MTV Reports
Until the demise of the Fame Kills Tour, Kanye West had been planning to hit the road with Lady Gaga, one of the gay-friendliest pop stars out there today. So it doesn't really come out of left field to have Fergie credit him, along with her cohorts in the Black Eyed Peas, for helping make the world of hip-hop a little more open to alternative lifestyles.
"They're completely gay-friendly. Are you kidding me? Look at how they dress!" she joked to The Advocate about the guys in her band. "Kanye West really did a great thing for hip-hop and made it very mixed and open."
As for her own sexuality, the singer says that although she's now married to actor Josh Duhamel, she has experimented with girls in the past. So when the time came for her to get flirty with a girl or two in the "I Gotta Feeling" video, she didn't flinch for a second. "Yes, it was [my idea to flirt with the girls]," she said. "That was fun because it was so naughty. It was a big tease, but it felt very natural."
Long before she was a pop star, Fergie got her start on a beloved children's show, "Kids Incorporated." She admits now that she made a few gay friends back then. "Oh, there were plenty on that show," she said. "But I don't want to out anyone, just in case."
Although Fergie seemed open to talking about most subjects, including her upcoming role in "Nine," the singer chose not to discuss an altercation between Peas manager Liborio "Polo" Molina and Perez Hilton in Toronto in June. She noted, though, that she was upset that night because Perez had been criticizing her music on his blog and that it had bothered her.
"When I see somebody I thought was my friend or starting to be my friend," she said, sighing, "when someone talks out of both sides of their mouth, it just makes me question their integrity."
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Video After The JumpAkon's newest signee, French Montana is nothing if not consistent. He stays on the grind, his mixtape game and internet presence via videos is right up there at the top of the game. Director, Picture Perfect gives dope visuals to this joint off of French's "Coke Wave 2" mixtape.
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People.com Reports
Jennifer Lopez has been granted a temporary restraining order preventing her former husband, Ojani Noa, from marketing steamy home videos from their 11-month marriage.
Noa, 35, was in California Superior Court without a lawyer on Tuesday and claimed after Judge James C. Chalfant's ruling it was never his intention to sell the private camcorder footage. He said it was his intention to produce a Borat-style mocumentary about himself as a Cuban immigrant.
"She is destroying my life," Noa, vowing the videos were non-sexual and not for sale, told New York's Daily News immediately after the hearing. "This is another proof of her power and money trying to stop me from moving on with my life."
He added: "I'm not making any money from these videos," he said. "This is about having a closure. It's my story."
As described in reports, the video, called How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story, reputedly includes 1997 footage of Lopez, now 40, wearing skimpy clothing and supposedly being spanked by Noa. It reportedly also contains a fight between her and her mother.
In 2007, Lopez won a lawsuit that forbade him from publishing a tell-all book about their marriage. That book allegedly claimed Lopez frequently cheated on Noa, including with her current husband, Marc Anthony.
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Video After The JumpCNN Reports
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer.
"I have chronic myeloid leukemia," Abdul-Jabbar told CNN. He said he received the diagnosis last December.
The 62-year-old former center for the Los Angeles Lakers said aside from having to see his doctor and checking his blood levels on a regular basis, having chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) hasn't significantly affected his quality of life.
Abdul-Jabbar said he's going public now to educate people about this disease.
"I think it's possible for someone in my position to help save lives," he said.
Abdul-Jabbar is best known as the 7-foot-2 center who led the UCLA Bruins to three NCAA championships in the 1960s, then went on to win one NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971 and five more with the Los Angeles Lakers before retiring in 1989.
He also has dabbled in acting, notably as an airline pilot in the 1980 comedy "Airplane!"
However, raising awareness about cancer has been part of his portfolio for some time now, too.
He said cancer has been prominent in his life.
"My grandfather died from colorectal cancer, my uncle died from colorectal cancer and my father almost died from colorectal cancer," Abdul-Jabbar said.
He added that he has the gene for colorectal cancer. This led him to get involved in a colorectal cancer awareness campaign in the African-American community. He's also participated in an NBA-sponsored prostate cancer awareness campaign.
But now he's a cancer patient himself. He said he first realized something was wrong when he began having hot flashes and sweats, something he admits wasn't normal, "even for someone my age."
After seeing his physician, blood work showed he had a "white blood cell count that was sky-high." The National Cancer Institute describes CML as a "slowly progressing disease in which too many white blood cells are made in the bone marrow."
Abdul-Jabbar said when he received the diagnosis of early stage CML, he wanted to know what was possible in terms of treatment.
