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Sky ceiling iPhone 4S Acropolis, Athens, Greece Thursday, October 4th, 2012.
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We used to choose which stories to read in our newspaper. Now we choose the newspapers in which to read our story.
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Digestive Building iPhone 6S Highlands, Scotland, London, England Saturday, November 23rd, 2019.
Gay Decay iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, October 12th, 2019.
Oh, Toadstools iPhone 6S London, England Friday, October 4th, 2019.
It Adds Up iPhone 6S London, England Friday, October 4th, 2019.
Moment iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, August 26th, 2019.
Crossing Pink iPhone 6S Portsmouth, England Saturday, August 10th, 2019.
Success iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
NE TLV iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
Available Magic iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, April 14th, 2019.
Pillars iPhone 6S Israel Trail, Israel Saturday, April 13th, 2019.
Downhome Downtown iPhone 6S Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, April 12th, 2019.
The Goose Abides iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Thursday, April 11th, 2019.
Stop Pulling My Loire iPhone 6S Nantes, France Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
Stark Industry iPhone 6S Nantes, France Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
Boring 747 iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, November 29th, 2018.
Girl on a Plane iPhone 6S Sunday, November 4th, 2018.
Exiled iPhone 6S Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, Great Wall, China Sunday, November 4th, 2018.
Man, Platform, Sea & Border iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Self Portrait as a Shadow on the Rocks iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Up the Hill iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Maintenance iPhone 6S Rosh Hanikra, Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
A Happier Paving iPhone 6S Israel Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
Through the Blind iPhone 6S Hod Hasharon, Israel Sunday, October 28th, 2018.
Moment in Shoreditch iPhone 6S London, England Thursday, October 11th, 2018.
More Marina iPhone 6S Brighton Marina, Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, October 7th, 2018.
12:14pm UTC
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
From “you can’t do anything” to “a severe revenge”: Khamenei fumes regarding “that guy” Trump as US kills Iran’s Al-Quds Force leader Soleimani in a missile attack at Baghdad Airport.
Good bonkers, I’m Adam S Khan, the S being for Samuel.
I live in Brighton, England with Irit and our kids and right now no dogs.
Thanks for dropping by — it’s my pleasure to have you.
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
Mike and Rich of Red Letter Media do a re:View of Star Trek: Picard. I hadn’t articulated to myself why I chose not to watch beyond the first episode — they explain it. One criticism though: they mock the term positronic, seeming not to know it comes from Asimov’s robots.
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
Great thread What do software engineers who work at a large scale understand that other developers don’t? at /r/programming
In BetterProgramming, these are two well-written posts I’ll refer back to by authoritative web guy Joe Honton: “My Perfect 2020 Stack” and “Full Stack Pronounced Dead”.
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression
Since the media as well as the Democrats (pardon the pleonasm) clearly enjoy the spectacle of impeachment, I suggest that Barack Obama retroactively be impeached, not for anything as mealy-mouthed as “obstruction of Congress” but for aiding and abetting America’s enemies by shoveling billions of dollars to the Iranian mullahs.
Roger Kimball, “ ‘Walls Are Closing In’ on the Democrats”, American Greatness
irrefutable
I feel constrained to point out to [US Senator Chuck] Schumer that President Trump’s acquittal will have at least this irrefragable meaning: Donald J. Trump will still be president of the United States.
Roger Kimball, “ ‘Walls Are Closing In’ on the Democrats”, American Greatness
Monday, January 27th, 2020
The inaugural State of SaaS Report.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
“The Soleimani Killing: An Initial Assessment” [PDF], a study by Hillel Frisch, Eytan Gilboa, Gershon Hacohen, Doron Itzchakov, and Alexander Joffe at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
From “you can’t do anything” to “a severe revenge”: Khamenei fumes regarding “that guy” Trump as US kills Iran’s Al-Quds Force leader Soleimani in a missile attack at Baghdad Airport.
Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
In trying to improve the performance of an ExpressionEngine-powered web-based system, I came across the following database fields within MySQL query WHERE clauses that therefore should be indexed but aren’t:
Every little helps.
In r/saltierthancrait and posted by u/yellowdawg299, In your opinion, who is the worst character in Star Wars?. Great stuff.
Etc, etc.
Saturday, December 21st, 2019
Smoother CSS shadows by Philipp Brumm. Simple; excellent. [via CSSTricks]
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
Matt Layman’s handy Failed SaaS Postmortem — too much tech tinkering; I need to take heed. Plus it’s great he’s getting right back in the saddle.
