Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Saturday, October 09, 2010
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7:34 PM
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7:29 PM
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![]() Is it us or does this proposed U. S. Courthouse annex in Salt Lake City look like a -- prison?
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7:26 PM
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We all know GEKKO KUDLOWS run the AHT world, so the only mystery is the MULTIPLIER. 5, 6, 7, 8 -- 20...GEKKO, you know anything about AHT? That's okay, you don't have to. The AHT world's denizens don't.
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7:22 PM
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5:36 PM
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 [?!?!?], A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, AIR GUITAR, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho ("The film takes a detailed look at the method behind the director�s [SIC!] most well-known film, as well as at his personal issues." He's not the only one.), ALIEN 5, a remake of All of Me [?], ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 3D, American Jesus (you know what THAT means), AMERICAN PIE 4, ANCHORMAN 2, Another B.S. Night in Suck City (we really shouldn't do these industry satires), Arrested Development (ditto), AUSTIN POWERS 4, AVATAR 2.... Twenty-five more letters of the alphabet to go. And numbers, too! Friday, October 08, 2010
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10:43 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!
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9:36 PM
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9:29 PM
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...the Devil's gift to China.
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9:04 PM
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8:35 PM
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What will the TEA PARTY think?
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7:21 PM
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I have no idea why news hacks can't be trusted. Do you? (Via TINA!!!!!)
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7:07 PM
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Praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaise GOD!
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6:55 PM
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What I'd pay to bring TV to the Internet -- zero.
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6:01 PM
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With, er, enemies like these....
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5:56 PM
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![]() How much did THAT cost us taxpayers, EDDIE?
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5:43 PM
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![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO PENELOPE!
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1:59 PM
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Let's hear people say that when they need somebody else. To their vast credit schools like Princeton and MIT have active ROTC programs, but that does not whiff away the stench from those that don't, for the usual ignominious reasons.
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1:56 PM
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11:05 AM
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10:51 AM
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10:48 AM
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Jersey Shore Poll: What Was Snooki's Funniest Moment? If enough media companies put their Web properties behind a WALL perhaps so many of us will give up on the Web that America can get back to normal again.
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10:19 AM
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The announcement provoked a furious reaction from Chinese authorities, who warned that the decision would hurt relations with Norway. Aw pipe down, Chinese. Just sell more goods from FOXCONN. We did not realize the winner was an imprisoned Chinese dissident, so maybe it wasn't that easy. We can only hope it has the same effect as, say, awarding Andrei Sakharov. Just one problem: the Soviet Union didn't have Walmart as a BFF. Thursday, October 07, 2010
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1:15 PM
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16,311 WORDS !!!!!!!!!! THAT'S 2,973 WORDS MORE THAN LAST YEAR! This game may not be OVERTLY fixed, but the presence of so many words suggests it may be COVERTLY fixed. And the straws announcing the game are MADE IN CHINA.
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11:01 AM
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He has the money.
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10:40 AM
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It's very tough to monetize communities that rely on traffic generated from search (one-third of HuffPo's total) and one-off referrals, such as those from Facebook. Advertisers care deeply about page views--the number of times a visitor views a complete page--and HuffPo's lately haven't kept pace with the doubling of comments on its site. Since May monthly page views have flatlined at roughly 450 million. That trend discourages advertisers, and suggests problems with the types of visitors to the site and the caliber of its content, which isn't pulling people through an increasing number of pages. Its executives like to tout the site's "high-quality content"--which strains credibility given the preponderance of celebrity bloggers and Friends of Arianna. Perhaps in an effort to achieve premium status, HuffPo recently hired high-profile reporters from the New York Times and Newsweek. Lots of HuffPo's news pages come from and link to third-party stories from traditional outlets. Former Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. slammed sites like HuffPo as "parasites living off journalism produced by others." He attributed HuffPo's success to its appeal to partisan political prejudices and headlines about "titillating gossip and sex." (One wag says it's more like a frat club than a debate club.) Downie may be right about gossip and sex. Recent headlines on HuffPo's entertainment page: "Watch Naked Heidi Klum in Seal's New Video" and "Bridget Moynahan Dating McG?" OR: Whatever the outcome, no one can quite envision a HuffPo without its founder. TRANSLATION: The whole ball of wax melts when the Huff leaves.
