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Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1602 (Fortress)
pdf | 29.04 MB | English | 2012 | Osprey Publishing; 1 edition | Page: 69
About Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1602 (Fortress) :
From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks. The tempestuous political rivalries that developed between the different orders of monks and religiously inspired laymen ensured that their temples and monasteries had to be securely sited and robustly defended. This books recreates these enormous fortified monasteries and temples, tracing their development from the 10th century through to the Sengoku Jidai period and the rise of the power of the shogunate under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Sacred Herbs of Spring Magical, Healing, and Edible Plants to Celebrate Beltaine
epub | 24.25 MB | English | Ellen Evert Hopman | 2020 | Inner Traditions | Page: 376
About The Sacred Herbs of Spring Magical, Healing, and Edible Plants to Celebrate Beltaine :
A practical guide to the celebration of Beltaine and the sacred herbs of spring
• Explores the identification, harvest, and safe practical and ritual use of more than 90 plants and trees
• Details rituals for honoring the traditional Gods and Goddesses of spring, such as the Goddess Chloris, the Goddess Flora, and the Daghda
• Reveals which herbs to use for luck, magic, protection, purification, abundance, fertility, and love as well as the herbs of the Faeries and Elves and herbs for journeying to the Otherworld and for contacting the High Gods and Goddesses
The festival of Beltaine, May Day, is a celebration of the return of spring and the promise of summer, a time for love magic and spells for increasing the fertility of the land and the plants that grow upon it. Like Samhain in autumn, Beltaine is also a time when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is at its most transparent and the ancestors and denizens of the Otherworld easily interact with the world of humans.
Presenting a practical guide to the celebration of Beltaine, Ellen Evert Hopman examines the plants, customs, foods, drinks, and rituals of May Day across many cultures. Discussing the gods and goddesses of spring, Hopman details the rituals for honoring them as well as traditional poems, prayers, incantations, folk rhymes, and sayings related to this time of year. She explores well dressing, the custom of honoring the source of sacred water by decorating a well. She also looks at Beltaine's association with Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht, which fall the preceding evening.
In the extensive section on the sacred plants of Beltaine, the author explores more than 90 herbs and trees, offering spells, rituals, and recipes alongside their medicinal healing uses. She reveals sacred woods suitable for the Beltaine fires and Beltaine flowers for rituals and spells. She explores herbs for luck, magic, purification, abundance, and love; herbs for protection, such as bindweed, elder, and St. John's wort; herbs of the Faeries and Elves, such as burdock and dandelion; and herbs for journeying to the Otherworld and contacting the high gods and goddesses. She also details the identification, harvest, and preparation of seasonal edible herbs, greens, mushrooms, and flowers.
Woven throughout with mystical tales of folk, Faery, and sacred herbs, this guide offers each of us practical and magical ways to connect with Nature, the plant kingdom, and the Spirits that surround us in the season of spring.
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An Introduction to the New Testament Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation
pdf | 41.28 MB | English | deSilva, David A. | 2018 | IVP Academic; Second edition | Page: 897
About An Introduction to the New Testament Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation :
This New Testament introduction is different.
Many introductions zero in on the historical contexts in which the New Testament literature was written. This introduction goes further―to give particular attention to the social, cultural, and rhetorical contexts of the New Testament authors and their writings.
Few introductions to the New Testament integrate instruction in exegetical and interpretive strategies with the customary considerations of authorship, dating, audience, and message. This introduction capitalizes on the opportunity, introducing students to a relevant facet of interpretation with each portion of New Testament literature.
Rarely do introductions to the New Testament approach their task mindful of students preparing for ministry. This introduction is explicit in doing so, recognizing as it does that the New Testament itself―in its parts and as a whole―is a pastoral resource. Each chapter on the New Testament literature closes with a discussion of implications for ministry formation.
These integrative features alone would distinguish this introduction from others. But in addition, its pages brim with maps, photos, points of interest, and aids to learning. Separate chapters explore the historical and cultural environment of the New Testament era, the nature of the Gospels and the quest for the historical Jesus, and the life of Paul.
First published in 2004, David A. deSilva's comprehensive and carefully crafted introduction to the New Testament has been long established as an authoritative textbook and resource for students. This beautiful, full-color second edition has been updated throughout with new scholarship and numerous images. It is the first choice for those convinced that a New Testament introduction should integrate scholarship and ministry.
