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Title: Ivar Lodemal and Heather Trickey (Eds.), An Offer you Can't Refuse: Workfare in International Perspective. (book review)
Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
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An Offer You Can't Refuse : Workfare in International Perspective

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An Offer You Can't Refuse : Workfare in International Perspective
Ivar Loedemel , and Heather Trickey
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In the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater emphasis on obligations and conditions tied to the receipt of financial aid. Through administrative reforms, conditions of entitlement have been narrowed. With the introduction of compulsory work for recipients the contract between the state and uninsured unemployed people is changing.

The product of research funded by the European Union, this book compares 'work-for-welfare' - or workfare - programmes objectively for the first time. It considers well publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare programmes from six European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Britain. It is the first time that details of workfare programmes have been collated in such an easily accessible format.

'An offer you can't refuse' provides an analysis of the ideological debates that surround compulsory work programmes and gives a detailed overview of the programmes implemented in each country, including their political and policy contexts and the forces that have combined to facilitate their implementation. Similarities and differences between programmes are explored. Explanations for differences and lessons for policy makers are discussed.

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Some of them are old and tired ("Didn't we go to different schools together?"), and some of them are just dumb ("Is this seat taken as much as I am with you?"), but fortunately, the pick-up lines aren't all there is to this book. The lovelorn, shy, and awkward will grasp eagerly at the creative date ideas, tips on making first dates great, and instructions for making a paper rose from a bar napkin. Give this book to your favorite perpetually dateless friends--they could do worse than to follow these suggestions.

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Pick up this book today and you'll never know who you'll pick up tomorrow!

Explore 101 pick-up lines that range from romantic to dirty. Plus: learn how to score big by making a paper rose (step-by-step illustrations) and study the list of tips on the ultimate date. There are also plenty of rejection comebacks to help you save face in the event that one of the highly effective pick up lines should ever fail you.

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picking up advice.......2002-06-16

Pick-up lines are to be ice breakers for the catalyst of genuine interest. I found this book to have serious and useful information as well as intentional entertainment. Light-hearted suggestions combined with practical application, 101 of the world's most effective pick-up Lines hit the spot. Better than any other pick-up line book I have ever seen, not that I have looked at many, I really feel right about giving this book a five star review. From the last chapter that shows specifical detail to constructing a paper rose from a bar napkin, to the pick-up lines and tips on the Ultimate Date chapters, I was enlightened! Check it out if you have a fun sense of humor and a want a laugh with simple advice.

101?.......2001-05-16

101 Pick up lines? What I am supposed to do on Saturday night??? Weak...two thumbs down...

Trited, corny, pedestrian and unoriginal. Awful!.......2001-02-06

I ordered this book expecting to learn something sophisticated and original, but instead I got a list of cliches that wouldn't impress any on the ball, modern woman. Save your money and pick something else. Any other book on pick-up lines would work better.

HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND SURPRISINGLY USEFUL!!.......1998-10-05

THE CARTOONS ARE HILLARIOUS, ESPECIALLY IN THE "DOWN WITH THE DIRTY CHAPTER." MY FAVORITE LINES ARE "F**K ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT YOU WANT TO KISS ME," AND "WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF YOU AND I HAVING A MUTUAL FRIEND THAT COULD INTRODUCE US." FROM LEARNING TO MAKE A PAPER ROSE TO INCREDIBLE DATE IDEAS, I GIVE IT A BIG THUMBS UP!!!!

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Arranged For Piano/Vocal/Guitar With Lyrics. Matching songbook to bands first album. Four pages of color photos of the band are also included inthe book. Titles: Bring Me to Life * Everybody's Fool * Going Under * Haunted * Hello * Imaginary * My Immortal * My Last Breath * Taking Over Me * Tourniquet * Whisper hisper.

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Awesome songbook.......2005-09-12

I love this book, I use it all the time at my singing lessons.

Buy this if you love Evanescence.......2004-11-26

I am a vocalist and am taking piano, and I love this music book! It is really great for the vocalist/pianist/guitarist Evanescence fan. However, don't buy it thinking you will sound exactly like the band. Of course, they can't match up the music exactly, and it is a bit different than the album versions or the songs you're used to. However, if you like Evanescence and want to do their songs, buy it!

