>There is 13 times as much energy in coal in the form of Thorium as there is available by burning the coal, and right now we literally throw it away in the ash pile!
>What is Thorium? It's a fertile material. That means that when struck by a neutron in a reactor it transmutes via a nuclear process to an element that is capable of fission. Note that Thorium itself is not fissionable - that is, it will not (directly) split and release energy. Instead it captures thermal neutrons and turns into Uranium-233. U-233 is fissile.
>There is a type of nuclear reactor that utilizes this fuel cycle. Instead of the traditional nuclear reactor which uses water as a moderator and coolant (either a boiling or pressurized water reactor) these reactors use a liquid salt. In the vernacular they're called "LFTR"s, pronounced "Lifter."
>You've probably never heard of them. But they're not pie in the sky dreams. Our nation ran one for nearly four years in the 1960s at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was scrapped in favor of the traditional uranium fuel cycle we use today because the fuel it produces is very difficult to exploit for nuclear weapons, and it breeds fuel at a slow rate. The natural process of the nuclear reactions in the core of such a unit produces a byproduct that is a very strong gamma emitter that is difficult to separate from the other reaction products. For this reason - and because we wanted both nuclear power and nuclear weapons - we built the infrastructure for uranium and plutonium rather than thorium.
>Thorium-based reactors have several significant advantages and a few disadvantages. We have much less experience with LFTRs than traditional nuclear power, simply because we stopped working with them for political and war-fighting reasons. They use a fluoride salt which is quite reactive when in contact with water, but the reactivity is a bonus in all other respects, because it tends to encapsulate the reaction products (the nasty fission products that you don't want in the environment) through that same chemical process. It runs at a much higher temperature (typically 650C) than a traditional reactor and unlike a traditional reactor the fuel and the working fluid is the same - there are no fuel rods that can melt and release their nasty fission product elements, as the fuel is dispersed in the coolant.
>Finally, the unit is intrinsically safe. It does not require high pressure; the working fluid and coolant is a liquid at ordinary atmospheric pressure. This gets rid of the need for high-pressure pumps, pipes and similar materials. Without the moderator the reactivity is insufficient to sustain a chain reaction, and the moderator is in the reactor vessel itself through which the fuel/coolant is pumped, so criticality is impossible outside of the reactor vessel and inside the vessel the fuel and coolant are the same, and a liquid. The working fluid is contained in the reactor loop by an actively-cooled plug. If power is lost cooling ceases and the plug melts; the working fluid then drains into tanks by gravity under the reactor and cools into a solid, as it cannot maintain criticality outside of the reactor itself (there's no moderator in the tank or the plumbing.) As the fuel is in the fluid, there is no core to melt as occurred in Japan and being dispersed over a much larger area the working fluid naturally cools from liquid to solid without forced pumping and cooling. This safety feature was regularly tested in the unit at Oak Ridge - they literally turned off the power on the weekends and simply went home!
Karl Denninger has written several articles over the years discussing how these reactors could solve our energy problems safely.
Thank you for suggesting what are sure to be highly interesting stacks. I've looked at several you've previously recommended and subscribed to some. Wrath of Gnon is a special treat🙌🏼 I wish I could find an additional 12-24 hours to add to the 24 currently available to me, in order to explore all of these.
I don't even get over to Deimos very often for lack of time and an embarrassing wealth of choices. Deimos is chock full of intelligent, intriguing discourse that, were I to visit on a daily basis, I'm afraid nothing else in my life would ever get done! It’s an open-forum university that offers more in useful knowledge than any ivy-league institution could ever hope to.
Just subscribed to your Tonic Discussions channel. Your topic re: Climate Change interests me, because, through my own observations and having seen decades of dire predictions that never (nor will they ever) materialize, it is clear to me that the purveyors of this fear-porn have one agenda - clear out the useless eaters so that their class may enjoy the utopia they envision. Lunitards! Cultists! Religious fanatics! Pitiful excuses of human beings who waste the wonder and opportunity our Earth and her peoples provide. Besides, what hubris and arrogance these nihilists demonstrate to think that we humans could EVER compete against Nature itself with mere CO2 emissions through the use of fossil fuels. Change is built into the plan, for God's sake! However, we cannot discount the possibility that they will be the ones, through employment of evil, stupid, ill-considered plans and practices who will wipe out the entirety of humans and most organic life forms. Until that day arrives, I will continue to live in the bliss of understanding and the joy of reading the words of so many fine minds here and almost everywhere if one is interested in finding them.
