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⁣Fight Vids πŸ₯Š - Mother catches his son skipping school and disciplines him in public 😳 Justified?

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⁣il Donaldo Trumpo - STOP IT!!!πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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⁣Jacked! πŸ’€ - Police run over armed suspect

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⁣Meltdown is a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world. The show begins with the 2008 crash that pushed 30 million people into unemployment, brought countries to the edge of insolvency and turned the clock back to 1929.

But how did it all go so wrong? Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place. Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced "light touch regulation" - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.

Meltdown moves on to examine the epidemic of fear that caused the world's banks to stop lending and how the people began their fight back. Finally, it asks how the world can prepare for the next crisis even as it recognises that this one is far from over.

We hear about the sheikh who says the crash never happened; a Wall Street king charged with fraud; a congresswoman who wants to jail the bankers; and the world leaders who want a re-think of capitalism.

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CANST
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⁣The 'KIDS' Recite KITE, HIT, STEEL, PLANE, MUST just before Andrew Card informs President G.W. Bush about the impact of the second plane in NYC
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEqeELMXsyo
Currently on WPRPN; made it to the Jolly Roger with Japhy Ryder, Mark Edworthy and Sonia Galatec
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Cool comment encapsulations our current condition:
Another newer related phrase is bai lan (Chinese: 摆烂; pinyin: bǎi lΓ n; lit. 'let it rot'), which means "to actively embrace a deteriorating situation, rather than trying to turn it around". Basically, it refers to a voluntary retreat from pursuing certain goals
β€˜I don’t want to rattle the kids’: The moment George W Bush learned 9/11 had happened
George W Bush’s reaction – or lack thereof – upon learning that terrorists were attacking the United States is now infamous. But even though it was caught on video, most Americans didn’t see it until years later.
On that September morning, the relatively new president was at a photo-op with first-graders at a school in Florida, participating in a reading exercise called The Pet Goat (often erroneously referred to as β€œMy Pet Goat”).
Before Mr Bush entered the classroom, he was told that a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers – although at this point many believed it was an accident. As Mr Bush listened to the children read, an aide whispered in his ear that the second tower had been hit. It was now clear that the country was under attack.
Mr Bush did not, at this point, leap up and take command of the situation. Instead, he stayed in his seat and finished the reading exercise, sitting there for seven minutes. Then he spent some time complimenting the children on their reading skills and took some photos with them and their teachers. When a reporter asked if he’d heard about the attacks, he replied, β€œI’ll talk about it later”.
Three years later, this muted reaction became a liability for Mr Bush when Michael Moore included it in his 2004 documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. After years of being presented to the public as a strong, decisive leader, the footage of Mr Bush sitting inertly with schoolchildren as Americans were being massacred was a major embarrassment.
β€œNot knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and no Secret Service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr Bush just sat there,” Mr Moore said in his withering narration.
Even after his presidency, the former president and his team have tried to dispel this narrative. Mr Bush himself has said he stayed with the children to show strength.
β€œI didn’t want to rattle the kids,” he said. β€œI wanted to project a sense of calm.”
The White House press secretary at the time, Ari Fleischer, insisted in 2016 that after leaving the school, away from the cameras, Mr Bush was full of resolve and bravado. In allegedly contemporaneous notes that Mr Fleischer says he hid in a bank vault, Mr Bush was recorded saying things like β€œWe’re going to get the b******s” and β€œSomebody’s going to pay”.
One person who did take command of the situation, meanwhile, was then-vice president Dick Cheney. In recent years, research has shown that Mr Cheney spent the day of the attacks in a bunker below the White House, making calls and telling other officials what to do.
The Atlantic has reported that one of his first calls was to Mr Bush, who he told not to return to Washington (in order to avoid leaving both leaders vulnerable to the same attack). He also, astonishingly, ordered the Air Force to shoot down a suspicious passenger plane headed toward DC. (Mr Cheney has said he cleared this order with Mr Bush first, but according to The Atlantic, evidence shows the order came before the permission.) That order, fortunately, never made its way to any fighter pilots.
Three days later, with more time to prepare, Mr Bush famously spoke through a bullhorn atop the rubble of the World Trade Center. Standing in plainclothes among firefighters and first responders, the president projected the kind of take-charge machismo he had lacked on the day of the attacks.
β€œI can hear you!” he told the crowd, which couldn’t hear him through the bullhorn. β€œThe rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
For years, that was the image that many Americans had of Mr Bush after 9/11 – decisive, resolute, brave. Pundits spoke ad nauseam about his β€œresolve”. Even though video footage of it existed, almost no one saw Mr Bush’s in-the-moment reaction to the terrorist attacks.
Then Fahrenheit 9/11 came along. In the years since then, despite all the efforts at historical revision, the image of this commander-in-chief that sticks out in many American minds is of him sitting in that Florida classroom, reading with children about a goat.
https://www.independent.co.uk/....news/world/americas/

