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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 5, 2020 12:54:56 GMT
New Clear ufo sighting in Japan March 2020
Mar 5, 2020 Blast World Mysteries
Clear ufo sighting in Japan March 2020
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Post by ZETAR on Mar 5, 2020 21:24:24 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 6, 2020 11:57:29 GMT
Good morning all,
Z, I'm surprised she didn't snatch him bald! LOL!
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 6, 2020 12:04:16 GMT
Colorado Springs Gazette
Do UFOs fly through Colorado skies?
David Ramsey Mar 5, 2020
Sarah Scoles spent months in an intense dive into the UFO community. She talked with true believers. She pondered the deeper meanings of the UFO faith. She departed with a sympathetic view for those who look into the sky and see invading planes and creatures.
“But I’m not a, like, believer,” she says from the kitchen table of her apartment on Denver’s Capitol Hill. “I don’t know if there’s life in the universe or not, but I don’t think they drove spaceships here. I never heard a story when I said, ‘That sounds truly incredible and I believe what you say.’”
The UFO era began in earnest June 24, 1947. Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 near Mount Rainier in Washington when (he said) he saw a fleet of flying objects whizzing along at 1,000 miles per hour.
A craze had begun. Or maybe Scoles has the better word: “epidemic.”
Soon, thousands of Americans started seeing flying saucers, a trend that never halted. Americans reported 121,000 UFO sightings from 2001-2015. And that’s likely only a fraction of the sightings. Most go unreported.
“All of a sudden, we’re starting to see this thing that we are starting to make ourselves, but a better version,” Scoles says. “The same spaceships we are making at the same time we are doing it. ... We are always projecting our own technology up into space.”
Scoles wrote “They Are Already Here, UFO Culture and Why See Saucers,” a book released last week. It’s a difficult book to describe, and I mean that as a compliment. It’s both a celebration and skeptical examination of the UFO movement. Scoles is a scientist, but she’s also an artist. With words, I mean.
“Seeing a UFO, and interpreting it as something extraordinary, seems a little bit like the doomed, lost kind of romantic love,” she writes. “It comes along when you’re not looking for it. It amps up your ordinary experience, invigorates you every day. ... And it’s not the kind of thing you can ever really explain satisfactorily to anyone who wasn’t there. It’s not even an experience you can really experience yourself, once it’s gone.”
I join Scoles in her UFO skepticism. I’ve spent dozens of hours driving the darkest roads in America. In West Texas. In New Mexico. In Nevada. In Colorado’s San Luis Valley. While staring into those dark nights, the stars seem poised to jump out of the sky. It’s a great show, but I’ve never spotted an object from another galaxy.
If you are not a believer in the possibility of UFOs and visitors from somewhere far away, you’re unlikely to ever be swayed into belief. If resistant, you remain resistant.
But if you look into the skies with the expectation you will see something strange and fantastic and wonderful, you probably will find it.
UFO belief, Scoles writes, is not just similar to religion; it is one.
“It is a New Age religion,” she writes. “It’s not a science, it’s not a hobby, it’s a faith system.”
Does belief in UFOs seem a bit, well, wacky? Sure, Scoles says. But the concept of Christianity, if it landed fresh and untold in 2020, would sound wacky, too. The Son of God sent to Earth in a complicated and tragic crusade to save mankind? That’s a wild, and wondrous, tale. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a Christian, but it’s important to remember any faith system requires a leap from mere logic.
I have no friends who have shared UFO experiences, but it’s not as if these Americans are rare. According to a Gallup poll released in September, 16 percent of Americans believe they have seen a UFO and just under 34 percent — 34 percent of men, 33 percent of women — believe in alien spacecraft.
Do aliens walk among us? I don’t know about that. Do UFO believers reside in your neighborhood? Oh, yes.
“I wanted to write a book where I wasn’t being mean to people or making fun of people who believe what I don’t believe,” Scoles says as she looks out her window.
