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Great reporting from CBS News. Absolutely fucking tragic, no matter the politics of it.

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JPG magazine is no more.

It’s always sad to see a truly original, creative endeavor die, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to make print work these days, I suppose. JPG was a very innovative hybrid of web site and print magazine powered by user-created photography and writing. The photos were always incredible, and I really enjoyed being part of the community and receiving the print mag while it lasted. 

You can read editor Laura Brunow Minor’s goodbye post here.

New York Times coverage here.

UPDATE: The fight is on to save JPG! It may not be over yet. Best of luck to all involved.

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Kristoff chimes in on the situation in Gaza:

One of the paradoxes of the Middle East is that all sides tend to be drawn to military solutions, even though they have a terrible record. History suggests that each side empowers its enemies when it turns to firepower. Hamas’s reckless terror attacks and rocket attacks gave strength to Israeli hard-liners, and if Bibi emerges as prime minister, it’ll be because of Hamas. Conversely, Hamas is a power in Gaza today largely because of Israeli excesses, including attacks on Fatah police infrastructure in earlier years — and of course Hezbullah was born after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Granted, this is easy to say, and Israeli leaders feel enormous pressure to do something, anything, when their southern towns come under rocket attack. But the first rule of government is not to make things worse, and I’m afraid that the assault on Gaza will indeed aggravate the situation.

I’ve been struggling with the assault myself. I fully understand Israel’s need to act in the face of the rocket attacks, but this invasion and the bombing campaign that preceded it is not the answer. Like the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the war on terror in general, Israel is simply breeding a new generation of terrorists with this assault. The children who are now seeing their homes destroyed and their fathers killed, will be Hamas’ foot soldiers tomorrow.

Likewise, Hamas doesn’t have the people’s interest at heart with their rocket attacks. In fact, their constant, unacceptable acts of violence are carried out to keep themselves in power, not for the betterment of those they represent. Hamas knows that this invasion is central to keeping the Palestinians angry and ready for retribution.

It’s a terrible cycle that never moves the ball forward, and it’s bad for moderate voices everywhere. I’m afraid that it makes a peace treaty during Obama’s administration all but impossible.

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Check out the New York Times’ Year in Pictures for 2008. Great stuff as always from the Gray Lady.

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Posting will remain light until next Monday. Happy New Year everyone!

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In Germany, they’re going way beyond LEED homes:

The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside Frankfurt, approaches the challenge from a different angle. Using ultrathick insulation and complex doors and windows, the architect engineers a home encased in an airtight shell, so that barely any heat escapes and barely any cold seeps in. That means a passive house can be warmed not only by the sun, but also by the heat from appliances and even from occupants’ bodies.

And in Germany, passive houses cost only about 5 to 7 percent more to build than conventional houses.

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…new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation system. The warm air going out passes side by side with clean, cold air coming in, exchanging heat with 90 percent efficiency.

More here.

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Yeah, we’ve seen this movie before:

“After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America’s taste for big vehicles. Trucks and S.U.V.’s will outsell cars in December … something that hasn’t happened since February. Meanwhile, the forecast finds that sales of hybrid vehicles are expected to be way down.”

$1.55 gas is not a godsend.

How many times do we have to repeat this cycle? As Tom Friedman puts it, “It’s morning again — in Saudi Arabia.”

Today’s financial crisis is Obama’s 9/11. The public is ready to be mobilized. Obama is coming in with enormous popularity. This is his best window of opportunity to impose a gas tax. And he could make it painless: offset the gas tax by lowering payroll taxes, or phase it in over two years at 10 cents a month. But if Obama, like Bush, wills the ends and not the means — wills a green economy without the price signals needed to change consumer behavior and drive innovation — he will fail.

The two most important rules about energy innovation are: 1) Price matters — when prices go up people change their habits. 2) You need a systemic approach. It makes no sense for Congress to pump $13.4 billion into bailing out Detroit — and demand that the auto companies use this cash to make more fuel-efficient cars — and then do nothing to shape consumer behavior with a gas tax so more Americans will want to buy those cars. As long as gas is cheap, people will go out and buy used S.U.V.’s and Hummers.

