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Resulting trust A resulting trust is a type of implied trust created through implication of law where the actions of the parties involved and the nature of the transaction implies an intention to create a trust. In many ways a resulting trust is similar to an express trust as there must be intent.
Results of the 2004 New Hampshire Election In 2004, Democrats made large gains in Concord, winning the governorship, adding 30 seats in the House, 1 seat in the Senate, winning an Executive Council seat in District 5 for the first time since the 1960s, one of many races won by Democrats for the first time in decades.
Results of the Japanese general election, 2003 This article presents detail of the results in the Japan general election, 2003, breaking down results by block district. The 11 block districts elected 180 members by proportional representation (allocated to party lists in each block by the D'Hondt method), and 300 members were elected from single-member districts distributed among the 47 prefectures.
Results of the Japanese general election, 2005 This article presents detail of the results in the Japan general election, 2005, breaking down results by block district. The 11 block districts elected 180 members by proportional representation (allocated to party lists in each block by the D'Hondt method), and 300 members were elected from single-member districts distributed among the 47 prefectures.
Results of the War of 1812 Results of the War of 1812 between the Great Britain and the United States involved no geographical changes, and no major policy changes. However some causes of the war had disappeared with the destruction of the power of Indian tribes and the end (in practice) of the British policy of impressment.
Resumen de acompañar Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra, printed in 1714, is the earliest of three collections of music for five-course guitar composed and arranged by Santiago de Murcia. "Resumen de acompañar" is dedicated to Jacome Francisco Andriani, knight of the Order of St.
Resummation In mathematics and theoretical physics, resummation is a procedure to obtain a finite result from a divergent sum (series) of functions. Resummation involves a definition of another (convergent) function in which the individual terms defining the original function are rescaled, and an integral transformation of this new function in order to obtain the original function.
Resurgence (novel) Resurgence (2002) is the finale of the Heritage Universe and the last book published by Charles Sheffield. Following the previous book in the series, Convergence, there are no more Builder artifacts left in the part of the galaxy explored by the four clades of the Orion Arm.
Resurrection Miraculous resurrection of one sort or another has been a recurrent theme or central doctrine of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious accounts represent the resurrection of individuals, as well as a general resurrection of humanity on Judgment Day.
Resurrection (1980 film) Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom and Eva LeGallienne.
Resurrection (Play Dead album) Originally released in 1984, Play Dead's "Resurrection" is probably the group's most eclectic album. It ranges from synth-based tracks like "Conspiracy" to non-synth like "Pale Fire" and "Sacrosanct.
Resurrection Band Resurrection Band, also known as Rez Band or REZ, is one of the most well-known and respected Christian rock bands in the history of Contemporary Christian music. They were based out of the Jesus People USA Christian community in Chicago, Illinois, and most of its members continue to be part of that community to this day.
Resurrection Blues Resurrection Blues (2002) is Arthur Miller's penultimate play. Though Miller was not known for his humor, this play uses a pointed comedic edge to intensify his observations about the dangers, as well as the benefits, of blind belief: political, religious, economic, emotional.
Resurrection Day Resurrection Day (ISBN 0-399-14498-6) is a novel written by Brendan Dubois in 1999. It is an alternate history where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to a full scale war, the Soviet Union is decimated, and the USA has been reduced to a third-rate power, relying on Britain for aid.
Resurrection ecology "Resurrection ecology" is an evolutionary biology technique whereby researchers hatch dormant eggs from lake sediments to study animals as they existed decades ago. It is a new approach that might allow scientists to observe evolution as it occurred, by comparing the animal forms hatched from older eggs with their extant descendants.
Resurrection Mary Resurrection Mary is likely the Chicago area's best-known ghost story. Of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, the story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles west of Chicago.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew) The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew) is not to be confused with the Questions of Bartholomew, although either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew (or neither may be), a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha.
