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    <title>The Mac Observer - Michael Munger</title>
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      <title>Columns and Opinions: Apple Should Not Change Its Advertising Approach</title>
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      <description>Michael Munger says that Apple's advertising approach is right on the money, and that those calling for Apple to change it should think again</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Montreal Newspaper Devotes Half A Page To The New iMac</title>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2002 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Columns and Opinions: Apple, Aqua And Interface Freedom</title>
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      <description>Michael Munger says that Apple's attempts to squelch interface changes in Mac OS X is not only Microsoftian, it is directly contrary to the idea of Thinking Different</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Reviews: Office 2001: Productivity For Classic Mac OS (Updated)</title>
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      <description>In anticipation of our upcoming review of Office v.X, the Mac OS X version of Office that will be released in November, we thought it was high time to publish our review of Office 2001, Microsoft's Classic Mac OS offering. Office 2001 is built on the success of Office 98, the first Mac-like release from Microsoft in years, and adds many new features and the new application named Entourage.</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Rage On Through Your MP3s With Player Update</title>
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      <description>Chaotic Software has updated its MP3 player, MP3 Rage. The new version, 3.7, adds features and fixes a bug</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Blue Line Studios&#8217; Site Optimizer Updated</title>
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      <description>Blue Line Studios has updated WebsiteCompressor.  WebsiteCompressor does what its name suggests, it optimizes your Web site, helping you get rid of all that unnecessary code that can accumulate in your HTML.  The new version is a maintenance release</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Mac OS X-only Auction Software Released</title>
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      <description>Colourfull Creations has created a Mac OS X version of its auction organizer for the Mac. Auction Tender 3 works with eBay, Yahoo Auctions, Amazon.com and other sites.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Classic Mac Web Photo Album Software Updated</title>
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      <description>LAJ designed has released Quickies Photos to Web 1.2. The new version of the photo album maker adds many new features</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: FileMaker Pro Based Scheduling Software Updated</title>
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      <description>Life $uccess Institute has released Schedula Professional 7.0. Schedula Professional is a scheduling system built for, and requiring, FileMaker Pro. The new version includes a new interface, increased performance, other new features, and some bug fixes</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Electric Rain &#38; Strata Do Flash In 3D</title>
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      <description>Electric Rain and Strata have inked a licensing deal regarding 3D technology. The long and the short of it is that Strata 3Dpro users will be able to output their animations in the Flash format</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Pix Lite Makes Its Way To Mac OS X</title>
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      <description>SearchWare has released Pix Lite for Mac OS X. Pix Lite views all types of multimedia files and supports AppleScript.</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: CD Changer Jukebox Software Controller Updated</title>
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      <description>RiverSong has released a new version of TitleTrack Jukebox. TitleTrack Jukebox is designed to allow users control up to 12 different  Sony CD changers with a capacity of 5-400 CDs each.  The new version adds improved AppleScript support for adding files such as MP3s to the playlist</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: New Mac OS X Icons Are On The Way</title>
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      <description>Marmalade Moon has released new icon sets; they are ready for the next generation of operating systems for Mac and... PC</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Peacock Maps Releases iTunes Music Posters</title>
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      <description>Peacock Maps has released a new set of iTunes posters. The new posters are comprised of some of the digital images created by the iTunes visualization software</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Mail Merger Software Adds Features, Fixes Bugs</title>
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      <description>Intelli Innovations has released a new version of its mail merge software. Among the changes, the company added message priorities in message options.</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: 3D Modeling App Gets A Maintenance Update</title>
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      <description>Codenautics Software has released Meshwork 1.8.2. Meshworks is a 3D &#34;trimesh&#34; modeling program, and the maintenance update fixes several bugs</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: ChartMaker Pro 5 Is Now Available</title>
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      <description>Brian Dunning has released a new version of FileMaker Pro chart making software, ChartMaker Pro. The update includes new features and works with FileMaker Pro, versions 3 to 5</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: School Is Coming, BBEdit Is On Sale For The Occasion</title>
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      <description>Bare Bones Software has just announced a special sale for its flagship text and HTML editor named BBEdit. A long-time Mac title, BBEdit is part of a back-to-school promotion from Bare Bones</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Games: New Space Fighting Game Offers Multiplayer Option</title>
