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5 TODAY’S GAME We welcome Dinamo Bucharest to Deeside Stadium ahead of our first ever European fixture 6 2014-15 FIXTURES We take a look forward at the 2014-15 Welsh Premier League season

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8 NEW ARRIVALS AT DEESIDE We welcome Jay Colbeck and Jamie Rainford to The Nomads 12 GREEN’S PIECE Trevor Green gives us his thoughts and views ahead of this today’s game 18 A VIEW FROM THE STAND Will Catterall pens his thoughts on the close-season and today’s European friendly

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24 DINAMO BUCHAREST’S HISTORY Find out more about today’s opposition

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26 MEET THE OPPOSITION Take a look at the team from Romania

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31 MORE NEWS FROM THE LEAGUE Some quick news from the other teams in the Welsh Premier League

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Club information gap connah’s quay nomads fc ltd Honorary Patron Lord Barry Jones Chairman Gary Dewhurst Life President Richard Jones Vice Chairman John Gray Secretary Trevor Green Director of Football Mark McGregor Head of Youth Development Jay Catton Club Doctor Brian Johnson Chartered Physio Ritson Lloyd Goalkeeping Coach Neil Ebbrell Matchday Physiotherapist Mal Latter Sports Therapist Gemma Bamford Welfare Officer Sally Pearson Media Officer Nik Mesney Supporters Liaison Office Will Catterall Hospitality Roma Gray

Honours & Trophies League of Wales League Cup Welsh Intermediate Cup Welsh Amateur Cup North Wales Coast FA Cup North Wales Intermediate Cup North Wales Amateur Cup Welsh Youth Cup North Wales Coast FA Youth Cup Cookson Cup Barritt Cup Clwyd League Clwyd League Challenge Cup President’s Cup Huw’s Gray Alliance League

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Cover Photo: European Map illustrating travel from Bucharest to Deeside.

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Today’s game

Today sees The Nomads start our pre-season a little earlier than usual as we welcome one of the most successful sides in Romanian football to the Deeside Stadium as Dinamo Bucharest take to the pitch here at Coleg Cambria.

“The Red Dogs” have won no less than 18 Romanian Legia 1 Titles, 13 Romanian Cups and 2 Romanian Supercups. They were the first side to reach the European Cup semi-finals in the 1983-84 season where they lost out to Liverpool 3-1 on aggregate with Welsh legend Ian Rush netting two goals in the second leg.

Since then, Dinamo have gone on to make over 60 appearances in the Champions’ League, and 88 appearances in the Europa League. Along with other games, they’ve played over 175 games in European Competition in total.

A far cry from The Nomads, however our close-season has seen us make some big steps in the right direction in our own right, signing Jay Colbeck and Jamie Rainford to partner Gary O’Toole up front, while keeping hold of a number of our key players including Terry McCormick and Michael Burns.

Today will be the first time that The Nomads face European opposition, but won’t be the last, as we welcome Ludogorets Razgrad later this week, and hopefully we can start to become used to European competition and perhaps this time next season, it might not be just friendlies that we are having with European opposition!

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News Article

2014-15 Fixtures Announced The fixtures for the 2014/15 season in the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League were announced today, and The Nomads start the season at a ground that was favourable last season as we visit Prestatyn Town. Bank Holiday Monday then sees us host Carmarthen Town, before we head to our former first team coach’s new home as Chris Herbert’s Cefn Druids host The Nomads on Friday 29th August.

We will once again have our Christmas double header against Airbus, and hopefully it should go ahead as planned this season, as Airbus will have their new 3G pitch in place for our pre-season friendly with them.

