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Why Politics Needs Religion

The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Why Politics Needs Religion

The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square

By: Brendan Sweetman

Can relligion and politics mix? Many voices reply, "No way!" Yet in this provocative and timely book, Brendan Sweetman argues against this charge and the various sophisticated arguments that support it. As we witness the clash of religious and secular worldviews he claims that our pluralistic democratic society will be best served when the faith elements of secularism are acknowledged and the rational elements of religious arguments are allowed to inform the momentous debates taking place in the public square. In fact, Sweetman contends that "politics needs religion if it is to be truly democratic, concerned with fairness among worldviews, equality and a vigorous public discussion.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830877754

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DTrace

Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

By: Brendan Gregg,Jim Mauro

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DTrace

Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

By: Brendan Gregg,Jim Mauro

The Oracle Solaris DTrace feature revolutionizes the way you debug operating systems and applications. Using DTrace, you can dynamically instrument software and quickly answer virtually any question about its behavior. Now, for the first time, there's a comprehensive, authoritative guide to making the most of DTrace in any supported UNIX environment--from Oracle Solaris to OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Written by key contributors to the DTrace community, DTrace teaches by example, presenting scores of commands and easy-to-adapt, downloadable D scripts. These concise examples generate answers to real and useful questions, and serve as a starting point for building more complex scripts. Using them, you can start making practical use of DTrace immediately, whether you're an administrator, developer, analyst, architect, or support professional. The authors fully explain the goals, techniques, and output associated with each script or command. Drawing on their extensive experience, they provide strategy suggestions, checklists, and functional diagrams, as well as a chapter of advanced tips and tricks. You'll learn how to Write effective scripts using DTrace's D language Use DTrace to thoroughly understand system performance Expose functional areas of the operating system, including I/O, filesystems, and protocols Use DTrace in the application and database development process Identify and fix security problems with DTrace Analyze the operating system kernel Integrate DTrace into source code Extend DTrace with other tools This book will help you make the most of DTrace to solve problems more quickly and efficiently, and build systems that work faster and more reliably.

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Prentice Hall Professional

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0137061870

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Lakatos

An Introduction

By: Brendan Larvor

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Lakatos

An Introduction

By: Brendan Larvor

Lakatos: An Introduction provides a thorough overview of both Lakatos's thought and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It is an essential and insightful read for students and anyone interested in the philosophy of science.

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Routledge

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1134765134

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Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear

The Twenty-two Relationships of a Spiritual Life and Culture - and why They Need Protection

By: Brendan Myers

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Circles of Meaning, Labyrinths of Fear

The Twenty-two Relationships of a Spiritual Life and Culture - and why They Need Protection

By: Brendan Myers

You’ve heard of sacred places, writings, relics, and rituals, holy days and magical times of year. But these are actually representations of relationships that people have with each other and the elements of the world. Some of these relationships environmental: they involve landscapes, animals, and the streets of your home town. Some are personal, such as families, friends, and elders. Some are public, involving musicians, storytellers, medical doctors, and even soldiers. This book studies twenty-two relationships, from a variety of traditions, and shows their place in ‘the good life’. Yet these relations are always fragile, and threatened by fears, from the fear of loneliness, to the fear of the loss of personal or political freedom, to the fear of death. To escape from these fears, people often trap themselves into ways of life that are bad for everyone, including themselves. This book studies how that happens, and how to prevent it. More than beliefs, laws, and teachings, our relationships are the true basis of spirituality, and freedom.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1846947456

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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Influence of Religion in Locke's Work

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Influence of Religion in Locke's Work

By: Brendan Sweetman

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Influence of Religion in Locke's Work is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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BPF Performance Tools

