![]() ![]() Saudi Arabia have raided Europe’s elite, tempting Cristiano Ronaldo and England's captain with mindblowing offers… but it is not just football in their sights as they target Olympics and boxing in a bid to keep a young population entertained.Former West Ham star, 26, 'tried to sell £2m Ming vase stolen from Swiss museum for £450,000, court told.Have we finally turned the corner on mortgage misery? Banks launch price war by slashing the cost of loans in much-needed relief to embattled homeowners.New 50p coins marking King Charles' Coronation enter circulation today - giving Brits an opportunity to 'find a piece of history' in their pocket.Prince William TROUNCES Donald Trump and Joe Biden in US popularity contest: British royal is the rare 'unifying' figure about whom Republicans and Democrats can agree.The Royal Family 'is distancing itself from Harry and Meghan': After Harry's HRH title was stripped from website, expert warns the Sussexes are seen as 'unpredictable and unreliable' - but 'need royal links for their brand'.'Ringleaders' of Oxford Street chaos are arrested following day of clashes between youths and police over fears of TikTok-inspired looting - while prankster Mizzy is handed a dispersal order a week after failing to appear for breaching court order.My fiancé refuses to pool our finances once we are married and have kids: Am I wrong to feel ripped off?.Acid reflux drugs taken by millions of Americans and Brits may raise the risk of DEMENTIA by up to a third, study suggests. ![]() Toddler loses TOE in horrific street kidnapping: Man, 24, snatched 18-month-old girl by her neck and held her upside down as he ran away from her mother before brave passers-by intervened.BBC is accused of bias after Nick Robinson wrongly claims Lee Anderson suggested asylum seekers should 'F-off home' when he actually said 'they should f*** off back to France'.EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles breaks with tradition as he fails to appoint Prince William as chair of the Royal Collection. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This streamlined process ensures that your packages arrive safely and on time.īy using the 4PX Express tracking number on our comprehensive parcel tracking website, Postal Ninja, you can stay informed about the status of your shipment, including details such as transit locations, customs clearance and estimated delivery times. Upon arrival in the destination country, your shipment will be cleared through customs and handed over to a local partner, such as the USPS, for final delivery. This number allows you to track your package through the various stages of the delivery process.ĤPX Express often works with national postal services to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of your orders. Once your package is ready to be shipped, you'll receive a unique 4PX Express tracking number, such as 4PX3000123456789CN. Say you've placed an order with AliExpress. Track your packages with 4PX Express tracking numbers. Master Your Deliveries: 4PX Express Tracking Numbers It may take some time for the system to update the tracking information. Please note that tracking information may not be available immediately after the shipment is sent. Once the number and code are applied, the package can be scanned in a similar fashion to how. It consists of assigning a unique number and code to the package that allows it to be tracked during the delivery process. View shipping progress: The tracking page displays the current status, location, and estimated delivery date of your shipment. An 4PX Express tracking package is an optional service for most delivery companies that include UPS, FedEx, USPS, and the like. 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Tracking varies: Registered Mail has basic updates, Regular Mail offers limited/no tracking, and EMS has detailed tracking and faster delivery.Ĭustomers can choose the service that best suits their needs based on cost, speed, and trackability. ![]() Low-cost postal options include registered mail, regular mail and EMS. 4PX's Post-link service leverages overseas resources for direct flights from China and local delivery. Using state-of-the-art technology, strategic partnerships and an extensive network of global resources, Post-Link enables its customers to optimize their supply chains, improve delivery times and increase customer satisfaction. In addition, 4PX has developed its own Post-Link service to provide seamless, cost-effective and reliable cross-border shipping that connects merchants with consumers around the world. 