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South Korean media this week cited unidentified officials as saying that the North had completed installing the three-stage rocket on its launch pad at the Sohae Space Center on the west coast of the country.
But an analysis published Thursday by the U.S. academic website 38 North questions that claim.
Run by the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University, 38 North says, "We believe these reports are inaccurate based on satellite imagery and lessons from past North Korean rocket launches."
The process may have been delayed by a light snowfall, the website's analysis says, but North Korea could still have the rocket ready in time for the start of the launch window.
This is the first time North Korea has attempted a rocket launch in winter, and experts say the timing of preparations and the launch itself will depend heavily on weather conditions.
"Pyongyang's announcement of a twelve-day launch window, over twice as long as the five-day window for the April 2012 test, may have been based on careful consideration of possible delays or technical problems due to winter weather," 38 North says.
Previous launch attempts by the North in 2006 and 2009 also failed to achieve their stated goal of putting a satellite in orbit and provoked international condemnation.


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I've put in a membership request to the "Big Forum Operators" group about a week ago with no luck. We meet both of the requirements (1.35 million topics / SMF 2.0.2 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines at the bottom with correct links.)
Had I known that the sphinx configuration for SMF2+ was only in the big boards I wouldn't have upgraded (it was done as an emergency upgrade at that.) Is there any other location that I could find the Sphinx configurations / setups? It doesn't appear to be in any of the online docs, which seems kinda odd to me... I gotta say, it has been pretty rough not having search for the past 2-3 weeks.
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Sadly it's not anywhere else as far as I know :(
I'll see if I can someone's attention here for you.
I'm tracking, but my old mod access to the board is missing, wanna post your URL or PM it to me and ill post it team side and speed this up?
Thanks guys. IMO it would be helpful to be in the docs, but I understand that it isn't something everyone needs.
Trekkie - I've shot a PM over to you with the URL. Thanks!
It's in the relevant board now, so hopefully very soon for you :)
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Is this the expected pace for forum growth? In 2 month's we've got 150 registered folks, but it seems like the active user number drops daliy- right now it's at 36. Any thoughts on this? Was it this quiet in it's previous life? How can there be 36 active users when it seems all of the posts are from the same 10 or so folks? Are the 10 of us SO lame that we're scaring away the crowds?!?


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Kegel exercises can help you prevent or control urinary incontinence and other pelvic floor problems. Here's a step-by-step guide to doing Kegel exercises correctly.
By Mayo Clinic staffKegel exercises strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, which support the uterus, bladder, small intestine and rectum. You can do Kegel exercises, also known as pelvic floor muscle training, discreetly just about anytime.
Start by understanding what Kegel exercises can do for you — then follow step-by-step instructions for contracting and relaxing your pelvic floor muscles.
Why Kegel exercises matter
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Many factors can weaken your pelvic floor muscles, including pregnancy, childbirth, surgery, aging and being overweight.
You might benefit from doing Kegel exercises if you:
- Leak a few drops of urine while sneezing, laughing or coughing
- Have a strong, sudden urge to urinate just before losing a large amount of urine (urinary incontinence)
- Leak stool (fecal incontinence)
Kegel exercises can be done during pregnancy or after childbirth to try to prevent urinary incontinence. Kegel exercises — along with counseling and sex therapy — might also be helpful for women who have persistent difficulty reaching orgasm.
Keep in mind that Kegel exercises are less helpful for women who have severe urine leakage when they sneeze, cough or laugh. Also, Kegel exercises aren't helpful for women who unexpectedly leak small amounts of urine due to a full bladder (overflow incontinence).
How to do Kegel exercises
It takes diligence to identify your pelvic floor muscles and learn how to contract and relax them. Here are some pointers:
- Find the right muscles. To identify your pelvic floor muscles, stop urination in midstream. If you succeed, you've got the right muscles.
- Perfect your technique. Once you've identified your pelvic floor muscles, empty your bladder and lie on your back. Tighten your pelvic floor muscles, hold the contraction for five seconds, and then relax for five seconds. Try it four or five times in a row. Work up to keeping the muscles contracted for 10 seconds at a time, relaxing for 10 seconds between contractions.
- Maintain your focus. For best results, focus on tightening only your pelvic floor muscles. Be careful not to flex the muscles in your abdomen, thighs or buttocks. Avoid holding your breath. Instead, breathe freely during the exercises.
- Repeat 3 times a day. Aim for at least three sets of 10 repetitions a day.
Don't make a habit of using Kegel exercises to start and stop your urine stream. Doing Kegel exercises while emptying your bladder can actually weaken the muscles, as well as lead to incomplete emptying of the bladder — which increases the risk of a urinary tract infection.
