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<description>SGB Media Group was formed in 2006 by music industry pundit Steve &#x201C;Dude&#x201D; Barr after 10 years in the musical instrument wholesale, distribution and retail industry as well as print media having been published in &#x201C;Bassics&#x201D; and &#x201C;Vintage Guitar Magazine&#x201D; and serving as the Associate Editor and Acting Editor In Chief of &#x201C;Bass Frontiers Magazine&#x201D; and was also a contributing writer to &#x201C;The Vintage Guitar Price Guide&#x201D;. He was also published as a live performance photographer with some of his photos appearing in numerous magazines and manufacturer catalogs such as Fender, Ludwig, Lakland and Jackson and many artist websites. His Vintage Bass Trading Company website was one of the first online only retailers to hit the scene in the late 1990&#x2019;s and gain full recognition and membership by The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and he was also an early eBay Powerseller&#x3C;BR&#x3E;&#x3C;BR&#x3E;Prior to his career in the music industry he served as the Founder, President and CEO of American Residential Appraisers based in Los Angeles with many branch offices located through out the Southwest region as well as acted as the Operations Manager at his family&#x2019;s Sable Ridge Vineyards. He is a multiple gold medal winning winemaker having produced some the world&#x27;s most renowned Petite Syrah&#x27;s, and Red Zinfandels in Sonoma County, CA. SGB Media Group is the parent, administrative arm of a consortium of smaller internet based companies serving narrowly defined, demographically targeted, market segments via several business models including affiliate marketing portal websites, blogs, e-zines, virtual malls, direct to consumer shopping carts, discussion boards &#x26;amp; online forums and eBay stores. His &#x22;Dude Pit&#x22; online forum for bass guitar players has been receiving over 3 million visits per month since early 2001 and is now in it&#x2019;s third incarnation. &#x3C;BR&#x3E;&#x3C;BR&#x3E;Steve is a founder, sole owner and Executive Producer of The School of Bass located in Scottsdale, AZ and has designed three critically acclaimed limited edition series basses manufactured by Lakland Basses in Chicago, IL and is currently working on a coffee table book of a private collection with over 1,200 rare and vintage guitars and basses which will be the first hardcover book published by SGB Media Group scheduled for printing in the fall of 2008. Barr is also an industry leader in the affiliate marketing industry and maintains an advertiser client base of over 750 of the world&#x27;s leading corporations through his Premium Value Club and Net Values Club channel networks and he is the host and moderator of &#x201C;The Affiliate Marketing Forum&#x201D; syndicated on The Fast Pitch Network and author and publisher of the syndicated weekly &#x201C;Affiliate Marketing Publishers Report&#x201D; as well as the &#x201C;Net Media Report&#x201D; covering major online media events, and news stories. He is an approved publ;isher for most of the major affiliate management companies such as Commission Junction, DoubleClick/Performics, LinkShare, Kolimbo, ShareASale, Shopzilla, Amazon and ShareResults. He publishes over a dozen other weekly syndicated blogs and is in the formation stages of publishing the bass guitar e-zine &#x22;Distant Thunder&#x22; and the human sexuality e-zine &#x201C;Erotomania&#x201D; both slotted to debut in early 2008. SGB Media Group is based in Phoenix, AZ and will serve as the central publishing arm for all books, newsletters, blogs, print and &#x26;amp; video ads for the consortium as well as independently owned publications. &#x3C;BR&#x3E;&#x3C;BR&#x3E;SGB Media&#x27;s Marketing &#x26;amp; Production Division can handle all your event planning, merchandising, branding, internet domain registration, website design and maintenance, setup and maintain discussion boards, social media marketing, affiliate marketing, organize and direct street teams, issue press releases, liaison with local print and broadcast media, venue management, backline rentals, ground transportation, security, legal and accounting services, catering, video production, site location and procurement luxury accommodations and transportation. Having always aggressively seeking out philanthropic and community based initiatives most especially in the medical research and music education fields, Steve continues to expand these endevors and is an avid activist with the Family Caregivers Alliance lobbying tirelessly for legislative reform in this rapidly growing segment of our daily culture. The subject matter is close to his heart as he has been the sole caregiver to both of his elderly and infirm parents since 2002 and he writes and publishes &#x201C;A Caregiver&#x2019;s Silence&#x201D; syndicated blog. He also has been heavily involved in local, state and federal level political campaigns in the late 70&#x2019;s and 80&#x2019;s in New York State and during the early 90&#x2019;s in California and is currently active in one 2008 US Congressional and one Presidential election campaigns and is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC). Barr also writes and publishes the syndicated blog The Transpartisan Times and is a proponent of and political commentator on the Transpartisanship movement which recognizes the existence and validity of many points of view, and advocates a constructive dialogue aimed at arriving at creative, integrated, and therefore, breakthrough solutions that meet the needs of all present. In practice, transpartisan solutions emerge out of a public conversation that moves beyond polarization. In this way it is possible to achieve the ideal of a democratic republic by integrating the values of a democracy -- freedom, equality, and a regard for the common good, with the values of a republic -- order, responsibility and security. </description>
