How about some Windows Cyan for October?

We all know Verizon's network is awesome! AT&T seems to be beating you to the critical gotta-have updates for flagship devices, though! We know you love us Windows phone users, how about just an official word from someone at Verizon that you won't forget about us loyal customers and will show us some Cortana love? That way, we can continue to spread the word about just how awesome Verizon is, and maybe, just maybe, you'll be take that first prize from Brand Key's Customer Loyalty Engagement Index in 2015!
Thanks in advance for your prompt and courteous reply!
P.S. - An awesome and from-the-heart reply would build a whole lot of loyalty!

At this point, I just don't understand why Verizon even carries WindowsPhone. There are many anecdotes about people being steered away from the phones in the store. That was certainly my experience, and I ended up ordering online just to avoid the salespeople trying to push me from it.
What is also mystifying is why does Verizon have exclusives on these phones (Icon and even M8)? Is there some strange deal between MSFT and Verizon that involves other factors? Like maybe with 177,000 employees they've negotiated a deal for enterprise licenses for desktops and servers and as part of that they are "forced" to carry WP, and the Nokia "flagship" in particular?
I don't get why MSFT would let Verizon take this awesome flagship phone, the Icon, and make a mockery of it. And vice versa, if it really is MSFT dragging their feet, why wouldn't Verizon be up in arms saying "hey guys you're screwing up our exclusive?" The radio silence makes it feel like nobody gives a crap, and that's just strange.

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How About Some Standard Standards For Keyword Hierarchy?

After reading Wolf Eilers post in the "Respect Keyword Hierarchy when importing" thread, I tried his example and exported a RAW file with the "Outdoor>Landscape" example he gave and then re-imported the jpeg. It came back in with Landscape as the parent of Outdoor, that is backwards from what I intended. Go figure.
If LR respects ">" as indicating a parent-child relationship between keywords it is fine with me. However, Microsoft decided to use "/" because there is apparently no XMP standard for keyword hierarchies. Wouldn't it be nice if Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple too got together and set a defacto standard for keyword hierarchies. As it is now, I can create a keyword "Outdoor/Landscape" in LR and have it appear in Vista Photo Gallery with Landscape as a child of Outdoor. However, if re-imported into LR it comes in as "Outdoor/Landscape". Can't we just all get along?

Absolutely no. A completely pointless exercise. As there can be no standard for such a thing. As people have so many, very different ways of filing things. It like suggesting that we all use the same folder tree for filing on our computers. Our relationship to keywords and their meaning will change.
Take Brad Pitt, would you put him under Actor, celebrity or relative. His mum would file him under Son/Family.
What about places. I use UK, Europe, Asia, Africa...as top level domains. Now someone who lives in Japan would have Japan as home and the UK as Europe/UK. Some people may like to file musical acts by city of origin, others by genre, neither is wrong and both are correct for the right person. Being able to do both would be even better.
You just design a heirachy that suits yourself. Adobe just has to find a way of respecting that and allowing you to transfer that heirarchy intact between apps.
Someone else posted this example of heirachy. Which will work well for some, but not for others. Plus, in context of what you ask, remember everyone's family structure is different so how can you possibly have a 'standard' heirachy.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=98612897&size=o
In your example above, I wouldn't use Outdoor and Landscape as Landscape. As for my filing I simply do not have an inside and outside category. I probably wouldn't even have a landscape category either, I would file them under location in a heirachical tree like UK/Wales/West Glamorgan/Gower/Rhosilli/Headland. I may add Landscape as a key word, but would not use it as a category as the heirachy tree above makes more sense to me as I can remember where things are.
I also file everthing by date in my OS as I can remember when I took things reasonably well and that ensures I have a coherent filing system onto which I can apply a database.

How about some New Forums for JSC?

