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The Riding Lights blog has moved! You can now find us at https://ridinglights.wordpress.com/

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Barrie has set off to Whitehaven today ready for the start of his three day cycling challenge in the morning. You can listen to Barrie's interview on BBC Radio York by clicking here - he appears about 2 hours 33 minutes in!Each day Barrie will be checking in with the radio show, as well as updating his blog which you can follow at:http://www.barstep.co.uk/dawn/Barrie is doing the ride to raise

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-53137347492221472982010-06-08T15:04:00.002+01:002010-06-08T15:07:39.355+01:00

Barrie Stephenson will be cycling from Whitehaven to Sunderland across three days between June 23rd and 25th, on a journey which will take him 140 miles, through The Lake District and over the Pennines. Barrie’s target is £1,000 and it would be great if as many RL members as possible can help him to reach it!You can donate to Barrie on his JustGiving site at http://www.justgiving.com/

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A good week in the Peak District for the Shoddies visiting prisons, schools and with a public perfomance in High Peak. Fantastic feedback received. The team stayed with welcoming hosts and even managed to enjoy a game of indoor croquet! Sheffield this week; from green to urban! More great hosts making for a fantastic tour experience.

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Liturgical drama takes to the roadPat Ashworth attends a Lenten experience from Riding LightsNew commandment: Luke Waldock and Jonathan Race in The Narrow RoadPhoto: Andrew Dyer<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![

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The 2010 Roughshod company have begun their tour with two great school visits. They would like to thank everyone for their hospitality and making them feel so welcome!

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On the road to Scotland Rachel reports more enjoyable times on the Origins tour. Great hospitality and audiences have helped to make it a great tour although the cast are looking forward to shortly returning to see everyone in York!!!

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Paul, Kelvin, Ian, Desmond and Snowy undertake the challenge to remake the epic movie The Ten Commandments on top of England's highest peak. This is the result - a 220 minute movie condensed into just under 20.Their adventure has so far raised over £2,700 in aid of The Sky's the Limit!

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A week of good audiences and generous hosts. Illness has once again hit the camp with Rachel and Alan feeling a bit ropey!

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Rachel reports another good week. The Leatherhead Theatre was a great venue and had a great audience. In Southampton the team stayed in a guest house which made them appreciate the host families even more! Went to above bar church in Southampton which was ace! Had an amazing 3 course dinner before the show last night in Windsor so being looked after very well!

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Rachel reports another great week playing to auidences from 30 to 300! The team have eaten lots including an abundance of fruit salad! Oli's foot is better so the team enjoyed a beauitful walk on the moors near Tavistock. The show is continuing to bring joy to people and causing them to think!

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Origins for allWhy are we here, say the bells of Grasmere?And where are we bound, say the bells all around?Mark Woods hears some answersHAVING spent most of the millennia since their composition as a fount of wise sermons and personal devotion, the first few chapters of Genesis have over the last hundred years or so become a source of often bitter theological strife.Denominations have been split,

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Origins and Lemons cast member Rachel Wilcock reports another great but busy week on tour. The highlights of the week include the trip to Kingsdown Theatre which in itself was a fantastic venue made even better by the large audience of around 300. The magnificiently beautiful church of St Mary’s Cogges was cosy but the audience once again meant a fantastic night was had by all.Rachel sends get

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Origins and Lemons cast member Rachel Wilcock is writing this tour diary:"We're just over one week into the tour and the cast and crew are having a great time.We've had some fantastic audiences - loads of really big belly laughs.It takes a bit of time to get used to being on tour; we have finally worked out how to fit all the set into the van at the end of each venue. Dan's joining the crew from

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Luke Walton, former Roughshod actor, Arts Development Officer for the Bible Society and co-producer of the recent Bible Society/Riding Lights film 'Unscripted', will be taking over an 8m high plinth in Trafalgar Square tomorrow afternoon for one hour as... part of the Fourth Plinth Project.You can read more about the project here http://www.oneandother.co.ukAmong other things, he will be

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Review: Origins & Lemons, Riding Lights Theatre Company, on tour until December 5 YORK EVENING PRESS9:55am Thursday 1st October 2009 Origins & Lemons, Riding Lights Theatre Company, on tour until December 5 I’ve been to a few Riding Lights performances now, including African Snow and Redemption Song, but Origins & Lemons – Squeezing The Juice Out Of Genesis was my first

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Win the only complete, hand-written copy of 'Bugs', Antony Dunn’s third collection of poems Antony has written, in his own fair hand, a complete and unique copy of his third collection of poems, Bugs, in a classic black Moleskine sketchbook, using a series of .38mm black Muji gel-pens. It will also contain one or two new poems, which are not included in the printed version of Bugs. The

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A sneak peek into the rehearsal room.........For more about the show - touring nationally from 29 September - 5 December just click below to go to the:ORIGINS & LEMONS WEBSITE

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Our first lot of skydivers take to the skies in Oxford. Well done to all! More skydives are happening over the next few weeks - watch this space!

