All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Kit Bashing, Technology

Bare Metal: KC-135R gets stripped

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Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 02MAR2015.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

Every five years, KC-135 Stratotankers undergo depot maintenance by the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

The process includes stripping off an aircraft’s paint, removing the engines, dropping the boom, removing and replacing deficient parts, and any upgrades as necessary.  It takes an average of 125 days.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 28APR2015.

Video, part one KC-135R depot work:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Kiaundra Miller, 23NOV2019.

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part two KC-135R depot work (no audio on slo-mo parts of the video):

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part three KC-135R depot work:

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

 C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

C-17 STRIPPED

 B-1B & B-52H

Technology

KC-135 Stratotanker bath

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121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.

I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.

Video interview, with funky music, 100th Maintenance Group washes KC-135, RAF Mildenhall in United Kingdom, 2017:

Washing the main-gear doors, 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska, December 2017.

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 2016.  The wash-rack (aka Bird-Bath, officially Aircraft Rinse System) takes 90 seconds to wash the salty sea air off the skin of the Stratotanker.

KC-135R passes through wash rack on Andersen AFB, Guam, 2014.

Hand washing KC-135R, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 2014.

Washing the front landing gear of a KC-135R.

According to the Altus AFB info, it takes eight hours to wash your KC-135.

Every 120 days KC-135 get a scrub-down.

Video explainer, washing KC-135 at McDill AFB, Florida, 2013:

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

WASH YOUR HAWK!

Influenza

CoViD Oddities: Assault by cough, infected dog dies, more re-infections, not having insurance means you die!

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act.  Two things specifically regarding this CoViD-19 supposed pandemic (since influenza is still killing tens of thousands more people than CoViD-19); panic buying and then disappearance of toilet paper stocks, and panic buying of certain food products, with officials telling everybody there’s plenty while at the same time the supply system can’t seem to keep the shelves stocked even though in many areas panic buying has stopped, and stores have implemented limits on how much you can buy.  Pandemics also reveal that many accepted ‘facts’ about how pathogens spread are bullshit!

From the UN’s World Health Organization: “WHO estimates that seasonal influenza may result in 290,000-650,000 deaths each year due to respiratory diseases alone.  The estimate does not take into account deaths from other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, which can be influenza-related. Further surveillance and laboratory studies of all influenza-related diseases are ongoing and are expected to yield substantially higher estimates over the next few years.” 

Fact; stress will make you more susceptible to pathogens and isn’t it interesting that everything our protective governments are doing is actually causing stress to skyrocket: 11 Signs and Symptoms of Too Much Stress

Infectious Disease Expert Says Coronavirus Panic May Be Worse Than The Disease Itself
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You know how those ‘experts’ on TV say your dog can’t get CoViD-19? First dog with confirmed coronavirus infection has died.

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Can you catch the coronavirus twice? We don’t know yet. (if you can it suggests you cannot build an immunity)
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You know how those ‘experts’ on TV are always telling you to stay away from people who sneeze? A new ‘no-shit-Sherlock’ study says sneezing is not a symptom of CoViD-19!  (sneezing is a result of allergies, not infections)
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Three Australian women caught on video fighting over toilet paper amid COVID-19 crisis
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Evil U.S. employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse (more than 3-million in one week, a record!), resulting in a sudden increase in people qualifying for free food from food banks, and forcing state governors to activate National Guard.

For weeks news media personalities, along with business and government ‘experts’, have been telling people in the United States not to panic about grocery shopping, yet, for the first time ever the governor of Arizona activated 7-hundred National Guard personnel for the sole purpose of delivering and stocking food in grocery stores!

Food bank manager reveals employees/volunteers ordered by the government to stay home, replaced by National Guard, essentially the government has taken over food banks!

In leftist-liberal California, where everybody is supposed to be so caring about each other, shoppers go nuts start attacking each other! 

In the leftist-liberal social program pushing California, a 17 years old died from CoVid-19 after being refused medical help because he didn’t have insurance!

Coronavirus Panic Causes People To Fight In California Costco, Call 9-1-1 Over Crazy Long Lines
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Ski resort in Colorado blamed for infecting Mexicans with CoViD!

In the U.S. state of Georgia wine is apparently the thing to stock up on as people beat each other with bottles of it! 

Ski resort county in Idaho is ground zero for Gem State CoviD outbreak!

An Eastern Idaho fire department is now a food delivery service no thanks to CoViD-19.

