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This Hubble image captures a portion of a dark nebula in the constellation Cepheus. LDN 1165 is part of a collection called Lynds’ Catalog of Dark Nebulae, originally published in 1962. Dark nebulae ― also called absorption nebulae ― are clouds of gas and dust that neither emit nor reflect light, instead blocking light coming from behind them. These nebulae tend to contain large amounts of dust, which allows them to absorb visible light from stars or nebulae beyond them. Dark nebulae are so dark that they’ve been referred to as “holes in the sky,” but in reality they may be full of activity, with stars sometimes forming inside their dense clouds.
Hubble observed this region as part of a study of protostars, hot dense cores of newly forming stars that are accumulating gas and dust as they undergo the starbirth process. The bright area in this image is likely a star-forming region that may hold one or more young protostars. Further study of dark nebulae like LDN 1165 will help us better understand the nature of these dark and dusty clouds and the stellar nurseries that may lurk within them.
Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
This is a montage of the minor partial eclipse of the Moon of September 17, 2024, showing the sequence from the start of the umbral phase, at left, to the end, at right. The two images in between on either side of mid-eclipse were shot at roughly equal time intervals, to show the progress of the Moon along the edge of the umbral shadow.
The middle image was taken at mid-eclipse when only 8% of the lunar disk was immersed in the Earth's umbral shadow, taking a dark bite out of the northern edge of the Full Moon. This is not enough of an eclipse to show any reddening of the umbra, unlike at a total eclipse or even a major partial eclipse.
Throughout most of the eclipse the rest of the Moon was within the lighter penumbral shadow, creating the gradient of brightness across the disk with the southern region brighter than the north.
However, more obvious is the change in colour of the lunar disk as the eclipse progresses, from yellow to whiter. That is not due to the eclipse or effect of the Earth's shadow, but is from the Moon climbing higher in the southeast over the roughly hour-long umbral phase, decreasing the amount of atmospheric absorption that yellows the disk of a low Moon. Indeed, for the first part of the eclipse the Moon was in light cloud.
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This middle mid-eclipse image is a blend of two exposures: a short 1/40-second exposure for the main disk and a longer 1/10-second exposure taken immediately after, to bring out the area at top in the umbral shadow. The others are single 1/40-second exposures.
All through the Askar APO120 refractor at f/7 with the Canon R5 at ISO 100. On the AP400 mount.
Prior to the October 2019 absorption of Long Sutton depot into the division, the furthest south one would find a Stagecoach East Midlands vehicle was Grantham. Grantham is reached by service 1 from Lincoln which currently operates hourly along the full route and half hourly between Lincoln and Wellingore. Deckers are the usual allocation, and former North East Enviro 400 NK57DWG (19202) is seen here on its way out of Caythorpe with the 10:00 from Grantham, the Grade I-listed St Vincent's visible in the background.
Flying Scotsman leaving Great Yarmouth for London pulling a special excursion train as part of the locomotives 100th. anniversary.
The Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive
In July 1922, the Great Northern Railway (GNR) filed Engine Order No. 297 which gave the green-light for ten Class A1 4-6-2 'Pacific' locomotives to be built at the Doncaster Works. Designed by Nigel Gresley, the A1's were built to haul mainline and later express passenger trains and following the GNR's absorption into the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after the amalgamation of 1923, A1's became a standard design. Flying Scotsman cost £7,944 to build, and was the first engine delivered to the newly formed LNER. It entered service on 24th. February 1923, carrying the GNR number of 1472 as the LNER had not yet decided on a numbering scheme. In February 1924 the locomotive acquired its name after the LNER's Flying Scotsman express service between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley, and was assigned a new number, 4472.
