Amidst the wide spread flooding, people are asking about the vaunted half trillion flood control projects. Were they "overwhelmed ?" Or swept by floods. Let us be honest.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Success story; papasok sa pulitika soon?
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Nagtagumpay sa negosyong pinasok; bilyonaryo na ngayon. Nagkanegosyo sa DPWH?
Mayhidwaan na namumuno sa LGU dahil makakalaban sa pagkayorme?
Saturday, July 13, 2024
PHL especially MM should be braced for the Big ones as animation shows there are frequent Intensity 8 earthquakes in PHL, Japan and Indonesia
It is more fun criticizing
We note that there are many high rise buildings that were erected recently mostly exceeding 50 stories. Building officials and investors should have been more circumspect. When the big one strikes, we can not imagine the results....
Can they withstand intensity earthquake? Are they earthquake proof (with shocks, gimbals and and all?)
Corruption has no place in saving lives and limbs in case of big one
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Solution of MM traffic woes not forthcoming yet?
It is more fun criticizing
Rizal Philippines
October 27, 2016
From Quora
The current administration seem to have fallen short on its first 100 days promise to solve many of the country's woes: if I remember this includes traffic. All ready some quarters are all ready calling for the resignation of DOT secretary. Since December 2915 started ti get worse. From our place to say Robinson, you need to allocate 3 hours to get to your destination. Traffic does not move at all in floodway or Rosario. It is sometime the sheer volume of vehicles coming from Eastern Rizal passing only to one artery: Ortigas Avenue. Although it has been widened, it could not keep up with the huge volume of vehicles brought about by the huge increase in population. Couple that with other factors: Illegal parking, undisciplined drivers, and enforcers etc. Uncoordianted traffic flow. etc.
The comments regarding the traffic improvements were more cogent:
Rizal Philippines
October 27, 2016
From Quora
The current administration seem to have fallen short on its first 100 days promise to solve many of the country's woes: if I remember this includes traffic. All ready some quarters are all ready calling for the resignation of DOT secretary. Since December 2915 started ti get worse. From our place to say Robinson, you need to allocate 3 hours to get to your destination. Traffic does not move at all in floodway or Rosario. It is sometime the sheer volume of vehicles coming from Eastern Rizal passing only to one artery: Ortigas Avenue. Although it has been widened, it could not keep up with the huge volume of vehicles brought about by the huge increase in population. Couple that with other factors: Illegal parking, undisciplined drivers, and enforcers etc. Uncoordianted traffic flow. etc.
The comments regarding the traffic improvements were more cogent:
I wrote a paper last year about solving the traffic problems in EDSA. You could extend the message to the whole Metro Manila, but for now I would be talking only about EDSA. I will copy the contents of my paper without edits, so please bear with me.
1. Building of an overpass or a tunnel – Will building an overpass, highway or an alternative route solve the problem? It’s a common habit for people to buy new things rather than fixing their broken objects. So if EDSA is already traffic-ridden, then officials would build an alternate highway or overpass to solve this following the given idea. This construction might already begin if plans went through. MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) Chairman Francis Tolentino proposed a project to build a 8.3 kilometer "Skybridge" along E. Rodriguez Avenue in Quezon City and would end near the former Sta. Ana Race Track. MMDA said that the P10 Billion peso project would reduce the travel time from Quezon to Makati from 1 hour to 15 minutes, and would improve the travel speed of vehicles by as much as 20-29 kilometers.
2. Carpooling - Carpooling would reduce cars in the road as people would begin filling their otherwise empty seats with people who would otherwise be driving their own cars if a carpooling program was not started. At least 323,000 vehicles pass through EDSA every day, and there is a large chance that at least half of those vehicles have only 1 passenger. If people would start carpooling, the number of vehicles could be reduced by one-fourth to one-half in theory. Reduced traffic congestion isn't the only benefit that you could get with carpooling; because of the reduction of vehicles in the road, reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases is also a benefit, and because of the reduction of smoke in the air, it would also benefit the people's health. This system has no bad effects, and only provides good effects for the community if this was implemented in EDSA in the whole Philippines in general. This system also trains kinship amongst the community as people inside the vehicle would share the costs for filling up the vehicle and also the toll fee. With the continuing toll and gas fee hikes, carpooling might be a possible way to reduce traffic along EDSA, and possibly along the Philippines' most congested thoroughfares and highways.
