For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have force feedback, with a small motor inside that can provide resistance to a user’s input that feels the same way that a steering wheel on a real car would. Inexpensive or small joysticks often omit this feature, but [Jason] has figured out a way to bring this to even the smallest game controllers.

The mechanism at the center of his controller is a DC motor out of an inkjet printer. Inkjet printers have a lot of these motors paired with rotary encoders for precision control, which is exactly what is needed here. A rotary encoder can determine the precise position of the controller’s wheel, and the motor can provide an appropriate resistive force depending on what is going on in the game. The motors out of a printer aren’t plug-and-play, though. They also need an H-bridge so they can get driven in either direction, and the entire mechanism is connected to an Arduino in the base of the controller to easily communicate with a computer over USB.

In testing the controller does behave like its larger, more expensive cousins, providing feedback to the driver and showing that it’s ready for one’s racing game of choice. It’s an excellent project for those who are space-constrained or who like to game on the go, but if you have more space available you might also want to check out [Jason]’s larger version built from a power drill instead parts from an inkjet.

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Corso di duo acrobatico

Cascina Torchiera - Piazzale Cimitero Maggio 18, Milano
(martedì, 3 febbraio 19:00)

GallinƏ!
Da questo mese partono ben tre nuovi corsi, per cui correte in cascina, vi aspettiamo con gioia e voglia espressiva!

Da martedì 8 ottobre!

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Serata in maschera

Salussola - Via Elvo 58
(venerdì, 30 gennaio 21:30)

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BACK TO THE BEST YEARS

Gaglianico - New Wood - Via giacomo matteotti 129 Gaglianico
(venerdì, 30 gennaio 23:00)

VENERDÌ 30 gennaio si torna al New Wood a grande richiesta.
Le hit anni ’90 & 2000, quelle vere.
Quelle che conosci dall’inizio alla fine.

💿 Pop, dance, hip hop, reggaeton old school
🎉 Ingresso gratuito

Porta gli amici, il resto lo facciamo noi.
Questa è una di quelle serate good vibes only.

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Mentre il Sindaco Gualtieri "celebra" l'impianto di Copenaghen, noi riportiamo i piedi per terra.

In questi video, Alessandro Lepidini (Portavoce dell' Unione dei Comitati contro l'inceneritore ) replica alla " Sviolinata " di Gualtieri sul termovalorizzatore di Copenaghen.

Alla narrazione unilaterale attendiamo ancora Confronti Reali.

Video realizzato dal Comitato No Inceneritore a Santa Palomba.

👇 Condividi per informare i cittadini.

Rimaniamo uniti per difendere il nostro territorio. Segui la pagina Unione dei Comitati contro l'inceneritore per ricevere tutti gli aggiornamenti sulle nostre iniziative e sostenerci.

#termovalorizzatore #energiapulita #copenhill #copenhagen #raccoltadifferenziata #ambiente #energia #climatechange #clima #denmark #energia #termovalorizzatori #ecologia

Pirate Parties International continuously aims to protect basic human freedoms globally. Too often we gaze at the countries where Pirate parties exist, mostly in the developed world. However, we strongly believe that Pirates have a duty to examine problems around the world and attempt to garner international concern. Hopefully we can make a difference!
The issue we want to share with you regards the Taliban’s new Criminal Procedure Code in Afghanistan. A full copy of the 59 page law has been released.

The Taliban’s new Criminal Procedure Code legitimizes slavery and entrenches oppression!

We encourage the international community to read it for themselves (link to the full text on the Rawadari Website) and highlight further its outlandish claims on righteous conduct. From what we have learned already it justifies violence against women and children.

Of course, this region has suffered from decades of destabilizing conflicts and human rights abuses, but the current atrocity particularly bothers us. This code categorizes Afghan society into four classes: scholars, nobles, middle, and lower. Each class will face different punishments for crimes (including many normal acceptable behaviors in developed countries) based on their social status.