He said his specialist told him the cancer diagnosis did not have to be a death sentence, as long as he followed a proper treatment regimen.
Abdul-Jabbar wouldn't reveal what his prognosis is, but he did say he is managing his disease and that having CML "doesn't impact my life too significantly."
In the process of researching CML, Abdul-Jabbar says he was shocked to learn that some cancer patients do not regularly take their cancer medication. This led him to approach the pharmaceutical company Novartis about launching an educational campaign.
Abdul-Jabbar said Novartis is paying him for his travel and time, but the idea for the campaign was his.
"The message is simple: You have to have the expert advice of a specialist. You have to take your medicine and get your blood analyzed," he said.
In an effort to provide more information about this type of cancer, he is launching a Facebook page -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Patient Advocate -- supported by the pharmaceutical company, which manufactures drugs to treat this and other types of cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the average person's chance of getting CML is less than 1 in 500. The cancer society says CML is slightly more common in men than women, and it accounts for 10 percent to 15 percent of all leukemias or blood cancers.
The ACS estimates just over 5,000 people will be diagnosed with CML this year, and that 470 will die from it. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society estimates the five-year survival rate for CML of 44.4 percent.
More information on CML can be found at www.cancer.org and www.leukemia-lymphoma.org.
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Video After The JumpWashington Times Reports
JARRATT, Va. | John Allen Muhammad - the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 people in Virginia, Maryland and the District - was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night in Virginia.
Muhammad was executed at 9 p.m., about nine hours after Gov. Tim Kaine announced that he would not intervene.
Dozens of television crews, photographers and reporters camped outside the Greensville Correctional Center to cover the execution of the man responsible for the deadly three-week sniper rampage.
Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, terrorized the D.C. area, killing random people outside restaurants and shopping centers, schools, grocery stores and gas stations. The pair is also suspected of a number of other shootings across the country.
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With her new album "In Love And War" out in stores now. Def Jam artist Amerie continues making the rounds on talk shows in support of it. She hit up the stage at The Jimmy Kimmel Show last night (November 10th) and gave a great performance of her hit song "Heard 'Em All".
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Video After The Jump50 Cent goes in (jokingly, of course) on the 102 Jamz staff, wanting to know why he wasn't on their wall of pictured rappers as opposed to Fat Joe. He reveals why he chose Kelly Rowland as his leading lady for the "Baby By Me" video. And also talks about his new album "Before I Self Destruct"
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SixShot.com Reports
DMX's $1.5 million tax debt records have emerged, detailing each payment the rapper currently owes including both state and federal taxes.
According to the records revealed by The Detroit News, DMX's tax issues go back as far as 2005:
*The IRS filed a $370,460 lien against the rapper and his wife on Sept. 20, 2005, in New York.
* The New York State Tax Commission filed a $44,357 tax warrant against the rapper and his wife on March 6, 2006, in New York.
* The state of New York filed an $8,343 tax warrant against the rapper and his wife on Feb. 15, 2007, in the New York County Clerk's office.
*The IRS filed a $663,554 lien against DMX on Sept. 10, 2007, in the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Recorder's office. According to the lien, he owes income taxes from 2002, 2003 and 2005.
*The IRS filed a $442,869 lien against DMX and his wife on Jan. 2 in the New York City Register's office.
DMX had been in and out jail t he past few years and during his incarceration, the rapper lost his Phoenix home to foreclosure.
DMX was replaced earlier this week by Coolio and the brawl will take place on December 12 at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama.
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01 Welcome
02 Got Hungry
03 You’ve Been Slain
04 On & On
05 I Am
06 4 Stories
07 Roughnecks f. Deuce Wonder
08 Cool Cat
09 What You Want
10 Jack My Dick
11 Dope, Jobs, Homeless [Bonus]
Album Drops December 15th !
