Hasta La Gadget!

I believe that love always wins, that love will always defeat hate. This week that belief has been shaken.

Last Sunday, hate opened fire on innocent souls in their sanctuary. A gay night club was attacked. Hate drove murder into a place where love reigns.

Our nation is mourning. We are asking how this could happen. Why this would happen. We are trying to believe that love trumps hate. We are clinging to the feel good stories of heroes and community support. We are left wondering what we can do. Wanting to extend our love, to lift up the victims and the community, but feeling helpless.

Because our love is not enough. Yes, love can win. I still believe this. But love alone is not enough, not now. Not after hate came storming in on a Sunday morning.

So, it is with love that I say the following:

We need to fight.

We need to fight the hate that is becoming all too familiar in our country. Love won’t win if the loving people curl up on their couches and stay quiet. Not if we wrap our arms around each other but don’t raise our fist in the air in protest.

Now is the time to get loud. To get our hands dirty. To do some serious soul searching. To dig in and refuse to allow hate one more inch.

It means things are going to get uncomfortable. It means challenging beliefs and social norms. Norms that have been accepted in our country for too long.

The norms that say that being gay is a sin.

The norms that say that being gay is “unnatural.”

The norms that say that LGBT people are “freaks.”

“Mentally ill.” “Sick.” “Deranged.” “Deviants.”

Norms that say gay people shouldn’t get married.

Norms that give cover to parents who disown their children because they are gay.

Norms that say it’s ok for a clerk to refuse to grant a marriage license in the name of religious freedom. As if steadfast beliefs could actually be shaken by doing one’s job. Norms that allow good people to stand behind the clerk and support her bigotry.

Norms that have politicians saying that gay people adopting would be a social experiment.

Norms that have large religious organizations condemning a population of people.

Norms that have evangelists saying that hurricanes and natural disasters and even murder is the price to pay for homosexuality. Norms that allow these things to be spoken without widespread condemnation. Without their followers leaving their flock en masse.

Norms that repeat “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” A phrase used as a band aid for bigotry. Because bigotry is what it is when people themselves are classified as sins.

Think about that. A person is a sin.

That is hate. That is demonizing a whole population.

Apparently these things are ok to say. To say it as a “belief” makes it ok. Hate cloaked in ideology. Hate under the veil of spirituality.

But make no mistake, it’s hate.

I have heard these words sitting in a church pew. I have heard them shouted on the playground. I have heard them in casual conversation with adults. My kids have come home relaying stories of kids repeating these hateful words. I have read them in the comments section on my own blog post.

Words matter. Words spoken in houses of worship of many faiths matter. These words may not be said from a place of hate, but once spoken they become permission to condemn. To judge. To look down upon.

To hate.

And for some people? To kill.

Hate is swelling as we speak. Hate is running amok out of fear, fear of progress and fear of change. We see more hate when rights are being given to people who have been oppressed. As we progress and we give more rights to LGBT, as most of us welcome and love our brothers and sisters regardless of who they are, without any concern for who they love, as we move forward and make progress on being a better, more inclusive society… we see more hate.

Hate doesn’t like progress.Hate will always try to stop it. Hate will try to keep things stagnant. To regress. To make America great again. Progress is the antidote to hate, so hate will call in the reinforcements and do everything it can to stop forward motion.

Hate needs fuel. It needs people to buy into it. It needs people to repeat tired and senseless words of oppression and judgement. Words repeated so often over the years. Repetition. Routine. Tradition. Hate that survives in our modern day out of tradition. Is that a reason to allow hate to continue? Is tradition so important that we won’t stand up to words that speak hate? Hate infiltrates the routine. It repeats softly, sings it’s hateful words with a sweet melody. Repeat after me…

I’m sick of hate. I’m tired of seeing it when I read the news, tired of hearing it from people who aim to be our leaders. Tired of hearing it from people who think they have the right to pass judgement. I’m tired of hearing kids spout off the hate they are hearing in their homes. The DNA of hate being embedded in their young bones. I’m tired of reading it when I write about LGBT rights.

I’m just tired.