This hierarchical class system is discriminatory against minorities. It creates a monolithic definintion of who is a Muslim (a Hanafi) and how he should behave, while also punitively discriminating against women and non-binary individuals in unfathomable ways. It isolates all marginalized groups, such as Shia Muslims and other non-Hanafi sects. As highlighted by the Afghan human rights organization NGO Rawadari this measure exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, including everything from education to employment to public life.

We suggest two basic frameworks for international collaboration to end the Taliban.

1. Immediate international action by nation states to impose targeted sanctions on Taliban officials. We further advocate for formal recognition of the Taliban’s actions as crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
2. Solidarity with Afghan resistance, minorities, and diaspora communities. We must support Afghan human rights defenders who resist this repressive regime. We encourage our member parties to amplify voices like those of Nilofar Ayoubi and Rawadari, who document these abuses. We also encourage the promotion of secure digital tools for communication and censorship circumvention. Finally we advocate support for a strong democratic system with a Pirate party in Afghanistan.

The Taliban’s penal code is a stark reminder that even slavery continues to exist on this planet. If we do not stand up against it, then it could return anywhere. Afghanistan was once a relatively liberal country until the 1970s where western people came to travel and have fun. We hope that we can one day return there, and that all people living in Afghanistan will one day be able to enjoy the basic human freedoms that most of us enjoy.

The following message was prepared by PPI board members. It does not necessarily reflect the views of all of our members, but we hope it does. If any of our members though have competing ideas about this issue or any other issue that they would like us to broadcast, please share them with us. We are happy to broadcast a variety of ideological opinions and diverse issues. Our goal is to create positive communication to solve problems.

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Why press many button when few button do trick? That was the thinking of [Bike Cook Robots] when it came time to revamp his desk. To that end, he whipped up a tidy macropad to make daily computing tasks easier.

The build is based around an Adafruit RP2040 Feather ThinkInk devboard, chosen because it plugs straight into a readily-available 4.2 inch e-ink. The display is tasked with showing icons that correspond to the macro assignments for the 3 x 4 array of mechanical keyboard switches. Everything is wrapped up in a 3D printed frame, with an bracket to mount it to the monitor arms on the desk. The macropad is set up to talk to a custom Python app that runs on the host machine, which handles triggering actions and can also talk back to the pad itself.

The combination of e-ink display and button pad is a great way to display the function of each key without excess complexity. We’ve seen some other great builds in this space before, too.

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Friday Night Live

Australian Pub Ned Kelly - via Milano 226 Vigliano Biellese
(venerdì, 30 gennaio 22:30)

Domani sera ultimo Friday Night Live del mese con i RadioRock Band (Pop Rock) !!

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In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the Intel 8085 a clump of reconfigurable clump of gates, the 8086 uses microcode that configures the ALU along with two lookup tables. This complexity is one of the reasons why the Intel 8086 is so unique, with [Ken Shirriff] taking an in-depth look at its workings on a functional and die-level.

These lookup tables are used for the ALU configuration – as in the above schematic – making for a very flexible but also complex system, where the same microcode can be used by multiple instructions. This is effectively the very definition of a CISC-style processor, a legacy that the x86 ISA would carry with it even if the x86 CPUs today are internally more RISC-like. Decoding a single instruction and having it cascade into any of a variety of microcodes and control signals is very powerful, but comes with many trade-offs.

Of course, as semiconductor technology improved, along with design technologies, many of these trade-offs and disadvantages became less relevant. [Ken] also raises the interesting point that much of this ALU control technology is similar to that used in modern-day FPGAs, with their own reconfigurable logic using LUTs that allow for on-the-fly reconfiguration.

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Cena popolare BENEFIT COMITATO BARONA@ Coa T28

COA T28 - Via dei Transiti 28, Milano
(venerdì, 30 gennaio 20:00)

‼️IN OGNI CASA NESSUN RIMORSO‼️

"Il paradossale teorema poliziesco-giudiziario di cui non avevamo bisogno né meritavamo

La Baronata era uno spazio sociale nel quartiere popolare della Barona, animato dal Comitato Autonomo Abitanti Barona: un comitato di lotta per la casa nato dal basso, radicato nel territorio e costruito da chi il quartiere lo viveva ogni giorno. Un percorso collettivo che praticava solidarietà concreta attraverso l’autorganizzazione e il mutuo aiuto, offrendo attività come la scuola di italiano, il doposcuola e molte altre iniziative politiche e sociali, tutte completamente gratuite e aperte al quartiere e alla città. Un’esperienza di lotta per difendere il diritto all’abitare e costruire comunità, contro la solitudine e la violenza della speculazione.

