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because I can
Lost Dreams (one-minute piano piece, mp3, right-click to download). I wrote this one in 6th grade, hence the emo title. Comments welcome. (You're free to say you hated it! I have many things to learn.)

This is one of the pieces that clued me in that Depakote was screwing with my brain: I'd been playing this piece fairly regularly since 6th grade, I wrote it, I know it in my hands, and I still couldn't figure out the harmony changes because I had lost my sense of musical grammar. It was really freaky, kind of like how it would be freaky if the med had hit me with the side-effect of losing my English grammar, except much less obvious in daily interaction since I am not a musician. I don't think the psychiatrist believed me, but it is true and it happened and it still makes me angry. Fortunately, the side effect went away.

I don't see how it's any less logical that a drug that messes with brain function could mess up musical parsing! Music also happens in the brain!

Have been spending all day in administrivia for various and sundry things, plus I had forgotten that since Joe is at a farewell dinner for (I think) one of the grad students, I am on lizard-watching duty. I am tired. Maybe I will go stare at Paper Souls revision notes. Also, thanks to

daidoji_gisei linking to Drew Baker's L5R art (ZOMG Utaku Yu Pan!), I now have a second choice for artist I would love to have illustrate the novel in my dreams. (#1 is

telophase. *g* And yes, I realize that the novel might never sell and even if it does I will have no say in the cover art or layout or anything, which is actually kind of okay by me because my design sense is nil.)

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Why the world needs an e-ink photo frame
This is a product I really want but which rampant capitalism and consumerism have mysteriously failed to provide. It's not a new idea; it's even listed on Wikipedia as an example application of e-ink.

Consider the advantages of e-ink over LCDs:

No backlight needed—it almost looks like paper, hence the name.
Images stay on the screen even when no power is applied.
Therefore, very low power requirements.

And the disadvantages (for now):

Very slow refresh rate—you can't do much in the way of animation.
Black and white only.

Now to me that sounds perfect for a photo frame. What you want is something you can put your old cherished family photos on, to hang on a wall or leave on your desk at work. Black and white is fine—it just makes your pictures look classy and professional. Slow refresh rate is fine—all you need to do is flip to a new picture very occasionally. You can't do cheesy transitions; this is a good thing. With careful power management, you can probably have a device that doesn't need wires and runs for at least a year. It could gradually slow down the picture rotation rate to eke out the battery life, and even when it runs out completely, it still works as a static photo.

How would you load pictures onto it? Maybe the usual SD card or USB, but they're a bit too fiddly and geeky. What would be really cool would be a device that just pulls in new pictures from the web automatically, say from your Flickr or Facebook account. All configuration would be done on the web. The hard part is doing that without wires and with almost no power, and making the software so slick and idiot-proof that it somehow Just Works every time.

In the real world, all existing digital photo frames are crap. Every single one has a big chunky plastic casing (usually with a logo in the corner), a power cable with yet another power adaptor that you need to plug in somewhere, a backlit LCD screen that's eye-searingly bright at night, but obscured by direct sunlight, and a user interface that would drive Steve Jobs to a towering inferno of rage. Even if you must use an LCD for some reason, why not a nice wooden frame, or at least a smooth featureless surface?

So there you go. If I had to go on Dragon's Den, that's what I'd pitch. Sell it in Heal's, Harrod's and Liberty for show, John Lewis for dough. Target market: rich middle-class middle-aged technophobes. And me. Sigh.

Unfortunately I'm not at all entrepreneurial. I was briefly excited to read about an e-ink development kit aimed at hobbyists and small companies—damned if I can't roll my own! Then I saw the price: $3000. Sheesh.

Oh, well, I'm sure something like this will be developed once there are colour e-ink screens (as the Wikipedia article presumes). Why is colour such a big deal for photo frames, but not for book readers? Sure, books are mostly black and white, but newspapers and magazines are filled with colour. Product marketing is weird.