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10:13 AM
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They're finally coming to their senses?
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10:07 AM
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Oksana Grigorieva: Mel Gibson Needs Help
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10:01 AM
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![]() Peeeeeeeeeeeeeee-EW!
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9:44 AM
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Who knew? It figures, by the way, he owns a horse farm, no further comment. (Via HENRY HONEST!)
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8:46 AM
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Now on to the FLOTILLA! Wednesday, October 06, 2010
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6:17 PM
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Are you saying, Victor, that those two BFFs of con-SER-va-tives, big business and the hyperrich, are actively boycotting His Omnipotence -- and that the boycott will end when the Democratic majority ends? We will not repeat THE MASTER's line about patriotism, but we must paraphrase ourselves and say any big business that boycotts the public gives itself carte blanche to commit treason.
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5:55 PM
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We would say Branson East is trying to export its Audio-Animatronics but the movee biz exported first.
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5:33 PM
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[W]e've always had consumer culture and junk food R&D and sales. But somewhere along the line, it got huge. Innovation meant patenting variations on potato chips and their bags. We stopped fixing bridges and dams and pipelines -- and started turning out ever more complex variations on things that we already have and that work just damn fine. But perhaps realizing that we expend massive resources developing chip bags with just the right sound is a good thing. The silliness of the enterprise is the sort of thing that could symbolize why we need to do something different. And then we can, as Silicon Valley luminary Tim O'Reilly likes to say, "work on stuff that matters."
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10:48 AM
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Now for Philip Roth (Pffffffffffffffft!) and the FLOTILLA!
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10:18 AM
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9:29 AM
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(Via MediaBistro)
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9:00 AM
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GEKKO! DOW 150 GIGAHEXAMEGAHYPERZILLION!!!!!!!!!!
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8:48 AM
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Or maybe the Casino finally got the word that HONORARY MAYOR MIKE WILL BE THE NEXT TREASURY SECRETARY!!!!!!!!!! Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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9:40 PM
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![]() A bank? A school? a doctor's office? A "drive-through restaurant"? ![]() Aside from looking like the dream of a man who wants to keep all the sunlight out, this building is made of Cor-Ten steel. See that little out line of rust on the sidewalk? Imagine what this will look like in twenty years!
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7:55 PM
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6:57 PM
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Hewlett-Packard Board Is `Somewhat Dysfunctional,' Welch Says
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5:18 PM
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2:34 PM
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P. S. On 10/30/2010 at 4:16 p. m. The day after this story the theater's owners filed for bankruptcy, meaning most likely the only music echoing in that hall for some time will be the footsteps of mice scampering.
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1:35 PM
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They must REALLY be handing out the venture capital money there! (Via The Cute Little Pink Paper)
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11:36 AM
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This is why people are angry at our superiors, and why the only way to get back at them is to throw the bums out -- and somehow their tax-money-burning schemes still flourish.
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11:25 AM
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And but for the peer pressure and concerted marketing of news hacks at Super Bowl time who wants to see TV commercials period?
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10:35 AM
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Which is perhaps why these Tea Party candidates have avoided BIGMEDIA.
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9:33 AM
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Though packed with shiny Shavian dialogue and robustly drawn social archetypes, [Mrs. Warren's Profession] can easily register as an animated debate between two sides, sparked by Vivie’s discovery of the source of her mother’s income. Me, fourteen months ago, on Terry Teachout's AH-pe-RA: As Vietnam and Wall Street demonstrate credentials will not inoculate people from their incompetence. But then critics may be beyond creative work because their knowledge of nuts and bolts robs them of inspiration. (We do not exclude Shaw, whose plays are often little more than glorified debates.) Well, I'm not always wrong -- I hope.
