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��.��F7~�օ)1Z&�@��C��A North Texas non-profit puts in the effort to create some lasting 'local good'The NFL is once again offering a heaping helping of Thanksgiving Day games for 2024. Week 13 kicks off on Thursday with a tripleheader with three of the four NFC North teams in action. Between the Bears-Lions (12:30 p.m. ET, CBS), Giants-Cowboys (4:30 p.m. ET Fox), and Dolphins-Packers (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC), there are also plenty of fantasy football considerations, whether you're looking for the best advice for seasonal leagues or top tips for DFS contests. Here's a complete breakdown of the slate to help you know which players have the most and least favorable matchups and assist with those tougher lineup decisions. WEEK 13 FANTASY FOOTBALL RANKINGS QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | D/ST | Kickers Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions Start 'em, Sit 'em Chicago Bears starts and sits Start: WR D.J. Moore, RB D'Andre Swift Sit: QB Caleb Williams, WR Keenan Allen, WR Rome Odunze, TE Cole Kmet, Bears D/ST, K Cairo Santos Sleeper: RB Roschon Johnson Moore has gotten going with interim OC Thomas Brown and has the best chance to produce as the No. 1 option in the passing game with the Lions' pass defense improving each week and rough on the slot (Allen) and tight end (Kmet). Swift won't find much room to sled on his former team, but he'll be motivated and can come through as a checkdown receiver in a negative game script. Williams is coming off a big game against the Vikings' defense at home, but you can't trust him on the road. WEEK 13 FANTASY ROSTER MANAGEMENT ADVICE Stock Watch | Start 'Em, Sit 'Em | Sleepers | Busts | Usage Report | Flex Finder | Weather Detroit Lions starts and sits Start: RB Jahmyr Gibbs, RB David Montgomery, WR Amon-Ra St. Brown, QB Jared Goff, Lions defense/special teams Sit: TE Sam LaPorta, WR Jameson Williams Sleeper: K Jake Bates Gibbs has been red-hot and Monty should run with extra juice in a backfield revenge game of his own. They both should score again, but this time, leave some fun for Goff. The Bears' secondary is tricky outside and can contain the big plays (see Williams), but they can be eaten in the slot (St. Brown). LaPorta is just out of TE1 range for the season, and you can't trust him too much in a minus matchup. Detroit's defense also has been hot, and that doesn't change at home. New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys Start 'em, Sit 'em New York Giants starts and sits Start: WR Malik Nabers, RB Tyrone Tracy Jr. Sit: QB Tommy DeVito/Drew Lock, RB Devin Singletary, K Graham Gano, WR Wan'Dale Robinson Sleepers: TE Theo Johnson, Giants D/ST, WR Darius Slayton Nabers and Slayton can benefit from a big downfield production pivot from a banged-up DeVito to a big-armed gunslinger in Lock. Tracy is getting too much work over Singletary to sit. The Giants' D has a good pass rush and won't need to worry as much about deep action. Johnson can keep up the recent pace Dallas Cowboys starts and sits Start: WR CeeDee Lamb, K Brandon Aubrey, Cowboys D/ST Sit: QB Cooper Rush Sleepers: RB Rico Dowdle, TE Luke Schoonmaker Lamb and Aubrey have been every-weekers for a while, but Dallas' defense finally can be used again at home against an uncertain and shaky Giants QB situation. Rush had a solid floor game last week, but this is a bad downfield matchup. He has his best shot throwing to Schoonmaker along with Lamb on short-to-intermediate inside routes. Dowdle would be a volume-based play in a plus spot if needed during a no-bye week. Miami Dolphins vs. Green Bay Packers Start 'em, Sit 'em Miami Dolphins starts and sits Start: RB De'Von Achane, WR Tyreek Hill (if he plays), TE Jonnu Smith Sit: QB Tua Tagovailoa, WR Jaylen Waddle, RB Raheem Mostert, K Jason Sanders, Dolphins D/ST Achane needs to be a big part of the game plan in the outdoor elements for the Dolphins to keep winning. Check Hill and the wrist injury, but you should stick with him if he is healthy enough to go. Smith has been too involved in high-leverage situations through the red zone to sit. Tagovailoa has a tough matchup away in the cold, and Waddle is still difficult to trust, despite last week's needed slump breakout. Green Bay Packers starts and sits Start: RB Josh Jacobs, WR Jayden Reed Sit: QB Jordan Love, WR Christian Watson, WR Romeo Doubs, WR Dontayvion Wicks, TE Tucker Kraft Sleeper: Packers D/ST The weather in Green Bay for Thursday night is expected to be in the high 20s with a chance of snow. That's perfect late November/early December weather for Lambeau Field. The Packers got the power-running Jacobs to churn in the frozen tundra, and he'll explode again against a middling Dolphins run