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AUGUST 2024

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### THE GALACTIC WHIRL ###

FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, novelist and screenwriter with many genre credits including _Cosmic_ (2008) and three authorized _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ sequels, was named as the new UK Children's Laureate on 2 July -- taking
over from Joseph Coelho. (BBC, 2 July) [PY]

GREG EGAN on the great IT disaster of 19 July: 'Crowdstrike have advised
that the world will be reverted to its last valid backup set, dated 7 Jan
2014, within the next 30 minutes. Please make paper notes of anything
important to you from the intervening period, and tape them to the
refrigerator door in a prominent position.' (Mastodon, 20 July)

STEPHEN KING, in a newspaper symposium where many authors named their '10
Best Books of the 21st Century', was not afraid to include _Under the Dome_ (2009) by Stephen King. (_New York Times_, 8 July) [AIP]

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN had a little grumble about Glasgow 2024: 'I am not on
any programming. It is not for lack of trying, though.' He wanted a phone discussion of proposals for a Wild Cards event and a Howard Waldrop
memorial (with films), but was asked to fill in the official online
'Planorama' form like everyone else; whether he did isn't clear from his
post, but one assumes not. (9 July) The story was picked up by the local
and then national press (_Glasgow Times_, 11 July; _Guardian_, 17 July;
BBC, 18 July), and large tracts of social media were duly Plunged Into War.

MIKE RESNICK's five Hugo awards have been donated by his widow Carol to the
US Worldcon Heritage Organization for their regular Worldcon exhibit. (WHO press release, July)

J.M. STRACZYNSKI's afterword to _The Last Dangerous Visions_ (of which
advance copies have been circulating for a while) takes the unusual step of naming and shaming eleven authors, mostly women, whom he invited to
contribute but who said no or didn't reply. He suggests they're afraid of online outrage ('This is not necessarily the best time to be dangerous'), neglecting less exciting possibilities such as lack of time, lack of
interest or simply not wanting to get involved with a Harlan Ellison
project which for several decades was a cobwebbed fannish joke. Of the 102 authors announced in 1973 plus the uncertain number later acquired by HE, fifteen have made it to the final cut, with nine more added by JMS.

JACK VANCE's anagrammatic homage, the major _Dungeons & Dragons_ bad guy
Vecna, appears on one of the Royal Mail _D&D_ stamps. (25 July)


### CONFRIAR ###

SOLD OUT 2 Aug [] WRITING FANTASY (discussion and signing) with George R.R. Martin and Sir Philip Pullman, Oxford. Live streaming to be available via
the link at www.oxfordwritershouse.com/events.

3-4 Aug [] SURREY STEAMPUNK CONVIVIAL, Stoneleigh, Epsom. See bumpandthumper.wixsite.com/steampunkconvivials.

6 Aug [] EXTRA LONDON PUB MEETINGS before Worldcon: Cask Pub & Kitchen, 6 Charlwood Street, Pimlico, from 3pm (meet the GUFF delegate!) and The
Crown, 51 New Oxford St, upstairs 7-11pm. All welcome. If the Crown is
closed try Bloomsbury Tavern, 236 Shaftesbury Avenue (ground floor, same times). See also news.ansible.uk/london.html.

8-12 Aug [] GLASGOW 2024 (Worldcon), Glasgow SEC. GBP230 reg; first
Worldcon and 'historically under-represented' GBP165; Scots residents
GBP150; under-26s GBP135 (GBP95 if Scots); under-16s GBP90; under-11s
GBP55; under-6s GBP5. Virtual membership GBP80. Day rates at
glasgow2024.org. _Owing to a mix-up regarding the cancelled 1 July price
rise, PR5 as initially released gave higher at-the-door rates (GBP255 reg
etc.) which will not take effect._

9-11 Aug [] TFNATION (_Transformers_), Hilton Birmingham Metropole near the NEC. Various day ticket rates at tfnation.com/2024.

16-19 Aug [] ERASMUSCON (Eurocon), Rotterdam, Netherlands. Euro125 reg; under-23s Euro75; under-13s Euro10, under-3s free. Under-19s must be accompanied by an adult. See www.erasmuscon.nl for day rates.

