John Mayer Room For Squares (Guitar TAB)

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We proudly present the guitar matching folio to acclaimed singer/songwriter John Mayer's major label debut. Includes a biography, photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab supervised by Mayer himself! 13 songs, including "Your Body Is a Wonderland," the Grammy winner for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and: Back to You * City Love * 83 * Great Indoors * Love Song for No One * My Stupid Mouth * Neon * No Such Thing * Not Myself * St. Patrick's Day * 3X5 * Why Georgia.

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Excellent transcriptions - just not for beginners.......2007-03-30

The good news is this book features strikingly accurate-sounding transcriptions. The bad new is this book features strikingly accurate-sounding transcriptions. Why the paradox? If you can play the songs as written, it sounds just like John Mayer. But the key word here is 'if'. I've never heard of most of the chords he uses on this album, nor have I ever seen them in any other song (and I've been playing for nearly ten years). His riffs are sickeningly complex, and his solos are no easier. After lots and lots of practice though, it can be accomplished, and it sounds great once it comes together.

Good, but critical elements missing.......2006-07-05

I had hoped to buy this Easy-Guitar Tab in hopes of finding out what chords John Mayer was using for his hit "No Such Thing."

The guitar tab was fine, but lacked Mayer's fundamental chord structure, by not supplying his chord changes when they are most needed. The guitar chords totally lack the head of the song, which to me is the signature element of the melody. In other songs, there is plentiful chord structure. Why does this tab book not include the chords for one of his most notable and play-worthy songs?

I can only say that the authors of this book were negligent and intentionally so. I was not satisfied with my purchase, and would caution anyone who intends to buy this book with the thought of finding "No Such Thing" detailed in the book, when it is not.

Good, just get the right one.......2006-02-21

Notice that there are 3 versions of this book - PVG, Easy Guitar, and Guitar TAB. Make sure you don't get the PVG if you are wanting to learn the guitar parts, as it does not have guitar tabs in it.

If only all musc books could be supervised by the artist.......2005-05-07

John's training at Berkley definetly shows thru his playing on this record. This album shows off his left hand's impressive understanding and manipulation of theory and how it applies to tone, and the over all sound of the music." Neon " is the best example of where John's real talent and ability lie: his right hand. His rythum skill and techniques are beautifuly portraied in that song and several other layers in the background of the other tracks. To play this album, and understand the theory he used to write the album will make a better guitarist.

Dead On.......2004-12-29

John Mayer's skill as a guitarist, unfortunately, is not completely conveyed through the songs on "Room For Squares". However, in order for some of these songs to sound like the versions on Room For Squares, you simply have to play and be able to play like John Mayer, which is in my opinion, a very under-rated guitarist. But I would advise anyone questioning purchasing this book to do so. If you can play half as well as John, you can play the songs on this album, and make them sound like the originals.

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TimesTalks - John Mayer
Pareles, John, Jon Mayer
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John Mayer Room For Squares (Bass edition)

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John Mayer Room For Squares (Bass edition)

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John Mayer-room For Squares

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Room for Squares
John Cscolm 85293 Mayer
Manufacturer: CBS/EPIC/WTG RECORDS
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From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen from one trauma to another, in a breathless tour of poverty, disease and death. First we're horrified, but each time they turn up the pitch, show us one image more hideous than the next, it gets harder and harder to feel. Meet compassion fatigue--a modern syndrome, Susan Moeller argues, that results from formulaic media coverage, sensationalized language and overly Americanized metaphors.

In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Moeller warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the media cover the world in the way that they do? Are they simply following the marketplace demand for tabloid-style international news? Or are they creating an audience that has seen too much--or too little--to care? Through a series of case studies of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"--disease, famine, death and war--Moeller investigates how newspapers, newsmagazines and television have covered international crises over the last two decades, identifying the ruts into which the media have fallen and revealing why.

Throughout, we hear from industry insiders who tell of the chilling effect of the mega-media mergers, the tyranny of the bottom-line hunt for profits, and the decline of the American attention span as they struggle to both tell and sell a story. But Moeller is insistent that the media need not, and should not, be run like any other business. The media have a special responsibility to the public, and when they abdicate this responsibility and the public lapses into a compassion fatigue stupor, we become a public at great danger to ourselves.

