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American Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln
Hardcover
By Thomas Keneally
| Quote: | Lincoln, the Wrestler
In the summer of 1831 the little frontier town of New Salem gained a new resident. His name was Abraham Lincoln, and he came to work in a general store which Denton Offut, with whom he had just made a flat-boat trip to New Orleans, was establishing in the village.
The people of New Salem had a habit of putting newcomers to the test, especially when their employers bragged of their strength, as Offut bragged of Lincoln. So a wrestling match with Jack Armstrong of nearby Clary’s Grove, champion of the neighborhood, was arranged. The town turned out to see the fun, and bets of all sorts were placed on the contestants. Like so much of the past, the outcome of the match is hidden in the haze of uncertainty; but whether Lincoln threw Armstrong, as some say, or whether the contest ended in a draw, as others maintain, this at least is certain: the men were ever afterward bound together by the strongest ties of friendship. Jack Armstrong supported Lincoln in every venture of his New Salem days, while the measure of Lincoln’s affection may be found in the fact that many years afterward, when one of Jack’s sons was charged with murder, Lincoln volunteered to defend him and successfully cleared his name. -- PAUL M. ANGLE, Librarian, Illinois State Historical Library. |
Even better, guess from which parent Lincoln most likely inherited his wrestling prowess? According to Keneally,
| Quote: | | Abraham's mother was a tall, bony, sinewy, undemanding woman of about twenty-five. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, a bastard child, a good wrestler on the frontier where wrestling was an important sport engaged in by both men and women. As one witness said, she was "a bold, reckless, daredevil kind of woman, stepping to the very verge of propriety." (-- p. 1) |
America Larval.
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Thomas Jefferson
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By Ken Burns
| Quote: | | Editor's Note: What would this accomplished mathematician, celebrated scholar, successful lawyer, statesman and admirer of most things pleasurable and beautiful have to say about the flutters, we wondered? Before we complete our survey of the six-volume biography by Dumas Malone, here are a few of the replies scholars from various websites devoted to the former president posted at Thomas Jefferson FAQs: |
| Quote: | If we consider games of chance immoral, then every pursuit of human industry is immoral; for there is not a single one that is not subject to chance, not one wherein you do not risk a loss for the chance of some gain... In all these pursuits, you take some one thing against another which you hope to win... These, then, are games of chance. Yet so far from being immoral, they are indispensable to the existence of man, and every one has a natural right to choose for his pursuit such one of them as he thinks most likely to furnish him subsistence." -- Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on Lotteries, 1826. ME 17:448
Almost all these pursuits of chance [i.e., of human industry] produce something useful to society. But there are some which produce nothing, and endanger the well-being of the individuals engaged in them or of others depending on them. Such are games with cards, dice, billiards, etc. And although the pursuit of them is a matter of natural right, yet society, perceiving the irresistible bent of some of its members to pursue them, and the ruin produced by them to the families depending on these individuals, consider it as a case of insanity, *quoad hoc*, step in to protect the family and the party himself, as in other cases of insanity, infancy, imbecility, etc., and suppress the pursuit altogether, and the natural right of following it. There are some other games of chance, useful on certain occasions, and injurious only when carried beyond their useful bounds. Such are insurances, lotteries, raffles, etc. These they do not suppress, but take their regulation under their own discretion." -- Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on Lotteries, 1826. ME 17:449 |
Recommended Reading:
| Quote: | | We were so grateful to Richard Jensen for his truly amazing Jefferson bibliography and its many, many useful recommendations, we thought we'd ask him why he knows so much about the guy. |
Our e-mail to Richard Jensen:
| Quote: | From: legal@pokerpulse.com
To: RJensen@uic.edu
Cc: legal@pokerpulse.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Jefferson and the Roll and Shuffle
Hello Richard Jensen,
We were delighted to find your annotated bibliography on Jefferson on the web and provide a link to it at our Roll & Shuffle web gallery on gambling culture under American Presidents. We'd like to credit you for it. Could you tell us why you think the Dumas Malone biography is so good? How is the writing, in your view? Are you a Jefferson scholar?
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The gracious, immediate response:
| Quote: | From: Richard Jensen
To: legal@pokerpulse.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Jefferson and the Roll and Shuffle
Thanks for the note....yes, please link away! Don't miss my other resources at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/0.htm. (Note: We didn't. They are amazing).
