FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ March 15, 2004

Canteen Crew ~ StarCMC

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's thread



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[The Mayor]

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. —Proverbs 4:23

To keep spiritually fit, consult the Great Physician.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[tomkow6]

 

SALUTE!

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Star! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD  

MORNING

TROOPS!

Me for PREZ! VOTE !!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[tomkow6]

 

Today's FEEBLE

YOKE:

Two morons stand on a cliff with their arms outstretched. One has some budgies lined up on each arm, the other has parrots lined up on his arms.

After a couple of minutes, they both leap off the cliff and fall to the ground.

Laying next to each other in intensive care at the hospital, one moron says to the other, "I don't think much of this budgie jumping."

The other moron replies, "Yeah, I'm not too keen on this paragliding either."

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

To every service man or woman reading this thread.
Thank You for your service to our country.
No matter where you are stationed,
No matter what your job description
Know that we are are proud of each and everyone of you.

To our military readers, we remain steadfast in keeping the Canteen doors open.
The FR Canteen is Free Republics longest running daily thread specifically designed
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The doors have been open since Oct 7 2001,
the day of the start of the war in Afghanistan.
We are indebted to you for your sacrifices for our Freedom.

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and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
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[tomkow6]

COUNTDOWN TO OPENING DAY

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You for today's thread!

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

March 15, 2004
Chicago, IL
Sunrise	6:00 AM (CST)
Sunset	5:53 PM (CST)
Hrs. of Daylight	11 Hrs., 53 Mins

 

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5 Day Forecast

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[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tonk. How's it going?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Adopt Our Troops In Prayer Update"

Thanks for the Update Co-Captain!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning E.G.C. !
I'll give you a weather report as soon as I can see outside.
It's only 4:18 AM in Oregon LOL

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Morning Bro!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Morning Your Honor!

[tomkow6]

Morning, Tonk!

[Bethbg79]

Good morning Guys!! (((HUGS)))

[Bethbg79]

I'm off to work! See ya's later!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Have a good day!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Adopt Our Troops In Prayer Update

 

As we approach the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by American troops, we celebrate the outpouring of support and the countless prayers offered by those involved in our Adopt Our Troops campaign.  Your prayers of protection and care have made a tremendous impact on the lives of so many Americans serving their country at home and abroad. 

Currently, a total of 143,861 troops have been registered and 504,831 people have signed up to pray.  A stunning total of 900,792 actual adoptions have been made since the start of the program.  Thank you for your efforts!  To go to the Adopt Our Troops web page to register a member of the military or to adopt a troop, click the pic above...

51 posted on 03/15/2004 6:49:25 AM EST by LindaSOG

 

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Thank you, LindaSOG.  

 

Joining the multitude praying for our troops daily.

(and for those who love them!)

 

*Adopt Our Troops in prayer*, ping!

 

[USVet6792Retired]

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Morning Canteen!!!!

And the continued Thanks and Prayers of a grateful nation to all those servig, who have served, and their families.

Hooooooah

[USVet6792Retired]

OMG budgie jumping!!!!

Yer sick..........still laffing

[W04Man]

Morning Tonk.

http://W-04.com

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on March 15:
0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1767 Andrew Jackson Waxhaw SC, General/(D) 7th President (1829-37)
1779 William Lamb (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41)
1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1st President of Liberia
1811 Robert Allen Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1852 Lady Augusta Gregory Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1874 Harold L Ickes social activist, New Deal politician
1901 J Pat O'Malley Burnley England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1905 Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 Joe E Ross comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1912 Sam [Lightnin'] Hopkins Centerville TX, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1913 MacDonald Carey Sioux City IA, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1916 Harry James Albany GA, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1926 Norm Van Brocklin NFL QB/coach (Los Angeles Rams), hall of famer
1932 Alan Lavern Bean Wheeler TX, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
1935 Jimmy Lee Swaggart evangelist
1935 Judd Hirsch Bronx NY, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1940 Phil Lesh [Chapman] Berkeley CA, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1941 Mike Love Los Angeles CA, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, Surfin' USA)
1944 Sly Stone Dallas TX, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1946 Bobby Bond baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya Russian cosmonaut
1947 Ry[land] Cooder Los Angeles CA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1961 Fabio [Lanzoni] Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1972 Casey Cristin Mizell Miss South Carolina-USA (1997)

