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With the state's passage of the landmark marriage equality bill, many same-sex couples have started to think about their weddings, including one Manhattan couple who have been waiting more than two decades. NY1's Shazia Khan filed the following report.
Kips Bay residents Annie Silver and Amy Abravanel are making wedding plans.
"It's shocking and wonderful, it makes me want to cry," Silver said.
The couple has been together for almost 24 years. While they look forward to cementing their relationship with a legal ceremony, they say emotionally, they're already married.
"Emotional marriage what is that, it's just family. And that's what it's about for us, all of us," Abravanel said.
"And we're so lucky because our parents, our siblings, everybody's always accepted us," Silver said.
Soon after they began their relationship in the late 1980s they exchanged rings and vows in a private ceremony in the Poconos. Part of their commitment included a promise to fight for the rights of same-sex couples. They both made repeated calls to senators pleading for them to say yes to the same-sex marriage bill and say their activism will continue.
"We're very excited about it and it's a wonderful thing to have happened. But I would urge the other 44 states to get on it and not wait because at this point we're going to get married and I can't imagine that I will be getting married without my dad giving me away because he died five years ago," Abravanel said.
The couple plans to tie the knot sometime this year. They envision a barefoot wedding on the beach in Cherry Grove on Fire Island surrounded by family and friends.
"I hope that we'll have all our drag queen friends as flower girls," said Abravanel. "And it's going to be one of those weddings that everyone is going to want to come to because we're just going to make it fun. It's not going to be a big expensive lavish affair, it's just going to be to celebrate us."
The couple's more immediate plans include participating in Sunday's Pride Parade, joining with others to mark the historic moment.

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Would you take a punt on a sub-£50 touchscreen phone? With a wallet-soothing price but few must-have features, Orange's own-brand Vegas plays a very different hand to most high-rolling touch-operated devices currently available. Orange Vegas Orange's Vegas: budget touchscreen There are no iPhone-alike pretensions here, as you …
Now somebody just needs to put Android on it.
If they can make touchscreen phone so cheap, let's wait for all those Chinese shops to start releasing Android phones... Without OS cost overhead it can be a big game-changer.
Real price?
"Would you take a punt on a sub-£50 touchscreen phone?"
Dunno. Is that the price unlocked and without a contract?
Could be interesting
Having any sort of QWERTY ability is an attractive feature in a phone this price, even if it does require use of a stylus. I love having the ability to send texts but typing them out on a number pad is a real pain, even with predictive.
I'm not sure why you had so little user memory available - was it filled with demo crap from the factory ? My wife has an Orange Berlin (also marketed as having 64MB) and its memory was almost entirely usable. Did the reviewer even try to delete everything before complaining ?
Out of interest, do any of the games make use of the touchscreen ?
I wouldn't be so hasty to write this one off.
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Close to the real price.........
"a phone that sells for £49 on pay-as-you-go"
no contract, but not unlocked.
7 days on standby?
Whats wrong with that? Even if it did only 5 days, thats pretty good going for phones these days.
I have a HTC with the expanded battery and I'm lucky if that goes for 4!
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MagChem, the North American Socomore, sister company, and its partner Dysol will be participating in the upcoming 2011 U.S. Department of Defense Maintenance Symposium & Exhibition, being held at the Fort-Worth Convention Center from November 14-17.
MagChem, Dysol and Dynamold have developed and manufactured high performance chemicals for the aerospace industry focused on engine and fuselage manufacturing, overhaul and maintenance.These affiliated companies also offer the complete Socomore line of products for surface treatments, preparations and protections to North American aerospace customers. The products include formulated solvents, sol-gel, corrosion inhibiting compounds, surface oxide treatments, paint strippers, lubricants, cleaners, degreasers and Moldable Epoxy Shim Material for composite/metal assemblies. The products are sustained by enhanced levels of service and support through pooled sales forces, manufacturing and R&D skills.
All these products have been approved by worldwide civil and military aerospace manufacturers, including in the U.S.A and Canada such companies as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, de Havilland, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE, CFMI, Snecma, Turbomeca, Air Canada, Bell Helicopter, Lufthansa Technik, Air France Industries, among others.
