Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

This fight is for everything.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I was promised a recession.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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Given the vast computing power available, there is nothing people can’t chart. Amino.com is a database doctor-picking service, so this probably qualifies as ‘earned media’; the methodology behind that chart is explained here.

If you click over, they actually make guesses at some of these outcomes — ‘suffocation’ is the catchall term they used for various hypoxia-related medical codes, and states with higher elevations might be expected to have more people testing short of breath. Also, as I guessed before reading the post, Massachusetts has a strong medical system that’s been pushing for more head-injury testing in our youth sports leagues, which explains why concussions get diagnosed more. (My second guess, based on the one not-concussion head injury I’ve sustained as an adult, was that our environment encourages slipping & landing head-first on a hard surface.)

However, given that one of Michigan’s nicknames is ‘the Mitten’, I’m a wee bit suspicious of that ‘hand injury‘ coding…

What’s on the agenda as we get ready for the weekend?

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    Poor WV. How did they figure out what the most reported injury was when taking into account Cole’s sample size?

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    If you walked into a room and saw someone interviewing Bashar Al Assad, but had the sound turned off. Wouldn’t you immediately wonder what southern state that asshole was a R Congressman from?
    His non-verbal affect just screams asshole Republican, doesn’t it?

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    The Daily Edge
    ‏@TheDailyEdge

    “Paper tiger.” @realDonaldTrump ridiculed by Chinese after Xi Jinping calls his bluff on very first call

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    No one is going to say anything about the five states that lead with “spine dislocation”? WTF?

    ETA, edited because I missed some pissant patch of turf in the NE at first glance.

  11. 11.

    Miss Bianca

    SUFFOCATION?

    @stinger: Hey now, hey now. Surely you only meant that you’d be suffering oxygen deprivation. It happens, you know, at elevations of over 5,000 feet.

    (close to 9,000 where I’m sitting, currently).

    ETA: Missouri and “animal bites”! What’s up with that? Trying to think of something terribly witty, but as usual, it’s escaping me…

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    I like how smooth HI is. “scrrrraaaaape”. Yeah, we got some lava and rocks and shit. What of it?

  22. 22.

    Sandia Blanca

    And insect bites for Texas–srsly? We’ve got much more impressive dangers here than little ol’ bugs. (Such as the aforementioned Texas legislature.)

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    @p.a.: “I said, where is my fucking mustard!!”
    *insert sounds of a very well grown adult male falling down a flight of stairs, cartoon style*

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m still trying to figure out what a “facial injury” is, exactly. Getting punched? Having an icicle fall on you?

    I have nothing to say about CA’s result except that it’s exactly what I would have expected. We also have a very high rate of pedestrian death because lots of people get hit by cars. Yay us. ?

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    If I fly into AZ and choke the life out of fmr Gov Jan Brewer, could we move them closer into the “suffocation” classification?
    Because if not she is about to add to the Alzheimer’s total as she is completely out her gottdam mind.

  29. 29.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a “gift” to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a “spy” and a “traitor” who deserves to be executed.

    John Alff ‏@johnalff 6m6 minutes ago

    Russia offers Snowden same day Flynn is in trouble, coincidence? @MSNBC #PutinPuppet @MalcolmNance

    0 replies 0 retweets 1 like

    BWHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAH

    Dupes like Sarandon, Griftwald and the alt-left spent the past 2 years directly and indirectly supporting Trump and this is what they get for their efforts.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    @Sandia Blanca:

    And insect bites for Texas–srsly? We’ve got much more impressive dangers here than little ol’ bugs.

    I had one try and carry off my son the other night while we were out. He’s 12.

  33. 33.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    John Schindler ‏@20committee

    BIG ===> SIGINT (signals intelligence) corroborates parts of Steele dossier on Russian clandestine aid to Trump campaign

    https://t.co/yThxW47Lks

    Retweets
    488
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    5:04 PM – 10 Feb 2017

    Rick Wilson ‏@TheRickWilson

    Tick tick tick…

    21 replies 79 retweets 217 likes

  37. 37.

    Brachiator

    @dr. bloor:

    Alas, safe words are useless in cases of autoerotic strangulation.

    Speaking of which, the sequel to the 50 Shades movie opens today, (50 Shades of Lego?), so there may be a lot of uttering of safe words going on this weekend up through Valentine’s Day.

