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Anthony Joshua will continue to garner criticism unless he regains his lost heavyweight belts against Oleksandr Usyk, which now seems to be quite of a task for the Briton. Despite having adequate time to prepare, Joshuas 12-round war against Usyk didnt work in the formers favor. AJ failed to deliver on his knockout game and fell prey to Usyks tactical movement, getting poleaxed for all the rounds in his hometown of London.

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A rematch is reportedly in talks to happen somewhere in early 2022. But not a lot of people have their faith in Anthony Joshuas resurrection. Mexican heavyweight Chris Arreola is one of them who recently ridiculed AJ and detailed what went wrong for him in the first fight.

In a chat with ES News, Arreola said, AJ to me, personally, he looks like a person who is gun shy, and scared to getting hit again.

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Chris Arreola suffered his last loss against Andy Ruiz Jr., the same opponent who handed Anthony Joshua his first professional loss. While AJ didnt see the distance against Ruiz in the first fight, it left a massive dent in his legacy. Nevertheless, he rebounded in an immediate rematch and took back his title.

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The second loss of his pro-career against Oleksandr Usyk will demand a similar reaction from Joshua in the rematch. But unlike Ruiz Jr, Usyk possesses different fighting skills and can be problematic to be decoded. Henceforth, Anthony Joshua cant channelize the same game plan that helped him beat The Destroyer back in 2019.

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When Joshua lost to Ruiz Jr, several people called it a fluke and didnt credit The Destroyer for his achievement. However, Usyk revealed the flaws of Joshuas game plan in September 2021. And hit him from variant angles to snatch the titles. At this point, Anthony Joshua can not suffer another loss or he will lose his top position in the heavyweight division.

Usyks entry as a heavyweight champion has clearly shaken the structure of the division. The potential AJ VS Fury blockbuster fight is not valid anymore. While Joshua shall avenge the defeat at any cost, a lot of factors regarding his fame and success are relying on the outcome of the fight.

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Down goes another top-four team in the current College Football Playoff rankings.

Oregon was assaulted in all areas of football by No. 23 Utah on Saturday night. Supporting special uniforms for the USS Salt Lake City, the Utes stuffed 40% of the Ducks rush attempts and limited the Oregon offense to just a single point per drive that crossed the 40-yard line.

The final score of 38-7 is sure to send the two-loss Ducks racing down the College Football Playoff rankings possibly outside the top 10, where Baylor and Ole Miss have similar records.

There are several contenders to fill the fourth seed in the Week 13 rankings. Cincinnati maltreated SMU for a 34-point victory, and Michigan took Maryland to the woodshed with a 41-point victory.

While the debate will center on Michigan and Cincinnati, the Wolverines inclusion largely depends on their performance when Ohio State travels to Ann Arbor as 7.5-point favorites on Saturday.

There are more contenders bubbling on the outside.

Bedlam will produce a one-loss team in the Big 12 Championship game. A win by Oklahoma State will send Baylor to Arlington, while a win by Oklahoma sends the Pokes to AT&T Stadium for a second in-state matchup.

With Oklahoma State opening as a 3-point favorite over the Sooners, there may be a shot for Dave Aranda and the Bears to capture a conference championship.

As we return again to our Four Commandments of the College Football Playoff, we wave goodbye to Wake Forest and Michigan State.

Each team suffered its second loss of the season in Week 12, and the Spartans are now out of the running for the Big Ten. The Demon Deacons must survive Boston College to compete for the ACC Championship, but a shot at the College Football Playoff is long gone.

Another sticking point may be the placement of Alabama after a subpar result against No. 21 Arkansas.

The Razorbacks were within a possession of winning late in the game in Tuscaloosa. That close outcome may compel the committee to elevate Ohio State into the No. 2 slot.

If indeed that occurs, the move could have future ramifications for the Crimson Tide especially if it loses by multiple scores in the SEC Championship.

Using our Four Commandments of the College Football Playoff, the paths to the Orange and Cotton Bowls are becoming clearer.

