Books cats Five Very Good Cats in SF and Fantasy Whether dealing with aliens, dragons, or the supernatural, cats are always the heroes of their own stories… By James Davis Nicoll | Published on June 3, 2024 “White Cat and Butterflies” by Arthur Heyer (1914) Comment 0 Share New Share “White Cat and Butterflies” by Arthur Heyer (1914) Every week, I put up a list on my own website of the books/novellas/games/etc. I have bought or been sent that week. I also put up a poll on Dreamwidth asking readers which works sound interesting to them. I also include one control category: “Cats.” Consistently, the cats option proves more popular than any other book or work. This is no surprise. Cats provide pest control, affectionate companionship, timekeeping (provided one cares only about feeding time), and in a pinch, alternative funerary services. No surprise that in the millennia since cats began associating with humans, they have spread around the globe. Nor is it a surprise to discover that cats1 appear quite frequently in speculative fiction2. Consider these five works. “The Game of Rat and Dragon” by Cordwainer Smith (1955) (Collected in Supernatural Cats and The Best of Cordwainer Smith, among others.) Deepest space is the domain of dragons, intangible beings who inflict madness and death on hapless human travelers. Intense light kills dragons… or it would, if it weren’t for the fact that dragons are too swift to target. Alone, humans would be doomed. Humans are not alone. From the POV of humanity’s telepathic feline companions like Captain Wow and Lady May, dragons are merely peculiar rats. The cats’ psionic senses can spot rats or dragons and alert their doting human allies within milliseconds. Rat or dragon, with the cats on stage, the predators are doomed. Why the story about Captain Wow and Lady May, and not the ones featuring girly-girl C’Mell? Because while cats might be people, cats and cat people are different and deserve their own separate essays. Alien by Ridley Scott (dir.) and Dan O’Bannon (screenwriter) (1979) Investigating a mysterious transmission, commercial space tug Nostromo discovers an alien craft. Within the craft are alien eggs the humans should not have investigated as closely as they did. One egregious violation of basic safety protocol later, and a ravenous alien predator begins picking off the delectable hapless human crew, one by one. In addition to the humans, Nostromo has a feline crewmember, Jones. Far more sensible than most of its human companions, Jonesy prudently avoids the alien. Not merely that, but by graciously permitting Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley to convey Jones to a lifeboat, the heroic cat saves Ripley’s life. No doubt Ripley would tell a slightly different version of the events. But consider: Jonesy is the only protagonist of the first movie to survive the franchise because it is the only protagonist that exits the series as soon as escape is practical. What’s more likely, that the cat saved the human or that the human somehow fumbled their way into saving the cat? Barbary by Vonda McIntyre (1986) Orphan Barbary’s constant companion is her cat, Mickey. Barbary takes Mickey with her from foster home to foster home. This becomes problematic when Yoshi and Thea offer Barbary a new home. Yoshi and Thea live in a space station. Pets are not allowed. Barbary is ingenious enough to smuggle Mickey on board, but keeping Mickey hidden proves more difficult. Luckily for Mickey, like many previous human domiciles, the station has rats. Mickey earns a place in a traditional role as pest control. Not content with this, Mickey also takes an unexpected central role in a first contact situation. Fortunately for humanity, allergic reactions to cat dander are not a universal trait. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (2001) The feline Maurice, his rat companions, and their human boy Keith have human-level intelligence. They use this to exploit gullible humans. They arrive in a new town where the cunning rats stage a distressing rodent infestation. Keith and Maurice then make the problem vanish in return for reasonable renumeration. The troupe arrives in Bad Blintz to discover that the town has an existing rat problem and also established rat catchers. Curiously, despite abundant evidence of an infestation, Maurice’s educated rats find little evidence of actual rats. Have Maurice and company encountered a rival group of con artists? The truth is far worse. There are many stories about talking animals that simply walk past, eyes averted, the fact that some animals are predators while others are prey. This is not one of those books. When a Cat Faces West by Yuki Urushibara (2018-2020) Flows (transient reality warps) bedevil Japan. While Flow is rarely lethal, often not even dangerous, it makes life much more difficult. One