![]() This small list will include things I hope they won’t omit. I would like to see a few additions made to the game that could potentially make it feel more alive and similar to other Harvest Moon releases. The first version of the game that was released had a multitude of bugs and glitches that were later fixed with the female version of the game that was released much later. Hopefully with this remake, the setbacks that made A Wonderful Life lacking will be improved upon.ĭon’t get me wrong, A Wonderful Life was an amazing game, but it could be very repetitive and boring at times. It looks like there are a few character remodels as well. Like the original A Wonderful Life, characters will age with each passing year, and there will be fishing, marriage, lots of farming, and raising a child. Similarly, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town also received a remake through Story of Seasons in 2020 for the Nintendo Switch that merged both the male and female version of the game. The trailer shows that Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life will certainly live up to a nostalgic remake, as the town, characters, animals, and music are all familiar. Now, about 20 years later, these titles are being combined and getting a remake called Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life for the Nintendo Switch. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.In 2003, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life was released on the Nintendo Gamecube, and later in 2004 Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life was released as the female-character version of the game that brought a few bug and glitch fixes with it. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. ![]() If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This will encourage side shoots and branching stems. If you prefer many smaller flowers per stem instead of a large single flower, cut off the growing tip when the plant has reached 1 metre tall. Support the stem as it gets taller by tying it to a cane.įeed with a balanced fertiliser once a week! * When they reach 30-45 centimetre in height, put a layer of Organic Matter around, but not touching, the stems to a depth of 10cm. Watch out for slugs as soon as your seedlings appear! ![]() Make 2 centimetre holes, 30 centimetres apart and drop a seed in each. If you live in a region that get lots of dry and sunny weather, you can sow sunflower seeds directly in the ground in spring, as soon as the risk of frost has passed.Ĭhoose a sunny spot and get the soil ready by digging it over, removing weeds and raking to get a fine soil texture (it bit like crumble topping!) Spread a sheet of newspaper on a flat surface, gently rub the seed head and the seeds will fall away easily.Ĭollect them in an envelope or paper bag and store in a dry, cool, dark place until spring when they will be ready to sow and grow once more. ![]() Once the petals have faded, cut the flower heads off and store them in a sunny, warm, dry place for another week. Leave the flower head on the stem for at least 2 weeks. Once the flower has faded the sunflower head will have lots of seeds in the centre and these are a great source of food for birds, alternatively you can harvest the seeds and grow them again next year. Learn how to sow the seeds in pots ready for planting out in your garden with our simple ‘Grow a sunflower’ activity. In fact, the Italian word for sunflower ‘ girasole’ literally means ‘turning sun’. Growing in this way, following the path of the sun across the sky is called ‘phototropism’ or ‘heliotropism’. Heli meaning sun and anther meaning flower.Īs soon as the flower forms and opens, you can watch it ‘turn’. The name Sun Flower is a direct translation from the botanical name Helianthus annus. Sunflowers are known as being “happy” flowers and make the perfect gift to bring joy to someone's day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, you can send 100 Mb audio files and 50 MB video clips to anyone you want. ![]() You can send more than 90 pictures simultaneously, double that of simple whatsapp. This limit is increased when you use GB whatsapp. In simple WhatsApp, you can send only 30 pictures at a time. The effects include Pop, Chrome, Cool, Film, and many others. You can add different effects to your photos and videos when sending them to another person. Pin down your location and also turn on your location so that your dear ones trace you and reach you in less time. Want to inform your friend and family about the exact place you are at? Use the WhatsApp live location feature. ![]() This single feature stands out among all the cool features and allows you to read the deleted message without notifying another person. The anti-revoke option helps the user to read the deleted message. A single tick indicates the message is sent but not received and seen by the receiver. The revoke option appears next to the message as a tick. That’s why GB WhatsApp has this feature where you can download anyone’s WhatsApp picture and video without notifying them and then use it further. Retain the messages from the option given by the application and delete useless conversations.