I'm Hoarding JUSTICE!
While everyone else was denuding the Hostess displays of Twinkies I noticed a commodity that was ignored.
As we all know, villains are powerless before the real fruit filling of Hostess Fruit PiesTM. I'm now a prepared for the dark days ahead. A few more and I'll be able to fight crime.
This is as bad as when that herd of butterflies swooped in and threw up on my waffles.
Ummm...what she said.
I think.
In the meantime, it's time to stock up! They'll last forever and with the world ending next month we'll need stuff to barter.
Appalled young twinkiephile is Rin Tezuka from Katawa Shoujo.
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Actually, I seem to recall that my local store had to pull unsold Twinkies off the shelves and replace them with fresh stock fairly often.
Posted by: Siergen at Fri Nov 16 18:05:46 2012 (Ao4Kw)
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Yeah, they just seem like they've been on the shelf forever. Still, this will seriously impact my friend who makes twinkiemisu; he may have to switch to cheap Chinese knock-offs.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri Nov 16 18:37:36 2012 (fpXGN)
3@Siergen: Oh come on. Next you'll be saying 200 year old Sailsbury Steak won't be an important food source after a nuclear war. It's possible that this "stock rotation" is a ruse as the government surreptitiously adds to the national Twinkie reserve.
On the other hand I don't ACTUALLY believe the world is going to end next month.
@ JGreely: What the hell is Twinkiemisu?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Nov 16 19:10:28 2012 (e9h6K)
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Tiramisu made with twinkies instead of ladyfingers.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri Nov 16 20:25:52 2012 (fpXGN)
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There's a national Twinkie reserve? I think I've heard of something like that once before...
Posted by: Siergen at Fri Nov 16 22:53:13 2012 (Ao4Kw)
The Wonders of a Modern Education
I've been in and around colleges and universities off and on for 20 years. While this is certainly amongst the more crazy lecturers I've seen, I can say that yes, things are indeed getting this bad. This is especially true regards China/ Mao et al.
This is not below the fold because it's history.
Note the applause...
OK, actually it's the evil opposite of history but hey...
This is closely related. It's deeply troubling and fairly accurate.
In my limited experience, it tends to be almost exclusively older professors (a rapidly dwindling demographic), or some of those from abroad that occasionally buck this trend, and they do so at their peril.
UPDATE: For those who did not look at the 3 minute video, it's a professor adamantly denying that Joe Stalin killed anybody.
Out and Proud.
I don't shy away from expressing my views, but I generally put my overtly political posts under the fold because some of my readers get the vapors if exposed to opposing viewpoints in their fluff and in any event, the blog is usually about fluff.
Occasionally though one or two things pops up that are political and yet need to be read.
This is one of those times.
Sarah Hoyt has generally stayed away from politics on her main blog but recently posted some things that made some of her views known.
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On the other hand, I went out and bought half a dozen of her books. (They're Baen ebooks so they're pretty cheap.) Not sure I like the heroine of her Darkship Thieves, though; I've gone back to reading Elizabeth Moon's Hunting Party for now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Nov 15 07:16:52 2012 (PiXy!)
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The heroine of Darkship is supposed to be one of those people who starts out obnoxious and gets better. (Same with the hero, actually.)
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Thu Nov 15 11:26:42 2012 (cvXSV)
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Yes, Athena and Kit both start off as kind of rough characters, but as they develop they become both more interesting and likeable. I found the last half of Darkship Thieves to be almost a completely different book from the first half, and much better. Darkship Renegades looks to be interesting, the free teaser chapters end on quite the cliffhanger.
Posted by: David at Thu Nov 15 14:26:46 2012 (Bk8Wa)
Terrible News
Steven Den Beste, who was one of my inspirations to get into blogging and now runs the highly regarded anime blog Chizumatic has reportedly had a stroke.
He is in the hospital and thankfully seems to be recovering. Go send him some good wishes.
UPDATE: It's bad. However he is conscious and lucid enough to post this comment.
My brotheri s loaning me a laptop which I can use on the hospital's wifi.
Looks like Thursday morning, I'll be transferring to a rehab place
where I'm probably going to be staying for a week. I'm not looking
forward to it but I'm also not thrilled about being profoundly crippled
for the rest of my life, either.
I don't know if I'll have wifi access at the rehab.
In the meantime, my left hand is useless and I'm typing this with one finger.
No Asuna at all.
OK.
