Yesterday was a great signing out at Schuler Books and Music in Lansing.  Pictures and YouTubes up at the website! I enjoy the daylight signings on the weekend, and the crowd was fantastic!  Lots of videos this time, and the questions were a great mix of Hollows, writing, and even a few questions for Dawn Cook.  (laugh)

Click thru to see the videos and pictures!

She was fantastic in person and a great sport – one of her fans is a manager at the restaurant next door and couldn’t make it to the signing because he was working. Kim actually let me drag her and her husband next door to grab a quick pic with him – what an absolute trooper after a 3 hour talk/signing! Much love to her from Schuler and her many Michigan fans!

So our Lansing store is getting all geared up for its February 27 event with NYT-bestselling paranormal thriller author Kim Harrison (Squee!!), and the local press is just starting up, with a piece published by Revue Mid-Michigan. (The piece also mentions our upcoming Okemos location’s event with local author Helene Ellis for her book The Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children)

According to Kim’s blog, it was her first interview of the touring season, and she says she doesn’t do many, so double-squee.

Witches Are a Piece of Cake

Written by Joanna Dykhuis

Rachael Morgan is a purebred witch who is also bounty hunter for Inderland Security. Her friends include Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a four-inch tall pixy with 54 children. Rachael’s kids won’t be witches; they’ll be demons, and, while Rachael has encountered lovers of many species, her one true love was a vampire named Kisten.

Rachael Morgan is the foundational character in the Kim Harrison’s Hollows series, and is a driving force in Harrison’s writing.

Kim Harrison
Schuler Books and Music, Lansing
Feb. 27, 3 p.m.
schulerbooks.com, (517) 316 7495

“If I wanted to, my publisher would let me keep going, but my main character Rachael Morgan says ‘Stop! I want my happy ending. Let me go!’”

Harrison’s brand of dark urban fantasy and romance has been winning fans since her debut book in the series, Dead Witch Walking in 2004. Romantic Times named it the Best Fantasy Novel of the year, and ParanormalRomance.com awarded it the P.E.A.R.L., or the Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature for Best Science/Fantasy Fiction. Harrison was also given the P.E.A.R.L. for Best New Author that same year.

Harrison, an Ann Arbor native, didn’t begin writing until she was 30.

“I started on a whim,” Harrison said. “I wrote for an hour and loved it, and it just got addicting.”

The very first thing she wrote eventually got published as First Truth, a book in the Truth Series that she writes under her real name, Dawn Cook. After she finished the Truth Series she wrote Dead Witch Walking under the name Kim Harrison, which found a ready market. As Cook, she has also written the Princess Series.

Harrison attributes the appeal of urban fantasy to escapism. Although the world her readers visit is not any sort of paradise, “it’s a safe danger, like roller coasters. You know you’re going to be OK. You can live vicariously through these characters then you can close the book and go pick up your kids from school,” she chuckles. “Most of it has to do with [that] it’s fun; it’s fun to just pretend that you’re doing these magical powerfully things.”

Urban fantasy has enjoyed a steady increase in popularity for a number of years. The genre seems to attract readers, and Harrison contends that “when I write about vampires and witches, I’m really writing about people. That’s what the core of my books are about, are the characters.”

Another aspect of urban fantasy is that it “does tie in quite a bit with paranormal romance…both have usually strong willed female protagonists, usually oriented for solving a crime [and there is] always magic,” describes Harrison. “It seems what helps identify these two genres isn’t so much what they’re doing-you can have mystery, you can have romance-what identifies these genres are the characters themselves.”

Black Magic Sanction, the eighth book in the Hollows series, comes out Feb. 23, and Harrison will be in town for a talk and book signing.

Other Literary Events

Helene Ellis
Schuler Books and Music, Okemos
Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
schulerbooks.com, (517) 349-8840

Helene Ellis has a heart for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and are part of an extended kinship family. She has dedicated her care and time for children and their kinship families by writing The Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children, a monthly newsletter Kinship Care Notes and a blog located at kincare.blogspot.com. Ellis states that “after years of working with families who have just taken on beloved children in their extended family, I have learned that there are few resources guiding these courageous adults through the maze of public systems.” Her writing works as a guidance for grandparents or other kinship relatives who have taken in extended family members, offering advice and explanation of how to deal with a variety of situations and life’s little difficulties. Ellis will be speaking at Schuler Books on Feb. 24 beginning at 7 p.m.

