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[kommunic8]

Se fate caso una grandissima quantità di articoli pubblicati su internet ha nel titolo un numero e la promessa di darvi quel numero di cose per aiutarvi a fare qualcosa. TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below] Qualche tempo fa qualcuno tra i creativi si era svegliato e si era reso conto che la gente apriva gli articoli pubblicati su internet con molta più facilità se nel titolo c'era un numero e che la cosa era ancora più accattivante e aveva ancora più successo se insieme al numero c'era anche la promessa di riuscire a fare qualcosa, ad esempio 'le 5 cose che non vi dovete perdere se volete' eccetera eccetera oppure 'i 5 modi più...' e dico 5 tanto per dire ma potrebbero essere 10 potrebbero essere 3 potrebbero essere 2. Se fate caso una grandissima quantità di articoli pubblicati su internet ha nel titolo un numero e la promessa di darvi quel numero di cose per aiutarvi a fare qualcosa. La cosa un po' ha degenerato, tanto che ormai è diventato quasi la parodia di se stesso, quello che sembrava un modo per attrarre le persone, lettori e lettrici, è diventato ormai, diciamo, una barzelletta. Non molto tempo fa ho letto un articolo, qualcuno che commentava appunto su questa mania di mettere il numero e di promettere qualcosa col numero nel titolo, dicendo tra un po' l'intelligenza artificiale generativa distruggerà l'umanità e noi staremo qui a pubblicare articoli sui nostri blog, intitolandololi '5 modi con cui la L'intelligenza artificiale generativa riuscirà a distruggere l'umanità'. Sì, perché se non ve ne siete accorti, se non ve ne siete accorte, da diciamo sei mesi, da gennaio e da dicembre dell'anno scorso che non si fa altro che parlare dell'intelligenza artificiale, piano piano la gente ci si sta avvicinando, seguendo un po' quella che è la teoria delle onde, che dice che la novità parte dal centro e poi piano piano si diffonde come una pietra in uno stagno a cerchi concentrici. Quindi diciamo che se a gennaio, febbraio si parlava di intelligenza artificiale generativa solo in circoli ristretti, ora se ne parla anche su Famiglia Cristiana e su Gente, Oggi queste riviste diciamo meno tecniche, sì meno tecnologiche. Si offrono a man bassa corsi per imparare a dire all'intelligenza artificiale generativa come fare questo e come fare quest'altro, si cerca di discutere, decidere se permettere che l'intelligenza artificiale sia o meno dentro le scuole. Io che vi dico? Cinque modi? No vabbè, io ve ne do 3 di motivi, 3 minuti grezzi. TRANSLATION Some time ago someone among the creative people has woken up and realised that people opened articles posted on the Internet much more easily if there was a number in the title and that it was even more appealing and was even more successful if along with the number there was also a promise of being able to do something, for example 'the 5 things you must not miss if you want to' etc. etc. or 'the 5 most ...' and I say 5 just to say but it could be 10 it could be 3 it could be 2. If you notice, a very large amount of articles posted on the Internet have a number in the title and a promise to give you that number of things to help you do something. The thing somewhat degenerated, so much so that it has now become almost a parody of itself, what seemed like a way to attract people, readers, has now become, let's say, a joke. Not too long ago I read an article, someone commenting precisely on this craze of putting the number and promising something with the number in the title, saying in a little while generative artificial intelligence will destroy humanity and we'll be standing here posting articles on our blogs, titling them '5 ways in which Generative Artificial Intelligence will succeed in destroying humanity.' Yes, because if you haven't noticed, for let's say six months now, since January, since December of last year there has been nothing but talk about artificial intelligence, slowly people are getting into it, following a little bit what is the wave theory, which says that the novelty starts from the center and then slowly spreads like a stone in a pond in concentric circles. So let's say that if in January, February they were talking about generative artificial intelligence only in small circles, now they are talking about it also in Famiglia Cristiana and in Gente and in Today, that are magazines let's say less technical, yes less technological. Courses are offered hand over fist to learn how to tell generative artificial intelligence how to do this and how to do that, trying to discuss, to decide whether or not to allow artificial intelligence inside schools. And what do I tell you? Five ways? No, whatever, I give you 3 reasons, 3 raw minutes.