I read somewhere that the JSC forum is Sun's highest activity forum. The trouble is, there's a lot of information mixed together.
Would it be possible to create several forums (or subforums) for JSC? Here's some I'd suggest:
Help: newbie requests for JSC help (like how do I create a datatable)
Problems: place to ask for help with technical problems, like DB connectivity, use with a given server, installation problems, etc.
Bugs: Bugs, deficiencies and workarounds
Examples/Solutions: place to show nifty tricks that have been found, or how to do something complicated.
Suggestions: Suggestions for the JSC team
General: Other stuff not covered above.
IMHO, breaking the forum into these logical groups would make the forum much more useful. Perhaps the categories above aren't perfect or complete. However, something in this direction would be good.

In a perfect world, the topics would be sorted into forums. However, these could be left in general, and start with the new categories empty. At least new discussion would be more organized.
It would also be extremely helpful to move old, obsolete topics to somewhere else, or delete them. I don't now how many times I've begun reading a post only to find it applies to an earlier version of creator, and since then the bug, problem or whatever has been fixed anyway.

How about some help Apple?

I can't use my CD Burner since I downloaded the new i-Tunes version 6.0 and I'm getting frustrated like so many other people on this forum. How about some help Apple?
Dell 4600 Dimension Windows XP Pentium 4

No reply back from Apple I see. Well I have a Dell technician coming to my house this afternoon to try to figure this out. Hopefully he can come up with something... Joey
Dell 4600 Dimension Windows XP Pentium 4

How about some more samsung products in the auctions ? I really don't want to bid on those crappy ipads. How about a better mix of product lines or at least some of your "new" digital coupons geared towards Samsung products????

How about some more Samsung products in the auctions ? I really don't want to bid on those crappy ipads.
How about a better mix of product lines or at least some of your "new" digital coupons geared towards Samsung products????

How about some more Samsung products in the auctions ? I really don't want to bid on those crappy ipads.
How about a better mix of product lines or at least some of your "new" digital coupons geared towards Samsung products????

How to install Window service for Managed Servers of a Cluster

Dear All,
          I am preparing a production setup consist of three machines A,B and C. Machines A is the Admin Server which hosts a cluster consist of two managed nodes. I intend to schedule both these nodes, targeted to two different machines (machines B node-b and machine C host node-c), as startup task on daily basis. I have no Node Manager running on machine A, but on machine B and machine C.
          I am only interested to schedule started task for node-b and node-c only. I need to know how to install the Windows services for the node-b and node-c since there are targeted on remote machines. Starting managed server as Win sevice works in the case of standalone managed servers but not sure when it comes to cluster setup.I appreciate if you can throw some light on this question.
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          Kris

Krish,
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          If you require an automatic restart when the managed server did not enter a failed state you can use the weblogic.Admin utility to ping the servers and kick off a server startup in the normal way with nodemanger see:
          http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/admin_ref/cli.html
          http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/adminguide/confignodemgr.html
          If your servers entered a failed state you can use weblogics self health monitoring.
          >Can we use JMX MBean to start managed servers ?
          Yes.
          As long as the nodemanagers are running you can start the managed servers using scripted commands using the weblogic.Admin class or your own java app using JMX.
          I think you may also be able to use WLST
          http://dev.bea.com/codelibrary/code/wlst.jsp
          hope this helps
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How to buy windows 7 for macbook air?

Hello everyone,
I want to finally buy and install windows 7 Home premium 32-bit or 64-bit so badly but i don't see the way of doing it.
Since my Macbook air 13" (mid 2012.)" doesn't have a CD slot i guess i have to buy it online and download it, but i don't see that option on microsoft windows site. I just see the option for buying a Windows 7 CD...
So please someone tell me how to buy this OS for installing on Macbook air 13"?
If i can use Windows 7 CD and install it on macbook air, how do i do it? What am i supposed to do with that CD, when i don't have CD slot?

I found the answer on my own again.
Just need to buy USB SuperDrive and that's it.