Flying Scotsman became a flagship locomotive for the LNER, representing the company at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park in 1924 and 1925. In 1928, the LNER decided to make The Flying Scotsman a non-stop service for the first time. 4472 became one of five A1's selected for the service, and hauled the inaugural service on 1st. May where it completed the journey in 8 hours and 3 minutes. For this, the locomotives ran with an upgraded tender which held nine long tons of coal and was fitted with a corridor connecting the footplate to the carriages, so a change of driver and fireman could take place while the train was moving. By replenishing water from the water trough system several times en route, these modifications allowed the A1's to travel the 392 miles (631 km) without stopping. Flying Scotsman ran with its corridor tender until October 1936, after which it reverted to the original type. In 1938, it was paired with a streamlined non-corridor tender, and ran with this type until its withdrawal in 1963.
On 30th. November 1934, Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive to reach the officially authenticated speed of 100 mph (161 km/h), while hauling a light test train between Leeds and London, and the publicity conscious LNER made much of the fact. Although the Great Western Railway's 3440 City of Truro was reported to have reached the same speed in 1904, the record was unreliable.
Following the success of Gresley's streamlined Class A4's introduced in 1935, Flying Scotsman was relegated to lesser duties but still worked on the main line and hauling passenger services. In 1943, as with all railway stock during World War II, the locomotive was painted black. In 1946, it was renumbered twice by Gresley's successor Edward Thompson, who devised a comprehensive renumbering scheme for the LNER. 4472 was initially assigned number 502, but an amendment to the system several months later led to its renumbering of 103.
In 1928, Gresley began to modify the A1's into an improved version, the Class A3, on a gradual basis. In 1945, the remaining unmodified A1's, which included Flying Scotsman, were reclassified as A10. 103 emerged as an A3 on 4 January 1947 with its original Apple Green livery. Its old 180 psi boiler was replaced with a 225 psi version and it was fitted with more efficient valves and cylinders.
Following the nationalisation of Britain's railways on 1st. January 1948, Flying Scotsman was renumbered E103 for several months, before almost all of the LNER locomotive numbers were increased by 60000, and Flying Scotsman became 60103 that December. Between 1949 and 1952 she wore a BR Express Blue livery, after which it was painted in BR Brunswick Green. On 4th. June 1950, now under British Railways ownership, Flying Scotsman was allocated to its new base at Leicester Central on the Great Central Railway, running passenger services to and from London Marylebone, London St Pancras, Leicester, Sheffield, and Manchester.
60103 returned to the East Coast Main Line in 1953, initially based in Grantham, before returning to London King's Cross in the following year. In December 1958, the locomotive was fitted with a double Kylchap chimney to improve performance and economy, but it caused soft exhaust and smoke drift that tended to obscure the driver's forward vision. The remedy was found in the German type smoke deflectors fitted at the end of 1961.
Amid rumours that British Railways would scrap Flying Scotsman, the Gresley A3 Preservation Society failed to raise the £3,000 to buy it. Businessman and railway enthusiast Alan Pegler stepped in and bought the locomotive for £3,500. Flying Scotsman ended service for British Railways on 14th. January 1963, hauling the 13:15 from London King's Cross to Leeds with the locomotive coming off at Doncaster. The event attracted considerable media interest. It had covered over 2.08 million miles, three weeks short of 40 years in operation.
Pegler immediately restored Flying Scotsman at the Doncaster Works as closely as possible to its LNER condition. It was renumbered 4472 and repainted in LNER Apple Green; the smoke deflectors were removed, the double chimney replaced by a single, and its standard tender was replaced with a corridor type.
Following an overhaul in the winter of 1968–69, Flying Scotsman toured the United States and Canada, hauling a 9 coach exhibition train to support British exports.
In 1972, Pegler, now £132,000 in debt with considerable unpaid bills, declared himself bankrupt and in August, arranged for the engine to be kept in storage at the US Army's Sharpe Depot in Lathrop, California to keep it from unpaid creditors, who by now were demanding payments and threatening legal action.
Amid fears of the engine's future, horticulturist and steam enthusiast Alan Bloom asked businessman William McAlpine to help save it. McAlpine agreed and within a few days paid off outstanding debts and bought the locomotive for £25,000. Flying Scotsman was shipped back to England via the Panama Canal. Upon arrival at Liverpool in February 1973, the engine travelled to Derby. McAlpine paid for its restoration at Derby Works and two subsequent overhauls in the 23 years that he owned and ran it. In 1986, McAlpine leased a former diesel locomotive maintenance shop at Southall Railway Centre in London, which became the new base for Flying Scotsman until 2004.
