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When graduate student Martha Beck's son Adam was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left the chilly halls of Harvard for Utah and the warm, accepting embrace of the Mormon community. Determined to assimilate back into her childhood faith after years of atheism, Beck's disenchantment resurfaced when censorship from the church heavily influenced the curriculum at Brigham Young University where she taught part-time. More disturbing was Beck's eventual belief that her father, a virtual celebrity in the Mormon Church, had sexually molested her as a child.
Beck frames her narrative around a conversation with her aged father, dipping in and out of stories of her childhood, marriage, third pregnancy, and teaching. She contrasts her perceptions of the leadership of the institutional church as controlling and patriarchal with stories of the warmth and generosity of her Mormon community. Beck unfolds her search for identity, forgiveness, and a personal faith in competent prose, punctuated with surprising dark humor and glimpses into her anorexia, suicidal obsessions, and alleged abuse. Although she leaves readers with many unanswered questions after the last page is turned, one thing is clear: Beck believes that "no matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth." --Cindy Crosby
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As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them.
But when she was hired to teach at Brigham Young University, Martha was troubled by the way the Church’s elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church’s most prominent authorities. The New York Times bestseller Leaving the Saints chronicles Martha’s decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.
Leaving the Saints offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world’s most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.
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Frustratingly inconsistent.......2007-09-27
For an ex-Mormon living in Utah, parts of this book will ring so true it's eerie, and this will provide a nice insight into Mormon culture for interested outsiders. Other parts, however, the author is clearly making up, though it's unclear whether she is simply lying or if she actually believes some of the things she says and is simply deluded--or delusional (for instance, her completely credulous account of her "near-death experience").
This creates a certain problem of trust for the reader regarding the parts that are not obviously true or false: one is not sure what to believe, and cannot simply take the author's word for it. This applies, unfortunately, to the central claim of the book: that Beck was sexually abused by her father, a prominent Mormon apologist. While sexual abuse certainly occurs in the Mormon church, and its officials undoubtedly downplay or even help to cover it up, it's impossible to know whether her specific claim is true.
For one thing, her "memory" of what happened is so bizarre that one ought to be skeptical. Secondly, though she tries to dismiss it, there is such a phenomenon as unscrupulous therapists implanting suggestions in the minds of already disturbed patients, and it is as plausible to think this was the case for Beck (her mantra prayers of "please...please...please..." eventually answered--really--by a talking ball of light are one example of how disturbed she is) as that her memories are genuine. For one thing, it is odd that these memories would "surface" after decades when she begins seeing a therapist--although the phenomenon of repression is also very real, especially when coupled with post-traumatic stress. And while she claims that there is actual physical evidence of abuse in the form of supposedly otherwise inexplicable scarring, the reader is simply told this repeatedly with no evidence given.
Her portrait of her father as alternately befuddled and obstinate is amusing, though, but again no evidence is given for his abuse, in turn, at the hands of his mother. His war-time experiences certainly could have messed him up, though.
I hate to belittle Beck's story, but she really gives us very little reason to believe her, and some reason to doubt her; and besides, she occasionally seems to belittle it herself, as when she inexplicably drops inappropriate jokes in the middle of the most serious moments of her narrative, one example of how obnoxious her style can be.
On the whole, her conversion from Mormonism to a New Age brand of Buddhism is almost a step backward. The search for a rational critique of Mormonism continues.
Leaving the Saints.......2007-09-24
This was a wonderful book. She faced a tragic situation with compassion, and never lost her sense of humour. The book was both interesting and very shocking. I will definitely be reading more of Martha Beck's books.
Run, Martha, Run........2007-09-17
What does one do when in the midst of toxic religion? Run away from it.
Martha Beck not only runs away *from* something toxic, she runs *to* something healthy---her soul. In fact, a recurring theme in the book is Jesus' exhortation: what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
This book warrants a four-and-a-half, but I would give it at least a six if it would help offset the knee-jerk Mormon reactions she has to have gotten.
This book is, and isn't, about Mormonism. It is in that she speaks tellingly of the idiosyncracies and particular lunacies of Mormon theology along with the revisionist history that may have made Cold War Communists blush.
That said, though, toxic religion tends to have similar patterns whether it be pseudo-christian (e.g., Mormons), Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian or whatever. As I read somewhere recently, a narcissist is a narcissist first and a Jew, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Agnostic, or whatever secondarily. Since unchecked narcissism is a problem in many religions and denominations, similar narcissistic patterns will emerge regardless of whether a denomination's theology is sound or not. And anyone leaving such toxic religions will, consequently, tend be treated similarly.
