HORROR LIVE: Mysterious ghost hole in Croatia

A mysterious hole swallowed a concrete pillar in Imotski, Croatia. As stated by the locals, they may hear strange noises for which they believe are ghosts.

The newly mysterious hole, 2.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, engulfed the concrete pillar, in Poljica near Imotski. As stated by the locals, from the holes are Strange sounds in believing that they are ghosts.

Strange holes in Croatia have so far opened in Drnis, Istria and Zadar, and so far engulfed one man. A new hole in the ground first noticed a local woman who tended sheep nearby. The villagers do not remember that the land collapsed so suddenly on the meadow, where people planted vines for years.

Repeated opening of holes in the ground in Croatia and in the world, as experts explain is natural phenomena, but also the impact of man on the environment.

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Ancient super crocodile fossil found in museum drawer

Long-forgotten remains of a long-forgotten species, have been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland. The beast, a dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super predator," was able to eat other species its size and larger.

The ancient newfound crocodilian is named Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, Greek for "blood-biting tyrant swimmer." Sounds pretty friendly, doesn't it? "Tyrannoneustes was a dolphinlike crocodile that lived 165 million years ago," said researcher Mark Young, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Southampton in England.

The predator possessed a long snout, large flippers, armorless skin and a tail fin where the bottom half is larger than the top half, resembling an upside-down version of an ordinary shark's tail fin.It's uncertain how large Tyrannoneustes was, but the right side of its lower jaw was at least 26 inches (67 centimeters) long. It featured enlarged teeth with serrated edges, and a jaw that evolved to open wider, allowing it to swallow smaller prey whole.
Back when Tyrannoneustes was alive, the area in central England where the fossils were discovered was covered in a shallow sea encompassing much of what is now Europe. Originally found between 1907 and 1909, the fossil has been lost in a drawer at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow for nearly 100 years.

There are no modern descendents of the animal. Instead, this predator was a kind of metriorhynchid, an extinct family of marine crocodiles.

The discovery of Tyrannoneustes shows that during the Middle Jurassic, metriorhynchid crocodiles were beginning to evolve into predators of large-bodied prey. By the Late Jurassic, numerous metriorhynchid species were suited to feeding on large prey, but Tyrannoneustes is the first known from the Middle Jurassic. How this impacted upon other predatory groups such as pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs is still unclear.
 

Future research can scan Tyrannoneustes bones to develop computer models of how it might have fed, Young said. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online Jan. 4 in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

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Bigfoot In Oregon? Strange Bloodcurdling Noises In Pendleton Swamp

Is there a bigfoot in Oregon?

The sounds of cries and roars can be heard throughout the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, The Oregonian reports Jan. 25. The reservation is home to about 1,500 people across 178,000 acres in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. The possible Bigfoot noises were heard near an old reservation community center just north of Wilhorse Resort and Casino. Residents first started hearing the noises last month, and rumors quickly spread that it could be a mythical ape-like humanoid creature, Bigfoot.

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is the name given to the mysterious ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot, usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid, and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax.

Among some Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest, however, the Bigfoot is not to be taken lightly. Stories about the hominid hairy creatures roaming the forests of the region have been passed down from generation to generation in some tribal cultures, so when the screeches first drifted over the swampland, it did not take much to convince the locals that those were the cries of Bigfoot.

According to the Oregon Live, the eerie late-night sounds, which range from high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars, started in November and have caused bigfoot rumors to spread. Several reservation unit tenants and home owners call authorities to report the strange sounds. One man even claimed his dog was too afraid to go outside.

One said the cries were made by "a young Bigfoot that had got separated from the rest of his clan." The howls also make some believe the animal making those noises are foxes or a female coyote.

So far no one has been able to nail down exactly what the source is of the spooky sounds. For decades many have believed Bigfoot does, in fact, live in Oregon within its thick forests. Reported Examiner...

Carl Sheeler, wildlife program manager for the Walla Walla and Cayuse tribes, said the strange noises may just be from animals known to live in the area.

But some of those who have heard the sounds don't agree with Sheeler. "Foxes do sound creepy," said Sylvia Minthorn. "But it's not the same sound, not even close."

Did Oregon residents within the reservation actually hear Bigfoot? Enthusiasts of the creature think that they are getting closer to finding the elusive Bigfoot, and sightings continue. Late last year, a group of hikers in Utah encountered what they thought was a bear, but then the animal turned and stood on two legs, looking very much like Bigfoot.

