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Khrystyna and her husband had just renovated their house by the lake. They had a tradition of taking their three young children into the forest for adventures over the weekends. And the family business was doing well. The couple was about to expand their market stalls in town selling kids' clothing. Then, from one day to the next, everything changed. Khrystyna's town of Kupiansk was one of the first Ukrainian territories to face Russian occupation at the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. And immediately, the "Russification" began. Authorities handed out Russian passports, forcibly imposing citizenship on Ukrainian residents. And schools were made to teach a Russian curriculum of propaganda. Any resistance was met with threats and violence, Khrystyna said. The 25-year-old, who is going by her first name only for security reasons, was threatened for speaking Ukrainian. "I heard and saw several times people being struck in the street, or how someone had a bag put over their head and was then taken in an unknown direction," she told the ABC. The town in the Kharkiv region was transformed into what Moscow deemed "little Russia", before being retaken by Ukraine in a September 2022 counteroffensive. Some Ukrainians managed to evacuate, some stuck it out, others disappeared. "My friends' relatives were taken prisoner and detained for five days," Khrystyna said. "Another friend's son was also taken into civilian captivity and he is still missing." After more than 1,000 days of war, about 1.5 million Ukrainians are still living under Russian occupation, according to the United Nations. And Donald Trump's return to the White House is sparking fears about what their future may hold. Analysts and insider reports have widely speculated that the president-elect's promised plans for immediate peace involve Ukraine ceding territory to Russia or freezing the conflict. For civilians in occupied areas, both of those could be "relatively bad outcomes". Russia holds one-fifth of Ukraine Russia still occupies more than 110,000 square kilometres — about 20 per cent — of Ukraine's territory. That is a chunk of land larger than South Australia. It includes Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. About 80 per cent of Donbas is under Russian control, and more than 70 per cent of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. [MAP] Khrystyna's experiences have been echoed across Ukraine's occupied regions. There are numerous reports and documented testimonies from civilians who have lived in Russian-held territory. Human rights organisations, Ukrainian prosecutors and government officials have found evidence of arbitrary or unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence, re-education, and children being sent to live in Russia. Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations its forces have committed human rights violations during the invasion. The International Criminal Court last year issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. The Kremlin slammed the allegations as "outrageous and unacceptable". Jessica Genauer, senior lecturer in international relations at Flinders University, said the outlook for Ukrainians in occupied territories was "bleak". "I don't see any outcome at this stage where Russian occupying forces are entirely evicted from Ukrainian territory," she told the ABC. What ceding territory would look like During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly said he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine "in a day", but never gave further details. Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented a "victory plan" that included a refusal to cede Ukraine's territories and sovereignty. Under Russia's terms, Mr Putin has stated Kyiv must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from territory in the four Ukrainian regions currently controlled by Russia. Dr Genauer said Trump would likely pressure Ukraine to "formally" cede some territory. A formal agreement would mean that the sovereign borders would shift, and the occupied territory would officially be recognised as Russia. "So Russia expands and Ukraine shrinks," she said. Ukrainians living in those regions would need to gain Russian citizenship or be treated like foreigners in Russia. Under formal arrangements, Ukrainians would likely be given the opportunity to leave before the territory was handed over, Dr Genauer said. About 59 per cent of Ukrainians now support entering peace negotiations with Russia, according to a study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published in August. Based on about 2,500 nationwide interviews, 60 per cent were unwilling to cede Crimea or any parts of eastern Ukraine. Seventy-seven per cent said negotiations based on the current territorial status quo were unacceptable. So, formally handing over territory would be difficult for Mr Zelenskyy, Dr Genauer said. "I don't think Zelenskyy will be able to agree to such a political settlement without his population's consent," she said. What she instead believes could happen is an unofficial freezing of the conflict along the front lines, allowing Russia to maintain control of Ukrainian territory. "That's probably, in some ways, the best-case scenario that President Zelenskyy can expect under a Trump presidency," she said. But from a Ukrainian perspective, they would both be "relatively bad outcomes". Life under a frozen conflict Freezing the conflict would mean both sides agree to pause the fighting. It would likely put residents living in occupation territories in a grey zone, Dr Genauer said. "They are going to be in a very difficult and quite compromised position." Their political and citizenship status would be in limbo, and Russian forces would remain present. And it would be difficult to protect Ukrainian citizens from possible human rights abuses. "There will be no way to guarantee without a formal agreement that international human rights law will be respected, and that human rights abuses will not be perpetrated," Dr Genauer said. "So it would either be up to people to escape back into Ukrainian territory, and that in itself can be a dangerous