Jobs Fog, Trump Tribune, & the Mind Amplifier Project

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TL;DR: “Federal jobs spin keeps markets swallowing anything, even marginal new highs. Trump headlines dominate, and a new frontier in mind amplification is emerging. The fog thickens—here’s what it means.”

Jobs Fog

 Jethro Tull meets economics? Getting thick as a brick out there.  Lackluster growth in the ADP numbers and the Challenger job cuts report overweighed it by 30-thousand.  Think the fog is lifting?  Uh…hell no.

We have the Establishment data and Household.  The former pushes hype, the latter pushes voters.

“Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in August (+22,000) and has shown little change since April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, also changed little in August. A job gain in health care was partially offset by losses in federal government and in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.

The market doesn’t know what to think: Dow dropped 150 on news crossing but the NASDAQ held – that’s what hope will buy you.

In the BLS database?

Yes, that’s right. In the database work increased 288-thousand jobs. Maybe those new highs today will be transitory?

We will leave it to you for discernment.  (And watch for more witch hunting at BLS.  “Examples must be made!”

Markets: MNH – Walking Resistance

Basics first:  When a market price trend is moving in a direction and runs into a trend line – then stops – it’s called resistance.  If the trend slope it up, it’s “overhead resistance.”  If the trend is down, the lower trend line become “support.”

Second: MNH means marginal new high.  Yes, a new high-water mark for our Aggregate index work – and we’ll go over the 1929 implications on the Peoplenomics side tomorrow. But as you can see at a glance here, we are at a marginally newer high walking resistance higher.  For how long?  Color us skeptical but that’s what charts are for…

Maybe the best tool in the inventory in this kind of market (seemingly peaking, doing a “slow-over”)  would be Bollinger Bands. These plots a moving average with an upper and lower band set at a chosen number of standard deviations. They help traders spot volatility and potential price reversals when prices touch or move outside the bands. Since the rate of rise has tempered a bit, will be watching the Bollinger bands for the break higher (or lower) from here.  (Remember: gold and silver are screaming inflation now.  Assets (like companies, plant, and equipment) are also subject to inflationary repricing so crazy as it sounds, unless we collapse in a heap into the close today, the mania might drag on.

The Trump Tribune

Ready for some serious work on your Junior News Editor Badge?

Here’s today’s roll through the one-word news search:

Surely there’s something else going on?  I mean besides the rate roll on the 17th after lunch?

BRICS Tabloid?

Why, I’m so old, I remember when Community Ascertainment and the Equal Time rules actually meant something in broadcasting.  With this spirit of “friendly cooperation” in mind, let’s see what the BRICS bonkers are up to…

“Say what???”

Oh yeah: Jesse Owens 1936 refers to his historic performance at the Berlin Olympics, where he won four gold medals in track and field, defying Nazi racial ideology on a world stage.  In our study of history the events are likely to “waffle either side of the wave.”  Replay and rhymes…

China is just sizing up our economic growth models and seeing what Pro Sports could build:

League-level revenue breakdown (approximate):

    • NFL: ~$16.9 billion

    • MLB: ~$10.7 billion

    • NBA: ~$8.8 billion

    • NHL: ~$6.8 billion

    • MLS: ~$2.0 billion

Adds up to more than lunch money.

Scrollerific!

Breaking up is hard to do, but if it does? Debris in our backyard isn’t off the table: 3I/ATLAS is Now Headed Toward Mars, as Mystery Surrounding Interstellar Visitor Grows.

While the “thought controlled US media” won’t report which American cities now feature calls to prayer 5 times a day, we thought this was interesting, too: Attorney Amsterdam Declares Christians Under Attack All Over The World.  Never see it on the MSM though, huh?

Vance talks to power: Vance Blasts Democrat Senators: “You’re Full Of Shit”  Look up how much money Big Pharma gave to senator Warren  – RFK Jr did…

Hazards for Hank’s Hawai’ian Hunker

Long-time reader Hank is ready…as hurricane Kiko heads west toward the land of Maui Wowie…

Fine print: This shows probabilities of sustained (1-minute average) surface wind speeds equal to or exceeding 34 kt (39 mph). These wind speed probability graphics are based on the official National Hurricane Center (NHC) track, intensity, and wind radii forecasts, and on NHC forecast error statistics for those forecast variables during recent years. It provides cumulative probabilities that wind speeds of at least 39 mph will occur during cumulative time periods at each specific point on the map.

