The “autofill” feature of the Google search box was designed as a timesaver, but the suggested searches can also be entertaining. Writing in Slate, Michael Agger compared the autofill of “less intelligent” and “more intelligent” queries, an exercise that has previously been conducted at Digg.
The image above is a screencap of two Google searches conducted tonight using less- and more sophisticated search terms.
A corollary question would be “What searches are most commonly conducted at Neatorama?” The Lijit search engine doesn’t have an autofill feature, but it does offer a list of the most popular recent searches at Neatorama, in descending order of frequency:
“world’s smallest,” mystery sale, halloween, what is it, disney, halloween costume, pumpkin, shop, stories, tattoo, cat, facebook, halloween costumes, pear, game, costume, movie trivia, photography, new species, zombie, bacon, lego, elena desserich, google, anvil cake, costumes, national day, notes left behind, origami, national geographic, videosift, wedding, what is it? game, 6 year old, albert einstein, brain, christmas, chum, hitler, logo, one take, pig, sex, animals, art, batman, brain shot, comic, einstein, shark.
Someone else may want to tackle the sociological implications of that list; I’m not going to touch it.
One dark and stormy evening, Spanish neurologist Juan Gomez-Alonso was
watching a vampire movie when he realized something strange; he noticed
that vampires behave an awful lot like people with rabies. The virus attacks
the central nervous system, altering the moods and behaviors of those
infected. Sufferers become agitated and demented, and, much like vampires,
their moods can turn violent.
Rabies has several more vampire-like symptoms. It can cause insomnia,
which explains the nocturnal portion of the legend. People with rabies
also suffer from muscular spasms, which can lead them to spit up blood.
What’s stunning is the fact that these spasms are triggered by bright
lights, water, mirrors, and strong smells, such as the scent of garlic.
(Sound Familiar?)
After watching the Dracula movies a few more times, Dr. Gomez Alonso
felt compelled to continue studying vampire folklore and the medical history
of rabies. Eventually, he discovered an even more profound connection
between the two phenomena: Vampires stories became prominent in Europe
at exactly the same time certain areas were experiencing rabies outbreaks.
This was particularly true in Hungary between 1721 and 1728, when an epidemic
plagued dogs, wolves, and humans and left the country in ruins. Gomez-Alonso
theorized that rabies actually inspired the vampire legend, and his research
was published by the distinguished medical journal Neurology in 1998.
The Madness Of King George
Dr. Gomez-Alonso wasn’t the first scientist who tried to pin vampirism
to a real illness. In 1985, Canadian biochemist David Dolphin proposed
a link between vampires and porphyria- a rare, chronic blood disorder
characterized by the irregular production of heme, an iron-rich pigment
found in blood. The disorder can cause seizures, trances, and hallucinations
that last for days or weeks. As a result, people with porphyria often
go insane. (Britain’s Kin George III, the one who inspired our founding
fathers to start their own country, is thought to have suffered from it.)
Porphyria sufferers also experience extreme sensitivity to light, suffering
blisters and burns when their skin is exposed to the sun. Another symptom
of porphyria is an intolerance to sulfur in foods. Which food contains
a lot of sulfur? That’s right, garlic.
Teenage Werewolf
In addition to explaining away vampires, medicine also has some answers
for werewolves and zombies. In The Werewolf Delusion (1979), Ian Woodward
explains that rabies may have also inspired the werewolf myth. Rabies
is transmitted through biting, and the dementia and aggression of late-stage
rabies can make people behave like wild animals. Now, imagine that you
are living in a village in medieval Europe and you see your friend get
bitten by a wolf. A few weeks later, he starts foaming at the mouth, howling
at the moon, and biting other villagers. Suddenly that story your grandmother
told you about the Wolfman sounds like a decent explanation for what’s
going on.
Dawn Of The Dead, Revisited
From: Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero
Zombies may also be creatures of science, at least according to Costas
J. Efthimiou, a physicist at the University of Central Florida. In 2006,
he attempted to explain the mysterious case of Wilfred Doricent, a teenager
who died and was buried in Haiti, only to reappear in his village more
than a year later, looking and behaving like a zombie. Efthimiou concluded
that Wilfred was not the victim of a curse, but of poisoning. In the waters
of Haiti, there is a species of puffer fish whose liver can be made into
a powder, which has the ability to make a person appear dead without actually
killing him. Wilfred may have been poisoned with the powder and then buried
alive. According to one of Dr. Efthimiou’s theories, once underground,
Wilfred suffered from oxygen deprivation that damaged his brain. When
the poison wore off and Wilfred woke up, he clawed his way out of the
grave. (Graves tend to be shallow in Haiti.) Brain-damaged, he wandered
the countryside for months until he ended up back in his village.
