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Behind Blue Skies (2010)

Movie #1,128 • TWO FOR TUESDAYS

I ran out of recent-ish "sky" movies for the September-long "sky"-themed TWO FOR TUESDAYS so I had to go digging. Completely stumbled on this by random and am very glad I did. The only issue was I found a pretty bad version uploaded to Daily Motion lol and the whoever handled the hardcoded English subs, well...

It was pretty funny watching it with this ESL-style notation. I thought it would be an issue at first but you absolutely get the gist of every scene even if the translation isn't close to 100% 'correct'. Anyway, moving on...

This Swedish coming-of-age crime story was made by Hannes Holmes who would go onto make a trilogy of family comedies in the early 2010s right after this (The Anderssons in Greece, The Anderssons Hit the Road, and The Anderssons Rock the Mountains) before helming the original A Man Called Otto (super cheesy looking Tom Hanks film that came out last year). That movie, A Man Called Ove, was actually nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar. Needless to say, he's got a super strange looking filmography.

Starting off with an odd X-rated version of a sex joke straight out of American Pie, things settle down quickly, as Behind Blue Skies is actually a really thoughtful period piece about the son of an alcoholic finding his way in the world. One of the younger Skarsgård brood (Bill) stars alongside a local gangster (Peter Dalle) who's masquerading as the manager of an upscale sailing club. The latter becomes a father figure as he enters a life of crime. But it's not a morality play and these aren't one-dimensional characters. There's a really lovely nuance here both in the performances and the screenplay which elevates it above similar genre schlock. I definitely would recommend it.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½

[thatcreepyaesthetic]

Pelle svanslös 1997

“Önskelistan/The wishlist”

[2t2r]

Le PodRide, un vélo électrique voiture génial protégeant des éléments

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/le-podride-un-velo-electrique-voiture-protegeant-des-elements/

Le PodRide, un vélo électrique voiture génial protégeant des éléments

[fabelhafteweltvonfelix]

Livet är en schlager (= Das Leben ist ein Schlagerlied, Schweden 2000) ist einer meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme. (Leider gibt es davon keine deutsche Fassung.) Er ist eher umstritten: Die einen lieben ihn, die anderen hassen ihn und/oder finden ihn kitschig. Grand-Prix-Fans wie ich lieben ihn (natürlich!), denn er erzählt die Geschichte von Mona, ihrem Leben und wie sie auf ungewöhnliche Weise zur schwedischen Vorentscheidung kommt und dort gewinnt. Also Aschenputtel irgendwie. Das hier ist kein Trailer, sondern ich habe versucht, den Film in Ausschnitten nachzuerzählen. Unterlegt ist das Ganze mit den beiden Haupttiteln des Films Kärleksikonen und Aldrig ska jag sluta älska dig.

[felinefractious]

Mångravs Idun

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Caroline Kjellman [Mångravs Maine Coon]

🎨 Black Mackerel Tabby with White

[starlene]

Så som i himmelen proshot thoughts

Just some quick-ish notes on the cast and direction to sorta process watching the proshot for the first time!

Philip Jalmelid as Daniel: I've gone on record saying that acting-wise, he's not my favourite Daniel, but he really has a voice like no one else, and I really do appreciate him for that. He was also the first Daniel I saw, and he made me cry literally every time he opened his mouth to sing. You don't forget an experience like that. He's still no number one favourite of mine, but I have grown very fond of his portrayal of the character, and I especially enjoyed his first act on the proshot. I love Daniel Daréus so, so much!

Tuva B. Larsen as Lena: I enjoyed seeing all the closeups of her – there is really a lot going on under the surface in her Lena, more than I think I saw/understood live in theatre. With that said, I think the creative team has done the character of Lena a big disservice by not giving her a proper introspective/I want solo (like. How come Stig gets two but the female lead gets none?), so she always remains a bit of a mystery, no matter how talented the actor is. But I do like Tuva's portrayal. I just wish there was a bit more substantial stuff for her to perform!

