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Tips for Enhancing Your Home's Wi-Fi Signal Sick of streaming movies only to have them bounce around while you look for a different Wi-Fi source? You’re definitely not the only one. Poor Wi-Fi is a frustrating problem these days, and can turn an otherwise relaxing Netflix movie night into total chaos. But don't fret, even though these problems can seem overwhelming, you don’t have to know everything there is to know about technology to fix them. Below are ten practical tips to turbo boost your Wi-Fi signal and improve your home’s Wi-Fi. Put the Router in a Central Position Stop hiding your router inside the closet! Wi-Fi signals radiate outward from the router; therefore, putting the router in a location where it is near the center of your house will give you the best signals. Raise the Router Above The Floor Routers perform best when they are elevated off the ground. If you can place your router on a shelf or mount it on a wall, the signal will be stronger at a distance. Keep It Away from Other Electronic Devices Will your Wi-Fi signal work well if it is in proximity to a microwave oven, baby monitor, cordless telephone, or some other electronic device? These devices can cause interference with Wi-Fi signal. Give your router a good distance from any of these devices for better signal strength. Update Your Router's Firmware When was the last time you checked to see if your router’s firmware is up to date? Every couple of months, log in to your router settings and see if there are any available updates. Updating your router’s firmware could significantly improve performance and security. Change the Router to a Different Channel If your neighbor’s Wi-Fi signal is interfering with your Wi-Fi signal, you can also change the channel of your Wi-Fi, which will give you a clearer channel. Most routers will allow you to change channels via their administrative settings. Generally, if you are using 2.4 GHz WLAN, the best channels to use will be channel 1, channel 6, and channel 11. Utilize the 5 GHz Frequency A dual-band router provides the option to use either the 5 GHz frequency of the 2.4 GHz frequency; therefore, if you have a dual-band router, you should always use the 5 GHz frequency because it will provide faster speeds. Please note: the 5 GHz signal will not travel as far as the 2.4 GHz signal. Use an Extender or Mesh System A mesh Wi-Fi system, e.g., Eero, Google Nest, etc., is a great solution if your house is large or has an unusual layout. An Eero or Google Nest mesh system provides a seamless Wi-Fi network throughout your home. Reboot Router Regularly At times, rebooting the router will solve issues with poor performance; therefore, unplug the router for 30 seconds and then plug it back in. You may find that this will fix many of the odd problems associated with Wi-Fi routers. Securing Your Network If your Wi-Fi has no password protection, it is possible that your neighbor is using your bandwidth, so you should secure your Wi-Fi by using a password that is at least 10 characters long and also protects your network using either WPA3 or WPA2 encryption. Upgrade Your Router If your router is more than five years old, you will want to consider purchasing a new router. New routers generally come with Wi-Fi 6 or 6E support; they also have faster connection speeds, enhanced capabilities for simultaneously connecting multiple devices and achieve better stability. Try implementing a couple of the suggestions from above, and watch those circles coming up while you stream your favourite shows disappear. Happy streaming!

Introduction Motivated by the exigencies of climate change mitigation, an accelerating global transition from fossil-fuel energy reliance to renewables is taking shape. Although much of the literature to date has focused on international treaties and the megacities that have the fiscal resources and centralised bureaucracy to deploy far-reaching energy solutions, a nice trend in the literature is the growing perception of the role of sub-national actors, in particular medium-sized cities (typically cities of 100,000 to 500,000 populations) face a major role in the national and global transition. While smaller than metropolises, these medium-sized cities are where the bulk of the urban population reside, and constitute a large share of total municipal carbon emissions. It is important to understand the locus of renewable energy transition within the urban settings of their application for national and international decarbonization. This literature review summarizes the literature on that topic, clustering the study of the subject into three themes. The first examines the socio-technical and financial aspects of the sceptre and idiosyncratic barriers they face. Surrounded by target-rich environment, choked by chronic resource deprivation and budget deficits, clogged by a lack of available expertise, and cut off from use of the green bond markets (especially in developing nations), medium-sized cities face different barriers to making renewables work for them, than large metropolitan cities. Second is the subject of governance, utilitary community zoning and solar policies and how the idiosyncrasies of the medium size city lends it adaptability of more frictionless and rapid transition politics than the resulting agonistic paralysis of mega metropolitan city governments pursuing attention-seeking policies. Lastly, we hone in on the neglected subject of social justice and citizen participation, how medium-sized cities engage with and protect indigent peoples from exploitation in the new energy normal. In our survey, we identify a number of large gaps in the literature examining medium-sized cities in the only indigenous, wholly place-based ecopolitical transition subjects we have cited. These include the disproportionate amount of research in “pioneer green cities” in western Europe and North America but almost none across the globe in Global South mid-sized cities, and a dearth of quantitative models comparing differing policy models across multiple geopolocations. These gaps will persevere with emphasis on similar normative cities. In the rebirth for the good of collected humanity will likely reside. We seek herein to weave together a cloth quilt from the fabric of all these dark cotton-picking patches.

# Internet Access Should Be Treated as a Public Utility It’s clear that internet access in the 21st century is a necessity — one that warrants designation as a public utility comparable to water, electricity, and gas. Just think for a minute about how completely the internet has so profoundly infiltrated our daily lives. We apply for jobs online, complete our homework online, make medical appointments via tele health, and we even need to interact with the government on the web. It would not be an exaggeration to say that without internet access we are locked out of our economy, our education, and our community. The COVID lockdown amplified this when millions of kids fell behind in their schoolwork because of inadequate internet access, referred to as the “homework gap.” The internet needs to be treated like electricity. Put simply, it exposes the inequity that's now captured nicely by the term "homework gap.” In summation, many of our rural communities and our less affluent neighborhoods aren’t getting service options while the for-profit companies dedicate resources to regions they deem to be profitable. Because of this, these citizens have limited choice, slower speeds, and higher prices. Utility companies would have common carrier legal duties to ensure access isn’t based on where you live or how much money you have. Enforcement would help ensure that we give our citizens the right and the necessity for cyber opportunities. Critics of the arrangement are saying that simple utility designation will hinder investment and innovation. Telephone service and electricity were regulated, and both industries continued to innovate. They didn’t die of old age just because people were regulating them a bit. If hydropower coexist with reasonable limitations on price gouging, internet access will live to see another day as well.