Resurrection of the Daleks Resurrection of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from February 8 to February 15, 1984. This story marks the final regular appearance of Janet Fielding as companion Tegan Jovanka, who leaves the Fifth Doctor for the second time.
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim) is a 2002 South Korean action film. It was screened at the 2003 London Film Festival and was the opening film of the Fantasia Festival that same year.
Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church in Waipahu Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church in Waipahu is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii in the United States. Located in Waipahu on the island of Oahu, the church falls under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Honolulu and its bishop.
Resurrectionist Order The Congregation of the Resurrection is an international religious congregation of men within the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1836 by three men, Bogdan Janski, Peter Semenenko and Jerome Kajsiewicz. Internationally they are divided into three Provinces and one Region, ministering in more than twelve countries worldwide.
Resuscitator A resuscitator is a device using positive pressure to inflate the lungs of an unconscious person who is not breathing, in order to keep him oxygenated and alive. There are three basic types: a manual version (also known as a bag valve mask) consisting of a mask and a large hand-squeezed plastic bulb using ambient air, or with supplemental oxygen from a high-pressure tank.
ReSIProcate reSIProcate is an open-source Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) stack, written in c++. The reSIProcate project also contains a Dialog layer intended for use by endpoints and B2BUAs (Dialog-Usage Manager, or DUM), and a transaction-stateful SIP Proxy/Registrar (repro).
ReStructuredText reStructuredText is a lightweight markup language intended to be highly readable in source format. The reStructuredText parser is a component of the Docutils text processing framework, which is implemented in the Python programming language.
Reta Shaw Reta Shaw was a familiar American character actress (born September 13th, 1912 in South Paris, Maine, died January 8th, 1982 in Encino, California), best remembered as the housekeeper in the The Ghost and Mrs. Muir She also played one of the singing servants in Mary Poppins She was a well-loved supporting actress in many movies and television shows, with a career spanning three decades.
Retable A retable is a term of ecclesiastical art and ecclesiastical architecture, applied in modern English usage to an altar-ledge or shelf, raised slightly above the back of the altar or communion table, on which are placed the cross, ceremonial candlesticks and other ornaments. Retables may be lawfully used in the church of England.
Retail Clerks International Union The Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU), was a labor union that represented retail employees. The RCIU was chartered as the "Retail Clerks National Protective Union" in 1890 by the American Federation of Labor.
Retail Council of Canada The Retail Council of Canada was founded in 1963. It is a Canadian not-for-profit association representing more than 40,000 stores of all retail formats, including independent merchants, regional and national mass and specialty chains, and online merchants.
Retail floorplan Retail floor planning is a business that makes money by doing short term loans secured by collateral it loans for. The costs are usually very high, with interest rates of 28%-40%, as well as a fee to put inventory on the floorplan.
Retail Media Retail media is a relatively new advertising medium that reaches consumers where they shop. Retail media networks are similar to traditional forms of advertising in that they consist of audio or video commercial announcements.
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which is a semi-autonomous division of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Change to Win Federation. The division represents service, clerical, sales and maintenance workers as well as employees in the citrus, food processing, tobacco, jewelry, novelty and toy industries.
Retailers' cooperative A retailers' cooperative is a business entity which employs economies of scale on behalf of its retailer-members to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing. It is common for locally-owned grocery stores, hardware stores and pharmacies.
Retailing Retailing consists of the sale of goods or merchandise for personal or household consumption either from a fixed location such as a department store or kiosk, or from a fixed location and related subordinated services. In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end-user customers, usually in a shop, also called a store.
Retained earnings In accounting, retained earnings are net income that have been retained by the corporation at year-end. If the opposite occurs when the corporation has net losses the corporation retains those losses at year-end.
Retained executive search Retained executive search means that companies pay a retainer to a search firm to find them a specific person for a specific position. This type of arrangement is typically reserved for recruiting senior executives who earn in excess of $300,000 per annum.
