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	<title>Christopher Hansard &#187; Spirituality</title>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Minuet on Credit]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/10/19/christopher-hansard-minuet-on-credit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 &#160; Benjamin Franklin would have been refused credit so would Plato too, Socrates, Wagner and Schiller Mahler, most certainly Mozart unacceptable credit risks St Francis having no real assets would be dismissed George Washington Marqui de Sade or Rocheford, Duke of Wellington, Napoleon too, Balachine, Gorky Kafka Credit belongs to those whose heaven is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"> 1</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Benjamin Franklin would have been refused credit</p>
<p align="center">so would Plato too,</p>
<p align="center">Socrates, Wagner and Schiller</p>
<p align="center">Mahler, most certainly Mozart</p>
<p align="center">unacceptable credit risks</p>
<p align="center">St Francis having no real assets</p>
<p align="center">would be dismissed</p>
<p align="center">George Washington</p>
<p align="center">Marqui de Sade or Rocheford,</p>
<p align="center">Duke of Wellington, Napoleon</p>
<p align="center">too,</p>
<p align="center">Balachine, Gorky</p>
<p align="center">Kafka</p>
<p align="center">Credit</p>
<p align="center">belongs</p>
<p align="center">to</p>
<p align="center">those</p>
<p align="center">whose heaven is on earth</p>
<p align="center">covered up by concrete</p>
<p align="center">cemented by debt</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">2</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">anger is the most communicable disease</p>
<p align="center">of the politically correct community</p>
<p align="center">if you want to be truly authentic</p>
<p align="center">know where your anger</p>
<p align="center">arises from.</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">know where your greed arises from</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">know where your lust in all its forms arises from</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">3</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">my time here is over</p>
<p align="center">i have moved on</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">4</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">karma is intentional action, thought and deed</p>
<p align="center">free yourself from ignorance to understand full intention</p>
<p align="center">love all things</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">5</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">look into the noise of life</p>
<p align="center">and hear the silence</p>
<p align="center">the music</p>
<p align="center">the light</p>
<p align="center">the rushing of</p>
<p align="center">the Way</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Kindness]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/27/christopher-hansardkindness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kindness that you seek in others can be found within yourself the kindness that you are afraid of receiving will wait until you are ready to receive it waiting close by like a fathful friend there is kindness everywhere if only you stop to see kindness is the source of community and of healing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">The kindness that you seek in others</p>
<p align="center">can be found within yourself</p>
<p align="center">the kindness that you are afraid of receiving</p>
<p align="center">will wait until you are ready to receive it</p>
<p align="center">waiting close by like a fathful friend</p>
<p align="center">there is kindness everywhere</p>
<p align="center">if only you stop to see</p>
<p align="center">kindness is the source of community</p>
<p align="center">and of healing and understanding</p>
<p align="center">if you seek wisdom, knowledge, spirituuality</p>
<p align="center">first develop kindness</p>
<p align="center">and you will find all other things accrue naturally</p>
<p align="center">kindness needs nothing but itself</p>
<p align="center">and is everywhere waiting to shared</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Anger]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/29/christopher-hansardanger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of it&#8230; of anger, anger is the rage and shame of having no power anger too can take you to a place of change when it is truly right to be angry but anger though is impulse, it is not a destination for each of us needs to go beyond it, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">The world is full of it&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">of anger,</p>
<p align="justify">anger is the rage and shame of having no power</p>
<p align="justify">anger too can take you to a place of change when it is truly right to be angry</p>
<p align="justify">but anger though is impulse, it is not a destination for each of us needs to</p>
<p align="justify">go beyond it, to leave its power behind and embrace the power of Love</p>
<p align="justify">anger seeks its own demise, its own transformation but can lose</p>
<p align="justify">its way to healing</p>
<p align="justify">look to the anger within you, see how it moulds your life</p>
<p align="justify">and how the anger of others influences your state of being ,</p>
<p align="justify">anger can be glamourous, even kind, anger can be generous and also blind</p>
<p align="justify">anger seeks its own destruction and understanding</p>
<p align="justify">it is the light of extreme dissatisfaction and the voice of fear</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Love is Within Us]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/27/christopher-hansardlove-is-within-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; ONE: &#160; Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat, Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> ONE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="justify"> <font color="#000080">Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the  oncoming fear</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.</font></p>
<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">TWO:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right"><font color="#800000">Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt</font><br />