I'm a political historian (professor for 40 years) and enjoy biography. Dumas is the most detailed and sophisticated of all the TJ biographies. D had a keen understanding of politics (he rather ignored psychology) and especially the interplay of ideas and political machinery. The writing is clear. The research thorough. Best of all Dumas gives full discussion of episodes that make TJ look weak.
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Hey Rube
Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Hardcover
By Hunter S. Thompson
RIP, dear Hunter, d. February, 2005*
| Quote: | The Clinton family is full of hard-core sports fans. His mother spent so much of her time at the racetrack, and Roger was big on pro basketball - until, at least, he became persona non grata at Madison Square Garden. A CBS-TV camera caught him spitting beer on a man he was attacking from behind with an amateurish Stranglehold. He was quickly subdued by Secret Service agents, who led him away in a wristlock. Roger is a Monster, a mutant brute who should have been put to sleep a long time ago.
I mention this only because the Yankees are about to get a raucous new fan at the Stadium, and his name will be Roger Clinton, famous brother of incoming NY Mayor Bill Clinton, previously of Washington, DC. ... That is the best early bet on the Political horizon right now, for good or ill. Clinton did not move to Harlem on some kind of Jazz-addled whim. No. He just counted the votes. The only thing that might stand in his way is that awkward little matter of Felony crime in Arkansas. Good luck. Clinton is already the Winter-book favorite to be the next Mayor of New York City. (-- p. 48) |
| Quote: | | * The doormat at the entrance to Owl Farm, Hunter S. Thompson’s redoubt in Woody Creek, Colorado, reads “Come back with a warrant.” On August 20, six months to the day after Thompson killed himself with a .45-caliber pistol, friends and family came back to a field behind the modest ranch house he shared with his young second wife, Anita, a few miles down-valley from Aspen. They came to fulfill their old friend’s wish to have his ashes blasted from a cannon to settle across the streams and mountains he loved. (From Buried in the Sky, Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke by Lewis MacAdams in L.A. Weekly Sept. 2-8/05) |
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The Hustler
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By R.A. Dyer
| Quote: | ...By 1744 the government of Dublin even attempted a crackdown on public rooms. This stigmatization would lead to pool's reputation for moral deviancy - a stigmatization that would cling to the sport throughout its history - and would become the rock on which a distinct poolroom culture could form.
The English and French upper classes exported the game to their colonial holdings. In the United States, one of the earliest references to the game comes from the diaries of colonial explorer William Byrd. In 1710, Byrd notes the purchase of a pool table ... and then using it to lay his wife. "It is to be observed that the flourish was performed on the billiard table," wrote Byrd on July 30 of that year. George Washington also enjoyed a game or two and said to have won a pool match in 1748.
... In 1828 President John Quincy Adams came under fire for the installation of a pool table in the White House. (-- p. 6). |
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Who Was Deep Throat?
An investigative reporter enlists his journalism students to help him solve Watergate's most intriguing puzzle
By William Gaines
December, 2003
| Quote: | [Fred] Fielding, who helped [John Dean] run the White House's law office during the growing Watergate crisis, left the White House before Nixon resigned and returned to private law practice. In 1981, he became chief counsel to President Reagan and served in the White House for another five years before again returning to private practice. Fielding became a member of the Bush-Cheney transition team in 2000. In 2002, he became a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Today, at age 64 , he is a senior partner in the law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP in Washington, D.C..
When my students contacted Woodward during the first semester of the investigation and asked him if he would talk to us about our investigations of Deep Throat, he declined. When we approached Carl Berstein to ask him about our final seven suspects, he denounced our project, saying it undermined journalistic principles to reveal the identity of a confidential source.
On April 22 of this year, at a press conference in the Watergate Hotel, I announced that my students and I had deduced that Fred Fielding (Nixon's deputy counsel) was indeed Deep Throat. The next day, I got an e-mail from John Dean (White House counsel): "I'll bet you a hundred dollars that you're wrong about Fielding."
I took the bet. (-- p. 116. For more about the project, visit deepthroatuncovered.com). |
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Sorry, Bill:
FBI No. 2 Mark Felt was Deep Throat
The Washington Post
FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'
Mark Felt Ends 30-Year Mystery of The Post's Watergate Source
By David Von Drehle
June 1/05
| Quote: | Deep Throat, the secret source whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post's groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal, was a pillar of the FBI named W. Mark Felt, The Post confirmed yesterday.