discovers that all corners (including blade edges) have suddenly vanished, or that one has been transformed from adult to tween. Hence the existence of Flow disposal officials. Flow disposal expert Hirato relies on a combination of expertise and sloth. Experience has shown him that most Flow vanishes on its own as long as humans do not exacerbate the situation. However, there are exceptions. He deals with the exceptions. His partner in this enterprise? His cat Shacho, who has a well-honed ability to sense Flow. (Note: in many manga it’s not clear if the cats are toms or queens. Shacho is unambiguously a tomcat.) Of course, there are many science-fictional and fantastic cats I could have mentioned but did not. In some cases I had good reason—Space Cat got his own essay years ago; and while I enjoyed horror author’s Junji Ito’s touching Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, the manga is entirely mundane despite the impression Junji Ito’s art might give. I am sure I’ve missed many reader favorites. Feel free to inform us all in the comments below.[end-mark] Cat people form a different, although closely related, category. ︎Of course, works about cats are found everywhere, not just in spec fic. Noted SF author Xiran Jay Zhao kindly introduced many lucky people to the cat poems of Song Dynasty poet Lu You, a man who having acquired a cat to manage his rat problem soon found himself its servant. ︎The post Five Very Good Cats in SF and Fantasy appeared first on Reactor.

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“I could just gobble them right up!” isn’t an uncommon phrase when it comes to seeing a baby, but some animals take it a bit too literally. Known as filial cannibalism, chowing down on your offspring might seem a bit heartless to us – not to mention counterintuitive when it comes to species survival – but there are a number of reasons why it might happen.A lack of what they needHamsters look pretty adorable, but even the cutest of creatures can be driven to extremes under particular circumstances. In the case of European hamsters found in the west of the continent, a diet based mostly on maize grown across vast areas led to a deadly deficiency.In a study attempting to determine how monoculture crops might affect the reproduction of this endangered species, researchers discovered that maize-fed females exhibited high rates of maternal infanticide and cannibalism, even storing their pups ready to eat alongside their stores of regular food.This, the team determined, was the result of a lack of vitamin B3 or niacin. In humans, this deficiency causes a disease called pellagra, in part characterized by damage to the nervous system that can then lead to changes in behavior.The study authors concluded it was a similar situation in the European hamsters and, when given vitamin B3 supplementation, the normally chill critters thankfully returned to not snacking on their babies.Getting back in the gameSpeaking of satisfying needs, male blennies' desire to get themselves back on the market can see them ditch their caregiving duties in favor of spitting out, or even eating, the eggs in their brood.Researchers studying the barred-chin blenny found that when males are around eggs, their levels of a group of reproduction-related hormones called androgens hit a low. As a result, they can’t start courting again, which stops them from helping to make any more clutches – not great from an evolutionary, “I need to pass on my genes,” point of view.Not always willing to wait for the eggs to hatch in order to restart the process, when clutches are small, male blennies chomp down on them – or spit them out of the nest if their stomachs get full – in order to get rid of them all. After that, their androgen levels shoot back up, and it’s a win-win situation for them: they don’t have to waste energy caring for a small number of eggs and they can start courting female blennies again to hopefully produce a bigger clutch.A low chance of survivalKeepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo ended up hand-rearing a sloth bear cub back in 2014 after its mother “ingested” two of its siblings. The reason? The mother bear might have thought her children wouldn’t survive.The first of the cubs was stillborn and when vets took a look at the rescued cub, it was found to have an infection. "She was ill, with an elevated white blood cell count," Tony Barthel, a mammal curator at the zoo, told National Geographic. "We don't know if this was the case with her other two cubs, but my assumption is they were not well."Pregnancy and motherhood are expensive; in the wild, where resources can be scant, eating offspring that might not survive anyway avoids putting anything to waste. But when mother sloth bears don’t gobble down their young, best believe they’re going to protect them.