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The Leading Edge of Productive Work Despite the fact that the 5-day (40-hour) workweek has established itself as the de-facto standard of professional working hours for well over the last 100 years, studies show that the model is now out-of-date, ineffective and in need of re-invention.  The 4-day week is not just an opportunity for those who are over-worked‐ it is a better way to ensure that we all continue to be productive in our jobs and contribute to our employer's success as well as the economy at large. The most compelling data for the successful implementation of the 4-day work week is provided by the results of a pilot project in the UK in 2022 involving 61 companies and almost 3,000 employees who participated in a program where they were given a schedule of approximately 80% of their normal working hours at full pay.  Outcomes included; 92% of participating employers continued with the new practice; their revenue continued to either maintain or increase; and, employee burnout levels decreased tremendously in those companies that adopted this program.  Additionally, large-scale trials in Iceland conducted between 2015‐2019 produced similar findings indicating that productivity for most companies did not decline but, in fact, improved for the majority of companies that implemented the 4-day work week.  These numbers do not simply represent anecdotal evidence but rather, genuine real-world experiments provide compelling, empirical proof demonstrating that by significantly reducing the hours spent at work, employees will continue to produce the same or greater amount of work than if they were working the traditional schedule. To illustrate how this can take place we need to look at how we actually get work done today.  Evidence indicates that on average, most people who are employed in an office (as opposed to those who work directly on the production line) are only productive for an average of about 3 hours out of an 8 hour workday.  The remaining 5 hours are spent in worthless meetings and/or being digitally distracted and/or just mentally fatigued with no additional results to show for it.  By providing a compressed schedule for employees, the employer will have to re-evaluate their work processes, eliminate unnecessary processes and identify only the most critical tasks that employees are to be working on during the majority of their workday.  Therefore organisational processes that exist for the purpose of "getting work done" are ultimately more efficient, due to process constraints resulting from a compressed work schedule. Besides ultimately producing the same amount of work with a compressed schedule, the 4-day work week eliminates the hidden costs of operating today's business environment which impacts all businesses.  Burnout, absenteeism and turnover cost these businesses billions of dollars in lost productivity and profitability per year.  Employees, who have a full night of sleep and have spent time with family and friends, have greater levels of focus and creativity, make better decisions collaboratively with their co-workers and are more loyal than those workers who are burned out.   The added day that employees receive off is time that employees can complete errands; rest; and meet their personal obligations, which would otherwise have to be completed during traditional working hours.  By having happier and more productive employees, employers also achieve a competitive advantage with regard to attracting and retaining qualified employees, particularly among younger generations who are increasingly focused on work-life balance. Critics of the 4-day work week often cite that certain industries have been unsuccessful in adopting it; and, this is true!  Certain industries (e.g., emergency server to customers) will require more thoughtful planning and better ways in which to introduce the concept of the 4-day work week.  While not every company may be able to use the 4-day work week; this does not diminish the success of the strategy that has worked for thousands of knowledge-based and service-based companies. Ultimately, productivity should be measured by results rather than hours worked.  The 4-day workweek has demonstrated its ability to provide organisations with the opportunity to work less and achieve more!

# Generative AI is changing how knowledge workers do their jobs; it drives increased productivity and brings new questions to the fore. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is quickly changing how knowledge workers perform their tasks across multiple industries, with studies showing that GAI is increasing productivity by producing tasks at a faster rate and additional overall productivity, but also generating concerns regarding job security, development of skills, and workplace dynamics. A recent study conducted by MIT and Stanford University revealed that workers who performed their tasks using the GAI tool (such as ChatGPT) completed work at an average rate of completion that was 14% faster than workers who did their job in a traditional manner. There was a noted increase in productivity of up to 35% for less experienced employees, compared to previous studies performed by McKinsey & Company which estimated total global annual economic growth for GAI at $2.6-$4.4 trillion. The substantial breakdown of economic growth via GAI is in the employment of automated technology in the following areas: marketing, software engineering and development, customer support, and research. "What we have experienced with this generation of automation is much different from previous generations of replacement of physical labour for output," said Dr. Lena Martinez, a labour economist at Georgetown University. "The last generation saw automation directly replacing physical work - this current generation is replacing both repetitive physical processes and cognitive workloads (e.g., creating reports, performing data analysis and producing code) that were previously performed and relied upon to be performed by individuals." Leading companies are quickly integrating GAI tools. Microsoft, Google and Salesforce have integrated assistant GAI systems directly into their respective enterprise software. Similarly, consultant firms such as Deloitte and PwC spent billions of dollars developing proprietary GAI software. According to a 2024 Gartner survey, approximately 72% of large enterprises had at least one department (i.e., marketing, operations, finance, etc.) that had adopted GAI, a significant increase from the previous year's rate of 33%. However, with this new level of productivity comes the possibility for a lack of job security in the future with large-scale unemployment. According to the World Economic Forum, it is anticipated that the core competencies of 44% of employees will be impacted by 2027 and white collar workers will be placed under an unprecedented amount of scrutiny. Entry-level employees, such as junior analyst, paralegal, content writer, entry-level programmer, etc., are already finding that GAI is encroaching upon their ability to perform the task(s) that, until recently, would have been critical in developing their understanding of their professions. "There is a strong sense of anxiety regarding the future of the career path," stated Marcus Chen, a software developer located in Seattle. "Currently, if AI is going to perform the repetitive work that junior-level employees would learn from, what happens to the new employees who need to learn how to perform their job?" Additionally, companies are now facing challenges around accuracy; they are discovering that generative AI may be producing incorrect/lack of accurate information (i.e., hallucinations); therefore, companies are beginning to recognize the need for processes to monitor GAI's use to ensure they comply with authorized outputs. Legal firms are facing high-profile embarrassment when lawyers file legal documents with a judge that have been generated by GAI, where the legal citations (i.e., adjudication references) are false. Government regulatory agencies are scrambling to formulate new policies to address the issues raised with the introduction of GAI in the workplace, with the European Union (EU) passing the AI Act, which went into effect in January 2023, to promote additional transparency regarding GAI use by corporations in the EU; the United States federal government is working on an AI regulatory law similar to that of the EU's AI Act. While there is uncertainty regarding the future of GAI in the workplace, the vast majority of experts agree that GAI is here to stay and the pending challenge will be to ensure the advantages of GAI for all of society, while continuing to protect employees who are adjusting to working in an environment of rapid technological change.