CANST
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⁣Chicago’s migrant crisis in spotlight as Democrats prepare for convention

The buses full of migrants arriving from Texas have disappeared. But the tensions in Chicago over how to handle thousands of newcomers are still evident.

A view inside the migrant family housing shelter at the former St. Bartholomew school and convent in Portage Park in Chicago. (Joel Angel Juarez for The Washington Post)

By Kim Bellware and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
August 18, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

CHICAGO β€” The buses full of migrants arriving from Texas have disappeared. Shelter beds are increasingly empty. And homeless newcomers with nowhere else to go are no longer crowding airports and police stations.

But as Democrats prepare to gather in Chicago, the strain of taking in tens of thousands of new arrivals bused in from the border in recent years is still evident and will be difficult for Vice President Kamala Harris to escape as she accepts her party’s nomination for president.

Immigration activists are expected to protest the Biden administration’s new measures restricting how many people can enter and apply for asylum. The city is facing criticism after clearing several homeless encampments ahead of the Democratic National Convention. And tensions persist among local Democrats over how much the city has had to spend on the newcomers in the absence of more federal dollars.

4.1 million migrants

The Washington Post analyzed more than 4.1 million U.S. immigration court records from the past decade to find out where migrants come from and where they live once they arrive in the country.

The friction here reflects a broader struggle in the Democratic Party over how to deal with immigration. While Harris is expected to emphasize border security and highlight the declining number of illegal border crossings, other members of her party are upset at what they see as the Biden administration’s increasingly heavy-handed approach.

β€œThe Democrats have every incentive to get these intraparty debates off center stage,” said John Sides, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. But he noted party leaders can’t prevent protesters from raising immigration concerns. β€œWhat goes on in the streets outside is a different story.”

Chicago became a ground zero for the migration crisis two years ago, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) started busing migrants north as part of a program relocating them to sanctuary cities. Chicago has received more than 46,000 new arrivals since August 2022, most of those arriving...

Read more at the URL below:

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CANST
20 Views Β· 5 months ago

⁣The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican group, released a new ad targeting hardline abortion policies. Lincoln Project senior adviser Stuart Stevens discusses.

#cnn #news source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QcUWvHMOw

CANST
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⁣Home » Song Meanings
Meaning Of β€œBlinded By The Light” By Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

By Liam Flynn

December 19, 2023


It is quite unusual for a cover of a song to become a larger hit than its original. But it is not impossible. The British rock band, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, managed to accomplish this feat in the 1970s with Blinded By The Light.

⁣The track, originally written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, was released on his Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. album from 1973. Manfred Mann had bought this album based on a recommendation by a local disc jockey from Philadelphia. He was one of a modest number of people who had bought the album as that was before Springsteen made it big with the mega-hit album Born To Run in 1975.

Meaning of Blinded By The Light Song Lyrics

According to Springsteen, the song was written when he looked through a rhyming dictionary and searched for appropriate lyrical wording. Blinded By The Light is about the ups and downs of a young musician’s life. However, the message always subtly reflects that the downs are the source of the struggles that bring talented musicians to the pinnacle of success.

Its music track is high-energy, and the lyrics talk about the thrill and hope only found in adolescence. Blinded By The Light reflects the invincibility of a youthful attitude that is filled with immeasurable hope and optimism that, in life, anything is possible.

The lyrics are reminiscent of an early Bruce Springsteen, the days when he was just beginning his career. In doing so, he had the good fortune of meeting unique and interesting characters when introducing his music across the Jersey Shore and the local music markets of Philadelphia and New York City.

The first line of the song, β€œMadman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat” is likely an autobiographical reference:

β€œMadman drummers” refer to a drummer, Vini Lopez, who had several nicknames, including Mad Man and Mad Dog.

β€œIndians in the summer” pertains to the Little League Team of Springsteen.
β€œTeenage Diplomat” is a reference to Springsteen himself.

In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older I tripped the Merry-go-round

The first line is a reference, according to his Aunt Dora Kirby, to the fact that Springsteen refused to take off his baseball hat.

