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Hello all, As I said, I will review and highlight the posts that actually provided some feedback and could be cleaned out. I will go over the list of course again by tonight before I forward it to our Management. This is not made for transparency, but for the fact that I promised to you on my previous post. What I cannot promise, is if Management will post an "action plan" as I stated before, but I doubt they will considering there are already few things happening and you will see things through Server Updates instead. So don't expect Management to jump in here and give you information about that list. That list will be forwarded individually to our Management. Sum up of the thread, of what the Community feels needs to be touched upon to bring back LSRP SAMP to an acceptable level so they can play or return: Thank all those who contributed to this thread. You might see something that you also stated, just in different wording. I have tried to filter out all of them, to be as easy as possible for Management to handle. Let's pray for the best and wish 2025 will be a better year for LSRP. For me, after reading all these posts, I must say I felt like a Meta Moderator. The general vibe is that people care for LSRP, but they have lost their spark. And truly, the problem is not features or how an admin was unfair at you at a situation. It's mainly the fact that sometimes, both staff & players nitpick things, more than they used to. We should focus on the pure parts of RP. On the accept of a loss and on a laugh during a win. Create friendships, create unique faction projects & use the features you have at hand to promote exclusive and fun RP. Cut off the norm of creating standardized scripts & DM squads. Roleplaying is a magic gamemode, that seriously no other gamer actually understands. As players, help the staff that you see is trying so hard to bring this back to something, to do it. Voice your concern in a proper manner so we can forward it to the ears that must hear it. We love LSRP the same as you do. But the moment toxicity, leaking, bashing other members hits, you accept the fact that you erase all you've done for LSRP and you're now on the other side. And it's your choice. It always has been. Be good and have actual fun, without trying to see who was wrong in every situation you have.

