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I have just about all of the CDs that Michael Cuscuna produced for this series. I can check that against the list of the original LPs when I get some time.

As you probably know, the CDs were mainly reissues of the LPs, adding a track from the three "Definitive Jazz Scene" compilation LPs from the same session if there was one. Those compilation LPs were, of course, not reissued.

The mid 70s owners of Impulse threw out nearly all unissued tracks, so there are none on these CDs.

In a few cases, Michael generously included the contents of two LPs on one CD. For example, Sonny Stitt's "Now" was included with "Salt and Pepper", by Stitt and Paul Gonsalves. He seems to have felt that there would be little demand for those albums that were added as bonus tracks. (I strongly disagree with his omission of Side 2 of Milt Jackson's "Jazz 'N' Samba" when he included Side 1 on the CD reissue of "Statements". Fortunately, I have the LP, and the Japanese CD of "Jazz 'N' Samba", one of Milt's best albums.)

The sound on these IMPD CDs is quite good, but generally a little lacking in presence, especially when compared with their various Japanese counterparts. Why, oh why, are U.S. CDs usually so markedly inferior to the Japanese ones?

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Right, here's a quick list, corrections welcome, a few errors likely. I've stopped at 9200, as the series was not really original Impulse anymore by then, and many of the later issues were compilations ("Best of" and so on). This decision may have led to a few serious omissions.

This is what was not reissued by Michael Cuscuna. I have included (i.e. deleted from the LP list) Michael's earlier jewel case CDs along with the digipacks; there were not many of those. I have also included those albums that were added as bonus tracks with other reissues, e.g. Lawrence Brown's "Inspired Abandon", included on a Hodges CD.

I may have included an album or two that was in a set not produced by Cuscuna.

I'm not sure about the Mingus and Clark Terry albums. Steve Kuhn's "October Suite" and Yusef Lateef's "The Golden flute" are on digipacks, but they are much more recent, and I'm not sure whether Cuscuna was involved with them (if that matters at all, and it probably doesn't).

(12 inch LP)

* A 2 Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz

* A 3 The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones

* A 8 Max Roach - Percussion, Bitter Sweet

* A 13 Curtis Fuller - Soul Trombone

* A 16 Max Roach - It's Time

* A 17 Jackie Paris - Song Is Paris

* A 19 Manny Albam - Jazz Goes To The Movies

* A 20 Shelly Manne - 2-3-4

* A 22 Curtis Fuller - Cabin In The Sky

* A 24 Michael Brown - Alarums And Excursions

* A 25 Oscar Brand - Morality

* A 31 George Wein - Midnight Concert In Paris

* A 35 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

* A 36 V.A. - Americans In Europe, Vol. 1

* A 37 V.A. - Americans In Europe, Vol. 2

* A 44 Beverly Jenkins - Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer

* A 46 Gary McFarland - Point Of Departure

* A 47 Gloria Coleman/Pola Roberts - Soul Sisters

* A 51 Shirley Scott - For Members Only

* A 53 Freda Payne - After The Lights Go Down Low And Much More!!!

* A 54 Charles Mingus - Five Mingus

* A 56 Yusef Lateef - Jazz 'Round The World

* A 58 Terry Gibbs - Take It From Me

* A 59 Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds

* A 60 Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano

* A 62 Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria The Great

* A 64 The Happy Horns Of Clark Terry

* A 65 Ben Webster - See You At The Fair

* A 67 Shirley Scott - Great Scott!!

* A 69 Yusef Lateef Live At Pep's

* A 70 Milt Jackson - Jazz 'N' Samba

* A 72 Billy Taylor/Quincy Jones - My Fair Lady Loves Jazz

* A 73 Shirley Scott - Everybody Loves A Lover

* A 76 Lorez Alexandria - More Of The Great

* A 78 Lionel Hampton - You Better Know It!!!

* A 80 The Russian Jazz Quartet - Happiness

* A 81 Shirley Scott - Queen Of The Organ

* A 82 Chico Hamilton - Chic Chic Chico

* A 83 Lambert, Hendricks And Ross - Sing A Song Of Basie

* A 84 Yusef Lateef - 1984

* A 92 Yusef Lateef - Psychicemotus

* A 93 Shirley Scott - Latin Shadows

* A 96 Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now!