defense. Getting the ball out to Reed quickly should be the passing gameplan for Love, who has limited upside in a bad spot. The defense should make some big plays, too, in a correlated play to Jacobs. It's tough to feel any of the other pass-catchers or Love with lowered attempts for a second straight week. WEEK 13 DFS STRATEGY: Sleepers and Values FanDuel NFL Thanksgiving cash game lineup picks QB: Tommy DeVito or Drew Lock, Giants $6700/$6,400 RB: Jahmyr Gibbs, Lions $8,400 RB: Josh Jacobs, Packers $7,800 WR: D.J. Moore, Bears $6,700 WR: Jayden Reed, Packers $6,900 WR: Darius Slayton, Giants $5,400 TE: Luke Schoonmaker, Cowboys $4,000 FLEX: De'Von Achane, Dolphins $9,000 D/ST: Packers $4,200 DraftKings NFL Thanksgiving tournament lineup picks QB: Tommy DeVito or Drew Lock, Giants $4,500 RB: Jahmyr Gibbs, Lions $7,500 RB: Josh Jacobs, Packers $7,000 WR: D.J. Moore, Bears, $5,600 WR: Jayden Reed, Packers $5,700 WR: Rome Odunze, Bears $5,000 TE: Luke Schoonmaker, Cowboys $3,400 FLEX: De'Von Achane, Dolphins $7,700 D/ST: Packers $3,000 The whole premise of these lineups was to get Gibbs, Jacobs, and Achane all together. To do that, it required going the cheapest at quarterback and tight end. The Packers' D is in the best spot at home related to Jacobs and Reed. 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CJ Stroud showed his emotions on the field when his best friend and teammate, Tank Dell, sustained a nasty injury. As a result, the second-year Texans quarterback faced a lot of backlash — with some arguing that he shouldn’t have lost composure at a nationally broadcast game. Some critics also suggested Stroud should have toughened up. However, like the majority of fans, CJ’s mother showed her support for her son’s reaction. Kim Stroud shared a powerful bible verse on Twitter, accompanied by a heartfelt message reading, “Keep loving CJ# very proud you are my son# Jesus lives in you.” It’s a powerful verse, showing that loving and caring about someone to the point of getting emotional over them shouldn’t be looked down upon. It shows that you’re empathetic and have a good heart — something we should all aspire to have/be. Kim also included an IG link in her post that leads directly to CJ’s post-game reaction to the injury and the backlash that followed his emotional moment. In the snippet from his presser, the QB made sure to share his thoughts on why it was such a somber, emotional moment for him. Although, it’s unfortunate that he had to even explain it. Stroud further stated that, growing up, like many men, society encouraged him to suppress his emotions. Especially tears. But it’s a new world today, he said. Crying is okay. It shows you’re human and that you care. Many people suppress their emotions, letting them build up until they turn into anger. That’s not a healthy way to handle any situation. What Stroud did was totally fine. And quite honestly, we’re starting to get a little too “nit-picky” when it comes to how we critique athletes. These men and women are on camera more than ever, on and off the field. It takes a toll mentally to have to constantly deal with the ups and downs of a sports season as well. There can be high highs and very low lows. And at the end of the day, players like Stroud are just expected to look on as a brother-in-arms is down, to what could be a career-ending, gruesome injury, and just be okay with that? No, that would mess anybody up mentally. Stroud even shared how he does bible study with Dell twice a week. These two aren’t just friends, they are almost brothers. We should definitely stop bothering him for showing a little emotion.BEIRUT (AP) — Israel's military launched airstrikes across Lebanon on Monday, unleashing explosions throughout the country and killing at least 12 while Israeli leaders appeared to be closing in on a negotiated ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group. Israeli strikes hit commercial and residential buildings in Beirut as well as in the port city of Tyre. Military officials said they targeted areas known as Hezbollah strongholds. They issued evacuation orders for Beirut's southern suburbs, and strikes landed across the city, including meters from a Lebanese police base and the city's largest public park. The barrage came as officials indicated they were nearing agreement on a ceasefire, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Security Cabinet prepared to discuss an offer on the table. Massive explosions lit up Lebanon's skies with flashes of orange, sending towering plumes of smoke into the air as Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs Monday. The blasts damaged buildings and left shattered glass and debris scattered across nearby streets. No casualties were reported after many residents fled the targeted sites. Some of the strikes landed close to central Beirut and near Christian neighborhoods and other targets where Israel had issued evacuation warnings, including in Tyre and Nabatieh province. Israeli airstrikes also hit the northeast Baalbek-Hermel region without warning. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Monday that at least 12 people were killed in the strikes in the Tyre province, adding to the more than 3,700 people in Lebanon who have been killed since Israel launched its invasion two months ago. Many of those killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah have been civilians , and health officials said some of the recovered bodies were so severely damaged that DNA testing would be required to confirm their identities. Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members. Lebanon's Health Ministry says the war has displaced 1.2 million people. The latest round of airstrikes came weeks after Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon in early October, meeting heavy resistance in a narrow strip of land along the border. The military had previously exchanged attacks across the border with Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group that began firing rockets into Israel the day after the war in Gaza began last year. Lebanese politicians have decried the ongoing airstrikes and said they are impeding U.S.-led ceasefire negotiations. The country's deputy parliament speaker accused Israel of ramping up its bombardment in order to pressure Lebanon to make concessions in indirect ceasefire negotiations with Hezbollah. Elias Bousaab, an ally of the militant group, said Monday that the pressure has increased because “we are close to the hour that is decisive regarding reaching a ceasefire.” Israeli officials voiced similar optimism Monday about prospects for a ceasefire. Mike Herzog, the country's ambassador to Washington, earlier in the day told Israeli Army Radio that several points had yet to be finalized. Though any deal would require agreement from the government, Herzog said Israel and Hezbollah were “close to a deal." “It can happen within days,” he said. Israeli officials have said the sides are close to an agreement that would include withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and a pullback of Hezbollah fighters from the Israeli border. But several sticking points remain. Two Israeli officials told The Associated Press that Netanyahu’s security Cabinet had scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, but they said it remained unclear whether the Cabinet would vote to approve the deal. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal deliberations. Danny Danon, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, told reporters Monday that he expected a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah to have stages and to be discussed by leaders Monday or Tuesday. Still, he warned, “it’s not going to happen overnight.” After previous hopes for a ceasefire were dashed, U.S. officials cautioned that negotiations were not yet complete and noted that there could be last-minute hitches that either delay or destroy an agreement. "Nothing is done until everything is done," White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Monday. The proposal under discussion to end the fighting calls for an initial two-month ceasefire during which Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the southern border south of the Litani River. The withdrawals would be accompanied by an influx of thousands more Lebanese army troops, who have been largely sidelined in the war, to patrol the border area along with an existing U.N. peacekeeping force . Western diplomats and Israeli officials said Israel is demanding the right to strike in Lebanon if it believes Hezbollah is violating the terms. The Lebanese government has said that such an arrangement would authorize violations of the country's sovereignty. A ceasefire could mark a step toward ending the regionwide war that ballooned after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 250 . The lack of a ceasefire has emerged as a political liability for Israeli leaders including Netanyahu, particularly while 60,000 Israelis remain away from their homes in the country's north after more than a year of cross-border violence. Hezbollah rockets have reached as far south into Israel as Tel Aviv. At least 75 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians. More than 50 Israeli soldiers died fighting in the ground offensive in Lebanon. The Israeli military said about 250 projectiles were fired Sunday, with some intercepted. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the strongest of Iran’s armed proxies , is expected to significantly calm regional tensions that have led to fears of a direct, all-out war between Israel and Iran. It’s not clear how the ceasefire will affect the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Hezbollah had long insisted that it would not agree to a ceasefire until the war in Gaza ends, but it dropped that condition. While the proposal is expected to be approved if Netanyahu brings it to a vote in his security Cabinet, one hard-line member, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he would oppose it. He said on X that a deal with Lebanon would be a “big mistake” and a “missed historic opportunity to eradicate Hezbollah.” If the ceasefire talks fail, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said, “it will mean more destruction and more and more animosity and more dehumanization and more hatred and more bitterness.” Speaking at a G7 meeting in Fiuggi, Italy, the last summit of its kind before U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office, Safadi said such a failure "will doom the future of the region to more conflict and more killing and more destruction.” Federman reported from Jerusalem and Metz from Rabat, Morocco. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Nicole Winfield in Fiuggi, Italy, and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report. Find more of AP’s war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

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The author and FXStreet are not registered investment advisors and nothing in this article is intended to be investment advice.Buddy Cheff’s family has been raising cattle on a spectacular piece of the Montana landscape for five generations — about as long as the fictional Dutton clan, who are the center of the hit show “Yellowstone.” But Cheff isn’t the head of a politically powerful — and brutally ruthless — family with a spread the size of Rhode Island. He’s a 36-year-old father and husband who runs a small herd of about 100 cattle on his 600-acre ranch south of Ronan, Montana. Since taking over from his father nearly a decade ago, Cheff said he has “loved every second” of running his family’s ranch. But he “worries,” he said, about his future in rapidly changing western Montana. In part, that rapid change is a result of the show “Yellowstone” itself, Cheff said. The contentious dynamic depicted on Paramount Network’s series “Yellowstone” — between ranchers who are trying to maintain their way of life and out-of-staters who want to develop their agricultural land into new housing — is a real struggle. And it has been hastened by the spotlight the popular show has shined on Montana, Cheff said. “Everybody has seen ‘Yellowstone,’” he said. “They want the Montana lifestyle.” And more than 50,000 of them have come to get it since the show debuted in 2018. Their arrival has the in Montana’s cities and towns. It also has increased the cost of agricultural land — and made it more difficult for ranchers to access the wide-open spaces their cattle require. “I try to budget all the time and think about purchasing more ground,” Cheff said. But that’s a daunting prospect, as Montana’s population has grown, bringing in newcomers and driving up the cost of land. “We’ve had a lot of turnover on some of my neighbors in the area, small properties, and I think that increases the prices,” Cheff said. “Everybody buys it for a high price, and they ask a little more, which is understandable. “But it definitely hurts the local guys when they’re looking to grow or (for) more grazing or whatever. It’s harder. Those prices are just out of reach for us.” The romantic view of ranching portrayed in “Yellowstone” has contributed to a reordering of Montana’s ranching landscape for the state’s actual ranchers. While Cheff is committed to making it work in the Flathead, some of his fellow ranchers have set out for greener — or at least cheaper — pastures in eastern Montana, said Monty Lesh, a Miles City real estate and rancher who also serves as the Montana Stockgrowers Association’s Southeast District Director. “In the last five years, we’ve seen more interest from people from western Montana that are experiencing a lot of population growth,” Lesh said. “And they’re considering moving to this area because they can sell out up there for a lot of money and come down here and buy something else.” But that intrastate migration has started to decline, according to Lesh, in part because the cycle of new arrivals ramping up land prices has spread to more areas of the state. “That swap used to be fairly attractive,” Lesh said. “It’s not as attractive today because the land values here have increased from what they were like five years ago.” Those rising land prices in eastern Montana have combined with other economic forces that have undermined ranchers’ bottom lines. “The challenge has been the cost to