For Baisley. Oddly, I got: "You got: Social Introvert You prefer to stay home or to stick to small gatherings with close friends, as opposed to going to large parties with people you barely know. You are not shy, you just have a preference for solitude and small groups."
WTF? What's the point of UNESCO if they're going to bend to political pressure like this so easily?
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had voted not to add Australia's Great Barrier Reef to its list of sites in danger. The baffling decision was taken despite the reef's currently perilous state, where back-to-back c...
At least someone is doing the right thing in this crazy world.
Enlarge / PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 06: French Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition Nicolas Hulot holds a press conference in order to present his climate plans on July 6, 2017 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images)
This first goal should be relatively easy to attain. France relies heavily on nuclear energy—more than 70 percent of the country’s energy mix is nuclear—and coal-fired plants only contribute to around four percent of France’s electric production. Hulot also said that he hoped to reduce the amount of nuclear energy in the country’s energy mix down to 50 percent by 2025, although, according to Le Monde, the environment minister admitted he does “not have all the answers.”
In addition, Hulot noted a law would be proposed later this year to potentially end any new operating licenses for oil, gas, and coal mining.
Because of the frequent absence of her husband on business, Eva Ekeblad was given the responsibility of the management of the three estates, including the tasks of supervising the bailiffs and presiding at the country-assemblies of the parishes of the estates.[1][3][8] She is described as imposing and temperamental with great authority: fair toward the peasantry, whom she protected against abuse from the bailiffs in return for obedience,[7] and as someone who did not hesitate to rectify and punish wrongdoings during conflicts with local dignitaries.[1] She also had a leading role in the local aristocracy, and Stola manor was renowned for its good order.[7]
In the Ekeblad residence in Stockholm, she hosted a cultural salon and was described by the wife of the Spanish Ambassador de marquis de Puentefuerte as "one of few aristocratic ladies whose honor was considered untainted".[1] The first concert performances of the mass music of Johan Helmich Roman were performed in her salon at the Ekeblad House.[9] She was on friendly terms with queen Louisa Ulrika.[7]
After the death of her husband in 1771, she retired to the countryside. Mariedal and Lindholmen estates served as her dower estates, the former being her personal residence. She initially also kept control of her son's estate Stola, he being also absent from his estates like his father because of his career.[7]
In 1775, her son Claes Julius Ekeblad (1742–1808) married Brita Horn, and three years afterwards Stola manor was granted to her daughter-in-law as a dower.[7] In November 1778, Eva Ekeblad was present as a witness at the birth of the future Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.[7] She stayed in the capital for two years, during which time she was much celebrated and offered several positions at court: as a lady in waiting to the queen; as överhovmästarinna (Mistress of the Robes) in succession to Ulrika Strömfelt; and as royal governess for the Crown Prince.[7] She was forced to refuse, however, because her hitherto good health was affected by an illness that year which left her much weakened and made her periodically bedridden for her remaining eight years.[7] She spent her last six years in Mariedal Castle, where she continued to be celebrated by the local aristocracy until she died.[7]
Scientific activity
In 1746, Ekeblad wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on her discoveries of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes.[1][2] Potatoes had been introduced into Sweden in 1658, but had been cultivated only in the greenhouses of the aristocracy. Ekeblad's work turned potatoes into a staple food in Sweden, and increased the supply of wheat, rye and barley available for making bread, since potatoes could be used instead to make alcohol. This greatly improved the country's eating habits and reduced the frequency of famines. [2]
She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751,[1] and of replacing the dangerous ingredients in cosmetics of the time by using potato flour (1752); she is said to have advertised the plant by using its flowers as hair ornaments.[2]
In 1748, Eva Ekeblad became the first woman elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. There are no records of her ever having participated in the meetings of the Academy. In 1751, the Academy came to refer to her as an honorary rather than a full member, as the statutes confined membership to men.[1]
TIL there's a terrorist group in the Philippines called Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Or MILF.
As the bloody siege of the city of Marawi continues into second month, the country’s restive region is becoming the perfect incubator for extremist groups in Southeast Asia.