She succeeded. Not all of us look at those dark skies in the same way, or with the same expectations.
gazette.com/premium/do-ufos-fly-through-colorado-skies-david-ramsey/article_4126aa14-5f34-11ea-9aaf-8b3825013e67.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 6, 2020 12:09:57 GMT
Phys.org
Nanoscale 4-D printing technique may speed development of new therapeutics
by CUNY Advanced Science Research Center 6 March 2020
Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC) and Northwestern University have created a 4-D printer capable of constructing patterned surfaces that recreate the complexity of cell surfaces. The technology, detailed in a newly published paper in Nature Communications, allows scientists to combine organic chemistry, surface science, and nanolithography to construct precisely designed nanopatterned surfaces that are decorated with delicate organic or biological molecules. The surfaces will have a wide variety of uses, including in drug research, biosensor development, and advanced optics. Importantly, this technology can create surfaces with different materials, and these materials can be patterned across the surface without the use of expensive photomasks or tedious clean room processes.
"I am often asked if I've used this instrument to print a specific chemical or prepare a particular system," said the study's primary investigator Adam Braunschweig, a faculty member with the CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative and The Graduate Center and Hunter College Chemistry Departments. "My response is that we've created a new tool for performing organic chemistry on surfaces, and its usage and application are only limited by the imagination of the user and their knowledge of organic chemistry."
The printing method, called Polymer Brush Hypersurface Photolithography, combines microfluidics, organic photochemistry, and advanced nanolithography to create a mask-free printer capable of preparing multiplexed arrays of delicate organic and biological matter. The novel system overcomes a number of limitations present in other biomaterial printing techniques, allowing researchers to create 4-D objects with precisely structured matter and tailored chemical composition at each voxel—a capability the authors refer to as "hypersurface lithography".
"Researchers have been working toward using lithographic techniques to pattern surfaces with biomolecules, but to date we haven't developed a system sophisticated enough to construct something as complicated as a cell surface," said Daniel Valles, a Graduate Center, CUNY doctoral student in Braunschweig's lab. "We envision using this system to assemble synthetic cells that allow researchers to replicate and understand the interactions that occur on living cells, which will lead to the rapid development of medicines and other bioinspired technologies."
As proof-of-concept, the researchers printed polymer brush patterns using precise doses of light to control the polymer height at each pixel. As illustrated by the Lady Liberty image, coordination between the microfluidics and the light source control the chemical composition at each pixel.
"Polymer chemistry provides such a powerful set of tools, and innovations in polymer chemistry have been major drivers of technology throughout the last century," said the paper's co-author Nathan Gianneschi, who is the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. "This work extends this innovation to the interfaces where arbitrary structures can be made in a highly controlled way, and in a way that allows us to characterize what we have made and to generalize it to other polymers."
"This paper is a tour-de force demonstration of what can be done with massively parallel lithography tools," said Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann, Professor of Chemistry and the director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, who is not a coauthor of the study. "The co-authors have created a powerful set of capabilities that should be heavily utilized across the chemistry, material science, and biological communities."
The researchers plan to continue development of this novel printing platform to increase system speed, reduce pixel dimensions, and develop new chemistries for increasing the scope of materials that can be patterned. Currently, they are using the patterns created by this platform to understand the subtle interactions that dictate recognition in biological systems.
phys.org/news/2020-03-nanoscale-d-technique-therapeutics.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 7, 2020 11:45:56 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 7, 2020 11:59:53 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Mar 7, 2020 22:12:04 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 8, 2020 12:42:23 GMT
Good morning, good morning,
BBC
Rendlesham Forest: UFO 'sighting' becomes legend like King Arthur
By Nic Rigby 8 March 2020
A new documentary about one of the most famous UFO sightings in the UK concludes that the mystery has "legend" status like Loch Ness or King Arthur.
The film Codename Rendlesham looks at the reports by US airmen who claimed to have seen a UFO in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, in December 1980.
Theories range from it being an alien visitation to a hoax.
Academic David Clarke said researchers were at an "impasse" and the longer it goes on "the more it becomes a legend".
One of the USAF servicemen produced a picture of what they claimed to have seen
On 26 December 1980, several United States Air Force (USAF) security personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge, reported that they investigated "lights" in the surrounding forest.
In 1983, a memo by deputy base commander Lt Col Charles Halt was released by the US government describing an encounter with an apparent UFO.
It made headline news in the UK which has ballooned into an industry of theories covered in books, dramas, documentaries and websites, suggesting it was either an actual alien visitation, a secret military aircraft, a misinterpretation of natural lights or the beam of Orfordness Lighthouse, or a hoax.
The new film hears from former USAF personnel, UFO enthusiasts, sceptics and academics.
Mr Frearson, director, said it "examines the elements that have made this one of our great modern legends".