But I refuse to give in to hate. I refuse to concede. I will call it out every time I see it or hear it. I will defy the sick social norms we’ve all become accustomed to.

Whether the hate comes from a twisting of an ancient faith, whether it comes from self loathing, whether it comes from fear of change, whether it comes from ignorance, I will not let hate go unchallenged.

Hate under the guise of beliefs has a long history. It was hate when interracial marriages were considered against “natural law.” It was hate that allowed Nazi Germany to commit genocide. It is hate that radical Islamic extremists employ to stone gay people to death. It is hate when Vladimir Putin jails people for being gay. It is hate when the influential American Family Association advocates criminalizing LGBT, advocates abducting the children of gay couples, among other despicable things. And it is hate when fundamentalist Christianity decries homosexuality as a sin.

It’s time to challenge some antiquated, misguided, despicable norms.

It means challenging people you may respect. It means calling them out. Saying “No more.” It means not tolerating hate speech.

Love sometimes means fighting. Hate doesn’t play fair. We can’t hug our way to a better place. The Civil Rights Movement didn’t make groundbreaking progress by disassociating and only looking at the positive. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought hate and injustice. He challenged notions that were being defended as faith. He advocated for love and peace while fighting oppression. He did it eloquently and fervently and loudly.

You can fight in the name of love. Change doesn’t happen with a whisper.

There’s much work to do, my friends. It’s time to challenge norms, change mindsets, change the words that are acceptable to say. It’s time to change what we accept. We have people who have been attacked. They have been attacked with hateful policies, with ignorant laws, with slurs and bullying. And now they have been attacked in cold blood.

It’s time to shine a hot, glaring light on darkness and hate. It’s time to stop it’s angry feeding, to cut off it’s food supply.

Carry love in your heart while you shut down the hate you see and hear. Let love be the reason you decide No more. No more hate under the guise of faith. No more co-opting something we hold sacred to further an agenda. No more tolerating bigotry, no matter where it comes from. No one is above reproach in this battle.

No more staying quiet.

Let’s get loud.

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Through the ages, these same words have been spoken in Athens, Rome, and Tokyo: “This younger generation is going to the dogs!” Now, people are saying the same thing about Millennials. Stereotypes paint a picture of Millennials–those born after 1980–as narcissistic, lazy, and spoiled.

Elder generations have been blaming societal problems and degrading morals on rising generations since the beginning of time. It’s almost a rite of passage. Given that Millennials now comprise the largest generation alivehttps://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/diverse-and-competitive/201503/are-millennials-more-likely-switch-jobs-and-employers, it would benefit us to take a deeper look at Millennials to better understand these influential contemporaries.

Times change and people change. Fifty years ago, it was considered honorable to work 9:00-5:00 with one company and then retire with a gold watch. Life was good and people were satisfied. Today, people who strive to live that same dream are prematurely laid off, can’t survive on their salaries, or don’t have enough to retire. It’s a different world. In our present-day society, Millennials change jobs an average of 6.4 times by the ripe old age of 30, as compared to Baby Boomers, who averaged 2.4 jobs by that same age. Career goals have shifted from long-term stability within one company to job hopping in search of work-life balance, meaningful work, and rapid advancement.

Technology has changed the world more rapidly than anything since the Industrial Revolution. From the explosion of social media to the abundance of startups, it’s certainly reasonable to conclude that the behaviors of Millennials are shaped by the times in which we live.

During a series of lectures I recently gave in San Francisco, I had the honor of addressing a group of high school seniors. To my experience, they were representative of young Millennials. My interactions with them reminded me of my own daughter and her friends. They were all reflective deep thinkers, and were concerned and conscientious about their futures and what they wanted to do with their lives. Their values were good and just. I saw no significant difference between them and the young people from my own era.The only difference I saw was that they are growing up in a different time with different conditions.

Millennials today are growing up in an environment where they see young people with one good idea become billionaires practically overnight. They see the manufacturing workforce losing their jobs and being driven to near extinction. They live in a time of massive expansion of the money supply with potentially devastating hyperinflation pending. They’re growing up in a time when 90% of the dollar bills in America are tainted with cocaine. It’s a different world than the one I knew at their age, and they are adjusting accordingly.