Ah sho-u – Hank will survive as a Kiko-man….(Japanese gourmet cooking humor…I gotta change brands…)

 Around the Ranch:  Mind Amplifiers is Coming

When I look around the world with that “old newsman’s eye” the question in mind is “Where is the Compression?”

Compression?  Yeah – what are the domains, aspects, and attributes of Life characterized by “not enough to go around” which – in turn – will drive change?

See, the future is a slippery best.  hard to get a saddle on.  But so far in life, I’ve been able to see a number of “change ponies” coming – which let me saddle up and ride.  That’s how I did some of the first-ever wireless data over radio in 1982.  That’s how we spotted gold at $273 in 2001 (it’s still hovering in the $3,600 range today.  It’s how UrbanSurvival in 1998 was founded on the notion that as population increased, the need to prep would become an overwhelming “new thing”.  Because you just can’t trust 8-billion people.  That’s a huge herd and you want to be in front of – not run over by it – which mandates “one step ahead.”

Here lately, a “new pony to ride” has come into view.  The way I figure it, when global population begins to unwind, there will be too much supply of just bout everything.  Robotics, networks, made-up money, and gobs and bushel baskets of AI.  Which leaves what?

7-billion people all trying to build their most powerful brains.

Thanks to some mastery of AI (see our Hidden Guild website) the tools are now in hand to carve out a lot of new ways of “thinking about thinking.”

As luck would have it, this is an expansive meta-field.  Bigger than prepping.  All of which will come into view first on our Peoplenomics.com website ($40/yr) and then after a “cooling off period” at least some of that will roll over onto the new Mind Amplifiers website.  The first serious overview article may be ready as early as next Wednesday.

Wanted to mention this because a lot of people use the term “brain” and “mind” interchangeably.  They are not.  The brain – which runs around 2-3 percent of body weight, is a body organ made up[ of 20-25 percent of your total onboard cholesterol.  When docs tried to explain to me how statins would be “good for me” I asked them to explain how lowering statins doesn’t also risk reducing the brain in the long haul.  Never got a good answer to that one.

Anyway, to wrap the point:  the brain is a gob of cells and cholesterol, the mind is where the “three voices” duke it out to run your life. Because, if you hadn’t figured it, a lot of religious traditions are all about “mind amplification” and a Trinity (to approach The Dude/GATU/God/Universe) may be useful employed as an operating system.  Or, for the science literalists, a Freudian Id, Super Id, and Ego.  (Care to guess which one has runaway on social media?)

“So you ride yourselves over the fieldsAnd you make all your animal dealsAnd your wise men don’t know how it feelsTo be thick as a brick, yeah…”

Same old human cycle, only this time with AI riding shotgun. Which is why I say: we’ll need every Mind Amplifier we can muster.

An Open Mind Lesson: Pay Off

As a passable newsman, I always made it a point to “keep an open mind” when there was even a slight chance of someone’s innocence.  Society comes with an onboard “Give ’em a fair trial, then hang ’em” function.  You have to fight that – see the contradiction – and steer the ethical path.

It often pays off in surprising ways.  A number of stoutly conservative readers have called for me to ban a particular commenter who uses the moniker “truth” in his remarks.  I’ve resisted because as a “mind amplifier” practitioner, I have come to believe at everyone we meet in life, every circumstance that presents itself brings with it both learning and lessons.  Even if you don’t like them, they are still lessons to learn.

This morning. “truth” brought me a present. I deeply appreciate it, too.

Nothing ornate to the casual eye, but a gift good as gold to the seeker after a “perfect life.”

Oh – the word?  Moxabustion.  (How I could be so limited as to not have previously stumbled into this would fill a book.  Nevertheless, everything in life is a gift and lesson.)

Here’s their low-down on “moxabustion.”

Moxibustion is a Traditional Chinese Medicine therapy that uses heat from burning dried mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) to stimulate acupuncture points and meridians. It can be done directly with small cones on the skin (riskier) or indirectly by holding a lit stick close or placing it on an acupuncture needle. The purpose is to warm, move Qi, and improve circulation.

