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The Moral Domain of War : A View from the Cockpit

By: Walter Anthony Grady Jr.

...This study uses Brig Gen J. F. C. Fuller’s theory of war to investigate the motivation of pilots flying in combat. The study holds the physical and cognitive domains of war variables constant and analyzes the moral domain effects on pilot b...

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The Air University Pantheon of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power Thinkers

By: Lt Col Vicki J. Rast, USAF, Ret., Compiler

...Corps Tactical School (Acts) . . . . . . . . . .48 Lt Gen Harold L. “Hal” George (1893–1986) 52 Gen Muir S. Fairchild (1894–1950) . . . . . . .58 Brig Gen Kenneth N. Walker (1898–1943) . .64 Gen George C. Kenney (1889–1977) . . . . . 70 Gen Laurence S. Kuter (1905–1979) . . . . . .78 Maj Gen Claire L. Chennault (1890–1958) . .84 Gen Ira C. Eaker (1896–1987) . . . ....

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Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...o suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina. A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person. David warns him of a plan by...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...fense Organization and Territorial Troops, Frontier Guard, Popular Vigilance Brigades Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,933,000; 972,000 fit for milit... ...lutionary National Assem- bly, National Executive Council Government leader: Brig. Gen. Mathieu KEREKOU, President and Chief of State (since 1972) Suf... ...ions or death squads Secret Anti-Communist Army (ESA); Maximiliano Hernandez Brigade; Organization for Liberation From Com- munism (OLC) Labor organiz... ... Popular Assembly, overseen by 15-member Council of State Government leader: Brig. Gen. Joao Bernardo VIEIRA, President, Council of State (since Novem... ...fense and Interior, which are held by President Kountche Government leaders: Brig. Gen. Seyni KOUNTCHE, President of Supreme Military Council, Chief o... ...orces Branches: National Army (including Infantry Battalion, Military Police Brigade, Navy, Air Force) Military manpower: males 15-49, 100,278; 59,971... ...vy, Air Force, Na- tional Gendarmerie, Logistics Corps, Special Presidential Brigade Military manpower: males 15-49, 7,141,000; 3,608,000 fit for mili...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...readed the arrival of our fleet. I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. As the first one approached, I saw no happy faces,... ... doll, that SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 31 bull-leaping doll of Cretan ivory, brightly painted! But his apartment was simple, tastefully furnished, eleg... ...ads, one of them glazing a bowl between his calloused knees, the color as bright as the sliced oranges beside him ready for eating. “Do you suppose ... ...I see him screw up his mouth in front of Kleis, I sag. The next moment he brightens and seems about to say something intelligent. Then, the cycle re... ...k or write in my journal. I prefer my journal. Doors wide open, the lamp bright, I read or write. My legs get restless, my eyes blink and the next ... ...s and watch the pelicans. There’s a feeling to my Nazareth: the stars are brighter there, the sun seems a little bigger, the wind a little cooler. H... ...OM THE PAST 186 and x-shaped Roman chairs, cushions and inlaid boxes brightened the room. Propped on a cushion I read Horace for hours; when my... ...een years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think of the royalty who have lived here through the y... ...se ancient artisans. VOICES FROM THE PAST 264 Such things make a bright enclosure. I am fortunate...I have had many friends. I had many ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...for nothing in particular, he casually scanned the dusty river bed. Suddenly, a bright silvery beam reflected about a hundred yards up the canyon. I... ...ion. The beauty of the jeweled night sky quieted his anxiety. He focused on the brightest of heaven's jewels. The night sky became a kaleidoscope of... ...the pole with a bald eagle nesting on top of the totem. The intricate and once brightly painted figures which adorned the great totem had disappear... ...kness was now giving way to shades of grey. As he sped toward the light it grew brighter. He was moving fast now, the light was rapidly coming close... ...ard calmed. The teepee darkened and Richard could see Seattle's eyes be­ gin to brighten into a golden glow. He focused a laser like-beam that slowl... ...g from a pallet. They both watched silently as the last sliver of sun created a bright green flash just before it melted into the blue ocean. "In a... ... take several minutes longer as the darkening shadows instructed the sensors to brighten. A uniformed guard with a side arm strapped to his waist me... ...a shot of adrenaline for the team. About ten meters from the copter a series of bright blinding beams shot out stopping the team in their tracks. "T... ...questions before I hang the sons-of-bitches. PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON STATE A BRIGHT MORNING SUN skirted in and out from behind grey clouds that s...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...E The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coa... ...erything about me. However much I was affected by the beauty of the sea, the bright stars, and the clouds driven swiftly over them, I could not but r... ...I got upon deck, a new scene and a new experience was before me. The little brig was close hauled upon the wind, and lying over, as it then seemed to... ...anged for the better. The sea and wind had gone down, and the stars were out bright. I experienced a corresponding change in my feelings; yet cont... ...hing else in nature can give. This gradually passes away as the light grows brighter, and when the sun comes up, the ordinary monotonous sea day beg... ...ir sterns with the glass. They were the ship Helen Mar, of New York, and the brig Mermaid, of Boston. They were both steering westward, and were bou... .... 21st. This day the sun rose clear, we had a fine wind, and everything was bright and cheerful. I had now got my sea legs on, and was beginning to... ...then, her stern settling gradually down, her huge bows rose up, showing the bright copper, and her stern, and breast hooks dripping, like old Neptun... ...the ship La Carolina, from Havre, for New York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my...