On booth #206, MagChem and Dysol will be presenting the main products with a NSN number for Defense department, including :
- HDL-202 - Is a liquid alkaline used for removing rust, oxidation, heavy carbon deposits and aluminum paint from steel jet turbine and reciprocating engine components. It is fully approved by all the jet turbine OEMs. NSN# NSN02ER0HDL-202
AP-988 - Is a liquid acid descaler typically used in the overhaul process for steel parts of jet turbine engines. It is fully approved by all the jet turbine OEMs. NSN # pending
- HDL-2524 - Is a two component liquid permanganate solution (a caustic and a permanganate component) for steel parts, used in the overhaul process of jet turbine engines. It is fully approved by all the jet turbine OEMs. NSN# pending
- AP-954 - Is a phosphoric acid used in the overhaul process for steel parts of jet turbine engines. It is fully approved by all the jet turbine OEMs. NSN # pending
- D-SOLV - Is a petroleum based plating wax remover used in an immersion process. It typically replaces TCE (Trichloroethylene) for steel parts, Xylene for titanium parts in vapor phase and more expensive solvent based immersion products. It is fully approved by all the jet turbine OEMs and multi-metal compatible. NSN 6850C022357
- SOLUWAX - Is an alkaline soap used in an immersion process. It has designed as a last cleaning stage after the D-Solv to remove any thin paraffinic layer remaining and also as a general de-greasor. It's strength is in emulsifying oils and grease in order to avoid re-deposition when removing parts from the tank. It is approved by all the jet turbine OEMs for both the de-waxing process after plating and as a general immersion de-greasor. NSN 6850C32709
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The first important Conference USA cross-division game wasn't supposed to happen this early in the league season. And it wasn't supposed to involve Tulane.
When the first C-USA preseason football poll in years was rolled out in July, a check of the schedule zeroed-in on West Division favorite Tulsa's two-game stretch against East favorite East Carolina and second-place pick Marshall.
But ECU's next assignment has gained in importance, as the Pirates (4-1, 2-0) travel to New Orleans to take on Tulane. Those are two of the three 2-0 teams in league play.
The Green Wave (4-2, 2-0) was picked sixth of seven teams in the West, which was hardly a stretch - it had won just 13 league games in the previous eight seasons and hadn't had a winning season overall since 2002.
But Tulane owns wins over Louisiana Tech (24-15) and North Texas (24-21), the latter won on the last play by a 27-yard Cairos Santos field goal. As the defending Lou Groza Award winner, Santos is one of the Green Wave's biggest weapons.
ECU just got by Middle Tennessee last weekend, 24-17, with Damon Magazu intercepting MTSU star Logan Kilgore with five minutes remaining. The Pirates ran the clock out, converting three times on third down.
The loss stung for MTSU (3-3, 1-1), probably the best-positioned of C-USA's six new teams. To stay in East Division contention, the Blue Raiders must win at North Texas (2-3, 0-1) in a battle of former Sun Belt teams.
A big subplot for the Blue Raiders, who host Marshall on Oct. 24: They have been beset with offensive line injuries, forcing former Marshall assistant Geep Wade to adjust his personnel on the fly. That may have had a hand in MTSU rushing for just 89 yards against the Pirates.
"It's tough. We haven't started the same center in back-to-back games all year," said Kilgore. "... It's tough for those guys and tough on the running backs who have to understand the different ways we are going to block."
In the West, Rice (4-2, 2-0) goes to the Alamodome to take on a Texas-San Antonio (2-4, 1-1) team that is smarting from its loss at Marshall. The Owls knocked off Tulsa 30-27 in overtime last week, as quarterback Taylor McHargue recovered somewhat from a frustrating night against Florida Atlantic.


