nomonem.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+ nomonem

http://www.crazyboy.com/fravia/searchlores.org/nomomen.htm#weapa

Names as weapons

Nothing more than the web, in this new Millennium, underlines the old truth about nomen est omen. I could hardly find a more telling demonstration of the deep link between old-medieval sources research and today-web understanding (and researching).

Just to make a simple example: think at all the querelles about and around Internic, where people are buying and hoarding domainnames for vulgar commercial purposes: if I would have bought Altdorf.com, say, soon or later (probably not very soon, seen the slowness and incompetence shown in every web-related matter by all european local administrations :-) the swiss city of Altdorf would have to pay me in order to get it back. And that is exactly what has happened: if you check the following altdorf.com link, you will see how some clown (in this case "ultimate search inc" in Hong Kong) has bought it with this hope.

Whanna make money? Buy all domainnames corresponding to the big cities of, say, Morocco and wait for that country to catch up on the web (which btw is happening more quickly than you would suppose).

Domainnames are cheap, and you could buy yourself a dozen every year just for fun.
People do that all the time, as you may check using netcraft (which is useful also for other searching purposes, as explained elsewhere on searchlores).

Actually when you search for internic itself you'll immediately bump into the 'name' problem once again: dozens of commercial bastards have set up half-bogus internic sites, each one with a name slightly similar to internic, in order to cash easy money from all the zombies of this planet, unable to search and thus also unable to buy directly themselves their own domains from the real internic.

Here you can gaze in awe yourself, using the incredibly useful netcraft, at the high towers of names... discover how many people have already registered, say, altdorf.com



Think -moreover- at all the difficulties you will have, when searching, if you don't know the NAMES of the querries. Think reversely at how easy it is to find any application (for instance, say, softice) on the web, using search engines and/or the ftp-search servers, once you know (or imagine :-) THE EXACT NAMES the files or zippeed archives you are looking for have been stored into.
You'll often have to try it for yourself. You'll need to understand the 8.3 old dos convention. Try to access 'not found' pages, or pages you suppose should be there, alternating lower and uppercase (significant for Unix severs), or trying the suffixes *.htm, *.html, *.shtml. Try jpg and gif as suffixes for your target EXECUTABLES, try doc, pdf or txt as suffixes for your target PICTURES or mp3.

Many interesting approaches are listed on the 'rabbits' section.

Do you actually know what all these formatnames REALLY mean? Did you ever have a look at the format of -say- a jpg image? Do it. Hexedit it.

A searcher MUST be able to recognize a gif or a jpg image looking at the code.

It is extremely important that you can imagine synecdochically the NAMES of the targets you are searching! Note moreover that such names are a-changing all the time. This happens routinely for the names of the most interesting targets you may seek :-)

It is true that you can search for something even WITHOUT knowing it's exact name, but it is worth OVERESTIMATING the importance of names.

Compare the following searches (and try to understand why they work):

caravaggio2.htm caravaggio2.jpg "Boy Peeling a Fruit" Caravaggio "oil on canvas" "private collection" caravaggio (on fast images) (caravaggio4.htm OR caravaggio4.html) (Incidentally this search will not work on any other search engine) caravaggio (on kartoo, you'll have to input it yourself) caravagio carravagio caravaggio +"index +of/" caravaggio "ragazzo che sbuccia" le Caravage michelangelo amerighi

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of names on the web. Let's take a simple example: the robot.txt file, that is used to tell search engines which directories and files they should not index on a specific site. Thus anything that has been put inside a 'robots.txt' file will not be found by your searchqueries. This file is just a list of names. And you can access this file easily, looking for it in the main directory of your target site, entering per hand the URL with the following pattern:
http://www.targetsite.com/robots.txt
Thus, once you have seen the names, you can type them directly into your browser in order to access the various 'non public' subdirectories and pages.