3. Building of an efficient road system - Building of a much more efficient transportation system, one which has roads not leading to one major thoroughfare is greatly in need. Although benefits are still not known, and no research has ever showed that this might be a possible solution, through the use of mere logic one can assume that this might prove to be an investment for the MMDA and DPWH to utilize.
4. Reduction of bus stations and buses in EDSA - Removal of these bus stations would really benefit EDSA, as the removal of one bus contributes to the removal of two cars in the road. Although this solution looks like it would not be much of a help, recent surveys shows that commuters who ride through EDSA says that buses and their terminals needs to be reduced along EDSA, and if possible in the whole Metro Manila area.
5. Tolling of private vehicles in EDSA during rush hour - Although commuters would criticize this as a bad solution to the traffic woes as it would dwindle their money, people would find a way to avoid this tolling by bypassing it entirely using a different route. Effects of this solution are still not known, as people still doesn't find this as a possible solution, but this could reduce traffic volume in EDSA by as much as one-fourth as small public utility vehicles like jeepneys would avoid this avenue as to not reduce their already small income. Drivers with shallow pockets would also avoid this area, thus reducing the limiting the users of EDSA in rush hour to those who could afford the toll fee.
6. Strict implementation of traffic laws - MMDA's staff and officers already know the benefits of their traffic laws, people just needs to follow them and their officers should just help implement their laws rather than wait for their supervisors to watch them work. Their projected reduction of vehicles, as always being noted by the MMDA chairman past and present, was the volume of vehicles to be halved. Although I wish that the MMDA chairman would stop fantasizing about how their system is good and rather work to increase productivity among their workers and staff.
7. Reduction of establishments along EDSA - If establishments would be removed, or at least be given alternative exit rather than just straight to EDSA. Many establishments do it that way, like the Robinsons Pioneer or the Cybergate Mall near Glorietta and also the Glorietta and Greetbelt complex in Ayala. These establishments increase the traffic volume in EDSA significantly, and if these establishments or at least the small ones be removed then the whole avenue may be free from traffic woes and problems.
8. Repairing of the avenue – Maybe if the 323,000 vehicles running through EDSA had the ability to talk, they all would scream in agony shouting that travelling in this decrepit road is as hard a task as running through a dirt road, minus the bumps, or not. The layers of paint need to be refreshed, as vehicles are having a hard time knowing which lane from which. DPWH and MMDA should lay a budget of at least a million pesos just to repaint the road, or more if they want to replace the asphalt, the cement that most of the highway has is hard to drive upon as it wears the tire much faster than an asphalt road.
9. Equal Distribution of office hours - Office hours in Metro Manila (or in the whole country) is always the same, employees may choose from either of these two: 8 am-5 pm or 9 am-6 pm. Why not change those office hours so that people would be not be populating the highway at the same time? Rush hours are time zones of the day when people come and go to office/school, and it is almost always the same time: 7 - 8 am and 5-7 pm. Offices should change their office hours, by at least one or two hours or just by making the office hours flexible. Although the volume of traffic along EDSA would not be changed, the traffic along EDSA would be equally distributed among different times of the day rather than on a time zone of one-two hours daily. DOLE would need to change their labor code for this one, but with their help they could reduce traffic in EDSA, not by volume but rather by distribution of the traffic through the day. Workers might object or accept this new solution, depending on what time of the day their work would start if this was implemented.