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Exposes the Media's Voyeuristic, Shock And Awe Tendencies.......2005-01-24

"At breakfast and at dinner, we can sharpen our own appetites with a plentiful dose of the pornography of war, genocide, destitution and disease." So says one of the first lines in introduction to Compassion Fatigue. With that statement as simultaneously an opener and a teaser of the things to come, Professor Moeller takes the reader on a guided tour of the presentation and commodification of human tragedy and suffering.

Compassion Fatigue tells you the how and the why behind what makes the nightly news, and also reveals why a great many other things do not make the news. While mostly a critique of US based media and journalism, it does reveal the gradual trend towards the 'One World' view of things and events that has come to typify reporting of any sort.

Without intending to do so, the book does much to demonstrate that the media, always locked in competition with other forms of 'programming' for our attention, has resorted to marketing information- current events, as a form of entertainment. In place of in-depth, investigative journalism, we now have soundbites featuring 'talking heads', and the cuter or more obscene the personality (and increasingly both), the better.

Each of the so-called 'Four Horsemen'- war, disease, famine and death, are presented and profiled in turn, with detailed discussion about the mechanics behind their delivery to readers and viewers. This book differs from most critiques of the media because it tells the narrative with the assistance of journalists themselves, in the words of the journalists.

Many people in the media know what they are doing is not only questionable, but in some cases, flat out wrong. However, marketability (how well something will go over with viewers) matters more than anything else. Marketability makes for high ratings, and high ratings in turn makes for fat profits for the parent company. Ergo, the trend towards to self-interested and self-centered journalism, and the tendency to feature celebrity involvement with current events. The latter trend is most pernicious, because it is not necessarily the event, but what they think of it that matters most, as being able to get people's attention is the most important thing, not what's really going on in the world. This in turn is both related to and feeds into the Body Count Syndrome, whereby each tragedy or documented depravity has to be bigger and obscence than the one before it, once again, to get our attention.

Although the book was a bit wearying at points (mostly because of the nine point font of the text), overall the content was top-notch. I especially liked the final chapter, where Professor Moeller compared and contrasted the funerals of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa, both of whom died at the same time. One was tabloid fodder, and the other dedicated her life to bringing a little joy to impoverished and suffering masses of humanity. Yet even in death, one managed to monopolize nearly all media attention for a month, while the other could barely get something less than a one page obituary (even here mostly devoted to how many dignitaries and personalities came to pay their final respects) in TIME magazine. That one observation says a lot about not only the morals and values of the media, but even more about those of us viewers.

The motto of the media should be changed to reflect the sorry state of our times, and should now be: all the news that's (un)fit to print.

Good read, but cliche conclusions.......2001-01-16

Moeller divides her book into six sections; an introduction, a section on media coverage of disease, a chapter on media coverage of famine, a chapter on coverage of assassinations, a chapter on coverage of genocide, and a conclusion. Each section if filled with case studies and alternately amusing and horrifying anecdotes; she recounts, for example, that the editor of one Boston paper said that "the distance from Boston common divided by the number of bodies" decides which stories make the final cut. The book makes a great read (especially relative to the bulk of academic writing), and you'll certainly pick up little tidbits you can later cite in conversations about current events.

The conclusions Moeller draws, however, are cliché. What do you know, the media disproportionately focuses on the US, and most of what we see of Africa and the Middle East is tragedy, so we get a skewed picture. And the media sensationalize everything, and are fond of shallow, sound-bite explanations of complex tragedies. Who would have guessed any of this without reading the book? I also find her conclusions somewhat contradictory; she argues both that excessive coverage of disasters leads to a hardening of the public's sympathies AND that the media need to increase coverage of foreign tragedies. I think she's arguing that the type of coverage needs to be changes - fewer pictures of starving children, more hard-boiled analysis, but her conclusion is so brief she doesn't elaborate much. So while you will probably enjoy the book, and love the stories, I doubt that when you have finished you will feel that you have a better understanding of the American media.