It’s enough to bring you out in a cold sweat. That dreaded moment when your boss asks you to schedule a “biweekly” call, and you have no idea what they mean. Is that twice a week or once every two weeks? We know lots of people are stumped by this so, good people that we are, we thought we might try and help. Famous last words…Biweekly, according to the dictionary doyens at Merriam-Webster, means both “twice per week” and “once every two weeks”. Yep. It’s both.“Biweekly and bimonthly each have a pair of meanings that are unhelpfully at odds with one another,” Merriam-Webster confirms, but if you’re looking for sympathy, you won’t find it here. “Those meanings exist, and we cannot ignore them.”Just because a term has two meanings, it doesn’t mean both are used with equal frequency. According to Grammarly, most native American English speakers tend to use “biweekly” when they mean twice a week, but it can still be near-impossible to tell – even from the context – what someone actually means.As a Brit, I feel compelled to point out here that we already have a lovely word that might help in these scenarios: fortnightly. With this, we can reserve biweekly to only mean twice a week, and everyone’s blood pressure can drop a couple of points. For some reason, however, this term has not gained much traction on the other side of the Atlantic, leaving scores of native English speakers mired in “biweekly”-based bewilderment.And it doesn’t end there. As Merriam-Webster mentions, “bimonthly” has the same issue, meaning both twice per month and once every two months. Where this gets really tricky is that you could have workers being paid on the same two Fridays every month, but half of them could say they get paid biweekly while the other half could say they get paid bimonthly.How’s that headache feeling?When we get up to years, the confusion theoretically ends: “biannual” means twice a year, while the similar-but-different “biennial” means once every two years. We say, “theoretically ends”, because biannual and biennial are often used interchangeably and incorrectly. It’s basically just really difficult to refer to having two of something.The origin of all this difficulty is the prefix “bi-”, which has always had this double meaning. Originating from Latin, it has various meanings including “two, having two, twice, double, doubly, twofold, once every two.” The ambiguity is, sadly, baked right in.If you’re not ready to adopt fortnightly as an alternative just yet, the best way around this confusion is simply to spell it out – avoid the word biweekly altogether and just tell people whether you mean twice a week or every two weeks.“English is sometimes simply obstreperous,” Merriam-Webster reminds us. So next time you get that dreaded request from your boss, you’ll probably have to just bite the bullet and ask them what exactly they’re looking for.And if this is a common issue for you, you might even consider scheduling yourself a biweekly reminder to check this article. Or bimonthly – whatever works.

A small mystery has rocked X (Twitter) over the weekend, after a junior doctor in the UK found a living goldfish on his lawn.On Saturday, junior doctor Ben Beska heard a group of birds outside, and went to investigate. Instead of the usual objects you tend to find on the grass (more grass and endless weeds), Beska found a goldfish. This was odd (and slow us down if we're talking too much science here) as there was no water source nearby.Beska's timing, though not quite right to see a fish falling from the sky, was pretty good. Improvising using a freezer drawer – very few people keep a goldfish bowl "just in case" – he was able to make a new temporary home for the fish. "It was just about dead," Beska told IFLScience, "but just revived when I put it in the water."              IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.Locking the fish away from his cats, Beska then hastily bought a better tank (i.e. one whose primary function isn't to store pies) in which to house it.             Beska believes the fish was likely out of water for a few minutes, though there are reports of other goldfish surviving for hours without water. Goldfish are pretty hardy creatures, and can even survive for months in anoxic (oxygen-deficient) waters, as their lakes freeze and seal them in. While in these low-oxygen environments, the fish converts toxic lactic acid into ethanol, letting it diffuse out slowly across its gills, a trait they share with crucian carp."The ethanol production allows the crucian carp to be the only fish species surviving and exploiting these harsh environments, thereby avoiding competition and escaping predation by other fish species with which they normally interact in better oxygenated waters," Dr Cathrine Elisabeth Fagernes from the University of Oslo said in a 2017 statement."It's no wonder then that the crucian carp's cousin the goldfish is arguably one of the most resilient pets under human care."Going without oxygen for this long has consequences, however. A study that tested the carps' ability to memorize and navigate mazes before and after placing them in an oxygen-deprived tank found that they suffered "moderate brain damage", though this was repaired fairly quickly.As for how the goldfish ended up on Beska's lawn, there is probably a very simple explanation: a bird likely grabbed it and dropped it, or it was able to wriggle free. Though the fish being "back to health" is described as a "bit of a stretch" by Beska, the fish is still alive."It is a bit worse for wear and fingers crossed it lives," he added. Beska has named the fish Alice, after he texted a friend and "it's alive" autocorrected to "it's Alice".

Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida was a central figure in the recent UFO hearings, where three whistleblowers claimed the United States government knows a lot more than it’s admitting when it comes to unidentified aerial phenomena, now called UAPs. “It does appear and for what I’m saying, based on the stonewalling, that they are hiding something,” Rep. Luna told FOX 13. That secrecy, she says is extremely problematic. “If these are programs that are being set up without congressional oversight and are responsible for, you know, billions of dollars being lost, that could be going towards other things. I think that that’s something that absolutely is pertinent,” she said. Among the extraordinary claims made during Thursday’s hearing was that “non-human biologics” have been recovered from a crashed craft. While Rep. Luna says she hasn’t seen a UAP herself, she says she has laid eyes on other evidence ripped straight from a science fiction movie. “Based on the evidence that I have personally seen, the technology that exists is something that I don’t think any government has currently,” Rep. Luna said. “When I was at Eglin Air Force Base, I did see a photo and I also talked to the pilots of something that is definitely not created by our Department of Defense,” she added. She says she’s working to get that photo declassified and a lot more. “It’s a huge national security issue, but also, too, it’s an issue of government transparency,” she said. The post Florida congresswoman on UFO’s: “They are hiding something” appeared first on Anomalien.com.

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck made his latest Fox News appearance late Friday on Fox News @ Night and partnered with host Trace Gallagher and The Federalist’s Evita Duffy to ridicule the liberal media’s deranged and overly excited reactions to Thursday’s criminal conviction of former President Trump by a Manhattan jury. Gallagher first had correspondent Matt Finn set the table with a mash-up of clips, including ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar admitting she lost control of her bladder upon hearing the verdict, The View’s Sunny Hostin claiming she has sources inside the Manhattan D.A.’s office hoping for jail time, and Chris Matthews predicting “violence” by Trump supporters.     Houck reacted by saying it “remind[ed]” him “of the Judge Alito controversy” in that he came away with the same concern for all these hyper-partisan lefties, which is concern for whether they have anything else to occupy their minds besides melting down about Trump. “[D]o these people have hobbies? Like, do they do things for fun? Like, do they have kids or a spouse or a dog? Like do they like sports? I really wonder what do they do with their free time because it’s so apocalyptic and it’s so like faux doomsday nonsense,” Houck explained to a chuckling Gallagher.  Houck added the clips fall into two trains of thought: “Because you have that, and then, you also have the more ebullient kind of talk on The View where they are very excited about this. Too much information, Joy Behar. It’s — it’s bizarre. They don’t really know quite what they want to do in reacting to this verdict.” Later, Houck sounded off on the split decision by the liberal networks to carry vs. not carry Trump’s Friday morning remarks at Trump Tower. After noting “ABC and CBS...didn’t even carry network special reports on it” and instead aired regular episodes of The View and Price Is Right, respectively,  Houck worked in last week’s big study he co-wrote with Rich Noyes about the obsessive network coverage of the trial as a way of showing their disconnect with letting Trump speak: I mean, that’s interesting, because as I noted in a piece that ran at FoxNews.com and in NewsBusters, there were 640 minutes on this trial during the broadcast networks, and then, through this morning, it went up to 780 minutes. So, you spend all this time on the trial, but to let the man at the center of it being charged, speak? Ehh, no thanks. Reacting to The View ladies, Duffy noted “there is no diversity of opinions on The View” and are disconnected from younger voters and minorities with the former so focused on Gaza to focus elsewhere and the latter seeing “what’s happening to Trump, and they’re getting flashbacks of Venezuela, of Cuba, of the totalitarian regimes that they left.” Gallagher also had Duffy react to a viral piece from CNN legal analyst Elie Honig in New York Magazine admitting the charges brought by far-left Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg were “obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented” and “contorted...in an unprecedented manner in their quest to snare their prey.” Duffy said this wasn’t surprising given much of the general public knows “this is unprecedented” and Trump’s someone “who represents anti globalism and all of the things that the state, that — that the elites and media” hate. To see the relevant FNC transcript from May 31, click “expand.” FNC’s Fox News @ Night with Trace Gallagher May 31, 2024 11:14 p.