Some interesting things about living in Texas, Part 2
Hi everybody,
Here's what we have for today.
1. Margarita-Sangria Combo. We went to a Mexican restaurant a few weeks ago and they had a margarita-sangria combo. It was delicious. And I thought it was just from that particular restaurant, but apparently it's.a Texas thing. You should try it.?
2. Little Kids Sit in the Front.? It's legal and cool.? And side note, I've seen three parents driving in the carpool lane with their child's door wide open when the kids were either sitting in the back or on their way out of the car.
3. Mix and Match Vaccines??Old School. For sure I've been following all the news from the CDC and the federal government about vaccines. Maybe one week after it was approved to 'mix and match' I found out that it was already available here...a month earlier.? So I just went into CVS and got one
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This is so worth the read, I promise. It's a comment on FB by Los Pollos Hermanos
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 1:32 PM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: yeah i bet you'd look haut taking a beefy strap-on in the bum, with that azure wig flowing free atop your scalp
This is what the people at TikTok watch me do.
We happened to have the wig for sexual purposes
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 11:35 PM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: you did a good job with the Podcast - understandably the guy had limited knowledge of Little News Ears because it's a kid's show, and limited knowledge?of the new show, and you did a good job trying to explain, keep it interesting, etc. - don't know how much audience So Wizard gets but seems good to start getting the word out.......good luck!
Joe - in regards to your post -? Magnetic penetration depths in superconducting NbN films prepared by reactive dc magnetron sputtering
(that's the 2nd google result you get if you google your phrase)
Thank you for watching. First positive comment....
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 8:21 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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yeah i bet you'd look haut taking a beefy strap-on in the bum, with that azure wig flowing free atop your scalp
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This is what the people at TikTok watch me do.
We happened to have the wig for sexual purposes
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 11:35 PM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: you did a good job with the Podcast - understandably the guy had limited knowledge of Little News Ears because it's a kid's show, and limited knowledge?of the new show, and you did a good job trying to explain, keep it interesting, etc. - don't know how much audience So Wizard gets but seems good to start getting the word out.......good luck!
Joe - in regards to your post -? Magnetic penetration depths in superconducting NbN films prepared by reactive dc magnetron sputtering
(that's the 2nd google result you get if you google your phrase)
Thank you for watching. First positive comment....
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 8:21 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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This is what the people at TikTok watch me do.
We happened to have the wig for sexual purposes
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 11:35 PM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: you did a good job with the Podcast - understandably the guy had limited knowledge of Little News Ears because it's a kid's show, and limited knowledge?of the new show, and you did a good job trying to explain, keep it interesting, etc. - don't know how much audience So Wizard gets but seems good to start getting the word out.......good luck!
Joe - in regards to your post -? Magnetic penetration depths in superconducting NbN films prepared by reactive dc magnetron sputtering
(that's the 2nd google result you get if you google your phrase)
Thank you for watching. First positive comment....
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 8:21 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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you did a good job with the Podcast - understandably the guy had limited knowledge of Little News Ears because it's a kid's show, and limited knowledge?of the new show, and you did a good job trying to explain, keep it interesting, etc. - don't know how much audience So Wizard gets but seems good to start getting the word out.......good luck!
Joe - in regards to your post -? Magnetic penetration depths in superconducting NbN films prepared by reactive dc magnetron sputtering
(that's the 2nd google result you get if you google your phrase)
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Thank you for watching. First positive comment....
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 8:21 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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Thank you for watching. First positive comment....
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 8:21 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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I watched most of it.? I thought the guy took you seriously and did a good job.??
