Why play for free?

Walk through the doors into any real world casino and you hit the slot machines. There's a slight difference of opinion between the casino operators. Some believe the machines are the most popular form of gambling and make everyone walk into the floor area where the machines are sited before they get to the table games. Others have a floor plan called the premium strategy that pitches their operations at the non-slot players who spend more per head on the table games. The machines are still featured as you walk into the casino, but the view of the tables is more obvious. Interestingly, there seems to be very little difference in the spend-per-machine in both layouts. The people who favor slot machines will play them no matter where they are sited in the casino. It's also a fact that, except for the contributions made by individual whales, casinos make more money from slot machines than from the table games, the balance shifting depending on whether the premium strategy is in operation. Online, there are sites that are exclusively based on slot machines. Other sites operate the full spread of casino games. This leaves the operators to compete on the bonuses (welcome and otherwise), comps and the quality of the service. In real world casinos, the operators can comp you on the machines but it's technically difficult to enable free play. Online, all that changes.

Every site allows all users the opportunity to play some of their games for free. Why should anyone want to play for free and give up the chance of winning some real money? The answers are both simple and complicated. The spinning reels are essentially the same in both real world and online casinos with the games easy to understand and so quick to learn. Once the reels are set in motion, all you can do is wait for them to stop moving. This means no particular skill is required to play. As a bald description, this misses out two key factors. The spinning reels are quite hypnotic. You almost feel you can reach out and stop each reel in just the right position to score a big win. Secondly, it's fun to play. This fun element is what sells free play. Yes, you lack the extra excitement by giving up the chance of winning. But it really is still fun to play. More importantly, with more and more new games coming online every month, it's very useful to be able to study them without risking your money. Although the basic concepts are the same, the individual variations still have to be learned. In the real world, you can stand and watch others play, learning from their mistakes. Online, you are denied this opportunity. That makes free play a fair offer from the casino operators.

There is one final reason and this may be a little complicated depending on your view of luck. Many people who play slots believe in flows of good and bad luck. If your luck is out, it's good to be able to keep on playing for free. No-one wants to keep feeding money into a machine when you know you are not going to win. Slots and Lady Luck do go together so mix and match free and paying play as you come into and fall out of her favor.

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What are the options for betting?

Although there are a number of slot games repeated on some of the sites with shared operations, the reality is an expanding universe of different games. Like the Big Bang which supposedly began our universe, the inventiveness of the different software producers knows no limits. This fuels the competition for players between the sites with the endless rollout of new games. As a result, it would take you years to try them all. Nevertheless, the actual betting choices to be made come down to a few simple steps. The three main variables are the number of paylines to play on each spin, the number of coins to bet on each line, and the value of the coin(s) to bet. The majority of the games allow a free choice on the three variables. But some games restrict the choice on the second or third options (none of the major games eliminate both). So, some fix the value of the coin to be bet or only allow one coin to be bet per payline. This allows us to offer this summary. The amount you decide to bet per payline is the value of the coin multiplied by the number of coins. The total bet on each spin of the reels is the bet per payline multiplied by the number of paylines.

Now we come to an odd truth. The majority of games allow you to choose the number of paylines to play. Where the number of available paylines is great, there can be a real decision to be made. If you are betting one coin of value per payline, one hundred paylines per spin can work out quite expensive. Yet answer this question. What is the point of playing with paylines disabled? With the exception of games permitting scatter wins, you only win on enabled paylines. While this is merely a source of frustration in a conventional game when you see winning combinations on disabled lines, it can be critical on progressive machines. Often the jackpot only pays out when the highest payline has the winning combination. If the total bet looks outside your budget, reduce the value of the coins. If the bet is still too high with the minimum coin size selected, this suggests you should not be playing this game.

