SPC Tornado Watch 125 Status Reports

Watch 125 Status Reports

STATUS REPORT #4 ON WW 125 VALID 181845Z - 181940Z SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 30 WSW PBF TO 30 NNE LIT TO 25 NNW ARG TO 10 SW SLO. ..MARSH..04/18/13 ATTN...WFO...LZK...MEG...PAH...SGF... && STATUS REPORT FOR WT 125 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARC001-011-021-025-031-035-037-041-043-055-063-067-069-075-077- 079-085-093-095-107-111-117-121-123-145-147-181940- AR . ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ARKANSAS BRADLEY CLAY CLEVELAND CRAIGHEAD CRITTENDEN CROSS DESHA DREW GREENE INDEPENDENCE JACKSON JEFFERSON LAWRENCE LEE LINCOLN LONOKE MISSISSIPPI MONROE PHILLIPS POINSETT PRAIRIE RANDOLPH ST. FRANCIS WHITE WOODRUFF $$ ILC003-047-055-059-065-069-077-081-087-127-145-151-153-165-181- 185-191-193-199-181940- IL . ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ALEXANDER EDWARDS FRANKLIN GALLATIN HAMILTON HARDIN JACKSON JEFFERSON JOHNSON MASSAC PERRY POPE PULASKI SALINE UNION WABASH WAYNE WHITE WILLIAMSON $$ INC051-125-129-147-163-173-181940- IN . INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE GIBSON PIKE POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK $$ KYC007-039-055-075-083-101-105-139-145-157-225-233-181940- KY . KENTUCKY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BALLARD CARLISLE CRITTENDEN FULTON GRAVES HENDERSON HICKMAN LIVINGSTON MCCRACKEN MARSHALL UNION WEBSTER $$ MOC017-023-031-069-133-143-155-157-181-201-207-223-181940- MO . MISSOURI COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BOLLINGER BUTLER CAPE GIRARDEAU DUNKLIN MISSISSIPPI NEW MADRID PEMISCOT PERRY RIPLEY SCOTT STODDARD WAYNE $$ THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES. $$ STATUS REPORT #3 ON WW 125 VALID 181710Z - 181840Z SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 35 S HOT TO 35 NNW LIT TO 35 SSE UNO TO 35 SSW FAM TO 20 WSW SLO. ..LEITMAN..04/18/13 ATTN...WFO...LZK...MEG...PAH...SGF... && STATUS REPORT FOR WT 125 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARC001-011-013-021-023-025-031-035-037-039-041-043-045-053-055- 063-067-069-075-077-079-085-093-095-103-107-111-117-119-121-123- 125-135-145-147-181840- AR . ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ARKANSAS BRADLEY CALHOUN CLAY CLEBURNE CLEVELAND CRAIGHEAD CRITTENDEN CROSS DALLAS DESHA DREW FAULKNER GRANT GREENE INDEPENDENCE JACKSON JEFFERSON LAWRENCE LEE LINCOLN LONOKE MISSISSIPPI MONROE OUACHITA PHILLIPS POINSETT PRAIRIE PULASKI RANDOLPH ST. FRANCIS SALINE SHARP WHITE WOODRUFF $$ ILC003-047-055-059-065-069-077-081-087-127-145-151-153-165-181- 185-191-193-199-181840- IL . ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ALEXANDER EDWARDS FRANKLIN GALLATIN HAMILTON HARDIN JACKSON JEFFERSON JOHNSON MASSAC PERRY POPE PULASKI SALINE UNION WABASH WAYNE WHITE WILLIAMSON $$ INC051-125-129-147-163-173-181840- IN . INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE GIBSON PIKE POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK $$ KYC007-039-055-075-083-101-105-139-145-157-225-233-181840- KY . KENTUCKY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BALLARD CARLISLE CRITTENDEN FULTON GRAVES HENDERSON HICKMAN LIVINGSTON MCCRACKEN MARSHALL UNION WEBSTER $$ MOC017-023-031-069-133-143-155-157-181-201-207-223-181840- MO . MISSOURI COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BOLLINGER BUTLER CAPE GIRARDEAU DUNKLIN MISSISSIPPI NEW MADRID PEMISCOT PERRY RIPLEY SCOTT STODDARD WAYNE $$ THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES. $$ STATUS REPORT #2 ON WW 125 VALID 181625Z - 181740Z SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 45 NE TXK TO 20 ENE RUE TO 35 W POF TO 10 WNW FAM. ..LEITMAN..04/18/13 ATTN...WFO...LZK...MEG...PAH...SGF... && STATUS REPORT FOR WT 125 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARC001-011-013-019-021-023-025-029-031-035-037-039-041-043-045- 051-053-055-059-063-065-067-069-075-077-079-085-093-095-103-105- 107-111-117-119-121-123-125-135-137-145-147-181740- AR . ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ARKANSAS BRADLEY CALHOUN CLARK CLAY CLEBURNE CLEVELAND CONWAY CRAIGHEAD CRITTENDEN CROSS DALLAS DESHA DREW FAULKNER GARLAND GRANT GREENE HOT SPRING INDEPENDENCE IZARD JACKSON JEFFERSON LAWRENCE LEE LINCOLN LONOKE MISSISSIPPI MONROE OUACHITA PERRY PHILLIPS POINSETT PRAIRIE PULASKI RANDOLPH ST. FRANCIS SALINE SHARP STONE WHITE WOODRUFF $$ ILC003-047-055-059-065-069-077-081-087-127-145-151-153-165-181- 185-191-193-199-181740- IL . ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ALEXANDER EDWARDS FRANKLIN GALLATIN HAMILTON HARDIN JACKSON JEFFERSON JOHNSON MASSAC PERRY POPE PULASKI SALINE UNION WABASH WAYNE WHITE WILLIAMSON $$ INC051-125-129-147-163-173-181740- IN . INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE GIBSON PIKE POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK $$ KYC007-039-055-075-083-101-105-139-145-157-225-233-181740- KY . KENTUCKY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BALLARD CARLISLE CRITTENDEN FULTON GRAVES HENDERSON HICKMAN LIVINGSTON MCCRACKEN MARSHALL UNION WEBSTER $$ MOC017-023-031-035-069-133-143-149-155-157-181-201-207-223- 181740- MO . MISSOURI COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BOLLINGER BUTLER CAPE GIRARDEAU CARTER DUNKLIN MISSISSIPPI NEW MADRID OREGON PEMISCOT PERRY RIPLEY SCOTT STODDARD WAYNE $$ THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES. $$ STATUS REPORT #1 ON WW 125 VALID 181525Z - 181640Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES ACROSS THE ENTIRE WATCH AREA. ..LEITMAN..04/18/13 ATTN...WFO...LZK...MEG...PAH...SGF... && STATUS REPORT FOR WT 125 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARC001-005-011-013-019-021-023-025-029-031-035-037-039-041-043- 045-049-051-053-055-059-063-065-067-069-075-077-079-085-093-095- 097-103-105-107-109-111-115-117-119-121-123-125-135-137-141-145- 147-149-181640- AR . ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ARKANSAS BAXTER BRADLEY CALHOUN CLARK CLAY CLEBURNE CLEVELAND CONWAY CRAIGHEAD CRITTENDEN CROSS DALLAS DESHA DREW FAULKNER FULTON GARLAND GRANT GREENE HOT SPRING INDEPENDENCE IZARD JACKSON JEFFERSON LAWRENCE LEE LINCOLN LONOKE MISSISSIPPI MONROE MONTGOMERY OUACHITA PERRY PHILLIPS PIKE POINSETT POPE PRAIRIE PULASKI RANDOLPH ST. FRANCIS SALINE SHARP STONE VAN BUREN WHITE WOODRUFF YELL $$ ILC003-047-055-059-065-069-077-081-087-127-145-151-153-165-181- 185-191-193-199-181640- IL . ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ALEXANDER EDWARDS FRANKLIN GALLATIN HAMILTON HARDIN JACKSON JEFFERSON JOHNSON MASSAC PERRY POPE PULASKI SALINE UNION WABASH WAYNE WHITE WILLIAMSON $$ INC051-125-129-147-163-173-181640- IN . INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE GIBSON PIKE POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK $$ KYC007-039-055-075-083-101-105-139-145-157-225-233-181640- KY . KENTUCKY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BALLARD CARLISLE CRITTENDEN FULTON GRAVES HENDERSON HICKMAN LIVINGSTON MCCRACKEN MARSHALL UNION WEBSTER $$ MOC017-023-031-035-069-091-133-143-149-155-157-181-201-203-207- 223-181640- MO . MISSOURI COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BOLLINGER BUTLER CAPE GIRARDEAU CARTER DUNKLIN HOWELL MISSISSIPPI NEW MADRID OREGON PEMISCOT PERRY RIPLEY SCOTT SHANNON STODDARD WAYNE $$ THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES. $$