Lansing resident Monica Wright, left, waits for her costume to be judged as Dansville, Mich., resident Kerry Cripe pretends to bite his daughter Anna McCabe, 10, during zombie night Tuesday at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Center Blvd., in Lansing. Cripe and McCabe won first place in the costume contest, which included all kinds of zombies including bobble head zombies, a zombie princess and an elephant zombie. — Photo by Angeli Wright

Zombie pinups invade Schuler

By Martin Berman

To kill a zombie, you’ll need a shotgun or a blunt object to remove the head or destroy the brain. But to attract zombies to a party, you’ll need a DJ, a costume contest, film screening and zombie pinup photographs.

Schuler Books and Music at Eastwood Towne Center, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., in Lansing, brought all these things and more together Tuesday night for their first zombie party, attracting zombie fanatics (many of whom were dressed as zombies themselves) from all across the Lansing area.

“I am a longtime zombie fan — I would say I’m such a fan that I have a half sleeve tattoo of zombies,” said Kerry Cripe of Dansville, Mich. “Ever since I was a real young kid, I was into the (George A. Romero) films. I just had to come.”

Cripe, along with his daughter, both were made up in full zombie attire. Both were sprayed with fake blood, wore ripped shirts and sported deep gashes and Cripe even appeared to be missing an eye.

Michelle Kunze, of Lansing, dressed as a zombie prostitute.

“I’m just here for the zombies,” Kunze said. “It’s the first (event) so hopefully we can do a bunch more if it goes well, so we need to put the zombie word out there.”

Credit for the zombie bash goes to Schuler Books’ Promotions Coordinator Whitney Spotts.

“It’s pretty fun that I actually get to spend someone else’s money to do this,” Spotts said. “It started out as a gaming night because we have these great zombie board games. And then I remembered that Jena and I had talked about this photo shoot … so that was the centerpiece. And then we added the zombie DJ … and the movies were a no-brainer because that’s where the zombie love starts.”

That love that started with those old movies is gaining popularity and likely will to be the next big craze, Spotts said.

“Everyone knows the vampire boom that ‘Twilight’ brought about. Well, I created a poster that said, ‘Zombies are the new Vampires,’ and it’s true — that’s the next wave in books that are coming out,” Spotts said.

At the center of the bookstore, hanging from string tied to the ceiling, were Jena McShane’s photos of pinup style zombie portraits. The Lansing photographer found a niche for the old-school feel and poses of pinup photography and after several shoots for school classes at Lansing Community College, she decided to start a project more for herself.

“Zombie pinups just popped in my head; I have no clue how that happened. I really like zombie movies but I’m not obsessed with them,” she said. “I’m really excited that people have seemed really enthused about this and I probably will further my pinup photography projects.”

Capping off the zombie party was a costume contest, offering almost $300 worth of gift certificates from local businesses to the winners. Happy with the turnout, Spotts said she was in her element among the undead guests.

“I’ve never been so happy to do work in my life,” she said.

Rhoda will be at Schuler of Lansing next week, at 7 p.m. on October 29, for our Girls’ Night Out author series, and we are so excited about the buzz her book is building across the country!

She got a four-star review in the current issue of People Magazine, and Time magazine has posted an interview with her that you can read after the jump!

Also, click through this link to read a hilarious article Rhoda wrote in September for New York Times magazine called The Tractor Driver or the Pothead?

Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite

When Rhoda Janzen went away to college, she was determined to leave her past behind. But unlike the average independence-minded freshman, Janzen was Mennonite — a member of a small, strict Christian denomination with only 110,000 members in the U.S. She went on to earn a Ph.D. from UCLA and become an English professor. But in 2006, at age 43, a personal crisis sent her back to her Mennonite roots in Fresno, Calif. Janzen has written a new book about her unusual journey, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Henry Holt). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Janzen in Holland, Mich., where she is an English professor at Hope College.

The Mennonites are often confused with the Amish, right?
Indeed they are. The Amish used to be a part of the Mennonite Church, but they broke up with us in 1691. [The two faiths] still share many points of belief and also a very simple lifestyle, although the Amish tend to be way more conservative.