I'll look through my book and see what I've underlined. It probably for me were the most helpful and richest parts.
I liked on page 168 where she confronts her Dad, a Mormon apologist (now that's a job for you!--like a one-armed paper hanger) and says to him "You know what really kills me?...It kills me how much of you the Church bought for that little lump of money." Mmmmm...sounds familar to a lot of people, I'm sure. There are people who find themselves nobly sacrificing for a religion or denomination but in actuality are being used.
On page 173, Beck makes a marvelous point to us all. She tells her Dad "It was so ridiculous (Mormonism), all of it. I really wish you'd just laughed." Wait a minute, before you get haughty there are more ridiculous things in our own denominations than we care to admit. For those with more ridiculous things to bear than others, it is essential that one has a sense of humor about it---probably as one is walking ever so deliberately toward the door.
A recurring theme for Beck is found on page 175, which she mentions more than once: "Our task is to turn the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change." I think the writing of this book is her determined contribution to this.
On page 232 she mentions a conversation she had with another young mother who confides in her "I'm praying to God for protection from the servants of God. Could that be right?" How much was the recent judgments in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse sagas throughout America? Wasn't it millions upon millions of dollars? Though this young mother was speaking of the Mormon Church, it just as well could have been a Christian denomination or local church--or any other toxic faith.
Character assassination is a favorite tool of the narcissistically impaired. After describing on page 240 a group of intellectuals who were being persecuted by that particular church she notes that the intellectuals were called "ravening wolves among the flock." After describing the good qualities of wolves, Beck said that she would prefer to be a called a wolf than to be called a "Woman Who Runs with the Sheep."
Beck is an excellent writer. Anyone who can make such a subject interesting enough to write 300 pages about it--I read each chapter ravenously (but then, I'm a wolf too
)-- can write well.
I wish Beck the best as she runs *to* her soul. Read this book and you'll question, rightly so, how much of your soul are you sitting on and how much of it is free.
A Watershed.......2007-09-13
I treasure this book. It's "about" many things, as evidenced by the diverse Tags offered. But for me, it strengthens and illuminates the part of every soul that, against the most virulent opposition, says, "This is the truth; this is who I am." Such courage is the only way to redemption. To Martha Beck, I say "ThankyouThankyouThankyou."
Scary.......2007-07-31
Women will read this and run for the hills...but not the hills of Utah where isolation, imprisonment and slavery is accepted for people of their gender. They will run to get away from an awful mindset that creates something far worse than what so many deem a "cult" if you will. This is not about faith, but about a women who realized that this is a business built on money and power taken from people in exchange for getting special treatment by the church. I interviewed a man a while back who had, with his family left the church. I asked him why he left, and he said that they had fallen on hard financial times and because of that asked to be forgiven for not paying the expected percentage of tithing. The result, he said was that he was ostricised by the church and the women of the church would no longer speak to her. On top of that he said that he was not allowed to advance to any positions of leadership within the church despite showing up when asked and putting in countless hours of effort for goodwill towards fellow churchgoers and functions.
Martha describes the nature of this business with great emotion and it is enough to make one cry to think anyone in this country could be subjected to such treatment. The women are treated like grazing cattle, being used as something to merely reproduce in order to reach higher levels of heaven. The insight into Joseph Smith is minimal but upon further research it is obvious this man did not have any connection to any god whatsoever, going so far as to commit a gaggle of crimes year after year before his untimely demise by a community that got fed up with his nonsense and unpunished crimes.
One of the best books out there on mormonism, but be sure to also check out Inside Mormonismas it will go into the history of lies and crimes that surround Joseph Smith both before and after his founding of this church.
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Large Print Edition of this inspirational memoir.
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A complete reference library in one book........2007-05-04
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 is the first in a series of 4 books which, as the title suggests, lists all the worlds fighting ships built in that period between the first ironclad warship and the Dreadnought battleship. This was a time when the world's first great arms race was running a full speed - in short, as one country built a big battleship - so another would simply design one that was even bigger.
Conway Maritime Press are well known for their factual books on ships - especially warships, in which they provide the finest technical documentation. "All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905" is hard-back measuring 12½" x 8¾" with 440 pages of detailed and factual information. After a brief foreword and an explanation of abbreviations used, the navies of the world are divided into three main headings; The world's great powers, coast defence navies and minor navies. Under each of these headings all the relevant ships are then listed by country. Displayed by "class," each section then commences with the largest battleships and progresses all the way down to the smallest torpedo boats (or whatever) with the oldest vessels mentioned first. For each class there is one or more of those profile line drawings which have become Conway's trademark. These are followed by all the usual technical details such as; Displacement, dimensions, machinery, armour, armament and complement followed by the names of each ship within that class - it's builder, date laid down, date completed and fate. These are accompanied by a very "readable" text from which we learn of the political intrigue of the day, variations between vessels, refits, new equipment, whatever defects or other problems that beset either the class or a specific ship and a short résumé of the fate of each vessel.
