that captain is going to jail.
as an actual mariner, I can tell you that what is happening to that ship is totally illegal, and that the consequences for the captain and the rest of the officers on board are pretty damn bad.
sucks to be them.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 3:04, Reply)
Neptune
you're under arrest.
that footage is of the valentina in 2005.
As far as i can determine no charges were laid. Either against the crew or the weather (which wasn't even classed as a cyclone).
here's the same ship getting it's windows smashed as a freak wave hits it head on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fQ1eWv36o
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 4:55,
Reply)
The internets told me its the Valencia in cyclone Valentina in the Med
I read some bloke who was supposedly on it saying that they lost an engine which is why the coast guard was there.
Best comments on the site I found the info on below :
JJsaysJJsays
Seen waves come over the flight deck of the USS Enterprise.
nottidreddnottidredd
what did Picard do?
Arf!!!
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 5:55,
Reply)
Erm
I'm fairly sure the window breaking clip isn't related.
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The Coast Of Yemen, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 9:34,
Reply)
You're going to jail!
As an actual person who knows fuck all about anything, I can tell you that what is happening in your reply is totally illegal, and that the consequences of reading your post and the rest of your drivel is severe belming!
BEEEEEEEEELM!
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 8:50,
Reply)
Sorry,
I feel the need to respond to you again.
What the fuck are you on about? Can you please explain how getting caught in a massive storm is illegal? I only ask this because last year I was walking down the road and a storm started. I don't want to break the law.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:46,
Reply)
I'm going to hazard a guess here.
In the video, the ship is side-on to the wind and the waves, meaning its more at risk of capsizing than if it was facing head-on. I'm guessing this kind of thing is illegal on large vessels or passenger ships due to the increased risk of everyone dying.
Remember the victims of the last major capsizing. They never did recover all the bodies from the Poseidon.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:52, Reply)
Actually I know a great deal about ships in storms.
Two things are illegal.
There is such thing as stability. They are calculations that are required to be made to stop a ship rolling like that, and laws that require those calculations to meet a certain standard. The ship there doesn't meet the required standards. The ship also has stabilisers under the water line, if the ship met the standards, the stabilisers would stop the ship.
The have got too much ballast water, a very low GM and an extremely sharp GZ curve.
Also, there are weather routeing requirements that mean that passenger ships of a certain size, shape, tonnage etc. aren't actually allowed to be in storms like that. They don't come out of nowhere, and it's not very hard to avoid them.
There is nothing illegal about walking down a road, especially if a storm started, but you don't have to worry about laws and rules that the UN, the IMO, the insurance companies, and the charterers set. You also don't have to worry about the passengers suing you because their grandmother is spread across a bulkhead.
So you can sleep easy at night.
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 11:51, Reply)
are all mariners this twatty?
Edit: Sorry, you're probably not.
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MrGomez and David Bellamy's big pubey beard, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 12:41,
Reply)
It looks fecking scary that's for sure, I wonder if the cruisers get any cash back in such circumstances
and shurely it shouldn't be possible for it to lean THAT much no matter what the weather, so me finks our mariner friend here may have a good point or 2...
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..wil, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:31,
Reply)
Holy....
I didn't think those things could rock that much.
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TIAL Four capital letters, written in gold., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 3:06,
Reply)
If the boats a rocking....
don't come a knocking!
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McMookMac Crush Proof, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 9:09,
Reply)
The Onion working on multitudinal levels?
Just picked up The onion in LA and wondered if this article was meant to appeal to brits also?
This photo with caption is especially good
www.theonion.com/content/node/93484
and sentences such as:
"thanking his victims to an insufferable degree after the bumming has occurred. "
make me lol
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:47, Reply)
It was funnier when Tim Vine was writing it.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:42,
Reply)
It just had to be done, sorry if it was posted already
... they were made for each other
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:32, Reply)
Tongue Phoyocopying.
This is k-i-n-d of like the satisfaction a dog gets when it licks your face.........................
.........because he was licking something else 2 minutes beforehand.
