![]() ![]() As our best multicompany accounting software, you can manage the books of an unlimited number of companies for a single subscription price. We recommend this program if you don’t want cloud-based software like QuickBooks Online. Again, QuickBooks Online is our top contender for these areas. The provider nearly aced the majority of our rubric criteria, but it fell short in terms of ease of use and tax management. This makes Zoho Books our best alternative to QuickBooks Online. It has features similar to QuickBooks Online-but at a more affordable price. However, that’s not the only thing Zoho Books can offer as it’s also remarkable in other aspects, such as inventory and project accounting. We believe that conducting business with clients on the go is easier when you have a powerful mobile app. You can also create recurring invoices and track time worked, making Zoho Books our pick for the overall best accounting software for freelancers. It tops our list of the leading mobile accounting apps because users can perform advanced accounting tasks on the app, including sending invoices, accepting online payments, entering bills, and viewing reports. Zoho Books stands out from the other accounting software with its powerful mobile app. This makes it suitable for startups and small business owners with no accounting background.
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![]() ![]() Transferring files from a computer to a microSD card A great app for doing this is Files by Google, which you can download from the Google Play Store. Step 3: If you have an older Android device that doesn’t have a file manager, you can still use third-party apps to juggle your files. You’ll then be taken to Android’s file manager, which will allow you to view and move files between your phone and the SD card. Alternatively, head to Settings > Storage & USB, and then tap the name of the SD card. Step 2: A new notification will pop up, and if you want to check out what files you have on the SD card, hit the Explore button. You’ll be presented with two options - to use the card as portable storage or as internal storage. You’ll then want to tap on the Set Up button on that notification. A notification will pop up indicating that a USB drive was detected. ![]() Step 1: Insert the microSD card into your phone. However, if you have a phone that allows your card to be used as portable or internal storage, you’ll have to set your card up as portable storage. Your phone will detect it and automatically set it up as portable storage. For most phones, it’ll be as simple as inserting the microSD card. Installing a microSD card as portable storage is easy. If, however, you want extra storage on your phone but don’t want to have to deal with file management, then internal storage will give your device a bit of a storage bump that the phone will manage itself. So which one should you choose, if you have the option? Well, if you’re fine with moving your files around yourself and want the option of taking the card out down the line, you should go for portable storage. When you use a microSD card as internal storage, the phone formats the card in a way that only it can understand - in other words, you can’t simply take the card out and put a new one in, because your phone won’t work quite right if you do. But on the flip side, this means there will be trouble if you take the card out. So what’s the advantage of using it as internal storage, if you have the option? Well, it means your phone has more storage to play with, and it can use it to save apps, data, and even things like background processes. ![]() You can still put documents, music, and other files on there, and it makes it a lot easier to transfer to, since all you need to do is take out the microSD card (after properly unmounting it from your phone, like a responsible person) and insert it into your laptop or desktop computer. This means you’re probably going to be forced to use your microSD card as portable storage - which isn’t much of an issue, if we’re being honest. Unfortunately, support for setting a microSD card as internal storage has waned strongly, and it’s fairly rare to find it on a smartphone these days. It used to be that you could choose between setting your microSD card as internal storage (which means your phone treats it like its native storage), or portable storage (which means it’s more like a USB stick in a computer). Websites like GSMArena may also be able to help. Your best way of knowing for sure is to check any documentation you may have received with your phone, or your device’s manufacturer’s website. However, some phones do still come with microSD card slots. What is RCS messaging? Everything you need to know about the SMS successor Best microSD cards in 2023: top picks for your computer, camera, or droneĭoes the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 have an SD card slot? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2.101 (Oct 1995), consisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. The Software is a "commercial item," as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. In addition to Canon enforcing any of its legal rights, you shall then promptly delete the Software.