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Karup's Hometown Amateurs
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MiztaBlu's Review
from Claypaws:
Just an update on the download manager (non-)issue.
I have just signed up to this site as it is one of my regulars and I shall write my own review soon.
Meanwhile, I thought you might like to know that Free Download Manager still works perfectly on this site if you do what I said. I have just tried it.
To summarise what you need to do to use Free Download Manager with Firefox:
Cookies must be enabled in Firefox and in Internet Explorer.
In Firefox, you need the Flashgot addon.
Log into the site using Firefox, ticking the box telling it to remember your details.
Once, and once only, log into the site using Internet Explorer, ticking the box telling it to remember your details. You can then close IE and you will not need to log in with it again for the duration of your membership. In fact, you will not need to log in again with FF either. Your login stays current for your whole membership.
Set Flashgot to use FDM as the download manager.
Do not enter any login details in FDM. It does not use them. It gets all login data from your cookies.
Click any download link.
Tell Firefox to use Flashgot and tick the box to always do it.
Thereafter, you can add downloads to FDM with just a single left click.
I downloaded in full speed mode, two files at a time. Absolutely no problem at all. I will revert to DTA because I prefer it but FDM works fine.
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06-08-12 05:02pm
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Karup's Hometown Amateurs
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from Claypaws:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Hi
I understand your point on the hardcore and that you liked it even though it was outside your usual niche. In many ways, I wish the sites that are good on photos would drop the hardcore completely and say so in their tours. They get more criticism about their hardcore videos than anything else. The presence of hardcore itself makes little difference to me since I do not download it. But, unless the sites do it like the classic hardcore networks which use pornstars and big budgets, they get attacked by people who join expecting a kind of hardcore that the sites simply are not equipped to produce. And I would hate for them to realign their budgets and methods towards satisfying the hardcore niche. You see, there are plenty of excellent sources for such hardcore, such as NA, Brazzers, Reality Kings. Those networks have a huge amount of content too and you can fill many terabytes with it. But there is so much less available in the photo niche. Before long, we photo lovers will have nowhere left to go.
In some ways, I echo your own comment in your review of Naughty America regarding Kentucky Fried Chicken and hamburgers. Hamburgers are to KFC what NA style sex is to Karups. Karups do not have the big titted pornstars or the scene types that NA and Brazzers have and the Karups tour is completely different in style from the Brazzers and NA tours. I think it is unrealistic to expect such hardcore in Karups or ATK. I know I can look at the Brazzers or NA tours and immediately and obviously identify that those sites are not for me. I can understand why they score high in their niche but it is obvious that they have nothing to offer in my preferred niche. I am slight;y surprised you even considered that KarupsHA was worth joining since their tour does not give much suggestion that their content would be what you were looking for. I think it is a credit to it and to you that, when you did, you gave it a balanced review and a reasonable if tough score.
On the DMs point, you say you tried many DMs in Firefox and Chrome. But did you specifically try adding your downloads using the FF Flashgot extension and did you try logging in once with Internet Explorer and saving the login details? If the answer to both of those is "no" then you would not get DMs to work well on Karups. An extra part per video is honestly just one more mouse click once you have used either of my two workarounds.
And if you use DownThemAll in Firefox, you can queue and run the downloads without even adding an external DM. DTA works perfectly on all the Karups sites because the links never time out, your login never expires and so you can even schedule DTA with a bit of effort. And you can set it up for single click downloads if you want to.
I do regard it as a valid criticism when sites will not work with DMs other than DTA. But Karups' actually do work with my workarounds unless something has changed since I last used DMs there.
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06-04-12 02:37pm
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Karup's Hometown Amateurs
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from Claypaws:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Thanks for calculating the number of models. 1470 is 40% more than Nubiles, which is probably the most similar site. It is about 80% the number of models on DDF network. I entirely agree it has much less hardcore video than a hardcore network. I notice you like Brazzers, Naughty America, Reality Kings, Video Box. Their hardcore is really in a completely different style from Karups or ATK. Your loved networks have a kind of more hammed up, produced style and theme. Karups is more a kind of straight plain sex. This is why I tend to say I would expect ATK (or Karups hardcore) to disappoint hardcore hounds. The networks tend to have "nasty" sex. "Nasty" being a complimentary term relating to rawness of the sex.
I think your review is completely honest about your preferences and readers should easily be able to adjust for their own preferences. For me, a photo hound, it is one of the truly great sites.