Deimos is a consistently interesting place and only grows more so over time. It's already hard for me to keep up with.
I don't think the carbon cultists are going to win. The countries under their control (for now) are failing, and the people in those countries regarding the cult with increasing hostility. Not that this matters to the ruling class, who have made it quite clear that they could care less what the plebs think. Such elites, however, have a tendency to get circulated.
I've gathered the temerity to disagree: the powers that shouldn't be scraped the bottom of care barrel many moons ago, so they sure could _not_ care less 😝
Thanks, John, for the shout-out and for introducing me to other interesting writers on this platform. Substack really is for today's free thinkers what the Left Bank of postwar Paris was for the Lost Generation. (Which is all the more reason to fight every manipulative attempt by crybully Marxcissists to bring Substack to heel and give their kind control of the conversation.)
Also, Daiva, when the hell are you going to start publishing your own writings? Your comments are always interesting and . . . mysterious. Who is this fascinating thinker lurking behind that avatar that we see next to all these intriguing comments? You're like the Zorro of substack comment sections, fighting the good fight and then disappearing into the ether, leaving us to wonder, who is this masked hero?
Love reading your stuff, Daniel. You were introduced to me by John. And, if I may say, when Daiva likes a comment I've made, here and elsewhere, I get a little thrill of pride 😌
Apr 22, 2023·edited Apr 22, 2023Liked by John Carter
🤩 Had to clamber for dear life from under the ungodly heaps of praise rained 😊 Now still drenched: I am who I am 🤭
PS One thing is beyond sure: start publishing I will not, what an improbable thought! I'm thoroughly 2-H'ed (honoured & humbled) though, ty a Graham's number 💖
The climate cult reminds me of your aztec article... we have replaced one form of human sacrifice with another. The gods must be appeased or the world will end
And then there are the writers that have joined substack that already have thousands and thousands of followers but need to be recognized on here. Jon Rappoport of No More Fake News and James Corbett of the Corbett Report are two I can say are folks to follow. And then there is this Lion guy who just got on here about a year ago and could use a bit more of a following so people can understand more about the monetary reality that we are facing. Oh, that's me! Jus Meum Tuebor! (I Will FIGHT FOR MY RIGHTS!)
Apr 22, 2023·edited Apr 22, 2023Liked by John Carter
Hey, John. I enjoy your work and think you're a fantastic writer, so I feel a bit unworthy sharing a couple of shameless, self-promoting links, especially since our content is so different.
Nevertheless, the point of writing is to share, so I'll push past the feeling that I'm about to walk out of my Substack hotel room in my underpants, leaving my key on the nightstand, and offer these two links for your consideration. Both are original fiction with a slant toward the extraordinary.
Ah hah, another fiction writer. Wonderful! There are too few on Substack ... hard to get engagement for it, I've found, and others have reported the same.
And don't feel bad about promoting your work in the comments, this is, I've found, a powerful way to grow organically.
I agree. It has been somewhat challenging to gain traction; though, to be fair, I'm just getting started.
Since self-publishing on Amazon feels a lot like punching myself in the crotch with a flail, I'm hoping Substack will take off as THE place for creative writers to share their work.
This was a great idea, and thank you. I have already opened up 3 new tabs, into an already busy browser. Substack has turned into a great place to find like minded people. It's similar to my environment at work. I work in the Bad Neighborhood, where we say what we want, no one pays attention to us, and while it's violent and oftentimes depressing, the freedom within the ghetto is reminiscent of Winston noting that the future lies within the Proles. It's this incredibly ironic situation that I'm sharing.