ħ. This Agreement will also terminate if you fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement. You may terminate this Agreement by deleting the Software. This Agreement is effective upon accepting these terms and conditions. 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MAKES NO GUARANTEES OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO ANY PROGRAMS, FILES, DRIVERS OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINED ON OR DOWNLOADED FROM THIS, OR ANY OTHER, CANON SOFTWARE SITE. ![]() ![]() How is it beneficial: This exercise is best in helping strengthen your hips and glutes, which provide much of your power in swimming. If a swimmer builds strong shoulder stability they can lower their chances of developing shoulder issues later on in their swimming career such as tendonitis. Shoulder stability is important to many swimmers with the excessive amount of stress swimmers put on their shoulders swimming lap after lap. How is it beneficial: This exercise helps to promote shoulder stability without placing excessive pressure directly onto the joint. ![]() Claude Lawson, 27th Special Operations Force Support Squadron Here are five key exercises along with their benefits that coaches can incorporate into weight room programs for great results. I think our strength training program was very beneficial for our performance.” Exercises “By the end of the season, I was swimming times I had never swum before. Former DePauw swimmer Allison Tallen noticed a huge change in her performance throughout her freshman year as she was introduced to weights: “I found myself feeling stronger and faster in the water – something I hadn’t ever felt during club season.” She noticed the changes in her body and experienced significant drops in her times. ![]() Many college swimmers enjoy the results from the weight room both in physique and performance improvements. Masters Swimming, writing that it “helps swimmers prevent injury and increases their speed by getting stronger.” Chris Ritter, the founder of RITTER Sports Performance online training programs and author of the e-book SURGE STRENGTH, defends weight training in an article on U.S. Many college swimming programs rely on weight training to help build strength and power to increase their athletes’ performance. ![]() ![]() Should you need support for the app, you should contact the app Partner via the "Get Support" button on the support tab of the app listing details page. If the Atlassian Marketplace Partner has decided to provide customer support and maintenance for the app, the listing will show that the app is "Supported". We make this information available on every listing in the Atlassian Marketplace. Atlassian Marketplace Partners are able to decide if they would like to provide support and maintenance for every app listing. You can also ask a question in the Atlassian Community. See if the developer provides a License Agreement.Review screenshots and videos from the Overview tab.See if compatibility is kept up-to-date from the Versions tab.Check that an app is listed as supported and has a service desk.From the Support tab, look for the availability of a public issue tracker or support resources.Review partner-provided data handling and privacy details on the Privacy & Security tabĬheck that an app is listed as supported and has a service desk. Review the Partner's Privacy Policy provided on the app listing. Review partner-provided privacy details on the Privacy & Security tab Look for the Cloud Fortified badge, which indicates that an app has made additional investments in security (including participation in the Marketplace Bug Bounty Program), reliability and support This represents an app that is currently participating in the Marketplace Bug Bounty Program. Look for the Cloud Security Participant badge. ![]() ![]() Some of these include:Īll Marketplace apps are subject to Atlassian’s Cloud App Security RequirementsĪll cloud apps are scanned daily by Atlassian’s Ecoscanner platformĪll Marketplace Partners are required to abide by Atlassian’s Security Bug Fix Policy There are multiple factors to consider when evaluating third-party apps. Please take care to evaluate apps against your company’s privacy, security and compliance requirements, as installing a Marketplace app requires a separate relationship with the Marketplace Partner, separate from Atlassian (see our Cloud Terms of Service). Because Marketplace apps are offered by third-party Marketplace Partners, install an app only if you trust the app and the Marketplace Partner. The Marketplace gives you visibility on apps participating in the different security programs, and displays partner-provided information about how apps handle data on the Privacy & Security tab. ![]() ![]() It seems odd that someone chose to limit the available Avery templates in Word for Mac. ![]() All the label products that show have a page size of