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Ciudades sede de Mundial 2026 revelan sus logos oficiales

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Ciudades sede de Mundial 2026 revelan sus logos oficiales

Tan solo unas horas después de que FIFA revelara el logo oficial de la Copa del Mundo 2026, las ciudades sede del torneo también dieron a conocer sus logos individuales.

De acuerdo a la FIFA el logo con el 26 en blanco y el trofeo en primer plano fue hecho para que cada ciudad le diera su propia personalidad.

Es la primera vez en la historia de los mundiales que el logo está compuesto por el año del torneo y el trofeo y las 16 sedes de la Copa del Mundo podrán customizarlo para representar la personalidad de cada una de ellas.

Estados Unidos cuenta con once ciudades que auspiciarán el Mundial 2026.

ATLANTA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium

!Es hora de mostrarles cómo se hacen las cosas en el sur. El escenario del mundo. Nuestro territorio. La Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026 ya está aquí”, tuiteó la cuenta oficial de la sede.

Sin embargo, la sede colocó un logo en la portada con fondo azul y uno en su perfil que muestra una variedad de tonalidades.

LOS ANGELES – SoFi Stadium

California tiene dos sedes y la ciudad angelina es la que desveló ya su logo a la espera de que en las próximas horas lo haga San Francisco.

Como era de esperarse, lo hizo con colores vivos y con el SoFi Stadium como parte de su promocional.

HOUSTON – NRG Stadium

Houston fue la primera sede en revelar su propio logo para 2026.

La ciudad texana pintó de azul cielo el logo presentado una noche antes.

 

DALLAS – AT&T Stadium

Texas cuenta con dos ciudades sede e instantes después de que Houston revelara su logo Dallas hizo lo propio.

Esta sede utilizó verde oscuro para diferenciarse del resto de las ciudades.

 

NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY – MetLife Stadium

La ciudad newoyorquina presentó su logo con tonalidades oscuras, un fondo verde y un azul marino elegante.

KANSAS CITY – Arrowhead Stadium

“¡Hey, tenemos nuevo look!”, tuiteó Kansas City desde su cuenta oficial de Twitter.

Esta sede de Estados Unidos muy sencillo con fondo blanco y el 26 de un rosa vivo.

 

PHILADELPHIA – Lincoln Financial Field

“SOMOS FILADELFIA. SOMOS 26. Mostrémosle al mundo cómo llegamos a Broad Street con #WeAre26”, así fue como se dio a conocer el logo con colores en azul y rojo.

 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA – Levi’s Stadium

Aún sin un mensaje hacia la afición, San Francisco mostró un diseño en rojo vivo que luce con uno de los íconos de la ciudad, el Golden Gate.

 

 

 

Estas imágenes podrían ayudar a resolver el misterio del Titanic

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Estas imágenes podrían ayudar a resolver el misterio del Titanic

Desde el descubrimiento de los restos del Titanic en 1985, el interés por este infausto naufragio ha ido en aumento, y alcanzó su punto álgido con el estreno de la película homónima en 1997.

La investigación en torno a esta tragedia que truncó la vida de casi 3.300 pasajeros no ha cesado. Y ahora, la compañía especialista en intervención submarina y mapeo de fondos marinos Magellan Ltd, junto a Atlantic Productions, ha logrado realizar una reconstrucción 3D que muestra con detalle cómo fue el barco y cómo pudo haber sido el golpe con el iceberg que provocó su hundimiento.

Hasta el momento, parte de la información que se tenía sobre el Titanic había sido fruto de la especulación; algo alimentado además por la creación cinematográfica y el foco en relatos personales, que contaban con flacas certezas testimoniales y científicas. Sin embargo, la reciente exploración supone un “avance hacia la investigación basada en la evidencia“, tal y como comenta Parks Stephenson, analista del Titanic, a la BBC.

