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Thursday, 22 January, 2015\u00a0 -( +23\u02daF \/ 5\u02daC\u00a0 & cloudy @ 11:11 am near Ithaca )-\u00a0\u00a0-( +12\u02daF \/ -11\u02daC \u00a0 & hazy\u00a0 @ 12:20 2m Closer to Halifax —jim w—)-\u00a0\u00a0 —\u00a0 { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— } { Some things change, some articles remain. Do you know where your survival kit is?\u00a0 —djo— }
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— Today is my cousin, Kathy Conroy’s Birthday. A couple other people I know also have birthdays tody.\u00a0 —Jim W—<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kathy Kelly will begin a 3 month prison sentence tomorrow, January 23rd, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. She said that 90% of victims killed by drones are civilians and quotes a British organization, “Reprieve” which reports that for ever military targeted person taken out by a drone, 28 civilians are killed. —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Remember<\/a>

Sounds Good To Me – —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

{ Canada’s Conservative government is set to introduce expanded powers for surveillance agencies, likely for the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC<\/a>) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). – Speaking last week in Vancouver<\/a>, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that the government is “looking at additional powers to make sure that our security agencies have the range of tools available,” apparently to address incidents like the shootings in Paris. However, judging by past policy patterns reaching the highest government levels, such new “powers” will likely be aimed at stifling and criminalizing voices of dissent, here are some reasons why. – Over recent years, the track record of Canada’s state surveillance agencies has been made clear through numerous access to information requests<\/a> and public accounts<\/a>, the record is that First Nations have been a prime target for government spying<\/a>, whileenvironmentalist<\/a> and social justice groups<\/a> are also closely watched. – Throughout the Idle No More protests both CSIS<\/a> and the RCMP, working in concert, monitored closely the community protests for treaty rights, actions that inspired manyIndigenous youth<\/a> to vocalize publicly the apartheid realities<\/a> facing First Nations people. – Conservative politicians refused to ever fully recognize the voices and demands of Indigenous people on the streets during Idle No More, like the Nishiyuu Walkers<\/a>, instead turning shadowy government agents on the first peoples of these lands. By extension, all other major Canadian political parties, both the Liberals and the NDP, have failed to denounce clearly, the sustained spying by CSIS and the RCMP on First Nations communities. – Within the context of the “additional powers” that Harper is publicly indicating will be given to spy agencies in the coming period<\/a>, the likely reality is that additional attention from CSIS will be focused on First Nations peoples protesting for human and land rights in Canada. – On CSEC, Canada’s digital surveillance agency, likely involved in the same type of mass data collection practiced by the National Security Agency (NSA) south of the border<\/a>, something never publicly disputed by CSEC, the new “powers” that Harper is speaking about will also most likely involve CSEC, an organization with tight operational links to the NSA. – Details made public by American whistleblower Edward Snowden<\/a>, indicate that Canada’s CSEC maintains a “close co-operative relationship” with the NSA, a working collaboration that involves CSEC offering “resources for advanced collection, processing and analysis.” To date the Canadian government and by extension CSEC, has never confirmed or denied any of these details, in state security terms we know very well what that means. – Today, in the wake of the shootings in Paris, the Conservative government in Ottawa is working to exploit the deaths and by extension the larger neo-colonial political crisis in France<\/a>, to expand the role of state surveillance agencies, like CSIS and CSEC, that define contemporary neo-liberal authoritarianism<\/a>, a political orientation that is firmly rooted and extends from the colonial era. – Instead of embarking on a real political discussion on the ways that contemporary western systems of power are central to creating the conditions for “terrorism,”<\/a>\u00a0Harper is simply expanding the surveillance practices of neo-colonialism and by extension justifying war. – Harper’s comments in Vancouver<\/a> on the Paris shootings, intentionally exploit the violence with the aim of legitimizing Canada’s role in the bombing of Iraq. “And they have declared war on any country like ourselves that values freedom, openness and tolerance,” stated Harper, “and we may not like this and wish it would go away, but it is not going to go away and the reality is we are going to have to confront it.” – In real terms this is a call from Harper for prolonged Canadian participation in war, the sustained bombing of Iraq<\/a>, a military campaign purportedly aiming to save the Iraqi people from the Islamic State (ISIS) group by bombing their cities and towns. – Bombing people to save them, that was an argument made by the U.S. government during the war in Vietnam<\/a> and again with the 2003 invasion of Iraq<\/a>, both interventions that clearly has lead to sustained violence and human suffering, remember the M\u1ef9 Lai massacre<\/a>. How are more western bombs going to liberate Iraq, or Syria, from ISIS? – Most certainly Canada’s moves to join the ‘war’ against ISIS will lead to significant profits for Canada’s ever growing military industrial complex, while simply leading to more death and destruction in Iraq. In reality the entire bombing campaign in Iraq is rooted in violent colonial logic, the very same framework that is fueling the type of violence seen this past week in Paris<\/a>, the people carrying out the shootings in France spoke about the images of US torture at Abu Ghraib prison<\/a> and also the Israeli military occupation of Palestine as reasons of the attacks. – Now clearly nothing justifies the killing of cartoonists, or civilians in a supermarket in Paris, but we can’t continue to ignore that western colonialism, past and present<\/a>, is creating the context for such violent incidents to continue. In a cycle of violence, rooted in colonialism, those holding the monopoly of military power, the U.S., France and Canada, clearly have the greater ability and responsibility to stop the cycle and create real conditions for a just peace. – Instead of examining in truth the roots of the violence, Canada’s Conservative government is simply abusing the memories of all those who died in France, by using the shootings to justify the entrenchment of a surveillance state and to cheerlead neo-colonial military policies abroad. – Stefan Christoff is a writer, community organizer and musician<\/a> living in Montreal who contributes to <\/em>rabble.ca<\/a> find Stefan @spirodon – <\/a>Image: “Strength in the Face of Fighter Jets” by\u00a0Nidal Elkhairy<\/em>\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

