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Fifty Five Years at Sea

Captain William Sewall Nickels of Maine

By: Monica Ruth Pattangall

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Fifty Five Years at Sea

Captain William Sewall Nickels of Maine

By: Monica Ruth Pattangall

Fifty Five Years at Sea is the story of the author's great-great-grandfather, Captain William Sewall Nickels ((1836-1920). For fifty-five years, he had no fixed address. He was one of the hundreds of nineteenth century master mariners from Prospect, now Searsport, Maine. Captain Nickels spent fifty-five years of his life on merchant sailing vessels, forty-five of them as commander. His wife followed him to sea, and his daughters were raised on his ships.In words and pictures, it covers seven generations of Captain Nickels' family from the time his great-grandparents first settled on the shores of Penobscot Bay, before the American Revolution. It follows his early years on a farm in Prospect (now Searsport), Maine; his fifty-five years as a merchant mariner; his retirement to Sailors' Snug Harbor in Staten Island, New York; the fates of his children and grandchildren, and the births of his great-grandchildren in the years before his death. It is a memorial to a simple man, an uncelebrated mariner, who lived long, worked hard, loved deeply, and spent fifty-five years at sea.

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Monica Ruth Pattangall

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0692628568

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9780692628560

Cherie Quarters

The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines

By: Ruth Laney

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Cherie Quarters

The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines

By: Ruth Laney

Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ernest J. Gaines. In clear and vivid prose, this original and vital book illuminates the birthplace of a preeminent Black author and the lives of the people who inspired his work. Before he became an award-winning writer, Gaines was the son of sharecroppers in Cherie Quarters, a small Black community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Drawing on decades of interviews and archival research, Ruth Laney explores the lives and histories of the families, both kin and not, who lived in a place where “everybody was everybody’s child.” Built as slave cabins for the nearby River Lake Plantation in the 1840s, the houses of Cherie Quarters were cold in winter, hot in summer, filled with mosquitoes, and overflowing with people. Even so, the residents made these houses into homes. Laney describes aspects of their daily lives—work, food, entertainment, religion, and education—then expands her focus to the white families who built River Lake Plantation, enslaved its people, and later directed the lives of its Black sharecroppers. The twenty-first century saw the demise of Cherie Quarters. Like many landmarks of Black American life and history, the few remaining structures were razed or fell into ruin. Laney recounts the ultimately unsuccessful efforts of a small, dedicated group to preserve the vestiges of the community—two slave cabins, the church/schoolhouse, and a shed. Engaging and rich in detail, Cherie Quarters highlights the voices of those who called this special place home and shares the story of a lost way of life in South Louisiana.

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LSU Press

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0807178918

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9780807178911

The Dynamics of Nominal Classification

Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng

By: Ruth Singer

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The Dynamics of Nominal Classification

Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng

By: Ruth Singer

The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently lexicalized, creating idioms called lexicalised agreement verbs that are structurally similar to noun-verb idioms. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in nominal classification or cross-linguistic approaches to idioms.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1614513694

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9781614513698

Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96

By: Jack M. Holl,Richard G. Hewlett,Ruth R. Harris

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Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96

By: Jack M. Holl,Richard G. Hewlett,Ruth R. Harris

A history of Argonne National Laboratory as the site of research in nuclear reactor technology, biology and medicine, materials science and world-renowned programs in physics.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252023412

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9780252023415

A Bride of Honor

By: Ruth Axtell Morren

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A Bride of Honor

By: Ruth Axtell Morren

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady of rank and distinction is no match for an impoverished preacher. Yet Damian Hathaway is entranced from the moment he spies Miss Lindsay Phillips entering his church. She doesn't appear any different from the other pampered society ladies—and she's betrothed to a gentleman of the ton. But Damian is determined to find the pure heart he's sure exists underneath all the ruffles and lace. The unlikely friendship formed by Damian and Lindsay is a revelation to them both, but is frowned upon by her parents—and Damian's parishioners. Torn between two worlds, the pair must trust that their love can bridge the divide—and conquer all.

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Steeple Hill

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1426833202

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9781426833205

Reimagining Academic Activism

Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists

By: Ruth Weatherall

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Reimagining Academic Activism

Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists

By: Ruth Weatherall

Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social inequality.

