Exotic Animals Killed
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 20th, 2011
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Once again I am sickened by human behavior…male human behavior. We have a convicted animal abuser, Terry Thompson, housing over 56 exotic animals at his farm in Ohio, coupled with Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich, who got lazy…or just didn’t care, and allowed a statewide ban on the buying and selling of exotic pets to expire in April. The result: Thompson who lived with the stress of a strained marriage and the expense of caring for so many animals, who claimed that he was a huge animal lover, decided on Tuesday to release the animals that he claims he so loved, and turned a gun on himself, ending his life.
What a gutless wonder. I could care less if you want to kill yourself but at least leave the animals be, so that people who really do care can take care of them. Instead, 48 beautiful exotic animals were shot to death. So far 6 have been captured and are being taken care of. My first response was, “Why did they kill them?! Why didn’t they just use a tranquilizer dart?” I have read several articles that states there was not enough day light left in the day, and their fear was that if the animals were tranquilized and didn’t “drop before dark”, they may not find them before they regained consciousness again. That may be true, but I still think killing them was wrong; I am having a very difficult time with their unnecessary deaths.
Ohio has been aware of Thompson and his animals for a decade. This was an incident waiting to happen and unfortunately before anyone took the time, and cared enough to do something, the animals in the end paid the price.
Here’s the write:
Exotic Animal Rules Debated In Zanesville, Ohio After Killings
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Amid expressions of horror and revulsion at the killing of dozens of wild animals in Ohio – and photographs of their bloody carcasses – animal rights advocates agreed there was little local authorities could have done to save the dangerous creatures once they began roaming the countryside after their owner released them before taking his own life.
Sheriff’s deputies shot 48 animals – including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions – after Terry Thompson, owner of the private Muskingum County Animal Farm near Zanesville, threw their cages open Tuesday and then committed suicide.
“What a tragedy,” said veterinarian Barb Wolfe, of The Wilds animal preserve sponsored by the Columbus Zoo. “We knew that … there were so many dangerous animals at this place that eventually something bad would happen, but I don’t think anybody really knew it would be this bad.”
As the hunt winded down on Wednesday, a photo showing the remains of tigers, bears and lions lined up and scattered in an open field went viral provoking visceral reactions among viewers, some of whom expressed their anger and sadness on social networking sites.
Some local townspeople also were saddened by the deaths. At a nearby Moose Lodge, Bill Weiser said: “It’s breaking my heart, them shooting those animals.”
Authorities said the slain animals would be buried on Thompson’s farm.
Will Travers, chief executive of the California-based Born Free USA animal welfare and wildlife conservation organization, said police had no choice but to take the action they did.
“It’s a tragedy for these particular animals, for no fault of their own they’ve been shot, and I can see how difficult that decision was for the police,” he said.
Jack Hanna, TV personality and former director of the Columbus Zoo, also defended the sheriff’s decision to kill the animals, calling deaths of the endangered Bengal tigers especially tragic.
The animals destroyed also included six black bears, two grizzlies, a baboon, a wolf and three mountain lions. “It’s like Noah’s Ark wrecking right here in Zanesville, Ohio,” Hanna said.
Six – three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys – were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo. “We are happy to report they all seem to be doing very well,” zoo spokeswoman Patti Peters said in a statement Thursday.
A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal possibly still unaccounted for in the mostly rural community of farms, widely spaced homes and wooded areas about 55 miles east of Columbus.
While the sheriff’s office said early Thursday that the search for the monkey was still active, Sheriff Matt Lutz said the animal may no longer be a concern. “We have had no reported sightings of anything, and it’s a high probability that he could have been eaten by one of the big cats,” Lutz told the CBS “Early Show” on Thursday.
Officers were ordered to kill the animals instead of trying to bring them down with tranquilizers for fear that those hit with darts would escape in the darkness before they dropped and would later regain consciousness.