journey, or to try to manage within those Russian-occupied spaces." Getting out a 'lottery' Sofiia Gedzenko volunteers with Helping to Leave, an organisation that assists Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories to evacuate and settle into new homes. The 31-year-old from Odesa said the stories coming out of occupied regions were "truly devastating". She described the conditions in many towns as a humanitarian disaster. "Especially in the regions closer to the front line, often there is no running water, there is no electricity, there is no heating, and the winter is coming," she told the ABC. Ms Gedzenko has been helping people with evacuations for more than two years, and said there was never a guarantee they could get them out. Aid organisations are not allowed inside so it comes down to what happens at the checkpoints. "It's always like a lottery for people if they will be allowed to leave or not," Ms Gedzenko said. "We cannot guarantee anything, especially if it's younger people. There's always a danger. "People have been abducted there, and there are cases when they were abducted and they're kept in some places and they're tortured. Sometimes they let them out afterwards, sometimes not." She said the organisation tried to prepare people and advised them what to delete from their phones. Anyone under 60 years old could be considered a military threat and treated that way, she said. Ms Gedzenko said freezing the conflict and handing territories to Russia would be "inhumane". "Territories are people. We are not just talking about the piece of land," she said. "We're talking about people who have a right to live in their country and not be occupied." Where European allies stand Support for negotiations on a ceasefire has been growing in the West. But NATO members and European allies are yet to articulate what it may look like. At the recent European Political Community summit in Budapest, leaders called for stronger action to defend their continent and support Ukraine. But there has still been no clear-cut path for Ukraine to join NATO, which analysts say is crucial to avoid further Russian aggression. Mr Zelenskyy's push for membership is part of a long-term goal for Ukraine to gain security from Russia. But NATO has said Ukraine cannot join while it is at war because it would draw the alliance directly into conflict with Russia. The Washington Post spoke to several current and former European and NATO diplomats after the summit who said there was also a quiet but growing shift towards allies considering trading land for peace. Yuliya Bidenko, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) Europe, said Western allies were avoiding NATO plans and lacking unity on alternative options. "In some European capitals, the discussions have gone from either security guarantees or attempts to regain territories to neither of those," she said. "The inability to recover the territories occupied by Russia is the most sensitive and problematic issue for Ukrainian society and will be a challenge for the international order." With her home destroyed in the fighting, Khrystyna finally left Kupiansk and settled in Kharkiv where there were better options for her children. She now helps others evacuate occupied territories and offers any support she can. Khrystyna says many people "think that their lives are over" but she does not want them to lose hope. "Giving up territories is not the answer," she said. "Our country needs peace and safety." ABCNBA Streaming 2024: How to Watch, Livestream the NBA Cup and Games This Seasonwinner 777 casino 。

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Field Level Media Will Levis threw a go-ahead 70-yard touchdown pass to Chig Okonkwo in the fourth quarter to help the Tennessee Titans record a stunning 32-27 victory over the host Houston Texans on Sunday afternoon. Tony Pollard rushed for 119 yards and one touchdown and Nick Westbrook-Ihkine caught a scoring pass as Tennessee (3-8) won for just the second time in its last seven games. Levis was 18-of-24 passing for 278 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for the Titans. Houston had a chance to force overtime but Ka’imi Fairbairn missed a chip-shot 28-yard field goal with 1:53 remaining, sending the kick wide left. The Texans got the ball back with 1:29 left. Three plays later, Harold Landry sacked Houston’s C.J. Stroud in the end zone to make it a five-point margin with 1:13 left. Stroud completed 20 of 33 passes for 247 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions for Houston (7-5), which lost for the fourth time in the past six games. Jimmie Ward returned an interception for a touchdown for the Texans. Nico Collins and Cade Stover caught scoring passes for Houston. Houston sacked Levis eight times. Danielle Hunter had three and Will Anderson Jr. notched two. Ward traveled 65 yards on his pick-six to give the Texans a 24-23 lead with four seconds left in the third period. The Texans moved ahead by four when Fairbairn kicked a 56-yard field goal with 9:46 remaining in the game. It was Fairbairn’s 12th field goal of 50 or more yards this season, surpassing the NFL record of Daniel Carlson (11 in 2022 for the Las Vegas Raiders). But on Houston’s next offensive play, Okonkwo caught a pass from Levis near his own 40-yard line and raced up the middle and sped past multiple Titans to turn it into a 70-yard scoring play to give Tennessee a 30-27 lead. The game began great for Houston as Dameon Pierce returned the opening kickoff 80 yards and Stroud followed with a 19-yard touchdown pass to Stover. The Titans recovered with the next 17 points. Nick Folk kicked a 51-yard field goal and Levis threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Westbrook-Ikhine in the first quarter. Pollard scored on a 10-yard run to boost the Titans’ lead to 17-7 with 11:03 left in the first half. Stroud tossed a 5-yard scoring pass to Collins with 6:17 left in the quarter and Fairbairn tacked on a 28-yard field goal to knot the score at 17 with 1:47 remaining. Folk booted a 56-yard field as time ran out to give Tennessee a 20-17 halftime lead. Folk connected from 51 yards as the Titans led by six with 9:08 remaining in the third period.

