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There is No California

 
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San Diego and San Fran are beautiful cities...

LA not so much....
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If you visit California, visit these places. You will thoroughly enjoy them...

San Diego
The drive along the coast in Orange County
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Mojave Desert
Joshua Tree National Park
Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey
Monterey
San Francisco
Sonoma and Napa Counties
Drive Hwy 101 through the Redwood Empire in northwest California
Lake Tahoe
Mother Lode (Gold) country south/southeast of Sacramento
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
Mount Shasta
Lassen National Park

And that's just for starters. There are tons of towns and sites in between all of the above mentioned ones. You could spend a year in California and not see all it has to offer. Not bad for a place that was made a state barely over 150 years ago.
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San Diego and San Fran are beautiful cities...

LA not so much....
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I agree
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I'm tempted to add Laguna Beach to the middle of those two.
But Lord, he stinketh!

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If you visit California, visit these places. You will thoroughly enjoy them...

San Diego
The drive along the coast in Orange County
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Mojave Desert
Joshua Tree National Park
Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey
Monterey
San Francisco
Sonoma and Napa Counties
Drive Hwy 101 through the Redwood Empire in northwest California
Lake Tahoe
Mother Lode (Gold) country south/southeast of Sacramento
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
Mount Shasta
Lassen National Park

And that's just for starters. There are tons of towns and sites in between all of the above mentioned ones. You could spend a year in California and not see all it has to offer. Not bad for a place that was made a state barely over 150 years ago.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster



Yes they take my breath away.
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I forgot to list above...

Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara/Ventura
Sierra Nevada Mountains
California missions founded by Father Junipero Serra in the late 1700s.

There's really too much to list. There's truly something for everybody. Isn't that what people want?....Choice? If you don't like one thing, go to the next. You'll find many things here you like.
Apollo astronauts couldn't have passed through Van Allen's Belt. Van Allen wore suspenders.
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It's simple..it's called the middle class getting poorer. Cali is just first of many places to fall. As long as the rich get more greedier there gonna destroy the country in doing so. It's the American way. Now that there is a bunch of people struggling to stay alive they become a threat to the rich. They need to rob and steel to stay alive.
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Too much truth. heartbreak
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San Diego and San Fran are beautiful cities...

LA not so much....
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Ya, not a fan of L.A. myself. But, imo, there are gems hidden amongst the sprawl. And hey, some people DO like L.A. More power to 'em. Just not my cup of tea. I much prefer San Francisco.
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If you visit California, visit these places. You will thoroughly enjoy them...

San Diego
The drive along the coast in Orange County
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Mojave Desert
Joshua Tree National Park
Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey
Monterey
San Francisco
Sonoma and Napa Counties
Drive Hwy 101 through the Redwood Empire in northwest California
Lake Tahoe
Mother Lode (Gold) country south/southeast of Sacramento
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
Mount Shasta
Lassen National Park

And that's just for starters. There are tons of towns and sites in between all of the above mentioned ones. You could spend a year in California and not see all it has to offer. Not bad for a place that was made a state barely over 150 years ago.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster


Yeah, great. All those landmarks will come in handy in feeding, housing, and employing the millions in your state that are out of work. I'm sure they'll be grateful to have lake Tahoe to look at from their hovels.
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California has the government it deserves
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California fell into the Pacific Ocean in 1989. The thing we call California today is actually piece of Nibiru that was grafted on the edge of the country during the "great sleep". (The Great Sleep was an 8 year period when the aliens used contrails to spread a chemical that caused everyone on the planet to fall sleep for 8 years and then forget they were asleep.) Most of todays "californians" aren't actually human. They are Nibirans posing as humans, using the thing we now call California as a pre-invasion base of operations.

The invasion is coming.

Soon.

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Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking Time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will 'cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

STUPID shit, silly shit, stupid shit...
[ From: [link to www.elyrics.net] ]

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to
be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands,
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

'Cause I'm praying for mayhem;
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please, flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it come down.
Bring it down.
Suck it down.
Flush it down.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12847755


Must be a song. What song?

Focusing on LA, but CA is so much more than that. hf
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If you visit California, visit these places. You will thoroughly enjoy them...

