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April 14, 2005


Blip

     Blip The Digital Game by Tommy appeared in 1977-78 (Japan). It was
based on Pong and similar early computer games. There are three buttons on
each side; when the "ball" comes towards one of them, the player presses
that particular button (if she can) to send it back. The ball is actually
an LED, and the entire game is mechanical, complete with a wind-up knob.
It takes two batteries for the LED. Blip is quite difficult to play;
Foofwa d'Imobilite told me he had one as a child and loved it. The
mechanism that moves the LED back and forth is hidden behind dark plastic;
only the red light shines through. This is an early analog mimicry of an
early digital game based on analog ping-pong. The type-face is close to
the same font used by early card-readers. So here is a mapping, which, by
virtue of the noise embodied in the hidden mechanism, seems actually
harder to play than its digital counterpart. It's a bit eerie, given the
later development of handhelds. I hope, by virtue of this video, to give
you some idea of the excitement of the simulacra of early gaming, as well
as stimulate a vigorous debate on the relationship of digital and analogic
phenomena to the exigencies of flesh.

http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim/blip.mpg

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Subject: Physics News Update 727

PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 727 April 14, 2005  by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein

A NEW KIND OF EQUILIBRIUM.  Normally heat will flow from a hot place
to a neighboring cold place.  In a new form of thermoelectric
refrigerator, proposed by Tammy Humphrey (University of Wollongong,
Australia) and Heiner Linke (University of Oregon), temperature
imbalances can be held at bay by electrochemical imbalances.  The
implications?  Possibly much more efficient forms of no-moving-parts
electric refrigerators.
Heat and electricity are two forms of energy, and in a special
circuit, made from thermoelectric materials, a temperature
difference can generate electricity and, conversely, a voltage
difference can bring about a temperature difference.  A
thermoelectric circuit usually consists of two semiconductors joined
at two junctions.  One of the semiconductors is of the p type with a
surplus of holes, the other of the n type with a surplus of
electrons.  Here's how you can generate heat or electricity in
contrary phenomena.  In the Peltier effect, a voltage imbalance will
pull electrons and holes out of one of the junctions, thus cooling
that junction and warming the other junction.  In the Seebeck
effect, things work in reverse: a temperature imbalance between the
junctions will set electrons and holes in motion, thus constituting
an electric current.  The Peltier effect is at work, for example, in
on-chip cooling of critical microcircuitry.  The Seebeck effect is
used in powering spacecraft (too far from the sun for photocells to
be of use), where the heat from a radioactive source is used to make
electricity.  What keeps thermoelectric devices from greater
applicability is the poor efficiency, typically 10%.  One of the
main problems is that some of the heat (applied at one junction)
used to drive a current through the circuit is carried by electrons
to the other junction, reducing the thermal gradient and therefore
sapping the process of generating electricity.  What one needs is a
circuit good for electric conduction but poor for thermal conduction
by electrons.  And this is what Humphrey (tammy.humphrey@unsw.edu.au
) and Linke's proposed circuit would do (see figure at
www.aip.org/png ).  The p-leg and n-leg parts of the circuits would
consist not of bulk matter but of quantum dots, nanoscopic pieces of
matter in which only select electron energies are allowed.  Engineer
the dots to discourage the higher-energy electrons carrying thermal
energy, heat leakage will drop, and the overall efficiency will go
up.  The best thermoelectric efficiencies are about 10%. If
efficiencies could be pushed to 50%, the thermoelectric approach
(silent, less bulky, no refrigerant, long lived) would compete to
take over even bulk household refrigeration, Humphrey says.
(Physical Review Letters, 11 March 2005; lab website
www.humphrey.id.au,
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~linke/ )

COOLING OF BULK MATERIAL has been achieved with a solid-state
refrigerator.  At the heart of the NIST-Boulder device is a tiny
sandwich-shaped diode whose layers are successively a normal metal,
an insulator, and a superconductor.  The stack has the effect of
pulling the hottest electrons out of the normal-metal layer.  This
no-moving-parts refrigerator is not the first to achieve 100 mK
temperatures but it is the first to do so with technologically
useful cooling powers.  The NIST micro-fridge chilled a cube of
germanium about 250 microns on a side and with a mass of 80
micrograms.  This sounds like a small speck of matter, but it was
enormous compared to the size of the refrigerating junctions (see
figure at www.aip.org/png ).  Indeed, the ratio of the volume of the
cube to the volume of the junctions is 11,000.  This is equivalent
to a refrigerator the size of a person chilling something the size
of the Statue of Liberty.  In preliminary tests, the cube was cooled
from 320 mK down to 240 mK.  Future improvements should lower the
base temperature to near 100 mK.  According to NIST physicist Joel
Ullom (ullom@boulder.nist.gov), their refrigerator works best at
temperatures below 1 K, so it won't be used to cool foods.  But it
will be very useful for chilling circuitry on chips and maybe
samples as large as the centimeter size.  (Clark et al., Applied
Physics Letters, upcoming article)


