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The River Leven is a stretch of water in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, flowing from Loch Lomond in the North to the River Clyde in the South. Quoted from Wikipedia.
Der Herzogstand spiegelt sich mit der Sonne im Kochelsee
Part of the Frankfurt skyline as seen from the Palmengarten.
From wiki: The guans are a number of bird genera which make up the largest group in the family Cracidae (with the chachalaca and curassow) . They are found mainly in northern South America, southern Central America, and a few adjacent Caribbean islands. There is also the peculiar horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus) which is not a true guan, but a very distinct and ancient cracid with no close living relatives
Shots from a photo tour led by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours www.neotropicphototours.com.
Stokesay Castle on 27 May 2024, taken from a train passing at around 60 mph. Two separate photos taken less than one second apart.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEG_%E2%80%93_Adler_und_Pfeil :
Der Adler war die erste Lokomotive, die kommerziell erfolgreich im Personenverkehr und später auch im Güterverkehr in Deutschland fuhr. Er und seine Schwestermaschine Pfeil wurden als Dampfwagen geführt. Das Eisenbahnfahrzeug wurde 1835 von der 1823 gegründeten Firma Robert Stephenson and Company im englischen Newcastle konstruiert und gebaut und an die Königlich privilegierte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Nürnberg (LEG) für den Betrieb auf ihrer Strecke zwischen Nürnberg und Fürth geliefert. Die offizielle Eröffnungsfahrt der Bahn fand, nach mehrmaliger Terminverschiebung (als erster Termin war der Geburtstag Ludwigs I. am 25. August geplant, ein weiterer am 24. November), schließlich am 7. Dezember 1835 statt. Der reguläre Betrieb wurde am 8. Dezember 1835 aufgenommen.[5] Der Adler war eine Dampflokomotive der Bauart Patentee mit der Achsfolge 1A1 (Whyte-Notation: 2-2-2) und war mit einem Schlepptender der Bauart 2 T 2 ausgestattet. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_(locomotive) :
The Adler (German for "Eagle") was the first locomotive that was successfully used commercially for the rail transport of passengers and goods in Germany. The railway vehicle was designed and built in 1835 by the British railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson in the English city of Newcastle. It was delivered to the Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigsbahn) for service between Nuremberg and Fürth. It ran officially for the first time there on 7 December 1835. The Adler was a steam locomotive of the Patentee type with a wheel arrangement of 2-2-2 (Whyte notation) or 1A1 (UIC classification). The Adler was equipped with a tender of type 2 T 2. It had a sister locomotive, the Pfeil. ...
A hard-working Malaysian Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica) feeding its chicks in Pasir Ris Park Mangrove Forest.
Explore with me in my blog: A Return To Pasir Ris Park and Mangrove Forest
*Note: More pics of Birds in my Wild Avian Friends Album.
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea, formerly placed in the genus Nycticorax), also called the American Night Heron or Squawk, is a fairly small heron. It is found throughout a large part of the Americas, especially (but not exclusively) in warmer coastal regions; an example occurrence is the Petenes mangroves of the Yucatan.
A related heron, the Bermuda night heron, was endemic to Bermuda, but became extinct following human colonisation.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-crowned_night_heron
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonja_de_los_Paños_(Cracovia)
La lonja de los Paños o Sukiennice es un edificio renacentista del centro de Cracovia, Polonia, uno de los iconos más reconocibles de la ciudad. Da forma a la zona central de la plaza del Mercado (en polaco, Rynek Główny) en el casco antiguo de Cracovia (que es Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO desde 1978).
Antiguamente fue un centro importante de comercio internacional de la antigua capital polaca. Los viajeros comerciantes se reunían allí para hablar de negocios y practicar el trueque. Durante su época dorada en el siglo XV, el Sukiennice fue fuente de una variedad de importaciones exóticas de Oriente, destacando especias, seda, cuero y cera, mientras que Cracovia exportaba materiales textiles, plomo y la sal de las minas de Wieliczka.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraków_Cloth_Hall
The Kraków Cloth Hall (Polish: Sukiennice, pronounced [sukʲɛˈɲit͡sɛ]) in Lesser Poland, dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Kraków Old Town (listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978).
