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Messages - alan b traehern
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« on: Yesterday at 21:31 »
If you had 200.000 images in your Adobe port in November 2021 according to your old post and now had 50.000 images in January, you must have some kind of idea why your account was banned? Surely the 150.000 images didn't disappear for no reason?
the mentioned 200000 portfolio from 2021 belongs to my husband. since the registration here has been inactive for days, I used his login.
So we are talking about a different portfolio (50.000) here.
As I said, we have already been asked if it is normal to wait so long and we wanted only to know if others have had similar experiences
Do you both have your own AS account, use the same computer, internet and camera? That might be why. Good luck.
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« on: Yesterday at 21:29 »
On 12.03.24 Adobe has blocked my account with a portfolio of over 50,000 images and over $2000 on it because of "terms violation".
I dont work with AI Generators, I have no idea why the account was deactivated and what I can do to reactivate it.
After using the contract form, I still haven't received a response (over a month). On Discord they just tell me to keep waiting.
I find it very unpleasant to keep someone in the dark for so long and to be at the mercy of it all
This is ridiculous. Adobe needs to do better.
You know the details and facts, could you explain how they could do better and why this is ridiculous?
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« on: April 12, 2024, 08:00 »
Just can't wait for April 15th when this discussion will end.
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« on: April 12, 2024, 07:58 »
UAP are real, they just aren't aliens.
Who are they? 
That's a politically correct term for non-gender, non-racial, unidentified objects, which are as a collection, "they". Otherwise the answer might be, people see something but IT isn't aliens? 
wow
It would take a sense of humor to understand the politically correct language and current gender terms police. We aren't males or female anymore, the PC crowd wants us to be called "They". And since we don't know what gender aliens might be, we'd probably want to call them "It" instead of they? Or maybe that's rude and the unknown life forms are they and not it? 
First problem is, no one has proof that "they" exist, or that "they" are visiting us, lights in the sky are not they, lights are an IT. As in It Came From Outer Space
Beware of the giant eyeball alien in the mine.
Anyone think any of this sounds familiar and like modern alien stories? Crashed ship, in the desert, 1953, Arizona, abductions... "Putnam finally discovers the spaceship and learns from the alien leader that they crashed on Earth by accident; the aliens appear benign and only plan to stay on Earth just long enough to repair their damaged craft and then continue on their voyage. The aliens' real appearance, when finally revealed to Putnam, is entirely non-human: they are large, single-eyed, almost jellyfish-like beings that seem to glide across the ground, leaving a glistening trail that soon vanishes. They are also able to shape shift into human form in order to appear human and move around Sand Rock, unobserved, in order to collect their much needed repair materials. To do this, they copy the human forms of the local townspeople that they have abducted. In doing so, however, they fail to reproduce the townspeople's exact personalities, leading to suspicion and eventually to the deaths of two of the aliens. "
There was no intention on the part of the poster to imply a gender issue.
No you took it upon your self to turn it into that because of "the politically correct language and current gender terms police. We aren't males or female anymore, the PC crowd wants us to be called "They".
You bigot, nothing of the sort is happening in the slightest. A political movement decided to neutralise pronouns to strengthen weakening equality based on gender and gender pay gaps, rights a freedoms on a global setting.
This then seeped over and into other areas of society and was taken up by various minority groups and lumped in the LGBTQ+ blah blah gang as a way of thwarting discriminatory legislation.
A noble cause given that it is illegal to be LGBT in 64 UN member States. In Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the death penalty is imposed across the county.
The latest was Uganda last year who cried in the streets with joy that a god that was forced violently on them by missionaries was now saved by this new law.
Whilst attempting to enforce the pronoun "they" is imo a nonsese when speaking to an individual I do respect their right to identify as non gender if they wish. And contrary to the popular trope that there are only two genders there are three and has been for as long as there have been humans and is increasing. Male, female and intersex formally hermaphrodite. Which is often quoted as rare but is anything but. It is however a minority classification and isn't a fixed percentage yet they do carry both reproductive organs, internally and externally to varying degrees as well as variations from the XX and XY formats as well as wide ranging hormone levels as do we all.
Finally this was a thread about UAP and it should NOT stray from that and into your personal feelings regarding that or for that matter any minority group in a derogatory tone again, mocking or otherwise.
Nice rant @lowls, what does any of that have to do with aliens from space? Insults, indignation and conspiracy theory, the signatures of the politics of contempt. I didn't expect you to be a follower of the Donlad Trump school of debate.