As the bureau's second- and third-ranking official during a period when the FBI was battling for its independence against the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, Felt had the means and the motive to help uncover the web of internal spies, secret surveillance, dirty tricks and coverups that led to Nixon's unprecedented resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, and to prison sentences for some of Nixon's highest-ranking aides. (-- p. A1). |
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Big Repair Job
By Alan Abelson
Sept. 19/05
| Quote: | | Despite strenuous and diligent effort, we regret to report we've not been able to confirm that in the despairing days after the mother of all storms, Mr. Bush successfully channeled Harry Truman, who proved in spirit as given to plain, cuss-encrusted speech as he famously was when still among the quick. The out-of-the-loop encounter lasted a bare minute or two. Explaining he was late for a poker game with the shades of some old cronies, Mr. Truman abruptly vanished after proffering one last unvarnished bit of advice. In the eerie silence that followed, a somewhat shaken Mr. Bush was heard to exclaim, "So this is where the buck stops!" |
Americ's post-election view of Dubya:
Sorry Everybody
An Apology to the World for the Re-election of George W. Bush
Hardcover
By James Zetlen
Foreward by Ted Rall
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Churchill and America
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By Martin Gilbert
| Quote: | | On March 4 Churchill went to the White House, where both President Truman and (Admiral) Leahy drove with him to Washinton's Union Station. The three men then boarded a special train for the twenty-four-hour journey to Jefferson City, Missouri. That night, as the train steamed westward, Churchill and Truman played poker. According to another of the players, at about 2:30 a.m. Churchill put down his cards and said: "If I were to be born again, there is one country in which I would want to be a citizen. There is one country where a man knows he has an unbounded future." When his companions asked Churchill to name the country he replied: "The USA, even though I deplore some of your customs." "Which customs," he was asked. "You stop drinking with your meals," Churchill replied. (Footnotes omitted) (-- p. 368) |
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The Irish Times
The last readable English-language Daily Newspaper
Travel
Roosevelt in the rainforest
Review by Mary Russell
The River of Doubt:
Into the Unknown Amazon
By Candice Millard
Feb. 18/06
| Quote: | | Theodore Roosevelt was not good at playing second fiddle. He ran for the American presidency twice and won. Then, after four years of not being president, he couldn't stand it any longer and stood again. This time, failing to win the Republican nomination, he stood for a third party - the Progressives. It was a fatal error. He lost, the Republicans lost, the socialist candidate polled twice as many votes as previously and Woodrow Wilson was elected - the first time a Democrat had got in in 16 years. (-- p. 10 of the Weekend Review) |
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Empire of Debt
The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
Hardcover
By William Bonner and
Addison Wiggin
| Quote: | On the surface, he sounds like one of the best. We have never heard of anyone being arrested and charged under the "Harding Act." We have never seen a building in Washington, or anywhere else, named the Harding Building. We know of no wars the man caused. We recall no government programs he set in motion.
As far as we know, the nation and everyone in it were no better off the day Warren Harding stepped into office than they were the day he was carried out of it.