San Diego
The drive along the coast in Orange County
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Mojave Desert
Joshua Tree National Park
Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey
Monterey
San Francisco
Sonoma and Napa Counties
Drive Hwy 101 through the Redwood Empire in northwest California
Lake Tahoe
Mother Lode (Gold) country south/southeast of Sacramento
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
Mount Shasta
Lassen National Park

And that's just for starters. There are tons of towns and sites in between all of the above mentioned ones. You could spend a year in California and not see all it has to offer. Not bad for a place that was made a state barely over 150 years ago.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster


Yeah, great. All those landmarks will come in handy in feeding, housing, and employing the millions in your state that are out of work. I'm sure they'll be grateful to have lake Tahoe to look at from their hovels.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22716275


Tons of people doing just fine here. And some doing EXCEEDINGLY well. How do you think people can afford to buy homes in these places? Think before you type.

It's funny how people bash California because we're in debt. California is merely a microcosm of America as a whole. You want to talk about DEBT?! The U.S. Government is $16 trillion in debt. Get back to me when California is even 1/20th that. Until then, keep being jealous :)
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California is a great place, and we invite everyone and hope you are able to visit sometime and enjoy a lot of the things we have to offer.

Every place has its good and bad. I'm not about to say "California is the best!" I happen to like it best. But that's me. Just personal preference. I've visited most of the other states, and each has its good points and bad. Yes, even North Dakota! I found the people of North Dakota to be very, very nice. And the plains have a peaceful serenity to them (when it's not hailing lol) that is unparalleled. Every state, every country has something to offer; a special, unique aspect to it, that sets it apart.
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If you visit California, visit these places. You will thoroughly enjoy them...

San Diego
The drive along the coast in Orange County
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Mojave Desert
Joshua Tree National Park
Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey
Monterey
San Francisco
Sonoma and Napa Counties
Drive Hwy 101 through the Redwood Empire in northwest California
Lake Tahoe
Mother Lode (Gold) country south/southeast of Sacramento
Yosemite
Kings Canyon
Mount Shasta
Lassen National Park

And that's just for starters. There are tons of towns and sites in between all of the above mentioned ones. You could spend a year in California and not see all it has to offer. Not bad for a place that was made a state barely over 150 years ago.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster


^^This^^

peace
Yes they take my breath away.
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Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking Time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will 'cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

STUPID shit, silly shit, stupid shit...
[ From: [link to www.elyrics.net] ]

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to
be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands,
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

'Cause I'm praying for mayhem;
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please, flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it come down.
Bring it down.
Suck it down.
Flush it down.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12847755


Must be a song. What song?

Focusing on LA, but CA is so much more than that. hf
 Quoting: Sloane



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WOW what a video - thanks for posting.

For the San Fran lovers - All Across the Nation there's a Strange Vibration!

I think it still exists . . .

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California is a great place, and we invite everyone and hope you are able to visit sometime and enjoy a lot of the things we have to offer.

Every place has its good and bad. I'm not about to say "California is the best!" I happen to like it best. But that's me. Just personal preference. I've visited most of the other states, and each has its good points and bad. Yes, even North Dakota! I found the people of North Dakota to be very, very nice. And the plains have a peaceful serenity to them (when it's not hailing lol) that is unparalleled. Every state, every country has something to offer; a special, unique aspect to it, that sets it apart.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster


No question about it.

peace
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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
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Congratulations! Not easy getting into/thru Cali univeristies these days. Even if you are local.
Tuitions have so skyrocketed it's mindboggling.
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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
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Congratulations! Not easy getting into/thru Cali univeristies these days. Even if you are local.
Tuitions have so skyrocketed it's mindboggling.
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It was easier than high school.

The quality of "education" was a total joke.
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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8260452


Yep, we definitely have our problems in this state. I hear ya. What people outside of California don't understand, too, is the EXTREME differences between coastal California and just 100 miles inland in the San Joaquin Valley. It's like a plains state in the central valley...politically, economically, everything. And it makes sense, because a lot of those people's families originally came out to the San Joaquin Valley from states like Oklahoma during the Great Dust Bowl in the 1920s. I can't emphasize how diverse this state is in every way. Like I said, there's something for everyone here.
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Yeah there is, its that big, long state on the western U.S. coast.
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And it's the most beautiful!


:Fleurs:
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LOL, that depends which part you're talking about.