LOS DETALLES SOBRE LA RECONSTRUCCIÓN 3D DEL TITANIC

A una profundidad de casi 4.000 metros, en el medio del Oceáno Atlántico, los especialistas han utilizado tecnologías de mapeo de fondos para conseguir una vista completa e inmersiva del barco.

Según los datos que las compañías han ofrecido a la BBC, se han realizado más de 700.000 fotografías que incluyen también el campo de escombros de 800 metros que separa la proa y la popa del Titanic roto, y esto ha permitido obtener detalles de la embarcación que van desde la forma de la proa, que está ahora cubierta de estalactitas de óxido, hasta el número de serie de una de las hélices.

También, los objetos personales que todavía no se han desintegrado y que se encuentran entre los restos podrían dar pistas de la vida que albergó el barco durante 8 días: zapatos, metalistería ornamental, estatuas e incluso una botella de champán sin abrir son algunas de las pertenencias que han logrado mantenerse en estado decente tras más de 100 años.

Y respecto a lo que sucedió la noche del accidente, los investigadores están convencidos de que la colisión con el iceberg no se dio a lo largo del lado de estribor, tal y como se muestra en las películas. Sin embargo, todavía no han encontrado una respuesta concluyente.

UN AVANCE CONTRA EL RELOJ

La exploración del Titanic no está siendo tarea sencilla para los equipos de trabajo. Y la profundidad es uno de los grandes desafíos, ya que hay poca luz para tomar planos fotográficos de calidad. Así lo explica Gerhard Seiffert, el director de la expedición de Magellan Ltd, para la BBC: “La profundidad, casi 4.000 metros, representa un desafío, y también hay corrientes en el sitio, y no se nos permite tocar nada para no dañar el naufragio”.

Por otro lado, debemos recordar el efecto natural del mar sobre los objetos y materiales que componen el Titanic. En este sentido, la reconstrucción 3D muestra cómo algunas partes se están desintegrando o están siendo invadidas por los microbios que se encuentran en el fondo del océano; algo que preocupa a los investigadores.

Ya ha pasado más de un siglo desde que The New York Times publicó: “El Titanic se hunde cuatro horas después de chocar contra un iceberg”, y esto significa que el tiempo se está agotando para comprender lo que sucedió con ese barco que prometía ser insumergible.

Sin embargo, aunque el accidente sigue envuelto en misterio, los especialistas de Magellan Ltd afirman que, gracias a los nuevos mapeos -que se verán en un futuro documental producido por Atlantic Productions-, será posible “congelar el naugrafio en el tiempo” y avanzar para llegar a la respuesta de lo que ocurrió esa fría noche del 15 de abril de 1912, entre Southampton y Nueva York.

Disney cancels plans for $1 billion Florida campus

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Disney cancels plans for $1 billion Florida campus

On a conference call last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company’s ongoing dispute with Gov. Ron DeSantis raised questions about Disney’s continued investment in Florida.

The Walt Disney Co. is cancelling plans to build a nearly $1 billion office complex in Florida and move more than 2,000 jobs to the state.

Disney Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro told employees in an email Thursday that the company had decided not to move forward with the massive office complex in Orlando because of “new leadership and changing business conditions.”

The announcement comes a week after Disney CEO Bob Iger said an ongoing dispute with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised questions about the company’s continued investment there. In a conference call with analysts, Iger said actions by DeSantis and Republican lawmakers amounted to a “campaign of government retaliation” against Disney.

DeSantis signed measures stripping the company of self-governing authority over its 40-square-mile property near Orlando after former Disney CEO Bob Chapek pledged to help overturn a state law banning discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

On last week’s conference call, Iger asked rhetorically, “Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people, and pay more taxes, or not?”

The decision to relocate more than 2,000 Disney jobs from California to Florida wasn’t popular with affected employees, some of whom reportedly quit. In his note to staff, D’Amaro said the company would talk individually with employees who have already moved to Florida and about “the possibility of moving you back.”

