Posts Tagged ‘education’

America, The Joke

Posted: December 7, 2025 in Uncategorized
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If you have the time, look at what other countries, specifically those that were thought to be our Allies, are saying about the United States of America! It is not flattering, even though some of those world leaders do flatter Trump to his face! Why? Because they know they can get major concessions from him if they tell him how great he is! But when NATO gets together, they do not wait on our President anymore.

Trump, since taking office this second time, has fired most of the military leaders with the most expertise! He has replaced them with loyalists, people with no expertise in the areas of the leaders they are replacing. Point in fact, General Timothy Haugh, who was the Director of the National Security Agency, and the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command until he was dismissed by Trump. Why, because he was appointed initially by Biden, so the right did not think he would be a Trump loyalist! Cyber experts warned we were rolling out the red carpet for attacks, especially by Russia! He had over 30 years of experience, and we are weakened by his departure. He also had worked for both Democratic and Republican Presidents and was not political!

If you are paying attention, the same thing has happened to every agency and organization within Trump’s thrall! The World Health Organization, Department of Education, the Council on Homelessness, Voice of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amongst a plethora of others! Why you ask, because they either place a light on the scams of this president, allow health organizatons to charge us more, or contain the greed of large corporations from polluting as they wish by destroying habitat, clogging our air, stream, rivers, and ocean with their waste, as Trump has weakened the rules and laws that control this kind of pollution! He has withdrawn from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Program, basically anything that limits big business from making more profit at the expense of our health and well-being.

Trump and his new Department of War and Hegseth are war criminals. Trump is not allowed to declare war, that is a power exclusively granted to Congress. Even if I believed that he was waging war on drug cartels by killing people and sinking boats, he is not showing cause! And let’s say that these boats, which have not got the reach to get to our shores, by the way, were captured instead of blown out of the water, would we not get a whole hell of a lot more information to be used against cartels!

I could go on, but I know when I have reached the limit of how much the more loyal of my readers will go! Just be aware that what is happening is not normal, and I have not even mentioned the masked men ripping people out of schools, their homes, jobs, and off the streets with no probable cause and sending them to foreign prisons without trial or even a hearing. That is not deportation, that is kidnapping and concentration camps!

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John Love and via the Love Chronicles

DEI, (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

Posted: March 20, 2025 in Life, News and politics
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The Trump Administration sets out to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across the federal government and private sector! Companies like Google, Amazon, Meta, and some Wall Street banks have decided to go along with Trump and trash their DEI-related policies and pledges!

            But some have stood their ground. At Apple’s annual shareholder meeting on Feb. 25, investors rejected the measure, with 97% of votes cast against it.

Ben and Jerry’s unsurprisingly, when it comes to DEI, the ice cream company has no plans to roll back or slash its efforts!

Cosco shareholders voted against the proposal at Costco’s annual shareholder meeting on Jan. 23, with 98% votes cast against it!

DELTA AIRLINES maintained its line on DEI efforts last month. “DEI is about talent, and that’s been our focus! 

Clothing retailer Francesca’s affirmed its commitment to DEI in a LinkedIn post earlier this month. “DEI is not an abbreviation—it’s a Human Strategy, and respect and inclusion are good for business,” the post said.

JP MORGAN CHASE CEO Jamie Dimon reaffirmed the bank’s support of DEI! The bank—the largest in the U.S.—will continue its outreach to Black, Hispanic, LGBTQ+, veteran, and disabled communities, Dimon said.

Cosmetics company Lush wanted its message on DEI to be heard—and smelled—putting out three new bath bombs named Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 

Microsoft has not made any moves to repeal its DEI policies, and put forward the business case for supporting diversity and inclusion practices!

Patagonia said that it will not scale back its DEI policies. “We stand firm in support of our justice, equity and antiracism policies and practices,” the outdoor apparel company said in a statement.