Millennials are just concerned with getting by and having a meaningful worthwhile life. If they are upset about anything, it’s the difficult position they’ve been put in with the high cost of education, difficulty getting home loans, healthcare chaos, terrorism, immigration conflicts, global warming, etc. Certainly all those are just concerns of a conscientious Millennial generation.

It seems to me that Millennials have been getting a bad rap. I think it’s high time they are recognized and appreciated for the great generation they are. A study done by Pew Research found Millennials to be more diverse, educated, and technologically savvy than any other generation.

A little positive feedback and support is far more constructive than a derogatory labeling. We need to talk with our young people thoughtfully and respectfully to help them move forward with their lives. Those young people I spoke with in San Francisco were first class human beings. They longed for wisdom and insight. They renewed my faith in humanity and our future.

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Note: The first interview I did with playwright/activist/political commentator and writer John Steppling for The Huffington Post blog was in May 2014

J. Folino: Good afternoon, John. Thanks for the interview. With this current election in the U.S., a great many Bernie Sanders’ supporters are deeply upset over the possible voting fraud that has occurred during this election season. But it’s pretty much a given now that what happened with Bush and Gore in Florida showed that the voting mechanisms can not be trusted. And yet people still behave as if democracy is functioning. Where do you think such a deep cognitive dissonance emanates from in Americans? What is it people are so fearful of admitting and why?

John Steppling: I don’t think there has been a functioning democracy, not a real one, since 1963.* I think that was a signature moment. And nobody fully knows who was behind it. We can guess. But the point here is that most people running for national office are already vetted, and they know the drill. Nobody who is an outsider has even the remotest chance of running for national office for either of the two major parties. Now Sanders was never an outsider. Period.

But I think something else is occurring this election. And while everyone always says, that this is the most important election of our era, it’s never true and it’s not true now. The deep toxins and ugliness of these candidates is becoming harder and harder to ignore. It’s becoming difficult to not see how broken the U.S. is as a nation. Most people are getting overly upset and strident and aggressive this election when they usually don’t. This election has been upsetting and I think it’s been upsetting in ways that are at least partly unconscious.

J. Folino: The recent massacre in Orlando has focused the public’s attention away from the election as well as the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions and shifted it to public safety and gun control. The way the American media suddenly switched from politics to gun control seems almost calculated to me. Can you comment on this?

John Steppling: The Orlando shooting raises so many questions. I want to write in some depth about them. And now the White House is rainbow. This drives me nuts. Where is the solidarity with dead Palestinians? Or dead Black teenagers? Or the victims of Fallujah? I mean yes, it’s a hate crime, committed, allegedly by a former G4 security worker. The same guys who torture Palestinians in Israeli jails. Irony? Uh, yes. But the violence against sexual orientation has not changed at all really. And I wonder sometimes if the progress of gay marriage and the way it’s on almost every show on TV now, the well adjusted loving gay marriage… if that isn’t a disservice to the queer community. For me part of the sexual outlaw nature of Fassbinder* or John Rechy* was in not fitting in. Rejecting the bourgeois norm. Not adjusting. So yes, it’s progress of a sort. Absolutely. I am not minimizing that. But marriage is a pretty retro institution. There is a domestication of this storyline that I think is more complex than it’s given credit for. The great queer artists that I am thinking of would have laughed at the idea of marriage and this new “fitting in” notion.

I think people are twigging to the ugliness of American society and culture. And I happened recently to start smoking pipes again. I hadn’t in a decade or more. But it made me remember back when I was twenty or so and I wanted to be like Anthony Braxton* who I knew. I knew I looked silly so I smoked it alone in private. But I remember the older men who were at the old tobacco and pipe stores. One on Hollywood Boulevard and one later in Century City. It was an introduction to a ritual of becoming a man. It was symbolic. And I think it’s odd that people get upset by the health risks but don’t care at all about plastic wrapped everything or factory farmed meat etc. Einstein, Ernst Block, Bertram Russell, JR Tolkin, CS Lewis, Mark Twain, Jung all great pipe smokers. On and on. Anyway it helps me think. Nicotine and caffeine. And I think these rituals of maturing have been lost. Even simple ones such as pipe smoking are lost. I have such distinct memories of the tins… the labels that never change… old pipe tobacco companies… Gawith, Rattrays, Germain and Sons. All of them. And it’s something you have to learn a bit about, too. It’s an art.

