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Albert Starr (1926-)
Albert Starr is a boldly innovative surgeon whose precisely choreographed technique for inserting prosthetic heart valves into patients was adopted worldwide. Between 1958 and 1962, he and Lowell Edwards invented the first practicable prostheses for replacement of a cardiac valve. Their landmark contribution to surgery provided lasting remedies to patients whose lives were threatened by diseased heart valves.
Starr was born in 1926 in New York City. A precocious student, he accelerated through New York City's public school system and graduated from Columbia University with a liberal education before his twentieth birthday. At the university's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Starr concluded that he was suited to be a surgeon.
During an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, he worked for Dr. Alfred Blalock, the legendary innovator of the "blue baby operation," which restructured a deformed heart to improve its function. Blalock's surgery was a breakthrough in the treatment of children with congenital heart disease, and Starr studied his skills as a surgeon and the way he led his team as he performed the complex procedure.
In 1952, Starr entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and was deployed to Korea, where he performed battlefield operations in a mobile army surgical hospital. After his tour of duty, he returned to New York City, where he was trained as a general, thoracic, and cardiac surgeon at Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals.
Starr had been on the staff at Presbyterian Hospital for only six months when the thirty-one-year-old surgeon was recruited to implement an open-heart surgery program at the University of Oregon's Medical School in Portland (now Oregon Health Sciences University). In the mid-1950s, exciting improvements in cardiopulmonary bypass machines enabled surgeons to open the heart and perform complex procedures in children with lethal congenital heart defects. Dr. Dick Sleeter, director of the Crippled Children's Division at the Medical School, wanted children in Oregon to benefit from the new procedures, and he led the group that decided to hire a congenital heart surgeon.
Arriving in 1957, Starr used a $10,000 grant from the Oregon Heart Association to train an open-heart surgery team in the animal laboratory in Mackenzie Hall. In 1958, the team was ready, and Starr successfully closed a congenital hole in the inner wall of the heart of a child at University Hospital. It was Oregon's first pediatric open-heart procedure. With that procedure, he embarked on a lifelong commitment to performing congenital heart disease surgery that provided afflicted children a chance at a normal life.
Just as Starr was engaged in implementing the congenital heart surgery program, M. Lowell Edwards, a retired engineer and inventor in Oregon, asked Starr to collaborate with him in testing a mechanical heart. Starr cautioned Edwards that an artificial heart was ahead of its time and persuaded him to focus instead on perfecting a mechanical valve that could replace diseased heart valves.
By 1960, after a series of modifications, Edwards and Starr had perfected an effective and durable prosthetic valve. Starr developed the surgical procedure for inserting the prosthesis, and he performed the first successful mitral valve replacement in September 1960. Within a year, he and Edwards had invented and successfully inserted aortic valve prostheses into patients. The Starr-Edwards prosthetic valve was a revolutionary breakthrough that would remain the standard for over three decades.
In the early 1960s, thousands of patients sought life-saving heart valve surgery in Oregon. In 1964, Starr expanded the scope of his practice and established a Cardiac Surgery Team at Providence St. Vincent's Hospital. He continued his work at University of Oregon, with an emphasis on performing surgical correction of congenital heart disease. In December 1985, he led a team at Oregon Health & Science University that performed the first heart transplant in Oregon.
Throughout his professional career, Starr trained heart surgeons who perpetuated his work around the world. In 2007, he and his colleague Alain Carpentier received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for "the development of prosthetic mitral and aortic valves, which have prolonged and enhanced the lives of millions of people with heart disease."
Albert Starr House, 1979
Albert Starr house, Portland, Sep. 1979.
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Miles Lowell Edwards (1898-1982)
Starr, Albert, and Edwards, M.Lowell. "Mitral Replacement: Clinical Experience with a Ball-Valve Prosthesis." Annals of Surgery 154 (1961), 726-740.
Starr, Albert. "The Artificial Heart Valve." Nature Medicine 13 (2007), 1160-1164.