A β€œmerry-go-round” refers to baseball slang in which the pitcher consistently walks batters.

The song continues, adding other unrelated events, such as the beginning of verse 4:

Some silicone sister with her manager’s mister told me I got what it takes
She said I’ll turn you on sonny, to something strong if you play that song with the funky break
Blinded by the Light Lyric Controversy
When Manfred Mann’s Earth Band covered this Springsteen tune, the track became a super hit, despite the fact that the revised Blinded By The Light meaning was draped in controversy.
Springsteen originally wrote:
And she was blinded by the light
Oh, cut loose like a deuce
Another runner in the night
These were changed to:
Well she was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

Note that the word β€˜deuce’ references a 1932 Ford Model 18 with a V-8 engine, often called a Deuce Coupe, a two-seater hot-rod car, by automobile collectors and enthusiasts.

The controversy surrounded the fact that fans of the song notoriously misheard the lyrics, believing the β€œWrapped up like a deuce” line sounded like β€œWrapped up like a douche,” which references a feminine hygiene product.

Note that Mann wanted Springsteen to contribute to the record by singing the last part of the song. He even tried to reach out and ask him directly, avoiding the lengthy manager or publisher route.

But in the end, he sang the part he hoped Springsteen would have sung. Ironically, this part of the track is apparently the only time Mann’s voice can be heard on the recording of Blinded By The Light.

Blinded By The Light: Life as a Hit Record

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of Blinded By The Light climbed slowly and steadily on the British rock charts but was outperformed in the United States. Its success was in spite (or perhaps because of) the attention the lyric controversy created.

In 1977, the cover by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band hit no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It also reached the top ten in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Mann, when attempting to explain the source of the controversy, notes that the recording machine’s azimuth (something about how the tape head angles on the recording tape) created a sound that many believed were the word β€˜deuce,’ β€˜douche,’ and even, β€˜dooce.’

And just like that, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s no.1 song hit a controversial road bump. Quickly, radio stations from the southern parts of the United States (a.k.a., the Bible Belt) complained they couldn’t play the song on air because it sounded like the lyrics include words about a vaginal douche.

The irony of the lyric controversy was not lost on Mann or Springsteen.


⁣What Makes a Great Song Cover?

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of the song Blinded By The Light is likely to be more well-known than the original recording by its songwriter.


Perhaps, it was the band’s unique style and sound that created the difference, although Springsteen’s raw, brilliant lyrics and vision remain at the core.

What makes a great cover song is the talent that shines through. Both Springsteen and Mann are distinct and hugely talented musicians, with each of their versions completely unique and terrific musical compositions.

Blinded By The Light is pure evidence that a cover can rise to the level of the original if done with a balanced blend of creativity and a healthy respect for the songwriter’s original ideas.




⁣Meaning Of "Blinded By The Light" By Manfred Mann's Earth Band (musicgrotto.com)

Hospitality
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⁣"The `Iddah (the 3 month waiting period) is made up of cleanliness and
the menstrual period. So he divorces her while it is clear that she is
pregnant, or he does not due to having sex, or since he does not know if
she is pregnant or not. This is why the scholars said that there are
two types of divorce, one that conforms to the Sunnah and another
innovated. The divorce that conforms to the Sunnah is one where the
husband pronounces one divorce to his wife when she is not having her
menses and without having had sexual intercourse with her after the
menses ended. One could divorce his wife when it is clear that she is
pregnant. As for the innovated divorce, it occurs when one divorces his
wife when she is having her menses, or after the menses ends, has sexual
intercourse with her and then divorces her, even though he does not
know if she became pregnant or not. There is a third type of divorce,
which is neither a Sunnah nor an innovation where one divorces a young wife who has not begun to have menses, the wife who is beyond the age of having menses, and divorcing one's wife before the marriage was consummated.
The `Iddah of Those in Menopause and Those Who do not have Menses (Qur'an 65:4)

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CANST
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⁣Bill S. Esquire - 45 second truth enema for all the β€œvote my way out of it” MK Ultra-sheep out there βœŠπŸ˜·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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⁣The solution is to return our stolen children to both biologically interested parents and family! https://odysee.com/@publish:6/parents

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Sounds fake and cry wolf because they allowed the child to be stolen. Covered up on your taxes by this jewy fruit loop worshiping saul.

