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01/22/2024

Wealthy Americans Are Aiming for a $3 Million Nest Egg — Should That Be Your Goal, Too? https://ift.tt/HWoeNju

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The average American now thinks they will need $1.27 million to retire, a 2023 Northwestern Mutual study found. And while that may seem like a lot of money, high-net-worth individuals — those with more than $1 million in investable assets — believe they will need more than double that to retire comfortably, with the average person in this pool estimating they will need $3 million.

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Here’s a closer look at why there’s such a disparity between these two figures, which number is likely more accurate and how the average American can save $3 million for retirement, if that’s their goal.

Why Wealthy Americans Are Aiming for $3 Million

There are two main reasons why a high-net-worth individual could have a much higher retirement savings goal than the average American, the first of which is their expectations for their lifestyle in retirement.

“For a high-net-worth individual, the operating expenses for what they’re accustomed to are probably different from an average American, so the difference has to do with the lifestyle that they want to live if they don’t want to adjust to a different lifestyle in retirement,” said Aditi Javeri Gokhale, chief strategy officer, head of institutional investments and president of retail investments at Northwestern Mutual.

The second reason is that they may be planning to leave a larger financial legacy.

“How much you want to leave behind in terms of legacy may be different for a high-net-worth individual versus the average American in terms of gifting, charitable contributions and stuff like that,” Javeri Gokhale said.

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Does the Average American Need $3 Million?

There’s quite a difference between the $1.27 million the average American thinks they will need for a comfortable retirement and the $3 million wealthy Americans think they will need — but which figure is closer to the truth? Javeri Gokhale said that it really depends on the individual.

“I wish I had a magic number, but it’s completely different [for each person] based on risks, lifestyle, how much you want to leave for legacy, even how much you want to travel in retirement,” she said. It also depends on your personal circumstances: “You could be single, you could be married, you could have aging parents, you could have two kids, three kids, four kids, so that’s why having that magic number is very difficult.”

To find your specific number, Javeri Gokhale recommends meeting with a financial professional.

“That’s where connecting with an advisor and coming up with a plan is important,” she said.

Can the Average American Achieve a $3 Million Nest Egg?

If you crunch the numbers and decide that $3 million is your retirement goal, you might not know how to get there or if that’s even possible. But Javeri Gokhale said hitting that number is more achievable than it might seem — if you plan properly.

“The planning is the same no matter how high your goal is, but the margin for error is smaller when the stakes get higher,” she said. “So it’s really important to start early, and it’s really important to plan comprehensively.”

When formulating your retirement plan, it’s important to “be very open and honest about your financial needs, how much debt you have and your risk-taking appetite,” Javeri Gokhale said. “If you budget carefully, invest intentionally, eliminate debt and accommodate for risk, is it achievable? Absolutely, but you’ve got to take these steps.”

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01/20/2024

HPV-related cervical cancer increasing in some women, new research finds https://ift.tt/fJgoCXG

After decades of good news in the fight against cervical cancer — marked by decades of steady declines in cases and deaths — a new report suggests that some women are being left behind.

Thanks to early detection and treatment, rates of cervical cancer have plummeted by more than half over the past 50 years. Rates are falling fastest among women in their early 20s, the first generation to benefit from HPV vaccines, which were approved in 2006.

HPV, the human papillomavirus, causes six types of cancer, including cervical cancer.

Among women aged 20 to 24, cervical cancer incidence dropped by 65% from 2012 to 2019, according to a report released Wednesday from the American Cancer Society.

“Cervical cancer is one of the best-understood cancers,” said Dr. Nicolas Wentzensen, a senior investigator in the National Cancer Institute’s clinical genetics branch, who was not involved in the new report. “We’ve made amazing progress and it remains a success story.”

Not all women are benefitting from that progress, however.

The overall cervical cancer rate among women of all ages has stopped falling.

Too old for HPV vaccination?

