Sony Buys Movie Rights to Clarke's Book (AP)

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SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms

SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms 04/10/2004 11:23 AM
Hollywood Reporter .. Great idea!!

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Miramax buys Moore movie rights

Miramax buys Moore movie rights 05/29/2004 09:30 AM
Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 is a step closer to release after the rights are bought by Miramax.

$218 Movie Costs $400,000 For Music
Rights

$218 Movie Costs $400,000 For Music
Rights 05/19/2004 06:12 AM
John submits this fascinating article about a movie that's winning rave reviews at the Cannes film festival. It was made by one guy, basically over the past twenty years of his life just documenting his troubled life. It really sounds quite fascinating - but that has little to do with what we post about here. What's interesting in this story is that the cost of all the video tape used to make the movie was a whopping $218. However, in order to get the rights to the music he wants for the film, the cost of making the film is shooting up to $400,000. Seems just a bit out of proportion.

New portable video/movie rights planned

New portable video/movie rights planned 07/14/2004 11:56 AM
A group of eight companies, including Warner Bros Studios and Walt Disney, has announced plans to make available a content-management technology, called Advanced Access Content System (AACS), that would allow consumers to copy prerecorded digital content, such as videos, and share it with networked and portable devices. The AACS technology is being developed by the AACS LA to manage content stored on future generations of prerecorded and recordable optical media, the group said in a statement. The technology will let users make authorized copies and share content, including high-definition video, with home-networked devices, including PCs, and portable devices, it said.

Comic Book The Movie On DVD

Comic Book The Movie On DVD 01/28/2004 03:38 PM
Hamill fans, don't forget to pick up your copy of Comic Book The Movie, on sale now! Last week's premiere event in Hollywood was met with plenty of laughs before a near capacity crowd. The film takes a satirical look at the movie industries approach to the world of comic books, and is a sure fire hit with any comic book fan, as well as anyone that's attended a comic convention. Look for the movie at retail now, and be sure to check out our gallery from the CBTM big screen debut!

Squeak Group Buys Ship Naming Rights in
Gaiman Novel

Squeak Group Buys Ship Naming Rights in
Gaiman Novel 04/02/2005 01:23 PM

Comic Book the Movie: Tonight's The
Night

Comic Book the Movie: Tonight's The
Night 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
In the Los Angeles area and looking for a good time on a Wednesday night? Well, look no further...

Amazon Buys On-Demand Book Printer

Amazon Buys On-Demand Book Printer 04/04/2005 10:19 AM
Amazon.com announced Monday it has acquired BookSurge, an on-demand book printer that specializes in out-of-print and foreign language titles. BookSurge boasts a library with thousands of books that are printed to order and already available via Amazon. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Sony to Offer Movie Download

Sony to Offer Movie Download 04/04/2005 11:35 AM
TechTree Apr 4 2005 2:39PM GMT

Online retailer buys book-software
seller

Online retailer buys book-software
seller 04/16/2005 10:07 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sat Apr 16, 12:18 pm GMT

Dotphoto.com Buys Naming Rights to Roman
Coliseum Investment will Help Preserve
and Renovate Picturesque Structure

Dotphoto.com Buys Naming Rights to Roman
Coliseum Investment will Help Preserve
and Renovate Picturesque Structure 04/03/2005 04:00 AM
dotPhoto, Inc. today announced that it has purchased the naming rights for the Roman Coliseum. The company's investment will help to preserve and renovate the historic structure. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

Sony movie honcho must pay $825,000 for
enslaving his servant

Sony movie honcho must pay $825,000 for
enslaving his servant 09/06/2004 02:52 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: The Los Angeles County Superior Court ordered James J. Jackson, vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment, and his wife, Elizabeth, to pay $825,000 to 60-year-old Nena Ruiz, who says she was kept as an indentured servant in the couple's home.

[Ruiz claims she was] emotionally and physically abused and forced to work 18 hours a day at virtually no pay for a year ... she said that Elizabeth Jackson had frequently slapped her and pulled her hair.

During her year at the Jacksons' home, Ruiz said she slept in a sleeping bag on a "dog's bed" on the living room floor and ate days-old food, while she prepared fresh food for her employers' pets.