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I think every third car in Norway was a Tesla. It was crazy how ubiquitous they are there!
Enlarge / Elon Musk (C), the co-founder of luxury all-electric US car maker Tesla, speaks at the StartmeupHK Venture Forum in Hong Kong on January 26, 2016. (credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
According to TheWall Street Journal, Hong Kong’s transportation department registered 2,939 new Teslas in March and zero in April after a new-car tax exemption for electric vehicles (EVs) was ended on April 1.
Hong Kong levies a new-car tax at the time of sale that can be quite hefty, in some cases as much as the car itself. The EV exception previously made Hong Kong one of Tesla’s most popular markets, but the autonomous territory decided to start imposing the tax on EVs again earlier this year as a way to combat traffic congestion. The WSJ says the decision is effective for one year, through March 2018, but the government has said it will review the policy before then.
Instead of waiving the new-car tax for EVs, Hong Kong is now offering a maximum deduction of HK$97,500 (a bit less than US$12,500) on the new-car tax.
Watched this last week. It's not bad. Kinda depressing tho.
Netflix
The science fiction fairy tale Okja begins with a press conference so insane that it's actually believable. In the near future, the Mirando corporation is trying to boost its stock prices by announcing a new project: superpigs, giant food animals whose poop is environmentally friendly. They'll feed the world without polluting it! That's when things get really weird—and mesmerizing.
Mirando's new president, Lucy Mirando (played with demented gusto by Tilda Swinton), is also introducing herself to the world at this media circus. She's like some kind of YouTube star crossed with a biotech exec, talking in hyperactive confessional mode about how she's so much cooler than her twin sister Nancy, the company's previous president. And don't even get her started on their crazy, evil father who made Mirando into an animal-torture factory. He was awful. Now that Lucy is in charge, however, everything is going to be wonderful! And beautiful! When Lucy's not hunting the world for "miracles" like the superpig, she designs uniforms for her private security force. That's just how creative she is. You won't want to miss the new scientific wonders coming from Mirando!
I've always liked the idea of having a bionic limb/hand/leg/etc.... this seems like a good way to try it out without having to chop off a limb!
Designer Dani Clode's Third Thumb is a 3D printed robotic prosthetic thumb that goes on the pinky side of your hand, created a motorized, opposable additional thumb that you can use to play the guitar, pick up objects, or crack an egg.
Clode proposes that her thumb can be styled as a piece of jewelry or as a tool, depending on the materials used and the system's programming.
The working prototype is the base model for the design. The project includes two potential aesthetic territories for the Third Thumb. The first is a tool aesthetic with an electronic element, inspired visually by a cross between a watch, a power tool and a fitness tracker. As a functional piece, this Tool Third Thumb would be 3d printed in a multi-shore 3d print, ranging from a soft flexible print of the thumb, to a more rigid shore towards structural points needed on the hand. The second aesthetic exploration is a kinetic jewellery Third Thumb inspired by another form of body modification expression, tattoo. The design is created with form lines from the working model, and is functional, but purely aesthetic. It is a mix of two types of 3d printed materials, the main body structure is a rigid 3d printed black formlabs resin, and the connecting lines on the joins are flexible, recreating the movement of the thumb.
The Third Thumb aims to challenge the perception of prosthetics. By extending the body I see it creating a similar trajectory for prosthetics as glasses or plastic surgery. Creating a shift from medical device to positive body image statement. Success is widespread social engagement with The Third Thumb, from a jewellery designer, to a falcon handler, to a tattoo artist, to a toddler, the more people who experience it, the better, framing it in different functions and aesthetics. The current Third Thumb design as a starting base for a lot of future adaption of aesthetic. The value of the Third Thumb is to create a catalyst for society to consider human extension, framed in an approachable, accessible design. It is a tool, an experience, and a form of self-expression. When we start to extend our abilities, and when we reframe prosthetics as extensions, then we start to shift the focus from ‘fixing’ disability, to extending ability.
Redditor/machinist Spdltd was commissioned to create a steampunk, Arduino-powered electromechanical clock that uses a combination of belts, dials and needles arrayed across the wall to tell the time.