“A proper understanding of biblical and rabbinic theology might identify a solution to Israel’s constitutional vacuum“. By Michael Wyschogrod in First Things [2010]
Counterintuitive arguments from the redoubtable Ambrose Evans-Pritchard that Boris’s ascension reduces the plausibility of Scottish secession from the UK.
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
“Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict” — the inaugural James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics by Thomas Piketty (March 30th, 2018).
Labour is now populism for the lightly-educated middle-classes, argues John Gray with stonking cogency — and, it turns out a month later at the December 2019 election, accuracy. Until 2008 the Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, Gray has been referred to by one Nassim Nicholas Taleb as “prophetic”.
Friday, December 6th, 2019
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
What a gorgeous country revealed in this photo essay of contemporary life in Iran.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
VDH provides a bit of actual strategy for the USA on the China, Iran, and North Korea fronts:
The most dangerous moments … are predictable. They follow when one side, arrogant from previously being exempt from any consequences for its aggression, believes it’s starting to lose a conflict that it prompted and cannot afford to lose.
With hundreds shot dead, Iran’s Islamic Republic is undergoing its worst unrest to date.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Quite the overview: “The Real Class War” by Julius Krein, editor of American Affairs.
The real class war is between the 0.1 percent and (at most) the 10 percent—or, more precisely, between elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes sional labor.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
The Smithsonian Magazine excerpts Paul Hendrickson’s Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. Among the gems:
Will the author spoil it for me though? Among the crisps are tonal annoyances such as beginning sentences with “Heck,”…
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Shaman: A novel of the Ice Age
Kim Stanley Robinson
As I return to this a couple of months later to write up this brief review, much of the book unfolds mentally in my head: scenes, characters, the unfolding. Whereas the other couple of books read at the similar time are blanks to me. This book delivered on my hope of a vivid portrayal of the protean human, and was even more vivid than I had expected. KSR is to be congratulated and I’m sure he’s proud of this one. Has anyone else done this so well?
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
A view to the best bit of Bond fan art I’ve seen maybe ever: David Reed’s 007 film title anagrams.
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
Adam Gopnik’s “Short Husbands” essay.
Friday, November 1st, 2019
A deep dive into the newness of the iPhone 11 camera at the Halide blog.
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
A meditation in The New Yorker on aging.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
The Tube Ronnies complete with transcript, thanks to the invaluable IanVisits.
Friday, October 25th, 2019
Gadget: 1. Survey [PDF] is a cool history of software milestones “from Smalltalk to Minecraft” Chaim Gingold (2017). When you see these things collected you realize how much progress they collectively represent. I wonder what we’d have been doing otherwise…
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Dr Alex Joffe notes that while the West’s working classes are still relatively sensible, “in Western social and information environments saturated with virtue-signaling, [grafting BDS onto contemporary concerns and movements is] having some success with members of the image-conscious, predominantly white middle class.
Saturday, October 19th, 2019
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
Pico Iyer
Written aphoristically, long-time Kyoto resident travel writer Pico Iyer provided me with a new view of a major people: that the Japanese exemplify Oscar Wilde’s catechism that style is substance, surface depth. One telling anecdote from his pal the Dalai Lama: when speaking to Western audiences, they perk up at the philosophy and tune out for the rituals; with the Japanese it’s the opposite. There are many more such reflections. One reviewer says the book is profound, and I guess that is the case, yes.
Friday, October 18th, 2019
Dore Gold primes us on why Israel must retain the Jordan Valley. Like the Golan, it’s not only about strategic depth but also strategic height. When driving down the magnificent road along the Dead Sea from Jerusalem to Ein Bokek, I would often loftily complain that one wouldn’t know one has exited Israel proper as there are no signs, just a little roadblock upon entering Ein Bokek (and a much more significant one upon reentering Jerusalem near the city limits). Whenever there’s no sign, it’s a sign that the State has deemed this land integral yet history has not yet ripened sufficiently for declaring it so.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
Volvo unveils its first full battery electric model, the XC40 Recharge SUV with 402bhp a 248-mile range. Featuring no front grille!
Succession as comedy. Obvious, given its producers, but still, nicely written.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Latitudinal psychology? “Like happiness, [individualism and creativity] trend higher as one moves away from the equator.”
