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You're missing the point that the only way to make ANYTHING that removes carbon out of the atmosphere long enough to make a dent is to actually physically remove the product from the environment by sequestering it. There are simply not enough mines to dump enough cellulose, same as with trees or any other carbon-bearing material. Part of the problem is density - oil and coal contain a lot more carbon that the same volume of trees. You can't just put either one into landfill either - it will generate methane gas as it rots. Same with silage. Plants and their byproducts are simply not a solution. Planting trees for carbon credits is one huge fraud, since forest fires just put that carbon right back into the air as CO2, same as anything else wood that burns. The Fort McMurray fire by itself contributed up to 10% of all Canada's greenhouse gas emissions this year. There are forest fires burning all over the world.

What next - suggest that we print up books like crazy and dump them into mine shafts to sequester the carbon in them? (there was a sci-fi short story about exactly that - with the idea being submitted to the government as a joke, and the government approving and funding it).

If we stop adding to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, natural processes will slowly remove it, but turning it into sediments that form limestone takes longer than our species will exist. The only viable solution is reducing the human population. Everything else is not a solution, but foolish attempts to avoid the reap problem. There are way too many of us. We need to lose 2/3 or more of the human race.

The US and Russia may actually achieve that in the next few years ... too bad we probably won't live through it.

at least the guns welcome would give any wrong doer pause

Any time a gun is present, simple arguments can escalate to this. It has nothing to do with criminals and everything to do with human nature.

There's a surplus of milk already, as dairy consumption is generally on the decline, at least that's what I keep seeing in the news...eg: Ontario dairy farmers dumping skim milk into manure pits and sewer lagoons. Extending the shelf life is the last thing the industry wants - spoilage is helping them at this point..

Unlike the US, judges in the provincial and federal courts are not elected, so once appointed, the judges really don't have to suck up to politicians.

Go ahead. Call FedEx and say you want them to swing by your house every day just in case you have outgoing mail. Tell them volume will be very low. Tell them you won't sign a contract. And tell them you're willing to pay fifty cents per one ounce parcel to be sent anywhere in America. The US parcel service isn't afraid of change, they've embraced every bit of cost saving technology possible. But there are millions of Americans that the internet still doesn't reach. People too (literally) retarded, too poor or just unwilling to buy PC's and people too poor or too disabled to walk to the nearest parcel delivery store. (hundreds of miles for a few, by the way)

Okay I wrote all that before I clicked the link: it's a bad link. Canada is actually using community boxes which require a short walk. Less ideal but it still preserves the principle of the thing. My point is the USPS is the last remaining government service that's keeping millions of Americans from being completely priced out of being able to effectively communicate with the world. It's also offering a service no one else can. Government mail delivery won't be obsolete until another company can actually match its costs (and not by cutting services)

Truth is those American's need to get on board with the new world order. It's amazing to me how many moronic decisions we make that hurt 100's of millions because of a few outliers. If you choose to live 100's of miles away from civilization then you live with the consequences. No internet? Too bad. Guess you're going to have to travel. Can't travel? Again, too bad. Get help from a neighbor. If you're too disabled to walk a block to get your mail then you have FAR greater problems, such as eating, to deal with and you probably already have help. They can get your mail. Same with being too mentally challenged. Mail is the least of their problems.

Every "problem" you listed is either already a problem for much more important things or a consequence of living where they chose. Internet is ubiquitous in all population centers in the US and there are ways to access it no matter how poor you are if you make the effort. Of course bad life choices and not making the effort are why many of those people are so poor to begin with. We absolutely should not be expected to subsidize convenience.

