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Global Kids is excited to announce that NYC Haunts -- our signature program where youth create a mobile, augmented reality game exploring local history and contemporary issues -- is blasting out to three Global Kids schools this Spring!
Since 2002, youth have worked with Global Kids staff and game designers to develop games that address global social issues.
This year, we're broadening the reach of our signature Playing for Keeps program, as we partner with the Department of Education's
In the summer of 2012, Global Kids, Inc. launched a beta test of its planned digital badging system.
The test was designed to provide feedback on the system to support a Fall launch throughout the entire organization.
This Global Kids' Badging System is built on top of Learning Times' BadgeStack, and is part of a broader badging
Education Week wrote a piece highlighting two
Online Leadership Programs -
New York City Haunts and Race to the White House.
The article discusses using out-of-school-time
as a space to foster digital technology skills
and how it impacts learning.
Teenagers in New York's jobs program worked this summer with
We are excited to announce that a series of workshops for the National STEM Video Game Challenge are launching this Saturday!
The Challenge, launched in 2010, is a multi-year competition that aims to motivate interest in STEM learning among America's youth by tapping into students' natural passion for playing and making video games. Middle and high school students across the country are asked to create original video games, individually or as teams, and to submit their games for the opportunity to win important recognition for themselves and their communities. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and E-Line Media are co-presenters of the STEM Challenge.
Youth representing MOUSE, the Rubin Museum, the POINT, MoMA, and Hive HQ gathered at Global Kids to learn about the new launch of the Hive Youth Council. The group is intended to represent the young people served by member organizations of the Hive Learning Network. Over the course of the year they will be responsible for helping to plan network wide events such as game jams, Emoti-Con!, and service days to name a few. Along with being a committee that represents the youth voice in the Hive, they will also be trained in digital media skills such as coding, game design, engineering, and much more.
The first session had students taking part in teambuilding activities and sharing what are some opportunities they hope to take part in as members of the council. It was evident that aside from learning new skills, they were interested in taking lead and educating their fellow peers. One of the popular requests was to visit other Hive member organizations throughout the year in order to get a better understanding of their missions and interact with their youth members.
GK is pleased to introduce a new member of the GK Family! Jack Martin joins us as Associate Director of the Online Leadership Program after many years of directing programs at the New York Public Library. At the Library, he partnered with GK to create NYC Haunts, our geolocative mobile gaming program. Jack also has an extensive background in theatre, the arts, technology, science, and dance. Welcome Jack!
Global Kids and the Hive Learning Network NYC have been busy designing a network-wide badge that can be used by all Hive NYC member organizations. We want to create a badge that motivates cross-network participation, demonstrates the key values and behaviors within the network, builds digital media skills, and increases meaningful participation at Hive NYC events.
For the past few months we've tackled some big design questions, developed user stories, and identified a list of challenge activities that youth can complete to earn the Hive NYC Badge (which has yet to have a fun name). You can view our badge design trajectory here:
Nearly 60 youth from all over New York City gathered on November 30th at the Global Kids offices to learn about One Billion Rising, the global campaign to bring an end to violence against women led by V-Day. Over 170 countries are planning events on February 14th, 2013 to dance, strike, and rise as a call to action. Believing in our mission to empower young people to be leaders in their communities, Global Kids made a call for any young people who were interested in leading the New York City youth effort for the campaign.
The session covered what the campaign is and why is it important. Students reflected on some of the facts that were shared on the One Billion Rising site and came up with three areas of focus: schools, public spaces, and social media. They broke into groups and brainstormed some actions they could take within each area. As a final task they were interested in doing some early social media work by creating gifs that explained why they are rising and supporting the campaign.
View photos from the session on our flickr album and check out some examples of the gifs the students created by clicking read more!
Global Kids, Inc. - the premier non-profit educational organization for global learning and youth development - works to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage.
The Global Kids Online Leadership Program (OLP) integrates a youth development approach and international and public policy issues into youth media programs that build digital literacy, foster substantive online dialogues, develop resources for educators, and promote civic participation.


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Bell Media Orders 13 More Episodes of 'The L.A. Complex' (Exclusive)
TORONTO - Canadian broadcaster Bell Media has ordered another 13 episodes of The L.A. Complex from Epitome Pictures.