Awesome book!.......2004-04-13

This book is a great book, especially for guitar /piano / keyboard players. You can play it with your band (if you have one), and the sheet music for "Hello", "My Immortal" and even piano fill for "Bring me to Life" and other songs are there!

Note: Guitar-Bass parts does not included.

This book is easy - BUY IT!

If you're a guitarist..........2003-12-12

I strongly recommend you pick this up. It's worth it just to have the authentic music rather than the TABs online that are usually bordering on terrible. And if you play piano, the piano sheets to My Immortal and Hello are there, along with the piano fills and intros to Bring Me To Life and Taking Over Me.

If you're a guitarist..........2003-12-12

I just picked this up a week or so ago and if you can either play guitar or piano it's worth it. There are complete tabs (and authentic ones, unlike some of the terrible ones you find on the internet) to all of the songs with guitar and suggested chords for My Immortal and Hello. For those who play piano, there is piano music for MI and Hello, along with the intros to Bring Me To Life and Taking Over Me. Definitely buy it (or get someone else to buy it for you :) ) if you get the chance.

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All eleven tracks from this ground breaking CD arranged for easy guitar with chord grids and tab throughout. Includes: Going Under, Bring Me To Life, Everybody's Fool, My Immortal, Haunted, Tourniquet, Imaginary, Taking Over Me, Hello, My Last Breath, and Whisper.

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American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World Wars I and II.

World War I is widely considered “the Great War” and World War II, “the Good War.” Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief they embody. Poetry, of all the arts, Stout argues, most fully captures and conveys those cultural responses.

While probing the work of such well known war poets as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Randall Jarrell, Stout also highlights the impact of the wars on lesser studied, but equally compelling, sources such as the music of Charles Ives and Cole Porter, Aaron Copland and Irving Berlin. She challenges the commonplace belief that war poetry came only from the battlefield and was written only by men by examining the wartime writings of women poets such as Rose Macaulay, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. She also challenges the assumption that World War II did not produce poetry of distinction by studying the work of John Ciardi, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. While emphasizing aesthetic continuity between the wars, Stout stresses that the poetry that emerged from each displays a greater variety than is usually recognized.

A final chapter considers Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem as a culmination and embodiment of the anti-war tradition in 20th-century poetry and music, and speculates on the reasons why, despite their abundance and eloquence, these expressions of grief and opposition to war have effected so little change.

Janis P. Stout is Professor Emerita of English and Dean of Faculties Emerita at Texas A&M University. She is the author or editor of several works, including Willa Cather and Material Culture, Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times, and Through the Window, Out the Door: Women’s Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion.

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Written in both English and Klingon, this handbook is an indispensible guide to understanding those lovable ruffians from the Star Trek universe. Includes proverbs, quotes, and pictures from some of the greatest Klingon philosophers and warriors (including the great Klingon writer William Shakespeare). Remember: rut ylHmey ghom Hoch.

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Klingons at the best!.......2002-09-13

This is the ultimate Klingon book! It brilliantly weaves the tapestry of Star Trek's Klingon history, through its publication date in May of 1996. It is written both in English & Klingon. The photos are black & white. Each page contains a quote in both languages and a detailed explanation of the Klingon terminology. If you have not picked this up for your Star Trek collection, let me quote a Klingon phrase for you, "qoH vuvbe' SuS" ("The wind does not respect a fool"). If you can still find a copy of this, enjoy it.

irrestible.......2000-07-07

Astounding. This is one of the books a Klingon fan would love to read. Trust me, you'll be intrigued.

The Klingon proverbs and their meanings in the book will help us understand Klingon culture and society.

Klingons are misunderstood.......2000-02-24

If I had to be reincarnated, I would be reincarnated as a Klingon. Even though Klingons take no prisoners, they have a few smooth edges. Some how I do think that the whole Klingon race and Klingons in general are misunderstood. This book gives some virtues and good says that can be applied today. My favorite saying is "Revenge is a dish best served cold." and this saying can apply to anybody, even ex-fiances.

Enjoyable for any Trek fan, Klingon expert or not........1996-08-02

In the quest for more and more spin offs in the Star Trek market, this book stands out. Rather than another novel, or nitpicking reference volume culled from the shows - this presents authentic alien literature: the proverbs of the Warrior Race!