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[romiesays]

Micro-podcasting is Swell

Week one-and-a-bit of the Romiesays micro-podcast includes the following one-to-five-minute episodes:

Closet before lunch - closets as spaces for transformation, with references to lizards and Sailor Moon.

Not my house, not my cat - pet-sitting, homemade pies, and gift economies between friends

Conventioneering: clothing considerations and hotel buffets - figuring out what makes a good outfit for a day where I’m talking on stage about being a filmmaker and talking about being nonbinary, plus tips to make sure you get a piece of the good cake

The Thing about electronic music - the differences in how sci fi and fantasy films use electronic anecdotes with a focus on Ennio Morricone’s score for John Carpenter’s The Thing, plus a part two about how “Tubular Bells” wound up in The Exorcist

Poem: People Yelling In German - a reading of a poem published by the now-defunct magazine Punchnel’s in 2009, about a conversation I overheard while living in a hostel in downtown London

Dreams within objects - embodiments of the past-future, including stovetop espresso, steampunk, theremins, turntabling, and finally discarding an outdated save-the-date magnet

Recipe: Bootlegger Beans - a cheap and easy campfire meal that lets you pretend you’re a rum runner during Prohibition

Machiavelli, wordplay, snow on the ground - why Machiavelli is my dream dinner guest, and whether it is or isn’t better to be feared than loved

If you get proactive and browse the main link to find my conversations with other people, you can also find me discoursing on the similarities between the food cultures of Texas and Louisiana, very early experiences of mid-90s internet chatrooms, and how the Three Musketeers resemble the Golden Girls. I also read an unpublished poem of yearning from a couple decades ago, “Subpoeta.”

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[smartkarrot]

If we're honest...   Customer success teams aren't lacking data. They typically have an abundance of customer data at their disposal. But they tend to struggle with turning that data into insight and then take action with it at scale.     In our micro podcast, listen in as Prithwi Dasgupta (CEO, SmartKarrot) discusses this topic more with Rick Adams (Business Outcomes & Customer Success Expert, Practical CSM) below.   🎧Micro Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmYzw_aWIOM   Thoughts?

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[talenlee]

Rewriting In Your Voice

Rewriting In Your Voice

Writing is a challenge. It takes a blank page and then it involves scrawling onto it whatever words you want to put there. It’s been addressed in a lot of different ways. One of my favourite ways to describe it is that the act of writing is a violent one; where violence is the curtailing of options through force, a writer takes a blank page of infinite possibility and reduces it down to just one. Another way to see writing described is as a form of agony; one merely stares at a blank page until your forehead starts bleeding, the line goes. I don’t think these descriptions are necessarily trying to describe a particular kind of pain, but it’s a sentiment that I think is easy to reflect. Fanfiction tumblr, I’ve seen in particular, is filled with people who wish to murmur of the dreadful agonies that come from a want to write and a lack of ability, time, focus, concentration or will to do so.

To those people, I will suggest that you can also, if you want, not write.

I mean it’s okay.

Hell, have you considered a micropodcast? Grab a microphone and just tell a recording ‘I want to tell a story that’s about this and this and this,’ and just see where that process takes you. Be okay with making a little, or only concepting a little. The making is the fun part, you’re not getting graded on your fanfiction here.

Nonetheless, much writing is made about writing and I think that’s good. Turns out that writers, in general, are always looking for things to write about, and writing about writing can often come easily. It’s also a chance to show off how the thing we choose to do is actually quite hard and I didn’t spend an hour today fine tuning a tree farm in Minecraft, I was actually letting the ideas and words turn in my head while I tried not to cry.

I try to avoid writing about writing unless I’m going to give some clear and concrete advice. In this case, it is the way that I would like to offer advice that was first, terribly, presented to me as write drunk, edit sober.

