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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 5:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Right now we are basking in warm weather and sunshine in metro Detroit. A major front is tearing east north of us in Oakland County. Take a minute and look due north. There are clouds that got to be topping out at 30, or 40,000 feet. Way cool!
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Supersport
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nothing but blue skies here in the D, not a single cloud in sight out my window.

(Message edited by supersport on July 05, 2007)
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah, I see them. It's not quite a front, but storms caused by an Upper Level Disturbance. This is 2 of 3 waves that affecting/affected SE Michigan today. In reality, there only 25,000 Ft. But what's making them so cool is the Ice at the top reflecting off the sun. These storms are also being caused by Cold Air Aloft, Steep Lapse Rates and Low Freezing Levels. Unfortunately, my eastside neighborhood missed out on precip today, due to dry air mixing in at the surface, surpressing the Thunderstorms in Detroit, not including the Lake Shadow effect. There's no storms in Oakland County at the time, you're probably seeing the ones either in St. Clair or the severe ones in Genessee counties. In reality, the storms that were in St. Clair are in Canada now. Those may make it in here by 8:00 PM if they cam overcome evening stabilization and the dry air. Just for those, we're still under a watch until 10 PM.

In reality, the storms that were in St. Clair are in Canada now.



(Message edited by Urbanize on July 05, 2007)

(Message edited by Urbanize on July 05, 2007)
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Kid_dynamite
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

wow. Urbanize, tell the truth...are you Chuck Gaidaca?
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah right, I wish. Don't get me started on that though.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Urbanize. I knew I could count on you for the skinny. You are right about the tops of the clouds, it's what caught my eye. I will try to find some high ground with open fields for a quick pic or two...stand by...
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ok Bullet.

On a Side Note The Ann Arbor and Brighton areas got hard hit today though. I saw the scene on The news of how hard the rain and wind was coming down.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://forecast.weather.gov/sh owsigwx.php?warnzone=MIZ076&wa rncounty=MIC163&firewxzone=MIZ 076&local_place1=Detroit&produ ct1=Short+Term+Forecast

Well Bullet, the NWS has a nice summary of how all this will unfold this evening so if you have plans around town or at the CityFest.

(Message edited by Urbanize on July 05, 2007)
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Ed_golick
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Let's see what Marilyn Turner says.


Mar
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There's a good chance of a strong storm later this evening. One complex already rolled through, managing to strike downtown Ann Arbor mid-afternoon. We had 50 mph winds leading to flickering power, and a period of heavy rain.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Flint is getting it terrible now. Train spotters are reporting LARGE TREES down and 1 1/4 sized hail. If these hold (they will have to fight evening stabilization and dry air at the surface), they will move into the immediate Detroit area about 8 PM.

(Message edited by Urbanize on July 05, 2007)
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Jrvass
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Marilyn Turner was a hottie.

The on-air hosts of the "Detroit Kid Shows" I used to watch didn't have a figure like that! Yowza!
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Ed_golick
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 6:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


turner
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Detroitstar
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i got some great photos of them!!
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The Northern Pointes are getting a pop-up one right now. The clouds have been darkening and thickening on the Eastside (May have even heard a faintish rumble of thunder).
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hang on, I'm uploading....
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Jerome81
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Urbanize-
I'm out here in CA and I knew I could count on you for a minute by minute update!

My mother is with my aunt in SCS right now and she said the storms are really popping up!

Will I be graced with some storms tomorrow when I arrive in town or is this a one-day event?

Midwest T Storms are always a treat for me :-)
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here are two quick ones while we wait...
Before, looking northeast:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 45.jpg?t=1183678513

And now:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 04.jpg?t=1183678547
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Man it is Thundering like mad now..and rain!

gonna grab a few more while uploading...
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Lowell
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It has been raining giant raindrops in rather heavy downpours for several minutes now, here in Farmington. But the sun has been shining all along. Beautiful.