Our heroes are traveling through a neutral cave when Leaf gets a cryptic message from "Recon" an acquaintance of hers in both real life and her former guild. they discover that they are being pursued by Salamanders (Fairy clan that specialized in incendiary spells). There is a battle, and, with the help of Yui, our hero uses his races illusion magic turn into a monster (specifically the first boss monster from Sword Art Online) and vanquishes the pursuers.
Leaf stops him from killing the last party member, and after he comes to his senses decides to engage in some negotiations.
And they learn that they have run afoul of some in-game intrigues though details are sketchy. We also learn that player sprites taste like negimaki, which is a bit disturbing in context.
While in town, leaf exits the game for a moment and finds that there are 437 messages from "Recon" on her phone. His character is not dead but is paralyzed and captured so he can't play. He explains that he discovered a plot to cause mayhem by assassinating the leader of Leafs in game race. Leaf abandons their quest to try to stop this but Kirito agrees to assist her. As the episode ends, we discover that Kirito has comic effect super speed.
This episode has more questions than answers. We do find out who is stalking our heroes, and it seems that they have simply run afoul of gamer intrigues. The VERY long battle that ensued was one of the less satisfying as he seemed to pretty much pull that monster out of his butt.
It is perhaps significant that the monster is from the SAO game. It may be that Yui is pulling some moderator tricks.
Not one of the better episodes, but it's interesting nonetheless. That is, for an episode that mostly consists of a fight, they do manage a surprising amount of pretty cool character exposition.
Hopefully next episode will have less of an Asuna deficit.
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They seem to be deliberately avoiding any explanation for the stunts he's pulling, with Lyfa not even questioning his combination of super-powers and total ignorance any more. The writers are walking a very tricky line, and it may end up a total mess, but at least we already got the first half of the series.
In this case, the by-the-book explanation is apparently that
spriggan illusions tend to be useless in combat because the result is based on your stats, and you'd need to be some kind of godlike cheater to pull off something that impressive.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sun Nov 11 03:02:40 2012 (2XtN5)
Left School, drove van to my dads, had him drop me off at car place.
Paid for new power steering pump.
Watched dad drive away with all my books in the van.
Pursued him.
Had my battery choose the Suffolk/Portsmouth city line as the embarkation point to go to battery Valhalla.
Wasted hours.
E-mailed a research paper outline...from memory, via blackberry.
Went home.
Became ill.
Became very ill.
Where I spent the evening.
I just got discharged.
It turns out the kidney stone precipitated a nasty UT infection. I have antibiotics and a painkiller I can't use because I need to drive to school in 5 hours.
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Ouch! And I thought I had a rough night dealing with a leaking water pipe...
Take care of yourself, and get better soon! Your loyal readers can wait for you to fully recover, so don't push yourself to post again before you're healthy.
Posted by: Siergen at Fri Nov 9 19:11:53 2012 (Ao4Kw)
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AIEE!!! When your text came through, I had no idea it was this bad!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Fri Nov 9 22:02:37 2012 (lS5Cn)
A Few Quick Notes on Status and Such
Well, Tuesday/Wednesday was a bummer for other reasons. In addition to a funk I think I've been passing the last item in my kidney stone reserve. Wednesday evening I was assaulted by a plate of Szechuan beef which wrought chaos upon my digestive track.
My plans to graduate in the Spring or Summer, comes down to class availability. I was informed that one class I need is unlikely to be available until next fall. In the grand scheme of things a 4 month delay and a very light load last semester is not THAT big a deal, but it is highly annoying. I'm going to speak to my adviser next week about taking it as a topics course over the summer, but I'm told that is unlikely because....'Because.' Meh...I'm almost there.
Lots of papers this semester. I still have 12 page, 8 page and 5 page
papers coming up in various classes over the next 2 weeks.
I split the B&tB clip from the assessment post, which started out as just a cheer-up post when I got to rambling,
I've started to...oh my...What is this?
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Good luck with those last classes. That's a big factor in why I never got my degree, I ran into a class that was a prerequisite for six other courses I needed to graduate, and it was only offered every other semester, at a time block that I simply could not accommodate while working. Since I already had the kind of job the degree was supposed to qualify me for, it became a no-brainer to quit.
And oh my, what a big juicy target that is. Build it out of wood and tow it behind a submarine, just so nobody bothers to shoot at the rest of your fleet...
Posted by: David at Thu Nov 8 16:14:51 2012 (I6iFS)
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Whatever it is, it's big enough to influence weather systems. What would the crew have been - 6.000+?
Posted by: EdwardM at Thu Nov 8 20:10:18 2012 (moC4O)
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I bet 5000 quatloos that Wonderduck can not only identify it, but give a detailed history of it as well....