It was once a major centre of international trade. Traveling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter. During its golden age in the 15th century, the hall was the source of a variety of exotic imports from the east – spices, silk, leather and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_Hospital_(Hong_Kong):
The Queen Mary Hospital is the largest district general hospital located in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. It is part of the teaching hospital of the Faculty of Dentistry and Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. It has 1,706 beds. It provides general medical and surgical services to the residents of Western and Southern districts and is a tertiary referral centre for the whole territory of Hong Kong and beyond.
Queen Mary Hospital had its foundation stone laid on 10 May 1935 by the governor of Hong Kong, William Peel, and was officially opened on 13 April 1937 by Andrew Caldecott, the then governor of Hong Kong. The hospital was named for Mary of Teck, the widowed queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom. It then replaced the Government Civil Hospital as the main accident and emergency hospital for Hong Kong Island. The hospital was greatly expanded over the years, with two major expansion projects completed in 1955 and 1983, the second being designed by London-based hospital architects, Llewelyn Davies.
Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is one of the tallest hospital buildings in Asia at 137 metres (449 ft) (28 storeys).
The Main Block (Wing A to E) is listed as a Grade III historic building. The Nurses Quarters is listed as a Grade II historic building.
As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_Mountain_(Alberta)
Sulphur Mountain (Nakoda: Mînî Rhuwîn) is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area. Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.
Two hot springs have been commercially developed. The lowest is the Cave and Basin National Historic Site and the highest is the Banff Upper Hot Springs.
A gondola on the eastern slope goes to the summit ridge which has an upper terminal containing three restaurants, a gift shop, and multiple observation decks. The summit ridge provides views both westward up and east down the Bow Valley. A boardwalk can be followed on the north side to the top of Sanson's Peak (2,256 m or 7,402 ft).
The original, and more scenic, summit access is along an old fire road (Sanson Road) on the Southwest face of the mountain with a distance of 5.8 km from the Banff Sundance Canyon trail system near the Bow River. Another 5.4 km switchback trail route exists under the gondola with trailhead access from the Banff Hot Springs parking lot near the gondola terminal.
The mountain has been the site of two research facilities. In 1903, a meteorological observatory building was completed atop Sanson Peak. This building still exists and visitors can look through a window to see its interior complete with rustic furnishings. In the winter of 1956-57, the National Research Council built a small laboratory on Sanson's Peak in order to study cosmic rays as part of Canada's contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station remained in operation until 1978 and the building was removed in 1981. A plaque now marks the site's location.
The hot springs at the base of Sulphur Mountain are home to the endangered Banff Springs snail and the now-extinct Banff longnose dace.
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Freystadt (Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany)
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The South Fork Peachtree Creek flows from Candler Lake over a spillway.
Atlanta (Emory University), Georgia, USA.
26 August 2025.
▶ Another view: here.
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Lefka Ori
Lefka Ori (Greek: Λευκά Όρη, meaning "White Mountains") or Madares (Μαδάρες from the Cretan Greek μαδαρός meaning "without coverage, bald, bare of any vegetation for high mountain areas") is a mountain range located in Western Crete, in the Chania prefecture. The White Mountains or Lefka Ori occupy a large part of the centre of West Crete and are the main feature of the region. They consist mainly of limestone, from light grey to bluish or black color. The "White Mountains" have got their name from the perpetual white or off white color of their peaks as the off white of limestone during the summer and fall interchanges with the snow that covers the peaks until late in spring.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haslingden_Grane
Haslingden Grane is a glaciated valley lying to the west of Haslingden and in the north east of the West Pennine Moors. It is easily accessible via the B6232 Grane Road which links to the M65 motorway and the A56. It contains three reservoirs: (west to east) Calf Hey Reservoir, Ogden Reservoir and Holden Wood Reservoir.