The latest order gets the homegrown soap, which also airs on The CW stateside, to 19 episodes in all on Bell Media's youth-skewing MuchMusic cable channel.
The one-hour series about Canadians chasing the Hollywood dream was first ordered by Bell Media in August 2010, ahead of production in Toronto and Los Angeles in fall 2011.
Production on the next 13 episodes will shortly get underway.
The L.A. Complex was created and is executive produced by Martin Gero, who wrote for HBO's Bored to Death before returning to Canada to write the homegrown drama tailored for the U.S. market.
The ensemble cast includes Jonathan Patrick Moore (Neighbours) as Connor, an Australian with a dark past, and Cassie Steele (Degrassi) as Abby, a Toronto girl looking to make it far from home.
The L.A. Complex is executive produced by Linda Schuyler and Stephen Stohn of Epitome Pictures, and Gero.
The Bell Media execs on the project include production executive Trish Williams and Corrie Coe, senior vp of independent production.
Lesley Goldberg in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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On Tuesday I brewed a 3 gallon all grain Red Ale. It was a modified BIAB. Used a big grain bag in a rectangular cooler.
It went pretty good except the OG came in at 1.048 the recipe I worked out on Qbrew stated it should come in at 1.059.
The one issue I did see was that the mash dropped to 147 near the end. I mashed for an hour. Could this had been the issue.
6 lbs of Maris Otter Malt
1/4 lb of each crystal 120 and crystal 40
2 oz of roasted barley
1 3/4 gallon mash
1 1/2 sparge
after the boil and all done did end up topping off with 1/2 gallon of spring water.
Will try another batch in about 2 weeks, hoping for some suggestions to better the next brew here.
Bill from Pa
On Deck: Irish Stout,Primary: Pumpkin AleSecondary: EmptyCompleted: Red, Wit and Blue, Irish Stout, Red Ale, German Style Amber Lager, All Grain Brews: Irish Red Ale, American Stout, Honey Weizen
i think that the lower OG is more likely due to the crush of your grain rather than the cooler temp. If you had a fine crush, most of the conversion would have been done much earlier.


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Last updated at 17:50, Saturday, 10 March 2012
A woman and two young children have been taken to hospital after a house fire.
The blaze started in the living room of a house on Bolton Street, Workington, shortly before 4.30pm.
It is understood they are not seriously injured and that they have been taken to hospital as a precaution.
The woman had been upstairs with one of the children when she heard the other child, a one-year-old boy, screaming.
She ran downstairs to find a blaze had taken hold in her front room .
The woman ran to a neighbour's house who called the fire service.
Two fire engines attended and firefighters wearing breathing apparatus quickly brought the blaze under control.
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Jeb Bush backs brother's NSA surveillance program 'to keep us safe'
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From sensitive, highly secretive Special Forces covert operations, to wandering CIA asset, to "black ops" activities, Gene "Chip" Tatum has seen it all, done it all and is now telling it all.
The worst possible thing that could happen to this planet is for Jeb Bush to end up in the White House. We have more than significant evidence that the upcoming election is already over. Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan and New Mexico have voting systems in place with "hacks" at the ready, all to put Bush in the White House.
America's legitimacy, in the eyes of the world and its own people, is being terminally sapped by the festering boil of the 9/11 big lie.
I have been very disturbed lately and I'll be damned if I could figure out why. Yesterday I was hit by an epiphany. Gnawing at the back of my mind was the possibility that after all of the information put out by those involved with past presidential families and their misdeeds, the public just may allow the return of one of the families to the Whitehouse!
Patriotism is our last refuge as it is for all scoundrels ~ so wave the flag on 9/11 and praise our human sacrifice on that day and also pray that no one looks to deeply into that black hole of American history…..
- Sources now tell us that "handlers" kept George W. Bush medicated and sober to guarantee no unfavorable action against Israel and international gangsters.
Did a retarded American youth recently blow himself up in Syria?
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The report below is taken from an intelligence dump by Russian sources. As the origin is from an intelligence agency in the form of a "leak," there are always questions.
The claim that Barbara Olson called her Bush administration husband from hijacked Flight 77 is not just false; it is preposterous.