After Dr. Efthimiou published his explanation of the case, Dr. Roger
Mallory, a neurologist at the Haitian Medical Society did an MRI scan
of Wilfred’s brain. Although the results were inconclusive, he found
that Wilfred’s brain was damaged in a way that was consistent with
oxygen deprivation. It would seem that zombification is nothing more than
skillful poisoning.
The article above, written by Matt Soniak,
appeared in Scatterbrained section of the Mar - Apr 2009 issue of mental_floss
magazine (the excellent "The 25 Most Powerful Books of the Past 25
Years " issue). It is reprinted here with permission.
People often blanche at the thought of playing a board game, but that’s because they have only been exposed to the old "classics" that really aren’t worthy of the title due to poor rulesets that promote luck over skill. Here are 15 games that are probably superior to the old standbys like Monopoly, including Last Night on Earth, a zombie thriller:
Last Night on Earth is essentially a survival game. Participants can play as either the “Hero” team or the “Zombie” team. The objective is for one team to complete their “scenario objective”, thus defeating the opposite team. The game is designed to have a horror movie feel, and even comes with it’s own soundtrack!
Noble used the opportunity of shooting a zombie movie last spring in order to propose to Claudia. Claudia was willing to help on the movie, but she had no idea the whole thing was staged for her benefit (the rest of the 20-person crew all knew). She said yes, which led to an October wedding complete with a Zombie Wedding Cake. Read more about the proposal at the YouTube link. -Thanks, Noble!
Flickr user noblerobinette was delighted with her wedding cake, a zombie scenario created by Mike’s Amazing Cakes in Seattle. Even the attendants were modeled after the real people! See more views in her photo stream. Link-via Digg
Artist Amy Rawson (previously at Neatorama) has created a cute-as-can-be needle felted zombie bunny for Halloween. Or at least, it’s cute on the side its eyeball isn’t falling out of! See more pictures at eBay. Link
Most moviegoers don’t notice the math in popular films, but it’s there if you know what to look for. For example, one mathematician compared the spread of zombies to that of infectious diseases.
The problem of zombies intrigued Philip Munz of Carleton University and his colleagues at the University of Ottawa, who recently wrote a scientific paper quantifying various properties of zombie epidemics. Standard modeling techniques for disease outbreaks weren’t quite sufficient, the authors found. “The key difference between the models presented here and other models of infectious disease,” they wrote, “is that the dead can come back to life.”
After a thorough, if tongue-in-cheek, analysis, the authors found that the optimal method for halting such epidemics involves killing zombies early and often – the rare scientific paper that satisfies both the splatter-film aficionado and the Centers for Disease Control.
Other math questions come up in The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and other films you are familiar with. Link -via Buzzfeed
Zombaritaville is a Seattle-based blogger who writes parodies of popular songs, reimagining them as zombie-themed. Here’s a passage from the lyrics for his song “Rippin’ Off Your Skin”, based on Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind”:
How many lobes must a ghoul gulp down
Before he eats the whole brainpan?
How many skulls must a sniper nail
Before her rifle has jammed?
Yes, n’ how many bites must I take of this guy
Before I’ve digested his hand?
The zombies my friend, are rippin’ off your skin
The zombies are rippin’ off your skin
Yes, n’ how many folks must cease to exist
Before it’s called a “killing spree”?
Yes, n’ how many years in this mall can we subsist
‘Til we’re forced by bikers to flee?
Yes, n’ how many towns must shamblers infest
Before they all turn to debris?
The zombies my friend, are rippin’ off your skin
The zombies are rippin’ off your skin
When Stand Up Frank’s in Minneapolis closed it’s doors ealier this year, no one could foresee the undead rising in it’s place. Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den in Minneapolis is a zombie bar!
In the corner, a small chainsaw sits inside a glass case that reads “In case of zombie attack, break glass.” The bartenders all dress like Simon Pegg in “Shaun of the Dead” — white button-up, red tie and blood stains. The friendly female servers wear long black gowns. Again: This is a classy zombie joint.
No word on whether brains are on the menu. Link -via Pajiba
Four statisticians at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress on the subject of zombie epidemiology. It’s entitled “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.” It’s a very math-heavy article, but their conclusion is straight-forward and dire:
An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead. While aggressive quarantine may eradicate the infection, this is unlikely to happen in practice. A cure would only result in some humans surviving the outbreak, although they will still coexist with zombies. Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be mustered in time.
Well, that was fairly obvious. But now there’s hard science to back up common sense, and the academic community is starting to take the undead threat seriously.