Altogether, the book is well illustrated with an excellent selection of historic black and white original photographs throughout with at least one picture on almost every page.
In summary, this is an excellent technical work of reference and one which will continue to stand the test of time. Put another way, this is one of those books you will wish you had bought - after it becomes out of print.
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conways.......2007-01-04
Different point of view then Janes of the similiar period. I like the way the information is layed out.
Excellent single volume compilation for this period.......2006-07-30
This remains among the best single volume reference works on naval materiel for the ironclad up through the pre-dreadnaught era and a worthy kick-off to the rest of the "All the World's" series. This was especially true in 1979 when systematic coverage of ironclad and pre-dreadnaught capital ships, much less other naval units, was virtually lacking unless one had access to old editions of Brassey's, Jane's, or Parkes and even then illustrated coverage of the first 20 years of this period was scant. One might hope that Conway would have followed through on its promised update to correct some omissions and increase the number of line drawings. Additionally, a promised volume on the first half of the 19th century's naval materiel to address the transition from sail to steam and shell gun has never emerged. A must-have for any collection on 19th century naval materiel and history.
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Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers an historical examination of U.S. foreign policy and the way it has become so complicated, divisive, and fraught with unintended consequences that it is beyond the control of any one group or ideology. Looking back at the 20th century in an attempt to identify a grand strategy for the future, he declares the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attacks of September 11, 2001 to be "lost years" in which a difficult global shift began to take shape. He identifies this transition as the beginning of a shift from a "Fordian" (as in Henry Ford) system of mass production and mass consumption to a more dynamic "millennial capitalism" in which the free market is changing to benefit more people around the world, particularly those in developing countries. Mead also looks closely at how the Bush administration has reacted to the September 11 attacks and the threat of further terrorism, offering both thoughtful praise and sharp criticism in nearly equal measure. (The book is worth reading for these incisive comments alone.) In explaining the distinctions between "sharp" (military), "sticky" (economic), and "sweet" (cultural) power as tools for shaping the world, he makes clear that he believes the U.S. should be shaping the world—ideally by example and shared values, but also through military force and economic coercion when necessary. A strong "advocate of the American project," Mead remains optimistic about the future and predicts that the U.S. will be successful in spreading economic and political freedom far and wide, including regions that will offer great resistance to such changes. At times the narrative gets bogged down in potentially confusing academic terminology, but overall the book is filled with thought-provoking ideas and intriguing details about the role and limitations of U.S. influence and what it bodes for the rest of the world. --Shawn Carkonen
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International affairs expert and award-winning author of
Special Providence Walter Russell Mead here offers a remarkably clear-eyed account of American foreign policy and the challenges it faces post—September 11.
Starting with what America represents to the world community, Mead argues that throughout its history it has been guided by a coherent set of foreign policy objectives. He places the record of the Bush administration in the context of America’s historical relations with its allies and foes. And he takes a hard look at the international scene–from despair and decay in the Arab world to tumult in Africa and Asia–and lays out a brilliant framework for tailoring America’s grand strategy to our current and future threats. Balanced, persuasive, and eminently sensible,
Power, Terror, Peace, and War is a work of extraordinary significance on the role of the United States in the world today.
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Insightful, But Could Have Been Better.......2007-04-01
It almost goes without saying these days that the presence of the United States in the world in one form or another is a major issue. Whether you're an American or from another country, American foreign policy and cultural hegemony is an important topic worth considerable attention. In this book, Mead attempts to catalog the character of American foreign policy as it exists today and the character it must exemplify in the future in order to be successful. In this way, "Power, Terror, Peace, and War" is a sequel to Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. For those who have read "Special Providence", this book is not nearly as good, as the writing here sometimes reflected a lack of focus on Mead's part.
Nevertheless, Mead makes some very interesting insights that make the book more than worth reading. He differentiates the four types of American power: Sharp (Hard: namely military), Sticky (Hard: namely economic), Sweet (Soft: namely cultural), and Hegemonic (Soft: the three previous provide a symbol of inevitability). He also deals with two groups of countries who don't agree with the American vision for world order:
1. Extreme internationalists who want more rapid development of international law and "world government". Examples are Canada and Germany.