A deep dive into the Grand Seiko Snowflake on Hodinkee. “The entire thing seems to have been calculated to create an effect of serenity without boredom; of minimalism without sterility.”
This is actually kind of important: How to select, copy, and paste text in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. Thanks, AppleInsider. In Notes at least, 3-finger swipe-left and swipe-right isn’t just undo and redo, but an entire history of actions to the document.
Meir Kraus, a fellow at the research center at the Shalom Hartman Institute, sets out challenges, lessons, options and insights for a balanced and feasible option on Jerusalem as part of a wider solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A lovely poster of Frank Lloyd Wright homes “in (nearly) every state” by HomeAdvisor.
Sunday, October 13th, 2019
AutoCar drives the electric Jaguar I-Pace from London to Frankfurt. As recently as two years ago such a journey simply wasn’t feasible. Now, once you have the more expensive car, it’s much cheaper than driving diesel let alone petrol. That said, charging stops are an hour rather than five minutes, and every 200 miles rather than say every 500. But I think there is some good here. Travellers must get out and stretch their legs for a longer while. All in all our automotive future looks improved.
George Friedman on Brexit: it is very likely to happen, as is the painful shift to increased ties with the Anglosphere.
Install bullshit.js as a bookmarklet. Your insides will thank you.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
ExpressionEngine (EE) is the content management system that until recently I used for building every web property. In November 2018, EllisLab, the producer of EE, was sold to Digital Locations, Inc. (DLOC) and EllisLab owner Rick Ellis joined the parent company’s payroll. The acquisition is detailed in Digital Locations’ Quarterly Report (Form 10-Q) dated August 13th, 2019.
But the Digital Locations acquisition seems downright skeezy. Despite the company’s tagline about Artificial Intelligence, it appears to be nothing more than a holding company for Mr Bill Beifuss. Moreover it looks like he’s scrimping on incorporation fees: the company was founded in 2006 as Zingerang, then became Carbon Sciences for a decade, before morphing again into Digital Locations. It self-reports never having had any revenues.
According to the linked-to Bloomberg profile, Mr Beifuss is also CEO of some other companies: Warp 9 Inc, Coeur D’alene French Baking Co, and Cumorah Capital Inc., none of which appear to provide any actual products or services either.
Rick must have been aware of and a party to this bullshit. With ExpressionEngine he had a great thing going; I wonder what happened. All I can speculate is that he very much wanted to segue EE’s success into enabling him to try other things professionally but that it remained his biggest achievement and he couldn’t bring himself to let go of the golden goose even though it was fading without his hands-on vision. And then at some point last year he suddenly really needed a buyer.
Recently, on October 3rd, 2019, he bought EllisLab back from Beifuss then sold it a week later to development house Packet Tide, that is, Tom Jaeger. So it Rick Ellis has finally let go of ExpressionEngine, even if he held on too long; despite being free EE can barely be be given away now; the technology has moved on.
I’m relieved to have moved away from it onto the Node ecosystem. I really enjoyed meeting the EllisLab team at an EE conference in 2017 — such cool nice folks in person — but for me EllisLab is a cautionary tale.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
I wish there were something to disagree with in this piece reviewing the fiasco that is Brexit. We see now that due to the United Kingdom’s very make-up — a dominant England, a smaller Scotland, and a Northern Ireland with inherent connections to the Republic of Ireland — Britain needs to be in the EU arguably more than many other European countries do. Surely some game theory simulations would have borne out the current impasse.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
I’m excited by the Richard Mille Bonbon watch collection. Just fabulous. Crazy expensive but apparently all have been bought, most popularly in Malaysia.
MacStories’ macOS Catalina review seems comprehensive enough to take over from John Siracusa’s famous Ars Technica reviews.
DRUDGE APP IPHONE, IPAD...
538 ROUNDUP...
ANDROID...
Betting Odds: Dem Nomination...
Thousands light up joints during Hindu festival in Nepal...
Bibi Comes Out Swinging...
Israeli criminal investigation into Netanyahu challenger's failed company jolts election...
Culture war rages amid glitter at Rio carnival...
Lesbian couple facing death penalty in Saudi Arabia declare love for each other live on TV...
U.S. and Taliban announce first step in Afghanistan peace process...
Does Iran regime plan to destroy tomb of Esther and Mordechai?
In America's Richest Town, $500k a Year Now Below Average...
GOLDMAN warns of stock market correction...
