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Fictions

I read thousands of novels since my hi-teen years.

  • John Case The Murder ArtistThe bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Eighth Day now strikes his most harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to nearly inhuman limits.
  • John Case The Eigth Day Danny Cray is a struggling 28 year-old sculptor and video artist who lives in Washington DC. To make ends meet.
  • Michael Crichton prey Michael Crichton's Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heart–pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology.
  • Stephen King Bag of bones No longer content to be the prolific provider of text, King grabs the audio reins to recount this haunted tale of grief, young love, and otherworldly visits. When 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to his lakeside cabin to process his wife's death, he finds the place a beacon for nightmares and ghoulish visits.
  • Tom Clancy Executive OrdersTom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appoint
  • Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta At the start of bestseller Cornwell's plodding 16th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after Book of the Dead), the forensic pathologist—who recently relocated to Belmont, Mass., with her forensic psychologist husband—is called to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for reasons that don't become clear until she gets there. Oscar Bane, who voluntarily committed himself to Bellevue while denying he brutally murdered his girlfriend, refuses to speak to anyone except the high-profile Scarpetta. Bane, Scarpetta discovers, is obsessed with her. Meanwhile, someone masquerading as Scarpetta is lur
  • John Grisham Innocent Man Ron Williamson has returned to his hometown of Ada, Oklahoma after multiple failed attempts to play for various minor league baseball teams, including the Fort Lauderdale Yankees and two farm teams owned by the Oakland A's.
  • Harlan Coben Gone for Good "The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies." So says Will Klein, whose search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he's ever loved.
  • Micheal Crichton State of Fear For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn.
  • John le Carre A most wanted man When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le Carré (The Mission Song), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries.
  • Donna Leon Blood from a stone Guido Brunetti, the protagonist of Donna Leon's brilliant series about crime in high and low places in Venice, Italy, is back in a smart thriller about a murdered street vendor, one of the illegal immigrants who sell fake fashion accessories outside
  • Lolly Winston Good Grief This is a wonderful book! My mom gave it to me when I was going through my divorce, then when I broke up with my second long term relationship, who left me pregnant after 5 years and moved to Europe, I bought it again for myself. code and data accompanying the paper.

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  • Mo Hayder The devil of nanking From its start in 1937, as the Japanese overrun the Chinese port of Nanking and massacre hundreds of thousands, to its narrative core in 1990, as a disturbed young British woman who calls herself Grey searches for
  • Bruce Fulton Waxen Wings The short story has been the genre of choice for writers of literary fiction in modern Korea and it continues to thrive in the new millennium. Waxen Wings
  • Ivan Doig Work Song Starred Review. Doig affectionately revisits Morris "Morrie" Morgan from the much-heralded The Whistling Season.
  • Jim Nisbet The damned don't die "Ah, sweet mystery... where sex has co
  • Jane Austen Persuasion One of England s most beloved authors, Jane Austen wrote such classic novels as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. Published anonymously during her life, Austen s work was renowned for its realism, humour, and
  • Constance Squires Along the Watchtower Set in 1980s West Germany and Lawton, Oklahoma, Constance Squires's compelling debut novel takes both ghost story and soldier's story and remyths these into a unique and fascinating hybrid.
  • Andrei Makine Once Upon the River Love In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya. Once, the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and
  • Carol-June The New American Dictionary of Difficult Words handy reference to some 3,000 commonly misused or confused words. Its usefulness would have been enhanced by some pronunciation guidance and more substantial binding.
  • Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, and Zoetrope, among other publications, and has been heard on National Public Radio and featured at Symphony Space in New York City. Bank holds an MFA from Cornell University and is the winner of a Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.

Coursebooks

I counted 18 books for the first year and I thought it was it. I was wrong as the number sees no boundary.

