Magnifying Mirrors Women, Surrealism, & Partnership

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Although notorious for their idiosyncrasies, the surrealists revived artistic collaboration as an honorable and productive practice. Most of the famous surrealists were men, yet almost all were involved with women artists who were much more than sources of romantic inspiration. Precious little attention has been given to this most intricate of partnerships.

Magnifying Mirrors is the first study of the complex partnerships that stimulated and provoked these men and women. Each couple collaborated in its own unique way according to the varying importance ascribed to aesthetic, social, and political preoccupations.

The twelve couples whom Renée riese Hubert describes are Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp; Valentine and Roland Penrose; Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst; Unica Zurn and Hans Bellmer; Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Lee Miller and Man Ray; Aliced Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen; Remedios Varo and Benjamin Peret; Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann; and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Often the woman in a partnership, far younger than her male companion, had just begun her career as an artist and had entered the relationship as a junior partner in need of support and guidance. Not surprisingly, her association usually resulted in, and often ended with, an intense assertion of independence. In her examination of these partnerships, Hubert focuses on comparing the art that the couples produced, apart or together.

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For anyone who admires the human form, The World's Top Photographers: Nudes presents a stunning collection of photography.

The naked body is perhaps the most popular subject in the history of photography. This book features the work of such eminent practitioners as Bob Carlos Clarke, Bettina Rheims, Ralph Gibson, David Penprase and Kenro Izu, alongside their personal anecdotes and professional tips and secrets.

Nudes will appeal both to the professional and to the amateur photographer who wishes to learn from the best in the field, to celebrity buffs and glossy coffee table literature collectors, as well as to the many satisfied readers of the previous three titles in the series, Landscape, and Wildlife, both by Terry Hope, and Portraits by Fergus Greer.

Customer Reviews:

The World's Top Photographers: Nudes: And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images.......2007-06-14

This is a great collection of very inovative and professionally done photography that my husband and I both enjoyed. We would recommend to anyone who enjoys original, color and black and white photography and of course the naked female and male body.

It is OK at best........2007-03-08

Having bought 'Portraits: The World's Top Photographers and the stories behind their greatest images', I thought I would check out the 'Nudes' book from this same series. I was disappointed with it. My disappointment may be from the fact that the 'Portraits' book was excellent and the 'Nudes' just did not live up to my expectations. If you are interested in a book from this series get the Portraits book. I have not seen the other books in the series so cannot comment on them.

Army Of Darkness: Shop 'Til You Drop Dead Collection
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Army Of Darkness: Shop 'Til You Drop Dead Collection
James Anthony Kuhoric , Nick Bradshaw , and Sanford Greene
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Grab the keys to the Oldsmobile and break out the boomstick 'cause Ash is back! The wisecracking everyman with a chin of steel comes face to face with something worse than Deadite possession: Unemployment. Recently returned from his time traveling adventure to Eqypt, Ash gets a taste of department store bureaucracy when he is docked for the damages caused to the store and discovers the evil spirit from the woods now inhabits the aisles of S-Mart. Also available in a hardcover edition (ISBN: 1-933305-00-2).

Like My Old Pappy Used to Say: The Nineteenth Century Speaks to the Twenty-First
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Like My Old Pappy Used to Say: The Nineteenth Century Speaks to the Twenty-First
Alexander Hicks
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Politically incorrect but applicable observations for almost any purpose. Words from the end of the nineteenth century for use in the twenty-first. A bit of history is thrown in for lagniappe, though the book is intended to entertain, not educate.

From Satchmo to Miles
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From Satchmo to Miles
Leonard G Feather
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From Satchmo To Miles
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From Satchmo To Miles
Leonard Feather
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From Satchmo to Miles
Leonard Feather
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Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry
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One of my favorites

A truly amazing book

Absolutely loved it!!

A wonderful book, a great gift.