Still alive, long drive out to Ottawa and back, lots of snow, ice, wind, etc. Major thanks to Emily for minding the pups while we're gone. Gave mental hellos to peeps in Detroit and Ann Arbor at 11:30 pm last Sunday night as we drove through. Playoff football this weekend, yay. Poutine last night, yay. Eleanor slept through the night last night, yay. Nosebleed this morning due to dry air, boo. 401k up 36.16% over 2009; was the massive collapse really over a year ago?

( Because everyone else did it, a recap of the year, and of the decade. )

To Sappho
If you ever visit San Fransisco, O Psappho,
Don't forget to put a flower in your hair.
For the world
Is San Fransisco
And the blessed Graces turn their backs
On garlandless girls.

אם תבואי אי פעם לסן פרנסיסקו, פְּסַאפְּפוֹ
אל תשכחי לעטר את שערך בפרח.
כי העולם
הוא סן פרנסיסקו
ובנות־החן הברוכות מפנות עורף
לנערות נטולות־זֵר.

מכתב פרידה מחבר הכנסת פינס

ערב טוב ח"כ (בקרוב לשעבר (אופיר פינס.
אד צר לי לשמוע על עזיבתך את החיים הפוליטיים. היית אחד האנשים הישרים ביותר וההגונים ביותר בכל הכנסות בהן היית חבר בכנסת , מעולם לא רדפת אחרי תיקים ואחרי משרדי ממשלה ותפקידים (ג'ובים בלע"ז). בלכתך, תחסר לי מאד בכנסת, שלא תשוב בלעדיך להיות כפי שהיתה.

אני מאחל לך הצלחך בחייך באשר תפנה.

עזיבתך מסמלת יותר מכל, לדעתי, את אובדן הדרך הטוטאלי בו שרויה מפלגת העבודה והשמאל הישראלי בכלל. ליבי חרד לבאות.

Useful to remember when writing: reviews are not for your benefit! Recs aren't either. They are for the readers' benefit.

One of the reasons I love sending things out to beta (aside from getting nerves, of course) is that I get feedback! People tell me what they're getting out of the story (if anything--I've had my share of duds) and construct theories and tell me what's confusing and stuff! It's very exciting! I am fundamentally kind of narcissistic when it comes to my writing, and anything you want to tell me about it will fascinate me. (Except on the rare occasions where there appears to have been a genuine reading comprehension failure.)

So I read reviews, too, out of the same narcissism. Because I love meta and theories, and goodness knows the inside of my head is so confusing, it's nice to have other people explain me to me. Realio trulio!

(This is embarrassing to admit, but true anyway.)

But the reviews aren't for me. The reviewer is not obligated to lay things out for my convenience or tell me what I need to do better. (Although that's usually implicit anyway.)

(It is different if you are writing in a setting where the "reviews" are direct comments in such a way that a dialogue between writer and reader is expected. At the moment I make it a policy not even to link to reviews--I just bookmark them privately--but there are other settings with different norms.)

I should go to bed now. I think I am becoming incoherent. *yawn*

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First:

swan_tower, I swear I will print out the Logic Pro "score" for your piano piece and set about transcribing it nonproportionally. (I hate proportional spacing in music. There is a reason that professionally engraved pieces are generally not done that way.)

Second: I have a great deal of sympathy for people who get earwormed with things. I get earwormed sometimes (although I can usually just change the channel in my head by playing back Tchaikovsky in my head), but even worse is getting COMPOSERWORMED. (This doesn't actually mean I am necessarily good at it, but it still kind of sucks.) I am composerwormed right now. Even worse (or better, depending on your POV), this piece that has been in limbo for over a year used to be for straight piano. Now that I can play with Logic, I am being driven nuts by all the possibilities for orchestration. I already know where I want to use concert harp (it has to be concert harp, I am pretty sure, to hit notes in that range), and I know I need the piano (partly for timbre--I am fond of harpsichord, but harp + harpsichord is just asking for trouble in that section--and partly for the range at the other end. I then have to decide whether it's worth having a go at the soprano recorder (the plastic one, ironically, is more in tune than the wooden one), and on top of that whether I want to back the recorder with the ocarina (I love the timbre, but I suck at ocarina, and I'm afraid of mucking up the accidental, although preliminary testing indicates that the F# is not as difficult as I feared).