What are the basic Mennonite beliefs and practices now?
The Mennonites are a Protestant group. They believe in adult baptism, and they have this long history of political protest of war. They have several hundred years of being conscientious objectors. But I think what a lot of people would say is that they tend to be very conservative in their lifestyle choices.

Does that affect what they wear?
It affected my community when I grew up. Many Mennonites wear old-fashioned hats, aprons and so on. But those tend to be the group called the Old Mennonites. I grew up among the Mennonite Brethren, and they just wore conservative clothes that you wouldn’t necessarily stop and stare at on the street. Back then I wasn’t allowed to wear jeans. My mom felt that skirts gave more glory to God.

Did you feel a sense of differentness when you were growing up?
I felt so different. I went to public school. I didn’t know anything about pop culture or song lyrics or dancing or anything like that. I was embarrassed for how I dressed and was embarrassed that I didn’t have that same cultural knowledge. It didn’t occur to me that the Mennonites might have something that other people were missing.

At what age did you start thinking, Oh, I have to break out of this?
As soon as I realized that breaking out was an option. I had a little rebel fantasy pretty early on. When I graduated high school and moved on to college, that’s when I began making decisions.

What did that feel like? It must have felt like a big break, a big transition.
It did. I think maybe a lot of kids do the lifestyle stuff first, like they’ll drink beer. I didn’t do that so much as really begin to read outside the stuff I’d been trained on. So I began to read about other religions and read philosophy and literature. When you get immersed in that as a young thinker, it tends to stretch you a little bit.

What circumstances ultimately compelled you to go back to the Mennonite community?
Well, I had a sort of critical year, a crisis year. My husband of 15 years announced one day that he was leaving me for a guy named Bob, whom he had met on Gay.com. Then, six days later, I was in a car accident. I was a mess, really, so I went to the only place I could figure out to go that wouldn’t cost much, and that was home to the Mennonites.

So what was it like when you first went back?
I had expected to sleep in, hole up out of self-pity, but my mother was so busy and cheerful that I didn’t have time for any of that. The very first morning, when I was still jet-lagged, she stuck her head into my old bedroom and said, “You want to help me make pie-by-the-yard? I picked up a big bag of Granny Smiths!” I found it comforting to snap back into old patterns, with my mom presiding over the kitchen in her safari apron. Trailing one’s 70-year-old parents around town is an excellent and under-discussed cure for heartbreak.

What was most surprising to you?
I had remembered the Mennonites of my youth as congenial folks, so it wasn’t a surprise that I loved them as an adult. What was a surprise was that I loved what they stood for — I loved the faith itself, and the way they consistently demonstrated what they believed. For instance, when my mom learned that an elderly woman from her church was recuperating from a surgery, it wasn’t a question of if she would visit. It was a question of whether to bring homemade zwieback or a tray of platz. It was the genuine human warmth of this community that set me thinking about faith in new ways.

What do you suppose your life would have been like if you had stayed there originally?
There was a Mennonite guy whom everybody sort of expected me to marry. Hi, Gary! He was tall, I was tall. Our parents were friends. We both were interested in theology, maybe even in seminary. This man and I never actually dated, and he ended up moving in a different direction too. But if I had stayed, I would have wanted to marry a man like him — thoughtful, reflective, family-oriented. I would have put embarrassing meatball sandwiches in my kids’ lunches. Lord knows I would have saved money on shoes.

The Grand Rapids Public Library’s annual festivities routinely attract some of the most exciting faces in today’s literary landscape to visit and share the stories of their lives and on their pages. On Saturday, October 17, from 10:00am to 6:00pm, the main branch of the GRPL hosts a full docket of guest speakers, including former Entertainment Weekly reporter and award-winning novelist Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe, Edgar-winning mystery writer C.J. Box, and award-winning journalist and author Dave Cullen. Many well known local authors including Rose Hammond, Mardi Link, and Kris Riggle have also planned talks. In addition to authors, the knowledgeable library staff shares their recommendations with themed presentations. A full schedule of events, ranging from cooking to true crime and poetry slams to comic book illustrating, is available here.