Miles Lowell Edwards was born in 1898 in Newberg, a town his grandfather Jesse Edwards had established in 1880 as a Quaker community. His father, Clarence Edwards, started the first electricity-generating business in town, and Lowell grew up climbing poles to repair his father's power lines. As an adolescent, he …
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I'm going to try to do the one-card draw writeups in small batches, and I'll start getting the full readings up as soon as I can.
Madame Destiny settles herself in her yellow and lavender muu-muu, adjusts her matching turban, and shuffles her large deck of cards. One beringed hand snaps a card out of the deck and deals it onto the melamine tabletop.
The card depicts a woman with a generous hourglass figure dressed in a black fencer's outfit, complete with a mask that utterly obscures her face. Her formfitting bodysuit is black, with a bright red embroidered heart in the center of her chest, and white, very thorny, roses embroided around it and sprawling organically over the rest of her suit. She holds her sword (too substantial to be a foil) in a fencer's salute. The card is upright to you.
"This is L'escrimeuse," Madame says, tapping the card, "who was part of the French Resistance during the War. In this deck, she stands as the Queen of Swords, and embodies the use of words, decisions, or perception. L'escrimeuse was most famous, you know, for an episode in which she disguised herself as a male SS officer and managed to evade detection by even the Nazi psychics through a combination of a quick tongue and her ability to notice and play on the non-para distrust of, particularly, Herr Wutstau, who could manipulate people's emotions. She got away with the plans for the Blitzfestung, a para research and production low-orbital facility, and so the Gold Star Brigade was able to destroy it during construction."
Madame takes a sip of her iced tea. "But I do ramble on so. L'escrimeuse here means, I think, either a woman of great perception and decisiveness, someone with a great facility with words and persuasiveness, or, perhaps, a need in your life for this sort of decisiveness and perception, this feminine -- to my mind -- ability to see what must be done and decide to just go out do it, hang all the costs. A fixed determination to focus on the point of the thing, to the exclusion of annoying shiny distractions, and that kind of Quixotic gallantry I always associate with these kinds of women."
"I hope that helps you, dear," Madame concludes. "Do you know, I met L'escrimeuse much later in her life. She was a great lady, you know, entirely self-made, and ran all sorts of international philanthropic organizations. I asked her about the rumor about her sword, that it was Jeanne d'Arc's own sword, and she laughed. 'I have so many swords, Madame,' she said with that sort of Gallic hand-waviness I always admire so much. 'So many were broken, I always had to have new ones. But perhaps I did have a magic sword or two, and they helped me along. Swords, you know, are always so good at getting to the point of the thing.' And then she laughed."
Madame Destiny is wearing a truly amazing scarlet and bright yellow tie-dyed ensemble that appears to be a long, gauzy tunic blouse with sweeping sleeves over an ankle-length skirt, and her long, chunky string of red carnival glass beads rattles distractingly against the tabletop every time she moves. She has rather fewer rings than usual, but rather more translucent plastic bangles, and her nails have recently been painted red. Her turban is adorned with a sparkly fascinator and red-orange feathers. With more dexterity than one might ascribe to those somewhat aged hands, she shuffles the oversized card deck and flips a card out onto the table.
The card shows eight heavily-armored forms -- familiar as the iconic Guardians -- blasting off into a night sky, rockets blazing behind them, leaving the countryside behind. Each of the Guardians is a different color. The card is upright to you.
"I'm sure you recognize this group," Madame Destiny says, dimpling mischievously, "though possibly you never knew there were eight of them. We're familiar with Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze, and either Iron or Steel. But originally -- on their first mission, which this card shows -- there were eight: Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze, Brass, Iron, Steel, and Lead. This card stands for the eight of Wands in this deck."