In October 1988, Flying Scotsman arrived in Australia to take part in the country's bicentenary celebrations as a central attraction in the Aus Steam '88 festival. During the course of the next year Flying Scotsman travelled more than 28,000 miles over Australian rails. On 8th. August 1989 Flying Scotsman set another record en route to Alice Springs from Melbourne, travelling 422 miles (679 km) from Parkes to Broken Hill non-stop, the longest such run by a steam locomotive ever recorded. The same journey also saw Flying Scotsman set its own haulage record when it took a 735 ton train over the 490 mile (790 km) leg between Tarcoola and Alice Springs.
Upon returning to Britain, Flying Scotsman returned to its former British Railways condition with its number changed to 60103, refitting of the smoke deflectors and double chimney, and repainted in BR Brunswick Green. It retired from the mainline in 1992, following the expiration of its running certificate. In 1993, McAlpine sold it to help pay off a mortgage on the locomotive. Music producer and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman became involved and the two formed Flying Scotsman Railways.
In April 1995, Flying Scotsman derailed on the Llangollen Railway, with all wheels coming off the track. When put back into steam, smoke emerged from a crack separating the boiler and the front cab. It was deemed a total failure and immediately withdrawn from service. It returned to Southall awaiting its next major overhaul
By 1996, McAlpine and Waterman had run into financial issues and put Flying Scotsman up for sale. On 23rd. February, Tony Marchington bought the locomotive, a set of Pullman coaches, and the Southall depot for £1.5 million. He spent a further £1 million on the locomotive's subsequent overhaul to mainline running condition, which lasted three years and at that point, the most extensive in its history.[65] It received an upgraded 250 psi boiler originally made for a Class A4, its livery was repainted in LNER Apple Green and it was renumbered 4472. Flying Scotsman's first run following the works was on 4th. July 1999, hauling The Inaugural Scotsman from London King's Cross to York, where an estimated one million people turned out to see it.
In 2002, Marchington was in financial difficulties and in September 2003 was declared bankrupt. A sealed bid auction for the locomotive was held on 2nd. April 2004. Amid fears it could be sold into foreign hands, the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York announced it would bid, and appealed for funds with a Save Our Scotsman campaign. It secured a winning bid of £2.3 million, 15% higher than the second highest bidder, and Flying Scotsman became a part of the NRM's national collection.
In 2004 and 2005, Flying Scotsman intermittently hauled special trains across Great Britain before undergoing numerous repairs, restorations and refits between 2006 and 2016. On 7th. January 2016, Flying Scotsman moved under its own steam for the first time since 2005 on the East Lancashire Railway, where it completed several low speed tests. Its inaugural mainline run was on 6th. February with The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express from Carnforth to Carlisle. In April 2022, the engine was withdrawn for an overhaul in preparation for its centenary year in 2023. Following the work it will be certified to run on the mainline until 2029, after which it will run solely on heritage railways until 2032.
Tiananmen
July 2012
China
Patriotism, Innovation, Inclusiveness, Virtue..
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Taipei, Peace Park
Taiwan
2013
Urban Life in Taiwan
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The sun serves as a gigantic natural battery which produces a universal life force known as prana. Prana is the energy of the astral realm and is the fluidity of the cosmic consciousness of Gaia. With every breath and absorption of nourishment, prana is conditioned and released back into the universe by Gaia.
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Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane-absorption band (MT2, CB2) filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on March 28 2014.
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Tiananmen , Beijing, July 2012
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The Hague
June 2012
Urban life in the Netherlands
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THOMAS’S GIFT
The process of observing Thomas and enjoying his company has made me wish that I could be more like him. Thomas’s optimism and good nature make him pleasant to spend time with, and he seems to have retained a child’s sense of wonder.
