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Burtele foot indicates Lucy not alone
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Discovery of partial foot skeleton could mean hominin species lived side by side
A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and woodlands of what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia some 3.4 million years ago.
Researchers openly have questioned whether Au. afarensis, the species to which the famous fossil "Lucy" belongs, was the only living hominin during the late Pliocene of Africa. Lucy's bones provided evidence that she and perhaps other early hominins may have walked upright, but whether or not she was the sole hominin species in her particular geologic time scale has been the subject of much debate.
"There was indeed more than one early hominin species during that time," said Yohannes Haile-Selassie, head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and lead author of the findings.
Haile-Selassie and a team of anthropologists and geologists report finding the partial skeleton of a foot that belonged to an early human ancestor that was neither Au. afarensis nor another hominin called Kenyanthropus platyops, a creature that some paleoanthropologists argue was a second hominin that lived at the same time as Au. afarensis.
The journal Nature published the finding today. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences partially funded the research.
Descriptions of Kenyanthropus platyops led some scientists to dispute whether only one hominin inhabited Africa's upper regions 3.9 to 2.9 million years ago mainly due to the distorted nature of the specimen used as the basis for the original published description of Kenyanthropus platyops, said Haile-Selassie.
"Tim White, (a member of the research team who began uncovering Lucy in 1973), argued that Kenyanthropus platyops is a Kenyan version of Australopithecus afarensis and that the subtle differences between the two could be subsumed into an intra-specific variation."
In other words, he argued there was no evidence a second hominin roamed the landscape during the time of Au. afarensis. But Haile-Selassie and his team may have found proof of at least two hominin species.
In Woranso-Mille, a relatively new palaeontological site located in the central Afar region of Ethiopia, researchers dug up a 3.4 million year old partial foot skeleton that does not match the contemporaneous Au. afarensis in form or shape.
Moreover, the skeletal remains infer locomotor adaptations more similar to an earlier, 4.4 million year old hominin, Ardipithecus ramidus, that was discovered by a research team led by White in 1992-1993 in the Middle Awash valley in Ethiopia.
"The Burtele foot differs from Australopithecus afarensis largely by possessing an opposable great toe," said Haile-Selassie, noting the Burtele toe is more like that of Ardipithecus ramidus, inferring similar characteristics for walking, running and jumping.
"This partial pedal skeleton is unique in providing important evidence bearing on the functional morphology and proportions of several early hominin foot elements," the researchers write in their article titled, "A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations."
Carolyn Ehardt, program director for Biological Anthropology at NSF, points out that research findings such as this foster appreciation for the complex processes that "shaped the evolutionary history of our species."
"We become increasingly aware of the fact that the evolutionary history of hominins is not unlike that of other groups of organisms in the potential for morphological and behavioral diversity and multiple adaptive pathways characterizing those life-forms during particular evolutionary time periods," she said.
The Burtele foot has some skeletal ratios that fall within the human and gorilla distribution, but outside those of chimpanzees. In addition, the metatarsal of the fourth toe is longer than that of the second toe, a condition seen in some monkeys and Miocene apes.
"Unfortunately this ratio is unknown for both Ardipithecus and Australopithecus," said Haile-Selassie. "But, the finding could indicate the primitive condition for the human family."
The researchers say identifying and naming the species to which the Burtele foot belongs will have to await recovery of more fossils, cranial and dental elements, for example. However, they are sure it does not belong to the species of Lucy, Au. afarensis.
Said Haile-Selassie, "It is probably descended from something like Ardipithecus ramidus."
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Joining Haile-Selassie in this research are Beverly Z. Saylor and Bruce M. Latimer of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Alan Deino of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, California; Naomi E. Levin of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Mulugeta Alene of Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
In addition to NSF, the LSB Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History supported this research.
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Discovery of partial foot skeleton could mean hominin species lived side by side
A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and woodlands of what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia some 3.4 million years ago.
Researchers openly have questioned whether Au. afarensis, the species to which the famous fossil "Lucy" belongs, was the only living hominin during the late Pliocene of Africa. Lucy's bones provided evidence that she and perhaps other early hominins may have walked upright, but whether or not she was the sole hominin species in her particular geologic time scale has been the subject of much debate.
"There was indeed more than one early hominin species during that time," said Yohannes Haile-Selassie, head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and lead author of the findings.
Haile-Selassie and a team of anthropologists and geologists report finding the partial skeleton of a foot that belonged to an early human ancestor that was neither Au. afarensis nor another hominin called Kenyanthropus platyops, a creature that some paleoanthropologists argue was a second hominin that lived at the same time as Au. afarensis.
