"An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy."
Mon, April 19 & 26, 2021, 3PM (CT). TOPICS: James Berk “Jim” Henley – October 7, 1947 to April 14, 2021; Voting and Tax Info; Vehicle Registration Self-Incrimination; West U council OKs $1.7 million for Virtual Gate second phase; League City agrees to land swap with Friendswood; Harris County supports creation of new criminal district court to tackle case backlog; No grace period to follow end of statewide waiver for vehicle title, registration; Texas House approves bill that would allow people to carry a gun without a license; Ted Cruz among a small number of Republicans opposing bill to address hate crimes against Asian Americans; Maxine Waters: Jim Jordan was mistreating Dr. Fauci, panel; Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever; U.S. drops plans to send destroyers into the Black Sea due to concerns over Russia; UK warships to sail for Black Sea in May as Ukraine-Russia tensions rise- Sunday Times; SO, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? Ukraine, Russia, Crimea, etc.; Biden’s Russia pipeline dilemma; How Dependent Is Germany On Russian Gas?; More. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO] #KPFTHouston 90.1FM
(Due to technical issues, last week’s show was run on the 19th. The correct audio is now posted here, but will actually air next week, on the 26th. Apologies.)
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For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:
An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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Next Election: May 01, 2021 – Uniform Election. Early Voting: April 19th – April 27th
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James Henley, 73, died April 14, 2021 peacefully in his sleep at his home in Houston Texas. He was a public school teacher and debate coach. … He dedicated his life, his love, and his self-discipline to teaching because he understood that the meaning of his life lay in service to others. His goal was always to inspire a passion for learning, for knowing what you believe, and an enlightened way of defending your beliefs that would bring people to you, and move them to join you in the fight for a better world.
He always wanted to lift up those around him by valuing who they were and accepting them in their entirety. He made it his concern to understand others’ hopes, desires, gifts, and brokenness, and best of all, would tell you his, and trust you to understand.
Throughout his life he fought for justice, always believing one man can make a difference.
In 2005, Jim Henley ran for Congress against John Culberson in TX-07 with the slogan “Teacher for Congress”. His campaign engaged students, former students, and families, among others.
FROM GRACE SUN: “I had the privilege of being on the Lanier Debate Team coached by Mr. Henley. He was my favorite teacher, that rare mentor whose belief in you, and heartfelt encouragement, made you believe more in yourself. I’m amazed that even all these years later, when I stand in front of a room (or these days in front of a Zoom) for work, pitching creative ideas, I still hear Mr. Henley’s coaching guiding me. The confidence built, and the lessons Mr. Henley instilled, about the power of words, and the magic of working together as a team, will stay with me, and so many of us who were lucky enough to be his students, forever. He will be deeply missed, and I’ll be forever grateful to have had the chance to learn from Mr. Henley.”
Jim Henley taught and inspired many thousands of people in his lifetime. He was a great man, and he will be greatly missed.
At a cost of $1.7 million, the West University Place City Council has approved a contract for the second phase of the city’s Virtual Gate camera system.
… West University Place remains in the first of two phases for the project, which uses license plate readers and live-feed cameras to cover lanes of traffic and alert police of stolen vehicles, vehicles with Amber or Silver alerts, or those registered to individuals with a record of violent crimes.
Phase 1 remains delayed as West University Place waits for the city of Houston to approve permits for the eight remaining locations, putting the project behind schedule by a few months. The portion of the project was originally estimated to be completed by December 2020 but will instead be completed in the second quarter of this year. …
Thus far, the city has installed 12 live-feed cameras and 25 license-plate readers at seven entrances into the city for Phase 1. Once Phase 1 is complete, the city will have 28 live-feed cameras and 76 plate readers. Phase 2, meanwhile, will include cameras and readers at 25 locations within West University Place. …
League City will give up nearly 30 acres of land to Friendswood in exchange for some of the property tax revenue generated by the move …
The Avalon Project is a development taking place along the boundary of League City and Friendswood. Due to detention ponds in the area, it is “infeasible” for League City to build infrastructure such as roads and water lines in the area, according to a memo to the council. …
Friendswood requested League City offer 29 acres of the proposed development footprint belonging to League City to Friendswood. In exchange, Friendswood will pay 50% of the property taxes generated from the acreage to League City each year for the next 20 years. …
Harris County Commissioners Court unanimously passed a resolution April 13 in support of efforts in the 87th Texas Legislature to create a new criminal district court to assist with the county’s growing criminal court backlog. If the efforts are successful, this would be Harris County’s first new criminal district court since 1984 when the 351st District Court was created. …
Spearheaded by state Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, the new court, if established, would expand the capacity of the county’s criminal court system in hope of reducing its backlog, which stood at 70,951 total cases pending before criminal district courts in Harris County as of April 8. …
While the commissioners agreed the creation of a new criminal district court would provide relief for existing courts, it would also be costly. While the state would pay for the new judge’s salary, Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle—a former Harris County civil court judge—said the county would foot the bill for any costs associated with support staff and facility operations. …
MIKE: Interestingly, this also ties back to the story we discussed a week ago about the Texas Legislature gerrymandering the courts in Republican’s favor.