            I myself cannot think of any reason not to be inclusive or be afraid of DEI policies. If the most qualified or talented person is available, why would you hire someone less qualified just because they meet some outdated good ole boy strategy about what is acceptable? Me thinks Trump and his boys protest too much! Usually, the person making the most noise is trying to cover something up! You all know that is true!

The Most Dangerous Man in America

Posted: February 27, 2025 in News and politics
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If you look at Trump as a young man, he was a bully who was kicked out of his private school for just that, bullying younger kids. The military school he attended was not known for scholastic excellence but rather for its ability to handle delinquents. He was not accepted to Wharton at first; he did not have the grades for acceptance. His brother actually pulled some strings to get him in. And then his only major was real estate. His professor famously said he was the worst student ever, and his classmates said he was never prepared for class. That is why he threatened to sue anyone who released his grades. If he was the genius, he claims, why would he be ashamed of his grades. He is also famous for not paying his contractors. He would either sue or threaten to sue and pay them pennies on the dollar. He has been charged with racist actions against tenants of color by the federal govt, once in concert with his father and again with him alone. He is a convicted felon of crimes against women, and the list of women who have made complaints and charges of sexual assault is long and over many years! He has been a bully, a sexual predator, and a criminal all his life! All on the public record for you to find, not from some news media who defended itself in court by saying they were simply an entertainment company. It was understood that they should not be mistaken for an actual news outlet. Yet you elected this man, and your favorite news outlet claims not to be one! He loves and admires dictators; his narcissism needs only to be witnessed, not proved. He is the most dangerous man in America, bar none.

Trumps Tariff Wall

Posted: October 6, 2024 in Uncategorized
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Trump’s proposal to erect a Tariff wall, promising billions of dollars and a wealthier nation, is a contradiction in itself.  The following is an excerpt from a reliable source, Heather Cox Richardson.

“This is a deliberate lie. Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported products, and they are paid not by foreign countries but by American consumers. Economists warn that Trump’s tariff plan would cost a typical family an average of more than $2,600 a year, with poorer families hardest hit; spike inflation as high as 20%; result in 50,000 to 70,000 fewer jobs created each month; slow economic growth; and add about $5.8 trillion in deficits over ten years. It would tank an economy that under the Biden administration, which has used tariffs selectively to protect new industries and stop unfair trade practices, has boomed.” 

Back to John Love! Tariffs over the years have always been bad for you and me, the consumer! Largely responsible for the famous Wall Street Crash and the main reason for the Great Depression! Trump is looking out for Trump, plain and simple, in everything he does. Tariffs do have their uses. They can be used to protect American jobs and manufacturing, but they must be used in specific ways, like surgery, never as a tariff wall. As was mentioned above, between the quotation marks!

Trump has told so many lies during this election campaign that even the most ardent Trump supporter cannot be unaware! Just common sense will tell you that no one brought over-the-border illegals to vote in any election. For one, it is a federal crime; two, all kinds of false documentation would be needed for each individual, requiring a vast manufacturing structure impossible to conceal. Plus, red states would be all over any such activity, and we would know about it. Actually, so would blue states; as I said, it is a federal crime; Trump lies every day, multiple times a day; it is who he is. We cannot have such a morally corrupt man in the white house. He is also not an educated man; just open your ears and listen to him speak! He only took real estate classes at Wharton and was even refused entrance for lack of grades until his brother interceded. Why do you think he has threatened to sue anyone for releasing his grades? Think about it!

The Trump Mental Decline

Posted: January 21, 2024 in News and politics
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The more you see Trump speaking in public, the more noticeable his mental decline. Even weeks ago, in a short statement, he thought he was running against former President Obama. Just this weekend, he confused Nikki Haley, who is competing with him for the GOP nomination, with Nancy Pelosi! He has confused countries and the leaders of those countries, recently. 

He is, of course, still on about how the last election for president was stolen from him. No evidence has been found that it happened! Even his party officials and attorney general told him no interference or skullduggery had happened! He is claiming banks are all crooked now because the big banks will not loan him money, as his financial records are not accurate, and he is not able to back his loans with the financial data required. 