By: Brendan Gregg

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BPF Performance Tools

By: Brendan Gregg

Use BPF Tools to Optimize Performance, Fix Problems, and See Inside Running Systems BPF-based performance tools give you unprecedented visibility into systems and applications, so you can optimize performance, troubleshoot code, strengthen security, and reduce costs. BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability is the definitive guide to using these tools for observability. Pioneering BPF expert Brendan Gregg presents more than 150 ready-to-run analysis and debugging tools, expert guidance on applying them, and step-by-step tutorials on developing your own. You’ll learn how to analyze CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security, and the kernel. Gregg guides you from basic to advanced tools, helping you generate deeper, more useful technical insights for improving virtually any Linux system or application. • Learn essential tracing concepts and both core BPF front-ends: BCC and bpftrace • Master 150+ powerful BPF tools, including dozens created just for this book, and available for download • Discover practical strategies, tips, and tricks for more effective analysis • Analyze compiled, JIT-compiled, and interpreted code in multiple languages: C, Java, bash shell, and more • Generate metrics, stack traces, and custom latency histograms • Use complementary tools when they offer quick, easy wins • Explore advanced tools built on BPF: PCP and Grafana for remote monitoring, eBPF Exporter, and kubectl-trace for tracing Kubernetes • Foreword by Alexei Starovoitov, creator of the new BPF BPF Performance Tools will be an indispensable resource for all administrators, developers, support staff, and other IT professionals working with any recent Linux distribution in any enterprise or cloud environment.

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0136624588

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Reclaiming Civilization

A Case for Optimism for the Future of Humanity

By: Brendan Myers

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Reclaiming Civilization

A Case for Optimism for the Future of Humanity

By: Brendan Myers

What is civilization, and is it a good thing? It’s a name for the most glorious of humanity’s monuments and cultural achievements; yet it also speaks of the conquests, oppressions, and empires which make their glory possible. This book explains the essence of civilization, then asks what’s wrong with it, and considers what can be done about it.

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Evolution, Chance, and God

Understanding the Relationship between Evolution and Religion

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Evolution, Chance, and God

Understanding the Relationship between Evolution and Religion

By: Brendan Sweetman

Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are difficult to keep separate from each other. Evolution, Chance, and God introduces the reader to the main themes of this debate and to the theory of evolution, while arguing for a particular viewpoint, namely that evolution and religion are compatible, and that, contrary to the views of some influential thinkers, there is no chance operating in the theory of evolution, a conclusion that has great significance for teleology. One of the main aims of this book is not simply to critique one influential contemporary view that evolution and religion are incompatible, but to explore specific ways of how we might understand their compatibility, as well as the implications of evolution for religious belief. This involves an exploration of how and why God might have created by means of evolution, and what the consequences in particular are for the status of human beings in creation, and for issues such as free will, the objectivity of morality, and the problem of evil. By probing how the theory of evolution and religion could be reconciled, Sweetman says that we can address more deeply key foundational questions concerning chance, design, suffering and morality, and God's way of acting in and through creation.

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Freedom to Soar

Why Settle for Less when You Can Have All You Want?

By: Tolani Brendan Mosweu

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Freedom to Soar

Why Settle for Less when You Can Have All You Want?

By: Tolani Brendan Mosweu

¿What do you want most? Is it financial freedom, lasting relationships, healthy lifestyle and happiness¿?¿ Well! Probably you have wondered what is it that makes other people achieve whatever they want in life, while others stay below average. And chances are you would be interested in finding out the reasons. The difference lies in what each person knows and how he or she makes use of that knowledge. Good News! You don't have to wonder anymore. "Success leaves clues" and this book was written specifically for people like you and will guide you step by step through principles of prosperity that have helped many achieve their dreams of financial freedom. Let¿s face it; you could do better with more money in your bank account. On top of that you could also enjoy free time with your family if you know how to work smart. If that sound like what you really need, just pause, take a deep breath and imagine how the application of what you are just about to learn will change your life. It¿s never too late to be the person you always wanted to be. You can achieve your dreams and visions if you only know how. And that is why this book is worth your investment. To use the word 'unique' would be probably unjust, however, let me say this book is not a get rich quickly hype. This book reveals a tremendous wealth of valuable information on how you too can change your life from lack into a life of abundance. The principles discussed in this book are tested and proven and with time will help you achieve whatever you want in life. It's true, this could just be the missing key you have always wanted to start a life of Nothing missing and Nothing broken - "True Prosperity." Applying the principles you will learn in this book, could result in you enjoying a more abundant lifestyle without sacrificing anything that you value: your believe, your health, your relationships, your freedom and happiness¿ Take it from me, life just got better. You will learn how to: Harness the power of your thought life and start thinking like a millionaire Set your goals and achieve them Gather a team of people interested in helping you achieve your dreams Use your time wisely and productively Tap into your creative power and have people wanting to give you money for your ideas And many more other ways to help you achieve your lifetime success.