Freedom can be found in the hidden places, that power does not care about. Oh course, the lawlessness of the ghetto is somewhat intentional - it creates the conditions for anarchotyranny, as a means of controlling the middle via fear of the oppression from the laws of the high and victimization by the chaos of the low. When the youth tried to carve out their own temporary autonomous zones in the abandoned warehouses repurposed by rave culture, this was crushed....
Good point. I write for a black guy, Curtis Scoon, who realizes that the black community and its bootlickers are used by the Power Elite, and the "Negro Wranglers", as he calls them, are always ready to do someone else's bidding. Interesting guy.
And in exchange for it, they are paid with prisons, drug addiction, broken families, and poverty. As always, it is dangerous to be America's enemy but lethal to be it's ally.
Apr 23, 2023·edited Apr 23, 2023Liked by John Carter
🗨 The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. ~~Tom Robbins
Hear the rollin' reverberations from ~⅔ a century back? ↓↓ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Arghhhh, and how ffs is one supposed to keep up?! 🤪 Anywhoo woo-hoo, let the sharing let its hair down! 🤸
My two favourites, for sheer d-lite to read masterly painted texts:
✨ Poiema: short tales about (extra)ordinary lives of (extra)ordinary peeps (and dogs) in trad American South --> nojesuittricks.substack.com
✨ On Words and Up Words—pretty much as the label says—tales about (extra)ordinary lives of (extra)ordinary words (and occasionally beyond) --> onwords.substack.com
Quality humour in assorted flavours from poignant to piercing to mellow, in both 😊
it is a matter of size. we know that at the biological molecular level, such as genetic material, configurations of molecules can be changed and rearranged by the telekinetic powers of advanced consciousness and focused will, and of course, knowledge of what the different configurations will mean to changes in the macro biological form. which hopefully will support the attribute of life and reproduction. or whatever other macro effect is being sought.
in the same way, as the CPU and memory cores and "chipboard" paths connecting them into functioning digital machines, as these all become more minute and thus susceptible to the energy ranges which telekinesis and focused intention can manipulate, then these digital machines, will invite consciousness to inhabit the machines, as crabs inhabit bottles and jars found on the sea floor.
it is a question of size. and the energy ranges where telekinesis can move molecules and quanta.
Thanks for your intellect, humor, and heart (no, I'm not just buttering you up to read my stack) and for being willing to shine the light on other writers (okay, maybe just a LITTLE, but I've been singing your praises for a LONG TIME, and will continue to do so, regardless). Your stuff inspires me -- I'm a better writer for reading it. MPM
Wow. Thank you for the high praise, Mary - and for taking the time to share your blog, which looks quite interesting. I'm always glad to see writers adopting a more creative approach, I think we need a lot more of that.
Apr 23, 2023·edited Apr 23, 2023Liked by John Carter
Thanks a ton for the shoutout! Honored to be included among the many talented and insightful writers here. Definitely added a few more tabs to an already crowded browser window, lol
On the topic of Thorium, consider: (source: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2491667 )
>There is 13 times as much energy in coal in the form of Thorium as there is available by burning the coal, and right now we literally throw it away in the ash pile!
>What is Thorium? It's a fertile material. That means that when struck by a neutron in a reactor it transmutes via a nuclear process to an element that is capable of fission. Note that Thorium itself is not fissionable - that is, it will not (directly) split and release energy. Instead it captures thermal neutrons and turns into Uranium-233. U-233 is fissile.
>There is a type of nuclear reactor that utilizes this fuel cycle. Instead of the traditional nuclear reactor which uses water as a moderator and coolant (either a boiling or pressurized water reactor) these reactors use a liquid salt. In the vernacular they're called "LFTR"s, pronounced "Lifter."
>You've probably never heard of them. But they're not pie in the sky dreams. Our nation ran one for nearly four years in the 1960s at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was scrapped in favor of the traditional uranium fuel cycle we use today because the fuel it produces is very difficult to exploit for nuclear weapons, and it breeds fuel at a slow rate. The natural process of the nuclear reactions in the core of such a unit produces a byproduct that is a very strong gamma emitter that is difficult to separate from the other reaction products. For this reason - and because we wanted both nuclear power and nuclear weapons - we built the infrastructure for uranium and plutonium rather than thorium.