17 Aug [] SMALL PRESS DAY, various events throughout the UK and Ireland,
and online. See smallpressday.co.uk.

17 Aug [] STARS OF TIME (comics), Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare.
GBP11.55; child/concessions GBP7.21. See www.starsoftime.co.uk.

23-26 Aug [] FRIGHTFEST (film), London, Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square.
Festival passes GBP225 rear circle, GBP240 stalls, GBP250 circle; for day passes at various rates see www.frightfest.co.uk/filmsandevents/.

23-26 Aug [] ASYLUM XIV (steampunk), The Lawns and other Lincoln venues. Weekend pass GBP45 inc fees at www.ministryofsteampunk.com.

24-25 Aug [] DUBLIN COMIC CON, Convention Centre, Dublin. Various ticket
prices (extra for early entry, etc.) at dublincomiccon.com.

29 Aug - 2 Sep [] OXONMOOT (Tolkien Society), St Anne's, Oxford. GBP120
reg. See www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2024/.

SOLD OUT 31 Aug [] WHOOVERVILLE 15 (_Doctor Who_), QUAD Centre, Derby. No
more tickets at www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/whooverville15/.

7-9 Feb 2025 [] CONTABILE 35 (filk), Wensum Valley Hotel, Norwich. GBP43
reg; GBP33 concessions. More details at c35.contabile.org.uk.

18-21 Apr 2025 [] RECONNECT, Hilton Lanyon Place Hotel and ICC, Belfast.
_Now GBP80 reg_; GBP40 discounted (under-18s, concessions, Eastercon first-timers, Irish residents); GBP25 supp. See easterconbelfast.org.

23-26 May 2025 [] JODIWORLD (Jodi Taylor), Doubletree by Hilton, Coventry. Waiting list -- GBP10 deposit asked -- at www.jodiworld.org.

7-8 Jun 2025 [] EM-CON (media), Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham. Weekend
tickets GBP30 (11am entry) or GBP40 (10am) at www.em-con.co.uk.

21 Jun 2025 [] STARS OF TIME (comics), Steam Museum, Swindon. Ticket sales awaited at www.starsoftime.co.uk/swindon.

RUMBLINGS. _Glasgow 2024_ tweeted on 15 July that draft programme schedules
had gone out to nearly a thousand people. 'There is over 1000 hours of programming!'
_Business Meeting_ agenda publication was slightly delayed because
there are a record 50 items of business, with multiple proposals sparked by
the horrors of 2023. What a fun meeting it will be.
_Hugo Voting_ closed on 20 July; two days later, Nicholas Whyte's
Glasgow Hugo team announced that 3,813 final-ballot votes were cast and
that 'at least 377' fraudulent votes, with 'obvious fake names' etc., had
been detected and disqualified. Many favoured a particular 'Finalist A' in
an unspecified category. Reportedly at least one sponsor refunded WSFS membership fees for those who confirmed they'd voted as instructed. See
full statement at glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/. Much media coverage followed; the _Guardian_'s headline (23 July) asserts that,
as was carefully not stated, Finalist A is 'one writer'.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

SCIENCE MASTERCLASS. 'Hippopotamuses can become airborne for substantial periods of time, researchers discover' is a Sky News headline somewhat
deflated by the revelation that 'substantial periods of time' here means
'up to 0.3 seconds' (6 July) Hey, I myself can levitate! For a little bit.

AWARDS. _Arthur C. Clarke:_ _In Ascension_ by Martin MacInnes.
_Prometheus_ (libertarian): NOVEL _Critical Mass_ by Daniel Suarez.
HALL OF FAME _The Truth_ by Terry Pratchett.
_Scribe_ (media tie-ins): ADAPTED NOVEL _Ultraman_ by Pat Cadigan. GRANDMASTER ('Faust' award) James Reasoner.
_SF and Fantasy Hall of Fame_ creators: Nicola Griffith, Nnedi
Okorafor.
_Shirley Jackson:_ NOVEL _The Reformatory_ by Tananarive Due. SPECIAL/NOVEL _A Haunting on the Hill_ by Elizabeth Hand.

