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Favoriting June 2, 2013: Blueprint of a Promise

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Kool and the Gang  Electric Frog Part I and II   Favoriting Music Is the Message  De-Lite  1972  LP      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Billy Garner Band  Brand New Girl   Favoriting The Detroit Funk Vaults: Funk & Soul from Dave Hamilton 1968-1979  BGP/Ace  2012  CD      0:09:07 (Pop-up)
Roy Porter Sound Machine  Funky Twitch   Favoriting The Story of Roy Porter Sound Machine 1971-1975  Tramp  2012  CD      0:12:26 (Pop-up)
The Meters  It Ain't No Use   Favoriting Rejuvenation  Sundazed  2000  CD  From 1974    0:16:58 (Pop-up)
Shelton Kilby  Poor Wayfaring Stranger   Favoriting Apocryphal Hymns  The Numero Group  2013  CD  From 1973  *   0:28:51 (Pop-up)
 
The Scientists  Another Sunday   Favoriting The Scientists  Agitated  2013  LP  From 1981  *   0:39:09 (Pop-up)
Shoes  Do I Get So Shy   Favoriting One in Versailles  The Numero Group  2013  LP  From 1974  *   0:42:13 (Pop-up)
The Teardrop Explodes  ...and The Fighting Takes Over   Favoriting Wilder  Mercury  1981  LP      0:47:07 (Pop-up)
Dump  Grasshopper   Favoriting The Silent Treatment  Grapefruit  2013  LP    *   0:50:29 (Pop-up)
The Mighty Lemon Drops  Splash #One (Now I'm Home)   Favoriting Out of Hand  Sire  1987  EP      0:53:46 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood  Dark in My Heart   Favoriting Lee Hazlewoodism - Its Cause and Cure  Water  2007  CD      0:58:05 (Pop-up)
Roger Miller  The Animal of Man   Favoriting Dear Folks Sorry I Haven't Written Lately  Columbia  1973  LP      0:59:55 (Pop-up)
Read Miller  The Blueprint of a Promise (excerpt)   Favoriting   Cold Blue  1981  EP      1:02:45 (Pop-up)
Rascal Reporters  The Dancing Duchess   Favoriting Out Demos Out! Tony Coulter's 2013 Marathon Premium  WFMU  2013  CD-R  From 1980  *   1:09:33 (Pop-up)
Yvonne Elliman  Can't Find My Way Home   Favoriting Cover Girls 2: Scott Williams' 2009 Marathon Premium  WFMU  2009  CD-R  From 1974 or so    1:14:01 (Pop-up)
Emily  Born Again   Favoriting Emily  RPM  2013  CD  From 1972  *   1:17:13 (Pop-up)
Spider  Alice in Wonderland   Favoriting Labyrinths  Capitol  1972  LP      1:19:57 (Pop-up)
Hydro Electric Streetcar  High Memory   Favoriting The Cool-Aid Benefit Album  Lion Productions  2011  LP  From 1970 Vancouver    1:23:06 (Pop-up)
 
 
Single File: a bunch of 45s all in a row, just because
Paley Brothers  Your'e the Best   Favoriting   Sire  1978  45      1:33:00 (Pop-up)
Nick Lowe  My Heart Hurts   Favoriting   F-Beat  1982  45      1:35:54 (Pop-up)
Bay City Rollers  Shang-A-Lang   Favoriting   Bell  1974  45      1:38:20 (Pop-up)
The Del-Vikings  Flat Tire   Favoriting   Mercury  1958  45      1:41:22 (Pop-up)
Machito and His Orchestra  Baby I Love You   Favoriting   RCA-Victor  1968  45      1:43:44 (Pop-up)
Billy Harner  She's Almost You   Favoriting   Open  1969  45      1:46:17 (Pop-up)
Gypsy  Changes Coming   Favoriting   United Artists  1971  45      1:48:54 (Pop-up)
Sandie Shaw  Anyone Who Had a Heart   Favoriting   Virgin  1982  45  "Presented by the British Electric Foundation"    1:52:32 (Pop-up)
The Trammps  That's Where the Happy People Go   Favoriting   Atlantic  1975  45      1:55:40 (Pop-up)
 