While trying to understand why I was thrown into such a heavy involvement with Israel and Israeli agents while attached to U.S. Intelligence during the Reagan and Bush administrations, I began investigating the past actions of our governments interaction with Israel. I came upon the article below which helped clarify many of the orders […]
The Iran Contra Affair! Most of us have heard all about it, from years past.
Recent revelations published on the Press TV website, the New York Post and Veterans Today have changed history.
The "preventive war" propaganda used by President Bush to justify his attack on Iraq in 2003 copied that used by Hitler when he invaded Russia in 1941.
The furor the Kensington Runestone created during the ensuing century among the academic community almost defies description.
By 1115 Bernard had already become a Catholic icon that would be hailed posthumously as; Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Seymour Hersh says the US government's claim to have killed Osama Bin Laden on May 2nd, 2011 is "a big lie. There is not one word of truth in it." Other top mainstream journalists say 9/11 was an inside job – but can't get the story into print.
There are 9 parts to this essay. If you read all nine of them you will know what you were never meant to know or at least what they meant for you to never know.
Just minutes before undergoing urgent heart surgery, the "Globe" reports in a cover story, ex-President George W. Bush begged his wife, Laura, to forgive him for his affair with Condoleezza Rice, his Secretary of State.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Legend & Legacy Panel at SDCC 2014
July 17, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Comic-Con International, Convention News, Other, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Television
For over 5 years, The Avatar Legacy Fan Panel has proudly organized this gathering.
Moderator Avatar_Mom, Kevin Coppa (Puppetbenders), Elizabeth Furr (fan artist/Amira Ink!), Gene Luen Yang (writer/cartoonist), Angela Song Mueller (character designer), Josh Hamilton (writer), and Jessie Flower (voice actor for Toph) share stories and answer questions about the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra!
Cosplayers, practice your stance for the cosplay contest! Cosplay prizes include titles from Dark Horse Comics.
Saturday, July 26 • 10:30am – 11:30am :: Room 24ABC
MN – The Shadow Hero Signing
July 15, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Minnesota, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Gene Luen Yang appears at Wild Rumpus Books in Minneapolis Friday July 18, 2014 at 7:00 pm! He will be talking about his and Sonny Liew's latest graphic novel The Shadow Hero!
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Artist, author, educator, trailblazer! Gene Luen Yang is all of these and more. That's why we're so very excited to meet him.
His book American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to earn a National Book Award nomination and the first to win the American Library Association's Prinz Award.
His most recent works, Boxers and Saints, are a diptich, with the stories of the two books intertwining. Not surprisingly, the diptich is another National Book Award nominee.
Wild Rumpus Books
2720 West 43rd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55410
CA – Create Your Own Comic Workshop
July 8, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Webcomics
Gene Luen Yang and Dave Roman appear at Barnes & Noble for a Special Get Pop-Cultured Event on Thursday July 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM!
Author Event
Join us on Thursday, July 24 at 7:00 pm when creators, authors and illustrators Gene Luen Yang and Dave Roman will be in-store to host a Create Your Own Comic demo and workshop followed by a signing.
Barnes & Noble
Mira Mesa MarketCenter, 10775 Westview Parkway, San Diego, CA 92126
CA – The Shadow Hero Launch Party
July 3, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Webcomics
Gene Luen Yang (Boxers & Saints, American Born Chinese) appears at Flying Colors Comics on Saturday, August 2nd at 4:00 pm for the debut of his new graphic novel with artist Sonny Liew THE SHADOW HERO.
Gene is always an entertaining guest, so stay tuned for more details as the event draws nearer. Just know this: SHADOW HERO will be one of 2014's most engaging and talked about graphic novels!
Flying Colors Comics
2980 Treat Blvd (at Oak Grove Rd), Concord, CA 94518
(925) 825-5410
CA – FCBD: Avatar: The Last Airbender Signing
March 24, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Free Comic Book Day, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang signs at Hijinx Comics in San Jose, CA on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from noon till 2:00 pm for Free Comic Book Day!
Gene says on his website, "Dark Horse's FCBD 2014 has an Avatar: The Last Airbender story written by me and drawn by the fabulous Faith Erin Hicks! Even if you can't make it to Hijinx, check out our comic!"
