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Meeting Notice Board, Meeting Schedule and Outcomes
The club meets ONCE a month, on the third Thursday afternoon of the month from September to June. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipe,
603 Wellington Crescent off Academy Rd just west of the Maryland St bridge. See other Computer Clubs also.
2012 Winter/Spring Season
Meetings schedule: January 20, February 17, March 16, April 20, May 18 and June 15.
Jan 20, 2012
A discussion and presentation on backing up data, and preparing for and recovering from a disaster where the whole computer's software needs to be replaced.
2011 Fall Season
Sep 15, 2011
A presentation on wireless networking was held. Topics included what it is, all the uses for it, with an emphasis placed on using a wireless network in a residence.
2010-2011 Season
Dec 17, 2010
Bring along any Holiday related websites or other seasonal computer entertainment. Also food or treats to share at our Holiday coffee break.
Nov 11, 2010
We had a demo and discussion about different Web browsers and their features and advantages of each.
Oct 10, 2010
Dave Benson from Henry's gave a fabulous presentation about digital cameras and photography.
Sep 10, 2010
The topic was E-Mail. We had a look at everything from: E-mail providers, Desktop and web-based e-mail clients, and will present a bit on MTS's change over to Windows LIVE mail.
2009-2010 Season
Jun 18, 2010
The members shared: some of your favourite websites; shown us some great freeware that you may have found; share any discoveries or triumphs in your computing life; and snazzy tricks or tweaks that others would enjoy
May 21, 2010
Member Norm Grywinski will give us a presentation on the TripAdvisor/Tripwow website.
Apr 16, 2010
The meeting was a Questions and Answers style meeting. Topics included Windows Live Mail and e-mail options and strategies.
Mar 19, 2010
Apresentation on installing an operating system, as we took photos (literally) of the screens as we set up the new computer club's HP with Windows XP, and then proceeded to install Windows 7 in the Dual boot configuration.
Feb 19, 2010
The knowledgeable folks from Computer Avenue came to give us a presentation on the latest, about computer hardware.
The club has purchased a new HP quad core computer running Windows 7 and dual boots to Windows XP as well.
Feb 19, 2010
The knowledgeable folks from Computer Avenue came to give us a presentation on the latest, about computer hardware.
The club has purchased a new HP quad core computer running Windows 7 (and dual boots to Windows XP as well.
Jan 15, 2010
The topic will be strategies to backing up your data; and how to do a disk image using from Hiren's BootCD. Richard will bring along an external USB drive to help with the demonstration. Bring along your questions and success to share. E-mail any suggestions to enhance this topic.
Dec 18, 2009
Tom Cherveny, president of the Macintosh Users Group for Seniors and instructor of Using your Mac with CRM, provided an overview of the Apple MacIntosh computer.
Nov 20, 2009
Walter Kremer gave us another look at Windows 7 showing us some new notable features, what's new and what the same. This was followed by a short presentation on Social Networking by Richard Denesiuk.
Oct 16, 2009
A presentation by Kevin Bailey on Ubuntu. "If you're tired of virus concerns, performance issues and software expense, yet you're not quite ready to make the leap to Linux, the next meeting of the Creative Retirement Manitoba Computer Club may be just the thing for you! We will be doing a very user-friendly demonstration of a dual-boot Ubuntu installation, allowing you to choose between Windows and Ubuntu Linux when you start your computer. Last month's meeting was about making discs; now let's put them to use!"
Sep 18, 2009
A presentation on Boot CDs and Live CDs. The featured Boot CD will be Hiren's BootCD and the LIve CD will be Ubuntu.
2008-2009 Season
May 15, 2009
Member Walter Kremers gshowed us Release Candidate 1 of Windows 7. He had it running on an older HP laptop that would run Vista. It looks very promising.
April 17, 2009
Ben Holyk of BLAKK Productions will present on digital photography.
March 20, 2009
A Special Interest Group style of meeting was held due to a late presenter cancellation.
February 20, 2009
Presentations on hardware upgrades were made by: Gerry Cecchini on video; Walter Kremers on disk drives; and Richard Denesiuk on Random Acces Memory
January 16, 2009
Adam Horne from CBit Security Systems will show us how to incorporate Security cameras to be used with our computers and accessed via the Internet for remote monitoring.
