Programming and Events
Past Programming
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“Digital Therapy” Luncheon: 2011/2012 Fellows
“Digital Therapy” Faculty & Grad Luncheon
Please join us as we introduce our 2011/2012 Scholars’ Lab Graduate Fellows: Gabriel Hankins from the Department of English, Randi Lewis from the Corcoran Department of History, and Edward Triplett from the McIntire Department of Art. A tasty lunch will be provided!
Thursday, September 1 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Idea Forum: Lucie Stylianopoulos
Lucie Stylianopoulos: “Alternative Metadata: Siting Archaeology in Space & Time”
“Alternative Metadata: Siting Archaeology in Space & Time” is a discussion of the dilemmas facing archaeologists and librarians when trying to come to consensus on metadata models for archaeology. The paper grew out of the research Lucie has been doing in Thebes, Greece with Professor Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, cataloguing medieval pottery.
Wednesday, September 7 , at 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in the Scholars’ Lab
Sponsored by the Thinkubator Community as part of the Year of Metadata
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Speaker Series: Timothy Powell
Timothy Powell: Revitalizing Thomas Jefferson’s Vision for Preserving Native American Languages
Dr. Timothy Powell
Director of Native American Projects, American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society recently received Mellon Foundation funding to digitize its entire Native American audio recordings collection, totaling more than 3000 hours of invaluable linguistic and historical recordings. The project raises important questions about the meaning of Digital Humanities in august archives.
Wednesday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
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Software Workshop: SPSS
Software Workshop: SPSS
This workshop is designed to introduce users to the use of Excel and SPSS for data management and analysis. Instructor: Nancy Kechner.
Wednesday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Curry Library Innovation Commons.
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Software Workshop: SAS
Software Workshop: SAS
This workshop is designed to introduce users to SAS. Instructor: Kathy Gerber.
Thursday, October 6 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Alderman Electronic Classroom.
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Software Workshop: Eye Candy, Exploring Visual Displays of Data
Software Workshop: Eye Candy, Exploring Interesting Visual Displays of Data
This workshop is designed to introduce users to data visualization. Instructor: Nancy Kechner.
Wednesday, October 12 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Curry Library Innovation Commons.
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Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich: How to Compare One Million Images? Visualizing Patterns in Art, Games, Comics, Cinema, Web, and Print Media
Lev Manovich
Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, October 18 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Reception immediately following.
This event is co-sponsored by SHANTI, IATH, and the Scholars’ Lab.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user Patrick Hoesly.
Software Workshop: Introduction to R
Software Workshop: R
Introduction to R, the widely used open source statistical environment. Instructor: Kathy Gerber.
Wednesday, October 19 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Alderman Library Electronic Classroom.
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Software Workshop: Introduction to Nvivo
Software Workshop: Nvivo
This workshop will explore principles and techniques of qualitative analysis using NVivo from QSR International. Instructor: Nancy Kechner.
Wednesday, October 26 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Curry Library Innovation Commons.
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Family Weekend GIS Workshop
Mapping Yourself with GPS and Google
Curious about GPS, Google mapping, and how you can be part of the fun? Join Chris Gist and Kelly Johnston of the U.Va. Scholars’ Lab for an introduction to the magic of GPS and Google mapping. You will leave with the tools to communicate with satellites 12,000 miles overhead, make your own maps, and selectively share your cartographic masterpieces with the world.
Saturday, October 29 at 10:00am
in the Scholars’ Lab
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Visiting Scholar: Johannes Kepper
Johannes Kepper: MEI or Musical Editions Improved
Dr. Johannes Kepper
Entwicklung / Betreuung Kooperationspartner
Edirom Project
Dr. Kepper will discuss the requirements, characteristics and benefits of digital editions based on the Music Encoding Initiative schema. MEI-based applications, such as the Edirom toolset and the MerMEId metadata editor will be introduced and the impact of these technologies on scholarly editing in general will be discussed.
Friday, November 4 at 10:00 a.m.
in the Byrd-Morris Room, Harrison Institute.
This event is co-sponsored by U.Va. Music Library and the Scholars’ Lab.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user Jorge Franganillo.
Software Workshop: Solid Graphs for Quantitative Data
Software Workshop: Elements of Creating Solid Graphs for Quantitative Data
This workshop will introduce the creation of solid graphs for quantitative data. Instructor: Nancy Kechner.
Wednesday, November 9 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Curry Library Innovation Commons.
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Speaker Series: Joe Gilbert
Joe Gilbert: Elements of User Experience Design
Joe Gilbert
User Experience Web Developer, U.Va. Library
Beyond mere graphic design, user experience design leverages well established research methods and web standards to foster more usable web sites. Gilbert will offer a overview of the tools, methods, and theories that underlie user experience design, including wireframes, user personae, information architectures, and more.