Posted by: Siergen at Thu Nov 8 20:19:32 2012 (Ao4Kw)
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Let's see... 9 turrets, two flight decks, probably around twice the length and four times the beam of any ship built in WWII. An Iowa or Yamamoto BB had a complement of around 2,800 people, while a Midway class CV had a complement of around 4,400. I'd say 6000+ is a conservative estimate, I could see it being north of 8,000. I can't believe it's a real proposal, it has to be from an anime or game.
Posted by: David at Thu Nov 8 21:31:06 2012 (vyRm+)
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Sierg, concur about Wonderduck, but I'd like for Herr den Beste to get a shot at it first; you never know.
And yeah Dave, I'd say it's from someone's rather admirable imagination as well, but...look at all the stuff that actually DID come out of WWII. I could see someone among the major powers at least conceiving of this, even if nothing close to it was ever built. Kind of a WWII-era ship designer's wet dream.
Posted by: Tom at Thu Nov 8 21:47:08 2012 (X594O)
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It's certainly nothing real, and I can't imagine any anime being desperate enough to trundle it out (though Girls und Panzer did put cities on the flight deck of really big carriers).
27 main guns, and since it's clearly based on a Yamato-class, they'd be 18.1" rifles to boot... with the worst firing arcs ever. I'd be relatively certain that the guns couldn't fire over the flight decks for fear of damaging them, particularly A, B, Y and Z turrets. Then the superfiring turrets probably couldn't fire directly over the turrets under them, so no firing straight ahead/behind, except for A and Z.
Except for the six sponson mounts, three on each side... they'd have relatively normal arcs of fire, except that they'd be so low that they wouldn't have as good a range, and god help you if you tried to train them out in a heavy sea!
Looks like a Navy Cross waiting to happen...
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thu Nov 8 22:32:39 2012 (lS5Cn)
Sorry, folks, I don't have a clue. I certainly never heard of anyone trying to design a monster like that.
One reason was that after WWII everyone knew that battleships were obsolete. Anyone trying to build a bigger-better carrier wouldn't bother with big guns -- and no one did.
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Well,I kinda made up the name. ( I didn't know the kanji for bat-scat-bonkers)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Nov 9 01:01:58 2012 (5UcDQ)
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Hmm...port and starboard hangar decks/launchers for aircraft, a large central hull fitted with long-range guns... It's a WW II battlestar Galactica!!!
Posted by: Siergen at Fri Nov 9 20:50:40 2012 (Ao4Kw)
The big problem with the Democratic government over the past four years has been that they haven't owned or even properly addressed any of the serious underlying problems they've been facing. Everything has been laid at the door of the previous administration, with the tacit assumption that now that the Republicans were out of power, the problems would be solved by fiat.
How to approach this over the next four years (as a conservative or libertarian) is tricky. Getting liberals to admit that they have a problem and need to find a solution (really, many problems, and many solutions) is essential, but when people are invested in something, it becomes very difficult to get them to admit they made a mistake. They will often back up their mistake with increasingly irrational responses rather than admit that the original decision was wrong.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wed Nov 7 06:38:37 2012 (PiXy!)
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Bricky, you make some very good points, but you're too optomistic. I and a number of people said the same thing regarding the social conservatives four years ago -- they were poison to our cause. We tried to make a (third-party) go of it then, but failed due to lack of money, leadership, focus, and everything else needed to succeed. Oh, and the minor matter of a schism -- by the social conservatives. We never recovered, and I can tell you -- the liberals can't tell the them from the Tea Parties, and nobody can tell either from the "false flag" operations mounted by the GOP.
In four years, it won't be "difficult"; it will be impossible. The EU will fall into chaos by then, and I expect Europe to start falling under the sway of fascists in fact if not name, with war to follow. Greece is already heading there. We'll be suffering from a broken economy, China will be in a succession crises and looking for a diversion, and Mexico is a mess.
What to do now? We can't "close the deal" when half the country thinks the "deal" is being taken care of the other half's productivity. The voters will (continue to) flock to whomever promises them food and security.
I'm too old and decrepit to tilt at windmills any more. My plan is to hunker down in a ringside seat with a drink and try to survive watching the fall of Western Civilization. The end is beer.
This assumes I'm not in the equivalent of a re-education camp somewhere for wrongspeak.
Oh wait, been there, done that. It was called "diversity training."
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Ubu: I'm most assuredly not optimistic.
I'm a history buff. The road we are on is well traveled, but only in one direction.