10. Prohibition of PUJ's and limiting of buses in EDSA - This solution, albeit an extreme one, would dramatically reduce traffic in EDSA by as much as reducing it by three-fourths it. Think of it, an EDSA without any passenger jeepneys in sight, only privately owned vehicles and some buses in the road. It would feel like a dream highway, all 4-6 lanes of the highway to you and some vehicles, no more cumbersome jeepneys and ridiculously large and noisy buses which keep you from moving fast. It would be like the Skyway in SLEX, only on the ground and much longer, crossing 5 cities in Metro Manila. This solution would almost always be received with negative votes, mostly from the drivers and passengers of these public vehicles. This is the reason why it is placed last on the list. Transport strikes would ensue if this would be implemented, but after weeks or months have passed, the people would learn of the benefits that they will get from this. Jeepneys and buses would be diverted on other major highways traversing EDSA like Taft Avenue, Shaw Boulevard, Ayala Avenue, etc. This solution would probably defeat the purpose of solution 3 (The building of an efficient road system) as public vehicles would now be needed to take an alternative route rather than in EDSA. Private vehicles would take the full benefits from this, as they can now move much faster than they can before, about a 20+ k/hr. increase.
1. Building of an overpass or a tunnel – Will building an overpass, highway or an alternative route solve the problem? It’s a common habit for people to buy new things rather than fixing their broken objects. So if EDSA is already traffic-ridden, then officials would build an alternate highway or overpass to solve this following the given idea. This construction might already begin if plans went through. MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) Chairman Francis Tolentino proposed a project to build a 8.3 kilometer "Skybridge" along E. Rodriguez Avenue in Quezon City and would end near the former Sta. Ana Race Track. MMDA said that the P10 Billion peso project would reduce the travel time from Quezon to Makati from 1 hour to 15 minutes, and would improve the travel speed of vehicles by as much as 20-29 kilometers.
2. Carpooling - Carpooling would reduce cars in the road as people would begin filling their otherwise empty seats with people who would otherwise be driving their own cars if a carpooling program was not started. At least 323,000 vehicles pass through EDSA every day, and there is a large chance that at least half of those vehicles have only 1 passenger. If people would start carpooling, the number of vehicles could be reduced by one-fourth to one-half in theory. Reduced traffic congestion isn't the only benefit that you could get with carpooling; because of the reduction of vehicles in the road, reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases is also a benefit, and because of the reduction of smoke in the air, it would also benefit the people's health. This system has no bad effects, and only provides good effects for the community if this was implemented in EDSA in the whole Philippines in general. This system also trains kinship amongst the community as people inside the vehicle would share the costs for filling up the vehicle and also the toll fee. With the continuing toll and gas fee hikes, carpooling might be a possible way to reduce traffic along EDSA, and possibly along the Philippines' most congested thoroughfares and highways.
3. Building of an efficient road system - Building of a much more efficient transportation system, one which has roads not leading to one major thoroughfare is greatly in need. Although benefits are still not known, and no research has ever showed that this might be a possible solution, through the use of mere logic one can assume that this might prove to be an investment for the MMDA and DPWH to utilize.
4. Reduction of bus stations and buses in EDSA - Removal of these bus stations would really benefit EDSA, as the removal of one bus contributes to the removal of two cars in the road. Although this solution looks like it would not be much of a help, recent surveys shows that commuters who ride through EDSA says that buses and their terminals needs to be reduced along EDSA, and if possible in the whole Metro Manila area.
5. Tolling of private vehicles in EDSA during rush hour - Although commuters would criticize this as a bad solution to the traffic woes as it would dwindle their money, people would find a way to avoid this tolling by bypassing it entirely using a different route. Effects of this solution are still not known, as people still doesn't find this as a possible solution, but this could reduce traffic volume in EDSA by as much as one-fourth as small public utility vehicles like jeepneys would avoid this avenue as to not reduce their already small income. Drivers with shallow pockets would also avoid this area, thus reducing the limiting the users of EDSA in rush hour to those who could afford the toll fee.
6. Strict implementation of traffic laws - MMDA's staff and officers already know the benefits of their traffic laws, people just needs to follow them and their officers should just help implement their laws rather than wait for their supervisors to watch them work. Their projected reduction of vehicles, as always being noted by the MMDA chairman past and present, was the volume of vehicles to be halved. Although I wish that the MMDA chairman would stop fantasizing about how their system is good and rather work to increase productivity among their workers and staff.
7. Reduction of establishments along EDSA - If establishments would be removed, or at least be given alternative exit rather than just straight to EDSA. Many establishments do it that way, like the Robinsons Pioneer or the Cybergate Mall near Glorietta and also the Glorietta and Greetbelt complex in Ayala. These establishments increase the traffic volume in EDSA significantly, and if these establishments or at least the small ones be removed then the whole avenue may be free from traffic woes and problems.
