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Through programming successes like “American Idol” (still the most watched series on television in the United States), “reality TV” has grown to be a huge part of the programming broadcast on both cable and network television. The emergence of reality programming as one of the most successful and profitable genres found on television would seem to suggest this is a relatively new invention. Actually, it stretches all the way back to the 1940s. Here we’ll recount a little about the history of this style of show, along with some things you might not know about reality programs in America and worldwide.

• In 1948, the first “reality show” aired. It was Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera,” a precursor to MTV’s popular prank show “Punk’d” (currently hosted by pop superstar Justin Bieber and a revolving rotation of young entertainers). Unlike “Punk’d,” which focuses on pranks played on celebrities, “Candid Camera” featured mild pranks played on everyday individuals, and captured their reactions.

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1. MOVIES: What was Indiana Jones’ real first name in Steven Spielberg’s movie se-ries?

2. LANGUAGE: What is a raincoat called in English slang?

3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest Eu-ropean country where people still drive on the left?

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6. COMICS: What is the name of Jeremy’s brother in the comic strip “Zits”?

7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What former first lady appeared in a margarine commercial on television?

8. LITERATURE: In “The Polar Express,” what present did the boy ask Santa Claus to give him?

9. ENTERTAINERS: Comedian Minnie Pearl used to wear a trademark hat with a price tag hanging from it. What was the amount on the tag?

10. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our so-lar system has a large red spot on it?

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1. Henry 2. A “mac,” short for “Macintosh” 3. United Kingdom 4. Eagles 5. A flamboyance 6. Chad 7. Eleanor Roosevelt8. A silver bell 9. $1.98 10. Jupiter

A “Reality” Check (continued):• “Candid Camera” actually emerged from

another “reality show” from another medium, a 1947 radio version with the same concept called “Candid Microphone.”

• “Candid Camera” was followed after each broadcast by another pioneer of reality TV, the Ted Mack talent search show, “Original Amateur Hour.” Ted Mack’s show televised amateurs competing before a live audience, who chose the winner. It was the first example of public voting determining the outcome of a TV show, predating “Idol” by decades.

• The longest running reality show in the United States is “Cops,” which has been gracing our sets since 1989.

• MTV likes to tout its series “The Real World” (a success since the early ‘90s and still going strong) as the father of what most think of as modern reality TV, but that distinction probably goes to PBS’ “An American Family.” The 1973 series followed a family as they went through a divorce.

• “An American Life” was so influential that it inspired a well-reviewed cinematic satire by comedian and filmmaker, Albert Brooks. 1979’s “Real Life” follows a filmmaker (played

by Brooks) who is so inspired by the success of the PBS series that he tries to replicate it with a different family, with unexpectedly dire results.

• The incidence of reality programming on TV today is higher than it has ever been. One in four programs in primetime is reality based. In addition to its popularity with audiences, the genre is popular with TV executives for its cost-saving benefits. The average reality show costs about $500,000 per episode, compared to $2 million for a sitcom.

• Although reality TV has been a viable genre for over six decades, it’s taken a while for the Emmys to take notice. The first award in the genre, “Outstanding Reality-Competition Series,” was given in 2003 to “The Amazing Race.”

• In 2008, an additional category was added honoring “Best Reality TV Show Host.” It went to “Survivor” host Jeff Probst, who has since become a repeat winner in the category.

• Reality shows aren’t just influential in the United States. Singer Susan Boyle’s 2009 audition on the UK’s popular show “Britain’s Got Talent” has been viewed 120 million times on YouTube.

• Reality television has also reached the Muslim world. In 2010, a show called “Imam Muda” pitted contestants in a variety of challenges. These challenges included tests of Islamic theory, the counseling of teenagers and the recitation of the Quran. The winner received a job as an Imam, along with a free scholarship in Saudi Arabia and a new car.

• The most popular reality show in the United States is “American Idol,” but few know its

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It was German-American painter and lithographer Herm Albright who made the following sage obser-vation: “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”

It’s well-known that there were shortages of many items during World War II -- and caffeine was one. It was such a problem, in fact, that the chemists at Coca-Cola tried to find a substitute, even experiment-ing with a derivative of bat guano. The idea was nixed by an executive who was afraid of the public backlash if the truth ever came out.

Just as a group of birds is called a flock, a group of frogs is called an army.

Ever wonder why a barber pole has red and white stripes? It’s a rather grisly tale. At one time barbers did more than cut hair; they sometimes performed marriages and baptisms, served as dentists and even performed surgery. When engaged in the medical work, any excess blood was soaked up by white tow-els, which were often hung up on a pole outside to dry. As the wind wrapped the towel around the pole, it created a design of red and white stripes.

