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This is Loki, hes 1 year old. Hes a jack russell x pug. He likes to act tough nut hes such a softie

Readers — In response to the case of Nicole Gainey, the mom arrested for letting her 7-year-old walk to the park alone, Fox Boston called in Dr. Karen Ruskin to educate the entire Northeast on how to parent.

We want to live in a safe world, says Ruskin in this interview, “But we don’t.”  Kids 7,8,9 and 10 should not walk to school or even venture outside without you, she says. Perhaps by age 11 you can let your child out in “short spurts,” but really, folks, “It is your job to be the parent,” and if you trust your kids to walk the dog or bike to a friend’s, you are guilty of “parentifying” your child — turning the child into an adult.

Which I always thought was the point of parenting. Gradually turning the child into an adult.

The interview is also factually wrong. Ruskin claims that not only are there all sorts of child molesters out there, but that they each molest “over a hundred children.” This recidivism stat is an oft repeated myth, bearing no relation to reality. – L

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UPDATE: One of you sent this letter to Dr. Ruskin (and also posted it as a comment, below). I love its tone and message and I hope Dr. Ruskin reads it. 

Dear Dr. Ruskin: I watched your recent interview which was featured on a blog I follow called “Free Range Kids”.  I have a few questions I hoped you could clarify, as the interview was very short.  I am also going through your blog posts to get a more clear understanding of your point of view as I don’t want to be disrespectful just because this clip makes you appear (to me) to hold a point of view that is vastly different from my own.  

1)  What harm do you believe is being prevented by ensuring that a child is never left unsupervised even for a minute before age 13?  I would like to make sure that the harm being prevented outweighs the harm of the kind of intense supervision you seem to be encouraging.

2)  Do you think it is possible your work with people that are struggling has given you a skewed view of what the world is actually like?  For example, I was a very happy latchkey kid with extremely involved parents.  It is unlikely you would see me in your office.

3)  I pay a very responsible twelve year old in my neighborhood to babysit my three children for up to two hours once a month or so.  She is an outstanding student and cellist, and in fact a much more attentive and reliable sitter than many of the college students we have employed.  She appears to me to have had a very loving upbringing, though by your standards I suppose she has been “parentified”.  (The main side effect of this upbringing appears to be that she has become an incredibly articulate and mature young woman.)  Should parents who allow their children to experience increasing levels of independence based on their individual developmental readiness be imprisoned, visited upon by protective services, and held up as examples of what not to do in popular media?  Am I contributing to the harm of a minor by providing this girl a safe environment in which to learn valuable skills about employment?

4)  What sorts of punishment and intervention do you advocate for the kinds of adults who would be so brash as to send their children down to the neighborhood park for 30 minutes before dinner to get their energy out while mom finishes cooking?  Or those parents who are so self-absorbed as to allow their nine year old to walk unaccompanied across the street to the school bus stop that is visible from the kitchen window?  I believe that the cases that have been in the media as of late are not interesting so much because of the behavior that is allowed/encouraged by the parent, but because of a punitive response that seems to be a bit forceful given the situation at hand.  (Imprisonment, removal of children, being forced to go through ‘remidiation’ for behaviors that you as a parent believe are key to raising resilient children, etc.)

Thank you for your response, and your thoughtful consideration of these matters which are currently a topic of public discourse. — Melanie Jones 

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erikamoen:

When Penny Arcade invited me to talk about sex on their site, I jumped at the chance (And, of course, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to call back “butt virginity" from my Strip Search days)

I think it’s really, really, really important that kids are taught about the emotional & pleasure side of sex, in addition to reproduction. It wasn’t until I was a teen that I learned sex was supposed to feel good for both participants. I grew up believing sex sucked for women. That’s why I’m so fucking obnoxious about sex now. It was a revelation to me that sex could be positive. I’m so vocal about this stuff now as a direct response to the intense sex negativity and slut shaming I was raised with.

I was also super touched by Tycho’s blog post that accompanies my comic: http://penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/08/01/the-talk-by-erika-moen. He talks about meeting my gang of teenage cartoonist friends and me well over a decade ago at San Diego Comic-Con, while we were finishing up high school and beginning college. This was maybe 2002-2003?