There has to be a system that permanently changes consumer demand, which would permanently change what Detroit makes, which would attract more investment in battery technology to make electric cars, which would hugely help the expansion of the wind and solar industries — where the biggest drawback is the lack of batteries to store electrons when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. A higher gas tax would drive all these systemic benefits.

Scream all you want about a centrally-planned economy, we do this kind of thing in other industries all the time.

We need a carbon tax now.

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Scientists in California are on the verge of a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion that could revolutionize energy on this planet:

In the spring, a team will begin attempts to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction.Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth, from a speck of fuel little bigger than a pinhead. If successful, the experiment will mark the first step towards building a practical nuclear fusion power station and a source of almost limitless energy.

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“We are creating the conditions that exist inside the sun,” said Ed Moses, director of the facility. “It is like tapping into the real solar energy as fusion is the source of all energy in the world. It is really exciting physics, but beyond that there are huge social, economic and global problems that it can help to solve.”

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“The next step is looking at how ignition can be used to deliver something of value to the world. It has the potential to be one of the biggest achievements mankind has made.”

Wow.

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Little Seibu and his brother about 24 years ago…

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The Washington Post looks at how the Obama administration might tackle hunger and obesity. At the heart of their strategy is the belief that said issues should not be treated as mutually exclusive problems. Their goal is to somehow tie nutrition to all food assistance programs.

A number of ideas are being looked at, but I think the Wholesome Wave program looks like something worth considering. It’s a foundation that looks to make locally grown food more widely available.

In the spring, it launched a program that doubles the value of food stamps and fruit and vegetable vouchers of low-income mothers and seniors who use them at farmers markets in Connecticut, Massachusetts and California.

The Wholesome Wave matching grants were an instant hit at the City Heights market in San Diego. On the first day that matching funds became available, sales using government-issued electronic benefit cards soared by more than 200 percent. In subsequent weeks, the line to receive matching vouchers formed at 7:30 a.m., and the available funds were exhausted by 9:30 a.m., just 30 minutes after the market opened.

“We’re not taking away your benefits because you spend them on Twinkies,” said Michel Nischan, a Connecticut chef and president of Wholesome Wave. “But if you decide you want to spend it on fresh tomatoes, you’ll get double your money.”

One of the reasons people of lower income are disproportionately overweight comes from the fact that junk food tends to be not only cheaper than whole foods and produce, but also more calorie-dense. There’s more bang for your buck. It emphasizes how wrong-headed our current Farm Bill is, and how we don’t currently have a comprehensive, cohesive approach to public health across government agencies.

Throw in school lunch programs that fail to meet national nutrition standards, and the fact that those standards are out of date to begin with and we have a population that is not only undereducated when it comes to health and nutrition, but children who grow up with bad eating habits both at home and at school. Once those habits are instilled, they’re not only hard to break, but they tend to then be passed down to the next generation as well.

I’m happy to see that the Obama administration is looking to tackle some of these issues. It’ll be interesting to see what path they take.

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Tom Friedman travels home to America from the high-tech wonderland of Hong Kong…and is decidedly underwhelmed.

Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival hall was cramped, and using a luggage cart cost $3. (Couldn’t we at least supply foreign visitors with a free luggage cart, like other major airports in the world?) As I looked around at this dingy room, it reminded of somewhere I had been before. Then I remembered: It was the luggage hall in the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. It closed in 1998.

The next day I went to Penn Station, where the escalators down to the tracks are so narrow that they seem to have been designed before suitcases were invented. The disgusting track-side platforms apparently have not been cleaned since World War II. I took the Acela, America’s sorry excuse for a bullet train, from New York to Washington. Along the way, I tried to use my cellphone to conduct an interview and my conversation was interrupted by three dropped calls within one 15-minute span.

All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?

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James Kirchick over at The Advocate rightly takes Sean Penn to task for singing the praises of thugs like Castro and Chavez:

Not long after the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro ordered the internment of gay people in prison labor camps, where they were murdered or worked to death for their “counterrevolutionary tendencies.”