… According to the April 5 news release, Texans will need to complete any overdue transactions prior to 11:59 p.m. on April 14 to avoid being penalized for expired vehicle registrations.
“After April 14, 2021, law enforcement may begin issuing citations to motorists operating a vehicle without a current registration sticker or current registration receipt. There is no grace period after the April 14, 2021 deadline,” the release reads.
As a reminder, Texans will need to obtain a passing vehicle inspection prior to renewing vehicle registrations. Vehicle registrations can be renewed online, by mail or in person.
MIKE: In the context of registration renewal, have you been asked if you drove your car with an expired registration? I have at least 2 issues with this:
There was a state waiver on expired registrations through 11:59PM on April 14, and
When you are asked that question, you are being asked to incriminate yourself without a warning that you are doing so.
If there is a lawyer listening out there, I’d be interested in a legal opinion on this topic.
Texas House approves bill that would allow people to carry a gun without a license – House Bill 1927 would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. Texans under current state law must generally be licensed to carry handguns, either openly or concealed. by Cassandra Pollock | TEXASTRIBUNE.ORG |April 15, 2021 Updated: April 16, 2021
The Texas House has approved a bill that would allow handguns to be carried without a permit, marking a win for gun rights activists who have for years pushed the measure at the Legislature but a blow to El Paso Democrats who have been fighting for gun safety measures since the 2019 massacre in their hometown.
Initial approval came Thursday in a 84-56 vote after several hours of some of the most emotionally charged debate yet this legislative session, with Democrats pleading to their colleagues to reconsider their position on the legislation. The House on Friday gave the legislation a final stamp of approval, sending it to the Senate, where the bill’s fate is less clear.
House Bill 1927, spearheaded by state Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. Texans under current state law must generally be licensed to carry handguns, either openly or concealed. …
Seven Democrats voted for the bill, according to an unofficial vote total …
Gov. Dan Patrick, who heads the Senate, has previously expressed hesitation over the measure, saying in a 2017 radio interview that, “with all the police violence today we have in our state … law enforcement does not like the idea of anyone being able to walk down the street with a gun and they don’t know if they have a permit or not.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was among a handful of Republicans in the U.S. Senate who voted against advancing a bill aimed at addressing hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill was ultimately advanced for further debate Wednesday after a bipartisan 92-6 vote, breaking an early filibuster, but it remains unclear whether Republicans will oppose it in the future. …
In a statement to The Texas Tribune, Cruz acknowledged that hate crimes and racist violence directed at anyone, including Asian Americans, “should be vigorously prosecuted.” But he lambasted the bill as nothing but a Democratic “messaging tactic.” …
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act was introduced in March by U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York. It aims to expedite the process of reviewing “COVID-19 hate crimes” by designating a specific employee in the U.S. Justice Department for that task.
If passed, the bill would also issue guidance on how to make the reporting of hate crimes more efficient and the process easier to understand for the public, along with guidance “detailing best practices to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID–19 pandemic,” according to Hirono’s office.
Maxine Waters on Sunday said she told GOP Rep. Jim Jordan to “shut your mouth” during a hearing last week because the Ohio lawmaker was not respecting other lawmakers on the panel and was bullying the panel’s witness, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The brief exchange between the California Democrat and Jordan (R-Ohio), which took place during a House coronavirus subcommittee hearing, quickly became a viral video clip. In it, Jordan repeatedly seeks to question the top infectious disease doctor after his time expires. …
Waters told Jonathan Capehart, host of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” that she saw Jordan as seeking to bully Fauci, adding: “There was an attempt to basically shut him down by Congressman Jordan.”