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Policy Press

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1529210208

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9781529210200

The Language of Love and Guilt

By: Ruth Wodak,Muriel Schulz

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The Language of Love and Guilt

By: Ruth Wodak,Muriel Schulz

Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite ‘eternal’ features of the mother–daughter relationship, its quality is affected by individual psychological and by sociocultural variables. Thus, investigations took place in two big cities with very different structures and traditions: Vienna and Los Angeles. This is the first cross-cultural study which reflects and combines multiple linguistic, socio-psycholinguistic and text linguistic categories, approaches and methods to be able to investigate such an important topic as family relationships and the ‘place’ of women nowadays in our societies.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027274452

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9789027274458

The Magic Key

The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond

By: Ruth Enid Zambrana,Sylvia Hurtado

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The Magic Key

The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond

By: Ruth Enid Zambrana,Sylvia Hurtado

Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that reveal new ways to understand how and why members of this subgroup have succeeded and how the facilitators of success in higher education have changed or remained the same. The Magic Key’s four sections explain the context of Mexican American higher education issues, provide conceptual understandings, explore contemporary college experiences, and offer implications for educational policy and future practices. Using historical and contemporary data as well as new conceptual apparatuses, the authors in this collection create a comparative, nuanced approach that brings Mexican Americans’ lived experiences into the dominant discourse of social science and education. This diverse set of studies presents both quantitative and qualitative data by gender to examine trends of generations of Mexican American college students, provides information on perceptions of welcoming university climates, and proffers insights on emergent issues in the field of higher education for this population. Professors and students across disciplines will find this volume indispensable for its insights on the Mexican American educational experience, both past and present.

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University of Texas Press

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1477307257

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9781477307250

The Self-concept: A review of methodological considerations and measuring instruments

By: Ruth C. Wylie

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The Self-concept: A review of methodological considerations and measuring instruments

By: Ruth C. Wylie

This first volume of two in the revised and greatly expanded edition of Professor Wylie's now classic work describes and evaluates measurement methods, research designs, and procedures which have been or might appropriately be used in self-concept research. Offering comprehensive treatment of the voluminous recent literature in the field, it constitutes a unique and invaluable guide to scholars and students of self theories and self-concept research. Many of the methodological issues considered here also have broader relevance for personality research and theory.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803208308

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9780803208308

The Queen and Atlantis

Another Book in the Raz Series

By: Ruth Nordin

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The Queen and Atlantis

Another Book in the Raz Series

By: Ruth Nordin

Shortly after Amanda learned that Raz chose her to be its Queen, she visits the gods and goddesses on Olympia. While she is there, she learns that she is needed on Earth to destroy Atlantis which has risen from the bottom of the ocean floor. Centuries ago, six Olympians ordered the future rise of Atlantis and mandated that their clones take over their rule. Realizing their grave mistake, they plead with Amanda to go to Atlantis and find the human man Pallid, who can stop their clones with a simple password. Taking her sister with her, Amanda meets up with Pallid and his friend, Jake. To escape the military officials scouting out the city, Amanda's magic sends them back in time before Atlantis' fall. Atlantis is the city of perfection where beauty and youth are praised among all who live there. But with such perfection comes a heavy price, and Pallid must decide how far he is willing to go to keep Atlantis on the map.

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iUniverse

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0595394442

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9780595394449

Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change

Risking It All

By: Ruth Irwin

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Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change

Risking It All

By: Ruth Irwin

The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the primary questions that make it meaningful to be human - the question of Being - could create the means for alternative discourses that both challenge and sidestep the attempt for total surveillance and total control. He advocates recognising the problematic relationship humanity has with the environment and reinventing new trajectories of understanding ourselves and our planet. This book aims to properly integrate environment into philosophy and political theory, offering a constructive critique of modernity with some helpful suggestions for establishing a readiness for blue sky scenarios for the future. The book lays out the practical implications of Heidegger's ideas and engages with philosophy of technology, considering the constraints and the potentials of technology on culture and environment.

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A&C Black

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1441141995

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9781441141996

Unwelcome Americans

Living on the Margin in Early New England

By: Ruth Wallis Herndon

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Unwelcome Americans

Living on the Margin in Early New England

By: Ruth Wallis Herndon

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In eighteenth-century America, no centralized system of welfare existed to assist people who found themselves without food, medical care, or shelter. Any poor relief available was provided through local taxes, and these funds were quickly exhausted. By the end of the century, state and national taxes levied to help pay for the Revolutionary War further strained municipal budgets. In order to control homelessness, vagrancy, and poverty, New England towns relied heavily on the "warning out" system inherited from English law. This was a process in which community leaders determined the legitimate hometown of unwanted persons or families in order to force them to leave, ostensibly to return to where they could receive care. The warning-out system alleviated the expense and responsibility for the general welfare of the poor in any community, and placed the burden on each town to look after its own. But homelessness and poverty were problems as onerous in early America as they are today, and the system of warning out did little to address the fundamental causes of social disorder. Ultimately the warning-out system gave way to the establishment of general poorhouses and other charities. But the documents that recorded details about the lives of those who were warned out provide an extraordinary—and until now forgotten—history of people on the margin. Unwelcome Americans puts a human face on poverty in early America by recovering the stories of forty New Englanders who were forced to leave various communities in Rhode Island. Rhode Island towns kept better and more complete warning-out records than other areas in New England, and because the official records include those who had migrated to Rhode Island from other places, these documents can be relied upon to describe the experiences of poor people across the region. The stories are organized from birth to death, beginning with the lives of poor children and young adults, followed by families and single adults, and ending with the testimonies of the elderly and dying. Through meticulous research of historical records, Herndon has managed to recover voices that have not been heard for more than two hundred years, in the process painting a dramatically different picture of family and community life in early New England. These life stories tell us that those who were warned out were predominantly unmarried women with or without children, Native Americans, African Americans, and destitute families. Through this remarkable reconstruction, Herndon provides a corrective to the narratives of the privileged that have dominated the conversation in this crucial period of American history, and the lives she chronicles give greater depth and a richer dimension to our understanding of the growth of American social responsibility.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202236