Retained mode Retained mode refers to a programming style for 3D graphics where a persistent representation of graphical objects, their spatial relationships, their appearance and the position of the viewer, is held in memory and managed by a library layer. The programmer performs less low-level work in loading, managing, culling and rendering the data and can focus on higher application level functions.
Retainer (orthodontic device) Orthodontic retainers are often used after braces have been removed to hold teeth in their new position while surrounding gums and bone adjusts to this new position. Often a person will need to wear them only at night.
Retaining wall A retaining wall is a structure that holds back earth from a building or other structure. Retaining walls stabilize soil and/or rock from downslope movement or erosion and provide support for vertical or near-vertical grade changes.
Retarded position Einstein's equations admit gravity wave-like solutions. In the case of a moving point-like mass and in the linearized limit of a weak-gravity approximation these solutions of the Einstein equations are known as the Lienard-Wiechert gravitational potentials.
Retarded time According to Maxwell's Equations, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, c. Since c is finite, a photon emitted when t = t0 takes a certain amount of time to reach an observer located at a distance r from the source, so that the observer only notices it when t = t1:
Retarder (railroad) In rail transport, a retarder is a device installed in a classification yard used to slow the speed of freight cars as they are sorted into trains. Each retarder consists of a series of stationary brakes surrounding a short section of each rail on the track that grip and slow the cars' wheels through friction as they roll through them.
Retargetable compiler A retargetable compiler is a compiler that can relatively easily be modified to generate code for different CPU architectures. The object code produced by these is frequently of lesser quality than that produced by a compiler developed specifically for a processor.
Retcon Retroactive continuity or retcon is the adding of new information to "historical" material, or deliberately changing previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. The change itself is referred to as a "retcon", and the act of writing and publishing a retcon is called "retconning".
Rete A Rete A (also known as All Music) is an Italian free-to-air television station which broadcasts videos and music programmes 24 hours a day. In late 2004 the former owner, Peruzzo, sold the network to Gruppo Editoriale l'Espresso/La Repubblica.
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is an Italian company fully owned by Ferrovie dello Stato. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it sets train paths, provides signalling, provides maintenance and other services for the railway network.
Rete mirabile A rete mirabile (Latin for "wonderful net") is a complex of arteries and veins lying very close to each other, found in a number of vertebrates, and serving different purposes. In all cases, however, the function of a rete mirabile depends on the fact that the blood within the net is flowing in opposite directions (countercurrent).
Rete mirabilia Rete mirabilia is the blood reservoir often associated with countercurrent heat exchange in deep diving marine organisms. It solves the problem of decreased temperature with increasing dive depth by increasing latent heat supply in a network of blood vessels.
Retention basin A Retention basin, sometimes called an retention pond, is a type of constructed wetland that is used to contain stormwater or rain runoff. A retention basin provides an area to hold water from a small surrounding drainage area that would otherwise flow into other areas.
Retention election Retention election or judicial retention within the United States court system, is a periodic process whereby a judge is subject to a vote during an election. A judge can be removed from the position if the majority of the citizens vote him or her out.
Retention of vision Retention of Vision is a conjuring term referring to the perceived image of an object during a vanish (usually associated with vanishing coins). In a Retention of Vision vanish the spectator sees a coin placed on a palm and as the fingers are closed around the coin it is secretly removed, but, due to the fact that the retina still retains a fleeting image of the coin for a fraction of a second, the spectator will be convinced that the coin was placed in the hand, when in fact it wasn't.
Retexturing Retexturing is a process used for increasing the resolution of emulated video games, by replacing the game's textures with images with higher resolution. The majority of games retextured is Nintendo 64 games, mainly because it is easy to retexture them, and secondly because you don't have to modify the original ROM image in order to apply the textures.
Retford railway station Retford railway station serves the town of Retford in Nottinghamshire, England. It has four platforms, two of which serve the East Coast Main Line while two located at a lower level and at right angles to the first pair serve the Sheffield to Lincoln Line.