Schuler Books will be there through it all, providing books by visiting authors, many of whom will be participating in book signing sessions following their presentations. 20% of every sale is donated to the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation.

Make your way downtown when the colors peak this fall to enjoy an afternoon with friends and family at the Celebration of the Book, and support your local library with every purchase!

Check out this recent article from the Lansing City Pulse about popular Lansing fantasy author Jim C. Hines! The Schuler of Lansing is hosting a Release Party for Jim’s new book The Mermaid’s Madness next week on October 8 @ 7 p.m.

Distressing damsels

Local fantasy writer makes girls kick butt in latest book, series

by Bill Castanier

Lansing fantasy writer Jim C. Hines and his “twisted sisters” are back with Hines’ new book, “The Mermaid’s Madness,” which tells what really happened to a young mermaid who saves the life of a handsome prince.

The book is the second in a series of wayward looks at traditional “princesses,” which includes the likes of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, whom Hines calls literary “Charlie’s Angels.” They all play major roles in Hines’ new book and get in the swim of things to save the “merfolk.”

Hines was inspired to write the series while a daughter was going through a “princess” stage. “Our house was littered with princess items, and I decided to write an alternative role model for my daughters,” he said. “I wanted to write a book where the princess takes care of herself.”

In Hines’ action-packed tales, the princesses don’t get taken advantage of; they kick butt to save the kingdom.

After being a fan and avid reader of the fantasy genre for more than 30 years, Hines sort of backed into writing it while reading a friend’s stories. “I thought, ‘How hard could this be?’” Hine said. “I wrote a few stories, and they were pretty bad. I started collecting rejection letters and decided that I want to do this. It took a lot of stubbornness to finally break in.”

He initially focused on short stories, and now Hines has 40 short stories in print, including one featured on a Seattle coffee company’s bags of beans.

His big breakthrough came when he decided to take a look at the genre through new eyes. “I decided to tell a little fantasy story from the monster’s standpoint, which had been done, but I wanted to see it done differently with more of the underdog feel,” Hines said.

The concept grew into a three-book series (“Goblin Quest,” “Goblin Hero” and “Goblin War”), following unlikely hero Jig the Goblin through his adventures with pixies, wizards and all of the other usual suspects. “Jig is a runt among runts, and he only has two things going for him; he is smarter than the average goblin, and he has a pet spider, which sets things on fire,” Hines said.

Hines’ latest fantasy-fractured tale is the follow-up to the first in his princess series, “The Stepsister Scheme.” The third book will be a spin on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, in which the heroine goes on to become one of the most feared assassins in the world. “Red Hood’s Revenge” is due out next summer.

Fantasy books are often criticized for their fictionalized violence, but Hines counters that the real world isn’t much better. “Yes, the books do have some violence and darkness, but so does real life,” Hines said. “I try to balance darkness out with humor and allowing the princesses to have some fun along the way.”

Although Hines is considered a fairly successful fantasy writer, he still holds down a day job with the State of Michigan. He writes during his lunch break, where if you go looking for him at his chair, you will find a sign that reads, “I’m not here now. I’m at lunch.” Actually, his mind is lost in an active fantasy world.

Readers can get some insight into that mind in “The Mermaid’s Madness,” in which the sweet princesses confront murder, madness and “magic gone awry.” The only thing missing from the series is a pet goblin named Jig, but there are killer tuna fish and mermaids galore.

‘The Mermaid’s Madness’

By Jim C. Hines 352 pages. DAW Books

Hines will be at Schuler Books & Music in the Eastwood Towne Center for an appearance and booking signing at 7 p.m. Oct. 8. www.schulerbooks.com.

Yesterday we posted about our Lansing Bananagrams tournament. happening tomorrow night (Sept. 17) at 7 p.m. at our Eastwood Towne Center location. (Check the previous post for details. To register, email your name and phone number to whitney@schulerbooks.com.)

We’re going to have prizes for the people who reach the final table at the tournament, as well as a Grand Prize including a $50 Schuler gift certificate for the final winner. AND today we found out that Workman Publishers, which recently released the official Bananagrams book, is sending us a special Bananagrams Trophy for the tournament winner!  How cool is that?!

It’s not too late to sign up, so let us know if you want in on this super-fun wordster event!