December 19, 2008
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) will be presented by Andrew Galloway of 49th Space Wing in Winnipeg.
November 21
Walter Kremers will show us the new Picasa 3, and Richard Denesiuk will show us some of the little used, but useful features of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
October 17
Member, CRCC Newsletter editor/publisher (along with Fee Mounteer) and Desktop Publishing Guru, Harold Marshall, will demonstrate a free program called Page Plus SE. The free version appears to be an older version of Serif's commercial software.
September 19
A presentation on 2 new web browsers: Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 beta.
2007-2008 Season
June 20
Meeting moved to 270 Sherbrookm St. Member Keith Bradley will do a "TRivcks and Tips" session.
May 16
Member Norm Grywinski showed us Vista's Window's Moviemaker
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Vista's version is very similar to the XP version
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It is an easy to use, but full featured video editor. It comes with free
both versions of Windows. Learn how to edit video clips from your video
camcorder or the stills you can take with your still camera.
April 18
The topic was "Tips and Tricks": File Associations, XP Power Toys, etc). Tips were for both XP and Vista.
March 28
The presentation Computer Avenue who showed us the latest in hardware.
February 15
The presentation was on "What Microsoft Offers Photographers in Windows". We looked at several of the Wizards and utilities built into Windows XP, and culminated in looking at Windows Vista's "Photo Gallery" that combines most of what XP does and adds features such as tagging, captions and "fixing an image" right in the operating system.
January 18
The topic was Backup Strategies and Techniques . Demontsrated was Windows Backup and a program called SyncBack
December 21
The presentaion is by Sergeant Larry Levasseur, Commercial Crime Unit, Winnipeg Police Service. He will tell us about Internet and computer security issues.
November 16
Member Keith Bradley gave us a "Tour of Windows Vista" showing us all the bells and whistles of this new operating system
October 19
The presentation is based on Windows - Tips and Tricks.
September 21
Member Walter Kremers gave a presentationon What New at Google.
2006-2007 Season
June 15
Member Don Bailey showed us the voice recognition features built into Windows Vista
May 18
presentation by Kenn Beatty of London Drugs . He presented on "Photography: Where It is Today". Kenn is a photographer who is well versed in all the cameras sold by London Drugs and the current digital camera market.
April 20
We had a look at the new Google Earth.
March 16
Richard brought Creative Retirement's new laptop nad we had a look at the new Windows Vista opering system
February 16
A presentation by member Walter Kremers on Skype , a free Instant Messaging program with excellent voice, video, whiteboarding and more capabilities was demonstrated.
January 19
Member Dolores Refvik did a great job of showing us Scrapbooks Plus from Ideasoft. Great for scrapbook pages, cards and more. Lots of templates and clipart; easy to use.
Harold Marshall gave us an overview of Opera web browser
December 15
The presentation was on Internet Explorer 7. All the new features such as tabbed browsing, improved printing and security as well as the zoom features.
November 17
The computer club's Christmas party was held on this date. The presentation was a collection of entertaining and humourous sites.
October 20
The presentation was on the 2 major Winnipeg ISP's web mail service. MTS's web mail (by Richard Denesiuk) and Shaw's web mail (by Walter Kremers) were covered. The presentations included information on how to set up the extra account's and aliases that are include in each ISP's accounts.
September 15
Harold Marshall will present on Netscape 8.1 and its new features. Keith Bradley will show us how Firefox can work with free add-ons (i.e. extensions, plug-ins etc) to give added functionality to this great browser. Ab Reimer will show us Corel Photo Album 6.
2005-2006 Season
June 16, 2006
Richard Denesiuk presented on Google's Sketchup and how it integrates with Google Earth. See a sample here.
Yvan Boily from the Manitoba Information Protection Centre will be doing a presentation on Information Security with a focus on Phishing scams.
Apr 21, 2006
Walter Kremers presented Puppy Linux. A free live Linux boot CD to try out a full feaured Linux distribution that can run on your Windows computer from a CD without altering your original Windows setup at all!
Mar 17, 2006
Richard presented 2 Open source softwares: GIMPshop - an amazinging powerful free photo editing program and Audacity - a powerful free audio editor.