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Internet access deserves to be identified and regulated as a public utility. The internet is no longer a luxury, it’s an essential like water, electricity and telephony. In order to fully participate in modern life, internet users must have reliable, high-quality broadband and nothing short of that. Our schools rely on online portals, our healthcare is increasingly delivered via telemedicine, and nearly every job application requires some kind of online systems and may require working from home with remote access and collaboration. Denying or cutting off access is akin to removing a citizen from modern civic life and work. Treating the internet as a public utility will help fix two of the most egregious failures in the current privatized marketplace: unequal access and price gouging. Private ISPs pick and choose which neighborhoods to service based on income levels, focusing on urban, densely-populated populations, while “digital deserts” manifest in poor areas and rural frontiers. By declaring broadband a public utility, the government could impose a universal service mandate, forcing broadband access for every household, regardless of geography and income levels. Further, utility regulation will impose strict net neutrality protections, preventing ISPs from throttling service, refusing to provide access to sites, or even forcing sites to pay for tiered, fast lanes that will only serve large corporations and further crush small businesses and consumers. Much as the power company doesn’t dictate how we use our televisions and refrigerators, ISPs should shoulder the same responsibility about which sites we visit and what information we consume.

A self-illustrated picture book is a hugely rewarding experience. The purpose of this guide is to help you through the process of turning your creative vision into an actual book that will be enjoyed by children (and their families) everywhere! ### 1. Refine Your Manuscript & Storyboard Each picture book generally consists of 32 total pages. In order to create a well-paced story, and to determine where text should go, it is essential to create a storyboard before beginning your final illustrations. This step will help you ensure that your narrative flows smoothly through these pages, allowing for ample space for title/ copyright pages. It is generally accepted that picture books contain fewer than 800 words, so the illustrations will bear the majority of the storytelling responsibilities. ### 2. Create Your Artwork Once your storyboard is complete, you can move on to the creation of your final illustrations. * **Leave spaces for text:** It is really important to create "quiet" areas with very low detail (such as a blank sky or a wall with very few decorations) where text can easily be created for the reader. * **Gutter:** It is important to keep your text away from the gutter (the middle seam that connects both sides of a page in a book). Critical details can not be left in the gutter of a completed book because they will be split between the two sides, and will not look good. * **Appropriate formatting:** Artwork for picture books should be scanned at no less than 300 DPI and saved as CMYK format (for printing) and not RGB format (used to display images on a screen). ### 3. Choose Your Publishing Path There are two main publishing options to consider as a self-illustrator: * **Traditional publishing:** Research literary agents and publishers who are open to un-agented submissions for your work. If you are a self-illustrated author (a.k.a. author-illustrators), you will send in a 'dummy book' (comprised of a complete manuscript and storyboard, along with 2 - 3 finished, full-color sample pages) to potential agents and publishers. * **Self-publishing:** You choose to have total control over your book and must either format it yourself, or hire someone to do so. There are many Print On Demand (POD) site available to you, such as: Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and IngramSpark. When using a POD site, artwork can be uploaded and books are printed when customers order them. ### 4. Finalize & Format (for Self-Publishing) After you have chosen a printing company and downloaded their exact trim size templates, it will be important to ensure that all illustrations contain bleed (0.125 inches of extra art outside of the trim line), so that no white edges will be visible when the pages are cut. To create your text, please use clear, easy-to-read/type fonts that are child-appropriate. ### 5. Promote and Launch Once you have printed one physical proof book, you will then want to confirm the accuracy of the color and layout (how pages are arranged). Once everything has been approved, you will purchase your ISBN (International Book Number) and publish your picture book. Some suggestions for marketing your book are: arranging local library readings, connecting with parents through social media, and sending copies of your book to bloggers for review.

Why do I want to study comparative literature? I’m interested in the way stories travel, across time and space, across languages and forms, migrating across borders into new homes. Literature seems less like a series of separate national literatures, and more like an ongoing conversation in which writers answer one another back, interpret myths, imagine different futures and alternate versions of ourselves. Comparative literature seems to offer the kind of freedom and method I seek in order to enter that conversation. What excites me most is the openness of the discipline. A question—how a person understands exile; or memory, grief, love, violence or justice— can be approached through a Greek tragedy and a post-colonial novel, through a poem that thinks inside the structures of modernism, or through an oral narrative or a documentary. I want to know more about texts, how they are shaped by history/culture and context, while also being able to ask why certain themes circulate across centuries and borders. I want to learn to read literature as both different and the same: how language in every place, every moment, produces meanings like its own fingerprint, and how that process of translation also reveals something that is lost, and laid bare. I’m particularly interested in the role of translation, not just as a literary mode, not just as the practical mode of getting to works; but as a creative act as well. Having read a certain amount of literature in translation, I know how our relationship with a story is produced in part just by the language with which we narrative, but also by the act of translation between one set of languages to another. I am curious about what, in this switch of languages, is kept, but also what meanings are directed, lost, remodeled; I am curious about voice and power—who speaks or narrates and who, censors or drops, throws shade—with what result. Comparative literature appeals to me, because it requires a certain curiosity, sensitivity and attention to language; a discipline that encourages the reader to step beyond habitual thought and towards the worlds of others, in the spirit of humility rather than simplification. I hope to acquire the tools for reading deeply, for connecting texts on thoughtful premises, and for writing about them clearly. But mostly I want to study comparative literature because, well, I think that it reflects the way I experience the world: tangled up, binded interconnected accounts of accounts across the collective expanse. It’s my hope that through the discipline I may learn to be a more perceptive reader, a more considerate writer, a more engaged interlocutor.word.web: cross.boundary.crossing.bridge, touch, engager, entrail, nous, crux, discourse to and of.exit.impact (sharks.the bands), slay.