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You might see this status if your shipment is delayed or there’s a handling exception. “No scheduled delivery date at this time” means we don’t have a delivery estimate, or we don’t have the package yet. You can check the estimated delivery window online. “Out for delivery” means your package was scanned by a package handler and placed on a pallet to be loaded on a vehicle for delivery. It doesn’t necessarily mean your package is in a moving vehicle like an airplane or truck. “In transit” means your package is on its way to its final destination. ![]() ![]() ![]() We will update the list, as always, throughout the day. On top of a few great game deals, including savings on Shift 2 Unleashed for iPad and the Mass Effect Infiltrator iOS app, there are a number of noteworthy apps and updates hitting the App Store today. OmniFocus version 1.6: Both the iPhone and iPad editions of the OmniFocus task management app received a huge update today that includes support for TextExpander touch, Reminders Capture for devices running Siri, and full support for iOS 6. For instance, sports events will include stats, scores and schedules instead of cast information. More information – convenient links to show-related information at IMDB, Wikipedia, and the official site for the show.Īdditionally, different types of programming will feature different results.Social sharing – live Twitter feeds as well as commenting in the app makes it fun to talk with your friends about what you’re watching.Celebrity buzz – gives fans all the latest gossip about the show and the stars in it.Trivia – fans can learn more about their favorite program and even read about the occasional goofs with the trivia feature in the app.Cast information – the app will list the cast featured in the program, guest stars, as well as other shows they’ve been in.Featured music – Shazam has leveraged its rich music history and its 20+ million track database to identify the music featured in whatever people are watching.use the Shazam App while watching television, they have a fast and easy way to access: to use it as a “TV companion app” to tag TV shows and get access to cast information, sports scores, featured music and more. Shazam: Shazam announced on its website today that it is updating its iOS apps to allow users in the U.S. Parents–like me–will really appreciate the children and family gallery with many titles organized by age… A simple tap on any title presents all of the information for that title and a double-tap on any title starts instant playback. Lower down in the new experience are several personalized rows filled with movie and TV show recommendations…Tapping the browse menu gives you access to an extensive list of genre galleries that show even more titles organized into categories. Netflix version 2.3: The Netflix iOS app for iPhone and iPad was updated today with a slightly updated UI and “Varied improvements on playback, AV sync, subtitle handling.” Netflix explained the new UI in a blog post and posted a video of the new experience (above):Īt the top of the new browse screen on iPhone and iPod touch is a row that lets you continue watching shows or movies that you previously started watching right where you left off, a very handy feature. The game takes place in the Angry Birds world, but appears to be quite a different experience. Check it out: 0 Commentsīad Piggies: Rovio’s Bad Piggies doesn’t arrive on iOS and Mac until September 27th, but today we get our first look at the game in the first gameplay trailer above ( via TechCrunch). While Mosaic is just an app for putting digital images into a nicely printed photobook, its user-experience and caliber of artisanship make it certainly worth noting. ![]() Much to my surprise-they came out crisp, clear, and stunningly vivid (pictures below). In fact, when I created my Mosaic, I chose low-lit, grainy, blown-up pictures, because I wanted to see how well the images would appear after going through Mixbook’s printing press. The Mosaic photobook costs roughly $20, but it ships fast, arrives in sturdy, eye-pleasing packaging, and the entire product feels very high in quality. Simply select the photos, choose a mat color preference, and then place the order. The app’s UI is clean, fast, and fluid, and the limited options provide an easy “1,2,3-step” experience. Mosaic is basically a product app that lets users build and create formatted photo albums from images stored on their iOS devices. ![]() Mixbook, a scrapbook, calendar, and photobook company, acquired chat service Yobongo earlier this year, and the two forces have been working on an iOS project, called “Mosaic,” that unveiled at 12 p.m. Per usual, we will continue to update this list throughout the day. Today’s selection includes a new app by Mosaic and Yobongo, updates to popular action-packed games, and a couple huge price drops. A few apps updated, went on sale, or made announcements recently, and 9to5Mac gathered the most noteworthy ones in our regular round up below. ![]() ![]() You should then be able to work on the remote desktop, using VNC, thanks to SSH. Once you click connect, your VNC client will use the encrypted SSH tunnel and make the connection between local and remote machines on port 5901. Why? Because we’ve created an SSH tunnel from localhost:5901 to REMOTE_IP:5901 (where REMOTE_IP is the IP address of the remote machine). Instead of entering, say, 192.168.1.83:5901 for the remote address, enter localhost:5901. What does matter, however, is the address you use to make the connection. ( See: How to set up ssh key authentication.) Connecting your VNC Client Note: For an even more secure connection, I suggest you make use of SSH Key Authentication. Ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 USER is the remote username and REMOTE_IP is the remote IP address. If you do not, you can always add the remote username like so: This will assume you have the same username on both local and remote machines. You will then be prompted for the remote user’s password. ![]() If you’ve never SSH’d to this remote host, you will be asked if you want to add the remote host to your local ~/.ssh/known_hosts file ( Figure A). Where REMOTE_IP is the IP address of the remote host. The first thing to do is create the tunnel that routes packets from localhost (at port 5901) to the remote host (at port 5901) through port 22. I will assume you already have everything you need installed, and your VNC server is running and accepting connections.
![]() You’ve got the left sidebar with an “Organizer” and a “Library” of files. If you’re familiar with other writing apps of its caliber, you’ll find some familiar patterns. iA Writer’s user interfaceįrom the get-go, iA Writer’s interface made sense to me. Were this tool’s developers that confident in its ability to hook me into using it? It was too early to say for sure - but that’s what it felt like. iA Writer already stood out compared to the other writing apps I tested in the past few months. This review is based on my first-hand experience with the iA Writer macOS app version 6.0.3. I’m a MacBook Air owner, and I keep my Windows laptop locked away safely in a drawer for only when I’ve no other option but to use it. All I had to do was hit the blue “Download” button and get the 64-megabyte app.Įditor’s note: iA Writer is also available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. No need for an email address, no credit card info, and no sneaky stuff where they hope you’ll forget to cancel the trial even if you didn’t want to buy the tool. My story with iA Writer started when I headed over to their website to grab the free 14-day trial. ![]() ![]() In this review of the series, I’m letting you in on my experience with iA Writer, the self-proclaimed “benchmark of Markdown writing apps.”Īat $49.99 for a lifetime subscription, it’s not cheap (though it’s not the most expensive writing app either), and it promises a distraction-free zone where you can let your words flow freely. As an editor who cranks out tens of thousands of words per month, I’m putting these bad boys to the test, weeding out the good from the bad from the ugly to figure out which are worth your dough and which have no place in your dock. I’m on a mission to find the best writing apps for macOS out there. ![]() ![]() The non-VR mode was announced on Decemand released on December 17, 2019. Flash them with your light to send them back to the start Dreadbear is merely stunned. Danger Keep Out is a recreation of Five Nights at Freddy's 1, replacing the original four with the Halloween-themed Nightmare equivalent.In Trick or Treat, you must knock on the door, and watch which Withered animatronic answers the door.Other modes include Build a Mangle, Trick or Treat, and Dreadbear.Stay away from the doors, and Bonnie or Chica won't attack. They all attack from the same sides as the original game When Foxy is visible, don't move. Similar to Ballora's Gallery from Sister Location, you must crawl through a hallway filled with the Nightmare animatronics.In this mode, you will once again face off against the Plushbabies, but also ride Foxy's Pirate Adventure, shooting buttons to collect points, and take a trip through Grim Foxy's Corn Maze.the DLC contains some new faces, Dreadbear and Grimm Foxy. Hiding in the Closet from Five Nights at Freddy's 4, while Baby lurks outside.Ĭurse of Dreadbear is a Halloween-themed DLC mode for the game. ![]() You will have to face Nightmare Fredbear, Funtime Freddy, and (the creepiest) Nightmarionne.Night Terrors: Some parts resemble past Five Nights at Freddy's games.Vent Repair: You will be repairing vents in an area similar to Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.This sequence can involve reaching inside their chest cavities, pulling their faces off, and removing their eyeballs, for example. Parts and Service: Repairing Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.You will also have to shine your light at the Plushbabies at what seems to be the FNAF 2 prize corner.There are also recreations of Fun with Plushtrap and Nightmare B.B.This section has been