Apollo 1.

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Aieee! Break out the aerosani!

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Thus there really is only one thing to watch.

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  This is Southeastern Virginia. That is, counting the width of Virginia itself,  two states south of the Mason-Dixon line.  Tonight's predicted low temperature is 18 degrees. Obviously this is indicative of an error on your part.

Also: With today's high in the vicinity of 44 degrees (Fahrenheit) mosquitoes should not be about. Be advised that they are. (I expect that this will be rectified by tonight's aforementioned error but it bears mentioning. )

Finally regards precipitation: The drought was in fact unwelcome and we do greatly apreciate the efforts put into correcting that misallocation of hydraulic rescources. However, there is such a thing as a "happy medium" . That is, I should not sink up to my ankles in mud as I walk to my car, the end of the road should not be submerged and the back yard should not have 2 inches of standing water on a sunny day.

Please rectify these oversights ASAP.

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  I'd done a review of episode 1 of Usagi Drop some years ago and liked what little I'd seen at the time, so I was quite pleasantly surprised to learn recently that all 11 episodes are currently streaming on Cruchyroll.

 Despite being one of the most low key shows in recent memory, this very short series ranks among the most compelling bits of television I've ever seen.

The art direction and animation are interesting. This looks VASTLY different from most Studio IG shows. Bunny Drop has very minimalist animation and often gives the impression of an animated watercolor. The detail varies with what needs to be expressed ranging from near portraits to caricatures and yet somehow the show manages to not feel at all "artsy".  This is a major achievement and really conveys the moods of the story quite well.

 A 30 something bachelor rescuing his 6 year old aunt and raising her could be the set-up for a wacky screwball comedy. Thankfully, it is not.

In fact, I don't think I've ever seen anything passing itself as entertainment that talked so candidly about the sacrifices required to raise a child and the social stigmas against those who make those choices.

Daikichi starts out as a well regarded and quite well compensated salesman. Within a few episodes however, he realizes that retaining his job is untenable if he is to raise Rin. Soon, he decides to take a demotion and work in the warehouse so he can have a set schedule. In passing it is also mentioned that several other parents he encounters made similar choices, including a former male model who took a much less prestigious job in order to spend time with his child.

One surprising decision was having Rin's mother figure in the story. The show takes an unusual tack with her. The writer makes Rin's mom a driven, almost tragic figure but manages to do so without having her be the least bit sympathetic. The fact that Yumi Unita had the character be a borderline autistic mangaka was certainly interesting. The mother's decision is the flip side of Daikichi's. The lifestyles that society values are simply incompatible with children.

I suppose this can be read as a propaganda piece discussing the root causes of Japan'e demographic collapse. If so it's very nicely done.

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I did like the fact that Daikichi's mom came around and was quite grandmotherly to her...um...sister. The flip side of that of course is the very profound SHAME that the rest of the family feels towards this little girl.

I would hope that Daikichi and Yukari eventually got together, though to explore that at any length would shift the focus and make it a rather different sort of show.



In spite of the dark places this show ventures into,  it never actually gets grim. In fact it manages to be an exceedingly upbeat show.  It's not exactly funny as such, but it's cute and uplifting like few shows I've seen. It highlights some of the worst as well as the very best humanity has to offer and it does so very well.




Shorter Review:
It was all that and a bowl of grits.

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Though classes started on Monday, the first day I've actually been able to attend class was today. I also returned to work this morning so it was a full day. my last class gets out at 7PM and on the way home I dropped by the house of occasional commenter Dalek Hal (link NSFW). We decided to hit a local Italian restaurant to kibitz.
more...

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Bunnyroll is on Cruncydrop!

...or something....

I've only seen episode one of this inspiring little show.

 

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Crunchyroll reports on the effects of a snowstorm in and around Electric Town. Naturally, a tank battle resulted.

^{RX-79 Arctic Warfare Model}

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Of this asshattery...

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It sucks.

Yes, I got a flu shot this season and I can still barely sit up.


(picture unrelated)

Update: Released from Hospital at 2 this morning with a diagnosis of Flu, Bronchitis and Inner Ear Infection and most importantly, documentation for work and school. The flu-shot either did NO good this year or without it I'd be dead. I haven't had the flu this bad in 25 years or more.
I'm getting better though. I can walk all the way to the bathroom without resting now, I can drink fluids without going into cough spasms and I've held down solid food for 4 hours. I've been in bed over 40 hours of the last 48.

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Deep sea cameras have caught the first pictures of a giant squid in it's natural habitat doing normal squid things.