I don’t drink so that’s meaningless, of course. I don’t do anything drunk, and I imagine if I tried to write drunk it would look very bad considering that my primary way to write is based around fine motor control I’ve spent oh god so long refining. The idea, however, seems to be built around the notion that one should have one mindset for the creation of writing, and then another mindset for improving and refining that thing. It’s a vision of a very real experience I have, where the creation of a thing can be rough and unreliable and loose in words and meaning because I’m trying to get the core things out and in the right space. Editing, going back over what I wrote and checking if things should be another way or if they should be in a different order, that should be done with some time and distance from the original writing.

Particularly awkward is when you write a sentence, then come back to it a few days later, and read it aloud, and realise you have no idea where in the sentence there’s meant to be an emphasis. There’s this idea of garden path sentences where a phrase may be structured in a way that fools you into momentarily thinking the sentence is spoken one way instead of another. You might also see them called crash blossoms.

This is something that stands out to me in this blog because I write in a style that I think of as oratory. I know that when I read some phrases aloud, that there is an escalation, a dudgeon that I bring to bear in the way I write. It’s why, I think, I am comfortable with the writing of Tycho from Penny Arcade in a way that my peers often aren’t. There is a cadence, a musicality to the way he writes, that begs to be spoken aloud.

Therefore, my first piece of advice, for when you return to your work, is to read it aloud.

I will now give those of you who write porny gay fanfiction an opportunity to uncringe.

It’s true though! What you are writing is trying to be encoded in the mind of another. Reading it aloud will show you when your own writing trips you up, when your writing slows down, when you have the ability to convey dialogue in pauses rather than in statements, and if you necessarily are setting the right tone with the description of that text.

Dialogue in fanfiction is amazing because, chances are, you like the characters because of dialogue. Dialogue is how characters express a lot of who they are, in how much of it there is and how little of it there is. It is spoken aloud, in many cases, by actors, and read into audiobooks. There is nothing weird or wrong about speaking the voices of those characters aloud and seeing how their words settle in your brain afterwards.

It is embarrassing, not gunna tell you otherwise. Waiting until your roommates are out of the room so you can read back and forth to yourself about the way two Gundam Kissboys engage with one another and see if it ‘feels right’ in your head? That’s pretty challenging. It can make the writing even more private, because now you need a way to see if the characters that resonate in you resonate with the world outside your head, and also you need to do it in the garage so nobody hears you describing how they fuck.

But also, doing so can highlight things to you. It can bring to your attention mistakes. You might notice that when you read it aloud, you don’t need to include three statements about a person putting their hand on a table, because it’s on the table, and the dialogue itself bridges to the next piece of dialogue. You can find your own foibles and you can make them better. And also, you can use that voice to just map out scenes vaguely, and see how they feel.

I am lucky in that I have an audience that wants to hear me read my articles aloud, and that can help me catch mistakes or realise when I have a problem in the text. If you can find people on a discord call or in a friend group who want to do this for you, or are willing to do it for you, and yes I know you may be talking about gay sex fanfiction here but the point stands, then you should thank them and trust them and see what it can do to help improve the way you write.

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[shadowwingtronix]

The State Of Art Soundoff 2023?

BW Media Spotlight brings unhappy tidings to The State Of Art Soundoff 2023?

A few years ago Jerzy Drozd and Rob Stenzinger started the Art Soundoff Challenge. Creators would take maybe 15 minutes to record an audio or video blog, a “micropodcast” I think is the term, and share it with everyone using the #ArtSoundoff hashtag on Twitter. It was a good way to share comic creating perspectives, go over what creators are thinking about, and just interact without actually…

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[kommunic8]

