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Technocreep

Thomas P. Keenan

Author : Thomas P. Keenan
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781771641227

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"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us - on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, "Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone App that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook profiles. It combined this information in a way never intended by the original poster. Going to a Disney theme park? Your creepy new "MagicBand" will alert Minnie Mouse that you're on the way and she'll know your kid's name when you approach her. Thinking about sending your DNA off to Ancestry.com for some "genetic genealogy"? Perhaps you should think again: your genetic information could be used against you. "This masterful weaving of the negatives and positives of technology makes for a book that is realistic about technology's perils yet optimistic about it's great potential."--Foreword Reviews

Chameleo

Robert Guffey

Author : Robert Guffey
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781939293701

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A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine who’d stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base. Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn’t seem to bother the military. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving “cloaking”— electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters — by the Department of Homeland Security. Hallucination? Perhaps — except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion’s friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed “Chameleo,” experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens. A condensed version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times Magazine (September 2013).

Modern Technology and the Human Future

Craig M. Gay

Author : Craig M. Gay
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830873845

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Technology is not neutral. From the plow to the printing press, technology has always shaped human life and informed our understanding of what it means to be human. And advances in modern technology, from computers to smartphones, have yielded tremendous benefits. But do these developments actually encourage human flourishing? Craig Gay raises concerns about the theological implications of modern technologies and of philosophical movements such as transhumanism. In response, he turns to a classical affirmation of the Christian faith: Jesus Christ, the eternal Word of God, took on human flesh. By exploring the doctrine of the incarnation and what it means for our embodiment, Gay offers a course correction to the path of modern technology without asking us to unplug completely. Gay demonstrates that the doctrine of the incarnation is not neutral either. It presents us an alternative vision for the future of humanity.

21st Century Boys

Sue Palmer

Author : Sue Palmer
Publisher : Orion
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781409111269

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A major new insight into the difficulties of raising boys, and how parents can help their sons fulfil their potential. From the author of TOXIC CHILDHOOD. What's happening to boys? At home, they sprawl before a flickering screen, lost in a solitary, sedentary fantasy world; at school, the choice of role seems limited to nerd or thug, bullied or bullying. By the time they reach their teens, the chances of depression, self-harm, drug or alcohol abuse grow each year. Raising boys has never been more difficult. For the sake of their sons, parents need to know the facts about how boys develop and how best to protect them from the damaging effects of modern life. Sue Palmer assesses the issues currently confronting boys from birth to when they leave school, and explains how we can all help to ensure they emerge as healthy, normal adults. Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st CENTURY BOYS provides parents, teachers and others with a clear pathway to bringing up boys.

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions

Knapp, Kenneth J.

Author : Knapp, Kenneth J.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605663272

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"This book provides a valuable resource by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Folding the Red into the Black

Walter Mosley

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682190494

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Walter Mosley is one of America’s bestselling novelists, known for his critically acclaimed series of mysteries featuring private investigator Easy Rawlins. His writing is hard-hitting, often limned with a political subtext, and aimed at a broad audience. Years ago, when Mosley was working on a doctorate in political theory, he envisioned writing very different kinds of books from those for which he has become celebrated. But once you’ve been tagged as a novelist, and in Mosley’s case, a genre writer, even a bestselling one, it is hard to get an airing for ideas that cross those boundaries. Folding the Red into the Black has grown out of Mosley’s public talks, which have gotten both enthusiastic and agitated responses, making him feel the ideas in those talks should be explored in greater depth. Mosley’s is an elastic mind, and in this short polemic he frees himself to explore some novel ideas. He draws on personal experiences and insights as an African-American, a Jew, and one of our great writers to present an alternative manifesto of sorts: “We need to throw off the unbearable weight of bureaucratic capitalist and socialist demands; demands that exist to perpetuate these systems, not to praise and raise humanity to its full promise. And so I propose the word, the term Untopia.”

Cypherpunks

Julian Assange

Author : Julian Assange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1944869085

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The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future promoting "privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful"; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-national corporate allies. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of an visionary behind Wikileaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to discuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.--

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822212269

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THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement

Carl Cederström and André Spicerm

Author : Carl Cederström and André Spicerm
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682191033