Among women in their 30s and early 40s, incidence has been edging upward. Diagnosis of cervical cancer among women ages 30 to 44 rose almost 2% a year from 2012 to 2019.

“We need to make sure we are not forgetting about that generation that was a little too old for HPV vaccination,” said Jennifer Spencer, an assistant professor at the Dell Medical School at University of Texas-Austin who studies population health.

Fortunately, the cancers found in 30- and 40-something women were mostly early, curable tumors, said Ahmedin Jemal, senior author of the new report and the cancer society’s senior vice president for surveillance and health equity science. About 13,800 American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year and 4,360 die from the disease.

Researchers didn’t delve into the reasons why cervical cancer is becoming more common for some women, Jemal said.

But screening rates may play a role, said Spencer, who was not involved in the study. Screenings allow doctors to find and remove precancerous lesions before they become cancerous. More than half of women diagnosed with cervical cancer have either never been screened or haven’t been screened in the past five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Studies show that fewer women are keeping up with routine cervical cancer exams.

The number of women ages 21 to 65 who have been screened according to the latest guidelines fell from 87% in 2000 to 72%, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Other research has found that women ages 21 to 29 were the least likely to be up to date on their screenings, with 29% being overdue. Women were also more likely to be behind schedule if they were nonwhite, uninsured, lived in rural areas or identified as gay, le***an or bisexual, according to the study.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening women ages 21-29 with Pap smears — which examine cells under a microscope — every three years. Women ages 30 to 65 can be screened either every three years with a Pap smear or every five years with an HPV test or combination of the two tests. HPV tests can detect genetic material from the human papilloma virus.

Spencer said it’s possible that low screening rates among 20-something women could help explain the slightly higher cervical cancer rates among women in their 30s and early 40s.

When women in one of Spencer’s studies were asked why they hadn’t been screened recently, they commonly said that they didn’t know they needed to be screened or that a health provider hadn’t recommended it. Only 1% women ages 21 to 29 said they had skipped screening because they had received the HPV shot.

“Clearly, more patient education is needed,” said Dr. Betty Suh-Burgmann, chair of gynecologic oncology for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Her health care system already reminds women about screenings by postcards, letters and phone calls. This year, Kaiser Permanente will begin texting patients, as well, she said.

Changing guidelines about cervical cancer screening also may have left women and health providers confused, Spencer said. Until the early 2000s, most doctors screened women annually. The task force has updated its guidelines three times in the past two decades, and is in the process of reviewing them again.

Others say the increase in cervical cancer rates among 30- and 40-something women isn’t so easily explained.

Cervical tumors tend to grow slowly, typically taking a decade or more to morph from precancers to cancers, Wentzensen said. He said there may be other factors at play. For example, he wonders if more women moving to the United States haven’t been screened, putting them at higher risk.

And Spencer notes that screening is just the first step to saving lives. Women with abnormal screening results need to undergo additional testing and, if necessary, treatment.

In a study published last year in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Spencer and her colleagues found that only 73% of women with abnormal screening results received follow-up care.

“The onus is on the health care system to think about who is slipping through the cracks,” Spencer said.

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01/19/2024

Woman accused of killing pro-war blogger in café faces 28 years in prison https://ift.tt/WqoU4cF

Russian prosecutors on Friday requested nearly three decades in prison for a woman accused of killing a pro-war blogger in a bomb blast on a Saint Petersburg cafe last April.

Vladlen Tatarsky died when a miniature statue handed to him as a gift by Darya Trepova exploded in an attack that Russia says was orchestrated by Ukrainian secret services.

"The prosecutor is asking the court to find Trepova guilty and impose a sentence of 28 years in a prison colony," the press service for Saint Petersburg's courts said in a statement.

Authorities named Trepova as the culprit and arrested her less than 24 hours after the blast, charging her with terrorism and other offenses.

Prosecutors say she knowingly gave Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, a device that had been rigged with explosives.

Trepova, 26, admitted giving Tatarsky the object but said she believed it had contained a hidden listening device, not a bomb.