\"Help-Amen\"<\/a>

*** I’ve got friends who call this ‘The Prison Industrial Complex’ *** —jim w—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gaaa\"<\/a>

“Git-mo” 2015 ? —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Solidarity\"<\/a>

C’est Bon! Et Je Suis —djo–<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

{ New Stuff Every Day: We don’t change the images with the twitter stuff every day, but there will almost always be something new there, usually at the top of each section.<\/span> The red headlines under ‘read this:’ & ‘Not this:’\u00a0 Will be new<\/span>. The top 4 headlines in blue “Offbeat” will usually be new.<\/span> The top ten headlines in maroon\/brown under “Most Viewed” are almost always all new, with CBC repeating or rewording something every now and then<\/span>. Some of the green healines under “Other” are new, the ones at the top of the list are the most new.<\/span> The top 4 purple headlines under “Local \/ New Brunswick” are New, except when some of those top 4 are repeated over the weekend or a holiday.<\/span> And several of the top olive green headlines under “First Nations” are new on most days<\/span>. — thanks,\u00a0 —djo— }<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Spirit<\/a>

Nice Message —jim w—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

{ +10,709 New tweets since 9 pm Monday – & It just might be National “Something or Other Day”, but nobody tells me these things –\u00a0 —djo— } <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

{ Headlines missing from below: —> Harper’s trying to look like a hero by claiming he is giving families a big tax break. Nope, he’s giving millionaires’ families a big tax break. ‘Normal people’ are carrying the richest ice-holes’ weight.<\/span> Why do white cops shoot young black men? *\u00a0 Link<\/a>\u00a0 *\u00a0 Interesting twist on New Brunswick’s moratorium on Fracking : At the top of the list of what would have to change before the new Premier of N.B. would allow fracking and pre-fracking ‘explorations’ would be “Social License” which, he explained, would mean that the citizens of New Brunswick would have to be in favor of that fracking. = “Hmmmm”<\/span> –\u00a0 * UBER software raised prices during Australian Hostage Crisis to $140-$200 dollars per ride. Then apologized and offered repayments.\u00a0<\/span> — & Loads of people anonymously did nice things for people they never met & Media completely missed that. *\u00a0 —djo— }<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

