This is our 3rd album release and spans the last four years of material from The Tempus Collective.
All tracks were written and performed by K Fleming & S Grieve with the following exceptions ; 
"Meanwhile" - P J Moore / R Bell / P Buchannan
"Secret Garden" - Bruce Springsteen
"Despair" - David Sylvian
Special thanks to Iain White for the lyrics on King Of Catastrophe.
Special thanks to Jose Betancourt for the sleeve photography.
Links to Redemption, our latest release are below
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/4mMxTlhEfvsubEqmYzYXrx
Apple music 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id1642490828
iTunes - 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id1642490828?app=itunes
Also available on DSPs below.
Soundcloud, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube Music, 7digital, AliGenie, Anghami, AWA, Boomplay, Claro Música, Deezer
Facebook / Instagram, Jaxsta, JioSaavn, KKBOX, MediaNet, NetEase,Pandora, TDC, Tencent, TIDAL, VerveLife

The Tempus Collective - Redemption (available on all major streaming sites)

A collection of songs that Kev and I have put together over the last 4 years

The Tempus Collective - "A Moment's Peace" (available on all major streaming sites)

The Tempus Collective - "Yugen"

Late night, Light the street lights and,
Embrace life, and the traffic fades,....it fades.

The city wakes before the sun,
The river washes through and on,
The cars, the people, the street life urges on,
Amidst the traffic, I hear laughter through the rain,
The sub way trains, for us, while the great they'll take the plane's.

The Restaurants lie bare now,
The stations fares have gone,
And people sleep in doorways.

Just People watching,
Clear skies, turning grey,
Time to join the pedestrian ways,
Take shelter from the rains of the day,
Till this traffic fades, till another day.

The Tempus Collective - "Traffic"

First track we have made in almost 2 years due to the Covid epidemic.

What Heaven Fears

The Tempus Collective - "What Heaven Fears"

Music by S Grieve & K Fleming
Words by S Grieve & K Fleming.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at SG Audio Production Studios
Recorded December 2021
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Stop all the songs, Hold all those phones,
Roll out the Christmas parade.
Bring in the day, The old fashioned way,
Never afraid.

There's a Mountain, ahead
We can move it, Should we dare,
To take, The chance,
Of all, life's gifts

This is the one,
You have become, the sun that shone,
The whole day through,
I will be home,
The road maybe long, before the Hope
Is gone to soon

I was standing in the Gutter,
Living like no other,
Everyone could see,

You were talking with a stranger,
Living life in danger,
Of all the things you’d be.

Lock all the doors, surrender the cause,
Stop all the songs, that breaks in your heart,

The Tempus Collective - "The Parade"

Written & performed by S Grieve & K Fleming
Mixed & Produced by S Grieve

The Tempus Collective - "Alone"

Redemption:

All the prayers I've made
On this cold September day
Has the call been heard
Or just failed send.

All the faith I've shared
Has it changed this world
Dictatorships and power trips
Religious words that contradict

I've rid myself from all that's free
The bourbon that's from Tennessee
The cigarettes, the girls, the weed,
Yet still you turn your back to me.

Should you forgive me
Then I shan’t fear you
Please don't regret me
Or shed no tear.....

Please don't forsake me
For I have loved you
Please don’t forget me,
When I have gone .......

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Music by S Grieve & K Fleming
Words by S Grieve & K Fleming.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at SG Audio Production Studios
Recorded June 2022

Cover Art : Antonio J. Manzanedo

Redemption

The Tempus Collective - "Redemption"

Written by David Sylvian

Re-imaged by S Grieve & K Fleming with some Tempus Collective special sauce.

Music & production S Grieve
Vocals K Fleming

This is an old track taken off one of Japans best albums, "Quiet Life" It remains one of my personal favourites.

Despair

The Tempus Collective - "Despair" (Sylvian)

Solo Greebo - "I Nearly Married A Human" (Gary Numan)

"Send In the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik, who was deeply in love with her, but whose marriage proposals she had rejected. Meeting him after so long, she realizes she is in love with him and finally ready to marry him, but now it is he who rejects her: He is in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik's young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée's offer.[1]

Sondheim wrote the song specifically for Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway. The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex compound meter. It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins' version charted in 1975 and 1977. Subsequently, numerous other artists recorded the song, and it has become a standard.
 This is our version with a Tempus twist.

Send In The Clowns

The Tempus Collective - Send In The Clowns

New track from the Tempus collective. A bit more up beat from our usual, heralding the start of summer...