Benefits claimed in TCM include boosting Yang energy, helping chronic cold or fatigue, warming meridians to ease pain and stiffness, supporting digestion, and assisting with gynecological issues like breech pregnancy. Western studies show some evidence it helps turn breech babies, may reduce arthritis or back pain, and can modulate immune activity, though research quality varies.

Risks include burns, smoke inhalation, and contraindications in pregnancy (except supervised breech therapy) or inflamed areas. Smokeless moxa sticks exist for cleaner use.

In short, it is acupuncture’s heat cousin: a warming therapy with some supportive evidence but mostly traditional practice.

This all ties back to my extensive readings on qi and other aspects of TCM.  But I wanted to share it as a lesson in how picturing your thoughts can sometime pay very nice dividends – if you look at Life as a “School for Souls.”

Three-quarters of a century it, that seems to be the best bet in the house.

Lady of the Rake

Until about this time Thursday, there was a 60-foot elm tree in our front yard. two determined hours later, after getting the big 60V electric chainsaw stuck twice (and having to cut it out with the 24V chainsaw – which is why you always bring two saws to an event like this) the deed was done.

As the sun comes up today, there’s still some finishing work to do:

My neighbor/buddy up the hill has a 46 HP Kubota with a stump grinder on it.  When we both get (coinciding) time, he will bring the rig down, grind it about 3-inches under dirt.  Then a sack or two of store-bought soil will be tossed in (look for outdoor furniture deals, too, at this time of year).  By next spring, you might never know the tree was there.

Back in my PNW days, over at Lake Chelan, right near the home of a retired rock n’ roll radio buddy, there used to be a “Lady of the Lake” boat that would run up and down the lake (which is 50.5 miles long),  Elaine remembers it, too.  So for her role in the clean-up, she’s now the  Lady of the Rake.

AI – which I use for tracking workouts like this (115/54 pulse 124 ending) – suggested we turn this into a new fitness program.  Write a book – and use a “book tour” to (ostensibly) do some big city tourism.

Two beers into the afternoon, it almost made sense.  But not quite…

A Great Job?

I didn’t know this going into it, but 100 percent of the “tips” for Walmart home delivery go to their grocery delivery drivers.  Used the service for the first time Friday (I usually made the supply runs.)

Very cool that the working mom with three kids she’s supporting could make reasonable money delivering groceries.  Our “driver tip” was $27.  That begins to pencil-out.

But here’s the useful part to us:  If you do as “scheduled pickup” the carry out crew will do the grocery picking for you.  But if you select the “expedited/hurry up” option, your driver will pick and deliver.

You can see where this goes, right?  Get a good working relationship with the driver (you can add notes to the driver on home delivery) and everybody wins. Good tips to the driver, better picking (because it’s on the spot, not picked early before things like the days breads and veggies have been parceled out…)  So super fresh food and not going into town.  We have enough to keep us busy here…

OK, off to the weekend – no idea about ShopTalk Sunday…but drop by then and we’ll see where the dart lands…

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

 

 

33 thoughts on “Jobs Fog, Trump Tribune, & the Mind Amplifier Project”

  1. Kikkoman cans in the 50’s made our family feel like we were eating in some far-away exotic restaurant.

    • We got those down in Chinatown at Uwajimaya Seattle – before they became famous (and moved to Bellevue) – half gallon or so great metal cans – great product through we have siwtched to the green label (lower sodium_) now…(thanks for getting the embdded pun…)

  2. Yo G-Peps,

    Whats this mind amplifiers nonsense youse be squawking on about ?

    In the BCPs’ Nu world, Mind Amplifiers are the following Peptide stacks;

    Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement: Semax & Selank

    Neurodegenerative Support: Cerbrolysin & Dihexa

    Learning Enhancement: Semax & Dihexa

    Currently working on/with Body Composition, 3 peptide stack; 2 in the evening on empty stomach, and one in AM..anytime. Injections into visceral fat area of Belly..5x wk, 2 days off.

    Results are remarkable so far.. the 10 pack is back!