greatly improved from Sister Location's version and has play testers hesitant to test it again after playing due to how scary it seems to be. Similar to Night 3 in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, the player will be in the dark with Funtime Foxy.Dark Rooms: Some parts resemble past Five Night's at Freddy's games.After the game was sent to another company to be finished, the previous development team left clues behind in order to defeat a mysterious figure. The sound made by Shadow Mangle when attacking the player.The games is set in a VR game commissioned by the Fazbear corporation in order to clear their name. The XScream sound made by Burnt Foxy and Dark Foxy when attacking the player. The XScream sound made by Dark Freddy, Neon Bonnie, Neon Chica, and Party Freddy when attacking the player. Warning: The audio clips from the following list are loud! Audio Gallery The following section is rather large and has been truncated for ease of page viewing. The Freddles has an unused hardmode counterpart for the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, called Burnt Freddles.There is a notable glitch when Neon Bonnie's texture map was blended with Endo-01's for his jumpscare. In the Night Terrors's Pizza Party level, he will appear to jumpscare and end the mode if the player wastes enough time to progress the level. Party Freddy's model is identical to Dark Freddy, only colored in neon black and with a different textures to reflect the blacklight mode. He is a shadowy, silhouetted version of Freddy with red eyes and teeth. Party Freddy (also known as Pizza Party Freddy) is another hardmode counterpart of Freddy. Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia, page 33 Party Freddy is just like Blacklight Freddy, except his eyes and mouth are outlined in red. If you do run out of time, well, guess who turns up for a jump scare. ![]() You also have to avoid all the other animatronics in various rooms. “ Another Blacklight-mode version of Freddy, Party Freddy appears in the Blacklight version of the Pizza Party level, in which you must roam the pizzeria in search of a pizza party before the timer runs out. He also attacks if the player looks outside their office. Should Dark Foxy leave the cove, the player must quickly shut the left door before he arrives. ![]() While not referred to as a separate entity within the files, he has been considered to be an alternate variant by many fans.ĭark Foxy is almost exactly identical to that of regular Foxy, with the primary difference being that his colors are entirely monochromatic & his eye is pure white.ĭark Foxy will sit in Pirate Cove, needing to be watched by the player to prevent him from rushing down the left hall. ![]() Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia, page 107ĭark Foxy is an alternative version of Foxy that appears in the FNaF 1's hard mode level. “ Another blacklight-mode variant of Foxy from Help Wanted, who appears in the mini game based on the original Five Nights at Freddy's, He's like a black-and-white-movie version of Foxy, with a glowing white eye in the style of Blacklight Freddy. ![]() ![]() ![]() I did this ride for the first time last year with 6 other members of Team Kermit, my Pan-Mass Challenge cycling team. So, it’s an opportunity for a physical challenge and giving back. More than just a one-day bike ride, the B2B is a fundraiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Team Psycho, Harpoon’s elite triathlon team. I hear you asking, “What, are you crazy?” “YES,” I’d reply, “AND TWICE OVER!” Guess they don’t want to scare people away. Oops, they forgot to mention the 6,500+ feet of elevation. This ride is for cyclists who enjoy great beer, are physically and mentally tough, take pleasure in the fellowship of others, don’t whine, excel in the face of challenges, play by the rules, and can ride 148 miles to the finish safely and without their hands being held.” “The Harpoon Brewery to Brewery Ride is one tough ride. To wit, here’s the opening paragraph on the official B2B website: Affectionately known to riders as the “B2B”, this ride is not for everyone. This past Saturday I completed my second consecutive Harpoon Brewery to Brewery Ride, the single-day, 148-mile bike ride from Boston, MA to Windsor, VT that Harpoon has sponsored since 2001. Tina Buchan takes 8 minutes off swim time and has a great race.Valentina Rosa, TRA360 founder and CEO (l) with friend Kyle Bettigole at the B2B start line Mike Lamie wins age group (and masters division) at Lonestar Triathlon. Kathleen Richards, Cliff Hesson, Chuck Buckley and Keryn Murphy all have PRs at Boston Marathon Kathleen places 3rd in her age group.Ĭait Snow is 3rd at St. Tim Walsh, Kathleen Richards, Neil Withington, Chuck Buckley,Tim Snow and Bob Fitzpatrick all race at Mooseman. Kathleen Richards wins her age group at the Cohasset Triathlon.