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In the early years of the regime, Raul Castro was notorious for ordering the summary execution of its opponents, including people whose only crime was their homosexuality. This is the man with whom Penn was “in stitches” knocking back glasses of red wine.

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“There isn’t a single individual that is taken seriously in the human rights community — whether you’re talking about Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or Freedom House — that would describe the Castro brothers and their regime as anything other than a police state run by thugs and murderers,” says Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, which focuses on Latin America. “That Sean Penn would be honored by anyone, let alone the gay community, for having stood by a dictator that put gays into concentration camps is mind-boggling.”

Chavez’ record of course is really not much better.

Sean Penn is a terrific actor and has done a number of good and noble things with his time, but you’re either a champion of human rights or you’re not. Penn rightly criticizes the U.S. government for Gitmo and other human rights abuses in the “war on terror” and I completely agree with him on that. But it makes no sense for him to look the other way on similar abuses going on in Cuba and Venezuela. 

Penn clearly has a real love for the people and cultures of the two countries, and that is commendable, but it shouldn’t cloud his perception on what is happening behind the scenes. As for evidence of said abuses, I’ll rely on Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch rather than the walking tour of a visiting celebrity being escorted and pampered by those in power.

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On Monday, the first mass-produced plug-in hybrid car in the world went on sale…in China.

Unlike conventional gas-electric hybrids, the F3DM can be charged from a wall outlet. It has a range of about 60 miles on a full battery charge. Its lithium-ion batteries can be fully recharged in as little as seven hours, said BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams. And the batteries can be 50 percent recharged at a special station in 10 minutes.

The car also has a 1-liter gas engine, which, according to media reports (Treehugger and Autoblog Green), recharges the batteries to extend the range.

Meanwhile, right here in the good ol’ USA, the country that invented the automobile, Chevy is getting ready to sell the Volt, their plug-in hybrid…in 2010.

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A lot of folks are not particularly excited about Obama’s appointment of Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary.

From Ezra Klein at the American Prospect:

Vilsack is the former governor of Iowa. Iowa is the nation’s largest producer of corn, soybeans, and pork. As such, the state’s second most important export is corn, followed by soybeans, followed by meat (interestingly, Iowa’s most important export is tractors). Vilsack’s agricultural experience has been as an advocate for those industries and a politician dependent on their favor. Appointing him to head the agency is like appointing the governor of a petrostate to head the Department of Energy. The pick may turn out for the best, but there’s little evidence of that in the official record.

If you’ve read your Michael Pollan, you know what a destructive force our reliance on corn has been not only to our nations’s health, but also to our environment, farm policies and subsidies.

Klein emailed Pollan on the possibility of Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture back in November and Pollan responded:

Vilsack would be pretty much business as usual, and a disappointment to all the people seeking reform of the food system. From what I’ve been able to find out, he has not shown much inclination to challenge agribusiness. It could be worse, though– Collin Peterson has also been on the short list. But as important as USDA is, we also need someone in the White House, a food policy advisor, to help coordinate policy across the Cabinet departments, so that health impacts are considered when write USDA rules, or food safety when writing trade rules, or climate change impacts when drawing the farm bill, etc etc. You need someone who can connect the dots between agriculture and health and energy and climate– as Obama himself clearly is inclined to do. That won’t happen at any one department.

My italics above.

If Obama is indeed inclined to make such a connection, and even appoint a national food policy advisor, than Vilsack could actually be a real asset as he is as familiar with farm subsidies, the farm lobby, and all of the relevant constituencies as anyone.

Back in October, Pollan wrote an open letter to the future, as yet-to-be-chosen, President-elect in the New York Times. It’s not only a must-read piece, but it apparently made waves in the Obama camp. 

In a subsequent interview with Joe Klein, Obama stated:

There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy. I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they’re contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That’s just one sector of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board.

So Obama definitely gets it. 

As with so many of these appointments, we’ll just have to wait and see. We don’t know why Obama chose Vilsack, and there may be more to it than at first meets the eye.

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Obama has chosen mega-pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration.