Here is a short video.

Oops...she's neither giant nor in her natural habitat nor doing normal squid things. Lets try again...

..and a couple of pictures...

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The USN has a crying need for a low end patrol vessel.

Numbers are necessary because, despite advances in technology. A ship can only be in one place at once. It might be able to use aircraft and small boats to expand its immediate area of influence, but this does not actually reduce the need for numbers ships to be in disparate locations at the same time in order to do the various low end things that navy's and coast guards do.

Showing the flag, hunting pirates, intel gathering, Search and Rescue, disaster relief law enforcement do not require Aegis Destroyers or Cruisers and it is a waste of those valuable resources to dedicate them to such missions, and in any event sufficient numbers of such capital ships cannot be afforded.

Lots of low end ships are needed and the LCS is far too expensive to buy in numbers, particularly in the current financial crisis.

Meanwhile, in France.

DCN has come up with a family of warships called the GOWIND.

The baseline vessel is an  OPV. One prototype, the FS Adroit, has been built and has been extensively tested by the French Navy. Adroit is a very austere vessel of 800 tons but it has some interesting features.

It it currently only armed with a 20mm cannon, but it has hard points for an OTO Melera Super Rapid 76mm gun, 8 Exocet SSMs and a 12 cell (Wikipedia says 16 cell) launcher for ASTER 15 point defense missiles.

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Quick!

Go to Boviate's and read to the end of this short post.

Then congratulate them!

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The Tsar Bomb, a weapon tested by the U.S.S.R. in 1961 was the penultimate in things designed and built to go "BOOM!"

It's fairly well, known and its effects are described here and here.

The ground surface of the island has been levelled, swept and licked so that it looks like a skating rink. The same goes for rocks. The snow has melted and their sides and edges are shiny. There is not a trace of unevenness in the ground... Everything in this area has been swept clean, scoured, melted and blown away.

The nightmare facilitator helpfully color-codes the blast. Going outward from the hypocenter: the yellow  in the center is a deep crater of fuzed glass. This is the extent of the fireball itself and EVERYTHING here is utterly gone.  The green area has an instant death rate of 50-100 percent due to radiation. This is included in the simulator because it's important for smaller bombs but its really redundant here because the much larger red area overlaps it and experiences instant overpressures of 20PSI and above. Red is going to see the utter destruction of even many steel reinforced concrete buildings. The grey area, which will have overpressure down to 4,6 PSI will  see most structures destroyed except for the very strongest steel and concrete structures, which will be damaged. The death rate in the red and grey zones is going to be close to 100% even if NO radiation was present. Overlapping all of these zones,  and extending well beyond them the is orange area . Outside the grey area it will still experience some blast damage but the orange zone mainly experiences thermal effects. Any exposed skin gets 3rd degree burns and most everything flammable or combustible burst into flames. This will likely result in a firestorm stretching from Trenton NJ to Brentwood, to Fairfield CT and north almost to West Point. Note that this is a very simplistic map and takes into account dissipation of the blast and the curvature of the earth, but it does not take into account terrain or atmospheric conditions. For instance the facing slopes of hills might get higher level effects than their distance would indicate and info from the actual Tsar Bomba test indicates that scattered fires might be started in the Adirondacks

This blast does not have the vast range of the 1961 test because it is assumed to be a ground burst. Of course a ground burst is a VERY dirty explosion. The harbor is unusable for decades and very likely isn't a harbor any more.

Lets pull back a bit...

The major US harbors would have been destroyed and since the seismic effects would have been greater than 8.0,  there would have been earthquake-like damage up and down the eastern seaboard, which transmits seismic waves very efficiently. Remember each 100 MT bomb is roughly half a Krakatoa. Worse, radioactive tsunamis might have done additional damage. The bomb itself, wouldn't cause a real tsunami, but the vertical shaking the concussion would have caused could have precipitated avalanches in the undersea canyons outside many east coast ports. This could conceivably trigger tsunamis.

Note that those 'splody circles are the actual blast fields...to scale.

DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore as torpedo targets are a bit far fetched. One would have to assume torpedoes powered by RTGs or something so the Sub doesn't have to enter the Chesapeake or Delaware Bays. Chicago and Sacramento are rather unlikely targets for a torpedo.

However, the above simulation was done with a slightly different scenario in mind.