The journal Nature published the finding today. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences partially funded the research.
Descriptions of Kenyanthropus platyops led some scientists to dispute whether only one hominin inhabited Africa's upper regions 3.9 to 2.9 million years ago mainly due to the distorted nature of the specimen used as the basis for the original published description of Kenyanthropus platyops, said Haile-Selassie.
"Tim White, (a member of the research team who began uncovering Lucy in 1973), argued that Kenyanthropus platyops is a Kenyan version of Australopithecus afarensis and that the subtle differences between the two could be subsumed into an intra-specific variation."
In other words, he argued there was no evidence a second hominin roamed the landscape during the time of Au. afarensis. But Haile-Selassie and his team may have found proof of at least two hominin species.
In Woranso-Mille, a relatively new palaeontological site located in the central Afar region of Ethiopia, researchers dug up a 3.4 million year old partial foot skeleton that does not match the contemporaneous Au. afarensis in form or shape.
Moreover, the skeletal remains infer locomotor adaptations more similar to an earlier, 4.4 million year old hominin, Ardipithecus ramidus, that was discovered by a research team led by White in 1992-1993 in the Middle Awash valley in Ethiopia.
"The Burtele foot differs from Australopithecus afarensis largely by possessing an opposable great toe," said Haile-Selassie, noting the Burtele toe is more like that of Ardipithecus ramidus, inferring similar characteristics for walking, running and jumping.
"This partial pedal skeleton is unique in providing important evidence bearing on the functional morphology and proportions of several early hominin foot elements," the researchers write in their article titled, "A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations."
Carolyn Ehardt, program director for Biological Anthropology at NSF, points out that research findings such as this foster appreciation for the complex processes that "shaped the evolutionary history of our species."
"We become increasingly aware of the fact that the evolutionary history of hominins is not unlike that of other groups of organisms in the potential for morphological and behavioral diversity and multiple adaptive pathways characterizing those life-forms during particular evolutionary time periods," she said.
The Burtele foot has some skeletal ratios that fall within the human and gorilla distribution, but outside those of chimpanzees. In addition, the metatarsal of the fourth toe is longer than that of the second toe, a condition seen in some monkeys and Miocene apes.
"Unfortunately this ratio is unknown for both Ardipithecus and Australopithecus," said Haile-Selassie. "But, the finding could indicate the primitive condition for the human family."
The researchers say identifying and naming the species to which the Burtele foot belongs will have to await recovery of more fossils, cranial and dental elements, for example. However, they are sure it does not belong to the species of Lucy, Au. afarensis.
Said Haile-Selassie, "It is probably descended from something like Ardipithecus ramidus."
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Joining Haile-Selassie in this research are Beverly Z. Saylor and Bruce M. Latimer of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Alan Deino of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, California; Naomi E. Levin of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Mulugeta Alene of Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
In addition to NSF, the LSB Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History supported this research.
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Florence And The Machine 'Unplugged' To Premiere Sunday On MTV
Band's stripped-back set will also be available as a live album available digitally at midnight on April 9.
By James Montgomery
Florence and the Machine
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Back in December, Florence and the Machine stripped things down for a taping of MTV's venerable "Unplugged" series. Not surprisingly, this presented a rather unique set of difficulties for the usually raucous band, though not the kind you'd expect.
"It's such a huge thing, and it was so intimate, and I really enjoy doing things stripped back and having the strings and the choir. It was really wonderful," Florence Welch told MTV News. "But what to say in between? I got so bashful. I was so grateful to be there, and I was trying to express that, and it just went into this weird, stilted speech. It ended up with me trying to talk but not saying any words.... Singing is fine. Talking, not so much."
Then again, we suspect Welch is just being modest. On Sunday, April 8, Florence and the Machine fans will get to witness every intimate moment of the band's "Unplugged" performance and decide for themselves, beginning with the premiere at 11 p.m. ET on MTV and Unplugged.MTV.com. (Machine-heads in Europe, Latin America and Asia can watch at FlorenceandtheMachine.MTV.com.) Then, at midnight on April 9, the Florence and the Machine: MTV Unplugged album will be released via iTunes. The album hits physical retailers on Tuesday, April 10.
"I genuinely hope they don't include my talking," Welch laughed.
Sorry, Flo, but there's going to be a bit of your between-song banter. Of course, there's also going to be no shortage of amazing performances in the 10-song set, including stirring takes on her hits "Dog Days Are Over," "Shake It Out" and "Cosmic Love," plus a pair of covers: "Try a Little Tenderness" and "Jackson" (with guest vocals by Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme).
Judging from that list of songs, you'd think the "Unplugged" taping was a well-rehearsed affair. But as Welch explained, nothing could be further from the truth.