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.,ophobia and Securitization Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice
pdf | 3.83 MB | English | 2016 | Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2016 edition | Page: 244
About .,ophobia and Securitization Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice :
This book explores everyday realities of young '. women in Britain, who are portrayed as antithetical to the British way of life in media and political discourse. The book captures how geo-political events, and national tragedies continue to implicate individuals and communities at the domestic and local level, communities that have no connection to such tragedies and events, other than being associated with a religio-ethnic identity. The author sho how '. women are caught within the spectrum of the vulnerable-fanatic, always perceived to be 'at risk' of being 'radicalized'. Focusing on educated '. females, the book explores experiences of .,ophobia and securitization inside and outside educational institutions, and highlights individual and group acts of resistance through dialogue, with '. women challenging the metanarrative of insecurity and suspicion that plagues their everyday existence in Britain. .,ophobia and Securitization will be of inte
rest to scholars and students researching '.s in the West, in particular sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It will also appeal to analysts and academics researching security and terrorism, race and racialization, as well as gender, immigration, and diaspora.
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The Ancient Wisdom Of Sun Tzu The Very Best Quotes By The Legendary Chinese General, Military Strategist
epub | 6.4 MB | English | Ellis, Joe | 2020 | Page: N/A
About The Ancient Wisdom Of Sun Tzu The Very Best Quotes By The Legendary Chinese General, Military Strategist :
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking. His works focus much more on alternatives to battle, such as stratagem, delay, the use of spies and alternatives to war itself, the making and keeping of alliances, the uses of deceit and a willingness to submit, at least temporarily, to more powerful foes. Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure. His birth name was Sun Wu and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing. The name Sun Tzu by which he is best known in the Western World is an honorific which means "Master Sun".
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The New Mormon Challenge Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement
epub | 746.09 KB | English | Unknown | 2002 | Zondervan | Page: 544
About The New Mormon Challenge Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement :
Current facts about Mormonism:
Over 11 million members. Over 60,000 full-time missionaries-more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world. More than 310,000 converts annually. As many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles, the saying is, "We baptize a Baptist church every week.") Within fifteen years, the numbers of missionaries and converts will roughly double. Within eighty years, with adherents exceeding 267 million, Mormonism could become the first world-religion to arise since .,. You may know the statistics. What you probably don't know are the advances the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is making in apologetics and academic respectability. With superb training, Mormon scholars outclass many of their opponents. Arguments against Mormon claims are increasingly refuted as outdated, misinformed, or poorly argued. The New Mormon Challenge is a response to the burgeoning challenge of scholarly Mormon apologetics.
Written by a team of respected Christian scholars, it is free of caricature, sensationalism, and diatribe. The respectful tone and responsible, rigorous, yet readable scholarship set this book in a class of its own. It offers freshly researched and well-documented rebuttals of Mormon truth claims. Most of the chapter topics have never been addressed, and the criticisms and arguments are almost entirely new.
But The New Mormon Challenge does not merely challenge Mormon beliefs; it offers the LDS Church and her members ways to move forward. The New Mormon Challenge will help you understand the intellectual appeal of Mormonism, and it will reveal many of the fundamental weaknesses of the Mormon worldview. Whether you are sharing the gospel with Mormons or are investigating Mormonism for yourself, this book will help you accurately understand Mormonism and see the superiority of the historic Christian faith.
Outstanding scholarship and sound methodology make this an ideal textbook. The biblical, historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological discussions are fascinating and will appeal to Christians and Mormons alike. Exemplifying Christian scholarship at its best, The New Mormon Challenge pioneers a new genre of literature on Mormonism. The Editors Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser, and Paul Owen are respected authorities on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the authors of various books and significant articles on Mormonism.
With contributors including such respected scholars as Craig L. Blomberg, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, and others, The New Mormon Challenge is, as Richard Mouw states in his foreword, "an important event for both Protestant evangelicals and Mormons" that models "to the evangelical community what it is like to engage in respectful and meaningful exploration of a viewpoint with which we disagree on key points."