Still, despair is a sin, and we simply must turn this around, because civilization is precious and there is nowhere to run.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Nov 7 15:20:44 2012 (e9h6K)
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1. The NEA has raised a couple generations of American students to expect the government to give them what they want, and that there is no need to actually go out and earn it themselves. Most of the young voters I have talked to have never been exposed an alternative political argument, and in fact have been conditioned to tune out any opposing viewpoints because they are, by definition, racist/sexist/Fascist/etc.
2. The majority of the members of the supposed Fourth Estate were educated as "journalists", which means they feel their purpose is to advance a social agenda, and not report facts . In other words, they are political propagandists. Even as a growing number of voters turn away from traditional sources such as newspapers, magazines, and TV/radio news programs, most are still being spoon-fed one political viewpoint disguised as "news".
3. The majority of the entertainment industry is also committed to pushing leftist agendas, just so long as they are exempted with special tax breaks, etc.
Right now, I just don't see any prospects to turning things around in my lifetime...
Posted by: Siergen at Wed Nov 7 19:23:21 2012 (Ao4Kw)
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Eh... not all the glories of Rome were in the era of the Republic.
The one bright ray of sunshine, if you can call it that, is that though we are beset by problems, it's worse almost everywhere else. Things are exceedingly unlikely to go wrong here first, and the worse off it is elsewhere, the more we benefit in terms of relative competitiveness. Already it's one of the prime enablers of our spending spree - the treasury bonds keep coming in because if the US goes under, there's no other safe harbor for the money anyway.
And if things go bad everywhere? Well, not to put it too bluntly, but in a savage world of tooth and claw, nobody has fangs to match ours. In point of fact, nobody is even in the same class, excepting the broad class of "countries who have nuclear weapons", and of those none other have anything even remotely like our ability to project power abroad. You could even go so far to say that the current system of international trade and commerce exists entirely at the whim of the US - were we determined to stop it, not a single tanker would reach port, nor a single pipeline continue to pump gas. It's not good to make too big a deal of it, and obviously it would be PREFERABLE not to have to go down that road, but if the shit hits the fan...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed Nov 7 22:56:07 2012 (pWQz4)
2012 First Election ResultsDixville Notch, a town in New Hampshire traditionally opens the polls at 12:01 on election day. As the town has less than 20 people they certify their vote early. They've been an accurate predictor in the past every single year since...um...2000.
Anyway they're the first polling location to have certified results as of a few minutes ago and the result was...A TIE!
I think we can all reach a bipartisan consensus that as omens go, this is a bad one.
UPDATE: Oh yeah...a prediction.
I think its likely to be EITHER Obama in a squeaker, or Romney in a blowout. That is, if it's Obama he will just get his base and little else. If it's Romney then some states will have shifted dramatically and I think it will be a cascade of red across the map.
"How Can You Possibly Believe That?"
I hear that from time to time. As some of you know I'm in college. So on those occasions I allow myself, either be accident or design to by "outed" as to my political leanings I frequently get words to that effect.
"Oh you have got to be squidding me! He's carping about pollacktics again. Thank Cod this election season is fin-ally over"
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Cutting loose the dead weight would seem to be the number one skill needed by an incoming president these days. Cautiously optimistic here on the far side of the world (as a small-l libertarian myself, inoculated early on by Robert Heinlein).
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Nov 6 09:15:03 2012 (PiXy!)
A lot of people's private retirement accounts are tied up in the stock markets, due to an overwhelming advantage in taxation. The government has been encouraging people to put money in 401(k)-type plans for ages.
This has resulted in a great deal of money being allocated into stocks that otherwise wouldn't necessarily be in that market. (Granted that some of it has also gone into bonds.) And, lo and behold, as we've seen retirement plans switch from traditional pensions to individual stock accounts, the index value of the stock market has multiplied several times...
Unfortunately for us, we have a well-known demographic bubble ahead. What happens when all of those boomers stop putting money into the stock market for retirement, and start taking it out in order to actually retire? The answer is going to be a general decline in stock prices across the board, the same way as we've seen a general increase, right?
So what's going to happen when a bunch of baby boomers who are on the cusp of retirement suddenly see their stock holdings start to lose value? Those who can get out of the market will do so... sparking further reductions in prices, spooking more boomers. It's at least the seed of a full-blown stock panic...
Leaving that aside, the US faces a different set of problems than, say, Weimar or Zimbabwe.