Harding was a decent man of reasonable talents. He held poker games in the White House twice a week. And whenever he got a chance, he sneaked away to a burlesque show. These pastimes seemed enough for the man; they helped him bear up in his eminent role and kept him from wanting to do anything. Another saving grace was that the president neither thought nor spoke clearly enough for anyone to figure out what he was talking about. He couldn't rally the troops and get them behind his ideas; he had none. And even if he tried, they wouldn't understand him. (From the chapter entitled, The Road to Hell, at pgs. 96-97) |
Blink
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Hardcover
By Malcolm Gladwell
| Quote: | | Warren Harding was not a particularly intelligent man. He liked to play poker and golf and to drink and, most of all, to chase women; in fact, his sexual appetites were the stuff of legend. As he rose from one political office to another, he never once distinguished himself. He was vague and ambivalent on matters of policy. His speeches were once described as "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea." After being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914, he was absent for the debates on women's suffrage and Prohibition - two of the biggest political issues of his time. He advanced steadily from local Ohio politics only because he was pushed by his wife, Florence, and stage-managed by the scheming Harry Daugherty and because, as he grew older, he grew more and more irresistibly distinguished-looking. Once, at a banquet, a supporter cried out, "Why, the son of a bitch looks like a senator," and so he did. By early middle age, Harding's biographer Francis Russell writes, his "lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his seel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health." Harding, according to Russell, could have put on a toga and stepped onstage in a production of Julias Caesar. Daugherty arranged for Harding to address the 1916 Republican presidential convention because he knew that people only had to see Harding and hear that magnificent rumbling voice to be convinced of his worthiness for higher office. In 1920, Daugherty convinced Harding, against Harding's better judgment, to run for the White House. Daugherty wasn't being facetious. He was serious. (From Chapter Three: The Warren Harding Error: Why We Fall For Tall, Dark, and Handsome Men, at pgs. 73-74) |
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Vanity Fair
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The Measure of the Man (or Woman)
By Graydon Carter
February, 2007
| Quote: | I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. Former president Bill Clinton was famous for taking a mulligan, or an extra try, on almost every shot, then playing the ball that had landed in the better spot. He essentially plays a two-man, two-ball "scramble" - but solo. A former employer of mine ensured that he won in tennis against family and underlings by always calling line shots in his own favor. And so it is with our current president, who will scratch, claw, kick, scream, move the goalposts - pretty much do anything to effect a win. He is a sore winner. And a horrible loser. (emphasis added)
... When Barbara Bush took her 13-year-old son and his best friend, Doug Hannah, to play golf at her Houston club, George would start cursing if he didn't tee off well. His mother would tell him to quit it. By the third or fourth hole he would be yelling "Fuck this" until he had ensured that his mother would send him to the car.
"It fit his needs," says Hannah. "He couldn't lose."
Once, after his mother banished him from the golf course, she turned to Hannah and declared, "That boy is going to have optical rectosis." What did that mean? "She said, 'A shitty outlook on life.'"
Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him. "If you were playing basketball and you were playing to 11 and he was down, you went to 15," says Hannah, now a Dallas insurance executive. "If he wasn't winning, he would quit. He would just walk off... It's what we called Bush Effort: If I don't like the game, I take my ball and go home. Very few people can get away with that."...
Another fast friend, Roland Betts, acknowledges that it is the same in tennis. In November 1992, Bush and Betts were in Santa Fe to host a dinner party, but they had just enough time for one set of doubles. The former Yale classmates were on opposite side of the net. "There was only one problem - my side won the first set," recalls Betts. "OK, then we're going two out of three," Bush decreed. Bush's side takes the next set. But Betts's side is winning the third set when it starts to snow. Hard, fat flakes. The catering truck pulls up. But Bush won't let anybody quit. "He's pissed. George runs his mouth constantly," says Betts indulgently. "He's making fun of your last shot, mocking you, needling you, goading you - he never shuts up!" They continued to play tennis through a driving snowstorm.
It is something of an in-joke with Bush's friends and family. "In reality we all know who won, but George wants to go further to see what happens," says an old family friend, venture capitalist and former MGM chairman Louis "Bo" Polk Jr. "George would say, 'Play that one over,' or 'I wasn't quite ready.' The overtimes are what's fun, so you make your own. When you that extra mile or tyhat extra point...you go to a whole new point ... you go to a whole new level."
Inasmuch as I'm writing this the week before Christmas, any sort of prediction is a dicey proposition, but *my guess is that Bush will double-down on Iraq. He has lost, but his past would indicate that he will figure that he can just keep the game going a little longer. (Excerpts refer to Gail Sheehy's article, The Accidental Candidate, in the magazine's October, 2000 issue, at p. 52) |
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and again in:
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| Quote: | Rambling, Gambling Willie
Come around you rovin' gamblers and a story I will tell
About the greatest gambler, you all should know him well.
His name was Will O' Conley and he gambled all his life,
He had twenty-seven children, yet he never had a wife.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
He gambled in the White House and in the railroad yards,
Wherever there was people, there was Willie and his cards.
He had a reputation as the gamblin'est man around,
Wives would keep their husbands home when Willie came to town.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
Sailin' down the Mississippi to a town called New Orleans,
They're still talkin' about their card game on that Jackson River Queen.