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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8260452


Congratulations! Not easy getting into/thru Cali univeristies these days. Even if you are local.
Tuitions have so skyrocketed it's mindboggling.
 Quoting: Sloane


It was easier than high school.

The quality of "education" was a total joke.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8260452


Some. Some not. The U.C. system is outstanding, as are many of the CSU campuses. Then you have Stanford, Santa Clara, San Diego, and other private universities. Try getting into Cal Poly, SLO. It's like an 11% acceptance rate, and graduates in many majors in which the university specializes (engineering, agriculture, architecture, business) come right out of college making upwards of $75,000/year. Heavily recruited from Silicon Valley, NASA, and defense.
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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8260452


Congratulations! Not easy getting into/thru Cali univeristies these days. Even if you are local.
Tuitions have so skyrocketed it's mindboggling.
 Quoting: Sloane


It was easier than high school.

The quality of "education" was a total joke.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8260452


Some. Some not. The U.C. system is outstanding, as are many of the CSU campuses. Then you have Stanford, Santa Clara, San Diego, and other private universities. Try getting into Cal Poly, SLO. It's like an 11% acceptance rate, and graduates in many majors in which the university specializes (engineering, agriculture, architecture, business) come right out of college making upwards of $75,000/year. Heavily recruited from Silicon Valley, NASA, and defense.
 Quoting: Thor's Hamster


Engineers from any college come out from $55k-$65k

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In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.

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As a recent graduate of California State University, Bakersfield, I can confirm that it was jam packed with moronic Mexicans who clearly had no business being in a higher education setting. But the university loves them because it's a designated Hispanic Serving Institute so it gets Federal money for every wetback they admit.
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This is where my tax money is going?!?!
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Shuuuuut theeeee fuuuuuuuuck up. Free spirited California is pioneering the world into fashion, food, and culture. Some of us hate hollywood, but can't deny that over billions of eyes all over the world are tuned into the movies that are made here. "but wait...what about NEW YORK??"

Sorry guys, New York died out in the nineties, late 2000's. That shit is wack. California is flourishing, as the numbers and stats do tell.

California is doing great. You can tell by those who are trying to knock it down.

It's not our fault you guys live in the middle of bumblefuck, nowhere.

Plus we have the greatest weed. rastabanan


5a
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MmmmmHmmmm....




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Shuuuuut theeeee fuuuuuuuuck up. Free spirited California is pioneering the world into fashion, food, and culture. Some of us hate hollywood, but can't deny that over billions of eyes all over the world are tuned into the movies that are made here. "but wait...what about NEW YORK??"

Sorry guys, New York died out in the nineties, late 2000's. That shit is wack. California is flourishing, as the numbers and stats do tell.

California is doing great. You can tell by those who are trying to knock it down.

It's not our fault you guys live in the middle of bumblefuck, nowhere.

Plus we have the greatest weed. rastabanan


5a
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MmmmmHmmmm....




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Good one.

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Best part of California is the eastern part - gold rush country, Sierra Nevada's and the foothill towns.
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I will always love California but . . . how did it get so messed up? Excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson of The Hoover Institute.

THERE IS NO CALIFORNIA:

How to explain the seemingly inexplicable? There is no California, which is a misnomer. There is no such state. Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways. Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster.

A postmodern narrow coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley, where the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life is becoming premodern.

On the coast, blue-chip universities like Cal Tech, Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA in pastoral landscapes train the world's doctors, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople. In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, well over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science classes.


For full article:

[link to newsok.com]
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Bah, that's BS. You can say that about any state! There's the Chesapeake coastline of Maryland, and then there's Baltimore. There's New Jersey "The Garden State", and New Jersey the yellow-skied cesspool of industrial pollution. There's liberal Palm Beach Florida and then there's redneck Orlando. There's Oakridge TN (engineer-ville) and then there's Bellbuckle TN, home of toothless trailer trash and incest.

The Hoover Institution contains some of the dumbest people I've ever seen wielding a pen. I had a summer job typing for one of them (many years ago before computers) and that guy was an idiot. My best friend also typed for him and we used to ROFL at this stupid opinions.
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Re: There is No California
Hey Sloane,
Off topic, but did you ever live in irvine ?
I once knew a Sloane...





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