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Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
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-Obits-
Olivier Dassault, France's 9th Richest Man, Dies In Helicopter Crash
[Zero Hedge] French billionaire and National Assembly member Olivier Dassault has been killed in a helicopter crash near Deauville on the northwestern coast of France, Reuters and AFP reported.

Olivier Dassault is one of Serge Dassault's four children who inherited their father's wealth when he died in May 2018. Dassault is the president of strategy and development of the family-controlled aerospace and software conglomerate Dassault Groupe. Olivier is also a politician, serving as a representative in France's National Assembly.

Marcel Dassault, Olivier's grandfather, founded Dassault Aviation, a French aerospace company that started out making propellers in World War I. The Dassault family fortune is estimated at over €21 billion.

According to Forbes, Olivier Dasault's personal fortune was estimated at $7.3 billion, making him the 9th richest man in France behind Patrick Drahi.

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted tribute to the 69-year-old Dassault:

"Olivier Dassault loved France. Captain of industry, deputy, locally elected, a reserve commander in the Air Force. Throughout his life, he never ceased to serve our country, to promote its assets. His brutal death is a great loss. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones."

The pilot of the private aircraft also died in the crash, Le Parisien newspaper is reporting. No cause of the crash has yet been identified.
Posted by: Somber Goings-on2021 || 03/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Pirates

#1  Doesn't matter how much money you have, reality is still a bitch.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/08/2021 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  69 years and a billion €: c'est de bonnes affaires, ca / that's a pretty good run.
Posted by: Choth Elmeasing4056 || 03/08/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Helicopters, I never liked em.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  The grim joke: What was the last thing that went through (helo crash celebrity's name here)?

His teeth...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Should have been What was the last thing that went through helo crash celebrity's mind?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The personal conveyances of the hurried wealthy are often their undoing. I try to seldom be in such a hurry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  I try to seldom be in such a hurry.

Posted by: Jumbo Whomble6553 || 03/08/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#8  How does a helicopter fly?

By beating the air into submission
Posted by: Beavis || 03/08/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  A great man once said,
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 03/08/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#10  flying in choppers is a numbers game
Posted by: 746 || 03/08/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#11  I spend many hours as baggage and cargo in OH58, UH-1, CH-46, Hughes 500 and CH-47s. My CH-47 pilot was an Army Guard Captain who said he always looked at the size of the oil slick under the aircraft to determine how the maintenance was going, and described his aircraft as thousands of spare parts flying in very close formation.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/08/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Accusations that Dassault died in the crash of a Boeing-built helicopter were immediately denied.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/08/2021 16:31 Comments || Top||

#13  The personal conveyances of the hurried wealthy are often their undoing.

I have wondered if Kobe's pilot was told, despite the weather, "Get us to the game on-time or you'll never work in (the wealthy personal transportion) industry again!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
50 Years Ago Today: Ali-Frazier I
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Clem || 03/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Down goes Harris Fraziuh!
Posted by: Zorba Sinatra1695 || 03/08/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I once spoke to a chauffeur for Ali. He asked Ali why he had no bodyguards. Ali responded, I have this (his fist) and Allah.
Posted by: Dale || 03/08/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Back in the days when fights went 15 rounds.

Makes you miss Howard Cosell. Well, maybe a little bit.
Posted by: Clem || 03/08/2021 16:51 Comments || Top||

#4  His Toupee still Lives!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2021 20:19 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Video after massive explosions in Equatorial Guinea.
[Twitter]


Update from An Nahar at 4:55 p.m. ET:
The toll from accidental explosions that rocked a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and the surrounding area rose sharply on Monday to 98 dead and 615 wounded, the vice president said.

The blasts on Sunday, involving ammunition stocks and explosives at the camp in the country's economic hub Bata, devastated buildings at the compound and countless houses in surrounding residential areas.

