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Posts in category Slavs
March 1, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x
I couldn't think of a title so I modified one of the lines from Fallout 4 to use as a title for now.
In the late 1990s Kayla was with her family as a child. The Germans had won World War II and installed their own government in the United States. Everyone else was happy that day, but Kayla felt disconnected from her family and didn't have a sense that she really belonged with them. It was the earliest memory she would have of being different.
As Kayla grew up she noticed that she wasn't treated the same as the other girls in school but didn't know why. She tried to discover the difference between her and the other children but couldn't come up with anything that separated her from them. When she asked her parents and teachers why she was treated differently they denied that there was anything fundamentally different about her. They said that kids were mean sometimes and everyone got treated badly and there was nothing different about what she was going through even if it felt like there was. Kayla believed it at first but realized that there had to be something different about her.
When Kayla was in high school, she started to notice that she wasn't like the other kids. She knew that there was something different about her but she couldn't identify it. The was the point where she started having regular dreams about living in Russia which was still communist. The border had been pushed eastward by the Germans. These dreams made Kayla feel like a freak. Everything that she had learned about the Slavs said that they were backward and disgusting freaks. It felt like there was a weight constantly present and some force was eating away inside her when she felt a connection with Slavs and no idea what her problem was. Kayla read about depression and her family concluded with a psychiatrist that it was what she was experiencing, but medication never worked. Nothing she did made the daily fog go away.
A few years later when Kayla was 20 she came across a conspiracy theory online that she couldn't stop thinking about. The Nazis had replaced children they wanted to turn into Einsatzkommandos who were engineered super humans patrolled the Reich. They replaced the missing children with Slavs who they thought could be integrated into their society. This theory was almost complete dismissed as creative imagination but there were people who had come out as the children who had been replaced. Their experiences were covered up as being delusional. Kayla was fascinated and couldn't stop reading about the theory. It explained why she had always felt disconnected from her family, even in her earliest memories. She had a high paying job with the Nazis, so she never mentioned her discovery to anyone.
After another year Kayla found a forum run by someone named Dima who claimed to have a refuge where Slavs could live and be accepted. It was filled with people like her who had always known that something was wrong but never had any idea what was wrong with themselves. She started asking how to know if she was a Slav. Several people came to tell her that there was no test that could be done, but she could figure out herself if she was a Slav by examining her memories and any strange dreams that pointed toward being a Slav. It was hard for her to accept coming from the atheist Reich, but she felt sure enough that she was a Slav that she decided to listen to her feelings. They told her it wasn't just about feelings and to look for particular signs that she was a Slav. She mentioned the dreams she had about living in Russia and how she had been ashamed of them and how completed she felt when she had first learned that she might be a Slav and how it felt like an answer to the life long fog she had lived through. The other users on the forum told her that it sounded like she was a Slav and she felt immense joy in finally being able to connect with people who had lived through the same experiences as her.
Over the next several months Kayla spent time at home with the Slavs on the forum. She had started using a Polish name and worked on open source projects with the other members. She discussed plans to go and live with other Slavs and learned that many of them lived in the refuge but some of them continued to live where they already were and tried to make the best of their situation. Kayla wanted to go live with them, but she already had everything she wanted where she already was.
As Kayla started to accept her new identity as a Slav, she stopped being able to take the weight of hiding it. She told her parents why she had felt different growing up and that she had discovered that she was a Slav. They responded by disowning her and her father told her that he wasn't going to waste time and money on a Slav. A man named Ryan she worked with took her in.
One day when Kayla was at work, two Einsatzkommandos came in to the building and took her to one of their interrogation rooms. One of them introduced himself as Officer Smith.
"You've been living as another person late at night. You've even found a name for this other life." Kayla stayed slient. "You seem to believe that you're a Slav and you were replaced at birth because that's what they told you. It's a lie they told you to manipulate you. All they want is to take advantage of you. This other life that they've tricked you into creating has no future. Right now you have a future filled with everything you want working with technology for the Reich. If you want you could throw it all away chasing this fantasy that you've clung to as a way of explaining your history of mental illness. You're depressed. The Reich will pay for medication to treat you. If having an easy and productive life isn't what you want then you can chose your other life based on lies. Once everyone knows you're a Slav you lose everything. They'll treat you as an abomination. You can continue living your delusion and lose everything or you can live the life intended for you had have the wealth and support you still have."
Kayla agreed to stop living the life she had discovered and to go back under the impression that she was simply delusional and had clung to a conspiracy theory in order to explain her mental illness. She spent the next few years living with her boyfriend who had accepted her after learning that she was a Slav. She tried to avoid thinking about it and reminded herself that she was just believing a conspiracy theory if she ever started to wonder about it, and believing that theory would cause her to lose everything for nothing.
In 2015 Ryan came home and told Kayla that he would be meeting with a family in the morning to discuss what happened to their daughter who had left suddenly. She was 18 and had suddenly disappeared without giving any details. Kayla didn't have any idea what had happened.
The next day Ryan went to meet with the parents of the girl who disappeared. They said that she had left a note saying that she had gone to live with other people and they shouldn't worry, but no other information then that. Her father wondered if the note had been faked by someone else. Ryan spent an hour asking questions to learn about their daughter Kate and learned that her grandfather had died a few months earlier and the two of them had been very close. The parents showed Ryan where Kate's computer was and asked if he could use it to find out where she had gone. He took out a Linux USB drive and got to work checking it to see what information it could offer about what had been going on with Kate before she disappeared.
Kate had constantly visited the same conspiracy website in the months since her grandfather died where other people posted stories about concluding that they were Slavs. Kate had been very active and posted about strange dreams she had been having and a sense of pointlessness she had been experiencing. Other users told her that those were signs that she was a Slav. Ryan felt disgusted that these people were taking advantage of teenagers who were clearly suffering from depression.