I have some shit to do.? I got up early.? Here's what I have produced in the last hour besides watching?dan's interview:
In the west we have the term "procrastination".? But much like the Eskimo have 59 words for snow, the Japanese have identified and named at least 18 types of the phenomenon of delay.? I do not?suffer procrastination.? I live Shinokwe Hikata...? a powerful tsunami of negative consequences born of inaction,?visible at great distance, mesmerizing, paralyzing.? Shinokwe Hikata, for those that experience its true power, know it cannot be tamed, cannot be tempered.? I live in the shadow of Shinokwe Hikata.? I am incapable of doing the things that must be done, eminently doable tasks, even though I know the consequences will be profound and long-lasting.? I contemplate a life of freedom, peace, but I am stalked, smothered, withering in the agonizing blaze of slow death.? Shinokwe?Hikata
Dedicated to Bob
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Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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Hey,
I got interviewed for the new show...not so flattering or amazing, but...ok
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wow- keep up updated on this story such as if they find the parents and if charges are laid.
i wonder why children services were not activated with the 9 year old brother being absent from school for such an extended period of time or any family members/friends not seeing him.
shocking
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This is how close these deaths were to our house
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Three children had been surviving in part thanks to a neighbor who brought them food and charged their cell phone after the home¡¯s power was recently
cut off, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff¡¯s Department confirmed to The Daily Beast.
The unidentified resident of the CityParc II complex in the Houston suburbs had been helping the kids, ages 7, 10, and 15, for at least the past couple of weeks, cops said. The 15-year-old boy said his parents left him and the others alone in the home several
months ago and hadn¡¯t lived there since, said police.
The children had been living for a year or more with their brother¡¯s dead body, which was lying out in the open when officers arrived. Deputies said the two younger boys ¡°appeared malnourished and showed signs of physical injury,¡± according to an announcement
issued by law enforcement authorities.
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This is how close these deaths were to our house
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dan Buck <vertknowmad@...>Date: Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 7:26 PM Subject: Fwd: Daily Beast To: Dan Buck < vertpurple@...> 
Scott Halleran
Three children had been surviving in part thanks to a neighbor who brought them food and charged their cell phone after the home¡¯s power was recently cut off, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff¡¯s Department confirmed to The Daily Beast.
The unidentified resident of the CityParc II complex in the Houston suburbs had been helping the kids, ages 7, 10, and 15, for at least the past couple of weeks, cops said. The 15-year-old boy said his parents left him and the others alone in the home several months ago and hadn¡¯t lived there since, said police.
The children had been living for a year or more with their brother¡¯s dead body, which was lying out in the open when officers arrived. Deputies said the two younger boys ¡°appeared malnourished and showed signs of physical injury,¡± according to an announcement issued by law enforcement authorities.
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I would sign up.
Add some hand to hand combat and guns.
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What if there is something like the boy scouts.. exactly the boy scouts but for adults. You get badges, build up skills, you follow all rules, but then for a few hours every night after dinner it was sex and drugs allowed, kind of? like the
purge
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What if there is something like the boy scouts.. exactly the boy scouts but for adults. You get badges, build up skills, you follow all rules, but then for a few hours every night after dinner it was sex and drugs allowed, kind of? like the purge
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...that probably only I will appreciate
These are all actors doing a promo for DarkTyme on TikTok. The dude with the scissors got 1050 views and 93 likes which is by far the most I've ever gotten for anything?
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Re: This Story Made Me Think Dan
For anyone that tried to read this and got a login page, looks like reddit caused it to get overloaded. Should work now.?
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:31 AM, Richard Chang via groups.io <rcterp@...> wrote: Went down an internet rabbit hole this AM and ended up reading this story.? For some reason I thought of Dan leading his "German family" into Death Valley thinking it is a great adventure.?
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This Story Made Me Think Dan
Went down an internet rabbit hole this AM and ended up reading this story.? For some reason I thought of Dan leading his "German family" into Death Valley thinking it is a great adventure.?
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Re: a dream I just woke up to
i'm going to say that i almost invariably find long descriptions of complex dreams to be one of the most tedious things that i regularly take part in in my social life. not so this one; this is very?rich and funny and understandable. i also agree one hundo per cent with joe on the use of the breadbox as a unit of measure. at my house, since none of the people i live with has ever seen a breadbox, we have updated the question to "is it bigger than a redbox?" which is a more currently universal unit of measure
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:10 AM Joe Steinberger < joe@...> wrote: My favorite part is you using a bread box as a unit of measure. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 6:29 AM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: I'm impressed you remembered as much of that. I don't recall having many political/cultural celebrities in my weird dreams, but who knows?