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Another classical 'nomen est omen' problem is encountered when you search for programs. Let's take Wdasm for instance as an example, this is a 'speedy' disassembler written by Peter Urbanik (hi Peter!) that has helped whole generations of both wannabie and capable crackers. This program anyway is not known to be on the net under the nameform "wdasm" and its stemmings (wdasm89, wdasm.zip wdasmdis.exe etcetera), yet you'll probably fish it (through ftp, local/regional fishing, deja or agoras) in its 'w32dsm' nomenestomen incarnation... therefore anyone knowing this will be able to fetch this program, and those that don't know this wont be able to fetch it... it is as simple as that.

You begin to understand what I mean, don't you?
What I mean is that ANY program or game or image or sound is ALREADY somewhere on the web, you just need to know its name to fish it out.


But names (well... words) are also powerful WEAPONS.
As the reality cracking section of my site demonstrates, an interesting observation is that a correct use of TERMS when cracking reality, can help quite a lot (by the way: the very term 'reality cracking' is quite catchy eo ipso, should you have not noticed it... :-)
Rhetoric is a very neglected yet incredibly powerful science (these two aspects being most probably correlated :-)
Whomever reads (and heads) his "Lausberg" will soon be able to destroy anything in sight!
As an example let's take MacDonald. The experience demonstrates that simply explaining to the poor slaves how awful (and dangerous) is the food there, will not break the 'perceivness of coolness' that especially young zombies are frequently victim of. So what is necessary is to 'break', or to 'crack' their PERCEPTION, throwing against their teeths a 'truth revealing' phrase that will forever destroy the plastic wrappings i.e. the 'bounds' of their consumistic slavery.

This is extremely easy if -at times- you can build a powerful (and sharp) rhetorical statement.

Eating at MacDonald? That's 'reverse shitting'

I won't go here into the rethorical tricks hidden inside the phrase you have read. There is a section of my site that deals with this kind of tricks. Let us just state (and hope) that we will use always such tricks in order to 'illuminate' people for their own good (I repeat: let's hope it, who knows? Just cross your fingers and toes, trying to control feelings is always a very dangerous ave...)

Anyway: this is just a simple example: The real message is: you should never underestimate the amazing power of words! A capable linguist is as powerful (and as dangerous) as a capable advertisement 'creative' (these morons being evil dark forces whereas... us 'reversers'... being of course sons of the light :-)

Fact is, that few of those that have heard or read the above 'reverse shitting' definition will hencefort be able to feel once more - when eating a BigMac - their advertisement induced 'coolness'... See? Using a couple of well-chosen terms we have compensated (and destroyed) the power of their advertisement propaganda :-)


You wish to understand more about this 'nomen_est_omen' stuff? Here a 'medievistic' yet rather useful 'cut' (if you follow the three hints below you are in for a long ride... see you back in a couple of years time :-)

• As a foretaste in english:
  Gudmund Schuette's Our forefathers ('The Gothonic nations'), Cambridge, Unipress, 1933 (especially vol.II) read it and be prepared to gasp in awe.
• to keep rolling (in German):
  M.Schoenefeld, Woerterbuch der altgermanischen Personen- und Voelkernamen, Tilburg 1910, reprint Heidelberg 1965, his 'etymologischer index' is almost unsurpassed, note his assertion: "Zu den unvollkommensten Erzeugnissen der Menschen gehoeren unstreitig die Woerterbuecher"
• dulcis in fundo:
  Ernst Foerstermann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch, Bonn 1900, reprint Muenchen 1966, this is a book that IMHO anyone researching to-day web names-matters should carefully and seriously study in order to learn some metodology... Bienenfleissig was Foerstermann...

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Do not worry too much. This linguistic AND web-related problematic is quite relevant for all sort of searchers, yet there are different ways to 'countourn' (or even to solve) it. Reading the essays and lessons on my site you'll be again and again confronted with the old nomen est omen truth, and you'll find ways to avoid confronting it, paths that will go trough it and ways to harness its power for your own aims.

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Far from being finished...

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(c) III Millennium: [fravia+], all rights reserved

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New Market Opportunities Open as Manufacturers Adopt IoT

http://m.industryweek.com/supply-chain/internet-things-iot-opportunities-smarter-supply-chains

The Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities for Smarter Supply Chains

Supply chains coordinate and balance people, activities and resources to make and move a product to deliver to customers. It involves the coordination and flow of goods, cash and information. Every company tries to balance and optimize their supply chain to improve profitability and better customer service. The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling more and faster information across the supply chains for better decisions, planning and execution.