That SDCC when we met the PA guys and a whole ton of our comics heroes, it was a really pivotal turning point in my life. It’s not that I ever had one great big AND NOW I SHALL BECOME A CARTOONIST moment in my life, but instead I’ve had many, many positive and encouraging events that collectively built into the realization that I should stick with this passion that turned into a career. That SDCC was one of those events that helped put me on this path.

It means a lot to me that Tycho still remembers that time too.

Hi everyone, I’m writing today to address some concerns I’ve been hearing about my work with Penny Arcade. I thought a little reply on the subject would help clear things up.

Ok so, Penny Arcade: no argument from me, they’ve fucked up repeatedly, in very ugly, public ways. I’m definitely not trying to change anyone’s mind about this, or tell you how you should feel about this company and I completely respect that people are mad and hurt by them. I also have found PA’s fuck-ups to be personally hurtful, but as you might guess, my feelings are more complicated than that.

I personally don’t buy into the ‘shun them and anything connected to them’ mindset that is at the moment so popular among people who care about social justice when a person or company does something ignorant. I think the shunning-and-salting-the-earth tactic to be overly negative, toxic and stunts potential growth. Rather than concentrating on the negative of a situation, I aim to concentrate on the positive.

In Penny Arcade’s case, my perception is that they are learning and making a genuine, public effort to educate themselves and change the culture of their readership. Again, if you disagree, that’s cool, I respect that, I’m not trying to change your mind. Penny Arcade invited me to share some sex positivity and sex education with their audience, which sounds exactly like the sort of thing I want to do with my comics! I feel and hope that I’ve done some good by accepting that opportunity.

As a general note, I have worked in the past and I will continue to work in the future with people and companies that may have fucked up, if I feel that their ultimate goal is a  good one, and they are on the right track. Ignorance is fixable through education, and I would rather educate than shun. It’s my personal mindset that you certainly don’t have to adopt for yourself and, again, I’m not trying to change anyone’s minds— I’m just explaining my own.

We want Oh Joy Sex Toy to be as inclusive, positive, educational, kind and helpful as its possible to be with in the confines of a 200 word web-comic. Doing a comic for Penny Arcade certainly fit that goal.

I’m traveling right now, so will not have time or energy to debate this. But rest assured,  If you disagree with me: that’s cool, I respect your feelings, you’re 100% entitled to them.

From reader BKS:

Someone used "cladly dressed" in a comment to The Guardian, and it appears to be an up and coming 21st Century phrase.

A search of www.guardian.com didn't turn up any instances of "cladly".[Update -- but thanks to Mark Meckes in the comments below, here it is:]

And as BKS noted, there are a few examples in recent books:

With nakedness we find quite often the opposite of what the revealer expects to accomplish: the girl cladly dressed receives attention she is seeking but at cost to how she is perceived
Some of the elders heard rumors that Nathaniel was watching television by himself and paying specific attention to programs that featured females who were cladly dressed.
Meanwhile it is thirty eight degrees outside and Pastor Angie is cladly dressed walking down Gordon Parks Avenue.
My son was making out with this cladly dressed girl — I didn't even know who she was!

We can find a larger number of examples in web forums, online reviews, etc. (though the count is not enormous):

[link] why do they have to fawn over these cladly dressed women
[link] I would post a link to it on YouTube but it contains swearing and *ahem* cladly dressed women so I didn't want to get in trouble.
[link] I like getting my coffee from here cause it tastes good and dont have to deal with cladly dressed hookers flirting for a tip!
[link] It ain't counted as a midlife purchase unless a tall cladly dressed blondie is sitting next to you.

The examples are scattered in geographical and social context, suggesting that this is the sort of mistake that pops up spontaneously from time to time. Presumably it's a garbled memory of "scantily clad", a phrase that involves two rare words  often encountered together. Thus of the 278 instances of scantily in COCA, 201 are in the phrase "scantily clad"; this might lead someone to create the adverb "cladly", meaning (so to speak) "scantily cladly".