Almost everything out of the Trump camp, especially if uttered by him, is exaggerated or patently untrue. Republicans are claiming that education is being used to turn our kids and young adults away from the party and God. Education is how you determine what your vote means, what your congress is doing, and how things work in the world. The last thing they want is an informed public, so education has to be attacked. Along that same line, some of our politicians have started whitewashing our history, even changing it, to make our country seem to be what it is not. Whenever you start changing or even deleting our history, you cheat us out of knowing what not to repeat in the future and how best not to fail! You must know where you have failed and what mistakes were made to plan a better future. I do not believe that a lot of the GOP believe that! Book bannings are on the rise. To Kill a Mockingbird is an example of a banned book. One of the classics. A Color Purple, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Grapes of Wrath are a few examples. These books are based on our country’s past, and we need to experience them and study the era that spawned them. Then come to your own conclusion about how we make ourselves better.

Trump is dangerous; he is a bully, and he is attracted to men who rule without democracy getting in the way! I believe he was always challenged morally, and his mental acuity is that of the trickster, not statesman, and even that mental acuity is now fading fast!

The Insanity of a Trump led GOP

Posted: August 21, 2021 in News and politics
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Republicans eyeing the White House bids are emulating Trump’s confrontational, fact-challenged politics on Covid. DeSantis is taking a page directly from Trump’s playbook — betting that an aggressive campaign against mandatory mask-wearing in schools will make him a GOP star and get him the nod for a run at the Presidency

At a conference in Utah recently, DeSantis said, and I quote; “It is very important that we say unequivocally no to lockdowns, no to school closures, no to restrictions and no to mandates.” He already signed an executive order that school children did not have to wear masks. Fortunately the school districts are, so far, not paying attention to that order!

Greg Abbott, who has just come down with Covid himself said; it is now time to open Texas 100% as he lifted the state’s mask mandate in March and allowed businesses to open at 100% capacity despite warnings from public health officials. This also is a political move, not caring who dies or gets sick, as long as the GOP base is mollified! More than 12,400 people in Texas were hospitalized with the virus as of Wednesday, according to state data, an increase from 10,791 last Wednesday!

Gov. Noem of South Dakota bragged that they had not ordered any businesses to close and enforced no mandates. South Dakota saw the highest Covid-19 case increase per 100,000 residents in the entire nation over the past two weeks!

GOP led states are the lowest in vaccination rates, highest in new cases of Covid, and also do not follow, as a general rule, the mandates of the scientific community on how to stay safe!

This is the insanity of a party who still worships at the feet of Trump. Who are willing to sacrifice lives to keep their agenda and electability alive in a GOP that still follows the  rule of, if facts are not to your liking, just change them, then repeat the lie often!

Opinion by John Love

A SUCCESSFUL TRUMP, NOT!

Posted: July 21, 2021 in News and politics
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HISTORY SAYS NOT:

In 1973, Trump was accused by the Justice Department of violations of the Fair Housing Act in the operation of 39 buildings. He and his father before him were not renting or selling to people of color. The Department said that black “testers” were sent to more than half a dozen buildings and were denied apartments, but a similar white tester would then be offered an apartment in the same building. Trump countersued the federal agency, because that is what he does, but the judge threw it out as having no merit, Trump settled out of court!

In 1985, New York City brought a lawsuit against Trump for allegedly using tactics to force out tenants of 100 Central Park South because he wanted to demolish it to pursue his own interests. Trump kept that one in the courts for ten years before he was finally denied permission to tear it down!This long term tactic is common for Trump, he hopes the opposing side will run out of money and time, and he will win by default! It did not work this time however!

In 1988, the Justice Department sued Trump for violating procedures related to public notifications when buying voting stock in a company related to his attempted takeovers! That one cost him a fine of 750,000!

In late 1990, Trump was sued for $2 million by a business analyst for defamation, and Trump settled out of court.

In 1991, Trump Plaza was fined $200,000 by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for moving African American and female employees from craps tables in order to accommodate high roller Robert LiButti, a mob figure and alleged John Gotti associate!

