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Table of Contents Campus Events, pg. 3 -Carlos Andres Gomez Expands Minds at Virtual Event
Arts, pg. 4 -Bridgetober
Entertainment, pg. 5-11 -Shudder: Horrifying or Horrible? -This Halloween Take a Trip to Silent Hill -Scary/Not-Scary: A Horror Guide for the Horrified -Cartoons that are Proud of their Representation
Opinion, pg. 12 -Yelp Introduced Racism Flagging Feature
Cooking, pg. 13 New Feature -Food Challenge: TikTok’s Trick or Treat Crockpot Caramel
Serial Story, pg. 14 -The Vermillion Sky
Cartoons and Games, pg. 15-20
From “Act of Kindness: Chalk the Campus” in September. Photo via L&C Flickr. Page 2
Expands Expands Carlos Andres Gomez Expands Minds at Virtual Event By Jenna Shelton jshelton@lc.edu
Award-winning poet, speaker, actor and author, Carlos Andrez Gomez, joined Lewis and Clark Community College on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 at 3 p.m., along with seven other community colleges in the State of Illinois through the Illinois Community College Student Activities Association collaboration planned with Ms. Sue Webster from Richland College.
daughter; and “Hand Stitch”, a poem he had written about holding his friend’s hand and the stigma that comes with holding another man, along with a few others. Students also had the opportunity during the show to interact with Gomez, in which he may occasionally ask a question and students had the chance to answer.
Gomez is a proud Colombian American Latinx and father who won the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the 2018 Broken River Prize and the 2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Medal in Poetry, the 2020 IndieReader Discovery Award, 2020 International Book Award for Poetry, along with many other awards and a #1 SPD bestseller that was on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TV One’s Verses and Flow and Spike Lee’s Inside Man with Denzel Washington.
After the show, there was a Question & Answer time, in which Gomez was available for questions or comments. Gomez was asked if one wanted to become a writer, was there any advice that he could recommend, to which Gomez replied, “Find ways to actively do it. Go out and do it, like go out into the community and find yourself a group of people, find a mentor. Someone you can exchange work with. You can trade your work with them and hold each other accountable. You have to be able to tell each other as good as something is that something else isn’t. Give yourself permission to write crap, because you’re going to write crap. Don’t be hard on yourself because it’s important to write that crap, it’s there, you’re going to find the good stuff. Think of it this way, you write eight pages of crap, but out of all that you pull two or three things that are awesome! It was totally worth it to get to that gold wasn’t it; sometimes you gotta work to get to the gold.”
A proud graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Gomez, who used to be a social worker and a public school teacher, has traveled to more than 1,000 colleges and universities for performances, had the keynotes for almost 700 schools in 47 U.S. states and has headlined in shows in 25 countries across five continents. Gomez achieved another sort of fame—viral—when his poems “Where are you REALLY from?” and “What Latino Looks Like” went gangbusters online, collecting over two million views each! Thankfully, the students at the event were lucky enough to be able to see Gomez perform these live online and hear the moving and strong words as they come flowing out of the master of the words mouth.
Gomez’s newest book, “Fractures”, was just released on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, and can be found on Amazon for $16.95 with free Prime Delivery.
Gomez is known for pushing the boundaries and opening eyes to situations others may not be aware of, or choose to remain ignorant of, by making sure his work engages inclusion, equality, diversity, healthy masculinity and gender equity. His work is enlightened by the foremost practices in diversity education and employs facilitated dialogue, storytelling and interactive exchange. All of this, along with spoken word poetry, improv and humor, and Gomez has created one of the most sought-after and captivating programs one will ever want to see. Along with the two poems Gomez is most famous for, he also performed others such as, “Gifted”; “If a Princess Tries to Kidnap Your Daughter”, which he said he obviously wrote for his Page 3
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Bridgetober B r id g et o b er b o Bridget er Last week’s prompt was “Potions and Spells”
By Mary Curvey Acrylic on Canvas
This week’s prompt is...