standard U.S. Then I search the entire list for any product that fits the description: Height: 3″, Width: 4″ Page size: 4″ X 6″. ![]() The package says I should use “Avery Template 5453,” but that number does not appear, either. That product ID does not appear in the spin box. I click Tools > Labels > Options and search for the Avery product I want to use, i.e., Avery 5286. In Word 2011 for the Mac, I can find neither. In Word 2013 on my Win7 PC, I can find both 52. Here’s what I find curious: Word 2013 on my Windows 7 PC offers many more Avery templates than does its Mac equivalent. I understand your point about the various templates for what is essentially the same label. I’m still curious about that I-bar-what does Microsoft call it and what is its purpose? On the other hand, I suppose I could use those shapes for my intent, i.e., as placeholders for my two address blocks. With the shapes out of the way, I can change the alignment of text in the cells. ![]() It seems all I need do is remove those two shapes from the template, then proceed as you suggested. Till now, I’d thought those shapes were the borders for the cells. I also turned on cell gridlines and changed the text alignment to top left. I’ve attached another screen shot that shows the two shapes resized and rotated. I was clicking by that I-bar whatchamaycallit and trying to align it top left, with no success. Now I remember that cells don’t have sizing handles. I had noticed the sizing handles that appeared when I clicked in one or the other of the two cells. What I’d failed to see–and what had so vexed me from the start–was that Avery had overlaid those two cells with two shapes of exactly the same proportions. After I read your post, I looked at the Avery template from another angle. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.Thank you, Andrew! You gave me some valuable clues. The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. This contact information may change without notice. ![]() provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. Method 3: If you did not install the latest version of Avery WizardĪvery Wizard 3.0 Software for Microsoft Office is designed to work with the following versions of Word:įor information about Avery software, visit the following Avery Web site: NOTE: The Avery Wizard is a supplemental, third-party add-in and is not required for printing envelopes or labels in Microsoft Word. If you upgraded from Microsoft Word 2000 to Microsoft Word 2002 before you installed the Avery Wizard, you must revert to the earlier version of Microsoft Word or Office, install the Avery Wizard, and then perform the Word or Office upgrade again before you can use the wizard. Method 2: If you upgraded to Word 2002 before you installed Avery Wizard To do this, copy and paste the A20MSW00.dot file from the following locationĬ:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\StartupĬ:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup If you installed the Avery Wizard for Microsoft Word 2000 before you upgraded to Word 2002, you can continue to use the wizard with Microsoft Word 2002. Method 1: If you installed Avery Wizard before you upgraded to Word 2002 To work around this problem, use one of the following methods. Therefore, the wizard's setup program searches for the earlier-version program files and registry keys before the setup program installs the wizard. This issue occurs because Word program files and registry keys use "versioning" to improve coexistence with earlier installations.Īvery designed the Avery Wizard for Microsoft Word 2000 before the release of Microsoft Word 2002. Setup could not locate Microsoft Word 2000 ![]() ![]() ![]() Fill the glasses with ice, pour the tequila jalapeño mix evenly between the two glasses.(You could also use sugar if you want a sweeter margarita or to help balance out the spice.) Rim the glass generously with a lime wedge and then dip the glass into the salt, twisting the glass to coat the rim generously with salt. Pour the sea salt on a bottom of a small plate.Add tequila and agave and stir to combine.In a pitcher, muddle the seeded jalapeño slices.1/2 large green jalapeño pepper, seeded and thinly sliced. ![]() 4 oz of silver tequila ( or 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp).Here is how to mix the simple ingredients for a delicious fresh lime spicy margarita. Spicy Paloma Cocktail: Grapefruit & Tequila Recipe How to Make the Best Skinny Jalapeño Margarita Recipe If you’re thinking of making these skinny margaritas often I would recommend buying a citrus juicer. Using fresh limes for a cocktail recipe is truly the hidden secret of making your margarita recipe taste superior. I love making a margarita this way because I feel like I am making a cocktail out of fresh and natural ingredients, not to mention it legit tastes better than the skinny margarita mix you can buy. Ready to experiment even more? Learn how to make margaritas three different ways.Fresh Lime Juice for Your Skinny Margarita The herbs also go well with fruit additions. Try fresh