Malena Ernman as Gabriella: potentially an unpopular opinion, but she's my absolute #1 musical Gabriella and I adore her. You can see that there's a tremendous capacity for joy inside this Gabriella, a bright spark that she has to suppress because of Conny. I can 100% see where the actors who make Gabriella meeker and more shy are coming from, but for me, Malena's Gabriella is where it's at.

Björn Kjellman as Arne: I mean, he's fine. It's just that Morgan Alling was so, so, so much better in the role.

Anders Ekborg as Stig: the only actor I've seen that I feel really gets this insane character... as much as you can get him, anyway. I have no idea why the musical spends so much time on Stig's marital troubles, nor why the thought of marital sex makes this Lutheran priest turn into an ultra-repressed Catholic monk, but Anders almost sells it to me. He has a voice like no one else, too. The red shirt in Stig's final scene is a piece of costume design I really, really like.

Sofia Pekkari as Inger: she's good, I don't really have further notes.

Rikard Björk as Tore: he's really good and has clearly done his research, but I gotta say, I think this is a role that truly benefits from having an actually disabled actor do it. I suppose it might not have been viable in the original production where they have to do a lot of cognitively very taxing workshopping and last-minute changes – but I'm so glad they cast the brilliant Jaakko Lahtinen as Tore in Helsinki. Jaakko's portrayal was so refreshingly honest and genuine, I don't really think any non-disabled actor can give the role that. That being said, Rikard also did a great job editing the proshot, he's clearly something of a renaissance man with all his talents!

Linus Eklund Adolphson as Holmfrid: love love love. Brilliant. Best Holmfrid I've ever seen by a mile. The bit in the beginning of the 2nd act where he mimes getting a kiss from the audience and putting it in his pocket? One of my favourite details in this entire show.

Christopher Wollter as Conny: hands down the best Conny I've seen, with the perfect mix of scary and incredibly insecure. Way too many actors just lean into the scary vibes. (Also the best Daniel in the original cast, but that's besides the point of this post.)

Annica Edstam as Florence: babygirl. The other half of my Gabriella/Florence otp that I know will come true one day. Love.

I know there are more named characters but these are the ones I feel the most strongly about!

Direction by Markus Virta: I've seen other productions do certain scenes better, but as a whole, I really do appreciate the simplicity and straightforwardness of Virta's direction. He lets the songs and the characters stand on their own, which I think is a good way to go – elaborate choreography/blocking and extra whatever can and has been nice, but this is not the sort of musical where you really need that. On the proshot, Virta's direction loses me during the last ten minutes, like it always has (we absolutely do not need to see Daniel's soul embracing his child self, not when absolutely nothing in the previous two hours has indicated we're dealing with a world where tangible afterlife visions like that are a thing) – but other than that, fantastic work, no notes.

Random notes:

I like how subtle Lena's "grandpa must go paint another angel on the wall" thing is here. I've written in length before how much I dislike the instant pregnancy thing – but I dislike it less here, where it's not a huge joyful declaration of pregnancy like in some other productions but a little unsure line that's left to the audience's interpretation. It's unclear if Daniel really gets what she means, and I'm also free to imagine she's really having her ex's child or whatever.

Am I losing it, or was there a short reprise bit of Den tid jag har in the last scene early in the run that wasn't included in the proshot anymore? I thought the last scene felt a little less overwrought and cringy than before, somehow.

Did anyone else watch the proshot yet? What did you think?

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This is the e-bike for winter commuting. Meet the Podride invented by Mikael Kjellman

October 11 2022

[vintage-sweden]

Nils Kjellman, Sweden.

[svenskjavel]

Björn Kjellman

Ytterligare någon på gränsen mellan DILF och GILF

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Can you please translate this and include the photos?

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/wAzLgP/fotboll-mot-soft-hooligans-damlandslagets-storsta-supporters

"Call us lame if you want"

Meet the Soft Hooligans: "Not us who are stupid in the head"

GOTHENBURG. They want to support the national team with joy and love.

So when they received hate for their support, the Soft Hooligans were surprised but not surprised.