Go ahead. Call FedEx and say you want them to swing by your house every day just in case you have outgoing mail. Tell them volume will be very low. Tell them you won't sign a contract. And tell them you're willing to pay fifty cents per one ounce parcel to be sent anywhere in America. The US parcel service isn't afraid of change, they've embraced every bit of cost saving technology possible. But there are millions of Americans that the internet still doesn't reach. People too (literally) retarded, too poor or just unwilling to buy PC's and people too poor or too disabled to walk to the nearest parcel delivery store. (hundreds of miles for a few, by the way)

Okay I wrote all that before I clicked the link: it's a bad link. Canada is actually using community boxes which require a short walk. Less ideal but it still preserves the principle of the thing. My point is the USPS is the last remaining government service that's keeping millions of Americans from being completely priced out of being able to effectively communicate with the world. It's also offering a service no one else can. Government mail delivery won't be obsolete until another company can actually match its costs (and not by cutting services)

In fact the area around Fory McMurray needs to burn every so often to survive.

Natural Resources Canada says that in the boreal forest fire “is as crucial to forest renewal as the sun and rain.”

I don't know the context from the quote to I cannot comment much aside from doesn't sound like she hates women.

One of the interesting points that I have heard from her and my wife (who listens to her more than I) is if you call the women's abuse hotline it is; "go here we will help you, support you, etc." Call the mens hotline; "If you believe you are about to abuse your spouse." ( not quite the same thing but similar that sort of corroborates what they have said)

This disparity seems to be what Karen is mostly on about. Women can be the perpetrators of domestic violence yet we have seen feminists not only mock but block any effort to help victims.

There are legitimate reasons for MRAs to exist right now because there are objective legal rights and laws that favor women over men this being one example. I do not know of a single objective law or right that favors men so explicitly.

the movement as a whole is associated with groups like A Voice for Men and tends to spout misogynist rhetoric via its website.

Yes, groups have extremist elements to it that does not undermine the objective rights that MRAs are seeking that men do not have. I have gotten in many arguments with MGTOW and other actual misogynists but from what I have seen is that most of their hatred comes from being abused either emotionally or physically.

One quote out of context is not enough for me to call someone a misogynists. Especially when I have listened to their podcast (granted in the background so not really hanging on every word) and heard their ideas. They do not come off as misogynist. They seem concerned with the current state of affairs that says women can only be victims. She has identified laws that are sexists against men. She wants legal gender equality that currently favor women. How is that misogynist?

Many of the illegal online Mohawk gambling sites are located on the Indian reserves in Quebec, particularly Kahnawake. Not routing their packets to the outside world should do the job nicely.

This should come as no surprise. This is the land of sewer oil, melamine in baby formula and cyanide being stored next to high explosives. Granted, the government *is* working to try and improve things?

But seriously? When your populace believes it's an excellent idea to back up and finish off pedestrians when they hit them? It's going to be a very long time before anyone should trust you with anything at all.

I do not know a single politician outside the US who would think that even remotely considering pushing an agenda as harebrained as creationism is anything but political suicide. ...well, except in Canada these days. A couple years ago, our minister of *science* was refusing to answer questions about whether he believed in evolution. More recently, Alberta also had a creationist minister of education.. So unfortunately, some of the madness has escaped North of the US.

The article you're linking to is actually very weak on facts. There was never any claim that Canadians are flocking to the US to get medical care. HOWEVER, wealthy Canadians regularly DO head to the US in order to get immediate treatment. We have wait times for almost all medical services, not because of a decision to save money and be fiscally conservative, but simply because our health care costs continue to rise faster than revenues. The provincial government of Ontario, for example, has been running a deficit for the past decade, and our debt is now approaching $300 billion for a population of 13 million. This has resulted in several credit downgrades. We simply can't afford to increase spending any more. Unfortunately health care costs continue to rise, so people end up having to wait longer and longer for service. 1 in 9 Canadian doctors have left Canada to practice in the US, simply because there's no budget to hire them on at the hospitals, and the pay for family physicians is low compared to the US. 1 in 5 Canadian specialists have left for the US: http://www.nationalpost.com/st...

Yep, and they already exist up here: http://news.nationalpost.com/n...

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How would one go about that peacefully?

It wouldn't be easy in practice. Such distinctions are nonetheless extremely useful, because they let you tease out why you think something is wrong. And having that kind of understanding is important, because of real rhetorical tricks used all the time by real people in the real world.