    And again, with all the Dolorous Trump sentiment, have a little fun and see a movie. I still recommend “Hidden Figures,” fun and uplifting and no excuse if you haven’t seen it. And think of it as helping a little movie out. It has earned a bit more than “La La Land,” so your support sends a message to Hollywood. A film featuring a trio of fabulous women.

    Also, I’ve said before that “Moonlight” is something special, very much worth seeing, and “Manchester By the Sea” is sad, but not depressing and features wonderfully understated performances by the cast.

    The biggest twist of M Knight Shama Lama Ding Dong’s “Split” is that it is a good movie. Who knew he could do it again after so many stinkers.

    And of course, there is John Wick 2. If you didn’t see the original, why not rent it. Crazy premise, but it works.

    And it will take your mind off the Trumpocalypse.

  41. 41.

    01jack

    @Miss Bianca:

    Missouri and “animal bites”! What’s up with that?

    Missouri is the puppy mill capital, if I’m not mistaken. Leads to poorly socialized pets.

  45. 45.

    Miss Bianca

    @Corner Stone: ooohh, the only thing almost as good as coming up with something witty oneself is to be the butt…er..trigger..of wit in others.

    “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”

    Me and Falstaff, we’re like this…

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    Finally saw Hidden Figures last night. For the NASA fans who were worried it might be a chick flick, they manage to make you worry that John Glenn is going to die when the heat shield on Friendship 7 starts coming loose. Getting you to worry that a mission that you know was successful might go wrong is a requirement for a good space movie.

    And if you want to see a good musical, go see Moana. The Sing-Along edition is in theaters now!

  53. 53.

    PhoenixRising

    @Brachiator: I’m going to ‘Lion’. You are all invited to see this biopic based on the story of Saroo Brierly, whose adoptive parents in Perth run a plumbing supply shop & supported him in his quest to find his Indian family using only Google Maps and his memories from getting lost at 4.

    Rated: Bring Your Own Box (of tissues).

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    @humboldtblue: Didn’t GA a few years ago have acres and acres of fruit go rotten because there was no one there to harvest the crops? Because some stupid fucking law got passed and the R’s in the state had no idea about unintended consequences. I think it was GA.

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    @Mnemosyne:

    I have nothing to say about CA’s result except that it’s exactly what I would have expected.

    I can’t agree. It’s amazing that anyone can get their car moving fast enough to cause injuries, what with the traffic and all.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    @Roger Moore:

    Wouldn’t hyperthermia be covered by “overexertion”?

    And if you mean hypothermia, there probably wasn’t a particular state that stood out from the rest.

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    If this happens, I will join you in laughing my ass off. However, I’m pretty sure that Trump will reverse himself, pardon Snowden, and all the dudebros will stumble over each other to praise Trump for being so much wiser and more liberal than Obama. Because they’re fucking morons.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    Getting you to worry that a mission that you know was successful might go wrong is a requirement for a good space movie.

    Well, yeah, that’s the “Apollo 13” effect.

    A couple of Australian women critics who do a podcast from Down Under noted that a lot of old white men were in their audience to see the film. They may have had memories of the 1960s space program. I think there were tracking stations in Australia or New Zealand. But from their reactions these guys really got into the movie and had a great time with it.

    The cinematographer is an Aussie woman, Mandy Walker. She does the production design proud, captures the contrast between the more colorful dresses of the women and the standard white shirt and tie clothing of the white male engineers. And, more critically, she gets the skin tones of all the actors of color right, which is not easily done even by acclaimed camera people.

    And if you want to see a good musical, go see Moana. The Sing-Along edition is in theaters now!

    Loved

    Moana.

    And yes, I note the Lin Manuel song contributions. But just loved the movie. The Sing-Along version must be a blast. Glad it’s happening.

  66. 66.

    Sandia Blanca

    @humboldtblue: Folks here are wondering just WHO these people think will be working at their construction sites and cooking their food. And speaking of construction, apparently the ICE agents are driving in big pick-up trucks to avoid tipping off their targets.

  71. 71.

    Peale

    @Corner Stone: it was Alabama. The measure ultimately failed and the labor moved back. However, the big instigators of the bill – kobach et al, felt that it was successful and would work if Federal government hadn’t stepped in a took them to court. The big issue was that anyone could sue law enforcement if they felt that they weren’t enforcing the law. I’m fine with crops rotting, btw. Sad that there will be lots of stories of families deported. but not sad if the busineses that have relied on undocumented labor but supported anti immigrant candidates have to shutter.

  73. 73.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    On a good note, McConnell has 150 people demonstrating in front of his house here in Louisville, and his Kentucky event schedule is going to be peppered with angry people.