Īsking someone for their status videos sometimes feels so awkward. The users have this option available to filter the chat and delete or whatever else they want. In GBWhatsApp, you can filter your messages. These features allow you to change the fonts of your app and you can customize the chat screen including tick styles. Make your chatting experience more cool and engaging. But the WhatsApp GB broadcasting feature helps you add people to the broadcast list and then send your message once in that list, ultimately reaching every broadcasted person. We have to send that one by one to everyone. It is sometimes tiresome to send messages to multiple users. Once you enable the DND feature, the internet from the GB will be cut out, and you will stop receiving the messages until you disable it. ![]() The purpose of this feature is to help the user concentrate on the work they are doing on their android phone without being disturbed by the WhatsApp message. The DND mode in GB WhatsApp blocks the internet connection for GB only. Allows you to enjoy a seamless chatting experience with upgraded features. But with the WhatsApp GB Auto reply feature, you can customize a message that will be sent to any person who messages you in your regard.Īn Enhanced protection feature so that your number doesn’t get blocked by WhatsApp. If you don’t reply to a message, some people get worried or start calling you immediately to ask if something is wrong. The Auto Reply feature was developed to help users when they are busy and can’t respond to their friends or clients. Let’s have a look at the fantastic features of this application which are enlisted below They can choose what they want to do with their account and how they want to appear on whatsapp to others. It is designed according to users’ psychology. The features of this application are more advanced or updated than simple whatsapp. One WhatsApp account is functional at one time. But once you sign up for the GB, you must log out from all other WhatsApp accounts. Specifications Of GB Whatsapp APK App NameĪfter you have the GB WhatsApp Download 2023 latest version on your phone To install GB WhatsApp, you don’t need to install or delete simple WhatsApp. To know more about the app and how you can download it continue reading this article. In the recent updates, the developer modified the app further and improved some features like message scheduler, hiding forward tag, and voice status. For better privacy and security, use the updated version of this application. The application was designed for users that want to enjoy the ultimate features. The core file of the app is the same as the original but with the extra features that WhatsApp doesn’t offer.ĭue to these tremendous capabilities, the original WhatsApp and the variant have always been at odds against each other that is the reason you won’t find the app on play store so it is important that you bookmark the page for update releases. GBWhatsApp is a derived variant of the original WhatsApp that has been developed by various developers like Omar, HeyMods & Alexmods. ![]() ![]() Jean was born on September 27, 1922, in Northwood Narrows, NH. Richner, daughter, Carol Richner, and son, James Richner. She was predeceased by her husband, Donald R. Lovingly surrounded by family members, Jean Fraser Richner, age 100, peacefully left this earth on January 3, 2023, to be with the Lord. Gifts in Jean’s memory may be given to the Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, (pastor’s benevolent fund) 12995 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77079 or to the American Cancer Society. ![]() A memorial service celebrating Jean’s life will be held on Monday, Januat 2 pm at The Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, 12955 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77079. Jean is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren who have brought her much joy. ![]() She is survived by her daughters: Kathleen Locke & spouse Doug Locke, Denver, NC Sheree Paramore & spouse Randy Paramore, Tomball, Texas Roberta Hayes and spouse Ed Hayes, Baden Lake, NC daughter-in-law Mary Ann Richner, Concord Township, OH and her sons: Donald Richner, Manvel, Texas and Dale Richner, Houston, Texas. Her legacy includes her prayers and encouragement for her children and grandchildren. She delightedly called it going “copping.” Jean was best known for her love of the Lord and being a woman of prayer. She particularly enjoyed driving around with her next-door neighbor as part of the neighborhood watch program. She volunteered many hours at her church and was well known for her faithfulness in making homemade cookies for over 30 years for the monthly blood mobile. Other favorite activities included growing African violets and roses, playing bridge in several neighborhood groups, and doing jigsaw puzzles. During retirement she began each day by reading her Bible, reading the current events in the newspaper, completing a word