I can add two things you might like to try out at Karups, if you have not already done so.
First, the download manager thing is largely a cookie issue. I do not know what browser you usually use on the site. My standard browser is Firefox. However, not all download managers correctly handle Firefox's cookies.
There are two workarounds. One is to add the downloads to your download manager using the Firefox addon, Flashgot. This manages cookies better than most download managers can manage on their own.
The other workaround is to log in using Internet Explorer. You only need to do that once during your membership. Check the box that says "remember me" or "save login" or some such similar thing, I forget exactly what they call it. Then you can close Internet Explorer. The IE cookie is then set and lasts for your entire membership. Download managers that look for IE cookies, which is many of them, then work flawlessly. I discussed this with Karups support and they said they would add it to their help files.
The other thing concerns the split videos. I am sure you already know this but others might not perhaps. If you drop the multipart (usually two part) videos onto the playlist of VLC Player, they follow on seamlessly as if they were a single video. Karups put the legal 2257 stuff only on the first part so there is no interruption from that on the second part. (There might be some very old videos where there is a repeat of 2257 but I think they were mainly on KarupsPC not KarupsHA).
Anyway, good review and I enjoyed reading it for a site I know well and like a lot.
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06-04-12 11:49am
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Karup's Hometown Amateurs
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MiztaBlu's Review
from Claypaws:
Certainly a well thought out review. Like Cap'n, I would put my score around 85 or even slightly higher but I am exclusively a photo guy.
I disagree on the network point though, from the point of view of a photo guy. Unfortunately, Karups seem to have ruined their tour and I cannot see the current number of models. Perhaps you can find or estimate that within the members area. I join this site a few times per year but I am not currently a member. However, it does have a lot of models. If you compare the number of models with say, the DDF network (1868 models), it might not look so bad. And it definitely has more photos than most networks.
I agree that it is more of a photo site than a video site and that is a strong attraction for me. But sites that concentrate on photos have a problem. The problem is that so many porn users only want video. If a group of sites that specialise in photos offer the same kind of network price as the video networks do, they cannot make enough income from their members to keep in business.
Most of the photo specialists do not offer network membership for that very reason. MET, Karups, ATK all have multiple sites without a network and they often have more models than the networks do.
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06-04-12 07:22am
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Karup's Hometown Amateurs
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MiztaBlu's Review
from Capn:
A well thought out review. It is nice to get a perspective from a video guy. For me, it rates probably around the 85 mark as I am a photo phreak. :0)
I do agree about your network point though.
Cap'n. :0)
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06-04-12 01:25am
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MILF Mania XXX
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from pat362:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
A weakness on some of TBP's reviews is that they'll take a site's word when they claim exclusivity of their content. I forgive them this little oversight because I'm an old old pro when it comes to review sites and there truly is no other sites remotely close to TBP and now PU.
I only checked a couple of the videos myself and I know they are on some of the streaming sites but I don't know if they are also on sites like Videobox or VideosZ. The ones I looked at weren't but that doesn't mean that some or many aren't. If the site was a little less expensive or there was a lot more content then it might not be that bad but there doesn't seem to be more than a 130 or so videos and 20$ for non-exclusif content is high. Especially when some of it isn't all that new.
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06-01-12 06:25pm
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MILF Mania XXX
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MiztaBlu's Comment
from Khan:
FWIW, I notified the TBP Editors and they've already added a note that (according to a user report) the content isn't exclusive.
See the MISC section at:
https://www.thebestporn.com/review/milfmaniaxxx/
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06-01-12 02:36pm
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MILF Mania XXX
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MiztaBlu's Comment
from pat362:
Although I am certain that many of these videos are available on other sites. How many of them are available on download sites? If the bulk of the videos are only available on streaming only sites then they are in the right to say exclusif since they offer their customer he ability to download the scene.
You did make some excellent point and I do think it's important to submit an error report since the review is quite new.
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06-01-12 11:56am
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MILF Mania XXX
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MiztaBlu's Comment
from Marcus:
Make sure you click the 'Report Error' link on the left and notify them.
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06-01-12 09:01am
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Naughty America
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#13
from jberryl69:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Oh... sorry - I sort of thought it was directed to me since it appeared in my New Replies box. Have a good day.
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03-18-13 04:48pm
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Naughty America
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from jberryl69:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
I thought I pointed out in my review that it was my subjective opinion. Plus, since it wasn't such a sterling a review, I directed people to check out Slutty's review since he took the opposite view.