It's Friday afternoon, it's past 2 p.m. and there are a few hours left until kick-off. The rain hangs in the air and Sweden will host Switzerland in the Olympic qualifiers, as well as the Nations League, at Gamla Ullevi.

All around Gothenburg, supporters put on their yellow shirts and get ready. One of them is Emma Holmquist. She was in Brussels to watch the men's national team when two supporters were murdered by a terrorist.

- A national team is always valuable, but since that happened, it is priceless, she says. 

Alba and Emma met in Sheffield last summer and have been friends ever since. They meet in stands around Sweden and the world. Sometimes they cheer for the same team, sometimes for different ones.

- To share this love for the national team with others. It's priceless that you can do that and that everyone is 27 regardless of the year they were born, says Emma and continues:

- I love my fellow supporters in Soft Hooligans. Even though I really wish that their team would lose when I meet them in the women's league, but that is also what is the key, that you can differentiate on that part.

But it all really started four years earlier, when a frustrated Estrid Kjellman was at the European Championships in the Netherlands with her mother, sister, cousin and cousin's friend.

- It was so very quiet in the arenas. When you shouted and cheered, you really stood out, she says.

The five women wanted to change that.

- I still had an image of what it might be like to go to football. How much it can sound, how powerful it can be. So then I felt that this is how I want it when I go and watch my favorite team, the Swedish women's national team, too.

Some inspiration was taken from what they had experienced in the stands around Sweden and at men's national matches while growing up and some from the Dutch fans during the EC.

- Even then they had such orange marches to the matches and it really felt organized while we Swedes sat scattered in different places in the arena. We didn't get any pressure and I want it to be more fun to go and watch football. So if no one else has taken this, we probably have to do it, says Kjellman.

It was also then and there that the supporters club's name was born: Soft Hooligans.

- People looked at us like we were hooligans and then it became an inside joke that we are not like other hooligans. We are soft hooligans.

Since then, the supporters' club has grown and now they have over 4,000 members on Facebook.

- I mean it really was a void, a hole. There was nothing. People wanted this and it wasn't there. And it was kind of only positive until the last month.

What Estrid is referring to is the hatred that came after the match in Gothenburg last time. A clip of the Soft Hooligans marching with a megaphone, drum and chant was mocked in the comments section. They were told it was lame and the name was ridiculed.

- I was a little shocked. There are still men who kind of really look down on women's football and the supporter culture that exists around it, she says and continues:

She is supported by Emma Holmquist, who herself is active in Linköping's supporters club Lejonflocken in the women's league. For over ten years, she has stood in the stands and she too has received both hate and threats for the way in which she supports.

- There are those who anonymously threaten us that when there is a derby, then you don't bring your flags and you shouldn't support in your way because it's lame. So I just ask who is saying this? Well, it's up to you to figure it out. But why shouldn't we support with our flags? We've been supporting this way since 2016. Yes, but it's for your own safety and they don't even want to tell you who they're from.

For both Emma and Estrid, being a supporter is about lifting your own players, cheering for your team and not shouting excuses.

- I want to be able to stand straight and know that the way I support doesn't hurt anyone. On the other hand, I can have all kinds of emotions at the match, but it is my responsibility how I express it, says Emma.

She feels that some people see the stands as a sanctuary where you can behave however you want, where you can let out more emotions than usual.

- And so it is. We release more than usual. You get that. I can't go into town and behave like I do in the stands. There must be reasonable limits and frameworks for that as well.

And there will be a lot of emotions today too. Not only because it is an important Olympic qualifying match, but also with everything that happened in Brussels in the bag. When Emma tells about the mourning ribbons at the collection and what the money will go to, it is immediately a man who, with the beer in his right fist, stretches out his left and says:

There is no one here who has hesitated to put on the yellow jersey. It is more important than ever to show the love for one's country, for one's team and for one's fellow supporters.

When Emma Holmquist talks about the community she has found thanks to the supportership and how she has seen the supporter group grow, it is with pride in her voice.

- Because we are part of it. We are part of that growth. The way we behave in the stands, the way we bring in supporters who are there for the first time. We take them under our wings. Just sit down at a table. Everyone here will take care of you.