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The full fixtures for The Nomads’ 2014/15 season are as follows; Sat 22nd Aug – Prestatyn Town vs The Nomads Mon 25th Aug - The Nomads vs Carmarthen Town Fri 29th Aug – Cefn Druids vs The Nomads Fri 5th Sept – The Nomads vs The New Saints Fri 12th Sept – Aberystwyth Town vs The Nomads (Match to be played at Newtown AFC) Fri 19th Sept – The Nomads vs Rhyl Fri 26th Sept – The Nomads vs Bangor City Sun 5th Oct – Port Talbot Town vs The Nomads Sat 11th Oct – The Nomads vs Bala Town Sat 18th Oct – Newtown vs The Nomads Fri 24th Oct – Bangor City vs The Nomads Sat 1st Nov – The Nomads vs Port Talbot Town Fri 7th Nov – The Nomads vs Prestatyn Town Sat 15th Nov – Carmarthen Town vs The Nomads Fri 21st Nov – The Nomads vs Cefn Druids Fri 5th Dec – The New Saints vs The Nomads Fri 12th Dec – The Nomads vs Aberystwyth Sat 20th Dec – Rhyl vs The Nomads Sat 26th Dec – Airbus UK vs The Nomads Thurs 1st Jan – The Nomads vs Airbus UK Fri 9th Jan – Bala Town vs The Nomads Sat 17th Jan – The Nomads vs Newtown

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New arrivals at Deeside Stadium

Nomads sign Wrexham starlet Colbeck The Nomads are pleased to announce the arrival of Jay Colbeck at Deeside Stadium.

A product of the Wrexham Academy, Jay played for the youth and reserve sides at The Racecourse before making his senior debut against Kettering Town, scoring twice in the process. At Wrexham, Jay scored four goals in 11 starts between 2011 and 2013.

Following knee surgery at the start of the 2013-14 season, Jay spent part of the season on loan at Welsh Premier side Bangor City, scoring 1 goal from 4 starts and 3 sub appeareances.

On the move, Jay said; “I am delighted to have signed for The Nomads. Mark [McGregor] sold the club to me straight away with his aims for the season and the way he wants the team to play.

I can’t wait for the season to get started now and hopefully I can score a lot of goals and contribute to a successful season for the team.”

On a seperate note, The Nomads can confirm that Mike Hayes has left Deeside to return to Bala Town. We wish Mike all the best and thank him for his goals last season.

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Rainford arrives at Deeside The Nomads are pleased to announce the signing of 26 year old striker Jamie Rainford.

Jamie arrives at the club following spells at Chester, Marine FC and Halifax Town where he once made an FA Cup appearance against Charlton Athletic. Jamie has also played for many other lower league sides including AFC Fylde, Colwyn Bay and Prescot Cables.

On his move, Jamie said: “I am delighted to have signed for The Nomads. From the moment I spoke to the gaffer, he didn’t really have to sell the club to me, but once he told me his ideas and ambitions for next season, I knew it was where I wanted to be playing my football.

I’m looking forward to playing attacking football and creating and scoring goals is whetting my appetite - I can’t wait to get going. It has given me the motivation to make sure I hit the ground running when the new season starts.

It’s exciting times for me at the start of a new footballing chapter with The Nomads!”

Director of Football Mark McGregor said: “I am delighted to have a new and exciting forward here with us and he will add to the fire power we’ve currently got.”

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Green’s piece

GREEN’S PIECE

Club secretary Trevor Green gives his views Good Evening Welcome back to the Deeside Stadium for the opening of a new season.

2014/15 promises to be a very good one for ourselves. Having been scared to death by just how close we came to the catastrophe of relegation last season, we are determined never to let that happen again. A thorough review has been conducted and we have made serious investments into the three main areas of operation.

In terms of facilities we have made huge strides towards the creation of a soccer centre of excellence with partnerships close to fruition with Flintshire County Council, The Football Association of Wales and Coleg Cambria. Hopefully we will soon be underway on a major development that will give the development arm of the club the facilities it needs to make the next step up.