When to do your Kegels
Make Kegel exercises part of your daily routine. You can do Kegel exercises discreetly just about anytime, whether you're sitting at your desk or relaxing on the couch. You might make a practice of fitting in a set every time you do a routine task, such as checking email.
When you're having trouble
If you're having trouble doing Kegel exercises, don't be embarrassed to ask for help. Your doctor or other health care provider can give you important feedback so that you learn to isolate and exercise the correct muscles.
In some cases, biofeedback training might help. During a biofeedback session, your doctor or other health care provider inserts a small probe into your vagina or rectum. As you relax and contract your pelvic floor muscles, a monitor will measure and display your pelvic floor activity.
When to expect results
If you do Kegel exercises regularly, you can expect results — such as less frequent urine leakage — within about a few months. For continued benefits, make Kegel exercises a permanent part of your daily routine.
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- Handa VL. Pelvic floor disorders associated with pregnancy and childbirth. http://www.uptodate.com/home/index. Accessed June 19, 2012.
- Sari D, et al. The effects of pelvic floor muscle training on stress and mixed urinary incontinence and quality of life. Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing. 2009;36:429.
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Zamora, Bernice
Bernice Zamora 1938–
(Born Bernice Ortiz) American poet.
The following entry provides an overview of Zamora's career through 1986.
A leading figure in contemporary Chicano poetry, Zamora is chiefly known for her widely acclaimed collection of verse, Restless Serpents (1976). Commentators have cited the work as a seminal exploration of such topics as Chicano culture, womanhood, the conflicts between men and women, and the power of poetry. Noting the significance of the volume's "tight, carefully crafted poems," Lorna Dee Cervantes has stated that Zamora "proves herself to be one of the most (if not the most) outstanding Chicana poets today."
Biographical Information
Born in Aguilar, a village in the mountainous coal-mining region of Colorado, Zamora grew up in the ethnically diverse city of Pueblo. She was raised in a Spanish-speaking home in which Chicano cultural and Roman Catholic religious traditions figured prominently. When Zamora began attending catechism classes as a child, her teachers discovered that she could read some English and advised her parents to confine her education to that language—a recommendation that Zamora, in retrospect, has resented. Following her graduation from high school, she married and began a family, returning to academic life in the mid-1960s. At that time, she enrolled at Southern Colorado University and eventually obtained an undergraduate degree in English. Continuing her studies at Colorado State University, Zamora received her graduate degree in 1972. She obtained a divorce in 1974 and relocated to California, matriculating at Stanford where she ultimately earned her doctorate in 1986. In 1976, together with José Antonio Burciaga, she published Restless Serpents. Informed by the rich tradition of Chicano verse, this volume has been described by Joe Olvera as her "major aesthetic statement on life and its inconsistencies." Zamora became seriously ill in 1980 and refrained from publishing and reciting new material, although she continued to write poetry, plays, and theoretical works. When she resumed her public poetry readings, she claimed that "public recitation" was a "cultural necessity for a Chicana poet" and "the best way to present poetry." Zamora has also worked on the journal De Colores and has helped edit the Chicano literary anthology Flor y canto IV and V (1980).
Major Works
Restless Serpents focuses largely on the struggle to obliterate boundaries between various kinds of groups. In such poems as "Let the Giants Cackle," Zamora attacks the Anglo community's indifference toward Chicano cultural traditions and the Spanish language. Noting how many Chicanos have been forced to learn English, she writes in this poem: "Words, words, English words—/ turds of the golden goose—/ words we picked up, wiped off, / cleaned up, prepared and served / as canapes to the lordly lords." In other pieces, such as "Sonnet, Freely Adapted" and "California," Zamora builds on and manipulates texts by William Shakespeare and Robinson Jeffers, respectively, in an attempt to delineate the degree to which the male patriarchy dominates Chicano—and Western—culture and devalues the contributions of women. Gender conflict and the search for equality are also central to Zamora's verse. In "Gata Poem" ("Cat Poem"), for example, the author exposes, with increasing vehemance, the myth of machismo in Chicano culture, while steadily elevating women to a position of equality with men. Other poems employ phallic symbols, drawing a parallel between the physical and emotional violation of women by men, exposing, as Olvera has noted, "the naked truth about the warring sexes." Critics have also observed the prominence of sexual and religious imagery, rituals, and language throughout Restless Serpents. "Penitents," for instance, compares sadomasochistic rites to traditional Roman Catholic customs related to Christ's suffering and death. Commentators generally agree that the snake is the most forceful symbol in Zamora's work; the serpent, an androgynous image, is associated with cult practices of the Aztecs and recalls the historic and mythic origins of the Chicano people as well as the power of evil. In "Stone Serpents," for example, the snake appears as a graven idol carved into a castle's sustaining pillars, suggesting that an oppressive, patriarchal socioeconomic system supports the world's manifold injustices. The final poem of the book, "Restless Serpents," draws upon religious imagery in its discussion of the creative process as a ritualized act of faith. Here the serpent takes on a bisexual significance, representing Zamora's effective blending of masculine and feminine elements in her verse.