2. Those countries, such as France and Russia, who promote traditional power politics and are "realists" in terms of foreign policy.
After examining these to categorizations, Mead seems to simply go through a litany of other related issues, such as Evangelical conservatives, the Kyoto Protocol, September 11th, and globalization. Dealing with these issues makes for interesting insights, but Mead's sense of focus suffers. Mead is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, so this book is more than worth reading. However, if you're only going to read one of his books, read "Special Providence".
Brief Yet Comprehensive.......2005-04-23
One of the positive by-products of 9-11, is an increased interest in Geo-politics across all spheres of American society. Mead's book is a perfectly succinct and comprehensive answer to "no blood for oil" and other slogans that are bandied about by good people who feel at a loss faced with the seemingly inexplicable actions of their government, and its friends and adversaries. Ought to be required public school reading.
Falls Well Short of His Previous Work.......2005-01-17
Walter Russell Mead had the unfortunate timing to publish one of the best new books on U.S. foreign relations just as 9/11 changed the American security landscape forever. His remarkable "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and how it changed the World" hit bookstands around the country within weeks of Al Qaeda's attack. The work, which was part revisionist history and part typology of U.S. foreign policy traditions, had everything going for it except one thing: it called for an American global pullback, and cautioned against international overreaching, just as 9/11 ensured the U.S. would be extending itself around the world with a vengeance. What's a talented foreign policy specialist to do? Why not write another book?
The result is something of a disappointment. "Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk" feels rushed and light. Weighing in at just over 200 pages, and with no bibliography, the book is thin in both original thinking and scholarship. Mead obviously felt he had to say something about 9/11 without delay. He should have taken his time. Where "Special Providence" had much that was useful and interesting, even after events had overtaken its conclusion, this book is likely to sink out of view without a whimper. Comparing the two books is an object lesson to authors who believe that topicality is of primary importance to the quality of their book.
A problem of Mead's that was not apparent in reading just one of his books, but which appears with more clarity after reading two of them, is his addiction to classification systems. His four part typology of American foreign policy -- Jeffersonians, Hamiltonians, Wilsonians, and Jacksonians -- is the centerpiece of "Special Providence." In "Power, Terror, Peace, and War", he comes up with a three-part division of sharp power (military), sticky power (economic), and sweet power (cultural), because he apparently wasn't satisfied with the traditional dichotomy of hard and soft power. He also speaks of Fordism and millennial capitalism, hegemonic power and harmonic convergence, and he reprises his classification of Jeffersonians, Hamiltonians, Wilsonians, and Jacksonians from the previous book. Not all of these terms are Mead's creations, but most of them are, and the result is the book has a strained quality to it. Even informed readers might feel a little at sea when contemplating ideas such as whether revivalist Hamiltonians' post-Fordist strategy of sticky power helps America's harmonic convergence. (Mead doesn't actually say that word for word, but it sometimes feels like he wants to.)
Despite this compulsive desire to come up with neologisms, Mead says very little that is interesting or new. In "Special Providence", he changed the way I thought about U.S. foreign policy in the nineteenth century. This book, on the other hand, is instantly forgettable. Mead makes general comments on economics that are weakly supported (how does Mead know whether millennial capitalism is here to stay?) and throwaway remarks on current events which were already dated by the time the book was published. Rather than waste your time with this work, I recommend reading his "Special Providence", a superior book in every way.
The American Project.......2005-01-01
Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A Kissinger Senior Fellow on US Foreign Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations and the intellectual power that he brings to bear on the issues of foreign policy are as impressive as his job title. He marshals the disciplines of politics, economics, sociology, history and religion to produce a provocative and compelling analysis of America and its role in the world.
This important book describes what Mead calls the "American Project...to protect our own domestic security while building a peaceful world order of peaceful states linked by common values and sharing a common prosperity." This project is rooted in American history and tradition. (This work should be read in tandem with Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis.)
Mead identifies four schools of thought that animate our way of thinking about foreign policy. 1)Wilsonians are idealistic internationalists who believe the spread of democracy abroad will give us security at home - many of the neoconservatives are of this persuasion. Present-day Wilsonians are notable for their lack of confidence in international institutions. 2)Jeffersonians adhere to isolationism, even less of an option today than it was in the 19th century. 3)Hamiltonians are the business class that promote enterprise at home and abroad; they believe that globalization contributes to peace and security. 4)Jacksonians are described as "populist nationalists." They have the individualist's suspicion of government. And, oh yeah, they like to fight. In foreign policy that translates into overwhelming force and total victory.