Week 13 is the penultimate event before Conference Championship Week, scheduled in the first weekend of December. The goal of our column is to identify the best betting value before each Tuesday checkpoint when the committee updates its top 25 rankings.

Previous recommendations have included Georgia at plus money, Michigan at 60-1 and Oklahoma State at 80-1. All three of those teams still have a great shot to make the playoff and compete for the ultimate prize.

Now, lets review the Four Commandments of the College Football Playoff:

For those wondering what the College Football Playoffs Four Commandments are, heres a refresher:

An undefeated Power Five conference champion is automatically in.

Note: We have never had five undefeated Power Five champions.Georgia is the only remaining undefeated Power Five team in FBS. Even a loss in the SEC Championship would not deter the Bulldogs from the Orange or Cotton Bowl.

A one-loss Power Five conference champion is automatically in barring a Purdue event.

Note: Ohio State was left out of the 2018 College Football Playoff as a one-loss Big Ten Champion. Alabama was selected as an at-large after taking its first loss in the SEC Championship game; meanwhile, the Buckeyes could not recover from a 49-20 defeat by a 6-6 Purdue team.

Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan currently meet this criterion. None of these teams has suffered an embarrassing loss.

A two-loss Power Five conference champion cannot jump a one-loss team into the Playoff.

Note: This precedent was set when Ohio State missed the Playoff in 2017 as the Big Ten Champion with losses to Oklahoma and Iowa.

Wisconsin, Wake Forest and Oregon will potentially win conference championships with multiple losses.

A two-loss Power Five team trumps an undefeated Group of Five team with the right strength of record.

Note: UCF finished 2018 undefeated but was passed by two-loss Michigan and Georgia. Cincinnati continued to fall in the 2020 rankings, as three-loss Florida and two-loss Oklahoma passed the Bearcats.

This commandment may have an amendment with the inclusion of Cincinnati, which is expected to slide into the No. 4 seed of the Playoff with a limited number of one-loss at-large bids.

SEC Champion

Big Ten East

Bedlam

Wild Card

Arkansas gave Alabama a scare in Tuscaloosa, getting within a possession late in the game. Protecting Bryce Young continued to be an issue against a Razorback front that rushed three defenders for most of the night.

Georgia is projected to be a 6.5-point favorite over the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. Ohio State is the only other team in FBS that projects within a touchdown of the Bulldogs.

There is value in the Georgia national title odds through -140.

As for Alabama, consecutive wins over Auburn, Georgia and then the CFP field are not reflected in the +400 odds and present no value.

Goodbye, Michigan State, from the ranks of the one-loss teams in the Big Ten East.

The Ohio State and Michigan rivalry will not only send a team to Indianapolis for the conference championship but will also serve as a knockout game for the National Championship. Ohio State hovers around a touchdown favorite against the Wolverines in the Big House.

The Buckeyes true odds of beating Michigan and Wisconsin to get into the College Football Playoff are -130. When projections against Georgia and Alabama are added as potential semifinal and championship games, that number rises to 10-1, leaving no value in the current +300 odds for the national title.

Any number under -150 to win the Big Ten is suggested.

Theres a different calculation for the Wolverines, a current +280 on the moneyline against Ohio State and potential 3-point favorite over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship.

The true odds to make the playoff for the Wolverines are 6-1, while winning the national title expands to 37-1 with Georgia as the projected semifinal opponent.

Odds at 40-1 are short for Michigan, but anything 55-1 or better has value for the Wolverines to pull off a shocker and win the national title.

Oklahoma continues to drop in the eyes of oddsmakers after being listed at +1400 before the loss to Baylor.

This column calculated the Sooners chances of winning the national title as the futures market sank to +3500. This week, Oklahoma is +4500 to win the national title despite a victory over Iowa State.

The turnover luck against Brock Purdy and Cyclones did little to lower the odds on Oklahoma. The Sooners are now a 3-point underdog to Oklahoma State and would project as a pick to beat the Cowboys for the Big 12 Championship in Arlington.

