International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-29T12:13:21ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyverhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/51026017?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://iuoma-network.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=arty-slides-international&user=0bw983en7odos&feed=yes&xn_auth=noChristmas Arty Slides... Please sign up here..tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2013-11-11:2496677:Topic:14038792013-11-11T17:26:22.836ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Details: Last Date to Sign Up is : Nov. 13th,2013<br></br></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Items to send: 2 Arty Slides</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Theme: "Christmas Theme" and or Christmas Colors…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Details: Last Date to Sign Up is : Nov. 13th,2013<br/></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Items to send: 2 Arty Slides</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Theme: "Christmas Theme" and or Christmas Colors</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Mail by: Dec 13th.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #ff0000;">Please list your snail addys when you sign up.<br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">1. Not Hi Ng<br/></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">2. Claudia Garcia</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">3. Stripy Goose</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">4. Judy Staroscik</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">5. Sue Hobbs</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">6. Amy Irwen</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">7. Valentine Mark Herman</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">8. Robin Moore<br/></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">9.Rebecca Guyver</span></span><a href="http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/arty-slides-international/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0bw983en7odos" class="fn url"></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">10. Susanne Gross</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color: #ff0000;">11. Christine Coppa</span></span></p>
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<div class="description xj_comment_editor xg_user_generated" id="desc_2496677Comment1406297"><p>This is how it will work.</p>
<p>First, the <strong>'Odds and Evens...'</strong> bit. Everybody who has agreed to participate has been given a number (currently from 1 to 11) on the "Please sign here... list of Participants".</p><br />
<p>If <strong>you</strong> are an <strong>odd</strong> number on the list (1, 3, 5 ..) <strong>you</strong> <strong>mail to all the other odd numbers.</strong></p><br />
<p>If <strong>you</strong> are an <strong>even</strong> number on the list (2, 4, 6...) <strong>you mail to all the even numbers</strong>.</p><br />
<p>That's the 'Odds and Evens' bit.</p><br />
<p>Then there is the '<strong>....Plus'</strong> bit. In addition to the 5 (odd) or 4 (even) Arty Sliders you will be mailing to , <strong>you can also send Arty Slides to anyone else on the list that you choose</strong>.....all 10 other people if the Christmas and Arty Slide spirits so take you!</p><br />
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The suggested mail- by date is December 13.</span></p><br />
<p><em><strong>Happy Christmas Arty Sliding!</strong></em></p>"><br />
<p>We've now decided that the format of the Christmas Arty Slide Mailing will be changed, and it will <strong>NOT</strong> be a 'Free For All' as originally suggested.</p>
<p>Instead it will be an <strong>'Odds and Evens...Plus</strong>' mailing.</p>
<p>This is how it will work.</p>
<p>First, the <strong>'Odds and Evens...'</strong> bit. Everybody who has agreed to participate has been given a number (currently from 1 to 11) on the "Please sign here... list of Participants".</p>
<p>If <strong>you</strong> are an <strong>odd</strong> number on the list (1, 3, 5 ..) <strong>you</strong> <strong>mail to all the other odd numbers.</strong></p>
<p>If <strong>you</strong> are an <strong>even</strong> number on the list (2, 4, 6...) <strong>you mail to all the even numbers</strong>.</p>
<p>That's the 'Odds and Evens' bit.</p>
<p>Then there is the '<strong>....Plus'</strong> bit. In addition to the 5 (odd) or 4 (even) Arty Sliders you will be mailing to , <strong>you can also send Arty Slides to anyone else on the list that you choose</strong>.....all 10 other people if the Christmas and Arty Slide spirits so take you!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The suggested mail- by date is December 13.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Happy Christmas Arty Sliding!</strong></em></p>