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WELL ,WE WERE NEARLY THERE... AND THEN THE DREADED SWINE FLU DECIMATED THE TEAM!Swine flu produces particularly nasty complications in camels and sheep, but nothing of course to compare with the miserable, shivering, sweating, croaking lump which Paul turned into on Thursday night. So the trip has had to be postponed until the middle of October (the best weather day in the 16/17 weekend).

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Almost immediately after the end of the Improthon, our first The Sky's the Limit Sky Divers were in the air. Heather Rushforth, Darcy Ball and Richard Allsopp took off over Oxford and gracefully descended as the sun began to set - and all to raise money for Riding Lights. Many thanks to the three of you.There's more sky diving today as RL Stage Manager Rob Gooch and loyal member, Angela Smith,

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Our last team of improvisers - some of whom had been here for the full 24 hours, some of whom had been here for many, many of the 24 hours brought the Improthon to a triumphant conclusion at 5pm today.Somewhat crazed by the experience, a few of them couldn't quite grasp the fact that they could re-enter the real world again and didn't have to keep making things up.They'll be ready for a rest now

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Watch the fundraising Improthon here:http://www.ridinglights.org/sub_sites/stl/video.html24 hours of non-stop improvising from 5pm Friday 11th - 5pm Saturday 12th SeptemberPledge your sponsorship here:www.justgiving.com/riding-lights

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Here we are in the week leading up to our big Fundraising Weekend and there's already news to report! Members of Riding Lights Theatre took part in a sponsored bike ride last Saturday raising over £1,000 towards The Sky's The Limit.You can read a bit more about this and even see a video by clicking HEREYou can also see read about some other activities happening as part of The Sky's the Limit

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Buy Rob Gooch a parachute! Our stage manager Rob is going to be jumping out of an aeroplane on Saturday 12th September. As yet, he can’t afford to buy a parachute. Help him out by donating to his parachute fund HERE. He’d much prefer it if he had one come September, so be generous.Snowy and Desmond perform at the top of mountains with Paul Burbridge and Kelvin Goodspeed. Long standing Riding

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We are teaming up with JumpMAD (www.jumpMAD.co.uk) to help raise £50,000 towards the work of Riding Lights.We are offering ANYONE the opportunity to show how much they love Riding Lights by jumping out of an aeroplane! All you have to do is raise at least £375 worth of sponsorship with all funds going to Riding Lights and JumpMAD will then make all the necessary arrangements and the costs of you

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-88096578649543152732009-05-13T11:38:00.001+01:002009-05-13T11:41:42.092+01:00

Back from the 168 Film Project awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard returned to York to join the cast, crew and those who had helped in the making of Unscripted to watch the film at the City Screen cinema. The invited audience watched Unscripted followed by Colin Pringle and Fionn Watts' award winning behind the scenes film about the making of Unscripted. The large

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-65519489336444874502009-04-20T10:54:00.009+01:002009-04-21T07:55:15.473+01:00

Click HERE to see a short version of the film UnscriptedRiding Lights Theatre Company's first professional film production has taken four of the eighteen awards at the 168 Hour Film Project Festival in Los Angeles, having been nominated in a record breaking fifteen categories. Their film Unscripted, was produced in collaboration with Reel Issues Films and supported by Bible Society.Producer Ralph

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Monday - The day the editing starts!8am Jimi Lund, the editor starts work on putting the film together and by 8pm we are able to have a look at the material. In the meantime Jackie and Luke have taken the HD (hard drive – remember we are using the Red Camera – the digital film camera) to the online editor in Barnsley (South Yorkshire) and then crossed West Yorkshire back into Skipton (North

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The movie business gets quite excited about this moment - when the cry goes out 'It’s a wrap' and the filming is over. Our shoot was no different with welcome applause from exhausted crew and cast. The last 36 hours: 12:00 midday and we are in the midst of a Riding Light Members day. As a former member of the Roughshod company I am interviewed by Bernadette Burbridge during the afternoon.5:00 pm

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9:00 People arrive from Manchester, Rugby, London and Shropshire or have simply had to fight through snow drifts from the villages around York.12:00 Crew call and set is prepared for the shoot 1:55 An introduction from Luke Walton (Exec producer for Bible Society) and Paul Burbridge (Director) on the background to the work and how and why we are looking at 'affirmation' (it comes out of a verse

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it’s a cliché but there really is something electric about seeing the crew and cast arrive: everyone focussed and energetic, cast in rehearsal and then finally the hour arrives and cameras can roll. As this is a timed competition, 2:00pm today marked the moment that cameras could roll. They will keep rolling until midnight tonight, but by Sunday night the shoot will be over and we will be onto

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It's all systems go! go! go! the shoot schedule is Friday: 12pm-12midnight, Saturday 6pm - midnight, Sunday 9am-9pm! and after that... well... keep reading!