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text: | Andy Rooney signing offSeptember 28, 2011 - Stephen BrowneThis Sunday Andy Rooney will sign off with his 1,097th piece for "60 Minutes." I suppose we ought to cut him some slack, he's 92 after all! For a sendoff he'll be interviewed by comparative youngster Morley Safer, aged 79. Listing all of them would make a book longer than any he's written, but here are some of Rooney's significant career highlights. - Served in the U.S. Army in WWII writing for "The Stars and Stripes" army newspaper. One of six correspondents to fly with first American bombing raid over Germany. One of the first American journalists to visit Nazi concentration camps towards the end of the war. - Joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts." - Joined "60 Minutes" in 1978. - Suspended for three months in 1990 for remarks allegedly disparaging blacks and gays. Rooney denied making some of the remarks but accepted the suspension rather than resign. Since Rooney won an Emmy in 1968 for his script for the documentary "Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed," and was arrested in the 1940s for protesting segregated buses - way before it was cool, charges of bigotry ring a bit hollow. CBS magnanimously decided to forgive Rooney after "60 Minutes" lost 20 percent of its audience. It should be noted that some of us suspect Rooney was being punished for other remarks he most definitely made. After former CBS employee Bernard Goldberg published a book alleging pervasive media bias, singling out Dan Rather in particular, Rooney told Larry King that Goldberg was "a jerk" but that Rather was "transparently liberal." He also freely confessed, "There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I'm consistently liberal in my opinions." And, on one of his "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segments he ranted about women football commentators. It was a basically good-natured tongue-in-cheek piece about how football was our guy thing, but certain feminists took exception. However, Rooney outlasted Rather who was pushed out of the major networks in disgrace after staking his career on a story about George W. Bush based on a pretty obvious forgery. I wonder, is Andy Rooney the last working journalist who covered World War II from the front lines? Nobody has mentioned this to my knowledge, but it seems probable. Rooney knew that news is not just earth-shaking events, but the everyday concerns and irritations of ordinary people. With Rooney, what you see is what you get. He had his opinions, but he was up-front with them and didn't try to pretend he was being strictly objective, unlike some less honest colleagues. We will not see his like again. Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | in: News, Blogs & Events Web |


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There are now 30 US states that require voters to present some form of ID at the polls, including 14 states that require photo ID, but the issue remains controversial. In June, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon vetoed legislation [JURIST report] that would have required individuals to present government-issued photo ID at the voting booth. In May, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a state law [JURIST report] that requires voters to present one of six government-issued photo identifications in order to vote. In contrast, a three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down [JURIST report] a portion of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration in October.
A fear of a bailout has caused several European nations to make moves to avoid a major debt crisis. Italy and Spain succeeded in lowering its borrowing costs by taking advantage of a European bond-buying [Houston Chronicle report] program. Earlier this month, Sweden resolved to protect its banking and financial institutions [The Local report] from effects of the debt crisis by increasing funds for more financial inspections and deposit guarantees. In June, Greece, still suffering from its economic crisis [BBC backgrounder], proposed a constitutional referendum [JURIST report] aimed at eliminating the systemic governmental inefficiency and waste that led to the crisis.
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Q: Is it possible to start breastfeeding now that my baby is 1 week old? She has been formula-fed since she was born, but I am now reconsidering breastfeeding. Is it too late?
A: No, it isn't too late to make the switch to breastfeeding. Chances are, you still have milk in your breasts–they most likely filled up with the mature milk, even though you weren't breastfeeding. The two issues you will need to deal with in order to make a successful switch are:
- Building your supply. Even though your breasts may still have milk in them, they've already been given the signal that for whatever reason the baby isn't nursing. Breastfeeding works on the principle of supply and demand. If a baby is nursing at the breast and actively removing milk from the breast, then that's the signal for the breast to make more milk. If there is no milk removal, the breast will cut back on the amount of milk it makes. You can use this principle to gear your supply up again.
- Getting your baby back to the breast. For a week now, your baby has been getting formula from a bottle. In order to drink from a bottle and not be overwhelmed by the constant flow, baby learns to clamp down on the nipple to stop the flow long enough to breathe and swallow. He holds the nipple in the front of his mouth as well. Neither of these techniques work at the breast! The breast gives milk in response to rhythmic stripping by the tongue. The tongue cups the breast with the nipple well back in the mouth. Some babies are able to switch back and forth from breast to bottle easily, while others struggle to make the transition. It may take patience on your part to help your baby relearn how to breastfeed.
In the meantime, your baby has to eat. You can use a breast pump–preferably a hospital grade electric breast pump–to stimulate your milk supply while your baby learns to nurse again. The milk you pump can be used to feed your baby. Depending on how much milk you still have and how long it takes to rebuild the supply, you may still need to supplement with some formula. Give priority to your breast milk. It may take a week or more to move from total formula feeding to total breastfeeding. Experiment with other ways of feeding your baby. Your baby can learn to take the milk from a small soft cup–you have to control the cup! Sit your baby up and place the edge of the cup on his lower lip and tilt the cup until the milk just touches his lip. He'll stick his tongue out and start lapping the milk. You can also use a medicine dropper or syringe. In making this kind of switch, it is important to work with someone who can help you with positioning and figuring out how much–if any–you need to supplement. A Board Certified Lactation Consultant (one with IBCLC after her name) or an accredited La Leche League Leader would be extremely helpful. Is it worth the trouble to make the switch? Yes! The health benefits for you and your baby alone are worth it. You'll also save time and money, and can take pride in doing this for your child.