Don’t worry…

So Kullervo gets apprenticed
to a blacksmith and his woman
but the blacksmith’s always elsewhere
so it’s really just the woman
(who’s just called “the blacksmith’s woman.”
Finland doesn’t name its women.)
So this woman sees Kullervo
and she doesn’t really like him
not that I can really blame her
so she packs him up a lunchbox
and then sits him down and tells him:

“I’ma make you be my shepherd
go defend my cows from goblins
also bears and wolves and werewolves
(Finland has a wildlife problem)
then you need to bring them back here
where I’ll milk their fucking tits off
man I REALLY love that dairy
all that butter, milk and yogurt
all that cheese and ice cream sundaes
have you ever taken warm milk
and just poured it on your body
rubbed it all over your body
til it’s dripping off your body
wow I think I have a boner.”
and Kullervo’s like “…okay then”

So he takes the lady’s cattle
out across the Finnish prairie
and it’s really fucking boring
and he’s pretty goddamn hungry
so he digs into his lunchbox
and he finds a big ol’ oat cake
so he sticks his knife into it
(just to see if he can kill it)
but the oat-cake has a secret:
THERE’S A ROCK INSIDE THIS OAT CAKE
WHY ARE ROCKS INSIDE AN OAT CAKE?
CAUSE THAT LADY IS AN ASSHOLE
now Kullervo’s knife is broken
which is really disappointing
how’s he gonna murder people?
but a bird appears and tells him:
“You’re a wizard, dude, remember?
You can fuck shit up with magic.
I’m a bird, and I support this.”
(birds are terrible, I tell you)
so Kullervo calls the goblins
and the wolves, and bears, and werewolves
plus the vultures and the dragons
and the cattle mutilators
man, those cows don’t know what hit em

then he rounds up all those monsters
while they’re gnawing on that beefsteak
and he makes them look like cattle
just to prank his shitty mistress
then he goes back to the castle
and he tells her “come touch udders!”
but she’s like “you fucking do it.”
and he’s like “Oh man, I’d love to
boy these udders look so luscious
I can’t wait to squirt the milk out
squirt it all over my body
rub the nipples on my body
til there’s yogurt on my body…”
and the lady’s like “I’M COMING.”

so she runs into the front yard
all like “LET ME TOUCH THE UDDERS”
but there aren’t any udders
all there is are wolves and goblins
and she’s like “Oh shit, don’t eat me”
and she asks the gods to save her
but Kullervo prays to kill her
and the gods like that dick better
so that crazy dame gets eaten
crying out in butter anguish
and Kullervo’s like “Aw hell yea
serves you right for shitty biscuits
time to go and cause more problems
bet this won’t have consequences.”

So the moral of this story
is to brush up on your baking.

Clement Vallandigham accidentally shot himself demonstrating how one might accidentally shoot oneself. The Ohio lawyer was representing a defendant accused of killing a man in a barroom brawl. Vallandigham wanted to show that the victim might have shot himself while trying to draw his pistol from a kneeling position.

“I’ll show you how Tom Myers shot himself,” he said to his fellow defense attorneys in discussing the case. He put a gun into his pocket and began to draw it. “There, that’s the way Myers held it,” he said, “only he was getting up, not standing erect.” And he touched the trigger.

“A sudden flash — the half suppressed sound of a shot — and Clement L. Vallandigham, with an expression of agony, exclaimed: ‘My God, I’ve shot myself!’ and reeled toward the wall a wounded and dying man — wounded and dying by his own hands.”

He died of the peritonitis, but he’d proved his point — the defendant was acquitted.

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Forwarded from a young person, who got it from an acquaintance:

just got an email that said "Address is correct…" like are you sad? are you upset? why the fuck are those extra periods there?

dear people over 25, stop using ellipses for no reason like please what are you doing

It occurs to me that the quoted reaction ("why are those extra periods there?" "like please what are you doing") has something in common with the reaction of non-uptalkers to uptalk.

Some earlier posts on related topics:

"The new semiotics of punctuation", 11/7/2012;
"Aggressive periods and the popularity of linguistics", 11/26/2013.

 

Photograph by Flickr user Adam Greig.