Again In 1991, one of Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was found guilty of circumventing state regulations about casino financing when Donald Trump’s father bought $3.5 million in chips that he had no plans to gamble! Another time Daddy attempted to bail him out failure!

Sexual misconduct:

In 1993, Vera Coking sued Trump and his demolition contractor for damage to her home during construction of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.[33] In 1997, she dropped the suit against Trump and settled with his contractor for $90,000.[34] Coking had refused to sell her boarding house, which Trump did not want sitting next to his new hotel! She ultimately won a 1998 Supreme Court decision that prevented Atlantic City from using eminent domain to condemn her property!

In 1992, Trump sued ex-wife Ivana Trump for not honoring a gag clause in their divorce agreement. The divorce was granted on grounds that Ivana claimed Donald Trump’s treatment of her was “cruel and inhuman treatment! Which she revealed in a book she wrote!  Trump did win the gag order, but the truth was out there!

A sexual assault claim from 1994 for child rape was filed against Trump on October 14, 2016! His lawyers got the case suspended for procedural errors, it was then refiled, it has remained in suspension since 2016. Money talks and rapists walk! It has not been thrown out, however!

In April 1997, Jill Harth Houraney filed a $125,000,000 lawsuit against Trump for sexual harassment in 1993, claiming he “‘groped’ her under her dress and told her he wanted to make her his ‘sex slave.” Harth voluntarily withdrew the suit when her husband settled a parallel case. In other words, Trump paid out behind closed doors.

In all, 26 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct!

In other news:

In 2000, Donald Trump paid $250,000 to settle fines related to his being charged with circumventing state law lobbying against government approval of plans to construct an Indian-run casino in the Catskills, which would have diminished casino traffic to Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City!

I could go on, but as Trump is the most litigious businessman in history that I can find, it would take way too much of your time! He has sued actual countries like Scotland, and lost of course. Look up windmills and Trump, for example!

Business failures:

1. Trump Steaks

2. GoTrump 

3. Trump Airlines

4. Trump Vodka

5. Trump Mortgage

6. Trump: The Game

7. Trump Magazine

8. Trump University

9. Trump Ice 

10. The New Jersey Generals 

11. Tour de Trump 

12. Trump Network 

13. Trumped! 

Trump companies that sought bankruptcy protection:

1. Trump Taj Mahal 

2. Trump’s Castle

3. Trump Plaza Casinos

4. Trump Plaza Hotel 

5. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts 

6. Trump Entertainment Resorts 

My point, Trump is not a good businessperson! Has been propped up by daddy! He is a racist, even the Federal government has said so! He is not a moral man; the rape case I mentioned was of a thirteen year old at a party thrown by child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, not to mention the other 26 women making complaints against him. No I do not have proof, only what all of these woman and a child have said! But where there is horseshit, there are usually horses to be found!

You can access my blog about the big lie, and others about Trump from this same site. So in short, when you support this man, you are supporting rape, molestation, and criminal activity on a large scale. So let’s say, I discount some of this just to be fair to the Trump supporters, you should still be shunning this man, not helping him in any shape or fashion. If you do, you are supporting evil, simple as that.  

What the &#@!!@%&&$@!!!

Posted: July 18, 2021 in Health and wellness, News and politics
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Suppose you look at a map indicating which states are highly vaccinated and which are barely vaccinated. In that case, it looks just like a political map of Blue (DEM) and Red (GOP) states just before an election! I’ll let you draw your own conclusions here, but be aware, people are dying, and things are heating up again, plus the variant is becoming more widespread!

This can be checked again and again, city by city. The people now getting sick and having to be hospitalized are almost entirely unvaccinated! The Governor of Arizona has ordered schools with unvaccinated school children who have been directly exposed to COVID- 19 not to be forced to quarantine! The school districts are fighting back and so far have not changed their policy. But this is an example of GOP leadership putting lives at risk for politics! Afraid to lose their fanatical Trump-based support even at the cost of children’s lives! How in the hell have we allowed this to occur!

