DK Handbooks: Horses

Book Description

Photos of over 100 breeds with descriptions, characteristics, environment, origin, and usage.

Customer Reviews:

This is a book for all horsenuts!!!!.......2001-11-30

This a really cool book! I read it from cover to cover. I learned stuff about horses that I never knew and learned about breeds of horses that I never knew existed! This a good book for beginner horsenuts.

DK Handbooks: Horses.......2001-07-28

I have been taking riding for two years.Just a couple of days ago my instructor said I was the smart intellect of my age group at the barn.I think getting this book really helped. It covers a lot of breeds and information on them.This book is great so if your horse crazy I would reccomend getting this book!!!

Excellent Book for Breed Identification and History.......2000-12-27

I am so glad that I purchased this book. I needed a reference guide to help me identify different breeds of horses and ponies for the Photo Model Horse Shows that I have been participating in. Since I will eventually judge a show, I needed to be prepared to classify horse breeds from the photograph entries that will be sent to me. It is easy to read, the photographs are lovely, and there were only a few breeds not listed. Good job!

Well..........2000-07-25

The pictures are nice. But otherwise this is just your average guidebook to horses. The information is easy to understand and some of it, like the heights of horses, is represented visually. But if you are looking to know a little bit about a lot of breeds, this would be a good book for you.

Very Useful.......2000-02-20

I have been riding for ten years and still look back on this book to brush up on my horsemanship! I would recommend it to anyone who is beginning riding or is just getting a horse to have at home. The only thing missing from this book is riding information. It covers many breeds and why they are signifigant, and beginners horsemanship.

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Horse (DK Handbooks)
Elwyn Hartley Edwards
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0751327360

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This generously illustrated flora embodies the most recent information and ideas in liverwort taxonomy. Written in the same format as Dr Smithâ€™s widely acclaimed Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland, it provides descriptions of all the liverworts known to occur in Great Britain and Ireland, together with keys to their identification and a glossary. As the only recent comprehensive European liverwort flora written in English and suitable for use in much of Europe (and also, incidentally, in eastern North America), this book will be an essential reference for all those interested in this fascinating group of plants.

Book Description

Want to trek the Appalachian Trail? Dine among diplomats in Washington, DC? Sail to the hidden coves of Chesapeake Bay? This guidebook gives you the inside scoop on the Capital Region, from DC's Smithsonian museums and jazz hotspots to Virginia's historical Jamestown to the best crab shacks on Maryland's sleepy Eastern Shore.

tips on exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway, Shenandoah National Park, C&O Canal, and Brandywine Valley
sites for hiking, biking, surfing, skiing, boating, and bird watching
Civil War special section - the issues, heroes, and bloody battles
places to stay and eat for all budgets
66 detailed maps, including Metrorail

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Great for Washington resident.......2005-09-15

This is the best guide for things to keep you busy if you're in Washington!

Great.......2003-11-12

The right mix of interesting information, maps, history and tips. Highly recommended.

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The Tamaulipan Province stretches 55,000 square miles along the Tropic of Cancer, from the northernmost Mexican states of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipus, San Luis Potosí, and Veracruz all the way to southwest Texas. Home to such varied species as the ocelot and the prairie dog, as well as rare birds like the green-cheeked amazon and the crimson-collared grosbeak, it is one of the most diverse regions in North America—and one of the most threatened.

The exquisite result of a partnership among Mexican non-governmental organizations, Agrupación Sierra Madre, and the Tamaulipus state government of Mexico, The Great Tamaulipan Natural Province explores this natural paradise and captures its incredible geographical diversity—lagoons, plains, deserts and mountains—through the lens of a camera. Each photograph argues powerfully and persuasively for the preservation of this unique and beautiful environment. A superb contribution to the study of North American wildlife, The Great Tamaulipan Natural Province is a must-read for scientists, environmentalists, policymakers, and anyone concerned about our rapidly diminishing natural world.

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A Must-Have for every programmer

Real Computing Made Real: Preventing Errors in Scientific and Engineering Calculations
Forman S. Acton
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Science | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0486442217

Book Description

Engineers and scientists who want to avoid insidious errors in their computer-assisted calculations will welcome this concise guide to trouble-shooting. In addition to its practical advice on detecting and removing the bugs that plague finite-precision calculations, it also outlines techniques for preserving significant figures, avoiding extraneous solutions, and finding efficient iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations. 1996 edition.