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Freya of the Seven Isles

By: Joseph Conrad

...ly of a morning on the deck of the Bonito (his wonderfully fast and pretty brig) he could hear Freya playing her scales quite distinctly. But the fell... ...ir head, the rapid hands on the keys, the white nape of her neck—while the brig, down at the point there, surged at her cables within a hundred yards ... ...get to his Freya slumbering in the bungalow. Did you ever! And, mind, this brig 7 Joseph Conrad was the home to be—their home—the floating paradise w... ... ing chances. One day, I remember I watched with Freya on the verandah the brig approaching the point from the northward. I suppose Jasper made the gi... ...o disgusting old jagged reefs, puts the helm down suddenly, and shoots the brig through, with all her sails shaking and rattling, so that we could hea... ...or, leaving me alone on the verandah with my instructions. Long before the brig’s sails were furled, Jasper came up three steps at a time, forgetting ... ...nd intrude unwittingly where he was not wanted just then. He knew that the brig had arrived, though he did not know that Jasper was already with his d... ...utch looked askance at the doings of Jasper Allen, owner and master of the brig Bonito. They considered him much too enterprising in his trading. I do... ...assurance which I used always to put forward, made old Nelson (or Nielsen) brighten up for a moment; but in the end he would shake his head doubtfully...

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The Rescue a Romance of the Shallows

By: Joseph Conrad

... J. C. 7 Joseph Conrad CONTENTS PART I. THE MAN AND THE BRIG PART II. THE SHORE OF REFUGE PART III. THE CAPTURE PART IV. THE GIFT O... ...N PART VI. THE CLAIM OF LIFE AND THE TOLL OF DEATH PART I. THE MAN AND THE BRIG THE SHALLOW SEA that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand i... ...s surface to wanderings facile and endless. There was no wind, and a small brig that had lain all the afternoon a few miles to the northward and westw... ... unbroken lustre of the sky. On the un- ruffled surface of the straits the brig floated tranquil and upright as if bolted solidly, keel to keel, with ... ... when the light and capricious airs of these seas had abandoned the little brig to its lin- gering fate, her head had swung slowly to the west- ward a... ...if petri- fied but ready to tend the helm as soon as fate would permit the brig to gather way through the oily sea. The only other human being then vi... ...r way through the oily sea. The only other human being then visible on the brig’s deck was the person in charge: a white man of low stature, thick-set... ...the poop, and stand motionless with a vague gaze fixed on the image of the brig in the calm water. He could also see down there his own head and shoul... ...histle arose long drawn, modu- lated, dying away softly. The master of the brig stepped out of the companion upon the deck of his vessel, glanced alof...