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{ We’ve tried to move all the New stuff up top here. There may be important and interesting stuff below: Bears, Belugas and Cats may be more important than the corporate ‘bull chips’ in the news to many of our readers, but we tried to give the current newsy stuff priority<\/span>.\u00a0 }<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

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\"Poem<\/a>

Canada In Winter. A poem. This may be a little hard to read. —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Monopoly – Version 2015.1 ? —djo— Somebody told me that ‘trutherbot’ is a holocaust denier. I don’t know. I guess I’ll have to check that out.\u00a0\u00a0 —djo—
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* Link<\/a> * <—<< LInk to an article on the global financial crisis Half Past Human sees coming. —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “Tell me something Positive!”<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n
\"Snowy<\/a>

“Snowy owl ‘epidemic’ sweeps across Ontario.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

I think the Saudi Arabian king, maybe this one’s predecessor, gave a contingent of U.S. troops a flock of sheep and suggested the U.S. military personal could use the sheep to relieve their sexual tension instead of trying to shame any Saudi Arabian women while stationed there.\u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

Radicalization and the ‘Prison Industrial Complex’. I think I read somewhere within the last couple months that it costs more to send one person to prison for a year than it does to send 4 people through a University degree program for 4 years. Radicalization? Either you become addicted to the ‘toys’ the power crazy let you play with, or you see through their ‘stuff’. If you see through their ‘bull chips’ they will label you a radical. The Soviet Union would have labeled you insane and locked you away in an insane asylum indefinitely. We’re not at that stage, yet.\u00a0 <\/span>; <\/span><\/p>\n

Maclean’s magazine called Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada? From what I’ve read most of the racist anger is aimed at First Nations people. In the U.S.A. we call ‘First Nations people’ ‘Native Americans’ \u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

Could you live in a 186 square foot home? I think that’s bigger than a jail cell.\u00a0 \u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “—Nothing up my sleeve—“\/ slight of hand?<\/em><\/span>
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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies\u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

Radicalization a growing risk in Canadian prisons, experts warn \u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

Winnipeg fights back after Maclean’s calls it the most racist city\u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

Could you live in a 186 sq. ft. home?\u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

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Blasts from the recent past:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Politicians paying somebody to wipe out evidence of overspending? They do more than that, GOTO: \u00a0 CAFR1.Com<\/a>\u00a0 ; <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

& – Wouldn’t it be nice if people started living by “Love they Neighbor as thyself”- ‘Could you believe it-? no more war—‘ \u00a0 –<\/span><\/em>
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There’s a link directly above this section in the caption of a copied and pasted re-tweet defining a global economic flying ‘shitstorm’ – The ‘bad guys’ are plotting to manipulate an economic collapse in order to tighten their grip on everyone and take away what remaining freedoms you believe you still have. One encouraging forecast I heard: There are a lot more of ‘US’ than there are of ‘Them’ – ‘Them = Banksters’ and people will not take this. We might have a rough go for a while, but we will shut those Banksters down and change the way we view economic matters. Let’s hope that forecast was right and lets pray for all the help we need to get through this with ‘ease and grace’ [ —djo— ]<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 <\/span>;<\/span><\/p>\n

The Keystone pipeline. Um, (1) Big oil companies have ‘buried’ patents for processes that could make competitive technologies viable. (2) Nicola Tesla knew about and was working on methods to distribute electricity free to everybody and the rich and powerful ruined him financially because he was a threat to their monopolies. (3) There’s a book that might be available somewhere, “The Energy Non-Crisis” by Lindsey Williams, a Baptist Pastor who was privileged to insider information and learned that oil keeps replentishing itself, Oil Companies have raised their prices based on lies and are still making record profits. Farmers in Texas discovered new oil on their property, thought they would be rich, signed deals with big oil companies had their wells dug and were told that the oil companies were not going to use their oil, no matter how good it was and they couldn’t tell the world about this because, according to the terms of their contracts, the big oil companies could sue them for everything they were worth if they did. Big Oil is dirty business. Oil-Sands \/ Tar-Sands is dirty business. Send them buggers to the poor house, or banish them to a parallel dimension where their kind of policies have ruined whole planets and let them starve and freeze with what they’ve done staring them in their faces.\u00a0 ;<\/span><\/p>\n