Eldfell is Icelandic for “mountain of fire.” The volcano named Eldfell came into being suddenly on January 23, 1973. It was a sight to see, but dangerous to be around. The people of Heimaey didn’t abandon their island home to the volcano, however. They made it work for them.

Photograph by Bruce McAdam.

Heimaey is a 13.4 square kilometer island just off the southern coast of Iceland. The name means “home island.” It is the largest and only populated island of the volcanic archipelago named Vestmannaeyjar, or “Westman Islands.” The newest island, Surtsey, is the product of a volcanic eruption in 1963. At the beginning of 1973, Heimaey was home to around 5,300 people, mostly clustered in the town of Vestmannaeyjar near Heimaey Harbor, at the north end of the island.

Seismographs on the Icelandic mainland picked up small tremors underneath Heimaey on January 21 and 22, but they were small and unnoticed by the residents. Then at 1:55 AM on the 23rd, the island opened up. A fissure opened up barely east of town and grew to two kilometers long, cracking the island from coast to coast. Lava spewed upward as far as three kilometers.

Photograph by Svienn Eirikksen, Vestmannaeyjar fire chief, via the U.S. Geological Survey.

Due to recent bad weather, almost the entire fishing fleet of Heimaey was in port and able to help with evacuating the island’s citizens. They were summoned by fire engine sirens to the port. The Icelandic State Civil Defence Organisation swung into action, sending boats over the four nautical miles from the mainland to evacuate people. By daybreak, most of the people were off the island. Hospital patients and the elderly were taken off by plane, and the evacuation was complete by the end of the day.

But the eruption continued. The line of lava fountains settled down to just two in a couple of days, and by February 6 only one remained, which built itself up into Eldfall volcano. In addition to lava, the volcano spewed huge amounts of tephra, which is ash, cinders, and rocks. Millions of tons of tephra rained down on Heimaey, setting some buildings on fire and burying others. About 400 buildings and homes were destroyed, a third of the island’s structures.

The lava flowed for five months, until July 3. Pretty soon after the evacuation, townspeople noticed that the huge lava flow was headed in the direction of the harbor. Heimaey Harbor was known as the best harbor in Iceland, a hub for fisherman and the backbone of commerce on the island. Iceland took on a huge and risky project to stop the lava and save the harbor. Vestmannaeyjar firemen sprayed water on the advancing lava with firehoses. The Fire Chief of the Keflavík International Airport, the University of Iceland, and various groups came together to devise a plan to bring more water to the lava. Pumps were brought in from Iceland and other nations, The dredging boat Sandey was brought in on March first, and not only sprayed the lava, but brought pipes to lay across the crust of the lava to take water where it was needed.

Where the lava stopped. Photograph by Richard S. Williams, Jr., U.S. Geological Survey.

By March 26, additional pumping equipment was shipped in from the United States. Three months of pumping huge amounts of seawater onto the lava finally stopped its progress toward the harbor. By the time pumping stopped in the middle of May, the pumps had begun to wear out. It is estimated that 6.2 million metric tonnes of seawater had been sprayed on the lava of Eldfell, which left 220 thousand metric tonnes of salt. The lava cooling project was wound down in June of 1973. The harbor was saved.

Graphic by Islander.

By the time the river of lava stopped, it had added another 20% to the area of Heimaey Island. The extra basalt around the edges of the harbor actually improved it, by providing a wall of shelter against the rough sea. Around 4,000 of the island’s inhabitants returned to rebuild and resume their lives on Heimaey.

Photograph by Flickr user globetrotter_rodrigo.

The lava-cooling project led directly to another project that perfectly illustrates making lemonade out of lemons. In 1983, a new 5 megawatt heat-exchanger plant was opened on Heimaey to heat the homes of Vestmannaeyjar. It had been planned since 1974, with the design approved in 1979. The plant takes heat from the still-warm lava by spraying water on it and collecting the steam that rises as a result. The steam heats a water-circulating system that is connected to the town. It was the world’s first geothermal system to take advantage of the heat from lava.

Eldfell is the brown hill on the right. Helgafell, an older volcano, is the hill on the left. The original fissure is in black, and the town of Vestmannaeyjar is in the background. Photograph by Wirthi.