Retford United F.C. Retford United Football Club (also known as the Badgers) are a English football club based at Cannon Park in Retford, Nottinghamshire. The team was founded in 1987 where they started in the Gainsborough league.
Rethymno Rethymno (IPA ), also Rethimno, Rethymnon, Réthymnon, and Rhíthymnos) (Greek: Ρέθυμνο), a city of approximately 40,000 people, is the capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity (ancient Rhithymna and Arsinoe), even though it has never been a competitive Minoan center.
Retching Red Retching Red is an Oakland, California based hardcore punk band that formed in late July 2004. They released their debut CD entitled "Get Your Red Wings" later that year, played an astonishing number of local shows (many with legendary punk bands), toured with MDC for two weeks in April 2005 and completed their first full us tour in July of 2005.
Reticular cell A reticular cell produces reticular fibers and surrounds the fibers with its cytoplasm, which isolates the fiber from other components of the tissues or cells. Reticular cells are found in many tissues including the spleen, lymph nodes, and lymph nodules.
Reticular connective tissue Reticular connective tissue is a type of loose irregular connective tissue and has a network of reticular fibers (fine type III collagen) that form a soft skeleton (stroma) to support the lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, bone marrow, thymus, and spleen.) Reticular fibers are synthesized by special fibroblasts called reticular cells.
Reticulated swellshark The reticulated swellshark, Cephaloscyllium fasciatum, is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Pacific Ocean from Hainan Island to northwestern Australia between latitudes 21° N and 28° S, at depths of between 220 and 450 m. It grows to about 42 cm in length, and can expand its body by taking in air or water to make it appear larger to predators.
Reticulocytopenia Reticulocytopenia is a disease when there is an abnormal decrease in the reticulocytes in the body, reticulocytes are young blood cells that need to be present in the circulatory system, reticulocytopenia can originate from congenital hemolytic anemia.
Reticuloendothelial system The reticuloendothelial system (RES), part of the immune system, consists of the phagocytic cells located in reticular connective tissue, primarily monocytes and macrophages. These cells accumulate in lymph nodes and the spleen.
Retief Jame Retief is the main character in a series of satirical science fiction stories by Keith Laumer. The stories were written over a span of thirty years beginning in the early 1960s, without much regard for chronology or any particular scheme.
Retiming Retiming is the technique of moving the structural location of latches or registers in a digital circuit to improve its performance, area, and/or power characteristics in such a way that preserves its functional behavior at its outputs. Retiming was first described by Charles E.
Retina The retina is a thin layer of neural cells that lines the back of the eyeball of vertebrates and some cephalopods. In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain.
Retina Vulnerability Assessment Scanner Retina Vulnerability Assessment Scanner is a product created by eEye Digital Security that remotely scans a corporate or organizational network for security vulnerabilities and assigns a level of threat to vulnerabilities found in software, configurations or policies. Retina is the standard scanner for detecting policy compliance in the Department of Defense networks and many commercial computer networks.
Retinal Retinal, technically called retinene1 or "retinaldehyde", is a light-sensitive retinene molecule found in the photoreceptor cells of the retina. Retinal is the fundamental chromophore involved in the transduction of light into visual signals, i.
Retinal correspondence Retinal correspondence is the inherent relationship between paired retinal visual cells in the two eyes. Images from one object stimulate both cells, which transmit the information to the brain, permitting a single visual impression localizaed in the same direction is spaceCassin, B.
Retinal implant A retinal implant is a biomedical implant technology currently being developed by a number of private companies and research institutions worldwide. The implant is meant to partially restore useful vision to people who have lost theirs due to degenerative eye conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration.
Retinal rivalry Retinal rivalry is the phenomenon in which two dissimilar images are perceived by corresponding zones of the retinas, leading to superimposition. This causes one of the images to be suppressed, usually by the image perceived by the eye connected to the dominant cerebral hemisphere (usually the left).