My first reaction was one of mild disappointment. I would much rather have seen a progressive voice like Jim Wallace or Tony Campolo give the invocation. Rick Warren’s support of Proposition 8 and his equation of gay marriage with incest, polygamy and statutory rape are at odds with Obama’s message and certainly the beliefs of his most ardent supporters. While Obama may not be out front on issues like gay marriage, he supports civil unions and was opposed to Prop 8.

Throw Warren’s stance on abortion rights, stem cells, and other social issues and needless to say the Kossacks are up in arms.

On the other hand, I can see why Obama chose him. While Warren’s stance on the afore mentioned issues don’t seem to jibe with Obama’s own politics (though truth be told, Warren’s views on gay marriage are more nuanced than most social conservatives), he has been a leading voice in the evangelical community on the issue of extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere. And Warren is someone who seems to genuinely want to change the conversation in the Christian community from the divisiveness of focusing almost solely on abortion to a movement towards social justice for the poorest of the poor. In this respect he and Obama are absolutely on the same page.

But Obama may have yet another reason for picking Warren. The Obama campaign made modest but very real inroads with evangelical voters during the course of the campaign, and just as he was not prepared to cede “red states” to the Republicans, I don’t believe he’s going to accept ceding people of faith to the GOP any longer either.

With his selection of Warren and his cabinet picks, Obama is backing up his campaign rhetoric, where he consistently stated that he wasn’t interested in being president of “blue” America, or “red” America, but rather, the United States of America. If progressives weren’t prepared to accept the consequences of that rhetoric, then perhaps they shouldn’t have signed on in the first place.

In fact, Warren faced similar heat from conservatives for somehow “legitimizing” Obama by inviting him to speak at Saddleback Church’s second-annual “Global Summit on AIDS” back in 2006. The criticism from his followers became so intense he finally issued a statement, saying:

“Of course we expect criticism. Jesus loved and accepted others without approving of everything they did. That’s our position too, but it upsets a lot of people, so we get attacked from both sides…This summit will put people together who normally won’t even speak to each other. But if you can only work with folks you completely agree with, you’ve ruled out most of the world.”

We can’t expect others to give ground and not compromise a little on our end as well. That’s what separates progress from stalemate.

And let’s keep things in perspective here. Warren isn’t setting policy, he’s giving a prayer at a public event. And the inauguration of Barack Obama is not a celebration built for liberals and Democrats, it’s a celebration for all Americans. And though I know the selection is particularly dissapointing to the LGBT community, I think we need to look at Warren’s positions and actions as a whole rather than focusing on every little stance he takes that we may take offense to.

Certainly many people who find abortion morally reprehensible or who have been traditionally conservative in nature have supported Obama’s campaign despite many of his positions, and so perhaps it’s time the progressive community helps bridge that gap as well. And we’re not supporting a political candidate here. Warren’s presence at this event does not have direct policy implications. So as far as leaps of faith go, ours is much more modest.

If an Obama/Warren alliance can help to create a groundswell of support for the poorest of the poor, if it can help grow the big tent of the Democratic party, if it can help to bridge the partisan and cultural divide that has been so destructive to our political process, if it can go some way in allowing conservatives to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on some of the potentially polarizing issues we’ll be facing, if it can make evangelical and socially conservative voters feel not like losers of an election battle, but rather participants in a government for all the people, than I think we can survive a five minute prayer on January 20th from a man that, heaven forbid, we may not agree with on every single issue.

Democracy and plurality means sometimes biting your tongue for the betterment of the whole. It’s what makes this country exceptional.

Would Warren have been my choice? No. But Obama’s candidacy is one that constantly challenges us to keep one principle in mind: it’s not just about you. It’s about us.

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No surprise here, but TIME Magazine has just named Barack Obama their 2008 Person of the Year.

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More evidence that Al Franken just may end the week as the victor in the long-awaited Minnesota Senate election.

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Susan Cheever notices that in New York City, getting drunk is no longer fashionable:

In the old days, drunkenness was as much part of New York City society as evening clothes. This is the city where Zelda Fitzgerald jumped wildly in thefountain in front of the Plaza, the city of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” written by another fabulous alcoholic, Truman Capote. It’s the city of late nights with sloshed celebrities at the Stork Club. It’s the city that gave its name to Manhattans and Bronx Cocktails, the city of John O’Hara and Frank O’Hara, of drunken brilliance and brilliant drunks.