Sasquatch Watch Canada posted a recording of the howls to Youtube. Listen to them below:

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Tornado Of Fire Caught On Tape In Australia

An Alice Springs filmmaker managed to shoot one of the rarest natural phenomena! It is a fiery tornado that occurs when a "pillar" of the hot air down to the ground and causing a fire.

Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film and Television was scouting locations near Curtin Springs station, about 80km from Ularu, last week when confronted by a fiery phenomenon.

A small fire was burning in nearby bushland, so Mr Tangey decided to start filming. He caught the sight of his life. A twister touched down on the spot fire, fanning it into a furious tower of flame. "It sounded like a jet fighter going by, yet there wasn't a breath of wind where we were," he told the Northern Territory News.

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Giant Earthworm Discovered In China

In a province Binchaun County in southwest China was found a snake-like earthworm measuring over 19 inches (a half-meter) long in a house gutter. Li Zhiwei, a Forestry Bureau worker, made the discovery and eventually decided to keep the worm. "It looked like a snake, I looked carefully and found it was actually a huge earthworm," said Li. Li’s neighbors who came to see his unusual find said they had never seen an earthworm that long in their area before.

Biologists said they plan to study the giant earthworm found in Li’s backyard to find out why it was able to grow to such an enormous length. An adult earthworm's measurements vary by species and can range anywhere from 10mm long and 1mm wide, to 3-meters long and over 25mm wide. Environmental factors also influence an earthworm's body size, and they tend to grow longer and larger during humid seasons if they take in sufficient nutrition and have no natural enemies. Biologists plan to study the earthworm found by Li to classify it and identify the reason it was able to grow to its current length.

The discovery is especially cool for Li. He said he plans to keep the giant earthworm in his backyard and raise it as a pet.

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Fish dragged fishermen into the river

In Belgrade, Serbia, Milivoje Radosavljevic disappeared in the river on Monday around the 21h while fishing near the dock on the Sava.
While Radosavljevic was fishing in the company of his wife and a few friends on the unfenced part of the coast, near the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, big fish has hooked and pulled him into the water. These rivers are known for big catfish, and it is possible that he stumbled on this gigantic monster totally unprepared. 

 

After some time he has not floated to the surface, his friends and wife have called river police, who began searching for drowning. His body has not yet been found.
Missing fishermen all know in this district, as he was fishing at the same place over the last decade.

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An unusual cure for headache

You should not miss this - African tribe with a special ritual prevent headaches. A small note - do not try this at home!
Tribes in Mozambique effectively treat problems with headaches without modern medicine, in very simple way. Take a look:

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Humpback Whale Scares Kayakers in California

From California arrives unbelievable video in which a giant Humpback Whale rises only a few inches from the kayak with one girl.

All filmed by Ronda Burmajster which says that was an unforgettable experience and one of the best in life for her and her daughter in a kayak. Although the girl and her mother passed without consequence, nearby couple in another kayak was not so lucky, whale pushed them aside.


This is not the first time that the California coast surfacing whales. A few days ago, retired Bill Baton from California snapped the amazing moment when a group of whale emerged from the water next to the boat and kayakers who have watching in amazement as the scene.

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Unknown Creature Discovered In Africa

Hunters in Namibia have caught strange creature that has never been seen before. Recording of events caused strong reactions - is a being from another planet, the mythical creature or something completely different?
Video showing the unusual creature caught in Africa has become a hit on the Internet in just a few days. In his description states that local hunters in Namibia saw a strange creature in search of food. One of the hunters had shot him, after which the creature fled into the bush, but hunters nevertheless find it.

Hunters have found three other similar beings. One of them attacked them, so they killed him, but the other escaped.
The body of of the weird being were taken away in a hunting camp and is expected to detailed investigation. People on YouTube have made ​​a discussion on the origin of this creature. While some believe that it is a fake photographs, others are convinced of their authenticity, and some even claim to have themselves seen similar being.
Watch the video and judge for yourself whether he is a being from another planet, the mythical creature or something else.

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Fukushima butterflies show signs of mutation

Exposure to the radioactive material that leaked from the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima caused mutations among butterflies in Japan.

Scientists have noticed increasing number of mutations of legs, antennaes and wings of a butterflys, which were collected after the accident in Fukushima in March 2011. They argue that the relationship between mutations and radioactive materials is proved with laboratory experiments.