A reminder to all those Bananagrams Fans out there (there is a Facebook app that I’m addicted to!), the Lansing Schuler is hosting a Bananagrams Tournament at 7 p.m. this Thursday, September 17, celebrating the release of the official Bananagrams book!

This hot new word craze for fans of Scrabble and Crossword puzzles, pits you in a timed race to see who can take their lettered tiles and most quickly create a crossword grid of connecting and intersecting words.

Prizes will be awarded to everyone who reaches the final table, with a Grand Prize to the overall winner! Please pre-register so we can plan for space by filling out an entry form at the Lansing Schuler location, or by sending an email with your name and phone number to whitney@schulerbooks.com.

Click through for tournament details!

It will essentially be a poker-style format – specifics will depend on how many people register. If we have a large crowd, we will start with people divided among tables around the store. The winner of each table will advance, until we get down to just one table. In this case we will use the Bananagrams Cafe Rules described below.

If we have a smaller turnout we will play regular Bananagrams rules (see below). When the game ends, the person with the most tiles unplaced will be out. Play repeats until we are down to a winner.

We will have prizes for the final table (6 to 8 people) with a Grand Prize for the overall winner. The entire tournament will last no longer than 2 hours, since it begins at 7p.m. and the store closes at 9:30.

How to Play Bananagrams:
Standard Rules:
1. Place all 144 tiles face down on center of table. These tiles are referred to as the “BUNCH”. For games of 2-4 people, each player takes 21 letters from the bunch, keeping them face down. For 5-6 players, 15 letters are taken. For 7-8 (or more) players, 11 letters are taken.

2. NOW THE GAME BEGINS!!!Any one player says “SPLIT” whereupon all players turn their own tiles face up and proceed to form their OWN collection of connecting and intersecting words. The words may be horizontal or vertical, reading left to right or top to bottom. Each player may rearrange his/her own words as often as desired. Players DO NOT take turns, but play independently of each other and at the same time.

3. When a player has none of his/her original letters left, that player says “PEEL” and takes a tile from the bunch. At this point ALL OF THE OTHER PLAYERS MUST ALSO TAKE A TILE FROM THE BUNCH and add it to their collection of letters.

4.At any time, and as often as desired during play, any player may return a difficult-to-use letter back to the center of the BUNCH, face down, but MUST TAKE THREE LETTERS IN RETURN. The player must declare this action to the other players by saying “DUMP”. This exchange does not affect the other players.

5. Play continues until there are fewer tiles in the BUNCH than there are players. The first player with no remaining letters shouts
“BANANAS”
and is the winner of that hand. The other players may now inspect the winning hand for misspelled or incorrect words. Proper nouns are not acceptable. Any available dictionary may be used. If all words are acceptable, that player is the WINNER OF THAT HAND. If any word in the “winning” hand is found to be unacceptable, that player becomes the “Rotten Banana” and is OUT OF THAT HAND, and must return his/her letters, face down to the center bunch and the game now resumes for the remaining players.

Banana Cafe Rules:
The BANANAGRAMS pouch is placed on the table. Each player takes 21 tiles from the pouch. Players then proceed to play the regular game with “dumping” but NO “peeling”. The first player to use all his/her letters says “BANANAS!!!” and is the winner, provided all words are acceptable.

Stop by and give a home to a lonely dog or cat, or donate to help support the shelter!

The shelter also has a number of volunteer opportunities available. Visit their website for more information!

Starts tonight (June 4) at 7 p.m. at Schuler Books in the Eastwood Towne Center (2820 Towne Center Blvd, Lansing). If you don’t already have a ticket, you can grab one at the signing, which will proceed in ticket number order.

Check out this week’s Lansing City Pulse article about the event after the jump!

Lansing City Pulse
by Bill Castanier

In the 56 years Detroit native Elmore Leonard has been writing, he has developed all kinds of rules about his craft. At a recent event in Ann Arbor, he told the audience with his characteristic deadpan wit, “I leave out everything people skip over.”
Another rule, which he follows religiously, is that he makes himself invisible. “I let my characters speak for themselves,” he said.
And speak they do. Leonard, 83, author of “Get Shorty” and “Be Cool,” is considered one of the best writers in any genre at using dialogue to move a story. “Dialogue was the easiest thing for me,” he said. “It was really fun for me to hear people talking.”