“There were so many animals running at large that I made the decision that we were not going to have wild animals running loose on our streets,” Lutz told CBS. “There was no way of telling which animals would lay down, where these animals would end up.”
Veterinarian Wolfe had tried to save a tiger in a heavy bramble by using a tranquilizer dart, but the animal charged her then tried to flee. It had to be shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies.
“I was about 15 feet from him and took a shot, and it didn’t respond too much, and I thought we were OK, but within about 10 seconds he roared and started toward me,” she said.
Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Merry, among the first to respond on Tuesday, said he shot a number of animals, including a gray wolf and a black bear who charged him from 7 feet away. He said he’s an animal lover and only took pride in knowing he was protecting the community.
“All these animals have the ability to take a human out in the length of a second,” he said.
The Humane Society of the United States criticized Gov. John Kasich for allowing a statewide ban on the buying and selling of exotic pets to expire in April and called for an emergency rule to crack down on exotic animals until the state comes up with a permanent legal solution.
“Every month brings a new, bizarre, almost surreal incident involving privately-held, dangerous wild animals,” Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society, said in a statement. “In recent years, Ohioans have died and suffered injuries. … Owners of large, exotic animals are a menace to society, and it’s time for the delaying on the rulemaking to end.”
Activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also called for emergency regulations and pointed the finger at Gov. John Kasich, saying the incident should serve as his “wake-up call.”
“Surely, after this latest incident, enough blood has been shed for the state to take action,” the group said in a statement.
Ohio has some of the nation’s weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them.
Born Free USA says it has tracked 1,500 attacks on humans or other animals, and escapes by exotic animals since 1990, with 86 being in Ohio. Travers said there’s an urgent need for legislation that addresses the competency of Ohioans seeking to own exotic pets and owners’ ability to provide for the animals’ welfare as well as public safety.
“Legislation should be there to protect the animals from the people and to protect the people from the animals,” he said.
Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said Wednesday the governor had called on Lutz to commend the job he had done and to ask him to be part of the process of putting into law what the executive order failed to do.
“Clearly, we need tougher laws. We haven’t had them in this state. Nobody’s dealt with this, and we will. And we’ll deal with it in a comprehensive way,” Kasich said earlier in the day at a meeting of Dix Communications editors at which The Associated Press was present.
The Ohio Veterinary Medical Association also called for exotic animal regulations. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland called the deaths of the escaped animals preventable.
“By enacting more stringent restrictions on owning exotic pets in Ohio, tragedies like this one can be avoided in the future,” he said in a statement.
Thompson, 62, had had repeated run-ins with the law and his neighbors. Lutz said that the sheriff’s office had received numerous complaints since 2004 about animals escaping onto neighbors’ property. The sheriff’s office also said that Thompson had been charged over the years with animal cruelty, animal neglect and allowing animals to roam.
He had gotten out of federal prison just last month after serving a year for possessing unregistered guns.
Thompson had rescued some of the animals at his preserve and purchased many others, said Columbus Zoo spokeswoman Patty Peters.
It was not immediately clear how Thompson managed to support the preserve and for what purpose it was operated, since it was not open to the public. But Thompson had appeared on the “Rachael Ray Show” in 2008 as an animal handler for a zoologist guest, said show spokeswoman Lauren Nowell.
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Associated Press writers Ann Sanner, Julie Carr Smyth, JoAnne Viviano and Doug Whiteman in Columbus contributed to this report.
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Readers: Oh and one more animal was killed. Not exotic in the least, but this one certainly deserved to die: Gaddafi.
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October 20th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Zen Lill:
Sprechen Sie Norwegisch? Ich habe auch Deutsch sprechen. How long did you reside in Norge? What city did you live in? I worked in Oslo for three years.
I got my masters in Molecular Biotechnology in 1999 from Uppsala Universitet.I loved the Friday’s Farmer’s Market. I still miss the special lamb and goat cheeses.
I decided to work and bought a home in San Francisco rather than LA because it’s weather reminded me more of my time in Uppsala than LA.