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Mainstream Media Celebrates Trump Conviction] TRACE GALLAGHER: Meantime, to the media’s mainstream — or mainstream media’s wall-to-wall coverage of the trial culminating in what became a celebration of sorts after the guilty verdicts were read. Matt Finn is live with that part of the story, Matt, good evening. MATT FINN: Trace, some members of the media have not been able to contain their excitement over former President Trump’s conviction, and here are some of the ladies of The View. JOY BEHAR [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I was at Costco buying, you know, 10 boxes of Keurig coffee and my watch started to buzz, and I got so excited, I started leaking a little bit. HOSTIN [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I felt like America won. BEHAR [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: Yep. HOSTIN [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I felt like New York won. I felt like the Manhattan D.A.’s Office won. I felt like I won. FINN: And here is Trump opponent, Adam Schiff, and host of Morning Joe on MSNBC. CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA) [on MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports, 05/31/24]: Trump and his MAGA followers are, you know, digging in — [SCREEN WIPE] — trying to tear down the system. CHRIS MATTHEWS [on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 05/31/24]: There is going to be violence, there is going to be trouble. [SCREEN WIPE] This is wrong. There is going to be some problems here, maybe some violence. And this President — former President should not have done what he did. MIKA BRZEZINSKI [on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 05/31/24]: I don’t think he has a problem with the concept of violence. FINN: And The View and CNN discussing the prospect of former President Trump going to jail. WHOOPI GOLDBERG [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: If we are going to treat this man, who used to be president, like everybody else, you are convicted of felonies, you got to juice a little bit of time. HOSTIN [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I spent this morning speaking to someone from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He believes that they will recommend a one-year term in prison. When you spend a year in prison in New York or under, you serve in Rikers Island. Okay? NORM EISEN [on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, 05/30/24]: I think Alvin Bragg is going to ask for a sentence of incarceration, and I think Judge Merchan will very seriously weigh that. FINN: Former President Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, Trace. GALLAGHER: We’ll be there, Matt. FINN: Yeah. GALLAGHER: Matt, good to see you. Let’s bring in NewsBusters’s managing editor, Curtis Houck, and the Federalist staff contributor, Evita Duffy. Thank you both for coming on. I have to play it one more time just because it’s worth watching. This is the ladies of The View with their embarrassing take on this. Watch. ANA NAVARRO [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I was schizophrenic because part of me was like, yay. And part of me was like, you know what? This is really serious. Yay. This is really serious. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: ‘The View’ Celebrates Donald Trump’s Conviction] HOSTIN [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: I didn’t feel somber. I felt like the Knicks won the tournament. BEHAR [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: My watch started to buzz and I got so excited, I started leaking a little bit. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN [on ABC’s The View, 05/31/24]: He is going to do and say absolutely anything that he can to get elected. So, buckle up because that’s rage and retribution. GALLAGHER: I mean, the last woman, Alyssa, she used to work for him, Evita Duffy. That’s the whole thing. It’s amazing, they could not care less about the facts of this case. This was all about get Trump, I don’t care what the cost. EVITA DUFFY: Well, exact — that’s exactly right. And, of course, it’s The View, which is supposed to be a diversity of opinions. And there is no diversity of opinions on The View, there never is, but here’s the deal, Trace. You have young people and minorities turning away from Democrats in droves. And this, this rhetoric, from The View and from other Democrats in the corporate media is not helping. For his — for minorities, specifically, Hispanics, they are looking at what’s happening — what’s