Link

Sony to unveil movie download service

Sony to unveil movie download service 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
TechSpot Apr 5 2005 8:37AM GMT

Sony VAIO Pocket: Interface Movie and
ATRAC Weirdness

Sony VAIO Pocket: Interface Movie and
ATRAC Weirdness 05/11/2004 10:33 AM
Two readers sent in two items about the VAIO Pocket: First, Greg Fulco sent a link to a non-interactive Flash movie that shines a little light on how the Pocket's touchpad works (it's not a touchscreen after all--those nodules on the right are touch-sensitive). Looks like a decent interface; certainly...

Sony Buys Warner Brothers' Matrix Game

Sony Buys Warner Brothers' Matrix Game 06/24/2005 03:02 PM
Three months after Warner Brothers Entertainment started Matrix Online, the company said that the game would be acquired by a rival, Sony Online Entertainment.

REVIEW: Sony E-Book a Revolution for
Eyes

REVIEW: Sony E-Book a Revolution for
Eyes 06/30/2004 10:50 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jul 1 2004 3:12AM GMT

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters)

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - A western German businessman who bought the rights to the official emblem of communist East Germany defended his move Tuesday, saying critics were jealous they hadn't thought of it before he did.

Add Address Book support for the Sony
Ericsson T630

Add Address Book support for the Sony
Ericsson T630 02/18/2004 12:04 PM
So I got one of those new fangled Sony Ericsson T630's... but when I tried the Bluetooth dialing and SMS features in Apple's Address Book.app, I was disappointed they didn't work. Well it turns out the fix is pretty easy and ...

Sony turning a big page with book-size
PlayStation

Sony turning a big page with book-size
PlayStation 09/22/2004 08:35 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Sep 22 2004 1:27PM GMT

Address Book and Sony Ericsson P900
compatibility

Address Book and Sony Ericsson P900
compatibility 05/04/2004 12:25 PM
I have summarized various hints for making Address Book as compatible as possible with the Sony Ericsson P900 (over Bluetooth) on this page Answering, dialling and hanging up calls are all possible, but please note that SMS ...

Clarke's pledge on vote fraud

Clarke's pledge on vote fraud 04/06/2005 09:58 AM
The home secretary vows everything will be done to prevent electoral fraud after a meeting with senior police.

Mixed reaction to Clarke's plan

Mixed reaction to Clarke's plan 07/08/2004 10:31 AM
Opposition politicians have attacked the government's plans for schools - but heads and teachers are more positive.

Sony plans to out-apple Apple with
online movie downloads

Sony plans to out-apple Apple with
online movie downloads 03/31/2005 05:18 PM
Sony plans to begin making some of its movie library available online. Will it catch on in the same way iTMS did with music?

Human Rights Campaign - Working for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Equal Rights

Human Rights Campaign - Working for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Equal Rights 05/18/2004 02:45 PM
The Human Rights Campaign .. Photos of the newlyweds .. HRC's newlyweds gallery .. these people .. Issue No. 1 .. equal sign .. for it .. HRC: .. HRC

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China's human rights practices coloured
by party congress: rights ...

China's human rights practices coloured
by party congress: rights ... 01/14/2003 04:17 AM
Access to the Internet search engine Google was blocked for days in September. Google is popular among China's 60 million Internet ...

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whini ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize that going to the movies is a social experience. It's not just about the content (though, that is important), but the overall experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go -- even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that story pointed to an article in China noting that this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done. After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience, putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature 10/31/2003 06:21 PM
InternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition 06/12/2004 12:32 PM

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
In MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers 02/13/2004 05:52 AM
One of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out - and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site, it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's pissing off retailers, who don't want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET

Sony to Shrink PlayStation 2 September
17 - 12:18 PM ET News in Brief | Sony
Computer Entertainment is set to

Sony to Shrink PlayStation 2 September
17 - 12:18 PM ET News in Brief | Sony
Computer Entertainment is set to 09/17/2004 12:34 PM
BetaNews Sep 17 2004 5:16PM GMT

Sony and MBNA Launch the SonyCard, the
Official Sony Credit Card in the
Republic Of Ireland

Sony and MBNA Launch the SonyCard, the
Official Sony Credit Card in the
Republic Of Ireland 07/15/2004 03:32 AM
Sony and MBNA Ireland today announces the launch of the SonyCard Credit Card (www.SonyCard.ie) in the Republic of Ireland. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]

New Sony Cybershots, HP Photosmarts,
Including Sony T3 (Rawr!)