Like Uppsala the warm months were Jun – Sept. Although it doesn’t get near as cold in San Francisco, I seldom saw many days above 70 F in San Francisco either during my stay from Jan-May in my orientation years there. The weather suited me just fine.
San Francisco’s park that stretched through it’s city also reminded me of Uppsala’s central park Stadsskogen. It even sported a windmill.
Mats
October 20th, 2011 at 10:59 am
One would think that to kill 18 members of a rare species that has on 1400 left would cause one to pause first.
But white men with guns have to kill something. That is the state Obama needs to win. So don’t expect too much criticism to be give to the “high school diploma with guns” that Robert has aptly termed cops.
The amazing thing is all the people finding that it was the proper course of action.
Irene
October 20th, 2011 at 11:05 am
TEEN HEARING PROBLEMS — IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE LOUD MUSIC!
Most of us barely pay attention to background noises like engines, fans or groups of people talking loudly. That’s because most of us have the ability to block out those annoying distractions when we want to.
But sadly, that’s not the case for a large group of youngsters whose ability to separate those sounds from what they do want to hear –
for instance, a conversation in a noisy room — has already been compromised, even at their young ages, because of their exposure to secondhand smoke.
I was intrigued to learn of the situation, uncovered in a first-of-its-kind study by Anil Lalwani, MD, professor of otolaryngology, pediatrics and physiology and neuroscience at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, so I called Dr. Lalwani to hear more.
It turns out that, on average, 12- to 19-year-olds who had been exposed to secondhand smoke were found to be nearly twice as likely as other teenagers to suffer irreversible sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in their teen years — even though that kind of hearing loss typically tends to occur among older adults.
About 80% of the teenagers with SNHL had no idea that their hearing had been affected. But even if damage is mild, it can impair one’s ability to function.
While smoke-exposed adolescents performed worse across every sound frequency tested, their scores showed the most impairment in the mid- to high-frequency levels, which are crucial for understanding speech and for pulling any relevant sounds out of the din.
Because kids who can’t always understand what’s being said in the classroom are easily distracted, they may be misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or at the very least labeled as troublemakers. And of course, their schoolwork may suffer.
NOW HEAR THIS
Dr. Lalwani pointed out that secondhand smoke has already been impacting those he calls “innocent bystanders,” since it has been linked to a wide range of other health issues –
including low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), childhood asthma, inner ear infections and behavioral and cognitive problems.
“In the last one to two decades,” said Dr. Lalwani, “we’ve seen a huge amount of evidence mounting about the health consequences of secondhand smoke” — and now we have to add hearing loss to that list.
How did he discover this particular effect of secondhand smoke?
Dr. Lalwani and his colleagues studied data on more than 1,500 12- to 19-year olds selected from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which gathered health information from adults and kids around the US.
First, the youngsters were evaluated by National Center for Health Statistics personnel in 2005-2006, including at-home visits to determine family medical history, whether or not smokers lived in the home and other demographic information.
Then the teens were given extensive hearing tests. They were also given blood tests measuring the level of a nicotine-related substance called cotinine that can objectively tell how much secondhand smoke one has been exposed to.
Dr. Lalwani’s results were compelling — the higher the teens’ levels of cotinine, the higher their chances of having SNHL.
The cotinine acted as a remarkably accurate biomarker — or barometer, if you will — of the hearing damage. His findings were published in a recent issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
The study authors did note that among the drawbacks of the study was that data on noise levels in the homes was not available.
Perhaps the biggest question to be answered now is, how is it that smoke can affect people’s ability to hear — especially young people with robust constitutions?
Dr. Lalwani’s study didn’t look for the cause, but he has many theories. “We know smoking leads to reduced oxygen in the blood, so that may be an issue,” he said.
“The ear is a high-energy-requirement organ. We also know that smoking causes vascular issues (blood vessel problems), so a variety of factors could be contributing.”
SOUND ADVICE
There is an obvious and surefire answer to this health problem among teens — parents who smoke should stop!
