NEWS
March 2010
On location for "young promotion"
March 8th, 2010
I was on location recording production sound for young promotion. The filming took place at Frankfurt airport, amongst other locations.
In the frame for "congaz"
March 8th, 2010
For the visual media company congaz I worked as a sound mixer on the set of a green screen production. This way of filming allowed me to not only bring the microphone but also myself into the frame, without having to fear of being beheaded.
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February 2010
Foley editor at the "Foley Lounge"
February 19th, 2010
I've recently started working as a foley editor at the Foley Lounge for foley artist George Hapig. So far the predominantly foreign productions I've been working on include the british feature Lennon naked, which tells the story of John Lennon and his leaving the Beatles in order to follow his solo career.
Videos for "TravelWorks"
February 18th, 2010
The final mixes of the video clips by colleague and friend Caroline Bergmann have been completed. The clips about "work and travel" trips abroad through TravelWorks will be available on DVD soon.
Trailer for "Mystery Cache"
February 10th, 2010
My colleague and composer Christian Barth and I designed the soundtrack to Holger Frick's trailer for the feature Mystery Cache.
Production on "AFK" has begun
February 1st, 2010
The shooting to Benjamin Dressler's new short AFK has started. The film is being shot on a RED One.
"Parkour" at Berlinale
February 1st, 2010
Marc Rensing's feature Parkour will be shown at the 60th Berlinale.
"Bis aufs Blut" wins in Saarbrücken
February 1st, 2010
Bis aufs Blut won three prizes at this year's Max Ophüls Filmfestival. Apart from being the audience favourite and convincing the pupil's jury, Oliver Kienle's film also won the distribution funding.
Byzantinian Christmas music
February 1st, 2010
Soprano Camelia Tarlea has released her first CD with traditional Romanian Christmas carols, Doamne a Tale cuvinte. I was responsible for recording and mix.
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January 2010
Happy New Year!
January 7th, 2010
I wish you all the very best for 2010.
"Champions" hits box offices
January 7th, 2010
The Suisse feature Champions hits the cinemas today.
"Bis aufs Blut" and "Wolf unter Schafen" at the Max-Ophüls Festival
January 7th, 2010
Both Bis aufs Blut and Wolf unter Schafen will be holding their premier at this year's Max Ophüls Filmfestival in Saarbrücken.
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December 2009
Merry Christmas
December 24th, 2009
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
"Born of Hope" released
December 8th, 2009
The Lord Of The Rings fan film Born Of Hope has been released. I was fortunate to be part of the team and am credited as one of the foley artists. The film can be watched online at www.bornofhope.com
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November 2009
SFX for "Champions"
November 23rd, 2009
I was given the chance to work as an additional sound editor on the Swiss feature Champions, editing sounds for the in-game ice hockey scenes.
"Parkour" wins Eastman Kodak Award
November 23rd, 2009
Marc Rensing's feature Parkour won the Eastman Kodak Award at this years' film festival in Hof. The film will hit cinemas in March 2010.
"2012" wins Westfalia Film Award
November 23rd, 2009
The sci-fi short 2012 by Marcus Overbeck won the Westfalia Film Award at this year's film festival in Lünen.
SACD mix of Essen's Girls' Choir completed
November 16th, 2009
The dramaturgical surround mix for the Super-Audio-CD of the Girl's Choir of the City of Essen has been completed. It will go straight to mastering and duplication to ensure its release in time for Christmas. The stereo and surround mixes are being mastered by Christian Zimmerli.
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October 2009
Foley for "Born of hope"
October 26th, 2009
Born Of Hope is a Lord Of The Rings fan film, produced by Actors at work productions, bringing together fans and creatives from all over the world. Sound post-production was spread out to various teams, including myself as foley artist/recordist on some scenes, with Enos Desjardins as sound supervisor and re-recording mixer. The film will go online on December 1st.
"Schlaraffenland" in BR short film night
October 20th, 2009
Schlaraffenland will be aired in the BR short film night on this Wednesday, October 21st at 11:40pm.
Audio gradutation work online
October 16th, 2009
An excerpt of my audio graduation work to the film Crew United (director: Milos Savic, production: Film Academy Baden-Württemberg) can now be found online under media.
"Versatzstücke" premieres
October 7th, 2009
Elisa Purfürst's documentary Versatzstücke about escape and migration is going to premiere at the film festival 52. DOK Leipzig (26.10. - 01.11).
