My Madiba Moment - Part 11

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insight to the bone 12 years ago

when will you stop? i mean, how many madiba moments will you bore us to death with? i dont know which is worse-your anti ndc rantings or this little trip down special insane lane...

when will you stop? i mean, how many madiba moments will you bore us to death with? i dont know which is worse-your anti ndc rantings or this little trip down special insane lane...
NKANSAH 12 years ago

OKOAMPA , STOP IT ALREADY. THIS IS BORING. IM NOT GONNA READ THIS CRAP.

OKOAMPA , STOP IT ALREADY. THIS IS BORING. IM NOT GONNA READ THIS CRAP.
ENOBA 12 years ago

I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it ...
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I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it then turn round to make those comments.

Critique the contents and stop this hypocritical behavior or get a life.

Again, why read a boring article when the series has gotten to number 11.
ENOBA 12 years ago

I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it ...
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I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it then turn round to make those comments.

Critique the contents and stop this hypocritical behavior or get a life.

Again, why read a boring article when the series has gotten to number 11.
DOUBLE STANDARDS 12 years ago

....and umption!!! no one bothers to his articles!!! even I didnt read it and I dont need to - to know that his bullshit gets stinkier with every article...

....and umption!!! no one bothers to his articles!!! even I didnt read it and I dont need to - to know that his bullshit gets stinkier with every article...
Kojo T 12 years ago

What could you write about Biko sitting in Ny City? Just ignore this man . Really, you were just reproducing what others have written

What could you write about Biko sitting in Ny City? Just ignore this man . Really, you were just reproducing what others have written
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

J.B. DANQUAH LIED THAT HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF UGCC. NANA AKOFO ADDO LIED OF LAW CERT. CONTINUE TO LIE TO HIS FOLLOWERS THAT HIS GRANDPA WAS A FOUNDER OF UGCC/UP. Jn. 1:46 "NAZARETH! CAN ANY THING GOOD COME FROMM THERE? SOME ...
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J.B. DANQUAH LIED THAT HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF UGCC. NANA AKOFO ADDO LIED OF LAW CERT. CONTINUE TO LIE TO HIS FOLLOWERS THAT HIS GRANDPA WAS A FOUNDER OF UGCC/UP. Jn. 1:46 "NAZARETH! CAN ANY THING GOOD COME FROMM THERE? SOMEONE MAY ASK THE SAME QUESTION CAN SOMETHING GOOD COME FROM NZEMA? WHY IS IT THAT THE POWERFUL MEN DID COME FROM NZEMA. OKOFO ANOKYI(E), PAA GRANT,AND KWAME NKRUMAH. THEY DID NOT THINK OF THEIR TRIBE BUT THE GOLD COAST. J.B.DANKWA LIED THAT'S HAS BEEN A CURSED TO HIS GENERATION. NPP BELIEVE 'ME AKASI' PUT ANY TRIBE TO LEAD YOUR MY GRANDFATHER'S NPP PARTY, HE OR HER WILL WIN.
MARY JUANA 12 years ago

Hey Akasi, does the elevator go all the way to the top in your head? Is anybody home?

Hey Akasi, does the elevator go all the way to the top in your head? Is anybody home?
OBINNA 12 years ago

THIS PIECE IS EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN. I HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNINGS OF A SERIES OF EDUCATIVE AND INTERESTING ARTICLES FROM YOU, FELLOW OWL.

THIS PIECE IS EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN. I HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNINGS OF A SERIES OF EDUCATIVE AND INTERESTING ARTICLES FROM YOU, FELLOW OWL.
ENOBA 12 years ago

I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it ...
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I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it then turn round to make those comments.

Critique the contents and stop this hypocritical behavior or get a life.

Again, why read a boring article when the series has gotten to number 11.

Kwame Ntim 12 years ago

Hello Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,

Don't capitalize on igonrant readers to exaggerate "facts." You are not known in the African/African American Studies field.You are not smart as you think.

Moreover, your write-ups on ...
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Hello Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,

Don't capitalize on igonrant readers to exaggerate "facts." You are not known in the African/African American Studies field.You are not smart as you think.

Moreover, your write-ups on Ghanaweb clearly tells us you did nothing better or spectacular in "The Jagged Edge."

I wonder the kind of articles you wrote for "The Jagged Edge." Remember,you were at the time young and obviously was not as wise as today and did not have the writing skills you have, if any, today.

