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How to Write a Character Description

Character descriptions can be notoriously tricky to insert naturally into the narrative, but don't actually have to be too tricky! Here are a few tips to make them as effective as possible. Read more here: https://blog.reedsy.com/character-descriptions/ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Careful word choice 1:31 - Be specific 2:21 - Be concise ...
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· Mar 22, 2019
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Learning From the Best: Character Description

Today we look at how to describe character. Our examples come from Michael Punke's 'The Revenant', Haruki Murakami's '1Q84' and Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'. Buy my revision guides in paperback on Amazon*: Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Language https://amzn.to/2GvPrTV Mr Bruff’s Guide to GCSE English Literature https://amzn.to ...
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· Jan 16, 2021
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How to Write Character Descriptions Like a Pro

Do you struggle with describing characters? Do you find yourself writing lengthy physical descriptions, wondering if you are piling it on a little TOO thick, or on the flip side, fighting to make your way through even a short explanation of a character's appearance, wondering if it's too sparse? Let's face it: sometimes, finding that perfect ...
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· Jun 16, 2023
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English Writing: Character Descriptions // Learning From Home

Explore how to write a character description. We go through some examples of descriptions, we have to guess who we think the character is, and then we get to write our own descriptions! You can follow along with the planning, and use the example to write your own descriptions. For more resources and videos like this one: Story Elements For Kids ...
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· Mar 25, 2020
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How to Write a Character DESCRIPTION (+ how to make your character describe herself)

Describing characters is hard. There's a BALANCE between too much description and too little description. How do you find the happy medium? So that you're not boring your reader to sleep but instead piquing their interest with details that tell us a lot about the character being described (and the character doing the describing.) ALSO: how do ...
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· Apr 24, 2019
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How to Edit and Improve a Character Description

In this video, Twinkl Teacher Lloyd demonstrates How to Edit and Improve a Character Description. Check out these fantastic resources using this link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-4-edit-and-improve-with-mr-whoops-character-description-resource-pack-t2-e-41973 0:00 How to Edit and Improve a Character Description 0:29 What resources ...
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· Dec 3, 2021
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Character Descriptions: How To Write Them (in 3 Steps)

What is the best way to describe a character to your readers? We explore how to write character descriptions through three rules and many more examples.
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· Dec 21, 2018
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Character Description For Kids // Learning From Home

Your students can learn how to write great character descriptions. Expand their English Writing knowledge by using interesting language to come up with vivid and accurate descriptions. Challenge your students to take their descriptions a step further, and write about personality as well as appearance. Simile Writing For Kids: https://youtu.be ...
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· Aug 19, 2020
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Amateur vs. Pro Character Description Examples: Learn How to Hook the Reader | Script Reader Pro

Far too often, aspiring writers’ character descriptions involve mundane activities, accompanied by a list of personality traits and/or physical attributes, which doesn’t pique the reader’s interest. In this video, we’ll show you how to transform a basic description to a professional level character introduction that immediately hooks ...
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· May 18, 2021
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Lesson: To write a character description | Oak National Academy

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· Feb 26, 2024
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Describe Your Character and Personality in English

Take a mini-course to practice ALL the vocabulary from the video! https://nmodel.net/courses/describe-character-and-personality-in-english The full script for the video is here https://nmodel.net/video-script-describe-your-character-and-personality-in-english.html Learn to speak about your character and personality, a lot of useful words ...
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· Jun 14, 2017
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How to Complete a Character Analysis

Don't know where to start when analysing a character? We're here to help! This video will go through eight key concepts to understand when completing a character analysis. 1. Role of the character 2. Motivation 3. Actions 4. Character Traits 5. Relationships 6. Development 7. Dialogue 8. Author Intention Want the complete poster? Or perhaps a ...
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· Apr 26, 2020
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Describing and creating characters - English - Learning with BBC Bitesize

In this English article, learn how to describe favourite characters and and create a character of your own.
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· Jul 13, 2020
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How to Physically Describe Characters in Your Novel

Learn how to describe your character's appearance in a way that is interesting to readers. For more help with writing or to check out my editing services, visit my website: http://thewriteditor.wordpress.com Feel free to shoot me an email with questions or comments: ellenbrock (at) keytopservices (dot) com
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· Feb 3, 2014
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Improve your Descriptive Writing | EasyTeaching

Learn how to improve your descriptive writing. The four component of effective descriptive writing are explained: paying attention to details, using descriptive language, including multiple senses, and organisation. 🎥 Using Figurative Language in Descriptive Writing: https://youtu.be/QoH1Rr5wGWk 🎥 Personification lesson: https://youtu.be ...
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· Sep 18, 2020
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100+ Adjectives to Describe Personality and Character | Character Traits & Personality Traits

Personality adjectives! Learn useful adjectives that describe personality and character in English through examples illustrated with pictures. https://7esl.com/adjectives-that-describe-personality/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WATCH MORE: ★ Grammar: https://goo.gl/7n226T ...
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· May 8, 2018
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Descriptive writing guide for English students - KS3 English - BBC Bitesize

Want to brush up on your descriptive writing? Learn to use adjectives, imagery, alliteration and onomatopoeia in this BBC Bitesize KS3 English guide.
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· Sep 3, 2022
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What are CHARACTER TRAITS?