Last paragraph of the review:
"There might be something for some of our readers (I highly recommend Slutty's review below), but not for me and thus I can't even give it a "might recommend" score."
Porn site reviews are similar to movie reviews. As an example, Rex Reed bashed both Silver Linings Playbook AND Jennifer Lawrence (going so far as to say "There's nothing wrong with the overrated Jennifer Lawrence that some serious acting lessons couldn't improve.") I, 92% of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes and apparently the Academy disagreed, but I know that is just Rex Reed.
All in all, I think it was an accurate assessment of the site and my reaction to it. I don't believe I said anything that was untrue.
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03-18-13 02:09pm
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Naughty America
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#5
from Gazette Risque:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Yeah, figured as much. Loved the live shows though.
Thank you for the info, much appreciated!
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03-26-12 06:41am
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Naughty America
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from messmer:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Ah, I think I see where our disagreement comes in. I move mostly in mature circles and at NA as well as Brazzers there was a preponderance of false tits in that niche. As opposed to most I am not particularly interested in young girls. See my age! :-)
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03-25-12 12:02pm
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from messmer:
Good review, MiztaBlu even though I canceled after one month because of the "enhanced breasts" factor. I think they even must have Brazzers beat when it comes to fhat. If I were to rate the top four sites, they would be on the bottom because of that factor alone. But great review anyway and I do appreciate the fact that tastes differ.
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03-25-12 10:28am
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from Gazette Risque:
Great review!
Could you tell us if they may have started with the live shows again?
After they cut that off I canceled my subscription.
I heard they did some tests with new live shows at some point but I wonder if they're back for good now.
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03-25-12 08:30am
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Comment
from Victorycreed:
Actually, I'm happy that they are upgrading their old vids to better quality. I always liked their old stuff. Pretty much, since I've always wanted to watch them, but couldn't. I do wish that they had all their old stuff still available, but noticed some are missing. I also don't thing its not that bad.
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08-18-09 12:18am
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from dracken:
This is one of the sites I have joined in the past and recently considered renewing for. This review and conversation really helped me make up my mind. Thank you for all the great information in here (especially the info about the download limit. That had always been a problem for me in the past.)
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08-16-09 04:57am
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from badandy400:
I would not call them DVD quality. They quality is not bad but it is not up to DVD. I know they have a "DVD quality" option to download which I always use for anything that offers it. The videos are at 2000k. The DVDs that are produced by them actually do look better. Same goes for other sites that also produce DVDs.
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05-26-09 09:58am
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Naughty America
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from exotics4me:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
I don't think we have come close to connecting on any of these posts. You say my logic is flawed. Let me show you flawed logic.
McDonalds advertises breakfast on television and on their outdoor menu. If they up and stopped serving it, but was still advertising it, that would be false advertising. NA advertises "regular updates". You said on the worst case scenario week that they could have 8 new updates and 5 remastered updates. That is regular updates.
Moving on, when I said NA isn't a premium site, that is based on price. They are a bargain site. My comparison between regular unleaded gas and premium unleaded gas was, yes, far-reaching, but not flawed. You are expecting a bargain priced site to deliver more than the premium sites do.
You can look at my reviews to see that NA is ranked tied for 15th out of 160ish reviews I've posted. So, I too like their site, but when they lowered the price, I wondered if that would mean less updates.
For example, the original price had been $25 a month, if they gave you 13 new updates a week, which would be 52 in a month, that would be 48 cents per update.
Now they are charging you $15 a month. And using your example numbers of 13 new updates one week, 8 the next, that would be 42 NEW updates a month or 35 cents per new update.
So, there is no rip-off. They are charging less per new update.
On the cd part, you didn't even start to understand that part. I was not comparing having to buy a cd that was remastered. I was showing that it is NOT unusual for remasters to be sold as NEW. The DSotM remaster is identical to the others before it, same songs, no bonus songs, no bonus DVD clips of the band, yet they legally sell it at the same price as brand new never before released cds.
See what I mean? My first problem was what you have now said was a copy and paste error, so you can understand why I questioned that part. My second problem is why you have a problem with a site doing what the majority of members wanted and still giving you new updates, averaging more than 1 per day, for a bargain price. Let me add, 100% exclusive updates that they have to shoot themselves.
And don't look at it as so much a problem as it was me saying what more do you expect from them? You can see the price per new update above with the new price factored in. There is no false advertising and no rip-off.