Providing insight into tlhIngan (thats Klingon: think Bejing versus Peking. The standard English term is a corruption of the correct pronounciation, just as the old name for China's capital city was) culture, this book cleverly draws from the film and video incarnations for pithy Klingon phrases. The author (compiler), Marc Okrand created the language and clearly knows his Trek.

Illustrating almost every proverb is a relevant black and white. The proverbs are presented in tlhIngan Hol and DIvI' Hol (Klingon and English), along with a paragraph or two discussing the cultural background, and occasional grammatical tips.

The book is well organized, so that you don't really NEED the The Klingon Dictionary (also by Okrand), the authorative guide on the language. However, it makes a great companion to it. Someone seeking to learn and use the language would do well to buy both books and use The Klingon Way as a workbook of phrases to study with the vocabulary and grammar provided by the Klingon Dictionary.

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Best review of thlIngan culture I ever read

An insightful view into Klingon culture and history.

The KLINGON WAY: A WARRIOR'S GUIDE CASSETTE: A Warrior's Guide
Marc Okrand
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
-- Klingon proverb

For many years, Klingons have been the premier warriors in the galaxy. Regarded across known space with fear and awe, few beings understand the true depth and greatness of the Klingon culture.

"Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."
-- Klingon proverb

Noted Klingon language and cultural expert Marc Okrand collects the wisdom of these great warriors, taking proverbs and quotes from some of its greatest thinkers and bringing Klingon philosophy to lesser races across the galaxy.

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Best review of thlIngan culture I ever read.......1998-03-30

This book doesn't tell a story at all. It tells the reade very much about Klingon culture. If you are interested in it you will love this book

An insightful view into Klingon culture and history........1997-07-14

`The Klingon Way` is a fascinating look into the heart of the Klingon soul. Set up as a proverb list with relevaent cultural and historical facts surrounding them; this work expounds wisdom and knowledge applicable not only for the attainment of an honorable death but of an honorable life. Although drawing a bit heavily on previously stated maxims, it is still a great work worthy of owning. Having M Dorn and R Dawson, as Lt. Cmdr. Worf and Lt. Torres, respectively, narrating this is just the icing on the cake. Highly recommended

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Discover all of the most critical functionality, new enhancements, and best practices to maximize the potential of mySAP CRM 4.0.

Learn the essential principles of mySAP CRM as well as detailed techniques for employing this powerful SAP solution in all customer-oriented business processes. Practical, step-by-step examples highlight important functional aspects and guide you through the complete Customer Interaction Cycle. Plus, you'll also discover the ins and outs of key functional areas and benefit from expert advice illustrated throughout with mySAP CRM business scenarios. A fully updated presentation of the implementation methodology, as well as the technical fundamentals of mySAP CRM 4.0, on the basis of SAP NetWeavertm, serve to round out this formidable resource.

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Successful Customer Relationship Management

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It is not 5.0; it is too generic, nothing technical in it.......2007-08-11

I appreciate that they have written a book that covers all the functional parts of the SAP CRM, BUT they should have specified it is useless for an IT professional and that it is only useful for an IT manager or Marketing person or even a financial person. There is not a hint for an IT person to understand how to link the campaigns to their analysis etc...

mature CRM offering.......2006-10-03

SAP has recently been pushing hard its mySAP, in part to reach a larger market. Here, we see the buildout of its CRM version 4. Replete with many use cases [examples] to help the reader gain expertise. One case is to generate a repair order. The screen capture for this example depicts a GUI that is rich in many options that the reader might need for her situation.

Another big feature is the mySAP CRM Interaction Centre. Think of this as souped up help desks. With advanced searching of the data base of previous help queries and replies. So that the help desk personnel can productively make use of accumulated experience, and more quickly solve a user's problem.

The book also stresses efficient channel management, and that partners should be integrated into CRM for competitive advantages.

Much to read about.

very good condition.......2006-07-14

good condition and received in short time. i suggest this seller to by from

Good overview.......2006-03-01

If you are looking for an overview into CRM in general, this is a good book. If you want to learn anything in depth about SAP CRM this will not help you. There is nothing specific here about SAP CRM, no how to's, transactions, not even a detail explanation or example of a BDoc.