Profoundly important and a good read to boot........1999-02-10

Susan Moeller gets right to the heart of the weaknesses of how the American media covers foreign news and the way the American audience percieves it. But she doesn't just paint a picture of the problems -she spells out some constructive and doable means to fix them. As a journalist myself, I recommended this book to all of my peers -both in the industry and out of it.

The Perfect Holiday Gift.......1998-12-08

Tired of giving gifts that don't mean anything? Then this book is the perfect gift to give to someone you care about. This book teaches us that we need to look closely at what is being fed to us daily in newspapers, TV, and radio. Ms. Moeller forces us to look at how Americans wants their news served to us so we can tolerate it instead of tasting it and truly understanding the complexities. I applaud her bravery in criticizing the mainstream press which will certainly not be interested in reviewing or having her on as a guest. If you care about the world buy this book and give it to as many friends as you can.

This is a very important book........1998-10-12

Criticism of the American press -- broadcast and print -- for its foreign coverage is hardly new but Professor Moeller does a masterful job of exposing the causes and the result of this failure. Her work should open the public's eyes, and, indeed, those of the press itself, to the danger to our democracy if remedy is not forthcoming. -Walter Cronkite

Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death.

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Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death.
Susan D. Moeller
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Susan D. Moeller asks why international news has become tabloid in style and light on content - is this a response to audience demands, or does it create a particular sort of audience, one which has seen too much to care?

COMPASSION FATIGUE.(Review) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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COMPASSION FATIGUE.(Review) : An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Tom Goldstein
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on July 1, 1999. The length of the article is 727 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: COMPASSION FATIGUE.(Review)
Author: Tom Goldstein
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1999
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For Poker-Playing Bathroom Readers Only

A Friendly Game of Poker: 52 Takes on the Neighborhood Game

Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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ASIN: 1556525125

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Essays by a diverse group of writers capture the joys, regrets, friendships, philosophies, and adventures experienced through neighborhood poker. This collection of 52 original pieces features a section of practical and impractical tips for home poker games and a cornucopia of fascinating facts about poker paintings, poker movies, poker books, and other poker-themed masterpieces of popular culture. An interview with Edie Adams demonstrates Ernie Kovacs’s poker obsession; Nick Tosches reveals Lester Bangs as a sucker; Chris Ware illustrates Bert Williams’s “Darktown Poker Club”; Bill Zehme discusses Johnny Carson’s celebrity poker game; and Neal Pollack discloses how his grandfather brutally introduced him to the game. With far more humor and clarity than a formal poker guide, these essays encapsulate the experience of spending a long evening drinking beer and playing pasteboards.

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For Poker-Playing Bathroom Readers Only.......2003-09-20

My initial inclination was to say that this book is for that small minority of poker lovers with poor literary judgment, but I've decided that would be unduly harsh. It may have some tidbits of knowledge interesting to poker lovers, but most people will just not find the book a satisfying read. It's generally superficial, and yet too dry and boring for a fun bathroom read.

I purchased the book due to my interest in poker dogs; my book "Poker Dogs" is appearing in March 2004. While I wasn't sure of the book's contents, there is in fact a poker dogs chapter, "It's a Dog's World, According To Coolidge" by Moira F. Harris. This is an updated version of a little essay she wrote several years ago about the original poker-dog artist, and continues to contain serious errors. She continues to parrot the falsehood by the Brown & Bigelow calendar company that they owned Coolidge's original paintings. The information about Coolidge's work for cigar companies is also, I think, basically false. The idea that Coolidge was "well known as a painter of dogs prior to his affiliation with Brown & Bigelow" is ridiculous. There are other cavils I could offer, but I won't bore you. I told Ms. Harris years ago how Coolidge's calendars were not the 12-month calendars of today, and she repeats my information in the essay. If information about ripping off monthly sheets from a little pad fascinates you, this is for you. Mostly, the essay catalogues latter-day instances of poker dogs in a dry fashion. Not very intriguing.