Ryan went to Kate's parents and told them what he had found.
"There's no way she can be a Slav." Her mother said. "We raised her."
"There's a conspiracy theory that the Nazis replaced children they wanted with Slavs." Ryan said. "There's a whole community of people online who believe that they're Slavs."
"That's impossible." Her father said. "Why would the government replace children with Slavs? There are so many other options if they wanted to run a secret program."
"Teenagers feel angst and get depressed and they want something to make themselves feel special." Ryan said. "Then these sick adults encourage their delusion because they want validation that they haven't completely ruined their lives by turning themselves into outcasts by claiming to be degenerates. My girlfriend went through the same phase. I'll get your daughter back. The Reich has treatment for depression so she can get the help she needs."
"We've already tried everything and her depression never goes away." Her mother said.
"I'm sure there's something we can do. There's a safe space in the mountains where some of these people go to live. I'll go there and see if I can find Kate and bring her back." Ryan said.
Ryan went home to tell Kayla about the website he had found that led to the location where Kate might be. Kayla said that she had been to the same site, and for the first time she had trouble convincing herself that she was delusional for thinking she was a Slav. Everything she remembered came back and she felt validated in a way she had never felt before to have a connection with someone who experienced the same things as her. The thoughts that she had about being a Slav came tumbling back and she started to doubt what she had been told about being delusional. She didn't mention them to Ryan.
It took several days for Ryan to get to the Slav refuge. He entered the main compound and was directed to the building where new arrivals went. He felt strange walking past the residents who were all there because they were considered subhuman back home. Inside the old building he met Dima who was the leader of the refuge. Ryan asked where to find Kate because she was missing and had been planning to live in the refuge.
"Kate is here." Dima answered. "She is dealing with questions in her own way to figure out her identity."
"What is she trying to figure out?" Ryan asked. "She thinks she's a Slav. Isn't that why she came here?"
"Kate is going through a difficult transition. Every person who comes here is facing the possibility that their entire life has been a lie. We try to make it as easy for them as possible. It's not easy to learn that your entire identity was taken from you and replaced to suit someone else." Dima said.
"Do you really think Kate is a Slav?" Ryan asked.
"That is her decision to make. Only she can decide who she really is." Dima said.
"Her grandfather died recently and her parents said she was depressed because of it. Haven't you considered that as a possibility for why she's clinging to this identity? You've taken a vulnerable teenager away from a loving family." Ryan said.
"I've considered that. It would be sad to take a child needlessly away from their family, but most people who are depressed don't conclude that they are Slavs. It usually takes a long time before people will even admit that possibility." Dima said.
"How did you end up here?" Ryan asked.
"I was put in a mental hospital after I discovered that I was a Slav. One day I escaped and came here. I spent a year just existing until I realized I could help other Slavs, and I built this place. I wanted a place where Slavs could be who they are without the prejudice that they would face in the Reich." Dima said.
"How many people have you brought here?" Ryan asked.
"We've brought in hundreds of people over the years, but many Slavs choose to stay where they are. Some of them eventually move here when the pressure of living in the Reich becomes too much. Some of them have to go into hiding and deny who they really are." Dima said.
"That's what happened to my girlfriend. She said that she was just depressed." Ryan said.
"I remember a girl who reached out to us a few years ago. She was so excited by discovering our community and created a Polish name that she used with us. I felt excited and filled with purpose. Then she posted that her parents disowned her and shortly after we lost contact. The Einsatzkommandos probably got to her and convinced her she was delusional. It's what they do. They present Slavs with a choice of being who they are as an outcast or continuing their current life and chance at prosperity." Dima said.
"What if some of those people really aren't Slavs? If they believe they are then they're facing a life of discrimination." Ryan asked.
"People should be free to make their own decision. If they're not a Slav then they'll come to understand that on their own." Dima said. "I have a question if you feel like you can answer. Are you a Slav?" Dima asked.
"Why would I be a Slav?" Ryan said, completely surprised.
"You mentioned that your girlfriend is a Slav. You're also here. You didn't have to follow Kate all the way here. Most people aren't that interested in us."
"How would I even know?" Ryan asked.
"There isn't only one way that everyone realizes. Try going though your memories. Look for any feelings of isolation or not fitting in that are like splinters in the mind." Dima said.
"I've been having strange dreams since I started watching Jordan Peterson's lectures. I'm fighting in a city somewhere in Russia and there's a girl. We never fight each other." Ryan said.
"That is usually a sign. Strange dreams like that are hinting at some other identity. I know this might not make sense, but please give it time. This can be a lot to process." Dima said.
"I don't think I could possibly be a Slav." Ryan said.
"When you go home, please let your girlfriend know what you learned here and try to support her if she changes her mind. I hope that she can find peace." Dima said.
Dima went to look for Kate. She was working on projects for the refuge since she had experience building things with her grandfather. He asked why she had decided to live with a group of Slavs and why she thought she was one of them. She went through the story starting with being alone after her grandfather died. In all the time she had by herself she started going online constantly. One day she came across a thread discussing the conspiracy theory that children had been replaced with Slavs. She started researching it out of curiosity and found Dima's website where she got lost reading all the personal accounts of people who believed they were Slavs. Over time she started to consider the possibility that she was a Slav. Then she started having strange dreams. Kate ended up contacting the other users on the forum and eventually started making plans to go live in the refuge but decided to keep it a secret from her parents because she didn't want them to know she was a Slav. Other users on the forum had posted that telling their parents was like telling them that their child had died, since their actual child was long gone and many parents reacted with denial or disowned them.
When Kate arrived in the refuge she was welcomed by Dima. He introduced her to the compound where they lived and told her that she was finally with people who would accept her. When they were discussing the refuge, Dima offered her help deciding if she was a Slav and told her to take as much time as she needed to transition.
Racism, Russia, Slavs
When conservatives talk about communists
October 14, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x