Eastern Idaho ‘hospital’ offers FREE CoViD-19 testing, IF YOU HAVE INSURANCE, which I do not because I fall through several ObamaCare cracks. For those who don’t have insurance they’re demanding $225 cash up front!

Kansas nurse infected with CoViD-19 after trip to ski resort in Colorado, yet has no symptoms

Michigan hospital reveals people who get CoViD-19 and “…have the best chance of getting better are our first priority.” And “…dying patients will be provided comfort care.” But it’s not because CoViD is so bad, it’s “Because of shortages.”

In Detroit, Michigan, an old fashioned street fight showdown between two women went unchecked because police refused to respond to 9-1-1 calls on the grounds they might get CoViD-19!

New Jersey Man faces terrorism charge for allegedly coughing on cashier, claiming he had COVID-19

North Carolina man accused of coughing on Walmart customers

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On the way to Puerto Rico, passengers on the NCL cruise ship Norwegian Encore went nuts and began attacking each other!

In Utah, Summit County deputies ticket two men, one for coughing and the other for bullying the coughing man for being sick!

In Washington state, a man arrested after spitting and coughing on a cop

OPERATION COVID-19: BORDER GUARDS

SUDDEN HALT TO COVID-19 INFECTIONS? IT’S CALLED ‘EPIDEMIC BURST-FADE-OUT’.

Technology

Wash your Hawk!

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USS Detroit (LCS 7), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Caribbean, March 2020.

USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 49, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the Indo-Pacific, February 2020.

Washing your Hawk not only keeps dust-n-dirt from building up, it prevents corrosion.

Charlie Company, 2-238th General Aviation Support Battalion (Medevac), UH-60 Black Hawk, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, November 2019.

USS Bataan (LHD 5), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in the Atlantic, November 2019.

31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 56th Helicopter Maintenance Unit, HH-60G Pave Hawk, Aviano Air Base, Italy, October 2019.

Picky, picky, picky.    USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, September 2019.

Cleaning up after cleaning up,  1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 150th Aviation Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, July 2019.

Don’t forget to brush your teeth!

USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet ‘areas of responsibility’, April 2019.

USS Nitze (DDG 94), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46, MH-60R Sea Hawk, somewhere in the U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet ‘areas of responsibility’, April 2019.

Wipe that ass!

USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 14, MH-60S ‘Knight’ Hawk, somewhere in Philippine Sea, November 2018.

41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit, HH-60G Pave Hawk, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, February 2018.  USAF requires helicopter wash every 180 days.

 

BLACK HAWKS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

IDAHO BLACK HAWKS HEAD SOUTH, DOWN CENTRAL AMERICA WAY

BLADE FOLDING ARMY BLACK HAWKS

VEHICLE I-D: BLACK HAWK WITH SKIS

VEHICLE ID: NEW HH-60M BLACK HAWK FOR HAWAIIAN MILITIA MEDEVAC

Influenza, U.S.

Operation CoViD-19: Border Guards

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The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Video, Otay Mesa Port of Entry Commercial Inspection Facility, California, 27MAR2020:

Video, Mariposa Port of Entry, Arizona, 36MAR2020:

San Ysidro, California, 25MAR2020.

Pharr Point of Entry, Texas, 23MAR2020.

Near Sasabe, Arizona, 22MAR2020.

 

Title 42 USC 265: “Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.”

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

OPERATION COVID-19: MISSIONS OF MERCY & COMFORT

Technology

Iron Ladies, Tigers and Saving Willie?

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Armor Museum Restoration Shop Fort Benning, Georgia.

Video report on World War Two tank restoration ops at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a focus on an M18 Hellcat and a Jagdtiger:

In 2012, the U.S. Air Force moves a Tiger-1 from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia, for repair and full restoration.

According to the USAF, the Tiger-1 was originally on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, then at a museum in Germany, before being stored at RAF Alconbury, United Kingdom, with two other tanks.

Apparently there was two years of legal wrangling before the approval was given to send the Tiger to Fort Benning, Georgia.

In September 2015, an old LVT-4 Willie was moved from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, finally landing at Randolph Hall, a Marine training facility located on the Ordnance Campus of Fort Lee, Virginia, in January 2016.

One of the many LVT-4s auctioned-off by the City of Buffalo in New York in 2016.