* A 98 Dannie Richmond - "In" Jazz For The Culture Set

* A 99 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 1

* A 100 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 2

* A 101 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 3

* A 9102 Chico Hamilton - El Chico

* A 9103 John Lee Hooker - It Serves You Right To Suffer

* A 9104 Gary McFarland - Tijuana Jazz

* A 9105 Gabor Szabo - Gypsy '66

* A 9107 Louis Bellson - Thunderbird

* A 9108 Earl Hines - Once Upon A Time

* A 9109 Shirley Scott - On A Clear Day

* A 9112 Gary McFarland - Profiles

* A 9113 Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle

* A 9114 Chico Hamilton - The Further Adventures Of El Chico

* A 9115 Stanley Turrentine - Let It Go

* A 9117 Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat And C

* A 9119 Shirley Scott - Roll 'Em

* A 9122 Gary McFarland/Gabor Szabo - Simpatico

* A 9123 Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder

* A 9125 Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute

* A 9126 Roswell Rudd - Everywhere

* A 9127 Clark Terry/Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice

* A 9128 Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga

* A 9129 Oliver Nelson - Sound Pieces

* A 9131 Zoot Sims - Waiting Game

* A 9132 Hank Jones/Oliver Nelson - Happenings

* A 9133 Shirley Scott/Clark Terry - Soul Duo

* A 9135 Chico O'Farrill - Nine Flags

* A 9136 Steve Kuhn/Gary McFarland - The October Suite

* A 9137 The College Concert Of Pee Wee Russell And Henry 'Red' Allen

* AS 9141 Shirley Scott - Girl Talk

* AS 9142 Mal Waldron - Sweet Love, Bitter (Soundtrack)

* AS 9143 Phil Woods - Greek Cooking

* AS 9144 Oliver Nelson - The Kennedy Dream

* AS 9145 V.A. - Intercollegiate Music Festival, Vol. 1

* AS 9146 Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer

* AS 9147 Pee Wee Russell/Oliver Nelson - The Spirit Of '67

* AS 9148 John Coltrane - Cosmic Music

* AS 9149 Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

* AS 9150 Al "Jazzbo" Collins - A Lovely Bunch Of Jazzbo Collins And The Bandidos