Thursday, November 10 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
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GIS Day 2011
GIS Day 2011
We hope you’ll plan to join us in the Scholars’ Lab for our annual GIS Day celebration. We have a line up of more than 20 lightning round talks on GIS topics. And at 3:00 p.m., we’ll cut the traditional GIS Day Cake.
Wednesday, November 16 at 1:30 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy http://www.gisday.com/
Teach Anywhere Open House
Teach Anywhere Open House
UVa librarian Meridith Wolnick’s evaluation of student needs and the changing instructional landscape helped her identify a mobile teaching toolkit that would enhance and improve instruction, a classroom in a box that could travel anywhere and instantly spring into use as a mobile classroom. Please join the Library to celebrate this initiative, and more importantly, to explore ideas on how mobile technologies can impact teaching and learning experiences.
Thursday, November 17 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
in the Groups Lab, 3rd Floor, Clemons Library.
This open house event has been organized by Meridith Wolnick, Librarian for Information Services and Instruction.
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GIS Workshop: Geocoding
Geocoding and X/Y Data
Do you have a list of addresses or latitude and longitudes that you would like to show on a map? This session will show you how to create spatial layers with your data and create maps.
Tuesday, November 22 at 2:00pm
in the Alderman Library Electronic Classroom
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GIS Workshop: Open Street Map
Mapping The World One Street At A Time With Open Street Map
OSM is a free wiki-style map of the world open to contributions and download by everyone. It’s one of the few sources of free geo-data for many parts of our world. You don’t need to be an expert cartographer to contribute to OSM, you just need local knowledge and a few tools. We’ll see the step by step process to contribute or edit OSM data and to pull OSM data into your own mapping project. Join us and 399,998 other OSM users for an hour of open mappy fun.
Tuesday, November 29 at 2:00pm
in the Alderman Library Electronic Classroom
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GIS Workshop: Virtual Globes
Virtual Globes
Is Google Earth a gateway drug for Geographic Information Systems? Virtual Globes put the power of GIS in a free, easy to use wrapper pre-loaded with hundreds of intriguing layers. Want to overlay your own datasets, show change over time, or create animations? We’ll discuss Google Earth, NASA World Wind, ESRI, and more and spend hands-on time getting smarter about using these 3D tools. No experience with GIS or virtual globes required.
Wednesday, January 25 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, January 26, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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GIS Workshop: ArcGIS Advanced Editing
ArcGIS Advanced Editing
The Editor in ArcGIS 10 is a new paradigm. The use of templates in key to creating new data. We will explore templates and other advanced editing techniques including reshaping features, snapping and attribute editing.
Wednesday, February 1 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, February 2, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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Grad Fellows Informal Info Session
SLab Graduate Fellows Program Informal Info Session & Lunch
Advanced graduate students interested in applying for our popular graduate fellows program are invited to join us over lunch (our treat!) to learn about the program and the Scholars’ Lab from our faculty & staff and from past & current Fellows. Please RSVP to rag9b (at) virginia.edu by Monday, February 6.
Wednesday, February 8 at Noon
in the Graduate Fellows Lounge, Alderman Library, Room 413
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Madelyn Wessel: Copyright 101
Madelyn Wessel: Copyright 101
An Introduction to Copyright in a Digital Age
Fair Use and Multi-Media in the Classroom and on the Web
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
Wednesday, February 8 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Flickr user fotografar
GIS Workshop: Finding US Census Data
Finding US Census Data
The United States Census has made big changes in their surveys and in the online tools to find and use US Census datasets. Join us for a hands-on session introducing the newly redesigned American Factfinder online tool for discovery and access to free data from the US Census. No experience working with US Census data or geographic information systems is required.
Wednesday, February 8 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, February 9, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Daniel Rosenberg
Daniel Rosenberg
Data Before the Fact: The Past and Future of the Quantitative Humanities
Daniel Rosenberg
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Oregon
Where does “data” come from? In this presentation, Rosenberg explores the development of the modern concept of data since the seventeenth century. He shows how the idea of data emerged from theological and mathematical language to take on the modern sense of quantifiable information, and examines the development of new, aggregate ways of thinking about the history of concepts.
Monday, February 13 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Harrison-Small Auditorium.
Reception immediately following.
This event is co-sponsored by SHANTI, IATH, and the Scholars’ Lab.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user Henry Swanson 420.