I don't normally have dreams like this, or at least don't remember them, so here goes.
I was attending some kind of high-end party for music. Like the Grammys. But political and it was something like the Democratic convention, I guess. And I remember noting that with all the celebrities there, it is weird that U2 wasn't there.
The show and party were ending soon, so I took the opportunity to stand on a really tall tent and look down. Just then I realized that Charles Grodin was high up in the air on a winged flying machine and I had the chance to do that too, but decided it was too dangerous.?
My keys fell on a lower tent roof, which was still higher than everybody else, but luckily Donald Rumsfeld, who was in charge or maintenance and cleaning, picked them up. He also helped me get down.
I realized or remembered that I had seen Donald Rumsfeld earlier at the party and he had given me a NASDAQ code. He was trying?to be a fatherly figure. And then at that moment he told me, basically, that he bought me a little NASDAQ machine. It was kind of like an old digital clock, but he turned it on and entered my code, which I had lost. He told me that he hoped I would get into politics. I told him that I respect him very much because, as he is retiring, he would be contributing to the Democratic party by encouraging me to get into politics.
I then realized that both of us (Donald Rumsfield and I) were kind of in a shop that sold Chinese colorful plant toys that were meant to be substitutes?for children. They sang and talked to you and were like cute little plant robots. He was explaining to me how a type of fish with teeth is good to catch and just then a colorful and beautiful fish, as large as a breadbox, with crazy colors and teeth, swam by.
Then Caspian, my son, who was Robin, impressed all the superheroes by moving a single statue with his whole body while I couldn't.
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Re: a dream I just woke up to
My favorite part is you using a bread box as a unit of measure.
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 6:29 AM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote: I'm impressed you remembered as much of that. I don't recall having many political/cultural celebrities in my weird dreams, but who knows?
I don't normally have dreams like this, or at least don't remember them, so here goes.
I was attending some kind of high-end party for music. Like the Grammys. But political and it was something like the Democratic convention, I guess. And I remember noting that with all the celebrities there, it is weird that U2 wasn't there.
The show and party were ending soon, so I took the opportunity to stand on a really tall tent and look down. Just then I realized that Charles Grodin was high up in the air on a winged flying machine and I had the chance to do that too, but decided it was too dangerous.?
My keys fell on a lower tent roof, which was still higher than everybody else, but luckily Donald Rumsfeld, who was in charge or maintenance and cleaning, picked them up. He also helped me get down.
I realized or remembered that I had seen Donald Rumsfeld earlier at the party and he had given me a NASDAQ code. He was trying?to be a fatherly figure. And then at that moment he told me, basically, that he bought me a little NASDAQ machine. It was kind of like an old digital clock, but he turned it on and entered my code, which I had lost. He told me that he hoped I would get into politics. I told him that I respect him very much because, as he is retiring, he would be contributing to the Democratic party by encouraging me to get into politics.
I then realized that both of us (Donald Rumsfield and I) were kind of in a shop that sold Chinese colorful plant toys that were meant to be substitutes?for children. They sang and talked to you and were like cute little plant robots. He was explaining to me how a type of fish with teeth is good to catch and just then a colorful and beautiful fish, as large as a breadbox, with crazy colors and teeth, swam by.
Then Caspian, my son, who was Robin, impressed all the superheroes by moving a single statue with his whole body while I couldn't.
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Re: a dream I just woke up to
I'm impressed you remembered as much of that. I don't recall having many political/cultural celebrities in my weird dreams, but who knows?
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I don't normally have dreams like this, or at least don't remember them, so here goes.
I was attending some kind of high-end party for music. Like the Grammys. But political and it was something like the Democratic convention, I guess. And I remember noting that with all the celebrities there, it is weird that U2 wasn't there.
The show and party were ending soon, so I took the opportunity to stand on a really tall tent and look down. Just then I realized that Charles Grodin was high up in the air on a winged flying machine and I had the chance to do that too, but decided it was too dangerous.?