Mr Frearson, who grew up in Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, got interested in the story after going camping in Rendlesham Forest and seeing the beam from the lighthouse on Orford Ness, which some believe may have been mistaken for a UFO in 1980.
Researching the film, he was fascinated to find that the UFO film Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition was in cinemas at the time and other science fiction films such as Hangar 18 were from that era.
He said reports of the sighting that included suggestions of car engines cutting out and burnt markings found in the forest could have been influenced by these films.
Academic researcher into the UFO reports Dr David Clarke, of Sheffield Hallam University, said in the film: "Now it may have been a lighthouse. It may have been some natural phenomena. That is beside the point.
"We've reached an impasse. There are those who can only see it in black and white terms - aliens or people from the future came here.
"Or it's the sceptical version - that people are lying or they have been misled by ordinary things. The more it is elaborated on, the more it becomes a legend."
Ian Ridpath, an astronomy writer who believes the sighting can be partly put down to the beam from Orfordness Lighthouse, said: "Some of the witnesses have changed their stories. New bits of information have come out that we hadn't heard of.
"Really what we are seeing is the creation of a modern myth, and I don't think it will ever die."
The film produced by Chill Factor Films is set to be screened in Woodbridge later in the year.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-51565054
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 8, 2020 12:54:54 GMT
Phys.org
Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world's earliest human settlements
by Sonia Fernandez, University of California - Santa Barbara 7 March 2020
Location of Abu Hureyra (adapted from Moore et al.. (a) Map of the Middle East, showing Abu Hureyra location (AH) in Syria. (b) Map of the Abu Hureyra tell, showing locations of excavation trenches labeled A-G near a back channel of Euphrates River that is now abandoned. Sediment samples from Trenches D, E, and G (blue rectangles) contain abundance peaks in YDB proxies, including spherules, nanodiamonds, meltglass, and platinum. Credit: Scientific Reports (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60867-w
Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled down and started cultivating crops. A large mound marks the settlement, which now lies under Lake Assad.
But before the lake formed, archaeologists were able to carefully extract and describe much material, including parts of houses, food and tools—an abundance of evidence that allowed them to identify the transition to agriculture nearly 12,800 years ago. It was one of the most significant events in our Earth's cultural and environmental history.
Abu Hureyra, it turns out, has another story to tell. Found among the cereals and grains and splashed on early building material and animal bones was meltglass, some features of which suggest it was formed at extremely high temperatures—far higher than what humans could achieve at the time—or that could be attributed to fire, lighting or volcanism.
"To help with perspective, such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute," said James Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of geology. Such intensity, he added, could only have resulted from an extremely violent, high-energy, high-velocity phenomenon, something on the order of a cosmic impact.
Based on materials collected before the site was flooded, Kennett and his colleagues contend Abu Hureyra is the first site to document the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement. These fragments are all part of the same comet that likely slammed into Earth and exploded in the atmosphere at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, according to Kennett. This impact contributed to the extinction of most large animals, including mammoths, and American horses and camels; the disappearance of the North American Clovis culture; and to the abrupt onset of the end-glacial Younger Dryas cooling episode.
The team's findings are highlighted in a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
"Our new discoveries represent much more powerful evidence for very high temperatures that could only be associated with a cosmic impact," said Kennett, who with his colleagues first reported evidence of such an event in the region in 2012.
Abu Hureyra lies at the easternmost sector of what is known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which encompasses about 30 other sites in the Americas, Europe and parts of the Middle East. These sites hold evidence of massive burning, including a widespread carbon-rich "black mat" layer that contains millions of nanodiamonds, high concentrations of platinum and tiny metallic spherules formed at very high temperatures. The YDB impact hypothesis has gained more traction in recent years because of many new discoveries, including a very young impact crater beneath the Hiawatha Glacier of the Greenland ice sheet, and high-temperature meltglass and other similar evidence at an archaeological site in Pilauco, located in southern Chile.
"The Abu Hureyra village would have been abruptly destroyed," Kennett said. Unlike the evidence from Pilauco, which was limited to human butchering of large animals up to but not younger than the YDB impact burn layer, Abu Hureyra shows direct evidence of the disaster on this early human settlement. An impact or an airburst must have occurred sufficiently close to send massive heat and molten glass over the entire early village, Kennett noted.
The glass was analyzed for geochemical composition, shape, structure, formation temperature, magnetic characteristics and water content. Results from the analysis showed that it formed at very high temperatures and included minerals rich in chromium, iron, nickel, sulfides, titanium and even platinum- and iridium-rich melted iron—all of which formed in temperatures higher than 2200 degrees Celsius.