Anyway, moving on from my speciality, the book overall is not very successful. Its portmanteau format, collecting works by various authors, strikes me as agent-driven, whipping up a book that has no reason for being. Using a few "names" to lure people to the book does not mean that their offerings are all that good. The cover mentions the cartoonist Chris Ware, and yet his only contribution is a drawing of the entertainer Bert Williams. Mr. Ware may be a great cartoonist and a superb designer, but this drawing looks to me like mere commercial art--Bert Williams drawn in the style of those fashion drawings that used to appear in department store ads, or in the style of those 1970s children's-book illustrations ...

And why does the cover credit Edie Adams--the actress?--with a contribution, when there is no indication inside the book that she actually contributed to the book? Is there some mention of her name inside the book that I missed, or did the cover designer just make a dumb mistake, misremembering the name of non-famous contributor Ashley Adams?

The editor of the book refers to the entertainer Bert Williams, whose lyrics appear in the book, as "little known today." That's like calling Caruso "little known today." Anyone who knows a little about the history of American popular music knows who Bert Williams was. And yet in the list of contributors at the back of the book the editor refers to writer Bill Zehme's magazine work as "renowned magazine journalism." Renowned? Respected, perhaps. But renowned? Come on. I think these small instances evidence the kind of sloppiness and superficiality that produced and pervade this book. ...

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Integrating case studies to show the object oriented approach to software engineering, Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering, 7/e presents an excellent introduction to software engineering fundamentals, covering both traditional and object-oriented techniques.

The coverage of both Agile processes and Open Source Software has been considerably expanded. In addition, the Osbert Oglesby running case study has been replaced with a new case study on the Martha Stockton Greengage Foundation. The new study highlights even more aspects of the Unified Process.

The book’s unique organization remains in place, with Part I covering underlying software engineering theory, and Part II presenting the more practical life cycle. Complementing this well-balanced approach is the straightforward, student-friendly writing style, through which difficult concepts are presented in a clear, understandable manner. The new seventh edition provides an extensive updating of this classic software engineering text!

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Good reference material.......2005-02-05

I had to buy this for my software engineering course at school, and I have found it very useful in explaining software design models and reqs and spec documentation. What I didn't expect were great anecdotes and the chapters on coding practices improved my code-writing skills more than any other source.

I also like the fact that the author strayed away from language-specifics, relying more on the theory and design than the actual impementation.

Great software engineering book, not aimed at programming.......2004-12-15

I took Professor Schach's course with the last edition of this book two years ago, and it has been very useful for me now that I work at a big corporation. It is a common misconception to think of it as a UML or OOP programming book, because many people confuse software engineering with the areas of software development and programming. They are quite different. This book is best aimed at programmers that want to understand the processes that exist for writing well-planned code in a large organizations. Think of this book as focusing on the overarching _process_ of writing software. This is especially important from the perspective of a project leader or a manager in a software company. It also offers important business perspectives for software development that you should be aware of. If you want to understand why your customers are unhappy with your results, why things are over budget, or why your project keeps missing deadlines, for example. There's alot more in there as well. I really liked it, and Schach knows what he's doing. He owns a software consulting company if I remember correctly.

Over Priced.......2003-09-18

My criticism of the book is not with its content. The content is fine for a text book. My criticism is on the price: $$?! The information is basic software engineering material found in numerous sources. The fundamentals that students need can be found in other texts just as well written and significantly more economical. If you are an instructor you may want to look at Pfleeger or even the Systems Analysis and Design book in the Cashman series.

Again, this is a respectable reference and text book - the price is too much to ask of students though!

Disappointing.......2003-03-13

I gave up on this book when I reached the extended example of object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. The analysis was ok; the design dropped a few elements without explanation, but was largely coherent.

The implementation was a nightmare. It looked like procedural C++, with practically no relationship to the analysis and design.

I think the book does a good job of conveying the time-tested key concepts behind software engineering. It should not be taken seriously as a discussion of object-oriented methodology.

Prescriptive book on traditional software engineering.......2002-12-08

Schach's Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering is a textbook in the traditional sense of the word. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, Introduction to Software Engineering, deals with software life-cycle models, teams, software engineering tools, and a few other general topics. The second part, The Phases of the Software Life Cycle, then takes a more detailed look at requirements, design, implementation, and so forth.