She picks up the card and studies it briefly, then sets it back down. "As I said, this was their very first mission after they came to work for the military: blasting off to deal with the Sky Fortress Re del Cielo. You see, the Guardians were the first privately-funded para team to put themselves under the auspices of the military as civilians. The government could have drafted them, you know, and would have if they hadn't volunteered, but their financial backer, the person who only called him-or-herself 'the Platinum Guardian', was, according to rumor, someone very close to President Roosevelt. So they were allowed to volunteer. In any case, they had only minimal preparation and training before being sent out on their first mission, you know. And they had some terrible losses, though it was ultimately successful."
"The message here," she says, pointing to the card, "is that you've got a lot of energy building for a major move. It's there! It's energy!" She waves her arms about, bangles clanking furiously. "But you need to be prepared before you go blasting off with all that energy and drive. But I think that you're in pretty good shape, seeing as the card is upright. Just keep your head and you'll be fine." She cuts the card back into the deck and adds, "I hope that helps, dear."
Today, Madame Destiny is wearing a loose, flowing royal purple dress and matching turban, with a double string of faux pearls. She is settled at her familiar table in the Stars 'n' Garters with a cup of tea and her cards. Her rings are full of chunky flashing gems and glass, no telling which is which. She shuffles the deck and crisply places the card she drew on the table.
The card depicts a young blonde white woman in a smart blue military-style cutaway jacket with red epaulets and red trim over white trousers and black boots, clearly meant to evince a Revolutionary War soldier while many of the elements match more modern uniforms (the collar, the shirt, and her rank insignia, the double gold bars of an Army Captain). Her hands are folded on the hilt of a naked sword whose point is planted in the ground between her feet, and a badge showing a set of golden scales is pinned to her left lapel. Her blue-eyed gaze is intense and compelling. The card is reversed to you.
"Well, here is our friend, Lady Justice," Madame Destiny says, smiling past you at the elderly woman sitting at a nearby table. The woman chuckles. "But alas, she is reversed: I generally call that Justice Suspended, but it could also be injustice. You know Lady Justice's history; you've read little Ana's fabulous story about her, yes? I think that Lady Justice frozen in ice by one of her allies is the best illustration of this card's reversal. She was both unable to carry out her own pursuit of justice, and she was also the victim of injustice."
"I always love hearing you give readings on this card, Madame," Lady J says. "Do I make it awkward for you?"
"Oh, no, darling, you're an admirable audience and you can always tell me if I get your story wrong," Madame says. "It's become so much easier to read the card for people since they read the story."
"Sorry about that little digression," Madame says, putting her fingertips -- light purple sparkly nail polish and all -- on the card. "Here, I think, is a message that what you feel is right or fair is not happening somewhere near you or to you. And it isn't. But it's only for now, I think."
"Not a permanent reversal?" Lady J says, smiling.
"Nothing is actually permanent," Madame says, vaguely dismissing the suggestion. "Reversals reverse, it is the nature of all things. Be patient, dear. I can't say for sure what will happen, but the only thing for sure is that things always change." She leans across and pats your hand. "I hope this helps, dear."
Thanks! I like coming up with some more WWII heroes (I had more than a dozen I'd brainstormed a long time ago, but I needed more!) for this project, and I'm looking forward to cooking up more historical tidbits.
Thank you, that's brilliant! I am fond of Justice--the card and the concept--so I'm glad to see her make an appearance on my behalf, even if she's currently Reversed.
Fantastic. The dollops of backstory, like the Eight Guardians narrowly avoiding the draft thanks to wealthy private financial backing, again reminds us that this isn't our typically autonomous, wealthy superhero collective.
In the third reading, I love having the embodiment of the card sitting by listening to the card being described. There are frames of reality / symbolism/ active imagination going on here to make me squee.
Thank you! I hadn't seen this for some reason when you posted, but I'm glad I came over here this morning.


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The Games Businesses Play
Gamification may sound silly, but it isn&spamp;rsquo;t.
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Go online to Samsung's home page and you'll find, right below the carousel advertising tablets, televisions, and phones, an invitation to join "Samsung Nation." Beneath that is a leader board; in early March, Kenneth Brown, a Massachusetts business owner and a "Level 6 Legend," was on top with 21,900 points. One earns points in Samsung Nation by buying products, submitting comments and reviews to the site, "liking" Samsung on Facebook, and so on.