"At the moment, we deplore 98 dead and 615 injured," Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue wrote on his Twitter account.
Based in this information, I’m moving this to Page 3: Non-WoT. And very happy not to have a new front in the War in Terror to challenge our beloved president’s limited faculties.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/08/2021 05:49 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Look at all the fresh rubble"
"Errrr...that's been there for decades"
"But some is fresh"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2021 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Islam, it's a blast?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 03/08/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonga Coup
Part 2?
Posted by: York Harding || 03/08/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  93% of the population is Christian, with only 2% Muslim, though there are influxes from jihadi trouble spots Cameroon and Nigeria. I suspect it will eventually be discovered to be the either an accident resulting from poor storage practices or chemistry/engineering students tired of a tyranny that dates back to 1979.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  um, what about the worlds largest Islamic country right next door? Indonesia just sayin'
Posted by: 746 || 03/08/2021 13:44 Comments || Top||

#6  oh, my bad , wrong guinea
Posted by: 746 || 03/08/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Cancelled Tech Genius Behind Brave Preps the First New Search Engine
[FrontPageMagazine] You may remember Brendan Eich. He was the brilliant mind behind JavaScript who co-founded Mozilla, and then was forced out as an early victim of cancel culture over his religious views on traditional marriage.

Since then, the Mozilla Foundation has vanished into further obscurity. Hardly anyone uses Firefox. Thunderbird is a disaster.

But Eich rebounded with Brave, a privacy-oriented browser. That's not a unique idea, most alternative browsers to Google's Chrome and whatever Microsoft is calling its browser this week, claim to offer privacy.

But Brave recently had a gamechanger by way of integrating IFPS.

IFPS is potentially a huge deal in an internet that is centralized around a handful of Big Tech monopolies because it moves from a vertical model to a horizontal one, in which sites are loaded from other internet users. Think of it as Torrent for internet browsing. And that will make it much harder to take those sites down.

Now Brave is announcing a new search engine.

Remember, there are only two actual big search engines (where there once used to be many), Google and Bing. Services like DuckDuckGo just serve up results from Bing while keeping you anonymous.

But Brave is touting not just a front for Bing results, but an actual index. That's potentially huge.

Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile.

Today it’s announced the acquisition of an open source search engine developed by the team behind the (now defunct) Cliqz anti-tracking search-browser combo. The tech will underpin the forthcoming Brave Search engine — meaning it will soon be pitching its millions of users on an entirely ’big tech’-free search and browsing experience.

"Under the hood, nearly all of today’s search engines are either built by, or rely on, results from Big Tech companies. In contrast, the Tailcat search engine is built on top of a completely independent index, capable of delivering the quality people expect but without compromising their privacy," Brave writes in a press release announcing the acquisition.

The former Cliqz dev team, who had subsequently been working on Tailcat, are moving to Brave as part of the acquisition. The engineering team is led by Dr Josep M Pujol — who is quoted in Brave’s PR saying it’s "excited to be working on the only real private search/browser alternative to Big Tech".

"Tailcat is a fully independent search engine with its own search index built from scratch," Eich told TechCrunch. "Tailcat as Brave Search will offer the same privacy guarantees that Brave has in its browser.

"Brave will provide the first private browser+search alternative to the Big Tech platforms, and will make it seamless for users to browse and search with guaranteed privacy. Also, owing to its transparent nature, Brave Search will address algorithmic biases and prevent outright censorship."

This is also known as a Federated system. Being able to do this on the internet breaks the "Walled Garden" approach of not only Google and Bing, but Facebook and Twitter as well. Since the info is gleaned from millions of websites and not brought through a centralized structure, editing search results is nearly impossible.

Expect big tech to fight this with every dirty game they can.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2021 12:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  uhh... Late to the party!

[runs off to install Brave]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/08/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure reads well; local reviews?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2021 16:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Been using brave for over two years, I like it alot.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/08/2021 17:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Highly recommend Brave. Breaks some sites, but you can turn off protection to use them if needed.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2021 17:13 Comments || Top||

#5  If Silentbrick and DarthVader vouch for it, we can see its been working for Rantburg.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 17:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Two big thumbs up; thank you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Been using Brave since it first became available. Generally I like it and it's privacy tools, though I have to wonder, if you're that concerned about privacy, why would you base the browser on Google Chrome?
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/08/2021 18:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Works on Rantburg just fine!