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Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy

By: Brendan Sweetman

An introduction to the philosophy of religion for undergraduates

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The Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy

From the Iron Age to the 21st Century

By: Brendan Myers

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The Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy

From the Iron Age to the 21st Century

By: Brendan Myers

Philosophy was invented by pagans. Yet this fact is almost always ignored by those who write the history of ideas. This book tells the history of the pagan philosophers, and the various places where their ideas appeared, from ancient times to the 21st century. The Pagan philosophers are a surprisingly diverse group: from kings of great empires to exiled lonely wanderers, from devout religious teachers to con artists, drug addicts, and social radicals. Three traditions of thought emerge from their work: Pantheism, NeoPlatonism, and Humanism, corresponding to the immensities of the Earth, the Gods, and the Soul. From ancient schools like the Stoics and the Druids, to modern feminists and deep ecologists, the pagan philosophers examined these three immensities with systematic critical reason, and sometimes with poetry and mystical vision. This book tells their story for the first time in one volume, and invites you to examine the immensities with them. And as a special feature, the book includes summaries of the ideas of leading modern pagan intellectuals, in their own words: Emma Restall Orr, Michael York, John Michael Greer, Vivianne Crowley, and more ,

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1780993188

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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue

By: Wendy Austin,E. Sharon Brintnell,Erika Goble,Leon Kagan,Linda Kreitzer,Denise Larsen,Brendan Leier

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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue

By: Wendy Austin,E. Sharon Brintnell,Erika Goble,Leon Kagan,Linda Kreitzer,Denise Larsen,Brendan Leier

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is increasingly understood as a threat to the well-being of those who offer it. Through the lens of hermeneutic phenomenology, the authors present an insider’s perspective on compassion fatigue, its effects on the body, on the experience of time and space, and on personal and professional relationships. Accounts of health professionals, alongside examinations of poetry, images, movies, and literature, are used to explore the notions of compassion, hope, and hopelessness as they inform the meaning of caring work. The authors frame their exposé of compassion fatigue with the very Canadian metaphor of “lying down in the snow.” If suffering is imagined as ever-falling snow, then the need for training and resources for safe journeying in “winter country” becomes apparent. Recognizing the phenomenon of compassion fatigue reveals the role that health services education and the moral habitability of our healthcare environments play in supporting professionals’ ability to act compassionately and to endure.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554588901

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Truth and Religious Belief

Philosophical Reflections on Philosophy of Religion

By: Curtis L. Hancock,Brendan Sweetman,Randolph Feezell

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Truth and Religious Belief

Philosophical Reflections on Philosophy of Religion

By: Curtis L. Hancock,Brendan Sweetman,Randolph Feezell

This book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the nature of religious experience, immortality, and the meaning of life. A realistic cast of characters in a natural setting engages in a series of thought-provoking conversations; the dialogue format of these conversations captures typical student attitudes and questions concerning religious belief; allows comparison of important themes throughout the dialogues; encourages the interjection of insights, observations, questions, and objections; and introduces related points when they would naturally arise, instead of relegating them to a later chapter. As well as presenting a detailed and probing discussion, each dialogue includes a list of key terms, a set of study questions, and a bibliography - all of which make this an excellent text for courses in philosophy of religion and introductory philosophy classes.

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1315480115

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Darkstar: The Java Game Server

By: Brendan Burns

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Darkstar: The Java Game Server

By: Brendan Burns

So, you have a great idea for the next big multiplayer game. Maybe it's a virtual world based on your favorite sci-fi television show. Or maybe it's an online bowling league for you and your friends. Regardless, the challenge of building a networked multiplayer computer game goes far beyond having a great idea. It can be so significant that it prevents great games from becoming reality. Darkstar breaks down this barrier of complexity. It provides an easy-to-use library of functions that handles the challenging aspects of networked game development for you. Further, it provides a robust, industrial-strength server that can scale with your game as it grows in popularity. With Darkstar, you can quickly turn your idea for a multiplayer game into a (virtual) reality.