Feb 17, 2006
Walter Kremers gave a presentation on using Outlook Express' intermedediate to advance features such as: message filtering, address book mangement and configuration options.
Jan 20, 2006
Richard presents on PC Tuneup. Tips on how to tune up and tweak more speed from your Windows XP computer..
Nov 18, 2005
Club member Walter Kremers gave an excellent presentation on Understanding and Using DVDs - Digital Video/Versatile Disks.
Oct 21, 2005
A presentation from the Sony Store showing their computer and digital cameras.
Sep 16, 2005
A presentation on Google Earth that puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop.
2004-2005 Season
June 17, 2005
Our good friends at Computer Avenue will come and show us all about home networking and using a router to connect to the Internet. What hardware to use and what it costs, wireless vs wired, how to plan your network, the advantages of a home network and how to get it to work with your ISP will be presented.
May 20, 2005
Keith Bradley gave a presentation on Pinacle Studio 9. How to use your computer to edit video shot on your camcorder and produce a DVD or video clip. Tickets on sale for the July 13th CRCC picnic in St Vital Park.
April 15, 2005
Richard overview of Windows Control Panel. Ian Trenholm, Walter Kremers and Keith Bradley were nominated and seconded into the three director's positions. A summer picnic is being planned for July.
January 21, 2005
The presentation will be by CRCC members Larry Hayman and Walter Kremers. Larry will present on "CD and DVD Slideshow Software" - how to make a slide show/movie from still pictures. RTF file of Larry's findings. Walter will show us Microsoft's free Photo Story 3.
December 19, 2004
The presentation was given by CRCC member Arlene Gavritsas on E-Mail SPAM. Great detail was given to this subject that is so dear to our hearts. Arlene gave details on how we get spam; how do we manage this problem and configured MailWasher.Pro. Different software was discussed for "spam blocking" including Outlook Express. Motion was passed to purchase a "spider" for the computer club and money towards Creative Retirement Endowment Fund.
November 19, 2004
November 20th/04 presentation was given by Michel Daw of Corel Corporation. He gave us a brief overview of Corel History. Demonstration of Word Perfect with bullets, real time preview, spread sheets, Quattro Pro, Power Point (presentation) and graphics. Keith Bradley gave a 20 year anniversary plaque to Richard.
October 15, 2004
Digital Cameras: an overview and what's new was presented by Andrew Flook of Don's Photo. He explained, (with the aid of some great graphics and the overhead and projected information on the screen) of how a digital camera works; the importance of pixels; mega pixels; battery life & factors effecting the battery; manipulating photos importance of long term storage of photos.
2003-2004 Season
June 18, 2004
Corel Corporation will be in town to show Corel Draw 12!
March 19, 2004
Richard Denesiuk gave the lead in and Walter Kremers did the presentation on configuring your E-Mail in software (Outlook Express) to work properly and learn about the many numerous settings and how they can work for you. Other software was also discussed. Web mail was also explained by Richard. Ian Trenholm gave the latest financial report.
February 20, 2004
A presentation was given by Brian Lowe of the Winnipeg PC User Group, computer analyst/programmer here in Winnipeg. Brian did a presentation on Linux, an alternative operating system that is giving Windows a "run for its money". He demonstrated the "Knoppix" distribution: full-featured Linux distribution that boots from a CD. Includes the latest version of KDE and OpenOffice. Can be used to work from Linux on PCs without actually installing it, so it is ideal for demonstrations of Linux. Based on Debian. Kmail was shown with different configuration and Open Office can work with many M.S. document formats plus excel. Linux: free to low cost, very capable, very secure operating system with lots of software available.
January 16, 2004
COMPUTERS AND MUSIC: A brief overview of the dominant types of computer music files such as midi, MP3 and wav, minimal hardware/software considerations, on-line download of midi files, with a focus on home creation of conventional audio CD's for personal use, from midi files . Internet sources will be provided. Presented by Terry Smythe.
A very enjoyable demonstration to the workings of player piano music rolls being scanned to the end result of being put on a CD was the subject of this month's demonstration. The rebirth of player piano music was given by Terry Smythe. From the making of his own scanner to scan these rolls to converting them onto a CD. File extension were gone over, software used and music sites were given out and also listed on Creative Retirements web site. There were no new nomination for the executive and therefore the same executive is in by acclamation again this year.