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      <description>Cortic Software has released a new game for the Mac called Unprovoked. The galactic fighting game is a 2D space shoot-em-up that can be played by multiple people through networking</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Cross Platform FileMaker Pro E-Mail Plug-In Gets Updated</title>
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      <description>Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released a new version of its FileMaker Pro plug-in SMTPit. SMTPit allows you to send e-mail from within FileMaker. The new version includes new features and bug fixes</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: PandoCalendar Turns 5.7.3</title>
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      <description>Panda Systems has released yet another version of PandoCalendar, bringing the calendar app to version 5.7.3. The new version fixes several bugs.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: MacAddict Releases A Free 5 Year Anniversary DVD</title>
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      <description>MacAddict has just turned 5. To make the anniversary special, these folks released a DVD to celebrate their strange happenings... we mean hard work.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Mandolux Ships 16 More Desktop Pictures</title>
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      <description>Mandolux.com has released another 16 new desktop pictures for your consumption. The first set of 8 focuses on 3-D effects, while the second continues the Tetra series of desktops</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Would You Like A New XML Editor With That X?</title>
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      <description>Softmagic has released a new XML editor  for Mac OS X called SendStory. XML is a markup language that allows one to do things one can't do with other markup languages like HTML.   SendStory  is designed to make it easy to create XML content on Mac OS X</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Columns and Opinions: The Future Of Web Advertising &#38; The Mac Web</title>
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      <description>Advertising on the Web has been the subject of a lot of talk lately, and Michael Munger looks at its impact on publishing and the Mac Web</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Columns and Opinions: Mac OS X: Then And Now</title>
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      <description>Michael Munger looks at the way the Mac community looked at Mac OS X before it was released and compares it to how we look at it today</description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>WWDC: 7700 Visitors In Two Days At The Apple Store</title>
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      <description>Apple has announced that its two brick and mortar Apple Stores have welcomed over 7700 customers during the weekend. The new retail stores were kicked off by Steve Jobs last week.</description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>WWDC: Apple Ships Java-Based WebObjects 5</title>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Michael Munger asks why QuickTime is getting killed by Real and Windows Media Player if its technology is so much better</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Michael Munger says that we all occasionally wonder why Apple has done this or that, and he says that it could all be a matter of not having the right perspective</description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Michael Munger says enough is enough when it comes to tech companies declaring their product or service is a revolution.  True revolutions are rare and are almost never premedtitated</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Michael Munger digs further into his thoughts on the ever controversial Napster/MP3/RIAA issue.  Today he talks about the kinds of justifications that many people use while they are stealing music and suggests some changes that could make the problem moot</description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Columns and Opinions: Napster &#38; The Copyright Minefield, Part 1</title>
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      <description>Copyright is one of the hot issues that can fire people up in no time. Technology has evolved, perhaps beyond the foresight of the most daring visionaries. Computers and all types of digital gadgets make it very easy to do almost anything with data</description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: IOGEAR PCI Card Supports USB 2.0</title>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Group Logic Technology Adopted By Fujifilm</title>
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      <description>Group Logic has announced that Fujifilm has adopted some of their technologies. Fujifilm will incorporate them into a new Web site with new services.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: WebSTAR Server To Come Bundled With GoLive 5.0</title>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: IntelliMerge Jumps The Mac OS X Hurdle</title>
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      <description>Intelli Innovations has announced that IntelliMerge for Mac OS X is now available. IntelliMerge is e-mail merge software.</description>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>News: Free eLearning Design Courses</title>
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      <description>Gemini Learning systems is now offering free eLearning Design courses on its Web site. It uses the SWIFT 5 eLearning platform.</description>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Handspring has announced the Japanese version of Visor Edge and the shipping of VisorPhone Springboard modules to major store chains. It also receives suppport from Franklin Electronic Publishers who are making medical references available on Handspring handhelds.</description>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>MacMusic.org has announced a partnership for software distribution with Dragan Petrovic. To kick off the partnership, MacMusic will distribute a VST compatible plug-in called DR-Verb.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>Bert Torfs has released WhereDidAllMyMoneyGo? version 2.2. The new release of the budget tracker adds support for Mac OS X 10.0.</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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