Retinite Retinite a general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of brown coal, which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no succinic acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two independent occurrences prove to be alike, and the indefinite multiplication of names, no one of them properly specific, is not to be desired.
Retinohypothalamic tract The Retinohypothalamic tract (RHT) is a photic input pathway involved in circadian rhythms. The RHT is the input pathway to the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and is important in the entrainment of our 'body clock' to the external environment.
Retinoic acid syndrome Retinoic acid syndrome (RAS) is a potentially life threatening complication seen in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML) who are treated with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) (also known as tretinoin).
Retinoid X receptor There are three forms of retinoid X receptor (RXR), RXR-alpha, RXR-beta, and RXR-gamma. RXRs are nuclear receptors with activity similar to the steroid receptors such as estrogen or progesterone and other nuclear receptors such as PPAR, LXR and FXR.
Retinoscopy Retinoscopy is a technique to obtain an objective measurement of the refractive condition of a patient's eye. The examiner uses a retinoscope to shine light into the patient's eye and observes the reflection (reflex) off the patient's retina.
Retinotopy Retinotopy is the concept that certain areas of the visual cortex are organized in a way that adjacent points in the visual field (that fall on adjacent points on the retina) are processed by neurons in adjacent parts of that cortical area.
Retinue A retinue (Old French retenue, from retenir also meaning 'to employ', from Latin retenere, hold back, retain) is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble or royal personage, a suite (literal French meanings: what follows) of "retainers."
Retinyl palmitate Retinyl palmitate, or vitamin A palmitate, is a common vitamin supplement, with formula C36H60O2. It is available in both oral and injectable forms for treatment of vitamin A deficiency, under the brand names Aquasol A® and Palmitate A®.
Retired husband syndrome (RHS) is a psychosomatic, stress related illness which has been estimated to occur in 60% of Japan's older female population. It is a condition were a woman begins to exhibit signs of physical illness and depression as their husband reaches, or approaches, retirement.
Retired numbers in football (soccer) Football clubs around the world sometimes retire squad numbers to recognise players' loyal service, or tragic death. This practice, long established in the major North American sports, is a recent development in football since squad numbers were not widely used until the 1990s, before which it was typical for players in the starting lineup to be issued numbers 1 to 11, meaning a player might wear different numbers during the season.
Retired out In cricket, a batsman retires out if he retires without the umpire's permission, and does not have the permission of the opposing captain to resume his innings. This occasionally happens in friendly or practice matches, for instance English county sides versus University Centres of Cricketing Excellence.
Retirement community A retirement community, or active adult community, is a very broad, generic term that covers many varieties of housing for retirees and seniors - especially designed or geared for people who no longer work, or restricted to those over a certain age. It differs from a retirement home which is a single building or small complex where no "common areas" for socializing exist.
Retirement Funds Administrators Retirement Funds Administrators (Spanish: Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro, abbreviated Afores) are companies authorized to manage individual retirement accounts as authorized by the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público of Mexico and oversees by Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (CONSAR).
Retirement Is Murder "Retirement is Murder" is the thirteenth episode of season 2 of Frasier. It appears to be unlucky for Martin, who is trying to solve a murder case from his days as a policeman, in which a prostitute called Helen was murdered.
Retirement plan A retirement plan is an arrangement to provide people with an income, or pension, during retirement, when they are no longer earning a steady income from employment. Retirement plans may be set up by employers, insurance companies, the government or other institutions such as employer associations or trade unions.
Retirement plans in the United States A retirement plan is an arrangement to provide people with an income, possibly a pension, during retirement, when they are no longer earning a steady income from employment, or an asset from which a person may draw an income from as needed. There are significant, though varied and complicated tax advantages for many types of retirement plans.