Mi sono (scetticamente) iscritta alla newsletter di Arnold Schwarzenegger incuriosita perché cosa mai potrà esserci in una newsletter di Schwarzenegger se non consigli su come fare le flessioni? E invece mi sono ritrovata a leggerla, con interesse, fino alla fine! (vi metto il link in fondo alla pagina). TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below] Ho iniziato la mattina leggendo una email che mi ha mandato Arnold Schwarzenegger. Vabbè, sì, non è che l'abbia mandata solo a me, probabilmente l'ha mandata a qualche altro migliaia di persone, perché mi sono iscritta alla newsletter di Schwarzenegger. L'ho fatto per curiosità, perché, io diciamo non lo conosco benissimo, vagamente so che quello che tutti sanno di lui e mi chiedevo, ma che cosa mai ci metterà Schwarzenegger in una newsletter? E così mi sono iscritta, e devo dire che mi ha favorevolmente sorpreso, perché io pensavo che mettesse consigli su come fare le flessioni o su come farsi i muscoli eccetera eccetera, e invece no, non è così e l'ho letta fino alla fine perché era effettivamente interessante. Allora, anzitutto all'inizio parla di Google, sì, proprio di Google, dice ormai tutti usano Google per cercare le cose, però fate attenzione perché le cose che si trovano non sono sempre quelle giuste, anzi concorrono a fare, ci mettono il carico da dodici a fare le cose ancora più complesse, ancora più più confuse, e ha fatto l'esempio dei carboidrati. Dice, se voi andate in giro a chiedere la gente convinta che i carboidrati siano la morte, che assolutamente fanno malissimo e invece no, i carboidrati fanno bene, quello che fa molto male sono i cibi trattati e gli zuccheri, quindi questo era un argomento, non è vero che i carboidrati fanno male, naturalmente sempre tutto con moderazione, però i carboidrati non fanno male. Poi se la prende anche con le diete estreme. Dice, guardate che le diete estreme che escludono completamente un alimento non fanno sicuramente bene, e dice non è che io voglia dire non usate più internet, anche perché sarebbe un po' ipocrita visto che queste cose qua me le sta dicendo attraverso internet, però fate attenzione a quello che leggete. E fin qua va benissimo. Poi c'è una sezione molto carina 'domande ad Arnold' dove, non so come, evidentemente alla fine poi c'è un link fate domande, non ho ancora scoperto, e gli fanno delle domande, e sono domande anche interessanti, parla della salute mentale degli uomini, ma anche di cose tecniche. Un'altra domanda era quella: ma che mi consigli Arnold? Ho fatto attività due giorni fa e sono un po' dolorante. Faccio anche se ho i dolori oppure lascio perdere? Anche qui una risposta molto equilibrata, dice se è solo un fastidio fai pure attività fisica, non ti fa male. Se però hai dei dolori veri e propri lascia perdere, non sforzare. Quindi buon Arnold con i suoi consigli. E alla fine poi concluda la newsletter dicendo, insomma una cosa che vi voglio dire e provate delle cose nuove perché provare cose nuove fa bene al corpo e fa bene anche allo spirito. Una cosa che mi è molto piaciuta è che alla fine della newsletter firma col suo nome e mette anche il nome di altre due persone che evidentemente l'hanno aiutato a scrivere la newsletter. Dai Arnold! TRANSLATION I started the morning by reading an email that Arnold Schwarzenegger sent me. Oh well, it's not like he only sent it to me, he probably sent it to a few thousand other people, because I signed up for Schwarzenegger's newsletter. I did it out of curiosity, because, I kind of don't know him very well, vaguely I know what everybody knows about him and I was wondering, what on earth is Schwarzenegger going to put in a newsletter? And so I signed up, and I have to say that I was favorably surprised, because I thought he was going to give tips on how to do push-ups or how to get muscles etc. etc., and no, he doesn't and I read it to the end because it was actually interesting . So, first of all at the beginning he talks about Google, yes, Google, he says by now everybody uses Google to search for things, however be careful because the things that you find are not always the right things, in fact they contribute to make, they turn up the heat to make things even more complex, even more confusing, and he gave the example of carbohydrates. He says, if you go around asking, people are convinced that carbohydrates are the worst thing, that they are very bad for you and no, carbohydrates are good for you, what is very bad for you are processed foods and sugars, so this was an argument, it is not true that carbohydrates are bad for you, of course always everything in moderation, however carbohydrates are not bad for you. Then he also takes it out on extreme diets. He says, look extreme diets that completely exclude one food are definitely not good for you, and he says it's not that I want to say don't use the internet anymore, also because that would be a bit hypocritical since he is telling these things through the internet, however be careful what you read. And so far so good. Then there's a very nice section 'questions to Arnold' where, I don't know how, evidently at the end there's a link ask questions, I haven't found out yet, and they ask him questions, and they're also interesting questions, he talks about men's mental health, but also technical things. Another question was: what do you recommend Arnold? I did activity two days ago and I am a little sore. Do I excercise even if I have pain or do I leave it for now? Again a very balanced answer, he says if it's just a discomfort go ahead and exercise, it doesn't hurt you. However, if you have real pain, leave it alone, don't strain. So, well done Arnold with your advice. And finally then concludes the newsletter by saying, in short one thing I want to say is try new things because trying new things is good for the body and good for the spirit as well. One thing I really liked is that he signs his name at the end of the newsletter and also puts the names of two other people who evidently helped him write the newsletter. Good on you Arnold! LINK La newsletter di Arnold Schwarzenegger

