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JAGWAR MA

Triple dose of fun at the Pier A 2014 TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULE AUG 7 - AUSTRALIA ROCKS THE PIER: JAGWAR MA, FASCINATOR, PHEBE STARR OPENS AUG 14 - LATIN WAVES: LA SANTA CECILIA W/ SERGIO MENDOZA, HOSTED BY RAUL CAMPOS AUG 21 - THE ZOMBIES W/ MYSTIC BRAVES, HOSTED BY DAN WILCOX AUG 28 - DEEP REGGAE: LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY W/ MEXICO 68, HOSTED BY JEREMY SOLE SEPT 4 – OK GO & ALLAH-LAS SEP 11 - 100% SOUL: CHARLES BRADLEY W/ KING JAMES & THE SPECIAL MEN

ustralia Rocks the Pier returns this Thursday, bringing three amazing Australian artists to the Pier. Headliner Jagwar Ma has been tearing up the alternative charges since forming in 2011. The duo, Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield, both developed their skills with other acts such as Ghostwood and the Lost Valentinos before teaming up in Sydney. The two knew of each other's history and after sharing the stage at a 2010 group performance, they began working together. Their debut has garnered a strong fan following and positive reviews from the industry. Their single “Come Save Me” is often sited as emblematic of the group's style melding electronic sounds with excellent vocals. The second set will feature Fascinator and the opening will be by up and coming artist Phebe Starr. Starr won the right to open the show through a talent contest organized by the G'Day USA tourism office. “We were flooded with entries of people that wanted to come to LA and be introduced to the Pier,” said Karen Lanyon, the Australian Consul-General of Los Angeles. “We really want introduce and support young professional artists coming to the United States.” She said Aussie music hot in the U.S. and bringing acts to somewhere as iconic as the Santa Monica Pier is a big part of building an artist's career.

“Australian bands are taking the US by storm and the Pier is part of that,” she said. Influenced by Kraftwerk, Bjork, The Cure and the 90's, Phebe Starr is described as a refreshing mash of organic sounds and electronic ethereal pop. Her otherworldly performances have seen her play alongside Of Monsters And Men, Ben Folds, Stars, The Rubens, Ball Park Music and Gold Fields. In her official biography, Starr describes herself as a citizen of space. “Hailing from a small planet known for its red soil and potatoes in the middle of nowhere, Australia, it was her isolated beginnings that instilled her songwriting with raw beauty and the eccentric use of technology,” she said. “Critics worldwide have compared her to the likes of Lykke Li, Florence Welsh and Sia, yet already she is forging her own path as an unconventional pop starr. ZERO - Her debut E.P exploded into the galaxy with her first single 'Alone With You' hitting airwaves in Australia and soon made its way into hearts through cyber space. Following up the tracks success her second single 'Jurassica' was downloaded over 47,000 as itunes single of the week in its first few days of being released. The four track E.P gives reference to her influences Kraftwerk, Bjork, Ziggy Star Dust and Zero an international art movement associated with nouveaux realists. The Australian Broadcasting Company's

www.triplejunearthed.com called her a talented synth pop songstress and said “one is helpless to the fact that the stage is her destiny. Her sweet, synth pop songs with elements of jazz create a refreshing new sound.” In an interview with the website she said she evolved musically from a young kid playing Jazz and Blues to the genre melding artist of today thanks to some early experiences in her home. “It wasn't until the latter part of my teens that I was influenced by experimental and electronic sounds. I remember hearing my older brothers friend remixing a Bjork track for a party, this was when I started to be drawn into the synthetic world,” she told www.triplejunearthed.com. “Electronic music has slowly merged together with my organic roots. I've always experimented with production and, to some degree; this music has been in my mind for a while. It's just taken some time to be able to articulate it to everyone else.” She said her work feature a huge band. “Two drummers, a bass player, two synths, keys and a back up singer who has sweet dance moves and is awesome at tambourine,” she said. “I try to recreate that huge sound live, however, still keep it intimate because it's all about the songs and the stories. Occasionally I play solo, which is a completely different experiencestripped back with a sampler and synth.”

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Twilight Concerts insider’s guide TICKETS

BIKE & SKATEBOARD VALET PETS

No tickets necessary, this is pure free summer fun (remember that?) all thanks to our partners and sponsors who have brought us another season of awesome free concerts at the beach. Make sure to show them some love.

Park your wheels at the free bike and skateboard valet located next to the beach bike path just south of the Pier.

TIME 7 p.m. — 10 p.m., but those in the know stake out a good spot early.