Interactions of Algorithmic and human decision-making

Information flow and dynamic behavior in networks

  • Susan Johnson Hot Pink Chloe Chisholm, pink-haired graphic designer and small-business owner, meets drop-dead gorgeous Rocco Vinelli in the elevator and sparks fly.
  • Jonathan Spence Mao Zedong Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao.
  • Graham Greene The Quiet American Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
  • Thomas Cathcart Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their
  • Trevor Homer The Book of Origins The best way to approach this book is to simply open it and read a few random pages. It contains obscure and unknown details at almost every turn, plus a natural sense of when enough detail is enough…
  • Klara Glowczewska The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys Poetry may be literature’s nirvana, but travel writing occupies a celestial sphere only fractionally inferior in sublimity. Anthologies of travel writing abound, most of them like a pirate’s chest filled to the brim with gems.
  • Meg Mullins The Rug Merchant New York City teems with quiet desperation in this lucidly written but languid debut novel. The titular carpet salesman, Ushman Khan, has left his mother and his wife, Farak, in Iran in order to make a new start in America.
  • Garrison Keillor Good Poems for Hard Times In any given week, probably more people hear him read poems than attend poetry readings and slams. That's good because his taste is excellent.
  • Arianne Cohen Confessions of a High School Word Nerd Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them
  • Nancy Macdonell In the Know There are still a few things money can’t buy. Love is one, cool is another. But while love can be left to fate, cool doesn’t need to be.
  • Ira Glass The New Kings of Nonfiction We're living in an age of great nonfiction writing, says Glass, the host of the radio program This American Life, who picks out 14 of his favorite journalistic features from writers who are entertainers in the best sense of the word, unafraid to insert their personal perspective into the stories they're telling. The collection really is
  • Lesley Kagen Whistling In the Dark The loss of innocence can be as dramatic as the loss of a parent or the discovery that what's perceived to be truth can actually be a big fat lie, as shown in Kagen's compassionate debut, a coming-of-age thriller set in Milwaukee during the summer of 1959.
  • Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard
  • Margaret Dilloway How to Be an American Housewife In this enchanting first novel, Dilloway mines her own family's history to produce the story of Japanese war bride Shoko, her American daughter, Sue, and their challenging relationship.
  • Craig Johnson Junkyard Dogs After a severed thumb turns up at the dump outside of Durant, Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire ignores the fact that someone has claimed it.
  • Maile Meloy Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It I was taking a class from Ann Patchett then, and she said, about the number of stories in a collection, that Salinger's Nine was like eight hours sleep—a little more was okay, a little less was fine, but it was a good general guideline. About variety, she said that a collection was like a mall
  • Cammie Mcgovern Neighborhood Watch A murder, a sleep disorder, a DNA test, an alternative energy source, a childless couple, a neighborhood watch group, and a troubled teenager it seems unlikely that this motley combination of plot points could coalesce into a compelling story.
  • Sophie Hannah The Cradle in the Grave The author has certainly chosen to work with a lot of ingredients here, and yet the subtlety with which she does so makes for a hearty literary meal-one in which each part feels as if it's essential.
  • Kaniel J. Levitin This Is Your Brain on Music Levitin is a deft and patient explainer of the basics for the non-scientist as well as the non-musician....By tracing music's deep ties to memory, Levitin helps quantify some of music's magic without breaking its spell.
  • Carol Wolper Secret Celebrity Although not technically a sequel to Cigarette Girl, Wolper's second novel reads like part two of her treatise on the cult of celebrity. Struggling filmmaker Christine Chase is the protagonist, rather than Cigarette's screenwriter, Elizabeth West
  • lynne Truss Eats, Shoots & Leaves Witty, smart, passionate.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction “This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don’t care enough.”—The Boston Sunday Globe
  • Anu Garg The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two Garg, logophilic founder of wordsmith.org and the 600,000-subscriber A.Word.A.Day email newsletter, jam-packs his latest good-natured, reader-friendly book (after Another Word A Day) with terms exotic and domestic, lessons in etymology and surprising tricks of the linguist trade, such as the fact that "as a copyright trap...
  • Spencer Johnson, M.D. Who Moved My Cheese? The long-awaited sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the beloved 28-million-copy bestseller that became a worldwide sensation.
  • Meg Mullins Dear Strangers Oliver is only seven when his father announces the family will adopt a baby boy. But when Oliver’s father suddenly dies, his mother finds she can no longer keep the baby and gives him away.
  • T.C. Boyle Talk TalkThere's more than one way to take a life...The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear.
  • Katherine Valentine A Miracle for St. Cecilia's The charming New England town of Dorsetville and its cast of wry, tough inhabitants struggle to stay afloat after the wool mill closes as they gather at the town church of St. Cecilia
  • David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars The whiteness covers the courthouse, but it cannot conceal the memories at work inside: the internment of
  • Elizabeth Lowell Remember Summer The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her—the Olympic Games.
  • Larry Mcmurtry The evening star Here old age and death catch up with some beloved McMurtry characters familiar to readers since Terms of Endearment . Willful, tart-tongued Aurora Greenway and her outspoken maid and confidante, Rose Dunlup, sp ok? yes are in their 70s when this book begins; Aurora's lover, Gen.
  • Dean Koontz The Vision In every industry there exist ‘artists’ that are not only unforgettable, but know their craft better than the rest. Dean Koontz...is among these artisans.
  • John Grisham The Testament Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan's money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys.
  • Stephen King The Regulators The battle against evil has begun in this "devishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror - a number-one national best seller from Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
  • Dean Koontz The Key to Midnight At night she's plagued by the dream of a man with a needle and feelings of being violated. She meets fellow American Alex Hunter, who helps Joanna awaken to the fact that she's not who she thinks she is.
  • Faye Kellerman Stalker LAPD detective Peter Decker, promoted to lieutenant after his heroics in Jupiter's Bones (1999), is overloaded with troubles in this outstanding, suspense-packed mystery, the 12th in Kellerman's acclaimed series. As usual, a challenging case distracts Decker from his family, but this time there is one difference.