>Thorium-based reactors have several significant advantages and a few disadvantages. We have much less experience with LFTRs than traditional nuclear power, simply because we stopped working with them for political and war-fighting reasons. They use a fluoride salt which is quite reactive when in contact with water, but the reactivity is a bonus in all other respects, because it tends to encapsulate the reaction products (the nasty fission products that you don't want in the environment) through that same chemical process. It runs at a much higher temperature (typically 650C) than a traditional reactor and unlike a traditional reactor the fuel and the working fluid is the same - there are no fuel rods that can melt and release their nasty fission product elements, as the fuel is dispersed in the coolant.
>Finally, the unit is intrinsically safe. It does not require high pressure; the working fluid and coolant is a liquid at ordinary atmospheric pressure. This gets rid of the need for high-pressure pumps, pipes and similar materials. Without the moderator the reactivity is insufficient to sustain a chain reaction, and the moderator is in the reactor vessel itself through which the fuel/coolant is pumped, so criticality is impossible outside of the reactor vessel and inside the vessel the fuel and coolant are the same, and a liquid. The working fluid is contained in the reactor loop by an actively-cooled plug. If power is lost cooling ceases and the plug melts; the working fluid then drains into tanks by gravity under the reactor and cools into a solid, as it cannot maintain criticality outside of the reactor itself (there's no moderator in the tank or the plumbing.) As the fuel is in the fluid, there is no core to melt as occurred in Japan and being dispersed over a much larger area the working fluid naturally cools from liquid to solid without forced pumping and cooling. This safety feature was regularly tested in the unit at Oak Ridge - they literally turned off the power on the weekends and simply went home!
Karl Denninger has written several articles over the years discussing how these reactors could solve our energy problems safely.
)Use the full-text search at https://market-ticker.org/ and enter "thorium" )
Thank you for suggesting what are sure to be highly interesting stacks. I've looked at several you've previously recommended and subscribed to some. Wrath of Gnon is a special treat🙌🏼 I wish I could find an additional 12-24 hours to add to the 24 currently available to me, in order to explore all of these.
I don't even get over to Deimos very often for lack of time and an embarrassing wealth of choices. Deimos is chock full of intelligent, intriguing discourse that, were I to visit on a daily basis, I'm afraid nothing else in my life would ever get done! It’s an open-forum university that offers more in useful knowledge than any ivy-league institution could ever hope to.
Just subscribed to your Tonic Discussions channel. Your topic re: Climate Change interests me, because, through my own observations and having seen decades of dire predictions that never (nor will they ever) materialize, it is clear to me that the purveyors of this fear-porn have one agenda - clear out the useless eaters so that their class may enjoy the utopia they envision. Lunitards! Cultists! Religious fanatics! Pitiful excuses of human beings who waste the wonder and opportunity our Earth and her peoples provide. Besides, what hubris and arrogance these nihilists demonstrate to think that we humans could EVER compete against Nature itself with mere CO2 emissions through the use of fossil fuels. Change is built into the plan, for God's sake! However, we cannot discount the possibility that they will be the ones, through employment of evil, stupid, ill-considered plans and practices who will wipe out the entirety of humans and most organic life forms. Until that day arrives, I will continue to live in the bliss of understanding and the joy of reading the words of so many fine minds here and almost everywhere if one is interested in finding them.
Deimos is a consistently interesting place and only grows more so over time. It's already hard for me to keep up with.
I don't think the carbon cultists are going to win. The countries under their control (for now) are failing, and the people in those countries regarding the cult with increasing hostility. Not that this matters to the ruling class, who have made it quite clear that they could care less what the plebs think. Such elites, however, have a tendency to get circulated.
I've gathered the temerity to disagree: the powers that shouldn't be scraped the bottom of care barrel many moons ago, so they sure could _not_ care less 😝
Oh God. "Could care less". I did a North-Americanism.