The weapon, as big as it was, was not as big as one might think. If you removed the fins, it could fit in an ISO shipping container. It was also not all that advanced in reality. The Soviet engineers designed it very quickly and it was reportedly a straightforward and very conservative scale-up from the U.S.S.R.s early hydrogen weapons. The Soviet engineers did not seem to find it terribly challenging. This means that once anyone gets the ability to produce hydrogen bombs, something like this weapon is a straightforward development, probably only a decade or so down the road.  (the Russians did it rather quicker in what by today's standards are primitive conditions, but they are very good at engineering)

Barring a catastrophic screw-up resulting in a nuclear exchange, the current nuclear threat is, at the very most, something along the scale of "Little Boy" (a firecracker by comparison). However, there is no more potent terror weapon than the 'King of Bombs' and the ability to do damage on that scale is demonstrably attainable. That such large weapons are wasteful and poisonous enough to cause massive contamination is of little deterrent to those who covet nukes for terror purposes. Fortunately, no one likely to try and sneak one of these things into the country will be able to develop or obtain them...for at least 10 or 12 years. 

UPDATE: Edited for clarity.

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So today I had to update my passwords and re-sign all of my security agreements to retain access to the ODU computer system, access to which is required for most classes.

It included a training course.

The first bit is just normal IT security stuff and of no interest at all.  However, the last part is mildly amusing for two reasons.

1: Privacy and Security don't mean what they think it does.
2: Remember, all students are required to know and comply with ODU's IT Security Related Standards with penalties for non-compliance being up-to and including expulsion.



Anyway, the last part is below the fold.

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Girls Und Panzer ended the season unfinished, so caption this.

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One of the Brickmuppets Crack Team of Science Babes has asked that we respond to mysterious commenter "JT" who seems to need information about Three Mile Island. 

Three Mile Island is a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania that suffered a partial meltdown in one of its reactors in 1979 due to a confluence of failures, both human and mechanical.. Though widely touted as an unmitigated catastrophe, the areas radiation detectors detected very low levels of radiation released, about 1/1000th that needed to cause immediate heath effects. A subsequent Columbia university study was done in 1991 to measure long term effects. It measured the cancer frequency of the local population to the US as a whole over the 10 years since the accident and found a very small increase in some cancers (and a lower rate than the norm for Leukemia). Because the measured increases were so low (between 0.4 and 1.17%) and the distribution did not correlate to the actual contaminated area (as described by wind patterns and dosimeter reports) the Columbia study actually suggested that stress was as a possible cause of the increase...and with all the hype the people of the area had certainly been subjected to stress. A more recent study points out that the area along the Susquehanna river near Three Mile Island happens to have one of the highest radon levels in the USA. This might invalidate all attempts to tie cancers to the reactor accident. Not mentioned in either study is the likelihood that residents around Three Mile Island were screened for cancers at a higher rate than the average US population which likely further skewed the number of cancer discoveries and thus the overall numbers.

Thus it is pretty darned clear that, while initial concern regards the incident was good and proper the subsequent hype and hysteria was both irresponsible and grossly misleading. Furthermore, the effects of the breathless and sensational coverage included the virtual death of the nuclear plant construction in the USA, which was a far greater catastrophe for the nation than the accident itself.

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Recently Pete Zaitcev won the "Why is the blog infested with Lamias?" contest and as a prize got to pick a post topic and chose to ask what my favorite manga is and why I like it better than others.

I must confess that I've been exceedingly busy and haven't read much manga at all for the last 18 or so months...with one exception.  While my to-read pile has gotten quite large, I've stuck with reading Yotsuba&! all that time.

Yotsuba; the titular character of this charming book, is a precocious child who has been adopted by her father from some far away place in the developing world. To her naive eyes everything in Japan from sunflowers to doorbells is fascinating and a potential springboard to adventure...or mischief.There is no real plot, though there is a bit of continuity.  The series consists of sketch comedy and is greatly assisted by Azuma Kiyohiko's outstanding comedic timing in the comic medium as well as his amazing ability to see the world with a child-like sense of wonder. This, the expressive art, memorable secondary characters and refreshing innocence make this outstanding series a rare gem. I highly recommend it to anyone.

However, EVERYONE likes Yotsuba&! (except bad people). I don't think I have ever seen a bad review. Furthermore, since I haven't been reading other manga for over a year I can't give the comparative review Pete asked for or the book deserves.

Finally, it is obvious from his request that Pete's request for a review was not at all what he really wanted, but a fallback position.

It seems that Pete is, in reality, uninterested in such refreshing innocence and actually wanted something entirely "other" but felt it was a bridge too far. Well we here at Brickmuppet Blog aim to please, so gird you loins as we cross that bridge...The Bridge Over the River Kowai.

