A Combat Engineer Remembers

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First-hand account of 16 months in the European Theater of Operations during world War II, including 10 months in combat.

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According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers.

In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouché examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856--1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848--1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868--1930), who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché explains how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting.

Describing how Woods, Latimer, and Davidson struggled to balance their complicated racial identities -- as both black and white communities perceived them -- with their hopes of being judged solely on the content of their inventive work, Fouché provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to -- and relationships with -- technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.

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Refutes the common notion that inventors were lone geniuses.......2004-06-03

Rayvon Fouche's Black Inventors In The Age Of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, And Shelby J. Davidson refutes the common notion that inventors were lone geniuses who worked in relative isolation in the late 19th-early 20th century world. Most indeed developed their ideas within industrial organizations that supported their experiments: for blacks, this meant real challenges in working on innovative designs while breaking social barriers. Fouche here uses the lives and works of Granville Woods, Lewis Latimer and Shelby Davidson to detail the social frustrations underlying their research.

A wonderful book!.......2004-03-01

Professor Fouche has written a fabulous book! Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation is clearly the most thoroughly researched book on black inventors to date. He provides a detailed account of how difficult it was for black inventors to succeed in a segregated society. His book describes the experiences of three black inventors and explains their importance to African American people in the twentieth century. This is a must read for anyone wanting to know more about black inventors, their inventions, and their lives, as well as those interested in African American history and the history of invention.

Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson.(Book Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: The Journal of African American History

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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson.(Book Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: The Journal of African American History
Robert C. Hayden
Manufacturer: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00084HJKC
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of African American History, published by Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1127 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Author: Robert C. Hayden
Publication: The Journal of African American History (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.
Volume: 89 Issue: 3 Page: 271(3)

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Allergies - very helpful input!

EXCELLENT....I feel so much better!

Allergies: Fight Them with the Blood Type Diet (Eat Right for Your Type)
Peter J. D'Adamo
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0399152520
Release Date: 2005-03-17

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The Individualized Plan for Treating Environmental and Food Allergies, Chronic Sinus Infections, Asthma and Related Conditions.

With specific tools unavailable in any other book, Allergies: Fight Them with the Blood Type Diet has four battle plans-individualized for all needs-for preventing and treating environmental and food allergies, chronic sinus infections, asthma, and related allergy conditions.

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Allergies - very helpful input!.......2006-08-21

While a lot of the material in this book is necessarily duplicated from other books published by D'Adamo in case the reader starts with this book, the real medical assistance offered has been very helpful to me - teaching me to manage my allergies proactively!

EXCELLENT....I feel so much better!.......2006-03-26

I cannot believe what a difference this book has made in my life. I did not realize how tired I was until I began following the guidance of this book in avoiding certain foods and including others in my diet. Within a week I was feeling better. I had no idea how tired and sluggish I had been--I have so much more energy now, particularly in the evenings when I was usually tired after coming home from work. I highly recommend that you try this book. It's easy to read and well worth the time and money.

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Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides Tuscany and Umbria into touring areas – one per chapter. Major cultural centers or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provides at least a day’s worth of activities – often more.

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Dishes that offer centuries of cultural heritage
Engaging Source for Italian Menus and Food.
The best Italian cookbook you will find!
Another great book from Mr. Famularo
Abbondanza!

A Cook's Tour of Italy
Joe Famularo
Manufacturer: HP Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 1557884757

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The two-time James Beard Award winner takes readers on a very tasteful tour.

From the open markets of Rome to the classic purity of Tuscan fare, this one-of-a-kind cookbook explores the varied cuisines and histories of each of Italy's twenty regions. Celebrating great chefs and treasured regional staples alike, A Cook's Tour of Italy includes more than 300 authentic recipes, fifty full-course menus, wine suggestions, preparation tips, and detailed information on Italian ingredients.