SACD Mix
October 4th, 2009
The recordings of the Girls Choir of the City of Essen we made in June are now being mixed by Anne Camina and myself at the studios in the IMM. We are using a surround dramturgy developed by Prof. Hans-Joachim Haas in order to strengthen the textual reference and emotional listening experience by specifically placing the signals in the surround environment.
Mix for "Ins Blaue"
October 2nd, 2009
Kaija Helweg's short Ins Blaue is currently being mixed at the KHM Cologne School of Media Arts. The sound post-production team, with Helene Seidl as dialogue editor and myself as re-recording mixer is working hard to have the final mix ready for the screening at the KHM Showcase.
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August 2009
Children's short "180grad" in Berlin
August 18th, 2009
I am currently working as the sound recordist on the set of the children's short 180grad (180 degrees) in Berlin, getting the chance to once again work with director Maren Erdmann and DOP Ove Sander, as well as other crew members from Paul's Grandpa.
TRANSIT continues
August 5th, 2009
Things went well during the first half of filming and I have been asked to continue my work on the set of the feature Transit. I will be doing the on-set recordings for all but the last four days, giving me the chance to work with German actor Jürgen Vogel.
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July 2009
On set for Munich's HFF film school
July 26th, 2009
I am currently on set als sound recordist for the first half of the shooting to the feature Transit by director Philipp Leinemann. The film is being shot on location in and around Munich, to a great extent at motorway service areas, as well as on the motorway using a rigged truck-trailer. The film is being co-produced by Viafilm and Kaissar Film.
Dialogue editor for Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
July 26th, 2009
The dialogue for director Alex Eslam's short Wolf unter Schafen (wolf amongst sheep) was edited by me in preparation for the final mix by sound designer Christian Heck.
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June 2009
SACD production with the Girls Choir Essen
June 30th, 2009
Under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Joachim Haas, my colleagues Anne Camina, Bernhard Trutnau and I were responsible for the recordings of the Girls Choir of the city of Essen in Essen's Cathedral. The concert, recorded in 96 kHz in our university's OB-recording van, is to be mixed in 5.1 surround for an upcoming SACD.
Location sound for long-time documentary project
June 30th, 2009
Prof. Manfred Waffender is making a long-term documentary project on piano professor Thomas Leander and some of his students at Düsseldorf's Robert Schumann Music Academy. Together with my colleagues Jonas Hummel, Silvan Oschmann and Jakob Storm I was responsible for location sound recording while shooting during lessons. As part of our seminar, we are trying to find the pros and cons of different micing concepts for the situation.
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May 2009
Boom operator for "Bis aufs Blut"
May 13th, 2009
I am assisting my colleague and sound recordist Marc Wesemann in recording the production sound for the film Bis aufs Blut (Director: Oliver Kienle). The film is being shot on location in and around Würzburg, Germany.
Dialogue editing for "Parkour"
May 13th, 2009
During the sound post-production for the feature film Parkour (Director: Marc Rensing) I was responsible for dialogue editing for my colleague and sound supervisor André Zacher. Helene Seidl was adr and foley editor.
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April 2009
"Jeder für sich" premieres
April 11th, 2009
Jeder für sich, Johan Leenders' visual graduation film, will premiere on April 17th at IMMPact No.1. The film, which will be shown together with other productions by students of the IMM, tries to find a common view on and of the director's generation. Besides recording some of the interviews, I was responsible for the final mix as well as creating the sound design together with Johan Leenders.
Graduation project sound - "Crew United"
April 8th, 2009
Sound post-production and therefore my graduation project in the sound department of my studies at the Institute For Music And Media have been completed. Besides recording the original dialogue and sound on set, I was responsible for editing, sound design, part of the music and the final mix in 5.1 surround. The exam was held by Prof. Andreas Grimm and Olaf Mierau (result 1,0). The film premiered in Schwäbisch-Gmünd in April.
On location for Congaz
April 8th, 2009
My assistant David Dimartino and myself as recording engineer spent two days shooting on location for congaz visual media in Düsseldorf.
Sound editing for Parkour
April 8th, 2009
I am currently editing dialogue for the feature Parkour (Director: Marc Rensing, Sound Supervisor: André Zacher).
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January 2009
Mix of "Versatzstücke"
January 29th, 2009
The experimental documentary Versatzstücke by Elisa Purfürst is based on the acoustic impressions experienced by refugees. Four people from different backgrounds and generations tell their stories of fleeing to Germany, while describing the visual and aural sensations they were experienced. The sound design by Axel Bauer was partially created from the vocalized noises and was put together in the surround mix to form a surreal soundtrack that forms a contrast to the plain, authentic interviews.