The Bush administration's war on terror has been, according to Mead, a combination of Revival Wilsonianism and Jacksonianism. The internal conflict between these two approaches are never more obvious than in the present occupation of Iraq. While the Wilsonians are delicately trying to plant the seeds of democracy, the Jacksonians want victory over the evildoers regardless of the consequences.
Another trend that Mead describes is the shift from managed capitalism ("Fordism") which is a cooperative arrangement among the managers of state, business, and labor to a global capitalism ("millenial capitalism") which is less regulated and less equitable in its distribution of winners and losers. The Hamiltonians are promoters of millenial capitalism. It is a worldwide phenomenon that the state elites dislike because it diminishes their control over the economy. One more reason they hate us. The poor also liked the old system because it brought government subsidies. Alas, they too hate us.
Mead's prescription for helping the poor is of course in tune with millenial capitalism. The money for old style foreign aid is no longer there since Western governments are all running huge deficits already. He advocates private banks lending money in the form of microloans. This has been done succussfully in Bangladesh and elsewhere. (Read Banker to the Poor:Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus.) Outreach to the poor is not only a good in and of itself but it also provides fewer soldiers for international terrorism.
The Revival Wilsonianism of the Bush administration also has a religious element. Mead believes that the religious aspect of the foreign policy agenda should be embraced by us and the rest of the world as a basis for action since international institutions are not providing us with the proper values necessary to guarantee our security. This is where I part company with Mead. Even though international institutions have failed on many occassions, I still have more confidence in the United Nations than evangelicals in charge of foreign policy. We must guard against becoming like the enemy; trying to fight Islamic fanaticism or fascism with evangelical Christianity is not the proper course. The proper solution would be reforming existing international institutions to reflect new realities. Long live the separation of church and international governance.
This book is very good at identifying the domestic sources of our search for solutions to our international problems. The goal of this book was to offer important discussion on securing America domestically within a network of states that share our values and it achieves that goal reasonably well.
A mixed bag.......2004-09-29
Mead's book is very stimulating. His review of foreign policy and domestic politics is wide-ranging. He creates memorable labels that help highlight the main points of his argument, even if (see the editorial reviews) they may oversimplify or distort somewhat. He lays out more compelling reasons for US interventions in the Middle East than does the Bush administration, while noting some of the ways in which the administration has fumbled the ball.
Yet there is a deep flaw in Mead's argument. In his account, Millenial Capitalism and American Revivalism are inevitable, the working out of the inner logic of capitalism and US politics. They are explicitly progressive, replacing an inferior Fordist system. Millenial Capitalism will do a better job than Fordism of providing for the poor and spreading the benefits of growth.
These are elements of faith to Mead - the foundation on which he builds his analysis rather subjects of analysis. Assuming progress, he overlooks past cycles of the rise and fall of economic liberalism and imperialism. Ignoring the cycles, he misses the reactions to the disruptions caused by trade and imperialism, and how they lead to the creation of the Fordist system. He pays too little attention to the reactions to the neoconservative project for global hegemenony and how they will affect international relations. The cold war arms race is reviving even now; Mead misses it.
Mead's America is also largely devoid of human agency. The role of a 40 year ideological project by the radical right in undermining Fordism and fostering the idea that Millenial Capitalism will lift all boats, and that the world requires American dominance, is substantially ignored.
Finally, Mead seems to be under the spell of American exceptionalism. He tells us of his world travels and talks, and how many people's views were enlightened by his explication of US foreign policy. I waited in vain for an admission that someone outside of the US might have valuable insights into international politics or that Mead himself has learned anything that informed his policy proposals.
In short, Mead's book represents thinking "inside the box". He is informative and educational, but his vision is limited by disciplinary boundaries and ideological commitments.
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Title: Looking across the Mediterranean: radical Islamic politics and the West's response.(The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West)(Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk)(Book Review)
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The most comprehensive and scientifically documented work on the birds of Armenia. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the birds of this east-west border region, but especially for advanced amateurs, libraries, and ornithologists and other conservation and environmental professionals.
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A must have........2005-10-27
This is a wonderful book. I was in Armenia in the summer of 2005 and loved seeing wonderful birds. I photographed many, but lost all of my pictures when my digital camera broke. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find a book on birds of Armenia for my library collection on Armenia, but this book does it. I am not a ornithologist, but I can appreciate the lovely offerings of nature in Armenia. This book is a great take along on your trip to Armenia, an exotic and rich land. Conservationists and environmental professionals can benefit the beauty of the varied species of birds that Armenia has to offer.
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