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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Tune of the Day
Killdeer, Marmon fields, Williams, North Dakota, United States.
In Case You May Miss…
(1) Trump, Trump, Trump…..
(2) Lots of new Covid numbers. I admit that a few of my notes are a bit of irritated.
(3) Taylor Swift, superspreader.
(4) Vivian Maier: first exhibition
(5) Steroids: is everyone actually taking them?
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024
Lower than a half a 12 months to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 24:
No discernible impact from Trump’s conviction but (although Democrats have only just begun to exploit it). Swing States (more here) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan’s court affects the polling, and if so, how.
* * * Trump (R) (People vs. Trump): “Vermont GOP rules bar it from promoting any candidate who is a ‘convicted felon’” [NBC]. So change the party rules. But more seriously–
Trump (R) (People vs. Trump): “Plot twist: WA has a law against felons running for office” [Seattle Times]. “‘I have clients lined up who are going to be all over pursuing a ballot challenge in this case,’ says David Vogel, a Seattle attorney and former deputy prosecutor for King County who was briefly involved in an earlier ballot challenge against Trump before the presidential primary.” • It would be interesting to know if there other states with such laws. Readers? NOTE: Trump is now subject to the criminal justice system in the State of New York. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
* * * Trump (R): “Behind the Curtain: MAGA’s jail plan” [Axios]. “Another Trump insider pointed to a federal civil rights statute, ‘Conspiracy Against Rights’” • 18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights”
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
(I assume the “highway part” is for night riders in the Civil Rights era.) The Sixth Amendment in Bragg’s case, I would say (since the architecture of
Paul, WeisBragg’s case didn’t give the Defendant time to prepare a proper defense; though I grant the Trump team isn’t making that argument, and since IANAL, perhaps I’ve gotten that wrong).Trump (R): “Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign” [ProPublica]. Importantly: “Trump campaign head Susie Wiles, a Florida political consultant, was present when Trump allegedly went beyond improperly holding onto classified documents and showed them to people lacking proper security clearances. When Trump was indicted on June 8, 2023, over his handling of the documents, the indictment described Wiles as a ‘PAC representative.’ It described Trump allegedly showing her a classified map related to a military operation, acknowledging “that he should not be showing it” and warning her to “not get too close.” That June, Right Coast Strategies, the political consulting firm Wiles founded, received its highest-ever monthly payment from the Trump campaign: $75,000, an amount the firm has equaled only once since. Wiles had been a grand jury witness before the indictment. News reports indicated Wiles had told others that she continued to be loyal to Trump and only testified because she was forced to. (And, according to Wiles, Trump was told she was a witness sometime before the indictment’s June release.) The Trump campaign official told ProPublica that the spike in payments was largely because Wiles was billing for previous months. She also got a 20% raise that May, from $25,000 to $30,000 per month. ‘She went back and redid her contract,’ the official said, adding that her role as a witness was not a factor in that raise. A few months later, the Wiles family got more good news. Wiles’ daughter Caroline, who had done some work for Trump’s first campaign and in the White House, where she reportedly left one job because she didn’t pass a background check, was hired by his campaign. Her salary: $222,000, making her currently the fourth-highest-paid staffer. (The Trump campaign official said her salary included a monthly housing stipend.)” Then again: “‘It feels very shady, especially as you detect a pattern. … I would worry about it having a corrupt influence,’ Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said after hearing from ProPublica about benefits provided to potential Trump witnesses. But McQuade said these cases are difficult to prove, even if the intent were actually to influence testimony, because savvy defendants don’t explicitly attach strings to the benefits and would more likely be ‘all wink and a nod, ‘You’re a great, loyal employee, here’s a raise.’” • And in fact, if you look at the numbers, Wiles is doing a great job.