Even today when you are supposed to be wise as well as improved upon your writing skills, look at the trash and mediocre write-ups you give readers. In fact, there is nothing radically aggressive about your writings and the campus paper.

Most Puerto Rican (Hispanics)college/university graduates barely write or read English very well. About 10-15% of American university graduates read at the level of middle-or high-school.

Your books are not popular or even known in the field. Most of the editors at respected journals in America, people I personally know, are not familiar with your work. I have personally discussed you with some of them. They are not familiar with your work.

In fact, most of your articles will be rejected by nearly all of the journals in the West. They are as good as Ghanaweb. Your articles are not scholarly enough. Do you think your Ghanaweb articles are scholarly? What rubbish!

Writing 20 books does not make you an important teacher in the field. What impact have they had on the world? What impact have they had on America? What impact have they had on Africa? What impact have they had on South America? What impact have they had in Ghana? Zero!

Most of the leading intellectuals in the field of African/African American Studies don't know you or even heard your name. Stop giving "ignorant" readers the impression that you are important in the American Academia. You are not. Dare me!

Neither are you known in the field of African literature. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's son who has written a couple of books is well-known in America (and Europe) than you.

The Nigerian-American Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a few books. Yet she is a force in the American academy while you are not. She is more popular with American intellectuals than you. She has even won MacArthur "genius" Award ($500,000).

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's leading public intellectuals,doesn't know you or about your work. I once heard you bragging on Ghanaweb that Gates has threatened to reduce the number of students from your Ivy League Community college from entering Harvard. How stupid of you!

You think this important scholar has time for your foolishness and stupidity. Have you read his books or seen his TV programs educating the world about the African world (though not everything he shows or says about Africa) is right.

No respected anthology of African literature has entries for your work. Could you provide your "ill-informed" and "ignorant" readers a citation analysis as far as your work is concerened?

Rather than debate your "high-school" Ghanaweb readers, why don't you, Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, quote from your "scholarly" books and essays published in respected peer review journals?

Why don't you use your "scholarly" research and "scholarly" articles in respected peer review to debate your "high-school" critics? Why always rely on Ghanaweb articles to attack your critics? Why do you, Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, show your critics class?

How many respected scholars have used or quoted from your body of work? Could you tell them how your scholarship has impacted society? Look at Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Nuruddin Farah, etc? Even within Africa, your are an intellectual child of the Awoonors, Armahs, etc. How many schools in Africa use your books?

Ama Ata Aidoo, for instance, taught at Brown University, an Ivy League, in fact, one of America's top universities, an institution you can never get to teach because the quality of your work does not measure up to hers. You and I know this.

Ghanaweb readers are more likely to know you than American intellectuals and students in the African/African American Studies field. How many African stidents have read your work? Most Ghanaians who know you are those who read your Ghanaweb articles. Nearly every Ghanaian (I have dealt with) who doesn't use Ghanaweb knows you or heard your name!Forget your work. They don't know them though they know about Achebe, Awoonor, Armah, Chimamanda, Aidoo, etc.

You spend a lot of quality time writing junk for Ghanaweb and other mediocre websites because you know in your heart that no respected journal in the world will publish your mediocre work!

I hope you are aware that CUNY (City University of New York), of which City College is part, is not even rated amongst the top 100 best univeristies/colleges in America.

CUNY was, more or less, designed for
poor Americans (with poor pre-university skills or preparation) in the New York area, especially minorities. It was probably why you were able to get admission into it in the first place.

I remember taking an English class with a doctoral student from the English department (the graduate center) who didn't know what "nought" was. He explianed to the class that "nought" was "not nothing." These are the kinds of English professors you sometimes get within the CUNY system.

Moreover, CUNY has one of the lowest admissions requirements in America. CUNY also records one of the highest dropout rates in the country. And its community colleges are some of the worst in North America. You should not be proud of being a CUNY alumni.

Even within CUNY, City College has never been known to have strong English programs. It's noted more for its science and engineering programs than for its liberal arts/humanities. Its liberal arts programs are not rated among the best in the country. Both Lehman and Baruch colleges, both part of the CUNY, has a better program in English than City College.

Lehman College, for instance, has a better English program than City College. High-school students who have serious and writing problems are more likely to get into City College than, say, New York Univesity. City College is not even counted among the best in New York. Stop exaggerating your views about City College.

I have personally known nearly all the black professors you mention in your article here. We have met at various conferences. Dr. Leonard Jeffries is not a published scholar. The late Bernal Martin, author of the controversial Black Athena, once took him up on this. Edward Scobie used to publish in Ivan Van Sertima's "The Journal of African Civilizations."