* AS 9151 Gabor Szabo - Wind, Sky And Diamonds

* AS 9152 Mel Brown - Chicken Fat

* AS 9153 Oliver Nelson - Live From Los Angeles

* AS 9154 Archie Shepp - The Magic Of Ju-Ju

* AS 9155 Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village

* AS 9157 Clark Terry - It's What's Happening: The Varitone Sound Of CT

* AS 9158 Rolf Kuhn/Joachim Kuhn - Impressions Of New York

* AS 9159 Gabor Szabo/Bob Thiele - Light My Fire

* AS 9163 Tom Scott - The Honeysuckle Breeze

* AS 9164 Bill Plummer - Cosmic Brotherhood

* AS 9165 Albert Ayler - Love Cry

* AS 9166 Emil Richards - Journey To Bliss

* AS 9167 Gabor Szabo - More Sorcery

* AS 9168 Oliver Nelson/Steve Allen - Soulful Brass

* AS 9169 Mel Brown - The Wizard

* AS 9170 Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead

* AS 9171 Tom Scott - Rural Still Life

* AS 9172 V.A. - Irrepressible Impulses

* AS 9173 The Best Of Gabor Szabo

* AS 9174 The Best Of Chico Hamilton

* AS 9175 Albert Ayler - New Grass

* AS 9176 Ahmad Jamal At The Top: Poinciana Revisited

* AS 9177 no information

* AS 9178 Ornette Coleman - Ornette At 12

* AS 9179 no information

* AS 9180 Mel Brown - Blues For We

* AS 9182 Emil Richards - The Spirit Of 1976

* AS 9183 Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra

* AS 9184 Dave Mackay And Vicky Hamilton

* AS 9185 Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery

* AS 9186 Mel Brown - I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

* AS 9187 Ornette Coleman - Crisis

* AS 9188 Archie Shepp - For Losers

* AS 9189 Milt Jackson - That's The Way It Is

* AS 9191 Albert Ayler - Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe

* AS 9192 Buddy Montgomery - This Rather Than That

* AS 9193 Milt Jackson/Ray Brown - Memphis Jackson

* AS 9194 Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening

* AS 9197 Clifford Coulter - East Side San Jose

* AS 9198 Dave Mackay/Vicky Hamilton - Rainbow

* AS 9200-2 The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years

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So... this is a list of those LPs which were not re-issued by Michael Cuscuna on CD. Lots of these were issued on CD of course so the distinction is that Cuscuna was not involved in their reissue. I get it, but I'm not sure how to use this list. So now I know that although 'See You at the Fair' was available on CD for many years, Cuscuna had no part in its reissue. Is one assumption here that ALL digipac issues from 1995-2000 were produced by Cuscuna? Or that digipacs not produced for reissue by Cuscuna don't count and are therefore included in the list? I'm struggling. So Liberation Music Orchestra which was a digipac was not produced by Cuscuna? OK I admit I'm not quite there... If the question was about digipacs from 1995-2000 why is the answer couched in terms of whether Cuscuna produced the reissue, since that produces a different list? I just need a nudge...

Edited to add Cuscuna did produce the reissue of See You at the Fair. So where does that leave us?

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The Milt Jackson was GRP in jewel case, wasn't it?

Same for some others (See You At the Fair, Sanders' "Tauhid", Shepp's "On This Night", the Lionel Hampton, Billy Taylor's "My Fair Lady"...)

Right, here's a quick list, corrections welcome, a few errors likely. I've stopped at 9200, as the series was not really original Impulse anymore by then, and many of the later issues were compilations ("Best of" and so on). This decision may have led to a few serious omissions.

This is what was not reissued by Michael Cuscuna. I have included (i.e. deleted from the LP list) Michael's earlier jewel case CDs along with the digipacks; there were not many of those. I have also included those albums that were added as bonus tracks with other reissues, e.g. Lawrence Brown's "Inspired Abandon", included on a Hodges CD.

I may have included an album or two that was in a set not produced by Cuscuna.

I'm not sure about the Mingus and Clark Terry albums. Steve Kuhn's "October Suite" and Yusef Lateef's "The Golden flute" are on digipacks, but they are much more recent, and I'm not sure whether Cuscuna was involved with them (if that matters at all, and it probably doesn't).

some more info, using shrdlu's list - just going from my collection and from memory, it's not complete!

(12 inch LP)

* A 8 Max Roach - Percussion, Bitter Sweet >> 20 bit digipack

* A 16 Max Roach - It's Time >> 20 bit digipack

* A 35 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady >> 20 bit digipack

* A 47 Gloria Coleman/Pola Roberts - Soul Sisters >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 54 Charles Mingus - Five Mingus >> 20 bit digipack

* A 59 Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds >> GRP jewel case, I think?

* A 60 Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano >> 20 bit digipack

* A 62 Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria The Great >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 65 Ben Webster - See You At The Fair >> GRP jewel case

* A 69 Yusef Lateef Live At Pep's >> GRP jewel case

* A 72 Billy Taylor/Quincy Jones - My Fair Lady Loves Jazz >> GRP jewel case

* A 78 Lionel Hampton - You Better Know It!!! >> GRP jewel case

* A 81 Shirley Scott - Queen Of The Organ >> GRP jewel case

* A 83 Lambert, Hendricks And Ross - Sing A Song Of Basie >> Verve Master Edition

* A 92 Yusef Lateef - Psychicemotus >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 96 Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now! >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 9103 John Lee Hooker - It Serves You Right To Suffer >> GRP jewel case

* A 9108 Earl Hines - Once Upon A Time >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 9115 Stanley Turrentine - Let It Go >> GRP jewel case

* A 9123 Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 9125 Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 9126 Roswell Rudd - Everywhere >> 20 bit digipack (Cecil Taylor/Roswell Rudd)

* A 9127 Clark Terry/Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* A 9129 Oliver Nelson - Sound Pieces >> Oliver Nelson Mosaic Set

* A 9136 Steve Kuhn/Gary McFarland - The October Suite >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* AS 9144 Oliver Nelson - The Kennedy Dream >> Oliver Nelson Mosaic Set

* AS 9146 Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer >> 20 bit digipack

* AS 9147 Pee Wee Russell/Oliver Nelson - The Spirit Of '67 >> Oliver Nelson Mosaic Set

* AS 9149 Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac >> 20 bit digipack

* AS 9152 Mel Brown - Chicken Fat >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* AS 9153 Oliver Nelson - Live From Los Angeles >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* AS 9155 Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village >> 20 bit digipack (2CD set)

* AS 9158 Rolf Kuhn/Joachim Kuhn - Impressions Of New York >> recently reissued by Universal Germany

* AS 9165 Albert Ayler - Love Cry >> GRP jewel case

* AS 9170 Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead >> 20 bit digipack (incl. the most of the better parts of "Kwanza")

* AS 9175 Albert Ayler - New Grass >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* AS 9183 Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra >> 20 bit digipack

* AS 9191 Albert Ayler - Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe >> LPR/digipack/Originals

* AS 9194 Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening >> 20 bit digipack

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After that puzzlingly worded reply, I wish I hadn't bothered, to be honest. Typical of this board.