Trump (R): “Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020” [Associated Press]. “Felony forgery charges were filed in Wisconsin* on Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020. The state charges are the first to come in Wisconsin and follow separate charges brought in Arizona*, Michigan*, Nevada* and Georgia related to the fake electors scheme. The Wisconsin charges were brought against Trump’s attorney in the state, Jim Troupis, 62, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, 62, who was advising the campaign and Mike Roman, 51, who was Trump’s director of Election Day operations. Roman allegedly delivered Wisconsin’s fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman’s staffer in order to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. All three are due in Dane County Circuit Court on Sept. 19, according to court records. They each face one felony count punishable by up to six years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.” • NOTE * Swing states. Would be interesting to see the karmic hammer strike the Trump campaign in 2024 for the “contingent electors” scheme in 2020 (and even Fani Willis butchered the Georgia case, similar cases are proceeding, quietly, elsewhere.
* * * Trump (R): “Trump’s doc requests reveal VP short list” [Axios]. “Former President Trump has requested financial and other documents from eight potential VP picks as he formalizes his vetting, an official tells Axios. Some candidates got more extensive paperwork requests than others — a possible clue to how hotly they’re being considered. The contenders, in no particular order: Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio); North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum; Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.); Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.); Ben Carson, former HUD Secretary; Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.); Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.); and Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.). We’re told the list, reported earlier by Politico and others, is very much subject to change.” • Time Scott would make some heads explode. Stefanik, too, for that matter.
* * * Trump (R): “Why Trump’s Second Victory Would Be Worse” [Robert Borosage, The Nation]. Here, for a change, is a Democrat yarn diagram (better than the usual, because the relationships are typed; far worse, since the relationships are often free-floating, not connecting any of the players):
One such relationship, from Stephen Miller to… nothing, is “Insurrection Act used to pursue political enemies” (whoever would have come up with such an idea). In any case, what that does show is that Project 2025 is “existential” for Democrats, personally. Borosage writes: “Of course, there will be resistance [whatever did happen to Neera]—in Congress, the bureaucracy, and the press.” • Well, given that election 2024 is indeed existential for
our democracyDemocrats — and it’s not just this diagram that’s saying that — it follows that Trump must be prevented from taking office “by any means necessary,” as Malcolm X said, ironically enough. So it’s odd that Borosage, now that events inPaul, WeisJudge Merchan’s court seem to have been the high tide of lawfare, doesn’t mention, besides “Congress, the bureaucracy, and the press,” the spooks. Or not so odd. Everybody knows it (“six ways from Sunday“), so why say it? NOTE I should take a look at what Project 2025 has to say about the spooks. Perhaps thoughtful people have anticipated the relevant scenarios.* * *
Realignment and Legitimacy
That DEI thing is working out great:
Here are the Chiefs of Harvard, NYU, USC & Yale police: three Black men & one Black woman – 100% Black head cops. The %of Black students at these four campuses is, respectively, 6.3%, 6.1%, 6.3% & 6.%.
% Black faculty? 5% (HU), 3.8 (NYU), 3 (USC), 1.3% (YU) #OverseerAwards pic.twitter.com/9lO1wusbqN
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher🔻 (@thrasherxy) June 4, 2024
* * * “Conservative household who relocated from California to Idaho to flee liberal politics reveal why they’ve now moved again” [Daily Mail]. “‘We determined after 3 years in Idaho, we’re going again house.’ ‘We needed to maneuver to a Conservative state, however we realized what it will imply to slot in,’ [the TikTok] continued. ‘It could imply we’d should be judgmental. We would want to gossip about others. Have our children neglect how one can say please and thanks. Speak dangerous about new individuals transferring right here for a greater life. ‘We left California due to politics[,] however forgot there are different kinds of politics to contemplate…’” • Hmmm…..
“Florida is so final 12 months — right here is the brand new reasonably priced hotspot individuals are transferring to in 2024” [New York Post]. “In 2023, Florida virtually owned the record of most moved-to cities, with six within the Prime 20 and 5 within the Prime 10. This 12 months, South Florida is the third most fled, proper behind much-maligned Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Space, [Zillow’s] numbers confirmed.” • Housing, insurance coverage prices, value of residing. Fairly mundane! Anyhow, now it’s the Carolinas and Nashville.