My favorite book

Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry
Jeff Taylor
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Let me be very clear about this: GET THIS BOOK. You may have an interest in hand tools and carpentry, or you may not. But this is a lovingly written book by a gifted storyteller and wit, and a damn entertaining read! It is about interacting with tools, but it is also the author's memoir of delightful characters he has known: teachers, mentors, and personal heroes. Much more than a "how-to" book, it is about a love for humanity, good humor, and creativity. It reads like a novel--and a good one!

Book Description

In the best-selling tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, these refreshing and insightful essays from master carpenter Jeff Taylor illuminate the spiritual aspects of working with hand tools. Bound with the look of real wood, this hardcover volume explores the beauty and function of these tried and true instruments and captures the extraordinarily intimate connection between people and their tools. Accompanied by rich, textured photographs of each tool, this simple, elegant, and engaging book is for anyone who enjoys building, fixing, and working with hand tools -- and it makes a handsome addition to any toolbox.

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One of my favorites.......2007-04-18

The thing that I love about not only this, but but both of Taylors books is that he has a great sense of humor. I tend to think that in real life, Taylor and I would clash rather strongly on some issues, but that's OK. I will buy every book he comes out with (and here is hoping it isn't just these two) simply because the man has a gift for telling stories. I have read tools of the trade probably 25 times since I bought it years ago at a B&N, and I anticipate reading it another 25 times!

A truly amazing book.......2005-12-13

I was given this years ago, read it in a week and loved it, then forgot the title when trying to describe it to a friend. It is a shame it is out of print.

Everyone should read this book, and anyone you know who likes to build things should get this for Christmas.

Absolutely loved it!!.......2005-10-06

I picked up this book about 6 years ago at a B&N store...and finished reading it in one sitting in my yard. Trust me when I tell you that it is not often when I feel overwhelmed by anything. But this book, with its simple prose, made me gulp several times. Keep in mind that it is not a depressing read. On the contrary, it can be funny as heck at times!

A wonderful book, a great gift........2004-12-01

It's a shame that this book is now out of print and likely to become scarce, as I have given it on several occasions and have always received many thanks in return.

The author fills the reader, even a reader with minimal knowledge or interest in carpentry, with a true respect for the tools, their usage, and the history behind them. Not just the history in a greater sense, but also the history these tools have in the author's life.

My favorite book.......2002-05-01

I'm now reading this book for the third time. I usually like to pick it up when my office job is making me dream of a life building and remodelling houses.

Managing to Have Fun: How Fun at Work Can Motivate Your Employees, Inspire Your Coworkers, and Boost Your Bottom Line
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Disappointing

Work Can be Fun- also see WorkLaughs

Here's a vote for SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTIOM

Life Doesn't Have To Be So Solemn

The Advantages of Fun at Work and How to Grasp Them!

Managing to Have Fun: How Fun at Work Can Motivate Your Employees, Inspire Your Coworkers, and Boost Your Bottom Line
Matt Weinstein
Manufacturer: Fireside
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ASIN: 0684827085

Book Description

What's the best way to revolutionize the workplace? Forget restructuring and reengineering. Have a little fun!

Imaging sendig a pizza to your assistant's home after keeping her late at the office...or writing a "thank you" note to her spouse for being so understanding! It's not business as usual, but as management consultant Matt Weinstein makes clear, recognition and appreciation can play a vital role in boosting morale and productivity among stressed-out, overworked employees. Based on his success with some of America's best-known and most profitable companies, Weinstein presents a step-by-step plan for building an enthusiastic, high-performance team and offers hundreds of tried-and-true techniques for enhancing employee satisfaction and personal pride.

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Disappointing.......2007-07-20

Sorry, but this does not meet expectations, especially after you read all these good reviews. The book is not very well written, a lot of ideas are just not funny, many should not be implemented unless you want to get fired and the few good ideas can only be followed by company owners. I don't know if its cultural differences that count here (I'm in Greece), but I think this book is not good even for US residents.

I would give more stars if many ideas were taken out, the rest were better written and the price was lower.