Not sure what you're pointing at, but I hope it's not me.

Um, might be me. I guess I was asking what criteria you used in making the list. Peter wants a list of digipacs issued 1995-2000, since he seems to consider the discogs list inaccurate (it is). You seem to have listed reissues produced by Cuscuna, which is a different matter. Your list contains many CDs which exist in digipacs and/or were produced by Cuscuna. I found that confusing so I was trying to ask what you had done and why. Flurian's list at least clears up that a lot has been out in one form or another. FWIW recent UCCI releases in Japan clear up a couple of these which only exist on very inadequate GRP transfers in more modern (if no doubt harsh) sound, such as Statements, Queen of the Organ, Let it Go.

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FWIW these are now the titles left on shdrlu's list after taking away Kibg Ubu's list:

* A 2 Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz

* A 3 The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones

* A 13 Curtis Fuller - Soul Trombone

* A 17 Jackie Paris - Song Is Paris

* A 19 Manny Albam - Jazz Goes To The Movies

* A 20 Shelly Manne - 2-3-4

* A 22 Curtis Fuller - Cabin In The Sky

* A 24 Michael Brown - Alarums And Excursions

* A 25 Oscar Brand - Morality

* A 31 George Wein - Midnight Concert In Paris

* A 36 V.A. - Americans In Europe, Vol. 1

* A 37 V.A. - Americans In Europe, Vol. 2

* A 44 Beverly Jenkins - Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer

* A 46 Gary McFarland - Point Of Departure

* A 51 Shirley Scott - For Members Only

* A 53 Freda Payne - After The Lights Go Down Low And Much More!!!

* A 56 Yusef Lateef - Jazz 'Round The World

* A 58 Terry Gibbs - Take It From Me

* A 64 The Happy Horns Of Clark Terry

* A 67 Shirley Scott - Great Scott!!

* A 70 Milt Jackson - Jazz 'N' Samba

* A 73 Shirley Scott - Everybody Loves A Lover

* A 76 Lorez Alexandria - More Of The Great

* A 80 The Russian Jazz Quartet - Happiness

* A 82 Chico Hamilton - Chic Chic Chico

* A 84 Yusef Lateef - 1984

* A 93 Shirley Scott - Latin Shadows

* A 98 Dannie Richmond - "In" Jazz For The Culture Set

* A 99 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 1

* A 100 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 2

* A 101 V.A. - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 3

* A 9102 Chico Hamilton - El Chico

* A 9104 Gary McFarland - Tijuana Jazz

* A 9105 Gabor Szabo - Gypsy '66

* A 9107 Louis Bellson - Thunderbird

* A 9109 Shirley Scott - On A Clear Day

* A 9112 Gary McFarland - Profiles

* A 9113 Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle

* A 9114 Chico Hamilton - The Further Adventures Of El Chico

* A 9117 Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat And C

* A 9119 Shirley Scott - Roll 'Em

* A 9122 Gary McFarland/Gabor Szabo - Simpatico

* A 9128 Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga

* A 9131 Zoot Sims - Waiting Game

* A 9132 Hank Jones/Oliver Nelson - Happenings

* A 9133 Shirley Scott/Clark Terry - Soul Duo

* A 9135 Chico O'Farrill - Nine Flags

* A 9137 The College Concert Of Pee Wee Russell And Henry 'Red' Allen

* AS 9141 Shirley Scott - Girl Talk

* AS 9142 Mal Waldron - Sweet Love, Bitter (Soundtrack)

* AS 9143 Phil Woods - Greek Cooking

* AS 9145 V.A. - Intercollegiate Music Festival, Vol. 1

* AS 9148 John Coltrane - Cosmic Music

* AS 9150 Al "Jazzbo" Collins - A Lovely Bunch Of Jazzbo Collins And The Bandidos