No Mor Chikin: Greenbriar Mall bids farewell to historic Chick-fil-A location

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No Mor Chikin: Greenbriar Mall bids farewell to historic Chick-fil-A location
Chick-fil-A’s first-ever restaurant is closing after more than a half-century in business.

Opened in 1967, the Greenbriar Mall food court location in Atlanta is set to close on Saturday, according to local reports. The location’s Facebook page says it’s permanently closed. It’s unclear why the restaurant is closing and Chick-fil-A didn’t immediately return CNN’s request for comment.

Like many malls, the Greenbriar has been struggling to attract shoppers and keep tenants. Its largest store, Macy’s, closed in 2021. The mall is currently filled with smaller stores and no major anchor tenants.

On its website, Chick-fil-A touts the “groundbreaking” location as one of the first restaurants to open inside a mall. Greenbriar was one of the first indoor malls in the Southeast.

The location is described as a “pioneer in the modern-day food court” and had a “monumental impact” on the company because it helped grow the chain into its current 2,600-location operation.

When the Greenbriar Mall location first opened, the menu included a 59-cent chicken sandwich and a salad with boneless chicken breast; plus fries, coleslaw, lemon pie and lemonade — a far cry from the more than 50 menu items Chick-fil-A now sells. Employees wore candy-striped aprons with ascots and “soda jerk” hats.

In 1997, a plaque was installed at the mall restaurant to celebrate its 40th anniversary and celebrate how the company pioneered in-mall dining. “From this location, Chick-fil-A has grown to become one of the largest privately owned restaurant chains in the nation,” the plaque reads.

Company founder S. Truett Cathy started the business with his brother in 1946 with the opening of a diner in Atlanta called the The Dwarf Grill. Its success led him to evolve the restaurant into the Chick-fil-A chain, and some consider that to be the first Chick-fil-A location.

CNN affiliate WXIA notes that Chick-fil-A restaurants were only located in mall food courts for 20 years before opening its first free-standing restaurant in the Atlanta suburb of North Druid Hills in 1986.

Biden ‘confident’ of reaching deal with McCarthy to avoid US debt default

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Biden ‘confident’ of reaching deal with McCarthy to avoid US debt default

Joe Biden and the Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, said on Wednesday they thought a deal to avoid a US debt default was in reach.

Speaking at the White House, Biden said: “I’m confident that we’ll get the agreement on the budget, that America will not default.

“We’re going to come together because there’s no alternative way to do the right thing for the country. We have to move on.”

On Tuesday, Biden and McCarthy met for an hour at the White House, a meeting the president called productive.

Biden, who has faced some criticism for his handling of the issue, is due to travel to the G7 summit in Japan but has cut the trip short to pursue a debt ceiling deal. Plans to visit Papua New Guinea and Australia were postponed.

On Wednesday, the president said: “I’ll be in constant contact with my team while I’m at the G7 and be in close touch with speaker McCarthy and other leaders as well.

“What I have done in anticipation that we won’t get it all done till I get back is, I’ve cut my trip short in order to be [here] for the final negotiations and sign the deal with the majority leader.”

Biden said he expected to return to Washington on Sunday and hold a press conference. Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told CNN that Biden’s decision to cut short his Asia trip sent “the message that … America does not default on its debt”.

Also on Wednesday, McCarthy spoke to CNBC.

He said: “I think at the end of the day we do not have a debt default. The thing I’m confident about is now we have a structure to find a way to come to a conclusion. The timeline is very tight. But we’re going to make sure we’re in the room and get this done.”

A failure to honour US debts could have catastrophic impacts on the US and world economies. The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has indicated that without agreement, default could come as early as 1 June.

Republicans want sharp spending cuts. Democrats say Republicans should agree to a “clean” debt bill, the sort they repeatedly passed under Donald Trump. But Biden also seemed ready to make some compromises, including some work requirements on federal programs, though not on healthcare programs.