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President Obama shifts attention from foreign, to domestic issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it's time to turn the country's attention to domestic concerns.
Just four days after his trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved from ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should help pay down the national debt and go to health care, education and infrastructure.
"After more than a decade of war, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday.
The president took note of the agreement he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that shifts security to the Afghan people. He reminded the American public, once again, of the military raid that killed Osama bin Laden a year ago.
But he said the nation now should concentrate on economic issues such as tax disparities and government spending. Without mentioning Republicans, he cast the GOP view as one that promotes more tax cuts for millionaires while cutting spending "that built a strong middle class."
"That's why I've called on Congress to take the money we're no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt and use the other half to rebuild America," he said.
The partisan subtext of the address was clear. Obama is portraying Republicans as the party of the wealthy as he seeks to demonstrate action in the face of a slow economic recovery.
The address came as he went out on his first official campaign trip Saturday, visiting college campuses in Ohio and Virginia.
In the Republican address, Sen. Bob Corker accused the administration and the Senate's Democratic leadership of fiscal mismanagement, saying they have put off difficult decisions that would tame government spending.
"The president punts on almost every tough decision," Corker said.
The Senate's failure to adopt a budget has helped create an atmosphere of uncertainty that is hurting businesses and impeding job creation, the Tennessee Republican said. He called for an overhaul of the tax code that eliminates most of the $1.2 trillion in loopholes and tax breaks, and lowers rates and broadens the tax base.
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It's not surprising that the most serious effect of using smokeless tobacco—also known as spit tobacco, chewing tobacco, or dip—is an increased risk of cancer of the mouth and pharynx. Smokeless tobacco is absorbed quickly and directly through the inside of the mouth, making it very dangerous . . . and potentially deadly. Research has shown more than half of smokeless tobacco users have noncancerous or precancerous lesions in their mouth, with their chance of getting oral cancer being 400 percent greater than for nonusers. Oral cancer kills 50 percent of its victims within five years of diagnosis.
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Pressure ulcers are a significant problem in institutionalized, elderly, and critically ill patients. Pressure ulcers result in significant pain, changing quality of life, and often leading to significant morbidity and prolonged hospital stays, and ultimately increased the healthcare cost.
According to the International Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Survey, the prevalence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers in the United States was 13.5% in 2008 and 12.8% in 2009. This survey also indicated that the highest rate of pressure ulcers is in the long term acute care population (22%).
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Pressure Ulcer Not Visible |
Other: Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Case-Only Time Perspective: Retrospective |
Official Title: | Assessment of the Potential for Pressure Ulcer Formation Using a New Optical Imaging Technology: Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging |
- Assessment of the Potential for Pressure Ulcer Formation using a new optical imaging technology: Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) [ Time Frame: up to 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 175 |
Study Start Date: | August 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | August 2016 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Researchers at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine invented and developed a non-contact optical imaging technology call Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging which can identify the tissue regions that are at risk of developing pressure ulcers prior to development of irreversible tissue damage. The SFDI imaging can identify metabolic and biochemical differences in the tissues near bony prominences which are at risk for developing pressure ulcers.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
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Principal Investigator: | Anthony Durkin, PhD | Beckman Laser Institute, UCI |
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01770717 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | LAMMP-33029 |
Study First Received: | January 14, 2013 |
Last Updated: | August 15, 2013 |
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The news came this weekend that Twitter [2] has agreed to acquire Atebits, the cleverly named company behind Tweetie, a Twitter client for Apple [3]'s iPhone and Mac platforms. This is a huge step, and a glaring indicator, for Twitter as a company--how it'll manifest itself for Twitter the service isn't quite so clear.
Fred Wilson, a major investor and director for Twitter, hinted last week that Twitter was about to start "filling the holes" in the service. Third-party services, he says, sprung up around Twitter out of necessity: you needed search, you needed a mobile app, you needed a URL shortener, and you needed an image uploader. None of that came in Twitter, and until now, the company was content to let developers fill those gaps.
But not anymore [4]. Twitter bought startup Summize back in 2008 to create a decent search engine, and now they've acquired Tweetie, one of the best (if not the best [5]) mobile Twitter app. A URL shortener (like bit.ly) and photo uploader (like Twitpic) could well be next. And if Twitter does acquire all the necessary components and offer them as a package, they'll have total control of the medium, which means they'll be able to monetize much more effectively. That strategy will also, of course, leave all the developers who made Twitter what it is today stranded.