UPDATE: TITANS, RAIDERS Favorites To Land Tom Brady...
Bolsonaro pushes political incorrectness to the limit...
Michael Bloomberg Struggles in the Trenches
Trump Puts Unqualified Loyalist in Charge of National Intelligence
Vote Buttigieg President to Make America Good Again
The Dems' Strategy Against The Trump Economy? Schizophrenia
It's Jeff Bezos's Planet Now
Pull Yourself Up by Bootstraps? Go Ahead, Try It ...
The Xi Jinping Flu
'The Truth Still Matters': Stone's Judge Does Us a Favor
Amazingly, Sanders May Be Dems' Best Chance at Victory
President Trump's Coup on the American Dream
Trump Takes Aim at Bureaucratic Bullying
Sanders Is Wrong: We Are Better Off Today Than Ever Before
Roger Stone's Sentence Proves Barr Right
Only Trump Can Beat Trump
Bloomberg's Plan to Buy Dem Nomination Endangers Democracy
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (2011)
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest browser build despite privacy concerns
Domain Logic and SQL (2003)
How to Write Usefully
Racket-on-Chez Status
Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
Of Modes and Men (2005)
Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)
If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause
State of Clojure 2020
Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
Palestinian woman arrested in attempted Jerusalem knifing spree
Iran elects a new parliament after candidates list heavily purged
US sanctions Iranian officials for “preventing free elections”
Fresh coronavirus cases outside Chinese mainland
Turkey asks US to post Patriot missiles against Syrian attacks
Eleven Israelis from coronavirus ship arrive home
A US-Taliban Peace Deal Close, But Big Questions Remain
Purged for Parliamentary Vote, Iran’s “Reformists” Fight for Survival
Putin Baits Turkey by Idlib Battle to Quit NATO
China Steals Israel’s Iron Dome Secrets through Electronic “Back Door”
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Soleimani's Death Derails Iran's Regional Momentum
Lebanese Politicians Criticize New Statue of Iran's Soleimani
The Iranian Revenge Attack on U.S. Forces in Iraq
New Iranian Missiles Pose Threat to U.S. Aircraft
Israeli Company Spots Hamas Cyberattacks on PA Officials
Components Link Iran to Attacks
Syrian Journalist: Jews "Make Miracles Out of the Impossible"
Israeli President Welcomed in Fiji
Israel, PA End Economic Dispute
Israeli President Announces Scholarship Opportunities for the Pacific
Palestinian Teen Killed by PA Police in West Bank
British MP: Palestinians Must Show They Are Serious about Peace
Iran Has Become a Burden to Its Allies in Syria
Sudanese Welcome Normalization with Israel Online
What Crimes Do the Companies on the UN Blacklist Engage In?
China set to clamp down permanently on wildlife trade in wake of coronavirus
Working Scientist podcast: How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection
Turning the humble soya bean into a powerful green glue
Daily briefing: Radar survey sparks debate on Egyptian queen Nefertiti
Author Correction: Quantifying secondary transport at single-molecule resolution
Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI
Coronavirus latest: death toll passes 2,000
First look under imperiled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’
Scientists question China’s decision not to report symptom-free coronavirus cases
Structural basis of ligand recognition and self-activation of orphan GPR52
Selective loading and processing of prespacers for precise CRISPR adaptation
Spontaneous cures, seeing the stars, and secrets of invisible aircraft: Books in brief
Gene expression and cell identity controlled by anaphase-promoting complex
Investigation of the fine structure of antihydrogen
Libya’s Haftar says any cease-fire would be contingent on Turkish withdrawal
Iranians begin voting in parliamentary election
‘Social explosion’ in Lebanese camps imminent, warn officials
In northwest Syria, children tossed about by war and exile
It’s time to implement radical changes, says Algeria’s new president
Iranian scarf campaigner calls for vote boycott
Egypt’s street music ‘more dangerous than new coronavirus’
Dhow raids reveal Iran’s supply line of sophisticated missiles to Yemen’s Houthis
Turkey launches operation against Syrian regime troops
US blacklists five Iranian officials for impeding ‘fair’ elections
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
Bloomberg Agonistes
The New Levelers
Orwellian Word Games
Britain’s Big Dig
Skid Row’s Addiction Epidemic
US, Taliban poised to sign partial truce after 18 years of fighting in Afghanistan
California apologises to Japanese Americans for World War II internment camps
Coronavirus could disrupt Tokyo Olympics but Governor Yuriko Koike tells London to back off