  74. 74.

    Goku

    @debbie:
    Aide: Sir, you’ve just lost re-election.
    Grand Oligarch Party Congressman: Unpossible! Libturds obviously rigged the election by voting against me!

    Fake Reality

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    You would probably enjoy The Dish, which is about the team that manned the satellite dish in Australia that allowed the moon landing to be broadcast worldwide. Patrick Warburton doesn’t usually end up in dramas, but it’s a fairly light one and he’s very good, as is Sam Neill.

  84. 84.

    A Ghost to Most

    @Elizabelle:

    Meanwhile, Indiana suffers from “struck by object.”

    Why iz people hitting our Hoosiers?

    “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”

  85. 85.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    You would probably enjoy The Dish, which is about the team that manned the satellite dish in Australia that allowed the moon landing to be broadcast worldwide. Patrick Warburton doesn’t usually end up in dramas, but it’s a fairly light one and he’s very good, as is Sam Neill.

    Sounds like fun. It’s now on the list.

  86. 86.

    lamh36

    Report: Russia Wants to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump by Handing Over Edward Snowden (To Be Executed) http://lgf.bz/2kvpe8t#.WJ5c_8hpIFg.twitter

    Eddie’s reaction to the story…sounds to me like he’s running scared…government is GOP controlled, and majority of them consider him a traitor…to them his already done the damage..

    Good luck with Cheeto Prez Eddie.

    @Snowden
    Finally: irrefutable evidence that I never cooperated with Russian intel. No country trades away spies, as the rest would fear they’re next.

  87. 87.

    TS

    @David Spikes:

    My only question is whether Trump is charging the Abes for their dinner at Mar-i-lago.

    Be interesting to compare the cuisine against the meals they ate at the Obama white house.

  88. 88.

    Roger Moore

    @Mnemosyne:

    Wouldn’t hyperthermia be covered by “overexertion”?

    Not necessarily. I think the most serious cases tend to be a mix of exertion and environment. I knew somebody who died of hyperthermia; he was taking pictures in Big Bend NP in the summer. I think that was mostly environmental, though his weight probably didn’t help matters.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    There is a very cool penumbral lunar eclipse going on right now, by the way. Moon looks kind of smoky around the edges.

  93. 93.

    debbie

    @TS:

    Would this be the “very famous” White House mentioned by Trump during his press conference with Abe?

  95. 95.

    TS

    @eclare:

    Yay! Shout-out for The Dish! Loved that movie. I thought the whole cast was great.

    My favorite oz movie of all time is “the castle”. Whenever trump opens his mouth I hear the words “tell him he’s dreaming”

  98. 98.

    jeffreyw

    @Miss Bianca:

    Missouri and “animal bites”! What’s up with that? Trying to think of something terribly witty, but as usual, it’s escaping me…

    Possums! It comes from grabbing “road killed” possums and throwing them onto the floorboards for a supper stew. Often them possums just playin, nowhutahmean?

  99. 99.

    Hal

    I was just thinking about a week ago that it was only a matter of time before Snowden ended up being handed over to the US. Attached to some brewing scandal and as part of a distraction. So obvious, it’s laughable.

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne

    @eclare:

    I saw it for an Australian film class I took in grad school and really enjoyed it. Sam Neill is one of my favorite actors.

  103. 103.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Brachiator:

    I still recommend “Hidden Figures,” fun and uplifting and no excuse if you haven’t seen it.

    I really enjoyed it, too, but was struck by a thought as I was leaving – nobody was smoking. Room full of dweebs in short-sleeved white shirts and narrow ties in the 60’s, guaranteed every desk has an ashtray and half the guys have a cig burning.

  104. 104.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Hal: Some wag on Twitter says Putin’ll mail him back wearing a Hannibal Lecter outfit and Bob Kraft’s SB ring.

  105. 105.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    I love when dudes try to tell us what we find attractive. ?

    And, no, they don’t get to push this off on Amanda Vickery, either.

  106. 106.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @debbie:

    Oh dear gods, please tell me he didn’t actually say that. (I tried to find a transcript of the full presser. So far, no luck. I refuse to watch.)

  107. 107.

    humboldtblue

    @Sandia Blanca: There was a small local rally after the Sheriff’s office busted two suspected Mexican nationals with a lot of heroin and meth last week. ICE agents were part of the search warrant team ostensibly to serve as translators. There is a sizeable Latino population in this region that is part and parcel with the array of agricultural interests both above and below ground.