Twitter plans to offer Tweetie free, down from the $2.99 it previously cost in the App Store. That makes two official Twitter apps--BlackBerry just got its own this past week--leaving Android, WebOS, and Windows Mobile with third-party apps for now. That doesn't matter much at the moment (although Tweetie for free is a nice deal), but with their own mobile client, Twitter would be able to provide whatever updates or features they want.
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-I'm David Carnoy, executive editor for CNET.com, and I'm here with the JBL OnBeat Micro. This is a Lightning-equipped speaker dock. It retails for around $100 and is actually pretty good. What I liked about it is that it's compact. It also sounds pretty good. It's designed to sit on a nightstand. It also has an audio input so you can sit it on your desk and use it as a speaker for your laptop or desktop PC. JBL also makes speakers that work with Lightning-equipped iPads; however, this one is only designed to work with the Lightning-equipped iPhone or iPod Touch. Another small extra worth mentioning is that there's a USB port on the back that allows you to charge other mobile devices including other smartphones or even other tablets including other iPads. I did connect an iPhone 4S and an iPad Mini, and you can stream audio through that USB connection. The only problem is that once you connect anything to that USB port, you can't play audio through your dock device, though it will still charge. Finally, this is a portable speaker. There is a hidden compartment on the bottom of the unit that allows you to add four AAA batteries that gives you about five hours of battery life on the go. Obviously, it would have been better if this was a rechargeable speaker, but that probably would have added another $25 or more to the cost of the unit. In terms of buttons on the unit, it's really very simple. There's a power button and a volume up and down button and that is it. One design element worth highlighting is that the connector itself, the Lightning connector, the post if you will, does have a little bit of play to it. So, it tilts back and forth. That allows you to connect your iPhone a little more easily, but it does have some play in it. So, if you do pick up the speaker dock, it may tilt forward and that can be a little bit disconcerting. It's also worth mentioning that you'll probably have to remove any cases from your iPhone unless they are ultra slim. Aside from those small drawbacks, I really did like the unit. It does play a lot louder than you think. It doesn't deliver great sound, but it's decent sound and it can fill a small room with audio. I'm David Carnoy and that's the JBL OnBeat Micro Lightning-equipped speaker dock. Thanks for watching.
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The good: The JBL OnBeat Micro is a compact speaker dock for Lightning-based iPhones and iPods. It delivers very good sound for its small size, and has a USB port for charging other mobile devices (and playing audio from them) and an auxiliary input for connecting to a PC. It also has a battery-powered option for mobile use.
The bad: You'll have to remove everything but the slimmest cases in order to dock your device; you only get about 5 hours of power from four AAA batteries; you can't play music from the docked device while a second one is charging via USB.
The bottom line: Offering surprisingly decent sound for its small size, the JBL OnBeat Micro makes for a good little desktop or bedside speaker and charging station for iPhone 5 owners.
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The adorably, chubby-cheeked Willow Smith is making headlines today. Social networks are abuzz with chatter about the 9-year old daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith and the new single of hers which leaked yesterday. Truthfully? The song is actually pretty good!
The track is entitled "Whip My Hair" and is extremely catchy. It's pretty refreshing to listen to a song by a child, that actually has a child-like sound to it.
The only criticism that I've heard is related to the use of autotune. But, if we are going to judge whether we like a song or not based on whether autotune is applied to it, we would probably only have a rotation of about 7 songs to choose from on our iPods.
I could be a little biased. You may already know that I have a heart for 9-year old Willow. And speaking of "whipping hair", just last week, I interviewed her amazing hair stylist, Marcia Hamilton, and this is a snippet of what she had to say about Little Miss Willow:
"Willow is extremely progressive for a child her age. She's super open and she's so much fun to work with…she's like a ball energy!"
There is a rumor that Willow has already been picked up by Jay Z's Roc Nation music label. Wow…I can't imagine how exciting things must be around the Smith household these days!
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This primitive cave woman showed up without a stitch of clothes on... thank goodness I found this big red "X" to cover her up with so Mick would not be upset! I have no idea who invited her to Drawing Day or how she heard about RMD!? (Ref. changed)
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"X" marks the spot! She didn't want to miss all the fun! Great little draw,, love the "X"!
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