    • Incentives and game theoretic analysis

    • David Baldacci The Simple Truth The complex drama of Rufus Harms is only one of the interwoven threads in this massive, violent legal thriller that also draws from the vocabulary of hard-boiled crime fiction. Baldacci offers glimpses into the arcane politics of the high court, where Justice Elizabeth Knight wages war with the manipulative Chief Justice Harold Ramsay.
    • J. K. Rowling Harry Potter The Harry Potter series has been hailed as “one for the ages” by Stephen King and “a spellbinding saga’ by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the “fastest selling book in history.”
    • Jack Welch Jack As CEO of General Electric for the past 20 years, Jack Welch has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world.
    • Dirk Zeller Successful Time Management. Feel like there's never enough time to get things done? This friendly guide can help change your work day — and your life. Filled with practical tips on managing distractions, fighting procrastination, and optimizing your workspace, it offers you a tried-and-true roadmap for taking back precious hours to make the most of every minute of every day.
    • John Marks The Wall Once, years ago in Belgrade, I met a beautiful blonde Serbian nationalist named Simonida, and we got to talking vampires. I knew from my own research that the vampire of American popular culture had its roots in Serbian folklore, and she offered to do more than confirm the truth.
    • Nick Hornby How to Be Good Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, How to Be Good (a New York Times bestseller), High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and of the memoir Fever Pitch.
    • Matt Beaumont E Lightbulb jokes, office snafus and scatological humor are ostensibly the stuff of comedy in this debut epistolary novel constituted solely of e-mails. It's the dawn of the new millennium and the London advertising firm of Miller Shanks is about to embark on two weeks of intensive effort with the goal of winning the most impressive jewel in the industry's crown:
    • Brian McDonald My Father's Gun An intriguing memoir of a family of Irish-American cops in New York City traces the lives and careers of three generations of NYPD officers,
    • William Sutcliffe The Love Hexagon A group of six young Londoners--three men and three women--embark on a series of sexual adventures, misadventures, triumphs, and failures with one another, until these casual indiscretions begin to have profound and irreversible consequences for them all. Original.
    • de Botton, Alain On Love Imagine, of all impossible things, a young British Woody Allen with the benefit of a classical education and you have the nameless and exquisitely erudite narrator of On Love, a first novel by Alain de Botton, who seems to have been born to write.
    • Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once.
    • Joan Anderson A Year By The Sea The basis for the major motion picture of the same name. An entrancing memoir of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.
    • Tim Green Kingdom Come Bob King is a self-made billionaire who parlayed a rusty backhoe into the 27th spot on Forbes list. Now, his corporation is a multi-billion dollar construction company that instills greed and competition among friends, including his son Scott and his two best friends, Thane and Ben.
    • Steve Berry, The Amber Room First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that's long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel's father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia's Catherine Palace.