Beyond that, Dr. Lalwani hopes that standard newborn hearing screenings can be expanded to include older kids, since only newborns and young children are routinely given hearing tests in the US.
“I think it will happen eventually,” he said optimistically, “and I think this is part of the evidence that will drive it.” Until then, if you’re a concerned parent, discuss with your child’s pediatrician whether your child should have the test.
Source(s):
Anil Lalwani, MD, surgeon and researcher, professor of otolaryngology, physiology and neuroscience, and pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City.
October 20th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Hi Misch, yes I listened to this story and wondered why the hell he didn’t call an animal preserve first, then kill yourself (if you must)…and Bengal Tigers, oh that made me ill, I love big cats of all kinds…what a shame…
Mats, I grew up in Connecticut with Swedes for neighbors, weather is similar to where they were from. I stayed in Oslo and Dokka, Norge for 5 weeks only but it was unbelievably beautiful and although I’m Amerikan, I’m not feeling the patriotic love ever since I lived out a few years back (Singapore) and i could easily live in Asia or Europe and/or Norge and it’s likely that I’d love it.
I think I’ve overstayed LA and of course there are some good people here but the ones I can relate to are the one who have either lived out of country or have had extensive travel in their history, otherwise it’s same same old in terms of attitude here and I don’t likee much. SF is much more diverse and interesting, I’m glad you landed there.
Ha du brah (sp) is all I know in Norge, everyone spoke English, even in small town Dokka. I look just like my well known friend who owns a horse farm there (except she’s Nordic blue eyed and I’m Italian very dark eyed) so people called me Anna Kari-2 and I went with it…here we call her AKR bc that’s the American way : ) she lives half year here in US and half the year on her horse farm there now.
…and ding/dong the witch is dead – bu-bye Gadafi
Luv, Zen Lill
October 20th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Je vais être compter les heures mon amour. Jusqu’à ce moment…
October 20th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
In America what is the need of a gun to a thief, if he has white skin. Your Supreme Court allows him to don a corporate title as his mask and then he can steal $billions with no fear of death or long incarceration. This the American playing the race card.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/deceased-libyan-leader-muammar-gaddafis-seen-vehicle-way-photo-163538100.html
This is what happens to one who does the same in our world. And you call yourselves civilized.
Abdul-Rahim
October 21st, 2011 at 8:05 am
MAKE YOUR BRAIN BIGGER IN EIGHT WEEKS
So you still don’t meditate? Join the club — it’s a big one. But there’s also a compelling new reason for all of us to finally do it:
There is now scientific proof that meditating changes the brain in ways that allow people to feel better about their lives.
How great is that?
The new research found that meditation is not only pleasant and stress-reducing, but that it actually brings lasting physiological changes that are health-enhancing — for example, giving people an improved sense of self and lower levels of anxiety.
MIND-EXPANDING BENEFITS
If you’re thinking “yes, well, we already knew that about meditation,” let me explain that actually, we didn’t.
It’s true that there have been many reports on why meditating is thought to be healthful, but this particular study is new and very newsworthy because it shows how the brain literally expands with meditation.
The research team, led by scientists from Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, designed its research to be very clear on cause and effect, using brain imaging technology to measure how the brains of people who meditated changed over the eight-week study period.
They found that a particular form of meditation known as mindfulness meditation altered gray matter in several parts of the brain. The study was reported in the January 30, 2011, issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
I spoke with study senior author Sara Lazar, PhD, an associate research scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, who talked more about how meditation changes your brain.
Sixteen volunteers open to trying meditation for stress reduction participated in an eight-week program of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Participants met weekly for two and a half hours to practice meditation exercises aimed at improving well-being, reducing stress and increasing mindfulness.
(Mindfulness is defined as being completely aware of the present moment and taking a nonjudgmental approach to your feelings and thoughts.)
The participants were also given audio recordings with 45-minute guided mindfulness exercises that they were asked to do at home — they reported spending an average of 27 minutes a day on the exercises.