    These stupid fuckers have never wanted to admit that the Pacific coast and the Southwest are Latin regions despite their incessant bigotry and oppression and that you can’t live here without that heart and soul.

  108. 108.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I will have to go back and watch it again (I was going to anyhow). I didn’t consciously notice one way or the other, but I would have sworn there were at least a few scenes with smoking. But maybe I’m thinking of something else I’ve seen recently.

  109. 109.

    Roger Moore

    @Gin & Tonic:
    This is, sadly, a product of attempts to discourage smoking. Hollywood has apparently decided they don’t want smoking in family movies, so showing anyone smoking a cigarette is enough to get an R rating. It’s unfortunately going to make it harder to make period pieces completely accurate.

  110. 110.

    Ohio Mom

    @Roger Moore: A while back I was getting my hair done and the subject of smoking came up. My twenty-something hairdresser was astonished to hear that people once smoked everywhere: offices, waiting rooms, airplanes… I’m not sure she believed me.

  111. 111.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    No country trades away spies, as the rest would fear they’re next.

    Unless, of course, they want the rest of their spies to be afraid, dimwit.

    ETA: The countries that convince spies to turn traitor tend to be contemptuous of them. Benedict Arnold did not have a happy life in England.

  115. 115.

    eclare

    @TS: Loved that too! Had to check it out since it’s by the same team, I think. I still remember that line (roughly accurate): 1000 pounds for joustin’ swords? Tell ‘im he’s dreamin’!

  118. 118.

    Mnemosyne

    @Ohio Mom:

    In the bathrooms of the buildings that we built pre-1970s, there are ashtrays built into the stalls of the women’s restrooms.

    Kids these days probably wonder what the hell they were for.

  119. 119.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Roger Moore:

    It’s unfortunately going to make it harder to make period pieces completely accurate.

    There was a time when smoking scenes (whatever the realities of emphysema and lung cancer and cardiac arrest) were indescribably romantic and sexy.

    Famous example.

  126. 126.

    Adria McDowell (formerly LurkerExtraordinaire)

    @Miss Bianca:

    ETA: Missouri and “animal bites”! What’s up with that? Trying to think of something terribly witty, but as usual, it’s escaping me…

    Catfish noodling.

  127. 127.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    Too bad they haven’t figured out how to make eating spinach sexy yet.

    Speak for yourself. When I was a kid, my younger siblings used to love to watch me eat spinach. They said they could tell by my face that it was delicious.

    I feel as though I missed out on a whole specialised career path.

    /signed/ Siubhan “Our Lady of the Leafy Greens” Duinne

  130. 130.

    Mnemosyne

    @Roger Moore:

    Meh. There’s no such thing as a truly accurate period scene in films anyway. There’s too much everyday knowledge that gets lost between eras.

  131. 131.

    Adria McDowell (formerly LurkerExtraordinaire)

    Saw Hidden Figures last weekend. I really enjoyed it.

    Told the kiddo that Moana was coming out on Blu-Ray, and she squealed with delight. So did I. Love that movie.

    Wanna see Lego Batman and the re-release of Wayne’s World, which was my jam in junior high.

    How long before Hispanic citizens start getting deported in these ICE roundups?

  132. 132.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Saw a blurp about that earlier. I’m really torn about all this. There’s no job description or contract for the First (or Second) Lady, just a mass of tradition, so that when that tradition is ignored or substantially changed, it feels like a violation.

    And as a woman who is pro-choice in all arenas, I actually support Mesdames Trump et Pence to do whatever fulfills them.

    OTOH (because there is always an OH), I’m not crazy about massive amounts of public money going to support POTUS/VPOTUS family members with no quo for the quid.

  134. 134.

    Roger Moore

    @Ohio Mom:

    My twenty-something hairdresser was astonished to hear that people once smoked everywhere

    I remember in the older lecture halls at college, there were ashtrays built into the backs of the chairs so people could smoke during class. IIRC, they also had them in bathroom stalls, I guess so people who were smoking when they went in didn’t have to put them out. It seems kind of mind boggling, since I don’t think anyone I knew in college smoked- cigarettes, at least.

  137. 137.

    TS

    @eclare: I thought of it when Trump was defeated by the courts – we don’t have much publicity for our high court decisions on our constitution (except for one related to land rites for our native people) – unlike in the US – but I think that movie made many Australian’s aware that they had a constitution. There was a case a couple of years ago where some politicians who lost a few perks (poor dears) challenged the law using the same argument as in the movie – they lost.