I've noticed that when conservatives start blathering on with their useful far right idiocy on the subject of communism of the former USSR they start acting just like Antifa. When conservatives start railing against communism, they start getting irrationally offended just for the sake of being offended even though there's no reason why anyone in a western country should have a deep emotional connection with communism. They get this extremely disingenuous righteous anger followed by expressing hope for violence against communists, which can include anyone who doesn't share their far right views on communism. This is the exact same pattern of behavior as the regressive left. When someone starts expressing irrational anger at something when they have no justification for their level of emotion, it's a sign of projection. Conservatives use the former USSR to project problems with idealistic political system that can't work because of human nature and claimed all men are created equal but led to the murder of 100 million people.
Communism doesn't work because of human nature either. The solution is not "somewhere in the middle."
Conservatives, Politics, Racism, Russia, Slavs
I found this video on Call of Duty WWII
September 28, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x
I relate to the intro of this video and agree with the rest of it.
Centerism, Culture, Fascism, Gaming, Neckbeards, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors
June 21, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x
I started watching part of his video about Battlefield V to see how incredibly cringeworthy it would be. I only watched part of it because I don't feel like listening to an angry virgin rant about something no reasonable person cares about. His incredibly strained, uptight and stressed voice gives away the obvious fact that he's never so much as even touched a girl, if his hatred of women wasn't enough to give it away. Rags seems to have very effeminate speech patterns that are common among boys who live with their parents, which make it all the more ironic when he goes off calling people cucks. Look in the fucking mirror dude. There's a sample subject that feminist and SJW feminization of boys is creating a pandemic of whiny incels. That should be proof I'm not an SJW because I realize I'm sharing a viewpoint with them here.
The part that really stood out as showing how un-self aware Rags is was when he ranted at the "inaccuracy" of including women in World War II. It's not inaccurate but depending on the situation he has a point. I will admit that I do find the inclusion of white women in World War II games to be very off-putting and it does break immersion, sometimes more then other things. Slavic women are technically white but it's not like anyone really cared about that, especially during World War II. Rags couldn't be satisfied with his first complaint and had to drive on stating that previous World War II and World War I games were historically accurate and included an example that is so objectively wrong that he is either dishonest, mentally ill or doesn't even play these games. He tried to say World War II games don't include holographic sights when Call of Duty World War II in 2017 included sights that are functionally identical and Battlefield 1 in 2016 included functionally similar sights in World War I. As for his claim about historical accuracy, Battlefield 1 includes late war and experimental sub machine guns as entry level weapons that are available to every player and covers the battlefields of Europe with fully semi automatic rifles. Battlefield 1942 included German soldiers running around Britain with StG-44s in 1940. If that isn't a giant fuck you to immersion and historical accuracy then I don't know what should qualify.
One last blow to the arguments of shrieking neckbeards was the game Silent Storm from 2003. It allowed the player to create a female character from any country and included female NPCs that could be added to the player's squad. I originally only used men and Soviet women in my squad for muh immersion but after I saw other immersion breaking characteristics of the game I stopped caring as much. At one point I was equipping my Soviet female character with a silenced sub machine gun and she said "I bet you are giving me this because I am a woman." I laughed and then realized what would happen if they made a game like this today. If an incel had a female character say that to them, it would trigger them worse then SJWs when Trump was elected. Back in 2003, there wasn't this level of outrage over wimminz in video games. Only a year later Call of Duty included a playable female character in their campaign, and no one freaked out. Of course, it was in the Soviet Union and it made sense.
I don't even like SJWs but I still recognize this bullshit for what it is. I understand what makes the regressive left regressive, and it is because of their tone, accusations and how they force things on people. At the same time, people do want to be progressive and include women in games because it's popular right now. Most people can put that in perspective and no one is forcing incel soyboys to play video games they don't like. It is honestly jarring to see non Soviet women in a World War II game, and it does break immersion more then technical inconsistencies like the time period a map takes place in and the weapons that are available. It's not a huge problem either and I was able to adapt when Call of Duty World at War allowed the Japanese to use Soviet weapons because the classes weren't specific to each country. My honest opinion is that non Soviet women don't belong in World War II games. However, I can articulate that clearly and it's not just a manifestation of latent sexism. I can also put it in perspective and I understand why some games allow women from all countries. In Call of Duty World War II it's because the character you create is used regardless of what country you play as. Even if one were to make a female Red Army soldier, that same character would be used in every army in the game. The level of outrage and incoherence that these nerds get themselves to is proof of their true feelings.
Feminism, Gender, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors
I am not a "supporter" of Count Dankula in any way. His comedy style, from the limited quantity I have seen, seems to appeal to a very low denominator. None of it is anything that should be illegal. The conviction and verdict for the "crime" he committed were certifiable. Anyone who is that easily offended needs to seek professional help in order to help them deal with the stress. This is serious because there's no reason why the video Count Dankula made should cause anyone but a Holocaust survivor so much distress.
If anyone reading this doesn't already know what happened, Count Dankula was convicted of making a video where he trained his girlfriend's dog to make Nazi salutes whenever he said "Gas the Jews." As someone who is part of a race that was murdered in the tens of millions by the Nazis, I think the joke is slightly funny. I wouldn't normally watch videos like that because they're usually juvenile, but that doesn't mean they should be illegal. I don't need to be patronized by regressive pseudo-marxists getting offended on my behalf.
One reason why this whole incident is truly infuriating is because there are real pseudo-psychopathic people online who need to be put in prison for their online actions. These include people who post personal information to direct online hate mobs against their victims to get them fired or even to bully them into suicide. Such campaigns can lead to identity theft and life long financial ruin. Instead, law enforcement is directing their efforts and prosecuting people for being offensive in a terrible miscarriage of online justice.
Centerism, Culture, Fascism, Feminism, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Racism, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors


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Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Bahrain: Government expels citizens after having revoked their nationality
31 January 2018, 13:04 UTC
Turning citizens into stateless people and banishing them by forcing them to leave the country is a violation of international law.
Lynn Maalouf, Director of Research for the Middle-east at Amnesty International
The Bahraini government expelled four of its citizens whose nationality was revoked in 2012, in yet another display of the kingdom's steady and sustained disregard of its own citizens and for human rights and international law more broadly, said Amnesty International.
Brothers Ismail and Ibrahim Darwish were expelled to Iraq at 09:00am on 28 January 2018, followed by Adnan Kamal and Habib Darwish on 29 January 2018. Four other people, Mohammed Ali, Abdul Amir, Abdulnabi Almosawi and his wife Maryam Redha, who also had their nationality revoked that same year, were told they would be forcibly deported to Iraq on 1 February 2018.
"The Bahraini government is using revocation of nationality – rendering many of its citizens stateless in the process - and expulsion, as tools to crush all forms of opposition, dissent and activism," said Lynn Maalouf, Middle-East Research Director at Amnesty International.
"It is doing so with little to no pushback from the international community, including key allies such as the United Kingdom that could use their leverage to publicly condemn these actions."
"Turning citizens into stateless people and banishing them by forcing them to leave the country is a violation of international law. Bahrain's authorities must immediately halt all planned expulsions and allow those it has already expelled to return to the country and reinstate their nationality."
The four men who were expelled are part of a group of 31 Bahraini citizens who were stripped of their nationality on 7 November 2012 on grounds that they had caused "damage to state security". The 31 people, who were never officially notified of this decision and learned about it from the media, include activists who are now in exile, a lawyer, Shi'a clerics, two former members of parliament and other individuals with no political or religious affiliation.
Since 2011, the Bahraini authorities have revoked the nationality of over 550 people, including at least 150 in 2017
Article 10 of the Bahrain Citizenship Law and its amendments stipulates that nationality can be revoked if a person engages in the military service of a foreign country; if a person helps or engages in the service of an enemy country; or if a person causes harm to state security.
This paragraph is framed too broadly and does not clearly define what could amount to "harm to state security" - thus enabling the state to crush the legitimate and peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly through revocation of nationality, even when doing so renders people stateless.
On 28 October 2014 a lower court in the capital, Manama, ordered the deportation of 10 out of the 31 people whose Bahraini nationality was arbitrarily revoked on 7 November 2012 and fined them 100 Bahraini Dinars.
On 29 January 2018, the Court of Cassation upheld the citizenship revocation and the one-year prison sentence, suspended for three years, of Sheikh Isa Qassem, the country's most prominent Shi'a cleric and spiritual leader of the al-Wefaq opposition party, who is also now at risk of being forcibly expelled.
For more information or to arrange an interview please contact:
Tarek Wheibi, Amnesty International MENA Media Manager on tarek.wheibi@amnesty.org or call +961 81 666 428
or contact Amnesty International's press office on +44 20 7413 5566 or +44 (0)77 7847 2126
email: press@amnesty.org twitter: @amnestypress