Also it blocks the stupid YouTube ads 99.9% of the time. The ones it does is a simple frame with a "Skip Ad".
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2021 20:07 Comments || Top||

#9  I loathe Bing something awful.

I use Firefox only to avoid Chrome, IE, and Bing, but I wasn't aware of Brave. It sounds fantastic! And to support a good product founded by someone forced out by PC bovine egesta, then all the better.

Thanks for the tip.
Posted by: Clem || 03/08/2021 21:09 Comments || Top||

#10  I really don't like firefox and ever since adblocker died, just disliked it. And I use Brave even though it's born from Chrome because I've tried to use Opera and others and they just suck. I LOATHE microsoft's browser and really like brave. I use it on phone and computer. I also have duckduckgo's browser on my tablet but it's not as easy to use.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/08/2021 21:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Writing this from Brave. I'll probably need to tinker with it a bit, but so far, so good.

I used to use Startpage search engine but now I use "Duck".

Someone told me, I think, that Firefox went down hill after they either got bought out or just some annoying change, I can't remember.

Remember Netscape?
Posted by: Clem || 03/08/2021 21:30 Comments || Top||


A Quick Guide to Free Speech and Avoiding Big Tech Online
[The National Pulse] Many people have been asking for a basic, anti-big tech guide. So we’re putting this together as a starting point for information on what services you should use, and what you really shouldn’t. We will be constantly updating this page, so make sure to favorite/bookmark it and check back often.
Skipping down to the end -
For advanced users, the following list of recommendations can provide further decoupling from Big Tech:

Instead of Windows10 and MacOS, explore Linux (Ubuntu) or any other flavor as main operating system;
Instead of stock Android and iOS, try custom Android roms like LineageOS or GrapheneOS;
Instead of Gmail or Outlook or YahooMail, try MailFence, Tutanota, CripText, or ProtonMail;
Instead of Google Photos or iCloud, try Internxt;
Instead of Google Authenticator, try Tofu (IOS) or andOPT (Android);
Instead of iCloud KeyChain (Safari) or other mainstream password manager, try Bitwarden.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/08/2021 07:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Read Rantburg
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  and instapundit.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/08/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Moved to Cyber.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  and Ace
Posted by: 746 || 03/08/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe's Vaccine Missteps Alarm Stock Investors Around the World
[Yahoo News/Bloomberg] Europe's vaccine blunders are alarming some of the world's top investors, who see economic growth imperiled by a slow pace of business reopenings.
Vaccine issues? Vaccine rollout issues? Or reopening issues?
While the region's stocks are riding the global rally and faring well against the selloff in U.S. big tech, prolonged lockdowns threaten the economic recovery. Investors are taking notice. European equity funds have recorded three weeks of outflows, with Bank of America Corp. and BlackRock Investment Institute warning that the continued virus outbreak could hurt trading strategies in the single-currency bloc.
So the issue is lockdowns?
"The Europeans desperately need to accelerate the pace of their vaccine rollout if they want to get a handle on the virus," said Seema Shah, the London-based chief strategist at Principal Global Investors Ltd., which manages $544 billion. "Bureaucracy and confused messaging from governments has weighed on the process."
Faster vaccinations would speed up reopenings?
Principal prefers U.S. equities over Europe, citing President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill as economic fuel. Europe's recovery fund "pales in comparison," she said.
Go Joe!
Plagued by political infighting, supply disruptions and public resistance, continental Europe is far behind in distributing the vaccine. The EU has administered 8 doses per 100 people, compared with 33 for the Brexited U.K. and 25 for the U.S., according to Bloomberg's Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. A delay of one to two months in reopening could cost the EU economy between 50 billion and 100 billion euros in lost output, according to calculations by Bloomberg Economics.

In the eyes of investors, that could still be too late. "These are the critical summer months," wrote Bank of America strategists including Athanasios Vamvakidis. "Losing a second tourist season is a risk for the EU."