    ? biggest question for Moi..is why have I been getting into “fighting shape” past 2-3 yrs ? I dont rightly know WHY, just know/knew I need to be hardened/harder.

    Caution advised with Qi derivatives..personally think its all BS. Feng shui and other watered down nonsense.

    Qi
    – thats it, that is ALL..and it Is more than anything else in Universe.

    Our Chinese ancestors considered that everything in the universe contains qi, and every process takes place in qi transformation.

    “In ancient times , as recorded on seven thousand years old qigong materials and three thousand years old qigong inscriptions, qigong methods summarized by ancient qigong practitioners are very simple, convenient, and truthful. As in the ancient saying: Superficial teaching from reading ten thousand books. Essence comes from one sentence. “Entering the door and guiding the path require oral instructions and heart-mind transmissions” What is this one sentence mean?

    “Regard de(duh) as the foundation.”

    De is a technique, the same character as in dao-de. When you emphasize regulating heart-mind, character, and actions with de, you will enter the door, advance learning, and no longer be surprised. This is the sentence. It is that simple.” -Dr Yan Xin

    * Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 9/7, in Pisces makes for powerful Full Moon..something coming to power or fruition – with eclipses, often something ends, and something else begins.
    New Moon Solar Eclipse 9/21-22 in Virgo
    Its Golden Triangle for Cancers, in a Emerald Year ! – Jupiter in Cancer..in a once in 12 year visit to Sun in Cancer. A Humdinger of a Month.

  3. “Trump call to pressure China”

    The way I see it is Trump, by using tariffs can force Americans to buy a Chevy. The rest of the world moves on.

    One of the hot topics of war is drone swarms. China has a new laser machine. Light beats drone.

    “The LY-1 is reportedly designed primarily for protecting ships against drones and missiles, but appears to also have a role on land.”

    We typed about drones/lasers being used in the Ukie theater a year or two back.

    Not to forget American start-ups like Flock use the DJI drones creating a feedback loop. Flock is one step beyond the Atlanta linked camera systems.

    https://www.flocksafety.com/

    An alternate view might be .govs work together in propaganda.

  4. Interesting thing if you have an autoimmune disease. I always check with a pharmacist when I want to try a new supplement and then check with my Rheumatologist. I wanted to try Moringa, a herb commonly used in India for Rheumatoid Arthritis. The pharmacist first said it was not contraindicated but said she would look somewhere else. “They say it does the same thing as the Zeljanz so it is contraindicated “, she said. I wonder if the second source was the drug manufacturer. I’m going to stock up a little as a backup for my current drug. It comes as dried leaves in capsules in a sealed jar. I wouldn’t think it would go bad quickly. I’m pretty excited to find that I might have a backup to my current drug, which has failed to work well a few times.

    • Powdered Moringa goes well in Drinks..like a fruit smoothie. Common usage in Central America..Whenever down there, it is daily ingredient in Fresh fruit smoothies.
      Central America and India have very similar growing climates, which enables green thumbs to grow all sort exotics and medicinal plants, not just the Hallucinogenic ones : D

      Personally have never felt or noticed any side effects, obviously Ure results may vary. Good Luck with the Herbals.

    • Eleanor : my bride is a retired surgical nurse and … before starting the steroid regimen (to tackle wicked poison ivy) I “pinged” my DIL who is a Dr. of Pharmacy at Mayo, MN. I’m lucky. No idea how many get by. Except for George. He’s going to be tele-med with AiGeorge before we know it. Heaven help us all, Egor

      • Muharb/mar-ha-ban,

        No needz telemeds, just wrap Ureself in white towels, including Ure Head. No Showers, bathing, but once a Month.

        Great !

        Now youse fit in with rest of em..OoWS, Detroit, upper and lower, the whole friggin state it sounds like has been islamafied/muzzified. Splains alot..

        Looks like you two Michiganders are now UrbSurvs’ resident Camel Jocks , hhhhhhhHows the nnnnNanny gggGoats been treating ya lately ?

        !Goats before Women, aint that right? Man On Man not Gay, just friends.. ; )

        Police wearing islamic language patches on uniforms ?!?

        Stick a fork in It, Done!