Good people should not look below the fold, for that way lies depravity.

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1 Thanks a lot!

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Jan 4 00:28:14 2013 (RqRa5)

2 I feel better now that I know I'm not the only person who thought that manga was charming, in an off-kilter way.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Fri Jan 4 00:31:17 2013 (pWQz4)

3 It was, but Slime killed it for me.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Jan 4 01:26:03 2013 (RqRa5)

4 It didn't quite kill it for me, but it kicked it in the kneecaps (along with the other bits I mentioned). I'm going to see if they regain their footing, but I'm not optimistic.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jan 4 01:53:04 2013 (vp6an)

5 I liked the originals better, mostly because each brother was focused on his relationship with one monster girl. If I were adapting it, I think I'd have gone with a boarding-school setting, with a mixed-gender Kaiju Social Integration Club having to deal with each new monster as she arrives and creates her unique brand of trouble.

Still a familiar formula, and all the current stories would transfer over with little change, but I think it would hold up a lot longer. The problem with making it a harem is that he can't tell in-depth stories about just one girl; for instance, I can't see him successfully doing something like the two Dullahan strips from the original.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Fri Jan 4 11:59:43 2013 (2XtN5)

6 I actually agree that the little strips were more satisfying . However, I've tended to attribute that to one of my own sick personal fantasist kinks....



 The charm of the strips and the early issues here was that they characters were IN LOVE and were working to make their relationships work despite hurdles like different backgrounds and really sharp claws. The current harem dynamic ruins that because there really ought not to be any hesitation in his choice...he might be constricted but he ought not to be conflicted, otherwise he's a heel.

Now, he has inadvertently, legally, betrothed himself to the Centaur, and she will be ruined and there will be political ramifications  if he doesn't choose not to divorce her..that adds dramatic (albeit silly) tension especially since she's a likeable loon. But beyond that the show will quickly loose the intimacy that initially made it charming.

Counter-intuitively, this current set-up could be salvaged if they'd add more...guys. Just have him do some more carpentry and turn happy hellspawn house into a Maison. Then have the strip focus on the misadventures of Monstergrrls of the month and boyfriend. This would allow a closer focus on the creaturettes,  a wider variety of "audience identification characters" and it gets back to the idea of two people trying to make things work despite considerable engineering challenges.

Pitch it as Boys Be...but with twenty/thirty somethings and tentacles.



Oh..

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jan 4 18:14:09 2013 (vp6an)

7 TMI, Brick.  TMI.

Posted by: JT at Fri Jan 4 21:54:09 2013 (DY79H)

8 Well.... I agree, it's slipping.  Now they've added a mer-girl.  Who was obviously that from the start, in the wheelchair. 

And to amp the raciness, we got to see what happens when Slime gets dehydrated.  Suffice to say, she'll go after moisture...anywhere she can find it. It was a very hot day for the girls.

Posted by: ubu at Mon Jan 7 09:35:14 2013 (SlLGE)

9 Wait...was EVERYBODY but me following this before Pete asked for a review of it?

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Jan 7 15:57:19 2013 (vp6an)

10 I merely thought Miia was the best Lamia. But this was quite a preference cascare, I have to admit.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Mon Jan 7 19:12:40 2013 (RqRa5)

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 As I type this I just got in from work and am checking my E-mail and noting something unexpected.

Inquiries.

Some are just expressing curiosity and others are very deeply concerned about the reason that two of the recent posts included pictures of lamias. I thought this would be obvious to most of my readership.

So, to the first person to correctly guess from the context why there were pics of lamias in those two posts, I'll do one post on a topic of your choice.

Difficulty: Because I responded to one inquiry, you are disqualified from participating if your name ends in the suffix "duck".

_{Note: This picture is posted for reasons not directly related to the two others. It's here because I had to slog through a hell of a lot of Lamia pics to find a few worksafe ones (wtf!?) and because I just thought it was cute.}

^{Doting lamia and daughter drawn by Nanashin (Link NSFW)}

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1 I assumed the answer was "Well, why the hell not?" Not everything has to have a reason.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Jan 2 10:38:58 2013 (+rSRq)

2 Year of the Snake DUH

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jan 2 13:23:59 2013 (RqRa5)

3 If you go into Pixiv and enter "ラビア", you can find a number of worksafe ones. The raw search will throw up a lot of junk, so the usual trick is to add one to bookmarks first, and then follow bookmark suggestions.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jan 2 13:29:16 2013 (RqRa5)

4 Pete Strikes a blow for Slavic superiority!
 
^{"Go Pete!"}

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jan 2 16:10:14 2013 (vp6an)

5 Oh...Pick a topic.

Also:

If you go into Pixiv and enter "ラビア", you can find a number of worksafe ones. The raw search will throw up a lot of junk, so the usual trick is to add one to bookmarks first, and then follow bookmark suggestions.