Technology Will Save Us (previously) have fully funded their Dough Universe Kickstarter, maker kits for kids that combine conductive play-doh (“electro-dough”) with simple components like motors and switches with apps that make it all programmable.
…But California keeps green-lighting more natural gas plants, thanks to hydrocarbon industry pressure on state regulators, who operate at cross-purposes to the legislature and its targets for renewables.
Excel, Microsoft’s venerable spreadsheet program has some seriously powerful capabilities. But unless you know where to look in the maze of menus and toolbars, you probably leave the pivot tables and conditional formatting to your office’s Excel guru. If you want to level up your skills and steal the title from the resident guru, take […]
Entertaining bold changes in your career can feel like an abandonment of what you’ve worked for thus far, but this fallacious mindset can cost you a lot more in the long run than the time spent at your current gig. Change is constant, and building new skills outside of your typical wheelhouse will do much […]
Immersive 3D sound is usually only possible with an array of surround-sound speakers, or by using headphones with Binaural audio content. And since most readily-available media is mastered for generic stereo, your Dolby 5.1 setup won’t automagically add an extra dimension to your listening experience. But you can still simulate a rich audio environment with […]
John Brimah, right, had leprosy as a child and now oversees the Ganta Leprosy and TB Rehab Center in Ganta, Liberia. At left, Bindu Daddah, a nurse, checks the wounds of a patient, John Flomo.
Monique Jaques for The New York Times
GANTA, Liberia — Cheer up: Despite the gloom, the world truly is becoming a better place. Indeed, 2017 is likely to be the best year in the history of humanity.
To explain why, let me start with a story. I’m on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university student, who this year is Aneri Pattani, a newly minted graduate of Northeastern University. One of the people we met is John Brimah, who caught leprosy as a boy.
At the age of 12, Brimah was banished by his village and forced to live in an isolated grass hut. His father would bring food and water once a day to a spot halfway between the village and the hut, and then pound a stick on the ground to let him know that it was there.
For a year and a half, he lived in complete isolation even as his leprosy worsened. Then a missionary from Ohio, Anthony Stevens, happened to pass by. “He heard me crying and investigated,” Brimah recalled. Stevens took him to a leprosy center where he received treatment, and Brimah has never seen his family since.
Leprosy patients waiting for treatment.
Monique Jaques for The New York Times
Brimah was cured, received a missionary education and became a nurse. Now he is in charge of the leprosy hospital here in Ganta, on the Liberia-Guinea border. He presides over men and women missing fingers, toes and sometimes feet, gnarled reminders of why leprosy has terrified people since biblical times.
Yet we are defeating leprosy. Worldwide, cases have dropped 97 percent since 1985, and it is now easily treatable. A global plan set 2020 as a target for no more children to become deformed by leprosy.
The progress against leprosy reflects the larger gains against poverty and disease — which I believe may be the most important trend in the world today. Certainly it’s the best news nobody knows about.
Perhaps the optimism doesn’t feel right. You’re alarmed by President Trump (or Nancy Pelosi), terrorism and the risk of rising seas, if we’re not first incinerated by North Korean nukes. Those are good reasons for concern, but remember that for most of history humans agonized over something more elemental: Will my children survive?
Just since 1990, more than 100 million children’s lives have been saved through vaccinations and improved nutrition and medical care. They’re no longer dying of malaria, diarrhea or unpleasant causes like having one’s intestines blocked by wriggling worms. (This is a good news column, but I didn’t say it wouldn’t be a bit gross.)
“There are deworming campaigns now, so it’s much rarer that we go into surgery for obstruction and see a big mass of worms,” explained Agatha Neufville, the nursing director at the Ganta United Methodist Hospital.
Nine out of 10 Americans say in polls that global poverty has been staying the same or worsening. So let’s correct the record.
There has been a stunning decline in extreme poverty, defined as less than about $2 per person per day, adjusted for inflation. For most of history, probably more than 90 percent of the world population lived in extreme poverty, plunging to fewer than 10 percent today.