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Dishes that offer centuries of cultural heritage.......2004-03-06

Written by the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Joe Famularo, A Cook's Tour Of Italy offers up more than 300 authentic recipes drawn from the various and diverse regions of this nation of grand culinary traditions. Dishes that offer centuries of cultural heritage and enduring classic taste include Fava Beans Country Style; Homemade Tortellini In Broth; Mozzarella Meat Loaf; Shrimp and Smoked Salmon in a Sweet and Sour Sauce; Spaghettini with Clams, Carrots and Wine; Eggs in Purgatory with Grilled Sausages, and more. A step-by-step sumptuous repository, A Cook's Tour Of Italy is a simply wonderful addition to any dedicated family cookbook collection.

Engaging Source for Italian Menus and Food........2004-02-16

Joe Famularo's book `A Cook's Tour of Italy' gives you almost exactly what the title promises. It is a travelogue of meals enjoyed by the author and his companions on many different trips to many of the major regions of Italy. The book is definitely not like Claudia Roden's more systematic `The Foods of Italy' which treats all 20 regions equally. Famularo spends almost all of his time and attention on the nine most popular locations, Rome, Tuscany, Liguria, Lombardy, the Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, Naples, and Sicily / Sardinia / Calabria.

The organization of recipes by menu and by location is not done to make the material more accessible and useful to the reader, it is done to more closely parallel the author's actual trips. Most menus even cite actual restaurants where the meal was eaten.

The book contains additional, very valuable information on general techniques and sources. The book opens with a useful glossary of Italian ingredients. I always have reservations about book sections like this one embedded in general cookbooks. It is always so easy to find something they do not include. I give this book good marks for including the Italian translations for English terms; however, the presentation of the translated terms is not done in a consistent presentation.

The opening chapter covers broth recipes, bread recipes, pasta recipes, and guidance for cooking pasta. Here again, the author is giving sound information, but the material seems a bit thin for the real devotee of Italian food. If I want a good Italian bread recipe, I will go to Carol Field's `The Italian Baker'. I will give the author high marks for the broth recipes. I can find no missteps and there I am pleased to see the addition of mushrooms to the vegetable broth.

The bottom line is that this is a book with good recipes and information, but its material is spread to thinly and organized in a style that is not helpful when you are looking for `an Italian recipe with veal' for example.

I would recommend this book to:

Someone who has or will be traveling to Italy soon.
Someone who knows nothing of Italian cuisine and would like an engaging introduction.
Someone who collects books on Italian cuisine.
Someone who needs Italian menus such as a caterer, restaurateur, or frequent home entertainer.

One of the best features for most of these audiences is the bibliography and the list of sources.

I recommend this book, especially at its relatively reasonable price, but only if you know it fits a clear need. As other reviewers have noted, it is very readable, has good recipes, and is well organized for finding menus for a Italian entertaining. Since its coverage of many topics is a bit light and it is not organized for optimum use, I give only four stars to this worthy book.

The best Italian cookbook you will find!.......2004-01-14

I am thrilled with A Cook's Tour of Italy! We have a family tradition of an Italian Christmas Eve and this year was my first time hosting this family event. I followed the Christmas Eve dinner in Naples and it was perfect! I have never heard so many compliments or requests for recipes before. The peppery shrimp are to die for and the spaghettini with clams, carrots, and wine was surprisingly easy and incredibly delicious! And the Panettone bread pudding topped off the night. This dessert is a tradition on Christmas Eve in Italy and will definitely be a tradition in our family now! I can't rave enough about how tasty all of the recipes turned out. It looks like I may be hosting every Christmas Eve now, thanks to my new cookbook! Everyone should have this book in their kitchen!