New market opportunities are available to companies in almost every industry from the data that IoT delivers. These new opportunities could be as simple as getting information from sensors about what is happening on the manufacturing plant floor causing automatic manufacturing updates, potential adjustment to customer order delivery dates or even a maintenance work request to handle a detected equipment malfunction. All of these opportunities cause changes to be made to the supply chain.

With IoT becoming much more affordable, companies, for example, are embedding IoT sensors in their products that "phone home" with product status. The supply chain must adapt because now a new service is able to be provided for proactive support and this requires people and activities be instituted to provide this support.

Companies that were previously known for the products they sold are now delving into new areas such as customer service management. For example, a company that sold printers now might also sell subscription services to automatically deliver printing supplies based on actual usage of the printer.

New market opportunities are available to companies in almost every industry from the data that IoT delivers.  

Companies that were previously known for the products they sold are now delving into new areas such as customer service management. For example, a company that sold printers now might also sell subscription services to automatically deliver printing supplies based on actual usage of the printer. IoT provides the ability to monitor actual customer product usage while the supply chain must adapt to insure that the supplies such as ink are delivered to the customer whereas the previous sales model was to just sell supplies when the customer requested.

The IoT allows organizations to reach outside their own company to build better supply chains. By receiving and sending information to business partners upon sensing a change, companies can adapt and respond more quickly. These benefits have direct impact on top-line revenue and gain unprecedented operational and supply chain efficiencies.

Organizations recognize IoT as a strategic initiative as evidenced by this recent survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Zebra Technologies. Key findings include:

• Over 80% of surveyed firms indicate IoT solutions will be the most strategic technology initiative for their organization.
• There is a strong IoT solution deployment momentum with nearly 65% of surveyed firms having deployed, or are implementing, IoT.
• Organizations can achieve a wide range of business benefits from IoT solutions with the leading benefit being improved customer experience.

There are several key opportunities that companies can exploit by leveraging IoT technology to gain competitive advantages:

Better Predictability of Demand & Inventory Visibility: IoT can enable companies to achieve better predictability of demand through real-time visibility of demand and service signals. With better predictability, planning & execution tools, companies can adjust pricing and promotions strategies to shape demand, move additional product quickly, drive revenue growth, and further expand margins for a high-demand product with limited market supply.

The output of the planning tools can then enable dynamic shelving in retail and consumer goods industries and can adjust truck destinations, routes and truck types when shipping in response to this more accurate and timely information. For example, if the demand for a product is high, the supply chain needs to adjust to purchase the additional raw materials, plan the capacity to meet this additional demand, and deliver the product to the retailer to take advantage of the new IoT signal.

As production changes to meet shifting product demand, there is now a requirement for more nimble inventory systems. The traditional inventory management systems offer tracking of inventory from the time you receive items from the vendor until the finished goods are shipped to the customer. IoT enhances this traditional system by enabling real time visibility and tracking of inventory, which can result in reduced inventory and spoilage or expiration of products.

IoT can address compliance and regulatory reporting requirements such as traceability, emissions, country of origin and others. In addition, with IoT, organizations are better able to track shipped items for the purpose of returns, warranties and predictive support of failing items.

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Better Tracking & Efficiency: IoT can provide more advanced insight into the effectiveness of equipment and other operating assets. It is not enough to know when assets have issues. There is also a need to understand operational "uptime" of machine assets in a plant as well as more sophisticated quality of end product based on efficiency of the output of shop floor assets spread across hundreds of plants across the world.

IoT-enabled sensors on older, non-automated equipment now enable health and production information to be collected from assets that were previously not able to be monitored remotely. Organizations can now see and track their entire production facility virtually. In addition, environmental conditions and equipment operating conditions can be monitored to ensure that the equipment is being operated properly and prevent unforeseen machine failures.

