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Parkins lost me when he mispronounced vacuous and he’s also full of shit complaining about how we can’t be constantly outraged and we need civil discourse and bemoan 20 year sentences for jaywalking when he fully partakes of doing the same thing. Anyone want to replay his shows talking about teams playing football DURING COVID ????



:lol: :lol: How did he pronounce "vacuous"?


Vawkis, if you can believe it.


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does he pronounce raucous "rack-you-us"?


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Parkins lost me when he mispronounced vacuous and he’s also full of shit complaining about how we can’t be constantly outraged and we need civil discourse and bemoan 20 year sentences for jaywalking when he fully partakes of doing the same thing. Anyone want to replay his shows talking about teams playing football DURING COVID ????



:lol: :lol: How did he pronounce "vacuous"?


Vawkis, if you can believe it.


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All i can think is he thought he was reading "vaucous"... It was pretty hilarious when the producers must have gone and looked up the tweet, since nobody knew what the hell he was saying.

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Parkins lost me when he mispronounced vacuous and he’s also full of shit complaining about how we can’t be constantly outraged and we need civil discourse and bemoan 20 year sentences for jaywalking when he fully partakes of doing the same thing. Anyone want to replay his shows talking about teams playing football DURING COVID ????



:lol: :lol: How did he pronounce "vacuous"?

"Vaucas," like a Lithuanian surname. They don't teach synonyms for "empty" at New Trier and Syracuse because none of them have ever lacked anything.

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Parkins said that this level of rage should be saved for the election or Charlottesville. He could not even denounce the stupid partisan name-calling. It just wasn't the right time for it.

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Parkins is clearly pretty bright, so I'll give him a pass on vacuous. It reminds me of an incident at work 20 years ago, when our company was having a retreat of senior executives to formulate the strategic plan for the next couple of years. The consulting company we hired asked one of the senior vice presidents to stand in front of the room and write down on a white board some bullet points about current financial markets as we called them out. One of the words he had to write was "VOLATILE." This was a guy everyone respected and thought was on the ball, but after he paused a moment, in big letters on the board he wrote "VOLLIDAL."

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From the first time I saw the headline in the Deadspin tweet, I read "vacuous" to sound like "vaucous" in my head, and it wasn't until you guys started giving Parkins shit about how he said it that I actually read the word and repeated it properly in my head.


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Parkins lost me when he mispronounced vacuous and he’s also full of shit complaining about how we can’t be constantly outraged and we need civil discourse and bemoan 20 year sentences for jaywalking when he fully partakes of doing the same thing. Anyone want to replay his shows talking about teams playing football DURING COVID ????



:lol: :lol: How did he pronounce "vacuous"?

"Vaucas," like a Lithuanian surname. They don't teach synonyms for "empty" at New Trier and Syracuse because none of them have ever lacked anything.

huh. That's how I've always pronounced it...I appear to be wrong.

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I agree. Mac’s joke wasn’t evil either. Danny is in a tough spot with that, though. So I get it. At the end of the day, he wants his cool job. So he can’t say the score was wrong with Mac. Easy to do it with Julie. She’s no longer a co worker.


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Parkins is clearly pretty bright, so I'll give him a pass on vacuous. It reminds me of an incident at work 20 years ago, when our company was having a retreat of senior executives to formulate the strategic plan for the next couple of years. The consulting company we hired asked one of the senior vice presidents to stand in front of the room and write down on a white board some bullet points about current financial markets as we called them out. One of the words he had to write was "VOLATILE." This was a guy everyone respected and thought was on the ball, but after he paused a moment, in big letters on the board he wrote "VOLLIDAL."



I'm sure I've told the story about how I was fired from my own company by a consultant who pronounced paradigm as "para-dijum".

Also, my mom didn't have a whole lot of formal education but she was very good with words and language. She read a lot and did the NYT crossword puzzle everyday. She once told me one of the most mortifying moments in her life was when she was in her early twenties and she was dating a guy who was almost thirty and they went out with a bunch of his older and more sophisticated friends. One of the other women asked my mom what book she was currently reading and my mom answered Exodus except she pronounced it "Exodius". She said the others were kind enough that they didn't correct her but my mom was still embarrassed about it forty years later.

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I know most words by relating them to other words. I think of vacuum when I see vacuous so I'm already most of the way home in pronouciation.

I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.

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I thought soy boy had its origins in that catalogue picture of the twentysomething guy sitting in his onesie pajamas curled up with a mug of tea with soy milk.

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I've said this before and I'll say it again, Parkins gives no fucks about any of the current social issues. He is one more child away from a comfortable Northbrook existence where he can worriedly look out his front window at the cleaning ladies walking through the neighborhood to their jobs in the morning. He'll never march, donate or participate in any way and when it is no longer fashionable talk at cocktail parties, he won't even comment on the air.

I'm a Parkins guy. You really have to understand he's just riding this thing out. All he really wants to do is get stoned to the bejeezus and gamble on football, then pay it off by talking sports all week. Sounds like a good life to me

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I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.