Did any elite throughout human history ever care about what the peasants thought?
I expect the French nobility had reason to around 1789 or thenabouts.
Wasn't that a proto-marxist overthrow? The french royalty doomed themselves by aiding the american rebels... bankrupted the country.
Presactly right: be of good cheer, for God is still in charge, and
🗨 we have Untapped Depths that we can access to see us through the impossible 🙂
Great quote. Who is the from?
Here you go for few more --> christinekent.substack.com/p/the-paralysis-of-the-old-and-the 👌
Excellent.
Thanks, John, for the shout-out and for introducing me to other interesting writers on this platform. Substack really is for today's free thinkers what the Left Bank of postwar Paris was for the Lost Generation. (Which is all the more reason to fight every manipulative attempt by crybully Marxcissists to bring Substack to heel and give their kind control of the conversation.)
Also, Daiva, when the hell are you going to start publishing your own writings? Your comments are always interesting and . . . mysterious. Who is this fascinating thinker lurking behind that avatar that we see next to all these intriguing comments? You're like the Zorro of substack comment sections, fighting the good fight and then disappearing into the ether, leaving us to wonder, who is this masked hero?
It's kind of amazing how I consistently find Daiva teasing the comments of blogs I've just discovered. She's everywhere and always one step ahead 👀
Love reading your stuff, Daniel. You were introduced to me by John. And, if I may say, when Daiva likes a comment I've made, here and elsewhere, I get a little thrill of pride 😌
"You have been smiled upon by Daiva, river sprite of the stacks. This blessing confers immunity from the self-serious curse of gravity."
😎🧚♀️🙇🏼♀️
🤩 Aww, you can't be for real 🫠
I sure am for real - I never bestow compliments lightly
🫠 further... Neither do I when it comes to distributing my ♥ 😊
Y'all are gonna give me cavities.
You're under no obligation to take that which's given 😝
Thanks, and I take that guilty pleasure in her "likes" too!
🤩 Had to clamber for dear life from under the ungodly heaps of praise rained 😊 Now still drenched: I am who I am 🤭
PS One thing is beyond sure: start publishing I will not, what an improbable thought! I'm thoroughly 2-H'ed (honoured & humbled) though, ty a Graham's number 💖
We can keep hoping that you'll change your mind and publish your thoughts at greater length!
The climate cult reminds me of your aztec article... we have replaced one form of human sacrifice with another. The gods must be appeased or the world will end
Precisely so.
And then there are the writers that have joined substack that already have thousands and thousands of followers but need to be recognized on here. Jon Rappoport of No More Fake News and James Corbett of the Corbett Report are two I can say are folks to follow. And then there is this Lion guy who just got on here about a year ago and could use a bit more of a following so people can understand more about the monetary reality that we are facing. Oh, that's me! Jus Meum Tuebor! (I Will FIGHT FOR MY RIGHTS!)
Looks interesting man, I shall give your stack a look.
Hey, John. I enjoy your work and think you're a fantastic writer, so I feel a bit unworthy sharing a couple of shameless, self-promoting links, especially since our content is so different.
Nevertheless, the point of writing is to share, so I'll push past the feeling that I'm about to walk out of my Substack hotel room in my underpants, leaving my key on the nightstand, and offer these two links for your consideration. Both are original fiction with a slant toward the extraordinary.
https://writetothepoint.blog/p/the-time-traveler
https://writetothepoint.blog/p/ruthless
Thank you for your effort to create a vibrant and welcoming writing community on Substack.
Ah hah, another fiction writer. Wonderful! There are too few on Substack ... hard to get engagement for it, I've found, and others have reported the same.
And don't feel bad about promoting your work in the comments, this is, I've found, a powerful way to grow organically.
I agree. It has been somewhat challenging to gain traction; though, to be fair, I'm just getting started.
Since self-publishing on Amazon feels a lot like punching myself in the crotch with a flail, I'm hoping Substack will take off as THE place for creative writers to share their work.
In principle, one can monetize twice - via serialization, and then with the final work. Not sure I've seen anyone pull that off, though.