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In these pages, the authors of the widely-acclaimed The Wellness Syndrome throw themselves headlong into the world of self-optimization, a burgeoning movement that seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by being merely human, whether the feebleness of our bodies or our mental incapacities. Cederström and Spicer, though willing guinea pigs in an extraordinary (and sometimes downright dangerous) range of techniques and technologies, had hitherto undertaken little by way of self-improvement. They had rarely seen the inside of a gym, let alone utilized apps that deliver electric shocks in pursuit of improved concentration. But, in the course of a year spent researching this book, they wore head-bands designed to optimize meditation, attempted to boost their memory through learning associative techniques (and failed to be admitted to MENSA), trained for weightlifting competitions, wrote what they (still) hope might become a bestselling Scandinavian detective story, enrolled in motivational seminars and tantra sex workshops, attended new-age retreats and man-camps, underwent plastic surgery, and experimented with vibrators and productivity drugs. André even addressed a London subway car whilst (nearly) naked in an attempt to boost attention. Somewhat surprisingly, the two young professors survived this year of rigorous research. Further, they have drawn deeply on it to produce a hilarious and eye-opening book. Written in the form of two parallel diaries, Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement provides a biting analysis of the narcissism and individual competitiveness that increasingly pervades a culture in which social solutions are receding and individual self-improvement is the only option left.

Beyond Zero and One

Andrew Smart

Author : Andrew Smart
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781682190074

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“Andrew Smart deftly shows why it’s time for us to think deeply about thinking machines before they begin thinking deeply about us.” —Douglas Rushkoff, author, Escaping the Growth Trap,Present Shock, and Program or Be Programmed “Provocative and cool.” —Cory Doctorow “Forget the Turing test—will the supersmart AIs that we hear so much about these days pass the acid test? In this playful, informative, and prescient book, Andrew Smart brings psychedelics into dialogue with neuroscience in order to challenge the whiz-bang computational views of human and machine sentience that dominate the headlines. Giving robots LSD sounds like a joke, but Smart is dead serious in his critique of the hidden and sometimes dangerous biases that underlie both popular and scientific fantasies of digital minds.” —Erik Davis, host of “Expanding Mind” and author, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information “Philosophy, psychedelics, robots, and the future; consciousness and intelligence, what else do you desire? Here you will see why those machines that reach singularity will be smarter than us and take over the world—and shall need to be conscious…and maybe they can only be conscious if they are human enough. The thesis of the book, and the path shown us by Smart, leads to a great trip, of imagination and philosophy, of maths and neuroscience.” —Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge Can we build a robot that trips on acid? This is not a frivolous question, according to neuroscientist Andrew Smart. If we can’t, he argues, we haven’t really created artificial intelligence. In an exposition reminiscent of crossover works such as Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fermat’s Last Theorem, Andrew Smart weaves together Mangarevan binary numbers, the discovery of LSD, Leibniz, computer programming, and much more to connect the vast but largely forgotten world of psychedelic research with the resurgent field of AI and the attempt to build conscious robots. A book that draws on the history of mathematics, philosophy, and digital technology, Beyond Zero and One challenges fundamental assumptions underlying artificial intelligence. Is the human brain based on computation? Can information alone explain human consciousness and intelligence? Smart convincingly makes the case that true intelligence, and artificial intelligence, requires an appreciation of what is beyond the computational.

Welcome to Dystopia

K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling

Author : K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682191279

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Welcome to Dystopia by K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling Pdf

In this diverse and vigorous mix of stories by newcomers and luminaries, writers offer their takes on what life might hold for us in the next few years. The resulting visions of war, oppression, and daily struggle are sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying (and occasionally both), but always thought-provoking.

Finks

Joel Whitney

Author : Joel Whitney
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682190258

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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America’s best-loved literary figures—including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright—tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the “cultural” CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation. Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #323333; -webkit-text-stroke: #323333} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #323333; -webkit-text-stroke: #323333; min-height: 16.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

Lucid Dreaming

Pamela Cohn

Author : Pamela Cohn
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781682192351