President - Keith Bradley
Vice President - Tom Graham
Secretary - Gail Delisle
Treasurer - Ian Trenholm
Membership - Margo Mackie
Staff - Richard Denesiuk
December 19, 2003
Richard Denesiuk gave a very indepth demonstration on taking your music from a vinyl record on a turn table and transferring it to your computer hard drive and then with software cleaning up the music and tweaks in taking the noise level out. The different volume controls were explained also. The software had many capabilities on separating the songs in an album of music plus many other features in regards to volume and editing out the unnecessary parts. The end results was then heard and transferred to a cd. An overview of winter courses were discussed. Sig dates for the month of Janurary were given out. Two great movies were shown that were shot and edited by some of the members of the video editing SIG. A motion was brought forward and seconded on buying a good DVD burner.
November 21, 2003
Jason from A&B Sound gave a great demonstration on different makes of digital cameras. He went through what to look for to get the camera to fit your needs plus your budget. Different types of lenses plus what to look for when wanting to attach different lenses to your camera. Sensors, flashes, batteries, memory cards, and audio in your camera were also discussed and demonstrated. The size of a picture best suited for your camera plus pixels for a good quality picture when print or for sending it as an email were talked about. Irfan View software was used to demonstrate how to manipulate our pictures. Jason answered questions from the audience and gave away prizes. Coffee and our own club business as well as questions and answers followed.
October 17, 2003
Computer Avenue presents on Hardware and Upgrade Strategies. Computer Avenue gave us a very informative demonstration on the inside of a computer case with all the components and where they are situated. Then Jim showed us many add-on such as CD writer, Dvd burner, video card, Router , sound card, power supply, etc. Wireless router, cards, mouse and keyboard were also explained. Logitech speakers, Epson printer/scanner were also on display. Ryan gave an intensive overview on the maintenance of your computer. Questions were asked from the members and answered by the Computer Avenue group. Computer Avenue were generous in giving away three great gifts.
2002-2003 Season
June 20, 2003
Last meeting till September. There was a presenation on Hardware upgrades. RAM, hard disks and "upgrade kits".
May 16, 2003
A "trading assistant" for eBay, Joy Hillhouse, showed usall about eBay
April 11, 2003
Richard gave a demonstration on Networking. Each step of the demo was supported by pictures to give us an excellent view of exactly how connections plus the hardward etc. looked. He showed how to install the network card, hardware and also the software plus all the configuration for file and printer sharing. Explanations were given also for configuring read only sharing verses full access. Routers (wireless also) were also talked about plus the advantage of being a firewall as well. . Meeting moved up one week to "second Friday of the month" to avoid Good Friday conflict.
March 21, 2003
Norn Leach, Keith Bradley and Richard Denesiuk presented on popup stopper Free Surfer, Spam filter Mail Washer, web bug checker Adawareand how to set up message filters/rules in Outlook Express and Netscape Messenger.
This first day of spring brought out a full house of smiling faces. Richard opened the meeting with a talk on Spam and those annoying popups we get. A demo was given by Richard on "free Surfer" using Internet Exployer and Netscape 7.2. We went through most of the toolbars also Keith Bradley gaves us a demostration on "Ad-Aware" V6.0. He did a partial scan and toolbar explanation also Norm Leach and Richard went through a demonstration of "Mail Washer" V2.0. They demonstrated how to convert your existing mail address over to "Mail Washer" and showed how to use it to get rid of most of your spam. Richard demonstrated also how to filter out unwanted email using Netscape and Outlook Express. After coffee there were many questions and answers on various problems plus a discussion on the pro's and con's of the "Linux" operating system.
February 21, 2003
Richard opened the meeting by welcoming members &new members to the meeting. He urged members to send articles to Peter Prystupa for the Newsletter. Richard started a presentation on copying &writing to CD-R/CD-RW but ran into a problem with CD direct &had to continue an oral presentation. Richard also mentioned that a subscription of "Smart Computing" was taken out for 2 years &will be available to the members. A way to loan it out has to be worked out. He mentioned that the new computer at the computer club is being used &is working out well. Questions and Answer period followed.