  5. Ah, Lake Chelan. Had relatives there for years. As a kid, middle of summer would have me sitting on a dock staring down into glacier cold water and watch fish swimming. We’d swim for 15 minutes and then have to get out and warm up! As an adult, I walked that dock and realized that clear, clear water was at least 20 foot deep to the bottom, most likely deeper more. But I certainly still could see those fish clearly. Something about that lake was fascinating to me. Thanks for stirring up good memories.

  6. Bear-on-the-boat :

    “… crazy as it sounds, unless we collapse in a heap into the close today …”

    With over-extended mkts one wonders, what’s a heap? Crazy cross-currents, lotsa bunched shorts (the underwear kind) going into the weekend. The other shorts are mostly -0-DTE traders scalping beer money. They buy to close and stream sports. Or sumpin

    The (lack of) Jobs report, Trumping the ADP surprise flash, is systemic. It’s not rise of the machines (yet) … it’s organic and spreading. Despite much pre-argument in media, a cut is now locked in. Or, we remove JayPow for cause? We kid, really.

    Stay on the path. I spent several hours with lopping sheer cutting the bottom out of 150′ of private lane and … while off the path ended in poison ivy/oak/sumac … whatever the version, a virulent poison. Midway through the 5-day series of steroidal oral meds. Less agitated.

    Reading the news is agitating irritating enough? Stay on the path.
    This is the way (on path).
    Egor

    ps – a change is on the air. Blowing snot out front. Horses for courses (a sail racing tome). Annual lake Prize Giving is tomorrow, hosted lakeside at the Fleet Captain’s cottage. I came 4-3-2 in the Labor Day Regatta, which accidentally put me on the podium. I’m recycling my old trophies so avoid getting new ones. Per consult with FC my asking for a voluntary DSQ puts a young woman in 3rd. I know she will be pleased. Have 23 hours to decide how I earned a penalty …

  7. and a rudder thing (OBSCON): go to source at BLS (which had a glitch?)
    Table A15 line U6 – note : 7.7 to 8.1 since June is a systemic flush.
    Or not. It’s Friday afternoon in ‘Merica. Rally hats? Nope.

    E

  9. “Lady of the Lake” still makes the morning run up-lake to Stehekin., with the mail, supplies and those damn tourists. Except by floatplane., or a really long hike through rugged terrain – it is the only way to get up-lake.
    – The lake is actually 54 miles long. – Dock-to-dock.

    * * *

    Massive immigration raid at Hyundai megaplant in Georgia leads to 475 arrests. The majority are Korean.

    All 475 people taken into custody were illegally present in the US, Some crossed into the US illegally, some had visa waivers and were prohibited from working, and some had overstayed their visas.

    “As of today, it is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company. We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site and comply with all laws and regulations wherever we operate.” Hyundai Spokesperson.

    The raid closed down the battery manufacturing plant. According to Hyundai those arrested were mainly contractors, or sub-contractors.

    Excuse me., but even though they may not be a ‘direct’ employee – Hyundai had to know that there were hundreds of illegal aliens working at their plants.

    • More importantly, they now know those illegals who work in their other plants, including the Kia and Genesis factories, are likely on the chopping block. It’s gonna suck when the Administration gets a law passed which legally, criminally indemnifies employers for their illegal employees or contractor agents…

      • It’s only a $500-1200 fine per illegal worker for the employer (keeping the underpaid illegal workforce still nets a profit):
        ‘The employer will either receive a notification that their employee is authorized to work
        or, if the information the employee provided does not match information in the
        government’s databases, the employer will receive a tentative non-confirmation (TNC).
        The employee has eight business days to contest the TNC with the government. If an
        employer fails to contest the TNC or the TNC is contested unsuccessfully, then the TNC
        is converted into a final non-confirmation (FNC) and the employee is deemed ineligible
        to work. The employer is required to fire an employee who has received a FNC, or will
        face a $500-$1200 fine for each FNC worker they employ. The fine is determined by the
        employer’s size, history of previous violations, and demonstration of good faith in
        attempting to comply, as well as the seriousness of the violation.’

        https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/E-Verify-Fact-sheet.pdf

        Low fines explain why only 20% of U.S. employers use E-Verify:
        https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/e-verify-what-is-it/507-1d2973c4-b9e8-4968-9b45-7bd2faec5ee1

  10. “The U.S. is deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to the Caribbean to target drug cartels.”