In his latest book “Road Dogs,” Leonard uses only a short introduction to set the stage, and then the characters are on their own. The book is something of a Leonard reunion, with three characters from his previous books meeting up for no good. There’s gentleman bank robber Joe Foley, who was portrayed by George Clooney in the film version of “Out of Sight;” Cuban gangster Cundo Rey from “La Brava;” and finally, the gorgeous and dangerous Dawn Navarro, from “Riding the Rap.” Rey and Foley become friends in prison, and Foley, who is released early, waits for Cundo’s release by “watching over” Dawn, who has become the wealthy Rey’s arm candy. Conspiracy and scams are not far behind.

You don’t have to read too many Leonard novels to know the characters aren’t always what they seem and that at least one (may be all) will end up on the short end of the stick.

It took awhile, but now Leonard’s son Peter is following his father’s path. Peter Leonard has just published his second mystery, “Trust Me,” which to, his credit, features many of the elements that have made his father’s books so successful.

Peter Leonard said his father, whom he often slips into calling “Elmore,” always told him he should be a writer, “but he told that to all my brothers and sisters.”

He recalls sending his father a six-page, short story shortly after college. “I got back three pages of commentary,” he said. “One comment was that my characters are like strips of leather drying in the sun. They are all alike. But that isn’t what kept me from writing. I had a great advertising career and a family.”

Peter Leonard knows there will be no race to catch up with father, who has written more than 40 books. On a recent trip together to the Tucson Book Festival, the younger Leonard looked at his father going over the long list books he had written. He forgets exactly what he said to his father, but he remembers the answer: “You better get going.”
Peter Leonard’s second book has the ring of one of his father’s classic novels. There is a con-woman, a bad-ass criminal she hangs with and a group of slapstick thugs who make a robbery go wrong. Bodies fly, allegiances get cloudy and the pages almost turn themselves.
While Peter Leonard toiled as the head of his own ad agency, he would visit his father in his Birmingham home. “He was having fun,” he said. “He’d be in his office, which was his living room, and he would be having fun.”
The elder Leonard remembers his own working at ad agency days, when he would have a hand in his desk drawer surreptitiously writing Western short stories.

Peter Leonard learned his lesson. He started writing screenplays, but his father gave him some simple advice: “You have to be out there.” So he turned one of his screenplays into his first novel, “Quiver.”

Elmore Leonard has legions of fans that turn out for his infrequent events. Many of them were drawn to Leonard’s work because of its Detroit connection, and they stayed fans when his books took them to Hollywood or Miami.

Lansing resident and Michigan Court of Appeals Judge William Whitbeck has read each of the Leonard’s recent books, and he said if he could ask a question of Elmore Leonard, he’d want to know where he gets his dialogue. “He can write a real pageturner and you want to know what happens,” Whitbeck said. Whitbeck may have a professional interest in the answer, since he has his own debut mystery coming out next year.
East Lansing resident Tom Plasman, who was in Ann Arbor last Thursday for the Leonard´s event, has read about half of Elmore Leonard’s books. “You become part of the story and he doesn’t gild the lily,” he said. “When somebody is hit in his book, I hit the floor.”
Plasman also likes Elmore Leonard’s characters for their audacity, pointing out Chili Palmer (played by John Travolta in screen adaptations of the books) of “Get Shorty” and “Be Cool.”
When Leonard was asked recently about what the real Chili Palmer was doing (he borrowed the name), he quickly responded. “He sued me,” Leonard said. “It cost me $40,000.” Leonard writes just like he talks. He uses no excess of words.
The Leonards routinely banter about things as simple as research. Peter Leonard does most of his research online, and he knows his dad hasn’t discovered the Internet.

“I don’t need it. I have Gregg [Sutter],” Elmore Leonard said, referring to his fulltime researcher of 30 years.

Elmore Leonard & Peter Leonard

7 p.m. Thursday, June 4 Schuler Books & Music, Eastwood Towne Center FREE, tickets required.Unlimited tickets available, but only first 100 will be seated (517) 316-7495 http://www.schulerbooks.com

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