"We kind of winged it. I felt really comfortable; I'm kind of in my element in that environment, when you're able to really play," she said. "The thing I don't enjoy about TV performances is that I have to sing live to a backing track, because most times they can't afford to mic up the whole band, so you have to sing to something that's just going to keep going, with or without you. And performing in a stripped-back sense, with a band that's playing around you? It's so organic and there's so much freedom to it."
Welch's "Unplugged" performance has already earned rave reviews from one very prominent guest: Kanye West, who was front-and-center for the taping and made his approval known from the very get-go.
"He was dancing and really going for it in the front row — it was amazing," Welch said. "At awards shows you can't really see anyone, because there's lights and they're kind of far away, but for this, it was just like Kanye was just there. I covered 'Try a Little Tenderness,' and he'd just sampled that for the Watch the Throne album, so I was like, 'Um, hi ... you kind of got there before me, but I'm going to do this now, and it's kind of for you.' He was smiling the whole way through, and I think he's a total genius, so to have him there was really incredible."
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Online Auto Insurance Reports Ariz. Auto Insurance Bill to Tow ...
A check to let military draw as well as incarcerate cars though word met the slight better in Arizona final week, highlighting the courtesy paid to the emanate by the state as well as the oppressive penalties for pushing though coverage there, according to Online Auto Insurance News.
According to the recover upon Mar 27, estimates from the Insurance Research Council put the series of uninsured drivers in Arizona during twelve percent, which is only next the U.S. normal of 13.8 percent, according to 2009 data.
Under the proposal, the military military officer would have referred to an electronic database which verifies the motorist?s automobile word online as well as been authorised to draw as well as incarcerate the automobile if the process showed up as being canceled or non-renewed. The proposal?s author, Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), pronounced stream law authorised drivers to leave the trade stop in an uninsured car even if military found which they lacked the policy.
A slight 6-7 opinion degraded the bill, SB 1165, during the Mar twenty-two conference in the House Appropriations Committee, with critics observant database errors could lead to towing as well as impounding of trusting drivers. Kavanagh told alternative legislators which the database had the 3- to 4-percent rate of improper car registration numbers, customarily attributed to typing errors when VINs have been inputted. Dissenting lawmakers balked during the probability which the law could unintentionally delude up to 200,000 owners of vehicles with correct policies though improper interpretation in the system.
OAI suggests which Arizona drivers belong to coverage mandate as well as stay off the highway if they do not have the policy, as motorists in the Grand Canyon State compensate high fines for being convicted of pushing uninsured.
A three-month cessation of permit plates as well as registration along with during slightest the $ 500 excellent comes with the initial offense of pushing uninsured. Another offense inside of 3 years doubles the cessation period, as well as the distance of the excellent increases to during slightest $ 750. A third offense raises the smallest excellent to $ 1,000 with the year-long cessation of permit plates as well as registration.
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Global Indirect Tax Management: Conditions for Success ? Tax ...
By?Richard Cornelisse
This blog dots all the posting to the building blocks of the?Indirect Tax Strategic Plan?and shows what a best practice should look like. It not only about the plan to be produced, but also gives my view about implementation. That could mean that some bottlenecks have to be conquered first.
I start with the ?Company?s Culture and Code of Conduct? as it is a top down approach.
This blog includes the highlights of the various postings tagged to these building blocks. More detail about how I see things can be read via clicking on the links.
Company?s Culture and Code of Conduct
Leadership, Integrity, Trust?and Ski-Racing:??Without integrity, an organization is eventually doomed to failure?karma?
Greg Smith: ?Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs: ??I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it ??
Maureen Broderick:??In a profession that sells a promise of performance versus a tangible product or service, a firm?s vision, values, and culture lie at the heart of that promise. Vision is where the firm is headed. Values are the behaviors the firm holds important, and culture is the feel, the energy, the society within the organization. Collectively, they form the core around which the business is built.?
From??Business Integrity and ?Being Inspired??(by Richard Cornelisse):?If integrity is an important part of your organizations values, you should always act accordingly and proactively manage as leadership. It is always about doing the right thing and never bargain these values.
From??The Conflict Between ?Actual to Budget? Controls and ?Budget-based Compensation Targets???(by Richard Cornelisse):
?A Ferrari is a beautiful, very fast and a state of the?art car, but we should not put Stevie Wonder in the driver seat. He is?an excellent song writer and performer but he never ever will be the next?Michael Schumacher. It will be risky business if he controls the throttle?
The above might be considered a ridiculous example, but strangely enough happens often in our daily practice. The downturn might?even?make it worse. Why??It is because of budget-based incentive targets.