“Plague Nurse”
Bridgetober submissions can be written or any visual media. Submit your work by Oct. 14, 2020 for a chance to be featured in the weekly, digital Bridge magazine. Find “TheLCBridge” on social media or email amjohnson@lc.edu to submit your work. Arts
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Horrifying or Horrible?
Lindsey Becker lmbecker@lc.edu
’Tis the season for frights, spooks and scares—and if you are looking for something to send that extra shiver down your spine, Shudder might be the streaming service for you. Available on Apple, Android, FireTV, Roku, Xbox and Chromecast, this platform caters exclusively to fans of horror, sci-fi and thriller titles. The service is owned and operated by AMC Networks. Starting as an invite-only, beta tested platform in 2015 and released fully in October 2016, the platform boasts that it has “the largest human-curated selection of high-quality, spine-tingling and provocative films, TV series and originals.” In my experience, the selection of horror films across platforms like Netflix and Hulu is not always quality or all-encompassing, and with Halloween looming closer, I opted to give the 7-day free trial of Shudder a whirl. Originally, I downloaded the app to view a Shudder original production, Host—a film set in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic where a group of friends participates in a seance over a Zoom call. Since I had six more free days with it, I decided to get as much out of it as I could before my trial ran out. Just browsing through the content, it is easy to see the service has a vast amount of titles available. From classics like Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead and Halloween—to contemporary films and platform exclusives like Mandy, Mayhem and Terrified, there is something for every horror fan here.
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Slasher flicks, supernatural scares, international titles, horror comedies and even documentaries are scattered throughout the service. One thing I was impressed with was the quality of the Shudder originals. Some left something to be desired, but titles like Host, Spiral and The Witch of the Window I found to be more than worth the watch. Many films such as Haunt, One Cut of the Dead and Noroi: the Curse, are also exclusive to Shudder, meaning you can only find them streaming there. With curated collections and sub-genre filters, the platform makes it easy to browse the library and find content to your specific tastes. If I have one criticism of the streaming service, it is that the app itself can be a little clunky at times. I have been viewing the app on FireTV, and more than once I have had it freeze while searching and browsing, causing me to force-quit and restart it. Like most other streaming services, the platform allows you to create a list of content you are interested in watching, but it lacks a “watch again,” section that lists all the films you have already viewed—which can be somewhat frustrating if you are like me and want to refer back to what you have already seen. Overall, if you are a year-round horror fan or just want some extra October scares, I think Shudder is well worth the $5.99 per month, and if you are still wary, the 7-day free trial is a convenient way to test the waters. Serve up the popcorn, shut off the lights and get ready to Shudder—if you dare.
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THIS HALLOWEEN TAKE A TRIP TO
SILENT HILL
by Andrew Agney
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t is that time of the year again; the time where people dress up, watch scary movies and visit haunted attractions to give themselves that rush that only being scared can provide. There is another avenue for this sort of experience though, one that can tell fantastical and wild stories while also being interactive: video games. Horror games can be very exhilarating as they can provide the same experience as a film, but with more fear factor to them as they are an interactive medium. When the big monster comes out or horrible things start happening you cannot just cover your eyes or fast forward, you have to directly interact with the situation to get your character out alive, and whatever choices you make were your decisions that you have to live with. No game shows this better than Silent Hill 2. Silent Hill 2 is a game for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. It is about the protagonist, a man named James Sunderland, heading to the titular, seeminglyabandoned town of Silent Hill to find his wife Mary after he had received a letter asking him to meet her in their “special place.” The issue? Mary has been dead for three years. You then follow James as he goes to different locations of the town in search for his wife, each one having a special significance to them. He is not alone in the town however, as he meets other people, all at the town for their own reason. But the town of Silent Hill itself quickly becomes its own character as well, as through some unknown means various monsters, events and impossible locations from James’ psyché, representing his inner demons, come to life to torment him during his journey.
The thick fog in Silent Hill 2 is both an atmosphere setting device and hardware limitation.