She said she was acting under orders from a man in Ukraine and was motivated by her opposition to Russia's military offensive on Ukraine.

Tatarsky was an influential military blogger, one of the most prominent among a group of hardline correspondents that have gained huge followings since Russia launched its offensive.

With sources in the armed forces, they often publish exclusive information about the campaign ahead of government sources and Russian state media outlets, and occasionally criticise Russia's military tactics, pushing for a more aggressive assault.

More than 30 others were injured in the blast, which tore off the facade of the Saint Petersburg cafe where Tatarsky was giving a speech on April 2, 2023.

Trepova will be sentenced at a future hearing.

"I was very scared"

In testimony this week, Trepova again denied knowing she had been recruited for an assassination mission.

She told the court she had explicitly asked her handler in Ukraine, whom she knew by the name of Gestalt, if the statute he had sent her to give to Tatarsky was a bomb.

"I was very scared and asked Gestalt: 'Isn't this the same as with Daria Dugina?'" she said, referring to the pro-conflict Russian nationalist who was killed in a car bombing outside Moscow in August 2022.

"He said no, it was just a wiretap and a microphone," Trepova said.

After the explosion, Trepova said she angrily confronted Gestalt, realizing she had been set up.

Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously bestowed a top award, the Order of Courage, on Tatarsky, citing his "courage and bravery shown during professional duty."

Moscow has accused Ukraine of staging several attacks and assassinations inside Russia, sometimes also blaming Kyiv's Western allies or the domestic opposition.

They included the car bomb that killed Dugina and another blast that targeted pro-Kremlin writer Zakhar Prilepin and killed his assistant.

Kyiv denied involvement in those but has appeared to revel in the spate of assassinations and attacks on high-profile backers of Moscow's offensive.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said last year that the assassination of Tatarsky was the result of infighting in Russia.

Prominent figures in Ukraine have also been targeted since the war began.

In November, officials said the wife of Ukraine's intelligence chief was diagnosed with heavy metals poisoning and was undergoing treatment in a hospital. Marianna Budanova is the wife of Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency known by its local acronym GUR.

Officials told Ukrainian media last year that Budanov had survived 10 assassination attempts carried out by the FSB, the Russian state security service.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also claimed be targeted multiple times. In an interview with the British tabloid The Sun in November, Zelenskyy said that he's survived "no fewer" than five or six assassination attempts since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

"The first one is very interesting, when it is the first time, and after that it is just like Covid," Zelenskyy told the Sun. "First of all, people don't know what to do with it and it's looking very scary. And then after that, it is just intelligence sharing with you detail that one more group came to Ukraine to [attempt] this."

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01/18/2024

UN: Palestinians are dying in hospitals as estimated 60,000 wounded overwhelm remaining doctors https://ift.tt/tJ3ZbID

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the tens of thousands people hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee called the situation in Gaza's hospitals the most extreme she had ever seen.

The two health professionals, who recently left Gaza after weeks working in hospitals there, described overwhelmed doctors trying to save the lives of thousands of wounded people amid collapsing hospitals that have turned into impromptu refugee camps.

The World Health Organization’s Sean Casey, who left Gaza recently after five weeks of trying to get more staff and supplies to the territory's 16 partially functioning hospitals, told a U.N. news conference that he saw "a really horrifying situation in the hospitals” as the health system collapsed day by day.

Al-Shifa Hospital, once Gaza’s leading hospital with 700 beds, has been reduced to treating only emergency trauma victims, and is filled with thousands of people who have fled their homes and are now living in operating rooms, corridors and stairs, he said.

“Literally five or six doctors or nurses” are seeing hundreds of patients a day, Casey said, most with life-threatening injuries, and there were “so many patients on the floor you could barely move without stepping on somebody’s hands or feet.”

The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza estimates that 60,000 people have been wounded, with hundreds more wounded per day.