The purpose is to restore it and to train-up new Marines Corps welders at the same time.  Interestingly the dedicated fans of the armor display at Aberdeen were never warned and thought Willie had been kidnapped: “The question was asked about the location of the LVT that used to sit in front of the old barracks. Through various emails and phone calls, Willie was tracked down and located sitting on a storage lot at Anniston. Through coordination and agreements to provide a better indoor home, it was agreed to move it back with the Marines.”– Chief Warrant Officer-3 Joseph Bering, USMC

The City Of Buffalo obtained several LVT-4s and used them as ice breakers in the local waterways.

Once restored Willie reportedly will end up at the U.S. Army Engineer Museum at Fort Leonard Wood (Lost in the Woods, my old basic and advanced training alma matter), Missouri.

HOW TO WELD YOUR TANK

VEHICLE I-D: ARMOR MUSEUM FORT LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI

RAT ROD 1967 BLH AUSTIN-WESTERN USN SEABEES ROAD GRADER $14,794

Influenza, U.S.

Operation CoViD-19: Missions of Mercy & Comfort

Video

USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and Comfort (T-AH 20) will not act as quarantine/isolation ships as first feared, but will try to ease the burden of land based hospitals dealing with CoViD-19 patients by taking onboard people who are not sick with the CoronaVirus.

Maintenance on chemical analyzer onboard USNS Mercy, 26MAR2020.

Reserve Sailors report for duty aboard USNS Comfort, 26MAR2020.

Video, 24MAR2020, USNS Comfort load-up at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, next stop New York City:

Video, USNS Mercy steams out of San Diego, 23MAR2020, on its way to the Port of Los Angeles:

Prepping slides for microscopes onboard USNS Mercy 26MAR2020.

Video (from a few years ago) explaining the medical capabilities of Mercy and Comfort:

Video, USNS Mercy tour part 1:

Video tour USNS Mercy part 2:

 

USNS Mercy gets towed away by re-possessors driving tractor-trailer due the Navy failing to make its payments!  Just kidding, it’s a perspective trick of the camera.

SUDDEN HALT TO COVID-19 INFECTIONS? IT’S CALLED ‘EPIDEMIC BURST-FADE-OUT’.

Influenza

Sudden halt to CoViD-19 infections? It’s called ‘epidemic burst-fade-out’.

Video

No, not the hair style!

“A well-behaved epidemic with build-up, peak, and fade out phases will be bell shaped….”–Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records, 1998

“A wide epidemic burst forth suddenly and swept the country in one month.”–Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, Volume 21, 1924

“Only the natural interplay of transmission factors would determine when it would fade out……     ……Once the epidemic had burst upon the population….”–Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines, 1995

“Stochastic [random] effects may cause fade-out of an infectious disease in a population immediately after an epidemic outbreak.”–WKB theory of epidemic fade-out in stochastic populations, 2009.  Note that ‘stochastic’ is a mathematical word that means ‘random’, in other words epidemiologists don’t really know why diseases suddenly stop sickening or killing people.

Epidemic burst fade-out describes the life-cycle of a new (novel) pathogen, usually a virus.   It’s normal; a big bang at the beginning with people wondering where the hell it came from, then panic as it ravages the human hosts, then suddenly, without explanation, it’s gone.

CoViD-19 is not a disease, it is a pathogen.  Disease is the result of a pathogen infecting a host (victim) when the environmental conditions favor the pathogen.

Pathogen=Bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

For many old pathogens epidemiologists know, because of studying past disease outbreaks, what are the environmental conditions that favor those pathogens.  When you are dealing with a novel (new) pathogen there is no way to know the perfect environmental conditions for it to strike, because there is no way to know that a novel pathogen exists.  But even more amazing is that epidemiologists don’t understand why pathogens suddenly halt their disease causing rampages: “Some key outstanding questions remain unanswered, but we may discover the answers within the scope of current research studies. With those answers, we’ll not only inform disease prevention and control strategies, but we’ll also be able to shed light on our basic understanding of organismal evolution.”-Sarah McDonald, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

One important environmental factor that humans should be able to control (but don’t) is the level of physical and mental stress a potential host is experiencing.  Disease outbreaks (burst) hit the big cities/metro areas first and hardest.  So many people living so close together is enough to push the stress levels sky-high.  Stress is not just negative, there is such a thing as positive stress.  Anything that pushes your emotional system to a negative or positive extreme is stress.  Many extroverted people love the big cities because of the physical closeness to other people, but pathogens also love the metro-closeness of humans.   Metro areas are giant petri dishes creating the perfect environment for a pathogen to burst forth.  (don’t forget that ever since the stress inducing Industrial Revolution there’s been a rapid acceleration of pathogens, also see The effects of industrialisation – Causes of illness and disease)

Perhaps staying calm, not getting excited or upset, is the best defense against pathogens.  Like they said in the movie Airplane:

Arrogant humans think they are the ones who make diseases go away, through vaccines, treatments, social distancing, godly cleanliness, isolationism, as demonstrated by these news media articles:

How South Korea flattened the curve

Hong Kong has flattened the curve but can it stay the course?