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Posted by RAPPERS I.Q ? on November 10, 2009 at 6:30pm
Fans expecting to see Tracy Jordan at Tracy Morgan’s Carnegie Hall performance Friday night got a rude awakening.The bawdy comedian packed the venerable performance venue with fans expecting his “30 Rock” character’s prime-time humor. But minutes after Morgan started his routine, many walked out in disgust.It turns out that some New Yorkers really can’t take a joke — especially when it’s unspeakably filthy.“People seemed to not be laughing at his jokes, but more because they were shocked and appalled with what was coming out of his mouth,” reports one audience member. Morgan talked trash about homosexuality (saying it’s “a choice,” which drew gasps), drugs, pornography and what he calls “politricks” — far edgier subjects than what his alter ego, Jordan, gets air time for.“There was a continuous flow of people getting up and leaving throughout the show,” our spy reports, adding that many in the crowd clearly didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Middle-aged women were the most flabbergasted when he started mimicking explicit sex acts on stage.When Morgan found something shocking, he held onto it for minutes on end.Some of the controversial jabs he made included a set about the First Family.“Obama is really changing the White House, because he and Michelle will have the first presidential sex tape out,” he said to a stunned crowd.Morgan did better at his second try on politics, saying he wouldn’t vote for Mayor Bloomberg because all he does is go to Yankee games — a gag that seemed to at least draw a hoot from the crowd.The comedian has made his name off his eyebrow-raising opinions — most recently, he recounted his sordid life story of sex, drugs and strip clubs in a tell-all, “I Am the New Black.”Despite a reputation for outrageous behavior during TV interviews, he made a mainstream comedy comeback when Tina Fey tapped him for “30 Rock” in 2006.No one knew better than Morgan himself that the crowd got more than they bargained for. At one point Friday night, he addressed shocked showgoers, saying, “You want the clean Tracy? Turn on the TV.”Still, not everyone was horrified by the spectacle.Spike Lee, John Singleton and “Rock” co-star Jane Krakowski were all in the audience— and gave a standing ovation.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/10/2009-11-10_audience_members_walk_out_of_tracy_morgans_bawdy_carnegie_hall_performance.html#ixzz0WV7zLyayRead more…
Posted by RAPPERS I.Q ? on November 10, 2009 at 6:42pm
LOS ANGELES - Jenny got her block.A judge granted singer Jennifer Lopez a temporary restraining order barring ex-husband Ojani Noa Tuesday from peddling sexy home videos of their brief marriage.Noa, 34, was in court without a lawyer and claimed after the ruling it was never his intention to sell the steamy camcorder footage.He said he planned to make a Borat-style mocumentary about his life as a Cuban immigrant."She is destroying my life," Noa told the Daily News outside court. "This is another proof of her power and money trying to stop me from moving on with my life."He swore the home videos were not for sale.
"I'm not making any money from these videos," he said. "This is about having a closure. It's my story."He said the videos from their 11-month marriage - including intimate moments shot on their 1997 honeymoon - were used only for inspiration."We were watching with writers and directors and producers because we were getting the script down. We were writing about the characters," he said. "They're trying to twist it, that everything is my fault. She's trying to step on my shoes and not let me move on with my life, and it's not fair."The racy reels include shots of Lopez, now 40, "fondling herself" over skimpy clothing and getting spanked, said a source who's seen the 11+ hours."It's not stuff a mother of two wants out in the public," the source told The Daily News.The judge ordered Noa and film partner Ed Meyer to turn over any materials related to the movie and advise third parties - including TMZ.com and the National Enquirer - of the temporary restraining order.Lopez filed a $10 million lawsuit Friday claiming Noa is violating a confidentiality agreement with his intent to produce and market the movie "How I Married Jennifer Lopez: the J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story," allegedly based in part on the home videos.The judge scheduled arguments for Dec. 1. Noa, who supports himself with modeling work, stands to get a "50 point" share of the mocumentary's net earnings, Meyer said.Lopez has "a very strong probability of success," Judge James Chalfani said citing non-disparagement clauses in the couple's divorce agreement and a 2005 settlement stemming from an employment dispute over Noa's work at Lopez's restaurant Madre's.In 2007, Lopez won a $545,000 arbitration award that barred Noa from shopping a tell-all manuscript about their brief union. The proposed book reportedly claimed Lopez cheated on him with her current husband Marc Anthony.Noa says he plans to challenge the legality of his settlements with the Bronx-born beauty."I don't really believe in my (2005) agreement. My lawyer wasn't a real lawyer, he went to jail," Noa told the News. He added that Lopez hired and paid for his lawyer in their divorce."I was therefore coerced to settle," he said in a court statement.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/10/2009-11-10_jennifer_lopez_granted_temporary_restraining_order_barring_ojani_noa_from_sellin.html#ixzz0WVSQJdJYRead more…
Videos After The Jump
In this in depth thirty minute long interview with iTunes, 50 Cent talks about Before I Self Destruct, his writing process, the position he is in, his rivals, his favorite tracks off of the album and much more. Shouts To PhillyCustoms hooking this up !
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Comedian/Actor Mike Epps drops his new DVD "Under Rated & Never Faded" today (November 10th). In this laugh out loud clip, Mike warns the fellas why it's never a good idea to sleep on your woman's detective skills. Support good comedy and go cop the DVD.