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« on: April 05, 2024, 08:37 »
Already 27 pages in the topic. Can anyone answer whether UFOs and aliens exist or not?
In Search Of The Holy Grail the Loch Ness Monster Armageddon predictions Mermaids Fairies Ghosts Big Foot El Chupacabra A race of giants Aliens visit in UFOs Or do something else useful with your time. Anybody who disagrees is a liar or a government agent. UAP are real, they just aren't aliens.
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« on: March 13, 2024, 19:56 »
No. I hired someone to make me an original character design...
Were they cheap?
No. I am seriously considering just dropping this stock industry crap and start drawing... I could boost sales of my artwork through my filming knowledge and make better money. Just thinking about making investments FOR making stock footage and then getting rejected makes me sick to my stomach. Meanwhile I had 95% approval rate with all AI generated images and had many sales already. Makes you think twice about what should be the logical course of action. There is a good saying: "The only way of making money in photography is by selling all your gear."
If you are offended by rejections, because you think you are better than the standards or the reviewers, you should do something else. We all have to work and live with the same situation.
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« on: March 04, 2024, 11:09 »
Hi there!
Do you think it's worth starting your 123rf adventure in 2024? I'm a fairly successful contributor on Adobe Stock where my monthly revenue is between $2,000 and $3,000 and my portfolio is 35k images. I'm wondering if it's worth putting my entire portfolio on 123rf and to start uploading there on a regular basis?
I also noticed that they offer PREMIUM or PREMIUM+PLUS sales - which option is better according to your experience?
No
If you do not need additional $100-$200 than do not submit.
Is that every 5 years? Will 123 be in business in 5 years?
No, that is for every month and in accordance of the monthly income and portfolio mentioned above. Ofcourse not every portfolio can make such amounts.
If we believe the poll here that shows $15 a month, there must be many who don't come near $100-$200 a month to make the $15 average. You are the exception.
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« on: February 17, 2024, 04:26 »
I find it hard to believe a major agency would so blatantly and obviously pocket royalties belong to the contributor. Because the legal consequences would be huge if this was found to be true. Would they risk it for a few cents per sale?
I wouldn't be surprised if either one of the following scenarios is true:
1) The claim is a lie
2) The 'control purchase' was not conducted properly or one of the buyers made a mistake
3) The sale was delayed due to a system error or some flagging and will show up sooner or later
You must have been very surprised to learn Enron was cooking the books. Giant companies cheat and lie all the time. They are seldom caught because there is negligible oversight. We have no access to sales data apart from what SS or other agencies tell us and they have a very good incentive to lie. The best we can do is conduct these risky unscientific experiments to try to get a little more data. I'm not saying OP's post proves anything but its one more data point than we had before and you're welcome to believe it or not. I'm tempted to try it myself but I earn so little from SS that it would cost nearly all my earnings to buy a single pack.
How can a claim on a forum be a data point, with no data. PokemonMaster is behind Stock Coalition and pushed the boycott Shutterstock protest. Giant companies or Enron have no connection in what SS does unless you want to believe guilt by generalization without facts. The answer is right above this. Screen shots, video of a buy, collect the data and if they are cheating us, take them to court. Everything you read on the internet is not true. Same goes for this forum.
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« on: February 17, 2024, 03:43 »
look forward to using it
I do too.
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« on: February 17, 2024, 03:40 »
I see this wrong logic from time to time in discussions. No, no one buyer will search for your image on other agency to buy it cheaper. Even if he want it's almost impossible to find it in the search straight away, as a whole this does not work. Selling in many agencies will only extend your income and competition between them and from there better commissions to the contributors. I'm in this business from 2007 and I'm full-time and I have experienced view on all this.
I agree that individual buyers will generally not search to find a specific image at the cheapest price. However, it does not follow that it's fine to supply free and all-you-can-eat low price agencies.
Over time, and in general (i.e. not for any particular contributor) Unsplash, pexels, the various free sections at agencies are all eroding anyone's ability to make a decent living licensing stock. It used to be that free images were of obviously lower quality than paid ones, but that's no longer true. In looking at uses of an image featured in another thread here there were many hundreds and all the credits I saw were for Unsplash and pexels, not iStock (where it originated).
I've been licensing stock images since 2004 and about the only constants have been agency drives to increase their share of the buyer's money and contributors ignoring long-term harms for short-term cash. Often the excuses of the form "it's all going to hades anyway, so might as well make a little money before it does" or "if I don't someone else will and then I'll lose out on both short and long term"
We are too diverse a group with too many divergent points of view (and many contributors who don't do the math often enough to see what's in their interest and what isn't) to balance out the agencies' power and self interest.