Anyway, I mention this because there is something about this shrinking masculine in the events around Omar Mateen, and around the Stanford rapist Brock Turner and others … a sense of psychosis and lack of fertility somehow. And then remember that the men who distort these stories for the news, or those who create false flags or set up stings for patsies… these are men who never grew up right either. They are pinched at the soul somehow.

J. Folino: Since Senator Bernie Sanders is pretty much out of the picture at this point as a possible Presidential candidate, describe what you envision as a Trump Presidency as opposed to a Clinton Presidency and which you believe is more dangerous for the working poor and middle-class population in the U.S. and why?

John Steppling: Trump — well two things about Trump and his candidacy. One is that it’s shocking so many resentful white men are actually out there. I’m laughing but it’s true. And two…that this man is a cartoon. For liberals he is a fascist …but a sort of cartoon fascist. I mean look at him. He wants to be the mack daddy* of Atlantic City, the quarter to three cool, but all that, whatever he is in his head…that’s all gone. He’s just a rich kid who inherited a lot of money. For his followers he is a cartoon too, but they like cartoons. The liberals I know are all up in arms about defeating Trump. They don’t care about Hillary. They identify with the social class above them. They want to belong to that class. They want a dinner at the Clinton mansion. It’s an inner groveling. But also, they don’t grasp the nuances of the neo liberal globalized soft fascism. They just don’t. And they are not Marxist. They are usually positivists or New Age (though they would deny it) and they are vaguely revisionist psychologically about Freud. But the point is that Hillary is appealing to them, and they don’t care if she is a warmonger or sadist.

J. Folino: There has been a great deal of anti-Putin propaganda in the United States in the last five years. In what ways is Putin a true threat to American financial interests and how much of what he has actually done in the Ukraine is simply being used by American politicians and the military to advance an agenda for US imperialism?

John Steppling: The Putin proganda is just jaw dropping. I mean jaw dropping. It’s so endless and I’m always amazed when someone I know parrots this stuff. Putin is not Lenin nor is he Castro or Sankara*. And most Russians love him. And he has made some shrewd and thoughtful maneuvers to stay clear of the US and NATO. This is what scares me about Hillary. Her love of war. And I think literally she does LOVE it. I think she is very unbalanced. And while Trump is a moron and a bigot, I can’t help but wonder how serious he is about what he says. He’s not an ideologue. Hillary is. She is merciless. Cunning. And highly destructive.

J. Folino: You live with your wife Gunnhild in Norway, a relatively progressive country with strong social nets. How has this changed your life in both positive and less than positive ways? What do you miss about the United States if anything?

John and Gunnhild Steppling, copyright J. Steppling 2016

John Steppling: I miss a lot about the U.S. I miss the desert. And I miss aspects of culture, of art. But Norway is very empty. I drove down from Trondheim, through Denmark to Germany recently. And I love Danes. They are my favorite people if I may generalize. But that country is a bit crowded in some ways, even though Jylland is utterly empty. Germany oddly feels less so, surprisingly less crowded. And I love Germany, actually. But Norway and Finland… they are empty. Totally empty. And I really like that. It’s why I liked Joshua Tree. I can’t deal with too many too close.

John Steppling and his son Lex, copyright J. Steppling 2016

J. Folino: In light of all that you have said, can you predict what the United States will look like eight years from now if Clinton is elected? If Donald Trump is?

John Steppling: It’s hard to even guess. All I can say is that foreign policy is what scares me with Hillary Clinton as president. Her vision is one I associate with neo con thinking, actually. Destabilizing Russia is a clear goal. Break it up. Bring about regime change in Syria. And probably an intensified attack on Venezuela and Ecuador. And maybe others in the global south. And that’s very dangerous. The U.S. is economically tied to defense. And I fear her coterie is slightly delusional with respect to this stuff. With Trump, the fear is more unclear. Domestically a rise in hate crimes certainly and while I don’t think he can build a wall or deport millions, he will certainly usher in a new level of racist policy and probably new levels of police surveillance and erosions of civil liberties. The two of them are both a nightmare.