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Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...fortunes? Why, in my father’s house on Essen-Water- side, the fire and the bright lights would show a mile away, and the door open to a beggar’s knock... ...ed my way forward and en- tered the kitchen. The fire had burned up fairly bright, and showed me the barest room I think I ever put my eyes on. Half-a... ...looked this time straight into my eyes: his own were little and light, and bright like a bird’s, blinking and winking strangely. 24 Kidnapped “What d... ...eemed to be clam- bering aloft upon an open scaffold, but the same passing brightness showed me the steps were of unequal length, and that one of my f... ...d done, “I have a venture with this man Hoseason, the captain of a trading brig, the Covenant, of Dysart. Now, if you and me was to walk over with yon... ...ery, as disposed me rather to pity than to believe him. I asked him of the brig (which he declared was the finest ship that sailed) and of Captain Hos... ...l. “He ain’t no seaman,” he admitted. “That’s Mr. Shuan that navigates the brig; he’s the finest seaman in the trade, only for drink; and I tell you I... ... felt for that half-witted creature, and it began to come over me that the brig Covenant (for all her pious name) was little better than a hell upon t... ...bert Louis Stevenson ing on the thwarts; this, as Ransome told me, was the brig’s boat waiting for the captain; and about half a mile off, and all alo...

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Almayer's Folly : A Story of an Eastern River