#Application for Senior Data Scientist Position Dear Hiring Manager, I trust that this email finds you well! With nearly 7 years of experience conducting data analysis on large-scale datasets I wish to formally express my interest in your open Senior Data Scientist position. I believe that my previous work experience and the depth of my technical expertise will allow me to make a valuable contribution to your company through data-driven decision making. Over the last five years, I’ve been developing machine learning solutions for businesses. One project I led when I was a Senior Data Scientist at TechCorp Analytics was the culmination of my work on a customer retention prediction model — improving our ability to keep customers 23% more often and creating an anticipated $4.2 million/year of revenue retention for the company. I also designed an end-to-end collaborative filtering recommendation system from scratch using deep learning technology which increased user engagement on their platform 35%. I possess full expertise in the data science Stack with extensive hands-on experience developing production-grade models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and/or Scikit-learn in either Python or R, and with SQL as well as deploying these solutions onto either AWS or GCP using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or MLflow, providing me with scalability of workflows as well as reproducibility between models. My technical expertise includes statistics, natural language processing, forecasting time series data, and A/B testing. Alongside my technical skills, I believe I’ve developed a unique ability to communicate the benefits of Data Science to non-technical individuals, creating a linkage between Data Science and the rest of the business by providing updates to Executive Leadership Teams, training junior data scientists, and collaborating across functions (e.g. Product, Engineering, Marketing) at my previous employer. I created best practice frameworks for deploying data science projects which led to an average of 40% reduction in model deployment time, resulting in increased productivity across five concurrent projects within our team. I'm drawn to your company because of its focus on utilizing data science to improve the development of products in your target industry. I find the recent work you've done related to AI and personalization to be inspiring and would love to be a part of growing your machine learning infrastructure and expanding your data-driven capabilities. I have a Master's Degree in Statistics from [State University Name], and I hold an additional certification in both Deep Learning and Cloud Architecture. I have been involved in the open-source Data Science community through my involvement on various Open Source Data Science projects, and I have also written many technical articles and presented on various Data Science-related topics at Data Science conferences. I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss how my background and vision can assist your company in achieving its goals. I look forward to speaking with you and appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to consider my application. Best Regards, [Your Name]

Here’s a bold claim: The four-day work week isn’t an employee perk, it’s a serious productivity trend the modern workplace should consider embracing. For decades, many companies have presumed that more time equals more output. Research into workplace activities, as well as practical trials by companies, shows an alternative way: Employees may produce better work if we allow them to rest, concentrate, and be inspired. Here are four reasons to favor a het weekends: Better efficiency encourages improved efforts, protects employee well-being, lures better employees, and gets the work done in a shorter week. First of all, the four-day work week nudges employees into more efficiency. In many old-school companies, a noticeable chunk of the workday drips away in meetings, interruptions, and inessential tasks. Knowing they have one fewer day to solve the remaining responsibilities, workers may choose the important over the extraneous, favoring communications that are direct and constant. Businesses that have experimented with a four-day week report that productivity is flat and often climbs because workers recount their hours. In this sense, the workweek compels businesses to measure productivity freed from the idea of long days at the office. Secondly, by improving worker well-being, the four-day work week itself encourages productivity. Burned-out or burnt-out employees who are emotionally exhausted simply don’t crank out as much creative work or protection. A three-day weekend gives workers time with which to tend to famyees, exercise, and self-improvement. Employees who come back raring to go after a long weekend help businesses seem fresher, less mistake-prone and more happy. Employers that protect their employees’ health are protecting their businesses. Establish that a four-day week improves employee commitment but fails to serve customer service needs. Good foresight and fix make perfect companies divided in this way can solve for problems. Companies may stagger employee time given to service and take up electronic service, perhaps changing procedures and bringing new terms to the page of service. “We do not merely take the need for a four-week-return, for fiscal year deadlines, into four working days and do all the old work. Going from five to four working days is not that. It is the five th day where better procedures make for certification,” Finally, a four day week helps companies when recruiting, more workers today want flexible jobs that let them drive it my way or other forms. At current technology demand. Of course, critics worry that service could suffer, or that customers will take longer than others. Good here, good suits of competition save time will help buyers get their hands on and gap money. It is already a supportive way as a practical productivity initiative thanks that furnishes focus, melts burnout and secures worker loyalty. We can count the work to measure worth freed from just ten.

Having illustrated a lot of picture books, I can tell you how to do it if you want to create your own self-illustrated book. Here’s your road map. Make sure your story is good first. Before you pick up your eraser, scrupulously perfect your text. Picture books run from 200 to 800 words in 32 pages, including front and back matter. Read the whole darned thing out loud. Try it out on children. Rewrite. A really good picture book isn’t telling a kid what to think, it is leaving room for more to happen. The best authors leave huge gaps for the pictures to tell the story. Next, make a dummy book or, as they say in the trade, dummy books. Turn off the monster in your head for one hour a day and spend half of that now and then drawing, cut and glue style. Altogether, you’ll make a book dummy to scale in small thumbnails showing how page turns create suspense or do not. In dummy, you’ll see pacing problems you would not have caught if you had worked on actual size for hours and hours on the final art. Once you create a dummy book, you’ll find it easier to work on illustrations. A consistent visual style, medium and color palette for characters, backgrounds, and other aspects are crucial. Finish two or three fully realized spreads while still working and correcting the dummy. Industry standards call for 300 DPI at trim size plus bleed. Use CMYK color and read the submission guidelines carefully. Now what? You have some beautiful illustrations, some dummy spreads, and your manuscript. To whom do you submit that? Research agents and publishers, finding out who is open to picture book submissions. Author illustrators have an advantage because publishing houses that offer illustrations usually prefer getting the whole package. Every publisher has their own submission guidelines, and it is important to read them. If you prefer self-publishing, there are companies like IngramSpark, Amazon KDP, and Blurb that offer print-on-demand services. You will keep more creative control over the project but will also have to deal with every aspect of marketing and book distribution. If you end up publishing it yourself, you’ll have to learn enough to prepare production files that comply with whatever printing company you choose. Having experience in commercial art helps here. Get the file specs from them. You want the correct bleed (generally 0.125 inch), the right page sequence, proper color requirements (CMYK) and fonts embedded. Also it would help if you did press checks and other orderly things for fun. It will be cheaper to hire an editor and a proofreader too. Launch till you drop! Build an author website now and months before the book is out. This is where Wix comes in handy. Reach out to bookstores, in whose windows you shall hopefully be seen. Custom write pitches for reviewers, get copies into the hands of stacks and stacks of bloggers, and invite Kirkus, and School and Library Journal reviewers to scan and evaluate. Many picture books are released during the spring or fall; if you arrange your work for the seasons, it may lend itself to looking fresh among others. Market for as long as you live. Picture books break through by word of mouth and visual impact. Share your progress on some social media platforms, offer school visits if you have already begun to build an audience. Make printable activities for children and build life-long relationships. It takes a while but a self-illustrated picture book can be a beautiful collaboration you create from start to finish yourself when it circulates in the under fives.