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The World of Tomorrow

By: Brendan Mathews

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The World of Tomorrow

By: Brendan Mathews

One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal). June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past. When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin forced into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture. Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family suffer fatal consequences. Michael, lost and wandering alone, turns to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick artist, to recover his decimated memory. And Martin and his wife, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, ultimately, the lives of the other Dempseys. Meanwhile, with the Depression receding, all of New York is suffused with an electric feeling of hope, caught up in the fervor of the World's Fair and eager for good times after a decade of deprivation. From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the opulent Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of vagabonds and artists in the Bowery to the backroom warrens and shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings the prewar metropolis to vivid, pulsing life. The sweeping, intricate, and ambitious storytelling throughout this remarkable debut reveals an America that blithely hoped it could avoid another catastrophic war and focus instead on the promise of the World's Fair: a peaceful, prosperous "World of Tomorrow." One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal following three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal) "A masterfully crafted novel . . . Comic, violent, and moving in equal measure."-John Irving "As rich and raucous as the city it celebrates."-O., The Oprah Magazine "Admirably fearless . . . Mathews has talent in buckets."-New York Times Book Review

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0316382205

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Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of God

By: Brendan Long

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Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of God

By: Brendan Long

This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Smith built a moral philosophy on the foundations of a natural theology of human sociality. Examination of his life, relationship with David Hume and use of divine names shows that he retained a progressive form of Christian theism. The book interrogates the metaphor of the ‘invisible hand’ and highlights the importance of the religious dimension of Adam Smith’s thought for his moral philosophy, his jurisprudence and his economics. It reflects on the contemporary relevance of a theological reading of Smith and lays the ground for further inquiry between economic and religious perspectives.

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1000536386

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Data Profiling and Insurance Law

By: Brendan McGurk KC

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Data Profiling and Insurance Law

By: Brendan McGurk KC

The winner of the 2020 British Insurance Law Association Book Prize, this timely, expertly written book looks at the legal impact that the use of 'Big Data' will have on the provision – and substantive law – of insurance. Insurance companies are set to become some of the biggest consumers of big data which will enable them to profile prospective individual insureds at an increasingly granular level. More particularly, the book explores how: (i) insurers gain access to information relevant to assessing risk and/or the pricing of premiums; (ii) the impact which that increased information will have on substantive insurance law (and in particular duties of good faith disclosure and fair presentation of risk); and (iii) the impact that insurers' new knowledge may have on individual and group access to insurance. This raises several consequential legal questions: (i) To what extent is the use of big data analytics to profile risk compatible (at least in the EU) with the General Data Protection Regulation? (ii) Does insurers' ability to parse vast quantities of individual data about insureds invert the information asymmetry that has historically existed between insured and insurer such as to breathe life into insurers' duty of good faith disclosure? And (iii) by what means might legal challenges be brought against insurers both in relation to the use of big data and the consequences it may have on access to cover? Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will both stimulate further debate and operate as a reference text for academics and practitioners who are faced with emerging legal problems arising from the increasing opportunities that big data offers to the insurance industry.

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1509920625

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Step by Step

By: Jim Steger,Mike Snyder,Brendan Landers

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Step by Step

By: Jim Steger,Mike Snyder,Brendan Landers

Whether you’re in sales, marketing, or customer service—quickly teach yourself how to get closer to your customers with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Create and manage accounts—for a 360¿ view of your customers and business Work with Microsoft Dynamics CRM directly from Microsoft Outlook Track customer activity; import and map data automatically Manage campaigns, leads, quotes, contracts, and orders Employ basic to advanced reporting capabilities Your all-in-one learning experience includes: Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons Fully searchable eBook Sample chapters from related Microsoft Press books WINDOWS VISTA PRODUCT GUIDE eReference—plus other resources—on CD For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

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Pearson Education

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0735638152

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Patent Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers

By: Thomas T. Gordon,Arthur S. Cookfair,Vincent G. LoTempio,Brendan S. Lillis

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Patent Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers

By: Thomas T. Gordon,Arthur S. Cookfair,Vincent G. LoTempio,Brendan S. Lillis

The most significant overhaul of the U.S. patent laws in decades occurred with the recent passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Understanding the law that dictates what a patent is and how a patent is obtained and enforced, and the recent changes through statute or case law litigation presents unique challenges. This third edition o