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<p></p> "BOO BOO" BOOGIEtag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2013-08-28:2496677:Topic:13502662013-08-28T14:00:23.088ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Who wants to join in to celebrate Halloween or All Hallows Eve...We all love creating spooky art, so in this swap, the eerier the better...</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">We will stick with a "2 slide swap"....sign up in this discussion forum if you are feeling "spoooky".</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">It would be great if everyone were to receive their slides by October 31st 2013...…</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Who wants to join in to celebrate Halloween or All Hallows Eve...We all love creating spooky art, so in this swap, the eerier the better...</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">We will stick with a "2 slide swap"....sign up in this discussion forum if you are feeling "spoooky".</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">It would be great if everyone were to receive their slides by October 31st 2013...</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Participants</strong></span></p>
<p><b><u><br/></u></b> Judy Staroscik</p>
<p>Angie Cope</p>
<p>Amy Irwen</p>
<p>Sue Hobbs</p>
<p>Robin Moore</p> To all United States members and Val and you know...everyone else too ;)tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-15:2496677:Topic:8987482012-02-15T04:05:16.539ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>For those of you who don't know me let me introduce myself, my name is Arac and I am currently acting as the President of the US branch of Arty Slides International . After being assigned this prestigious position I realized he picked the wrong member and probably doesn't even realize it. As President I feel one should posses some sort of leadership skills, I am extremely lacking in this area as I tend to be a more a wander off the path and forget people are following me type(drifty, I…</p>
<p>For those of you who don't know me let me introduce myself, my name is Arac and I am currently acting as the President of the US branch of Arty Slides International . After being assigned this prestigious position I realized he picked the wrong member and probably doesn't even realize it. As President I feel one should posses some sort of leadership skills, I am extremely lacking in this area as I tend to be a more a wander off the path and forget people are following me type(drifty, I think my friends call it). So for this reason I would like to nominate a new president of this chapter...I hereby nominate Angie and/or Snooky as our new President. Not exactly sure who's the leader and who's the follower between these two but I'm sure one of them will let us know who comes out victorious. I also feel that with so many active U.S. members there may be a real need for cabinet member assignments and just in case cabinet positions are available I would like to nominate myself to the Chief of Catering postion for the next International Arty Slide meeting to be held in the continental U.S. Val says beer and hot dogs but I have other ideas but as long as everything is on a divided plate and nothing is touching all should be right in the world. All who vote for Angie/Snooky to be our new chapter leader say Aye!</p> Introduction to the Wonderful World of DOUBLE ARTY SLIDES --Part 2, Photos 1-7 (I hope)tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-13:2496677:Topic:8973022012-02-13T10:34:37.500ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
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<p>Here are the first of the 13 photos....</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783931?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783931?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783711?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783711?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783742?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783742?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783650?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783650?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></p>
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<p>10:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783899?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783899?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></p>
<p>11:…</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99784066?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99784066?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783650?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783650?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p>10:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783899?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783899?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783714?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783714?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p>12:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783757?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783757?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
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<p>13:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783760?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783760?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p> Introduction to the Wonderful World of DOUBLE ARTY SLIDES: Part 1tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-13:2496677:Topic:8972032012-02-13T09:22:42.788ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>Bonjour!</p>
<p>What follows might be very obvious to you, and if it is forgive me for wasting your time.</p>