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MacGyver Challenge: Hack Something Using Old Computer Parts

Hello, fellow Lifehackers! Time for another MacGyver Challenge. What's a MacGyver Challenge, you ask? Simple. We give you an object and you show us what cool things you can do with it. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win a copy of the Lifehacker book!

Ready? Then let's get started.

This Week's MacGyver Challenge: Hack Something Using Old Computer Parts

This week, we're asking you to make something out of those old computer parts you have sitting around waiting for something useful to do. And no, using them as is for parts in a new computer build doesn't count?we're looking for a little more creativity than that. For example, we've seen that you can transform a desktop graphics card into an external laptop graphics card, turn an old PC case into an aquarium, and do some interesting things with old hard drives.

Now, it's your turn. Share your best hack using old computer parts. Your hack can use other materials, of course, but the computer part (or parts) should be the defining element. Send us pictures and a description of your hack and feel free to annotate your photos if you need to. And don't be afraid to get creative!

How to Submit Your Entry

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• Post your entry below or send it to challenge@lifehacker.com with the subject MacGyver Challenge: Computer Parts. If you post your entry below and need to include more than one image, just reply to your own comment or host your extra pics on a free, quick image-hosting site like imgur and link out to your gallery.
• We will accept entries up through Sunday night, April 21 at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time
• We will showcase the best submissions and announce our favorite on Tuesday, April 23.

So grab that leather flight jacket, comb your mullet, and start channeling those MacGyver vibes. Here's a little theme music to put you in the mood. And don't forget to check back every week for a new challenge. We'll be alternating between Hacker Challenges and MacGyver Challenges.

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South Africa: Elephant handler trampled to death

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? A handler at an elephant park in South Africa was trampled to death while taking elephants out for exercise, the park's owner said Tuesday.

The accident happened at around 7 a.m. Monday at the Elephant Sanctuary near Hartbeespoort Dam, west of Pretoria. About half an hour earlier on the same day, an elephant injured two tourists when it overturned their vehicle in Kruger National Park in the northeastern part of South Africa, according to park authorities.

Craig Saunders, owner of the elephant sanctuary, said the handler, who had been working with African elephants for four years, slipped off the back of an elephant that was engaging in "boisterous behavior" with another elephant.

The handler ended up in the midst of the altercation, which happened during an exercise program for the elephants that is closed to guests, according to Saunders. Paramedics arrived within 10 to 15 minutes but they were unable to revive the handler.

"It was a pure chance accident," Saunders said. "There was no maliciousness of any sort displayed by the elephants."

The name of the handler was being withheld pending notification of his family.

The website of the sanctuary says it offers elephant back-riding to guests and notes the "special relationship" between handlers and the elephants.

Saunders said sitting on the back of an elephant is a "normal management tool" for handlers.

The two tourists whose car was attacked by an elephant are doing "fine" even though the man had suffered broken ribs and the woman had back pain, said William Mabasa, a spokesman for Kruger park. The two were being transferred for medical treatment in Johannesburg, he said. The male tourist told authorities he is from Poland and currently lecturing at a university in Hong Kong.

Mabasa recalled a number of cases in which elephants overturned vehicles in the park, and that people in the vehicles failed to take simple precautions "in all these situations."

In Monday's encounter, he said, the couple did not take basic steps to get to a safe place.

"They decided to switch off the engine even when the elephant was charging," he said. "Why would you do that? Why don't you drive away?"

Bull elephants can be aggressive during periods when they are sexually aroused, according to Mabasa.