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A Poetics of Homecoming

Heidegger, Homelessness and the Homecoming Venture

By: Brendan O’Donoghue

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A Poetics of Homecoming

Heidegger, Homelessness and the Homecoming Venture

By: Brendan O’Donoghue

This investigation addresses a pressing anxiety of our time – that of homelessness. Tersely stated, the philosophical significance of homelessness in its more modern context can be understood to emerge with Nietzsche and his discourse on nihilism, which signals the loss of the highest values hitherto. Diverging from Nietzsche, Heidegger interprets homelessness as a symptom of the oblivion of being. The purpose of the present enquiry is to rigorously confront humanity’s state of homelessness, and at the same time illumine the extent to which Heidegger’s thought engages with this pervasive phenomenon. In questioning the nature of homelessness, Heidegger’s preoccupations with nihilism and modern technology prove crucial. Moreover, his attempts to overcome or prepare for the overcoming of this state of homelessness are also of great import to the current investigation. Adorno and Lévinas offer scathing critiques of Heidegger’s thought as it relates to the motifs of homelessness, homecoming (Heimkunft) and the German Heimat, for they associate it with provincialism, paganism, and a pernicious form of politics. In providing these critiques they bring to light the risks involved in undertaking a homecoming venture, and they also show how a great thinker can err greatly. While acknowledging the importance of these criticisms, the present study reveals how Heidegger’s various discourses on homelessness and homecoming bear fruitful insights that can contribute not just to a Germanic sense of homecoming but to a sense of homecoming that humanity at large can relate to and be enriched by.

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1443831239

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Law, Modernity, Postmodernity

Legal Change in the Contracting State

By: Brendan Edgeworth

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Law, Modernity, Postmodernity

Legal Change in the Contracting State

By: Brendan Edgeworth

This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By reference to theorists of postmodernity such as Zygmunt Bauman, Scott Lash and John Urry, and David Harvey, the principal argument is that contemporary law and legal institutions can be best understood as having changed in ways that mirror the recent transformation of the interventionist welfare state and its Fordist, Keynesian economic infrastructure. The key changes identified in the legal field include:- the shift toward marketized regulatory structures as reflected in privatization and deregulation, the attenuation of welfare rights, the privatization of justice, legal polycentricity, the reconfiguration of the welfare state’s social citizenship and the globalization of law. Empirical evidence from a number of jurisdictions is adduced to indicate the general direction of change.

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1351725610

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Believe in Love

The Life, Ministry and Teachings of John Paul II

By: Brendan Leahy

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Believe in Love

The Life, Ministry and Teachings of John Paul II

By: Brendan Leahy

Believe in Love paints the rich landscape of John Paul II's formative influences, his theological and philosophical foundations and his personal thoughts. Reflecting his belief that we need to link our notion of God with our understanding of what it is to be human, it offers an accessible insight into his teachings on a wide range of subjects - including dialogue, young people, families, the crises in the Church, artists, work, forgiveness, and the elderly - and provides the perfect starting point for discussion in a faith-sharing group or for individual daily reflection. Book jacket.

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The God Enquiry

By: Brendan McCarthy

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The God Enquiry

By: Brendan McCarthy

For as long as Brendan McCarthy can remember, he has been intrigued by the question of God’s existence. He has discovered that he is not alone in this fascination. This book has been born out of numerous conversations with honest enquirers, fearful doubters, ardent believers and convinced atheists. More than that, it has been born out of a desire to conduct a personal, open and honest enquiry into the possible existence and nature of God. This is not a work of Christian apologetics; there is no attempt to convince anyone of anything. Rather, it is an invitation to look over the author's shoulder as he thinks his way through what he considers to be the most important issues with regard to belief in God. This book takes an informed, personal look at the question of God’s existence and nature, but unlike most books of its kind, it does not seek to prove a point or to argue its readers into either belief or non-belief. Respecting the integrity of everyone involved in this debate, it maps a clear and accessible path through the maze of science, philosophy and theology, enabling the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. "As I wrote (and rewrote) this book, I made every effort to identify prior convictions and prejudices and then to set them to one side. What emerged was, for me, a fascinating process that led me down new roads and, I believe, into green, if somewhat uncomfortable, pastures. The end result is a book that is honest and engaging without being partisan. I hope that it encourages others to make a similar journey.