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A Must-Have for every programmer.......1999-09-05

In the acknowledgements to the first edition of Numerical Recipes in Fortran, Wm. Press et al write "We also wish to ackowledge two individuals we have never met: Forman Acton, whose 1970 textbook Numerical Methods That Work has surely left its stylistic mark on us...." (The second being Donald Knuth) In Real Computing, Acton expands in greater detail upon the theme of the earlier work, which is that good computing routines are problem-specific. That insight and understanding are called-for; recipes and black box routines are insufficient. In the fifties, with powerful mainframes few and far between, engineers farmed out their computations to a computing center. There you could find the guys who knew intelligent machine computing. When the IBM 370 came along, every university had its own machine, and computations became in-house. The expertise you found in the old centers wasn't there. Acton worked in one of those centers, and this book is written to guide the reader in acquiring some of the old magic.

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The nature of art, the nature of dying

Turgid And Tendentious

the dreamlike state of dying

MUCH SENSE OF DEATH

A poet's stubborn pursuit of scruple

Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Ferdydurke

Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age

ASIN: 0679755489
Release Date: 1995-01-15

Book Description

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.

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The nature of art, the nature of dying.......2007-05-09

Broch twists the concept of "novel" here to throw at us a very long prose poem -of the highest order. Virgil arrives in Brindis with Augustus's naval convoy, coming from Greece, to spend there what will become his last 18 hours on Earth. Suffering from a strong fever, Virgil is in an almost constant delirium, dreaming with a young peasant (his guide from boat to palace), with Plocia, a former lover, and with an imaginary slave. The three of them will guide him to death. The central subject of the book is Virgil's obsession with the destruction of "The Eneid", for considering it imperfect and not worthy of survival. His two best friends, Lucius and Plocius, come to visit trying to confort him and to convince him not to destroy that major work of art (which in real life they actually did). Then Augustus himself arrives, and sustains with Virgil a long philosophical conversation, full of digressions and of Virgil's own hallucinations. The subject here is the nature of Art. Augustus maintains that "The Eneid" is the property of the people of Rome, as its national epic, while Virgil insists that any work of art is the sole property of its author and, in that capacity, he has every right -even more, the duty- to destroy it, by virtue of its imperfection. The long passage is full of Virgil's delirium in which he remembers his bucolic childhood and discusses with his phantoms the nature of love, happiness, success and life. Augustus, in turn, pronounces long and profound statements about the State, politics and community.

The final chapter, a mesmerizing one, is a long hallucination depicting the process of dying, in an absolutely vivid, hair-rising and beautiful way. I don't think there can be around another narration as impressive as this one about the passing from life to death. Virgil's soul sets sail in a ship, surrounded by the people he knew, who are left behind until Virgil metamorphoses into animal, vegetal, mineral, and spirit.

This is a hard reading, long, slow and obscure, and nevertheless it is a master treaty on death and what it means to be dying. That it will never have a mass of readers seems to be clear. But it is also clear that it pays to stay with it and get lost in the magic.

Turgid And Tendentious.......2007-03-25

Here we go: This book is the most turgid, arduous, impenetrable conglomeration of words I've ever come across (Finnegans Wake excepted). It brinks back memories of my school days in fourth year Latin and causes one to wish again that Virgil HAD burned The Aeneid, so as not to plague us fourth year A-level students, and - even more so, so that Broch would not have this pretentious trope on which to found a spurious Parnassus of fuddled and addled - dense to the point that all poetry is eclipsed - book of....whatever it is.

For -and this is the crux here - this book is not poetic, not the work of a master stylist at all. How many stylists use the same phrase, to wit, "humus of existence" at least fifteen times (I ceased counting after that)? Answer: None. They don't rely on the same phrase so often that it becomes cliché.