Good insight in to CRM.......2005-10-24

This is the best book i have found , which goes deep into the CRM Subject.

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American History: A Bibliographic Review is the only publication to review bibliographic research methods and data compilation on American history, a providing valuable forum for all aspects of critical bibliography in American political, legal, literary, social and economic history. Regular features include bibliographies of prominent American historians, scholarly reviews of bibliographic guides, and a register of historical work in progress. Features in Volume 5 include a historiographical survey of Woodrow Wilson and a bibliography of Arthur Link.

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How do you decide what is a "story" and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? The purpose of this insider's account is to provide an answer to all these questions and more. Andrew Marr's brilliantly funny book is a guide for those of us who read newspapers, or who listen to and watch news bulletins but want to know more.

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Should be required reading.......2006-02-05

Andrew Marr is one of the foremost political journalists of the modern age and in his book "My Trade - A Short History of British Journalism" he covers in a series of what are really essays the development of journalism in Britain.

Where this book comes into it's own is the way in which Marr uses his knowledge and experience as a political journalist to explain the love/hate relationship between politicians and the press; and why both sides act in the way they do.

With plenty of anecdotes this book is a serious but easy to read work that would be of interest to anybody interested either in jornalism or politics.

Strangely for a book of this type there is no index, an omission that has prevented me from giving it top ranking but in all other aspects this is one of the best works of its kind that I have read recently.

excellent description, punchy, short on alternatives.......2005-07-25

Marr's trade is journalism, he has been a print journalist, an editor and a BBC political correspondent in Britain for the last twenty years. The book gives an overview of the origins of and current influences on British journalism. The book is witty, informed and eminently readable, as you might expect. Marr doesn't spare us the basic ruthlessness of the trade - his early tasks as a cub reporter involved trying to get details on local crimes and deaths from the grieving next of kin, he later says that he wrote disparagingly of a rising Tory minister - John Patten - who had been a source, and Marr had been a guest at Patton's home.
The book has a series of chapters - in fact they are long enough to be sections - on print journalism, British newspaper proprietors, Video-journalism, and political and special correspondents. In summary his heart is in print journalism, he thinks the proprietors are in general weird, upwardly mobile outsiders who bring business dynamism to the trade, I think he feels that video journalism is too rehearsed, too controlled by legal obligations to be `real', but it is hugely vivid, and he has both respect and a pleasingly level of scepticism about specialist correspondents, political or foreign.
Marr feels that the development of political reporting (as opposed to British journalism) in Britain was brought about as much by parliament's need to communicate with potential taxpayers (who may not have been voters) during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, as much as by any ancient rites to free speech. One of the things about the book that I found most enlightening is the role of the editors and subeditors in sourcing the stories which will be printed, I suppose I was always aware that certain newspapers supported certain views - for example you will never find the Economist berating market-based solutions - but I was not aware of the extent to which Editors sent out reporters to find particular stories and `rewrite' the results to suit. Marr became editor of the Independent newspaper in England in the early Nineties, and largely judges himself to have failed at the task. The book carries a huge element of wistfulness for this period, and the life of the editor together with deadlines, financial pressure to attract particular types of readers - `more rolexes, less dead babies', and pressure, pressure, pressure. Marr brings us through the details of putting together a newspaper - the fastest changing news goes last to the printer - so sports are on the back page, the headlines and local news are on the first pages, features and soft news are towards the middle - the first pages printed.
His views on video journalism are quite pointed and, while the technology is quite awesome and the skills involved are quite different to print, he sees the medium as being focused on the visual and the emotional. He quotes John Birt, a former head of BBC, about the emotional impact of video news driving out analysis, and Marr cites genuine dilemmas in news rooms where the news with the dramatic pictures crowds out stories which, even in the views of the reporters and editors, have more importance. And this view is quite important in the book, one of the best sections of the book comes early on when he asks the fundamental, and ultimately disturbing, question ` What is News?'. His description of how reporters copy each other, how marketing focuses reports on some issues and not on others, and how local news gathering is disappearing in a sea of `pushed' news releases - in particular celebrities' activities.
In general this is a book worth reading. Marr does not spare his own foibles and failures, there is quite a lot of anecdote and insider-gossip - Raggi Omar, the BBC's correspondent in Baghdad during the latest war landed a book deal supposed worth £850,000; Peter Riddel is the Times correspondent most worth reading on proposed government policy. However ,the main use of the book is the twin questions of what is news and how it is influenced and shaped by unaccountable editors and proprietors. Though Marr offers no answers, this is presented in a interesting form and well worth the time spent.