Housing costs everywhere in the world are controlled by greedy ice-holes. Until we fix that problem by removing those greedy ice-holes from the equation, be prepared to be hammered in the brain by silly propaganda designed to keep you off balance and in a state of anxiety about everything in your environment. Pray for Angelic Intervention. Bring Heaven to Earth. “Help! – Amen”\u00a0 ;<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

All kids need a place to play where they can act out their dreams and even mimic the grown up ice-holes they see every day. I’ll include University aged men and women in this. There should be someplace where almost-grown-up kids can be complete ice-holes for a laugh, as long as they don’t hurt anybody. Maybe universities need in-house computer bulletin boards where students can post all kinds of inflamatory b.s. and nobody outside their little group will ever see it. Faculty could probably use something like that, too. A Private Venting Board where you can call your dean ‘a complete freakin’ waste of good dna’ and get away with it. We never would have heard about Lieutenant Dish if rabid political correctness was in force when M.A.S.H. first entered our collective, -clear throat- uh- ‘consciousness’ (?) –\u00a0 ;<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The problem with big oil began with the fact that they’ve been lying to all of us all along. Oil is created by some natural process inside the earth and on distant planets and moons that never had dinosaurs. It is not ‘fossil fuel’. It constantly replentishes itself. There never was or will be an oil shortage. Prices you pay are inflated by lies. What we need here is cheap renewable energy, which the sun and planet provide for free. Put them lying cheating manipulating Oil Barons in the poor house. Or better yet, put them in Jail – Or teleport them to a barren parallel dimension where the previous crop of greedy, lying, cheating ice-holes made their planet almost un-liveable. ;<\/span><\/p>\n

Trial by mass media does not make anyone guilty. There is due process. Celebrities should not be put on trial in the corporate media before they have been found guilty in a court of law. And think about this: How many people who have been convicted of really heinous crimes have been exonerated by dna evidence in the last few years. Our ‘Justice’ systems are imperfect and subject to corruption and mistakes made by honest people. You better hope you never have to bet your life on your country’s ‘Justice’ system.\u00a0 \u00a0 ;<\/span><\/p>\n

Oilsands, Tarsands. The technology is out there to provide everybody on this planet with free energy. WE can and should make sure that everybody on this planet has a safe shelter and enough to eat. We can do that. We should have been doing that all along. There is no such thing as ‘Fossil Fuel’. But YES! Canada should leave its oilsands in the ground, where it belongs.\u00a0 \u00a0 ; <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"white<\/a>

White Deer? We were accused of trying to pass a goat off as a deer in New Brunswick.\u00a0 *** Our deer friends are back and happy that we’ve got a nice big bag of oats to share with them for Yuletide celebrations. Not a single one of them was wearing a Santa Claus Hat or wearing jingle bells. That is probably a good thing. ***\u00a0 —jim w—\u00a0 *** UPDATE We thought we saw a news story that reported that the white deer in this photo had been killed by a bus up the street. Nope. Tonight she was one of several deer who showed up to thank us for the oats we give them.<\/span>
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“Offbeat”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jenna<\/a>

Husky reunited with her human.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"deer<\/a>

“Deer on Ice Rescued” – This seems more like “Human Decency” than ‘offbeat’.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Quack<\/a>

“Dawn of the Ducks”?<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Light<\/a>