Another great book from Mr. Famularo.......2003-12-25

This is a great cookbook. We enjoyed a dozen recipes from this book already and they are easy, easy, easy and so authentic and delicious no one will know you are a) not a chef or b) not Italian. And this is not the usual cookbook. It is filled with stories and customs from the different regions so that you feel that you are really touring Italy. Hence the title (duh!). And then there are meals already organized for things like a bachelor party for 4 (for people without too many friends), a Christmas Day dinner for 12, a Roman lunch for 6, fabulous one-dish meals, so simple. When you read this book, you really feel like you are in Italy. My husband, who thinks making instant oatmeal is cooking, has made some of these recipes and they tasted as interesting and complex as something from a great Italian restaurant. We have given this book to 6 people already as Christmas presents. Who knew we all needed another Italian cookbook. But then this isn't just another Italian cookbook.

Abbondanza!.......2003-12-24

The sheer volume of mouth-watering recipes in this book is staggering. Mr. Famularo has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject-- Italian cuisine and its regional sources. And what I appreciate most is its readability. It's an interesting,conversational read, with easy to follow recipes for the not-necessarily-accomplished cook. Who doesn't love Italian food and who couldn't find lots of wonderful recipes to take on? My wife and I are having a dinner party this coming Saturday featuring a full menu from this book. How can we miss? I only wish there were mouth-watering photos accompanying the mouth-watering recipes. We buy alot of cookbooks that sit on the shelf. This one we'll happily use!

Drive Around Italian Lakes and Mountains, with Venice and Florence, 2nd: Your guide to great drives. Top 25 Tours. (Drive Around - Thomas Cook)

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Drive Around Italian Lakes and Mountains, with Venice and Florence, 2nd: Your guide to great drives. Top 25 Tours. (Drive Around - Thomas Cook)
Barbara Radcliffe Rogers , Stillman Rogers , and Paul Karr
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The scenic masterpiece of northern Italy’s lakes and mountains, taking in the Renaissance splendor of Venice and Florence, and the glamorous resort towns of the Italian Riviera, with suggested driving tours.

Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides Italian Lakes and Mountains with Venice and Florence into touring areas – one per chapter. Major cultural centers or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provides at least a day’s worth of activities – often more.

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Cook's Tour
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Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Animals
Helen M. Stevens
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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ASIN: 0715318039

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A masterclass in how to create stunning animal portraits with embroidery silks, from internationally acclaimed textile artist Helen M Stevens.

In this fourth title in her Masterclass Embroidery series, Helen M Stevens reveals more of the secrets of achieving astonishingly lifelike effects using pure silk thread. In five fascinating chapters Helen explores a variety of animals that are linked in different ways --whether by their ferocity as predators, their closeness to man as familiar countryside dwellers, by their nocturnal habits, or as among the world's weirder creatures like the platypus.

Each chapter leads towards a master class project with color templates. Easy to follow color photographs illustrate the working stages of the design to ensure that perfect results are achieved.

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Turn your garden into a serene place that seems far away from life's noise and bustle, a haven in which to unwind and enjoy nature's pleasures. Using simple suggestions and solutions that are decorative and purposeful, you can shut out the world in even the most exposed of areas, and add secret hideaways. Find new ways to assess your garden and consider how you would like to use it, so it will not only prove functional but have character. Define boundaries, put in overhead screening, introduce smaller gardens within your garden, add oases and havens, and attract the eye using focal points. Open up space with a trompe l'oeil, put planted "treasures" into a container brimming with personality, and integrate subtle touches such as reflective stones right into the ground's surface. Small or large, your garden can afford you the privacy you need.

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CREATING PRIVACY IN THE GARDEN
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Creating Privacy In the Garden
Chuck Crandall
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Surprizingly good

An excellent read about the struggles that family farms face

It was OK but not great

Just sit back and enjoy...

Not worth the money, very little useful information.

Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm
Nicola Smith
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592288871

Book Description

An unforgettable portrait of a family farm, in words and photographs.

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Surprizingly good.......2007-08-16

The book follows a family that has chosen a career to be farmers. Organic is their niche, but farming is the topic overall. There are a few great pictures in the book, that add value to it. I enjoyed the book and if you are interested in organic farming this book gives light to the details.