Critical Reception
Although Zamora has only published a single volume of poetry, her work has engendered considerable critical discussion. In general, reviewers have praised her verse for its lyrical beauty, evocative power, and complexity of thought and feeling. Many commentators, such as Bruce-Novoa and Marta E. Sánchez, have asserted that Zamora's strength lies chiefly in her severe imagery. Others, like Cordelia Candelaria, have commended the author for introducing "indispensable feminist and feminine threads to the still largely androcentric tapestry of contemporary American literature." Although she recognizes the feminist elements of her poetry, Zamora has stated that she published Restless Serpents for a Chicano community that has been "accused of not being a literate, thinking group," adding that she hopes her verse will help minority students, particularly Chicano youth, "to feel part of the world."
Principal Works
∗Restless Serpents [with José Antonio Burciaga] (poetry) 1976
Flor y canto IV and V: An Anthology of Chicano Literature [editor, with José Armas] (anthology) 1980
∗This collection contains two separates volumes—the first being Zamora's Restless Serpents and the second containing Burciaga's verse.
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SOURCE: A review of Restless Serpents, in Latin American Literary Review, Vol. V, No. 10, Spring-Summer, 1977, pp. 152-54.
[Juan D. Bruce-Novoa, who frequently writes under just his surname, is a distinguished Hispanic poet and critic. In the following review, he offers a laudatory assessment of Restless Serpents, noting thematic and stylistic aspects of the collection.]
[In Bernice Zamora's Restless Serpents, the] restless serpent is sign, heart, and being of a world fraught with meaning always just beyond our rational grasp, a little too ambiguous to be nailed down, too unsettling to be comfortably defined and forgotten; in others words: poetry, language that creates itself as the surface upon, by and in which the ineffable can manifest itself in the world.
What attracts me in Zamora's poetry is that in spite of the directness of the voice and its worldly substance, something escapes, like the mystery of the penitent rituals in those sacred moradas, or the identity of the caretaker of the pool of drowning seasoned dead, or the faces of our interrogators in the anteroom of some lost temple, or the underlying logic which unites the chopping of wood, the praying of a rosary, and a young girl entering an outhouse, and demands the death of a goat in the morning. These and more escape, but how firmly they remain fixed in the mind is measure of Zamora's success.
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SOURCE: An interview in Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, by Bruce-Novoa, University of Texas Press, 1980, pp. 203-18.
[In the following interview, which was originally conducted via correspondence in September 1978, Zamora discusses various aspects of her life and work as well as the current state of Chicano literature.]
A prolific poet, Bernice Zamora had published widely in journals before the publication of Restless Serpents (1976), yet, as José Montoya indicates in his interview [also in Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview], it is a sad commentary on the male bias which predominates in the Chicano literary establishment—a mere reflection of the society—that she had not received more recognition. Restless Serpents now demands it.
Zamora, in many respects, can be compared to Tino Villanueva. Both are careful craftspersons who know the fundamental tools of the trade and are willing to explore the influences of other poets; their sensibilities lie more with the poetic image than with the narrative, expository style so prevalent in Chicano poetry. Zamora declares her sympathy with the Chicano Movement and carries through with committed action; her poetry reflects those sentiments, but never in the form of sloganism. There is nothing blatantly political in her poetry, but her political commitment underlies much of her world view. Her language is not...
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SOURCE: A review of Restless Serpents, in The American Book Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, October, 1979, p. 20.
[In the following review of Restless Serpents, Olvera elucidates the work's major themes—religion, sexuality, love, and gender warfare—concluding that Zamora's poetry reflects the reality of the human condition.]
The first time I met Bernice Zamora, I was totally impressed with her vibrant, "welcome-to-the-fold" personality and mentality. Her fine form emanated auras of bright colors as she modulated and entertained the struggling writers under her care. At the time, she was a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, while teaching some literature classes at U.C. at Berkeley.
Bernice seemed to me a woman who has gone through life with her head held high and her literary aspirations as valid and as deeply held as any poet's. Her career was more than a way for her to be competitive in academia; her career was also a form of commitment and a struggle to survive and provide a livelihood for her children and herself….