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1783062762

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Immanuel Kant: Overview

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Immanuel Kant: Overview

By: Brendan Sweetman

Gale Researcher Guide for: Immanuel Kant: Overview is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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The Economics of Race in the United States

By: Brendan O'Flaherty

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The Economics of Race in the United States

By: Brendan O'Flaherty

Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more—to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities and housing, to levels of wealth and crime, he shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of twenty-first-century Americans. More capacious than standard texts, The Economics of Race in the United States discusses important aspects of history and culture and explores race as a social and biological construct to make a compelling argument for why race must play a major role in economic and public policy. People are not color-blind, and so policies cannot be color-blind either. Because his book addresses many topics, not just a single area such as labor or housing, surprising threads of connection emerge in the course of O’Flaherty’s analysis. For example, eliminating discrimination in the workplace will not equalize earnings as long as educational achievement varies by race—and educational achievement will vary by race as long as housing and marriage markets vary by race. No single engine of racial equality in one area of social and economic life is strong enough to pull the entire train by itself. Progress in one place is often constrained by diminishing marginal returns in another. Good policies can make a difference, and only careful analysis can figure out which policies those are.

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Harvard University Press

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0674286677

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Safety Management

A Qualitative Systems Approach

By: John Davies,Alastair Ross,Brendan Wallace

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Safety Management

A Qualitative Systems Approach

By: John Davies,Alastair Ross,Brendan Wallace

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity." Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach describes a body of theories and data that addresses safety by drawing on systems theory and applied psychology, stressing the importance of human activity within systems. It explains in detail the central roles of social consensus and reliability and the nature of verbal reports and functional discourse. This text presents a new approach to safety management, offering a path to both greater safety and to economic savings. It presents a series of methodological tools that have proven to be reliable through extensive use in the rail and nuclear industries. These methods allow organizational and systems failures to be analyzed much more effectively in terms of quantity, precision, and usefulness. The concepts and tools described in this book are particularly valuable for reliability engineers, risk managers, human factors specialists, and safety managers and professionals in safety-critical organizations.

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CRC Press

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How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity

By: Brendan O'Leary

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How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity

By: Brendan O'Leary

There is no reason why America's withdrawal from Iraq should be as dishonest as its intervention has been judged to be."—Brendan O'Leary, from the Preface Both the American people and Arab Iraqis have voiced their overwhelming desire to see U.S. troops removed from the country. How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity argues that the U.S. military intervention in Iraq must come to an end. But it must come to an end in a judicious, pragmatic, and orderly fashion. In this book, Brendan O'Leary spells out why that withdrawal can begin to occur now, why it is in the best interests of the United States and the Iraqis that withdrawal occur, and why Iraq can function as a federation once the U.S. military has left the country. How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity provides an in-depth analysis of the new Iraqi constitution, an evaluation of the political goals and powers of the major ethnic and religious groups that will constitute the new Iraqi state, and an assessment of the regional realities of a Saddam-less Iraq. With a viable constitution and other institutional structures already in place, Iraq is poised for a future as a sovereign state. If U.S. leaders facilitate the remaking of Iraq as a federation with four or more regions instead of a recentralized state, the United States can begin successfully to remove its forces. Propelled by this incisive and bold argument, How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity provides the foundation for the incoming presidential administration to do just that, without betraying U.S. commitments to Arabs, Kurds, or democracy. To make his case, O'Leary draws on his extensive background as constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government, the European Union, and the United Nations, along with expertise in constitutional design and ethnic reconciliation in Northern Ireland and South Africa.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206088