Dr. Jeffries got into trouble primarily for introducing "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," a book published by the Nation of Islam. This books deals with the role Jews played in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

He successfully sued City College for violating his first amendment rights only for an appellate court to reverse the decision. The late Dr. Tony Martin of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, got into a similar problem with Jews when he used the same book in his class.

Please don't make the controversy simplistic for your "ignorant" readers. Yet you are not the intellctual equal of any of the scholars you mention in your article, My Madiba Moment-part 3. These are scholars whose work are influential and known the world over.

In fact, Dr. Jeffries is noted for his influential consultancies with public high-schools in New York and New Jersey. His work with African scholars and leaders are proverbial. These are creative scholars who develop theories and apply them on the ground to make human life better. Can you say the same of yourself? Isn't all your scholarship about ethnocentrism, hatred, stupidity, mediocrity, insults, cluelessness, and foolishness?

In fact, City College will not dream of making you the head of any of its programs because there are more accomplished scholars, well-published,and better researchers who will qualify for the post. You are an intellectual kid as far as quality research is concerned.

Finally, why do you teach at a community college? Isn't community college more like our old secondary school Form 5 (O'LEVEL)? Can you compare a community college to secondary school Sixth Form (a'level)? Hell no. Why are you proud of yourself then? I was a teaching assitant in a community college (Hostos Community College, also part of CUNY system). Among other things, I had to teach new students algebra which involves explaining to students the outcome of adding negative 20 to positive 10, say.

Tell your readers that community colleges, unlike senior colleges, don't require much from their professors. That work loads at community colleges are not as heavy and serious as those at senior colleges?

In effect, community colleges have low expectations of their professors in terms of university work. It's why you get time to write junk for Ghanaweb. Any scholar worth his/her salt will write for respected peer review journals. We know all the Ghanaian scholars who do this even as they write for Ghanaweb.

Don't give your "ignorant" readers the impression that you are important in the American academia. Tell them all about the respected peer review journals you publish in and give them your citation index( how many scholars/researcers quote or use your work.

Anything short of that is vanity. Most respected scholars in your field put their hyperbolic intellectual biographies in best-selling memoirs/autobiographis. Do the same. Most readers on Ghanaweb don't know you are lying or exagerating your intellectual abilities.

Tell them about renowned Ghanaian intellectuals like Dr. Emmanuel Acheampong, Dr. Daniel Bentil, Dr. Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu, Dr. Ave Kludze, etc. English is not science, mathematics, or engineering. You don't need any special gifts to read English. But not so with mathematics, engineering, or physics.

Fool!
OYOKOBA 12 years ago

You suffer from the classical penis jealousy. Your envy of Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe has rendered you stupid, confused, and insane. Your arguments go like this: Kwame Okoampa cannot claim to be better than some professors ...
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You suffer from the classical penis jealousy. Your envy of Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe has rendered you stupid, confused, and insane. Your arguments go like this: Kwame Okoampa cannot claim to be better than some professors that you adore, if he is only teaching at a community college and not an Ivy League school. That he should rather send his writings to some "scholarly journals for peer review" if he thought he was great, and that in your estimation some other writers are better than him.

See how stupid you are? Where did Okoampa write to say he is better than other authors and writers? Who cares the ratass who you, Kwame Ntim, admire better than Okoampa? Again what rational ethos can be deduced from your argument that unless a PhD is teaching at an Ivy League school, he is no scholar at all at his own merits? It is like saying a doctor cannot be said to be a great doctor if he is not practising at Korle Bu or Komfo Anokye. Here in Canada we have PhDs even teaching at High Schools. Does that mean they did not earn their PhDs or they are not scholars? Your kind of fools is the reason why graduates are sent to direct traffic in Ghana whiles our elementary schools have many pupil teachers in them and many kids fail to make it to universities and polytechnics. Just maybe if we have PhDs teaching in our high schools, the quality of education will see a tremendous improvement and graduation rate will see an upswing.

