out how best to support some of the most vulnerable children in Canada, researchers say. But now that they are armed with better data, social scientists will be better able to determine the needs of foster children.
?For 10 years, I?ve wanted to track this,? said John Dunn, a former foster child who now advocates on their behalf.
What he needs to get a full picture is more data on how much money is flowing into the household ? information that won?t come until next August.
The census-takers also found that about one in 10 children under the age of 14 lived in some sort of stepfamily.
But such families are so complex that Statistics Canada had to include several diagrams with its census documents in order to better explain where those children came from.
The nuclear family is no longer the norm in Canada. The mom-pop-and-three-kids-under-one-roof model that typified Canadian households of 50 years ago has morphed into a complex and diverse web of family ties involving living alone, re-marriage, stepchildren, empty-nesters and multiple generations sharing a home.
Statistics Canada has released the third tranche of new data from its 2011 census, this time portraying the changes in Canadian families and living arrangements over five decades.
Married couples are in a long-term decline, single parenting has risen persistently, and families have gradually shrunk. The average family was 3.9 people in 1961, when the baby boom was in full swing. Now, it?s 2.9.
?We do see more complexity and definitely more diversity in families,? said Statistics Canada demographer Anne Milan.
Living alone: For the first time, Statistics Canada says there are more people living alone in Canada than there are couples with children. One-person households now make up 27.6 per cent of all homes, a three-fold increase since 1961 that is especially notable in Quebec. Meanwhile, couples with children have continued their decline, down to 26.5 per cent of all households, from 28.5 per cent in 2006.
Just 10 years ago, couples with children under 24 years old made up 43.6 per cent of all families (not including one-person households) ? by far the most typical kind of family.? Now, parents with children make up just 39.2 per cent of families, and a rising proportion of those parents are not officially married. The number of common-law couples surged almost 14 per cent between 2006 and 2011.
For the first time in 2011, Statistics Canada also measured the number of stepfamilies in the country, showing that now one in 10 children lives in some sort of reconstituted arrangement.
?The modern family is changing, and I think it?s a wonderful thing,? said Shannon Kennedy, an Ottawa-based wedding planner who finds herself on the front lines of fluctuating living arrangements on a daily basis. ?The rules of a nuclear family just don?t apply any more.?
In 2011, the most typical family was a couple with no children, continuing a pattern spotted in 2006. Statistics Canada found that 44.5 per cent of families have no kids at home, partly reflecting the aging of the baby-boomer bulge, the leading edge of which has started turning 65.
Overall, there were 9.4 million families in Canada in 2011, a 5.5 per cent increase from 2006.
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Don't criminalise teen relationships | Luke Gittos | spiked
The expansion of the UK government?s definition of ?domestic violence?, which was announced by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg last week, was explicitly prompted by concerns regarding teenage relationships. The new definition will lower the age at which a complainant will be considered a victim of domestic violence from 18 to 16. Clegg, speaking at an NSPCC event, said: ?We?re saying to youngsters, even if you are 16 or 17, you can be trapped in that kind of [abusive] relationship, you don?t need to put up with that kind of abuse.?
The announcement follows findings by the British Crime Survey that young people are more likely to suffer ?partner abuse? than any other age group, with 12.7 per cent of women and 6.2 per cent of men aged 16 to 19 having experienced some kind of domestic abuse in the past year.
The setting of Clegg?s announcement was apt, given that abusive teenagers have been on the NSPCC?s mind for some time. In September 2009, the NSPCC published a research report, in association with the University of Bristol, entitled Partner Exploitation and Violence in Teenage Intimate Relationships. The definitions employed in the report were watered down in order to deal with the amorphous nature of teenage relationships. ?Partner? was defined as ?any young person with whom [another young person] had been intimate?. ?Partner emotional violence? included ?being made fun of? and ?constantly being checked up on by your partner?. Unsurprisingly, three quarters of girls and half of all boys indicated that they had suffered such ?partner violence? in the course of their relationships. The report went on to note that ?the level of coercive control in young people?s relationships was highly worrying. Girls were most often affected, experiencing high levels of control over where they could go, who they could see or what they could do. Often girls were under constant surveillance through the use of online technologies, mobile telephones and text messaging. Control often resulted in isolation from peer networks.?