Most recently, there was almost a fight over who would get to take care of the girl who showed up to attend her first soccer game.

- We won, we had her all night then, says Emma and smiles at the memory.

Despite the comments last time, they are marching to the arena this time as well. However, they do so in silence. Not because of what happened to them last time but out of respect for the victims in Brussels.

Kajsa Aronsson, Estrid's mother and one of the co-founders of Soft Hooligans, thinks it's obvious to go quietly to the arena. But when they enter, they should cheer as usual.

- That's why we're here, because we love them and we want to get to the Olympics together.

Unlike six years ago, the Swedish supporters are now united behind the one goal. The drum is included, as is the megaphone.

If you look out over the supporters, there are both young and old, men and women.

- This is not some small exclusive club, but this is for everyone who loves our women's national team who wants to be in the stands, and we also want most of all for you to want to be in the crowd, but you can sit on the long side too, that is okay.

The reason why the women's national team attracts such a diverse audience, both Emma and Alba believe, is due to the players and how they have built their profiles by standing up for what they believe in, for daring to take a stand. They are role models.

- Yes, I think that is super important, says Alba and Emma adds:

- I think it is also very brave to do that. When you come from clubs that are sometimes criticized for being funded by nations or people who have values ​​that are less similar to our values ​​and the players' values. Nevertheless, they dare to stand up. Some say it's a double standard. I say it's courage.

She raises Magdalena Erikssson as an example, another is Kosovare Asllani, who before the World Cup was asked about her time in PSG and Manchester City after she herself thought that the men's players should be better at taking a stand.

However, Emma understands that the men do not do it to the same extent.

- So it is difficult to be the first to break that pattern.

She points out that it has always been standard for the ladies to stand up for their values ​​and use their platform while men's football exploded at a time when sport and politics were supposed to be kept separate.

- Do your job, play ball. But don't speak on matters you know nothing about. It's a challenge so I'm impressed as soon as someone does it.

In the stands this evening, it is Emma who takes care of the drum.

- Can we run something with smaller drums, I have to rest my arms a bit, she says to Caroline Gunnarsson, who is holding the megaphone.

But there are more who stand out, such as Per-Arne Svensson. He's standing there with a big yellow inflatable banana, like he's been doing for the past year.

- Opposite was a Butterick store and there they had a banana. I inflated it and drove it the whole trip to England. Wait a minute, it will be finished soon.

But it won't be. Sweden misses and after a disappointed "oooh" he continues to tell.

- Then it became an image and then we have run it at the WC this year. I bought a big banana, but today it died.

It has started to leak and for the next collection he has to buy a new one. He doesn't have much to spare for that criticism about the women's national team's supporters being lame.

Alexandra Carmblad has not been around for as long. This is the second football game she is watching live. The first was against Spain just over a month ago.

- It's fantastic, you can't help but be excited by the environment, by the energy, says Alexandra Carmblad.

She also prefers to go to women's football. At the same time as "Forward, forward, forward Sweden. We're going to the Olympics this year" chanted in the heels, Carmblad explains why.

- I think they put too much effort into the field and I think that supporters and cheerleaders are usually too aggressive. It's not really what I'm looking for when I watch football.

Sweden misses a goal chance. It is Stina Blackstenius who misses, but what follows is not a shout, but they run steadily: "Stina, Stina, Stina".

It is no wonder that the Swedish players love their fans. After the game, they go out to say thanks. Caroline Seger takes an extra lap past, Magdalena Eriksson likewise.

- I don't think they need to thank you like that, but it's absolutely incredible, and it means so much to a great many in the heel, and like everyone, they do this for some love of the sport and love of the team. So that they show that it means something to them and is really huge, says Estrid.

But they do and the players are happy to pay tribute to the fans who stand there through thick and thin. The ones who travel all over the world to support their team and who are always there at the home games.

And before the supporters leave Gamla Ullevi, they make sure to clean up after themselves. Candy bags and popcorn boxes are picked up before they wander further into the Gothenburg evening with a Swedish victory behind them.