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[talenlee]

August 2023 Wrapup

Kinda flew by there, or maybe it’s just that when a semester is firing, then I start breaking my weeks into more and more tightly managed little snippets. I think I’m going to have to change when I have snacks, any way, it’s time to get talking about all the great articles I wrote this week and youuuuu didn’t read yet!

First up, we have a months’ worth of articles talking about everything in the world through the medium of talking about Games:

The Game, my favourite example of games as art and games’ requirement of consent (really)

Hit The Silk, which incentivises you to lie separately instead of making rules about lying together

Dangeresque, The Roomisode Triungulate, which is me and Fox just playing a videogame together and delighting in how it makes our millenial brains go ‘oh hey, the old thing!’

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, where I talk about the way that the parser based text adventure game represents a distinct game form, at least in the hands of a really, really good writer

Then there’s the articles for this month’s Story Pile:

Inside Job, one of my favourite cartoons because one of my OC’s girlfriend is basically in it

Nona the Ninth, as I continue my descent into Being Locked Tomb Trash

Lie To Me, a story based on laundering the opinion of a guy who lies a lot, but you know, maybe that’s the point

My Master Has No Tail, which I love a lot and also is an anime about theatre and queerness and like, I could put it in almost any theme month this year, I swear

I also did Werewolf Week, where I talk about different ways to handle werewolves in 3e D&D, 4e D&D, and how I use them in Cobrin’Seil, my own setting. I also talk about how the Breaking Baddiverse represents a paratextual playground for media commentary. And then, more, I talk about The Locked Tomb and about how it deceives you about what a soul does and doesn’t work.

There’s articles about building gimmicks, which is mostly a compilation of videos from other magicians, and a few audio posts as I experiment with what ten minutes of spoken audio feels like compared to a thousand words of written text. I feel like audio is easier to do but also like I’m kind of short-changing you. The audio between Fox and me about My Master Has No Tail is conversational, that feels okay – but I also feel a little selfconscious about asking you to spend ten minutes listening to a micropodcast about Oppenheimer and The Foxes of Hydesville.

Foxes of Hydesville, by the way? Killer final line.

This month, a month in which I got thinking about deceit and conniving and constructions of attention control, was what got me thinking about a horror movie with one of the most perfect final lines of all time. Yeah, it was just that final line that made me think ‘wait, that’d be great on a shirt,’ and then got me thinking about how I could use that design somehow. Bonus, this design is built on a technique I learned in other designs that won’t show up until later.

You can get this sticker or shirt design here!

It’s a new semester! This year, I’m doing two classes: One on videogame critique, and one on online persona. I know I’ve gotten very twitchy right now about the term ‘content’ because my students are using it to describe literally anything. I mean I feel on one level that’s because ‘content’ to me still feels like a thing that fills a container, and it deliberately fails to appreciate that you’re not the one shaping the container. I guess I dislike it because it speaks of a lack of a point of view. But where was I,

Oh yes! I also it seems had a very creative month in prototyping – there’s more work on Bloodwork, I released a print-and-play game I want to go back and revise to make it more Star-Trekky, and I also belted out engines for a Sonic The Hedgehog fan game, a game about moonshiner werewolves I might be consigning to a superior for use in a generative media project, and I have an engine for a wrestling game. I feel very busy.

