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Book SynopsisGraham Hancock is the author of The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, Heaven's Mirror, Supernatural and other bestselling investigations of historical mysteries. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. His public lectures and broadcasts, including two major TV series for Channel 4, Quest for the Lost Civilisation, and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity's past. Written with the same page-turning appeal that has made his non-fiction so popular, Entangled is his first work of fiction.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Epigraph viii List of Figures ix Preface and Acknowledgements for First Edition xii Preface and Acknowledgements for Second Edition xiii 1Thinking About Things Differently (from Things to Flows) 1 What Is a Thing? 1 Things-in-Themselves? 3 Changing Definitions of Entanglement 8 From Things to Strings 12 Weaker and Stronger Entanglements 14 Conclusion – (a) Why Process Matters 15 Conclusion – (b) Are We at One with Things? 16 2 Humans Depend on Things 19 Dependence: Some Introductory Concepts 20 Forms of Dependence 21 Reflective and Non-reflective Relationships with Things 22 Going Toward and Away from Things 24 Identification and Ownership 26 Some Previous Accounts of the Human Dependence on Things 29 Being There with Things 29 Material Culture and Materiality 32 Cognition and the Extended Mind 36 Conclusion: Things R Us 39 3 Things Depend on Other Things 41 Forms of Connection Between Things 43 Production and Reproduction 43 Exchange 43 Use 44 Consumption 44 Discard 44 Post-deposition 44 Affordances 49 From Affordance to Dependence 51 The French School – Operational Chains 52 Behavioral Chains 54 Things Depend on Past Things and on Future Things 58 Entangled Ideas 58 Conclusion 59 4 Things Depend on Humans 65 Things Fall Apart 68 Behavioral Archaeology and Material Behavior 70 Behavioral Ecology 74 Human Behavioral Ecology 79 The Temporalities of Things 83 Conclusion: The Unruliness of Things 84 5 Human-Human Entanglement 86 Inequality, Power and Entanglement 87 Poverty Traps 90 Emotional Bonds 92 Conclusion 93 6 Exploring Entanglement 95 The Physical Processes of Things 95 Temporalities 98 Forgetness 101 The Tautness of Entanglements and Path Dependency 103 Types and Degrees of Entanglement 105 Cores and Peripheries of Entanglements 108 Contingency 109 Conclusion 111 7 Entangled Abstractions and Bodily Engagements 113 Abstraction, Metaphor and Mimesis 114 From Granola to Beethoven 117 Abstract Entanglements at Çatalhöyük 123 Conclusion 126 8 Two Examples Regarding the Onset of Domestication and Sedentary Village Life: China and the Middle East 128 China 128 Middle East 130 Conclusion 138 9 Method 139 Tanglegrams 140 Formal Network Approaches 144 Sequencing Entanglements 147 Diachronic Entanglements 152 Interpretation 156 Conclusion 159 10 Toward an Entangled String Theory and Comparison with Other Approaches 160 Things Do Not Have Agency 161 There Is No Present, Only a Flow from Past to Future 163 Toward an Entangled String Theory 164 Other Contemporary Approaches 171 Latour and Actor Network Theory 172 Assemblage Theory 175 Containment and Enchainment 176 Ontologies 177 Material Engagement Theory 178 Agential Realism 179 Conclusion 180 11 Conclusion: From Things to Flows 182 Aquatic Culture? 182 Some Final Examples 183 Some Loose Ends 186 Bibliography 189 Index 209

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Book SynopsisA fascinating, yet-unexplained scientific phenomenon shows that individual objects in the universe are not quite as separate as they seem. Once two objects interact, they remain connected in space and time in what Einstein called ''spooky action at a distance.'' Could the same interaction explain psychic occurrences? Psychic researcher Dean Radin argues that human minds are likely interconnected or entangled in the same way, and this interconnected fabric of reality is the key to those puzzling yet profoundly meaningful experiences called psychic phenomena. ENTANGLED MINDS shows how science has rigorously demonstrated genuine psychic effects and why these phenomena are the next frontier in understanding who and what we are.Trade Review"From the Einstein of consciousness research comes a work that could change forever how we view the nature of human consciousness and our origins and destiny." -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words"Dean Radin brings parapsychology into mainstream science. The revolution has begun." -- Deepak Chopra, author of The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

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Book SynopsisRecent and ongoing new materialisms scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad. The first volume devoted to bringing Barad's work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of entanglement, which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a figure of entanglement in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad's theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic turns, Marx's notion of exchange, and the pTable of ContentsForewordChristopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. HananIntroduction: Figures of Entanglement: Toward A Diffractive Understanding of New Materialist Rhetoric Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan1. Breast cancer’s rhetoricity: bodily border crisis and bridge to corporeal solidarityAnnie Hill2. Rhetoric’s diverse materiality: polythetic ontology and genealogy Nathan Stormer3. Of turning and tropesDiane Marie Keeling4. Entangled exchange: verkehr and rhetorical capitalismMatthew W. Bost5. Rhetorical prehistory and the PaleolithicThomas RickertAfterwordLaurie E. Gries