How to disable Windows Sharing -- for real

To move files between my Mac and PC I used Windows Sharing on my MacBook Pro. It works like a charm.
To enable I go to System Preferences >> Sharing, check the "Windows Sharing" box, press the "Start" button, and enable Windows Sharing for my OS X user account.
I can then just type my Mac's IP into Windows Explorer on my XP box and voila, full access to my Mac home directory (after typing in my username and password, of course).
When I'm done I disable WS by performing the activation steps in reverse, and OS X happily says "Windows Sharing Off." However, I find that even though it's off I can still access my Mac from XP. In fact, I'm not even prompted for my password again.
How do I really turn off Windows Sharing in 10.4.8? Neither my XP box nor my Mac get restarted often, so if my XP box (the weaker link) was compromised, I don't like knowing that my Mac could be reached so easily with full control.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Strange, but I'd start of by verifying Permissions with Disk Utility, and if that didn't work I'd try Trashing...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Users/nnnnLibrary/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
Reboot and set everything up again.
And/Or, get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, boot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.

How about some flash for the ipad

I have read many posts on flash and apples ios. All parties have valid points. I am a student and am very interested in the capability of using digital books. Unfortunately most of these are in flash. I have been very pleased with my ipad but I must say, without the choice of being able to use flash it is no more than just a toy. I believe if apple wants to be serious about their touch devises being implemented outside of games and something to be used to just pass the time they need to at least allow the customer to decide if they would like to sacrifice power on the device in order to expand the capabilities. It is a shame that these issues cannot be resolved to benefit the customer.

It's been rehashed sooooo many times:
The problem wasn't with Apple. Adobe could never get a version that worked well in iOS.
Adobe has since stated that they are stopping development of Flash for ALL mobile platforms.
So we won't be seeing Flash on any iOS device.

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How about some recent observations from a user who completed an update to iOS 5.0.1 on their iPhone 4 on Nov. 10, 2011?

1) Battery was fully charged after update, and just under 6 hours later with no owner interaction (sleeping), the battery level was down to 9%.
2) Discovered on the Usage screen, that both usage and standby were exactly the same at just under 6 hours. (How was the phone in use when I was sleeping?)
3) Both iCloud Backup, Location Services, Automatic Time/Date setting, and Bluetooth were all turned off, and WiFi was enabled, an Alarm was set, but no apps were open or running.
I grabbed screenshots of the Usage and About screens if those would be helpful.
Any idea on how to resolve this battery drain issue?
Prior to the update, my battery was lasting almost 3 days on standby running iOS 5 with iCloud Backup, Locations Services, Automatic Time/Date setting, and Bluetooth turned off. Thank you for your support, time and attention.

Yes, I would upgrade, you will just fine. After you upgrade, you will see some new things. not sure what you have now, but you'll be alright.

How about some high speed help, from these AMD 64s

Hi Guys
2 things
First there is a Folding Team called MSI HQ Red Rockets, organised by RexB,
You can see how we are doing here
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=37766
As it is from Stamford Univ, and is for Medical Research, it is a good cause. Some teams have 500+ members, we have 23 as of now, please join, it will test your machines speed and show what we can do. The link to the page on the forum is under ' anything under the sun', at the top there is a sticky ' User MSI Projects'
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=52015&sid=
you can download the folding prog and start right away, for info or help just post a question, all welcome.
2nd thing Tiresmoke as Competition Manager, is running a poll on his latest comp for best desktop background, why not give a bit of support by voting for you favorite, even mine, and then entering the next comp. Voting finishes tomorrow.
T/S puts a lot of work in, show him its appereciated.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=54215&sid=
forgot to add above link
Thanks guys
Jocko

VOTING FINISHES AT 12:00 Midnight US TIME. in the desktp comp
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How to run Windows update for Win XP SP3 using Firefox

My desktop PC is running windows XP with SP3. My spouse uses IE 8 for her browser. I use Firefox Version 24. for my browser. Previously, whenever we ran MS or Windows update it starts IE and runs fine. IE 8 has blown up and no longer works (Runtime Errors). I tried to go to the Windows update website using Firefox and it came back and told me that I had to use IE to run Win update on an XP system. Is this true? I don't want to use IE at all. Is there a way to use Firefox to run Windows or MS update on my Win XP system? Thank you.