PARKING Parking is available in the 1550 Pacific Coast Highway Lot next to the Santa Monica Pier on a first-come, first-served basis. Those wanting to avoid long waits should try one of the municipal lots around Second Street and Colorado Avenue or grab the ParkMe app for live data of parking availability and prices. Go technology!

FRIENDS & FAMILY Bring them, the more the merrier. You will not regret it. This is one epic summer tradition.

FIRST AID/LOST & FOUND If you need first aid or assistance, please visit the Pier Tent or flag down a security officer. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

SMOKING Don’t even think about it, it’s a 100year-old wooden Pier, and we really like it.

Friendly dogs are welcome on the Pier only and must be on a leash.

during the show. As a reminder, alcohol consumption is not permitted in public spaces, but there are several full-service bars in the area.

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It never gets too cold, but sometimes it gets a little chilly once the sun goes down. So bring something or head up to the Pier Tent on the deck to grab this year’s limited-edition sweatshirt or T-shirt!

There is a 21-and-over Concert Garden featuring Michelob Ultra, Barefoot Wines, an assortment of cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages. Do not miss this view.

SEATING

E-MAIL LIST & SPECIAL OFFERS

Seating is not provided, so feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, etc ...

FOOD & DRINKS

TAXIS

There are plenty of great food and beverage options on the deck and at the various restaurants on the Pier. Most even have to-go options perfect for munching

Let someone else do the driving. Download the Taxi Magic app and use promo code TCS2014 for $10 off your first ride.

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Australia Rocks The Pier T

his Thursday, it's all about Australia on the Pier. Australia Rocks the Pier is an annual feature of the Twilight Concert Series and 2014 marks the 30th year of the concert series and the 5th Australia Rocks the Pier. The event serves as a showcase for the increasingly popular Australian acts but officials said it's really an opportunity to highlight the strong cross-cultural ties between Santa Monica and the Land Down Under. Organizers said there is a definite camaraderie between the two places. Both have the same appreciation for good food and wine, the same sense of adventure, the same love of the outdoors, and the same fascination with the Pacific Ocean. “When you look at where Santa Monica is and where the population of Australia is, it's all around both sides of the Pacific, it's a perfect partnership for us in tourism, business, film and all the things the pier allows us to do, not just music,” said Karen Lanyon, the Australian Consul General of Los Angeles. Australia is Santa Monica's largest tourism partner and Lanyon said it's also

home to many Aussie natives. “We're very well aware of how many visitors there are to Santa Monica and how big the ex-pat population is in Santa Monica,” she said. “There's a booming IT and young creative crowd making their home and opening businesses in Santa Monica. It's a natural fit for us.” She said the concert is a great way to show locals that Australian businesses are branching out into the food, fashion and related industries. “All of that underlines the investment of Australian businesses in Santa Monica, not just in tourism,” she said. Officials described Australia Rocks the Pier as an end-to-end promotion of brand Australia, Australian tourism and Australia's cultural diversity and a strong platform for any organization keen to associate with, or trade on, Australian identity in Los Angeles. “The pier allows us to get across that Australian ethos and attitude to life,” said Lanyon. “It's innovative, fun and the beach is a big part of what Australia is and it always will be. A majority live along the coastline and it just blends very well with what we want to project here.” She said Australia is on the bucket list

for almost every American she meets and her office is helping facilitate that dream for at least one lucky concertgoer. “We're giving away a free trip to Australia to a lucky citizen in the audience,” she said. “You can go up and register at the booth on the pier and we will draw the winner at the end of the night for a trip to Sydney and Byron Bay, a beachside resort, to be able to experience that for themselves.” This year Jagwar Ma will be coming to Santa Monica to headline Australia Rocks the Pier, presented by G'Day USA. Fascinator will play the second set and Phebe Starr was chosen to open the show after winning a nationwide contest.

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2014 Twilight Concert Series bios WEEK 6

AUGUST 14

La Santa Cecilia WITH

SERGIO MENDOZA Y LA ORKESTRA

La Santa Cecilia consists of accordionist and requintero Jose “Pepe” Carlos, bassist Alex Bendana, percussionist Miguel Ramirez, and lead vocalist La Marisoul, whose captivating voice sings about love, loss and heartbreak. Their influences range from Miles Davis to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin to Janis Joplin and Mercedes Sosa to Ramon Ayala. Their common love of music and openness to all genres led them to the concept of La Santa Cecilia in 2007 named after the patron saint of musicians. In 2013, the band released their major label debut Treinta Dias (30 Days), which featured a captivating collaboration with fan Elvis Costello on “Losing Game.” Now, just after their GRAMMY win for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album, the band presents their new album Someday New. The album features seven new tracks, which include a heartfelt Spanglish rendition of The Beatles iconic “Strawberry Fields Forever”,plus the unforgettable new Mexican classic “Como Dios Manda”; as well as a fresh new radio-edit of their single “Monedita” and the full version of their moving, and militant “ICE - El Hielo.”