January 17, 2003
John Buchanan gave a very detailed demonstration on Digital cameras from the batteries to lenses. . It started from taking the picture and transferring it to the computer. He then showed how you can manipulate the picture. The next step of printing the picture was also discussed as well as burning to a CD.
Elections were held:
Presiden---Keith Bradley; Vice Pres.---Tom Graham; Secretary---Gail Delisle; Treasurer---Ian Trenholm; Membership-- Margo Mackie
These members were nominated and voted in. Ian Trenholm gave us an update of the club's financial statement.
December 20, 2002
A fun meeting with a a presentation on a software called Crazy Talkby member Walter Kremers. If time permits, Richard has put together some fun URLsand animations.
November 29, 2002
The annual 5th Friday of the month" SpecialSpecial Interest Group. A demo of MS Messengerand Netmeeting, doing a video chat; and a workshop on "partitioning a hard-drive"
November 15, 2002
Gary of the Winnipeg Camera Club gave an excellent presentation on an "Overview of a digital Camera".
October 18, 2002
A presentation on "File Sharing Networks": KaZaA and WinMX by Keith Bradley and Walter Kremers.
September 20, 2002
The first meeting of the 2002-3 season. Removable Media with the focus on CDR/RW was presented by Richard Denesiuk.
June 21, 2002
Last meeting of the 2001-2 term. Keith Bradley gave a presentation on "Windows Tips and Tricks".
May 17, 2002
A presentation on Internet Tips and Tricks by Richard Denesiuk. Printing, viewing, finding and viruses are topics to be mentioned.
April 19, 2002
A Rep from Island Inkjetwill present on printers. A mini-presenation on Internet Tips wil also be given.
March 22, 2002
Corelwill be sending out a Dan Auns to give us a demonstration on Corel Draw 10. Don't miss it, Corel always does an EXCELLENT job. Note: this is the 4th Friday of the month
February 15, 2002
Presentation on uploading photos/jpegs to Future Shops Photo site, how to manage and resize images using Irfan Viewerby club member Walter Kremers
January 18, 2002
Presentation on Adobe Photoshop LEby club member John Buchanan.
December 14, 2001
Presentation on Windows XP operating system with David Malloy.
November 16, 2001
Presentation on hardware. "A Tour of the Inside of Your Computer"
October 19, 2001
Presentation on Digital Cameras with Chris Godfrey from Don's Photo.
September 21, 2001
First meeting of the 2001-2002 season. Richard Denesiuk did a presentation on Microsoft Explorer 5
Club off for July and August. September 21 starts the new season
June 15, 2001
Keith Bradley will do a presentation on Windows Tips and Tricks. A sampling of Keith's favourite Window's utilities and tricks.
May 18, 2001
A presentation on Virus Software. Walter Kremers will show Mcaffee Antivirus, Larry Hayman will show Innoculate it!, and Richard Denesiuk will show F-Prot
April 20, 2001
Gary Dikkemawill show us a preview of Microsoft's Windows XPand teach us how to update drivers on our computers
March 16, 2001
Bob Allison for Canada Customs and Revenue will show us Netfile, electronic tax-filing option.
February 16, 2001
Our president, Keith Bradley, will do a presentation on computer-based video editing, with Pinnacle Studio DC10.
January 19, 2001
Election of officers. Presentation on WinZip
December 15, 2000
Last meeting of the year. We had a presentation on Computer Security from Collin McDonald with The Province of Manitoba, Information Technology Office.
November 17, 2000
Club Program Chair, Ron Day gave a presentation on Sierra's Print Artist 8. Ron demonstrated how this software could be used to make greeting cards
October 20, 2000
Club president, Keith Bradley, presented on Scanning. The club HP Pavillion and Acer Scanner were used.
September 15, 2000
Kevin Dube of Microsoft came presented on Microsoft's Millennium Edition (ME). A very good presentation, great multi-media features.
July and August, 2000
Summer holidays, no meetings.
June 16, 2000
Don's Photowill present on Digital Cameras
May 26, 2000
We had a presentation on Hardware from PowerJP Computers
April 21, 2000
LINUX and Visual Basic were demonstrated by our treasurer, Wally Birch.