More awesome than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I don’t know yet, but the novel Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber looks promising. Here’s a synopsis:
When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back–bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
Can a dramatic prairie dog be fine art? If you’re looking for squirrels in underpants or zombies in romantic moonlight, then this oil painting and others like it are for you. They’re availabe at McPhee. I can’t find a general directory of these meme-themed works, but if you look at the related products section at the link, you’ll find more more like it.
The pop culture blog Urlesque has a post full of mariachi band cover songs, such as the above “Sweet Home Alabama”. Others include “Beat It” by Michael Jackson, “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen, and “Zombie” by the Cranberries.
A promotional shirt for Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. Looks like an ordinary and rather plain t-shirt, right? But flip over the front and pull it over your head….
And you’re wearing a zombie mask! Strangely, they don’t make this shirt in a women’s style.
I’m thinking that Neatorama needs to create one of these. Neatorama logo on the front, flip it up, and you’re wearing an Alex mask.
We’ve featured the international cult-hit, Seth Grahame-Smith’s (and of course, also Jane Austen’s) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Quirk Books (previously on Neatorama here).
And just as you think that things can’t get any more awesome, there’s a sequel: here’s a book trailer for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monster, by our friend Ransom Riggs of mental_floss.
Check it out: hit play or go to Link [Youtube] – Thanks Mangesh!
Geek Dad has a list of one hundred skills that he thinks that every geek should know. A few examples:
26. Boot a computer off a thumb drive.
40. Transcode a DVD to play on a portable device.
71. Explain that the colours in a rainbow are roygbiv.
84. Know where your towel is and why it is important.
96. Have a documented plan on what to do during a zombie or robot uprising.
100. Get something on the front page of Digg.
What is your geek quotient? What would you add to the list?
The issue of monetizing a website (through ads, or in Neatorama’s case both ads and e-commerce*) is something I continually think about. As many of you know, the blog started out with no ads whatsoever and throughout its growth (thanks, Neatoramanauts!) we’ve added text and banner ads to keep up with the hosting and bandwidth bills**.
So I really wasn’t surprised to hear the news that SilkTricky, a Portland interactive studio behind the web hit The Outbreak (posted on Neatorama before here), had to shut down the popular website because of hosting bills.
Todd Denis of Jawbone.TV interviewed Lynn Lund of SilkTricky about the decision to pull the plug:
Put aside for a moment the internal costs that a boutique design studio or maddened creator racks up in producing original production of a consumable magnitude (for the Outbreak, figure three months full-time for the writer/director/producer team, plus a system admin, a Flash guy, and hard costs for actors, props, equipment, etc., and it’s easily into the hundreds of thousands of dollars). The real killer, as endless lines of bankrupt indie filmmakers will attest, is ‘out-of-pocket’ expenses.
“We’ve been spending anywhere from $500 per month to $4,500 per month, depending on the traffic,” claimed Lynn Lund, Producer at SilkTricky. “As you can imagine, it adds up. We’ve spent about $20,000 in hosting alone since we launched in September [2008]. Since we funded this project out of our own pockets, it’s been tough to keep the site afloat.” [...]
For Lund, the equation was simple. “With the economy as it is and no means to monetize what we did with the Outbreak, we had to find a way to save some money so that we could put it towards a new project … we had to pull the plug.”
*Undoubtedly, many bloggers are familiar with instability of ad revenues for publishers, which forced some to be creative. Om Malik of the excellent tech blog Giga Om started a subscription-based Giga Om Pro, which features exclusive in-depth content geared toward IT professionals. We opted to open an ad-independent stream of revenue, the Neatorama Online Store.
**I’ve had many conversations with bloggers who don’t understand why it’s so expensive to run a large blog. After all, they could run theirs for a few dollars a month. Indeed, that’s how this blog started, but as traffic grew, we got kicked out of our shared hosting plan, and had to upgrade to VPS, then a dedicated server, then multiple servers in a load-balanced environment with content delivery network to serve images. As you can imagine, the cost of hosting and bandwidth increase very rapidly. The cost of running this blog runs into the five figures every year, and growing.
io9 has pictures of 26 wedding cake toppers that geeks would enjoy, including Star Wars, Transformers, Stargate, Back to the Future, and zombie themes.
io9 uses the term “nerdiest”, but I pefer to be addressed as “geek”. The origin of the term — someone who would bite off the heads of chickens at carnival sideshows — seems a bit more fitting.
Father's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you're looking for a Father's
Day gift, we've got a number of neat items on the Neatorama
Online Store. Like this Pizza
Boss 3000 above, a pizza slicer shaped to look like a circular saw.