One more thing: several real-life examples do not seem so real-life to me. I have a strong feeling that these are "engineered" to fit in the book...

The two stars are for the first part of the book, not the specific ideas.

Work Can be Fun- also see WorkLaughs.......2006-12-29

With stories from companies that include fun in their bottomline, Weinstein inspires us all
to look for and create more laughter and fun at work. A great companion book to
WorkLaughs: Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes about Making a Buck. (also available on Amazon).

Here's a vote for SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTIOM.......2006-10-30

I am very happy that this book can be purchased for $.01 on Amazon Marketplace and that others can learn and prosper as the previous readers and reviewers have already done.

How can you top motivating your employees, inspiring coworkers, boosting the bottom line and having fun?

Life Doesn't Have To Be So Solemn.......2005-12-24

If work is too consuming and life too earnest, read Managing to Have Fun by Weinstein. Introducing some lightheartedness at work may be a lifesaver. The books give 52 unexpected activities to motivate employees or inspire coworkers. If you feel stressed and overworked, chances are those around you feel it too.
I must admit that I was one of those overly earnest bosses and I wish I'd discovered this book earlier in my career. My staff would have appreciated some stress relieving activities.

The Advantages of Fun at Work and How to Grasp Them!.......2000-06-13

I was delighted when I found this book. I have been thinking about how much better work would be if fun was deliberately emphasized. Wow! Then I found a book that not only subscribes to that idea, but is full of practical advice for how to pursue that liberating concept.

Weinstein is the self-described emperor of a company called Playfair. He and his colleagues give a lot of speeches, and only charge if they fail to get a standing ovation. So far, they've always gotten paid. So here are some people who know how to generate enthusiasm.

In the beginning of the book, Weinstein uses an example of Marshall Hall, a CEO who came to one of his speeches, to show how the ideas can be pursued. At first, Hall could not imagine how he could take any of the pressure off his people. With coaching, he began to make steady progress in adding fun in ways that are consistent with the trust he has established in his enterprise. Skeptical people on the subject of fun will find these examples helpful.

In the middle of the book are 52 examples (one for each week of the year) of ideas for adding fun. You don't have to follow them blindly, but they can stimulate your thinking. One of my favorites was paying the toll for the person behind you at the toll booth, and lingering behind to see the expression on the person's face when they catch up to you on the road. I've done that, and it can be a lot of fun.

In the end, Weinstein tells a story from his own organization about someone who was having trouble dealing with a lot of fears about flying in small planes. Playfair evolved some fun ways to help him that made all of the difference.

Beyond the fact that we would all like to have some fun at work, the book makes a decent case for the role of fun in team building, better customer service, morale, generating loyalty, and in reducing stress. For example, in one study, those who found coins in a pay telephone were 4 times as likely to help someone who dropped packages in front of them as they finished their call as those who did not find any coins.

One of my very favorite examples in the book was of a boss who put little candies and rewards into his memos to encourage his assistant to have fun typing them up. Then, he surprised her one day by inviting her into the office, closing the door, and dancing with her for one minute. He knew she liked dancing, and they do this once a month or so. Basically, it is an affirmation of his respect for her. It was this story that led to Marshall Hall feeling that he could never add fun to his company. He was sure his assistant would sue him for sexual harrassment!

Be sure to read the story about Aunt Jemima. It'll give you a good laugh as well.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in making work more meaningful and satisfying for themselves and others. It is the essence of the fun part of the book, Nuts!, about Southwest Airlines.

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
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Italian book

Great literature, poetry, canvassless painting and historic commentary

.........but he didn't stop the poverty

A brilliantly written book

highly recommended

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: 0374530092
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy’s Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In so doing, Levi offered a starkly beautiful and moving account of a place and a people living outside the boundaries of progress and time.

Customer Reviews:

Italian book.......2007-08-26

I ordered the book for my mother. She specifically selected the title. She loved the book.