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-37997321017143713852009-02-12T16:33:00.001Z2009-02-12T16:33:42.748Z

So what does today look like, well that pile of contracts awaits and the snow is already settling, so deadlines and details are of the essence. But so is a great deal of creativity. This year the verse we have been given from Luke’s gospel tells of Jesus Baptism and his affirmation he received from his Father (Luke 3: 21,22), and conversations on how to convey this with crew, cast and producers

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Day of mounting paperwork and details, but some really good progress. We had an excellent meeting with the post production team in Leeds. We will be shooting with the Red camera, quite probably the digital camera that will replace film and certainly capable of creating the look of 35mm film. However this also requires detailed planning. Today we also secured a further two possible locations and

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Pre production is going on apace: bringing the cast and crew together, checking every detail from tea to toilet rolls, sourcing equipment and finalising the script. The cast is still to be confirmed (but need to start rehearsals in two days time) and we are flat out on a million and one details you might never have thought came into film production; and that we are only hoping we have remembered!

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We have been allocated the following piece of verse from the Bible on which we will create our film project:Luke 3:21-22 (NIV)"21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."

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After our first "toe-dip" into film writing last Summer we have teamed up with The Bible Society to take part in the 168 Film Project. The 168 Film Project exists to encourage emerging film-makers. Worldwide, people form groups that are passionate about telling stories. Movies are a maximum of 11 minutes long and are based on the Bible. Films premiere at the 168 Film Festival April 3-4, 2009 in

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Hello, its Andrew again. Here are some more pictures from Summer School, including Sporting Mayhem, The Member's Event on Wednesday night and The Final Night Party on Friday night. Just like my last entry to this blog, what I have done is create a big collection of these photos on Flickr, with lots of little sets to make them easier to browse.The whole collection can be found here or you can

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Hello, its Andrew writing again. I've just been sorting through all of the hundreds of photos I took at Summer Theatre School this year, and I have whittled them down to a number of little sets. There are far too many for me to show them all individually here, it would be an ugly mess, so what I have done is create a big collection of these photos on Flickr, with lots of little sets to make them

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I've now returned from London which was the last leg of the visit of the group from Bethlehem. We arrived in London on Monday evening (11th August) which was also Elena's 18th birthday. I had arranged a special meal for them at the Maramia Cafe, possibly the only restaurant serving Palestinian food in the UK (let me know if you know of any others!). After a week of school food in Harrogate as

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The Official Photos From Summer School! :)Normally Jonathan writes these blog entries, but today he has asked me, Andrew, to upload a handful of the photos I took during this year's Summer Theatre School. You will find photographs of almost everything that was produced in the week except the writers course, Behind The Lines, simply because their work doesn't lend itself so naturally to being

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-75600205245910041762008-08-10T09:58:00.002+01:002008-08-10T10:09:18.677+01:00

It's been tricky trying to keep the blog updated in the last few days of the Summer School. How to fit in blogging time, never mind time to download or upload pictures, in the midst of so much activity!! The absence of an internet connection other than a slightly slow one through my phone hasn't helped much either......Anyway, I'll get some more pictures up as soon as possible but I'm off to

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Tuesday and Wednesday were busy working days at the Summer School with the shows that each course is presenting starting to come together. For those working on existing scripts it is the slog of getting through all the blocking and starting to give the play some shape and character. For those on devised courses its time to start making some decisions and some late nights for those staff who

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photos by Andrew Dyer

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After a Communion Service in the morning focusing on the Sermon on the Mount, the week's work began in earnest in the afternoon. Our young guests from Palestine are all on the Giant Leaps course which is being led by Clyde Bain, Suzi Fowler and Leanne Sedin. Together the group will devise a performance using movement and voice techniques which will be performed on Friday morning. In the

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Riding Lights Summer School 2008 began yesterday afternoon. After an introductory session for all the courses there was a 'welcome' meeting for staff and participants and a performance by Riding Lights Roughshod of extracts from their show Hope Street.

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-82399802943736443632008-08-02T09:13:00.008+01:002008-12-10T15:03:39.895Z

Friday was another long day of sightseeing. This time to Castle Howard, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay. Jen and Sally accompanied them again and they also met up with Ian and Nina Carter-Brown, long-time Riding Lights supporters and friends who kindly treated our guests to fish and chips.