These Two Studies Show How China Flattened The Coronavirus Curve
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EPIDEMIC BURST FADE OUT: NEW FLU KILLING DOGS AND CATS IN METRO AREAS!

Influenza, U.S.

Operation CoViD-19: New Normal National Guard

Video

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Evil employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse, resulting in a sudden increase in people qualifying for free food from food banks.

CALIFORNIA:  Video interview, the director of the Interfaith Food Bank, in Amador County, explains why National Guard is taking over food banks; the regular food bank employees/volunteers were ordered by the government to stay home:

National Guard engineers in Riverside deploying to assist with the construction of federal ‘medical facilities’ (camps?) on the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, 25MAR2020.

Video of National Guard working the Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Food Bank, San Jose, 24MAR2020:

CONNECTICUT:  National Guard deliver state Department of Public Health’s portable beds with linens to mobile hospitals, 25MAR2020.

FLORIDA:  Long lines waiting to get into the Hard Rock Stadium for CoViD-19 testing, 24MAR2020.

National Guard and the state Department of Health screening passengers from out-of-state at the Orlando Airport, 25MAR2020.

Video of Marlins baseball park testing site, 25MAR2020, only for people 65 years of age or older:

Florida National Guard works with state Department of Health inspectors at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, 25MAR2020.

Official video report, opening of Orange County testing site, 25MAR2020:

At Jacksonville Airport, Florida National Guard assist the state Department of Health in screening passengers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, 25MAR2020.

HAWAII: National Guard personnel undergo daily medical checks.

IDAHO: This is the state Emergency Operations Center in Boise.  As of 25MAR2020, the emergency alert level is at Level 2, the governor of Idaho ordered all non-essential business to shutdown, and residents to ‘shelter-in-place’.

LOUISIANA: Official video report:

MARYLAND:  National Guard assist with food distribution at the Greenmount Recreation Center in Baltimore, 24MAR2020.

Video explaining that National Guard is actually supplying the federal government with pandemic response material:

National Guard provides transportation service to silly-vilians, 17MAR2020.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Setting up 250 cots at the Stan Spirou Field House at Southern New Hampshire University, 23MAR2020.

NEW JERSEY: CoViD-19 testing site at Kean University, 25MAR2020.

Long lines waiting for testing at Bergen Community College, 24MAR2020.

National Guard using their Lakota helicopters to fly CoViD-19 ‘observation’ missions.

NEW YORK:  Off-loading medical supplies CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center at the South Beach Behavioral Center, Staten Island, 19MAR2020.

NORTH CAROLINA: Warehouse ops in in the Raleigh-Durham area, 23MAR2020.

OHIO: National Guard making home deliveries of food in the Toledo area, 25MAR2020.

TEXAS: 24MAR2020, the state Military Department preps for CoViD-19 ops.

VERMONT: Assembling a triage tent for the University of Vermont Medical Center Emergency Room, 24MAR2020.

Washington DC:  Providing security for local and federal government offices, 24MAR2020.

WEST VIRGINIA:  National Guard hand out boxes of food, along with the Greater Greenbrier Long Term Recovery Committee, in Lewisburg, 25MAR2020.

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES (FEMA orders search for CoViD camps!)

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Technology

How to weld your Tank

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A U.S. Marine welds on a tow bar during Exercise Trident Juncture 18 in Storas, Norway, 18OCT2018.

Contractor welds Tank Urban Survivability Kit onto the lower hull sides of an M1A2 at Camp Taji, Iraq, 2008.

Video report, Theater Logistics Support Center-Europe contractors welding damaged battery compartments on the M1A2 Abrams tanks:

Video, Anniston Army Depot explains how they weld your tank:

Video, Anniston Army Depot explainer:

Program Manager-Stryker ‘learns’ welders how to use non-structural welding (aka gas metal arc-pulse) to repair Strykers in the field.

Prepping to weld on a Stryker at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, April 2010.

HOW TO BUILD A 1:1 SCALE U.S. ARMY ‘FAKE NEWS’ BMP-2