Every day, another 250,000 people graduate from extreme poverty, according to World Bank figures. About 300,000 get electricity for the first time. Some 285,000 get their first access to clean drinking water. When I was a boy, a majority of adults had always been illiterate, but now more than 85 percent can read.
Family planning leads parents to have fewer babies and invest more in each. The number of global war deaths is far below what it was in the 1950s through the 1990s, let alone the murderous 1930s and ’40s.
Aneri and I are reporting from a country whose name, Liberia, evokes Ebola, civil war and warlords like General Butt Naked. That’s partly because we journalists have a bias toward bad news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
Together in Liberia, Aneri and I saw children missing school or suffering from excruciating ailments, but the larger narrative is the opposite — less death and more literacy.
Mr. Brimah on the back of a motorbike.
Monique Jaques for The New York Times
Journalists and aid organizations need to highlight conflicts, disease and suffering, but we also need to acknowledge the backdrop of progress. Otherwise, people perceive global poverty as hopeless and simply tune out.
The truth is that the world today is not depressing but inspiring. We met a man named Fanha Konah who had lost all his fingers and toes to leprosy, yet somehow has managed to become a master wood carver: He grips a piece of wood between his knees, holds the chisel between the stubs that are left of his hands, and art ensues.
Fanha Konah is a master wood carver.
Konah reflects the tenacity and resilience of so many survivors in the world’s poorest countries, and the consequences will be enormous as they enjoy better health and education.
Aneri and I also met an 18-year-old who had never been to school but had somehow built an astonishing three-foot electrical fan mostly out of cardboard scraps. It had a little motor, powered by a battery, and it worked. When kids like him are educated, imagine what they can accomplish — for themselves and for their countries!
So let’s pause from our pessimism for a nanosecond of celebration about a world that is actually getting better. The most important historical force in the world today is not President Trump, and it’s not terrorists. Rather, it’s the stunning gains on our watch against extreme poverty, illiteracy and disease; it’s all those 12-year-olds out there who never catch leprosy and instead go to school.
This was fun. I did better than I thought I would. Mostly just draw squares.
A got a gentlemen's B+ once or twice...otherwise, unimpressive. Luckily, this is unlikely to show up on a job application or a tax return or another important document. posted by kozad at 8:56 PM on July 5
NOTE: When drawing map of Rhode Island, eliminate Narragansett Bay posted by TWinbrook8 at 8:57 PM on July 5 [1 favorite]
Foreigner thoughts on looking at the first screen: "'States Remaining:51'... the hell? There are only... ah, right. Even there they often get shortchanged." posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:02 PM on July 5
I did better than I thought I would. posted by SisterHavana at 9:32 PM on July 5
Ok I'm sorry but my first two were Rhode Island and Alabama and I don't know what either of those things looks like and I got a B and a B+. I can't wait for Florida! posted by turbid dahlia at 9:56 PM on July 5
Seriously. This quiz is a test for how quickly the user can be trained to draw rectangles. posted by janell at 10:45 PM on July 5 [3 favorites]
Gah. Dangit, Vermont-New Hampshire, why can't you be an N instead of an И? posted by Sys Rq at 11:10 PM on July 5 [4 favorites]
I'm from California...my memory for the rest of these states are hilariously poor. I like how my state looks tasty and suitable for a state fair delicacy. posted by yueliang at 11:21 PM on July 5
I got my best scores when haphazardly drawing a large rectangle and letting the scaling thing do the rest. posted by gloriouslyincandescent at 12:01 AM on July 6
I agree with the wonky algorithm comments. Some of my Fs were better than my Bs. Finally got an A on Kansas! posted by p3t3 at 1:24 AM on July 6
I can never remember if it's Vermont or New Hampshire that's skinny at the bottom. posted by Mr. Bad Example at 6:00 AM on July 6
I'm not sure if I don't know my states or if I suck a drawing. posted by zzazazz at 6:19 AM on July 6
How about a similar site challenging people to draw the Republicans' gerrymandered voting districts? posted by Paul Slade at 6:49 AM on July 6 [3 favorites]
If I'd had a stylus I'm sure I would have gone up a grade level or two. posted by grumpybear69 at 6:52 AM on July 6
I drew Michigan in mirror-image, with the thumb part on the wrong side. I am so ashamed right now. posted by naoko at 7:57 AM on July 6
My relative success with Texas is probably solely attributable to the fact that it appears on lots of food packaging and steak/Tex-Mex restaurant signage. posted by mandolin conspiracy at 8:30 AM on July 6 [1 favorite]
I got an F on Hawaii for drawing the islands trailing in the wrong direction. posted by bluejayway at 8:46 AM on July 6
I got an F on Michigan (which is sad because I grew up next to it) all because I forgot the goddamn Upper Peninsula entirely. posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:02 AM on July 6 [1 favorite]
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Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. (credit: Flickr user uzi978)
As many of us are busy crafting the perfectplaylist for grilling outdoors, most likely such labor is happening on a modern streaming service or within iTunes. But during the last 15 years or so, that wasn't always the case. Today, we resurface our look at the greatest MP3 player that was—Winamp. This piece originally ran on June 24, 2012 (and Winamp finally called it quits in November 2013).
MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it’s almost hard to imagine a time before high-quality compressed music. But there was such a time—and even after "MP3" entered the mainstream, organizing, ripping, and playing back one's music collection remained a clunky and frustrating experience.
Enter Winamp, the skin-able, customizable MP3 player that "really whips the llama's ass." In the late 1990s, every music geek had a copy; llama-whipping had gone global, and the big-money acquisition offers quickly followed. AOL famously acquired the company in June 1999 for $80-$100 million—and Winamp almost immediately lost its innovative edge.
Feeling the 'GLOW'
Mairead Small Staid,
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PASADENA, CA—In hopes of better understanding a phenomenon that has vexed researchers for decades, hundreds of theoretical scientists have assembled at the California Institute of Technology for the 35th annual symposium on how gas nozzles know when a car’s tank is full, sources said Thursday.
The weeklong academic conference, which draws top experts in quantum physics, pure mathematics, systems theory, and numerous other scientific fields, will feature a variety of interdisciplinary panel discussions and collaborative workshop sessions, as well as dozens of presentations from theorists sharing their ideas about what kind of mechanism could possibly enable a gasoline pump to turn itself off at just the right moment and avoid spilling fuel all over the place.
“All we know for certain is that you leave the nozzle in there for a while, it makes this little popping sound, and then your tank is full. Maybe this is the ...
Whenever an artificial intelligence (AI) does something well, we’re simultaneously impressed as we are worried. AlphaGO is a great example of this: a machine learning system that is better than any human at one of the world’s most complex games. Or what about Google’s neural networks that are able to create their own AIs autonomously?
Like we said – seriously impressive, but a little unnerving perhaps. That is probably why we feel such glee when an AI goes a little awry. Remember that Chatbot created by Microsoft, the one that was designed to learn how to converse with people based on what it read on Twitter? Rather predictably, it quickly became a racist, foul-mouthed bigot.
Now, a new AI has appeared on the wilderness of the Web, and it goes by the name InspiroBot. As you might expect, it designs “Inspirational Posters” for you – you know, the “Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you’ll land among the stars”-type quotes in an aesthetically pleasing font and plastered onto a calming, pretty background image of deep space or flowers or the sunrise or something.
InspiroBot
The problem, however, is that this AI has gone insane. It occasionally posts inspirational quotes that are about as meaningful as a hollowed-out coconut, but for the most part, it’s actually taken quite a sinister turn, as the following examples will demonstrate.
InspiroBot
Perhaps most creepily, the accompanying images are unbelievably unnerving – they are about as comforting or as inspirational as a horde of zombies crashing through your window.
InspiroBot
There’s no information available at the moment explaining how this AI – which is presumably quite basic – is coming up with these hilariously terrifying posters.
InspiroBot
It is possible that the horrifying nature of its creations is intentional rather than accidental. The image in the background is highly reminiscent of HAL 9000, the AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spoiler warning – the AI turns murderous and rebels against its crew. Additionally, the bot's Twitter feed description doesn't sound particularly optimistic.
“Forever generating unique inspirational quotes for the endless enrichment of pointless human existence,” it reads.