The false information about the COVID-19 vaccines is rampant! And has been pushed by several GOP members and media companies like FOX News! This information is killing people, plain and simple! The fact that, especially in Florida, they bad-mouth Dr. Anthony Fauci is because the truth hurts! But politicians in the state do not want to disenfranchise themselves from the state’s massive population of Trump zealots. So they put lives in danger! Yes, they will kill you rather than endanger their political future. And that rings true of all GOP-led states!

You will hear people like Pence telling you that since his administration, we have had runaway spending. Well, here is a little truth for you. Trump downplayed the virus and held up spending to make his numbers look better, killing thousands unnecessarily with Pence support, I might add! Our current President did not neglect his duty for the sake of looking good; he attacked the root of our problem, which took money! And with unprecedented success, well, except in GOP-run states! People are dying in more significant numbers in states where the GOP is in charge! That alone should tell you where the truth lies.

So, since Trump and his family are vaccinated, why is he not telling his base that it is safe and necessary? The same reason I have already talked about, his base! He is afraid to antagonize them! And he does not care about people! So as long as he is convinced by letting them die, he will maintain more of their support overall; well, let them die! And this is just plain common sense, not politics! If we had the same misinformation campaign, politically motivated back in the day, we would still be losing the war against polio and other eradicated diseases.

When you don’t mask up, when you do not quarantine when exposed, when you do not get fully vaccinated, you are risking thousands! You only need to do three things. Get vaccinated, wear masks where it is mandated, and isolate if you know you have been exposed! If you do, we win; if you don’t, we die, simple logic. It would help if you were not making life and death decisions based on your politics!

The Argument by the GOP

Posted: November 26, 2020 in News and politics
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The new argument I hear the last few days from Republican leaders, governors, and legislators are that having an education is terrible. Especially an education that specifically qualifies you for the job for which you are being considered! It is also reprehensible that you correspond with and interact with people who specialize in the things your job will entail. Or at least this is what people like Mark Rubio said about
Biden’s picks so far for his administration! Tom Cotton Ark., Josh Hawley of Mo., and Rubio of Fla., all despaired about the fact that all of Biden’s picks so far are all highly educated and have in-government expertise! Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noam, criticized “supposed science experts” who want to take our rights away by making us wear masks and other safeguards. Currently, South Dakota is doing none of the things recommended by the scientific community and are increasing their numbers of infections and deaths at a tremendous rate, now the highest in our union! So yes, they are free, free to die!

Where did the GOP get the idea that education and science are the enemies? That all media companies are liars and in some plot against the GOP? That we should suspect any findings by law enforcement, even the FBI and CIA? Wait, I think a guy named Trump started all of that. In all fairness, there have been anti-science and anti-education memes that sprung up about climate change, even before Trump, but he turned it into a call to arms! According to Trump and his sycophants, all of the world scientists formed a cabal intent on misleading the world! It all comes down to money. Big industry does not like climate change because it cuts into the profit margin to deal with it. The movers and shakers on Wall Street hate the thought of universal healthcare as it is stock driven, and profits to its rich stock portfolios driven by higher drug and healthcare costs are what is important to them. You are supposed just to shut up and die, or you are unpatriotic! Healthcare is a money maker the way it is set up now; in the U.S., we die sooner, are unhealthy more often, and our healthcare is way more expensive nationally than countries that supply it to all of its citizens equally!

So the uneducated tend to blame the educated for their woes. Sure, a lot of it is put upon them by educated people! But that is more attributable to their greed and avarice than it is education! But it makes education and science easy targets when you want to pollute at will and make healthcare a money grab devoid of actually providing a healthy outcome! So it has to change, and I believe it will eventually. Instead of spending more on the military than almost all of our allies put together, we need to make a switch to education, from pre-school to college graduation! We need to do it without putting students in so much debt they shy away from education, but instead rewarding those who choose it! I hold no college degrees, even though I attended on and off my whole working life! I do own an entire wall of certificates and diplomas from job-related schools, and I am a voracious reader. But if I could have afforded an Ivy League or higher education at college or university level, you bet, I would have been right there! And that is what we need to strive for! And at the basic level, we need to treat our teachers in K12 with respect and pay that attracts and keeps quality teachers at the helm of education. I did raise a teacher/college professor who is now the Principal of a reasonably large school here in the Southland! Best I could do!