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Port of East Beach __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Port of East Beach, also known as the Harbor Department of the City of Los Santos, is the second-busiest container port in the United States, after the Port of Los Santos, which it adjoins. Acting as a major gateway for US-Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km²) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of East Beach, San Andreas. The Port of East Beach and approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of downtown Los Santos. The eaport generates approximately US$100 billion in trade and employs more than 316,00 people in Southern San Andreas. Early History (1911-1960) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The San Pedro Breakwater was started in 1899 and over time was expanded to protect the current site of the Port of East Beach. The Port of East Beach was founded on 800 acres (3.2 km2) of mudflats on June 24, 1911, at the mouth of the Los Santos River. The old Municipal Pier was rebuilt into the Municipal Wharf in 1925. In 1925 construction started on Pier A and Pier B, with opening of Pier A in 1930. By 1926 more than one million tons of cargo were handled, and additional piers were constructed to accommodate the growing business. In 1921, oil was discovered at the East Beach Oil Field on and around Signal Hill. In 1932, the fourth-largest oil field in the United States, Wilmington Oil Field, was discovered; much of this field was underneath East Beach and the harbor area itself. The hundreds of oil wells from Wilmington Oil Field provided oil revenues to the City of Los Santos. The first offshore oil well in the harbor was brought online in 1937, shortly after the discovery that the oil field far extended into the harbor. In the mid-1930s, the port was expanded, largely due to the need to transport oil to foreign markets, as the immense output of oil from the Los Santos Basin caused a glut in US markets. The extraction of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil caused concern for subsidence, as the overlying land collapsed into the empty space over time. Engineers and geologists were promptly assigned to the problem, building dikes for flood control at high tide. East Beach became a home port for the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet in 1932. In 1940 the navy purchased 105 acres on Terminal Island built the East Beach Naval Shipyard there. In 1946, after World War II, the Port of East Beach was established as "America's most modern port" with the completion of the first of nine clear-span transit sheds. Pier E was completed and Pier B was expanded to two times its size in 1949. Pierpoint Landing completed on Pier F in 1948, becoming a large sport fishing spot. Concerns regarding subsidence increased until Operation "Big Squirt," a water injection program, halted any progression of sinking land in 1960. Recent History (2012-present) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Between 2012 and 2014, as part of a decision made by the then Mayor of Los Santos, Rakesh Namir, the Port Authority operated as a branch of the Bureau of Public Utilities. This decision was eventually reversed by Mayor Frank Vaughn in 2015, autonomizing Port Authority operations as a seperate contract. In 2016, the San Andreas Longshore and Warehouse Union went on strike, closing down the ports of East Beach and Los Santos. The labor clash which lasted several days and caused ships to be backed up into the pacific ocean marked it the worst cargo traffic disruption at the East Beach and Los Santos harbors. The union, at the time, was objecting to Republican Governor Jesse Style's decision to nullify the terms of their contact, specifically prohibiting port security from conducting security-related duties in the dockyards. Mayor Frank Vaughn gave a speech, as did Representatives Jep Appelo and Katherine Summers in solidarity with the workers impacted by the injunction: primarily members of the SALWU Local 2. In 2019 and the following years, through numerous organizing rallies and an increase in collaboration among business, labor and government agencies, the International Brotherhood of Longshoreman (IBL) Local 1218 became the primary dock workers union on the Port of East Beach, representing most employees at the terminals. In 2020, a bill titled the Safe Shores Act of 2020 was introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Eugene Park (D-3), establishing the San Andreas Harbor Department, the Office of the Harbor Department Chair, and the San Andreas Harbor Commission. The Board of Harbor Commissioners would oversee the operations, budgets, inspections and the development of regulatory codes and policies concerning the terminals, facilities and premises at the Port of San Fierro, the Port of East Beach and the Port of Los Santos. The Port of East Beach was the scene of Senator Eugene Park's assassination, following the announcement of Senator Charles Moreno's (D-5) run for the position of Lieutenant Governor. Economy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The port's combined import and export value is nearly $100 billion per year. The seaport provides jobs, generates tax revenue, and supports retail and manufacturing businesses. More than $800 million a year is spent on wholesale distribution services in the city. In the City of Los Santos, port operations generate more than 230,000 jobs, with more than $10 billion a year going to distribution services in the city. On the state level, the Port of East Beach provides about 370,000 jobs and generates close to $5.6 billion a year in state and local tax revenues. Environment __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The twin ports of Los Santos and East Beach are, together, the single largest source of air pollution in the metropolitan Los Santos area. Both ports have implemented a number of environmental programs to reduce pollution levels while continuing port growth. Governance __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Harbor Department The Harbor Commissioners set policies for the Port of Los Santos and the Port of East Beach. Commissioners are appointed by the Secretary of State or Lieutenant Governor and are confirmed by the State Senate. They may serve terms in increments of three month, without a term limit. References __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. ^ "The Journal of Commerce World Top 50 Container Ports". 2. ^ The Port of East Beach, By Michael E. White, page 49 3. ^ The Port of East Beach, By Michael E. White, page 87 4. ^ The Port Authority Act of 2016 5. ^ SADP Grassroots Director Addresses Port Injuction Union Disputes 6. ^ OP-ED: The Ghost of Frank Vaughn: Democrats to be Resurgent in Senate Elections 7. ^ The Safe Shores Act of 2020 8. ^ Los Santos Times: Senators Introduce Several Major Bills This Week External links _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Media related to Port of East Beach at Wikimedia Commons Port of East Beach website Port of East Beach overview page https://discord.gg/rYRcJYNX Application form (Port of East Beach) (Applications can be sent to Kunis via forums or to Swingis#3669 on Discord)

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Pepitone crew carrying, a family of their own

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Brother Lo enjoying a cold evening in the Chinatown heights

this is fucking beautiful, everytime I see this it looks like you have a story to tell.

Happy new year, fellas.

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Paid & Laid INC. is a modernized twist on Black Organized Crime Roleplay. This concept aims to be ever-evolving and never stop in the comfort zones that other factions on the server have embraced, i.e. spamming the same screenshots of drug sales & posting up on a corner everyday. This group is an off-shoot of the Blanco—Longoria DTO and a part of an in-character Organized Crime Syndicate that has formed around Blanco—Longoria's operations, it's also one of the direct ways to get involved with the faction. Seeking us out ICly is the preferred method of joining, but due to timezones and other activity restrictions we encourage newcomers to give a heads-up through a forum PM to @Marco Polo.