CANST
31 Views Β· 5 months ago

⁣THE DRESDEN HOLOCAUST

At the end of WW2, at a time when the German army was all but defeated and retreating on all fronts, the Allied forces launched a joint British and American indiscriminate aerial fire bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony,

Dresden was a cultural landmark with little strategic significance whose main export was dolls and cigarettes and provided no value to the German war industry. At that time, it housed hundreds of thousands of refugees that fled from the east as it was one of the only cities that remained relatively untouched from the war.

The purpose of the attack was to inflict maximum civilian casualties possible and to decimate the refugees that had fled there. In a memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Air Marshal Sir Douglas Evill on 1 February, Evill states interfering with mass civilian movements was a key factor in the decision to bomb the city centre.

Attacking main railway junctions, telephone systems, city administration, and utilities would result in "chaos."

Estimates total the number of civilians casualties from the bombings to be around 200k-500k, including innocent men, women, and children who suffered the most brutal fate imaginable.

Bodies were incinerated and reduced to puddles of congealed fat on the concrete as temperatures reached 3000 degrees Farenheit. Nothing in sight was left standing. Those who made out alive were then targeted in the subsequent waves of attacks by allied bombers.

Allied propaganda has re-written history to claim the total number of casualties to be around 25k in order to cover up their involvement in a genocide of the German people and one of the most horrific crimes against humanity to ever be committed to date.

Why isn't this holocaust in schools? Where are the museums and memorials to commemorate it? Why weren't they paid out reparations? Where are the laws criminalizing the trivilization of the number of casualties in the historical record?

Does history have double standards?

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CANST
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Saved a comment from chatting this morning:

That is the strength of the kikes propaganda. To perpetuate the lie of being persecuted historically while simultaneously infesting and manipulating every segment of society to maintain wealth power and messaging.

CANST
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⁣What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge? Secret recordings from inside the troubled Millersville Police Department provide a sobering answer

Millersville cops team up with so-called pedophile hunter who blames 'satanic cult masquerading as Jews'

Town's conspiracy cop warns about "kids that are actively being smuggled, being chained to walls, that are being raped." Yet, conspiracy theorists can produce no photos or videos as evidence

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) β€” An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered the man who has helped to fuel some of the wild conspiracy theories inside the troubled Millersville Police Department.

That man, our investigation discovered, is a self-proclaimed pedophile hunter from Tucson who believes America is controlled by what he calls "a satanic cult masquerading as Jews."

And, like some of the Millersville cops, Craig "Sawman" Sawyer has a history of seeing conspiracies where there are none.

Watch full investigation on NewsChannel 5 at 6 p.m.

"Some of the information we're dealing with right now, it has to do with kids that are actively being smuggled, being chained to walls, that are being raped," said Shawn Taylor, the conspiracy theorist who was later hired as the assistant police chief in Millersville, a community of about 6,000 just north of Nashville.

After years of voicing some bizarre conspiracy theories, Taylor decided back in May to gather a group of like-minded MAGA activists to run a child sex-predator sting.

That group was led by Craig Sawyer.

"My name is Saw. I'm a Navy SEAL. Defending the innocent is my trade," Sawyer said in the 2013 introduction to an episode of Animal Planet's "Rhino Wars."

After his military service, Sawyer found a new career playing the hero on television's Rhino Wars and in a handful of sniper-related TV shows.

His next move: making a film about going after the pedophile rings he imagined his team of veterans would find on the southern border.

"I know that for this kind of work β€” especially dealing with cartels β€” I'd need a team of guys I could depend upon for high-threat security," Sawyer said in the "Contraland" movie.

"So I put together what I call the VIPR team: Veterans Interdicting Pedophile Rings."

Sawyer would also create a nonprofit group, Veterans for Child Rescue, although there's no evidence the group ever rescued any children β€” and the film doesn't show them actually interdicting any pedophile rings at the border.

Then in 2018 while filming "Contraland," Sawyer led local TV crews in Tucson to an encampment that he and his documentary team thought might have been their big break.

"What we found was a tree that looks like a rape tree back over here," the former NAVY Seal said. Showing a piece of wood nailed to a tree, Sawyer declared. "This may have been a place where a child was made to hold onto this."

Sawyer β€” who also portrays himself as a trained federal investigator β€” breathlessly reported his group's stunning conclusion.

"They're telling me this looks like a child rape camp," he said, letting out a big sigh. "That's what they're telling me."

In fact, Tucson Police reported there was no evidence it was anything but a homeless camp.