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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[ Sol System ] : Hyperdimensional Physics
Finding the message
The NASA Viking spacecraft photographed Cydonia in 1976. A major breakthrough in the investigation of the Cydonia artefacts occurred in 1988 when Erol Torun, a cartographer and systems analyst at DMA (Defense Mapping Agency), joined the Mars Mission team.
Torun became interested in Cydonia after reading Richard Hoagland's book, The Monuments of Mars, as he comments in a letter to the Mars Mission :
"As a geographer, I found your book to be a fascinating description of an equally fascinating subject. While I was impressed with most of the images presented and your description of them, the object that especially caught my attention was the D & M Pyramid. I have a good background in geomorphology and know of no mechanism to explain its formation...
...[Therefore], I decided to study more closely the geometry of the D & M Pyramid because of its impressive symmetry (and its alignment with the Face.) I was not prepared for what I found. The geometry of this object so surprised me that I quickly wrote a semi-formal paper so that I could send my results to you and the Mars Project as soon as possible. I feel that these results argue strongly in favor of Design as the mechanism for the D & M Pyramid's origin..."
Decoding the message
Torun found "coded" in the internal apex angles of the five-sided structure, known as the D & M Pyramid, a series of highly specific, highly redundant mathematical constants and expressions. Further, he discovered these relationships expressed in at least three ways: in the angle ratios of the D & M internal angles (e.g. 60 degrees divided by 69.4 degrees = e/pi = 0.865); in the trigonometric functions of those same angles (sin 60 degrees = e/pi = 0.865); and in the radian measure expressed by a single base angle in the object (49.6 degrees = e/pi radians).
The D & M Pyramid's internal measurements had now become the "Rosetta Stone" of Cydonia, as Richard Hoagland discovered that most of these angles were constantly repeated throughout the whole Cydonia complex : the Face, City, Tholus, Cliff and D & M Pyramid all formed part of a complex design which incorporated a number of significant and redundant figures and angles!
Understanding the message
Whoever built Cydonia was trying to tell us something, that much is obvious. Maths is a universal language and constants such as e or pi can be understood by anyone with a basic knowledge of maths notwithstanding what language one talks in.
To cut a long story short (those interested in the details can read the latest edition of "The Monuments of Mars" by Richard C. Hoagland) the basic message of Cydonia is as follows :
Place an imaginary tetrahedron [a pyramid with four surfaces, each of which are equilateral triangles] inside a sphere [e.g. a planet] with one vertex touching the North or South pole and the other 3 vertices will rest at 19.5 degrees North or South latitude at 120 degree intervals around the sphere. Now rotate this sphere at a high rate of speed and something strange occurs. You get an upwelling of energy from within the sphere seemingly coming from nowhere that produces different [visual] effects depending on what your sphere is made up of. For example, if your sphere is made up of magma (molten rock) and a thin surface crust of solid rock, you get a volcanic upwelling at roughly 19.5 degrees N or S latitude.
Earth : Hawaiian Mauna Kea volcano : 19.6 degrees N ;
Mars : Olympus Mons volcano : 19.3 degrees N
If your sphere is made up of a gas you get a different "visual" effect :
Jupiter : The Great Red Spot : ~19.5 degrees S
More examples of the visible effects of hyperdimensional physics can be found throughout our solar system and are detailed on the Planetary Anomalies page.
Where is this energy coming from ?
Hoagland thinks that this energy is "stored" in a higher dimension than ours (mathematicians currently accept that there may be as much as 27 other higher dimensions) and that this energy "cascades" down and emerges into our dimension at the 19.5 degree latitude on rotating, spherical, liquid bodies - planets!
The Future ?
What does all this mean? What practical uses does this new physics have?
If we can somehow tap into this hyperdimensional energy we would have a new unlimited, infinite, non-polluting, free source of energy.
No fossil or nuclear fuels
No country would need to depend on another country to supply its oil
No control over the price of oil and energy : hyperdimensional energy is free
No power stations
No petrol (gas) stations
No electricity grid
No pollution
Accessible to everyone around the world
Unlimited possibilities : think of everything that works with electricity and imagine what it would be like if you don't have to worry about the bill at the end of each month!
Spaceflight : what spaceships would we build if we had access to hyperdimensional energy? Maybe someone has already built them before us - UFOs ....?
These factors may be the reason why no-one wants to listen to Hoagland - imagine what would happen to Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC countries when they find that their "black gold" has been turned into "black useless muck" overnight; imagine the loss of government income and control that would result if every single household had the ability to generate electricity without being connected to the national grid
Hubble's New "Runaway Planet"
A Unique Opportunity for Testing the Exploding Planet Hypothesis and ... Hyperdimensional Physics
by Richard C. Hoagland
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Forums :: New York Islanders :: Will the Islanders make the playoffs?
JohnScammo
Location: Now I can sell you a bridge AND a team in Brooklyn
Dec 17 @ 10:12 PM ET
Should have been a trip on JHS there before the goal.
- nyisles7
Who tripped JHS? Or are you saying that JHS tripped someone?
nyisles7
Location: Lamoriello Shat Signings, NY
- JohnScammo
Don't know who but he was tripped.
Well, that's one way to stop him.
Pulock AND Boychuk out on the pp ? Holy crap, what a concept 🙄
- cdn_Isles_fan
Honestly cdn Boychuck has been the best dman on the PP.
deflection nothing Greiss could do.
He's played great. He keeps it up he is here to stay.
I'd love to see him get linemates who can finish.
Ho Sang with 2 penalties on the same play???
JimmyP
Location: Snow has melted!
They were profiling him.
Great that they killed them both off!
- JimmyP
Rediculous. I have nothing else to say
Nice kill there.
Wait how does Casey not get the call there
Edit: you call JHS for 2 hooks on one shift how do you not call a hook on Casey
I guess his reputation precedes him.
Great kill!
potvin05
Location: Snow's World (I just live in it), NY
That is (frank)ing bullpoop. You call some ticky tack crap 4min penalty on Ho Sang and then not call an OBVIOUS hook on Cizekas?? That should have been a goal.
- potvin05
WTF (frank) is going on here!
This game is getting nasty.
That's a 5 minute major knee on knee bullpoop 2 mins.
Where's Matt Martin when you need him?
Ho Sang gets 4min and now another obvious call is 2min instead of 5. Deliberate knee there.
Nice! Fack you Avs!
Lee?!
Nice!!! Good, (frank) em. Should have been a major.
No that's how you (frank) them, score a PP goal
Beat you to it!
The power play was overdue!
Location: United States, NY
Shooting the puck works?
Just said the same thing to my son, rediculous made them pay !
- ses111
Wait Leddy's a shooter now
Edit: I think switching Nelson and Bailey was a good move on the PP1
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Continued Uncertainty Regarding Hospital Pricing Transparency
Kayt Sukel
CMS has put forth pricing transparency provisions for both hospitals and insurers – but what will they really mean for healthcare?
Earlier this month, CMS released the much anticipated final calendar year (CY) 2020 rule for the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). While many were expecting specific guidance regarding CMS's controversial proposal for greater hospital pricing transparency regarding privately negotiated rates within the rule-in fact, per the American Hospital Association (AHA), hospitals have already committed resources to complying with the new proposal requirements-the new conditions were noticeably absent. Instead, CMS briefly acknowledged pricing transparency in a few sentences, noting that the agency was still considering the many messages it received regarding the proposed final rule during an open comment period.
Lovisa Gustafson, MBA, assistant vice president at the Commonwealth Fund, says there was a lot of speculation on why the provisions were missing from the CY 2020 OPPS final rule.
"In terms of the transparency requirements being pulled out as a stand-alone rule, the truth is we didn't know the exact reason," she says. "Many speculated that it was to partition the broader CY 2020 rule from the complexity, and potential legal challenges of the transparency provisions."
Yet, just two weeks later, on November 15, 2019, CMS unexpectedly dropped the final ruling regarding hospital transparency as well as new proposed transparency provisions regarding coverage for insurers. In a public announcement of the two rules, HHS Secretary Alex Azar called the provisions "revolutionary changes for our healthcare system."
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"Today's transparency announcement may be a more significant change to American healthcare markets than any other single thing we've done, by shining light on the costs of our shadowy system and finally putting the American patient in control," he said.
The requirements still include a publication of price lists as well as privately negotiated rates between hospitals and insurers on 300 shoppable healthcare services. While CMS said it was carefully reviewing the more than 1,400 comments it received on the proposed rule-notes cautioning that the provisions would not decrease healthcare costs and would likely hurt the very consumers the government claimed they are supposed to help-the final rule was nearly indistinguishable from the proposed version.
"The rule is pretty consistent with the original," says Gustafson. "They are giving hospitals a bit of time for the provisions to take effect, waiting until 2021, because they understand there is a lot that hospitals will need to do to conform to the new rules. But they certainly were not watered down, which can sometimes happen with lobbying or review of comments during the comment period."
While many were surprised by Friday's announcement, Gustafson says that there were hints CMS was thinking about expanding the requirements to apply to payers. As Seema Verma, the Administrator of CMS, recently noted in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the agency would prefer "a less disjointed approach," indicating the agency was working on a combined plan that would include provisions to both provider and payer organizations. The proposed coverage requirements include giving consumers "real-time, personalized access to cost-sharing information, including an estimate of their cost-sharing liability," as well as providing a public website to share negotiated rates for in-network and out-of-network providers. The proposed rule, like the previous hospital transparency rule, is now open for public comment.
While Gustafson says there was already uncertainty across the industry about the potential fall-out for the hospital transparency rules even before they were finalized, there remains quite a bit of ambiguity about how it, as well as its insurance counterpart, will affect the healthcare market now that they've been given the green light.
"There are people who have very different views on what will happen when these prices become transparent," she says. "Economic theory would say that price competition should lead to lower prices over time, which is good for consumers. And there are a number of different ways this information could be used, say by employers, to improve plans and lower the cost of care. But the truth is, we just don't know. We have never had this kind of price transparency before. And we don't know what the effects may be because we haven't had a controlled experiment to see how it might affect the healthcare market. We will just have to wait and see."
Kayt Sukel is a science and health writer based outside Houston.