I need a string instrument, preferably cello but viola would do in a pinch, so badly, but M'Lady continues to need repairs. *sob* I wish that strings were easier to fake computer-wise, but I swear, digital bowed strings almost always sound terrible. The pizzicato is generally the most convincing, but I need arco. I may have to go into Sculpture and concoct something in the "I am obviously synthesized but I am nicely ribbony like arco-legato cello/viola" family. And I wonder if careful use of a glockenspiel (I am a great believer in careful use of glockenspiels) is called for. And I know I'm going to have to use an echo effect to get those notes in my head, but what patch? Something else in the harp family? Stick with harp? I guess I'll have to try it and see what works.

*flails* Help! My brain is consumed by music and it won't go away! (They never do until they're completed/written down. It is infuriating.)

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happiness is
1. Colcannon. OMG why does colcannon taste so good?
2. Sending out a story. (And I have to do revisions for another to send that out, too, but one thing at a time.)
3. BPAL's Spooky Resurrected, which is very, very close to the original Spooky. (That is a good thing! I adore Spooky and its clone sister to pieces.) I'm under the impression that Spooky Resurrected fades a little faster, but that might be because I'm in a (much) hotter climate. Eee, Spooky Resurrected! (It smells like chocolate and mint and rum, very smooth--I would kill to eat chocolates that taste like this smells.)

Tell me about a happy thing for you today, if you like. :-)

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Current Music: Brad Mehldau: "Get Happy"

חוק הנאמנות החדש

הצטרפתי לקמפיין של ארגון אוואז, שחשבתי שעשוי לעניין אתכם: קריאה לממשלה לדחות את הצעת החוק הפשיסטית והאנטי-דמוקרטית של ישראל ביתנו, שנועדה לחייב את חברי הכנסת להצהיר נאמנות לישראל "כמדינה יהודית, ציונית ודמוקרטית."

יוזמה זו חותרת תחת עקרון חופש הביטוי, השולל כל התליה של חירויות יסוד בחובת הצהרה כלשהיא, ומהווה ניסיון ברור להשתיק מתנגדים פוליטים בכלל ואת חברי הכנסת הערבים בפרט.

לי, אישית, כיהודי הנאמן למדינת ישראל – שהוקמה, כידוע, כמדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית (אך לא כ"מדינה ציונית") – אך אינו רואה עצמו כ"ציוני", על שום הקונוטציות האנטי-דתיות שיש למושג זה במגזר אליו אני משתייך -- יש בעייה עם הצהרה כזו. לו הייתי חבר כנסת, הייתי מסרב להצהיר הצהרה כזו.

יש לנו רק כמה ימים לפני החלטת הממשלה בנושא. אם הנושא חשוב לכם, לחצו על הקישור בהמשך כדי לשלוח הודעה לחברי ועדת השרים לענייני חקיקה:
http://www.avaaz.org/he/loyalty/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK
תודה!

בקרו בבלוג החדש של אוואז ישראל שבו אנחנו יכולים לדבר ולהחליף רעיונות:
http://www.avaaz.org.il

אתם מוזמנים גם להצטרף לקבוצת הפייסבוק המקומית החדשה שלנו, ולהכיר דרכה את חברי אוואז האחרים בישראל בכתובת:
http://www.avaaz.org/avaaz_israel_facebook

on including poetry of your own devising in sf/f
That is, if you need to write (usually brilliant) poetry by some character to put in your sf/f novel or story, the general advice is: Don't.

