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    Mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region - ‘Messinian Salinity Crisis’

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    First direct proof of mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region - ‘Messinian Salinity Crisis’

    First direct proof of mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region - on www.uu.nl
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    First direct proof of mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region

    24 March 2023

    Geologists from Utrecht, London and Granada have found the first direct proof of the largest known mega-flood that ever occurred on earth. This mega-flood ended what is known as the ‘Messinian Salinity Crisis’, a period around six million years ago when the water level in the Mediterranean Sea sank by around 1.5 km, causing an extreme environmental crisis in the region. The authors studied sandstone that was exposed along the southern coast of Sicily and concluded that it was formed by a powerful flow from the western Mediterranean Sea towards the east. The water flowed over a barrier that separated what were then isolated basins in the western and eastern Mediterranean region. Their research was recently published in the journal Sedimentology.

    The waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean flow back and forth and mix via the narrow Straits of Gibraltar. During the Messinian era, around six million years ago, this flow was disrupted by a tectonic closure of the straits. As a result, much of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated faster than rivers could supply more water. A kilometre-thick layer of evaporite (gypsum and salt) gradually formed over the entire Mediterranean Sea basin. At the beginning of the Zanclean, around 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean filled once again to today’s current level when the connection with the Atlantic Ocean was restored. Models indicate that this was due to an enormous flood entering the Mediterranean basin via Gibraltar. However, until recently there was no geologic proof of such a mega-flood in the geological record of the Mediterranean Sea region.

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    MORE: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/first-direct-proof-of-mega-flood-in-mediterranean-sea-region

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    Rockers Who Partied Way Too Hard

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    Rockers Who Partied Way Too Hard

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    BY BRIAN BOONE/UPDATED: SEPT. 11, 2020 9:47 AM EST
    When you hear the words "rock star" you probably don't think about what it really takes to become a musical demigod. Nobody considers the guitar lessons, the early gigging in dingy bars, the cramped band vans, and going over the finer points of a recording contract with managers, lawyers, accountants, and label executives. Nah, "rock star" conveys images of flowing booze, endless drugs, groupies, trashed hotel rooms, and other unbelievably salacious and self-destructive practices. There's a reason why rock stars are synonymous with excess in everything — more than some exaggeration or cliché, a lot of arena rock idols really lived that life, thus creating something to aspire to for the next generation of wannabe rock stars. Their exploits became the stuff of rumor, legend, and coroners' reports — because the danger in partying is the temptation to party too hard. Here are some rock stars who took the rock 'n' roll lifestyle a little far.

    Read More: https://www.grunge.com/9229/rockers-partied-way-hard/

    Read MORE: https://www.grunge.com/9229/rockers-partied-way-hard/

     

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    The Collapse of the Three Gorges Dam

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    Video: The Collapse of the Three Gorges Dam: A Preview

    "10 hours after the dam collapses, the flood will reach Wuhan. The length of the river course between the Three Gorges Dam and Wuhan city is 700 km.."

    A short video vividly demonstrating what will after the Three Gorges Dam breaks has been circulated like mad on Chinese social media. What will happen exactly after the Dam collapse? And more importantly, who made such a video? Why was it made and released now? The script of the video with all the source links inside at https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home...

    - by Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng: https://www.youtube.com/@InconvenientTruthsJenniferZeng

    "Thank you Jennifer for such a perfect presentation, I'm seriously concerned for the Chinese people and what they may end up facing, should the Three Gorges Dam break. Let's hope this doesn't happen at all. Bless you and the people in its path."

     

     

    HERE'S WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE THREE GORGES DAM BROKE

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    When construction on the dam began in 1994, the project was hailed as a magnificent feat of engineering and a monument to national pride. However, the dam has been plagued with criticism, due to its effect on the environment, its godawful appearance on an extremely beautiful patch of earth, and its overall inability to truly control flooding the way the government promised it would. Furthermore, many fear that the dam faces structural problems that could lead to a devastating all-out collapse that would have repercussions the world over.

    RAINS IN 2020 LEFT THE THREE GORGES DAM DEFORMED

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    Read More on grunge.com: https://www.grunge.com/463664/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-three-gorges-dam-broke/  - on grunge.com

     

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    Did the search queen fall asleep on guard?

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    Did the search queen fall asleep on guard? - Walla! technology

    4/21/2023, 5:05:11 PM

        

    Is Google facing a similar fate with the AI revolution that is completely changing web search and the world of technology?