The 1982 film “Gandhi,” which was awarded eight Oscars, including the one for best picture, used a whopping 300,000 extras.

Toilet paper was first introduced in the United States in 1857, but the idea didn’t take off -- the paper being offered was evidently too much like the paper in the Sears catalog, which is what most people used at the time.

The most popular perfume in the world is Chanel No. 5.

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Q: Please tell me if “Sanctuary” will be back with new epi-sodes in Syfy. -- Marlies W., via emailA: Syfy announced in May that the science-fiction drama would not return for a fifth season. Series star Amanda Tap-ping took to Twitter to address the show’s cancelation: “To

all the fans of Sanctuary, we love and adore you. Thank you for the love and support.”***Q: I loved seeing Eric Mabius on “Franklin and Bash” earlier this year, and I wondered what else I can see him in? -- Jeanna M., BaltimoreA: Aside from recently starring in the Hallmark Channel movie “How to Fall in Love” and making a guest-starring turn on “The Client List,” he co-stars with indie queen Parker Posey in the Sundance Festival hit “Price Check.” When I spoke with Eric recently, he told me all about the movie.“You’re going to laugh your ass off. I think IFC bought the film. It’s a dark comedy centering on this guy I play (Pete Cozy), who gives up his dreams of being a music A&R guy. He moves to the suburbs of Long Island and accepts a market-ing job at a small chain of grocery stores. He has a wife and a child, and is trying to pursue the ‘American Dream.’“Parker Posey’s character, Susan, is put in charge of this sec-tion of grocery stores. Nobody in the office cares about his job. Susan comes in and shakes everyone’s universe up. She is so quintessential Parker Posey. She is brilliant, and she’s so funny. It’s a lot of fun.” ***Q: Now that “Desperate Housewives” is over, what will Marc Cherry do next? -- Miranda T., via e-mailA: Marc Cherry has never been one to gather moss, so his rolling stone is heading to Lifetime, where he’s developed a new series called “Devious Maids.” Originally developed for ABC, Lifetime will air the series in 2013, and it will star Ana Ortiz, Judy Reyes, Roselyn Sanchez, Grant Show, Mariana Klaveno and Susan Lucci.To piggyback off an idea I got from Annie Potts when I interviewed her earlier this year, I think Lifetime would be remiss if they didn’t see the potential of grabbing up the recently canceled ABC show “GCB” and pair it with “Devious Maids.” As Annie told me: “If we were paired with ’Devious Maids,’ we’d have the great American equivalent of ’Upstairs, Down-stairs’ -- the rich and righteous in Dallas and the maids of Beverly Hills. What network execu-tive wouldn’t see home run written all over that?”***Q: Will there be a “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie? -- Tina T., Sarasota, Fla.A: Universal Studios and Focus Features bought the rights to the “Fifty Shades” trilogy in March, and have brought “The Social Network” producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti on board to help bring the runaway-hit book to the big screen. There is no word yet on casting or a release date.


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origins. “Idol” was created in the ‘90s by Simon Fuller. Fuller rose to prominence as the manager, and some would say manufacturer, of pop sensation The Spice Girls. He was so important to the group’s success that the British press dubbed him “Svengali Spice.” When the group suddenly fired him, Fuller devised a way to create a group over which he had full control, thus “Idol” was born.

• “American Idol” was actually supposed to be an online show when Fuller created it in 1997. However, the lack of high-speed internet in most homes made the idea unfeasible, so Fuller went to television to broadcast his idea instead.

• “American Idol” is actually a spin-off of a similar program in Great Britain called “Pop Idol.” After agreeing to be one of the judges on the upstart American version, Simon Cowell nearly quit in the last week before the first episode aired. Cowell worried that his confrontational, distinctly British personality would not work with American audiences.

• In the nonfiction book “American Idol: The Untold Story,” author Richard Rushfield interviewed Cowell about his nearly quitting the show before it ever aired. Cowell said, “I remember calling my lawyer, and I said, ‘I don’t want to do it. I haven’t signed the contract. Get me out of it.”