Literature has never existed in a vacuum for me. Growing up bilingual, I became aware that a single word is culturally weighted depending on the language it is spoken in; that translating a work is always a negotiation of cultures. My fascination with how stories migrate across borders stems from a desire to dissect this activity of transit; books can cut across history, language, and medium as they do across geography. I want to delve into these intersections with your Comparative Literature program, moving beyond the borders of the single national literary canon. I seek to study at the intersection of postcolonial literature and translation studies. As I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight’s Children in tandem, fascinated by how authors of wildly different hemispheres had each independently arrived at magical realism to reclaim history from colonial narratives, I began to ask how the context of the act of translation changes the political valences of the novels. How do marginalized voices translate themselves into dominant global languages? To answer these questions, I need the tools that only comparative literature will afford me. Your program is uniquely suited to my goals. I am especially impressed with your emphasis on cross-cultural dialogue and critical theory; I am eager to combine French with my love of Anglophone literature and study how forms are adapted as they are transported across cultural landscapes. I look forward to engaging with faculty who share my interest in translation theory and in world literature. Literature, to me, is a map of human empathy, and the varied continents made up by our art. In a world which is as fractious as it is beautiful, the ability to read comparatively, to synthesize multiple lenses and find common threads across cultures is more urgent than ever. I want to be equipped to do just that—and to contribute to these vital conversations.

In the twenty-first century, the transition of major urban centres to renewable energy has become an urgent and critical challenge. However, existing research has not addressed the role of mid-sized cities in this transition. Mid-sized cities are generally understood to be those cities with populations ranging from 100,000 to 500,000, and they comprise a significant share of the world's urban population. Mid-sized cities are collectively significant actors in the global energy transition; research examining their future path can offer vital insights to the successful and widespread and transformative project of renewable energy transition to all urban centres in pursuit of climate goals. Some research indicates mid-sized cities have unique features that fundamentally alter their pressures for, and paths to, renewable energy adoption. “Small and medium-sized cities experiment more because the decision-making capacities sometimes allow for experimentation than in larger cities,” according to Bulkeley and Betsill (2013). Others studying mid-sized cities such as Hoppe et al. (2015) find some of the same disadvantages as other cities in their struggle for renewable energy transition: a lack of financial resources, a lack of the technical expertise in energy software and IT, and no access to the specialized markets that larger cities enjoy. Both promise and risk attune in a particular way in mid-sized cities. A growing body of research studying urban energy municipalities considers what such conditions are for successful adoption of renewables. More recently, some have turned to the kind of domestic governance that has shaped local adaptation of renewables, conducting analyses of mid-sized city adaptation of renewables (Kern and Rogge, 2018). As these describe, sometimes mid-sized cities lean even more heavily on state and national frameworks as well as “sustainability” efforts on the level of regions and neighbours. Where examining community personally engages in local renewable energy initiatives, some with the literature establish that “more is at stake” (Seyfang et al. 2014) “in smaller towns".

10 Ways to Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal at Home Is there anything more frustrating than the spinning loading wheel of doom? Movies buffering, games crashing, the apocalypse just waiting outside the door? Before publicly shaming your Internet Service Provider on social media, try these 10 tips to increase your access to the interwebs: 1. Desktop Your Router Does your Wi-Fi router look more like a tumbleweed or an award-winning centerpiece? If your router is perpetually relegated to the junk drawer or the back of the shelf it’s in bootmaker’s jail. Put it front and center, in an open area preferably (especially if you want a nice rug). 2. Put It on a Pedestal Thick concrete walls, metal appliances and large mirrors work like lead barriers to block-out signals. For best distribution, elevate your unit on a shelf or table so that signals travel downward, outward. 3. Get The Bandits Out 7 Evil-Looking Neighbors - GSM/WCDMA/LTE. Unwelcomed opportunistic users (aka, the nosey Irish grandmother down the street) can slam your speed. Change your Wi-Fi password regularly and ensure the good ol’ Irish are on a legitimate homecoming. 4. Flip Antennas to an Angle Pointing antennas straight up all the time won’t iron out the wrinkles in the fabric of your signals. If your modem routers have moving antennas, angle one up and one horizontally to help receive signals well and transmit more effectively. 5. Break Free of the Airwaves Your game console and other electronics may be vying for airwave space that your stupid Wi-Fi should only occupy. Run some speed tests and try switching your console to the 5GHz network. Or, chase squirrels with your intent to commune with its kind via Wi-Fi dancing. 6. Get New Wires Don’t put cords at risk of mutiny! With no malicious intent to sink your plucky network, foul your fast-streaming friends and foes. Pop into your router admin and work some magic by creating a new password and removing those apes destined for the island for bandito infiders. 7. Update Firmware Can download apps and video games. But your router can and should get regular updates too! Look for firmware updates by going to your router admin page to access and apply updates available for download. It’s well worth the time and effort and may fix that annoying glitch you noticed yesterday. 8. Get an Extender If you reside in the Ritz or a huge space with thick concrete walls than the Wi-Fi often has a hard time covering areas of the house. Get a Wi-Fi extender to push a wide signal back from the corners of the yard and also to cover the dead spots in the garage, etc. 9. Change to 5Ghz Many current routers arrive with dual-band: meaning both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz channels. Though 2.4Ghz does cover farther, just switch the gaming console or smart TV to the 5Ghz band, and speeds should be much quicker. 10. Go Mesh If you live in space the size of Texas and there’s only one router to call you classy, it’s time to put clusters of mesh with other clusters of clusters to work. These nodes replace a single router and blanket your entire house with effective coverage. Happy streaming!