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9780812202236

The Clays of Alabama

A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

By: Ruth Ketring Nuermberger

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The Clays of Alabama

A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

By: Ruth Ketring Nuermberger

Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy. In the period from 1811 to 1915, the Clays were involved in many of the great problems confronting the South. This study of the Clay family includes accounts of the wartime legislation of the Confederate Congress and the activities of the Confederate Commission in Canada. Equally interesting to many readers will be the intimate view of social life in ante-bellum Washington and the story of the domestic struggles of a plantation family during and after the war, as revealed through the letters of Clement Claiborne Clay and his wife Virginia.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813194903

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9780813194905

The Business of a Woman

The Political Writings of Delarivier Manley

By: Ruth Herman

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The Business of a Woman

The Political Writings of Delarivier Manley

By: Ruth Herman

There is a detailed analysis of Manley's literary relationships with key figures such as Jonathan Swift and Richard Steele, and a full consideration of her political networks, including her working relationship with the Oxford ministry of 1710-1714."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874137926

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9780874137927

The Making of a Gentleman

By: Ruth Axtell Morren

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The Making of a Gentleman

By: Ruth Axtell Morren

Saved from the gallows… Just moments from the hangman's noose, Jonah Quinn escapes from infamous Newgate Prison. Taking prison volunteer Florence Hathaway hostage is a masterstroke, but Jonah intends to end their acquaintance once he's free. God, however, has other plans. The caring spinster's mission is to turn Jonah's life around. The burly fugitive scoffs at the notion he can be groomed into respectability, much less win a royal pardon. He knows that donning a waistcoat and cravats does not change a man. But a woman's stubborn faith? That can accomplish miracles. Florence sees right into the depths of his roguish heart, and Jonah finds himself wanting to become that man she sees….

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Steeple Hill

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1426821034

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9781426821035

Beyond the Beginnings

Literacy Interventions for Upper Elementary English Language Learners

By: Angela Carrasquillo,Stephen B. Kucer,Ruth Abrams

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Beyond the Beginnings

Literacy Interventions for Upper Elementary English Language Learners

By: Angela Carrasquillo,Stephen B. Kucer,Ruth Abrams

The book addresses the curricular, instructional, and assessment needs of upper grade elementary teachers who are struggling to promote literacy development in their English language learners. These students have already been transitioned, yet struggle with the increased literacy demands in the upper grades.

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Multilingual Matters

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185359749X

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9781853597497

Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Ruth Elder,Debra Nizette,Katie Evans

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client’s experience of mental illness.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729578771

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9780729578776

Contemporary American Cinema

By: Williams , Linda Ruth,Hammond , Michael

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Contemporary American Cinema

By: Williams , Linda Ruth,Hammond , Michael

This is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical American film. Covering American cinema since 1960, the text looks at both Hollywood and non-mainstream cinema.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335218318

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9780335218318

Irish cinema in the twenty-first century

By: Ruth Barton

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Irish cinema in the twenty-first century

By: Ruth Barton

An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies. Responding to changes in the Irish production environment, it includes chapters on new Irish genres such as creative documentary, animation and horror. It discusses shifting representations of the countryside and the city, always with a strong concern for gender representations, and looks at how Irish historical events, from the Civil War to the Troubles, and the treatment of the traumatic narrative of clerical sexual abuse have been portrayed in recent films. It covers works by established auteurs such as Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, as well as new arrivals, including the Academy Award-winning Lenny Abrahamson.

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Manchester University Press

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1526124459

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9781526124456

Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information

Philosophies, Practices, and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century

By: Ruth C. Carter

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Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information

Philosophies, Practices, and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century

By: Ruth C. Carter

Cataloging and technical services managers from many countries offer solutions to library cataloging problems. They describe new ways to coordinate all aspects of automation, staffing, organization, teamwork, and work flow. Techniques have been successfully tested in national, academic, and speciali.

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Psychology Press

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0789013134

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9780789013132

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