• Fortunately, Fox producers managed to talk

A “Reality” Check (continued):


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PICKS OF THE WEEK“Hatfields & McCoys” (TV-MA) -- The His-tory Channel took some time off from airing unscripted shows about pawn shops and rough-necks who work in remote locations to air something related to history -- and it worked out pretty well! This six-hour miniseries takes a bloody page out of American history and pro-duces a decent scripted drama with real actors.Devil Hatfield (Kevin Costner) and Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton) served together in the Confederate Army. When the war ends, a feud starts up as McCoy suspected Hatfield of leav-ing duty too early. Things spiral downward from there, as blood begets blood and the cycle of vengeance reaches down through the genera-tions. It may not be the most historically accu-rate -- the details of the feud are murky to begin with -- but it makes for good drama.

“The Magic School Bus: The Complete Se-ries” -- If you have rugrats, whippersnappers, young’ns or kids who need to learn a thing or two, you could do a lot worse than a ride on the Magic School Bus. Ms. Frizzle encourages her fourth grade class to “get messy” and “make mistakes” while she takes them on journeys through the solar system, the ancient world, the human digestive tract and everywhere between. This animated series from Scholastic can help pass a few rainy days with education and enter-tainment.

DOG OF THE WEEK“LOL” (PG-13) -- This Miley Cyrus vehicle was all but pushed under the rug, but contractu-

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“Detention” (R) -- On the topic of annoying teenagers, somebody sure tried to make a witty, off-the-wall, fast-paced send-up of high-school dramas, and wound up with this scatterbrained mess. It gets points for originality and visual pa-nache, but only partial credit because it’s just not there yet. A masked slasher starts killing kids in a colorful high school full of fast-talking subur-banites, and things only get more self-referential and difficult to follow (much less laugh at) from there.


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Mother nature is a powerful force and in drag racing it is al-ways something racers, fans, sponsors and track management dance with every season. On Saturday July 21 the weather was a solid green light for NitroFest at Mission Raceway. Great to see so many new fans coming out to the races. The racing was fast and furious, could have watched the Bucky Austin and Mark Hentges funny cars race each other all night. There side by side finishes gave me goose bumps. There were so many incredible side by side burnouts you had to be there to experience them. When I was going through the Pit area where you can chat with drivers, the crew and family members. I ran into driver Kelsey Elliott all of twenty years old, she is the daughter of drag racer Rod Elliott (www.rodelliottracing.com). Kelsey explained to me that her dad had been racing drag boats when he was 17 years old right up until she was born. Ron decided with his new baby Kelsey, drag boats were not the safest sport and switched to 200 mph racing on pavement. Ron drives a 1970 Barracuda blown al-cohol funny car. Kelsey excitingly tells me her proud dad parked his car for the summer this year so he could allow her to start drag racing herself. Kelsey jumped into a blown alco-hol dragster and on her first race ran a 7.53 time at 188mph. At Mission she improved her time to 7.07 ending up in third place the reason, mother nature had a final say. Sunday the race was shut down due to rain, Kelsey who was in the finals could not finish the race as it was determined to finish the finals at a later date at Pacific Raceways near Seattle. Kelsey would not be able to attend, she is happy though, "That's my second race ever and I finished 3rd." Look out for this rising star in the future as she has the drag racing fever.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) It’s a good time for travel-loving Taureans to take off for fun-filled jaunts to new places. And don’t be surprised if Cu-pid tags along for what could be a very eventful trip.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You appear to be of two minds about continuing a relationship that seems to be riding roughshod over your emotions. A frank talk could help you decide one way or the other.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Stepping back from a relationship problem provides a new perspective on how to deal with it. Meanwhile, watch your words. Something said in anger now could backfire later.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) A changing situation makes the Big Cat uneasy. But hold on until things settle down around the 4th. Meanwhile, continue your good work on that still-unfinished project.

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• Stryker was worried the “cheesy singing contest” would hurt his image. With no time to recast, the show decided to go with three judges instead. In an ironic coincidence, Stryker later served as the house DJ for the daytime talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. DeGeneres was briefly added as a fourth judge on “American Idol.”

• “Idol” fixture Ryan Seacrest nearly wasn’t on the show as well. After being chosen for the show, contract negotiations stalled between the network and Seacrest’s father, who served as his manager. Seacrest signed his contract mere hours before the first episode was shot.

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Get The Picture?Since we spent some time on the stars of reality television, it seems appropriate to allot a little space to the medium that provided them stardom. Here are a few interesting pieces of information about the invention that helped shape the modern age.• The first displayed image on a television was only

30 grainy lines. It was displayed in the year 1926 by J.L. Baird. The digital image currently seen on our TV sets is nearly 35 times as dense. In addition to being a much clearer image, the digital signal of modern televisions is 1,080 lines.

• Until late last year, the largest plasma TV available for purchase was a 103-inch plasma sold by Panasonic. It comes at the budget-unfriendly (except for the fabulously wealthy) price of $70,000.