There are people who write both excellent stories and excellent poetry, but based on reading a lot of epically bad epic fantasy with excerpts from "epic poetry" from the setting, I feel that I can confidently say that 90% of sf/f writers do not fall into this category. Weis & Hickman in the Dragonlance books outsourced to Michael Williams, if I recall correctly (it might have been someone else), and Williams was actually much better than I expected out of poetry for gaming tie-in novel setting, but the killing problem for me was that he wrote all the poetry for all the different cultures in the same damn style. I mean, yes, everything's going to be in English for the reader (unless it is in Korean--I used to own one book of the Korean translation of one of the Chronicles), but *gasp* English can have different styles, y'know? If I desperately needed to include poetry (despite knowing that it would be ignored by most readers--anyway, Joe never ever reads poetry bits in stories no matter how crucial they might be to the plot, and from an odds standpoint he's really right) I would probably outsource to multiple poets so I'd get different styles.

I put poetry bits in one story, "Alas, Lirette," but have never done it again and kind of hope that if I lose my mind and forget mself that one of you will put a spork into my eye. (Actually, I wonder why GVG didn't make me take it out? I would have done it. Ah well.)

(If you belong to the 10% of brilliant people who can pull off poetry and prose, congratulations! Ignore me. Because when it's done well, it's awesome. Sadly, there is not enough awesome in the world.)

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Michael Rosen's Sad Book
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. This is theoretically a children's book, although I think I am going to hold off on showing it to the lizard, who is (a) generally a cheerful lizard and (b) not in bereavement (which would cause me to potentially offer this--people in the family have died since she was born, but generally she did not know them well).

Nevertheless, the book is, indeed, sad; the author talks about the death of his son (the emotions it causes, rather than any details about how the son died) and how it has affected him, and what he does to cope with it. The language is beautifully simple, and conveys grief by its very rhythms.

I have adored Quentin Blake's illustrations ever since seeing them in various Roald Dahl books (indeed, I can't conceive of a Dahl book having illustrations that aren't by Blake, so closely are the two intertwined in my head), and they work brilliantly here.

Thank you,

maga! (And finally I know where that icon comes from.)

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Current Mood: sad

eee!
Oh, guys!

fandom_stocking has gone live and my stocking, along with many other kind and lovely gifts, includes two new Leverage ficlets written for me, both Alec/Eliot!!! (One of them has girl!Eliot. Eee! But they are both awesome.)

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Current Mood: ecstatic

Happy New Year (Late)
Woo! It's been a busy new year.

ojouchan and I did a bunch of stuff, and we slept a bunch, and then there was work, and Arkham Asylum and Rock Band 2 and yeah.

But anyway, I'm getting back to normal, and getting ready for my birthday this weekend. Still no idea what I'm going to be doing, but I've got the weekend off.

A little bit of time left for the Christmas Wits & Wagers, which, incidentally, has been declared "awesome" by the designer of the original game. That's a recommendation there.

And I should be getting to bed now.

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Copyright (and Wilkie Collins)
Somewhat sobering story in Ars Technica, which points out that:

The 1st of January is "public domain day";
In the US, nothing entered the public domain due to extensions to the copyright laws.

I didn't know that copyright ticks over on a specific date. It would be great if that were one of the big cultural events of the year: a big batch of old work being delivered afresh to the public consciousness, free for everyone to enjoy! But of course the factors that would make that possible—few people care about dusty old books, but the moving finger of copyright law past is starting to hit things people do care about, like early Elvis tracks—are the same ones that drive the copyright owners to lobby for repeated extensions.

The article ends with a token glance at non-US copyright:

In Europe, despite a set of recent term extensions, material did enter the public domain this week. A rough list is available from Public Domain Works, based on authors dying in 1939 (70 years ago). If any of our European readers ever wanted open access to William Basil Worsfold's 1893 work A Visit To Java: With An Account Of The Founding Of Singapore... well, 2010 should be a very good year.

Such cynicism. That's a long list, there must be something good on it! Let's see...

Hey, look at that: Howard Carter, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen. Man, I may have to look that one up.

Or there's William Butler Yeats. I think I may just have heard of that guy.