In 2006, excavations began to unearth the homes of Heimaey that had been buried in ash for 30 years. At least one of the excavated homes is the centerpiece of Eldheimar, a museum dedicated to the 1973 eruption, set up in Vestmannaeyjar near Eldfell.

In case you have heard of Heimaey, but didn’t know about the volcano, it may have been because it was the home of Keiko the killer whale, the star of the movie Free Willy, who was taken there in 1998 after living in Oregon for two years.

This article was inspired by a post at Metafilter.

Rome is north of Chicago.

Venice is north of Minneapolis.

London is north of Calgary.

Paris is nine miles south of the U.S.-Canada border.

Do you see the fat cat?

Listen.. you can’t fire me for that!

New Comic: The Talk, By Bill Amend

Here's one of the neatest ideas I've seen for ages, courtesy of a new web site. Search for the name of a song or band, and the site will bring up the relevant video from Youtube. It'll also automatically analyse the track, work out which chords are being played, and show you them in guitar, ukulele or piano notation. So you can play along. Brilliant!


http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/budding-muso-get-chords-any-song-youtube.htm

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For his new album Mandatory Fun, Weird Al Yankovic has crafted the ultimate peever's anthem: "Word Crimes," to the tune of last summer's big hit, "Blurred Lines."

It's a cleverly composed parody, despite the inevitable "cunning linguist" joke:

I hate these word crimes
You really need a
Full-time proofreader
You dumb mouthbreather
Well, you should hire
Some cunning linguist
To help you distinguish
What is proper English

That line is already attracting discussion among linguists and lexicographers on Twitter.

But just for the record, let it be known that real linguists (cunning or otherwise) don't care about prescriptive peeves or #WordCrimes.

— Todd Snider (@ToddTheLinguist) July 15, 2014

.@jessesheidlower @ToddTheLinguist @bgzimmer Exactly; linguists understand that their peeves are just that, not signs of society's downfall

— Nick Fleisher (@nickfleisher) July 15, 2014

@PeterSokolowski @jessesheidlower @bgzimmer I'm not so sure. Sometimes it seems they just want something to peeve about. #WordCrimes

— Todd Snider (@ToddTheLinguist) July 15, 2014

It's an open question to what extent Weird Al is simply inhabiting a prescriptivist persona for the purposes of the song. But this clip, focused on the same less vs. fewer distinction he sings about in "Word Crimes," suggests he really is a peever of the first order.

On less vs. fewer, see these LL posts:

"If it was good enough for King Alfred the Great…" (ML, 11/15/06)
"10 English majors or less" (AZ, 8/10/08)
"More on less" (AZ, 8/31/08)
"Stupid less/fewer automatism at the WSJ" (GKP, 12/2/10)
"Less with plural count nouns in formal usage" (ML, 12/5/10)

And from Motivated Grammar, "'10 items or less' is just fine" (9/30/08).

Update: For a further examination of Yankovic's Rules of Usage, see this Slate piece by Forrest Wickman.

Here's what used to be expected of bridesmaids, groomsmen, and even the guests at a wedding.

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Blizzard has just revealed the revamped human male model, coming in Warlords of Draenor. Like previous reveals, the new model's increased fidelity is immediately obvious. The work done on his facial structure will be appreciated, too -- though he does bear a striking resemblance to Tarzan.

In the reveal, Art Director Chris Robinson also mentions that select work-in-progress models will be hitting the Warlords of Draenor alpha in the near future. The final versions of those models will be revealed on the website.

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How a soccer team once advanced in a cup match by deliberately scoring a goal against their own side.

edwardspoonhands:

So I’ve heard a few guys who I’m trying not to judge too harshly say “I love women, I treat them with respect. Why do I have to bear the sins of my brethren.” This post is directed toward them:

1. You are not being asked to bear the sins of anyone. No one is saying you are a rapist. People are saying that there /are/ rapists, and there are reasons for that and we should work to decrease the amount of sexual assaults. Is that your responsibility? I mean, I dunno, I guess if you’d rather spend your time doing something else that’s fine. But, like, don’t be surprised if someone asks you to do things or act in a way that will decrease sexual violence because that’s something you also want.
2. Whether or not I have entirely embodied equality and mutual respect with women in my life, society as a whole has not. There are people who believe that a woman’s place is in the kitchen. There are people who believe that women exist to be pretty. There are people who believe that they deserve sex in return for being nice. Men do hold the vast majority of positions of power in America. All women deal with misogyny. All women deal with sexual assault. This is a societal problem that needs a societal solution. 