Financial markets appeared to be buoyed as McCarthy joined the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, and the White House in pledging the US would not fail to pay its debt obligations. US stock indexes opened higher on Wednesday.

Biden was widely reported to have agreed to a key demand from McCarthy: that negotiations be carried out by a small group of aides, removing, for now, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.

Politico said Biden was now represented by the White House counselor Steve Richetti, budget director Shalanda Young and legislative affairs director Louisa Terrell. Garret Graves, a Louisiana Republican and McCarthy ally, was leading the Republican team.

McCarthy, who controls the House by just five seats, is widely seen to be at the mercy of the far right of the Republican caucus. But according to Politico, Graves “isn’t a bomb-thrower or grandstander, and Democrats told us they’ve seen him as a steady hand in other bipartisan policy negotiations”.

Politico reported that the new negotiators “huddled on Capitol Hill last night to start negotiations, reflecting the time crunch as the clock ticks toward a possible 1 June default”. Punchbowl News said “full-scale negotiations [were] set to kick off” on Wednesday.

It will not be a simple process. The negotiators, Punchbowl said, had “a very difficult task ahead of them. They need to find a deal that can pass Congress in the next 15 days. To do that, they’ll have to come up with a framework over the next few days.

“This is a massive lift that will require deft negotiating, cooperation from all sides and incredible flexibility on behalf of our national political leadership. Basically everything that Congress hasn’t done at all this year and traditionally isn’t very good at.”

House Republicans are demanding $4.8tn in spending cuts, mostly to Democratic priorities including welfare and environment spending. Demonstrating the political vice in which Biden finds himself, progressives have warned him not to give in.

“It’s really important we don’t give ground,” Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told Axios. “We have made it clear … that if they give on these core Democratic values, there will be a huge backlash.”

Jean-Pierre told CNN that Republicans “want to cut healthcare, they want to increase poverty, and it’s not going to save much money”.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, also spoke to CNBC.

“It creates uncertainty that’s bad for the American people. It’s bad for the economy. That’s bad for business,” he said. “And so our view has consistently been that any resolution of this matter has to be at least two years in nature. And that was a position that was once again made clear in the meeting yesterday.”

Punchbowl said: “If Democrats want to hike the debt limit until 2025, McCarthy is going to demand a lot in return.”

Jeffries insisted: “Our view is that if we’re going to have a thoughtful conversation about deficit reduction, that conversation can’t simply be one-sided, based on the rightwing ideological perspective of a handful of extreme Maga Republicans.

“That’s not how you make public policy.”.

 

Montana becomes the first state to ban TikTok

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Montana becomes the first state to ban TikTok

Montana has become the first state to ban the popular social media app TikTok.

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 419 on Wednesday, saying he wants to protect the state’s residents’ private information from being compromised. He pointed to the Chinese government as a potential threat.

“The Chinese Communist Party using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented,” Gov. Gianforte said.

There is no direct evidence that the Chinese government has ever accessed TikTok user data. However, TikTok’s critics point to laws in China that allow the government access to a company’s customer records.

According to the measure in Montana, platforms that offer the app on their marketplaces, such as the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, will be subjected to fines up to $10,000 a day for violations.

The ban will take effect Jan. 1, 2024. It is expected that TikTok will challenge the bill in federal court. It and groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have said the ban is unconstitutional.

Last December, Gianforte banned TikTok on state government electronic devices. On Wednesday, he added that the ban would expand to include “all social media applications that collect and provide users’ personal information or data to a foreign adversary, or a person or entity located within a country designated as a foreign adversary.”
President Biden signed legislation banning the app from government devices last December, and has been considering an all-out ban if TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, cannot find an American buyer. The U.S. and its “Five Eyes” security partners — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom — ban TikTok from federal government devices, citing national security concerns.