puzzle, and riding her exercise bike 3 - 8 miles. Jean lived in Houston, Texas for the past 42 years, where she completed her career as an office manager at Lutheran Brotherood. She found time to serve her community as a PTA president, President of Emblem Club #85, and as President of the Lake County Chapter of Women’s Council of Realtors. Later, she worked as a bookkeeper and then as a real estate broker. She lived in Ohio for 29 years, where she raised her 7 children. For fun, she liked swimming, ice skating and tobogganing. She grew up on a farm and followed her dad around learning to milk a cow, ride horses, pick apples, tap maple trees for syrup, pick blueberries, haying, and growing vegetables in the garden. Jean Fraser Richner Lovingly surrounded by family members, Jean Fraser Richner, age 100, peacefully left this earth on January 3, 2023, to be with the Lord. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Upon hearing about the incident, Garber alerts Clifford. While at the restaurant, Jill gets a telephone call and hears Duncan's voice asking again: "Have you checked the children?" The police escort Jill back home to discover that everything there is fine. One night, she and her husband Stephen go to dinner to celebrate his promotion while their children are babysat by Sharon. Jill is now married with two young children. Tracy screams for help and Clifford returns, chasing Duncan from the scene but losing his trail in the streets of downtown Los Angeles. After Clifford leaves, however, Duncan comes out of hiding from inside Tracy’s closet. He tells Tracy that Duncan literally tore the Mandrakis children apart with his bare hands and Tracy reluctantly agrees to act as bait at the bar that evening in an effort to draw Duncan out. Clifford tracks Duncan to Tracy's residence. Garber, who was also present at the Mandrakis crime scene, agrees to collaborate. Meanwhile, an increasingly obsessed Clifford confides to his friend Lieutenant Garber his intention to kill Duncan rather than have him recommitted. She tries to be nice to him while getting him to leave, hoping this will be the last she sees of him. ![]() Duncan follows Tracy to her apartment and she takes pity on him. Not knowing Clifford is after him, the homeless Duncan is beaten after harassing a woman, Tracy, in a downtown bar. Mandrakis hires John Clifford, who investigated the earlier murders but is now a private detective, to find Duncan. Seven years later, Duncan escapes from the psychiatric facility. He leaves Jill unharmed and, after his trial, is sent to a psychiatric facility. Unbeknownst to her, an English merchant seaman named Curt Duncan killed the children shortly after Jill arrived. Immediately after the conversation, the police phone to inform her that the calls are coming from a line located somewhere inside the house. Jill receives one final call from her harasser. She calls the police, who tell her to keep the perpetrator on the line long enough for them to trace the call. However, he calls again and again, the calls increasing in frequency and threat level, and Jill becomes frightened. Jill initially dismisses the call as a practical joke. When the children are asleep, Jill receives a telephone call from a man who asks her if she has checked the children. Jill Johnson is babysitting the children of Dr. The first 13 minutes of Wes Craven's Scream (1996) pay homage to the opening of When a Stranger Calls. The film has developed a large cult following over time because of the first 23 minutes, now consistently regarded as one of the scariest openings in film history. It was followed by the 1993 made-for-cable sequel When a Stranger Calls Back and a remake in 2006. It was commercially successful, grossing $21.4‒25 million at the box office against a $1.5 million budget, but received a mixed-to-negative critical reception, with many praising the opening scene and performances, and others criticizing its writing and lack of scares. The film was released in the United States on September 28, 1979, by Columbia Pictures. The film derives its story from the folk legend of " the babysitter and the man upstairs". Rachel Roberts, Ron O'Neal, Carmen Argenziano, and Rutanya Alda appear in supporting roles. ![]() Its plot follows Jill Johnson, a young woman terrorized by a psychopathic killer while babysitting, the killer's subsequent stalking of another woman, and his return to torment Jill years later and also the detective trying to track him down. When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Fred Walton, co-written by Steve Feke, and starring Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst and Tony Beckley. ![]() ![]() I’m also doing my part in advising what tools other mapping utilities are packaged with, and which ones would translate well into the Prodeus editor. With Prodeus you’re able to place light entities and control their shape, size, colour, brightness, and even their pulse sequence and all of the corresponding shadows are applied instantly. Having come from a doom background, I’m used to hand-drawing the lighting in my