Hijinx Comics
2050 Lincoln Ave. San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 266-1103
CA – Boxers & Saints Signing
March 10, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Press Release:
Gene Luen Yang, author of the Printz Award winning American Born Chinese, comes to Hicklebee's (at last!) with his newest graphic two-pack, BOXERS & SAINTS on Friday, March 21 at 7:00 pm!
Gene Luen Yang is a master of the graphic novel genre, bringing stories to life, mingling histiories and cultures, and packing in a powerful lot to ponder. The connections he illustrates through words and pictures are as deep and meaningful as anything on the market no matter the format.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet him!
Visit his website here.
About Boxers & Saints:
In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.
But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.
Boxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature.
1378 Lincoln Ave. San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 292-8880
CA – Avatar The Last Airbender: The Rift Signing
March 6, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Comic book creator Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints, and writer of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series) will be signing his graphic novels at the Escapist Comic Bookstore on Wednesday March 19th at 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm. Books available for purchase at the event.
Escapist Comics
3090 Claremont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
SF – Boxers & Saints Signing
January 21, 2014 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Webcomics
Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang appears at the San Francisco Main Library on Saturday February 1, 2014 from 2:00 till 3:30 pm!
Press Release:
Two-time National Book Award finalist Gene Luen Yang discusses his New York Times best-selling graphic novel diptych about China's Boxer Rebellion, Boxers & Saints, which the Times calls "remarkable." This groundbreaking story explores the Boxer Rebellion from both sides simultaneously — which was right? He will discuss the conflict inherent in writing such a multifaceted story.
Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. He was already an established figure in the indie comics scene when he published his first book with First Second, American Born Chinese. This book's critical and commercial success, along with its status as a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Printz Award, catapulted Yang into stardom as a major voice of our times.
A book sale and signing follows this event.
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4400
CA – Boxers & Saints Signing
December 29, 2013 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Webcomics
Graphic Novelist Gene Luen Yang appears at the Central Library on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 from 6:30pm until 8:00pm!
The two-time National Book Award-nominated graphic novelist behind AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, and the AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER comics comes to the Berkeley Public Library to talk about his latest masterpiece BOXERS & SAINTS! A signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase from Pegasus Books!!
Berkeley Public Library
2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
First 20 Guests Announced for SDCC 2014
December 20, 2013 by Brian Pate
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic-Con International, Convention News, Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Television, Top Stories
Via Toucan Blog:
First 20 Guests Announced for Comic-Con International 2014!
Comic-Con International features one of the most diverse guest lists of any convention. The first wave of guests for 2014 includes creators from mainstream and alternative comics, graphic novels, comic strips, animation, and science fiction and fantasy books. Confirmed for Comic-Con International 2014 are these special guests:
Amanda Conner, artist, Power Girl, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre
Brian Crane, cartoonist, Pickles
Eleanor Davis, cartoonist/illustrator, Stinky, How to Be Happy
Jane Espenson, writer/producer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Husbands
Raymond E. Feist, author, Riftwar Saga
Drew Friedman, illustrator, RAW, Old Jewish Comedians, Heroes of the Comic Books
Michael T. Gilbert, writer/artist, Mr. Monster
Willie Ito, animator/cartoonist, Disney, WB, Hanna-Barbera
Caitlin R. Kiernan, author, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Alabaster: Wolves
Lucy Knisley, writer/artist, Relish, French Milk
David Lasky, artist, The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song
Graham Nolan, artist, Detective Comics, The Phantom, Joe Frankenstein
Jimmy Palmiotti, writer, All-Star Western, Painkiller Jane
Benoît Peeters, writer, The Obscure Cities, The Leaning Girl
Don Rosa, cartoonist, Uncle $crooge, Donald Duck
Jim Rugg, artist/illustrator, Supermag, Afrodisiac
François Schuiten, artist, The Obscure Cities, The Leaning Girl
Scott Snyder, writer, Batman, Superman Unchained
Fiona Staples, artist, Saga
Gene Luen Yang, writer/artist, Boxers & Saints, American Born Chinese
For more info on these special guests for Comic-Con International 2014, please click here.