• However, Panasonic unveiled an even larger one at the most recent Consumer Electronics Show (known as the “Super Bowl of Technology”) in Las Vegas. The 152-inch Panasonic 3D Plasma TV can be had by the true television connoisseur for $500,000.

• July 1, 1941, marked the broadcast of the very first advertisement in TV history. It occurred prior to a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

• The ad for Bulova Watches was 20 seconds long. The price for those 20 seconds of airtime was only $9.

• To put it in perspective, in 2008, a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl broadcast went for $2.7 million. It was the most expensive airtime in the world to that point.

• The shortest TV commercial ever produced was for a Canadian music and video channel called MuchMusic. It was created by a Canadian named Tharanga Ramanayake. He produced 12 different versions of the commercial. Each of these was a half a frame long. That’s the equivalent of 1/60th of a second! Even those with the shortest attention spans would have a pretty hard time registering that. The first of these micro-commercials was aired on January 2, 2002.

• The current struggle over piracy that has been the focus of the music, movie and gaming industries is by no means the first piracy issue addressed in the courts. In 1970, when Sony first began selling video cassette recorders (or VCRs) capable of recording shows off television, they were sued by the film studios for copyright infringement. Years later, Sony would be vindicated by the Supreme Court.

• The two longest-running talk shows in the history of television are found in Ireland and the United States. “The Tonight Show” in America is the longest running, still going strong since first airing in 1954. The second longest is the “Late Late Show” of Ireland. It’s been on since 1962.

• The youngest-ever TV host of his own show is in Australia. It’s Luis Tanner, the presenter of “Cooking for Kids with Luis” on that country’s Nickelodeon channel. Though he’s 13 years old now, the first episode of Luis’ weekly show aired when he was just six years old!

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On July 31, 1715, a hurricane strikes the east coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships carrying tons of gold and silver coins and killing nearly 1,000 people. About 80 percent of the treasures was recovered within a year, but the rest remained lost until the 1960s.

On Aug. 5, 1858, the first telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean is completed. Four British and American vessels met in mid-ocean and suc-cessfully laid 2,000 miles of cable, often at a depth of more than 2 miles.

On Aug. 3, 1861, the last entry of Charles Dick-ens’ serialized novel “Great Expectations” is published. Dickens’ father was thrown in debt-ors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.

On Aug. 2, 1876, “Wild Bill” Hickok, one of the greatest gunfighters of the American West, is murdered in Deadwood, S.D. Hickok was play-ing cards with his back to the saloon door when a young gunslinger named Jack McCall walked into the saloon, approached Hickok from behind, and shot him in the back of the head.

On Aug. 4, 1944, Jewish German-born Anne Frank and her family, who had been hiding in German-occupied Holland, are found by the Ge-stapo and transported to various concentration camps. The young girl’s diary of her time in hid-ing was found after her death and published in 1947 as “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

On July 30, 1976, American Bruce Jenner wins gold in the decathlon at the Montreal Olympics and sets a world record in the event. After his win, Jenner was voted the 1976 AP Male Athlete of the Year. The 1976 Olympics was his last de-cathlon.

On Aug. 1, 1981, MTV, the Music Television network, makes its maiden broadcast with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” The roughly 80 different videos that made up that first week’s rotation on MTV probably rep-resented nearly every promotional music video then available.


1. Paul Splittorff won 20 games in 1973.

2. The San Diego Padres won one game in 1984.3. Roger Staubach.

4. Sixteen consecutive sea-sons.

5. Frank Mahovlich (1963, ’69) and Bobby Hull (1970-

71).6. Colombia.

7. Bob Fitzsimmons, 1897-99.

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Lavender May Calm Hyperactive Dogs

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I read on an Internet fo-rum that lavender can help calm nervous and hy-peractive dogs. Is this the case? I know that some plants are toxic to pets. -- Jenna C., Los Angeles

DEAR JENNA: Lavender, or the scent of laven-der, has been touted as a natural way to help calm down dogs. Experts advocating natural treatments recommend placing a few drops of the essential oil on a cloth, a favorite blanket or a cotton ball and placing it near the dog. (Make sure your dog doesn’t ingest it.) I’ve seen recommendations to place the essential oil directly on a dog’s coat, but this can cause skin irritation, so you should avoid that.For cats, however, lavender is a more dangerous proposition. Ingesting the essential oil or acciden-tally getting it on their skin can cause stomach up-set and, in larger doses, liver toxicity. It’s true that some plants, including herbs, are dan-gerous for both dogs and cats. Lily plants should not be in a house with cats, as they are very poi-sonous. Eucalyptus plants and essential oil should be kept away from pets; the plant leaves can cause vomiting if ingested, and the oil can make cats quite ill.A list of plants that are poisonous for cats and dogs can be found at earthclinic.com. Before bringing a new plant into the house or before applying an herbal or aromatherapy remedy to your pet, do your homework to make sure it’s not toxic. Your veterinarian also can provide expert advice on herbs and plants to avoid.