This quick video outlines the basics of understanding what character traits are, and how to cite evidence when using them.
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· Mar 6, 2018
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Understanding characterisation guide for KS3 English students - BBC Bitesize

Characterisation enables writers to weave stories that are believable, purposeful, relatable and driven. Learn about characterisation with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.
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· Mar 16, 2023
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Describing Personality at Work Adjectives

Learn adjectives, present simple, vocabulary, and expressions to describe personality. A powerful resource for learning or teaching English to describe people. English in context will help students learn faster. Teaching resources, ESL lesson plans, lesson plans for EFL students, English conversation, vocabulary builder, build your vocabulary ...
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· Sep 28, 2020
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Character Traits

Descriptive words or adjectives that describe and help us understand a character are called character traits.Characters traits can be external or internal. External character traits are things you can see outside the character. It tells us about a character’s appearance. It describes what a character looks like.Internal or personality traits ...
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· Jun 2, 2021
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How to describe personality and character in English (with pronunciation)

This English vocabulary lesson will teach you how to describe character and personality in English with adjectives and British accent pronunciation. Italki offer: http://go.italki.com/englishwithlucy (You will receive $10 italki Credits in your Student Wallet within 48 hours after your first purchase of any amount) Ad - Thank you to italki for ...
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· Apr 18, 2019
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What is the Definition of a Character in a Story?

Hey, guys! Welcome to this Mometrix video on characters in literature. Characters are an essential part to any literary work. They make the story possible, and, the way in which the characters are built, can help to bring the story to life. In this video, we will take a look at the definition of a character (within literature), and then we will ...
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· Jul 25, 2018
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7 Character Development Exercises

Every writer has their own method for developing characters, from figuring it out while the write or filling out character profiles. If you want to get more out of your character development process, with some more intentional, focused character development exercises, here are seven you can try to learn a little more about your characters ...
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· May 20, 2022
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How to Describe Characters | Novel Writing Advice

Character descriptions can often feel boring or awkwardly inserted into the story. But describing both physical traits and personality traits can be done in a way that fits seamlessly into the story. In this video I use published novels to demonstrate how to make your character descriptions engaging. Free Workshop (scroll towards bottom of post ...
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· Aug 10, 2018
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Character Description // Year 1 KS1 1st Grade Writing

Take your Year 1, KS1, 1st Grade students' writing to the next level with this character description lesson. We look at the key features used to write a description of a character, then have a go at an exciting activity together. Find more of my Videos Here: https://www.youtube.com/thetouringteacher Follow The Touring Teacher: Instagram: https ...
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· Aug 25, 2021
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Describing People's Appearance in English - Visual Vocabulary Lesson

In this new visual vocabulary lesson, get useful phrases for describing people's appearance in English. You'll see a variety of words and phrases, with images, which you can use when describing appearance of people you know in clear, accurate English. Don't forget the vocabulary you learn in this lesson! Practice your speaking with a certified ...
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· Mar 20, 2020
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How to Write a Character Sketch – English Literature by Alok Mishra: Analysis of literary characters

Key Terms: Character Sketch, Character Analysis, English Literature, Literary Analysis, Critical Analysis of Characters, Characters in Novels, Characters in Plays or Drama, How to write a character sketch of characters from plays? In this video, #AlokMishra covers broadly the concept of writing character sketches, which is helpful for students ...
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· Apr 8, 2023
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Character Traits

Describes character traits and what gives examples.
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· Apr 2, 2020
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FOUR Artists Draw Characters Using the SAME Description

In today's episode, Nathan, Jacob, Karina, and special guest Rebeckeronie all draw brand new characters from the same character description! REBECKERONIE'S LINKS: https://rebeckeronie.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@rebeckeronie https://www.twitch.tv/rebeckeronie CHARACTER DESCRIPTION GENERATOR: https://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname ...
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· Aug 21, 2023
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How to Create a Full Character in 3D - Workflow Explained

Realistic Character Portrait Masterclass: https://flipnm.co/characterMasterclass In this video tutorial, you'll learn the whole workflow for making a realistic character using Blender, ZBrush and Substance Painter. Sculpting in ZBrush - 01:54 Retopology in Blender - 07:34 Reprojection in ZBrush - 12:23 UVs in Blender - 14:46 Production ...
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· Oct 27, 2022
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Character Analysis: Macbeth

In today’s video, I look at Macbeth as tragic hero. Some of the references made in the video are: Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’, which can be read here: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html Dr Emma Smith’s Oxford University lecture, which can be listened to here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/macbeth Wayne C Booth’s book, ‘The ...
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· Sep 19, 2020
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Character Description Writing Template For KS2

This activity set from Twinkl allows your KS2 child to plan and describe the feelings, looks and personality of the characters in their story writing! Describe a character yourself, either recreate a character from a well-known story, or create your very own character. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/bz3ba While you’re here, why not take a look at ...
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· Feb 25, 2021
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Year 2 - Character description