Two months after the accident in the Fukushima team of Japanese researchers has collected 144 adult butterflies of the species Zizeeria maha, within ten locations in Japan, including the area of ​​Fukushima. At the time when the accident occurred, the butterflies were in the form of larvae. In comparison of mutations in the butterflies from other locations was found that in regions with high levels of radiation insects have much smaller wings and improperly developed eyes.

From left to right, dented eyes, deformed left eye, deformed right palpus, and deformed wing shape.

"It has been believed that insects are very resistant to radiation. In that sense, our results were unexpected," said lead researcher Joji Otaki from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa. Professor Otaki and his associates continued to grow butterfly trapped in the laboratory which is 1750 kilometers away from Fukushima, where the radiation is almost not felt. They found that mutations in the next generation even stronger, as they become embedded in the genes of parents who used the contaminated feed.

Scientists have used this kind of butterflies as indicator of the environment, as previously known that these insects are very sensitive to changes in the nature.

"This study is important and overwhelming in its implications for both the human and biological communities living in Fukushima. These observations of mutations and morphological abnormalities can only be explained as having resulted from exposure to radioactive contaminants," explained University of South Carolina biologist Tim Mousseau, who studies the impacts of radiation on animals and plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima, but was not involved in this research. 

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Please, kill yourself at home!

City of London has launched an unusual campaign, which recently shocked all those who ride the metro in the city. The campaign is called "Kill yourself at home" is intended to reduce the number of suicides, especially those occurring at the metro stations.

Apparently, a large number of suicides in London takes place in a public place, mainly in the subway, which is a trauma for both drivers and users of transport.

The management of London has decided to deal with this phenomenon, which is why the government taped posters on subway on which is the box with pills above which say "Kill yourself at home.", while the fine print below explained: "Why would you jump, when it is easier to swallow. Our customers and drivers alike will be grateful."

How the campaign will be successful remains to be seen, in any case, this is a bizarre way.

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Cameras Record Small Plane Crash

The survivors of a small plane crash managed to record their miraculous escape to show just how close their brush with death was.

Their experience is recorded with several cameras that were with them on board, reports AP.
One of the passengers Arhets Alex said that he and his friends were lucky to have survived. Arhets, and Nathan Williams recorded the flight in a small airplane 30th June, when the aircraft went down to the landing in MaCall.
The footage shows how the passengers on the plane ride a few minutes, and then the aircraft crashes.
"Then we thought that there was no chance of it actually happening," said Arhets. Williams added that he got a concussion, a 70-year-old pilot Les Gropp broke his jaw.

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His penis was stolen while he was sleeping

Fei Lin (41) lost his penis while he was sleeping, said sources from the police in east China, and it is assumed that the thieves are actually lovers of several women with whom the unfortunate man had "close relationship".

The unfortunate man told police that the thieves, when he fell asleep, broke into his room, put a bag over his head and fled with his penis.

- They put something over my head, stripped of my pants and ran away. I was so shocked that I did not feel anything, and then I saw that I was bleeding and there is no penis - said the unhappy man to the police.

The police believe the attackers were actually jealous lovers of a few women with that saw Lin, writes "Austrian Times". Lin, however, denied that he participated in infidelity.

Ambulance and police were searching for the stolen parts of the body, says "TNT Magazine". Penis thieves were not found, but police say the search for jealous people on suspicion that they crippled Lin.

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600-Year-Old Medieval Bras

A revolutionary discovery! Surprisingly modern-looking linen bra dating back 600 years has been found in a medieval castle in Austria. Fashion experts describe the find as surprising because the bra had commonly been thought to be only little more than 100 years old as women abandoned the tight corset.

Working with a team of her colleagues, the University of Innsbruck archaeologist Beatrix Nutz recentlypublicized her discovery of several linen bras and some underwear in a medieval castle. "We didn't believe it ourselves," she said. "From what we knew, there was no such thing as bralike garments in the 15th century." Nutz has presented academic papers about her discovery, and even analyzed the underwear for DNA.

Four bras in total were discovered mingled among dirt, straw, leather and other fabric scraps in Lemberg Castle in Tyrol, Austria. Four linen textiles resemble modern-time bras with distinct cups and one in particular looks like today's version, with two broad shoulder straps and a possible back strap, not preserved but indicated by partially torn edges of the cups onto which it was attached. One specimen in particular "looks exactly like a (modern) brassiere," says Hilary Davidson, fashion curator for the London Museum. "These are amazing finds.

The researchers also found linen underwear in the castle, Nutz told the AP. But that garment would have to belong to a man — medieval women went bare under their skirts. Does that mean the middle ages were actually a more liberal time than the corset-obsessed eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? 

