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Uptown slimJim |
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This section is devoted on your ideas, thoughts and conclusions on our modern world. How things have changed for the worse, how honesty and reason have been replaced by spin and false philosophes...or not. Depending on your ideas. Remember to follow the rules and to respond to all editorials in the Discussion section of this forum.
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It's Sad | ||
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THE SHORTEST EDITORIAL EVER WRITTEN!
By: CD&GA It's sad that we live in a world where the latest, and hottest news, is that Hillary Duff has quit, "The Lizzie Mcguire Show", and whether or not an old Iraqi guy is alive or not. |
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Bad Rap: My Rants On Rap | ||
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Bad Rap: My Rants On Rap
Well, I guess it was bound to happen, so here'sa I go: RAP. What's so great about it? I mean, it's just a guy, screaming at the top of his lungs using some lethal combination of drugs (and somehow still alive) about the underbelly of American crap culture. I can't go two seconds with listening to that crap without getting a head ache. I don't see how ANYONE can relate to it, so, I got together the world's most reknowned sounds experts (my cat, a number 2 pencil, and some paper), and carefully came up with a simulation, I think the way to relate to rap is this: Buy your clothes from drug dealers named Gonzalas, then sell all your items worth money and buy a crappy gold chain (really made of some cheap alloy), attach a cross to it, even though you want nothing to do with the Catholic religion, start doing drugs, listen to rap, and you finally will know why it's so great. Basically, that's what I've seen happen to everyone I know who likes rap now...and now all they talk about is sex and doing drugs. That's my opinion on the subject of rap in today's world...yep... |
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Uptown slimJim |
Planet of the apes: Think about it | ||
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What would the great thinkers of history have say about our society if they were alive today?
Stop what you're doing and just look at the world around you. People are scavaging through dumpsters to find something to eat while wealthy super models are forcing themselves to puke after every meal. With the rise of violence in public schoolyards, the board of education spends more money on metal detecors than on new textbooks. Celeberties admitting substance abuse are given our support and sympathy while the addicts on the street are ignored and pushed to the side as human-garbage. I don't need to tell you this but that isn't right. Lawsuits are made and settled when people weren't informed by the company that eating a lot of fatty foods--makes you fat! Progress in new laws is delayed while someone checks and sees if it's okay with God. It's true that we evolved from apes, but just because we lost our tails and grew longer legs doesn't mean that we still don't throw sh*t around. Maybe I was away on vaccation when this transaction happened, but it looks to me that one day, everyone traded thinking for entertainment. People don't think, they leave that up to commercials, TV execs and magazine publishers. It's funny, philosophy is what brought us out of the dark ages and into the world of discovery and science, nowadays you don't see many philosophers...is it because we've evolved so far ahead that there's nothing left for us to discover about ourselves? I don't know about that...I've just made a discovery: Humans leave the thinking up to someone else, and we follow with what they find. I'll give you an example: Scientists are working on house designs that would work well on Mars. The reason being is that we're going to be living on Mars soon because Earth is getting overpopulated. What there's not enough land to build houses? What about golf courses? We don't need golf courses! Here we have miles and miles of flat lands with scenic views of the mountains, forests wich are often near the ocean. No more land for homes but we have plenty of spots for wealthy old farts to play a game? And we're thinking of going to Mars because Earth is over populated? New York and Toronto may be overpopulated but have you taken a look at Alaska, the Gobi desert or Northern Canada lately? Sure those places are pretty barren and out of the way...but then again you're talking about moving to freakin' Mars! Humans are the "great "adapters so we'll find a way to make sure this planet is completely ruined before we start looking for another one to mess up. In the 20th centuary we had more civil wars than world wars, more rebellions than revolutions and more undelcared wars than those declared. We're a funny lot we humans. We'd rather prolong the suffering of a people under a tyranny than send help, we give money to those who wont eat and less to those who can't, our greatest and most influencial speakers aren't statesmen or philosophers but rather movie stars and musiceans...Do I really need to go on? Have I gotten my point accross to you by now? If not im going to leave the point im making up to you, but if you haven't figured it out by now chances are you're one of the people I've been complaining about. I don't want to be a cynic. I believe we can better ourselves and make a difference. There will come a day when those who are aware can take back the world from the idiots, the day will come where thinking can come back into fashion and we wont let the system tell us what to do when we aren't abusing it...I just hope im still alive when that day comes. Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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Uptown slimJim |
Don't call me white: Racism works both ways | ||
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There's no denying the fact that white people treated other races unfairly, that's saying the very least. For years white, Christian, people used religion, sweeping generalization and all out bigotry to swindle, steal, enslave and even kill every other race on Earth. It's sickening to even think that people would exclude and downright mistreat others because of skin colour and belief. I have many friends who are white and many who aren't, I don't favor one group in particular to the other because to me they're all friends of mine and as such, should be given equal treatment by me.