"The critical materials are extremely rare under normal temperatures, but are commonly found during impact events," Kennett said. According to the study, the meltglass was formed "from the nearly instantaneous melting and vaporization of regional biomass, soils and floodplain deposits, followed by instantaneous cooling." Additionally, because the materials found are consistent with those found in the YDB layers at the other sites across the world, it's likely that they resulted from a fragmented comet, as opposed to impacts caused by individual comets or asteroids.
"A single major asteroid impact would not have caused such widely scattered materials like those discovered at Abu Hureyra," Kennett said. "The largest cometary debris clusters are proposed to be capable of causing thousands of airbursts within a span of minutes across one entire hemisphere of Earth. The YDB hypothesis proposed this mechanism to account for the widely dispersed coeval materials across more than 14,000 kilometers of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Our Abu Hureyra discoveries strongly support a major impact event from such a fragmented comet."
phys.org/news/2020-03-evidence-cosmic-impact-destruction-world.html
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Post by swamprat on Mar 8, 2020 17:18:01 GMT
Today's winning Facebook post: SMART FLIGHT ATTENDANT
A 50-something year old Muslim man arrived at his seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat.
The seat was next to an elderly white woman reading her Bible.
Disgusted, the Muslim man immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat.
The man said"I cannot sit here next to this infidel." The flight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat."
After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated, "There are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class."
About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated
"The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy,
but there is one in first class.
It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class,
but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class."
Before the irate Muslim man could say anything, the attendant gestured to the elderly woman and said, "Therefore, madam, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person."
Passengers in the seats nearby began to applaud while some gave a standing ovation.
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Post by swamprat on Mar 8, 2020 21:30:47 GMT
OK, troops, everyone needs to listen! One of life's valuable lessons!
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Post by ZETAR on Mar 8, 2020 21:43:34 GMT
NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW...WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY! SHED THAT GUEST MONIKER SO YOU'LL KNOW...SHALOM...Z EDIT TO ADD:
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 9, 2020 12:33:01 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers and stealth visitors,
Mysterious Universe
Welcome to Earth!: Strange Cases of Human Attacks on UFOs and Aliens
Brent Swancer March 9, 2020
Encounters with UFOs or alien entities can be a life-changing experience and elicit a wide range of reactions from the people who experience them. For some it is fear of the unknown, an overwhelming terror induced by seeing something they feel they were not meant to. For others it might be awe and wonder, and still others still might doubt what they have seen at all, trying to stuff the experience into a neat little hole of the logical and rational explanations, regardless of that creeping feeling clawing at the back of their mind that it is anything but. However, humans being humans there is also another reaction, to just open fire and kill them all, and there are actually quite a few accounts of this happening.
There are supposed attacks by humans on UFOs dating back all the way to at least the 1940s, and by far the most famous of these is perhaps the one that occurred on February 25, 1942. On this evening air raid sirens all over the city of Los Angeles, California began blaring, followed by a fierce barrage of anti-aircraft fire lighting up the night sky. Considering that the United States had just entered World War II just months before, this was thought by the terrified populace to be an enemy attack launched by the Japanese.
Although officials would later claim that “The Battle of Los Angeles” had been the result of a false alarm and jumpy nerves, of course conspiracy theorists have said that not only is this a cover-up, but that it was not the Japanese at all, but rather UFOs that were being fired upon in a panic. A very famous image used as evidence of this is one circulated in the news at the time which purportedly shows spotlights converging on a UFO in the sky over Los Angeles as tracer fire erupts everywhere. The image has been debated and discussed for years, and although accused of being touched up and hoaxed, still often gets placed on lists of iconic UFO images. Just what is it we are looking at here?
War time seems to have a lot of these kinds of accounts, and it seems to make sense, what with everyone trigger happy and the tendency for UFOs to seem to be drawn to human military conflict for whatever reasons. Troops in the Vietnam War certainly seem to have experienced this first hand from time to time. One particularly bizarre incident occurred in 1970, at Lone-Jon Island, where a 5-man team of soldiers claimed that they were being hunted by bright lights measuring a mere 4 inches by 4 inches in size. These lights were described as disc-shaped and having what were called “black eyes,” and they were said to be capable of great feats of maneuverability, darting, zig-zagging, and hovering all over the place. The team claimed that when they fired upon the objects they would shift color to an angry glowing red, with the black eye part morphing into a bright green. These intimidating, menacing lights apparently stalked and attacked the team during both daylight and nighttime hours over a period of 5 days, often coming shockingly close, to within 5 feet of the team’s position. One of the men supposedly took several photos of the bizarre incident.