"Always keep a good distance," he advised. "That's the safest way to deal with elephants."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-elephant-handler-trampled-death-112134358.html

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Kerry tamps down anxiety over NKorea missile power

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea on Friday not to test-fire a mid-range missile, while tamping down anxiety caused by a new U.S. intelligence report suggesting significant progress in the communist regime's nuclear weapons program.

Kicking off four days of talks in an East Asia beset by increasing North Korean threats, Kerry told reporters in Seoul that Pyongyang and its enigmatic young leader would only increase their isolation if they launched the missile that American officials believe has a range of some 2,500 miles ? or enough to reach the U.S. territory of Guam.

"If Kim Jong Un decides to launch a missile, whether it's across the Sea of Japan or some other direction, he will be choosing willfully to ignore the entire international community," Kerry told reporters. "And it will be a provocation and unwanted act that will raise people's temperatures."

If the trajectory of the test missile suggests that it could be a threat to either the U.S. or allies, the military would move to shoot it down from one of nine warships armed with sophisticated ballistic missile defense systems in the Pacific, including two that were moved closer to the Korean peninsula, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss military plans.

Kerry said the test would be a "huge mistake" for Kim.

"It will further isolate his country and further isolate his people who are desperate for food and not missile launches," he warned. "They are desperate for opportunity and not for a leader to flex his muscles."

Kerry's diplomatic tour, while planned long in advance, is unusual in that it brings him directly to a region of escalated tensions and precisely at a time when North Korea is threatening action. The North often times its military and nuclear tests to generate maximum attention, and Kerry's presence on the peninsula alone risked spurring Pyongyang into another provocation. Another key date is the 101st birthday of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, on April 15.

After meeting South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, Kerry also weighed in on an intelligence report that rocked Washington on Thursday, suggesting that North Korea now had the knowhow to arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead ? even if the weapons would lack reliability. Kerry, repeating assertions by other administration officials, noted that Pyongyang still hadn't developed or fully tested the nuclear capacities needed for such a step.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., surprised a hearing on the defense budget Thursday when he read aloud one paragraph of an otherwise classified Defense Intelligence Agency report. The assessment said the Pentagon's intelligence wing has "moderate confidence" that North Korea has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles but that the weapon was unreliable.

The disclosure took even Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by surprise and he refused to discuss it at the budget hearing. While analysts have made similar statements over the last two years, the reading of it at the same time Kim was renewing threats against the U.S. and its allies gave the notion new urgency.

Kerry offered strong words of solidarity for South Korea, praising Park's "bright vision" of a prosperous and reunified Korean Peninsula without nuclear weapons. By contrast, he said North Korea's Kim, by estimates only 29 or 30 years old, has a choice to make between provocation and returning to talks to de-escalate tension and lead to the end of its nuclear program.

"It's up to Kim Jong Un what he decides to do," Kerry said.

A missile launch, he said, "is not going to change our current position which is very clear: We will defend our allies. We will stand with South Korea and Japan against these threats. And we will defend ourselves."

Speaking beside Kerry, South Korea's Yun called for more United Nations action against Pyongyang if it commits another provocation.

He refused to comment specifically on the U.S. intelligence report, saying only that the North has "high nuclear and missile capabilities" but that it is still some time away from a nuclear bomb that is "small, light and diversified."

Both Yun and Kerry kept the door open for future negotiations with Pyongyang.

But both seemed to suggest that such talks were unlikely in light of the North's increasingly bombastic threats, including nuclear strikes on the United States. Most experts say those are unfeasible based on the North's current capacity and would never be explored seriously because the U.S. response would be overwhelming against a regime focused primarily on survival.

Kerry said any talks with North Korea have to lead toward denuclearization.

They have to be really serious," Kerry said. "No one is going to talk for the sake of talking and no one is going to play this round-robin game that gets repeated every few years, which is both unnecessary and dangerous."

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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-tamps-down-anxiety-over-nkorea-missile-power-195913523--politics.html

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February construction picks up but likely to contract Q1

LONDON (Reuters) - British construction output showed a tentative recovery in February but will need to record stellar growth in March to avoid registering a further quarter of contraction.

Despite accounting for less than 7 percent of Britain's economy, weak construction output was the main drag on growth during the first half of last year, helping to push the country back into recession.