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<description>I&#x27;m currently reading &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham&#x22;&#x3E;W. Somerset Maugham&#x27;s &#x3C;/a&#x3E;&#x22;The Razor&#x27;s Edge&#x22; again for the first time in probably about 30 years and finding myself identifying greatly with both the young protagonist &#x22;Larry&#x22; as well as the older, wordly yet disingeuine &#x22;Elliott Templeton&#x22; as if I&#x27;m Larry trapped in Elliott&#x27;s life. My life right now; while on a truly positive track for the first time in 38 years, if ever, is continually hampered and haunted by the past in very real and profound ways on a daily basis; the specifics of which are ancillary to the core of the conundrum I find myself in.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;It just seems that with every step I take in a positive direction I am pulled back two or more steps as the result of some misstep(s) of my past life and the situation is frustrating at the very least and at times quite maddening in cause and effect. At first and even second glance it would seem that I will be stuck in this situation for the rest of my life and that I will never be able to climb out of the karmic hole I&#x27;ve...</description>
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<title>The cock crows thrice and other tests....</title>
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<description>I&#x27;m in a very strange, almost surreal space right now and I feel as if something is testing me hard and around every corner. It&#x27;s as if my moral character is on trial and in the witness stand and it&#x27;s being cross examined by a very contemptuous and crafty prosecutor who&#x27;s throwing 100 mph curveballs directly at my head in rapid succession. I also feel that it&#x27;s no coincidence that my confirmation name within the Roman-Catholic faith of my childhood is Peter, first of the twelve apostles who was later to deny Jesus three times before the cock crowed three times before dawn.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Without going into great specific details I&#x27;ll just touch upon a series of events that occured yesterday that have me wrestling with myself over moral issues. The first of which is that I discovered through some investigative legwork of a friend who it was that burglarized my home twice this month and stole several laptops, what&#x27;s left of my guitar collection as well as some treasured and irreplaceable family heirloom...</description>
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<title>Violation &#x26;amp; Solitude</title>
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<description>It&#x27;s Valentine&#x27;s Day and since my last post my home was burglarized twice and that&#x27;s never happened to me before and it has left me wanting very little to do with people and I find myself in a very solitary mode and withdrawing from socialization more and more with each passing day. The violation of coming home to finding my back window smashed out and muddy footprints on my pillow and much treasured, irreplaceable personal items missing has been devastating. This little house down here and the few things that I have left to show for my 50 years on Earth mean so very much more than merely &#x22;possessions&#x22; to me....I lost most of my &#x22;possessions&#x22; many years ago and every single thing that I have left, which, is not much are treasures to me and the thief stole things like my son&#x27;s first guitar that was a gift from a very dear friend of mine and my last bass that was a gift to me from another friend that was the last icon from my decade in the music industry, my grandfather&#x27;s pocket watch an...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:46:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>The clock just struck twelve....</title>
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<description>...and with that I just crossed the 6 month hurdle mark on this trip I&#x27;ve been on drug free for the first time in 38 years of living hell. I don&#x27;t know where this path will will lead me down the road, all I know is that so far this has been one hell of an adventure filled with &#x22;highs&#x22; so much higher than I ever got from using and that&#x27;s no bullshit. Look, if there ever was any addict out there that stuck it out through thick and thin it&#x27;s me. I took it past the divorces, bankruptcy, lost careers, jails, rehabs, halfway houses, being robbed, beaten, shot at and stabbed to the very brink of insanity and death many, many times in my life. I have been legally declared as being &#x22;unrehabilitatable&#x22; and I am here to say that there is no such thing and that I am living testament to that it is indeed possible for anyone to:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;1) To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;2) To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;3) To reinstate the good name of.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;4) To r...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:14:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Real seeker is not concerned about the goal...OSHO</title>
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<description>Don&#x27;t be worried whether you will be able to make it in this life or not. Once you have started flowing, you have already made it. Every river is constantly moving to be the ocean. The problem is only with those who have become ponds, closed, not open to flow, having forgotten that this is not their destiny, this is death.  To be a pond is to commit suicide, because there is no growth anymore, no new spaces, no new experiences, no new skies -- just the old pond, rotting in itself, becoming more and more muddy. To be a seeker means dropping this static state and becoming a changing, moving, flowing river.It does not matter when you reach the ocean. The beginning is the end. The whole beauty is in the beginning, because once you have started moving, the end, falling into the ocean, is absolutely determined. The beginning was in your hands; it was your freedom, hence the beauty of the beginning. Falling into the ocean will be tremendously ecstatic, but it is not in your hands. What was in...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:19:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Affilliate Summit West 2009 - Las Vegas</title>