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The Zombies WITH MYSTIC

BRAVES

The second UK group following the Beatles to score a #1 hit in America, The Zombies infiltrated the airwaves with the sophisticated melodies, breathy vocals, choral back-up harmonies and jazzy keyboard riffs of their 1960’s hit singles like “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No”. Ironically, the group broke-up in 1968 just prior to achieving their greatest success the chart-topping single “Time of the Season”, from their swan-song album “Odessey & Oracle” (recently ranked #100 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”). In the intervening years, while

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lead singer Colin Blunstone went on to develop an acclaimed solo career, and keyboardist/songwriter Rod Argent rocked ‘70’s arenas with his eponymous band ARGENT, the legend of The Zombies took on a life of its own. Generations of new bands have cited The Zombies’ work as pop touchstones, including such artists as Neko Case and Nick Cave (who have recorded “She’s Not There” for the popular HBO series True Blood), She & Him, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, The Black Angels, The Fleet Foxes, Beach House and The Beautiful South. Decades later, Blunstone and Argent have resurrected The Zombies, recruiting bassist Jim Rodford (formerly of ARGENT and The Kinks), Rodford’s son Steve on drums, and renowned session guitarist Tom Toomey. 2013 marked a major year for the band, with three U.S. tours (which included six SRO performances during the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, plus stops at NYC’s Central Park SummerStage, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and Milwaukee SummerFest) … the American release of their new album, “Breathe Out, Breathe In” the debut on RollingStone.com & VEVO of their first-ever music video for “Any Other Way"… and the announcement of their nomination to the 2014 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. The ten songs that make up their new album, “Breathe Out, Breathe In”, are impeccably crafted; the harmonies are rich, the melodies full, the arrangements exquisite, the organ and piano fresh and the production intuitive. The Huffington Post’s David Wild called the album “inspired” and said “some songs recall the haunting melodic heights of the group’s 1968 masterpiece Odessey and Oracle.”

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Lee “Scratch” Perry WITH

MEXICO 68

The man who long ago named himself (and his record label and his band) The Upsetter knows whereof he speaks. As a producer, mixer and artist, Lee “Scratch” Perry has been overturning tradition and confounding conventional wisdom for more than five decades. In the process, the widely acknowledged father of dub reggae became a major player in Jamaican music and international pop. Born in Jamaica in 1936, Perry began in the music business in the late 1950s, working with the island’s mobile sound systems and such artists as Prince Buster, best known for the ska hit Ten Commandments. Subsequent work assisting famed producers Coxsone Dodd and Joe Gibbs prepped him for his professional coming-out. In 1968, he formed Upsetter Records and, throughout the early ‘70s, issued a profusion of recordings (under his own name and various pseudonyms), pioneering a radical form that utilized reggae rhythms and the loping instrumental “spaghetti Western” style of music featured in Sergio Leone’s neocowboy movies, on cuts like Clint Eastwood and The Return of Django. Concurrent with his own releases,

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Perry produced numerous reggae artists, including, early on, Bob Marley and the Wailers (Duppy Conqueror, Small Axe). By the mid-’70s, the myth of Lee “Scratch” Perry was commanding as much attention as his innovative productions, as spats with artists, lost tapes and a mysterious fire that burned down his Black Ark studio occupied ardent scene-watchers. Still, Perry continued his onslaught of atmospheric dub releases, next capturing the attention of Britain’s punk movement; Perry even produced tracks for The Clash, who’d covered his production of Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves on their 1977 debut album. Numerous post-punk bands, most notably John Lydon’s Public Image, created music based on a template first fashioned by Perry. By the mid-’90s, his legacy had spread into rap and hip-hop; the Beastie Boys gave Perry a shout-out on their Ill Communication album and sparked yet another revival of interest in his work. Not slowing down after the turn of the century, Perry won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2003 with the album Jamaican E.T.. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Perry #100 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He teamed up with a group of Swiss musicians and performed under the name Lee Perry and the White Belly Rats, and toured the United States in 2006 and 2007 using the New York City-based group Dub Is A Weapon as his backing band. After meeting Andrew W.K. at SXSW in 2006, Perry invited him to co-produce his album Repentance. The 2008 album featured guest artists including Moby, Ari Up, producer Don Fleming, drummer Brian Chippendale, and bassist Josh Werner, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album on the Narnack Records label. In 2008, Perry reunited with Adrian Sherwood on The Mighty Upsetter. Between 2007 and 2010, Perry recorded three albums with British producer, Steve Marshall, at State of Emergency Limited in England. The albums featured performances by Keith Richards and George Clinton. Two of these albums, End Of An American Dream (2007) and Revelation (2010), received Grammy nominations for Best Reggae Album on the