Those two countries were effectively powerless. The US... well, it ain't. Anyone who believes that the US economy would enter a death spiral and not decide to export some of its problems is being delusional...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Tue Nov 6 15:28:50 2012 (GJQTS)
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I'll agree with you on everything but education. Depending on the government for education is like handing politicians a blank check and saying "please use whatever you need to propagandize our children."
Posted by: RHJunior at Wed Nov 7 11:12:23 2012 (hZlxe)
"You're back quick!" "Yeah...darnedest thing...my sister had left me a sammich."
The last two episodes of Sword Art Online seemed a bit muddled and occasionally forced but they did advance the story.
This episode did not actually move the merry band of travelers along very much but it DID regain the shows earlier pace and character oriented feel.
It also established a few things:
*The racial divisions in the Fairy Game; They had mentioned this in passing previously, but it does seem to be a plot element. I'm not sure how much of this is the Japanese cultural "In/Out group" dynamics and how much of this is supposed to feel wrong to the audience, but it certainly seems like an unhealthy dynamic that is hardwired into the game setup. Somewhat related, there is a very strong prejudice against players not in guilds and teams from different races.
*This is further complicated by the fact that one really needs to be in a town or other designated safe place in order to log out (or ones avatar will get looted/killed and one will take the hit in a loss of XPs and items.)
*The guilds and adventure parties in the game are 'seruius bidness'. "Leaf" tells her guild leader that she won't be gaming with them for a few days and he freaks to the point that the guild are no longer contacts, they are enemies. This dovetails into the unhealthy "culture" of the games world.
*Our party is being stalked.
*Meanwhile, Asuna is in an impossible and demoralizing situation, but while she may be the 'princess trapped in the tower', (of both the game and the plot) she still has kept her wits about her and she manages to remain an impressive and interesting character.
"Oh, I'm just reflecting on my next move."
*****
This leads to an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand, our
hero probably* won't die if killed in the game, ( he'll take an XP hit and probably loose his kit) but he does have two major time critical issues (one he doesn't know about yet).
Asuna is to be "married" (technically placed in the guardianship of Sugo) in a matter of weeks or even days.
Unbeknownst to Kazuto, Sugo is nearing completion of his experiments on the test subjects he brainlocked from SAO. He is very close to being capable of rewriting Asuna's brain to his liking, essentially killing her and making her a functional automoton.. More importantly to the world at large, he is only a little further from refining the technology so he can not only directly enslave people hooked up to nerve gear helmets but plant more subtle suggestions in the minds of people playing online games or otherwise using Nerve-Gear tech.
This means that the stakes are actually much higher than they were in the first half of the series.
All in all the show seems to be well and truly back on track.
* I say "probably" because due to poverty and lack of time he's using the nerve gear headset from the original game. It's possible (albeit unlikely) that, while he can log out now, "dying" might still trip the brain-fryer.
UPDATE: That last paragraph was previously an incoherent word salad that has now been fixed.
Yes. Indeed. It seems on the surface the stakes are less serious but any nontrivial delay and everything goes to hell. And yeah, the specter of Manchurianizational mischief being performed in the game itself is certainly there. If not now, very soon.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Nov 5 04:37:31 2012 (e9h6K)
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The forced competition between all 7 races is the five-bladed razor of realm-vs-realm PvP; in real MMOs, it's mostly just an excuse to be a dick to the opposing faction, but apparently in VR, players actually (gasp) roleplay it. But if one race wins the ultimate prize, the gameworld will implode. (of course, that, along with what a race has to do to win, reflects the character of its creator...)
It looks like Asuna will get some much-needed screen time next episode. While I'd like to see her hit Our Villain over the head with a chair and shove him out a window, perhaps that will have to wait until she wakes up. :-)
On a side note, the in-game fanservice makes perfect sense, since ALO doesn't force you to look like your avatar the way SAO did, but Suguha is perhaps even more impressive in the real world. If that's what she looks like in junior high, she may have to give up kendo when she reaches high school. Or switch to a different anime genre!
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Nov 5 13:13:25 2012 (2XtN5)
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I've been following your SAO posts for a while, and Monday night I finally pulled the trigger, watching eps 1-6 in a single sitting. Last night I stayed up till about 3am (not like I would have been able to sleep anyhow..) and caught up to episode 18. I can't remember the last time I mainlined a series like that. Good stuff! Of course, I'm now regretting that I didn't wait until is was complete....
It is nice to see that Asuna, even in the forced role of caged princess, is struggling against despair and thinking her way through the problem. Next ep should be a good one!
Posted by: David at Wed Nov 7 17:44:53 2012 (+C5m6)
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