An excellent read about the struggles that family farms face.......2007-07-17

Please note that this book doesn't attempt to be a How-to farm book. Other reviewers seemed to have been searching for 'Farming for dummies'.

I never would of imagined that reading about farming would be so enjoyable. The author's literary style is refreshing and nicely paced. Throughout the book, the author describes settings in such descriptive passages that it places the reader in the middle of the farm's activities. A couple of sections within the book were touching for me to read. Please keep in mind that or modern live is quiet different now than from our ancestors a few generations ago. Not to go into details, people back then viewed animals differently than the majority of us do now. The majority of us have grown accustomed to not think about or question where our food comes from.

Equally as enjoyable, the book contains hundreds of vivid photographs of sights around the farm.

It was OK but not great.......2006-08-27

The pictures in this book are beautiful but this should have been an educational experience and it just wasn't. I agree with the other reviewer that so much of the book was about logistics that it would have been wonderful to have a map or clear pictures of the property so we would be able to tell what the author was talking about. The other issue I had was how oddly these farmers seemed to deal with animal deaths. For example she slits a sheep's throat during a difficult labor and says she regrets not doing it earlier that day because of the "look" the sheep gave her but didn't because she was in her work clothes. I cannot imagine being pyschic enough to know an animal should be put down based on a look. In addition, they lose approximately half their calves because of the simple fact that they aren't cleaning the enclosed barn stalls during the winter. First of all, why are the cattle in the barn? Secondly, any farmer knows you must muck out stalls for health reasons *especially* if you have calves and you've enclosed them in the barn. It's NOT common practice to do this, at least where I come from and we get temps below zero with serious wind chill factors. The chicken predator was unsettling for me as well. If something's getting my chickens and I really need that income to survive for the year, you can bet all holes will be blocked, the chicks will be moved, anything and everything will be done to stop the killing.

They just seemed to cause themselves so much of their own misery and work. Another examply, they seem to always be chasing down the sheep from where they're not supposed to be and then being frustrated or late. Well.... put up fences. Good fences make for good neighbors and also lazy farming where your animals stay in the pasture you want them - with an occasional excape artist. They seem to take on more than they bargain for at every turn. Like, they want to do tasks that require a tractor but don't have one. So they work out a borrow arrangement with the neighbor but then complain about the neighbor's attitude. If you don't have a tractor, either don't do it, or understand you're at the mercy of others. The old saying "beggers can't be choosers" comes to mind. The entire fiasco with the syrup harvest was baffling. You cannot integrate people into your business like that and not expect some difficulties. If you don't want to deal with them, DON'T include them! It's very simple. These types of issues seemed to bog them down in negativity and made me, frankly, not like them much. Their marriage is in SERIOUS trouble and I cannot believe how often divorce is mentioned. Not that any marriage is always happy, but these people are definitely overworked, struggling, miserable, and stressed. *Something* should give.

After reading the book, I was just... sad. Sad for them. Sad for their animals. Sad for their child. Just sad.

Just sit back and enjoy..........2005-08-25

A cordial narrative about a year in the life. Not meant to be overly academic, but intended to provide a peek into the day-to-day happenings on a small, family farm. A pleasant read - great for the nightstand.

Not worth the money, very little useful information........2005-04-23

This is supposed to be a feely book and not a textbook. That said, the brushstrokes are far too broad to even provide that feel for the farm. Too anecdotal, and difficult to piece together. Flashbacks are one thing, but only if they provide literary value. Here, straying from chronological order subtracts from an already shaky narrative. And the writing style itself is poor. Did the publisher even assign an editor?

It would not have hurt to include a map of the place, a small chart of how much of each vegetable or animal was grown, and a rough idea of how the finances added up. The authors instead sprinkle the numbers throughout the book: $79 in beets, $4000 for interns or whatever. I kept turning to the only useful photograph in the whole book: the bird-eye view of the 20-acre farm.