Thanks for your help. That is not what I wanted to hear so I will have to try to get IE 8 working again. How do other folks do updates? Does this mean that IE is absolutely necessary to maintain your windows system? Is this true for the newer versions of Windows, 7 or 8?

How about some easy (any) customer service like a # to call or a button to click?

I'm having an issue and can't check out my order (over the evening - multiple tries). That's just the immediate issue - and so done with all the others. Previously tried the iPhone app and could never log in over a week so deleted it after reading it was a common issue (from BB support on the forums here).  Couldn't use my "BestBuy Elite" account credentials to access posting on the forums so had to create a separate forum account. :/ It takes repeated searching to find how to even express any satisfaction/dissatisfaction let alone impossible to find a way to contact anyone other than forums (well, other than physically walking in to a store). I'd say customer service is rather lacking.
Anyway, trying to check out my cart and it keeps kicking back with no error message, pop up, alert, whatever, to the same page and asking for all the same information again. Yes, I've tried multiple computers and browsers/browser versions. If it's going to be this hard to give you my money, forget it. I'll gladly pay more somewhere else where I can actually get an order through or more importantly a quick means to customer service when I'm having an issue. I understand technical issues but that's where customer support comes in. Seems a lot of issues and little of support.
Don't bother with a follow up. I'm done. and expect this to be deleted shortly since "one" unhappy customer can easily be considered the cost of doing business if they're getting everyone elses money.
(yes, this can be considered a 'rage quit'. Easy to do when so many others can offer the same products with better service and same or better prices - even higher prices are worth it if the service is there)

Hello lzrdfrt,
There seem to be multiple issues all wrapped into one with a side order of confusion. Online ordering should be smooth and hassle-free, and it seems like it has been everything but. When something goes wrong, you are right in that we should be there to support you 24/7 to ensure we fix what’s going wrong. I’m sorry that you’ve been unable to reach us regarding this, and I want to provide you with the support you need.
We have many avenues in which you may reach out to us listed on our Contact Us page. This page lists our phone number, email address, forum pages, and our Facebook page along with our Twitter handle. It also includes self-help sections that answer most questions. While you are not looking for follow up, I do want to try and sort out the many issues you mention one by one to make sure that your concerns are addressed.
1)      iPhone App: I’m not too sure why you ran into problems, but there was a new update to this application made available on February 12th of this year that corrected some minor issues and has some additional improvements. As it is a free app, I might suggest downloading it and give it another try.
2)      Best Buy Elite: You are right in that you can’t use the same credentials for your My Best Buy account for your forum account. We are aware that many Best Buy accounts for different programs can make things confusing, but we are working on this. Just recently, we combined our BestBuy.com and our My Best Buy programs to work with one account.
3)      Cart Not Working: This one is a little harder to give a concrete answer to. Usually, the only time an item may be added to a cart is if it’s available online. If the item goes out of stock, we try and update our website as soon as possible. You may have attempted to add an item to your cart that was out of stock, but not showing its correct status as it changed during your viewing of the item. However, without seeing it happen or knowing what item you were looking to purchase, I can’t let you know for certain. What were you attempting to purchase?
I realize that you are looking for a place to express your dissatisfaction, and this is one of the many great places to do this. We do try our best to address all concerns that come our way, as we realize there are areas in need of improvement. Thank you for letting us know of your experiences as your feedback is vital for us to know if we are heading in the right direction.
If you have any questions or further concerns, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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How about some specs on the Audigy/X-fi J1 hea