But not always, Jack, said Bernice. And she sat down and wrote some poetry to lighten the vision and to find the proper way to explore her poetic soul. She wrote poetry that expressed her concerns with the woman's role in society as if there were really any question as to woman's strength and power.
Control of...
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SOURCE: "Inter-Sexual and Intertextual Codes in the Poetry of Bernice Zamora," in MELUS, Vol. 7, No. 3, Fall, 1980, pp. 55-68.
[In the following essay, Sánchez examines Zamora's focus on relationships between men and women in "Sonnet, Freely Adapted," "California," and "Gata Poem." She also discusses intertextual aspects of these works, noting how they have been influenced by and respond to other texts.]
In Restless Serpents, her first collection of poems, Bernice Zamora presents us with a poetry of conflict. Most of these poems attempt to redefine relationships between men and women, and the conflict which propels them, as sexual. Sexual dilemmas motivate Bernice Zamora to articulate an unsaid of male-female discourse: her poems convey what women have not said to men, or what men have not permitted women to say or, what men themselves traditionally have not said.
The unsaid in Zamora's poetry is linked to problems both of sexuality and textuality. The poetic discourses of her fictional feminine speakers are responses to prior utterances or actions performed by males. The man's utterance or action constitutes a sexual or "male" text. The intelligibility of Zamora's poetry depends not only upon the presence of this sexual or "male" text but also upon the presence of a literary text. Zamora recurrently employs the strategy of taking up another poet's work to generate...
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SOURCE: "Another Reading of Three Poems by Zamora," in MELUS, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, 1980, pp. 102-04.
[Candelaria is an American educator, poet, and critic who frequently writes about Chicano and Hispanic literature and culture. In the following essay, a response to Marta E. Sánchez's reading of "California," she offers additional insights into the poem, viewing it "as a lyrical completion of Jeffers's ('Roan Stallion'), not as a feminist departure from it."]
Marta E. Sánchez's article, "Inter-Sexual and Intertextual Codes in the Poetry of Bernice Zamora," in the Summer 1980 issue of MELUS was a welcome example of solid criticism on Chicano poetry. While her essay was enlightening in most respects, I disagree with certain parts of her literary analysis.
Sánchez's interpretation of Zamora's "California" is lucid and insightful as far as it goes, but it does not move far enough in exploring the poet's masterful creation of a poem that by its very existence alters its precursor, Robinson Jeffers's "Roan Stallion." I would extend Sánchez's reading by discussing three dimensions of Zamora's poem which the critic overlooked or distorted.
First, we must be careful to avoid assigning feminist heroism to Zamora's protagonist, simply because she kills her husband's dog and the roan stallion. Sánchez succumbs to this temptation when she writes about "the woman's...
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SOURCE: An interview in Partial Autobiographies: Interviews with Twenty Chicano Poets, edited by Wolfgang Binder, Verlag Palm & Enke Erlangen, 1985, pp. 221-29.
[In the following interview, originally conducted in May 1982, Zamora discusses the origin of her poetic vocation, her major literary influences, and her contribution to twen-tieth-century Chicano literature.]
[Binder]: When were you born and where?
[Zamora]: I was born in Aguilar, Colorado, a little village at the foot of twin mountains called Spanish Peaks in Southern Colorado, on January 20, 1938.
Which members of your family had immigrated to the US?
Toribio Ortiz, one of the first settlers to this country before it was a United States, is the only "immigrant" on the paternal side of my family, insofar as I know. On the maternal side, the Borrego family, too, were one of the first families to arrive here. But my maternal grandfather and his family are Indian. The actual genealogy is difficult to trace since family records were destroyed during the period of land confiscation. It would seem more appropriate to say that the members of my family emigrated from territory to territory, later, from state to state, or from the mountains to the plains, from villages to cities, etc.
It is difficult for me to speak about this because I feel that tracing one's...
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SOURCE: "Rituals of Devastation and Resurrection: Bernice Zamora," in his Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos, University of Texas Press, 1982, pp. 160-84.
[In the excerpt below, Bruce-Novoa examines the snake image and the importance of ritual in Restless Serpents, stating that Zamora's poetry "traces the move from sacred to profane structuring of society and attempts to find relief from the concomitant loss of meaning and alienation which that change produces."]
Having been born into a family that can trace its presence in Southern Colorado and New Mexico back some two centuries; having grown up among rural, traditional people who practiced the centuries-old religious rites of the Penitentes and treated land as sacred, it is no wonder that Bernice Zamora would preoccupy herself with the state of the cultural spirit. That it, like the spiritual condition of modern society in general, is not at its best explains in part why the ancient religious symbol of the serpents is restless in the title of her book, Restless Serpents. These mythical beasts want their due; the cosmic order is out of phase, and something must be done. This sensitive artist, the child of the people of sacred land, feels a special responsibility to consider the situation.