LA STORIA CHE NON RACCONTANO

17 settembre 2018:

Durante l’assemblea del lunedì, una compagna denuncia portando anche elementi a supporto di aver subito una molestia da parte di un uomo che viveva alla Baronata. L’assemblea, all’unanimità, decide di allontanarlo dallo spazio. Una scelta chiara: chi pratica violenza non può far parte di un percorso collettivo.

18 settembre 2018 (il giorno dopo):

Durante l’apertura della scuola di italiano, l’uomo torna accompagnato da altre due persone. Protesta per la decisione dell’allontanamento, l’attacco da verbale diventa fisico: degenera in pochi istanti: insulti, pugni, spinte e persino l’uso di una cazzuola come arma improvvisata contro il viso di un compagno. I compagni e le compagne presenti riescono a bloccarlo e a portarlo fuori dallo spazio. Tutto finisce lì. O almeno così sembrava.

UN ANNO DOPO: LA VENDETTA GIUDIZIARIA

Il 30 ottobre 2019, quasi un anno più tardi, cinque compagni della Baronata vengono colpiti da misure cautelari: perquisizioni, obbligo di firma, divieto di dimora, sequestro di telefoni, computer e appunti di lavoro quotidiano.

Le accuse partono proprio dall’uomo allontanato nel 2018: violenza, minacce, danneggiamento, rapina e perfino estorsione aggravata.

Quest’ultima, la più pesante (dagli 8 ai 20 anni di detenzione) è anche la più assurda e paradossale: come può essere “estorsione” aver allontanato una persona dopo una molestia e un’aggressione da uno spazio dove vigevano principi di solidarietà, rispetto, supporto, ascolto e lotta dal basso!?

IL PARADOSSO: PUNIRE LA SOLIDARIETÀ

Milano è la città della speculazione edilizia per eccellenza: migliaia di case pubbliche sfitte, affitti brevi che sgretolano interi quartieri, sfratti quotidiani e senza alternative reali, complici Aler, Comune e privati.

Nella nostra società, in cui il denaro vale più della vita umana, se un proprietario decide di sfrattare un inquilino perché non paga più, non è estorsione, ma l’applicazione della legge.

Tuttavia, secondo l’accusa, è un’estorsione allontanare un uomo pericoloso e violento per tutelare una situazione dove vivono persone fragili. Questo pretesto viene usato per imbandire un processo: si attacca chi lotta per la casa, per la dignità, per un futuro migliore di liberi e uguali senza sfruttamento, razzismo e discriminazioni.

Ribaltiamo le accuse: è l’affitto ad essere un’estorsione legalizzata!

DALLE MISURE CAUTELARI AL PROCESSO

All’interrogatorio di garanzia, avvenuto nel novembre 2019, sono stati forniti i dati e le prove di quanto detto sopra, e le misure cautelari si sono interrotte. Nonostante la presentazione di elementi difensivi che hanno portato alla revoca graduale delle misure, il 10 febbraio 2026 l’udienza preliminare apre comunque al processo.

Gli imputati diventano otto: è bastata la semplice presenza in assemblea o l’etichetta di “leader” attribuita da chi indaga.

Un intero percorso collettivo viene riscritto per farlo entrare a forza in un teorema accusatorio.

Una scelta politica, non giudiziaria.

Questo continuo tentativo di criminalizzare le lotte sociali e in particolare la lotta per la casa a Milano non è certo una novità. Ne è un esempio il caso del Comitato Abitanti Giambellino Lorenteggio: carabinieri e procura di Milano aprirono un’indagine sostenendo che il Comitato avesse costituito un’associazione a delinquere finalizzata a occupare alloggi popolari sfitti e a resistere agli sgomberi.