MEGAWAVE Records label. In 2009, Perry collaborated with Dubblestandart, on their Return from Planet Dub double album, revisiting some of his material from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as collaborating on new material, some of which also included Ari Up of the Slits. Dubstep collaborations with New York City’s Subatomic Sound System included Iron Devil, Blackboard Jungle Vols. 1 & 2 featuring dancehall vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore, and Chrome Optimism featuring American filmmaker David Lynch. In 2011, Perry recorded Rise Again with bassist and producer Bill Laswell, with the album featuring contributions from Tunde Adebimpe, Sly Dunbar and Bernie Worrell, and released on Laswell’s M.O.D. Technologies label. In 2012, Perry teamed with The Orb to produce The Orbserver in the Star House. Perry remixed the Thor’s Stone single by UK producer Forest Swords in November 2013. Perry recorded an album with Daniel Boyle in London, due to be released in April 2014 as Lee “Scratch” Perry – Back on the Controls. Currently, there are two films made about his life and work: Volker Schaner’s Vision Of Paradise and The Upsetter by American film-makers Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough and narrated by Benicio Del Toro. In 2010, Perry had his first ever solo art exhibition at Dem Passwords art gallery in Los Angeles, California. The show entitled Secret Education featured works on canvas, paper, and a video installation. Perry is featured as the DJ on the Dub and Reggae radio station Blue Ark in video game Grand Theft Auto V. The station includes a number of dubs by Perry and the Upsetters including Disco Devil and Grumblin’ Dub. In August 2012, it was announced that Perry would receive Jamaica’s sixth highest honour, the Order of Distinction, Commander class, and in October 2013, it was announced that he was to be awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal later that month by the Institute of Jamaica. Perry now lives in Switzerland, where he continues to create unique, categorydefying music. He remains one of the world’s most imaginative sonic architects. SEE BIOS PAGE 13

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OK Go WITH

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Formed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles three years later, OK Go (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross) have spent their career in a steady state of transformation. The four songs of the all-new Upside Out EP represent the first preview of Hungry Ghosts, due out in the fall on the band’s own Paracadute. This is the band’s fourth full-length and the newest addition to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums. The band worked with longtime producer and friend Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Weezer, MGMT), while also enlisting a new collaborator in Los Angeles, veteran Tony Hoffer, (Beck, Phoenix, Foster the People) to create their most comfortable and far-reaching songs yet. Building on (and deconstructing) 15 years of pop-rock smarts, musical friendship, and band-ofthe-future innovations the EP, Upside Out, offers a concise overview of forthcoming Hungry Ghosts’ melancholic fireworks (“The Writing’s on the Wall”), basement funk parties (“Turn Up The Radio”), IMAXsized choruses (“The One Moment”), and space-age dance floor bangers (“I Won’t Let You Down”). Drawn from the same marching orders issued to big-hearted happiness creators as Queen, T. Rex, The Cars or Cheap Trick, and a lifetime of mixed tapes exchanged by lifelong music fans, Upside Out is a reaffirmation of the sounds and ideas that brought the band together in the first place. The four songs provide an assured kick-off to a new sequence of interconnected performances, videos, dances, and wild, undreamt fun. “As the band has evolved over the last 15 years, the creative palette we work with has expanded in so many unexpected and gratifying directions,” says frontman Damian Kulash. “This record feels like it’s the musical manifestation of that — like we can speak in a clearer voice when we are playing in a bigger sandbox. Just as the band’s whole project became clearer to us as we learned to find more homes for our creativity — we triangulated it from more directions. And, I think the music itself has gotten more focused for similar reasons. We went in with fewer preconceptions of who we are or what our sound is, and came out with a record that sounds much more uniquely our own because of it.” Continuing a career that includes viral videos, New York Times op-eds, a major label split and the establishment of a DIY trans-media mini-empire, collaborations with pioneering dance companies and tech giants, animators and Muppets, OK Go continue to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved.