This was a great idea, and thank you. I have already opened up 3 new tabs, into an already busy browser. Substack has turned into a great place to find like minded people. It's similar to my environment at work. I work in the Bad Neighborhood, where we say what we want, no one pays attention to us, and while it's violent and oftentimes depressing, the freedom within the ghetto is reminiscent of Winston noting that the future lies within the Proles. It's this incredibly ironic situation that I'm sharing.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
Freedom can be found in the hidden places, that power does not care about. Oh course, the lawlessness of the ghetto is somewhat intentional - it creates the conditions for anarchotyranny, as a means of controlling the middle via fear of the oppression from the laws of the high and victimization by the chaos of the low. When the youth tried to carve out their own temporary autonomous zones in the abandoned warehouses repurposed by rave culture, this was crushed....
Good point. I write for a black guy, Curtis Scoon, who realizes that the black community and its bootlickers are used by the Power Elite, and the "Negro Wranglers", as he calls them, are always ready to do someone else's bidding. Interesting guy.
And in exchange for it, they are paid with prisons, drug addiction, broken families, and poverty. As always, it is dangerous to be America's enemy but lethal to be it's ally.
Just like white america, minus the benefit of being worshipped.
🗨 The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. ~~Tom Robbins
Hear the rollin' reverberations from ~⅔ a century back? ↓↓ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🗨 The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man.[...] Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige, and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. (full form at goodreads.com/quotes/11115124-the-white-liberal-is-the-worst-enemy-to-america-and)
OK: try mine!
Arghhhh, and how ffs is one supposed to keep up?! 🤪 Anywhoo woo-hoo, let the sharing let its hair down! 🤸
My two favourites, for sheer d-lite to read masterly painted texts:
✨ Poiema: short tales about (extra)ordinary lives of (extra)ordinary peeps (and dogs) in trad American South --> nojesuittricks.substack.com
✨ On Words and Up Words—pretty much as the label says—tales about (extra)ordinary lives of (extra)ordinary words (and occasionally beyond) --> onwords.substack.com
Quality humour in assorted flavours from poignant to piercing to mellow, in both 😊
I knew I could count on you to find something d-light-full.
it is a matter of size. we know that at the biological molecular level, such as genetic material, configurations of molecules can be changed and rearranged by the telekinetic powers of advanced consciousness and focused will, and of course, knowledge of what the different configurations will mean to changes in the macro biological form. which hopefully will support the attribute of life and reproduction. or whatever other macro effect is being sought.
in the same way, as the CPU and memory cores and "chipboard" paths connecting them into functioning digital machines, as these all become more minute and thus susceptible to the energy ranges which telekinesis and focused intention can manipulate, then these digital machines, will invite consciousness to inhabit the machines, as crabs inhabit bottles and jars found on the sea floor.
it is a question of size. and the energy ranges where telekinesis can move molecules and quanta.
Now there's an interesting way of looking at it. While I wouldn't phrase it in terms of telekinesis myself, I have considered similar possibilities.
John, I'm offering my The Art of Freedom stack up for your perusal, once you've made it through the hundreds of others. Here's a representative piece: https://marypoindextermclaughlin.substack.com/p/electing-the-wizard-revisited
Thanks for your intellect, humor, and heart (no, I'm not just buttering you up to read my stack) and for being willing to shine the light on other writers (okay, maybe just a LITTLE, but I've been singing your praises for a LONG TIME, and will continue to do so, regardless). Your stuff inspires me -- I'm a better writer for reading it. MPM
Wow. Thank you for the high praise, Mary - and for taking the time to share your blog, which looks quite interesting. I'm always glad to see writers adopting a more creative approach, I think we need a lot more of that.
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Know what that means? The peasants living in symbiosis with their strongman ruler
THAT took a lot of work. Commendable. I will check them all out.
Thanks a ton for the shoutout! Honored to be included among the many talented and insightful writers here. Definitely added a few more tabs to an already crowded browser window, lol
I'd be grateful for a link to https://patrickdotnet.substack.com/ or to the home site, https://patrick.net/memes
Good memes.
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