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Finally, iA Global Asset Management Inc. raised its position in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 7.9% in the 1st quarter. iA Global Asset Management Inc. now owns 1,741 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $304,000 after purchasing an additional 127 shares in the last quarter. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages have recently commented on SITE. Royal Bank of Canada cut their target price on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply from $133.00 to $132.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, August 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group initiated coverage on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $158.00 price objective on the stock. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply from $114.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 31st. Robert W. Baird increased their target price on SiteOne Landscape Supply from $168.00 to $183.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 16th. Finally, StockNews.com raised SiteOne Landscape Supply from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $147.80. SiteOne Landscape Supply Stock Up 3.9 % SITE opened at $148.77 on Friday. SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. has a one year low of $114.60 and a one year high of $188.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a current ratio of 2.53. The stock has a market capitalization of $6.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.15 and a beta of 1.53. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $145.80 and its 200-day simple moving average is $140.61. SiteOne Landscape Supply ( NYSE:SITE – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The industrial products company reported $0.97 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.18 by ($0.21). The firm had revenue of $1.21 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.19 billion. SiteOne Landscape Supply had a return on equity of 9.21% and a net margin of 3.16%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 5.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.25 EPS. Analysts anticipate that SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. will post 3.41 EPS for the current year. Insider Activity at SiteOne Landscape Supply In other SiteOne Landscape Supply news, EVP Joseph Ketter sold 6,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $142.20, for a total transaction of $924,300.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 12,942 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,840,352.40. This represents a 33.43 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website . 2.70% of the stock is owned by insiders. SiteOne Landscape Supply Profile ( Free Report ) SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale distribution of landscape supplies in the United States and Canada. 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College football got knocked off its axis this season, and no better example of the transformation exists than what happened when a group of individuals went into a room and picked the 12-team playoff field. They selected SMU over Alabama. The not-so-crazy part about slamming the door on Alabama’s storied brand and SEC’s limitless power? It was the correct decision. Year One of the expanded playoff created more drama and debate tentacles than anyone could have imagined. The final bracket offered some hits and other things that need to be re-evaluated. The current model is a gigantic leap forward ... but not without flaws. First, the good. A 12-team field works. More access to the playoff created more excitement in more college football markets. The drama stretched coast to coast, which hit the intended mark of producing more representation in the playoff. Clarity didn’t come until the final day. Clemson’s win in the ACC championship on a 56-yard field goal at the buzzer secured that league’s automatic bid, thus setting up a wild scenario in which the committee had two choices for the final at-large spot: two-loss SMU or three-loss Bama. Both teams had valid arguments. The committee ultimately got it right by picking SMU because even though Alabama played a tougher schedule, bad losses cannot be ignored and the Tide’s résumé includes two losses to teams that finished with a .500 record, including a 21-point loss to Oklahoma. SMU was more deserving, and the selection committee would have lost credibility since it had SMU ranked ahead of Alabama the week prior. Penalizing a team that loses in the conference championship game while another team sits at home idle sends the wrong message. The mechanism for seeding the bracket is more problematic. Playoff rules dictate that the four highest-ranked conference champions receive the top four seeds and a bye. Thus, Boise State received the No. 3 seed despite being No. 9 in the final rankings. Arizona State is No. 12 in the rankings but the No. 4 seed. This lacks common sense. The four best teams should get the top four seeds. The odd seeding system created a situation in which Oregon, the clear No. 1 and only undefeated team, was given what looks like the hardest draw of any of the top four seeds. That makes no sense either. The Ducks play the winner of Ohio State and Tennessee in the Rose Bowl in the quarterfinals. Oregon defeated Ohio State by one point in the regular season, and nobody should be shocked if the Buckeyes get hot and make a run since their kryptonite — Michigan — is not on the field. A conceivable scenario would require Oregon to defeat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, then