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Site Maintenance Update

by John Cole|  December 16, 20193:30 pm| 116 Comments

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The website is being moved to a bigger server with twice the processors and 1.5 times the memory. We’re still 2-3 times as fast as the old site prior to the relaunch, but they want to move us to a bigger one. What that means for all of you is that the server will be down for a spell (30 mins to an hour) this evening after ten pm.

So don’t freak the hell out.

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  1. 1.

    Just One More Canuck

    December 16, 2019 at 3:32 pm

    So don’t freak the hell out.

     

    You’re not the boss of me

  2. 2.

    Baud

    December 16, 2019 at 3:33 pm

    So don’t freak the hell out.

    You’re not the boss of me.

     

    ETA: Fuck you, Canuck.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 16, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    So don’t freak the hell out.

    Too late

    OH MY GOD WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!

  4. 4.

    David Anderson

    December 16, 2019 at 3:35 pm

    But I wanted to freak out

  5. 5.

    Baud

    December 16, 2019 at 3:37 pm

    Does this mean no more cloudfare issues?

  6. 6.

    JPL

    December 16, 2019 at 3:37 pm

    Earlier today I landed on error pages, so have already used up my allowance for being freaked out.

  7. 7.

    zhena gogolia

    December 16, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    I’ll try to time my Perry Mason episode for that time slot.

  8. 8.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    December 16, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    Obligatory:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdxP2m79n8

    Also:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    December 16, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    So…e-mail you in all caps and bug you on Twitter and Facebook about how your website is broken again?

  10. 10.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    December 16, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    @Yutsano: Dear WaterGirl: Can we have a button that generates those all caps emails to Cole automatically?

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    December 16, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Remember M^4 posted about how AI is advancing? We could probably put together something like that.

  12. 12.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 16, 2019 at 3:44 pm

    I was freaking out yesterday but the protests all over India have been heartening.

    Protest at India Gate in New Delhi. India Gate was a memorial for soldiers who died in WWI IIRC.

    Remember that it is cold in Delhi around 5 degrees centigrade so around 40 F

  13. 13.

    joel hanes

    December 16, 2019 at 3:46 pm

    We’re still 2-3 times as fast as the old site prior

    Yes we are.
    My thanks and congratulations to all involved.
    Special thanks to the implementors for the late tweaks, especially the slightly-darker background and the slightly more-visible font. These make a big difference to me.

  14. 14.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 16, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    @joel hanes:  Yes me too.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    December 16, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    So don’t freak the hell out.

    ?????

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    @Baud: It would be foolish to make a blanket statement like that. :-)  I can, however, say that this change is not unrelated to the 502 and 524 errors.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: John would put a hit out on me if I did something like that.

    Furiously makes a notation for April 1…

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    @Baud: Baud!2020! isn’t going to get many votes from Canada with an attitude like that.

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It would be foolish to make a blanket statement like that.

    Well, there goes 90% of the comments on this here site.

  20. 20.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 16, 2019 at 3:58 pm

    @Baud:

    Shouldn’t that be Cloud Strike?

  21. 21.

    Just One More Canuck

    December 16, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    @Baud:

    I was channeling my inner Baud

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: 90?  You are feeling quite generous today, it seems. :-)

  23. 23.

    Baud

    December 16, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Voters are so sensitive.

     

    @Just One More Canuck: Oh. In that case, excellent work!

  24. 24.

    Baud

    December 16, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s all a series of tubes to me.

  25. 25.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Cloudflare is what’s called a CDN, basically a provider of caching services so web sites can appear to be more responsive. Crowdstrike is the security company that Giuliani/Trump have somehow delusionally placed in the middle of the Ukraine issues.

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Yes.

    @WaterGirl: It’s the holidays.

  27. 27.

    J R in WV

    December 16, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    Wife tells me to climb up on the roof in the Noah-like flood rain and caper and dance while B-J is down. This is because I wailed “But What WILL I DO??” She can be funny like that sometimes…

  28. 28.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 16, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I was joking, but I still learned something from your response, so thank you!

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: They sound the same, so they are the same!

  30. 30.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    @J R in WV: You know the rules…pics or it didn’t happen.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 4:07 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I thought Dorothy’s comment was snark, so thanks for answering it.

  32. 32.

    dexwood

    December 16, 2019 at 4:08 pm

    Will Hillary’s emails be on the new server?

  33. 33.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 16, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It was snark. I should have put /// or something.

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    December 16, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Wait! I get it! We’re moving the server to Ukraine!