Prior to the construction of the reservoirs in the 19th century the settlement of Haslingden Grane had a population of 1,300 and was the centre of an illegal whisky distilling industry. The remains of some buildings can still be seen. Much quarrying has taken place in the past and continues at Jamestone Quarry.
The valley is overlooked to the north by Oswaldtwistle Moor and to the south by Musbury Heights. The attractive moorland scenery makes it a popular place for walking especially through the well known Fairy Glen beauty spot, there is an information centre, parking and cafe at Clough Head.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tung_Street:
Lee Tung Street (利東街), known as the Wedding Card Street (喜帖街; 囍帖街) by locals, is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a centre for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items.
As part of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project, all interests of Lee Tung Street were resumed by and reverted to the Government of Hong Kong since 1 November 2005, and subsequently demolished in December 2007. The demolition was seen by many as causing irreparable harm to the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.
The site was redeveloped as a luxury shopping and housing development. As with all other URA projects, no original tenants have been resettled on site.
After the development, only small part of next to QRE Plaza is official there. The rest of street, rebuilt and rebranded as Lee Tung Avenue, is a pedestrian street open for public in the high-rise housing estate The Avenue.
The street was known for its printing industry, and Wan Chai was a longtime host of the headquarters of the Hong Kong Times, Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. In the 1950s, print shops began to gather in Lee Tung Street between Johnston Road and Queen's Road East. Rumours had it that the government of Hong Kong mandated this in order to easily monitor illegal publication.
The poet and translator Dai Wangshu also established a short-lived bookstore in Lee Tung Street in the early 1950s.
In the 1970s, the print shops also began producing wedding invitations, lai see, fai chun, and other items, for which they became famous in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people visited the shops there to order their wedding cards, name cards, and traditional Chinese calendars.
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The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African member of the roller family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, preferring open woodland and savanna; it is largely absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches conspicuously at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, small birds and rodents moving about at ground level.
Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs is laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to great heights, descending in swoops and dives, while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes are alike in coloration. Juveniles do not have the long tail feathers that adults do.
This species is unofficially considered the national bird of Kenya.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_the_World_Cathedral:
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral or in full Mary, Queen of the World and St. James the Great Cathedral is a minor basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal. It is the third largest church in Quebec after Saint Joseph's Oratory (also in Montreal) and the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré east of Quebec City. The building is 101 m (333 ft) in length, 46 m (150 ft) in width, and a maximum height of 77 m (252 ft) at the cupola, the diameter of which is 23 m (75 ft).
The church is located at 1085 Cathedral Street at the corner of René Lévesque Boulevard and Metcalfe Street, near the Bonaventure metro station and Central Station in downtown Montreal. It and the connected Archdiocese main buildings form the eastern side of Place du Canada, and occupies a dominant presence on Dorchester Square.
"And smale foweles maken melodye"
A ruby-crowned kinglet (usually found in northern North America) was far south for the winter.
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
26 February 2025.
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▶ Rejection:
On 22 March 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." Denying the kinglet its migratory presence in the state is gaslighting nonsense.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
☞ Thank you to Flickr-er Bárbol who confirmed my guess that this handsome fellow was indeed a ruby-crowned kinglet.
☞ However, there appears to be some dispute about its taxonomy. Whereas Bárbol — and my 2008 edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America— classifies the species as Regulus calendula, the American Ornithological Society has reclassified it as Corthylio calendula... as of 2021.
☞ The quotation (at the top of the caption) is a line from the Prologue to 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Translated from Middle English to modern English, it reads: "And many little birds make melody."
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Another shot from Nxai Pan, Botswana.
Taken just before sunset, September 2018.
"Nxai Pan National Park is a national park in north-eastern Botswana, consisting of Nxai Pan, which is one of the Makgadikgadi Pan salt flats. Nxai Pan National Park lies just north of the Maun-Nata main road and adjoins Makgadikgadi Pans National Park on its northern border. The pan itself is a fossil lake bed about 40 square km in size."