operate,” Lesh said. “I mean, it’s been twofold. We had a rapid rise in interest rates, and most of agriculture is very capital-intensive — you know, uses a lot of capital and leverage to operate and expand. And then the other thing is just general operating expenses: fuel, insurance, labor, parts. Everything is significantly higher than it was four or five years ago.” But while the economics of agriculture have changed in eastern Montana, Lesh said one constant has remained: People are trying to make a living off the land, despite the challenges. “In our area here, the people that we deal with, 99% of them are farmers and ranchers,” Lesh said. “We don’t see a very large number of investor types buying properties. There are a few, but they are farmers and ranchers, maybe in other states, and they’re just diversifying their holdings by buying land in Montana. But it still stays in production. “They don’t come in and sell all the cows and want to raise elk or deer or whatever — recreation,” Lesh said. “They’re experiencing that a lot in central Montana and western Montana.” Some of the forces of change being felt by Montana ranchers have been gathering since well before “Yellowstone” aired its first episode. Gilles Stockton, 78, has seen a lot change in the half-century he’s raising cattle and sheep near the Fergus County town of Grass Range. He takes a long — and expansive — view of ranching, informed by his experience working in livestock policy development in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world. Stockton said the “biggest change” to U.S. ranching occurred in the 1980s as a result of deregulation during the Reagan administration that led to consolidation and that squeezed profit margins for ranchers. But in recent years, he’s seen ranches consolidate, and he’s seen them change hands. “My newest neighbor,” he said, “sold out from the Flathead region and bought the land right next to me. They’re fine people. They’re farmers and ranchers. ... They sort of ran away from the problems there in western Montana.” But Stockton, a district director with the Montana Cattleman’s Association, isn’t as enthused about everyone who has moved in. To the north of his ranch, the has amassed 138,000 acres of land and leased another 337,000 as it seeks to create one of the nation’s largest nature reserves and a home for free-ranging buffalo. To the south, Stockton’s neighbors are the Texas-based billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks, who have long drawn the for reducing public access to their vast landholdings in the West. Count Stockton among those who resent how the Wilks brothers have handled their massive, 200,000-acre since buying it. “They’ve essentially locked up the land and manage it for elk hunting for themselves and their rich buddies,” Stockton said. “Well, the overpopulation of their elk spills over into my land. But immediately after hunting season starts, all the elk retreat to the N Bar Ranch, and nobody, nobody can have access to them. “And the Wilks Brothers have got a number of smaller copycats surrounding,” Stockton continued. “So this, you might say, prime hunting region that runs from Grass Range to the Snowy Mountains is pretty much all now locked up by out-of-state, wealthy people.” Efforts to reach a representative of Wilks Ranch for comment were unsuccessful, but the Wilks Ranch touts its network of ranch holdings as “a top-of-the line cattle operation.” While Stockton said the hired hands who now work the N Bar “get along fine” with the neighbors, the owners have “iced out all the locals,” undermining the tradition and community that has long defined his part of the world. Stockton, who is “pretty much retired” himself, said he’s not sure if ranching can survive the change he’s seeing around Grass Range. “Without major policy change, I think it’s going to be a continual movement towards outsiders buying this country for recreational purposes,” Stockton said. “I know a lot of the existing ranchers are going to survive by leasing the grass from these out-of-staters. So they’ll be able to continue, sort of dwindling over time.” Jake Korell has been in the real estate industry for 56 years, but he said the demand for Montana’s agricultural land from out-of-staters doesn’t “make much sense,” even to him. “These prices are just hard to comprehend, for me, that people will pay that kind of money for this grassland out here,” said. “I don’t get it, but it’s selling.” And the typical Montana rancher has a hard time competing in a market like that, Korell said. In one case, he said, he had some graze land priced at $1,200 an acre. He said two neighbors made offers below the asking price, at a cost they could make back running cattle. “And the seller said, ‘I’m not selling for that price,’” Korell