When the men got back from their harrowing ordeal and were debriefed they told of what had happened to them and were reportedly told to forget about it. Their equipment was also searched and some of it confiscated, including the pictures that had been taken. People were brought in to interview them extensively on what they had seen, and although it was unclear who they were, at least one of the men was convinced that they were CIA. Even odder still is that a few months later some American personnel allegedly showed up at the homes of the soldiers’ parents asking about any photographic materials that may have been sent to them. The whole thing adds the layer of a sinister cover-up to the already rather scary events depicted by the report.
American forces don’t seem to have been the only ones dealing with hostilities with UFOs. In a really weird report, in the summer of 1968, a Ranger recon unit was operating along the DMZ in an area that what was referred to as the “North Country” in the early morning hours. The team was wary and on edge, completely attuned to their surroundings, as it had already been established that an enemy Viet Cong unit was positioned on the other side of the hill, so the enemy could have been anywhere creeping about in the jungle around them. At approximately 2AM, the team claimed that a bright, fluorescent blue light could be seen closing in on their position, and that the strange, unidentified object stopped to hover momentarily around a quarter of a mile away before moving towards the baffled unit once again. The entire time the flying object was said to be completely silent.
As the recon unit struggled to comprehend this bizarre sight that they were seeing, the NVA on the other side of the hill, after presumably gawking at the sight as well, did what humans do and reportedly began firing on the light in full force. The night lit up with tracer rounds blazing skyward towards the strange object floating there and it must have been quite a haunting, mesmerizing sight. For a few moments the object did not react, merely absorbing the assault without showing any sign of distress or damage. Indeed, it seemed to be completely unfazed by the barrage of bullets raging at it. Then, it was claimed that a blindingly bright beam of light lashed forth from the object and the NVA machine gun fire abruptly stopped to send the jungle into a sudden silence so profound that it was jarring, the instant quiet almost deafening in the wake of the cacophony that had exploded through the air just moments before. The light in the sky then reportedly cruised off in complete silence to leave nothing but the droning sounds of the nighttime jungle behind.
The next morning, the recon team decided to make their way to the NVA camp to see what had happened, sensing that they were going to find something weird at the very least and they would not be disappointed. They found the enemy camp to be seemingly abandoned, and strewn about were 12.7MM machine guns and other assorted firearms that looked as if they had been partially melted by a relentless, scorching heat. A closer inspection of the camp turned up what appeared to be piles of ashes and bits of what could have been charred bones scattered about. The leader of the team apparently took pictures of the scene, which he would later include in his report of the spooky incident. Shortly after, he went to rejoin his unit but was told that he had been reassigned to another team. When he asked about what had become of his report and the photos he was allegedly told that no such report existed, and that if he were to continue pressing the matter he could face prison time. Other members of the team were purportedly similarly intimidated with such threats.
Another incident involving the NVA was reported in the State Journal in Lansing, Michigan on Sept. 29, 1972, in a piece entitled What Was UFO Over Hanoi? The report claimed that a huge, luminous orange spherical UFO had appeared at a high altitude above Hanoi on a clear day, and then hovered in a stationary position. North Vietnamese air defenses had then almost immediately fired upon it with three consecutive surface-to-air missiles, but these were either unable to reach it or unable to harm it, although after the missiles were fired it was reported that the UFO diminished somewhat in intensity, becoming “less bright” than it had been before.
Nevertheless it reportedly continued to hover over the city for a full one hour and 20 minutes before leaving. In a similar incident reported by the Russian publication Aura-Z, another UFO was supposedly seen over Hanoi and was also fired upon by missiles, which apparently did hit it but had no effect. In this case, the UFO is claimed to have fired a “fine, needle-like, light blue ray” at the defense batteries, completely destroying them and allegedly killing around 200 personnel in the process. This particular, no doubt spectacular report has been suspected of being a hoax, but it is intriguing nonetheless.
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/welcome-to-earth-strange-cases-of-human-attacks-on-ufos-and-aliens/
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Post by ZETAR on Mar 9, 2020 13:44:56 GMT
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