Since Israel declared war against Hamas following its surprise attacks into the country's south on Oct. 7, it has repeatedly accused the Islamic militant group of using Gaza’s hospitals as cover for military activities. It singled out Al-Shifa in Gaza City, saying Hamas had hidden command centers and bunkers underneath the hospital’s sprawling grounds. In late November, the Israeli military unveiled what it claimed was a Hamas military facility under the hospital.

Casey said he was able to reach Al-Shifa three times with deliveries of medical supplies, fuel and food, but once it took 12 days because of Israeli refusals, mainly for security or operational reasons.

At Al-Ahli Hospital, also in Gaza City, the situation was also dire, he said.

“I saw patients who were lying on church pews, basically waiting to die in a hospital that had no fuel, no power, no water, very little in the way of medical supplies and only a handful of staff remaining to take care of them,” he said.

Last week, Casey said, he visited the Nasser medical complex, the main hospital in Khan Younis, which is at 200% of its bed capacity with only 30% of its staff, so “patients are everywhere, in the corridors, on the floor.”

“I went to the burn unit where there was one physician caring for 100 burn patients,” he said.

Even in Rafah in the south near the Egyptian border, where Israel has urged Gazans to move, Casey said the population has skyrocketed from 270,000 a few weeks ago to almost a million, and the city doesn’t have the health facilities to deal with the massive influx of displaced people.

Gaza historically had a strong health system with 36 hospitals, 25,000 health workers and many specialists, he said, but 85% of the territory’s 2.3 million people are now displaced, and that includes health workers, doctors, nurses, surgeons and administrative staff.

Casey said many of these medical professionals are in shelters, under plastic sheeting on streets in Rafah, and not in hospitals. One hospital director told him his plastic surgeon couldn’t do surgery because he was out collecting sticks to burn as firewood to cook food for his family.

What’s needed first and foremost to help the tens of thousands of injured Gazans and people with health issues is a ceasefire and the safety and security that would bring, Casey said, but that’s not enough.

“It’s really the overall package,” he said, saying medical supplies first need to overcome obstacles and inspections and get into Gaza, and then they need to get to the hospitals where they’re needed.

But without health workers, medical supplies, and fuel to run the generators at hospitals and health facilities, “you can’t do the surgeries, you can’t provide the postoperative care,” he said.

Casey said the World Health Organization is trying to mobilize international emergency medical teams to support Gaza’s hospitals and provide care. It has also supported the establishment of several field hospitals over the last six weeks or so, he said.

“The numbers of medical evacuations going outside of the Gaza Strip is very limited,” he said. “We know that there are thousands of people who would benefit from higher-level care that can no longer be provided within the Gaza Strip,” including cancer patients and people with complex injuries.

“People are dying every day,” Casey said. “I’ve seen children full of shrapnel dying on the floor because there are not the supplies in the emergency department, and the health care workers ... to care for them.”

Speaking at another press briefing, Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician and the International Rescue Committee’s senior technical advisor for emergency health, said she just went to Gaza for two weeks in collaboration with Medical Aid for Palestinians and what she saw was “harrowing, and scenes out of nightmares.”

Jilani, who previously worked in hotspots including Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, said “In my experience of working in conflict zones around the world, this is the most extreme situation I have seen in terms of scale, severity of injuries, number of children that have suffered that have nothing to do with any of this.”

Jilani worked in the emergency room at Al-Aksa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, the only hospital in the middle area of Gaza. On her first day, she said, she tried to save an approximately 1-year-old boy whose right arm and right leg had been blown off, without any of the necessary medication. Next to him was a dying man with "flies ... already feasting on him,” she said.

Jilani said she treated children with injuries from traumatic amputations to extreme burns, sometimes seeing the smoke from nearby Israeli bombings. “And one day a bullet did indeed go through the intensive care unit.”

After she left, Jilani said, the hospital ran out of fuel and the lights went out. She doesn’t know how the babies she treated are doing, or whether they were evacuated.

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01/17/2024

Mississippi coroner's office that buried men without telling families shares notification policy https://ift.tt/42s1xMg

This article is part of “Lost Rites,” a series on America’s failed death notification system.