Results: Compared with self-reports recorded prior to the study, the participants indicated significant improvements in mindfulness on a questionnaire that they completed at the end of the study.
That’s consistent with earlier research, but the most significant aspect of this study was that researchers also did MRI scans of participants’ brains before and after the program… and these scans were the first to show structural changes in the brain.
In particular, meditation produced beneficial changes in those areas associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.
None of these changes were seen in the MRI images of a control group of nonmeditators taken at similar intervals.
Specifically, the researchers found that compared with people in the control group, the meditators had increased brain volume and/or density in several areas that are beneficial to health and mental function, including the hippocampus, an area important for learning and memory…
the temporal-parietal junction (TPJ), which is associated with compassion and empathy… and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), an area responsible for sense of self and introspection.
“Other researchers have found changes in learning and memory, attention and compassion as a result of meditation, so these changes in the brain areas may explain their findings,” says Dr. Lazar.
The researchers also found that, consistent with prior studies, the practice of meditation led to decreased gray matter density in the amygdala, a brain area that plays an important role in fear, anxiety and stress — changes that correlate with participant-reported reductions in stress at the completion of the study.
“Many studies have documented that mindfulness meditation is effective for reducing stress,” Dr. Lazar noted. “But this study shows what underlies the improvement.”
HOW THEY DID IT
The study participants engaged in three different types of mindfulness training exercises…
Sitting meditation. They were taught to become highly aware of the sensation of breathing and then to expand that to include awareness of sights, sounds, tastes and other body sensations as well as thoughts and emotions.
Unlike other forms of meditation, mindfulness meditation does not involve repeatedly saying something out loud, such as a mantra or affirmation.
Mindful yoga. This type of yoga consists of gentle stretching exercises and slow movements, always coordinated with the breath.
Dr. Lazar told me that this type of yoga emphasizes the moment-to-moment experience and a “nonharming” attitude toward the body that pays attention to any bodily limitations.
Guided body scans. In this exercise, your attention is guided sequentially through your entire body while you observe with nonjudgmental awareness the sensations in each region.
Ultimately, you’ll have an awareness of your body as a complete whole.
HOW YOU CAN DO IT
This particular study involved people who reported themselves as being under stress but, said Dr. Lazar, other research has shown that anyone can benefit from meditation.
Eight-week mindfulness meditation training, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is taught in numerous clinics around the country.
Participants receive stress-reduction education and recordings of guided meditation to practice at home. The cost varies, typically ranging from $200 to $525 for the course.
You can find the classes closest to where you live by going to
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/home/index.aspx (click on “The Stress Reduction Program,” then “Find MBSR Programs Worldwide” at the bottom of the page).
Meditation is a low-cost, easy and effective way to improve your health and better your life, and there appears to be absolutely no downside to it — what are you waiting for?
Source(s):
Sara Lazar, PhD, instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, associate research scientist, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
October 21st, 2011 at 8:11 am
A second grade lad wrote this essay on mother nature.
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Theres a nest outside Miss Lodges window and some bird eggs are there. The mother robin is sitting on the eggs.
Soon the eggs will hatch and out will come the baby robinsl Then mother and father robin will have to feed their babys with lots of worms and keep them warm.
When the baby robins grow up they will lay eggs. Thats how bird life goes. Our life is different.
Your mother doesnt go to market to buy some eggs and go home and then sit on them till they hatch your baby brother or sister. No she goes to the hospital.
October 21st, 2011 at 8:13 am
I couldn’t get in yesterday. It was good seeing you and the Beautiful lady.
Let’s work on that thing.
October 21st, 2011 at 8:15 am
Our thanks goes out to America and Obama for all he has done to help us rid ourselves of the tyrant we had in Libya.
Delatam
October 21st, 2011 at 8:20 am
Am I the only one concerned with a country of people who can carry out such an attrocity, presumably to one of their own?