MAZING STORIES. The 2024 York Maze design commemorates the 25th anniversary
of Julia Donaldson's _The Gruffalo_ (1999, illustrated by Axel Scheffler),
with characters from the book outlined by winding paths in a 15-acre field
of more than a million maize plants. (_i_, 14 July)

INVISIBLE IDIOT: AI MASTERCLASS. 'The researchers found that feeding AI-generated data to a model caused subsequent generations of the model to degrade to the point of collapse. In one test, text about medieval
architecture was used as the starting point, but by the ninth generation
the model output was a list of jackrabbits.' (_Nature_, 25 July) [JH]

R.I.P. _Erica Ash_ (1977-2024), US actress in _Scary Movie V_ (2013) and
_We Have a Ghost_ (2023), died on 28 July aged 46. [SJ]
_Zeev Bar-Sella_ (1947-2024), Israeli writer and critic who wrote a
2013 biography of Russian sf author Alexander Belyaev, died on 27 July aged
77. [AM]
_Leo (Lee) Chaloukian_ (1927-2024), US sound director for _Near Dark_ (1987) and _The Puppetoon Movie_ (1987), died on 18 July aged 97. [AIP]
_Cheng Pei-pei_ (1946-2024), Chinese-US actress whose films include
the wuxia _Come Drink with Me_ (1966) and _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ (2000, a Hugo winner), died on 17 July aged 78. [SJ]
_Ysanne Churchman_ (1925-2024), UK _Archers_ actress in _Space Patrol_ (1963), _Doctor Who_ (1972, 1974, 2017), _Artemis 81_ (1981), _Ghost in the Water_ (1982) and others, died on 4 July aged 99. [CM]
_Frederick Crews_ (1933-2024), US academic best known for _The Pooh Perplex_ (1963), a tour-de-force collection of essays on the
Winnie-the-Pooh tales parodying various critics -- including the dread F.R. Leavis -- and critical schools, died on 21 June aged 91. [AIP] His
follow-up _Postmodern Pooh_ (2001) is also great fun.
_Shannen Doherty_ (1971-2024), US actress in _The Secret of NIMH_
(1982), _Charmed_ (111 episodes 1990-1994), _Satan's School for Girls_
(2000) and _Witchslayer Gretl_ (2012), died on 13 July aged 53.
_Tonke Dragt_ (1930-2024), Dutch children's author/illustrator whose
works include six sf/fantasy novels, died on 12 July aged 93. [AM]
_Shelley Duvall_ (1949-2024), US actress in _Popeye_ (1980), _The
Shining_ (1980), _Time Bandits_ (1981), _Frogs!_ (1993), _Casper Meets
Wendy_ (1998), _Big Monster on Campus_ (2000) and others, died on 11 July
aged 75. [HSB]
_Yvonne Furneaux_ (1926-2024), French actress in _The Mummy_ (1959),
_The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse_ (1964) and _Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie_ (1984), died on 5 July aged 98. [LP]
_Peter B. Gillis_ (1952-2024), US comics writer whose Marvel work
included _Strikeforce: Morituri_ (as co-creator) and _Micronauts: The New Voyages_, and who adapted _The Last Unicorn_ for IDW in 2010, died on 20
June aged 71.
_Benji Gregory_ (1978-2024), US former child actor in _ALF_ (101
episodes 1986-2004), _Back to the Future_ (1992 tv), _Once Upon a Forest_ (1993) and others, died on 13 June aged 46. [LP]
_Deborah P Kolodji_ (1959-2024), US poet and former SF Poetry
Association president who created the SFPA Dwarf Stars awards for
ultra-short poems and edited several anthologies of these, died on 21 July. [F770]
_Jon Landau_ (1960-2024), US producer whose films include _Honey, I
Shrunk the Kids_ (1989), _Solaris_ (2002); _Avatar_ (2009 plus sequel) and _Alita: Battle Angel_ (2019), died on 5 July aged 63. [F770]
_David Loughery_ (1953-2024), US screenwriter whose credits include _Dreamscape_ (1984) and _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_ (1989), died on 9 July aged 71.