First thing players will notice about the game would be the awkward controls, awkward voice acting and the fog that surrounds the town, obscuring most of the player’s vision. This may seem like poor game design, but these choices were deliberately made by the developers as a way to increase the horror. The awkward, stilted movement and combat is to make it harder to run away from the monsters and emphasizes how James is just a normal person with no combat training, so it is hard for him to battle the monsters and decentivizes combat from the player. The awkward voice acting on the part of all the characters but James helps sell the feeling that something is not right about the town and puts you in the shoes of the protagonist, trying to figure out what is going on. The intense fog around the town, while being a hardware limitation of the original game, now acts as a way to enhance the horror and mystery of the town as you walk down its empty streets, leaving the player unsure of what waits just beyond the fog. Page 7
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Protagonist James Sunderland checks himself out in a dirty mirror.
Another area the game excels in is the hidden karma system that determines which ending of the game you get. Anything from picking up specific items, to looking at certain scenery and even when or how often you choose to heal James when he becomes injured can help tip the karma scale one way or the other. The game is not without flaws though. The same controls and visuals that helped the horror can be difficult to get into for a modern audience, there is a difficulty option for the puzzles, but if you cannot figure out how to solve a particular puzzle, you will be all on your own to look up a guide. Combat with guns can also be awkward as it is easy to down the monsters with a gun, but attempting to deliver the finishing blow can be difficult. For new players who are not used to the survival horror genre, it can be difficult to figure out where you must go or what key you have to use on which door. You may also have to look up a guide for the requirements for each ending, as a few of them can be obtuse and hard to get in regular play. That being said, Silent Hill 2 remains my personal favorite horror game. I love to come back and replay it every year; I think it’s the perfect game to play around Halloween time. The town of Silent Hill is stalked by grotesque creatures, but unlike most games, running, rather than combat, is often the best course of action.
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Scary/Not-Scary: A Horror Guide for the Horrified
By Alex Johnson amjohnson@lc.edu
Disclaimer: Horror movies often deal with sensitive issues in not-so-sensitive ways. If you are concerned about possibly triggering scenes in any of these films, I would suggest visiting www.DoesTheDogDie.com before watching, this site provides “crowdsourced emotional spoilers for movies, TV, books and more”. It is October, which means it is chili weather, hoodie season and time to be terrified by horror movie marathons. But what do you do to celebrate Halloween if horror movies always leave you sleeping with the lights on? As someone who used to chew their nails to the bone watching “Goosebumps”, I found the only way to get over the fear was to build up a tolerance to terror, and slowly ramp up the fear factor of the films I watched. Take this as a guideline for getting into the horror genre if you have always been just a bit too anxious for scary movies. I am going to provide a “Chill Factor”, “Gore Level” and “Comedy Relief” score for each movie as well as movies at a similar spooky-scale to check out if the first one did not leave you too horrified.
1.) The Mummy (1999) “The Mummy” is a 1999 adventure/horror remake based on the 1932 movie, “The Mummy”. This was
actually the first horror movie that helped me get into the genre. “The Mummy” is probably an adventure movie first, horror movie second, but it does have some genuinely creepy moments. The horror is offset by some good, silly humor, a fun adventure story and slightly dated special effects.
Chill Factor: Two Scarab Beetles out of five. Gore Level: Two CGI mummies out of five. Comedy Relief: Three Brendan Frasers out of five. ‡ If you handled that, try: Jaws (1975), Blade (1998), any Universal horror from the 20s-50s.
2.) Shaun of the Dead (2004) “Shaun of the Dead” is part zombie movie, part romantic comedy. The special effects are very good, it
can be very graphic and genuinely creepy at times; so how does this ease you into horror? The majority of the characters react to a full-blown zombie outbreak in a quintessentially British way: with adaption and apathy. The characters treating a zombie hoard as just another one of life’s annoyances really takes the edge off.