And Freepik's history is deeply unsavory. I wouldn't trust them further than I could throw them. And I'm not all that good at throwing 
Then this version isn't true? You can't opt out of video subs. You got to make a decision to just delete your videos one by one. I deleted like 7,000 videos last May when I got fed up with seeing most video sales going for $2.80 subs. You should definitely delete your 4k videos and re-upload HD version, or just delete video clips for good and also un-publish videos from Shutterstock. Customers aren't stupid. All they have to do is to google your contributor name with "Adobe Stock", "Shutterstock" or "Storyblocks" to find if you offer your clips dirt cheap rather than paying decent price you set on Pond5.
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« on: February 14, 2024, 10:37 »
It's a third-party information, so probably I will not be able to provide further details. But it comes from a trusted contributor, experienced, with a pretty old portfolio.
At the end of October, we decided to make a control purchase on the Shutterstock, collaborated with colleagues and bought a package of 25 Standard one-time demands. Purchases were made of works that had never been sold, with the help of a real customer within a spread of 10 days.
Divided it like this: 5 purchases from my accounts, 11 purchases from colleagues accounts, 9 purchases randomly.
Of my five - 1 appeared on the first day, 1 - after a couple of days, and another one after 4 days
The result as of February 1 is the total number of sales for all interested parties - 7
So, 70% of the sales via one-time demands package are lost! What do you think about this?
If any of this is true, you need to take the evidence to the state attorney general of New York. Then get representation and file a class action suit on our behalf, all of us can collect back earnings after an audit.
Where is the stock coalition? They should be all over this and tracking data for a legal filing against SS. If this claim is false, we should be told that it's nothing but a sensational lie. The fact that 19 people gave a claim with no evidence a + tells me how weak education is and the lack of critical thinking. Do you believe everything that an anonymous person on a forum write is truth. Or is it just because you want bad things about SS to be true?
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« on: February 12, 2024, 07:42 »
How's your video sales on SS compared to pre-video sub January 2020? Is it like 1/4 of January 2020?
January, 2020 was literally 10x higher than January, 2024.
184 sales in January, 2020 vs 95 last month, so I don't think the subscriptions was the ultimate culprit.
Wow. Thanks for the info. That pretty much cancels a possibility of me enabling video sales on Shutterstock. My video sale went down immediately after the video sub intro by 1/2 and now top producer like you're making 1/10? Not worth it and probably negatively affect my Pond5 sales.
You don't have any video on SS? Pond5 is owned by SS that's the end of them.
It's the genius type who hate SS, hate AS, hate all other except Pond 5, owned by SS. They remove all of their video and go Pond 5 exclusive to help make SS rich. Then come here every day to tell how terrible video sales are at the rest.
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« on: February 12, 2024, 07:36 »
Mat, would it be possible to an official answer on this question?
"So, my question is: are you allowed to remove or blur people from a photo and then submit as illustrative editorial?"
Thanks!
Why no answer?
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« on: February 07, 2024, 09:35 »
If you follow fb groups and discord, the 8 weeks seems to mostly affect newbie accounts.
Slowing them down to actually think before they upload is probably a good thing.
Slows down the spammers as well.
Illustration and photos are currently being inspected in my case in about a week, only pngs need 30 days.
That is a very fair review time.
Plusback to over 90% acceptance rate, which is even more important.
Main change - upsize with stability or midjourney directly, less gigapixel use and upload much smaller versions, often 3500*2000
I have a bunch of AI photos in review que for 3 weeks now. Maybe mass rejection affected my rating?
We have a rating? Where do I find that?
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« on: February 02, 2024, 14:28 »
OK you hater HodagMedia on Shutterstock forum. You should work on your photo skill rather than wasting your time posting craps you stupid redneck MFer.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/portrait-girl-showing-middle-fingers-on-697911292
Just a reminder of the low class character of this person.
All those nobody stock contributors hate me. LOL!! Whatever.
They got nothing better than ridiculing people. Useless posters.
They've never started a meaningful thread/conversation. All they do is to come in and ridicule people. And then I strike back, they get upset like a little punk. LMAO!! Weak.
Just ignore him, he's always starting arguments and posting nonsense. Was banned from SS forums, so he came here to stir up crap. 
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« on: January 17, 2024, 18:41 »
Grusch told legislators that he was told there has been a "multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program" but was denied access to the program.