Send your questions or tips to [email protected], or write to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. For more pet care-related advice and information, visit www.pawscorner.com.


By: Sam Mazzotta

Tropical Sorbet LoafA slice of this looks like a summer sunset or pretty sand art made on a seaside boardwalk. The best part: It’s really easy -- just scoop and freeze. Your kids can help.

1 pint raspberry sorbet or strawberry sorbet, softened1 pint mango or passion fruit sorbet, softened1 pint coconut sorbet, softened1 pint orange or peach sorbet, softenedShaved coconut, fresh raspberries and fresh mint leaves, for garnish

1. Spray 9- by 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line pan with plastic wrap.2. Using 2-inch (1/4 cup) ice cream scoop, arrange 8 alternating scoops of sorbet (2 scoops of each sor-bet) in 1 layer in pan. Place plastic wrap on sorbet scoops and press mixture down to flatten and elimi-nate air pockets; remove plastic wrap.3. Repeat to make 2 more layers, alternating sorbets within each layer and from layer to layer, and mak-ing sure to press mixture down each time. Cover and freeze until firm, at least 6 hours.4. To serve, uncover pan and invert onto platter. Wrap towels dampened with warm water on bot-tom and sides of pan for about 20 seconds to slightly soften sorbet. Remove pan and plastic wrap. Garnish loaf with coconut, raspberries, and mint. Makes 16 servings.

Each serving: About 125 calories, 1g total fat (1g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 15mg sodium, 26g total carbs, 1g dietary fiber, 0g protein.

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7. fun. “Some Nights”8. Kenny Chesney “Welcome to the Fishbowl”

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Zucchini Ham Pasta SaladWhen the temperature and the heat index create readings of 100 in the shade, you definitely need a plan of action for supper that doesn’t add to the problem. Bring this to the supper table and see if you don’t become an instant hero!

1 1/2 cups cold cooked rotini pasta, rinsed and drained1 cup chopped unpeeled zucchini

1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms3/4 cup fat-free Ranch dressing1/4 cup fat-free mayonnaise1/4 cup reduced-fat Parmesan cheese3/4 cup reduced-fat Cheddar cheese1 1/2 cups diced 97 percent fat-free ham

In a large bowl, mix Ranch dressing, mayonnaise and Parmesan cheese. Add rotini pasta, zucchini, tomatoes and mushrooms. Mix well to combine. Stir in Cheddar cheese and ham. Cover and refrig-erate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again just before serving. Serves 6 (1 full cup each).

„ Each serving equals: 151 calories, 3g fat, 7g pro-tein, 24g carb., 557mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 1/2 Meat, 1 Starch, 1 Vegetable.


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Drag Racing: Flashback Bill DonerIn today’s world, Bill Doner would be referred to as "Uber-promoter", but forty years ago when the charismatic drag-strip entrepreneur was just get-ting started he was just another race promoter. Today, after staging as many as a thousand events a year at various tracks up and down the West Coast, he is considered by many as being the king of race promoters. Bill Doner is a brash-talking', big-dealing' kind of person who loved pro-viding ground-poundin' excitement for the race fans. When the veterans of the past drag-race wars huddle together to chop old jackpots, it's usually not long before talk turns back around to memories of "Fox Hunts," spec-tacular night-time fire burnouts, "(How Many?) Sixty-FOUR Funny Cars!"

and the epic, high-volume, "SAT-urday Night!/SUN-day Afternoon!" saturation commercials which trademarked Doner's innovative International Raceway Parks promotions of the halcyon, pre-ESPN 1970s.

Today, Doner lives with his wife Lori and two dogs, Rocky and Rusty, in the Southern California desert community of La Quinta however his links to drag racing have never really ceased; he is now teamed up with long time racer/promoter, Don Rackemann as the president of the Fuel Saver Group whose products paid contingency money at the Bakersfield California Hot Rod Reunion, and their MPG3 Fuel Enhancer sponsored Cory Lee's top fuel funny car was participating at the NHRA World Finals at Pomona.

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