Happy New Year 2009!
January 09th, 2009
Here's to a successful and happy year 2009!
Graduation project sound - "Crew United"
January 09th, 2009
I'm currently working on the sound post-production to Milos Savic's short Crew United. The editing, sound design, some of the music and final mix will be my final audio graduation project at the Institute For Music And Media.
Brahms Piano Concerto in the Tonhalle
January 09th, 2009
The orchestra of the RSH will be playing music by Brahms and Yun in Düsseldorf's Tonhalle on January 16th. Jana Langenbruch will be directing a multi-camera production for an upcoming DVD. Katrin Körber and I will be doing the music recording.
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December 2008
Screenings at Max-Ophüls Film Festival
December 17th, 2008
Two films that I was fortunate to work on will be screened at the Max-Ophüls-Festivals in January. Both Schlaraffenland and 2012 have been entered into the festival programme.
Dialogue Editing for "Schlaraffenland"
December 13th, 2008
I took care of the dialogue editing for the short Schlaraffenland. Christian Heck is responsible for sound design and mix.
Demo-CD Production
December 13th, 2008
Caroline Bergmann and I have recorded a demo-CD with Agnes Zarzeczny (Vocals) and Jens Thomas (Piano). The German jazz and chanson style songs were composed by the two musicians.
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November 2008
Tonmeistertagung 2008
December 13th, 2008
Fellow students and I were in charge of the equipment in Hall 3 and the Talkback Room at this year's Tonmeistertagung in Leipzig.
Gospel Project 2008
December 13th, 2008
I was responsible for location sound recording and sound post-production for a short clip to be shown at this year's Gospel Project Ruhr. Robert Gummlich was the director.
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October 2008
"Top 10 Grooves and Beats" on Drummerworld
October 20th, 2008
My visual graduation production Top 10 Grooves and Beats with Andy Gillmann is currently being presented at Drummerworld.
Julian David wins at AES in San Francisco
October 19th, 2008
Julian David has won two prizes at the AES student recording competition in San Francisco. He came second in the category non-classical surround and third in Jazz/Pop stereo. I very much enjoyed assisting Julian in the production and am very happy to hear about his success!
Dialogue editing for KHM Cologne
October 4th, 2008
I edited dialogue for Kaija Helweg's short Was es ist (What it is). Judith Nordbrock will be doing the final mix at the KHM (University of Media Arts) dub stage. Foley recordings and an ADR session are planned for October.
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September 2008
Surround remix of music for "2012"
September 6th, 2008
I will be remixing the music for the film 2012 by director Marcus Overbeck (KHM Cologne). The music was composed and produced by Martin Wiese of Aurora Musiklabor.
"Nora" mixed for Xenoclipse competition
September 5th, 2008
The new short documentary Nora by Caroline Bergmann and Nadja Jessen has been mixed for the xenoclipse competition. The portrait gives an insight into the life of a young Arab lady, born, raised and living in Germany and the question of identity.
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August 2008
Surround-Production with Andy Gillmann
August 29th, 2008
I'm currently assisting Julian David in the surround-production of a jazz trio formed by drummer Andy Gillmann. The jazz-fusion-combo's arrangements are sweetened with additional elements in order to use the additional space gained through 5.1 surround in a musical way. Julian David will be submitting one of the mixes to the upcoming AES student recording competition in October.
On location for "Schlaraffenland"
August 6th, 2008
I spent the last three weeks as a production sound mixer on location filming the short Schlaraffenland. The children's film by director Sarah Mettke (DOP: Maximilian Hoever, Producers: Filmacademy Ludwigsburg, Amelie Küster, Steffen Wilhelm) was nearly entirely shot at Castle Wasserburg in Angern, near Magdeburg, and is being co-produced by the Bavarian Broadcast Corporation BR, SWR and ARTE. I was assisted by David Dimartino and Alex Würtz, recording to a DEVA IV, and we experimented with recording impulse responses of the rooms in the castle in surround sound for use in post-production. It was a very rewarding experience, working with the team in such a beautiful scenery, and enjoying the playfulness and joy of the three children.
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June 2008
Gold for "ORANGE - I love you"
June 23rd, 2008
The spec spot ORANGE - I love you by director Aleksander Bach has been awarded with gold for winning the first prize at the Young Directors Award 2008 in Cannes.