The true odds for Oklahoma to make the playoff are +350 while winning the national title projects beyond the listed number of 45-1. A potential path that includes Ohio State and Georgia sends the Sooners true odds to 55-1.

Oklahoma State was the value last week at +8000, a number that now lists at +5000 as oddsmakers continue to ignore the Cowboys.

The Pokes have true odds of +275 to win the Big 12 Championship and 47-1 odds to win the National Championship against Georgia and Ohio State. Those odds become much shorter if any other team stands in the Pokes path in the Cotton Bowl or Orange Bowl.

There is slight value on the +5000, but that number is sure to be gone after Oklahoma State moves up in the rankings and potentially beats Oklahoma in Stillwater this weekend.

Teams are beginning to hop off the train headed to the College Football Playoff.

Oregon and Wake Forest are no longer considered to be outside contenders to slip into the fourth seed. Ole Miss and Baylor continue to hold the two-loss bubble and are now joined by Michigan State, but none of those three teams have the resume to jump an undefeated Cincinnati.

Our Four Commandments of the CFP must be followed in determining betting value before Thanksgiving weekend.

Georgia is projected as a 6-point favorite in Atlanta for the SEC Championship.

The Bulldogs will be double-digit favorites in the Orange or Cotton Bowl against most teams that would fill a semifinal spot. Georgias odds of -120 have value through -140.

No two-loss team has ever made the College Football Playoff, but an Alabama team with a resume that includes losses away from Tuscaloosa against Texas A&M and Georgia may potentially give the Crimson Tide a second game against the Bulldogs.

The all-important strength of record would come into play, and Cincinnati would be expected to drop with its remaining schedule.

The good news for Cincinnati is a slide to No. 5 last week, indicating a jump to No. 4 is in order this week.

The bad news is a strength of schedule outside the top 100 will not reflect well when other teams build a resume.

The Bearcats are 6-5 against the spread, leaving the explosive appeal of the 2020 team behind. Cincinnati needs Notre Dame which has Stanford on deck this weekend to continue blowing opponents out.

While the Bearcats have a high probability of winning the AAC, a semifinal game against Georgia as a projected 18-point underdog sends Cincinnati odds sky-high.

The current number of +3500 would not pay any more than a rolling open parlay card, which may be the only route if theres committee exclusion.

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Dave Rennie is back on Scottish soil this weekend bidding to maintain momentum in his Australia rebuildVenue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh Date: Sunday, 7 November Kick-off: 14:15 GMTCoverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app

It's just as well Dave Rennie is a gnarled character, a man who uses silence like a sword, a coach who can put the fear of death into somebody just by eyeballing them.

When, last year, the Kiwi swapped a life in Glasgow for a new existence in Australia, he took on a challenge so steeplingly high it would have dwarfed the Wallace Monument he used to live beside in Stirling.

His in-tray was a tower of grief. Even to one as deadpan as Rennie you could pick up definite signs of a nervous twitch as he pondered what lay ahead. His old job at Scotstoun came with some pressure but it must have seemed like nirvana compared to the tumult in Sydney.

In the three years before his arrival in Australia, the Wallabies had won 50% of their Tests (2017, including two defeats and 11 tries conceded against Scotland), 33% (2018) and 50% in 2019. He then had to deal with the fallout of Australia's quarter-final exit from the World Cup at the hands of England, a 40-pointer and the biggest beating they'd ever suffered in a knockout game in the tournament. There was an almighty mess to clean up.

His predecessor, Michael Cheika, had been an excellent coach in his early years but the end of his reign was an angry shambles. "Had he cared about Australian rugby he'd have left a long time ago," was the caustic comment of Quade Cooper, the Australian 10.

So, when Rennie started work that first day the list of things he had to do was gargantuan. Firstly, he had to rebuild the team - and to do that he needed to persuade his bosses to ditch their rule about not allowing overseas Aussies to play for their country unless they'd won 60 caps or more. This, he did, and Scotland will see the proof of it on Sunday when Rory Arnold (Toulouse) and Kurtley Beale (Racing 92) win their first cap since 2019 (Arnold from the start and Beale from the bench) while Will Skelton (the La Rochelle colossus) will win his first cap since 2016 (also off the bench).