KING JAMES & THE SPECIAL MEN

If you’re looking for a story that best summarizes the last year in the life of Charles Bradley, you’d be hard pressed to find a better one than the night he and his band showed up in Utopia, Texas to play an outdoor show in the middle of a thunderstorm. “It was just raining, raining, raining,” Bradley recalls. “I walked out onstage, and there were about 800 people there - maybe more - all of them just standing out there in the rain and the mud.” The band settled in and fought their hardest against the elements, but - for a moment, anyway - it seemed that nature was too much for even the mighty Charles Bradley. About halfway through the show, the power went out, leaving both the band and the drenched fans in total darkness. At any other show, that would be understood as the meteorological signal for “Quittin’ Time,” but if there’s one thing the last year of tireless touring before enrapt audiences has proven, it’s that Charles Bradley does not put on typical shows. “I could hear them screaming, ‘Charles Bradley! Charles Bradley we love you,’” Bradley smiles. “And so when the lights came back on, I said, ‘If all of you can stand out there in the rain and get soaking wet because you want to see me perform - to see me do something that I love to do - then you know what? I’m gonna get wet, too.’” And with that, Bradley jumped off the stage and into the crowd. “They went completely crazy!” he laughs. “We were laughing. We were hugging. We were getting muddy. It was just love.” That’s his whole persona in a single tiny scene: Charles Bradley, victim of love. Other artists appreciate their audiences, just as many are grateful for them, but few artists love their fans as much and as sincerely as Charles Bradley. By now, his remarkable, against-all-odds rise has been well-documented - how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs - most famously as a James Brown impersonator at Brooklyn clubs before finally being discovered by Daptone’s Gabriel Roth. The year following the release of his debut, No Time For Dreaming, was one triumph after another: a stunning performance at South By Southwest that earned unanimous raves; similarly-gripping appearances at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Newport Folk Festival and Outside Lands (to name just a few); and spots on Year-End Best Lists from Rolling Stone, MOJO, GQ, Pasteand more. Victim of Love, Bradley’s second record, is a continuation of that story, moving past the ‘heartache and pain’ and closer to the promise of hope. “The first record taps into maybe two or three feelings,” explains Thomas Brenneck of Menahan Street Band, Bradley’s producer, bandleader and co-writer. “But the range of emotion on this record is huge. The last record was written by a man living in the Brooklyn projects for 20 years. This record is more than just a poor man’s cry from the ghetto. This time, he’s grateful.” Bradley agrees. “I was singing about all these hardships that I’ve been through. I wanted people to know my struggles first, but now I want them to know how much they have helped me grow.” Drop into any moment of Victim of Love at random and that message is immediately apparent. Where the last record opened SEE BIOS PAGE 14

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with the apocalyptic “The World (is Going Up in Flames), Victim begins “Strictly Reserved For You,” a track that sees Bradley grabbing his girl, jumping in a car and hitting the highway for a romantic getaway. In “You Put The Flame on It,” Bradley sings “My life is gold - you put the flame on it,” backed by a horn chart that sounds like it was lifted from a lost Four Tops single. And on “Victim of Love,” the song that gives the album its name, Bradley sings, “I woke up this morning, I felt your love beside me,” over the kind of gentle acoustic guitar that wouldn’t sound out of place on a classic Neil Young album. Which brings up another point: with the new subject matter comes a broader musical scope. Where Dreaming hewed close to the rough-and-ready R&B sound Daptone has become known for, Victim is stylistically more restless, edging closer into the kind of psychedelic soul The Temptations explored in the early ‘70s. “I’ve been calling it ‘New Direction Daptone,’” enthuses Brenneck. “People are not going to expect this. There’s a lot of psych influences on this record, a lot of fuzz guitar. I’m pushing the band & the arrangements further out, which in turns has to make Charles go further out.” That new direction is most apparent in “Confusion.” Opening with the kind of echo-drenched vocal and charging rhythmic cadence that characterized Curtis Mayfield’s “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go,” Bradley calls down fire on crooked businessmen

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and duplicitous leaders. “That song is about a lot of those big politicians who think they can make everybody’s decisions for them,” says Bradley. “The higher class think they can make up the rules for us. But a lot of those big wigs have never really been down to the harsh life. They don’t know how it feels. So I’m trying to talk to people who are going through those hardships.” As is typical of Bradley, the song comes off not as a roaring jeremiad, but as a deeply-felt note of sympathy for the oppressed and beaten-down. But if the album has a summary statement, it’s “Through the Storm.” Over a deep gospel groove, Bradley expresses his gratitude - to his fans, his friends and to God - for their support, their dedication and their devotion. “When the world gives you love,” he sings, “It frees your soul.” This is the new message of Charles Bradley, the Bradley who has emerged from the heartache stronger and more confident, overflowing with love to share. This is Charles Bradley, victim of love — gratefully returning the joy that has been given to him.

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mar Souleyman brought his unique fusion of techo-folk to an enthusiastic crowd last week.

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