Chill Factor: Two bits of red out of five. Gore Level: Four metal poles through the stomach out of five. Comedy Relief: Five Queens out of five. ‡ If you handled that, try: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) Page 9
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3.) Halloween (1978) The first real horror movie on the list, “Halloween” is often credited for popularizing the slasher subgenre. As is often the curse of being influential though, a lot of “Halloween” may seem cliché to contemporary audiences. The “predictability” takes away some of the tension and the cheese-factor of the lingering purity-culture lessons can provide some laughs to lighten the mood. Not to mention, despite being the “original” slasher, it is not super graphic, with a lot of violence being implied, out of frame or done in the shadows.
Chill Factor: Three William Shatner masks out of five. Gore Level: Three knives out of five. Comedy Relief: One riff-track out of five. ‡ If you handled that, try: Scream (1996), Final Destination (2000), Psycho (1960)
4.) The Exorcist (1973) Considering this movie has a reputation of being one of the scariest of all time, this may seem like a strange
choice; however, if you are good with gore but cannot cope with chills, then this might be a good introduction to the more spine-tingly side of horror. Like “Halloween”, sometimes having a reputation can actually take away from some of the terror, and I think a more modern audience might not be as shocked by “The Exorcist” as their 1973 counterparts. Don’t get me wrong, there are some genuinely scary moments (one on the stairs gets me every time), but if you made it through the movies above, I think you can make it through this.
Chill Factor: Four spinning heads out of five. Gore Level: Three bowls of pea soup out of five. Comedy Relief: One inappropriate swear out of five. ‡ If you handled that, try: Poltergeist (1982), Evil Dead 2 (1987), Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
5.) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a film based off an ’81-’91 book series of the same name. The books are
(in)famous for chilling and borderline graphic illustrations, many of which the movie faithfully re-creates. Just because this series is directed more towards children/pre-teens/teens, does not mean it is going to be easy to get through if you do not normally watch horror, but if you made it through everything above, I think you have got this one.
Chill Factor: Five pale ladies out of five. Gore Level: Three face-spiders out of five. Comedy Relief: Two jump-scares out of five. ‡ If you handled that, try: getting more brave! If you made it through everything here, you are ready to start exploring the genre on your own! Keep in mind, we are all individuals, what scares me might not scare you and vice versa. Watch the trailers, check www.doesthedogdie.com and read more in-depth reviews of these movies if you are apprehensive about any of them. Remember, Halloween is supposed to be fun, so if you are not having fun watching these full-blown horror movies, there are plenty of Halloween-themed, “spooky not scary” movies you can still watch this October. Entertainment
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Proud Proud Proud Proud Proud Proud
Cartoons that are Proud of their Representation By Andrew Agney aagney@lc.edu
Representation matters to minorities of people, seeing people just like them in various forms of media can greatly shape how they are viewed by the public and how they view themselves. Members of the LGBTQ+ community are no different, and with LGBTQ+ people becoming more accepted, representative characters have recently started cropping up in modern cartoons. Real quick, I would like to talk about the ones I know about, in case you are looking for some solidarity or just an LGBT-friendly show to watch. This will be a showcase of the confirmed characters, not just ones that are hinted at or in the background. The first is one I feel plenty of people already know—“Steven Universe”— has plenty of LGBT representation. Following alien creatures called “Gems”, the majority of the characters are considered non-binary, but all of the gems in the show are female-presenting and form romantic relationships with each other, such as the characters Ruby and Sapphire, who are female presenting. The co-executive producer of the show, Ian Jones-Quartey, has said that referring to them as a non-binary, female presenting lesbian couple would be “a fair assessment”. Pair this with an entire episode about the two characters getting officially married, and I think the implications are quite clear.
and Catra, both female, get into several romantic tensions and end up confessing their love for each other and become a couple at the end of the series. Series creator Noelle Stevenson has confirmed that it was planned from the very beginning that the two would become a couple. In a smaller but still prevalent example, in the show “The Loud House”, the character of Luna Loud has shown romantic interest in both males and females, notably in two episodes where she shows romantic attraction to her brother’s male tutor, and in a later episode where she sends a love letter to a girl named Sam.