8. Repairing of the avenue – Maybe if the 323,000 vehicles running through EDSA had the ability to talk, they all would scream in agony shouting that travelling in this decrepit road is as hard a task as running through a dirt road, minus the bumps, or not. The layers of paint need to be refreshed, as vehicles are having a hard time knowing which lane from which. DPWH and MMDA should lay a budget of at least a million pesos just to repaint the road, or more if they want to replace the asphalt, the cement that most of the highway has is hard to drive upon as it wears the tire much faster than an asphalt road.
9. Equal Distribution of office hours - Office hours in Metro Manila (or in the whole country) is always the same, employees may choose from either of these two: 8 am-5 pm or 9 am-6 pm. Why not change those office hours so that people would be not be populating the highway at the same time? Rush hours are time zones of the day when people come and go to office/school, and it is almost always the same time: 7 - 8 am and 5-7 pm. Offices should change their office hours, by at least one or two hours or just by making the office hours flexible. Although the volume of traffic along EDSA would not be changed, the traffic along EDSA would be equally distributed among different times of the day rather than on a time zone of one-two hours daily. DOLE would need to change their labor code for this one, but with their help they could reduce traffic in EDSA, not by volume but rather by distribution of the traffic through the day. Workers might object or accept this new solution, depending on what time of the day their work would start if this was implemented.
10. Prohibition of PUJ's and limiting of buses in EDSA - This solution, albeit an extreme one, would dramatically reduce traffic in EDSA by as much as reducing it by three-fourths it. Think of it, an EDSA without any passenger jeepneys in sight, only privately owned vehicles and some buses in the road. It would feel like a dream highway, all 4-6 lanes of the highway to you and some vehicles, no more cumbersome jeepneys and ridiculously large and noisy buses which keep you from moving fast. It would be like the Skyway in SLEX, only on the ground and much longer, crossing 5 cities in Metro Manila. This solution would almost always be received with negative votes, mostly from the drivers and passengers of these public vehicles. This is the reason why it is placed last on the list. Transport strikes would ensue if this would be implemented, but after weeks or months have passed, the people would learn of the benefits that they will get from this. Jeepneys and buses would be diverted on other major highways traversing EDSA like Taft Avenue, Shaw Boulevard, Ayala Avenue, etc. This solution would probably defeat the purpose of solution 3 (The building of an efficient road system) as public vehicles would now be needed to take an alternative route rather than in EDSA. Private vehicles would take the full benefits from this, as they can now move much faster than they can before, about a 20+ k/hr. increase.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Will the heavy traffic woes end soon?
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Rizal Philippines
October 15, 2016
Since December last year and after the 100 days of Pres. Duterte was breached, traffic is still very very bad. And it is very likely that in the next two or three years, there will be no improvement. Why?
1. The legislature is not yet done with the hearings to give the Pres emergency powers. We are afraid he will abuse it.
2. Too many cars and PUVs ply the street. The car companies are raking it in - at the rate of 300,000 units a year. Our roads cant cope with the large volume of vehicles.
3. Lack of traffic discipline - drivers do not follow rules, too many powerful people violating traffic rules
4. Too many diggings and on going construction.
5. Untrained and corrupt police and traffic enforcers.
Tiyaga, tiyaga. tiyaga, tiis.
Rizal Philippines
October 15, 2016
Since December last year and after the 100 days of Pres. Duterte was breached, traffic is still very very bad. And it is very likely that in the next two or three years, there will be no improvement. Why?
1. The legislature is not yet done with the hearings to give the Pres emergency powers. We are afraid he will abuse it.
2. Too many cars and PUVs ply the street. The car companies are raking it in - at the rate of 300,000 units a year. Our roads cant cope with the large volume of vehicles.
3. Lack of traffic discipline - drivers do not follow rules, too many powerful people violating traffic rules
4. Too many diggings and on going construction.
5. Untrained and corrupt police and traffic enforcers.
Tiyaga, tiyaga. tiyaga, tiis.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
What are the causes of the flooding in MM? Any solutions?