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Q: How can I loop through a table within a stored procedure? This question evolved from this one.
I have two tables that I need to query and glean some calculated sums from; I need a result set based on units -- one row for each Unit, with calculated data for them folded into that row.
The two tables contain the following pertinent members:
CustomerCategoryLog:
Unit        varchar(25)
MemberNo    varchar(10)
Category    varchar(50)
Subcategory varchar(50)
BeginDate   Datetime
EndDate     Datetime

ReportingMonthlySales:
Unit (VarChar)
MemberNo (VarChar)
MonthlySales (Money)
CYear (Int)
Cmonth (Int)

For each Unit (which has many rows in both tables, one for each MemberNo, but comprises a single row in the result set), I need to populate four columns: New, Assumed, Existing, and Organic. These values are the sums of all Members for the Unit based on those belonging to the corresponding "Subcategory" field. The CustomerCategoryLog table's BeginDate/EndDate values are used for determining what Subcategory the Unit/Member was a part of during the month/year being evaluated.
So a simplified form of the result set looks like this:
Unit    New  Assumed        Existing    Organic     Total
----    ---  -------        --------    -------     -----
Abuelos $22  $44            $33         $11         $110
Gramps  $12  $23            $1          $34         $70
. . .

To put the problem in English, it's something like:
Given the month and year provided as parameters by the user (such as "1" for Month (January) and "2016" for year), find out for each Unit how much $ there was in MonthlySales for each Subcategory within that month (where the BeginDate was less than or equal to the Month/Year date supplied by the user AND the EndDate was greater than or equal to the Month/Year date supplied).
So it seems that I will need to create a Date from the Year/Month parameters for comparison with the BeginDate and EndDate values in the CustomerCategoryLog table (The other option would be to alter the CustomerCategoryLog table, so that it has BeginDateMonth, BeginDateYear, EndDateMonth, and EndDateYear ints; but I reckon there must be a somewhat straightforward way to create a date from the Year/Month parameters supplied).
My problem is how to actually construct that in TSQL. I'm not a SQLhead, and my best (pseudosql) stab at it is:
DECLARE @Unit varchar(30);
DECLARE @Year Int;
DECLARE @Month Int;
. . .
DECLARE @PARAMDATE DATETIME = (Year + Month + 01).ToDateTime();

SELECT DISTINCT UNIT INTO #UNITS U FROM ReportingMonthlySales
WHILE NOT U.EOF DO

Unit = U.Unit

SELECT Unit, MonthlySales as 'NewSales' FROM (SELECT MonthlySales FROM ReportingMonthlySales RMS left join
CustomerCategoryLog CCL on RMS.Unit = CCL.Unit WHERE RMS.Unit = Unit AND RMS.CYear = @Year and RMS.CMonth = @Month
AND CCL.BeginDate >= PARAMDATE AND CCL.EndDate <= PARAMDATE AND CCL.Subcategory = 'New'),

MonthlySales as 'AssumedSales' FROM (SELECT MonthlySales FROM ReportingMonthlySales RMS left join
CustomerCategoryLog CCL on RMS.Unit = CCL.Unit WHERE RMS.Unit = Unit AND  RMS.CYear = @Year and RMS.CMonth = @Month
AND CCL.BeginDate >= PARAMDATE AND CCL.EndDate <= PARAMDATE AND CCL.Subcategory = 'Assumed'),

MonthlySales as 'ExistingSales' FROM (SELECT MonthlySales FROM ReportingMonthlySales RMS left join
CustomerCategoryLog CCL on RMS.Unit = CCL.Unit WHERE RMS.Unit = Unit AND  RMS.CYear = @Year and RMS.CMonth = @Month
AND CCL.BeginDate >= PARAMDATE AND CCL.EndDate <= PARAMDATE AND CCL.Subcategory = 'Existing'),

MonthlySales as 'OrganicSales' FROM (SELECT MonthlySales FROM ReportingMonthlySales RMS left join
CustomerCategoryLog CCL on RMS.Unit = CCL.Unit WHERE RMS.Unit = Unit AND  RMS.CYear = @Year and RMS.CMonth = @Month
AND CCL.BeginDate >= PARAMDATE AND CCL.EndDate <= PARAMDATE AND CCL.Subcategory = 'Organic')
FROM ReportingMonthlySales RMS2
ORDER BY RMS2.Unit

END WHILENOTEOF

I know this is not quite right, and probably not even remotely right, but hopefully it's clear enough for a SQL expert/jr. mind reader to understand what it is I need to do/am trying to do.
UPDATE
Here's some sample data from the two tables that are queried:
CustomerCategoryLog table:
MemberNo = 007
Unit = AMC THEATERS
Subcategory = New
BeginDate = 1/1/2016
EndDate = 12/31/2016

MemberNo = 029
Unit = FOODBUY HMS
Subcategory = Existing
BeginDate = 1/1/2015
EndDate = 12/31/2015

ReportingMonthlySales table:
Unit = AMC THEATERS
MemberNo = 007
MonthlySales  = $988.82
CYear = 2016
Cmonth = 1

Unit = FOODBUY HMS
MemberNo = 029
MonthlySales  = $61,479.28
CYear = 2017
Cmonth = 3

A: This just looks like the long way to pivot.
How about something like this?
declare @Unit varchar(30);
declare @Year int;
declare @Month int;
declare @paramdate datetime = datefromparts(@year, @month, 1);
/* --prior to sql server 2012
declare @paramdate datetime;
set @paramdate = convert(datetime,convert(char(4),@Year)
                +right('0'+convert(varchar(2),@month),2)
                +'01')
*/

select distinct unit
into #Units
from ReportingMonthlySales;

select
    u.Unit
  , New      = sum(case when ccl.Subcategory = 'New'      then rms.MonthlySales else 0 end)
  , Assumed  = sum(case when ccl.Subcategory = 'Assumed'  then rms.MonthlySales else 0 end)
  , Existing = sum(case when ccl.Subcategory = 'Existing' then rms.MonthlySales else 0 end)
  , Organic  = sum(case when ccl.Subcategory = 'Organic'  then rms.MonthlySales else 0 end)
from #Units u
  left join CustomerCategoryLog ccl
    on u.Unit = ccl.Unit
   and @paramdate >= ccl.begindate
   and @paramdate <= ccl.enddate
  left join ReportingMonthlySales rms
    on u.Unit = rms.Unit
   and rms.cyear  = @year
   and rms.cmonth = @month
group by u.unit;