The Tempus Collective - "The Last Time"

Ritual Matters

The Tempus Collective - Ritual Matters

In 1960 Birmingham Alabama is the most segregated city in southern America, a brutal regime is in place denying blacks any rights. City Mayor, Bull Connor sets his dogs on the black community, he hoses them, and denies them all civil liberties.  Churches are burned and men, women and children are brutalised, some are targeted and killed as a result of the colour of their skin.  
 
1963 saw the civil rights fight start in this city, so chosen because of its troubles. One year later, following the great march on Washington and Luthers  ‘I have a dream speech’  the civil rights act of 1964 was signed.
 
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming (based around the words of Martin Luther King Jr.) 
 
 
How do you tell,  your seven year old girl,
She aint going to funtown, today
It’s the colour of your skin, she just aint getting in,
Not today, no how….
  
The dream that once you had,  For-ever shall be heard,
Let freedom ring, ..this day,     From every city
If they take your name, sing it,
As the churches burn, there never was shame,
And as the crosses flame, white cotton Dixie,
Jailed for peace and prayer, Alabama 63,
 
If a man has not found, some – thing for which he is prepared to die,
Then he aint fit to live, this life we call our own, we call our own…
Gotta fight to call our own………
 
Thank god almighty, we are free at last…..free at last……

The Tempus Collective - "Birmingham"

About the death of a soldier who witnesses his own funeral and rejoices over his life before moving on to the next...........

The Unwinding Coil.
Tempus. - June 2011


Watching as the stars unfold,
The rivers,  trees,  the rain, I missed them all,
I loved them all,   

Waiting as the flags unfurl,
The  government, the  law's, the pretty girls,
I loved them all, I miss them all.
And I miss them all............

You walked into my life,  and stripped me of my pride,
Of my unwinding coil,  I've left before my time,
But fame and fortune  called, 
You,  your fortune's told, 
I wish you well,

Falling at the feet of God,
The innocence,  the Love, is - all gone,
I  pray you'll  love,  and I  wish you well,
I  wish you well.................

The stars they all unfold tonight, 

I wish you well........

And I miss you girl.


The Tempus Collective - "The Unwinding Coil"

Music & Lyrics - Kevin Fleming & Stewart Grieve
Vocals - Kevin Fleming
Production - Stewart Grieve
Mastered using ozone 11

Meet me on the corner
Of Renfield and of West Georges, lane I’m told,
Let us wander in the rain, on streets that glisten gold,
Talkin traffic, walking home


Meet me in the station
The sweetest sense of fuel, ignites the very soul,
The sound of engines,   People talking,
On the Square, where heads they once did roll.


City of dreams,
The likes of which you’ve never seen,
The curtain falls, our gift to all,
The people we have been,
Boarded windows, Empty houses,
Blackened buildings, broken homes


Meet me on the quayside,
that launched and hauled the earth across Pacific seas,
We’ll take a boat ride,  down the water
And gaze upon the firth, and on the Clyde.

The Blue Green Hollow

The Tempus Collective - The Blue Green Hollow

Music, Lyrics & Arrangement by S Grieve & K Fleming
Recorded & Mixed in August 2015.

The Tempus Collective - "Ordinary Day"

First track I've made on Logic 9 & macbook pro. 

Solo Greebo-Spacial Progress

Our version of the Joy Division classic "Atmosphere", not a straight up cover, we have tried to "Tempusfy" as best we can without losing to much of the original. This was a seminal track of my youth and I have always wanted to cover it, so..... after 30 odd years, here it is....

Songwriters: CURTIS, IAN KEVIN / HOOK, PETER / MORRIS, STEPHEN PAUL DAVID / SUMNER, BERNARD
Arrangement by S Grieve & K Fleming
Guitars courtesy of Steven Young.
Recorded & Mixed in October 2015.

The Tempus Collective - "Atmosphere" - Joy Division Tribute

Driftwood

Here again......
All the wonders of man,
He breathes his end,
Checked out of this world,
Every fathers prayer,
Wasted........
Back and forth,
Driftwood on the sands.....

Music and words Kevin Fleming & Stewart Grieve


The Tempus Collective - "Driftwood"

Stay

Well, a change is in the air, 
And there’s strangers everywhere,
Everywhere……
If you heard my way, you’d stay,

If, you, stay,
Life, Love n Broken down,
Should have become a better man,
Stay,
Heart, Left n Underground,
Could have begun to bring you down – today
Stay,
You never would have strayed……

It's late night, and the music fades
Candles burnin way down low,
Then I hear you go, won't you stay,
You slip right out the door…… Please stay.

The night train tells the time
With a Rhythm so sublime
But if you know that way,
Baby, stay…...baby wont you stay,

Chorus.