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I've said this before and I'll say it again, Parkins gives no fucks about any of the current social issues. He is one more child away from a comfortable Northbrook existence where he can worriedly look out his front window at the cleaning ladies walking through the neighborhood to their jobs in the morning. He'll never march, donate or participate in any way and when it is no longer fashionable talk at cocktail parties, he won't even comment on the air.

I'm a Parkins guy. You really have to understand he's just riding this thing out. All he really wants to do is get stoned to the bejeezus and gamble on football, then pay it off by talking sports all week. Sounds like a good life to me

So he's a con man?

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I've said this before and I'll say it again, Parkins gives no fucks about any of the current social issues. He is one more child away from a comfortable Northbrook existence where he can worriedly look out his front window at the cleaning ladies walking through the neighborhood to their jobs in the morning. He'll never march, donate or participate in any way and when it is no longer fashionable talk at cocktail parties, he won't even comment on the air.

I'm a Parkins guy. You really have to understand he's just riding this thing out. All he really wants to do is get stoned to the bejeezus and gamble on football, then pay it off by talking sports all week. Sounds like a good life to me

So he's a con man?



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I've said this before and I'll say it again, Parkins gives no fucks about any of the current social issues. He is one more child away from a comfortable Northbrook existence where he can worriedly look out his front window at the cleaning ladies walking through the neighborhood to their jobs in the morning. He'll never march, donate or participate in any way and when it is no longer fashionable talk at cocktail parties, he won't even comment on the air.

I'm a Parkins guy. You really have to understand he's just riding this thing out. All he really wants to do is get stoned to the bejeezus and gamble on football, then pay it off by talking sports all week. Sounds like a good life to me

So he's a con man?


Not really. He doesn't gain an advantage other than keeping the wolves at bay

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I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.



There is a pretty noticeable difference in black accents if you listen to them next to each other. That NY accent is very different than the Atlanta one which is very different from the Texas one.

I don't think I have an accent. I went to school on the east coast and the older guys on the team I played used to make fun of it.

The Chicago accent doesn't really exist. There are many Chicago accents. I think their existence is cool, especially because they are so distinct from the Midwest accent that surrounds them. Deconstruct them and you realize that they are attributed to the way immigrants spoke english, not by any sort of flaw.

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I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.


I got pulled out of suburban primary school because I caught hell for sounding like a white kid around the neighborhood. And pulled out of CPS in two years because my parents were convinced that I was sounding ghetto. So it was Hyde Park until college for me. :lol:

Because I don't have an accent, I generally don't care about most of them, except two, deep old time Chicago and deep southern accents. Strangely enough because I used to struggle to understand them. I don't think that you come anywhere near the bad Chicago one.

Living down south I learned the regional/state differences which I found funny, but back then they found my then California (?) sounding accent.

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The Chicago accent doesn't really exist. There are many Chicago accents. I think their existence is cool, especially because they are so distinct from the Midwest accent that surrounds them. Deconstruct them and you realize that they are attributed to the way immigrants spoke english, not by any sort of flaw.

It's interesting that the Buffalo accent is very close to Chicago's. I'd even say it's an exaggerated Chicago accent. But once you cross over into Toronto, I don't think there's much of a history of that Great Lakes deez-an-dose accent, rather the standard Canadian oat-and-aboat.

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I am sure it isn't a singular accent but I am picked out of a group all the time. "Where are you from?" is standard due to my accent. Generally they guess Midwest but not necessarily Chicago.

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Didn't hear it..I don't listen to the Score anymore. Good for Parko.. the left has become a hypersensitive bunch of pussies.... anything they say is dismissed.. they've eliminated any sort of rational conversation.

Haven’t both sides played a part in that?


I'm independent sir.. I've always been in the middle, the last 2 years have pushed me right.


Lol that makes zero sense. Wouldn't the last two years push you left? Things such as, Medicare for all and universal basic income now coming to the forefront as things that are desperately needed to bring America into the modern world... and the deranged lunacy of anyone on the right and even the corporate left. Less corruption more Bernie type people like AOC, ilhan omar are needed. Thankfully people my age 30 and younger are seeing the way of the US DOES NOT and WILL NOT work ever again.


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I've said this before and I'll say it again, Parkins gives no fucks about any of the current social issues. He is one more child away from a comfortable Northbrook existence where he can worriedly look out his front window at the cleaning ladies walking through the neighborhood to their jobs in the morning. He'll never march, donate or participate in any way and when it is no longer fashionable talk at cocktail parties, he won't even comment on the air.

I'm a Parkins guy. You really have to understand he's just riding this thing out. All he really wants to do is get stoned to the bejeezus and gamble on football, then pay it off by talking sports all week. Sounds like a good life to me

So he's a con man?


Not really. He doesn't gain an advantage other than keeping the wolves at bay

So he doesn't want to be a thought leader and Trump supporters aren't sub-human? Then why does he say so if he isn't a con man? Seems very conniving to me.

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good dolphin wrote:
I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.


I got pulled out of suburban primary school because I caught hell for sounding like a white kid around the neighborhood. And pulled out of CPS in two years because my parents were convinced that I was sounding ghetto. So it was Hyde Park until college for me. :lol:

Because I don't have an accent, I generally don't care about most of them, except two, deep old time Chicago and deep southern accents. Strangely enough because I used to struggle to understand them. I don't think that you come anywhere near the bad Chicago one.