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Rizal Philippines | September 23, 2014
The area near the SM Marikina is inundated because the floodway which is just 30 meters wide and 4 meters deep vis (100 meters and 10 meters) is choked and thus Pasig river, which is it was designed to empty into Laguna Lake, is flooded
Floods at Ortigas Avenue ( can we relate this to the abuse of Pasig River and Manggahan floodway?)
What caused the flooding? A flurry of interviews and TV shows and articles are coming out to analyze again the cause of the flood:
Again let us enumerate:
1. Force majeure - the 269 mm of rainfall for the 24 hour period is the equivalent of 1/2 month of rainfall.;
2. Global warming - the warm Pacific Ocean and atmosphere loads typhoons with more energy and moisture that fall as rain. This is a very convenient excuse
3. Clogged drainage - plastics, sand, silt, trash clog the drainage
Garbage and encroachment on esteros; we cant fight nor convince developers to demolish their encroachment
4. Flood control projects, pumps that do not work (Espana has had several flood control projects and yet it floods at when the dogs piss.)
Squatters must go? Or they and us suffer floods endlessly?
Squatters at floodway banks (west bank) We have no will to resist their votes?
Would the flooding be the same if the banks of floodway were cleared of squatters?
From GMA news - encroachment of Manggahan floodway blamed for Pasig river swelling. It has become narrower and shallower - thanks to.....
5. Settlers on esteros and river banks (accretion). Pasig river then looked very wide. Now it seems that it is only 15 meters wide. Manggahan floodway is heavily silted. Squatters dump their shit and garbage at Manggahan floodway.
From here we can judge that the Manggahan floodway overflow, flooded Ortigas Ave after the Manggahan bridge. Manggahan floodway should be dredged and declogged.
From coconuter (mambubuko?)
Rizal Philippines | September 23, 2014
The area near the SM Marikina is inundated because the floodway which is just 30 meters wide and 4 meters deep vis (100 meters and 10 meters) is choked and thus Pasig river, which is it was designed to empty into Laguna Lake, is flooded
Floods at Ortigas Avenue ( can we relate this to the abuse of Pasig River and Manggahan floodway?)
What caused the flooding? A flurry of interviews and TV shows and articles are coming out to analyze again the cause of the flood:
Again let us enumerate:
1. Force majeure - the 269 mm of rainfall for the 24 hour period is the equivalent of 1/2 month of rainfall.;
2. Global warming - the warm Pacific Ocean and atmosphere loads typhoons with more energy and moisture that fall as rain. This is a very convenient excuse
3. Clogged drainage - plastics, sand, silt, trash clog the drainage
Garbage and encroachment on esteros; we cant fight nor convince developers to demolish their encroachment
4. Flood control projects, pumps that do not work (Espana has had several flood control projects and yet it floods at when the dogs piss.)
Squatters must go? Or they and us suffer floods endlessly?
Squatters at floodway banks (west bank) We have no will to resist their votes?
Would the flooding be the same if the banks of floodway were cleared of squatters?
From GMA news - encroachment of Manggahan floodway blamed for Pasig river swelling. It has become narrower and shallower - thanks to.....
5. Settlers on esteros and river banks (accretion). Pasig river then looked very wide. Now it seems that it is only 15 meters wide. Manggahan floodway is heavily silted. Squatters dump their shit and garbage at Manggahan floodway.
From here we can judge that the Manggahan floodway overflow, flooded Ortigas Ave after the Manggahan bridge. Manggahan floodway should be dredged and declogged.
From coconuter (mambubuko?)
Friday, July 18, 2014
Glenda has been one of the most powerful typhoons that I encountered. ; was it a Super Typhoon too?
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Rizal Philippines. July 18, 2014
The recent typhoon, Glenda that brought down many powerlines and trees, billboards, I would say was one of the strongest typhoon that visited Rizal and MM in recent history. It is more powerful than MIlleno what was in the country 6 years ago.
The winds were quite powerful and brought down the trees to kiss the ground, (first time I saw it.) The BF ficus trees in Edsa were all uprooted by Glenda.