said. “So there you go. Yeah, they’re interested, but they’re priced out. And those are users. ... They’re having a hard time expanding, because to expand, it costs too much money. If it costs you a million dollars to add on to run another 40, 30 cows ... Does that work? No, it doesn’t work.” But it does work for ultra-wealthy, out-of-state, cash buyers who are looking to “park their money in dirt,” instead of in a bank — and who also get a piece of prime recreation land out of the deal, he said. “Now, somebody back East that’s got a $300, $400 million portfolio, that’s peanuts,” Korell said of ranches that are out of reach to locals. “‘And it’s got elk and bear and antelope and that’s stuff that I like to hunt. Hell, I’ll buy it. What the hell.’ That’s the type of buyer that buys those.” John Fahlgren said he sees the same thing in Valley County, where he is a county commissioner and rancher and where many ranch buyers aren’t relying on the property to produce any income. “They have the money to buy it outright and then rent it out, hold on to it, or maybe use it to come and hunt on it and that sort of thing,” said , a district director with the Montana Cattleman’s Association. “So (there’s) a lot of pressure on the price of land because of some of that outside-of-the-area money that comes in to join the glory of the ‘Yellowstone’ reality, so to speak.” Wally Congdon’s family has deep roots in Montana’s ranching community — and a lot of experience trying to adjust to the pressures that community has faced. Three decades ago, his family gave up land along the Clark Fork River’s Alberton Gorge and near Arlee, north of Missoula, and moved to Dell, in a remote area of southwestern Montana. So he knows firsthand what it’s like to try to outrun the forces of change. “What we didn’t count on when we did that was who our neighbors became,” Congdon said of his family’s move to Dell. “Paul Allen, Joachim Kepin, Peggy Rockefeller, Hewlett Packard, Remington Arms, British Petroleum. Want me to keep going?” Congdon has since pulled up stakes again, moving his operation back closer to the Clark Fork and Missoula. But he hasn’t been able to escape the specter of development. One of his hay meadows, he said, was recently “graded, bulldozed and leveled.” “It is no longer a meadow,” he said. “It’s all houses.” Congdon, a district director with the Montana Cattleman’s Association, laments all the pressure placed “on the customs, culture, history and heritage of the West, of agriculture.” For it to survive, he said, “We have to kind of rethink the economics of what that is and do it.” That may mean ranchers rely more heavily on public lands for grazing, pursue more sustainable practices and graze fewer cattle per acre, Congdon said. But some of those changes may already be underway as producers try to adapt to the state’s rapidly shifting landscape and shrinking herd. More than 2.6 million cows roamed Montana in 2017. This year, the count was down by nearly a fifth, to some 2.1 million head. Joel Schumacher, a Montana State University , said the drought conditions in 2021 and 2022 were the cause of this drop. With less precipitation, he said, there was “very little grass for forage and very low hay production, which meant the hay that was available was quite expensive.” “One of the main tools that farmers had was simply to sell down the size of their herd to match the amount of forage that they had available,” Schumacher said. “So that’s really what you saw.” With fewer cows available for sale, their price has shot up — and those strong prices, Schumacher said, “may be limiting how quickly herds are being rebuilt.” Nick Courville, who works a day job as an animal nutrition consultant and who operates a small ranch in Charlo, Montana, is among the producers who have taken advantage of strong cattle prices. This fall, he sold half his herd because there’s a “cash incentive right now” to do so, said Courville, who chairs the Montana Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer and Rancher Committee. He’d like to build his herd back up, Courville said, but that’s hard, in part because of what he calls the “‘Yellowstone effect.’” While Courville says there are “far-fetched” elements to the show, he argues that it “put some light on some actual, real problems that we have.” “The battle between neighbors, I think, sometimes could be real,” he said. “The battle for land and people owning that agricultural landscape. The pretty views that we have, the clean water that comes with it, the beautiful tall grass that’s waving in the wind. “I mean, they want to buy it because they like that. And then they put a house on every 40 that we used to run cows on.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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