Location sound for "Crew United"
June 10th, 2008
The short film Crew United by director Milos Savic was shot in Schwäbisch-Gmünd near Stuttgart last week. I was responsible for production sound, assisted by my David Dimartino. The film is being produced by Laura Müller and the Filmacademy in Ludwigsburg and was shot on 16mm by dop Nicu Mihailescu. I will be doing the sound postproduction in 5.1 surround.
"Sturmzeitblau" premiere
June 11th, 2008
The premiere to Jan Liesefeld's short Sturmzeitblau will be held at Cologne's Kisd Academy on June 12th.
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May 2008
"Top 10 Grooves and Beats" trailer online
May 27th, 2008
The trailer to my visual graduation work Top 10 Grooves and Beats with Andy Gillmann is available online under media.
Second prize in AES Student Recording Competition
May 23rd, 2008
Students of the IMM Duesseldorf have won three prizes at the 124th AES Convention's student recording competition in Amsterdam. David Schwager came first in the category "non-classical surround", I won the second prize in the category "sound for picture" for a new mix of Paul's Grandpa and Simon Spillner came third in the category "classical surround".
Production sound for film by Johan Leenders
May 1st, 2008
I will be doing most of the production sound recordings for the visual graduation production of my colleague Johan Leenders. The documentary will try to find the face of our generation and document it by interviewing people in their twenties. The interviews will be recorded at IMM Duesseldorf.
"Dong Open Air 2006" completed
May 1st, 2008
The documentary on the Dong Open Air 2006 metal festival by Stephan Liehr has been completed. The three hour DVD gives an insight to the annual festival in Neukirchen-Vluyn, from setting up the location to the actual festival with excerpts from the concerts. The mix was done in 5.1 surround sound and includes surround mixes of the concerts by my colleagues Julian David, David Schwager and Marc Wesemann. The premiere is held on May 3rd at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
"Sturmzeitblau" completed
May 1st, 2008
Postproduction for Jan Liesefelds short Sturmzeitblau has been completed. The final mix took place at the mixing stage of the Academy of Media Arts KHM in Cologne in 5.1 surround sound and Dolby stereo on a Digidesign ICON D-Control.
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April 2008
New Domain - www.andrewmottl.com
April 14th, 2008
This site has moved to the new domain www.andrewmottl.com
Postproduction for KHM Cologne
April 11th, 2008
I am currently doing the sound post production work for Jan Liesefeld's short Sturmzeitblau. I will be doing additional sound design to complement the sounds and music composed by the director. The final mix will be taking place in 5.1 surround at the dubbing stage at KHM Cologne.
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March 2008
On location for "Mein Großvater" (My Grandfather)
March 13th, 2008
I will be filming on location in Ludwigsburg for the next two weeks as production sound mixer for the short My Grandfather. The film starring German actor Matthias Habich will be photographed by camera award winner Peter Matjasko and is a co-production of the Filmacademy Ludwigsburg and the Bavarian Broadcast Corporation. Michael Eßer and Silvan Oschmann will be my assistants on set.
Nissan Micra Spec Spots
March 13th, 2008
I am currently designing the sound for 3 spec spots for Nissan by director and dop Max Tsui. Due to a very tight schedule and a very strong bond between sound and picture we will be filming to playback of the pre-produced sound on one of the new RED CAMs.
Top10 Grooves & Beats
March 3rd, 2008
My visual graduation work, the drum tutoring DVD Top10 Grooves & Beats with Andy Gillmann has finally been authored this very morning. The DLT tapes were brought to the replication plant this morning, exactly 2 months after the first take was shot! The DVD will be presented at Frankfurt Musikmesse in mid-March.
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February 2008
D-Fused concerts
February 9th, 2008
D-Fused, the funk/latin jazz band based around Lukas Dziwoki (gt), Johan Leenders (pn), Andrew Mottl (dr) and Jörg Plewe (b) played two concerts this week, one at the graduation party of the Design Faculty at the University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, and another at the Plan B party of Duesseldorfs Theater Schauspielhaus.
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January 2008
Happy New Year!
Andy Gillmann DVD recordings
January 6th, 2008
The recordings for my visual graduation work were a great success! It took one day to set up the 5 cameras, sound and lights and two for the actual recordings, with a wonderful team consisting of Julian David (sound engineer), Stephanie von Fragstein (camera and lighting), Kai Holzkämper (video engineer), Philippe Waldecker (camera and lighting), Markus Braun (assistant sound engineer), Leif Thomas (camera and gaffer) and Matthias Heuser (camera). Thanks to you all for the great work!