I was lucky enough to borrow this from the library. It is well-printed in a nice binding, but the text pages are padded generously with white space. I got the impression that the hoo-hah binding and glossy paper were there only to distract from the low-quality text, and to justify charging coffee-table price for the book. I believe one should buy books only if you're going to look at them more than once. I have no desire to read this book again, and the content of the pictures isn't worth it either. This book would have been worth it if it were a mass-market paperback, but as it is, IT IS NOT WORTH BUYING.

I am giving this three stars only because I must give credit to the authors for at least addressing the issue. Although poorly organized, I did learn enough to think about the situation of these people. Even with no debt, Jennifer and Kyle are on the edge of going completely under. If their car dies for good, or if somebody breaks a leg, they are in trouble. It made me think twice about finances of the vendors at the farmer's market.

Harvest - A Year In The Life Of An Organic Farm

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Harvest - A Year In The Life Of An Organic Farm
Smith; Nicola
Manufacturer: Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NK6AMY

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Charles Demuth is widely recognized as one of the most significant American modernists. His precisionist cityscapes, exquisite flowers, and free-wheeling watercolors of vaudeville performers, homosexual bathhouses, and cabaret scenes hang in many of the country's most prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Demuth's Lancaster, Pennsylvania, family residence, now home of the Demuth Foundation. At a time when many American artists remained tied to Europe, Demuth "Americanized" European modernism.

This collection of 155 of his letters offers valuable views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York, and Paris. Besides offering information on Demuth's own works, the letters also shed light on the output of his contemporaries, as well as references to their trips, liaisons, and idiosyncrasies. Demuth numbered among his correspondents some of the most famous artists and writers of his time, inluding Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, and William Carlos Williams. In his travels in the United States and abroad, he encountered many other talented contemporaries: Peggy Bacon, Muriel Draper, Marcel Duchamp, the Stettheimer sisters, artists and writers, patrons, and gallery owners.

Whether he is offering to pick up a copy of Joyce's Ulysses for Eugene O'Neill or trying to convince Georgia O'Keeffe to decorate his music room ("just allow that red and yellow 'canna' one to spread until it fills the room"), Demuth is always in the thick of art and literary life. Flamboyant in attire but descreet in his homosexuality, Demuth also reveals in his letters the life of a talented homosexual in the teens and twenties. With his best friends Robert Locher and Marsden Hartley, he circulated through the art colonies of Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and Paris, meeting everyone.

The book also contains reprints of some short appraisals of Demuth and his work that were published during his lifetime, long out of print, including pieces by A. E. Gallatin, Angela E. Hagen, Marsden Hartley, Helen Henderson, Henry McBride, Carl Van Vechten, Rita Wells, and Willard Huntington Wright.

Customer Reviews:

A modest insight.......2007-02-06

This is a compilation of the letters of one of the most accomplished watercolorists of the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, very little context is given by the editors for the letters' contents. A bit of research into the circumstances described in the letters would have given us some much-needed insight into his life.

Part of the problem is the fact that Demuth wrote about trivial things in his letters, and kept fairly private about his poor health, artistic frustrations, and his gay identity. There is precious little to read about this man, and this book is essential for anyone interested in this artist.

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Agony of Choice, is the biography of Japanese statesman and diplomat Matsuoka Yosuke, offering a vivid narrative of twentieth-century Japanese diplomatic history.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, very important study.......2007-08-16

This is a superb biography, much more than simply a translation of the author's earlier Japanese-language book on Matsuoka. Lu has drawn on much pirmary source material not exploited by others, including interviews with many people who knew or worked with (or against) Matsuoka. Because he is very aware of the broader context, he has been able to accurately assess Matsuoka's real impact. This makes the book essential for any study of the events of the period, and particularly so of Japan's road to the Pacific War. In addition, Lu draws a deeply insightful psychological portrait of this very complex man.

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