Retirement Residences REIT Retirement Residences REIT (), or "Retirement REIT", is a real estate investment trust in Canada that operates seniors housing properties. Retirement REIT is the largest provider of accommodation for seniors in Canada, with 223 retirement and long term care facilities, including 40 facilities in United States, with an aggregate resident capacity of over 26,500.
Retirement Savings Account A Retirement Savings Account is a type of retirement plan account that is envisioned to replace all three different types of Individual Retirement Accounts that are currently used in the United States: traditional IRA, Roth IRA and Simple IRA. Contributions would be made on an after-tax basis.
Retirement Week (NHL) Retirement Week was the week-long period from September 7, 2005 to September 14, 2005, in which seven veteran professional ice hockey players officially announced their retirement from the National Hockey League, seemingly one after the other. The trend began when Scott Stevens, longtime captain of the New Jersey Devils, announced his retirement; Vincent Damphousse, James Patrick, Al MacInnis, Trent Klatt, Mark Messier and Ron Francis followed suit soon thereafter (in that order).
Retiro, Buenos Aires Retiro is a barrio or district in north-eastern Buenos Aires, Argentina, famous for its high-society inhabitants, the Santa Fe avenue shopping district, San MartĂ­n square, and the Retiro transportation hub, which features train, subway (Line C), and the main bus terminal, always teeming with commuters in weekdays.
Retlaw Enterprises Retlaw Enterprises is a privately held company owned by the heirs of entertainment mogul Walt Disney. Disney formed the company to control the rights to his name and to manage two Disneyland attractions that he personally owned.
Reto Rossetti Reto Rossetti (born 11 April 1909, died 20 September 1994 in the British Gosport) was an Itialian-Swiss, later a British, Esperantist professor. His elder brother was Cezaro Rossetti, author of Kredu min, sinjorino!
Reto Von Arx Reto von Arx (born September 13th, 1976 in Egerkingen, Switzerland) is a Swiss hockey player who currently plays for HC Davos, where he wears number 83, he played for Chicago Blackhawks, Norfolk Admirals. He competed for Switzerland in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Retoin In software development, retoin is a variable named used by a rare convention to indicate the variable contains the value to be returned from a function or method. It is thought that this name comes from a play on the word "return".
Retouch (lithics) Retouch - the work done to a flint implement after its preliminary roughing-out in order to make it into a functional tool. In the case of a core-tool, such as a hand-axe, retouch may simply consist of roughly trimming the edge by striking with a hammerstone, but on smaller, finer flake or blade tools it is usually carried out by pressure flaking.
Retract (group theory) In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is termed a retract if there is an endomorphism of the group that maps surjectively to the subgroup and is identity on the subgroup. In symbols, H is a retract of G if and only if there is an endomorphism sigma:G to G such that sigma(h) = h for all h in H and sigma(g) in H for all g in G.
Retractable hardtop A Retractable Hardtop (also known as a coupe convertible and coupe cabriolet) refers to a car with a movable roof for a convertible that is made of plastic or metal. This results in a car with the flexibility of an optional roof yet the rigid roof of a coupé.
Retracted (phonetics) In phonetics, a retracted or backed sound is one that is pronounced further to the back of the vocal tract than some reference point. The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the under-bar, .
Retraction A retraction is a public statement, either in print, or by verbal statement that is made to correct a previously made statement that was incorrect, invalid, or in error. The intent of a public retraction is to correct any incorrect information.
Retractor (medical) A retractor is a surgical instrument that separates the edges of a surgical incision or wound, and holds back underlying organs and tissues, so that body parts under the incision may be accessed. They are available in many shapes, sizes, and styles.
Retraining Retraining is the process of learning a new skill or trade, often in response to a change in the economic environment. Generally it reflects changes in profession choice rather than an "upward" movement in the same field.
Retransmission (data networks) Retransmission refers to one of the basic mechanisms used by protocols operating over a packet switched computer network to provide reliable communication (such as that provided by a reliable byte stream, for example TCP).

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