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A walk round a rather wet York this afternoon and a visit to the Castle Museum which York Castle Museum is one of Britain's leading museums of everyday life. It shows how people used to live by displaying thousands of household objects and by recreating rooms, shops, streets - and even prison cells.A ride on a carousel outside the museum was great fun but the group are now slumped in the theatre

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-4424923292569458242008-07-31T13:53:00.012+01:002008-12-10T15:03:40.703Z

This morning our visitors from Palestine met at Friargate Theatre and then walked over to York Minster for a tour given by the Canon Precentor, the Revd Canon Jeremy Fletcher. On the way they passed the 'purple man', a regular feature on Stonegate.During the tour of the Minster the group had an opportunity to see areas not usually open to the public including the mason's loft, the vestry and the

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-48048222028973121472008-07-31T12:41:00.004+01:002008-12-10T15:03:41.018Z

Luke Waldock, Israel Oyelumade, Charles Hanley, Rhian McLean, Amy Todd and Sally OkaforRiding Lights has performed at the Lambeth Conference this week, the ten-yearly meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion.On Monday the team of six actors performed a short piece called Making Peace by Paul Burbridge as part of the Spouses Conference of events. On Tuesday, the spouses led a joint

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-45988760609511024092008-07-31T00:14:00.003+01:002008-12-10T15:03:41.158Z

Salam, Elena, Dana, Khaled, Sari and Hani arrive at London Heathrow Airport.So we've been to Heathrow and back to York today and it took a few hours - about 9 hours driving all told. That's nothing really when you consider that it took about the same length of time for our guests from the West Bank to travel from Bethlehem to Amman on Tuesday and that's only a fraction of the distance we

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-19169940484211865962008-07-29T11:41:00.004+01:002008-07-29T19:10:19.051+01:00

Our excited guests from Bethlehem and the surrounding areas of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour began their journey very early this morning, leaving Al Harah Theatre at 6am with their families waving them off. An hour ago I received an email from Nicola at Al Harah to say that they had crossed safely over the Allenby Bridge into Jordan from where they catch their flight to London tomorrow. We are

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-65325991024518486952008-07-29T11:37:00.001+01:002008-12-10T15:03:41.329Z

Sarah Dean and Jess Ransom call the raffle at the end of their show last Saturday night which raised a further £400 to help with the costs of the visit by the group from Palestine to the Summer Theatre School.Many thanks to Jess, Sarah and all who came along to support the event.

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-90064672354752871842008-07-27T09:59:00.004+01:002008-12-10T15:03:41.679Z

Last night saw Friargate Theatre in York hosting the last in the series of fundraising events raising money to fund the visit by the six Palestinians who arrive in the UK on Wednesday and will be attending the Riding Lights Summer School from 2-9 August.This was the second performance by comedy duo Girl and Dean to raise money for this cause and this time they brought us their hilarious new show,

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-11341914818433674462008-07-16T16:27:00.003+01:002008-12-10T15:03:41.854Z

Given the weather (!), we’ve put away the usual Summer School t-shirts this year and are instead offering you the opportunity to buy a ‘hoodie’ unique to STS ‘08. Glamorously modelled here by two of your very own Summer School staff (Andrew and Jenny) one of these special tops can be yours in time for the start of Summer School if you get your order in before Friday 18th July. Just phone the

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One way or another people seem to return to the Summer School.... Three members of our current Roughshod company have attended the Summer School as participants in the past and they are certainly not the first STS ‘graduates’ to work for Riding Lights – there have been many others. This year we are very pleased to have with us Sarah and Ned Lunn who met at the Summer School a few years ago, got

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-26477565528580670652008-07-13T21:10:00.004+01:002008-07-13T21:16:45.699+01:00

If you're coming on the Riding Lights Summer School, don't forget to join our group on Facebook.http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25324479828&ref=tsJust click to apply and if you're a Summer School participant or member of staff then we'll make you a member of the group.Of course if you are not coming on the Summer School but would like to stay in touch with Riding Lights through Facebook

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-15649513488515711872008-07-10T20:32:00.003+01:002008-12-10T15:03:42.330Z

We have received a great deal of help in making arrangements for the group to travel from Palestine from Al Harah Theatre Company who are based in Beit Jala in the Bethlehem area. Having helped us identify the young people who will be coming to the Summer School, Nicola from Al Harah accompanied them on a journey this morning from Bethlehem to Ramallah to get their visas to visit the UK from

RIDING LIGHTS...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6858682818646906438.post-78055224879184592932008-07-09T22:31:00.002+01:002008-12-10T15:03:42.466Z

Riding Lights Trustee and Board Member, Barrie Stephenson, completed his 110 mile bike ride through the Yorkshire Dales yesterday. He's managed to raise an online total of over £1,300 towards the costs of bringing the group from Palestine and several hundred pounds on top of that raised offline.You can read more about Barrie's bike ride at:Rising DawnYou can still contribute by making a donation

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