It remains touch-and-go whether Britain's economy as a whole will record any growth in the first quarter. The economy contracted at the end of 2012 and another negative reading will prompt "triple-dip recession" headlines embarrassing for the government.

Non seasonally-adjusted figures from the Office for National Statistics on Friday showed that construction output was 7.0 percent lower in February than a year ago but 5.5 percent higher than in January. However, the bounce-back is smaller than typically seen at this time of year.

"The month-on-month increase in February sounds encouraging but still leaves output well below the level seen before the winter weather set in December," said Brian Hilliard, economist at Societe Generale.

With construction likely to subtract from first-quarter GDP, Hilliard said his best guess was for flat to 0.1 percent growth in the economy as a whole.

Construction output is highly responsive to the economic cycle and has fallen by 16.5 percent when comparing the last quarter of 2012 with the first quarter of 2008, just before a steep recession caused by the financial crisis.

Activity so far this year has been hit by an unusually severe and prolonged winter, but there are signs that public sector infrastructure cuts are also having an impact.

The Markit/CIPS construction index shows the sector contracted for the fifth month in a row in March. The only bright spot has been house-building where a firmer property market and government home-buying initiatives have provided some cheer.

"Irrespective of whether we get 0.1 percent growth in the first quarter or a 0.1 percent contraction, it's the same message: the UK economy is hardly growing at all," said Alan Clarke, strategist at Scotiabank.

(Reporting by Christina Fincher; editing by Stephen Nisbet)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-construction-output-falls-annual-7-0-percent-091347926--sector.html

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Carbon's role in planetary atmosphere formation

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A new study of how carbon is trapped and released by iron-rich volcanic magma offers clues about the early atmospheric evolution on Mars and other terrestrial bodies.

The composition of a planet's atmosphere has roots deep beneath its surface. When mantle material melts to form magma, it traps subsurface carbon. As magma moves upward toward the surface and pressure decreases, that carbon is released as a gas. On Earth, carbon is trapped in magma as carbonate and degassed as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that helps Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun. But how carbon is transferred from underground to the atmosphere in other planets ? and how that might influence greenhouse conditions ? wasn't well understood.

"We know carbon goes from the solid mantle to the liquid magma, from liquid to gas and then out," said Alberto Saal, professor of geological sciences at Brown and one of the study's authors. "We want to understand how the different carbon species that are formed in the conditions that are relevant to the planet affect the transfer."

This latest study, which also included researchers from Northwestern University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, indicated that under conditions like those found in the mantles of Mars, the Moon and other bodies, carbon is trapped in the magmas mainly as a species called iron carbonyl and released as carbon monoxide and methane gas. Both gasses, methane especially, have high greenhouse potential.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that when volcanism was widespread early in Mars' history, it may have released enough methane to keep the planet significantly warmer than it is today.

A key difference between conditions in Earth's mantle and the mantles of other terrestrial bodies is what scientists refer to as oxygen fugacity, the amount of free oxygen available to react with other elements. Earth's mantle today has a relatively high oxygen fugacity, but in bodies like the Moon and early Mars, it is very low. To find out what how that lower oxygen fugacity affects carbon transfer, the researchers set up a series of experiments using volcanic basalt similar to those found on the Moon and Mars.

They melted the volcanic rock at varying pressures, temperature, and oxygen fugacities, using a powerful spectrometer to measure how much carbon was absorbed by the melt and in what form. They found that at low oxygen fugacities, carbon was trapped as iron carbonyl, something previous research hadn't detected. At lower pressures, iron carbonyl degassed as carbon monoxide and methane.

"We found that you can dissolve in the magma more carbon at low oxygen fugacity than what was previously thought," said Diane Wetzel, a Brown graduate student and the study's lead author. "That plays a big role in the degassing of planetary interiors and in how that will then affect the evolution of atmospheres in different planetary bodies."

Early in its history, Mars was home to giant active volcanoes, which means significant amounts of methane would have been released by carbon transfer. Because of methane's greenhouse potential, which is much higher than that of carbon dioxide, the findings suggest that even a thin atmosphere early in Mars' history might have created conditions warm enough for liquid water on the surface.

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