- The Olympic dream is alive, but it is scarce, states a woman with walking sticks before she disappears into the darkness.

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Morningstar Beauty Clinic

Morningstar Beauty Clinic på Södra vägen 41 på Kvarnholmen. Skönhetsstudion drivs av Alexander Kjellman som är auktoriserad hud- och spaterapeut. Morningstar Beauty Clinic kommer erbjuda ansikts- och kroppsbehandlingar, Dermapen 4 Microneedling och även ha en nagelteknolog. Om företaget Morningstar Beauty Clinic är en liten verksamheten med stora drömmar och planer för framtiden. Jag som…

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari 2600) 

Developed/Published by: Parker Brothers Released: 7/1982 Completed: 21/04/2023 Completion: Got a high score of 1216 on easiest, but also played it in smart bombs/solid walker modes. I could do better! Trophies / Achievements: n/a 

As a hardcore follower of everything I’ve been up to, I’m sure you already know I’ve been working my way through Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, but what you won’t know, probably, is that when I reached Attack of the Mutant Camels I had a minor crisis: do I go on and play it without the foreknowledge of The Empire Strikes Back for Atari 2600, or do I go back and play that, even though it’s jumping several years on from where I’ve got in the Atari 2600 catalogue? But today is also the last day to pre-order a physical copy of exp. 2601, so writing about another Atari 2600 is almost promotional. [You can still order a digital copy!]

It gets me started on playing through all the Star Wars games chronologically, too, because it’s, surprisingly, the very first licensed Star Wars game. You’d probably think that would be Star Wars in the arcade (the very first arcade game I ever played, fact fans!) what with it being based on the first movie and everything, but nope, it’s this, released over a year earlier but still two years after The Empire Strikes Back. It’s unclear if the decision to go with The Empire Strikes Back was an attempt to catch the (two year old) zeitgeist or was design led–there’s an interesting contemporary interview with the designer Sam Kjellman and programmer Rex Bradford in the January 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers and Games where Kjellman says “we considered the Death Star scene in the first movie” but there’s not much to make of it either way (there’s a great paper prototype image in the article, though.) And weirdly… Atari’s arcade Star Wars would be released the same month as Return of the Jedi in cinemas!

The Empire Strikes Back is a post-Defender game–one of the earliest, in fact, to not simply be a direct clone, following really only Choplifter on Apple II (Chopper Command, ironically also helicopter based but a “true” Defender clone predates it on the Atari 2600, though). Using the Battle of Hoth as its setting, the player controls a snowspeeder and is attempting to defend Echo Base from the approaching AT-AT Walkers, with a game over if they manage to make it to the base (which unfortunately isn’t marked in any way other than it is, I guess, just off to the right somewhere.) Unlike the movie, however, where AT-ATs are famously impervious to the snowspeeders attacks, here you are stuck shooting them to death, with each taking 48 shots to die, colour cycling so you know how damaged they are, because you can’t knock them over or anything. In fact, rather hilariously, the manual makes a point of the fact that you can’t shoot their legs, which is probably the one bit of them that would make sense to shoot.

There are, however, lots of surprising quirks and designerly touches to what would, otherwise, be a fairly straightforward shooter. The game has the usual overblown “32 games” claim that 2600 games basically always did (4 modes in single and two player, with five difficulty levels, basically) but the modes include the ability to make the walkers solid (which actually feels sort of more right, even if it is harder) and to add “smart bombs” which the walkers can fire and which follow you around and you need to shoot to survive (which I can take or leave). Whichever mode you play, walkers occasionally reveal flashing weak points you can shoot to destroy them instantly, which creates this interesting risk-reward as you have to fly around them to try and shoot the weak point in time, putting yourself in danger.

Most interestingly, however, you can actually repair your snowspeeder by landing it, up to two repairs per life, with your snowspeeder able to take up to five hits. And if you can survive for two minutes without dying, you “use the force” and are invincible for 20 seconds and can then repair your snowspeeder up to two more times. So the game also layers on damage management–you don’t want to be constantly repairing, because you lose precious time and you only get two, so you have to very carefully track how many hits you’ve taken, especially as the walkers get more and more powerful the more you take down. There’s honestly quite a lot going on.