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Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, Marcel’s sister fell in the forest while gathering herbs. Her injuries were grave and Marcel was at a loss for what to do, until a fearsome horned man appeared, offering help–in exchange for a promise. Now, ten years later, Marcel returns to the woods, steeling himself for death. Instead, he finds something quite different: a gentle soul, friendship…and perhaps something more.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a message of hope and a call to action in building flourishing human-machine systems in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). It looks beyond the AI hype and advocates for humanity in an industry infatuated by machine superiority. Its focus is on empowering leaders and citizens by raising awareness and encouraging active participation in building responsible technology and resilient organizations.This book presents evidence-based and practical approaches for using AI to enhance business, human, and planetary outcomes. The research underpinning this work is informed by studies indicating that many organisations encounter difficulties in achieving a positive return on investment from their AI initiatives. This means that business leaders need to be astute in recognising both the complexities and opportunities of using AI to effectively harness its potential. The book examines the interconnected relationship between humans and technology over time and discusses the need for renewed approaches to AI development and implementation. It suggests that AI differs from traditional technologies and requires adaptive human engagement for socio-technical systems to be successful. Additionally, the book aims to inform readers about both the beneficial and adverse impacts of AI technology on society.This publication is intended to inspire business professionals, researchers, and students specializing in human-AI collaboration, information systems, and technology management. The underlying research was supported by a European Union-funded Marie SkÅodowska-Curie research fellowship for the Augmented-Humans project, which focused on leveraging the strengths of both human and artificial intelligence to drive creativity and innovation.This book offers deep insights and practical approaches for both technology researchers and business leadership teams. Supplementary materials are a key feature of this book, which includes offering interactive co-creation tools, such as AI Design Cards, the Designing Tiny Robots game, and AI Design Canvases as digital downloads with every book purchased.

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines the intersections of religion and “new” materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?Trade Review"As new understandings of matter and materialism continue to gain visibility and generate interest, Entangled Worlds makes an essential contribution: While theorists of materialism often assume that science and religious thought are at odds, the essays collected here demonstrate that a sophisticated understanding of theology and religion enriches our understanding of materiality in its full liveliness and complexity. A focus on materiality, in turn, changes and enriches theology. These smart and well written essays will be invaluable to readers across both the humanities and sciences." -- -Karmen MacKendrick McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation at Le Moyne College

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"When a little pink circle, sporting a wide grin and a line-drawn bow, gets trapped inside the jungle gym, her friends—all different shapes—try to help her get free, but one by one, they all get trapped as well. Soon, the town is in a complete frenzy, as more shapes gather to figure out how to free the group now hopelessly tangled. And then who should appear but a line, who, after carefully examining the situation from every angle, comes up with a mathematical solution. This is tailor-made for read-alouds; an engaging rhyme and energetic narrative, with some words set in bolder or more dynamic fonts ("What a horror! What a mess! / The shapes could not untwine. / Then rushing to the rescue, / came a straight and narrow line"), set the tone. Comstock's retro monochromatic illustrations sneak in plenty of spatial and geometric concepts, and his cast of shapes has plenty of personality in their drawn-in facial expressions. A glossary of shapes provides opportunities for further learning in this bit of clever fun." -- BooklistPreS-Gr 2–One day a perfectly innocent and adorable circle is playing on the jungle gym when she gets stuck inside it. Unable to extricate herself, she asks her friend Triangle to set her free her but he also ends up trapped. The same cruel fate befalls an ellipse and a group of pentagons who all bravely try to untangle the others but end up imprisoned. Help appears in the form of a straight and narrow line, who takes immediate command of the situation. With a clever plan utilizing some bystander shapes, they knock the jungle gym down freeing those inside. Line then explains to the jungle gym that she should make her spaces wider and soon all the shapes are able to play without peril. The rhyming text begs to be read aloud and will be an entertaining introduction to various shapes. Comstock’s playful and expressive digital illustrations are done in warm tones and mimic chalkboard drawings. There is a gallery of shapes at the end that kids will surely love studying. ­VERDICT This delightful geometric tale is a must have for most libraries.–Amy Nolan, St. Joseph Public Library, MI -- School Library Journal * June 2019 *

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines the intersections of religion and “new” materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?Trade Review"As new understandings of matter and materialism continue to gain visibility and generate interest, Entangled Worlds makes an essential contribution: While theorists of materialism often assume that science and religious thought are at odds, the essays collected here demonstrate that a sophisticated understanding of theology and religion enriches our understanding of materiality in its full liveliness and complexity. A focus on materiality, in turn, changes and enriches theology. These smart and well written essays will be invaluable to readers across both the humanities and sciences." -- -Karmen MacKendrick McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation at Le Moyne College