<p>If it isn't, it might open up new Arty Slide possibilities for you. I''ve been thinking about and producing Arty Slides for about a year now, have over 600 sitting in boxes in my Permanent Installation waiting to be exhibited, and thought that I could share one of my 'tricks of the trade' with you -- <strong><span style="color: #888888;">Double…</span></strong></p>
<p>Bonjour!</p>
<p>What follows might be very obvious to you, and if it is forgive me for wasting your time.</p>
<p>If it isn't, it might open up new Arty Slide possibilities for you. I''ve been thinking about and producing Arty Slides for about a year now, have over 600 sitting in boxes in my Permanent Installation waiting to be exhibited, and thought that I could share one of my 'tricks of the trade' with you -- <strong><span style="color: #888888;">Double</span> <span style="color: #888888;">Arty Slides.</span></strong></p>
<p>There are 13 photos tghat are supposed to be here BUT I CAN'T GET THEM IN THIS DISCUSSION SO THEY WILL HAVE TO COME IN PART 2 Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And sorry!</p>
<p>This is the text that accompanies the photos.</p>
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<p>1. Here is a 35 mm slide that you know and love so well. It has what I call a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">'window'</span> in the middle of it.</p>
<p>2. Now if you (carefully) cut open the slide it has 2 windows. This is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vertical Double Arty Slide</span>.</p>
<p>3. Turn it a different way and you have a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Horizontal Double Arty Slide.</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99783730?profile=original" target="_self"></a> </p> Mailing List for Inaugural Arty Slides International Exchange, 1 March 2012tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-11:2496677:Topic:8955452012-02-11T15:12:27.959ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>The idea is that we send 2 (or more) Arty Slides to all other participants.</p>
<p>There is no set theme </p>
<p>The Arty Slides should be posted around 1 March, 2012.</p>
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<p><strong>Please add your postal address below if you want to participate in this Arty Slide Exchange.</strong></p>
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<p>1. Val Herman,</p>
<p>1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine,</p>
<p>F-11130 Sigean, France</p>
<p>The idea is that we send 2 (or more) Arty Slides to all other participants.</p>
<p>There is no set theme </p>
<p>The Arty Slides should be posted around 1 March, 2012.</p>
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<p><strong>Please add your postal address below if you want to participate in this Arty Slide Exchange.</strong></p>
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<p>1. Val Herman,</p>
<p>1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine,</p>
<p>F-11130 Sigean, France</p> Arty Slide Exhibitions -- May and July, 2012tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-09:2496677:Topic:8937782012-02-09T08:57:59.451ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>I am holding two Arty Slide Exhibitions in the Médiathèque de Sigean, France, later this year.</p>
<p>The first -- <strong>'diaPOSITIVE ART'</strong> [the French for a slide] -- will be held from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Friday 18 May to Saturday 2 June.</span></p>
<p>The opening of the Exhibition and the Vernissage will be on the evening of Friday the 18<sup>th</sup>. About 100 completed Arty Slide works will be shown at the start of the Exhibition, and visitors will be be…</p>
<p>I am holding two Arty Slide Exhibitions in the Médiathèque de Sigean, France, later this year.</p>
<p>The first -- <strong>'diaPOSITIVE ART'</strong> [the French for a slide] -- will be held from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Friday 18 May to Saturday 2 June.</span></p>
<p>The opening of the Exhibition and the Vernissage will be on the evening of Friday the 18<sup>th</sup>. About 100 completed Arty Slide works will be shown at the start of the Exhibition, and visitors will be be confronted with about the same number of empty canvasses, with a message ‘Make your own diaPOSITIVE ART collage’). A large number of double and single slides, and different size blank canvasses, will be made available so that people can make up their own works which will then be labelled and displayed.</p>
<p>A number of do-it-yourself Arty Slide ‘workshops’ or ‘ateliers’ will be held during the Exhibition.</p>
<p>The results of this first-phase Exhibition – both my collages and those produced at the workshops/ateliers will be displayed in the second exhibition -- <strong>'Retour du diaPOSITIVE ART' </strong>[Return of the Arty Slide] -- that will take place from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Friday 13<sup>th</sup> to Saturday 28<sup>th</sup> of July</span>.</p>
<p>The format will be more or less the same as that in the first phase, again with workshops/ateliers, but will be on a bigger scale. Depending on how Arty Slides international develops in the coming months, it might be possible to include Arty Slide works of IUOMA colleagues. By the end of this second Exhibition I hope to have filled almost 200 small canvasses with Arty Slides.</p>