The book has undergone a number of revisions during its lifetime, and it shows. Schach discusses both structured and object-oriented methods, but the coverage isn't unified enough; the book feels like a quickly-made patch. I also wish that iterative development and agile methods had received more attention.

To make matters worse, Schach's writing style doesn't impress me much. Ineffective passive constructions abound and modifiers always are put before the verb, even if the sentence contains a modal verb or the verb is be. This actually gets annoying after a while! What's more, Scach's approach is very, very prescriptive, and at least I frequently found myself objecting vehemently to the advice presented.

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This text provides an introduction to the process of software engineering. The Universal Modeling Language (UML) has become an industry standard and now permeates this first edition. In this text, it is used for object-oriented analysis and design as well as when diagrams depict objects and their interrelationships. Design patterns, frameworks and software architecture have also become a popular topic in the field of software engineering and are part of a chapter on reuse, portability, and inoperability. The inoperabilty material includes sections on such hot topics as OLE, COM, and CORBA (you'll want to mention that this material is covered). THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SCHACH C++ AND JAVA BOOKS. These two books are completely identical in topic coverage, organization, and pedagogy. Even the pagingation of the two books is the same. While there is minimal computer code in either book, the difference is that where there is code, it is in C++ in one book and Java in the other. It is important to note that software engineering is independent of any specific programming language and your software engineering professors will likely emphasize this with you. But a specific language needs to be used to give examples and implement case studies -- these are done in C++ in one version and Java in the other.

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A book composed mainly of old paper thoughts.......2001-05-24

This book is one of the worst I have ever encountered in my seven-year CompE & CS academic history or in my six-year "real world" experience.

Most importantly, its first copyright date is 1990, and I don't think it had modern ideas then. Yet, in the fast-moving world of computers, he has neglected much networking, any mention of open source software, any mention of bazaar-style development, any depth of databases, thoughts of providing services, recognition of abstraction layers beyond machine code--source code--operating-system, any development of design patterns, and much UML and Java.

The code samples and anecdotes provide little insight to issues that modern computer engineers need to deal with. The writing is wordy without being precise or complete. The references are antiquated and unimportant. The questions demand only regurgitation, neither thinking nor reflection.

Weak on both UML and Java.......2001-01-05

The original version of the book was written in 1990 and despite the updated title and the notation 4th edition, there is much in this book that hasn't been updated. The UML aspect of the book is very weak and Java is given only a cursory treatment.

The (obviously) older material is well presented and well referenced as chapter end notes but newer topics such as Extreme Programming (Beck), Refactoring (Fowler), etc. are absent from discussion completely.

If you're looking for a good UML book try "UML Distilled" (Fowler) which provides a succint overview of the topic in considerably fewer pages. If you're looking for a book on Software Engineering there are several offerings which provide a solid, more current overview. This book attempts to do both and ends up doing neither.

The Best SE Book on the Market.......2000-03-31

I have been in the SE Industry for several years and have dealt with a wide variety of businesses and corporations. This book not only gives computer professionals a very solid foundation on the proper methodologies and processes but it is also an excellent tool for helping lay-persons understand how important these processes and methodologies are to the software life cycle. This book has become my most valued resource in my professional work.

Object & Java.......2000-01-03

I want to read this book on line .Because I am very much like to Object Oriented Books.

No Java.......1999-12-10

Do not be fooled by the title. No Java in this book. Pretty decent book for software engineering but has only about 2 pages of Java examples/code in it. If you are looking for a book on Software Engineering this may be the book for you but it is an absolute waste otherwise.

Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering with UML and Java

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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering with UML and Java
Stephen R. Schach
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Object Oriented and Classical Software Engineering (5th Edition)

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Object Oriented and Classical Software Engineering (5th Edition)
Stephen R. Schach
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Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering
Stephen R. Schach
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ASIN: B000SAKQ4C

Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering With Uml and C++

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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering With Uml and C++
Stephen R. Schach
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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering with Uml and Java + Code Warrior

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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering with Uml and Java + Code Warrior
Stephen R. Schach
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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Third Edition

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Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Third Edition
Stephen R. Schach
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Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering
Stephen R Schach
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering
Stephen Schach
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