Texas House votes to expand background checks to purchase firearms

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Texas House votes to expand background checks to purchase firearms

Texas House lawmakers advanced May 16 a bill that would give federal law enforcement more information about Texans who have certain mental health conditions and intellectual disabilities during the routine background checks completed before someone can purchase a gun.

Senate Bill 728, by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, follows the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act by including information about a court’s action on someone’s mental condition in background checks. The bill would require county clerks to send this information to the Texas Department of Public Safety, which would then share it with the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Clerks would be required to inform the DPS if a court determines that someone at least 16 years old:

  • Is unfit to go to trial due to an intellectual disability or mental illness
  • Is not responsible for their actions due to an intellectual disability or mental illness
  • Must receive inpatient services for a mental illness
  • Must receive long-term residential care for an intellectual disability
  • After the court ruling, clerks would have 30 days to send the information to state law enforcement.

SB 728 was presented in the House by Republican Rep. Jeff Leach, who represents Allen, where eight people were killed at an outlet mall May 6.

Leach said the bill would “(keep) firearms out of the hands of dangerous Texans who do not need to have them.”

He emphasized the bill does not create a “red flag law.” This type of law, which is generally opposed by Texas Republicans, prevents someone from buying or owning guns if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others-regardless of whether they have committed a crime or received a court order.

“This bill does not change any existing federal or state law regarding firearms-it simply adheres to existing federal law and their new requirements to report this data to NICS,” Leach said. “This bill will go a long way to ensuring that our state and federal databases are linked, and that the process is more efficient and effective.”

Texas does not have a statewide database to store information about court decisions regarding someone’s mental illness or intellectual disability. As a result, Leach said the FBI has to contact individual county courts if it needs this information for background checks.

If the bill becomes law, this information would be stored in one place.

The House initially approved SB 728 on May 16. If it passes during a final vote May 17, the bill will head to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature.

Five years later: Santa Fe Families share how their lives have changed

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Five years later: Santa Fe Families share how their lives have changed

May 18, 2023 marks five years since the Santa Fe shooting. Ten people were killed and 13 others injured on May 18, 2018. The accused gunman remains in a North Texas hospital declared incompetent to stand trial.

“My son is Aaron Kyle Mccleod – we lost him on May 18,” said Gayle McLeod, his mother.

“My daughter Kimberly was shot and killed in the school shooting,” said Rhonda Hart, her mother.

“My mother Cynthia was murdered that day,” said Joe Tisdale, her son.

“I was the officer that was working at Santa Fe when the shooting happened and obviously was shot in my arm,” said John Barnes, who survived the shooting.

“I was shot in the Santa Fe shooting,” said Flo Rice, who was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School. She was teaching basketball in the gym, when she heard the fire alarm.

Rice walked towards the exit with her students, not knowing she would be in the shooter’s path. Realizing she had been shot, Rice called her husband from the parking lot.

“Flo has a lot of PTSD, I’ve just a little bit,” said Scot Rice, her husband. “If you go back to the school for an event, or for anything, you know, it’s like you relive it that moment.”

Since the shooting, the Rices have become advocates for school safety. They supported a bill Gov. Abbott signed to harden schools and better equip substitute teachers.

However, after Uvalde, the Texas House of Representatives Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary School put out a report saying it hadn’t been enforced there.

“They stated the school said they would leave doors unlocked for the convenience of substitute teachers that did not have keys,” said Flo.

It’s not just broken promises these Santa Fe families have dealt with, but also a fight to get information. There was no third-party report done on the shooting. Leaving many families in the dark about what actually happened to their loved ones inside the school.

“We saw them take their first breaths, and we knew their Apgar score and their weights and their measurements, but we’re not allowed to know how they died,” said Hart.

