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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 16, 2013

Not Now Silly has been publishing Headlines Du Jour since October 29th. The NNS news team has learned a few things in that time. The biggest problem? The headlines simply won’t wait. They’re ready when they’re ready and not a moment before. And worse yet, they’re only stale when they’ve gone stale and not a moment too soon. The dilemma? The line between the two is so narrow, that one can’t always tell the difference. Which is why Not Now Silly will hire only the most discerning and intelligent interns and then pay them nothing. So, let’s see which intern didn’t hold up their end and needs retooling.

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

White supremacy’s long shadow: Why the myth of “race” still haunts America

POLITCAL CORNER:

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional
District court ruling finds key parts of Utah polygamy laws unconstitutional.

MAKE WAR, NOT PEACE:

Female protester pictured kissing policeman accused of sexual assault

FREE THE WEED:

Here’s How Many Pot Shops Will
Open In Denver After Weed Is Legal

Fort Lauderdale stockbroker ‘living
proof’ medical marijuana works

A NEW FOX “NEWS” LIE IN THE NEWS:

 
Krauthammer Tells PBS Viewers:
If You Want the Whole Story, ‘Try Fox’

MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS:

Slate Writer Who Questioned ‘White Santa’ on
Megyn Kelly’s Response: She ‘Played the Victim’

Black Marxist Jesus? Ask Megyn Kelly about this.

RELIGION CORNER:

Pope Francis Addresses ‘Ultraconservatives’ (and Limbaugh?) Calling Him a Marxist

TRUE STORY: THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OLD”:

John Boehner’s Budget Outburst
Shows Right-Wing Groups
Have Jumped The Shark

FLORIDUH’S NEXT SHOW TRIAL:

Another Stand Your Ground showdown?

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Poverty nation: How America created a low-wage work swamp
For decades, both parties supplanted a push for higher
wages with well-intended public aid. The result: calamity

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

When Detroit paved over paradise: The story of I-375

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 15, 2013

Set loose throughout the internet, the Not Now Silly interns have been collecting headlines nightly for the better part of two months now. They are provisioned with wicker baskets and told not to return until they’re full. It’s only then they are allowed any food and water. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Judge says giant cross must be removed from San Diego mountain

HELLO, NSA? ARE YOU THERE? GOOGLE? HELLO? IS THIS THING ON?

Who’s Watching You Watch Porn?
Privacy experts warn that advertisers, even the
NSA, could be following your visits to adult sites.

I GOTCHER MEGYN KELLY CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Operation White Christmas targets white
supremacist gangs, authorities say

FREE THE WEED:

Uruguay’s Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: ‘Stop Lying’

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Federal Judge Describes, Then Supports Plot to Rob Detroit Pensioners

Red Wings arena deal with Ilitch family wins approval from Detroit downtown authority

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Previously unknown DNA code could help humanity defy aging and death

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Hannity, Atheist Go Head-to-Head
in Heated Battle Over the War to
End All Wars on Christmas™

Bolling Battles Atheist over Christmas
Display: ‘Wow, How Mean Can You Be?’

Andrew Sullivan Calls Fox ‘One of the
Most Powerful Forces Against Christianity’

NO-LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY BACK IN THE NEWS:

What Megyn Kelly Did — And Didn’t — Learn
From The Reaction To Her White Santa Segment

Megyn Kelly Defends White Santa “Jest”: “Fox News,
And Yours Truly, Are Big Targets For Many People”

Megyn Kelly Is A Small Slender Liar!!!

Megyn Kelly Defends Her Santa Comments,
Attacks Critics For ‘Race Baiting’

Megyn Kelly doubles down on ‘white Santa’: I did it for the kids

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Warning: the universe could be about ready to collapse on us

A Rare Glimpse of the Moon Orbiting the Earth From Afar

China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 13, 2013

It’s Friday the 13th and the Not Now Silly news interns have been toiling all night long in the darkest recesses of the internet, collecting only the must scrumptious headlines for your reading pleasure. So, here are today’s unlucky Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE OF THE MONTH:

U.S. Charity Revealed As Buyer
Of Hopi Masks, Promises To
Return Artifacts To Tribe

LGBT NEWS:

George Clooney Addresses Gay Rumors In The Best Way Possible

TODAY IN IMMIGRATION:

Arizona detective quits after learning she’s
been living in the U.S. illegally since childhood

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Virginia GOP senatorial candidate: Desegregation
‘was the beginning of the decline’ for schools

Volunteer fire chief resigns over shockingly offensive Facebook posts, but denies he’s racist

COMPASSION CORNER:

Startup CEO Wishes Homeless ‘Degenerates’ Would
Stop Ruining ‘The Civilized Part’ Of San Francisco

IT’S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL:

We Found This 20-Year-Old T-Shirt In Kenya. The Internet Found The Original Owner

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade
Mocks Nelson Mandela Sign
Language Interpreter

Other ‘Verifiable Facts’ for Fox to Investigate
About Your Favorite Christmas Characters

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Wants Kids At Home To Know That Jesus And Santa Were White

What Megyn Kelly’s White Santa Says About Power Dynamics In Journalism

The (Race) War on Christmas: Megyn Kelly Declares ‘Santa Claus Just Is White’ and So Was Jesus

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Rachel Maddow: GOP in shambles as internal war goes public

GOP Planning on Tighter Control Over 2016
Primaries: Fewer Debates, Better Moderators

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOD:

For Budget Deal, Paul Ryan Called the Jesus of the Republican Party

THE NEWEST EXCUSE FOR RICH PEOPLE TO GET AWAY WITH MANSLAUGHTER:

Texas man who lost wife and daughter to rich kid drunk driver fuming over sentence

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford: Daniel Dale tells us why he’s taking legal action
I am serving the mayor of Toronto with a libel notice. Here’s why.

Rob Ford: Daniel Dale files libel notice against Toronto mayor
Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale has served a libel notice against Mayor Rob Ford and Vision
TV in connection with comments Ford made on Conrad Black’s television show The Zoomer.

BEST HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

The woolly jumper flashmob that became a YouTube hit
Loes Veenstra spent 50 years knitting woolly jumpers on her home street in
Rotterdam only to pack them away, never to be worn. Surely she and they
deserved better? Enter one very colourful (and toasty) flashmob

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 12, 2013

While you were sleeping the Now Now Silly news team was wandering up and down, back and forth, throughout the entire internet to gather nothing but the best in headlines. Only when they return are they finally fed their one meal a day. But don’t be concerned for them because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

It Takes A McDonald’s Worker 4 Months
To Earn What The CEO Gets In An Hour

TODAY IN GOD:

Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds

FINALLY! A FAIR AND BALANCED REPORT!!!

Rupert Murdoch Called
‘Evil’ In His Own Newspaper

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Ignores Guest’s Depiction
Of Danish PM As “Danish Pastry”

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade tells general:
Iraq was a ‘great place’ until U.S. left

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Christmas is a Pagan Holiday – Get Over it Already

6 conspiracy theories about the imaginary war on Christmas

Satanists & Atheists Vie For Space In Florida Capitol

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops killed Harlem man after they mistook friendly Taser fire for knife stab: lawsuit

The “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Plan to “Punish” Democrats Is Probably the Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Heard Of

Republicans’ self-hatred swells: The GOP vs. its own base

MORE DISPATCHES ABOUT DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Sci-fi pilot ’12 Monkeys’ filming in Detroit,
will get $1.5M in state incentives

What Should Be Done About Detroit? A Gawker Internal Debate

FREE THE WEED:

Denver legalizes marijuana for use on private property

Uruguay legalizing marijuana breaks
drug control treaty, says watchdog

Study finds no link between teen
pot use and schizophrenia risk

CRACKHEAD CORNER:

Daniel Dale: Rob Ford is lying about me, and it’s vile
Literally every single thing Mayor Rob Ford told Conrad Black about
my conduct on May 2, 2012 is false in some way. Let’s go lie by lie.

RUTLES NEWS:

DVD Review: Mock songs give life to ‘The Rutles’

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 10, 2013

During the night, while the world slept peacefully, the Not Now Silly interns were set loose on the internet and told not to return until they had collected 22 pounds of headlines, each. Just when they think they are done, they learn they won’t be fed until they’ve culled the night’s catch until only the best remain. Which is why you can now read today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Woman Goes for Jog, Gets Hit by Flying Deer

ANOTHER SKIRMISH IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Sandy Rios On The War On Christmas: ‘This Is Exactly What Hitler Did In Nazi Germany’

OPTIMISM IS OVER-RATED:

We are deluding ourselves: The apocalypse is coming — and technology can’t save us

FREE THE WEED:

Zeoform: A New Plastic That Turns Hemp Into Almost Anything

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Kentucky Man Sets Gun On Toilet Paper Dispenser
While Using Restroom, Gun Goes Off

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News Reportedly Paid Fired
Exec Millions In “Hush Money”

Forthcoming Gabriel Sherman Book Reportedly
Drove A Wedge In Fox’s Public Relations Team

Book Club: How Fox News Built Its
Scream Machine In The Obama Era

Fox News guest tells female host to quit,
get married, have babies and ‘thank men’