As all powerful typhoons are, the passage of the typhoon was over by 10 am (its landfall started by 2 am) There was a great calm before it arrived. And there was a great calm after 10 am
Rizal Philippines. July 18, 2014
The recent typhoon, Glenda that brought down many powerlines and trees, billboards, I would say was one of the strongest typhoon that visited Rizal and MM in recent history. It is more powerful than MIlleno what was in the country 6 years ago.
The winds were quite powerful and brought down the trees to kiss the ground, (first time I saw it.) The BF ficus trees in Edsa were all uprooted by Glenda.
As all powerful typhoons are, the passage of the typhoon was over by 10 am (its landfall started by 2 am) There was a great calm before it arrived. And there was a great calm after 10 am
Friday, January 11, 2013
Air Pollution in MM goes unabated?!
Social and political criticisms
Early jogging for fresh air; whaaat ? Just look at the hazy horizon
The cold morning and heavy overcast cloudy skies makes pollution worse in Metro Manila as the above and following photographs show. In an observation made by professors, there is perceived disconnect between what people say about green innovation and what we do.
We want green and clean environment but do we do:
l. Our vehicles spew nitrous oxide and black soot; (diesel smoke has been classified by WHO as carcinogenic)
2. We smoke;
3. Our factories (just like a well known glass factory) spew pollutants into the air.
4. Urban settlers without any remorse, dump garbage into floodway and Pasig river.
5. The public enforcer for waste disposal and environment might be sleeping on the job.
In the next 5 to 10 years, we pay with our lives and our ill health for this negligence (pagwawalang bahala) You do not need a Filosofo Tasyo for this. Pollution is the leading cause of COPD and other respiratory diseases, and hormonal imbalance which causes cancer. Pollution is a xenoestrogen
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The serenity (or beauty) of these early morning pictures belie the great danger that hang in the air. The other side of the lake (Alabang and Laguna) are invisible due to heavy haze
The cold morning and heavy overcast cloudy skies makes pollution worse in Metro Manila as the above and following photographs show. In an observation made by professors, there is perceived disconnect between what people say about green innovation and what we do.
We want green and clean environment but do we do:
l. Our vehicles spew nitrous oxide and black soot; (diesel smoke has been classified by WHO as carcinogenic)
2. We smoke;
3. Our factories (just like a well known glass factory) spew pollutants into the air.
4. Urban settlers without any remorse, dump garbage into floodway and Pasig river.
5. The public enforcer for waste disposal and environment might be sleeping on the job.
In the next 5 to 10 years, we pay with our lives and our ill health for this negligence (pagwawalang bahala) You do not need a Filosofo Tasyo for this. Pollution is the leading cause of COPD and other respiratory diseases, and hormonal imbalance which causes cancer. Pollution is a xenoestrogen
The serenity (or beauty) of these early morning pictures belie the great danger that hang in the air. The other side of the lake (Alabang and Laguna) are invisible due to heavy haze
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Does the recent monitoring of air quality reflect our resolve to solve flooding?
Social and political criticisms
After the floods, the rescue, the finger pointing and the talks about the floods/flood control, climate change, nothing much has changed. Japan's resolve to save themselves from future tsunami floods, and typhoons has been to build all EV for the world to help reduce carbon emissions in the air.
But what have we done? Are we improving air quality? Are we helping reduce carbon emissions?
Are we contributing to lessen climate change?
x Can you see the buildings from afar?
x How much carbon is hanging in the air?
x The Sucat Paranaque area looks a little bit clean
This is the Pasig/Ortigas area; can you see the buildings?
What are we doing right after the floods regarding this primary cause of global warming --.> climae change?
NOTHING? We cant claim something because the air quality has become worse....
After the floods, the rescue, the finger pointing and the talks about the floods/flood control, climate change, nothing much has changed. Japan's resolve to save themselves from future tsunami floods, and typhoons has been to build all EV for the world to help reduce carbon emissions in the air.
But what have we done? Are we improving air quality? Are we helping reduce carbon emissions?
Are we contributing to lessen climate change?
What are we doing right after the floods regarding this primary cause of global warming --.> climae change?
NOTHING? We cant claim something because the air quality has become worse....
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