GIS Workshop: Social Explorer
Social Explorer
Social Explorer is a website that allows users to quickly find, interact, analyze and visualize historic census and other data. We will take a look at how to create nice maps using UVa’s premium subscription.
Wednesday, February 15 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, February 16, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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GIS Workshop: ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS.com is a free online alternative to desktop GIS for mapping and analyzing your data. We’ll walk through the steps to upload data, make and share maps, and do analysis. If you prefer Mac or PC, Firefox, Chrome, or IE, you’ll learn to use new web-based tools to make and share your maps with the world using your web browser. No geographic information systems experience required.
Wednesday, February 22 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, February 23, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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Speaker Series: Suzanne Keen & Alison Booth
Suzanne Keen and Alison Booth: Narrative Form with Digital Tools
Suzanne Keen
Thomas H. Broadus Professor and Chair of English, Washington and Lee University
Alison Booth
Professor of English, University of Virginia
This workshop suggests that teams of humans can be trained to analyze narrative structure, rhetoric, and other genre conventions using controlled vocabularies—a longstanding dream of narratology. Drs. Keen and Booth will introduce BESS (Biographies Elements and Structure Schema), an XML standoff markup schema designed to analyze narrative structure in short biographies, and will offer examples of its application as a tool for interpreting narratives in large archives, within social networks, and beyond traditional formalism.
Friday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user Frerieke.
GIS Workshop: Geocommons
Geocommons
Geocommons.com is a free online alternative to desktop GIS for mapping and analyzing your data. We’ll walk through the steps to upload data, make and share maps, and do analysis. We’ll focus on the advanced analysis tools offered through Geocommons. If you prefer Mac or PC, Firefox, Chrome, or IE, you’ll learn to use new web-based tools to make and share your maps with the world using your web browser. No Geographic Information Systems experience required.
Wednesday, February 29 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, March 1, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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Madelyn Wessel: Copyright 201
Madelyn Wessel: Copyright 201
Author’s Rights, Licensing, and Scholarly Communications
Scholars and Publishers, Open Access, Open Source
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
Thursday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Flickr user nicepix25216
Deadline: 2012-2013 Fellowship Applications
Deadline: 2012-2013 Fellowship in the Digital Humanities Applications
A reminder that the application deadline for the 2012-2013 U.Va. Library Fellowship in Digital Humanities is Friday, March 2, 2012. Advanced graduate students in the humanities are encouraged to apply.
Please see http://tinyurl.com/SLabFellows for complete information.
Friday, March 2
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
Deadline: Registration for THATCamp Virginia
Deadline: Registration for THATCamp Virginia
A reminder that the registration deadline for THATCamp Virginia (being held April 20-21) is March 5, 2012. Graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, anybody with an interest in the intersection of technology and the humanities are encouraged to apply. (Parents: we have participation by kids, too.)
Please see http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/ for complete information.
Monday, March 5
GIS Workshop: Historical GIS Data
Historical GIS Data
Most historical GIS data comes from old maps. We will talk about and use resources for finding GIS data for distant times.
Wednesday, March 14 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, March 15, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
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Speaker Series: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association
What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it’s clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.
Thursday, March 15 at 2:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Please note the time change.
Image courtesy Flickr user fdecomite
Madelyn Wessel: Faculty/Staff Brown Bag Lunch
Madelyn Wessel: Faculty/Staff Brown Bag Lunch
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Scholarly Communication
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
UVa Associate General Counsel Madelyn Wessel hosts a lunch time workshop and discussion especially for U.Va. faculty and staff. You bring your lunch and your questions, and we’ll provide the drinks and cookies.
Tuesday, March 20 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab Classroom.
Image courtesy Flickr user Jeffrey Beall.
Praxis Fellows Informal Info Session
Praxis Fellows Program Informal Info Session & Lunch
Advanced graduate students interested in applying for our popular Praxis fellows program ( www.scholarslab.org/announcements/seeking-praxis-program-fellows ) are invited to join us over lunch (our treat!) to learn about the program and the Scholars’ Lab from our faculty & staff and from past & current Praxis Fellows. Please RSVP to rag9b (at) virginia.edu by noon on Monday, March 19.
Wednesday, March 21 at Noon
in the Graduate Fellows Lounge, Alderman Library, Room 413
GIS Workshop: Introduction to Python
Introduction to Python
Python is a general purpose, high-level programming language. This session will give users the basics of Python for use in ArcGIS.
Wednesday, March 21 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, March 22, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Deadline: 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowship
Deadline: 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowship
A reminder that the application deadline for the 2012-2013 Praxis Fellowships is Sunday, March 25, 2012. Advanced graduate students in the humanities are encouraged to apply.