By: Joseph Conrad

...assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which he commanded himself, would on those occasions disappear ... ...t night breeze, heavy with aromatic exhalations of the islands, shoved the brig gently along under the peaceful and sparkling sky, did the old seaman ... ...im, his very surround- ings. He remembered the narrow slanting deck of the brig, the silent sleeping coast, the smooth black surface of the sea with a... ...n. “What is it?” asked Almayer, uneasily. “There is nothing wrong with the brig, I hope?” “The brig is where no Orang Blanda can lay his hands on her,... ...“Y ou do not seem to be very happy to-night, but to-morrow you will show a brighter face. Eh?” Nina had listened to her father with her face unmoved, ... ...ntest with the redoubtable “Rajah-Laut.” The light night breeze fanned the brig gently to the south- ward, and the great blaze of light got smaller an... ...idered hopelessly insolvent. Un- der these improving circumstances Almayer brightened up a little. All was not lost perhaps. Those Arabs and Malays sa... ...its of later recollections, where the great fight with the “White Devil’s” brig and the convent life in Samarang occupied the principal place. At that... ...opean-rigged sailing vessel over- topping the summits of the Nipa palms. A brig was being hauled out of the small creek into the main stream. The sun ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...dea of a Dombey going there; and thinking to atone for his misconduct by a bright suggestion, he added: ‘Couldn’t something temporary be done with a t... ... twilight, and the lamp- lighter made his nightly failure in attempting to brighten up the street with gas. It was as blank a house inside as outside.... ... and corn, and I don’ t know what all besides. Where good people turn into bright angels, and fly away to Heaven!’ The child, who had dropped her head... ...oney , must be shaken and rattled and jostled about a good deal to keep it bright. For, being thus appealed to with some endearing gestures and caress... ...rful looking, merry boy , fresh with running home in the rain; fair-faced, bright-eyed, and curly-haired. ‘Well, Uncle, how have you got on without me... ...ver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy’ s bright face. When dinner was done, and the cloth was cleared away (the ente... ...a very salt-looking man indeed. His face, remarkable for a brown solidity, brightened as he shook hands with Uncle and nephew; but he seemed to be of ... ...e was enough in the appearance of the bereaved children to make the day no brighter. The baby too—it might have been Miss T ox’s nose—began to cry. Th... ... had read some fate upon his face, mournfully at variance with its present brightness. ‘What do you advise, Mr Carker?’ said W alter, smiling. ‘Y ou a...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...ragglers, following far, That reached the lake of V ennachar; And when the Brigg of T urk was won, The headmost horseman rode alone. VII. Alone, but w... ... winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants sta... ...ig to rave, And kiss, with whispering sound and slow, The beach of pebbles bright as snow. The boat had touched this silver strand Just as the Hunter... ...hich, short and light 14 The Lady of the Lake Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of s... ...t bold, I ‘ll lightly front each high emprise For one kind glance of those bright eyes. Permit me first the task to guide Your fairy frigate o’er the ... ...whimpering cry, The hounds behind their passage ply. Nor frequent does the bright oar break The darkening mirror of the lake, Until the rocky isle the... ...ers’ might Flings from their oars the spray, Not faster yonder rippling bright, That tracks the shallop’s course in light, Melts in the lake awa... ...e knight would say, That not when prize of festal day Was dealt him by the brightest fair Who e’er wore jewel in her hair, So highly did his bosom swe... ...ide, And waft him from the mountain-side.’ Then, like a sunbeam, swift and bright, She darted to her shallop light, And, eagerly while Roderick scanne...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...dea of a Dombey going there; and thinking to atone for his misconduct by a bright suggestion, he added: ‘Couldn’t something temporary be done with a t... ... twilight, and the lamp- lighter made his nightly failure in attempting to brighten up the street with gas. It was as blank a house inside as outside.... ... and corn, and I don’ t know what all besides. Where good people turn into bright angels, and fly away to Heaven!’ The child, who had dropped her head... ...oney , must be shaken and rattled and jostled about a good deal to keep it bright. For, being thus appealed to with some endearing gestures and caress... ...rful looking, merry boy , fresh with running home in the rain; fair-faced, bright-eyed, and curly-haired. ‘Well, Uncle, how have you got on without me... ...ver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy’ s bright face. When dinner was done, and the cloth was cleared away (the ente... ...a very salt-looking man indeed. His face, remarkable for a brown solidity, brightened as he shook hands with Uncle and nephew; but he seemed to be of ... ...e was enough in the appearance of the bereaved children to make the day no brighter. The baby too—it might have been Miss T ox’s nose—began to cry. Th... ... had read some fate upon his face, mournfully at variance with its present brightness. ‘What do you advise, Mr Carker?’ said W alter, smiling. ‘Y ou a...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...spends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.” —Falconer’ s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self driven... .... “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing free; Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher gleamed in the... ...as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not. And as for going as cook,—though I confess ... ...arpoons”—but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further on, from the bright red windows of the “Sword-Fish Inn,” there came such fervent rays, t... ... yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.—It’s the Black Se... ...ut, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unh... ...mnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at cre... ...little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel’s face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship’s tossed deck, s... ...With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne; Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God. “My song for ever ...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.” Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven,... ...21. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free; Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher gleamed in the... ...as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not. And as for going as cook, — though I confes... ...poons” — but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further on, from the bright red windows of the”Sword Fish Inn,” there came such fervent rays, th... ...h yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through. — It’s the Black ... ...But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatabooans, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling craft which un ... ...mnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at crea... ...little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel’s face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship’s tossed deck, s... ... With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne; Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God. My song for ever s...