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9:28 AM
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8:18 AM
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Who wins the Literature Prize? And who can top His Omnipotence? We still think they'll give the award to the FLOTILLA. Monday, October 04, 2010
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5:59 PM
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And in further evidence the state press is doing its job: NEW HIGH COURT ERA: KAGAN MAKES 3 WOMEN ON BENCH!!!!!!!!!! (New-era overemphasis added) And she's recusing herself from half the cases (we must sheepishly admit in the second graf) -- but this is MORE important! (Yes, I know, that story's a NewsMAX!!!!! but who else will run it?)
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3:05 PM
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PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!
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12:09 PM
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11:49 AM
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(Via MediaBistro)
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10:48 AM
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![]() FORE! (Okay, he won his match.)
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10:22 AM
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P. S. For the first time in at least five years, not a single new show has cracked the top 10 either among total viewers or the advertising-friendly demographic of adults aged 18 to 49, according to the Nielsen Co. Ditto. As is customary, poor marketing has been cited as a factor in the demise of some new shows.... But there may be a simpler explanation: The new shows just aren't that good. TRANSLATION: Snipes and CRITICAL ACCLAIM have their limits.
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9:59 AM
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MIDTERM ELECTION ROUT COULD SEND MARTS SOARING!!!!! [Soaring overemphasis added] To which we say, either 1. At these prices the Wall Street Casino's factored that in or 2. That should end when BANEHEAD struggles.
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9:48 AM
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9:36 AM
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Let them eat bounced checks! In addition to Conyers, 11 out of 30 candidates for Congress had marks on their driving record that included 19 speeding tickets, four citations and three suspensions. No wonder they drive in limos!
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9:32 AM
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True or not, where “The Social Network” misses the point is that it is ostensibly about the greatest communications revolution since moveable [SIC] type. And yet viewers come away with no sense of how Facebook users actually do communicate. And so what was supposed to be a zeitgeist movie is, instead, a vehicle for elite Hollywood’s talents to blithely, if unwittingly, demonstrate how out-of-touch they are with what’s going on out there. Out of touch, Wax? You SURE? But we will say when a hack like the Wax refers to "the greatest communications revolution since moveable [SIC] type" we must keep our eyes peeled behind our backs.
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9:22 AM
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Just because you commissioned a few "CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED" "HITS" watched by maybe two million does not add brain cells.
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9:12 AM
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8:21 AM
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
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7:25 PM
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![]() 1. Stuck with its equity building name, PEOPLE WARNER CABLE is changing its logo, removing the last vestiges of a funeral director and SYNERGY. When Steve Ross (Steve Who?) devised this eye 'n' ear for his squooshed-together media monster PEOPLE WARNER back in 1990 the scribblers at TIME INC.!!!!!!!!!! fumed because they thought it was relegating them to the newly merged company's basement -- why, hadn't their patented sycophancy made the wedding possible? But he'd spent a small fortune on a prime-time ABC show touting the world-saving benefits of the merger, a precursor of the world saving of the late GERRY LEVIN, and he no doubt spent another small fortune on the logo, so it had to go someplace, and it eventually wound up with the cable unit. Now that the cable unit's split from PEOPLE WARNER there's no further need for Steve Who or his fictions. 2. And speaking of SYNERGY, there's no need for CABLE NUISANCE NETWORK to worry where its next meal will come from, so long as it can steal from the cupboards of its turnips, and further convince the generous sugar daddies there's a place for irrelevance in the news, and though all the cable news nuisances fight daily to be irrelevant for now it is no contest.
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5:24 PM
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I will say Windows 7 is a darned sight better than XP. I can't get used, however, to the permanent ClearType, much of which looks washed-out even on a monitor like an ASUS VH236H; and I'm annoyed I can't play my rigged Monopoly CD game because the BUGMEISTERS banished 16-bit from the premises (though the disc includes a 32-bit version); nor can I play Solitaire because they added so many play-slowing bells and whistles, and to use the old version you have to go into XP mode. Now to get a DSLR, and a new pair of computer speakers. P. S. on 10/4/2010 at 8:32 a. m. Evidently enough people object to ClearType that it's possible to rid it, but if I know the BUGMEISTERS ridding it doesn't work quite properly.
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5:16 PM
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![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO "NPR STAFF"! (CLUNKclunk CLUNKclunk CLUNKclunk CLUNKclunk)
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