To the right of the leader board is a rolling log of Samsung Nation member activities, reporting, for example, that Anthony Acosta just "unlocked the Cruise badge" and Paul Bouchard "leveled up to Novice." And under that, there's a promotion offering a chance to win a Samsung product by "unlocking" a badge of one kind or another.
Samsung rolled out all those badges, levels, and activities in November 2011 by integrating its website with a platform from Badgeville, a leading provider of "gamification" products designed to increase customer and employee loyalty and engagement. Since then, its website has received 66% more visitors, who collectively have submitted 309% more comments, according to Kevin Akeroyd, senior vice president of field operations at Badgeville.
Those new visitors have also answered more questions than ever about Samsung's products on the electronic giant's Facebook support page. Deflecting help-desk calls, says Akeroyd, could help Samsung realize "a very material op-ex reduction to the corporate P&L." On the revenue side, he says, "if I'm researching Samsung, and I see all this activity on the site, all these rave reviews, that influences purchases. That allows me to acquire more customers with lower marketing costs. And peer-group commentary is more trustworthy than marketing."
What is gamification? Simply, it is the application of game-based psychology and mechanics to get people to act in ways you'd like them to act. Leading providers of gamification platforms and products include Badgeville, BigDoor, Bunchball, and Gamify (which signed a deal with Major League Baseball in 2011). By 2014, Gartner predicts, more than 70% of the Forbes Global 2000 will have at least one gamified application.
Sharing Is Up Down Under
At Deloitte Australia, product and client manager James Sanders uses the accounting firm's Who, What, Where application (similar to Foursquare, the location-based social-networking site) to share information with Deloitte's 182,000 employees worldwide. He does it so well, in fact, that he's on the top of Deloitte Australia's internal innovation leader board.
When Sanders meets with a client, he enters the contact, the subject of the meeting, and the time and place into Who, What, Where. That entry is then shared companywide on Yammer, an internal social network that is like a corporate version of Twitter. This, according to Sanders, leads to more business for his innovation practice and allows Deloitte to avoid duplication in its client contacts.
Who, What, Where plus Yammer is a gamified solution to the old knowledge-management problem: How does a company get its employees to share what they know with their colleagues? "All of Deloitte's executives, and the CEO, are real active on Yammer," says Sanders, "so everyone is real conscious of sharing on Yammer. The initiative comes from the top." Sanders says he also gets "heaps of different badges" (via the Badgeville application) for talking about innovation, checking in with clients, attending training sessions — in short, for doing all the things Deloitte would like him to do.
"Getting badges in isolation is childish," he notes. "But when they're shared, that's valuable. It's a reward for something you've worked for, and there's nothing childish about that. Then you can share that with colleagues and get kudos from the rest of the firm, and that could be the difference between being known as an up-and-comer and not. You want to be known."
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Officials move to close border detention center for unaccompanied minors in Tornillo, Texas.
The move comes after calls for the center's closure.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is closing the facility in Tornillo, Texas – also known as "tent city."
According to the agency, the remaining children were released over the weekend and transferred to a sponsor family or to a shelter.
The 'tent city' opened in June and expanded in size in order to accommodate up to 2,800 minors.
The Office of Inspector General revealed in November that the facility, operated by the San Antonio-based non-profit BCFS, failed to conduct FBI background checks on staff and was short on clinicians.
Last month the Trump administration reversed a policy that required fingerprinting of all adults living in sponsor homes, a rule that HHS said made sponsors less willing to take in children.
"The program will need to continue to evaluate needs and capacity in order to care for the hundreds of unaccompanied children that cross the U.S. border daily," HHS said in a statement.