J. Folino: Is there any hope in your opinion?

John Steppling: The only hope is that more people will start to see that both parties are utterly compromised and will start to reject the system of the two war parties. Trump is a blurrier image. But there are so many contingencies. The environmental crises and unemployment — there is going to be social unrest. How either of them handle that is hard to guess. Given the usual advisers, it will be a continuance of what we have, only worse. I do appreciate, on one level, the fear of Trump in the sense that he lacks all sense of proportion and is such an ignorant man. He occasionally, however, says things that are supportable. He’s right that unemployment is really more like 20%. That’s true. But then he just says things. Who is really under that cartoon mask? Still I worry less because I think Hillary is the next president almost certainly. And I have wondered often if Trump even wants the presidency. He is certainly the perfect foil for Hillary who is unelectable against anyone else.

John Steppling walking the walk in Norway.

References
*1963 The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
*Anthony Braxton: American composer and musician
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Prolific queer German filmmaker
*John Francisco Rechy: Pioneer of LGBT literature
*mack daddy: pimp-meister, the king of the streetwalkers, possessor of the blingest of bling-bling
*Thomas Sankara: Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

John Steppling’s well-known blog of social, political and artistic writings can be found at www.john-steppling.com His latest book is AESTHETIC RESISTANCE AND DIS-INTEREST. THAT WHICH WILL NOT ALLOW ITSELF TO BE SAID. Available in paperback here.

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Speakers at Low Carbon Buildings: Innovative Strategies, Policies and Incentives Session

On June 7-8, NRDC hosted a session on low-carbon buildings during the Second U.S.- China Climate-Smart/ Low-Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing. Leading city officials, academics, and NGOs from the two countries convened to take firm steps toward more sustainable urban development. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and China State Councilor Yang Jiechi delivered opening remarks.

This high-level summit aims to help both countries address climate change by assisting cities that have already taken significant steps to strengthen their sustainability efforts. At the first Summit, held in Los Angeles in 2015, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Sichuan province, among others, jointly launched the “Alliance of Peaking Pioneer Cities” initiative, which is modeled on China’s national commitment to peak carbon emissions by 2030. Some cities, such as Beijing and Guangzhou, even committed to peaking their emissions by the end of this decade. This year, more than double last year’s number of city representatives attended the forum, including 20 from the U.S. and 54 from China. The explosive growth in attendees demonstrates the high regard with which both countries held this year’s Summit and a growing mutual interest in the effort to peak emissions as soon as possible.

China and the U.S. are leading the movement of low-carbon cities as one of the fastest ways to reduce energy consumption. More than 70% of global emissions come from cities, of which the building sector is by far the most energy-intensive. In the U.S., buildings account for 40% of total energy use and related emissions. In China, the share is around 30%, but it is projected to increase rapidly as the economy transitions from heavy industry to the service sector and more people move into cities to find work. Moreover, in densely populated urban centers like New York City, buildings may account for up to 75% of the city’s carbon emissions. The same is true in China, as standards of living improve: in the business districts of Beijing and Shanghai, the building sector is approaching 70% of the cities’ carbon impact. Buildings, therefore, present huge opportunities for U.S. and Chinese cities to cut carbon emissions by raising building standards and performing retrofits on all existing building stock.

Gu Honghui, Mayor of the Changning district of Shanghai, introduces low carbon building development in Changning

Fortunately, there are proven technologies that will facilitate this low-carbon transition at a low cost, and some strategies will cost nothing at all in the long run. The NRDC breakout session focused on cities that are already taking concrete steps to implement low-carbon building strategies: Shanghai, Urumqi, Weifang, New York City, and Chicago. NRDC hosted the session in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rocky Mountain Institute, and China Association for Building Energy Efficiency in order to help participants expand their understanding of critical strategies such as large-scale retrofits, virtually zero emission buildings, and innovative market-based incentives.