New Canadian coronavirus patient never went to China, but had visited Iran
Donald Trump’s travel ban raises fear for US Rohingya
Donald Trump slams Oscars for giving best picture to Parasite
New Zealander jailed for life over British tourist Grace Millane’s Tinder date murder
Russia trying to get Trump re-elected, US intelligence officers say
Irish PM Leo Varadkar resigns as government formation founders
Chinese man Ruepang Cao cites coronavirus in attempt to avoid being deported from Canada
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Collecting semen from an elephant (NSFW)
Panama authorities seize narco-sub packed with 5 tons of drugs
Footage of locusts swarming in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
How to tie your shoelaces like Satan
Listen to a 1980s teenager's Commodore 64 covers of Huey Lewis songs
US Customs seized a human brain on its way from Toronto to Wisconsin
The Food Guard kicks plastic wrap to the curb and solves your missing lid problem forever
Annual Hieronymus Bosch parade on water celebrates the life and ideas of the 15th century artist
Trump is mad 'Parasite' won Movie of the Year because it's from South Korea
Trump mad that U.S. intel briefed lawmakers on Russian military attack on 2020 elections
How The Mandalorian was shot on a virtual stage using the Unreal Engine
Help your future self by imagining an invitation to a far-off event is tomorrow
Kevin Kelly discusses "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" with author Neal Stephenson
New app helps you identify IoT devices around you, tells you what data they collect
Very good sentences
A central bank digital currency is not a good idea, redux
The missionary roots of liberal democracy
Thursday assorted links
Willingness to be Paid: Who Trains for Tech Jobs?
In praise of art books
Education sentences to ponder
Wednesday assorted links
Random Critical Analysis on Health Care
Science sentences to ponder: citations vs. innovations
The bureaucratization of U.S. foreign policy
Apply for Emergent Ventures
Tuesday assorted links
Our Cyborg Future
Does GDPR even boost privacy?
Where the design community meets.
LottieFiles for After Effects - Render Lottie animations in real time
Microsoft Unveils New Windows 10 System Icons
3D Design for the web - A chat with Pitch.com
CSS Stats — Analytics and visualizations for your stylesheets
Design Twitter™ Whenever a Rebrand Happens
[DN Suggestion] New threads need to be approved by original members
Free Ecology illustrations by Andy Dao
Simple Typography Tips to More Professional Looking Websites
Funny Loop Animations From 2019/2020
Designing Learn JavaScript's course portal
Agency Juice issue 06; The ramblings of a Creative Director
Authentic Process of Mobile App Design to Enhance UX
Behavioural science is a powerful design tool. Discover how to use it at BehaviourKit.
What is the cost of your tech project?
Simple Tips Of Designing A Professional Website
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
'AirPods Pro Lite' allegedly very close to production
Samsung installs former finance minister Bahk Jae-wan as board chairman
Apple researching all-glass iPhone with wraparound touchscreen
Samsung Galaxy S20 5G preorders are live with iPhone trade-in bonuses
Apple granted restraining order against man who twice trespassed on Tim Cook's property
T-Mobile and Sprint revise merger terms, seek to close deal by April
Functional Apple-1, Steve Jobs-signed PowerBook to hit auction block in March
Rumor: 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro rates 10nm Intel Ice Lake processor
Review: The WT2 Plus translation earbuds allow you to converse with almost anyone with ease
How to factory reset a MacBook Pro, and when to do it
Apple releases second public betas of iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4
Apple supplier SK Hynix orders 800 staff to stay home over coronavirus fears
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Reviewed: Friday Likes 318: From Buddy-Buddy, Nice People, and Zan Inc.
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for A Fork Full of Earth by Noise13
Spotted: New Logo for Fnatic
Linked: Jägermeister Cross-promotion
Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Mixcloud by Output
Spotted: New Logo for The Group
Spotted: New Logo for App Annie done In-house
Linked: F-ai-verr
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Tilix by BR / BAUEN
Reviewed: New Logo, Identity, and Livery for Aegean by PriestmanGoode
Spotted: New Logo for Andersen Windows
Spotted: New Logo for Molson Coors by Soulsight
Linked: Off with their Heads!
Noted: New Logo for the State of Oklahoma
Biting the hand that feeds IT
experiments in refactored perception
Weirding Diary: 11
Domestic Cozy: 11
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