_Randal Malone_ (1958-2024), US actor in very many low- or zero-budget sf/horror films from 1996 to 2018, died on 28 July aged 65. [SJ]
_Claudio Mancini_ (1928-2024), Italian producer/production supervisor
for _The Tenth Victim_ (1965), _Contamination_ (1980) and _The Witches' Sabbath_ (1988), died on 28 June aged 96. [SJ]
_Vladimir Matveyev_ (1952-2024), Russian actor in the _Fellowship of
the Ring_ tv adaptation _Khraniteli_ (1991, as Sam) and _Salyut-7_ (2017),
who also dubbed Russian versions of _The Omen_ (2006) and two _Pirates of
the Caribbean films_, died on 2 July aged 72. [AM]
_Mike Milne_ (1946-2024), UK animator and visual effects man for
_Walking with Dinosaurs_ (1999), _Walking with Beasts_ (2001), _The Last Dragon_ (2004) and others, died in June. [AIP]
_Bob Newhart_ (1929-2024), noted US comedian and actor in _On a Clear
Day You Can See Forever_ (1970), _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ (1998),
_Elf_ (2003) and others, died on 18 July aged 94. [LP]
_Lyubomir Nikolov-Narvi_ (1950-2024), Bulgarian author and Tolkien translator whose 8 sf novels include _The Tenth Righteous Man_ (1999), died
on 20 July aged 74. [AM]
_Noriko Ohara_ (1935-2024), Japanese voice actress in _Doraemon:
Nobita's Dinosaur_ (1980), _Super Dimension Fortress Macross_ (1982-2002), spinoffs from both, and many others, died on 12 July aged 88. [HM]
_Salvatore Puntillo_ (1935-2024), Italian actor in _Deep Red_ (1975)
and _The Psychic_ (1977), died on 14 July aged 88. [SJ]
_Whitney Rydbeck_ (1945-2024), US actor in _Love at First Bite_
(1979), _Battle Beyond the Stars_ (1980), _Friday the 13th IV_ (1986) and
genre tv sries, died on 15 July aged 79. [SJ]
_Doug Sakmann_ (1980-2024), US independent horror film-maker and
effects man whose credits include the HPL spoof _LovecraCked!_ (2006
anthology film), _The XXXorcist_ (2006), _Evil Head_ (2012) and _Curse of
the Weredeer_ (2023), died on 27 June aged 43. [SJ]
_Rhondi Ann Vilott Salsitz_ (1949-2024), US author who from 1984
published many sf and fantasy novels as Emily Drake, Elizabeth Forrest,
Charles Ingrid, Anne Knight, Jenna Rhodes, R.A.V. Salsitz and Rhondi
Vilott, died in late July aged 74. [SE]
_Hassani Shapi_ (1973-2024), Kenyan actor in _The Phantom Menace_
(1999), _The World Is Not Enough_ (1999) and others, died on 17 July aged
51.
_James Sikking_ (1934-2024), US actor whose many genre films include
_The Terminal Man_ (1974), _Outland_ (1981) and _Star Trek III: The Search
for Spock_ (1984) and _Morons from Outer Space_ (1985), died on 13 July
aged 90. [SJ]
_Roberta Taylor_ (1948-2024), UK actress in _Frankenstein_ (1984) and
_The Witches_ (1990), died on 6 July aged 76. [AIP]
_Gennady Tishchenko_ (1948-2024), Russian artist and creator of
animated films including _Vampires of Geona_ (1991) and the Tolkien-based
_Mr Bliss_ (2004), died on 20 July. [AM]
_Robert Towne_ (1934-2024), US screenwriter for _Last Woman on Earth_ (1960), _The Tomb of Ligeia_ (1964), _Greystoke_ (1984, as P.H. Vazak) and others, died on 1 July aged 89. [LP]
_A. Heather Wood_ (1945-2024), UK folk singer and publisher, formerly
with Tor as consulting editor and assistant to Tom Doherty, died on 15 July aged 79. [F770]
_Tom Wyner_ (1947-2024), US voice actor in _Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers_ (1993), _Ghost in the Shell_ (1995), _Digimon_ (1999-2003), _Transformers: Car Robots_ (2000) and many more, died on 30 June aged 77.
_Michael Zulli_ (1952-2024), US wildlife illustrator and comics artist
who worked on _The Puma Blues_, _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_, _Swamp
Thing_ (unpublished issue), _Sandman_ and others, died on 8 July aged 71.
[NC]