He told his superiors, essentially "becoming a whistleblower," for which he said he suffered retaliation. Other people have been harmed or injured both by UAP activity and by government efforts to cover up the program, he testified, without giving specifics.
When asked by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., whether the U.S. has the bodies of the pilots of crashed aircraft from the UAP programs, Grusch said, "Biologics came with some of these recoveries."
When Mace asked whether they were human or nonhuman, Grusch said, "nonhuman, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge of the (UAP) program I talked to that are currently still on the program." He later said that he had not seen any bodies personally.
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« on: January 17, 2024, 11:14 »
I want to share my custom keywords generator.
I've used it for thousands of stock images I've published in the last year with great results.
It's quick and easy to use,
generates a list of keywords and a breakdown for each keyword with amount of results.
it's free, try it here:
https://upstock.guru/keyword_checker
Very nice work, especially the tag breakdown by best results first to show us the most used words.
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« on: January 17, 2024, 11:11 »
For those who want to speed things up and want proof now. For $9.99 you can download an app called CE5 contact which guides you through meditation and tones to call in UAP.
https://youtu.be/v03hbaEnSGM?feature=shared
😳
All about the selling of science fiction. ...
The heck, even if only some part of Grusch's claims are true, it is a gamechanger, and the denialist worldview crumbles like a house of cards.
not sure who you're referring to as 'denialists', but those critiquing here have never said there are no ET just that no conclusiive evidence has been presented yet.
No you and others have repeatedly called it nonsense, make believe, and worse whilst denigrating the evidence and testimony given by serving military and civilian alike.
Which is why when you see this reported and investigated you'll see they always turn to you, Pete and gang for advice and confirmation instead of experts military or otherwise. Your name crops up regularly along with Petes and Annie's and all the other denialists that have contributed regularly here. Thank goodness we have you.
The little girl has soiled her nappy again, maybe you should check with the doctor for that frothing at the mouth and drooling problem. Something here smells like a pile of hot dung.
That's mature and relevant to the thread.
I reply the way you write to everyone else. I expected you would treat us as you want to be treated. Like a liitle screaming, crying baby.
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« on: January 17, 2024, 11:08 »
I wrote to the forum, not to you. Maybe you can tell me, what do you think of Bob Lazar, Billy Meier, Ed Walters, George Adamski, David Icke, Jonathan Reed, and Steven Greer? How about Roswell, Ray Santilli and the alien autopsy? Or are you only going with Grusch from now on and ignoring the long history of fakes and frauds.
As I said, please work on your logical reasoning skills. What you present here is a classic case of whataboutism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Maybe some, or all, of those people were frauds, maybe there were some nuggets of truth in their claims, I honestly don't know. Some are suspicious.
But whatever they claimed is absolutely irrelevant to the person of Grusch. They don't matter. All it takes is one single confirmed case and the whole denialism crumbles like a house of cards.
Grusch is an investigator tasked with this job by the US government. He did present evidence to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community - Thomas Monheim. Based on that evidence he briefed Congressmen about his findings. Coming out of the briefing, they said "Grusch's claims have merit", "Grusch is legit".
These are facts, for crying out loud.
Another fact is that a lobby in the House fought hard (and won) against the Schumer amendment, which had been passed earlier in the Senate. It is logical to assume that there is some struggle in the circles of power; some are for disclosure, others are against it.
Now, can I say with 100% certainty that what Grusch claims is true? No, I cannot, because I have no means to verify that information myself. And that is OK.
But if you think that Grusch doesn't say the truth, the IGIC told lies to the Congress Committe, then you must deal with one very serious question and that question is:
W*T*F is going on???
Escaping that question is intellectual laziness and mediocrity. If you think that there is something suspicious going behind the curtain, then there you go: that is a conspiracy theory, too.
Yes it is whatabout. Your history the mythology the beliefs the fantasy science fiction is all flawed, lies, fables, fakes and not science. What about that? Talk about escaping the question, you divert and don't answer. What about all the fakes and debunked stories for over 60 years. And your pal Lowls doesn't answer anything, he just turns into Donald Trump and starts spewing personal attacks, trying to bully anyone who disagrees. How childish. If you want it all to be about Grush and parallel planes, that's fine. But you have to excuse me for pointing out, UFOs and Aliens have attracted a large set of liars and nut cases. Religious doomsday cults that ended in suicide. End of the world, with the aliens coming down to save us. Whatabout the history and the false claims. That's a fair question to ask. If I borrowed money from you and didn't pay it back, then borrowed again and didn't pay back, would you just find a way around that and loan me money again? The alien and ufo claims have been biased and unsupported and instead of payback, we just get more unsupported debunked claims and frauds. Why should I buy that? How many times does someone get fooled before they stop and see there's something wrong with the history? I'm not lending my trust to a proven set of lies.