There is, however, no ending to the assault, as it’s a pure score chase. Released earlier in the 2600’s lifetime it might have been saddled with a time limit (after two minutes and forty-five seconds the rebels escape…) but it’s definitely better this way even if you really don’t get a breather. This fact, however, leads to the rather absurd fact that Video Review magazine enlisted SF author and legendary prick Harlan Ellison to write a review of this despite the fact that he had never played a video game and clearly hated them. Readable in a couple of his essay collections (I borrowed a copy of Sleepless Nights in the Procrustrean Bed from archive.org, which cements how essential its borrowing library is for research) it’s a genuinely rather unhinged screed in which Ellison accidentally implies that he’s had sex with a non-zero number of ten year-olds:

“No ten-year-old I’ve ever encountered can write Moby Dick, create a Sistine Chapel fresco, or fuck with any degree of expertise.”

I guess at least he didn’t enjoy it???

Anyway, he spends most of it whining that you can’t win, referencing the Myth of Sisyphus because, you know, he’s sooo clever. 

I’m not particularly interested in having an argument with a long-dead self-confessed nonce–in fact I rather enjoy that he was so pleased with his zingers that he wrote a post-script a year later where he crows over the video game crash. And I suspect he forgot all about this by the time he would, hypocritically, declare himself “greatly amused by the prospect of ‘a game that you cannot possibly win’” with Cyberdreams 1995 adaptation of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (according to the Digital Antiquarian in a brilliant article as always.) But I will say that Kjellman and Bradford’s take on The Empire Strikes Back is better than it really has any right to be. The controls are far from perfect, and the game struggles massively with the fact that your snowspeeder’s position on screen often makes it hard to react quickly to walkers or their attacks. You can almost see the Llamasoft inspiration in how much the game makes you feel like you’re an annoying fly, buzzing around a quadruped, as you have to carefully “loop” your snowspeeder around in front of or behind the ship trying to maximise your hits (unless you have to suddenly dash for a weak point.) But there’s something there, and you can strategise–the manual recommends a farming strategy where you weaken the front and back walkers so you can have more time destroy the ones in the middle, and while it’s hardly Geometry Wars or anything, there’s a pleasure in attempting it.

Enough of a pleasure, actually, that I played this for much longer than I expected. For 1982–the year of Dig Dug and Deadline–The Empire Strikes Back ain’t bad! Lighten up, Harlan!!!

Will I ever play it again? I could be convinced to. I suspect I’d rather play it again than the next Star Wars game chronologically: Star Wars: Jedi Arena.

Final Thought: Ellison ends his postscript, joyful at the video game crash:

“At moments like these, I find my reluctant acceptance of the transient nature of the human race ameliorated. Perhaps the cockroaches won’t take over in my lifetime.

On the other hand, the spirit of James Watt is still with us.” 

The heck did he have against James Watt???

Hi. Thank you so much for being a supporter. I’d like to ask you for one more favour–could you check out the fundraiser my best friend Steven is running to help cover travel insurance costs? I know there are so many deserving causes, but Steven has a stage 4 brain tumour and it would mean the world to me if you considered donating, or sharing his page, to help make his remaining time the best ever.

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Love & Anarchy: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Love & Anarchy: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

When life gets messy, find the strength to go your own way! Love & Anarchy S2 comes out June 16. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with 222 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, feature films and mobile games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as…

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“Jag hade ingen aning om det här när jag åkte hit igår.”

“Så varför kom du hit?”

“För jag tyckte du va trevlig, för att vi skulle lyssna på Ratata.”

Fyra år till 2010

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Четырехколесный велосипед с корпусом PodRide, имеет электрический и ножной привод. Покрыт тканевым корпусом для защиты велосипедиста от различных погодных условий. Изобретатель Микаэль Kjellman, создал PodRide, чтобы кататься с комфортом зимой.

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