herbs, such as basil or cilantro, shaken with the ingredients.Muddle fresh fruit, such as blackberries or strawberries, at the bottom of the glass for a fruit-flavored margarita.Shake ingredients with a couple slices of jalapeño to add a spicy kick.Shake up your cocktail game with these fun margarita upgrades: In the mood for a frozen skinny margarita instead? Blend all the ingredients with 1/2 cup of the frozen fruit of your choice and a few ice cubes. Try starting with a few drops and adjust to taste. Just remember that it will not be a 1-to-1 substitution because artificial sweeteners are much sweeter. You can also substitute the agave nectar with liquid stevia. Skinny Margarita Variations Make it even healthierįor a skinnier version of the same recipe, swap the triple sec and orange juice for 1/4 teaspoon of orange extract instead. You could also prepare your skinny margaritas ahead of time and store in a pitcher in the fridge. To spread out the prep time, juice an hour or two before you plan to serve and keep the juice in the fridge until you need it. There is nothing better than freshly squeezed juice, but that can be a pain if you’re making a big batch of margaritas.If you don’t have any salt on hand-or you feel like trying something new-try lining the rim with sugar or Tajin seasoning, or even a little ground chile powder for a kick!.You can also microwave them for about 10 seconds to get the most juice. This helps get the most juice out of them. When juicing limes or oranges, roll them on the counter while firmly pressing down.Strain margarita into the prepared glasses. Top off the shaker with ice, then close the lid and shake vigorously. Here are a few pointers he swears by to upgrade your skinny sipper: In a cocktail shaker or jar with a tightly fitting lid, add the lime juice, grapefruit juice, tequila, and triple sec. We asked one of our Test Kitchen’s cocktail aficionados, James Schend, to weigh in on how to make the best margarita. Garnish with a lime slice and enjoy! Tips for Making a Skinny Margarita Shake well and strain into the prepared margarita glass. Step 2: Shake and pourĬombine margarita ingredients in a cocktail shaker with a few cubes of ice. If you prefer a salt-rimmed glass, use a wedge of lime to moisten the rim of the glass, then dip into a plate filled with coarse salt. Instructions Step 1: Coat the rim with salt 2 teaspoons agave nectar or simple syrup.1/2 ounce fresh orange juice (about 1/2 orange).1 ounce fresh lime juice (about 1 lime).Whoa! This light libation also has around 17 grams of carbs-which is less than half of the amount in the classic house margarita. This version is only 130 to 180 calories, depending on if you add any sweetener. Melissa points out that the typical 8-ounce restaurant margarita has about 450 calories when it’s served on the rocks. Melissa’s skinny margarita recipe is considered “skinny” because it’s lower in calories, sugars and carbs than traditional margarita recipes. The trick to both? Skip the sugary mixers and focus on fresh, all-natural ingredients. You can make a skinny cocktail that tastes just as good as the original!īlogger Melissa Erdelac of MamaGourmand shares a skinny margarita recipe that’s served on the rocks, but we’ll show you how to turn it into a frozen margarita, too. The classic cocktail is packed with alcohol, sugar and, often, extra-large serving sizes-especially if you’re ordering one alongside some fantastic Mexican food.īut don’t fret. Even though they taste so good, margaritas have a reputation of being not so good for you. ![]() ![]() The crooks tell victims that they will receive a check representing an upfront payment for the job. In the first phase of the scam, victims are told to provide their name, address, phone numbers and age. ![]() They’re also told that they can participate even if they don’t have a car, with their bike. If users reply, they’re provided with additional information on what they must do. Reply if interested,” the emails, apparently signed by a Rockstar Energy Drink hiring manager, read. “Would You Wrap Your Car in an Ad for $300 Weekly? If you have got a car, truck or a bike you are qualified. It all starts with a simple email entitled “Job opening: Rockstar Energy Drink.” Now, similar scam emails are making the rounds, leveraging the reputation of Rockstar Energy Drink. This spam text was just one of many spam texts I get regularly, all of them get blocked by Dont Text automatically.ĭownload Dont Text today and block annoying spam texts like this one.Many of our readers have reported receiving emails promoting a car wrap advertisement scheme that uses the name of Monster Energy Drink. I have Dont Text with Worry Free Filtering installed on my iPhone and it blocked this obvious spam text. Download Dont Text to Block Spam Texts #Īt the very bottom of the message screen shot you can see “Filtered by Dont Text”. Something about finding a spam text this bad in the wild gave me a good laugh. I don’t think I could have created a better mock example of a spam text to share for educational purposes. This text contains just about all the signs of a spam text. When I first saw this text, I audibly laughed when I got to the end only to see that this webpage was hosted on Wix.com. Seeing a Wix domain in a link is always a huge red flag.