Secondo i pubblici ministeri, le attività di solidarietà e auto-organizzazione del quartiere costituivano una struttura stabile con un presunto programma illecito. Tuttavia, dopo anni di processo, l’accusa di associazione a delinquere è infine caduta, perché i giudici hanno riconosciuto che non esistevano gli elementi necessari per configurare un’organizzazione criminale.

Un episodio che non resta isolato, ma che si inserisce in una strategia complessiva di repressione e delegittimazione delle forme di mutualismo, di autogestione e di resistenza dal basso che da decenni animano le periferie milanesi.

Mentre giornali e procure colpiscono gli spazi sociali, altri episodi di mala gestione, abusi e corruzione all’interno delle istituzioni passano sotto silenzio o si perdono nei meandri dei tribunali.

Due pesi e due misure che mostrano con chiarezza chi è considerato sacrificabile e chi no.

Difendere chi subisce violenza non è un reato!

La solidarietà non si processa!

Case pubbliche subito per tutti e tutte!

Stop alla criminalizzazione delle lotte!"

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Il Rojava è sotto attaccato perché rappresenta oggi l’esempio più vicino e concreto di un nuovo mondo possibile: autodeterminazione dei popoli, convivenza pacifica tra comunità diverse, rivoluzione delle donne, ecologia; una importante alternativa a Stati autoritari, patriarcato e capitalismo

Rompiamo il silenzio!

Domenica 01 febbraio – ore 18:00

Piazza martiri di Belfiore, Mantova

L'articolo Difendiamo la Rivoluzione Confederale! proviene da Retekurdistan.it.

Perché un lettore crede a racconti palesemente falsi? Vuole evitare notizie scomode? Come fanno i fedeli religiosi a credere nella scienza e contemporaneamente affidarsi al mito? Si tratta di scelte razionali, strategie collettive oppure difesa privata e personale di un nucleo emotivo che altrimenti finirebbe in pezzi? Sono queste le domande che affiorano, con risposta annessa, nel libro del politologo Mark Lilla che per Luiss University Press ha pubblicato «L’estasi dell’ignoranza. La tradizione occidentale della non conoscenza».

A dispetto della moderna logica mediatica che obbliga tutti alla trasparenza, alla conoscenza, alla condivisione di informazioni e intimità sui social, Mark Lilla elabora una ricostruzione storica e filosofica del volto contrario di questa modernità, cioè dell’ignoranza intesa come volontà di non sapere. Strategia adattativa piuttosto che euristica vitale, l’ignoranza descritta da Lilla viene dissezionata nei miti antichi, come quello di Edipo, che non voleva sapere di essere giaciuto con la madre; passa per le Confessioni di Sant’Agostino che dubita della sua fede; arriva da Nietzsche il pazzo fino a Freud e alla sua teoria della rimozione, per ricostruire i tabù della verità, la delusione della curiosità quando si osa strappare il velo di Iside, fino alle cedevoli illusioni di innocenza personale, colte nelle loro forme quotidiane e talvolta penose.

La fuga dalla realtà è la chiave di questo viaggio intellettuale nella volontà di ignoranza. Certo, sull’ignoranza e sull’errore molto è stato detto, da Gianrico Carofiglio in Elogio dell’ignoranza e dell’errore, a Umberto Galimberti con Le contraddizioni della Verità e l’attitudine tutta binaria a pensare semplice senza troppo complicarsi la vita, come pure in L’età dell’ignoranza di Fabrizio Tonello, ma questo testo si misura sulla volontà di non conoscere quale strategia di sopravvivenza intima, nascosta e personale, per rendere la vita odierna più accettabile. Una scelta che è alla base di questioni tremendamente attuali, dagli effetti della disinformazione al cospirazionismo politico, dal pensiero magico alle semplificazioni scientifiche. In fondo, in fondo, il trionfo dell’ignorante è l’estasi del potere.

