General Discussion, Saturday, October 27, 2018

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Stella

Early Radio

Wikipedia:

The discovery of these “Hertzian waves” (radio waves) prompted many experiments by physicists. An August 1894 lecture by the British physicist Oliver Lodge, where he transmitted and received “Hertzian waves” at distances up to 50 meters, was followed up the same year with experiments by Indian physicist Jagadish Chandra Bose in extremely high frequency radio microwave optics and a year later with the construction of a radio based lightning detector by Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov.

Starting in late 1894, Guglielmo Marconi began pursuing the idea of building a wireless telegraphy system based on Hertzian waves (radio). Marconi gained a patent on the system in 1896 and developed it into a commercial communication system over the next few years.

Early 20th century radio systems transmitted messages by continuous wave code only. Early attempts at developing a system of amplitude modulation for voice and music were demonstrated in 1900 and 1906, but had little success.

World War I accelerated the development of radio for military communications, and in this era the first vacuum tubes were applied to radio transmitters and receivers. Electronic amplification was a key development in changing radio from an experimental practice by experts into a home appliance. After the war, commercial radio broadcasting began in the 1920s and became an important mass medium for entertainment and news.

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95 Responses to General Discussion, Saturday, October 27, 2018

  2. Wooly Covfefe says:
    October 27, 2018 at 12:32 am

    Imagine meeting your suicided brother’s rapists, and you had a lot of tools. So to speak. That’s that second song, to me. They’re all mostly dead, but still. Turn up the bass for the second half. Phil is a phenom on drums.

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  3. Wooly Covfefe says:
    October 27, 2018 at 12:40 am

    And that first one is the best thing Sknynerd ever recorded. And I’m not even a southerner.

    It’s something I wish I could take to heart.`

    I’m an idiot, though.

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  4. Wooly Covfefe says:
    October 27, 2018 at 1:21 am

    Turn up both bass and volume. Bobby has been my sensei for 25 years. He doesn’t even know.

    I don’t need an autograph. I am one. And he doesn’t even know. 😀

    It’s fun to know this. I need a microphone. I wish I could show Bobby what he taught me.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      October 27, 2018 at 1:31 am

      There aren’t many musicians I want to hug. Good God I would love to be hugged by Bobby McFerrin. A man can dream. No gay, either. Daryl Hall comes a close second, followed by Billy Gibbons. Those would be good hugs. All of ’em.

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  6. czarowniczy says:
    October 27, 2018 at 1:49 am

    Back in the very early 60s I had a fried whose family was into ham radio. His dad was a commo guy with a major radio company that had military contracts and got first dibs at radio equipment being swapped out for newer stuff.
    Their 2-car garage was stuffed with it, huge cabinets and racks with radios and amplifiers using tubes the size of quart and gallon jars.When they were turned on there were glowing filaments all over and the smell of hot electronic components and ozone was everywhere. Their backyard had a forest of antennas and neighbors were scared they’d attract lightening though the truth was the antennas actually protected them.
    They were the ones that got me interested in ham radio and electronics though I didn’t get anywhere as deep into it as they were. Now that I can sit on my back porch here and order a pizza for my son 1500 miles away just using my tiny smartphone sorta makes that whole ham radio thingie rather quaint.

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      October 27, 2018 at 7:35 am

      Hey Czar, what was the backpack radio we carried in RVN? Just can’t remember…..

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      • czarowniczy says:
        October 27, 2018 at 11:23 am

        Well there was the PRC-10 (have one in the garage) and the PRC-25. Early 25 had that damn battery box stuffed with D-cells before they went to that ‘loaf’ battery. Was bigger than the PRC-10 but used same antennas and mic, if I remember correctly.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        October 27, 2018 at 12:25 pm