There is some progress. In Germany, the infection rate in people over the age of 80 has plummeted by about 80% since late December as doctors prioritize giving shots to the elderly. Thanks to new supply pacts and increased production, the EU may be able to vaccinate 75% of its adult population by the end of August, about two months earlier than previously forecast, according to London-based research firm Airfinity Ltd.
August is when the Euros vacation, so that's probably toast, too.
The bank expects the euro to weaken to $1.15 by year-end from a current level of $1.19, citing "American exceptionalism" as the driving force.
American ... What?? That is so 19th century!
The U.S. is vaccinating people faster and its total fiscal support is up to six times greater than the EU's recovery fund. Plus, American shoppers have saved more money to spend after the pandemic, Bank of America strategists said.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Dating apps: Vaccination ensures better chances of love
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/08/2021 02:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Excuse me , but I kind of doubt that premise.

Posted by: Felons Unions3524 || 03/08/2021 3:26 Comments || Top||

#2  IMO, the most wide-spread mistake in analysis is generalizing from personal experience.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/08/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#3  “The drop is simply stunning,” Professor Johnson said. “Just 10 years ago, the surplus of births over deaths was 44 percent higher.” Thus the push for immigration. OBGYN wrong profession to be in. I see it every day. Most men prefer being single that I talk with. Women offer too much drama and demands for money are never ending. First date, do you own your own home, how much do you make in earnings and where do you work. One even showed up at a dates place of work to verify. Have a child and the women have a network of support to get all that can be gotten from the man. They advise numbers to shoot for and compare notes. Women with money don't date because "they fear men will get their money". The woman to fear is a woman drug dealer who does not use. It's all about money and nothing else.
Posted by: Dale || 03/08/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4 

Maybe some think the VAX demonstrates something they want....

A person with job that forced the person to get it (INCOME).
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/08/2021 10:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Just think what multiple masks might do for your love life along with COVID vaccines.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||


Israeli 5-minute Battery Charge Aims to Fire Up Electric Cars
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] From flat battery to full charge in just five minutes -- an Israeli start-up has developed technology it says could eliminate the "range anxiety" associated with electric cars.

Ultra-fast recharge specialists StoreDot have developed a first-generation lithium-ion battery that can rival the filling time of a standard car at the pump.

"We are changing the entire experience of the driver, the problem of 'range anxiety'... that you might get stuck on the highway without energy," StoreDot founder Doron Myersdorf said.

The innovation could eliminate the hours required to recharge an electric car, he said.

Hundreds of prototypes are being tested by manufacturers.

His company, based in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, is backed by four key investors: German automobile manufacturer Daimler, the UK's British Petroleum and the electronic giants Samsung and TDK.

Myersdorf, who set up the company in 2012, has tested the battery on phones, drones and scooters, before tackling the big prize of electric vehicles.

But Eric Esperance, an analyst at Roland Berger consulting firm, cautioned that while ultra-fast charging would be a "revolution", many stages remain.

"We are still far off from the industrial automotive market," he told AFP.

In 2019, the Nobel Chemistry Prize was awarded to John Goodenough of the US, Britannia's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino for the invention of lithium-ion batteries.

"This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on awarding the prize.

Myersdorf said charging "speed was not part" of the original design that won the Nobel, so he worked on what was "considered impossible": a lithium-ion battery good to go in minutes.

"We wanted to demonstrate that you can take a lithium-ion battery, replace some of its materials and then charge it in five minutes," he said.

The engineer switched the original graphite in the battery's negative anode with silicon.

"We are taking that amazing innovation of the lithium-ion battery and upgrading it to extreme fast charging capability," he said.

Batteries are assembled in a laboratory equipped with large glass boxes, sealed to keep oxygen out.

StoreDot chemists clad in goggles and white coats build 100 batteries a week, sent to companies for possible use in their products.

The team is already working on a second generation of batteries to cut costs.

While the design cycle of a vehicle is "typically four to five years", they are looking to speed up the process.



Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wishful thinking. Young people in cities don't own vehicles, they use rentals. Mass transit is the goal. Costs for most too prohibitive. I see it more likely horse and buggy days will return, especially in rural areas. Service issues alone will be prohibitive. EMS services at wrecks will require special training and tools. Main goal to to prevent individual freedoms to move about at will.
Posted by: Dale || 03/08/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Great! Um, BTW, where does the electricity come from?
Posted by: || 03/08/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Do you see those electrical cables coming into the charger *glowing*? That is the energy losses from the required "current density" (amperage) needed to push kilowatts worth of energy quickly into the battery medium... This will require a series of Hi-voltage/Hi-amperage power lines back to the "new and improved" power stations.
Posted by: magpie || 03/08/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Glass battery boxes and cars? Yeah I don't see a problem either. Ask Boeing about the steel battery box they had to install in the 787 Screamliner to Prevent contain the battery fires...
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/08/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  If switching materials results in a cell phone or iPad that can go significantly longer between charges, or charges significantly faster, I’m in. On the other hand, while one of our vehicles is dual fuel, I have absolutely no interest in going all electric, not even if the vehicle carries an easily changed out spare battery and has solar panels on the roof to charge it with. Our current house, apparently at the end of a power line, is too often without electricity for me to be comfortable having no alternatives — even though my exurb has with time become merely a suburb.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6 
Answer-> #2 -

Posted by: Foozle Shaggier4995 || 03/08/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||

#7 





Home Model
Posted by: Foozle Shaggier4995 || 03/08/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#8 

The TW Portable Model

For Special Applications


Posted by: Foozle Shaggier4995 || 03/08/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Jumbo Whomble6553 || 03/08/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#10 
TW Slim & Trim Whole House Power Station

Posted by: Trusting Civic4189 || 03/08/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#11  <3
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||

#12  We had lots of small rodents when I was a child — hamsters and gerbils mostly, with the occasional guinea pig. So the song of the night time exercise wheel is like a lullaby to me.

The bicycle one is how my mother and her parents powered the secret radio during WWII.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Maybe firing up a 5-minute artillery battery might be better.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Urban Dictionary Bans

[ZH] The Urban Dictionary, which allows users to submit virtually any phrase with any definition, has removed a reference to "Blue Anon" - a new phrase mocking leftists for their belief in right-wing conspiracy theories, "such as the Russia Hoax, Jussie Smollett hoax, Ukraine hoax, Covington Kids hoax, and Brett Kavanaugh hoax."
[Several examples of Twitter posts at the link.]
Posted by: Clem || 03/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Eventually the term will be used often enough they have to add it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/08/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  All that content in UD, and Blue Anon is unacceptable?

Guess I'll have to start using it now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-03-08
  Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
Sun 2021-03-07
  Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden's ‘Open Border Policies'
Sat 2021-03-06
  More ballistic missile strikes on other oil markets now in northern Syria, this time near al-Bab
Fri 2021-03-05
  VP vote needed just to get House Covid-19 bill heard on Senate Floor!
Thu 2021-03-04
  an 8.0 Ouch with some 7.3's and tsunami ?
Wed 2021-03-03
  Rockets hit air base in Iraq hosting American troops, US forces say
Tue 2021-03-02
  Israel sentences senior PFLP member to two years in prison
Mon 2021-03-01
  Portland protesters smash businesses as locals scream at them to 'go home'
Sun 2021-02-28
  Trump Speech in Orlando -- LIVE
Sat 2021-02-27
  Algerian anti-government protesters hit the streets after year-long hiatus
Fri 2021-02-26
  Hamburg Customs Seizes Over 16 Tonnes of Cocaine From Paraguay in Europe's Biggest Haul
Thu 2021-02-25
  Police detain Al-Shabaab and ISIS terrorists in Turkey's capital Ankara
Wed 2021-02-24
  El Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, arrested on drug trafficking charges
Tue 2021-02-23
  Cleverness: U.S. Says Will Hold Iran 'Responsible' in Iraq but Won't 'Lash Out'
Mon 2021-02-22
  'Inexplicable': Alito and Thomas Dissent as Supreme Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit

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