Peals  Floating Leaf   Favoriting Walking Field  Thrill Jockey  2013  CD    *   2:12:15 (Pop-up)
Queens  Keep It   Favoriting End Times  Dial  2013  CD    *   2:19:37 (Pop-up)
James Blackshaw and Lubomyr Melnyk  Tascheter   Favoriting The Watchers  Important  2013  CD    *   2:26:11 (Pop-up)
Pat Martino  Both Sides Now   Favoriting Consciousness  Muse  1975  LP      2:37:51 (Pop-up)
Jozef Van Wissem  Where You Lived and What You Lived For   Favoriting Nihil Obstat  Important  2013  CD    *   2:40:01 (Pop-up)
William Tyler  Hotel Catatonia   Favoriting Impossible Truth  Merge  2013  CD    *   2:50:47 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 12:07am
amEdeo:

I thought the aliens were gone, but then they came back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07am
Andrew Waterloo:

Wow, I just got nostalgic for the first time I brought Pulp Fusion comp home.
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12539:

Joe, I'm so glad your show is moving to a time when I won't fall asleep after Single File.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12am
Joe McG:

Thanks, 12539. It'll be nice to do a show where I don't fall asleep after Single File myself! I'm not exactly a night owl by nature.
Avatar 12:13am
Holly in NC:

Greetings & lamentations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unlike lucky 12539, I will likely never hear Joe live again :-(
Happy for you Joe, miserable for myself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14am
Joe McG:

Oh, no, Holly, I'm going to miss you terribly.
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12539:

Holly, no schedule is permanent, so you never know. But for your sake I hope you can schedule archive listening around the times your housemate isn't hogging the bandwidth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17am
Joe McG:

12539 makes a very valid point. Who knows where we'll end up? I might not be peppy enough for the mornings. Time will tell.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18am
davex:

Love the set, Joe. Good to hear you'll be in a slot better suited to you!
Avatar 12:19am
Holly in NC:

Oh, fortunately I can (& will) download Joe's shows to phone so housemate not an impediment to enjoying Joe's fine musical selections - but still, it's not the same without the interaction. Will miss ALL friends :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20am
Joe McG:

Hey, davex! We'll see! I'm used to the laid-back Saturday nights, so we'll see how I adapt to the different vibe of a workday morning.
Avatar 12:21am
fleep:

Yeah Joe, you'll be the Morning Guy! Traffic and weather, zany phone calls, funny voices ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22am
Andrew Waterloo:

Yah, if you do it right you'll get a subservient female co-host
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23am
Joe McG:

Yeah, I'm totally going to go for the Morning Zoo thing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24am
Joe McG:

Actually, doing the traffic and weather sounds like a great idea. "And on the BQE, we have a 15 minute delay into the tunnel..."
Avatar 12:24am
Holly in NC:

btw Meters are PERFECT right now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24am
davex:

Hey, just keep doing your own thing and you'll be fine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26am
Joe McG:

Man, listen to Ziggy on the drums!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28am
Joe McG:

@Andrew: I have to find me one!
Avatar 12:31am
Holly in NC:

I was hoping someone would feature Ziggy on Dave M's drummer special, but alas, he was not. Featured.
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12539:

Wasn't there talk of two more drum specials, one on EFD's slot and one on Irwin's?
Avatar 12:32am
steve:

yow! that was some serious funk
Avatar 12:32am
fleep:

They plan two more drummer specials so don't alas just yet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32am
Joe McG:

@Holly: Well, those guys like drummers in their favorite genres, which makes sense. Give me a funky drummer any day.
Avatar 12:36am
steve:

am i correct that Brand New Girl has been Fabio's talkover music as of late?
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12539:

Steve, that sounds right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42am
Joe McG:

I think you're right, Steve! I didn't make the connection.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:45am
Ike:

This has always seemed like a 9 a.m. to 12 noon program to me, so this scheduling makes 200% of all of the sense. I have trouble processing this show in this slot. Bryce used to be in this slot a long time ago. It's a very Bryce timing of nighting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46am
Tome:

..love the funk,,,brooklyn memories early 70's,, before disco mostly killed it ,,, beegees had to make it "white" just like Elvis ,,, 20 years before that,,,
  12:47am
Richard from Venezuela:

Hello Joe and all the listeners.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48am
Joe McG:

@Ike: I miss Bryce at night myself, but I've gotten used to him on Fridays and now I like him there a lot. Hey, Richard and Tome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51am
Ike:

Yes yes, agreed, Joe re: Bryce on Fri. afternoons. That was just an example. Or something.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53am
Joe McG:

I've had a lot of people tell me this show would sound better in the daytime. I hope they're right, ha ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54am
davex:

And for us out here in more "exotic" time zones, you are all on at different times, anyway!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55am
Joe McG:

Where are you, davex?
Avatar 12:55am
fleep:

Single File will be the wake up call here. We'll listen half live, half archive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55am
davex:

Leipzig, Germany - nearly 7 a.m. here now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56am
Joe McG:

@davex: Cool! So how DOES this show sound in the morning? @fleep: You must be west coast?
Avatar 12:59am
Holly in NC:

Mutter mutter grinch grinch. Trying find personal bright side...there is *one* .. I'll be able to listen to Live from the Admiral, er, live.

Thomas's 6 am show is most misplaced on schedule, I think. For folks in Jersey time zone ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59am
davex:

Great right now with stormy winds and birds chirping outside, actually. But then I've been up all night working, so I'm not sure if it counts.
Avatar 1:00am
Holly in NC:

Hey @Steve, I just saw your kitty pics, lovely!
Avatar 1:00am
fleep:

Joe, yes, Los Angeles.
Avatar 1:12am
Julie:

oooh i love this...glockenspiel? or something
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13am
Matt from Springfield:

Good evening, Joe - among the last times I can say good evening to you in this time zone!

SO gonna miss your laid-back Saturday night freeform-FM show (disagree with Ike! ;) but best of luck during the daytime--pretend that you're Ken, or Trouble, and pick up that kind of vibe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13am
davex:

...counts as morning for me, that is. That sounded funny before. But it still sounds great...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14am
Matt from Springfield:

Hi Julie! Glockenspiel? Maybe. Sounds like a whole variety of percussion, with bells, drums, "pots", synth percussion too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14am
Joe McG:

Hey, Matt! I hope you'll be able to check in on the daytime at least once in awhile!
Avatar 1:17am
Holly in NC:

Hi Matt, fellow listener-in-exile to be!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17am
Matt from Springfield:

I'll try to at least ship in a comment every Thursday I can! Kenzo's working on my streaming problem at work--hope that can get resolved, and listen to Single Files live!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18am
davex:

This is an amazing cover!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18am
Joe McG:

@Matt: Hope so! Do try!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18am
Matt from Springfield:

Hi Holly! At least with my job I have a computer to look at during working hours, as long as I'm at my desk. I'll miss you on the board as well, but Kenzo can probably take this Archive and mail it to wherever you're at! ;)
Avatar 1:19am
Holly in NC:

@davex - agreed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19am
Matt from Springfield:

Hi davex! Agree, I love this cover too, I don't have that premium of Scott's, but I've heard someone play it on FMU before--lovely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20am
davex:

Hey Matt - what is your streaming problem?
Avatar 1:22am
Julie:

Joe will be on past my bedtime now
Avatar 1:23am
Julie:

this sounds like put a little love in your heart
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24am
Joe McG:

It DOES, Julie! Hoyt Axton, that thief.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24am
Matt from Springfield:

@davex: It's a really tough case, at my previous workplace I could stay ahead of the network admin people, but here they're smart and locked out outside streams pretty good. My Pop-Up Player opens, but it doesn't play the sound. Whereas the Archive Pop-Ups, which have PHP code in their address, DO open and DO play the sound. Well maybe it's appropriate--since I work on tough cases, a tough case has been presented to me! ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25am
Joe McG:

@JUlie: And this song sounds a lot like "Me About You" by the Turtles!
Avatar 1:26am
Julie:

I think I only know the one Turtles song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26am
davex:

Matt: I guess it is tough if you have the admin people trying to foil your efforts. And I suppose smart phones, etc. aren't a solution then?