It works like this: you find some word/concept that people equate with something they consider horrible. So you notice that people use "genocide" interchangeably with mass murder, mainly because the most mentally accessible examples of genocide are mass murder. Pretty soon everybody is happy to say genocide is horrible, because mass murder is horrible.

Then you quietly shift to using a different meaning of the word "genocide", one that might apply to some non-mass-murder activity you don't like. And you expect and desire the horrible associations to come along. You're trying to associate this other activity with mass murder.

At that point, it doesn't matter whether the other activity is likely to succeed at causing genocide or whatever. You can still claim that it's a tactic of genocide, or that it goes in the direction of genocide. You can rely on at least some people to mentally treat it like the "canonical" tactic of genocide, i.e. mass murder. It's very hard to avoid falling into that kind of connotational trap, because of the way human brains work.

For extra credit, you create the negative connotation, and then exploit it. You'll find people doing that all the time in political debates, switching back and forth between different meanings of the same word, at one point pumping up the negative associations, and at another point attaching them to something different.

All that matters, because rhetoric influences how people treat others and their behavior, up to and including outlawing things and reacting violently.

And this happens all the time with the word "genocide", specifically.

I remember a case where some rich person was funding voluntary sterilizations for poor people in the US. She wasn't forcing anybody. You had to come to her and ask for the money. I don't remember whether she provided any services for actually arranging the sterilizations. Her program disproportionately affected black people. She was therefore accused of genocide, or attempted genocide... and every attempt was made to trade on the association between that and mass murder.

That's not an isolated case. Do a Google search for "soft genocide", and you'll find a bunch of white supremacist loons claiming there's a conspiracy to wipe out whites. They're not so loony that they're actually accusing anybody of mass murder, but they are trading on the association of the word "genocide" with mass murder.

The tactic gets used by people with a certain amount of influence, too. http://news.nationalpost.com/f...

All of which means that, regardless of whether peaceful genocide is actually possible, it's important to keep it conceptually separated from the murderous variety.

Because Bill Clinton thought they should. Congress tried to repeal it in 2005, but the bill failed.

Seems to me like it's time to look at that again.

Bring the convention to Toronto Canada, we don`t even have no fly lists, no Obama and our cops don`t shoot you - just give you a stern talking too.

Um... I hate to be the one to break this to you but... Perhaps there are a few things you don't know about Toronto. Or Canada in general.

Interestingly enough the killer in that situation can now leave his mental hospital for short periods unescourted

How is homeopathy any different from traditional medicine in that regard? Yet people still use it, and on their kids. I immediately thought if this recent news story up here in Canada... sad.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/aborigi...
http://www.sciencebasedmedicin...
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A leading Canadian climate scientist has been awarded $50,000 in a defamation suit against The National Post newspaper .

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WAIT, I think I've got it! It's a NEWSPAPER!

Oh looky here, they have a website too! http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

They are "jihadis", not "terrorists" (which is disinformation term designed to disguise the motivations they themselves state as their reason for acting).

With regard to you "hundred million" statement, you are wrong by nearly an order of magnitude. According to a 2012 Pew survey around 50% of the World's 1.6 Billion Muslims agree with one or more tenets of the barbaric Sharia:
"Ben Shapiro: The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority " [6 mins 18 secs]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

With regard to your "bogeymen" statement, it appears you have not been paying attention at all. A significant fraction of the World's Muslims are working to subjugate the entire World under Islam (as Koran 9:29, the ahadith, etc says they must). They have been doing it for 1400 years and are not going to stop just because you decide you want to ignore it:
"Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner" [45 mins]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I also suggest you learn about what was discovered about the so-called "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood during the "Holy Land Foundation Trial" in the US. Or what was learned about "The Project" in Switzerland. At the moment you are in the dark and speculating. They want you that way so you do not see what it coming until it is too late. The Caliphate in Syria and Iraq is just the start.

You'll learn much if you watch what MEMRITV has to say from the jihadis and Islamic societies themselves. Again, you are just projecting your own wishful thinking instead of looking at the objective facts laid out in what they say to each other.