Ī lot of phishing and spam websites get hosted on Wix, but the attackers could have at least made the effort to mask the URL with a URL shortener. No legitimate company, or at least one as big and recognizable as Rockstar would host their website with a Wix domain. This was just the icing on the cake for me. I read through this paragraph sized text message for this “elaborate” scheme, only to find that the website is hosted on Wix. The ending of this text was probably my favorite part. I mean come on, these spammers need to give it a little effort for it to be believable. If I’m being honest I’d name my first-born son, Carnitas, for a free Chipotle burrito. If this was real, my car would look like a NASCAR I would fit so many Rockstar decals on it. Or maybe an enter-to-win survey for a drawing for a lifetime supply of Rockstar energy drinks.īut the best thing they came up with was $500 per week for putting a sticker on your car? Thats $26,000 a year. You could have offered me free Rockstar Energy t-shirts and I probably would have clicked the link. Seriously, the best thing the scammer could come up with was to put a sticker on your car? I could sit here and think of better scams just while writing this post. ![]() They are going to pay me $500 TO PUT A STICKER ON MY CAR? How big is Rockstar’s marketing budget!? This can’t sound logical to anyone else, can it? Your company’s marketing plan is to pay people to put stickers on their car? That was the best your marketing gurus could come up with? I’m being paid … to put a sticker … on my car …? In this case, the request just seems bonkers to me. The first thing was the sheer outrageousness of the scam. Maybe I spend too much time reading and analyzing spam text messages but there were a few things about this one that gave me a good laugh. ![]() I did a little research and found that this is an older scam known as Car Wrap Scamsĭownload Dont Text on the App Store to block spam texts like this oneĪbove is the spam texts I received, sounds ridiculous right? It was painfully obvious that this was a fake message. A while ago, I got a spam text claiming to be from ROCKSTAR Energy. ![]() ![]() In a news release, police said officers were called to a house party near Victoria Road South and York Road. Guelph police say a woman has been charged with providing alcohol to minors during her daughter's 14th birthday party Friday night. Parent charged after teens found 'very intoxicated' at birthday party Another vehicle can be seen in the grass to the right of the highway. There are no details on injuries at this time but photos submitted to CTV news show a badly damaged vehicle in the grass median of the highway. OPP say the closure stretched from exit 55 (County Road 52 & Trinity Road) to exit 41 (Brant County Road 18 & Garden Avenue). Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) tweeted about the crash shortly before noon on Saturday. All lanes reopen on Highway 403 near Brantford following collisionĪll lanes have reopened in both directions following a crash that closed a section of Highway 403 east of Brantford. Monday.Īccording to police, officers believe all suspects involved in the robberies are in custody. The arrests were made at three different parking lots in Waterloo around 11:15 a.m. “The vehicles were taken to our headquarters where they will be searched,” said Jason Boutcher, an inspector with the Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS).Īccording to police, a pharmacy near Belmont Avenue West and Claremont Avenue in Kitchener was robbed, followed by financial institution on Erb Street West in Waterloo around 8:45 a.m., and then another robbery less than an hour later, at a pharmacy on Stanley Street in Ayr. Waterloo regional police say six males have been arrested after three Waterloo region businesses were robbed Sunday night and Monday morning.ĭuring a media briefing Monday afternoon, police said two stolen vehicles were seized as well as a replica firearm. 'Heard these 2 loud explosions': Witnesses describe dramatic takedown after 6 people arrested following Waterloo region robberies The report shows Ontario’s $15.50 minimum wage falls well below the actual wage of $27.54 needed to rent a one-bedroom apartment and the calculated $33.19 wage needed to rent a two-bedroom apartment. The estimated rental wage would allow tenants to spend no more than 30 per cent of their pre-tax earnings on rent, and it assumes tenants work a standard 40-hour week for all 52 weeks of the year. Even in the three provinces with the highest minimum wage in Canada-B.C., Ontario, and Alberta-there’s a shortfall in what minimum-wage workers earn and the rent they have to pay, on average,” the report reads. “The rental wage is considerably higher than minimum wage in every single province. Released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the