New Sony Cybershots, HP Photosmarts,
Including Sony T3 (Rawr!) 08/30/2004 09:56 AM

Gott im Himmel, ze cameras! There have been like two dozen new cameras announced in the last few weeks as various manufacturers start ramping up for Christmas, and Sony and HP are no exception. Among the new Sonys announced today are two pocket-sized beauties that I want right now: the T3, an update to the T1 and Japan-only T11, a 5.1-megapixel camera that is Sony's thinnest at less than three-quarters of an inch; and the DSC-L1, a candy bar 4.1-megapixel unit that is only 3.75-inches long. Just when I was ready to buy a new camera Sony has to muck it all up with at least two that really do it for me. Oh, and there's also the new DSC-V3, a 7-megapixel unit that looks mighty fine, as well.

The HPs, well, they are okay, but I'll be honest, they don't get me all riled up as much as the two featherweight cameras from Sony do. If they fixed the middling image quality of the T1 in the T3, that may be my next sidearm. Living Room has a bunch of the press releases, and I'll add to this post if any more info comes through during the day.

Read - Sony Cybershot T3 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - Sony Cybershot DSC-L1 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - Sony Cybershot DSC-V3 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - HP Photosmart R607 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - HP Photosmart M407 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - HP Photosmart M307 [LivingRoomAU]
Read - Sony Shows Off New Low-End Digicam [PCWorld (Yahoo)]

Sony PSP Launch Photos from Sony Metreon
San Francisco

Sony PSP Launch Photos from Sony Metreon
San Francisco 03/26/2005 04:13 PM
Mobile Tech Review Mar 26 2005 6:33PM GMT

While Sony Tries To Become Apple,
Samsung Tries To Become Sony

While Sony Tries To Become Apple,
Samsung Tries To Become Sony 05/13/2004 03:41 AM
Has anyone noticed that it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell Samsung from Sony? It appears that almost everything Sony does, Samsung does as well. So, it's really no surprise that a little over a month after Sony announced plans to build out retail stores more for advertising than for sales, Samsung plans to do the same thing. Of course, while Sony says they're more interested in using the stores for advertising, Samsung has gone one step further. They believe so strongly that this "store" is just for advertising that they won't sell you anything at the store. It's for showcasing products only. Also, a random note in the article, but the same week that Sony and Nintendo announced their plans for their next generation handheld gaming devices, this article also mentions that Samsung is planning for its own N-Gage like phone/gaming device. Apparently, the dismal failure of the N-Gage isn't enough to scare them off.

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book 07/13/2004 03:49 PM
This NY Times piece compares Amazon.com with Napster. Huh? The odd logic is that used books sold online are cutting into sales of new books, which may or may not be true. But the Napster comparison is ludicrous for some obvious reasons, including the fact that an actual book is not a digitized song, and that if I'm holding a specific book you are not holding the same copy. The Times piece is about the "doctrine of first sale," which basically says that once a work is sold, it's gone from the creator's control. The purchaser of the item can resell it, give it away or throw it in the garbage, if that's what he wants to do. Copyright holders have never liked this very much, and I can sympathize. Visual artists who see escalating prices for works they sold at bargain when they were starting out tend to really not like this situation. But the doctrine of first sale is vastly better than the alternative. The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions technologies. The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist. And let's please not equate selling a used book with copyright infringement.

Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)

Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review) 11/18/2002 09:56 AM

A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg

A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
mash-ups are the future .. The Cuddly Menace .. More

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Grok Description matches for Sony Buys Movie Rights to Clarke's Book (AP)
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Shallow linking

Shallow linking 09/01/2004 07:28 PM
It was ironic to follow a link about Friendster's social networking lapse and stumble upon IDG's deep linking policy ...