Just the thing for your pizza lovin' power tool usin' handyman dad! Link
Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your knowledge of zombie movies, specifically those that end with …of the Dead or …of the Living Dead. You’ll see two movie titles; you decide which one was a real movie. I scored about as well as you’d expect by random guesses, because I have no clue. Link
Marc Price of Nowhere Fast Productions sparked a media frenzy with his first feature film: a low-budget a zombie flick titled Colin. And when Marc said low-budget, he meant low-budget. The whole thing was shot for $70, and the zombies came free with the help of Facebook!
Tom Foster wrote the story for CNN:
"When we say it’s a low budget film, people presume a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]. People can’t figure out how it’s possible. What Marc’s achieved has left people astonished."
It was by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking site Facebook, borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters and teaching himself how to produce special effects that thrifty director Price was able to make the film for less than the price of a zombie DVD box set.
"The approach was to say to people, ‘OK guys, we don’t have any money, so bring your own equipment,’" the the 30 year-old director told CNN.
With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature — which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on it’s head by telling the story entirely from the zombie’s perspective — over a period of 18 months while working nights part-time as a booker for a taxi company.
Online social networking was an invaluable tool in both generating buzz and cheaply sourcing the undead: "We went on Facebook and MySpace and said ‘Who wants to be a zombie?’" Price told CNN. "We managed to get 50 brilliantly made up zombies and stuff them into a living room."
You know you’ve made it as a meme when someone put a giant mural up … Josh Zubkoff did one on the Invisible Bike LOLcat in a building in San Francisco: Link – via MySA Blog Favorite office Time Wasters
John of The Zeray Gazette asks this interesting question: what causes an Internet meme? What gives some web sensation staying power?
What makes some video, idea, or motif a predominant meme? Why do people blog about bacon, zombies, and lolcats, but not so much about pork shoulder roast, mummies, and parakeets? Why does one guy mouthing the words to Numa Numa in front of his PC become famous, while almost all others who do likewise do not?
John went on to explain his theory, which includes penetrability (i.e. how a successful meme crosses niche web communities) and instantaneous comphrehensibility (how easily it can be grasped in under 10 seconds).
Actually, I can answer that question with one word: 4chan.
I won’t pretend that I’m "with it" when it comes to comic books, but it was a complete surprise for me to find out that, starting in 2005, Marvel began issuing limited series of comics in which the superheroes are … zombies! (Probably a better read than Spider-Ham)
What do zombie chickens, Osama bin Laden and Paris Hilton have in common? They’re all in the best bad movies that have come out in the past 20 years.
Movies that were box office bombs, universally panned or just made as a bad movie from the ground up, here’s the 20 you hate to love as compiled by I Heart Chaos.
Len Peralta of Monster by Mail who drew the Neatorama Alien and Neatorama Zombie some years ago has a new project: Summer of the Super-Villain.
For a mere $25, you can custom order your own original villain or as a gift to your loved ones or archenemies. For a little bit extra, he’ll include the "making of" video clip – sadly without the maniacal laugh worthy of a super villain.
Dr. Steven Schlozman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, will present a public lecture on the neuropsychology of zombies, as well as that of zombie attack survivors:
And that’s the crux of one of Schlozman’s arguments: The story changes as the situation grows grimmer. Here, the professor draws on “mirror neuron” theory, which holds that humans are hard-wired to reflect the psychological states of the people around them. (Show a test subject a short film of a face displaying disgust, or pleasure, and regions of the brain associated with those feelings activate in the subject.)
Unable to relate to the hordes of undead, the survivors in zombie films enter a spiral of despair, feeding off the panic and hopelessness of the uninfected people around them.
If you’re in Boston on Monday night, check it out.
If you think about it, Pac-Man is a strange game concerning a tiny, pie-shaped
creature who ate power pills so that he could catch ghosts. That's an
odd premise, but nothing compared to these ... behold, the 14 weirdest
video games in history:
SOCKS THE CAT ROCKS THE HILL (1992)
Socks, the pet cat of President Bill Clinton, must get to the Oval Office
to warn the president about a stolen nuclear bomb. To do that, he must
defeat villains including Russian spies, the press corps, and former presidents
Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush.
CHAOS IN THE WINDY CITY (1994)
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan battles an army of basketball-headed
zombies that has invaded Chicago. To defeat them, he uses an arsenal of
magic basketballs (including fiery-hot basketballs and ice-block basketballs).
At the beginning of the game, the player floats down a backwoods river
in an inner-tube race. Things suddenly take a turn for the worse as the
player is chased by dinosaurs, ancient Inca warriors, and angry hillbillies.