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05-24-09 02:22am
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Naughty America
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from exotics4me:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
I guess you don't think I understand because I don't agree with you? I understand completely. See the site 1byday, they are releasing remasters, or as they call them, "reloaded" sets as new updates. You can even look at their tour and see some of those. So, I'm quite aware of the practice and have been on sites that do it.
The first thing I would say is NA's tour nor join page says 13 updates per day. As a matter of fact, it only promises, "Regular updates" no exact number. So, I don't see why you are saying false advertising.
The second thing, a remaster is technically new. I don't really agree with it, but just go look on a site that sells CDs. Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon has been re-released and remastered, I believe 5 official times, just on cd. Same songs, same length, same order of songs and each one costs $12. Nothing new except better sound, just like the NA remasters have better video resolution and bitrates.
Third, I don't understand why you consider NA a premium level site. I'll use 1byday again, $35 a month, NA is $15 a month. To make a far-reaching comparison, that is like buying a tank of regular unleaded gas and expecting super unleaded performance.
On a side note for reference, very few sites can guarantee what they are going to do in the future days, weeks, months. Give Me Pink was easily one of the best premium sites on the internet, 1920 BR DVD quality videos, three different types of picture zips to download for each set, then one day a few months ago, they just quit updating and disappeared completely.
Going by NA's tour pages as long as they are updating, that very vague, "Regular updates" can't really be challenged or counted on.
Last, in your review, I had left a comment to another member Monahan and am interested in why your review is reviewed as you being a constant member over the last 3 or more months on NA, but in your cons you question a DL Limit since you hadn't been a member in about 6 months. You're throwing some pretty hard words out there about NA, false advertising, saying their DL limit is annoying, even though they haven't had a DL limit since October 2007.
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05-23-09 09:16pm
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Naughty America
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from exotics4me:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
I understood what you meant. The thing is, it is becoming fairly normal for sites to remaster and re-release old sets as new updates. I know of at least 3 major sites that are doing it. It goes into the problem I've talked about with those sites. Some members, especially with larger monitors and high end computers are complaining about the old videos. So, the sites can either let that old content die off, even though I think we all know that the older content on most sites these days is much better than the newer content or they can re-release the remasters. Similar to buying cds, when I first bought cds, I bought most of the Pink Floyd cds. A few years later, they released new remastered versions of those discs and by now, they seem to be up to 3rd or 4th remastering.
The main point that I was making is that they lowered their price nearly in half with the TBP discount from $24.95 to $14.95, they are still releasing new content, so I don't see how one can complain about the few remasters they release. I could understand if they didn't continue to release new content or if they were just recycling the content. I can understand why someone would get bored with their content though.
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05-23-09 04:50pm
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from exotics4me:
On the part about download limits, I also think there was a download limit at one time, but I was just on NA last week and there is no download limit now.
Also, I noticed that you liked the $24.95 price, look up at the TBP price you get if you join NA from the TBP link. You can now get a month for $14.95. TBP made that deal just a month or two ago.
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05-22-09 06:08pm
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Comment
from exotics4me:
I don't really agree with remastering of old sets as being a dupe. Most people won't even fool with downloading old videos that are poor quality and split into parts, instead of full scenes in one file. Once it is converted to a higher quality and pieced together into a full scene, then it becomes all but new to the vast majority of members. A dupe is better represented by the sites that remove old sets, don't improve them, then re-release them as new. For example, say you have scene "1982.mpg" and it is in 7 parts and is only 320 high end with 400 bitrate. If they remaster it to 720 high with 2000 bitrate and the whole thing is in one part, well that isn't technically the same as the set they removed.
Also touched on a few parts in your review, mainly on the price and daily limit.
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05-22-09 06:03pm
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Naughty America
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#8
from messmer:
(MiztaBlu's Reply)
Thanks, MiztaBlu. I think I'll mention the subject under General Remarks, it might attract the eye of the webmaster so that I could get a definitive answer.
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07-16-08 02:49pm
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Naughty America
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MiztaBlu's Review
from messmer:
I'm a bit confused about the download limits. Roseman mentions that tech support told him it was 5 Gigs a day while the webmaster states it is 2 Gigs and seems to find that more than generous. At a site with quality videos for download I would find a daily limit of 2 Gigs rather restrictive. I won't subscribe to any site that limits me like that but am nevertheless curious as to who is right. Too bad, because I see some good stuff on this particular network.
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07-16-08 02:30pm
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