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Arshad Warsi started his career as an assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt in Kaash (1987). Warsi choreographed the title song of Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993), before making his acting debut in the Amitabh Bachchan-produced Tere Mere Sapne (1996). It was followed by Betaabi (1997), Hero Hindustani (1998), Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet and Trishakti (both 1999), among others, but most of these films failed to do well at the box office. In 2003, he had his breakthrough by playing the comic sidekick Circuit in Rajkumar Hirani's comedy-drama Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. His performance garnered him the Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role and received nominations for the Filmfare, IIFA, Screen and Apsara Film Producers Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Warsi won the GIFA Best Comedian Award for his role in the comedy Hulchul (2004), and garnered critical acclaim for portraying a police officer in the crime drama Sehar (2005). He received his second Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in the romantic comedy Salaam Namaste (2005).

In 2006, Warsi starred in the Rohit Shetty-directed comedy Golmaal: Fun Unlimited, and reprised his role of Circuit in the sequel Lage Raho Munna Bhai. His performance in the latter won him the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role, among other awards. That same year, he played lead roles in the mystery Anthony Kaun Hai? and the counter-terrorism drama Kabul Express. Warsi also hosted the first season of the reality television show Bigg Boss for which he earned the Indian Television Academy Award for Best Anchor – Game/Quiz Show. In 2007, he played a footballer in the sports film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal. The following year, he reteamed with Shetty for Golmaal Returns (2008), and played an intermittent explosive disorder patient in the comedy Krazzy 4 (2008). He won the Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor and received several nominations for playing a con man in the black comedy Ishqiya (2010). Also in 2010, Warsi co-produced and starred in the supernatural comedy-drama Hum Tum Aur Ghost, which performed poorly at the box office. Golmaal 3, the year's second-highest grossing Hindi film also featured him in a primary role. His first negative role came in 2013 with the action thriller Zila Ghaziabad, a critical and commercial failure. Warsi's portrayal of a lawyer in the comedy-drama Jolly LLB (2013), directed by Subhash Kapoor, garnered him several awards, including the IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role. His portrayal of a thief in Dedh Ishqiya (2014) attracted critical praise.

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Awards and nominations

See also
 List of accolades received by Lage Raho Munna Bhai

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Sezaimaru Kouki is now a master course student of Kyushu Institutes of Technology in Fukuoka, Japan. He mainly studies electronic property of trimetallic nitride endohedral fullerenes.
Recently, the Meyer-Neldel rule was also observed on charge carrier mobility of fullerene materials such as C60 and C60/C70 mixture. At the Meyer-Neldel temperature, the charge carrier mobility becomes independent of the activation energy for carrier transport and temperature. Usually, the activation energy is a function of electric field and charge carrier concentration. Also, the Meyer-Neldel temperature depends only on structural properties of the disordered materials and can be used as an important material characterizing parameter. However, despite being one of the most abundant fullerenes, the Meyer-Neldel behaviors of the C70 material have not yet been studied in detail. In this paper, we report carrier transport properties of the C70 molecular solid at various temperature and electric field strength.
To make a solid sample for measurement of the electrical properties, the C70 powder was pressed into a pellet at room temperature at pressure of 125 MPa. In measurements of the current-voltage characteristics of the C70 sample, the current passing through the sample was obtained using a digital electrometer (ADVANTEST R8252) with a current resolution of 1.0 fA at various d.c. bias voltages from 30 V to 200 V. The current measurements were carried out in the course of heating up and cooling down process between temperatures of 15 K and 450 K. The rate of heating up and cooling down process was 0.14 K/min with a stepwise increment of 1.0 K.
The current-voltage (i-v) characteristics can be described conjecturally as a cubic polynomial of the voltage, i=av^3+bv^2+cv+d as shown in the figure. Moreover, the Meyer-Neldel temperature of the C70 solid was confirmed to be 310 K, at which a linear relationship between the current and voltage was observed. Also, at temperatures below the Meyer-Neldel temperature, the current increases with increasing voltage. On the other hand, at temperatures above the Meyer-Neldel temperature a negative differential conductivity effect was observed at high voltage side. The negative differential conductivity was related to the electric field and temperature effects on the mobility of charge carrier, which involve two variations in the carrier concentration and the activation energy for carrier hopping transport.