"Paul's Grandpa" wins festival prizes
The children's short Pauls Opa (Paul's Grandpa) has won several prizes, amongst them the first prize at Berlin's children's film festival Interfilm. The jury liked the fact that the grandpa is not computer animated. Apart from that, the film won an audience award in Peking and the Ulrich-Schiegg film prize in gold in south Germany. The next fetival screenings are Thailand, (Children International Film Festival in Bangkok), East Lansing Film Festival (USA), California Independent Film Festival (USA) and Landshut short film festival.
Visual graduation work
The multi-camera production of my graduation work in the visual department of the IMM with Andy Gillmann is taking place in the first week of January.
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December 2007
Visual graduation work planned
I am currently planning a drum lesson DVD with Andy Gillmann, which is also going to be the graduation work in the visual department of my studies at the IMM. The multi-camera production is scheduled to be available at Frankfurt Musikmesse in March.
Music for www.siostry.de
Siostry, the website of the Krefeld-based jewelry designer Katharina Koczy is online! Siostry offers colourful jewelry made of felt and strass. I produced the music for the website.
VFX for HFF Munich Film School
I was responsible for visual effects, compositing and music for the HFF München (film school Munich) production O2 Mobile Movie Award by Isabel Gathof and Ina Mikkat. The conceptual idea was to produce a spot for O2 my filming with a mobile phone.
"ORANGE - I love you" completed
The spec spot ORANGE - I love you by director Aleksander Bach is completed. The final mix was done by Martin Schütze.
"Paul's Granpa" DVD available
The DVD of the children's short Pauls Opa (Paul's Grandpa) is available now!
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November 2007
"Just a visitor?" wins competition
Nadia Jessen's documentary on immigration Nur zu Gast?/Just a visitor? has won the WDR/Unesco competition Boundless/Grenzenlos!
VDT sound design symposium
The 2nd international VDT sound design symposium took place in Ludwigsburg. There I was able to get a great look and wonderful ideas for topics like sound design, film sound and game audio. Apart from that I met many exciting, interesting and above all very friendly people and "big names" in the business.
Steven Merson enters radio charts
Steven Merson made a great start into the Radio Siegen charts with his single London's Call and managed to make it past the new singles by Britney Spears and Linkin Park!
Many many thanks to all the fans for supporting! But now it's back to voting for the next rounds...
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October 2007
Julian David wins AES student competition
Julian David won the first prize at the AES student recording competition in New York! He came first in the category "non-classical surround" with the surround mix of our Steven Merson production London's Call.
Production sound recording for "ORANGE - I love you" in Berlin
I spent the first week of October in Berlin recording sound for director Aleksander Bach's next commercial spot ORANGE - Ich liebe Dich (I love you). The 35mm production with German Camera Award winner Peter Matjasko was supported by Telemaz productions both financially and with professionals in several departments. After the telecine and editing mid-October I will take care of the sound design.
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September 2007
The short commercial for NIKE Mission 70+ by director Aleksander Bach has been nominated for the VDW-Award 2007!
The shooting to the feature film Sturmzeitblau by director Jan Liesefeld took place at the film studio at Cologne's KHM media art school. The film was shot on MiniDV with a Mini35 adapter, the sound was recorded on a DEVA IV. Postproduction is planned for beginning of next year.
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August 2007
Julian David and I have recorded some of the performances of the monthly West Jazz concerts. Apart from that we are producing the current demo-cd of the Andy Gillmann Trio, formed around Düsseldorf's jazz drummer Andy Gillmann.
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July 2007
The shooting for the film trailer to VRIL 39 by Matthias Heuser was a great success! Julian David and I were responsible for location sound recording on set. The trailer is currently in post production.
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OUT NOW: The new CD by singer/songwriter Steven Merson is available from www.stevenmerson.com The album was recorded and produced by our keyboarder Julian David.
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June 2007
Singer/songwriter Steven Merson (www.stevenmerson.com) came first in the newcomer competion "Mittwochs in Siegen"! We gave a concert as the headliner band in front of 2000 people just outside Siegen's castle.
Dialogue for the American dub of the short film Pauls Opa was recorded in Berlin on June 17th. We hired the studio "Tonbüro" for a day, the final dub will be made in the studios of Cologne's KHM school of media and arts.
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May 2007
I'm working for the US company JL Fisher at the AES Convention in Vienna, booth X1720. JL Fisher are the leading company when it comes to professional microphone booms.
Apart from that I'm currently working on the surround mix for a school performance of the musical The Sound of Music and on the sound design and TV mix for an episode of Rebus, a production of the Filmacademy in Ludwigsburg.
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April 2007
New website!