SISTER SARAH:

Sarah Palin to Host Show
on Sportsman Channel

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Gold-embossed business cards created for Clement, Hawn against rules: documents

OY VEY, CANADA:

“Superman’s” forgotten Jewish roots

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

‘Shockingly racist’ sign about Chiefs,
Redskins brings restaurant apology

Passing for white and straight:
How my looks hide my identity

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Catholic high school teacher fired after applying for same-sex wedding license

GOP Congressman Wants NRCC to
Cut Off Funding for Gay Candidates

Anti-Gay Think Tank: ‘Its Not Bigorty Its Biology’

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

A Museum Grows On Kercheval; Its Founders
Are Out-Of-Town Artists Who Dig Detroit

After Millions Spent On Repairs, I-94 Is
Dark Again Thanks To Copper Thieves

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Why Are Upworthy Headlines
Suddenly Everywhere?

My Facebook angst
The social network site kicks up so much anxiety and embarrassment for me. But that doesn’t mean I want to quit it

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

◄◄ D-List Celebrity Death Match ►►
Paris Hilton’s brother blames
Lohan for assault at Miami party

Barron Hilton, 24, says man struck him after
receiving orders to do so from Lindsay Lohan

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mirrors in Giant Magellan Telescope ready to capture light from dawn of universe

In a “Rainbow” Universe Time
May Have No Beginning

TODAY IN BEATLES NEWS:

In Havana, 95-year-Old Minds Lennon Statue’s Specs

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 9, 2013

As the world sleeps Not Now Silly sends out its News Team to collect nothing but the finest in headlines for your reading pleasure. That’s how you can pour yourself a cup of coffee and start your day with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Texas campus cop empties gun on unarmed student: ‘Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?’

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Founding Fathers’ Words Reveal 2nd
Amendment Was… To Preserve Slavery?

AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder
demand; FBI can secretly turn your laptop camera on

WHAT’S THIS YOUNGER GENERATION COMING TO?

Student expelled after threatening to kill, cook classmate

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook Considers Adding
a ‘Sympathize’ Button

For when you’ve seen something … but can’t ‘like’ it.

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s funeral

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

What Ruin Porn Means to a City Rebuilding Itself

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

You think Ford is bad?
Get a grip. He’s hardly the only
mayor to have disgraced his office

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

Rock ‘n’ roll rip-off:
Failed rockstar, big spender

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”

Surprising Friendship Between Norwegian Dog And Wild Fox

OH! CANADA!!!

Potentially damaging Jackpine oilsands
mine expansion OK’d by Ottawa

Environment minister says negative environmental
effect is ‘justified in the circumstances’

Harper, tell the truth
Stephen Harper may be about to become the Richard Nixon of Canada.

John Ivison: As PM prepares for Israel trip, speculation
abounds: Will he resign after he returns?

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 8, 2013

While you were sleeping the Not Now Silly news team went creeping and crawling thru’ the internets with one mission in mind: Bring back nothing but the best in news headlines. Let’s get right to it with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN WTF? NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD
Has Been Charged With Assault
Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I’D BE AN ARCHEOLOGIST:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘God Help Us’: Fox News Columnist Calls Pope Francis the ‘Catholic Church’s Obama’

ALL I NEED IS THE AIR THAT I BREATH:

Shanghai’s Choking Smog
Registers ‘Beyond Index’

TODAY IN FOLK MUSIC:

Bob Dylan Stratocaster sets auction
record, sells for nearly $1 million

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Axel Foley Is Coming Back To Detroit
In Another ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Film

THE HEAD BECKERHEAD:

Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed
into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

◄◄ From the Wayback Machine ►►
The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious Alien Planet in
Farthest-ever Orbit Discovered

UA Astronomers Discover
Planet That Shouldn’t Be There

Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible
Sighting by NASA’s WISE

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 2, 2013

Welcome to another thrill-packed edition of Headlines Du Jour. Today I am adding to the format slightly. When appropriate I will be printing quotes from the articles cited to give more context and/or irony. Today there happens to be two such headlines that deserved more context. So, let’s get right to the news while it’s still fresh.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Florida Tea Party Leader Bashes Gay GOP Group

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?


Santorum: Denying women birth control
coverage is a First Amendment right

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week

TODAY’S VOLLEY IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Target Canada will not be playing Christmas music

FREE THE WEED:

3 More Michigan Cities Free Up Marijuana

Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable.
We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic
and racism as opposed to science or medicine

Doob??? Really???