Das Dorf Behrungen in Thüringen im Landkreis Meinigen, direkt an der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze gelegen, ist ein wahres Fachwerkwunder. Das große horizontale Gebäude, zuletzt als Schule genutzt, ist die historische Amtshaus der ehemaligen Kellerei Behrungen.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%27s_Rockies
Alberta's Rockies comprise the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. On the southwestern part of the province along the British Columbia border, the region covers all but the south of Census Division 15.
The main industry in this region is tourism.
This human region is almost identical to the Alberta Mountain forests ecozone. The region contains the Central Front Ranges and the Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and includes the Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, as well as the Kananaskis Country park system and the Willmore Wilderness.
The main transportation corridors run through the Kicking Horse Pass and the Yellowhead Pass from east to west, while the Bow Valley and Athabasca River valley are followed by the longitudinal Icefields Parkway. Another important waterway that crosses this region is the North Saskatchewan River.
Some of the best ski resorts of the Rockies are in this region, and are important tourist destinations. They include Fortress Mountain Resort, Lake Louise, Marmot Basin, Mount Norquay, Nakiska and Sunshine Village. Other tourist attractions include the glaciers of the Columbia, Wapta and Waputik Icefields such as the Athabasca, Bow, Crowfoot, Hector, Peyto, Saskatchewan and Vulture Glaciers.
Glacial lakes line the Icefields Parkway and dot the surrounding valleys. Some of the more spectacular are Bow, Hector, Louise, Maligne, Moraine, Peyto, Pyramid and Vermilion lakes.
Banff and Jasper are the main communities in the region. The length is defined by the Icefields Parkway, and it is crossed by the Trans-Canada Highway and the Yellowhead Highway into British Columbia. David Thompson Highway leads from the Rockies into central Alberta from Saskatchewan River Crossing, and Banff Windermere Parkway leads from Castle Junction (south of Lake Louise) through the Kootenay National Park to the Columbia River valley. The Bighorn Highway defines most of the eastern limit of the region.
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From Wiki:
"The yellow-faced grassquit is a passerine bird from the Central American tropics and surrounding regions. It is one of the tholospizan "finches" which are specialized tanagers. As such, it is closely related to the famous Darwin's finches".
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I call this "Putin's church" or "FSB's church"
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From Wiki: The chestnut-colored woodpecker is found on the Caribbean side of Middle America from southern Veracruz in Mexico south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica to just into Panama's Bocas del Toro Province. It primarily inhabits the interior and edges of humid evergreen and semi-deciduous forests but is also found in mangroves and coastal scrub in some areas. It favors dense foliage even at the forest edge. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in Mexico and to 750 m (2,500 ft) in Costa Rica
Garter snakes are pretty common here, but I've never been able to get a shot of one in the park. Happily this one decided to go for a swim across the pond and I got a few shots of it as it crossed the water. Even more happily it was the very colorful red-sided variant of garter snake coloration. It's a new species for my prairie wildlife species collection.
Garter snakes have an interesting mating practice when they come out of hibernation. Males come out of their dens and, as soon as the females begin coming out, surround them. Female garter snakes produce a specific pheromone that attracts male snakes in droves, sometimes leading to intense male to male competition and the formation of mating balls of up to 25 males per female.
Source and more species info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_snake
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotfuchs
Die Körpermaße des Rotfuchses sind geographisch und jahreszeitlich starken Schwankungen unterworfen. Das Körpergewicht liegt durchschnittlich für Männchen im Bereich 5,5 bis 7,5 kg, für Weibchen bei 5 bis 6,5 kg. Schwerere Tiere (bis 14,5 kg) sind selten. Die Körperlänge (ohne Schwanz) beträgt für Männchen 65 bis 75 cm, für Weibchen 62 bis 68 cm, die Schwanzlänge entsprechend 35 bis 45 cm oder 30 bis 42 cm (Durchschnittswerte für europäische Füchse).