map.This allows you to quickly hide or show specific layers, keeping your work environment clean and organised. You can select a series of faces and add them to a layer.If you do want to manually align a texture however, that is also present, so you’re not creatively “locked down”.This means that the perfect texture out of a selected texture type is automatically applied, and correctly sized.Many textures are built with “hotspot” technology.You can recolour textures on the fly to any colour of your choice.Here’s a couple of notable features I’m particularly fond of: As a mapper, some of the features are an absolute god-send. ![]() The editor is ever-evolving during development, and is becoming more feature complete with each iteration. While to some that might sound odd, it’s very intuitive, and you know that what you see is what you get. One notable aspect is that you build the game in a 3D view only, no top / side views. From each face you can then do many things, be it grab one of the sides and start a new face from it, add vertices to distort the shape of the surface, extrude a series of faces outwards or inwards from it, etc. You control the size and shape of every individual face, or if you prefer, surface. This face-based technique is almost somewhere in the middle. People who have mapped for a few other games may have had ‘sector based / grid based’ mapping tools (akin to how you map for Doom or Wolfenstein), and others may think of ‘brush based ‘ mapping which is what many 3D game engines use, where you make the map out of a series of cuboids. Let me tell you, this editor is nice! The editor we are using will be the same one distributed within the game itself, so when you get your hands on a copy of the game, you too can have some fun making maps for the game! This is a question I’ve been asked a few times since the news has spread that I’m on the Prodeus development team. “So Dragonfly, What Is The Level Editor Like?” Needless to say, I quickly fell in love with it! The game has a very good ‘feeling’ to it, providing the same kind of action I enjoy most in first person shooters, but with it’s own unique identity and style.Īfter the testing session, I accepted the opportunity, but with the caveat that I will not start until I was done with the development of Eviternity, slated for release on December 10th. Jason pinged me a private test build of Prodeus, which featured one level to play – We called each other and I shared my screen and narrated my experience of playing it, almost as if it was a 1 to 1 twitch stream. I was already aware of Prodeus, having been following it’s development on Twitter, so having them reach out to me directly was a huge confidence boost! At the time I was fully committed to finishing Eviternity, so I responded warmly saying I’d love to do so, as long as I can finish up my project first. Reward: 2 Large Energy ammo.In the later months of 2018, Jason Mojica reached out to me after having seen some of my Twitch streams and the maps I’d made, asking if I would consider mapping for a commercial project called Prodeus. From the previous secret, jump off onto ledge surrounding the room where you found the key card.Ride them up to find an opening in the wall. ![]() This will activate two sets of moving platforms. After collecting the yellow key card, find and push a yellow button near a lava pit.After entering the room with a large grate in the floor, find a button to open a hole in the floor.After activating the rising platforms, ride one up and jump onto the platform on your left when facing the wall.Reward: Arc rail, 4 small cell ammo and 4 small chaos ammo. In the room after the first marksman zombie, press a button on a raised platform to open a secret door.Reward: Plasma Rifle and 2 Large Cell Ammo. Just before the first checkpoint, press a button on the back of a pillar and drop down the hole. ![]() The level takes place in a large factory and marks the introduction of the Super Shotgun. It is preceded by Meltdown and is followed by Ammo Cache. The Forge is currently the final level of Prodeus with the following level, Citadel, being unavailable. ![]() ![]() When Mark wasn’t in the mood, which had been very often during their last months in Pikeville, Kathy had been the stalwart who patiently endured Susan’s crying jags on the phone, the one to assure Susan that she had value, that she was better than she believed. Kathy had been Susan’s friend, her confessor, even her role model. Mark, never a negotiator, argued as if a compromise could be reached. If you don’t, I’ll ruin your life.” She smiled triumphantly. Second, you will leave that whore Kathy and those spoiled kids and marry me. You will be there when it’s born and sign the birth certificate as its daddy. Now please just tell me straight, what do you want from me?” His heart was pounding. From day one, all you’ve done is bitch and feel sorry for yourself. “Susan, just tell me what you want from me. “I own you! Own you! Ron says they’ll fire you and Kathy will leave you!” I own you, Putnam! I own you and your precious job!” I can’t wait to