The benefit of IoT is the system can read asset health data to determine which assets are not working efficiently or are in need of preventive maintenance, and automatically create work orders for the problems to be solved. This proactive approach to maintenance reduces costly and potentially time-intensive equipment failure.

Organizations that have assets external to their facility, such as trucks or other moving assets, can easily track the location, status and availability of these remote assets. Since these assets are crucial to deliver products and provide services, the ability to have the visibility facilitates the nimbleness required to re-deploy as needed.

An example would be a refrigerated truck delivering perishable goods. The temperature, humidity and other factors need to be monitored to guarantee product quality, safety and compliance. This ability to monitor the truck locally by the driver and remotely by the organization enables a replacement vehicle or repair when issues are encountered before the product spoils.

Accelerated Innovation & Product Support: IoT embedded in products can send real time customer feedback to manufacturers on the usage, success and failure of a product. This can aid manufacturers in design decisions made in the early cycles of product development to enhance and optimize for supply and manufacturability. In addition, this information can be shared with key suppliers during product innovation and development processes to further improve product capabilities.

An IoT-enabled product that you sell to your customers could communicate back to your maintenance organization the current status, diagnostic information, and available quantity of consumables. This information will allow companies to deliver a better quality of service to customers by capturing potential failures before they have an impact and also increase your revenue through expanded service offerings and replenishment of consumables.

Improved Alignment & Collaboration: S&OP processes provide coordination among sales, manufacturing, and distribution, but there are still disconnects and gaps among sales, marketing, strategy, and operations in many companies. Often this is caused by lag time in demand, supply, inventory and supply chain information.

IoT can enhance the S&OP process by providing real-time visibility to all the key dimensions for success--demand, supply, inventory, product, risk, and performance--across the organization and throughout the extended supply chain. Real-time visibility of performance and collaboration can enable companies to improve alignment across the enterprise to achieve the right balance of supply and demand, aligned with strategic business goals. 

Sustainability & Quality: The triple bottom line of people, profit and planet has never been more important than it is today. Studies show that companies striving for social and environmental sustainability achieve major competitive advantages, especially with regard to production efficiency, supplier management skills, and attractiveness to employees.   

IoT-enabled sustainable operations can provide real-time visibility to energy and resource consumption and resource or material movement. This can result in the reduction of carbon inefficiencies, minimized energy consumption, less waste with "recycle-reuse-refurbish" materials, and optimized travel and transportation.

Additionally, IoT can provide a controlled approach to quality management, helping you identify defects at the source. By incorporating user-defined checkpoints for key operations, you can verify that items meet standards and design specifications from material receipt to the shipment of the end product. In terms of safety, IoT applications can help companies monitor atmosphere, radioactivity, sound, pressure, temperature, etc. using remote sensors to ensure the safety of your workers.

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The Internet of Things Made Simple and Real

http://m.industryweek.com/technology/what-you-need-know-about-internet-things-and-why

What You Need to Know About the Internet of Things, and Why

If you're not in the communication business now, you soon will be. The Internet of Things (IoT) will see to that.

Tires used to be round rubber that rolled down the street while channeling water away and grabbing the road. Now they are data generators communicating with the car's electronic brains.

My mother used to set a mechanical timer to ensure the oven came on to cook dinner while we were at school and work. Now cell phones are used to record shows, start the oven, turn the lights on and ensure the temperature is comfortable when you arrive home.

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But you're not in consumer goods? Doesn't matter. Whatever you make is part of a larger system. Expectations to communicate beneficial information among the system parts and externally grow daily.

Think of the black box in an airplane or train used to diagnose after-the-fact root cause of catastrophes. Isn't the next logical step for all that information to become proactive?

If a metal part in the high temperature, high pressure of the jet engine is becoming stressed, doesn't it make sense that the pilot be informed? Or the maintenance crew? Predictive analytics is one thing; actual in-use data is even better.

Communication, standardized protocols, and security will be mandatory competencies for many manufacturers that today don't see themselves that way at all."

Communication, standardized protocols, and security will be mandatory competencies for many manufacturers that today don't see themselves that way at all.

You're just a machining center?  You may not need to worry about in-use data communications, but you may well need to work around embedded micro-electronics.