# 10 Ways to Strengthen Your Wi-Fi Signal at Home Few things are more annoying than having your Zoom call freeze mid-sentence or your movie buffering during the good parts. The good news? You may not need a new internet plan to fix spotty Wi-Fi. Just a little tweaking will do the trick to get your network up to speed. Here are 10 tips to strengthen the Wi-Fi in your home. 1. Move your router to a more central location.Your router dishes its signal out best from a central position. If it’s stuffed into the corner of a closet or hidden behind your big screen, that may limit its reach. Try to locate it in a more open, central place. 2. Place it on high.Wi-Fi radiates outward from a router, and comes down to us as well, so keeping the router on a higher shelf or bookcase may help. The floor is not the ideal place to put it, especially if it’s behind something. 3. Steer clear of interference from electronics.Wi-Fi can go haywire thanks to interference from microwaves, cordless phone bases, baby monitors, and even Bluetooth devices. Keep your router clear of those competing electronics and especially big metal objects. 4. Restart your router. Hey, it’s basic, but unplugging your router for a bit can clear up any temporary glitches and improve the signal. Try turning it off and unplugging it for about 30 seconds, then plug it back in before turning it back on. 5. Update the firmware on your router. Manufacturers of routers frequently will issue updates to improve the speed, security and reliability of a connection. So update those settings—look for them in your router’s app or admin page. 6. Use the right frequency band. A lot of routers today send out both a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz network. The first network can go more far-flung, but it’s not as fast as 5, which is, of course, better, right? Utilize the faster network when you’re close to the router, then switch over to the older .4 GHz one for more distant rooms. 7. Change the channel for your Wi-Fi. If you live in an apartment, or a crowded neighborhood, you probably aren’t the only one with Wi-Fi nearby. Switch to a less crowded channel in your router settings to ease some of the congestion. 8. Add a Wi-Fi extender. Putting a Wi-Fi extender halfway between the router and the area that has a weak signal can boost that area which has the dreaded dead zone. 9. Switch to a mesh Wi-Fi system. If you have a large house, or if the signal gives you spotty performance even in the same room, a mesh Wi-Fi system is a terrific upgrade. It uses several nodes or “satellites” placed around your house, in addition to the router, for robust coverage. 10. Replace old equipment. If your router is several years old, it’s due for an upgrade. Modernizing can make your Wi-Fi faster, stronger and more reliable. Try a little experimenting, and you can usually strengthen a weak signal without too much hassle. Start with locating the router, confirming if interference is the problem, and upgrade only as a last resort!

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Generative AI is changing how knowledge workers write, research, code, analyze data and make decisions, as companies experiment across industries with tools that can churn out text, images, software and summaries at the click of a button—and within seconds. Since chatbots and AI assistants went public, businesses have quickly begun using the technology in their day-to-day work. Law firms are using AI to summarize legal contracts and case law. Marketing teams are letting the machine write advertisements, emails and social media campaigns. Software developers use AI coding assistants as they write functions, fix bugs and write routine programming code and snippets. Consultants, analysts and researchers are organizing information and getting a first draft of report write-ups. Supporters say the technology can have a large constructive impact in terms of productivity because, even with AI in the loop, workers don’t have to do work from scratch. A worker who may have previously spent two, three or four hours drafting a memo or preparing a presentation may be able to do a first draft in minutes, or pull together some slides or build a report. Trying to build a design or translation, or do data analysis, can be done with generative AI. For smaller companies, generative AI can allow access to uses like design or translation or data analysis and so on that may have required larger teams or reliance on outside vendors. “Generative AI is increasingly becoming a general-purpose tool for office work,” said analysts who cover workplace technology. “Its biggest impact will likely be use in changing how, even if it doesn’t immediately replace all the people.” The shift brings new pressure on employees. Many workers are learning how to use AI prompts to get effective results while also checking the machine’s output for its accuracy and finding good places to use the technology in existing office systems. Firms are developing policies around when employees may access public generative AI sites, how they are to protect their own sensitive business details and when they are responsible if the output is wrong. Concerns remain. Generative AI systems can confidently produce large language and AI-generated design and other pieces that include much incorrect or misleading information; they could reproduce bias from the training data; risk copyright issues; expose trade secret business information and more. In medicine, legal and financial and some other fields, experts contend enough human oversight will be needed at present. Also, the technology raises the question of employment. Some familiar with the technology say they are looking to cut back some writing, customer support and administrative and entry-level analytical roles that do not fundamentally require interpersonal capabilities. Others argue the tools will change roles more than they eliminate them, allowing people to focus more on “strategy, craft judgements,” and have more interpersonal time. Economists think the effects will depend on the specific occupation and organization with some workers who harness the model effectively likely to benefit and many workers mind find themselves more disrupted if their jobs are more routine in nature. In general, as of now many companies are careful but aggressive: they are doing pilot programs, training workers, and measuring results, with some indicating they expect to use it even more over time. Also, as generative AI gets better, its influence on knowledge work is likely to deepen more, as things like digital fluency and critical human judgement grow more vital to help set the pace of life in many work settings.

The Four-Day Work Week: A Case for Modern Productivity For over 100 years, the five-day, 40-hour work week has been the only standard in professional life. The five-day, 40-hour work week was originally created during the Industrial Revolution to protect factory workers from being exploited; but it has now become an outdated system in our current knowledge and technology-driven economy. While there are many employers that are facing extreme levels of burnout, quiet quitting, and disengagement among their employees, the concept of a four-day (32 hours) work week is now seen as an effective tool to increase productivity levels in the workplace. The five-day work week creates a major dilemma since Parkinson's Law states, "Work expands to fill the time available to it." In the traditional 40-hour work week, most employees will waste many hours on unproductive meetings, scrolling social media sites, and administrative tasks. When an organisation collapses its work week to only being four-days (32 hours), both the employees and the managers working there will need to create efficient processes. They will conduct shorter and more precise meetings, eliminate low-value activities, and concentrate on delivering high-impact results. By creating a real limitation on time, there will be less of a culture of "good enough" in the workplace and more of a culture of "quality of output" rather than "time on the timesheet." One other motivating contributing factor to the creation of the four-day work week is the current mental health crisis in the workforce. Stress and burnout, 2 of the major productivity killers, lead to decreased cognitive function, increased absenteeism, and costly turnover of employees. With a three-day week-end, employees have time to rest, pursue a hobby or do obligations around the house, which allows them to come to work on Monday refreshed and highly motivated. Numerous global studies, including those done by the international non-profit organisation 4 Day Week Global, have shown that reducing working hours does not decrease output. In fact, organisations that implement the four-day working week see increased or constant revenue as well as significantly fewer sick days. The common rebuttal to those that support a compressed work schedule is that it creates hurried work and increases employee daily stress levels. Although this point of view may hold some truth, it overlooks the concept that employee morale has a direct correlation to workplace performance. For example, employees that are happy and well-rested will work at a more efficient pace and make fewer errors. Furthermore, due to today’s competitive job market, the four-day work week will become a magnet for attracting employees who want to be successful. Companies that offer this type of benefit will be able to hire and retain the best employees who continue to deliver the highest level of productivity over an extended period of time. In conclusion, the five-day work week is an artificially created concept from a previous time. True productivity should not be measured by hours worked (time on your timesheet), but instead on the value that you create for an employer. Adopting a four-day work week will create a win-win situation by unlocking human potential, proving that a four-day work week will deliver much greater productivity levels than a five-day work week.