There is also Bismuth, another female-presenting gem who admits to the titular main character of the show, Steven, that she has a romantic crush on another gem named Pearl.
And the latest addition, starting in 2020, was “The Owl House”, a show about a girl named Luz Noceda entering a world of magic and myths and training to become a witch (any of you Vermillion Sky readers may recognize this as a main source of inspiration). One of Luz’s fellow witches-in-training is Amity Blight, who starts out as a rival to Luz but quickly develops a romantic crush on her, often getting flustered and blushing when Luz shows her any affectionate treatment. This was further confirmed in an episode late in season one, where it is revealed that Amity was planning to ask Luz to prom. Series creator, Dana Terrace, has also been dropping hints of Amity and Luz’s orientation on her social media for a while, such as saying, “There are queer kids in the cast,” before a Reddit AMA where she revealed fully that Amity is a lesbian and Luz is Bisexual.
Next up is a show I personally have not watched before, but I do know that in “She-Ra and the Princess of Power”, there are several gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters. The main characters, Adora
Those are the examples I have found in my time and personal experiences, but I am sure there are a ton of other shows. I hope this helps you find some new, inclusive shows to watch.
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Yelp Introduces
Racism Flagging Feature by Gary Chapman gchapman@lc.edu The popular app, Yelp, added a new feature that will flag businesses that are associated with racist behaviors. The app did this in response to a surge of responses by users alleging that a business has racist behaviors. The app, in their statement on Thursday, stated, “While searches for Black-owned businesses surged on Yelp, so did the volume of reviews warning users of racist behavior at businesses.” This comes after a major push to find Black-owned businesses. A Yelp spokesman added that, “Incidents that warrant this escalated alert are extremely rare.” The first use of the alert was used on New York lawyer Aaron M Schlossberg, who became viral in 2018 for shouting a racist rant in a Manhattan restaurant due to the employees speaking Spanish. This comes also after the local protests and accusations against Fast Eddies Bon-Air, which started after a massive amount of allegations of racist acts toward people. They also said, “For businesses accused of overtly racist actions, where we can link to a news article, we will escalate our warning with the ‘Business Accused of Racist Behavior’ alert.” Ever since the alert was started, Noah Manskar of the New York Post said, “Yelp said it placed more than 450 alerts on business pages that were accused of or targeted by racist behavior between May 26 and Sept. 30.” VP of User Operations, Noorie Malik, said in the blog post that, “as the nation reckons with issues of systemic racism, we’ve seen in the last few months that there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious, racially-charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions.” In the blog post, they also announced that they are also going to provide a toolkit to small businesses on how to maintain an inclusive environment.
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Food Challenge: TikTok’s Trick or Treat Crockpot Caramel By Jenna Shelton jshelton@lc.edu Holiday times have always been a big deal around our house ever since I was a little girl. We had very different traditions on my mother’s side because her mother immigrated from Germany in 1952, and her family’s traditions were vastly different from my father’s side, who were born-and-raised in this area for generations. One thing that my grandmother found interesting, before and after immigrating, was collecting cookbooks and cooking magazines, in both German and English. While a lot of recipes have been passed down throughout the generations of our family, we have always enjoyed trying our hand at new recipes, and as time has passed, the ways we have found our recipes has changed as well.
Crockpot caramel simply requires a crockpot, water, condensed milk and six hours. -Photo by Jenna Shelton
Since my daughter Meliska is a high school freshman in a Foods/Nutrition and Culinary Arts 1 course, she has become more interested in trying out recipes and since she (and I) are also addicted to TikTok, we found this interesting video on how to make an easy caramel sauce—which is a must when it is fall and you are decorating caramel apples—we knew we had to test it for ourselves. We followed the instructions, and after it was done I was amazed at how good this caramel was!! With the members of my family and I rating it, it was given two 8 out 10’s and one 10 The caramel is smooth, creamy and drizzles nicely. out of 10. It is nice and gooey, -Photo by Jenna Shelton but not extremely sticky like some caramel sauces are. I would like to make a note that TikTok’s Trick or TreatCrockp we did not make caramel apot Caramel ples, but dipped apple slices By Jenna Shelton into the caramel like a sauce, jshelton@lc.edu so I am not sure how good Cook Time: 6 hours this kind of caramel might Cool Time: 10 minutes be for some Halloween style Tools Required: √ Crockpot caramel apples.