You may need to take a closer look & 10 secs for the penny to drop, but on the face of it, it's TOTALLY SFW.
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:46, Reply)
funny music by attractive-sounding ladies
comedy songs suck.
female comedians (almost universally) suck.
comedy songs by females always suck.
these don't.
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:46,
Reply)
haha
Worst Song Medley is actually pretty entertaining
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intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:07,
Reply)
That is surprisingly good!
That Kate "Oates" Micucci seems pretty mental in a good way. I also like her drawings, such as this one or this.
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My Future Self Stay Gold Ponyboy. Stay Gold., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 12:51,
Reply)
its that girl out of scrubs
knew i recognized that voice from somewhere
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:10, Reply)
Q: How long are the skids that this bike can do?
A: Dear Mad Dog. The skids odometer shows 128,992 metres, but i think it might have gone round the clock. I once did a skid that went for two weeks.
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admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:42,
Reply)
That made me
laugh so much a little bit of wee came out.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:37,
Reply)
Oh clicks like a mad thing!! :D :D
Oh that is funny!
I still can't get the hang of the new yoof use of 'sick' tho, even tho it's practically the same as 'bad' in the late '80s early '90s and been around a while already. Also the chavs down our way seem to be using 'Dickhead' in a similar way to 'mate', which just seems to doom them to many a misinterpreted smack in the mouth from not-chavs they decide to address this way (not that I would be upset about that.)
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..wil, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:27,
Reply)
This
is superrad to the maxxXx!
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Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 21:04,
Reply)
This is sobering, and a good read; from this week's issue of the Newscientist
^^^^^^^^^^CFB
My monitor is very huge, I might open photoshop in a sec
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:52,
Reply)
I tried
"This probably means that one of the b3ta server mice has got drunk, and unplugged a server."
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:57,
Reply)
I forgotten the html code
for size=800 etc
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:01,
Reply)
fuck it
i'm moving to western Antarctica right away to beat the rush :D
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:08, Reply)
I spent three months on a kibbutz
in the Negev desert.
Whether climate change is avoidable or not, or man-made or not, is to be beside the point. Let's stop worrying about the polar bears and find out how to live in the desert.
For desalinating water we need a *lot* of energy, so it's about time we shifted on to fusion (or rather try to) or just covered the vast future empty quarters with solar power. At least the Arctic will open up more fuel reserves, living space (as there's less frozen in winter) and so on. So it's not so much OOOH, THE END! But rather, ooh, a new existence.
Most of us b3tards live on a temperate island.
Others live in rainforests
Others live in deserts
Others live on rafts going across the world's vast oce- wait, no, that's Waterworld. But the point still stands; people can adapt, we just need to.
Also, we could grow dates in France and Germany! Have you ever had fresh dates? Awww yeah.
Furthermore:
Wooooo, I'm a ghost!
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:53, Reply)
Global warming, blah, blah, blah.
Basically this says "We have no bloody clue what's liable to happen, but here's something to SCARE YOU!! (and sell magazines)".
I'm of the opinion that the planet takes care of itself, and has warm and cold cycles etc, and that it's standard human arrogance to believe we can have anything other than the most minor of effects on it.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:27,
Reply)
I'm not, and agree with the much larger scientific census
and not with wankers like Jeremy Clarkson, who's attitude is not to give a toss, when something very real is happening to our planet
You have got to be about the most naive fucking spastic to not realize the world is warming up, and the human race is going to have to make some drastic changes; given it's utterly obvious by now; even after that twat Bush's approach to science and his neo conservative chums understanding of it.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:41,
Reply)
Well, he's not saying it's not getting warmer
he seems just to be saying it's not human influence.
I think we should try to prevent it, but as more of a side-project to avoid the damage and take advantage of the changes that we face.
I might make a youtube video teaching everyone how to wash with a small basin of fresh water, and maybe some sand (exfoliating is very important...); though really I just think a topless me would drive the viewing figures right up!
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:44, Reply)
Precisely.