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater stories); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Search for the Helpers
Please contemplate taking the time to signal this petition to the the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies:
COVID CONSCIOUS PEOPLE ‼️ We solely have till June tenth to submit! PLEASE take 2 minutes out of your day to fill out a remark at this hyperlink. Choose ‘healthcare business’ in ‘what’s your remark about’. That is to make hospitals report COVID infections ‼️https://t.co/MgfZfMVRAK
— L 💖 (@hutchleah) June 6, 2024
Transmission: H5N1
Euphonious:
If it is endemic within the birds it is endemic within the herds. I do not see the FDA getting a deal with on this one, sorry. https://t.co/MqzsFsJygq
— AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (@fitterhappierAJ) June 7, 2024
I can solely hope that this time Leonardi is improper.
An extended, informative thread from Fiegl-Ding on the H5N2 case in Mexico:
NEW—The WHO & Mexico stories world’s first-ever human case & demise from H5N2 fowl flu (one other fowl flu kind, not the H5N1 that’s extra lively currently). 59-year-old died in Mexico Metropolis and had **ZERO** publicity contact with any poultry or different animals. Shut contacts unfavourable too. pic.twitter.com/zIQuEa8vDz
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 5, 2024
Vaccines
I don’t know if, at this level, we are able to ever have a rational dialogue of vaccines, but when we handle to realize this, the historic document on morbidity ought to be taken under consideration:
I simply listened to somebody insist that every one vaccines trigger extra hurt than good. Right here is the impression of 9 vaccines. To recommend we reintroduce these illnesses by avoiding vaccines is societal amnesia and medical lunacy. https://t.co/2dCJsYHdk6 pic.twitter.com/E5qcQxjYjH
— Bob Morris, MD, PhD (@rdmorris) June 7, 2024
Censorship and Propaganda
Instances? What instances?
This picture displaying the rising disconnect between counted instances and wastewater information is a reminder that when somebody says ‘post-pandemic’ it’s not a factual or scientific assertion, however slightly an admittance of adoption of a cultural delusion propagated by capitalism. pic.twitter.com/efNTi8b8ID
— COVID NEWS NETWORK (@COVIDnewsfast) June 6, 2024
(I focus on the how case information and wastewater information diverged, after monitoring in unison, right here in April 2023.) AFAIK, so-called public well being all the time centered on lowering transmission, by no means on hospitalization and deaths, which is what CDC centered on (though now even that information goes darkish). After all, even “gentle” an infection may cause vascular and neurological injury, in addition to Lengthy Covid, as readers know, however which can’t be too typically said.
A very good record of blame-worthy thought leaders:
We’ll want an even bigger graph.
Whooping Cough in England.
That is the fault of the individuals who suppose illness makes you properly.
Anti-vaxxers. Pure immunityers. Professional-infectioners. Anti-mitigationers. Immunity Debtors. Most Peoplers. Anti-Maskers. We-Have-The-Toolers. pic.twitter.com/DKm5GpYmbJ— tern (@1goodtern) June 7, 2024
However even extra accountable are the individuals who funded the thought leaders, betrayers who ought to be sunk within the ice of the Ninth Circle of Hell. (Additionally, has anybody checked in on the UK? Appears to be slightly loads of sickness about.)
Movie star Watch
Swifties kindly share their CO2 measures at @taylorswift13 reveals. This permits us to make comparisons on the standard of indoor air renewal in a number of venues: Paris and Las Vegas (indoor arenas), Madrid (retractable roof stadium) and Sydney (open-air stadium). Extra venues to return. https://t.co/eU7m9UAS6O pic.twitter.com/8qF9si7Y9o
— LET’S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS (@nousaerons) June 4, 2024
Wouldn’t it actually be so troublesome for squillionaire Swift to restrict herself to out of doors venues? Assuming that not giving her devoted followers coronary heart and mind injury is a precedence for her?