Our Academy has expanded even further, fresh from winning the National titles at U16 and national runners up at U14 with Welsh championships at U12 and U16 in Futsal we are now able to offer a full time football course at Coleg Cambria to elite young players. They will compete against elite college sides from England and Wales at the same time as offering high quality academic qualifications to the participants. Many of us look forward to seeing how last years U15’s do as Academy cup players, was the 2-0 win over Athletico Madrid - a one off, or are they really that good? Time will tell.

But of course, it’s the first team performance that a club is judged by. We went on a remarkable spring run to save ourselves last year with late season wins over Port Talbot, Aberystwyth and Airbus. We need to carry that on into this campaign. Mark has been supported by our owner to retain those who came in to such great effect last January and to add a select few new faces to ensure we are battling for Europe and not to avoid the drop into the Cymru Alliance at the next season’s end.

We can welcome strikers Jamie Rainsford (from Marine) and Jay Colbeck (from Wrexham) to the club. They have signed by the time I write, and tonight you will see a couple more who will have done so in the time between. Of last year’s team only Simon Everall (to Conwy) and Mike Hayes (to Bala) have left. Sean Smith returned to Wrexham and was rewarded for the success of his loan spell here with a professional contract.

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us, however Mike Sharples has recovered from a season long injury, and the Ruthin based defender will be like a new signing on his return.

We will also be hoping to welcome a new Head Coach tonight. Mark remains as Director of Football and is very much in charge. Jay remains as Head of Development and has the college scheme to deliver as well as his other duties, so we have gone out to seek for a suitably experienced and enthusiastic new man to take over from Chris Herbert (now at Cefn Druids). We are confident we have our first choice coming on board, a man who holds the cherished Pro license to give us the qualification necessary for us to gain the European License and compete in European competition at this time next year.

So we couldn’t get into Europe by the front door for summer 2014. Here we are bursting through the back door! The Nomads verses Dinamo Bucharest and The Nomads verses PFC Ludoorets - our Welsh Europa and Champions’ League qualifiers would have to win a few rounds to get ties like these - it still seems unreal, but here we are. We wish our guests from Romania and Bulgaria the warmest of welcomes. We hope they are enjoying their stay with De Vere Hotels and that the excellent programme they are participating in is being enjoyed. We are delighted to be the right people in the right place and at the right time to give them a football component. Little did we know when Jay signed up to a partnership with the premier hotel chain to provide all of our social events and to be our official supplier of venues, that this fringe benefit would fall into place.

We welcome the players, staff and officers of our giant visitors. We hope we can be competitive and be able to hold up our heads at the end of the programme. The magnitude of the task facing us is that our Luke Holden’s last European experience was playing in Rhyl’s 8-0 defeat at Partizan Belgrade (11-0 on aggregate).

Ludogorets did the double over Partizan last year in the Champions League!

Finally, a topic that can’t be ignored. We were amazed when Bala and ourselves were accused of match fixing. It was bad enough that we lost 7-0 to my former club and those that stood with me that night at Maes Tegid would know just how severely I was taunted - it was not pleasant.

If anyone had seen the faces of our players coming off the pitch they would have thought that the accusation that we hadn’t tried as laughable as I did. Evidently this self-appointed and attention seeking group of Belgians based their claim on an assertion that lots of people in Asia had been betting on us to win and had changed bets at the last moment.

Betting on us to win?! We were at the lowest point of a historically low run of consecutive defeats. We had been ‘giant-killed’ at Caersws in the Welsh Cup six days earlier. The pitch was so heavy that our little light players were bogged down and unable to match the physically superior Bala behemoths. We had an injury crisis and seven Academy players were in the fourteen. Who were these people? Did they change their bets after consultation with a psychiatrist? I spend a bit of time with this group of players - I know them - if anyone asked them to give less than their best then I’m sure the answer would consist of two words with the second one being off!

Enjoy tonight and Saturday. I will be here tonight but will be in North Devon on Saturday. Big thanks to Nick for organising our match officials for us once again. Thanks to Colin for the Medical cover, to Deeside Athletics Club for backing us in this, and to Emma and the Stadium groundstaff for their invaluable support.