A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated, making it impossible to know whether the guidance was in effect while the office was handling the botched cases.

The policy includes provisions that, if they were in effect over the past two years, appear to have been disregarded by Hinds County coroner’s office investigators.

The coroner’s office has not responded to questions about the policy, which the county provided to NBC News this month in response to a public records request.

Revelations about the failed notifications, documented by NBC News, have stoked widespread public outrage and calls for a federal investigation.

Coroners are required under Mississippi law to “make reasonable efforts” to contact the family of a person who has died, and if the body remains unclaimed after five days, they are allowed to seek a pauper’s burial. But in the deaths of Dexter Wade, Marrio Moore and Jonathan David Hankins, the Hinds County coroner’s office did not notify relatives that they had died. After going unclaimed for months, those bodies were buried in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail work farm, their graves marked only by a number. The traumatized families say they would have claimed the men’s bodies if they’d known they were dead.

The Hinds County coroner’s office has said the police in Jackson, where the men died, were responsible for the failed notifications. The police have said it was the coroner’s job. In response to the uproar, the police department adopted its first death notification policy in November. The six-page policy is dated and signed by Chief Joseph Wade.

The coroner’s office’s policy, two pages long, addresses various aspects of the death notification process but is less detailed and contains typos.

The policy outlines who in a family should be considered next of kin — a spouse, then adult children, then parents, then adult siblings. It says investigators can ask hospitals for records on the dead person’s emergency contacts for leads on next of kin, but warns that phone numbers and addresses may be wrong. Notification “should be given as soon as possible,” the policy says.

If police are investigating the death, then the coroner’s office investigator should speak to the police investigator to determine who will deliver the news to the family, the policy says. If police choose to do it, then the coroner’s investigator should ask to be told when the notification has been given, and then follow up with the family to confirm.

The policy also states, with a misspelling: “The name of any decedent should not be released to the media or other outside resources until you know that nest of kin has been notified.”

If a family has heard about a loved one’s death from the media or other outside source, investigators should apologize, the policy says.

But that is not how the cases examined by NBC News were handled.

Dexter Wade was struck and killed by a Jackson police car last March. A coroner’s office investigator said he tried calling Wade’s mother soon after the collision and then shared her information with police, who didn’t notify her until August. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has since offered his condolences and blamed communication failures.

After Marrio Moore was found bludgeoned to death on Feb. 2, a coroner’s office investigator said in a report that she dialed a brother’s number but it was disconnected. His family knew nothing until October, when a local NBC affiliate published an article that listed his name as a homicide victim. Moore’s sisters sought an explanation from the coroner’s office investigator, who told them that police should have contacted them. The investigator told the sisters that Moore had been “buried in a massive grave” in “an undisclosed location,” according to a recording of their conversation provided by the family. The family says the investigator did not apologize for the way they found out.

Jonathan David Hankins was found dead in a Jackson hotel room in May 2022, but neither the coroner’s office nor police told his mother, who reported him missing. A coroner’s office investigator said he gave Hankins’ information to police for notification; police say they never got that information. NBC News notified Hankins’ mother in December 2023 after finding his name on a list of missing people and on a list of people buried in the pauper’s field. Hankins’ mother said she has not received an apology from the coroner’s office.

Experts said it was good that the Hinds County coroner’s office has a policy covering death notifications, although they said it’s missing some important things.

Joseph Morgan, a former investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office in Atlanta who now trains investigators and teaches at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, said the coroner’s office policy doesn’t include enough guidance on how to find a person’s family and confirm who the next of kin is. “It’s a very thin document,” Morgan said.

He added that performing a death notification without care — or failing to do it at all — causes families avoidable harm.

“Contacting the family goes to the heart of what we do, and absent that you are no longer in the process of being a human services organization,” Morgan said. “I don’t know what you are at that point — you are a dull, faceless entity that’s not displaying a lot of compassion.”