Rennie has brought in other overseas Aussies in earlier games, so job done there. Secondly, he had to bring in a whole new generation. Again, he's done it. When Izaia Perese, the outside back, comes on to make his debut on Sunday he will be the 17th new cap of Rennie's brief time in charge. That's not far off a debutant for every game Australia have played on Rennie's watch.

Next, he had to get a new whole backroom team. In came Matt Taylor, formerly Scotland's defence coach, Petrus du Plessis, the one-time Glasgow scrum coach, and Dan McKellar, an ex-player at Boroughmuir. Scott Johnson, once the interim coach of Scotland and a long-standing director of rugby at Murrayfield, was also on the ticket, although reports in Australia suggest that Johnson's coat is on a shoogly peg these days.

Those were all controllables, rugby decisions, his area of expertise. The rest was tricky. The fans had become disaffected and almost indifferent to the Wallabies. He had to get the crowds back. Then, barely a wet week in the gig, he had to take a 30% pay cut because his employers were in the greatest financial crisis of the professional era.

After that, he had to deal with the rising discontent among players whose salaries were having to be cut drastically. Then, he had to navigate through all the vicious in-fighting at the top of the game, a level of dysfunction that reached its nadir when 11 former Wallabies captains joined forces to accuse the leaders of Rugby Australia (RA) of gross mismanagement, a move that, in part, led to the chairman of RA to talk about "abhorrent bullying" of then chief executive Raelene Castle, who resigned because she couldn't tolerate the onslaught any more.

Castle being the main driver behind Rennie's appointment, his chief ally was now gone. It was a free for all. Will Genia (105 caps) practically wept for the rugby nation. "Everybody wants to throw each other under the bus," he said.

Stephen Moore (129 caps) said "the state of the game here is so bad at the moment that it has to be transformed totally because for too long we've papered over the problems and look where that's got us".

Look, indeed. No money, dramatically diminished crowds, too many defeats, a world ranking of seven. A sports management expert lifted the bonnet and concluded that "parochialism and backward thinking are crippling rugby. It's a self-made destruction". Sports Australia published a report into the top 20 participant sports and physical activities in the country. All the mainstream sports made it. So did surfing, martial arts, netball and pilates. Rugby union did not. In the straight-talking world of Peter FitzSimons, the former Wallaby and now media commentator said rugby was "on the bones" of its backside.

Oh, and Dave, your first four Tests as Wallabies coach are against New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand andhang on, let's checkoh yes, New Zealand. So get on with it. Chop chop, mate.

There are many different views on how Rennie did in his two and a bit years in charge of Glasgow. A Pro14 semi-final in 2017-18, one step further in the final in 2018-19, a quarter-final of the Champions Cup, albeit one that ended in obliteration by Saracens, and a dressing room thermonuclear blast from Rennie directed at his players. Some in the room still quiver at the thought of it. "He basically called some of us imposters," said one who witnessed it.

Rennie was one of the top coaches in the world, but the reality of his Glasgow years didn't quite live up to the hype. Maybe that was an impossibility. He lost Finn Russell (he was always strangely cool whenever Russell's name was mentioned to him, forever bigging up Adam Hastings instead) and then he lost Stuart Hogg (while trumpeting what he called a "fantastic prospect" called Rufus McLean).

Other stalwarts left, too. Some doubtful characters replaced them. Rennie's Glasgow played magnificent stuff at times, but when it came to the crunch against the big boys they fell short, if only by inches to a terrific Leinster team in the 2019 final in Glasgow.

Many of his ex-players laud him for what he did for them. A handful have spoken about how brutal he could be. The criticism of his methods was heartfelt if a little feeble. Rugby at the top level is a savage game of sink or swim.

And that's what Rennie had to do when he left for Australia. The financial state of the game in Australia is still dicey but they've now got a good TV deal and some traction where once there was only turbulence. The administration of the game is still the cause of much comment, but that's not his bag.