Thanks!

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jan 2 16:42:53 2013 (vp6an)

6 How about what's your favourite manga and what you like about it. Thought about making you write a review of Monster Musume at first, but that seems a bit much.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jan 2 17:22:40 2013 (RqRa5)

7 I think you've got you anime memes mixed up.  It's supposed to be "attractive females versus tentacles", not "attractive females who are tentacles"...

Posted by: Siergen at Wed Jan 2 18:47:48 2013 (Ao4Kw)

8 Ooh!  Ooh!  I know, I know!  It's...

Difficulty: Because I responded to one inquiry, you are disqualified from participating if your name ends in the suffix "duck".

Darn it.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Wed Jan 2 19:58:10 2013 (cymHZ)

9 Pete, I meant to ask you: When these Japanese seiyuu are singing that song in Russian, how terrible are their accents? Is it at least understandable?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Jan 2 20:16:18 2013 (+rSRq)

10 It sounds understandable, but I'm not sure if this is because I know the lyrics. We used to sing Katyusha in kindergarten, and corrupted the words on purpose. For example, in our version Katyusha came to the sheer bluff as usual, but instead of "starting the song about the grey prarie eagle" she "threw/shot sousage with great precision". We imagined that teachers could not tell what we were doing, with all the loud music and other kids singing in perfect cacophony, but now I'm not so sure. Anyway, with a baggage like that I cannot be sure I truly understand what seiyuu are singing. When they insert English, I often cannot tell what they are saying, but it becomes obvious in retrospect.

AKB0048 used fully fluent Russian speakers when the crew visited Tundrastar, which was quite a surprise!

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jan 2 22:39:40 2013 (RqRa5)

11 And let me say again how happy we all are that you ARE standing.

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...that we closed down Charleston, Staten Island and Roosevelt Roads so that we can have 9 carriers in one spot for an ice-cream social?

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1 I second that argument.  What would happen if an LNG tanker made a wrong turn?

Posted by: jcarlton at Tue Jan 1 23:28:35 2013 (i0RQw)

2 Funny, the first thing that came into my mind when I saw that picture was not Look at all 'em carriers! but It's so flat!  I have more elevation from my front yard to the back than that photo shows from coastline to horizon.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Jan 3 02:16:57 2013 (PiXy!)

3 Well, the horizon is actually the Chesapeake Bay. The pic is looking east over a spit of land separating the Elizabeth River from the bay. This area is really flat but that tounge of land is unusually so.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jan 3 03:28:23 2013 (C3KwS)

4 Also remember that this whole area was ground flat by glaciers during the last ice age.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thu Jan 3 07:17:59 2013 (+rSRq)

5 ???  Maybe during a previous ice age, Steven, but the last glacation, the Wisconsin, didn't get further than the terminal morraines - from Nantucket to the Ohio to the upper Midwest.

My understanding is that the southern Chesapeake Bay is largely sedimentary, not glacial in origin.  They were indirectly created by glaciation, but mostly because of runoff from distant upstream glacial masses, not the actual glaciers themselves.

Posted by: Mitch H. at Thu Jan 3 10:40:53 2013 (jwKxK)

6 Actually the farthest south they got on the eastern seabosard was Pennsylvania.



The area in the picture is just silt deposited by the rivers that join in the Roads and sand deposited by the ocean. It's like a delta but the main channels are very wide and don't move around.

During the ice age the James, Elizabeth and Pagan rivers merged in what is now the roads and went down rapids into the Potomac which was at the bottom of the then steep valley/canyon that eroded its way through the meteor crater we now call the Chesapeake Bay. That gorge went almost to the then coast (near the continental shelf). This area used to be very hilly on the edge of a canyon but it is all silted up now because of rising sea levels resulting from GLOBAL WARMING which in addidtion to making Al Gore rich causes boring landscapes.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jan 3 11:01:06 2013 (vp6an)

7 Oops. Mitch beat me to it while I was looking for a map.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jan 3 11:02:36 2013 (vp6an)

8 I stand corrected.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thu Jan 3 11:19:06 2013 (+rSRq)

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