QUOTE: “One has to ask in these circumstances what the benefit to society is,” says University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob. Forty years ago, the Le Dain report also questioned the notion that overly harsh laws were harmless if not strictly enforced. Aside from the occasional outlandishly severe sentence, rational people lose respect for laws that are irrational, corroding the faith that citizens — especially young people — ought to place in institutions.

Prohibition Then and Now
A Not Now Silly investigative report

FREE THE CRACK:

Mayor Ford draws a crowd at Bills game

Rob Ford to start YouTube show: Why it won’t work

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators
use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

10 Mysteries we’ve solved in the past year…

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Tucker Carlson Backs Lara Logan on Benghazi:
‘Sometimes the Best Stories Have Flaky Sources’

IRONY ALERT!!!

QUOTE: “Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately,” Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson’s the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller “owes the senators and its readers an apology.”

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Social media are a tool for Detroit Police
to answer critics, expand investigations

Enjoy Detroit TV Nostalgia? Catch ‘Remember When’ On WTVS Monday

BULLY CORNER:

Father Of Girl Who Committed Suicide Speaks
Out Against Ginger Bullying, ‘Kick A Ginger Day’

Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads
Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day
Another Not Now Silly investagative report

IN SOUTH FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami readies its new front porch: the $131 million Perez Art Museum

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal

SCIENCE CORNER:

Chinese Train that Never Stops

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thanksgiving Day!!! ► Thursday, November 28, 2013

On this very special day the entire Not Now Silly News Team is grateful for all the headlines out there and for all our readers in here. We couldn’t — wouldn’t — do it without you. Here’s is today’s exciting holiday edition of Headlines Du Jour.

SO THANKFUL WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Residents shocked that DeKalb County,
Georgia, juror form lists ‘slave’ as occupation

Manitoba restaurant owner says she’s closing because of racism

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Stephen Henderson: Rally around Kevyn Orr to hold off Detroit’s financial buzzards

Tom Walsh: Warren Buffett gets it – Detroit is still alive and kicking

AND IN WORLD NEWS:

Israel heads for a terrifying split

FREE THE WEED:

Members Of Congress To California U.S.
Attorney: Back Off Marijuana Prosecutions

MANNA FROM HEAVEN:

Pot Falls From the Sky in San Diego

SPEAKING OF RELIGION:

The Unfair Tax Exemption for Politically Active Churches Must End

No, Obama Is Not Closing The Vatican Embassy

VOTER RESTRICTION NEWS:

Some Florida Election Supervisors Stunned By New Voter Restrictions

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox Business host Stuart Varney lectures Pope Francis about capitalism and religion

Greta Van Susteren Hypes Phony Postal Service War On Christmas

Fox Nation vs. Reality: The U.S. Closes Imaginary Vatican City Embassy

10 Headlines Fox News Might Have Written Had
They Existed During Key Points in U.S. History

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford investigation: Judge orders release of censored parts of police document
Remaining blacked-out information about the mayor and his associates could be made public Dec. 6, under a ruling by Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, November 27, 2013

While the rest of the world rests, the Not Now Silly news team is not allowed any sleep. Provisioned for the job at hand the NNS news team enters the internet through a coaxial cable in NNS Headquarters and collects as many headlines as they can safely carry. Then they bring them back where they are compiled into today’s Headlines Du Jour

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Supreme Court takes up birth control cases

Obama administration proposes new limits on tax-exempt political groups

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge orders expedited marriage license
so terminally ill woman can wed partner

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Florida Christian School Threatens to Kick
Out Black Girl Over Her Natural Hair

Prosecutors Say This Ohio Man Plotted
A One-Man Racist Killing Spree

Where Do the Most Racist and Homophobic
People In America Live? Check This Map

GOD BLESS ‘MERKA:

America is the Stingiest Rich Country in the World

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News: Now the Anti-Obamacare Propaganda Channel

O’Reilly Factor’s Watters Takes on Rob
Ford: ‘Are You Having Fun Right Now?’

O’Reilly Factor is Rob Ford’s craziest interview yet

MORE DISPATCHED FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit bankruptcy creditors ask judge to
take steps toward sale of DIA treasures

This Is What Detroit Could Look Like In 2033 … And Beyond

CRACK CORNER:

“This isn’t Toronto,” says sheriff after arresting Florida mayor
Oh brother, now small town sheriffs are using our mayor as an example

RELIGION CORNER:


 

Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down
economics to shreds in new policy statement

Dan Savage Was Last Straw — Catholic Group
Demands Bill Maher’s HBO Show Gets Canceled

IN OUTER SPACE:

Birth of black hole witnessed, marking watershed moment for astronomy

Mach 1,000 shock wave lights supernova remnant
Astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward
heats Tycho’s supernova remnant and causes it to emit X-ray light.

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