With regard to Free Speech you are indeed making arguments that claim to support Free Speech while actually undermining it. Free Speech must be absolute or it is meaningless. Again, the powers that are moving our culture (Cultural Marxism and their petrodollar-wielding Islamic allies) want you to think that 'limited and reasonable Free Speech' is somehow Free Speech. It is not !
Here's Mark Steyn's analysis for you:
http://fullcomment.nationalpos...

One can be for Free Speech, or not. Why not admit to yourself that you are not. That you don't mind having Governments (or, via international bodies like the UN and its disgusting UN HRC 16/18, foreign Governments) dictate what you can write, say, joke about, sing about, criticize, mock, and think. You don't mind being a slave to totalitarians and Orwellian speech-codes are just peachy with you because " There is no Freedom of Speech, the Press, or even Life in Nature. ". You position is nonsense. We are all born free and are enslaved only by other men. I choose to fight the chains. You do not - which is your choice, but you should at least accept the truth that you don't mind being a slave and are advocating others agree with your position. Screw that!

http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2... It's tough as many posters mentioned about non-terrorist vs terrorist. These imam may be of target as well as they are 'in the way'. FWIW I'm not a muslim.

The Quebec Language Police will maintain the purity of the French race in Quebec. Especially at salad bars.

... is when KTVU News in San Francisco got praked into reporting fake Chinese names on live TV as part of the story of the Asiana Flight 214 crash. As tragic as the crash was, it's one of the best pranks ever.

Actually it's about equality.

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Those are the types of pranks 4chan does. They don't actually kill people.

Except for the guy who posted on 4chan a couple days ago about killing his girlfriend. The girlfriend's kid came home from school and found her body.

The problem with nukes is one of usefulness. As you say using safe material to make something useful is very hard to do. Using unsafe material is difficult to use because it is so unsafe.

Like TNT... its technological advance wasn't explosive force, but rather safe handling. Nitroglycerin which was used prior, made a good boom, but it was usually the guy with the short straw that got to deploy the stuff.

Like the theft (unintentional or not) of a radioactive material a little while ago, not sure if they ever caught the guys, but authorities expected that they would all be dead in about 3 days anyway after exposure.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

And all this simply proves just how deluded these terrorists truly are. The deaths of our soldiers is tragic, but do they really think bumping off some of our politicians will get under Canadian's skin? I think not. We might even thank them.

Humour aside, I am nothing but impressed by the security response on the Hill. Within 4 minutes of the first shot being fired, the assailant was dead on the ground. Aside from the initial victim, there were no other serious injuries.

I used to be an activist, and had occasion to protest (and get arrested) on Parliament Hill. Ask any activist and they will tell you that the Hill cops (who are all federal, not city police) are the ones you want to arrest you. They are trained and highly skilled, and know everything there is to know about appropriate response.

Coincidentally, I once met the man responsible for Hill security only a few weeks after his people had arrested a friend of mine. In spite of being ideologically opposite, I found myself respecting the man immensely. It was a successor of his who stopped the madman this time, but his behaviour was exemplary as well. He shouted a clearly audible warning three times, then engaged the assailant, firing 4 individual, aimed shots.

The discipline and response of the police and security forces to an unknown situation that was clearly targeting Parliament was, I think, exactly what anyone would have wanted. Let's not let the politicians - some of whom owe these people their life - spoil things by capitalising on the event.

1. It's both actually. His cousin was charged earlier this month with funnelling corporate money to his campaign, using employees as straw donors.

2. Yes, he was charged last year, though I haven't heard anything since the charges were laid.

1. It's both actually. His cousin was charged earlier this month with funnelling corporate money to his campaign, using employees as straw donors.

2. Yes, he was charged last year, though I haven't heard anything since the charges were laid.

I mean, we got rid of pinks ($1000 bills) and Canada no longer has any crime. Shame we still have to pay for the police, though--guess it's just a legacy thing. Perhaps we can roll them into systemd?