    A more effective strategy would be to whack the end users in some kind of purge style bloodletting.

    Trump needs to declare open season. If the hair test of the dead is positive for drugs the victim turns into perp and the killing justified.

    Our cellies could double as body cams working with overhead drones. A street vendor approaches.. the video documentation will show the end of that corner. Not everyone will go for the wet work but only 3%-5% is needed.

  12. Well., we have a new head of BLS – and the first Jobs report from this new guy came out – only 22,000 new jobs created. Exactly what Trump wanted., for ammo against The Fed.
    – But do we believe this number? Or is this just another salvo of political B.S. ?

  13. I was so bored yesterday that I finally got around to installing the ceiling fan in the kitchen. Been putting it off for months. It’s a ‘want’., not a ‘need’.
    Working on electrical., above my head., while on a ladder is not a great way to spend an entire afternoon.
    .., but, it looks good, works great. “The Mrs” likes it.., So, I shall deem it a success.
    . . .
    I do not want to see another tomato any time time soon. Over the last few days I have canned.
    6 quarts of stewed tomato’s
    2 quarts of jalapeno stewed tomato’s
    6 pints of thick, rich and rather tasty tomato sauce
    and 6 pints of jalapeno salsa

    and I still have around a hundred sweet yellow cherry tomatoes ready for harvest [ The plant went absolutely bonkers this year. Not too sure what to do with them.] and a couple dozen Early Girl tomatoes coming on for the last harvest of the year. And.., three more beef stake – but those are predesignated for BLT’s.

    Now ?.., I am bored again…,

  14. re: “Metamorphoses”, Ovid, 8 ad

    Folks,
    What a difference a year makes. Today the powers that be commenced their annual pilgrimage as they have since 1975 to the closed door Ambrosetti Forum. It’s hosted by think tank The Europe House-Ambrosetti at Villa d’Este situated on a hillside near Lake Como, Italy.

    The villa’s construction upon grounds of ‘location, location, location’ began in 1560 under the wealthy Cardinal d’Este of white eagle crest, a grandson of Pope Alexander VI. Apparently intricate ceiling detail in the Cardinal’s bedchamber features a line from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” (‘Transformation’) translating as “not guarded by the dragon that never sleeps”. According to Grok AI, this implies that something perhaps considered valuable may lack an expected defense.

    Last year’s edition of Ambrosetti Forum included an address delivered in person by the President of the Ukraine. His Presidential Office published a 2024 smiling-faces image of his private audience with Italian PM Georgia Meloni resplendently attired in a powder blue business suit.

    A Ukrainian President’s 2025 address to Ambrosetti Forum attendees has broadcast from afar onto a television screen. His 2025 tshirt matched last year’s fashion paired with a closed, folded arm posture dictated from behind a big lectern or desk. He informs that at least two dozen nations of a 30+ country consortium have promised him concrete defense measures.

    Changing television channel, DJ George offers a programming reminder that the Chiefs versus Chargers tilt broadcasts tonight from Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Named after one of the 12 disciples, Sao Paulo’s modern history seems to also have begun in 1560 like Villa d’Este. A dozen Jesuits started construction of Vila de São Paulo on a steep hillside. Apparently the city’s motto translates as “I am not led, I lead.” One imagines the Chiefs may require all swiftness of play that can be mustered in defense against the Chargers. I don’t know if Taylor will oversee the battle plain from a suite-on-high.

    Roll the dice, and let the game begin! (This is not investment advice.)

  15. A little ‘side-bar’ on the unemployment rate:
    Black unemployment is the highest it’s been in six years.

    • Before COVID, Trump ostensibly had Black unemployment at its lowest point ever. There’s really only one way it could go.

      With that said, I still contend that the employment number would need to be around 185mln to equal the [percentage] number of people employed in 2006, before the housing bubble burst…

  16. “Ah sho-u – Hank will survive as a Kiko-man….(Japanese gourmet cooking humor…I gotta change brands…)”

    Now that was the sauciest Soy-Boy humor yet!

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