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+## Describe your changes
+
+Please refer to an issue here or describe the change thouroughly in your PR.
+
+What is your chnage about?
+
+- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
+- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
+- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
+- [ ] Typo fix
+- [ ] Documentation update
+- [ ] Update of other files
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+
+## If it's a code change please check the boxes which are applicable: 
+- [ ] For the main program: My edits contain no tabs and the indentation is five spaces
+- [ ] I've read CONTRIBUTING.md and Coding_Convention.md 
+- [ ] I have tested this __fix__ against >=2 hosts and I couldn't spot a problem
+- [ ] I have tested this __new feature__ against >=2 hosts which show this feature and >=2 host which does not (in order to avoid side effects) . I couldn't spot a problem
+- [ ] For the __new feature__ I have made corresponding changes to the documentation and / or to ``help()``
+- [ ] If it's a bigger change: I added myself to CREDITS.md (alphabetical order) and the change to CHANGELOG.md