My keys fell on a lower tent roof, which was still higher than everybody else, but luckily Donald Rumsfeld, who was in charge or maintenance and cleaning, picked them up. He also helped me get down.
I realized or remembered that I had seen Donald Rumsfeld earlier at the party and he had given me a NASDAQ code. He was trying?to be a fatherly figure. And then at that moment he told me, basically, that he bought me a little NASDAQ machine. It was kind of like an old digital clock, but he turned it on and entered my code, which I had lost. He told me that he hoped I would get into politics. I told him that I respect him very much because, as he is retiring, he would be contributing to the Democratic party by encouraging me to get into politics.
I then realized that both of us (Donald Rumsfield and I) were kind of in a shop that sold Chinese colorful plant toys that were meant to be substitutes?for children. They sang and talked to you and were like cute little plant robots. He was explaining to me how a type of fish with teeth is good to catch and just then a colorful and beautiful fish, as large as a breadbox, with crazy colors and teeth, swam by.
Then Caspian, my son, who was Robin, impressed all the superheroes by moving a single statue with his whole body while I couldn't.
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a dream I just woke up to
I don't normally have dreams like this, or at least don't remember them, so here goes.
I was attending some kind of high-end party for music. Like the Grammys. But political and it was something like the Democratic convention, I guess. And I remember noting that with all the celebrities there, it is weird that U2 wasn't there.
The show and party were ending soon, so I took the opportunity to stand on a really tall tent and look down. Just then I realized that Charles Grodin was high up in the air on a winged flying machine and I had the chance to do that too, but decided it was too dangerous.?
My keys fell on a lower tent roof, which was still higher than everybody else, but luckily Donald Rumsfeld, who was in charge or maintenance and cleaning, picked them up. He also helped me get down.
I realized or remembered that I had seen Donald Rumsfeld earlier at the party and he had given me a NASDAQ code. He was trying?to be a fatherly figure. And then at that moment he told me, basically, that he bought me a little NASDAQ machine. It was kind of like an old digital clock, but he turned it on and entered my code, which I had lost. He told me that he hoped I would get into politics. I told him that I respect him very much because, as he is retiring, he would be contributing to the Democratic party by encouraging me to get into politics.
I then realized that both of us (Donald Rumsfield and I) were kind of in a shop that sold Chinese colorful plant toys that were meant to be substitutes?for children. They sang and talked to you and were like cute little plant robots. He was explaining to me how a type of fish with teeth is good to catch and just then a colorful and beautiful fish, as large as a breadbox, with crazy colors and teeth, swam by.
Then Caspian, my son, who was Robin, impressed all the superheroes by moving a single statue with his whole body while I couldn't.
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Re: a few random things I have learned or picked up in Texas
Well first of all i think most of us would agree that parents have the right to control their children's situations, until their no longer minors. Second, and more relevant perhaps, most of us work in jobs we wouldn't really choose to do, day after day, continuing with just because we pretty much need to. Working as a sex worker isn't so different in many ways. Some people go into porn, prostitution etc. on their own volition. Some are coerced by a pimp, boyfriend, parent. Just like gymnastics or whatever.
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On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 5:33 PM David Doga < oyeguey@...> wrote:
That's absolutely terrible to learn.
So the biggest thing we learned is that human trafficking here is nothing like we think. It's mostly fathers in Houston pimping their own children. Going over state lines and shit like that is not really the big issue.
Buses take people to brothels ... Like tour buses because it's legal and most people there are trafficked.?
We were taught that drug dealing is the problem of the '90s or whatever but people realized that a human is a reusable product that you can use until they die... Unlike drugs.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 12:08 PM Todd Rhoads < todd@...> wrote:
Glad that things seem positive to date. I've often said "you-all" which seems like the border-state version. What more specifically is the situation with human trafficking? Migrants paying to get in from Mexico? From other
countries??
1. Human trafficking is insane here.
2. I said y'all naturally twice yesterday.
3.? Six Flags is named Six Flags because there have been six 'governments' of Texas, including France.
4. Shrimp and cheese go well together
5. Houston doesn't feel like Texas at all. I feel like I'm in a hotter LA with affordable housing and many more trees
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