And then there is the prescient notion of Broch's Virgil of a coming saviour. I wonder if this has anything to do with Broch's conversion to Catholicism in the last years of his life. The point here is not pro or anti Christianity---The point is: What on earth does Broch mean by having his Virgil go on about a saviour of "perception" rather than mere poets, whose words occlude, rather than clarify perception? Perception implies an object. So, we are not amiss to ask: Perception of what? Broch goes on in such muddled prose that one gleans nothing from the book itself. But, of course, we all know what he is talking about when he brings in, time and again, the three-in-one godhead et cetera.

This book is best suited to theology and philosophy students who, for whatever reason, really do fancy quibbling over dense passages that lead nowhere, over abstruse points of doctrine, over meaningless verbiage.

Lovers of literature, take a pass.

the dreamlike state of dying.......2006-04-03

This work stands firmly as one of the masterpieces of 20th century literature, and is not to be missed by the thoughtful reader willing to spend some time with a great book. As mentioned by other reviewers, the writing, especially the feverish second part (it's a book of four parts), is dense and can be challenging to get through, though that effort will be well paid by the discussion with Augustus in the third, and the sublime death trip of the fourth and final part. The first part documents Virgil's arrival into burning Rome, and sets up what is to follow. One needn't have read anything by Virgil in preparation for this book, and to the best of my knowledge, Broch, though running from the Nazi's, never spent time in a concentration camp. And, for the curious, Broch's grave is in Connecticut.

MUCH SENSE OF DEATH.......2004-12-29

That is a feeble translation of Virgil's phrase `plurima mortis imago'. Those three words show a special way he had of using language not as a vehicle for thought but to convey something outside and beyond thought, and it is something that this book seems to be trying to replicate on a large scale. It is not something I find in Milton, still less in the collective folk-poetry of the Homeric epics, and the nearest to it that I can think of might be in Blake. It is not the normal idiom of the Aeneid by any means, but something that gleams through unpredictably now and again, and I am no nearer now than I was 50 years ago to getting an adequate translation of such a line as `Sunt lacrimae rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt'.

This book is hung around the legend that the dying Virgil wanted his incomplete epic the Aeneid burned as being imperfect, but it is about much more than Virgil, or his poem, or even death itself. It is about totality, something completely shapeless, senseless and even immortal - immortal partly because death itself is permanent and cannot be killed or destroyed, partly because there is always, has been always and will be always an infinite universe of what is. The book divides into 4 sections, each named after one of the 4 elements that some ancient philosophers reasoned to make up the world - water, fire, earth and air. This division actually seems to me rather contrived and unimportant to the book, and it is nothing remotely resembling the way the ancients themselves viewed their `elements'. Ovid explains them clearly if we just correct his text to read what he must have been saying `...aer, qui quanto est pondere terrae/pondus aquae leuius, tanto est onerosior igni' - `air which is heavier than fire by the same margin as the weight of water is less than that of earth'. The ancients found exact aliquot ratios like this to be intellectually satisfying, but the last thing this book is about is exactness. In the `fire' section we are engulfed in a drifting mist of ideas, concepts and abstractions, each forever changing its identity and merging randomly into the next. The only connection with fire seems to be that this is where the question of burning the manuscript of the Aeneid first arises. The first section relates the arrival of the dying poet by barge from Greece and has nothing more about water. The third section brings us abruptly back to earth with the dialogue between Virgil and Augustus, who does not want the poem glorifying his new Rome destroyed for very worldly political reasons. The fourth resembles the second in a more pictorial way as the flotilla of boats carrying the characters of the book, losing their identities as they go, sails into the infinite; and air was the one to fill the last slot.

At one point I read the phrase `the shadow that is language', and it is worth remembering that this edition is a translation. Translating a work like this is nothing like translating directives on food-labelling or fishery quotas in the European Commission. It is an art in its own right, it must have been superbly done, but what it simply cannot be is the same as the original. I hope it is the original that George Steiner is talking about on the back cover, because if not what he says does not deserve a moment's notice. There is nothing abnormal in the least about the English syntax here, although many sentences are certainly very long. I also doubt whether there is any useful concept of `technical advance' in fiction. There are untold million ways of being original, Joyce himself did not change the basic development of English one iota, and I don't read this work, at least in translation, as representing any more of a step-change in fiction-writing than, say, Stapledon.