Having been born into a culture of male-chauvinistic traditions predating even her family roots; having grown up in a country...
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SOURCE: "The Dramatization of a Shifting Poetic Consciousness: Bernice Zamora's Restless Serpents," in Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature, University of California Press, 1985, pp. 214-68.
[In the following excerpt, Sánchez identifies Zamora's cultural and literary influences, particularly that of American poet Robinson Jeffers, contending that Zamora's verse reveals the conflict between three opposing identities: woman, Chicana, and poet.]
You insult me
When you say I'm schizophrenic.
My divisions are
—"So Not To Be Mottled" from Restless Serpents
[Bernice Zamora] traces her cultural roots to a different area of the American Southwest. Unlike [Chicana poets] Alma Villanueva and Lorna Dee Cervantes, who as native Californians were raised in predominantly urban environments, Zamora was born in Aguilar, a small village in southern Colorado located at the foot of the East Spanish Peak, where her ancestors had lived and worked as farmers for several generations. The farmlands around Aguilar and the coal mines near Trinidad and Valdez formed Zamora's environment until she was seven, when her father moved the family to Denver. Preferring a...
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SOURCE: "Towards a Chicano Poetics: The Making of the Chicano Subject, 1969–1982," in Confluencia, Vol. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 10-17.
[In the following excerpt, Saldívar offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of "So Not to Be Mottled."]
While a Chicano poetics must be holistic, must include the constitutive material nature of the culture relative to the individual, it must be distinguished from orthodox social theory. I begin [then] … with the self-evident claim that conventional social theory is not often concerned with the ethnopoetic or feminist consciousness of the historically situated author and/or reader of a text. This failure of social theory to deal with individuals, groups, and texts "on the margins," to use Jacques Derrida's suggestive metaphor, can be corrected by accommodating ethno-feminist poetic theory in its concept of a private and collective subject. The Chicana ethno-feminist project has received attention by, among others, Marta E. Sánchez, Evangelina Enríquez, and Judy Salinas. I should like to add to their recent formulations on the Chicana subject by commenting briefly on Bernice Zamora's Restless Serpents, her first book of poems.
Restless Serpents (1976) is an ambitious work of Chicano poetry that proposes a radical and complex critique of Western male power in social, cultural, psychoanalytical, and literary discourse. Zamora's interest...
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SOURCE: "Chicano Poetry, Phase III: The Flowering of Flor y Canto," in Chicano Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 137-74.
[In the excerpt below, Candelaria offers cultural and intertextual readings of the poems collected in Restless Serpents.]
Although Bernice Zamora has been publishing in alternative periodicals since 1970, her first book, Restless Serpents, did not appear until 1976. The warmth of the reception for her book has not been diminished by the absence of a sequel, though it would be received with great interest. "Her poetry is strong and sure of itself," writes [Joe Olvera in American Book Review 2, no. 2 (October 1979)], whereas [Juan Bruce-Novoa, in Latin American Literary Review 5, No. 10 (1977)] is attracted to "Zamora's power [which] lies in the intensity of the strife between love, a metaphor for all the life impulses, and the rigid limits, in any of their varied façades, which restrict life."…
Serving as a rich emblem for the entire book, the title poem and image contain the fundamental thematic crux of the volume. The poet introduces the serpent metaphor first in "Stone Serpents" where it expresses the basic condition and state of mind "of the weary wealthy." Although we normally associate serpents with the subtle intelligence and evil of the snake in the Garden of Eden, as well as with a common human revulsion...
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Further Reading
"Contemporary Chicana Poetry." Nuestro (March 1986): 35-9.
Feature article based on an interview with Marta Ester Sánchez upon the publication of her Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature. Sánchez comments on Zamora's work as well as that of Lucha Corpi, Alma Villanueva, and Lorna Dee Cervantes. Selections of Zamora's poetry are included.
Ordóñez, Elizabeth J. "The Concept of Cultural Identity in Chicana Poetry." Third Woman 2 (1984): 75-82.
Examines the search for cultural heroes and a cultural identity in the work of several Chicana poets, including Zamora. Noting an emphasis on La Malinche, "the symbolic progenitor of the mestizo people," as well as on the rebel and the female poet in Chicana writings, the critic briefly cites Zamora's interest in the "revolucionario" in her "Jose el revolucionario" and "Movimiento" ("Notes from a Chicana 'Coed'").
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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