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American Political Poetry in the 21st Century
pdf | 1.13 MB | English | 2018 | Wesleyan | Page: 242
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Showcases the most innovative and politically engaged poets working in the U.S.
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Horace's Ars Poetica Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
pdf | 2.1 MB | English | 2019 | Princeton University Press | Page: 348
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A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manual
For two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill for the first time fully reintegrates the Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artifact intimately linked with the larger themes pervading his work.
Arguing that the poem can be interpreted as a manual on how to live masquerading as a handbook on poetry, Ferriss-Hill traces its key themes to show that they extend beyond poetry to encompass friendship, laughter, intergenerational relationships, and human endeavor. If the poem is read for how it expresses itself, moreover, it emerges as an exemplum of art in which judicious repetitions of words and ideas join disparate parts into a seamless whole that nevertheless lends itself to being remade upon every reading.
Establishing the Ars Poetica as a logical evolution of Horace's work, this book promises to inspire a long overdue reconsideration of a hugely influential yet misunderstood poem.
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Poetry and the American Presidency
pdf | 637.96 KB | English |978-1433117688 | Ferlazzo, Paul J. | 2012 | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; First printing edition | Page: 161
About Poetry and the American Presidency :
Reading poetry reveals a great deal about the mind, the values, and the character of an individual. Poetry and the American Presidency presents the first study to focus on the importance of poetry in the lives of 18 American presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. These presidents read or wrote poetry themselves and on occasion wrote about the nature and importance of poetry for American society. Through the study of the relationship between poetry and the presidents, unique and surprising insights are revealed about the individuals who occupied the Oval Office. Furthermore, this book offers insights into how poetry may factor into leadership and the exercise of power. Scholars in history, literature, and politics will find this book interesting and useful.
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The Experience of Poetry From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
epub | 7.39 MB | English | Derek Attridge | 2019 | Oxford University Press | Page: 464
About The Experience of Poetry From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers :
Was the experience of poetry-or a cultural practice we now call poetry-continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and
the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance?
In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the
place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era.
Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book thro fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
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Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
pdf | 3.74 MB | English | Dieter Plehwe | 2014 | Verso; Reprint edition | Page: 358
About Nine Lives of Neoliberalism :
After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead-stronger than ever.
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. And yet, in the harsh light of a new day, we've awoken to a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and an international sovereign debt crisis.
Philip Miroki finds an apt comparison to this situation in classic studies of cognitive dissonance. He concludes that neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government, it could no longer be falsified by anything as trifling as data from the "real" economy.
In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account, Miroki-taking no prisoners in his pursuit of "zombie" economists-surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, finally providing the basis for an anti-neoliberal assessment of the current crisis and our future prospects.
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On Modern Poetry From Theory to Total Criticism
epub | 440.16 KB | English | Smith, Robert Rowland.; | 2012 | Bloomsbury UK | Page: 218
About On Modern Poetry From Theory to Total Criticism :
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too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition
between them, proposing instead a 'total criticism' that dra on all resources
available.It combines 'analytic irony' with 'imaginative empathy' in order
to generate fresh insights.
The themes discussed in the first
part of the book include tradition, voice, rhyme, rhetoric, and objects,
bringing in critics such as Eliot, Heidegger, Empson, Blackmur, and De Man. The
second part examines texts by Tennyson, Symons, Hopkins, Larkin and Prynne.
An
original exploration of poetry and its criticism, On Modern Poetry is an essential guide for readers
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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry
epub | 1.88 MB | English | Rosen, David | 2006 | Yale University Press | Page: 225
About Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry :
In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern lyric derives its characteristic complexitiespsychological, ethical, formalfrom the extraordinary difficulty of this effort.
The low register of our languagea register of short, concrete, native words arranged in simple syntaxis deeply implicated in this story. Rosen sho how the peculiar reputation of plain English" for truthfulness is employed by Modern poets to conceal the rift between their (probably irreconcilable) ambitions for themselves.
With a deep appreciation for poetic accomplishment and a wonderful iconoclasm, Rosen sheds new light on the innovative as well as the self-deceptive aspects of Modern poetry. This book alters our understanding of the history of poetry in the English language.
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The Abandonment of the West The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
epub | 1.03 MB | English | Michael Kimmage | 2020 | Basic Books | Page: 385
About The Abandonment of the West The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy :
This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.
Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic "liberal international order," and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of "America First."
In The Abandonment of the West, historian Michael Kimmage sho how the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century - and how that consensus has unraveled. We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America's complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now...
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The Protection of Geographical Indications Law and Practice
pdf | 2.77 MB | English |978-1788975407 | Michael Blakeney | 2019 | Edward Elgar Pub; 2 edition | Page: 504
About The Protection of Geographical Indications Law and Practice :
Encapsulating the most recent changes in the law, this second edition of The Protection of Geographical Indications investigates the European la which regulate the way that geographical indications can be used in the marketing of agricultural products, food, wines and spirits. Key updates to this comprehensive second edition include:
A new chapter considering the protection of EU geographical indications outside Europe, through bilateral trade agreements, and of foreign geographical indications within the EU New content exploring the impact of Brexit on the protection of UK geographical indications Discussion of Regulation (EU) No.1308/2013, supplemented by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 of 17 October 2018 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/34 of 17 October 2018 Examination of a new Regulation repealing Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, adopted on 13 March 2019 by the European Parliament Analytical yet accessible, this second edition will be a key resource for all IP practitioners advising or working within the food and agriculture industries in the EU, and for all those whose work involves geographical indications and designations of origin. Policymakers in the UK will also find a great deal of value in the discussion of Brexit and its implications in relation to IP.
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Racism A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
epub | 1020.42 KB | English |978-0807758618 | Ali Rattansi | 2017 | OUP Oxford | Page: 288
About Racism A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition :
There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice = Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are a variety of racisms at play, and it is necessary to distinguish between issues such as individual prejudice, and systemic racisms which entrench racialiazed inequalities over time. This Very Short Introduction explores the history of racial ideas and a wide range of racisms-biological, cultural, colour-blind, and structural-and illuminates issues that have been the subject of recent debates. Is .,ophobia a form of racism? Is there a new antisemitism? Why has whiteness become an important source of debate? What is Intersectionality? What is unconscious or implicit bias, and what is its importance in understanding racial discrimination? Ali Rattansi tackles these questions, and also sho...
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
pdf | 3.09 MB | English | Sauer, Michelle M. | 2008 | Facts on File | Page: 529
About The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600 :
Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark on literature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. This guide to British poetry from the beginnings to the year 1600 features approximately 600 entries ranging in length from 300 to 2,500 words.
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The Ugly Game The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
epub | 5.26 MB | English | Heidi Blake | 2015 | Simon & Schuster UK | Page: 481
About The Ugly Game The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup :
When the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the ne was greeted with shock and disbelief. How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and searing summer temperatures of 50C beaten more established countries with stronger bids? The story behind the Qatari success soon developed into one of the greatest sporting scandals of our time.
Allegations of corruption were soon flying, and when the Sunday Times Insight team received a cache of hundreds of millions of documents from a whistleblower, the contents of the FIFA Files became a global sensation, unearthing the corruption that lay at the heart of the bidding process.
Now in this remarkable new book by the Sunday Times journalists at the heart of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes the most comprehensive account yet of what happened and who was involved. Above all, it explains why, despite all the evidence, FIFA under...
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American Cosmic UFOs, Religion, Technology
epub | 1.86 MB | English | D.W. Pasulka | 2019 | Oxford University Press | Page: 287
About American Cosmic UFOs, Religion, Technology :
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question...
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An Embarrassment of Riches Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth
epub | 1.03 MB | English | Alexander Green | 2013 | Wiley | Page: 261
About An Embarrassment of Riches Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth :
Tune into the ne and you'll hear stories of war, disease, natural disasters, corruption, violence, poverty, crime, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and political dysfunction in Washington. Polls show many believe the American dream is fading, our children face limited opportunities, and the country is decidedly on the wrong track. Yet this dour perspective - one recycled 24/7 by the national media - is a gross distortion of the world we live in today.
As national investment expert and bestselling author Alexander Green reveals in this engrossing and provocative new book, the human race has never had it so good. In the West today, we work shorter hours, have more purchasing power, enjoy goods and services in almost limitless supply, and have more leisure time than ever before. Living standards are the highest they have ever been. The human life span has nearly...
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