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<description>I&#x27;m off to cover &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://www.affiliatesummit.com/&#x22;&#x3E;Affiliate Summit West 2009&#x3C;/a&#x3E; in Las Vegas which starts at Noon tomorrow through the end of Tuesday. Although I&#x27;ve now been in affiliate marketing industry for three years full-time, this will be my first time at an Affiliate Summit so I&#x27;m very excited about attending and reporting back to you all my experiences and latest news daily and of course, as per usual, I&#x27;ll be posting a ton of pic from the event since Shawn Collins was kind enough to grant me a full media press pass to the event!&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Event info:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Sunday, January 11, 2009 - Tuesday, January 13, 2009&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Rio All-Suite Hotel &#x26;amp;amp; Casino&#x3C;br /&#x3E;3700 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Affiliate Summit West is the largest Affiliate Summit, the premier affiliate marketing conference, of the year. This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts. The keynote speaker for M...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:36:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>I&#x27;m off to cover &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://www.affiliatesummit.com/&#x22;&#x3E;Affiliate Summit West 2009&#x3C;/a&#x3E; in Las Vegas which starts at Noon tomorrow through the end of Tuesday. Although I&#x27;ve now been in affiliate marketing industry for three years full-time, this will be my first time at an Affiliate Summit so I&#x27;m very excited about attending and reporting back to you all my experiences and latest news daily and of course, as per usual, I&#x27;ll be posting a ton of pic from the event since Shawn Collins was kind enough to grant me a full media press pass to the event!&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Event info:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Sunday, January 11, 2009 - Tuesday, January 13, 2009&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Rio All-Suite Hotel &#x26;amp;amp; Casino&#x3C;br /&#x3E;3700 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Affiliate Summit West is the largest Affiliate Summit, the premier affiliate marketing conference, of the year. This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts. The keynote speaker for M...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:06:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Hole in My Soul</title>
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<description>I just sent this note in reply to a dear friend who asked me how my day was yesterday with the hope that it was a good day: I had a &#x22;different&#x22; day yesterday, not sure I&#x27;d call it &#x22;good&#x22; necessarily and likewise not sure I&#x27;d call it &#x22;bad&#x22;, it was a very emotionally raw, instrospective day like most of my days as of late. At one point last night I found myself slumped down in the doorway between my kitchen and studio frozen, sitting on the floor, unable to move, unable to cry, unable to focus and I remained just sitting on the floor in that doorway for what seemed to be an eternity but it was close to an hour I&#x27;d say.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;I wouldn&#x27;t classify it as depression, I wouldn&#x27;t classify it as lonliness, I wouldn&#x27;t classify it as sadness but more rather a combination of the three. It was a feeling I&#x27;ve come to know quite well in these past five months, a feeling I&#x27;ve had all my life at times....it is the &#x22;hole&#x22;, the hole within myself that I have previously filled with my addictions in order to not t...</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:46:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>So, I managed to escape the suffocating existence out one the edge of civilization and traded it in for what I have come to call the &#x22;Urban Abode&#x22; down on Roosevelt Row in the heart of downtown Phoenix and I&#x27;ve now just about got it arranged for what I have begun to call &#x22;The Winter of my Content&#x22; as a play on Steinbeck&#x27;s novel. In his &#x22;Winter of Our Discontent&#x22; Steinbeck&#x27;s character, Ethan Allen Hawley, works as a clerk in a grocery store he used to own. His wife and children resent their lowly social and economic position, and don&#x27;t put any value in the high levels of honesty and integrity that Ethan struggles to maintain in a corrupt society. Under this constant pressure, Hawley will eventually manage to get back the store by renouncing his morals, but the new-found wealth will not bring happiness. &#x3C;p align=&#x22;justify&#x22;&#x3E;I have set about to do the opposite of poor schnook Ethan in many ways by rejecting my former lifestyle in all ways, first with cleaning up my multitudes of addictions with substances, ga...</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:28:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>It was in the winter of my fiftieth yearWhen it hit meI was really aloneAnd there wasn&#x27;t a hell a lot of time leftEvery laugh and touch that I could getBecame more importantStrangely, I became more bookishAnd my home and study meant more to meAs I considered the circumstances of my deathI wanted to find a balance between joy and dignityOn my way outAbove all, I didn&#x27;t want to take any more shitNot from anybody Iggy Pop</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:14:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:51:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Some thoughts from Sufi Green</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:25:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:06:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Dirty Toolbar Practices: Scott Jangro&#x2019;s informative series on how toolbars cheat | ReveNews</title>