ĭave DeSantis is on the podium again - this time in Vermont - as he wins his age group at XTerra.īeth Kenney, Mike Lamie, Neil and Tucker Withington, Chuck Buckley, Tim Walsh, Jimmy Bunnell and Morgan Scheiber complete the 9th Annual Harpoon Brewery B2B ride.ĭave DeSantis wins age group at XTerra SC Cup in Arkansas and qualifies for XTerra Worlds! Tina Buchan takes 8 minutes off last year's time in the Squamish Triathlon.Ĭait Snow wins the Killington Olympic Distance Triathlon on July 4th, despite losing her cassette at the start of the bike! Meanwhile, Mike Lamie and Dwight Darian finish 2nd male team in Middleboro Beth Kenney and Neil Withington are 2nd female team and Tim Walsh, Tucker Withington and Jill Cadigan are 3rd mixed team. Peter Ramsay breaks 5 hours and Jimmy Bunnell crushes the Aquabike in the RI 70.3. Kathleen is 3rd age group at RI 70.3,and Dave is 3rd age group at Sugarbush XTerra. Kathleen Richards and Dave DeSantis fit one more each in their trophy cases. This comes one week after finishing 5th overall at the Mattapoisett Triathlon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Check About the Races for a full race report.īarry Ahern takes second age group, 13th overall at Falmouth Triathlon. Mike Lamie did his first Ironman and won his age group going SUB 10!!! Rob Delmonico took an hour off his Ironman time. Tim had the fastest marathon of the day (2:52) and Cait had the 4th fastest (2:57) of men and women, and broke her own record to set a new record for the women's marathon! She didn't repeat her win, but she was 10 minutes faster than last year. Charles Williams bounces back from Lake Placid Ironman to race the Mayflower Tri.Ĭait and Tim Snow both win the Timberman Sprint Triathlon.Ĭait Snow is 2nd female at Ironman Lake Placid. Kathleen Richards makes it a perfect year - on the podium in every race she did! Check out the Mayflower Triathlon results to see how her relay team did. Tim Snow takes 2nd place, Mike Lamie is 3rd male overall in the Plymouth Iron Distance Aquabike and Neil Withington is the 3rd female overall in the same race! Jimmy Bunnell wins his age group in the Aquabike and finishes top 10 for men. Dave DeSantis competes at XTerra Worlds in Maui. Mike Lamie and Cait Snow compete at Ironman World Championship in Kona. Kathleen Richards wins age group at Timberman Triathlon. Peter Ramsay finishes Ironman Florida in 9:57.04 and sets huge PR! and Derek Delmonico also has a PR at the same race (9:24.10).īarry Ahern goes 2:17 in his first Olympic distance race - the Cranberry Country Triathlon. Congratulations to Mike Lamie, USA Triathlon All American.Ĭharles Williams completes Stone Cat 50m trail race in a time of 9:37.09. ![]() ![]() ![]() Including map navigation, there is also a full assist mode, the improved version of the normal assist mode that allows players to perform all actions automatically. Also, players can dash, heal, and guard with the assist mode without having to deal with button mapping. It allows them to perform combos and unleash Skybpund Arts automatically with a single button. Granblue Fantasy: Relink introduces an assist mode for beginners and players who want to focus on the story. Among other allies that will help players against Id are Katalina, Rackam, Io, Eugen, Rosetta, Roland, and Lancelot. However, the only character players will encounter along the way is not this brutal swordsman, as they will meet new allies to ask for help to resolve a conflict between the skyfarers and the Church of Avia, such as Charlotta, Yodarha, and Normaya. He is voiced by Robbie Daymond in English and Kenjiro Tsuda in Japanese. Id, also known as Foreboding Blade, is the main villain of the game who wields unparalleled strength as a general of Avia. Vyrn, on the other hand, is a red dragon that has struck the protagonist through thick and thin. Lyria is a young girl who escaped from the Erste Empire to protect her powers to control primal beasts. Players won't have to travel across the game's magical realm alone, as Lyria and Vyrn will accompany them on their journey. RELATED: Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Revealed With TrailerĪccording to the developer update, Granblue Fantasy: Relink features two main characters to choose from, Gran and Djeeta, each having their own powers and skill sets. ![]() ![]() In doing so I offer an alternative approach to the historicization of DIY publishing and feminist grassroots media that focuses on the dynamics of autonomous media practices pre and post-internet. ![]() I situate these women's publications in regard to the histories and political trajectories of zine-making, arguing that the ethics and values that shaped Greenham women's publications share a great deal of similarities with zine-making cultures and cultural productions. In this paper, I look at how Greenham publications functioned simultaneously as instrumental tools and affective sites of knowledge production. They served to mobilize new participants, circulate information about events, document women's actions and create forums for cultivating ideas, demands, tactics and analyses. These print publications incorporated a wide and vibrant array of anecdotes, analyses and images of life at the camp. With such claims, the article aims to re-contextualise Greenham Woman in her particular place and time, and to contribute to a more expansive understanding of the gendering of anti-nuclear activism.