Many cases out there come with two front-panel audio jacks. One for headphones, and the other for the microphone. The Audigy and X-fi include a header (referred to as J) for OEMs to connect these. Information on using this jack is provided to large OEM's like Dell. However, Creative is a little hesitant tp help with the highly experienced mod community.Anyways, lets start with information on the passi've AC97 front-panel dongles that come with most cases. These are expected to be used with the onboard AC97 audio on your motherboard.Here is your typical NC (Normally Closed), switching type, 3 conductor (ring-tip-sleeve) mini-phone jack. This is the type of jack used on most front panels:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/typical.jpg">The connection to the sleeve is the rectangle on the left. The upper line with the notch is the connection to the ring, and the lower line with the notch is the connection to the tip. The jack also has two normally closed switches that connect to the contacts themselves. Wiring connections are illustrated with white circles. In a typical front panel setup, two of these are soldered onto a PCB with a header. Wires attached to this header are then run to the appropriate connections on your motherboards on-board audio.Now lets look at how an AC97 front panel headphone jack works:<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fphp.jpg">
As you can see the switches in the jack are normally closed... So the signal passes from your motherboard, up the wire, into the headphone jack, back through the wire, into your motherboard. When a jack is plugged in, the switches are open, breaking the signal back to your motherboard.Now... I have to mention some ugliness. Some case manufacturers (*cough* Coolermaster, *cough* Silverstone) do something like this on the wires that connect to the motherboard:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/cooler.jpg">
This will result in your backpanel outputs (in other words, your speakers) continuing to receive a signal while you have headphones hooked up. Note that sometimes this is also accomplished with some trickery on the front panel dongle PCB.Here is how an AC97 microphone jack is expected to be wired:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fphp2.jpg">
I haven't looked into the details of the microphone jack as much, but this is what you will see.Next I will go into Creatives J header. Here is the confirmed pin-out for the J header:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fpoem.jpg">Note this is how the header is mounted on the card:<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/audigyj.jpg">
Pin 3, the headphone detection pin, is of particular interest. When this is switched to ground your back-panel connected will mute. These are the descriptions for the other pins floating around on the net, however I am not able to confirm their accuracy yet:
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr>
#5 Back-panel Mute -- short to ground
#7 key pin (shouldn't be there)#9 MIC IN MUTE -- ground when mic isn't plugged in, +2VDC when mic is plugged in#0 Audio cable detect -- will be ground when headphones are plugged in[/quote]
Pin 3 mutes all the speakers from my tests, however despite the the descriptions of others... grounding pin 5 appears to do nothing... not even mute the back microphone.Pin 9 doesn't appear to mute the microphone either. I am thinking if this pin gives 2V when the microphone is plugged in, that it is intended for optional analog circuits present on some panels (Microphone volume for instance). The AC97 spec provides a 5V pin for this, although no one seems to use it. I don't have the equipment handy on me to investigate further.Now... backtracking a bit here... if you read my previous post, you should see connecting the signal returns on your AC97 front-panel headphone jack to the headphone detection pin (#3) is a useless exercise. This pin is expecting to be grounded when the headphones are present.Essentially for the headphones Creative is requiring OEM's use this sort of jack:<IMG height=343 src="http://www.jve.com/images/bettaj.jpg" width=47>
This jack has a switch which is normally open. When a plug is inserted the switch closes. This kind of jack is purchasable from Foxconn and is present on the rare Intel HD Audio front panel dongles.... so they are available. (Intel HD Audio front panels are a whole different discussion, and have no direct relation to the J header.)Onto a few other things.... There was some talk of the microphone front-panel jack being mute without something in the back-panel mic jack. I however found the microphone front-panel jack did work, however the signal sounded a bit poorer. I did not investigate further.
It is understood that AC97 front-panel dongles are of limited use with the J header. However modders and prefectionists like myself ARE capable of building a frontpanel that fully complies with the requirements of the J header. The smaller pins on the header are already sufficient to keep any newbie that may damage his card, far away.
Will Creative please save us some time and reveal specifications for the J header? I already know what most of the pins do.Message Edited by twistedemotions on 09-20-2005 2:50 PM