Missing N.J. Woman Found in Shallow
Grave

Missing N.J. Woman Found in Shallow
Grave 12/05/2003 07:48 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 5 2003 7:09AM ET

Shiny Happy Soccer Moms or Shallow and
Solipsistic Feminism?

Shiny Happy Soccer Moms or Shallow and
Solipsistic Feminism? 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

As I'll be out and about for the next few weeks with spotty Internet access it seems as though it is time to turn over the blogging to others.  Here then is a guest submission from an anonymous-for-the-moment philosopher queen hailing from the beautiful farm country just north of the Mason-Dixon Line...

In October, the President’s Council on Bioethics (www.bioethics.gov) released a 400+ page report on biotechnology, entitled "Beyond Therapy." The report rings of Luddism, arguing that our unbridled pursuit of individual happiness in the form of "mood brighteners" (read: Prozac and other SSRI drugs) is turning us into a society of shallowness and solipsism. Psychiatry is transforming into "cosmetic psychopharmacology" (Peter Kramer’s phrase). If we find ourselves unable to mingle well at parties, or we tend toward melodrama thus irritating our companions, doctors now have a diagnosis for us that entitles us to a prescription for little green tablets that will remake us into more congenial and thereby socially rewarded selves. Melancholy is decidedly passé.

What the report misses is that 70% of SSRI prescriptions are written for women. Moreover, most advertisements for SSRIs feature shiny happy "soccer moms," better able to juggle the demands of work and family. Prozac, it seems, is really mother’s little helper, especially in a service-economy that relies on women participating in the work force. Kramer proposed that Prozac was a "feminist" drug, making women more assertive, less sensitive to rejection, and thereby far better employees in traditionally male-dominated fields (Lis tening to Prozac). Prozac makes women more like men.

So what’s wrong with this? After all, feminism fought to get us in the door. But, we didn’t realize we were still a bit too feminine to make it in the marketplace. Isn’t the President’s report just another case of male anxiety over women’s liberation? After all, feminism will have succeeded once women can be just as solipsistic and shallow as men, right?

[Editor's note:  We were watching Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades the other night (Herman starts off the opera by talking about how he is going to kill himself because he is in love with a woman whom he's never actually spoken to and finds out that she is engaged to a prince).  One of our friends remarked "These opera characters wouldn't have done any of this stuff if they'd had Prozac back then."]

Mission M-Cube 5.1 Speakers Reviewed
(Verdict: Shallow Bottom, But Unique)

Mission M-Cube 5.1 Speakers Reviewed
(Verdict: Shallow Bottom, But Unique) 04/04/2005 10:45 AM

I can't say I was familiar with 'NXT' technology, apparently the technique that made all those slick-looking but poor-sounding flat-panel speakers possible a few years back. It seems the technology itself can actually be used to make some pretty decent sounds—sound that can be heard from a variety of listening positions, instead of right in front of the speakers. Mission is using NXT in their new M-Cube 5.1 home theater system and as reviewing get pretty high marks, spreading sound throughout rooms in a way that "needs to be heard to be believed," according to the reviewer. They are pricey, though, at £1,200—nearly $2,250.

MISSION M-CUBE [MirrorUK via Tech-Digest]

Shallow Throat to Dems: "Time to Go for
the Jugular!" by Bernard Weiner -
Democratic Underground

Shallow Throat to Dems: "Time to Go for
the Jugular!" by Bernard Weiner -
Democratic Underground 04/23/2004 07:03 PM
Shallow Throat to Dems: "Time to Go for the Jugular"

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Under Ice Search Uses Multiple
Micro-ROVs - VideoRays Used in Unique
Shallow-water Search

Under Ice Search Uses Multiple
Micro-ROVs - VideoRays Used in Unique
Shallow-water Search 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
VideoRay announced today at Underwater Intervention the details of an unprecedented search using multiple VideoRay micro-ROVs in extreme conditions. [PRWEB Feb 15, 2005]

MCI Goes Deep With Wi-Fi

MCI Goes Deep With Wi-Fi 03/28/2005 12:44 PM
Company to increase hot-spot coverage; eye on voice support in future apps.