Except obese people don't have to pay for two seats, as ruled by a Canadian court. The rest of your post is a series of non sequiturs, because there is choice in the same price range. I can buy shirts that fit me for the same price as a smaller person. The materials might be a bit cheaper, or the cut might not be as great, or it might not have a brand attached to it, but it'll fit me. I can do the same for cars, and for anything that's property. An airline ticket is a service, and there is NO choice. I can't decide to trade that second carry-on weighting 20 pounds that every person brings but that I don't. I can't decide to downgrade the seat's materials, or not to have food included, or to have to pay extra for every inch more that I want. I don't have an alternative.

Also, your money comment is absurd. Tall people tend, on average, to make more money than shorter people, but that in no way means that I have a few thousands magically floating in my pockets. I generally have less money instead, because between the clothing, food, doctor visits (for back problems, neck problems, knee problems, you name it) and whatever else, my student money isn't going very far. But don't let that get in the way of a nice juicy overgeneralization.

Already happened: http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

I'm no doctor, but I think the cause of death is less likely to have been "[taking] part in an ice bucket challenge" than subsequently "leaping into [shallow] water from 25-metre high cliffs."

Ontopic, I think everyone who has ever used LN2 will have dipped their hand into it. You get a couple of seconds of feeling perfectly fine, then a very sudden searing cold burn. Where I work we were given felt gloves to use when dispensing it until I pointed out that if you actually get LN2 on them (rather than just handling cold metal) it will soak in and be right next to your skin. Now we just use standard marigolds.

... how long will it take before somebody dies?

Already happened: http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

I've stuck my hand in liquid nitrogen (it feels strangely warm) and so can attest to the protective effect of the gas blanket (which is highly insulating) but it is insanely dangerous to pour a bucket of LN2 over your head, and doing so is an invitation to people who aren't as smart or careful as you to do even more stupid and risky things.

Donate to ALS research [*], by all means! But please, please, don't participate in this ridiculous pyramid scheme of increasingly dangerous stupidity.

[*] I do not donate to ALS because it is not one of my causes, but I encourage you to think carefully about what you care most about and sign up as a steady, long-term donor to a few causes that are really important to you... this is of far more long-term benefit than episodic giving. If ALS is what matters most to you, go for it!

Here: http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

Harper sientifical and progressive? How about his muzzling of Federal Scientists? http://news.nationalpost.com/2... Or the fact that he defines climate change scientists and environmentalists in general as Terrorists? Yep... Oh Canada.... nothing more to sing about here...

You're trying to sidestep the issue: it remains a fact that you wrote that we only have the information coming from Kiev, when in fact plenty of stories quote NATO. Whether NATO is trustworthy or doctored the photos of Russian tanks and troops streaming across the border in many stories like http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/... is completely irrelevant to whether your statement is a lie or not!

Four attacks on well known refugee centers within three days. Does anyone still believe that such attacks are some random accidents?

You mean that the palestinians have fired over 2500 rockets in the last week and a half that there's 0 chance that they're going to go awry and land in their own territory. Come on, there's several hundred incidents of this previous to the latest round of them firing rockets. And that was in the first quarter of this year.

The plane was 10km up. It wasn't shot down by something bought for $50,000 from Bob's Quality Used Implements of Death and Destruction and delivered to you by a courier van. The suspected weapon system requires at minimum one tank sized tracked launcher vehicle, and for full capability it requires three such vehicles. This is way out of Bob the arms dealer's league. Although I'm pretty much guessing here, the missile alone I expect would cost over a million dollars to manufacture.

Having said that, the possibility exists that rebels with military experience seized such a weapon system from an overrun Ukrainian military base.

There's video of the launcher being driven back into Russia short 1 missile.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

It is, almost undoubtedly a Russian system.

You might have noted the subtext of the video "The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said footage of a Buk launcher with one of its four missiles apparently missing was captured by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday, but there was no way to independently verify that claim."

The video unfortunately doesn't prove anything at all.

The plane was 10km up. It wasn't shot down by something bought for $50,000 from Bob's Quality Used Implements of Death and Destruction and delivered to you by a courier van. The suspected weapon system requires at minimum one tank sized tracked launcher vehicle, and for full capability it requires three such vehicles. This is way out of Bob the arms dealer's league. Although I'm pretty much guessing here, the missile alone I expect would cost over a million dollars to manufacture.