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« on: January 16, 2024, 08:58 »
Another phony pseudoscience story is deflated. Pop go the aliens.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/they-are-not-aliens-peru-officials-debunk-claims-that-figures-are-extraterrestrials/ar-AA1mTjPM?OCID=ansmsnnews11
"The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times," Estrada said. "They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens."
In the light of the recent events, that story and your post are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT and uninteresting. Red herring.
In other news, yesterday it didn't snow in Morocco.
I thought you would be against lies, deception and coverup. Instead you try to defend the science fiction fantasy, fake news about alien bodies. This is over but another claim or fake will replace it. There are no alien corpses, no photos, no evidence, every. It is completely relevant to the UFO alien cult that will believe any trash fake news and spread it like it's real. Don't you have any integrity or standards in your search for the truth?
I suggest you sharpen your reading-with-understanding skills and work on logical reasoning.
You have built a strawman and now you are burning it. Where did I write that the mummies were real? Did any of the serious people working in the field (Nolan, Elizondo, Grusch, Mellon, Coulthard) even picked up the story? No, they avoided it, perhaps because they knew it was a distraction. Who cares about the dolls when there is Grusch?
"in the light of recent events" = an investigator working for the US government had made some very serious and specific claims about a cover-up and more. On Friday, the Inspector General informed the Congress Committee about his findings based on the evidence provided to him by Grusch. After the briefing, Congressmen said "Grusch is legit", "Grusch's claims have merit".
And that is the real story, not some mummies. The briefing is a FACT. It is a scandal that many mainstream media chose to cover the mummies and remained silent about the implications of the briefing. You pick some facts that fit into your denialist worldview and choose not to see the real story.
You have swallowed the red herring that most likely was thrown to the denialist crowd as a distraction. Bon apptit.
I wrote to the forum, not to you. Maybe you can tell me, what do you think of Bob Lazar, Billy Meier, Ed Walters, George Adamski, David Icke, Jonathan Reed, and Steven Greer? How about Roswell, Ray Santilli and the alien autopsy? Or are you only going with Grusch from now on and ignoring the long history of fakes and frauds.
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« on: January 16, 2024, 08:48 »
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The heck, even if only some part of Grusch's claims are true, it is a gamechanger, and the denialist worldview crumbles like a house of cards.
not sure who you're referring to as 'denialists', but those critiquing here have never said there are no ET just that no conclusiive evidence has been presented yet.
No you and others have repeatedly called it nonsense, make believe, and worse whilst denigrating the evidence and testimony given by serving military and civilian alike.
Which is why when you see this reported and investigated you'll see they always turn to you, Pete and gang for advice and confirmation instead of experts military or otherwise. Your name crops up regularly along with Petes and Annie's and all the other denialists that have contributed regularly here. Thank goodness we have you.
The little girl has soiled her nappy again, maybe you should check with the doctor for that frothing at the mouth and drooling problem. Something here smells like a pile of hot dung.
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« on: January 14, 2024, 07:14 »
Another phony pseudoscience story is deflated. Pop go the aliens.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/they-are-not-aliens-peru-officials-debunk-claims-that-figures-are-extraterrestrials/ar-AA1mTjPM?OCID=ansmsnnews11
"The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times," Estrada said. "They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens."
In the light of the recent events, that story and your post are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT and uninteresting. Red herring.
In other news, yesterday it didn't snow in Morocco.
I thought you would be against lies, deception and coverup. Instead you try to defend the science fiction fantasy, fake news about alien bodies. This is over but another claim or fake will replace it. There are no alien corpses, no photos, no evidence, every. It is completely relevant to the UFO alien cult that will believe any trash fake news and spread it like it's real. Don't you have any integrity or standards in your search for the truth?
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« on: January 08, 2024, 03:49 »
I have some friends making some big money on a company called Freepix. I submitted to them but failed their test. The take only the best of the best.
The test was easy to pass and after a year I made nothing. Did they pay you to write that Freepix is good? The name says what they are, and that's terrible.
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« on: November 15, 2023, 09:25 »
Agency lawyers decide what they will take or not, they make their own rules.
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