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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
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A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even req...
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I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it...
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you ...
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what...
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System administrators will get visibility into which servers are linked to which network devices. Cu...
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[Still, to lure people into the program will require some ingenuity. ] There's a lot of inertia buil...
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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it o...
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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes....
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One of the most vexing issues in most companies is the duplex mismatching problem.
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Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
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When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration...
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than m...
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With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Onc...
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Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like b...
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As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the...
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I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing...
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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I ne...
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A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They ...
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your f...
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By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. O...
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The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitm...
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When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn...
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Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really c...
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Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is b...
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of s...
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I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to mem...
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The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological m...
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In add...
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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch i...
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Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you kno...
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don'...
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You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company....
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John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and...
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage ...
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People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
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If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know w...
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Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
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When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies mor...
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Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "I...
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write ...
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In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and ...
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about ...
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness...
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You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've g...
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Perfection itself is imperfection.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
DAVID HOROWITZ

Not as many of the major tracks run on Tuesday.
ALAN HOROWITZ

It enables us to raise purses, which benefits the horsemen. The state also gets licensing fees. It a...
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We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.
ALAN HOROWITZ

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.
ALAN HOROWITZ

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
DAVID HOROWITZ

That it was getting destroyed wasn't going to stop me, ... It was just part of the process. I wasn't...
ADAM HOROWITZ

We are slaves to this consumer society, ... When this civilization ends, what are they going to see ...
ADAM HOROWITZ

I've had many crazy schemes,
ADAM HOROWITZ

It has been a challenge bigger than any project I've attempted,
ADAM HOROWITZ

She just wanted to story heard.
ADAM HOROWITZ

You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in t...
ADAM HOROWITZ

It was a really intense learning experience because the show was already up and running. We had to a...
ADAM HOROWITZ

There were lots of road trips they went on. They went to summer camps where the priests were directo...
ADAM HOROWITZ

It was announced publicly in the Diocese of Orlando,
ADAM HOROWITZ

With such strong support from all sides of the political spectrum, we are hopeful the medical mariju...
ADAM HOROWITZ

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
STANLEY HOROWITZ

Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you h...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concent...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the mu...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its o...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
STANLEY HOROWITZ

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

It's really one-stop shopping for the music fan.
BRADLEY HOROWITZ

If you type in 'Like a Virgin' we'll know that the version by Madonna is more popular than the cover...
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The next major shift is going to be about more than which search engine has the most documents. What...
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The opinions of my friends can be an important model for discovery. We want to create a platform so ...
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People can help solve these problems, ... This is the power of our user base, rather than just using...
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[Such network-generated filters will enable psychographic siblings to find one another and, ultimate...
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Video is hard to discover on the Internet. Web pages are self-describing. Video is opaque; it is a b...
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[Making video files searchable remains a largely unsolved challenge.] Video is hard to discover on t...
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When it comes to search, we're like Switzerland. We can't show bias in search.
BRADLEY HOROWITZ

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see wha...
BRADLEY HOROWITZ

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been hap...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.
DAVID HOROWITZ

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.
DAVID HOROWITZ

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the sit...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their charact...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Jameson is a literature professor but his teaching is based on an uninformed opinion. All he's done ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

The cops are doing the best they can. They treat me so kindly and with such decency.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Ameri...
DAVID HOROWITZ

You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid...
RICK HOROWITZ

If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the ni...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave ...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She wa...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

As feminism broadens and becomes more radical, she becomes more of a centrist. Much loved by some, m...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

Her cozying up to dictators will erode ... any support she may have had from the patriotic anti-war ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

A year's suspension would have been merciful.
DAVID HOROWITZ

Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point o...
DAVID HOROWITZ

She fought back very hard. That was very obvious from the scene. I saw the wounds to the head that k...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I held out the packet and suddenly we were friends. That's one of the only good things about being a...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

This alligator has done so much for us. While we were busy trying to capture Harry, he was capturing...
STEVE HOROWITZ