Having said that, the possibility exists that rebels with military experience seized such a weapon system from an overrun Ukrainian military base.

There's video of the launcher being driven back into Russia short 1 missile. http://news.nationalpost.com/2... It is, almost undoubtedly a Russian system.

It's not just about Wikipedia. Mr. Barry's press agent claims he is also suing the National Post (Canada) for publishing a critical article, "The world according to Yank: Montrealer with checkered past gets Nobel nod, or does he?"

Slapping it back into the law, will ensure it ends right back up at the SCC and struck down again.

Until there are laws that charge politicians with treason every time they knowingly do this, they will continue to follow the following formula,

1. pass some laws to appease corporate lobby or some police state loving people
2. laws are used
3. eventually, someone challenges said laws
4. eventually, the courts tell the government FU, the law is unconstitutional and is struck down
5. go to step #1

Just because laws are unconstitutional does not mean they are not enacted anyway. Before they are struck down, they are used to fuck up the lives of people that are impacted by these laws, be these good guys or bad guys (many times laws are passed to easier take out bad guys).

Take the Quebec's laws on protests.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

So, many politicians don't view constitution as something blocking them, just slightly impeding their efforts. Remember, they are lawyers *and* constitutionality of laws they pass don't have much consequence on their paycheck or their future.

The problem is the lack of warrants over some time is what induced this law reform. Also recall the political pressure to allow new colour of law warrantless logging and isp account tracking.
ie rolled back in under the cover of 10's of pages related to cyber bullying laws with legal protections for isp providing support and tacking in a lower “reasonable suspicion” standard.
'Say no to government spying" (March 31, 2014)
http://fullcomment.nationalpos...

the quickest way to a cashless society is make everybody broke.

no more beef for the 99%. we'll all be eating bugs in the future.
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An April 15, 2012 National Post newspaper article by Joe O'Connor:

The world according to Yank: Montrealer with checkered past gets Nobel nod, or does he?

Mr. Barry is never far from the spotlight. He was the focus of a 4,000-word investigative report by the Montreal Gazette in October 1998.

The front page article delved into Global Village Market, a company through which he was selling VitaPro, and one he marketed to potential investors with the help of the motto: “doing well by doing good.”

Mr. Barry’s pitch, backed by some celebrity punch, reportedly sold investors on the notion that the more money the company made the more food he would distribute to the needy.

Celine Dion was one of the celebrities involved. She was led to believe that she was endorsing a humanitarian mission to Africa led by Mr. Ali, and engineered by Yank Barry. She taped a message trumpeting her support for a purely philanthropic cause. Said message, in audiotape form was then, unbeknownst to Ms. Dion, reportedly used by Mr. Barry as part of his promotional material selling investment units in Global Village Market, a for-profit business.

Cracks appeared early in the enterprise. Promises of philanthropy dried up. Investors lost everything and several lodged complaints against Mr. Barry with the Quebec Securities Commission. The securities regulator did not sanction Mr. Barry, though the entire episode lingers as a sore spot for many, including Celine Dion.

Her image still appears on the Global Village Champions Foundation website, a presence that irks Paul-Andre Martel, the Montreal lawyer representing the famous singer and husband, Rene Angelil.

“My clients have absolutely no involvement with Mr. Barry or his organization,” Mr. Martel said. “What we think is that Mr. Barry is using the name and the fame of people that have spent time with Mr. Ali over the years.”

Who is that?

Yank Barry? He's a convicted extortionist who worked for the Mafia in Montreal in the '80s. After being released from prison, he founded a company that sells fake food to (sometimes fake) clients, through which he conned celebrity endorsements by promising to donate food via his fake charities.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/15/yank-barry/

I actually read the news. No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter. You need to stop drinking the cool aide. Free speech is free speech. One of the worst excuses for regulating speech and other civil liberties is "to keep our culture pure." It has slippery slope written all over it.

Not a lie, the benefits bring the average over the $100K.

Another lie - the one third figure is with benefits included. The base-pay of a constable starts at 63k and tops out at around 90k.

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca...

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