Your machining equipment is no doubt programmable. Is the next step for it to capture information about the metal it is shaping? Mill lot data and hardness test results are valuable, but actual performance of each cubic inch of material against the tools and methodologies may contain even more precious secrets.

Regardless of what kind of manufacturing business you are in, it's never "just" anything. What you create has a purpose of making other things work more effectively. Data can help you do that better. Real-time, in-use data.

Buckle your seatbelts! This is going to be one heck of a ride. Can't wait to reach the top of the next hill.

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How to Control Your MyQ Garage Door from Your Phone’s Home Screen [] Criminal Masterminds at Work

http://www.howtogeek.com/253072/how-to-control-your-myq-garage-door-from-your-phones-home-screen/

How to Control Your MyQ Garage Door from Your Phone's Home Screen

If you have a newer Liftmaster or Chamberlain garage door opener, it's likely that it has MyQ capabilities, which allow you to open and close your garage door from the MyQ app. Her's how to add a MyQ shortcut to your phone's home screen foreven quicker access.

MyQ makes it really convenient to not only open and close your garage door from your phone, but to also check and make sure that you closed it after you left for work–that seems to be everyone's biggest worry about their garage door anyway.

However, the MyQ app is pretty barebones and doesn't come with a whole lot of features and integration. But with the help of another app, you can create shortcuts for opening and closing your garage door and put them right on your home screen or notification center for quick and easy access.

Setting Up the Shortcuts

To do this, you'll need to download the Wink app (iOS and Android). Wink is a line of smarthome products that are controlled through the Wink hub. However, we don't need the hub to make this work–only the app.

Once you have the app downloaded and installed, open it up and tap on "Sign Up" to create a Wink account. Or if you already have on, select "Log In".

After you log in or create an account, you'll be taken to the app's main screen. From here, tap on the "+" button.

Scroll down and select "Garage Doors".

Tap on "MyQ Garage Door".

Tap "Next".

Tap "Next" again.

Select "I have an account" if you already have the MyQ app installed on your phone. If not, tap on "Get MyQ app".

Tap on "Connect Now".

Sign into your MyQ account and then tap "Authenticate".

Tap "Done".

Your MyQ garage door will now show up in the Wink app and you can now begin controlling it by swiping up to open it and swiping down to close it.

Next, you'll need to create "Shortcuts" that will allow you to control your garage door from the home screen or notification center, tap on the menu button in the top-left corner.

Tap on the "Shortcuts" tab at the bottom.

Tap on the "+" button where it says "New Shortcut".

On the next page, tap on "New Shortcut" and give it a custom name, like "Open Garage Door".

Next, tap on "Make this Happen" under "Shortcut Action".

Tap on "Garage Door".

Tap on "Open" and then hit "Save".

Hit "Done" in the top-right corner to save the shortcut.

You'll now repeat this, but this time you'll create a shortcut for closing the garage door.

When you're done, you'll have two shortcuts: one to open your garage door and one to close it.

Adding the Shortcuts to Your Home Screen

We're done in the Wink app, so now it's time to add the shortcuts to your phone's home screen or notification center.

On Android

Simply tap and hold on the home screen. Then select "Widgets".

Scroll all the way down and you'll find the Wink widgets. Tap and hold on one and then drag it onto your home screen.

A new screen will appear where you'll drag and drop the shortcuts you want to use onto the widget. Tap on "Done" in the top-right corner when you're finished.

After that, your MyQ shortcuts will appear on your Android device's home screen.

On iPhone

You can't put widgets on your home screen, but you can put them in the notification center. Start by swiping down from the top of the screen to bring up the notification center and make sure you're on the "Today" tab.

Scroll down and tap on "Edit" at the bottom.

Scroll down and find "Wink Shortcuts" in the list. Tap on the green "+" button next to it.

Scroll back up, and it will now appear with the other widgets you have enabled. You can hold down on the move icon to the right to change where you want the widget located. Its default location will be at the bottom. Tap on "Done" when you're good to go.

From there, the Wink widget will be located in the notification center, and you can instantly control your MyQ garage door from right there without even opening up the MyQ app itself.