“We only have five minutes each. And he does not respect the chair. He does not respect the other members. He speaks over time,” Waters said, accusing Jordan of attempting to undermine Fauci and Democrats. …
Jordan had accused Fauci of working to deprive Americans of their freedoms. For his part, Fauci said Sunday he didn’t particularly appreciate Jordan’s tone. …
Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread of disease, as many were infected due to her denial of being ill. She was forced into quarantine on two separate occasions on North Brother Island for a total of 26 years and died alone without friends, having evidently found consolation in her religion to which she gave her faith and loyalty. …
[In 1907], about 3,000 New Yorkers had been infected by Salmonella typhi, and probably Mary was the main reason for the outbreak. Immunization against Salmonella typhi was not developed until 1911, and antibiotic treatment was not available until 1948 [4]. Thus, a dangerous source like Mary had to be restrained. Mary was then frequently accused of being the source of contact for hundreds of the ill. …
Mary Mallon, the first known case of a healthy carrier in the United States, was proven responsible for the contamination of at least one hundred and twenty two people, including five dead [5]. …
By the time she died New York health officials had identified more than 400 other healthy carriers of Salmonella typhi, but no one else was forcibly confined or victimized as an “unwanted ill”. Mary Mallon is always a reference when mentioning the compliance of the laws concerning public health issues. …
MIKE: There is a saying: “Your freedom ends at the tip of my nose.” But viruses are among the things that you can spread that don’t end at the tip of my nose. Republicans like, in this case, Jim Jordan are fighting for the right of people to infect other millions of other Americans who are trying to defend themselves. He and others are fighting for the right of millions of “Typhoid Marys” to spread Covid. It’s people like Jim Jordan and millions of other Pro-Pandemic Republicans that keep this disease burning through our people. We can’t stop this epidemic until the Pro-Pandemic Republicans and their followers do the right thing and stop defending “disease contagion” as “liberty”.
Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration targeted Russia with sweeping sanctions and diplomatic expulsions Thursday, punishing Moscow for its interference in the 2020 US election, its SolarWinds cyberattack and its ongoing occupation and “severe human rights abuses” in Crimea.
The announcement is one of a series of dramatic foreign policy steps that President Joe Biden has taken this week, along with the decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and send an unofficial delegation to Taiwan to express support for its democracy and security, in what may signal a turn toward a tougher, more pragmatic global posture for the US. …
The Pentagon has scrapped a potential Black Sea transit by two Navy destroyers this week due to concerns about escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the plans.
Earlier this month, the Navy notified Turkey, which manages traffic through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits leading to the Black Sea under the 1936 Montreux Convention, that they were tentatively planning a routine transit by the two destroyers, according to a U.S. defense official.
The tentative transit, first reported by CNN, was not unusual or designed to send any particular new signal, as the U.S. Navy typically conducts eight or nine such movements per year, the person said.
But after new fighting erupted in Eastern Europe between Ukrainian soldiers and Russian-backed separatists, officials decided not to undertake the transit to avoid needlessly escalating the situation, the person said …
[S]ome in Kyiv were disappointed that the destroyers would not be traveling to the Black Sea after all, said a former senior Ukrainian official. The show of force from the U.S. in the region would have been welcomed as Russia continues to amass thousands of troops at the eastern Ukrainian border, this person said.
Ukrainian officials are also tracking Russian movements suggesting a buildup along the Kerch Strait Bridge to Crimea. The strait connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, and officials are wary of Russia moving to block access to the Black Sea and link its mainland to Crimea.
British warships will sail for the Black Sea in May amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing senior naval sources. …
One Type 45 destroyer armed with anti-aircraft missiles and an anti-submarine Type 23 frigate will leave the Royal Navy’s carrier task group in the Mediterranean and head through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, according to the report.
RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jets and Merlin submarine-hunting helicopters will stand ready on the task group’s flag ship, the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to support the warships in the Black Sea, the report added.
Vladimir Putin [began] preparations to annex Crimea on 23 February 2014.[184][185] Using the Russian naval base at Sevastopol as cover, Putin directed Russian troops and intelligence agents to disarm Ukrainian forces and take control of Crimea.[186][187][188][189] After the troops entered Crimea,[190] a controversial referendum was held on 16 March 2014 and the official result was that 97 percent wished to join with Russia.[191] On 18 March 2014, Russia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Crimea signed a treaty of accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in the Russian Federation. The UN general assembly responded by passing resolution 68/262 that the referendum was invalid and supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine.[192]
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was reestablished as an independent state in 1991, and most of the peninsula was reorganized as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, while the city of Sevastopol retained its special status within Ukraine. The 1997 Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet partitioned the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet and allowed Russia to continue basing its fleet in Crimea: both the Ukrainian Naval Forces and Russian’s Black Sea Fleet were to be headquartered in Sevastopol. …
Crimea was part of Russia from 1783 … until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR). …
MIKE: The reasons are both politically complex and geographically prosaic, having to do with a Ukrainian civil war, Khrushchev’s ascension to leadership, and Ukraine’s geographic contiguity with Crimea.