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The Nomads’ Statistics APPEARANCES AND GOALS 2014-15 Player Michael Burns Jack Cheetham Jay Colbeck Sean Cookson Abe Dobson Ricky Evans Danny Forde Ben Forshaw Kieran Gaul Luke Holden Alan Hooley Craig Jones Lee Jones Lewis Jones Sam Jones Stephen Loftus Lee McArdle Terry McCormick Mark McGregor Paul Mooney Gary O’Toole Jamie Rainford Jack Riley Gary Roberts Mike Robinson Jack Rowlands Chris Rowntree John Rushton Michael Sharples Anthony Stanton Ashton Thomas Shaun Tinsley Josh Williams Aron Williams Jamie Wynne

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You don’t need telling again that tonight you’re witnessing a big night in Nomads history. Dinamo Bucharest play here tonight in what many are quick to point out is only a friendly match, however those closer to the club know this is a sign of nomads hopes and directions to move towards.

At this year’s Welsh Premier League AGM, the fact that now 10 of the 12 clubs in this league have played in European Competition was rightly flaunted, but it was us who were at the expense having not yet reached European competition in this Welsh Premier League along with Newtown. Tonight we show our ambition to push ourselves through to Europe with our already impressive contacts evident with tonight’s fixture and enhanced reputation throughout the continent with the Academy ever flourishing last season, defeating Atletico Madrid 2-0. Each team knows the importance of European competition with the likes of Bala and Prestatyn reaping the benefits it brings in recent years. We’ve shown we have the attitude to push for European competition by being a point away from the top six two seasons ago and with last season our turnaround to avoid relegation a sign of the spirit installed within the squad, which will today include new signings such as Jamie Rainford and Jay Colbeck. Of course we can’t claim we’re heading into the Europa League for sure this season and not because of this game, but we’re putting the right things in place to ensure at some point in the future Nomads can grace further afield than Welsh Football. To clubs like us the first few qualifying rounds of European Football really is the holy grail and everyone’s main motive. Tonight you’ll get a taste of what we want to come, with a great atmosphere built up that should continue through to the many other attractive friendly matches we have in place and into the 2014/15 season.

Many may be here for the first time today, so don’t make this a one-time thing as there’s much more to offer after Bucharest with Bulgaria’s Ludogorets on Saturday with Celtic Nation and Tranmere Rovers to come. More recently we can confirm that we will take on old and recurring rivals Rhyl FC on the 18th August in the word cup 1st round. That’s right, we’re really not stopping much this season.

Away from just our matches the NomadsCast podcast is going well with plenty more episodes soon to be available.

Through these the Nomads word will hopefully spread more, quicker and faster around the Welsh Prem scene. We’re just one of the clubs hitting the airwaves with Newtown and Aberystwyth already with their own methods of broadcast.

Do get in touch with any comments on the Podcasts as we hope they will really take off.

Sit back and enjoy the atmosphere tonight as for the first time, European giants come to Deeside. Return after tonight’s match and look ahead with us towards another action packed season for Nomads.

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Dinamo Bucharest’s Club History Fotbal Club Dinamo București is one of the two most successful football teams in Romania, having won 18 Romanian Liga I titles, 13 Romanian Cups and 2 Romanian Supercups. They became the first Romanian team to reach the European Champions’ Cup semifinals in 1983–84.

Founded in 1948, Dinamo has spent its entire history in Liga I, the top league of Romanian football.

The team’s traditional home colours are white and red. The current crest is a modified version of the one adopted in the 1998. Dinamo Bucharest’s home ground is the 15,032-seater Dinamo Stadium in Bucharest’s city centre, where it has played since 1951.

The club’s biggest rivals are Steaua București, and matches between the two teams are commonly referred to as “The Eternal Derby”.