        This reminded me of the hodgepodge of crap gear we had when I got there. The AF wasn’t prepared for much more than a weekend at the beach so we had for web gear and personal stuff, whatever they could drum up.
        It was a massive and rapid buildup and we were 22 miles from the Army at Qui Nhon by Hiway 1 and over 30 miles by the back road. If it weren’t for the Korean unit outside the base we’d have been toast. We were deep in one of the VC’s oldest areas, all alone.
        The AF didn’t allow its member to carry weapons, ours were locked up in Conex boxes by the barracks and couldn’t be accessed without the CO and someone else coming to the box and opening it. Procedures required the troops to sign for their weapons, pick up bandoleers of ammo and magazines then report to your post and get ready. Now our, and most, barracks were right up against the main fence – a small ditch protected by a double barbed wire emplacement. Even if the CO and alternate were to throw themselves into the face of oncoming troops and fire to issue the guns there was still the delay of signing for the weapon, getting the mags and ammo and putting it all together while getting into a fighting position to take on attacking troops that had all of this done and ready days ago.
        When I got there with my small cadre the base was still being built. We had no uniforms other than what ewe brought, laundry was minimal and as the AF doesn’t usually play with soldier stuff we had to report to the supply point for an issue of whatever field gear they had – mostly stuff scrounged from the Army or, allegedly, purchased from the black market where stuff that had been stolen from incoming shipments had been diverted. I had web gear that was composed of items from WWII thru the new nylon backpacks. The VC had nicer tack.
        The M-16s weren’t all in yet, we each were issued a weapon to be used and I do believe they were scrounged from stocks we’d brought over to arm the Vietnamese militia. In the racks were M-1 and M-2 carbines, M1A1 Thompsons and a few M-14s. It looked more like a sales desk at a gun show.
        Again, the AF doesn’t like to play or be confused with soldiers so on base our radios were not standard military ones. We could only talk to ourselves, only special Airpersons trained to recognize their places in the AF-real military spectrum could talk to soldiers on a radio. For on-base use during an attack we had a ‘brick’ radio made by (I think) RCA. It was a bit larger than 3 bricks glued together, had a combination handle and handset holder that ran lengthwise on the body that held the workings and the telephone handset and had a short wire whip antenna. For camouflage it was a bright silver and the only way you could transport it was by carrying it in your hand by the bulky handle. You can imagine an attack on the base, you’re running to your position after getting your rifle and lunchbox radio issued, one in either hand…
        If there were Army responding the only way we could talk to them or they to us was for the Army to use their radios to contact our TOC who would then verbally relay the info to us. Wed reply to the TOC and they’d verbally relay to the Army what we’d said. The Army would reply….
        There are times when I think the only reason we survived was by the grace of God and that Korean detachment just outside our gate – the VC/NVA were scared to death of them.
        Sorry, Col Ken tripped a memory mine.

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  7. Wooly Covfefe says:
    October 27, 2018 at 2:26 am

    It is quaint, isn’t it? Now we have CB radio on our phones, let alone shortwave.

    It is unbelievable. I could put the entire contents of my Commodore 64 on 1/10th of a CD-ROM. Two shoeboxes worth of floppy disks, on a quarter-inch of CD-writing.

    Quaint is the right word.

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  8. nyetneetot says:
    October 27, 2018 at 7:29 am

    If I recall correctly, the Supreme Court ruled all Marconi’s patents invalid and awarded them to Nicola Tesla.

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  9. nyetneetot says:
    October 27, 2018 at 7:30 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
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    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
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    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

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  11. Menagerie says:
    October 27, 2018 at 8:18 am

    Well, I fell off the wagon last night. Broke down and made some sour dough starter. It just isn’t fall without it. I’m going to have to just make regular bread for a couple of weeks.

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  12. auscitizenmom says:
    October 27, 2018 at 9:59 am

    I usually don’t like changes in the National Anthem, but this one gave me chills. Maybe because I like country music. It doesn’t start until about 0:50. I actually heard this on FOX and FRIENDS this morning, and it was better sound of course.

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  13. rheavolans says:
    October 27, 2018 at 11:46 am

    Sometime around this date ten years ago, I started journaling.

    For someone who doesn’t really have an eventful life, I sure have a lot to write about it.

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    • stella says:
      October 27, 2018 at 11:55 am

      My mother always journaled. I was forced to do it in high school, but I have since dropped daily journaling. Maybe I should take it up again.

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    • NC Nana says:
      October 27, 2018 at 1:11 pm

      My parents had been married 63 years when Mom passed away. She had been the cheerful talker of the two. As a result Dad didn’t say much. I think he really just enjoyed hearing her talk.

      After Mom passed away Dad opened up completely. I made sure I had at least an hour to talk any time I called. He told me so much about his generation and his father’s generation it was wonderful. My big regret is that I didn’t write the stories down. It is long past the time I could have said ‘now what was that story about Great Aunt Sissy?’.

      Last week I mentioned to my grandson that one of his grandfather’s jobs as a boy was paperboy. He said “what’s that! ??” I had to start from the description of what a newspaper was. Journaling would be a great way to pass along history.

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      • stella says:
        October 27, 2018 at 1:32 pm

        Your dad probably started talking to you because he didn’t have your mom to talk to any more. I made very close contact with a cousin who started calling me when my mom died. She had always talked to mom a couple of hours a week, and transferred it to me.

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        • NC Nana says:
          October 27, 2018 at 1:49 pm

          Yes, very true. After Mom passed away my father started a written correspondence with his cousin’s daughter. He would tell me interesting things about her letters. (He lived in CA, she lived in MO.) So I would say he just enjoyed hearing what women thought. It was a habit of most of his life.