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konica minolta dimage raw program!
tampaartMay 5, 2009
Greetings Photography group. I usually hang out in the FL gardening and Orchid forums.
Here's my problem. I recently broke out my old Konica Minolta DiMage A2 and started using it again. Takes great shots and I enjoy using it in the garden. Unfortunately I don't have the RAW conversion program KONICA MINOLTA DiMAGE MASTER Ver. 1.1.0. I can't find it anywhere!
I'm wanting to blow up some of my images to 24x36 but without the program I'm stuck. Does anyone have that CD or some viable suggestions?
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I didn't try downloading this and I don't know if it will work, but I did find this site with the program. I hope this helps.
Here is a link that might be useful: KONICA MINOLTA DiMAGE MASTER Ver. 1.1.0.


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A handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's media office shows Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (C) talking to local officials during a visit to the embattled city of Samarra on June 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / HO / IRAQI PRIME MINISTER'S MEDIA OFFICE
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told army officers in the city of Samarra that volunteers were arriving to help defeat Islamist militants who have swept through Sunni Muslim territory towards Baghdad.
"Samarra will not be the last line of defence, but a gathering point and launchpad," Maliki said, addressing miliary officers in the city around 100 km (60 miles) north of the capital on the road to insurgent-controlled Mosul.
"Within the coming hours, all the volunteers will arrive to support the security forces in their war against the gangs of ISIS. This is the beginning of the end of them," Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, said in comments broadcast on Iraqi television Saturday after he travelled to Samarra Friday.
Iraq's most influential Shiite religious authority urged people Friday to take up arms and defend the country against the militants, who overran the city of Mosul earlier this week and have since advanced southwards.
Maliki said the cabinet had granted him unlimited powers to confront the fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), and an army spokesman said security forces had "regained the initiative" on various fronts.
During his trip to Samarra Maliki visited a revered Shiite shrine that was bombed by Sunni militants in 2006, an attack which touched off sectarian bloodletting that killed tens of thousands of people.
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A 13-year-old Muslim girl who is studying in Std VII in Thoubal district was brutally raped by a 63-year-old retired government employee who is her neighbour.
Talking to reporters on Friday, the activists of the All Manipur Students' Union, Thoubal district branch, said that it was a rape most foul. They are seeking cooperation from the people in smoking out the accused rapist who is absconding.
The student activists said that on February 18 the girl had gone out of her bedroom at 11 p.m. to relieve herself in the open. It transpires that the accused happened to see the girl who had thus gone out and he reportedly sneaked into her room. When the unsuspecting girl entered her room, the accused, Mohammad Mubi allegedly grappled with her, gagged and dragged her to the bed. After raping her, he fled.
The AMSU activists said that they took a serious view of the crime committed on the minor. They have registered an FIR with the local police station. They hinted that if the culprit is not accounted for, they may launch agitations.


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Are these spots TSWV? Please help me
I figured out how to put pictures in the thread. Hoping this helps identify more.
Happened rapidly after a few days of rain and no sun. Affecting almost all of my 50 plants, different varieties. It looks like the same spots are on the new growth as well but I cannot be 100% sure. I wasn't able to mulch them yet because the day after I planted we got the rain. However whatever it is is also on the plants still waiting in containers. However its the same potting soil used in both.
I've cut off most of the affected leaves. I've sprayed the plants with Daconil today but I'd really like to know if I should get my hopes up or not.
I planted these from seed months ago and I would hate to lose them. They're only a foot tall so far..still babies, some only seedlings and not even close to producing anything. Do I have to scratch them all?
I am no expert....not even a little bit close to being one. However...the second and third pictures look just like my seedlings did a few weeks ago after we got a week and a half of drizzle-y, damp, cold and cloudy days. They grew out of it in about 2 weeks once the weather stabilized.
:) Donna
Oh I'm hoping thats all it is! Aside from some lower leaves that got rain soaked, and others that are bird pecked, they don't seem to be drooping or anything. Its just those blackish spots on the top and bottom pictures that are the most concerning to me.
Updated to say that the plants are looking much better after pruning the affected leaves. After a long rain, the lower leaves start to take on the appearance of discoloration. I think from just too little sun and too much rain.
What I thought was bird damage however has turned out to be SLUG damage. Ugh.


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