It also occurs to me that one of my favourite authors, Wilkie Collins, died long before 1939, so all of his books must be in the public domain already. (So I don't have to keep buying those fancy Oxford Press editions... but they look so nice!) If you haven't heard of him, I recommend in the strongest possible terms that you read his fantastic novel The Moonstone, which not only creates a huge number of detective fiction tropes, it practically deconstructs them at the same time. Plus it's just a cracking good read; amazingly fresh and modern-feeling for a 19th-century novel.

Flashfic to a prompt of your choosing for sale! Six slots.
Six slots for flash fiction at 100-300 words (possibly longer--the longest last round was 900 words, as I write to the story's demands; no extra charge for getting a longer story!). $6 each, payment in advance, written to a one-to-two-word prompt of your choosing. Let me know if you want the story by a particular date so long as I have a week to write; otherwise, I will endeavor to have them done by the last day of February. Also, stories will by default by posted to DW/LJ for other readers to enjoy, but you can specify that you want private delivery. Original fiction fiction only unless you want crack non-canon authorfic for one of my own works. (Yes, for those who know, that includes igloos.) Note that I suck at romancy things and I'm even worse at smut, but I'll give it a try if you don't mind potentially unintentionally hilarious results.

For a sample of stories written in the previous (December) round, check the "stories" tag. This should probably give you a pretty good idea of my strengths.

Payment to requiescat@cityofveils.com (PayPal). If you don't have PayPal, ping me and we can work something out.

Note that if I'm still waiting on payment for a story from the previous round, I will not add you to the queue until I get payment. ^_^ (

dormouse_in_tea,

kate_nepveu, you're fine!)

1.

coraa: "smoke, dormice" (paid)
2.

chomiji: "snowflakes, fingers tangled in hair" (paid)
3.

cofax7: "tea, wool, ridgeline" (paid)
4.

frosted_elves: prompt pending.
5.

dormouse_in_tea: prompt pending.
6.

daidoji_gisei: prompt pending (paid).

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there will be no review
I will not be posting a year in review of 2009. It wasn't universally bad, but it was suboptimal.

I will not be posting a decade in review of 2000-2009. It had its ups and downs of course - I got a master's degree right at the start, for example. But for the most part, it was the worst decade I've lived yet. I don't care to rehash.

I'm feeling much more hopeful and resolved about this year, this decade, and the future. Hell, I feel much more resolved about today. I feel as if I'm taking things one day at a time out of necessity, not out of any especial plan. I don't want to jinx it. I'm just going to live and see what happens.

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p.s. cute as Nathan Fillion is, and as much fun as Castle is, I needed a new user icon. So here's a pretty one I got from a gorgeous tarot deck I picked up when I went to Sedona in 2008. Among other things, 2009 wasn't a year I travelled much, sadly.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung

A couple of days ago I had a dream that I had one class that was with the wrong cohort, so I showed up to the first class session after the break and nobody knew I wasn't supposed to be there.

Today would have been the first day of school after the break. I guess I've been acting lately like I was on break too, but my break doesn't end until I end it.

Mac OS 10.6
Well, on the bright side, it didn't nuke my HD, as I had feared.

On the less bright side, Snapz Pro X now thinks that it's a trial version and I am still waiting for the renewed license code to arrive, I keep hearing the HD making distressing churning noises (I assume it's still optimizing stuff in the background or something?), for some reason I keep getting bounced out of U.S. to 2- or 3-set Korean, and, most upsettingly of all, LaunchBar is being appallingly slow when it isn't being flat-out unresponsive. I wonder if I am going to have to upgrade to LaunchBar 5--given that it touts Snow Leopard compatibility...*sigh* Okay, here goes nothing.

On the bright side, the lizard is sewing her first multicolored heart on Aida! Thanks to

aviatrix18. (Conveniently, the lizard is attracted to lots of colors that I, ah, am less fond of. Like orange and pink.)

Okay, back to revisions. :-D

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Back at work
I found some nice small maintenance jobs to get started on -- it's always nice to be able to ease back into work slowly. I checked in my first changelist of the decade! May even get a second one in if this unit test passes.