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On January 20, a supply chain attack has occurred, with the infected software being the eScan antivirus developed by an Indian company MicroWorld Technologies. The previously unknown malware was distributed through the eScan update server. The same day, our security solutions detected and prevented cyberattacks involving this malware. On January 21, having been informed by Morphisec, the developers of eScan contained the security incident related to the attack.

Malicious software used in the attack

Users of the eScan security product received a malicious Reload.exe file, which initiated a multi-stage infection chain. According to colleagues at Morphisec who were the first to investigate the attack, Reload.exe prevented further antivirus product updates by modifying the HOSTS file, thereby blocking the ability of security solution developers to automatically fix the problem, which, among other things, led to the update service error.

The malware also ensured its persistence in the system, communicated with control servers, and downloaded additional malicious payloads. Persistence was achieved by creating scheduled tasks; one example of such a malicious task is named CorelDefrag. Additionally, the consctlx.exe malicious file was written to the disk during the infection.

How the attackers managed to pull off this attack

At the request of the BleepingComputer information portal, eScan developers explained that the attackers managed to gain access to one of the regional update servers and deploy a malicious file, which was automatically delivered to customers. They emphasize that this is not a vulnerability — the incident is classified as unauthorized access to infrastructure. The malicious file was distributed with a fake invalid digital signature.

According to the developers, the infrastructure affected by the incident was quickly isolated, and all access credentials were reset.

How to stay safe?

To detect infection, it is recommended to review scheduled tasks for traces of malware, check the %WinDir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file for blocked eScan domains, and review the eScan update logs for January 20.

The developers of eScan have created a utility for their users that removes the malware, rolls back the modifications it has made, and restores the normal functionality of the antivirus. The utility is sent to customers upon request to technical support.

Users of the solution are also advised to block known malware control server addresses.

Kaspersky’s security solutions, such as Kaspersky Next, successfully detect all malware used by attackers with its Behavior Detection component.

Indicators of compromise

Several malicious domain names and links were listed in the Morphisec blog:

• vhs.delrosal[.]net/i
• tumama.hns[.]to
• blackice.sol-domain[.]org
• https://codegiant[.]io/dd/dd/dd.git/download/main/middleware.ts

Our experts have discovered additional network IoCs related to this attack:

• airanks.hns[.]to
• csc.biologii[.]net/sooc

Right now we are analyzing the malware used in this incident, and will post more details as soon as possible.

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There has been a notable absence of a certain topic on the United States Pirate Party website. Something that has been so relevant and so important to the day-to-day for anyone considering themselves “politically involved” that it almost becomes indefensible that nothing has been properly stated on the issue.

Today is a course correction.

There will not be only one topic being tackled today, and by the end of it, dear reader, it’s hoped you understand why this took so long.

Before we can begin, you must keep this question in the back of your mind: “Is this really self-determination?”

In the interest of familiarity, we will first start at a time everyone is familiar with: the American Revolution.

We know the history; Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, tea in the harbor, Shot Heard ‘Round the World, Lexington and Concord, Crossing the Delaware, Yorktown, independence and freedom from Great Britain and the monarchy. Kids are taught this stuff from a young age, and this is how the story of the U.S.A’s founding typically goes.

Less mentioned, if mentioned at all, is the “French-Indian War”, which was actually the North American theatre of the Seven Years War, the first truly world war.

That is where we truly need to begin this story.

The French-Indian War is named as such because the British Army, their colonial settlers, and their American Indian allies fought a war against the French Army, their colonial settlers, and their American Indian allies over the Ohio River Valley; modern day Pittsburgh and the Ohio River.

All that you know to be quintessential Americana was the subject of two European Empires and their colonial settlers attempting to claim land for themselves and their home empires.

The war began when tensions over who controlled the Ohio River Valley boiled over into conflict after a young George Washington (yes, really) and his regiment ambushed, attacked and killed Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, a French officer reportedly sent to warn Washington of their encroachment on French land and was said to be merely on a diplomatic mission.