see the look in your wife’s eyes! Then you know what I’m going to do? I’m going right on down to your FBI Miami Vice office and tell your new friends there how you solved your cases by fucking an informant and leaving her pregnant and barefoot to look after herself in Kentucky. Your son is going to want to know why the baby’s name is Mark Jr., the same as him. “I’m going to bring this baby down to Florida and knock on your door and put the little bastard right into your precious daughter’s arms. “And now I’m going to have a little Mark Jr.,” Susan went on, having regained her composure. He realized he had been using his index finger to poke at her chest for emphasis. Leave Kathy and my kids out of this.” She looked down with surprise. “Susan, I’ve given you everything I could. Buddy wasn’t a word she used, and Mark thought he knew where she had picked it up. He had the sense that these were lines someone else had given her. I’ll be goddamned if I’m going to let you prance down to Florida with your little wife and your spoiled kids to resume your wonderful life. “What do you mean me? You’re messing with me, Mark! I know that now. He listened, as if trying to extract from the gloom any sound other than Susan’s short panting.Placing his hand on her shoulder, he said, “Let’s try and work this out instead of acting like a couple of idiots.” This was exactly the kind of lonely dark setting that had led to sex on other occasions, but even the intimation of affection now caused Susan to recoil in revulsion and slap his hand away.“What’s gotten into you, Susan?”The question set her off again. ![]() Mark rolled the window down and felt the air on his hot cheeks and burning eyes. Where the sky showed above the ridge, it was filled with stars. Susan’s sobs were the only sound in the darkness. Fighting to keep control of the car, he made out the contours of one of the coal-road turnoffs in his headlights and turned abruptly onto it, bumping about fifty yards up the road and scattering gravel loudly under the car. As they approached the crest of Peter Creek Mountain, she caught her breath and lunged across the seat at him, slapping him with both hands. Kathy Putnam As they drove toward Freeburn and Barrenshee Hollow, Susan sobbed uncontrollably. ![]() Once in the hills, the only turnoffs are narrow gravel roads put in by mine companies who then abandoned the roads when they finished blasting out the coal, leaving behind chewed out mountains. FBI.”Īt the coal town of Meta, he turned right onto Route 194, a narrow two-lane that winds southeast along Johns Creek into the rugged hills that border the Tug Valley. ![]() “Ron says they’ll fire you when they find out.” ![]() But then she took a breath and her voice was calm. He thought about the two and a half miserable years working grueling hours in Pikeville, the phone calls at three in the morning, the threats, the corruption he saw everywhere he looked, the stress of the impending trial, Kathy’s misery, the intimidating phone calls from Poole, Charlie Trotter wavering in his motel room, the stress of starting a job anew in a high profile bureau like Miami. But unless it was to renounce everything else and stay with her forever, he could not figure out what she expected him to do. She insisted that the baby was his, and that she would tell the FBI, his wife, and his children about it. Believed to be the first active FBI agent ever to commit homicide, Mark Putnam made headlines for his “crime of passion.” Susan Smith Joe Sharkey’s true crime account Above Suspicion, soon to be a movie starring Game of Throne’s Emilia Clarke as Susan and Jack Huston as Mark, gives a detailed account of the events leading up to Susan’s death and the aftermath of Mark’s crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Political regimes want to advance their own propaganda (for example, Russia’s weaponization of “fake news” in order to control the narrative around its invasion of Ukraine).Some news stories are created by people wanting to generate clicks for financial gain, regardless of the content (for example, Macedonian teenagers) Partisan actors want to influence voters and policy makers for political gain, or to influence public discourse (for example, intentionally spreading misinformation about election fraud).Misinformation and disinformation is produced for a variety of complex reasons: Increasingly, we rely on online information to understand what is happening in our world. In addition, technological advances such as the advent of social media enable fake news stories to proliferate quickly and easily as people share more and more information online. Some people use it to cast doubt on their opponents, controversial issues or the credibility of some media organizations. The term itself has become politicized, and is widely used to discredit any opposing viewpoint. However, it’s important to acknowledge that “fake news” is a complex and nuanced problem, one that is far greater than the narrow definition above. Sometimes these stories may be propaganda that is intentionally designed to mislead the reader, or may be designed as “clickbait” written for economic incentives (the writer profits on the number of people who click on the story). How do we define a term that has come to mean so many different things to different people?