Great literature, poetry, canvassless painting and historic commentary.......2007-08-03

Levi provides great literature and great historic commentary. Cristo si e' fermato a Eboli, represents a truly great literary work for the international market for it seems to me one of those books that can in fact be translated successfully. Levi's narration is gripping, one feels that the tome can be read in one seating. Before reading it I had hesitated in view of the obvious relation and similarity of the subject to the classic Verga's masterpieces on the corresponding condition of the Sicilian fishermen and farmers, literature which I thought rather hard to match. Although I still prefer Verga's work, Levi's comes close. It is interesting that alongside its poetic (in fact almost pictorial, Levi is also a painter of some relevance) and literary aspects the book did upon publication - and still does - provide a glimpse of the conditions of the Italian rural south that had gone, and in some respect still are, totally ignored, almost "blocked out", by the rest of the country and especially by its government. Levi and Verga powerfully describe how the total abandonment of the Lucanian and Sicilian "contadini" managed to seamlessly - and culpably - survive the transitions from the the blithe sovereignty of the Neapolitan court to that of the Savoia's and eventually to that of the taxing Italian government in Rome (twenty years of fascism being hardly perceived in such a remote society). As a consequence the forgotten populace's shining knights are the "briganti" the bandits that in the South had to be crushed by the infant nation's army in a bloody civil war that lasted several years. Crushed the briganti were but not so thoroughly for a recalcitrant mass of people still survived that has since seen mafia or 'ndrangheta as "cosa nostra", our thing. No wonder the Italian army (besides the customary "carabinieri" that are formally an army corps) had to be redeployed in very recent times in both Sicily and Sardinia. American readers will be surprised and amused by reading of the picture of one of their presidents being the only other venerated icon of the resigned "contadini" alongside that of the black faced "Madonna di Viggiano".

.........but he didn't stop the poverty.......2007-06-15

In a pre-Marley world, a young Italian doctor and artist with socialist ideas was exiled for three years to a remote southern Italian village by Mussolini's Fascist party. While it's not entirely clear where his money came from, he was allowed to keep a dog, have visitors and talk with the villagers freely. Because the two local doctors amounted to little more than antiquated quacks, Carlo Levi was pushed into practicing medicine. The sentence required that he not leave the village and that he find his own quarters. A dozen other exiles lived in the village, but contact among them was limited as well. That's how a liberal Jewish intellectual from Turino came to live among the peasants, petit bourgeoisie, and envy-wracked country gentry of Gagliano village in the mountains of what is today Italy's Basilicata region. Villages here, in the 1930s, lived a life far from any government assistance. Even Christ stopped (it was said) at Eboli, a town at the northern edge of the poverty-stricken region. Levi writes brilliantly of life in the remote village---the discouraged priest, the Fascist mayor (who, though strict with the exiles, wants Levi's approval as a "man of culture"), the mayor's manipulative sister, the peasant women maids who worked for him---and the difficult lives they had, without any aid from the outside world. Levi paints a picture of a place tied to its past, with 19th century struggles between bandits (peasants) and the landowners only the last of the struggles. Outside occupiers had marched in and out for centuries, but for the most part, the peasants kept their heads down and worked in their malarial fields in the valley below. CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI evokes above all the world of the forgotten people of Italy, taxed, drafted into armies for wars they never understood, and then ignored. Rome gave them nothing, only sent tax collectors and imposed mayors who called useless meetings and gave fatuous speeches. But don't think that the peasants were unaware of the outside world. It was just that their ties with the wider world did not lie in Rome, but in the big city slums of America. A huge percent of the village men went off to America to labor, sent money and goods, and often never returned, leaving an equal number of women alone. The men who returned mostly plunged back into village life. When their foreign funds dried up, they became part of traditional life once more, not having changed dramatically in their foreign sojourn.