Of course if everyone thought like me there wouldn't be any problems in the world. Don't think for a second that racism is gone. New modern day stereotypes such as all black people are from the inner cities and all Arab people are terrorists have managed to cloud our ability to see the truth. You don't need me to tell you that not all black people come from inner cities or that not all terrorists are Muslims (Because you should already know that), what im talking about in this editorial has nothing to do with those stereotypes but with another one. Another, less common one, and it's about white people. Not every white person thinks the worst of other races. Earlier this week I was hanging around a community center near my school, waiting for my ride home, when a man [I wont disclose his race] entered the building with his toddler son. What happened was the toddler was happily walking alongside his father when suddenly, the little guy lost his balance and fell on his butt, landing with a caught-off-guard, loud sounding "Ouch". So everyone within ear shot heard the child and (As anybody would do) poked their heads up to see the source of the noise. As the father stopped to help the child up he couldn't help but notice everyone (Mostly white people) looking at him and the child. The man picked up the child and said aloud "Take your eyes off me you bigots! I am not [Insert a popular negative stereotype of the race you had in mind]" With that the man walked out the building. Most people were stunned, shocked, caught off guard. Two thoughts ran through my head: "1. That poor man, it must be hard to live under constant generalizations from the public around you." And "2. Wait a minute...that can work both ways." Compared to the entire population of Earth, white people make up a very small percentage of the population. The amount of Chinese people born in China and amount of Indians born in India, not even combined, easily dwarf the number of white people on the entire planet. I never liked the word minority because it has the word "minor" in it, meaning unimportant or minuscule...well how does it feel to all those white people knowing that they made up the word to describe non-white people...and now they're among the smallest members of a minority of people. And thanks to our moronic forefathers, white people have been labeled as a judgmental, hateful people. Don't get me wrong, every other race on the planet has suffered a thousand times more than the problems white people have been labeled as being. The fact is that it's still racism. It's a negative image or idea of a group of people based on a poor history, bits and pieces of stretched truth and all around resentful feelings. Every other race and culture in the world has suffered at the hands of white people; be it through slavery, bloodshed, demeaning propaganda or just plain scapegoat-ing. The blight that I speak of is surely the least important matter and I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who reads this thinks im trying to further malign other races (Wich im not). All Im saying is that racism works both ways. Just as it's wrong for a white person to accuse a black person as a thief, it's just as wrong for a black person to accuse a white person as being a snob. As I said, compared to all the other negative stereotypes out there white people have a pretty tame one...but a negative stereotype is a negative stereotype. I don't think im better than everyone else and I don't automatically assume the worst of people based on my first glance... But I know im better than the people who do. Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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Uptown slimJim |
Don't stop now: Snowball effect on the stupid | ||
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So I bought these little ant traps the other day to take care of a little ant problem we're having in my home. On the side of the box there was a label that read 'Warning: May contain peanuts.'
I have a question: Why do we need to know this? Are we afraid that the ants we want to kill are going to get an anaphylax reaction to eating the poison? Or did the company put the label on the box of ant traps because someone who was allergic to peanuts ate one and died? I hate to sound insenciere but if someone's dumb enough to eat an ant trap--LET 'EM DIE. Ever since the stupid learned that sueing is not another way to pronounce swing, they've let lawsuits fund the rest of their lives. Companies are so afraid of lawsuits they've put warning labels on everything. In some cases they had to put them on the product because someone didn't use common sense. Here are some actual warning labels: On a Superman costume for kids: Warning, wearing this suit does not enable you to fly. On a hair dryer: Caution, do not use in shower. On body lubricant: Do not consume On a toilet brush: Do not use orally. On a pack of cigarrettes: Smoking leads to cancer. On sleep medication: Do not intake medication while opperating machinery. It does my body good to see that the theory of Darwinism is alive and well. If these people have the urge to do the exact opposite of what their concence tells them to do, let them! It'll be fewer idiots ruining the world for the rest of us. Hell, I encourage people to do as much harm to themselves as possible. It's a good way of telling who's smart enough to say 'Wait a minute...I could get hurt' and who's that much of a moron to say 'D'uh okay.' Wanna see what happens when you put a fork in an electrical outlet? Only one way to know for sure, isn't there? Curious as to how fast a bear can run? What's stopping you? Think you're sober enough to drive home after the party? So do we. Wanna know what paint tastes like? Go ahead, we're curious too. The point is why are we trying to save the lives of idiots? Having them around won't make any contributions to society and it'll only hurt us if we let them hang around (Think of it like that time Jimmy Carter's brother walked in on the middle of the presidental address). I don't want to share the planet with people who need to be told that eating lots of grease-ridden, deep-fried, contains-more-fat-than-a-bowl-of-fat fast food--WOULD MAKE YOU FAT! I hate stupid people who take advantage of loop holes in the law in order to mooch off the intelligent people. Before I get angry responses remember: I don't mean kids when I say dumb, because kids don't know any better. I also don't mean the mentally challenged when I say dumb people, anyone who has a problem with handicapped people is the one with the problems. No, the morons im talking about are the people who think that wearing a Superman costumes enables you to fly. I mean the costume has nothing to do with super powers. You're not from Krypton, you won't be flying anytime soon Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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No more Mr. Niceguy: What ever happened to genorosity? | ||
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Im no saint, but im enough of a gentleman to know how a woman should be treated. Im a firm believer in common coutasey and genorosity and yes, this this is the same guy who was so vocal about corporal punishment and open war. But here's something you probably didn't know about me: I host parties at my house, I take my little sisters to movies they'd like to see, I pay for nearly every meal...in short, im so generous that if I was in scouts I'd be rolling in the merrit badges.