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Systems Performance

Enterprise and the Cloud

By: Brendan Gregg

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Systems Performance

Enterprise and the Cloud

By: Brendan Gregg

The Complete Guide to Optimizing Systems Performance Written by the winner of the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration Large-scale enterprise, cloud, and virtualized computing systems have introduced serious performance challenges. Now, internationally renowned performance expert Brendan Gregg has brought together proven methodologies, tools, and metrics for analyzing and tuning even the most complex environments. Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud focuses on Linux(R) and Unix(R) performance, while illuminating performance issues that are relevant to all operating systems. You'll gain deep insight into how systems work and perform, and learn methodologies for analyzing and improving system and application performance. Gregg presents examples from bare-metal systems and virtualized cloud tenants running Linux-based Ubuntu(R), Fedora(R), CentOS, and the illumos-based Joyent(R) SmartOS(TM) and OmniTI OmniOS(R). He systematically covers modern systems performance, including the "traditional" analysis of CPUs, memory, disks, and networks, and new areas including cloud computing and dynamic tracing. This book also helps you identify and fix the "unknown unknowns" of complex performance: bottlenecks that emerge from elements and interactions you were not aware of. The text concludes with a detailed case study, showing how a real cloud customer issue was analyzed from start to finish. Coverage includes - Modern performance analysis and tuning: terminology, concepts, models, methods, and techniques - Dynamic tracing techniques and tools, including examples of DTrace, SystemTap, and perf - Kernel internals: uncovering what the OS is doing - Using system observability tools, interfaces, and frameworks - Understanding and monitoring application performance - Optimizing CPUs: processors, cores, hardware threads, caches, interconnects, and kernel scheduling - Memory optimization: virtual memory, paging, swapping, memory architectures, busses, address spaces, and allocators - File system I/O, including caching - Storage devices/controllers, disk I/O workloads, RAID, and kernel I/O - Network-related performance issues: protocols, sockets, interfaces, and physical connections - Performance implications of OS and hardware-based virtualization, and new issues encountered with cloud computing - Benchmarking: getting accurate results and avoiding common mistakes This guide is indispensable for anyone who operates enterprise or cloud environments: system, network, database, and web admins; developers; and other professionals. For students and others new to optimization, it also provides exercises reflecting Gregg's extensive instructional experience.

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Pearson Education

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0133390098

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9780133390094

The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis

By: D. Brendan Nagle

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The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis

By: D. Brendan Nagle

Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was not the family in the modern sense of the term, but a much more powerful entity with significant economic, political, social, and educational resources. The success of the polis in all its forms lay in the reliability of households to provide it with the kinds of citizens it needed to ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the members of its households a unique opportunity for humans to flourish. This 2006 book explains how Aristotle thought household and state interacted within the polis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521849349

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9780521849340

The Vision of Gabriel Marcel

Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent

By: Brendan Sweetman

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The Vision of Gabriel Marcel

Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent

By: Brendan Sweetman

This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.

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BRILL

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9401205817

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ESPN the Magazine Presents Answer Guy

Extinguishing the Burning Questions of Sports with the Water Bucket of Truth

By: Brendan O'Connor,Neil Fine

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Extinguishing the Burning Questions of Sports with the Water Bucket of Truth

By: Brendan O'Connor,Neil Fine

Why do baseball fans stretch in the seventh inning? Why do hockey players wear shorts? These are the questions that try sports fans souls, sending the most ardent athletic aficionados into a tailspin. Luckily, sports lore is the domain of Answer Guy, whose column in ESPN The Magazine is the first place those fans turn to for answers.Now Answer Guys hilarious, highly anecdotal and mostly correct answers are compiled for the first time in this easy-to-tote volume that includes 65 of the best published and never-before-seen columns along with new material such as: testimony from famous and not-so-famous Answer Guy sources; an Answer Guy quiz; A Brief History of Inquiry; and questions Answer Guy thought of asking but didnt.

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Gary Belsky

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0786887567

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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism

Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina

By: Brendan Lanctot

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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism

Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina

By: Brendan Lanctot

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829-1852) versus a dissident intellectual elite. Most famously, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento described the conflict in his canonical Facundo (1845) as a clash between civilization and barbarism, which has become a catchphrase for the experience of modernity throughout Latin America. Against the grain of this durable script, Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines an extensive corpus to demonstrate how adversaries of the period used similar rhetorical strategies, appealed to the same basic political ideals of republican government, and were preoccupied with defining and interpellating the pueblo, or people. In other words, their collective struggle was fundamentally modern and waged on a mutually intelligible discursive terrain.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611485460

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The Real Deal

Property Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom!