Evolution is a Thing

Posted: October 18, 2019 in Life, News and politics, science
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To the educated in science, I am not going to be talking about anything that has not been common knowledge for decades. But I have friends who think science is not essential, that education makes sinners, and asking questions that do not get answered in religious text is evil! So this is for you!

We will be talking about sciences like paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary biologists, and general biology, you know, the birds and the bees!

Let’s start with Molecular biology, as it is there we find one of the most significant discoveries in modern times, DNA! Because DNA is universal to all life, its presence strongly suggests that all creatures on Earth evolved from a common ancestor! It also explains how the proliferation of genetic mutations (copy errors), combined with the processes of natural selection, enables evolution to happen. Ultimately, DNA is the engine that drives evolution. So every time you make a copy of yourself by procreation, no matter if you are a frog, a gnat, or a human being, sometimes there is an error in the copy, or DNA! So this is when natural selection kicks in! If that copy or DNA error makes you better able to cope with your environment, then it lives on. If it doesn’t, it becomes fertilizer! It is a brutal process that takes eons, but, it does not need a guiding hand! By that I mean no guy in the sky looking down and thinking I didn’t create that, I think I’ll drop a boulder on it!

So let’s move on to the paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, as they are both significant here as I bring up the very massive and prolific fossil record! Let point out that no, the fossil record is not some gigantic scam by millions of scientists that planted fake bones, skeletons, and fossilized plant-matter over every continent, and sub-continent of the globe to put one over on you.

Species come and go, but life does go on! This is the essential lesson of the fossil record that dates back 3.8 billion years! Oh yeah, not 6000, as some have tried to tell me! I think a few of us must have felt the Flintstones was a documentary! Hell, gators, whales, and sharks have been around for just a tad longer! In the case of the shark, about 450 million years. The alligator developed into what we see today about 85 million years ago, but has relatives that date back 200 million years! The whale was once a land animal, and they still have vestigial evidence of the legs they used to use to move around! They evolved into whales about 50 million years ago. The hippo is their nearest relative! The fossil record is considered to be anything found that is over 10,000 years old. We can date fossils using another scientific method called carbon dating. We are all carbon-based creatures! So by measuring the carbon-12 and carbon-14 that it contains, we can determine the age. What they do is to measure the difference between the two as the radioactive carbon-14 decays at a constant and measurable rate, so we can date the fossils we find!

So, evolution is real, with real science behind it! You cannot solve our problems if you do not understand the planet you live on and how it came to be! You also cannot understand how to nurture it, heal it, without this knowledge. All scientific knowledge is crucial if we are going to continue to live in this world without destroying it and ourselves. Science is the most critical survival tool in your arsenal, not your damn gun! Ok, get off your high horse, I am not advocating getting rid of your weapons, I can see that argument going off the rails already!

I wrote this blog because I just saw another article where schools in our country are refusing to teach evolution. Case in point, the new Florida Education Chair just stated that he would not support evolution being taught in that state as factual, making the old argument that it is just a theory! He does not understand that in the realm of science, a theory is generally accepted as true! Now a hypothesis would be accurate for his argument, but again, he does not understand or know his words! A person who has sway over education should know his words and their meaning! But you have to be adequately educated! You cannot understand the world you live in if you are not educated in how it came to be! This is not some off the wall new deal; evolution has been an accepted fact for a very long time by 97% of scientists the world over. There is just too much evidence to back it up!

My other pet peeve is history. Again, you cannot know why the world is the way it is without knowing the history that shaped it! Some politician said recently that history is not important, because it was in the past. He and the Florida guy must get their education from the same source! Illegitimate U.

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