The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
As a result, between 1994 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. Until then, Ukraine had the world’s third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile,[2][3] of which Ukraine had physical, if not operational, control.[4][5] Their use was dependent on Russian-controlled electronic Permissive Action Links and the Russian command and control system.[4][5]
[T]wo unfolding situations involving Russia and China, still America’s most significant international rivals, point to the challenges ahead for Biden. Russia has in recent weeks increased troop and military resource deployment on the Crimean peninsula and along the Russian-Ukrainian border. And China has increased aggressive posturing toward Taiwan and within the South and East China Seas that has Asian and U.S. military leaders deeply concerned.
While neither a Russian invasion of Ukraine nor a Chinese attack on Taiwan is considered the most likely near-term consequence of their saber-rattling, it does not make these situations less risky. In both cases, that is because the stakes for the U.S., our interests and allies are very high and our effective options are limited. It should also be emphasized that in both cases, the possibility of military action by our adversaries is not zero.
The developers of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline have accused foreign naval forces of “provocative” activity in the vicinity of construction work. The controversial pipeline is about 93 percent complete, and two Russian pipelay vessels are on station and working on the project in Danish waters. …
“The Polish Navy is not conducting provocative operations and has been carrying out its statutory tasks in agreement with international laws,” responded the Polish Army’s central command in a social media post. “M-28B Bryza planes regularly conduct patrol flights in the Baltic Sea region.”
Poland strongly opposes the development of Nord Stream 2, which will give Gazprom a subsea alternative route for supplying natural gas to Western European customers. At present, that gas has to pass through overland pipeline networks in Poland and Ukraine, bringing in valuable transit fees and providing both nations – which do not always have cordial relations with Russia – a measure of energy security.
“Equally salient is the risk that Russia may one day deploy its naval forces along the pipelines’ routes on a national security pretext, leaving much of the Baltic Sea unnavigable, including for LNG carriers, cargo ships, the navies of the countries surrounding this body of water and NATO maritime forces. In such a scenario, the potential for escalation is clear,” said Polish government spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn in a recent op-ed.
Lawmakers are ramping up pressure on the White House to try to halt the construction of a major Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline …
The pipeline, known as Nord Stream 2, is a project of the Russian state company Gazprom. Lawmakers have noted that its construction would place Russian infrastructure inside NATO territory and thereby threaten its member states, and make some European countries more dependent on Russian energy. But the pipeline is more than 90 percent complete and proceeding quickly, putting the Biden administration on a tight timeline to impose additional congressionally-mandated sanctions on the project. …
The pressure campaign escalated [a week ago] when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) put a hold on final confirmation of President Joe Biden’s CIA director nominee William Burns, delaying a quick vote, to pressure the Biden administration to impose additional sanctions.
… The new administration’s overarching goal is to display a united front with Germany and the rest of Europe against Russian aggression. But Germany is eager to see the pipeline completed because it would offer a cheaper alternative for natural gas, meaning that the U.S. could anger a key ally if it proceeds with sanctions demanded by Congress.
… Stopping Nord Stream 2 has long been a bipartisan priority, with members of Congress arguing that the pipeline’s completion would strengthen Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine and other U.S. allies. …
Multiple current and former officials said that at the heart of the issue is how to stop the pipeline without souring relations with Germany. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to rebuild Washington’s relationship with Berlin after four years of neglect and scorn by former President Donald Trump’s administration. …
One former national security official close to the White House captured the general sentiment: “A lot of people inside the administration feel that the Germans have been terribly mistreated, and they want to get that relationship back on its feet.” …
“The pipeline is 95% complete and the Trump administration utterly failed to do anything about it when they had the chance,” [said a senior Biden administration official].. …
“I think the U.S. and Europe’s ability to cooperate on China policy is more important than our policy on Nord Stream 2,” said [Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)] …
But other current and former officials say the risks of allowing the pipeline to be completed, and the leverage it could give Russia over Europe and NATO, far outweigh the consequences of angering Berlin in the short-term. …
Nord Stream 2 would allow Russia to bypass Ukraine in shipping Russian gas to the EU through the Baltic Sea. Its construction would deprive Kyiv of crucial revenue — which Ukrainian officials say is exactly the point. …
“Putting a stake in the heart of Nord Stream 2 could, and would, drain billions from Putin’s coffers,” said Ryan Tully, who served as senior director for European and Russian Affairs on the Trump NSC.