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Chantry House

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...was not, like our parents, conscientiously bent on impartiality. He was so bright and winning, he had such curly tight-rolled hair with a tinge of aub... ..., but our private opinion was that she excelled all other damsels with her bright blue eyes and pretty curling hair, which had the same chestnut shine... ...s was shelved; and when Clarence’s appointment came at last, it was to the brig Clotho, Commander Brydone, going out in the Mediterranean Fleet, under... ...e Mediterranean Fleet, under Sir Edward Codrington. My mother did not like brigs, and my father did not like what he heard of the captain; but there h... ...ne of the most delightful gardens that ever existed, what with green turf, bright flowers, shapely shrubs, and the grand beech-trees enclosing it with... ... brothers were full of amuse- ment. Their spruce looks in their tall hats, bright ties, dark coats, and white trowsers strapped tight under their boot... ... met him with a very real kiss. Moreover, Mr. Castleford had taken care to brighten our Christmas with a letter expressive of great satisfaction with ... ...ount for the light or get rid of it by changing the position of candles or bright objects in the outer room; and Henderson had shut himself into the b... ...grandmother there. When his shyness and lumpishness gave way, he proved so bright that Emily undertook to carry on his education. He soon had a wonder...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...d, though it might be called an ignominious fate by the ignorant, is yet a bright and peaceful ending in comparison with some other end- ings to one’s... ...athoms of water. Ultimately they brought us up with the jibboom of a Dutch brig poking through our spanker—noth- ing worse. And a miss is as good as a... .... The weather was too bitter for that. His office was so warm, his fire so bright, his sides shook so heartily with laughter, that I experienced alway... ...e,” but under the final declaration of “Missing.” “The ship, or barque, or brig So-and-so, bound from such a port, with such and such cargo, for such ... ...a fine iron ship of the old wool fleet shak- ing his head at a very pretty brigantine. She was bound the other way. She was a taut, trim, neat little ... ...ond-rate dignity. These are the capes that look upon the gales. The little brigantine, then, had doubled the Cape. 64 The Mirror of the Sea Perhaps s... ...idn’t inquire, and to a young second mate the captain of the little pretty brigantine, sitting astride a camp stool with his chin resting on his hands... ...rue expression of dishevelled wildness there is nothing like a gale in the bright moonlight of a high latitude. The ship, brought-to and bowing to eno... ... of a barge hid it entirely from my view. Coming in from the eastward, the bright colouring of the lightship marking the part of the river com- mitted...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...on of trees, and a nest by the Dove? Why should the song of a thrush cause bright volumes of vapor to glide through Lothbury, and a river to flow on t... ...’s Alley; Fairburn’s, in a court off Ludgate Hill; Hone’s, in Fleet Street—bright, enchanted pal- aces, which George Cruikshank used to people with gr... ...s a drawing of Stothard. Dull books about children George Cruikshank makes bright with illustrations—there is one published by the inge- * This was wr... ... a little. I, however, kept fast hold of the bag. Everything around me was bright in the sun, and as yet I gave no thought to what I had done.” This m... ... or rather in a vision; the cunning demon, Speculation, blowing a thousand bright bubbles about him. Meanwhile the rooks are busy at his fob, a knave ... ...roved nautical language. They maul Frenchmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs and take frig- ates, they relieve women in distress, and are yard-arm...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...Jacobinism. At Laxton it was that I first saw the entire aggregate labors, brigaded, as it were, and paraded as if for martial review, of that most in... ...ce of taking snuff. Here were two separate objects for contemplation: one, bright as Aurora—that radi- ant Koh-i-noor, or mountain of light—the eight ... ...ousy of overlooking eyes, such as haunted persons of their expectations at Brighton, Weymouth, Sidmouth, or Bath, Miss Smith and Miss W atson used to ... ...sity expresses, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal nar... ... a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town. The im... ...ays that “they could, without difficulty, fit out a hundred sail of ships, brigs, and schooners, armed with from twelve to twenty-four guns each, and ... ...e, as he took his station at her carriage, traced out on the ground in the bright glare of the flambeaux. She awoke, therefore, continually to the sen... ... front, and a stag-chase on his left hand. These, as they rose fitfully in bright masses of color and of savage expression under the lambent flashing ... ...ether in the confusion of night and re- treat, illuminated at intervals by bright streams of light from torches or candles in the streets, or at the w...

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