They drew one, won one and lost two of those first four against the All Blacks in 2020. He gave debuts to 10 players in that run. They won only one game in six that year, but in 2021 Rennie has made his mark. They're on a run of five victories in a row, two of them against South Africa.

Where the Lions toiled to score two tries (close-range lunges from hookers) in three Tests against the world champions in the summer, the new Wallabies scored five in two Tests against the Springboks, all of them from his backline. On Sunday, five of the players first capped by Rennie will start against Scotland with another four of his discoveries coming off the bench and another three only there because he got the eligibility rule changed in Australia.

It's been barely 13 months since his first Test with the Wallabies and he's achieved a lot in a bumpy landscape. He's a formidable operator, almost unflappable. As he once said, rather sternly, when a Glasgow media man attempted to brief him ahead of a press conference: "This is not my first rodeo."

Rennie didn't light many fires with Glasgow, but hope is ablaze in Australia once again - and it's been a while since anybody said that of the once-weary Wallabies. In a rugby world where physicality and defence is the beginning, the end and the in-between for many coaches, here are two countries who want to play. Sunday should be a magnificent spectacle.

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If you go back to 2015, there was a huge amount of refereeing experience at that World Cup and it was only really Craig Joubert that retired after the tournament. That meant you had even more officiating experience available for selection in 2019.

About eight months beforehand, the referee manager and selectors decided not to take Glen Jackson and John Lacey, which was a mistake, in my view. There was a blend of youth and experience, but the experience was needed. World Cup matches and big Six Nations clashes are a different beast to a normal international. That is when you find out about referees.

In 2019, I think decision-makers thought that the younger referees would be doing the knock-outs. But some of them just did not perform. It was myself, Jerome Garces, Jaco Peyper and Wayne Barnes that took charge of the quarter-finals onwards. If myself and Jerome had been injured in the semi-finals, I think they would have been in big trouble without being able to select Jaco or Wayne either.

It was similar to 1999, when Jim Fleming and Derek Bevan were the oldest referees there and ended up with the semi-finals Frances wonderful win over New Zealand and a game that went to extra-time between Australia and South Africa.

In the run-up to 2023, we have to be very careful. Jerome has retired, I have retired, Pascal Guazere has retired and now Romain has retired. If England and South Africa do well again, you have to rule out Wayne, Jaco and a few more promising Englishmen like Luke Pearace and Matthew Carley when it comes to the late stages.

I do not know the circumstances around Romains retirement. I sent him a message wishing him all the best and congratulating him on his career. But people should know that losing an experienced referee causes issues beyond the 80 minutes of a game. You could throw Romain into any game in the world and you would know what you were getting. With younger referees, you have to think carefully about whether or not they are ready.

Romain is 46 and it seems at the minute that the powers-that-be want to pension off referees because of their age rather than performances. As I say, I do not know Romains exact circumstances but, when I told him I would be calling it a day myself, he said that he wanted to aim for a knock-out game in 2023 in his home country.

We tend to see young players introduced during the autumn internationals and it is the same with referees. Nika Amashukeli from Georgia, oversaw Irelands impressive win over Japan. At the moment there is a group of hugely talented referees under Jaco and Wayne, but you would have to say there are question marks about whether they can control the very biggest games consistently. World Cups are so difficult and something always happens. Sometimes things just blow up in the face of referees and they fall by the wayside. You need a bit of luck, too. Without a vastly experienced group, it can be a real problem.

Slightly behind Wayne and Jaco is a group comprising Angus Gardner, Ben OKeeffe, Mathieu Raynal, Luke Pearce, Matt Carley, Nic Berry and Paul Williams. Out of those, World Rugby needs two or three to push for a knockout game at the next World Cup. I would put Andy Brace, Karl Dickson and Craig Evans, who was on the whistle for England against Tonga, in the next group down. They will be pushing to take opportunities so they can be at the 2023 World Cup. Then, if they stay in the game, they could be given a knockout game in 2027.

There is a lot of stake for players and coaches this autumn. Crowds are back and the countdown to the next World Cup is on. But there is also a lot at stake for referees, and more so because of Romains retirement.