I credit Broch with a good knowledge of his poet, of Latin and of the period, although I don't know who perpetrated `Sallustus' (for Sallustius) twice on one page. He seems to associate himself with the view that the poems Aetna and Culex are Virgil's and I would rather believe that he had never read them (for which I could blame nobody) than that he could possibly have taken that stuttering rubbish for the work of the master. I dare say I would have read the book differently if I had not been familiar with Virgil's own style, but it is only a side-issue whether I am right in seeing its influence here or not. Not all the knowledge of Latin in the world will make this book an easy read, and none is necessary really. Do not make it more obscure or complicated for yourself than it already is. The previous owner of my copy was some hapless student trying to make a connection with the Divine Comedy, as forlorn a quest for mares' nests as I ever saw in my life. I wouldn't dream of `recommending' such a work, which is bound to be of minority appeal, and if I have conveyed something of the feel of it that is as much as I can hope to have done.

A poet's stubborn pursuit of scruple.......2003-09-29

Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil revolves about the poet's wish to burn his masterpiece, The Aeneid, and creates out of his signified keen senses and heightened perceptions a rich vision, with full actuality, the religious, philosophical and political impulses of the time. The novel should be read as an epic poem in four parts (water, fire, earth, air) that parallel to four movements of a symphony in which the manner of the theme and variations of each successive part serves as some kind of commentary and reiteration on the parts that have preceded it.

The book is arduous in reading, strenuous in contemplating the richly lyrical prose. Woven and sifted throughout are reflections and perceptions of Virgil's febrile yet lucid thoughts in such rocking rhythms that illuminate, to the full actuality, the macabre sensation of the drifting journey on which the poet is being carried by the bark of death. Death's signet was graved upon his brow. The epic closely accounts for the last 24 hours of Virgil's life as soon as the near-death poet returns to Rome from Athens. The uninterrupted flow of lyrical speculation begins at the port of Brundisium where the bark docks, lingers in the mental suspension between life and death, between the "no longer alive" and "not yet dead", and ends with the journey to death, to nothingness, to a dimension of non-recollection and stillness.

Truth seems to be the recurring theme. The notion of truth is being illuminated and brought to full elaboration through the repeating insistence of reflections on life, death, memory, knowledge, perception, and philosophy. As the poet approached death, he admits with bitterness and cold sobriety that he has pursued a worthless, wretched literary life. The Aeneid, which is acclaimed by Caesar and to whom it is dedicated, has been a mere indulgence of beauty, self-sufficiently limited to the embellishment of concepts long since conceived, formed, and known, without any novel contribution in it. The truth of artistic inadequacies, lack of perceptions, thirst for superficialities, and egotism yields the decision to mock his works. Despite Caesar's effort to cajole Virgil, the poet comments that he lacks the perception, to which he never takes the first step, and yet nobody has ever attained the knowledge of truth of such perception.

The stream of consciousness technique renders the poet's final hours to the full actuality. In fact, Virgil regards death as the most significant event of his life (perception and knowledge of truth?) and is full of anxiety lest he miss it. His sense of time seems to be warped and each passing second has grown to some immense, throbbing, empty space which is not to be linked. The body and its human qualities are denuded and are stripped to the naked soul with the most naked guilt. For Virgil, death is part of life and the understanding of death enlightens meaning of life. Strong than death and the shackle of time is fate, in which the final secret of time lay hidden. It is for this very secret of time (and death) that the suspense and tension of the book not being thwarted.

The conversations are reproductions of external events and actual dialogues (Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogue, Horace Carmina) and their inclusion into the book's inner monologue (the narrative seems to have proceeded in the third person but soon has discerned that narrative constitutes to an inner monologue made up of Virgil's dreams, reflections, visions, and delusions) gains them an abstract touch. The flow of the book presses on through various tempi according to the degree of Virgil's consciousness. The more headlong the tempo (which usually occurs during Virgil's conversations with his friends, attendants, and Caesar), the shorter the sentence. The slower the tempo becomes, the more complicated the sentence structure (i.e. Part 2 - Fire). Virgil's reflections and musings manifest some interminable, richly lyrical prose that mirrors the dying poet's thoughts and ravings.