What's my secret to success? I like making other people happy. It's my gift to the people I care about. If I can brighten up someone's day than why shouldn't I? Im not going to be some inconsiderate bastard when one of my close friends is down in the dumps, and only a heartless person would rather see their friends in misery and pain than having a good time. If I were to die tommorow I'd want to be rememberd as someone who tried to make the life of everyone around me much easier, that doesn't make me a bad person...im as far from being a bad person as anyone could be without donning a cape and learning to fly. So what's got my goat today? Jerks-wads in our society. Earlier this week, my grad class met with the teacher to discuss the pros of having a dry grad. Now it would be naive to think that the majority of soon-to-be highschool graduates would be in favour of a dry grad, but the behaviour durring the assembly was not the kind of grad legacy we wanted to make. We had past highschool graduates from other schools tell us about their positive experience with dry grad parties. You know what the response from the over all majority of our grade 12 class was? (Keep in mind that these people are soon to be reffered to as the prominent members of society) It was a series of loud, long boos. Well that's a great message we're sending to our guests. Im not here to complain about the overall feelings of the grad class, I don't care if we have a dry grad or not personally, but you'd think that we'd be mature enough to keep our comments to ourselves. No one wants a dry grad? Fine. That point could have gotten accross when they finished tabulating the votes. But the presentors took time out of their lives to pitch something towards us. The idiots at my school were so dead-set against it that they wouldn't even hear the guests out...wich was the whole point of the assembly. From that day on, I've noticed how common decency is slidding. Im not talking about bullying, im talking about sex jokes and irritating gestures not meant for laughs...but for the sole reason of 'Let's see how far I can keep this up before I get yelled at...then I'll do it again.' This kind of behaviour has become so common that these days, people are taken aback by an apology; why? Because manners and decency have been forgotten. Nowadays, everyone wants to be a rebell. Everyone wants to break the rules so they can get in trouble and have something to complain about; wich fuels themselves for vengance. It's a never ending cycle: Stupid behaviour leads to stupid concequences, wich encourage physical stupid behaviour to vocalize our dislike of concequences. Well here's someone who apologizes after farting instead of laughing about it. I open doors for people, I pick up the check first, I host get togethers at my place when the occasion is for someone else, I try to make up for the mistakes I make and I'd sooner apologize than hold a grudge. In short, im the kind of person who asks how someone else's day was because I know no one really wants to hear about my day (Everyone's favorite subject is their own life) Awww, isn't that sweet? Doing so much for other people, isn't he a nice guy?...Well, most girls tend to think so. Most guys (Especially my friends) think it's just me trying to play the 'Sensitive guy' card in hopes that it'll pick up chicks. Interesting theory but innacurrate. What the guys don't know is that: A. I don't need to play a card to pick up chicks, B. I do things for them and listen to their problems too, and C. I don't see any of the girls I know greet my friends with a warm hug. Im not in it for the hugs or to show up my friends though, I do it because that's the way I was brought up. I've been called Spineless, a doormat, whipped and a wuss. Funny thing is no one ever says anything like that about me more than once. The truth is that there's a difference between someone who'll jump through hoops to please someone and a gentleman. A lapdog will bend over backwards for someone in hopes for something in return. Whereas a gentleman (Me) wants nothing in return. Is it impossible for someone to want to do something for someone else without having it turned into a case of patronage? Im not the local mafia, I don't do favours, I do nice gestures and if someone wants to pay me back for it so be it. I don't expect a nice gesture back because not everyone thinks the same way I do. I do what I do because I know it brightens up a persons day. A simple thank you is all I ask. Im trying to breakthrough the barrier of egosentric thinkers. If being a doormat, as my friends call it, means you get the reputation for being one the nicest guys in your grade and twice as many people who'll stand up for you when you're down--then sure, im a doormat. Beats being a sellfish jerk who people wouldn't trust to give an honest answer. Of course just as there's a difference between a doormat and a gentleman, there's a difference between a jerk and a comedian. Some people do what they do just to get a few laughs, to lighten the mood; hell, I do it all the time. But there's a time for cracking jokes and a time where it's best if you keep your comments to yourserlf. You don' t want to be making 'yo momma' jokes at your mother's funeral, and you're not going to be telling ethnic jokes at the Million Man March. There limitations to when you're allowed to be funny, but being polite and generous is an everyday occasion. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of crisis, did nothing. You may not believe in hell, but you're not a good person if you aren't going to help your friends when they're in need of assistance. And why not go the distance? Put in that little extra effort to let them know that you enjoy their company, It'll come in handy when the day comes where you need to call in a favour. Hey, didn't I just say that I don't do things so people will owe me bigtime? Yeah I did. Don't let what I say go to your head, I do nice things often so people will remember that when I piss them off. Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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Uptown slimJim |