For example, Changning District in Shanghai retrofitted 23 large buildings as of last year, accounting for 1.34 million square meters (14.5million sq.ft). According to Gu Honghui, the Mayor of Changning District, the retrofitted buildings collectively save 600,000 tons of CO₂ per year—equivalent to more than 20% of local energy use in previous years. New York City is following a similar path: the city’s “80 x 50 plan” aims for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In light of this goal, the city has implemented new requirements and support programs that align with this comprehensive pathway, including almost 100 “low- and medium- difficulty” energy conservation measures (ECMs) designed to reduce building-based GHG emissions cost-effectively. The city also launched a program called Retrofit Accelerator that provides individual home-owners, tenants, and residents with resources to improve their energy efficiency.

A common practice shared by cities of both countries is to increase the transparency of energy consumption data. You cannot manage what you do not measure. Changning has set up an energy monitoring system to collect real time data from sub-meters installed in non-residential buildings. As of 2015, 165 buildings have been connected to the system, allowing for the oversight of 610 million kWh of electricity usage. With this enormous data collection, Changning intends to decarbonize their building sector by regulating energy information disclosure, drawing lessons from other countries, and designing their own system of energy benchmarking.

NRDC China Program Director Jingjing Qian asks a question relating to clean buildings
(Photo: Zhiming Pan, 2016)

NRDC has supported Changning in this endeavor for the past three years. After a year of partnering with the district, we presented Shanghai in 2014 with an in-depth study (in Chinese)on the best practices of New York City and other U.S. cities. On Earth Day 2016, we hosted a delegation from Changning in New York City and arranged for a tour of the Bank of America Tower, the first high-rise office building to have attained LEED platinum certification, as well as the Empire State Building, a well-known example of a deep retrofit of a high-rise building. We also conducted a study on the potential for implementing a benchmarking policy in Shanghai by collaborating with Shanghai Twenty-First Century Energy Conservation Technology Co., Ltd.. We are now working with Changning to implement a pilot benchmarking program in Shanghai and helping the Shanghai government develop a stronger market for building energy retrofits with the support of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC).

Chicago, meanwhile, passed an Energy Benchmarking and Transparency Ordinance in 2013 in the same spirit of information disclosure. The Ordinance now receives whole-building energy data and verification for approximately 3,600 buildings—20% of the city’s square footage—including all residential, commercial, and governmental buildings above 50,000 square feet. The potential for energy savings is significant: last year alone, the Ordinance identified $100-184 million in prospective energy savings. Chicago is also the first U.S. city to require residential energy use disclosure for real estate agents, according to Chris Wheat, Chicago’s Chief Sustainability Officer.

Looking forward, China’s building sector must prioritize the retrofit of large existing non-residential buildings and expand the construction of near-zero emission buildings. Wu Yong, former Director General of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, presented a roadmap for increasing the energy efficiency of buildings at the Summit. He described the importance of scaling up from individual building retrofits to large-scale retrofit projects, demonstrating the central government’s determination to advance low-carbon buildings. To accelerate the process, cities in both China and the U.S. must dynamically adapt. They must establish regulations, clear guidelines, and policies to eliminate obstacles that hinder the expansion of low-carbon buildings and retrofits that will increase energy efficiency.

It is estimated that during the 13^th Five-Year-Plan period, China will need to invest roughly $250 billion in energy efficiency (in Chinese) to support the construction of greener buildings and the large-scale retrofitting of older homes and commercial buildings. However, the towering budget is unlikely to be met by government alone. The path to sustainable cities in China calls for active investment from the private sector as well.

NRDC is proud to provide strategic advice and technological support to low-carbon building development in China. We are confident that our efforts will lead to the early peak of energy-related emissions in Chinese cities.

This blog was co-authored with NRDC China Program’s Building Energy Efficiency Specialist Pan Zhiming.

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New details have emerged in the saga of Bitcoin’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Last night, the London Review of Books published an incredibly detailed, 35,000-word story about the recent turmoil of Craig Wright, an Australian businessman who claims to have invented Bitcoin. The story offers plenty of fascinating tidbits about the entire Wright saga, but fails to answer a question that’s fundamental to the story: How did a man so obsessed with security get hacked so damn badly?

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