Īt its core, we are defining “fake news” as those news stories that are false: the story itself is fabricated, with no verifiable facts, sources or quotes. The issue of “fake news” has been a dominant theme in the headlines for several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() He supposed that the object was essentially or "really" the Form and that the phenomena were mere shadows mimicking the Form that is, momentary portrayals of the Form under different circumstances. Form answers the question, "What is that?" Plato was going a step further and asking what Form itself is. The Forms are expounded upon in Plato's dialogues and general speech, in that every object or quality in reality-dogs, human beings, mountains, colors, courage, love, and goodness-has a form. What is the form really and how is that related to substance? The status of appearances now came into question. The answer was substance, which stands under the changes and is the actually existing thing being seen. ![]() The pre-Socratic philosophers, starting with Thales, noted that appearances change, and began to ask what the thing that changes "really" is. Plato used the terms eidos and idea (ἰδέα) interchangeably. The original meaning of the term εἶδος ( eidos), "visible form", and related terms μορφή ( morphē), "shape", and φαινόμενα ( phainomena), "appearances", from φαίνω ( phainō), "shine", Indo-European *bʰeh₂- or *bhā- remained stable over the centuries until the beginning of Western philosophy, when they became equivocal, acquiring additional specialized philosophic meanings. Plato uses these aspects of sight and appearance from the early Greek concept of the form in his dialogues to explain the Forms and the Good. The early Greek concept of form precedes attested philosophical usage and is represented by a number of words mainly having to do with vision, sight, and appearance. Nonetheless, the theory is considered to be a classical solution to the problem of universals. The theory itself is contested from within Plato's dialogues, and it is a general point of controversy in philosophy. Plato speaks of these entities only through the characters (primarily Socrates) of his dialogues who sometimes suggest that these Forms are the only objects of study that can provide knowledge. Ideas according to this theory, conventionally capitalized and translated as "Ideas" or "Forms", are the non-physical essences of all things, of which objects and matter in the physical world are merely imitations. But what remains are Plato’s words on the page, recording those other words Socrates said, preserving that wit and that wisdom across the aeons for us to admire, to enjoy, and to love.įor Plato, this is the ultimate, the highest form of love, the only love that is truly eternal.The theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a metaphysical theory, attributed to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato, suggesting that the physical world is not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas. Socrates, who was loved by many for his wit and his wisdom, has been dead equally long. Plato the man has been dead for two and a half thousand years. ![]() These things will not go away, they will stay around humans, to be loved and admired, forever. And when we engage erotically with these things, we produce eternal offspring: another melody, a new formula, a better argument. So how can we satisfy that? By uniting with these things that are not ephemeral, things that are eternal, things that won’t die: the abstract beauty of a formula describing a seashell. But our desire to be united with beauty is still there, as long as we live. Sunsets end, melodies fade into silence, seashells break. Love is the desire for the eternal possession of the good.īut nothing is forever. And then we notice that we’re also attracted to other things that are beautiful: a sunset, a haunting melody, the spiral form of a seashell, perhaps even a mathematical formula, or the clever way a philosophical argument works. And so our understanding of beauty grows wider, to include these things. And we notice that there are other kinds of beauty: when the beauty of the body fades with age, the beauty of the mind becomes more prominent. We’re attracted to every beautiful body, and thus to the beauty itself that is common in them. But if we follow our instincts for a while, we’ll notice that it’s not one particular body we’re attracted to. We love to look at a beautiful face, a perfect body. We are striving for perfection, says Plato. Possession? What is a good? And why should it be eternal? “Love is the desire for the eternal possession of the good.” In the Symposion, perhaps the most famous of the ancient Greek philosophical texts on love, Plato gives us a definition of what love is: ![]() |
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