<font color="#800000">upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order</font><br />
<font color="#800000">to evolve back to its own recognition again.</font></p>
<p align="center"> THREE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">a river that flows through time and space</font><br />
<font color="#000080">creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">perception and awakening and the nature of living light</font><br />
<font color="#000080">Love has made the chance for Life </font><br />
<font color="#000080">when it embraced itself openly with Light,</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for in Light, Consciousness takes form </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">shrouding Love&#8217;s constant breath </font><br />
<font color="#000080">and in that come  the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death </font><br />
<font color="#000080">two great teachings of  Love and Light </font><br />
<font color="#000080">by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form</font><br />
<font color="#800000"> </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#800000"> </font></p>
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		<title>What Will You Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/03/21/what-will-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will You do when you can not put gas into your car? What will You do when you can not buy your food at the supermarket? What will you do if you can not find any water clean enough to drink? What will you do when the lights go out? What will you do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What will You do when you can not put gas into your car?</p>
<p>What will You do when you can not buy your food at the supermarket?</p>
<p>What will you do if you can not find any water clean enough to drink?</p>
<p>What will you do when the lights go out?</p>
<p>What will you do if your software fails?</p>
<p>What will you do if all that you know suddenly falls apart?</p>
<p>What will you do?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain fall burns your skin?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain stops falling?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain pours down day and night ?</p>
<p>What will you do when the last glacier evaporates?</p>
<p>What will you do when all the knowhow of all that you take for granted is meaningless and cannot save you?</p>
<p>What will you do?</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your own being and try not to be afraid, that is what you can do</p>
<p>When the Zoo gets raided for the meat in the cages what will you do?</p>
<p>When everyone around you is in despair what will you do?</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid, that&#8217;s what you can do ..</p>
<p>Start now and learn how to know what to do,</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid</p>
<p>Trust the cycle of spiritual unfoldment in the world</p>
<p>This is the sad time of the World versus the Earth, when  there needs to be no competition</p>
<p>When the Earth asks you, and that day will come, what did you do? What will your answer be?</p>
<p>The World has no answer and no question. That is why many do not know what to do.</p>
<p>There are two species of humanity, one dwells within The World</p>
<p>The other dwells with the Earth..the choice is , what will you do?</p>
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		<title>ChristopherHansard:[Credit Crunch and Economic Change for You]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is in a panic because of the credit crunch and the fears of economic change and how that will affects millions of people just like you. Things are getting tough, yet when they do, it is important to stop and consider what you and your life are made of. How much fear have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world is in a panic because of the credit crunch and the fears of economic change and how that will affects millions of people just like you. Things are getting tough, yet when they do, it is important to stop and consider what you and your life are made of. How much fear have you bought into? Has your life been based on credit?</p>
<p>The credit crunch is not just financial, but it is emotional and spiritual too. There is not the emotional and spiritual basis to support these forces which are going into free-fall.</p>
<p>Each of us needs to address our own balance sheet and know what our currency is made of as we spend it in this life. The emotions we have and the life we seek are the currency and the value that we ascribe to what we want and need.</p>
<p>All money and credit is invisible, based upon a belief and both really do not exist.</p>
<p>When the belief and the trust in the belief runs out so does the credit.</p>
<p>In the everyday world this has dramatic consequences upon people&#8217;s lives.</p>
<p>However, if you are under the influence of the credit crunch and the emerging economic changes, and everyone will be, regardless of their wealth, stop and consider what money and having money means to you and whether you equate it with Life and well-being.</p>
<p>Pray to the divine within not to just assist you with money but in understanding that no one can own money, it passes on through us, it was one of the first creations of humanity and because of that it has gathered an independent primal force that powers its influence.</p>
<p>Be at peace with the pieces you have, put them together and they will show you how to make more. But be content first with where you are now.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma? Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma?</p>
<p>Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.</p>
<p>If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.</p>
<p>People often wonder &#8230;what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.</p>
<p>Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.</p>
<p>Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.</p>
<p>People often wonder&#8230; what Reincarnation is&#8230;</p>
<p>Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.</p>
<p>In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.</p>
<p>Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.   Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Bliss and Boredom]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise, calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light, to have and not to have, these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise,</p>