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although I made this now

http://www.asondheim.org/fluent.bmp

Thu Apr 14 03:22:33 EDT 2005

just finished this now

Thu Apr 14 03:22:50 EDT 2005

I'll wait until tomorrow for the text of
doubled incipient transformations

Thu Apr 14 03:23:35 EDT 2005

now i have slept, I -> i, it is still fluent

Thu Apr 14 11:55:40 EDT 2005

the text of doubled incipient transformations
is completed

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Some practical, usable info re' safe area inside buildings during quakes. Peg
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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308957/
Edited
by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief
and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International
(ARTI),the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in
this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue
teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams
in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from
many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster
Mitigation (UNX051 -UNIENET) for two years. I have worked at every
major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous
disasters.

In 1996 we made a film which proved my survival methodology to be
correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul,
University of Istanbul, Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film
this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home
with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and
ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method.
After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the
rubble and entered the buildin! g to film and document the results.
The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly
observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse,
showed there would have been zero
percent survival for those doing duck and cover.

There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people
using my method of the"triangle of life." This film has been seen by
millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe,
and it was seen in the USA, Canada and Latin America on the TV
program Real TV.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico
City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child
was under their desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of
their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their
desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why
the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that
the children were told to hide under somethin! g.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
falling upon the objects or furniture inside
crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This
space is what I call the" triangle of life". The larger the object,
the stronger, the less it will compact. The less
the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the
probability that the person who is using this void for
safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed
buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They
are everywhere.

It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.
They are everywhere. I trained the Fire Department of Trujillo
(population 750,000) in how to survive, take care of their families,
and to rescue others in earthquakes.

The chief of rescue in the Trujillo Fire Department is a professor
at Trujillo University. He accompanied me everywhere. He gave
personal testimony:
"My name is Roberto Rosales. I am Chief of Rescue in Trujillo. When
I was 11 years old, I was trapped inside of a collapsed building. My
entrapment occurred during the earthquake of 1972 that killed 70,000
people. I survived in the "triangle of life" that existed next to my
brother's motorcycle. My friends who got under the bed and under
desks were crushed to death [he
gives more details, names, addresses etc.]...I am the living
example of the "triangle of life". My dead friends are the example
of "duck and cover".

TIPS DOUG COPP PROVIDES:

1) Everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE is
crushed to death -- Every time, without
exception. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are
always crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies all naturally often curl up in the fetal
position. You should too in an earthquake. It
is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a
smaller void. Get next to an object, next to ! a sofa, next to a
large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next
to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in
during an earthquake. The reason is simple: the wood is flexible and
moves with the force of the earthquake. If the
wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created.
Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight.
Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause
many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs,
simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed.
Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes,
simply by posting a sign on the back of the door of every
room, telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom
of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens while you are
watching television and you! cannot easily escape by getting out the
door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next
to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Everybody who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is
killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls
forward or backward you will be crushed by the
ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in
half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of
frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the
building).The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump
into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place.

The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the
stair treads. They are horribly mutilated.
Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.
The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if
the stairs a! re not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse
later when overloaded by screaming, fleeing people. They should
always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is
not damaged.

8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If
Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of
the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are
from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the
probability that your escape route will be blocked;

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above
falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly
what happened with the slabs between the decks
of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake
all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed.

They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying
next to their vehicles, says the author. Everyone killed would have
survived if they had been! able to get out of their cars and sit or
lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to
them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across
them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper
offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not
compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of
paper.




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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:36:08 +0800
From: waro <waro@westnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Elfrad-Group- Fw: [ECETI News] Omega-News: TRIANGLE OF
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Excellent.....this  valuable information should  be known  to all
peoples, and in particular  school teachers  and government
instrumentalities.