I'm in full agreement with the development of green technologies, cutting back on the many and varied ways we pollute our environment etc. You don't crap in your own back garden, after all. If the planet is on it's way to warming up significantly though, 1) It's highly unlikely to be because of us, and 2) There's sod all we can do about it other than develop methods of coping with it.
Humanity needs to cut the "Green Angst" bullshit and knuckle down developing stuff like high efficiency solar power stations, fusion power, and cheap desalination plants. Growing up a bit and starting to respect the native animal and plant life would be a step in the right direction, too.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:56,
Reply)
From having lunch with the scientist's I work with
people denying a human impact on climate change are simply laughable these days; and sadly it's far worse than we imagined. Hence a very good link above^
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:00,
Reply)
Seriously,
short of a massive nuclear deployment, how the hell do you think a few billion primitive life forms can have any significant impact on 5.9736×10^24 kg of stellar body?
Humans have a notoriously poor sense of scale.
(especially males...)
Edit:
Besides, there are SIGNIFICANTLY larger things for us to worry about. Ever spoken to a Geologist about the Shield Volcano under Yellowstone National Park? The one that's about 40,000 years late, and would make Krakatoa look like a Swan Vesta? Bare in mind that Krakatoa caused a 20-year mini-ice age...
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:11,
Reply)
Read the article, perhaps subscribe to the publication
You obviously simply aren't close to having a clue; and you are very boring at replying to; if you don't think a hundred years of industrial impact hasn't had an effect of the earth's fragile ecosystem, there is little more than I can be bothered to type.
And with that I'm off to bed, to see Arsenal tomorrow
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:25,
Reply)
Where the hell is that "Golden Flounce Award" JPG when you need it?
Some of these eco-types really don't like having their world-view challenged, do they?
Ps. I'm obviously not the only person who thinks this...
www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/
Edit:
Pps. Arsenal suck.
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:39,
Reply)
Let me guess...
...you're with the Diplomatic Corp, right?
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:58,
Reply)
Haha
They expelled me for being to polite ;)
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:01,
Reply)
UK should be pretty damn nice then by the looks of things
check out France! wohoo!!
*surfs on French desert sands*
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:28,
Reply)
Daisy owl
It's a comic. It has a bear in it. And a Owl.
www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-09-18
Personally I think this is one of the best.
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:01, Reply)
hee hee
some of them ain't bad; I like this one: www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-10-02
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:12, Reply)
Yay Daisy Owl!
One of my many existing RSS subscriptions.
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hazzamon I've nothing better to do, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 14:16,
Reply)
Plug me in by Add N To (X)
NSFW
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 20:52,
Reply)
I love add N to X
and this video
so have a *click*
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but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:15,
Reply)
Strange Fish with a transparent head
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 20:33,
Reply)
This has already been posted so i am obliged to mention its glass cock.
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:10, Reply)
Fascinating, reminds me of
www.thedeepbook.org/
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:24,
Reply)
He doesn't look
too happy about having that light shone into his brain like that. Also that's a bit stupid of them because the penial gland (presuming the fish has it) is light sensitive so the fish could have been pretty traumatised neurologically from that little encounter.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:06,
Reply)
I'm guessing you're saying......
....f off to the idea rather than the post itself!
With that in mind, good call.
I remember reading an article about (the original release of Totall Recall) in the Sunday Times magazine before it was released basically saying it was "the most accurate vision of a possible life on mars ever" - and they weren't talking about no John Simms drama action.
Great film, better premise for a film. If they want to do a remake, let 'em. I'm not funding it so why not?!
You have a choice - to see or not to see.
I still recoil at the prospect of Nicholas Cage's Wicker Man - so I choose not to see it - simple.
Here endeth the lesson ;-)
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jonbontempi, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 21:21,
Reply)
yes i did mean about the remake :P
its not a bad film, and excellent effects for its time. you could argue some effects were better in the pre cgi years as it was more orginal.
oh, and as for the wicker man, i will not see, i love the orginal far too much.