  35. 35.

    debbie

    December 16, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    How many error numbers are there? I got a 503 this morning.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    December 16, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Men gotta manspain.

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I bet that’s Rudy’s next piercing analysis.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:12 pm

    @WaterGirl: I wasn’t 100% sure myself, but figured a little extra information wouldn’t hurt.

    Although Baud’s charge of “mansplaining” cut me to the bone.

  39. 39.

    Juju

    December 16, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Eeeeeek!!!

  40. 40.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    @debbie: Here you go.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 16, 2019 at 4:17 pm

    Ally Mutnick‏Verified account @allymutnick
    Impeachment Whip Count: Almost half of the 30 Trump-District Democrats have publicly declared support for the articles. @RepBenMcAdams of #UT04 just became the 14th.

    so I think under the new system this tweet will be linked, with all the names? DougJ has already set up an ActBlue for this group, hasn’t he?

  42. 42.

    debbie

    December 16, 2019 at 4:19 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Thanks. Not as many as I thought, but “Bad, Gateway!” has a certain ring to it.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    @debbie: More than you can imagine.

  44. 44.

    Aleta

    December 16, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    @Baud: The men in spain stay mainly on the plain.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: He didn’t mean it, I’m sure.

  46. 46.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 4:28 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Baud2020 wasn’t going to get ANY votes from Canada over his platform of Pineapple on Pizza, so,…….

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:28 pm

    @WaterGirl: Oh, I’m quite sure he did. He’s a Presidential candidate, so he doesn’t say things he doesn’t mean.

  48. 48.

    gvg

    December 16, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    yeah I got an error balloon juice was down mid morning. I did not freak, but I was bored.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    December 16, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    @Baud:

    I’ll give Ted Stevens this, the damn fossil went out in a blaze of aeronautical glory–his second plane crash at that–instead of choking on strained carrots at the Dumfuck Senile Senators Retirement Village. Great final act, Ted.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    December 16, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    @debbie:

    Somewhere out there is a cat named Gateway who hears that phrase several times/week.

  51. 51.

    CarolDuhart2

    December 16, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    Question:  will the move lead to a little more charges for the site, and can you give us an approximate time for this move?

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 16, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Some of us got it.

  53. 53.

    chris

    December 16, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    LOL Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Robert DeNiro!!!

  54. 54.

    matt

    December 16, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    Movin’ on up! Nice!

  55. 55.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 16, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Narrator: He was mansplaining.

  56. 56.

    Dan B

    December 16, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:  My dear honorary Umma Massi lives in Malabar Hill one block from the Pryadashini Dash temple and 5 blocks from the Taheri Masjid.

    Beena, Anil, and their daughter Neelanjana liv in Defence Colony three miles from Islamic University that was attacked by police.  There is a mosque and a temple in Defence Colony, and a Gurdwara as well.  The market has Muslim food stalls.  (Superb fish!)

    I wonder how the thousands of doctors and tech workers in Seattle who are Indian Anericans are feeling.  I’m shakey and I just have people who are very dear to me caught in this mess.

  57. 57.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    IANAL, but boy, it seems Mike Flynn’s attorneys’ day hasn’t gone very well.

  58. 58.

    FlyingToaster

    December 16, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    Cue Pablo…

  59. 59.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    @trollhattan: Well, ol’ Ted  was a Bruin.

  60. 60.

    Dan B

    December 16, 2019 at 4:50 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:  India Gate is such a beautiful site with the avenue to the Parliament.  I recall that it’s a short distance to the Muslim market side of the old part of Delhi, and the Jama Masjid which divides the huge Muslim and Hindu bazaars.

    5 degrees C is bone chilling as the temperatures last week were between 75 and 80 degrees F, and in in the 90’s a few weeks ago.  (Yes, I check the temps in Delhi almost daily.)

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    December 16, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    @chris:

    Well played, sir, well played.

    Nobody can dig under Trump’s skin better than a New Yorker. Decades of practice.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 16, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    @trollhattan: and a celebrirty

    I can’t remember which foreign trip trump was on when he got in a twitter spat with Bette Midler in what was for him the middle of the night

  63. 63.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    December 16, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I’m glad to hear about the pushback and protests. Thank you for helping keep this topic on our radar…

  64. 64.