Dinamo was founded on 14 May 1948, when “Unirea Tricolor MAI” — newly entered, in January 1948, under the umbrella of the Communist regime’s Internal Affairs Ministry — merged with “Ciocanul București”. The sporting club represented the above-mentioned institution. The “Dinamo” name was used for the very first time on 1 May 1948. Nevertheless, the real debut of Dinamo was on the 1947-48 Divizia A edition (finishing 8th). Some of the team’s players were Ambru, Angelo Niculescu, Teodorescu, Siclovan, Bartha, Sârbu. In 1955, Dinamo won their first championship. With Angelo Niculescu as head coach, Dinamo impressed mainly in the offensive, with an attack formed by Ene I, Neaga and Suru. The defense, with players like Băcuț I, Băcuț II, Szoko, Călinoiu, was the best in the championship – only 19 goals received.

In the fall of 1956, the team make its debut in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup (competition created a year before). Dinamo was the first Romanian team to play in the European competitions. The debut game was played on 26 August 1956, in front of 32,000 spectators. Dinamo defeated Galatasaray with 3–1. In the second leg, Dinamo lost in Istanbul with 1–2, and moved forward.

The following years, Dinamo met famous teams in Europe, such as Real Madrid (a team with Di Stefano and Gento - The game played in Bucharest took place at „23 August” Stadium, and established a new record for this arena: 100,000 spectators), Inter Milan and Feyenoord: 0–3 and 0–2.

In 1973, in the European Cup, Dinamo surpass Northern Ireland’s Crusaders Belfast. The 11–0 home game against Northern Ireland’s team is still the biggest margin of victory in the history of the European Cup. The autumn of 1983–84 was going to represent a valuable step into the international arena. The 20 The Nomads v FC Dinamo București

“European Champions Cup campaign” started with the Finnish team, Kuusysi Lahti (1–0 and 3–0).

The second round pushes Dinamo against the current champion, Hamburger SV – team of Stein, Kalz and Magath. At Bucharest, Augustin, Multescu and Orac score for 3–0.The thrilling second leg finishes 3–2 (goals Talnar and Multescu). In order to accede in the semifinals of CCE, Dinamo had to defeat another top team: Dinamo Minsk, with Aleinikov, Zigmanatovich and Gurinovich. The first leg was 1–1 (Rednic equalizing in the 87th minute), and it was followed by a 1–0 victory at Bucharest (with Augustin scoring). Dinamo was the first Romanian team to reach the European Champions Cup semifinals, where it met Liverpool FC. Dinamo lost 1–0 at Anfield and 2–1 in Bucharest, as Liverpool progressed to the 1984 European Cup Final.

In 1986 Dinamo wins the Cup against Steaua, the team that only with a few days before won the European Cup. In the summer of 1990, Dinamo – with Mircea Lucescu as coach – conquers a new national title, the 13th. Also the team wins the Cup final, against Steaua: 6–4. But the Romanian revolution from 1989 opened the doors for the Romanian footballers to leave and play abroad and Dinamo lost almost its entire team, thus a downfall regarding the results came the following years.

Dinamo managed to win the title in 1992, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2007, but failed to reach the final phases of the European competitions.

In 2013, the team changes its ownership. Businessman Ionuț Negoiță bought the club and promised to revive the golden years.

Dinamo Bucharest Home Kit

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Meet the opposition

Dinamo Bucharest 2014/15

23. Kristijan Naumovski DOB: 17-09-88 Goalkeeper

34. Cristian Balgradean DOB: 21-03-88 Goalkeeper

5. Steven Thicot DOB: 14-02-87 Defender

14. Collins Fai DOB: 13-08-92 Defender

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16. Alexandre Durimel DOB: 16-03-90 Defender