    Commentary by Niv Lilian

     

    In the early 2000s, Microsoft was in the best position to lead the mobile computing (smartphone) revolution.

    Its operating system was everywhere, it had just emerged from a browser monopoly with the upper hand overall, and its browser had an unprecedented market share of over 90% of the market.

    Seemingly, there was no technology company that was better positioned to dominate the next revolution as well: the mobile computing revolution.


     

    But it didn't happen.


     

    A problematic corporate culture of a large and clumsy organization, suffocation of creativity and a series of puzzling decisions brought Microsoft to a disadvantageous position in the years that followed when its competitors, Google and Apple, quickly took over the new market created by smartphones - first the iPhone, and then all Android-based smartphones from Google.

    At the same time, Google came out with its own browser called Chrome, and the rest is history.

    Microsoft insisted on sticking to its mobile operating system Windows Phone which was not well adapted to the touch interface, and in fact fell asleep on the watch as it missed the tectonic change in the world of technology.

    Is something similar happening now to Google?

    Is the search queen the one who fell asleep now on guard?

    Google: Is the queen of search the one who has now fallen asleep on guard? (Photo: ShutterStock)

    This week, Google's stock lost 55 billion(!) dollars of its value.

    The reason: It has been reported that Samsung is considering replacing the default web search engine on its smartphones from Google - to Microsoft's competitor Bing.

    Not only is this a potential loss of three billion dollars in revenue, it is hundreds of millions of devices that will not have the colorful Google logo appear on them every time you search for something online.

    Google will be hit hard.

    And what's more: next year its contract with Apple as the default web search engine on iPhones and the Safari browser, which is worth 20 billion dollars - is also a candidate for renewal.


     

    In terms of revenue value, this is a terrible blow to Google.

    You have to remember: Google's main source of income is the advertisements based on the search terms.

    The advertisements that Google shows you above the "organic" search results (which, too, are already contaminated with a lot of Google's own content instead of simply a list of websites as it was once pushed down), generate over a hundred billion dollars a year - in 2022, they generated Google's coffers 162 billion dollars.

    The loss of screens on which her search engine is displayed means a serious loss of income.

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    The next revolution

    Microsoft, since those bleak days at the beginning of the millennium, replaced the old management with a younger and energetic manager named Satya Nadella, who also demanded (and accepted) the departure of the founding generation, Gates and Ballmer from the day-to-day management of Microsoft.

    Nadella made a lot of changes at Microsoft: turned Microsoft's closed garden approach on its head, happily embraced the open source world, and returned its crown to its former glory: refocused Microsoft on being, first and foremost, a software company (and yes, Xbox and games too, but software first).

    His steps brought back to Microsoft, which was already considered dead, the color to the cheeks, the market value and most importantly - brought it back into the game as a relevant, proactive and influential company.


     

    Alongside acquisitions such as the popular software development platform GitHub, Microsoft invested in a small company called OpenAI in 2019 with an initial investment of $1 billion.

    And OpenAI turned out to be a hen that laid Microsoft a golden egg called ChatGPT - which is generative artificial intelligence and the next revolution in the world of computing in general (don't know what ChatGPT is? Read my article that explains).

    OpenAI turned out to be a hen that laid a golden egg for Microsoft called ChatGPT (Photo: Reuters)

    , which is artificial intelligence in a textual engine based on a natural conversational dialogue with the user, not only locates relevant information for him, but can actually create things based on the knowledge bases on the web, from blog posts to code snippets and entire websites.

    This is de facto, a revolution.

    And where is Google?

    sleeping


    Microsoft, on the other hand, did not sleep: it quickly took the ChatGPT engine and integrated it into all its products: from the suite of office software that was once known as Office, through its Edge browser and also in the place where it enjoys an advantage - the search box in the Windows 11 operating system, and most importantly : in its search engine, Bing.

    The smart capabilities of ChatGPT turned Bing almost overnight, from another unexciting search engine, into a game-breaking weapon: artificial intelligence allows Bing to provide search results and relevant and personalized information, all in a natural language that everyone understands - something that is now very much absent from Google's traditional search engine, which still forces us to search in a binary form of terms, and not ask questions in human language.


    Suddenly Bing, which was the object of jokes, became a significant threat to Google.

    Suddenly, Microsoft is the light-footed doe that was quick to identify and pounce on the next technological revolution, and Google is the heavy, outdated company that lacks the appropriate technological response - and in a field that is its core business.