    MomSense

    December 16, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    If you are looking for something to do while the site is down, I recommend this podcast from the professional left.  Driftglass and Bluegal have a conversation with Jay Rosen about the structural failings with the press.  I found it interesting.

    https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/?m=1

  65. 65.

    prostratedragon

    December 16, 2019 at 5:04 pm

    So there’s this guy named Ludwig, and he’s out for his walk and stops to buy a newspaper …

    “Rage Over a Lost Penny,” Beethoven, in 3-D animation

    Happy 249th, wherever you are!

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 16, 2019 at 5:06 pm

    Excuse me while I preemptively freak the hell out.  :)

    That’s 10PM Eastern time, right?

  67. 67.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 16, 2019 at 5:11 pm

    @MomSense: Agreed.  Driftglass’s and Bluegal’s chat with Jay Rosen is great.  I’ve listened to it a couple times already.

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:13 pm

    @CarolDuhart2: This is tentatively scheduled for between 10pm and midnight tonight, blog time.  (aka Eastern)

  69. 69.

    TomatoQueen

    December 16, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    @WaterGirl:  AHA. I knew it. It was MY FAULT.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Yep, Eastern.

  71. 71.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: Dear WaterGirl, is it too early to start freaking out?

  72. 72.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    What’s that smell leaking out from beneath the locked door of Dotus’s “War Room”?

    Desperation?

    Fun facts about this account retweeted by the president:

    —Account is 1 day old
    —First tweet was retweeted by the president
    —Follows no one
    —Claims to be a Jewish Trump supporter from Boro Park
    —Profile picture is from a NYTimes story about Jewish Trump supporters in Borough Park pic.twitter.com/vC8GsEZe7e— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2019

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    @TomatoQueen: I’m pretty sure that “It’s your fault” is listed for me, under Other Duties As Assigned.

  74. 74.

    Ryan

    December 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Do they say Crowdstrike?  Are we moving to Ukraine?

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s never too early to start freaking out.

    There’s no need to freak out.

  76. 76.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Dear Watergirl,

    this has never happened to me before, and you are never going to believe me, but when the pizza came,…….

  77. 77.

    chopper

    December 16, 2019 at 5:19 pm

    you’re not the boss of GODDAMMIT

  78. 78.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    @WaterGirl: I canceled an edit, now when I refresh it keeps on coming up with a dialog asking me if I want to resubmit my form(Chrome dialog).  Lets see if a sucessful comment clears the error.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    @Ryan:

    Are we moving to Ukraine?

    Just the server, does that count? //

  80. 80.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    @Jay: …with pineapple, I was overjoyed!

  81. 81.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    Warrington North’s new MP @charlotte2153 says she’s not going to apologise for saying Lazio supporters doing Nazi salutes should “get their heads kicked in”. Says “sometimes fascism needs to be physically confronted”. I asked about the abuse she’s had in the campaign too: pic.twitter.com/gmvt56LBje— Phil McCann (@phi1mccann) December 16, 2019

  82. 82.

    FlyingToaster

    December 16, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    @WaterGirl: Somehow, I don’t see “Reassessing capacity required after upgrade in place for 15 days” equating to “it’s your fault”.  But then again, what would I know?*

    *Prior to WarriorGirl, I coded multimedia simulation software, primarily for corporate training or back-o-textbook disks.  These days, I fix friends’ website errors after 10pm.

  83. 83.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Can’t edit the comment, but submitting a comment cleared the Chrome dialog.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Did you cancel the edit by hitting the toggle on the Edit Comment box?

    You can start an edit, hit the toggle to close the edit box, then open it again at any time during your 5-minute window.

    Perhaps I am not understanding what happened?

  85. 85.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 16, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: What toggle, or do you mean button?

  86. 86.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 16, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    That’s really good news. Are they widespread and diverse enough that the BJP won’t be able to demagogue them?

  87. 87.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    VICTORY: For the first time in 20+ years, Congress agreed to fund gun violence research: $25M at the CDC & NIH.This was one of our top priorities of 2019. Together with medical & public health partners, we lobbied, we rallied, we’re getting it done. https://t.co/Y5gHttq46k— Giffords (@GiffordsCourage) December 16, 2019

  88. 88.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 16, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    @Jay:

    What’s that smell leaking out from beneath the locked door of Dotus’s “War Room”?

    Desperation?

    You don’t want to know

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I was referring to the little arrow that’s in the Edit Comment box, but yeah, you can click anywhere in that box that says Edit Comment.

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    @FlyingToaster: I was speaking in general terms, for everything, everywhere.  I didn’t mean to indicate anything specific here.  Just being silly.