26. Laurentiu Rus DOB: 07-05-85 Defender

8. Dorin Rotariu DOB: 29-07-95 Midfielder

10. Cosmin Matei DOB: 30-09-91 Midfielder

17. Elton Figueiredo DOB: 12-02-86 Midfielder

19. Boubacar Mansaly DOB: 04-02-88 Midfielder

9. Joel Thomas DOB: 30-06-87 Forward

29. George Tucudean DOB: 30-04-91 Forward

30. Gelu Velici DOB: 22-04-92 Forward

99. Kamil Bilinski DOB: 23-01-88 Forward

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Pre-Season Fixtures

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad Friendly Deeside Stadium Sat 5 July 2014 2:30pm 2:30pm Sat 5 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

PFC Ludogorets Buckley Town Razgrad Friendly The Globe, Buckley Sat 12 July 2014 2:30pm 2:30pm Sat 12 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

PFC CelticLudogorets Nation Razgrad Friendly Deeside Stadium Sat 19 July 2014 2:30pm 2:30pm Sat 19 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

PFC Ludogorets Holywell Town Razgrad Friendly Halkyn Road, Holywell Tue 22 July 2014 7:30pm 7:30pm Tue 22 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly 24 The Nomads v FC Dinamo București

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad

Tranmere Rovers Friendly Deeside Stadium Sat 26 July 2014 2:30pm 2:30pm Sat 26 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

PFC Ludogorets Llandudno FC Razgrad Friendly Maesdu Park, Llandudno Tue 29 July 2014 7:30pm 7:30pm Tue 29 July 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

PFC Ludogorets Tadcaster AlbionRazgrad Friendly 2inspire Park, Tadcaster Fri 1 August 2014 7:45pm 7:45pm Fri 1 August 2014 Deeside Stadium Friendly

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Welsh Premier League Quick news from the rest of the league Aberystwyth Town wait on 3G decision Planners will decide in August if Aberystwyth Town’s proposed £13 million re-development of Park Avenue can go ahead. If the planners give the go-ahead, the club hopes that work wil start in October. This will mean Aber will play their home games at Newtown AFC’s Latham Park.

Mackin arrives at Belle Vue Rhyl have recently signed former Wales U21 international Levi Mackin. The 28-year-old becomes Rhyl’s third signing of the summer so far.

Johnson returns to Wingmakers Jordan Johnson has returned to the Hollingsworth Group Stadium to join Airbus’ Europa League squad.

Steelmen swoop for goalkeeper Cann Port Talbot Town have signed yet another former Carmarthen Town player this summer with the arrival of goalkeeper Steven Cann at the GenQuip Stadium.

Seasiders move for wingman Williams Aberystwyth Town have agreed a deal with Haverfordwest County wingman Steffan Williams, according to his manager Wayne Jones on Twitter.

TNS draw Slovan Bratislava in Champions’ League The New Saints have drawn ŠK Slovan Bratislava in the UEFA Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round at the draw held in Nyon last week.

The Slovakian Champions were drawn to play at home in the 1st leg on 15th / 16th July and the return leg will be played at the Corbett Sports Stadium, Rhyl at 7.30pm on July 22nd.

Favourable Europa League draws for Welsh Clubs The UEFA Europa League draw has been made with both Bangor City and Airbus UK drawing UEFA competition debutants in Stjarnan from Iceland and FK Haugesund from Norway respectively.

Aberystwyth Town will face Northern Ireland-based Derry City, who play in the Southern Ireland League. The first game will be at Brandywell on July the 3rd with the return leg at Park Avenue on the 10th.

Airbus UK Broughton and Bangor City are both due to play at the Bookpeople Stadium - home of Bangor City and it has been confirmed that the Wingmakers will host Haugesund on the 3rd of July while the Citizens will welcome their Icelandic opponents on the 10th.

If Bangor City can progress from their first qualifying round, they will face Scottish Premier League side Motherwell.

Aberystwyth Town would face FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk of Belarus and Airbus would face a difficult trip to FK Sarajevo.

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