4th Verse / end.
If only you would think to stay,
Left broken and a—shamed,
If you stay…..If you stay….
Please stay…..

I will always bear this shame,
I will always think of you, 
If you stay, 
I will always understand  -  yeah
If you stay, …….Please stay,

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Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming
All guitars & additional backing vocals
courtesy of Mark Cowan .
Recorded & Mixed in March 2016.

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The Tempus Collective - "Stay"

This eventually turned into a Tempus - hip hop - fusion track but started life a simpler more relaxed version, with no vocals, which I like in a whole other way compared to what it became.
Very special thanks to Mark Cowan for his exceptional guitar parts.

The Tempus Collective -" Butterflies"

Decided to put Kev's vocal over the original demo I did, just to see how it sounded. It's much closer to the original track I feel, not sure if that's a good thing or not, but anyway, here it is...

The Tempus Collective - Joy Division - "Atmosphere" cover -  Original 101 Vocal Mix

Inspired by my parents, written for their 45th anniversary.

Life in The Hourglass. 
Tempus. - November 2011.

Time flows through the hourglass, 
Sands blow, 
In silence
As the desert breathes,

True souls 
Together, forever, 
A journey just begun, 
Then its, over............. 


The Tempus Collective - "Life In The Hourglass"

Heavens Corner Shop

I Kick up leaves, like I've got a cause,
Straight down the middle, and up until the cross.
Before I know it, I’ve lost my way,
I doubt what she’d had to say,
I go to Heavens corner shop again,
My daily bread, I have to earn.

Breathe in, breathe out, then count to ten
Close your eyes, and remember them,
Breathe in, breathe out, Now the pain it flows,
Let them go……

I think of him, from time to time,
Wonder if, pray for a sign,
There’s nothing left to see,
Just pin holes, lookin back to me.
Life goes on.
Moments will haunt you, an unquestionable fact,
Time moves on, you don’t get it back,

Breathe in, breathe out, then count to ten
Close your eyes, and remember them,
Breathe in, breathe out, Now the pain it flows,
Let them go……

Breathe in, breathe out, 
Now the pain it flows,
Let them go……

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Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming
Additional vocals - Mark Cowan
Bass guitar - Steven Young
Recorded & Mixed in October 2016.

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The Tempus Collective - "Heavens Corner Shop"

Bit of a departure from our usual sound. It's sometimes good to shake it up a bit so we enlisted the help of a few rappers on this track. Don't take it to seriously, we were just tryinig to have a bit of fun with a new genre.

 Special thanks to the Slum Village boys for the vocal stems and Mark Cowan for his outstanding efforts on the guitars.

Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming
All guitars courtesy of Mark Cowan.
Additional vocals by Slum Village
Recorded & Mixed in January 2017.

The Tempus Collective - And Then..... (Ftg additional vocals from Slum Village)

Lyrics:
 
His master, his father, he breathes his last,
A mother,  Beholden,  freed from the loss
A victim from days of truths,
In a world they would not choose, 
Freedom from servitude,
This day… He sailed…
And the lashes across his back,
Whisper in the wind… good god.
He’ll miss her beyond these words,
She will…Reside…
 
And where the portrait hung,
The boy is long since gone….
A single brush stroke hides the view,
And the Skies…
Look Down on streets of wealth,
And the World took for itself. 
 
 
And he’ll always have his cross to bear,
Shackled to the end he fears,
Branded for his ship to sail 
One soul for the state
 
And city merchants trade their skins,
A revolution here within,
Men of steel in cotton fields, 
As she cries for a son,
 
He wonders if she’ll ever know,
He wonders if she’d ever gone,
The Suffrage, The stately homes,                       
Gallows lead him down,   
 
 
And the lies that you tell,
Strung out and raised against your will,
I could run, This city raised this son……….

The Tempus Collective - "Salt Water Black"

This was the track before we got round to filling it out... A short demo I knocked out in an evening..

Solo Greebo - A Moments Peace (Piano demo version)

Our take on the classic Pixies track....

Credits
Guitars and bass WarGames 79 
Additional vocals Anja deBoer , Barry Stewart and El Greebo

Where is my Mind.
Tempus. - January  2012.

Cover Version of a Pixies song.




1st  Verse.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it around, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
And you'll ask yourself

Chorus.

Where is my mind [3x]

2nd  Verse.

I was swimming in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Trying to talk to me, coy koi.

 3rd  Verse.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it around, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
And you'll ask yourself

Chorus.

Where is my mind [3x]

And you'll ask yourself
And you'll ask yourself


Special thanks to Black Francis  for writing such an iconic tune, big love to the Pixies..