Please see www.scholarslab.org/announcements/seeking-praxis-program-fellows for complete information.
Sunday, March 25
Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative
Applications of the Music Encoding Initiative
Perry Roland
UVa Music Library
Perry Roland provides an update on the MEI Project.
This event is co-sponsored with the Music Library.
Monday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy of the Music Encoding Initiative.
Data Rights and Responsibilities
Madelyn Wessel and David Hudson: Data Rights and Responsibilities
Madelyn Wessel
Associate General Counsel
David Hudson
Associate Vice Provost for Research
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel, and David Hudson, Associate Vice Provost for Research, will discuss what you need to know about ownership of your research data. This talk will explore information from the Data Rights and Responsibilities document from the Brown Library website. Refreshments will be served.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Scientific Data Consulting Group and Scholars’ Lab.
Wednesday, March 28 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Electronic Classroom (Room 133), Brown Library, Clark Hall.
Image courtesy Flickr user Lizzy Grafik.
GIS Workshop: Python in ArcGIS
Python in ArcGIS
This session will show users how to create tools in ArcGIS using Python.
Wednesday, March 28 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, March 29, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Kenneth Dean
Kenneth Dean: Ritual Revolutions: Temple Networks Linking South China to Southeast Asia
Kenneth Dean
Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Thursday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m.
Minor Hall, Room 125
Reception immediately following.
This event is co-sponsored by SHANTI, IATH, and the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Flickr user Allie_Caulfield.
Digital Humanities Film: Kenneth Dean
Kenneth Dean Film Presentation: Bored in Heaven: A Film About Ritual Sensation
Kenneth Dean
Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Friday, March 30 at 3:00 p.m.
Clark Hall, Room 107
Q & A will follow the film screening
This event is co-sponsored by SHANTI, IATH, and the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Flickr user Sebastian Mary.
Madelyn Wessel: Grad Student Brown Bag Lunch
Madelyn Wessel: Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Scholarly Communication
Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel
UVa Associate General Counsel Madelyn Wessel hosts a lunch time workshop and discussion especially for U.Va. graduate students. You bring your lunch and your questions, and we’ll provide the drinks and cookies.
Monday, April 2 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab Classroom.
Image courtesy Flickr user Jeffrey Beall.
GIS Workshop: Mapping for Mobile Devices
Mapping for Mobile Devices
Location aware smartphones are everywhere. We’ll take a look behind the curtain at how cell phones use GPS and the cellular network to determine your location. Then we’ll look at mobile tools for navigation, saving locations, making maps, analyzing your routes, and selectively sharing your information with the world.
Wednesday, April 4 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, April 5, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Graduate Fellows Forum: Gabriel Hankins
The Map of an Argument: the Spatial Humanities, Modernism, and the League Moment, 1914-1921
New spatial humanities tools offer distinctive ways to pose and perhaps answer questions of literature and history in a global framework. This talk uses Neatline + Omeka to analyze the ambivalent relations between literary modernism and new institutions of world government during the first World War, and argues that the map of that argument allows us to newly survey our own global literary and political moment.
Please join us for lunch and lively conversation!
Wednesday, April 11 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
GIS Workshop: Gazetteers
Gazetteers
What are gazetteers anyway? They are geographical directories or dictionaries. This session will discuss gazetteers and why they are so useful.
Wednesday, April 11 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, April 12, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
GIS Workshop: DIY Aerial Photography
DIY Aerial Photography
Ever wanted to get a high quality aerial image of your property or study area? This session will discuss DIY aerial techniques, equipment and supplies.
Wednesday, April 18 10:00am – 11:00am
in the Brown Library Electronic Classroom
(This workshop repeats on Thursday, April 19, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Image released under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user spdorsey.
Scholars’ Lab closures: Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21
Scholars’ Lab closure on Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21
Please note that the Scholars’ Lab will be closed from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 20 , and again on Saturday, April 21, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for events related to THATCamp Virginia. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Graduate Fellows Forum: Randi Lewis
Mapping the Merchant World: Early American Commerce in Salem, Massachusetts, 1763-1819
Randi Lewis
ABD, Corcoran Department of History
Scholars’ Lab Fellow 2011-2012
From the colonial cod fishery to the trade in Chinese teas after the American Revolution, the routes of commerce out of Salem, Massachusetts stretched around the Atlantic Ocean and, by the 1780s, across the globe. Using Salem as a lens through which to view the central strategies of commerce and commercial expansion in early America, this project maps out the markets in which Salem merchants traded, the transportation of trade goods, and the process of forming new trading relationships with merchants on the other side of the globe.
Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, April 26 at Noon
in the Scholars’ Lab.
Image courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
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