Lil' bit of chating

The Caccia-Licata Crew, once tightly connected to the Chicago Outfit's Cicero Crew, had a strong foothold in Las Venturas. Frank Caccia, known as "Frankie C," laid the groundwork for the operation, with Richard Licata taking things to the next level. Licata was more than just muscle; his business sense turned the crew into a dominant force, especially in loansharking and low-level gambling. Under their leadership, the crew thrived, bringing in tough recruits from the streets of Las Venturas, enforcing a hierarchy where status and loyalty determined advancement. Caccia and Licata were the driving forces, but the true enforcers were guys like Anthony Galigano, who ran extortion and illegal gambling rings with ruthless efficiency. Edward Petorino handled the drug side, distributing narcotics through home invasions and street-level deals. But by 2019, the crew started to crumble. A long-running investigation known as Operation Capricorn started tightening its grip, and the crew was hit with RICO charges for drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, and a laundry list of violent crimes. Caccia, Licata, Galigano, and Petorino were all taken down, dealing a devastating blow to the crew’s power. Once they were arrested, the crew that had once were a dominant force in Las Venturas was left fractured, with key players behind bars and the operation shattered, and even one victim, Edward Petorino gunned down in a drug-deal gone wrong and low level drug dealer Thomas Gaucini turning informant. The posse' once-vast network is a shadow of its former self. Caccia and Licata are still active, but they're operating on a much smaller scale—focused on bookmaking, loansharking, and fraud in Las Venturas and even Los Santos. The glory days are long gone. However, remnants of the crew still linger, propped up by associates of the Chicago Outfit. Steven Delaney, an old Outfit associate that avoided the indictments, is now running a payday loan business in Las Venturas, using it as a front for high-interest loans and money laundering. On the other side of the state, Savino Moone, aka "G-Money," has moved to East Los Santos, where he runs a drug trafficking operation, using his connections with the Philadelphia Black Mob to distribute cocaine and heroin. The Caccia-Licata Crew may have fallen, but their influence hasn’t disappeared entirely. While they’re nowhere near the powerhouse they once were, remnants of their network are still alive, with some of the same players continuing to operate within the criminal underworld. The remnants of the crew have adapted, shifting to smaller-scale operations, but their presence remains in the streets of Las Venturas and Los Santos. New figures are emerging, and the landscape of organized crime in the region continues to evolve as old connections resurface and fresh opportunities arise.

You know I love you flip but this just isn’t true. When Spectre and IFM stonewalled the company enhancements update I was working on (still laughable), @Cake and I both said that we would dev purely stuff for illegal RPers to sweeten the deal. We never got a concrete answer on what they wanted.