* AS 9151 Gabor Szabo - Wind, Sky And Diamonds

* AS 9154 Archie Shepp - The Magic Of Ju-Ju

* AS 9157 Clark Terry - It's What's Happening: The Varitone Sound Of CT

* AS 9159 Gabor Szabo/Bob Thiele - Light My Fire

* AS 9163 Tom Scott - The Honeysuckle Breeze

* AS 9164 Bill Plummer - Cosmic Brotherhood

* AS 9166 Emil Richards - Journey To Bliss

* AS 9167 Gabor Szabo - More Sorcery

* AS 9168 Oliver Nelson/Steve Allen - Soulful Brass

* AS 9169 Mel Brown - The Wizard

* AS 9171 Tom Scott - Rural Still Life

* AS 9172 V.A. - Irrepressible Impulses

* AS 9173 The Best Of Gabor Szabo

* AS 9174 The Best Of Chico Hamilton

* AS 9176 Ahmad Jamal At The Top: Poinciana Revisited

* AS 9178 Ornette Coleman - Ornette At 12

* AS 9180 Mel Brown - Blues For We

* AS 9182 Emil Richards - The Spirit Of 1976

* AS 9184 Dave Mackay And Vicky Hamilton

* AS 9185 Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery

* AS 9186 Mel Brown - I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

* AS 9187 Ornette Coleman - Crisis

* AS 9188 Archie Shepp - For Losers

* AS 9189 Milt Jackson - That's The Way It Is

* AS 9192 Buddy Montgomery - This Rather Than That

* AS 9193 Milt Jackson/Ray Brown - Memphis Jackson

* AS 9197 Clifford Coulter - East Side San Jose

* AS 9198 Dave Mackay/Vicky Hamilton - Rainbow

* AS 9200-2 The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years

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There was a second LP release of material from the same ("live") session on Impulse - might have been titled "Just the Way It Had To Be" - but the red cover doesn't ring a bell, that sounds like someting that would have been on "Pablo Live."

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Strange that the two Gil Evans albums 'Out of the Cool' (Impulse 4) and 'Into the Hot' (Impulse 9) did not make the 20-bit list!

Some of the best music from the label.

Cannot check now, but I'm fairly sure Out of the Cool as IMP 11862 was 20-bit, no? Into the Hot definitely wasn't (MCD 39014).

Also, about Ray Charles, if I'm not mistaken he kept ownership of the ABC-Paramount masters and that's why reissues of his ABC stuff come out elsewhere (Rhino) and not GRP or Universal?

(Sorry to digress, but just read here that Concord is reissuing Genius + Soul = Jazz "in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation")

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Strange that the two Gil Evans albums 'Out of the Cool' (Impulse 4) and 'Into the Hot' (Impulse 9) did not make the 20-bit list!

Some of the best music from the label.

Cannot check now, but I'm fairly sure Out of the Cool as IMP 11862 was 20-bit, no? Into the Hot definitely wasn't (MCD 39014).

Also, about Ray Charles, if I'm not mistaken he kept ownership of the ABC-Paramount masters and that's why reissues of his ABC stuff come out elsewhere (Rhino) and not GRP or Universal?

(Sorry to digress, but just read here that Concord is reissuing Genius + Soul = Jazz "in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation")

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Half of Into The Hot is on 'Mixed'.

By the way this is a list of those titles not available - and as you'll gather form the conversation we didn't manage to be too consistent...

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There was a second LP release of material from the same ("live") session on Impulse - might have been titled "Just the Way It Had To Be" - but the red cover doesn't ring a bell, that sounds like someting that would have been on "Pablo Live."

Yes, the cover to that LP is partly red.
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There was a second LP release of material from the same ("live") session on Impulse - might have been titled "Just the Way It Had To Be" - but the red cover doesn't ring a bell, that sounds like someting that would have been on "Pablo Live."

This is the one (AS-9230 Impulse/ABC).....half red, I guess. :) Have never seen a cd copy out there.

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Wrong:

MILT JACKSON QUINTET feat. RAY BROWN / JUST THE WAY IT HAD TO BE

(IMPULSE / WEA WMC5-129)

Japanese Exclusive Release CD

Out of Print. Released on 1990.08.25

Recorded Live at the Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood, Aug. 1, 2, 1969

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/milt-jackson-way-japan-cd-72866602

Ahhhh...so it does exist! Hey, nice detective work!

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