įrom the early months of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protests, women wishing to offer different perspectives from those found in the corporate press, created their own newsletters and booklets. I conclude that gendered identities constructed in and through anti-nuclear activism are even more variable than previously considered that they shift over time as well as place and are influenced by diverse movements, not solely feminism and that they gain their political effect not only through the transgression of social norms, but also through discursive linkage with, or disconnection from, political subjectivities in wider society. I argue that the 1980s saw the articulation in the camp of the figure of the Gender-Equal Peace Activist, displaced in the mid-1990s by Peace Warrior/Earth Goddess identities shaped by radical environmentalism and reinstating hierarchical gender norms. I extend the analysis that emerges from this literature in my research on the mixed-gender, long-standing camp at Faslane naval base in Scotland. My starting point is the now substantial academic literature on Cold War women-only peace camps, such as that at Greenham Common. This article investigates the discursive construction of gendered identities in anti-nuclear activism and particularly in peace camps. 3 It is beyond the scope of this article to explore how and why this particular hierarchy of feminist knowledges has been established, but it is part of my task to reassert the relevance of a For the past decade feminist theory has been presided over by feminist philosophy, and the status of feminist sociology, with its concern to theorize from the analysis of social, cultural, political and economic relations, has plummeted. 2 The question has been approached as if it were purely a philosophical one, which could be answered at the level of theory, without recourse to exploration of actual instances of feminist politics. 1 Yet what is remarkable about this debate is that it has been conducted at such a level of abstraction that concrete discussions of feminist practice have been almost entirely absent. The question strikes at the heart for so many of us, because ultimately feminist scholars share a commitment to social transformation which demands that we return to the question of the relationship between our theory and feminist practice. Numerous books and articles have been devoted, more or less explicitly, to this question, and the issue has dominated conversations in formal and informal gatherings of feminist scholars for several years. ![]() As discussions of`postmodernism' continue to rage within feminist thought, this question has come to occupy centre stage in the collective conscience of academic feminism. ![]() ![]() SparkNotes started in 1999, when four Harvard graduates dreamed up, a portal to host their new matchmaking service. And each is compartmentalized into familiar rubrics: summary, analysis, themes, symbols, motifs, context, character list, analysis of major characters, and, of course, a multiple-choice quiz. If, as Henry James wrote, a work of fiction is a house with a million windows, SparkNotes are condo units: they’re all the same size and shape, whether they summarize The Outsiders or War and Peace. Last August, I wrote the SparkNotes for Go Set a Watchman. To Kill a Mockingbird showed me how to create a fully realized, sensory world. Dubose dies, the white box that her servant gives to Jem with one pristine, waxy camellia resting inside. The day when Jem, in a sudden rampage, snatches Scout’s baton and shears off all the buds and flowers on the camellia bushes. Dubose with her perfect camellias, ivory and globular against the glossy leaves. Miss Maudie’s house going up in flames, like a pumpkin, and her prized azaleas frozen and charred in the aftermath. I remember the book in discrete images: Dill’s duckweed-like tufts of hair. I read it, reread it, and reread it again, sitting in an attic bedroom of my grandparents’ house, hunched on the green shag carpet. In the corner, a crescent moon as thin as a tea-stain rose above a clot of green trees. Its cover featured the knot of a tree with a pocket watch and a ball of yarn inside, a mockingbird stamped in silhouette. My copy of Mockingbird was a cheap lilac paperback. ![]() The summer when I was eight, I read two books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]() |
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