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Reports
A few years ago, I finally got around to reading "Black No More," a novel by the late journalist, social satirist and novelist George Schuyler.
A former reporter for the Pittsburgh Courier, Mr. Schuyler was both a black conservative and a "race man," an archaic term that refers to someone who takes upon himself the duty of protecting and defending the black race.
First published in 1931, "Black No More" is a hilarious and brutal tale about Max Disher, a Harlem insurance agent and neighborhood rogue who undergoes a pigment-lightening process said to have been invented by Dr. Junius Crookmore, a black mad scientist. Dr. Crookmore's studies in Germany led to the invention of a machine that turns people of African descent into Swedes and Norwegians.
Once Max takes on his new identity as a white man, he changes his name to Matt Fisher and marries the unsuspecting daughter of a notorious white supremacist. As you can imagine, all sorts of hilarity and racial subversion ensue.
Max isn't alone in undergoing the novel's "black no more" process. The book has most of Harlem, from the intellectual elite to juvenile delinquent, undergo the relatively cheap skin-bleaching and hair-straightening transformation inside Dr. Crookmore's machine. So many blacks flood the market as newly minted Caucasians, enraged Southerners push legislation to make it illegal to switch races, rather than suffer the further devaluation of white skin.
I thought of George Schuyler's book last week when recent photos of famed baseball slugger Sammy Sosa, born dark-skinned in the Dominican Republic, began making the rounds. Like Max Disher, Sosa appears to have undergone significant lightening since his debut with the Texas Rangers and famed years with the Chicago Cubs.
While falling short of the albino whiteness Michael Jackson perfected over a quarter of a century, Mr. Sosa shows what can happen when black folks with money engage in too much impulse buying on the racial cosmetics market.
Sammy Sosa Then
Mr. Sosa denies hanging around the modern equivalent of Dr. Crookmore's "black no more" machine. A former Chicago Cubs community relations flack blames the lighting in recent photos for Mr. Sosa's pale look. "He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin," she said, adding that it wasn't much different from what a lot of women go through when they apply moisturizing treatment to their faces at night.
If Sammy Sosa hadn't also insisted that he only "accidentally" used a corked bat during a Cubs game in 2003 that resulted in an eight-game suspension, or that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs despite forearms as big as Popeye's, or if he hadn't failed a Major League Baseball drug test, I would be more inclined to believe he is the victim of a bad batch of lotion.
Sammy Sosa Now
If Mr. Sosa is trying to steal a base on the other side of the color line, he has plenty of company. I was surprised to read a list on the Internet about all of the black performers -- especially R&B artists -- who are also believed to use skin lighteners.
Using skin lighteners is generally frowned upon in the African-American community, but somebody in that demographic is buying them. Skin-whitening soaps containing banned ingredients in the U.S. and Europe have accounted for billions in sales in Africa alone in the last half century.
Advertisers in Asia know that they can juice sales by appealing to the vanity of female customers obsessed with achieving "milky white skin" they consider more desirable and aristocratic. Skin whiteners are believed to be an even larger business in Asia than in Africa.
The politics of skin lightening couldn't be more absurd. There is probably more acceptance of someone undergoing sex reassignment than of someone trying to "upgrade" their color. A transgendered person is trying to find a body in which to feel more authentic. Someone lightening his skin has bought into an inherently corrupt measurement of worth in society.
Folks who try to buy social acceptance in a bottle of whitening lotion are looking for the kind of shortcut to success Mr. Sosa sought when he turned to steroids. It's cheap and degrading to the soul.
Perhaps I'm being unfair to folks who feel "whitening up" is in line with their sense of beauty and personal aesthetics. Who says that you only get one bite at the apple of racial identity? For all his brilliance, George Schuyler could be wrong. In the end, looking askance at what many would consider pitiful attempts at racial migration is just another way of being prejudiced.
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Never one to bite his tongue or back away from an uncomfortable question. 50 Cent admits in this interview that in retrospect he regrets recording the very controversial song "Pearly Gates" with Mobb Deep off their "Blood Money" cd. Due to what many people perceive as a blasphemous verse from fellow Queens rapper Prodigy, that blasted both Jesus and God.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 10, 2009 at 10:00am
Videos After The JumpInquisitr Reports
Former Washington Redskins cheerleader Desiree Jennings made headlines in October when she told the media that she had been afflicted with the neurological movement disorder Dystonia following a flu shot.