Not all men are rapists, but all men /are/ privileged. The fact that women must be constantly wary of sexual violence while men don’t should be enough for us all to accept that. 

So, do those of us with this privilege choose to use that power we have to maintain our power? Or do we use it to decrease the amount of violence and increase the amount of equality? That’s really the question.

And for some people who are still disenfranchised or insecure despite this one source of privilege (quite possibly because they have other factors that society is prejudiced against that made life difficult for them), yeah, that can be a hard thing to do. But it is not the /wrong/ thing to do…you can’t say that.

Quoting what I said in a similar FB thread:

I joked a while ago that straight, white, cis males in America are essentially superheroes when compared to what marginalized classes (e.g., everyone else) have to deal with. The more serious side of that joke is that the same upbringing and culture can also create supervillains.

To every suffering male who has to help do the dishes

“Oh, my Luve’s like a red, red, rose / That’s newly sprung in June,” wrote Robert Burns, and while it’s always sad when a poet doesn’t know how to spell an easy word like “love,” it’s undeniably true that June is the most romantic month of the year. To this day, it’s the most popular month for Americans to get married, just ahead of August and May. We’ve asked Ken Jennings, the famous Jeopardy! champion and relationship guru, to puncture four matrimonial myths that have stuck around for years, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. If you’re not ready to have all your marital misconceptions shattered, speak now or forever hold your peace.

The Debunker: Are Wedding Dresses White to Symbolize Virginity?

It was rarely a nice day for a white wedding at the turn of the 19th century, so it’s a good thing Billy Idol wasn’t trying to make a go of it as a singer then. Bridal gowns up back then were typically practical affairs: black, brown, or gray dresses that could be reused throughout married life. But then, on February 10, 1840, everything changed.

Victoria, the popular young Queen of England, had fallen in love with a German prince, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who also happened to be her first cousin. In order to incorporate some handmade British lace into her wedding ensemble, Victoria elected to be married in a cream-colored satin dress. It was a striking choice, and the queen is now credited with starting the vogue for white wedding gowns.

It’s often assumed that white weddings are meant to suggest the purity- let’s not beat around the bush, the virginity-of the bride. That certainly wasn’t the case back then. Blue was the traditional color of purity at the time of Queen Victoria’s bold fashion stroke, because it was associated with the Virgin Mary. No, white dresses primarily caught on as a status symbol. A bride in a white dress was showing off in two ways. First, she could obviously afford a lavish new outfit that could never be worn to other occasions. And second, she was far too rich to worry about plebeian problems like scuffs and spills. The dawn of the white wedding dress had little to do with demonstrating abstinence and everything to do with demonstrating abundance.

Quick Quiz: What famed wedding dress designer competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and almost made the Olympic team?

Ken Jennings is the author of six books, most recently his Junior Genius Guides, Because I Said So!, and Maphead. He's also the proud owner of an underwhelming Bag o' Crap. Follow him at ken-jennings.com or on Twitter as @KenJennings.

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Could being at wiz video games get you a scholarship and a college degree? As far-fetched of a dream as that may seem, it's now becoming a reality at one institute of higher learning.

Robert Morris University in Illinois announced today that it will be forming an official League of Legends varsity team as part of its athletic program for the 2014-15 academic year. Team members will be treated on the same level as other athletes, meaning that they're eligible for tutoring, support, and scholarships.

The team is a result of the university's associate athletic director's love of competitive PC gaming and acknowledgement that it requires the same level of teamwork as other sports.

"Although e-sports have long been a part of the culture of gaming, competitions have seen a large surge in popularity in recent years," the university posted. "Robert Morris University recognizes the value and legitimacy of e-sports and is excited to add e-sports to its already rich athletic program."

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