Texas in the Cotton Bowl, to reach the championship game. That’s not exactly a reward for earning the No. 1 seed. Conversely, Penn State plays SMU at home in the first round and, with a win, would face Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. That Penn State’s path looks more favorable than Oregon’s exposes flaws in the formula that demand change. Keep guaranteed berths for the five conference championships but do away with automatic byes for conference winners. That ensures that winning a conference maintains its importance but avoids seeding teams higher than they deserve. Let the committee determine the top four seeds. Subjectivity will always be part of that process because there is an imbalance in competition from conference to conference, and not all schedules within individual conferences are mirror images, either. Indiana had a softer Big Ten schedule than Ohio State. That’s out of their control, of course, but it highlights the variance of factors in determining rankings and seeds. Different ideas are being offered in the wake of the bracket release. There already are calls for more expansion to 16 teams. That seems conceivable in the future, which would eliminate byes and go directly to 1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15, 3 vs. 14 and so forth. Another suggestion is to reseed teams after the first round, which has merit because that could avoid rematches of regular-season games. One of college football’s biggest hurdles has been its lack of parity at the top. The same three or four teams ruled the sport, making it easy to predict the national champion on September 1 every season with a high degree of certainty. Despite its flaws, the 12-team playoff looks wide open. That stands as progress.Rams looking at first, second downs to fix third-down issuesNumber of seats: 4 Seats filled: 0 6.30pm Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has topped the first count votes in Dublin Central but no candidate has yet been elected in the constituency as no one has yet reached the quota. Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch is currently in fourth place, after Paschal Donohoe and Gary Gannon. Things are not looking good for sitting Green TD Neasa Hourigan in the four seater, polling 1952 first preference votes. Full results: Mary Lou McDonald 6389 Paschal Donohoe FG 5493 Gary Gannon - Soc Dems - 4353 Gerard Hutch - Independent - 3098 Marie Sherlock Lab 2465 Mary Fitzpatrick FF 2344 Neasa Hourigan Green 1952 Malachy Steenson - Non party - 1602 Eoin O Ceannabhain PBP 1471 Clare Daly Indepdents for Change 1317 Janice Boylan SF 1257 Eliminated Ian Noel Smyth Aontu 715 Andrew Kelly Centre Party 298 The second count has now commenced, with the eliminated candidates' votes being redistributed according to preferences. 5.30pm Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party had delivered an “incredible performance” in the general election. She made clear she wanted to engage with other parties about the “possibilities of government”. Ms McDonald arrived at the count centre in the RDS in a very positive mood ahead of the first official Dublin counts. The first thing I want to say is to acknowledge every single person right across the state who came out to vote for Sinn Féin,” she told reporters in the RDS count centre in Dublin this evening. Mary Lou McDonald (right) and deputy Michelle O'Neill (centre) arrive at the RDS (Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire) “You have given us again a powerful and a strong mandate, and we understand the trust that you have placed in us to make life better for you, and we are determined to do just that. This has been really an incredible performance by all of our candidates, by Sinn Féin across the state. “Over a short number of weeks we have achieved a result that many people a few weeks ago would have thought impossible. So thank you. Thank you to every single person who voted for us. “I said in the course of the campaign that I believe another five years of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is bad news for our society, for our communities, for families who are struggling, for our housing crisis, which is deepening, and nobody should miss the record homeless numbers that we saw on election day itself. “We’re now at a really important decision point for Irish society and politics, and we need change. “We intend when the votes are counted and when we know the lie of the land, we will be talking to people about the possibilities of government. “I do not want to see another five years of the kind of chaos, the kind of disregard that we have seen under Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. I think that is a bad outcome for our society.” Speaking to Newstalk later, Ms MacDonald was asked if she had a message for Gerry “The Monk” Hutch: “Not particularly,” she said. "This is a democratic system; the people make the call. If he is a representative of the people to the Dáil he will have the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of us. “I look forward to and hope to be working with other colleagues on the left in the Dáil”, she added. 