While the NSPCC was busy rebranding young people as sadistic stalkers, the Home Office has also been fretting about teenage domestic violence. In 2009 it set up a campaign website with the charming title, ?This is Abuse?. The principal aim of the website appears to be to make young people think of themselves as abused or abusive, in order that they seek help from the local school counsellor. The website included a section called ?Am I abusive??, with a link to allow young people to email a board of counsellors for help in controlling their behaviour. The counsellors could be very busy given that it suggests that common behaviour like ?getting angry or jealous when (your partner wants) to spend time with their friends? could amount to abuse.
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More worryingly, the website purports to help young people identify when they have been raped by offering completely inaccurate definitions of what rape is. The front page of the site reads: ?Anyone who has been pressured to have sex without giving their consent has been raped.? Of course this is not true; for someone to have been raped, their attacker would have to have known or shown reckless disregard as to whether the putative victim had consented. Providing these loose and lazy definitions is more likely to confuse and demonise young people than offer meaningful guidance.
This incessant drive to interfere in teenage relationships is perverse and destructive. It shouldn?t be news to anyone who has been a teenager that the awkward months of fumbling screw-ups that the government wants to rebrand as ?abusive relationships? are often extremely messy. They are the process through which young people find out for themselves what constitutes legitimate behaviour and what doesn?t. This inevitably involves both young men and women getting it wrong and acting like bunny-boiling psychopaths. It may even lead to sexual encounters in which both parties are unsure what really happened: who consented when, whether one person overstepped the mark, and whether both parties remained entirely comfortable throughout. This does not, and should not, mean that these encounters should be treated like incidents of rape or sexual violence. There is a significant difference between the perfectly normal ambiguities that permeate teenage relationships and the appalling violations involved in criminal sexual violence.
However, the most telling aspect of the discussion around teenage domestic violence is its blind conflation of teenage and adult relationships. It is telling that the Home Office can justify its policies on the basis that ?the nature of teenage relationships is often similar to relationships between adults?. This is illustrative of an officialdom which has lost any sense of what distinguishes young people from adults. The same trend has driven down the age of criminal responsibility to 10. And it has allowed the United Kingdom to be one of the only countries in Europe which tries teenagers as if they were adults. It is striking that those organisations which usually campaign against the overt criminalisation of young people, such as Kids Company headed up by the normally vocal Camila Batmanghelidjh, have been eerily silent following last week?s announcement of plans to expand the definition of domestic violence. That is despite the fact that it is likely to lead to many more young people being put before the courts when all they really need is guidance from authoritative adults.
The official expansion of the definition of ?domestic violence? to include teenagers is simply another attempt to denigrate the old dividing lines between young and old. We, outside the walls of Westminster and the offices of the NSPCC, should recognise that, in their awkward and bungled nature, teenage relationships are fundamentally different to those involving adults. They are part of an imperfect learning curve towards sexual maturity. Teenagers cannot be ?domestic abusers?. They can be confused, controlling and even aggressive, but it is vital to acknowledge that they lack the level of judgment attributable to adults. Of course, occasionally the weird world of teen love will require adult intervention, but almost always this should take the form of authoritative adult guidance. The more we delegate the task of leading young people into adulthood to the state, the less young people will be impelled to work their issues out for themselves. And, with that, the worth and purpose of teenage heartache and regret will be lost.
Luke Gittos is a paralegal working in criminal law and convenor of the London Legal Salon.
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Fort Campbell, KY ? Calling all billiards enthusiasts at Fort Campbell! The Zone will host pool tournaments on select Saturdays at 12:00pm this fall. Dates are October 6th, October 20th, November 3rd and November 17th.
Interested players must be 18 or older and sign up at 11:00am during the day of the event. The entry fee is only $10.00. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. The first place winner will receive 60 percent of the money collected, the second place winner will receive 20 percent of the money collected and third place will win a 101st Airborne Division commemorative pool cue.
Thank you to our sponsors for making this program possible:? USAA, University of Phoenix, and Fort Campbell Federal Credit Union.The Zone opens daily at 11:00am, closes at 11:00pm. Sunday through Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday. The Zone, located at 3910 Indiana Avenue, is a high-energy entertainment and recreation facility that includes a state-of-the-art billiards and poolroom area.