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"In these engaging, challenging and beguiling dialogues, Pamela Cohn expertly draws from her subjects, personal biography and conceptual intent, process and nearly subconscious motivation, personal revelation and political mission. The result is a work that not only provides a road map to the furthest regions of cinematic possibility in the early 21st century but one whose spirited back-and-forth inspires the reader to think anew about artistic possibility." —Scott Macaulay, editor-in-chief of Filmmaker Magazine “Pamela Cohn has curated and conducted a series of interviews that simultaneously invite you to turn the page, and pause for a moment of reverie. Her interviews furrow the grounds where sensibilities become cinema, and attitudes become forms." —Luke Moody Lucid Dreaming is an unprecedented global collection of discussions with documentary and experimental filmmakers, giving film and video its rightful place alongside the written word as an essential medium for conveying the most urgent concerns in contemporary arts and politics. In these long-form conversations, film curator and arts journalist Cohn draws out the thinking of some of the most intriguing creators behind the rapidly developing movement of moving-image nonfiction. The collection features individuals from a variety of backgrounds who encounter the world, as Cohn says, “through a creative lens based in documentary practice.” Their inspirations encompass queer politics, racism, identity politics, and activism. The featured artists come from a multiplicity of countries and cultures including the U.S., Finland, Serbia, Syria, Kosovo, China, Iran, and Australia. Among those Cohn profiles and converses with are Karim Aïnouz, Khalik Allah, Maja Borg, Ramona Diaz, Samira Elagoz, Sara Fattahi, Dónal Foreman, Ja’Tovia Gary, Ognjen Glavonic, Barbara Hammer, Sky Hopinka, Gürcan Keltek, Adam and Zack Khalil, Khavn, Kaltrina Krasniqi, Roberto Minervini, Terence Nance, Orwa Nyrabia, Chico Pereira, Michael Robinson, J. P. Sniadecki, Brett Story, Deborah Stratman, Maryam Tafakory, Mila Turajlic, Lynette Wallworth, Travis Wilkerson, and Shengze Zhu. Can nonfiction film be defined? How close to reality can or should documentary storytelling be, and is film and video in its less restrictive iterations “truer” than traditional narratives? How can a story be effectively conveyed? As they consider these and many other questions, these passionate, highly articulate filmmakers will inspire not only cinema enthusiasts, but activists and artists of all stripes.

Watchlist

Bryan Hurt

Author : Bryan Hurt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936787418

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“Including work by literary heavy–hitters... the anthology considers the act and weight of watching and being watched... and in Watchlist, these see–to–know quests range from funny to terrifying.” —Los Angeles Magazine In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, meditate on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, WATCHLIST unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched? In Doctorow’s eerily plausible ""Scroogled,"" the US has outsourced border control to Google, on the basis that they Do Search Right. In Lincoln Michel’s “Our New Neighborhood,” a planned suburban community’s ‘Neighborhood Watch’ program becomes an obsessive nightmare. Jim Shepard’s haunting “Safety Tips for Living Alone” imagines the lives of the men involved in the US government’s fatal attempt to build the three Texas Tower radar facilities in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. Randa Jarrar’s “Testimony of Malik, Israeli agent #287690” is “a sweet and deftly handled story of xenophobia and paranoia, reminding us that such things aren’t limited to the West” (Sabotage Reviews) and Alissa Nutting’s “The Transparency Project” is a creative, speculative exploration of the future of long–term medical observation. By turns political, apolitical, cautionary, and surreal, these stories reflect on what it’s like to live in the surveillance state.

#AgainstTrump

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Author : Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682191910

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Few predicted the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the US presidency, a development with a huge impact on international relations, trade, environmental policy, and the very possibility of liberal democracy itself. Those of us committed to democratic values, truth, and human rights, feel compelled to resist. And yet the fight against Trump is hardly a united front. In this collection of essays, Jeffrey C. Isaac argues that the threat posed to liberal democracy by illiberal forces today, from Trump and his authoritarian counterparts in France, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, warrants a strong democratic response, centered on both defending and extending the core commitments of liberal democracy. Isaac articulates a politics that bridges the gap between liberalism and leftism, pointing the way toward more productive disagreements and more meaningful, effective alliances. To acknowledge the challenges of globalization, to confront fear of the foreign and the foreigner, and to defend truth and the deep meaning of words: that is to be for liberal democracy and #AgainstTrump. Published with Public Seminar. Public Seminar is an online publishing project of The New School. PS publishes articles that provide useful, constructive, illuminating or thought-provoking contributions to the conversation of the times. Using the broad resources of social research, PS seeks to provoke critical and informed discussion by any means necessary in order to confront the fundamental problems of the human condition and pressing problems of the day. Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of many books, including Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion, Democracy in Dark Times, and The Poverty of Progressivism, and is a Contributing Editor at Dissent and Public Seminar.

Technocreep

Technocreep by Thomas P. Keenan Pdf

Chameleo by Robert Guffey Pdf

Modern Technology and the Human Future by Craig M. Gay Pdf

21st Century Boys by Sue Palmer Pdf

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions by Knapp, Kenneth J. Pdf

Folding the Red into the Black by Walter Mosley Pdf

Cypherpunks by Julian Assange Pdf

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Pdf

Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement by Carl Cederström and André Spicerm Pdf

Beyond Zero and One by Andrew Smart Pdf

Finks by Joel Whitney Pdf

Lucid Dreaming by Pamela Cohn Pdf

Watchlist by Bryan Hurt Pdf

#AgainstTrump by Jeffrey C. Isaac Pdf

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