There was something lost when I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in translation, and something gained besides. The English Macondo; the Spanish Macondo: which is the true version? This question haunted me as a young reader, and brought me to the comparative literature that I now choose to study. Who writes this story? Comparative literature does not treat literature as a national possession but opens literature to all who seek it wherever they live. A Persian ghazal speaks in a German poem; a Japanese novel written by heart for its author, is reshaped in the imagination of Garcia Marquez; a Greek tragedy reappears as a contemporary Nigerian play. Free of false and narrow ownership, comparative literature shows me how to chase the current across the river of countries, ages and languages, and how to approach not what texts say but how they speak. My study of literature and languages in college has prepared me for this work. Reading Baudelaire with Eliot instead of aside as old men, I began to see modernism not as a series of fluid movements isolated from one another but as an extended conversation in which the listeners shape the music of their masters. My seminar in postcolonial fiction taught me to hear not merely a polite subaltern echo to our empire but two echoers, Rushdie and Huchon, reshaping and restoring the novel, as masters of the genre. These were experiences that led me to want to know what the urgencies and tensions are that rise unbearably within the texts of differences, and over the years I came to the pressing inclination that pushes me: to ask about `untranslatability'; what happens to a metaphor, to our thin notions of the literary gain or loss involved in crossing borders? How does one language become another and be formed by and for another yet remain anchored in the original tongues, in our bodies, and their dreams? Beyond theory, comparative literature reflects how I understand the world, a world in which boundaries that would seal off sacred spaces cannot be successfully drawn; a world of chat, of always going off at a tangent; the writer muting the dictator to the rhythm of a song; the reader as translator, deliberate in its careless work. In an age when distractibility has moved up the list of vices, I feel beholden to embark on the round of study to learn to be the chronicle of matters that linger and wait its sum in patience.

Internet access should be treated like a public utility because it functions like one. It is not just for entertainment any more than electricity or water or transportation is just for entertainment. People use the internet to apply for jobs, go to school, navigate to and from government services, do their banking, make doctor’s appointments, and communicate with each other. When people cannot freely or affordably access the internet, they become cut off from opportunities vital to their participation in our society. Making internet access a public utility will lessen inequality. In many poor and rural areas, broadband service is either too expensive, too slow, or not available at all. Private companies have insufficient incentives to build networks in places they cannot make juicy profits. Public utility regulation can create more universal service, fairer pricing, and minimum standards of reliabilities and speeds. It can make sure that a student in a dearth of opportunity has access to the same basic education and information as someone wealthy has in the well stocked city. Others say this sort of regulation will reduce innovation or hurt private investment. Becoming a public utility need not mean government ownership of the infrastructure or an end to competition among builders of computers and physical networks. It just means another set of rules for internet providers who take the public good into account when they choose prices and how to behave. A basic reasonable level of oversight can prevent predatory pricing, monopolistic behavior, and discriminatory service while allowing innovators to invent and builders to build.

Publishing a self-illustrated picture book is a delightful project that taps into story writing, visual art, design, and marketing. Here’s a practical step-by-step vision to help you get your book from idea to finished product. Developing a strong concept. Picture books tend to be short, anywhere from 300-1000 words, and the relationship between the text and the images is central to the storytelling. Who is your audience? Toddlers? Preschoolers? Young elementary readers? Write a simple, engaging story with a beginning, middle, and resolution. Read it aloud to check for rhythm, pacing, and clarity. Create a storyboard or dummy book (bind your dummy together with staples) for each page spread. A typical picture book is 32 pages long, including title page, copyright page, and other back matter (contacts, website, etc). Sketch out very rough layouts for each spread, deciding where the text will go, and how the particular illustration(s) on that page will move the story forward or enhance a moment. Storyboarding brings cohesion to your manuscript and helps you avoid doing the same thing on one page that you did on another - every page turn should be an inviting surprise! Once your dummy is working well, it is time to make final illustrations in a consistent style, color palette, and character design. Whether you work conventionally in paint or pencil or digitally, make sure your images are at least 300 pp. in the final trim size, and include bleed if art goes all the way to the edge of the page (for a common bleed, be sure to add an extra 0.125” on each side). Once the art is completed, it’s time to design the interior of the book. There are Software programs for design, including Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, Canva and others. You will want to pay special attention to the look of the typography: text needs to be clear and easy to read and should not be lost against busy artwork. Create a cover that conveys the tone of the book you have created and looks good at thumbnail size on the virtual shelves. When the design is done, make sure to build in time for careful editing. Even a short book deserves professional polishing. If your budget allows, hire a children’s book editor, proofreader, or book designer. Share the book with parents / teachers / librarians / and children in your intended age group for good input. Now choose your method to publish...For self-published prints of your book, there are many good, popular print-on-demand option including Amazon KDP and IngramSpark and other book printers for most print copies. KDP is simple and connects with Amazon, and IngramSpark can help you distribute your book to bookstores and libraries. Compare trim sizes, color printing costs, royalties, and options for distribution before you decide. Then upload your print ready files and order a proof copy. Print copies are best inspected carefully. Check colors, margins, page order, text placement, and binding. If you find mistakes, make corrections before approving it. Finally, launch that beauty into the book world! Now that the book is in print, plan your marketing. Make an author website or landing page, share work in progress images on social media, and contact local bookstores and libraries and request reviews. See if the school will let you come visit when there are naptimes available for storytime art chats. Even a beautiful picture book needs marketing so treat it like part of your publishing process.