Many cases out there come with two front-panel audio jacks. One for headphones, and the other for the microphone. The Audigy and X-fi include a header (referred to as J) for OEMs to connect these. Information on using this jack is provided to large OEM's like Dell. However, Creative is a little hesitant tp help with the highly experienced mod community.Anyways, lets start with information on the passi've AC97 front-panel dongles that come with most cases. These are expected to be used with the onboard AC97 audio on your motherboard.Here is your typical NC (Normally Closed), switching type, 3 conductor (ring-tip-sleeve) mini-phone jack. This is the type of jack used on most front panels:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/typical.jpg">The connection to the sleeve is the rectangle on the left. The upper line with the notch is the connection to the ring, and the lower line with the notch is the connection to the tip. The jack also has two normally closed switches that connect to the contacts themselves. Wiring connections are illustrated with white circles. In a typical front panel setup, two of these are soldered onto a PCB with a header. Wires attached to this header are then run to the appropriate connections on your motherboards on-board audio.Now lets look at how an AC97 front panel headphone jack works:<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fphp.jpg">
As you can see the switches in the jack are normally closed... So the signal passes from your motherboard, up the wire, into the headphone jack, back through the wire, into your motherboard. When a jack is plugged in, the switches are open, breaking the signal back to your motherboard.Now... I have to mention some ugliness. Some case manufacturers (*cough* Coolermaster, *cough* Silverstone) do something like this on the wires that connect to the motherboard:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/cooler.jpg">
This will result in your backpanel outputs (in other words, your speakers) continuing to receive a signal while you have headphones hooked up. Note that sometimes this is also accomplished with some trickery on the front panel dongle PCB.Here is how an AC97 microphone jack is expected to be wired:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fphp2.jpg">
I haven't looked into the details of the microphone jack as much, but this is what you will see.Next I will go into Creatives J header. Here is the confirmed pin-out for the J header:
<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/fpoem.jpg">Note this is how the header is mounted on the card:<IMG src="http://www.jve.com/images/audigyj.jpg">
Pin 3, the headphone detection pin, is of particular interest. When this is switched to ground your back-panel connected will mute. These are the descriptions for the other pins floating around on the net, however I am not able to confirm their accuracy yet:
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr>
#5 Back-panel Mute -- short to ground
#7 key pin (shouldn't be there)#9 MIC IN MUTE -- ground when mic isn't plugged in, +2VDC when mic is plugged in#0 Audio cable detect -- will be ground when headphones are plugged in[/quote]
Pin 3 mutes all the speakers from my tests, however despite the the descriptions of others... grounding pin 5 appears to do nothing... not even mute the back microphone.Pin 9 doesn't appear to mute the microphone either. I am thinking if this pin gives 2V when the microphone is plugged in, that it is intended for optional analog circuits present on some panels (Microphone volume for instance). The AC97 spec provides a 5V pin for this, although no one seems to use it. I don't have the equipment handy on me to investigate further.Now... backtracking a bit here... if you read my previous post, you should see connecting the signal returns on your AC97 front-panel headphone jack to the headphone detection pin (#3) is a useless exercise. This pin is expecting to be grounded when the headphones are present.Essentially for the headphones Creative is requiring OEM's use this sort of jack:<IMG height=343 src="http://www.jve.com/images/bettaj.jpg" width=47>
This jack has a switch which is normally open. When a plug is inserted the switch closes. This kind of jack is purchasable from Foxconn and is present on the rare Intel HD Audio front panel dongles.... so they are available. (Intel HD Audio front panels are a whole different discussion, and have no direct relation to the J header.)Onto a few other things.... There was some talk of the microphone front-panel jack being mute without something in the back-panel mic jack. I however found the microphone front-panel jack did work, however the signal sounded a bit poorer. I did not investigate further.
It is understood that AC97 front-panel dongles are of limited use with the J header. However modders and prefectionists like myself ARE capable of building a frontpanel that fully complies with the requirements of the J header. The smaller pins on the header are already sufficient to keep any newbie that may damage his card, far away.
Will Creative please save us some time and reveal specifications for the J header? I already know what most of the pins do.Message Edited by twistedemotions on 09-20-2005 2:50 PM

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