"I've come to win some money," Gamblin' Willie says,
When the game finally ended up, the whole damn boat was his.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town called Cripple Creek,
There was an all-night poker game, lasted about a week.
Nine hundred miners had laid their money down,
When Willie finally left the room, he owned the whole damn town.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
But Willie had a heart of gold and this I know is true,
He supported all his children, and all their mothers too.
He wore no rings or fancy things, like other gamblers wore,
He spread his money far and wide, to help the sick and the poor.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
When you played your cards with Willie, you never really knew
Whether he was bluffin' or whether he was true.
He won a fortune from a man who folded in his chair.
The man, he left a diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
It was late one evenin' during a poker game,
A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame.
He shot poor Willie through the head, which was a tragic fate,
When Willie's cards fell on the floor, they were aces backed with eights.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows.
So all you rovin' gamblers, wherever you might be,
The moral of this story is very plain to see.
Make your money while you can, before you have to stop,
For when you pull that dead man's hand, your gamblin' days are up.
And it's ride, Willie, ride,
Roll, Willie, roll,
Wherever you are a-gamblin' now, nobody really knows. |
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The Poker Face of Wall Street
Hardcover
By Aaron Brown
| Quote: | | Several billionaires got their first stakes in poker games. Kirk Kerkorian funded his first business, the charter airline Los Angeles Air Service, with poker winnings. H.L. Hunt bet everything he had in a poker game and won his first oil well. Bill Gates, John Kluge, Texas oil mogul Clint Murchison, and corporate raider Carl Icahn all played poker for large stakes before they got rich. It's not just billionaires: Richard Nixon paid for his first congressional campaign with poker winnings and parlayed that into the presidence, where he continued to make risky bets but with less success. History is filled with people who began their routes to success with gambling winnings. You won't find as many equally successful people whose first stake was a bank loan or money raised from issuing securities. Even the losers can benefit. Writers from Dostoyevsky to Mario Puzo credited gambling losses for both the insriation and the motivation to complete some of their greatest works. From The Art of Calculated Risk at pgs. 13-14) |
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Poker Nation
Hardcover
By * Paris Review editor Andy Bellin
| Quote: | The only genuinely intelligent method is to learn the way Richard Nixon did. Born a devoted Quaker, Nixon managed to remain unfamiliar with any form of gambling until his mid-twenties, when he joined the Untied States Navy during the early years of World War II. That's where he got his first exposure to poker. It intrigued him from the start. After watching the game for a while, he approached a fellow officer who played regularly with a question. He wanted toknow if there was any sure way to win at poker. Eventually the officer told him and went on to explain the most fundamental notions of the game.
Nixon took great interest and played heads-up with his friend for months for no money. Before he was willing to risk a penny, Nixon got tons of experience under his belt. He went on to be such an efficient player that he partially funded his first senate run with proceeds from his poker winnings. (-- p. 189) |
Not even a dyslexic gerbil editor can spoil the fun of this poker classic.
| Quote: | | * Note: Funny...No Andy Bellin listed among editors on the Paris Review masthead when we checked May 2/07. |
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Fortune
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A Surprising Look at Which Candidates
Corporate America is Betting On
Business Loves Hillary!
(WHO KNEW?)
By Nina Easton
July 9/07
| Quote: | Hil (and Bill) Through persistence and patience, Clinton has assembled what is probably the broadest CEO support among the candidates, ranging from Wall Street to Hollywood.
Rudolph Giuliani The former New York City mayor has built a team of fundraisers he has known since early in his career, but his support on Wall Street suffers a bit from lingering feelings that he was overzealous as a prosecutor.
Barack Obama The Illinois Senator has a solid base of business support in Chicago but has also fared well with Hollywood media moguls and has aggressively moved into Clinton's turf among East Coast financiers.
Mitt Romney Romney has accumulated an impressive business lineup just by courting the "low-hanging fruit," as Bill Marriott puts it, of friends, and associates from private equity, Boston, and the Mormon community.
John Edwards As a former trial lawyer campaigning on a pro-union platform, Edwards is not the go-to guy for big business. Yet he has import allies, including many at a hedge fund where he once consulted.
John McCain The Senator from Arizona has gone heaad-to-head with the Senator from New York to win Wall Street support. A key ally is Lew Eisenberg, former chief of the Port Authority and powerful Bush fundraiser. (-- pgs. 45-49) |
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