Levi writes of all this and a lot more. He created it on the basis of one year's stay, because he received an amnesty when Addis Ababa fell to Mussolini's army. You would have to use the word "lyrical" to describe the style. The inhabitants of Gagliano and surrounding villages are drawn vividly, the connections of peasants, village, nature, the saints, the church, the magical spirits, social class, and politics so well-knit that you absorb a "village study" better than most professional anthropologists' before you know it. This is a masterpiece. One of the best books I have read in a long time.

A brilliantly written book.......2007-03-22

The book "Christ Stopped At Eboli," by Carlo Levi, is a very beautifully written book about an Italian politician who speaks out against Mussolini, and because of this, becomes a political prisoner. He is sent to the village of Gagliano, where life is completely different compared to his own in the big city of Turin. This book is titled this because it is a reference to how Christianity never spread further south in Italy than a town called Eboli, which was a town north of Gagliano. The author uses precise description to paint a picture in ones head of the very barren and poverty filled region of Southern Italy. He describes the people of the poor, malaria infested villages and their rather strange customs of life. It was very interesting to hear of these peoples' very pagan beliefs of dragons dwelling in caves, and gnomes, which were the spirits of unbaptized children, which would poke and prod people in their sleep. This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone that is interested in Italian history, or anyone that appreciates a very artistically written story.

highly recommended.......2006-12-16

Carlo Levi writes in his usual warm style and gives us a timeless lesson of how one can face hardship with dignity. This book, which is hard to classify, has been described as everything from a novel to a diary and a memoir. Either way, it is a unique, moving and poignant look into the era of when Fascists controlled Italy and the lives of the people within it. Levi's descriptions of the people of the hilltop village of Lucania, where he was exiled by the Fascists in the 1930s, are precise and heartwarming. His descriptions of the landscape makes one feel as if they are there. Carlo Levi has produced a true masterpiece.

Christ Stopped at Eboli, the Story of a Year

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Christ Stopped at Eboli, the Story of a Year

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Christ Stopped At Eboli- The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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Christ Stopped At Eboli - The Story Of A Year
Carlo; Translated from the Italian by Frenaye, Frances Levi
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Christ Stopped at Eboli, the Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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Christ Stopped At Eboli; the Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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Christ Stopped at Eboli - The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
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South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars; yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea – broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands – France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean. Here she took into imperial service former Austrian frontier regiments, which fought with distinction in Russia in 1812; and raised irregulars from among the exotic warrior populations to guard the Turkish frontier inland, and the coasts and islands from British naval raids. This detailed review of all such troops is illustrated with rare prints and meticulous colour plates.

Men at Arms No. 410 - Napoleons Balkan Troops

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Men at Arms No. 410 - Napoleons Balkan Troops
Vladimir Brnardic
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Low-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of wage enforcement, misclassification of their employment, and for some, their status as undocumented immigrants. In the past, political parties, unions, and fraternal and mutual-aid societies served as important vehicles for workers who hoped to achieve political and economic integration. As these traditional civic institutions have weakened, low-wage workers must seek new structures for mutual support. Worker centers are among the institutions to which workers turn as they strive to build vibrant communities and attain economic and political visibility. Community-based worker centers help low-wage workers gain access to social services; advocate for their own civil and human rights; and organize to improve wages, working conditions, neighborhoods, and public schools.

In this pathbreaking book, Janice Fine identifies 137 worker centers in more than eighty cities, suburbs, and rural areas in thirty-one states. These centers, which attract workers in industries that are difficult to organize, have emerged as especially useful components of any program intended to assist immigrants and low-wage workers of color. Worker centers serve not only as organizing laboratories but also as places where immigrants and other low-wage workers can participate in civil society, tell their stories to the larger community, resist racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and work to improve their political and economic standing.

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream.(Book review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
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Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream.(Book review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Carla Lipsig-Mumme
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MV9GSO
Release Date: 2007-01-25

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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 970 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream.(Book review)
Author: Carla Lipsig-Mumme
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 61 Issue: 3 Page: 550(2)

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