Everybody feels now the pressure and the focus is on making personal budget first. We might know the best driver, understand that he is the best option, but that does not mean we want Michael actually in the driver seat. It does not matter if Michael works for the same company or that it is in the best interest of the client. Stevie, wants to make his own comfort zone?first. It is in his personal interest.
- Should we be surprised?
- Is this not part of our human nature?
- Is that not the reason we have our company culture?
Exactly, the reason why proactive management of?common?values?is needed.
Business Strategy
The Tax Function has to contribute value to the company?s business strategy. What is the impact on business strategy of?social media and technology developments and the market entry of non traditional competitors. ? Are new business priorities needed?
From??About Market Leadership and non Traditional Competitors??(by Richard Cornelisse):?The current impact of Google and?Wikipedia?is already huge as much content has become less valuable or even worthless from a pricing perspective.?Will search engine functionality develop further? Will more content be available and contributed on the Internet?
Adrienne Graham:??With the Internet being so widely available loaded with free information, people automatically assume that you too have to provide information for free.?My response to that is go ahead and read the free stuff. But when you still find yourself lacking answers, then apparently the FREE stuff doesn?t work. You can?t come to a professional and ask them to work for free. In essence, that is what you?re doing when you ask to pick someone?s brain.?How would you feel if your boss came to you and said, Hey since we can get this done from information from the Internet, I won?t be paying you today. Go ahead, let it sink in. Got that visual yet? Good. That?s exactly how I feel whenever someone wants to take me to lunch or call me to pick my brain?
Benchmarking
From?A Spotlight on ?Management?: about Being Ambitious and Realizing Goals?(by Richard Cornelisse):?Negative experiences but also positive experiences (e.g. (the first and final) assessments, the amount of savings) would be something to register ongoing and communicate effectively within the organization. These are the benchmark findings of your own company and extremely useful for your strategy moving forward.
You need to know where you want to go and set up a roadmap how to get there.?Benchmark against trends in the market might be supportive in your aim. It provides an overview of the experiences of others and is useful for setting own priorities going forward.?It is always interesting to get insight of what others have experienced for own validation purposes.
Watch here benchmark findings via YouTube
This material might be useful for (internal) communication, risk analysis or self assessments:
Setting the objectives
From?Setting the objectives if the indirect Function?(by Richard Cornelisse):
- Tax Planning: identify, recommend and successfully implement indirect tax projects that assist in achieving the objectives of the indirect tax department part of the business objectives.
- Tax Accounting: proactively anticipate on changes in the business and outside the business and successfully communicate these changes to the concerning departments. Furthermore look after a correct implementation of these changes.
- Tax Compliance: look after a correct, complete and timely Indirect Tax reporting of all entities. This includes that additional reporting relating to these Indirect Tax returns is taken into account.
- Tax Governance: all corporate departments are well informed and/or have the availability of a VAT work instruction so it is clear when to consult the indirect tax department.
- Support Other Departments: activities of departments that are being affected by VAT risks have been successfully identified and these departments have been well instructed to reduce these risks.
- Audit Defense: roles and responsibilities have been determined who deals with the tax authorities during an audit (announcement) and tax authorities questions and procedures ?how to act? (e.g. never provide documents without first making copies) have been documented and rolled out.
From?A Spotlight on ?Management?: about Being Ambitious and Realizing Goals?(by Richard Cornelisse):?At the moment that these objectives are validated, ?specific goals have to be set?within these boundaries.?The goals have to be specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic and timely (SMART goals).
Getting support and the tools to make it happen
From??How to Manage the Perception of C-level and Realize Tax Objectives??(by Richard Cornelisse):?In order to allocate resources to risk and reward areas that matter, the maximum level of risk appetite?of the company in the worst case scenarios need to be determined. This facilitates such prioritization as?defined acceptable levels of risk means that resources do not spend time on further reducing risks that are already at an acceptable level.
If you know the risk appetite, you have to identify the lowest performing indirect tax processes that have the most direct impact on the company?s business objectives (e.g. benchmark and measure). Short problem statements for the gaps found should be written. It should include an estimate of savings or the amount of hours currently lost due to rework. These statements can subsequently be prioritized and validated with top management.?Various solutions are presented with cost benefit analysis, so a constructive discussion with top management can be held about what is needed to close these gaps (e.g. budget and/or resources needed or necessary change of systems, processes and controls etc).
In the worse case the gap(s) will not be closed, but at least you have achieved mutual awareness and hopefully responsibility. However, if the problem is material and addressed in the right way it more than likely it will be dealt accordingly. Why? It has become now a mutual responsibility.