<p>calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light,</p>
<p>to have and not to have,</p>
<p>these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out in a surprise guerilla assault of our fragile sense of self. These fuel most people&#8217;s search for meaning, comfort and stability.</p>
<p>But they are heat waves that come from the energy our everyday mind when it tries to make sense of our lives, selves and the world.</p>
<p>To move beyond becoming influenced by the rise and fall of all of these, we need to understand that we can let go of trying to make sense of it, and allow the natural sense to make sense of us.</p>
<p>Yes, we need to let go of the searching when fueled by all of these things that I have listed and allow the natural sense within us to show us that there is no search.</p>
<p>Because  you are the  journey and the destination and you have already arrived, it is just, that at some point in your journey through Life, you forgot. Its like meeting someone from years ago, and you can&#8217;t quite place their face or name, but you know that you know them from somewhere.</p>
<p>The natural sense within can show you that beneath the thrum of all of these experiences that I mentioned earlier is a great simplicity, and it is constant and yet as you experience it, it is renewed and so are you.</p>
<p>There will be no more bliss or boredom, but contentment and a knowing of the great laugh that resounds in the universe, and you will taste joy in everything and everyone.</p>
<p>Beyond Bliss, beyond boredom, you will find yourself and like a long lost lover rush to embrace yourself in the experience of the ever constant divine.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Power]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed. However, true power in all its forms stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed.</p>
<p>However, true power in all its forms  stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to not, to be aware of the time of things, for all things have their own time.</p>
<p>The greatest power comes from living in accord with your authentic emotional and spiritual state which can not be defined by anyone other than you and the eternal Self that takes on the material identity that you regard as your personality, day by day. Power comes not from things but from being.</p>
<p>When power is applied it not longer becomes power but another quality of action and intent.</p>
<p>You are potentially more powerful than any man made force or natural cycle or cosmic event or body, you are the summation of a thousand million universes, countless aeons of conscious journeying through many life forms, you are the great navigator and commander of  the most profound power of all..the continuity of Consciousness  which is the energy that all power is derived from.</p>
<p>Power takes on a conscious form when applied that is why as your inner self grows and matures it becomes powerful, not in ego or desire but in accordance with the cycle of things, there are many on this planet who have power but are not mature, their power comes from the intent of despair and ego, fear and the desire for safety from their inner knowledge that their power will fade thus bringing the fear of mortality.</p>
<p>This relationship to power comes from the fear of change and the misunderstanding of who we are as human beings in the natural and universal world.</p>
<p>We are immensely powerful, we are learning to be immensely responsible, but we can come to that by awakening the immense compassion that lies within us. If one person in the millions on this planet was truly compassionate but for a moment, all us would change our relationship to power and no one would seek it for artificial means.</p>
<p>The power that all people, all beings respond to and understand wordlessly is the frequency of love , in this material world it is the greatest and most enduring of all forms of power. Is is the one we as individuals and as a species run from but it is the hidden impulse in our evolution.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Are You Disatisfied?]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you disatisfied? With the way your life is? The amount of money that you make? Your health, status, relationships, body, confidence ? Are you disastisfied with your lack of acheivement. Well I would like to ask you, compared to what? Disatisfaction? What are you disatisfied with when compared to&#8230;? If you start to compare [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you disatisfied?</p>
<p>With the way your life is?</p>
<p>The amount of money that you make?</p>
<p>Your health, status,  relationships,  body, confidence ?</p>
<p>Are you disastisfied with your lack of acheivement.</p>
<p>Well I would like to ask you, compared to what?</p>
<p>Disatisfaction? What are you disatisfied with  when compared to&#8230;?</p>
<p>If you start to compare &#8230;your disatisfaction will fade, because</p>
<p>just like comparison, disatisfaction is fleeting and not true.</p>
<p>Yet it can prompt people to really acheive incredible things and bring them to a place of truth, disatisfied people search for the meaning of things and change, content people do not. How disatisfied are you? Can you sit in your own company?</p>
<p>Can you accept that where you are in your life right now is where you are meant to be?</p>
<p>Disatisfaction is not something you can have for long or cling to, it is both a sensory and an emotional experience that prompts each of us to higher states of change, it is not the goal or the destination, but a process that leads us to knowing who we truly are.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get caught up in disatisafction, but take the lesson it offers,</p>
<p>give thanks for what it shows in you and move on.</p>
<p>But what of satisfaction?</p>
<p>It is merely disatisfaction at rest and it too is fleeting,</p>
<p>like a Summer shower that comes in the morning it will not last all day.</p>
<p>Disatisfaction is the everyday mind experiencing the underlying knowing that the material world can not offer a lasting peace or meaning, and so it expresses itself through our fears, longing and regrets.</p>
<p>Give thanks for all that,</p>
<p>give thanks for the moments of satisfaction,</p>
<p>the times of disatisfaction and know them both to be</p>
<p>transient and a heat wave of your ego in search of meaning&#8230;</p>
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