    Opinion, evaluation and polorization

    • Dean Koontz, Stephen Lang, et al. By the Light of the Moon: A Novel Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time.
    • Stephen L. Carter, Richard Allen, et al. The Emperor of Ocean Park Set in the era of the Nixon and Reagan presidencies, this novel examines the American conscience while inviting us into the glittering world of the East Coast legal community. Stephen L. Carter's book follows black Ivy League law professor Talcott Garland as he investigates the death of his father, Judge Oliver.
    • Lenore Hart. Waterwoman: A Novel of the Eastern Shore Even as a child, plain, boyish Annie Revels had everyone's role in life figured out. Everyone's, that is, except her own. Her mother was sickly and needed to be taken care of. Her little sister Rebecca was remarkably beautiful, where Annie was not. Her father was a waterman, a free-looking life Annie deeply envied and could've had, if only she'd been born a son.
    • Leif Enger Peace Like a River: A Novel. For me to really like a book, it's got to feel real: dialogue needs to sound authentic, characters need to well developed & a mix of good & bad, as real people are. Likewise, I don't want the ending to be predictable, nor all happy or all tragic. I also prefer fairly clean language & no graphic sex scenes. (Not because I think those have no place in literature, but just for my own mental health.)
    • Sarah Willis . The Sound of Us Content with her life alone, except for a cat named Sampson, Alice Marlowe, a woman in her late forties, makes her living as a sign-language interpreter for the deaf, until a beautiful, terrified, six-year-old girl comes into her life and forces her to rediscover the language of love. By the author of Some Things That Stay.
    • I. J. Parker Island of Exiles (Akitada Mysteries Book 4) I.J. Parker was born and educated in Europe and turned to mystery writing after an academic career in the U.S. She has published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, winning the short story Shamus award in 2000. The Akitada series, about an eleventh century Japanese nobleman/detective, now consists of fourteen titles plus a short story collection. The books are available in print, audio format, and on Kindle and are translated into twelve languages..
    • Sarah Waters Predicting Positive and Negative Links in Online Social Networks. Blurbed by the likes of Stephen King for its exceptional creepiness, "The Little Stranger" will disappoint those who are looking for a page turner in the mold of the American master of Gothic horror. Yes, the novel has all the trappings of a standard haunted house thriller: a once-grand, remotely situated mansion; owners reduced to shabby gentility; things that inexplicably go bump in the night; violent disfigurements and mysterious deaths. But all this is only scaffolding for a meticulously thoughtful.
    • Kate Furnivall The Russian Concubine (A Russian Concubine Novel). The experiences of the author's mother inspired this debut novel, a somewhat improbable tale of star-crossed love in 1928 China. Valentina Ivanova and her 16-year-old daughter, Lydia, White Russian refugees, live in grinding poverty in the International Settlement of Junchow, subsisting off whatever presents Valentina can charm from gentlemen admirers and the profits Lydia makes from pawning stolen goods. When Lydia inadvertently attracts the unwelcome attentions of a criminal gang, the Black Snakes, she finds a rescuer in Chang An Lo, an English-speaking Communist and kung fu master. Danger is never far as the two fall in love. Lydia's travails are mirrored by those of Theo Willoughby, the British headmaster of her school.
    • Jeffery Deaver The Empty Chair Lincoln Rhyme, the gruff quadriplegic detective and forensic expert of Bone Collector fame, strays far from his Manhattan base to a spooky North Carolina backwater in this engrossing and outlandish tale about the hunt for evil. The hick town is called Tanner's Corner, where Rhyme--in North Carolina for experimental surgery--

    Temporal analysis and burst phenomena

    • Lisa Wingate Good Hope Road Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane's dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide. She doesn't imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she's made her home. But some inner spark compels her to take action.
    • Giles Milton Meme-tracking and the Samurai William The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of Japan - and decided to settle.
    • David Crystal The English Language This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English.
    • Sebastian Barry Annie Dunne It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care.
    • Edna O'brien Girls in Their Married Bliss Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion.
    • Jennifer Lawler Dojo Wisdom A martial arts expert draws on the principles and practices of her training to present a series of one hundred life lessons to help readers find their inner warriors, accompanied by brief exercises that demonstrate how to apply the teachings to everyday life <>
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    Representations for learning

    • Lisa Wingate Good Hope Road Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane's dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide. She doesn't imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she's made her home. But some inner spark compels her to take action.
    • Giles Milton Meme-tracking and the Samurai William The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of Japan - and decided to settle.
    • David Crystal The English Language This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English.
    • Sebastian Barry Annie Dunne It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care.
    • Edna O'brien Girls in Their Married Bliss Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion.
    • Jennifer Lawler Dojo Wisdom A martial arts expert draws on the principles and practices of her training to present a series of one hundred life lessons to help readers find their inner warriors, accompanied by brief exercises that demonstrate how to apply the teachings to everyday life <>
      • See also some sample results from the burst detection algorithm described in this paper.

    Language, text content and social interactions

    • Mia Yun House of the Winds 1960s Korea. A girl stands in the middle of a sunny patch with her mother. The air is full of butterflies (the souls of little children in afternoon naps) and secrets (although they were not secrets at the time)
    • Larry Millett Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe.

    Team formation and dynamics

    • William Dalrymple City of Djinns He pursues Delhi’s interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.
    • Jennifer Belle High Maintenance Real estate is everything in Manhattan. When, at 26, Liv Kellerman separates from her cheating husband, she has no skills, education, or more importantly, she no longer has the fabulous penthouse apartment with a view of the Empire State Building. In desperation, she takes a rundown place in Greenwich Village that spews brown water and has a shower usable only with a pair of pliers

    Algorythms and models for online education

    • Carol Wolper Cigarette Girl Screenwriter Elizabeth West is 28 and convinced her life is over. She is in "the zone," and all she wants to do is "resolve the marriage and baby issues," as she so romantically puts it. Elizabeth has abandoned the search for Mr. Right and is now looking for Mr. Maybe. She decides this is not her current boyfriend
    • Sharon Wyse The Box Children Finding her only friends in five tiny dolls she has named for her miscarried siblings, twelve-year-old Lou Ann witnesses her once-again-pregnant mother's grasp on reality slipping away and must rely on her own wit and courage to make sense of adolescence.
    • Nora Roberts Dance of the Gods Raised in a family of demon hunters, Blair Murphy has her own personal demons to fight: the father who trained, then abandoned her, and the fiancé who walked out on her after learning what she is.
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    Toolbooks

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