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Statement win for Cosce in front of televised audience
By barstoolfanatics on December 14, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )
Submitted photo – Team Cosce celebrates Friday's big win in Stockton. From left to right, Orion Cosce, Louis Cosce, Brian Wilson and Fletcher McCovey.
The secret is getting out.
The Monster is just getting started.
On Friday night, Humboldt County's own Louis Cosce posted yet another statement win in MMA, and this time he did it in front of an international audience.
Competing at Combate Americas in Stockton, which was televised live on AXS TV, Cosce made short work of Art Hernandez in a 165-pound showdown, finishing the fight in just 18 seconds on a TKO and living up to his nickname, The Monster.
"It was a long one," Cosce's trainer Brian Wilson said with a chuckle after the fight.
With the win, Cosce improved to 6-0 as a pro fighter, and he has ended all six of his fights in the opening round, four of them in the past seven months.
Friday's win wasn't even the quickest of his career, having won a fight in May in just eight seconds.
Hernandez came out swinging for the fences, but Cosce dropped him with a big punch and quickly finished the fight.
"We didn't know what that guy was going to come out to do, and he absolutely brought the fight to us," Wilson said.
The win is likely to get the up-and-coming 24-year-old former Hoopa High wrestler some notice.
"It's huge," Wilson said. "This was a big televised event. It's huge exposure.
"This is exciting to see what happens from here."
Cosce fights out of the Lost Boys Gym in Arcata.
Categories: Hoopa Valley, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Sports
Tagged as: Combate Americas, Louis Cosce, MMA in humboldt
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP — Turnover battle will be key for Del Norte
A night to savor for the history makers and North Coast fans
Norie Porter says:
History maker Del Norte Crescent warriors win tonight that's my prediction from Norie Porter from Las Vegas NV


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While the word aftermath is generally used to describe the negative outcome of a tragic incident, the members of Hillsong United put a unique twist on the definition for their second official studio album and eleventh full-length recording. Set in this context, aftermath is used in reference to the outcome of Christ's crucifixion. Death on a cross resulted in "aftermath" that provided the world with joy, peace and love found through life in Christ. And this new project offers nothing less than the pure simplicity of the fruits of the Spirit.
While this record finds the members of Hillsong in-studio, the songs possess a live quality that the band seems to radiate no matter what they do. The anthems carry on a life all their own. While standard worship leaders Joel Houston, Jad Giles and Jonathon "JD" Douglass all take the lead, Hillsong is a veritable revolving door of voices, songwriters, and melodies, casting the spotlight decidedly on the rhythms of worship versus the people leading the songs. This is part of what makes Hillsong United so unique.
Aftermath feels like a compilation album with singers trading lead vocals from song to song. The epic quality of the tracks remains cohesive, although, at times, the unity makes it hard to discern the distinctiveness of each song. Some of the tracks are so lengthy—with several going over the seven minute mark—they are sung as if they were recorded in a live setting with thousands of worshippers versus being recorded in the confines of a studio. One can't deny the potent ability these songs hold to usher the listener into worship.
The title track is one of the most beautiful contributions with the lovely lyrics: "The hands that cradle the stars are the hands that bled for me…" "Like An Avalanche" is another highlight thanks to the striking vocals of Jill McCloghry, who also adds her enchanting voice to "Bones." "Father" and "Awakening" (penned by award-winning writers Reuben Morgan and Chris Tomlin) are also two noteworthy stirring tracks.
Hillsong combines the musical prowess heard in mainstream music—even borrowing soundscapes from British bands like Coldplay at times—and pairs this atmospheric aura with reverent lyrics. Yet, Hillsong goes beyond the congregational-friendliness common to modern worship anthems by adding their own artistic flair. With some interesting synth and electronic elements mixed into what are mostly powerful anthemic ballads of praise, any of the songs on this collection can instantly be envisioned filling up arenas. No doubt these songs will find an easy home at progressive churches around the world and will continue to be the heartbeat of this generation.
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