DBM-Deep-0.94

DBM-Deep-0.94 04/13/2004 11:37 PM

DBM-Deep-0.93

DBM-Deep-0.93 02/16/2004 05:05 AM

It Came From the Deep!

It Came From the Deep! 06/03/2004 02:06 AM
New York's Water Ain't Kosher! - You may be aware that shellfish are not kosher. It turns out that little, itty-bitty, microscopic shellfish called copepods are in New York's water. Brita to the rescue?

The Deep Web

The Deep Web 06/25/2004 05:44 AM
THE DEEP WEB
http://snipurl.com/78rr

Because search engines skim only the top layers of Web pages, they miss most of what's available on what is called the "deep Web," and there may be as many as 500 billion Web pages hidden from the view of most search engines. Paul Duguid, co-author of "The Social Life of Information," says: "Google searches an index at the first layers of any Web site it goes to, and as you delve beneath the surface, it starts to miss stuff. When you go deeper, the number of pages just becomes absolutely mind-boggling." Librarians are now working with Google and other search engines to solve that problem. Daniel Greenstein of the University of California's California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California notes: "If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool. It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves, which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool." (New York Times 21 Jun 2004)[NewsScan Daily, 21 June 2004] This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

DBM-Deep-0.92

DBM-Deep-0.92 02/13/2004 05:13 AM

DBM::Deep

DBM::Deep 02/13/2004 02:03 AM
DBM::Deep now on CPAN.org

DBM-Deep-0.10

DBM-Deep-0.10 02/12/2004 06:05 AM

DBM-Deep-0.91

DBM-Deep-0.91 02/12/2004 06:05 AM

DBM-Deep-0.9

DBM-Deep-0.9 02/10/2004 10:30 AM

Deep Navel 1.0

Deep Navel 1.0 04/22/2004 10:39 AM
Revamp and maintain your website’s organization on the fly.

LeapFrog's Deep Fog

LeapFrog's Deep Fog 04/22/2004 09:16 AM
LeapFrog has a bad quarter but sees greener lily pads in the future.

Test-Deep-0.086

Test-Deep-0.086 08/09/2004 12:39 AM

Test-Deep-0.087

Test-Deep-0.087 08/20/2004 06:02 PM

England dig deep

England dig deep 04/13/2004 06:30 PM
Andrew Flintoff's century puts England in decent shape to avoid defeat in the Antigua Test against West Indies.

Deep in the Closet

Deep in the Closet 03/14/2005 05:38 PM
I am proud to be an American. Having said that, there is a lot about my country I am also ashamed of. Perhaps a shining example of that shame would be one Senator Rick Santorum. That a shitstain like this could ever hold public office as high as he does is a travesty that does not reflect well on my country. Now, before you object to me calling the eminent gentleman a shitstain, well, I must inform you that I am being completely accurate in my choice of words according to the very serious, very scholarly, very staid American Dialect Society. I am, of course, referring to the literal definition of the word santorum. The ADS announced that this new word and its definition was one of its 2004 Words of the Year. Now, how this word came to be derived from the self-stated beliefs and political actions of the Senator himself segues nicely into a psychological point I want to make about flamingly homophobic men like Senator Rick Santorum. I firmly believe that some of the most ardent anti-homosexual proponents in this world are actually deeply closeted homosexuals themselves. So, plug your nose and let us toss the psychosexual and psychopolitical Santorum salad.

Test-Deep-0.082

Test-Deep-0.082 11/13/2003 07:38 PM

Deep Log Analyzer v2.1

Deep Log Analyzer v2.1 12/19/2004 03:44 PM
Deep Log Analyzer lets you analyze web site visitor behavior and get complete usage statistics. Know exactly where your customers come from, how they move through the site and where they leave it. [Shareware $300.00 25 Days 11.1 MB]

Test-Deep-0.02

Test-Deep-0.02 03/19/2003 10:24 PM

Sony Buys Movie Rights to Clarke's Book (AP)

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