“The newest live performance must-have? Trendy earplugs” [Financial Times]. • Not, in fact, N95s as branded merch, heaven forfend.
Elite Maleficence
You’d suppose the Republicans might blame mass infections on Biden (and so they’d be proper):
The Home Committee on COVID isn’t speaking about lengthy covid as a result of they’ll should admit that repeat infections will increase the danger of lengthy covid, which is its personal pandemic, all whereas admitting that repeat infections is the de facto coverage of the U.S., and it’s an election 12 months. https://t.co/KSQYbfxuLR
— 🇵🇸 EYES ON RAFAH 🇵🇸 (@joaquinlife) June 6, 2024
“Collective problem”? Is Cuomo some kinda Communist?
Lengthy covid is actual and extra vital than many thought. And whereas all of us wish to flip away from this collective problem, it’s now the time to face the issue in order that we create consciousness and discover therapy. Dir. of Rehabilitation Innovation at Mt Sinai Well being System, Dr.… pic.twitter.com/ZR3bh8ekgy
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 7, 2024
No however critically, Cuomo has commendably been plugging away at Lengthy Covid protection.
WHO recommends handwashing, however not PPE or masks, in opposition to fowl flu:
Find out about Avian Influenza. Who’s in danger?
How will you defend your self, and which meals are suitable for eating throughout an outbreak ? Dr Wenqing Zhang explains in Science in 5pic.twitter.com/lBXJtNgaNv— World Well being Group (WHO) (@WHO) June 6, 2024
European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management: “The virus spreads straight from fowl to fowl or not directly, via faecal contamination of fabric, feathers or feed.” CDC: “Nevertheless, human infections with avian influenza A viruses can occur when sufficient virus will get into an individual’s eyes, nostril or mouth, or is inhaled. This could occur when virus is within the air (in or presumably mud) and an individual breathes it in, or when an individual touches one thing that has virus on it after which touches their mouth, eyes or nostril.” • We study nothing.
#DavosSafe:
World Financial Discussion board assembly this week – you’ll be able to solely attend with a unfavourable Covid PCR.
In the meantime at chemo clinic in the present day ready room full of maskless sufferers, no testing, no employees examined or masked.
Covid on each essential wards & no employees examined, no masks.
Who cares proper? pic.twitter.com/nsalcWQ7pF
— Prognostic Chats (@PrognosticChats) June 5, 2024
They know. They only don’t need you to know.
The Bullingdon Membership at play:
On that very day, my mom, with hospital-acquired Covid, informed the medical doctors “give the ventilator to somebody youthful”. She died lower than every week later, together with over 1000 different victims of presidency’s failure to take the pandemic critically. https://t.co/qkgmheingw
— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) June 6, 2024
Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m going to should rethink this fantastically formatted desk. Biobot information is gone, CDC variant information capabilities, ER visits are useless, CDC stopped necessary hospital information assortment, New York Occasions demise information has stopped. (Word that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each gone darkish). Ideally I’d change hospitalization and demise information, however I’m unsure how. I may additionally develop the wastewater part to incorporate (yech) Verily information, H5N1 if I can get it. Ideas and sources welcome. UPDATE I changed the Occasions demise information with CDC information. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t embody parameters to assemble the tables; one should reconstruct then manually every time. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new in the present day; all others will not be up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Lifeless.
[2] (Biobot) Lifeless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, on condition that final week KP.2 was throughout all the pieces like kudzu, and now it’s KP.3. If the “Nowcast” can’t even forecast two weeks out, why are we doing it in any respect?
[4] (ER) That is the perfect I can do for now. At the very least information for your complete pandemic is introduced.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Slight leveling out? (The NY city space has kind; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an essential entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, after which across the nation via air journey.)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is the perfect I can do for now. Word the idea that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation. At the very least information for your complete pandemic is introduced.
[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; huge bounce. (As a result of there may be information in “present view” tab, I feel white states right here have skilled “no change,” versus haven’t any information.)
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no method to regulate the time rasnge. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or examine one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Identical deal. These sh*theads:
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED not up.