The first line of Nord Stream (also known as Nord Stream 1[1]) was laid by May 2011 and was inaugurated on 8 November 2011.[2][3] The second line of Nord Stream was laid in 2011–2012 and was inaugurated on 8 October 2012. At 1,222 km (759 mi) in length, Nord Stream is the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world, surpassing the Langeled pipeline.[4][5] Laying Nord Stream 2 was carried out in 2018–2019, and before the imposition of U.S. sanctions which halted the work, it was expected to become operational in miNord Stream projects have been opposed by the United States as well as by several Central and Eastern European countries because of concerns that the pipelines would increase Russia’s influence in the region. The U.S. resistance to Nord Stream 2 is also influenced by the country’s increased production of natural gas, which gives the U.S. Congress economic incentive to resist the Russian supply of gas to the EU, in favour of U.S. shale gas.[10]d-2020.[6] …
[C]ooperation with Russia is in the tradition of the “Ostpolitik” of their hero, 1970s Chancellor Willy Brandt, who defied a skeptical Washington to reach out to the Soviet Bloc, now seen as a prelude towards ending the Cold War. …
Germany is bound to Russia by decades of cooperation on energy supply, but it has to offer something to its western allies too, officials say.
That cooperation goes a long way: last week, Merkel hosted Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Berlin. He was accompanied by Russian general staff chief Valery Gerasimov, who has been banned from the EU since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Keeping lines open to the Kremlin is popular in Germany, where polls show people are better-disposed towards Russia than in almost any country. Increasingly, though, officials wonder if Germany is not paying too high a price in lost face.
… Russia’s natural gas exports to Germany increased 12.2% (3.5 billion cubic metres – bcm) in the first half of 2018, compared to the first half of [2017].
… Gazprom exports to Germany in 2016 and 2017, with the country receiving 53.4 bcm last year alone. Germany is the largest buyer of Russian natural gas, and makes up 27.5% of Gazprom’s total exports in 2017. …
[I]n 2015 Germany imported 35% of its gas from Russia. About the same amount, 34%, came from Norway. 29% came from The Netherlands. …
But looking only at gas gives a distorted impression of Germany’s energy mix, because gas accounts for only around 23% of Germany’s primary energy use. Germany also gets its energy from nuclear, renewables, coal and oil – little of which comes from Russia.
Germany gets its nuclear and coal energy domestically. But Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to phase out both of those energy sources within the next decade. The country has an ambitious renewable energy expansion program in place called the Energiewende which is designed to replace those energy sources with solar and wind. But sceptics say it is more likely to be replaced by Russian gas – hence the economic imperative of the new Nord Stream II pipeline which Trump criticised at the [2018] NATO summit.
[T]he underlying economic reality is more stark. Germany may not be “controlled” by a dependency on Russian gas at the moment, but if the disappearing coal and nuclear energy is replaced by Russian gas, it would quickly be in a situation where it is. And that has many in the West very concerned.
2 thoughts on “Mon, April 19 & 26, 2021, 3PM (CT). TOPICS: James Berk “Jim” Henley – October 7, 1947 to April 14, 2021; Voting and Tax Info; Vehicle Registration Self-Incrimination; West U council OKs $1.7 million for Virtual Gate second phase; League City agrees to land swap with Friendswood; Harris County supports creation of new criminal district court to tackle case backlog; No grace period to follow end of statewide waiver for vehicle title, registration; Texas House approves bill that would allow people to carry a gun without a license; Ted Cruz among a small number of Republicans opposing bill to address hate crimes against Asian Americans; Maxine Waters: Jim Jordan was mistreating Dr. Fauci, panel; Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever; U.S. drops plans to send destroyers into the Black Sea due to concerns over Russia; UK warships to sail for Black Sea in May as Ukraine-Russia tensions rise- Sunday Times; SO, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? Ukraine, Russia, Crimea, etc.; Biden’s Russia pipeline dilemma; How Dependent Is Germany On Russian Gas?; More. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO] #KPFTHouston 90.1FM”
Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig 
The obituary you read was written by Jim’s sister.
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Yes. I quoted it heavily and also linked to it. I also added my own thoughts and my step-daughter’s.
Jim was a unique person. The world is a richer place for his time here.
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