  91. 91.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 16, 2019 at 5:28 pm

    @Jay:

    Wait, as in both the Senate and the House? This is good news, but all it takes is Trump throwing a tantrum and vetoing to throw a wrench in the process

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    December 16, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    If B movie thrillers which revel in their B-ness appeal to you, if the once removed relative coziness provided by the”‘So you think you’re having a bad day, huh?” school of film making tickles your fancy, one could do worse than frittering away the imposed time-out with SOS Pacific, available on Prime. Hesitate to provide any links as they give away entirely too much plot. Cast includes Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Eva Bartok.

  93. 93.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 16, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: And Cloud Gate is a metal sculpture in Millennium Park in Chicago.  But it’s really called THE BEAN.

  94. 94.

    debbie

    December 16, 2019 at 5:50 pm

    @Jay: 
    An NYT story from 2016, no less.

  95. 95.

    karen marie

    December 16, 2019 at 5:55 pm

    I AM FREAKING OUT – WHAT TIME IS TEN PM?

     

    Time zones are so fucking confusing.

  96. 96.

    karen marie

    December 16, 2019 at 5:56 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Party pooper!

  97. 97.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    @debbie:

    when you are setting up a bot, sock or troll, you want to make google image search work a little for it.

     

     

    I am kinda surprised that the trolls, socks and bots construction crews havn’t figured out the you can just walk around taking thousands of “rando” photos of people, places or things, even in Macedonia or Romania, that will never “out you”.

  98. 98.

    Yutsano

    December 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    @WaterGirl: Basically: Don’t Panic, and know where your towel is.

  99. 99.

    Jackie

    December 16, 2019 at 6:12 pm

    I hope you mean 10pm Pacific time!!! :/

  100. 100.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 6:16 pm

    This is the second time in as many days that the site has not remembered my nym/e-mail. Just like the bad old days.

  101. 101.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 6:21 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    sometimes the site only gives me the text form, with no visual tab, and often with no nym. A refresh after a few seconds seems to bring both the forms back up with a nym.

    sometimes, a new window or tab opening of a new front page post, when you have another open, loses the nym.

  102. 102.

    FlyingToaster

    December 16, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    @karen marie: GMT-5, 22:00 in West By God Virginia (and the People’s Republic of Massachusetts).

    3am London, UK

    11pm Halifax, Nova Scotia

    9pm Chicago and New Orleans

    8pm New Mexico

    7pm California and the rest of Pacifica

    5pm Honolulu

    4pm the Aleutians

    Hth ?

  103. 103.

    FlyingToaster

    December 16, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    @WaterGirl: Oh, I knew.  But I figured the Blogfather might read it and laugh, too.

  104. 104.

    Sab

    December 16, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    @J R in WV: Please don’t do that. We value you here. Maybe go read a book.

    I have actual books I want to read, but I don’t, because it pisses the cats off when I turn on the light in the middle of the night.

    Of course it is okay fo them to shriek and battle at night while I am trying to sleep. Because cats are sensitive.

    Tonight, back to Ta-nehisi Coates novel. It is beautifully written, but intense.

  105. 105.

    Origuy

    December 16, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @Jay:  Hawaiian pizza was invented in Ontario.

  106. 106.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 16, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):  Truth has never stopped them before. They will and are demagoging.

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 16, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    “Throw hardware at it” is an ominous sign. Chances are that Cloudflare is misconfigured.

  108. 108.

    NotMax

    December 16, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    @Steeplejack

    But now we’ll see the error messages even faster!

    :)

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Oh ye of little faith.

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 16, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @NotMax:

    You’re such a glass-half-full kind of guy!

  111. 111.

    Jay

    December 16, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @Origuy:

    yeah, we still say “to Sam” when we lift the first slice.

  112. 112.

    NotMax

    December 16, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Preparing to assume the fetal position in a half hour or so. Still undecided on whether to rock back and forth or to and fro.

    ;)

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    @NotMax: The possible timeframe is between 10 and midnight, Eastern time.  So you might not want to assume the position until the maintenance mode message comes up instead of the website. :-)

    Which could be right at 10, or maybe not.

  114. 114.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 16, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    11:17 pm EST and blog is still up. It is now reliably forgetting my nym, though.

  115. 115.

    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: They plan to start in about 10 minutes.

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    WaterGirl

    December 16, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I suspect you’re not, but I will ask anyway.  Are you either not allowing your computer to store cookies OR are you using private browsing?

    Those are the only two instances so far where nyms have not been saved.

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