A real wise-guy: Wich 'smart' are you? | ||
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A lot of people think I'm a smart guy. I'm not a smart guy. I'm smart enough to know how to get people to think I'm smart but I'm not smart enough to answer a physics question. Does that bother me? Should I be bothered that the only things I know how to do in math is add, subtract, divide and multiply? Am I an idiot because I'd rather read a magazine than a novel by a world-renowned author? The answer to these and similar question can be answered in three words: A little bit.
I wish I was good with numbers, but im not. I can get by but I wont be winning any nobel prizes for mathematics anytime soon. And that doesn't bother me. Im not going to cure cancer--because I never plan to. Can I survive on my own not knowing the volume of a cone if side A is equal to -Y times pi? It'll be difficult but I think I'll manage. Why am I not so worried? Because I shouldn't be. Look, there are two types of "smart": Book smart and street smart. There's no way of knowing wich "smart" is the right one. But our society is driven by a theory that hard work pays off. It forces students to achieve greatness in all academics so that they can graduate. That's good. It's important to fill the population with people who can solve the problems of the future. But what you learn in a textbook can only get you so far. Every year textbooks need to be updated with the new discoveries and practices made though the year gone by. Those with a textbook education will never stop learning new things (Wich is good) but only if the people with street smarts are allowed to continue challenging the way we look at the world. If we lived life by the book, nothing would ever get done. Because our discoveries would be limited to what we learned from textbooks, not through discovery. Who are the people that make those discoveries? It's the people who looked outside the way things were understood and asked 'Is that it?' These people are often riddiculed for going against mainstream thinking...just ask Galileo. Every advancement in technology, discovery, medicine, and psychology was made by people who went against the mainstream. Who challenged what was believed for the time. These people are street smart. They aren't afraid to look at things differently; they're the ones who lead rebellions against oppression; they are the ones who have a drive early on in life. More than likely, the people with street smarts will be the ones that history will remember. Afraid you wont make it in life? Answer these questions: Can you read? Can you write? Can you add? Subtract? Multiply? Divide? Do you know the difference between right and wrong? If you answered yes to all these questions than congradulations, you're eligable for a life. Yes, eligable. At it's bare basics, keeping your head above water just means practicing those few skills. But you have to take into account your career, where you live and what you plan on doing with your life. Not to mention that most of the required graduation classes demmand a prerequisite course. Once you're on your own, things you struggled with before become easy...and by easy, I mean irrelevant. People who are book smart learn a rainbow of skills that can get them into any field they so choose. But one thing book smart people need to keep in mind is that they have to choose a career sometime. Book smart people have the luxury of options thanks to their understanding of nearly everything. However, there are only so many jobs out there that demmand you be an expert of biology, math, chemistry, history, language, geography AND physics at the same time. What would commonly happen would be that you get into one field that exploits maybe one or two of the subjects aforementioned. So what happens is that only one or two subjects pays off for you and you windup wasting your other skills. Okay, maybe not wasting in the sense that you get nothing out of it...But it doesn't seem fair that you work so hard at something only to never have to use it. Case in point, people who major in philosophy. Albert Einstien once said that "Imagination is more important than knowledge." That's quite an insight considering that he, the smartest man in recorded history, did poorly in school. It all goes to show you that before you buckle and down and devote serious ammounts of time towards one subject, it's important to have ambition. An idea, something that drives you, something that compells you to do your best at whatever it takes to reach that goal. Street smart people are generally smart enough to know what it takes to reach their goals; because street smart people pay attention to the way the world works. It's not a matter of someone being unable to answer a question as a sign of stupidity, it's a matter of wether or not the question is relevant to that person's daily life. I encourage everyone, both street and book smart people, to learn as much as they can at school. But school is only six hours long each day; That's 18 hours left in the day you can spend discovering things on your own time. Maybe doing that will inspire you to find something in our life worth fixing or improving. It'd be a great thing to be the smartest person on Earth...but I doubt even Stephen Hawking knows how they can make seedless watermelon without planting seeds. Hey... Maybe that's something you can devote your life to finding out. Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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Uptown slimJim |