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Deaths which occurred on March 15:
0044 -BC- Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey
0493 Odiaker German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
0752 Zachary Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
0963 Romanus II Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 Mieszko II King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1881 Emory Upton US Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1929 Pine-Top Smith jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1944 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI), dies at 86
1966 Abe Saperstein founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1971 Jean-Pierre Monseré Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
1973 Carl Benton Reid actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 Antonino Rocca professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 Aristotle S Onassis Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 Kamal Joemblat Lebanese politician, murdered
1988 Dmitri F Polyakov Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed
1993 Anthony Bowles music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 CLYDESDALE CHARLES F.---PITTSBURGH PA.
[DITCH AT SEA NO RECOVERY]
1966 HOLMES DAVID H.---BELMONT MA.
[SAR UNABLE TO LOCATE PILOT]
1966 MC ELROY GLENN DAVID---SIDNEY IL.
1966 NASH JOHN M.---TIPTON IN.
1966 SCOTT MARTIN R.---TULSA OK.
1966 STEWART PETER J.---WINTER HAVEN FL.
1967 FREDERICK PETER J.---LONG ISLAND CITY NY.
1967 SMITH DEAN JR.---SAVANNAH GA.
1967 THOMPSON VICTOR HUGO III---HOUSTON TX.
[08/73 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1971 SEXTON DAVID M.---HURON OH.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
0752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 1st Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate
1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)
1922 1st southern radio station begins radio transmissions (WSB-AM, Atlanta GA)
1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
1940 Göring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going my Way", Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO
1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2000 Their presidential nominations secured, Al Gore and George W. Bush dig in for the eight-month battle to Election Day, with Bush saying he was braced for Gore's "politics of personal destruction and distortions," and Gore arguing that Bush's "risky tax scheme" would hurt the economy. (And here we are again)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

World : Boss's Day Off
Honduras : Thanksgiving Day
Hungary : National Day
India, Mauritius, Nepál : Holi
Iran : Armed Forces Day/Labor Day
Liberia : JJ Robert's Birthday (1809)
Maine : Admission Day (1820)
Tennessee : Andrew Jackson's Birthday (1767)
US : Taxes in one month!
US : Daffodil Days (Day 2)
Foot Health Month.

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Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Longinus, soldier with spear
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Louise de Marillac, widow
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Clement Hofbauer, priest/missionary

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Religious History
1729 A Ceremony of Profession was held for Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard at the Ursuline convent in New Orleans, thereby making her the first Catholic woman to become a nun in America.
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'All my ideas of peace and joy are linked in with my Bible; and I would not give the hours of secret converse with it for all the other hours I spend in this world.'
1875 In New York City, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop John McCloskey, 65, became the first American to be named a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The believer is a displaced person. He loses the controlling features of both environment and heredity.'
1953 The first Southern Baptist church in North Dakota was formed in Williston, with 12 charter members. (The North Dakota Southern Baptist Association was formed the following year with five member churches.)

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."

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Word of the day...
umbilinkus (m-bl'ng'ks)
(n.) The tiny appendage at the end of a link sausage.

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New State Slogans...
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes ... Well Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good

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Astounding Fact #31,504...
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops and Canteeners . . . .. A funny Pledge today to help brighten your Monday

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

[Soaring Feather]

Morning Goddess, I have made it this far.

[4CJ]

Morning all. A heart-felt thank you to all our troops.

[Valin]

EUSTIS - Even Uncle Sam Thinks It Sucks!...But do it anyway.

There's the right way..the wrong way..and the army way.

[tomkow6]

1932 Alan Lavern Bean Wheeler TX, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)

 

[HiJinx]

Woo-Hoo, Star!!! You posted my baby, the EFVS!!!

Okay, get ready for a ride...the helicopter is the EH-60 ACS-D, or Aerial Common Sensor - Division. The airframe is a UH-60L Blackhawk modified for EW and known as the AQF with extended range fuel tanks and a combination ESM/ECM (or ES/EC) package and integrated CHAALS-X RDF PLS.

The HMMWV on the left is the GBCS-L, the ground component of the IEWCSS found in light divisions. As an integral member of the family, it too has the EW/EC package mounted on a folding and telescoping 20-meter antenna. It is integrated into the rest of the IEWCSS using the AN/PRC-118 data-link radio. The PROPHET, the current version of the GBCS-L Prototype, was used successfully in both Gulf Wars.

In the center is the GBCS-H, the ground component of the IEWCSS found in heavy divisions. Same package, 30-meter folding and telescoping antenna mast. Armor plating protects the crew of 4 from direct fire - up to 14.5mm from 50 yards - and indirect fire - a 155mm HE round at 50 yards. The beauty of the EFVS is that the chassis was able to carry many different shelter packages so that it could be the basis for the MLRS, the C2V, or any other of a number of support systems.

Finally, on the right, is the USMC's MEWSS. Mounted on the LAV-25 chassis, the MEWSS also carried both ES and EC systems.