THE WEAKEST LINK. _Q._ 'The mythological hero Hector was killed in which
war?' _A._ 'The First World War.' (BBC1, _The Finish Line_) [PE]

PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. Orbit is launching a new horror imprint called Run
For It, whose first titles will appear in Summer 2025.

RANDOM FANDOM. _Conversation 2023:_ this Eastercon has published its final accounts, showing a turnover of GBP81,565.01. Nearly GBP25,000 was donated
to sf community projects, mainly the 2024 and 2025 Eastercons, plus fan
funds, _SFE_ (thanks!) etc.
_Dave McCarty and Ben Yalow_ were refused full membership of the
Glasgow 2024 Worldcon, with attendance fees refunded. No explanation given,
but see 2023 Hugos _passim_. [F770]
_Glasgow 2024_ invited members to take part in an _advisory_ online yes-or-no vote on the 2023 resolution to create new Hugos for short and feature-length independent films, which awaits business-meeting
ratification.

NO COMMENT. '"Encyclopedias are like slums," Giles said, "the rotten homes
of diseased minds."' (Charles Williams, _Many Dimensions_, 1931)

SIDEWISE AWARDS finalists: LONG _Cahokia Jazz_ by Francis Spufford, _Julia_
by Sandra Newman, _Sunset Empire_ by Josh Weiss, _Wages of Sin_ by Harry Turtledove. SHORT 'Apollo in Retrograde' by Rosemary Smith, 'Toe-to-Toe' by Mark Ciccone. [SHS]

OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Jonathan Cowie_ gives warning to the world: 'I note that Stokercon is using EventBrite to register. I do wish fans would read
Brunner, Gibson, Orwell _et al_. EventBrite has an illuminating privacy
policy that includes that they will share your details with business
partners and will compile details about you from business partners who
together will compile a profile of you....' (Email, 2 July) This didn't
seem to bother the all-knowing Arthur C. Clarke Award organizers.

FANFUNDERY. _GUFF:_ Simon Litten's report of his trip to the 2019 Dublin Worldcon, _Visiting Nearly Kiwiland_, was released in July. Free download
with fund donation suggested: ozfanfunds.com/?page_id=206.
_TAFF:_ a July newsletter gives, _inter alia_, Sarah Gulde's July to October itinerary as 2024 delegate. See
taff.org.uk/news/Taffluorescence5.pdf.
_League of Fan Funds:_ this informal group which coordinates UK fundraising for the various causes has a new web presence at
lff.ansible.uk. Meanwhile a boggled Sandra Bond reports: 'Someone is
donating to the fan fund auction a pair of boxer briefs signed by Colin
Baker.'

SMALL PRESS. After some weeks of social-media silence, the US Dark Regions Press website disappeared in mid-July; it emerged that the business was
listed as for sale in April, though it's since been taken off the market.
No recent communication with authors or customers. DRP books remained on
sale in online stores, but Amazon at least seems prepared to remove them on sufficiently persistent author request. [WM]

THE DEAD PAST. _30 Years Ago_, hyperbole was rampant: 'The Fantasy & SF
Book Club claims the _SF Encyclopedia_ (offered at GBP30) is "almost as big
as the universe itself!" ... containing in fact "OVER ONE MILLION PAGES".
On a similar heroic scale, _SF Chronicle_ insists that one net fanzine
listing calls me a "500-times Hugo award-winning fan author...."'
(_Ansible_ 85, August 1994)
_80 Years Ago_, fandom was treated to a startling literary insight: 'Remarkably little scientific fantasy has been written posthumously.' (_Futurian War Digest_, August 1944)

EDITORIAL. After publishing five fat volumes of Algis Budrys's nonfiction, Ansible Editions now wonders about reissuing his original _Benchmarks:
Galaxy Bookshelf_ (1985) as a shiny new paperback. Alas, AE, like _Ansible_
and the _SF Encyclopedia_, will have no official table at Glasgow 2024
because your editor can no longer cope with such huge acoustic-hell events. Hoping all attendees have an utterly spiffy time nevertheless....