Case close you , Kwame Ntim, are just plain jealous freak, you wish you can pull Okoampa down, and assume his place on Ghanaweb. Your comparing English with Mathematics and Engineering is another betrayal of your buffonery. Is English taught at school, yes or no? Why do you think an English scholar is not good because he is not an engineer? That is classical false alternative choices and stupidity. W'agyimi papaapa Kwame Ntim. What have you yourself written? Why don't you bring your so-called superior writings for us to evaluate you? Kwaseato! For you to even invest the time to track Okoampa down at where he works shows how obsessed and insane you have become. Get real ofui! Why don't you tell us where you work, what you do, and scholarly books and materials you have written or invented? We know who Okoampa is, good or bad, but who the heck are you to come and denigrate and cast aspersions on someone's academic standing and scholarship without putting forward yours for comparison and evaluation. Nonsense!
Mark (UK) 12 years ago

I am disapppointed in you Oyokoba. It is said that to 'whom much is given, much is expected'. You should know that Okoampa is an Akan-supremacist, for whom any thing non-Akan can not help Ghana. A revisionost, he is rewriting ...
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I am disapppointed in you Oyokoba. It is said that to 'whom much is given, much is expected'. You should know that Okoampa is an Akan-supremacist, for whom any thing non-Akan can not help Ghana. A revisionost, he is rewriting history using his command of English to confuse his readers. I am sure you met him, as I did, during our 'Task Force' days in Kumasi. As an Amass old boy ( '81 '83 cohort), what we learnt was tolerating tribes from other parts of our dear country, hence my disappointment in you.
I am sure, Kwame Ntim is intimating that there are other Ghanaian scholars who are not using their academic credentials to impose their ideas on others.
I read your work in the forum, especially after intimating that you are an old boy.
asempa hene 12 years ago

Let me add an important piece of information to this forum, a corrective, if you will.

The Ford Foundation issue our dear professor raises is not any thing extraordinary.

These are the facts: In the City University of N ...
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Let me add an important piece of information to this forum, a corrective, if you will.

The Ford Foundation issue our dear professor raises is not any thing extraordinary.

These are the facts: In the City University of New York (Baruch, Lehman, City College, Bronx and Hostos community colleges, etc) there is close to $1 billion in aid and grants available to students.

Grants from the Ford Foundation is part of this aid package. Unfortunately most students in the City University of New York are not aware of these facts.

And the interesting thing is that you don't have to be Albert Einstein or a student with extraodinary intellectual gifts to qualify for most of these grants. Of course, good GPAs and good academic standing play sometimes play a mojor role in being considered for a particular grant.

But then, a professor or an administrator who happens to be friends with a particular student may recomment that student for one, as is probably the case of Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe.

Sometimes being a minority alone (with a GPA of 3, for instance) will qualify you for many of these grants. Other times you have to prove you are facing financial hardship, and it's more the easier if you are minority--African, African American, Hispanics, etc.

Therefore, Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe should have told readers, especially those general students on this forum from the New York area, about some of these opportunities for minorities.

Besides, it was easier to get these grants in the days when Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe was in college. Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe may not be lucky today because of stiff competition.

This is because there was less competition for those seeking these kinds of grants in Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's college days than the issue is today. There are good reasons for this: The population in New York has ballooned since then and therefore competition for them has increased. Also, minority enrollement was not as intense as it is today and the bad state of the American economy has forced the federal, local, and state governments to cut down on the money they give universities/colleges. (As an aside, there are better financial instruments in place than the Ford Foundation.)

Finally, when the City University of New York began most of their students where white. Admissions requirements were very low. However, as soon as minorities began to apply for admissions, all kinds of administrative bottlekecks were put in their way. Series of written exams and loads of unncessary paper work were introduced.

We should also remember those who built City University of New York had the poor in mind, especially those in the tri-state areas--New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Those who want to know more about what I am saying, especially regarding grats, Ford Foundation, etc., can read "The Community College Guide: The Essential Reference from Application to Graduation."

Don't let the title deceive you: The book discusses availability of grants and aid in the entire CUNY (City University of New York) system, not only CUNY's community colleges. I strongly believe the authors are professors in the CUNY system. Correct me if I am wrong.

Finally, you don't have to be a genius to be recommended for the Ford Fountation. Ordinary students get recommended for it and get it all the time. I know this because I have taugh at Hostos Community College before.

Thanks Prof. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe for your brilliant piece.

Thanks.
KK 12 years ago

Okoampa didn't need to be a genius to have gotten a Ford Foundation grant. Well, he could be a genuis but it is not a condition.

Perhaps he is a genius as these series of Madiba moments (and his other writings) have been ...
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Okoampa didn't need to be a genius to have gotten a Ford Foundation grant. Well, he could be a genuis but it is not a condition.