Food Challenge:
If you do decide to try your hand at making some special treats with this caramel, we would love to see them! Please send the recipe and picture of the item to amjohnson@lc.edu and you may just see your treat featured on The Bridge.
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√ Tongs or Oven mitts remove the cans from the wa √ Water to put in crockp(to ter) ot Ingredients: Cans of Sweeten ed Condensed Milk √
Fill Crockpot full of water. (Be careful to leave room at top because it will have a gentle bubble to it as it cooks but it should not bubble over.) √ Submerge however many cans you would like of sweetened condensed mil k fully DO NOT OPEN THE CANS. √ Turn the Crockpot on high, cover wit h the lid and set a timer for six hours and walk away. √ When the time goes off, turn off the crockpot, carefully take the lid off and you can quickly cool it by putting it in cold water with a pair of tongs for 10 minutes. √ Enjoy with your favorite desserts or Cooking apple slices.
The Vermillion Sky The Vermillion Sky Part 4
By Andrew Agney aagney@lc.edu The troll lets out a ferocious roar as it slams its hands down, the group of teens jumping out of the way of the attack, the impact leaving a crater where the children were standing. “Come on guys, we can do this!” Ciel calls, slapping a piece of paper with a flight glyph on her back, her dragon wings sprouting out as she takes off towards the face of the troll. Taking out another slip of paper, this one with a light glyph, an intense flash of light comes from the paper, blinding the beast. Seeing her opportunity, Exquise holds up her hand as it begins glowing with red magical energy and soon fires an orb of fire out of it, striking the beast in its face, making it recoil in pain...but narrowly avoiding Ciel. “Hey! Watch where you’re aiming!” The dragon child yells down at the Rhyolition, who responds by turning her nose up and saying, “I didn’t hit you, did I?” Ciel opens her mouth to protest more but can’t get the words out as she gets slammed into the ground by the troll, having recovered from its blindness. “Ciel!” Syrid, the shadow elf, calls out as he rushes over to stand between Ciel and the troll. “Sorry pal, but if you want to hurt her, you have to get past us…” He then claps his hands together as they glow with purple energy, ten more Syrids appearing, forming a line. “All of us!” he says with a grin, feeling proud of himself...before the troll swipes its hand across the line, dispersing the clones into dust and sending Syrid flying into the wall of the arena, the shadow elf letting out a scream of pain. Serial Story
“Stop it!” Breeze, the goblin, yells out, tears filling her eyes as her hands glow green and she slams them into the ground, a rose garden growing around the troll’s feet in an attempt to stop it from moving. “I hate seeing people get hurt…” she quietly whimpers, her whimpers getting louder as the monster seems to ignore her rose garden and starts to approach her...before it gets hit by more fireballs, turning its attention towards Exquise. “Come on ugly! Why waste your time on them when a powerful witch is right here?!” Exquise shouts out, her body starting to glow with an orange halo as she fires off a torrent of fireballs at the beast, doing damage to it slowly...but not enough to stop it as it starts to walk over to Exquise, giving heavy footfalls that shake the room as it approaches. “Exquise, stop!” Breeze calls out with a worried tone, “You’re going to burn yourself out!” she warns. But Exquise keeps firing her onslaught of attacks, the orange halo getting brighter and brighter... but soon it explodes out in a burst of light, Exquise collapsing to her knees, panting heavily as her vibrant red skin now turns dark and dull. She looks up at the troll now in front of her, singed and burned, but not knocked out yet, as it starts to raise up its hand to crush the defenseless Rhyolition…. Exquise closing her eyes to accept her fate.
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