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Julie Andrews on What It Was Really Like Filming Flying Scenes for Mary Poppins
Supercalifragilisticexpiali-terrifying.
By Perri Ormont Blumberg
Donaldson Collection/Getty Images
A spoonful of sugar can help with most things in life, but not everything. If you're Julie Andrews, it sure won't dissolve your fear of flying through the air when filming for Mary Poppins.
Yesterday, Julie Andrews sat down with Savannah Guthrie to promote her new memoir, Home Work. In the segment, the dame and beloved actor shed some new light about what it was really like to film flying scenes for Mary Poppins. As Andrews reveals, they saved it for the end "in case of an accident." Andrews takes viewers back to being on the set for the hit 1964 film, explaining, "I felt myself, on the last day, I suddenly thought, 'Oh, I wonder if my luck is going to run out' and I was up hanging up there and I felt myself drop by about six inches and I called and said, 'Could you let me down easily when I come?' at which point I plummeted to the ground." Thankfully, the star was on a balancing weight so her fall was cushioned, "but it was a shock, that's for sure."
In the interview, we also learn more interesting behind-the-scenes trivia from the movie, such as the fact that it is Andrews' herself whistling in the "Spoonful of Sugar" song in the film.
Watch the full clip below (fast forward to the 1:30 mark if you'd like to watch the two discuss flying on-set).
Ah, how we love this warm and spirited actor! Curious as to why Julie Andrews wasn't in Mary Poppins Returns? Find out the real reason here.
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So share with us, dearest readers: What is your all-time favorite Julie Andrews movie? We're torn between Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.


This year, it's all about experience.
The term digital marketing might seem obtuse to some, but it's quickly becoming the norm. Ken Lingan, president of IMMAP, lays down the facts: consumers are shifting towards digital modes. That means communicating online, getting news online, and shopping online. The Philippines in particular has seen a large shift towards smartphone usage, with most owning at least one. The digital marketing industry, meanwhile, is keeping up: from a mere 0.2% share of the market in 2007, it now comprises 20% today, translating to a 20 billion peso industry. You can bet that it's only going to grow as more Filipinos transact with their smartphones, and more companies react by going to where the users are.
This year's theme for DigiCon is Experience Extraordinary; in the lightning-fast world of the smartphone era, experience becomes everything. Dennis Perez, the Chair of the DigiCon XE Committee, puts it like this: "It's not just important to be the first … People remember not the first, but the best." Being online means you're competing for peoples' attention with almost everybody, and when anybody can create content and put it out on the Internet, people have the luxury to choose what service they want. It's no longer enough for your online store to be the first one the customer engages with, since engaging with online stores is too easy. It's the experience of engaging with you that counts now.
3| The best experience is the authentic experience.
DigiCon XE zeroes in on experiences, and no experience is a good as an authentic one. As keynote speaker Bozoma Saint John, says, "Oftentimes, we rely so much on our data and info that's driving our digital spaces, but we forget our humanity—our feelings and emotions—that drive us." Bozoma should know; she's the CMO for Endeavor, and she used to work for Uber and Apple. And it's true of any brand or service: Whether it's Uber showing LeBron and KD go on a ride, or Bench pulling our heartstrings with their "Amoy Kita" advert, the ones that really stick are the ones that create a connection with the audience. We don't just want something anymore; we want passion and humanity, and nothing drives passion more than engaging with services created by passionate people.
4| We're moving towards online communities.
The pace where people are moving online is scarily quick: social media platforms like Facebook are starting to be eclipsed by messaging applications like Messenger and Viber, and this is especially true in the Philippines. The world gets smaller and smaller as we move towards online communities. "Messaging shortens the distance between people and what they want," points out Asher Rapkin, who is Facebook's head of Business Marketing, Messaging, and Emerging Platforms. The way people engage with companies has changed too. Products and services are now engaging directly with the consumer through chat bots and stickers. Influencers are using Facebook and Viber groups to directly reach out to followers, and as time goes on, technology is going to bring us closer and provide a more intimate experience. As Viber's Asia-Pacific Head of Business Development Anubhav Nayyar puts it, "The way we communicate has changed for good." And when the way we communicate changes, the way we perceive the world changes with it.


The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) was introduced in April 2011. This is funding allocated to schools in addition to the main funding schools receive. This funding is specifically directed at students who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years, in order to raise their attainment and close the gap between them and their peers.
This funding is specifically directed at students who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years.
PPG may also be claimed for children of armed services personnel and for children who are in Local Authority care.
Children who have been in local-authority care for at least one day also attract PPG. However, funding for these pupils does not go to their school; it goes to the Virtual School Head (VSH) in the local authority that looks after the child. The VSH is responsible for managing pupil premium funding for looked after children.
At Knebworth Primary and Nursery school the Inclusion Manager is responsible for allocation of the PPG. Progress of all children is tracked half termly and children who may benefit from extra provision are identified. A range of support from school staff and external professionals may be accessed.