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Ancient coins worth $15 million found by amateur treasure hunters after 30 year search

Thirty years ago, a farmer found a few Iron Age coins on his property on the island of Jersey, off the coast of Normandy. For the next three decades, a pair of amateur treasure hunters combed the soil with metal detectors in search of more treasure. They found it!

Two amateur treasure hunters have unearthed a mass of celtic coins that are over 2,000 years and old and estimated to be worth a total of $15 million.

Reg Mead and Richard Miles found the stash using a high powered metal detector called a deepseeker. What they discovered was a large block of clay containing 30,000 to 50,000 gold and silver coins dating from the 1st Century BC.

The coins—which could have been buried to prevent Roman troops from getting them during Julius Caesar's invasion of the British Islands—come from Armorica, modern day Brittany and Normandy. They have been buried for more than 2,000 years.
Each Roman or Celtic coin is said to be worth between 100 to 200 British Pounds ($156 to $311), according to Dr. Philip de Jersey, a former Celtic coin expert at Oxford University. He believes the haul is “extremely exciting and very significant.”

After finding the small batch of coins, the two amateur treasure hunters from the island of St. Clement, Jersey off the shores of France were inspired to strengthen their search to try and find the source of the coins.

Conservator Neil Mahrer of the Jersey Heritage Museum says the discovery is the largest of its kind: "This is the biggest Celtic coin hoard ever found which is tremendously exciting."
Earlier this year, Mead and Miles found a much-smaller stash of 61 coins, 60 of them silver. The pair will continue to dig for more.
The States of Jersey must now determine who actually owns the treasure.

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A woman "got pregnant" with squid

A woman got pregnant with squid! Although it sounds absolutely incredible, the story is true, and published it in a scientific journal University Bethesda of Maryland. Scientists at the biotechnology department of the University gave an explanation of what happened and how it happened.

A woman (63) has experienced trauma while in a restaurant was eating squid, which was not removed from the sperm sac, when it is in her mouth infested 12 spermatophores of this animal.

Science magazine explains that the woman, after a fatal bite in several places in the mouth felt a sharp pain that was actually the result of a "climax" of the remaining bodies.

The doctors removed from her mouth spermatophores that she received through a special membrane to the language, the inside of the cheek and gums. Fortunately, the woman has not swallowed part of the uncleaned squid, immediately spit it.

A similar case was reported in Japan last year, when the woman also bit into a bag of sperm in raw squid, and afterwards felt a sharp pain in the mouth. She was took with her the remaining of squid in which they found bags of sperm at the hospital .

This kind incidents, in which people may happen that their mouths literally stay "pregnant" from the sperm of seafood, are mainly confined to the Far East, where it is common custom to eat raw fish. In the West, all internal organs are removed during the preparation stage so there is no such risk.

Researchers who published the paper explained that there is no danger of such impregnation spermatophores on the skin of people, because it is too thick to receive it. One of the authors of the paper has led that the she was ejaculated by the hands of hundreds of spermatophores, but never felt any sting.

Reproduction of deep-sea squid is still subject of research because scientists find it difficult to get to their habitat. It is known that the spermatophores are implanted in a female with male hektokotil, that is a separate tentacle, and receive it on the skin or muscle.

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19th century vampire-hunting kit to go up for auction

Looking for a unique gift for the hunter in your life who already has everything? Then here's a unique vintage hunting-related kit that might fit the bill.

A 19th century vampire-hunting kit will be auctioned at Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England on June 22, in the same area Bram Stoker wrote his classic "Dracula" in 1897.

The Victorian casket contains everything any selfrespecting vampire-slayer could wish for – a mallet and four stakes, a pistol, rosary beads, an 1857 Anglican prayer book, glass bottles of holy water, holy earth, garlic paste and a crucifix.

The items are carefully housed in a mahogany box, which features a silver crucifix lock. 

Auctioneer Oonagh Dragbe said she thinks someone collected the items separately, then made the box to store them in.

The casket’s origins are as mysterious as its purpose; it was found in the cellar of the seller’s uncle after his death, along with two other vampireslaying kits.

She said: “The people who own it were left the casket by an eccentric uncle who lived in Leeds. When they came to clear his house, there were three of these.

The kit also includes a handwritten extract from the Bible, quoting Luke 19:27. It reads "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

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'Depraved' sex acts by penguins shocked polar explorer

Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition have been uncovered and interpreted. Dr George Murray Levick was among Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition team to the South Pole and was a pioneer in the study of penguins.