report calculated a “rental wage,” which is the hourly wage required to rent an apartment and still fall within the affordable living calculated by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) as less than 30 per cent of before-tax household income. ![]() Here’s how much you need to make to reasonably afford an apartment in southwestern Ontario citiesĪ new report outlining the cost of renting in cities across Canada is painting a bleak outlook for those who want to spend less than 30 per cent of their gross income on housing. Then in the days or weeks that followed, the accused would use the information from the contracts to take out liens against the victims’ homes for amounts ranging from $40,000 and $70,000, police said. Using high-pressure tactics, the accused allegedly convinced the victims to sign contracts.Ĭontractors working with the accused would then complete quick and often poor-quality renovations at the victims’ homes, police said. ![]() Homeowners were told they could only receive the money through home renovations. In the first case, police said the accused told homeowners they were entitled to money through a lawsuit against HVAC companies involving products they’d previously purchased, like air conditioners, furnaces, HEPA filters and water filtration systems. Police released information about both of them on Thursday. Waterloo regional police have made arrests in two separate fraud investigations with losses totalling a combined $1.7 million.īoth schemes targeted homeowners in Waterloo Region and other areas of Ontario. Multiple people arrested for scams targeting Waterloo Region homeowners ![]() ![]() ĭustin Hoffman won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as an autistic savant in Barry Levinson’s 1988 Rain Man. even if we’ve been paying good money for 27 years to disavow ourselves of that knowledge. To that end, Cruise continues to kill it, so to speak, and his advancing age only makes Ethan Hunt seem more mortal. Seven films in, he continues to be a real-life action figure and his performance in Dead Reckoning Part One is less one of character-crafting than physical endurance and a willingness to possibly die on camera. All we really need to see is Cruise running, jumping, and fighting and we’re happy. There’s only a handful of actors we’re willing to spend that much time with while knowing next to nothing about who they’re playing, their history, their desires, and their personal wants and needs. The Mission: Impossible series has one thing in common with the James Bond franchise pre-Daniel Craig: despite spending decades watching the character’s exploits, the amount of things we know about them personally can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. For maybe the last time, Hunt felt like a genuine underdog. When the inevitable big stunt comes-Cruise scaling the Burj Khalifa, on the outside-it’s telling that, as enthusiastic as Cruise himself may have been to do the stunt, Ethan Hunt’s in-character reluctance (and frustration that the circumstances keep getting worse) is palpable. The feature live-action directorial debut of beloved animation auteur Brad Bird, Ghost Protocol was the first in the M:I series to really feel like a “team saving the world” movie rather than a mostly personal revenge narrative-with Bond-level nuclear war stakes. Ghost Protocol was the installment in which the transition occurred, and remains the best fusion of both approaches. In the beginning, however, it was an extension of Cruise’s desire to work with visionary directors, from Brian De Palma to John Woo, and allow them to put their own distinctive spins (or doves) on the material. Nowadays, the Mission: Impossible series is best known as the franchise in which Tom Cruise risks his life trying some crazy stunt for the sake of an Imax screen. Whatever its merits (or demerits) the film did one thing right: it introduced Cruise to writer Christopher McQuarrie who would go on to direct Cruise in 2012’s Jack Reacher and then shepherd the M:I series starting with 2015’s Rogue Nation. ![]() However, the film is a meticulously plotted retelling of a fascinating chapter in the history of World War II. ![]() Cruise, attempting a measured twist on his all-American persona by playing a Nazi who nevertheless wants to kill Hitler, doesn’t always look comfortable in his eyepatch and questionable German accent. Cruise plays real-life German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who led an assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler in 1944. The worst of the four was 2007’s boring PoliSci lecture Lions For Lambs and if you remove the failed franchise starter Knight And Day, and his glorified cameo in the hilarious Tropic Thunder, you’re really left with 2008’s Valkyrie as the best of the bunch. Cruise released four movies between Mission: Impossible 3 and Ghost Protocol and they show his career listing a bit while he attempts escape velocity on the rocket ship of M:I sequels. ![]() |
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