This video clip teaches children about the features of a character description. They will learn how to structure their character description by describing their personality and appearance.
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· Nov 4, 2018
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Character traits mini-lesson

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· May 8, 2020
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Character Counts! 6 Pillars of Character with Video Examples

This video was designed to introduce students to the 6 Pillars of Character. There are descriptions of the character traits as well as video examples. I would encourage pausing throughout to facilitate student discussions about each of the traits. https://charactercounts.org/program-overview/six-pillars/ Please leave a comment below to let me ...
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· Jul 31, 2016
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101 Adjectives to Describe Personality and Character - Personality Traits & Character Traits

101 adjectives to describe a person's personality and character traits in English with example sentences. In this English lesson we are going to look at POSITIVE adjectives to help describe a person's personality and character. While most of these adjectives are considered positive, some people may consider some of them negative. We say the ...
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· Jun 1, 2022
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Year 2 - Character Description using Adjectives

This clip will teach children how to write a detailed character description. It will focus on the use of adjectives and describing the character's appearance and/or personality.
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· Sep 27, 2018
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How to Write the Best Character Analysis | Step by Step Guide & Tips

Wondering, ‘How to write a character analysis with perfection?’ Bingo! This video presented by the experts of Instant Assignment Help Australia will help you a lot. In this, video the experts have mentioned the step-by-step process to prepare a character analysis. Also, this video will help you prepare a character analysis outline and ...
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· Jan 27, 2020
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How to Introduce Characters | pt. 2

Last video, we covered the basics of writing a character introduction. Here, let's take a look at a few specific cases and techniques you can use for different types of character introductions. When introducing the main character, their narrative voice and perception is the most valuable tool--use the fact that the reader is in their head to ...
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· Jan 24, 2020
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Character Analysis

In this video, students will learn to how to analyze characters in a text and gain a better understanding of how authors develop characters over the course of a text.
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· Feb 27, 2016
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🎭 my top tips for writing effective character descriptions

If you find this video helpful, please consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lynndjung hi, and welcome back to another writing craft video! this is a really quick, casual chat inspired by a conversation that occurred on Discord, hence why I have just now realized that the first half of this video is mostly discussion ...
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· Jul 23, 2023
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Strategies for Vivid Character Descriptions

In this video, I look at how F. Scott Fitzgerald describes characters in "The Great Gatsby" and discover four powerful strategies that will help you write vivid physical descriptions in fiction and nonfiction. ️ **RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO**: 📚 "The Great Gatsby" book: https://amzn.to/3pV3GF9 (affiliate link) 🎬 Movie stills from ...
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· Dec 16, 2021
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On Writing: Great Character Descriptions! [ Rowling | Dragon Tattoo | Gatsby | Pratchett ]

GET ON WRITING AND WORLDBUILDING VOL II I https://linktr.ee/timhickson Even more detailed analysis breaking down these characters descriptions and MORE here https://www.patreon.com/posts/50323669 I know I blabber on about how your support means I can do whatever content, but the thing is technique focused videos are not as popular because they ...
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· Apr 30, 2021
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HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT CHARACTER 📖 (best template) for your novel *detailed* character portfolio

️🖇️ *want aesthetic writing planners? check out Ana Neu's new digital writing planners here:* https://www.ananeu.com/ana-neu-store hi loves! today we will be going through exactly how to stylize and develop and create your ''perfect'' character for your novel! (template included!) i hope this helps you and the tips allow you to develop ...
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· Aug 14, 2022
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How To Write Character Description - Screenplay Formatting

Share this video: https://youtu.be/6Ot8okwxVoU Advance your writing career at https://www.networkisa.org/ - - - - - - - How do you write character descriptions? What other characters would you like to see covered in a followup video? More videos posted constantly at https://www.networkisa.org/protips Follow us at: https://www.facebook.com ...
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· Dec 11, 2021
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How to Develop Good Characters in a Script: Tips From Hollywood's Best Writers

"Character, character, character." "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof summarizes it best, developing complex characters is one of the most important parts of a script. Some of the top writers in Hollywood give their tips on writing characters, such as taking a personality test, giving them a Zodiac sign and "showing, not telling." This is the ...
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· May 12, 2020
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How to Create a Character | Creative Writing | English and Literacy | BBC Bitesize

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· Nov 11, 2021
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Imagery (Sensory Details) to Describe Characters, Settings and Experiences - Lesson & Examples

In this video lesson, you will learn to use imagery / sensory language to describe characters, settings and experiences. The word imagery must not confuse you. Simply put, you will learn how to use sensory language to write stronger descriptions. “So, what makes descriptive writing interesting?” “Details!” “What kind of details ...
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· Sep 18, 2020
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How to Write Characters’ Introductions — A Character’s Most Important Scene

Writing Character Introductions — We look at the best ways to introduce your characters that your audience won't forget any time soon. How to Write Character Introductions https://bit.ly/hw-ch Subscribe to StudioBinder Academy https://bit.ly/sb-ad StudioBinder Blog http://bit.ly/sb-bl ...
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· Sep 30, 2024