By: Brendan Kelly,Simon Buckingham

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The Real Deal

Property Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom!

By: Brendan Kelly,Simon Buckingham

Tired of working 9 to 5 for someone else, just to make ends meet? Looking for a path to financial freedom so that you can spend your time doing what you want to do? For many savvy Australians, property investing has lead to exactly that. They have found an investing method suited to their own circumstances and turns a property dream into an income stream – and, in some cases, an early retirement! So how can you escape the daily grind and achieve the same results, even if you've never invested in property before? The Real Deal is the only real estate book that: takes you through an array of investment methods – from negative and positive gearing to renovation, subdivision, commercial property and property development, and everything in between shares the experiences of 14 real-life, everyday investors who have created wealth using these methods so you can see how they work in the real world teaches you how to set goals and provides the tools to stay motivated to achieve them helps you access the best investment approach for you in terms of time, money, level of difficulty and effort actually gets you on the road to financial freedom – fast. You'll learn how to make deals for quick profit, deals that you can work on yourself and deals that you can pay others to look after for you. The options are limited only by your own creativity!

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John Wiley & Sons

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174246985X

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The Pilgrim's Story

The Life and Spirituality of St. Ignatius Loyola

By: Brendan Comerford

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The Pilgrim's Story

The Life and Spirituality of St. Ignatius Loyola

By: Brendan Comerford

Learn about St. Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Journey to Continue Yours Whether you are a novice or an expert in Ignatian spirituality, The Pilgrim’s Story satisfies with fresh perspective and deep insight into the life of Saint Ignatius Loyola and his monumental works. Thoughtfully written by Brendan Comerford, SJ, The Pilgrim’s Story goes beyond a simple biography to explain how the life of Saint Ignatius affected his Spiritual Exercises and describe how Ignatian spirituality can help each of us understand our own spiritual longings and experiences. Part One provides an accurate, high-energy portrait of the saint—covering critical moments in Ignatius’s life while bringing in sources both complimentary and critical. Part Two deals specifically with Ignatius’s spirituality, stressing the importance of having a personal experience of God, a call for the reader as it was for the saint. The result is a realistic, balanced view of Ignatius as well as a concise introduction to Ignatian spirituality, the Spiritual Exercises, and the Examen—his most important gifts to the world.

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0829450122

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Religion and Science: An Introduction

By: Brendan Sweetman

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Religion and Science: An Introduction

By: Brendan Sweetman

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A&C Black

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1847060153

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A Philosopher's Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education

Teaching in the Iron Cage

By: Brendan Larvor

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A Philosopher's Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education

Teaching in the Iron Cage

By: Brendan Larvor

In this collection of research articles and reflective essays, Brendan Larvor argues that the principal task of teachers in higher education is to find ways to pursue the creative, romantic and liberal goals of the ideal university, when real universities are rationalised bureaucracies, according to the thoughts of Max Weber. Larvor reflects on the differences between teaching philosophy undergraduates, expert practitioners and prisoners. He insists on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the encounter between students and curricula. This book will interest anyone concerned about the current condition of higher education, and anyone interested in the relationship between the intimate, human activity of teaching and the bureaucracies in which it takes place.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527574288

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Penal Law in Action

By: Msgr. Daly, Brendan

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Penal Law in Action

By: Msgr. Daly, Brendan

This book on penal law explains the main topics of penal law, with cases and examples of its implementation, using the changed text of Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law that will come into effect on December 8, 2021. Pope Francis has revised Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law, “Penal Sanctions in the Church,” canons 1311-1399. Of these 89 canons, 63 have been changed and others have been renumbered. Changes include a new canon 1376 concerning the crimes of stealing and misappropriation of church property; canon 1398 §2 making the sexual abuse of minors by religious brothers and sisters a crime; c. 1398 §1 no. 2 making grooming a crime. Other changes in canon law since 1983 have been incorporated into the new book 6. These include raising the age for sexual abuse from under age 14 to under age 18; a 1988 law imposing penalties for recording confessions; penalties for the attempted ordination of a woman; penalties for bishops failing to report or take sufficient measures against perpetrators of sexual abuse; and for clerics using pornography of those under age 18.

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