LED lights on a kayak paddle produced this effect. Yum \ud83d\ude42 —djo—<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Three Alaskans Save Avalanche – Trapped Moose. —djo—
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Miss Universe Canada’s insane hockey-themed ‘national costume’ goes viral\u00a0 {\u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bacon is no longer trendy, survey reveals\u00a0 {\u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Municipality orders Quebec man to sismantle ‘hazardous’ snow fort<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0\u00a0 }
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Photo with Irish president expands Kevin Vickers’s Twitter stature \u00a0 <\/span>{ * Kevin Vickers is the Canadian Parliament’s Master at Arms who shot and killed an armed attacker inside the Parliament building after the alleged shooter shot and killed a guard of honor at a Canadian monument last autumn. *\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }
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Pocket dials make up over half of 911 calls to OPP detachment\u00a0 {\u00a0 Accidental dialing made up more like 90% of the 911 calls to one detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘Ship glitter to your enemies’ makes a hard-to-clean mess for people you hate\u00a0 { * & If you believe you have a right to hate anybody you better ship twice as much to yourself. *\u00a0 —djo— \u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back to the Future lives on in Ontario man’s driveway\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>{ * Somebody spent 12 years researching and building an authentic replica of the time traveling Delorean with all the parts that were in the movies. *\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘It didn’t even fight us’: Snowmobilers erscue moose buried in avalanche\u00a0 { * Animals are a lot smarter than most humans realize. *\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6 wild animals in unexpected places … and one very short cat \u00a0 {\u00a0 *\u00a0 Link<\/a>\u00a0 *\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Waterloo photographer captures movement in mesmerizing LED snaps\u00a0 {\u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Goats, elk happy to munch on your used Christmas trees {\u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Couple forced to relocate wedding for Obama’s golf game \u00a0 { \u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Son pays off parents’ mortgage for Christmas \u00a0 { * & The money used to ‘bail out’ the ‘Too big to fail’ Banksters could have paid off everybody’s Mortgages several years ago. The human race survived on this planet for seven and a half million years without banks trying to control us. “Banking Establishments are more dangerous than standing armies!” -Thomas Jefferson.\u00a0 Burn down the banks. Tar and feather anybody who voted for that bail-out. *\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Labrador hoisted to safety after falling 46 metres off cliff \u00a0 { The dog got spooked but survived, with ‘minor injuries but walked out to the trailhead’ after a climber rappelled to a narrow ledge with a rescue harness and both dog and climber were hoisted to safety by an 8-person crew from the Oregon Humane Society.\u00a0 This shouldn’t be ‘Offbeat’- This should be the kind of good news we need a lot more of.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Husky missing for more than 6 months reunited with owner\u00a0 {\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pen pals from P.E.I. and Tennessee meet after 40 years\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deer on ice rescued by B.C. conservation officers\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Polar bears’ stinky feet may help attract mates: study\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

‘He’s just barking in your face’: Would-be police dog fired for poor performance \u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Man’s toilet explodes while city crew cleans sewers \u00a0 {\u00a0\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Students develop app that rewards you for ignoring your phone in social situations \u00a0 { \u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Swedish town seeks to prevent torching of giant Christmas straw goat \u00a0 { * It’s a tradition in the town of G\u00e4vle, every Christmas they build a 13 meter tall straw goat and about 50% of the time vandals burn it down.\u00a0 * Link to WebCam<\/a> * At least in my browser, there was a ‘click here to translate this page’ thing visible for a couple seconds.\u00a0 Jim W has some distant relatives somewhere in Sweden –\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Electric<\/a>

New Electric Vehicle at a charging station<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

“Most Viewed”<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies \u00a0\u00a0{ \u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Isabella Mori lives in ‘tiny home’ in North Vancouver \u00a0 { \u00a0 }<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maclean’s claim that Winnipeg is Canada’s most racist city upsets mayor\u00a0<\/span> {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Target’s package for ex-CEO matches package for all 17,600 Canadian workers \u00a0 { * –<\/span><\/span>Social media readers had some snarky comments Thursday about reports that the former CEO of Target got a total severance and other benefits\u00a0package worth about the same as the total amount\u00a0being offered to all 17,600 of the chain\u2019s Canadian employees who will soon be out of work as the company winds down its presence in Canada. – Target\u2019s “employee trust” package for its Canadian workers, announced last week, amounts to $70 million ($56 million US). It\u2019s designed to provide each worker with 16 weeks of pay<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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