Okay, here's the list:
ACS-D - Aerial Common Sensor - Division
AQF - Advanced QUICKFIX
CHAALS-X - Communications High-Accuracy Airborne Location System
C2V - Command and Control Vehicle
EC - Electronic Combat
ECM - Electronic Countermeasures
EFVS - Electronic Fighting Vehicle System
ES - Electronic Warfare Support
ESM - Electronic Warfare Support Measures
EW - Electronic Warfare
GBCS-H - Ground-Based Common Sensor - Heavy
GBCS-L - Ground-Based Common Sensor - Light
HE - High Explosive
HMMWV - High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle
IEWCSS - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Common Sensor System
MEWSS - Mobile Electronic Warfare Support System
MLRS - Multiple Launch Rocket System
PLS - Precision Location System
USMC - United States Marine Corps

[StarCMC]

Hi Aeronaut - thanks for your flyby! :o)

[StarCMC]

Thanks Kathy!!

[StarCMC]

I especially like the Acronyms that are like these -- the un-official funny ones!! :o)

[StarCMC]

Morning EGC! Happy Monday! (HUGS!)

[StarCMC]

Morning EGC! Happy Monday! (HUGS!)

[StarCMC]

RADU!! Good to see you -- you've been missed!! ((HUGS!))

[StarCMC]

No - thank YOU! :o) Have fun with your pork bellies today!

[StarCMC]

Thank you Mr. TOnkin for enjoying it! (HUGS!)

[StarCMC]

Hey USVet! Happy Monday!!

[Old Sarge]

Greetings, Canteeners, Troops,
and All the Ships at Sea!

Sarge is on Day Two of two days off duty, getting ready for Hell Week to begin: seven days of back2back watches. That also means seven days of almost constant FReeping, too...

I'll be on and off the Canteen most of today. Yesterday, the Home Detachment went out on a lark, and visited the big flea market over in the next county. Place is so popular, they even have their own website!

But for today, home repairs and such are the rule of the day. I'll be checkin' on ya!

SARGE

[Radix]

0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)

HADRIAN'S WALL is the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain. It is the best known frontier in the entire Roman Empire and stands as a reminder of past glories of one of the world's greatest civilisations.

 

[StarCMC]

1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched

History of USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571)

Construction of NAUTILUS was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission, under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover, USN.

In July of 1951 Congress authorized construction of the world's first nuclear powered submarine. On December 12th of that year, the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name NAUTILUS. Her keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut on June 14, 1952.

After nearly 18 months of construction, NAUTILUS was launched on January 21, 1954 with First Lady Mamie Eisenhower breaking the traditional bottle of champagne across NAUTILUS' bow as she slid down the ways into the Thames River. Eight months later, on September 30, 1954, NAUTILUS became the first commissioned nuclear powered ship in the United States Navy.

On the morning of January 17, 1955, at 11 am EST, NAUTILUS' first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, USN, ordered all lines cast off and signaled the memorable and historic message, "Underway On Nuclear Power." Over the next several years, NAUTILUS shattered all submerged speed and distance records.

On July 23, 1958, NAUTILUS departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii under top secret orders to conduct "Operation Sunshine," the first crossing of the north pole by a ship. At 11:15 pm on August 3, 1958, NAUTILUS' second Commanding Officer, Commander William R. Anderson, USN, announced to his crew "For the world, Our Country, and the Navy - the North Pole." With 116 men aboard, NAUTILUS had accomplished the "impossible," reaching the geographic North Pole--90 degrees north.

In May 1959, NAUTILUS entered Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine for her first complete overhaul--the first of any nuclear powered ship--and the replacement of her second fuel core. Upon completion of her overhaul in August 1960, NAUTILUS departed for a period of refresher training, then deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to become the first nuclear powered submarine assigned to the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Over the next six years, NAUTILUS participated in several fleet exercises while steaming over 200,000 miles. In the spring of 1966, she again entered the record books when she logged her 300,000th mile underway. During the following 12 years, NAUTILUS was involved in a variety of developmental testing programs while continuing to serve alongside many of the more modern nuclear powered submarines she had preceded.

In the spring of 1979, NAUTILUS set out from Groton, Connecticut on her final voyage. She reached Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California on May 26, 1979--her last day underway. She was decommissioned on March 3, 1980 after a career spanning 25 years and almost half a million miles steamed.

In recognition of her pioneering role in the practical use of nuclear power, NAUTILUS was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior on May 20, 1982. Following an extensive historic ship conversion at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, NAUTILUS was towed to Groton, Connecticut arriving on July 6, 1985.

On April 11, 1986, eighty-six years to the day after the birth of the Submarine Force, Historic Ship NAUTILUS, joined by the Submarine Force Museum, opened to the public as the first and finest exhibit of its kind in the world, providing an exciting, visible link between yesterday's Submarine Force and the Submarine Force of tomorrow.

[StarCMC]

Woo-hoo Jinxie! GPBITMFTRWATA!! (Great pictures but it took me forever to read with all the acronyms!) LOL!!

[StarCMC]

Morning Sarge! Glad to see you put on your working clothes! (HUGS!)

[blackie]

Coffee with Kathy ~ Bump!

[blackie]

Morning angels ~ Bump!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning.

[beachn4fun]

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