    Twenty years later, the fortunes turned.

    Artificial intelligence predicts: the last selfie to be taken on Earth (TikTok/Robot Overlords))

    Google is in a panic

    In a report by the New York Times this week, the atmosphere in Google's offices was described in one word: panic.

    The undisputed queen of online search fell asleep on guard, and suddenly discovers that there is a claimant to the crown that could steal hundreds of millions of screens from her and possibly even lose her first place in the market.


    For the first time in years, there is a significant threat to Google's traditional web search engine with which it entered the market in 1998, and the company, in fact, has no answer.

    Like Microsoft at the time, Google is standing on the brink of a technological revolution which it is not leading, but trailing behind another company, which innovates better and faster than it.


    So it's true, the corporate culture at Google is not yet so fossilized, and it contains "vaccines" against fossilization like the 80/20 projects accepted in the company, and yet, Google currently does not have an artificial intelligence-based search engine in massive distribution to users - and Microsoft does...

    MORE: https://newsrnd.com/tech/2023-04-21-did-the-search-queen-fall-asleep-on-guard----walla!-technology.S1zyEIXeX2.html

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    The best student in the world

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    The best student in the world

     

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    An 18-year-old Ukrainian who studied in a basement is the best student in the world.
    He created a device that detects landmines. He was selected as the winner of the Global Student Prize.

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     Igor Klymenko testing the mine detector.

     

    by Ricardo Braginski

    21/04/2023 6:01

    on Clarín.com/Society
    Updated on 04/21/2023 12:37

     

    When on the night of February 24, 2022 Russia began the invasion of Ukraine, Igor Klymenko was 17 years old and finishing his last year of high school in Kiev, where he lived with his family. The bombs were exploding closer and closer and Igor made the quick decision to flee to the outskirts of the city to take refuge in a cellar with eight other people. There he completed his studies, from a distance, while perfecting a mine-detecting drone he had been working on for eight years.

    "It was scary to hear the planes and explosions, but I knew that education was the key to making a difference," he tells Clarín from Edmenton (Canada), where he is studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Alberta, one of the five most prestigious universities in that country, while also studying online at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Automation of Computer Integrated Technologies.

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     Igor Klymenko, the world's best student, is now studying at the University of Alberta in Canada.

    "I want to apply what I learn to develop my drone and solve the global landmine problem," he says - ambitiously - about his near future. "I have no idea when the war will end, but I know the crisis will go on for a long time. And people who know about it are saying that, once the war is over, it will take more than 50 years to remove all the mines from Ukraine", he tells Clarín from Canada through Zoom, showing all his sympathy.

    It was the tenacity in study, plus the potential community impact of the mine-detecting drone project that were the main reasons Igor was chosen as the best student in the world by the jury of the Global Student Prize 2022, a global prize that awards $100,000 to the winner.


    He competed against nearly 7,000 applicants from 150 countries.

     Nicolas Monzon (25), an Argentinean who comes from a humble family from Quilmes, who is now doing three careers and created a software company had been selected among the 10 best students in the world.


    What is Igor's anti-mine drone like? "The device I developed is called Quadcopter Mines Detector. It detects anti-personnel and anti-vehicle landmines, and transmits the coordinates to the operator with a margin of centimeters. It can detect them without activating them," says Igor. The idea first occurred to me when I was 9 years old and saw news about Russia's invasion of Crimea. At that moment, I resolved to do what I could to help my country."

    "I have always been interested in science and spent hours studying books on robotics and discussing my ideas with my teachers. When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, I became even more committed to helping my country and saving lives, so I continued to perfect my drone from the basement where we were sheltering," he adds.

     The minesweeper drone
    Igor already has the prototype of the device ready, which has received two official patents in Ukraine. He is now working on developing a minimum viable product in order to test it in the real world.


    The world's best student tells how the hostilities over the Russian invasion made education a real challenge for all Ukrainians. For security reasons, and as in the worst of the pandemic, all classes had to be taught online, remotely.

     
    "The war has taken a lot from me, but I was determined that it would not take away my education as well. I am very grateful for the help and encouragement of my teachers. Even though many of them joined the military, they continued to support me over the phone and through Zoom. They motivated me to keep working on my drone and without their support I would not be where I am today," Igor tells Clarín.

    He also tells that in Ukraine most of the schools for children under 16, like the one his sister goes to, are still in remote format. "My family still lives in the countryside, they didn't go back to Kiev because the countryside is safer. I know some schools that resumed attendance, but everyone has to go to the basement every time the sirens are heard for possible attacks", Igor tells Clarín from Zoom.