Living down south I learned the regional/state differences which I found funny, but back then they found my then California (?) sounding accent.


Yeah, you really don't have much of an accent, though I suppose someone who was really paying attention could peg you as Midwestern.

I just asked my wife her opinion and she said that there are no bad accents, there is just perception of what a "bad" accent is. I think that's probably right, but that being the case, we probably should try conforming our speech so that it helps us get ahead rather than proudly pronouncing "that" as "dat" da way I do. I could work on not swallowing the "th" sound. I'm sure if I had been on a high-powered corporate or professional track my accent would have hindered my progress. But at least I know how to pronounce "paradigm" and "vacuous".

I should speak in the mid-Atlantic accent from now on. Absolutely top drawer, bubby!

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.


I got pulled out of suburban primary school because I caught hell for sounding like a white kid around the neighborhood. And pulled out of CPS in two years because my parents were convinced that I was sounding ghetto. So it was Hyde Park until college for me. :lol:

Because I don't have an accent, I generally don't care about most of them, except two, deep old time Chicago and deep southern accents. Strangely enough because I used to struggle to understand them. I don't think that you come anywhere near the bad Chicago one.

Living down south I learned the regional/state differences which I found funny, but back then they found my then California (?) sounding accent.


Yeah, you really don't have much of an accent, though I suppose someone who was really paying attention could peg you as Midwestern.

I just asked my wife her opinion and she said that there are no bad accents, there is just perception of what a "bad" accent is. I think that's probably right, but that being the case, we probably should try conforming our speech so that it helps us get ahead rather than proudly pronouncing "that" as "dat" da way I do. I could work on not swallowing the "th" sound. I'm sure if I had been on a high-powered corporate or professional track my accent would have hindered my progress. But at least I know how to pronounce "paradigm" and "vacuous".

I should speak in the mid-Atlantic accent from now on. Absolutely top drawer, bubby!

Is that the Katherine Hepburn/FDR accent? That's really the only one that's grating and it's disappeared.

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I'm pretty good with articulation. My friends laugh at me because I always mispronounce probably. I say something like prolly, as if I'm some ignorant Pittsburgher.


I have one of the more absurd Chicago accents you will ever hear. I'm not exactly sure how I got it because neither of my parents had such an extreme accent.

I'm fascinated by accents. I have a friend from Greece who didn't speak a word of English until he came to Chicago at age 13 and the only accent he has now is a Chicago accent.

This may be elitist but I don't subscribe to the popular idea that accents are neutral. I think I have poor and sloppy diction. The fact that I developed these bad habits due to where I lived is immaterial. I sound like a fucking idiot and people are going to judge me by the way I sound whether I like it or not. On the other hand, I'm kind of proud of my accent. It's a complicated and interesting topic.

I heard an interesting segment on NPR the other day. It was about a young woman named Ciku Theuri and they talked about the typical black American accent and how it was developed. It took the position that it is no less proper than any other way of speaking.

Ciku speaks English more perfectly than anyone I have ever met. Her mother is Kenyan but Ciku grew up in Cincinnati. She talked about people saying she doesn't "sound black". The piece went into the reason why so many black Americans speak the way they do. But I don't really think there's any reason why we can't all speak English the way Ciku does except for laziness.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and accents are neutral and my speaking is just as good as anyone else's. I don't really believe that though. Anyone who heard Ciku and I speak would immediately think she was more intelligent and better educated than I am.


I got pulled out of suburban primary school because I caught hell for sounding like a white kid around the neighborhood. And pulled out of CPS in two years because my parents were convinced that I was sounding ghetto. So it was Hyde Park until college for me. :lol:

Because I don't have an accent, I generally don't care about most of them, except two, deep old time Chicago and deep southern accents. Strangely enough because I used to struggle to understand them. I don't think that you come anywhere near the bad Chicago one.

Living down south I learned the regional/state differences which I found funny, but back then they found my then California (?) sounding accent.


Yeah, you really don't have much of an accent, though I suppose someone who was really paying attention could peg you as Midwestern.

I just asked my wife her opinion and she said that there are no bad accents, there is just perception of what a "bad" accent is. I think that's probably right, but that being the case, we probably should try conforming our speech so that it helps us get ahead rather than proudly pronouncing "that" as "dat" da way I do. I could work on not swallowing the "th" sound. I'm sure if I had been on a high-powered corporate or professional track my accent would have hindered my progress. But at least I know how to pronounce "paradigm" and "vacuous".

I should speak in the mid-Atlantic accent from now on. Absolutely top drawer, bubby!

Is that the Katherine Hepburn/FDR accent? That's really the only one that's grating and it's disappeared.


Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I read once that it's not a real accent, but rather an affectation. Like Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers movies.

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I swear to god that every movie released until the 70s had all the characters speak with mid-Atlantic accents. It's jarring to hear it now.

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Cary Grant is another. I just read an article on the invention of that accent for movies and now I notice it instantly whenever we stop on an old movie.


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