When you first approach a game, look carefully at the choices you can make. The critical differences lie in the coin sizes and the gaps between each coin. The best games have a big range of coin sizes with even gaps between them at the lower end and gently scaled gaps at the high end. This allows you the maximum flexibility to fit the line and total bet per spin to your budget. In calculating your budget, factor in the length of time you prefer to play. Slots is a game meant to be fun. If you burn your budget in ten minutes, this is not fun. Always remember to set a loss limit before you start playing. Decide the point at which you will stop. Slots is only fun so long as you are not digging yourself out of debt for the next six months. If you win, as everyone does from time to time, you should also stop. These winnings can buy you a drink and a meal. They can pay for your next session of play.

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What makes games popular?

Given the history of some games starting in China around 2000 B.C., the question naturally arises as to what makes any game popular. The first games to achieve success were based on dice. It probably all started around the fire in the cave when, having stuffed themselves with dinosaur rib at the bar-b-q, they moved on to a little action with a few carved bones. But, as time progressed and money was developed, the idea of money changing hands based on a throw of the dice caught on. In this, you see all the key elements making any game popular. The concept of gambling is seductive. You place a small wager on the outcome of an event outside your ability to control. If you win, there's a big profit and this is a compelling reason to carry on playing because you believe you will win again. The second feature is the sociable nature of the playing environment. There's a crowd watching. Sometimes it's only other players but, more often, gambling is a spectator sport. This creates a community and it supports and encourages the players. Rich backers appear and bankroll the best players for a share of the expected profits. Add in good customer service from whoever provides the playing environment, and the honey pot nature of the exercise is complete. As to the game itself, it must be fun to play. It must be easy to understand the rules. Everyone must be able to see the skill or luck of the winners. And, the organizers must make realistic attempts to prevent or control cheating.

So where does this leave us? In the modern casino, both online and real world, the most popular games are probably blackjack and poker on the card tables, craps and roulette on the other tables. All four are simple to understand. The cards must add up to 21 or a limited number of card combinations makes you the winner. Or you bet on the throw of dice or the spin of wheel. It takes only a few minutes to explain. You watch for a while and then you feel confident enough to play. It's almost immediately exciting. You handle the dice and throw. You finger the chips and play the cards. All with money riding on the outcome. If your luck is in, you end up a winner and most are hooked. The problem with more complicated games is people do not want to put in the effort to learn. They must see it, see others win and feel confident they can start winning immediately. Any game where it looks easy to win big money is popular.

Now when you transfer the experience on to the small screen of a computer and strip away everything about the experience of being in a casino, the true popularity of online casino games is revealed. Slots are slots. You click on "play", the animated reels spin, and you win or lose. It has a hypnotic quality. Click, spin, win. It's the same with blackjack, craps and roulette where you are betting on the results produced by the random number generator. Poker remains interactive where you bet on the cards and your skill in playing them. In all, it's the belief you will win big that makes casino games popular.

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Money transfers and online casinos

More or less any place you go on the internet, you can see goods or services you want and pay for them. Most sites accept credit cards. Those that do not, deal with the other players in the banking world to make sure the funds get where they are supposed to go. This works whether you are buying clothes for your newborn baby or hard core pornography. E-commerce is the new life blood of trade. Yet, when it comes to online gambling, something dramatic happened in the US. If you are resident anywhere else in the world, all the standard methods for transferring money work with online casinos. You can open an account using a credit card and your winnings can be transferred to any bank account you nominate. But, if you are resident in the US, the world was turned on its head by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). The history of this is revealing.

A bill dealing with security in our ports was working its way through the legislative process and, at the last moment, the internet restrictions were added. They had nothing to do with the security of ports. It was a device to slip the law through without real debate. As a result, it suddenly became illegal for any financial institution to transfer funds to an internet gambling operation except for horse racing, online lotteries and fantasy sports. So states protected their revenue streams with lotteries and the racing industry gained an edge over all their competitors. This law is probably unconstitutional but, so far, the courts have been reluctant to give clear rulings. This leave US players with real problems. No matter where the online casino is based, it's still difficult to open an account and recover winnings. So how do you get round the law?