Brian S

Peg S. wrote:

> Some practical, usable info re' safe area inside buildings during
> quakes. Peg
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> *To:* eceti@yahoogroups.com <mailto:eceti@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:37 PM
> *Subject:* [ECETI News] Omega-News: TRIANGLE OF LIFE - Earthquake
> Safety Information
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>
> http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308957/
> Edited
> by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.
>
> My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief
> and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International
> (ARTI),the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in
> this article will save lives in an earthquake.
>
> I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue
> teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams
> in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from
> many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster
> Mitigation (UNX051 -UNIENET) for two years. I have worked at every
> major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous
> disasters.
>
> In 1996 we made a film which proved my survival methodology to be
> correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul,
> University of Istanbul, Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film
> this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home
> with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover," and
> ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method.
> After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the
> rubble and entered the buildin! g to film and document the results.
> The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly
> observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse,
> showed there would have been zero
> percent survival for those doing duck and cover.
>
> There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people
> using my method of the"triangle of life." This film has been seen by
> millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe,
> and it was seen in the USA, Canada and Latin America on the TV
> program Real TV.
>
> The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico
> City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child
> was under their desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of
> their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their
> desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why
> the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know that
> the children were told to hide under somethin! g.
>
> Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
> falling upon the objects or furniture inside
> crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This
> space is what I call the" triangle of life". The larger the object,
> the stronger, the less it will compact. The less
> the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the
> probability that the person who is using this void for
> safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed
> buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed. They
> are everywhere.
>
> It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.
> They are everywhere. I trained the Fire Department of Trujillo
> (population 750,000) in how to survive, take care of their families,
> and to rescue others in earthquakes.
>
> The chief of rescue in the Trujillo Fire Department is a professor
> at Trujillo University. He accompanied me everywhere. He gave
> personal testimony:
> "My name is Roberto Rosales. I am Chief of Rescue in Trujillo. When
> I was 11 years old, I was trapped inside of a collapsed building. My
> entrapment occurred during the earthquake of 1972 that killed 70,000
> people. I survived in the "triangle of life" that existed next to my
> brother's motorcycle. My friends who got under the bed and under
> desks were crushed to death [he
> gives more details, names, addresses etc.]...I am the living
> example of the "triangle of life". My dead friends are the example
> of "duck and cover".
>
> TIPS DOUG COPP PROVIDES:
>
> 1) Everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE is
> crushed to death -- Every time, without
> exception. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are
> always crushed.
>
> 2) Cats, dogs and babies all naturally often curl up in the fetal
> position. You should too in an earthquake. It
> is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a
> smaller void. Get next to an object, next to ! a sofa, next to a
> large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next
> to it.
>
> 3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in
> during an earthquake. The reason is simple: the wood is flexible and
> moves with the force of the earthquake. If the
> wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created.
> Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight.
> Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause
> many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.
>
> 4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs,
> simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed.
> Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes,
> simply by posting a sign on the back of the door of every
> room, telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom
> of the bed during an earthquake.
>
> 5) If an earthquake happens while you are
> watching television and you! cannot easily escape by getting out the
> door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next
> to a sofa, or large chair.
>
> 6) Everybody who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is
> killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls
> forward or backward you will be crushed by the
> ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in
> half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!
>
> 7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of
> frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the
> building).The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump
> into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place.
>
> The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the
> stair treads. They are horribly mutilated.
> Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.
> The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if
> the stairs a! re not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse
> later when overloaded by screaming, fleeing people. They should
> always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is
> not damaged.
>
> 8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If
> Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of
> the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are
> from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the
> probability that your escape route will be blocked;
>
> 9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above
> falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly
> what happened with the slabs between the decks
> of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake
> all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed.
>
> They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying
> next to their vehicles, says the author. Everyone killed would have
> survived if they had been! able to get out of their cars and sit or
> lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to
> them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across
> them.
>
> 10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper
> offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not
> compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of
> paper.
>
>
>
>
> Shine
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Dear Alan,

Black-footed ferrets were considered extinct until a few survivors were found in Wyoming in 1981.  Since then a successful captive breeding and reintroduction effort raised hopes that the highly endangered ferret will recover.  But that recovery is now threatened by the U.S. Forest Service's proposal to kill prairie dogs, ferrets' primary food source.