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Captain Pilchard The king of B-movies!, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:26,
Reply)
i dunno
i think a remake could be quite successful... in artistic terms.
I mean the original was hardly a visionary sci-fi classic (ala Blade Runner), so it doesn't have a legacy to be besmirched... so i think with todays advanced CGI it could bring a gritty futuristic realism to the story without it appearing kinda cartoonish (as is how i remember the original).
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:10,
Reply)
modern hollywood
shit sequels and remakes
bring back bogart from the dead NOW
(, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:02, Reply)
Twooooooo Weeeeeeeeeks!!!
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Dr. Strange Now Fully ISO 3103 Compliant!, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:58,
Reply)
*is depressed*
Tho having said that I think remaking Barberella is a feckin brilliant idea, but I SO want it to be like a Barberella II and do all the sets and costumes in a '60s futuristic style and make 'em sex-eeeeeeeee!
Course prolly what we'll get is just a watered down version of the original with more explosions and Hollywood failing to be 'camp' again (see The Birdcage) due to America's abject fear of making anything that might be seen as fay.
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..wil, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:39,
Reply)
Oh please, Professor, why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe?
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megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 20:15,
Reply)
old as the hills
And its definatly Freddie Star..
By thwe way is Patrick Swayze dead yet? Was sad to hear he had cancer, seems like a funny bloke
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Jorvic, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 20:41,
Reply)
Peanuts Watchmen
Well, it made me laugh. But I am easily amused.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 17:31,
Reply)
Safari 4 Beta (is public) for Windows or OS X.
www.apple.com/safari/download/
I've been playing with it for a few hours and 'Cover Flow' is cool, and Apple say that Java will be 4X faster than Safari 3.
The only thing I don't like is, they've changed the tabs.
In OS X, you can change it back by opening up the terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and copying in the code below, and clicking return:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO
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Darklord, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 17:27,
Reply)
Cool
Looks nice, might give it a whirl later
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 18:35,
Reply)
Thanks for
teh codez
The tab thing was bugging me.
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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 19:24,
Reply)
yea but...
its not firefox.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:13,
Reply)
Hi I'm Troy McClure...
you may remember me from other beta tests such Firefox version 3.0...
(, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:22, Reply)
hmm
Yet another inappropriate use of 3D just to please the pretentious users!
Mac: Ooooh!! Look I have a 3D browser thing!
Bob: Wow aren't you fucking cool, what does that enable you to do then?
Mac: Well I can now look at thumbnails of web pages at jointy angles!!
Bob: Awesome! So wouldn't a simple thumbnail grid would have sufficed then?
Mac: Ummmmmmm *flips to second page* but loook at it!!
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 9:46,
Reply)
Oh Fuck OFF!
This Browser is for Windows and OS X users.
It's an application for people that use the internet, this is the /links page on B3ta, people that like to use the internet come here.
It's also Open Source, so developers that make things for the internet, can mess with it for their own creations.
So, drop the snidey comments, and If you don't like it, don't fucking look at it, and don't fucking respond to it!?
It's that simple!
developer.apple.com/safari/
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Darklord, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 16:03,
Reply)
eh?
Fucking idiot. Don't like critisism or what?
I think you need to read the FAQ, if you don't want critisism, mark it as being made by you... oh hang on you didn't make it!
Get off your fucking high horse, defending the open source community as if it's all fucking awesome, which is isn't.
I am a professional software engineer with 9 years professional experience, so I happen to know a little about software development and decided to post my professional opinion.
It's shit.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 20:49,
Reply)
The Science of Cute
Just why do grow men turn into puddles of mush at the sight of a wobbly kitten?
Science knows!
GC powiedzia nie
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 16:08,
Reply)
pedomorphisis
!!!!!!!!
I'm not admitting to that. I'll have a group of Sun readers bricking my windows before you can say etymology.
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HoratioFellatio Taking the the out of psychotherapist, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:17,
Reply)
Just why do grow men turn into puddles of mush at the sight of a wobbly kitten?
because they are gay
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 22:23,
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