The first option is to use eChecks. This produces an immediate electronic funds transfer between your bank account and the payee casino. They work in exactly the same way as paper checks. But a word of caution - one company providing this service was recently shut down by the Attorney General of New York. Although other companies continue to offer eChecks, this method is risky with winnings being seized in the New York court action. The alternatives are the following. A limited number of casinos including Rushmore accept American Express, bank drafts, wire transfers and checks for opening an account and making deposits. But these methods cannot be used for withdrawals. This brings us down to Central Coin, Citadel, Click2Pay, CLICKANDBUY, NETeller and others. Online casinos pick and choose which methods they accept. Alternatively, you have to set up a third party account outside the US and transfer the funds into and out of that account instead of directly to the casino.

It should not be this difficult to play your favorite casino games and there are various moves in the pipeline to encourage the lawmakers to repeal this oppressive law. While there's no constitutional right to gamble as such, this law chills the banks and achieves prohibition by the backdoor. While we wait for either a definitive court ruling or Washington to act, find the online casino with the payment methods you can access and set to enjoying your favorite online casino games.

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The 1st Steps to a Basic Strategy

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The game is one of the simplest ever invented. The rules are few and there's no physical effort involved in playing it. You just sit, look at a few cards and make your bets. That's probably why it's become one of the most popular casino games of all time. Of course everyone knows the House has an edge. That's how it pays all the expenses for running the casino. Remember it makes no difference whether this is a casino in the real world or online. You still need people and a base. So common sense tells you that no-one beats the House unless they invest some effort. Put another way: if everyone could beat the House without breaking sweat, the casino would go out of business in a day. This produces the headline: no pain, no gain. You have to put in some study time to master the basic strategy.

So what is this strategy? Over the years, some serious math types did all the work for you. They calculated the best way to play all the card combinations and wrote them down in simple charts. If you were going to play in a real casino, you would have to learn all these rules. That saves you having to pause before every decision to check the charts. Not only would the other players around the table be less than impressed, the casino would probably suggest you leave. But playing online changes all that. You can consult the charts as often as you like before deciding which card to play. It may be slow but, if you get the strategy right for every hand, you just shifted the odds in your favor.

So what are these charts? The first gives you the rules on when to split a pair. The strategy changes depending on the value of the cards dealt to you and the value of the card you can see the Dealer holding. So it starts with the rule that you split a pair of aces no matter what the Dealer holds, and goes down to the choices when you hold a pair of 2s. The other two charts deal with hard hands and soft hands. A hard hand is when neither card is an ace and the strategy changes significantly depending on the card held by the Dealer and the table rules on when the Dealer must stand or draw. A soft hand contains an ace and is easier to play because you can always draw one more card without busting - this takes some of the pressure off the play. I started off by saying blackjack is an easy game but, like all games, you can play for fun or you can take it seriously and play to win. In this case, you are more likely to win if you learn the charts and can play the strategy without thinking. To really take on the House edge, you also have to become a card counter but that's a whole new story because it does not work in a virtual casino. For now, focus on the basic strategy and start your winning blackjack career.

The Basic Strategy and Doubling Down

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There's a sad fact about playing in a casino, whether real or virtual. The operators have worked out how to play the games on offer and set the odds to favor themselves. After all, if the majority did not lose, there would be no money to pay out all the money you win. Needless to say, the casinos have invested time and money into working out every possible variation on the rules and the ways to play under them. So, if you are going to take on the House edge, you have to become as big an expert on the rules as the operators. So let's start with one of the more interesting rules which decides when you are allowed to double down. This applies when you have received your two cards. If you decide you are going to draw only one more card, the casino rules can allow you to double your initial bet. The different possibilities are to double:

• on any card combination;


• only when the two cards total 9, 10 or 11; or


• after splitting.