I'm happy to say what I think needs to change to see an improvement in the player base. 1. Removal of "Education over Punishment" Right now there is an expectation that admins educate over punishing. Meaning a player can DM someone 2/3 times before we enter the space of actually being able to issue a light punishment. When I returned to the staff team and saw this, I was shocked! This is why we lost the standards and went from a "Heavy roleplay Server" and entered the realms of being more like a Cops & robbers server which is probably the best way to describe the current state of the community. I have standards, and luckily I have a set of rules which I used to govern. - I don't follow this rule, I never have and quite frankly I never will. I am all up for helping someone understand where they have gone wrong and explain to first time offenders, but if I think (On the balance of probabilities) deliberately broken a rule, you're being punished for it. I owe this standard to the rest of the community that uphold the rules, play fair and want to get on with their roleplay. I know what its like to be roleplaying with your mates, and to have a dumb ass come up to you trying to provoke you to desperately try provoke a reaction to justify pulling a gun and engaging in a shootout. It ruins everything and creates the very situation we're in. (Barely any street level gang roleplay.) 2. Removal of Inactive and Idle Administrators & Testers We have a large amount of inactive and completely Idle Administrators and Testers that are retaining their positions for absolutely no reason. I am all for people having breaks and having real life priorities however a large percentage have been on absence for months on end. And for the Admins I will break that down for you guys to understand in a more granular detail. We have too many Admins in key positions who are Idle holding their areas hostage over the title but don't want to actively work for it. Lead Admins: 7 Of the 7 admins, only 2 (28% activity) have been active in-game. (I acknowledge there's stuff behind the scenes, but your core function is to Lead Administrators, and you can't do that unless you're in-game.) Senior Admins: 11 Of the 11 admins, only 4 (36% activity) have been active in-game. Some haven't logged on in months at all. (One hasn't logged on the forums since October!) Game Admins: 16 Of the 16 admins, only 5 (31% activity) have been active in-game. (To be considered "Active" you must have a minimum of 30 hours spent IG per month. For context, some admins peak at 180 hours a month.) So when you look at the above figures for admins you have 11 active admins providing the community with 24 hours coverage 7 days a week. What this creates is admins becoming burnt out because they're carrying more work loads, people becoming unmotivated as a result of a lack of support, and this results in the figures dropping even more. I dread to think the state of the activity leading up to the new year. These 11 active admins are the same ones processing your player reports, refund requests, house changes, ban appeals and just about everything else on the forums! We're too afraid to loose inactive admins because "What does that fix?" it shows there's a consequence for not being active and pulling your weight, it allows space for development for those who are active to develop further into the admin team. It encourages growth and development for everyone. (Chain effect all the way down which in turn allows us to give a better service to our customers who are our community. 3. Faction Management I will be honest with this point, I do not see Illegal Faction Management as a functional service as it stands. It is not representative of the community, and rather a small circle that operates around it. You have so many voices in the illegal factions world that are experienced, giving the IFM the very solutions to the problems we're facing and instead of gripping onto those solutions and running with them to implement nothing is being done. Or we're shutting them down on the spot. There are Official Factions that went inactive after a week of getting it, remove them and make space the the numerous other factions that are absolute gems within the community. This needs to be done because once the illegal factions give up in their pursuit you'll have PD pursuing SD until one of the two decide to give up. Urgent and drastic leadership changes are needed in order to preserve the future of the illegal scene. I personally have been so put off from continuing my illegal roleplay knowing it will never lead anywhere. 4. Legal Faction Management One of the most catastrophic mistakes was the decision to move LFM from a full time person and move it under operations with no oversight from an experienced LEO role-player. Why a LEO role-player? The two biggest legal factions are PD and SD, and a great deal surrounds the two. Instead the role was merged across the responsibility of two people, one being the head of Illegal Factions - a clear conflict of interest. There is a huge issue with activity around the leadership of many of these legal factions and I have seen in the recent days a series of poor decisions being made about leadership changes. Faction Leaders need to be active in order to drive the faction, maintain and uphold standards and again provide the player base with a level of service! - Some days the server has 100+ players with 1 or 2 LEO's on, where is the realism in that? You then speak to the factions, and the response is, If faction management can't be asked why should I? Then you get nothing short of civil war on the server. Legal and Illegal factions are the most important entities on this server, and we're getting it so incredibly wrong. In both PD and SD we have absolutely exceptional leaders who aren't being given opportunities to lead simply because they're vocal and active and threaten the inactive leadership by outshining them, so instead of promoting them to run and help out, we're seeing them be supressed and ostracised to keep them at bay in order to safeguard certain individuals positions. Legal Faction Management needs to be owned by a Lead Admin that has experience in either PD or SD as a leader that can give them the full time attention they need, this doesn't mean dictating, this means obtaining feed back from the faction members, giving and equipping them to succeed. Right now we're seeing the polar opposite. 5. Pandering to the toxic few. There's a certain few individuals who keep popping up within these chats (Ban Evading) may I add who offer nothing of any value at all, and we're allowing their opinions and voices to plague and curtain the true issues we need to be addressing on this community. Some of these who I won't bother naming have been banned for a while for gross breaches of rules in-game and on the forums. Stop pandering to them and ignore their moot opinions. Finally my message to the community, a shit ton of effort goes into this community by Martin and Michael (prior to his departure) and I stand firmly beside Martin with this. He often is called lazy and that he doesn't care or he's not invested and simply wants money out of this etc etc...I've heard it all. I will defend him till kingdom come. I know how much he invests and how much he injects into this community to keep it running and he is let down by some of his staff, but also a community have a significant part to play here as well. Stop the toxicity, accept it will never be like 2015 or whatever era exists as being the golden age for LSRP for you, we're in 2024 going on 2025 and we're pushing through during different and challenging times around the world. For many this is a get-away from reality. Acknowledge the effort going into the community, appreciate the little things and be constructive and productive about the future of the community. Remember, pressing the red button and switching the community off once more is an easy option - we need to keep fingers away from that and start collectively driving this forward. If anyone has been offended (Staff or otherwise) by anything I have said, tough luck if the shoe fits lace that bitch up and own it. I own my flaws, and I will work on them but I will never give up on this community. Eren.