It's not quite as convenient as having the widget right on the home screen like on Android, but it's the next best option in iOS.

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How to Control Your TV or Stereo with the Amazon Echo and Logitech Harmony Hub @internetofshit

Help!! The walls have ears!! 

http://www.howtogeek.com/255329/how-to-turn-on-your-tv-using-the-amazon-echo-and-logitech-harmony-hub/

How to Control Your TV or Stereo with the Amazon Echo and Logitech Harmony Hub

If using a remote to turn on your TV is too old school for you, here's how to use the Amazon Echo to turn on your television using your voice with a little help from Logitech's Harmony Hub.

Once upon a time, you had to use the mildly clunky IFTTT to link these two together. But Logitech eventually added native support for the Amazon Echo, making it easier than before to hook up the two devices and control your home theater with custom voice commands. And, as of January 2017, it can do more than just turn your TV on and off.

The Echo's Harmony integration isn't all-powerful, but it's capabilities are continuously growing. It can control "activities" that you have set up on your Harmony Hub, which means it can turn any number of devices on and off. Alexa can also adjust the volume, play or pause whatever you're watching, set a sleep timer, and even switch to specific channels (either when viewing live TV or using Roku). If you're already using a Harmony Hub, you likely already have it all set up, but if not, we have a thorough guide that takes you through the process.

Once that's done, you'll need to install the Harmony Alexa skill, which you can do within the Alexa app. We have a guide that shows you how to install Alexa skills (as well as some useful ones you should try out), but the gist of it is this: open the Alexa app, tap on the sidebar menu button in the top-left corner of the screen, select "Skills", search for a skill, and then tap on "Enable Skill" to install it.

Keep in mind that there are two Harmony Alexa skills to choose from. You'll need to install the newer one with the red logo. You can install the older skill with the blue logo, which will simply just allow you to forgo the "tell Harmony" bit in voice commands. So instead of saying "Alexa, tell Harmony to turn on the TV", you can simply just say "Alexa, turn on the TV"—though you'll only be able to do this for a few commands, like turning activities on and off.

When you go to enable the Harmony skill, you'll need to log into your Logitech account, and after you do so, you may need to update your Harmony Hub before you can use it with Alexa. If that's the case, open up the Harmony app on your phone and tap on the menu button in the top-left corner.

From there, select "Harmony Setup".

Tap on "Sync".

Tap on "Sync Now".

Hit "Yes" when the pop-up appears.

Once your Harmony Hub has updated, you'll need to go back into the Alexa app and install the Harmony skill again, as well as log into your Logitech account (it's likely a weird bug that causes this).

After you log in, you'll choose which activities you want Alexa to recognize. You can also tap on "Add Friendly Name" to provide Alexa with a better phrase to use. So instead of saying "Alexa, turn on Watch TV", you can use "TV" as a friendly name for that activity. This allows you to say "Alexa, turn on the TV" to invoke that activity. As you can see in the screenshot below , "TV" and "Television" are friendly names that were set automatically, but you can add more.

If you have activities you don't want to control with Alexa (say, smarthome devices that Alexa already controls separately), you can uncheck them from this list completely.

Tap on the arrow when you're done with this step.

The next screen is where you'll set up your favorite channels so that you can switch to them using Alexa. If you don't have favorite channels set up on your Harmony account, then you'll see a screen like this below:

To fix this, you can set up favorite channels within the Harmony app by navigating to Menu > Harmony Setup > Add/Edit Devices & Activities > Favorites.

After you've done that, you can go back into the Alexa app to finish setting up your favorite channels and then tap on the arrow in the top-right corner. From there, tap on "Link Account" at the bottom.

You'll then get a confirmation that Alexa was successfully linked with Harmony. From here, you can close out of the app and begin using your Echo or other Alexa-supported device to control your home entertainment system.

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Unfortunately, you can't do everything with Alexa, but its integration is getting better. All that you could do in the past was simply turn on and off your entertainment center using Alexa, but now you can control the volume, play/pause content (including Netflix within Roku), and switch to specific channels, all using your voice.

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