The Tempus Collective - "Where Is My Mind" (Pixies cover)

A Moments Peace....

A boy without cares, Walks in himself, 
Through fields of despair – he moves.

Told he was no-one,
No faith in their words,
Life in this day…..his day, 
If this is all, its too late.

For all the wrong reasons, 
It always fades away,
Blind to the song, he sung,
For way to long….

He sought only silence,
A moment to feel, 
A moment of peace….to steal

He fought his convictions, 
From the moment he woke,
A moment of peace, inside...

If this is all, its too late…

It’s too late...
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Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming
Recorded & Mixed in November 2017.
Title track from the album of the same name.

The Tempus Collective - "A Moment's Peace"

Meanwhile – P J Moore /  R Bell / P Buchannan
 
Words & Music by P J Moore / R Bell / P Buchannan
Played & Produced by S Grieve & K Fleming
Additional guitars by Mark Cowan
Recorded & Mixed in April 2018.

 
The Tempus collective’s take on a never released song by the Blue Nile.

7/4/2018

The Tempus Collective - Meanwhile (An unreleased song by The Blue Nile)

Music – Stewart Grieve & Kevin Fleming
Lyrics – Iain White, Kevin Fleming & Stewart Grieve

This song is for my very good departed friend Brian Lennon, and released on my late brother’s birthday. It was made with love and respect...

King of Catastrophe

One day feeds to another
Flick the radio on – don't even bother

A chasm grows, resentment gathers
Silence – our currency in tatters

Do you feel me? King of catastrophe
Teardrops – become the rage in the sea
Raindrops – rage in the sea

An empty room, my eyes feel the weight
Revel in the gloom, life’s in a state

I’m always here, where I've been before
Thinking that I can’t knock down this door

Just a fate that came too soon
Our demise in fractured full bloom
I’ve got no big master plan
I’m the real nowhere man...


(For Brian Lennon)

The Tempus Collective - King Of Catastrophe

Special thanks to Dan D (Collecting Pool) for the bass and Billy (Gentle Threat) for guitars, awesome job boys.

This is a remake of the very first track we recorded is a studio back in 87, the original can be heard here   http://snd.sc/LwWx8g
 
It's been a bit of a labour of love and using a 3/4 time signature has proved to be very difficult for us but we enjoyed the challenge.

Rage in Desire.
Tempus. - February  2012 - A Reworking from 1987.

Bio: This song was written some 25 years ago. While working with a small theatre co. I was struck by the competitive nature over the lead roles and general lust for fame and glory from the cast, mainly kids themselves.  This was a comment on the attitude of the time, which has gone on to shape our current social society and dominate today's media. 

Lyrics:

I want to have every part, 
I wanted to take hold of my heart, 
I feel now Iam ready to show, 
A feeling I just can't conceal anymore, 
Whenever you're young, this feeling inside, 
This burning desire, a feeling of pride, 
I stand here and why, my life burns the fire, 
I am watching my flame, it's been burning on, on.........

I see it in their eyes, That diamond light is mine, 
I see what's ahead for me, and I shine on and on.... and on.

I feel inside, the breath of all my crimes, 
Leading to all, well and I tried, 
The stage is set, The lighting glows, 
Enter the hope, 
And in my time, I believe, 
I must turn and complete, 
Any hold on my life, that is free and deceived, 
And Iam holding on........ 



The Tempus Collective - "Rage In Desire"

A wintery sounding bit of Abstract Shoe Gazing Deep Chill Jazz from the Tempus duo....

"Run The River"

I run the river
The river runs to me
Dances clear and so very free,
Like veins that will carry
Bloodlines flow, into the sea

Dark water still - today
Deep and cold as, night becomes the day,
Bewitched by the winter,
The frozen lochs are skater free…..

Run the river, Run with me….
Hold forever, hold that fear….

The path is soft but, crisp below
The leaves that breath hold
Secrets of us all
Submerged by the waters
The undertow will pull you through the day
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Music by S Grieve & K Fleming
Words by S Grieve & K Fleming.
Recorded & Mixed in January 2019.

The Tempus Collective - "Run The River"

This is one of the first tracks I did with my mate Stevo from work, about how he fell for his new girl..


El Greebo & Wargames79 collaboration - "Found You"

Slightly more upbeat track from us this time, but as usual the subject matter is of a depressing nature, no one likes it when you send a love letter but get "No Reply"....

Thanks to Wargames79 for his bass playing skills and Amy Burnett for lending her vocal talents to this track.

The Tempus Collective - "No Reply"

A wee ambient number from the Tempus duo.