Holly: Are you in a similar situation?
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12539:

Matt, would they let you bring in an internet radio, or would they block that too?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30am
Matt from Springfield:

Dig the name, "Hydro Electric Streetcar"!

@davex: Unfortunately not where I work (also...I would have to own a smartphone first! My phone is pretty dumb! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32am
Matt from Springfield:

@12539: They would probably let me take in that kind of device--but not plug it into their network connections! Also they use "thin client" computer boxes, without such workarounds as QuickTime installed on them.
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Lonely Planet Boy:

Spider sounded sorta like Leon Russell, to me.
Avatar 1:33am
Julie:

You love shoes? you're such a girl, joe
Avatar 1:34am
Holly in NC:

@davex - no, my problems are quite different. 9am-noon of day I'm usually working with kids sans media access (very purposeful) - and if not, I'm probably asleep ;-)
My preferrred sleep time = 5am - noon. I'm a self-employed freak!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37am
Joe McG:

@Julie: I have at least four pair. @Holly: Get up at 11:30 on Thursdays and say hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37am
Matt from Springfield:

@Julie: But he doesn't even have a closet for them! Joe keeps all his Shoes at the foot of his bed, just like all his records! ;)
Power poppish!
Avatar 1:38am
fleep:

That must be one huge bed.
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davex:

@Holly: That would make it more difficult, of course! I'm currently on a similar self-employed and self-inflicted schedule myself, so I understand that too.
Avatar 1:41am
Julie:

I didn't like the BCR's when I was little, but I sure do now
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Holly in NC:

Nick Lowe is singing to me ;-)
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Julie:

actually, not sure I heard them when I was that little, were they around much later?
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fleep:

That's some mad cymbal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42am
Matt from Springfield:

Bay City Rollers, now appearing at your local Queens pub!
@Julie: I didn't like Abba until I was an adult, people grow up! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45am
Matt from Springfield:

Del-Vikings! Good arrangements and sax on this one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46am
Joe McG:

@fleep: Nice avatar change! @Matt: Very Coasters-ish, I think!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47am
Matt from Springfield:

Yeah, it had some edge to it, like a Coasters record!
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12539:

This is the most Unmachitoish Machito song I have ever heard.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48am
Joe McG:

@12539: You said it! I'm wondering if he's even on it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57am
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, 80s recording of Sandie Shaw. Interesting choice of song too, a Bacharach-David one Dionne originally sang, as Sandie originally sang "Always Something There To Remind Me". Why the British Electric Foundation???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58am
Joe McG:

@Matt: Some kind of collective involving Martin Ware from the Human League! Mighty unfortunate saxophone solo on that record.
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Matt from Springfield:

Martin Ware, huh!
Re: sax solo, keep in mind that the success of "Baker Street" launched a slew of token sax solos for the next decade, some of them good, a lot of them not!
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G:

that solo was saxual harassment :p
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Brian in UK:

Mornin' Joe 'n time travellers.
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Matt from Springfield:

@G: And that's faxual! :p

Mornin' Brian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:07am
G:

just the sax, maa'am, just the sax
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:09am
Brian in UK:

Hi Matt. Beautiful sunny day here for a change.
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Julie:

Ajda totally fangirled over Ira Kaplan today
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Matt from Springfield:

Black Fangirl of YLT Opium!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:15am
Joe McG:

Hey, Brian! @G: Thanks for making me laugh.
Avatar 2:17am
Julie:

I took two photos of them together and her eyes were closed in both :( fail
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:18am
Matt from Springfield:

I think it was a "stand up faint"! :p
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:19am
Joe McG:

@Julie: Well, you have to admit, he's pretty dreamy.
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Holly in NC:

@Matt (& everyone) one of best links ever : 80's sax solos, by year, all playable !! xo
imacomputa.org...
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Julie:

wow this is really mellow
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Julie:

oh! it's a Q band :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:23am
Joe McG:

@Holly: Wow, I want to play all of these on a bad saxophone special.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:24am
Matt from Springfield:

Thanks Holly! That was the list someone posted earlier! Better start playing and checking off the ones I haven't heard yet! :)
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Julie:

Joe McGasko's Saxy Show
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Holly in NC:

Just for the record, I LOVE Baker Street.
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Julie:

oh man good luck googling a band called "queens"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26am
Matt from Springfield:

Yes, so mellow, so nighttime, such great New Bin items--do fill in for midnights, at least sometimes, Joe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26am
Joe McG:

@Julie: ha ha! @Holly: Actually, I do, too. And those Roxy Music songs don't have bad sax, in my opinion.
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Julie:

Bad sax is like pizza, it's better than no sax
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:28am
Joe McG:

@Matt: That's a thought! Two in the morning is made for records like these.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:30am
Brian in UK:

ENOs what he's talking about.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:31am
Matt from Springfield:

@Joe: It sure is! Thanks for the consideration! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:32am
Joe McG:

@Brian: Oy!
  2:33am
Dunc:

When time overwhelms us at breakneck speed, music rips the fabric of time. A boulder in the river to be amazed at for the complexity of simplicity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34am
Matt from Springfield:

Beautiful philosophy, Dunc!
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Julie:

that's way over my head at 230 am
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37am
Joe McG:

The cool thing about what we're listening to now is that the whole thing was completely improvised.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:37am
Brian in UK:

Bird noises seem popular on this station. Ever heard a nighingale?
  2:40am
Dunc:

In the beginning everything was improvised
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:41am
Joe McG:

Everything still is!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:42am
Brian in UK:

Nice one, Joe. Might 'see' a bit more of you in real time in future.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:44am
Joe McG:

@Brian: Ah yes, not quite so break of dawn-ish.
  2:44am
Dunc:

Does that mean that everything in the beginning was cool? I think most certainly that the answer is hell yeah!!!!
Avatar 2:45am
fleep:

The "Ring of Fire" earwom lasted two days. Bursting into the chorus out loud at random. This is an excellent change of pace.
Avatar 2:46am
Mark:

First time posting, just checking to see if I have a red heart next to my name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47am
Joe McG:

@fleep: Yes, sorry about that. I couldn't control it once it started.
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marksaot:

:_ (
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48am
Joe McG:

@Mark: It sometimes takes a bit to show up, don't be discouraged. Drop me an e-mail at jmcgasko@wfmu.org and I'll forward it to the person who gives out the hearts.
Avatar 2:52am
marksaot:

This is great (just like the music), just sent the email. I feel like I've found a toy car in a box of cereal. Love the music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53am
Joe McG:

Cool. It may take a few days, but don't worry, we'll get you one! Glad you found us!
  2:55am
Holly in NC:

See you here next week this time, correct, Joe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56am
Joe McG:

Yes, indeed, Holly! (sniff!) I hope everyone has a great week, and thanks for listening!
Avatar 2:57am
marksaot:

Thanks you, I look forward to it. Been a listener to Best Show, Night People, TMI for years, just have never dove in to the site. Night Holly, peace out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57am
Matt from Springfield:

Thanks as always for spinning, Joe! Wonderful episode!
Have a great night/morning/rest of weekend, everyone!
Avatar 2:58am
fleep:

Thanks, Joe!
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marksaot:

Good night to you too Joe! Didn't realize it was ending now. Will try to check out again.
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