The writing also deftly alludes to the religious impulse at the time of Virgil. Talks of the coming of salvation bringer prevail in Virgil's conversations with Caesar, who denies the need of such salvation. In various occasions Virgil forebodes the coming of a savior who will not only live in the perception, but in his being the world will be redeemed to truth, whom will conquer death and bring himself to the sacrifice out of love for men and mankind, transferring himself by his own death into the deed of truth. Virgil's audacious statement signifies the turning point in history, the crisis of the godless era between the no longer antiquity and the net yet of Christianity.

From Broch's own words, nothing is really "reported or perceived" in the book but what "penetrates the invisible web of sensual data, fever visions and speculations." The richness of the writing and its lyrics sharpens the contours of the concrete and brings to full actuality Virgil's musings and memories. It's a strenuous, challenging read that requires undivided concentration. 5.0 stars.

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TRAGEDY OF THE WAHK-SHUM - THE DEATH OF ANDREW J. BOLON, INDIAN AGENT TO THE YAKIMA NATION IN MID-SEPTEMBER, 1855
Lucullus Virgil Mcwhorter
Manufacturer: Ye Galleon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J1LZ6S

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Powerful Insights into the Journey of Life

Disrupted
Fry, Virgil
Manufacturer: Leafwood Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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Hospital chaplain Virgil Fry weaves together poems prayers and reflections on faith confronted by sufferingrsquo;s deep questions. Both of theses books were gleaned from many years of ministering at the bedsides of hospital patients and to those who are grieving. Disrupted and Rekindled are comfortgiving inspirational gift books for those dealing with illness those who have lost a loved one and for all those who care for sufferers.Five sectionsI. Stormy Seasmdash;When Health Is ThreatenedII. In the Wildernessmdash;When Answers Arenrsquo;t ClearIII. Sharing the Trailmdash;Being a CaregiverIV. In the Valley of the Shadowmdash;When Grief and Losses PrevailV. Green Pasturesmdash;Times of Reflection and Thanksgiving

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Powerful Insights into the Journey of Life.......2001-04-02

Initially I read Disrupted to determine whether it would be of help to a colleague suffering with cancer. Upon reading it, I was moved by its words and found it of great help and ministry to me. It spoke to me, as I'm sure it has and will to countless others, of God's enduring presence during difficult times and the importance of our presence with others during those same times of "disruption." Dr. Fry provides powerful insights into the journey of life we all share. I found myself drawn in one sitting through five poignantly written sections of anecdotal stories, prayers, quotes, and reflections. I have given away four copies of Disrupted so far, beginning with that colleague of mine, and have received only positive comments on its comforting content.

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The death of Kyralessa
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Virgil Tibbs - Death For A Playmate (Johnny Get Your Gun) (1972 Paperback)
John Ball
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KDM3I4

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Can a 9-year-old boy be a fugitive from justice? In a masterpiece of contemporary conflict, John Ball spells out, as only he can, what happens when a confused little boy wants to even up a humiliating score by going after his tormentor with a .38 Colt revolver. The scintillating background is California: black-white Pasadena, Disneyland and the Angels' ballpark. DEATH FOR A PLAYMATE is an unusual story of murder, and Virgil Tibbs is back to solve it. [Originally published as JOHNNY GET YOUR GUN.]

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Death & Rebirth in Virgils Arcadia
M Owen Lee
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Binding: Hardcover
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Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia (Suny Series in Classical Studies)

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Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia (Suny Series in Classical Studies)
M. Owen Lee
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Death for a Playmate (A Virgil Tibbs Mystery Novel)

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Meet Virgil Tibbs

Death for a Playmate (A Virgil Tibbs Mystery Novel)
John Ball
Manufacturer: Paperjacks
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Meet Virgil Tibbs.......2003-01-04

Virgil Tibbs became a household name with the making of the movie "In the Heat of the Night" starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier. In this novel Tibbs is a well respected detective in the Pasadena police department. When a nine-year-old boy takes his father's loaded gun to settle a score with another boy he is assigned the case. A few hours later after shooting at the boy's home and running away, Johnny is confronted by a group of black youths by whom he feels threatened. During a scuffle the gun is discharged and a black boy is dead. Tibbs, and his colleagues, is on full alert to find Johnny before the gun is used again. A fast paced and easy to read book.

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Death in the Dusk
Virgil Markham
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q04R2Q

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Death in the Dusk
Virgil Markham
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