Dear Hiring Manager, I am writing to express my interest in the mid-career Data Scientist position at your organization. I have drawn upon my experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, and data-driven decision making to business problems. I am eager to apply my skills to a team that champions the power of data. I have led to completion exploratory and end-to-end data science projects spanning data collection, feature engineering, developing and deploying models, and observing performance metrics in production. I have built predictive models that drive improvements in customer segmentation, forecast demand, identifying anomalies, and optimizing operational workflows. These projects required strong technical execution in Python, SQL, and machine learning frameworks. They also required close collaboration with product managers, engineers, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with priorities. Translating vague, high-level business problems into structured, analytical approaches is a strength of mine. I am comfortable grappling with large and imperfect datasets, identifying patterns, and translating analytical learnings to stakeholders. In a recent project, I implemented a machine learning model with an 18% improvement in prediction accuracy and that helped stakeholders prioritize high-value opportunities. Beyond building models, I focused on documentation and close engagement with my non-technical teams to ensure the solution is deeply integrated into their work. I bring a healthy mix of skills across statistics, experimentation, machine learning, and data visualization. With supervised and unsupervised learning, A/B testing and time series analysis, and some NLP as well. Model evaluation is another strong suit of mine. I’m comfortable in a cloud-based data environment and production-oriented workflows and enjoy using version control, doing reproducible analysis, and collaborating with the engineering team to deploying scalable solutions. As a mid-career professional, I am seeking to take on a role where I can support junior team members as well. I enjoy helping teams build reliable, ethical, accurate and meaningful data products. I have experience in code review, iterating on best-practices within the organization, and sharing what I see as valuable learnings from previous projects. I did not strive to make this letter a model of rhetoric, but I am a model builder and data-driven person that simply wants to use my experience to help your team. I look forward to the opportunity to speak with you! Sincerely, [Your Name]

Renewable energy has become a major priority for many cities looking to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy security and help support economic development. Where the majority of research in the field of urban energy transitions targets global megacities or national policy frameworks, mid-sized cities have begun to emerge as key renewable energy “laboratories”. Typically populations of around 100,000 to a million residents, mid-sized cities tend to provide a meaningful demand for energy alongside local policymaker and public governance structures that are potentially more flexible than in larger metropolises and provide context for how renewable energy policies, technologies and social practice play out at the local-level. An emerging body of literature on urban sustainability transitions studies that cities’ adoption of renewable energy forms are shaped by unmet in a tangle of technological, institutional, economic and social factors. Research into urban sustainability transitions highlights the pivotal role of municipal governments in setting climate targets, signing onto renewable energy procurement targets and making planning and permitting processes as efficient as possible. Given that mid-sized cities may lie close enough to their populace and businesses to form coalitions to) be large enough to make planning for the governance of energy, transport, housing and land-use, optimally coordinated, they represent a fascinating context for study. The literature discusses the importance of local economic context and resource potential. Cities with strong solar thatched roof, wind turbine, biomass or geothermal boiler potential maybe be better positioned to adopt, but resource endowment alone does not a success story guarantee. Financial incentive, utility regulation, Grid availability and access to capital speak to the nuts and bolts of implementation, as does the presence of a skilled labour force. Community energy models help push through financial and institutional barriers, as too does public – private partnership and municipal aggregation program. Example., but many mid-sized cities possess theirs’, capacity constraints, are plugged to “regions”, policy authority lies scattered across multiple authorities with sometimes cantankerous interests, and competition between their own departments for resources Ms. less than happy. Public opinion to make best friends of the similar likes of social acceptance and equity come on the back of job creation and local environmental benefits – much like many other things; but we are warned the next energy transition could likewise, simply replicated the worst social inequities in society as its subset if low-income plasters renters and disadvantaged communities were losers in renewable technology. A focus on procedural justice is asked of planners by the latest set of “young” researchers where it’s also been socially fundamental to community project ownership. Mid-sized cities now sit at distinctly across the body of literature, renewable energy transitions, neither a fresh face in suburbia or “just smaller” versions of Los Angeles or surface Pittsburgh!

**The Algorithmic Colleague: How Generative AI is Rewriting the Rules of Knowledge Work** **SILICON VALLEY** The world of knowledge work is undergoing its deepest upheaval since the invention of the personal computer. Generative AI has gone from buzzword to tool, arriving in offices around the world to rewrite the white-collar script for writing, coding, analyzing, and decision-making. Previously insulated from the robot revolution that mechanized manufacturing processes, high-end “knowledge workers”—lawyers, programmers, marketers, bankers—will see blue-collar-style automation invade their very expertise. Applications fueled by Large Language Models can “write” legal courtroom memos, document complex computer software code, and produce full-page market analyses in seconds. A McKinsey Global Institute study released last month found generative AI could automate activities making up 60-story70% of employees’ work today. But industry experts believe this will not usher in the era of mass unemployment. “Generative AI is not going to displace the knowledge worker, it will replace the knowledge worker who isn’t using it,” says Dr. Aris Thorne, a leading labor expert. “We’re moving from an era of information gathering to synthesis and critical curation.” Defining the daily routine, software engineers use tools like GitHub Copilot to get the bulk of their software code written, so they can spend more time architecting and securing their systems. In marketing, copywriters use AI to produce marathons of ad-copy variations instantly, living in a house of dozens instead of rooms of one, moving roles from drafting to editing and strategic coordination. This integration can’t happen without myriad hiccups and bumps. Business leaders clash over privacy and IP theft concerns as well as the ever-present danger of the AI “hallucinating” or confidently asserting untruths for its information. There is also a “gap” in vulnerability—the so-called “entry-level gap.” If AI does all the rudimentary work normally doled out to interns and noobs, how do millennial experts get that all-important toe-in-the-door experience? Meanwhile, colleges and corporates scramble for traction. AI literacy—“Prompt engineering” and other new skills—laudably crash on resumes along with the tried-and-true undergraduate affluence. In the end, it is both a blessing and a curse. In exchange for huge increases in productivity, less time in repetitive ruts of administrative burnout, life-saving medical breakthrough, and brave reverses of the scourge of dystopia, workers will need to morph and limberize faster than perhaps possible. The Golden Age of work modeled on individual intellect plunges headlong into the Age of the Human Machine.

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