Again: settlers on this land claiming it to be theirs. French settlers, numbering ~40,000 in 1750, and British settlers, ~1 million, claiming land that they only knew existed with certainty as early as 1503 (when Amerigo Vespucci confirmed it was not Asia they discovered a route to but the New World entirely) for countries that have only had permanent presence on the Américan continent since 1604 (France, Port-Royal) and 1607 (Great Britain, Jamestown).

While the French-Indian War ended in British victory and total control over what was previously French North America (essentially, the Saint Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and Mississippi River and the land around it), it was not the central war to the question of self-determination.

It was the war following the conclusion of the French-Indian War, and the war that would lead to further colonist anger towards Great Britain: Pontiac’s War.

In the middle of all of this, one tends to forget that the European Empires were playing local American Indian populations against one another and signing treaties for protection and monetary gain. Many settlers came to spread Christianity and convert the Natives from their Indigenous beliefs.

Have they been granted the right to self-determination? Is this really self-determination?

Once the more consolatory French were defeated and forced to leave, and once British General Jeffrey Amherst began imposing policies threatening the local population, it was Odawa Chief Pontiac (Obwaandi’eyaag) who realized their way of life in the Great Lakes was in danger.

May 1763, Native Americans attacked multiple forts and drove many British settlers out of the region. Due to this conflict, and out of fear that it could be a perpetual state of conflict between settlers and natives, George III of Great Britain proclaimed there shall be no new settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains in October 1763, and that west of the Appalachians would be designated as Indian Territory.

Remember: that is the land the settlers fought a war over specifically to control.

This, as well as anger imposed over taxes installed to pay off debts of the Seven Years War, would set off a chain reaction that would lead to the colonists declaring independence from Great Britain and seeking their own idea of “self-determination”.

During the Treaty of Paris (1783), which marked the end of the American Revolution (on paper), Great Britain, who had previously treated Native Americans with enough dignity to at least sign and honor treaties, gave away land that wasn’t theirs to give, without any Native American delegation present during negotiations.

After that, the story often falls under the growth of the country, the admission of states and keeping balance in the Union until it fell apart briefly, bloodily. Rarely, if ever, is the story of the American Indian spoken of when talking about the growth of the United States.

Perhaps it is too uncomfortable to think about, but in their pursuit of westward expansion, these descendants of settlers, who twenty years prior called themselves “British”, claimed it was their God-ordained right to claim all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Manifest Destiny, if you will.

While claiming “All men are created equal”, this country systematically had settlers drive the native population from their homes while many of the settlers also held African Americans in chattel slavery and considered them “property” and “3/5ths a person” for census keeping.

Is this really self-determination?

To restate a point from a previous Spyglass article:

“The United States Pirate Party, as part of our platform, advocates for self-determination. As outlined in our platform: “We advocate for the right to free association and self-determination. People living in a political entity should have the right to maintain, alter or conclude their relationship to larger entities, or join in union, if it is the will of the people.”

When Indigenous Americans cannot trust a treaty signed and continuously is driven from their land, is this really self-determination? When Black Americans are still in chains and treated like livestock instead of your fellow man, is this really self-determination?

To say the United States Revolution was a fight for self-determination and freedom becomes tainted when you zoom out and ask: “for who?”

Because if your version of “self-determination” doesn’t include everyone and is only “self-determination” for the in-group, is this really self-determination?

No. In execution, it looked more like genocide and apartheid. Even our own apartheid was simply called “Segregation” after chattel slavery’s “end”. Even the genocide of American Indian populations is boiled down to “leftist talking points” and dismissed.

So why bring this up? Is it to rag on the United States? Is it to hold up a mirror to the worst aspects of the United States and make the U.S. look bad?

No. In execution, I hoped to point out the worst aspects of U.S. history and say “We cannot change that past but we can learn from it and stop it from happening again.”

So what happened? Great Britain allied with a native population to fight a war and immediately turned their backs on them and gave their land away to the settler colonial project without their knowledge, and which the settlers claimed is their God-ordained right to have, leading to apartheid and genocide.

Oh.

Part II coming tomorrow.

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