I will make a post as a new player here that i think it is more or less how most of the new guys experience the things around. I joined LSRP and SAMP in general in July of this year. Yes 2024, at age of 25. Was my first experience in a RP oriented game, was never a fun of roleplaying. I found out and joined to make company to my irl friend that was a member back in the day and was excited that the server was back. I will admit that he helped me pass the test (please dont metagame and ban me 🤣). My roleplay was plain at begin, as i lacked basic RP knowledge. Eventually i got banned from a police admin because my roleplay to a chase was me doing stunts and all. But lets get back to the point: The begin: At the begin around late July (server peaked around 280 if not mistaken) I was roaming randomly around and interacting with people. All good till i reach level 5. Got maybe two times taken hostage but thats normal if you enter a strangers car at the 02:00. I see an AD about a tavern searching personell and i immidietly call and apply for the job. Turns out the tavern was also a criminal organization too, which i did part after atleast 2 weeks of RPing the cook/waiter. (The Tavern was a buisness owned by the Faction called Socrates circle. The RP was very unique and mostly passive, at their angle in Blueburry where bikers and us coexisted and no crazy shootings happen. Sadly the faction got abandoned because we were waiting for a kind of scripted help to continue developing our roleplay. Remember its GTA, noone plays GTA to /exclusivly/ roleplay running a tavern or a club. Everyone wants a small illegal factor.) I used to pass most of my time to Blueburry, when i visited Los it gave me the feel of a big city, gangs everywhere. Shootings, police chases, corners with people offering drugs. Was everything so immersive. After the faction got disbanded, me and my friend were left alone with no real option of a faction to join with, since our characters didnt fit with current factions(Albanian character). We started doing a bit of solo rp, doing few roberies here and there and seeked a way to make money. Later on we joined roze and started doing trucking. Beverages and meal(After a bit gets too repetative. I would suggest if possible a small change of trade goods every month that would maybe be based of the the month we are currently in. For example at winter months maybe logs would give more money as the demand is higher, fuel too inconfront of the summer months. Or maybe fuel could even follow real life events that would get its price deep and rise, dont know if possible script wise to adjust those things as easy but would be a good idea. After the first ten hours, it gets too repetative.) Working for Roze was a very good experience with many activities post work like parties and all. Sadly our characters are thieves and we entered in Roze parking lot under their complex masked with helmets and tried to open their cars with screwdivers. (Got caught when we were only 13 seconds left from the 500 needed, really unlucky and PKed/kicked form roze but without a regret! Was great experience.) After that we been freeroaming around, joined few other companies and tried to join a faction that isnt not important to name, but nothing would come close to the first few months. Solo RP is good and all but has a lot of limits. Lately i been around and interacting with people. Helping them in pm. Actually new players. there are really a lot of them. The first question they make me is how to make money. The first thing i do is explain them about trucking. since to my knowldge there doesnt exist something more profitable, but my actual first action to talk them about the mechanic paycheck. Everyone when listens about it immidietly agrees to do the job, after all its free money without need to stop you from your normal RP or forcing you to actually spend hours and hours trucking.(Suggestion: add maybe also a paycheck of 500 or 250 to people who got no sidejob/mainjob. Maybe script wise could work as Unemployed job title. It might sound funny number but many new players find it very hard to make money. Its not hard but it is hard to figure out how. Maybe for them that 250 would do the diference. Maybe everyone starts with that job immidietly as they create their character and once you lose it once you cant get it again. I dont know the script limits but could be a good addition.) That was the story i felt like i had to write somewhere, might not make much sense but my points want to be: The community makes the game be good or bad, but also the community should be rewarded when they do things right. I have been DMed too many times, even more robbed. When i was a noob it was frustating, losing a gun or those 5000 that you had to do you yankee runs from blueburry to ship really hurted. The first