happening to Trump, and they’re getting flashbacks of Venezuela, of Cuba, of the totalitarian regimes that they left. Young people, on the other hand, they are really animated by Gaza. But they can’t even tell you where Gaza is on a map. They are really, I think, showing that they are disillusioned with the system, that the — that their futures are being destroyed by them — GALLAGHER: Yeah. DUFFY: — by — by this system that’s created by — by Biden and Democrats in general. And so, this rhetoric from the people on The View is not resonating with the people that Democrats need to win over —  GALLAGHER: Right. DUFFY: — if they have a chance at winning in November. GALLAGHER: I think it’s worth playing Morning Joe crew again. Because the only people who top The View are the people on Morning Joe. Watch, Curtis. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Scarborough: “It Hurts to See People Hate America”] JOE SCARBOROUGH [on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 05/31/24]: They degrade themselves. And they slander America. [SCREEN WIPE] It hurts to see people hate America. MIKE BARNICLE [on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 05/31/24]: This is a reason to stop and think and maybe even get depressed over the reaction on the other side. The anti-Americanism that filled the air last night. EUGENE ROBINSON,[on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, 05/31/24]: Trashing this — this incredible institution is just appalling, and shame on them. GALLAGHER: I mean, Curtis, you got to love the drama coming out of there, right? Because now, dissent and disagreement in America is just — it’s anti American. It’s an assault on democracy. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Media Reaction to Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict] CURTIS HOUCK,: Yes. I mean, Trace, this coverage kind of reminds me of the Judge Alito controversy, where I watch all these clips. And I’m like, do these people have hobbies? Like, do they do things for fun? [GALLAGHER LAUGHS] Like, do they have kids or a spouse or a dog? Like do they like sports? I really wonder what do they do with their free time — GALLAGHER: Yeah. HOUCK: — because it’s so apocalyptic and it’s so like faux doomsday nonsense. Because you have that, and then, you also have the more ebullient kind of talk on The View where they are very excited about this. Too much information, Joy Behar. GALLAGHER: Yeah. HOUCK: It’s — it’s bizarre. They don’t really know quite what they want to do in reacting to this verdict. GALLAGHER: Yeah, I want to read this and I need quick answers, because I’ve only got a couple of minutes left. But the this is from New York Magazine. This is the lead legal guy at CNN. He writes: “The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor in New York, Wyoming, anywhere has ever charged federal election laws as a director of predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None, ever. Prosecutors get their man, for now at least, but they also contorted the law in an unprecedented manner in their quest to snare their prey.” He might not be invited back on CNN, Evita. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: CNN Analyst: Prosecutors “Contorted the Law”] DUFFY: Yeah, I think that people know that this is unprecedented. I think that they are viewing this as a — as a political persecution against them, in the same way that it is against Trump. This is a man who represents anti globalism and all of the things that the state, that — that the elites and media and in our — in our other institutions believe in, and they are realizing that this is the same persecution against them, as [inaudible]. GALLAGHER: Meantime today, The New York Times writes, “Several major networks cut away from former President Donald J. Trump on Friday during an appearance that had been promoted as a news conference.” I mean, Biden told 15 lies in 18 minutes, Curtis, on CBS. Oh, yes, totally fine. Trump? Oh, cut away. Cut away, don’t let him talk. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Networks Cut Away From Donald Trump’s Speech] HOUCK: ABC and CBS, Trace, didn’t even carry network special reports on it. You know? GALLAGHER: Mmhmm. HOUCK: I mean, they carried The Price Is Right and they carried that nonsense we are playing on The View, instead. I mean, that’s interesting, because as I noted in a piece that ran at FoxNews.com and in NewsBusters, there were 640 minutes on this trial during the broadcast networks, and then, through this morning, it went up to 780 minutes. So, you spend all this time on the trial, but to let the man at the center of it being charged, speak? Ehh, no thanks. GALLAGHER: Again, assaulting democracy, Curtis Houck, Evita Duffy, thank you both. HOUCK: Thanks, Trace.

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