From WisdomTree: Last week's podcast focused on the global macro environment and political dynamics with Guy Petcho, a global macro portfolio manager at Voya Investment Management, and Greg Valliere, chief global strategist at Horizon Investments.
This was a timely conversation with the emerging markets sell-off we've been experiencing, and, summarizing Petcho's views, he does not believe the challenging environment for emerging markets is over. Petcho generally is positioning for a stronger dollar environment versus emerging market currencies.
Petcho became more cautious a few months ago based on his modeling work, which suggests that Chinese exports will keep declining toward a 0% growth rate–this is from growth rates in exports that were more than 12% in June. China started slowing down late last year after some political transition points. In late 2015, President Xi clamped down on credit growth to 2013-14 levels which resulted in a sell-off in commodities, China, and the global economy.
Petcho also sees a slowdown in capital flows, which, compounded by rising rates in the U.S., are making emerging market debt and other opportunities less attractive on a relative basis. What is also creating challenges is how many of the emerging markets started cutting rates on low inflation in 2017, but then inflation started coming back in 2018. Now these countries are having trouble and need to hike rateswhile facing both inflation and pressures from a slowing global economy.
Petcho believes China has thrown everything at its problem besides credit growth–and he sees China needing to depreciate its currency, which would hit other emerging market currencies. He thinks a further depreciating Chinese yuan will ramp up political rhetoric, with the U.S. claiming that China is trying to support its exports in the trade spat.
The second half of our conversation focused on the political environment. Valliere discusses politics with his clients and tries to advise them to focus on the fundamentals–not the political noise. But after the midterm elections, if the Democrats take control of the House, as Valliere expects (the oddsmakers are currently setting odds around a 2-to-1 proposition), he believes there will be calls to impeach President Trump. Valliere, however, does not believe the Senate would get the 67 votes necessary to do so–and he believes the Republicans might even pick up a seat in the Senate. Nonetheless, the uncertainty surrounding impeachment could bring volatility to the market.
One other hot-button issue could be the Federal Reserve (Fed) and, more specifically, Jay Powell, who is in the hot seat. Valliere thinks as we get to December and get two more rate hikes with the unemployment rate ticking down and inflation pressures rising, Trump might start tweeting and attacking Powell for trying to slow down the economy. It will be interesting to see how Powell balances these potential pressures.
Overall, it was a fascinating conversation in which we discussed two of the hottest issues for the remainder of the year–the emerging market macro climate and the political environment with midterms looming. To listen to our full conversation, please listen below.
The WisdomTree Emerging Markets Eqty Incm Fd (DEM) was unchanged in premarket trading Friday. Year-to-date, DEM has declined -5.12%, versus a 7.52% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.
DEM currently has an ETF Daily News SMART Grade of B (Buy), and is ranked #12 of 88 ETFs in the Emerging Markets Equities ETFs category.


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What Are the Characteristics of an Effective Nonprofit Executive Director?
by Jonra Springs
A nonprofit executive director leads the entire organization.
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1 Make a Five-Year Budget Plan for a Nonprofit
2 Become a Nonprofit Business Executive
3 The Role of Board Members for Nonprofit Organizations
4 Choose a Board of Directors for a Nonprofit Organization
The board of directors for a nonprofit organization commonly hires an executive director to lead the institution. Board members obviously look for certain leadership qualifications in a nonprofit executive director. The board often also looks for candidates with backgrounds related to the organization and its mission. Nonprofit organization leaders have a combination of experience and executive skills.
Your written communication skills make the first impression on the board of directors through your cover letter and other documents submitted for the position. As an executive director, you will be in constant communication with supporters outside the organization as well as the staff within. You will use written skills to compose proposals. You will also use concise verbal communication to state needs, directions and gratitude in a brief, friendly fashion.
Financial Savvy
Nonprofit organization leaders are responsible for the financial status of the institution. The board will rely on your vision for the financial future of the association as well as your ability to see the need for a change in the current practices to meet a new business climate. You will have to make decisions on how to wisely spend the current budget, while taking steps to ensure that a future budget will be available.
Personal Commitment
You must agree with the objective of an organization and have a heart for the population it serves to be an effective nonprofit executive director. Your desire to fulfill the organizational mission objective will inspire board members and volunteers to get behind your plans and work to achieve your goals for the institution. You will also be a very effective representative of the cause you serve to inspire both public and private support groups.
You should have a background that includes practical experience with the mission of the nonprofit organization. The board's decision to hire an executive director is often politically motivated. If you are the conductor of a nationally famous orchestra for example, you are a good candidate for the nonprofit executive director of an organization that works to promote the fine arts. You need an intimate understanding of the situation that the organization is formed to serve.
Ohio State University: The Characteristics of Effective Executive Directors in Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Governance Professionals: Governance for Nonprofit Organizations
Jonra Springs began writing in 1989. He writes fiction for children and adults and draws on experiences in education, insurance, construction, aviation mechanics and entertainment to create content for various websites. Springs studied liberal arts and computer science at the College of Charleston and Trident Technical College.
Springs, Jonra. "What Are the Characteristics of an Effective Nonprofit Executive Director?" Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/characteristics-effective-nonprofit-executive-director-20437.html. Accessed 18 July 2019.
Springs, Jonra. (n.d.). What Are the Characteristics of an Effective Nonprofit Executive Director? Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/characteristics-effective-nonprofit-executive-director-20437.html
Springs, Jonra. "What Are the Characteristics of an Effective Nonprofit Executive Director?" accessed July 18, 2019. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/characteristics-effective-nonprofit-executive-director-20437.html
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Jordan Clarkson net worth and salary: Jordan Clarkson is an American professional basketball player who has a net worth of $25 million. Jordan Clarkson was born in Tampa, Florida in June 1992. He is a 6'5″ point guard and shooting guard who was named San Antonio High School Player of the Year at Wagner High School. Clarkson played his college basketball at Tulsa from 2010 to 2012 and Missouri from 2013 to 2014. He was named to the Conference-USA All-Freshman Team in 2011 and first-team All-Conference-USA in 2012. Jordan Clarkson was named second-team All-SEC in 2014. He was drafted #46 overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2014 NBA Draft. Clarkson was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers and played there from 2014 to 2018 while played for the Los Angeles D-Fenders from 2014 to 2015. He was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2018. Clarkson was named to the NBA All-Rookie First team in 2015. In 2016 he signed a four year deal worth $50 million.
Real Estate: In 2018, Jordan paid $3.2 million for a home in Woodland Hills, California. In June 2020, Jordan sold this home to fellow NBA player Thomas Bryant for $3.25 million. Two months later Jordan closed on a new $6 million property in Sherman Oaks, California.
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