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Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_World_Tower:
Lotte World Tower, is a 123-story, 555 m (1,821 ft) supertall skyscraper, located in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is the sixth-tallest building in the world, the tallest in OECD countries, and also the first in South Korea to be over 100 stories tall.
It was the fourth-tallest in the world when completed in 2016. The tower opened to the public on April 3, 2017. Haeundae LCT The Sharp in Busan is the second-tallest building in the country.
A "Sky Bridge Tour" is located on the roof of Lotte World Tower at 541 m (1,775 ft), which is the total height of One World Trade Center in New York City, the tallest building in the United States.
On March 17, 2016, before the final phase of external construction, the Diagrid lantern-shaped roof structure was completed. The roof structure was constructed with steel counterparts that are each 12 m (39 ft) and weigh 20 tons. The counterparts were made up of bent metal panels that are 6 cm (2.4 in) thick. The roof structure itself is 120 m (390 ft) high and covers floors 107–123.
Approximately 3,000 tons of steel parts, a high-precision 64t tower crane and GPS alignment systems, as well as welding technicians, were used in the construction of the roof.
The roof structure is engineered to withstand its weight without reinforcing pillars, endure earthquakes up to a magnitude of 9 under the Richter magnitude scale, and winds up to 80 m/s (260 ft/s).
The exterior of pale-coloured glass draws inspiration from Korean ceramics and features accents of metal filigree.
Seoul Sky occupies the top seven levels. Floors 117–118 are the entrance and view floor, including a glass floor and sky show on 118. Sky Friends Cafe and the sky terrace are located on floors 119–120. Seoul Sky Cafe and a souvenir shop are on floors 121–122, and the premium lounge bar, 123 lounge, is on the top floor at 499 m (1,637 ft).
Français : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_l%27Aljaferia
Español : es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_la_Aljafería
Català : ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_de_l%27Aljaferia
Euskara : eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljaferia_jauregia
English : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljafería
Italiano : it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_dell%27Aljafería
Português : pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palácio_da_Aljafería
Deutsch : de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljafería
Nederlands : nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljafería
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"En esto, descubrieron treinta o cuarenta molinos de viento que hay en aquel campo; y, así como don Quijote los vio, dijo a su escudero:
–La ventura va guiando nuestras cosas mejor de lo que acertáramos a desear, porque ves allí, amigo Sancho Panza, donde se descubren treinta, o pocos más, desaforados gigantes, con quien pienso hacer batalla y quitarles a todos las vidas, con cuyos despojos comenzaremos a enriquecer; que ésta es buena guerra, y es gran servicio de Dios quitar tan mala simiente de sobre la faz de la tierra.
–¿Qué gigantes? –dijo Sancho Panza.
–Aquellos que allí ves –respondió su amo– de los brazos largos, que los suelen tener algunos de casi dos leguas.
–Mire vuestra merced –respondió Sancho– que aquellos que allí se parecen no son gigantes, sino molinos de viento, y lo que en ellos parecen brazos son las aspas, que, volteadas del viento, hacen andar la piedra del molino.
–Bien parece –respondió don Quijote– que no estás cursado en esto de las aventuras: ellos son gigantes; y si tienes miedo, quítate de ahí, y ponte en oración en el espacio que yo voy a entrar con ellos en fiera y desigual batalla.
Y, diciendo esto, dio de espuelas a su caballo Rocinante, sin atender a las voces que su escudero Sancho le daba, advirtiéndole que, sin duda alguna, eran molinos de viento, y no gigantes, aquellos que iba a acometer. Pero él iba tan puesto en que eran gigantes, que ni oía las voces de su escudero Sancho ni echaba de ver, aunque estaba ya bien cerca, lo que eran; antes, iba diciendo en voces altas:
–Non fuyades, cobardes y viles criaturas, que un solo caballero es el que os acomete."
Miguel de Cervantes
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