There is usually so much going on in “normal” life that we forget to stop and notice the things happening in our day-to-day surroundings, or even right on the sofa next to us. Thomas reminds me of the richness available in our lives daily. To follow in his tracks is to adjust to a different rhythm. In trying to figure out what he is contemplating at a given time, I am forced to slow down, to refocus my senses in a new way. His total absorption in the activity of “looking” takes on a Zen quality. Why does he gaze at the Christmas ball on the tree, instead of batting it down? Why does he smell the flower and touch it gently instead of destroying it? Why does he seem to want to study the birds instead of eat them? I am amazed at the length of time he spends observing something that he has no hope or intention of catching or eating.
Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (CB2, MT2, MT3) filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on March 31 2014.
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iss067e065353 (May 20, 2022) --- Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren checks airflow and water absorption capabilities on spacesuit components at the maintenance work area inside the International Space Station's Harmony module.
The Scutum Starcloud in the Milky Way, with the bright star cluster Messier 11 embedded within it. M11 is known as the Wild Duck Cluster. Below and to the right of M11 is another Messier cluster, the smaller M26. Directly below M11 is the star cluster NGC 6712, paired with the small green planetary nebula IC 1295, which barely shows up on this scale. At lower right is the small star cluster NGC 6649. Surrounding the bright starclouds are dark dust clouds are varying densities. Some are almost starless. Most of these dark regions carry "B" designations from E.E. Barnard's catalogue of dark nebulas. For example, the large dark region above M11 is mostly B111.
The bright starclouds in this area of the Milky Way are tinted yellow by absorption of short wavelengths by the intervening dust between us and the inner spiral arm that contains the stars of Scutum, the Shield.
This is a stack of 12 x 2-minute exposures, with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2.5, on the Canon Ra at ISO 800. Taken as part of testing the MSM (MoveShootMove) Nomad tracker, so these are all tracked but unguided images. In a set of 60 test shots, about 1/3rd were untrailed, and of those I used the 12 taken in the middle of the short June night when the sky was darkest. North is to the upper left in this framing.
Swamji teaches that the secret of detachment lies in turning away from the confines of one’s own personal, egoistic vision of life, and entering into an atmosphere of universal unity and freedom. How most of us live only to see our egoistic desires and expectations fulfilled. When adverse conditions arise, frustration in the mind develops, and when conditions are prosperous mind is rocked with elation. The very predicament of existing within the confines of the ego is like living in a prison cell. The objects of the world which seem to be the basis of joy to the egoic vision are really illusion. Rising above the ego is not a threat but a secret to real harmony on the path. To be as the sky unaffected by the clouds by maintaining balance mind in all conditions, whether bitter or sweet.
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Sonata concentrates on seeing rather than looking. In our waking-state, we look at things all the time but consciously unless chosen to do we make the effort to see. This on-going series concentrates on the elements of design ; color, line, shape texture form and pattern. Each image composes of a singular point of interest to achieve photographic satisfaction. Here the visible, mundane & overlooked has its moment.
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Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ
April 2012
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
April 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
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Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the center of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor".
As of 2021, Edmonton had a city population of 1,010,899 and a metropolitan population of 1,418,118, making it the fifth-largest city and sixth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost city and metropolitan area with a population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.
Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities (Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) in addition to a series of annexations through 1982, and the annexation of 8,260 ha (82.6 km2; 31.9 sq mi) of land from Leduc County and the City of Beaumont on January 1, 2019. Known as the "Gateway to the North", the city is a staging point for large-scale oil sands projects occurring in northern Alberta and large-scale diamond mining operations in the Northwest Territories.
Edmonton is a cultural, governmental and educational center. It hosts a year-round slate of festivals, reflected in the nickname "Canada's Festival City". It is home to North America's second largest mall, West Edmonton Mall (the world's largest mall from 1981 until 2004), and Fort Edmonton Park, Canada's largest living history museum.
Blob o' dust. I was curious to see if Hubble had ever looked at this object, so I was poking around in the archive. HST has never looked, but apparently JWST will at some point, and I expect the dust to nearly disappear in the wavelengths it will observe in, revealing all sorts of colors. Very curious to see the results.