Amidst his incredible survival against the odds in the South Pole, Dr Levick made groundbreaking notes on the sexual shenanigans of the Adelie penguin, with findings so shocking they remained hidden for decades after. The naughty notes were rediscovered recently at the Natural History Museum in Tring, in England, and published in the recent issue of the journal Polar Record.

Homosexual acts, sexual abuse of chicks and even attempts by male penguins to mate with dead females are recorded in Levick's paper "Sexual Habits of the Adelie Penguin", which had been lost for decades.

To this day, Levick is the only scientist to have studied an entire breeding cycle at Cape Adare after he spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 there, the Guardian said.
On his return to Britain, Mr Levick attempted to publish a paper entitled "the natural history of the adelie penguin", but according to Douglas Russell, curator of eggs and nests at the Natural History Museum, it was too much for the times.
However, scientists now understand the biological reasons behind the acts that Dr Levick considered "depraved".

Homosexual behaviors in animals are no longer cause for hiding data, or even a blush.
Plenty of animals are out of the closet, so to speak, from dolphins and killer whales to bonobos and greylag geese. Some estimates put the number of animal species that practice same-sex coupling at 1,500.
And while Levick may have viewed the interactions between penguins through an anthropomorphic lens, today that's not the case, the researchers note.
Necrophilia, for instance, is not the same in penguins and humans; Rather than being sexually aroused by a hot gal, male penguins are chemically wired to respond in certain ways to a seemingly compliant female of breeding age.
"What is happening there is not in any way analogous to necrophilia in the human context," Mr Russell said. "It is the males seeing the positioning that is causing them to have a sexual reaction.
"They are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position."

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Vampire Skeletons found in Bulgaria

If you thought vampires were simply the stuff of myth and legend - and perhaps the odd teen horror film - think again.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found two medieval skeletons pierced through the chest with iron rods to supposedly stop them from turning into vampires.
According to pagan beliefs, people who were considered bad during their lifetimes might turn into vampires after death unless stabbed in the chest with an iron or wooden rod before being buried. 

Bozhidar Dimitrov, the head of the national history museum, discovered the remains in the town of Sozopol, which is located near the Black Sea. Regarding the discovery, Dimitrov explained, “These two skeletons stabbed with rods illustrate a practice which was common in some Bulgarian villages up until the first decade of the 20th century.” 

The practice was common, Dimitrov added, saying some 100 similar burials had already been found in Bulgaria.
According to him, 'vampires' were often aristocrats and clerics. He added: 'The curious thing is that there are no women among them. They were not afraid of witches.'

However last month Italian researchers discovered what they believed to be the remains of a female 'vampire' in Venice - buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century.
The skeleton was unearthed in a mass grave from the Venetian plague of 1576 - in which the artist Titian died - on Lazzaretto Nuovo, which lies around two miles northeast of Venice and was used as a sanitorium for plague sufferers.

Archaeologist Petar Balabanov, who in 2004 unearthed six nailed-down skeletons at a site near the eastern town of Debelt, said the pagan rite was also practiced in neighbouring Serbia and other Balkan countries.

Vampire legends form an important part of the region's folklore. The most famous tale is that of Romanian count Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, who staked his war enemies and drank their blood. 

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Bigfoot Spotted In Idaho?

A group of high school students believe they may have stumbled upon Bigfoot while in the Idaho wilderness for a class project.

The teenagers were in the woods near Mink Creek in Franklin County when they said they noticed a dark creature watching them from a ridge. Mysterious creature was caught on tape for a few seconds near Mink Creek before it retreated into the treeline.

The group then raced to the point they had seen the creature, and said they found a large foot imprint in the dirt and took a photograph of it. 

“It just didn’t look human-like. I don’t know what that is, it’s not a bear, it’s not a moose or anything. It was big and bulky and black,” said the student, who did not want to be identified on camera.
“I’m not going to say yes it was a Bigfoot or no it wasn’t, because I don’t know, and nobody knows,” the student told the news station.

Bigfoot is allegedly an ape-like creature said to inhabit forests mainly in the Northwest, but his existence has not been scientifically proven.

There have been scores of sightings, including in Spokane, Washington in May 2011, when a woman hiker captured a large figure on camera and uploaded the footage to YouTube.

The Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot will visit Pocatello, Idaho next month to investigate the claims that Bigfoot could be in the area.

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