Software engineering is a lot like plumbing in many, many ways. I'm tearing out a bunch of old obsolete code, which is great fun; I imagine it's almost exactly the same pleasurable feeling as finally getting enough stuff blocked off and cleared away that you can finally haul out that old scummy bathtub and chuck it in a skip.

Negative lines of code: the productivity metric of the future!

Yuletart reveals!
The gift for me was Ghost of a Chance by

inknose: two pages of Fray fancomic. *hearts*

The art I made was The Rose and the Lily for

alias_sqbr: two decorated papier-mâché boxes with Buffy and Faith painted on the lid of each.

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Dream of the Week --- 2009/12/29
I dreamed I was in some city. I met up with some people and rode around on a strange device. It was just a long skinny block, longer than a person is tall, and wide enough to lie on. You just would lie on it and ride it like a boogie board. It could somehow zoom along. At first I rode one through a park with a few other people, who were riding their own. Then it seemed the "boogie blocks" could fly, and we flew them into the internal ventilation shafts of a big office building. I landed and got off and then was walking along city streets. I ran into Sean, who told me about a really good burger place on "African Avenue".

There was also a part where I was in some class or seeing some talk by this one Arabic professor. He was writing Arabic, on the board, and he used a weird and unfamiliar form of the letter "ra". His version looked like two ovals making a lopsided, diagonal figure eight. He also occasionally used the "typeface" version of this, which had the same overall shape, but the ovals were replaced by lightning-bolt-like jagged lines in several waves, like nested fans. I asked him about it and he said this was an old form of the letter. I showed him the form I knew, and he said I should have seen this other form too, in old texts, but it was totally unfamiliar to me.

Reader-request + Webreadings.
Reader-request [LJ] for "Between Two Dragons" (soft sf, Korean-ish). I have this nasty sneaking suspicion that the story completely fails to cohere.

Totally not Yuletide fanfic reading: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Giant Mutant Glowworm That Ate New York City by ignipes. Short, sweet, and deadpan funny.

( Webreadings: books, sci/tech, art, BtVS/AtS, comics. )

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African military history, precolonial?
matt_dalen asks:

Can you think of any good sources for pre-colonial African military tactics/setup? I'm still working on my quasi-africa-esque fantasy story, and I'd rather the military aspects be something close to something found in Africa, rather than a thinly disguised European setup. West African is preferable, but not necessary.

(You can see my response, which is sadly unhelpful, at the link. Walk into Borders and you can find a gazillion books on the American Civil War, the two world wars, and the Vietnam War, but anything outside of the West? Hahahahaha. And books that one finds in used bookstores are sometimes very good but sometimes hair-raisingly skeevy.)

Asking here in case anyone out there knows of good sources offhand. (And because, selfishly, I'd like to know, too.)

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A model student
I have a short presentation on Wednesday, my bibliography doesn't fit the subject that I had to write about.
I'm sick and tired of these studies, it's boring and annoying and is forcing me to be in places that I really don't want to be.
What's the use of this evil exercise? I had two months to do it and I didn't even start yet, I always promise myself that I'm going to start tomorrow but then tomorrow comes and I simply don't feel like it.
I guess that tomorrow is my last chance to start and also finish or else...
I guess that this is the time of year when I feel like tossing everything out of the window and start a new life in which I am rich and can do whatever I want to with my time.

Current Mood: blah

This isn't just because I am Korean but
What? What?

According to wikipedia here:

Yi and his turtle ships appear in the game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. However, for the purpose of balance, the turtle ships are wrong in two areas of the game: they are slow (in reality they were incredibly quick) and they can only fire the cannon out of the dragon's mouth/bow (the turtle ships actually fired broadsides and used the front mostly as a sulfur smoke blower and ram).

Wait, they did what to the turtle ships? I can see slowing them down if you have to for game balance, but they killed off the broadsides?

*headdesk headdesk headdesk*

Well, there goes any desire I ever had to play that game. (I did have some version of Age of Empires II at some point, but I'm pretty sure it didn't have Korea as a playable faction or I'd remember it.)

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