Still, as the local newspaper reported, the lack of evidence did not stamp out the flames of a sex-trafficking conspiracy theory that had caught fire.

These days, Sawyer continues to push his conspiracy theories on far-right podcasts, including unproven claims about planeloads of children being flown into the U.S. by sex traffickers β€” which is what he says brought him to Middle Tennessee back in May.

"And one of those locations is near Nashville, Tennessee, that they are flying the children into," Sawyer claimed. "So there's a lot of child trafficking around Nashville."

In fact, Nashville police say they have never had any reason to believe that such flights actually exist.

Of course, like with most conspiracy theories, Craig Sawyer with his hotshot Navy SEAL and law enforcement credentials has never actually produced any evidence. There are no photos or videos of planes, nor of children in cages.

But he does have a video camera where he makes the most outlandish of claims, soliciting donations in the name of combating child sex trafficking.

"In the almost four years that I worked with Veterans for Child Rescue, I'm not aware that they ever actually combated child trafficking β€” now, therein lies my actual concern," said former Sawyer associate Kim Kelley.

Kelley said, that as a child trafficking survivor herself, she came to the group hoping to make a difference.

What she found instead was what she calls "performance activism," tagging along with law enforcement as they conduct child predator stings β€” which was the plan in Millersville.

"Catching pedophiles on the internet, that's a worthy cause but that's not the same thing as child sex trafficking," Kelley said.

"Those are two separate things. You can try to coordinate that, but it's not necessarily so."

Online, Sawyer spouts all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories about a secretive organization, or cabal, engaged in the "torture, rape, organ harvesting and ritual murder" of children, decrying the "Satanic pedos" who "run America."

He also believes Taylor Swift may have "sold her soul" and "the children are her target."

"This whole picture that he's painted of this whole leftist cabal and all of these things, I see them as sort of trigger words or the narrative that he's painting because his followers like to believe that story," Kelley said.

In fact, we discovered that Sawyer announced the creation of Veterans for Child Rescue in 2017 on Alex Jones' show on InfoWars.

"A lot of these pedophiles are very connected. They’re very wealthy, and they own a lot of the media. And things just get swept under the rug," Sawyer told Jones.

He later announced that Jones β€” the notorious conspiracy theorist who had mocked the murder of innocent children at Sandy Hook β€” had written a $100,000 check for the cause.

More recently, the former Navy SEAL has given credit for supporting his organization to the Rev. Sean Moon, head of the gun-loving Rod of Iron Ministries, now based in East Tennessee.

Sean Moon believes his father was a new Messiah and that his father chose him as his successor. Sean Moon's crown is a crown of bullets β€” and he views himself as ruling over a kingdom that will come to rule the Earth.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Kelley about the relationship with Moon, "So Craig viewed it as it's a source of money?"

"Right, they literally were saying we would take money from the devil if we could use it to protect children," Kelley answered.

"Again, my problem is they are not actually protecting children with that money. But knowingly associating with a known cult, a very notorious cult, like you can't play stupid that hard to pretend like you don't know."

And Sawyer continues to court the MAGA crowd.

Then, when I began to investigate his friend Shawn Taylor, the Sawman decided to train his sights on me, texting his team, "It seems like a pretty radical, overly-aggressive & desperate effort to stop Shawn from disrupting the cabal in TN."

Sawyer then returned to InfoWars, labeling me a "Pedophile Protector."

There, and on other far-right platforms, he leveled all sorts of bizarre accusations: "It doesn't make any sense on the surface unless there's a criminal network or a pedophilia aspect that Williams is desperate to protect."

"They go on this whole rant with, it's a false premise," Kim Kelley said.

I wanted to know, "Do you think he really believes that?"

"Oof!" she exclaimed. "It's hard for me to understand the mind of a conspiracy theorist because I think a lot of times they get more attention for perpetuating those beliefs and they know what revs people up or gives their followers clickbait to be excited about."

And that's why Kim Kelley argues that people who are driven by conspiracy theories, rather than facts, are distracting from the real problems of human trafficking.

"I look at that as exploiting the problem or profiting off of the problem, which I think makes you part of the problem."

We wanted to give Mr. Sawyer a chance to respond to the findings of our investigation. But, instead of talking to me, he went on a podcast run by another conspiracy theorist to respond.

Tuesday at 6 p.m., we'll take a look at that interview β€” and show what it reveals about the twisted mind of a conspiracy theorist.

https://www.newschannel5.com/n....ews/newschannel-5-in




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