From??VAT Throughput ? calculating the taxes??(by Richard Cornelisse):?Insight in the amount of VAT that globally has to be paid or recovered is important for creating proper internal awareness (top down, peers and bottom up), determining the risk appetite of the company and monitor as indirect tax function trends and changes.?Throughput gives some insight where the scarce resources of the tax function should focus on.
Change Management: ?legislative change
Tracking relevant changes across the globe can be realized via regularly monitoring these?Website links?(e.g. latest country updates, Global VAT rates and VIES validation, etc). Check this Blog?s Indirect Tax Newsreader often.
Richard?s postings about management of legislative change:
Change Management: ?business change
From a tax perspective?the difference between future firefighting or being in control has to do with being involved and the timing of that involvement. A tight connection to the business units and their decision-making process is essential.?Leading practice example re non routine transactions by Richard Cornelisse:
- Merger and Acquisition ? Integration and Indirect Tax: Managing the Moving Parts Before, During and After a Transaction?
- The intersection of VAT and shared service centers. A site for global savings or a source for worldwide risk??
Structure the tax function and people development
From??The Indirect Tax Profession is Evolving from an Individual to a Team Sport??(by Richard Cornelisse): Due to all technological developments it is already part of our present and future. A tax technical advice has to be implemented in systems, processes and controls. ?Instructions have to be given to people outside the tax function. ?Alignment with the business is key for the tax function to plan in time and avoid future firefighting.
In order to challenge and support a client in his mission an adviser should besides excellent technical skills have a good understanding of communication and collaboration, project management, change management, information technology, negotiation and leadership.
These competences overall are needed to be successful. This is not only applicable for the individual adviser, but as well for an organization with the aim to achieve or maintain market leadership.?It is simply no longer possible to excel in everything re global indirect tax management. That means that certain people excel in certain areas of indirect tax and the outcome of the overall team effort will make the real difference from a quality standard perspective.
Jack Welch:??Break down barriers and improve teamwork up, down, and across organizational lines. ?A considerable amount of money is lost due to disconnects or competition between groups that should be working for a common cause: providing value to customers?
Richard Cornelisse?worked as Partner in the Tax Performance Advisory and Indirect Tax Practice at Ernst & Young and now blogs on Tax Function Effectiveness and Tax Control Framework developments.
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Home Improvement DIY Projects ? A Few Suggestions To Get You ...
Article by Madonna Jeffries
DIY home improvement projects, both large and small, are happening in everybody?s neighborhood each and every weekend. So rather than put off your own home improvement for another six months why don?t you just dust off the hammer and saw, get your creative juices flowing and get into your project today.
If you are a novice at home improvement DIY style then you can become initiated in the ?do it yourself? way by initially tackling a small project, one that does not involve a great deal of skill based knowledge. Say, for example, you have just relocated and you are not too impressed with the previous occupant?s color scheme throughout the house ? you can start your home improvement career by heading down to your local paint shop, load yourself up with brushes, paint, turpentine and a few ground cover sheets ? turn up the music and go crazy on the walls. A painting project is one that does not involve buying or hiring expensive equipment but the end result can be quite spectacular, particularly if you have combined colors well.
If you intend to paint the interior of your home first then it is a good idea to have a family discussion to hear everyone?s suggestion regarding the proposed color scheme. The children?s views are important particularly if you are going to paint their rooms because if you just went ahead and used the colors you like without consulting them it could cause major grief. Just imagine how impressed your sports jock 16-year-old son would react if he came home from practice to find that you had painted his sanctum a mixture of purples and pinks. Remember everyone has an opinion about colors and the object is to reach a consensus together.
The saying goes that ?a change is as good as a holiday? and having a freshly painted home certainly makes the rooms feel fresh and revitalised. At the completion of the project you will end up with a great sense of satisfaction and probably a dash of motivation to start you on the road to your next DIY home improvement project.
Easy Ideas For Outside The Home
Other relatively inexpensive home improvement DIY projects can de done to the external areas of the home. You may think that it is time to upgrade your backyard area but don?t actually know what to do. So the best move in this situation is to borrow a few books from your local library or look online at how some of the more elegant and expensive properties have structured their backyards. For instance, you could really add some interesting features like building a fountain or installing some benches around the perimeter of the garden. You may even decide to take on a bigger home improvement DIY project and build your own gazebo in your backyard. If the garden is in need of a general spruce-up then maybe something as simple as clearing away bushes and trees can make a marked difference to the appearance of your backyard.
Give a little thought on what you can do to improve the appearance and features of your home and grounds and then visit your local handyman store or go on line for some advice and guidance to ensure your home improvement DIY project is a roaring success.
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