          Now that I think of it, I wonder what happened to those letters. My sister that passed away a couple of years ago may have had them.

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  14. Lucille says:
    October 27, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    Turns out that the nutty bomber is Filipino via father and not American Indian…no mention of national origins for his mother’s family and won’t be unless they discover she’s got as much Indian DNA as Liz Warren.

    ALLEGED FAKE BOMBER IS FILIPINO EX-CON WHO CLAIMED TO BE SEMINOLE
    October 26, 2018 – Daniel Greenfield
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271760/alleged-fake-bomber-fillipino-ex-con-who-claimed-daniel-greenfield

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    • NC Nana says:
      October 27, 2018 at 4:15 pm

      Stella had posted that same LinkedIn Profile yesterday.

      Where the bomber talked about liberating the island and previously talked about being in New York. I thought the grandfather went to Philippines as an American. (I don’t know much about the Philippines history so maybe it was only Philippines doing the fighting.)

      ******
      From the Profile:

      “The first plastic surgeon to be observed by 8 million people in NY city Hospital.”

      “He over through Communist Philippines liberated island. He built all hospitals in Philippines islands and sets standards highest level.”
      *******

      The profile was so rambling I had a hard time following it. If he is part Filipino I am guessing the other part could be American Indian??

      Eventually we’ll have a clearer picture. His cousin was sure willing to talk to the press.

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      • Lucille says:
        October 27, 2018 at 4:52 pm

        I didn’t connect the mention of the Philippines to anything but incoherent rambling of a mentally ill or seriously brain-damaged person.

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    • rheavolans says:
      October 27, 2018 at 6:27 pm

      Any news on his religion? Not that I’m suspicious or anything… But isn’t A Religion of Peace that shall not be named pretty common over there?

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  15. NC Nana says:
    October 27, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    When I sat down at my computer today I fully expected to see the main headlines cover the invasion caravan. Sadly that was not the case. (Tree of Life shooting had captured the headlines everywhere.)

    Buried way down in the stories was Gen. Mattis authorization to add troops to the Southern Border.

    Included in the article was this statement:

    “The department will provide Defense Support to Civil Authorities with planning assistance, engineering support (temporary barriers, barricades, and fencing), fixed and rotary wing aviation support to move CBP personnel, medical teams to triage, treat and prepare for commercial transport of patients, command and control facilities, temporary housing for CBP personnel, and personal protective equipment for CBP personnel.”

    Don’t know if the personal protective equipment means guns but with that and the statement about “medical teams to triage” it clearly shows they recognize the troops will be in harm’s way.

    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/10/26/mattis-more-troops-southwestern-border/

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  16. NC Nana says:
    October 27, 2018 at 4:50 pm

    If you don’t do anything else on this post by Sundance look at the prayer by Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow. It is a video in a WH Tweet. (Wish I could just embed the tweet by I don’t tweet.) – – It’s down at the bottom of Sundance’s post.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/27/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-unknown-number-of-casualties-suspect-identified/

    “Just now: President Trump invited Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow to offer a prayer for the victims of the attack in Pittsburgh.”

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  17. auscitizenmom says:
    October 27, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    I got a political ad. There isn’t much info on it, other than you need to vote “NO” on Amend. 3.There is a Const. Amend.3 (voter control of gambling in FL), and a proposed charter Amend. 3 (charter review amend reform). I am not sure which of these they want me to vote no on. The one on gambling I voted “yes” on because the Women’s League of Voters wanted me to vote “No”. This ad is an “it’s for the children” kind of ad, so I think I needed to vote the opposite of what they want. LOL I think they should have explained more.

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  18. auscitizenmom says:
    October 27, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  19. auscitizenmom says:
    October 27, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    Prayer for Justice Kavanaugh:

    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/kavanaugh-v.-ford
    “After watching her husband rip into pro-death senators who used Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in attempts to derail the appointment of her husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ashley is asking all people of faith to unite in praying Psalm 40, which reads:”

    “BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME, LOOK DOWN, O LORD TO HELP ME. LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND ASHAMED TOGETHER, THAT SEEK AFTER MY SOUL TO TAKE IT AWAY. LET THEM BE TURNED BACKWARD AND BE ASHAMED THAT DESIRE EVILS TO ME.”

    In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen

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  20. Lucille says:
    October 27, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    Interesting take from yesterday…Thread by @_ImperatorRex_: …a few words about the indictment of Cesar Sayoc. Here’s the indictment. It is very weak and seems rushed, IMO.
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1055986136928051200.html

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