    Both films were made by the same people – I enjoyed the dish, but can watch the castle over and over – and still end up ROFL every time.

  143. 143.

    Roger Moore

    @Adria McDowell (formerly LurkerExtraordinaire):

    How long before Hispanic citizens start getting deported in these ICE roundups?

    It’s been happening for a very long time, so it’s more or less guaranteed to continue. I saw something saying they were picking up anyone in the area of the raids who couldn’t prove their citizenship. I’m gonna guess that pale skin and an American accent are considered sufficient proof of citizenship.

  148. 148.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    You have posted photos of him, from puppyhood on, that I have kept in my own photo album just so I can look at them occasionally. There is something about him that is just wise and ancient. He is well named.

  152. 152.

    lamh36

    @SiubhanDuinne: someone on twitter said it might be taken as an insult

    @MrDane1982 So embarrassing and rude. In Asian culture, a guest always gets treated well in your home.No doubt Abe must be pissed privately

  155. 155.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh36:

    Trump says—about 16 hrs after WaPo broke the Flynn-Russia news—he hasn’t seen anything about it: “What report is that? I haven’t seen that.”

    I guess InfoWars hasn’t picked it up yet.

  156. 156.

    skerry

    Another Trump tweet

    Heading to Joint Base Andrews on #MarineOne with Prime Minister Shinzō earlier today.

    He called the PM by his first name, a la President Donald. Such an embarrassment.

  159. 159.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    Interesting, thanks. Wouldn’t you think one of Trump’s “only the best” people might have briefed him on Japanese cultural expectations?

  160. 160.

    Arclite

    @Corner Stone: That was my first thought, WTF is a “spine dislocation?”

    Then my next thought was how the fck do you make a claim based on “suffocation???”

  170. 170.

    scav

    @SiubhanDuinne: If they did brief him on cultural expectations, team that would probably only be looking for the most locally relevant way to insult and demonstrate dominance over the foreign dignitary.

  173. 173.

    Anne Laurie

    @Elizabelle:

    Why iz people hitting our Hoosiers?

    Have you seen video of Mike Pence? Maybe they’re just trying to get each others’ attention, since even shouting doesn’t necessarily work.

  174. 174.

    Brachiator

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I really enjoyed it, too, but was struck by a thought as I was leaving – nobody was smoking.

    You’re right! I wonder if smoking might have affected the rating.

  176. 176.

    Waynski

    @raven: How’d you get two pounds in a motorcycle jacket? Did you mean ozs? Two pounds is a little hard to conceal. Two ozs would also be hard to conceal. Two half ozs would be hard to conceal. Not that I know anything about this.

  179. 179.

    Denali

    Isn’t Ivanka supposed to fill in for First Lady duties? It is appalling that Prime Minister Abe’s wife was treated this way.

  181. 181.

    Miss Bianca

    @lamh36: I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit on the BBC on this one. For one thing, even tho’ the first version of Pride and Prejudice (“First Impressions”) was drafted in the 1790s, P & P was revised and published in 1813 – and meantime, a whole new ideal of masculine beauty had come into vogue among the upper crust, thanks to both LoRd Byron and “Gentleman Joe” Jackson, who introduced a craze for boxing. So yeah, no, sorry – We’re sticking wth Colin Firth!

  183. 183.

    Sandia Blanca

    @humboldtblue: I’m worried not only for folks who are undocumented, but also for the millions of native-born Latinx who are already being stopped and questioned. I’ve got friends who are Texan from so far back they were living here when it was still part of Mexico. By that measure, it’s us gringos who are here illegally.

  191. 191.

    Barry

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: “Dupes like Sarandon, Griftwald and the alt-left spent the past 2 years directly and indirectly supporting Trump and this is what they get for their efforts.”

    I feel for Snowden – remember, the recent Wikileaks-level FSB propaganda tweets from ‘Snowden’ could have easily been typed by anybody. Beyond a doubt, Assange deserves whatever punishment the hand of man can inflict, but we don’t know about Snowden.

  192. 192.

    laura

    @Corner Stone: We all had a chance to watch an interview of Assad back in the day when he was still a student at Florida State U, if memory serves me. It was on 60 Minutes and I believe conducted by Morley Safer. The gist was, he’s just a young, basketball loving dental student who wasnt at all likely to be a misunderstood tyrant like his dad.
    Anyone else recall seeing it in the 80’s?
    Ah, the memory hole.

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