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Book SynopsisThis original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. ""Entanglement"" aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury. This book works with the idea of entanglement - a rubric within which we can begin to meet the challenge of the 'after apartheid'. Entanglement offers a means by which to draw into our analyses those sites in which what was once thought of as separate come together or find points of intersection in unexpected ways. It is an idea which signals largely unexplored terrains of mutuality, wrought from a common, though often coercive and confrontational, experience. It points away from a time of resistance towards a more ambivalent moment, in which the time of potential, both latent and actively surfacing in South Africa, exists in complex tandem with new kinds of closure and opposition.Trade Review"... a finger-on-the-pulse report from the cultural frontline of contemporary South Africa. Elegantly and lucidly written, it offers a penetrating and unique analysis of the complex and paradoxical forms of culture emerging in South Africa now. -Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg"

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Book Synopsis"I’d been an activist for years. I’d marched, protested, blocked the road, been arrested. I’d exposed how banks and tax havens fuel corruption, poverty and environmental destruction. I’d launched a campaign that rewrote the laws on secret company ownership in dozens of countries. My research had contributed to the cluster munitions ban and a treaty to control the arms trade. But despite these efforts, my discomfort about activism was growing. Was I part of the problem too?" The Entangled Activist is the story of how activism is entangled in the problems it seeks to solve, told by a hard-hitting campaigner who through personal experience –– as well as extensively researched psycho-social enquiry –– comes to look at activism very differently. After years of thinking that her task was to ‘get the bastards,’ campaigner, writer and reporter Anthea Lawson came to see that activism often emerges from the same troubles it is trying to fix, and that its demons, including hypocrisy, saviourism, burnout and treating other people badly, can be a gateway to understanding the depth of what really needs to change. Drawing on her own experience, critical analysis and interviews with leading activists, Lawson looks under the surface of our attempts to change the world to offer a timely and eye-opening vision for transformative work. By considering how unexamined shadows and assumptions get in the way of well-intentioned activist goals, and how those at the forefront of sociopolitical change are often caught up in the very systems and ideologies they seek to change, Lawson dismantles hierarchies that have shaped the field for too long. The Entangled Activist is a profound call to acknowledge our entanglement with the world. To those who are worried about the state of things but are skeptical of ‘activism’, it offers possibilities for action that go beyond righteousness and reactivity. And to activists who so want to help, it mindfully unearths a different starting place, one where transforming ourselves is unwaveringly part of transforming the world.

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Book SynopsisIn 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women’s rights in marriage and the family. Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women’Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reimagining Postwar German Families, 1945–7 2. Gender Equality and the Family in the Two Constitutions, 1948–9 3. The Failed Reforms of Family Law, 1949–53 4. A Series of Stalemates, 1953–57 5. Achieving Equality, 1957–76 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century. What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England communityHadley, Massachusettsduring the town's slow transformation following the Revolutionary War. Peering into the homes, taverns, and farmyards of Hadley, Miller offers readers an intimate history of the working lives of these women and their vital role in the local economy. Miller, a longtime resident of Hadley, follows a handful of eighteenth-century women working in a variety of occupations: domestic service, cloth making, health and healing, and hospitality. She asks about the social openings and opportunities this work createdand the limitations it placed on ordinary lives. Her compelling stories about women's everyTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, by Cathy Matson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Placings Part I: Women, Work, and Community Chapter 1: From Nolwotogg to Hadley Chapter 2: Women, Work, and the Business of Gentility: The View from Forty Acres Chapter 3: Women, Work, and "Economies of Makeshifts": The View from the Back Street Part II: Livelihoods Chapter 4: Domestic Service Chapter 5: Making Cloth Chapter 6: Hospitality Work Chapter 7: Healing and Caregiving Part III: Topographies of Change Chapter 8: Working Women and the Domestic Landscapes of Forty Acres Chapter 9: New Labor, New Landscapes Coda: Remembering Women and Work Abbreviations NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMerlin Sheldrake’s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of the mind-bending, “gorgeous” (Margaret Atwood), ”brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) Entangled Life, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our conc

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Noë shows is how that essential act of ‘making’ art is more than just an act of pleasure. . . . What it really encompasses is a radical act of inquiry into our entanglement."---Adam Frank, Big Think"[A]rt is at the heart of philosophy and the fusion of the two with a range of subjects can help us better understand what makes us human. . . .Alva Noe has introduced his thesis that is bound to generate enough debate on the antidote supplied by art and philosophy that “makes us what we are”, a state where the people, surrounded by music, art, sculpture, poetry become creative enough to break out of the codified social organisation into a more liberated and an inspirationally fulfilling life infused with the aesthetic."---Shelley Walia, The Hindu