5.07pm Independent 4 Change candidate Clare Daly, who polled poorly in Dublin Central, said the fact that Gerry Hutch did well was an anti-establishment vote that could bring a needed focus on the area. “It’s incredibly interesting. It’s not a place I would have wanted to be obviously but I think we’ve seen the massive galvanising of that anti-establishment vote around the candidacy of Gerard Hutch,” she said. “I think all progressive Independents across Dublin probably suffered a little bit in favour of the parties as well, so it left me where I am.” “There’s huge goodwill out there and all the rest but I’m not going to get to see the benefit of all of the massive transfers that we got, but that’s life and I think it has put the world’s attention and the country’s attention on a constituency that has been so badly neglected, and for me that’s a really good thing.” “I hope that attention can be maintained and the people in this wonderful area can get the attention that they so badly deserve and haven’t got,” she added. Asked if she welcomes the fact that Hutch appears to have the level of support he has, Ms Daly said the fact that he is there in the constituency will focus attention on it. “The challenge will be to him to build on that. I do believe the constituency needs that. I don’t see him being a national parliamentarian or a legislator per se, which is part of the job, but if elected he could, if the will was there, really keep a focus on an area that has been left behind and is crying out,” she said. “There are so many people in that community trying their best. It is an incredibly diverse constituency with a lot of division within it.” “Let’s see what happens. Either way the constituency has spoken and by voting for Gerard Hutch in such numbers they’ve sent that signal anyway, and the political establishment should take note,” she added. 1.57pm Social Democrats candidate Gary Gannon has said he is humbled by the vote in Dublin Central. “I'm humbled and also determined to vindicate that over the course of the next five years. We've done a massive amount of work in Dublin Central. In terms of the work that we are doing on the ground, the strength of conviction we have bringing through issues in the Dail that was really starting to come back for us, and we were picking up a lot of momentum in Dublin Central. And I think today you'll see the results of that,” he said. Asked about the effect that Gerry Hutch had being on the ballot paper, Gannon said it was something that “none of us expected”. “He came in and he got a lot of media with this announcement, and that's going to be expected. But I think, for me, it's not just about what happens and who takes the fourth seat. I think it's a reflection of the fact that there's a lot of hurt, there's a huge amount of pain. I mean, that period of austerity in 2011 to 2016 destroyed the fabric of communities, and you're still seeing the tentacles of that now,” he added. “I appreciate what the headlines will be today and tomorrow, but I do encourage everybody to go beyond them and look deeper. Because when people are hurting to the extent that they are in, some of the communities that I represent the length and breadth of Ireland, and you're going to see outcries of that, and it'll manifest in different ways. And I think we're seeing one manifestation of that today,” he said. Asked if he thought the Hutch vote was a protest vote he said he didn’t think so. Soc Dems leader Holly Cairns gave birth to her first baby yesterday as the nation went to the polls, and Gary Gannon was delighted for her. “For me, I just want to say how in awe I am of Holly Cairns. She's not only our leader, she's my friend. She is somebody that has took the reins of this party two exceptional TDs in Catherine Murphy and Roisin Shortall, and she's really brought us on,” he explained. Regarding future plans and possible negotiations for government, he said the next step is to see exactly what's in the boxes. 1.30pm Independent candidate Malachy Steenson has said it looks like Mary Lou McDonald will take the first seat in Dublin Central, followed by Paschal Donohoe, and Gary Gannon for the Social Democrats will take the third seat. The battle for fourth seat could be between Gerry Hutch (Ind), Marie Sherlock (Lab) and Mary Fitzpatrick (FF) in his opinion. He thinks Sherlock may take it on likely transfers. The Monk is in the mix as Malachy Steenson gives his view on the tallies from Dublin Central “It’s a disappointing day for the Nationalist movement but it shows what acres of media coverage can do for a celebrity candidate,” he said in reference to Gerry Hutch’s entry. “The media have to look at the role they have played in this election in excluding people they didn’t agree with. Sadly, the people will pay the price,” he told the Irish Independent. 12pm With practically all the boxes tallied in Dublin Central the news of the day is how well convicted criminal Gerry Hutch has polled. From the outset he was doing well on tally sheets from his own inner city areas like North Strand, and there was an expectation among some of the tally crews that this would change as more boxes were opened. But his vote was strong across the city, and when it comes to the first count he looks destined to come fourth. Transfers in later counts will erode this, but the fact that he has featured so strongly has surprised many. Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald will top the poll on around 20pc it appears, followed by Fine Gael’s Paschal Donohoe on around 17pc. Gary Gannon of the Social Democrats is polling in third place at 13pc followed by Hutch on 9pc. The fact that Hutch entered the race in the first place will have hurt the ambitions of right wing candidate Malachy Steenson, and Independent 4 Change Clare Daly, who are in ar around the 5pc mark. The Green Party’s Neasa Hourigan’s ambitions to retain her seat appeare to have taken a bruising, with the tallies indicating 6pc of the vote. Transfers will play around with the placings a lot, but this constituency is one to watch today. Read more

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