Perhaps he is a genius as these series of Madiba moments (and his other writings) have been at pain to show. Well, if somebody is a genius, I guess he has the right to blow his own horns. It is the privilege of the gifted. But, often, the creative genius is also confirmed and acclaimed by others for his talents. There are some people who wouldn't recognise a genius if they see one. These will have to depend on others to tell the genius or mark up certain metrics to confirm it.

Perhaps many of us on ghanaweb are so dumb and stupid not to see what a gifted brain Okoampa has.

The fault is in us, not in Okoampa...

Hmmmm....
PHILTY McNASTY 12 years ago

Ask him again, why bother if it is boring to read. Too many idiots on forum.

Ask him again, why bother if it is boring to read. Too many idiots on forum.
PHILTY McNASTY 12 years ago

Sorry posting is for Nkansah

Sorry posting is for Nkansah
Nyansasem 12 years ago

Francis kwarteng, you are a coward. I thought you had some balls between your groins. Why don't you be a man and challenge Ahoofe, instead of changing your moniker to attack him. Or, is it due to inferiority complex syndrome. ...
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Francis kwarteng, you are a coward. I thought you had some balls between your groins. Why don't you be a man and challenge Ahoofe, instead of changing your moniker to attack him. Or, is it due to inferiority complex syndrome. What a coward.

Any blogger here who has two active brain cells in his skull will know who wrote this without even checking the IP. I know you guys hate Ahoofe because of his "fight" against your idol, Molefi while he was at Temple. Be a man and take him on and stop changing your monikers to attack him. Let's us if you can.

With your African American nonsense you daily pour out here, I needed not to think twice to know it was you wrote this nonsense. Where did Ahoofe state that he was a giant in African American studies. A perfect Pull-Him-Down Attitude.

Kwame Ntim and Asempa hene are one and the same and if KK was also wiser, he would have known that. But I guess, everyone hates Ahoofe, and therefore it was good to see someone taking a swipe at Ahoofe.

These are the IP addresses Francis Kwarteng is using to attack Ahoofe.

Author: asempa hene (67.166.37.221)
Date: 12-19-2013 10:00

Author: Kwame Ntim (67.166.37.221)
Date: 12-19-2013 01:29

And for clueless people who will still come here and argue about this, these are some of Francis Kwarteng's posting under his own article today. Check the same IP address. I can also go under some of his old articles and show you the same IP address he uses here from AURORA, COLORADO

Author: francis kwarteng (67.166.37.221)
Date: 12-19-2013 11:34

Hello fellas,

I have read your pieces and agree with you both. To Kojo T, I have had the same problem with some friends.

This is kwarteng Francis response to his "friend," KK under his article, "It’s Africa’s Moral Responsibility To Keep Nelson Mandela" which was posted here on Dec. 14th. Again, check the IP address and make your own conclusion.

Author: francis kwarteng (67.166.37.221)
Date: 12-15-2013 11:19

Hello KK,

Thanks for your constructive critique.

Well, among other reasons, I used Chimamanda for a good reason.

THE QUESTION: Is Kwarteng Francis jealous of Ahoofe? Or, is it a case of PULL-HIM-DOWN mentality like many of the stupid so called African educated? Or, is it a case of someone suffering from inferiority complex syndrome?
Kwame Ntim 12 years ago

Which Francis Kwarteng are you talking about? I am Kwame Ntim, not Francis Kwarteng. I don't know who asempa hene is. Take your nonsense elsewhere.

Ask Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe. Tell him to tell us what every one else is askin ...
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Which Francis Kwarteng are you talking about? I am Kwame Ntim, not Francis Kwarteng. I don't know who asempa hene is. Take your nonsense elsewhere.

Ask Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe. Tell him to tell us what every one else is asking him.

Please take your nonsense somewhere.

If you have a problem, look for the right guy and stop your nonsense. Fool!
Nyansasem 12 years ago

Kwaseaba. Prove me wrong of the evidence that I have put up there.

What a coward and an idiot.

Kwaseaba. Prove me wrong of the evidence that I have put up there.

What a coward and an idiot.

ENOBA 12 years ago

I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it ...
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I don't get it; why waste your time reading an article from a writer that you deemed to be so boring. The normal person would have skipped it the moment he realizes who the author is. You went through the pains of reading it then turn round to make those comments.

Critique the contents and stop this hypocritical behavior or get a life.

Again, why read a boring article when the series has gotten to number 11.
PHILTY McNASTY 12 years ago

Ask him again bro. What a twerp that he is.

Ask him again bro. What a twerp that he is.

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