As we noted at the time, the disorder apparently left her only able to walk properly backwards, or run forwards. The rest of the time she appeared on camera to be seriously messed up.
Despite their being “no successful treatment for its cause” (Wikipedia) guess who has been miraculously cured?
According to Science Blogs, the doctor who miraculously cured Desiree, Dr Rashid Buttar is “known for urine injection therapy, among other things, and has charged tens of thousands of dollars to apply his quackery to cancer patients.”
Desiree in the mean time is now pumping the anti-vaccine message, putting at risk the lives of thousands of children.
The chances of the whole thing being a hoax just went from about 50% to pushing towards 100%.
Original VideoDesiree's Most Recent Video
And Finally Desiree "Walking It Out"
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Video After The JumpRobin Thicke is hard at work on his new album "Sex Therapy". The follow up to last year's "Something Else" which debuted at # 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. This album has a great production line up of Polow Da Don, Jeff Bhasker, Scott Storch, and Surf Club. With features from Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj. Peep the video below of Robin & Hov recording "Meiplé"
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Rap-Up Reports
Rihanna fought back tears while being honored as one of Glamour’s 2009 Women of the Year at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Monday (Nov. 9). The magazine’s latest cover girl broke from her all-black-everything look, turning heads in a dramatic white gown. She was accompanied by her Island Def Jam label head L.A. Reid. Other honorees included Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Maria Shriver, and Amy Poehler.
“I am shaking right now. I am so nervous, but overwhelmed and honored by this honor to be Glamour’s Woman of the Year,” an emotional Rihanna said as she was presented with her award from supermodel Iman. “I really look up to my gran-gran and my mom. They are my two women of the year. I love you very much, granny. I love you very much, mom.”
BallerStatus Reports
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather has a lot to be thankful for this holiday. After 21 months off, he had a dominating victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in September, not to mention plenty of money. Now, in recognition for his good fortune, he's giving back to less fortunate Las Vegas residents, via a toy drive and Thanksgiving feast.
"The holidays are the most important time to give back," said Mayweather. "No family should have to go hungry on Thanksgiving and no child should go without a toy on Christmas. I don't believe that food and gifts should be a luxury. They are a necessity and through our efforts, we want make this year's holiday season happier than ones before for Las Vegas residents in need."
Beginning this week, the Floyd Mayweather Foundation, in association with United States Marine Corps, started its own toy drive through 15 Toys for Tots collection bins in locations around the city of Las Vegas (see list of locations below).
The collection will continue through the month of November and end on December 11. The highlight of the drive will be an event hosted by Mayweather for family, friends and invited guests, where each person must bring a toy to donate in order to attend.
The giving doesn't stop there. He's been feeding the homeless weekly for the past several months, and will step up his efforts and serve a Thanksgiving hot meal to those same people.
On November 21, the Foundation is planning a Thanksgiving feast for 250 people outdoors on Owens Ave & N. Main St. (across from the Salvation Army). Each individually wrapped hot meal will include turkey, rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, string beans, pumpkin pie, water and tea.
To top off his holiday-related contributions, Mayweather will be donating coats to the students at a local inner-city elementary school. All 318 students (pre-school through fifth grade) will be given a coat.
"I look forward to continuing our mission of making sure people who are hungry have food to eat, and that children wake up on Christmas morning with something to look forward to," Mayweather said. "Through the donation of toys, coats and food, I know we will be making the holidays a little brighter for those in need and that is the best gift of all."
TOYS FOR TOTS DROP-OFF LOCATIONS
Expressions Salon and Spa -- 6345 South Pecos Rd. St. #103, Las Vegas, 89120
Nail Gossip -- 4860 West Desert Inn Rd. #6, Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Merryhill Preschool/Elementary School -- 5055 South Durango Dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89113
North Stars Dance Academy -- 4025 North Rancho Dr. Suite#160, Las Vegas, NV, 89130
Las Vegas Indoor Soccer -- 1400 N. Rampart Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89134
Fletcher Jones Imports -- 7300 W. Sahara Ave. Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Jackie's Iced Out Barber N' Beauty -- 1100 Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite D, Las Vegas, NV, 89106
The Jeweler's -- 2400 Western Ave. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Roots -- 4418 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 3853 Spring Mountain Rd. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 3111 S. Valley View Blvd. Unit E-101, Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 6285 Dean Martin Dr. Suite A23, Las Vegas, NV, 89118
1st Commerce Bank -- 5135 Camino Al Norte Rd. Ste 100, N. Las Vegas, NV, 89031
Findlay Cadillac-Saab -- 933 Auto Show Dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89106
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