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Purchasing a ?bicycle can ?look like an ?effortless enough ?job without any ?drawbacks or ?long term glitches. As ?straightforward a ?method as it may seem to be, buying a ?bicycle is more involving than ?just simply ?heading to hardware or ?bicycle ?stores and ?picking the one you want, ?based on color, ?measurements or design. This ?write-up will ?seek to ?provide a novice ?biker's guide to prospective bike ?purchasers and point out ?important ?factors to ?think of before ?getting one.
Bicycles ?are available in different ?forms, ?styles and ?dimensions and are ?geared up for a variety of ?operations. There are ?various ?kinds of ?bicycle to ?pick from and some of the ?elements to ?think about before ?arriving at a final ?selection on which one to ?purchase include where you will ?use your ?bike, what you will ?utilize the ?bike for, how ?frequent you will ride it and whether you have any ?physical health ?problems, amongst others. These are but a ?handful of pointers to ?take into account. These and ?a lot more ?factors to consider will guide you into what ?kind of ?bicycle to buy. It is ?essential to answer all these ?queries before ?getting your bicycle, as these will ?enlighten your ?judgment on which ?sort of bicycle to ?buy .
?Various ?kinds of ?bikes serve different ?features and ?have different ?functions. The cargo bicycles come ?geared up with a cargo carrier and are more balanced to ?allow you to ?hold cargo as you cycle. The ?mtb or BMX bikes as they are popularly known are more suitable for mountaineering and hiking - they also come in handy for uneven off ?route ?surfaces or for bad ?routes. Their ?style and make can take harsh and ?jagged terrain. ?Convenience ?bikes are ?excellent for your everyday and ?normal cycling either for ?health and fitness or for going to work purposes. They come handy for that ?swift cycling to the ?stores ?to buy ?breadstuff or for an early ?daytime ?physical fitness ?biking exercise. These are just a few ?samples of ?kinds of bicycles to consider.
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Morsi urges Washington to change its policy toward Arabs
Egypt's new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, is urging the United States to change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt.
Morsi will travel to New York on Sunday to take part in a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
"Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred, of the peoples of the region," the president told The New York Times in an interview.
According to the paper, he was referring to US backing of dictatorial governments in the region and Washington's unconditional support for Israel.
The remarks followed days of violent anti-American protests in Cairo sparked by an amateur anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube. During these events Morsi called on demonstrators to show restraint while condemning the film ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed.
Morsi praised US President Barack Obama for moving "decisively and quickly" to support the Arab Spring revolutions, arguing that the United States supported "the right of the people of the region to enjoy the same freedoms that Americans have."
But he also expressed concern about the plight of Palestinians, who still don't have their own state, the paper said.
Americans, he pointed out, "have a special responsibility" for the Palestinians because the United States had signed the 1978 Camp David accord, which called for Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza to allow for full Palestinian self-rule.
"As long as peace and justice are not fulfilled for the Palestinians, then the treaty remains unfulfilled," he said.
According to The Times, Morsi was evasive when asked if he considered the United States an ally.
"That depends on your definition of ally," he said, adding that he considered the two nations "real friends."
The issue was thrust to the forefront of bilateral relations earlier this month, when President Obama suggested that Cairo was neither an ally nor a foe.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland and other top administration officials then tried to distance from Obama's comment by acknowledging that officially Egypt was still "major non-NATO ally."
Egypt was granted such status under US law in 1989, allowing it to enjoy a close relationship with the US military, along with other allies including Australia, Japan, Jordan, Israel and Thailand.
In his interview, Morsi also reaffirmed his links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious organization viewed by many in the United States with suspicion.
"I grew up with the Muslim Brotherhood," the president said. "I learned my principles in the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned how to love my country with the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned politics with the Brotherhood. I was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood."
He also pointed out that the United States should not expect Egypt to live by its rules as the West, underscoring a cultural divide between the two nations.
"If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment," he said. "When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the US. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt."
Morsi initially sought to meet with President Obama at the White House, The Times said, but he received a cool reception, and the idea was dropped.
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