    Igor left many of his friends in Ukraine, who now live in different parts of the country, and he says that this makes him "anxious", because he often loses contact and news about them.

     Since childhood Igor Klymenko had a very strong illness from which he almost died. "With the strength of spirit and treatment in Cuba under the care of specialists, I was able to overcome it," he says.

    "Hearing explosions outside put us in front of the situation that every day may be the last. In that context, knowing that my people were fighting and defending my country motivated me to persist with my device," Igor says. He also says he would like to return to Ukraine once he graduates from university in Canada, he estimates in three years.

     Even with a broken arm, Igor Klymenko participated in a robotics competition as a boy.

    Beyond the war in Ukraine, Igor now wants his device to transcend and save lives in many parts of the world where armed conflicts are taking place. "I hope that the award jury saw the potential my project has to help not only Ukraine, but the world. Although Ukraine is one of the most heavily mined countries, it is a problem that also affects 60 other countries," he says.

    Igor acknowledges that this award would not have been possible without his family and friends. "They gave me great support while I was developing my drone. They were very proud of me when I won the Global Student Prize. Also, my work is very inspired by them, by my family, friends, teachers and the people of Ukraine, who are fighting for our freedom. For me, they are all real heroes," he says.


    And he tells of the vicissitudes he had to go through to go to study in Canada. "Last year, when I was finishing high school and the war started, with my family we started thinking about where I could study in the next few years. We looked at the opportunities that different programs and universities were giving us. And the University of Alberta had a one-year scholarship for Ukrainian students. So I improved my English, applied and now I'm here," she says, happy with her achievement.


    "When I moved to Canada I had to come with my mom, because I was still 17 and underage and needed an older one for a lot of paperwork I had to do. My mom lived with me for three weeks and then moved back to Ukraine, because my sister is 10 years old," he tells.

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    Igor Klymenko developing the mine detector.

    While Igor is now on his own, living on the university campus, he says he is very happy with his new reality. "Canada is very different from Ukraine. There are a lot of immigrants here, including many Ukrainians, and there is a lot of diversity. It's really great."

    Igor says he plans to use most of the $100,000 to further develop his drone, "to try to save as many lives as possible." And he leaves a message for Argentine students.

     Igor Klymenko participates in an event of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev and aims to encourage young people to create their own projects.
    Igor Klymenko participates in an event of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev and aims to encourage young people to create their own projects.
    - What do you know about Argentina, Clarín asks him.

    - Little, that good soccer players usually come from Argentina (he thinks).

    - Would you like to come to Argentina?

    - Yes, of course I would. In Ukraine, one of the things that most inspires all of us students who are developing projects is to talk to other students from other parts of the world. If I had the possibility, it would be great. I would like to talk to Argentine students and share our knowledge.

    - What would you tell them?

    - I would tell them my story, and how from the problems we had, I looked for opportunities and got to this moment in Canada. How I am working on my project, how I did my best to apply in different places and get here. I would exchange my life experience with theirs.

    - What would you say to the leaders in Argentina?

    - That they should try to make children enjoy science. In Ukraine there are organizations that do that with high school students of all ages: they talk to the supervisors, to push the kids to do research. And I would also talk to the leaders of companies, ask them to help students.

     Igor Klymenko tests his mine-detecting device in the classroom. It was before the war.
    Igor Klymenko tests his mine-detecting device in the classroom. It was before the war.
    "I also strongly encourage Argentine students to apply for the Global Student Prize, to share their stories and make their voices heard. This prize gave me an incredible platform to raise awareness about the global landmine problem and helped me get one step closer to realizing my dream of a mine-free world. Throughout this whole experience, I have met many inspiring people from all over the world, from other students to political leaders. It's a great opportunity," he closes...

     

    MORE (and more photos too) here: https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/ucraniano-18-anos-estudio-sotano-mejor-alumno-mundo_0_JG1J7xIgl1.html

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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    How to see what causes unwanted internet connections?

    in Windows 7

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    Here is the very interesting topic, maybe I could be useful... I also think like ArcticFoxie, that "You probably have an "updater" running as a SERVICE that just needs disabled."
    To see the processes, services running, there are several free tools on the web... and on the Taskbar of my old computer : first, look in "Event Viewer" ... then in "Services", then "SterJo NetStalker", CrowdInspect, CurrProcess, Tcpview, ProcNetMonitor, then scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, AdwCleaner, PowerTool, use SpyDllRemover, WiseRegCleaner, DTaskManager, Process Hacker, then post your results here... Good luck!