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SAN FRANCISCO

For baseball, this is a dream October. For the casual fan, the one attracted by marquee teams and historic rivalries and the drama of a knockout game, this is as good as it gets.

The first game of the 2021 postseason: a winner-take-all wild-card game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The latest game, coming Thursday: a winner-take-all finale to the National League Division Series between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.

Its what baseball wants, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

The Red Sox and Yankees played on a night with no other ballgames. The Dodgers and Giants will do the same.

For a sport desperate to replenish its customer base with younger and newer fans, this is a golden ticket, an unprecedented marketing opportunity.

Really, pounding home the idea that this a must-watch game, Arizona Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall said Wednesday, on the eve of the Dodgers-Giants game.

I do believe that, if you can catch the attention of the younger fan, or the casual fan, to commit to one game, it will lead to more. Its up to us to make sure they understand the significance of this game, the fact that they have never played in the postseason, and the huge history between these two teams that have the greatest rivalry in baseball.

No sport binds generations like baseball, from Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, to Mookie Betts and Buster Posey and Clayton Kershaw. History should be a selling point, not a sacrifice at the altar of the TikTok generation.

When youve got generational rivalries playing a meaningful series, and in this case, a very meaningful game, Roberts said Wednesday, it just brings the old, the new, the rivalries, and all that kind of talk back to life. Those generational rivalries are kind of the foundation of this sport and what made it Americas pastime.

So I think that, on both sides, theres just tremendous men, tremendous ballplayers, and for us as an industry not to leverage these guys, its just a missed opportunity.

Neither Major League Baseball nor TBS, which is broadcasting the Dodgers-Giants game, would say whether there would be any extraordinary promotional pizzazz in advance of the game, or during it. The league did cite its successes in reaching younger fans: 57 million views of videos from an 11-person TikTok Creator Class; an audience almost exclusively in the 13-34 age range for an MLB Originals series on YouTube; 500 million engagements this season among MLB accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

This historic Game 5 will allow us to build on this momentum by continuing to tell the story on various platforms, MLB chief marketing officer Karin Timpone said in a statement, though social media is particularly powerful in reaching new fans because of its shareability. We love the idea that fans are co-creating their experience, highlighting what makes October baseball so special. Together, were broadening our baseball community through a cadence of stories that invite everyone in.

It is unfair, perhaps, to expect a marketing campaign for a Game 5 that the league did not know would happen until late Tuesday night. From the sports marketing community, however, there was no shortage of suggestions.

Dodgers Corey Seager scores past San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey on an RBI double by Trea Turner during the first inning in Game 4 of the NLDS at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday.

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Andy Dolich, a Bay Area consultant and former marketing chief for the Oakland Athletics, said MLB could leverage its broadcast partnership with ESPN to access the movie, TV and cartoon assets of Disney for use in promotional spots. Disney is the parent company of ESPN.

In July, the Field of Dreams game attracted the highest television audience for a regular-season game since 1988. Before that game, the players emerged from a cornfield, and Dolich suggested a similar cinematic introduction in San Francisco, whether real or virtual.

They could come out of the fog, he said.

And, given the leagues embrace of gambling, Dolich proposed a free-to-play daily fantasy game just for this day, perhaps nicknamed for the colors of the teams.

The Black and Blue Battle, he said.

Jason Klein, partner at the San Diego-based Brandiose, the firm best known for designing creative and inventive minor league logos, suggested the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco dispense with the usual sporting bet and engage in arm wrestling, via live stream.

Klein also said he would have proposed a 24-hour flash sale of Dodgers and Giants merchandise on the leagues website, energizing the fan bases, with a portion of the proceeds donated to charity.

The Golden State Showdown for St. Jude, Klein said. Everybody loves alliteration. If it rhymes or alliterates, you can sell that idea.

What is good for the Dodgers and Giants is good for the entire league, the Diamondbacks included.

Were going to be telling the story of the Dodgers-Giants game too, Hall said. Weve got them coming in next year, and we want to sell tickets.

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