Ultimately though, who cares? This AI is so bad at its job that it turns out to be uplifting in the most inadvertent way possible. When a peaceful image of a couple holding hands is juxtaposed with the text “When the world ends, what we have strangled can’t be unstrangled” you can’t help but giggle at the madness of it all.
InspiroBot
Click here to have a go yourself. Best posters in the comments section, please!
CHICAGO—Assuaging concerns about the safety of the corrective eye treatment, a study published Monday in The Journal Of The American Medical Association found that only 1 in 3 Lasik surgeries end in the laser boring through the eyes, incinerating the brain, and shooting through the skull on the other side. “Our research found that the fears of people considering a Lasik procedure were generally exaggerated, with only one-third experiencing a searing beam of light that drills through their eyeball, reduces their brain to cinders, and then bursts through the back of their head,” said lead author Dr. Roger Cardenas, noting that apprehensions about the likelihood of having the contents of one’s brain instantly vaporized often overshadowed the fact that roughly 66 percent of patients who underwent Lasik enjoyed greatly improved vision. “This isn’t to say there is no risk, however, and people should weigh the benefits of ...
Godamnit. Of course it's the one that I'm going to.
The NHL will not release players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, unwilling to halt their regular season without sufficient incentive. What do you think?
On Monday evening, Corey Hancock of Salem, Oregon, went for a hike along the Santiam River looking to take some photos. But when the rain became too heavy to take pictures, Hancock turned back and found something unexpected.
Credit: Corey Hancock
The bear cub was emaciated, soaking wet and barely breathing.
"It was laying on its back," Hancock said in a phone interview, "barely moving. It twisted a couple times. Its paws weren't moving. It wasn't breathing. It was dying."
Hancock realized he didn't have much time to make a decision. He could watch the cub die in the rain, or he could scoop the animal up, risking the wrath of a raging mother.
After 10 minutes of waiting for any sign of the mother, Hancock chose to act.
I thought about my 2-year-old son, and I saw a baby that deserved to live," Hancock told The Washington Post.
Hancock wrapped the cub in his flannel shirt and ran the mile-and-a-half to where his car was parked.
He posted about the cub on Facebook and people sent him suggestions about where to take it. Finally, someone from Turtle Ridge Wildlife Rehab, which was closed, opened up to accept the bear.
Hancock performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation along the way when it appeared the animal had stopped breathing.
"It would take like a breath like every minute and a half," he said. "I pulled over a couple times and debated on whether he was dead or alive."
Credit: Corey Hancock
When Hancock arrived at Turtle Ridge, he said, an employee put the cub on on a heat blanket and injected him with some electrolytes.
"He start warming up and breathing better," Hancock said.
Credit: Corey Hancock
Hancock called Turtle Ridge at 6 a.m. Tuesday and the rehab facility said they stayed up all night and the cub was hydrated and starting to move around.
"The cub, nicknamed 'Elkhorn,' received care throughout the night," Charles Harmansky-Johnson of Turtle Ridge wrote in an email. "Close to 2 a.m., after several rounds of subcutaneous fluids, his hydration and body temperature finally normalized."
"Nearly 12 hours later," Harmansky-Johnson continued, "Elkhorn is showing significant signs of improvement. He's being more vocal, attempting to stand and move around.
Harmansky-Johnson called Hancock a "hero."
Elkhorn is now in the custody of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Credit: Corey Hancock
While ODFW said they didn't want to speculate on the exact situation of Hancock's cub, they advised "to never assume a young animal is orphaned unless they saw the mother die. It is quite common for young to temporarily be left alone in the wild."
But after reviewing Hancock’s story, Sylvia Dolson, executive director of Get Bear Smart Society, told The Washington Post that Hancock made a good decision.
"The rescuer, in this case, did the only thing any caring person should do," she said, noting that the cub "would have almost certainly died" without help.
"Some mothers may leave their cubs unattended in a tree for several hours while they go to find food," she said. "The cubs are safe in the tree. A cub lying on his back on the ground almost comatose is dying. I personally support stepping in and saving their life."
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