     

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    ArcticFoxie/NotHereToPlayGames -- 360Chrome v13.5.2036 rebuild 1

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

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    10 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

    But in all seriousness, why are you so concerned with nine hundredths of a second?

    What is the "agenda" here?

    You could be SURE, that I don't have the agenda!

    I only report the numbers that are found by the extension, sorry. ("A left click on the extension allows you to get the loading times (ms) for all events ..." - it's from edited post above...)

    Maybe the extension does not know you, does not know who you are?:unsure: LOL

    10 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

    You're also working (I think) on a single-core CPU and using web browsers optimized for use on multi-core CPUs.

    No, I've recently reported here my specs, I quote from the precedent page 11:

    "Have Windows XP SP2 with Intel Core2 CPU, 6300, 1.86 GHz and 3 GB of RAM only, that's why..." - so I've Intel Core 2 Duo.

    - But maybe my computer is dying recently, look on my topic: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184705-is-my-computer-dying-black-screen-at-startup/

     

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    ArcticFoxie/NotHereToPlayGames -- 360Chrome v13.5.2036 rebuild 1

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    Posted · Edited by msfntor

    Today, Vanced page https://vancedapp.com/ performs in DCBrowser/Incognito window: 0.10 s (from cache, after some reloads of the page - hitting "Reload this page" button...), and in your latest 360Chrome: 2.20 first result (so without starting from the cache), and 0.19 s best result after some reloads of the page (so from the cache). Your browser is clearing automatically all browser data each time after closing it.

    In MiniBrowser (after clearing browser data manually and restarting browser): 0.79 first result, then 0.16 best result from the cache...

     

    And this new link dredevops: https://dredevops.com/need-for-speed/ - in DCBrowser, Incognito window: 0.52 first start, then best result from some reloads (so from cache): 0.21 s.

    Your latest 360Chrome: 1.17 s first result, then 0.28 best result from the cache.

    In MiniBrowser: 0.62 s first result, then 0.23 best result from the cache after multiple reloads.

     

    A left click on the extension allows you to get the loading times (ms) for all events ...

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    Don't add custom search engines to browsers Chrome-based

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    On Chrome Web Store, under this extension User Reviews, I've found this user review:

    "Lee Hodsdon May 6, 2019

    ... Alas, in a new PC build, I lost the user-defined rules that I had in uBlock Origin. I remember figuring out a rule that would kill sites from adding their searches to Chrome. There was a directive in the page to perform the auto-add, and it was that element that I had blocked in uBO. I'll add another reply if I figure it out again. With that rule in uBO, I monitored the search engine list in Chrome and none got auto-added after several months."

    - so search for this uBlock rule...

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    ArcticFoxie/NotHereToPlayGames -- 360Chrome v13.5.2036 rebuild 1

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted · Edited by msfntor
    very speedy addings

    53 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

    I'm finding it impossible to believe your results.  Sorry, just utterly IMPOSSIBLE.  I'm testing without uBlock.

    ArcticFoxie, I don't know why my recent results of this link: http://abcpage.com/ became like yours... but the two other new links I posted above are very speedy ( like 0.14 s (from cache) for both vanced and emedmd.com...in DCBrowser, and 0.24 best result (from cache) in your latest 360Chrome), yes... now I want to go to sleep, see you tomorrow, sorry...

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    ArcticFoxie/NotHereToPlayGames -- 360Chrome v13.5.2036 rebuild 1

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted · Edited by msfntor
    added: in my DCBrowser, sorry - and added: Best result in your latest 360Chrome...

    2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

    I still say you need a better test site.

    I've posted already two other websites with my test results...

     

    Here you have three other speedy pages I've found:

    abcpage.com: http://abcpage.com/ - but do NOT load page content by allowing manually this link in uBlock... best result (in my DCBrowser, sorry): 0.10 s - it's THE fastest page I've found! It's setting 1 cookie, no problem.

    Vanced: https://vancedapp.com/ - best result (from cache!) 0.15 s, very speedy! No cookie. Best result in your latest 360Chrome 13.5.2036_r1_r: 0.20 s.

    emedmd.com: http://ww12.emedmd.com/ - best result (from cache!): 0.15 s, idem... 

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