March 17, 2000
Representatives from the Manitoba Genealogy Societygave us an overview and tips on conducting your family genealogy. An appeal was also made to help out with their data entry of the 1901 Manitoba census information
February 18, 2000
We had a representative from Revenue Canada present on NetFile. John Brand also showed us QuickTax Deluxe.
January 21, 2000
We had Jill Perry from Coreldo a presentation on Corel Print Officeand Corel Office 2000.
December 17, 1999
Can't remember what we did. 8-(
November 19, 1999
Our president, Keith Bradley, gave us a presentation on Windows: Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts.
October 15, 1999
WE will have a person from Computer Avenuegive us a presentation on new technologies and talk about hardware upgrades.
September 17, 1999
There were no meetings in July or August. Gene Barlow from Powerquestgave us a great presentation on Partition Magicand Disk Copy.
June 18, 1999
The last meeting of this season till September. Morgana Graham, a CRCC member, will show us how to use a computer and MIDI software to compose music.
May 21, 1999
David Wood of Microsoft came to the meeting to show us Windows 2000. It was a PowerPoint presentation on the new features to be found in Windows 2000.
April 16, 1999
Keith Bradley gave us an informative demonstration on Family Tree Maker. Ron Day organized a Lottery group for the computer club
March 1999
We had a raffle and and Rod Dornan won a Toshiba laptop computer. Bruce Frain won the doorprize copy of CANTAX. Richard Denesiuk gave a demonstration on scanning using the CRCC's computer and scanner.
February 19, 1999
Wally Birch, CRCC treasurer did a presentation on QUICKEN, financial software. Wally showed us how to set up our own personal accounts and what we could do with the software. It turned out to be impossible to get a tax software vendor to come. Send suggestions to Ron Day (redy@cc.crm.mb.ca)
January 15, 1999
Presentations on Graphics software: Keith Bradley showed us Paint Shop Pro 5.0, and Ron Day showed us Print Artist. Both are very capable and inexpensive programs. Paint Shop Pro is a full blown graphics editor and Print Artist is a package that come with tons of customizable, cards, calendars, business cards, posters, etc. Our new executive was voted in, congratulations to all our officers. President - KEITH BRADLEY; Vice President - TOM GRAHAM; Secretary - GAIL DELISLE; Treasurer - WALLY BIRCH; Membership - MARGO MACKIE; Programming Co-ordinator - RON DAY
Dec 11/98
Corel Corporationcame to present on Word Perfect Version 8We were all quite impressed with Dragon Dictate's Speech recognition capability.
Annual Computer Club Social, December 4/98
We will have the second annual Creative Computer Club Social on Friday, December 4/98, at lecture room 2, 185 Smith Street. Tickets are $5 each. Admission includes refreshments, snacks and a chance at a door prizes. We will have a silent auction. We need prizes, we are also looking for a second punch bowl
Computer Sale, Nov 24/98
The annual Computer sale of the Creative Retirement Computer Club will be held at Lecture Room 1, 185 Smith Street, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday November 24. We will have about a dozen 386 computers for sale at an asking price in the $200 range. There will be several dot matrix printers, and lots of software and books available. Don't miss a chance for a great deal on a used computer.
November Meeting, Nov 20/98
Keith Bradley (club president) did an excellent presentation on Dragon Dictates "Naturally Speaking" software, voice recognition software. While the software is not flawless, and gets better as one "trains" it to recognize the user's speech patterns, it shows GREAT promise and was a very informative and entertaining presentation.
October Meeting, Oct 18/98
There were 130 in attendance at this meeting. Richard Denesiuk gave a presentation on Windows Explorer. There was a draw for 3 copies of Paint Shop 5.0. The question and answer period went well with no shortage of questions and a good supply of answers as well.
September Meeting, Sep 16/98
First meeting of the 98/99 season. There were 125 out for this meeting, a new record! We had a presentation by Roger Creightonan independent writer who showed us Paint Shop Pro. He left us with several copies of the software which will be given away at the October meeting by a draw.
All Computer Club registrations must be renewed at this time ($20). Registration in the Computer Club requires a Creative Retirement membership ( $15 annual fee)
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