BILL LAIMBEER'S COMBAT BASKETBALL (1991)
Basketball is supposed to be a non-contact sport. Not the way Laimbeer
played it. As a Detroit Piston in the 1980s, he was well-known for frequent
flagrant fouls and starting fights on the court. His notoriety led to
this futuristic basketball game in which players punch, kick, push, and
throw bombs at each other.
COOL
SPOT (1993)
In the early 1990s, 7-Up created a mascot - an anthropomorphic dot (with
arms, legs, and sunglasses) based on the red dot in the 7-Up logo.
The Spot was licensed for this game, which was essentially one long 7-Up
ad in which the character wanders around a beach firing soda bubbles at
enemies.
A drug dealer named Mr. Big has kidnapped some children and takes them
to the Moon, where he plans to use a laser cannon to destroy the Earth.
As Michael Jackson, you have to defeat Mr. Big and his cronies by using
dance moves that shoot "magic rays."
This semi-educational game is supposed to teach kids to type and spell.
In order to fend off hungry zombies, you have to accurately type words.
Get them right, the zombies leave you alone. Misspell, and the zombies
will eat your b-r-a-i-n.
After solving some difficult logic puzzle, you have to answer questions
about the Bible. Get those right, and you get to control Moses. The goal
is to spread the word of God by shooting large Ws (for "word of God")
at ancient Israelites.
THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF DIZZY (1991)
A
walking egg named Dizzy must save his family from an evil wizard by solving
puzzles. One of the puzzles: Dizzy must pick certain plants and mix them
in a bottle to make medicine for his sick grandpa egg.
DRUM MASTER (2006)
In the game Guitar Hero, you get a plastic guitar and play along with
well-known rock songs. Drum Master is made for the handheld Nintendo DS
- you get to drum along with popular songs with two toothpick-sized sticks.
JOHN DEERE'S HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND (2007)
IGN has the review
of this unusual game, John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland
Using various John Deere tractors and farm implements, you have to plant
crops, fertilize crops, harvest crops, and milk cows. (And it's one giant
ad for John Deere.)
Using a small camera that attaches to the TV, you have to copy the facial
expressions the game tells you to make.
PRINCESS TOMATO IN THE SALAD KINGDOM (1991)
On a mission from the dying King Broccoli, the noble knight Sir Cucumber
has to rescue Princess Tomato from her captor, Minister Pumpkin. Sir Cucumber
is assisted by Percy, a baby persimmon.
A little kid gets up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and
is sucked through the toilet into another dimension populated by creatures
who look like bathroom fixtures. The Toilet Kid must then battle with
tough toilet bodyguards and an evil giant urinal.
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Quick: what are some of the world’s most covered songs? Our very own Stacy Conradt (who btw just got an awesome Haunted Mansion-inspired tattoo) did a nice job in covering the 10 most covered songs in history.
This one is my favorite:
10. The Look of Love, Dusty Springfield. Written by Burt Bacharach and originally sung by Dusty for the first Casino Royale soundtrack in 1967, it’s been covered a lot. Just a few include The Zombies, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Shirley Bassey and Diana Krall.
The “autofill” feature of the Google search box was designed as a timesaver, but the suggested searches can also be entertaining. Writing in Slate, Michael Agger compared the autofill of “less intelligent” and “more intelligent” queries, an exercise that has previously been conducted at Digg.
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Most moviegoers don’t notice the math in popular films, but it’s there if you know what to look for. For example, one mathematician compared the spread of zombies to that of infectious diseases.
Zombaritaville is a Seattle-based blogger who writes parodies of popular songs, reimagining them as zombie-themed. Here’s a passage from the lyrics for his song “Rippin’ Off Your Skin”, based on Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind”:
When Stand Up Frank’s in Minneapolis closed it’s doors ealier this year, no one could foresee the undead rising in it’s place. Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den in Minneapolis is a zombie bar! 
Four statisticians at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress on the subject of zombie epidemiology. It’s entitled “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.” It’s a very math-heavy article, but their conclusion is straight-forward and dire:
More awesome than 
Can a 
Geek Dad has a list of one hundred skills that he thinks that every geek should know. A few examples:
Dr. Steven Schlozman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, will present a public lecture on the neuropsychology of zombies, as well as that of zombie attack survivors:
COOL
SPOT (1993)
A
walking egg named Dizzy must save his family from an evil wizard by solving
puzzles. One of the puzzles: Dizzy must pick certain plants and mix them
in a bottle to make medicine for his sick grandpa egg.
Quick: what are some of the world’s most covered songs? Our very own Stacy Conradt (who btw just got an awesome 
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