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<description>Day 124 and I survived my ass falling off on Thanksgiving by picking it up, dusting it off, putting it in a paper bag and taking it to an NA meeting then going to McCormick and Schmick&#x27;s with my sponsor for two &#x22;single guy Thanksgiving specials&#x22; and washed it down with a big glass of milk and all was well with my world as I know it once again. Then I spent yesterday afternoon meeting with some fellow members of my new 501(c)(3) non-profit expressive art therapy project down on Roosevelt Row looking at buildings and coming up with a target area of where we want to be located. Then in the late afternoon I met up for coffee with a gal pal of mine who wound up going with me to my weekly alumni group meeting out at &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://thesundancecenter.com/&#x22;&#x3E;The Sundance Center&#x3C;/a&#x3E;. Afterwards we went out for matching his and her crocks of French onion soup at Mimi&#x27;s Cafe the out to the &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://elchorrolodge.com/&#x22;&#x3E;El Chorro Lodge&#x3C;/a&#x3E; for coffee and a little slow dancing on the patio under the stars which was quite a nice way to spend Black Friday.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;I must admit that it w...</description>
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<title>Social Networking Services Growing, Advertising Not So Much</title>
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<description>The use of social networking sites will continue to grow, but advertising will not necessarily expand along with it, according to market research firm IDC. &#x3C;br /&#x3E;Framingham, Mass.-based IDC says in a new study that social networks will face slow ad sales until they can get users to do more than just keep up with friends. That&#x27;s because members of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo tend to click on ads less than the U.S. Internet users overall. &#x3C;br /&#x3E;Nearly 80% of all U.S. Web users clicked on at least one ad in the past year, compared to only 57% of online social network users. The higher click-through rate for the general Internet population also led to a higher proportion of purchases--23% to 11%. &#x3C;br /&#x3E;Why the difference? &#x22;The fact that people use social networking services for communication puts them in a mindset that is less receptive to advertising than when they&#x27;re using other Web sites like Yahoo or Google,&#x22; said Karsten Weide, program director for digital media and entertainment...</description>
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<title>My ass fell off today....</title>
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<description>Today is 121 days clean for me and it&#x27;s been a very hard day for me since it&#x27;s also the 6th anniversary of the day I brought my Pop home from the hospital after his stroke and began my journey as his caregiver and the first Thankgiving without being by his side on this special day as he lies in a hospice in Upstate NY and I sit alone in little furnished studio on the edge of the open desert feeling sorry for myself most of the day unable to get my skinny ass out of bed or stop crying until 5:00 this afternoon until I got a text message from my sponsor, Mike N. to write a list of 10 things that I was thankful for today so I am going to get in the shower, shave and drag my ass to the 7:00 NA meeting at the N. Scottsdale Fellowship after I write and share that list here with you:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;I am thankful for:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;1) Being 121 days clean, alive, and unicarcerated.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;2) Having a roof over my head and food in my fridge.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;3) Having a new source of of subsistence level income from my hard negotiated contract with H...</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:59:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Do you use Google Alerts?</title>
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<description>One of the best resources I use to filter my online news is by setting up Google News alerts on various topics. You can set them up with any keyword(s) you want. I find it an invaluable tool and highly recommend that everyone sets them up. If you want to learn more about how to set up your own alerts go &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&#x22;&#x3E;here&#x3C;/a&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Once setup you can get a daily digest of news alerts pertaining to any topic you wish and you get abbreviated news stories with clickable links to be able to read further on any story in the digest. I find it far more useful than Twitter because I really don&#x27;t need to know what you had for breakfast or that your dog barfed on your pillow.&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Here&#x27;s my Google news alert from today for &#x22;affliate marketing&#x22; which I read every day:&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;br /&#x3E;Google News Alert for: affiliate marketing&#x3C;br /&#x3E;&#x3C;a style=&#x22;COLOR: blue;&#x22; href=&#x22;http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=80728&#x22; target=&#x22;_blank&#x22; rel=&#x22;nofollow&#x22;&#x3E;A2 Hosting Increases Affiliate Program Payout to $100/Sale&#x3C;/a&#x3E;WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USAA2 Hosting&#x2019;s affiliate software also offers 24/7 real-time tracking where affiliates can see statistics pertaining to clicks...</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:05:00 -0000</pubDate>
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