Here comes your yard watering eastside. [Hopefully]
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Jerome81
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

bullet, where you at?!
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Man! It sure got DARK!

http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 31.jpg?t=1183679114

LOL, JK...got more in a sec...
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jerome81, you'll figger it out in a sec...
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Three more while we are uploading...
Webb:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 75.jpg?t=1183679486
696:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 60.jpg?t=1183679545
Woodward Hights:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 91.jpg?t=1183679596
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We just had one heck of a hail and wind storm on the eastside.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We didn't get too much hail, but over by the pointes they're getting golfball to grapefruit sized hail.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:26 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here are some from around 6:25 on. Urbanize, would you care to comment on some of these photos, so we may be enlightened to what some of these clouds can tell us?

Looking north:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 89.jpg?t=1183680575
Looking south, from the same spot:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 90.jpg?t=1183680612
Size comparison:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 83.jpg?t=1183680675
Looking east:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 80.jpg?t=1183680727
Looking north:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 77.jpg?t=1183680768
The next series will be of downtown Ferndale, just minutes before the rain and hail.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I love those Photos. They're pretty self-explanatory. How do you take these photos so quick and rush home to upload?
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The rain came hard here, with small pea sized hail. The down pour lasted for about 10 minutes or so, and now, peace...

Funky funky Ferndale:
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 95.jpg?t=1183681534
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_82 96.jpg?t=1183681560
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 02.jpg?t=1183681605
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 07.jpg?t=1183681629
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 10.jpg?t=1183681676
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh, thanks Lowell for the Yard Watering wish. We all probably needed it.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Unfortunately Jerome, it's only a one-day thing for us. Better luck next time.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Urbanize, I would have had this task done faster, but I stopped to eat dinner. It was grilling when I left, and my wife had it on the table when I got home. I just drove a big loop down Woodward to 696 service drive, and then down Hilton to the hill behind Webb school. Back down Woodward Heights to Bermuda, to Camborne, and to home and din-din. I was posting and uploading at the same time, like some mad fool. Bob's yer Uncle!
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Marilyn Turner, is she still around?
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 9:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think she is Ed_golick's mom. You got a hot mom Ed.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 9:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have to turn in now, up at 4 tomorrow. The clouds are now east of here, over the lake. Maybe some one in the Pointes can take a snap or two, before dark? I will try to catch the sun rise. Till then, happy weather watching all.

Bullet-OUT!
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Ed_golick
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 9:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Marilyn Turner and her husband John Kelly are retired and living in Florida.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Fun thread. Thanks, bullet and all.
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Didn't get any more storms in Ann Arbor but I enjoyed watching the huge thunderheads illuminated by the orange setting sun at their tops, while darker with lightning flashes below that.
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got a couple of pics from here in Ann Arbor, not as impressive at Bullets shots though.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com /1091/732508263_efa358f188_o.j pg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com /1120/732508311_92d5842de8_o.j pg
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Danny
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

YAY Cummulostratus!
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 10:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah, that captures it, although the colors were more impressive around 9pm.
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Urbanize
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Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 8:15 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Danny, Where do you see CummuloStratus? Those are CumuloNimbus, while many of the ones that Bullet snapped are CumuloNimbus *Capillatus* Incus and CumuloNimbus. (You could even consider the first one Pileus). If you're unaware of the clouds I gave you, wikipedia it.

These two pics are StratoCumulus

http://www.stormeyes.org/torna do/SkyPix/billows.htm

and actually, Bullet only had one picture of CumuloNimbus *Capillatus* Incus Clouds, which was his one on the thread listed under "looking north at 6:25 PM. The rest we're generally Cumulonimbus. CumuloNimbus *Capillatus* Incus usually indicates that the storm, althoough releasing heavy amounts of air, it still has good updrafts and upper level support to keep it going. Also, they're an indicator of hail and wind as well.

(Message edited by Urbanize on July 06, 2007)

(Message edited by Urbanize on July 06, 2007)
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 9:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is todays (almost) sunrise, at around 5 AM-ish:

http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 15.jpg?t=1183770460
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 16.jpg?t=1183770535
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Urbanize
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Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 9:26 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those are beautiful pictures. Just some of the simple things you enjoy about Michigan.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 5:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey Urbanize, not to hijack my own thread too much, but here is the same sun as it rose today:

http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 64.jpg?t=1183841188
http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/100_83 54.jpg?t=1183841282
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Urbanize
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Posted on Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 5:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sweet. The CLouds over the Horizon hardly changed a bit.

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