Officials arrest Texas man accused of killing five of his neighbors

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Officials arrest Texas man accused of killing five of his neighbors

Greg Capers, the San Jacinto county sheriff, said that Francisco Oropeza, 38, was arrested less than 20 miles (32km) from Cleveland. Law enforcement arrested him about an hour after someone called the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s tip line, according to Jimmy Paul, assistant special agent in charge with the FBI’s Houston division.

“They can rest easy now, because he is behind bars,” Capers said of the families of the victims. “He will live out his life behind bars for killing those five.”

He is being held on $5m bond and faces five counts of murder, according to Capers. It is unclear which degree of murder the district attorney’s office will charge Oporeza with.

Oropeza is accused of killing five people, including a nine-year-old boy and two women shielding children, after neighbors asked him to move farther away if he was going to fire an AR-15-style rifle in his yard.

Oropeza then allegedly approached his neighbor’s home and carried out America’s 17th mass killing so far this year.

The victims – all from Honduras – were identified as Diana Velázquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; José Jonathan Casarez, 18; Sonia Argentina Guzmán, 25; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9. Wilson García, Guzmán’s husband, recounted the final moments on Sunday after a memorial for his son.

After Oropeza refused to stop firing in his yard, García and his family called the police five times. Each time, the dispatcher assured him help was on the way. Later, when asked about response time to those calls, Capers told reporters that deputies got there as fast as they could. Just three deputies patrol 700 sq miles (1,813 sq km) in the area.

Not long after Oropeza’s refusal, García could see him approaching his front yard, but did not know what he was doing.

García recalled seeing his neighbor reload his weapon and run toward him. “Get inside,” García recalled telling his wife. “This man has loaded his weapon.”

García recalled Guzmán telling him to get inside while saying: “He won’t fire at me – I’m a woman.” She was at the front door and was the first to die once Oropeza began firing, according to García.

Osmán Velázquez, Diana’s father, said on Tuesday that his daughter had recently gotten residency and had traveled to the United States without documents eight years ago with the help of a sister, who was already living there.

“Her sister convinced me to let her take my daughter. She told me the United States is a country of opportunities and that’s true,” he said. “But I never imagined it was just for this.”

This most recent mass shooting came after other high-profile homicides in southern states including the killing of three students and three staff members at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, a workplace shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky that left five dead, and the killings of four young people in Dadeville, Alabama.

The number of casualties during “active shooter” events reached a five-year high in 2022 with 100 people killed and 213 injured, according to a recently released FBI report.

 

HPD Sergeant Kendrick Simpo Receives Medal of Valor from President Biden

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HPD Sergeant Kendrick Simpo Receives Medal of Valor from President Biden

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Earlier today (Wednesday, May 17) Sergeant Kendrick Simpo was awarded The Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor by President Joe Biden.

In February last year, while Sergeant Simpo was working an extra job at the Galleria Mall, he heard a call over the radio saying that a suspect was armed with a rifle.  Sgt. Simpo quickly responded and spotted the suspect within a few feet of hundreds of children and their families who were participating in a dance competition.

Sergeant Simpo was able to tackle the armed suspect without a single shot being fired.

After the suspect was arrested, he was found to have more than 120 rounds of ammunition and a handgun, which could have led to a much different outcome if not for Sergeant Simpo’s quick action and exemplary bravery.

“I am extremely proud of Sgt. Simpo.  His courageous action exemplifies the dedication of every person in the Houston Police Department and the mission to protect and serve the whole community,” said HPD Police Chief Troy Finner.

Sergeant Simpo is the first HPD officer to receive this distinguished honor.

“This is for the 5,200 Houston police officers.  I may be the first officer from Houston to receive this great award, but more will follow.  I am proud of the recognition this award shines on our department and the many dedicated officers that work there,” said Sergeant Simpo.

Attached are photos of the award being bestowed upon Sgt. Simpo from this morning in the East Room at the White House.

Sergeant Simpo will be available tomorrow (Thursday, May 18) for interviews at 11 a.m. in the Edward A. Thomas Building lobby at 1200 Travis.

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