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Book SynopsisEntangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range of visual and textual media. Original in its comparative focus on the islands of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and their diasporic communities in France, this study reveals how opaque strategies of crossing, mimicry and masquerade have enabled resistance to the racialised, gendered and patriarchal classifications of bodies that characterized Enlightenment thought during the French transatlantic slave trade. It engages with archival texts of pre-revolutionary Haiti to offer a historical understanding of current constructions of Caribbean gender most influenced by French colonial legacies. The author argues that cross-dressing, as a form of ‘self-fabrication’, complicates inherently entangled colonial binaries of identity and resists France’s paternalistic gaze. The book’s multidisciplinary approach to gender analysis weaves a dialogue between cross-cultural voices garnered from textual and historical analysis, ethnographic interviews and theoretical insight to foreground the continued need to decolonize Eurocentric readings of gender identity in the francophone and creolophone islands, and the Caribbean region more generally. Works of art, film, photography, carnival, performance, and dress, including depictions of fluid identities in the binary-resistant Afro-Creole religion of Vodou, are examined using contemporary performance, gender and social theory from within the region. Entangled Otherness thus makes a unique and timely contribution to the growing body of knowledge and debate in the areas of gender, sexuality and the body in Caribbean Studies.Trade Review'[Entangled Otherness] conducts a courageous inquiry into “gender” in Guadeloupe, Haiti, and Martinique [...] With such seemingly divergent disciplinary agendas, the book’s extreme originality is to contextualize analyses of gendered identities, using oral history, discourse analysis, and ethnography to better shape the contours of decolonializing a misrepresentation of gender dynamics in the Caribbean islands that have been, at least explicitly, the most influenced by French colonial legacies.'Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, CUNY'Charlotte Hammond’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary research has produced a monumental book on mimicry and masquerade.'Rachel Douglas, University of GlasgowReviews 'Hammond weaves (if I might permit myself such a metaphor) an elaborate web of connections that create a network, indeed a mapping, of the various intersectionalities under consideration. Rather than overworking a wordplay that might seem to lack a correspondingly rich conceptual content, this semantic wealth instead matches the intricacy of the book’s readings and theorizations.' Jarrod Hayes, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial StudiesTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSA NOTE ON TRANSLATIONSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: Costuming Colonial Resistance in the New WorldCHAPTER TWO: Fanmi se dra: Cross-gender Fabrications of Identity in Des hommes et des dieuxCHAPTER THREE: Visual Détours: Refracting the Blan Female Gaze in Haitian VodouCHAPTER FOUR: Spectatorial TravestismeCHAPTER FIVE: Dressed to Kill: Opacity and Masquerade in Claire Denis’s J’ai pas sommeilCONCLUSION: Past Scripts, Future VisionsWORKS CITED

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the way national and European identities are intertwined in old and new member states of the European Union, this volume assembles nine country case studies. Each country has experienced different processes of state formation, nation-building and democratization, thus they have each developed different forms of national identity and different patterns of interaction between national and European identities. The case studies illuminate the similarities and differences in how national and European identities have evolved among the nine countries. Rich in empirical data, the volume examines the historical entanglement of national and European collective identities and is therefore well suited for courses on European studies including European integration and enlargement, international relations and sociology.Trade Review'The volume addresses one of the most fundamental questions about the processes of European integration - the relationship between national and European identities...This is a unique collection which enables the reader to assess the influence of a wide range of factors - from economy to religion, geopolitics to ideology - in the process of national/European identity formation. It will be indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students of sociology, politics, international relations, and history. It will also have significant appeal to policy makers and journalists.' Professor Montserrat Guibernau, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 'One of the great merits of the book is that it gives much historical depth to contemporary debates about European integration...the book transcends the sterile opposition between neo-functionalist and intergovernmentalist accounts of the relationship between national and European identities.' Journal of Common Market StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction, Atsuko Ichijo and Willfried Spohn; A balancing act: British state and nation formation and 'Europe', Atsuko Ichijo; Germany: from Kulturnation to Europeanization?, Michael Minkenberg; Austria: from Habsburg empire to a small nation in Europe, Willfried Spohn; A European Spain: the recovery of Spanish self-esteem and international prestige, Pablo Jáuregui and Antonia M. Ruiz-Jiménez; Italy and Europe: internal others and external challenges to national identity, Anna Triandafyllidou; Modern Greece: a profile of a strained identity, Nikos Kokosalakis and Iordanis Psimmenos; Nation, state and national identity in modern Hungary, Paszkál Kiss and György Hunyady; Czech Republic: nation formation and Europe, Karel KubiÅ¡, Vlasta KubiÅ¡ová, Karolína Ruzicková, and Michael Voríšek; Europe and the formation of the Polish state, nation, and national identity, Krystyna Romaniszyn; Index.

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