thing i do when i interact with a person IC is to check their character ID and talk a bit with them to see if they actually new or not. Depending on the outcome i choose my RP too. Sadly not everyone does it. I have been robbed or killed as a new player from guys that were level 45 IC, at the time i didnt understand why. I still cant. I have also been taken hostage and then when police chased the car the people armed me to shoot the police telling me they will pay me for it. Was fun. But us,humans, that one time we will get DMed or robbed will always be harder to forget than the good RP we had with a stranger. My suggestion is to be more /flexable/ to our RP depending on the person we have infront. The faction system is good, but doesnt promote new players to join a faction because there is always the CK threat. Noone wants to lose their character they built all this time and got immersion with. Might not be case for most player but i personally wouldnt be able to keep playing if i somehow lost my only character Aslan Kelcyra. I have seen many CK from faction threads to happen to actually new players with little reason IC, just for the screenshot i suppose. Also the best screenshot edditor thing shouldnt be valued that much. I see screens from factions that InGame barely play thirty minutes that make you think they been doing crazy things meanwhile InGame i never seen them around. I got more than 500 hours on this server from July to now, which i value to be a lot with my vacations break and almost one month ban, but zero screenshots showcasing my roleplay. Lazy, not motivated to spend hours editing, you call it. I prefer spending those ten minutes more IG playing and interacting than editing things that didnt happen. Most of you i think will know my character and have seen him around. I soon will open a faction that will try to be welcoming to the new players, with a more passive roleplay aproach. Ofcourse there will be the illegal part involved but wont be the only thing. I took the courage to write here after i saw that a admin got banned. I knew right of the bat that would have been a cop admin. I think one of the bigger community killers are our Legal factions, sherrifs mostly but PD too. I have felt being chased many times, always when i have something on me. Never when i am clean. I have been chased many times, a day off i have killed/evaded a policeman, yet again for no real reason. I wont be throwing hate or something, but cant be a coincidence. Too many times. There should be bigger control on police giving out the punishments out, preferably a other faction should be created that would give the punishments out instead of directly the policemen. I feel like many times police is the one metagaming and maybe even using hack (after all when a admin does it doesnt seem impossible). I dont know but something should be done for it, till we havent found a way for jail time actually possible to rp. I liked the parole officers hitting me up from time to time. Till jail has actual ingame value, there should be done something else. Maybe people allowed to roleplay to the construction RP roze does for an hour or so that would result to their punishment get reduced of x hours. (I understand that might be hard script, but maybe possible, would also open room for jail breaking when they do transport you from the construction site back to jail). Game is great, possibilities are there. We just need to help a bit more new players find the place they want to be. I have had a lot of fun till now, and plan to have for a long time. I have yet to experience the black roleplay, hispanic, slav, or why not even police prespective. We just need manpower and to respect game rules. All of us. Shooting is fun, but think about it, is it really worth it shooting three people today and risking to have only one to shoot at after a month? Wouldnt it be better to shoot one now hoping next month you will have more options? Same goes to jailing people. Thats was my thoughts, a bit messy like the are in my head, without much filtering. Sorry if its hard to read. Wanted to give a word and few suggestions. Thanks to everyone who makes it till the end and i am waiting to see you more in game, all of you. Being a criminal doesnt mean being rude, its not a full time job. Try helping people have a start, to find their path. Its really hard to do trust me, you know most of commands by heart, but i still have to do /anim or /help to find the right command. Thanks to all the testers and admins who have helped and responded to my silly questions all this time. Atleast at that part the game doesnt lack. There are people willing to help ooc, but we should transfer that willing to help ic too. Aslan Kelcyra PS: Sorry for the typos, its late and i am sleepy.

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