Why should you double your bet? The answer is deceptively simple. You double the bet when you think you are going to beat the Dealer. That really does make sense. But because you are suddenly investing more money in playing the game and have more to lose, you need to get on board with the math. You need to know the frequency with which the Dealer is likely to go bust based on the card you can see. If the Dealer's card suggests a bust is probable, i.e. the Dealer's hand is weak, you double the bet when you have a strong hand. You are maximizing the chance of making a good profit on the hand. If you build the doubling rule into your basic strategy, you reduce the House edge. If you refuse to play the doubling rule, the House edge actually increases. This is not to claim you will win every hand when you double down. If you are on a losing streak, you could lose every doubled bet for the session. But, in the long term, you will win more than you lose if you double. If you hesitate to double the bet, it suggests you are outside your comfort zone and already playing for higher stakes than you can afford.

At the blackjack table, the Dealer is weakest when showing a card in the range 2 through 6. With a 2, the bust percentage is 35%. It rises to a 42% chance of busting with a 5 or 6. Your hand is strongest if the two card total is less than 11. Do not be thrown off the basic strategy by the casinos that allow you to add less than the original bet. Blackjack is a game for winners. Never give up the chance to double and take the maximum win against the Dealer. Adding a few dollars to the original bet but not doubling is half-hearted and cowardly.

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Paypal: An Introduction

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Pay Per Review From Reviewme

Do you have a blog ?

You can make some money from reviewme, by reviewing products on your blog.

How much?
It depends on the topics your blog covers and on the visitors that you get, but reviewme on their website explains that you can get from $20-$200 per review.

How does it work?
Sign up, and send you site for inclusion to the appropriate category. Reviewme explains in its FAQ's.

After you are accepted in reviewme.com network, you can start receiving requests for reviews.

The advertisers will have the option to select your blog (for their review) from a list of blogs categorized by topic and traffic and cost of review.

You receive the review request and if you chose to accept it you write minimum 200 words about the product, and you post it on your blog and you notify reviewme.com about the completion of your review. You get paid in the beggining of each month according to the reviews you have completed.

So if you have a blog that has a a good traffic then you can register to be a part of the reviewme network and start writing reviews for money.

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Try bux.to, To Get Dollar From Pay Per Click

Try bux.to, to get dollar from internet.

At Bux.to, you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends. You'll get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view and $0.01 for each website your referrals view. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through AlertPay or YourBuxCard.

Earnings Example
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00

The above example is based only on 20 referrals and 10 daily clicks. Some days you will have more clicks available, some days you will have less. What if you had more referrals? What if there were more ads available?

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Incentria

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Here at Incentria you can earn an extra stream of income by completing simple tasks; We have advertisers that will pay you real cash money to simply view their websites, and other advertisers will pay you even more to join their various programs!
Member Benefits

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* Paid To Read
* Paid To Signup
* Traffic Exchange
* PTP $0.20 CPM
* $1 Payout
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Increasing Blog Traffic

ExoClick

Exoclick is a lot like Google, in that they have a platform for advertisers to buy ads and a platform for publishers to display ads. But it’s quite different at the same time, because it is simple to use and doesn’t have all the crazy regulations and restrictions that plague Adwords and Adsense users.

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Inilah sejumlah tempat menjual foto secara online, seperti salah satu tips yang pernah disajikan di blog ini:

Silakan jajaki sendiri. Bisa melalui link yang tersedia di image-image berikut. Jika berminat silakan klik salah satu untuk mendapat informasi lebih atau sekalian mendaftar.

Semoga bermanfaat.

Clixsense: Get Paid To Click

Bahasan lokak kali ini adalah Clixsense. Ia adalah salah satu lokak mengais rezeki di dunia maya (internet).

Jangan buru-buru berpikir bahwa ini adalah cara mudah mendapatkan uang dari internet, meski banyak orang menyebut cari uang dari internet itu mudah. Pahami saja ini hanya salah satu peluang yang bisa diraih dari internet, dengan cara yang tidak njelimet.