Reality TV bites: Enough is enough | ||
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I can't speak for everyone when I say this, and I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, but I have had it with all these reality shows. Television has the ability to be the greatest teaching tool ever created. If used properly, TV's immediacy and capacity to reach millions at a time presents an unparalleled opportunity to educate, illuminate and bring the world together with shared experiences. If used properly. If used improperly, itÂ’s a devastating tool for indoctrination, manipulation and sedation. With the way PBS keeps diving further into the poor box while America searches for it's next Top model, even those who root for someone to win on Survivor understand wich way the pendulum swings nowadays. TV executives don't give reality shows the green light because they're wildly popular...they're given the 'okay to go' because they're a lot cheaper to produce than scripted shows. TV executives like 'em because they can save money. And they want you to like them so they don't have to start spending money again. Having a reality show means that there are no actors or writers to pay--it's funny because usually a feature film will bomb because no one will have heard of any of the stars or the writers. So why don't reality shows cease? I don't want to watch unshaven, shirtless old men solve riddles on an island. I don't care for lying to women about money just to see if they're greedy. Most of all, im offended as a viewer and as a man by shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. This is the relationship equivalent of eeney meeney miney mo. Enjoy the luxurious lifestyle while you can Bachelors and Bachelorettes...because once you draw that last name out of the hat you'll be stuck with a sham relationship. No yacht. No trips to Italy. Welcome to marriage. Yes, it's goodbye having attractive singles vie for your attention on a private jet and hello dopey guy who had to return the tux. This is a classic case of when the powers that be tell us how our lives should be run. Like a friend who practices the 'it's the thought that counts' theory, instead of giving us something we'd like they give us something they think we'd like. Well I hate reality shows. I hate that we have too many reality shows. I hate it that we've gone so far as making a phoney reality show with "The Joe Schmo show". We're told of all these hooks that make on reality show unlike every other reality show. Maybe it's hosted by a celebrity, maybe the contestants on the show were celebrities, maybe the producers play a dirty little trick on the players. In any case, all reality shows follow the same key principal that make them reality shows: It's a camera crew following the lives of "interesting people" that we can "relate to" in a situation that slowly eats away at our level of tolerance. Above all else, that is what ticks me off the most about reality shows: That it's a show about how much we'd hate to be in the same situation as the people on the show. It's enough for me to be aware of how crappy my life would be if I were stranded on a deserted island with a bunch of morons playing scavenger hunt games; I don't have to have it shown to me. That's like if someone came and kicked you in the groin just to remind you of how much it hurts. And these confessionals, these interviews where contestants switch it up and complain about their teammates...IN PRIVATE! There's so many pointless nuances that make up reality shows that it's a wonder why people will watch different shows. Honestly, what makes Survivor that much different than Joe Millionaire? Sure the concept is different but at their core all reality shows are the same. There should be just one universal reality show where contestants (Prefferably former stars wearing masks) have to undergo eating bugs, on a deserted island, while swooning over some good looking single...and then windup clinging to the roof of a bus as they try to grab flags...only to find out in the end that the island wasn't an island at all! That would be much easier, to just have one show that combines the elements of other reality shows. A show made up from parts of lesser shows. I still wouldn't watch it, though. For what it's worth though, my friends and I have an idea for a reality show: Take all the rich executives of major corporations and put them on the streets where all the hobos, pimps and hookers lurk...and then put all the hobos, pimps and hookers in charge of the companies whose executives are lying on the streets. See, everything would be a whole lot better if my friends and I ruled the world. Respond to this and other Editorials in the discussion forum. pub37.ezboard.com/fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?topicID=3.topic |
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