I don’t drink. I know the savage, destructive power of alcoholism. It’s a soul stealer. Yet, there’s a mischievous part of me that misses all that extreme behavior, all those nasty but somehow amusing surprises, all that glamor even when so much of it ended in pain, institutions and early death. For us sober people there is a kind of drunkenfreude to watching others embarrass themselves, mangle their words and do things they will regret in the morning — if they even remember them in the morning.

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The Bush shoe-throwing incident has been fun to laugh about the last few days, but in the meantime Muntander al-Zaidi, the reporter who threw the shoes, has become a folk hero in the Middle East.

So if these reports are true, we’ve got a problem:

The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush has said that the reporter has been beaten in custody. Muntadar al-Zaidi has suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury, his older brother, Dargham, told the BBC.

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Hot on the heels of a Blur reunion, there’s also rumors of a reunited Smiths and Stone Roses? Wow.

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Obama’s transition team is facing a hostile NASA:

NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information and has told its leader that she is “not qualified” to judge his rocket program, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.

In a heated 40-minute conversation last week with Lori Garver, a former NASA associate administrator who heads the space transition team, a red-faced Griffin demanded to speak directly to Obama, according to witnesses.

From reading the article it sounds like Mike Griffin is hyper-defensive about the Obama people simply doing their due-diligence to see where money is being spent and how. It is after all, what they’re being paid to do.

More specifically, the Obama team is looking at the Constellation project, the next generation rockets that will propel a renewed human space exploration program. NASA would use the moon mission as a sort of prelude to a manned mission to Mars. 

Said John Logsdon, a George Washington University professor who co-wrote the book honored at the NASA party, “There is a natural tension built into this situation… Mike is dead-on convinced that the current approach to the program is the right one. And Lori’s job is to question that for Mr. Obama. The Obama team is not going to walk in and take Mike’s word for it.”

Apparently at this aforementioned book party, there was some notable tension in the air.

According to people who were present, Logsdon, a space historian, told a group of about 50 people he had just learned that President John F. Kennedy’s transition team had completely ignored NASA.

Griffin responded, in a loud voice, “I wish the Obama team would come and talk to me.”

Alan Ladwig, a transition team member who was at the party with Garver, shouted out: “Well, we’re here now, Mike.”

Soon after, Garver and Griffin engaged in what witnesses said was an animated conversation. Some overheard parts of it.

“Mike, I don’t understand what the problem is. We are just trying to look under the hood,” Garver said.

“If you are looking under the hood, then you are calling me a liar,” Griffin replied. “Because it means you don’t trust what I say is under the hood.

I think human space exploration is important, both for it’s symbolism and it’s scientific benefits. But the Obama team needs to make these decisions for themselves, in fact it was a campaign promise to go through the budget and seek out areas where money could be better spent. The space transition team isn’t committed to cutting NASA programs, they simply want to look at the books. The fact that Griffin can’t accept that makes me wonder if he is fit to be NASA’s admin.

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Nicholas Kristoff wants to see a reformer as Ag Secretary:

“We’re subsidizing the least healthy calories in the supermarket — high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soy oil, and we’re doing very little for farmers trying to grow real food,” notes Michael Pollan, author of such books as “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food.”

The Agriculture Department — and the agriculture committees in Congress — have traditionally been handed over to industrial farming interests by Democrats and Republicans alike. The farm lobby uses that perch to inflict unhealthy food on American children in school-lunch programs, exacerbating our national crisis with diabetes and obesity.

Obama voted for the most recent, predictably dreadful, Farm Bill. Though he admitted it wasn’t a perfect bill, he voted for it anyway (McCain did not). 

Obama has a chance to make up for it now, by appointing a real reformer. Head on over to www.fooddemocracynow.org for more info.

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“I have a hard time pronouncing his name. I just call him the idiot.”

– David Gergen, interviewed on CNN, about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

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Tony Soprano … or Rod Blagojevich?

My favorite?

9. “I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they perform by the end of the year. If they don’t perform, fuck ‘em.”

That’s Blagojevich, btw.

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