Whatever the future holds, this image is from PanSTARRS, which I also noticed in the archive and that it was relatively clean data. I love PanSTARRS, but it's sometimes more trouble to work with than it's worth. What's nice here is that there was enough near-infrared data to just begin to see through the less thicker parts of the dust, and I like the reddening effect this produces.
Red: y/z 50/50
Green: i/r 50/50
Blue: g
North is up.
The Hague
The Netherlands
2012
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
The main goal of our visit to Modhva Beach on the north west coast of India was to see Crab Plover. This interesting bird is the sole member of its own family - the Dromadidae. Scientists are still investigating whether it is more closely related to the sandpipers, or perhaps gulls, or even puffins.
Wikipedia tells us it is resident on the coasts and islands of the Indian Ocean, where it feeds mostly on crabs (hence the name). Unusually for a wader, the species nests in burrows in sandy banks, gathering in colonies as large 1500 pairs. Burrows are placed for optimal absorption of solar radiation, the sun's warmth allowing the parents to leave the nest unattended for long periods of time. Both males and females take care of the young, who remain in the nest for several days after hatching and are dependent on food brought to them.
Modhva Beach is many kilometres long and it can sometimes require a long hike in the hot sun to find a Crab Plover there. We were fortunate on our visit to locate one shortly after our dawn arrival, just several hundred metres from the road access point. The bird was unwary, allowing relatively close approach. The tide was high and the plover mostly stood around, occasionally stretching, waiting for the water to recede and the crab flats to be exposed.
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VU, Amsterdam
March 2012
The Netherlands
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Today is the final use of the "US" airline code and of the call-sign "Cactus", as the absorption into American Airlines continues.
The Hague
May 2012
The Netherlands
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Sunset over a wheatfield on a smoky evening with the haze reddening the setting Sun, July 12, 2014. Taken with the Canon 60Da and 135mm lens. This is an HDR stack of 6 exposures with Photoshop's HDR Pro and Adobe Camera Raw 32 bit procesing.
April 2012
Intercity The Hague -> Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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150 megapixel panorama made using a Nikon 105mm macro lens and a Really Right Stuff pano head, showing the amazing details of the magnificent bamboo trees that line the dense, dark path through the Pipiwai Trail off the Road to Hana on the island of Maui.
Amsterdam
June 2012
THe Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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February 2013
Candid shots in and around Public Transport
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District 789, Beijing
July 2012
China
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Blue ice is created in the human eye because absorption of light at the red end of the spectrum is six times greater than at the blue end. The deeper light energy travels, the more photons from the red end of the spectrum it loses along the way. Two meters into the ice, most of the reds are dead. The lack of reflected red wavelengths causes us to see blue.
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At the West end of Lake Ontario lies Burlington Bay. Now dominated by the City of Hamilton, Ontario along the South shore of the bay, in the early 1800s a canal was built (1827-1837) to serve the somewhat further inland town of Dundas, which, at that time, was competing with Hamilton for economic dominance of this area. The canal was to provide Dundas with easy access to Burlington Bay and, thereby, Lake Ontario, for ship transport. The eventual construction of a railway in conjunction with the growth of Hamilton as a commercial and industrial centre, reduced the role of the canal and relegated Dundas to the role of a pleasant small town, and at the end of the twentieth century to the absorption of Dundas into the regional City of Hamilton. This view taken during Blue Hour at dawn, looks roughly due East from the entrance to the canal from Burlington Bay. The lights along the shore are, from left to right, the Burlington Skyway, the steel making complexes of Arcelormittal (formerly Dofasco) a,d US Steel (formerly Stelco), and further to the right, the City of Hamilton.
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The image was taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 18mm, ISO400, Aperture priority mode, f/6.3, 8 seconds. PP in GIMP: level horizon, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, ad bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
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May 2012
The Netherlands
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Ricoh GRD IV
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National Museum, Beijing
July 2012
China
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