They wouldn't go in front of the grand jury unless they had something to go after.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. T...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English school...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on...
DAVID HOROWITZ

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
DAVID HOROWITZ

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him spe...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of specia...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Most important to me is that he stay away from my wife, Pamela,
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I just want to be buried next to (Pamela) when it's my turn, ... It should have been my turn.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

We do see an outpost of some sort. We just don't know what it looks like yet.
SCOTT HOROWITZ

It is important for conservatives to make distinctions between those on the Left who were (and are) ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

The Palestine Authority cannot be changed or reformed from within. It is a corrupt terrorist police ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

The aim of the movement isn't really to achieve legislation. It's supposed to act as a cattle prod, ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

The root causes remain to identify and that will continue to be our focus. We're looking at all of t...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

This new search apparatus performs one trillion measurements per second and expands by 100,000-fold ...
PAUL HOROWITZ

He has become almost evil.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on fal...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Not all of the professors depicted in this volume hold views as extreme as Ward Churchill's, but a d...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have tw...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

My face is my passport.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Cindy Sheehan is a raving communist and America hater, and that tarnished her reputation a long time...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Certain preventative maintenance is essential to refinery safety, ... Even in the crisis, if the goa...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third...
DAVID HOROWITZ

We try to be extremely explicit about the data we are collecting and how we are storing it, and we l...
BRADLEY HOROWITZ

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you ...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they...
ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we w...
ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice
STANLEY HOROWITZ

Now that the park has gotten some real recognition, we're looking to use Harry as a springboard or k...
STEVE HOROWITZ

A flare is the standard safety equipment in refineries to prevent this kind of release and explosion...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

For me, walking has become less physical transit than mental transportation. It is engaging. I have ...
ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the c...
DAMON HOROWITZ

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I knew she was dead but still, even though I knew, I kneeled down and touched her to see if she was ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

You can't read a story about me in a leftist journal without connecting me to right-wing funding and...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I share a bodyguard with Ann.
DAVID HOROWITZ

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I w...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

I'm never going back there again. It's the most beautiful place ... but all I see is her face.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I can't talk, I can't. It's beyond words.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I can't talk. I can't. It's beyond words.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

It's the most beautiful place . . . but all I see is her face.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

It's not deliberate, she's not really trying to hurt me. She's desperate and scared.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
DAVID HOROWITZ

I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've e...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

This is the world's largest garbage can, that's for sure.
PAUL HOROWITZ

I still am constantly about to pick up the phone and call Pamela. I valued her life, not so much min...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had n...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Susan Polk defended her life against a vengeful, aggressive man who was also her husband.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. The...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Susan Polk defended herself against an attack by a rageful, brutal, aggressive man,
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they sa...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe ...
DAVID HOROWITZ

Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermys...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people hav...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullie...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?"
"Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

It is not who has the bigger index. We hear a lot about efforts to index all the artifacts of human ...
BRADLEY HOROWITZ

I have compassion for Susan and I have to come from a caring place when I hear that.
DANIEL HOROWITZ

You can't get a real education if your professors are only giving you one side of the story. You als...
DAVID HOROWITZ

My book is fair comment. The criticism I have of professors is that they aren't professional. Some a...
DAVID HOROWITZ

I have no problem with professors being left-wing. The problem is if they bring political agendas to...
DAVID HOROWITZ

When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ

It just looked like a crime scene photo I've seen over and over,
DANIEL HOROWITZ

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and becaus...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part o...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

you’d
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WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex
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seconds he was forty, fifty yards
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Here…
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Victorian,
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Stryker.
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bul-lets
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One car behind him. Two
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pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at ...
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The Portuguese man-of-war,” Sayle continued. He had a heavy accent brought with him from the Cairo...
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One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in
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said. “Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?” “So many questions,” Cr...
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himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In second...
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WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

This is a partnership where we're working deeply with Cisco, and the deal will be particularly important for us as we sell into firms using Cisco kit.

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