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Sunday, April 16, 2023

News and Weather Briefing for Sunday, April 16, 2023



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On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK

ry conditions return briefly today before a cold front tracks across the region on Sunday bringing another round of showers and thunderstorms, some of them could be strong or severe. Dry high pressure returns for much of next week.

For those interested, a website called "Apollo in Real Time" is running a real-time presentation of Apollo 13 featuring radio transmissions, photos and videos as they were recorded/transmitted. You can listen in by clicking the blue "NOW" button at [Apollo 13 in real Time]





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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Sunday Night





Franklin Area

Today

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 70s. Light and variable winds winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night

Clear, with lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid 70s.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 40s.
Highlands Plateau

Today

Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the southwest early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 15 mph by midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Monday Night

Clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 40s.
Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs near 70. Light and variable winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Monday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 40s.


Nantahala Area

Today

A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Light and variable winds early in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph iby midmorning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight

Partly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Monday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the west 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Monday Night

Clear, with lows in the low-to-mid 40s. Winds out of the west 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Tuesday

Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.

Tuesday Night

Clear, with lows in the upper 40s.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today.

Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening ahead of a cold front. The primary threat from any storms that reach severe criteria will be damaging wind gusts. Cloud-to-ground lightning can also be expected with any thunderstorms that develop.





Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.

Space Weather Real-World Impacts from the G4 Storm and Big Flares for Easter | Solar Storm Forecast 09 April 2023




Back to Top Hurricane Season 2023: What to Watch For As We Keep Tabs on El Nino | hurricanetrack





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Almanac









PM2.5 AQI is 48 (GOOD) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 48 (GOOD)


Fire and Smoke Map




Local Air Monitor

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (9.3 out of 12) today with Oak, Sweetgum, and Poplar being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the high range (11.1 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for April 16th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2006
Lowest Temperature 19°F in Highlands in 2014(also a strate record for this date)
Greatest One-Day Rain 4.31 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1956
Greatest One-Day Snowfall (no snowfall has been recorded on this date since record-keeping began)

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987

Record Weather Events for April 16th in North Carolina

rdrd Highest Temperature 96°F in Smithfield, Johnston County in 1916
Lowest Temperature 11°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 2011
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2007
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 102°F in Carthage, Moore County on 04-29-1981
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-08-2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 04-16-2011
Greatest Snowfall 19.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-11-2003




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

SUNDAY, APRIL 30th

Youth Mental Health-Help Rally From 2pm to 4pm at the Town Gazebo LINK: https://fb.me/e/RrdJAWHS

Come join us on our first Youth Mental Health and Bullying Rally to raise more awareness about this urgent need for us children. This inaugural event is the first youth led event for Youth Mental Health as far a we know in Franklin NC.

Our event will close with our March from Macon County Court House to Franklin Town Hall.

Local speakers include NC State Senator Kevin Corbin, Franklin Chief of Police Holland, and others

Youth provider organizations will be on site to share resources and education

For more information send email to whyuskids0@gmail.com

SATURDAY, MAY 6th

Friends of the Greenway Spring Arts and Crafts Event (FROG FAIR) From 10am to 4pm

Friends of the Greenway announce their Spring arts and crafts event. FROG FAIR will be held May 6, 2023 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Volunteers needed too. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.







No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News





• Plane crash kills one person in Western North Carolina [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

Statement from the Cherokee County Sheriffs Office



• House Speaker Tim Moore spent his legislative break visiting Kiev, Ukraine [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Fort Bragg Special Forces medic sues parachute companies after accident [Fayetteville Observer]

• Records detail Wood's speed prior to hit-and-run [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

Macon Media is still experiencing transportation issues and was unable to get to the courthouse to cover this months meeting. Here is the county-sponsored video of the meeting:

Macon County Commissioners Meeting 3-14-23



• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]



Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]



• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]


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National and World News Roundup

• Pentagon documents leaker charged with espionage [Courthouse News Service]

• Document Leaks Indicate Extent of U.S. Electronic Snooping [WSJ (video and audio)] [WSJ (article archive)]

• Air strikes hit Sudan capital as clashes escalate between army and paramilitaries [France 24]

• Sudan: Army and RSF battle over key sites, with 3 UN staff dead [BBC News]

• SpaceX planning Monday test flight of giant Starship rocket [ABC News]

• Trump's new financial disclosure shows his number of business holdings has doubled since leaving White House [ABC News (via Yahoo! News)]

• Fox News apologizes to judge for ‘misunderstanding’ over Rupert Murdoch’s role that sparked investigation [CNN]

• Bomb threat made to Budweiser's Van Nuys factory [CNS News]

• Antioch police officers texted racist slurs, threats to harm Black mayor, D.A. report says [Los Angeles Times]

• Boston remembers deadly marathon bombing 10 years later [AP News]

Washington Today (4-14-23): NRA annual convention hears from 2024 GOP Presidential candidates



Global National: April 15, 2023 | How you'll be impacted if Canada's public servants strike | Global National



Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 15


PBS NewsHour full episode, (April 15, 2022)




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COVID-19 News and Updates

Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.



COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:






• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]

In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 10:11am CEST, 12 April 2023, there have been 102,873,924 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,118,800 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 7 April 2023, a total of 666,541,020 vaccine doses have been administered.

Globally, as of 10:11am CEST, 12 April 2023, there have been 762,791,152 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,897,025 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 11 April 2023, a total of 13,340,275,493 vaccine doses have been administered.


• Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82% [Reuters]

• $62,000 and three years later: Long COVID continues to upend this California couple’s lives [Los Angeles Times]

• Fact check: New COVID-19 variants continue to be discovered [USA TODAY (via Yahoo! News)]

• ‘Arcturus,’ a COVID variant sweeping India, is now in the U.S., the CDC says—and it’s coming in hot. What it means for the future of the pandemic [ Fortune (via Yahoo! News) ]

• What to know about Arcturus, a new coronavirus subvariant the WHO is tracking [ Washington Post ]

• You're less likely to get long COVID after a second infection than a first [ NPR ]

• Mask mandates save lives [ Science Direct: Journal of Health Economics Volume 88, March 2023, 102721 ]

• RETRACTION: The role of social circle COVID-19 illness and vaccination experiences in COVID-19 vaccination decisions: an online survey of the United States population [ Reddit ]

• SARS-CoV-2 infection induces DNA damage, through CHK1 degradation and impaired 53BP1 recruitment, and cellular senescence [Nature: Cell Biology]

Virology Lectures 2025 #02020: Antivirals | Columbia University



• TWiV 998: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 999: Inside Omicron with Mohsan Saeed [Microbe TV]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Sam Altman: Size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward [TechCrunch]

• Toyota teamed with Exxon to develop lower-carbon gasoline [Autoblog]

• Danger, the skAI is falling! (Is the AI sky falling? Well so it seems in April 2023. Or… why clever guys offer simplistic answers to AI quandaries). [Contrary Brin]

• China unveils electromagnetic gun for riot control [South China Morning Post]

• ‘Angry Birds’ company is reportedly about to be sold for $1 billion... to Sega [The Verge]

• The End of Computer Magazines in America [Technologizer]

• Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence [Federal Register]

• Entering a new era of 3D printing for DNAs and proteins [PHYS.ORG]

• CachyOS: Arch-based Distro for Speed and Ease of Use [It's FOSS News]

• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]


Evergreen Links

• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir



Hardcore History: AddendumEP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick | Dan Carlin



• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]

• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]


How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain



• Free, legally available series/movies on YouTube in a Netlflix-like interface [Cinetimes]




Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics

The Level1 Show April 14 2023: While You Bought Park Place, I Studied the Blade | Level1 Techs



BeReal More Like BeInteresting - DTNS 4499 | Daily Tech News Show



How Rice Became the King of Grains | Modern Marvels (S15, E33)



Few signs of progress in Canada's drug death crisis leaving some with little hope for change | Global News



Week 242 - 4,000 German teens trapped in Tarnopol - WW2 - April 15, 1944 | World War Two



Ranking Linux Distributions for 2023: not your average tier list! | The Linux Experiment





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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)



• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 15 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for April 15th]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 416 [Al Jazeera]

• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 416: Russia re-energized its assault on Bakhmut [Euromaiden Press]


• Ukraine updates: Russia has 're-energized' Bakhmut assault [DW News]

• Ukrainians pull back as Russia mounts renewed Bakhmut assault: report [TVP World]

• Death toll rises in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Sloviansk [France 24]

• Poland suspends food imports from Ukraine to assist its farmers [Al Jazeera]

• A Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons [The Register]

• ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics [The Guardian]

15 Russian diplomats expelled from Norway - World News | TVP World



Ukraine Govt Official: Seven missiles fired from Russia - Latest World News | WION



Outrage over alleged beheading video: Ukraine launches war crime investigation | DW News



🔴 (NSFW) - DC Police Ride Along, Russian Thermobaric, Ukrainian CQB | Funker530 LIVE Recap



US Grand Strategy: NATO, Alliances, & Ukraine - how alliances underpin American influence | Perun




News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

Douglas Macgregor interview: "Massive Russian military buildup" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor



• Ukraine shells Donetsk during Easter service [Russia Today]

• International Criminal Court Case: Putin Child-Napping vs. Democratic Child-Transsexuals [Pravda]

• Smoke seen near Church in Donetsk, where Easter Vigil is under way [TASS Russian News Agency]





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On This Day

April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 259 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)



69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
1346 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1838 – The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
1847 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1878 – The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 – Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
1942 – King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.[8]
1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1947 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. 1947 Texas City Disaster | The History Guy




1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1948 – The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1996 – Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2003 – Michael Jordan plays his final game with the National Basketball Association.
2007 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2013 – The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
2016 – Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274.
2018 – The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.

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Published at 5:00am on Sunday, April 16, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla'-->
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