05/06/2019

The Tempus Collective - "The Lighthouse"

This is a re-imagining of the track we first released two years ago, we were not happy with a lot of it, mix not right, vocal not really what Kev wanted in places and the whole thing was a bit muddy sounding, so I've changed a lot of the instrumentation, laid down better guitars and bass, plus with more modern plugins and 2 more years experience in production techniques this is now a totally different sounding beast.

Strange love, is rare, 
Embrace it if you dare,
Strange loves, can fade,
With a pocket full of tears,
Wept through all those years,
And a suitcase, full of dreams,
Empty now, or so  it seems,

I stopped the rain fall,  I stood to face all,
I rise again, I rise again

Strangers and neighbours, updated  status,
Taking their chance, Like your never gonna get again

I stopped the rain fall,  I stood to face all,
I rise again, I rise again

If  you ever find a way to feel, You can really work and make it real,
Should I ever make a move for you, you can love me if you feel it too

I stopped the rain fall,  I stood to face all,
I rise again, I rise again    X 2

So love breaks
you Hide away,
Rise up,  shout out   (Rising)
Shine on, move on     (Rising)
Break free, with me,   (Rising)
Stand and face up, leave it this way...

Words and music - K. Fleming & S. Grieve
Recorded and mixed @ Barn Studios - Autumn 2019

20/08/22

The Tempus Collective - "Rise" 2022 Remix

A track about a particularly beautiful but desolate part of the Scottish Highlands that has always been a favourite visiting spot for me. 

Thanks to Steve & Billy for Bass & Guitars again on this one.

The faded whites of these snow capped fells, and mist that shrouds him.. well,
Faintly…….The Stag steps from the glen.
On the quiet hill,
He stands, so strong....

At the Torridon Fair, she’ll take your hand to lead you there
A fire burns within the soul, with a heart all shades of gold,.. 
The summer rains are in the air, and the red skies of the fair,

A boat lies cast aside the shore, returns its timbers to God and rests in auld folklore,
Of kings and men who stood and fought for so much more, 
Great Northern lights, the rise the fall, they guide them all,
On this quiet hill,
Their spirit lives on…

Deserted barns, the empty crofts, the tumbled ruins, of what once was, 
Redundant rail tracks, the fallow mills, the ghosts of steel, of steam are all but heather now,

The Tempus Collective - "Torridon Fair"

The speech is by charlie Chaplin and is taken from the film "The Great Dictator" which is one of his few films that he speaks in.
 All music done at home studio

Solo Greebo - The Great Dictator - Featuring Charlie Chaplin

The Tempus Collective are : 
Kevin Fleming - writing, vocals & keys
Stewart Grieve (Solo Greebo) - writing, keys and production

The Tempus Collective are a duo hailing from Glasgow/Scotland, consisting of Kevin Fleming (vocals and keys) and Stewart Grieve (Keys, programming and production). The boys first met at school and have been playing together since 1983. They got their first 4-track a few years later and have continued to be bedroom music makers ever since, except for a 10 year recess to attend to family life.

Over the years there have been various musicians who have joined the ranks but it remains a two piece outfit for the moment with guest  musicians joining the band for selected projects as they are required.

Influenced by the likes of The Blue Nile, David Sylvian,Thomas Feiner and similar melancholic artists, the Tempus sound is usually a subdued affair that could never be considered mainstream.

"We spend a lot of time on production, we always have, it's about making the best of what you have at the time, both in ability  and equipment and as the years have gone on, both have improved vastly. We always felt that one good sounding song was worth 10 poor ones !  That's what we strive for, That's where we always channeled our energies and it still is to this day."

Using Soundcloud as their main platform to showcase their music the boys have accumulated a decent following and gained a lot of confidence from the warm reception they have received from fellow musicians and music lovers alike....
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Solo Greebo - Stewart Grieve
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40 years making music and counting..........
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Gear list
  Logic X, Macbook pro, Mac Mini M1, Yamaha O2R desk, Neumann U87 & KM84i, STM-9, AKG C451E, SM57 & 58 microphones.  Spectrasonics Omnisphere & Trillion, Spitfire Audio, Gforce Mini-Monsta 2, Kontakt 7, Waves Platinum suite, Komplete Kontrol & Logic X's vast array of VST's as well as a hardware line up of 2 Roland JV1080's, Korg Wavestation SR, Korg M3R and an Ensoniq SQR racks, Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 Controller Keyboard, & Prokeys Sono 61, Apogee Duet interface,
Access Virus Polar, Ibanez acoustic guitar. 

All tracks are copyrighted but not unusable, just ask.

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