<p>Works produced before (by me, and by you subject to your agreement) or at (by visitors) the Exhibition will be offered for sale. There will be no fixed price, and visitors will be asked to make a bid (which will be placed in a sealed envelope) for any work(s) they might want to purchase. I may or may not accept their bids.</p>
<p><strong>You are, of course, invited to the Exhibitions.</strong></p> If you want some 35 mm slides to make into Arty Slides....tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-09:2496677:Topic:8936192012-02-09T08:36:02.310ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>....then send me a piece of your very own Mail Art with a written request for some slides, and I will send you some. That way I will get some Mail Art, and you will get some of the 35 mm slides that I have gotten from flea markets and friends over the last few months.</p>
<p>(<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Don't</span> send me an email or IUOMA message requesting slides, because that way I won't get any Mail Art, and you won't get any slides)</p>
<p>Thank you. Val</p>
<p>....then send me a piece of your very own Mail Art with a written request for some slides, and I will send you some. That way I will get some Mail Art, and you will get some of the 35 mm slides that I have gotten from flea markets and friends over the last few months.</p>
<p>(<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Don't</span> send me an email or IUOMA message requesting slides, because that way I won't get any Mail Art, and you won't get any slides)</p>
<p>Thank you. Val</p> The origins of Arty Slides International, by Val Herman (President, Founder, CEO etc)tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-02-09:2496677:Topic:8939532012-02-09T08:31:34.987ZRebecca Guyverhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RebeccaGuyver
<p>Some artists have studios.</p>
<p>They are lucky.</p>
<p>Some artists can make <b>BIG</b> works of art in their studios.</p>
<p>I don’t have a studio. I can’t make big works of art.</p>
<p>At the top of our house I have a Study that I sometimes refer to as my ‘Permanent Installation’. (Other people are less, much less, flattering about it, referring to is as, for example, ‘Val’s junk room’.)</p>
<p>The Mission Control Centre of my Study is my Desk. I have had it for almost 45 years, and it…</p>
<p>Some artists have studios.</p>
<p>They are lucky.</p>
<p>Some artists can make <b>BIG</b> works of art in their studios.</p>
<p>I don’t have a studio. I can’t make big works of art.</p>
<p>At the top of our house I have a Study that I sometimes refer to as my ‘Permanent Installation’. (Other people are less, much less, flattering about it, referring to is as, for example, ‘Val’s junk room’.)</p>
<p>The Mission Control Centre of my Study is my Desk. I have had it for almost 45 years, and it is where all of my literary and artistic works are created.</p>
<p>It is not very big, and indeed the writing surface is only – and I now stop to measure it – 116 by 38 cms, or 44 by 15 inches. Anything and everything I do must be done within and on that very limited space.</p>
<p>But I don’t always have 116 by 38 cms or 44 by 15 inches of space on the Mission Control Centre’s working surface because I have to share it with Bianca – my large black cat – who, when she stretches out and goes to sleep, takes up at least half of the available space. I don’t know exactly how much working room I have when Bianca is asleep on my Desk but as she takes up between a third and a half of it it’s not very much.</p>
<p>And so I have a very limited working surface, and that is why all of my works of art -- envelopes, postcards, even collages and assemblages – are on a small scale.</p>
<p>I have recently downsized my art accordingly, and am now working on what I call <b>‘Arty</b> <b>Slides’.</b> These are miniature works of art that fit into a 35mm photographic slide. (Remember film? Remember slides?)The available working space is 35 by 23 mm. That’s all. The art has to fit into that space, and a bit more can be fitted onto the frame itself.</p>
<p>Each Arty Slide is made up of a visual image taken from, inter alia, old cigarette cards, postage stamps, Victorian studio portrait cards, my drawings and aquarelle paintings, clippings from books and magazines, adverts and packaging material, etc.</p>
<p>So far I have developed Arty Slides in two formats:</p>
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<li>the standard 35 by 23 size</li>
<li>a double size (2 x 35 by 23) obtained by opening out a photographic slide.</li>
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<p>I typically display the Arty Slides in groups of 3 double size ones, and sometimes add a standard Slide to a threesome. The possibilities of combining Arty Slides in different groups of 3 are almost endless, and it’s interesting to explore different combinations, whether linked by a common theme or not.</p>
<p>Two last points.</p>
<p>First, it’s very hard to get hold of photographic slides as they haven’t been produced for many years. Every weekend I search flea markets for them, but am seldom lucky enough to find any.</p>
<p>And second it’s possible to make even smaller Arty Slides using the half(frame format. This results in a working area of just 24 by 18 cms (but with a bigger outer frame). I haven’t downsized that much – yet.</p>
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