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Snakes Alive!_ 'With each step, his mighty thighs
flexed, and the muscles leaped like living serpents beneath the flesh.' (Norvell W. Page, _Flame Winds_, 1939) [BA]
_Looking Daggers._ 'Captain Future's gray eyes stabbed the Uranian.' (Edmond Hamilton, _Outlaw World_, 1945) [BA]
_Superbooze Dept._ 'I've distilled a highly fermented potent
suspension -- basically 500 proof ...' (_The Flash_ series 1 episode 5,
2014) [BA]
_Sibilant Syllables._ '"Don't try to tell me what to do!" For no very
good reason he whispered the words so that they flicked out with the
sustained hiss of a scared mamba.' (Peter Van Greenaway, _The Crucified
City_, 1962) [BA]
_The Higher Mathematics._ 'Death is not absolute but zero minus to the unknowable degrees of infinity.' (_Ibid_) [BA]


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GROUP THEORY.
15 August 2024, evening: London Zoom meeting, third Thursday of each month. 'Please share this with people who you know typically come to the Bishop's Finger, but aren't on Facebook.' https://bohemiancoast.medium.com/first-thursday-london-sf-fan-virtual-drinks-5232021e961f

R.I.P. II -- LATE REPORT: _James Herbert Brennan_ (1940-2024), Irish author whose considerable output includes _Man, Myth & Magic_ (1982) and other role-playing games, the _Grailquest_ choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks (1984-1987), and -- as Herbie Brennan -- the YA 'Faerie Wars Chronicles' fantasies (2003-2011), died on 1 January aged 83. [MR]

WOOF! To contribute to the regular Worldcon APA, bring 25 copies of your
zine to the Glasgow 2024 fan lounge by the Saturday. It's now too late to
send a PDF for printing. All enquiries to official collator Christina Lake, glasgow24woof [at] gmail.com.

RUMBLINGS II. QUAD, the Derby home of many genre events and film showings,
is in 'serious financial difficulty': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce782xyy8jpo

SOME LINKS from the _Ansible_ home page.
Conversation 2023 -- Final Accounts https://www.conversation2023.org.uk/2024/07/27/conversation-2023-final-accounts/
Glasgow 2024 Programme
https://guide.glasgow2024.org
'Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect' by Bruce Sterling https://bruces.medium.com/preliminary-notes-on-the-delvish-dialect-by-bruce-sterling-ce68a476247b
SFRA Awards
https://sfra.org/congratulations-2024-award-winners/
Shirley Jackson Awards (full list) https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2024/07/13/2023-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/

THOG'S GOLDEN OLDIES from _Ansible_ 205, August 2004. _Dept of Cruel and Unusual Geometry._''The casket was a cube. It was about a meter and a half long, a half-meter wide, another half-meter deep.' (Robert Wells,
_Spacejacks_, 1975) '... the dull-red mists seemed to flow together,
enclosing the three sides of a circle.' (Murray Leinster, _The Forgotten Planet_, 1954)
_Dept of This Won't Hurt A Bit._ 'She looked away, then let him slide gently into the corner of her eye.' (Isaac Asimov, 'Satisfaction
Guaranteed', 1951)


_Ansible_(R) 445 (C) David Langford, 2024. Thanks to Brian Ameringen,
Howard S. Berger, Nancy Collins, Scott Edelman, _File 770_, Steve Jones,
Jed Hartman, Helen McCarthy, William Meikle, Andrey Meshavkin, Chris Moore, Lawrence Person, Andrew I. Porter, _Private Eye_, Marcus Rowland, Steven H Silver, Pete Young, and our Hero Distributors: Durdles Books (Brum Group), SCIS/Prophecy and Alan Stewart (Australia).

1 August 2024
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