I don’t need the lecture about what a bloody dictator he was, I am aware.
I just can’t help but be concerned about a country that still practices an eye for an eye, without civilized process. This is a step forward? If so, towards what?
October 21st, 2011 at 8:36 am
We are in 1889:
Missing postal orders brought police to investigate the activities of Post Office messenger boys in Fitzrovia, London.
When they were interrogated it came out that they had been staffing Charles Hammond’s male brothel in Cleveland Street.
The vile procurers made accusations against prominent persons hoping the fear of scandal might lead to charges being dropped.
They were disappointed,but Lord Arthur “Podge” Somerset, decided to retire discreetly to Dieppe.
Lord Euston, by contrast, faced down his accusers. He declared that he had been handed a card promising poses Plastiques (tableaux of naked women) in 19 Cleveland Street.
When he visited the establishment and discovered its true nature, His Lordship insisted he left in a rage.
To the embarrassment of the authorities, the loathsome creatures tried to implicate a Very Important Person Indeed in their unnatural orgies.
His name has been kept out of the press, but informed soruces suggest to us that Home Office memoranda describe him as “P.A.V.”- a formulation covering the identity of the Queen’s eldest grandson, Prince Albert Victor.
The Prince has hitherto been best know for his limited intellectual grasp, which has caused his parents some anxiety about his prospects as sovereign.
Let us hope we have no more serious worries to entertain about this descendant of William II, Edward II and William III.
October 21st, 2011 at 8:39 am
I would like to answer Post #11.
Yes, most likely you are.
Belle
October 21st, 2011 at 8:40 am
When all the facts are known it might be seen that the circumstances of Gaddafi’s death were not in accordance with what we would consider humane battlefield treatment.
It should be remembered though that like Mussolini and Ceausescu, those who rule through brutality, often die through brutality
October 21st, 2011 at 8:42 am
Are you serious Post 11???….we are actually concerned how this coward was killed/died???….does ANYONE give a rat’s ass??…
He’s gone!!!!....and everyone is better for it….we need to be sure when the day comes that we find a cure for cancer that we kill the poor disease “kindly and lawfully”.…
Give me a break….and you know he spent sleepless nights concerned about all of the thousands be had put to death, right?….
I hope he was scared out of his sick mind for the last few hours he cursed this earth and that he felt just like those he had murdered..…GONE!!!….next?
October 21st, 2011 at 8:53 am
Dictatorship- a fetish worship of one man-is a passing phase. A state of society where men may not speak their minds., where children denounce their parents to the police…such a state of society cannot long endure.
Winston Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears
October 21st, 2011 at 9:01 am
I, too wish to thank the US and most specifically your President Barack Obama. If the office was held by another, perhaps we would not be celebrating this day.
Thank you for all you have done.
Fadi
October 21st, 2011 at 9:08 am
The entire process in Libya has been a total corruption of the UN, NATO by the U.S., Britain and France.
From a UN mandate to provide a “no fly” zone they moved to a full air war which targeted ground forces (clearly a violation of the UN mandate and proof positive that the objective was to wage a proxy war against the government of Libya in violation of international law).
This should not come as a surprise since the three nations have sought to remove Gaddafi since he ousted their installed king Idris.
U.S. President D. Eisenhower and later Kennedy refused using U.S. military force to reclaim control of Libya’s petroleum for Standard Oil which considered their investments worthy of military intervention – Kennedy probably was assasinated for his adherence to international law in not using military force.
As reported, two NATO aircraft attacked the convoy Gaddafi was traveling.
Despite the attacks being illegal, the vehicles attacked were not military tanks which begs the question of how they were identified as transporting Gaddafi;
the only explanation is that U.S. satellites had been used to identify and track his movements and later transmitted to the aircraft making the attack.
I have less respect for Obama than had I for G.W. Bush and Cheney, he has led the nation to its lowest point yet which I thought could not dip lower than under Bush.
October 22nd, 2011 at 1:26 pm
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