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The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis
William A. Wallace
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Excellent synthesis.......2002-01-16

Fr Wallace has an wonderful little gem here. Reflecting his experience both as a physicist and a philospher in the tradition of Aquinas and Aristotle, Wallace demonstrates how Aristotelian philosophy of nature, that of form, prime matter, powers, etc. coalesces nicely with the current understanding of modern physics, biology, and chemistry. One need not be a science or philosophy major to follow Wallace; he does a very good job of relating scientific and philosophical concepts in a manner that makes them interesting to the layperson. Highly recommended for anyone interested in how ancient and medieval philosophy coincides with the discoveries of science and modern physics.

The Expert Scientist.......2001-04-20

William Wallace presents himself and science, philosophy, physics, and astronomy very well in this book. I can only imagine how many years of research it took to find all the information. There are five main sections to the first part of the book. In part 1, the Philosophy of Nature, Wallace explains how power comes from different parts of nature. Those being vegetative, animal, human and physical. Nature itself is in the form but Wallace's main historian in chapter one is Aristoltle. The four causes of every sensible reality are matter, form, agent and end. Nature acts towards an end. In chapter 2, Modeling the inorganic, Wallacefirst tries to describe the difference between an atom and a molecule. We are elements and compounds just like every other thing is on the earth, wether inorganic or organic. All of the elements in the periodic table are composed of the same elementary particles. Cosmology tells us how th universe came to be, which started with a certain protomatter. In chapter 3, Plant and animal structures, Wallace goes on to speak of species:are actula natural kinds thgat result from processes at work in nature and are therefore manifestations of nature itself. All living organisms derive their energy from the sun, and then metabolize, and engage in the essential feature of all living things-homeostasis. Also, there are added powers when organic (living) things come into play. Reproductive power, developmental power, homeostatic power and metabolic control. Animal powers go on to include external senses, internal senses, behavioral response and motor power. Chapter 4, the Modeling of the Mind, tries to emphasize that the use of mental representations is essential to understanding cognitive processes in animals and humans. Knowing has both an objective and subjective character. Aristotle's four internal senses: the central (common sense), the imagination, estiminative sense and memory are all part of the higher human powers. Chapter 5, Human nature, describes the only two faculties that make humans different from animals. The Intelect and the will. Part two of the entire text really is the magnificent part-years of research, organizing and selection have seemingly gone into trhe generation of this text. Chapter 6, Defining the philosophy of science, names all the idea makers of science chronologically. Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Whewell, J.S. Mill, Mach, Pierce, Poincare, Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos, Harvey, Newton etc. Chapters 8, 9, and 10 go deeper into proving the earth is round, how ellipses are formed, motion parallax and many other astonomical measures. Wallace truly proves that he is a philosopher of science-debating, cutting up, agreeing with the many different thinkers our time has allowed. How much longer canthe earth take all of this?

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The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis.: An article from: Theological Studies

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The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis.: An article from: Theological Studies
Martin X. Moleski
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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 850 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: The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis.
Author: Martin X. Moleski
Publication: Theological Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
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Volume: v59 Issue: n1 Page: p159(2)

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Named after Boreas, Greek god of the north wind, the boreal forest, or taiga, is the largest forest ecosystem in the world and encircles the northern latitudes of the globe like a giant green halo, broken only by the Bering Sea. Described as the earth's northern lungs, it plays a crucial role in protecting the planet from global warming-and yet the boreal forest is vanishing, leaving us more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than ever.

In this lucid and vivid text, author Daniel Gawthrop describes what the boreal forest is, why it is so important, and why so many people know so little about it. He introduces us to the amazing variety of plant and animal life found within the forest, discusses the dramatic threat human activity poses to it and examines the many promising solutions that environmentalists and industrial developers are actively seeking.

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