Singkatnya, Clixsense akan membayar kita (jika sudah bergabung menjadi user) setiap kali kita mengklik website yang mereka iklankan. ClixSense akan mengganjar sebesar $0.01 hingga $5 untuk setiap web/iklan yang kita kunjungi.

Yang perlu dilakukan adalah mendaftar, selanjutnya sesering mungkin dengan cara login ke akun kita di clixsense. Pada kolom “Get Paid to Browse Ads” kita akan menemukan sederet iklan yang bisa kita klik. Baca atau biarkan saja web tersebut aktif selama 30 detik, receh demi receh (dalam dollar) masuk tabungan kita.

Untuk mempelajari secara langsung atau segera bergabung bisa melalui link ini.

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Nasionalisme Tak Selebar Monitor Komputer

Sempat risih aja liat orang indonesia bikin blog pake bahasa inggris (bukannya gak bisa bahasa inggris!)
dimana rasa nasionalisme kita.. :P

saya rasa ini juga karena "katanya" tuntutan google adsense "masa sih"?!?
Sebelumnya pernah ngobrol2 ma member milis ini (lewat YM), saya tanya "kok isinya inggris semua?", "biar adsensenya ketrima mas, juga biar dapet earning lebih".

OH YA?!

Tulisan di atas adalah lontaran yang saya temukan di milis id-AdSense.

Saya kira, mengaitkan penggunaan bahasa Inggris (English) dengan nasionalisme endonesa adalah tindakan terburu-buru. Nasionalisme tak selebar monitor komputer.

Kalau boleh melontarkan pendapat pribadi, saya malah lebih terganggu dengan peblog (blogger) endonesa yang ketika menulis dalam bahasa Indonesia, tidak berusaha menulis dengan baik.

Blog saya sendiri berbahasa Indonesia. Kalau pun ada yang berbahasa Inggris, cuma beberapa. Padahal, blog saya juga terikut dalam program Google Adsense.

Bukan karena tak mau mengikuti --yang katanya tuntutan-- Google Adsense. Sebenarnya, keterampilan saya dalam berbahasa Inggris, sangat terbatas. Malah mungkin, luar biasa not well lah... :-D

Omong-omong tentang "tuntutan sponsor", barangkali tidak demikian. Sebab, Google Adsense (katanya) sudah mendukung penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia.http://asiablogging.com/blog/199/adsense-now-supporting-bahasa-indonesia/

Terlepas dari nasionalisme, tuntutan sponsor, atau keterbatasan akan Bahasa Inggris, peblog yang senasib dengan saya mungkin bisa saja belajar dari pengalaman Agus Hery, peblog dari Bandung. Melalui artikel "Blogger : Use English Subject in Post just for Adsense?" di blognya, kita bisa membaca sebuah sesuatu yang cukup menarik untuk ditiru.

Menurut Agus hery, ia biasa menggunakan Bahasa Inggris untuk Judul Pos (post title) sementara isi (content dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Tentu dengan alasannya sendiri, tetapi tegas sang pemilik blog, "tak ada kaitanya dengan program Adsense".

Saya tidak bermaksud mengikuti kebiasaan Agus Hery. Bukan karena alasan nasionalisme. Rasanya tak nyaman saja menulis dengan bahasa "lain di title, different with isi". Kacau, kan? What does you think you is? :-P

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ReviewMe: Review Daku Kau Kubayar

Ini adalah tips lanjutan mencari penghasilan tambahan dari blog. Yakni, dengan bergabung bersama ReviewMe.

ReviewMe adalah semacam agen penulisan review alias resensi atau ulasan tentang sebuah blog atau situs lain yang menjadi klien ReviewMe.

Dengan mendaftarkan blog pada program ini, setiap anggota berkesempatan menerima order penulisan ulasan blog yang relevan dengan blog si anggota. Tapi tidak setiap blog yang kita miliki dapat didaftarkan dalam program ReviewMe. Salah satu ukurannya, blog tersebut minimal memiliki pagerank 2. Jika belum tahu berapa pagerank blog anda, anda bisa lihat dari sini .