Victor Weedn, a former medical examiner in Maryland and New Jersey who has helped develop national standards on communicating with next of kin, said the Hinds County policy seemed “reasonable” but it does not provide enough direction on how hard an investigator should try to find a dead person’s family.

“The biggest major omission is what constitutes an adequate effort to find the next of kin before you bury him in a pauper’s grave,” Weedn said.

The national standards, recommendations written by a committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stress the need for investigators to be sensitive to the different ways families grieve, to explain to them how death investigations work, to respond quickly to their questions, and to make sure they understand their right to investigation reports. Agencies “should have a policy regarding how, when and which next of kin are contacted,” the standards say, but do not suggest what those policies contain.

Two national accreditation organizations, the National Association of Medical Examiners and the International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners, require member agencies to have a policy on death notifications, but also do not specify what those policies should say.

The Hinds County coroner’s office is not accredited by the two organizations. The Mississippi Medical Examiner’s Office said it leaves it to local agencies to develop specific policies on death notifications.

Dennis Sweet, a Jackson civil rights lawyer who is representing the families of Wade, Moore and Hankins, said the Hinds County coroner’s office policy appeared to be good. But the lack of a date or signature gave it an informal appearance that made him wonder if it carried much official weight.

“It’s better than nothing,” Sweet said. “Except they clearly didn’t follow it.”

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01/17/2024

A YouTuber drove Tesla's Cybertruck, Rivian's R1T, and Ford's F-150 Lightning. Here's his verdict. https://ift.tt/42s1xMg

The Ford F-150 Lightning (top left), the Rivian R1T (top right), and the Tesla Cybertruck (bottom).Getty

A YouTuber compared Tesla's new Cybertruck with a Rivian R1T and a Ford F-150 Lightning.

Out of Spec Reviews' Kyle Conner pointed out key differences between the trucks.

While he said it was a case of personal preference, his winner was the Rivian.

When Tesla started shipping its much-anticipated Cybertruck in late November 2023, Rivian and Ford got a new electric-truck road rival. Now, one of the first cross-comparisons of the three vehicles is in.

Out of Spec Reviews' Kyle Conner looked at everything from the trucks' range and charging speeds to their front trunks and bed sizes — as well as the comfort of the vehicles. The winner for the YouTuber: The Rivian R1T.

"If I had to choose one vehicle to live with forever, this is it," Conner said, explaining that it was the right size, had the right materials, and had the right driving performance for him.

Conner did say he could still find issues to "nitpick" with the Rivian and said it might not be the right truck for everyone, adding that he thought the vehicles each catered to a different type of owner.

"It's a very Patagonia truck," Conner said of the Rivian, pointing out that it was great for off-roading and that he enjoyed using the truck for daily driving.

Meanwhile, he said the Cybertruck was more for "tech bros" or urban driving, while the F-150 Lightning was the "traditional working man" truck.

Conner, who owns the Rivian R1T, said he'd driven about a thousand miles testing the Cybertruck and several thousand with an F-150 Lightning test vehicle.

The YouTuber said the F-150 Lightning had the larger cab, frunk (front trunk), and bed and was the best of the three as a functional work truck.

The Cybertruck, however, was best for people who lived in a more urban setting due to its highly maneuverable steer-by-wire feature, he said. The YouTuber said its interior was also more spacious than the Rivian's and had a much more futuristic feel.

"When you roll up in a Cybertruck, you're either the coolest kid in town or the most hated person around, and you just have no idea which until you start looking at all the faces around you," he said. "It's a really polarizing vehicle."

Conner said he appreciated the look of the Rivian because it was "premium but not pretentious."

When it comes to specs, Conner said the Cybertruck had the lowest range out of the three he'd tested. He did note the tests weren't performed on the same day, though, so he couldn't testify to the impact of different temperatures on the vehicles' battery life. He also said the three vehicles had similar towing capabilities.

The Ford truck is the least expensive vehicle, and the Tesla is the most costly.

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