What’s more this month has featured daily hours of work on the hardest thing in the world, a literature review. A literature review is how you try and convince an arbitary reader from a distant location that you know what you’re talking about by referring to every idea you’re ever going to use in one giant document and every time I open mine I feel like I should have a little cry. But this month I have been assiduously working on it, every day, to try and put words into it, because that’s the only way it’s going to get big and strong and healthy. But man nothing puts you in your place the same way as looking at a document that’s meant to answer and why should we listen to you and realise that even with all the work on it I’ve done, I still don’t have a good answer. I mean I know what I’m talking about, but how am I going to prove that to people? I still have the lingering memory of talking about when I presented my work product as a teacher asked ‘well, why are all the board game boards square? Is that something?’ because she was trying very hard to contribute in a space where I didn’t realise I was talking to someone who didn’t understand me.

Anyway, that’s just anxiety talking, good thing I’ve got nothing adding pressure to that.

I don’t know why I’ve been so creative this month. I fear it’s part of my brain leaping away at the idea of putting work into a particular space, like I’m somehow trying to grab a bar of soap then chasing it as it squeezes away. Did Moonshiners happen because my brain found it the most convenient way to express that idea at this moment or did it happen because it felt easier to devise a whole new game and currency card game system rather than try to explain what I mean by silo’d out design thinking?

Onward, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.

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[lavueltalmundoen2minutos-blog]

En el tercer episodio del micropodcast La Vuelta al Mundo en 2 Minutos analizamos los entretelones detrás del fin de “Aquarius”, el barco humanitario que desde hace dos años rescata a migrantes africanos en el Mediterráneo.

¿Que es el Aquarius?

Un buque alquilado por dos ONG: la francesa S.O.S. Mediterráneo y la internacional Médicos Sin Fronteras. ¿Su misión? Realizar una tarea que ningún Estado estaba interesado en cumplir, salvar las vidas de los cientos de miles de africanos que intentan cruzar a Europa desde el Mediterráneo. Un mar que se ha convertido en un cementerio humano. Con mas de 3 mil muertos por año. Y pese a que ha rescatado a mas de 30 mil personas desde que comenzó a operar en 2016, Aquarius no podrá hacerlo más. Los hostigamientos y sabotajes por parte de distintos Estados europeos ha sido constante.

¿En que consiste la crisis humanitaria del Mediterráneo?

Tiene distintas causas, pero sobre todo se puede señalar que la pobreza generalizada en el continente africano, especialmente el África Négra o Subsahariana, sumado a guerras (en todas ha habido intervención directa o indirecta por parte de gobiernos y empresas europeas. Desde acción militar “legal” a venta de armas y otros ítems de manera clandestina) y violencia criminal. Esto ha producido que cientos de miles de personas huyan, entregándole todos sus ahorros a organizaciones criminales, emparentadas con los Estados africanos aliados a Europa, dedicadas al tráfico de armas, personas y drogas de uno y otro lado del Mediterráneo, para que los crucen. En viajes realizados en embarcaciones de pésima calidad, en las que se transportan hacinados. Y en las que a veces naufragan y muchas veces son vejados, violados, torturados, condenados a morir de hambre y sed, o directamente asesinados. 

¿Por qué los gobiernos europeos hostigan a los grupos humanitarios?

Este hostigamiento se produce en el marco de un malestar económico y social generalizado en Europa hace, por lo menos, 10 años. 

Lo que ha contribuido a que gobiernos y empresas, que hasta hace poco hacían la vista gorda frente a inmigrantes que trabajaban  en los oficios mas duros y desagradables por un menor salario, se inventen un nuevo chivo expiatorio con el cuál explicar el origen de la crisis económica.

 Y lo han encontrado en los migrantes de origen africano. Situación que empalma con un racismo e intolerancia europeo de larga data, camuflado durante años por el bienestar económico, y un ascenso sostenido de partidos e ideas racistas y xenófobas. Lo que ha generado una tormenta perfecta para los grupos humanitarios como los que alquilan el “Aquarius”. En el continente en el que hace 70 años se produjo el genocidio nazi.

¿Que harán los grupos humanitarios?

Continuarán con su tarea, alquilando nuevos barcos, buscando el apoyo de sectores democráticos en Europa,  y enfrentando la hostilidad creciente de gobiernos y partes considerables de la población continental.

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