Anda mungkin punya lebih dari satu blog. Mungkin 3, mungkin 7, mungkin 10, atau bahkan lebih dari itu. Tapi dengan mendaftarkan satu blog saja, peluang mendapatkan pesanan penulisan review akan sama besar. Maksimal 10 review per bulan. Harga per review sangat beragam. Pesanan penulisan review yang pernah saya kerjakan berbayar $5 hingga $12.5. Terbilang lumayan untuk menambah penghasilan sembari mengisi waktu luang. Cukup untuk biaya ngopi, di Starbucks sekalipun :-) .

Berikut terjemahan bebas dari panduan (Review Guidelines) yang saya terima:

• Panjang ulasan harus sekurang-kurangnya 200 kata. Sekiranya ingin menulis lebih panjang, silakan. Yang penting tak kurang dari 200 kata.
  
  
• Ulasan harus memuat "Link Text" dan "Product URL", sekurangnya satu kali.
  
  
• Cantumkan URL permanen dari review yang anda tulis diblog kita ketika melaporkan (kepada ReviewMe) bahwa pekerjaan kita telah rampung.
  *Catatan: ReviewMe akan memberikan semacam formulir sederhana yang berisi tempat dimana pencantuman atau submit dilakukan.
  
  
• URL yang dimaksud harus unik dan bukan salnan dari review yang kita tulis sebelumnya.
  
  
• Ulasan harus mengandung muatan yang unik.
  
  
• Dilarang memasukkan link afiliasi (affiliate links ke dalam review. Review yang mengandung link afiliasi akan ditolak.

Amat sangat kelewat mudah!

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123rf.com -- Menjual Foto Secara Online

Barangkali anda setuju bahwa fotografi adalah hobi yang mahal. Jadi, rasanya sayang kalau kegiatan memotret hanya digeluti sebatas hobi. Di era fotografi digital (digital photography) yang didukung dengan teknologi internet saat ini banyak peluang untuk menambah penghasilan bagi penggemar fotografi. Tanpa peduli amatir atau profesional.

123rf.com adalah salah satu situs yang berperan sebagai semacam agensi foto (photo agency). Banyak orang dari seluruh dunia memuatkan (upload) atau memajang hasil memotret mereka di situs ini, dengan maksud menjualnya. Proses menjual foto (selling photo process) melalui 123rf.com amat mudah dan sederhana. Hanya melalui 3 tahap (step).

1. Tahap 1: Mendaftar (sign up) di 123rf.com untuk menjadi anggota 123RF.
   
2. Tahap 2: Upload foto anda. Log in, buka menu photograpers lalu klik "upload images". Selanjutnya 123RF akan menjualkan foto anda.
   
3. Tahap 3: Lakukan terus menerus pemuatan (uploading/submitting) untuk mendapat bayaran lebih.

Berapa bayaran yang akan anda terima?
123RF akan membayar anda 50% dari tiap foto anda yang terjual alias diunduh (download) orang lain.

Cara untuk mendapatkan bayaran tambahan dari 123RF:

• Mereferensikan kepada pembeli (Refer customers):
  
  Artinya anda telah membantu mempromosikan situs 123RF serta mengantarkan pembeli di situs ini. Jasa anda tersebut akan diganjar bayaran sebesar $0.36 per foto yang didownload oleh sang pembeli.
  
  
• Mereferensikan kepada fotografer lain (Refer photographers):
  Artinya anda memberi referensi atau rujukan kepada teman atau kerabat anda untuk bergabung di 123RF. Ketika foto milik fotografer rujukan anda tersebut terjual, anda juga akan mendapat bayaran dari 123RF. Jumlahnya, 10% dari harga tiap foto yang terjual atau didownload pembeli.

Mudah-mudahan, dengan menjual foto secara online, hobi memotret bisa menguntungkan.

Peluang yang sama juga ditawarkan oleh:
FOTOLIA




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