Because they depend on prairie dogs for food, ferrets can only survive in large prairie dog colonies.  Unfortunately, these colonies sometimes result in conflicts with cattle ranchers when they spread onto adjacent ranches on private land.  As a result, last fall the government applied poison to nearly 6,800 acres within the Buffalo Gap National Grassland in South Dakota.  Because non-lethal management options for the control of prairie dogs are available and because the Buffalo Gap National Grassland is critical to reintroduction of the black-footed ferret, several conservation organizations filed suit to stop the poisoning.  Under the terms of a settlement, further poisoning was prohibited until completion of an environmental impact statement and long-term solution for management of prairie dog colonies.

The Forest Service recently released its draft environmental impact statement and is seeking public comments on three alternatives for prairie dog management.  Unfortunately, all of the alternatives have drawbacks and two call for expanded killing of prairie dogs, which would eliminate ferret recovery options in several areas and destroy the best remaining ferret habitat on the planet.

Speak out now to support non-lethal approaches to prairie dog management.

SEND A FREE LETTER NOW TO THE FOREST SERVICE:

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Please forward this alert to your friends and colleagues.  You can make a big difference for ferrets and prairie dogs.  Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

Steve Forrest
World Wildlife Fund
Bozeman, Montana
scforrest@earthlink.net

  [Steve Forrest is a biologist and attorney who specializes in prairie dog and black-footed ferret conservation for WWF's Northern Great Plains program.]

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Donald J. Bright, Forest Supervisor
Nebraska National Forest
Attn:  Black-tailed Prairie Dog Comments
125 North Main Street
Chadron, Nebraska 69337-2118

Dear Mr. Bright,

Please accept the following comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) regarding prairie dog conservation and management on the Nebraska National Forest and associated units in South Dakota and Nebraska.

I strongly prefer Alternative 1 of the DEIS, which relies on non-lethal methods of minimizing prairie dog conflicts with adjacent landowners.  However, this alternative should be modified to state clearly that the provisions of the existing Nebraska National Forest management plan will be retained and that the poisoning of prairie dogs will be allowed only when site-specific management plans have been developed.  The Nebraska National Forest management plan was finalized only two years ago after extensive planning and the receipt of tens of thousands of public comments that supported strong protections for prairie dogs and other wildlife.

Alternative 1 also should call for the continued priority management of the Conata Basin and Smithwick areas for black-footed ferret recovery.  In particular, prairie dogs must be protected in the Conata Basin area within the Buffalo Gap National Grassland in South Dakota because this area is essential for the recovery of the endangered black-footed ferret.  Millions of dollars and dozens of agencies, organizations, and individuals have worked to make ferret recovery succeed there.  I appreciate your continuing support for the priority management of these areas.

I strongly oppose Alternative 2.  There is no reason to support a mile-wide poisoning and shooting kill zone around the entire perimeter of these lands.  Alternative 2 arbitrarily constricts the ferret recovery area and offers no long-term solution to addressing border management conflicts.  Alternative 3 is similarly flawed because it adopts this "buffer" concept as well, although at only half or quarter mile encroachment.  The full range of management tools, including poisoning, should only be used when site-specific management plans are developed.

A wide range of non-lethal alternatives exist that can reduce unwanted prairie dog expansion while still allowing black-footed ferrets to thrive.  Please make maximum use of these alternatives, including:

* consolidating public lands around important prairie dog areas so as to reduce public/private conflicts in these areas;

* eliminating livestock grazing in buffers next to private lands in order to maintain the tall vegetation that restricts the expansion of prairie dogs onto private lands; and

* when drought or other factors decrease the availability of grass on public land -- which leads prairie dogs to move and seek food elsewhere -- reducing or eliminating livestock grazing there so that the grass supply isn't further diminished and the prairie dogs aren't likely to expand onto private lands.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide these comments.

Sincerely,

Your name and address
will be inserted here

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BACKGROUND

Although once found in grasslands throughout the Great Plains, from Canada to Mexico, the black-footed ferret is today arguably North America's most endangered mammal.  Almost entirely because of historic poisoning of prairie dogs, fewer than 500 ferrets exist in the world, and of those, roughly 250 are found in South Dakota's Conata Basin.  A large population exists in the Conata Basin because the Nebraska National Forest, which manages national grasslands in the Conata Basin, has made protection of prairie dog colonies on its lands that provide habitat for the ferret a high priority and included that priority in its most recent revision of its management plan in 2001.  Now, government officials would like to change course and authorize poisoning and shooting of prairie dogs in this critical wildlife habitat.

You can read the "Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Black-tailed Prairie Dog Conservation and Management on the Nebraska National Forest and Associated Units" at  http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ctt.asp?u=30516&l=87890


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