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States Unemployment Price” [Trading Economics]. “The unemployment fee in america rose to 4% in Might 2024, the best since January 2022, up from 3.9% within the earlier month and shocking market expectations, which had forecasted the speed to stay unchanged…. In the meantime, the labor power participation fee dropped to 62.5% from 62.7%, and the employment-population ratio decreased to 60.1% from 60.2%.”
CNBC: “United Airways begins serving passengers personalised adverts on seat-back screens” [CNBC]. “Now enjoying on United Airways’ seat-back screens: personalised adverts. The provider on Friday mentioned it launched a media platform to serve vacationers personalised commercials on seat-back screens and in its app, amongst different platforms, because it seeks to leverage buyer information. Clients can choose out of seeing focused adverts via a United internet web page [oh, right], and United says advertisers can’t entry clients’ personally identifiable data, the airline mentioned.’ There may be the potential for 3.5 hours of consideration per traveler, based mostly on common flight time,’ United mentioned.” • It’s a gold mine, I’m tellin’ ya! (Additionally, “personalised” with out being “personally identifiable” is a neat trick.)
Right now’s Worry & Greed Index: 44 Worry (earlier shut: 45 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 43 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 6 at 1:53:46 PM ET.
Picture Ebook
Zeitgeist Watch
“Study Says That People Who Like Loud Exhaust Are Psychotic” [Car and Driver]. Works for me. “A new study by Western University in Ontario says that if you’ve got a car with a modified exhaust system, odds are you’re a guy and probably also psychotic and sadistic…. The study group comprised 529 undergrad business students who were asked whether they thought loud cars are cool, whether they viewed their cars as an extension of themselves, and if they’d modify their own cars to make the exhaust louder. Further, each participant took a Short Dark Tetrad personality survey to assess predilection toward general malice and belligerence—psychopathy, narcissism, manipulativeness. Somewhat surprisingly, the straight-pipe crowd didn’t score high on narcissism, indicating that the appreciation of stridently broadcast internal combustion isn’t motivated by, ‘Hey, look at me!’ It’s more like, ‘Hey, listen to my Nissan VQ, whether you like it or not.’” That’s reassuring. More: “If you’re wondering what sort of other affinities might be predicted by high scores in sadism and psychopathy, the study says that those sorts of traits have also shown up in responses asking if the participant had intentionally started an illegal fire.” • Now do people who use cellphones like walkie-talkies.
Class Warfare
“Vinod Khosla, Marc Andreessen And The Billionaire Battle For AI’s Future” [Forbes]. “Andreessen and his allies envision a best-case-scenario future in which AI prevents disease and early mortality, and all artists and businesspeople work with an AI assistant to enhance their jobs. Warfare, without bloody human blunders, will have fewer human casualties. AI-augmented art and films will appear everywhere. In a manifesto detailing his position last year, Andreessen, who declined an interview request for this story, dreams of open-source paradise, with no regulatory barriers to slow AI’s development or red-tape moats that protect big companies at the expense of startups. All three billionaire investors appear on this year’s Midas List of the world’s top tech investors for investments that reach beyond AI—with Hoffman at No. 8, Khosla at No. 9 and Andreessen at No. 36—but it’s in the emerging category where their influence is most acutely felt. These prominent leaders of the last tech revolution are now pushing their views on the key topics of the next.” • AI = BS. None of this will ever happen. AI will not “augment” humans; that’s not how capital accumulation works. AI art will be horrid and no human artists will have any work, because AI art is “good enough,” and all those who could show what the difference is will be too impoverished to create, let alone educate. It’s really telling that the first big AI “innovation” to hit the labor market was eliminating call center employees (which, artists, is what you are to capital as well).
News of the Wired
“We Are Made of Waves” [Nautilus]. “As Strassler writes, we are all ‘wavicle-creatures,’ and ‘the universe sings everywhere, in every thing.’” • Maybe. I looked hard for something to excerpt. This was it!
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